The Cadillac Three Host Skateboarders in High-Flying Video for ‘Bridges’
The Cadillac Three’s new music video opens with a vintage clip of a 12-year-old kid talking about how much he loves to skateboard. That’s Jake Wooten, a Gallatin, Tennessee, native who, at 21, is now a pro skater. Wooten catches air and does tricks in front of the Nashville band in the video for “Bridges,” a track off their latest album Tabasco & Sweet Tea.
Along with Red Bull and the Music Venue Alliance Nashville, the Cadillac Three set up a skate ramp inside the Music City club Exit/In and asked Wooten and other skaters to do their thing while they played the funky “Bridges.” It’s a high-action video: Wooten zips around in front of the band, interspersed with footage of the Cadillac Three — singer Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason, and lap-steel/bassist Kelby Ray — from earlier in their career.
“I was extremely into skateboarding when I was a teenager growing up in Nashville, but there were literally no public skate parks,” Johnston said in a statement. “It was amazing to team up with Red Bull and the Exit/In and build a skatepark during the pandemic.”
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The Cadillac Three encourage music fans to donate to MVAN, an organization that aims to support Nashville clubs, their owners, and employees. In March, the band released a video for their song “Long After Last Call,” which also shined a light on the live-music venue crisis.
The group has since returned to the road on their 10th Anniversary Tour. They’ll headline two nights at their hometown theater, the Ryman Auditorium, in September.
