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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark.
You know that I'm the host ofSkip Happens.
We're joined by a risingNashville country artist.
Her name is McCartney Reinhart.
Listen to this.
Listen.
Here she is.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Found a Polaroid picture in the back of a
bathroom drawer.
We both look so different it'slike I don't even know us no
more.
Here we go, that's it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's McCartney, and she is known for that
powerhouse vocal that you canhear right there.
Her vocals so strong, soulfultwang and heartfelt lyrics.
Mccartney, quickly making wavesin the industry, growing up in
a musical family we're going totalk about that here in just a
little bit To performing acrossthe Southeast.
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She's a name you'll want toremember, as you can tell from
right there.
We'll talk about that here injust a little bit.
By the way, that's like her newsingle, that is, I don't know
if it dropped yet or it's goingto drop this week, like maybe
tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It dropped last Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Last Friday, I knew there was a Friday in there.
Yeah, it's time to dive intoher journey, her sound and
what's next?
Mccartney, look at you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Man, it's so good to see you.
I know you've been on SkipHappens before we did all this.
It was a while ago, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It was fun.
Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, absolutely Well, you reached out and I'm so glad
you did because I mean you weregreat last time.
Now I'm listening to like thisnew single.
I mean you're evolving intoquite the powerhouse and you're
so welcome.
Where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I am just in my apartment right now.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
In Nashville.
In Nashville, yeah, are youright downtown or just outside
of Nashville a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm a little bit outside of Nashville.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Good move yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're about 20 minutes out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I love it.
Yeah, that's easy, so easy in,easy out.
Yeah, so, McCartney, you know.
Just talking about your voice alittle bit, I know it's been
described as a mix of blues,soul and classic country.
How would you describe yoursound?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think I would describe it kind of like that.
I think I definitely have kindof like a blues influence.
Being from like Georgia, I feellike that played in, and my
ancestor, django Reinhardt, wasalso a blues musician, so I
think that kind of got passeddown and like I didn't realize
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it as much until I startedputting the dots together that,
like you know, he was in myfamily and so then I was like,
okay, that's, that must be wheresome of that comes from.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I just, oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, but yeah, I think , and then with my accent mixed
into it, it gives it definitelythe more country vibe too.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, no, I love that .
I love that.
I love your accent.
Thank you, it's really good.
But you talk about would hehave been your great-grandfather
?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So he was a little bit further back.
Further back, okay, I don'tknow the exact relation.
I think it's more of like anuncle or cousin.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He was a jazz superstar, I mean just.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He was so good.
I watch videos sometimes andI'm like, oh my God, that's
crazy that I was related to thisguy.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's awesome.
So you got music in your blood,so to speak.
So are you the only one in yourfamily, besides you and him,
that play music?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Almost every generation of my family plays
music, so my dad is a bassistand he plays for me a good bit.
And he, you know, travels withme and it's really nice to for
him to be on stage with me andit's, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I was gonna ask what's it like with your dad
standing behind you.
I mean that's got to be like.
I mean is it cool or is it like?
Oh my god, that's my dad.
I gotta behave no, it's, it's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I really enjoy it, like I am so close to my parents
, so they're my best friendsreally so it's, I've I've never
been like the type of teenagerto be like oh my god, my parents
are around, I gotta act goodyou know like I just I treat
them like my best friends.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So how long have you actually been in nashville?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
so this past may was three years that I've been here,
okay, so it's it's been alittle bit now, but I'm still
new, but I'm starting to getsettled in more.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What would you say is your biggest challenge right
now?
You've only been there threeyears.
They say that's a 10-year townand I firmly believe that
because I've talked to so manyindependents like yourself,
because you know, I've talked toso many independents like
yourself, you know, and they'vebeen there seven, eight, nine,
ten years, and then all of asudden it's like wow, I did it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it's definitely encouraging to know
that like I've got like sevenmore years left.
I've got a lot more than thatUntil my tenure mark and I kind
of don't know how to count it.
Like I came up here when I was14 for the first time I was
almost 15.
So I've been here four yearsbut only lived here three years.
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So I don't know if I'm in mythird, fourth year, but
somewhere around there.
But if I ever get down I'm likeit's okay.
People have been here waylonger than I have and just now,
you know, break in.
And so it is definitelyencouraging when I get down to
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think that I'm only a few yearsinto living here.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, but that's huge .
And look where you are, though.
I mean you're putting a songout to radio.
You've done this before, thankyou.
You know, if I was to, I'dlisten your, your voice, and, um
, I would never think you areand I don't mean this in any bad
way that you would.
You're very young, but you onthe record, you sound very
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mature and soulful and full, andit's like wow thank you, no, I
appreciate that so much tell mea little bit about your
songwriting.
You do a lot of that on your own, correct?
If not all yeah, yeah, yep.
And can you walk me throughthat process a little bit?
Tell me about your creativeside and how you come up with
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those ideas and what have you?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, so I do co-write sometimes and then I
also write on my own a lot.
I usually feel like I can comeup with better ideas just when
it's just me, because I'm likeyou know, it's sometimes hard
when you're co-writing becauseeverybody's got these ideas
they're throwing out and thenyou like, forget your idea that
you had.
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And so I feel like I can work alittle bit better when I'm just
writing by myself.
But usually if I'm writing bymyself it's different than in a
co-write the process of it.
I usually start off with chordsthat I like if I'm by myself
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and then just start playingthrough it and I kind of just
start mumbling lyrics untilsomething sticks Something comes
out.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And that's usually like I usually have no basis, I
go off of when, I just sit downwriting by myself and I just
start kind of working it out andsometimes I'll sit like till
two, three in the morning justin my bed.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's not good Trying to yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But I feel like I can just function better at night
when everybody's asleep, whichis really inconvenient because I
live in an apartment and I'mlike playing at three in the
morning.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, but it's Nashville.
You know that's happening, soit's no big deal, I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But yeah, but like and then co-writes.
I usually I have a list ofideas that I have, so like
they'll just come out of nowheresometimes, but I just have a
list on my notes and my phoneand so I'll walk into a co-write
.
They're like okay, what do wewant to write about today?
And I'm like like, well, I'vegot a few ideas.
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If you want to share your ideas, we'll talk about it, and then
we kind of then go into the samething, except we have an idea.
With that I still startmumbling stuff and playing
chords, but I kind of have anidea of what I'm doing at a
co-write yeah, so is.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Um, when you walk into a co-write, is it like me
going into work and seeingeverybody, so you walk into a
co-write?
Is it like me going into workand seeing everybody?
So you walk into a co-write andit's like you're going to work
because everybody, you know,it's okay.
What do you want to write about?
What are we going to do today?
What, what, what do we want tobe the end result?
Is that how it all works?
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And it's weird being a creative thing also, because
it's like you're having to learnhow to cut on the creativity
and not during that three-hoursession, Right, which was kind
of hard for me at first becauseI was like, well, my ideas just
come like at random times andlike I don't know.
(09:22):
It felt harder to do, but youkind of have to just train your
mind to okay, when I sit down,you got to start thinking,
getting creative, and so I'mmore used to it now.
But it is an odd.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, it's kind of a weird feeling, I think,
sometimes when you got to reallyyou got to spill your guts.
You know what about.
And, that being said, how doyou channel your personal
experiences into your lyrics?
I mean, do you do that?
I mean relationships oranything that's going on.
It's like maybe you've had abad day and you've got a thought
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on your mind and you want towrite about it.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, I usually just kind of write what I'm feeling.
That day I went into a co-writeI guess it was Tuesday of this
week, so like two days ago and Iwas like I'm just feeling like
sad girl vibes today, can wewrite about that?
And he was like, yeah, ofcourse, but it's just kind of
what I'm feeling in the day, oryou know, things that have
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heavily been on my mind, like Ihave anxiety and depression, and
so if something is likebothering me, that's usually
what comes out in my writing.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You know, but I think we're all there when it comes
to anxiety and depression,because I can put my hand up as
well, but I think that makes youa better songwriter, because
you're able and I think it'slike therapy, right, I mean,
sitting down to write could belike therapy it, so is yeah just
spelling out what's going onand what you're thinking and
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putting it all together, I wouldyeah, definitely like I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm a person, I don't really hide anything.
I'm like an open book really atevery write.
It's like a mini therapysession and then you start
writing.
So it's nice, it helps.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No, and I've heard that from other artists as well.
They say you know, writing islike my therapy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So you know you get it all out.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's how I got into writing.
I was going through a reallytough time right after my
grandma died, and that was theonly way that I could channel it
, so that's how.
I got into it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And exactly what you're doing, mccartney, is
you're expressing your feelings.
And one thing I always say andI've been doing this quite a
while, especially the radiothing is that country music is
and I call it the soundtrack toour lives.
I'll be listening to a song andgo, holy crap, did so-and-so
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write that about me, becauseit's all real life and you're
only human.
You have relationships, we havea lot of that going on and it's
like like we can all relate towhat's going on to a certain
extent.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, that's what I love about country is you don't
have to be fake and you can justbe real and your authentic self
.
And I think it's hard toremember that sometimes because
everything else as far as themusic business is not except
country.
But that that's what kind ofdrew me to doing country, was
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just the authenticity of it whatelse do you listen to?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
you listen to pop, rhythmic hip-hop.
Tell me, tell me what you getdown to yeah, I listen to almost
anything like it's a mood thingit is yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So like if I am having a good day, I'm gonna
play like outcast, yeah oh, hey,yeah, like I love it like usher
flow, right, that's if I'mhaving a really good day, but,
like you know, play some taylorif I'm having a bad day or sad.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It's a relationship right there, that's like oh not
feeling it today.
Taylor Swift is my girl.
I can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm such a big Swifty .
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, there you go.
That's good.
Have you been to a Swifty show?
Have you been to one of hershows?
I have, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How many?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Two.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Two All right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I went to the Reputation Tour and the Eras
Tour, so I was only 12 at thefirst one.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I know Now, obviously I'm a little bit older, I could
probably be your dad.
But Taylor Swift when she firstcame out, I think I gave her
her first or second no More Netradio interview and she came
into town we're in Syracuse andI was working at another radio
station at the time interviewand she came into town we're in
Syracuse and I was working atanother radio station at the
time and she came in with herlabel rep and her mom and she
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sang Tim McGraw and she changedsome of the words.
I have three beautifuldaughters and she changed the
words.
She used their names in places,some of the names in the song
oh yeah, and I have it somewhereon a hard drive.
Do you think I can find it?
Nope but I, I will not give uplooking, because that just means
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so much that is so neat yeah,and I still have the thank you
card that she wrote.
So and then I think I go yeah,wow, now look it yeah, so and
that could be you.
So I, I'm just saying, I'm justsaying you know something to
look forward to where you saidyou're originally from Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I am yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, whereabouts in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm from kind of halfway between Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So north of Atlanta about a little town, very small
town.
Okay, so all we have in thetown is Reinhardt College, which
my ancestors started.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Really yeah, is the town called Reinhardt.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
The town is called Waleska.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And it was actually because the Native Americans
befriended the Reinhards, oh,and they named it after her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Wow so yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It's a neat history.
It is very interesting, thankyou.
So if I was to drive into yourhometown let's say I'm on the
main road, coming into town,heading for their first
intersection what would be thefirst thing I would see?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It would probably.
Well, there's only oneintersection.
There's only one intersection.
There's like on the littleintersection, there's like the
college on one side, and thenthere's like a church and a gas
station, that's like all thereis, and then we have a subway,
post office.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Sandwich shop maybe.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, dollar General, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So if you wanted to go somewhere I mean, let's say
you wanted to go into town wherewould you go?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So we would go to Canton.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And it was only like six miles from us.
That's like where my grandmahad her flower shop, and so it
was like it wasn't far at all.
So it would be like a 10-minutedrive to go to Target and
Canton had like everything asuburban area has.
Like we had Target Walmart.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Dollar General.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm just.
You know it's the same thinghere too, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So that's, we were about 10 minutes from you know
where we would get groceries andshop.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I'm going to take it back a little bit.
You were nominated for TeenArtist of the Year at the
Georgia Country Awards.
What was that experience likefor you?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It was actually so.
I was in my first year of highschool and it was during COVID.
It was such a weird time, likeI look back and I think that was
such a weird time in my life,during lockdown and everything,
and I started high school Likewe had to wear a mask the first
day.
It was so weird.
But I remember I was sittingout on my porch and it was after
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school and I was just scrollingon Facebook and that's how I
found out I was nominated for it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Really.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nobody called you, Nobody reached out and said hey,
McCartney, we got some goodnews for you.
Yeah, Instead you're just onyour socials, just scrolling
through Facebook, and you go,holy crap.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah Me and my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We were like oh, what an honor, though, what an honor
.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It was really neat, and I'm trying to think I hadn't
released a song at that pointeither, so it was really
shocking to me.
I was like I don't even haveany music out yet.
And so I went, and it was somuch fun.
It was at the Crazy Bowl inMacon, which is where Jason
Aldean got started.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, yeah, macon, georgia, yeah absolutely.
Absolutely you.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
So it was.
It was really fun, but I, I wasso young, I just wasn't
expecting it, and so it was afunny way to find out.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It was, uh, you say maybe like a holy crap moment
where you had to pinch yourselfand go, yeah, did this really
just happen?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
but nobody told me yeah, it was like it was one of
those moments where my mom toldme I was like uh-uh, uh-uh,
really I love it no, yeah, yeahI love it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Tell me about um, tell me about your parents very
supportive of what you do.
I would say they are.
Yes, yeah, now did they didthey move with you to nashville?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
they did, yeah, okay so I was 15 when we got our
apartment here, so we just allmoved up.
We sold our house, we sold mydad's business, um, we opened a
new one here, but we literallyleft everything in georgia and
just picked up and moved.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So that is such a good story because, just to know
that you have the support oftwo loving parents that want to
give you what you want to do andthey're going to give you that
opportunity, and they said,let's go, we're going to move,
we're going to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I'm so thankful .
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm able to do this and that they're able to do it
with me.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What is it?
Do you do anything else?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I mean, do you work during the day or I work on
Broadway playing?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh, you do.
So you hit up the different,the so-called honky tonks or
maybe a Tootsie's, or you godown to Jack's Barbecue or one
of those places.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So that is my job, I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No, I get you.
That's how I make all my moneyand then I put it back into my
music to what you do.
I get you how, um like, whattime of the day do you play it?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
um, it kind of depends.
I've done anywhere from like myshift yesterday that I had.
It was a 10 am to 2 pm okay,that's not too bad which is
actually really nice, becausethen you can just like you're
done for the day after two.
And then you know but I've done, I've done all of them, like
I've done two to six.
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So those are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
They're afternoon yeah, but the nighttime show's
got to be like holy crap.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There's a ton of people here and yes it gets
especially like six to tens, arepretty crowded and I played 10
to closes, so 10 pm to2 am.
So those are the ones that getlike crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And yeah, been there, I know yeah, I'm like the old
man on broadway.
When that's happening, it'slike I tell my wife come on, we
gotta go back to the hotel.
We're not, this isn't going towork for us there's so many
bachelorette parties, just a lotof stuff going on that you know
, just a lot of people and youknow, when you get a lot of
people together, there's certainthings that happen and this and
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that it's like okay, why I said10 to 2 is awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It is.
It was great and, like I lovelittle kids coming in and that
makes my day, even though youwouldn't think a lot of kids
would come down into bars onBroadway but they actually do.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I got to ask because we have a lot of viewers, a lot
of listeners that would love togo to Nashville.
I've had the opportunity to doit several times every year.
But how important is the tipjar for somebody like you that's
playing?
That's probably your only funds, right?
I mean, that's how you'regetting paid more or less it
almost is.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's by far the majority of the money we make.
We'll get a check from the clubat the end of the shift, but
that's bare minimum.
It's like anywhere from 50 to100 a person for four hours,
which isn't bad, but if that'syour only job, you know, no, I
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know that's why you know.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
you don't have to tell me the amounts, but I just
I'm trying to reinforce the factthat anybody that's watching
this or listening to thiswhether you're watching it live
now or you watch the replay thatwhen you go to Nashville and
you walk Broadway and you walkinto one of these bars and
somebody's playing and you seethat tip jar, that's pretty much
their bread and butter.
So if you're enjoying it, helpthem out.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, it helps so much and we do it to where $20 gets
your song to the top of the listthat you want to hear played,
so that always you know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What is?
I know I want to talk about thenew single, but what would you
say when you play out what isone of the most requested songs
for you to play?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Well, we have two songs on Broadway that are $100
songs because they're requestedso much.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, let me guess, is it Garth?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Um, it is Charlie Daniels.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
South's going to do it again.
No, yeah, oh, the devil wentdown to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay, and Leonard Skinner.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, a little sweet home, alabama or Freeburg.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Freeburg.
So yeah, so every, every timewe're down there, I'm like just
just letting everybody know wecan.
It doesn't have to come fromone person, but if you want to
put a little in the bucket andthen we can all build up to 100,
we can play that for y'all.
Just let us know.
It's been requested so much.
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That's why.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I was kind of curious .
Yeah, I get it, that makes alot of sense to me.
I figured maybe Friends in LowPlaces too, just because,
because sense to me.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I figured maybe Friends in Low Places too, just
because because that's a prettycommon one.
As far as the songs that womendo that I can sing, it's a
pretty standard list of probablylike 20 songs.
I might have like 30 to 40 onmine, just to feel have you
played Tootsies?
I have yeah, Do you?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
play with the same guys, you know.
Do you have you played Tootsies?
I have, yeah, and do you havethis?
Do you play with the same guysall the time, or it's just
whoever's up there gets up thereand does their thing?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So at Tootsies they have a circuit and they have
Tootsies, Rippies, Honky Tonk,Central and Kid Rocks.
So they book for all thoseclubs.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got you OK.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And they will just put you with somebody.
They're like the only clubsdown there that do that.
But if they just send you yourschedule and put you with a band
, but all the other clubs, youbring your own band, I love it.
So they just like tootsies.
They book each personindividually in the band and
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then just send them all together.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Gotcha, but at the rest of the clubs they.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, it's interesting, but it's nice if
you don't have time to get aband together, you're like, hey,
I'll just play there, I gotthese guys.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.
Yeah, it's weird, but I'llthrow a name out there.
Do you know Jason Teska.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I've heard of him.
I don't know if I've met him.
He plays guitar.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He's a hell of a guitar player.
When somebody needs a guitarplayer, he'll go out on the road
with them, really.
But he plays at Tootsie's quiteoften, or he did.
I mean, whenever I'm in townI'll swing in there and see if
he's playing or not.
But yeah, he plays there quitea bit.
He did.
I haven't talked to him in acouple of months, but it was
pretty much a regular thing forhim when he was in town.
(25:01):
Yeah, really good.
It's fun down there Is there, Iknow you.
Just let's talk about the newsingle.
Let's talk about it.
Tell me, I want you to telleverybody.
What is it why you wrote it andwhat are we doing with it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So this song is called Two Ships, and I wrote it
based on the poem of Two ShipsPassing in the Night.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So me and my co-writers came in, and it was
actually snowing the day wewrote it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
In Nashville.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But I was like I'm so sick of this.
I want to write about a summersong.
Like I, I need it to be warm,and so I'm just going to write
about this.
And so I had an idea, though,and it was like about when two
people are so in love and theysee each other every day and
then they turn to strangers.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I love it.
I'm playing it in thebackground as you talk.
Thank you yeah, yeah.
So now you put it out.
It dropped last week.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I love this.
Listen, we'll do this again.
Hope you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In the back of a bathroom drawer.
What a voice.
We both look so different.
It's like I don't even know usno more.
It's called two ships.
I remember that day, thosewaves, our names written down by
the shore.
We were both feet and we weresink or swim.
We were both on board.
(26:30):
How'd we go from always on thephone to deafening silence?
How'd we get from every sunsetto living on our own damn island
?
I was your lifeline, you weremine, like guiding lights in the
dead of night.
How'd we go from three littlewords rolling right off of our
(26:55):
lips to two ships?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
There it is, man, I'll tell you.
I just, you know, I started offthe podcast with that and it
just man.
Girl, you're just so full andso soulful.
And um, now the band.
You recorded that right innashville, I would assume I did
yes you did.
Now, is this a band you playwith all the time, or were they
(27:18):
what they call the studiomusicians?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So actually I kind of have a unique way of doing it,
not like most people here inNashville.
A lot of people just bring theplayers in and record it in the
studio.
But the guy that plays on mystuff, his name's Baggio and he
lives in the Netherlands oh wow,and so he records it while
we're on like it's called,session Wire, and so me, him and
(27:45):
my producer get on there andkind of work it all out, and
then he records it and sendsover the file.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's so
talented.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's
so talented.
I've seen I'm always on YouTubelooking around and seeing what
people are doing but I've seenartists do that and not
necessarily only in the countryformat, but other genres as well
, where, you know, you may havefive guys in a band and they are
in five different parts of theworld and they bring it all
together and it's like are youkidding me?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
This is so good, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, I love that.
So have you met him?
I mean, has he come over to theStates?
Have you been there?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I have never met him in person.
I've just talked to him overZoom and Session Wire but, he's
such a nice guy and he is ableto get the tones that I like,
since I do like kind of europeaninfluence sounds.
So I he's so good and I'mreally thankful that me and him,
(28:48):
my producer, all work togetheroh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And how did?
How did you meet him?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
it was through my producer gotcha, so um I went in
, I actually met my producerhere, gotcha.
So I went in.
I actually met my producer herein Nashville.
It was just at a writer's realmand I kind of looked over and I
was like he sounds familiar.
His name is Shawn Rogers and Ithought I know of him.
And so I Googled on my phone.
I was like Shawn Rogersproducer.
(29:15):
I was like yes, and so he hadproduced Bailey Zimmerman's
first song.
And so I was like yes, I'veheard of him.
And so I just walked up to himand I was like I would love to
work with you.
And he was like I would love towork with you.
And I was like perfect.
So then we got a right set upand I've been working with him
(29:36):
for the past few years.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, I love this.
I just posted Jason, who's beena follower of the Skip Happens
podcast.
He's also a radio programmer inthe Midwest, so this is a good
thing.
He comes on here and says, wow,she's really good, sounds like
another Carrie.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Now how cool is that, though?
I mean somebody to say that itsounds like another Carrie.
Oh, thank you so much.
Now, how cool is that, though?
I mean somebody to say that itsounds like another Carrie.
But you know what you do, butyou don't.
You are you.
You are McCartney Reinhart.
You have your own style andyour own way.
I get where it's coming from.
(30:16):
That maybe sounds like anotherCarrie, but there's always that
little bit of a difference, andI think that's very good, that
you know you're that way.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So thank you.
I used to have, like I remember, when I was little, my voice
was always lower than othergirls my age, like I would be
singing in kindergarten orsomething on the way to school
and I thought I don't know if Ilike my voice, like it's lower,
but I've, I've learned to likethe uniqueness of my voice more.
(30:41):
But when I was little I waslike I wish I sounded like
everybody else, but I'm thankfulfor that now.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, you don't want to sound like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You want to do your own thing.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
This is you, this is McCartney.
I love it and I love that name,by the way, mccartney Reinhardt
, and that is so cool.
Cool.
When you're not performing orwriting music, what do you love
to do?
To just kind of forget abouteverything else and to unwind.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I love being outside, just like we have a balcony
here.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's too hot, but go ahead it is, but I don't mind
the heat.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
No I know, I sit out there, I go to the pool I do
like being outside a lot andthen I like to paint.
Oh nice.
And just kind of, like you know, do kind of art stuff If I
don't feel like going outside.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Like what would you?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
paint.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
What.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It kind of depends on the day and I kind of don't
know what to sometimes Like.
Sometimes it'll be like asunset.
I love rainbows because they'relike a spiritual thing for me.
And so I do those a lot, or youknow, just whatever I'm feeling
.
If it's summer I'll like try topaint a sea turtle or something
(31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, I get it, I get it.
That's pretty cool.
Do you like any sports?
Gordie's asking, you know, askher the money question.
Does she like baseball?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I do like baseball.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do you go to the sounds?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I do, yeah, I love the sounds, I do yeah, I love
the sounds, but I I'm a bravesgirl at heart, but I I do like
going to the sounds game.
It's a lot more easy to go to asounds game than the braves
because you know they're minorleague.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No no, absolutely, and they're one level below the
majors.
They're triple a baseball.
So you see a lot of thoseplayers that go up and down.
I talk about this every podcast.
I do pretty much.
We're a big baseball family,really, and here in Syracuse
we're the Mets and of course wehave the New York Mets and we're
the AAA affiliate, the SyracuseMets.
So it's fun.
It's fun to go to the gamesbecause you see a lot of these
(32:49):
players that are major leagueyet they're down at this level
for one reason or another.
Maybe they need a little workon hitting or catching, or
batting, like I said, orwhatever running, but that's
what they do.
Jason also asking another greatquestion.
I don't know if you can see it,if I show it here, but are her
parents Beatles fans?
(33:10):
Because of the McCartneyreference?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yes, they are massive Beatles fans.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So they knew right when, even before I was born,
they were like we're going toname our little girl McCartney,
and so they just always lovedthat name, and my dad, being a
bassist, loves Paul McCartneyand everything.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh my God.
So yeah, Put on a great show.
Still at his age, he'sphenomenal, Just unbelievable
Ask your dad show, Still at hisage.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
He's phenomenal, Just unbelievable.
Ask your dad, he'll tell you,oh, you did.
Yeah, my first concert was him,when I was eight.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Dad took you, Said come on, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, it was crazy.
It was so good and I remember Iliterally would not get up.
The whole time my mom was likeI'm going to go, like do you
want to go to the T-shirt stand?
I was like, uh-uh, I don't wantto miss one song, so I just sat
there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Did you know?
The music, though, I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I did some of it.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
But I mean not near as much.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, like mom and dad were singing every word to
every song, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes, but I listened to him a lot after the concert.
Like I just got one of my dad'sCDs and listened to it like
every day but I knew some of thesongs.
But that was kind of whatreally got me listening to him
after that and he was like 72 atthe time put on a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Do you, for example, got two ships Before you did
anything with that?
Did you plan for mom and dadand go?
Okay, I need your honestopinion about this.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yes, I do that with all my songs.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And we actually we send it to my cousin back in
Georgia.
Okay, and I'm like please tellme what you think about this,
because I need an opinion.
So she always helps me with allthat and, like my best friend
back in Georgia, my boyfriend,you know, everyone around me.
I'm like do you like it, do younot?
What do we think?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And how well do you handle criticism when they go?
You know, mccartney, I don'tknow if I like that.
I don't know.
I want you the way you singthis verse, or how do you handle
all that?
It's like what do you mean?
I love it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
No, it depends on the day.
Really, if I'm having a goodday, I'm like okay, but if I'm
not, I'm like no, no, I'mputting that out because you
said not to.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Right, exactly yes, just do the opposite.
Yeah, but this one I was likeright when I wrote it I was like
this is my favorite song I'veever written and I was like I'm
putting it out so I love it, Iknow and I could see that doing
something and hopefully not onlyyou know here locally but
(35:59):
others pick up on it, and do youhave a team pushing it to radio
?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I do, I'm working with, like you know, I have my
team around me, but I'm alsodoing some of it myself.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
It's hard, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I'm not saying you can't do it, but it takes a lot
of time and there's going to bea lot of doors closing in your
face.
There's going to be a lot ofdoors opening.
So yeah you know it.
It takes.
It takes a little bit of time.
But other artists, more andmore artists now are doing it on
their own.
Drew Baldridge she's somebody'sdaughter.
(36:41):
I've known Drew for years buthe just he paid out of his own
pocket, hit his own littlerecord label.
He called radio stations.
He did it all on his own andlook what happened that song
went to number one.
It may have taken a little bitof time.
Great song went to number oneand now you so yeah, I got a
text from him.
The other day I got a text fromhim and said I finally got a
(37:01):
tour bus.
Wow, that's so cool.
But you know what?
And the same thing could happenwith you, and that's awesome,
awesome.
Do you play full when you're atthe club?
Are you playing a full band?
Is that a full band show?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I do yes, and then I like acoustic writers rounds
here in town.
So those are.
I do both ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I got you McCartney.
What's one thing fans might besurprised to learn about you?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I I'm trying to think .
It's hard when you get likesometimes I'll think like that's
a weird thing about me, butthen I don't remember, when I'm
thinking about it, probably thatI really, even though music is
my job, that's still the onething that I do that makes me
(37:56):
happy the most and that reallykind of grounds me in times of
yeah, when something's going on.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
you've got music to fall back on and you know what
they say and I think everybodywould agree Maybe not, but I
hope everybody would that musicbrings everybody together.
Music is the backbone of ourlives.
So to speak, it doesn't matterwhat genre it is, but music will
bring us together.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It so does, yeah, and any group of people.
It doesn't matter if they speakthe same language.
It's crazy what music can do topeople, and I especially
noticed that like playingdowntown, because there will be
people that are not from Americadown there but it's still like
(38:46):
just people bond over it.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It does.
It doesn't matter who you are,yeah.
It doesn't matter what coloryou are.
It doesn't matter what youbelieve in.
Music will bring us alltogether.
Yeah, and that's pretty awesome.
That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It is yeah, you believe in music will bring us
all together, yeah, and, andthat's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's pretty awesome .
It is, yeah, you know it's um,just seeing you.
You're still really youngNashville, three years, um, and
hopefully a whole lot more.
I could see that happening.
Uh, what is?
You've played out and aboutwith the full band.
Uh, can you describe, maybe, anexperience that was a little
bit off the wall Anything everhappen, like where you're on
(39:20):
stage and went, holy crap, Ican't believe this.
You'll never forget it.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
In other words, there , my God, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
So many right On Broadway.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
It's like they're normal by the point.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I'm sure they are Some of the things you probably
can't mention here, but go ahead, it's definitely people getting
kicked out for getting a littletouchy with people there's, oh
my God.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
One time there was this lady and it was her
birthday and she was dancing toChicken Fried and it was her
birthday and she was dancing toChicken.
Fried and she fell.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And hit a stool on the way down.
And took down somebody else orno Go ahead and everyone
gathered around her and I waslike what is going on?
The ambulance comes so much toBroadway and it's just like a
normal thing of the day.
You're like who's falling?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, who's going now ?
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, it's just like a normal occurrence, and so,
because people get so drunk,they just fall all over the
place and knock other peopleover, and so that was one of the
times that I was like so do youstop when that happens and
you're up there on that stage?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Do you stop playing or you just continue to do what
you do?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I'll kind of get through the song yeah, and then
I'll be like is everybody okayover there?
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I love that Jason's asking some great questions
tonight.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Jason, you ought to come out and be my co-host, Says
.
Have any other artists checkedher show out on Broadway that
she loves seeing?
Have?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
you noticed anybody?
So the people that I've met inthe industry that are, like,
bigger people, they don't reallylike to come down to Broadway,
much Like, and a lot of localsdon't really go down there.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, the locals don't.
Yeah, they want to.
That's why I ask in thebeginning, like, where do you
live?
Do you live close to downtown?
Because you know you don't wantto be in the middle of that.
Plus, it goes to all hours ofthe morning and you hear the
sirens and the people yellingand there could be fights and
people doing this, and that it'scrazy.
It's crazy, but.
But, that being said, I'm notdissing nashville at all.
(41:36):
I love Nashville.
Best city in the world.
I love it.
Yeah, no, exactly, you neverknow who you're going to see or
when you have to experience.
It's just that there's a goodtime and a bad time to go down
on Broadway.
In the way of just, if youdon't like being in crowds,
don't go to Broadway at night,but go in the morning.
So there's still a lot to see.
(41:56):
There's a lot of history.
There's the Mother Church.
The Ryman is right around thecorner.
Which, by the way?
Have you stepped foot on thatstage yet?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
You will.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Only in the tour I have.
But thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Were you at the Country Radio Seminar a couple
of years ago, when they do lunchat the Ryman, and were you by
chance there?
Oh, she's gone.
I was going to ask her if shehad been there.
You know, at the RymanAuditorium we go to a country
radio seminar.
I've done that well, over 20years and one of the major
(42:32):
labels what they do is they havelunch in the Ryman Auditorium
and everybody gets a box lunch,but the label that's putting it
on brings out every single oneof their artists to play at
least one song If there's radiopeople watching.
I know, jason, I don't know ifyou've been there or not, but
it's something to experiencebecause you do get to see all
(42:55):
the artists and there's always asurprise at the end.
And for anybody like McCartneyto step foot on that stage as a
new artist, to stand there inthe middle of that stage, it has
to be just a feeling, feelinglike no other, because that's
the Mother Church, it's rightdowntown.
I know they have the Grand OleOpry, but this is also the Grand
Ole Opry, but they call it theMother Church and if you're
(43:18):
going to Nashville, highlyrecommend that you check that
out as well and, of course, takethe walk on Broadway.
Just, you know you got to pickthe right time to go.
But Nashville, you know I'm notdissing it at all, it's just
one of the greatest cities inthe world.
It's the most fun.
You never know who you're goingto see.
You could go to a grocery store.
You could be standing behindTim McGraw at the line to check
(43:38):
out.
I'm not kidding, it's happened.
So all that, all that, I'mhoping McCartney will pop back
in here in a moment or two.
Just keep an eye on things hereand hopefully she'll pop in.
But if you have any questionsor anything, I can answer for
you while I have you here.
Oh yeah, jason, vince Gillsinging go rest high in that
(44:01):
mountain for Mindy McCready.
Oh, my God, you know that was amoment.
I watched that.
I saw the video of that.
Also, charlie Daniels, whenthey did the tribute to him.
Of course, vince coming onstage and doing that.
You know, go Rest High on thatmountain, absolutely.
(44:23):
It's just wow, absolutely.
So I'm hoping McCartney's goingto pop in here any moment or
two.
I'm keeping an eye on thescreen because I'm solo right
now, but hey, that's the way itgoes.
So, anyway, you know what I betshe's going to come back on.
It's going to be.
You know, skip, I'm sorry, myphone went dead.
(44:46):
Let's watch, let's wait and seewhat happens.
So she's running around rightnow looking for a charger in her
apartment and she's probablybecause she's with her mom and
dad.
It's probably like Mom, dad,where's my charger?
Where's my charger?
You can plug it in Phone'sgoing to come back up and she's
going to pop on here any second.
Maybe.
Let's hope.
But then again, you never know.
(45:06):
You never, ever know.
This is Skip Happens.
And, by the way, while I dohave you, if you haven't noticed
, I love to talk.
So if you haven't subscribed toSkip Happens, just go to
YouTube, search Skip Happens andsubscribe.
Please help me out with that aswe take this to the next level.
We are so close to hitting thatmark, so close.
(45:28):
So if you wouldn't mind helpingout, that would be greatly
appreciated.
And, as you know, I've beendoing this a long time and the
connection that I have withNashville and a lot of my
colleagues in radio.
No, no, jason, it is not timefor some Skip stand-up comedy.
No, it is not.
I mean no, we don't want to dothat.
(45:49):
Never mind, not now, not now.
Here she is Now.
This is what I think All right.
So McCartney's coming back andshe should be there, just popped
in.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
I'll help.
Oh, there you are, we can hearyou.
Okay, but Okay, but here Nowlet me guess, did your phone go
dead?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
It cut off.
I think it got so hot.
Oh, no, let me see if thiscamera will work.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Why are you sorry for it.
It happens.
You know what.
Do you know what the name ofthe podcast is?
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Skip Happens.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, true.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It happened.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
It happened.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, it's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, no, no, no, you're still there.
I mean, you know you're there,but we don't see you.
But that's okay.
You know what?
I just.
If somebody wanted to get aholdof your music, mccartney, where
can they go?
Are you on socials?
If so, what?
And how can we download some ofyour music?
You got two ships.
I think we need to go out andsupport you and everybody needs
to get that as well.
(46:55):
How can we do that?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
You can find me at McCartney Reinhart on Apple
Music, spotify, any of that, andthen just McCartney Reinhart
Music on Instagram and my namealso on TikTok Cool.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
How often do you do little TikTok thingies?
I usually post once or twice aday.
So I try to stay pretty activewith it.
I should Well, you have to.
You know, McCartney think of itthis way.
Look at all the artists thathave really put the groundwork
down because of social media.
(47:36):
Look what it did for them.
It's just amazing.
I mean Kane Brown, man, I cango on and on.
It's just so many artists havedone that.
Bailey Zimmerman, just SamBarber, I can go on and on.
It's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
It's amazing.
You know what?
I don't think we're going toget the camera.
I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I'm so sorry.
I don't know why the camerawon't work.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
I don't know why the camera won't work.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
I'm trying to.
Maybe I broke it.
I think my phone overheatedit's so hot here but.
Put it on?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I don't know, but I do want to say thank you.
It's so good to talk to you.
Two ships being the new single.
What about an EP or any word onan album yet, or anything like
that?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
So I'm hoping to get an EP out next year.
I've kind of thought about it,so I'm not sure yet, but I'm
thinking that'll be in thefuture soon, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Awesome.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, and real quickly, anynews on a radio tour?
Have you been able to get outand visit stations or anything
like that?
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I am actually going to the Bull in Augusta, Georgia
tomorrow Very cool, yeah, so I'mdoing that for Backyard Country
, but that's the only one I havescheduled like set in stone
right now.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But I'm hoping to have more, yeah, well you know
what I'm so proud of you.
I'm so glad that you reachedout.
To get you back on, skipHappens, my door is open and
you're welcome any time.
Anybody is welcome any time.
No, thank you, because it'sgreat artists like you that make
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my job really easy.
Number one you're a greatinterview.
Number two your music on theair.
It's going to sound awesome.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (49:31):
It's going in the right direction.
So you make my job easy.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Thank you so much.
I always enjoy being on this,so thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, we have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of fun.
So, mccartney, I just want tosay thank you for joining us.
We're going to say goodbye toall our viewers and listeners
and I want you to stay rightthere, though.
Okay, sounds good.
All right, everybody, anotheredition of Skip Happens.
It's in the books, and if youwould subscribe, if you got to
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We got a lot of good stuffcoming down.
We're gonna get you updated onthat very soon and, yes, we are
going to the next level.
So, anyways, thanks forwatching everybody.
My name is skip clark.
Have a pleasant evening.
It's skip happens.
Remember that.
Thank you, and we'll see younext week.
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark.
You know that I'm the host ofSkip Happens.
We're joined by a risingNashville country artist.
Her name is McCartney Reinhart.
Listen to this.
Listen.
Here she is.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Found a Polaroid picture in the back of a
bathroom drawer.
We both look so different it'slike I don't even know us no
more.
Here we go, that's it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's McCartney, and she is known for that
powerhouse vocal that you canhear right there.
Her vocals so strong, soulfultwang and heartfelt lyrics.
Mccartney, quickly making wavesin the industry, growing up in
a musical family we're going totalk about that here in just a
little bit To performing acrossthe Southeast.
(01:06):
She's a name you'll want toremember, as you can tell from
right there.
We'll talk about that here injust a little bit.
By the way, that's like her newsingle, that is, I don't know
if it dropped yet or it's goingto drop this week, like maybe
tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It dropped last Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Last Friday, I knew there was a Friday in there.
Yeah, it's time to dive intoher journey, her sound and
what's next?
Mccartney, look at you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Man, it's so good to see you.
I know you've been on SkipHappens before we did all this.
It was a while ago, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It was fun.
Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, absolutely Well, you reached out and I'm so glad
you did because I mean you weregreat last time.
Now I'm listening to like thisnew single.
I mean you're evolving intoquite the powerhouse and you're
so welcome.
Where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I am just in my apartment right now.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
In Nashville.
In Nashville, yeah, are youright downtown or just outside
of Nashville a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm a little bit outside of Nashville.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Good move yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're about 20 minutes out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I love it.
Yeah, that's easy, so easy in,easy out.
Yeah, so, McCartney, you know.
Just talking about your voice alittle bit, I know it's been
described as a mix of blues,soul and classic country.
How would you describe yoursound?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think I would describe it kind of like that.
I think I definitely have kindof like a blues influence.
Being from like Georgia, I feellike that played in, and my
ancestor, django Reinhardt, wasalso a blues musician, so I
think that kind of got passeddown and like I didn't realize
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it as much until I startedputting the dots together that,
like you know, he was in myfamily and so then I was like,
okay, that's, that must be wheresome of that comes from.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I just, oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, but yeah, I think , and then with my accent mixed
into it, it gives it definitelythe more country vibe too.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, no, I love that .
I love that.
I love your accent.
Thank you, it's really good.
But you talk about would hehave been your great-grandfather
?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So he was a little bit further back.
Further back, okay, I don'tknow the exact relation.
I think it's more of like anuncle or cousin.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He was a jazz superstar, I mean just.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He was so good.
I watch videos sometimes andI'm like, oh my God, that's
crazy that I was related to thisguy.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's awesome.
So you got music in your blood,so to speak.
So are you the only one in yourfamily, besides you and him,
that play music?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Almost every generation of my family plays
music, so my dad is a bassistand he plays for me a good bit.
And he, you know, travels withme and it's really nice to for
him to be on stage with me andit's, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I was gonna ask what's it like with your dad
standing behind you.
I mean that's got to be like.
I mean is it cool or is it like?
Oh my god, that's my dad.
I gotta behave no, it's, it's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I really enjoy it, like I am so close to my parents
, so they're my best friendsreally so it's, I've I've never
been like the type of teenagerto be like oh my god, my parents
are around, I gotta act goodyou know like I just I treat
them like my best friends.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So how long have you actually been in nashville?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
so this past may was three years that I've been here,
okay, so it's it's been alittle bit now, but I'm still
new, but I'm starting to getsettled in more.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What would you say is your biggest challenge right
now?
You've only been there threeyears.
They say that's a 10-year townand I firmly believe that
because I've talked to so manyindependents like yourself,
because you know, I've talked toso many independents like
yourself, you know, and they'vebeen there seven, eight, nine,
ten years, and then all of asudden it's like wow, I did it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it's definitely encouraging to know
that like I've got like sevenmore years left.
I've got a lot more than thatUntil my tenure mark and I kind
of don't know how to count it.
Like I came up here when I was14 for the first time I was
almost 15.
So I've been here four yearsbut only lived here three years.
(05:31):
So I don't know if I'm in mythird, fourth year, but
somewhere around there.
But if I ever get down I'm likeit's okay.
People have been here waylonger than I have and just now,
you know, break in.
And so it is definitelyencouraging when I get down to
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think that I'm only a few yearsinto living here.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, but that's huge .
And look where you are, though.
I mean you're putting a songout to radio.
You've done this before, thankyou.
You know, if I was to, I'dlisten your, your voice, and, um
, I would never think you areand I don't mean this in any bad
way that you would.
You're very young, but you onthe record, you sound very
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mature and soulful and full, andit's like wow thank you, no, I
appreciate that so much tell mea little bit about your
songwriting.
You do a lot of that on your own, correct?
If not all yeah, yeah, yep.
And can you walk me throughthat process a little bit?
Tell me about your creativeside and how you come up with
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those ideas and what have you?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, so I do co-write sometimes and then I
also write on my own a lot.
I usually feel like I can comeup with better ideas just when
it's just me, because I'm likeyou know, it's sometimes hard
when you're co-writing becauseeverybody's got these ideas
they're throwing out and thenyou like, forget your idea that
you had.
(06:59):
And so I feel like I can work alittle bit better when I'm just
writing by myself.
But usually if I'm writing bymyself it's different than in a
co-write the process of it.
I usually start off with chordsthat I like if I'm by myself
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and then just start playingthrough it and I kind of just
start mumbling lyrics untilsomething sticks Something comes
out.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And that's usually like I usually have no basis, I
go off of when, I just sit downwriting by myself and I just
start kind of working it out andsometimes I'll sit like till
two, three in the morning justin my bed.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's not good Trying to yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But I feel like I can just function better at night
when everybody's asleep, whichis really inconvenient because I
live in an apartment and I'mlike playing at three in the
morning.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, but it's Nashville.
You know that's happening, soit's no big deal, I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But yeah, but like and then co-writes.
I usually I have a list ofideas that I have, so like
they'll just come out of nowheresometimes, but I just have a
list on my notes and my phoneand so I'll walk into a co-write
.
They're like okay, what do wewant to write about today?
And I'm like like, well, I'vegot a few ideas.
(08:33):
If you want to share your ideas, we'll talk about it, and then
we kind of then go into the samething, except we have an idea.
With that I still startmumbling stuff and playing
chords, but I kind of have anidea of what I'm doing at a
co-write yeah, so is.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Um, when you walk into a co-write, is it like me
going into work and seeingeverybody, so you walk into a
co-write?
Is it like me going into workand seeing everybody?
So you walk into a co-write andit's like you're going to work
because everybody, you know,it's okay.
What do you want to write about?
What are we going to do today?
What, what, what do we want tobe the end result?
Is that how it all works?
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And it's weird being a creative thing also, because
it's like you're having to learnhow to cut on the creativity
and not during that three-hoursession, Right, which was kind
of hard for me at first becauseI was like, well, my ideas just
come like at random times andlike I don't know.
(09:22):
It felt harder to do, but youkind of have to just train your
mind to okay, when I sit down,you got to start thinking,
getting creative, and so I'mmore used to it now.
But it is an odd.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, it's kind of a weird feeling, I think,
sometimes when you got to reallyyou got to spill your guts.
You know what about.
And, that being said, how doyou channel your personal
experiences into your lyrics?
I mean, do you do that?
I mean relationships oranything that's going on.
It's like maybe you've had abad day and you've got a thought
(09:56):
on your mind and you want towrite about it.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, I usually just kind of write what I'm feeling.
That day I went into a co-writeI guess it was Tuesday of this
week, so like two days ago and Iwas like I'm just feeling like
sad girl vibes today, can wewrite about that?
And he was like, yeah, ofcourse, but it's just kind of
what I'm feeling in the day, oryou know, things that have
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heavily been on my mind, like Ihave anxiety and depression, and
so if something is likebothering me, that's usually
what comes out in my writing.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You know, but I think we're all there when it comes
to anxiety and depression,because I can put my hand up as
well, but I think that makes youa better songwriter, because
you're able and I think it'slike therapy, right, I mean,
sitting down to write could belike therapy it, so is yeah just
spelling out what's going onand what you're thinking and
(10:54):
putting it all together, I wouldyeah, definitely like I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm a person, I don't really hide anything.
I'm like an open book really atevery write.
It's like a mini therapysession and then you start
writing.
So it's nice, it helps.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No, and I've heard that from other artists as well.
They say you know, writing islike my therapy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So you know you get it all out.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's how I got into writing.
I was going through a reallytough time right after my
grandma died, and that was theonly way that I could channel it
, so that's how.
I got into it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And exactly what you're doing, mccartney, is
you're expressing your feelings.
And one thing I always say andI've been doing this quite a
while, especially the radiothing is that country music is
and I call it the soundtrack toour lives.
I'll be listening to a song andgo, holy crap, did so-and-so
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write that about me, becauseit's all real life and you're
only human.
You have relationships, we havea lot of that going on and it's
like like we can all relate towhat's going on to a certain
extent.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, that's what I love about country is you don't
have to be fake and you can justbe real and your authentic self
.
And I think it's hard toremember that sometimes because
everything else as far as themusic business is not except
country.
But that that's what kind ofdrew me to doing country, was
(12:29):
just the authenticity of it whatelse do you listen to?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
you listen to pop, rhythmic hip-hop.
Tell me, tell me what you getdown to yeah, I listen to almost
anything like it's a mood thingit is yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So like if I am having a good day, I'm gonna
play like outcast, yeah oh, hey,yeah, like I love it like usher
flow, right, that's if I'mhaving a really good day, but,
like you know, play some taylorif I'm having a bad day or sad.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It's a relationship right there, that's like oh not
feeling it today.
Taylor Swift is my girl.
I can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm such a big Swifty .
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, there you go.
That's good.
Have you been to a Swifty show?
Have you been to one of hershows?
I have, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How many?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Two.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Two All right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I went to the Reputation Tour and the Eras
Tour, so I was only 12 at thefirst one.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I know Now, obviously I'm a little bit older, I could
probably be your dad.
But Taylor Swift when she firstcame out, I think I gave her
her first or second no More Netradio interview and she came
into town we're in Syracuse andI was working at another radio
station at the time interviewand she came into town we're in
Syracuse and I was working atanother radio station at the
time and she came in with herlabel rep and her mom and she
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sang Tim McGraw and she changedsome of the words.
I have three beautifuldaughters and she changed the
words.
She used their names in places,some of the names in the song
oh yeah, and I have it somewhereon a hard drive.
Do you think I can find it?
Nope but I, I will not give uplooking, because that just means
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so much that is so neat yeah,and I still have the thank you
card that she wrote.
So and then I think I go yeah,wow, now look it yeah, so and
that could be you.
So I, I'm just saying, I'm justsaying you know something to
look forward to where you saidyou're originally from Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I am yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, whereabouts in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm from kind of halfway between Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So north of Atlanta about a little town, very small
town.
Okay, so all we have in thetown is Reinhardt College, which
my ancestors started.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Really yeah, is the town called Reinhardt.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
The town is called Waleska.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And it was actually because the Native Americans
befriended the Reinhards, oh,and they named it after her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Wow so yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It's a neat history.
It is very interesting, thankyou.
So if I was to drive into yourhometown let's say I'm on the
main road, coming into town,heading for their first
intersection what would be thefirst thing I would see?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It would probably.
Well, there's only oneintersection.
There's only one intersection.
There's like on the littleintersection, there's like the
college on one side, and thenthere's like a church and a gas
station, that's like all thereis, and then we have a subway,
post office.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Sandwich shop maybe.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, dollar General, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So if you wanted to go somewhere I mean, let's say
you wanted to go into town wherewould you go?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So we would go to Canton.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And it was only like six miles from us.
That's like where my grandmahad her flower shop, and so it
was like it wasn't far at all.
So it would be like a 10-minutedrive to go to Target and
Canton had like everything asuburban area has.
Like we had Target Walmart.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Dollar General.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm just.
You know it's the same thinghere too, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So that's, we were about 10 minutes from you know
where we would get groceries andshop.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I'm going to take it back a little bit.
You were nominated for TeenArtist of the Year at the
Georgia Country Awards.
What was that experience likefor you?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It was actually so.
I was in my first year of highschool and it was during COVID.
It was such a weird time, likeI look back and I think that was
such a weird time in my life,during lockdown and everything,
and I started high school Likewe had to wear a mask the first
day.
It was so weird.
But I remember I was sittingout on my porch and it was after
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school and I was just scrollingon Facebook and that's how I
found out I was nominated for it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Really.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nobody called you, Nobody reached out and said hey,
McCartney, we got some goodnews for you.
Yeah, Instead you're just onyour socials, just scrolling
through Facebook, and you go,holy crap.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah Me and my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We were like oh, what an honor, though, what an honor
.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It was really neat, and I'm trying to think I hadn't
released a song at that pointeither, so it was really
shocking to me.
I was like I don't even haveany music out yet.
And so I went, and it was somuch fun.
It was at the Crazy Bowl inMacon, which is where Jason
Aldean got started.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, yeah, macon, georgia, yeah absolutely.
Absolutely you.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
So it was.
It was really fun, but I, I wasso young, I just wasn't
expecting it, and so it was afunny way to find out.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It was, uh, you say maybe like a holy crap moment
where you had to pinch yourselfand go, yeah, did this really
just happen?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
but nobody told me yeah, it was like it was one of
those moments where my mom toldme I was like uh-uh, uh-uh,
really I love it no, yeah, yeahI love it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Tell me about um, tell me about your parents very
supportive of what you do.
I would say they are.
Yes, yeah, now did they didthey move with you to nashville?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
they did, yeah, okay so I was 15 when we got our
apartment here, so we just allmoved up.
We sold our house, we sold mydad's business, um, we opened a
new one here, but we literallyleft everything in georgia and
just picked up and moved.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So that is such a good story because, just to know
that you have the support oftwo loving parents that want to
give you what you want to do andthey're going to give you that
opportunity, and they said,let's go, we're going to move,
we're going to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I'm so thankful .
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm able to do this and that they're able to do it
with me.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What is it?
Do you do anything else?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I mean, do you work during the day or I work on
Broadway playing?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh, you do.
So you hit up the different,the so-called honky tonks or
maybe a Tootsie's, or you godown to Jack's Barbecue or one
of those places.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So that is my job, I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No, I get you.
That's how I make all my moneyand then I put it back into my
music to what you do.
I get you how, um like, whattime of the day do you play it?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
um, it kind of depends.
I've done anywhere from like myshift yesterday that I had.
It was a 10 am to 2 pm okay,that's not too bad which is
actually really nice, becausethen you can just like you're
done for the day after two.
And then you know but I've done, I've done all of them, like
I've done two to six.
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So those are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
They're afternoon yeah, but the nighttime show's
got to be like holy crap.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There's a ton of people here and yes it gets
especially like six to tens, arepretty crowded and I played 10
to closes, so 10 pm to2 am.
So those are the ones that getlike crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And yeah, been there, I know yeah, I'm like the old
man on broadway.
When that's happening, it'slike I tell my wife come on, we
gotta go back to the hotel.
We're not, this isn't going towork for us there's so many
bachelorette parties, just a lotof stuff going on that you know
, just a lot of people and youknow, when you get a lot of
people together, there's certainthings that happen and this and
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that it's like okay, why I said10 to 2 is awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It is.
It was great and, like I lovelittle kids coming in and that
makes my day, even though youwouldn't think a lot of kids
would come down into bars onBroadway but they actually do.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I got to ask because we have a lot of viewers, a lot
of listeners that would love togo to Nashville.
I've had the opportunity to doit several times every year.
But how important is the tipjar for somebody like you that's
playing?
That's probably your only funds, right?
I mean, that's how you'regetting paid more or less it
almost is.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's by far the majority of the money we make.
We'll get a check from the clubat the end of the shift, but
that's bare minimum.
It's like anywhere from 50 to100 a person for four hours,
which isn't bad, but if that'syour only job, you know, no, I
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know that's why you know.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
you don't have to tell me the amounts, but I just
I'm trying to reinforce the factthat anybody that's watching
this or listening to thiswhether you're watching it live
now or you watch the replay thatwhen you go to Nashville and
you walk Broadway and you walkinto one of these bars and
somebody's playing and you seethat tip jar, that's pretty much
their bread and butter.
So if you're enjoying it, helpthem out.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, it helps so much and we do it to where $20 gets
your song to the top of the listthat you want to hear played,
so that always you know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What is?
I know I want to talk about thenew single, but what would you
say when you play out what isone of the most requested songs
for you to play?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Well, we have two songs on Broadway that are $100
songs because they're requestedso much.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, let me guess, is it Garth?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Um, it is Charlie Daniels.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
South's going to do it again.
No, yeah, oh, the devil wentdown to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay, and Leonard Skinner.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, a little sweet home, alabama or Freeburg.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Freeburg.
So yeah, so every, every timewe're down there, I'm like just
just letting everybody know wecan.
It doesn't have to come fromone person, but if you want to
put a little in the bucket andthen we can all build up to 100,
we can play that for y'all.
Just let us know.
It's been requested so much.
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That's why.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I was kind of curious .
Yeah, I get it, that makes alot of sense to me.
I figured maybe Friends in LowPlaces too, just because,
because sense to me.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I figured maybe Friends in Low Places too, just
because because that's a prettycommon one.
As far as the songs that womendo that I can sing, it's a
pretty standard list of probablylike 20 songs.
I might have like 30 to 40 onmine, just to feel have you
played Tootsies?
I have yeah, Do you?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
play with the same guys, you know.
Do you have you played Tootsies?
I have, yeah, and do you havethis?
Do you play with the same guysall the time, or it's just
whoever's up there gets up thereand does their thing?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So at Tootsies they have a circuit and they have
Tootsies, Rippies, Honky Tonk,Central and Kid Rocks.
So they book for all thoseclubs.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got you OK.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And they will just put you with somebody.
They're like the only clubsdown there that do that.
But if they just send you yourschedule and put you with a band
, but all the other clubs, youbring your own band, I love it.
So they just like tootsies.
They book each personindividually in the band and
(24:17):
then just send them all together.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Gotcha, but at the rest of the clubs they.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, it's interesting, but it's nice if
you don't have time to get aband together, you're like, hey,
I'll just play there, I gotthese guys.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.
Yeah, it's weird, but I'llthrow a name out there.
Do you know Jason Teska.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I've heard of him.
I don't know if I've met him.
He plays guitar.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He's a hell of a guitar player.
When somebody needs a guitarplayer, he'll go out on the road
with them, really.
But he plays at Tootsie's quiteoften, or he did.
I mean, whenever I'm in townI'll swing in there and see if
he's playing or not.
But yeah, he plays there quitea bit.
He did.
I haven't talked to him in acouple of months, but it was
pretty much a regular thing forhim when he was in town.
(25:01):
Yeah, really good.
It's fun down there Is there, Iknow you.
Just let's talk about the newsingle.
Let's talk about it.
Tell me, I want you to telleverybody.
What is it why you wrote it andwhat are we doing with it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So this song is called Two Ships, and I wrote it
based on the poem of Two ShipsPassing in the Night.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So me and my co-writers came in, and it was
actually snowing the day wewrote it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
In Nashville.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But I was like I'm so sick of this.
I want to write about a summersong.
Like I, I need it to be warm,and so I'm just going to write
about this.
And so I had an idea, though,and it was like about when two
people are so in love and theysee each other every day and
then they turn to strangers.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I love it.
I'm playing it in thebackground as you talk.
Thank you yeah, yeah.
So now you put it out.
It dropped last week.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I love this.
Listen, we'll do this again.
Hope you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In the back of a bathroom drawer.
What a voice.
We both look so different.
It's like I don't even know usno more.
It's called two ships.
I remember that day, thosewaves, our names written down by
the shore.
We were both feet and we weresink or swim.
We were both on board.
(26:30):
How'd we go from always on thephone to deafening silence?
How'd we get from every sunsetto living on our own damn island
?
I was your lifeline, you weremine, like guiding lights in the
dead of night.
How'd we go from three littlewords rolling right off of our
(26:55):
lips to two ships?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
There it is, man, I'll tell you.
I just, you know, I started offthe podcast with that and it
just man.
Girl, you're just so full andso soulful.
And um, now the band.
You recorded that right innashville, I would assume I did
yes you did.
Now, is this a band you playwith all the time, or were they
(27:18):
what they call the studiomusicians?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So actually I kind of have a unique way of doing it,
not like most people here inNashville.
A lot of people just bring theplayers in and record it in the
studio.
But the guy that plays on mystuff, his name's Baggio and he
lives in the Netherlands oh wow,and so he records it while
we're on like it's called,session Wire, and so me, him and
(27:45):
my producer get on there andkind of work it all out, and
then he records it and sendsover the file.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's so
talented.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's
so talented.
I've seen I'm always on YouTubelooking around and seeing what
people are doing but I've seenartists do that and not
necessarily only in the countryformat, but other genres as well
, where, you know, you may havefive guys in a band and they are
in five different parts of theworld and they bring it all
together and it's like are youkidding me?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
This is so good, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, I love that.
So have you met him?
I mean, has he come over to theStates?
Have you been there?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I have never met him in person.
I've just talked to him overZoom and Session Wire but, he's
such a nice guy and he is ableto get the tones that I like,
since I do like kind of europeaninfluence sounds.
So I he's so good and I'mreally thankful that me and him,
(28:48):
my producer, all work togetheroh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And how did?
How did you meet him?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
it was through my producer gotcha, so um I went in
, I actually met my producerhere, gotcha.
So I went in.
I actually met my producer herein Nashville.
It was just at a writer's realmand I kind of looked over and I
was like he sounds familiar.
His name is Shawn Rogers and Ithought I know of him.
And so I Googled on my phone.
I was like Shawn Rogersproducer.
(29:15):
I was like yes, and so he hadproduced Bailey Zimmerman's
first song.
And so I was like yes, I'veheard of him.
And so I just walked up to himand I was like I would love to
work with you.
And he was like I would love towork with you.
And I was like perfect.
So then we got a right set upand I've been working with him
(29:36):
for the past few years.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, I love this.
I just posted Jason, who's beena follower of the Skip Happens
podcast.
He's also a radio programmer inthe Midwest, so this is a good
thing.
He comes on here and says, wow,she's really good, sounds like
another Carrie.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Now how cool is that, though?
I mean somebody to say that itsounds like another Carrie.
Oh, thank you so much.
Now, how cool is that, though?
I mean somebody to say that itsounds like another Carrie.
But you know what you do, butyou don't.
You are you.
You are McCartney Reinhart.
You have your own style andyour own way.
I get where it's coming from.
(30:16):
That maybe sounds like anotherCarrie, but there's always that
little bit of a difference, andI think that's very good, that
you know you're that way.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So thank you.
I used to have, like I remember, when I was little, my voice
was always lower than othergirls my age, like I would be
singing in kindergarten orsomething on the way to school
and I thought I don't know if Ilike my voice, like it's lower,
but I've, I've learned to likethe uniqueness of my voice more.
(30:41):
But when I was little I waslike I wish I sounded like
everybody else, but I'm thankfulfor that now.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, you don't want to sound like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You want to do your own thing.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
This is you, this is McCartney.
I love it and I love that name,by the way, mccartney Reinhardt
, and that is so cool.
Cool.
When you're not performing orwriting music, what do you love
to do?
To just kind of forget abouteverything else and to unwind.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I love being outside, just like we have a balcony
here.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's too hot, but go ahead it is, but I don't mind
the heat.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
No I know, I sit out there, I go to the pool I do
like being outside a lot andthen I like to paint.
Oh nice.
And just kind of, like you know, do kind of art stuff If I
don't feel like going outside.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Like what would you?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
paint.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
What.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It kind of depends on the day and I kind of don't
know what to sometimes Like.
Sometimes it'll be like asunset.
I love rainbows because they'relike a spiritual thing for me.
And so I do those a lot, or youknow, just whatever I'm feeling
.
If it's summer I'll like try topaint a sea turtle or something
(31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, I get it, I get it.
That's pretty cool.
Do you like any sports?
Gordie's asking, you know, askher the money question.
Does she like baseball?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I do like baseball.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do you go to the sounds?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I do, yeah, I love the sounds, I do yeah, I love
the sounds, but I I'm a bravesgirl at heart, but I I do like
going to the sounds game.
It's a lot more easy to go to asounds game than the braves
because you know they're minorleague.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No no, absolutely, and they're one level below the
majors.
They're triple a baseball.
So you see a lot of thoseplayers that go up and down.
I talk about this every podcast.
I do pretty much.
We're a big baseball family,really, and here in Syracuse
we're the Mets and of course wehave the New York Mets and we're
the AAA affiliate, the SyracuseMets.
So it's fun.
It's fun to go to the gamesbecause you see a lot of these
(32:49):
players that are major leagueyet they're down at this level
for one reason or another.
Maybe they need a little workon hitting or catching, or
batting, like I said, orwhatever running, but that's
what they do.
Jason also asking another greatquestion.
I don't know if you can see it,if I show it here, but are her
parents Beatles fans?
(33:10):
Because of the McCartneyreference?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yes, they are massive Beatles fans.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So they knew right when, even before I was born,
they were like we're going toname our little girl McCartney,
and so they just always lovedthat name, and my dad, being a
bassist, loves Paul McCartneyand everything.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh my God.
So yeah, Put on a great show.
Still at his age, he'sphenomenal, Just unbelievable
Ask your dad show, Still at hisage.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
He's phenomenal, Just unbelievable.
Ask your dad, he'll tell you,oh, you did.
Yeah, my first concert was him,when I was eight.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Dad took you, Said come on, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, it was crazy.
It was so good and I remember Iliterally would not get up.
The whole time my mom was likeI'm going to go, like do you
want to go to the T-shirt stand?
I was like, uh-uh, I don't wantto miss one song, so I just sat
there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Did you know?
The music, though, I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I did some of it.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
But I mean not near as much.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, like mom and dad were singing every word to
every song, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes, but I listened to him a lot after the concert.
Like I just got one of my dad'sCDs and listened to it like
every day but I knew some of thesongs.
But that was kind of whatreally got me listening to him
after that and he was like 72 atthe time put on a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Do you, for example, got two ships Before you did
anything with that?
Did you plan for mom and dadand go?
Okay, I need your honestopinion about this.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yes, I do that with all my songs.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And we actually we send it to my cousin back in
Georgia.
Okay, and I'm like please tellme what you think about this,
because I need an opinion.
So she always helps me with allthat and, like my best friend
back in Georgia, my boyfriend,you know, everyone around me.
I'm like do you like it, do younot?
What do we think?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And how well do you handle criticism when they go?
You know, mccartney, I don'tknow if I like that.
I don't know.
I want you the way you singthis verse, or how do you handle
all that?
It's like what do you mean?
I love it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
No, it depends on the day.
Really, if I'm having a goodday, I'm like okay, but if I'm
not, I'm like no, no, I'mputting that out because you
said not to.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Right, exactly yes, just do the opposite.
Yeah, but this one I was likeright when I wrote it I was like
this is my favorite song I'veever written and I was like I'm
putting it out so I love it, Iknow and I could see that doing
something and hopefully not onlyyou know here locally but
(35:59):
others pick up on it, and do youhave a team pushing it to radio
?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I do, I'm working with, like you know, I have my
team around me, but I'm alsodoing some of it myself.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
It's hard, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I'm not saying you can't do it, but it takes a lot
of time and there's going to bea lot of doors closing in your
face.
There's going to be a lot ofdoors opening.
So yeah you know it.
It takes.
It takes a little bit of time.
But other artists, more andmore artists now are doing it on
their own.
Drew Baldridge she's somebody'sdaughter.
(36:41):
I've known Drew for years buthe just he paid out of his own
pocket, hit his own littlerecord label.
He called radio stations.
He did it all on his own andlook what happened that song
went to number one.
It may have taken a little bitof time.
Great song went to number oneand now you so yeah, I got a
text from him.
The other day I got a text fromhim and said I finally got a
(37:01):
tour bus.
Wow, that's so cool.
But you know what?
And the same thing could happenwith you, and that's awesome,
awesome.
Do you play full when you're atthe club?
Are you playing a full band?
Is that a full band show?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I do yes, and then I like acoustic writers rounds
here in town.
So those are.
I do both ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I got you McCartney.
What's one thing fans might besurprised to learn about you?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I I'm trying to think .
It's hard when you get likesometimes I'll think like that's
a weird thing about me, butthen I don't remember, when I'm
thinking about it, probably thatI really, even though music is
my job, that's still the onething that I do that makes me
(37:56):
happy the most and that reallykind of grounds me in times of
yeah, when something's going on.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
you've got music to fall back on and you know what
they say and I think everybodywould agree Maybe not, but I
hope everybody would that musicbrings everybody together.
Music is the backbone of ourlives.
So to speak, it doesn't matterwhat genre it is, but music will
bring us together.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It so does, yeah, and any group of people.
It doesn't matter if they speakthe same language.
It's crazy what music can do topeople, and I especially
noticed that like playingdowntown, because there will be
people that are not from Americadown there but it's still like
(38:46):
just people bond over it.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It does.
It doesn't matter who you are,yeah.
It doesn't matter what coloryou are.
It doesn't matter what youbelieve in.
Music will bring us alltogether.
Yeah, and that's pretty awesome.
That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It is yeah, you believe in music will bring us
all together, yeah, and, andthat's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's pretty awesome .
It is, yeah, you know it's um,just seeing you.
You're still really youngNashville, three years, um, and
hopefully a whole lot more.
I could see that happening.
Uh, what is?
You've played out and aboutwith the full band.
Uh, can you describe, maybe, anexperience that was a little
bit off the wall Anything everhappen, like where you're on
(39:20):
stage and went, holy crap, Ican't believe this.
You'll never forget it.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
In other words, there , my God, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
So many right On Broadway.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
It's like they're normal by the point.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I'm sure they are Some of the things you probably
can't mention here, but go ahead, it's definitely people getting
kicked out for getting a littletouchy with people there's, oh
my God.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
One time there was this lady and it was her
birthday and she was dancing toChicken Fried and it was her
birthday and she was dancing toChicken.
Fried and she fell.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And hit a stool on the way down.
And took down somebody else orno Go ahead and everyone
gathered around her and I waslike what is going on?
The ambulance comes so much toBroadway and it's just like a
normal thing of the day.
You're like who's falling?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, who's going now ?
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, it's just like a normal occurrence, and so,
because people get so drunk,they just fall all over the
place and knock other peopleover, and so that was one of the
times that I was like so do youstop when that happens and
you're up there on that stage?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Do you stop playing or you just continue to do what
you do?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I'll kind of get through the song yeah, and then
I'll be like is everybody okayover there?
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I love that Jason's asking some great questions
tonight.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Jason, you ought to come out and be my co-host, Says
.
Have any other artists checkedher show out on Broadway that
she loves seeing?
Have?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
you noticed anybody?
So the people that I've met inthe industry that are, like,
bigger people, they don't reallylike to come down to Broadway,
much Like, and a lot of localsdon't really go down there.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, the locals don't.
Yeah, they want to.
That's why I ask in thebeginning, like, where do you
live?
Do you live close to downtown?
Because you know you don't wantto be in the middle of that.
Plus, it goes to all hours ofthe morning and you hear the
sirens and the people yellingand there could be fights and
people doing this, and that it'scrazy.
It's crazy, but.
But, that being said, I'm notdissing nashville at all.
(41:36):
I love Nashville.
Best city in the world.
I love it.
Yeah, no, exactly, you neverknow who you're going to see or
when you have to experience.
It's just that there's a goodtime and a bad time to go down
on Broadway.
In the way of just, if youdon't like being in crowds,
don't go to Broadway at night,but go in the morning.
So there's still a lot to see.
(41:56):
There's a lot of history.
There's the Mother Church.
The Ryman is right around thecorner.
Which, by the way?
Have you stepped foot on thatstage yet?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
You will.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Only in the tour I have.
But thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Were you at the Country Radio Seminar a couple
of years ago, when they do lunchat the Ryman, and were you by
chance there?
Oh, she's gone.
I was going to ask her if shehad been there.
You know, at the RymanAuditorium we go to a country
radio seminar.
I've done that well, over 20years and one of the major
(42:32):
labels what they do is they havelunch in the Ryman Auditorium
and everybody gets a box lunch,but the label that's putting it
on brings out every single oneof their artists to play at
least one song If there's radiopeople watching.
I know, jason, I don't know ifyou've been there or not, but
it's something to experiencebecause you do get to see all
(42:55):
the artists and there's always asurprise at the end.
And for anybody like McCartneyto step foot on that stage as a
new artist, to stand there inthe middle of that stage, it has
to be just a feeling, feelinglike no other, because that's
the Mother Church, it's rightdowntown.
I know they have the Grand OleOpry, but this is also the Grand
Ole Opry, but they call it theMother Church and if you're
(43:18):
going to Nashville, highlyrecommend that you check that
out as well and, of course, takethe walk on Broadway.
Just, you know you got to pickthe right time to go.
But Nashville, you know I'm notdissing it at all, it's just
one of the greatest cities inthe world.
It's the most fun.
You never know who you're goingto see.
You could go to a grocery store.
You could be standing behindTim McGraw at the line to check
(43:38):
out.
I'm not kidding, it's happened.
So all that, all that, I'mhoping McCartney will pop back
in here in a moment or two.
Just keep an eye on things hereand hopefully she'll pop in.
But if you have any questionsor anything, I can answer for
you while I have you here.
Oh yeah, jason, vince Gillsinging go rest high in that
(44:01):
mountain for Mindy McCready.
Oh, my God, you know that was amoment.
I watched that.
I saw the video of that.
Also, charlie Daniels, whenthey did the tribute to him.
Of course, vince coming onstage and doing that.
You know, go Rest High on thatmountain, absolutely.
(44:23):
It's just wow, absolutely.
So I'm hoping McCartney's goingto pop in here any moment or
two.
I'm keeping an eye on thescreen because I'm solo right
now, but hey, that's the way itgoes.
So, anyway, you know what I betshe's going to come back on.
It's going to be.
You know, skip, I'm sorry, myphone went dead.
(44:46):
Let's watch, let's wait and seewhat happens.
So she's running around rightnow looking for a charger in her
apartment and she's probablybecause she's with her mom and
dad.
It's probably like Mom, dad,where's my charger?
Where's my charger?
You can plug it in Phone'sgoing to come back up and she's
going to pop on here any second.
Maybe.
Let's hope.
But then again, you never know.
(45:06):
You never, ever know.
This is Skip Happens.
And, by the way, while I dohave you, if you haven't noticed
, I love to talk.
So if you haven't subscribed toSkip Happens, just go to
YouTube, search Skip Happens andsubscribe.
Please help me out with that aswe take this to the next level.
We are so close to hitting thatmark, so close.
(45:28):
So if you wouldn't mind helpingout, that would be greatly
appreciated.
And, as you know, I've beendoing this a long time and the
connection that I have withNashville and a lot of my
colleagues in radio.
No, no, jason, it is not timefor some Skip stand-up comedy.
No, it is not.
I mean no, we don't want to dothat.
(45:49):
Never mind, not now, not now.
Here she is Now.
This is what I think All right.
So McCartney's coming back andshe should be there, just popped
in.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
I'll help.
Oh, there you are, we can hearyou.
Okay, but Okay, but here Nowlet me guess, did your phone go
dead?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
It cut off.
I think it got so hot.
Oh, no, let me see if thiscamera will work.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Why are you sorry for it.
It happens.
You know what.
Do you know what the name ofthe podcast is?
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Skip Happens.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, true.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It happened.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
It happened.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, it's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, no, no, no, you're still there.
I mean, you know you're there,but we don't see you.
But that's okay.
You know what?
I just.
If somebody wanted to get aholdof your music, mccartney, where
can they go?
Are you on socials?
If so, what?
And how can we download some ofyour music?
You got two ships.
I think we need to go out andsupport you and everybody needs
to get that as well.
(46:55):
How can we do that?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
You can find me at McCartney Reinhart on Apple
Music, spotify, any of that, andthen just McCartney Reinhart
Music on Instagram and my namealso on TikTok Cool.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
How often do you do little TikTok thingies?
I usually post once or twice aday.
So I try to stay pretty activewith it.
I should Well, you have to.
You know, McCartney think of itthis way.
Look at all the artists thathave really put the groundwork
down because of social media.
(47:36):
Look what it did for them.
It's just amazing.
I mean Kane Brown, man, I cango on and on.
It's just so many artists havedone that.
Bailey Zimmerman, just SamBarber, I can go on and on.
It's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
It's amazing.
You know what?
I don't think we're going toget the camera.
I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I'm so sorry.
I don't know why the camerawon't work.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
I don't know why the camera won't work.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
I'm trying to.
Maybe I broke it.
I think my phone overheatedit's so hot here but.
Put it on?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I don't know, but I do want to say thank you.
It's so good to talk to you.
Two ships being the new single.
What about an EP or any word onan album yet, or anything like
that?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
So I'm hoping to get an EP out next year.
I've kind of thought about it,so I'm not sure yet, but I'm
thinking that'll be in thefuture soon, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Awesome.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, and real quickly, anynews on a radio tour?
Have you been able to get outand visit stations or anything
like that?
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I am actually going to the Bull in Augusta, Georgia
tomorrow Very cool, yeah, so I'mdoing that for Backyard Country
, but that's the only one I havescheduled like set in stone
right now.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But I'm hoping to have more, yeah, well you know
what I'm so proud of you.
I'm so glad that you reachedout.
To get you back on, skipHappens, my door is open and
you're welcome any time.
Anybody is welcome any time.
No, thank you, because it'sgreat artists like you that make
(49:21):
my job really easy.
Number one you're a greatinterview.
Number two your music on theair.
It's going to sound awesome.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (49:31):
It's going in the right direction.
So you make my job easy.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Thank you so much.
I always enjoy being on this,so thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, we have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of fun.
So, mccartney, I just want tosay thank you for joining us.
We're going to say goodbye toall our viewers and listeners
and I want you to stay rightthere, though.
Okay, sounds good.
All right, everybody, anotheredition of Skip Happens.
It's in the books, and if youwould subscribe, if you got to
(50:05):
do and, uh, you know, it'll helpme out a lot too as we take the
podcast to a new level and, uh,we're gonna.
We got a lot of good stuffcoming down.
We're gonna get you updated onthat very soon and, yes, we are
going to the next level.
So, anyways, thanks forwatching everybody.
My name is skip clark.
Have a pleasant evening.
It's skip happens.
Remember that.
Thank you, and we'll see younext week.
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