July 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Bubba Startz introduces Chase Grant, diving into his musical journey and the role of family support in overcoming personal challenges. Chase shares insights on balancing his music career with family life, highlighting music as a powerful emotional and spiritual outlet. The discussion moves to Chase's upcoming shows and events, offering a glimpse into his future plans and artistic endeavors. The episode provides an intimate look at the intersection of personal life and professional passion, concluding with a sense of anticipation for what's next in Chase's career.
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Welcome in to another exciting episode of thescene.
I'm your host Bubba Starts, and with me todayis singer songwriter Chase Grant.
Chase, welcome to the show.
How are doing?
Excited to be here.
I'm doing well, man.
And, we're gonna get into, you know, a lotduring this episode.
I I already know you have a lot personallygoing on and obviously a thriving music career.
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But, for everyone who doesn't know you here onthe show, and for me personally, why don't you
give us a little bit of the backstory, and,we'll we'll pick it up from there.
Okay.
So I'm from Rock City, Minnesota.
It's a town about forty five, fifty minutesjust north of the metro.
Real small.
I started off playing music when I was about12.
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Picked up a couple cowboy chords on the guitar.
And, really, it was just kind of the early daysof YouTube back then.
And so I I picked up a few ACDC songs and justkinda grew from there, but it sort of plateaued
for a long time just because of, likepersonally, I just didn't know where I was
going with it and stuff.
And it wasn't until church worship just a fewyears ago that I actually sang and played in
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tandem for the first time, really, and it was ahuge, huge eye opener.
And it was that was what kinda liftedeverything off.
And then from there, was joining the Farmer'sDaughters after a few years, starting my own
band as well, and then just kinda developinginto recording and my solo career after that.
So So it it seems like it was, like, very flatfor a long time, and then it went straight up.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It it kind of out of nowhere.
I told my wife that I was gonna apply for theor audition for this worship team, and she had
said, oh, you you sing?
And I said, well, I think so.
And I sang in front of her, she started crying.
And I thought, well, god.
Was it that bad?
And she goes, no.
I loved it.
You need to pursue this.
And so I just haven't looked back ever since.
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That's really awesome to hear the the push fromfrom this significant other.
Right?
Mhmm.
I think a lot of, especially young men gettalked out of their dreams, And, I think we're
both very fortunate to have women in our livesthat are pushing us towards those dreams and
realizing, that it would be a life anunfulfilled life is maybe a little too harsh,
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but to to have that talent and then to notpursue it in some fashion.
Right?
I think for some of us, just being in theworship team.
Right?
You know, when I did two years in prison, I wasa member of the worship, you know, praise team
there as well, and I it really kind ofrekindled my love of music.
So, nice to hear that you got a good one.
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Yeah.
I really do.
She's been very supportive, and we make itwork, with our now we have two children, and it
it keeps paying for itself.
And we're finding time for each other, for thekids, for music, and it it's it doesn't come
without its struggles, but it we're making itwork really well.
Yeah.
And speaking of kids and struggles, I I feellike that's a a good segue into, you know, your
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current situation.
I know you have a little one, that was bornpremature, I'm guessing then?
Not by a lot.
Just by, like, a week or two.
Like, honestly, he was, almost full term, butthey, they caught a rare heart condition in
utero at twenty weeks.
And, unfortunately, in my family, this is notthe first time I've seen this.
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We we don't know if it's related, but I had a acousin that had a a similar story.
And what basically, what with my son is there'sa blockage that was in his heart that was
preventing blood from going through to mix toget into his body, like, into his lungs.
So the blood coming from the body, and they'vedone one surgery already to remove that that
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atrial septum blockage.
And now he's mixing blood, and he's stable, buthe's just hit many other roadblocks as we go,
including things with his lungs andrespiratory, including intestinal things just
because of our heart is pumping blood to ourthe most vital organs first, you know, our
brain, obviously, our heart.
And then, like, the last things to get bloodflow sometimes are those intestinal things.
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And so there's been some troubles with that,but, he's recovered from those things.
It just he likes to move very slow and just athis own pace, and, they they find that when
they try to push him, he, fights back.
And so he's got this little fiery spirit in himthat says, hey.
I'm here to cook low and slow, and nobody'sgonna tell me otherwise.
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I feel like there's a theme emerging here forthe rest of his life as well.
So Mhmm.
Sometimes it's nice to learn that stuff earlyso you're not, you know, dealing with unruly
teenagers.
Right.
I think this one's gonna be pretty chill, butwe'll see what happens.
Right.
Well and, obviously, it's interesting, youknow, living conditions for you guys.
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You're currently recording from the hospitalroom, which has kinda become a little bit of
home, I'm sure, for you guys.
I know you've been there for a while.
He was born when?
He was born May 13.
Alright.
So, yeah, you're going on several months now ofliving, you know, in two worlds, essentially.
You kinda referenced off camera that your housewas starting to feel like a hotel, and the
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hospital was feeling like home.
I had a you know, not not a child, but we hadour my father-in-law, my wife's dad, broke his
leg and a pretty gruesome break.
So he was actually in the in the hospital forquite a while.
They had got infected and, you know, they weretrying to send him home, and we're like, look.
If something goes wrong, isn't it much betterthat he's, you know, the and we live in a small
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town.
So he was, like, three blocks away from thehouse, but it's like Yep.
What's the point of transporting him back andforth?
We're already here.
Let's stay here until he's good and we knowhe's confident to go home.
So is that kind of where you guys are at?
Is there any kind of, you know, foretelling howlong you'll be staying here and and in this
situation?
So we actually have a meeting later today tosort of discuss it's it's a it's a care
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conference, and so it'll be the majority of thedoctors and all these teams that have been
working with us in and out will be in the sameroom.
And it seems intimidating, but it's mostly justto kind of get everybody in the same room and
see where do we need to go from here becausethere's kind of this sort of a stalemate where
we're at where he's just he's just kindastaying the same.
He's not really turning that corner to getting,like, his breathing tube out and things like
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that that will just that little milestones thatthey wanna see at this point that's just not
really happening.
But, I mean, regardless of what they say today,as far as his plan, it's gonna be months
because he needs more heart surgery, andthere's gonna be weeks of him getting to that
point in between that.
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And then even after that surgery, there's weeksof recovery.
And it's I mean, we're talking probably August,September at this point, if I had to guess.
Yeah.
As That's hard to say.
Like, the soonest possible.
Right?
So, yeah, a long road ahead of you guys still,and, you know, our hearts, our prayers are are
with you guys always.
Do you have any kind of you know, are you aGoFundMe or anything like that that you're
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using to kinda raise money?
Yeah.
We do we do have one set up.
I would have it linked on my socials at somepoint today.
It's been a little bit of time since I sharedit, but I can put that on my website as well.
Otherwise, honestly, it's just been we did alot of fundraising beforehand with the one of
my biggest sponsors or my only sponsor really,Ian Co.
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Clothing on a weight park.
She's a good friend of ours and she puttogether an event that we did at Iron Street
Distillery in Saint Cloud where we put therewas a bunch of different vendors there and the
proceeds from those sales of the sweatshirtsthat she had created went to our family.
And she ended up raising over $5,000 just inthe sweatshirts alone.
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But we've been doing stuff like that.
Every portion of my tips or all of my tips atmy shows have been going just to save up for
him.
And Yeah.
I don't remember the bill.
Penny every penny that you've made for thelast, you know, and not that that's going to
change in the future, but we'd love to tosupport you all in that.
We'll definitely be sharing the links acrossall of our social media, and, obviously, it'll
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be attached to this episode when it goes out aswell.
But we would love to be involved with withanother benefit concert or anything else that
you got in the future as well.
So definitely keep us in mind there, Chase.
Right.
Because
I know from personal experience, my brothersboth did long stints in the NICU, and, so so I
I know the challenges that can be presentedfrom that.
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So, you know, like I said, from everybody in inthe Scene Projects world, you know, our our
hearts go out to you guys, and our prayers arewith your little guy.
And Thank we're wishing all the best for y'all.
So, obviously, with all of that going on, themaintaining a career at all can can be kind of
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difficult.
Right?
We've talked about your support system and howthe wife is, you know, kinda pushed you into,
you know, chasing this this dream, if you will.
But, you know, what what do you do movingforward?
I mean, I guess I can't even really wrap mymind around continuing to go out and play
music, you know, knowing and it seems like atleast at this point, he's not fighting for his
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life on a daily basis as I'm sure it was in thebeginning.
But, I mean, you're still talking about, youknow, being in the back of your mind all the
time.
Personally, how do you kind of put all thataside to be able to go step out on stage and to
play music?
So
music has always been not just something that Ienjoy just listening to for just for the
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purpose of, like, oh, yeah.
That's a great song, or, yeah, that's a goodtime.
You know?
It's music has always spoke to me in a on adeeper level.
I've I like very deep lyrics, and I like whensongs aren't just about, you know you know,
drinking beer and red dirt.
Like, I like when it's, like, when it hits you.
And so playing some of these songs like, I playall these party songs.
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Don't get me wrong.
But there is times during my shows where I willsit back and I kinda get real with people.
And I tell them, like, hey.
This is something that I've been going throughlately, and I just kinda wanna share this a
little bit with you guys.
And this is a song I've been singing to my sonin the hospital room, or this is a song that
kinda reflects my faith.
And I just out loud, without shame, will justkind of preach a little bit.
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And then it's not to, you know, smack anybodyover the head with the bible and say this is
what you gotta believe in or anything, but it'sI just try to to show what real faith can do in
somebody's life, and it's I found it veryrestoring to sing my feelings on stage, and it
very much so resonates with people.
I've seen it.
I've seen it move people to the point wherethey'll come up to me crying, telling me
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stories, or come up to me with a handshake andbe like, hey.
You need to check into this organization.
Like, people it's restored a lot of faith inhumanity, in my opinion, in a world that seems
like it's kinda crappy the last few years.
There's some really good people out there, andthat's why I keep doing it.
Because if I can do anything to help othersthrough a situation that's similar or even in
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just a song that I write that's about somethingelse, that's that means the world to me.
Isn't it yeah.
It's so interesting to me that, like, the way,you know, God works, I'm a man of faith myself,
Not a hugely, you know, you know, religiouschurchgoing person, but, you you don't come
through all the things that I have come throughin my life without having, you know, faith by
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the truckload.
So it's always been interesting to me to seehow, faith works almost better at our lowest
points.
Right?
Like, we're exposed to more of that in ourlowest points, and and and that is renewed.
Right?
That faith in humanity, right, not just in God,but in humanity is always kind of brought about
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by the low points as well.
I've always find that really, reallyintriguing.
So I I love how you're using, you know, yourplatform to just go out and to be yourself.
Right?
You're not necessarily using it to furthersomeone else's agenda or to be something that
somebody else wants you to be.
You're merely stepping up there onto yoursoapbox and saying, this is me.
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This is what I'm going through.
This is who I am.
You know?
This is my faith and really using that how youshould.
I think that's something that a lot of a lot ofartists, and I talked to a lot of them Yeah.
That we all kind of need to remember that thereason we are in the position that we are in is
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because people like us, people it's notnecessarily, oh, you play great music or you
you know, oh, I really liked when you did thatfishing in the dark cover.
Right?
Yeah.
It's more of, I liked the person who was behindthat song.
And I think because the superficiality of themusic business, like the larger music industry
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as a whole, because it has gotten very drinkbeer, girl on a beach.
Right?
Right?
Like, it is so that we kind of, I don't know.
We forget about ourselves as artists.
Right?
Because we're trying to make it in thisbusiness that we forget about like, you're
going to make it by just being yourself.
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By sharing more of yourself and connecting withother people, that's how you make it,
especially in this world where our, attentionis divided into a million pieces.
Right?
And to, you know, to to use the platforms thatwe've all built to, to expose not necessarily
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ourselves to all of these other people, but toexpose all of these other people to who we are
and to use that to lift them up from whateverthey might be going through.
Right?
And we don't necessarily know the effect thatwe're having on other people.
So, yeah, really cool to hear that for fromyour from your story and and to hear that, you
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know, instead of this situation taking you awayfrom it, you've been able to actually bring
your situation to the stage with you and tosay, hey.
No.
This is what's going on with me.
You know?
And this is why it's important for me to behere with you and not in that hospital room
right now.
Yes.
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Yeah.
And it's like, I from the beginning of that, Ithought, okay.
I need to be careful of how I word this becauseI don't wanna come out and be like, hey.
The rattling the cup at them.
Like, I I need your donations.
I need your money.
It's like, it's not about that.
Like, yes.
Like, obviously, donations are help to helpfulto my family and that, like, we appreciate
everything that we've gotten and received frompeople.
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But it's, like, it's it's coming directly fromthe heart when I when I talk about my son or
when I talk about my journey as, you know,musically, like, being too shy to do any of
this stuff and, you know, or even combiningboth of those stories.
And it's simply just to to tell people, like,hey.
I used to be the nervous kid that would besitting in front of a crowd or sitting in front
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of a classroom even in high school being like,You know, I couldn't really even talk to people
hardly.
You know?
It was scary as it as it is for most people.
But there is a higher power in it, man.
When you go knocking on that door and ask, youknow, can you do this for me?
Can you help me get my music out there?
God will kick in some doors that you never evenknew existed.
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And that's just what I wanna share with people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're and you're living it.
Right?
You're living it every single day, and we'redealing with a lot of that right now.
I mean, a lot of the things in my life that arehappening now are, a product of the prayers
prayed six months ago.
And Yeah.
Whether I'm always conscious of that or not,the be careful what you wish for motto has come
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up quite a bit lately because you're like, oh,we want all these things to happen.
And then, you know, they start happening foryou, and it's almost you know, it's just pinch
me.
It's how Yep.
How is this happening?
And and you really have to come back and justbe grateful, right, and to express that
gratitude.
And I think for musicians, especially andsongwriters, that music is the way that we do
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that.
So I feel like, you know, for you and not toput words into your mouth, but, like, almost
going out and performing becomes thatexpression of the gratitude that, like, hey.
My son is still alive.
We're still experiencing miracles every singleday, you know, in the medical fields and and in
these things.
And and my my way of expressing that is to cometo you wherever that may be and to share my
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love of music and a little bit of my story withyou.
Yeah.
And it's it's amazing what that will open upand what that does.
Like, for instance, I'll keep this story very,very short.
But I was performing in Saint Cloud a few weeksback, and it was a Thursday gig, I thought,
there's you know, there's not always a ton ofpeople out on Thursdays.
Just, you know, give or take.
And I had a few crowds or a few people in thecrowds, a couple that were dancing and stuff,
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and it was was having fun.
And this mom and dad and a little baby came in,and huge god moment because I I can't explain
it any other way.
But I didn't think much of it.
I just saw them sit down, and then I I started,again, talking about my son for maybe ten,
fifteen seconds before I went into a song.
And she come up to me and she goes, did you sayyour son was sitting at down at U of M?
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And I said, yeah.
We've been here for five, six weeks at thispoint.
And she goes, and my son's name is Hudson, bythe way.
She goes, well, I just wanted to introduce you.
This is my son.
His name is Hudson.
And I go, okay.
I thought she was kidding.
You know?
And turns out they had been down at the samehospital, the same nurses, almost to the same
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room that we're in right now.
He had a major heart defect as well.
His was actually even worse than my son's in ain a sense.
And they are about six months, I think, postbeing here, and he's walking and talking,
laughing.
He was dancing along with the Alan Jackson songI was playing for him, and it was they were
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from South Of Mankato, and it just for them tobe there that day, they had no idea who I was.
They had no idea anything.
They just showed up to eat supper.
They had some family that lived just North OfSaint Cloud, and they just happened to be there
that day.
And I just thought, k.
Well, I don't believe in coincidences, and Icertainly don't know.
So
Yeah.
No.
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Exactly.
We have a friend of ours.
I'll kinda share a similar story.
So our we have a nonprofit that we work closelywith called Saving Avery.
Avery is a two year old little girl, myfriend's daughter.
She was diagnosed with type one diabetes lastyear.
And since then, they've been finding, like,tiny little rubber duckies at the restaurant,
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at here, at there, at there, everywhere.
Right?
And, same thing.
This is God talking and people bringing them toin and just those little signs.
Right?
And I've always equated it a little bit to Idon't know if you've seen the movie
Interstellar and not that, you know, thesemajor motion pictures need much play, but,
there's parts in the movie where he he'sactually time traveling.
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Right?
He's he's sent to save the world through theblack hole.
And as he's, you know, traveling through thesingularity, you're seeing flashbacks to
different movie different moments in the movieswhere something happened.
And it it it was, it turns out that it's him inthe singularity in the future affecting the
past, and it was just like a such a wild kindof god moment.
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Right?
And it's like, oh, man.
Is that what we all are?
Right?
Is that this huge web of the world?
Right?
All these unknown mysteries out there.
Mhmm.
It's really cool to see it show up, and I lovethat, god is showing up in your life and and
is, showing up in Hudson's life as well.
Great name.
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Great name.
Thank you.
Awesome, Chase.
Well, we've pretty much covered it all, man.
You wanna go ahead and tell us about any kindof, upcoming, big shows you might have for the
rest of the month of July and then, pluganything else that you need to as well.
Yeah.
We have quite a few county fairs this monthwith Farmer's Daughters, from Anoka to Chisago.
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We have the Isanti street dance and the CrowWing County Fair as well.
And then as far as solo and duo shows formyself, we're playing everywhere from just out
West of Saint Cloud all the way back to PineCity at the Garage Bar and Grill and just kind
of all over the place.
You can find most of those details and showsand stuff right on my website or on Facebook or
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TikTok, all those social medias.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a really busy time.
What's your website, Chase?
It's chasegrantmusic.com.
Well, there it is.
Chase, thank you for coming on the show today,sharing your story, and getting to introduce
yourself, to me.
I'm happy to know you, and, can't wait to workwith you in the future.
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We get up to Minnesota there quite a bit.
I was up there at Dunmyers in Brainerd, oh,just a month or so I should go, and, can't wait
to get back.
Maybe when it's a little less smoky.
Has the smoke dwindled a little bit?
Yeah.
It's pretty clear down here, though.
It's we're we're, we're we're okay with thoseCanadians now.
We're not so mad at them anymore.
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Awesome, Chase.
Well, thanks for being on the show, and thanksfor being part of the scene.
Thanks for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Welcome in to another exciting episode of thescene.
I'm your host Bubba Starts, and with me todayis singer songwriter Chase Grant.
Chase, welcome to the show.
How are doing?
Excited to be here.
I'm doing well, man.
And, we're gonna get into, you know, a lotduring this episode.
I I already know you have a lot personallygoing on and obviously a thriving music career.
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But, for everyone who doesn't know you here onthe show, and for me personally, why don't you
give us a little bit of the backstory, and,we'll we'll pick it up from there.
Okay.
So I'm from Rock City, Minnesota.
It's a town about forty five, fifty minutesjust north of the metro.
Real small.
I started off playing music when I was about12.
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Picked up a couple cowboy chords on the guitar.
And, really, it was just kind of the early daysof YouTube back then.
And so I I picked up a few ACDC songs and justkinda grew from there, but it sort of plateaued
for a long time just because of, likepersonally, I just didn't know where I was
going with it and stuff.
And it wasn't until church worship just a fewyears ago that I actually sang and played in
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tandem for the first time, really, and it was ahuge, huge eye opener.
And it was that was what kinda liftedeverything off.
And then from there, was joining the Farmer'sDaughters after a few years, starting my own
band as well, and then just kinda developinginto recording and my solo career after that.
So So it it seems like it was, like, very flatfor a long time, and then it went straight up.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It it kind of out of nowhere.
I told my wife that I was gonna apply for theor audition for this worship team, and she had
said, oh, you you sing?
And I said, well, I think so.
And I sang in front of her, she started crying.
And I thought, well, god.
Was it that bad?
And she goes, no.
I loved it.
You need to pursue this.
And so I just haven't looked back ever since.
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That's really awesome to hear the the push fromfrom this significant other.
Right?
Mhmm.
I think a lot of, especially young men gettalked out of their dreams, And, I think we're
both very fortunate to have women in our livesthat are pushing us towards those dreams and
realizing, that it would be a life anunfulfilled life is maybe a little too harsh,
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but to to have that talent and then to notpursue it in some fashion.
Right?
I think for some of us, just being in theworship team.
Right?
You know, when I did two years in prison, I wasa member of the worship, you know, praise team
there as well, and I it really kind ofrekindled my love of music.
So, nice to hear that you got a good one.
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Yeah.
I really do.
She's been very supportive, and we make itwork, with our now we have two children, and it
it keeps paying for itself.
And we're finding time for each other, for thekids, for music, and it it's it doesn't come
without its struggles, but it we're making itwork really well.
Yeah.
And speaking of kids and struggles, I I feellike that's a a good segue into, you know, your
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current situation.
I know you have a little one, that was bornpremature, I'm guessing then?
Not by a lot.
Just by, like, a week or two.
Like, honestly, he was, almost full term, butthey, they caught a rare heart condition in
utero at twenty weeks.
And, unfortunately, in my family, this is notthe first time I've seen this.
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We we don't know if it's related, but I had a acousin that had a a similar story.
And what basically, what with my son is there'sa blockage that was in his heart that was
preventing blood from going through to mix toget into his body, like, into his lungs.
So the blood coming from the body, and they'vedone one surgery already to remove that that
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atrial septum blockage.
And now he's mixing blood, and he's stable, buthe's just hit many other roadblocks as we go,
including things with his lungs andrespiratory, including intestinal things just
because of our heart is pumping blood to ourthe most vital organs first, you know, our
brain, obviously, our heart.
And then, like, the last things to get bloodflow sometimes are those intestinal things.
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And so there's been some troubles with that,but, he's recovered from those things.
It just he likes to move very slow and just athis own pace, and, they they find that when
they try to push him, he, fights back.
And so he's got this little fiery spirit in himthat says, hey.
I'm here to cook low and slow, and nobody'sgonna tell me otherwise.
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I feel like there's a theme emerging here forthe rest of his life as well.
So Mhmm.
Sometimes it's nice to learn that stuff earlyso you're not, you know, dealing with unruly
teenagers.
Right.
I think this one's gonna be pretty chill, butwe'll see what happens.
Right.
Well and, obviously, it's interesting, youknow, living conditions for you guys.
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You're currently recording from the hospitalroom, which has kinda become a little bit of
home, I'm sure, for you guys.
I know you've been there for a while.
He was born when?
He was born May 13.
Alright.
So, yeah, you're going on several months now ofliving, you know, in two worlds, essentially.
You kinda referenced off camera that your housewas starting to feel like a hotel, and the
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hospital was feeling like home.
I had a you know, not not a child, but we hadour my father-in-law, my wife's dad, broke his
leg and a pretty gruesome break.
So he was actually in the in the hospital forquite a while.
They had got infected and, you know, they weretrying to send him home, and we're like, look.
If something goes wrong, isn't it much betterthat he's, you know, the and we live in a small
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town.
So he was, like, three blocks away from thehouse, but it's like Yep.
What's the point of transporting him back andforth?
We're already here.
Let's stay here until he's good and we knowhe's confident to go home.
So is that kind of where you guys are at?
Is there any kind of, you know, foretelling howlong you'll be staying here and and in this
situation?
So we actually have a meeting later today tosort of discuss it's it's a it's a care
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conference, and so it'll be the majority of thedoctors and all these teams that have been
working with us in and out will be in the sameroom.
And it seems intimidating, but it's mostly justto kind of get everybody in the same room and
see where do we need to go from here becausethere's kind of this sort of a stalemate where
we're at where he's just he's just kindastaying the same.
He's not really turning that corner to getting,like, his breathing tube out and things like
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that that will just that little milestones thatthey wanna see at this point that's just not
really happening.
But, I mean, regardless of what they say today,as far as his plan, it's gonna be months
because he needs more heart surgery, andthere's gonna be weeks of him getting to that
point in between that.
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And then even after that surgery, there's weeksof recovery.
And it's I mean, we're talking probably August,September at this point, if I had to guess.
Yeah.
As That's hard to say.
Like, the soonest possible.
Right?
So, yeah, a long road ahead of you guys still,and, you know, our hearts, our prayers are are
with you guys always.
Do you have any kind of you know, are you aGoFundMe or anything like that that you're
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using to kinda raise money?
Yeah.
We do we do have one set up.
I would have it linked on my socials at somepoint today.
It's been a little bit of time since I sharedit, but I can put that on my website as well.
Otherwise, honestly, it's just been we did alot of fundraising beforehand with the one of
my biggest sponsors or my only sponsor really,Ian Co.
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Clothing on a weight park.
She's a good friend of ours and she puttogether an event that we did at Iron Street
Distillery in Saint Cloud where we put therewas a bunch of different vendors there and the
proceeds from those sales of the sweatshirtsthat she had created went to our family.
And she ended up raising over $5,000 just inthe sweatshirts alone.
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But we've been doing stuff like that.
Every portion of my tips or all of my tips atmy shows have been going just to save up for
him.
And Yeah.
I don't remember the bill.
Penny every penny that you've made for thelast, you know, and not that that's going to
change in the future, but we'd love to tosupport you all in that.
We'll definitely be sharing the links acrossall of our social media, and, obviously, it'll
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be attached to this episode when it goes out aswell.
But we would love to be involved with withanother benefit concert or anything else that
you got in the future as well.
So definitely keep us in mind there, Chase.
Right.
Because
I know from personal experience, my brothersboth did long stints in the NICU, and, so so I
I know the challenges that can be presentedfrom that.
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So, you know, like I said, from everybody in inthe Scene Projects world, you know, our our
hearts go out to you guys, and our prayers arewith your little guy.
And Thank we're wishing all the best for y'all.
So, obviously, with all of that going on, themaintaining a career at all can can be kind of
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difficult.
Right?
We've talked about your support system and howthe wife is, you know, kinda pushed you into,
you know, chasing this this dream, if you will.
But, you know, what what do you do movingforward?
I mean, I guess I can't even really wrap mymind around continuing to go out and play
music, you know, knowing and it seems like atleast at this point, he's not fighting for his
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life on a daily basis as I'm sure it was in thebeginning.
But, I mean, you're still talking about, youknow, being in the back of your mind all the
time.
Personally, how do you kind of put all thataside to be able to go step out on stage and to
play music?
So
music has always been not just something that Ienjoy just listening to for just for the
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purpose of, like, oh, yeah.
That's a great song, or, yeah, that's a goodtime.
You know?
It's music has always spoke to me in a on adeeper level.
I've I like very deep lyrics, and I like whensongs aren't just about, you know you know,
drinking beer and red dirt.
Like, I like when it's, like, when it hits you.
And so playing some of these songs like, I playall these party songs.
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Don't get me wrong.
But there is times during my shows where I willsit back and I kinda get real with people.
And I tell them, like, hey.
This is something that I've been going throughlately, and I just kinda wanna share this a
little bit with you guys.
And this is a song I've been singing to my sonin the hospital room, or this is a song that
kinda reflects my faith.
And I just out loud, without shame, will justkind of preach a little bit.
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And then it's not to, you know, smack anybodyover the head with the bible and say this is
what you gotta believe in or anything, but it'sI just try to to show what real faith can do in
somebody's life, and it's I found it veryrestoring to sing my feelings on stage, and it
very much so resonates with people.
I've seen it.
I've seen it move people to the point wherethey'll come up to me crying, telling me
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stories, or come up to me with a handshake andbe like, hey.
You need to check into this organization.
Like, people it's restored a lot of faith inhumanity, in my opinion, in a world that seems
like it's kinda crappy the last few years.
There's some really good people out there, andthat's why I keep doing it.
Because if I can do anything to help othersthrough a situation that's similar or even in
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just a song that I write that's about somethingelse, that's that means the world to me.
Isn't it yeah.
It's so interesting to me that, like, the way,you know, God works, I'm a man of faith myself,
Not a hugely, you know, you know, religiouschurchgoing person, but, you you don't come
through all the things that I have come throughin my life without having, you know, faith by
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the truckload.
So it's always been interesting to me to seehow, faith works almost better at our lowest
points.
Right?
Like, we're exposed to more of that in ourlowest points, and and and that is renewed.
Right?
That faith in humanity, right, not just in God,but in humanity is always kind of brought about
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by the low points as well.
I've always find that really, reallyintriguing.
So I I love how you're using, you know, yourplatform to just go out and to be yourself.
Right?
You're not necessarily using it to furthersomeone else's agenda or to be something that
somebody else wants you to be.
You're merely stepping up there onto yoursoapbox and saying, this is me.
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This is what I'm going through.
This is who I am.
You know?
This is my faith and really using that how youshould.
I think that's something that a lot of a lot ofartists, and I talked to a lot of them Yeah.
That we all kind of need to remember that thereason we are in the position that we are in is
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because people like us, people it's notnecessarily, oh, you play great music or you
you know, oh, I really liked when you did thatfishing in the dark cover.
Right?
Yeah.
It's more of, I liked the person who was behindthat song.
And I think because the superficiality of themusic business, like the larger music industry
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as a whole, because it has gotten very drinkbeer, girl on a beach.
Right?
Right?
Like, it is so that we kind of, I don't know.
We forget about ourselves as artists.
Right?
Because we're trying to make it in thisbusiness that we forget about like, you're
going to make it by just being yourself.
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By sharing more of yourself and connecting withother people, that's how you make it,
especially in this world where our, attentionis divided into a million pieces.
Right?
And to, you know, to to use the platforms thatwe've all built to, to expose not necessarily
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ourselves to all of these other people, but toexpose all of these other people to who we are
and to use that to lift them up from whateverthey might be going through.
Right?
And we don't necessarily know the effect thatwe're having on other people.
So, yeah, really cool to hear that for fromyour from your story and and to hear that, you
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know, instead of this situation taking you awayfrom it, you've been able to actually bring
your situation to the stage with you and tosay, hey.
No.
This is what's going on with me.
You know?
And this is why it's important for me to behere with you and not in that hospital room
right now.
Yes.
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Yeah.
And it's like, I from the beginning of that, Ithought, okay.
I need to be careful of how I word this becauseI don't wanna come out and be like, hey.
The rattling the cup at them.
Like, I I need your donations.
I need your money.
It's like, it's not about that.
Like, yes.
Like, obviously, donations are help to helpfulto my family and that, like, we appreciate
everything that we've gotten and received frompeople.
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But it's, like, it's it's coming directly fromthe heart when I when I talk about my son or
when I talk about my journey as, you know,musically, like, being too shy to do any of
this stuff and, you know, or even combiningboth of those stories.
And it's simply just to to tell people, like,hey.
I used to be the nervous kid that would besitting in front of a crowd or sitting in front
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of a classroom even in high school being like,You know, I couldn't really even talk to people
hardly.
You know?
It was scary as it as it is for most people.
But there is a higher power in it, man.
When you go knocking on that door and ask, youknow, can you do this for me?
Can you help me get my music out there?
God will kick in some doors that you never evenknew existed.
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And that's just what I wanna share with people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're and you're living it.
Right?
You're living it every single day, and we'redealing with a lot of that right now.
I mean, a lot of the things in my life that arehappening now are, a product of the prayers
prayed six months ago.
And Yeah.
Whether I'm always conscious of that or not,the be careful what you wish for motto has come
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up quite a bit lately because you're like, oh,we want all these things to happen.
And then, you know, they start happening foryou, and it's almost you know, it's just pinch
me.
It's how Yep.
How is this happening?
And and you really have to come back and justbe grateful, right, and to express that
gratitude.
And I think for musicians, especially andsongwriters, that music is the way that we do
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that.
So I feel like, you know, for you and not toput words into your mouth, but, like, almost
going out and performing becomes thatexpression of the gratitude that, like, hey.
My son is still alive.
We're still experiencing miracles every singleday, you know, in the medical fields and and in
these things.
And and my my way of expressing that is to cometo you wherever that may be and to share my
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love of music and a little bit of my story withyou.
Yeah.
And it's it's amazing what that will open upand what that does.
Like, for instance, I'll keep this story very,very short.
But I was performing in Saint Cloud a few weeksback, and it was a Thursday gig, I thought,
there's you know, there's not always a ton ofpeople out on Thursdays.
Just, you know, give or take.
And I had a few crowds or a few people in thecrowds, a couple that were dancing and stuff,
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and it was was having fun.
And this mom and dad and a little baby came in,and huge god moment because I I can't explain
it any other way.
But I didn't think much of it.
I just saw them sit down, and then I I started,again, talking about my son for maybe ten,
fifteen seconds before I went into a song.
And she come up to me and she goes, did you sayyour son was sitting at down at U of M?
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And I said, yeah.
We've been here for five, six weeks at thispoint.
And she goes, and my son's name is Hudson, bythe way.
She goes, well, I just wanted to introduce you.
This is my son.
His name is Hudson.
And I go, okay.
I thought she was kidding.
You know?
And turns out they had been down at the samehospital, the same nurses, almost to the same
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room that we're in right now.
He had a major heart defect as well.
His was actually even worse than my son's in ain a sense.
And they are about six months, I think, postbeing here, and he's walking and talking,
laughing.
He was dancing along with the Alan Jackson songI was playing for him, and it was they were
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from South Of Mankato, and it just for them tobe there that day, they had no idea who I was.
They had no idea anything.
They just showed up to eat supper.
They had some family that lived just North OfSaint Cloud, and they just happened to be there
that day.
And I just thought, k.
Well, I don't believe in coincidences, and Icertainly don't know.
So
Yeah.
No.
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Exactly.
We have a friend of ours.
I'll kinda share a similar story.
So our we have a nonprofit that we work closelywith called Saving Avery.
Avery is a two year old little girl, myfriend's daughter.
She was diagnosed with type one diabetes lastyear.
And since then, they've been finding, like,tiny little rubber duckies at the restaurant,
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at here, at there, at there, everywhere.
Right?
And, same thing.
This is God talking and people bringing them toin and just those little signs.
Right?
And I've always equated it a little bit to Idon't know if you've seen the movie
Interstellar and not that, you know, thesemajor motion pictures need much play, but,
there's parts in the movie where he he'sactually time traveling.
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Right?
He's he's sent to save the world through theblack hole.
And as he's, you know, traveling through thesingularity, you're seeing flashbacks to
different movie different moments in the movieswhere something happened.
And it it it was, it turns out that it's him inthe singularity in the future affecting the
past, and it was just like a such a wild kindof god moment.
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Right?
And it's like, oh, man.
Is that what we all are?
Right?
Is that this huge web of the world?
Right?
All these unknown mysteries out there.
Mhmm.
It's really cool to see it show up, and I lovethat, god is showing up in your life and and
is, showing up in Hudson's life as well.
Great name.
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Great name.
Thank you.
Awesome, Chase.
Well, we've pretty much covered it all, man.
You wanna go ahead and tell us about any kindof, upcoming, big shows you might have for the
rest of the month of July and then, pluganything else that you need to as well.
Yeah.
We have quite a few county fairs this monthwith Farmer's Daughters, from Anoka to Chisago.
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We have the Isanti street dance and the CrowWing County Fair as well.
And then as far as solo and duo shows formyself, we're playing everywhere from just out
West of Saint Cloud all the way back to PineCity at the Garage Bar and Grill and just kind
of all over the place.
You can find most of those details and showsand stuff right on my website or on Facebook or
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TikTok, all those social medias.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a really busy time.
What's your website, Chase?
It's chasegrantmusic.com.
Well, there it is.
Chase, thank you for coming on the show today,sharing your story, and getting to introduce
yourself, to me.
I'm happy to know you, and, can't wait to workwith you in the future.
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We get up to Minnesota there quite a bit.
I was up there at Dunmyers in Brainerd, oh,just a month or so I should go, and, can't wait
to get back.
Maybe when it's a little less smoky.
Has the smoke dwindled a little bit?
Yeah.
It's pretty clear down here, though.
It's we're we're, we're we're okay with thoseCanadians now.
We're not so mad at them anymore.
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Awesome, Chase.
Well, thanks for being on the show, and thanksfor being part of the scene.
Thanks for having me.
I really appreciate it.
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