Riley Green Hopes To Collaborate With This Guy

Riley Green has had hit collaborations with Thomas Rhett (“Half of Me”), Luke Combs (“Different ‘Round Here”), and Ella Langley (“You Look Like You Love Me”), and he’s had the chance to record songs with other people like Justin Moore and Luke Bryan.

As far as future collaborators, there’s one guy Riley thinks would be great to team up with on a song.

The country star told us recently, "Well, that’s tough. I mean, there are so many great artists out there, so many people I’m a fan of. I’ve always been a big fan of Cody Johnson. I think that’d be a cool one. I’ll never forget when we did a show together at Terminal West in Atlanta."

He continued, "This has been, I don’t know how many years ago. I think he opened for me, and his fans and my fans were so obvious ’cause all his fans had cowboy hats on, and all mine had Atlanta Braves hats. And I think it’s cool when you can find somebody that still stylistically fits but is still very different in some way. You know, I think that’d be a cool way to merge two kind of different fan bases."

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Green has always been very close to his family back in Alabama. When he was a kid, he spent a lot of time around his grandparents, and he is so thankful for all the basic but important life lessons they taught him.

Riley told us in a recent interview, "My granddaddy made me give him a handshake every time I saw him and made sure I looked him in the eye, and made sure my grip was good and all that. We’d spend time after church talking about how bad the preacher’s handshake was, and how he shook hands like a girl."

He added, "You know, yes sir, no sir, stuff like that, I mean, I don’t know that it’s gotten completely lost in translation nowadays, but stuff like that goes a long way with people, you know, and I mean, that was definitely something that my grandparents instilled in me, and my folks did.”