November 4, 2025 • 29 mins
The boys are back in town... or they will be soon! Straight No Chaser those a capella crooners from Indiana have a brand new holiday album out, "Holiday Road", and they're rollin' across the US sharing all the new music and all the old favorites their Holiday Road Tour, named for the new record.
Walter Chase and Jerome Collins, two of the original group members, are hangin out with me today, spillin' the tea on the new arrangements and sharing some holiday cheer. Hit the Holiday Road with SNC and me! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You know, some folks call me Mother Christmas, not Father Christmas,
but Mother Christmas, or maybe missus Claws.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And who am I to argue? I stink and love
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I love the lights, I love the tinsel. I love
the candy canes. I love stirring a cup of hot
cocoa with a candy cane. Mostly, I love the holiday season.
Mostly I love the reason for the season. I love
the Babe in the Manger. I love the promise that
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was sent to us when that Babe in the Manger
showed up in the stable. I love, love, love the music.
If I obeyed my impulses, I'd start the holiday playlist
back in September when the first leaf was only thinking
of falling off the tree. Because I love the carols.
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I love the hymns, all of it. The Ho ho ho,
the jingle jangle all have a place in my heart
and on my show. One group that never ever disappoints
is straight No Chaser. You must have heard the rendition
of the Twelve Days of Christmas. When that performance was
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uploaded to YouTube, it propelled the nine former students of
Indiana University to unprecedented recognition. Straight No Chaser was reborn
and has taken a cappella to heights no one could
have ever dreamed or imagined. Mind you, this was all
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before pop culture phenomens like the sing off or pitch
perfect had even been thought of. S NC Straight No Chaser.
Sn c's star is constantly on the rise as they
continue to achieve new milestones with every tour, with every EP,
with every album release, with every TV performance. They've sold
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more than three million albums. They've garnered more than a
billion streams on Pandora alone. They've sold more than one
and a half million concert tickets worldwide. The nine man
act Walter, Jerome, Saggy, Michael, Steve, Luke, Bob Who's from
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My Neck of the Woods, Jasper Tyler and Freedom Young
has served as a festive band of harmonious blends for
a long long time. The original group has been around
for over twenty five years. Even though the group has
been together for a quarter of a century, the thrill
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of performing holiday songs for old and new fans alike
is not lost on them. For them, the holidays and
the annual Fall tour are shared experiences with their fans,
celebrating try and true favorites, while introducing new and novel arrangements.
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They're always working on new arrangements. Their most recent album,
Holiday Road, came out in October on the twenty fourth,
and they've been rolling it out across the country as
their twenty twenty five Holiday tours already well underway. Throughout
the tour, their set list will include megas successful holiday
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hits from all their previous releases. They've had so many
Christmas albums, Holiday Spirits, Christmas Cheer, under the Influence Holiday Edition,
I'll have another Christmas album, Social Christmasing, and stocking Stuffer.
Today we get the opportunity to catch up with a
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couple of my old friends, Walt and Jerome. I have
known and loved these men for almost the entire length
of their touring for many, many, many, many many years,
and to find out what is in store for us
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For a long time, Walt and you're roam. Welcome. It
is so good to see you guys. Oh my gosh,
Thanksgiving is coming in. It just makes me miss you
all the more.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Thank you for having us. Honestly, it's a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So you guys have been busy, busy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
For any of our listeners who have never had a
straight No Chaser experience, they need to at least once
in your life that you need to have the straight
no Chaser experience.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's unlike anything else.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I don't know what people have been waiting for. I mean,
if you have it in a straight now Chaser show,
you have.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You even really lived? Have you even really lived under rock?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I mean under a rock, but you've lived but not
lived lived? You know, you got to come from on this,
you know. So for those who don't know straight No
Chaser was where we are is. We can't even fatham
how far we've made itart. This off as a group
to sing for women and free food. We never thought
in our wildest dreams this would turn out to be
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something twenty some twenties.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And er, let's just backdrop there a group to sing
for women. It's not that you were like going to
you know, women's meetings and performing as a public service.
It's that you guys were young, cute, adorable, sing oldish
single college boys.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's right, Yeah, we were.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
We were.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We were in a show choir call the singing.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Who's Yours, and we were just kind of bored with
doing the offenses singers.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We're just kind of bored with doing the choir music.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
So we literally were like, hey man, one of the guys,
Dan Ponce said, a couple of my friends go to schools.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They have these a cappella.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Groups and they get to sing at sororities and all
these things on campus and they get free food.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And we answer, we're like, where do we sign up for?
And we saw sort.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Of Jeroma and I don't need to I don't really
need you to answer this because I know you Walter,
feel free to answer this on Jerom's behalf.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Which made him smile the broadest.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The thought of free food or the thought of singing
for sororities and other girls groups.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I mean, I had a meal plan in college. You
know what I mean, I show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So you didn't need the damn free food. You are
not there for the food.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Food was not.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Food was not as much of an issue as as
trying to, you know, impress the ships, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
But for Jeroma, for Droman, it might have been the
other way.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know, he's such a liar, such a liar.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
My wife's listened to, not got to behave because.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Your wife is so cute. Oh my god, you did
so good, Walter. You've always been like the like the
responsible one of this friendship here and me.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah good. Is there a sight of you I've never seen,
I mean on stage.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The responsible one of this relationship? Maybe I would say
in the group. You know, Jerome and I are probably
pulling everyone down collectively. But you know, Roma is the soloists,
the guy that steps out, you know, the person that
people when they come through line are most excited to
talk to you because of what he does on stage.
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And I enjoy being the guy that puts the music together,
producing the stuff and patting the soloists on the back
and saying thank you for making my stuff sound sound good,
you know, and be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So a group of handsome men on stage in tuxedos
usually are really sharp suits, really sharp suits singing in
nine part harmony? Does life get any better than that?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, you can answer that he does all the writing.
All we do is he's taking he's being humble, But
Walt has written, has arranged some of the greatest music
we've ever done in this group. One is actually up
right now, hopefully for a little gray Grammy action. But yeah,
I mean he's being humble here, but he's been the
heart soul of writing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What's up for the Grammy?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Well, nothing yet.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
We you know, the nominations go up in a little
bit here, so we'll see what happens. But you know,
we did an arrangement of Yellow Brick Road last year,
Goodbye Yellow Brick Growth. That's it was really caught on
with our fans. We ended up bringing back for a
second year. But you know, it's you asked about what
it's like to sing nine part harmony for a living
and doing this. I mean, this is something that when
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we were back in college we never dreamed of. You know,
this is something when we first were signed with Atlantic
Records almost thirty years now, we never dreamed of. And
the fact that it's still going and that people have
made as part of their holiday tradition. You know, we
go to a city like Indianapolis, which is close where
we went to college, where.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You are God's.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Notice, no disrespect to the big g but in who's
your county and who's your country, you guys are Demi
gods like you. If you took your shirts off on stage,
I'm sure you have tattoos like you know, Mwana because
you are Demi gods.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it true?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
You don't to ask twice for Jerome to tell for
him to think you go.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm looking for a tattoo shop right now. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
So I mean when we go to Indy or we
go anywhere.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
I mean when we go to you know, Seattle, and
we go down to We'll end our tour on the
on New Year's even in West Palm. You know, wherever
we go, we have fans that come through and say,
I've seen you guys now here for ten or fifteen years,
and it's part of our family tradition. We see moms
come through with their daughters and grandparents who can see
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the show together.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
The fact that you know, that's something that means a
lot to us.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
That families have made as part of their holiday tradition
after all these years, and it's it's unreal that we
are are able to do this as a living you know,
just nine friends walking around on a couple of tour
buses and and uh, you know, just being blessed to
be able to do this for so many years.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
So the Christmas tour your biggest tour, but you guys
are out other times during the year.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, this is the So what we've tried to do
is we've understood that we've kind of been pigeonholed as
this Christmas group, which we're okay with. I mean, it's great,
but we wanted to show another side of ourselves, so
we don't just sing Christmas music.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So we've incorporated these these summer tours. The first mom
was is we kind of started off.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
We did a yacht rock tour doing some of the
greatest you know, Christopher.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Cross for free. You know, Michael McDonald call it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The damn Delilah Tour? Would you yacht rock? It should
be just the Delilah Tour.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was usually it was also called Jerome's Dressing Room
because this is the type of music that you'll hear
coming out of my dress rooms any to any given day,
it's and I have it loud, so everybody's like, right,
can you turn it down? But you know, I love
to see people come in and stick their head and say, oh,
that's a good song and sing because it was good music.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So we we had great success with that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But our great success has been the last two summers
where we did the Summer of the nineties.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We did the best nineties music.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
We gave you all nineties.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
All the time, and it was a huge success. People
have come out and just realized. We didn't realize that,
you know, nineties was such a big but we did.
But we didn't realize the crowds were going to enjoy
it as much as they did, and they felt nostalgic.
And I remember those days and I always see I
can remember exactly where.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I was, and so it was cool.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So we want to keep incorporating these summer and these
new vibe tours that we call vibe tours give you
a different vibe.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So when you Vibe tour in the summer, how many
kids are in tow or do you like dip out
from the family and leave the families at home?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because kids are out of school, right.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, well, if you could explain it better too, Yeah,
I mean, our families are more able to come out
and see us during the summer, which is fantastic. You know,
our summer shows are are so much fun. But the
way that our tours run is one night ers, which
means that we'll arrive in the middle of the night
in one city, stay there for the day, you know,
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have our soundcheck, yeah, and then do the show, and
then by midnight we're on the bus heading to the
next city.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
And we'll do that in the summer for thirty shows.
And we're right now.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
We're in the middle of our holiday road tour, which
is in full swing, going back and forth across the
country holidays. Whether you're ready or not, we're doing it,
and we will do sixty three shows over the course of.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ten weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And that's crazy and.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
One night or so it's not necessarily the most applicable
thing for our kids and our wives to come out to.
But my family will be there when we're around the
Pennsylvania area, and then they'll fly out for just before
the holidays when we're in Indianapolis, and then they'll come
down for New Year's even we'll stick around, maybe go
to Orlando for a few days. I got to I
actually have to work on those plans. If they're like
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if they're going to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Come together, Yeah, well tell me about the new Christmas
tour because every year you spruce it up, every year
you mix it up. But are we are we keeping
the twelve days? Because that's kind of what happened, Like
that's how people.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Found we can't, we can't.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
That's sort of how people I don't think we could
leave a city without doing that song. People even ask
for it during the summer, which we've drawn a line
on say come on, we're not We're not doing this
at the s But.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No, we like we said, like Waltterson, that's your signature.
Though it's just so freaking funny.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, I love and hate it at the same time.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No, I love no, listen it's it's it's really cool,
like Walt said, to see these these families come to
the line, say every year you're our tradition. See these
generations come and just say we've We've had a girl
come the other day said I've been I've been coming
to see you guys for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Thanks for making me feel that old, but it meant
so much because it's like, it's so cool.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And I just said to her, I hope you never
get too cool for us. She said, no, you guys are.
You guys are everything that our whole family lives a bet.
So it's it's just kind of great. So this and
this this Holiday Rod tour, we we do a lot
of things. We bring back some classics that people have
longed to see, and the first half we try to
keep it without Christmas. The second half we come with
that powerhouse Christmas set, and I think we have some
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new We have a lot of our new album is
on that second half, but we also kept some classics
that people were just that are staples at our show.
So I think that people because there are songs that
people are like, hey, besides twelve Days of Christmas, I
need to hear this one.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Why did you do this one?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So it's we understand. So we have to keep recycling things,
keep it fresh. But it's nothing like hearing the crowd
saying this is so cool to see, especially the men
that come to the show.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Like I didn't know what to expect. I mean, I
wasn't really.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sure and now I'm a fan, I'm gonna bring up
And that's that's our greatest conflict with especially when the
men are like, this is cool, or I brought my wife,
you know, like, hey, all right, now we're starting to
get somewhere.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They brought their wife, Yeah, because I've been there. When
the guys are like, yeah, she drugged me out here,
she made me come, but damn, you guys are good.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, so we want to hear that's the compliment of compliments.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Very cool. So how many shows in ten weeks? Sixty
wide and.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
We started in the middle of October. We'll go to
the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
And I mean literally anywhere you know, from you know,
up through Seattle, down through West Palm Beach.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
You know. We we have.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Shows in Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland, Akron, Dayton, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit,
San Louis.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I mean, I mean, if.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
You're if you are anywhere near a big city or
you know, a smaller city, you know, like a Tulsa,
Des Moines, Omaha, like we will be in your area.
And the way to find us is on social media
at SNC Music, or you can go to our website
just Google straight and Chaser and find us, and I
mean there's so much to see online and you can
stream our new album Holiday Road on all platforms, but
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coming to see a live show, if you haven't seen
us live, we like, it's for us, Like that's why
we've done this so long. It's because people come and see,
you know, nine friends. We love to give each other
a hard time and you know, you just a lot
of people. I think the thing that, like Jerome was saying,
the biggest compliment we get from our fans is they
say that they see the chemistry and they see the
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love between the nine of us, and that's true. I mean,
it's it's it's not manufactured. We're not a group that
was put together on some kind of reality show.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
That the reality is we were on in college and.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
We love singing music and we've just kind of kept
this going for so long. So I mean, this show
is by its I mean, it's one of my favorite
setlists we've ever done. Because as Jerome said, like we
have classics like our Christmas can can, which is popular,
and we do like a Prayer, which is a song
that we used to do like thirteen fourteen years ago.
But then we have renewer stuff. We do a little
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bit of Bruno Mars. We do some K pop in
our set.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh my gosh, is there anybody single in the Group'll
y'all tied down?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
We've got one guy.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
So when we've had you know, over the years, we've
had to bring in newer members who were part of
the Indian there's still a group at Indiana called Another Round,
which is our younger brothers who when we go to
visit them, it's it's like looking at a time machine
of ourselves. And when when past member, when original members leave,
we've bring in guys from that group. And currently there
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is a bass who is a force of nature that's
in the group. His name is Luke Bob Robinson. He
is from just north of Seattle, Washington, and he's twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Eight and Bellingham. He's twenty eight, but he's not married.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
So ladies, if you are looking to find a man
that sings a cappella base and and make that you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We don't care are what you sing.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We just like we just love the chemistry.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You guys are so.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Charismad way, I plait to hear his boy's voice. His
boy gets I mean, he gets down there everybody's regular voice.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Makes me he might take my job. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
No, hey, heck no, dude, so he can hit the
low notes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Oh yeah, I mean real little baby.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Ah well, anybody who has never been to a straight
note chaser. Like I said, hearing you on on vinyl,
hearing you on the radio show, hearing you, hearing your
music is beautiful. But seeing you perform and and cutting
up and cracking up, and the love that is palpable
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in that room, it's like all of you, your energy
is multiplied by a thousand, and it's such a great
experience for families, for couples falling in love. My ste
daughter brought her fiance before he was her fiance a
couple of years ago, and the next thing you know,
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she's got a ring on it. So you know, you know,
the love that flows is palpable.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Thank you for saying that. That's what we that's what
we try to show the audience. We just try to
we let you know that we break that fourth wall.
You're you're you're not we're not singing. You're not singing
at you, We're singing with you, and it becomes a party.
And that's that's sort of what we hang our hats
on the fact we don't. We come out after every show,
we shake hands, We side autograss and not those guys
that just get done singing, just he to the next city.
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We get to know everybody, and I think you'll get
to know us. And I think that's the most most
things people take away. Thank you for coming out and
saying hello to your fans and and shaking hands, taking
pictures agains whose we owe it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Uh, you know, like we are.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We want to show you how much camaraderie, how much
friendship we truly are, and how truly nice these guys are.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm probably the meanest of all, but they're so I
take that with whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Pepper, Oh yeah, you are the Pepper. But there's a
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So talking about Holiday Rose, You've got some collabs here,
some collaborations on this new album.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Yeah, we got Mickey Geiton with Blue Christmas one of
the so to tell you about one of the ones
I'll tell you about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Christmas is Different.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Christmas Is Different was an idea that my our friend
of the group named Ernie Halter.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We got a phone conversation.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I was like, man, I really could use a soulful
original song for the album, and he said, hey.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I got this song that I pitched.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Uh, to Mega Trainer, you know, but but you know,
you want to listen to it, and he played it
on his piano and instantly I thought it was the
catchiest tune ever. So one of the guys, Tyler Trepp,
took it on, arranged it and we had the absolute
pressure of having Hunter.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hayes featured on this song. So we're doing a duet
back and forth. It's it's one of my favorite songs
of the album. But yeah, he's uh, we got to
do a music video with him.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
What a great guy, what a great singer, And we
actually get to do the song with him at the Riemann.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How incredible that's going to be this week.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
So walking home with the other songs because he's he's
arranged a lot of the music, but that one in particular,
Christmas is different with Hunter Hayes was extraordinary, cool, cool experience.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So I've got to listen to that and listen to
the words, and not only is it a beautiful song,
but listening to the words, it's a it's a powerful song.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I mean we you know, we we've been known as
a you know, as a cover group for for lack
of a better word, obviously a holiday group too, But
the majority of our setlister are songs, you know, classics
from back in the sixties, like heard It through the
grape Vine all the way through what's current. But as
the years have gone by and we've done so many
holiday songs, our fans have been more welcome to our
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original music.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And Christmas is different.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I think might be I was gonna say, might be,
I think it is my favorite original song that we've
did because it's it's it's not only has the message
that you're saying that's without you, you know, I it's
not the same, you know, with that Christmas is about
the people that you're sparing with and and it's saying
that like it's different.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Without you, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
And then again, I mean Hunter, you know, you find
you find people along the way that you know. Or
he's an incredibly talented songwriter, young and known to Nashville
just you know, for just as a songwriter or obviously
like he's done successfully now as a as a performing artist.
And then we had not met him before we did
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our music video with him, and he came in and
not only was he, you know, just charismatic and just
wonderful of be around, but it was. You know, we've
we've met some people along the way as guests start,
you know that been guest artists a straight No Chaser there, like,
we have to find a way to do something further
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down the road. So hopefully Hunter, can you write a
couple of songs for us too, for our next projects
and our next tour.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, everybody should.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
This is a must have on your Christmas music playlist,
you know, for parties, for family get togethers, even just
like when you're in the kitchen, when I'm in the
kitchen making lasagna, it's got to be the album you
got playing is Holiday Road, just to just to get
the joy flowing as you're putting in the the seasoning
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and the Italian sausage and the tomatoes that I grew
this summer that I'm h The sauce is so good
this year.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Now we're on the way. We're on the way there now.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
All right. I love you guys, Thank you so much,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What's allowed for having us really really really appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I miss you so much. I love you so much.
God bless you, bless you, bless you. Year after year,
straight No Chaser aims to keep fans entertained and inspired. Actually,
they want to be your friend. They want to connect
with you. There are no cookie cutter shows. Each concert
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is so fun. There's banter between the band members, flawless harmonies,
a blend of old favorites and new music. This year
expects some fabulous new arrangements from this just released album
Holiday Road. For more than two two decades, over twenty
five years, the group has brought millions of fans to
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their feet while putting them in the holiday spirit. Every
S and C performance is a gift that requires no
rapping and when everyone delights and sharing. Find album information
and tour informations at SNC music dot com. In the
midst of a season filled with seemingly endless to dos,
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You know, some folks call me Mother Christmas, not Father Christmas,
but Mother Christmas, or maybe missus Claws.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And who am I to argue? I stink and love
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I love the lights, I love the tinsel. I love
the candy canes. I love stirring a cup of hot
cocoa with a candy cane. Mostly, I love the holiday season.
Mostly I love the reason for the season. I love
the Babe in the Manger. I love the promise that
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was sent to us when that Babe in the Manger
showed up in the stable. I love, love, love the music.
If I obeyed my impulses, I'd start the holiday playlist
back in September when the first leaf was only thinking
of falling off the tree. Because I love the carols.
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I love the hymns, all of it. The Ho ho ho,
the jingle jangle all have a place in my heart
and on my show. One group that never ever disappoints
is straight No Chaser. You must have heard the rendition
of the Twelve Days of Christmas. When that performance was
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uploaded to YouTube, it propelled the nine former students of
Indiana University to unprecedented recognition. Straight No Chaser was reborn
and has taken a cappella to heights no one could
have ever dreamed or imagined. Mind you, this was all
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before pop culture phenomens like the sing off or pitch
perfect had even been thought of. S NC Straight No Chaser.
Sn c's star is constantly on the rise as they
continue to achieve new milestones with every tour, with every EP,
with every album release, with every TV performance. They've sold
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more than three million albums. They've garnered more than a
billion streams on Pandora alone. They've sold more than one
and a half million concert tickets worldwide. The nine man
act Walter, Jerome, Saggy, Michael, Steve, Luke, Bob Who's from
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My Neck of the Woods, Jasper Tyler and Freedom Young
has served as a festive band of harmonious blends for
a long long time. The original group has been around
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of performing holiday songs for old and new fans alike
is not lost on them. For them, the holidays and
the annual Fall tour are shared experiences with their fans,
celebrating try and true favorites, while introducing new and novel arrangements.
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They're always working on new arrangements. Their most recent album,
Holiday Road, came out in October on the twenty fourth,
and they've been rolling it out across the country as
their twenty twenty five Holiday tours already well underway. Throughout
the tour, their set list will include megas successful holiday
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hits from all their previous releases. They've had so many
Christmas albums, Holiday Spirits, Christmas Cheer, under the Influence Holiday Edition,
I'll have another Christmas album, Social Christmasing, and stocking Stuffer.
Today we get the opportunity to catch up with a
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couple of my old friends, Walt and Jerome. I have
known and loved these men for almost the entire length
of their touring for many, many, many, many many years,
and to find out what is in store for us
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For a long time, Walt and you're roam. Welcome. It
is so good to see you guys. Oh my gosh,
Thanksgiving is coming in. It just makes me miss you
all the more.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Thank you for having us. Honestly, it's a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So you guys have been busy, busy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
For any of our listeners who have never had a
straight No Chaser experience, they need to at least once
in your life that you need to have the straight
no Chaser experience.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's unlike anything else.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I don't know what people have been waiting for. I mean,
if you have it in a straight now Chaser show,
you have.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You even really lived? Have you even really lived under rock?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I mean under a rock, but you've lived but not
lived lived? You know, you got to come from on this,
you know. So for those who don't know straight No
Chaser was where we are is. We can't even fatham
how far we've made itart. This off as a group
to sing for women and free food. We never thought
in our wildest dreams this would turn out to be
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something twenty some twenties.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And er, let's just backdrop there a group to sing
for women. It's not that you were like going to
you know, women's meetings and performing as a public service.
It's that you guys were young, cute, adorable, sing oldish
single college boys.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's right, Yeah, we were.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
We were.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We were in a show choir call the singing.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Who's Yours, and we were just kind of bored with
doing the offenses singers.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We're just kind of bored with doing the choir music.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
So we literally were like, hey man, one of the guys,
Dan Ponce said, a couple of my friends go to schools.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They have these a cappella.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Groups and they get to sing at sororities and all
these things on campus and they get free food.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And we answer, we're like, where do we sign up for?
And we saw sort.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Of Jeroma and I don't need to I don't really
need you to answer this because I know you Walter,
feel free to answer this on Jerom's behalf.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Which made him smile the broadest.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The thought of free food or the thought of singing
for sororities and other girls groups.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I mean, I had a meal plan in college. You
know what I mean, I show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So you didn't need the damn free food. You are
not there for the food.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Food was not.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Food was not as much of an issue as as
trying to, you know, impress the ships, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
But for Jeroma, for Droman, it might have been the
other way.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know, he's such a liar, such a liar.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
My wife's listened to, not got to behave because.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Your wife is so cute. Oh my god, you did
so good, Walter. You've always been like the like the
responsible one of this friendship here and me.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah good. Is there a sight of you I've never seen,
I mean on stage.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The responsible one of this relationship? Maybe I would say
in the group. You know, Jerome and I are probably
pulling everyone down collectively. But you know, Roma is the soloists,
the guy that steps out, you know, the person that
people when they come through line are most excited to
talk to you because of what he does on stage.
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And I enjoy being the guy that puts the music together,
producing the stuff and patting the soloists on the back
and saying thank you for making my stuff sound sound good,
you know, and be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So a group of handsome men on stage in tuxedos
usually are really sharp suits, really sharp suits singing in
nine part harmony? Does life get any better than that?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, you can answer that he does all the writing.
All we do is he's taking he's being humble, But
Walt has written, has arranged some of the greatest music
we've ever done in this group. One is actually up
right now, hopefully for a little gray Grammy action. But yeah,
I mean he's being humble here, but he's been the
heart soul of writing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What's up for the Grammy?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Well, nothing yet.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
We you know, the nominations go up in a little
bit here, so we'll see what happens. But you know,
we did an arrangement of Yellow Brick Road last year,
Goodbye Yellow Brick Growth. That's it was really caught on
with our fans. We ended up bringing back for a
second year. But you know, it's you asked about what
it's like to sing nine part harmony for a living
and doing this. I mean, this is something that when
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we were back in college we never dreamed of. You know,
this is something when we first were signed with Atlantic
Records almost thirty years now, we never dreamed of. And
the fact that it's still going and that people have
made as part of their holiday tradition. You know, we
go to a city like Indianapolis, which is close where
we went to college, where.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You are God's.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Notice, no disrespect to the big g but in who's
your county and who's your country, you guys are Demi
gods like you. If you took your shirts off on stage,
I'm sure you have tattoos like you know, Mwana because
you are Demi gods.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it true?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
You don't to ask twice for Jerome to tell for
him to think you go.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm looking for a tattoo shop right now. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
So I mean when we go to Indy or we
go anywhere.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
I mean when we go to you know, Seattle, and
we go down to We'll end our tour on the
on New Year's even in West Palm. You know, wherever
we go, we have fans that come through and say,
I've seen you guys now here for ten or fifteen years,
and it's part of our family tradition. We see moms
come through with their daughters and grandparents who can see
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the show together.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
The fact that you know, that's something that means a
lot to us.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
That families have made as part of their holiday tradition
after all these years, and it's it's unreal that we
are are able to do this as a living you know,
just nine friends walking around on a couple of tour
buses and and uh, you know, just being blessed to
be able to do this for so many years.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
So the Christmas tour your biggest tour, but you guys
are out other times during the year.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, this is the So what we've tried to do
is we've understood that we've kind of been pigeonholed as
this Christmas group, which we're okay with. I mean, it's great,
but we wanted to show another side of ourselves, so
we don't just sing Christmas music.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So we've incorporated these these summer tours. The first mom
was is we kind of started off.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
We did a yacht rock tour doing some of the
greatest you know, Christopher.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Cross for free. You know, Michael McDonald call it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The damn Delilah Tour? Would you yacht rock? It should
be just the Delilah Tour.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was usually it was also called Jerome's Dressing Room
because this is the type of music that you'll hear
coming out of my dress rooms any to any given day,
it's and I have it loud, so everybody's like, right,
can you turn it down? But you know, I love
to see people come in and stick their head and say, oh,
that's a good song and sing because it was good music.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So we we had great success with that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But our great success has been the last two summers
where we did the Summer of the nineties.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We did the best nineties music.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
We gave you all nineties.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
All the time, and it was a huge success. People
have come out and just realized. We didn't realize that,
you know, nineties was such a big but we did.
But we didn't realize the crowds were going to enjoy
it as much as they did, and they felt nostalgic.
And I remember those days and I always see I
can remember exactly where.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I was, and so it was cool.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So we want to keep incorporating these summer and these
new vibe tours that we call vibe tours give you
a different vibe.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So when you Vibe tour in the summer, how many
kids are in tow or do you like dip out
from the family and leave the families at home?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because kids are out of school, right.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, well, if you could explain it better too, Yeah,
I mean, our families are more able to come out
and see us during the summer, which is fantastic. You know,
our summer shows are are so much fun. But the
way that our tours run is one night ers, which
means that we'll arrive in the middle of the night
in one city, stay there for the day, you know,
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have our soundcheck, yeah, and then do the show, and
then by midnight we're on the bus heading to the
next city.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
And we'll do that in the summer for thirty shows.
And we're right now.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
We're in the middle of our holiday road tour, which
is in full swing, going back and forth across the
country holidays. Whether you're ready or not, we're doing it,
and we will do sixty three shows over the course of.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ten weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And that's crazy and.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
One night or so it's not necessarily the most applicable
thing for our kids and our wives to come out to.
But my family will be there when we're around the
Pennsylvania area, and then they'll fly out for just before
the holidays when we're in Indianapolis, and then they'll come
down for New Year's even we'll stick around, maybe go
to Orlando for a few days. I got to I
actually have to work on those plans. If they're like
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if they're going to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Come together, Yeah, well tell me about the new Christmas
tour because every year you spruce it up, every year
you mix it up. But are we are we keeping
the twelve days? Because that's kind of what happened, Like
that's how people.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Found we can't, we can't.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
That's sort of how people I don't think we could
leave a city without doing that song. People even ask
for it during the summer, which we've drawn a line
on say come on, we're not We're not doing this
at the s But.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No, we like we said, like Waltterson, that's your signature.
Though it's just so freaking funny.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, I love and hate it at the same time.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No, I love no, listen it's it's it's really cool,
like Walt said, to see these these families come to
the line, say every year you're our tradition. See these
generations come and just say we've We've had a girl
come the other day said I've been I've been coming
to see you guys for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Thanks for making me feel that old, but it meant
so much because it's like, it's so cool.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And I just said to her, I hope you never
get too cool for us. She said, no, you guys are.
You guys are everything that our whole family lives a bet.
So it's it's just kind of great. So this and
this this Holiday Rod tour, we we do a lot
of things. We bring back some classics that people have
longed to see, and the first half we try to
keep it without Christmas. The second half we come with
that powerhouse Christmas set, and I think we have some
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new We have a lot of our new album is
on that second half, but we also kept some classics
that people were just that are staples at our show.
So I think that people because there are songs that
people are like, hey, besides twelve Days of Christmas, I
need to hear this one.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Why did you do this one?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So it's we understand. So we have to keep recycling things,
keep it fresh. But it's nothing like hearing the crowd
saying this is so cool to see, especially the men
that come to the show.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Like I didn't know what to expect. I mean, I
wasn't really.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sure and now I'm a fan, I'm gonna bring up
And that's that's our greatest conflict with especially when the
men are like, this is cool, or I brought my wife,
you know, like, hey, all right, now we're starting to
get somewhere.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They brought their wife, Yeah, because I've been there. When
the guys are like, yeah, she drugged me out here,
she made me come, but damn, you guys are good.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, so we want to hear that's the compliment of compliments.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Very cool. So how many shows in ten weeks? Sixty
wide and.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
We started in the middle of October. We'll go to
the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
And I mean literally anywhere you know, from you know,
up through Seattle, down through West Palm Beach.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
You know. We we have.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Shows in Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland, Akron, Dayton, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit,
San Louis.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I mean, I mean, if.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
You're if you are anywhere near a big city or
you know, a smaller city, you know, like a Tulsa,
Des Moines, Omaha, like we will be in your area.
And the way to find us is on social media
at SNC Music, or you can go to our website
just Google straight and Chaser and find us, and I
mean there's so much to see online and you can
stream our new album Holiday Road on all platforms, but
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coming to see a live show, if you haven't seen
us live, we like, it's for us, Like that's why
we've done this so long. It's because people come and see,
you know, nine friends. We love to give each other
a hard time and you know, you just a lot
of people. I think the thing that, like Jerome was saying,
the biggest compliment we get from our fans is they
say that they see the chemistry and they see the
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love between the nine of us, and that's true. I mean,
it's it's it's not manufactured. We're not a group that
was put together on some kind of reality show.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
That the reality is we were on in college and.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
We love singing music and we've just kind of kept
this going for so long. So I mean, this show
is by its I mean, it's one of my favorite
setlists we've ever done. Because as Jerome said, like we
have classics like our Christmas can can, which is popular,
and we do like a Prayer, which is a song
that we used to do like thirteen fourteen years ago.
But then we have renewer stuff. We do a little
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bit of Bruno Mars. We do some K pop in
our set.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh my gosh, is there anybody single in the Group'll
y'all tied down?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
We've got one guy.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
So when we've had you know, over the years, we've
had to bring in newer members who were part of
the Indian there's still a group at Indiana called Another Round,
which is our younger brothers who when we go to
visit them, it's it's like looking at a time machine
of ourselves. And when when past member, when original members leave,
we've bring in guys from that group. And currently there
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is a bass who is a force of nature that's
in the group. His name is Luke Bob Robinson. He
is from just north of Seattle, Washington, and he's twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Eight and Bellingham. He's twenty eight, but he's not married.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
So ladies, if you are looking to find a man
that sings a cappella base and and make that you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We don't care are what you sing.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We just like we just love the chemistry.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You guys are so.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Charismad way, I plait to hear his boy's voice. His
boy gets I mean, he gets down there everybody's regular voice.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Makes me he might take my job. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
No, hey, heck no, dude, so he can hit the
low notes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Oh yeah, I mean real little baby.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Ah well, anybody who has never been to a straight
note chaser. Like I said, hearing you on on vinyl,
hearing you on the radio show, hearing you, hearing your
music is beautiful. But seeing you perform and and cutting
up and cracking up, and the love that is palpable
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in that room, it's like all of you, your energy
is multiplied by a thousand, and it's such a great
experience for families, for couples falling in love. My ste
daughter brought her fiance before he was her fiance a
couple of years ago, and the next thing you know,
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she's got a ring on it. So you know, you know,
the love that flows is palpable.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Thank you for saying that. That's what we that's what
we try to show the audience. We just try to
we let you know that we break that fourth wall.
You're you're you're not we're not singing. You're not singing
at you, We're singing with you, and it becomes a party.
And that's that's sort of what we hang our hats
on the fact we don't. We come out after every show,
we shake hands, We side autograss and not those guys
that just get done singing, just he to the next city.
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We get to know everybody, and I think you'll get
to know us. And I think that's the most most
things people take away. Thank you for coming out and
saying hello to your fans and and shaking hands, taking
pictures agains whose we owe it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Uh, you know, like we are.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We want to show you how much camaraderie, how much
friendship we truly are, and how truly nice these guys are.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm probably the meanest of all, but they're so I
take that with whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
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Speaker 2 (23:21):
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Speaker 1 (23:22):
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other ways you can get involved. That's Mercyships dot org.
So talking about Holiday Rose, You've got some collabs here,
some collaborations on this new album.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Yeah, we got Mickey Geiton with Blue Christmas one of
the so to tell you about one of the ones
I'll tell you about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Christmas is Different.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Christmas Is Different was an idea that my our friend
of the group named Ernie Halter.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We got a phone conversation.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I was like, man, I really could use a soulful
original song for the album, and he said, hey.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I got this song that I pitched.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Uh, to Mega Trainer, you know, but but you know,
you want to listen to it, and he played it
on his piano and instantly I thought it was the
catchiest tune ever. So one of the guys, Tyler Trepp,
took it on, arranged it and we had the absolute
pressure of having Hunter.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hayes featured on this song. So we're doing a duet
back and forth. It's it's one of my favorite songs
of the album. But yeah, he's uh, we got to
do a music video with him.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
What a great guy, what a great singer, And we
actually get to do the song with him at the Riemann.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
How incredible that's going to be this week.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
So walking home with the other songs because he's he's
arranged a lot of the music, but that one in particular,
Christmas is different with Hunter Hayes was extraordinary, cool, cool experience.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So I've got to listen to that and listen to
the words, and not only is it a beautiful song,
but listening to the words, it's a it's a powerful song.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I mean we you know, we we've been known as
a you know, as a cover group for for lack
of a better word, obviously a holiday group too, But
the majority of our setlister are songs, you know, classics
from back in the sixties, like heard It through the
grape Vine all the way through what's current. But as
the years have gone by and we've done so many
holiday songs, our fans have been more welcome to our
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original music.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And Christmas is different.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I think might be I was gonna say, might be,
I think it is my favorite original song that we've
did because it's it's it's not only has the message
that you're saying that's without you, you know, I it's
not the same, you know, with that Christmas is about
the people that you're sparing with and and it's saying
that like it's different.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Without you, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
And then again, I mean Hunter, you know, you find
you find people along the way that you know. Or
he's an incredibly talented songwriter, young and known to Nashville
just you know, for just as a songwriter or obviously
like he's done successfully now as a as a performing artist.
And then we had not met him before we did
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our music video with him, and he came in and
not only was he, you know, just charismatic and just
wonderful of be around, but it was. You know, we've
we've met some people along the way as guests start,
you know that been guest artists a straight No Chaser there, like,
we have to find a way to do something further
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down the road. So hopefully Hunter, can you write a
couple of songs for us too, for our next projects
and our next tour.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, everybody should.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
This is a must have on your Christmas music playlist,
you know, for parties, for family get togethers, even just
like when you're in the kitchen, when I'm in the
kitchen making lasagna, it's got to be the album you
got playing is Holiday Road, just to just to get
the joy flowing as you're putting in the the seasoning
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and the Italian sausage and the tomatoes that I grew
this summer that I'm h The sauce is so good
this year.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Now we're on the way. We're on the way there now.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
All right. I love you guys, Thank you so much,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What's allowed for having us really really really appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I miss you so much. I love you so much.
God bless you, bless you, bless you. Year after year,
straight No Chaser aims to keep fans entertained and inspired. Actually,
they want to be your friend. They want to connect
with you. There are no cookie cutter shows. Each concert
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is so fun. There's banter between the band members, flawless harmonies,
a blend of old favorites and new music. This year
expects some fabulous new arrangements from this just released album
Holiday Road. For more than two two decades, over twenty
five years, the group has brought millions of fans to
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their feet while putting them in the holiday spirit. Every
S and C performance is a gift that requires no
rapping and when everyone delights and sharing. Find album information
and tour informations at SNC music dot com. In the
midst of a season filled with seemingly endless to dos,
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S and C straight no chaser brings the joy to you.
Purchase or download the new album and get yourself to
a Holiday Road performance. The Holiday boxes the big bins
are coming out of storage. I'm keeping my ears open
and my eyes peeled for gift ideas and Christmas music
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is filtering through the air this year. Keep it simple,
take care of yourself, don't overextend your time, your energy,
or your finances. Let the beauty of the holiday season,
fill your heart and do me a favor. Take some
time out of this sparkly, bright, yet holy season to
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slow down and love someone
Host
Delilah
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