Collin Nash | Singer/Songwriter - Melodies N' Memories: Music Media

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Speaker 4 (02:01):
That bug in my water up here.
Oh.
Next season, you're writing thethe this all out.
I'm gonna I promise.
I'm gonna let you write it nextseason flows a lot better.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I think it does fine.
Alright.
Let's get going.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
I get that bug out.
Guys, I am like I said, I'm avery excited for tonight.
We have for the last couple ofyears, we followed this one
singer songwriter, Ben Chapmanfor a while.
And if you guys have seen himat all last year or two, you've
seen this guy out with himplaying guitar, but now it's
time for Colin to do his ownthing.
And I I love it.
And we're gonna talk to himabout his his just journey into

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all this.
And Dude, it's pretty cool onetoo.
I'm I'm excited for thisbecause a lot of cool stories
tonight.
But tonight, we welcome in tothe show, senior songwriter
Colin Nash.
Nash is born and raised inSalem, Missouri.
Now his eyes out.
No other than Music City,Nashville.
He's a fourth generationmusician, and he comes from a
long line of musical geniuses.
Colin is the kind of musicianwho lives eats and breathes his

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craft.
You can hear the passion anddedication.
Every single note, these thingsare plays, or whether he's
performing in front of a packedvenue as a lead guitar player
for captivating audiences withhis lyrics.
At songwriting rounds.
Colin puts his heart and soulinto every performance, but
don't just take my word for it.
Stick around for this episodewhere we dive into it, Colin's
background.
Inspiration and, of course, hismusic.
We'll talk about his favoriteartists and what's coming up

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next form.
We are honored to discuss inall of his memories that make up
his journey we're working on.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
What's up, buddy?
How are you doing?
Right.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Who was that?
So we got this delay again alittle bit, I think.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah.
We'll see.
We'll see how it goes.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
K.
I I heard him start talking andit went out.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's okay.
We'll be okay.
We're gonna make it work.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 6 (03:41):
I'm doing great.
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Man, we're hanging in there, man.
We're excited for this episode.
And man, once again, sorry, wemissed you.
She tobler a couple of weeksago, we had an argument out of
the house of blues.
We tried to get over and justwasn't in time.
But, dude, we heard we heardsome of the things that you you
put on a show over at Carol'sdude.
Tell me a little bit about yourtrip in Chicago a week ago.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well, it was awesome.
I I love Chicago.
As you as you see, I'm a, youknow, a Cardinal fan.
So every time that I see CoveyBlue, it kinda makes me wanna
puke.
But AREL's being just a coupleblocks from Wrigley.
That was the first time that'sseen Wrigley field in person.
And What an awesome place toconsume baseball?

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I just kind of got it.
I understood for a moment.
Why people love Chicago CubsBaseball.
All the bars around there,like, wrigglyville wrigglyville
is just so cool.
And I I I loved my time thereand Carol's was Amazing too.
The staff was very kind, met alot of cool people there too.
So, yeah, it was it was asuccess and they getting to play

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with Meg anytime that I get tobe out with her is is wonderful.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll we'll talk about her andBen every the whole bang later
on.
But, yeah, dude, I saw that one.
I was researchers of the show.
I saw a lot of cardinal red,and I was like, dude, because I
got a club shot too on my legs.
So I was like, alright.
That's gonna be a fun one.
And I won't turn my camera.
I got all the cubs stuff fromour our one and only world
series that we've ever seen.
So

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Well, hey.
You know, I was happy for youguys.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
I wasn't I was actually in Ridleyville outside
Ridley the night that they won.
Do you watch in the Marquisswitch over his coolest thing
ever?

Speaker 6 (05:17):
Yeah.
That's for you, that'lldefinitely be a once in a
lifetime moment.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
So we're gonna take a shit off for sure, dude.
Like, I saw somebody that mygrandfather was was born and he
died.
I mean, he never got to see it.
He was the biggest cubs fan Iever knew.
I was like, dude, how how doyou go a life time.
Outstanding.
Your favorite team when theywere, ah, it sucks.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
But, oh, well, dude, we wanna throw this way back to
man, to your earliest musicalmemory, man.
Kind of what was being playedaround the house when you're
growing up.
I mean, I you come from a longline of musicians, man.
Tell me a little bit about thefamily background.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
I I do come from a long line.
So my great great grandparentson every branched or musicians
So the the one that I can namemy my grandpa Jesse was a was a
fiddler.
This is back in, like, thegreat depression you know, pre

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great depression.
He's a Ozark fiddler, and thena great grandpa was a Banjo
player.
All my grandmas play piano andsaying, all my grandpa's play
guitar and my parents sing.
So it's It's kinda one of thosethings where and it's an Ozark
thing, I think.
Because I'm not the only familyfrom that region that has the

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same sort of background.
It's just there's nothing to dothere but work.
And when you're not working,the only way to have fun is just
to sing and play with yourfamily.
So that was how I was raised.
I was lucky enough to be raisedwith that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, like, I you were sayingsomething about, like, earliest

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musical memory.
It would've that sort of thing,like, seeing my grandpa lead
the hymns at church on daymornings.
They used to sit in the soundbooth back in the very back.
While he had to handle out andwas, you know, leading the
service, that's probably theearliest thing that I can
remember of, you know, justbeing around it and already

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being, like, consumed with it,wanting to know what it was all
about.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
So you started singing in church, man.
I wrote about that, but what Iwhat I I was really interested
in it's kinda funny to throwthis back to when we got married
.
We had an elvis impersonatorshow up to our wedding, but
little help us, man.
You gotta tell me a little bithow how that came about and just
about your time being a littlehelp us too.
That was kinda cool readingabout that though.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Yeah.
That's a that's a strange story.
So, like I said, a groupsinging in church, The guy that
came and replaced my grandpa asthe praise and worship leader
when the church was going modernwas this guy who had grown up
in the area but had come to usfrom Oklahoma.
He had spent time in a churchdown there.

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And when he was down there, hestarted a career on the weekends
before church, you know, as aelvis impersonator.
And he wasn't, like, you know,your pokey poke birthday party,
Elvis impersonator.
I mean, he would he won thecontests and Memphis that they
have every year during ElvisWeek.
I think he won it twice.

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And he played

Speaker 3 (08:22):
So he was legit.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Get legit.
And so because my family waskind of known for being very
musical.
He wanted to put together aband that he could travel around
and play with on the weekends.
And so he recruited my grandpato play guitar, my uncle to play
lead guitar, my cousin to playbass, my grandma and my mom and

(08:47):
my dad just background vocals,and then another cousin to sing
background vocals.
So my whole family made up thatbacking band, and that started
when I was probably seven.
So after about a year of themdoing that, Richard, who was the
Edison personator, noticed thatI had really dug into some

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Elvis music, and I loved it, ateit up, and could sing all the
songs that they did during theshow, and he said, hey, What
would you think about dressingup and coming out and doing a
song during our show and youcould be literally.
And I was like, well, thatsounds awesome.
So My mom got on got online andbought me an Elvis suit and

(09:30):
some little white ropeers and awig.
And I started mad for Oh,probably three or four years.
Mhmm.
Loved it.
Still love Elvis.
That was such a formative timefor me as a musician, learning
to perform, and getting to dothat.
And then I I only did that formaybe about three or four years.

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And then I had started playingguitar at that point, and they
let me hop in as the rhythmplayer.
Then my uncle moved toNashville to write songs, and I
took the lead guitar playingposition.
So I did that until I wasprobably fifteen or sixteen.
So my whole childhood was thatfamily band playing on the

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weekends.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
It's like a modern day partridge family band.
I love that.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Pretty good.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
What was your favorite album song to do on
your your little album is overthere?
What what was your favorite one?

Speaker 6 (10:22):
There I did this song called Man Woman Blues, and I
wish that I could place themovie that it's from.
But I've always loved that song.
Favorite Elvis song thoughoutside of what I was saying was
I just can't help believe it,which is on the that's the way
it is album.
I love It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah.
I love that.
We used to live outside Memphis.
We lived in Mississippi for awhile, and we we went out to we
went to two Blowers to see thehouse.
We used to live in theGraceland.
One of the coolest things wegot to go to Sun Sun studios,
and I that's why I got to hearthe whole story about million
dollar quartet, I'm like, dude.
That is awesome.
Oh, yeah.
How all four of them cametogether that night of Memphis.
And I actually bought the CDand listened to it.
It was just phenomenal to haveevery track on it.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
It is.
That it's a fantastic record.
Such a cool moment musichistory, you know?
Just It's a cloud.
So

Speaker 4 (11:15):
what was your first concert that you actually paid
to to go to as a fan?
Like, nothing from church oranything like that, but, like,
hey, I'm gonna go, who was it?
And did you take anything awayfrom that?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
I'll tell you that the first concert that I paid to
go see was Cadillac three.
I went and saw the Cadillacthree when I was fifteen or
sixteen.
My mom drove me and mygirlfriend at the time to a
casino in Oklahoma.
And it was a terrible setup,but I was just I loved those

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guys so much in school.
That was like my Jeep playlist.
I had this the first album onCD, and it did not leave my CD
player, my the entire durationof high school.
So that was the first concertthat I paid money to go see.
Was those guys?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Hell yeah, dude.
We got to see him here a fewmonths back.
They put the rave -- Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
--

Speaker 4 (12:07):
as the night they shot the music video in the pool
for the recent song out.
Yeah.
Dude, that place is cool.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah.
They found a great show.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
So they've

Speaker 6 (12:16):
they've whole, like, top notch.
I I guys, Jared is a very goodguy.
I enjoy anytime I get to spendtime around him and talk to him.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Hell brothers too, man.
I love what they're doing too.
They're one of the one of thefew that are out there are just
still doing it their way, and Ilove that.

Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yeah.
Yeah.
There are few and far between,and they've always stayed true.
It's it's great to see.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
So for you, did guitar come easy for you, having
everybody around playing andbeing an intro.
I mean, I'm sure you do youwatch YouTube videos or anything
to learn how a player do youjust pick up from who was next
to you?

Speaker 6 (12:54):
No.
I I didn't take I I took oneguitar lesson from my uncle, and
it was basically like hey, thisis the guitar.
This is how you tune it.
This is how it works.
Now go do it.
I I didn't learn stuff offYouTube.
I've never been like the Iwanna learn this song.
I wanna learn that song.
Like, I I was never really thatguy.

(13:16):
The closest I came to that waswhen I got really into John
Mayer when I was probablyfourteen or fifteen, and that
was kinda learning how to playlead, and and doing stuff like
that.
But it did it came easier thanwhat I think the way it goes for
other people.
And it's because what you said,like, everybody in my family

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plays.
And if you wanna hang out, ifyou wanna be in the living room
and converse with the adults,Well, you have to converse with
music and with an instrument.
And so I could tell by watchingmy grandpa's play guitar.
This is what sounds good andthis was this is what doesn't.
And until I can play like that,I'm not allowed to sit in.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Yes.
It's a boys table until you canplay like that.
And we go to the adults table.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I love it too.
So I I love that your yourfirst concert was t c three two
that you actually saved up to gosee those guys.
That's a good one, but I lovethat you were just born into
music and and all, dude.
Is this so cool to havesurrounded to you.
Have the universal language inyour house just be music.
It's just it's freakingawesome, man.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah.
I won the lottery.
I'm concerned.
I mean, I've never known it anydifferent, and I still love it
so much.
It's like it's the biggest partof my life, you know.
And I listen to it every day.
I play it.
I watch YouTube videos about myfavorite artist.

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Like, it's I'm consumed by it.
It's it's all I've known andit's it's it's been this way my
whole lives.
I've never known any different.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
I love it.
So who is some other accountwhen you got a little bit older?
Me or your teenage So you kindastarted developing maybe a
different case for music orsomething.
Who are some of your influencesthat you were listening to at
that point?
And how did you incorporatethem into your music at the time
?

Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, so as far as influences goes, it's it's kind
of a weird thing because I grewup not being able to listen to
secular music, like, at allbecause of the the whole church
thing.
So it wasn't until I was elevenor twelve that I could start
listening to.
Little bit of whatever I wanted.
So I just went as far as Icould in a direction of my, oh,

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I can listen to anything.
I'm gonna listen to theheaviest thing that there is
metallica, you know.
So it was like metallica, GreenDay, my chemical romance.
I was really big into that poptalk thing that was happening in
the mid two thousands.
And once that kind of sowingwild oats musically once that

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wore off, I started to circleback to some of the stuff that I
could listen to, Ronda, which alot of that was country in
Bluegrass.
So many of my on my dad's side,all the pickers on that side
are Bluegrass.
And all the pickers on my mom'sside are country and blues and
rock and roll.
So I started listening to allthe stuff that my grandparents

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listened to, which was, youknow, grandpa Jones, you know,
that Bancho player.
Back in the day, Roger Miller,Tom C.
Hall, John Hartford.
And then on the other side ofthat was like the Rolling
Stones, Beatles, and Elvis.
My mom loved Michael Jackson.
So it was this melting pot ofinfluences.

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And I gravitated towardscountry music because I've
always been lyrically driven andyou know, they're talking about
where I'm from.
They they're talking about whatwe do, what I know.
That's that's kind of how thatstarted.
In high school, it was like,Hank Junior.

(17:11):
I listened to a ton of HankJunior in high school.
And Johnny Cash and RandyTravis, Keith Whitley.
That was my my guys in highschool and then modern stuff
like TC3.
I really like Midland when theyfirst came out.
Stuff like that.

(17:32):
It was a huge melting pot ofinfluence.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
I know where you get the story telling from now of
those influences, man,definitely some storytellers.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
You're listening there.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Yeah.
So when did you finally getinto songwriting and and really
start writing Did you dabble inwriting beforehand or maybe
journal or anything like that?
Or, I mean, when did it reallystart coming into you?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
You know, I've always kept a journal off and on, and
I was always making stuff I canalways make up words to songs.
I would hear a song on theradio and not know the words to
but know the melody and I justmake up my own words.
Too.
You know?
Like, she thinks my tractor'ssexy.

(18:15):
I got a whole slew ofalternative leers to that.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Sounds like Avery.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
I still dreads this day.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah.
So all these jobs

Speaker 3 (18:27):
He's good.
It doesn't matter.
Right?

Speaker 6 (18:29):
Sounds good.
I I honestly think that doingthat might have really set me up
for success and knowing how towork cadets and Rime scheme and
understanding that.
Like, when you're that youngand you're starting to
understand how that works, Imean, your brain's a sponge.
You'll learn more about thatthan trying to do it than you
ever will when you're twenty andmoving to Nashville and trying

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to add out.
So I I started writing songswhen I was in fourth grade as
when I think I wrote my firstsong.
Wrote two that year.
And then I would just write acouple songs here and there
through the grades, you know,fifth sixth grade, and that
eighth grade is when I starteddoing like, oh, I'm gonna write

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a song one a week, you know.
And I've got I had written ahundred and fifty songs before I
moved to Nashville, and I movedto Nashville right after I
graduated high school.
So I was writing songs allthrough high school trying to
get better at it and not reallyplaying them out and doing that
until I was, you know, my junioryear.

(19:37):
That's why I started playingbars, doing gigs every weekend
of my stuff.
So, yeah, I've I've alwayswritten

Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was born.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
So the first song I read was about a girl.
Did she know that you had asong where are you she wrote are
you a song for?

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah.
I had a I had a crush on thisgirl's third grade, the sixth
grade.
And I wrote her song in fourthgrade, we were both an Honors
choir.
And once a month, our choirdirector would have, like, a
show and tell segment.
So, like, you know, we stoppracticing whatever dome song

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that we were working all thetime to show what we could do.
And so, you know, at that time,kids would get up and they do
like a Camp Rock song or a highschool musical song.
And I got up there with mylittle guitar, about that girl.
And it was just, like, twoverses in a chorus.
But I kinda got hooked.

(20:43):
That that was when I knew,like, oh, you can write songs
and it affects people becausethey had just loved it.
Like, I had this little fanclub for a while in the art
world.
It was it was that's when I gothooked.
That that fed my ego way toomuch in a young age.
Kinda set me up, you know, tofor do it forever.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
That's incredible.
Our son's that age right now,and I can't see him ever doing
anything like that.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
No.
We'll see.
But he will all get into.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
I was I was very unaware, you know.
Like, I was just kinda coastingthrough and doing whatever I
wanted.
There's no social cues involvedwith me at age, you know.
So it's probably prettyobnoxious.
You know?
I if you're a parent, you'dprobably rather have a kid that,
like, isn't so outward thatthey're just doing stuff like
that.

(21:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
So I I was I was looking into this.
When your first gigs was inCuba, dude, tell me a little bit
about this.
You're, like, a fifteen plan toshow out in Cuba.
How did this go?

Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yeah.
There was a there was a barnparty, which they have I'm sure
they have them everywhere, butin Missouri, barn parties, you
know, they just hang up a ton ofChristmas lights and barn and
fill up a bunch of coolers fullof beer and go at it.
And that band that I grew upplaying, and the bass player was
offered the gig.

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And he kinda saw an opportunityfor me to get for me to go, you
know, go do this thing and getintroduced to doing it on my own
because of the time, like, thatwas starting to die off the
whole album's band thing.
So he's like, you should takethis gig.
It's fifty dollars.
You'll play four hours, and youcan go set up a little speaker.

(22:31):
And so I did.
I still since they don't thinkI've ever been that nervous to
play show, even with all theperforming prior, you know.
Because then it was like, it'samazing.
It's it's my name, you know.
People say, who's playingtonight?
And I hadn't really had thatyet.
So but I got through it andreally enjoyed that fifty

(22:54):
dollars that I got.
And I started just picking upevery little bar gig that I
could get.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
This is a snowball fact.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
To you guys.
Awesome.
So a little I'm just gonnakinda get this little
sidetracked here, but I've beenshowing some pictures throughout
the night.
And a couple of times, thisthis old band showing showing up
dude.
You gotta tell me about thisband because honestly, it looks
like there's some memories orsome stories behind this thing.
Yeah.
Just tell me a little bit abouttraveling this thing.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Yeah.
It was a nineteen ninety fourFord f three fifty O'Connell
line.
It was diesel.
We bought it, let's see, twentysixteen.
So I moved to Nashville intwenty fifteen.
Realize that gigging is notreally a thing here unless you
plant Broadway.

(23:46):
And I wanted to hit the road.
And all my buddies that wereplaying with me at the time.
We were all from the same area,and they were sitting around
there, working hard jobs, like,we wanna hit the road.
So we got signed to an awfulbooking agency deal out of the
Lake of the Ozarks and the guywho owned that company also

(24:06):
owned this van and sold me thisvan for twenty hundred dollars.
And it broke down not as oftenas you think that it would.
It was pretty dependable.
But I loved that band.
We had we had two rows ofseating and it was so big that
we had room to fit two bean bagchairs on the and, of course,

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when we were really roaddogging, we figured out that we
could save a lot of money, justthrowing the gear in the back of
the van and not bringing thetrailer.
So that's what we ended updoing most of the time.
And we we took that vaneverywhere all the way from, you
know, North Dakota down to thevery tip of Louisiana.
Just a bunch of twenty andtwenty one year old boys on the

(24:57):
road and that thing having thetime of their lives.
There was a a little stretch oftime where I moved back to
Salem, Missouri in twentyseventeen.
To save up some money for a newplace here.
And so it was, like, six monthsthere.
Me and my buddy, Dalton Brown,who I moved here with.

(25:20):
He's not working for LainieWilson.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah.
Is he over Lainie?
I thought so.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
Yeah.
He's a he's her guitar tech now.
So me and him moved toNashville together.
We grew up playing in my bandtogether.
So Dalton and I moved back forsix months.
And every day, it was gettingthat van, turn up k kids, which
was like the local rock station.
Old sound radio in there.

(25:45):
We go to sonic and we get, youknow, all the food that we could
buy.
And we play rock and roll allday.
And then when I got to late atnight, we'd run through
McDonald's and get a twentypiece snugget each and watch
king of the hills till four inthe morning.
That was our routine for sixmonths, and that was bands the
centerpiece of that.
That was one of the funnesttimes of my life.

(26:07):
Just being young and noresponsibilities, just playing
music.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah.
I miss those days, man.
I miss those days when you geteat Sonic and McDonald's both in
the same day and never put apound on.
Yeah.
Now here I am forty one yearsold almost and I can't do that
anymore.
Lose weight will save my life.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Right?
But,

Speaker 6 (26:26):
yeah, now starting to realize that I can't do that
anymore.
The way I used

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah.
It catches up with you.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
It does.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
So you jumped down to Nashville out of high school,
but you played sports throughouthigh school too.
You coulda you coulda went anddone some baseball school
scholarship stuff.
Right?

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah.
I got offered a scholarship mysenior year.
To go play at a SBU, SouthwestBaptist University in Bolivar,
Missouri.
It's a D2 school.
And, you know, I just kind offelt my arm starting to give.
As a lot of musicians inNashville do those former

(27:09):
athletes, you know?
And so I thought, well, that'snot gonna hold up.
I am a thousand percent gonnaflunk out of college.
I'm gonna move to Nashville.
And the conversation that Ihave with my parents about it
went, relatively smooth, and itjust kinda wheels up.
I I wanted to go write songsand play music.

(27:29):
Not that I didn't wanna playbaseball, but I played so much
baseball growing up.
That I was not burnt out on it,but I was fulfilled if that
makes sense.
Like, I I've I've played enough.
You know, I don't miss, like, aTuesday afternoon anymore the

(27:52):
way I used to.
So, you know, I'm happy withthe decision.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Good.
Was

Speaker 4 (27:58):
there ever a time that you regretted it or just
felt like, man, maybe I shouldat least tested the waters with
that?

Speaker 6 (28:08):
Maybe maybe sometimes in the spring when it gets
really warm, and nice.
And there's a certain smellthat there has that kinda just I
don't know.
It reminds me of, like, I wasfinally warming up to go hit
balls and play catch, and Ikinda wanna do that.
The bug really bit me again,maybe about a year ago, and I

(28:30):
joined this Sandlot League herein Nashville that's pretty much
made up of bar tenders andsongwriters and producers It's
like a eight to ten team leagueand they meet on Saturdays and
Sundays and and play.
And I ended up playing, like,three or four games and getting

(28:52):
that out of my system.
It it was able to get my systemso fast because I realized that
my body does not do the samethings.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
It does not.
I was so sore.
I I couldn't believe how sorethat I was after

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Thirteen or twenty fourteen.
And that the summer going intomy junior year, my cousin and I
drove my keep Cherokee down herefor CMA fast.
It's just me and him.
We're both sixteen.
And we saw Jared play atbluebird with Rodney Claussen

(29:53):
and Lee Thomas Miller.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Mhmm.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
And that is what really set the hook for me of,
like, I want to move toNashville.
Watching these guys and like,the people who wrote these songs
that you've heard on the radio,hearing it like that was a game
changer for me.
I was like, this is the coolestthing that I could ever think
about doing.
I know I could do this.

(30:17):
I'd love to do it.
And I kind of decided then thatI was gonna end up here and I
was gonna do it.
From that trip.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Dude, that's awesome.
I mean, you're just taking thataway and seeing that city for
the first time.
I remember the first time Iwent there's I went to radio
broadcast school rail, highschool.
Two thousand one.
I wanna say, two thousand two.
And I interviewed for a job inHuntsville, and I swung through
Nashville And I think that wasone of my first times.
If not my very first time Iever in Nashville, I was like,
dude, this is place just feelsdifferent.

(30:46):
I mean, that's before it itlooks like it does now, but it
had a completely different feelto it then.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Yeah.
It's hard to describe what thatfeeling is.
Of if if you don't live here oryou're about to move here, it's
it's indescribable.
It's it feels like there'smagic in this valley.
And I still believe that thereis.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Oh, yeah.
For sure.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
It's a special place.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
There's one time.
This is probably the time whenDash really started trans
transferring or forming for meat least.
One side of the Broadway was aslowest while smoking bars.
The other one was was nonsmoking bars.
You go to the smoking bars andhear a traditional Johnny Cash
type country.
You go over to the smoking barswith all your new pop country
coming in all the newer stuff.
Like, okay.
You kind of pick what side ofthe street you wanna go on.

(31:31):
Now it's all over the place,but I still remember that.
I'll never forget that littlemoment where you it kinda was a
little divided and broadwaythere.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah.
When I when I first got here, Iwas not old enough to be down
there at all.
And so I didn't really get toexperience that.
Plus that, that might have beeneven a little bit before my
time of getting here.
But I I can remember thatduring the daytime when I just

(32:01):
go, you know, brown thatTootsies and Roberts was always
like old country.
There was always a really greatpedal steel player in there and
an insanely good guitar player.
And it all kinda led to methinking, like, what what am I
doing here?
I I or I don't know.
Like, I'm not on this level.
I think everybody has thatmoment when they first go to

(32:23):
Broadway and they see how goodeverybody is down there.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Everybody said I'm good.
Yeah.
You gotta put pick any way offof Broadway and put them in on a
stage in arena somewhere inthere, there's gonna be just
some phenomenal noise.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Great.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
So many good people.
So over the times of being inNashville and stuff, it's been
cool to watch all thesedifferent writers rounds pop up
over the time.
And being a songwriter, jumpingon him is really cool.
We were lucky enough a coupleyears ago to host revival for
our hundredth episode and havean all phenomenal lineup.
It was actually one of the lastrevival was at Tin Roof too.
I think it was like the lastrevival that Tim Ruff that we

(32:58):
got the host and we loved it.
But how things like revival andwhiskey jam, everything else,
play a part in just kinda yourcareer?

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Well, whiskey jam was this my dog's crawling up in my
lap.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah.
I'm

Speaker 4 (33:17):
so good.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Oh, it's so sweet.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
He's curious.
I see.
On whiskey jam was this thingto me when I first moved to town
that, you know, everybodyplayed.
If you were gonna be anybody,you played whiskey jams.
So I strived to get to thepoint where I could play whiskey
jam.
That was a bucket list thingfor me.

(33:42):
And I think I finally got toplay it in twenty seventeen, so
I've been in town two years.
Revival is probably the singlemost important community that
I've that I've been a part ofsince I moved to town and
started started chasing this.

(34:05):
Revival for me is like it's allof the misfit toys of town.
And I don't mean that as in,like, they don't fit in
anywhere, but they don't fit inwith that de mambrian.
There's not a lot of, you know,fist bumps and growing down at

(34:29):
Red Door with the revival crowd.
You know, everybody thatbelongs to that community is bit
left of center musically.
And is a little bit morethought out reserved in public
and really dedicated to thecraft, not for the love of

(34:51):
money, but because of theimportance of writing songs and
what songs do to culture and howthey affect how they affect
everything, you know.
I met all of my best friends atrevival.
Then Paylizzie was working withme at a golf course here in

(35:15):
town.
That's how we got introduced.
And I was about fed up withtalent because I couldn't break
through on the top forty thing.
I hated ride hated writingthose songs, number one, because
that was still, like it wasstill Florida Georgia Lonestown
at that point.
That's just It's not me.
So I couldn't play that gameanymore.

(35:36):
And I was really thinking aboutmoving home and just doing my
thing from Missouri.
And Then he was like, man, youshould just come to revival and
meet some of these people.
I'll get you up.
You can play and see how youlike it.
See if you can find somefriends.
And the first night, I'm I wasthere.
I met Harper Meg and TylerHalbertson.

(35:57):
And that struck up lifetimefriendships or lifelong
friendships, you know, There'sstill all of them are my my best
friends in the whole world anddo anything to them.
It all started there.
And at that time, we were alljust outcasts, you know.
Everybody was telling us inthese meetings that we were

(36:19):
getting like, what you're doingisn't marketable and it doesn't
make money, but keep trying.
You you go kiddo.
Keep on going.
And we were just kinda like,you know, that, you know, we're
just gonna band together andhave, like, not, like, sort of,
like, friendly competition, butwe really did want each other to

(36:39):
keep getting better and we allliked each other's songs.
So we all just started writingtogether pretty exclusively.
And we had a big group chatcouple different times where
hey, check this song out I gottoday.
It's like, oh, it's so good.
Now I gotta write somethingbetter than that.

(37:00):
So you back a few days later,and you'd be like, here's what I
did.
Everybody's like, oh, that's sogood.
And Meg would be like, here'swhat I did, and it's still like
one of the best songs I've heard.
No.
That was the poster that wascreated out of that revival
thing with all of us.

(37:20):
I'm so thankful for that.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah.
I mean, we I got like I said,we got the host one revival.
I also think we've just be ableto watch everybody sit on a
church view like that and sharethe stories and tell the songs.
This is something completelydifferent.
I love it.
I'm so glad they're back to you.
They're back doing shows again.
It's just phenomenal they are.
I got very lucky.
In two thousand seven, I usedto follow Church around Eric
Church around a lot.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean, I went and saw him at little bar in
Mississippi and JonathanSingleton was on a stool playing
songs, man.
I'm like, who the hell is thisguy?
I've been following.
I actually got Singleton on theshirts and that, but been
following Singleton forever, andI know with the input being a
big staple in revival too,playing a lot of shows there.
So

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah.
I I seen him maybe the secondor third time I've I've played
revival or went to revival andhe was playing.
You know, him, Shannon Wilson,Chris Canterbury, who do this
day, is one of my dearestfriends.
And he's also he's my favoritesongwriter in Nashville.

(38:23):
I love Chris Canterbury.
Rob, I I saw Luke play there.
Luke there's so many people.
Brick Cobb out of the loop,like, the names are just kinda
endless.
That class of that class thatcame before and the class that
came before that of revival isjust so stacked with incredible

(38:46):
writers that it's it's kind ofmind numbing to think about what
was going on down there attenders.
But I am glad that it's back,and the place that is happening
now is two blocks from myapartment.
So

Speaker 3 (38:59):
That's perfect.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
Off down, you know.
And

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Oh, yeah.
I have a cold cocktail.
Don't worry about driving home.
It's like, hell yeah.
You can't beat that.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
Go.
Yep.
So you

Speaker 4 (39:10):
you played guitar for a little bit with Ben Chapman,
a good friend of ours.
We've known Ben for years, man.
He was a baby when he first methim.
He looked like a baby too.
I don't know how they they evenlet them in the town of
Nashville, but amazing dude,amazing guitar player.
And he kinda launched his ownlittle thing.
Peach Jam, and you're therewith him when he launched and
everything.
So it kinda stemmed off thewhole writers on, but he took it

(39:31):
a little bit further.
Tell me a little bit about yourtime with Ben, meeting Ben, and
just Pete Sham in general.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
So I met Ben.
I don't know if it was thefirst night that he was in
Nashville, but it was when hefirst moved to Nashville, like
within days, and then heintroduced me to him.
And like you said, I mean, thiskid looked like he was fourteen
years old.
Baby faced, short hair.

(40:00):
Hey, I've been nice to meetyou, you know, like, so solid,
so nice.
And we just started talking andrealized that we both love the
Almond Brothers and Little Feed.
The skinner deep cuts, we justreally hit it off on our tastes.

(40:21):
And I told him that night, I'mlike, Dude, if you're ever
looking for a guitar player,that's the stuff I wanna be
playing.
I'll join you wherever I'll dowhatever with you.
Sure enough, like, we startedwriting some songs together and
hanging out, doing a bunch ofwhatever, and he started making
a record, cut a song that himand I wrote together called you

(40:43):
and Shuhanee, and he was gonnastart playing her out town.
And he called me, he's like,hey, would you would you wanna
play guitar for me?
It's totally cool if you don'twant to.
And I was like, absolutely.
Like, I would love to.
And the first lineup was me andmy buddy Dalton who were
talking about earlier.

(41:04):
Meg was still singing harmonies.
Our buddy, Grady, was playingdrums the time.
Dylan hadn't entered thepicture yet.
So it was just like a fourpiece.
And we did that for maybe abouttwo months.
And then Dylan, the drummer,hopped in with us.
And we got Ivan.
Ivan was like playing keys, andthen we got Jordan Malogic on

(41:27):
pedal steel.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Mhmm.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
And we started getting really good.
We're opening for, like,Flatland, Calvary, Drake, Wyatt.
We did some shows with MarshallTucker, which was just, like,
or even come true.
And I'm not really sure how itended up happening, but we ended
up getting a show at thebasement.
Just kind of, like, attest thewater's sort of thing.

(41:51):
With Gil over there.
And we killed.
We did really good.
We sold a lot of tickets.
And then we did one more thisis, let's see, twenty twenty one
.
Yeah.
We had two that year at thevery end of the year.
And they liked it so much thatthey gave us a monthly residence
.
See, all twenty twenty two.

(42:12):
And so that band, we went towork, you know, we were playing
shows on the weekends.
And then we were gettingtogether during the weeks to
rehearse for Pete's jam.
And we were always having twoor three guests, and we'd have
to learn two of their songs.
And a cover, plus the coversthat we were learning for
because we always wanted to havelike a fresh show.

(42:33):
And we just, like, gotexponentially better.
And better and better.
And Page Jam started turninginto this really cool gathering
of like minded people who justwanted to have fun.
There was a lot of industrypeople that were coming out that
it was kind of like a lecturehair down situation where if
they're going to a showcase, youknow, they've kinda got their

(42:55):
arms crossed and they're sittingin the back and they're looking
for every reason why not tosign somebody.
And this was like, we're justgonna listen to some good music
and have fun.
I'm not here to sign anybody.
I'm not here to, you know, talkanybody in anything or talk
anybody out of anything.
I just wanna fun.
Mhmm.
It was a really special thingthat got built last year.

(43:17):
And it's still going on now.
It's I believe, quarterly, theyjust moved it to outside.
It's gonna be happening outsidefrom now on, I believe.
And I and I was there washanging out.
I wasn't on stage, but I washaving a couple to Quilisota,
you know, walking through thecrowd, just having the best time

(43:38):
.
Those guys just keep gettingbetter.
That band is is so good andBen's fantastic.
I love her brothers and sisters.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Yeah.
There's a phenomenal band.
I we've been lucky to see him.
I think you were probably withhim.
I want I think you were withhim when I'm the Muscadine Tour.
Right?

Speaker 6 (43:58):
I think I I think I might have done a date or two,
but I did not do the entire Iheard.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Okay.
I don't know.
I saw Ben at Joe's, but youwere with him last year at
American manifest for teaching.
I walked in to that wasphenomenal.
That set Dude,

Speaker 6 (44:14):
that was probably the hardest all of us have ever
worked on anything in our livesbecause there was o twelve or
thirteen artists that we had tolearn songs for.
We ended up learning at, like,nineteen or twenty songs for
that event.
At a daytime time show.
And it was relentless.
It was cut throat.

(44:35):
That was probably the firsttime that I saw anybody get
frustrated with anybody in thatgroup, you know, very light,
like, you know, just, like, puffand puff and about, like, just
can't get this part right.
But it's because everybodywanted it to be so good and and
to do a good job.
We did.
We knocked it out of the park.
It's awesome.
That was the first time

Speaker 4 (44:55):
I ever heard of Joshua Joshua Ray Walker, and
that dude blew me away.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
I love Joshua.
He's a sweetheart.
He's a really nice guy.
Take the world up.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
I had my dad with me and my dad and I looked at each
other like, oh, shit.
Who is this guy playing?
Yeah.
Got to see him a couple nightslater at the Westin or somewhere
on one of their rooftops.
And once again, he was amazing.
I was like, good.
He won a fan now for sure.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Oh, yeah.
He he's got a fan on me too.
Like, I love his music.
I'm really excited for his newrecord that he's getting ready
to put out.
It's like a kind of a left turnin a good way for him.
You know, I'm I'm pumped aboutit.
Love him.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Dude, I love that.
So before we move on to our ourfun part of the night and wrap
up the interview portion, when Iwas researching for the show, I
was on your Linktree, and itsaid that You are a country
music historian and a maker ofbreakfast.
So I had to I had to bring thisup and ask you about this.
What's your favorite thing thatkinda cooked for breakfast?
And Honestly, cut your musicand story.
What's some of your favoriteevents, man, that you remember

(46:00):
you you thought of?

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Okay.
Well, for breakfast, this iseasy.
I love hash browns.
I love hash browns so much.
So I love fixing hash browns,biscuits, and gravy.
My favorite thing to do whenI'm home, and I haven't got to
do this in a long time.
I'd really like to do it for mygirlfriend some time because
she hasn't had it yet, but atmaking fried deer meat in the

(46:27):
morning with gravy and biscuits,eggs and hash browns is is the
best of breakfast that I canpause.
I love doing all of that.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Yeah.
Making me hungry now.
Sounds good.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
Yeah.
As you know, like, the countrymusic historian thing is it's
it's one of my greatestinterests.
Things that I one of the thingsI really enjoy studying.
And I know a lot of just randomfacts about a bunch of random

(47:04):
different artists that peoplejust, like, really wouldn't care
about so much that when I getput on the spot, it kind of
like, oh, there's just so manygoing through going through my
head.
This is one that some peopleknow, but my girlfriend and I
love watching the tales from theof us, and they portray this
great.
But the story about GeorgeJones and Annie Weinout, George

(47:30):
being drunk, Tammy taken all thekeys to every vehicle he had.
And the only thing that hecould drive was his ride along
the road.
He wrote that thing two and ahalf hours in the town with the
blades on kicking rocks at carsgoing by, to the liquor store to
ride all the way back.

(47:51):
And like Tammy, finding outabout it, meeting him on the way
back, like, riding alongsidehim on the interstate just
cussing him, you know, and himnot even carrying just sitting
there with a bottle of whiskeyon that lawn mower.
I love that story.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah.
I love I got a shirt.
It look it's John Deere Greenwith the yellow print on it.
It's a picture of a tractorwith George Jones sitting on it
and riding it, one of the busshirts.
Coolest story I have, though,or the funniest thing that I
have to play off that is my exgirlfriend, she lived about half
a block or a megawatt blockfrom the liquor store just back
in my days I used to drinking.
I I was staying with her, andmy own one job was I always had

(48:27):
to cut the grass once a week.
So I'd be on that wrong number.
I'd drive that block up to theliquor store.
Give me a six packs.
Start cracking them open on theway back.
And drop the blade to go totown.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
There's alcohol and mommowers.
Like, I'm not married to oneanother.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
I used to when I was drinking, I cut the front yard.
That was my thing.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
I'll tell you a quick one real quick about a
character in my hometown.
His name is farmer.
And I think since then like,since he's quit drinking, he he
found the Lord.
He's he's all good now.
But when I was growing up,farmer used to just get
hammered, and he couldn't drive,so he would just ride his

(49:08):
lawnmower everywhere.
You could tell where farmer hadgone in town because he'd run
that lawn mower off in the ditchwith the blades on, and there
would just be snakes.
Off the ditches in Salem duringthe summertime.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
Mhmm.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
And I have some stories about farmer that you
know, can't tell on here.
But if you ever wanna hearthem, they're really good.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Well, what the what the shoes and fun story is one
of these nights before.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
So, buddy, you got a new single coming out July sixth
.
Secondhand stories, man.
Tell me a little bit aboutwhere this song came from.
Everything else is amazing,amazing dude.
I cannot wait till you dropthis song, but, yeah, tell me
where this song came from alittle bit.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
Well, let's see.
A couple months ago, I was Itook a trip home to Missouri,
and we were on our way back andwe stopped off at Winona,
Missouri at the case he's thereto get some pizza.
And I had I got my pizza.
I was looking in the back andthe lady making it was this
young woman, like, pretty.

(50:10):
I was kind of, like, why in theworld is she working here?
You know, that sort of thing?
And while I'm getting my stuffput together, this young girl
and her boyfriend walk in, andshe walks around the back and
goes, hey, mama, we're here topick up that pizza, but she's
talking to her mom.
And I kinda realized I'm like,wow, like, this lady is very

(50:34):
young to be having a daughterthat old.
And that that story kinda justtells itself.
You know, it's it's kinda sad.
But she's in there.
She's busting her butt.
And she's working really hardto have what little they've got
to provide for that family.
And I thought, well, that's thestory of my back home kind.
And so it initially startedlike that, that title.

(50:57):
And I got to Nashville.
A couple days later, I hadarrived with Andy Austin, and I
brought this idea to him.
And we kind of, you know, wentback and forth with it.
I think Andy was like, man,what if this is just like stuff
you've heard about people?
It's kinda like It's like aboutgossip culture in small towns.

(51:19):
And I thought, well, that'sgreat.
So then we just wrote a dozendifferent stories about people
that we had either heard overthe years and that we were
making up.
And we picked the, you know,three or four best stories we
could find and wrote a chorusaround it, and that's how we got
this song.
We we both love Tom t hall, andwe knew we wanted to write

(51:40):
something storytelling in thatband of Tom T.
And so that's that's how thatsong came to be.
It's probably one of myfavorite songs I've ever been a
part of.
I I love it.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Who's the co co writers on it?

Speaker 6 (51:53):
Just Andy Austin.
Andy Austin.
So

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Nice.
You're nice.
I love it.
So what else does the rest ofthe year look like for you?
I know you just came over toChicago with Meg at Carol's,
which is what we talked about,is a phenomenal bard.
I love that place.
Any any given that dude is gooda great crowd in there.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
I'd love to go back.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
We got talent to beat you back as a headliner.

Speaker 6 (52:15):
Oh, yeah.
Well, I hope so.
Hope made it get enoughimpression this time around, you
know.
Right.
Oh, this year, I'm gonna put arecord out this year.
Kind of in the middle ofrecording that right now, but
we've we've made our way into itenough to where we're gonna be
putting out single about everymonth or so for the rest of the

(52:37):
year.
And so we just released thewhole record.
So I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna be playing some showsand doing some things here and
there.
I'm headed to Texas next weekwith Ross Cooper.
Open up for him.
And we're doing, like, threenights in Turkey, Texas, and
then we're doing, like, newBraunfolds Fort Worth.

(52:57):
We're doing that whole Texasthing.
I've never been down thereplaying like that, so I'm I'm
really excited.
And then I got some other stuffin the works opening for people
.
And personally, you know, Ithink it's like a year of
positive change and growing upand growing into some things.
Growing out of other things.

(53:18):
I'm excited about this year.
I think it's gonna be a reallygood year in the Colin Nash camp
.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
Really?

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Awesome.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
I love that for you, man.
Because like I said, we've seenyou in a jam with Ben for a
while and everything else thatyou're out doing your own thing
again.
I I love it.
You're doing your own thing,you're shining all the way, dude
.
And good things are gonna comeyour way.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4 (54:03):
Alright.
But like I said, we're gonnamove on to our our fun part of
the night.
Well, before the fun part,we'll get a couple couple
serious questions in, I guess.
But our powered by Prodex isour sponsored part of the night.
Our first card that we pulledearlier is What is the most
successor?
Who is the most successfulperson you know?
And what have you learned fromthem?

Speaker 6 (54:23):
Probably right now, Lainie Wilson is probably the
most successful person that Iknow.
I love Lainie.
Lainie is always been sogenuine, so nice, and kind.
I've heard a couple of myfriends mention this in their
podcast.
So it's it's neat to see thatit resonates within the way it

(54:45):
did with me.
When she was on the ACMs, andshe said if you're gonna be a
dreamer you better be a doer.
I feel like that is a quotethat should be put on billboards
everywhere.
It's a good reminder to peoplethat it it takes more than
having a big imagination.
Like, you have to work hard.
And if I I've learned somethingfrom Lainie is like, this is

(55:07):
what hard work can do.
I don't know if there's anybodythat works harder than Lainie
Wilson does in this entireindustry.
She gets no rest there are nodays off.
She is just out there poundingthe pavement, doing everything
she can.
And I'm so thankful she'sgetting rewarded for it.
She deserves everything that'scome to her.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's amazing in a frame, but Ithink she'd look overnight, man
.
Like you said, she's beenworking her ass off for a while,
for a long time, living in acamper, everything else down
there just in the nationalwriting songs, and It's awesome
to see the success she's gotover the last couple years too.
It's just been phenomenal.
We've seen her a few times,actually.
I've I've been doing a lot ofconcert photos.
I think she's my most shotartist.

(55:50):
I've actually taken photos of,which is crazy because it just
shows how hard she works becauseshe's at every festival.
She's everywhere.
Everywhere we're covered andthere's Lane.
I mean, Country Thunder'scoming up in Wisconsin again.
In a couple weeks, there'sLaney again.
It's like she's just everywhere.
I saw her with Luke Holmes.
I I don't know if that was theAC or CMA Week or whatever it
was.
It was a couple weeks ago.

(56:11):
She was Erica months ago.
She was in Pittsburgh.
On a Saturday, but then Sunday,she was somewhere Monday, she
was somewhere on my team.
This girl ever sleeps.
It's like, what is she doing?

Speaker 6 (56:19):
No.
I don't know how she does it.
I don't know how she does itbecause it seems like it's
incredibly exhausting.
But I'm thrilled for her, proudof her excited to see where it
goes.
I mean, she's already, I think,gonna be considered an all time
.
Right?

Speaker 4 (56:34):
I get exhausted trying to watch her sometimes,
dude.
It's crazy.
So our second one was, what isyour greatest fear?
And how do you manage fear?

Speaker 6 (56:45):
Poorly.
That's what I manage fear.
That's all.
You know, the thing that I'mmost afraid of I'm afraid of
wasting whatever sort of giftthat I've been given whether
that's, like, nope.

(57:06):
Just knowing how to, like,write a song, knowing how to
play guitar, like, having theabilities that I have.
I'm afraid of wasting that andnot using it for good purposes.
And something that's likereally important to me is
spreading a positive message,you know, and and having
something to say with every song.

(57:28):
There there's some sort ofsomething that you can get out
of it.
And it's not just pandering toa certain demographic of people.
Like, the song is for thesepeople because it's by this
person that comes from thesepeople.
That's, you know, that's reallyimportant to me.
And I guess the other thing I'mI'm afraid of is being too hung

(57:51):
up on the shiny object of themusic business and, like, oh,
you know, when I get to thispoint, you know, everything's
gonna be okay and then but it's,you know, it's that endless
cycle of, like, nothing's evergood enough and you don't enjoy
the journey.
And so I'm especially goinginto the rest of this year and

(58:12):
hopefully, you know, for thenext decade of my life.
I really wanna focus on notbeing focused on that shiny
object and missing out.
On not just the journey ofthis, but like real life and
relationships with people thathave nothing to do with music.
That's something that I think alot of us struggle with.

(58:33):
And focusing on those things inmy lives, and embracing them
and enjoying them.
You know?
Here in the next decade, youknow, I'm gonna have a kid.
I'm gonna get married.
That's something that I'mlooking forward to and want to,
you know, build myself up as aperson to be ready for that and

(58:54):
to be a good follower.
To be a good husband.
Those are stuff that those arethings that, like, I'm afraid of
getting distracted and notbecoming my best in those areas.
So how I handle fear?
I I don't know.
I'm I'm still working on thisstuff.
I I just try to do the best Ican every day with that mic.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
But as it comes, man, just a day to time, man.
That's what what do you gottado?
Gotta live life the best wayyou can.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Literally.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Well, you gotta watch out for that kid thing though,
man.
We got two of them and boy.
It's a lot of work

Speaker 6 (59:28):
at times.
It's not gonna be time soon,but I'm looking forward to that
chapter.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Oh, dude.
That's a good one.
It's definitely a good one.
We I was how old was that?
Thirty eight, I think what?
No.
When thirty thirty, how old wasthat line for me first?

Speaker 3 (59:42):
When we first was.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
When Jack was born, I was thirty.
I was thirty.
Yeah.
So I was thirty years old whenwe had our first kid.
Now I thought that was a goodage of that time because I I I
was a kid for a while, man.
I wanna stay young for as longas I still

Speaker 6 (59:54):
feel like kids.
Right.
I've I've been a kid for a longtime and I'm ready to man up
and and just the fruits ofadulthood.
You know?
So I'm right there with you.
Thirty thirty seems like goodage.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
It was good.
Alright.
But it is our a fun part.
I was talking about the funpart tonight.
So this is our our melodies andmemories.
I picked four songs kinda likewhen I was researching for this
show.
They have, like, a band name ora song name popped up or
something.
I'm like, no.
I'm gonna write that down.
And I I grabbed four songs fromthere.
And the first memory you havewith these songs was gonna talk.
If you don't have a memory,we'll go to the next one.
Go ahead and hit the other one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
I'll be going down hill like, so far.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Gaggard, man.
Good times over for good, man.
When you hear that song, wheredoes it take you?

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
To salty Jack's Bar in Inns, Missouri and getting
tips twenty dollars to play thatsong.
And none of my band had everplayed it live, but I had sang
that song over and over again,growing up, and just, like,
watching us kind of felt like,you know, fumble through it and
play it and people sing in everyword.

(01:01:03):
I love

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
the song.

Speaker 6 (01:01:05):
I love the Ag.
Yeah.
Look, great pick.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Alright.
Alright.
Go ahead and take green one.
Tom petty, last chance was MaryJane, man.
When you hear that song, whereis it taking you?

Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
That bad man.
Band riding with the windowsdown.
That band had no ACs, so thewindows were were down at all
times.
Am I here?
Out to here.
So, like, when whippingthrough, we always had top petty
on.
He's my north star.
I love top petty.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Out of that.
My dad and I got tickets to seehim after he played the Super
Bowl.
And we got tickets to Detroit.
I was living in Mississippi atthe time.
And if something happened, wecouldn't go and I'm selling the
tickets and he died shortlyafter that.
I was like, shit.
I'm never gonna see Patty now.
I'm I've I never got to see himwhile I was like, damn.
That's one of my biggestregrets.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
That's that is my biggest regret, is that I never
got to see Tom Live.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
Him and Johnny Cash at the other two that I'm, like,
damn, I kicked myself.
Well and and another one thatwe're gonna play here in a
minute.
So Actually, we'll play it now.
Hit that green one.
So Michael Jackson, man in themirror, dude.
Where's that one taking you?

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
That takes me to my little music room, and my mom's
house in Raleigh, Missouri.
I was probably thirteen orfourteen going through a big
Michael Jackson phase.
And I'm just, like, trying to,like, hit those vocal movements
You know?
I can still sing that high atthat age.
I can't do that more.
I think back to a certain timefor sure.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
My dad and I, we were talking well, I mean, before he
died, and he was getting readyto do the this is a tour.
And I said, we're gonna go seehim.
Said, when he comes to Chicagoand this is it, we're not

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
going.
Torriam.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Yeah.
Mike, where anybody else, like,alright.
We'll go because we've seeneverybody.
Dude, aerosmith, you name them.
We've seen them.
And which is cool.
Because when I was in highschool and teenage years, my
dad, I would go to college everyweekend.
That's why why I'm still doingit this day.
But that's one thing, man.
I never got to see Jacks.
And I was like, and I will loveto see them.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
Yeah.
I mean, maybe maybe thegreatest entertainer of all time
.
I think Oh, this are, you knowI does it get bigger than that?
Mhmm.
How about the Beatles andMichael Jackson?
I think that's maxed out duringmy days when he died.
Yeah.

(01:03:32):
June twenty fifth two thousandnine, I still remember.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
I wouldn't say it was just a couple of days ago
because it popped up on my on mytime line on Facebook because I
was saying but yeah.
Because we were moving backfrom two thousand nine.
We're moving back We moved backfrom Mississippi on my
birthday, June twenty ninth.
So four days later, we movedback from Mississippi.
Remember that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Yep.
We were at the Brooklyn School.
Aren't we?
When we when we saw that on theTV?

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
Yeah.
But you we were yeah.
We were off teeth somewhere andsaw it on TV.
Yep.
And

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
I thought you were gonna cry.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
I think I probably did start crying.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
I remember them.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
Hotel room in Branson, Missouri on a parents
patching it up trip.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Yeah.
One of them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Well, that's a good one.
But so it's funniest thing,though, with this is, like and
we never planned it, like, this,well, whatever.
Our son's name is Jackson.
It wasn't planned for metaljacks or anything,

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
but

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
but we got rushing to the whatever had to have a
emergency c section and ourdoctor was it must've been a
music fan.
Had the radio play in thebackground and, literally, when
I was cutting the cord, theywere playing Michael Jackson on
the radio and I was cuttingJackson's cord.
I was like, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
How about that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Yep.
Never looked at that.

Speaker 6 (01:04:44):
You know, Bobby Bobby Osborne died today.
Yeah.
Osborne brothers.
When they were cut in my court,rocky top was playing on the
radio.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
Really?
Yep.
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
Tell you, you're born into this dude.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
That's weird.

Speaker 6 (01:05:01):
That for I was meant to be a grasser.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Oh, let's do the last one, the yellow one.
This one is one of my favorites.
Metallica fade to black, dude.
I I saw some of these pictures.
You were in the Killam Mallshirt and everything.
I was

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
like, dude, I that shirt.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
When you hear that, man, where does it take you?
It

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
me and my cousin Cody .
You know, my cousin and I grewup like brothers.
His family just kinda struggledwhen we were growing up.
So they lived in the same housewith us a lot.
He was the one that really gotme into it.
We used to sit at my mom's Delllaptop and fry her computer
with LimeWire, download and allthese alrika songs.

(01:05:45):
That was one of the very firstones.
So we just man, that brings meback to that time having a
shaved head and being years old,you know, just on fire.
There's nothing that feels likemetallica when you're that age.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
The my dad took me in, like, ninety eight to the
grudging tour.
I'll never forget that, like,old stage collapse at the end.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
Yeah.
That I would love to go seemetallica, like, pre two
thousand eight.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
Any any time in that?
I'd I'd love to go see it.
I'd go see it now.
For sure.
James Hatfield is one of my alltime favorites.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
They're gonna be here .
They're gonna be in Chicagonext year with Panther.
I don't like doing that.
Every show.

Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
That would be really fun.
That would be

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Man, I just thought it was something else that's
funny.
One way I got it.
I went to have a Telepus show.
I was seventeen, eighteen atthe time.
And before the concert, my dadhad his nocklers.
I come here and people cheer.
And go crazy.
My dad has binoculars out.
He's all, like, looking around.
And I'm, like, dad, were youlooking at?
No.
No.
No.
Nothing.
Nothing.
He won't give me the binoculars.
I'm, like, why?

(01:06:52):
What's going on?
There's a girl's taking theirtops off.
My dad went past them and I waslike, dude, come on.
Oh, boy.
Alright.
Let's do the hot seat.
Go ahead, Ted.
Alright.
Here's ten quick questions thatwe're gonna ask.
First thing comes in mind.
And we'll try it through themin sixty seconds.

(01:07:13):
We'll see what happens.
Your first CD or vinyl that youever purchased?

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
S and M by Metallica.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Hell yeah.
Where's your where's your happyplace?

Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
In the Holler back in Salem, Missouri.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Alright.
And who is the best pizza thatyou ever had?

Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
I really like five points.
I like five points pizza herein Nashville.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Mhmm.
What's the wallpaper on yourphone?

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
My girlfriend.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
What's a movie that always make you laugh?

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Days that confused.

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
What did you oh, what was your first job?
Your first paying job?

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
No one grasped for the city.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
What's the oldest thing you own?
Oh,

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
I got a a nineteen sixty three Gibson LGO.
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
What chore do you not like doing?

Speaker 6 (01:08:09):
I hate ondry.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
What was your favorite childhood television
show to watch?

Speaker 6 (01:08:17):
Spongebob or Grivavan Ventures affiliate Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Alright.
Alright.
It's spongebob.
How's it going, dude?
And then our last one on thisone and the last question we got
for you for tonight, man.
What's something that's on yourbucket list?
What's something that may havebeen you you won't play or
something you wanna achieve inthe musical industry before you
kind of hang up your boots forthe day?

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
I wanna headline the rhyme.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Hell, yeah, dude.
Dude, that's awesome.
That's gonna happen.
You know that's gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (01:08:43):
I I believe it.
I'm gonna manifest that.
I'm gonna manifest it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Hell, I do.
I love that, man.
Well, if you do, we're gonna bethere.
You know that?
We'll have to we'll have to bethere for that show.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
Oh, you'll have we'll all hang out backstage and
Celebrate.
We'll talk about this.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Chapman, I might be in the alleyway.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Yeah.
Ben, I'll I'll have to

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
get Ben out of the alleyway.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
I I

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
Say that not too.
I don't know.
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
My day my day job is a dispensary.
So every time I go see Ben, Ialways bring him some treats.

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
Oh, he he told me.
He's like, man, there ain'tyour guy if you ever go to
Chicago.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Yep.
Just let me know, man.
I got you.
Alright, buddy.
Well, before we let you gotonight, man, can we get you to
play one for us?

Speaker 6 (01:09:32):
Yeah.
I'll play the the one I'm aboutto put out next week.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Hell, yeah, dude.
Alright.
Well, we're gonna go ahead andgive you this stage and we'll
mute ourselves and we'll see youin a comments.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
Alright, man.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Can it works?
Bar because she lost her job atthe bank.
And it don't pay as much, butshe don't have a attitude
centered on my man made.
And after every shift to CookJerry's gotta get run.
That's just another second handstory on my back home kind.

(01:10:19):
Now, mister Jimmy's been themayor since my older brother
Taylor was the second gray.
He said half a dozen prettyblunt secretaries move to
different states.
I'm swear sauce fish.
She said, son-in-law, Rickystarted from mine.

(01:10:43):
Oh, it's just another secondand a story of my back.
Go kind.
Get light started, misterRimmer, but the Rimmer's rally
or come That little bird's goingto share about the trouble that

(01:11:03):
you got into.
It spreads like fire at thediner in the grocery line.
It's just another second handstory of my back on time.
Beautiful on its apples,sailing, hill.

(01:11:43):
That's where all my ladies goto the ear.
What's been running through thereal heart meal?
If you think you heard itfirst, best stolen a hundred
times.
All the word.
Mass second and stories.
I'm about Comcast.

(01:12:04):
It might have started in hisroom about the rumors, Randy,
That little bird's going toensure about the trouble and you
gotta streetlights.

(01:12:27):
It's just not a seggy day story.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
I'm a back home down.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
All the word mouse second man stories in my back
home.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
I love that old school vibe of that song.
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
This is the big boys.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
Bam.
That was all big.
I don't know.
Jillian took her headphonesoff, like, right at the
beginning, like, scratulate.
I'm like, hey.
Put those back on.
This sounds awesome.
So, dude, thank you so much forresponding.
I know we ran way over tonight,but the the stories and
everything was just amazing.
That's why I'm like, just keeprunning Google's keep going.
So but thank you for spendingsome time with us tonight, dude.

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
Hey.
Thanks for letting me talk.
You know, I'm really good at itas you

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Hey, dude.
That's what we love.
We love the stories, Omany.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
It was great.
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
I don't know about the whole cardinals thing.
Wait.
I have to circle back to that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
Let me come up there and watch cardinals' cubs with
you wriggly I

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
was gonna say, man, if you never been inside rigley
or seen a game yet, then we'llhave to look at the schedule in
the cardinals and clubs.
If if not this year, maybe nextyear, we'll we'll have to see
him.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
We haven't done this there.
So Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
We'll have to get you out to a game sometime, man.
Because it's a differentexperience here.
It's a whole in our ballgame.
We we we choose that regularstuff.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
It's a cool experience even if you're not
scam -- Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
--

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
because I didn't do those same.

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
Ring worked.
I would love to do that.
Y'all just holler at me andtell me, I'll be there.
I'll make

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Alright, buddy.
Well, hey.
Well, thank you again so muchfor spending some time with us.
Take care.
We cannot wait to get that newsingle out.
We'll we'll just push a reviewout for you and try to do what
we can for that single for you.

Speaker 6 (01:14:33):
Well, thank you so much for having me.
Really enjoy it at y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Absolutely.
Alright.

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
Well, you have a great night, and we'll talk soon
.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
I'll take care.
See you.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Bye.
Love that, man.
That was awesome, man.
Oh, dude.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
It's pretty great.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
Ben amazing and, like, honestly, his talent with
Ben's talent.
I saw him last year was justphenomenal, but love to see
Colin on his own.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
What he's doing?
That's exciting.
Let me show him what's showinghis own head.

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
Alan there.
Yeah.
And he's like too.
And he's like he said, he wantsto live his life to the fullest
man, and and see it all in thehonesty.
Just keep going, dude.
There's one question I skippedover because we were running
real over by by the songwritingabout, like, what he keeps
himself when he gets away forcuts and stuff like that.
I hope he keeps a lot of hisstuff and stuff because but he's
been working on lately andeverything else going forward is

(01:15:17):
some amazing thing.
So But thank you guys so muchfor tuning in tonight.
We had a blast talk with them.
Sorry that we did run over alittle bit.
I know the last couple ofepisodes, we ran over a little
bit here and there.
But You know, we're if we'rehaving fun and the
conversation's good and thestories are good, I'm not gonna
cut these guys off.
No worries.
I'm gonna let them roll.
And as long as we don't havekids running down here yelling

(01:15:37):
or anything else, and we couldroll

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
out much much more and behaved.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
Yeah.
Ever last night, we asked themin their place.
So if you guys are we say lastthing after last episode.
So if you listened to theepisode before this one, there
was there was a lot of editingdone to it.
And everything else, which is

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
--

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Lots of interruptions .

Speaker 6 (01:15:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
--

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
but they're being good tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
So while all night last night, but tonight was a
phenomenal one, and it wasreally cool talking calling all
the stories.
So we're gonna throw it backbefore we wrap it up, and we'll
see what are those pod deckquestions.
You know what?
This is gonna be a goodquestion.
Who is the most successfulperson you know?
And what have you learned fromthem?
Oh,

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
You go first.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
You want me to go first?
Sure.
You don't mind.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Eric.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
No.
Oh, yeah.
Me, church is the mostsuccessful person I know.
But, no, when I when I look at,like, success and, like

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Success to me isn't

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
A story book career and everything else, my uncle,
dude.
My uncle Danny, by far, is he'sbeen on the show.
We had him on the show lastSeptember, was it?
But my uncle, Danny is one ofthe most successful people I
ever known.
I've learned a lot for themover the years.
One cool thing though is if youguys don't follow me on my
personal or anything that everyhe retired last September

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
--

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
Mhmm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
--

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
from working at Arena that saw my first concert and
everything else, then a coupleweeks ago, he announced he's
gonna run for mayor next year.
I'm like, dude, slow down.
I'm talking about somethingthat doesn't stop and works all
the time.
Mhmm.
But he's gonna be the type ofguy that's going the damn thing.
And I'm not I would not beshocked if he wins it, and he
becomes mayor mayor of Wheeling,West Virginia, but he is by far
the most successful person Iknow.
And it's been amazing lookingup to him and getting him.

(01:17:21):
But of all the things that Ihad to say what I learned from
him, And it was funny becausethis is just something quirky
that I learned from.
And he said it in hisretirement speech, but if you're
around a road trip, don't takethe haters.
Don't think the house.
And that's something I'vealways learned from when I love
doing.
On your Google Maps, whateveris three little dots, click it,
and there'll be a little boxthat says avoid highway.

(01:17:42):
Click that avoid highways box.
Take that route that it givesyou and see the world because
you're gonna see some coolthings.
You're gonna go through thesesmall towns.
You're gonna see some quirkythings.
You're just gonna see the world.
If you're on a highway, ifyou're on an interstate, you're
not gonna see nothing but road.
And maybe some road side signsand a truck stop here and there.
That's all you're gonna see.
If you do the avoid a highways,you must see some cornfields, a

(01:18:04):
lot of cornfields, but thenyou're gonna go in these little
little tiny towns that havethese little courthouses in the
middle and squares that goaround them and some cool stores
and restaurants and stuff.
Okay.
Check those out.
Check those places out.
Check the history out of thosetowns.
And you never know what you'regonna come stumble across.
We did that one day and we'regoing through this town and we
see a welcome sign as his homeof Elvish Shane.
I'm like, holy shit.
We're in Elvish Shane'shometown.

(01:18:25):
We'd even know it.
We'd even plan on going there.
We're just cool as hell.
They're all But definitely,that's one thing I learned from.
And if there's ever anythingthat I could leave a while years
later, it's honestly just roadtrips are make them fun.
Boyd highways, go have a goodtime and see the world because I
don't know how are you and gosee not.
So alright.
Now I'll see who's the mostsuccessful person you know and

(01:18:46):
what's something you got from?

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
I don't have an answer for that.
Are you serious?
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
There's not anybody in your in your line of work
that went on to be, like, asuccessful doctor

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
--

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Successor.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
--

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
or anything else that you saw them that you learned
from.
Maybe they weren't a doctor orsomething before that.
I mean, I I could tell you Iknow exactly who I if I was you,
who I would answer?

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
There's so many people that I think are
successful for different reasons.
Not necessarily, like,

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
but It doesn't have to be money.
It could be anything.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
I don't I really don't know.
I think my I mean, I think alot of people I look up to that
are successful.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
Who's who has been the biggest

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
influence on my life

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
in my career.
Very successful has amazingfamily.
Yes.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Is my cousin.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
That's why I think you're gonna go Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
Amanda is probably Like my sister I look up to her.
Everything I've done is becauseof her She's

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
kicking ass with what she's doing in her career.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
She's a wonderful mother.
She's a wonderful wife.
She's such an amazing person,but she's smart.

Speaker 4 (01:19:50):
Mhmm.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
She's hardworking, and she's kind, and She's just
amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
Hers does not matter.
I'm like, damn.
She is she definitely got hershit going.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Yes.
That's who I was gonna say.
But, I mean, there's lots ofpeople that I look up to as well
that are successful fordifferent reasons.
So Yeah.
You know?
And but I don't know.
Yeah.
That's probably who

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
I would I love that we both I love that we both.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
No.
For sure, that's in immediatelywho I was gonna say

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
--

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Mhmm.
-- and then I got in my headand I was like, well, you know,
I'm super proud of my bestfriend.
I think she's super successful.
You know, like, there's lots ofpeople that successful for
comparison.
So

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Exactly.
But now you that's a goodchoice.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
Yeah.
No.
For sure, Amanda's probably theone is immediately who I
thought of.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
Our boys as well.
Yeah.
Our boys love the hell outthere with her boys.
So love to get them togethermore often.
Mhmm.
Because that's man's housepicking up.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
My god.
They're like and they're likemy kids and her kids are like
how her and I were and how hermom and my mom were and just

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
It's just it's just a big Bon Joey fan, Paul's a big
Van Helen fan, so it's good tosee me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
We work.
We all work very well.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
Good to see some music.
No.
I love that.
So, honestly, guys, is theresomething in your life that you
think successful that's done alot of stuff before you get for
you or anything coming?
Make sure they know that.
Because honestly, that's life'stoo short, not to not to give
somebody acknowledgement thatdeserves it for sure.
But we wanna thank you guys somuch for joining us tonight, and
we wanna thank Colin Nash forjoining us as well.

(01:21:17):
Throughout our conversationwith Colin, we've learned about
his deep passion for music, andhow has shaped him into the
talented artist he is today.
From a young age, Colin knew hewas destined to pursue a career
in music.
He has put in countless hoursof hard work dedication and
creativity to craft the soundthat we know and love.
With each new song, Colin putshis heart and soul into every
note, and it truly shows in themusic.

(01:21:38):
He produces.
Colin Nash has an impressiverepertoire to his name, and
there is no doubt that hisjourney has only just begun.
In fact, Colin has excitingprojects coming up lesser should
be on the lookout for.
We can't wait to see where thispassion for music takes him
next, and we know his fans areeager to come along for the ride
.
So be sure to follow him onsocial media and streamers
latest releases And stay tunedfor all the incredible things

(01:21:59):
Colin Nash has the sword for usin the future.
Thank you guys for so much forjoining us tonight, and we hope
you enjoyed the episode as muchwe did doing my favorites that
we've done for a while.
Don't forget to catch up oneverything you missed from
tonight and pass episodes overat meleysmemories dot com.
And we're having anotheramazing show coming up next
Wednesday.
Yeah.
Next Wednesday.
I gotta say good.

(01:22:20):
I gotta see because it's fourthof July next week.
Mhmm.
And we're taking Monday off.
And we're taking Tuesday offseason.
It's a holiday.
So next Wednesday and nextThursday, we have two shows
coming up, and that's leading toour show one seventy five over
in Nashville, July ninth, so wecannot wait.
We should be announcing thelineup, I think, by next Monday,
well, the next Sunday a weekbefore, so we should have the
lineup.
So I'm ready to go.

(01:22:40):
We're excited.
We can't wait, and we'll seeyou guys neither next week or
down Nashville here soon.
Have a good night guys.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
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