Every night before LoCash goes on stage, the duoâs tour manager tapes a setlist on the floor.
They never follow it.
âWe just get on stage and we have fun,â said Preston Brust.
Everything is fluid in a LoCash show, from the songs they sing to the way they interact with the audience.
At Country Thunder last weekend in Florence, Brustâs partner Chris Lucas plucked an 8-year-old girl from the audience and pulled her on stage to sing a Bruno Mars cover.
âYou canât plan stuff like that. It just happens,â said Brust, who joins Lucas for a Pima County Fair show with Texan Clay Walker on Saturday, April 23. âAnd thatâs one of my favorite things about the LoCash show. You never know whatâs going to happen.â
On Saturday, anything is possible.
Brust might even join Walker on stage to sing âLong Live the Cowboy,â which Brust penned and Walker has been singing in his live shows for the past two years.
âI canât wait to hear it. I hope he sings it,â Brust said.
Their show might include a few songs that they recorded for what Brust is calling the pairâs debut album, due out in June.
The album actually is the second full-length project for the pair, which has been performing together since they worked as DJs at the popular Nashville club Wildhorse Saloon. But Brust says heâs calling it their debut.
âI feel like itâs the first album that really defines who LoCash is musically and lyrically,â said the new father of a 13-week-old daughter. âWe had one other album come out three or four years ago and Iâm not going to say that I wasnât proud of that music because you evolve. I really believe that this is the first time that Chris and I feel completely proud and understood. We can play it for our kids one day and say thatâs who we really are and thatâs who we matured into as husbands and dads and songwriters.â
Brust and Lucas had modest success with their first album, âLoCash Cowboysâ released in 2013. But a host of their Nashville colleagues were having better success with songs Brust and Lucas penned, including Tim McGrawâs âTruck Yeahâ and Keith Urbanâs âYou Gonna Fly.â
Last year, they hit gold when âI Love This Lifeâ hit No. 2 on Billboard. The pair wrote the song with rising Nashville singer-songwriter Chris Janson, who was on hand at Country Thunder in Florence to sing it with them.
Brust said the song, which was cowritten by their longtime writing partner Danny Myrick, was inspired by a conversation about all the negativity swirling around them, from politics to the daily headlines.
âItâs kind of like sitting in a clubhouse, and then you stumble on an idea. Nobody really had an idea that morning but the topic of discussion was weâre just tired of all the negativity in the news,â Brust explained.
The conversation switched to the little things that make you smile, like your favorite pair of worn-out jeans, a Friday night and the county line bar where everyone remembers your drink.
âForget all this drama and negativity,â he said. âWe just realized that the song was going to be called âI Love This Lifeâ. â
That song will be on that setlist the road manager tapes to the fairgrounds stage on Saturday, the list the boys will ignore for the most part.
âItâs going to be a free-for-all fun show and when people leave they are going to be smiling,â Brust said.



