From Voice Finalist to Nashville Powerhouse: Morgan Myles' Musical Journey

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're live.
Hello everybody, it is SkipClark and welcome to another
episode of Skip Happens.
And tonight oh, this is goingto be so exciting I'm joined by
a powerhouse vocalist and one ofthe most electrifying voices in
modern music.
You saw her shine as a topthree finalist on the Voice Team

(00:21):
, camilla, and since then she'scaptivated millions.
She's got a soulful blend ofAmericana and country from
standing ovations at the GrandOle Opry and I can't wait to
talk about that to praise fromthe Rolling Stone magazine
billboard as well.
She's just getting started.
Please welcome the incredible.
I'm already in love with thiswoman.
Her name is Morgan Miles Morgan.

(00:42):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm great.
Wow, what an intro.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, see, I you know before you know.
Just, I'll be totally upfront.
I thought I definitely wouldmess it up more than I did, so
that's just the way it is.
It's all true.
It's all true because I saw thevoice.
I saw the voice in 2022 andthat was so cool.
Can you let's start right thereCan you take us back to 2022

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and what it was like steppinginto the onto that voice stage?
And, of course, team Camilla.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean it's.
it's like such a PTSD moment Ifeel like I never thought I was
going to go on a reality showLike I had turned down, for I
think I'd been asked like nineyears in a row.
But after a really badmanagement deal, a pandemic and
a booking agent that was doingsome really questionable things,

(01:36):
it came across my email and Isaid you know what?
What do I have to lose?
And let's just audition andthen go from there and decide.
So, anyways, it was intensebecause we still had all these
COVID restrictions.
So I remember yeah, like, eventhough the world was open, we
were really seriously still inintense like a single hotel room

(01:58):
lockdown being tested everysingle day.
So even that was like mentallychallenging.
And people don't know that likeyou were there for, like, I
think, six weeks, if I remembercorrectly, before the blind
audition, and then, when theblind audition starts, there's
five days of a blind auditions,and at the morning or the

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evening every night they tellyou who gets to audition, but
once the teams are full, theytell you who gets to audition,
but once the teams are full,that's it.
So you're like and all yourfamily is in another hotel at
LAX and you can't evencommunicate with them.
So there's just all thatintensity, and for me the
intensity was coming from like.
I've been in Nashville for 17years and I have something truly

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to prove.
I'm not somebody that's likejust out of high school or
something getting started Likethis was like man.
This might be like my momentwhere I'm just like throwing the
towel because of the pressure,and so for me, when all four
chairs turned, I could breatheand I was so relieved and what

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every single one of the coacheshad to say was so mind-blowing
and so validating for me.
Camila had turned in fiveseconds and Gwen Stefani was
blocked within the same fiveseconds, and my now label head
said that I'm still the fastestfour-chair turn in the history
of the boys.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, that's what I'm reading.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, I'll take that any day, still lost.
But I didn't want to win theVoice.
I know people probably thinkI'm crazy when I say that, but I
really just wanted to get tothe end and make sure that every
performance I had reallyrepresented me, along with my
storyline and the show was sogood to me, like they, every

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vision I had, they worked withme.
I mean even the guy licensingClyde.
We would get in such long greatconversations about song
choices and Camila was soinvolved with like the why and
of each song.
so like a lot of passion wentinto every performance I had and

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yeah, I mean that whole yearwas just such a roller coaster.
I can't even imagine I reallyam glad I did it.
I was very nervous to take thatleap but I just at that time
the pandemic was so insane withlike the Internet, and I just
felt like I needed my story outthere.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, did you have to like?
Was that the were the.
You're in a room and it wasjust you and a camera, and
that's how you auditioned, orwere you?
No, you went in front of thefour judges, but I don't.
In the beginning, prior to that, there's a whole casting
company.
And maybe that's what I'mthinking of.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that takes like several months.
So, yeah, like, and then you gothrough all these producers and
casting, even right.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Get to LA and then you go through all that Was that
during the you know, thepandemic and all that, where
they still tried to do the show,but you were, like, I mean, in
front of your iPhone, with a,with a light, and doing it that
way or no.
Why am I thinking that?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
The rest of the world besides.
La County was open like nopandemic.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So you know, in 2022, if you remember back, we were
back, everybody was back.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, besides LA, like LA County, and the film
industry, like the big networks.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
So all that was still locked down.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
And I think and I could be mistaken, but I just
think it was because LA Countywas making so much money off the
studios.
I think you know.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, but I know roll the eyes.
Yeah, you're probably right.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
But right after the next season didn't have any of
the COVID restrictions.
So but and and what's crazy waswhen Camila actually got COVID
and it pushed the filming backand that yeah, it cost a lot of

(06:05):
ruckus, like for us ascontestants.
Um so it was just such a weirdtime.
A lot of it didn't make a lotof sense, but I I have to say
that was one of the additionaljust stresses like that would
stress out any human being youknow, no doubt I think a big
part of the show is thefriendships you make, and they
kept saying that I was like well, how we're not allowed to be

(06:26):
together, you know.
so there was like a group of usthat literally would live on
FaceTime together.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I love it.
I love it, but we're still soclose.
I was just going to ask if youkeep in touch.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yes, of course yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, that's pretty awesome why.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
A lot of them moved to Nashville and I was kind of
like mama mourned, so everybodyyou know was asking me how to do
everything and like what's this, what's that?
So yeah, a lot of them moved toNashville.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
So Very cool, very cool.
Why did you say you were aloser on the show?
You weren't a loser, you're awinner.
You're a winner, anybody onthat show?
You made it.
You make it to the show.
You're a winner.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I just.
I think it's fun to beself-deprecating.
No, I never felt like a loser,like I said, I I just far from
it.
We, I really did.
It was a great platform for me,but I always just joke.
I might've been the fastestboard chair turn in history, but
I still lost.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's my slogan at this point.
You got to make a t-shirt withthat.
Somehow, you got to put thatphrase on the back.
Yes, exactly, think about that.
I think that would be cool,especially for some merch doing
what you're doing.
Yeah, ms Morgan Miles aboutthat.
I think that would be cool,especially for some merch doing
what you're doing.
Yeah, ms Morgan Miles, but whatwas the biggest lesson or
takeaway from your time on theshow?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I think for me it was mainly a confidence booster.
It was, like you know, from theband to wardrobe, to hair and
makeup to the respect I got fromeverybody, including the
coaches again, which isvalidating because people go.
Of all the people that I'veworked with on the show, you
know who you are.
You have brought it day in, dayout.
And I can't wait to see what'scoming from you and I seriously

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that's the biggest takeaway Ineeded because I was coming at a
different chapter in my myartist journey of needing, like
a backbone, a little bit ofsaying you got this, continue,
persevere.
And three days not even I thinkit was two and a half days
after that's when I got thephone call from the Opry to see

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if I could, if I would have myOpry debut and you said no wrong
.
I just bawled like a big, bigbaby because I had been passed
on before.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
So how nervous were you.
You take that phone call andthey want you to perform on the
Opry.
Is that crazy?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was like yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Why did I hear you right?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I just cried, I mean it took me 17 years and
Nashville finally walked in acircle.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Totally understand, it was the Ryman, because that
was I got so lucky, becausethere's a little sliver of time
every year that the opera goesback to the OG mother.
Yes, yes, the mother, churchbaby.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, and so I got back in a bucket list because
I'd never played the rhymebefore.
So, um, it was just literallyprobably better ever than my
potential wedding Wow.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
But being on the stage at the rhyme and I know
I've been in there, I've seen itand just to, I think I can feel
it when I see an artist up onthat stage the wood.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I love playing theaters but like that, place
has the church element too andit's just it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow.
How would you describe yourmusical identity and how did you
arrive at that sound?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
My musical identity is definitely wrapped up with a
lot of influence from like aSouthern soul storyteller.
Soul storyteller and, honestly,I was raised on by a very,
really tough guitar teacher.
That was like you're gonna beJanis Joplin in our Woodstock

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performance but you have tolearn all her lives that every
he also like.
My first guitar song was like ablues by Bonnie Rae, susan
Tedeschi, the Cassidy.
So these were just, I mean,obsessed with, like carol king
tapestry oh, my goodness fromwhat he gave, like he was like,
he heard, like this young girlwith this really interesting old

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, soulful voice, and he was theone to really connect me.
He was the one to reallyconnect me to that.
I think also because I was areally big dancer like I
competed in dance.
And so, even with all of thatand the movement of connecting
your body to that instrument.
But for me, the identity, Ithink, really started to develop

(11:21):
of what I wanted to say once Igot to Nashville and that I am
like the everyman archetype,like the caregiver I really just
want to be a vessel to peopleand connect with people on a
level that really does make themfeel not alone.
I think music has that powerand that's why I still really

(11:43):
push myself and persevere and itbecause of what it can do for
people and what it's done for me.
You know, and I just feel likeGod gave me a gift and I don't
know what my purpose would bewithout continuing.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Sure, I got you.
I got you.
Whereabouts in Nashville Areyou?
Are you close to a downtownBroadway or no?

Speaker 2 (12:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Good girl, because that gets crazy.
I used to live by Belmont whenI was going to Fairbanks.
Oh, all right, so you were up alittle ways, it's okay.
I don't need to know whereexactly?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, I live in Hendersonville now, oh okay,
it's nice and calm, sweet, it'sjust.
Yeah, I I don't think I couldever live near downtown again.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
It has changed so much.
It has.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm from Pennsylvania originally.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
And we've lived out with no neighbors and quiet in
the country so I'm like it's toomuch for me.
I need the breather.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I love that.
Um, good question coming in.
I need the breather.
I love that.
Good question coming in.
Jason Krantz.
He's a radio guy in the Midwest.
If someone met her meaning youhad no idea who she was what
would be their first impression?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
What If someone had?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I know I'm reading it .
Jason says I'm going to read itto you verbatim.
I know I'm reading it.
Jason says I'm going to read itto you verbatim.
If someone met her meaning you,okay had no idea who she was
what would be their firstimpression?
Well, jason, I got to tell youthis young lady right here she's
got a rare five octave range.

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So just saying I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
It's cool, Maybe the one thing I feel like when
people leave, it's odd.
We knew you could sing reallywell, but, man, you're an
entertainer.
Then they go.
And what you did with thosenote cards?
Absolutely never seen thathands down ever before.

(13:48):
There you go and the note cardthing that I've been doing.
So we've played 50 shows in thelast three months.
It's been wild.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Because I have a new studio record coming out.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
I know we need to talk about that, but go ahead
studio record coming out.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I know we need to talk about that, but go ahead.
And I did this first exclusivelistening tour just because I
really really wanted to givepeople a chance to hear these
songs and I wanted to see whatpeople were feeling.
But there's a segment in theshow that I go I also just want
you guys to see like, mycreative process.
So what I do is like hasanybody ever thought about
writing a song?
Some people raise their handand then I'm like okay, we're

(14:28):
going to pass around some notecards.
You're going to write a hook, ahook or a quote or something
like be vulnerable, tell mewhat's going on, okay.
And then at the end of the show, about 30 minutes towards the
end, I take the note cards and Iliterally just make up.
I make up music and write songson the spot to what they're
giving me, and it's such amagical moment because people

(14:50):
are really telling their soulsby that point and it's such an
incredible Environment andfeeling and it's like.
I don't even know how I'm comingup with this stuff.
I truly don't, but, um, it'sjust a really cool thing that we
started doing for this tour.
I love it yeah, that's whatthey kind of walk away with like

(15:12):
.
I feel like it's easy.
People, I think, sometimes justassume like even though I write
songs like I wrote it, they'reprobably oh, she didn't write
that or something and it's like,after I do that, they're like
whoa.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
So well, no, exactly right, I would walk out of there
going.
That was damn cool.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, she took what I wrote on that card and she put
it into a song like there, therehasn't been one show that I
don't think we had some tears ofsome sort, which is well, yes,
it's like a win for me well, weall know and I say this so often
the fact that country music isis our life, it's.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, somebody's just putting it in words, and if
somebody's taking a card andthey're just kind of, you know
it's something to do with themand it you're going to relate.
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's, it'stalk.
You're creative by doing thattoo.
That's really cool, cool.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
How many instruments do you play?
I play piano, I play acousticguitar and then I play mando
three.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's all all right, you're multi-instrumentalist
acoustic guitar, I mean but,yeah, I had.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I was a utility player actually on the riva tour
for another artist that wasopening up for her for a full
tour.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
And I had to learn Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You were one of the people inthe band, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Not for Reba.
We were the opener.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Right, but you were there.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I was a utility player.
Yeah, I was her BGV.
This is like flat out ofcollege the next day.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
But how cool is that.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, like flat out of college the next day.
But how cool is that?
Yeah, it was crazy.
And that's how I met Reba andher camp and they all became
like my family and they ended upwriting with me, still write
with me, they've recorded withme, they've played live shows
with me and anytime I just needadvice or if I want to go sit in
on her rehearsals, they'll letme come.
They're just such awesomepeople.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
I got you.
Uh, reba is the reason that Igot into country music and I
haven't looked back.
I mean, I was just anything,reba, I was all over it, I uh
reason.
I, I had a yellow lab.
I got, I got my yellow lab as apuppy.
A long time had gone now, but Inamed her Reba just because she
had the reddish hair.
I had all that and I mean it'severything for me was Reba, reba

(17:32):
, reba, reba.
But then you were telling meabout.
You know your Reba story.
I know now that you'reconnected somewhat.
Tell us all what you weretelling me before.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, I mean that tour was a big thing for me and
I remember I was pretty homesickand she came up to me and
catering.
She's like girl, are you okay?
They just she just didn't haveto do all the things that she
did, just to make you know and,like I said, like her band
really became like family to me.
And then on the Voice there wasa week that I really wanted to

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talk about women in countrymusic.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
And.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I wanted to sing If I Were a Boy, which she covered
by Beyonce and I did it in ourcountry.
I had a whole arrangement thatI came up with and I said, Reba,
I had to come home for twoweeks.
Would you be willing to like,do some like you know behind the
scenes stuff, Because we'resupposed to shoot it on our
camera, like our phone?
And she said yeah, and so itwas great.

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And she loved my auditionbecause at that point I think
that had aired and I don't know,it was just really cool.
And then the next season hereshe's or not.
Next season, the followingseason after that she became a
coach.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
So have you had the um opportunity to sit home,
let's say in your family room,feet up on the table, tv on and
you watch an old run of thevoice while you were on it, I
mean, and then you just kind ofpick yourself apart.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, because I would do that.
You're totally going to laughbecause I.
So we just shot everything inJoshua Tree for my upcoming
album, which is the Desert, andI rented this really silly
Airbnb and I go to take a showerafter like 12 hours of shooting

(19:27):
.
I come out and like myphotographer, my like content
manager and my tour managersitting on the couch watching my
like all, and I go what are youdoing?
And then I start watching andI'm like, oh God, you're.
You know, the only one partthat I really can't stand to
watch myself is the finale,because I literally almost trip

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in my they.
I was one girl out of five malefinalists, right, so I?
They had me on like dressed inso much stuff.
When I tell you I had to walkfrom stairs in stiletto heels
with this cape that they made sothey tell you what to wear.

(20:14):
Well yeah, I mean by that point,they already know kind of your
persona and everything.
But with the finale you have togo big or go home.
They're trying to win Emmys too.
The wardrobe, sure, sure.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
That stage is insanely slippery go big or go
home, like they're trying to winEmmys too.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Like the wardrobe, like.
So that stage is insanelyslippery.
I'm like banging out to thechoir Next thing.
I know the Kate gets caught inmy shoe a little bit, but I
didn't fall, but I kind oftripped and that that
unfortunately the one clip thatthey decided to use on social
media a closeup.

(20:45):
Right when I and I I justremember going man, you guys
really did me wrong and they'relike, they're like we can go
back, but you already have250,000 views on it and I was
just like well, but it doesn'tlook that bad horizontally but
vertically, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
You know, maybe only you know what I mean.
What if I was to watch it,would I notice it?

Speaker 2 (21:09):
There's a little.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know?
I mean, it's just saying youknow, because it was you I
caught it.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It happens, it's human, but I caught it.
I didn't fall Like poor WendyMoten, who I knew from the
season before.
I mean she broke her like armfor a wedge monitor because it
was black and black.
You know, you couldn't see itand it's just like and that I
mean, and that was live great,see now that you should feel

(21:40):
better.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Then you didn't break anything, so listen, it could
have been worse.
I could have absolutely justfell morgan, uh, morgan miles
with us here tonight and skiphappens.
You may remember her.
We're talking about the voice.
We've been talking about that alot in the last few minutes.
But, morgan, how do you, firstof all, how do you protect your

(22:02):
voice?
Because you've got, you know,you've got different ranges and
more than a lot of females.
How do you protect your voice?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
It is a whole regimen Cause I I mean, my schedule is
so packed and it's like Ithere's so much pressure cause
it's like you got to take careof yourself in order to fulfill
you know, like I said, like 50dates in three months.
That's a lot with with you, somuch schedule.
People don't know how to read amap.

(22:31):
One of my tops, I will saythere is a Mavis vocal steamer.
You can get it on Amazon.
It is a game changer To thepoint, camila.
I've been using that for fiveyears but Camila gifted us in
playoffs same one.

(22:52):
It's like a $45 thing and youstart with that.
Then I do vocal exercises.
I just go on my iTunes and pullup this one it's my most played
soundtrack, but I do that forlike 20 minutes while I'm
getting ready.
But more importantly, you know,making sure that, like,

(23:15):
exercise is huge, sleep is huge.
I make sure to really try toeat healthy.
I drink a ton of water.
If I eat something that's likesuper heavy, like I hate eating
before a show because that justmakes me feel tired, there's a
lot that I do.
I have a little bit of whiskeybefore I go on the stage.

(23:38):
Reba taught me that.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, and she's right .
Let me tell you.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
She's right, because, especially so, I've been
calling this the allergy tour,because we like started in
February in Florida and it'slike let's just follow the
policy, let's just follow whereit's been blooming and so you
know you're dealing with so manydifferent atmospheres and stuff
and just a little bit of thatwhiskey after I have a Red Bull

(24:05):
or celsius, which is so terriblefor me.
But well, find me, find me likea healthy energy drink to drink
at like probably around 6 00 pmbecause I'm so tired from
traveling that it's like I'vegot to, like you know, do a 90
minute set and and it's justlike whoo and so you never know,

(24:28):
like when I get on PacificCoast time and I'm coming from
Eastern and it's like my bodyfeels like it's 11 o'clock at
night.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
And you're just getting started.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Talk about just like whoo, Because I just got back
from LA and we were out in thatand then now I head to Vermont.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh well, you're coming to the East Coast.
I like that, it's right overthere.
It's like right over there.
Yeah, have you ever been toupstate New York, like Syracuse,
where I am?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yes, I have been and I'm trying to think, oh my gosh,
lake George played there.
That was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oh, Lake George is beautiful.
That's the Adirondacks.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, there, that was beautiful.
Oh, lake george is beautiful.
That's the adirondacks.
Yeah, we played there.
Um, and then one of my favoriteplaces ever I was just visiting
with my parents.
Um was like the saint oranseaway yep, yep, yep, the more
just to see all this crazy manthousand islands oh my gosh, I
loved it.
Best dressing ever.
We still order we.

(25:30):
This was 10 years ago that wewent there.
We still order that dressing.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's in because, because you went to the thousand
islands- well, it's just thebest it was so wait, wait, wait,
wait, what you could.
So I'm, you know, I'm not justtalking about the dressing, no,
I know.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh, okay, okay, I'm going but the thousand island
dressing was originally from yes, yes, okay, okay, yeah, and so
of course, we got obsessed withit, and so my mom always orders
it and gives it for likechristmas gifts and stuff yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
We're those people have you ever had a chance?
Uh, probably not, I don't know.
Right here in syracuse we got aplace called the dinosaur
barbecue and it's good, and wealso have a place Probably not,
I don't know Right here inSyracuse we've got a place
called the Dinosaur Barbecue.
It's good, and we also have aplace called Limp Lizard, I
don't know.
Usually when somebody comesthrough they make it a stop at
either one of those two barbecueplaces, which is really good,
and for upstate New York, it'sgood.

(26:23):
Now we are really upstate, ifyou ask, if somebody should ask
me where I'm from, I'll sayupstate New York and they'll go
Poughkeepsie, which is down nearNew York city, because they're
usually from that area and theythink Poughkeepsie is upstate
New York and it's not upstateNew York is.
You know where we are?
We're in Syracuse.
So, yeah, yeah, uh, what elsecan I?

(26:45):
Oh, um, so you know readingabout you in Billboard and
Rolling Stone, americansongwriter, and those moments of
recognition.
Have you read those?
And what do they mean to you?
Isn't that cool?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's totally cool.
I mean you again you have tolike kind of pinch yourself that
you're just getting any type ofphrase, but I think it's like
always those moments of like youknow, for me it's just a great
validation to keep going,because I'm not your like, your

(27:18):
typical artist.
That's like oh, you got a tame,that you go Like my mom's.
Like you need to believe inyourself.
Sometimes you're too humble,like why are you getting you
know?
And it's true.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
And it's hard to believe in yourself, and so a
lot of times when those thingshappen, it's just like such a
great feeling of like, okay, Ican do this, keep going, and it
always kind of drops at, likethose times that you just kind
of need it the most.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
What was you performed at the grand ole?

Speaker 2 (27:56):
opry right, or was it just the the mother church
downtown?
I?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
played at both.
Both, okay, all right.
What was it tell me aboutperforming at the grand ole opry
and what was running throughyour mind during that standing
ovation that I read about?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
The standing ovation happened at my Opry debut and
all these people came from allthese different facets of my
life and it was so touchingbecause I always said when I
play this place everybody inthat audience is going to know
me for all the hard work I putin and respect me for it.

(28:30):
And that's damn well whathappened.
Vince Gill comes out.
Before I went on, vince wastalking to me and I said well,
when did you get your Opry debut?
And he goes, not till I was 36.
And he was like baby girl,you're just getting started and
I needed that backstage.

(28:51):
That backstage was so huge andthen I was over watching his set
.
At the end he walks out ofstage.
He goes.
Morgan Miles is a reminder ofwhy the Opry is so important and
what the this night is for,because I've played it so many
times and I and what this nightis for.
He goes.
I've played it so many timesand I really appreciate that
reminder tonight and everysingle person in this room is

(29:14):
here for her and at the very endI'm like dancing to his music
and stuff and he keeps goinglike this.
He's got a guitar, he's likethis and I'm like huh and so he
wants me to walk out, so I walkout of my little Opry dance and
I do my little dance and thecurtain closes and I was like,
whoa, this is epic, this is suchan epic, it's really cool and

(29:36):
um, yeah, that.
And then the next opry momentat the opry, the opry house okay
, the mother church, yep yes, itwas, um, my mom's birthday and
I did not tell her.
I told my tour manager that Iwas like just get her over here.
So, because I'm gonna pull, soI tell I tell like the opry guys

(30:00):
, the musicians, everybody andmy mom, because my mom can catch
on to something quick, and so Ipull her out.
She's just mortified that I'mbringing her out.
But I sang happy birthday toher, holding her hand in the
circle.
God, I just know, I know herwithout her and all like that.
My parents had to go through tolike support me and it was just

(30:23):
such like a full moment for me,like that I could give her that
.
Now I don't know how I'm evergoing to top it but well, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I mean that moment with your mom and that moment.
You know all that I.
I don't know if you can topthat.
It's a memory that you'realways going to have.
You'll never, ever, ever ever Imean tell me that's not a god
thing, that it fell right on her.
It is, it is.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
It's a god thing, it's somebody really important
to my mom and um, and theyshould be and um, but she's like
a birthday queen, and so it was.
It was cool that it fell on her?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
do you um?
Do you take after mom?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
I am a good mutt um but yes I like my mom and I'm a
lot like my mom, a lot of my dad.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Well, you know, we were talking before saying how
much fun you were telling me,how much fun your mom and dad
are, in order to talk aboutsomething else.
But I can just see with thepersonality and if they're
anything like you, and obviouslyyou're like them, and if
they're anything like you, andobviously you're like them, I'd
love to be a fly on the wallsomeday.
Just because when is yourbirthday?

(31:37):
Oh, july 28th.
I'm a Leo.
July.
What July?

Speaker 2 (31:41):
28th.
I'm a Leo.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Oh, okay, yeah, so we're doing the signs now.
Well, mine is October 15th.
I'm a Libra, I have no idea,but I could be your dad.
I'm just saying, but that's allthere is to it.
Morgan Miles, do you recallwhat the first song you ever
wrote was?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh gosh, it was called Be here Now or Everybody
Hurts.
I think I was like 12.
I was going to say say youprobably pretty young.
I was very young, god.
They were like oh man, um.
I know I remember the melody ofbe here, now be with me.
Can't you see that I need youto be here now.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Look at you.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
So, bad.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh my God, I love it.
I love it.
I know it sucked, but you knowwhat?
It's one of those that you're,you know you still, you were
just singing it.
I mean, think about that, youwere on your way.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
You were on your way then I remember I got in
kindergarten, I got like thelittle, like the solo, and it
was like you can't buy French,you can't buy love.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's a good.
I mean, I remember that wholething too.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's so funny.
I have the worst memory on theplanet, but those, those songs
are.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
I don't know, you could have fooled me, oh God,
but you're doing pretty good.
You're doing pretty good withthat.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you ever just pick up the guitar and play it for
the hell of it just because,because, because, oh yeah, like
there's some days that you'rejust like man, I need to sit
down because, like writing, youfeel like some things yeah
coming to you and you're justlike okay, I need to like well
put this down real quick I Imean like the first song you
ever wrote or sang.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
That's what I was referring to.
No, you just kind of avoid thatsubject altogether, but it's
always up here, so that's cool.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
But think about that.
She needs to be buried.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
She's in a grave, no no, but think about that, look
where you are right now and lookwhat you've been through and
look where you started and lookwhat you've been through and
look where you started.
A million songs later, yeah, soyou said you moved to Nashville
.
How many years ago?

Speaker 2 (33:53):
It'll be 20 years ago .

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Holy cow, were you like one?
Okay so, but you said mom anddad came out too.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Very cool, very cool, and they support you 100%.
Obviously Do they go to a lotof your shows.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, my dad actually goes on the road with me a lot
Excellent.
Which is so much fun.
My mom comes up.
I always say all the bougieevents, but yeah, they come out
to a lot.
If I'm playing in town they'realways there, but it takes a
village and I, I mean, I justdon't know how I would

(34:31):
physically even do it withoutthem and like I'm always gone
and it's just I don't know, it'dbe so lonely to get off the
road and not have them here.
Just be another difficultchallenge for me, because I am
such a like oddly, a homebodyand I so like need my parents
and we're just I get it, they'remy rocks, they're my foundation

(34:53):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Awesome.
So I don't know if you can seethis, but tell us about your mom
and the neighbor saying thereare cops at your house.
What is that about?

Speaker 2 (35:04):
What?
What's happening?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
It says tell us about your mom and the neighbor
saying there are cops at yourhouse.
You don't know, Never mind.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was my proposal, my wedding proposal, but we are
no longer getting married Allright, so let's just move on.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Forget about that, all right.
I just Jason.
Thanks buddy.
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
It's something that I just am not ready to speak
about.
It's definitely the rightdecision for me, but it's
something that I'm trying tofind the right words and.
But yes, that was my weddingproposal.
My mom had said that the copswere at the house, which made me

(35:57):
freak out that my house wasburning down with my dog in it,
and I just went to the absoluteworst place and there was no cop
.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
It was a wedding proposal, jason just went.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
oops, my bad, you're fine, I had no idea I need to, I
need to kind of you know, justbe yourself, because a lot of
people everywhere I get gothey're like congrats and then
they feel so bad, it's don'tfeel bad, it's like no, no you
know, skip happens.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, it does.
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Girl, I like it.
Um so um.
Look at the um.
Do you realize how many viewsyou have across your platforms?
There's over 30 million.
Um.
How has, because of that, howhas social media shaped your
connection with your fans?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
You know, I came to this town with the 10 year town,
so it's like, in a way, I havethe respect of the 10 year town,
the journey writing, thenetwork, the community.
So I was very.
I have both pros and cons ofsocial media.
Um, honestly, I think it'staken away a lot of like, say,

(37:23):
the talent and the musicianshipand stuff, Cause there's so much
time that has to go into socialmedia at this point for an
artist and we just don't haveany time you got to have
somebody do that for you.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
It's hard if you're going to do it yourself.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
And I know a lot of artists try that, but it's
difficult.
It is difficult, um, but theissue is the fact that, um, that
you still have to put it inyour words, and so you can't
just have somebody do all yourstuff.
I mean, you can have somebodycapturing it, but it's still all
me, and because I want them toreally feel this connection with

(37:54):
me.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So in a way.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I love the fact that, like you can get closer to your
fans, but do I wish that therewas more?
You know, like less, likeimportance on it or something,
because it just seems like noweverything is on social media
and it's like.
I miss the days of radio, Imiss the days of like, because

(38:18):
it was such a streamlined focusof music.
The internet is like chaos.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's like it is, it is, but there's galore yeah, do
you have somebody doing it foryou or do you do it?

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I have a team, but like I, I post everything myself
.
I have, you know, obviously, acontent manager on the road with
me.
That's shooting everything, butlike I'm still editing a lot of
my own re derivative of yoursocial media, so it's a lot of
pressure for an artist wherethat used to be on a marketing

(39:03):
team for your for your villagebecause there's so much going on
that, like if you just want toget your head together before a
show, wait, you got to captionthat hey, we need a tiktok now,
like hey, it's the time.
You know, meta said it's thebest time to post at this time.
And you're just like, like, Ijust played a you know two hour
show.
I'm exhausted, but guess what?
Load out, get to the hotel room, make sure you're posting.

(39:26):
It's got to be scheduled by 5am.
And you're just like, oh, butyou got to do it at the end of
the day, how bad do you want it?
And that's why I keep going.
What's my why?
And then you do it.
But has it taken away a lot oflike, say, the time that you can
put into your craft?
Yeah, it has.
Absolutely, but I don't know ifwe're just skip in a weird time.

(39:48):
That maybe what's odd.
People are saying that theywant like.
The vinyls are coming back.
People are saying they thinkthey really want CDs.
They're burning CDs again.
So it's, I don't know, maybewe're in a weird place.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
I didn't.
I haven't heard about theburning of the cds.
You know we all used to do thatback in the day.
We'd actually go on napster anddownload our music.
Don't tell anybody, but wewould go and get our music and
we would burn it to a cd.
Now I don't know if I can evengo out and buy c anymore.
You know everything is.
You know we have our phones, wehave.
You know, it's all Kelly.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Sutton yesterday was on WSM and Kelly Sutton's
daughter, who's a teenager,literally she goes.
I just had to buy a spindle ofburn CDs and she goes.
I had to buy a whole newconverter to go into my laptop
she goes.
And then we had to buy thesongs that go.
What a bring it back, bring itback.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Well, they didn't need to go out and buy the songs
, because they need to supportpeople like you.
I mean you put your song upthere.
There's a lot of time andeffort that goes into that.
You need to get a little bit ofreturn.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
And I think that's the other thing is because of
where, like streaming is andeverything.
Now there isn't any time offthe road because everything has
to be, have you you?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
know we're talking.
We're talking about the digitalside of things.
Have you had any interactionwith AI, with the music?

Speaker 2 (41:24):
No, you mean like artificial intelligence yes.
I haven't found anybody usingmy voice.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, let's hope not.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
But it's like, anybody that's ever been
recorded can use any voice.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Isn't that scary.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
It is.
It's honestly disgusting.
I can't like.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I would agree with you.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Like art is such a thing that comes from somebody's
soul.
I'm like what is happening,like are we creating souls, like
is it a computer chip for asoul?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, it's weird, you know I have to say AI as a
songwriter, I'd be a little likeI don't know.
I need to have creativity andthat needs to come from me if I
thought I was a songwriter.
But as a radio person where Ineed to write, let's say, a
commercial, I would go to AI andput some facts in and say tell

(42:23):
me about this, what can you giveme?
Then it actually would spit outsome pretty good stuff, but I
would kind of change it aroundto make sure it's in my own
words, but it gives me new ideas.
When it comes to that, otherthan that, I mean AI, it does
scare me a little bit.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Other, than that, I mean AI.
It does scare me a little bit.
Yeah, I mean I feel bad for,say, publicists or anybody
working in journalism orcommunication, like wiped out
that whole industry on a writingsense.
And these kids.
They don't even write their ownessays now.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
I'm like, as a teacher, I would say no, yeah,
but that's bull crap becausethey need to.
My daughter is a teacher andit's like, as a teacher, I would
say no, yeah, but that's bullcrap because they need to.
My daughter is a teacher andit's like are you kidding me?
If we ever did that?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
be out on my ass?
No, but as a teacher, how wouldyou know if they?

Speaker 1 (43:07):
did, or they didn't.
Wait a minute.
Are you a teacher?
No, but my mom was oh, is thatwho you're looking at?
I'm wondering.
I see you looking off to theside.
Tell your mom.
I said hello.
Oh my God, that's hilarious,that is.
Wait a minute.
Somebody just I found mythree-ring binder of CDs.

(43:27):
The kids were asking what itwas.
Lol.
Somebody just commented sothat's cool.
What else?
Oh, you know what?
We need to forget about thatstuff.
We need to talk about yourmusic, because you, uh, you have
a live album that was recordedin one take, from what I
understand, correct, that'samazing, that is totally amazing

(43:49):
.
Uh, with Bob clear mountain,that's bold, that takes a lot of
guts to do.
Um, what was that experiencelike?
I mean, you did it in one take.
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, I think my label lied to me and said that
we could punch things later, butwe never did so.
Like Bob Clear Mountain, I meantalk about like Bob Dylan the
list goes on of everybody.
He's recorded and engineeredand he has a place called Apogee

(44:21):
Studios in Santa.
Monica, and so the opportunitywas presented to me, and I was
like hell yeah, and it was.
And they said, oh yeah, andwe're going to make it on vinyl.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah.
And so it was just really coolbecause the room sounds great,
you could have a live audienceand it was just a great

(44:45):
representation of what you'regoing to get when you come to a
Morgan Miles concert and Ididn't feel like I had any of
that to really share on thatlevel.
And, yeah, it turned out reallycool.
It's such a great piece of work.
It's honest.
There's no auto-tune.
Everything on there is real.
Every you know speckle andevery mistake.

(45:08):
I think sometimes there'sbeauty in mistakes and so it
just sounds really great and Ireally feel when you put it on
your record player, people arelike yeah, I really feel like
we're at your concert and that'sall that we were trying to
accomplish.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
You have an album coming out.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
I do.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
You do, and it's with Ross, was it Hogarth?
Yeah, any themes or momentsyou're especially proud of with
that.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, I mean, ross kind of became my A?
R of the project.
He, you know, he was just sopassionate about working with me
and you know, first off, he's aseven-time grammy award winner.
He is tough as nails and, um,you know, I think he worked with
me because he knew I would riseto the challenge.
So we wrote 80 songs in fivemonths.

(45:59):
We had, I mean, I wrote, a tonof Muscle Shoals and I wrote a
ton in Austin, texas, and ofcourse, a little bit in
Nashville, but really mostly theembodiment was in Muscle Shoals
in Texas and, um, you know, hejust even pushed me as a writer,
which was really cool.
Really cool was so much aboutwhat I had to say more than

(46:21):
anything.
And, um, when we came down tothe top 12, it was great.
We I mean the musicians on this, we got jimmy paxton from
fleetwood mac, basically like onthe drums with them forever.
We had david grissom, who'splayed, you know, world tours
with um dixie chicks and so manymore.
He's like a legend in austin, Imean.

(46:45):
We had jürgen from governmentmule on bass.
He's so freaking, funky andincredible.
And then it's crazy, fromnashville playing all the
utility instruments.
And then, um, um, yeah, we just, he just pulled in such
fantastic musicians, it justcame alive.
But, yeah, was it tough?
It was definitely tough attimes.

(47:06):
I did a whole week of vocalsand he was like we're not using
auto-tune, you have to be ableto sleep at night.
And I was like, okay, I waslike, morgan, don't lose your
voice out here.
Um, but it sounds so incredible.
And then Gary Nichols, who Iwrote a lot of the songs with

(47:27):
who's from Shoals.
He replaced um ChrisStapleton's position in the
steel drivers when Stapletonleft.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Very cool.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
My phone is about to die no, no, plug it in quick
okay, I can find it, but heactually came and saying almost
all the BGV parts on and it's soI cuz I said I just want his
voice in my voice.
That's all we need, because hisvoice is so textural.
And and then of course we havelike five cuts together because

(47:58):
we, we wrote so cuts togetherCause we, we wrote so much
together.
So the very first single iscoming out May 5th that I
actually wrote with Gary andthat's called how does that
sound?
And it's, it's, I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
And and they're going to push that to a radio right.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I don't know if they're pushing that for a song,
maybe.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Pushing that for a song maybe?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Well, let's hope Well , the label, or basically it's
like, if it does well withstreaming, then the thought
process of pushing to radio goesout.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
But yeah, they watch the streaming numbers very
carefully and you know we domusic testing in this market, so
to speak, and a lot of thosestreaming numbers will determine
what I'm playing and what I'mnot playing here in Syracuse,
because I want to make sure thatthey listen to the radio and
they don't go to the stream.

(48:47):
I can play a lot of the samemusic, you know.
Yeah, I mean there's still theMorgan Wallens and the Luke
Combs and Post Malone's now, bythe way, post Malone is from
here but, yeah, how cool is that?
I'm just saying, yeah, verycool.
But they keep a close eye onall those numbers.
Yeah, yeah, very.

(49:07):
You got to plug your phone in.
What are you going to do?

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Okay, let me go get it.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Okay, you're going to have to let me.
Okay, where's my somebody?
Just yell to mom, say no, go on, go on.
She's going to go get hercharger.
But if you haven't noticed,we're talking to Morgan Miles
tonight, season well, it was2022, and it was with the Voice
and she finished number three.
Now, I couldn't believe in thebeginning she would say that,

(49:31):
well, I lost.
No, you didn't lose, you're awinner.
Are you kidding?
Even if you make it to the show, you win.
That's so cool.
I said, yeah, it's just, it'swild.
So, as you can see her, phonegoes next week, but are you?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
okay, yeah, because my phone, I think it's on its
last light because it was fullycharged for this and well, you
know we're doing a live video.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
We we're live.
It's like sucking the juice outof your battery is what it's
doing.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
But my phone she done she done.
Is it?

Speaker 1 (50:09):
an iPhone, iphone.
Yeah, it's a 13.
Girl.
What number are we up to nowLike 16?

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I know, it's just going through doing it all.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
I know I have a Droid , so I have the S24.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Android, samsung, I need to be more up to date on
technology, on these things.
You know it's just like findingthe time to get it all
transferred and stuff.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Ugh what I hate it, oh my.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
God.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Uh, what?
Uh, you know.
So you've pulled influencesfrom muscle shows.
Austin Nashville, I wrote thisdown.
Uh, believe it or not, Uh, buthow are those places showing up
in your sound?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I mean muscle shows, I feel like is a really great
place to describe myself,because Muscle Shoals is very
much that very Southern grittysoul that has just so much
influence.
I mean the music that has comeout of that place it's just
incredible.

(51:14):
And again, like Gary, beingfrom there too, has really
influenced, I think, the recordin a big way, because you know
even just inflections of how weend lines.
Also, you know his voice hassuch a distinction to it that is
very Southern soul because he'sfrom Muscle Shoals.
That really, really gives itthat undertone.

(51:35):
And then I think there's justmore of like, you know, ross
really wanted to follow theessence of the song.
A lot of times now people areneeding these full scale demos,
even just to pick you know whatsongs are the best.
I think that's completelyinsane.
It should live as a guitarvocal, because if you're a

(51:57):
producer, why would you want tobe influenced by, like, a full
produced demo?
So every song had to live onits own.
I think that's so important.
Again, that's me growing up inthe 10-year town of nashville,
and so we did it old school andI think it's the best way to go,
I mean 100 we're in a worldwhere someone writes a song,

(52:17):
they're recording it that dayand they're putting it up on
TikTok the next day.
That's so foreign to me, it's soscary.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
It's happening so much.
Oh man, Every day there'ssomebody new.
I don't think I could ever doit.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I don't think I could ever just do that, oh, I bet
you could Well.
I just I think what you put outthere is important and you know
, I think what you put out thereis important and quality is
still important to me.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I get you.
I got you.
What do you drive?
Let me guess A.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Toyota A 15-passenger .

Speaker 1 (52:50):
You had a 40-council-line van.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Chevrolet van and a trailer.
That's one vehicle, but no.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Yeah, but let's say you want to run to the store,
you're not taking the15-passenger van with a trailer
to the store.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
No, but I've had to because I recently got a 23
Santa Fe Hyundai trying to getthe most responsible car Nice.
And the other car broke down onthe five-way lane highway in
Atlanta and I was like, okay, Idon't care what my town car is,
I just don't like.
And so, sure enough, I get it.
I'm only home for like two days.
Somebody ran into my car and Ihaven't had my car for two

(53:33):
months because if it were gonnahappen, it happened, because the
new vehicles have all thatstupid camera things happening
so it didn't even look like Igot hit, but it was going people
were all the uh I'm like, oh,like this, okay, this is gonna
cause a wreck either way.

(53:53):
like then, once I finally gotthrough like the other person's
insurance and got to thecollision center, like the wrong
part came in Somebody.
Then the next part came in atscratch.
I was just like dude.
So next thing you know I'mdriving my 15 passenger van.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Here comes Morgan.
That's all right, I always try,you know, I, with all the
people that I interview and Italk to, and I always try to
guess what they drive.
Now, the guys, it's pretty easy.
The guys.
It's either a chevy silverado,either a 1500 or 2500, or even a
dodge ram 15 or 2500 every oncein a while it's a dually huh.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
What do you think I was driving?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I thought you were driving a Toyota, just a small.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
SUV.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, like a small SUV I have a small SUV.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
I don't like my car though.
No, you've got a 15-passengervan.
I don't like my car, though,skip.
I absolutely hate my vehicle,but I was in a bind and I didn't
have time to really go figureout what I really truly wanted,
so but again people say what doyou?

(55:11):
What do you want like yourdream car?
I always go a tour bus so I cantake care of myself better.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
And then your dad could drive the tour bus.
Yes, your mom could travel withyou and take care of all that,
whatever inside.
Yes, and I can.
You got the bunks.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
You can bring the dog please, I can actually sleep I
can get ready before you know, Iget to the venue or wherever
else I have to go.
I mean there's, it would be afreaking life changer I don't
know why I kind of watch this.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
No, wait a minute, I gotta do this watch.
I'll do it again.
There we go.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Now I'm back this technology is just wild.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
So when you, when you start your podcast, I'll you
know, let me know and I'll tellyou what this camera is.
It's one of the best.
All I got to do is give it handsignals and it does different
things.
Watch, watch this, all right?
No, it's not doing it.
Hang on, I lied.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Keep going there, we go, oh, oh, oh wow.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Isn't that cool yes, okay so now I get to stop it all
.
Right now it's stopped okay,that's amazing so, um, you know
what, if somebody wanted to goget your music, where can we go?
Really I mean go car and driveto Nashville.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Yeah, go to my house.
Okay, you can go toMorganMilesLivecom and order the
vinyl.
You can find all the merch onthere.
I think it's doing okay rightnow.
There was an issue with my shop.
If you're having problems withthat, just DM me.
But, yeah, go listen on allyour streaming.

(57:04):
Believe me, following me is soimportant.
It helps.
It's free and it helpseverybody very, very much.
There's a free fan club sign up, which is really awesome
because then I can let you guysknow in on everything.
So please become a littlemilestone.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Milestone yeah For Morgan Miles.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Yeah, like 10 years ago.
It's probably been like 10years, maybe eight, it's a
milestone.
They call themselves milestones.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
I love that.
Milestones yeah, your fan clubis the milestones.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
It is.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
See, that's cool.
I love that.
Were you at CRS.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Oh my gosh, I've been to CRS not this year, but I've
been to many CRSs.
I think I was in Illinois thatweek.
I had to play five schoolassemblies Five.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Wow, you're doing the school tour.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
No, I really wasn't.
I don't know how that was apart of it, but I had to play
one show in Illinois and withthat came five school assemblies
prior to that.
I was like what, what am Isupposed to do?
But it's actually really cool,Super endearing.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
These are fans.
Fans, you know what?

Speaker 2 (58:23):
just to hear these kids and and, and you know, I
actually did the note card thing.
I was telling you about withthem.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
I can only imagine what the kids were ready it was
actually incredibly vulnerable.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Um, they really really told me some stuff and I
said I'm really proud of youguys for being willing nice to,
and so then I mean I broke downin tears on this because I had
about five different parents sayin different ways dm me and say
thank you so much, my childcame home started writing in a

(58:58):
journal and I never even knewthat was like going on with them
.
Thank you, thank you so much.
It was a several different andit just I was like wow, it
really did like look what youdid wow, I mean it was just
really cool because these kids,like I feel for them.
I don't know how I would dealwith social media being in

(59:19):
middle school, oh, no, no, no,no no like I don't know how I
would have gotten through.
So what they're going through,and pandemics, I mean I feel for
them, I feel I just I just wantto hug them I know, I know so
wow, yeah, it's what countrymusic is all about.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
It's, it's every what you're doing.
It's, uh, touching the heartsof so many.
The kids go home and they telltheir parents and you know what.
Their parents go online, theylook you up, you know what.
They buy your music and they'regoing to support you because of
what you did for their child.
How cool is that it's supercool now I got the chicken
noodles.
I do, man, but you know, I lovethose stories.

(01:00:04):
I really do, I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
You know, just I mean just goes to show that they are
trying to talk, but they're alllocked into their phones and
they're, they're, and I keep, Ikept saying remember to talk to
one another and be there for oneanother.
Like it goes a long way, youcan, but everybody, it's so
crazy that they don't even a lotof them, don't even know how to
like communicate, because it'sall through these and it's just

(01:00:29):
like oh, well, I could tell youhere in upstate New York and
Syracuse, or the area or thegovernor of New York has done
one thing that they're startingto.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
You know, ban phones from school.
In other words, not that youcan't bring it to school, but
once you're in school you needto put it in your locker and you
need to leave it.
You need to shut it off andleave it there.
You know, when you go to classyou don't take your phone.
But there's also the flip sidethat, with the way the world is
now and everything that we'veseen happen, I think I would
want my child to have a phone.

(01:01:01):
So you know I'm kind of torn.
It's hard, it's hard.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
But I think there 100% needs to be regulations
period.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
It does, it does.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
And I think we're getting there.
Hopefully We've got to get.
We've got to protect our kids.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
That's right.
Congresswoman Morgan Miles saysI know, woo, let's go.
Yeah, no, no.
Musician, you know, yeah,that's all.
Ooh, my thing's moving again.
Look at that.
I know, no, no, no, your phoneis going nowhere.
We'll be lucky to get throughthis.
But, morgan Miles, you knowwhat You've been so much fun to

(01:01:38):
chat with and to find out moreabout you and hopefully, if
somebody's watching this now ormaybe down the road, it's all
going to be posted.
It's live right now, but thatthey go on the website or Morgan
Miles Live.
Did you say MorganMilesLivecom?
I love it, I love it Absolutely.

(01:01:59):
And don't ever say you're aloser because you're a winner
Finishing number three on theVoice.
I'm sorry, I can't get that outof my mind.
I watch the Voice now and ifyou make it to the show, you're
a winner because there's so manythat don't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
It's a super tough thing.
I mean, even my girl, hannahGray Ellis, just posted this is
the first time I watched myaudition from 10 years ago and
nobody turned and she was likeit was traumatizing.
So I mean, you know, Hannahsigned a curve.
She's killing it Like you knowwhat I mean Touring everywhere,
sure, so it's one of thosethings that it's a heavy thing.

(01:02:36):
It's still television, but youknow the audience doesn't know
Hannah Ellis Love her.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
We did a show with her here in Syracuse.
She's fantastic.
My friends from Curb broughther up.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
But she just posted about that.
I was like, oh my God, I nevereven knew that.
But like you know, I think thething is it's a very intense
situation.
It's television You're stillcasted.
At the end of the day, you'restill casted.
Just remember, there's a showand, yeah, there's a record deal
with it.
That's the price.
They're just so different.
They're two separate things.

(01:03:13):
It's a platform.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
But yeah, to America.
They don't know all thatinsight, but it was like I was
very, very proud to get to theend and be able to be really
happy with every.
I think there was a total of 16performances.
That was a lot.
It was rigorous and I knew thatI grew so much, even as a

(01:03:37):
performer, and I also just lovedhaving like it was like having
Disneyland of an artist beingable to have that type of
production that you see at theGrammys.
Like this was elevatedtelevision production you know,
millions of dollars into theshow, and so it was so cool to
have that at your disposal.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
you know, and see your vision come to life week
after week, and it was awesomedo you think that if you were
never on the show, we would behaving this conversation?

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
I mean, I would hope so.
Um, I I was on a greattrajectory, but I felt like I
still just wasn't getting above,like this breaking point, and
so I feel what the show did wasjust open me to a whole new
audience 100%.

(01:04:30):
And it gave me some legitimacy.
And then also just I mean I wasable to play, so I play, I tour
so much, now even more.
It's just been such a fruitfulthing for me.
So and it also got me my labeldeal really soon after that.
So artist friendly, incredible.
They believe in me, they lovemy sound.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
What label are you on ?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
I'm on a label called blue Elan records.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Cool, smaller, like independent type.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
That's okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
It's perfect.
Yeah, because they are sopassionate about, like, the
creative side and you knowthey're just.
It's a great, great family tobe a part of.
They're all about the music andit's so good to be surrounded
with people that they care yeahthey just really care.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
I'm like no, let me just say it, they care.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Yes, because a lot of times you get so overwhelmed,
like the social media, like thesurface stuff, but blue line
records has a heart and a soulthat's just all about like I
love it embodied of, like thehistory of it and like the
people that I get to meetthrough it.
Like last week we were playinga show at the whiskey a go-go

(01:05:41):
with ozo motley.
And like chris shiflett's on mylabel from the food fighters,
um, you know, we do.
Like I get to write with jacktension who wrote um the two of
the biggest eagles cuts.
Like um, oh my gosh, peaceful,easy.
Why am I forgetting?

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
peaceful, easy feeling.
Yeah, that feeling, yeah.
Why did that sound wrong?
I don't know.
I bought the record when itcame out, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
If it wasn't for signing with them, would I be
able to work with Kirk or RossHogarth and all these people?
Or make a vinyl, or be able towork with Bob Clearmountain
vinyl, or be able to work withbob clear mountain.
So the opportunities that I'vegotten are all these like crazy
bucket list things and gettingto like make a record for like

(01:06:30):
in la at like where bob dylanrecorded and stuff and and
you're sitting there and you'rehearing all the stories of these
guys that are on your recordand their tour.
You're just like man.
You were there when the musicwas oh, I'm like I grew up in
the wrong freaking era well, Idon't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
You may think that, but I don't believe that.
So I think you're doing verywell, um, real quick, before I
let you go, um, you being morganmiles, you being on the voice,
you finishing.
Third, you on a label, youputting out your own music.
Somebody's going, I want to dothat.
What advice would you give them?
Even, let's say, let's go womanto woman, a young woman that

(01:07:09):
really, you know, little girlwants to, wants to do what you
have done.
What advice would you give her?

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
like if she's trying to get started yeah I would
first and foremost say well, yougot to move to Nashville or LA
or New York, depending on whatyou're trying to do, and you
need to write, and write andwrite.
And because the biggest nucleusof all this is, well, what's

(01:07:35):
your, why, like, what do youhave to say?
And you have to start by, like,figuring out what makes you you
and being confident enough toinspire others that has been
through it, like, say, ifthey're only 16, but her parents
were divorced, are youcomfortable talking about that?
Because that's your connectionpiece.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
So I think it's just the development of the highs and
the lows, sitting in songwriterrounds, having to go up to
people and say I really like howyou wrote that song, will you
write it with me?
I mean, it's such a process.
I help a lot of people too,like you know.
But one of my friends that wason the show with me, you know

(01:08:18):
he's 16 but he lives in michiganand it's like, okay, but you
really have to commit becauseit's so hard.
Like you either have to move tonashville, do it, do it, do it,
do it, do it.
Because you can't really do ithalf-assed, like you really do
have to put full steam ahead.

(01:08:38):
Because now I would also say tothe younger people get on top
of your tiktok now, startbuilding it.
You know, whatever you do,start figuring out and don't
ever be like, oh, I don't wantto do this if you're already in
that forget it, just go, yeah,exactly, and don't think it's
just gonna be like all fun andgames, because I think they get

(01:09:01):
that misunderstood, because it'sa lot of work, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Wow, great advice.
Morgan Miles, I feel like I'veknown you forever and we just
got to know each other.
I know you know.
Thank you for coming on, skipHappens, you've got a great
personality.
I love your music.
I was listening before you wenton tonight.
You've got a good personality.
I love your music.
I was listening before you wenton tonight.
You've got a good team.
I can tell you're doing theright thing.

(01:09:26):
You just you know, having theexperience of being on the Voice
, finishing third, not a loser,and just all right, I'll let
that go, I'll let that go, but Ijust I see you and I say, don't
think that.
Don't think that because youwon.
The minute you stepped on thatstage you won.
Like I said, there's how manypeople that would love to be in
your shoes, as long as theydon't trip, they're good,

(01:09:48):
they're good and they don't, youknow, fall over your gown or
something I don't know.
Your cape, your cape.
I'm not going to wear a capeagain.
I love it.
Morgan Miles, thank you so muchfor joining us here on Skip
Happens tonight.
You're a sweetheart, I loveyour music and if you're
watching this viewing this,maybe you're just listening to

(01:10:10):
the audio track.
Please check her out.
I'm sure you can find her onYouTube and MorganMilesLivecom.
They got a little merchandisegoing there.
Support the artist and downloadthe music.
Buy the music and burn it to aCD, because they're doing that
now.
I just found out.
I don't know, maybe, maybe Iget it.

(01:10:30):
Morgan, stay right there.
I know, stay right there.
Thank you for joining ustonight, skip happens.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Thank you guys.