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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Broadcasting live from the Josey Network studios in downtown Madonna, Tennessee.
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It's that time of week again. It's time for the
Josie Shoe, bringing you the most exciting music, moves and
guests from around the world right here on the Jersey Show.
Please make walking beautiful. It's Hannity. Hello, many America's d
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Elselina Business, Josie Assentin Op.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey everyone, and welcome back to the Josie Show. My
special guest today is Danny Griego. I'm really looking forward
to chatting with him, so let's jump right into it.
I hope you enjoyed this interview.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Here we go, Hi, Danny, thank you for having me
on the Josie Show.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Thank you. I really appreciate you joining me. I've really
been enjoying your new single Angelina. Can you please share
the story behind this song for me if you could.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh, Angelina, we have a long affair Angelina. We've been
going together for years and I recorded Angelina the first time.
Richie Albright produce did he was Whalen Jennings producer. I
was under the Whelan wing for a long time. I
had the last two Jennings and the first rendition of it,
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Reggie Young was on it. Reggie's discography looks like the
phone Book. He played for the Beatles and Elvis, all
sorts of people, and this song is very orbis and esque.
I was kind of vibing Orbison on this, if you
know what I mean. And we did a country version
of it, and I never released it. It did make
my album Cowboys, Outlaws and Boardtown Dogs, and I never
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was really super happy with the way it came out,
and I was getting ready to do an AC release
and I thought, you know, it would be really nice
to revisit Angelina and give her a chance to actually
be released on the radio. So we went in and
you never know when you go into the studio to
cut a song. A lot of times maybe the song
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you're going after you don't get, and you'll get something else.
The magic shows up on you know, the last session
that we had, we recorded The dark Horse with actually
Wadhams bass player Kevin Grant and one real faction of
Willie Nelson was bad, and I told them that I
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kind of wanted this song to be where Roy Orbison
meets Sting. You know, I'll be watching you. And I
think we pulled the tempo on it right off the
Sting record and we put it right down where Sting is.
You can put them side by side and it's the
same meter. We got a good track on it. A
lot of times when you put some out on radio
and you hadn't been out there in a few years.
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So the last single I had was Madison Motel, and
we had horrible timing on that. We put it out
the week after Beyonce released Texas Hold Them. We just
got run over like everybody else. Yeah, all the airtime
was Beyonce time, and I actually pulled Madison Motel off
the air. I pulled it off the Internet and everything.
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I figured i'd re release it later when you haven't
had something out for a couple of years, which is
what has been. It's been twenty twenty three, the end
of twenty three. A lot of times your single won't
do that well because you're reintroducing yourself to radio format.
Angelina has just had a life of her own. She's
just taken off.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh, yes, she has, and she's been climbing both the
Billboard and the media base a dull contemporary charts congratulations.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
First off, Wow, I think I think we're sitting at
number ten on media base. So it's I'm very very
excited about.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It, very exciting. So when you first started seeing this climb,
what went through your mind?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, you know, I really have not had the the
backing or the funds. Well, just to give you an idea,
this is the I think I'm the only independent artist
in the top one hundred and a lot of these,
Like the last release that we did, Madison Hotel, I
was under this label in Perpetuity, and we were we
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did a distribution deal with Warner and so we had
a safety net around this, you know, and this one
we just went with in Perpetuity. It was just a
just the independent label release. And so, you know, my
promotion staff told me that, you know, don't count on
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busting the media base top thirty, it's probably not going
to happen, and don't even get your eyes set on Billboard.
And my response was, Hey, the Lord can do anything,
so look out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah mm hmm, I love that and it has, it
has and it is. That's incredible, And you know, I'm
curious to know perhaps maybe like a new album in
the future, because I know your last album was Cowboys,
Outlaws and Border Town Dogs, which did very well. Could
that maybe be in the cards at some point?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So I never really stopped recording after Cowboys, Alloys, Boardtown Dogs,
and I have I have a box set in the can.
I've got like over seventy singles that have not been released,
and I've just kept recording and kept theming them and
putting them through the side, hoping that I could be
able to pull all this stuff together and do a
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box set someday. And we are gearing up to do that.
We're going to drop a BT and it'll and Crewe
the Greatest Hits album, and a Western album and a
Spanish album. I sing in Spanish as well, and so
we'll be hopefully getting that thing out realistically, probably in
twenty twenty seven, and then twenty twenty six or some
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big stuff coming down the road. I'm going to finally release.
The last duet that I did is a non possumous
duet that I did with Waylon Jennings. In other words,
he was in the studio with me and we cut it.
It's called it The Crossroads. And so part of the
Angelina thing was to make some noise and get my
name back out there for two reasons. One to help
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the charity that I have called Freedom Horse Ranch, which
I serve our veterans and we do equin in therapy.
We put PTS soldiers on horses and like we just
had Semper five fund here America's group and we had
some double amputees and some real shot at boys that
had done everything for gotten country. And so that was
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the idea, is that to make an awareness campaign for me,
so they would trail over to Freedom Horse Ranchs and
people would help here veterans. And then the other thing
is we're gearing up to release at the Crossroads to
Wayland Jennings video and duet.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh I'm looking forward to that. Well, we'll definitely be
promoting it here once that's all out for sure. Yeah,
of course, of course anytime. And you know, as you
mentioned Freedom Horse Ranch, for someone who wants to maybe
get involved help donate in any kind of way, what
is the best place that they'd be able to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Oh wow, thank you for asking that. I'm really super
bad at asking for help. That's one of my strengths
is not being right.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So Freedomhorse Ranch dot info will take you to the
site and there's there's actually a help button that takes
you to a gift send go page for donations. And
I'm not really good at asking for help. So what
I just I had a good friend and mentor that
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has another wonderful charity for veterans, Center for Healthy Veterans,
and they were kind of telling me how I was
doing it wrong and that maybe I should not be
asking for large funds to help the charity. But anybody
and everybody can help a little bit. So we just
created Mission twenty two and there's going to be a
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website that we'll put out there. It's not launched yet'll
be Mission twenty two dot live l ive And because
anybody can donate twenty two dollars pretty much to help
our troops. Yes, and that goes a long way. What
I do is I, you know, I bring the warriors
in here and we do equant therapy with them, and
those horses pull a lot of stuff out of them.
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And like the last group that we just had, we
had seventh group out here, some Green Brays and Special
Forces guys, and those guys are combat veterans that a
lot of them hadn't been together since they were in
combat together. So it becomes a reunion type situation. They
get to talk about stuff that they can only talk
about with people who have been there, so they're a group.
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You know. Wow, it's a very very healing thing for them.
The horse opens the door for the healing, and then
the campfire they get to talk about some rare air stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh that's wonderful. Wow, what a great experience and what
a blessing, honestly, And yeah, I hope anybody, can you know,
anybody can help? Please make sure you do. Can you
give out that website one last time? Please for me?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
This ma'am. Thank you, Freedom Horse Ranch got info perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Everyone. Please make sure you do that. Check it out. Please.
It's for a great, great cause, it really really is.
And once again, thank you so much for what you
do for our veterans. And it's just incredible, and yes
it's very much appreciated and needed. And before we go here,
I wanted to kind of talk to you about something
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that I found very interesting when I was reading over
your bio that you have an interesting story of survival.
Can you tell me a little bit about that if
you don't mind, well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I guess you'd say. Back in the day, when I
was finishing up my college degree, I went on a
fishing trip, and the reader's digest version of it, I
was struck by lightning and I was blown forty yards
and at least forty yards in it. It stopped my heart.
I was code when I came back to I didn't
have any motor skills in my right arm. I couldn't
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even look my arm up, and I could not use
my fingers on my hand quite some time, and the
neurosurgeon told me that there was a really good sign
that all that was going to come back, because my
hand was tingling. And he said that if I were
to get a chart and learn how to play classical guitar,
he asked me if I had a guitar, and I
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told him my granddad left me guitar, a gut string guitar.
And he said, well, if you get yourself a chart
and you number your fingers and you learn how to
pick that tar, you're forcing your mind into rehabbing your
motor skills. That's really interesting because it now it's come
full circle and I and I work with a lot
of players who deal with the same kind of problems,
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and I can actually relate to them a little bit
because what I had was they call that shell shop
when you're blown up. You know, it came with the TBI,
and it came with I have a real problem with
overheating now too, my cold my cooling system is broken.
So there's some things that I can relate to with
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the with the warriors who have been through some very
traumatic battles.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yes, and that's why I really wanted to kind of,
you know, bring it up, is it really is a
story of triumph and and you know, being able to
you know, move through something such so crazy. You know
that's that's not something that normally happens, and you were
able to do it. Just being able to retrain your
fingers through music, playing the guitar. That's so interest the.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Game changer for me. I had different plans. I was
headed to law school, and the Lord had another plan
for me. So I'm a songwriter and that's what I do.
I just try to take everything that the Good Lord
gives me and give it back to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh yes, I love that and I love that about
you and I hope everyone checks out. Angelina available on
all of the platforms that you listen to your music today,
so you will be able to find it. And before
you go, can you please give out your website also
your social networking sites for people after the show to
be able to connect and see what's next and coming out.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Oh, thank you. Angelina is a song about daddy love
gone bad, and you know, a lot of time girls
you know, will have a daddy love situation because that's
their first love and that first heartbreak sometimes can affect
people their whole lives. And so Angelina is on Spotify.
Spotify is kind of wagging the dog with music right now,
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you know. And it's on iTunes and you can We
just put up a splash page at www dot Dannygriego
g r I E g o dot com and that
splash page has a whole bunch of links to my
entire social media profile.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I love it. You make it easy. That's wonderful. Please
make sure you do. You check it out. Everybody check
out Angelina, check out the website, stay tuned. What is
next for Danny? And thank you so much for joining me.
It truly was a pleasure to chat with you and
get to know you better in your story and thank
you for what you do with Freedom Worse Ranch.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Thank you. I appreciate you, and I sure would like
to come back on The Josie Show.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, we would love to have you back anytime. Anytime
you have anything new coming out, please let me know
I'd love to have you back.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Thank you, I appreciate it all.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Thank you all so much for tuning into The Josie
Show today, and remember to stay tuned at josieshow dot
com under our Upcoming Guest tab, we will be updating
that with who is coming up next. You know, you
could always look forward to some exciting interviews and we
have a lot of really great ones heading your direction,
so make sure you stay tuned. And once again, thank
you all so much for tuning in. I hope you
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have a great rest of your day, and thank you
to my special guest Danny. See y'all again soon. Bye bye.