July 8, 2025 • 12 mins
At the Muscatine County Fair on July 19th and sounding better than EVER!! Find out more about Clay's new song, video, album, and movie project!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, this is Danny Limb.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes it is Oh, this must be Clay Walker.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
It is Clay. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing well. Hey, Clay, you have entered the Pat
and Danny podcast here this morning. Thank you for giving
us a jingle.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
No happy to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So hometown Beaumont, Texas. Eleven number one singles, forty charted singles,
six platinum gold records, over a billion streams on Pandora.
This is an amazing career, Clay. I mean, did you
even know back in ninety three that it would be
possible to shred all these things?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's crazy. I don't even think of that, you know.
For just look at today and how fun it still
is and doing concerts and people get excited in the
singing the songs to the top of their lungs. I'm like,
this is crazy. That's the surprising part. You could have
a sustainable career and then see how much how many
lives you've affected with the music. And it's affected me
(00:57):
the same way. I'm being a fan of country my
whole life, and I still get excited about it every day.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, from Texas to Tennessee. That is your most recent album.
Of course, you've got the Cowboys in having new music
video that is out, you actually film that at your ranch.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Indeed, yeah, we we have a working cattle ranch here
in Texas with a an of tyr stripe cattle and
calves and those are all people that work on the
ranch as well. So the whole, the whole thing is
just completely organic. And then film the piece of me singing,
you know, in my little chap on our house, and
it was just I mean, I can't believe it. You know,
(01:39):
it ended up number one on the CMT and I
was like, you got to be kidnapped. Some of the
things that just keep happening do surprise me, you know,
I'm I'm just it was so honored to be part
of the fabrica of the of the genre and be
accented like we are, and it's just it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, we embrace you as a nineties artist, but it's
it's way more, way more than the nineties. And then
you know, you think about your singing, but then we
think about your acting, like how do you actually portray
a legend like Randy? Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that is uh, that's gonna be you know, we're
going to say how that's gonna be. But I'm excited
about it. I read the script and you know what
I what I see in the script is is really
just stuff I've been doing my whole life, you know, touring,
being on the bus, you know, dealing with the pressures
and the excitement of touring and some of the challenges
(02:40):
that come with it. And you know, Randy says, such
an incredible life. You know, I just I want I
want to do, you know, enhance what the movie could be,
because there's going to be a learning curve here for
whoever does it, if they're not an actual entertainer or singer.
You know, it's but for me, I think it's going
to be more just just traying rather than really trying
(03:01):
to act, because you know, I've done all the stuff
that he has done as well, and it's kind of
second nature to us. I'm excited about it. I love Randy,
I love his love his wife and Mary, and we
have a special barn. And you know, when the movie
was being talked about and then you know they were
looking at, you know, which who they wanted to play
(03:22):
at and you know, when they chose me, I was
very excited and still am. I I just saw them
a couple of nights ago. We had a concert close
to the Texas border and they came out, and so
when Randy came out on the stage, the place stood up.
He would have thought the Beatles came back from the dead. Unbelievable,
so very flat and very honored.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They, I mean, as well as you just superb people.
And in case people are wondering talking about, of course,
the Randy Travis bio pick that's called Forever and Ever Amen. Obviously,
you know with Clay Walker portraying Randy, and they say
later years, but for goodness sakes, I mean, you guys
are still young, young at heart and certainly keeping the
(04:07):
music young.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, you know, I guess there's going to be three Randies,
one of whom as this little kid then, you know,
in his twenties, twenties and early thirties, and they want
me to play you know, the forties and up to fifties,
and like, why didn't they choose me for the twenties
and thirties? You know, I still feel twenty five?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh yeah, oh absolutely, well, and but then you go
back and you look at the music that you've done,
you're like, oh, you know, how can I feel twenty
five and have, like, you know, twenty five thirty years
worth of music that is just off that people like
you said, people sing along to, they love, they absolutely
embrace and you know, just one of those artists that
(04:50):
we feel are the premier artists of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, I'm thankful for that. And you know, most of
the guys like me, you got to ride on the
coattails of guys like Randy, you know, just just ran.
Randy really blew the doors open, you know, in the
late eighties early nineties were for our format, and he
was literally the first stupor icon you know, of country music.
(05:16):
I mean, you have the other great singers like George
Jones had absolutely laid the foundation, even guys before them,
but really Randy was like the first megastar country singer.
And I don't remember when he when he when he
hit and and so guys like me just look at
it and then just like shake our heads like where
would we be? But wouldn't have been for Randy? And
(05:38):
you know, and we and we still have other great
ones like George Tray, Garth Brooks all that, but seriously,
it was you know, George straight was before Randy. But
when Randy came out, it was like it was just
sensationalism everywhere. And uh, I think we see that when
Randy come on stage with us today. You know, like
if he come there, you can just see that love
(05:59):
and respect and all that just it's it's it's overwhelming.
Actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And you know, Randy Travis isn't the only you know,
country guy that you at least do right by. And
I know She Hung the Moon co written by the
late Toby Keith. I mean, wow, how cool is it
that you get to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well, Toby Keith was a was a good friend you
know later in life. You know, he lived in Oklahoma,
and most entertainers are around each other very often. You
just you don't live in proximity. You're always touring. So
we never really had the chance to demand in a
(06:45):
deep way until later on in life. And once we did,
it was it was it was a it was a
great friendship that I chair that cherished. And he he
sang the song to me one night. That's what we
got on stage and I had never heard it, but
he had recorded it before. And I know She Hung
(07:06):
the Moon. You know, I'm knowing that held the ladder,
and I looked at her. I said, it was like
a George Straight song. He sounds like a clay Walker
song to me. I said, if you are telling me
you want me to sing about the song, I thought,
be honored. So I did, and and the rest is history.
But he co wrote it with Scotti Emerck, who he
wrote a lot of songs with. That's a very very
special song.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And is this on Texas to Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well, actually it's part of our of the new music
that we're recording for the new album. Okay, so I'm
even more excited about that. We recorded Cowboys in Heaven
and I know she hung the Moon. And now I'm
in the studio with Keith Steagall finishing an album, so
we will, you know. And I still like to do
it that way instead of just doing an AP. I
really do like the whole concept of an album. So
(07:53):
we're doing that right now and that should be finished
no later than the end of the summer. The end
of all gus will be done with the new album.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh that's so cool and not only you know, singer, actor,
songwriter and all the things, but very serious about your
klay Walker foundation and how you support those with multiple sclerosis.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, that's that's something that I've been I've been dealing
with for more than half my life. You know, the
MS is and it gets harder, you know, it does.
And I will say this that if I've had a
great run with my health, I'm still healthy, but the
MS has definitely gotten harder to manage. And you know
(08:42):
that's it's actually good in a way because I can
relate to more people, and I can have compassion for
the people that have had MS as long as I
have for longer, or even newly diagnosed. And I meet
newly diagnosed people a lot. You know, I've met a
kid nineteen years old from from Texas that just got
(09:03):
diagnosed in the MS, and it's pretty devastating to his
family and especially to his dad. And we've had many
conversations and and you know, I think they believe me
when I tell them he's gonna be okay. You know,
he got recruited by by By college to play football
and he's doing that and I love it. And I
(09:24):
just said, look, you can't fear this. You got to
stand up in the face of it and do everything
you can with it. And that's what we do at
the clay Walker Foundation. We support people and help them
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love that. So people if they want to help
out or find out more, google clay Walker Foundation or
I'm sure you have a link on your website Claywalker
dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right, I do, absolutely, And you know, we just had
our big golf tournament fundraiser out at Puble Beach, California,
and Jamie lind Seger came to that. She also has MS.
Randy Travis was there, Mark Wills was there. It was
a really wonderful event, and just good people that are
(10:06):
trying to help me and they've seen me struggle with
them as you know. All these people, my friends, even
fans you know, have seen that recently and it's but
i still got to smile on my face and I'm
still charging forward and I know that I'm still blessed,
and we just keep on pushing forward until we kind
of cure for this.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So absolutely, and it doesn't stop you from doing all
the things. I know you're out touring and you're I'm
sure you're still hunting and fishing and doing all the
fun things out there.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know it, Danny, The life is life is a
blessing you know, I wake up every day going Okay,
what am I going to do today? You know, And
and it's I said, joy. You know, getting on stage
and performing and singing these songs and seeing the smiles
on people's faces is part of you know, good health
for me, you know. And there's so many things that
(10:55):
come off that I always tell my doctor. I said,
you know, I said, when I'm on stage, I don't
feel like I have MS. And he starts laughing. He says, Clay.
He says, that's because of all of the endorphins and
you know, all the stuff that's going on with a joy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Well, then just a couple of fun
questions for you off the top of your head, this
or that. So, if you're out hunting or out fishing,
is it duck blind or deer stand you prefer No, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Just it's deer hunting. I do love duck hunting, but
I mean I love white tail and so it's just
so magical just to see these animals and got made
and it is so great.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Okay. And then picking out a shirt for a show,
you're going button up or you going snaps.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And that's a tough one, you know, either or because
I wear both. But it's it's about color for me.
I want, I want, I want something that doesn't look ordinary,
and there's got to just gotta have some red or
are you know, nice light blue or something. You know,
it's just something that it makes you feel good and
you look down at it. Oo.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I love what you're saying. Well, we'll be looking for
your very rad shirt when we see you at the
Muscatine County Fair in West Liberty July nineteenth. Mister clay Walker.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'm looking forward to myself. We love that part of
the country. There's a lot of great country music fans
there and they make a lot of noise. That's what
we want to hear, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And we should mention that Timothy Wayne will be opening
that night. That's Tim McGraw's nephew, by the way, if
you're not sure, So looking forward to a absolutely fantastic
night of country music. Clay Walker can't wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, I can't wait either, at congress to Timothy Wayne.
Tim is one of my really good friends and one
of the nicest guys in country music. He's just a
real brother. So looking forward to doing Timothy Wayne and
all you fans out there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, thank you for calling in and we can't wait.
We will see you out at West Liberty coming up
the nineteenth Clay.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
See you there, Danny,
Hello, this is Danny Limb.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes it is Oh, this must be Clay Walker.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
It is Clay. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing well. Hey, Clay, you have entered the Pat
and Danny podcast here this morning. Thank you for giving
us a jingle.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
No happy to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So hometown Beaumont, Texas. Eleven number one singles, forty charted singles,
six platinum gold records, over a billion streams on Pandora.
This is an amazing career, Clay. I mean, did you
even know back in ninety three that it would be
possible to shred all these things?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's crazy. I don't even think of that, you know.
For just look at today and how fun it still
is and doing concerts and people get excited in the
singing the songs to the top of their lungs. I'm like,
this is crazy. That's the surprising part. You could have
a sustainable career and then see how much how many
lives you've affected with the music. And it's affected me
(00:57):
the same way. I'm being a fan of country my
whole life, and I still get excited about it every day.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, from Texas to Tennessee. That is your most recent album.
Of course, you've got the Cowboys in having new music
video that is out, you actually film that at your ranch.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Indeed, yeah, we we have a working cattle ranch here
in Texas with a an of tyr stripe cattle and
calves and those are all people that work on the
ranch as well. So the whole, the whole thing is
just completely organic. And then film the piece of me singing,
you know, in my little chap on our house, and
it was just I mean, I can't believe it. You know,
(01:39):
it ended up number one on the CMT and I
was like, you got to be kidnapped. Some of the
things that just keep happening do surprise me, you know,
I'm I'm just it was so honored to be part
of the fabrica of the of the genre and be
accented like we are, and it's just it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, we embrace you as a nineties artist, but it's
it's way more, way more than the nineties. And then
you know, you think about your singing, but then we
think about your acting, like how do you actually portray
a legend like Randy? Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that is uh, that's gonna be you know, we're
going to say how that's gonna be. But I'm excited
about it. I read the script and you know what
I what I see in the script is is really
just stuff I've been doing my whole life, you know, touring,
being on the bus, you know, dealing with the pressures
and the excitement of touring and some of the challenges
(02:40):
that come with it. And you know, Randy says, such
an incredible life. You know, I just I want I
want to do, you know, enhance what the movie could be,
because there's going to be a learning curve here for
whoever does it, if they're not an actual entertainer or singer.
You know, it's but for me, I think it's going
to be more just just traying rather than really trying
(03:01):
to act, because you know, I've done all the stuff
that he has done as well, and it's kind of
second nature to us. I'm excited about it. I love Randy,
I love his love his wife and Mary, and we
have a special barn. And you know, when the movie
was being talked about and then you know they were
looking at, you know, which who they wanted to play
(03:22):
at and you know, when they chose me, I was
very excited and still am. I I just saw them
a couple of nights ago. We had a concert close
to the Texas border and they came out, and so
when Randy came out on the stage, the place stood up.
He would have thought the Beatles came back from the dead. Unbelievable,
so very flat and very honored.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They, I mean, as well as you just superb people.
And in case people are wondering talking about, of course,
the Randy Travis bio pick that's called Forever and Ever Amen. Obviously,
you know with Clay Walker portraying Randy, and they say
later years, but for goodness sakes, I mean, you guys
are still young, young at heart and certainly keeping the
(04:07):
music young.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, you know, I guess there's going to be three Randies,
one of whom as this little kid then, you know,
in his twenties, twenties and early thirties, and they want
me to play you know, the forties and up to fifties,
and like, why didn't they choose me for the twenties
and thirties? You know, I still feel twenty five?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh yeah, oh absolutely, well, and but then you go
back and you look at the music that you've done,
you're like, oh, you know, how can I feel twenty
five and have, like, you know, twenty five thirty years
worth of music that is just off that people like
you said, people sing along to, they love, they absolutely
embrace and you know, just one of those artists that
(04:50):
we feel are the premier artists of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, I'm thankful for that. And you know, most of
the guys like me, you got to ride on the
coattails of guys like Randy, you know, just just ran.
Randy really blew the doors open, you know, in the
late eighties early nineties were for our format, and he
was literally the first stupor icon you know, of country music.
(05:16):
I mean, you have the other great singers like George
Jones had absolutely laid the foundation, even guys before them,
but really Randy was like the first megastar country singer.
And I don't remember when he when he when he
hit and and so guys like me just look at
it and then just like shake our heads like where
would we be? But wouldn't have been for Randy? And
(05:38):
you know, and we and we still have other great
ones like George Tray, Garth Brooks all that, but seriously,
it was you know, George straight was before Randy. But
when Randy came out, it was like it was just
sensationalism everywhere. And uh, I think we see that when
Randy come on stage with us today. You know, like
if he come there, you can just see that love
(05:59):
and respect and all that just it's it's it's overwhelming.
Actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And you know, Randy Travis isn't the only you know,
country guy that you at least do right by. And
I know She Hung the Moon co written by the
late Toby Keith. I mean, wow, how cool is it
that you get to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well, Toby Keith was a was a good friend you
know later in life. You know, he lived in Oklahoma,
and most entertainers are around each other very often. You
just you don't live in proximity. You're always touring. So
we never really had the chance to demand in a
(06:45):
deep way until later on in life. And once we did,
it was it was it was a it was a
great friendship that I chair that cherished. And he he
sang the song to me one night. That's what we
got on stage and I had never heard it, but
he had recorded it before. And I know She Hung
(07:06):
the Moon. You know, I'm knowing that held the ladder,
and I looked at her. I said, it was like
a George Straight song. He sounds like a clay Walker
song to me. I said, if you are telling me
you want me to sing about the song, I thought,
be honored. So I did, and and the rest is history.
But he co wrote it with Scotti Emerck, who he
wrote a lot of songs with. That's a very very
special song.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And is this on Texas to Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well, actually it's part of our of the new music
that we're recording for the new album. Okay, so I'm
even more excited about that. We recorded Cowboys in Heaven
and I know she hung the Moon. And now I'm
in the studio with Keith Steagall finishing an album, so
we will, you know. And I still like to do
it that way instead of just doing an AP. I
really do like the whole concept of an album. So
(07:53):
we're doing that right now and that should be finished
no later than the end of the summer. The end
of all gus will be done with the new album.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh that's so cool and not only you know, singer, actor,
songwriter and all the things, but very serious about your
klay Walker foundation and how you support those with multiple sclerosis.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, that's that's something that I've been I've been dealing
with for more than half my life. You know, the
MS is and it gets harder, you know, it does.
And I will say this that if I've had a
great run with my health, I'm still healthy, but the
MS has definitely gotten harder to manage. And you know
(08:42):
that's it's actually good in a way because I can
relate to more people, and I can have compassion for
the people that have had MS as long as I
have for longer, or even newly diagnosed. And I meet
newly diagnosed people a lot. You know, I've met a
kid nineteen years old from from Texas that just got
(09:03):
diagnosed in the MS, and it's pretty devastating to his
family and especially to his dad. And we've had many
conversations and and you know, I think they believe me
when I tell them he's gonna be okay. You know,
he got recruited by by By college to play football
and he's doing that and I love it. And I
(09:24):
just said, look, you can't fear this. You got to
stand up in the face of it and do everything
you can with it. And that's what we do at
the clay Walker Foundation. We support people and help them
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love that. So people if they want to help
out or find out more, google clay Walker Foundation or
I'm sure you have a link on your website Claywalker
dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right, I do, absolutely, And you know, we just had
our big golf tournament fundraiser out at Puble Beach, California,
and Jamie lind Seger came to that. She also has MS.
Randy Travis was there, Mark Wills was there. It was
a really wonderful event, and just good people that are
(10:06):
trying to help me and they've seen me struggle with
them as you know. All these people, my friends, even
fans you know, have seen that recently and it's but
i still got to smile on my face and I'm
still charging forward and I know that I'm still blessed,
and we just keep on pushing forward until we kind
of cure for this.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So absolutely, and it doesn't stop you from doing all
the things. I know you're out touring and you're I'm
sure you're still hunting and fishing and doing all the
fun things out there.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know it, Danny, The life is life is a
blessing you know, I wake up every day going Okay,
what am I going to do today? You know, And
and it's I said, joy. You know, getting on stage
and performing and singing these songs and seeing the smiles
on people's faces is part of you know, good health
for me, you know. And there's so many things that
(10:55):
come off that I always tell my doctor. I said,
you know, I said, when I'm on stage, I don't
feel like I have MS. And he starts laughing. He says, Clay.
He says, that's because of all of the endorphins and
you know, all the stuff that's going on with a joy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Well, then just a couple of fun
questions for you off the top of your head, this
or that. So, if you're out hunting or out fishing,
is it duck blind or deer stand you prefer No, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Just it's deer hunting. I do love duck hunting, but
I mean I love white tail and so it's just
so magical just to see these animals and got made
and it is so great.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Okay. And then picking out a shirt for a show,
you're going button up or you going snaps.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And that's a tough one, you know, either or because
I wear both. But it's it's about color for me.
I want, I want, I want something that doesn't look ordinary,
and there's got to just gotta have some red or
are you know, nice light blue or something. You know,
it's just something that it makes you feel good and
you look down at it. Oo.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I love what you're saying. Well, we'll be looking for
your very rad shirt when we see you at the
Muscatine County Fair in West Liberty July nineteenth. Mister clay Walker.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'm looking forward to myself. We love that part of
the country. There's a lot of great country music fans
there and they make a lot of noise. That's what
we want to hear, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And we should mention that Timothy Wayne will be opening
that night. That's Tim McGraw's nephew, by the way, if
you're not sure, So looking forward to a absolutely fantastic
night of country music. Clay Walker can't wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, I can't wait either, at congress to Timothy Wayne.
Tim is one of my really good friends and one
of the nicest guys in country music. He's just a
real brother. So looking forward to doing Timothy Wayne and
all you fans out there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, thank you for calling in and we can't wait.
We will see you out at West Liberty coming up
the nineteenth Clay.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
See you there, Danny,
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