May 5, 2025 • 17 mins
Vince Gill has sold over 26 million albums, charted over 40 singles, and won 18 CMA’s including two Entertainer of the Year awards (1993 and 1994) and five Male Vocalist Awards., 22 Grammy Awards,the most for any male country music artist. He’s been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1991, Country Music Hall of Fame since 2007, Made guest appearances on over 1000 albums and worked with numerous artists across various genres, Vince Gill has won the most Male Vocalist Awards (tied with George Strait) on CMT. He’s been a member of the Eagles since 2017 and married up to Amy Grant since.March of 2000.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, we have a winner.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yes, you're the winner. Your caller number nine. The winner
is Vince Gill.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Cool. I'd like to make a request.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh, we're glad to have you on.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So what I thought is we would talk about how
much we love you, and then you could say something
nice about Michael j and Bethany.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you know they're my favorites all the country music. Yeah, yeah,
everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, look at that, getting the whole the high five.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
From Vince Gill the greatest.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, there's so many things to talk about, but
most importantly, we want to hit right off the bat.
Your show next Thursday night at the Lyric. If you're
not familiar, you don't have a mental picture. The Lyric
is a really really cool venue here in Baltimore, a
great acoustics that you've been there before.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, well, awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It is an awesome place. So I'll shut up. You
tell us about your show next Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know nothing about it. I'm working on it today
and tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I haven't done any of my own shows and forever,
you know, really I've been to them with the big
shot smarty pants guys, and and uh so it hadn't
led me a lot. Let me go out and travel
much and sing these old songs I've been writing all
these years. So is that flight up?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Is that inspiring to you or excited to do this?
Or are you like totally like intimidated, Like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, it's you know, it's never been you know. All
I can do is play and sing like I play
and sing and show people a good time, and it's
up to them to respond. I can't control it, So
will you just kind of take what you get and
go on.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You have tons of fans here, so everybody's excited that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You're kind of and you got two of the world,
two really big fans here between me and Bethany. I mean,
I have rocked your songs on country radio for the
last thirty years, and uh oh man, I go through
your catalog vents and it's just one song is better
than the next.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh my gosh. Well, I mean I don't even have
to hear you say.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I just hear the beginning of those songs, and they
get excited, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We're gonna do a bunch of those, so you're gonna
have a good night, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I can't wait, so let me ask you a couple
of stupid questions. You are obviously, I mean, you're a
country star, but beyond all that, beyond playing with the
Eagles and all that, it seems to me that you
have a relationship with a guitar that goes back to
the beginning, right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean I've been playing a guitar my whole life.
You know, I can't I can't say that I started
when I was two or three or six or nine
or any of that. But my mom has a picture
of me as probably under two years old, sleeping face
down on a on a sofa with my arm around
a guitar.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, the sad part about the pictures I was wearing
a dress.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Because well, you know, that's okay, So.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It's all good these days.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I've seen a video where you you were with a
bunch of musicians and people in Nashville. It looked like
it was at your home and in that room that
you were in you had like drawers or shelves that
were guitars everywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yes, So is there a favorite guitar that you have?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I know, you know, we talked about Willie Nelson the
other day with Trigger Do you have a guitar?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, Do you have a guitar like trigger?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I kind of do, you know, And maybe it's two
or three maybe rather than just one. But the one
that is the most dear and most sentimental is it's
a Gipso electric guitar that my parents bought me in
nineteen sixty seven when I was ten years old, and
that was my first guitar that was mine. You know.
Before that, I'd played my dad's guitars and he let
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me play them, and then I had one that was
my very own and I still have it to this day.
And then I have an acoustic guitar that I bought
when I left home when I was eighteen years old,
and even back in nineteen seventy five, the instrument was
like twenty five hundred dollars, which was an enormous amount
of money, gosh, and I traded my guitar that I
had and bought that guitar and spent sixteen hundred bucks.
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And then my guitar, and that's sixteen hundred dollars that
I spent was all the money I had in the world,
I'd say, from all my gigs for my college fund
and any of that, and and so I was dead broke,
eighteen years old, living in Louisville, Kentucky and playing in
a bluegrass band. And my rent was only fifteen dollars
a month, and I made a couple hundred bucks a
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week when we played the gigs, and I figured I'd
get by, you know. So I still have that guitar
to this day. And I've never been crazy about cars
or other homes or things like that. I just love
I've always loved old instruments, vintage instruments. I have a
pretty extensive collection that goes very very very very deep.
(04:44):
I'm crazy about them. And I feel like that that
those instruments gets to then have a musical life, you know,
with a musician that owns them rather than a collector.
It puts them in a.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
They'd be lucky to be lucky to be in your hands.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, I hope. So someday that's true. That may not
be so true.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So I've got a son who is he sounds like
the story that you're painting, because he's got a lot
of guitars. He's been into it for you know, he's
twenty one now, but he's been playing since he was
a young teen and he's in a band and he's
learning classical. He's going to college and he's playing with
a professor who's classical, you know, a classical guitarist.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And I wanted to ask him.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So I'm listening to this, this little show they put
on at his college a couple of weeks ago, and
I sat down and I've heard so many, you know,
country stars play guitars. I've seen, you know, the way
you do, and the way Keith Urban plays and Brad
Paisley and you know, I've seen everybody's style. I've never
seen a guitarist play the way this guy did. And
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I wanted to ask you about it. And it's hard
for me as a as a guy who's not and
I know a little bit about music, but not anywhere
near you know, somebody who's stage worthy. But what he
was doing that I had never seen before. One thing,
he was left handed, and he was playing like a
bass run where it was like.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
With you know, and at the same time he was
playing basically a lead. Now this is on an acoustic guitar,
an acoustic classical guitar, and I've never seen or heard
someone play guitar where it felt like they were playing
a bass.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And a lead. Am I imagining that? Or is that
is that?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know? There's there's all kinds of guys that played uniquely,
you know, like somebody like Stanley Jordan was a great
jazz guitar player that played with both hands kind of
on the neck right. And then you know, that's what's
fun is if you think about a guitar and you
set it in your lap, you know, facing you, and
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then it kind of turns into a piano in a sense,
and then it goes low to high and a lot
of people find I love it when somebody finds a
new way, in a unique way to play an instrument.
You know, to me, that's that's some genius stuff. You know,
there was some great guitar players. And here's a guy
named uh uh, Jeff Healely the rock player him and
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he was blind and and I have another friend named
Roy Hoffman who's blind, and and I would say when
you're when you're non sighted, you could probably figure out
a way to do anything because you couldn't see how
everybody else did it mm hmm. And maybe you could
find a unique way and a new way to do that.
And they said it in their laps and play it
like that, and it's it's remarked.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like almost exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know, Okay, I want to go on your wife
for a minute, because good move.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
When I was a little baby, Bethany, I used to
think I was going to be a singer.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And I went into.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Those one of those really dorky recording studios like at
a fair do you know what I'm talking about? And
I sang one of her songs.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And I thought I was a rock star. You were, Yeah,
I think I were.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Think I was now I it's so cringey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
A bunch of years ago, Alison Kraus and I did that.
You did.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh wow, I bet that sounded good. Actually we.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Tried to sing bad on purpose.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is really funny. Well send to Amy, my love.
She doesn't know me, but I'd love her. I also
want to know about the sphere that looks like it
is the coolest venue ever.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
When you try to describe it to people, you don't
do it justice because it's on such a higher level
of normity that you can't really do it justice. You know,
it's so much bigger than you could describe or imagine,
and it's pretty overwhelming. I tell people all the time,
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and i'd say it jokingly, but since the most people
I've ever been ignored by at a show because they're
all watching the content, you know, watching the video walls.
It's like if you cut an arena in half, you know,
a big arena in half, right, and all the seats
were in one half, and then all the content was
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on the back half. It's not just like a big
a screen. It's like the whole half of the arena
is the show is the ceiling, and then it wraps
around almost almost three to a three sixty experience. Not quiet,
but it's remarkable. You know. I can't I can't let
myself get caught up and looking at it because then
I get this tracked.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Kind of focus to come and sing, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did I heard the people were.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Getting like even like a little bit of motion sickness
from all the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It moves around a good bit things doing. Wow. One
of the reasons I don't watch it. I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You played there with the Eagles, Sorry, you played there
with the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yes, ma'am, how was that?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's pretty awesome. I've been playing with them for now
for nine years. Yeah, it's been an amazing, amazing gift
to my life. I never dreamed in a million years
that that would that would come true. It was always
one of my favorite bands and some of the best
songs that I've ever been written by those guys, and
so yeah, when that call came in, it was an
easy so I can assure you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So the Eagles started out as the backup band for
Linda Ronstadt.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I was just good.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You've sung with pretty much everybody on the planet, you know.
I'm just looking down the list. Have you ever done
anything with Linda?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I never have. That's a real regret. I idolized her voice. Yeah,
as a young man and poured over those records and
knew every note and every singer that was on it
and every player that was on them. And yeah, it's
where Linda's record of I Can't help But if I'm
Still in Love with You is where I discovered Emmy
La Harris. Oh wow, I was singing harmony on that
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record and I heard that voice. And one of the
reasons I bought that record. I love that voice so much,
and I well got the record home. I'm fifteen, sixteen
years old, and I see this name, Emmy Lou Harris,
and I said, that can't be real. It can't be
a real name, you know, And I thought it was
Dolly Parton using a fake name to sing on a record.
That's funny, little did I know. And then I found
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Emmy's first record short time after that, and and a
lifelong fan.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Vince Gale. I've always admired when you do work with
other artists. I mean, you're incredible by yourself, but it's
there's something that you have a great ability to harmonize
and to sing with other people. And I love a
woman's voice. There's just something about it. And one there's
a woman from this area of the country, Maggie Rose,
(11:44):
who I know you've met and you sang with. I
have told people from the from the first I walked
into a bar in Nashville and had not really heard
her or heard much about her. And she was she
was singing a song up on a stage. I'm sure
to think of it. It was like her first song,
I'm not I ain't your Mama, I ain't your Mama,
that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And I'm like, man, this girl's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And this this band was good, and I loved her
from the beginning, and I think she's got one of
the best female voices that there is. And then I
see you two singing together. I was so excited when
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, I've done that my whole life, you know. That
was one of the things I aspired to be, was
hopefully good enough that people would hire me to be
on records and sing on sessions and things. And at
this point it's over a thousand artist records.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Wow, that's incredible that that you're so easy going and
easy to work with, and that's I think that's that's
really awesome too.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I think that what's interesting about that job. In my mind,
it's way harder to do that job than it is
to be the front person and sing the lead or
be the focal focal point of a record. When you
have to take what you do and make it blend
and make it work and make it fit and make
it seamless and all those things, that's a harder job
than just getting to do what you want and everybody
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has to follow you, so I'm taking great pride in
in knowing that that's a hard job and hopefully been
pretty good at it over the years.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
If you I mean, I'm not gonna it be impossible
with a thousand or whatever you've done to name like
one one person. But are there, like in a hand
when you think of like a one hand, who do
you count as you know the artists that have just
blown you away that you're most impressed with it that
touched you, I.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Guess, golly, I mean, I've got to sing with George Jones,
sing with mar Haggard, I've got to sing with Comedy Twitter,
you got sing with Amy One, they had to get
sing with Dolly Parton. It's it's it's unending in a
beautiful way, you know. And you know I sang a
duet with my wife Amy before we were married, and
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she called me because she was going to sing the
part on the record, but it was too high for her.
She hired me. The rest is kind of history.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That is funny.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Really wow, Well, listen, we really appreciate all the time.
We're really excited about your show at the Lyric coming
up a week from Thursday night, the fifteenth, And are there.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
More dates with the Eagles at this point or where
does that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Stand in the fall. We're going back to the Sphere September, October,
and November for twelve more shows out there. Okay, if
people want to see something they'll never see again, they
should come out there. It's pretty pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It sounds incredible. So who can you give me the
roster of the Eagles right now? Because I've been an
Eagles fan from like, you know, the earliest days. This
this group of guys, it's you and and Don Henley
and who else?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Uh huh? Timothy, Timothy B. Schmidt?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Whose voice is? Whose voice is higher? You were? Timothy b.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh gosh these days? Maybe mine? So ten years older
than me? I got an unfair advantage.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are you only sixty eight?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Are you singing? I can't tell you why? Or is Timothy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Tim Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I thought it was all right.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Joe Walsh, my lifelong one guitar heroes, Yeah he is,
Glenn's son is in the band, and right and four
other supplemental musicians that helped make us sound good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, I love that. I love this group of guys.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I tell Bethany about like because I was I was
a rock DJ before I got into the country. I was,
you know, playing James Gang Records back like you know,
in the in the late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, keeps he keeps saying.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I wasn't even born yet. He's like, don't you remember
that song? You remember that song? I'm like, no, I
was not alive, not even around.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I tell her I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm like, you gotta know life's been good from Joe Walsh.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Can you play it? I might recognize it maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Anyway, anyway, that's awesome. Well, thank you for taking all
the time and uh and telling us about it. And
we're going to let shout it out. Let make sure
everybody's packing the house Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All right, come out, man, it'd be a lot of fun.
A killer band and a lot of meat songs and
some new songs and some old songs and guarantee good time.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Are you still writing a lot these days?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
More than I ever have? Oh wow, I have so
much time left. So I'm being as creative as I
could ever possibly want to be real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
When you do right, what is your your thing? Is
there a place that you feel most inspired or a
song is more likely to kind of pop in your head.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh, I think a song will kind of take you
where it wants to go, where it should go, you know,
And I can't. You know, I've always got melodies floating
around in my head, floating around in my head. It's
not hard to sit down and make something up and
try to turn it into a something.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But I mean, it's not like you're in the shower,
you're cutting the grass or doing something. Because I don't know.
I think we all have our creative spots. I just
wondered if you have one.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't bathe and I don't do yardwork. Problem.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Vince Gill, we love you, buddy. I can't wait to
see the show. All right, take care, really really appreciate yours.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, that was cool getting to speak with Vince Gil.
I mean, he is one of the greatest out there
with the Eagles, and he's had so many country hits
over the years. So see, you never know who will
show up next here on our podcast. So make sure
you follow Michael Jay and Bethany on Instagram at Michael
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j on Air on any of the socials and we
will have somebody else really cool on the line one
of these days.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Very soon
Hello, we have a winner.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yes, you're the winner. Your caller number nine. The winner
is Vince Gill.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Cool. I'd like to make a request.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh, we're glad to have you on.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So what I thought is we would talk about how
much we love you, and then you could say something
nice about Michael j and Bethany.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you know they're my favorites all the country music. Yeah, yeah,
everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, look at that, getting the whole the high five.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
From Vince Gill the greatest.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, there's so many things to talk about, but
most importantly, we want to hit right off the bat.
Your show next Thursday night at the Lyric. If you're
not familiar, you don't have a mental picture. The Lyric
is a really really cool venue here in Baltimore, a
great acoustics that you've been there before.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, well, awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It is an awesome place. So I'll shut up. You
tell us about your show next Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know nothing about it. I'm working on it today
and tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I haven't done any of my own shows and forever,
you know, really I've been to them with the big
shot smarty pants guys, and and uh so it hadn't
led me a lot. Let me go out and travel
much and sing these old songs I've been writing all
these years. So is that flight up?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Is that inspiring to you or excited to do this?
Or are you like totally like intimidated, Like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, it's you know, it's never been you know. All
I can do is play and sing like I play
and sing and show people a good time, and it's
up to them to respond. I can't control it, So
will you just kind of take what you get and
go on.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You have tons of fans here, so everybody's excited that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You're kind of and you got two of the world,
two really big fans here between me and Bethany. I mean,
I have rocked your songs on country radio for the
last thirty years, and uh oh man, I go through
your catalog vents and it's just one song is better
than the next.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh my gosh. Well, I mean I don't even have
to hear you say.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I just hear the beginning of those songs, and they
get excited, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We're gonna do a bunch of those, so you're gonna
have a good night, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I can't wait, so let me ask you a couple
of stupid questions. You are obviously, I mean, you're a
country star, but beyond all that, beyond playing with the
Eagles and all that, it seems to me that you
have a relationship with a guitar that goes back to
the beginning, right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean I've been playing a guitar my whole life.
You know, I can't I can't say that I started
when I was two or three or six or nine
or any of that. But my mom has a picture
of me as probably under two years old, sleeping face
down on a on a sofa with my arm around
a guitar.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, the sad part about the pictures I was wearing
a dress.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Because well, you know, that's okay, So.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It's all good these days.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I've seen a video where you you were with a
bunch of musicians and people in Nashville. It looked like
it was at your home and in that room that
you were in you had like drawers or shelves that
were guitars everywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yes, So is there a favorite guitar that you have?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I know, you know, we talked about Willie Nelson the
other day with Trigger Do you have a guitar?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, Do you have a guitar like trigger?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I kind of do, you know, And maybe it's two
or three maybe rather than just one. But the one
that is the most dear and most sentimental is it's
a Gipso electric guitar that my parents bought me in
nineteen sixty seven when I was ten years old, and
that was my first guitar that was mine. You know.
Before that, I'd played my dad's guitars and he let
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me play them, and then I had one that was
my very own and I still have it to this day.
And then I have an acoustic guitar that I bought
when I left home when I was eighteen years old,
and even back in nineteen seventy five, the instrument was
like twenty five hundred dollars, which was an enormous amount
of money, gosh, and I traded my guitar that I
had and bought that guitar and spent sixteen hundred bucks.
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And then my guitar, and that's sixteen hundred dollars that
I spent was all the money I had in the world,
I'd say, from all my gigs for my college fund
and any of that, and and so I was dead broke,
eighteen years old, living in Louisville, Kentucky and playing in
a bluegrass band. And my rent was only fifteen dollars
a month, and I made a couple hundred bucks a
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week when we played the gigs, and I figured I'd
get by, you know. So I still have that guitar
to this day. And I've never been crazy about cars
or other homes or things like that. I just love
I've always loved old instruments, vintage instruments. I have a
pretty extensive collection that goes very very very very deep.
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I'm crazy about them. And I feel like that that
those instruments gets to then have a musical life, you know,
with a musician that owns them rather than a collector.
It puts them in a.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
They'd be lucky to be lucky to be in your hands.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, I hope. So someday that's true. That may not
be so true.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So I've got a son who is he sounds like
the story that you're painting, because he's got a lot
of guitars. He's been into it for you know, he's
twenty one now, but he's been playing since he was
a young teen and he's in a band and he's
learning classical. He's going to college and he's playing with
a professor who's classical, you know, a classical guitarist.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And I wanted to ask him.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So I'm listening to this, this little show they put
on at his college a couple of weeks ago, and
I sat down and I've heard so many, you know,
country stars play guitars. I've seen, you know, the way
you do, and the way Keith Urban plays and Brad
Paisley and you know, I've seen everybody's style. I've never
seen a guitarist play the way this guy did. And
(05:49):
I wanted to ask you about it. And it's hard
for me as a as a guy who's not and
I know a little bit about music, but not anywhere
near you know, somebody who's stage worthy. But what he
was doing that I had never seen before. One thing,
he was left handed, and he was playing like a
bass run where it was like.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
With you know, and at the same time he was
playing basically a lead. Now this is on an acoustic guitar,
an acoustic classical guitar, and I've never seen or heard
someone play guitar where it felt like they were playing
a bass.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And a lead. Am I imagining that? Or is that
is that?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know? There's there's all kinds of guys that played uniquely,
you know, like somebody like Stanley Jordan was a great
jazz guitar player that played with both hands kind of
on the neck right. And then you know, that's what's
fun is if you think about a guitar and you
set it in your lap, you know, facing you, and
(06:47):
then it kind of turns into a piano in a sense,
and then it goes low to high and a lot
of people find I love it when somebody finds a
new way, in a unique way to play an instrument.
You know, to me, that's that's some genius stuff. You know,
there was some great guitar players. And here's a guy
named uh uh, Jeff Healely the rock player him and
(07:11):
he was blind and and I have another friend named
Roy Hoffman who's blind, and and I would say when
you're when you're non sighted, you could probably figure out
a way to do anything because you couldn't see how
everybody else did it mm hmm. And maybe you could
find a unique way and a new way to do that.
And they said it in their laps and play it
like that, and it's it's remarked.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like almost exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know, Okay, I want to go on your wife
for a minute, because good move.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
When I was a little baby, Bethany, I used to
think I was going to be a singer.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And I went into.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Those one of those really dorky recording studios like at
a fair do you know what I'm talking about? And
I sang one of her songs.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And I thought I was a rock star. You were, Yeah,
I think I were.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Think I was now I it's so cringey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
A bunch of years ago, Alison Kraus and I did that.
You did.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh wow, I bet that sounded good. Actually we.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Tried to sing bad on purpose.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is really funny. Well send to Amy, my love.
She doesn't know me, but I'd love her. I also
want to know about the sphere that looks like it
is the coolest venue ever.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
When you try to describe it to people, you don't
do it justice because it's on such a higher level
of normity that you can't really do it justice. You know,
it's so much bigger than you could describe or imagine,
and it's pretty overwhelming. I tell people all the time,
(08:54):
and i'd say it jokingly, but since the most people
I've ever been ignored by at a show because they're
all watching the content, you know, watching the video walls.
It's like if you cut an arena in half, you know,
a big arena in half, right, and all the seats
were in one half, and then all the content was
(09:14):
on the back half. It's not just like a big
a screen. It's like the whole half of the arena
is the show is the ceiling, and then it wraps
around almost almost three to a three sixty experience. Not quiet,
but it's remarkable. You know. I can't I can't let
myself get caught up and looking at it because then
I get this tracked.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Kind of focus to come and sing, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did I heard the people were.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Getting like even like a little bit of motion sickness
from all the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It moves around a good bit things doing. Wow. One
of the reasons I don't watch it. I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You played there with the Eagles, Sorry, you played there
with the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yes, ma'am, how was that?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's pretty awesome. I've been playing with them for now
for nine years. Yeah, it's been an amazing, amazing gift
to my life. I never dreamed in a million years
that that would that would come true. It was always
one of my favorite bands and some of the best
songs that I've ever been written by those guys, and
so yeah, when that call came in, it was an
easy so I can assure you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So the Eagles started out as the backup band for
Linda Ronstadt.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I was just good.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You've sung with pretty much everybody on the planet, you know.
I'm just looking down the list. Have you ever done
anything with Linda?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I never have. That's a real regret. I idolized her voice. Yeah,
as a young man and poured over those records and
knew every note and every singer that was on it
and every player that was on them. And yeah, it's
where Linda's record of I Can't help But if I'm
Still in Love with You is where I discovered Emmy
La Harris. Oh wow, I was singing harmony on that
(10:55):
record and I heard that voice. And one of the
reasons I bought that record. I love that voice so much,
and I well got the record home. I'm fifteen, sixteen
years old, and I see this name, Emmy Lou Harris,
and I said, that can't be real. It can't be
a real name, you know, And I thought it was
Dolly Parton using a fake name to sing on a record.
That's funny, little did I know. And then I found
(11:16):
Emmy's first record short time after that, and and a
lifelong fan.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Vince Gale. I've always admired when you do work with
other artists. I mean, you're incredible by yourself, but it's
there's something that you have a great ability to harmonize
and to sing with other people. And I love a
woman's voice. There's just something about it. And one there's
a woman from this area of the country, Maggie Rose,
(11:44):
who I know you've met and you sang with. I
have told people from the from the first I walked
into a bar in Nashville and had not really heard
her or heard much about her. And she was she
was singing a song up on a stage. I'm sure
to think of it. It was like her first song,
I'm not I ain't your Mama, I ain't your Mama,
that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And I'm like, man, this girl's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And this this band was good, and I loved her
from the beginning, and I think she's got one of
the best female voices that there is. And then I
see you two singing together. I was so excited when
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, I've done that my whole life, you know. That
was one of the things I aspired to be, was
hopefully good enough that people would hire me to be
on records and sing on sessions and things. And at
this point it's over a thousand artist records.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Wow, that's incredible that that you're so easy going and
easy to work with, and that's I think that's that's
really awesome too.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I think that what's interesting about that job. In my mind,
it's way harder to do that job than it is
to be the front person and sing the lead or
be the focal focal point of a record. When you
have to take what you do and make it blend
and make it work and make it fit and make
it seamless and all those things, that's a harder job
than just getting to do what you want and everybody
(13:03):
has to follow you, so I'm taking great pride in
in knowing that that's a hard job and hopefully been
pretty good at it over the years.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
If you I mean, I'm not gonna it be impossible
with a thousand or whatever you've done to name like
one one person. But are there, like in a hand
when you think of like a one hand, who do
you count as you know the artists that have just
blown you away that you're most impressed with it that
touched you, I.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Guess, golly, I mean, I've got to sing with George Jones,
sing with mar Haggard, I've got to sing with Comedy Twitter,
you got sing with Amy One, they had to get
sing with Dolly Parton. It's it's it's unending in a
beautiful way, you know. And you know I sang a
duet with my wife Amy before we were married, and
(13:50):
she called me because she was going to sing the
part on the record, but it was too high for her.
She hired me. The rest is kind of history.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That is funny.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Really wow, Well, listen, we really appreciate all the time.
We're really excited about your show at the Lyric coming
up a week from Thursday night, the fifteenth, And are there.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
More dates with the Eagles at this point or where
does that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Stand in the fall. We're going back to the Sphere September, October,
and November for twelve more shows out there. Okay, if
people want to see something they'll never see again, they
should come out there. It's pretty pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It sounds incredible. So who can you give me the
roster of the Eagles right now? Because I've been an
Eagles fan from like, you know, the earliest days. This
this group of guys, it's you and and Don Henley
and who else?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Uh huh? Timothy, Timothy B. Schmidt?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Whose voice is? Whose voice is higher? You were? Timothy b.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh gosh these days? Maybe mine? So ten years older
than me? I got an unfair advantage.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are you only sixty eight?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Are you singing? I can't tell you why? Or is Timothy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Tim Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I thought it was all right.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Joe Walsh, my lifelong one guitar heroes, Yeah he is,
Glenn's son is in the band, and right and four
other supplemental musicians that helped make us sound good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, I love that. I love this group of guys.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I tell Bethany about like because I was I was
a rock DJ before I got into the country. I was,
you know, playing James Gang Records back like you know,
in the in the late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, keeps he keeps saying.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I wasn't even born yet. He's like, don't you remember
that song? You remember that song? I'm like, no, I
was not alive, not even around.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I tell her I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm like, you gotta know life's been good from Joe Walsh.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Can you play it? I might recognize it maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Anyway, anyway, that's awesome. Well, thank you for taking all
the time and uh and telling us about it. And
we're going to let shout it out. Let make sure
everybody's packing the house Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All right, come out, man, it'd be a lot of fun.
A killer band and a lot of meat songs and
some new songs and some old songs and guarantee good time.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Are you still writing a lot these days?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
More than I ever have? Oh wow, I have so
much time left. So I'm being as creative as I
could ever possibly want to be real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
When you do right, what is your your thing? Is
there a place that you feel most inspired or a
song is more likely to kind of pop in your head.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh, I think a song will kind of take you
where it wants to go, where it should go, you know,
And I can't. You know, I've always got melodies floating
around in my head, floating around in my head. It's
not hard to sit down and make something up and
try to turn it into a something.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But I mean, it's not like you're in the shower,
you're cutting the grass or doing something. Because I don't know.
I think we all have our creative spots. I just
wondered if you have one.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't bathe and I don't do yardwork. Problem.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Vince Gill, we love you, buddy. I can't wait to
see the show. All right, take care, really really appreciate yours.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, that was cool getting to speak with Vince Gil.
I mean, he is one of the greatest out there
with the Eagles, and he's had so many country hits
over the years. So see, you never know who will
show up next here on our podcast. So make sure
you follow Michael Jay and Bethany on Instagram at Michael
(17:30):
j on Air on any of the socials and we
will have somebody else really cool on the line one
of these days.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Very soon
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