March 13, 2023 • 20 mins
Bobby talked to Sarahbeth about her journey from writing songs at the age of 14, gaining traction as a TikTok artist, and then fast forward to her music being played on the radio! We dive into her unique backstory of meeting Amy at a grocery store, her new baby, the person she has become along her journey and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Bobby Bones Show. Now you know, I'm a
big fan. I don't know how we met. There's some story.
Let me see if I can track it back. Let's
do it, because I think you're just a wonderful artist,
and that's what I know you as now to the
point where I've brought you on the road and paid you.
I mean, like, I think you're that good to where
I like for audiences to see you. But I know
(00:21):
we have a story of how we met the first time,
or maybe it was did you meet Amy? I met
Amy in Whole Foods? That's what it was. It was
the Green Hills Whole Foods And you didn't meet her
as an artist who was going, hey, play my music.
What was that story? So my now husband and I
(00:42):
were in Whole Foods, probably in workout clothes, and he
and I, together and separately, have been fans of your
show and listened every morning, you know, both of us
on our way to work, and we saw Amy and
just freaked out. And so he was wearing a Pimp
and Joy shirt just because he wears Pimp and Joy
(01:05):
stuff all the time. Awesome and coincidentally cool. Yeah, yeah,
So we're fan girling over Amy to ourselves and she
came over to Colby and said, hey, I like your
Pimp and joy shirt. Oh good. So then we started
talking about the Pimp and Joy line and everything, and
she sent us some like hats. I think it was
the like red, white and blue stuff that it was
never mentioned you were an artist. No, I have to
(01:25):
commend to you for that because I everywhere I go
people try to they fit it in, they find a
reason to say something and then it's like, also, yeah,
I put out a couple of records by the way,
Yeah yeah, no, it was I mean one it's Whole Foods.
And we just we just thought it was fun to
meet her and we just got we got these really
cool hats and I got a tank top and we
were like this is awesome. So okay, it was very
cool of her. I have to I have to say.
(01:46):
Amy was so sweet and she like she remembered and
got our email and sent us the stuff. It was
so fun. Yeah She's not terrible, right, Anny, ain't. No,
Amy's awesome. So okay, so that happened. Now that's you
meeting Amy? Yes, but how did you and I meet?
We met from TikTok We met virtually first. Okay, did
I see you? Okay? Go ahead, Okay, you saw my
(02:07):
video or one of my videos and you do edit
it on TikTok and you invited me on Okay, So
it sounds familiar because I've only ever done that like twice.
I'm not missed your get on and do it and
invite people to the show because I don't want someone
to come up here and embarrass themselves. Yeah, meaning you
(02:28):
can record a TikTok one hundred times and you could
probably do it once really well. And yeah, but only
two or three times ever have I said, oh, this
person's real good, got on du edit and said come
to the show. Did I just say come to the show?
Or did How did I do it? You? It was
a video about me talking about how I didn't have
(02:48):
a record deal and I had this song that was
connecting with people but I was unsigned. What was the song?
Do you remember? Long Way? Okay? And you said you
did a duet on it. And it's funny because I
hadn't even seen the duet before. I had hundreds of
messages from everybody who listens to the show who was like,
have you seen this yet? You've got to get on
your TikTok and you. I mean, I think you've invited
(03:11):
me on the show during that video and you said, hey,
that's fun. You don't have a record deal, come on.
So then you came in. Yeah, crushed it. Thank you.
I hope I crushed. Obviously you crushed it, or you
wouldn't be here now are You wouldn't be listen. I'm back,
So you must have gone right. And then we you know,
I featured your music a bunch in on the women
of her Country on the Countdown, Like I am just
(03:32):
a genuine fan of you as a songwriter and an artist.
And then I want to get to your story in
a second. But what I saw was in the last
few weeks, maybe a month or so, I had chosen
one of your songs. I'm not sure which one it was,
but you were posting that you were listening to it,
and you had a baby in your arms in the video. Yeah,
And I was like, either she just told a baby
(03:53):
or she just had one. And I didn't even know
you were pregnant. Yep, I was nine months, so it
had been that long. I guess pandemic hu. Yeah, So
I think you and I met I think when I
came in was during that twenty twenty year where everything
was when do we go out festivals? Though? One, okay,
(04:14):
that's the last time webs like not like I've been
keeping trackers. No, I don't, I don't, I don't know
any Okay. So I just I felt like such a
jerk because I don't even know you were pregnant. Well,
fast forward to bringing my daughter home. Uh, you played
my song about that I wrote partly about her and
it was the day that we brought her home from
the hospital that yep. And what was that song? Right
(04:38):
on time? And you wrote that with Scott Stepakoff, who
I really you know or he was one of the ride.
Are you Sarah Elizabeth? What is your name? My full
name is Sarah Elizabeth? Got it? I thought you wrote it,
but that wasn't your You had a whole different name.
And I was like, well, maybe you're like I don't know,
I didn't know if that was because you so Sarah
Beth's Tad is your stage name? Yes? Yeah? And then
(04:58):
what's your soul security number? We're just getting your identity
stolen right here? Okay? So that makes sense though, because
when I read I thought I thought you'd written that song, yep.
And I know Scott and I like Scott. And so
when you go, when you write this song right on
Time because you didn't have your daughter yet, No, it
was gosh, Scott, and I wrote Honestly, most people did
(05:22):
not know that I was pregnant. I'm not sure that
my management team, even your husband didn't know that was
gonna be trouble. Hey, Colby didn't know Colby was number one,
So that's good. But how to write with Scott. He's
one of my favorite co writers, and I can always
be really honest with him. And so I was talking
about the pregnancy and it was really fresh. I had
(05:43):
just found out and it was a good surprise that
we were having a baby. And so I was telling
him a little bit about this story and I was like, Scott, this,
this timing is just like, this is just God's timing.
We've got to We've got to put this into a song.
And so anyways, Right on Time was born, and it
(06:05):
was just the perfect song to kind of end last
year with because it was exactly what I was going
through personally. And you know, I'm not in a position
right now to be putting out music that's not exactly
where I'm at and what I've what I've been through authentically,
and so because right on time is that song you
(06:26):
wrote with Scott, but the the EP that you had
that was not on that am I right? Nope, separate Okay,
just making sure I get all my Yeah, it was.
It was a single um in October, I think I
had actually I put it out just a couple weeks
before um my due day. So it was it was
one of those where I just wanted to I just
(06:47):
kind of wanted to for maternity leave or whatever you
call it, I just kind of wanted to end on
on that note for the end of the years as
we were getting ready to have her part of my story.
How hard has that been and how awesome has been
both answered both being a mom, a new mom, you know,
like so much better than I ever thought that it
(07:07):
could be. And you know, it's hard. I mean, there's
a lot about it that's hard, but um, I mean
we're just like so much better for the experience, and
it's been a great, great few months. She's three and
a half months old. Now, So have you revealed her name? Yeah? Okay,
so can you say now? Yeah, her name's Isla, and
why Isla? We just loved it. Just a good name,
(07:27):
I was saying. We you know, Bobbin didn't run in
the list. There's only so many names that you agree on,
you know, Like every we both get veto and it's
like most names, it's like they come in and it
hits you and one of you is like, I hate it.
We can't do it. So was there a name that
you really liked it he hated? You know, there were
a lot and I don't even remember them now. We
(07:48):
it was like process of elimination was so easy because
there were so many that he loved that. I was like, nope,
never did you guys ever stump and be like, no, reconsider.
I know you're vetoing, but give me one more shots.
He loves the name Charlie boy or a girl. I
like it as a girl. Listen, I have nothing against Charlie,
Like I really have nothing against it. I just knew
(08:09):
a lot of Charlie's and it's just, you know, you
can't help the way it hits it. I like it
for other people's kids, it's just not my kid. But also,
if you know somebody that was weird or a jerk
or mean to you. And they had a name. That's
just how you associated. They had a name. Yeah, there
was it ruins it. This girl name SARABETHS. Tate used
to pick on me in school, like eighth grade. It's
hard for me to shake that. You know, you came
(08:30):
to Nashville as a teenager seventeen eighteen years old. Yes,
I moved when I was seventeen. So what did that mean?
School wise? Did you finish? Did you do homeschool? Did
you do what happened there? I did graduate high school
and then got out of Dodge right out, So I
graduated early and then left right away. Did you do
like a high school athlete? And you did more earlier
(08:53):
so you could be done so you could get started
in college? Or they would like college football. But let's
say they would finish high school early so they could
go ahead and get there. Yes, did you do that
to get here? Yes? I did. I think it was
a semester early that I graduated, and I also did
some online classes. I signed my first publishing deal when
I was fourteen, and so I started coming to Nashville
and co writing early on. People were paying you at
(09:15):
fourteen years old to write music? Yes, what did you
write at thirteen or fourteen to make people go there
that she, this young woman can do this. This is
the thing. I really don't know. So I look back
and I'm like, why were people paying me to be here?
Like I'm really the music? It was like, we gotta
(09:35):
step it up and partial though, must have been some
little nugget of something. You don't know what the nugget was.
I attribute this to beginner's luck. And when I say
beginner's luck, really what I mean is I was so
blissfully naive. I mean I was like, I remember being
on a plane to Nashville and I was like, I'm
gonna go, I'm gonna get a publishing deal. I'm gonna
(09:57):
like go to music row and I'm just gonna walk
around and get a publishing deal. And like who was that?
I mean, but you did it, but it happened, but
you did it right. So and again there was another
teenage girl who did something similar, which there's been a
few bit like Taylor did that right. So was knowing
how Taylor did that and she's sixteen putting out songs?
(10:19):
Was that in your mind? Like, well if I would have,
because I would imagine that would be an influence on me. Yes, No,
I was definitely in that in that phase of watching her,
and I think a lot of girls my age watched that,
going well, if she can do it, I can do it.
And I just think that there's something so much to
really like believing that you can do something without having
(10:42):
any I had none of the knowledge know how hard
that might be. And I'm I'm here, you know, over
ten years later from being fourteen, and I didn't know
where I mean, I thought I would be like accepting
Grammy's by the time I was eighteen. But the journey
along the way has been so much better than I
ever could have thought. And it's it really just starts with,
(11:04):
you know, being like, I'm gonna do this and not
being aware of all of the obstacles you're gonna face.
I think be a naive is great a lot of
times because you don't know what the failures can be
and it doesn't scare you because those fears don't exist. Yes,
(11:26):
because and that that's happened a lot in my career too,
where I'm just like, let's go, oh, yeah, I don't
know think about it, but let's just let's see what
happens where If I would have really known how hard
or how tough it, because it did get tough, i'd
have been maybe I'd maybe i'd just been like, I
don't know, man, But I think be a knaive helped
me actually, and not having people that did what I
do yes around me that said, oh, you shouldn't do
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that because it's very hard. Nobody just knew at all.
So I was like, let's I'm from Arkansas, let's go
I can do anything in the whole world. Yes. Yeah.
And Two, I think like with what you just said,
I think there's a there's a confidence that comes with
thought that I really think, you know, showing up feeling
like I belong to be here, even though looking back,
(12:08):
I'm like that girl didn't right, she had no business
being in some of those rooms. But but I at
the time felt like I belonged for whatever reason. And
I think that that energy kind of carries over into
everything you do and it ends up just kind of
i'm sure in your life, just getting you into places
that you never thought you'd be and trouble. I mean
(12:29):
both honestly, yes, very tar So you move here, though,
do you pack up a car as at one of
those or do you just have a couple of suitcases
and you fly But you're seventeen, So how does that work?
And does that parent come with you for a little bit? Well,
I don't know. So I drove to my first apartment.
I was seventeen. My mom dropped me off, like, bless
my parents? Where from Colorado? Did you drive from Fort Collins?
(12:50):
And I like for Collins a lot. It's a good place.
It's a great yeah. And then you do you remember
the drive? You guys do whatever? Two days? Was it? Like? Yep?
Two days? We drove through Arkansas. I have family in Fayetteville, right,
same family. We're all cousins, fad you know, we're probably related.
So we would stay at my aunt Jois's farm, and
we did this, My mom and I did this a
(13:11):
decent bit between fourteen and seventeen. We would drive and
we had some of the best times doing that, just
us too. And anyway, she got me out here that
last time and dropped me off, and for some reason
they felt comfortable enough to leave me here. But again,
it was weird because I was seventeen and I wasn't
you know, I just graduated and I wasn't going to college,
(13:33):
but i'd kind of I had a little bit of
a footing here after all the co writing that I'd done.
And I sure, I guess you'd been flying out for
a few years. Yes, and I had some really I
had some good people around me. And so to my parents' defense,
I feel like they felt like I was safe here
in the community that I that I had, and so
(13:54):
I was. I'm really grateful to have had that from
from an early start. Not that it wasn't hard, I
mean it should be hard. It was. Growth comes from
hard things, yes, I mean first year, I was like,
what have I done? Like, I don't you know? My
family's not here. I feel like I don't know anybody.
I feel like, I mean, I'm working like multiple jobs
on top of my publishing right, and it was it
(14:17):
was a lot whenever we talked about journeys, especially on
this podcast and your journey from songwriter to now songwriter
and performer. But again we're looking back at it now,
what would you tell that seventeen year old that's just
now she just closed the tailgate, it's loaded up, it's
about to hop in, Like, what would you tell her
(14:38):
if you only were somehow we got a time machine.
You go back two minutes. You only have two minutes
to talk to her. Yeah, but you can't say anything
like bet on the Chiefs to win the super Bowl.
If you can't do anything money like that. When I
no Genie wishes only advice, what would you say? That
question gave me goose bumps. I think I would just
tell her that it just gets so much better, Like
(15:01):
everything just so much that. Honestly, even the worst disappointments
that I've had, and I've had a lot of disappointing
things happen, it's all good. It really is all good,
and it all comes back to something better. What's funny
is I believe you. Sometimes people say that and I
don't believe it because I feel like you're saying it
(15:22):
because they're being interview. But I do believe that there's
something very positive about you, an unforced positivity. I think
at times I hate wake up in the morning, so
I'm forcing crap at five o'clock. By about seven thirty,
it's real again, but it's an unforced positivity. And do
you feel positive just about your career in general? Where
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you're still so young again, it's crazy you're still so young.
Do you feel positive about where you are now as
in contrast with what your goals are and what they
were before you moved out here. Yes, And I think
in some ways, like I said, you know, when I
got here, it's like, oh, I would have, you know,
wanted a CMA award by now. But the all of
(16:08):
the things that I've been through and the person that
I've become through the journey is really where. I mean,
I'm better for it. I met my husband here along
the way. I now have this beautiful daughter, and it's
like success, the definition of success for me has just
evolved over the past decade that I've been here. And
(16:33):
I still want all of these things in my career,
but it's like you come at it with a joy
when you're not operating out of the lack of what
you Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, you're not
pursuing it because of what you don't have. You're actually
pursuing it because you love it and also you love
what you have as well, exactly. Huh. Yeah. Do you
(16:54):
think I'm a better person after this interview? It's possible
that I just became a better person after talking to
Sarab faith. So this year, obviously you had a baby. Yeah,
but what's I don't know how that works. Are you
writing now? When do you start writing again? Are you
going to start playing shows? I just don't know, so
what's going on? Listen. I don't know how it works either.
(17:15):
So we're we're rolling with it. Okay. Um, it was
perfect timing last year. I had my EP out, we
did the last single ride on time before the end
of the year. She was born at the end of October,
and then we had holidays, so it was like magical.
I've been home with her for the last three ish
months and now I'm writing again. So I've got I'm
working on a new project. Um, you know, back, I'm
(17:38):
back at it and it's been great. My husband is like,
we're fifty fifty. He's got her right now, Like, well,
I'm here. It's just you know, we're going to figure
it out as we go. You feel good about him,
feel great? Let me tell you I've heard some things.
I haven't. I've heard nothing. I met him. I mean
he's awesome. Yeah, he's it's he's even better now that
(17:59):
he's a dad. So do you see a new version
of him now that you didn't see until now. Yes,
it's crazy when you're like trying to keep this human
alive together, You're like, okay, we're in. It feels like
we're going into battle together. It's it's like we know
each other so differently than we ever have and it's awesome.
So the EP is called from my Own Good and
(18:19):
that's that. And then Right On Time is a single
and that came out last year. We played We've played
you all over the place. We're going to continue to
do that. I'm just a big supporter. You put it out,
We're gonna play it. It's been cool to watch you grow.
I did look at your TikTok. You've got like one
hundred thousand followers since the last time I saw. Yeah,
like you've had quite the growth there. Well, talk about
(18:40):
like in quotes, maternity leave. Yeah, I took like what
I thought was time off to go have my baby.
And you know, I mean, something's just connected in these
last few months of just I mean, I think this
obviously it's such a shared experience becoming a mom, and
like we just talked about trying to navigate that going
back into a career, and I just think, you know,
(19:01):
so many of us are going through this at the
same time. And now the video of me at the
hospital is like on barstool Sports and all this. I mean,
it was just the craziest thing. We've got a bunch
of bunch of cool videos and people connecting with the
experience that we had having her in the hospital. So
it's very cool. Well, super cool. You're super cool. I
just think you're the best. So you guys follow Here's
(19:24):
here's where it comes to you, guys where you can
be a part of Sarah Beth um at Sarah Beth Tate.
Just follow her. I mean, there's that's the currency nowadays. Uh,
Sarah Beth s A r A H b E t
H T t A I T E Sarah Beth Tate.
We'll also put this in the notes and we appreciate
you sharing your journey and congrats on being a mom
and it's so cool. And tell your husband I said hello,
(19:45):
I will and I think that's I think that's it.
Just let us know when you get get some more
music ready to go. I will thank you guys for
for supporting me always and for having me on Bobby Bones.
Y'all
On the Bobby Bones Show. Now you know, I'm a
big fan. I don't know how we met. There's some story.
Let me see if I can track it back. Let's
do it, because I think you're just a wonderful artist,
and that's what I know you as now to the
point where I've brought you on the road and paid you.
I mean, like, I think you're that good to where
I like for audiences to see you. But I know
(00:21):
we have a story of how we met the first time,
or maybe it was did you meet Amy? I met
Amy in Whole Foods? That's what it was. It was
the Green Hills Whole Foods And you didn't meet her
as an artist who was going, hey, play my music.
What was that story? So my now husband and I
(00:42):
were in Whole Foods, probably in workout clothes, and he
and I, together and separately, have been fans of your
show and listened every morning, you know, both of us
on our way to work, and we saw Amy and
just freaked out. And so he was wearing a Pimp
and Joy shirt just because he wears Pimp and Joy
(01:05):
stuff all the time. Awesome and coincidentally cool. Yeah, yeah,
So we're fan girling over Amy to ourselves and she
came over to Colby and said, hey, I like your
Pimp and joy shirt. Oh good. So then we started
talking about the Pimp and Joy line and everything, and
she sent us some like hats. I think it was
the like red, white and blue stuff that it was
never mentioned you were an artist. No, I have to
(01:25):
commend to you for that because I everywhere I go
people try to they fit it in, they find a
reason to say something and then it's like, also, yeah,
I put out a couple of records by the way,
Yeah yeah, no, it was I mean one it's Whole Foods.
And we just we just thought it was fun to
meet her and we just got we got these really
cool hats and I got a tank top and we
were like this is awesome. So okay, it was very
cool of her. I have to I have to say.
(01:46):
Amy was so sweet and she like she remembered and
got our email and sent us the stuff. It was
so fun. Yeah She's not terrible, right, Anny, ain't. No,
Amy's awesome. So okay, so that happened. Now that's you
meeting Amy? Yes, but how did you and I meet?
We met from TikTok We met virtually first. Okay, did
I see you? Okay? Go ahead, Okay, you saw my
(02:07):
video or one of my videos and you do edit
it on TikTok and you invited me on Okay, So
it sounds familiar because I've only ever done that like twice.
I'm not missed your get on and do it and
invite people to the show because I don't want someone
to come up here and embarrass themselves. Yeah, meaning you
(02:28):
can record a TikTok one hundred times and you could
probably do it once really well. And yeah, but only
two or three times ever have I said, oh, this
person's real good, got on du edit and said come
to the show. Did I just say come to the show?
Or did How did I do it? You? It was
a video about me talking about how I didn't have
(02:48):
a record deal and I had this song that was
connecting with people but I was unsigned. What was the song?
Do you remember? Long Way? Okay? And you said you
did a duet on it. And it's funny because I
hadn't even seen the duet before. I had hundreds of
messages from everybody who listens to the show who was like,
have you seen this yet? You've got to get on
your TikTok and you. I mean, I think you've invited
(03:11):
me on the show during that video and you said, hey,
that's fun. You don't have a record deal, come on.
So then you came in. Yeah, crushed it. Thank you.
I hope I crushed. Obviously you crushed it, or you
wouldn't be here now are You wouldn't be listen. I'm back,
So you must have gone right. And then we you know,
I featured your music a bunch in on the women
of her Country on the Countdown, Like I am just
(03:32):
a genuine fan of you as a songwriter and an artist.
And then I want to get to your story in
a second. But what I saw was in the last
few weeks, maybe a month or so, I had chosen
one of your songs. I'm not sure which one it was,
but you were posting that you were listening to it,
and you had a baby in your arms in the video. Yeah,
And I was like, either she just told a baby
(03:53):
or she just had one. And I didn't even know
you were pregnant. Yep, I was nine months, so it
had been that long. I guess pandemic hu. Yeah, So
I think you and I met I think when I
came in was during that twenty twenty year where everything
was when do we go out festivals? Though? One, okay,
(04:14):
that's the last time webs like not like I've been
keeping trackers. No, I don't, I don't, I don't know
any Okay. So I just I felt like such a
jerk because I don't even know you were pregnant. Well,
fast forward to bringing my daughter home. Uh, you played
my song about that I wrote partly about her and
it was the day that we brought her home from
the hospital that yep. And what was that song? Right
(04:38):
on time? And you wrote that with Scott Stepakoff, who
I really you know or he was one of the ride.
Are you Sarah Elizabeth? What is your name? My full
name is Sarah Elizabeth? Got it? I thought you wrote it,
but that wasn't your You had a whole different name.
And I was like, well, maybe you're like I don't know,
I didn't know if that was because you so Sarah
Beth's Tad is your stage name? Yes? Yeah? And then
(04:58):
what's your soul security number? We're just getting your identity
stolen right here? Okay? So that makes sense though, because
when I read I thought I thought you'd written that song, yep.
And I know Scott and I like Scott. And so
when you go, when you write this song right on
Time because you didn't have your daughter yet, No, it
was gosh, Scott, and I wrote Honestly, most people did
(05:22):
not know that I was pregnant. I'm not sure that
my management team, even your husband didn't know that was
gonna be trouble. Hey, Colby didn't know Colby was number one,
So that's good. But how to write with Scott. He's
one of my favorite co writers, and I can always
be really honest with him. And so I was talking
about the pregnancy and it was really fresh. I had
(05:43):
just found out and it was a good surprise that
we were having a baby. And so I was telling
him a little bit about this story and I was like, Scott, this,
this timing is just like, this is just God's timing.
We've got to We've got to put this into a song.
And so anyways, Right on Time was born, and it
(06:05):
was just the perfect song to kind of end last
year with because it was exactly what I was going
through personally. And you know, I'm not in a position
right now to be putting out music that's not exactly
where I'm at and what I've what I've been through authentically,
and so because right on time is that song you
(06:26):
wrote with Scott, but the the EP that you had
that was not on that am I right? Nope, separate Okay,
just making sure I get all my Yeah, it was.
It was a single um in October, I think I
had actually I put it out just a couple weeks
before um my due day. So it was it was
one of those where I just wanted to I just
(06:47):
kind of wanted to for maternity leave or whatever you
call it, I just kind of wanted to end on
on that note for the end of the years as
we were getting ready to have her part of my story.
How hard has that been and how awesome has been
both answered both being a mom, a new mom, you know,
like so much better than I ever thought that it
(07:07):
could be. And you know, it's hard. I mean, there's
a lot about it that's hard, but um, I mean
we're just like so much better for the experience, and
it's been a great, great few months. She's three and
a half months old. Now, So have you revealed her name? Yeah? Okay,
so can you say now? Yeah, her name's Isla, and
why Isla? We just loved it. Just a good name,
(07:27):
I was saying. We you know, Bobbin didn't run in
the list. There's only so many names that you agree on,
you know, Like every we both get veto and it's
like most names, it's like they come in and it
hits you and one of you is like, I hate it.
We can't do it. So was there a name that
you really liked it he hated? You know, there were
a lot and I don't even remember them now. We
(07:48):
it was like process of elimination was so easy because
there were so many that he loved that. I was like, nope,
never did you guys ever stump and be like, no, reconsider.
I know you're vetoing, but give me one more shots.
He loves the name Charlie boy or a girl. I
like it as a girl. Listen, I have nothing against Charlie,
Like I really have nothing against it. I just knew
(08:09):
a lot of Charlie's and it's just, you know, you
can't help the way it hits it. I like it
for other people's kids, it's just not my kid. But also,
if you know somebody that was weird or a jerk
or mean to you. And they had a name. That's
just how you associated. They had a name. Yeah, there
was it ruins it. This girl name SARABETHS. Tate used
to pick on me in school, like eighth grade. It's
hard for me to shake that. You know, you came
(08:30):
to Nashville as a teenager seventeen eighteen years old. Yes,
I moved when I was seventeen. So what did that mean?
School wise? Did you finish? Did you do homeschool? Did
you do what happened there? I did graduate high school
and then got out of Dodge right out, So I
graduated early and then left right away. Did you do
like a high school athlete? And you did more earlier
(08:53):
so you could be done so you could get started
in college? Or they would like college football. But let's
say they would finish high school early so they could
go ahead and get there. Yes, did you do that
to get here? Yes? I did. I think it was
a semester early that I graduated, and I also did
some online classes. I signed my first publishing deal when
I was fourteen, and so I started coming to Nashville
and co writing early on. People were paying you at
(09:15):
fourteen years old to write music? Yes, what did you
write at thirteen or fourteen to make people go there
that she, this young woman can do this. This is
the thing. I really don't know. So I look back
and I'm like, why were people paying me to be here?
Like I'm really the music? It was like, we gotta
(09:35):
step it up and partial though, must have been some
little nugget of something. You don't know what the nugget was.
I attribute this to beginner's luck. And when I say
beginner's luck, really what I mean is I was so
blissfully naive. I mean I was like, I remember being
on a plane to Nashville and I was like, I'm
gonna go, I'm gonna get a publishing deal. I'm gonna
(09:57):
like go to music row and I'm just gonna walk
around and get a publishing deal. And like who was that?
I mean, but you did it, but it happened, but
you did it right. So and again there was another
teenage girl who did something similar, which there's been a
few bit like Taylor did that right. So was knowing
how Taylor did that and she's sixteen putting out songs?
(10:19):
Was that in your mind? Like, well if I would have,
because I would imagine that would be an influence on me. Yes, No,
I was definitely in that in that phase of watching her,
and I think a lot of girls my age watched that,
going well, if she can do it, I can do it.
And I just think that there's something so much to
really like believing that you can do something without having
(10:42):
any I had none of the knowledge know how hard
that might be. And I'm I'm here, you know, over
ten years later from being fourteen, and I didn't know
where I mean, I thought I would be like accepting
Grammy's by the time I was eighteen. But the journey
along the way has been so much better than I
ever could have thought. And it's it really just starts with,
(11:04):
you know, being like, I'm gonna do this and not
being aware of all of the obstacles you're gonna face.
I think be a naive is great a lot of
times because you don't know what the failures can be
and it doesn't scare you because those fears don't exist. Yes,
(11:26):
because and that that's happened a lot in my career too,
where I'm just like, let's go, oh, yeah, I don't
know think about it, but let's just let's see what
happens where If I would have really known how hard
or how tough it, because it did get tough, i'd
have been maybe I'd maybe i'd just been like, I
don't know, man, But I think be a knaive helped
me actually, and not having people that did what I
do yes around me that said, oh, you shouldn't do
(11:47):
that because it's very hard. Nobody just knew at all.
So I was like, let's I'm from Arkansas, let's go
I can do anything in the whole world. Yes. Yeah.
And Two, I think like with what you just said,
I think there's a there's a confidence that comes with
thought that I really think, you know, showing up feeling
like I belong to be here, even though looking back,
(12:08):
I'm like that girl didn't right, she had no business
being in some of those rooms. But but I at
the time felt like I belonged for whatever reason. And
I think that that energy kind of carries over into
everything you do and it ends up just kind of
i'm sure in your life, just getting you into places
that you never thought you'd be and trouble. I mean
(12:29):
both honestly, yes, very tar So you move here, though,
do you pack up a car as at one of
those or do you just have a couple of suitcases
and you fly But you're seventeen, So how does that work?
And does that parent come with you for a little bit? Well,
I don't know. So I drove to my first apartment.
I was seventeen. My mom dropped me off, like, bless
my parents? Where from Colorado? Did you drive from Fort Collins?
(12:50):
And I like for Collins a lot. It's a good place.
It's a great yeah. And then you do you remember
the drive? You guys do whatever? Two days? Was it? Like? Yep?
Two days? We drove through Arkansas. I have family in Fayetteville, right,
same family. We're all cousins, fad you know, we're probably related.
So we would stay at my aunt Jois's farm, and
we did this, My mom and I did this a
(13:11):
decent bit between fourteen and seventeen. We would drive and
we had some of the best times doing that, just
us too. And anyway, she got me out here that
last time and dropped me off, and for some reason
they felt comfortable enough to leave me here. But again,
it was weird because I was seventeen and I wasn't
you know, I just graduated and I wasn't going to college,
(13:33):
but i'd kind of I had a little bit of
a footing here after all the co writing that I'd done.
And I sure, I guess you'd been flying out for
a few years. Yes, and I had some really I
had some good people around me. And so to my parents' defense,
I feel like they felt like I was safe here
in the community that I that I had, and so
(13:54):
I was. I'm really grateful to have had that from
from an early start. Not that it wasn't hard, I
mean it should be hard. It was. Growth comes from
hard things, yes, I mean first year, I was like,
what have I done? Like, I don't you know? My
family's not here. I feel like I don't know anybody.
I feel like, I mean, I'm working like multiple jobs
on top of my publishing right, and it was it
(14:17):
was a lot whenever we talked about journeys, especially on
this podcast and your journey from songwriter to now songwriter
and performer. But again we're looking back at it now,
what would you tell that seventeen year old that's just
now she just closed the tailgate, it's loaded up, it's
about to hop in, Like, what would you tell her
(14:38):
if you only were somehow we got a time machine.
You go back two minutes. You only have two minutes
to talk to her. Yeah, but you can't say anything
like bet on the Chiefs to win the super Bowl.
If you can't do anything money like that. When I
no Genie wishes only advice, what would you say? That
question gave me goose bumps. I think I would just
tell her that it just gets so much better, Like
(15:01):
everything just so much that. Honestly, even the worst disappointments
that I've had, and I've had a lot of disappointing
things happen, it's all good. It really is all good,
and it all comes back to something better. What's funny
is I believe you. Sometimes people say that and I
don't believe it because I feel like you're saying it
(15:22):
because they're being interview. But I do believe that there's
something very positive about you, an unforced positivity. I think
at times I hate wake up in the morning, so
I'm forcing crap at five o'clock. By about seven thirty,
it's real again, but it's an unforced positivity. And do
you feel positive just about your career in general? Where
(15:43):
you're still so young again, it's crazy you're still so young.
Do you feel positive about where you are now as
in contrast with what your goals are and what they
were before you moved out here. Yes, And I think
in some ways, like I said, you know, when I
got here, it's like, oh, I would have, you know,
wanted a CMA award by now. But the all of
(16:08):
the things that I've been through and the person that
I've become through the journey is really where. I mean,
I'm better for it. I met my husband here along
the way. I now have this beautiful daughter, and it's
like success, the definition of success for me has just
evolved over the past decade that I've been here. And
(16:33):
I still want all of these things in my career,
but it's like you come at it with a joy
when you're not operating out of the lack of what
you Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, you're not
pursuing it because of what you don't have. You're actually
pursuing it because you love it and also you love
what you have as well, exactly. Huh. Yeah. Do you
(16:54):
think I'm a better person after this interview? It's possible
that I just became a better person after talking to
Sarab faith. So this year, obviously you had a baby. Yeah,
but what's I don't know how that works. Are you
writing now? When do you start writing again? Are you
going to start playing shows? I just don't know, so
what's going on? Listen. I don't know how it works either.
(17:15):
So we're we're rolling with it. Okay. Um, it was
perfect timing last year. I had my EP out, we
did the last single ride on time before the end
of the year. She was born at the end of October,
and then we had holidays, so it was like magical.
I've been home with her for the last three ish
months and now I'm writing again. So I've got I'm
working on a new project. Um, you know, back, I'm
(17:38):
back at it and it's been great. My husband is like,
we're fifty fifty. He's got her right now, Like, well,
I'm here. It's just you know, we're going to figure
it out as we go. You feel good about him,
feel great? Let me tell you I've heard some things.
I haven't. I've heard nothing. I met him. I mean
he's awesome. Yeah, he's it's he's even better now that
(17:59):
he's a dad. So do you see a new version
of him now that you didn't see until now. Yes,
it's crazy when you're like trying to keep this human
alive together, You're like, okay, we're in. It feels like
we're going into battle together. It's it's like we know
each other so differently than we ever have and it's awesome.
So the EP is called from my Own Good and
(18:19):
that's that. And then Right On Time is a single
and that came out last year. We played We've played
you all over the place. We're going to continue to
do that. I'm just a big supporter. You put it out,
We're gonna play it. It's been cool to watch you grow.
I did look at your TikTok. You've got like one
hundred thousand followers since the last time I saw. Yeah,
like you've had quite the growth there. Well, talk about
(18:40):
like in quotes, maternity leave. Yeah, I took like what
I thought was time off to go have my baby.
And you know, I mean, something's just connected in these
last few months of just I mean, I think this
obviously it's such a shared experience becoming a mom, and
like we just talked about trying to navigate that going
back into a career, and I just think, you know,
(19:01):
so many of us are going through this at the
same time. And now the video of me at the
hospital is like on barstool Sports and all this. I mean,
it was just the craziest thing. We've got a bunch
of bunch of cool videos and people connecting with the
experience that we had having her in the hospital. So
it's very cool. Well, super cool. You're super cool. I
just think you're the best. So you guys follow Here's
(19:24):
here's where it comes to you, guys where you can
be a part of Sarah Beth um at Sarah Beth Tate.
Just follow her. I mean, there's that's the currency nowadays. Uh,
Sarah Beth s A r A H b E t
H T t A I T E Sarah Beth Tate.
We'll also put this in the notes and we appreciate
you sharing your journey and congrats on being a mom
and it's so cool. And tell your husband I said hello,
(19:45):
I will and I think that's I think that's it.
Just let us know when you get get some more
music ready to go. I will thank you guys for
for supporting me always and for having me on Bobby Bones.
Y'all
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