Cody Hibbard Releases ‘Lengthy Trip in a Quick Mattress’ (Unique)

Nation artist Cody Hibbard was 13 months outdated when he left South Korea.

“I used to be adopted,” Hibbard, 31, tells PEOPLE. “We lived in Tulsa for the primary yr. My dad was a trash hauler, and my mother was really a math instructor. And once they received me, mother give up instructing and pa stored the trash route.”

That’s, till his dad purchased the farm he had all the time dreamed of.

“Dad purchased 340 acres,” Hibbard remembers of the plot of land situated in Adair, Oklahoma. “We lived in just a little double extensive for some time till dad constructed the home. We have been working cattle out right here. And pa needed rooster homes, so we began doing breeder homes for Tyson [Foods].”

So, if anybody has ever had a doubt about Hibbard’s nation roots, he’s all the time been fast to level out that they’re downright mistaken to take action. “I am really sitting out on my side-by-side proper now,” he admits with amusing. 

Granted, Hibbard is the primary to confess that he didn’t all the time love the nation life rising up. “I form of had that rebellious spirit,” he says. “I keep in mind my granddad taking me to the USA Navy Academy in New York and I cherished listening to in regards to the CIA and Secret Service and the DEA and the FBI. I really needed to be a forensics investigator.”

However when it got here time to both go to school or get to work on the household farm, Hibbard says he determined to enlist with the Marines. “I couldn’t consider something I needed to go to school for,” he remembers. “I actually did not wish to go to school.”

Hibbard’s rebellious spirit continued when he ended up altering his thoughts in regards to the Marines, and as a substitute determined to just accept an invite to attend the USA Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was there the place he suffered an damage to his shoulder, leading to two eventual surgical procedures. 

“I received on ache treatment from the primary surgical procedure, and I received simply hooked,” Hibbard remembers. “I needed extra and wanted extra and did not suppose one thing a physician would provide you with could be one thing that dangerous.”

Quickly, Hibbard ended up leaving the Naval Academy to attend one other faculty, however his want for ache drugs started to show into an habit. “I used to be doing numerous it behind individuals’s backs,” says Hibbard, who began taking part in the guitar whereas working as a pipeline employee after leaving school. “I used to be actually good at hiding issues. I keep in mind waking up within the hospital. My associates had simply dropped me off on the entrance steps of the emergency room. They will need to have received scared and drove off. I knew I had an issue.”

It was these and lots of different dire circumstances that that finally discovered their manner into his music. Hibbard launched his first EP, Reminiscence and a Dust Highway in January of 2020, adopted by the self-titled Cody Hibbard EP. However so far, nothing touches the grit heard on his hard-driving album Lengthy Trip in a Quick Mattress. 

“‘’Kill the Messenger’ is my track about how I received so mad at my faith,” Hibbard remembers of observe considered one of Lengthy Trip in a Quick Mattress. “I had spent most of my life following a pastor that ended up performing some actually dangerous stuff,  and in order that’s the place the symbolism is available in on that track. I needed to actually dig down deep and, in my thoughts, I needed to ask myself if I wasted all that point going to Bible research and church camps?”

Then there’s “Unhealthy Journey,” a soul-sucker in the perfect of how written solely by Hibbard that materialized from one other turbulent interval of his life. 

“This was the final time I had a foul night time,” remembers Hibbard, who says he “give up drugs chilly turkey” 10 years in the past when he came upon his ex was pregnant along with his first youngster. “I took some drugs, and I used to be ingesting no matter I had. I used to be behind on each single invoice. My ex had needed to depart me. I used to be a younger father, and I used to be making an attempt to pay for no matter took care of our daughter. And I am going to admit it — I did not care. I misplaced my first home. I assumed the repo man was after me. I assumed the cops have been after me as a result of I used to be behind on my payments. I did not understand how any of that labored.”

Hibbard says going again to those turbulent occasions through the making of Lengthy Trip in a Quick Mattress definitely was a problem, however one which the now father of 4 says it cleansed him mentally, as did the so-very sentimental songs on the album reminiscent of “Backroad to Heaven” and the destined to be a success “Had It Been a Boy.”

“I’ve by no means cried within the vocal sales space, and I actually did not cry a lot till I received to be round 30 years outdated,” he says. “And I’ve by no means cried within the studio as a lot as I’ve recording about 4 or 5 of those songs on this album.”

However at this time, life is best.

“I am not hooked on the rest,” he says. “I haven’t got any alcohol in my fridge. I am very blessed with the way in which all of it turned out.”