Riley Green Is Just One of the Locals When He Goes Back Home — Here’s Proof! [Exclusive]

To us, Riley Green is one of the most popular country artists in America.

But when the country superstar goes back to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, he is far removed from his stardom and just one of the locals.

What Is Riley Green's Life Like When He Goes Back to His Hometown?

I spoke to Green on Taste of Country Nights and I asked him what his life is like nowadays when he goes back to his one-stoplight town.

Green tells me "I like shelling peas with my grandmother. When I go back home it's very redneck. It's very small town, there's one flashing light. I go to this Green's store and play dominos with the old guys in the morning. It's like a movie."

Does Riley Green Own Green's Store in His Hometown?

It doesn't appear that Green owns any part of the E.L. Green's store, it looks as if it just happens to share his last name.

Green previously told Cowboys and Indians, "The owner is E.L. Green and he’s about 94 years old."

"All the old men go over there and drink coffee and play dominoes," he continued. "I usually don’t sleep well when I get home, so I end up there to drink coffee and catch up on all the gossip the old guys talk about. It always surprises me how little the conversations are about what I do."

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Imagine one of those western movies where a young guy walks into a saloon where there's nothing but old guys shooting the news back and forth to one another, while their horse is outside waiting to take them to their next watering hole.

That is what life seems to be like for Green when he gets the chance to slow down and get back home.

When he is shelling peas with his grandmother or playing dominoes with the local old men, they don't seem to care what he does for a living. Green likes to go back home to escape fame from time to time as a reset.

I asked if the locals back home even realize that he is famous. "No. They have no clue," he replied.

He pointed to only one recent incident back home that showed him that someone in the town of 15,000 or so actually did know he is famous.

"Like, my uncle Wayne told me the other day, he's like, 'The lady at Huddle House's daughter listens to your music,'" Green relates, joking that that's the reason he knows he's really "made it."

Other than that one instance, it's all crickets and normalcy when Green heads back home to where his roots lie, Jacksonville, Alabama.

Does Riley Green Want to Have Children Someday?

Yes. In a conversation with Billboard earlier this month, the singer said that being a dog dad and spending time with his nieces and nephews is preparing him to be a father himself one day.

"I think about it a lot," he acknowledged.

Read More: Riley Green Says He Thinks 'a Lot' About Becoming a Dad One Day

But Green doesn't envision fatherhood in his immediate future.

"At this point in my life, I don't know how I could do it," he admits. "So things are going to have to slow down and get a little bit more of a sense of normalcy before I could really think about settling down and having a family."