Riley Green just released his debut single, “There Was This Girl,” but he has a fan base and a following far beyond his newcomer status, selling out 1,500 – 2,500 seat venues and having 103,000 followers on Instagram.  Riley owes a lot of his success today to the friends and family members, who not only showed up early on to hear him sing, but showed up to support and encourage his dream.  Riley says, “They were beneficial to me because I didn’t have the amount of confidence of, ‘I’m the best singer in the world, I’m gonna go out and do this, I just wrote this song’. I mean, nothing had really materialized in anything that I’d done to make me think I was good. I just knew people were still paying me a little bit of money to do it. But having somebody ride with you and show up, walk in with you, that stuff definitely had a benefit.”

Riley knows his buddies probably thought they were just having a good time and enjoying free beer.  In fact, he says, “I had a lot of buddies that rode with me to shows, not necessarily for any other reason than they just knew we were going have a good time, you know.  And they would help in the sense that they would take a speaker in, which was worth them being able to drink on my bar tab all night, which was usually done before I started the first song.”

But it was those same beer drinking buddies who kept Riley from ever giving up on his dream. He recalls, “There was a time when, I guess I was 26, maybe pushing 27 years old, it wasn’t really happening. A lot of people would have been like, ‘Alright now, it’s time to go back to class or go to work or something.’  But man, I mean they always kinda had that, maybe a little bit more belief in what I was doing than I did.  So, definitely had folks help me out along the way.”

Now Riley has his debut single on the radio, an EP for fans to download and he’s touring the country getting to meet his old fans and make new ones.

Riley Green – early supporters  :50

“I had a lot of buddies that rode with me to shows, not necessarily for any other reason than they just knew we were going have a good time, you know.  And they would help in the sense that they would take a speaker in, which was worth them being able to drink on my bar tab all night, which was usually done before I started the first song.  So I had those guys, but I mean, they were beneficial to me because I didn’t have the amount of confidence of, ‘I’m the best singer in the world, I’m gonna go out and do this, I just wrote this song’. I mean, nothing had really materialized in anything that I’d done to make me think I was good. I just knew people were still paying me a little bit of money to do it. But having somebody ride with you and show up, walk in with you, that stuff definitely had a benefit. There was a time when, I guess I was 26, maybe pushing 27 years old, it wasn’t really happening. A lot of people would have been like, alright now, it’s time to go back to class or go to work or something.  But man, I mean they always kinda had that, maybe a little bit more belief in what I was doing than I did.  So, definitely had folks help me out along the way.”