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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark.
Let me put it this way she'sgot the boots, she's got the
bangers and a debut album.
That's spilling more tea thanon a southern porch.
That was pretty fancy.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Charlie Reynolds is in the house and we're going and
it's a little play on wordshere, but off the record talking
messy breakups, I got dreamcollabs and why people think
might just be about you.
So we're going to dig in.
Let's go and, charlie, how areyou?
It's so nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I am great.
It's so nice to meet you too.
I'm so happy to be on heretoday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know we've been trying to do this since.
I looked it up earlier, it waslike the end of March or early
April and you were out touringand you were doing a lot of
shows.
I think there was one timewhere you didn't feel well.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
There was just everything going on, yeah,
something every time and I'mlike I swear I want to do it,
it's not, it's just for somereason I'm going, this chick's
blowing me off.
This is not working.
What's going on?
I promise I wasn't.
No, I know you.
Yes, it's crazy time, but Iknow, yeah, I'm glad we got it
going exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Um, you're an independent artist doing your
own thing, which is great, bythe way.
I absolutely love that.
I'm beginning to believe that'sprobably the way to go nowadays
, but where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm in Nashville, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Everybody's in Nashville and we are.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I know we're always here.
Well, at least during the week,always here.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Let me ask how long have you been in Nashville?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I just hit my seven year mark here in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Wow, they say it's a 10 year town and look at you
already.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
They do, thank you.
Thank you so much.
I uh.
Yeah, it's crazy that it's beenseven years.
I feel like there's been threedifferent phases throughout
those years and just kind offiguring out Nashville.
And yeah, I can't believe it'sbeen that long.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Where are you originally from?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Orlando Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, you're a Florida girl.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am.
I am yes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So the heat you're probably somewhat accustomed to.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Somewhat, but I have to say it is way hotter here
than it is in Florida.
I think we have like a breezedown there and up here it's just
like a valley and it's juststeaming all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The humidity.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, if you look at my hair, it doesn't really
do it.
Well, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, oh my God, yes, it'srough up, do it well, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, oh my God.
Yes, it's rough up here, so,but yeah, no, that's good,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Seven years in Nashville and already you've put
out your debut album Off theRecord.
Let me just ask you know, withthat title, is that a clever way
of saying I'm about to spillall the tea, but don't quote me.
I mean let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So actually a lot of people said that and I should
have just said, yes, that'sexactly what I came up with for
it, because that's way better,but really I just thought it was
.
I'm going to be totally honest,I thought it was a cool name
for an album and that's one ofthe songs on the album and
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originally I didn't want to namethe album one of the songs, um,
I wanted to just name it.
You know, something that kindof encapsulated the whole album
but not a song title.
But then once we wrote off therecord, I was like that's too
cool, it's perfect.
I just I love that I had vinylsmade.
I love that I have a vinylcalled Off the Record.
How.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You got the vinyl.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I do.
Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So cool yes, it's so awesome, and I just thought it
was the perfect name because itwas really cool, and I wish that
there was more of a storybehind it, because there should
be, but there's not.
Other than I thought it was acool album.
Title.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Really I mean off the record.
You know you would think, okay,here she is, she's going to
spill her beans in the way ofmusic.
But do you think, just behonest with me how many of your
exes do you think are nervouslyrefreshing Spotify like each and
every Friday Because they don'tknow what's going to come out?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They never know.
You know they probably are.
I would say at least one ofthem has to have heard one of my
songs, because it's my biggestsong.
It has almost 3 million viewson.
Youtube and it is veryobviously about him.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So he definitely probably, is always waiting to
see if there's another onecoming out.
Do you think he knows that'sabout him?
Yes, he does.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Probably, I would say , because of the time frame and
the everything with it.
I think he definitely now isthis.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Uh, I'm not digging too deep here and I'm sorry if
you think I am, but going backto Orlando, florida.
Is that somebody from like backin the day that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
no, no, from Nashville, okay, never mind.
Yeah, yeah, from Nashville, soit's fine, though, honestly,
yeah, the song is she Ain't Me.
That's the song.
It's a cheating song, buthonestly, I got a great song out
of it and I see where that'sgoing.
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Yeah, I honestly don't care.
I'm like you know what?
You gave me a song.
It's fine, Whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's his loss.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It is his loss 100%.
You are right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So he's going to be pissed off when he watches this
or listens to this and realizesoh my God, what did I screw up,
what was I?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
thinking yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What was I thinking?
The?
Name of the song, by the way.
I know Exactly.
So which song on the album madeyou cry into your wine glass?
I heard about that, wasn'tthere, didn't some?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
okay, never mind I don't know, maybe not me, but I
would say hurt people.
Hurt is definitely a crier umfor some people.
Uh, and if you're just feelingemotional turning that song on,
it's really just about how hurtpeople hurt other people.
And Visiting Hours is alsoobviously a tearjerker.
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That song's about my brotherwho passed away when I was
little.
And it's just basically sayingif heaven had visiting hours,
here's what I would tell him isgoing on down here.
So those are the two kind oftear jerking jerker songs on the
album um, and two of myfavorites and two of my
audience's favorites as well.
(06:15):
Those have done really well umover everything else on the
album which?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
which song on the album would make you get up on a
bar and dance?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Probably blame it on my boots Um, a lot of them would
, but I think blame it on myboots is really fun and it's
just such a vibe.
I love that song, so probablythat one.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You shop at boot barn .
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, I'm just saying yes, I do, I love me some
boot barn.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There you go.
When you run low on the funds,you can go to a firm and you can
go and pay it as you go.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, I know.
Don't ask me how I know that,but I know that.
Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
How many pairs of boots do you think you have?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Ah, this is kind of embarrassing because I have a
lot.
And I have counted, I have aboot wall over there, two boot
walls, there's, like 66.
What?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
66 pairs of boots.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes, but I have to say I don't buy them all.
I do a lot of deals with a lotof brands like Lane Boots.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And some other brands .
So I don't really buy boots ever, or a lot so I did and worked
in, but I always like to clarifythat I'm not out here just
shopping every single day,buying boots uncontrollably.
But we actually did write thatsong because we were writing in
my living room, which is wheremy boot walls are, and we just
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didn't really have an idea andwe're like let's write something
about boots.
Like what can we come up with?
And turned into that song.
So and it's one of my favorites, yeah, Sixty six pairs of boots
.
It's ridiculous, it'sembarrassing.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, I don't think it's embarrassing.
I think it's pretty cool, butwhen do you have time to wear
them all?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I know, you know, there's only one pair that have
not been worn and, um, that'sbecause they're a little.
They're stiletto heeled bootsand they have blue feathers on
them.
They're really crazy, butreally cool, high fashion, I
would say, um, but I don'treally go anywhere to wear those
.
But those I did buy becausethey were on sale, so I did buy
those and of course, they're theonly ones I've never worn, the
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ones that I bought.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know, I think of boots I and me being in
Nashville quite often for radioand different things like that
and we had a chance to go seeMegan Maroney and she had these
boots on that were all sparklyand it just looked like all
glitter.
They were up over her knees andI'm just it's like wow.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I love it.
I love boots.
There's all different sizes,styles, colors, textures, all of
them.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So your album blends Nashville twang this is a little
note I made.
I listened to a lot of the cuts.
By the way, Blends Nashvilletwang and Texas dance hall
energy.
Was that your plan to dosomething like that?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It was.
So I've for a long time, um,kind of tried to figure out my
sound and who I wanted to be,because when I first moved to
town, country pop was really bigand that's so I did a little
country pop and then, um, I kindof just flowed into whatever
was big at the time and I neverreally knew what I wanted to do.
(09:29):
And so when we were making thealbum, we were halfway through
and we wrote a song, another manWill, which is the first song
on the album, and I was likethis is it, this is my sound,
this is my whole vibe.
I want this to be how I soundgoing forward.
(09:50):
And so that song, shade of Blueand Blame it on my Boots, were
made last, and those were theones that kind of defined my
sound going forward and whatI've been looking for for seven
years that I just hadn't foundyet.
And so I would say it's alittle bit of 90s, like Shania
(10:10):
Twain, mixed with a littleCarrie Underwood and some modern
country in there too.
But I really want it to feelcountry, like 90s, older country
.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, now this just dropped.
What what last month?
When did it?
When did it drop just recently?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So off the record, the original album dropped in
2024 in September, but right nowwe're doing the live acoustic
album, so that's what I'mthinking of.
Yes, so that's what's beendropping every two weeks.
So there's a song coming out onthat every two weeks until
August, and then the full offthe record will be out the live
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acoustic version.
So, that's what we've beenworking on now.
I wanted to have a longer life,so I was like, let's do a good
idea yeah.
One just came out tonight andone of the videos, so oh, I love
that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So let's uh, let's talk to CMA Fest for a little
bit.
Did you get a chance to take itin?
Do your thing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, it was crazy.
As always I got.
I had bronchitis this year andlast year during CMA Fest, which
makes it a little tricky.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I know bad timing, but it was really fun.
I played three shows and thenalso did like a little pop-up
event.
I was supposed to be out oftown for CMA Fest actually this
year, and then my plans changedand so I was here and so I had
to try to book things lastminute and I decided to do a fan
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pop-up like in the streetoutside.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it was so fun.
We gave out 100 T-shirts andplayed four songs acoustically
outside fanfare and it was great.
It was really fun, and so Iplanned that before I had other
shows, so it ended up being kindof crazy, but it was very fun.
I had a great, great time.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But this isn't the first time you've done this,
though.
You've done FanFest or C fanfest or cma fest, but I mean
it's been so many differentnames.
But, um, you know, going backwhat?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
22, 23 yeah, I believe my first cma fest was 22
um, like where I was playing,and then I played official cma
fest the last two years, um, andyeah, so I've done it.
I guess guess four years, three, four years now, whatever it is
.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's pretty cool though.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's really fun, it is cool and I look forward to
that weekend.
Every year is my favorite weekJust because there's so many
different events going on and somany people who actually really
want to listen to music andthat really makes a difference.
Just at shows like playingdowntown during CMA Fest, too,
is actually fun because peoplewant to be introduced to new
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artists, they want theiroriginal music, whereas usually
people just want to get drunkand party and not care you know.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So it makes all the difference.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, it makes all the difference down there
for sure, but it was a greattime.
It always is, and, um, I'malready looking forward to next
year.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, how close to downtown do you live?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
20 minutes.
Okay, it's far enough away Farenough, and but yeah, yeah, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
My wife and I were there a couple of years ago for
the NASCAR race, or maybe it waslast year and uh, we got back
to the Omni where we werestaying and I said come on,
honey, we're going to walk downto Broadway.
Let's see what's going on today.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, mistake, mistake.
Oh, I bet it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It was crazy.
We went over there and you knowthe road was closed, it was
just wall-to, you know, andthere's other things going on
that I don't want to mention, Imean, you know, that just was I
said.
Let's just go back to the hotelWe'll sit at the bar and have a
glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, I would say if you're going to go to Nashville
on Broadway, go in the day like.
Do like a Sunday or Friday.
Saturday can be fine too, butjust go earlier just go early in
the daytime?
I actually do not.
I will not do Broadway at nightanymore unless, like, there's
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something going on and that'swhy I need to be down there, or
it's after a concert orsomething, but it is crazy down
it is if you've never been toNashville and you have to go you
have to go yeah but once you doit, you've done it yes and you
know, unless you're, you know,there's bachelorette parties
everywhere.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It was just, it was nuts, so just yeah, but you need
to do it if you've never doneit.
But then, on the other hand, ifyou've done it before and
you're thinking about going back, go.
Go during the day, go earlierthat's all.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The music never stops .
Someday drinking and barhopping and see the bands who
are playing in the day, and thengo to dinner and go home.
You know, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There you go.
That's a good plan.
Speaking of dinner, what's yourfavorite dinner spot in
Nashville?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh, my favorite dinner spot.
Actually, I have a lot offavorite places, but speaking of
Broadway, I love Casa Rosa.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yeah, their food is so good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I played there for two years and we would eat
dinner right after every time weplayed, which was usually twice
a week or more, and I never getsick of it.
I'm still not sick of it, and Iate there for two years twice a
week.
It's so good, but it's justreally elevated Mexican food.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So, yeah, Charlie, tell me a little bit about your
writing style.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And you said you've written right there at home and
you're looking at your bootsgetting ideas, but tell me a
little bit about how yourcreativity and how does all that
come about?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so you know I used to be more of a melodies
girl.
I wasn't as much as a lyricswriter.
It was just always hard for meto put into words in a clever
way what I was trying to write,and so I draw inspiration from
anything.
I actually was talking to somefans about songwriting the other
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day and I was just saying thatfor practice, what I would do is
pick like anything that's infront of you, like a cup or you
know pillow or something, andwrite about it like come up with
something silly.
That may not make sense, butyou're still challenging
yourself to write really, youknow something, make up a story
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about this thing, and so thathas really helped me a lot with
writing.
And I really wasn't a veryconfident writer until up until
like a year ago because I alwaysfelt like the artist in the
room and never like a writer inthe room.
I did write, but I always feltlike I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The main songwriters and now, after just writing more
and taking a break writing too,when I did the album, I really
took a pretty long break fromsongwriting at least co-writing
and I feel like that was good aswell, cause I got a lot of more
ideas that were helpful justflooding to mind, rather than
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writing three or four times aweek where you kind of just get
overload and you kind of justwrite to write and you're not
writing to get a number one, orwriting, writing it's feeling,
from your feelings and yourheart.
You're just kind of writingbecause you have to write.
There's a difference there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know what you just said, for example, taking a
cup and telling a story aboutit.
That's exactly what I do inradio with a lot of people, and
I'll put my cup down and say,all right, hey, tell me about
this cup.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What you know.
And then I said that way youget very conversational, you
just kind of open up.
I mean that's amazing.
I didn't realize that you didthat with songwriting too, and
now I get that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, yeah, because with some songs obviously I
relate to a lot of them, but I'mnot always the main person in
the story, like it wasn't mystory.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Make it up and be an author and like with Shade of
Blue, that's not my story, it'smy friends.
And with Hurt People Hurtthat's not my story.
Either Just you know figuringout how to write things that
maybe you don't have experienceon, or it's not your story per
se.
It definitely helped a lot,just for exercise and practicing
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, and it paid off because now Ifeel like an actual songwriter.
I feel like I can hold my own,rather than just an artist in
the room with songwriters.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
God, I love that.
That's so cool With groupwrites.
How often do you write alone ordo you with others?
Do you do group writing?
I?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
mainly do co-writing group writing because I like
having different minds, you knowlike, and I, because I think
you know I could say an idea outloud and then we'll all have
different ways of how tointerpret that or which
direction that we want to takeit.
So I really love co-writing.
I have stepped into writing bymyself a little bit more lately,
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just because I get get an ideaand then I want to write it
immediately.
But sometimes I finish them.
Sometimes I bring someone elsein on it to help me finish it.
I'm not always able to finishit myself but yeah, I love
co-writing.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Would you say it's like good therapy.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, it definitely is, and that's where I think I
start writing by myself more.
It's usually at night when I'mtrying to go to bed and I get an
idea and then I kind of justflow all of it out and write it
all down.
And it definitely is a form oftherapy, because I think if you
just write something down tooand get it out of your head,
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it's very calming and soothing.
Did you ever write a song too,and get it out of your head?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
it's very calming.
Did you ever write a song, playit back and then go?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Hmm, Wow, that's a little too honest.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Probably yeah, and then release it anyways.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, I would say with Love you Long.
That one, oh yeah, that one issomething that is vulnerable to
me, that song, just because itreally is honest and it does
just share my story and my life,like how I am in relationships,
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and so that was kind of scaryto put on like out for everyone,
but in my head I was like, well, whatever they might not know,
that it's me like you know.
But then I tell them and I haveto say, like this is what it
was written on and all thisstuff you know.
and then but I think therethere's, I used to hate being
vulnerable and I used to hate Iget it didn't like it and um,
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now I've gotten used to it and Ithink there's a definitely a
strength in being able to sharethose things and instead of, you
know, being embarrassed by itor whatever, I think it's
important so that other people,people know that they're not
alone in that too.
So I've found a beauty in it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I'm definitely still getting used to being vulnerable
, but, yeah, trying to be so youknow I I'm all over the place
when I do these podcasts, butearly on you mentioned Orlando
being from Orlando.
Are you actually from Orlandoor from just outside, or?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
from Orlando yeah, downtown.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Did you work, disney?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, I didn't.
I always did want to be aDisney princess and work there,
but I am too tall and I alsohave dimples, so the only
princess I could be was Rapunzel, and she's supposed to be like
five feet tall.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, that's not going to work then.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It didn't work, so I never got to live out that Now
the dimples is not a bad thing.
Yeah, I have dimples too, butyes, but it limited to me, or
limited me to the one princess.
But that's okay, wasn't meantto be, I get it.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So you lived there all your life up until the point
that you moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, so I was 18.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, Tell me about your family a little bit.
You've got you told me a littlebit about your brother and I'm
very sorry but tell me, are youthe only other child or no.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So I have another older brother, kyle, and he's 12
years older than me.
And then I have my parents aredivorced.
And so I have a stepmom and astepdad and then a younger
brother who is 12 years youngerthan me oh wow, one 12 years
older, one 12 years younger,named Noah, and yeah, they all
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still live in Orlando.
As of now, my dad and stepmomand little brother are moving to
North Carolina this summer.
I'm about to go visit them thisweekend, so I'm excited to do
that, but yeah, they're allstill at least most of my family
is all still in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So I was used to the heat.
I get it, yes, used to it, butnot really, not really.
What do you do for fun?
Do you get out of the house?
Do you go for walks, hikes, doyou?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
run.
So I I like walking, walking mydog, but she's not here right
now.
So now I've been walkingwithout my dog and that's really
weird.
I left her in Florida last weekcause I'm gone all next month
and she loves my mom's pool likeaddicted.
She's in the pool at 9 30 inthe morning until nighttime, um,
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all day.
She's a labradoodle, so it'sthe lab and I love labradoodles.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We've got lab labrador retrievers, but still I
love labradoodles too yeah,yeah, she's the best.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So anything with dolly.
Um, I love taking her to thepark and walking with her Dolly.
Yeah, Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Dolly Parton.
Yep oh my God, I love it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Right, I love it, but , yeah, anything with her.
I really like doing anything.
I love watching reality TV, Ilove going to the movies, going
to a place called Putt shack.
Here it's like putt putt golf.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Anything fun to get out of the house.
But I do think when I'm reallybusy like I was gone almost all
of April, a lot of may once I'mhome, then I kind of for at
least a week if I'm going to behome.
I like to be home, um and justthere's no place like home.
Yeah, there isn't.
And when you're traveling a lot, it's just nice to be home and
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inside and sitting on the couchwatching a show or a movie, and
yeah there's two sides to that,though.
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I mean, it's great to be home and doing all that, but
doing also what you love, andthat is writing, singing,
performing.
I know you've opened for Laineyand Walker Hayes, maybe Maddie
and Tay.
You've had that opportunity Outof those who gave you the best
advice backstage.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I can picture Lainey going here.
Girl, let's talk.
I love Lainey.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I've had those conversations with her?
Yes, I would say I love Lainey.
Yes, I've had thoseconversations with her yes, I
would say so, actually withLainey.
So I shared the.
I played a festival that shewas playing and I didn't get to
see her at that festival or meether there, but I met her at the
ACMs the next year or so andshe, we talked and whatever, and
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I will text her for advice.
And she is so fast to respondand say be so honest.
Um, just about because I talkedto her about just social media
and the struggles of just that,just posting and not getting in
your head with the numbers andthat kind of stuff.
And she's like you know youcannot worry about that kind of
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stuff, like just focus on themusic, put out the good music,
keep.
She's like post five, four orfive times a day, like just keep
going and don't pay attention,and like this is in your heart,
like just keep chasing it.
Um, and so I really love herfor that, um, um, and so I
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really love her for that Um.
Also, just when I met her, shewas literally like the kindest
person ever Um.
I met her with my old publicistand she was like uh, I said you
know, you're just an inspirationto me.
I love your music, I love yourstory, whatever.
And she's like oh my gosh, I'dlove to talk to you sometime
about it.
Like if you ever need anything,just let me know.
Being like that is so amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So it is amazing and same thing for you know, doing
the radio side of things, and wehad that opportunity to hang
and talk the exact same way Ihad around my skip happens
podcast and, um, I sent her outfor coffee mugs and she was
playing at the state New Yorkstate fair I don't know if it
was last year, think it was theyear before went on her tour bus
and my four mugs were sittingright there and I went and she
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goes that's right, I still use.
I use those on the bus all thetime I'm like oh, that is so
cool.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
See, that's the type of person she is yes, and I love
seeing that there are peoplelike that, you know, in the
industry still, because noteveryone is like that.
So I really really love her forthat and Cody Johnson, who I
also love Cody me too.
I was the first on the lineupat Country Thunder in Florida
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and it was so hot outside it waslike 2pm and he played at like
10pm and so, anyway, we were onstage doing our thing and my
band noticed him and his bandwatching.
I didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I was in my own world performing.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And so we got off stage and they were like Cody
Johnson was watching our set,like blah, blah, blah.
And so I was like no way.
And later on we were watchingfrom side stage Parker McCollum
play and Cody was about to go onand he came over to us and was
like you're, charlie, right?
I was like yeah, and he's likey'all were amazing, like keep
doing what you're doing.
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Here's some passes to stay onstage while we play.
Other one like Laney, just verygenuine down to earth and people
who go out of their way tocompliment, you know, those of
us who are still up and coming,you know, and trying, because
they know how hard it is.
So I love that they take timeout of their day to just be kind
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, cause that both of thosemoments have just meant a lot to
me, um, and really keep memotivated when I start getting
down or, you know, things startgetting hard.
So I really appreciate both ofthem for that.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now you've been doing shows with a lot of these great
artists, and rightfully so.
That's where you need to be,but have, if you could
collaborate with any of thosewho would it be?
Or anybody dead or alive?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
OK, if it could be anybody of those who would it be
, or anybody dead or alive.
Okay, If it could be anybody, Iwould say Reba.
Oh my God, Reba is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm literally wearing her merch right, I named one of
my dogs after Reba.
So I'm just saying and I loveit.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I love that.
I was going to name Dolly Reba,but she is blonde and fluffy,
so dolly made more sense.
Yeah, yeah, but reba is one ofmy favorites.
I would absolutely love to haveher on a song, or to sing, does
he love you?
Or back to god with her.
Um, she's incredible, uh, andif there was a guy to
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collaborate with, it would bealan jackson oh love alan gosh,
alan Jackson.
Oh love Alan.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Gosh love Alan.
And to see him on the awardshow here not too long ago was
just, oh my, I had tears,seriously, I had tears.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, I was there and I was like, yeah, I was crying
as well, I was just like soamazing and maybe the last time
I'm ever going to see this, youknow.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Exactly right, exactly yeah, sitting on my
couch thinking the exact samething.
Yes, you know, I don't know ifI'll see him do this again.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, and it was amazing, it was amazing it was
amazing.
I did not disappoint.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, what's your guilty pleasure?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Probably watching my trash reality TV, my Housewives
of new york actually oh my goshhousewives of new york city is
my favorite show and I.
It is what it is.
You know I I don't care thatpeople hate on trash tv, but I
think I love watching otherpeople's drama I.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I know some other women that say the same thing.
They, they love watching thatstuff.
I don't know why I don't get it.
Have you ever watched it,though?
Maybe for?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
about five minutes and they picked up the remote
and changed the channel.
But my dad always said the samething and my mom my mom was
like I don't know why you watchthat stuff.
And when I had my vocal cordsurgery, like two years ago,
both of them came up and Icouldn't talk, so we only watch
TV.
And so I made them watch RealHousewives of Beverly Hills and
they got into it and I was likesee, even dad.
(30:48):
Yeah, my dad.
I mean not that he went homeand started watching it, but no,
but he didn't turn it away.
Yeah, he was interested, andI'm like.
You see.
It's not as like stupid aseveryone makes out to be.
It's actually kind of good.
Now the real housewives of newyork, though, are on another
level.
They are extremely dramatic andinsane, but some other ones are
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not.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I don't get it.
I'm sorry, I don't get it.
It must be, it's got to be afemale thing, I don't know I
don't get it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
it it must be, it's gotta be a female thing.
I don't know, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It definitely is that's okay.
Do you binge?
Have you binged watched anyshows like on Netflix or
anything like that?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Definitely.
I mean not lately.
I really haven't been home atall, so when I am away.
I'm watching housewives on myphone while I'm traveling
because I'm trying to finish it,but we I do watch, like I've
watched outer banks and yeah,I've watched all that yeah, some
short series too there's been.
What is that one with kristenbell um?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I can't remember you know what you gotta watch.
Uh, it just started too.
Just to give you a heads up thewaterfront waterfront
waterfront.
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, good to know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, it's really really good.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Really good, so Waterfront Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And it takes place at town on the North Carolina
shore.
Oh, and it has a lot to do withdrug smuggling, but I mean the
story behind it and from what Iunderstand it's a real story.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And it's not.
It gets pretty gruesome attimes, but you know it's one of
those, it's, it's real life.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh, I'd love to watch that.
Okay, I mean it just started,like two weeks ago, so I'm only
into the second episode, butit's got me hooked.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, oh, I love that .
I love any kind of drama,suspense and comedies too.
But yeah, we were recentlywatching um, what is the big
little lies?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Oh, yeah, big little lies Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Great show.
I know we're really late.
To me I want to say we, me andmy roommate, we're like really
late on that show.
Um, watching it, but so good.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, great.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So tell me, charlie.
Tell me about a show.
If I was to go to your show, Iwalk in.
I'm sitting right up front.
What am I going to see and whatam I going to hear?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah.
So first you're going to hearAnother man, will, because
that's the first song I do atevery show, okay, and you're
going to hear some fiddle.
You're going to hear me singing.
You're going to hear my bassplayer singing Chandler um, and
we just have a lot of fun.
You're gonna hear me asking youguys to sing along, even if you
don't know it, and dance and notbe afraid to get up, uh, up in
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the front, um, and to have agood time, because, honestly,
when I do the best as an artistis when the crowd is having fun,
because I really depend ontheir energy for my energy.
So, yeah, constantly askingpeople to dance and have fun and
get up and really interact withthem and teach part of my song,
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like rodeo.
I always teach a little bit ofit because it's easy to catch on
to, so you guys can sing alongwith me through the song.
And you're going to hear I WillSurvive, because that's one of
my favorite covers to play.
It's on the album as well, sowe always do that song, which
gets everyone really excited.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was petrified.
Yes, yes, the song youshouldn't play at a wedding, but
everybody plays at a wedding.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, 100%.
It's so much fun, though, andeveryone loves it and so, yeah,
whenever a crowd is like alittle nervous or like shy, that
song immediately wakes everyoneup.
So but yeah, we love.
That's my favorite part aboutbeing an artist, honestly, is
performing.
I love being on stage andsinging my songs and singing
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cover songs, whatever it is, Ijust love performing.
So, yeah, we try to make it thebest show that we can.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's cool.
That is really cool, reallycool.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I'm just, I'm just thinking about everything you
just told me and going to thatshow and I can only picture
myself that I don't know if Iwould get up and dance.
I mean my wife says you knowshe goes, you never dance, you
just sit there and you, you just.
But I'm taking it all in and Ithink you, as an artist, if you
give that energy, you'll get itback totally, you know, if you
get the crowd into it yeah, Ireally try and sometimes they're
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harder than others.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You know, like sometimes it's just not the vibe
, the crowd is not, doesn'treally want that, and that's
okay, and then I just, you know,they can go home.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm like, can we get just one?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
person out here, Come on Um.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I'd be like get off your ass and move.
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I really do mess with them sometimes, um, but I think
they like that and it's kind offunny.
But yeah, I, I love it, it'sfun.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Cool stuff, cool stuff.
What do you drive?
A Kia, a Kia Sportage, yeah, Ijust got rid of my Sportage.
No way, yeah, I had a KiaSportage.
I was always a truck guy and Ihad.
I had the Dodge Ram, I had theSilverado, I had the Ford F-150.
(35:54):
I had all that.
And I says you know what?
Why do I have a truck?
I never use it, why, in the waythat most people would use a
truck.
You know I loved it, don't getme wrong.
But why the big payment?
And blah, blah, blah, so on andso forth.
So I said, all right, I'll geta Ford Explorer.
So I went to the Ford Explorer,all right.
So I went from that to a KiaTelluride.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Oh, those are so nice .
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, oh, it was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
So then I went from tell yourride to a sportage.
I said you know what?
I still need the downsize.
I'm really.
I just need something to get meto the radio station and back,
and you know, just to do mylittle things.
It was nice.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
But then I started missing the truck.
Yeah, so I went and, uh, thosethat know me know I did this,
but uh, maybe you don't, I knowyou don't.
Uh, I went out and got a ChevyColorado.
So it's not a full size truck,but it's a smaller truck, but
yet it's got all the features,so it's cool.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So I'm happy, I'm happy again.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's awesome, yeah I but the Kia was a good car.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
It is a good car.
I really like it and the gas isreally cheap, um, compared to
my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
I had a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Uh, before that was my firstcar, so I I had that one for a
while and um, then it was timefor a new car and tried, but the
Jeeps were so expensive I waslike I can't do another Jeep.
Um plus with the gas.
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The gas was as much as my bandvan, which is a suburban, so I
have that as well.
I kind of try to drive.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, yeah.
So compared to my $30 fill upyou know my suburban and my Jeep
were both like 80 something.
So, um yeah, I'll take the Kia.
Yeah, I don't blame you, Itotally it, totally get it.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Uh, do you remember the first?
Do you remember the first songyou ever, ever wrote?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
you know, I know that there was like one when I
before I was probably 10 yearsold, but I don't remember.
Um, but I do remember the firstsong I ever released, because I
was like 15.
It's called Underneath theStars and it is.
Yeah, it was something.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
It was about a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
New Year's Eve party that I had in high school or
freshman year or something, oreighth grade maybe even and yeah
, it was really, it was justcalled underneath the stars.
It wasn't terrible, it just youknow, it was my first release
ever, so now we've come a longway.
I will say, um, then, then thatone, but that's since been
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taken down do you ever?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
okay, do you ever listen to it?
Just for the heck of it, do youjust go?
Oh, my god, do you still haveit?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
oh, you do, I do still have it and whoever
downloaded it does have it.
Um when it came out, so it isstill out there in some capacity
.
I will say um, but it's notlike you can't really find it on
the internet.
Um, but I do listen to itsometimes I.
I just did the songwritersworkshop the other day um that I
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hosted and showed them thatsong and the music video just to
kind of give a little bit of ashowing progression kind of
thing, and so, yeah, I look backon that stuff sometimes too,
just to remember where I started, I guess.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know, what I really love about artists like
you, independent artists, eventhe others too, just country in
general is that you're real,you're just.
You know you're working.
I hate to put it this way.
It's like a job, but yet it's ajob that you have a lot of
passion and a lot of dedicationfor.
And you know, this has probablybeen your dream since you were
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a little girl.
This is what you wanted to do,and look, you're doing it.
You, since you were a littlegirl, this is what you wanted to
do, and look, you're doing it.
You're doing it, yes, and it'snot easy.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
It is not easy, it is crazy.
I have a love-hate relationshipwith it for sure.
Just with the business side, isthe hate that part of it?
It really is frustrating.
Just the politics of the musicindustry is very frustrating,
but it's part of it.
(40:01):
So, you know, learning everyday and moving every day, and I
really do this is all I want todo and I, you know, wouldn't be
putting myself through all ofthat um hard stuff if I really
didn't want it.
Um, right, right, so yeah alwaysplaying more shows and um just
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really getting people with mymusic how do you?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
who books the shows?
Do you do it?
Do you do it all?
Do you have a team?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I have a booking team um some of it, I do some of it,
so'd say it's probably 50-50.
I got you, I also go.
Do you know Bells?
She's an artist as well.
Sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I can't yeah Bells.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Bells.
She is an artist as well inNashville and we back in the
spring did a behind theguitar-guitar tour, an acoustic
tour where just me and her wentand we kind of double-headlined
but one of us will go first andthen the next one of us, and
then we'll swap, but anyway.
So we're doing that again inthe fall.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, so we've booked , I think, 15 shows from
September to November.
We're so excited to go do allof that.
So, yeah, just kind of bookingas much as I can everywhere,
whether it's me, her or mybooking agents or her booking
agents Just kind of really thegoals.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
That's cool.
Yeah, that's cool.
Are you happy doing it at thislevel?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yes, I am.
I would like there to be somemore money.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Well, yeah, and I don't blame you.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
That would be nice, but it really I love it.
You know, if this is me for therest of my life, then that's
fine.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I just want to be able to do music and at the end
of the day, I would love to bedoing big tours and stadiums,
and all of those things is thereal goal.
But if I just get to sing andlittle, bit of time, I mean you
know we all joke about it and Isaid it in the beginning that
Nashville's a 10-year town.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
It is, but it's so true.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It's so true.
Everybody I've talked toactually took McGraw like 13
years.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yes, so you know and I feel like too, is you know
those first five, four years?
You're really kind of figuringout who you are.
Also, you know I was 18 yearsold.
So it's kind of like you'refiguring out what you're even
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doing here Not really you knowand how to get your music career
going, but you don't knowexactly how.
You might not have thoseconnections.
I mean, I worked at Chick-fil-Athe first year I lived here.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I was going to ask what your first job was.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, I didn't really do anything else, so it was
kind of like Well, you hadSundays off.
I did have Sundays off.
It was nice.
I worked Monday through Fridayfull time at Chick-fil-A for
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
And.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I loved it.
It was great.
I actually you know those firstcouple of years are for
building.
So, yeah, it's going to take 10years because you're you're not
like the artist that you wantto be yet You're going to be yet
.
So it takes, takes some time.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Right yeah, what was you talking about?
Jobs?
What was the worst job you everhad?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Oh, you know, I've never really had a bad job.
I've honestly loved all thejobs that I've done.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
What was the funnest?
Let me ask you that.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Probably being a hostess at a golf club.
I had a lot of fun there.
I worked at the West Haven GolfClub in Franklin Tennessee
during COVID, because all theshows stopped.
Franklin Tennessee during COVID, because all the shows stopped.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
So I started working there and became friends with
everybody and it was just reallyfun.
We had a good time.
I looked forward to going towork every day.
Chick-fil-a was really funthough, too.
I enjoyed that a lot.
It was because it was fastpaced and it went by really fast
, because everybody you knowChick-fil-A is packed like 24-7
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a day.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
So it was always very fast and I didn't really like
when I got the 5 am shift to 4pm, but you know that's okay.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's a long day, holy cow.
They have a 5 am to 4 pm shift.
That's crazy.
So that means you're up at what?
Speaker 2 (44:44):
3, 30, four o'clock I mean you have to, I would roll
out of bed, I I would get up atlike 4, 45 and then throw the
hoodie on and out the door yes,yes, but you get a break um
during the day like pretty goodbreak um oh good but yeah, so I
was working there and it was fun.
I really liked both of thosejobs, but West Haven was
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probably my favorite because Ihad a group of friends there
that I really loved hanging outwith on the job, so it was fun.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
How do you, um, how would yousay you handle criticism?
Because you know, being inNashville, you get a lot of you
get a lot of negative, get a lotof positive and some people can
be pretty mean.
How do you handle the negative?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So I well, criticism, I would say if it's
constructive criticism, I takeit good, because I feel like I
know when it's good and goodcriticism, when it's not.
So I kind of feel like I cantake that as I need it.
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But also just people on theinternet, like I don't even care
, like people that say stuffI've had bad comments, you know,
just like that the song sucksor to lose weight, things like
that, and I just don't care.
Which kind of goes into thepeople think that song and why I
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wrote it was because I was sotired of people making
assumptions of me when theydon't even know me, like from
the internet.
And, and you know, peoplethinking that I'm rich but
really I just have fake purses.
You know I don't have all thesegucci bags and movie bags.
They're like they're fake, um,and so I my wife's the same way,
(46:33):
so yeah, I love fake bags.
I think they're.
Why would you buy a real one ifyou can just buy a fake one?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
um nobody's gonna know.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
I wouldn't know the difference, so, but anyways,
half the time yeah, okay, but,um, yeah, I just really got so
sick of people um commentingstuff and that's where people
think came from, and and I docare what people think it's not,
as, like you know, I try to bemore and more like that song all
(47:01):
the time.
Um, but I definitely do care alittle bit, but I really don't
let the trolls and don't let it.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Don't let it get to you.
I know, yeah, yeah, it's easyfor me to say, but you know,
people are people andeverybody's going to have an
opinion.
Good, bad, indifferent, bad,indifferent.
You know what?
Just if it's constructive orthey say something, you may
think about it a little bit andsay, yeah, maybe I could do you
know whatever a little bitbetter.
(47:29):
But you know what?
There's people out there justlooking to piss you off.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Totally and that's why and it took me a few years
to learn that you know, associal media, got bigger and
bigger, and kind of just seeingthat and getting used to that,
because social media wasn'talways around.
Having, like those outsideopinions come in from nowhere
was something to get used to.
So yeah, but I really don'tcare anymore, don't?
(47:55):
The way I look at it now isthat they're just boosting my
engagement every time.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Hey, you made it on Skip Happens.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I'm just kidding.
Skip Happens, because it doeshappen.
We all know that.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yep, it's true, it's what it's about.
It's what it's about you know.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
if somebody wanted to jump on and find out more about
you the website or just Googleyour name, what can we do?
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yes, so you can go to my website, charliereynoldscom.
There's no E in there, just L-Yand my Instagram, TikTok,
Facebook.
All the things arecharliereynoldsmusic.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
I'm always posted on TikTok and Instagram and
Facebook a lot every day.
So, yeah, how important,charlie, how important is it to
be involved in social media.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
For you as an artist, crucial.
I think it is probably thebiggest part now of being the
artist, which, I hate to say, Ithink a lot of us really wish
that it was more focused on thecreativity process and the
songwriting and the songs andthe performances more than
social media.
But now social media is thebiggest aspect of it.
(49:12):
Having a great song is too, butreally you never know what's
going to take off on TikTok andsometimes it is not the great
song, you know, it's just younever know.
So I do wish that that wasn'tthe biggest part of being an
artist now and I enjoy doing it,but I wish that I could have a
little bit more focus on the artof it, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
No, exactly, exactly.
Take a look at the chart,though, and I see it every day
in radio that a lot of thesepeople, if it wasn't for social
media, would not be on thatchart.
Yes, it's like wow.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
And I mean even for me.
I, I wouldn't have the audiencethat I have listeners, so I am
very grateful for it.
Um, but I know there is a partand I do love doing it.
I make like four videos a dayon Tik TOK.
So, um, I obviously have tolove it and I do.
I just think sometimes it cancause a lot of like burnout, in
(50:07):
a way.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
I mean it is a lot of work.
That is a big part of my joband you know being glued to your
phone because you're having topost and edit and do all these
things.
There's just ups and downs,pros and cons to everything into
that, but I am very gratefulfor it, just for expanding my
music to new audiences that,like I would have forgotten it
to.
(50:30):
So yeah, but I'm always on thereand I try to really make it
like a community on there ratherthan just posting, posting,
posting like my songs.
But I try to at least sharesome personality and respond to
the comments.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, Because these are people, you know.
We always have to remember likethat the numbers are people,
you know, the views are people,the comments are people, not
just numbers, absolutely Bigtime, yeah, yeah, big time, yeah
Means a lot.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Yeah, definitely means a lot.
You know you're wonderful.
I know we've never met beforeand I told you.
I said you know, by the time weget done with this podcast,
we're going to be like bestfriends.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yes, and I feel like that happened.
I think so too.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
You know I love doing this and I love talking to
people like yourself.
I've been doing this a longtime and the young, the energy,
the passion, the dedication Ihave a firm belief in
independent artists that need tobe seen, they need to be heard.
Thank you, just getting you outthere and I would love man,
(51:31):
I'll just have to.
I go to Nashville every sooften and I'll have to let you
know when I come out, or I'dlove to see a show.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Yes, please do.
That would be so awesome.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I'll take you to lunch.
We'll have a good time.
You know what I mean.
We'll talk about business.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Totally, that would be, so fun.
I would appreciate that You'reso sweet I appreciate you having
me really, and I'm so glad thatwe got to do this finally.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Yes, finally.
Hopefully we'll do it againsoon.
Um, we skip happens and and youknow it's my thing Um, my door
is always open, just an emailaway, phone call away, and
anybody that's watching this, ifyou've got something you'd like
to bring out.
I mean another artist.
That that's what I do.
Yeah, you know, yeah, I do theradio thing, but still it's,
(52:13):
this is what I do, I believe.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
I believe I love that .
Well, thank you for your beliefin an independent artist.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Absolutely that is so special and sometimes hard to
find, so we appreciate peoplewho really believe in us.
I do 100%.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Charlie, I almost said Charlie for the first time
today, I don't know, do peopledo that they say Charlie?
Or because, just becausethey're not used to calling a
woman Charlie?
Yes, and you know I also getCarly and I'm like how do you
get Carly?
There's an H there.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
I get it all the time I know.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
My daughter is Carly but, she doesn't have an H in
her name.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
I know I don't understand it either.
I get it all the time.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Hey, Carly, how's it going?
No, no, it's.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Charlie, yeah, I just say good.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (53:01):
That's it, I love it.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Charlie Reynolds, Nashville independent artist,
Got the new album out off therecord.
This is pretty cool.
It is very, very cool.
Well, now we put that one outin 24, you said and now it's the
live.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
The live acoustic version.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
God, that's got to be so good and we can get.
We can buy that offline right.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Yes, yep, yes, and there's live videos to all of
that I love that.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Charlie Reynolds, thank you for being a part of
skip happens tonight.
Like I said, it's always apleasure to talk to people like
you.
Um, you're beautiful.
I love what you're doing.
Uh, just keep doing it.
And thank you so much for beinga part of skip happens.
We're going to sign off, but Iwant you to stay right there.
Yeah, all right, good nighteverybody and thank you.
Oh, I can't hit find the button.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
There, it is right there.
Thanks for watching everybody.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Thank you.
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark.
Let me put it this way she'sgot the boots, she's got the
bangers and a debut album.
That's spilling more tea thanon a southern porch.
That was pretty fancy.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Charlie Reynolds is in the house and we're going and
it's a little play on wordshere, but off the record talking
messy breakups, I got dreamcollabs and why people think
might just be about you.
So we're going to dig in.
Let's go and, charlie, how areyou?
It's so nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I am great.
It's so nice to meet you too.
I'm so happy to be on heretoday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know we've been trying to do this since.
I looked it up earlier, it waslike the end of March or early
April and you were out touringand you were doing a lot of
shows.
I think there was one timewhere you didn't feel well.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
There was just everything going on, yeah,
something every time and I'mlike I swear I want to do it,
it's not, it's just for somereason I'm going, this chick's
blowing me off.
This is not working.
What's going on?
I promise I wasn't.
No, I know you.
Yes, it's crazy time, but Iknow, yeah, I'm glad we got it
going exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Um, you're an independent artist doing your
own thing, which is great, bythe way.
I absolutely love that.
I'm beginning to believe that'sprobably the way to go nowadays
, but where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm in Nashville, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Everybody's in Nashville and we are.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I know we're always here.
Well, at least during the week,always here.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Let me ask how long have you been in Nashville?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I just hit my seven year mark here in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Wow, they say it's a 10 year town and look at you
already.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
They do, thank you.
Thank you so much.
I uh.
Yeah, it's crazy that it's beenseven years.
I feel like there's been threedifferent phases throughout
those years and just kind offiguring out Nashville.
And yeah, I can't believe it'sbeen that long.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Where are you originally from?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Orlando Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, you're a Florida girl.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am.
I am yes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So the heat you're probably somewhat accustomed to.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Somewhat, but I have to say it is way hotter here
than it is in Florida.
I think we have like a breezedown there and up here it's just
like a valley and it's juststeaming all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The humidity.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, if you look at my hair, it doesn't really
do it.
Well, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, oh my God, yes, it'srough up, do it well, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, oh my God.
Yes, it's rough up here, so,but yeah, no, that's good,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Seven years in Nashville and already you've put
out your debut album Off theRecord.
Let me just ask you know, withthat title, is that a clever way
of saying I'm about to spillall the tea, but don't quote me.
I mean let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So actually a lot of people said that and I should
have just said, yes, that'sexactly what I came up with for
it, because that's way better,but really I just thought it was
.
I'm going to be totally honest,I thought it was a cool name
for an album and that's one ofthe songs on the album and
(03:11):
originally I didn't want to namethe album one of the songs, um,
I wanted to just name it.
You know, something that kindof encapsulated the whole album
but not a song title.
But then once we wrote off therecord, I was like that's too
cool, it's perfect.
I just I love that I had vinylsmade.
I love that I have a vinylcalled Off the Record.
How.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You got the vinyl.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I do.
Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So cool yes, it's so awesome, and I just thought it
was the perfect name because itwas really cool, and I wish that
there was more of a storybehind it, because there should
be, but there's not.
Other than I thought it was acool album.
Title.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Really I mean off the record.
You know you would think, okay,here she is, she's going to
spill her beans in the way ofmusic.
But do you think, just behonest with me how many of your
exes do you think are nervouslyrefreshing Spotify like each and
every Friday Because they don'tknow what's going to come out?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They never know.
You know they probably are.
I would say at least one ofthem has to have heard one of my
songs, because it's my biggestsong.
It has almost 3 million viewson.
Youtube and it is veryobviously about him.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So he definitely probably, is always waiting to
see if there's another onecoming out.
Do you think he knows that'sabout him?
Yes, he does.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Probably, I would say , because of the time frame and
the everything with it.
I think he definitely now isthis.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Uh, I'm not digging too deep here and I'm sorry if
you think I am, but going backto Orlando, florida.
Is that somebody from like backin the day that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
no, no, from Nashville, okay, never mind.
Yeah, yeah, from Nashville, soit's fine, though, honestly,
yeah, the song is she Ain't Me.
That's the song.
It's a cheating song, buthonestly, I got a great song out
of it and I see where that'sgoing.
(04:58):
Yeah, I honestly don't care.
I'm like you know what?
You gave me a song.
It's fine, Whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's his loss.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It is his loss 100%.
You are right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So he's going to be pissed off when he watches this
or listens to this and realizesoh my God, what did I screw up,
what was I?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
thinking yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What was I thinking?
The?
Name of the song, by the way.
I know Exactly.
So which song on the album madeyou cry into your wine glass?
I heard about that, wasn'tthere, didn't some?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
okay, never mind I don't know, maybe not me, but I
would say hurt people.
Hurt is definitely a crier umfor some people.
Uh, and if you're just feelingemotional turning that song on,
it's really just about how hurtpeople hurt other people.
And Visiting Hours is alsoobviously a tearjerker.
(05:54):
That song's about my brotherwho passed away when I was
little.
And it's just basically sayingif heaven had visiting hours,
here's what I would tell him isgoing on down here.
So those are the two kind oftear jerking jerker songs on the
album um, and two of myfavorites and two of my
audience's favorites as well.
(06:15):
Those have done really well umover everything else on the
album which?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
which song on the album would make you get up on a
bar and dance?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Probably blame it on my boots Um, a lot of them would
, but I think blame it on myboots is really fun and it's
just such a vibe.
I love that song, so probablythat one.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You shop at boot barn .
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, I'm just saying yes, I do, I love me some
boot barn.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There you go.
When you run low on the funds,you can go to a firm and you can
go and pay it as you go.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, I know.
Don't ask me how I know that,but I know that.
Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
How many pairs of boots do you think you have?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Ah, this is kind of embarrassing because I have a
lot.
And I have counted, I have aboot wall over there, two boot
walls, there's, like 66.
What?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
66 pairs of boots.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes, but I have to say I don't buy them all.
I do a lot of deals with a lotof brands like Lane Boots.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And some other brands .
So I don't really buy boots ever, or a lot so I did and worked
in, but I always like to clarifythat I'm not out here just
shopping every single day,buying boots uncontrollably.
But we actually did write thatsong because we were writing in
my living room, which is wheremy boot walls are, and we just
(07:47):
didn't really have an idea andwe're like let's write something
about boots.
Like what can we come up with?
And turned into that song.
So and it's one of my favorites, yeah, Sixty six pairs of boots
.
It's ridiculous, it'sembarrassing.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, I don't think it's embarrassing.
I think it's pretty cool, butwhen do you have time to wear
them all?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I know, you know, there's only one pair that have
not been worn and, um, that'sbecause they're a little.
They're stiletto heeled bootsand they have blue feathers on
them.
They're really crazy, butreally cool, high fashion, I
would say, um, but I don'treally go anywhere to wear those
.
But those I did buy becausethey were on sale, so I did buy
those and of course, they're theonly ones I've never worn, the
(08:27):
ones that I bought.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know, I think of boots I and me being in
Nashville quite often for radioand different things like that
and we had a chance to go seeMegan Maroney and she had these
boots on that were all sparklyand it just looked like all
glitter.
They were up over her knees andI'm just it's like wow.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I love it.
I love boots.
There's all different sizes,styles, colors, textures, all of
them.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So your album blends Nashville twang this is a little
note I made.
I listened to a lot of the cuts.
By the way, Blends Nashvilletwang and Texas dance hall
energy.
Was that your plan to dosomething like that?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It was.
So I've for a long time, um,kind of tried to figure out my
sound and who I wanted to be,because when I first moved to
town, country pop was really bigand that's so I did a little
country pop and then, um, I kindof just flowed into whatever
was big at the time and I neverreally knew what I wanted to do.
(09:29):
And so when we were making thealbum, we were halfway through
and we wrote a song, another manWill, which is the first song
on the album, and I was likethis is it, this is my sound,
this is my whole vibe.
I want this to be how I soundgoing forward.
(09:50):
And so that song, shade of Blueand Blame it on my Boots, were
made last, and those were theones that kind of defined my
sound going forward and whatI've been looking for for seven
years that I just hadn't foundyet.
And so I would say it's alittle bit of 90s, like Shania
(10:10):
Twain, mixed with a littleCarrie Underwood and some modern
country in there too.
But I really want it to feelcountry, like 90s, older country
.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, now this just dropped.
What what last month?
When did it?
When did it drop just recently?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So off the record, the original album dropped in
2024 in September, but right nowwe're doing the live acoustic
album, so that's what I'mthinking of.
Yes, so that's what's beendropping every two weeks.
So there's a song coming out onthat every two weeks until
August, and then the full offthe record will be out the live
(10:48):
acoustic version.
So, that's what we've beenworking on now.
I wanted to have a longer life,so I was like, let's do a good
idea yeah.
One just came out tonight andone of the videos, so oh, I love
that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So let's uh, let's talk to CMA Fest for a little
bit.
Did you get a chance to take itin?
Do your thing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, it was crazy.
As always I got.
I had bronchitis this year andlast year during CMA Fest, which
makes it a little tricky.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I know bad timing, but it was really fun.
I played three shows and thenalso did like a little pop-up
event.
I was supposed to be out oftown for CMA Fest actually this
year, and then my plans changedand so I was here and so I had
to try to book things lastminute and I decided to do a fan
(11:37):
pop-up like in the streetoutside.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it was so fun.
We gave out 100 T-shirts andplayed four songs acoustically
outside fanfare and it was great.
It was really fun, and so Iplanned that before I had other
shows, so it ended up being kindof crazy, but it was very fun.
I had a great, great time.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But this isn't the first time you've done this,
though.
You've done FanFest or C fanfest or cma fest, but I mean
it's been so many differentnames.
But, um, you know, going backwhat?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
22, 23 yeah, I believe my first cma fest was 22
um, like where I was playing,and then I played official cma
fest the last two years, um, andyeah, so I've done it.
I guess guess four years, three, four years now, whatever it is
.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's pretty cool though.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's really fun, it is cool and I look forward to
that weekend.
Every year is my favorite weekJust because there's so many
different events going on and somany people who actually really
want to listen to music andthat really makes a difference.
Just at shows like playingdowntown during CMA Fest, too,
is actually fun because peoplewant to be introduced to new
(12:51):
artists, they want theiroriginal music, whereas usually
people just want to get drunkand party and not care you know.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So it makes all the difference.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, it makes all the difference down there
for sure, but it was a greattime.
It always is, and, um, I'malready looking forward to next
year.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, how close to downtown do you live?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
20 minutes.
Okay, it's far enough away Farenough, and but yeah, yeah, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
My wife and I were there a couple of years ago for
the NASCAR race, or maybe it waslast year and uh, we got back
to the Omni where we werestaying and I said come on,
honey, we're going to walk downto Broadway.
Let's see what's going on today.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, mistake, mistake.
Oh, I bet it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It was crazy.
We went over there and you knowthe road was closed, it was
just wall-to, you know, andthere's other things going on
that I don't want to mention, Imean, you know, that just was I
said.
Let's just go back to the hotelWe'll sit at the bar and have a
glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, I would say if you're going to go to Nashville
on Broadway, go in the day like.
Do like a Sunday or Friday.
Saturday can be fine too, butjust go earlier just go early in
the daytime?
I actually do not.
I will not do Broadway at nightanymore unless, like, there's
(14:10):
something going on and that'swhy I need to be down there, or
it's after a concert orsomething, but it is crazy down
it is if you've never been toNashville and you have to go you
have to go yeah but once you doit, you've done it yes and you
know, unless you're, you know,there's bachelorette parties
everywhere.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It was just, it was nuts, so just yeah, but you need
to do it if you've never doneit.
But then, on the other hand, ifyou've done it before and
you're thinking about going back, go.
Go during the day, go earlierthat's all.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The music never stops .
Someday drinking and barhopping and see the bands who
are playing in the day, and thengo to dinner and go home.
You know, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There you go.
That's a good plan.
Speaking of dinner, what's yourfavorite dinner spot in
Nashville?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh, my favorite dinner spot.
Actually, I have a lot offavorite places, but speaking of
Broadway, I love Casa Rosa.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yeah, their food is so good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I played there for two years and we would eat
dinner right after every time weplayed, which was usually twice
a week or more, and I never getsick of it.
I'm still not sick of it, and Iate there for two years twice a
week.
It's so good, but it's justreally elevated Mexican food.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So, yeah, Charlie, tell me a little bit about your
writing style.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And you said you've written right there at home and
you're looking at your bootsgetting ideas, but tell me a
little bit about how yourcreativity and how does all that
come about?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so you know I used to be more of a melodies
girl.
I wasn't as much as a lyricswriter.
It was just always hard for meto put into words in a clever
way what I was trying to write,and so I draw inspiration from
anything.
I actually was talking to somefans about songwriting the other
(16:01):
day and I was just saying thatfor practice, what I would do is
pick like anything that's infront of you, like a cup or you
know pillow or something, andwrite about it like come up with
something silly.
That may not make sense, butyou're still challenging
yourself to write really, youknow something, make up a story
(16:24):
about this thing, and so thathas really helped me a lot with
writing.
And I really wasn't a veryconfident writer until up until
like a year ago because I alwaysfelt like the artist in the
room and never like a writer inthe room.
I did write, but I always feltlike I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The main songwriters and now, after just writing more
and taking a break writing too,when I did the album, I really
took a pretty long break fromsongwriting at least co-writing
and I feel like that was good aswell, cause I got a lot of more
ideas that were helpful justflooding to mind, rather than
(17:03):
writing three or four times aweek where you kind of just get
overload and you kind of justwrite to write and you're not
writing to get a number one, orwriting, writing it's feeling,
from your feelings and yourheart.
You're just kind of writingbecause you have to write.
There's a difference there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know what you just said, for example, taking a
cup and telling a story aboutit.
That's exactly what I do inradio with a lot of people, and
I'll put my cup down and say,all right, hey, tell me about
this cup.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What you know.
And then I said that way youget very conversational, you
just kind of open up.
I mean that's amazing.
I didn't realize that you didthat with songwriting too, and
now I get that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, yeah, because with some songs obviously I
relate to a lot of them, but I'mnot always the main person in
the story, like it wasn't mystory.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Make it up and be an author and like with Shade of
Blue, that's not my story, it'smy friends.
And with Hurt People Hurtthat's not my story.
Either Just you know figuringout how to write things that
maybe you don't have experienceon, or it's not your story per
se.
It definitely helped a lot,just for exercise and practicing
(18:23):
, and it paid off because now Ifeel like an actual songwriter.
I feel like I can hold my own,rather than just an artist in
the room with songwriters.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
God, I love that.
That's so cool With groupwrites.
How often do you write alone ordo you with others?
Do you do group writing?
I?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
mainly do co-writing group writing because I like
having different minds, you knowlike, and I, because I think
you know I could say an idea outloud and then we'll all have
different ways of how tointerpret that or which
direction that we want to takeit.
So I really love co-writing.
I have stepped into writing bymyself a little bit more lately,
(19:04):
just because I get get an ideaand then I want to write it
immediately.
But sometimes I finish them.
Sometimes I bring someone elsein on it to help me finish it.
I'm not always able to finishit myself but yeah, I love
co-writing.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Would you say it's like good therapy.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, it definitely is, and that's where I think I
start writing by myself more.
It's usually at night when I'mtrying to go to bed and I get an
idea and then I kind of justflow all of it out and write it
all down.
And it definitely is a form oftherapy, because I think if you
just write something down tooand get it out of your head,
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it's very calming and soothing.
Did you ever write a song too,and get it out of your head?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
it's very calming.
Did you ever write a song, playit back and then go?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Hmm, Wow, that's a little too honest.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Probably yeah, and then release it anyways.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, I would say with Love you Long.
That one, oh yeah, that one issomething that is vulnerable to
me, that song, just because itreally is honest and it does
just share my story and my life,like how I am in relationships,
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and so that was kind of scaryto put on like out for everyone,
but in my head I was like, well, whatever they might not know,
that it's me like you know.
But then I tell them and I haveto say, like this is what it
was written on and all thisstuff you know.
and then but I think therethere's, I used to hate being
vulnerable and I used to hate Iget it didn't like it and um,
(20:48):
now I've gotten used to it and Ithink there's a definitely a
strength in being able to sharethose things and instead of, you
know, being embarrassed by itor whatever, I think it's
important so that other people,people know that they're not
alone in that too.
So I've found a beauty in it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I'm definitely still getting used to being vulnerable
, but, yeah, trying to be so youknow I I'm all over the place
when I do these podcasts, butearly on you mentioned Orlando
being from Orlando.
Are you actually from Orlandoor from just outside, or?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
from Orlando yeah, downtown.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Did you work, disney?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, I didn't.
I always did want to be aDisney princess and work there,
but I am too tall and I alsohave dimples, so the only
princess I could be was Rapunzel, and she's supposed to be like
five feet tall.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, that's not going to work then.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It didn't work, so I never got to live out that Now
the dimples is not a bad thing.
Yeah, I have dimples too, butyes, but it limited to me, or
limited me to the one princess.
But that's okay, wasn't meantto be, I get it.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So you lived there all your life up until the point
that you moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, so I was 18.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, Tell me about your family a little bit.
You've got you told me a littlebit about your brother and I'm
very sorry but tell me, are youthe only other child or no.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So I have another older brother, kyle, and he's 12
years older than me.
And then I have my parents aredivorced.
And so I have a stepmom and astepdad and then a younger
brother who is 12 years youngerthan me oh wow, one 12 years
older, one 12 years younger,named Noah, and yeah, they all
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still live in Orlando.
As of now, my dad and stepmomand little brother are moving to
North Carolina this summer.
I'm about to go visit them thisweekend, so I'm excited to do
that, but yeah, they're allstill at least most of my family
is all still in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So I was used to the heat.
I get it, yes, used to it, butnot really, not really.
What do you do for fun?
Do you get out of the house?
Do you go for walks, hikes, doyou?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
run.
So I I like walking, walking mydog, but she's not here right
now.
So now I've been walkingwithout my dog and that's really
weird.
I left her in Florida last weekcause I'm gone all next month
and she loves my mom's pool likeaddicted.
She's in the pool at 9 30 inthe morning until nighttime, um,
(23:19):
all day.
She's a labradoodle, so it'sthe lab and I love labradoodles.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We've got lab labrador retrievers, but still I
love labradoodles too yeah,yeah, she's the best.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So anything with dolly.
Um, I love taking her to thepark and walking with her Dolly.
Yeah, Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Dolly Parton.
Yep oh my God, I love it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Right, I love it, but , yeah, anything with her.
I really like doing anything.
I love watching reality TV, Ilove going to the movies, going
to a place called Putt shack.
Here it's like putt putt golf.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Anything fun to get out of the house.
But I do think when I'm reallybusy like I was gone almost all
of April, a lot of may once I'mhome, then I kind of for at
least a week if I'm going to behome.
I like to be home, um and justthere's no place like home.
Yeah, there isn't.
And when you're traveling a lot, it's just nice to be home and
(24:20):
inside and sitting on the couchwatching a show or a movie, and
yeah there's two sides to that,though.
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I mean, it's great to be home and doing all that, but
doing also what you love, andthat is writing, singing,
performing.
I know you've opened for Laineyand Walker Hayes, maybe Maddie
and Tay.
You've had that opportunity Outof those who gave you the best
advice backstage.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I can picture Lainey going here.
Girl, let's talk.
I love Lainey.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I've had those conversations with her?
Yes, I would say I love Lainey.
Yes, I've had thoseconversations with her yes, I
would say so, actually withLainey.
So I shared the.
I played a festival that shewas playing and I didn't get to
see her at that festival or meether there, but I met her at the
ACMs the next year or so andshe, we talked and whatever, and
(25:14):
I will text her for advice.
And she is so fast to respondand say be so honest.
Um, just about because I talkedto her about just social media
and the struggles of just that,just posting and not getting in
your head with the numbers andthat kind of stuff.
And she's like you know youcannot worry about that kind of
(25:37):
stuff, like just focus on themusic, put out the good music,
keep.
She's like post five, four orfive times a day, like just keep
going and don't pay attention,and like this is in your heart,
like just keep chasing it.
Um, and so I really love herfor that, um, um, and so I
(25:59):
really love her for that Um.
Also, just when I met her, shewas literally like the kindest
person ever Um.
I met her with my old publicistand she was like uh, I said you
know, you're just an inspirationto me.
I love your music, I love yourstory, whatever.
And she's like oh my gosh, I'dlove to talk to you sometime
about it.
Like if you ever need anything,just let me know.
Being like that is so amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So it is amazing and same thing for you know, doing
the radio side of things, and wehad that opportunity to hang
and talk the exact same way Ihad around my skip happens
podcast and, um, I sent her outfor coffee mugs and she was
playing at the state New Yorkstate fair I don't know if it
was last year, think it was theyear before went on her tour bus
and my four mugs were sittingright there and I went and she
(26:40):
goes that's right, I still use.
I use those on the bus all thetime I'm like oh, that is so
cool.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
See, that's the type of person she is yes, and I love
seeing that there are peoplelike that, you know, in the
industry still, because noteveryone is like that.
So I really really love her forthat and Cody Johnson, who I
also love Cody me too.
I was the first on the lineupat Country Thunder in Florida
(27:07):
and it was so hot outside it waslike 2pm and he played at like
10pm and so, anyway, we were onstage doing our thing and my
band noticed him and his bandwatching.
I didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I was in my own world performing.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And so we got off stage and they were like Cody
Johnson was watching our set,like blah, blah, blah.
And so I was like no way.
And later on we were watchingfrom side stage Parker McCollum
play and Cody was about to go onand he came over to us and was
like you're, charlie, right?
I was like yeah, and he's likey'all were amazing, like keep
doing what you're doing.
(27:45):
Here's some passes to stay onstage while we play.
Other one like Laney, just verygenuine down to earth and people
who go out of their way tocompliment, you know, those of
us who are still up and coming,you know, and trying, because
they know how hard it is.
So I love that they take timeout of their day to just be kind
(28:10):
, cause that both of thosemoments have just meant a lot to
me, um, and really keep memotivated when I start getting
down or, you know, things startgetting hard.
So I really appreciate both ofthem for that.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now you've been doing shows with a lot of these great
artists, and rightfully so.
That's where you need to be,but have, if you could
collaborate with any of thosewho would it be?
Or anybody dead or alive?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
OK, if it could be anybody of those who would it be
, or anybody dead or alive.
Okay, If it could be anybody, Iwould say Reba.
Oh my God, Reba is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm literally wearing her merch right, I named one of
my dogs after Reba.
So I'm just saying and I loveit.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I love that.
I was going to name Dolly Reba,but she is blonde and fluffy,
so dolly made more sense.
Yeah, yeah, but reba is one ofmy favorites.
I would absolutely love to haveher on a song, or to sing, does
he love you?
Or back to god with her.
Um, she's incredible, uh, andif there was a guy to
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collaborate with, it would bealan jackson oh love alan gosh,
alan Jackson.
Oh love Alan.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Gosh love Alan.
And to see him on the awardshow here not too long ago was
just, oh my, I had tears,seriously, I had tears.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, I was there and I was like, yeah, I was crying
as well, I was just like soamazing and maybe the last time
I'm ever going to see this, youknow.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Exactly right, exactly yeah, sitting on my
couch thinking the exact samething.
Yes, you know, I don't know ifI'll see him do this again.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, and it was amazing, it was amazing it was
amazing.
I did not disappoint.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, what's your guilty pleasure?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Probably watching my trash reality TV, my Housewives
of new york actually oh my goshhousewives of new york city is
my favorite show and I.
It is what it is.
You know I I don't care thatpeople hate on trash tv, but I
think I love watching otherpeople's drama I.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I know some other women that say the same thing.
They, they love watching thatstuff.
I don't know why I don't get it.
Have you ever watched it,though?
Maybe for?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
about five minutes and they picked up the remote
and changed the channel.
But my dad always said the samething and my mom my mom was
like I don't know why you watchthat stuff.
And when I had my vocal cordsurgery, like two years ago,
both of them came up and Icouldn't talk, so we only watch
TV.
And so I made them watch RealHousewives of Beverly Hills and
they got into it and I was likesee, even dad.
(30:48):
Yeah, my dad.
I mean not that he went homeand started watching it, but no,
but he didn't turn it away.
Yeah, he was interested, andI'm like.
You see.
It's not as like stupid aseveryone makes out to be.
It's actually kind of good.
Now the real housewives of newyork, though, are on another
level.
They are extremely dramatic andinsane, but some other ones are
(31:09):
not.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I don't get it.
I'm sorry, I don't get it.
It must be, it's got to be afemale thing, I don't know I
don't get it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
it it must be, it's gotta be a female thing.
I don't know, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It definitely is that's okay.
Do you binge?
Have you binged watched anyshows like on Netflix or
anything like that?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Definitely.
I mean not lately.
I really haven't been home atall, so when I am away.
I'm watching housewives on myphone while I'm traveling
because I'm trying to finish it,but we I do watch, like I've
watched outer banks and yeah,I've watched all that yeah, some
short series too there's been.
What is that one with kristenbell um?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I can't remember you know what you gotta watch.
Uh, it just started too.
Just to give you a heads up thewaterfront waterfront
waterfront.
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, good to know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, it's really really good.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Really good, so Waterfront Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And it takes place at town on the North Carolina
shore.
Oh, and it has a lot to do withdrug smuggling, but I mean the
story behind it and from what Iunderstand it's a real story.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And it's not.
It gets pretty gruesome attimes, but you know it's one of
those, it's, it's real life.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh, I'd love to watch that.
Okay, I mean it just started,like two weeks ago, so I'm only
into the second episode, butit's got me hooked.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, oh, I love that .
I love any kind of drama,suspense and comedies too.
But yeah, we were recentlywatching um, what is the big
little lies?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Oh, yeah, big little lies Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Great show.
I know we're really late.
To me I want to say we, me andmy roommate, we're like really
late on that show.
Um, watching it, but so good.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, great.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So tell me, charlie.
Tell me about a show.
If I was to go to your show, Iwalk in.
I'm sitting right up front.
What am I going to see and whatam I going to hear?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah.
So first you're going to hearAnother man, will, because
that's the first song I do atevery show, okay, and you're
going to hear some fiddle.
You're going to hear me singing.
You're going to hear my bassplayer singing Chandler um, and
we just have a lot of fun.
You're gonna hear me asking youguys to sing along, even if you
don't know it, and dance and notbe afraid to get up, uh, up in
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the front, um, and to have agood time, because, honestly,
when I do the best as an artistis when the crowd is having fun,
because I really depend ontheir energy for my energy.
So, yeah, constantly askingpeople to dance and have fun and
get up and really interact withthem and teach part of my song,
(33:46):
like rodeo.
I always teach a little bit ofit because it's easy to catch on
to, so you guys can sing alongwith me through the song.
And you're going to hear I WillSurvive, because that's one of
my favorite covers to play.
It's on the album as well, sowe always do that song, which
gets everyone really excited.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was petrified.
Yes, yes, the song youshouldn't play at a wedding, but
everybody plays at a wedding.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, 100%.
It's so much fun, though, andeveryone loves it and so, yeah,
whenever a crowd is like alittle nervous or like shy, that
song immediately wakes everyoneup.
So but yeah, we love.
That's my favorite part aboutbeing an artist, honestly, is
performing.
I love being on stage andsinging my songs and singing
(34:31):
cover songs, whatever it is, Ijust love performing.
So, yeah, we try to make it thebest show that we can.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's cool.
That is really cool, reallycool.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I'm just, I'm just thinking about everything you
just told me and going to thatshow and I can only picture
myself that I don't know if Iwould get up and dance.
I mean my wife says you knowshe goes, you never dance, you
just sit there and you, you just.
But I'm taking it all in and Ithink you, as an artist, if you
give that energy, you'll get itback totally, you know, if you
get the crowd into it yeah, Ireally try and sometimes they're
(35:05):
harder than others.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You know, like sometimes it's just not the vibe
, the crowd is not, doesn'treally want that, and that's
okay, and then I just, you know,they can go home.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm like, can we get just one?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
person out here, Come on Um.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I'd be like get off your ass and move.
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I really do mess with them sometimes, um, but I think
they like that and it's kind offunny.
But yeah, I, I love it, it'sfun.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Cool stuff, cool stuff.
What do you drive?
A Kia, a Kia Sportage, yeah, Ijust got rid of my Sportage.
No way, yeah, I had a KiaSportage.
I was always a truck guy and Ihad.
I had the Dodge Ram, I had theSilverado, I had the Ford F-150.
(35:54):
I had all that.
And I says you know what?
Why do I have a truck?
I never use it, why, in the waythat most people would use a
truck.
You know I loved it, don't getme wrong.
But why the big payment?
And blah, blah, blah, so on andso forth.
So I said, all right, I'll geta Ford Explorer.
So I went to the Ford Explorer,all right.
So I went from that to a KiaTelluride.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Oh, those are so nice .
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, oh, it was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
So then I went from tell yourride to a sportage.
I said you know what?
I still need the downsize.
I'm really.
I just need something to get meto the radio station and back,
and you know, just to do mylittle things.
It was nice.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
But then I started missing the truck.
Yeah, so I went and, uh, thosethat know me know I did this,
but uh, maybe you don't, I knowyou don't.
Uh, I went out and got a ChevyColorado.
So it's not a full size truck,but it's a smaller truck, but
yet it's got all the features,so it's cool.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So I'm happy, I'm happy again.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's awesome, yeah I but the Kia was a good car.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
It is a good car.
I really like it and the gas isreally cheap, um, compared to
my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
I had a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Uh, before that was my firstcar, so I I had that one for a
while and um, then it was timefor a new car and tried, but the
Jeeps were so expensive I waslike I can't do another Jeep.
Um plus with the gas.
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The gas was as much as my bandvan, which is a suburban, so I
have that as well.
I kind of try to drive.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, yeah.
So compared to my $30 fill upyou know my suburban and my Jeep
were both like 80 something.
So, um yeah, I'll take the Kia.
Yeah, I don't blame you, Itotally it, totally get it.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Uh, do you remember the first?
Do you remember the first songyou ever, ever wrote?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
you know, I know that there was like one when I
before I was probably 10 yearsold, but I don't remember.
Um, but I do remember the firstsong I ever released, because I
was like 15.
It's called Underneath theStars and it is.
Yeah, it was something.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
It was about a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
New Year's Eve party that I had in high school or
freshman year or something, oreighth grade maybe even and yeah
, it was really, it was justcalled underneath the stars.
It wasn't terrible, it just youknow, it was my first release
ever, so now we've come a longway.
I will say, um, then, then thatone, but that's since been
(38:25):
taken down do you ever?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
okay, do you ever listen to it?
Just for the heck of it, do youjust go?
Oh, my god, do you still haveit?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
oh, you do, I do still have it and whoever
downloaded it does have it.
Um when it came out, so it isstill out there in some capacity
.
I will say um, but it's notlike you can't really find it on
the internet.
Um, but I do listen to itsometimes I.
I just did the songwritersworkshop the other day um that I
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hosted and showed them thatsong and the music video just to
kind of give a little bit of ashowing progression kind of
thing, and so, yeah, I look backon that stuff sometimes too,
just to remember where I started, I guess.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know, what I really love about artists like
you, independent artists, eventhe others too, just country in
general is that you're real,you're just.
You know you're working.
I hate to put it this way.
It's like a job, but yet it's ajob that you have a lot of
passion and a lot of dedicationfor.
And you know, this has probablybeen your dream since you were
(39:31):
a little girl.
This is what you wanted to do,and look, you're doing it.
You, since you were a littlegirl, this is what you wanted to
do, and look, you're doing it.
You're doing it, yes, and it'snot easy.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
It is not easy, it is crazy.
I have a love-hate relationshipwith it for sure.
Just with the business side, isthe hate that part of it?
It really is frustrating.
Just the politics of the musicindustry is very frustrating,
but it's part of it.
(40:01):
So, you know, learning everyday and moving every day, and I
really do this is all I want todo and I, you know, wouldn't be
putting myself through all ofthat um hard stuff if I really
didn't want it.
Um, right, right, so yeah alwaysplaying more shows and um just
(40:23):
really getting people with mymusic how do you?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
who books the shows?
Do you do it?
Do you do it all?
Do you have a team?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I have a booking team um some of it, I do some of it,
so'd say it's probably 50-50.
I got you, I also go.
Do you know Bells?
She's an artist as well.
Sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I can't yeah Bells.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Bells.
She is an artist as well inNashville and we back in the
spring did a behind theguitar-guitar tour, an acoustic
tour where just me and her wentand we kind of double-headlined
but one of us will go first andthen the next one of us, and
then we'll swap, but anyway.
So we're doing that again inthe fall.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, so we've booked , I think, 15 shows from
September to November.
We're so excited to go do allof that.
So, yeah, just kind of bookingas much as I can everywhere,
whether it's me, her or mybooking agents or her booking
agents Just kind of really thegoals.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
That's cool.
Yeah, that's cool.
Are you happy doing it at thislevel?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yes, I am.
I would like there to be somemore money.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Well, yeah, and I don't blame you.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
That would be nice, but it really I love it.
You know, if this is me for therest of my life, then that's
fine.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I just want to be able to do music and at the end
of the day, I would love to bedoing big tours and stadiums,
and all of those things is thereal goal.
But if I just get to sing andlittle, bit of time, I mean you
know we all joke about it and Isaid it in the beginning that
Nashville's a 10-year town.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
It is, but it's so true.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It's so true.
Everybody I've talked toactually took McGraw like 13
years.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yes, so you know and I feel like too, is you know
those first five, four years?
You're really kind of figuringout who you are.
Also, you know I was 18 yearsold.
So it's kind of like you'refiguring out what you're even
(42:47):
doing here Not really you knowand how to get your music career
going, but you don't knowexactly how.
You might not have thoseconnections.
I mean, I worked at Chick-fil-Athe first year I lived here.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I was going to ask what your first job was.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, I didn't really do anything else, so it was
kind of like Well, you hadSundays off.
I did have Sundays off.
It was nice.
I worked Monday through Fridayfull time at Chick-fil-A for
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
And.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I loved it.
It was great.
I actually you know those firstcouple of years are for
building.
So, yeah, it's going to take 10years because you're you're not
like the artist that you wantto be yet You're going to be yet
.
So it takes, takes some time.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Right yeah, what was you talking about?
Jobs?
What was the worst job you everhad?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Oh, you know, I've never really had a bad job.
I've honestly loved all thejobs that I've done.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
What was the funnest?
Let me ask you that.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Probably being a hostess at a golf club.
I had a lot of fun there.
I worked at the West Haven GolfClub in Franklin Tennessee
during COVID, because all theshows stopped.
Franklin Tennessee during COVID, because all the shows stopped.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
So I started working there and became friends with
everybody and it was just reallyfun.
We had a good time.
I looked forward to going towork every day.
Chick-fil-a was really funthough, too.
I enjoyed that a lot.
It was because it was fastpaced and it went by really fast
, because everybody you knowChick-fil-A is packed like 24-7
(44:23):
a day.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
So it was always very fast and I didn't really like
when I got the 5 am shift to 4pm, but you know that's okay.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's a long day, holy cow.
They have a 5 am to 4 pm shift.
That's crazy.
So that means you're up at what?
Speaker 2 (44:44):
3, 30, four o'clock I mean you have to, I would roll
out of bed, I I would get up atlike 4, 45 and then throw the
hoodie on and out the door yes,yes, but you get a break um
during the day like pretty goodbreak um oh good but yeah, so I
was working there and it was fun.
I really liked both of thosejobs, but West Haven was
(45:05):
probably my favorite because Ihad a group of friends there
that I really loved hanging outwith on the job, so it was fun.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
How do you, um, how would yousay you handle criticism?
Because you know, being inNashville, you get a lot of you
get a lot of negative, get a lotof positive and some people can
be pretty mean.
How do you handle the negative?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So I well, criticism, I would say if it's
constructive criticism, I takeit good, because I feel like I
know when it's good and goodcriticism, when it's not.
So I kind of feel like I cantake that as I need it.
(45:48):
But also just people on theinternet, like I don't even care
, like people that say stuffI've had bad comments, you know,
just like that the song sucksor to lose weight, things like
that, and I just don't care.
Which kind of goes into thepeople think that song and why I
(46:09):
wrote it was because I was sotired of people making
assumptions of me when theydon't even know me, like from
the internet.
And, and you know, peoplethinking that I'm rich but
really I just have fake purses.
You know I don't have all thesegucci bags and movie bags.
They're like they're fake, um,and so I my wife's the same way,
(46:33):
so yeah, I love fake bags.
I think they're.
Why would you buy a real one ifyou can just buy a fake one?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
um nobody's gonna know.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
I wouldn't know the difference, so, but anyways,
half the time yeah, okay, but,um, yeah, I just really got so
sick of people um commentingstuff and that's where people
think came from, and and I docare what people think it's not,
as, like you know, I try to bemore and more like that song all
(47:01):
the time.
Um, but I definitely do care alittle bit, but I really don't
let the trolls and don't let it.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Don't let it get to you.
I know, yeah, yeah, it's easyfor me to say, but you know,
people are people andeverybody's going to have an
opinion.
Good, bad, indifferent, bad,indifferent.
You know what?
Just if it's constructive orthey say something, you may
think about it a little bit andsay, yeah, maybe I could do you
know whatever a little bitbetter.
(47:29):
But you know what?
There's people out there justlooking to piss you off.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Totally and that's why and it took me a few years
to learn that you know, associal media, got bigger and
bigger, and kind of just seeingthat and getting used to that,
because social media wasn'talways around.
Having, like those outsideopinions come in from nowhere
was something to get used to.
So yeah, but I really don'tcare anymore, don't?
(47:55):
The way I look at it now isthat they're just boosting my
engagement every time.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Hey, you made it on Skip Happens.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I'm just kidding.
Skip Happens, because it doeshappen.
We all know that.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yep, it's true, it's what it's about.
It's what it's about you know.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
if somebody wanted to jump on and find out more about
you the website or just Googleyour name, what can we do?
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yes, so you can go to my website, charliereynoldscom.
There's no E in there, just L-Yand my Instagram, TikTok,
Facebook.
All the things arecharliereynoldsmusic.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
I'm always posted on TikTok and Instagram and
Facebook a lot every day.
So, yeah, how important,charlie, how important is it to
be involved in social media.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
For you as an artist, crucial.
I think it is probably thebiggest part now of being the
artist, which, I hate to say, Ithink a lot of us really wish
that it was more focused on thecreativity process and the
songwriting and the songs andthe performances more than
social media.
But now social media is thebiggest aspect of it.
(49:12):
Having a great song is too, butreally you never know what's
going to take off on TikTok andsometimes it is not the great
song, you know, it's just younever know.
So I do wish that that wasn'tthe biggest part of being an
artist now and I enjoy doing it,but I wish that I could have a
little bit more focus on the artof it, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
No, exactly, exactly.
Take a look at the chart,though, and I see it every day
in radio that a lot of thesepeople, if it wasn't for social
media, would not be on thatchart.
Yes, it's like wow.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
And I mean even for me.
I, I wouldn't have the audiencethat I have listeners, so I am
very grateful for it.
Um, but I know there is a partand I do love doing it.
I make like four videos a dayon Tik TOK.
So, um, I obviously have tolove it and I do.
I just think sometimes it cancause a lot of like burnout, in
(50:07):
a way.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
I mean it is a lot of work.
That is a big part of my joband you know being glued to your
phone because you're having topost and edit and do all these
things.
There's just ups and downs,pros and cons to everything into
that, but I am very gratefulfor it, just for expanding my
music to new audiences that,like I would have forgotten it
to.
(50:30):
So yeah, but I'm always on thereand I try to really make it
like a community on there ratherthan just posting, posting,
posting like my songs.
But I try to at least sharesome personality and respond to
the comments.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, Because these are people, you know.
We always have to remember likethat the numbers are people,
you know, the views are people,the comments are people, not
just numbers, absolutely Bigtime, yeah, yeah, big time, yeah
Means a lot.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Yeah, definitely means a lot.
You know you're wonderful.
I know we've never met beforeand I told you.
I said you know, by the time weget done with this podcast,
we're going to be like bestfriends.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yes, and I feel like that happened.
I think so too.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
You know I love doing this and I love talking to
people like yourself.
I've been doing this a longtime and the young, the energy,
the passion, the dedication Ihave a firm belief in
independent artists that need tobe seen, they need to be heard.
Thank you, just getting you outthere and I would love man,
(51:31):
I'll just have to.
I go to Nashville every sooften and I'll have to let you
know when I come out, or I'dlove to see a show.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Yes, please do.
That would be so awesome.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I'll take you to lunch.
We'll have a good time.
You know what I mean.
We'll talk about business.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Totally, that would be, so fun.
I would appreciate that You'reso sweet I appreciate you having
me really, and I'm so glad thatwe got to do this finally.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Yes, finally.
Hopefully we'll do it againsoon.
Um, we skip happens and and youknow it's my thing Um, my door
is always open, just an emailaway, phone call away, and
anybody that's watching this, ifyou've got something you'd like
to bring out.
I mean another artist.
That that's what I do.
Yeah, you know, yeah, I do theradio thing, but still it's,
(52:13):
this is what I do, I believe.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
I believe I love that .
Well, thank you for your beliefin an independent artist.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Absolutely that is so special and sometimes hard to
find, so we appreciate peoplewho really believe in us.
I do 100%.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Charlie, I almost said Charlie for the first time
today, I don't know, do peopledo that they say Charlie?
Or because, just becausethey're not used to calling a
woman Charlie?
Yes, and you know I also getCarly and I'm like how do you
get Carly?
There's an H there.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
I get it all the time I know.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
My daughter is Carly but, she doesn't have an H in
her name.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
I know I don't understand it either.
I get it all the time.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Hey, Carly, how's it going?
No, no, it's.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Charlie, yeah, I just say good.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (53:01):
That's it, I love it.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Charlie Reynolds, Nashville independent artist,
Got the new album out off therecord.
This is pretty cool.
It is very, very cool.
Well, now we put that one outin 24, you said and now it's the
live.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
The live acoustic version.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
God, that's got to be so good and we can get.
We can buy that offline right.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Yes, yep, yes, and there's live videos to all of
that I love that.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Charlie Reynolds, thank you for being a part of
skip happens tonight.
Like I said, it's always apleasure to talk to people like
you.
Um, you're beautiful.
I love what you're doing.
Uh, just keep doing it.
And thank you so much for beinga part of skip happens.
We're going to sign off, but Iwant you to stay right there.
Yeah, all right, good nighteverybody and thank you.
Oh, I can't hit find the button.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
There, it is right there.
Thanks for watching everybody.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Thank you.
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