October 23, 2025 • 64 mins
Forget the neat boxes and old assumptions—The Great Divide shows Willie Nelson coloring outside the lines with a full palette of collaborators, writers, and styles. We roll through all twelve tracks and talk honestly about what soars, what sags, and why this 2002 curveball still sparks debate. From the radio-ready snap of Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me), penned by Rob Thomas, to the string-laced ache of Mendocino County Line with LeAnn Womack, the album keeps pivoting—sometimes smooth as velvet, sometimes rough with grit—and that friction is the point.
We unpack how Kid Rock’s gravel pushes against Willie’s calm on Last Stand in Open Country, why Sheryl Crow’s harmonies on Be There for You give the chorus its backbone, and how Bernie Taupin’s storytelling muscle stitches American myth into modern production. The title track becomes our compass—starting small, swelling big, and braiding Western and Latin colors without losing Willie’s porch-swing ease. And then there’s the curve we didn’t see coming: Just Dropped In, a psychedelic cover that crackles with personality and proves that interpretation can be its own brand of authorship.
If you care about how legends evolve, collaborate, and curate, this listen is a master class in choices: arrangements that expand without suffocating, vocals that stay human inside glossy rooms, and a tracklist that risks inconsistency to chase moments of real spark. We share candid highlights, lowlights, and our final non-hit rankings so you can argue back with your own. Hit play, ride shotgun through the twists, and tell us where you land. If this breakdown moved you or made you rethink the record, follow the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend who loves a good album debate.
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SPEAKER_16 (00:07):
Alright, thank you for listening to The Greatest
Non Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing MariaShut Up and Kiss Me is my
co-host Tim.
That's uh one of the songs onWillie Nelson's The Great
Divide, which is gonna be thesubject of our podcast today.
Again, thank you all forlistening.
(00:27):
Um like we do on all of ourpodcasts, we're gonna listen to
all the songs on this album, andat the end, rank the top three
of the songs that are not hits.
Yeah.
So there's a couple of songsthat were singles on this album.
Um the first one is MendocinoCounty Line.
It's a duet with um WillieNelson and uh Leanne Womack.
(00:50):
And then uh Maria, and then inquotes, or parentheses, Shut Up
and Kiss Me, is a song.
It was actually written by RobThomas.
So this is a sort of like acollaborative effort where uh
and this probably isn't his mostoriginal and authentic album.
(01:10):
You know, this is uh an albumwhere he's collaborating with a
lot of different um songwriters,stars, up-and-coming artists, um
all of the songs.
Um Mendocino County Lions duetwith Leanne Womack, like I
mentioned.
Um Last Stand in Open Country,which is the third song, is a
duet with Kid Rock.
Um Be There For You, a duet withCheryl Crow, that's another song
(01:34):
on the album.
Uh let's see, uh there's a songcalled Don't Fade Away, duet
with Brian McKnight, and thenthe very last song, You Remain,
is uh a duet with Bonnie Ray.
So we're gonna listen to all 12of the songs, and um there are
some other people that wrotesongs on here too, like the song
Time After Time is a remake withwith uh Cindy Lauper.
(01:56):
Okay.
So there was that.
We're gonna listen to that.
Okay, that's kinda cool.
I've listened to this album.
I've listened to like the firstfive or six songs a bunch of
times, and then I can never getthrough it all the way to the
end, I'll be honest with you.
So yeah, that's that's sort ofwhere we're at.
But I'm gonna g we're gonnalisten to every single one of
them.
Give it give them all a fairshot.
Maybe this happens often whereyou listen to an album beginning
(02:20):
to end with your undividedattention, and then that's when
you kinda see you know, you hearit from a uh like a completely
different point of view.
Or at least uh an album that youhaven't you're not really that
much familiar with.
So um yeah, I'm looking forwardto it.
You know, 10 minutes too.
We've got some funny soundclips, we're gonna yuck it up
and go back and forth, you know,like we always do.
(02:44):
And um so what else can I sayabout this album?
It was it seems like it wasrecorded uh primarily in 2001.
It was released in 2002.
Um it's the emphasis again, likeI said, is on the
collaborations.
Yeah, this is this is atechnique it it felt like that
um like the music industry wasemploying where they would uh
(03:08):
reach out to artists that arewell and I guess in the case of
Leanne Womack, you know, they'reboth sort of in the country
realm.
Um and that's where they youknow earn their fan fan bases.
Uh but then like at the time,you know, in 2001, you know, Kid
Rock was just coming around, andso he's more of a rock guy, but
a country guy too.
And so um Sheryl Crow was moreyou know within the pop culture
(03:32):
realm, although she was a littlecountry, I guess.
And there's of course BrianMcKeight.
So anyway, yeah, there's a lotof yeah, there's a lot of
collaborating with a lot of bignames.
Um not just on like the um theduet, but uh the songwriting.
Like I mentioned before, RobThomas is writing Maria.
(03:53):
Uh Bernie Taupin wrote LastStand in Open Country, which is
the uh the duet with Kid Rock.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
So the guy behind the guy, behind the guy.
SPEAKER_16 (04:02):
Alright, thank you, Tim.
He is the guy behind the guy,behind the guy.
Bernie Top and the man, thelegend.
So this was pretty good.
SPEAKER_02 (06:09):
Will he's a legend.
Uh I'm not sure if he uses uhtoilet paper, but I'm imagining
that he does.
Maybe it's a handy toilet paper.
Or maybe he uses the day guy.
You know, he plays the sameguitar.
It's got the hole in it, youknow.
It's just like he's had oneguitar in his whole career.
SPEAKER_16 (06:45):
You're referring to him being in the air force back
in the day.
He wasn't the Air Force.
That's from nineteenseventy-three.
He was in the he was in the AirForce.
In nineteen fifty, he joined theUS Air Force.
He was later discharged in thebackground.
(07:06):
He was a discharge.
SPEAKER_02 (07:28):
Um, I just sort of Mendocino County line.
I thought it was such a greatsong, so I just kind of
shouldn't.
(07:56):
I love the song, you know.
Lovely song.
Of course.
SPEAKER_16 (08:03):
Alright, cool.
Um we ready to get in it.
Any any last thoughts?
Uh anything in particular you uhhad in mind forever hold your
peace.
SPEAKER_02 (08:16):
Oh gosh.
I mean, I don't even I don'tknow.
I'm not gonna say anything.
SPEAKER_16 (08:21):
Alright, well let's get right into it then.
This is gonna be uh Maria ShutUp and Kiss Me.
There we go.
SPEAKER_01 (08:28):
Shut up.
I didn't say anything.
SPEAKER_09 (08:35):
That's my favorite part.
Rewind my life on when my worldgot dark.
SPEAKER_02 (08:50):
I messed my knobs already.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_09 (08:52):
You turn my light on.
I've watched it.
That's what she said.
Light of my light.
SPEAKER_02 (09:00):
I watched the shining last night as well.
We're gonna get yeah, we'regonna get good flip.
Just see how hours.
SPEAKER_09 (09:08):
More than I need it to be, I'd say I'm sorry.
Shut up and kiss me.
Stop shaking, stand up and holdme.
I bet you're gonna miss me.
You need to believe me.
Shut up.
SPEAKER_15 (09:30):
Weren't you a Rob Thomas fan?
Oh, matchbox 20.
SPEAKER_02 (09:33):
Yeah, you loved it.
Man, back in the day.
I lighted on fire with thatmatchbox.
Yeah.
That 20 back batches of matches.
That's right.
SPEAKER_09 (09:46):
That's my favorite shirt.
SPEAKER_16 (09:51):
Shirt?
SPEAKER_09 (09:52):
You always had on the side.
SPEAKER_16 (09:53):
Yeah, what is this?
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not always like, oh man, shewore that shirt.
I mean, unless it's a tube topor something cool like that.
SPEAKER_06 (10:01):
Every time you walk on, I don't know, but I remember
the shirt.
SPEAKER_02 (10:05):
Yeah.
I mean Yeah, she wore the shirtand it just got a color.
Yeah.
A certain color.
SPEAKER_09 (10:15):
Something I can't explain.
Can't explain.
Shut up and miss me, stuff.
You're gonna miss me.
SPEAKER_07 (10:33):
You need me to be up.
SPEAKER_02 (10:36):
It's like those Rob Thomas horns are in the
background.
SPEAKER_07 (10:39):
So you can't turn me on.
SPEAKER_02 (10:40):
The horn people, they're definitely on dope.
SPEAKER_07 (10:43):
What are you people?
On dope?
Can we talk it horn?
SPEAKER_17 (10:53):
What the fuck are you talking about?
SPEAKER_02 (11:06):
It's crying.
SPEAKER_07 (11:07):
It's a beat.
SPEAKER_02 (11:12):
But there's an underlying like Just calm down.
Oh, don't tell her to calm down.
SPEAKER_09 (11:19):
That's the way that's can't do that.
SPEAKER_02 (11:21):
We gotta address why she's pissed off.
SPEAKER_09 (11:27):
Shut up and piss me.
Shut up and piss me.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
SPEAKER_02 (11:45):
Round and round.
Round and round we go here.
Burning.
Oh the whistle.
SPEAKER_15 (12:08):
I love the little whistle.
SPEAKER_16 (12:33):
Good music.
SPEAKER_02 (12:39):
But still the Rob Thomas horns.
Screams make up sex all over us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (12:48):
Going right in the Mendocino County Line.
SPEAKER_09 (12:52):
Counted stars on the fourth of July.
Wishing we were rockets firstinto the sky, talking about
redemption and leaving thingsbehind.
SPEAKER_16 (13:12):
Yeah, the strings.
SPEAKER_01 (13:17):
I like that feeling.
Our orchestrated paradisecouldn't make you stay.
SPEAKER_04 (13:28):
As the sun sinks west of the Millestinal Kelvin.
SPEAKER_16 (13:34):
Darling.
I'm happy.
It's like right when I'm gettinginto this song.
SPEAKER_15 (13:42):
I had to yank you out of it.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah.
Oh, the photograph.
SPEAKER_04 (13:51):
I used to make you happy.
What's the phone?
I'm happy.
SPEAKER_02 (14:08):
So let's go.
Maybe.
SPEAKER_09 (14:12):
Feeling very mortal every Friday night.
Oh.
SPEAKER_04 (14:15):
Lost in Archives' lipstick with wine.
SPEAKER_02 (14:21):
Yeah, Greg Leeds.
This must have been exhaustingto get right.
Yeah.
I have these things.
Alex and Krause is on fiddle,wow.
SPEAKER_16 (14:32):
Yeah, playing the fiddle.
SPEAKER_08 (14:33):
Remind me of a time.
SPEAKER_16 (14:38):
Dan Dugmore's steel guitar.
SPEAKER_02 (14:44):
I'm a sucker for that.
I think that's what it is.
SPEAKER_14 (15:02):
Talking over me now.
(15:27):
Spent time with an angel justpassed in through.
Now it's all that's left is thisimage of you.
Oh, kinda like the shining, butthat's like a demon?
Oh.
SPEAKER_02 (15:35):
I'm gonna get tie into your sound clip.
There we go.
There we go.
Make it make sense.
SPEAKER_16 (15:52):
The Shining took place in the middle of winter,
so I feel like seasonally we'reoff.
SPEAKER_02 (15:59):
But how could I overlook that?
SPEAKER_15 (16:04):
Yeah, we get to.
SPEAKER_17 (16:06):
How could I overlook that?
I know.
I mean, your now is my now.
That's right.
Our now.
SPEAKER_16 (16:35):
It's bad.
SPEAKER_12 (16:41):
Remember that these are just temple farmers.
These are people of the land.
SPEAKER_16 (16:47):
Shout out to Gene Wilder.
Oh god.
It's getting me.
You're getting for clamps.
Oh god.
I'm not a crier.
I don't I'm not a crier.
I don't cry.
I I work out.
I have hobbies.
I don't I don't come here.
SPEAKER_14 (17:06):
Come here.
Come on.
I have hobbies.
SPEAKER_02 (17:11):
Like podcasting.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not a crier.
Not a crier.
unknown (17:15):
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (17:20):
So the next song is just This is the kid rocking.
SPEAKER_09 (17:26):
I was looking for America.
Last stand in the movie.
SPEAKER_16 (17:33):
Country.
SPEAKER_09 (17:34):
So a young gunslinger was something to
prove.
That's like going out there witha loaded gun.
Like anybody else.
I came searching.
Like anybody else.
Looking forward to the case.
Like the bass on this.
SPEAKER_06 (17:58):
Like any young blood.
I found fat cats today.
SPEAKER_16 (18:06):
The producer too, Matt Sirletic.
Plays some electronics at that.
SPEAKER_04 (18:23):
Now it's our last time open country.
SPEAKER_16 (18:27):
And Toppin wrote this one too.
SPEAKER_07 (18:30):
This is my last time to be with you.
SPEAKER_04 (18:37):
This is the last death.
I'm still up here.
SPEAKER_08 (18:50):
Then they all might stand out.
SPEAKER_06 (18:54):
It's like an auto.
SPEAKER_02 (18:58):
Oh.
Electronics done.
Yeah, that's something.
SPEAKER_09 (19:07):
I'm a ladder, I am a black.
SPEAKER_16 (19:13):
Gonna why wasn't this a good?
This is good.
SPEAKER_04 (19:19):
I was looking for America.
SPEAKER_16 (19:27):
Might be James Creek and do that.
That doesn't weird.
Yep.
SPEAKER_09 (19:33):
He was headed down, the dusty back.
Headed down to the black bag.
SPEAKER_04 (19:41):
Chasing down the back.
SPEAKER_14 (19:48):
Jason down the golden cap.
Yeah, I don't know.
Idol.
SPEAKER_09 (20:17):
Stop on faster.
SPEAKER_15 (20:26):
It's like a younger horse pride kid rock.
SPEAKER_02 (20:35):
Got a dust off.
SPEAKER_09 (20:36):
Now it's our last dust yourself off.
Situate those old balls.
SPEAKER_15 (20:46):
Just get out of there.
Yeah, we have to get that clipout of there.
Love place.
SPEAKER_02 (21:15):
Death strings.
I like the strike.
And I like to distortion.
And you can hear a band.
I mean.
This is way better than acountry song that I and Kid
(21:37):
Rock's voice is has thatraspiness to it.
Willie has always had that likepureness of voice.
Sort of almost like he'stalking, but not quite.
Okay.
And then Kid Rock clearly has totry really hard to just sound
like that.
(21:58):
It's pretty interesting.
SPEAKER_16 (22:00):
Okay, there's a lot.
Yeah, there's a lot going onthere.
Yeah.
That's a nod hit, so I'm gonnakeep that in mind.
This is it won't catch mecrying.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
Are you crying?
Am I crying?
SPEAKER_16 (22:33):
This is also written by Rob Rob Thomas.
SPEAKER_14 (22:42):
Or will you shut up and kiss me and then catch me
crying?
3 a.m.
SPEAKER_02 (22:52):
That's when he writes all his songs.
SPEAKER_09 (22:59):
Your five sweepers far away from you.
SPEAKER_16 (23:41):
This is like the touching part of the song.
Just like you're rumining thisfor me.
There's gotta be some guy likein his truck.
Yeah, just got broke up, andhe's just like, God damn it,
he's listening to this.
SPEAKER_15 (23:55):
But then he sees a deer, so he gets his wings.
He sees a Hooters down the road.
He's like some wings.
Yeah, he gets some wings.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
Beverly can use just go kiss off down the road.
At Jimbo's house.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (24:13):
Right.
SPEAKER_16 (24:19):
Heard Tammy Link got the Jazz Tutors.
Let's go check it out.
Tammy Lynch.
Tammy Lane.
Nancy Lane.
Anything with a land on theedge.
SPEAKER_09 (24:47):
You won't catch me crying over you.
SPEAKER_16 (24:53):
Thank you.
Daniel's work.
I know, yeah.
I was about to start getting forclaims, and then what are you
gonna do?
SPEAKER_09 (25:02):
Aren't you?
Yes, I love you and sweet.
You've got two hobbies and catchme crying over you.
SPEAKER_17 (25:24):
Like you all catch me crying.
Classical, like you all catch mecrying.
SPEAKER_02 (25:36):
You all catch me crying.
Simple lines here.
SPEAKER_10 (25:44):
Over you simple lines intertwining.
SPEAKER_12 (26:09):
Excuse me, Flo.
SPEAKER_16 (26:16):
Alright, this is Be There For You.
It's a Cheryl Crow duet.
SPEAKER_03 (26:23):
She's magically delicious.
She just the way that you kissme.
SPEAKER_08 (26:31):
She's just the way that you don't.
SPEAKER_02 (26:34):
But she's not on dope.
Ah yeah, she is.
They're both on dope, aren'tthey?
It's like a free rack beforerecording.
SPEAKER_08 (26:43):
When you swear that you walk.
SPEAKER_07 (26:56):
When we talk on the phone.
What are you people?
On dope.
Mr.
SPEAKER_16 (27:03):
Hand.
Yeah, that that seems thatseemed necessary on some level.
Mr.
Hand.
SPEAKER_08 (27:13):
Whatever you do, I will be there for you.
Through the thunder of the rain.
SPEAKER_04 (27:24):
And whatever you do, I will almost do you, I will be
there.
SPEAKER_16 (27:34):
This this album gets you right here.
Oh, good bassing going on inelectronics.
SPEAKER_09 (27:50):
I may like social graces.
Huh?
But I won't swallow my pride.
There are millions of placescould be by nearby.
SPEAKER_10 (28:13):
Whatever you do, I think toy.
SPEAKER_04 (28:25):
Whatever you do, I would do it.
SPEAKER_02 (28:45):
It's complex.
SPEAKER_16 (28:54):
What do you have what do you think it does with
it?
SPEAKER_13 (29:16):
I mean, it's not just it might not be just such a
simple.
SPEAKER_05 (30:09):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (30:22):
What's that little show?
Shout out to uh Shout out to thethe runners, actually.
Shout out to the runners outthere.
And Waiting Gar.
(30:42):
Yes.
SPEAKER_13 (30:43):
You're running around.
SPEAKER_16 (30:46):
Shout out to my cousin Chris.
SPEAKER_09 (31:14):
This is the great divine.
SPEAKER_10 (31:20):
Here we are.
Simple lines intertwining.
Acting like two crazy kids.
SPEAKER_09 (31:30):
We've come too far.
To ever see it in like this.
SPEAKER_03 (31:38):
I like you.
SPEAKER_02 (31:44):
Gotta dart in your deck.
Gotta dart in your deck.
No shooting darts at people.
Come on, we're kinda trying tocome together, okay?
SPEAKER_09 (31:52):
Remember how we used to dance together.
So let's dance.
You ask me if I'd leave, and Isaid that right.
And that's still right.
(32:14):
Alright, Hamilton! Summer sun.
SPEAKER_02 (32:20):
Hamilton loves the summer.
He's always working, but heloves it.
SPEAKER_09 (32:24):
Summer garn.
SPEAKER_02 (32:25):
Summer, winter, it's all the same, really.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (32:28):
And Damone, really, for that matter.
He was selling.
He was selling concert tickets.
Other love.
Summer spring.
Winter.
SPEAKER_09 (32:39):
Lost in the great divide.
SPEAKER_05 (32:42):
Shut up.
SPEAKER_02 (32:46):
Maria.
Maria needs to show up.
He's got some hotel Californiahere.
Exactly.
Yep.
Good call.
You can never leave, okay?
Once you start seeing thepatterns, you can never leave
leave those patterns behind.
Yeah.
You know?
SPEAKER_14 (33:06):
To learn from those patterns.
Yeah, this is written by WillieNelson and Jackie Kane.
SPEAKER_16 (33:14):
So it's there.
One of the two of them, or both.
We're sort of like.
Let's do a Hotel Californiathing here, but make it a little
bit different.
SPEAKER_02 (33:32):
It's got Latin flair.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (33:44):
It's like a buzzing in the back.
SPEAKER_09 (33:45):
Remember how we used to dance together?
Can I do a dance?
Remember how I used to hold youtight?
You asked me if I'd leave, and Isaid never.
Spanish control.
And that's still right.
(34:08):
Summer sun.
No prettier than summer rain.
SPEAKER_14 (34:17):
Summer garden and Doug Moore.
SPEAKER_09 (34:21):
Summer coming back again.
Other loves.
Lost to the great divide.
SPEAKER_14 (34:37):
It's like High Tor to Shara Herrera.
Whistling.
Lost to the Great Divide.
Lots of electric and acoustic.
SPEAKER_11 (34:48):
Nice.
SPEAKER_02 (34:51):
I'm gonna thumbtack that one.
SPEAKER_11 (34:54):
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
SPEAKER_09 (34:58):
Oh yeah, here we go.
Woke up this morning with thesun down shining in.
Found my mind in a brown paperbag again.
(35:21):
Tripped on a cloud fell eightmiles high.
Tore my mind on a jagged sky.
I just dropped it to see whatcondition my condition was in.
SPEAKER_16 (35:48):
Thank you, Billy.
Shout to Billy Madison.
SPEAKER_09 (35:52):
Felt myself crawling out as I was crawling in.
Woke up so tight line up whileso my Mickey you carry well
straw in what John Larce Certainthings have come to light and
(36:19):
you look for the person who willbenefit and uh uh you know and
the law you know you'll uh uhyou know what I'm trying to say
and the law Monica Oh manDigoris killed my condition It's
(36:49):
be on everybody's playlist rightyou're running around big flag
letters on the dead head side Ihad my foot on the gas and when
I left the road it blew out mymind Eight miles out of
(37:16):
mountains on I can't scare eightmiles straight up downtown stone
I just dropped in to see whatcondition my condition was in
her love give direction to picksomebody up they don't even know
where they are like saying goshI don't know where I am see that
(37:40):
sign that it says ribs like noidea it's always the men who
(38:02):
work too hard you know that haveall the conditions that what
makes a man that in the purchaseat all right that was nice and
sweet right what in God's holyname are you blathering about we
(38:23):
don't know we have no ideacheers like an interesting music
warning to my eyes yeah and thisold heart's been beaten up and
(38:50):
my ragged soul it's had thingsrough and this face is all I
have worn and lived it fairestthey can fall bored and leave it
he positions himself somethingto achieve peaceful feel he's
(39:13):
like winding down his careerhe's gonna fade off these tears
are on like relic he's still rapyou know this is what I'm
getting this is like this he'spositioning this as his swan but
this is his fiftieth album soit's like just make a fiftieth
(39:34):
album that's why you make yoursongs to three minutes for most
of your characters and thenyou're gonna need to be the
fairest of them all strap it upnever look like you cool and
(40:03):
stream a minute forty in no heyI have four and a half minutes
that rose with time maybe thesong needs four and a half they
should be fine like a good olddog you won't hear me not
cracking my armor here this faceis all I have one a little bit
(40:34):
sometimes to be sentimentalabout his face the reflection
the fairest of them all what'she looking at in the mirror they
(40:59):
take the place to fan justhaving a dirt diggler moment
yeah my hand all the second thatwas that was goaded that was
goaded my sympathetic mirrormirror yeah you can where the
(41:34):
guitar solo is supposed to be isthe cut strings that's fine
that's almost a song about spaceto be the fairest of them all
put a beef tallow on your faceis all I'll olive oil lemon
(41:56):
right right Chris yeah just likeour ancestors below my eyes are
like old friends and the soulheart's been beaten up and my
ragged soul has had things wrongthis face is all I have worn and
(42:18):
lived in this face is all I haveworn and lived I'm not a crier I
don't cry I work out okay I meanthe last minute was touching
(42:50):
yeah lived in the phase it'sreally it's a metaphor I know
it's not a soul is crashing downand you're left alone on shaky
ground the drum soundscapes aregetting me I don't know digging
(43:20):
it or is it no that's yeahyou're yeah I don't like it yeah
it's a little this is this isbad it's like steel mixed with
like Michael McDonald's let itshine on through don't fade away
(43:43):
the cut the light shine betweenyou'll find yourself again
you're gonna shine don't fadeaway darling don't fade away
sterlet of this song take a timeit's gonna fade away give you in
(44:08):
your top three in front of youno it's like a brand new thing
each and every day don't fadeaway sound might just fade away
(44:30):
for me personally we couldalways fade away to the next
time yourself again don't fadeaway hold on to your dream waves
ourselves the tide will turn andwe're just gonna suffocate that
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one out for the next song whichis gonna click right about let's
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coffee elsewhere folks I have acloppy and thank all of you just
time after time after time isleft and new flashback warm I'm
(45:38):
sorry Dave almost left behindthe case of no race this is
brutal walking too far ahead Ican do it when they chose this
(46:02):
they must have been on dope yeahwhere are you people on dope and
does that if I'm here and you'rehere doesn't that make it our
(46:35):
time If I'm here and you're heredoesn't that make it our time
after my pick your face anddarkness has turned to gray
(46:56):
watching through window you'rewondering if I'm okay from even
stuff now that's my must be realthe future must be real it could
(47:42):
be your now that was it your nowgo to time space continue
explanation like it's a littlebit I like the I'm after Mabel
(48:32):
I'm after shout out to EddieLightner out there go check him
out on the Spotify MandalinerDan Dugmore or Reggie Young
(48:54):
Mandolin player on any listhere.
Maybe it's Alison Crow she's sheplays other stuff maybe she's
plucking her middle I don't knowthat's takato style Wow that was
a really cool fade out actuallyokay yeah that was low key for
me so that mandolin solo couldhave gone the whole time darker
(49:28):
deeper down recollection phoenixrecollection phoenix funny how
the miles get into me thoughit's like a read runner and I
wonder what my baby thinks of meoh baby making that's what that
(49:56):
is recollection I play wonderingwho it is I'm supposed to be oh
little ham and eggs coming atyou souvenirs and cappuccino I
(50:16):
take a cappuccino over asouvenir any day I think I
understand it's caffeinatedsouvenir where you go when you
get it and I think I get it Ithink my head's all straight and
I think she knows there goes mysecret oh what's his secret is
(50:44):
he talking about recollectionphoenix transitioning after this
album recollection phoenix mymind still on my woman I wonder
what she thinks of when I holdher judging by the silence you
(51:10):
might think the road has madeher colder wait just a minute
but I can't live without her andI can't remember if I ever told
her oh well you should have toldher what the hell yeah but now I
think I guess how importantcould it have been he forgot I
(51:31):
understand about hope where yougo hope until you get it and I
think I get it I think my head'sall straight and I think she
knows there who's my secret Sothe recollection of these
(52:06):
different cities are just likedifferent relationships he's
had.
SPEAKER_16 (52:13):
Yeah I went to Tucson once man just tell me
about that touching me crazytime in Tucson Summertime
(52:37):
probably recollection Vegascolder than it was that time in
Reno makes sense geographicallylisten to the night move go out
to the girls in the casino shoutto Bob Seeger now I think I get
(53:01):
it I think I understand it's allabout hope where you go when you
get it Willie's a good man Texasholding I think my head's all
screen yeah when they like herit's probably all he does like
over yeah well I mean he wouldpay you get like pot from a
(53:23):
dealer or whatever and then theypay him with money and you'd sit
him down if you want to playcards like to give Willie an
opportunity to win the moneyback.
Yeah that was like the uh theDan Rather interview.
SPEAKER_02 (53:38):
Even though he was still probably fairly rich.
I don't know or is that s is itsafe to assume or is it yeah it
just seems like a dick move.
Yeah it kind of does like justpay the man yeah and then you
can play for money after thatyeah I guess there's always like
(54:00):
kids and services being a lot ofthings.
It's also like the GreatDepression era you know so it's
just like money and uh I'm surethey're they're all well taken
care of drug dealers and WillieNelson like what are you doing?
SPEAKER_11 (54:20):
Yeah this song is uh you remain outline around your
eyes got really really big eyesI can close my eyes to I can I
can close something you havelike really big eyes and that
(54:42):
freaks me out sometimes What doyou do with a memory?
SPEAKER_02 (54:55):
Jesus eyes I guess and stares at me I can tear that
frame down off the wall but Iwon't erase the things I saw
this is a Kid Cuddy song rightand day and day you remain you
(55:37):
may just six minutes buckle upit's just it's not that simple
(56:02):
but it is simple linesintertwining work with all
regress yeah they should namethis there's a box full of
underneath the bed's secret justclose enough not to forget
(56:26):
what's in the box for you withall regress there's an old house
key in the kitchen room hey mangot a big box of bulls before I
can up sometimes I rule that keywith no time Oh this is really
(56:52):
gracious and kind and generousand everything warned my partner
so nice and generous andgracious but I just don't want
(57:12):
to think that's a porn in mypartner is about that actually
he's just trying to clean outhis house and he's like I can't
(57:33):
can't get rid of this box.
SPEAKER_16 (57:35):
Yeah you may he's talking about the box of porn
this is all a metaphor and yeslooking at that box we did the
(58:00):
climat on this look for theperson who will benefit as the
doubt So here's the list foryou, bud.
unknown (01:00:02):
Oh.
SPEAKER_16 (01:00:03):
So let's go with try to think packaging number three.
Gosh, I don't know myself, man.
The first two are off the listfrom three to twelve.
SPEAKER_02 (01:00:16):
Okay.
Uh number three is gonna be thethird song.
Last stand in open country.
For me, it's just, you know,it's it's got that sort of big
energy.
It's but it's a simple song, youknow.
It's uh it's you know, very justcomplex.
(01:00:39):
I mean, it's not just it mightnot be just that's it's just
great, it's great.
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (01:00:44):
You like that.
All right.
Yeah.
It was a little complex, as thedude just said, right?
Yeah.
I like the way you wove that inthere.
Um I'm gonna say my numberthree.
I like the like the simple, thethe the more um more subtle
songs there.
(01:01:04):
Like um, the great divide.
I think I liked a lot.
So I'm gonna go with numberthree is the great divide.
Yeah.
Um it was touching and it seemedheartfelt, so I'm gonna go with
that.
SPEAKER_02 (01:01:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (01:01:21):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm not as good.
SPEAKER_02 (01:01:22):
No, my no, my number two, I'm going great divide as
well.
Yeah.
I think the sort of uh thepercussion in that and the sort
of Western slash Latin flair andthe really like it sort of
crescendos into a big operationwith all these musicians that is
(01:01:46):
really good, but it has such araw like start to it, it's
pretty you know, simple and justone one or two musicians, but
then it builds.
So I'm going crazy.
SPEAKER_16 (01:01:56):
Yeah, it was like a collaborative effort for sure.
Yeah, so that was good.
Um yeah, I guess we weflip-flopped our threes and
twos.
I I'm going uh last stand inopen country as my number two.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:11):
Nice.
SPEAKER_16 (01:02:12):
And uh yeah, I just uh it was well written.
It's a Bernie Toppin song, soyou can't go wrong.
And Kid Rock, you know, I he hedid it, yeah.
He wasn't too much he yeah, hewas he was like a second he
played a secondary role, but itwas good, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:30):
Like I second fiddle.
SPEAKER_16 (01:02:32):
Uh yeah, yeah, and he he paid oh uh homage to to
Willie Nelson in this, so thatwas another element to what
makes it so you know, so solid.
So very solid.
So goaded.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:48):
It's goaded.
Yeah.
Um yeah, I think honorablemention that it didn't make the
list.
Maybe that time after timemandolin solo at the end was
good.
Uh the beginning I just wantedto hate it, but it got a little
bit but no, I my number one nois just dropped in to see what
(01:03:09):
my condition my condition wasin.
That's I just love that song,and I think I know it's a
cop-out maybe to choose a coverfor my number one, but I'm doing
it.
SPEAKER_16 (01:03:23):
Yeah, no, it's okay.
It's okay.
Uh that's my number one as well.
Nice.
Because it's yeah, they didn'twrite it, it's a remake.
But at the same time, there weresome there's some decisions that
you may have to make to make ityour own.
Oh, yeah.
And and it he did it reallywell.
So he's a sponge, you know.
Yeah, he is.
(01:03:44):
Yeah, exactly.
It's good.
All right.
So, yeah, the rest of it, alittle bit underwhelming for me.
But uh nevertheless, it waspacked good to revisit it, you
know, the whole time after timething.
That's just uh I'll hopefullythat doesn't go yeah, play in my
head over and over again.
Round and round.
Yeah, exactly.
(01:04:04):
It will.
All right, take care, folks.
Woo!
Alright, thank you for listening to The Greatest
Non Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing MariaShut Up and Kiss Me is my
co-host Tim.
That's uh one of the songs onWillie Nelson's The Great
Divide, which is gonna be thesubject of our podcast today.
Again, thank you all forlistening.
(00:27):
Um like we do on all of ourpodcasts, we're gonna listen to
all the songs on this album, andat the end, rank the top three
of the songs that are not hits.
Yeah.
So there's a couple of songsthat were singles on this album.
Um the first one is MendocinoCounty Line.
It's a duet with um WillieNelson and uh Leanne Womack.
(00:50):
And then uh Maria, and then inquotes, or parentheses, Shut Up
and Kiss Me, is a song.
It was actually written by RobThomas.
So this is a sort of like acollaborative effort where uh
and this probably isn't his mostoriginal and authentic album.
(01:10):
You know, this is uh an albumwhere he's collaborating with a
lot of different um songwriters,stars, up-and-coming artists, um
all of the songs.
Um Mendocino County Lions duetwith Leanne Womack, like I
mentioned.
Um Last Stand in Open Country,which is the third song, is a
duet with Kid Rock.
Um Be There For You, a duet withCheryl Crow, that's another song
(01:34):
on the album.
Uh let's see, uh there's a songcalled Don't Fade Away, duet
with Brian McKnight, and thenthe very last song, You Remain,
is uh a duet with Bonnie Ray.
So we're gonna listen to all 12of the songs, and um there are
some other people that wrotesongs on here too, like the song
Time After Time is a remake withwith uh Cindy Lauper.
(01:56):
Okay.
So there was that.
We're gonna listen to that.
Okay, that's kinda cool.
I've listened to this album.
I've listened to like the firstfive or six songs a bunch of
times, and then I can never getthrough it all the way to the
end, I'll be honest with you.
So yeah, that's that's sort ofwhere we're at.
But I'm gonna g we're gonnalisten to every single one of
them.
Give it give them all a fairshot.
Maybe this happens often whereyou listen to an album beginning
(02:20):
to end with your undividedattention, and then that's when
you kinda see you know, you hearit from a uh like a completely
different point of view.
Or at least uh an album that youhaven't you're not really that
much familiar with.
So um yeah, I'm looking forwardto it.
You know, 10 minutes too.
We've got some funny soundclips, we're gonna yuck it up
and go back and forth, you know,like we always do.
(02:44):
And um so what else can I sayabout this album?
It was it seems like it wasrecorded uh primarily in 2001.
It was released in 2002.
Um it's the emphasis again, likeI said, is on the
collaborations.
Yeah, this is this is atechnique it it felt like that
um like the music industry wasemploying where they would uh
(03:08):
reach out to artists that arewell and I guess in the case of
Leanne Womack, you know, they'reboth sort of in the country
realm.
Um and that's where they youknow earn their fan fan bases.
Uh but then like at the time,you know, in 2001, you know, Kid
Rock was just coming around, andso he's more of a rock guy, but
a country guy too.
And so um Sheryl Crow was moreyou know within the pop culture
(03:32):
realm, although she was a littlecountry, I guess.
And there's of course BrianMcKeight.
So anyway, yeah, there's a lotof yeah, there's a lot of
collaborating with a lot of bignames.
Um not just on like the um theduet, but uh the songwriting.
Like I mentioned before, RobThomas is writing Maria.
(03:53):
Uh Bernie Taupin wrote LastStand in Open Country, which is
the uh the duet with Kid Rock.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
So the guy behind the guy, behind the guy.
SPEAKER_16 (04:02):
Alright, thank you, Tim.
He is the guy behind the guy,behind the guy.
Bernie Top and the man, thelegend.
So this was pretty good.
SPEAKER_02 (06:09):
Will he's a legend.
Uh I'm not sure if he uses uhtoilet paper, but I'm imagining
that he does.
Maybe it's a handy toilet paper.
Or maybe he uses the day guy.
You know, he plays the sameguitar.
It's got the hole in it, youknow.
It's just like he's had oneguitar in his whole career.
SPEAKER_16 (06:45):
You're referring to him being in the air force back
in the day.
He wasn't the Air Force.
That's from nineteenseventy-three.
He was in the he was in the AirForce.
In nineteen fifty, he joined theUS Air Force.
He was later discharged in thebackground.
(07:06):
He was a discharge.
SPEAKER_02 (07:28):
Um, I just sort of Mendocino County line.
I thought it was such a greatsong, so I just kind of
shouldn't.
(07:56):
I love the song, you know.
Lovely song.
Of course.
SPEAKER_16 (08:03):
Alright, cool.
Um we ready to get in it.
Any any last thoughts?
Uh anything in particular you uhhad in mind forever hold your
peace.
SPEAKER_02 (08:16):
Oh gosh.
I mean, I don't even I don'tknow.
I'm not gonna say anything.
SPEAKER_16 (08:21):
Alright, well let's get right into it then.
This is gonna be uh Maria ShutUp and Kiss Me.
There we go.
SPEAKER_01 (08:28):
Shut up.
I didn't say anything.
SPEAKER_09 (08:35):
That's my favorite part.
Rewind my life on when my worldgot dark.
SPEAKER_02 (08:50):
I messed my knobs already.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_09 (08:52):
You turn my light on.
I've watched it.
That's what she said.
Light of my light.
SPEAKER_02 (09:00):
I watched the shining last night as well.
We're gonna get yeah, we'regonna get good flip.
Just see how hours.
SPEAKER_09 (09:08):
More than I need it to be, I'd say I'm sorry.
Shut up and kiss me.
Stop shaking, stand up and holdme.
I bet you're gonna miss me.
You need to believe me.
Shut up.
SPEAKER_15 (09:30):
Weren't you a Rob Thomas fan?
Oh, matchbox 20.
SPEAKER_02 (09:33):
Yeah, you loved it.
Man, back in the day.
I lighted on fire with thatmatchbox.
Yeah.
That 20 back batches of matches.
That's right.
SPEAKER_09 (09:46):
That's my favorite shirt.
SPEAKER_16 (09:51):
Shirt?
SPEAKER_09 (09:52):
You always had on the side.
SPEAKER_16 (09:53):
Yeah, what is this?
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not always like, oh man, shewore that shirt.
I mean, unless it's a tube topor something cool like that.
SPEAKER_06 (10:01):
Every time you walk on, I don't know, but I remember
the shirt.
SPEAKER_02 (10:05):
Yeah.
I mean Yeah, she wore the shirtand it just got a color.
Yeah.
A certain color.
SPEAKER_09 (10:15):
Something I can't explain.
Can't explain.
Shut up and miss me, stuff.
You're gonna miss me.
SPEAKER_07 (10:33):
You need me to be up.
SPEAKER_02 (10:36):
It's like those Rob Thomas horns are in the
background.
SPEAKER_07 (10:39):
So you can't turn me on.
SPEAKER_02 (10:40):
The horn people, they're definitely on dope.
SPEAKER_07 (10:43):
What are you people?
On dope?
Can we talk it horn?
SPEAKER_17 (10:53):
What the fuck are you talking about?
SPEAKER_02 (11:06):
It's crying.
SPEAKER_07 (11:07):
It's a beat.
SPEAKER_02 (11:12):
But there's an underlying like Just calm down.
Oh, don't tell her to calm down.
SPEAKER_09 (11:19):
That's the way that's can't do that.
SPEAKER_02 (11:21):
We gotta address why she's pissed off.
SPEAKER_09 (11:27):
Shut up and piss me.
Shut up and piss me.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
SPEAKER_02 (11:45):
Round and round.
Round and round we go here.
Burning.
Oh the whistle.
SPEAKER_15 (12:08):
I love the little whistle.
SPEAKER_16 (12:33):
Good music.
SPEAKER_02 (12:39):
But still the Rob Thomas horns.
Screams make up sex all over us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (12:48):
Going right in the Mendocino County Line.
SPEAKER_09 (12:52):
Counted stars on the fourth of July.
Wishing we were rockets firstinto the sky, talking about
redemption and leaving thingsbehind.
SPEAKER_16 (13:12):
Yeah, the strings.
SPEAKER_01 (13:17):
I like that feeling.
Our orchestrated paradisecouldn't make you stay.
SPEAKER_04 (13:28):
As the sun sinks west of the Millestinal Kelvin.
SPEAKER_16 (13:34):
Darling.
I'm happy.
It's like right when I'm gettinginto this song.
SPEAKER_15 (13:42):
I had to yank you out of it.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah.
Oh, the photograph.
SPEAKER_04 (13:51):
I used to make you happy.
What's the phone?
I'm happy.
SPEAKER_02 (14:08):
So let's go.
Maybe.
SPEAKER_09 (14:12):
Feeling very mortal every Friday night.
Oh.
SPEAKER_04 (14:15):
Lost in Archives' lipstick with wine.
SPEAKER_02 (14:21):
Yeah, Greg Leeds.
This must have been exhaustingto get right.
Yeah.
I have these things.
Alex and Krause is on fiddle,wow.
SPEAKER_16 (14:32):
Yeah, playing the fiddle.
SPEAKER_08 (14:33):
Remind me of a time.
SPEAKER_16 (14:38):
Dan Dugmore's steel guitar.
SPEAKER_02 (14:44):
I'm a sucker for that.
I think that's what it is.
SPEAKER_14 (15:02):
Talking over me now.
(15:27):
Spent time with an angel justpassed in through.
Now it's all that's left is thisimage of you.
Oh, kinda like the shining, butthat's like a demon?
Oh.
SPEAKER_02 (15:35):
I'm gonna get tie into your sound clip.
There we go.
There we go.
Make it make sense.
SPEAKER_16 (15:52):
The Shining took place in the middle of winter,
so I feel like seasonally we'reoff.
SPEAKER_02 (15:59):
But how could I overlook that?
SPEAKER_15 (16:04):
Yeah, we get to.
SPEAKER_17 (16:06):
How could I overlook that?
I know.
I mean, your now is my now.
That's right.
Our now.
SPEAKER_16 (16:35):
It's bad.
SPEAKER_12 (16:41):
Remember that these are just temple farmers.
These are people of the land.
SPEAKER_16 (16:47):
Shout out to Gene Wilder.
Oh god.
It's getting me.
You're getting for clamps.
Oh god.
I'm not a crier.
I don't I'm not a crier.
I don't cry.
I I work out.
I have hobbies.
I don't I don't come here.
SPEAKER_14 (17:06):
Come here.
Come on.
I have hobbies.
SPEAKER_02 (17:11):
Like podcasting.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not a crier.
Not a crier.
unknown (17:15):
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (17:20):
So the next song is just This is the kid rocking.
SPEAKER_09 (17:26):
I was looking for America.
Last stand in the movie.
SPEAKER_16 (17:33):
Country.
SPEAKER_09 (17:34):
So a young gunslinger was something to
prove.
That's like going out there witha loaded gun.
Like anybody else.
I came searching.
Like anybody else.
Looking forward to the case.
Like the bass on this.
SPEAKER_06 (17:58):
Like any young blood.
I found fat cats today.
SPEAKER_16 (18:06):
The producer too, Matt Sirletic.
Plays some electronics at that.
SPEAKER_04 (18:23):
Now it's our last time open country.
SPEAKER_16 (18:27):
And Toppin wrote this one too.
SPEAKER_07 (18:30):
This is my last time to be with you.
SPEAKER_04 (18:37):
This is the last death.
I'm still up here.
SPEAKER_08 (18:50):
Then they all might stand out.
SPEAKER_06 (18:54):
It's like an auto.
SPEAKER_02 (18:58):
Oh.
Electronics done.
Yeah, that's something.
SPEAKER_09 (19:07):
I'm a ladder, I am a black.
SPEAKER_16 (19:13):
Gonna why wasn't this a good?
This is good.
SPEAKER_04 (19:19):
I was looking for America.
SPEAKER_16 (19:27):
Might be James Creek and do that.
That doesn't weird.
Yep.
SPEAKER_09 (19:33):
He was headed down, the dusty back.
Headed down to the black bag.
SPEAKER_04 (19:41):
Chasing down the back.
SPEAKER_14 (19:48):
Jason down the golden cap.
Yeah, I don't know.
Idol.
SPEAKER_09 (20:17):
Stop on faster.
SPEAKER_15 (20:26):
It's like a younger horse pride kid rock.
SPEAKER_02 (20:35):
Got a dust off.
SPEAKER_09 (20:36):
Now it's our last dust yourself off.
Situate those old balls.
SPEAKER_15 (20:46):
Just get out of there.
Yeah, we have to get that clipout of there.
Love place.
SPEAKER_02 (21:15):
Death strings.
I like the strike.
And I like to distortion.
And you can hear a band.
I mean.
This is way better than acountry song that I and Kid
(21:37):
Rock's voice is has thatraspiness to it.
Willie has always had that likepureness of voice.
Sort of almost like he'stalking, but not quite.
Okay.
And then Kid Rock clearly has totry really hard to just sound
like that.
(21:58):
It's pretty interesting.
SPEAKER_16 (22:00):
Okay, there's a lot.
Yeah, there's a lot going onthere.
Yeah.
That's a nod hit, so I'm gonnakeep that in mind.
This is it won't catch mecrying.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
Are you crying?
Am I crying?
SPEAKER_16 (22:33):
This is also written by Rob Rob Thomas.
SPEAKER_14 (22:42):
Or will you shut up and kiss me and then catch me
crying?
3 a.m.
SPEAKER_02 (22:52):
That's when he writes all his songs.
SPEAKER_09 (22:59):
Your five sweepers far away from you.
SPEAKER_16 (23:41):
This is like the touching part of the song.
Just like you're rumining thisfor me.
There's gotta be some guy likein his truck.
Yeah, just got broke up, andhe's just like, God damn it,
he's listening to this.
SPEAKER_15 (23:55):
But then he sees a deer, so he gets his wings.
He sees a Hooters down the road.
He's like some wings.
Yeah, he gets some wings.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
Beverly can use just go kiss off down the road.
At Jimbo's house.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (24:13):
Right.
SPEAKER_16 (24:19):
Heard Tammy Link got the Jazz Tutors.
Let's go check it out.
Tammy Lynch.
Tammy Lane.
Nancy Lane.
Anything with a land on theedge.
SPEAKER_09 (24:47):
You won't catch me crying over you.
SPEAKER_16 (24:53):
Thank you.
Daniel's work.
I know, yeah.
I was about to start getting forclaims, and then what are you
gonna do?
SPEAKER_09 (25:02):
Aren't you?
Yes, I love you and sweet.
You've got two hobbies and catchme crying over you.
SPEAKER_17 (25:24):
Like you all catch me crying.
Classical, like you all catch mecrying.
SPEAKER_02 (25:36):
You all catch me crying.
Simple lines here.
SPEAKER_10 (25:44):
Over you simple lines intertwining.
SPEAKER_12 (26:09):
Excuse me, Flo.
SPEAKER_16 (26:16):
Alright, this is Be There For You.
It's a Cheryl Crow duet.
SPEAKER_03 (26:23):
She's magically delicious.
She just the way that you kissme.
SPEAKER_08 (26:31):
She's just the way that you don't.
SPEAKER_02 (26:34):
But she's not on dope.
Ah yeah, she is.
They're both on dope, aren'tthey?
It's like a free rack beforerecording.
SPEAKER_08 (26:43):
When you swear that you walk.
SPEAKER_07 (26:56):
When we talk on the phone.
What are you people?
On dope.
Mr.
SPEAKER_16 (27:03):
Hand.
Yeah, that that seems thatseemed necessary on some level.
Mr.
Hand.
SPEAKER_08 (27:13):
Whatever you do, I will be there for you.
Through the thunder of the rain.
SPEAKER_04 (27:24):
And whatever you do, I will almost do you, I will be
there.
SPEAKER_16 (27:34):
This this album gets you right here.
Oh, good bassing going on inelectronics.
SPEAKER_09 (27:50):
I may like social graces.
Huh?
But I won't swallow my pride.
There are millions of placescould be by nearby.
SPEAKER_10 (28:13):
Whatever you do, I think toy.
SPEAKER_04 (28:25):
Whatever you do, I would do it.
SPEAKER_02 (28:45):
It's complex.
SPEAKER_16 (28:54):
What do you have what do you think it does with
it?
SPEAKER_13 (29:16):
I mean, it's not just it might not be just such a
simple.
SPEAKER_05 (30:09):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (30:22):
What's that little show?
Shout out to uh Shout out to thethe runners, actually.
Shout out to the runners outthere.
And Waiting Gar.
(30:42):
Yes.
SPEAKER_13 (30:43):
You're running around.
SPEAKER_16 (30:46):
Shout out to my cousin Chris.
SPEAKER_09 (31:14):
This is the great divine.
SPEAKER_10 (31:20):
Here we are.
Simple lines intertwining.
Acting like two crazy kids.
SPEAKER_09 (31:30):
We've come too far.
To ever see it in like this.
SPEAKER_03 (31:38):
I like you.
SPEAKER_02 (31:44):
Gotta dart in your deck.
Gotta dart in your deck.
No shooting darts at people.
Come on, we're kinda trying tocome together, okay?
SPEAKER_09 (31:52):
Remember how we used to dance together.
So let's dance.
You ask me if I'd leave, and Isaid that right.
And that's still right.
(32:14):
Alright, Hamilton! Summer sun.
SPEAKER_02 (32:20):
Hamilton loves the summer.
He's always working, but heloves it.
SPEAKER_09 (32:24):
Summer garn.
SPEAKER_02 (32:25):
Summer, winter, it's all the same, really.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (32:28):
And Damone, really, for that matter.
He was selling.
He was selling concert tickets.
Other love.
Summer spring.
Winter.
SPEAKER_09 (32:39):
Lost in the great divide.
SPEAKER_05 (32:42):
Shut up.
SPEAKER_02 (32:46):
Maria.
Maria needs to show up.
He's got some hotel Californiahere.
Exactly.
Yep.
Good call.
You can never leave, okay?
Once you start seeing thepatterns, you can never leave
leave those patterns behind.
Yeah.
You know?
SPEAKER_14 (33:06):
To learn from those patterns.
Yeah, this is written by WillieNelson and Jackie Kane.
SPEAKER_16 (33:14):
So it's there.
One of the two of them, or both.
We're sort of like.
Let's do a Hotel Californiathing here, but make it a little
bit different.
SPEAKER_02 (33:32):
It's got Latin flair.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_16 (33:44):
It's like a buzzing in the back.
SPEAKER_09 (33:45):
Remember how we used to dance together?
Can I do a dance?
Remember how I used to hold youtight?
You asked me if I'd leave, and Isaid never.
Spanish control.
And that's still right.
(34:08):
Summer sun.
No prettier than summer rain.
SPEAKER_14 (34:17):
Summer garden and Doug Moore.
SPEAKER_09 (34:21):
Summer coming back again.
Other loves.
Lost to the great divide.
SPEAKER_14 (34:37):
It's like High Tor to Shara Herrera.
Whistling.
Lost to the Great Divide.
Lots of electric and acoustic.
SPEAKER_11 (34:48):
Nice.
SPEAKER_02 (34:51):
I'm gonna thumbtack that one.
SPEAKER_11 (34:54):
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
SPEAKER_09 (34:58):
Oh yeah, here we go.
Woke up this morning with thesun down shining in.
Found my mind in a brown paperbag again.
(35:21):
Tripped on a cloud fell eightmiles high.
Tore my mind on a jagged sky.
I just dropped it to see whatcondition my condition was in.
SPEAKER_16 (35:48):
Thank you, Billy.
Shout to Billy Madison.
SPEAKER_09 (35:52):
Felt myself crawling out as I was crawling in.
Woke up so tight line up whileso my Mickey you carry well
straw in what John Larce Certainthings have come to light and
(36:19):
you look for the person who willbenefit and uh uh you know and
the law you know you'll uh uhyou know what I'm trying to say
and the law Monica Oh manDigoris killed my condition It's
(36:49):
be on everybody's playlist rightyou're running around big flag
letters on the dead head side Ihad my foot on the gas and when
I left the road it blew out mymind Eight miles out of
(37:16):
mountains on I can't scare eightmiles straight up downtown stone
I just dropped in to see whatcondition my condition was in
her love give direction to picksomebody up they don't even know
where they are like saying goshI don't know where I am see that
(37:40):
sign that it says ribs like noidea it's always the men who
(38:02):
work too hard you know that haveall the conditions that what
makes a man that in the purchaseat all right that was nice and
sweet right what in God's holyname are you blathering about we
(38:23):
don't know we have no ideacheers like an interesting music
warning to my eyes yeah and thisold heart's been beaten up and
(38:50):
my ragged soul it's had thingsrough and this face is all I
have worn and lived it fairestthey can fall bored and leave it
he positions himself somethingto achieve peaceful feel he's
(39:13):
like winding down his careerhe's gonna fade off these tears
are on like relic he's still rapyou know this is what I'm
getting this is like this he'spositioning this as his swan but
this is his fiftieth album soit's like just make a fiftieth
(39:34):
album that's why you make yoursongs to three minutes for most
of your characters and thenyou're gonna need to be the
fairest of them all strap it upnever look like you cool and
(40:03):
stream a minute forty in no heyI have four and a half minutes
that rose with time maybe thesong needs four and a half they
should be fine like a good olddog you won't hear me not
cracking my armor here this faceis all I have one a little bit
(40:34):
sometimes to be sentimentalabout his face the reflection
the fairest of them all what'she looking at in the mirror they
(40:59):
take the place to fan justhaving a dirt diggler moment
yeah my hand all the second thatwas that was goaded that was
goaded my sympathetic mirrormirror yeah you can where the
(41:34):
guitar solo is supposed to be isthe cut strings that's fine
that's almost a song about spaceto be the fairest of them all
put a beef tallow on your faceis all I'll olive oil lemon
(41:56):
right right Chris yeah just likeour ancestors below my eyes are
like old friends and the soulheart's been beaten up and my
ragged soul has had things wrongthis face is all I have worn and
(42:18):
lived in this face is all I haveworn and lived I'm not a crier I
don't cry I work out okay I meanthe last minute was touching
(42:50):
yeah lived in the phase it'sreally it's a metaphor I know
it's not a soul is crashing downand you're left alone on shaky
ground the drum soundscapes aregetting me I don't know digging
(43:20):
it or is it no that's yeahyou're yeah I don't like it yeah
it's a little this is this isbad it's like steel mixed with
like Michael McDonald's let itshine on through don't fade away
(43:43):
the cut the light shine betweenyou'll find yourself again
you're gonna shine don't fadeaway darling don't fade away
sterlet of this song take a timeit's gonna fade away give you in
(44:08):
your top three in front of youno it's like a brand new thing
each and every day don't fadeaway sound might just fade away
(44:30):
for me personally we couldalways fade away to the next
time yourself again don't fadeaway hold on to your dream waves
ourselves the tide will turn andwe're just gonna suffocate that
(44:52):
one out for the next song whichis gonna click right about let's
uh take a word from our sponsorsuh Moko Energy Drink and Happy
Fun Ball shout out still legalin 16 states okay yeah this is
time after time from the hillsof Mount Nicaragua it's get your
(45:18):
coffee elsewhere folks I have acloppy and thank all of you just
time after time after time isleft and new flashback warm I'm
(45:38):
sorry Dave almost left behindthe case of no race this is
brutal walking too far ahead Ican do it when they chose this
(46:02):
they must have been on dope yeahwhere are you people on dope and
does that if I'm here and you'rehere doesn't that make it our
(46:35):
time If I'm here and you're heredoesn't that make it our time
after my pick your face anddarkness has turned to gray
(46:56):
watching through window you'rewondering if I'm okay from even
stuff now that's my must be realthe future must be real it could
(47:42):
be your now that was it your nowgo to time space continue
explanation like it's a littlebit I like the I'm after Mabel
(48:32):
I'm after shout out to EddieLightner out there go check him
out on the Spotify MandalinerDan Dugmore or Reggie Young
(48:54):
Mandolin player on any listhere.
Maybe it's Alison Crow she's sheplays other stuff maybe she's
plucking her middle I don't knowthat's takato style Wow that was
a really cool fade out actuallyokay yeah that was low key for
me so that mandolin solo couldhave gone the whole time darker
(49:28):
deeper down recollection phoenixrecollection phoenix funny how
the miles get into me thoughit's like a read runner and I
wonder what my baby thinks of meoh baby making that's what that
(49:56):
is recollection I play wonderingwho it is I'm supposed to be oh
little ham and eggs coming atyou souvenirs and cappuccino I
(50:16):
take a cappuccino over asouvenir any day I think I
understand it's caffeinatedsouvenir where you go when you
get it and I think I get it Ithink my head's all straight and
I think she knows there goes mysecret oh what's his secret is
(50:44):
he talking about recollectionphoenix transitioning after this
album recollection phoenix mymind still on my woman I wonder
what she thinks of when I holdher judging by the silence you
(51:10):
might think the road has madeher colder wait just a minute
but I can't live without her andI can't remember if I ever told
her oh well you should have toldher what the hell yeah but now I
think I guess how importantcould it have been he forgot I
(51:31):
understand about hope where yougo hope until you get it and I
think I get it I think my head'sall straight and I think she
knows there who's my secret Sothe recollection of these
(52:06):
different cities are just likedifferent relationships he's
had.
SPEAKER_16 (52:13):
Yeah I went to Tucson once man just tell me
about that touching me crazytime in Tucson Summertime
(52:37):
probably recollection Vegascolder than it was that time in
Reno makes sense geographicallylisten to the night move go out
to the girls in the casino shoutto Bob Seeger now I think I get
(53:01):
it I think I understand it's allabout hope where you go when you
get it Willie's a good man Texasholding I think my head's all
screen yeah when they like herit's probably all he does like
over yeah well I mean he wouldpay you get like pot from a
(53:23):
dealer or whatever and then theypay him with money and you'd sit
him down if you want to playcards like to give Willie an
opportunity to win the moneyback.
Yeah that was like the uh theDan Rather interview.
SPEAKER_02 (53:38):
Even though he was still probably fairly rich.
I don't know or is that s is itsafe to assume or is it yeah it
just seems like a dick move.
Yeah it kind of does like justpay the man yeah and then you
can play for money after thatyeah I guess there's always like
(54:00):
kids and services being a lot ofthings.
It's also like the GreatDepression era you know so it's
just like money and uh I'm surethey're they're all well taken
care of drug dealers and WillieNelson like what are you doing?
SPEAKER_11 (54:20):
Yeah this song is uh you remain outline around your
eyes got really really big eyesI can close my eyes to I can I
can close something you havelike really big eyes and that
(54:42):
freaks me out sometimes What doyou do with a memory?
SPEAKER_02 (54:55):
Jesus eyes I guess and stares at me I can tear that
frame down off the wall but Iwon't erase the things I saw
this is a Kid Cuddy song rightand day and day you remain you
(55:37):
may just six minutes buckle upit's just it's not that simple
(56:02):
but it is simple linesintertwining work with all
regress yeah they should namethis there's a box full of
underneath the bed's secret justclose enough not to forget
(56:26):
what's in the box for you withall regress there's an old house
key in the kitchen room hey mangot a big box of bulls before I
can up sometimes I rule that keywith no time Oh this is really
(56:52):
gracious and kind and generousand everything warned my partner
so nice and generous andgracious but I just don't want
(57:12):
to think that's a porn in mypartner is about that actually
he's just trying to clean outhis house and he's like I can't
(57:33):
can't get rid of this box.
SPEAKER_16 (57:35):
Yeah you may he's talking about the box of porn
this is all a metaphor and yeslooking at that box we did the
(58:00):
climat on this look for theperson who will benefit as the
doubt So here's the list foryou, bud.
unknown (01:00:02):
Oh.
SPEAKER_16 (01:00:03):
So let's go with try to think packaging number three.
Gosh, I don't know myself, man.
The first two are off the listfrom three to twelve.
SPEAKER_02 (01:00:16):
Okay.
Uh number three is gonna be thethird song.
Last stand in open country.
For me, it's just, you know,it's it's got that sort of big
energy.
It's but it's a simple song, youknow.
It's uh it's you know, very justcomplex.
(01:00:39):
I mean, it's not just it mightnot be just that's it's just
great, it's great.
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (01:00:44):
You like that.
All right.
Yeah.
It was a little complex, as thedude just said, right?
Yeah.
I like the way you wove that inthere.
Um I'm gonna say my numberthree.
I like the like the simple, thethe the more um more subtle
songs there.
(01:01:04):
Like um, the great divide.
I think I liked a lot.
So I'm gonna go with numberthree is the great divide.
Yeah.
Um it was touching and it seemedheartfelt, so I'm gonna go with
that.
SPEAKER_02 (01:01:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_16 (01:01:21):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm not as good.
SPEAKER_02 (01:01:22):
No, my no, my number two, I'm going great divide as
well.
Yeah.
I think the sort of uh thepercussion in that and the sort
of Western slash Latin flair andthe really like it sort of
crescendos into a big operationwith all these musicians that is
(01:01:46):
really good, but it has such araw like start to it, it's
pretty you know, simple and justone one or two musicians, but
then it builds.
So I'm going crazy.
SPEAKER_16 (01:01:56):
Yeah, it was like a collaborative effort for sure.
Yeah, so that was good.
Um yeah, I guess we weflip-flopped our threes and
twos.
I I'm going uh last stand inopen country as my number two.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:11):
Nice.
SPEAKER_16 (01:02:12):
And uh yeah, I just uh it was well written.
It's a Bernie Toppin song, soyou can't go wrong.
And Kid Rock, you know, I he hedid it, yeah.
He wasn't too much he yeah, hewas he was like a second he
played a secondary role, but itwas good, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:30):
Like I second fiddle.
SPEAKER_16 (01:02:32):
Uh yeah, yeah, and he he paid oh uh homage to to
Willie Nelson in this, so thatwas another element to what
makes it so you know, so solid.
So very solid.
So goaded.
SPEAKER_02 (01:02:48):
It's goaded.
Yeah.
Um yeah, I think honorablemention that it didn't make the
list.
Maybe that time after timemandolin solo at the end was
good.
Uh the beginning I just wantedto hate it, but it got a little
bit but no, I my number one nois just dropped in to see what
(01:03:09):
my condition my condition wasin.
That's I just love that song,and I think I know it's a
cop-out maybe to choose a coverfor my number one, but I'm doing
it.
SPEAKER_16 (01:03:23):
Yeah, no, it's okay.
It's okay.
Uh that's my number one as well.
Nice.
Because it's yeah, they didn'twrite it, it's a remake.
But at the same time, there weresome there's some decisions that
you may have to make to make ityour own.
Oh, yeah.
And and it he did it reallywell.
So he's a sponge, you know.
Yeah, he is.
(01:03:44):
Yeah, exactly.
It's good.
All right.
So, yeah, the rest of it, alittle bit underwhelming for me.
But uh nevertheless, it waspacked good to revisit it, you
know, the whole time after timething.
That's just uh I'll hopefullythat doesn't go yeah, play in my
head over and over again.
Round and round.
Yeah, exactly.
(01:04:04):
It will.
All right, take care, folks.
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