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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, Danny Luke and how Morning Show. So glad
to have you along on the podcast. I have the
great honor of introducing you to a brand new artist, Andy.
He came all the way up from Nashville just to like,
you know, check things out here in the Quad Cities.
So this is Conway Turley, up and coming guy. I
(00:21):
wasn't real familiar with you, but a gentleman named Joe
from our area introduced me to your music. I love it.
I love you. I just I think it's really great,
and I'm so glad to have you here in the
Quad Cities talking a little bit more and introducing you
to our listeners. I think it's real important.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So I'm thrilled to be here. We've been looking forward
to this all week.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now. Just a little background about you. It's always interesting
to me when a because I always think of a
country star being someone from like either the Midwest or
the South. Ohio to me is a little more eastern,
but a lot of great folk have come out of
(01:07):
our Eastern states. So tell us a little bit about
your upbringing in Ohio and what kind of brought you
to country music.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, I mean I'm from a little town called Newark, Ohio,
and it's about thirty minutes or so east of Columbus, Okay,
across I seventy and I was born and raised there.
I actually lived for a little while for like maybe
four or five years. I lived in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Oh yeah, yeah, and that's where my grandparents on my
(01:34):
dad's side were living, so we were down there being
close to them, And that's kind of really where I
got my start in music per se. I was probably
four or five years old, and they had a festival
there called the Parkersburg Homecoming. Oh yeah, yeah, and my
mom entered me in the talent show. And back then
I sang gospel music as a little kid, and they
(01:59):
aparently it went well and they called me the next
year to come and play and do a full concert myself.
I mean, you know, not on the big main stage,
but I was at the fair. I was doing a concert.
I was six years old.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh my gosh, so years old. I had to be
like sort of surreal, right, I mean at six, I
don't know that you really know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Really, I thought I was the big time buddy. There
wasn't twenty five people sitting out there listening to me,
but I thought I was Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh my gosh, how very very cool. So then you
actually so it progressed fairly quickly. By the time you
were thirteen, you were doing albums.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah. Yeah, Actually my first one came out when I
was seven. The following year from the Parkersburg homecoming. It
came out when I was seven years old, and by
the time I turned thirteen, I had three full length albums.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's that's pretty You're like, you're like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, a little bit, A little bit. I've been. I've
been at it my whole life, you know, I've I
have heard stories all my life where they my aunt
Phoebe would give me a quarter to sing a song
when I was just a little kid.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
How cute. So it's totally adorable.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's music is all I know. Really. That and driving
a truck. Those are the only two real jobs I've
ever had.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh my gosh, well those seem to go very well together.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You guys were out of the truck stuff a little
while ago.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We were, we were we just left there. That's the
cool That's one of the coolest places ever in the world.
I've heard about it all my life and I've drove
past I'm sure I've drove past it in the bus
a million times at night, but I'm asleep in the bus,
and you know, we'd never get to stop or anything.
It's the first time I've ever been able to actually
go in it and see it. And what an amazing place.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's fantastic. We'll have to get you out there some
summer for their jamboree.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know, I have heard about that. We were actually
talking about that on the way over here. How cool
it would be to come and do that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, I'll have to drop a a little something
into somebody's ear. I think I know a few people, so.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That would be fun. That's really fun.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So now you have a connection with somebody that we
play frequently on the radio, and that is Joe Nichols.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I do I do. I am the pedal steel player
in Joe's band.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I know several pedal steel players. It's quite the instrument.
It's not something that you just go, oh, I'd think
I'm just going to pick.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That up today. Yeah. I always tell people it's like
trying to fly a spaceship.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It is it is because you use both hands, both knees,
and both feet all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, it's crazy, But that's not your only instrument, correct.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, I'm a multi instrumentalist, you know. I play the
drums and the guitar and the bass and the keyboards
and obviously the steel guitar and the banjo and the
doughbro and the mandolin. I mean it goes on and on.
H that's a whole nother interview in itself.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, I love that though, because it makes you such
a versatile, a versatile musician, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It really does. Singing. It really helps me a lot
as far as like when we go into the recording studio,
you know, because you know, I don't play on the albums.
I hire the professionals to do all that. But I
can tell them exactly what I want and I can
communicate it to each one of them so they can
understand it, and I can build the track in my
(05:20):
mind and let the real pros bring it to life.
So it helps me a lot in the production aspect
of things.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So as we talk about, you know, you being a
musician and all that, I would love for you to
play a little bit of a something for us. I
know you brought your guitar with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, do that absolutely, I would certainly love it. So
do you want to start with something maybe that your
fans request, or do you want to do your latest?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think we should just jump right into it and
play the single.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think we should.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, life in a country song, okay, And I love
that life in a country song because a country song is,
isn't it about my Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know it really is. When we were
writing this song, it's kind of funny. I didn't really
have a plan per se sure. I just had found
out that I was going to be doing an EP
and we needed some we needed some ideas, and I
(06:21):
had this line in my phone for like two years,
two or three years, and it was and it's the
the opening line to the first verse of the song.
But you know, I'm at that point, I was very
new to songwriting because I've played all my life. You know,
I've considered myself an arranger and a composer. You know,
(06:45):
people send me lyric sheets and I can put seven
different music tracks to it if you want. But this
is really kind of my first real hand at writing,
you know. So I called a buddy of mine. I
told him what I had. His name Justin Bryan, and
he's also an Ohio guy. I told him what I
had and what I needed, and he said, well, just
(07:05):
come on up to the house. And he said, I
can't guarantee you anything, but come on up to the house.
We'll sit down with it and figure it out. And
an hour later we had the song all the way down.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Isn't it fun the way the ones that work comes
together fairly quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah? All right, we can try a little piece of this. Yeah,
please do life in a country song?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What happened to the days when you could turn your
radio alone and you just knew who was singing that
song like Patsy Klein and Conway Twitty or It's all
Right to be a Little Bitty. Life was hard for
cowboys like us. I was four years old and Dad's
(08:02):
old Chevy. He turned to key the radio already, and
I knew every word every song, and Dad just smiled
as I sang along because they sang about real life,
the struggles in hard times, broken hearts, and all guitars
(08:23):
paint a picture in my mind, takes me back to
the good old days. I guess that's adjust the way
I was raised. And there ain't no other place that
I belong. Yeah, that's my life in a country's song. Well,
(08:45):
I still got that two tone chevy Dad gave me
when I was ready, and now I live those songs
on the radio with honky tons and blue collar women.
That's the way I make my living night after night
out on the road, And that's the only way of
(09:07):
life I've come to know. Because they sang about real life,
the struggles in hard times, broke in hearts, and the
old guitars paint a picture in my mind, takes me
back to the good old days. I guess that's just
the way I was raised. And there ain't no other
(09:28):
place that I've be long. Yeah, that's my life in
the country song. And now I know that my dad
knew what's best. He bought my first guitar in the
radio did the rest. Because now I sing about real life,
(09:50):
the struggles and hard times, broke in hearts, and the
old guitars paint a picture in my mind, takes me
back to the good old days. I guess that's just
the way I was raised, And there ain't no other
place it I be long. Yeah, that's my life in
a country song. Yeah, that's my life in a contry song.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I know there's just me, but thank you. That is
so much. I can see why that song received so
many editions on Spotify for the first week that it
was out, because it's.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Been so crazy great. I never expected it to be
like this. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong,
this whole thing is still in its infancy. First, we're
brand new. You know, I'm no strangers to the music business,
and neither is anybody that works in my camp. But
as far as putting this out there, me being the artist, yeah,
this is this is new venture for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, talk about now you're going to be supporting this
EP coming up. What kind of a tour do you
have set so far?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, there's not really you know, a massive tour set
so far. Like I said, it's all still brand new.
But we are in We are in talks with a
lot of places, a lot of fairs and festivals around
the area, and a lot of like you know, big
community events and corporate events and you know all that
kind of all the things. You know, So as soon
as we get the schedule updated, you'll I'll post it
(11:30):
everywhere on you know, on all my socials and everything.
You'll be able to find it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, So your socials, let's make sure people know how
to find you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, anywhere on social media. You can find me at
Conway Tourly Music.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, t you are l e y for people who
are wondering, that's Conway like Conway Twitty, which I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Just like Conway Twitty.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes. And then your merch store and like your website,
do you have an additional website besides the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Social website is being built right now and it's going
to and it's just once it's open, it's just simply
going to be Conwaytury dot com. There is a merch
store on the Facebook page. At Conwayturlely Music, there's a
square store. And once we get the website and everything
transferred over, that will move over to Conwayturley dot com
and you'll be able to find everything there.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I hope that you're going to be around this area
very soon because I think people really need to hear
and see your show.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, thank you. I hope to come back soon. I
hope to come back soon.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
All right, anything you want to add before we turn
you loose to do the rest of your day.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, I just want to say thanks for having me.
We've had a good time and we hope y'all enjoy
the music. Go it's everywhere Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, anywhere
you can stream, and it's on the radio. It's everywhere
you'll be able to find me.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Conway, thank you so much for coming in today. We
so appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, Danny, thank you so much for having me. I
hope to come back soon.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I hope so too. Best of luck, all right
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Hey everybody, Danny Luke and how Morning Show. So glad
to have you along on the podcast. I have the
great honor of introducing you to a brand new artist, Andy.
He came all the way up from Nashville just to like,
you know, check things out here in the Quad Cities.
So this is Conway Turley, up and coming guy. I
(00:21):
wasn't real familiar with you, but a gentleman named Joe
from our area introduced me to your music. I love it.
I love you. I just I think it's really great,
and I'm so glad to have you here in the
Quad Cities talking a little bit more and introducing you
to our listeners. I think it's real important.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So I'm thrilled to be here. We've been looking forward
to this all week.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now. Just a little background about you. It's always interesting
to me when a because I always think of a
country star being someone from like either the Midwest or
the South. Ohio to me is a little more eastern,
but a lot of great folk have come out of
(01:07):
our Eastern states. So tell us a little bit about
your upbringing in Ohio and what kind of brought you
to country music.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, I mean I'm from a little town called Newark, Ohio,
and it's about thirty minutes or so east of Columbus, Okay,
across I seventy and I was born and raised there.
I actually lived for a little while for like maybe
four or five years. I lived in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Oh yeah, yeah, and that's where my grandparents on my
(01:34):
dad's side were living, so we were down there being
close to them, And that's kind of really where I
got my start in music per se. I was probably
four or five years old, and they had a festival
there called the Parkersburg Homecoming. Oh yeah, yeah, and my
mom entered me in the talent show. And back then
I sang gospel music as a little kid, and they
(01:59):
aparently it went well and they called me the next
year to come and play and do a full concert myself.
I mean, you know, not on the big main stage,
but I was at the fair. I was doing a concert.
I was six years old.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh my gosh, so years old. I had to be
like sort of surreal, right, I mean at six, I
don't know that you really know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Really, I thought I was the big time buddy. There
wasn't twenty five people sitting out there listening to me,
but I thought I was Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh my gosh, how very very cool. So then you
actually so it progressed fairly quickly. By the time you
were thirteen, you were doing albums.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah. Yeah, Actually my first one came out when I
was seven. The following year from the Parkersburg homecoming. It
came out when I was seven years old, and by
the time I turned thirteen, I had three full length albums.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's that's pretty You're like, you're like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, a little bit, A little bit. I've been. I've
been at it my whole life, you know, I've I
have heard stories all my life where they my aunt
Phoebe would give me a quarter to sing a song
when I was just a little kid.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
How cute. So it's totally adorable.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's music is all I know. Really. That and driving
a truck. Those are the only two real jobs I've
ever had.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh my gosh, well those seem to go very well together.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You guys were out of the truck stuff a little
while ago.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We were, we were we just left there. That's the
cool That's one of the coolest places ever in the world.
I've heard about it all my life and I've drove
past I'm sure I've drove past it in the bus
a million times at night, but I'm asleep in the bus,
and you know, we'd never get to stop or anything.
It's the first time I've ever been able to actually
go in it and see it. And what an amazing place.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's fantastic. We'll have to get you out there some
summer for their jamboree.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know, I have heard about that. We were actually
talking about that on the way over here. How cool
it would be to come and do that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, I'll have to drop a a little something
into somebody's ear. I think I know a few people, so.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That would be fun. That's really fun.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So now you have a connection with somebody that we
play frequently on the radio, and that is Joe Nichols.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I do I do. I am the pedal steel player
in Joe's band.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I know several pedal steel players. It's quite the instrument.
It's not something that you just go, oh, I'd think
I'm just going to pick.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That up today. Yeah. I always tell people it's like
trying to fly a spaceship.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It is it is because you use both hands, both knees,
and both feet all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, it's crazy, But that's not your only instrument, correct.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, I'm a multi instrumentalist, you know. I play the
drums and the guitar and the bass and the keyboards
and obviously the steel guitar and the banjo and the
doughbro and the mandolin. I mean it goes on and on.
H that's a whole nother interview in itself.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, I love that though, because it makes you such
a versatile, a versatile musician, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It really does. Singing. It really helps me a lot
as far as like when we go into the recording studio,
you know, because you know, I don't play on the albums.
I hire the professionals to do all that. But I
can tell them exactly what I want and I can
communicate it to each one of them so they can
understand it, and I can build the track in my
(05:20):
mind and let the real pros bring it to life.
So it helps me a lot in the production aspect
of things.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So as we talk about, you know, you being a
musician and all that, I would love for you to
play a little bit of a something for us. I
know you brought your guitar with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, do that absolutely, I would certainly love it. So
do you want to start with something maybe that your
fans request, or do you want to do your latest?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think we should just jump right into it and
play the single.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think we should.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, life in a country song, okay, And I love
that life in a country song because a country song is,
isn't it about my Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know it really is. When we were
writing this song, it's kind of funny. I didn't really
have a plan per se sure. I just had found
out that I was going to be doing an EP
and we needed some we needed some ideas, and I
(06:21):
had this line in my phone for like two years,
two or three years, and it was and it's the
the opening line to the first verse of the song.
But you know, I'm at that point, I was very
new to songwriting because I've played all my life. You know,
I've considered myself an arranger and a composer. You know,
(06:45):
people send me lyric sheets and I can put seven
different music tracks to it if you want. But this
is really kind of my first real hand at writing,
you know. So I called a buddy of mine. I
told him what I had. His name Justin Bryan, and
he's also an Ohio guy. I told him what I
had and what I needed, and he said, well, just
(07:05):
come on up to the house. And he said, I
can't guarantee you anything, but come on up to the house.
We'll sit down with it and figure it out. And
an hour later we had the song all the way down.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Isn't it fun the way the ones that work comes
together fairly quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah? All right, we can try a little piece of this. Yeah,
please do life in a country song?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What happened to the days when you could turn your
radio alone and you just knew who was singing that
song like Patsy Klein and Conway Twitty or It's all
Right to be a Little Bitty. Life was hard for
cowboys like us. I was four years old and Dad's
(08:02):
old Chevy. He turned to key the radio already, and
I knew every word every song, and Dad just smiled
as I sang along because they sang about real life,
the struggles in hard times, broken hearts, and all guitars
(08:23):
paint a picture in my mind, takes me back to
the good old days. I guess that's adjust the way
I was raised. And there ain't no other place that
I belong. Yeah, that's my life in a country's song. Well,
(08:45):
I still got that two tone chevy Dad gave me
when I was ready, and now I live those songs
on the radio with honky tons and blue collar women.
That's the way I make my living night after night
out on the road, And that's the only way of
(09:07):
life I've come to know. Because they sang about real life,
the struggles in hard times, broke in hearts, and the
old guitars paint a picture in my mind, takes me
back to the good old days. I guess that's just
the way I was raised. And there ain't no other
(09:28):
place that I've be long. Yeah, that's my life in
the country song. And now I know that my dad
knew what's best. He bought my first guitar in the
radio did the rest. Because now I sing about real life,
(09:50):
the struggles and hard times, broke in hearts, and the
old guitars paint a picture in my mind, takes me
back to the good old days. I guess that's just
the way I was raised, And there ain't no other
place it I be long. Yeah, that's my life in
a country song. Yeah, that's my life in a contry song.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I know there's just me, but thank you. That is
so much. I can see why that song received so
many editions on Spotify for the first week that it
was out, because it's.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Been so crazy great. I never expected it to be
like this. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong,
this whole thing is still in its infancy. First, we're
brand new. You know, I'm no strangers to the music business,
and neither is anybody that works in my camp. But
as far as putting this out there, me being the artist, yeah,
this is this is new venture for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, talk about now you're going to be supporting this
EP coming up. What kind of a tour do you
have set so far?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, there's not really you know, a massive tour set
so far. Like I said, it's all still brand new.
But we are in We are in talks with a
lot of places, a lot of fairs and festivals around
the area, and a lot of like you know, big
community events and corporate events and you know all that
kind of all the things. You know, So as soon
as we get the schedule updated, you'll I'll post it
(11:30):
everywhere on you know, on all my socials and everything.
You'll be able to find it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, So your socials, let's make sure people know how
to find you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, anywhere on social media. You can find me at
Conway Tourly Music.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, t you are l e y for people who
are wondering, that's Conway like Conway Twitty, which I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Just like Conway Twitty.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes. And then your merch store and like your website,
do you have an additional website besides the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Social website is being built right now and it's going
to and it's just once it's open, it's just simply
going to be Conwaytury dot com. There is a merch
store on the Facebook page. At Conwayturlely Music, there's a
square store. And once we get the website and everything
transferred over, that will move over to Conwayturley dot com
and you'll be able to find everything there.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I hope that you're going to be around this area
very soon because I think people really need to hear
and see your show.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, thank you. I hope to come back soon. I
hope to come back soon.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
All right, anything you want to add before we turn
you loose to do the rest of your day.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, I just want to say thanks for having me.
We've had a good time and we hope y'all enjoy
the music. Go it's everywhere Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, anywhere
you can stream, and it's on the radio. It's everywhere
you'll be able to find me.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Conway, thank you so much for coming in today. We
so appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, Danny, thank you so much for having me. I
hope to come back soon.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I hope so too. Best of luck, all right
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Thank you, thank you very much.
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