Audacy 'LAUNCH' artist Stephen Wilson Jr. joins Rob + Holly this week for the 'Friday Night Takeover,' talking about his boxing career, the story behind his hit, "Gary," and the moment that changed his life "instantly."

Stephen and his song, "Gary," were recently announced as the latest to be spotlighted in the Audacy 'LAUNCH' initiative, illuminating emerging artists across all our Audacy Country stations. It's what's next in a long line of accolades for the singer, who was nominated for 'Best New Artist' at the 2025 CMA Awards, and used his moment on the CMA stage to take his star to another stratosphere.

"It's been wild ever since," Wilson Jr. reveals to Rob + Holly. "It changed my life instantly. I don't really remember it, and I still have yet to watch it. I don't really know what happened, I don't really wanna watch it. I mean, I've seen clips of it, don't get me wrong, online, but I like to remember it for what it is and what it was, and I don't really remember it at all."

"I kind of got to high five my dad in heaven for like a minute, and that's kind of all I remember," he adds of his performance. "He showed up in the wildest way and into that arena, and I was honestly kind of numb to it cause I probably would have just fallen apart if I hadn't been. But nobody else was, so that was the important part, and what happened happened and I'm just kind of trying to process it all. It's been a couple of weeks cause it never really slowed down after that."

Suddenly the quiet kid from Indiana is in the spotlight. "It's been a wild thing, you know, I take a lot of pictures in the grocery store now." But thankfully Stephen has support from someone who has been there, his wife, Sixpence None the Richer singer, Leigh Nash.

"She's taught me everything I know from singing to being a front person, how to emote on stage, but, you know, she's been getting recognized for a long, long time, still all the time, and she handles it very well and she's always been very gracious about it," Stephen says. "She has a different personality than me though, where I'm very quiet and, you know, it's startling. I've always been the guy that nobody notices. I've been non-existent and, happily non-existent."

To hear more from Stephen Wilson Jr. about his rise to fame, his new song "Gary," and life in the ring, check out the 'Friday Night Takeover' with Rob + Holly, or listen to the full interview above.

Bringing you closer than ever before to their favorite Country stars, Riley Green performed for an intimate room of fans during our 'Totally Private' show at the Hard Rock Cafe Nashville, powered by Spirit Airlines. But first, he caught up with Rob + Holly backstage to talk touring, a new song he's teasing, and his latest hunting trip in Texas.

Deep in South Texas, Green recently went on the hunt for Nilgai, an animal he describes as ugly, "but delicious."

"I had tacos, burgers, steak, and chili all from the same animal," he smiles.

Riley is getting his game in now, before he takes to the road for his Cowboy As It Gets Tour, which kicks off in April. "Justin Moore is going out with me. Big fan of Justin, always have been," says Green. "I'm fired up. Got some new music to play on the tour and, it's been great."

To hear more from Riley about his songwriting success, a new song he's been teasing, and more, check out the full conversation above.

Before Jordan Davis played our 'Totally Private' show at the Hard Rock Cafe Nashville, powered by Spirit Airlines, the singer sat down with Rob + Holly to talk about his favorite songs of his latest album, 'Learn The Hard Way,' his songwriting philosophy, and the real struggle of naming children.

Now a proud father of four, Davis admitted that his youngest child didn't have a name until after she was born. "This last one, she didn't have a name for like the whole time we were in the hospital," he shares, "like it was just, baby."

Sadie would get her name within a few days, but it's proof that naming kids is hard, even harder than songwriting for Jordan. "You're naming a person for the rest of its life." he exclaims. "Then you have to think about nicknames. Like I had a buddy in high school that I can't even say his name, but I'm just like, 'what were your parents thinking?'"

Songwriting seems to come easier for the chart-topping star, but Jordan is quick to admit that, that too has a lot of challenges. "It doesn't feel easy in the process," he reveals. "I'm not very vocal in a writing room. I just kind of sit, think on it, whereas some people are like, million miles an hour throwing ideas out, throwing words, lyrics."

"It's been so long since I've actually finished a song solo, mainly because I get to where now, I'll come up with a verse or a chorus, or just like a couple of lines, and then I'll bring it to somebody else. I like tip my hat to the people that can like start and finish a song totally by themselves. I just think I've been co-writing for so long that, even if I were to do that, I still feel like in the back of my mind it could be better, so I would get in a write and we wouldn't have anything, and I'd be like, 'well look I wrote this the other day I think it's OK.' Play it and then we would kind of tweak it and try to make it better but, I haven't written one like totally 100% by myself in a long time."

To hear more from our 'Totally Private' conversation with Jordan Davis, check out the full interview above.