Rob Hatch | Singer/Songwriter - Melodies N' Memories: Music Media

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Speaker 4 (02:01):
Alright, I love it.
We have in the comment MrJackson.
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So if you guys are out there,follow him.
He's nine, he loves gaming, buthe always loves his little
shout out.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I'll give him one tonight.
He thinks his dad's cool no.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So, guys, we talked before 170 some episodes in.
I still get excited as heck.
We've had a couple of pastguests Nick Norman and Louis
Bryce on the show, and this guyhas been around.
This music helped create thismusic of these two that I love
so much, and I was like you knowwhat I just got complete the
trifecta here and get Rob on.
So I'm excited, but tonightwe're joined by Florida native,

(02:39):
rob Hatch.
For years, rob has been themastermind behind some of the
biggest country hits and becamea force to be reckoned with in
the music world.
From his unforgettablecollaborations with George Jones
, johnny Cash to chart hoppinghits for Lee Bryce and Justin
Moore, rob's portfolio speaksfor itself.
But that's not all.
In 2020, rob decided to use histalent to help aspiring
musicians inform the successfulPump House Records, which

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focuses on artist developmentand providing label services to
its talented roster.
I can't wait for you to hearwhat Rob has to say about his
incredible journey in music andwhat's in store form at Pump
House Records.
You're ready to be inspired andtune into this must hear
episode tonight.
But here we're honored todiscuss the melodies and
memories that make up Rob'sjourney.
We're going to welcome on RobHatch.
What's up, buddy?

(03:24):
How you doing tonight.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Man, it's good to see you guys.
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Dude, we're excited, like I've been waiting to have
you on for a while now.
I'm like you know what We'vegot to have him on the end of
the season.
Just talk, man, because you'rethe mastermind behind some of
our favorite songs, really, andjust some of our favorite
artists we talked about.
I still remember we were at aLee Bryce show in Milwaukee,
wisconsin, at the rave, and he'slike I've never sang this song
before.
It's going to be one of thefirst times I've ever played

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this song live.
And he starts playing.
I don't dance and Julie and Ilooked at each other.
This is kind of one of thosehard dropping moments and we're
like dude, this is our song,this is our jam.
So it's an honor to be able totalk to you tonight, man,
because you are the man behindthat song.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
It's a pleasure to be here, and I just went blank on
the stage.
There you are.
It's just a pleasure to be here, and that was a good day man.
I was just one of the guys inthe room, so it was a they.
Not all the days aren't magic,but that was a good one.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, dude.
So we like to throw this wayback and kind of get your
earliest music memory.
Man, Can I always be in playaround the house?
What do you remember growing upand what was prominent in the
music world to you?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I mean, I don't, my parents weren't big music
listeners.
I get bigger big consumers ofmusic, so it was more.
You know, the first album Iremember is like Alabama, like
40 hour week man, like like androll on, and you know those
songs just kind of knocked medown.
Those were the first songs thatI like studied the whole record

(04:51):
, you know.
And then I remember the gamewhere you know the Kenny Rogers
stuff I was a big fan of and youknow those are kind of my
earliest memories and being inchurch but there wasn't a lot of
music being played on thestereo at my house.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeah, Most of my was in the car.
This is my dad listens tohimself in the car.
And then he had an old vinylrecord player and I always would
break into his vinyl collection, which I loved.
But what?

Speaker 5 (05:16):
was the no, my parents didn't collect.
They had, you know, one parentlistening to country music, one
parent listening to rock androll.
So you know, I wrote in bothcars.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
There you go, man.
That's good, because that'sgood.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
You get a good mix.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
So what was the first concert you went to like and
actually saw live music that youmight have paid for out your
own pocket, and kind of, did youtake anything away from that?

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Well, I didn't know that I paid for it.
The first one I remember I wasprobably the nine, I guess.
My parents took me to theO'Connell Center in Gainesville,
florida, and it was.
This is pre George straightturning into George straight.
This was George was opening upfor Randy Travis.
It was actually a Randy Travisconcert.

(05:58):
So George only had, likeunwound and you know, only a
song or two out.
So I remember George opening upfor Randy George, randy Travis
songs just wrecked me, man, theyou know 1982, and on the other
hand digging up bones andforever and ever Every man.
All those songs, man.

(06:19):
I remember my dad looking overand I'm like tearing up.
You know he's like what iswrong with you, son.
I'm like you hear those lyricsright, you heard what he said,
right oh?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Is that the first time you really got?
The Probably the first concertI remember.
Is that the first time you gota taste of like maybe
songwriting too in a way, andjust like going lyrics really
first time and kind of startedhitting you?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Maybe that's the first time I'm looking back.
That's as easy to see now Idon't know.
Then it meant anything.
He just thought I was anemotional train wreck of the kid
.
Probably it was.
You know I was.
It was poetry later.
And then you know, I didn'tstart till late, man, I was.
I was probably 19 in collegebefore I picked up the guitar

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and started playing around on it.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's why I was going to ask next what kind of
when did you finally startpicking that up and say this is
kind of what some of I want totest out.
So you're in college, huh.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, man, I was going to University of Florida.
I was a fraternity guy this isAGR fraternity.
I was a college of agriculturefarm guy and called fraternity.
Brother of mine Got a JonasWalker, you teach me how to play
a guitar.
So I still not sure why, but heshowed me three chords.
I went completely nuts.

(07:32):
I didn't want everyone to be asinger, so it was just a hobby
kind of thing.
He showed me three chords and Iwent a little crazy.
I bought three song booksWillie Nelson, jim Croci in
Alabama Jim Croci was a mistakeGuys don't do that.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
I was going to say this is before the YouTube days,
because when I, when I startedplaying, I started playing
probably early 90s, mid 90s, andI just had Tablature books.
That's how I kind of learnedhow to play.
I don't play anymore, butthat's why I was kind of messing
around with.
Now, these days these kids haveYouTube videos they could go to
and watch and it's like dudeokay.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
So you're exactly right, tablature was the thing.
Now you buy a song book andshow you where to put your
fingers at, and then you listento the record and try to copy it
.
Yeah.
And see what you can do, andhave someone actually show you
how to play it.
Oh, that's the way the fingersare shaped.
That's how they do it.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, they kind of eat so much easier.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
We weren't that lucky .
Yeah right, okay.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
So when did you get your first guitar?
Like, how did you acquire it?
Like, everybody has a storyabout the first guitar.
Do you have a story with?

Speaker 5 (08:31):
yours.
Sure, I was living with a guynamed Keith Sullivan.
He was a roommate of mine incollege.
His mother actually had aguitar that maybe her father had
given her.
Anyway, keith had brought it tocollege.
He was the only one who hadroommates and I saw it and that
was probably the first guitarthat I learned to play on.

(08:52):
I played on it for a few monthsand then I do believe Keith
helped me front the money toactually buy my first guitar at
let's see Lyphum Music Store inGainesville, florida.
That was where I bought myfirst guitar.
I still have that thingsomewhere.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's amazing, you got it.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
I bet it's beat up, I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
But, it can't be as bad as Willie's guitar.
That thing is just man.
I don't know how that's alltogether.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, if you saw how beat up this was, you would be
like, wow, why doesn't yourssound like it?

Speaker 4 (09:26):
I love that.
So in college you startedplaying.
When did you really start mewriting?
Did you like me writinganything in high school, any
poetry or anything like that?
Or did you have a journal Likewhen did songwriting or just
writing in general come to play?

Speaker 5 (09:39):
I had a class when I was man you make me think back
now.
I guess I was probably ineighth grade.
This guy named George Farrowwas a teacher and he went with
this poetry section and he likedsome of my writing and I ended
up doing quite a bit of poetryfor him and I remember thinking
I like that.
I'm pretty good at that, but Iwas a little embarrassed about
it.
I was the job so I didn't wantanybody to know, but somehow

(10:03):
that carried everyone.
I started playing guitar when Iwas in college I guess I
probably didn't forget aboutthat.
I went to a party, met a girlthat was way out of my league,
made a move that did not work,went home and wrote my first
song about the situation, calledher up and played her the song

(10:24):
and that did work.
I was like did that help youout a little bit?
That did work.
I was like, oh, oh, oh.
So I probably wrote five, sixsongs by myself.
I didn't know.
People wrote songs for otherpeople.
I was just messing around.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Once we were talking with somebody a couple of weeks
ago and we always thought,whenever you picked up the old
cassette or whatever, you werelike oh Metallica.
Metallica wrote all the songs.
You would never assume therewas a songwriter behind all
those songs.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
I had no idea.
I thought George Strait wroteall of his songs and I did think
Metallica wrote all the songs.
I didn't know a songwriter wasa thing, so it was just a hobby.
I was just playing around.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, kind of.
We used to know those littlenames underneath the song title.
There would always be a coupleof names underneath there and
the cassette books or whateverI'm like.
Who are these?
That's what got me curiousabout songwriters.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah, I don't even know.
At that point I had deep doveenough to know that was a thing.
Still it was still.
I just really liked music.
I like going to bars, listeningto people play and I like
listening to music records and Icould really feel them.
But I wasn't smart enough toforesee where it was going to go
.
For me it all feels like it wasan accident, kind of you know,

(11:36):
because at that point I had Ihave a guy call me out of
nowhere.
I got any Paul Rogers from Ocala, florida, and he had a one of
the top local bands around thereand he was opening up for all
the big action weekends.
He calls me out of the blue.
It says this Rob Hatch.
I go, it is.
He goes.
Well, this is Paul Rogers.
I got the best band in the area.

(11:56):
I said well, how can I help you?
He goes.
Well, I hear you write songs.
I'm like I don't even haveanything recorded anywhere.
How did you hear that?
Well, I heard some girlstalking about it and told them
give me your number.
So I go.
Well, what can I do?
He goes well, I want to playyour songs on stage.
So I go.
Just being negotiated, justbeing a negotiator I go well,

(12:19):
only if I get to be in the band.
He's like okay, thursday night,thursday night in Ocala, here's
the, here's the location.
And I showed up for thelocation and they were opening
up for David Allen Cove andthere's like 2000 people there
and I'd never even heard him.
I could talk to a PA.
I'm sure they had me muted thewhole time.

(12:40):
But I end up playing with Paulon the weekends for you know,
three years, maybe, just as justas a hobby, playing all the
bars through Florida.
And at one point he called meand said man, I need you to come
with me in Nashville, play forthis guy, and you're the only
one.
That's all the original songs,or I'd take the good guitar
player.
So we came to Nashville, met aguy who was doing some label

(13:06):
stuff.
He often happened to be a hitsongwriter and drew my attention
to that actually being a job hewas.
Maybe you should be inNashville.
So the same night I gotintroduced to a guy named Jared
Neiman and 23 years later I'mstill here.
It's really Jared's fault.
I get to be a bit of a blame.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's a great story.
I was gonna say cause?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
that was back when, like uh man, who was the other
guy?
Lewis would hang out John Stone, he was he a good buddy of
yours too.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
I've known John for years.
Absolutely Sure have I got acouple of his early songs.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
So we're we're big, big Eric church fans.
It's a lot of stuff that yousee behind us on the walls all
Eric church stuff, and I know hewrote some stuff for him way
back when.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
I forgot to hear some of that.
If you ran with that crowd, youmust be still hung over.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
I don't drink no more , probably because of that.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
That'll do it.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, that was back in the back in the day, when Lewis
and I were always running aroundand met John a couple of times.
Man, he was one hell of a guytoo, but uh.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
He's super funny, super talented.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well, who's that band ?
He had American Young, I think.
Was that what was?

Speaker 5 (14:07):
called Young.
I think he's still got thatband.
Yeah, dude, they're good, ericwas so good, they're super
talented man, I sure are.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
So what was a big?
I mean, that was what else waspushing you towards Nashville at
that point.
Did you, uh, did you, travelother than that one time to
Nashville, or was that yourfirst time there?

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Nope, first time there.
What was your first appearance?

Speaker 4 (14:25):
or your first impression of Nashville, when
you first got into the city.
What did you think?

Speaker 5 (14:28):
I blew my mind.
I could feel the energy when Icrossed the county line.
I was like what is going onhere?
And then I heard the music andI was like I have to be around
these talented people.
I was like I have to, I have tobe here.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
I don't know why yet, but I have to be here, Hell
yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
So um, my uh.
My father owned a Chevroletdealership at the time and
wanted me to take it over.
I did not want to do that, so Ipacked all my stuff into a
Goosh net cattle trailer andheaded to Nashville.
I'd been at university ofFlorida for six, six plus years
not a doctor, guys.
Just a couple of classes beforeI graduated, I packed all of my

(15:12):
stuff into Goosh net cattletrailer and head toward
Nashville.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
What were you studying at the time of college?

Speaker 5 (15:17):
It.
It's six years, brother.
You studied everything I wasgoing to say you probably you
sort

Speaker 3 (15:22):
of walked out with a couple of degrees.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
I was an agriculture guy, so I changed everything
from communication to education.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
You're just well rounded right.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Just well rounded.
I had a good time in college, Iyou know.
I kept thinking I would findthe thing that I wanted to do um
while I was there, and the onlything I actually did the whole
time was music, so it actuallyworked out.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
This is around the same time that you first met Lee
Bryce, too, when you firstmoved to Nashville, or was he
come around after a little afterthat?

Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, I did.
Well, I mean, I was, I was man.
I was about as fortunate as youcan be, is you know, just
moving to town, I was green as Icould be and didn't know
anything.
Jared and even I'd met my firstnight there and we'd really hit
it off.
He had had a you know recorddeal and a publishing deal and
kind of knew what things wereand how it worked and you know

(16:13):
what was good and uh, so he andI ended up living together for
about five years, I guess.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
But during that first year we all kind of met the
crew that we ended up runningaround with.
So which was?
You know you knew John.
You knew you know Lee Bryce andJamie Johnson and Randy Houser
and Jared and Dallas Davidsonand, um, you know.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Did you ever hang out ?
This is kind of he was withJamie Johnson a little bit.
Rick Tiger, does that namesound familiar?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
I do remember, rick, we didn't get to hang out a lot,
but I do remember Rick.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
He was a good friend of mine and he played here a
couple of times.
I know we lost him during COVID, but he was my all-time
favorite so I know he ran aroundwith those guys a lot.
He was a fiddle guy.
He was fiddling steel in thealley out there.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
I do remember that I was trying to put it together
and that did it for me.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
He was the hot dog guy, the hot dog man.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
The hot dog man Dude.
The feeling still was so good.
I missed those days.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, dude, that was my hanging.
I loved the fiddle.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know, running around playing music for fun.
Just glad to be here trying tofigure out how to do it, and
those were fun times.
I mean, I don't know that, Iwant to redo it.
Yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah, right, so it was your first number one with.
Was the Justin Morecut?
Was that your first number one?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, that was my first number one.
That one kind of saved my poorbroke country backside.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
So tell me a little bit where that song came from,
man, because that's a heaven,wasn't so far away.
That's just a song that makesme think of my grandfather.
To my hear, just I want to callhim up or just go go visit him
Now.
I have kids now to.
I would love for these kids tomeet their grandfather.
So that's the song that hit.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Go ahead.
I'm sorry I interrupted you.
No, no, you're okay.
No, that song basically istruth from top to bottom.
It's, you know, from from oneof us in the room.
Anyway, I wrote the song withmyself, dallas Davidson, mr
Brett Jones and Brett was theonly hit songwriter at the time.
Dallas and I were brand new andI don't even think we had
publishing deals at the time.
We wrote that song.

(18:11):
It's funny, sometimes the songsget cut really quick, right, you
know, you go in the demo andsomebody hears it and they have
to fight for it.
This song on set up for sevenyears.
Buddy Bardsman, red Acons, haddone a version of it at the time
.
Seven years later, whateverwith that didn't work out with
RCA or BNA, which her label was.

(18:32):
Seven years later, jeremyStover is cutting Justin Somehow
finds the old video of Rhettdoing the song, goes in and cuts
it on Justin the next day andthey put it out, you know, not
too many weeks later and it wasa big old hit for us.
So but that song set up forseven years, for anybody found

(18:54):
it.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Where were you at when you got the call that you
heard it was going number one.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I think I was in the woods.
I think I was putting up treestands.
That's usually where I'm tryingto be if I have a choice.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
And you have a cell phone out there.
Man, I'd leave the phone in thecar.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
I can't get.
My wife tracks me.
Man.
I had, okay, gilly, you getthis one.
So I was coming down to treestand here a year or two ago,
Jumped off the tree stand, mybinoculars slung up, hit me in
the eyes, black both eyes andbroke my nose.
Oh my God, my wife put atracker on me after that.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I have a tracker on him too.
It's okay.
Yeah, we were at like 360 afterwe got on my parents too so
that's, exactly right, shedidn't want to find you in the
middle of the woods.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Well, I think she does want to find me in the
middle of the woods.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, that's true, no .

Speaker 6 (19:48):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Like I was saying, that song is something that
everyone can connect with,because everybody has somebody
they've lost close to them andthey wish they could go and go
visit for a day, man, becauseit'd be awesome and sometimes
yeah that song's always been.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
I mean, where I'm sitting in my office, my
grandfather's old truck isparked right in the.
You know shied out back.
I love that too.
That is awesome, the truck wewrote the song about.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Awesome, I love that man.
So the next one came for youGood Night Kids with Randy
Hauser.
Dude that song.
That had to be a fun write onthat one.
Who was the co-writer on thatone?

Speaker 5 (20:23):
Randy Hauser, a buddy by the name Jason Sellers, big
hit songwriter, super talent,yeah, that'd be a fun one though
oh man, it was super fun.
Randy at the time had a prettyclear you know vision of what he
wanted the record to be like,and he was.
He was you know the you knowthe all the things that ended up
being hits on that record.
I think he did in you know aweek and a half.

(20:44):
Maybe you know from our countryfields.
All that stuff was pretty quick, but he knew he wanted another
tempo for the record.
He came over to the house andthen our buddy Jason, and you
know we ended up knocking thatthing out in about you know two
hours.
I guess Randy Bassfield wrotethe first verse by itself.
We were like, oh okay, but youknow he's, that guy is a super

(21:09):
freak on epic proportions.
So you know, anytime you writeand get to create with him and
then hear him sing it, it's justkind of like, wow, you know
he's, he's on that next level, Ilove that dude.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
He's a powerhouse.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
That's crazy.
So to have any success withyour buddies man, that's having
success at all feels like a damnmiracle.
So to get to have success withyour buddies, that feels like
the you know, the hit it out ofthe park.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, for sure so what made you and Lee kind of
come together and do pump houserecords, man, and what kind of
brawled that together?

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Man.
A lot of it was Nick.
A lot of it was, you know Leeand Nick had grown up together
and you know Nick's one of thebest singers in the world.
It's amazing If you haven'theard Nick, normie Stan and Key
West.
But we, we started with Nick.
We made what I think is anamazing record and we were

(22:09):
basically learning how to do iton my Lee's end.
So it's a you know we you knowpush those, you know, had some
singles out.
He had some success with somesongs.
You know our you know deal timeended and we ended up.
You know we have an artistnamed, you know, rebecca Lynn
Howard.
Do we have a record out on?
Now?
She has a song out called I ama mother.

(22:32):
That's killing it, and Lee andI are just doing our best to
learn how to support artists inthe digital world.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
It's crazy, man.
It's a different world now.
I remember, man, where was I?
I was somewhere with Lewis andhe hands me this shirt.
What was it?
Good, good cocaine or goodwhiskey and cheap cocaine?
And I brought it home.
One time my wife's like wherethe hell did you get that shirt?
I was like Lewis gave it to me.
Why she goes.
You are never wearing thatoutside this house ever.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
I think I might go away with it once or twice, but
it was one of my favorite songson the record.
I don't know if we were doingthe record without it.
I thought it was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
It was it is.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
I asked for one of those same shirts, jillian, and
they gave me like a medium.
I can't wear a medium, so mywife has one of those shirts.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
I think mine was like a large.
I can't even fit it anymore.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, he didn't fit anymore.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
I love that shirt.
I'd wear it all over the place.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's a good song, though it's a good song.
It's a great song.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
I got a pile of Nick Norman and Lewis Brice shirts,
but I don't have any goodwhiskey, cheap cocaine.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
He needs to make another run of those shirts.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
They do no.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
I love how Nick does the point.
He does a porch tour every yearand he always brings like Lewis
or somebody out.
I know he's out on it right nowand we'll catch him every now
and then when he comes to thetown.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
They usually play through here a couple times over
the summer?

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, they always come up.
They kill that tour.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
They'll go to people's.
They'll go anywhere.
Man, If you got the cash, theywill come to turn the party up.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
And that's just who Nick Norman is.
He, he just loves the laid backlife.
He said Key West, that guy'sKey West to the tee.
Like you look up Key West inthe dictionary, you're going to
see Nick Norman's face rightthere.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's just yeah, I am Ellis.
So that dude's voice and hislife yeah, I think both are
fantastic yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
I love that man.
So, yeah, you guys cametogether, you guys formed a pump
house with Nick Norman, rebeccaLynn Howard, she, she had a
song out, a single a few yearsback, didn't she?

Speaker 5 (24:27):
She did.
She had a song out for Gibbsseveral years ago.
That's what it was, and we'vebeen friends for gosh I don't
know 10 years.
Maybe she may be the mosttalented human I've ever met.
I mean, she is off the chart asa player and a singer and she's
a savant.
It's it's freakishly good.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
But the checkout some of her newer stuff.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, can I remember?
Forgive her for that song.
You're fixing to hear a lot ofit.
So we got a record.
We just got finished with her.
So the first single is is the Iam my mother, but we're going
to be pouring the music to itthis year, so I can't wait for
the world to hear what she'sfixing to bring.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
It's exciting yeah whatever on the show or
something we should have aroundthe show Be fantastic.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
We'd love for you to have it.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah, we'll be booking our new season sometime
soon.
Yeah, we definitely have tohave her on and talk with her.
So now I love that you guyscame together.
Pump House is an artistdevelopment collective that
offers a and a and our promotion.
But I love the way the namecame up, because Lee Bryce's
church that he was at years agoand had a little pump house
behind it and it's just cool howeverything came together with

(25:31):
that and I really love whatyou're doing.
But now you kind of talk to mea little bit today about Enter
Song and tell me a little bitabout this.
You started it was asongwriting booking agent with
Jared Neiman.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Tell you a little bit about this.
Past year we jared now, sowe've been buddies forever and
best of our media.
Inapolis we thought why not puttogether a hit songwriter way
to display the Nashville hitsongwriter show?
So we called a bunch of our hitsongwriter buddies and we
thought, OK, let's, let's see ifwe can't show the world what

(26:01):
you do and that they can bookyou to come play.
So we just started Enter Song,which is basically booking hit
songwriter shows and privatevenues, homes and theaters,
wherever.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
So you book porch tours all over the place?
No, that's.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's very similar.
It is very similar.
I love that it is basically allhit songwriters you know and we
go in.
You can choose by the song orby the writer and they come in
and do private events.
So a lot like the porch tour.
Yeah, very much.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Cool.
Those are the shows that we loveto go to, yeah we'll put those
links in the bio for this showso you guys could check all
those links out.
But that's why I mentioned RickTiger earlier.
That's what he would.
He used to just kind of comearound house to house and play
house shows and we would put 40,50 people in our basement I
have a little mini stageactually right behind me here
and we would just have a littleprivate, intimate like
songwriter shows, becausesometimes that's the best times

(26:54):
because you can hear the storiesand people aren't going to
interrupt you.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Well, the funniest just a little more intimate and
which makes it a little more VIP.
Maybe and you know, it's the,you know for the people who like
the behind the music, that'sthe behind the music for sure.
For the.
You know it's more of a varietyshow with the comedy and the
stories and the songs, and youknow you get to hear the real
thing.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
We may just have to put a new rule.
On our basement, there are nobathroom during performances
because we don't we have abathroom right next to the stage
and it's not soundproof andthis guy decided to use it
during one of our songwriterevents.
Rick's performance.
And it was actually his lasttime here and you could hear it.
He was a standing up doing hisbusiness.
You could hear it echo throughthe whole basement.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
And the worst than the bluebird.
I'll even go to the bathroomwhile I'm playing the show.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
But the guy comes out of the bathroom.
Rick Tiger looks at him dead inthe eye, goes man buddy fist
bumps for you.
The rest of the night I didn'thear no sink water.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
I'm like I was going to die.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Everybody started laughing.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Oh man, it was the best.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
But that's why I love those things, because it's so
intimate and it just can be fun.
And for the moment, man, theseguys are just going crack your
dead if you you leave it open.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
You've seen these guys.
My songwriter friend issomething most talented people.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
They're so great, yeah, they're so great.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
They hear their show and their story is.
It's one of my favorites, so wecan share it.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Talking about Lewis and Nick, though two talented
guys too.
But, you wrote I Don't Dancewith Lee Bryce man and that's
one song we talk a little bit,hopefully gets you gets a story
of it.
We'll get the story of it alittle later tonight, but before
you play it for us.
But your relationship with Leeman, how do you think that's
kind of over the years hasevolved and kind of developed

(28:44):
you guys into two amazingsongwriters though Well, we've
always been like brothers.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
You know all our guys are pretty tight.
Where he's from and where I'mfrom, even though he's from
South Carolina, from NorthFlorida, are pretty similar.
You know the people, theculture, the foods, the water,
the it's all, it's all.
It's very easy for us to get onthe same page quickly so we
tend to the vibe on the samesame channel.

(29:11):
So you know he's a super freak.
This guy can.
He's one of the greatestwriters and players and
arrangers and melody guys I'veever been around.
He can do all of this byhimself.
So you know, anytime you'rewith a guy that talented it's,
it's well, it's super fun.
You're just trying to take itto the next level.

(29:31):
You know I love it, but he's aspecial cat man.
He, he, he inspires you towrite your best.
So he, you know you can't messaround with him, you better
bring it.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
So we were talking earlier about we were mentioning
kind of our kids and he has aYouTube.
But you have two kids, man, andyou're married to.
How do you juggle everything,man, because it's wild trying to
do it.
But how do you juggle and howdo you kind of keep saying
during the times of just likeyou know, maybe if you're going
away for the kid or having aright for awhile like how do you
keep it all going?
Well, I mean you know you got.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
You know eight year old and a 10 year old.
You know, just a little olderthan you guys.
And you know it's you go.
How am I going to get all ofthe stuff done that I used to
get done?
You know now that I have to payattention and try to be a good
person and role model for theselittle people.
And you know it's a, it's a Idon't know.

(30:31):
At the same time, they're themotivation which makes you work
twice as hard.
So it's the give and the take.
You know it's the.
I can't imagine what my lifelooks like without them.
I honestly thought I wouldstart writing like sappy kid
songs or something.
You know when I had kids.
I'm like Shannon.
What if my brain doesn't workthe same?
And what if I'm all you know?

(30:51):
And then what?
Long after the kids and I writea few songs, she's like now
you're fine, peace again.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
You'll be all right.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
No, I love that.
Yeah, because like that's justlike me.
Like I'll write some stuff inmy phone every now and then.
If I just think of somethingand I'm like like today I
thought of like an awesome songlyrics, I wrote it down.
But I was like man ever sinceI've had kids.
I look back and everything'sabout the kids.
Now it's not about what.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
I used to think about .

Speaker 4 (31:15):
It's always about the kids now, so it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
My phone about the time and it's the like if I have
, if I have a ride for the day,I have like three hours because
I have to pick up kids and Ihave to.
I want to be present for them.
So it's more about trying tocompartmentalize and you know,
when I'm writing, I'm writing,but not being the world I used
to live in, where that's all Idid, where my brain was always

(31:41):
writing.
I wasn't paying attentionreally to anything, but what was
in my world?
Is it easy?

Speaker 4 (31:47):
for you to kind of turn off, like, say, if you're
out with the wife and kidsomewhere, kid somewhere and you
have an idea mainly you'rehaving your phone and writing
something down or can you kindof just put it on hold for a
little bit?

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, my wife loves the Dewey Cox the you could be
riding on me.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Dewey.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
That's me.
If somebody says something oran idea comes up, I will, I will
, I will go to work and at thatpoint I just as well walk
outside and write it down on myphone and record it really quick
, because I'm not really hearinganything else until I get it
down.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Got it.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
So you know that's.
But now, after years of writing, you're you learn to always be
looking for it too, because youknow one day it won't show up.
So you don't.
You know, you never want tomiss it.
If a great idea shows up, youwant to stop what you're doing,
right then, and write theinspiration for a minute and you

(32:44):
know, see where that's going togo before you go, I'll stick it
in my pocket and try that nextweek.
Yeah, you might want to give ita second because you may need to
get your that inspiration downfast.
I do, I forget.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
Oh, I've missed you.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
I don't.
I have a terrible memory whenit comes to remembering my lines
and melodies and stuff.
I have to.
I have to write it and recordit, and 10 minutes later I can
list it and go oh, that's prettygood.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Where'd that come?

Speaker 6 (33:16):
from Nice.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
I don't know.
Part of that is pretty goodthat others trashed I don't know
who wrote that part?
Yeah what an idiot wrote that.
So what do you think is?

Speaker 4 (33:26):
something you've learned about yourself through
your music career over theseyears.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Hmm, continue moving forward, man.
Yeah, I told him when I firststarted writing songs got buddy,
my name, ed Hill, super SmartGuy, big Hit songwriter.
I asked him if he had anyadvice on new songwriter.
And he goes man, just keepbeing you, just write what you
write and make your music styleswill change.
If you want to be here a longtime, just be great at what you

(33:54):
do, do your thing.
So for some reason that alwaysstuck with me.
I, I, you know I was always theredneck kid from North Florida.
I was never not going to bethat.
So you know, embrace yourstories, embrace your people,
embrace where you're from.
And you know, for me, all thoseturned out being lucky gifts.
I love that.

(34:15):
So what does?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
the rest of the year.
Look like for you, man.
You got any shows that you'reexcited to play or you're
playing coming up again?
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
A lot of private inner song shows will be out
with Lee a little bit We'll be,you know, trying to get records
out and chasing kids and hits.
Basically that's that's what we.
We have a couple of tripscoming up this summer that I'm
excited about and hunting seasonstarts in October and then I
lose all focus, yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Did you do a lot of songwriting retreats at all that
you go out and just get?
We talked about your circle.
Your circle is amazing.
Do you get those boys togetherand just go on a retreat for a
weekend and is right.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
It all depends.
It's really hard with theseguys schedules to get a lot of
them together.
You know what I mean.
There may not be more in smallgroups, get three or four of us
together to go off somewhere,but to kind of disengage from
Nashville a little bit and focuson just one person and one
objective.
You know like there's no needto go on a writer's retreat just

(35:19):
for them.
Heck of it, you know.
I mean you can ride inNashville.
Why go off on a trip?
Yeah, but when you have like aproject, you have a project
coming up you're like, okay,here's what we want to do,
here's what it's going to looklike, here's what we think's the
main cornerstone of the project.
I'm trying to write the otherparts of it in the second, third
singles and where it goes.
You know you have a focus so toget all those people together

(35:42):
and and you know, you know withkids and and families and
everything to have three dayswhere it's just day and night
for three days that you'rethinking of that artist and what
works with them and songs thatwould fit them and any ideas
that come up.
It.
It works really well for me.
I like it.
I'd rather get you know where Ihave more time to work with

(36:08):
them honestly.
So you're just disengaging fromwhat your normal routine is and
taking that extra time whereusually I'd be having dinner
with my wife and kids.
I'm sitting there talking aboutthis same song we've talked
about for five hours.
So you know, by the time youleave, you've usually got this

(36:28):
stack of what is a pretty soliddirection on.
You know what you're aiming for.

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What are most people afraid of?
That doesn't scare you.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Oh goodness, I don't know.
Maybe the future.
I'm pretty excited about seeingwhat's next and where things go
and what the next song is andwhat the next direction is and
who the next artist is, and Idon't know if that scares
anybody.
Maybe everybody's excited aboutthe future.
I don't know.
Yeah, but I'm pretty fired upabout it.

(37:36):
I'm curious to see where all ofthis goes.
This post COVID world, thisdigital world, this you know
where we're at.
I think there'll be some, somechanges that are good for a lot
of things.
I'm curious to see how it playsout.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
It's crazy how much social media does play a factor
in music now, like you're neverused to like as big as it does,
but it's crazy how you have tolearn that to kind of be
successful.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Well, yeah, it's just a matter of being able to reach
mass amount of people that thatthat you could have never.
You could have never met before.
Maybe they couldn't afford togo to a concert, or maybe they
just wouldn't have thoughtcountry music was something they
would even like.
But because they can digitallystream in, it doesn't cost that
much.
They'll try it out and test itout.
You know there's a there's justa lot of advantages to it, you

(38:24):
know, as well as somedisadvantages, but hopefully
we'll get that all figured out.
What's up?
Optimistic area I'm too, man.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
What's the quote that inspires you, and why?

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Oh, that's easy.
My favorite one is if you'regoing to be done, you got to be
tough.
I love it.
It really works for everything.
Honestly.
It from from hitting your nailto dating a girl you shouldn't
date to to, you know, getting onrestriction.
If you're going to be done, yougot to be tough man.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
I love that.
I was always a better ask forforgiveness and permission type
guy, but over the years thischanged.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
I was too Dude.
I was all about the forgiveness, not permission, until my
father taught me the going to bedone.
Got to be tough and it overrodethe forgiveness permission.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
I hear you as I got older.
I'm like okay whatever.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
All right, buddy, I'll say that I'm doing.
I write songs.
I guess I am.
I'm not listening very goodanyway.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
I love it.
So this next part's a fun, alittle fun.
We got a couple of games we'regoing to play and then, well
before we get to get you, getyou to play one for us.
But I picked four songs, acouple of them.
You might have had your hand inwriting A couple of them.
I don't think you did.
But your first memory that youhave with this song, the minute
you hear it, we'll just go playlike five seconds of it.
I hit yellow.
I have put some Jared Neiman inthere.

(39:48):
So when you hear love or loverman, when that song comes on,
where does that take you?
What memory do you think ofthat song?

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Austin Texas, jared was opening up for Brad Paisley,
or Lee was one of my, I thinkJared was.
So myself, lee Bryce and LanceMiller were out writing.
We jumped on the bus with Jared, went to Austin Texas and they
had this huge stage set up on alake and we were so fired up to

(40:16):
be on the show with Brad Paisleythat we drank a little too much
.
I think we got asked to go toour go to our buses at some
point, which we just wrote asong.
I think we ended up writing asong for Jared, but when I when
I hear that song, all I can dois picture those two guys out on

(40:36):
the front deck of that stageand lead bailing off into the
water and almost drowningbecause he had jeans on.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
I love that.
All right, hit the green one.
Lord, I quit the drinking, thesmoking and the honky tonk Keep
up with the Joneses.
Jamie Johnson, man, when youhear that song, where does that
take you?

Speaker 5 (41:00):
That takes me to Granny White Softball Fields
where he and two other buddieshad came to watch me play
softball because none of us hadanything else to do.
And walking through the parkinglot I mentioned that hook to
Jamie.
We wrote it the next day.
That's what we got to meet.
I think it was my first cut andwe had George Jones come in the

(41:22):
studio.
Buddy Cannon produced and thosewere.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Those were good memories, oh yeah, when I saw
that song I'm like that's one ofmy favorite Jamie Johnson's
back there.
I like I throw that in there.
All right, this next one you'regoing to like this next one.
Yellow Dude, that song is justperfect.
That was the most perfectedsong.

(41:45):
But, nick Norman, life is good.
When you hear that song, man,where does it take you?

Speaker 5 (41:50):
To Nick, Nick picking it out.
I mean, Nick's a greatsongwriter and had a lot of
songs that he didn't need anyhelp with at all.
So he he went through mycatalog.
I think he found two or threethat he thought would fit.
That was one of them.
He was like man, this is mysong.
He goes this I have to sing.
So and I remember thinking, yes, you do, man, that fits you
perfectly, I agree.

(42:11):
So I love hearing them singthat man, I love that cut too.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Yeah, that was one of my favorites.
When he put that song I waslike dude.
This is like I beat the cocainesong for sure.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
I don't know about beat the T shirt, but it's the
song, all right.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
The last one hit that green button.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
I.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Travis Trude I'm gonna be somebody.
Man, when you hear that song,where's it taking you?

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Takes me to Jared Neiman taking me to school, and
I'd first moved to Nashville.
I knew nothing about writingsongs, guys.
I had good ideas.
So Jared would take me toschool.
That song will come on theradio and I'd say, man, I love
that song.
Jared say, what do you loveabout it?
I'm like, well, I just he goes.
Do you love the melody?
Do you love the beat?
You love the story?
What do you love?

(43:02):
I'm like I don't know.
He's like, well, think about it.
He goes.
Did you, did you write it out?
I go write it out.
I'm not trying to sing it.
He goes, you're so stupid.
He goes.
If you'll, if you'll write itout, you'll see it different.
So I went home and I listenedto the lyrics, I wrote it out,
and it wasn't till I wrote itthat I realized nothing rhymes.
None of the verses rhyme at all, not any of them.

(43:24):
I go, it doesn't rhyme.
I go, how come it feels so goodand doesn't rhyme?
He goes because Travis Trude'sa badass.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
End of story.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
One oh one.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
I read that somewhere about that song.
I was like I got to hear thefull story behind that.
That's why I do that song andthey're kind of I knew there's a
connection there.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
That was Jared taking me to school.
I.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Love that.
All right, buddy.
This next little portion is wecall it the hot seat, so we're
gonna put you on the hot seat.
10 quick questions.
First thing that comes to mind,your first CD or vinyl you ever
purchased.
Alabama, nice, where's yourhappy place?
If you're going to blow offsome steam, where you going
Treestand?
All right.
Who has the best pizza you everhad?
Oh, five points, all right.

(44:09):
What's your wallpaper on yourphone?
My two kids.
What's a movie that can alwaysmake you laugh?

Speaker 5 (44:17):
Oh, always makes me laugh.
I don't watch movies to laugh.
I'm funny all the time.
Let's see movies makes me laughDumb and dumber words yes.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
What was your first job, your first paying gig?

Speaker 5 (44:32):
Washing cars at my father's dealership.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
What's the oldest thing you own?

Speaker 5 (44:40):
The oldest thing I own my grandfather shotgun,
great grandfather shotgunactually.
I gave me chills.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
I think, man, what chore do you not like doing?
This might be a question foryour wife, but Holding clothes,
dude, I don't like the full.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
I got yelled at today about it.
That's my.
That's what's why I'm laughingbecause I'll dry.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
I'll wash them all dry.
I'm.
I was double my kitchen tablein the middle of the kitchen
table waits for me to come homefrom work.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
It's even better.
My wife comes in and goes isthis?
Are all these clothescompletely pressed in this Box?
Are these, are these cleaner,these dirty?
I can't really tell.
I'm like they're all clean.
He's gonna finish them.
What was your favorite?
She loves me.
She doesn't always like me,yeah right.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Yeah, no one.
The truth what was yourfavorite child of television
show?
Dukes?
I have it.
Oh hell, yeah, dude, I love thatI remember our first episode of
that, oh boy, all right, but inthis, the last one.
Your bucket list man.
What's something that's on yourmusical bucket list that you
want to achieve or complete?
You've had a couple of numberones.
Now, under your belly, play thebluebird there may have venue

(45:48):
or something you still want todo to kind of before.
Before you call it a day, I'dlove to have a big hit artist as
a record label I'd love to.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
I've never been a red rocks, never done that.
Yes, I don't know I.
I kind of go with the flow andsee what opportunities come up.
So I don't know, just take aday by day.
I love that dude so well beforewe let you go for the night.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Can we get you to play one for us, you think?

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Yeah, sure, see if we can find a guitar.
I say that first one's layingaround too, probably now there's
.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
There's more than we need.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
I don't know there's more than we need.
I Written a lot of songs.

(46:45):
Can't remember any than theartist called it in the room,
but this one I Well.

Speaker 6 (46:56):
I'll never sit down.
That's what I always thought.
I'm not that kind of man.
I just that scared I don'tdance.

(47:18):
But here I am, spinning youround and round in circles it
ain't my style.
I don't care, I do anythingwith you anywhere.

(47:39):
Yes, you got me fall Because Idon't Don't dance.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Love's never come my way.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
I've never been this far.
But you took these two leftfeet and walked away with my
heart.
I don't dance, but here I amSpinning you round and round in

(48:29):
circles.
It ain't my style, but I don'tcare, I do anything With you.
Yes, you got me, because Idon't Dance, I don't dance.

(49:12):
But here I am Spinning youround and round in circles.
It ain't my style, I don't care, I do anything With you.

(49:34):
Yes, you got me fall Because Idon't dance, I don't dance.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Well, that dude that takes me back, takes me back to
Milwaukee.
When we first heard Lee singthat song, I was like I was
blown away.
Dude, it's just that two leftthings that way better.
That's you left feet the linethat got me going like oh yeah,
I definitely have two left feetfor sure.
Well, Rob, I can sit here andtalk to you forever tonight, but

(50:29):
, man, I really appreciate youspending some time with us.
This was a wise is tellingJillian this one with the best
shows.
I think we've done a while so Iloved it just sitting here and
talking to you right up.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Well, thank you J Lee and thank you Eric.
It's a pleasure to you knowbeyond you guys.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I appreciate you about me oh, dude, is awesome.
We wish you got nothing but thebest with pump house,
everything.
Dude, at least love watchingyou.
Six c, dude, and just we'regoing from here, so we cannot
wait to see what happens.
This enter song thing I gotcheck this out, though, because
we're gonna put this, like Isaid, the link in our bio For
the show.
But some school man, I lovewhat you're doing for artists
like this, so it's really cool.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Y'all check it out.
I appreciate y'all payingattention, letting some hell,
yeah, dude.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
All right, buddy, you have a great night man.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Thank you, guys, and we'll see you again soon.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
I'll talk to somebody .
Bye, bye.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
Thank you, thank you I.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Love that.
That was so much fun.
It was a great show.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
He was so wonderful.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
I had a feeling like going in the kind of just like
research for this show.
Like this guy, we're just gonnahave fun talk with them.
Oh, yeah, he was said, the guyslike honestly his three biggest
that he's put out.
I don't dance having so faraway man.
That's just one and good nightkiss by Randy Hauser.
I was a good one too, I guessthat was a fun one though, but
it's so much more just like, ifyou guys are, kind of talked a

(51:41):
little bit about it.
But remember, a couple episodesback we talked about Nick
Norman.
That's one that Robin Nick hashad an amazing friendship,
amazing relationship andpartnership with this old music
journey there on, and Nick isthis man, he's amazing artist.
So check him out if you guyscan.
You know, I think it's a greatthing to have a man like Nick
and Kind of favorable LewisBryce to.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Yeah, we got their Lewis in there every now and
then that's our boy there.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
So yeah, amazing circle.
And, honestly, when you have acircle like that Everything you
do you're gonna succeed becauseeverybody supports each other.
That's awesome.
That's what I'm saying.
Everybody has it and I Lewishas always told me how, how give
a bond these guys all havetogether, so that's why I love
about it.
I loved having Rob on tonight.
So amazing, amazing.
I mean I'm not gonna talk aboutI feel like Cody Rhodes, what
are you gonna talk about nowthis weekend?

(52:28):
So we got out of a whim.
We're like all right, nascar iscoming to Chicago, there's four
or five concerts, let's see ifmaybe we can go out and cover it
for our website.
And so I put it for a mediarequest for NASCAR.
We got approved and it was anhonor to be able to go out there
and we were able to shoot andwe're gonna have a review coming

(52:49):
up in next day or two,hopefully before we get out of
the Nashville this weekend.
But wow, what an experience andhonestly I know it's not NASCAR
fan one bit.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Oh, I'm not, not a NASCAR fan, I just have never
you never thought you'd be inthe middle of it.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
I'm not not a fan, though Now it's like it's
mind-blowing and stuff is thisit was wild to see Cars go.
I mean, we're from Chicago.
You see cars go flying by youall the time on 1994, but it was
crazy to see these cars going150 miles an hour on the Street.
You walk and ride or drivearound on normally, and so it
was just so surreal us talkingabout it.

(53:24):
We can't wait till we put thereview out and going through the
photos we got.
I had over like 2000 photos,but it was crazy.
Saturday was fun and ended alittle bit earlier Saturday was
fun.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
It was hot.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Yeah, it was hot.
I'm a little bit and we get.
We get a hotel, but we put iton the opposite side of the
track.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Yeah, and there was no way to walk straight through
Around the entire track to getto it, which is insane.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
But Sunday was crazy because I have been in rain
before but I've never been inlike a torrential downpour Up to
my ankles in my shoes because,granted, if you guys ever see me
on a bob, you see me Sunday inNashville.
I'll be wearing my sandals.
That's where I like to roll.
I like to wear my sandals allthe time, but we had where,
since we were so close to thetrack.
We're where jeans andclose-toes shoes and I only have

(54:11):
like one pair of shoes.
I think that I to my name, soI'm over here in ankle deep
water and we Uh, right before weleft the hotel the funniest
thing and jeans.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
We were in jeans and tennis shoes and nothing.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
There's no worse feeling than to be in Wet jeans
and wet tennis shoes for 12hours but jillian had this
amazing idea she's gonna calldown to the front desk and get
four ice bags delivered to ourhotel room and then tie our feet
up in these ice bags, these icebucket liners, and At one point
it felt like I was literallywalking in a swimming pool in my
shoes, because these I couldsay all the water.

(54:45):
But we had a blast.
Uh, we'll have some photos anda review up in a couple of days,
but it was just amazing time.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
In all the concerts were canceled, so we didn't even
get to.
We got to see black crows.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
I got to see black crows and the local act, but uh,
it was.
It was this phenomenal thewhole weekend.
It was amazing to see these acool experience to see
everything, to see these guysWalk around their umbrellas and
rain and their crew guys runningaround barefooted through the
deep water and just Like.
We were sitting in the mediaroom with a bunch of other
photographers and media peopleand I looked at jillian I was

(55:17):
like, all right, we either sithere and stay dry or we go out
there and see the action and seewhat's going on and see what.
What does NASCAR do during arain delay?
I mean, a lot of people mightnot be able to see what we were
had access to be able to see.
So I was like let's just godocument this and that's kind of
where my review is Going to gowhen we put this out in a couple
days.
It's going to be like my twodays in NASCAR Just kind of

(55:37):
document.
What we went through and sawand everything else is going to
be pretty cool to put out there.
So look for that in a couple ofdays.
We talked a little bit aboutNashville.
We're going to be down there.
Uh, sunday.
We're leaving saturday aregoing to be down there sunday
for our next riders round.
I can't wait for this one.
We're still working on thelineup.
We have a couple alreadyannounced.
We're going to be announcing afew more here soon.
Um, this is god.
I can't wait for that.
So, but that live oak inNashville.

(55:59):
I was going to try to pull upthe lineup real quick, but you
know, here we go.
No, I gotta talk about one guythat's on the lineup, though you
probably know.
So sunday we're in live oak forour next riders round 130 to 5
30 pm, followed by raise rowdy,which is me awesome.
They're awesome lineup too, I'msure.
But there's a guy about when dowe live, miss sippy?
Oh five, so I would say ohseven, probably.

(56:22):
We you and I went to a corismith show At the new daisy in
mithas, tennessee, and this guyopened up and he just has a
couple songs stuck with me and Ididn't find them on facebook or
whatever.
I've been following themprobably since 2006, 2007 or
whatever, and I finally was likeyou know what dude you got?
Come on, play.
Warmers are right around, sohe's gonna be there.
Sunday's names clay, come be.
I cannot wait to see what he'sup to.

(56:43):
And what he's been doing.
But that's one name you guyswant to look for this sunday if
you come off to the show,because this, honestly, his some
of the songs to make goodthings was one of his songs I
just loved.
I had it.
But, uh, our friends ever aregonna be coming out and uh, one
of their, one of their goodfriends, brian simpson, was just
on the show a couple weeks ago.
He's gonna come out to anamazing round pain taylor,

(57:04):
amazing up and coming artists,uh, that my buddy, jeff brown,
turned me on to.
Just amazing singer-songwriter,two people that I'm excited to
see together in a round.
Uh, kyle austin and hunterthomas mous is going to be there
, uh, together.
That's gonna be prettyinteresting because those boys
get together.
Then our good friend, uh,lindsay ryan, that helps us out
and she sponsored the lastcouple events.

(57:24):
She writes for us in melodies,memories here, but she uh she's
actually sponsoring aroundherself and she's bringing in
tray odum, which is amazingartist, sam kuhn, bobby watson,
katlyn croaker, who played ourlast writer, tron.
She's gonna come back and playagain.
And then, of course, a coupleof my chicago boys are coming
out, which I'm pretty excitedfor.
But, uh, bond henry, you guyssaw him on the podcast a couple
weeks ago.

(57:44):
Uh, he's played a couple of ourrounds and johnny miller.
Johnny miller is one of myfavorite artists.
I don't know if you knew johnnywas playing, did you?

Speaker 3 (57:52):
I don't think I knew johnny was going to.
I don't think you knew this.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
That's something that's used now, but johnny
miller is going to be comingdown.
Amazing songwriter, this guy.
He is surrounded by what?
Nine girls, nine women he has asong called woman's world.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
That's this he has all daughters and then all
granddaughters, allgranddaughters yeah, I think
it's like eight or nine.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Just like you know, we did a photo shoot with him.
He did one with all hisdaughters, all his
granddaughters is amazing,though, but if you guys get
there early, definitely checkout bond henry and johnny miller
, and then, uh, caroline dare orcaroline dare, sorry.
Uh, we got tons of submissionsthat come in all the time, and I
know jillian sat down a coupledays ago.
I said this one is on you.
I said I want you to pick twoor three artists.

(58:29):
Give me some names and we'regonna invite them.
Caroline dare was one of themthat she picked out.
I checked her out, justphenomenal.
We have a couple other invitesout.
We'll see what happens, butthere's a chance we might add
one or two more to this lineupon sunday, but we're we're
excited because it's a packed,packed lineup.
It's gonna be a great day.
It's gonna be a beautiful day,in natural, I hope, because
after this last weekend, I needsome sun some warm sun, agreed

(58:53):
no rain, so, but we're anytimeof year.
I live oak though.
Great food, great drinks, greattimes.
So, uh, we just love going andbe able to host these events of
live oak and uh, we're gratefulthat we get to do this three or
four times a year.
So, but, guys, um, I'm gonnastop rambling because that's
probably what I've been doinglately, but I'm excited.
It was a good show, it was agreat show.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
I have an argument.
Thank you, so so, so much.
I'm gonna argue when tomorrownight.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
But this is the one tomorrow night.
Talk a little bit about it.
It's been a long time comingbecause this guy's played a few
of our riders rounds.
Played my birthday last yearand I've been waiting for the
day to come where we're gonnasit down.
Talk to this guy for a littlebit, and tomorrow night is the
time you know it was a hard daythis morning.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
I just show up.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Russell's uh oh yeah.
So, yeah, I'm excited for thatone.
It's gonna be a fun one.
So, guys, we cannot wait to seeyou tomorrow night.
Thank you so much for tuning intonight, for with rob, it just
was amazing.
Um, it sucks because we'vereached the end of another
fantastic episode.
I just want to take a moment tothank rob hatch for joining us
today and sharing his incrediblejourney as a singer-songwriter.
His storytelling ability andgenuine talent are unparalleled.

(59:57):
Rob's story is not onlyinspiring, but it's also a
testament to hard work anddedication.
His music has brought comfort,enjoyed accountless fans around
the world, including myself, butI speak for the entire audience
want to say that we can't waitto see what the future holds for
rob hatch.
We're all excited to see themilestones he reaches and the
impacts he makes.
So, with that said, thank youonce again, rob.
You're a true inspiration to usall and we wish you all the

(01:00:18):
best in the future endeavors.
Until next time, folks, keepchasing your dreams and never
forget to turn up the volume onrod.
Rob hatches music.
Anything he writes, man it'sI'm telling you this goal
anything he puts his name on.
So but, thank you for joiningus tonight and we hope you
enjoyed this episode as much aswe did.
Don't forget to catch up oneverything you missed from
tonight and past episodes overat melodies and memoriescom.
That's and melodies andmemoriescom.

(01:00:40):
And uh yeah, like I said,another amazing show tomorrow
night Leading up to our 175thepisode this sunday in Nashville
.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
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