{"id":43264,"date":"2025-03-31T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43264"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:42:05","slug":"riley-green-talks-early-gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/riley-green-talks-early-gigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Green Talks Early Gigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Green is one of the hottest acts in all of country music, but before he got famous he\u00a0worked in construction.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, he would got play at a Mexican restaurant in Jacksonville, Alabama, every week for &#8220;about $150 [a] night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/biscuits-and-jam-riley-green-s6-ep3-11689193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley said he would perform in front of 50 to 60 people at the Mexican restaurant<\/a>, and he did that every week for EIGHT years.<\/p>\n<p>He said his big break came when someone from a much bigger venue asked him to do a show there.<\/p>\n<p>It was called Iron City, in Birmingham, and his first thought was, &#8220;That place holds 1,300 people. It&#8217;ll be empty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But to his surprise, he almost filled the place up, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHZtrjYAJx2\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did You Know Riley Green Used to Make $150 a Night Playing at a Mexican Restaurant in Alabama?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":41711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[328,536],"class_list":["post-43264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alabama","tag-riley-green"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 17:05:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/riley-green-talks-early-gigs\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43265,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264\/revisions\/43265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}