Bobby talks about how the fear of the spread of the coronavirus has forced many artists to cancel or postpone upcoming tours. Everyone from Dan + Shay, Kenny Chesney, Chris Stapleton and more have postponed tour dates. We have new music this week from Luke Bryan, Caitlyn Smith and we talk to Craig Campbell about his new song “It’s About Time”.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to episode two thirty three. It's Friday, so we'll
talk new music. We'll talk to Craig Campbell. He's got
a new song out today for a song in a while.
But Corona is sweep in the world right now. I'd
say sweeping the nation, but that'd be inaccurate because they
sweep in the world. And so you know, we're gonna
talk about Corona in music. Obviously, this is mostly a
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music podcast. And I just had to cut some liners
for our Boston station because we were gonna go up
into a show in Boston and they canceled it. I mean,
they should cancel everything, you know. My what I said
on the era probably a week or so ago, was
what's gonna happen is everybody's gonna start trickle canceling everything,
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and they're gonna start postponing things for two, three, four
or five six months. And so my idea was, why
don't we just say, because it's gonna happen anyway, everything
for two months is canceled and pretty much just stay
in your house that way, and like two to three
months this can be over, as opposed to only some
things and a slow separation, because then it's still gonna trickle'
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still gonna drip, and so we're probably gonna be dealing
with this for three or four five months, where I
just so we put everybody in a in a hole
for two months like a big bubble. Yeah. Um again,
what do I know? As far as what I'm I've
I tell you, I've been granted access to some pretty
pretty high of specialist though. So you know, I try
not to come on here and say a bunch of
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stuff that I just read on the internet. I kind
of try to talk to people about it first. Pretty cool,
we had the Surgeon General line. I got a couple
of doctor friends. I got a couple of folks that
I can talk to that specialize in respiratory illness. And
the one thing they say is that right now, we
just don't know that probe them like they they mostly know,
but they don't all the way know. And if a
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doctor doesn't all the way, no, they're not gonna make
any sort of for sure statement. Um. So that's what's happening.
It's being postponed and canceled him. It does seem irritating,
and it does seem like people are going on to overboard,
but they should go overboard. I mean, think about that.
I think if you were the one there was in
control of a school and you were the one that
didn't shut your school down and the one on one
d shot that a lot of kids got sick and
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even one of them died because you didn't close it down,
you don't want that on you. So for us, it's
easy to sit bad, go acc't reively. They canceled this,
But if it were you having to make that decision
and other people around you were doing the same thing,
you don't want to be the one that leaves it
open if somebody gets sick or dies, or a kid
passed it to his grandmother and she dies. So yeah,
And are representatives are caretakers, be it people running our government,
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people caretaking us in our personal life. They should always
overreact a bit, you know, because you're not going to
react just the right amount, ever, and if you underreact,
that's the worst thing that can happen. So there should
always be a padding of overreaction. So when I read this,
and we'll go through some of the music events canceled,
as annoying as it is, as crazy as it is, like,
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I agree with it, and I have a lot of
friends in music who are just out money. By the way,
I'm out money too. I have like four shows I
had to cancel. But my main job is coming and
doing this, so I'm okay. And I got a studio
in my house, so if the world goes to crap,
I'll just walk upstairs and push a button. I mean,
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I guess you gotta come over here, but I just
I just push a button. So I do feel bad
for a lot of my music friends. And some of
them are pretty big artists that you would know for sure,
and you probably think, wow, they're just so rich. But
what they do. When you're a young artist to middle
middle up, you're investing all the money you make back
into yourself, so hopefully you can be that a artist.
You're investigating tour and busses and when you get to
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the point where you get an a tea where learned
and load your stuff up and and band and once
you can have a band in the front of house,
guy who's gonna run the sound, and then a monitor's
guy is gonna run your monitors, And it's just money
you're putting back into it. So there's just not as
much money as you think there is, and so with
these things being canceled and listen, there are people are
gonna hurt worse than them. But I'm just saying from
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the music perspective, which is what we do on this show, Um,
it is hurting. Is it's gonna hurt Everybody's gonna hurt
the working class worse than anybody else, which it's gonna
be a lag economically, but that's not why we're here.
You know. The first one was south By Southwest, and
everybody thought Austin was nuts for for cutting south By.
They were like, what just happened? The world was shocked.
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I was shocked, very major festival first to pull the trigger.
And I was talking to someone who was close to
that situation because they brought in a medical team to
advise them, and they said, well, this is why we
don't know where it's going into. We have a lot
of people from all over the world coming into Austin,
and as a precaution to Austin our city, we don't
want a lot of people possibly bringing a virus that
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we don't know enough about. And so because that's such
an international festival, they were like, we're done. There were
some already pretty big names that are pulled out of
it already, which made it not such a super shock
because you've had a few people go, hey, we're not
gonna come. But the reason was was that they, after
consulting with a lot of medical staff, that we're going, hey,
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you're bringing any people from Europe, and you're everybody in
Europe has it right now. You're bringing in people from
all over the world, and you want to bring all
this to your town and possibly be the reason that
your town is super Corona and being Midcrona okay, but
super Corona. That sucks. But yeah, it was the first
time I think it's ever been canceled. Uh, you know
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in basketball was reading today because you know, they cut
the n C Double A tournament, which you're not a
big sports fan, so probably I have never heard of
something as crazy as them cutting the entire tournament. I
was going to the SEC Tournament yesterday, which is the
tournament right before the n C Double A Tournament, and
I went to lunch with a friend from the University
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of Arkansas, and I have a jersey for you, by
the way, with your name on it. Really yeah cool, Yeah,
it's really cool. The athletic director got us all jersey.
It's in for you guys at the baseball jersey with
your name. This is mighty on it. That's awesome. Um.
And so I was gonna go the game, and they
canceled the SC tournament while I was there at lunch.
And then last night or maybe yesterday, they canceled the
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n C Double a tournament never happened before. Now they're
having decided the seniors that get cut for other sports,
can they come back next year. It's just a whole
nobody wanted to do it. I think people are like, oh,
viz a reacting, you know, they want Nobody wanted to
have to cut stuff. It hurts everybody, and it's it's
it's odd to see people get mad at people who
didn't want to do it but still felt it was
the best to do it because that was in best
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interest to people's safety and health. Nobody wants to cut stuff.
I don't want to cut stuff. I had to move
a four day private comedy event four day private, which
is a really really great pay day, and I was like,
godly had to cut the Raging Idiot show here. I
had to cut another I don't know what's happening with
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Ida I don't know if we're doing no studio audience.
I don't know if they're I don't know. I haven't
heard from them. You know, we're still haven't chose this
weekend as far as they're airing them because we tape ahead.
But I have no idea the late night shows are
doing no audiences. You're just not gonna put people together
for a while. The best case scenario is the worst
happened the other night when the NBA it was canceled,
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Tom Hanks got it and Trump finally had to admit
it wasn't a hoax Like that is when everybody went whoa,
It kind of got real. And hopefully that's the worst
that it gets as far as like the boom effect.
Now it's gonna hurt a lot of places financially for
a long time, but you know, hopefully it's it's going
down from here. That's the best case scenario. So uh,
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Coachell and Stagecoach are postponed. You know, I like it
when people postponed it more than cancel it. I tell you,
if I had to sometimes that you just can't find
the date or can't find a space for it. But
they are postponed these festivals too. Um October. Yeah, for
the move for April to October. UM. So at Stagecoach,
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which is the country version of Coachella, I saw Dan
and Shake can't do it, so they had to completely
pull out because they have other dates. They had to
move their tour, which I know is heartbreaking for them. Okay,
I've been working so hard for that. Everybody works hard,
but those guys, you know, watching them up close, joined
together as a group and grind it out for so long,
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play five shows a week when nobody was coming to
do an arena tour was a humongous deal to them. Um.
I can only imagine just how distraught Dan was that
having to send that message out. I had country festival
in Austin, Texas. Like I got on the phone and
it was part of this call a couple of nights ago.
They're like, what do we do? I mean, I was like,
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what do you mean? What do we do? We're not
gonna be the ones, so we can't have it, So
we're gonna reschedule it. They're looking at dates now. It's
gonna happen later in the year before. We're gonna reschedule it.
But no big one have to to pull the pull
the plug on. But everything Alternate Music Festival, Live Nation
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a G. The big promoters, they had to just go,
you know what, no concerts. It's crazy. They are North
America's largest concert promoters. They are all tours, large scale tours.
Boom off CMA Fest as of right now, still happening
June four through seventh, today's March April Maye. I think
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could possibly be a thing that may be the first. Hey,
everybody come back and try to get back to normal.
And it's so hot. That's a lot of people. If
it does, if he does kill it, it would be
a country country festival in London, Dublin, Glasgow. All of
these artists go over to C to C and even
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you know they do in Australia. And my manager Tom
was flying to Australia. He had flown to Atlantas, about
to get on the flight and he goes, wait, you're
thinking about shutting down and he just sat in the airport.
Trump talked and he was like, well, not going to Australia,
got back on a plane, flew back home. So you know,
I can roll through Dan and Shay. Chris Stapleton's postponed
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Zach Brown was one of the first ones to hop
out and go, we're gonna postpone our whole tour. Blake Shelton,
I saw his Willie Nelson, keep Willie away, Lock William
will Taylor Swift was going to do the Big March
Madness Music Festival, the n C Double A Tournament show
off Billie Eilish or March Day. It's Pearl Jam, the Pixies,
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the Who, Green Day, if the if there's an event,
it's done for now. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Induction Ceremony Broadway is suspending all their shows for
a month, like you can't even go. I was listening
to the governor talk saying what we may do at
some point, it's just do the rooms at like one
third because they don't want people coming in large crowds,
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and then separating each of the tickets by a couple
of seats, so smaller rooms with oparation. So it's definitely
rocked us early, and there's going to be a lingering
rock to it, and we'll just hold on and see
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what happens. My only request is, if you're listening to this,
don't freak out at the people freaking out because we
are you one. Just you. If you're saying don't freak out,
they don't freak out. The people freaking out, just let
it go. You're not gonna get toilet paper if you do,
go like eleven am or like two am. That's what
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used to restock everything, either at lunch in the middle
of the night. Um, so no one knows. This is
what they say uncharted territory. So that's that's it. I
just saw Charles Barkley thinks he has it. Oh no,
he got tested the tests the back yet as it
right now, a couple of basketball players had it, which
why they shut it down. So all right, there you go.
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Coronavirus has impacted the music industry. I don't know what's
going to happen. You don't either, stop saying you do
on Twitter. All right, there you go. I was reading
a story about coronavirus, which is basically I've been watching
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on TV and scrolling Twitter and news, and you know
when it's a lot of doctors making their guesses and
judgments and things getting canceled. But one story that I
thought I would bring to the show on Monday, which
I may just go ahead and do it here now
was There was a kid who had a bottle of
hand sanitizer and he took it to school with them
and he was charging kids for squirts and he got
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in trouble because he was making a little side money
squirting hand sanitizers. That is like a little bit. I
was proud of the kid. He saw a need in
the market, he filled it. He wasn't doing anything illegal.
Wasn't like he's bringing drugs to school. You can have
hand sanitizer. But yeah, again, in trouble to school because
he was selling squirts sanitizer to other kids. New music,
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Let's roll through it. There are other things happening in
the world other than things shutting down and people freaking out.
So it was a little weird to see like Caitlin
Smith this morning post hey I got a new record album.
And not weird because she shouldn't do it. She should
do it, but it's just everything is Corona related right now.
That to see someone going, hey, there's something else happening. Um,
it was a little bit refreshing to and I love
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Caitlin Smith new record called super Nova. Her first album
was Awesome. This is their second album, this is called
Long Time Coming. This song Luke Brian put out a
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new song and a music video. He's got an album
coming out called Born Here, Live Here, Die Here Now
that's the album. This song is called one Margarita Shot.
That's sun. I was talking to some friends who have
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albums coming out soon, and they're like, we can't even
go really promote them because shows are cutting or people
don't want to travel to go to Like, for example,
Kelsey Ballerini's album released, Thing was gonna be next weekend.
I was gonna go an be a national that got
cut because nobody wants to travel no large groups. Reporters
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are like our artists even doing it. Artists are like,
I don't even talk to the whole thing is weird.
So it's kind of an odd time to put out
a record. You know, Kelsey is gonna come out right
the middle of Corona because I think Hurst comes out
next week on Friday, and so it's just like, how
do we even go promote our stuff? Good thing this
podcast exists, you know what we'll be here for. We'll
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be here. We're here. Craig Campbell has a new song
I called It's about Time spend too. Maybe come on
let me turn They got to worry about. I got
this and we'll talk to Craig coming up in just
a minute. So it's his first song come out in
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a bit. Margot Price has a new song out called
Twinkle Twinkle that just me. Logan Miyes has a new
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song called Hometown Town Yeah back on my bare foot stopping.
Another album is Into the Blue Rachel Reiner from Gloriana,
and I know her big album released, Party Happening, got
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an email and then it was like, oh, never mind,
canceled it. And so again, imagine you put out your
first album and you can't even promote it. So here
is Rachel Reiner in her song called Secret. Is there
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anything you're listening to right now? Music wise? Nothing that's
like kind of has my attention right now me either,
like maybe a song here and there, but nothing that
I'm like super doll into. I need to dial a
little more to the Brandy Clark album that came out,
and I like Brandy. I just haven't listened to it enough.
Um I told her I would, and I haven't yet.
So I'm gonna take that off the table because I
haven't yet and I usually do. But I'm just looking
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at the stuff I just nothing really excites me right now. Nothing.
The last songs I have are that that Outskirts song
Born for This That's the last song I've saved. Was
Boff for This Rust and Kelly doing Teenage dirt Bag,
which is just a cover of her name is Noel,
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and then never Let You Go the Hilary Duff first
of the third eye Blind song. I guess I have
Black Creek from Brent Cobb, but again, nothing's like grabbing
me right now. I know you love post Malone. I
saw his show was last night. They kept they kept
it going. Remember they said that that was the last
big show they're gonna allow. Yeah, I think he's done
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the soundtrack to the Trolls World Tour, which is the
movie Trolls World Tour. It's all out. It's got timber
Lake and Kendrick, James Cordon, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige,
Rachel Bloom, George Clinton, Keena Thompson that some of these
people don't even know, but here is don't slack by
Justin timber Lake, my Rex whole bag out just to
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Trolls World Tour was gonna open April seventeenth, but now
it's moved up? Is that true? To move back? This
says troll was supposed to come out April seventeenth, but
moved up to April tenth? Did the already put it out?
Why April tenth does not happened either? Do you want
a fact check that one republic has a new song?
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I called? Didn't I here's the cup of that. They
don't don't say? Good? Oh, I got It's fair. They
moved it up. They didn't move it out the Eastern weekend?
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Was it not Corona related? I think to try to
get it out, but April tents is not. That's a
month from now. Yeah, what's up? What's boss? Come out
on April seventeen? I Mike does a movie podcast called
Movie mis Movie Podcast. Are you doing all the movies
gonna moved around? Yeah? It's a bunch now. I guess
nobody wants to put one out in the next couple
of months because they can't promote it right, Because they
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can't promote it. I mean people like overseas, all that
market is kind of messed up. So they moved around
a bunch of Disney movies and a bunch of other movies.
Nile Horn has a record out. Today's second record. It's
called Heartbreak Weather. Here's a song Harvord. There you go.
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I mean some of the stuff I'm never gonna listen to.
A little YACHTI to Baby and Drake have a song
called Oprah's Bank Account Nice and the Killers have a
new song called Caution. There you go. Well, there's some
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stuff to check out and see us. It's good for you.
I don't know again right now, I'm kind of struggling
on the music front to find something that I really
that I really like, even a couple of songs. I mean,
I just shared with you the last songs that I've
listened to. So um, that's really all we have today
for you. UM. I appreciate that. Um. Are we getting
to the Craig Campbell Everview now? Yeah? Okay, let's take
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a break and we'll come back and talk to Craig Campbell. Hey. Look, yo, dude, Hey,
we're rolling. Oh what's happening? Hey? You know you just
answer the phone, go whoa, whoa. I don't answer the phone.
I don't know who it is. No, no, I do, man,
because curiosity just kills me if you get it. But
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for me, it's always the people who want to sell
me some sort of insurance or warranty and you have
to go there like, is this Bobby there? It's always
those kind of calls. No, I can't help it, man,
it when it rings and I have to know who
it is. Well, Craig Campbell's on with us right now. Hey,
so you wiped your Instagram three days ago. Now you
have four posts up promoting the new song. The new
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song is called It's About Time. I'm gonna play a clip.
Here we go. Here's Craig Campbell's new song, It's about time.
Maybe come on't I got alright? Big day, Finally new
music out. Man, oh man, it's been a it's been
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a long time coming. And h I've I've I've been
wanting to put this song out for shoot, probably six years.
I recorded it back in two thousand and thirteen. It
was gonna be the first single off of my third album,
right after Keep Them Kisses Coming, but that record label
closed so that album never got to be released. So
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I've been I've been itching and chomping at the bit
to put this thing out and I finally finally got
the chance to do it, and I'm excited about it.
So you've had this song for that long. Yeah, I
recorded it in two thousand thirteen and we were gonna
make it the first single off of the the third album,
and then then Bigger Picture closed, and so I took
that record over to Broken Bowl where I signed shortly
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after that, and uh, they just they didn't like it,
I guess, and um, they they just kept passing on.
Every time I wanted I brought it up, they were like, no,
let's just let's look at something else. So, UM, I
don't have to ask permission anymore. So I decided to
put it out myself. So is it the same studio
recording and you go back in now the one that
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we did in two thousand thirteen is no, this this
is a different version. Um. Funny story. I've played this
song just me and the piano one night, uh during
my EP release party, and the next day the record
label was like, oh my gosh, we gotta record this song.
I was like, I've been telling you guys this for
four years, and uh, they gave me the budget to
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go cut it, and then uh, a month or two
after that week we parted ways. But fortunately for me,
I was able to take those songs with me when
when I left the record label and the Yes, so
that's the version I recorded with with the record label,
but they let me have it. Craig Campbell played a
show last night, and I guess I did I text
you while you're on stage? Yeah? Yeah, And that's why
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I feel like when I when I got the phone,
I said, oh my goodness, because I know I like
to get responses as quick as I can. I hated
to leave you hanging, but yeah, I was. I played
a little show down in Florida last night. And so
when when you flew back to Nashville, was everybody in
masks at the airport? Yeah, there was a lot of
people in masks. And um, I took two flights. It
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took two flights to get there yesterday, and then we
had a direct on the way home. That's the first
time I've ever taken three Southwest flights in a row
where they were fifty or more seats empty. Wow, the
plane was that empty. It was both all three of them. Man,
it was crazy. Yeah. I was looking at your your website.
Your tour dates are still listed. What's going on there?
(24:04):
Are you playing shows? We're doing? Yeah? I mean as
of now, we're we're, we're still good to go. Um.
I did have a show tomorrow. It was a charity
event that I do with my cornhole tournament. Um it
got canceled. Um. But I haven't had any any cancelations
on my end yet, but I do I foresee some happening.
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Is it true that you and your wife once owned
a tanning salon? Yeah? Was he own the tanning salon
before I met her, and then when I met her, uh,
we we started running it together. So yeah, we owned
it for a couple of years, you know, and a
sprint PCs retail store. Okay, both of these I need
to know about. So, first of all, when you were
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running a tanning salon, was that mostly people laying in
the bed or going and get in the spray tan.
At the time, we didn't have spray tan, okay, so
it was laying in the bed. Yeah, laying in bed.
We had one stand up tending and would you do
it and put a little bunny on your hip and
so you would know how tan you were getting. Oh yeah, absolutely,
a little hard. Absolutely. You take whatever sticker, the bunny,
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the hard your bow and arrow and you put it
on to see how dark you're getting. And then you
had a sprint PCs star was that in like a
kioscar was in a strip mall our way, it was
in a strip mall. It was next door to our
tanning salam The guy he came in, he opened it up,
and he made mention one day that he was he
was looking to to uh to get out of the
cell phone business. And we were like, we wanted to
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expand our our portfolio, if you will, and so we
we offered to bite and we bought it. So we
had those two businesses side by side for a couple
of years. And were you playing music the whole time
you were also running those businesses? I was? I was,
I think around that time I was. I was on
the on the road with Tracy Byrd playing piano for
him um and also doing my own thing here in Nashville,
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singing demos and writing songs and playing a lot of Broadway.
So yeah, Well, Craig Campbell has got a new song
out today and check it out. It's called It's About Time.
And at Craig Campbell TV. Now here is the question
I'm gonna ask you real quick, why dot TV? Why TV?
Why all that? Well, when I first signed my record
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deal with with Bigger Picture. Um, Craig Campbell dot com
was taken. Craig Campbell dot net was taken. Uh, Bigger
Picture was already working with Big Kenny from from Big
and Rich. Big Kenny had Big Kenny dot Tv, so
they looked and checked. Craig Campbell dot tv was available,
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so we use that as my website. And then as
far as keeping everything fluid with the social media, we
just made everything at Craig Campbell TV. You get asked
out a lot occasionally there there people are are confused
because they think, uh, you know, they associate TV with
being an actor, and it's just it confuses people. Well
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what are you doing today, man, Well, we are cheersing,
we we we gotta we have some champagne. We're about
the toast of the release with my new team, my
my management and the people that I partnered with. And
then um, I'm gonna shoot a little acoustic video for
It's About Time and uh yeah, it's a good Friday. Well, congratulations, Bud,
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and we'll talk to you soon. Right, all right, Bobby,
I appreciate your man. All right, there is Craig Campbell
and now here you go. Here's some more of It's
about Time. Maybe come on, let me Time ain't got
to go. If you never found the breeze on your bank,
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you change damn so. A couple of his songs, by
the way, keep them kisses coming. You may know this
one man, what I'm just laying round check up and
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out starts to Heaven Lord when I'm only obscart is
so good. Talk to him. Check out that song at
Craig Campbell TV is his Twitter, Instagram. There you go.
Welcome to episode two thirty three. It's Friday, so we'll
talk new music. We'll talk to Craig Campbell. He's got
a new song out today for a song in a while.
But Corona is sweep in the world right now. I'd
say sweeping the nation, but that'd be inaccurate because they
sweep in the world. And so you know, we're gonna
talk about Corona in music. Obviously, this is mostly a
(00:24):
music podcast. And I just had to cut some liners
for our Boston station because we were gonna go up
into a show in Boston and they canceled it. I mean,
they should cancel everything, you know. My what I said
on the era probably a week or so ago, was
what's gonna happen is everybody's gonna start trickle canceling everything,
(00:44):
and they're gonna start postponing things for two, three, four
or five six months. And so my idea was, why
don't we just say, because it's gonna happen anyway, everything
for two months is canceled and pretty much just stay
in your house that way, and like two to three
months this can be over, as opposed to only some
things and a slow separation, because then it's still gonna trickle'
(01:07):
still gonna drip, and so we're probably gonna be dealing
with this for three or four five months, where I
just so we put everybody in a in a hole
for two months like a big bubble. Yeah. Um again,
what do I know? As far as what I'm I've
I tell you, I've been granted access to some pretty
pretty high of specialist though. So you know, I try
not to come on here and say a bunch of
(01:29):
stuff that I just read on the internet. I kind
of try to talk to people about it first. Pretty cool,
we had the Surgeon General line. I got a couple
of doctor friends. I got a couple of folks that
I can talk to that specialize in respiratory illness. And
the one thing they say is that right now, we
just don't know that probe them like they they mostly know,
but they don't all the way know. And if a
(01:50):
doctor doesn't all the way, no, they're not gonna make
any sort of for sure statement. Um. So that's what's happening.
It's being postponed and canceled him. It does seem irritating,
and it does seem like people are going on to overboard,
but they should go overboard. I mean, think about that.
I think if you were the one there was in
control of a school and you were the one that
didn't shut your school down and the one on one
d shot that a lot of kids got sick and
(02:12):
even one of them died because you didn't close it down,
you don't want that on you. So for us, it's
easy to sit bad, go acc't reively. They canceled this,
But if it were you having to make that decision
and other people around you were doing the same thing,
you don't want to be the one that leaves it
open if somebody gets sick or dies, or a kid
passed it to his grandmother and she dies. So yeah,
And are representatives are caretakers, be it people running our government,
(02:37):
people caretaking us in our personal life. They should always
overreact a bit, you know, because you're not going to
react just the right amount, ever, and if you underreact,
that's the worst thing that can happen. So there should
always be a padding of overreaction. So when I read this,
and we'll go through some of the music events canceled,
as annoying as it is, as crazy as it is, like,
(02:58):
I agree with it, and I have a lot of
friends in music who are just out money. By the way,
I'm out money too. I have like four shows I
had to cancel. But my main job is coming and
doing this, so I'm okay. And I got a studio
in my house, so if the world goes to crap,
I'll just walk upstairs and push a button. I mean,
(03:21):
I guess you gotta come over here, but I just
I just push a button. So I do feel bad
for a lot of my music friends. And some of
them are pretty big artists that you would know for sure,
and you probably think, wow, they're just so rich. But
what they do. When you're a young artist to middle
middle up, you're investing all the money you make back
into yourself, so hopefully you can be that a artist.
You're investigating tour and busses and when you get to
(03:42):
the point where you get an a tea where learned
and load your stuff up and and band and once
you can have a band in the front of house,
guy who's gonna run the sound, and then a monitor's
guy is gonna run your monitors, And it's just money
you're putting back into it. So there's just not as
much money as you think there is, and so with
these things being canceled and listen, there are people are
gonna hurt worse than them. But I'm just saying from
(04:04):
the music perspective, which is what we do on this show, Um,
it is hurting. Is it's gonna hurt Everybody's gonna hurt
the working class worse than anybody else, which it's gonna
be a lag economically, but that's not why we're here.
You know. The first one was south By Southwest, and
everybody thought Austin was nuts for for cutting south By.
They were like, what just happened? The world was shocked.
(04:26):
I was shocked, very major festival first to pull the trigger.
And I was talking to someone who was close to
that situation because they brought in a medical team to
advise them, and they said, well, this is why we
don't know where it's going into. We have a lot
of people from all over the world coming into Austin,
and as a precaution to Austin our city, we don't
want a lot of people possibly bringing a virus that
(04:48):
we don't know enough about. And so because that's such
an international festival, they were like, we're done. There were
some already pretty big names that are pulled out of
it already, which made it not such a super shock
because you've had a few people go, hey, we're not
gonna come. But the reason was was that they, after
consulting with a lot of medical staff, that we're going, hey,
(05:08):
you're bringing any people from Europe, and you're everybody in
Europe has it right now. You're bringing in people from
all over the world, and you want to bring all
this to your town and possibly be the reason that
your town is super Corona and being Midcrona okay, but
super Corona. That sucks. But yeah, it was the first
time I think it's ever been canceled. Uh, you know
(05:29):
in basketball was reading today because you know, they cut
the n C Double A tournament, which you're not a
big sports fan, so probably I have never heard of
something as crazy as them cutting the entire tournament. I
was going to the SEC Tournament yesterday, which is the
tournament right before the n C Double A Tournament, and
I went to lunch with a friend from the University
(05:50):
of Arkansas, and I have a jersey for you, by
the way, with your name on it. Really yeah cool, Yeah,
it's really cool. The athletic director got us all jersey.
It's in for you guys at the baseball jersey with
your name. This is mighty on it. That's awesome. Um.
And so I was gonna go the game, and they
canceled the SC tournament while I was there at lunch.
And then last night or maybe yesterday, they canceled the
(06:13):
n C Double a tournament never happened before. Now they're
having decided the seniors that get cut for other sports,
can they come back next year. It's just a whole
nobody wanted to do it. I think people are like, oh,
viz a reacting, you know, they want Nobody wanted to
have to cut stuff. It hurts everybody, and it's it's
it's odd to see people get mad at people who
didn't want to do it but still felt it was
the best to do it because that was in best
(06:34):
interest to people's safety and health. Nobody wants to cut stuff.
I don't want to cut stuff. I had to move
a four day private comedy event four day private, which
is a really really great pay day, and I was like,
godly had to cut the Raging Idiot show here. I
had to cut another I don't know what's happening with
(06:55):
Ida I don't know if we're doing no studio audience.
I don't know if they're I don't know. I haven't
heard from them. You know, we're still haven't chose this
weekend as far as they're airing them because we tape ahead.
But I have no idea the late night shows are
doing no audiences. You're just not gonna put people together
for a while. The best case scenario is the worst
happened the other night when the NBA it was canceled,
(07:18):
Tom Hanks got it and Trump finally had to admit
it wasn't a hoax Like that is when everybody went whoa,
It kind of got real. And hopefully that's the worst
that it gets as far as like the boom effect.
Now it's gonna hurt a lot of places financially for
a long time, but you know, hopefully it's it's going
down from here. That's the best case scenario. So uh,
(07:41):
Coachell and Stagecoach are postponed. You know, I like it
when people postponed it more than cancel it. I tell you,
if I had to sometimes that you just can't find
the date or can't find a space for it. But
they are postponed these festivals too. Um October. Yeah, for
the move for April to October. UM. So at Stagecoach,
(08:04):
which is the country version of Coachella, I saw Dan
and Shake can't do it, so they had to completely
pull out because they have other dates. They had to
move their tour, which I know is heartbreaking for them. Okay,
I've been working so hard for that. Everybody works hard,
but those guys, you know, watching them up close, joined
together as a group and grind it out for so long,
(08:24):
play five shows a week when nobody was coming to
do an arena tour was a humongous deal to them. Um.
I can only imagine just how distraught Dan was that
having to send that message out. I had country festival
in Austin, Texas. Like I got on the phone and
it was part of this call a couple of nights ago.
They're like, what do we do? I mean, I was like,
(08:44):
what do you mean? What do we do? We're not
gonna be the ones, so we can't have it, So
we're gonna reschedule it. They're looking at dates now. It's
gonna happen later in the year before. We're gonna reschedule it.
But no big one have to to pull the pull
the plug on. But everything Alternate Music Festival, Live Nation
(09:06):
a G. The big promoters, they had to just go,
you know what, no concerts. It's crazy. They are North
America's largest concert promoters. They are all tours, large scale tours.
Boom off CMA Fest as of right now, still happening
June four through seventh, today's March April Maye. I think
(09:26):
could possibly be a thing that may be the first. Hey,
everybody come back and try to get back to normal.
And it's so hot. That's a lot of people. If
it does, if he does kill it, it would be
a country country festival in London, Dublin, Glasgow. All of
these artists go over to C to C and even
(09:49):
you know they do in Australia. And my manager Tom
was flying to Australia. He had flown to Atlantas, about
to get on the flight and he goes, wait, you're
thinking about shutting down and he just sat in the airport.
Trump talked and he was like, well, not going to Australia,
got back on a plane, flew back home. So you know,
I can roll through Dan and Shay. Chris Stapleton's postponed
(10:11):
Zach Brown was one of the first ones to hop
out and go, we're gonna postpone our whole tour. Blake Shelton,
I saw his Willie Nelson, keep Willie away, Lock William
will Taylor Swift was going to do the Big March
Madness Music Festival, the n C Double A Tournament show
off Billie Eilish or March Day. It's Pearl Jam, the Pixies,
(10:33):
the Who, Green Day, if the if there's an event,
it's done for now. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Induction Ceremony Broadway is suspending all their shows for
a month, like you can't even go. I was listening
to the governor talk saying what we may do at
some point, it's just do the rooms at like one
third because they don't want people coming in large crowds,
(10:53):
and then separating each of the tickets by a couple
of seats, so smaller rooms with oparation. So it's definitely
rocked us early, and there's going to be a lingering
rock to it, and we'll just hold on and see
(11:14):
what happens. My only request is, if you're listening to this,
don't freak out at the people freaking out because we
are you one. Just you. If you're saying don't freak out,
they don't freak out. The people freaking out, just let
it go. You're not gonna get toilet paper if you do,
go like eleven am or like two am. That's what
(11:35):
used to restock everything, either at lunch in the middle
of the night. Um, so no one knows. This is
what they say uncharted territory. So that's that's it. I
just saw Charles Barkley thinks he has it. Oh no,
he got tested the tests the back yet as it
right now, a couple of basketball players had it, which
why they shut it down. So all right, there you go.
(11:57):
Coronavirus has impacted the music industry. I don't know what's
going to happen. You don't either, stop saying you do
on Twitter. All right, there you go. I was reading
a story about coronavirus, which is basically I've been watching
(12:18):
on TV and scrolling Twitter and news, and you know
when it's a lot of doctors making their guesses and
judgments and things getting canceled. But one story that I
thought I would bring to the show on Monday, which
I may just go ahead and do it here now
was There was a kid who had a bottle of
hand sanitizer and he took it to school with them
and he was charging kids for squirts and he got
(12:38):
in trouble because he was making a little side money
squirting hand sanitizers. That is like a little bit. I
was proud of the kid. He saw a need in
the market, he filled it. He wasn't doing anything illegal.
Wasn't like he's bringing drugs to school. You can have
hand sanitizer. But yeah, again, in trouble to school because
he was selling squirts sanitizer to other kids. New music,
(13:03):
Let's roll through it. There are other things happening in
the world other than things shutting down and people freaking out.
So it was a little weird to see like Caitlin
Smith this morning post hey I got a new record album.
And not weird because she shouldn't do it. She should
do it, but it's just everything is Corona related right now.
That to see someone going, hey, there's something else happening. Um,
it was a little bit refreshing to and I love
(13:23):
Caitlin Smith new record called super Nova. Her first album
was Awesome. This is their second album, this is called
Long Time Coming. This song Luke Brian put out a
(13:46):
new song and a music video. He's got an album
coming out called Born Here, Live Here, Die Here Now
that's the album. This song is called one Margarita Shot.
That's sun. I was talking to some friends who have
(14:12):
albums coming out soon, and they're like, we can't even
go really promote them because shows are cutting or people
don't want to travel to go to Like, for example,
Kelsey Ballerini's album released, Thing was gonna be next weekend.
I was gonna go an be a national that got
cut because nobody wants to travel no large groups. Reporters
(14:33):
are like our artists even doing it. Artists are like,
I don't even talk to the whole thing is weird.
So it's kind of an odd time to put out
a record. You know, Kelsey is gonna come out right
the middle of Corona because I think Hurst comes out
next week on Friday, and so it's just like, how
do we even go promote our stuff? Good thing this
podcast exists, you know what we'll be here for. We'll
(14:53):
be here. We're here. Craig Campbell has a new song
I called It's about Time spend too. Maybe come on
let me turn They got to worry about. I got
this and we'll talk to Craig coming up in just
a minute. So it's his first song come out in
(15:15):
a bit. Margot Price has a new song out called
Twinkle Twinkle that just me. Logan Miyes has a new
(15:37):
song called Hometown Town Yeah back on my bare foot stopping.
Another album is Into the Blue Rachel Reiner from Gloriana,
and I know her big album released, Party Happening, got
(15:58):
an email and then it was like, oh, never mind,
canceled it. And so again, imagine you put out your
first album and you can't even promote it. So here
is Rachel Reiner in her song called Secret. Is there
(16:33):
anything you're listening to right now? Music wise? Nothing that's
like kind of has my attention right now me either,
like maybe a song here and there, but nothing that
I'm like super doll into. I need to dial a
little more to the Brandy Clark album that came out,
and I like Brandy. I just haven't listened to it enough.
Um I told her I would, and I haven't yet.
So I'm gonna take that off the table because I
haven't yet and I usually do. But I'm just looking
(16:55):
at the stuff I just nothing really excites me right now. Nothing.
The last songs I have are that that Outskirts song
Born for This That's the last song I've saved. Was
Boff for This Rust and Kelly doing Teenage dirt Bag,
which is just a cover of her name is Noel,
(17:19):
and then never Let You Go the Hilary Duff first
of the third eye Blind song. I guess I have
Black Creek from Brent Cobb, but again, nothing's like grabbing
me right now. I know you love post Malone. I
saw his show was last night. They kept they kept
it going. Remember they said that that was the last
big show they're gonna allow. Yeah, I think he's done
(17:41):
the soundtrack to the Trolls World Tour, which is the
movie Trolls World Tour. It's all out. It's got timber
Lake and Kendrick, James Cordon, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige,
Rachel Bloom, George Clinton, Keena Thompson that some of these
people don't even know, but here is don't slack by
Justin timber Lake, my Rex whole bag out just to
(18:12):
Trolls World Tour was gonna open April seventeenth, but now
it's moved up? Is that true? To move back? This
says troll was supposed to come out April seventeenth, but
moved up to April tenth? Did the already put it out?
Why April tenth does not happened either? Do you want
a fact check that one republic has a new song?
(18:34):
I called? Didn't I here's the cup of that. They
don't don't say? Good? Oh, I got It's fair. They
moved it up. They didn't move it out the Eastern weekend?
(18:56):
Was it not Corona related? I think to try to
get it out, but April tents is not. That's a
month from now. Yeah, what's up? What's boss? Come out
on April seventeen? I Mike does a movie podcast called
Movie mis Movie Podcast. Are you doing all the movies
gonna moved around? Yeah? It's a bunch now. I guess
nobody wants to put one out in the next couple
of months because they can't promote it right, Because they
(19:17):
can't promote it. I mean people like overseas, all that
market is kind of messed up. So they moved around
a bunch of Disney movies and a bunch of other movies.
Nile Horn has a record out. Today's second record. It's
called Heartbreak Weather. Here's a song Harvord. There you go.
(19:43):
I mean some of the stuff I'm never gonna listen to.
A little YACHTI to Baby and Drake have a song
called Oprah's Bank Account Nice and the Killers have a
new song called Caution. There you go. Well, there's some
(20:04):
stuff to check out and see us. It's good for you.
I don't know again right now, I'm kind of struggling
on the music front to find something that I really
that I really like, even a couple of songs. I mean,
I just shared with you the last songs that I've
listened to. So um, that's really all we have today
for you. UM. I appreciate that. Um. Are we getting
to the Craig Campbell Everview now? Yeah? Okay, let's take
(20:26):
a break and we'll come back and talk to Craig Campbell. Hey. Look, yo, dude, Hey,
we're rolling. Oh what's happening? Hey? You know you just
answer the phone, go whoa, whoa. I don't answer the phone.
I don't know who it is. No, no, I do, man,
because curiosity just kills me if you get it. But
(20:49):
for me, it's always the people who want to sell
me some sort of insurance or warranty and you have
to go there like, is this Bobby there? It's always
those kind of calls. No, I can't help it, man,
it when it rings and I have to know who
it is. Well, Craig Campbell's on with us right now. Hey,
so you wiped your Instagram three days ago. Now you
have four posts up promoting the new song. The new
(21:09):
song is called It's About Time. I'm gonna play a clip.
Here we go. Here's Craig Campbell's new song, It's about time.
Maybe come on't I got alright? Big day, Finally new
music out. Man, oh man, it's been a it's been
(21:32):
a long time coming. And h I've I've I've been
wanting to put this song out for shoot, probably six years.
I recorded it back in two thousand and thirteen. It
was gonna be the first single off of my third album,
right after Keep Them Kisses Coming, but that record label
closed so that album never got to be released. So
(21:52):
I've been I've been itching and chomping at the bit
to put this thing out and I finally finally got
the chance to do it, and I'm excited about it.
So you've had this song for that long. Yeah, I
recorded it in two thousand thirteen and we were gonna
make it the first single off of the the third album,
and then then Bigger Picture closed, and so I took
that record over to Broken Bowl where I signed shortly
(22:14):
after that, and uh, they just they didn't like it,
I guess, and um, they they just kept passing on.
Every time I wanted I brought it up, they were like, no,
let's just let's look at something else. So, UM, I
don't have to ask permission anymore. So I decided to
put it out myself. So is it the same studio
recording and you go back in now the one that
(22:35):
we did in two thousand thirteen is no, this this
is a different version. Um. Funny story. I've played this
song just me and the piano one night, uh during
my EP release party, and the next day the record
label was like, oh my gosh, we gotta record this song.
I was like, I've been telling you guys this for
four years, and uh, they gave me the budget to
(22:56):
go cut it, and then uh, a month or two
after that week we parted ways. But fortunately for me,
I was able to take those songs with me when
when I left the record label and the Yes, so
that's the version I recorded with with the record label,
but they let me have it. Craig Campbell played a
show last night, and I guess I did I text
you while you're on stage? Yeah? Yeah, And that's why
(23:20):
I feel like when I when I got the phone,
I said, oh my goodness, because I know I like
to get responses as quick as I can. I hated
to leave you hanging, but yeah, I was. I played
a little show down in Florida last night. And so
when when you flew back to Nashville, was everybody in
masks at the airport? Yeah, there was a lot of
people in masks. And um, I took two flights. It
(23:43):
took two flights to get there yesterday, and then we
had a direct on the way home. That's the first
time I've ever taken three Southwest flights in a row
where they were fifty or more seats empty. Wow, the
plane was that empty. It was both all three of them. Man,
it was crazy. Yeah. I was looking at your your website.
Your tour dates are still listed. What's going on there?
(24:04):
Are you playing shows? We're doing? Yeah? I mean as
of now, we're we're, we're still good to go. Um.
I did have a show tomorrow. It was a charity
event that I do with my cornhole tournament. Um it
got canceled. Um. But I haven't had any any cancelations
on my end yet, but I do I foresee some happening.
(24:28):
Is it true that you and your wife once owned
a tanning salon? Yeah? Was he own the tanning salon
before I met her, and then when I met her, uh,
we we started running it together. So yeah, we owned
it for a couple of years, you know, and a
sprint PCs retail store. Okay, both of these I need
to know about. So, first of all, when you were
(24:49):
running a tanning salon, was that mostly people laying in
the bed or going and get in the spray tan.
At the time, we didn't have spray tan, okay, so
it was laying in the bed. Yeah, laying in bed.
We had one stand up tending and would you do
it and put a little bunny on your hip and
so you would know how tan you were getting. Oh yeah, absolutely,
a little hard. Absolutely. You take whatever sticker, the bunny,
(25:10):
the hard your bow and arrow and you put it
on to see how dark you're getting. And then you
had a sprint PCs star was that in like a
kioscar was in a strip mall our way, it was
in a strip mall. It was next door to our
tanning salam The guy he came in, he opened it up,
and he made mention one day that he was he
was looking to to uh to get out of the
cell phone business. And we were like, we wanted to
(25:33):
expand our our portfolio, if you will, and so we
we offered to bite and we bought it. So we
had those two businesses side by side for a couple
of years. And were you playing music the whole time
you were also running those businesses? I was? I was,
I think around that time I was. I was on
the on the road with Tracy Byrd playing piano for
him um and also doing my own thing here in Nashville,
(25:57):
singing demos and writing songs and playing a lot of Broadway.
So yeah, Well, Craig Campbell has got a new song
out today and check it out. It's called It's About Time.
And at Craig Campbell TV. Now here is the question
I'm gonna ask you real quick, why dot TV? Why TV?
Why all that? Well, when I first signed my record
(26:18):
deal with with Bigger Picture. Um, Craig Campbell dot com
was taken. Craig Campbell dot net was taken. Uh, Bigger
Picture was already working with Big Kenny from from Big
and Rich. Big Kenny had Big Kenny dot Tv, so
they looked and checked. Craig Campbell dot tv was available,
(26:40):
so we use that as my website. And then as
far as keeping everything fluid with the social media, we
just made everything at Craig Campbell TV. You get asked
out a lot occasionally there there people are are confused
because they think, uh, you know, they associate TV with
being an actor, and it's just it confuses people. Well
(27:04):
what are you doing today, man, Well, we are cheersing,
we we we gotta we have some champagne. We're about
the toast of the release with my new team, my
my management and the people that I partnered with. And
then um, I'm gonna shoot a little acoustic video for
It's About Time and uh yeah, it's a good Friday. Well, congratulations, Bud,
(27:24):
and we'll talk to you soon. Right, all right, Bobby,
I appreciate your man. All right, there is Craig Campbell
and now here you go. Here's some more of It's
about Time. Maybe come on, let me Time ain't got
to go. If you never found the breeze on your bank,
(27:49):
you change damn so. A couple of his songs, by
the way, keep them kisses coming. You may know this
one man, what I'm just laying round check up and
(28:13):
out starts to Heaven Lord when I'm only obscart is
so good. Talk to him. Check out that song at
Craig Campbell TV is his Twitter, Instagram. There you go.
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