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Speaker 1 (00:00):
go, that's what it says.
Go, we're back, I think.
I think we're back.
All right, lewis, there you are.
You went black on me, man, youjust like you were gone.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, I mean, it was like a flash of lightning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So you guys are getting a.
You're in Nashville, right,Correct?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
me.
I'm Nashville, tennessee,currently.
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And I saw I believe it was this morning that
Nashville was going to get somesevere storms, or you're in that
area, you know how they blockit out with a color, and they
said, yeah, nashville's right inthe middle of that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, and also in that area of Nashville, like
we're in the area area becausewe're a little bit further south
.
I live about 20 minutes southof Nashville, smyrna, tennessee,
but it's like a 20-minute drive, it's not bad.
But right now all those stormshave been cutting like right
across our little area and so,uh, but yeah, this morning we
that's what we woke up to alittle lightning, little thunder
(00:54):
yeah, I love that dude, dude I.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
As long as nobody gets hurt and there's no damage
per se, I'll sit on my backporch and just watch and listen
to these storms.
There's just something about itthat amazes me, I don't know.
You do agree.
I'm not that weird.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know, you're not that weird.
I love it.
So we have a as soon as wemoved.
I've been in this house about ayear and a half now.
This is the first house that mywife and I bought and we had a
back porch, and before, as soonas we moved in, the back porch
was not screened in and uh, mywife was like now, if we're
having a back porch, I want tobe able to go enjoy it without
having bugs right, that's right,yeah, yeah and I'll buy like I
(01:35):
don't, I ain't worried aboutmosquitoes, that's just fine,
but it has been the greatestthing ever because we screened
it in, yeah, and now I can goout there and watch the storms
and stuff.
I love watching storms come in.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, we did the same thing.
We enclosed the porch more orless.
I can open up the windows if Ihave to, but it's a porch and
it's cold in the winter.
Obviously it's not heated, butstill it's a place to go and
hang on one of these type ofdays, I guess.
(02:08):
Well, stormy nights like it is,it is.
So.
Uh, lewis bryce, the brother oflee bryce, that's me, and how
cool is that?
I mean, look what your brotherhas done and look at, you're
like following his footsteps.
Uh, I know you guys haveperformed together, you guys
have done a lot of that stufftogether, but what's it like to
be the brother of lee bryce?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
man.
Uh, it's, it's.
I love my brother, death himand I worked together all the
time.
He's my best friend.
It's a lot different than whatmost people would think I can
promise you.
I've had a lot of opportunitiescome around, but let's say
everything we've done, that I'vedone on my path and journey.
I've done a very, very good jobabout keeping like Lee does his
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thing and I do my thing, youknow, and so we've dealt with
two separate artists and whenyou hear saying, you hear
tendencies and stuff like thatabout.
But but definitely when youhear my live show it has like a
little more edgy rock and rollkind of thing.
Um, but to be honest, man beingin this business and seeing my
brother is one of the hardestworking people in this business.
(03:02):
Um, he does not stop working,he's uh, and he's just very,
he's very, uh, loyal, very, very.
You know he does he does hedoes great work too.
You know, it's like a lot ofpeople don't know, I don't think
how talented my brother is, umuh, because whenever it was and
that's why I like this past uhspring I was able to go out on
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the me and my guitar tour withhim I guitar tour with him,
shows with him, but and that andI love watching that show of
his show because people get tosee him play multiple
instruments and they get to seehis brain about you know how he
thinks about the production ofall the stuff from music,
because he goes, he goes in deepand he goes in hard.
He always, he's always, lookingfor the best music to make him
you know, for me it's it's greatto be able to watch and see.
(03:46):
I've learned very.
I've learned so much watchingmy brother through this business
, through his lifestyle.
Um, you know.
But again you know, peoplethink, oh, he's lee bryce's
brother.
He's just giving everything ona silver platter oh, no, no, no
I could promise you I know thatdoesn't happen, I could promise
you, uh, I would still be ridingin a van here and there.
(04:09):
You know I'd probably have acouple record deals, but I've
never had record deal.
Uh, my brother and I, we, uh,we, we, we started our own
record label it's called pumphouse records and love it.
So, uh, we've done everythingwe have on our own, very
independent.
And and now you know, what'sreally cool about music
currently is where I know itmakes a difference whenever it
comes to the radio differently,because you know some some maybe
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maybe this is just my thoughtsyou know you know, competing
against independent label,competing against a major label,
when it comes time gettingplayed, you never know what's
going to win about that, justbecause you know you've been,
they've been doing business forso long, you know, but it's,
it's been cool.
You know, for us, throughindependent, like we've done,
we've been very successful.
And radio, you guys thank youvery much for being so, uh,
(04:55):
awesome to me.
Y'all done a great.
Last year we did product up andum, you know, without you guys
we wouldn't do it, and so we got, we got my very first time, my
big first push radio.
We got number 60 on mainstream,almost 59.
I said that's cool, that's socool.
I mean it did, and for me,radio's king, uh, because I
don't get the reason why lastyear I had so many shows touring
(05:16):
is because of radio, exactlybecause of y'all.
You're like, hey, uh, I'mplaying you right here, and you
gave us an opportunity to reachout to the venue.
You just say, hey, venue, um'mplaying you right here, and you
gave us an opportunity to reachout to the venue.
You just say, hey, venue, um,radio's playing right here.
So, and and they're like morethan happy to book us, and so I
love that.
When it comes to touring, dude,and and what I want to do with
my career, like radio has been avery, very big blessing so far
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and we're working on justgetting more and more success
and we again, we we're tryingour best to build great
relationships with people likeyou.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know people like you.
There's more and more goingindependent.
I think they're breaking awayfrom a lot of the major labels.
They want to be able to betheir own boss, they want to
make their own decisions, theywant to be the one that's going
to decide what song is beingsent to radio, and I think
(06:07):
that's a good idea.
You nobody knows your musiclike you know your music and you
know if you can follow thetrends.
And you know we all talk aboutsocial media but tiktok and all
that that's just been.
You know you can see what'sgoing on.
It's all I could see.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know exactly exactly, and it's all the
business right now.
You know, for whenever I firstkind of came into it, I mean,
I've been in this business quitesome time, but you know, not on
a mainstream kind of world.
I've seen it for a long timefrom what it was, main main
radio way before tiktok stuff,all that you know.
I mean that's a real thing, youknow, and as an artist and as a
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growing artist with a businessyou have, that's something you
have to pay attention to, that'sjust.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I need.
I need to stop you for a minute.
I want to see that tat that'son your which one?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
this one or?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
this one, that one right there.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's my guy right there.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The cameras, dude, that is fricking awesome and not
to change the subject, but thatis freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Dude.
Thank you, man.
This is a very cool tattoo.
I got this right here.
It's a cool story behind it too.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Tell me.
I want to hear the story.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's a little songbird here.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I wanted to get a Carolina Wren, but the thing is
I got this one specifically asongbird.
And then the microphone isanother story as well.
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, but thesongbird actually.
Let me go from the start.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, go ahead, Because I've got the cameras
messing me up here.
Oh yeah.
I'm going to go like this.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh yeah, the microphone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah.
So, and now I want to dress itup a little bit because,
obviously, doing what I do and Isee doing what you do, yeah,
all right, go ahead, I'm allears.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
All right, so here's a quick story of my tattoos.
This is the first one.
You can't really read it, butit says don't go changing.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And that was the very first tattoo I got okay and uh,
and I got that tattoo in vegasat a place called tattoo in mgm
graham.
Uh, it's a weird day for theacm acm awards that year and
yeah that was the year mybrother actually, he uh, he won
song of the year with woman likeyou, and so we're there hanging
out.
I was sitting at the uh house.
I probably I love playing uhroulette.
And said I was probably sittingat the house, I love playing
roulette.
I was probably sitting at theroulette table doing that, and
my other buddy, John Stone.
He's a writer.
(08:28):
And I used to write on thatsong.
And so I get a text from mybrother at midnight 11,
something like that.
He was like yo tattoos, firstones, let's go.
He never got a tattoo.
And I never got a tattoo and weboth wanted to get know if I was
(08:51):
around we could make it happen,get our first tattoos, you know
.
So, uh, we get to this placeand he called up stone and
myself and we went tattoo parlorand uh, and they what they got?
They went there, they got the,the date on their arm for the
very first number one, which wasI get it and so they did that
and um, which is another storybehind that, because they kind
of maybe got the wrong date.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
We won't tell anybody though.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, but uh, go ahead yeah, but me, um, I could,
I had to think about somethingor something kind of cool to get
.
And so to me I was, uh, don'tgo changing.
Um, I had a guitar player yearsago, my very first band called
oak leaf, and he was australian,great guy, great, you know,
guitar player, incrediblyincredible great guy and great
guitar player, incrediblyincredible great guy.
And so one of our last gigs weplayed together you know the
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band we were about to break upand this is like some years
years ago and he was like Mike,he's Australian, mike, you're a
bloody rock Mike, you're a rockand roll star.
You got a heart of gold, mike.
And, oh, mike, don't ever, evergo changing Mike.
And so I was all right, cool,cool.
So I just remember, a coupleweeks later, you know god rest
his soul he passed away.
(09:51):
oh, no a drunk driver hit himwhile he was on his motorcycle,
oh my god and he was about to gotake a ride into his driveway
and so, um, it's a pretty sadstory.
Um, yeah, but when he got, atthat moment I was like, well,
that's the best thing, you know,I could, I could live by,
because that's what I wasperfect, that was perfect don't
(10:11):
go changing, so pass fastforward.
I got this light right here.
That's my family crest, so acouple of years later.
But instead of the big shield.
I just got the the colors of mycrest, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Shading it to there.
That looks good.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, and then I got the microphone, but this is all
one tattoo with the microphoneand the songbird.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, the microphone was for mebecause I'm a singer.
That's what I love to do.
But the songbird again was forone of my other guitar players
that I had some years ago.
One of again was for one of myother guitar players that I had
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some years ago, uh, when my oneof my first ones was a person,
lewis Bryce, and the escorts, umhe uh we got some tattoos.
He got songbird stuff like that, but he was a great guitar
player.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Um, he passed away, uh, um stage four stage four
glia baston oh my God, he wasreally close friends yeah, it
really sucks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh, a beautiful story in that.
Um, when he was, you know, yeah, he was one of my close friends
and I was there visiting himand this and the other side you
know, when he was ready to go,he told me he was like, hey, man
, I mean I know what's good, buthe, before he passed, he was
able to get it set up, uh, hislife insurance.
(11:24):
You know, the minute he passedhe was able to get it set up,
his life insurance.
The minute he passed, it wouldliterally the life insurance
paid them enough for his wifeand his daughter.
He had an eight-year-olddaughter, oh my gosh.
But the minute he passed, itwould be enough to buy them a
new house.
Yeah, exactly.
Get them set to live goingforward, stuff like that.
But yeah, so I was thinkingabout other tattoos I wanted to
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get, and I've always wanted toget that tattoo, and so I got
that for him yeah, being a radioguy, I just love the microphone
and yeah, that's basically whatI have.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just want to dress it up a little bit.
I just happened to notice thatthere's.
You were moving around and godamn, he's got one of those.
It's a sure s?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
uh whatever you know, it's a sure essence.
I think it's sm7, but it butit's, it's the, it's the radio
mic right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, that is so kind of like elvis um no, I know
exactly.
But you know, I want to getback last one okay number seven.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I had to get the jack daniels jack daniels well,
because me and my wife fell inlove or shot a of Jack Daniels,
so we were down to Key.
West about two weeks ago wewere wanting to get his tattoo.
I got this right here.
She got it on the back of herarm.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I love it.
Just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, like literally like two weeks ago, the Key West
Songwriters Festival.
We're down there, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know it's happening .
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I don't know how I could forget about that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, but it just happened.
But I want to talk a little bitabout your music.
Now you've got a brand-new songout, which I started to play in
the beginning before lightningstruck.
I don't know if that was a signof anything.
It's hot, it's hot, it's hot,baby, it's hot, you've got to
play it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You've.
She Loves my Country.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Oh, man, she Loves my Countryis just a.
So this is one of the firstsongs that I've released that I
did not write on, and so lastyear we started doing this
project and I was like, man,it's time for me to put on.
I released the product ofrecord.
It's time for me to start backand get some more music made.
We went into the studio,recorded four or five songs, but
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as we're looking through songs,my producer, ben Simonetti, he
threw me this song.
Hey, dude, man, I know youdon't really like cover songs or
this, that and the other doingstuff like that Interpolations
is what the term is he said butman, we wrote this song and I
know you're rock and roll, man,we wrote this song, I know you
rock and roll, but we wrote thiscountry song to a rock and roll
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song.
He was like listen to it.
I listened to it and I was likeblown away.
I was like, dude, this is me toa T.
I can relate to it.
For the subject matter, whatthey're talking about, I can put
my wife in it.
It's your own story.
It is, it is, and, and somehowthey wrote it, but they wrote it
to a song you know, back in,you know, I think, like early
(14:08):
2000s, late 90s.
Uh, I remember a band calledpuddle of mud uh, yep, puddle of
mud.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, she hates me exactly, dude, yeah I said
welcome yeah
Speaker 2 (14:21):
but uh, but yeah.
So he played with a song.
I was like this is.
I said so, man, you know I'mnot big on interpolation, I
don't like doing recreation songbecause it just I think those
songs lay where they're supposedto lay the first time they're
written.
But then I've heard a couple ofthose that kind of makes sense
to me.
But this one right here is justbig enough to where it was, so
huge, everybody knows it andit's also in a rock and roll
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genre, it's not too far away.
So, man, when I heard I waslike I just have to do it.
I think it should be so catchy,um, it fits me to a team
lyrically wise.
And then we went into it andstarted cutting it.
Uh, you know, just kind of gaveme more reassurance.
I ended up getting in touchwith, uh, mr west canton himself
the lead singer of the mud andof Mud.
And West Canton and Very cool.
(15:06):
Yeah, man, Him and a guy andJimmy Allen the guitar player,
Not Jimmy Allen the artist,Jimmy Allen the guitar player.
He played for Puddle of Mud andhe played for Puddle of Mud.
He was a writer on there aswell, and so we had to go
through all the hoops and loopswe to.
We had to go through all thehoops and loops.
We had to get uh approval fromthem.
We had to give them their,their publishing and everything,
so they have their.
(15:26):
You know.
So there's literally three.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
There's five songwriters cody logan, uh rob
pennington, ben simonetti andthen west canton and um, uh, uh,
yeah, I'm brain labs right hereabout that, it's okay yeah,
guitar player, so and so, um,and then, out of nowhere, once
we got all that settled, theysaid yeah, we got all worked out
now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I got a phone call.
I got a video message from uh,from wes and yo louis man, I
love music country man.
He's like she's not my countryand he was like give me all the
full approval of it, you knowthat is so cool so that was
really cool.
And then, uh, once we cut, I waslike man, this for me this is
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my next uh stage in music.
Kind of I want to kind of goback to, you know, some of my
roots and also I want to, I wantto do some things that are a
little bit left in my center,that I've never tried before and
so so in interpolation that'sleft in my center.
I've never wanted to do it, butI did it and I feel so good
about it, so confident becausethe song's great, I love it,
it's catchy, it is very much.
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My wife loves my country, so itworks out.
There you go yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I know, and let's hope she does and, speaking of
that, so she would be a bigsupporter of everything you do.
I mean, she married into a verymusical family and it's funny.
I mean we went on not onlytalking about that but you say
you're in your own studio there.
I actually had your brother onmy podcast, I don't know, maybe
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a year ago now, but he was inhis studio and I think that was
like um, you're in your garagestudio and I like it.
I, I like the player behind you, uh, something I had in high
school, uh, your six cd changer,whatever it is behind you and
51 51 disc changer.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, that thing had 51 discs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Man, that was like the coolest thing what my friend
high school man yes, yeah, Iknow you had to have that,
though you had to have that, youhad to be yeah, bookshelf radio
, you know it is, it is, it isand you just couldn't wait to
crank it, couldn't wait to playwith it, switch around the cds
yeah, what's?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
the cd what's?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
the cd nowadays.
I'm just saying but you know soyou embrace, you talk about
embracing who you are as anartist on that new record and
your journey.
What are the biggest moments ofclarity or struggle in that
journey for you, in your journeydoing what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
In my journey.
Right now, my biggest part ismy struggle.
Like you know, I'm not anyyounger.
I ain't getting no younger atall aren't we all?
you know and so you know thelistener is always, you know,
listener.
They're always getting.
They're staying with the sameage with the new listeners.
You know they ain't gonna, youknow, the same listeners that
you had, you know, 10 years ago.
They're not same age and so nowyou got to think about subjects
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and songs that would stilltouch people in this.
You know, in the overall rangegroup, Because you know, for me
I want to stay relevant and Itry my best to stay relevant.
You know I don't look too badfor you know 24 or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I thought it was 21.
I mean, I thought you justbecame.
You know you could drink at 21.
So you spent some time in keywest and that was pretty wild
for you.
Tell us about your key westdays and you were just there a
couple of weeks ago, but I waswhen did you go to key west
originally, how long did youlive there and why did you come
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back?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
well, I never.
Well, I guess I could say Ialmost lived there because I'd
go there for it's probably abouttwo years in a row that I went
there every two months.
Every month and a half I'd bein Nashville writing and working
, bartending or whatever in town.
Then I was like, once I made mydecision, what I wanted to do
for a living, I was like I knowI can make enough money to
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survive playing music andwriting music.
I made that decision.
Uh yeah, I was like, well, yougot to do it, so I'd go back
forth key west.
I spent about two or threeweeks there.
Make a couple thousand bucks,you know.
Drive back to nashville, livein nashville, because I have my
place in nashville right abouttwo and a half three weeks, go
back to key west.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
so did you have a regular place in key west?
Did you have a place, the sameplace you would stay at?
Did you have a place?
I did?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm saying we had one of my best friends growing up
and he's an artist as well andhe's a great guy, nick Norman.
If you ever have a chance, lookup his music.
He's great.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I will.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Cool.
I've got a couple songs that Iand so you put out and
everything.
But he lived down there and soI'd go a lot of times.
At first I'd go down there, I'dstay with him and I'd get, I'd
be playing shows with him and wewould do show up, show up, show
and then and then I startedgetting my.
I was able to get my own gigsand stuff like that.
So I went to smoking tuna awhole bunch.
It was nice.
It's not the smoking tuneanymore.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It was for a long time okay, and I got down on the
ball right on the ball.
I thought, so I did Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I played at Lazy Gecko.
I played at Irish Kevin's.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I played at all the Duvals.
I've done the Duval StreetCrawl.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's young and foolish it was a while ago.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I know I get it.
One time I went down there andI played 18 shows in 15 days and
it was during the middle ofspring break.
It was three weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh my God, that's it.
You're just looking to bepunished, man.
I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I ain't gonna lie, that was the first time in my
career where those last few gigsI was like am I hurting myself?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, it wasn't good to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But I had such a good time and for me, the reason why
I did that I've never been aBroadway guy here in Nashville,
I've never done that.
I never wanted to get into thatBecause, I mean, I just never.
I always wanted to play mymusic that I've written.
I think when I first startedplaying music, where I knew how
to make that for a living, Ilearned 25 cover songs.
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That's about it, and I hadn'tlearned many more cover songs
ever since then because I justbroke my own, and so what I
would?
What I would do, I'd go on qs,and what was cool about qs is,
uh, they're very receptive tooriginal music and the way I
blended it in during my set.
I mean you would think itwouldn't be any different than a
Marshall Tucker band song or aBlack Crow song or something.
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And I was oh man every once in awhile here's, a.
Luke Bryan song.
He'd play one of my songs.
But, I played down there somuch I kind of made it.
It became a little bit of KeyWest famous, so I got my name up
in a bar just with a sharpie.
I'm sure I did.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, and you don't realize it, but you did it, you
did I probably wrote it withlike a whiskey bottle or
something, so that this wholeKey West experience, you going
back and forth that reallyshaped your style probably.
You know, in the end we kidaround about it, but it gave you
a little bit of confidence toobeing able to perform in all the
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places that you sang orperformed at it really did.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It opened up an atmosphere to where you know,
again I didn't have to go tobroadway in nashville, that's
one thing I didn't want to do.
But I can go down and kind ofcut my teeth in key west,
because in key west when you'replaying those gigs, I mean you
got all night long for fourhours.
You're playing four hour gigsfor four hours.
People, you got a couplehundred people or four hundred
people running in and out ofthat restaurant, you know, and
each person wave of people tocome in there.
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You're entertaining.
They're from all over the world.
They're from North Carolina,they're from Canada, they're
from Germany, Syracuse, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Syracuse, new York, you know, buffalo, it happens.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
We got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This weather weather sucks.
We need to go south, go to KeyWest a little bit, soak up, a
little bit of sun and bring itback to Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That would be nice.
However, I can't even describewhat's going on with our weather
.
I think we're just in this badweather pattern.
I'm a big baseball fan, so wego to the AAA.
The Syracuse Mets is the AAAaffiliate of the New York Mets.
Being a season ticket holder,we love to go to the games my
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boy, my wife, myself and hangout.
But you better wear a parka.
I mean, here it is the middleof May and we're talking about
high in the 50s during the dayand the 40s at night, and we
have a frost warning tonight.
What?
Yeah?
yeah, so you know, if my wife'sgot the sensitive plants in the
backyard, we've got to coverthem.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, cover them up, put a little plastic over it.
I got a little green thumb, soI know about that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, good, okay, I like that.
I like that.
You know I was readingsomewhere Fuel the band, fuel
Hemorrhage.
Tell us about that a little bit.
That was a turning point foryou.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It said it really was .
They don't know this yet.
I've been trying my best to letthem know that they were a huge
, huge influence on me.
Man, when I was growing upagain, I started playing.
I got my first guitar when Iwas 11.
I didn't really start thinkingabout writing music.
I think I wrote my first songwhen I was 15 or something like
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that.
Then we went from there and Igot to college.
One time I went for an essay orfor a sonnet in my English
class.
I wrote a song instead.
So I performed for my firstclass.
It wasn't that song, but Iwrote a song for like that.
But fast forward a couple ofyears in college I was down in
Charleston and I got into a lotmore rock and roll.
(24:56):
It was at that time it was likea puddle of mud, it was fuel,
it was Pearl Jam.
It was, oh man, you had BenHarper, you had Lily Kravitz.
Good.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, she did that's awesome Black.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Rose oh, my God, that's when I was really.
I mean incubus and all thatmaroon fire.
That's kind of what my vein ofmusic was, because in Charleston
they had jam bands and they hadrock and roll.
They didn't really have a greatbig, a huge country station at
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
They had it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But what I listened to was all rock and roll stuff
because I worked at a couple ofbars and this and the other.
But man, this is my vein.
I worked at a couple of barsand this and the other, but I
took it upon myself to learn.
The first real hard rock androll song to play was a band
called Fuel.
It was Hemorrhage.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Once I learned that song.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I took it as a challenge to learn I had the
tone and the voice for it.
Every time I played it it fellright into place.
I figured out.
It's actually a crazy idea of asong.
Uh, if you think it's aboutabortion, it's about oh, yeah,
yeah somebody taking the choiceout of his hands right right,
right, no, exactly right it's areal serious song, it's a
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powerful song, it's a verypowerful song and the first time
I saw them live I was living incharleston and I saw them at a
place called the plex and uh, Ithought they're still there.
I'm not, at least I think it iscool venue.
You know, it's out in themiddle, you know, look like
north charleston coliseum orsomething like that.
And I went there and watchedthem.
I saw, I think a band calledrevis played that night and I
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forgot one or two other bandsplayed it.
But I remember, just rememberthose bands.
And man, when Brett Scallioncame out across that stage, when
that band Fuel, started off andit was like, I mean, I just
felt the electricity, it waslike let's go North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
We're here tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And they just had and they sounded.
You know it was rock and roll,so much more, it was powerful,
but it sounded just like therecord, but the record on
steroids, because it just I meanreally just added to it yeah,
it really did and they were sotight.
It was really cool as thing theway he ran the crowd and then
you know the way he went.
I was like, all right, just theamount of emotion that came
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over me watching that show and Iwas already playing music and I
was kind of getting to my pointof life like all right.
Do you want to keep going toschool and be a chiropractor, or
do you want to go do music, ordo you want to kind of be a kid
for a little bit?
And then think about what youwant to do.
And after I heard that show Iwas like yep that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's what I got to do that's what I here to do.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm here to spread some kind of a message.
I'm here to spread a message ofwhat I love and who I am, who I
am.
I'm a message.
I love spreading happiness, Ilove spreading hope and I love
spreading you know, I love that.
But I also love spreading youknow to things that you aren't
alone in bad situations, becauseI bad situation, because I've
been through heartache.
I've been there, you know, andso I can understand all this
(27:52):
stuff.
And so now, just new record I'mjust trying to get back to my
Southern rock, you got to get it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I know, and there's some pretty good potential there
, and I just I see I'm readingsome of the comments here.
Do you know Jacob Smalley?
He's an artist.
He says this is very cool.
I've always loved your voice.
I never realized you're one ofmy all-time favorite singers,
brother.
Lol.
Now I really love your voice.
Keep the music coming.
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And then John Williard.
Do you know who John is?
John is a voiceover artist,probably one of the best.
Years ago he was the guy theCMAs it was always, you know,
coming up Keith Urban.
That was John Williard.
He says is this the long-lostBryce brother?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
This is, this is Long-lost.
You know just about to getfound, real good, real big.
No, you're going to get found,brother, you're going to get
found.
No, we're not found, we'redoing it.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's cool, not only performing, but writing.
And you've written, obviouslywith your brother and for your
brother, uh lee, and also you'vewritten for jelly roll.
I was reading I did.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I did.
It was so cool.
It was a great man.
It was cool.
I was able to make uh meet himand we got together through a
couple of our friends and, um,he was a man, come write a song,
I'm coming there, man.
One day I wrote, I actuallywrote a couple songs with him
and uh, andrew bayless was hiswas one of his pieces at a time.
Uh, he's done some great stuffas well.
Man, it was really cool towrite with with jelly, because
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he was so, so cool.
Um, I forgot, oh, I forgot.
The other guy that was is oneof his best friends and he
writes with him all the time.
He actually he was actuallywriting on quite a few songs.
He was in the room as well, butthey wrote a song that day
called promise and okay and ifit, it's out, if you look on
this you know.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, yeah, I've, uh, I've seen it yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So we wrote that song and so he had just and it is
awesome, it's really coolbecause we went there I wrote
like we wrote the song he putsave me out and at the very
before he had the deal andsaving just blew up with insane
and then and then he was like,yeah, I'm putting this song out
next, and he did.
I was like, oh, let's dag on go.
So he did, he put out promiseand uh, he pushed it all behind.
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He did great, it was reallycool.
It was really cool to have thatcut with him and the writing
experience is really cool aswell, because this is kind of
when he was on the break of likeman, he told me I said, lewis
man, I you, this here countrything, man, I ain't really done
it all in a while, but I got avoice, man.
Really, man, I think I got avoice.
I need people to hear it.
He said, for some reason, Imean I can stay on pitch and I
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can sing.
Good.
I said, well, let's get herdone.
And so he was trying to writesome country songs.
We wrote that right there.
We got the whole song writtenand then there's a part in the
bridge.
I was like man, I feel there'sneed one part.
I just need to let you go offand just just scat for a minute,
scat, sing at the same time.
And, dude, and he was like one,take that bridge, if you hear,
(30:44):
if you listen to that song,promise you listen, that little
bridge where he's like he didthat in one take and there's no
one.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Nobody does that in one take.
Come on.
Yeah, no, he did it, I wasthere, I watched it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
He did it one time, and there's no one, nobody does
that in one take.
Come on.
No, he did it.
I was there, I watched it, hedid it in one take and I was
like dude that's amazing yeah,that's amazing yeah, so that was
a great experience and I've hadsuccess right there.
You know, did that and then uhyeah, I got, I think I haven't.
I think I have a cut on mybrother's new record coming out.
Really.
I can't tell you which one itis Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now we'll have to look it up.
John is saying wow, Jelly, Ihad a private two minutes and he
looked into my eyes the entiretime, no distractions, and he
gave me a great line for a song.
I've been writing to honor mylate father that I witnessed as
he passed over.
I'm trying to read it here fromhis life into Jesus presence as
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I finished that scene for him,jelly's eyes reddened and
suddenly he cried what wipingtears.
I think he's so genuine.
And I yes, he is, he is.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
He is, I know I had that middle hangout with him a
whole lot, you know he loves youyeah.
Yeah, where I had that middlehangout with him a whole lot.
You know we love each other,yeah, yeah, but yeah, but he's,
uh man, I'm telling you he's areal deal and uh man he's, and
also he's a brilliant, brilliantbusiness person.
Um, he uh, I learned, I learneda lot just for writing with him
, just talking about because,you know right, you write with
your friends and other stuff.
And at that time, before hewent to radio and got the sign
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with everything, he was uh, heplayed the streaming game and he
played, you know, the merchgame.
He did all his own.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He knew what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
He very much knew what he was doing.
Very smart, individual.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And now he looks great.
He's losing weight, he's doingall that.
I saw him on Idol the othernight.
I'll put it out there I'm not ahuge Idol fan, but it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I totally get it.
But to see Jelly on there and Iwent oh my God, this guy, he's
lost a lot of weight, you know,he just looks good.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
What a great guy.
What a great guy.
He looks very good, he looksvery healthy and he's doing it
for the right reasons.
I feel like Exactly 100%.
He's doing it honestly.
You know, I feel like you know,I think deep down I was like
man.
He's like he's doing it forhimself.
He's also doing it so he cankeep delivering his message.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
So he can stay alive longer.
His message is crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That too.
Yeah, absolutely.
How do you know we're talkingabout your songwriting, but how
does your songwriting approachdiffer when you're writing with
others or for others versusyourself?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes and no, it does differ most times.
Generally, when I get into awriter's room, um, I'm 90
percent of the time writing formyself, just because I feel like
if I could present it, becauseI try and bring ideas into the
room as much as I can and I tryand hear the riffs or stuff like
that that out, and it wouldgenerally fit me, but my brain
is always in another realm oflike, all right, yeah, I can,
because I don't want to writeone song.
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I don't want my sound to belike one long song.
I want my sound to sound likeyou listen to a record of like
you can go.
It's like a book up and down,up and down and you get your
your beginning, middle climaxand then you spread out.
So I'm always writing differentup-tempo songs and different
country songs.
I write a hip-hop song.
(33:58):
I write you know I I lovewriting across the spectrum, um,
even for myself, because ingeneral when I write a song it
comes out for myself.
I can still get my brain and belike, all right, well, this fit
or russell dickerson, or thisfit a nate smith or this fit a
Nate Smith or this fit a JellyRoll.
And then when I get done withthese rights, I'm like, all
right, it says I'll turn it in.
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I'm like, hey, so if I love,love the song, I'm like, yeah, I
definitely want to cut thissong as DLC, but it's still for
pitch, because if somebody elsecuts this song it ain't going to
do nothing but good.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
For me.
It used to be when you werewriting songs.
It was country, but really,yeah, I work in the format, I do
what I have to do, you're doingwhat you have to do, but what
do we really call country?
Now?
There's so many differentavenues, and being a songwriter
and being able to do what you'redoing, whether it's hip-hop,
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whether it's rock, whether it'scountry, I mean you're all
across the spectrum, which is tome that's awesome.
You've got a feeling from eachof the different genres of music
yeah, what's good where countrymusic is today.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right now is where pop music was back in the early
2000s, because right now.
You know back in.
You know back in the 90s and2000s pop music was and if, as a
writer, if you got a cut on apop song, you would make three
or four, four times what youwould make in the country music
world.
If you as a writer, now countrymusic is popular, country music
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is the biggest right now.
Country music is the biggestform of music there is in the
world.
I gotcha yes I feel like it isyou know, because no, I agree, I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I do.
I'm just saying what do wereally call country nowadays?
Because country isn't what itwas 20 years ago.
But you know what?
That it's all coming backaround too.
If you want to go down thatroad, we got the zach tops
people like that and it's gotthe old sound and the younger
demo is absolutely loving that.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You're right, you know it's it's cool, you know,
if you think about it, you goall the way back country music
when it first started.
And when you think about your,you know.
And when I go back to my, whatI think, I think of waylon, you
know, waylon jennings yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Cash, I think of?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
uh, nelson, I think you know the fathers of it, you
know.
And then I even go back to likegarth brooks and I go to clay
walker and I'm here travis trip.
But you think about that brunt,that brand.
When they started, then johnnycash was rock and roll that's's
true.
You know Johnny Cash all daylong.
And then Johnny Cash was rockand roll.
But then you know WaylonJennings.
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That was outlaw music, it wasoutlaw country, it was like
dirty but it was like up-tempoRight.
And then you had your WillieNelson, you know, with your cool
love songs.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe I didn't love you yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's like all your singer-songwriters.
I mean back then was like asmaller form, I guess, but back
then country music waseverything Right.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You have a good point ?
Yeah, no gotcha.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And, just like now, country music has everything.
Now there was a gap between, Iwould say, the 80s to coming up
2000s, to where it was countrymusic, and that's where you got
the best country music ever inthe 90s no, that's true, that's
true.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
90s country, baby.
That's what I was saying.
That whole sound from that erais coming back.
So that's cool, zach Topp'sleading the way, man, zach Topp,
baby he's got a smooth voice.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
He reminds me when he gets after it.
He really does kind of gives mehonestly Vince Gill kind of
vibes a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Maybe yeah, now that I think about it Vocal vibes
yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I getwhat you're saying.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
I sleep like a baby.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, my God, I never show up late to work.
I never lie.
I know what a big song, what agreat song, great song what a
great song, just unbelievable.
Now I just forgot what I wasgoing to ask you.
But so your live shows.
Do you write songs with a liveshow in mind?
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I do, you do.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I do A lot of times now, right now, I'm trying to
write a new show and I feel likeI have already done it because
I've already written a song.
I have the songs in my set andI'm trying to switch them around
because for the longest time, Iwrote a song called Alabama
with my brother and that's beenmy show for ever, and I was
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always closing my set withLiving Life.
A little song I put out calledlibin, um, man, uh and so.
But now I'm trying to switch itup because I have these, I have
this new songs coming out I'mtrying to introduce as well, um,
but, yeah, when I'm in the room, I try and write, I try to
write for parts of my show and Itry and write for a song that
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I'm missing, you know.
And right now, on my currentproject that I have going on,
like I've got I think I have alifestyle song, I think I've got
the fun country song rockingover here.
Uh, I've got.
I've got like five or six I'mabout to go to studio with right
now.
Two of them are just like the.
They're the heartbreak songsand they're also just that kind
of cool story heartbreak song.
(39:09):
Uh, one of them's called love,right, and it's like uh and but,
but, but it's called.
You wouldn't even guess it'slike you know hack will be so
for all, for each other.
But baby, we love, right, andit's pretty cool.
And then yeah and then I haveanother song.
I got another song.
Uh, hopefully you guys want tohear.
It's called someone else'severything and it's always kind
of like that you know it's likesomeone else just killing me.
(39:33):
No, I let go.
Now you're someone else'severything.
Whenever she was, she couldhave been yours.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Someone else's everything.
I've got a bunch of good songsin the books.
I think you brought it upearlier about NASCAR Fast.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I was going to ask about that again because we
were just talking about NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, that song.
I've been playing that song onmy set so far and I actually
excited, uh, this past springwhen I was out with my brother
on the me and my guitar, toursong, um, uh, tour, um.
I uh, I wanted to figure out acool because I got.
I got 30 minutes or 25 minutes.
I got to figure out what songsI'm gonna play, and so not a bad
problem to have.
But I got to figure out likeall right, if I want to play
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these new songs, I got to drop,and so not a bad problem to have
.
But I got to figure out likeall right, if I want to play
these new songs, I got to dropsome old songs.
And so now, fortunate enough,I've released enough songs to
where they've done big enough towhere I got to figure out which
ones are going to resonate morewith the crowd?
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
So what I had to do, I was like, well, cause I want to play
NASascar fast, because I justhad a feeling about it and I
still have I think it's just bea cool song.
(40:34):
The cool story behind it isreally awesome, and I had to
play she loves my country andthat, um.
And then I I kind of play mysong shadow, because that's one
of my new and that's one of mynewer ones that I put on my last
record and, uh, it's just sopowerful to sing.
I love to put that in my set.
And I got to play Product ofbecause that went out.
That did pretty well.
But then I had to figure outwell, my three biggest songs
(40:55):
have gotten to where I'm atBless Summertime, Vibes and it's
you.
I was like now we're adding upseven or eight songs.
How do you add that in 30minutes?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, really what I?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
did I figured out Bless, summertime Vibes and it's
.
You are all on the same key ofE, so I was like yay.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So you could just go from one to the other.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well, I did that, but I just sang it verse, chorus
verse.
I actually made my first owntrilogy melody, my own song,
Well that's pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
That's being creative , I guess.
Hey, I have to ask you what'sThanksgiving like at the Bryce's
Now?
Does everybody get together?
Do you guys kind of rib eachother?
A little competition going on.
What's the thanksgiving dinnerlike at the?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
house.
You know, you know, backprobably a couple of years ago.
We used to go back home a goodbit and something and on my
mama's side of the family, allmy mom and all her sisters, they
would get up because we grew upin a very musical family, my
mama and all her singers, youknow, all her sisters, they,
they grew up seeing my mama'sthree oldest sisters actually.
Um, they came to nashville manjudy and henrietta and, uh, aunt
(41:59):
laureen.
They all came to nashville whenthey were like 16, 17, 18, and
then they came in and they cut alittle gospel record, uh, on
music, rock and so they actuallyhad they were called and they
were called the lewis sisters.
Um, my first name is my mom'smaiden name, so gotcha, it's a
family name and so we grew upseeing, you know, and
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thanksgiving.
We go back there.
You know they had six sistersand a brother and it was just a.
We have a.
That's a big side of the familyand so we go there and they
would always always.
You know there's a piano andalso everybody, everybody eats.
And then they're all the sistersand uncles and all the kids.
They all say and grew up in thechurch I love that.
And yeah, we were just sayingjust just, probably for, like
(42:45):
you know, about 45 minutes anhour just, and henrietta would
just like play the keys.
Well, we were just seeinglittle gospel songs, you know,
back and forth, and so how many?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
um, how many instruments do you play?
Is it just the guitar?
Can you play the piano?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
I could touch on the keys a little bit okay, I'm not
great, I'm working on gettingbetter.
I can play the key of c, I cankind of float around with um and
but I had to learn uh, shadowon the keys.
I don't, I won't, I won't playno keys.
And you know, tonight yet Ihaven't learned it good enough,
being live yet that I feelcomfortable with Gotcha, but I
have done it live and it's allin black keys.
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It's a whole different thing.
It's a whole different math andI don't know piano that well,
but I can do that a little bit.
I can tap on the drums a littlebit rhythm-wise, do this and
the other, and I can play alittle harp.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I mean this and the other and I can play a little
harp.
I mean, if I could touch it Icould probably play it.
So yeah, that's cool, it's inyour blood, why not you could?
Speaker 2 (43:38):
but they say it's I hear it more than I than I that
I know it, you know yeah exactly.
I know what chords go together,I know what chords song.
So it makes, my ear hears it,so I'm not blessed with that,
and that's one thing that's kindof cool so so um, I'm gonna
guess that you drive a dodge ram2500 not a chance.
(44:01):
I've got a 2014 black suburbanexit.
Yeah man, I had.
I had a tahoe some years agowhen I got yeah, yeah it was
great.
And when I had a Tahoe, that'swhen I first started playing
music.
Rather than renting a van, Iwould just use my Tahoe.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah yeah, you got a lot of room in the back.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I would travel with my Tahoe.
And then after that I was likewell, I'm doing pretty good
about saving money.
My next vehicle is to buy abigger one.
So I bought a Suburban and thenI've had the Suburban for I
only got.
I'm about to pay it off, so I'mpretty excited about it.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Good for you.
It's a good vehicle to to havetoo.
I always, you know, when I talkto different artists, I always
like to mess around a little bitand go, let me guess let me
guess what you drive, then it?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I'm like what?
It's not even you.
If you saw my Suburban, I meanit's four drives got, mud tires
got the cool rims.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I got it looking good .
No, no, I'm sure you do, I'msure you do.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
It's country-fied a little bit.
I'll tell you I'll never nothave a four-wheel drive again.
Only reason why here inTennessee four-wheel drive again
.
The only reason why here inTennessee, once I got my
Suburban, it snows once or twicea year.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Oh, come on, it snows .
What?
Half an inch?
Maybe a coating, maybe aquarter of an inch, and the city
closes down.
Let's put it in four-wheeldrive so we can go home.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I know, but that's what I do.
It's a little bit more hillyhere.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, I know, I know, I'm just busting.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Syracuse has got some hills.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Oh, we got a lot of hills and we get a lot of snow,
and we get what they call lakeeffect snow, because we're so
close to Lake Ontario and if thewind comes from the northwest
which it does a lot during thewinter it picks up from the lake
, it's the warmer water and thenby the time when it hits
Syracuse it's dropping.
We get a foot of snow easilyovernight.
(45:59):
I know, you know people thinkthat's nuts.
Well, maybe it is, but we get afoot of snow.
But it's not heavy, wet snow,it's like real.
It sounds weird, but it's dry,it's fluffy If the wind blows,
it'll blow it off, but even withthe foot of snow, we get out
here and there's a difference.
There's a difference.
(46:19):
Let's be real about it.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
You could drive on snow like it's a dirt road.
You could Now ice.
I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Oh no, no, Ice sucks.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
You can have an eight-wheel drive, but it ain't
going to stop, no no, exactlyright, you will have no control
over that vehicle whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
But I can say this with the snow that we get get a
foot of snow the kids still goto school the next day.
I mean it's because and that'sthe difference we have the
equipment, the men and womenthat take care of the roads.
Obviously, in Nashville youdon't have that.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Oh, not at all, dude.
Once it snows here and then theplows come out.
Once you ever heard about, youever had the stories of potholes
here in Nashville, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I haven't heard the story, but we get potholes here
too.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Well, these potholes here in Nashville are just
something else to talk about.
There's a lot of them.
You can tell there's adifference between a Really good
snow plow user and somebodyelse who's not.
Because you go you go somewhereup north I mean in Illinois,
new York the roads way moresmooth, like year round, because
even after a snow it don't hurtthat bad and y'all do it all
year.
We get three snows and ourroads turn into like mines.
(47:28):
I mean there's like craters,like it's eight feet long
craters in the middle of theinterstate and then, like you
know where, they just peel upthe concrete.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, you know it is.
Every place is different.
I guess we're just you know,we're accustomed to what we get,
the way it is.
But you know, hey, tell meabout your sophomore album
that's on the horizon, right,you're working on that baby
we're working on right now.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Like I said, I got.
I've got three.
I just sent one.
I sent us a new song.
I sent NASCAR out today.
Uh, okay, get mastered.
Uh, it'll be mastered in abouttwo days, so I have that ready
to go in the can.
Got another song called dyingto dance.
That, um, I'm excited about itagain.
This is, you know, it's prettycool song.
It's just kind of left in mycenter.
Actually, my sister-in-lawwrote it, my buddy, nate Kenyon,
(48:15):
and a couple of others I forgotI can't remember everybody's
name, but it's really cool.
It's got a cool beat, but it'sstill got a cool acoustic rock
and roll drive to it.
It's really cool.
It's just left in my center,phrasing-wise, of the lyrics and
stuff like that.
And then I got those other four, five.
(48:36):
I got four, five, six songsready to go and I'm looking to
I'm trying to get up, ratherthan ten I think I'm looking
around either 12 to 15 songs.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I'm gonna put on this next out oh nice, not the 37
like morgan just no, I just Idon't know, I've got.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
You know, I'm just saying, I mean I've got plenty
of songs, but you know now Iknow, you know if I was going
out and I was playing stadiumsevery day, why not?
Because you know.
I mean, I mean, any song heputs out is going to get heard
and people are going to havetheir opinions and I generally
they're going to like it becauseI will say this man kudos to
him.
He does put out great music.
(49:12):
I really I think he's on top ofhis game right now no,
absolutely absolutely he's a he,he, he proves what he's doing.
He's a hard for what Iunderstand.
I know I don't know itpersonally, but I hear like I
got you.
No, absolutely he's ahard-working dude man.
Uh yeah, like you know, I wastalking to somebody the other
day another big, big songwriteryou know it's like man.
You know what all these otherboys are doing.
(49:32):
They're back home, they're outand about.
So if you know what Morgan'sdoing, he's sitting there
recording till 3 or 4 in themorning every morning and he's
just sober as a judge right nowbecause he just wants to work,
make more music.
He's a worker man.
It shows man.
I'm really impressed withMorgan.
I'm really impressed with thisguy because you know he had a,
(49:55):
which you know he did a greatjob about getting out what he
got into and really make it achange, I feel like, and I think
let's hope so and we hope itstays that way, because you're
right, he's, he's a good guy, uh, very talented.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
He was working very hard and the album shows it.
You know, I I kid around a lotlike holy 37 tracks, and you
know, and out of the 37, 22 ofthose he either wrote or he was
a co-writer on.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
So and I don't know if a lot of people know like
what goes into making an album.
But like 37 songs, that is somuch work.
I mean I did 10 songs my lastalbum and that was just.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
I mean it's a lot of work, a lot of work it's a lot
of dedication.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
It's a lot of, it's a lot of brain capacity that you
have to give out because you gotto think about every song.
It's like you know, all right,if you now, if you're somebody's
gonna put out 37 songs, put out37 songs, sure, but morgan's,
but he put out 37, good, goodsongs.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Good, I've listened to the whole project.
Yeah, no doubt it's good andthey're getting played on the
radio too, not only the onesthat were released to radio, but
we're actually playing variouscuts.
Just to say, because you knowit's Morgan, why not?
And again, that's 100%.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
You're not going to play him right Because he has
the option.
Not every artist can do what hecan do.
Because, they just don't havethe platform that he's built and
he's done a good job ofbuilding his platform, no matter
his ups or downs, and he's kepttrue to himself.
I feel like and it was cool tosee where he went with this one,
(51:32):
you know, because he wenthonest, I think, true for
himself, where he was at and asa good artist should do.
He writes some songs about wherehe's at in life and I think
that yeah you know, he just hadit exactly there's a lot of
things he did, you know, andyeah and he had to learn from
him and so, yeah, everythingthat he has done or he did, I
(51:54):
think it's it's part of what themusic's all about.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, it's all it's about saying okay, I, I effed up
over here, so, but you knowwhat?
That's not me.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
And it's hard to put it in his heart who he is.
Yeah, Some of the things itdoes.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
I mean cause I know, I know me and I've done a, you
know.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I've heard.
I'm just not under themicroscope that he's under, you
know.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Right, no, exactly, exactly right.
Oh, by the way, scott Lindsey,scott says hello, he says Lewis,
my old buddy.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
Hey, old buddy.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
What's up, buddy?
I've had him on Skip Happens.
Good guy, scott, you're one ofthe best.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
He is Right.
He, you're one of the best.
He is right.
He's done a lot of good work inthis town.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, he was, uh, with the nash villains, nash,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that wholegroup and then everybody kind of
whatever.
But we know how that goes.
We know how that goes so it'stough.
It's tough, but you um, youknow, just being lewis bryce,
you don't want to ride on thecoattails of your brother,
you're doing your own thing, andthat that is really cool.
(53:01):
What's the age differencebetween you two?
Can I ask?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Uh, yeah, you can, I'm, I'm younger.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Okay, good.
No, I knew you were younger.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah, I'm about three and a half years younger.
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well, you're still close enough, so that that's
pretty awesome.
Um, let me ask you this Finishthis sentence.
It was something I did earlier.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
I know You're going.
Oh crap, what the hell is hegoing to ask?
If you really want tounderstand Louis Bryce, listen
to the song blank Blessed,blessed.
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Awesome.
Listen to my song Blessed Rightnow.
I mean still currently.
It's crazy.
I wrote that song years ago.
It's just.
It still holds true.
I mean it really is For me.
When I wrote that song it wasjust a very honest, true song of
where I was at life and I stillam.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Now, you mentioned earlier, you had your guitar
with you.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (53:58):
want to play something.
Can we do that?
Speaker 1 (54:00):
before you know we call it a night.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, man, what would you liketo hear as a question?
Speaker 1 (54:05):
You got any free bird ?
Oh man, Don't you hate that.
Come on dude, hey dude, I loveit.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Scott, by the way, says thanks for the kind words.
Fellas, hope to catch up withboth of y'all soon, absolutely
yeah, good guy Scott's good.
You know I've made so manyfriends doing this.
I've been doing this for awhile.
You know.
It used to be when you guyswould come out on your radio
tour that we would do something.
Either in the station I wasstarting the podcast this is
(54:42):
actually my own.
Like you have your own studio,I have my own studio, and I
would be.
I would tell the artist allright, spend the night in
syracuse, I'll get some wings,some beer, come on over, we'll
do a podcast.
And that's how it was working.
Then, as you know, covid hit andthe shit hit the fan, so to
speak.
Oh yeah, all that stopped.
But it's a blessing in disguise, because now, with everything
(55:06):
that I'm doing here, for examplewith you, it's worked out much
better, because what are thechances of you actually coming
through town?
You know what I'm saying.
I mean it probably will happen,but now I can just go and
schedule and I get the artistout there and uh, you know, we
get a lot of viewers and uh, Idefinitely say, I would
definitely say this stuff likethis really changed the game
(55:28):
when it comes to uh radio it did, it did you know, because, back
in, the day I mean you'd haveto jump in a plane you'd fly to.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I can't put up.
Yeah, exactly so much money, somuch, man.
And again, you know that thatcomes in when people say you
know, oh, how much does it costfor them, I mean it doesn't cost
anything.
Not to it because out of mypocket, because we got to pay
for the flights to come there.
We got because for us to wantto get the, the respect of the
(55:56):
place, stuff like that, you knowwe want the opportunity to be
able to play on the airwaves andso for us we'll take a hit on
it as the artists just becausey'all playing us on the radio is
more than any.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
And you're creating so many new fans for us.
So again, thank you guys verymuch.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I'm going to let you.
You know, I'm going to turn mymic down and I'll let you talk
about what you're going to doand do it, and then I'll.
I'll be hanging here, just kindof you know, hanging in the
cold temperature of Syracuse.
Oh man, well, I mean, do youwant to hear?
Speaker 2 (56:30):
something new, or do you want to hear something?
Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm going to leave that up to you, okay, because?
Because you're the artist andit's Louis Bryce on Skip Happens
.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
All right, well, skip Happens.
Well, I'm going to play thisbrand new one first, because I
think we talked about it earlier, and then I'll play the new new
one that's on the radio.
How about that?
Can I do that?
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Perfect, perfect.
Here's a song called NASCARFast that in my brain is going
to be following up this year andwhen we're about to play, after
this song, this song NASCARFast.
I wrote this song, my goodbuddies, billy Dawson and two or
three other two other guysMicah Carpenter yeah, I forgot
(57:10):
the other guy, one more dude,but either way, we wrote this
song.
I came in that day on the wayto the right.
I just popped in my brain.
I was like man, I wanted towrite something cool.
I've been trying to think aboutwhat kind of brands and stuff
we could work with.
I thought I was starting tothink about NASCAR.
I grew up kind of around NASCAR.
I'm from Sumter, south Carolina.
Darlington Raceway is a big,big, big racetrack in the racing
(57:35):
industry.
Crazy enough, my dad didelectricity.
He's a quick little side storyin the racing industry.
Crazy enough, my dad didelectricity.
He's a quick little side story.
He had offered the job to redoall the lights to whenever, or
actually put the lights in whenthey wanted to make Darlington
Raceway a night track, and sothey offered him the job, but at
the time he didn't have thecrew so he couldn't do it.
Either way, it's kind of a coolside story.
And also in our hometown wehave the dirt track and summer
(57:56):
speedway, and so we grew uparound race this, that and the
other, but I really grew upwatching Like Daytona, tyler
Dago.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
But would earn hard, you know earn hard, oh, my God.
Intimidate.
You know, I watched, I watchedthe race, that sad race, when
you, you and I both I've beenfortunate enough to meet and
hang out with, with Dale jr and,and also his other uh and then,
uh, I think dale's nephew orsomething like that, and uh, mr
jr jeffrey yep, yep, that's it,jeffrey he's great and so, um,
(58:28):
he came to a show at what time?
but it's cool family, and.
But I was trying to think, youknow, I said, all right, let's
write a nice nascar song.
But then I started thinkingabout where I was and this is
probably a year or so ago when Iwas just trying to.
You know, we were working onhaving a baby and having you
know this and the other, andthen we kind of got to.
Well, I think my wife waspregnant at the time we wrote it
and we were just like man, Ican't believe how far I've
(58:53):
already come this fast in mylife, you know.
And I started thinking aboutyou know, I know before, I know
before I know I'm gonna havethis baby.
Before I know it she's gonna be17 and the second the other's a
man.
Your life is nasty.
It goes fast, like nascar fast,and it's like how many
different ways can we relatelife moving too fast to nascar
and how many life lessons can welearn from nascar about life
(59:15):
moving too fast?
So here's a song callednashvilleCAR Nashville, nascar,
fast.
Speaker 1 (59:21):
All right, I'm going to go away and let you do this.
Here we go All right, cool.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
This is the first time I played it on the podcast,
like for radio or anybody, thisis the first.
You're the first person that Iplayed the song for.
Here it comes to the radio.
Speaker 3 (59:48):
Seven years old, on my daddy's shoulders holding me
high so I could see over thatturn three guard rail.
Speaker 2 (59:56):
I could still smell that smell of hot tain and hot
dog stains sound of their hornsand earn hard fans burning my
memory my old man and me fromtalladega to daytona.
There's a loop, show you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Yeah, you can't be afraid to crash.
Put the pedal down when youshoot the gas, hit the wall, and
you better have a couple ofboobies to get you back on track
.
Keep them new to your spinning.
Soak it up when you're winning.
Before you know it, there'sthat checkered flag in a flash.
(01:00:38):
Life goes by.
You know it.
There's that checkered flag ina flash.
Lot goes by you.
Nascar, fast.
There's gonna be rubbin', gonnabe rakes, there's gonna be
champagne celebratein'.
30 hands under the hood Keepsan engine runnin' good.
Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Do your best to keep it in between the lines and
you'll be all right you spin em,smoke it up.
Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
When you win it and you record you do it.
There's that chicken flag andthe class.
Life goes by, Fast goes fast,Fast goes fast.
(01:01:32):
Fast as a lightning strike,Fast as a pit crew changing
tires.
Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Talladega, two day town on hook, there's a lot that
cars can show you.
Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Well, you can't be afraid to crash.
Put the pedal down when youshoot the gas.
If you hit the wall, you betterhave a couple of goodies.
Get you back on track.
Keep them good.
You're spending soaking up rain.
When they're hanging out thedoor, you know it's theirs.
That checkered flag in theflash Ain't always guaranteed
(01:02:17):
another laugh.
Oh, the clock goes by you.
Nascar fans, nascar fans, yeah,fans, there's a light strike.
(01:02:37):
Fans, that's a finger-changingtide to have a big or two-day
total.
There's a lot of big cars toshow you.
Fast as a lightest strike, fastas a finger-changing tide to
have a big or two-day total, hotthose.
Bayou NASCAR fans.
Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
I'll go by you.
Nascar fans Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
And we got switched around here.
Hey man, I'm going to move youback.
We're back this way.
Yeah, I know, Hang on, man.
I don't know what I'm doing.
You think I've done this before.
I don't know.
Apparently, I well.
Yeah, well, or I haven't donethis, Hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
If I go like this, you trying to get my guts out
Happens, here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
What the?
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
frick, hang on, still the same way.
Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
I know, oh well, we're just going to go with it.
Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
All right, I don't know what I did.
Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I have no idea.
It's a control-alt-reversebutton.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
I don't dare touch anything on this keyboard.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Yeah, I try not to.
That's what I got to here onthe phone right here, yeah you
know, and it's working great.
Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
That's an iPhone.
You said it is an iPhone man.
Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
It's an Apple iPhone.
The sound quality is crazy,like whenever you do.
Like a lot of times when I'mwriting I'll do like a quick
little guitar vocal in my phoneand I'll send it to my guy who's
like doing tracks orprogramming and he'll use that
for the actual track.
Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
So how much?
How much do you actually do inyour studio there, lewis?
Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I'm getting more into it because I'm learning more
and more to do with uh, I use, Iuse logic currently and I I'm
actually on a good guitar vocaland then or I'll take it or, if
I do a guitar, look I'll take itfrom my phone and I'll put it
into the program and then I'lljust put it to a track, I'll put
it to the beats and I'll justkind of have fun with it.
I'll play some beats on the onmy little MIDI, and I'll put
(01:04:48):
some drums to it or put somepads to it with some keys.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
How many hours out of the day would you be sitting in
that studio?
Oh, dude, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
well for one, this is my garage it's like so I don't,
so we but that's awesome.
Yeah, so we bought, we boughtthis house.
And then, uh, and well, I hadmy studio upstairs right beside
the baby room before we had.
Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Oh, no, no, no, no, and I was like well, dang it
works.
Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
So I pretty much just uh, I moved everything that I
have in this house in the garagedid you or did she say you
gotta get this stuff out of here?
No, she wanted a little makeuproom and so I was like no, it
worked out well because, youknow, this is kind of my hangout
area anyway, and um, and so Iwent, I went as far, I just
(01:05:31):
insulated it.
Um, I just insulated theceiling.
I put a little air conditionerin here, a mr cool air
conditioner.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
You still had the tree up in the background.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I've had this Christmas tree.
It's going on over two yearsnow.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
It's brown, but it still hasn't shed obviously it's
not a real tree no, it's a realtree.
Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Oh stop, how can you, buddy?
I promise you I went throughthe second Christmas this past
Christmas.
I don't have to ever water it.
It still has all it's brown,but I guess all the oils in it,
kind of almost.
Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Really, I'd be careful, though, because you
know old.
Christmas trees burn pretty bad, oh man, all right, all right,
all right, it looks, cool itlooks cool, I still don't
believe it's real.
I think you're bullshitting me.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
I promise you, dude, it's real.
I think the oil's in afossilized yeah, but oh, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
That's cool.
It looks good.
I like the studio, so all right, what are you going to?
Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
do.
Well, this is my new song.
I put my cowboy hat on for thisone.
There you go, there we go.
So here's my new song that Ithank you guys so much for
playing.
Thank you guys very, very much.
It's a song called she Loves myCountry.
I'm just gonna leave you withthis one I got more, so I can
play as many as you want, but-.
Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
No, no, let's do this one, then we'll I got you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
All right.
Well, I'm leaving right here.
Here's my new song called sheLoves my Country because my wife
and my little girl loves mycountry True story I didn't
write.
I hope you guys enjoy it and Iwear the cowboy hat because it's
my fit for this one.
I've done all the phases.
I haven't done the cowboy lookyet, so we're going for it.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I could tell she hit down on roots dancing around in
a cowgirl boot.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
She played hard through her gift till she saw
the southern red on my neck.
That's when she started torealize she was ample wanted.
She loves my country.
She was ample wanted littleride.
She loves my country.
Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Yeah, she loves my country, La, la loves my hip
150s sang with a pretty rightshotgun.
Said I play her all away.
She parked up by the watertower.
She left tasting like a whiskeysour, said I was the best that
(01:08:29):
she ever had.
No sign of her ever going back.
She loves my country.
Yeah, she loves my country.
Yeah, she loves my country, la,la, la, la.
I had one baby singing with asitting, pretty riding shotgun,
(01:08:50):
said I blew her away.
Yeah, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la, la.
Yeah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la la la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la la la la la la la la
(01:09:11):
la la la la la la la la la la lala la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la lala la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la lala la La la la la my F-150
singing with a sitting, prettyriding shotgun, Said I blew her
away.
She loves my country.
Ha, yeah, she loves my country.
(01:09:34):
La la la la my F-150 singingwith these sitting, pretty
riding shotguns, saying I blewher away.
Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
She loves my country, yeah dude, now you gotta get
Ford to give you a littleendorsement, somehow.
I don't know who you mentioned.
I gotta work that in therebecause I would drive a.
Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Ford.
I give you a little endorsement.
Somehow I got to work that inthere because I would drive a
Ford.
I do drive a Subaru now, but Iwould drive a Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
No, I know I've had the Ford, I've had the Dodge,
I've had the Chevy, I'vedownsized a little bit.
I actually drive a 2024 ChevyColorado Trail Boss.
Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Those things are bad as a bone.
Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah, they are.
It's smaller, so it's prettysweet those things, those things
are bad at the bump?
Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
yeah, they are.
It's smaller but it's sweet youknow what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
I know what I mean.
That's pretty cool.
So, uh, great stuff, uh, to geta hold of your music.
That I would, I can onlyimagine.
They can just go to socials anddo a search.
It'll take you to whereverlewisbricecom
l-e-w-i-s-b-r-i-ccom.
Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
That'll take you to wherever Lewisbricecom
L-A-W-I-S-B-R-I-Ccom.
That'll take you to all mypages, also on my webpage.
It'll take you to my web storeJazz, church and stuff like that
, absolutely CDs, records, stufflike that.
And also it takes you to myschedule, my tour schedule,
which you have come up, which wehave a really good.
(01:11:00):
Well, we're about to open uppretty good.
Um, I'm out next weekend inmaryland and then we're after
that we're in paris, tennessee,and then we go to decatur,
illinois.
I'm opening up for leannerhymes coming up and on a week
sweet yeah, you know, I haven'theard from her in a while but I
haven't either.
But I'll tell you what.
When I got the offer, I waslike leanne rhymes.
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
hello, yeah, exactly look forward, dad.
Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
I just picked up a whole tour with my brother this
fall I was gonna ask if that wasgonna be happening.
Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
So how cool is that man.
Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
That was so cool.
He literally called me lastweek and um, he was like hey,
dude, uh, looking for an openerfor my tour coming out this year
fall.
And um, you know, I bet youcould have probably like half
the tour.
We think about you and somebodyelse.
And I was like, yeah, are youkidding me?
So we're super excited aboutthat.
We locked down the first halfof the tour, more or less the
(01:11:49):
first nine shows, and we'regoing to go be in Florida.
We'll be in.
Oh man, I think we may becoming to New York, I'm not sure
.
I'll have to look, I'll have tolook.
I know we're going aroundIndiana or something like that,
we'll be all over the place, butI'm super excited about it.
Got nine shows, got threeweekends in a row, but a cool
little tour, and so that rightthere kind of fills up the rest
(01:12:11):
of the end of my summer.
They get you on a tour bus orare you driving the van?
Well, the good thing is, I'mdoing acoustic opener, so it's
just me and my guitar and so uh,but I'm first three, but I
guess I'll be riding my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
So I was.
Yeah, I'm sure you will.
I'm gonna do a little somethinghere.
I'm not.
This is my camera's doingsomething weird.
Watch uh oh is it following you?
No, well, yeah, I think it ohyeah, it's following you now.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Whoa, how weird is that.
Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
But see when we, when I switch it around, all of a
sudden you, you know, I got mylittle monitor down here.
You see that and all that.
But usually it's like I just golike this and then go like this
there we go.
Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Whoa man, that's some like there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
That's like some tom cruise stuff man I don't know,
you know it's um, I have a lotof cameras and uh, for obvious
reasons, but uh, this littlecamera is the best.
I mean it's like you know, andI get it's like, wow, what are
you using?
It's so clear, you know andthis and that, but it follows
you around so um I know well, no, I don't know if, oh, it will,
(01:13:17):
no, no it does.
We got to stop that, so I'll dothis Now watch.
That's so cool Technology man,scary dude, it is Scary.
I have to go to my kids or mygrandkids and say, hey, I need
help with this, but that's cool.
And talking about kids, you'vegot the one.
Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
I do.
She just turned one year old,oh wow, and she's so beautiful,
she.
I've been so blessed.
Her name's Raylan Dawn.
Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Very sweet.
Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
R H A E L Y N N Dawn and so it's kind of a family
name.
Her Ray is my wife's middlename, lynn is my wife's
grandmother's middle name, ohwow.
And Dawn is short of Donna,which is my wife's mom's name.
Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Oh wow, Lewis, that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
What kind of legacy do you hope your daughter sees
in your music someday?
Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Man.
I just hope she's proud of mymusic.
I hope she's proud of me, andyou know what I do.
Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
I'm sure she will be.
Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
You know I do do this .
Everything I do now is a wholedifferent.
It's definitely a wholedifferent perspective on you
know why I keep doing this?
Because I definitely see beliefand I know what I'm supposed to
do and I know where I'm goingand you know we're doing good so
far.
So we just want to build on it,and you know.
(01:14:51):
But at the same time I justwant to be able to leave a
legacy behind where my daughterever looks up and sees what I've
done or any of my friends ortalks to anybody.
You know, when she hears myname, she hears nothing but hard
work.
You know honesty, pride, hislove of his family, you know so,
and daughters, daddy's girl Iknow I'm working, don't you
worry, I'm worried, I got.
I got a couple different songtitles.
Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
I'm right, uh, I was gonna ask, before I let you go,
how that would affect your soundsong writing now that you do
have a little girl one year oldand you're gonna want.
She's gonna grow so fast andyou know nascar fast exactly so
it's just, it's just a wonderfulthing.
Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
So it is.
I've already got.
I've got some songs I'vealready written.
I wrote one song called um.
I will see if I cut it.
It's called you'll know tillyou know.
Because anytime you know when,when my wife was pregnant, you
know, I kept hearing all thesestories of like.
I was like you know, some ofthem were good, but some of them
were horror stories and thisand the other, I'm like man,
(01:15:50):
don't, don't, tell me something,but I'm gonna get down on
myself, start doubting myselfabout, be sad and scared and so
and I was like I had to take it,yeah, because everybody's story
is different and the way Ithink every parent raises their
kid is completely different fromeveryone else, and so 100
percent it's like, and I startedtelling my friends.
I was like you know what?
I love hearing these storiesand all, but it's okay.
(01:16:12):
Yeah, because honestly, mystory's going to be different.
And I was like you don't knowtill you know.
And I wrote a song called youdon't know till you know and I I
might it won't get off, I cansend me your email and I'll
shoot you over to see what youthink of it.
Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Yeah, I would love to hear that.
I love that.
Uh, lewis bryce has been withus on skip happens tonight.
Uh, just, it's been a greatconversation.
It's good to get to know you.
You know, obviously, being inthe business, I've your name and
we've talked about it and wehear the music and you've got a
great team behind youindependently, which is to me
(01:16:47):
that's the way to go.
So you know you make your owndecisions and all the good stuff
, but thank you for doing thistonight.
Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
Thank you for hanging .
Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Thanks for hanging in the garage.
You've got a cool garage.
Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Yeah, thank you very much, man.
It's one of my favorite placesto hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
I love it.
The Suburban stays outside.
Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Yeah right, suburban stays.
I feel right at home right here.
Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
How close, how close to your neighbors, are you?
You're probably spread out alittle bit right it right, not
too, not too too far.
Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Actually, we live in a subdivision um anybody famous
live near you besides you?
No I think I'm the most famousperson in my neighborhood, so
yeah, hey, there goes lewis, hey, yeah, yeah, here comes lewis
popping in your guitar, takingguitars in and out of the suburb
?
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Well, I got the guys over, we're in the studio
tonight, so no um, so all cool.
You know that's a wrap on thisepisode of Skip Happens.
A big thanks to Louis Brycesharing his story, his sound and
a whole lot of the heart man,I'll tell you, it's just so cool
.
Make sure you check out hislatest tracks.
She Loves my Country and AskOur Fast.
Wherever you stream your music,go on, give it a listen.
(01:17:56):
You're going to love it.
And hey, if you like this chat,don't forget to subscribe.
Leave a review, share it with afriend and until next time.
I'm Skip Clark and remember, inmusic and in life, sometimes
you know what I'm going to saySkip happens.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Skip happens.
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Skip happens.
It's what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
That it's called.
That's what I do, Lewis.
It's been an honor my friend.
All right, we're going to saygoodnight, Stay right there and
thanks for watching everybodyand make sure you check out,
Lewis.
You know, him, you love him, welove him.
Let's go.
go, that's what it says.
Go, we're back, I think.
I think we're back.
All right, lewis, there you are.
You went black on me, man, youjust like you were gone.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, I mean, it was like a flash of lightning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So you guys are getting a.
You're in Nashville, right,Correct?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
me.
I'm Nashville, tennessee,currently.
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And I saw I believe it was this morning that
Nashville was going to get somesevere storms, or you're in that
area, you know how they blockit out with a color, and they
said, yeah, nashville's right inthe middle of that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, and also in that area of Nashville, like
we're in the area area becausewe're a little bit further south
.
I live about 20 minutes southof Nashville, smyrna, tennessee,
but it's like a 20-minute drive, it's not bad.
But right now all those stormshave been cutting like right
across our little area and so,uh, but yeah, this morning we
that's what we woke up to alittle lightning, little thunder
(00:54):
yeah, I love that dude, dude I.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
As long as nobody gets hurt and there's no damage
per se, I'll sit on my backporch and just watch and listen
to these storms.
There's just something about itthat amazes me, I don't know.
You do agree.
I'm not that weird.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know, you're not that weird.
I love it.
So we have a as soon as wemoved.
I've been in this house about ayear and a half now.
This is the first house that mywife and I bought and we had a
back porch, and before, as soonas we moved in, the back porch
was not screened in and uh, mywife was like now, if we're
having a back porch, I want tobe able to go enjoy it without
having bugs right, that's right,yeah, yeah and I'll buy like I
(01:35):
don't, I ain't worried aboutmosquitoes, that's just fine,
but it has been the greatestthing ever because we screened
it in, yeah, and now I can goout there and watch the storms
and stuff.
I love watching storms come in.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, we did the same thing.
We enclosed the porch more orless.
I can open up the windows if Ihave to, but it's a porch and
it's cold in the winter.
Obviously it's not heated, butstill it's a place to go and
hang on one of these type ofdays, I guess.
(02:08):
Well, stormy nights like it is,it is.
So.
Uh, lewis bryce, the brother oflee bryce, that's me, and how
cool is that?
I mean, look what your brotherhas done and look at, you're
like following his footsteps.
Uh, I know you guys haveperformed together, you guys
have done a lot of that stufftogether, but what's it like to
be the brother of lee bryce?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
man.
Uh, it's, it's.
I love my brother, death himand I worked together all the
time.
He's my best friend.
It's a lot different than whatmost people would think I can
promise you.
I've had a lot of opportunitiescome around, but let's say
everything we've done, that I'vedone on my path and journey.
I've done a very, very good jobabout keeping like Lee does his
(02:41):
thing and I do my thing, youknow, and so we've dealt with
two separate artists and whenyou hear saying, you hear
tendencies and stuff like thatabout.
But but definitely when youhear my live show it has like a
little more edgy rock and rollkind of thing.
Um, but to be honest, man beingin this business and seeing my
brother is one of the hardestworking people in this business.
(03:02):
Um, he does not stop working,he's uh, and he's just very,
he's very, uh, loyal, very, very.
You know he does he does hedoes great work too.
You know, it's like a lot ofpeople don't know, I don't think
how talented my brother is, umuh, because whenever it was and
that's why I like this past uhspring I was able to go out on
(03:23):
the me and my guitar tour withhim I guitar tour with him,
shows with him, but and that andI love watching that show of
his show because people get tosee him play multiple
instruments and they get to seehis brain about you know how he
thinks about the production ofall the stuff from music,
because he goes, he goes in deepand he goes in hard.
He always, he's always, lookingfor the best music to make him
you know, for me it's it's greatto be able to watch and see.
(03:46):
I've learned very.
I've learned so much watchingmy brother through this business
, through his lifestyle.
Um, you know.
But again you know, peoplethink, oh, he's lee bryce's
brother.
He's just giving everything ona silver platter oh, no, no, no
I could promise you I know thatdoesn't happen, I could promise
you, uh, I would still be ridingin a van here and there.
(04:09):
You know I'd probably have acouple record deals, but I've
never had record deal.
Uh, my brother and I, we, uh,we, we, we started our own
record label it's called pumphouse records and love it.
So, uh, we've done everythingwe have on our own, very
independent.
And and now you know, what'sreally cool about music
currently is where I know itmakes a difference whenever it
comes to the radio differently,because you know some some maybe
(04:33):
maybe this is just my thoughtsyou know you know, competing
against independent label,competing against a major label,
when it comes time gettingplayed, you never know what's
going to win about that, justbecause you know you've been,
they've been doing business forso long, you know, but it's,
it's been cool.
You know, for us, throughindependent, like we've done,
we've been very successful.
And radio, you guys thank youvery much for being so, uh,
(04:55):
awesome to me.
Y'all done a great.
Last year we did product up andum, you know, without you guys
we wouldn't do it, and so we got, we got my very first time, my
big first push radio.
We got number 60 on mainstream,almost 59.
I said that's cool, that's socool.
I mean it did, and for me,radio's king, uh, because I
don't get the reason why lastyear I had so many shows touring
(05:16):
is because of radio, exactlybecause of y'all.
You're like, hey, uh, I'mplaying you right here, and you
gave us an opportunity to reachout to the venue.
You just say, hey, venue, um'mplaying you right here, and you
gave us an opportunity to reachout to the venue.
You just say, hey, venue, um,radio's playing right here.
So, and and they're like morethan happy to book us, and so I
love that.
When it comes to touring, dude,and and what I want to do with
my career, like radio has been avery, very big blessing so far
(05:39):
and we're working on justgetting more and more success
and we again, we we're tryingour best to build great
relationships with people likeyou.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know people like you.
There's more and more goingindependent.
I think they're breaking awayfrom a lot of the major labels.
They want to be able to betheir own boss, they want to
make their own decisions, theywant to be the one that's going
to decide what song is beingsent to radio, and I think
(06:07):
that's a good idea.
You nobody knows your musiclike you know your music and you
know if you can follow thetrends.
And you know we all talk aboutsocial media but tiktok and all
that that's just been.
You know you can see what'sgoing on.
It's all I could see.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know exactly exactly, and it's all the
business right now.
You know, for whenever I firstkind of came into it, I mean,
I've been in this business quitesome time, but you know, not on
a mainstream kind of world.
I've seen it for a long timefrom what it was, main main
radio way before tiktok stuff,all that you know.
I mean that's a real thing, youknow, and as an artist and as a
(06:43):
growing artist with a businessyou have, that's something you
have to pay attention to, that'sjust.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I need.
I need to stop you for a minute.
I want to see that tat that'son your which one?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
this one or?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
this one, that one right there.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's my guy right there.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The cameras, dude, that is fricking awesome and not
to change the subject, but thatis freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Dude.
Thank you, man.
This is a very cool tattoo.
I got this right here.
It's a cool story behind it too.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Tell me.
I want to hear the story.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's a little songbird here.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I wanted to get a Carolina Wren, but the thing is
I got this one specifically asongbird.
And then the microphone isanother story as well.
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, but thesongbird actually.
Let me go from the start.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, go ahead, Because I've got the cameras
messing me up here.
Oh yeah.
I'm going to go like this.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh yeah, the microphone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah.
So, and now I want to dress itup a little bit because,
obviously, doing what I do and Isee doing what you do, yeah,
all right, go ahead, I'm allears.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
All right, so here's a quick story of my tattoos.
This is the first one.
You can't really read it, butit says don't go changing.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And that was the very first tattoo I got okay and uh,
and I got that tattoo in vegasat a place called tattoo in mgm
graham.
Uh, it's a weird day for theacm acm awards that year and
yeah that was the year mybrother actually, he uh, he won
song of the year with woman likeyou, and so we're there hanging
out.
I was sitting at the uh house.
I probably I love playing uhroulette.
And said I was probably sittingat the house, I love playing
roulette.
I was probably sitting at theroulette table doing that, and
my other buddy, John Stone.
He's a writer.
(08:28):
And I used to write on thatsong.
And so I get a text from mybrother at midnight 11,
something like that.
He was like yo tattoos, firstones, let's go.
He never got a tattoo.
And I never got a tattoo and weboth wanted to get know if I was
(08:51):
around we could make it happen,get our first tattoos, you know
.
So, uh, we get to this placeand he called up stone and
myself and we went tattoo parlorand uh, and they what they got?
They went there, they got the,the date on their arm for the
very first number one, which wasI get it and so they did that
and um, which is another storybehind that, because they kind
of maybe got the wrong date.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
We won't tell anybody though.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, but uh, go ahead yeah, but me, um, I could,
I had to think about somethingor something kind of cool to get
.
And so to me I was, uh, don'tgo changing.
Um, I had a guitar player yearsago, my very first band called
oak leaf, and he was australian,great guy, great, you know,
guitar player, incrediblyincredible great guy and great
guitar player, incrediblyincredible great guy.
And so one of our last gigs weplayed together you know the
(09:31):
band we were about to break upand this is like some years
years ago and he was like Mike,he's Australian, mike, you're a
bloody rock Mike, you're a rockand roll star.
You got a heart of gold, mike.
And, oh, mike, don't ever, evergo changing Mike.
And so I was all right, cool,cool.
So I just remember, a coupleweeks later, you know god rest
his soul he passed away.
(09:51):
oh, no a drunk driver hit himwhile he was on his motorcycle,
oh my god and he was about to gotake a ride into his driveway
and so, um, it's a pretty sadstory.
Um, yeah, but when he got, atthat moment I was like, well,
that's the best thing, you know,I could, I could live by,
because that's what I wasperfect, that was perfect don't
(10:11):
go changing, so pass fastforward.
I got this light right here.
That's my family crest, so acouple of years later.
But instead of the big shield.
I just got the the colors of mycrest, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Shading it to there.
That looks good.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, and then I got the microphone, but this is all
one tattoo with the microphoneand the songbird.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, the microphone was for mebecause I'm a singer.
That's what I love to do.
But the songbird again was forone of my other guitar players
that I had some years ago.
One of again was for one of myother guitar players that I had
(10:46):
some years ago, uh, when my oneof my first ones was a person,
lewis Bryce, and the escorts, umhe uh we got some tattoos.
He got songbird stuff like that, but he was a great guitar
player.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Um, he passed away, uh, um stage four stage four
glia baston oh my God, he wasreally close friends yeah, it
really sucks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh, a beautiful story in that.
Um, when he was, you know, yeah, he was one of my close friends
and I was there visiting himand this and the other side you
know, when he was ready to go,he told me he was like, hey, man
, I mean I know what's good, buthe, before he passed, he was
able to get it set up, uh, hislife insurance.
(11:24):
You know, the minute he passedhe was able to get it set up,
his life insurance.
The minute he passed, it wouldliterally the life insurance
paid them enough for his wifeand his daughter.
He had an eight-year-olddaughter, oh my gosh.
But the minute he passed, itwould be enough to buy them a
new house.
Yeah, exactly.
Get them set to live goingforward, stuff like that.
But yeah, so I was thinkingabout other tattoos I wanted to
(11:46):
get, and I've always wanted toget that tattoo, and so I got
that for him yeah, being a radioguy, I just love the microphone
and yeah, that's basically whatI have.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just want to dress it up a little bit.
I just happened to notice thatthere's.
You were moving around and godamn, he's got one of those.
It's a sure s?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
uh whatever you know, it's a sure essence.
I think it's sm7, but it butit's, it's the, it's the radio
mic right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, that is so kind of like elvis um no, I know
exactly.
But you know, I want to getback last one okay number seven.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I had to get the jack daniels jack daniels well,
because me and my wife fell inlove or shot a of Jack Daniels,
so we were down to Key.
West about two weeks ago wewere wanting to get his tattoo.
I got this right here.
She got it on the back of herarm.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I love it.
Just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, like literally like two weeks ago, the Key West
Songwriters Festival.
We're down there, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know it's happening .
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I don't know how I could forget about that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, but it just happened.
But I want to talk a little bitabout your music.
Now you've got a brand-new songout, which I started to play in
the beginning before lightningstruck.
I don't know if that was a signof anything.
It's hot, it's hot, it's hot,baby, it's hot, you've got to
play it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You've.
She Loves my Country.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Oh, man, she Loves my Countryis just a.
So this is one of the firstsongs that I've released that I
did not write on, and so lastyear we started doing this
project and I was like, man,it's time for me to put on.
I released the product ofrecord.
It's time for me to start backand get some more music made.
We went into the studio,recorded four or five songs, but
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as we're looking through songs,my producer, ben Simonetti, he
threw me this song.
Hey, dude, man, I know youdon't really like cover songs or
this, that and the other doingstuff like that Interpolations
is what the term is he said butman, we wrote this song and I
know you're rock and roll, man,we wrote this song, I know you
rock and roll, but we wrote thiscountry song to a rock and roll
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song.
He was like listen to it.
I listened to it and I was likeblown away.
I was like, dude, this is me toa T.
I can relate to it.
For the subject matter, whatthey're talking about, I can put
my wife in it.
It's your own story.
It is, it is, and, and somehowthey wrote it, but they wrote it
to a song you know, back in,you know, I think, like early
(14:08):
2000s, late 90s.
Uh, I remember a band calledpuddle of mud uh, yep, puddle of
mud.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, she hates me exactly, dude, yeah I said
welcome yeah
Speaker 2 (14:21):
but uh, but yeah.
So he played with a song.
I was like this is.
I said so, man, you know I'mnot big on interpolation, I
don't like doing recreation songbecause it just I think those
songs lay where they're supposedto lay the first time they're
written.
But then I've heard a couple ofthose that kind of makes sense
to me.
But this one right here is justbig enough to where it was, so
huge, everybody knows it andit's also in a rock and roll
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genre, it's not too far away.
So, man, when I heard I waslike I just have to do it.
I think it should be so catchy,um, it fits me to a team
lyrically wise.
And then we went into it andstarted cutting it.
Uh, you know, just kind of gaveme more reassurance.
I ended up getting in touchwith, uh, mr west canton himself
the lead singer of the mud andof Mud.
And West Canton and Very cool.
(15:06):
Yeah, man, Him and a guy andJimmy Allen the guitar player,
Not Jimmy Allen the artist,Jimmy Allen the guitar player.
He played for Puddle of Mud andhe played for Puddle of Mud.
He was a writer on there aswell, and so we had to go
through all the hoops and loopswe to.
We had to go through all thehoops and loops.
We had to get uh approval fromthem.
We had to give them their,their publishing and everything,
so they have their.
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You know.
So there's literally three.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
There's five songwriters cody logan, uh rob
pennington, ben simonetti andthen west canton and um, uh, uh,
yeah, I'm brain labs right hereabout that, it's okay yeah,
guitar player, so and so, um,and then, out of nowhere, once
we got all that settled, theysaid yeah, we got all worked out
now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I got a phone call.
I got a video message from uh,from wes and yo louis man, I
love music country man.
He's like she's not my countryand he was like give me all the
full approval of it, you knowthat is so cool so that was
really cool.
And then, uh, once we cut, I waslike man, this for me this is
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my next uh stage in music.
Kind of I want to kind of goback to, you know, some of my
roots and also I want to, I wantto do some things that are a
little bit left in my center,that I've never tried before and
so so in interpolation that'sleft in my center.
I've never wanted to do it, butI did it and I feel so good
about it, so confident becausethe song's great, I love it,
it's catchy, it is very much.
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My wife loves my country, so itworks out.
There you go yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I know, and let's hope she does and, speaking of
that, so she would be a bigsupporter of everything you do.
I mean, she married into a verymusical family and it's funny.
I mean we went on not onlytalking about that but you say
you're in your own studio there.
I actually had your brother onmy podcast, I don't know, maybe
(16:59):
a year ago now, but he was inhis studio and I think that was
like um, you're in your garagestudio and I like it.
I, I like the player behind you, uh, something I had in high
school, uh, your six cd changer,whatever it is behind you and
51 51 disc changer.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, that thing had 51 discs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Man, that was like the coolest thing what my friend
high school man yes, yeah, Iknow you had to have that,
though you had to have that, youhad to be yeah, bookshelf radio
, you know it is, it is, it isand you just couldn't wait to
crank it, couldn't wait to playwith it, switch around the cds
yeah, what's?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
the cd what's?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
the cd nowadays.
I'm just saying but you know soyou embrace, you talk about
embracing who you are as anartist on that new record and
your journey.
What are the biggest moments ofclarity or struggle in that
journey for you, in your journeydoing what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
In my journey.
Right now, my biggest part ismy struggle.
Like you know, I'm not anyyounger.
I ain't getting no younger atall aren't we all?
you know and so you know thelistener is always, you know,
listener.
They're always getting.
They're staying with the sameage with the new listeners.
You know they ain't gonna, youknow, the same listeners that
you had, you know, 10 years ago.
They're not same age and so nowyou got to think about subjects
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and songs that would stilltouch people in this.
You know, in the overall rangegroup, Because you know, for me
I want to stay relevant and Itry my best to stay relevant.
You know I don't look too badfor you know 24 or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I thought it was 21.
I mean, I thought you justbecame.
You know you could drink at 21.
So you spent some time in keywest and that was pretty wild
for you.
Tell us about your key westdays and you were just there a
couple of weeks ago, but I waswhen did you go to key west
originally, how long did youlive there and why did you come
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back?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
well, I never.
Well, I guess I could say Ialmost lived there because I'd
go there for it's probably abouttwo years in a row that I went
there every two months.
Every month and a half I'd bein Nashville writing and working
, bartending or whatever in town.
Then I was like, once I made mydecision, what I wanted to do
for a living, I was like I knowI can make enough money to
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survive playing music andwriting music.
I made that decision.
Uh yeah, I was like, well, yougot to do it, so I'd go back
forth key west.
I spent about two or threeweeks there.
Make a couple thousand bucks,you know.
Drive back to nashville, livein nashville, because I have my
place in nashville right abouttwo and a half three weeks, go
back to key west.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
so did you have a regular place in key west?
Did you have a place, the sameplace you would stay at?
Did you have a place?
I did?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm saying we had one of my best friends growing up
and he's an artist as well andhe's a great guy, nick Norman.
If you ever have a chance, lookup his music.
He's great.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I will.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Cool.
I've got a couple songs that Iand so you put out and
everything.
But he lived down there and soI'd go a lot of times.
At first I'd go down there, I'dstay with him and I'd get, I'd
be playing shows with him and wewould do show up, show up, show
and then and then I startedgetting my.
I was able to get my own gigsand stuff like that.
So I went to smoking tuna awhole bunch.
It was nice.
It's not the smoking tuneanymore.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It was for a long time okay, and I got down on the
ball right on the ball.
I thought, so I did Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I played at Lazy Gecko.
I played at Irish Kevin's.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I played at all the Duvals.
I've done the Duval StreetCrawl.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's young and foolish it was a while ago.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I know I get it.
One time I went down there andI played 18 shows in 15 days and
it was during the middle ofspring break.
It was three weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh my God, that's it.
You're just looking to bepunished, man.
I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I ain't gonna lie, that was the first time in my
career where those last few gigsI was like am I hurting myself?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, it wasn't good to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But I had such a good time and for me, the reason why
I did that I've never been aBroadway guy here in Nashville,
I've never done that.
I never wanted to get into thatBecause, I mean, I just never.
I always wanted to play mymusic that I've written.
I think when I first startedplaying music, where I knew how
to make that for a living, Ilearned 25 cover songs.
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That's about it, and I hadn'tlearned many more cover songs
ever since then because I justbroke my own, and so what I
would?
What I would do, I'd go on qs,and what was cool about qs is,
uh, they're very receptive tooriginal music and the way I
blended it in during my set.
I mean you would think itwouldn't be any different than a
Marshall Tucker band song or aBlack Crow song or something.
(21:50):
And I was oh man every once in awhile here's, a.
Luke Bryan song.
He'd play one of my songs.
But, I played down there somuch I kind of made it.
It became a little bit of KeyWest famous, so I got my name up
in a bar just with a sharpie.
I'm sure I did.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, and you don't realize it, but you did it, you
did I probably wrote it withlike a whiskey bottle or
something, so that this wholeKey West experience, you going
back and forth that reallyshaped your style probably.
You know, in the end we kidaround about it, but it gave you
a little bit of confidence toobeing able to perform in all the
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places that you sang orperformed at it really did.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It opened up an atmosphere to where you know,
again I didn't have to go tobroadway in nashville, that's
one thing I didn't want to do.
But I can go down and kind ofcut my teeth in key west,
because in key west when you'replaying those gigs, I mean you
got all night long for fourhours.
You're playing four hour gigsfor four hours.
People, you got a couplehundred people or four hundred
people running in and out ofthat restaurant, you know, and
each person wave of people tocome in there.
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You're entertaining.
They're from all over the world.
They're from North Carolina,they're from Canada, they're
from Germany, Syracuse, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Syracuse, new York, you know, buffalo, it happens.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
We got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This weather weather sucks.
We need to go south, go to KeyWest a little bit, soak up, a
little bit of sun and bring itback to Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That would be nice.
However, I can't even describewhat's going on with our weather
.
I think we're just in this badweather pattern.
I'm a big baseball fan, so wego to the AAA.
The Syracuse Mets is the AAAaffiliate of the New York Mets.
Being a season ticket holder,we love to go to the games my
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boy, my wife, myself and hangout.
But you better wear a parka.
I mean, here it is the middleof May and we're talking about
high in the 50s during the dayand the 40s at night, and we
have a frost warning tonight.
What?
Yeah?
yeah, so you know, if my wife'sgot the sensitive plants in the
backyard, we've got to coverthem.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, cover them up, put a little plastic over it.
I got a little green thumb, soI know about that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, good, okay, I like that.
I like that.
You know I was readingsomewhere Fuel the band, fuel
Hemorrhage.
Tell us about that a little bit.
That was a turning point foryou.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It said it really was .
They don't know this yet.
I've been trying my best to letthem know that they were a huge
, huge influence on me.
Man, when I was growing upagain, I started playing.
I got my first guitar when Iwas 11.
I didn't really start thinkingabout writing music.
I think I wrote my first songwhen I was 15 or something like
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that.
Then we went from there and Igot to college.
One time I went for an essay orfor a sonnet in my English
class.
I wrote a song instead.
So I performed for my firstclass.
It wasn't that song, but Iwrote a song for like that.
But fast forward a couple ofyears in college I was down in
Charleston and I got into a lotmore rock and roll.
(24:56):
It was at that time it was likea puddle of mud, it was fuel,
it was Pearl Jam.
It was, oh man, you had BenHarper, you had Lily Kravitz.
Good.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, she did that's awesome Black.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Rose oh, my God, that's when I was really.
I mean incubus and all thatmaroon fire.
That's kind of what my vein ofmusic was, because in Charleston
they had jam bands and they hadrock and roll.
They didn't really have a greatbig, a huge country station at
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
They had it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But what I listened to was all rock and roll stuff
because I worked at a couple ofbars and this and the other.
But man, this is my vein.
I worked at a couple of barsand this and the other, but I
took it upon myself to learn.
The first real hard rock androll song to play was a band
called Fuel.
It was Hemorrhage.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Once I learned that song.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I took it as a challenge to learn I had the
tone and the voice for it.
Every time I played it it fellright into place.
I figured out.
It's actually a crazy idea of asong.
Uh, if you think it's aboutabortion, it's about oh, yeah,
yeah somebody taking the choiceout of his hands right right,
right, no, exactly right it's areal serious song, it's a
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powerful song, it's a verypowerful song and the first time
I saw them live I was living incharleston and I saw them at a
place called the plex and uh, Ithought they're still there.
I'm not, at least I think it iscool venue.
You know, it's out in themiddle, you know, look like
north charleston coliseum orsomething like that.
And I went there and watchedthem.
I saw, I think a band calledrevis played that night and I
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forgot one or two other bandsplayed it.
But I remember, just rememberthose bands.
And man, when Brett Scallioncame out across that stage, when
that band Fuel, started off andit was like, I mean, I just
felt the electricity, it waslike let's go North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
We're here tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And they just had and they sounded.
You know it was rock and roll,so much more, it was powerful,
but it sounded just like therecord, but the record on
steroids, because it just I meanreally just added to it yeah,
it really did and they were sotight.
It was really cool as thing theway he ran the crowd and then
you know the way he went.
I was like, all right, just theamount of emotion that came
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over me watching that show and Iwas already playing music and I
was kind of getting to my pointof life like all right.
Do you want to keep going toschool and be a chiropractor, or
do you want to go do music, ordo you want to kind of be a kid
for a little bit?
And then think about what youwant to do.
And after I heard that show Iwas like yep that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's what I got to do that's what I here to do.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm here to spread some kind of a message.
I'm here to spread a message ofwhat I love and who I am, who I
am.
I'm a message.
I love spreading happiness, Ilove spreading hope and I love
spreading you know, I love that.
But I also love spreading youknow to things that you aren't
alone in bad situations, becauseI bad situation, because I've
been through heartache.
I've been there, you know, andso I can understand all this
(27:52):
stuff.
And so now, just new record I'mjust trying to get back to my
Southern rock, you got to get it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I know, and there's some pretty good potential there
, and I just I see I'm readingsome of the comments here.
Do you know Jacob Smalley?
He's an artist.
He says this is very cool.
I've always loved your voice.
I never realized you're one ofmy all-time favorite singers,
brother.
Lol.
Now I really love your voice.
Keep the music coming.
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And then John Williard.
Do you know who John is?
John is a voiceover artist,probably one of the best.
Years ago he was the guy theCMAs it was always, you know,
coming up Keith Urban.
That was John Williard.
He says is this the long-lostBryce brother?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
This is, this is Long-lost.
You know just about to getfound, real good, real big.
No, you're going to get found,brother, you're going to get
found.
No, we're not found, we'redoing it.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's cool, not only performing, but writing.
And you've written, obviouslywith your brother and for your
brother, uh lee, and also you'vewritten for jelly roll.
I was reading I did.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I did.
It was so cool.
It was a great man.
It was cool.
I was able to make uh meet himand we got together through a
couple of our friends and, um,he was a man, come write a song,
I'm coming there, man.
One day I wrote, I actuallywrote a couple songs with him
and uh, andrew bayless was hiswas one of his pieces at a time.
Uh, he's done some great stuffas well.
Man, it was really cool towrite with with jelly, because
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he was so, so cool.
Um, I forgot, oh, I forgot.
The other guy that was is oneof his best friends and he
writes with him all the time.
He actually he was actuallywriting on quite a few songs.
He was in the room as well, butthey wrote a song that day
called promise and okay and ifit, it's out, if you look on
this you know.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, yeah, I've, uh, I've seen it yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So we wrote that song and so he had just and it is
awesome, it's really coolbecause we went there I wrote
like we wrote the song he putsave me out and at the very
before he had the deal andsaving just blew up with insane
and then and then he was like,yeah, I'm putting this song out
next, and he did.
I was like, oh, let's dag on go.
So he did, he put out promiseand uh, he pushed it all behind.
(30:00):
He did great, it was reallycool.
It was really cool to have thatcut with him and the writing
experience is really cool aswell, because this is kind of
when he was on the break of likeman, he told me I said, lewis
man, I you, this here countrything, man, I ain't really done
it all in a while, but I got avoice, man.
Really, man, I think I got avoice.
I need people to hear it.
He said, for some reason, Imean I can stay on pitch and I
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can sing.
Good.
I said, well, let's get herdone.
And so he was trying to writesome country songs.
We wrote that right there.
We got the whole song writtenand then there's a part in the
bridge.
I was like man, I feel there'sneed one part.
I just need to let you go offand just just scat for a minute,
scat, sing at the same time.
And, dude, and he was like one,take that bridge, if you hear,
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if you listen to that song,promise you listen, that little
bridge where he's like he didthat in one take and there's no
one.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Nobody does that in one take.
Come on.
Yeah, no, he did it, I wasthere, I watched it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
He did it one time, and there's no one, nobody does
that in one take.
Come on.
No, he did it.
I was there, I watched it, hedid it in one take and I was
like dude that's amazing yeah,that's amazing yeah, so that was
a great experience and I've hadsuccess right there.
You know, did that and then uhyeah, I got, I think I haven't.
I think I have a cut on mybrother's new record coming out.
Really.
I can't tell you which one itis Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now we'll have to look it up.
John is saying wow, Jelly, Ihad a private two minutes and he
looked into my eyes the entiretime, no distractions, and he
gave me a great line for a song.
I've been writing to honor mylate father that I witnessed as
he passed over.
I'm trying to read it here fromhis life into Jesus presence as
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I finished that scene for him,jelly's eyes reddened and
suddenly he cried what wipingtears.
I think he's so genuine.
And I yes, he is, he is.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
He is, I know I had that middle hangout with him a
whole lot, you know he loves youyeah.
Yeah, where I had that middlehangout with him a whole lot.
You know we love each other,yeah, yeah, but yeah, but he's,
uh man, I'm telling you he's areal deal and uh man he's, and
also he's a brilliant, brilliantbusiness person.
Um, he uh, I learned, I learneda lot just for writing with him
, just talking about because,you know right, you write with
your friends and other stuff.
And at that time, before hewent to radio and got the sign
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with everything, he was uh, heplayed the streaming game and he
played, you know, the merchgame.
He did all his own.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He knew what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
He very much knew what he was doing.
Very smart, individual.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And now he looks great.
He's losing weight, he's doingall that.
I saw him on Idol the othernight.
I'll put it out there I'm not ahuge Idol fan, but it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
And.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I totally get it.
But to see Jelly on there and Iwent oh my God, this guy, he's
lost a lot of weight, you know,he just looks good.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
What a great guy.
What a great guy.
He looks very good, he looksvery healthy and he's doing it
for the right reasons.
I feel like Exactly 100%.
He's doing it honestly.
You know, I feel like you know,I think deep down I was like
man.
He's like he's doing it forhimself.
He's also doing it so he cankeep delivering his message.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
So he can stay alive longer.
His message is crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That too.
Yeah, absolutely.
How do you know we're talkingabout your songwriting, but how
does your songwriting approachdiffer when you're writing with
others or for others versusyourself?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes and no, it does differ most times.
Generally, when I get into awriter's room, um, I'm 90
percent of the time writing formyself, just because I feel like
if I could present it, becauseI try and bring ideas into the
room as much as I can and I tryand hear the riffs or stuff like
that that out, and it wouldgenerally fit me, but my brain
is always in another realm oflike, all right, yeah, I can,
because I don't want to writeone song.
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I don't want my sound to belike one long song.
I want my sound to sound likeyou listen to a record of like
you can go.
It's like a book up and down,up and down and you get your
your beginning, middle climaxand then you spread out.
So I'm always writing differentup-tempo songs and different
country songs.
I write a hip-hop song.
(33:58):
I write you know I I lovewriting across the spectrum, um,
even for myself, because ingeneral when I write a song it
comes out for myself.
I can still get my brain and belike, all right, well, this fit
or russell dickerson, or thisfit a nate smith or this fit a
Nate Smith or this fit a JellyRoll.
And then when I get done withthese rights, I'm like, all
right, it says I'll turn it in.
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I'm like, hey, so if I love,love the song, I'm like, yeah, I
definitely want to cut thissong as DLC, but it's still for
pitch, because if somebody elsecuts this song it ain't going to
do nothing but good.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
For me.
It used to be when you werewriting songs.
It was country, but really,yeah, I work in the format, I do
what I have to do, you're doingwhat you have to do, but what
do we really call country?
Now?
There's so many differentavenues, and being a songwriter
and being able to do what you'redoing, whether it's hip-hop,
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whether it's rock, whether it'scountry, I mean you're all
across the spectrum, which is tome that's awesome.
You've got a feeling from eachof the different genres of music
yeah, what's good where countrymusic is today.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right now is where pop music was back in the early
2000s, because right now.
You know back in.
You know back in the 90s and2000s pop music was and if, as a
writer, if you got a cut on apop song, you would make three
or four, four times what youwould make in the country music
world.
If you as a writer, now countrymusic is popular, country music
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is the biggest right now.
Country music is the biggestform of music there is in the
world.
I gotcha yes I feel like it isyou know, because no, I agree, I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I do.
I'm just saying what do wereally call country nowadays?
Because country isn't what itwas 20 years ago.
But you know what?
That it's all coming backaround too.
If you want to go down thatroad, we got the zach tops
people like that and it's gotthe old sound and the younger
demo is absolutely loving that.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You're right, you know it's it's cool, you know,
if you think about it, you goall the way back country music
when it first started.
And when you think about your,you know.
And when I go back to my, whatI think, I think of waylon, you
know, waylon jennings yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Cash, I think of?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
uh, nelson, I think you know the fathers of it, you
know.
And then I even go back to likegarth brooks and I go to clay
walker and I'm here travis trip.
But you think about that brunt,that brand.
When they started, then johnnycash was rock and roll that's's
true.
You know Johnny Cash all daylong.
And then Johnny Cash was rockand roll.
But then you know WaylonJennings.
(36:38):
That was outlaw music, it wasoutlaw country, it was like
dirty but it was like up-tempoRight.
And then you had your WillieNelson, you know, with your cool
love songs.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe I didn't love you yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's like all your singer-songwriters.
I mean back then was like asmaller form, I guess, but back
then country music waseverything Right.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You have a good point ?
Yeah, no gotcha.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And, just like now, country music has everything.
Now there was a gap between, Iwould say, the 80s to coming up
2000s, to where it was countrymusic, and that's where you got
the best country music ever inthe 90s no, that's true, that's
true.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
90s country, baby.
That's what I was saying.
That whole sound from that erais coming back.
So that's cool, zach Topp'sleading the way, man, zach Topp,
baby he's got a smooth voice.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
He reminds me when he gets after it.
He really does kind of gives mehonestly Vince Gill kind of
vibes a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Maybe yeah, now that I think about it Vocal vibes
yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I getwhat you're saying.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
I sleep like a baby.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, my God, I never show up late to work.
I never lie.
I know what a big song, what agreat song, great song what a
great song, just unbelievable.
Now I just forgot what I wasgoing to ask you.
But so your live shows.
Do you write songs with a liveshow in mind?
(38:05):
I do, you do.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I do A lot of times now, right now, I'm trying to
write a new show and I feel likeI have already done it because
I've already written a song.
I have the songs in my set andI'm trying to switch them around
because for the longest time, Iwrote a song called Alabama
with my brother and that's beenmy show for ever, and I was
(38:28):
always closing my set withLiving Life.
A little song I put out calledlibin, um, man, uh and so.
But now I'm trying to switch itup because I have these, I have
this new songs coming out I'mtrying to introduce as well, um,
but, yeah, when I'm in the room, I try and write, I try to
write for parts of my show and Itry and write for a song that
(38:48):
I'm missing, you know.
And right now, on my currentproject that I have going on,
like I've got I think I have alifestyle song, I think I've got
the fun country song rockingover here.
Uh, I've got.
I've got like five or six I'mabout to go to studio with right
now.
Two of them are just like the.
They're the heartbreak songsand they're also just that kind
of cool story heartbreak song.
(39:09):
Uh, one of them's called love,right, and it's like uh and but,
but, but it's called.
You wouldn't even guess it'slike you know hack will be so
for all, for each other.
But baby, we love, right, andit's pretty cool.
And then yeah and then I haveanother song.
I got another song.
Uh, hopefully you guys want tohear.
It's called someone else'severything and it's always kind
of like that you know it's likesomeone else just killing me.
(39:33):
No, I let go.
Now you're someone else'severything.
Whenever she was, she couldhave been yours.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Someone else's everything.
I've got a bunch of good songsin the books.
I think you brought it upearlier about NASCAR Fast.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I was going to ask about that again because we
were just talking about NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, that song.
I've been playing that song onmy set so far and I actually
excited, uh, this past springwhen I was out with my brother
on the me and my guitar, toursong, um, uh, tour, um.
I uh, I wanted to figure out acool because I got.
I got 30 minutes or 25 minutes.
I got to figure out what songsI'm gonna play, and so not a bad
problem to have.
But I got to figure out likeall right, if I want to play
(40:14):
these new songs, I got to drop,and so not a bad problem to have
.
But I got to figure out likeall right, if I want to play
these new songs, I got to dropsome old songs.
And so now, fortunate enough,I've released enough songs to
where they've done big enough towhere I got to figure out which
ones are going to resonate morewith the crowd?
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
So what I had to do, I was like, well, cause I want to play
NASascar fast, because I justhad a feeling about it and I
still have I think it's just bea cool song.
(40:34):
The cool story behind it isreally awesome, and I had to
play she loves my country andthat, um.
And then I I kind of play mysong shadow, because that's one
of my new and that's one of mynewer ones that I put on my last
record and, uh, it's just sopowerful to sing.
I love to put that in my set.
And I got to play Product ofbecause that went out.
That did pretty well.
But then I had to figure outwell, my three biggest songs
(40:55):
have gotten to where I'm atBless Summertime, Vibes and it's
you.
I was like now we're adding upseven or eight songs.
How do you add that in 30minutes?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, really what I?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
did I figured out Bless, summertime Vibes and it's
.
You are all on the same key ofE, so I was like yay.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So you could just go from one to the other.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well, I did that, but I just sang it verse, chorus
verse.
I actually made my first owntrilogy melody, my own song,
Well that's pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
That's being creative , I guess.
Hey, I have to ask you what'sThanksgiving like at the Bryce's
Now?
Does everybody get together?
Do you guys kind of rib eachother?
A little competition going on.
What's the thanksgiving dinnerlike at the?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
house.
You know, you know, backprobably a couple of years ago.
We used to go back home a goodbit and something and on my
mama's side of the family, allmy mom and all her sisters, they
would get up because we grew upin a very musical family, my
mama and all her singers, youknow, all her sisters, they,
they grew up seeing my mama'sthree oldest sisters actually.
Um, they came to nashville manjudy and henrietta and, uh, aunt
(41:59):
laureen.
They all came to nashville whenthey were like 16, 17, 18, and
then they came in and they cut alittle gospel record, uh, on
music, rock and so they actuallyhad they were called and they
were called the lewis sisters.
Um, my first name is my mom'smaiden name, so gotcha, it's a
family name and so we grew upseeing, you know, and
(42:21):
thanksgiving.
We go back there.
You know they had six sistersand a brother and it was just a.
We have a.
That's a big side of the familyand so we go there and they
would always always.
You know there's a piano andalso everybody, everybody eats.
And then they're all the sistersand uncles and all the kids.
They all say and grew up in thechurch I love that.
And yeah, we were just sayingjust just, probably for, like
(42:45):
you know, about 45 minutes anhour just, and henrietta would
just like play the keys.
Well, we were just seeinglittle gospel songs, you know,
back and forth, and so how many?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
um, how many instruments do you play?
Is it just the guitar?
Can you play the piano?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
I could touch on the keys a little bit okay, I'm not
great, I'm working on gettingbetter.
I can play the key of c, I cankind of float around with um and
but I had to learn uh, shadowon the keys.
I don't, I won't, I won't playno keys.
And you know, tonight yet Ihaven't learned it good enough,
being live yet that I feelcomfortable with Gotcha, but I
have done it live and it's allin black keys.
(43:20):
It's a whole different thing.
It's a whole different math andI don't know piano that well,
but I can do that a little bit.
I can tap on the drums a littlebit rhythm-wise, do this and
the other, and I can play alittle harp.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I mean this and the other and I can play a little
harp.
I mean, if I could touch it Icould probably play it.
So yeah, that's cool, it's inyour blood, why not you could?
Speaker 2 (43:38):
but they say it's I hear it more than I than I that
I know it, you know yeah exactly.
I know what chords go together,I know what chords song.
So it makes, my ear hears it,so I'm not blessed with that,
and that's one thing that's kindof cool so so um, I'm gonna
guess that you drive a dodge ram2500 not a chance.
(44:01):
I've got a 2014 black suburbanexit.
Yeah man, I had.
I had a tahoe some years agowhen I got yeah, yeah it was
great.
And when I had a Tahoe, that'swhen I first started playing
music.
Rather than renting a van, Iwould just use my Tahoe.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah yeah, you got a lot of room in the back.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I would travel with my Tahoe.
And then after that I was likewell, I'm doing pretty good
about saving money.
My next vehicle is to buy abigger one.
So I bought a Suburban and thenI've had the Suburban for I
only got.
I'm about to pay it off, so I'mpretty excited about it.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Good for you.
It's a good vehicle to to havetoo.
I always, you know, when I talkto different artists, I always
like to mess around a little bitand go, let me guess let me
guess what you drive, then it?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I'm like what?
It's not even you.
If you saw my Suburban, I meanit's four drives got, mud tires
got the cool rims.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I got it looking good .
No, no, I'm sure you do, I'msure you do.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
It's country-fied a little bit.
I'll tell you I'll never nothave a four-wheel drive again.
Only reason why here inTennessee four-wheel drive again
.
The only reason why here inTennessee, once I got my
Suburban, it snows once or twicea year.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Oh, come on, it snows .
What?
Half an inch?
Maybe a coating, maybe aquarter of an inch, and the city
closes down.
Let's put it in four-wheeldrive so we can go home.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I know, but that's what I do.
It's a little bit more hillyhere.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, I know, I know, I'm just busting.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Syracuse has got some hills.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Oh, we got a lot of hills and we get a lot of snow,
and we get what they call lakeeffect snow, because we're so
close to Lake Ontario and if thewind comes from the northwest
which it does a lot during thewinter it picks up from the lake
, it's the warmer water and thenby the time when it hits
Syracuse it's dropping.
We get a foot of snow easilyovernight.
(45:59):
I know, you know people thinkthat's nuts.
Well, maybe it is, but we get afoot of snow.
But it's not heavy, wet snow,it's like real.
It sounds weird, but it's dry,it's fluffy If the wind blows,
it'll blow it off, but even withthe foot of snow, we get out
here and there's a difference.
There's a difference.
(46:19):
Let's be real about it.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
You could drive on snow like it's a dirt road.
You could Now ice.
I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Oh no, no, Ice sucks.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
You can have an eight-wheel drive, but it ain't
going to stop, no no, exactlyright, you will have no control
over that vehicle whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
But I can say this with the snow that we get get a
foot of snow the kids still goto school the next day.
I mean it's because and that'sthe difference we have the
equipment, the men and womenthat take care of the roads.
Obviously, in Nashville youdon't have that.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Oh, not at all, dude.
Once it snows here and then theplows come out.
Once you ever heard about, youever had the stories of potholes
here in Nashville, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I haven't heard the story, but we get potholes here
too.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Well, these potholes here in Nashville are just
something else to talk about.
There's a lot of them.
You can tell there's adifference between a Really good
snow plow user and somebodyelse who's not.
Because you go you go somewhereup north I mean in Illinois,
new York the roads way moresmooth, like year round, because
even after a snow it don't hurtthat bad and y'all do it all
year.
We get three snows and ourroads turn into like mines.
(47:28):
I mean there's like craters,like it's eight feet long
craters in the middle of theinterstate and then, like you
know where, they just peel upthe concrete.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, you know it is.
Every place is different.
I guess we're just you know,we're accustomed to what we get,
the way it is.
But you know, hey, tell meabout your sophomore album
that's on the horizon, right,you're working on that baby
we're working on right now.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Like I said, I got.
I've got three.
I just sent one.
I sent us a new song.
I sent NASCAR out today.
Uh, okay, get mastered.
Uh, it'll be mastered in abouttwo days, so I have that ready
to go in the can.
Got another song called dyingto dance.
That, um, I'm excited about itagain.
This is, you know, it's prettycool song.
It's just kind of left in mycenter.
Actually, my sister-in-lawwrote it, my buddy, nate Kenyon,
(48:15):
and a couple of others I forgotI can't remember everybody's
name, but it's really cool.
It's got a cool beat, but it'sstill got a cool acoustic rock
and roll drive to it.
It's really cool.
It's just left in my center,phrasing-wise, of the lyrics and
stuff like that.
And then I got those other four, five.
(48:36):
I got four, five, six songsready to go and I'm looking to
I'm trying to get up, ratherthan ten I think I'm looking
around either 12 to 15 songs.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I'm gonna put on this next out oh nice, not the 37
like morgan just no, I just Idon't know, I've got.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
You know, I'm just saying, I mean I've got plenty
of songs, but you know now Iknow, you know if I was going
out and I was playing stadiumsevery day, why not?
Because you know.
I mean, I mean, any song heputs out is going to get heard
and people are going to havetheir opinions and I generally
they're going to like it becauseI will say this man kudos to
him.
He does put out great music.
(49:12):
I really I think he's on top ofhis game right now no,
absolutely absolutely he's a he,he, he proves what he's doing.
He's a hard for what Iunderstand.
I know I don't know itpersonally, but I hear like I
got you.
No, absolutely he's ahard-working dude man.
Uh yeah, like you know, I wastalking to somebody the other
day another big, big songwriteryou know it's like man.
You know what all these otherboys are doing.
(49:32):
They're back home, they're outand about.
So if you know what Morgan'sdoing, he's sitting there
recording till 3 or 4 in themorning every morning and he's
just sober as a judge right nowbecause he just wants to work,
make more music.
He's a worker man.
It shows man.
I'm really impressed withMorgan.
I'm really impressed with thisguy because you know he had a,
(49:55):
which you know he did a greatjob about getting out what he
got into and really make it achange, I feel like, and I think
let's hope so and we hope itstays that way, because you're
right, he's, he's a good guy, uh, very talented.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
He was working very hard and the album shows it.
You know, I I kid around a lotlike holy 37 tracks, and you
know, and out of the 37, 22 ofthose he either wrote or he was
a co-writer on.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
So and I don't know if a lot of people know like
what goes into making an album.
But like 37 songs, that is somuch work.
I mean I did 10 songs my lastalbum and that was just.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
I mean it's a lot of work, a lot of work it's a lot
of dedication.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
It's a lot of, it's a lot of brain capacity that you
have to give out because you gotto think about every song.
It's like you know, all right,if you now, if you're somebody's
gonna put out 37 songs, put out37 songs, sure, but morgan's,
but he put out 37, good, goodsongs.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Good, I've listened to the whole project.
Yeah, no doubt it's good andthey're getting played on the
radio too, not only the onesthat were released to radio, but
we're actually playing variouscuts.
Just to say, because you knowit's Morgan, why not?
And again, that's 100%.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
You're not going to play him right Because he has
the option.
Not every artist can do what hecan do.
Because, they just don't havethe platform that he's built and
he's done a good job ofbuilding his platform, no matter
his ups or downs, and he's kepttrue to himself.
I feel like and it was cool tosee where he went with this one,
(51:32):
you know, because he wenthonest, I think, true for
himself, where he was at and asa good artist should do.
He writes some songs about wherehe's at in life and I think
that yeah you know, he just hadit exactly there's a lot of
things he did, you know, andyeah and he had to learn from
him and so, yeah, everythingthat he has done or he did, I
(51:54):
think it's it's part of what themusic's all about.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, it's all it's about saying okay, I, I effed up
over here, so, but you knowwhat?
That's not me.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
And it's hard to put it in his heart who he is.
Yeah, Some of the things itdoes.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
I mean cause I know, I know me and I've done a, you
know.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I've heard.
I'm just not under themicroscope that he's under, you
know.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Right, no, exactly, exactly right.
Oh, by the way, scott Lindsey,scott says hello, he says Lewis,
my old buddy.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
Hey, old buddy.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
What's up, buddy?
I've had him on Skip Happens.
Good guy, scott, you're one ofthe best.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
He is Right.
He, you're one of the best.
He is right.
He's done a lot of good work inthis town.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, he was, uh, with the nash villains, nash,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that wholegroup and then everybody kind of
whatever.
But we know how that goes.
We know how that goes so it'stough.
It's tough, but you um, youknow, just being lewis bryce,
you don't want to ride on thecoattails of your brother,
you're doing your own thing, andthat that is really cool.
(53:01):
What's the age differencebetween you two?
Can I ask?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Uh, yeah, you can, I'm, I'm younger.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Okay, good.
No, I knew you were younger.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah, I'm about three and a half years younger.
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well, you're still close enough, so that that's
pretty awesome.
Um, let me ask you this Finishthis sentence.
It was something I did earlier.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
I know You're going.
Oh crap, what the hell is hegoing to ask?
If you really want tounderstand Louis Bryce, listen
to the song blank Blessed,blessed.
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Awesome.
Listen to my song Blessed Rightnow.
I mean still currently.
It's crazy.
I wrote that song years ago.
It's just.
It still holds true.
I mean it really is For me.
When I wrote that song it wasjust a very honest, true song of
where I was at life and I stillam.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Now, you mentioned earlier, you had your guitar
with you.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (53:58):
want to play something.
Can we do that?
Speaker 1 (54:00):
before you know we call it a night.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, man, what would you liketo hear as a question?
Speaker 1 (54:05):
You got any free bird ?
Oh man, Don't you hate that.
Come on dude, hey dude, I loveit.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Scott, by the way, says thanks for the kind words.
Fellas, hope to catch up withboth of y'all soon, absolutely
yeah, good guy Scott's good.
You know I've made so manyfriends doing this.
I've been doing this for awhile.
You know.
It used to be when you guyswould come out on your radio
tour that we would do something.
Either in the station I wasstarting the podcast this is
(54:42):
actually my own.
Like you have your own studio,I have my own studio, and I
would be.
I would tell the artist allright, spend the night in
syracuse, I'll get some wings,some beer, come on over, we'll
do a podcast.
And that's how it was working.
Then, as you know, covid hit andthe shit hit the fan, so to
speak.
Oh yeah, all that stopped.
But it's a blessing in disguise, because now, with everything
(55:06):
that I'm doing here, for examplewith you, it's worked out much
better, because what are thechances of you actually coming
through town?
You know what I'm saying.
I mean it probably will happen,but now I can just go and
schedule and I get the artistout there and uh, you know, we
get a lot of viewers and uh, Idefinitely say, I would
definitely say this stuff likethis really changed the game
(55:28):
when it comes to uh radio it did, it did you know, because, back
in, the day I mean you'd haveto jump in a plane you'd fly to.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I can't put up.
Yeah, exactly so much money, somuch, man.
And again, you know that thatcomes in when people say you
know, oh, how much does it costfor them, I mean it doesn't cost
anything.
Not to it because out of mypocket, because we got to pay
for the flights to come there.
We got because for us to wantto get the, the respect of the
(55:56):
place, stuff like that, you knowwe want the opportunity to be
able to play on the airwaves andso for us we'll take a hit on
it as the artists just becausey'all playing us on the radio is
more than any.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
And you're creating so many new fans for us.
So again, thank you guys verymuch.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I'm going to let you.
You know, I'm going to turn mymic down and I'll let you talk
about what you're going to doand do it, and then I'll.
I'll be hanging here, just kindof you know, hanging in the
cold temperature of Syracuse.
Oh man, well, I mean, do youwant to hear?
Speaker 2 (56:30):
something new, or do you want to hear something?
Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm going to leave that up to you, okay, because?
Because you're the artist andit's Louis Bryce on Skip Happens
.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
All right, well, skip Happens.
Well, I'm going to play thisbrand new one first, because I
think we talked about it earlier, and then I'll play the new new
one that's on the radio.
How about that?
Can I do that?
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Perfect, perfect.
Here's a song called NASCARFast that in my brain is going
to be following up this year andwhen we're about to play, after
this song, this song NASCARFast.
I wrote this song, my goodbuddies, billy Dawson and two or
three other two other guysMicah Carpenter yeah, I forgot
(57:10):
the other guy, one more dude,but either way, we wrote this
song.
I came in that day on the wayto the right.
I just popped in my brain.
I was like man, I wanted towrite something cool.
I've been trying to think aboutwhat kind of brands and stuff
we could work with.
I thought I was starting tothink about NASCAR.
I grew up kind of around NASCAR.
I'm from Sumter, south Carolina.
Darlington Raceway is a big,big, big racetrack in the racing
(57:35):
industry.
Crazy enough, my dad didelectricity.
He's a quick little side storyin the racing industry.
Crazy enough, my dad didelectricity.
He's a quick little side story.
He had offered the job to redoall the lights to whenever, or
actually put the lights in whenthey wanted to make Darlington
Raceway a night track, and sothey offered him the job, but at
the time he didn't have thecrew so he couldn't do it.
Either way, it's kind of a coolside story.
And also in our hometown wehave the dirt track and summer
(57:56):
speedway, and so we grew uparound race this, that and the
other, but I really grew upwatching Like Daytona, tyler
Dago.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
But would earn hard, you know earn hard, oh, my God.
Intimidate.
You know, I watched, I watchedthe race, that sad race, when
you, you and I both I've beenfortunate enough to meet and
hang out with, with Dale jr and,and also his other uh and then,
uh, I think dale's nephew orsomething like that, and uh, mr
jr jeffrey yep, yep, that's it,jeffrey he's great and so, um,
(58:28):
he came to a show at what time?
but it's cool family, and.
But I was trying to think, youknow, I said, all right, let's
write a nice nascar song.
But then I started thinkingabout where I was and this is
probably a year or so ago when Iwas just trying to.
You know, we were working onhaving a baby and having you
know this and the other, andthen we kind of got to.
Well, I think my wife waspregnant at the time we wrote it
and we were just like man, Ican't believe how far I've
(58:53):
already come this fast in mylife, you know.
And I started thinking aboutyou know, I know before, I know
before I know I'm gonna havethis baby.
Before I know it she's gonna be17 and the second the other's a
man.
Your life is nasty.
It goes fast, like nascar fast,and it's like how many
different ways can we relatelife moving too fast to nascar
and how many life lessons can welearn from nascar about life
(59:15):
moving too fast?
So here's a song callednashvilleCAR Nashville, nascar,
fast.
Speaker 1 (59:21):
All right, I'm going to go away and let you do this.
Here we go All right, cool.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
This is the first time I played it on the podcast,
like for radio or anybody, thisis the first.
You're the first person that Iplayed the song for.
Here it comes to the radio.
Speaker 3 (59:48):
Seven years old, on my daddy's shoulders holding me
high so I could see over thatturn three guard rail.
Speaker 2 (59:56):
I could still smell that smell of hot tain and hot
dog stains sound of their hornsand earn hard fans burning my
memory my old man and me fromtalladega to daytona.
There's a loop, show you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Yeah, you can't be afraid to crash.
Put the pedal down when youshoot the gas, hit the wall, and
you better have a couple ofboobies to get you back on track
.
Keep them new to your spinning.
Soak it up when you're winning.
Before you know it, there'sthat checkered flag in a flash.
(01:00:38):
Life goes by.
You know it.
There's that checkered flag ina flash.
Lot goes by you.
Nascar, fast.
There's gonna be rubbin', gonnabe rakes, there's gonna be
champagne celebratein'.
30 hands under the hood Keepsan engine runnin' good.
Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Do your best to keep it in between the lines and
you'll be all right you spin em,smoke it up.
Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
When you win it and you record you do it.
There's that chicken flag andthe class.
Life goes by, Fast goes fast,Fast goes fast.
(01:01:32):
Fast as a lightning strike,Fast as a pit crew changing
tires.
Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Talladega, two day town on hook, there's a lot that
cars can show you.
Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Well, you can't be afraid to crash.
Put the pedal down when youshoot the gas.
If you hit the wall, you betterhave a couple of goodies.
Get you back on track.
Keep them good.
You're spending soaking up rain.
When they're hanging out thedoor, you know it's theirs.
That checkered flag in theflash Ain't always guaranteed
(01:02:17):
another laugh.
Oh, the clock goes by you.
Nascar fans, nascar fans, yeah,fans, there's a light strike.
(01:02:37):
Fans, that's a finger-changingtide to have a big or two-day
total.
There's a lot of big cars toshow you.
Fast as a lightest strike, fastas a finger-changing tide to
have a big or two-day total, hotthose.
Bayou NASCAR fans.
Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
I'll go by you.
Nascar fans Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
And we got switched around here.
Hey man, I'm going to move youback.
We're back this way.
Yeah, I know, Hang on, man.
I don't know what I'm doing.
You think I've done this before.
I don't know.
Apparently, I well.
Yeah, well, or I haven't donethis, Hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
If I go like this, you trying to get my guts out
Happens, here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
What the?
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
frick, hang on, still the same way.
Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
I know, oh well, we're just going to go with it.
Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
All right, I don't know what I did.
Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I have no idea.
It's a control-alt-reversebutton.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
I don't dare touch anything on this keyboard.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Yeah, I try not to.
That's what I got to here onthe phone right here, yeah you
know, and it's working great.
Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
That's an iPhone.
You said it is an iPhone man.
Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
It's an Apple iPhone.
The sound quality is crazy,like whenever you do.
Like a lot of times when I'mwriting I'll do like a quick
little guitar vocal in my phoneand I'll send it to my guy who's
like doing tracks orprogramming and he'll use that
for the actual track.
Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
So how much?
How much do you actually do inyour studio there, lewis?
Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I'm getting more into it because I'm learning more
and more to do with uh, I use, Iuse logic currently and I I'm
actually on a good guitar vocaland then or I'll take it or, if
I do a guitar, look I'll take itfrom my phone and I'll put it
into the program and then I'lljust put it to a track, I'll put
it to the beats and I'll justkind of have fun with it.
I'll play some beats on the onmy little MIDI, and I'll put
(01:04:48):
some drums to it or put somepads to it with some keys.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
How many hours out of the day would you be sitting in
that studio?
Oh, dude, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
well for one, this is my garage it's like so I don't,
so we but that's awesome.
Yeah, so we bought, we boughtthis house.
And then, uh, and well, I hadmy studio upstairs right beside
the baby room before we had.
Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Oh, no, no, no, no, and I was like well, dang it
works.
Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
So I pretty much just uh, I moved everything that I
have in this house in the garagedid you or did she say you
gotta get this stuff out of here?
No, she wanted a little makeuproom and so I was like no, it
worked out well because, youknow, this is kind of my hangout
area anyway, and um, and so Iwent, I went as far, I just
(01:05:31):
insulated it.
Um, I just insulated theceiling.
I put a little air conditionerin here, a mr cool air
conditioner.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
You still had the tree up in the background.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I've had this Christmas tree.
It's going on over two yearsnow.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
It's brown, but it still hasn't shed obviously it's
not a real tree no, it's a realtree.
Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Oh stop, how can you, buddy?
I promise you I went throughthe second Christmas this past
Christmas.
I don't have to ever water it.
It still has all it's brown,but I guess all the oils in it,
kind of almost.
Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Really, I'd be careful, though, because you
know old.
Christmas trees burn pretty bad, oh man, all right, all right,
all right, it looks, cool itlooks cool, I still don't
believe it's real.
I think you're bullshitting me.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
I promise you, dude, it's real.
I think the oil's in afossilized yeah, but oh, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
That's cool.
It looks good.
I like the studio, so all right, what are you going to?
Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
do.
Well, this is my new song.
I put my cowboy hat on for thisone.
There you go, there we go.
So here's my new song that Ithank you guys so much for
playing.
Thank you guys very, very much.
It's a song called she Loves myCountry.
I'm just gonna leave you withthis one I got more, so I can
play as many as you want, but-.
Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
No, no, let's do this one, then we'll I got you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
All right.
Well, I'm leaving right here.
Here's my new song called sheLoves my Country because my wife
and my little girl loves mycountry True story I didn't
write.
I hope you guys enjoy it and Iwear the cowboy hat because it's
my fit for this one.
I've done all the phases.
I haven't done the cowboy lookyet, so we're going for it.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I could tell she hit down on roots dancing around in
a cowgirl boot.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
She played hard through her gift till she saw
the southern red on my neck.
That's when she started torealize she was ample wanted.
She loves my country.
She was ample wanted littleride.
She loves my country.
Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Yeah, she loves my country, La, la loves my hip
150s sang with a pretty rightshotgun.
Said I play her all away.
She parked up by the watertower.
She left tasting like a whiskeysour, said I was the best that
(01:08:29):
she ever had.
No sign of her ever going back.
She loves my country.
Yeah, she loves my country.
Yeah, she loves my country, la,la, la, la.
I had one baby singing with asitting, pretty riding shotgun,
(01:08:50):
said I blew her away.
Yeah, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la, la.
Yeah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la la la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,la, la, la la la la la la la la
(01:09:11):
la la la la la la la la la la lala la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la lala la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la lala la La la la la my F-150
singing with a sitting, prettyriding shotgun, Said I blew her
away.
She loves my country.
Ha, yeah, she loves my country.
(01:09:34):
La la la la my F-150 singingwith these sitting, pretty
riding shotguns, saying I blewher away.
Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
She loves my country, yeah dude, now you gotta get
Ford to give you a littleendorsement, somehow.
I don't know who you mentioned.
I gotta work that in therebecause I would drive a.
Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Ford.
I give you a little endorsement.
Somehow I got to work that inthere because I would drive a
Ford.
I do drive a Subaru now, but Iwould drive a Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
No, I know I've had the Ford, I've had the Dodge,
I've had the Chevy, I'vedownsized a little bit.
I actually drive a 2024 ChevyColorado Trail Boss.
Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Those things are bad as a bone.
Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah, they are.
It's smaller, so it's prettysweet those things, those things
are bad at the bump?
Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
yeah, they are.
It's smaller but it's sweet youknow what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
I know what I mean.
That's pretty cool.
So, uh, great stuff, uh, to geta hold of your music.
That I would, I can onlyimagine.
They can just go to socials anddo a search.
It'll take you to whereverlewisbricecom
l-e-w-i-s-b-r-i-ccom.
Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
That'll take you to wherever Lewisbricecom
L-A-W-I-S-B-R-I-Ccom.
That'll take you to all mypages, also on my webpage.
It'll take you to my web storeJazz, church and stuff like that
, absolutely CDs, records, stufflike that.
And also it takes you to myschedule, my tour schedule,
which you have come up, which wehave a really good.
(01:11:00):
Well, we're about to open uppretty good.
Um, I'm out next weekend inmaryland and then we're after
that we're in paris, tennessee,and then we go to decatur,
illinois.
I'm opening up for leannerhymes coming up and on a week
sweet yeah, you know, I haven'theard from her in a while but I
haven't either.
But I'll tell you what.
When I got the offer, I waslike leanne rhymes.
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
hello, yeah, exactly look forward, dad.
Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
I just picked up a whole tour with my brother this
fall I was gonna ask if that wasgonna be happening.
Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
So how cool is that man.
Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
That was so cool.
He literally called me lastweek and um, he was like hey,
dude, uh, looking for an openerfor my tour coming out this year
fall.
And um, you know, I bet youcould have probably like half
the tour.
We think about you and somebodyelse.
And I was like, yeah, are youkidding me?
So we're super excited aboutthat.
We locked down the first halfof the tour, more or less the
(01:11:49):
first nine shows, and we'regoing to go be in Florida.
We'll be in.
Oh man, I think we may becoming to New York, I'm not sure
.
I'll have to look, I'll have tolook.
I know we're going aroundIndiana or something like that,
we'll be all over the place, butI'm super excited about it.
Got nine shows, got threeweekends in a row, but a cool
little tour, and so that rightthere kind of fills up the rest
(01:12:11):
of the end of my summer.
They get you on a tour bus orare you driving the van?
Well, the good thing is, I'mdoing acoustic opener, so it's
just me and my guitar and so uh,but I'm first three, but I
guess I'll be riding my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
So I was.
Yeah, I'm sure you will.
I'm gonna do a little somethinghere.
I'm not.
This is my camera's doingsomething weird.
Watch uh oh is it following you?
No, well, yeah, I think it ohyeah, it's following you now.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Whoa, how weird is that.
Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
But see when we, when I switch it around, all of a
sudden you, you know, I got mylittle monitor down here.
You see that and all that.
But usually it's like I just golike this and then go like this
there we go.
Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Whoa man, that's some like there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
That's like some tom cruise stuff man I don't know,
you know it's um, I have a lotof cameras and uh, for obvious
reasons, but uh, this littlecamera is the best.
I mean it's like you know, andI get it's like, wow, what are
you using?
It's so clear, you know andthis and that, but it follows
you around so um I know well, no, I don't know if, oh, it will,
(01:13:17):
no, no it does.
We got to stop that, so I'll dothis Now watch.
That's so cool Technology man,scary dude, it is Scary.
I have to go to my kids or mygrandkids and say, hey, I need
help with this, but that's cool.
And talking about kids, you'vegot the one.
Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
I do.
She just turned one year old,oh wow, and she's so beautiful,
she.
I've been so blessed.
Her name's Raylan Dawn.
Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Very sweet.
Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
R H A E L Y N N Dawn and so it's kind of a family
name.
Her Ray is my wife's middlename, lynn is my wife's
grandmother's middle name, ohwow.
And Dawn is short of Donna,which is my wife's mom's name.
Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Oh wow, Lewis, that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
What kind of legacy do you hope your daughter sees
in your music someday?
Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Man.
I just hope she's proud of mymusic.
I hope she's proud of me, andyou know what I do.
Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
I'm sure she will be.
Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
You know I do do this .
Everything I do now is a wholedifferent.
It's definitely a wholedifferent perspective on you
know why I keep doing this?
Because I definitely see beliefand I know what I'm supposed to
do and I know where I'm goingand you know we're doing good so
far.
So we just want to build on it,and you know.
(01:14:51):
But at the same time I justwant to be able to leave a
legacy behind where my daughterever looks up and sees what I've
done or any of my friends ortalks to anybody.
You know, when she hears myname, she hears nothing but hard
work.
You know honesty, pride, hislove of his family, you know so,
and daughters, daddy's girl Iknow I'm working, don't you
worry, I'm worried, I got.
I got a couple different songtitles.
Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
I'm right, uh, I was gonna ask, before I let you go,
how that would affect your soundsong writing now that you do
have a little girl one year oldand you're gonna want.
She's gonna grow so fast andyou know nascar fast exactly so
it's just, it's just a wonderfulthing.
Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
So it is.
I've already got.
I've got some songs I'vealready written.
I wrote one song called um.
I will see if I cut it.
It's called you'll know tillyou know.
Because anytime you know when,when my wife was pregnant, you
know, I kept hearing all thesestories of like.
I was like you know, some ofthem were good, but some of them
were horror stories and thisand the other, I'm like man,
(01:15:50):
don't, don't, tell me something,but I'm gonna get down on
myself, start doubting myselfabout, be sad and scared and so
and I was like I had to take it,yeah, because everybody's story
is different and the way Ithink every parent raises their
kid is completely different fromeveryone else, and so 100
percent it's like, and I startedtelling my friends.
I was like you know what?
I love hearing these storiesand all, but it's okay.
(01:16:12):
Yeah, because honestly, mystory's going to be different.
And I was like you don't knowtill you know.
And I wrote a song called youdon't know till you know and I I
might it won't get off, I cansend me your email and I'll
shoot you over to see what youthink of it.
Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Yeah, I would love to hear that.
I love that.
Uh, lewis bryce has been withus on skip happens tonight.
Uh, just, it's been a greatconversation.
It's good to get to know you.
You know, obviously, being inthe business, I've your name and
we've talked about it and wehear the music and you've got a
great team behind youindependently, which is to me
(01:16:47):
that's the way to go.
So you know you make your owndecisions and all the good stuff
, but thank you for doing thistonight.
Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
Thank you for hanging .
Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Thanks for hanging in the garage.
You've got a cool garage.
Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Yeah, thank you very much, man.
It's one of my favorite placesto hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
I love it.
The Suburban stays outside.
Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Yeah right, suburban stays.
I feel right at home right here.
Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
How close, how close to your neighbors, are you?
You're probably spread out alittle bit right it right, not
too, not too too far.
Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Actually, we live in a subdivision um anybody famous
live near you besides you?
No I think I'm the most famousperson in my neighborhood, so
yeah, hey, there goes lewis, hey, yeah, yeah, here comes lewis
popping in your guitar, takingguitars in and out of the suburb
?
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Well, I got the guys over, we're in the studio
tonight, so no um, so all cool.
You know that's a wrap on thisepisode of Skip Happens.
A big thanks to Louis Brycesharing his story, his sound and
a whole lot of the heart man,I'll tell you, it's just so cool
.
Make sure you check out hislatest tracks.
She Loves my Country and AskOur Fast.
Wherever you stream your music,go on, give it a listen.
(01:17:56):
You're going to love it.
And hey, if you like this chat,don't forget to subscribe.
Leave a review, share it with afriend and until next time.
I'm Skip Clark and remember, inmusic and in life, sometimes
you know what I'm going to saySkip happens.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Skip happens.
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Skip happens.
It's what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
That it's called.
That's what I do, Lewis.
It's been an honor my friend.
All right, we're going to saygoodnight, Stay right there and
thanks for watching everybodyand make sure you check out,
Lewis.
You know, him, you love him, welove him.
Let's go.
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