Taste of Country has an article titled "14 Riley Green Facts That Reveal This Mystery Man's Heart".
Some of the revelations about Riley Green:
1) Before he was a country star, Green appeared on CMT’s Redneck Island twice, eventually winning Season 5 and splitting a $100,000 cash prize.
2) He once volunteered to get drunk so local police recruits could practice field sobriety testing.
3) He Framed Houses to Fund His Music: Green spent nearly a decade playing bars and clubs while working construction, framing houses.
4) Riley Green wrote his massive hit "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" entirely by himself, but he officially added his two late grandfathers as co-writers because they inspired the track.
Those are a few things revealed in the article, for more see https://tasteofcountry.com/riley-green-facts-biography-trivia/
Here's Riley playing his Grandpas song at YQM Countryfest
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