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May 8, 2024 13 mins

You may remember him as the "yodel kid", but, his brand new single, Mason Ramsey is making his own legacy!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from them Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge excellent.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh is Mason Ramsey here? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
He is?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I just I just saw him. I shook his hand. So, hey,
where's our producer Nate Nay? Why don't you bring our
guests in? Hello?

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Nay?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Can you someone go get n He's probably out there
telling him dad jokes, crying.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
He has a chopptive audio.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Interesting story about Mason Ramsey. You're about to hear it now,
you know what. Every artist has a story, and you're
about to hear Masons. Come on in, Mason, have a seat.
Thank you mister producer for having here, having him on
time headphones. Someone's still your headphones? Hey, Ed Mason, welcome
to the show.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, thank you, thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Where are you from?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Originally I am? I am from golf Colne to Illinois, right,
which is a very small town of seven hundred people.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
What's it like you're getting close to that microphone be
cause these are these are not they're not as good
as your studio mics.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Right. What's it like growing up in a town with
seven hundred people? Very interesting to say the least.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, if it's all you know at that point when
you're a kid anyway when you were.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
There's not a whole lot that goes on around where
I'm at. It's mainly like a postcard town, you know,
like you have like a main street and like the
buildings face each other, and you know, it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
They do that here too.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
I guess everybody knows everybody's business though. That's a problem
right in a town like that, Like everyone knows.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Everything, everything everything literally. Yeah, and also everyone knows everybody too,
so that's that's another thing. It's it's there's not a
like I said seven other people, there's there's literally no
stop lights in the whole town.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
God, I would love that.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's really awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have them in New York City, but we don't.
We don't pay attention to It's a suggestion, the suggestion.
But you are you, and it's okay to kind of
toot your own horn. Are you turning into or have
become like a like the town celebrity? Actually, really, if
you think about.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
It, I mean you could say that you could say
that I think you have. I have been given the
key to the city, which was really awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
Does it open anything?

Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Does it really open things?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, it's just stuck to like this like little thing.
And it's like a golden key made of plastic. But
it's really really beautiful once you hang it up on
your wall and look.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, no, and it's something to be proud about for
the rest of your life, you know, absolutely, And I wish,
but it'd be great if they gave you a key
that opened every freaking door in town. There's some things
even in your in your town. I bet there's some
things behind those doors you don't want to see. I
don't know, I don't know. Let me let me take
you through a little history of Mason Ramsey. The first
time we heard Mason and saw.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Him on video.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
By the way, this was a video that was taken.
It was the Walmart in your town.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Did Walmart give you like gift cards like for free stuff?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I don't, well they should. They gave me some stuff.
I don't remember what it was. I think, like a
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. They gave me up
like like a like a like a gift bag okay,
with like a PS four and oh wow. This was
like a few years ago, twenty eighteen, before they just

(03:25):
recently came out with the PS five.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
You go back I bet if you walked in you
could say, hey, I'm Mason Ramsey. Yeah, well I'm gonna
take whatever I want and walk out the word okay, okay,
I want to play this sound now, don't ask any questions.
So it was what six years ago we figured out
when this.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Is something like that? It's been a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And hell were you six years I do the math
for me. I don't know, eleven eleven years old? This
is eleven year old Mason Ramsey. Soone was video on
you yodeling and singing actually at this walmart? Why were
they video on you? Was this a contest or a concert?
Or is this your ploy to steal things from walmarts?
Didn't know what you were doing, my kiddiness.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, So actually I had. I had traveled with my grandparents.
We were doing something earlier that day. I don't remember what,
but it caused me to be, you know, dressed up
like like I was, and we ended up going to
our local Walmart, which is about, I don't know, forty
five minutes from us. Maybe I don't really know, but

(04:28):
we we went there and we were shopping, and all
of a sudden, I just, you know, I felt like
I wanted to sing, and so I just stopped what
I was doing and started singing. And I started getting
a small little crowd gathering around. Which do you have
a problem with this?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
This is this kid doing on Aisle four?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, I I don't think. I don't think they did.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
No.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
I think that they really didn't know what was going
on because it was you know, supposedly they could hear
me from the other end of the store corner.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, I'm gonna play that, all right. You've heard a
million times. You're probably like, oh, here we go, But no,
we still love listening to it. I remember how we
felt the first time we saw you doing that.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
You're gonna be shocked whenever you hear that, the comparison
between my voice now and well and and then.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, I don't think we'll be shocked, but I'd like
to literally ab Okay, here is here's Mason Ramsey at
the Walmart six years ago.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh that he was inside.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
The last long day. She said, well, she do me?

Speaker 6 (05:36):
She you she's got the gun at the flave me here,
where'd you go with me?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Of course, people are gonna come running across the story
to see what is going on in here.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
I love the hardest.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Which song is this, by the.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Way, Love Sick Blues by Hank Williams.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
And then but his version, of course he didn't write it.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was intrigued when you did the Little Naws X
song and we really yeah, hold on, I'm been my.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Razor, got a thousand eight or ride up on the
counts when it's okay, while I'll give you guys, you
ain't got no giddy up and giddy on my way,
I'm going to check my.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Horse at this point, your family and we're just thinking,
you know, there's something here. I Mason should be like
he should be on stage doing these things. And is
it something? Is this something you always wanted to do,
like be an artist?

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Absolutely, ever since, ever since I was three years old,
I've always wanted to, you know, really be kind of
famous or whatever and do what I love to do.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I love you're doing this and now you're traveling around.
I mean you're doing shows. You're doing shows up here
in the Northeastern, here in Philly and yours.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I was, I was. I actually did a show here
in New York at the.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Was it Magon Square Garden?

Speaker 4 (06:57):
No, no, no, I wish.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I wish to do that. One day you'll get there.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
But yeah, Philly, New York. It was like a I
was first kicked off in Boston, but I'm actually almost
wrapped up with the end of my tour. We've got
one more date in uh, Colorado Springs at boot Barn Hall, right,
and so that's that's gonna be really fun. And then
there's supposedly more dates later on in the fall.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
So this is exactly what you were dreaming of.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
As a kid. Absolutely, absolutely, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is why it's important for everyone to pay attention
to your dreams, no matter how old you are. God,
I was dreaming about that when I was a kid.
Do it never too late. So Danielle walks in today says, wait,
Mason Ramsey's on today. Yeah, and she starts screaming out, well,
he's My kids are listening to him.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
So my son is eighteen and he's like, ma, do
you really have Mason on? And I'm like, yeah, why,
he goes He's on my playlist. I go, he is, yeah,
a couple of songs. I'm like really, I'm like, oh
my gosh.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
So yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
You're in the house now.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
You're in the house.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh okay, so what's next? Because following you and where
you're going, where you've been and where you're going, it's
very fascinating for us who've been around in this business
for a long time because everyone has a different path,
a different story, and how they get to where they're going.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Absolutely, obviously, I've had a really wild ride with the
whole you know, the Walmart thinking kicking off and then
me being like a little features whatever on Oldton Road,
and then doing the Grammys in twenty twenty with lolonas X,
Billy Ray, Cyrus and BTS and Diplo.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Right when you get a.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Phone call like that and you're just starting out, do
you think it's a joke? Do you go, come.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
On, what is right?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Who is this right?

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Like?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Are you who? Is this a phone tap? Like what
do you think is going on?

Speaker 4 (08:43):
So I actually don't, I don't. I don't talk to
those people, and my managers kind of all handle that.
But whenever, whenever something like that happens, I'm like super
excited and like.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
How can you know it be?

Speaker 6 (08:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I mean, do you ever like weak up? At three
of them? We're gonna go, Oh my gosh, this is
really happening. I mean, is it? Is it surreal for you?

Speaker 4 (09:05):
That's kind of really what happened, only except it was
at nine or ten am or nine am, jeez, at
nine or ten pm. I just went to bed at
eight and my cousin got a phone call from my
manager about the Old Town Road thing and we ended
up going to do it. We wrote a line for

(09:26):
it and recorded it and they loved it and wow,
oh cool, it's really it's really Yeah, what do you think?

Speaker 5 (09:34):
I have questions?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Okay, so you said when that Walmart video happened that
you just like had the urge to sing, so you
stop and you started singing.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Did you do that often?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
And do you do that now? I don't do it
now as much as because normally I'm I'm like, well
I'm on tour, but I uh, I mean I sing,
you know, in the shower and stuff and you know
enormous stay home.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
We have a showered down. Yeah, we have a microphone
in the show. I could see you like rolling through
Times Square today and just kind of whipping it up
a little bit.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
I mean subways right in the subway.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh it's a little rainy right now. But it's okay,
you can do it.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
What was Yeah, Froggy, what's up?

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (10:14):
You had said that when we played your old clip
that we would be surprised the difference in your voice.
Now do you still do the yodeling?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Now? Yeah? Really I do?

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I do?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Uh? Actually I do the exact same song, just in
a different key.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now is it if we asked you to do somebody
you go no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
I mean I can.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Would you be embarrassed to do that?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, this is this is like a Walmart man.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
You may have to play me in F sharp or something.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
I think.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I'm sure YouTube hasn't F sharp.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
My goodness, YouTube hasn't F sharp. I'm sure it has
to write. YouTube has everything F sharp.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Note here we go.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay in F.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Sharp, Come on, Froggy, faster with your F sharp.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
There's an ad with Tom Brady hold on his five seconds.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Good, Here we go.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
I got a feeling called the blues o Lord, since
my baby said goodbye.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Lord, I don't know how to do.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
All I do is said and say Lord that last
long day she said goodbye, Well Lord, I.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Thought I would cry.

Speaker 7 (11:31):
She'll do me, She'll do you.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
She's got that kind of loving, Lord, I loved.

Speaker 7 (11:35):
You ever When she calls hi, sweet hedy, such a
beautiful dream, I had to thank it all over.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I lost my heart.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
It seems I've grown so used to you somehow. Lord,
I'm nobody's sugar daddy in now and I'm alone.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
So I got the love sick Blue. That's just a
little bit. That's Morning's voice. It's one Morning license.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
So it's okay. Weird because we have artists up here
all the time performing in the morning. I'm like, they
always sound like they're in a studio. They sound great,
and like, how do you do that? We sound like
crap in the morning? You hit it, You hit it.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
At All you needed was in f sharp off on YouTube.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
I sing it in the same key as Hank Williams.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
So well, there you go, Hank Williams. So that's your
one of your influences.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Little X.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
What a weird got a weird little stable motivation. It's
a pleasure having you here, mate, Thank you so much.
And uh, I'm gonna play your song, do you mind?

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Absolutely yeah? Blue over you.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
They call it giving it a spin. The people at
the label love that. Here we go drive Mason Ramsey,
Thank you for coming on.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Everyone. Close your eyes unless you're driving, keep them up.
Pretend you're driving to a Walmart, but this is Mason Ramsey.
Listen to this

Speaker 6 (13:00):
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