July 14, 2025 • 19 mins
This week on the Christian Music Bros Podcast, we’re joined by the incredible Whitlee Casey for one wild ride of an episode! From heartfelt stories to gas station greatness, this one has it all.Brendan showed up in a full-on Buc-ee’s onesie (yes, really) to celebrate all things Buc-ee’s and dive into the meaning behind his newest album, White Bird. We laughed, we reminisced, and we may have shed a few tears talking about how faith, music, and memories collide.🎶 Powerful conversations.🛣️ Road trip nostalgia.🕊️ A new album you won’t want to miss.Tap in now for the Buc-ee’s Spectacular episode with Whitlee Casey — it’s one for the books! 📘🔥
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What's up everyone? Welcome to the Christian Music BUCkies Podcast.
I'm kidding. It's a Christian music grows podcast. But as
you can tell, I'm your host, Brendan. I'm not my
normal self today. I'm wearing this BUCkies onesie. I made
a stupid well I would say it's stupid, per say,
but I made a post on Instagram saying that if
this post gets fifty likes, I wear BUCkies onesie. I
got like twenty eight likes on Instagram. But then I
(00:23):
also attached my Facebook because my Instagram is magical. I
die and I can attach things to Facebook. And I
got over one hundred likes. Yeah, so I guess I
mean I have to do it. Twice. I said if
I get fifty likes, so if fifty times two is
one hundred, so he got double the less. I mean
not to wear this onesie twice.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm pretty sure I liked on Instagram and Facebook just
to make sure you know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, so that's why I wear the BUCkies wosie. You
can't really see much, but it has like the BUCkies head,
it has like the Buckets who And no, I'm not
This podcast is not advertised by BUCkies if that can't happen,
that'd be a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But it's an unofficial sponsorship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's an unofficial sponsorship. And if there's a BUCkies nears,
you need to go there and get their pulled pork sandwich.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hey, that's totally true.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Like in Michigan, we don't have a BUCkies there, So,
like I always go to a lot of way traveling,
so we hit up the ones in Kentucky, Tennessee going
now south of Florida. But if you're on like Texas,
like Whitley here, there's like probably one.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like man, when when you live so close to a BUCkies,
it changes your life forever, I'll tell you what it
really does.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And then there's a sign there. And there's a sign
here in Michigan about half hour from where I live.
It says four hundred and forty four miles into nearest
BUCkies And there's no Buckets in Michigan, dude.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The thing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The thing about BUCkies is like, I don't know if
you like crowded places, but I'm not a big crowd
place guy. So like it's got to be like the
crack of dawn or like the end of the day
for me to go to BUCkies, so it's like really
light and then it's easy to get in and out.
But exactly, gosh, the middle of the day is just
(01:57):
like herrend is here at BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Never go during spring break time like I do, because,
oh my gosh, if you're going, like if you're like
one of those Michigan or up north people being like Michigan, Ohio, Indiana,
and you go on spring break down to Florida because
you want to get away by holding snow, if you're
going there between like end of March that the second
week of April, it's packed there.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, luckily I was in Nashville. Me and my wife
were in Nashville this weekend and so we missed the
Memorial Day crowd thankfully. So, like, it's crazy BUCkies, man,
but it is a blessing even though it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's a you've got to find the beauty and the chaos.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right, and you have to experience it always once in
your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's right, It's true.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And then if you get a BUCkies onesie, just take
a selfie in a BUCkies onesie and send it to
me and I'll put that on my Instagram saying hey, well,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Take a picture with the statue out front. It's it's all,
it's all good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And it's pretty cool. I think Buckets is a big
part of the Chrisian music community too. I know there's
a couple of artists like Jeremy Rosarto is one of
them I can think about. That's obsession BUCkies. I think
like a lot of these independent artists. There's like Jordan
Blaine and everything too.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, Amanda Janssen my good friend. She played my album release.
She's coming to play in hill Hillsboro, Texas this Friday,
and uh, there's a BUCkies in Hillsborough, So I mean,
may I have to introduce her to BUCkies do it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But anyway, this podcast is not about BUCkies. He just
felt like, not about BUCkies, about BUCkies. You might just
name this episode the BUCkies podcast to get likes and listen.
So if you're watching whatever, we're gonna call this the
BUCkies Podcast with Whitley Casey, but made by Christian music pros. Anyway,
I heard talk about BUCkies. I'm back here with Whitley Casey.
(03:39):
Whitley's been out here, Casey, I mean, Whitley and I
have been talking about this is the time number three
or four, I don't remember my math, sorry, one hundred episodes.
Brand goes like, wait, that's awesome. Plus adhd brain means like,
I don't remember what number exact number episode I'm on,
but do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
With me both, dude.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But he's been on the podcast before he was I know,
he was on one of our showcase episodes or playlist
building episodes. And he's also been here talking about a
couple of his singles that he just released on his
new album, which is what this episode is actually about,
not BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It wasn't the first episode, like the worship episode, and
I had lit and then that's how I met and
started a friendship with Lauren Michelle. Like I just texted
her the other day because we both got nominated for
a Josie Music Award.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So congrats and yeah, like I said, it was like
one of the showcase and it's the worship one. I've
done so many showcase because that's one of the things
I try to focus on my podcast, and I just
artist interviews and everything and the conversation that I would
do to showcases this experience, like if you want to
find out new music, or if you want to hear
like just inside, like like what in with the writing process,
Like we talked about the future landscape of Christian music
(04:52):
back here in December me I think Eager, Jordan Blaine,
and a few waters there was about none of us
and we just talked about the future landscape by Christian music.
And if you want to hear just the heart of behind,
like artist perspectives and everything. It's really cool to see
that too. Yeah, but for sure, Whitley's been up to
a lot lately. I'm not gonna explain everything out loud
(05:15):
right now because I've been talking for the last like
three five minutes, and you're probably like, get this other guy,
chance to talk to Whitley. What's been new with you?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh? Man? Everything? Praise God. It's been so.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Crazy, fun and hectic at the same time. So May ninth,
now I released my first album in six years, which
is crazy you think. The Dream album came out twenty nineteen,
and so following up finally with Redbird, after all the
COVID mess out of the way and my country music adventure,
(05:49):
I decided to come back and get back into the
Christian music game. And God just started pouring out these
new songs in my heart that I really needed to
share and I felt the Lord calling me to share.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And uh and so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, this album released and I just we've seen a
lot of stories come in about how it's just like
reaching people in so many different ways and just with
their relationship with God and just uh last weekend, I
was in Nashville doing an album release event with my
friends Justin Gambino, Joe Vaughn, and Amanda Janssen over at
(06:29):
just Love in spring Hill. That's amazing coffeehouse if you
want to go there for for for food or Christian music. Oh,
Frank is amazing, dude. Frank is awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Watching this.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yes, shout out to Frank and Kathy, They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Uh So yeah, just uh man, I'm just thanking God
for just all the opportunities that come with this album
and I'm just the folks streaming it and just getting
ready for a fall tour to promote the album. I
just announced some Redbird tour dates for September. We're booking
(07:07):
now for October and November. So if you're interested, hit
me up on my website there Whitleycasey dot com to
give me your church your community. But this album, it
was even it was supposed to be an album called
Nothing Greater, and then just out the album was Songs
of Hope and Truth in Jesus, and that kind of
(07:29):
based it off a verse that Romans eight thirty nine
that I heard for the first time when I was
a teenager and got and met the Lord through and
there there's nothing that can separate us from the love
of God that's in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And so.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Doing all that, getting all this ready, I had about
ten songs already planned for the record, and I was
just in the process of recording it all. And then
October her, my grandmother on my dad's side, passed away,
and I was really close to her and my grandpa
as a kid, and just going over there and having
(08:11):
just I just started thinking of so many memories.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And one of the things that really stood out.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
To me and my family was when she was in
the garden, there was always a bunch of these cardinals
and redbirds coming in.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That she would feed in bird feeders and stuff. And so.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Tune Designer, the studio that I work at and work
with in Georgia, and all my music, they put together
these things called instrumental tracks, and you can the artist
can buy these tracks and write songs to them, and
you have all the rights to it. And so I
checked out this track that my producer John sent me,
and I just immediately started crying and just like thinking
(08:54):
of my grandma and thinking of just all the good times,
and just the words started pouring out for the song Redbird,
and I was like, you know what, this is supposed
to be a tribute now that I'm now that I'm
sitting here praying and thinking about and writing this record.
And then I found that picture of that cardinal and
I was just like, yeah, this is all kind of
(09:16):
falling into place. So Redbird happened right then and there,
and probably about Christmas time, I probably had the album
pretty much done. It was just trying to find the
right time to release it. So Pray Scott. I think
I think it was a good time. If I if
I would have thought more, I would have probably went
a March release, but I wanted to keep promoting Tell
(09:38):
the World because I had an acoustic version of Tell
the World come out in March.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And so, yeah, I really enjoy this.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Record, and I think some people are grabbing onto it
which is really cool and it's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
A really good record. For dos you haven't listened to it,
I recommend checking it out. There was a big single
off Dad Will Rise. I came out back in last
on the Instagram Live to perform that song and talk
a little bit about that one that came out. That
was X amount of months ago. This podcast has shipped
years eight hundred times, sorry guys, and then learned the
let Go. It's also a big single off the album,
(10:13):
and that's a really exciting song to check out an album.
And I think your Maybe Realist is doing pretty well.
It looks really poppylar on Spotify. You're getting a lot
of streams on Spotify. Like we said before, we were
talking before, just for a few minutes before we recorded
this podcast, it's just been a crazy like since March,
it's been a crazy March April May and Christian music
and June's been even crazier with like new Brandon Lake
(10:34):
and everything.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So like this is just so much good. Yeah, so
just excited too.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if you're always looking for like an independent artist
to check out and someone like you're like, oh, this
is like something that's not like Brandon Lake, Katie Nicole,
Big Daddy, we have like all these big giants in
the industry. Checkout Liley's album. It's only ten songs, it's
about thirty four minutes, so you can do it pretty
much on a commute to work and back.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
For some of you, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't have I don't think I have the ADHD
span to record like a thirty song album like some
of these artists are putting out like like it's just
like I may stick to like ten to twelve max.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's like that's like my setting.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Honestly, it's the perfect I think so like all these
albums nowadays, Like I just went in the Big Daddy's
Weave album Why to Begin that came out. I had
the time of recording this episode last week. Why the
Beginning came out on Friday, and just like spend like
there was like eighteen songs off the album, sixteen eighteen
songs onto smer Nefili. Yeah, doubling up like tons of
albums lately just happened like sixty days.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I feel like I feel like for albums like that,
I'm a great story has to be told throughout the
record to like to grab my insane adhd attention at times.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So, but then there's songs that, like these songs that
Brandon Lake are putting out that are just like crazy,
like like seven I'm thinking about it, so oh my gosh,
I could listen to that every day.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But yeah, like the Sad, when I first heard it,
I thought it was like, honestly, I thought it was
like a Skillet intro. I was like the Skillet released
a new song, Yes, like new.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He needs to do he needs to do a version
with John Cooper, no joke, that would be sick.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right, Yeah, it was just like it was really good
in and like it's just like crazy like all these songs,
but like every song by Brandon like those at least
like five minutes too. So if you're listening to his
album and it's like eighteen songs, then five minutes, but
yours is like ten songs and like three and a
half minutes, which is like a perfect lamp first song.
I think while as your tongue with a big story
and everything. So, but do you have a personal favorite
(12:43):
song off the album?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Man, yeah I do, and What's crazy? Normally the one
my favorite song isn't the one that people grasp onto
as is what I think, but this one it actually happened,
and I was like, okay, so whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Comes is the is the song.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That that really grasped on to my heart the most
because it was probably my first worship song I've written
in oh gosh, maybe three or four years, and just
it was just me being real with with the Lord
(13:30):
in a quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Time that I was having.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And then sometimes I write things down that just like
just like break me in in moments, and there there's
a there's a line in that song in verse two
it was my mistakes that held the nels, and I
(13:56):
just like, wow, God is like doing something with the
Like in the next line, instead of me, it should
have been instead of him, it should have been myself.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And it just tells a story of.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like, man, my I should have been hanging up on
that cross instead of him. But the goodness of who
Jesus is and God sending his son for us.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Is just like just this massive love we can't comprehend
at times.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's as humans, you know. And so that's the kind
of outlook of the song. And it's just like I've noticed,
like more people are putting on that song on the
playlist than other songs of the record. So praise God
that they're grabbing that message and grabbing that uh that
tune for some games.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And it's really cool because, like you said, it's a
big worship song and ex socise, Like I feel like
worship's been making a big comeback in the last like
like independent Worship has been like the heart of a
lot of things lately.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, because no, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Before like they're like before, like I'm trying to think
of the artists, I can't think of the artists, but
they were like Independent Worship. Then I just blew up
and everyone's playing like maybe like someone like chef Shoot
or kind of my Blessings that count. That's kind of
like a small wall. Oh yeah, everything like that. So
I'm blew up out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I uh, I just heard.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I was in Nashville Saturday and I was at Just
Love and I heard Jonathan Gamble, who wrote that song,
play that I hit the right around and me and
Ashley were just blown away. We love hearing original writers
play their songs how they were done and the how
are they they were done before the studio cuts, you know,
and it's just so cool hearing the stories behind them
(15:38):
as well.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So that is the end I defait for a podcast.
So just talk about different like art original artists who
wrote the song or whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh that would be that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But yeah, we just have a few extra minutes with
you today because we always talked a little bit about
the album and everyone you should say, like, I know,
we're talking of random a lot of random nonsense. But
main point of this is that we said, of at
least album, you have anything else you want to talk
about the album that we haven't brought up?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, so this this could possibly be my last like
solo written record, Like didn't write any of these songs
with anybody else but myself. And and so lately the
last few weeks, I've been planning some songwriting weeks in
Nashville and just doing some co writes and stuff and
(16:27):
just a whole new chapter is kind of being started
in my career. So I'm really looking forward to what
the Lord has through all that. I know I'm gonna
be writing some with Joel vaugh Uh and.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Uh is a really great day. He was on my
podcast and if you haven't watched it, the episodes out
now for those who are watching this podcast, it was.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, dude. So I just met Joel in person Saturday.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We've been working just over Facebook and and stuff on
a lot of different projects. But now we get to
write together, which I'm really excited about because I think
some of our stuff kind of mix as well, and
I just love his style of writing and what he does,
so and and a few others that I'm planning to
(17:13):
write with as well in July. So I'm looking forward
to making more music and just getting back on the
road and sharing these songs what the Lord has put
on my heart. Man, because God's doing God's doing a
whole new thing. And sometimes when God does a lot,
(17:34):
it's hard to go for the ride, and it's hard
to stay stay on a focus of what God's doing
because there's so much and like it's it's fun, but
it's very tiring at times.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's human.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was just like sometimes we forget how blessed we
really are at like following the Lord and just like
so I'm just I'm just overwhelmed with what's going on
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Really cool. And if case, I mean sorry you have
I get tongue tied. But if if you're going to.
If we're coming to a city near you, I'd definitely
recommend it out. I know we should try to catch
up one more. Both natural at the same time, I
feel like whenever I'm leaving Nashville, you're coming in, or
Imember you're leaving Nashville, I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm coming in July, and then I got two more
after that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So I won't be there in July because summer is
crazy expensive and a lot of things. If everything works out,
I'll be there for opening weekends or one of the
weekends for the Christian Music Museum or Double Wark.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, is that Double War you said Double War weekend?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Trying to be there for Double Ward's weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be there for dubs, so we'll definitely
run into baby.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Will both be bucket, will wear your BUCkies at that time.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Bro, give me, don't give me ideas, Bro, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Thank you for joy. It's always a place to have
you line.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, man, thank you for having me, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And as we were watching Remember the White Fallen, subscribe
to the Bucky Christian Music BUCkies podcast and let's hitt
What's up everyone? Welcome to the Christian Music BUCkies Podcast.
I'm kidding. It's a Christian music grows podcast. But as
you can tell, I'm your host, Brendan. I'm not my
normal self today. I'm wearing this BUCkies onesie. I made
a stupid well I would say it's stupid, per say,
but I made a post on Instagram saying that if
this post gets fifty likes, I wear BUCkies onesie. I
got like twenty eight likes on Instagram. But then I
(00:23):
also attached my Facebook because my Instagram is magical. I
die and I can attach things to Facebook. And I
got over one hundred likes. Yeah, so I guess I
mean I have to do it. Twice. I said if
I get fifty likes, so if fifty times two is
one hundred, so he got double the less. I mean
not to wear this onesie twice.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm pretty sure I liked on Instagram and Facebook just
to make sure you know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, so that's why I wear the BUCkies wosie. You
can't really see much, but it has like the BUCkies head,
it has like the Buckets who And no, I'm not
This podcast is not advertised by BUCkies if that can't happen,
that'd be a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But it's an unofficial sponsorship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's an unofficial sponsorship. And if there's a BUCkies nears,
you need to go there and get their pulled pork sandwich.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hey, that's totally true.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Like in Michigan, we don't have a BUCkies there, So,
like I always go to a lot of way traveling,
so we hit up the ones in Kentucky, Tennessee going
now south of Florida. But if you're on like Texas,
like Whitley here, there's like probably one.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like man, when when you live so close to a BUCkies,
it changes your life forever, I'll tell you what it
really does.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And then there's a sign there. And there's a sign
here in Michigan about half hour from where I live.
It says four hundred and forty four miles into nearest
BUCkies And there's no Buckets in Michigan, dude.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The thing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The thing about BUCkies is like, I don't know if
you like crowded places, but I'm not a big crowd
place guy. So like it's got to be like the
crack of dawn or like the end of the day
for me to go to BUCkies, so it's like really
light and then it's easy to get in and out.
But exactly, gosh, the middle of the day is just
(01:57):
like herrend is here at BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Never go during spring break time like I do, because,
oh my gosh, if you're going, like if you're like
one of those Michigan or up north people being like Michigan, Ohio, Indiana,
and you go on spring break down to Florida because
you want to get away by holding snow, if you're
going there between like end of March that the second
week of April, it's packed there.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, luckily I was in Nashville. Me and my wife
were in Nashville this weekend and so we missed the
Memorial Day crowd thankfully. So, like, it's crazy BUCkies, man,
but it is a blessing even though it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's a you've got to find the beauty and the chaos.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right, and you have to experience it always once in
your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's right, It's true.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And then if you get a BUCkies onesie, just take
a selfie in a BUCkies onesie and send it to
me and I'll put that on my Instagram saying hey, well,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Take a picture with the statue out front. It's it's all,
it's all good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And it's pretty cool. I think Buckets is a big
part of the Chrisian music community too. I know there's
a couple of artists like Jeremy Rosarto is one of
them I can think about. That's obsession BUCkies. I think
like a lot of these independent artists. There's like Jordan
Blaine and everything too.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, Amanda Janssen my good friend. She played my album release.
She's coming to play in hill Hillsboro, Texas this Friday,
and uh, there's a BUCkies in Hillsborough, So I mean,
may I have to introduce her to BUCkies do it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But anyway, this podcast is not about BUCkies. He just
felt like, not about BUCkies, about BUCkies. You might just
name this episode the BUCkies podcast to get likes and listen.
So if you're watching whatever, we're gonna call this the
BUCkies Podcast with Whitley Casey, but made by Christian music pros. Anyway,
I heard talk about BUCkies. I'm back here with Whitley Casey.
(03:39):
Whitley's been out here, Casey, I mean, Whitley and I
have been talking about this is the time number three
or four, I don't remember my math, sorry, one hundred episodes.
Brand goes like, wait, that's awesome. Plus adhd brain means like,
I don't remember what number exact number episode I'm on,
but do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
With me both, dude.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But he's been on the podcast before he was I know,
he was on one of our showcase episodes or playlist
building episodes. And he's also been here talking about a
couple of his singles that he just released on his
new album, which is what this episode is actually about,
not BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It wasn't the first episode, like the worship episode, and
I had lit and then that's how I met and
started a friendship with Lauren Michelle. Like I just texted
her the other day because we both got nominated for
a Josie Music Award.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So congrats and yeah, like I said, it was like
one of the showcase and it's the worship one. I've
done so many showcase because that's one of the things
I try to focus on my podcast, and I just
artist interviews and everything and the conversation that I would
do to showcases this experience, like if you want to
find out new music, or if you want to hear
like just inside, like like what in with the writing process,
Like we talked about the future landscape of Christian music
(04:52):
back here in December me I think Eager, Jordan Blaine,
and a few waters there was about none of us
and we just talked about the future landscape by Christian music.
And if you want to hear just the heart of behind,
like artist perspectives and everything. It's really cool to see
that too. Yeah, but for sure, Whitley's been up to
a lot lately. I'm not gonna explain everything out loud
(05:15):
right now because I've been talking for the last like
three five minutes, and you're probably like, get this other guy,
chance to talk to Whitley. What's been new with you?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh? Man? Everything? Praise God. It's been so.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Crazy, fun and hectic at the same time. So May ninth,
now I released my first album in six years, which
is crazy you think. The Dream album came out twenty nineteen,
and so following up finally with Redbird, after all the
COVID mess out of the way and my country music adventure,
(05:49):
I decided to come back and get back into the
Christian music game. And God just started pouring out these
new songs in my heart that I really needed to
share and I felt the Lord calling me to share.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And uh and so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, this album released and I just we've seen a
lot of stories come in about how it's just like
reaching people in so many different ways and just with
their relationship with God and just uh last weekend, I
was in Nashville doing an album release event with my
friends Justin Gambino, Joe Vaughn, and Amanda Janssen over at
(06:29):
just Love in spring Hill. That's amazing coffeehouse if you
want to go there for for for food or Christian music. Oh,
Frank is amazing, dude. Frank is awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Watching this.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yes, shout out to Frank and Kathy, They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Uh So yeah, just uh man, I'm just thanking God
for just all the opportunities that come with this album
and I'm just the folks streaming it and just getting
ready for a fall tour to promote the album. I
just announced some Redbird tour dates for September. We're booking
(07:07):
now for October and November. So if you're interested, hit
me up on my website there Whitleycasey dot com to
give me your church your community. But this album, it
was even it was supposed to be an album called
Nothing Greater, and then just out the album was Songs
of Hope and Truth in Jesus, and that kind of
(07:29):
based it off a verse that Romans eight thirty nine
that I heard for the first time when I was
a teenager and got and met the Lord through and
there there's nothing that can separate us from the love
of God that's in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And so.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Doing all that, getting all this ready, I had about
ten songs already planned for the record, and I was
just in the process of recording it all. And then
October her, my grandmother on my dad's side, passed away,
and I was really close to her and my grandpa
as a kid, and just going over there and having
(08:11):
just I just started thinking of so many memories.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And one of the things that really stood out.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
To me and my family was when she was in
the garden, there was always a bunch of these cardinals
and redbirds coming in.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That she would feed in bird feeders and stuff. And so.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Tune Designer, the studio that I work at and work
with in Georgia, and all my music, they put together
these things called instrumental tracks, and you can the artist
can buy these tracks and write songs to them, and
you have all the rights to it. And so I
checked out this track that my producer John sent me,
and I just immediately started crying and just like thinking
(08:54):
of my grandma and thinking of just all the good times,
and just the words started pouring out for the song Redbird,
and I was like, you know what, this is supposed
to be a tribute now that I'm now that I'm
sitting here praying and thinking about and writing this record.
And then I found that picture of that cardinal and
I was just like, yeah, this is all kind of
(09:16):
falling into place. So Redbird happened right then and there,
and probably about Christmas time, I probably had the album
pretty much done. It was just trying to find the
right time to release it. So Pray Scott. I think
I think it was a good time. If I if
I would have thought more, I would have probably went
a March release, but I wanted to keep promoting Tell
(09:38):
the World because I had an acoustic version of Tell
the World come out in March.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And so, yeah, I really enjoy this.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Record, and I think some people are grabbing onto it
which is really cool and it's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
A really good record. For dos you haven't listened to it,
I recommend checking it out. There was a big single
off Dad Will Rise. I came out back in last
on the Instagram Live to perform that song and talk
a little bit about that one that came out. That
was X amount of months ago. This podcast has shipped
years eight hundred times, sorry guys, and then learned the
let Go. It's also a big single off the album,
(10:13):
and that's a really exciting song to check out an album.
And I think your Maybe Realist is doing pretty well.
It looks really poppylar on Spotify. You're getting a lot
of streams on Spotify. Like we said before, we were
talking before, just for a few minutes before we recorded
this podcast, it's just been a crazy like since March,
it's been a crazy March April May and Christian music
and June's been even crazier with like new Brandon Lake
(10:34):
and everything.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So like this is just so much good. Yeah, so
just excited too.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if you're always looking for like an independent artist
to check out and someone like you're like, oh, this
is like something that's not like Brandon Lake, Katie Nicole,
Big Daddy, we have like all these big giants in
the industry. Checkout Liley's album. It's only ten songs, it's
about thirty four minutes, so you can do it pretty
much on a commute to work and back.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
For some of you, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't have I don't think I have the ADHD
span to record like a thirty song album like some
of these artists are putting out like like it's just
like I may stick to like ten to twelve max.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's like that's like my setting.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Honestly, it's the perfect I think so like all these
albums nowadays, Like I just went in the Big Daddy's
Weave album Why to Begin that came out. I had
the time of recording this episode last week. Why the
Beginning came out on Friday, and just like spend like
there was like eighteen songs off the album, sixteen eighteen
songs onto smer Nefili. Yeah, doubling up like tons of
albums lately just happened like sixty days.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I feel like I feel like for albums like that,
I'm a great story has to be told throughout the
record to like to grab my insane adhd attention at times.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So, but then there's songs that, like these songs that
Brandon Lake are putting out that are just like crazy,
like like seven I'm thinking about it, so oh my gosh,
I could listen to that every day.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But yeah, like the Sad, when I first heard it,
I thought it was like, honestly, I thought it was
like a Skillet intro. I was like the Skillet released
a new song, Yes, like new.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He needs to do he needs to do a version
with John Cooper, no joke, that would be sick.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right, Yeah, it was just like it was really good
in and like it's just like crazy like all these songs,
but like every song by Brandon like those at least
like five minutes too. So if you're listening to his
album and it's like eighteen songs, then five minutes, but
yours is like ten songs and like three and a
half minutes, which is like a perfect lamp first song.
I think while as your tongue with a big story
and everything. So, but do you have a personal favorite
(12:43):
song off the album?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Man, yeah I do, and What's crazy? Normally the one
my favorite song isn't the one that people grasp onto
as is what I think, but this one it actually happened,
and I was like, okay, so whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Comes is the is the song.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That that really grasped on to my heart the most
because it was probably my first worship song I've written
in oh gosh, maybe three or four years, and just
it was just me being real with with the Lord
(13:30):
in a quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Time that I was having.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And then sometimes I write things down that just like
just like break me in in moments, and there there's
a there's a line in that song in verse two
it was my mistakes that held the nels, and I
(13:56):
just like, wow, God is like doing something with the
Like in the next line, instead of me, it should
have been instead of him, it should have been myself.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And it just tells a story of.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like, man, my I should have been hanging up on
that cross instead of him. But the goodness of who
Jesus is and God sending his son for us.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Is just like just this massive love we can't comprehend
at times.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's as humans, you know. And so that's the kind
of outlook of the song. And it's just like I've noticed,
like more people are putting on that song on the
playlist than other songs of the record. So praise God
that they're grabbing that message and grabbing that uh that
tune for some games.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And it's really cool because, like you said, it's a
big worship song and ex socise, Like I feel like
worship's been making a big comeback in the last like
like independent Worship has been like the heart of a
lot of things lately.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, because no, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Before like they're like before, like I'm trying to think
of the artists, I can't think of the artists, but
they were like Independent Worship. Then I just blew up
and everyone's playing like maybe like someone like chef Shoot
or kind of my Blessings that count. That's kind of
like a small wall. Oh yeah, everything like that. So
I'm blew up out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I uh, I just heard.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I was in Nashville Saturday and I was at Just
Love and I heard Jonathan Gamble, who wrote that song,
play that I hit the right around and me and
Ashley were just blown away. We love hearing original writers
play their songs how they were done and the how
are they they were done before the studio cuts, you know,
and it's just so cool hearing the stories behind them
(15:38):
as well.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So that is the end I defait for a podcast.
So just talk about different like art original artists who
wrote the song or whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh that would be that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But yeah, we just have a few extra minutes with
you today because we always talked a little bit about
the album and everyone you should say, like, I know,
we're talking of random a lot of random nonsense. But
main point of this is that we said, of at
least album, you have anything else you want to talk
about the album that we haven't brought up?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, so this this could possibly be my last like
solo written record, Like didn't write any of these songs
with anybody else but myself. And and so lately the
last few weeks, I've been planning some songwriting weeks in
Nashville and just doing some co writes and stuff and
(16:27):
just a whole new chapter is kind of being started
in my career. So I'm really looking forward to what
the Lord has through all that. I know I'm gonna
be writing some with Joel vaugh Uh and.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Uh is a really great day. He was on my
podcast and if you haven't watched it, the episodes out
now for those who are watching this podcast, it was.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, dude. So I just met Joel in person Saturday.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We've been working just over Facebook and and stuff on
a lot of different projects. But now we get to
write together, which I'm really excited about because I think
some of our stuff kind of mix as well, and
I just love his style of writing and what he does,
so and and a few others that I'm planning to
(17:13):
write with as well in July. So I'm looking forward
to making more music and just getting back on the
road and sharing these songs what the Lord has put
on my heart. Man, because God's doing God's doing a
whole new thing. And sometimes when God does a lot,
(17:34):
it's hard to go for the ride, and it's hard
to stay stay on a focus of what God's doing
because there's so much and like it's it's fun, but
it's very tiring at times.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's human.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was just like sometimes we forget how blessed we
really are at like following the Lord and just like
so I'm just I'm just overwhelmed with what's going on
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Really cool. And if case, I mean sorry you have
I get tongue tied. But if if you're going to.
If we're coming to a city near you, I'd definitely
recommend it out. I know we should try to catch
up one more. Both natural at the same time, I
feel like whenever I'm leaving Nashville, you're coming in, or
Imember you're leaving Nashville, I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm coming in July, and then I got two more
after that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So I won't be there in July because summer is
crazy expensive and a lot of things. If everything works out,
I'll be there for opening weekends or one of the
weekends for the Christian Music Museum or Double Wark.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, is that Double War you said Double War weekend?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Trying to be there for Double Ward's weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be there for dubs, so we'll definitely
run into baby.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Will both be bucket, will wear your BUCkies at that time.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Bro, give me, don't give me ideas, Bro, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Thank you for joy. It's always a place to have
you line.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, man, thank you for having me, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And as we were watching Remember the White Fallen, subscribe
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