ABC/Image Group LADustin Lynch has done quite a bit of globetrotting lately, but as he told ABC Radio at Monday's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, some of it involved hanging out in Mexico at Luke Bryan's annual Crash My Playa destination festival.

"I got to travel over the Christmas break and I went to, my first time ever, to Vietnam. And then we went from Vietnam to Thailand, and then literally back to Nashville for 12 hours and then to Crash My Playa!" Dustin told ABC Radio. "So it was a whirlwind of a few weeks there."

During the event, which features thousands of country fans enjoying live performances, sun, sand and fun, Dustin said Luke gave him an honorary title: "The Mayor of Crash My Playa." 

"We got to play three shows. The first was opening for Luke on the big stage on the beach, and then we played something I guess...[that] may be what got me the title Mayor of Crash My Playa: pool parties at these resorts."

More specifically, Dustin and his band played to literally thousands of people at the pools at a couple of the Mexican resorts, and they decided to wing it.

"This year, we just took requests the whole time," he laughed. "So I was playing, gosh, anything and everything. "We played 'La Bamba,' we were playing Dierks Bentley songs, Cole Swindell, Luke Bryan, whatever they throw at us, we would try to play, even if we didn't know it!  We'd screw the words up, say 'Who cares?,' keep going!"  

Later this month, Dustin will be hitting the road with Brad Paisley, Lindsay Ell and Chase Bryant. No word on whether or not he'll take requests at those shows.

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ABC/Image Group LAWalker Hayes is currently enjoying his first top 10 hit, "You Broke Up With Me." But as he told ABC Radio at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Monday, it wasn't that long ago, he was working at a not-very-glamorous day job, and dreaming that some big star would record one of his songs.

"My last full-time job outside of music was Costco, I was stocking produce," the Alabama native tells ABC Radio. "I mean, it was rough, it was like 4 to 10:30 in the morning and then I would go and write [songs] for a publishing company."

"[I] thought that was the best case scenario," he continues. "Maybe a big artist throws me a bone, cuts one [of my songs], it's a single and maybe I can afford to do music for a while. So yeah, the fact that I'm the artist now...it's a miracle!"

Walker's salvation was super-producer Shane McAnally, who signed the singer just two years ago.

"He made it so I could quit Costco, and then we began writing for this project," explains Walker. "And that's actually when we wrote 'You Broke Up With Me.'"

As Walker explains, the song was inspired by his reaction to people coming out of the woodwork after they learned about his deal.

"As soon as the whole town found out that Shane McAnally was making a record [with] me, tons of people wanted to reconnect that had kinda vanished when I was working at Costco," he says.

Walker is now taking a fatalistic approach to his success.

"If it all ended tomorrow, it'd be really sad," he laughs. "But I can say we hit that top 10 mark. That's pretty outstanding."

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