Ep. 105: Touring with Jason Aldean, Jingle Jangle Rock, and Amish Zoos with Raelynn

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's up? This is God's Country with your boy. Yeah,
damn high energy Read is a little lamped up after
that one, also known as the Brothers Hunt, where we
take a weekly drive to the intersection of.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Country needs and the great outdoors. Do look at you
old school. That's a that's the that's the goat shirt.
It's great shirt brought to you by Meet You Too.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And uh huh. You see we didn't do two things
you see'll be yes, we didn't. We'll do it after this.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, two things that go together like the devil and
this possibly the funniest moment on the podcast, Oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Gosh uh or the Christmas lights on the front porch
and a red necked woman with a baby on her hip.
And then we did the Covis thing before this time.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Manus hoctane high energy octane hundred miles an hour, pedal
down to the.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Flow, came in, came in hot, dude, we was we
was on one. Just came in blazing, bro ray in
out in God's Country Blas and put your seat belt
on blaze in ray Blaze. I'm just telling you. Her attitude,
her songs, her voice is all fired dude.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yep, she was awesome. We talk a lot about random stuff.
Really no, uh really no, there's no hot and fishing. Yeah,
cohesion to this one, but where uh it was fun. Yeah,
he was a blast. She's a killer, and she's kind
of like this, like like she's kind of she's been
here for seventeen years. Man, she's she's been through all

(02:36):
these label deals and she did the independent artist thing.
She's back with the label she started with, and it
just feels it feels new again for her.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Agreed. I thought I thought I felt new myself. I mean,
just working on new music. Got a record coming out.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I got Jingle Jangle Christmas EP out right now, go
check that out.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I hope you enjoy it. But you know, having
a kid and like going through that stuff, I think
that's one thing I would love for listeners slash fans
of country music to understand that, like, these people are
not staying the same full time, right, Like they're going
through changes and transitions and ups and downs and ebbs
and flows, and their music hopefully reflects some of that.

(03:15):
And uh, just hang out with them, man, because uh,
you never know what's gonna speak to you from what
they do, no doubt. Just because you're like one record,
don't don't push them off to the side when something's different.
That's right. Check it out. It's gonna be a good one.
She's awesome.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh, I don't think. I don't think there's a roast,
but there's something cooking in the microwave.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I look real fast.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh little deserve a little honey bond in the microwave today.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right, dang it, my brother. Okay, what I thought
you sent me? When you didn't, I don't have it. Ebh,
there it is, okay, I already read it on this one.
I already read it. Yeah we did last week. No,
we didn't. This one. We did wow tritonosis. Oh yeah
we did. Yep, we did do th one. Oh we

(04:07):
got another sweet Sweeties. I got some sweety pies. Man,
hot sweety pie rose for the day. A little sugar
in this roast.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
This is the coffee cup brownie microwave thing, real thing.
Really yeah, it's like a like a quick brownie in
the microwave. You can do like chocolate, sugar and marshmallow.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
How do we get to this?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
What?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm here for it? But how are you? Why are
we talking about this? How about something sweet in the microwave?
Oh yeah, nice? Okay, nice brownie? Sorry, microwave brownie cup brownie?
Right that I wrecked that for you? Code man, fish deer, yup, gun.
This is his name? Emojis emojis. Oh yeah, it would
be funny if that was his name. I'm with that though,

(04:50):
Jake Worth every penny episode. Thank you for sharing wonderful
memories of y'all hunting with your dads. It makes me
think of the good times I had with mine. I
had eighteen years of life with other hunting the shooting Trap.
Thank you for reminding me of the good memories. Fifty
two years old was too young. So make sure you
always be a loving son to your dad. Yeah man, yeah,

(05:13):
folk lap random applause. Thanks for that review.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thank you for saying that fish deer duck guns deer
dunk duck gun guy fish or duck gun, that's his name. Yeah, man,
it is important chairs those moments. Yeah, yeah, answer the.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Phone, even the weird ones where you're draining out.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of go help him drain out of go go bapend
us all day with him. Yeah, figuring out how to
take a freezer to the dump. I bet that the
ride around was probably it was hilarious. It was hilarious.
We joked and laughed the whole time. It was hands
down the worst smell of smell. Really, it was terrible.

(05:53):
It was terrible. Yeah, it's unfortunate. There's a lot of
freezers out there, a lot of old about ten year
old deer meat blood in the him of that freezer
that get a you.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Know what he called it this morning? What he called
what you're listening to this early in the morning. This
may make you sick, but he said. We had the
drain pulled on that freezer, driving around, just letting that
old chalky sludge pour out of that chalky I.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Will say that it was when I pulled the bolt
out with plumbing wire plumbing tape around it.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
But I didn't have it.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
No, I made it to plug it while we were
driving on the road, and then we got to an
undisclosed area and pulled the plug and just let it
all go out.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, it looks like it looked like puke coming out
of that hole.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
It was disgusting. I don't know what we're talking about this.
Just tell you daddy love them taking fishing too, taking
fishing fished. Duck girl boy. Uh, thanks for hanging out
with us, ray Len, She's got great stuff coming out.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Damn enjoy this podcast. Sorry, we didn't talk about houn.
I don't care if you do. Ye there, What's what story?
What's what's the story.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, So we were talking about like veneers, right, which
everybody in Nashville is getting veneers. You know I got
If you don't know this, I got veneers. I got
him done by doctor neighbors.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Shout shout out the podcast, the podcast.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Give me some uh. And you know I told him
when I went and got my teeth, and I was like,
you know, I want them to look natural, but you know,
still like she's got some nice teeth, right.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's exactly what I thought.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thank you, Thank you, Anna, because thank you. But my
dad has veneers and he's probably gonna come me for
saying this, but like, he's it's so funny because my
dad owns a tire shop. Put me like, let me
put me put him in Like, I gotta give you
a description.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Of my dad.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Heise the man. So he's owned his own tire shop
since he was twenty three. He's from Louisiana, big l
s U fan talks real country.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, he's probably pretty pissed right now about you.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, he's so upset. He's like I was cheering with
the A and M fans.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
At the end of it.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I didn't even care anymore. I was like, he was pissed.
Might get huh maybe, but he's he was pretty pretty upset.
But anyways, I have a distinctive memory. So we would
always go over We would always cross the border and
go to Mexico for my dad to get dental work done. Okay, literally,
I'm not kidding you. Okay, So I remember, like us walk,

(08:21):
you know, going over the border. You know, we would
get like and you know, when you're walking down that
main street right by the border, they're selling blankets, They're
selling you know, bracelets, everybody's selling something and you know,
I don't know, I don't know how to speak Spanish
at ten and eleven years old, so I'm just like
be bobbing with my dad and my stepmom and this
he was going to get veneers in Mexico. So we

(08:43):
And it's so funny now knowing now being you know,
in my I'm now in my early thirties and thirty one,
and I now have like a dental experience in my life.
Knowing that we went to like some sketchy place to
go get my dad's veneers is hilarious. But you know,
he got a deal. It's like two hundred dollars tooth

(09:05):
out there, and he's like and here it's like I
don't know, but to get a fresh fresh coat of
paint on them teeth is like thirty grand and like
it's insane. How much veneers are? They're insane. I did
not pay that.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
How many teeth are in your head, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
But it depends on how many you get. So but anyways,
so we get to this, We get to this dentnis
place and it's a barber shop and in the back
got you guys to get a new teeth. So I
remember I remember like sitting in like the chairs and
I'm watching people come in to get their hair cut,
and my dad comes in and the guy had to
take a lunch break, and this is, you know, twenty

(09:40):
years ago, and like that's back when they shaved your
teeth down, like really like small to put the veneers
on top. I didn't like, they didn't shave my teeth down,
like there's new ways to do it now. But my
daddy came out and he smiled, and I didn't know
what veneers were, and I didn't know what was happening.
But when he smiled, he was being funny because my
dad's kind of crazy, and he was like, look at
this and he smile, and I was like, oh my god,

(10:01):
my dad has no teeth, like what I thought.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I was like, what happened?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
But then he got him done. They actually didn't look
too bad, you.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Know, now twenty years later, they look pretty good.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I mean they look natural. I wouldn't say they look
like the way veneers look now like mine, but it
looks fine.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
But I wonder if they're still throwing the discount down.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Go to Mexico and might get my teeth hut. I
mean they go down that you can't wait it for
warn it all rook and I you know, you go,
He's just like he still goes there and does his
I mean, oh, hell yeah, my dad still goes there
to get his teeth thumb. He's crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So you can just I don't know. I don't know
anything about that life.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't know anything about that life either, because I
feel my dad. It's like, it's not like my dad
don't ain't got money. That's the funniest thing. Then boomers
baby then baby boomers, they don't want to I don't
want to waste that money.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I don't either.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I understand it. I mean us like, okay, I guess
we need to intro who we have. Let's go right
back to that's great stuff. We got a mom.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Todaisy a two time ACM nominee, certified country Girl, Text certified,
Popping over the Border Again, Dental Work Done or Day,
certified Platinum artist. Most certainly recently toured direct support for
al Dean on his world tour Ray Lynn.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Gods God's Country. Where are you saying? Go us down?
Homeboys are about a deal? It doesn't it doesn't, it
doesn't matter what's in the bank account on you know,
it's kind of the pursuit of the deal.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's still allure. It's not even really and it's just
the satisfaction that. For instance, yesterday I was riding around
with Dad as a whole is a whole thing with
his freezer going out.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh. He told me about that this morning, bro dude.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And he called me and was like, and I was like, hey, man,
do you need some help? At ten o'clock, I was like,
got a full day of stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Do you need some help? He's like, sure, you were
on the phone, and I just stayed sided. He didn't
know I was on I.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Didn't get home till too. I didn't get home till
two thirty. What it was a whole thing?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Hey, did you know that happens to be a Dennis
favorite time with this?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Wait, I'm at sister by the way, which wait to wait? Yeah,
Lindsay the one that does social media. Oh yeah, yeah,
she's super sweet. Where well, I when I was an
independent artist. Because I was independent for like five years,
I worked with the company that she worked with for
a little bit. She's super sweet. And that's what she
told me about this next story I have for you.

(12:25):
Oh no, are you ready for this? Let's go I
don't know. I don't know if you're ready for this though.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't. I don't. I kind of don't want to.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Be read like we were. You know, we were catching
up because it was, you know, like first time meeting
each others ask her where she's from, all the things like,
you know, and then we got on the subject in
my family and I'm from Texas, but I grew I
grew up in Baytown. I know you're from Town, Texas.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I might know the story.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
And my my cousin is like the lead singer of
a band called Leland, you know, which is their you know,
big Christian band nominated for Grammy. Is awesome, y'all. When
you were in a band called Freshman fifteen, me, you
came to our youth group and played a show. I
still remember that sticker. It was like black and red

(13:09):
with stars and the pedestrian and it was pretty cool. Time.
Man did not know that that was you, but that
was pretty I was like, heck, yeah, so Christian bop
music you could see.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
You should see those posters Freshman fifteen. It was awesome.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
They were great and I was so excited, like of
course he was. And now you're wanting to be a cowboy,
you know, he chases the money. I'll just say this,
it was a fun time.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I remember playing Baytown and I remember you had a
cousin named jack.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, my cousin Jacky drums. No, No, he was playing piano.
My brother was bass in the band that night.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
That night. Here's what I remember when we came to Baytown. Okay,
come on, So Leland was in a competition with us
up here in some weird probably super scammy battles of
the Christian bands. Yeah, it was something like that.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
It was something Royal Taylor in that too, because Royal
Taylor would come to Army.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
It has literally been twenty five.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
It has has longer. It had to have been.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
It was the band that you used to say, we're
in competition with these guys, but they were like they
were like having hits and.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
We were in that.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, yeah, it was like that was like we're in
competition that. I was like, I don't think I see
dude all the time. Yeah, and I'm like, I don't.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Think you're in competition, And this is no, no, no
digging you Matt.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
But listen, no way.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
He had those shoes on where it's like they look
like socks and your they have individual tothe.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, you can't tell me that that the sock thing
between this toe and this toe is night rush continues.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
So we went to Baytown that night and I and
we were so broke. We had a like we stayed with.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Our family, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
And me, me and uh, possibly your brother, possibly your
cousin and Leland all went we rode around house Town
and stole street signs all night long. Oh gosh, a
heck of a night. It was not so much.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's probably my brother Jake. My brother Jake's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Probably, yeah, probably, I remember I had a beard.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Whoever I was hanging Oh no, you were talking about Mike. Mike, Mike, He's.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Crazy, Yeah, Ben, super nice guys. Uh. It was like
we just came hung out, played y'alls church. You were there,
and they were still there. As a little teenager kid,
they went in still street soon. So how many Honestly,
if I graduated oh two, that would have been four.
How old were you at O four O five?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
It was twenty years age. I was like eight or nine. Yeah,
that was little. I was a little I was a
little munchkin. Yeah, I mean that's back when I was
eating star crunches playing GameCube, like you know one of
them William Street, Baytown, Texas.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know Baytown. I've been there. I've spin it out there.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
That is so fun.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
And I slept all the way back to we were
from Missisippi at the time. We weren't.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's so it's just so crazy to me how life
works and everything just comes here.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Are you.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
All?

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, that's a crazy story.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
But I had to tell you that story. Man.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm glad I can influence. I had influence on your musical.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
You did. I remember? I was like, you know, I
don't remember what song you sang that sticker though, because
it was on my marketing major.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
What's the song? What's the what was the Freshman's fifteenth song?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
It come on?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
You want to hear it?

Speaker 1 (16:57):
We want to hear it? What is it this? You
got a Sweater? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
We Got a sweater?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Is a sweater song? All I remember is I wish
I knew it. All I mean to all I remember.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Was oh, heck yeah, think about it, like you don't
remember it, you don't even remember it.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I didn't get any there's a sweater? You need my sweat.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
That is so that is the most incredible thing ever.
And you gotta think about it, you know. I'm I'm
like nine ten Disney Channel days, you know, boy bands
or where it's at nine degrees.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
No doubt we were cool, man. I don't regret start
you can't. Are we talking?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
You can't regret those days?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Many were they were they were. I was constructing the
foundation for my musical.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Life and career.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Isn't it that?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I love it too, man, And you know what, sometimes
I still go back and listen like.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Of course lines, Yeah, I go. I go back and
listen to like my first demos when I moved to town,
and I always wonder, why the hell did anybody write
with me? I'm like, what, you got to write bad
one before you write the good ones.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's the thing though, It's like you're like, man, what
was I thinking? But like you, we're all a little
bit probably seen behind the curtain, a little jaded.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, come to town.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
But when you come to town that first like you
move here and you're chasing the dream and you're doing
the thing like there's still nobody can tell you nothing, man,
And that's what that's the beauty of it is like, yeah,
is you just it doesn't matter how bad your songs
are or whatever. Like you're in town, You're doing going,
You're going, Like I just want.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
To make myself crunch. Like I cringe sometimes thinking about
making people sit in my truck and listen to my
demos when I was trying to figure it out. Like,
I apologize to anybody that had to sit in my
race red forward half one fifty in the first five
years of me living here and listening to my demos
because I thought I was cool.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, man, we all did.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
And I was just figuring, you're so good.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I think what classifies anybody as being cool in Nashville,
it's not whether they're good or not. It's whether they
took the leap. Dude. Yeah, it's a leap. It's a terrifying,
daunting leap. And then when you take it, you're in
and you're like, Okay, I don't have any money, I
don't have any connections. Yeah, I kind of know that

(19:27):
one guy that's an intern at that one place that
knows that one guy who has had a hit in
the eighties, and so you go right with him for
like six weeks because he's the only one that'll take
you and like you're plowing this trench path to forever
and you don't even recognize it. And it takes balls
to do.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
That, it does. I came here after the Voice because
the voice was in. I actually came at sixteen.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Did you have the voice?

Speaker 3 (19:53):
No? No? No?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, you were the like the one right?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah? I mean I didn't win.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I was top who did well?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
A guy named Jermaine Paul. He played. He was a
backup singer for Release Keys.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Shout out, Jermaine, I hope you're doing well. But that
was your show?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
How is that how the relationship with Blake and all
that started happening? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
So I So I came to Nashville at I would
come back and forth sixteen seventeen years old to write
wow because I met this woman in LA named Judy
Steakey when I was out there doing some auditions and
stuff and uh, and she was like, you should go
to Nashville and start songwriting. And I was like, oh,
I was like I don't really know about it, Okay.

(20:35):
I was like I don't know about that because I
had been in Nashville so many times with my cousin
Leland because we would come out here for gm a
week and stuff like that, and and I and like, I,
you know, I think some people wanted me to sing
Christian music, and I love the Lord more than a
lot of people. But I just I'm a little wild,
you know. And I was like, I just don't I
want to be unapologetically myself and if I'd rather be

(20:57):
a country artist and love Jesus than be a Christian
artist at the time, and it's really cool to see,
honestly a lot of this Christian country thing coming up,
like Wilson and some of the I'm obsessed with it.
God hasn't called me to that yet. Maybe one day,
but I feel like, you know, yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was everybody expected us and.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's just like it fits some people when it doesn't
some others. And so anyways, but this girl sent out
my I had written a song called baby That's my type,
and it was and it's like, oh, yeah, I need
a man.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
A home, my happy love me for who.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Every day he would treasure me bye.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
But sounds good.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
The kind of man I didn't need to be. I
need someone it's gonna love me for all my life,
or you're another hook bab that's my time. First song. Well,
that song was you know, a little guitar vocal that
I made on garage band. We sent it out to like,

(22:12):
you know, ten different people to write with me, and well,
lee Ane Falen was working with me from ASCAP. She
had heard the song. I was like, oh, there's some
potential here, and so then she's like, I'm gonna send
this out to some writers. Probably nobody's gonna want to
write with you. Just f y I which and I
love people sitting low bars, you know, like, and I've yeah,
and I appreciate that, like I don't want and I've

(22:33):
never thought like I've been told no a million times
like I you know, I don't really care. I'm just like,
get back up, let's keep going, you know.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
And so shout out to those p r O s
too that like don't have to do that, but like
when you come to town and sign up with them,
they kind of act as a publisher for.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
So all ten wanted to write with me, like and
when I think back, and when I think back on it,
it was Natalie Hemby, brad tercy Nicole Gallion. This is
this is before Nicole Gallion had like massive hits yet
and I mean like it was just like incredible writers.

(23:16):
I mean, and this was when I was like seventeen,
so this is, you know, fifteen years ago. And so anyways,
so I just started coming to Nashville, going back and
forth to Rite and I was riding with Nicole in
April one day and Nicole was like, you should audition
for the voice. And I was like, uh, I don't
want to audition for the voice, like I don't have
a Mariah Carey voice, Like like I feel like all

(23:39):
those singing shows you kind of have to be like
this crazy high singer. I was like, I'm more of
like yeah, I was like, I'm more of like a
you know, storyteller. And she said no, but that's the
cool thing about the voice is you can have like
a unique sounder. Ever, I was like okay, and I
was like, well, I do love Lake Shelton and I
do love his wife Miranda Lambert at the time. And
I was like, okay, well maybe I'll try it out.
And so then i'llitioned and I made it directly to

(24:02):
the like what do you call the the one where
you go to LA because there's like a lot of
steps and and then I made it onto the show,
and it's just it's really crazy because, like I think about,
I feel like I get more nervous now at thirty
one than I did at sixteen, Like you know, I

(24:24):
that's why I always try to live with the mindset.
Like every year when I'm like writing down my goals
or whatever I want for the year, I'm a oh,
I do it every single year. And honestly, most of
the goals that I had for this year like have
come to the past. But it's like I do a
dream board and I do a cheesy one. I'm not
like I buy a crap ton of magazines. I like

(24:47):
do all the things, so I cut out things that
like I feel like inspire me.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I go old scrap Oh I'm.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Scrapbook, and I like it's just a little poster board
and it's by my daughter's little homeschool room. So I
still stare at that every day when I work with
her on her her letters because we're learning ab season
right now. But it's uh so, yeah, when I got
on the show, like I think about like just that
whole process and being like seventeen in LA and my

(25:15):
mom and dad staying with me, and and I when
I walked out, like on that blind audition, when I
tell y'all, I was like it was an out of
body experience. I can't even believe that I was on
a stage like that at that age, and I wasn't nervous,
Like it was just it had to have been like
a god thing of like just me knowing that I

(25:37):
was meant there for a reason and being there was
like supposed to be in there.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Probably didn't understand the weight of it.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I didn't under I think the thing is, I didn't
understand the weight of what was going on, but I
knew that, like it was definitely a god thing.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I think that's what kind of sold you on
the show. Yeah, like this just reckless, fun entertaining. Yeah,
little gal, that's like super spunky and happy to be here.
And I think that's what sold you.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
And I will never forget.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I mean to the point that I thought you won.
I thought you so sweet.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I did not win, but you keep telling people that, Okay,
I get it. I but I will say I after
the show, but this was so funny. So like you know,
my my parents all have a church in Baytown. Obviously
I'll played at it. So like you know, I'm the

(26:27):
pastor's kid and I'm on the show and they were
getting they were getting so much hell because you know,
the songs I was singing was hell on heels And
what else did I sing?

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I sang wake Up Call about killing a man, and
I'll just you know, a bunch of barn burns, right,
and what was the other one? Oh? And I sang
She's Country by Jason Alding, which is hilarious because I
end up going on tour him this year. We talk
about all the time, and Jason's one of my good buddies.
I love Jason and Britain and so anyways, I uh,
when I made it to the next round, and you know,
my sweet spiritual grandfather, he would call me my Papa

(26:57):
Dale and he'd be like he'd pray over me before
every time I'd go on stage or go on stage,
and he'd pray over me before I'd go out for
the results, and he's like.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I feel like God.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I was like, okay, I believe Papaino. Well, when I
made it to the next round, I go oh, And
then I realized I'm on national television and I grabbed
my mouth and I'm the youngest one on the show
and the only one that's ever cussed on all the seasons.
So when we went back for when Blake was when
it was his last episode, because you know, he's not
on the show anymore, they brought all of like the

(27:27):
fan favorites back. One of the one of the camera
guys came up to me and he goes, I will
never forget trying to bleep out and you're the only
one still to the day, to this day, has cussed on.
I was like, yeah, let that stamp made my mark.
But you know, that show is incredible because I I

(27:49):
was grateful not to win, because I felt like I
got enough exposure to get me where I needed to go.
And I came here and I was able to kind
of think where I wanted to go publishing wise, and
ended up signing over a big machine and and it
really just kind of started everything for me, which was
really cool.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
No Read came in second place in American isol as well.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Really Disney Disney disney Disneyland American Oh.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Hell yeah, not disney World, disney.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Land World, the ones.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's disney World. That's better than disney Land, Disneyland smaller.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So Disney Disney read my dad, we actually got we
went into this place because it was it was raining
and we'll go check it out. And then they were
like auditioning for this year's Disney World American.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
If you won Disney World American issle, you got like
a ticket to That's sick thing or whatever it us.
Like between red and this one I had, I had.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I remember I had Jim shorts, a white T shirt
in this hat.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
My hair is crazy. Oh, I know exactly. Hang dude,
can we go do it?

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Truck?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Let me let me go up the words.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Though, you made second place with this one. Yeah, so
this didn't get you first place.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
I mean I think there was a politics and going
on all right. They were like all those little girls
at Disney were like.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
My god, sign our shirts. This is my dad calling me.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Answer, ask me, ask you if you see in Mexican?
Hey Dad, Hey.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Chick, No she's not. You're on speaker. Yeah, where you at?
I'm on a podcast right now?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Dad? I was just I was just talking about you.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh lord.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I was just talking about how much I love you
and you going over to you you going over to
Mexico to get some dental work done.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes, we do everything. Man, what the well?

Speaker 3 (29:55):
I love you all right.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well do your podcast.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, she's probably got to ring her off. She she's
with a daisy right now, So just give her a.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Call phone and I'll just call Daisy.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
How about you buy her phone. You're the Paul Paul Apparent.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's the only way I can get to anybody. All right,
my daddy, I love dad calls dude. I know we
always encourage people to answer it.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
You can't. You can't leave your dad on like he's
like hit my step mom. I call her my bonus
mom because she's pretty special. But she's at she's at
the house right now.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Sometimes I'll take her for a week and have her
hang out with my daughter.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Wait, what song did you sing?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
You gotta finish it? Just just I'm trying to. I mean,
I got makeup done. I was walking around.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Stay, I'm getting I'm getting at.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
You something like that.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I don't need to be anything other than a prison
guards son.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I don't need to be anything other than a specialist son.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I don't have to be any one other than the
birth of two souls in.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
One part of where I'm going.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
There's no way where around I'm coming from.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Wow, where's it go?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
I don't want to be in there the other? Have you?
He is.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
That what I've been trying up, bel It's like a
man in my state of turn out looking around. What
I gotta do? I supposed.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
You should have won? Have you not? Gavin is hilarious.
Oh he is.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
I used to look like Chariot and all that stuff
back in the day. And his strip record, Oh incredible.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
We met him at I did a Leonard Skinner. I
did a show with Leonard Skinner. Leonard Skinner. It was me.
It was pretty much America's lineup. It was me, Leonard Skinner,
John Rich who he never played his songs, and that
he wasn't there. You know who else was there?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Lane Greenwood saying.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
We were out there for that was when the had
a hurricane, you know, Florida hurricane and they were doing
a benefit concert and and Gavin was there and did
a show. Gavin is Gavin's the man and he him
and my husband like hit it off that night. He
is funny.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
He's an unbelievable talent. Well, I have this in my hand,
let's do it.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
You're mad at just tell us what it is what
you're mad at?

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Is it you in littlest kids? Might be your boss
man or your neighbor's cat. Just tell us what you're mad.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
You telling me to tell you what I'm mad at?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Okay, give me not tell you about this segment.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
I think you did, but I should have thought about it.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
I think you were pretty excited.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
You know what I'm mad at, and it's because you
said it earlier. I'm mad at uh.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Tow shoes, shoes, Get out of here? What is the point?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh? You know what I'm mad at. I don't understand
the six seven? Boy?

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Get it?

Speaker 3 (33:44):
I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
I don't think anybody does.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
I don't like and I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
How does it affect your life?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Though?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Who says? How do you?

Speaker 3 (33:52):
People? You know? Okay, because I'm like, you want to
know what I'm mad at?

Speaker 5 (33:57):
What?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
It's trying to be cool doing the six seven? Yes,
and it's annoying. It's like I haven't seen it in
the time. Yeah, but like, I just don't understand the
six seventh thing. And I listen and I get. I mean,
I guess I try to be cool too. Sometimes I

(34:19):
don't know, maybe.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Trying to be cool no, parents should not. I haven't
seen it in the wild. You've seen it in the world.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
I see it. I'm seeing it in the wild, bro,
And maybe it's all over my tic it's all over
my Instagram, just like I don't get but I'm mad
at that? And what else am I mad at? I
feel like I'm always mad at something. I try to
I try to live in the lane of forgiveness, though,
you know, I feel like i'm mad at that right now.

(34:46):
And I'm mad at the fact.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
That, like you're mad. In fact, Jesus forgives.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Said no, no, no, no, no, thank you Jesus. Jesus forgives
on the daily Hallelujah, Praise God.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Actually mad at the second point, it's gonna.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Say, I'm mad at people putting up Christmas so.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Early, like both y'all, both y'all can get out.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Let me finish. I'm all about putting Christmas up early,
but only like a week before Thanksgiving. But the November
first is kind of a lot. And I have a
Christmas album coming out soon. I'm excited. You don't know
how I got that title. I was at I was
at Trader Joe's and I don't know if y'all, like

(35:35):
they have that sweet section that's like it's got like
basically like just crack sweets like you don't actual sweets.
And they have Jingle Jingle pretzels every Christmas, and I
was like, I'm gonna write me a song called Jingle
Jingle Rock Baby. And I buy those pretzels every year,
and I make a little sweet board when I have
a little Christmas party. But I don't understand doing it

(35:56):
November first. You know, it does bring me happy, but
I I think a week before Thanksgiving is aproprise.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yeah, November first, it loses some nostout like I do like.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
I like it up a little early. Now, don't get
me wrong. I do like it up a little early.
But November first was kind of aggressive.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I mean, I already as a family and our Christmas jammis,
though will say.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
That, no, I'm already in my jammis.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Christ came out.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Jammies are different.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
I got room for Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
But I like love. But I put my pumpkins out
late this year, so I'm still enjoying them. I mean,
I did a fire this morning. We have a wood
fire burning place. Love that little little coffee.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Here's here's my thing. You know, here's my thing.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
That's what when Christmas. When Christmas comes around and you're
doing that, that's can't beat that time.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I mean, I get it, I get it. But there's
also needs to be a complete month. If you're gonna
have a month dedicate dedicated to Hallow Halloween, I think
there should be a month dedicated And I love Thanksgiving
because it's like a month to Halloween. People decorate. I
don't Halloween.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Now, did y'all have y'alls did y'all's church have?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Like that's a sat like.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
You know, that's what it needs to be, like where
they wanted to have something for like the Heathens. You know,
they wanted to bring in the people trunk or trees
we called ours. Holy ween, I'm not even kidding. Oh
my god. I saw one of my girlfriends, you know, Hayes,

(37:25):
Like she's a she's a comedian, she's hilarious, and she
she was talking, she was on a podcast and she
was like, and I think, you know, sometimes like you
mentally block out things from your childhood. Do y'all remember
those houses, like those haunted houses that were at churches
where they would like walk you through like a drunk
ank driver in the crash, like the crash somebody shooting

(37:49):
somebody or whatever, and then they would be like the
gates of Hell. You'd walk to the gates of Hell
and they be like, oh, but you can give yourself
to Jesus right now, I think about what I think
about those things. They were kind of crazy, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
That was it was borderline cults.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
It's borderline cultish, like it was kind of insane and
very like.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Then they play that one song that uh bro that
was that was because like the last scene of that whole.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Thing, and then they bring you through the gates of Heaven.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
You know, do you want to do this?

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, they're not going to give themselbody.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
It's gold and we have kit care.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
And the worst part is, like I remember inviting so
many of my friends from school and they probably pushed
you to do I know, I'm with it.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Look I'm with it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
When she talked about that, I started laughing because I
blocked that out of my memory.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
It's like it was terrifying. It was so terrifying, and
you remember you walk in that room and they would
scream there walking to be dark. It'd be dark and
be dark, and they'd be like and then they go
and the lights would come on and there'd be like
a dude laying across the car and like sirens and
blue and red. Dude, do you want do you want
to get saved?

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I do as fast as possible all I want to
do six six seven.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Sorry, just thinking about that, that's probably I got a
little religious trauma.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
We all do, for sure, for sure. I mean you
think about that, it's it's uh, I cannot be moved back.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
The like they had like the the the Devil's real,
but they had the devil and it was just like
a mask that they got from spirit Halloween.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Was no I remember that. I don't remember this.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah, I'm talking about like the.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Did he come out?

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
He was like do you remember the one?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Do you remember the one we went the devil that's
terrified to take him out?

Speaker 3 (40:04):
He was sitting on like and they were like you
can either do this and then they walk you through.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
This something else you went to didn't that's what you did?
This was to Wayne. That was Wayne.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
He was like in this black chair and we were
at a Baptist church and I'm being scary.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
It was the first time. Even one of her eyes
is doing this thing.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
And then and then then you walk through headed and
it's like, what are you gonna choose? No, darm I'm
gonna choose Heaven, bro, Like.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Is he prayed to receive Christ? There's cheeks over here.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
If you did, I'm triggering some emotional trauma from your past.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
It's good, get it out, kiss good. The car was blue,
The car laid over the hood, bro. Yeah, it was
a loot.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
And then they always had the guy that was doing
drugs and.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Good lord, I'm not saying you can't work. Whatever works.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
It probably got a few people saved, and I'm grateful.
I was just thinking about that now, like those they
wouldn't have that crap now, you know, and back in
the day that was all left and right. You know,
first back of second Baptist year.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Do you remember that one show how good the drama
team was?

Speaker 2 (41:26):
You remember that one show we went to and that
we were on like a choir to or something and
the devil, the devil pointed at you. Remember we were
like in Branson, Missouri, and we were sitting happened.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
It was happening, like you're damn, this happened but I
was way back in the that was like like perched on.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Its like this, and then he was like like like
doing like this any thousands of people at He was
like this and then he went.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
And I was like, I was like I read he
pointed me. He's like yes, dude, Oh god, okay.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
We gotta go on.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I could talk about that was amazing that whole thirty
five minutes.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
I didn't mean. I didn't mean to make you laugh.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Oh that's the hardesty laughing on this podcast for sure,
thousand percent. Oh how do you just switching? How do
you just switching up?

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Now?

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Because we got to talk music.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
We got I had a great summer with Jayson Aldeans.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
That's what we're going talk about. It's a great transition, great.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Position.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
So you're close with with Jason and Brittany and then
what was that?

Speaker 1 (42:37):
What's that tour? Like?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
It was a blast. It was me and Nate Smith
and Jason and Nate is so sweet in his camp.
It felt like my favorite thing. So I've never been
like over the years, like I feel like I would
just like pop it on tours like two or three
weekends here, two or three weekends there. But I've never
fully like been on like forty dates the whole summer.
Like I've just I've been like, you know, a few

(43:01):
dates with a certain artist, but never the full time.
Oh it takes I take it back. I did with Blake,
but Blake just his tours are so short, so we
would do like fourteen shows, you know, but it was
his full tour, but that's when he was on the voice,
so he would only do you know, fourteen to twenty shows.
But I did do that full tour, but it wasn't
like it wasn't like the grind of Like we had

(43:24):
thirty five shows on this tour, so we like all
like you know, really got to bond and stuff. But
it was awesome. I you know, I really enjoyed getting
to know his band. His band is so awesome. They've
been together for like twenty years. Jason's band and oh,
Curtin Toli are the best. They're so kind and then

(43:44):
even like Nate's crew was super sweet. But I've you know,
I've known Jason and Brett for a long time, and
Jason was one of the first people I met in town.
So the first like after party I went to when
I was like eighteen with Blake and the crew I met.
I'll never forget meeting Luke, Brian and meeting Jason, and
Jason was one of the only people that like asked

(44:05):
me where I was from and like asked me questions
about my wife and and I was like, Oh, this
this guy's actually really kind. So to be able to
Luke was kind. Luke was just Luke was bebopping everywhere.
But I'm saying like he was the first artist that
like and like just asked me, like, you know, besides Blake,
who was like like a dad slash uncle like he's
the best, but like he you know, asked me questions.

(44:27):
Was really cool. But yeah, we had it. We had
a really great time. It was fun. Like they they're
so like it's cool to be with like an artist
that's been touring enough where they're just confident in it
and it's like everybody's a family because you tour with
some artists and it's like security's uptight. These peop I'm
not saying like like they have their it's a well
oil machine, but everybody's chill. They've been doing it forever.

(44:50):
It's professional. But I didn't feel like I was like
tiptoeing around an artist or anything like that. And I
that's why I just I love travel with my friends.
And so it was fun. Me and Brittany had a
blast this summer. My daughter came out. So my daughter
was probably on like three fourths of the tour, so
she got her own like little past. She made everybody
friendship for every she like all the crew guys. Everybody

(45:12):
loved Daisy, right, so Daisy would just be fist. She
does know that this is her life. She's four and
where she was three this summer, and she would be
like fist pumping everybody. And we made everybody friendship bracelets.
Those those crew guys wearing their like pink and blue
friendship bracelets and like like it was like they say
that they're still wearing them, like it's so cute. But
we had a We had a really really good time,

(45:33):
and I the fans were awesome. I do like I
was the first of three, so it was me, and
then it was Nate and then it was Jason, and
I did a meet and greet after every show, and
I mean, I think it's important when you have those
opportunities to pour into the fans. You know, I only
got you know, one moment to be able to meet
as many people as I can, and I still do them,

(45:54):
and I'm gonna continue to do after show meeting greets
and just till I can't. And I think it's important
to do that, invest in the people that have invested
in you.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
So, yeah, what's yours?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
It's fun.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
So you say, like Blake's like a daddy, Like, yeah,
he's awesome. Do you have like one story that sticks
out about him or y'all?

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Oh my gosh, So this is so funny. So I
we were playing a show and I hadn't seen him
him forever, and he wanted to come to one of
our shows. And this was, oh my gosh, I'm trying
to think this is probably me and Josh just got married,
so maybe twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I could look at
my phone and figure it out. But he you know,

(46:32):
this is when he was like the batch life. You know,
Blake was going everywhere because he was single, just doing whatever.
And so he said, uh, I want to come to
your show in Knoxville, and I was like okay. So
he flew his private plane into into Knoxville and I
was playing a radio show with like Justin Moore and
other a few other artists, and he gets to the

(46:53):
he gets to the bus and it's me and my
husband Josh and the crew and and nobody could believe
that Blake was coming to my show. Like, you know,
I was like, no, he's coming, like we haven't seen
him forever, like he wanted just to come. So he
gets out of the car and he has a baby
kangaroo and a pouch okay, and he's wearing this pouch
and I was like, what are you wearing? He goes, oh,
I got this kangaroo. I couldn't leave it at the house.

(47:13):
And I was like, what you have a kangaroo in
that pouch?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Where were you playing?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
And I was playing it. It was like a radio show,
you know those radio shows, So it was like that
an arena. It was a full band, but it was
a radio show because Blake was gonna come out and
sing with me. But he couldn't sing with me because
the other radio station found out that he was there
and they were like, oh, you don't want him to
call mel you know, they were they were piste off.
But it was like he just came to be like
a friend. He didn't come to like.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
With a baby kangaroo.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Well, with the baby came. He wasn't coming to like
make a stand of like this is my favorite station.
He was just coming just to come whatever. So anyways,
I so he has the kangaroo and comes on the
bus and my husband is like super nurturing, super sweet,
and like we we were all gonna go inside to
watch an artist play. And he's like, oh, you can
just hang him on the door and leave him in

(47:59):
the bus. Josh was like, you're not leaving this baby
kangaroo in here. Like my husband like started getting like
really like it was like, so Josh wore the baby
kangaroo the whole time. I have a picture of them.
He just holding this baby kangaro and and the thing
is like it was in the pouch, like it was
so c like opened the pouch he would like hop
in like it's like it's his mom. It was so cool.
But after the show, we were like, you know, where

(48:20):
should we go eat? Well, let's go to the best
place in America, Texas Roadhouse. Baby, that is my freaking place.
I love to like two different things. If I've eaten
a lot of rolls and a lot of fried pickles
and I wanted to feel like a little skinny. You
can't really feel skinny there. I get the steak salad

(48:41):
with two things a ranch, which is still not healthy,
but you know if I like, don't care it's not
too or season or whatever. I still eat the rolls,
still eat the fried pickles. And I get the stirline
steak with loaded mashed potatoes, sour cream.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Everything. It's good, cinnamon butter. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
So we all went to Texas Roadhouse after the show
and it was like ten o'clock at night, and all
those like all the waiting staff was just so kind,
like we had our own table. They were. Of course,
Blake is Blake and he's being so sweet to everybody,
and it was just like it was just such a

(49:22):
fun time. The kangaroo, I think, was taking a nap
on the bus finally, but it was just, you know,
he is just One thing I'll say about Blake is
he truly loves the people he loves. But that but
this part of the story is we were trying to
figure out like you know, we were trying to you know,
he's he's a bachelor, so we were like, you should

(49:44):
you should date Gwenn and I told him this at
this show. I was like, Gwynn is so cute, she's sweet,
you know, I think that I don't know, and he's like, no,
she won't not. I was like, dude, just make up,
just ask her out, and he like he's like he
wasn't gonna do it, and then he did a couple
of weeks later, and then the man worked out. I
was like, she needs a cowboy man. She's never been

(50:04):
loved by a country boy. When it came out, because
he was like she would I was like, no, man,
come on, and me and Josh were egging it on.
All of us were egging it on to take her
out on a day and then he ended up taking
on a day and.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Then bam, a celebrity matchmaker that was me and I
love Gwen Gwennis.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
So I felt really embarrassed because, like you know, I've
been a huge I love her style, like I love
wild style. Obviously I'm wearing overalls, but the Champion socks, socks,
Target Baby collab. I love Champion, but I uh, I

(50:46):
bought hair Juku shoes. Remember haired Juku baron back in
the day, Well, she had like a whole brand haird
I don't know how to spell it. House homeschool. But
she had like a whole like hair ju brand, and
it's like it was like a whole thing, like she know,
she had this brand for a while. And I wore
these shoes all the time to school and like they
were super super snatty, like really tall Converse and I

(51:08):
was like eleven And I told her. I was like,
yeah about your hair Jucu shoes and I was eleven.
I totally I didn't mean. She was like, well, thank
you for saying that. When I was loving I was like,
I'm so sorry. But she came to our wedding, which
was cool.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Yeah, she.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
She is time, but she's beautiful. She's so kind and
her and Blake at the wedding, they stayed till the
very end, till we walked out with the bubbles, like
they didn't like they didn't just like jet out, like
and everybody, you know, all my crazy Louisiana family and
text fan were going up there and taking I told
and it was a no phone wedding, but you know,
you have a few stragglers always. But they were so

(51:44):
sweet and it was really cool. It was really cool.
I really, I really love that.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I love seeing those pictures of you know, like when
you see somebody in camo that's not supposed to be
in camo, like Gwen Stefani wearing camo on a ranger.
She's so cool her pants tucked into boots and and
that's like so the thing.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I love about her and seeing her with Blake is
she just she just jumped into his world and she
does it so gracefully. I feel like she's you know,
she just she took it all in. And I think
it's really cool. They're really great together.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Have you ever been have you ever been? Like, have
you ever hunted his ranch out in Oklahoma?

Speaker 3 (52:20):
No? I haven't heard about it.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
The story about the Ostrich, Like, oh my god, because
he has like this random rogue Ostrich that's always trying
to like peck people. It's hilarious, like he like, I
think it was somebody I could be getting this exotics.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
It sounds like, oh yeah, oh.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Yeah, he's got some random Blake is crazy. Yeah, he's
the best.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I thought I heard a crack on myself. This is
where you might need to put your headphones. I think
new guy radio. This is this is new guy radio.
Random question of the day.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
What's the random question today?

Speaker 1 (52:57):
You're about to find out. Okay, let's see, when was
the last time you thought to yourself, I might be
a little bit crazy, and why.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
I might be a little crazy?

Speaker 1 (53:10):
The last time I thought I might be a little crazy?
Who wants it first? First? First one to think of it?

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Go.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
I mean yesterday Dad was driving me crazy as we
were driving around, pulling the plug on a freezer, letting
the gross stuff meat juice, meat juice spill out onto
random roads around spring Hill.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
I was driven crazy yesterday. He's a little crazy.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
I might be a little crazy.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
M hmm. I think it was the Rubber Duck pool party. Well, yeah,
at the end of that, I thought I might be
a little crazy.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
I'm a little crazy about the world.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I love that song.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
I mean, I think what one I love that song?
I mean, I think a crazy moment for Remember when
it snowed.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Earlier this year, snowed earlier this year.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
I was like, well, I'm sorry, snowed in like January
of twenty twenty five. You know, we get out, we
get out the one we get our one week snow
and that's all we can handle. We have a pool. Y'all.
We got a pool. Okay, you're rich, you got pool,
but we had a pool. We got a pool. And
I'm pretty much can be peer pressured in anything, you know,

(54:28):
especially for the gram, you know, but not really. I
mean I can't really, but you know, I was like
and all of our buddies we were jumping in the pool,
and I was like, I'm about to jump in the
pool and do it for the ground, but I didn't
like prepare for like, well, they I'm I'm a little lady, okay,
and they're like, you know, I'm a little But I

(54:51):
was stupid and I didn't die. Well, I don't really dive,
but I should have dove in the water and came
up in the shallow land. But I jumped in and
came up in the deep and I was swimming and
it's so I'm doggy paddle swimming and I can't catch.
I thought I was dying. I'm not gonna lie and
I was swimming and you can't even hear im. Go fuck,

(55:14):
I'm literally cussing, but you can't even hear me cussing
because I'm just like and then I didn't have shoes ready,
so I'm walking in the snow. I put on I
did put on a bucket, had a fuzzy bucket out
and I'm walking in the snow and I'm and I
was like, Okay, I'm insane. But then I got a
lot of views, which is all that matters. But I was,
I think that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
The last time I would think I'm a little crazy,
but the world's insane was when we tried to get
that freaking.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Deer blind deer house and that things. I took the
whole time. I took the whole family. The deer house
is awesome.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
We saw have I told the story out here? I
have Okay, make it quick. On Marketplace there was a
amish deer house which is like an easy three to
one thousand dollars deer build him really really will This
guy has got one four hundred dollars. But you got deal,
but you got to come get it. That's where the

(56:12):
gigi for sure. So me and reload up my tractor.
We go all the way down there, sucker for a deal.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
There you go, Facebook, Facebook, Marketplace junkies. We we did
it just the other day with a freezer.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
My three year old son was with us in the
shadow of this tilted four thousand pound box like at
an angle like this. We're trying to get it on
the trailer because there's you have to like.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
We got a six by twelve trailer and the thing's
nine foot wide. Oh it was matt.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Literally we got to the point to where Reid was like,
I gotta put this thing down down, and I was like, well,
just set it down, tractor.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Or do you get it?

Speaker 1 (56:56):
We broke so Amish an incredible nothing bro They went
and s can you say, surely okay, okay, she's good?

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Okay, I mean, I hope everything is bill Amishy because
everything perfectly an Amish zoo on the road.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
I wish did all of my dear, have you ever
been doing Amish zoo? What makes sense?

Speaker 3 (57:21):
I played? I played somewhere in Indiana and it was
like basically and by the way, I have So we
went on Amish Zoo. So there's a bunch of Amish families.
They're so kind, and then then there's them, and then
there's me and Daisy. And Daisy's got cheetah bows and
cheetah shirt. I'm like, you know, you're just you know,
doing me, and so like I it was that with

(57:43):
that part, because you know, those zoos are a little sketch,
but so you can get away.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
I don't know anything about you.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Can pet really any animal like pigs.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Here's a yard dog, Americans like longhorn, like they had
all all kinds of animals, zebra and stuff. So it's
kind of for me.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
It's for me, but also like you can pet pigs,
you can pet goat. It was so fun, but it
was like, but you know, there's definitely some questionable like well,
I feel like any of those like homemade zoos, like
you're wondering, like it kind of reminds me a little

(58:22):
tiger kingish, you know, but not the armers did. Now.
I did go to a zoo in Charlotte, North Carolina,
and we could feed the animals in the car and
my dad this is one of my favorite things. So
my dad had like you know, we had we had
our food, and we didn't know what we were gonna expect.
This whole camel put its whole head in our car

(58:45):
and Dad goes give it, give it, and he just
starts giving him. He gave him the whole thing that
he was so nervous, and it was so funny I
love a sketchy zoo.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I got chest punched. I got chest punched by a
black panther and a sketchy zoo. Swear I was, I
was tiny, had glasses. There was this woman in sarah
gord To, Tennessee, and we called her. Don't put her
on We called her the cat lady. She's probably not alive, yes,
and uh, don't put her on blasts.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
She literally had like it was like a like a
just a brick style southern home on a dirt road
ran and the old ranch and and there was a
cage on the side of her house.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
She had like ten cages back there. There was a
cage on the side of her house that had a
cat or a dog door going into her house where
panthers were coming, I swear to God.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
And then that she had laggers, remember like a Tiberian stuff.
It was massively, but I was. They had They had
a viewing deck where you could like walk out, walk
up these steps and get on a deck. And that's
I think she finally got caught. I don't think she
was supposed to be doing any of that. Dude, is funny.

Speaker 5 (59:51):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
My husband went to where he was in Fayeteville for
a little bit because she was in the military and
he lived in North Carolina and there was a zoo
out there and it was sketchy, but I loved it.
Could actually sketchy zoos are great. And it's like this
little monkey he had and he was like, wore diaper,
which is kind of weird, like the monkey that's on
pirates like Caribbean. Oh yeah, but I buy with that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
You might die.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Not the best time in your live back. Okay, first off,
I don't love them. I don't trust the monkey.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
A monkey and the diaper is pretty awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
If you're walking around with a monkey and the diaper,
I don't want to pay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Because you don't want I don't even kid At the
Amish Zoo that night, I had a show and when
I was singing, uh, I was singing red Neck Woman
and because that's my favorite cover. And in the back,
where's all these women, like these Almish women dancing to
red Neck Woman and I and I pointed the mask

(01:00:46):
and I was like, where y'all heard this song? And
I even said it and they didn't. They didn't really
answer my question, but it was really awesome. They were
dancing and singing. I appreciate that, though, Man, sometimes I just.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Wish that didn't exist. I do get out of here, dude,
you would not last.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
Said that. No, take my phone, let me let me
turn butter, let me turn Broder Cheetah over my daughter
days and you're out crops bam. Once you think that
I can't do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
That at Rocking Amage Farm, I'm not saying you couldn't
get a style bro get elected president, elected.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
President of that, I'd be like, I'm getting pissed.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Let me get a word at the Homage Farm Fridays Fridays.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Cheatah Fridays, at the Amish Farm casual Fridays.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
I'm just gonna ware, are you doing you? I have
a question we got I gotta explain myself. I'm not
saying you couldn't handle it. You could easily go do it.
Her face right now, turn into that. I'm saying. I'm
not saying you couldn't go do it for a week.
I'm saving a week. I'm saying if they said, okay, Raylen,

(01:02:19):
you and Daisy and Josh all got to put this
stuff on, and you once you go, you can't come back.
You're trading in your life for an Amish life. I
don't think you stay there that long. I think you would.
It would start stinking and you'd be like, I'm out.
But I think you would try to put like a

(01:02:41):
gold cross on your blue pants and they'd be like,
you're out. You can't be flair. You're too flairy. You're
too flaired. Maybe the community needs a little fair.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Maybe the Amish community.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
When you did say they were dancing in the back
of your maybe there's maybe there's a maybe there's a
branch you could.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Maybe glamping for me. I don't know exactly, because there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Was some sort of Glamish Glamish Glomish Glomish community community.
All right, we got, we got, We're gonna get. Sorry
now I feel bad, quick one, quick one. You Uh,
you've had a Nashville journey of major label deals. We've

(01:03:23):
talked anything music. That's why, that's why we're here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
But we're gonna do this. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
We're your your independent artist time, your first being machine thing,
all the highs and the lows of an artist.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Uh, Like, what is how has that grown you? What
has that taught you in your career in your artistry?
To go from there? To where you're at now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Yeah, So when I started I I was on Big
Machine for about four years and then left that deal,
went to Warner for a couple of years. That's when
I put out Wild Horse, which debuted at number one
on the Billboard chartres at that time, there's only four
females that debut at number one, which is Taylor Maren
White on a jud Wow and she and I a

(01:04:04):
twain like and it was and me, which is awesome,
and uh it was that was such a crazy moment.
And I got to take my dad with me to
the a CM Awards because my husband was at basic
training for the military, so he didn't get to go.
So it was a it was a crazy whirlwind.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
But appreciate your service.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Appreciate your server. Josh Brown Davis, he's a mighty man
of God. But yeah, but after you know, Warner, we
I just didn't have a song that really hit at radio,
and but we released Love Triangle, which Love Triangle. Love
Triangle was the song for me that like helped me
break into rooms writing rooms that I never dreamed of.

(01:04:45):
Like that song was definitely the the tipping point for
me and my as it like where they were like Okay, yeah,
I raised fun and she's cool, but she can actually
write real so that part was cool. And uh and
I still to this day love Triangle is to see
the way that that song is connected with fans over

(01:05:05):
the years and it always has a resurgence on even
though like TikTok, is a lot for me to understand
and manage. Sometimes it is really cool that like this
younger generation or any like any young people can like
they can rEFInd songs like me and Jason were talking
about it, like Jason's song The Truth is Popping off
and all these other older songs because they people want
to dive into music like that again. And Love Triangle

(01:05:28):
always has like a pop every six months, it'll just
start taking off again. But you know, I never had
that like number one radio song. And so I left
Warner and I decided to be independent for a little bit.
And I was on a FGL when they were together
Florida to Line. They had like a little independent record company,
and so I was there for a little bit, released

(01:05:50):
a few songs. I mean, I had my first independent
record did twenty million streams in the first like two weeks,
which is insane, which was really cool to like as
an independent artist. It was like awesome to just see that,
like all the hard work that I had to put in,
you know, and I just had my daughter. It was
twenty twenty. I just had her. I was like kind

(01:06:12):
of wondering, like, you know, COVID was a weird year
because I was just like, man, I'm like staring at
this kid, and I was like in that newborn bubble,
you know. I don't know if you know, the newborn bubble,
but I was like, I literally just I want to
I don't want my music career. I just want to
sit home and just yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Truly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
She's in the same like I still don't know what
I would do with that. I look at her and
I'm like, you're my world, but you know, you gotta
get out of the house. But after that, I, you know,
I was independent for a while and just started releasing stuff,
and then I decided I had put this record together.
I don't know if you know, I mean, you're gonna

(01:06:52):
know this band. Remember the band under Oath. You know
under Oath, They're so awesome, right, So Aaron Gillepsby from
under Oath.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
The drummer who's a bad as he was a singer too, right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
He's a singer, Yeah, he sings all the parts. So
there's a screamer and then there's a singer. He's a singer, yeah,
and the drummer and I'm And it's funny because I
went to an under Oath and Say Ohsin concert when
I was you know, like thirteen from Youth Gropirl, Baytime Baby.
I went to under Oath and I was like so
scared when they started moshing, like they're all wearing like
hot topic gothic stuff and I'm wearing my son dress

(01:07:21):
and boots, and I was like, what the hell is this?

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
But I had so much fun but we uh So
Aaron like sent me a message on Instagram and he's like,
I know I'm a rock guy, but I love to
write country music. I'm from Florida, Like you know, I'm
a country I'm a country boy at heart. I'd love
to write a song with you. And it's super funny
because you go through that phase in town when you
don't have a deal and you don't and you're independent

(01:07:46):
and some songwriters just don't give you the time of day.
And that's when I saw who my real friends were like, Okay,
so you say you're my buddy, you say you love me,
but when I want to write with you, just because
I don't and listen. And also I actually don't get
upset because I understand the game, Like I'm gonna be honest,
Like it hurt me a little bit that some people
that loved me quote unquote when I had a deal,

(01:08:08):
you know, weren't there. But also like I get, you know,
having a family. They're just trying to you know, right
where they feel like they're gonna be get radio success.
You only make money. You don't make it on streaming,
you know. And it's like, but it's it is a
hard game. So I have sympathy, but also it is
it is a complicated way. But also I feel like

(01:08:30):
sometimes it's like but what about the artists and what
about like believing in something?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
And I felt like I kind of lost, like I
kind of got that jaded Nashville bs of like I
feel like nobody believes in what I'm doing. I had,
I had my little group of believers, but I just
felt a little lost. So me and Aaron wrote this
song and he sends me this demo back and I

(01:08:56):
was just like, this is cool, and and it was
just like this rock country everything that I love. And honestly,
a lot of the songs that I did on the
Voice they were rock country like they weren't, you know, bebopping,
you know, they were they were that rock country element.
And so we just kept writing and we just created

(01:09:17):
something really great. And then I was like, well, let's
just do a record and just and we kind of
believed in it together. And then through that whole process,
a woman named Leslie de Pierro you might know Leslie Thomasina.
She's been my supporter since, you know, the very beginning.
She was with me at Tree Vibes and stuff, and
you know, we started work. We've kind of always were

(01:09:39):
working together. And and I got introduced to Kevin Jonas,
the Jonas brother's dad, and.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Vin Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
He's Kevin Jonas Senior, and then there's Junior, and then
there's you know, the boys and stuff. But I just
started finding my group of believers, and so we put
this record together and then you know, so I Big
Machine my first, my first label. They were my family.
When I moved here, I didn't have a potipus and
a winter thrown out. I didn't have any friends, and

(01:10:09):
so I lived at the label. So I would like
go write a song. I'd be like, I'm gonna go
show House and Jones my song, and I'd be like,
you know, I was annoying how much I was over
there because I didn't know anybody, and so I am
you know, and I was eighteen, and so it was
just that's that was my that was my crew, and
and through the years, and this is what I always
any advice I always give to like new artists, I'm like,

(01:10:30):
don't burn a bridge. Just be kind cool, be cool.
You never know what's gonna come back around. And I
saw so one of my older song's Boyfriend, which was
the first song I ever released, a big machine started
popping off wo on TikTok song I want your boy brand,
I'm not gonna Yeah, So that started going off on

(01:10:50):
TikTok that sounds jazz, thank you, and it like like
thirty thousand videos were made in like the matter of
a week. And I was like, and so then me
and sko I started you know, reminiscent. I was like, man, like,
isn't this crazy, Like look at her song or whatever.
And then He's like, so, what are you working on.
I was like, well, I'm working on this record and
and he's like, well, I'd love to listen to it.
And I was like okay, And so I sent him

(01:11:12):
the project and we went in and we got a
deal done in a week and it is on my
terms and working together and it's a true partnership of
what I wanted and a deal and you know we're
going to take take it to radio and everything. But
it was just really cool to like, it felt like
coming home because I'm back with my old radio team
that I built all these radio relationships with at eighteen

(01:11:34):
years old. You know, the girl that was my she
was my my regional Ashley Sododi. She's now like this,
you know, the VP under you know or the you
know right under George Bright or so to watch her
grow in the last ten years, but it's just like
it has been so cool to see I still believe.
I felt like this last year I believe in the

(01:11:55):
magic of Nashville again. And because it's easy to get
but I feel like, if you truly love what you
do and you love songwriting and you love what Nashville is,
you're one great song away from being happy again and
then well that's how I am and so and I'm
grateful for like all the people that believed in me

(01:12:16):
in that time of being independent, because it took those
moments like for me to get through it. There'd be
Sunday I want to give up, and then I'd write
with then somebody'd say yes to me, and I would
be like, okay, all right. It's like a drug, you know.
I'm definitely addicted to Nashville, not Nashville, but addicted to
music in the culture of it because I still love
a great song and I still love the fans, like

(01:12:39):
the fans are the reason why I get to do this.
I mean I when I was independent, I you know,
I left William Morris and I went to to a
smaller agency called Kincaid and they booked me all these shows.
I made more money that year than I ever made
my whole life. And me and my dad, my country

(01:12:59):
old help me buy a bush and we got a bus.
Was still on the bus. And it's just like it
was cool to be able to learn all these parts
of the business and do it so now that when
I'm I feel like I'm back in with it with
having a late being with big machine, and like we're
now like all right, we're in this again. We're going
to radio, We're all right, we're dropping on the horse again,
We're taking the chance. Yeah, it's it's I feel way

(01:13:21):
more equipped because I know so much more and I've
and I've been through it and I'm still like I'm
like I'm thirty one, Like I'm not, but I feel
like I've been in this business. I mean, I've been
here since I was seventeen, and I think that that's
hard sometimes because everybody's seen me, just see me here.
But also it's like I ain't leaving. I love it.

(01:13:43):
I'm here to stay. I can't imagine doing anything else,
you know. I just I know that this is what
God's called me to do. And and don't give up
because it's it's it really is a hard business. But
as long as you have fans and ten people want
to listen to you, that's all that matters.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
I think you bring up a good point about the
business being organic, right, It's constantly evolving and moving and changing,
and someone that was here is now over here, and
someone that's here is and over here, and you don't
burn that r it's just all it's constantly changing. And
if you're the guy that goes, oh man and then
all of a sudden he's the head of year label.

(01:14:20):
Yeah see you man. Yeah, Like there is no point
to not just to just not treating people with.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
With kindness and respect where people are going to go sure, and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
We all know those those like there's tons of examples
of people that have and people that that didn't like
people stuff and people that didn't and and usually the
ones that cause a scene and the ones that that feel,
you know, like they deserve success and it's all about them.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
They're out.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
We don't deserve anything. Bro like the only thing and
even some of those shows that I would do, like
every time there were some shows I'd go out there
like Spoken, there was thirteen hundred people there. I was like,
oh my god, thirteen or we're coming. And then two
weeks later I played a theater and there was twenty
people there, and you know, but I never and this

(01:15:09):
is like for me, I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna get a paycheck at the end of the night.
I'm and these twenty people came to see me. I'm
gonna give them the best show they've ever seen. I
need every single one of them. They all bought a
T shirt, they all got a picture, We made tiktoks.
We had a good time because it's like they'll those
twenty will tell twenty more. And I just and like,
when you do the grind like that, it just makes
you appreciate every single thing. And I hope every artist

(01:15:32):
feels that, because it really is. It is a grind.
But if you do it because you love it, not
because you feel like you deserve it, you will always
like you will always be on the up and up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
Well you always have fans too, Yeah, because you you
you locked that foundation and early, and you're an investor
in those people, and that's what that's what people want.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Yeah, Jingle Jangles out, Jingle Jangle rat, the EP jangle,
What's What's Dave days?

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
His favorite?

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Probably she likes jingle jingle rock and she also likes uh.
I did a cover of Alan Jackson I Only Want
You for Christmas Baby. She really likes that one. But
my favorite part of my favorite lyric and jingle jingle
rock is I can hear that big boys downpin a
little holiday hockey talking.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
Do you sing songs to day? Do you all make
up songs?

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Hey me and Daisy? Oh yeah, Daisy's like hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
I felt like I should have the greatest hits of
the songs that beings. Yeah, I'd say one of my
favorites is, uh, you gotta stay, you back from the fire,
gotta stay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Oh that's actually I need to start doing that with Daisy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
From the fire, got stay wherever the hook back from
the fire or it will burn you up.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
The new thing that Daisy I didn't know that she realized.
We were listening to That's Sabrina Carpenter's song man Child,
and I'm listening to the song and then I hear
stupid or is it? She goes slow and she like
starts singing, and I was like, oh my god, Okay
she is now she's doing it. She knows every song.
Whatever I play in the car, she's good. And then

(01:17:12):
like we go into CC wine and she's like, good,
nass of God's That's like that's my playlist, you know,
if you want to know my playlist.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Griffin loves Pink Pony Club, Thank Pony Club, Thanks for kids,
cleans it up. Yeah, you know, there's just stuff there singing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
What's what's twenty six for you?

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Well, we're going to radio, which is awesome. So excited that, right,
Oh my god. We did the radio tour, all right,
we did that's so I'm excited about that. You know,
obviously going to be on the road putting out a
record next year. We teased a lot of music or
we played. I put out a song called Heaven Is
a Hockey Talk long live country music, and then a

(01:17:53):
song called Fall Together that I love, and then obviously
the Christmas project. Christmas is my favorite holiday, So super
excited to do that. But yeah, I want to point
out things before Thanksgiving yet, but I'm excited to put
out the full record next year. We got a lot
of cool songs. I wrote a song with John Rich

(01:18:13):
and Bob Dapiro that I love called down and Dirty.
You know, that's gonna be super fun. And it's just
such a fun project. It feels super organic to me,
and I love all the collaborators on it, and it's
just it's been really cool to like just see this
whole just record come to life, and even a lot
of this record I played on tour this summer with Jason,

(01:18:35):
and the fans really reacted well to it, and I
feel like, you know, you're the first of My buddy
Aaron calls you the hot dog Man. You're the first
of three, you know. So that's a chance for you
to actually try out new music and see how it responds.
And of course I had my songs that they knew,
but I was really well able to play a lot
of this new stuff and they really did respond well

(01:18:55):
to it. So I'm excited for that to come out
and let's play write more music.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
It seems like you're revived, You're refreshed, dude. Yeah, you
just you seem like you're in a great place. I'm
excited to see everything working for you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
I'm excited. You know, I ain't giving up just yet.
I'm sticking it out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
You're still a pup man, just got into the business early.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
I mean I heard this other day, like, in order
to make it as an artist in Nashville, you have
to be somebody that your kids, the kids can dress
up as Halloween. I totally think you're that person, got
this whole thing. But there's it's also authentic, so it's
easy to do.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
I mean, when I was on the voice, I had like,
you know, those cupcake dresses, big flower on my you know,
it was so funny. I'll never forget this. So, like
my grandmother called me Raylan. And so when we were
when I was feeling out my paperwork for the voice,
my name was at the time, I wasn't married, so
I was Rachel Lynn Woodward, you know, and they had
name and they had stage name. I remember looking at

(01:20:00):
the stage name, it's like Rachel Woodwards.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Just not a that doesn't sound you made it up, decided.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
So I literally in that moment, was like, raylan' is it?
And I just wrote down Land. It wasn't. It was
a two second thing. I was like, Raylan looks like
read what looks like Dolly? I was like bam bam.
And it was just like so crazy. And then and
just to know that it was just such a split,
I was like, I don't want to be a Rachel Woodward.
I was like, sorry, dad, love your maiden name, but

(01:20:27):
I didn't, you know. But but now it's like, you know,
I love to say that my name is a Bible name, Rachel.
You know, it's like mine.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
It's cool, for sure, cool name, but it's.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Spelled e a L, not e L or a e
L R A C H E A L. You'll never
meet anybody else with it E L. My mom was
like hypped up on pregnancy drugs and she wrote my name.
My dad goes it says ray heels. That's so sweet.
I'm like, oh, god, dad, he's so sweet.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
Well, good hour, Geez what smoke through that? Yeah? That
was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
That's a lot of fund. That was great. I feel
like we should do a part two. We totally should,
and I don't know what we're gona talk about would
be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Stuff. I think we keep it covered. I feel like
we hardly touched it. It was so fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
We like to end every show with a segment called
gavorite tune, gravorite song, favorite song. Yeah, we used to
do favorite song and then we did Greatest, and then
nobody liked that because it was too much more favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
We did gravorite too much pressure to try to come
up with the greatest of all time, so they all
kept saying the same one. You referenced the tune earlier. Yeah,
is that what that might be?

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Maybe that's what we should do. Well listen, like Gretchen Wilson,
Like Gretchen and Miranda were the it girls Like when.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
I was talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Country who they were, and I felt like they were
just like so many women could relate to them, you know,
like and so and I and I. You know, this
song is just my It's my go to karaoke song.
It's my go to happy song.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
It kills a karaoke like every and even like in
my shows, like I try to. I try to take
it out of my set twice and I was like,
and I always end up they always end up having
it in the back because they know that I'm gonna
be like, you know, like it's just get fiddle out,
Like it's just you can't not smile when you're listening

(01:22:28):
to this song. And and people like people love redneck woman.
So this is my my shout out to shout out
to John Rich Wretchings. But I ever of in the
ring out time. No, I can't swing that sweet Champagne

(01:22:54):
red and dream beer Ohn in a tap room, are
in a honky tong are.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
On a fool wheel drivetown Gate.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
I got posters on my own of Skinner Keeney Strange.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Some people down on me, how said, but I am
home brun already.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
To marry me on my heel because I'm mag wow
man know her curs Brown, I'm here's the prod my race.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
And I said, hey, Andy Hall, I give my Christmas
lights on and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
All my brother boch on you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Ws do every my syphistle. So here's to all my sisters,
our big game in a country. Let me get a
big hell. Ye I'm from the Red Dead Girls by me, here's.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
The best line range, victorious secret. Well their ship's real nash. Oh,
but I can buy the same damn thing on the
Walmart shove still look sexy, just a sexy has those
models on TV. No, I don't need no designer tag

(01:24:22):
to make my man on me you my thing. I'm
trashing a little too.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
Clear that in my neck of bs. I'm just a story.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
I'm a.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
Man know how cars Brown, I'm just a productor of
my raise. And I said, hey, y'all, any I keep
my Chrystmas lights on, all my front porch on you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
And I know all the letters.

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
Deliverything just took good some rule.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
So well, here's no alms our country.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Let me get a big hair from.

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
The room neck.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
Did I take lean? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
Sorry, okay, you're in you're inner redneck woman.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Came out and were like, yeah, he was even flipping
the house trying to get in where I fit in.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
You just became a redneck woman.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
Yeah I did rushed that. Yeah, you're murderer. Everybody has
getting little embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
He has a comment to Cobas, thank you there you go,
look good for coming on the pies, probably hanging out
with us. I hope you where I sawed twelve. We'll
get that figured out in those things, right. Thanks coming,
You're awesome. Your music's awesome. Your music jingle jangle, jingle jangle.

(01:26:11):
Look out for the record next year, here we go. Yeah,
thanks for coming. Come back, We got back. I'm coming back.
Thanks for hanging out. Check out next time.

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