July 25, 2025 • 16 mins
On this episode of Takin’ a Walk, we invite you to step into the creative world of Phil Vassar—celebrated singer, songwriter, and piano man behind some of country music’s most beloved hits. Known for “Just Another Day in Paradise,” “Carlene,” and dynamic live performances, Phil is now sharing a new chapter in his musical journey.
Join us as Phil opens up about:
• The inspiration and stories woven into his latest music
• The process and passion that keep him writing and performing
• Memorable collaborations and pivotal moments from his career
• Life on the road and what makes a great song
Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering Phil’s music for the first time, this episode delivers heartfelt conversation, laughter, and a peek behind the curtain at what drives one of Nashville’s most enduring talents.
Lace up and listen—you’ll walk away inspired.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a Walk.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What happens when a country music hit maker opens up
about the stories behind the songs and the life that
inspired them. You get a conversation that's as honest, heartfelt,
and surprising as the music itself. I'm buzznight and on
this episode had Taken a Walk. We're joined by Phil Vasser,
the piano playing storyteller whose chart topping hits had become
(00:23):
the soundtrack to so many lives. Phil pulls back the
curtain on his journey from writing songs for Nashville Legends
to singing his own truth son stage and shares how
life's highs and lows have shaped his music and his perspective.
Get ready for behind the scenes stories, a few laughs,
and a fresh look at what it means to turn
(00:45):
real life into unforgettable songs. Please sit tight a couple
minutes from our sponsors, and then we'll be right back
with Phil Vasser.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm taking a walk.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Mister Phil Vasser, Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast.
Taking a Walk, Well, since we call this this show
taking a walk, let me ask you, Phil, if you
could take a walk with somebody, uh living or dead.
Someone may be affiliated in the side of music doesn't
(01:25):
have to be, but that's always nice. If you got
a music person in mind, who would you take a
walk with? And and where would you take that walk?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Good greed man, It's uh, there's a lot of people
I'd like to take a walk with. My dad would
be great at this point, you know, I mean, you know,
there's a heroes you know you think about, you know,
I mean there's I could, I could. I've got a
big list, you know, but a lot of a lot
of my musical heroes, you know, I tell you taking
(01:56):
a walk, I always love them. I mean Nat King Cole,
I mean I loved him. I was a huge fan.
My grandmother listened to that music and I was such
a fan, and I always I was like, man, he's amazing.
And anyway, I listened to him all the time. I mean,
you know, it kind of picks me up and makes
(02:17):
me feel good. You know, that's kind of music I love.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And what an icon he certainly was in what a
career he built, And I think I think it would
be fascinating kind of understanding not only his creative process,
but certainly the trials and tribulations that he that he
went through as well.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely, and and he was brilliant, man. I mean, the
guy spoke like six languages fluently. And I'm just you know,
it's inspired me. He's very inspired. Even to this day.
I think about what he's done and what he did,
you know, especially at that time in this country, you know,
and and you know, spend We've seen a lot go
(03:02):
go on in the last you know, two hundred and
fifty years of this just this country, you know, and
it's it's uh. And I grew up, of course, you know,
you're on the East coast. I guess right, you're here
in so I mean I grew up in Virginia and
my my I grew up next to you know, Thomas
Jefferson's house, I mean in my neighborhood, right, one of his.
(03:25):
You know, it was very very cool to just so.
I always thought a lot about history. I was kind
of a history buff. And you know Jamestown and all
that stuff. I mean, we used to go see that
stuff when we were kids. And of course I went
to James Madison University and and uh, and it was
(03:45):
it was such a I don't know, it's it's I'm
blessed that we got to do that. I mean there's
too many different parts of the country. But I loved
being kind of an East Coaster because you know, all
that old history, and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, we're going to talk about the live show and
the tour in a little bit twenty five years of
Paradise Tour, and we're going to also talk about, you know,
some of the other things going on for you in
twenty twenty five. But I do want to ask you, Phil,
many of your songs they captured really everyday life and family.
(04:23):
Where do you find the inspiration for such relatable lyrics?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, for my family, my kids, you know, it's so funny,
you know how of course I've got a twenty one
and twenty five year old daughters and they're my life.
You know, it's just so weird, and of course they
were born in the middle of all this craziness, you know,
(04:49):
of my career. But I mean, I wouldn't change it,
you know, for anything. I just now, you know, I
had my health scare and that was a rough couple
of years. But now that I'm feeling better, I love
now that I can kind of talk to them as adults,
you know, that we can be young because it was
(05:12):
such a you know, whenever you're raising children, of course,
it's very tumultuous, and and you know, you don't really
have time to sort of stop and smother roses, you know,
And and I really do appreciate it now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know, you started out as a songwriter in Nashville.
You had hits for Tim McGraw and Jody Messina, among others.
Can you recall what it was like hearing your songs
on the radio for the first time sung by somebody else.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, I'll tell you one thing it was. It was incredible,
you know. Of course, I think my first huge hit
was Colin Ray Little Red Rodeo, and I never forget
how how stupid they thought the song was as the
record label and Colin really had to go to bat
for that song. And you know, it's just amazing our business.
(06:08):
I think about all these people that are in power,
you know whatever, and they're just they couldn't freaking tip.
They couldn't smell ahead if it was on there sitting
on their freaking nose. I mean, they just couldn't. And
it's like, you know, you have to deal with all
these I mean, I don't have a negative attitude, Well, yeah,
I do. I mean, it's just it's just you know,
(06:29):
and and a lot of people say, yeah, I miss that,
might say you're an idiot. You know, that's what you are,
You're an idiot. So and then I've gotten to say
that to a lot of people. You know, I mean,
not at all hate them, but I say, I mean,
what is wrong with you? You can't hear? You know?
You know this song was a number one song, a
huge number one song, or this song was I'm all right,
(06:49):
nobody would cut that my next thirty years. They had
talked about how stupid it was, how nobody wants to
talk about turning thirty. I'm like, they don't why, you know.
So anyway, it was, you know, I wrote the song
on my thirtieth birthday. I wrote it that day, played
it that night in a bar, and everybody went crazy,
and I knew it was I knew it was good
(07:11):
right that That's how you get I was lucky. I
got to play my my club and and I got
it sort of. I got to know whether it was
good or not. You know, that was always what I said.
I said, you know, I'd play the song and then
if somebody went plays of skinner, I was like okay,
(07:31):
and mark that one off. That one't good, you know,
but what I mean, and then you know, then i'd
do a song you'd like, I'm all right or finally
I had to do it every night or do it
two times a night or whatever. Everybody's singing along. And
and that's what I loved. I loved that. I loved that.
(07:52):
That's U sort of it instant gratification, right, you know,
you know whether it's good or not. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
One of the things that's so cool is how fans
just absolutely adore your covers of of Billy Joel and
Elton John. What draws you to their music? And do
you have a favorite song by them that you love
to perform?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, I mean Billy Joel, el Ellen John, there My
and uh and and even you know Queen who I loved,
you know, was you know, such a you know, such
a great piano player too. I mean that, for some reason,
the piano spoke to me. And that's what I loved
about Matt King Cole. I mean that I could rock
(08:37):
a piano. He was a freak show. I mean how
he could play, and you know, I just loved it.
I love Jackson Brown and uh, you know it was,
but also I really loved James Taylor. I mean, James
Taylor was one of my musics, you know, And and
so I just think that you you know, I grew
(08:59):
up with the Eagle and and you know Don Henley
and Glenn Fry and those guys weren't just I mean,
I listened to him yesterday. I just I still just go,
what in the world, you know, we were so lucky
to be part of that growing up. Listen to hearing that,
you know, and and the be and of course the
Beatles and you know, and I've gotten to, you know,
(09:22):
hang out in Abbey Road. And I was there when
when George Martin passed away. I was in England doing
my European tour. I was in London that day and
everybody was bringing flowers to to Abbey Road and and
uh it was very moving.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, as as you were telling me about these
amazing influences. And I'm going back to to Billy Joel
again here, who you know, has his own health scare
that he's he's dealing with. If you could speak directly
to Billy Joel right now, which who knows, maybe someone's
turning him on to this podcast because they're a fan
(10:02):
of Phil Vasser's. What message would you send to Billy
about what he's going through.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I sure hope he gets better soon. Billy. I love
you man. You're my hero and you're why I do
what I do. I mean song songs like Summer Highland Falls,
and I mean he's not just piano manners, you know.
I try to pay homage to you know, my heroes,
which are Billy Joel and you know, James Taylor, Elton
(10:28):
John some of these guys, but but none more than
than Billy Joel. He changed my world, changed my life,
and I think put me on that path. It was
like it's like a professor, right, you know, you you
learn from a teacher, and and he was my teacher.
He was, and I could ever think him enough really,
you know, And I think he's just incredible and and
(10:50):
you know, and being such a humongous star going through
senior life, played out through all these you know, Christy Brinkley,
of the things that you that you go through. I mean,
I kind of in such a small, smaller way, I
have kind of played that out in my own life,
you know, going through divorces publicly and all the stuff.
(11:11):
It's just it's tumultuous, you know, it's very I don't know,
it's very humbling. You know. That's what you know. I
think that's what the world does, and that's what life does.
It definitely humbles you. And you learn a lot from it,
you know, from your tribulations and your trials, and I
think that's man. And you write a lot of songs
(11:33):
because of all.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So you'll be heading out on the road twenty five
years of Paradise Tour. It's going to have obviously a
lot of the great covers from Legends and everything. You'll
be changing the set lists set lists regularly as well,
which I know you're you're proud of talk about how
exciting it is going out out in the road connecting
(11:56):
with your fans in person.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, mean, that's your that's that's your gratification, and that's
when you just you're very thankful for that because you
you you know, it's you work so hard, you know,
you do all this stuff, and you lay the groundwork
for all these things, for these records, and then you
get to then you record the records and some of
them just flop, and some of them are huge, and
(12:21):
there's stuffing you can do about that stuff. But the
fans are loyal, you know, from the beginning to the
to the end. And and uh, I love meeting these
folks and seeing them on the road. And I can't
wait to get get out in the next couple of years.
And and I don't know, kind of thank them for that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And you're going to be creating some new music in
conjunction with going out from time to time as well.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know what we are. We've been in the studio actually,
you know, cutting about eight eight or nine new songs
and some of the songs that I did record and
never got a chance really and I've kind of revisited
those songs, and uh, you know, seeing what everybody thinks
about it, you know, I now at this point you
don't have to do what somebody says. I mean, you, well,
(13:08):
you've been going to cut this right, you know, you
always had somebody telling you what to do. Now I don't,
And uh, it's pretty it's pretty freeing. And uh, I
really appreciate my life now now that I don't have
to worry about what somebody that doesn't know anything about
anything is telling me what to do. Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I love that that is such a special feeling for sure.
Talk about how important Phil it is for you to
be mentoring young songwriters and giving back to the music community.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, I think, you know, as a now I'm in
an elder statesman, it's like what happened. I was always
the kid, right, you know, And but you know, bringing
these guys, like like the old Dominion guys and and
seeing them, you know, from their inception to the you know,
to bringing them to Nashville and helping them all. You know,
just they're flourishing. They're just thriving, and they're blowing it
(14:07):
up and so successful. And I'm proud of them, you know,
and you know, I'm just thankful, thankful for that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
In closing, I love this quote of yours and I
want you to reflect on it because I think it's
so beautiful about music and what you do and what
you do so well. Your quote, if a song sparks
a reaction, that's all you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's true. I mean, that's what you whether it can
be good or bad, you know, right, I mean, I
think and that's what music is about. It. It's you know,
you're trying to convey an emotion. You know, you're you're
trying to reach someone, you know, whether it's about you know,
your song about your dog or your kids, or your
(14:51):
wife or your girlfriend, or your politics. It could be anything,
you know, and that's a really cool thing because you
when you play a song in a live concert situation,
you know, you get reaction, and that's that's the it's
the best, you know, that's what that's when you know, really,
(15:12):
I mean, that's when you know, if this song really
grabs somebody and and pulls pulls emotions out of them,
you know. And I think that's what we're We're very
very blessed to real or do that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh man, I'm blessed to talk to you on Taking
a Walk, Phil, and we are so grateful for the
music that you have given us through your incredible career
and that you continue to give us. And thank you
for being with us on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Phil Basser, It's my pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much.
And let's do it against them. I love this. This
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Taking a Walk.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What happens when a country music hit maker opens up
about the stories behind the songs and the life that
inspired them. You get a conversation that's as honest, heartfelt,
and surprising as the music itself. I'm buzznight and on
this episode had Taken a Walk. We're joined by Phil Vasser,
the piano playing storyteller whose chart topping hits had become
(00:23):
the soundtrack to so many lives. Phil pulls back the
curtain on his journey from writing songs for Nashville Legends
to singing his own truth son stage and shares how
life's highs and lows have shaped his music and his perspective.
Get ready for behind the scenes stories, a few laughs,
and a fresh look at what it means to turn
(00:45):
real life into unforgettable songs. Please sit tight a couple
minutes from our sponsors, and then we'll be right back
with Phil Vasser.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm taking a walk.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Mister Phil Vasser, Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast.
Taking a Walk, Well, since we call this this show
taking a walk, let me ask you, Phil, if you
could take a walk with somebody, uh living or dead.
Someone may be affiliated in the side of music doesn't
(01:25):
have to be, but that's always nice. If you got
a music person in mind, who would you take a
walk with? And and where would you take that walk?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Good greed man, It's uh, there's a lot of people
I'd like to take a walk with. My dad would
be great at this point, you know, I mean, you know,
there's a heroes you know you think about, you know,
I mean there's I could, I could. I've got a
big list, you know, but a lot of a lot
of my musical heroes, you know, I tell you taking
(01:56):
a walk, I always love them. I mean Nat King Cole,
I mean I loved him. I was a huge fan.
My grandmother listened to that music and I was such
a fan, and I always I was like, man, he's amazing.
And anyway, I listened to him all the time. I mean,
you know, it kind of picks me up and makes
(02:17):
me feel good. You know, that's kind of music I love.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And what an icon he certainly was in what a
career he built, And I think I think it would
be fascinating kind of understanding not only his creative process,
but certainly the trials and tribulations that he that he
went through as well.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely, and and he was brilliant, man. I mean, the
guy spoke like six languages fluently. And I'm just you know,
it's inspired me. He's very inspired. Even to this day.
I think about what he's done and what he did,
you know, especially at that time in this country, you know,
and and you know, spend We've seen a lot go
(03:02):
go on in the last you know, two hundred and
fifty years of this just this country, you know, and
it's it's uh. And I grew up, of course, you know,
you're on the East coast. I guess right, you're here
in so I mean I grew up in Virginia and
my my I grew up next to you know, Thomas
Jefferson's house, I mean in my neighborhood, right, one of his.
(03:25):
You know, it was very very cool to just so.
I always thought a lot about history. I was kind
of a history buff. And you know Jamestown and all
that stuff. I mean, we used to go see that
stuff when we were kids. And of course I went
to James Madison University and and uh, and it was
(03:45):
it was such a I don't know, it's it's I'm
blessed that we got to do that. I mean there's
too many different parts of the country. But I loved
being kind of an East Coaster because you know, all
that old history, and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, we're going to talk about the live show and
the tour in a little bit twenty five years of
Paradise Tour, and we're going to also talk about, you know,
some of the other things going on for you in
twenty twenty five. But I do want to ask you, Phil,
many of your songs they captured really everyday life and family.
(04:23):
Where do you find the inspiration for such relatable lyrics?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, for my family, my kids, you know, it's so funny,
you know how of course I've got a twenty one
and twenty five year old daughters and they're my life.
You know, it's just so weird, and of course they
were born in the middle of all this craziness, you know,
(04:49):
of my career. But I mean, I wouldn't change it,
you know, for anything. I just now, you know, I
had my health scare and that was a rough couple
of years. But now that I'm feeling better, I love
now that I can kind of talk to them as adults,
you know, that we can be young because it was
(05:12):
such a you know, whenever you're raising children, of course,
it's very tumultuous, and and you know, you don't really
have time to sort of stop and smother roses, you know,
And and I really do appreciate it now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know, you started out as a songwriter in Nashville.
You had hits for Tim McGraw and Jody Messina, among others.
Can you recall what it was like hearing your songs
on the radio for the first time sung by somebody else.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, I'll tell you one thing it was. It was incredible,
you know. Of course, I think my first huge hit
was Colin Ray Little Red Rodeo, and I never forget
how how stupid they thought the song was as the
record label and Colin really had to go to bat
for that song. And you know, it's just amazing our business.
(06:08):
I think about all these people that are in power,
you know whatever, and they're just they couldn't freaking tip.
They couldn't smell ahead if it was on there sitting
on their freaking nose. I mean, they just couldn't. And
it's like, you know, you have to deal with all
these I mean, I don't have a negative attitude, Well, yeah,
I do. I mean, it's just it's just you know,
(06:29):
and and a lot of people say, yeah, I miss that,
might say you're an idiot. You know, that's what you are,
You're an idiot. So and then I've gotten to say
that to a lot of people. You know, I mean,
not at all hate them, but I say, I mean,
what is wrong with you? You can't hear? You know?
You know this song was a number one song, a
huge number one song, or this song was I'm all right,
(06:49):
nobody would cut that my next thirty years. They had
talked about how stupid it was, how nobody wants to
talk about turning thirty. I'm like, they don't why, you know.
So anyway, it was, you know, I wrote the song
on my thirtieth birthday. I wrote it that day, played
it that night in a bar, and everybody went crazy,
and I knew it was I knew it was good
(07:11):
right that That's how you get I was lucky. I
got to play my my club and and I got
it sort of. I got to know whether it was
good or not. You know, that was always what I said.
I said, you know, I'd play the song and then
if somebody went plays of skinner, I was like okay,
(07:31):
and mark that one off. That one't good, you know,
but what I mean, and then you know, then i'd
do a song you'd like, I'm all right or finally
I had to do it every night or do it
two times a night or whatever. Everybody's singing along. And
and that's what I loved. I loved that. I loved that.
(07:52):
That's U sort of it instant gratification, right, you know,
you know whether it's good or not. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
One of the things that's so cool is how fans
just absolutely adore your covers of of Billy Joel and
Elton John. What draws you to their music? And do
you have a favorite song by them that you love
to perform?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, I mean Billy Joel, el Ellen John, there My
and uh and and even you know Queen who I loved,
you know, was you know, such a you know, such
a great piano player too. I mean that, for some reason,
the piano spoke to me. And that's what I loved
about Matt King Cole. I mean that I could rock
(08:37):
a piano. He was a freak show. I mean how
he could play, and you know, I just loved it.
I love Jackson Brown and uh, you know it was,
but also I really loved James Taylor. I mean, James
Taylor was one of my musics, you know, And and
so I just think that you you know, I grew
(08:59):
up with the Eagle and and you know Don Henley
and Glenn Fry and those guys weren't just I mean,
I listened to him yesterday. I just I still just go,
what in the world, you know, we were so lucky
to be part of that growing up. Listen to hearing that,
you know, and and the be and of course the
Beatles and you know, and I've gotten to, you know,
(09:22):
hang out in Abbey Road. And I was there when
when George Martin passed away. I was in England doing
my European tour. I was in London that day and
everybody was bringing flowers to to Abbey Road and and
uh it was very moving.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, as as you were telling me about these
amazing influences. And I'm going back to to Billy Joel
again here, who you know, has his own health scare
that he's he's dealing with. If you could speak directly
to Billy Joel right now, which who knows, maybe someone's
turning him on to this podcast because they're a fan
(10:02):
of Phil Vasser's. What message would you send to Billy
about what he's going through.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I sure hope he gets better soon. Billy. I love
you man. You're my hero and you're why I do
what I do. I mean song songs like Summer Highland Falls,
and I mean he's not just piano manners, you know.
I try to pay homage to you know, my heroes,
which are Billy Joel and you know, James Taylor, Elton
(10:28):
John some of these guys, but but none more than
than Billy Joel. He changed my world, changed my life,
and I think put me on that path. It was
like it's like a professor, right, you know, you you
learn from a teacher, and and he was my teacher.
He was, and I could ever think him enough really,
you know, And I think he's just incredible and and
(10:50):
you know, and being such a humongous star going through
senior life, played out through all these you know, Christy Brinkley,
of the things that you that you go through. I mean,
I kind of in such a small, smaller way, I
have kind of played that out in my own life,
you know, going through divorces publicly and all the stuff.
(11:11):
It's just it's tumultuous, you know, it's very I don't know,
it's very humbling. You know. That's what you know. I
think that's what the world does, and that's what life does.
It definitely humbles you. And you learn a lot from it,
you know, from your tribulations and your trials, and I
think that's man. And you write a lot of songs
(11:33):
because of all.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So you'll be heading out on the road twenty five
years of Paradise Tour. It's going to have obviously a
lot of the great covers from Legends and everything. You'll
be changing the set lists set lists regularly as well,
which I know you're you're proud of talk about how
exciting it is going out out in the road connecting
(11:56):
with your fans in person.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, mean, that's your that's that's your gratification, and that's
when you just you're very thankful for that because you
you you know, it's you work so hard, you know,
you do all this stuff, and you lay the groundwork
for all these things, for these records, and then you
get to then you record the records and some of
them just flop, and some of them are huge, and
(12:21):
there's stuffing you can do about that stuff. But the
fans are loyal, you know, from the beginning to the
to the end. And and uh, I love meeting these
folks and seeing them on the road. And I can't
wait to get get out in the next couple of years.
And and I don't know, kind of thank them for that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And you're going to be creating some new music in
conjunction with going out from time to time as well.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know what we are. We've been in the studio actually,
you know, cutting about eight eight or nine new songs
and some of the songs that I did record and
never got a chance really and I've kind of revisited
those songs, and uh, you know, seeing what everybody thinks
about it, you know, I now at this point you
don't have to do what somebody says. I mean, you, well,
(13:08):
you've been going to cut this right, you know, you
always had somebody telling you what to do. Now I don't,
And uh, it's pretty it's pretty freeing. And uh, I
really appreciate my life now now that I don't have
to worry about what somebody that doesn't know anything about
anything is telling me what to do. Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I love that that is such a special feeling for sure.
Talk about how important Phil it is for you to
be mentoring young songwriters and giving back to the music community.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, I think, you know, as a now I'm in
an elder statesman, it's like what happened. I was always
the kid, right, you know, And but you know, bringing
these guys, like like the old Dominion guys and and
seeing them, you know, from their inception to the you know,
to bringing them to Nashville and helping them all. You know,
just they're flourishing. They're just thriving, and they're blowing it
(14:07):
up and so successful. And I'm proud of them, you know,
and you know, I'm just thankful, thankful for that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
In closing, I love this quote of yours and I
want you to reflect on it because I think it's
so beautiful about music and what you do and what
you do so well. Your quote, if a song sparks
a reaction, that's all you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's true. I mean, that's what you whether it can
be good or bad, you know, right, I mean, I
think and that's what music is about. It. It's you know,
you're trying to convey an emotion. You know, you're you're
trying to reach someone, you know, whether it's about you know,
your song about your dog or your kids, or your
(14:51):
wife or your girlfriend, or your politics. It could be anything,
you know, and that's a really cool thing because you
when you play a song in a live concert situation,
you know, you get reaction, and that's that's the it's
the best, you know, that's what that's when you know, really,
(15:12):
I mean, that's when you know, if this song really
grabs somebody and and pulls pulls emotions out of them,
you know. And I think that's what we're We're very
very blessed to real or do that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh man, I'm blessed to talk to you on Taking
a Walk, Phil, and we are so grateful for the
music that you have given us through your incredible career
and that you continue to give us. And thank you
for being with us on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Phil Basser, It's my pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much.
And let's do it against them. I love this. This
is great. Thanks for listening to this episode of the
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