One of the things The Cadillac Three says their European fans love so much about them is that in their minds, Jaren, Kelby and Neil represent “’Merica.” It stands to reason that another group who would probably love The Cadillac Three for that reason is military personnel. Jaren and the guys haven’t had a chance to play any pre-planned military shows, but he says, “The one thing that we’ve done that’s come close to that, and was kind of accidental, we played in Munich, Germany. I think that might have been our first Germany show, I can’t remember, but it was us and Eric Church. And we didn’t know until we walked out on stage that there was a huge military base there. And so we walk out there and there’s like obviously half the crowd is these big soldier dudes with camo and cowboy hats on and everything and with American patches everywhere.”
Performing for that crowd and feeling their energy, Jaren says, “That’s the first time that it crossed my mind that we should probably do some kind of USO thing at some point, just because they were so passionate and they were so appreciative and they were so like ‘This is home coming to us’, so that was a very cool feeling.”
For now, The Cadillac Three is out on the road with Florida Georgia Line on the Dig Your Roots Tour, promoting their latest single, “Drunk Like You,” and their new album, Bury Me in My Boots, which will be released on August 5th.
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The Cadillac Three – military shows :42
Jaren Johnston – “The one thing that we’ve done that’s come close to that, and was kind of accidental, we played in Munich, Germany. I think that might have been our first Germany show, I can’t remember, but it was us and Eric Church. And we didn’t know until we walked out on stage that there was a huge military base there. And so we walk out there and there’s like obviously half the crowd is these big soldier dudes with camo and cowboy hats on and everything and with American patches everywhere. And it was like one of those things where, that’s the first time that it crossed my mind that we should probably do some kind of USO thing at some point, just because they were so passionate and they were so appreciative and they were so like ‘This is home coming to us’, so that was a very cool feeling.”