August 30, 2021 • 7 mins
Blanco Brown is calling into Cody Alan’s Cody Cast podcast from somewhere in Iowa. Listen in as the “Git Up” singer drops in with updates on his new album and shares what it was like working with Nelly and Florida Georgia Line. Blanco also reveals why he would steal his grandmother’s spoons as a child.
PLUS: Blanco hits a higher note than Mariah Carey and reveals his vocal warm-up routine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cody Cast. This is Cody Allen's podcast. This
guy first burst onto the scene Blanco Brown with a
song called the Get Up and you may have recently
heard his number one with Parmly Just the Way, such
a great song. So Blanco is on the line here
with this Blanco Brown Blanco, How you doing, man, I'm
coming along. Where in the world are you? I mean, Iowa? Iowa?
(00:24):
A right, How's how's Iowa this morning? It's good. I
haven't been out yet, I can okay, okay, uh listen.
I'm excited to talk to you because I just saw
that video of you doing the national anthem at a
ball game and you hit the highest note. I mean,
it was incredible. It was like above even Mariah Carey level.
(00:49):
It's funny because I played that same video for Diane
Warren the day Applewards and she said the same thing
on the film. So, I mean, was that is that
how you do it every time? Nope? That on my
third time, and it was for at the moment, I
didn't even know I was gonna hit the note, but
I said, what do I want to do here? And
(01:09):
then I just went for no warm up, no nothing,
just did it. Man, but I never warm up. I
never warm up. My first notes gonna are gonna always
be the notes that you hear. And why is that
why most people say you need to warm up? Yeah,
I hear all that. I hear all that, but my thing, Yes,
it's almost like putting the test trial on the car
(01:31):
and you keep on reving up the engine but not
racing it. Right. It's like people who say you need
to stretch before you run, but you never see a
cheetah stretch, right. Yeah, you just you just go with
the flow if it's what you do is if it's
an ordained Like with me, the notes I know I
can hit. I can hit. I'm gonna hit those whenever
(01:54):
is presented, and if I can't, then I'm not gonna track.
Song did you do with Nelly on CMT cross Roads? Uh?
High Horse? H Okay? So the single it's such a
great song. It's out right now. People can go check
that one out. But I love that song. And so
how was that night for you? It was amazing. Um.
(02:15):
I got to perform some other things with him, and
then I got to do my single, Nobody's Moke Country.
So it was full of fun and the audience loved it.
Play my spoons and we would jamming nothing more country
than spoons. I'm trying to tell you when did you
learn to play the spoons, because we saw you do
this on the same Music Awards as well, when you
(02:37):
did this song Nobody's more country. Um. But when was
the first time you picked him up? Man? I had
to be about six or seven years old taking my
grandma spoons that I saw someone playing a spoon downtown Atlanta,
uh five points, like a homeless guy playing them. I
was fascinated. And so you just picked it up by
(02:57):
yourself or did someone have to teach you or you
just to figured it out? I figured it out myself.
Tyler helping floor to Georgilina, co writer on your on
your single, tell me about working with Tyler, who is
a great guy. Um, And how'd y'all come up with
this idea? Oh man, great energy. Um. He reached out
to my people's and said he wanted to do a session,
(03:18):
So we kind of just made it happen, went over
and put it all together. When he originally reached out
to me, I think via social media and then it
just kind of, you know, went through the channels of
the label John loeba, Uh, let me know, and then
I send it up um and making sure everything worked
(03:41):
with management, and I brought my brother Empathy Illustrated alone
and Jordan Schmidt's and myself uh co produced it and
we wrote it together. It was like one of those
things where we're just messing around with words and nobody's
more country. It's not just me, nobody loves the country
more than me. It's actually the lyric and I mean,
(04:05):
I'm talking about the world. Nobody loves people more than me.
But then it was a little twist on the words
like nobody's more country either. Yeah, it turned out great.
Obviously it's doing well for you, So congrats on all that.
How is um? Obviously the fans can go out and
see you on tour, they can see from that one
to get up all the great stuff that you do.
(04:25):
But um, how are you enjoying the road? Is it fun?
Are you having a good time? Man? I love it.
I'm loving every moment of it. Being back. Still have
led pains and whatnot, but just blessing graceful to be
walking from the motorcycle accident. Huh huh. Still, what has
(04:48):
the rehab been like, oh man, I mean I still
have nerve damage, my left foot don't fully function properly. Um,
but it's it's supposed to come back, one of the saying,
and it's slowly but showly coming. I'm just blessed. Yeah,
it's not slowing. You're down on stage though, I mean
it slowed me down, but not to the point that
(05:10):
I came perform. But I'm used to running on stage.
I can't run. I can't do. My knee dropped my
spin around. You know what I'm saying. I can't I
can't do, but I'm still having fun. You're gonna get up.
Uh an amazing show, always are. You bring it every
time when it comes to new music. I know you've
got a lot of stuff that you've been working on. Show, Um,
(05:31):
when will that be out? What you tell us about
the album is gonna be called Nobody's More Country. It
sounds like a title to me. Well, I'm a little
bit against the grain, so I wouldn't. I wouldn't name
the album Nobody's More Country because the single is already
that now and now the single just happened to blow
(05:51):
all the way through the roof and go five times platinum.
Or something. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna name an album.
Nobody's more country. What can you tell us about the
music on the new album. It's more in depth in
my story, and I mean, you just get a lot
of feel good music. I have traditional country. I have
trailer trap. It's full of you know, it's talking about
(06:13):
the accident and talking about just life, lessons them and blessings.
So it's a full circle moment for me with this
UM sophomore album, Lessons and Blessings. That sounds like a
title right there too. Yep, real quick, that sounds like
a good one. Trailer Trap. You've you've talked to me
(06:35):
before about this, But in case people don't know exactly
what you mean by that, what exactly does that mean?
Trailer trapp is trailer park music, which I can see
the country, good old country and trap music against eight
oh waits and high hats uh from like rap artists.
You know, they corned it and made trap a whole thing.
But I just breathed the gap. I put them both
(06:57):
together and call the trailer trap. I love it, Blanco,
I love you, Thank you for calling in. Always love
having you on the show. Have fun out there, on
the road and let's hope some of those wounds men,
fast man, Blessings and purpose. Love. This has been Cody Cast.
Subscribe now on iTunes, listen anytime on the I Heart
(07:18):
radio app. Cody is heard on hundreds of radio stations
across America and seen on CMT Hot twenty Countdown every weekend.
Or more, go to CMT Cody dot com.
Welcome to Cody Cast. This is Cody Allen's podcast. This
guy first burst onto the scene Blanco Brown with a
song called the Get Up and you may have recently
heard his number one with Parmly Just the Way, such
a great song. So Blanco is on the line here
with this Blanco Brown Blanco, How you doing, man, I'm
coming along. Where in the world are you? I mean, Iowa? Iowa?
(00:24):
A right, How's how's Iowa this morning? It's good. I
haven't been out yet, I can okay, okay, uh listen.
I'm excited to talk to you because I just saw
that video of you doing the national anthem at a
ball game and you hit the highest note. I mean,
it was incredible. It was like above even Mariah Carey level.
(00:49):
It's funny because I played that same video for Diane
Warren the day Applewards and she said the same thing
on the film. So, I mean, was that is that
how you do it every time? Nope? That on my
third time, and it was for at the moment, I
didn't even know I was gonna hit the note, but
I said, what do I want to do here? And
(01:09):
then I just went for no warm up, no nothing,
just did it. Man, but I never warm up. I
never warm up. My first notes gonna are gonna always
be the notes that you hear. And why is that
why most people say you need to warm up? Yeah,
I hear all that. I hear all that, but my thing, Yes,
it's almost like putting the test trial on the car
(01:31):
and you keep on reving up the engine but not
racing it. Right. It's like people who say you need
to stretch before you run, but you never see a
cheetah stretch, right. Yeah, you just you just go with
the flow if it's what you do is if it's
an ordained Like with me, the notes I know I
can hit. I can hit. I'm gonna hit those whenever
(01:54):
is presented, and if I can't, then I'm not gonna track.
Song did you do with Nelly on CMT cross Roads? Uh?
High Horse? H Okay? So the single it's such a
great song. It's out right now. People can go check
that one out. But I love that song. And so
how was that night for you? It was amazing. Um.
(02:15):
I got to perform some other things with him, and
then I got to do my single, Nobody's Moke Country.
So it was full of fun and the audience loved it.
Play my spoons and we would jamming nothing more country
than spoons. I'm trying to tell you when did you
learn to play the spoons, because we saw you do
this on the same Music Awards as well, when you
(02:37):
did this song Nobody's more country. Um. But when was
the first time you picked him up? Man? I had
to be about six or seven years old taking my
grandma spoons that I saw someone playing a spoon downtown Atlanta,
uh five points, like a homeless guy playing them. I
was fascinated. And so you just picked it up by
(02:57):
yourself or did someone have to teach you or you
just to figured it out? I figured it out myself.
Tyler helping floor to Georgilina, co writer on your on
your single, tell me about working with Tyler, who is
a great guy. Um, And how'd y'all come up with
this idea? Oh man, great energy. Um. He reached out
to my people's and said he wanted to do a session,
(03:18):
So we kind of just made it happen, went over
and put it all together. When he originally reached out
to me, I think via social media and then it
just kind of, you know, went through the channels of
the label John loeba, Uh, let me know, and then
I send it up um and making sure everything worked
(03:41):
with management, and I brought my brother Empathy Illustrated alone
and Jordan Schmidt's and myself uh co produced it and
we wrote it together. It was like one of those
things where we're just messing around with words and nobody's
more country. It's not just me, nobody loves the country
more than me. It's actually the lyric and I mean,
(04:05):
I'm talking about the world. Nobody loves people more than me.
But then it was a little twist on the words
like nobody's more country either. Yeah, it turned out great.
Obviously it's doing well for you, So congrats on all that.
How is um? Obviously the fans can go out and
see you on tour, they can see from that one
to get up all the great stuff that you do.
(04:25):
But um, how are you enjoying the road? Is it fun?
Are you having a good time? Man? I love it.
I'm loving every moment of it. Being back. Still have
led pains and whatnot, but just blessing graceful to be
walking from the motorcycle accident. Huh huh. Still, what has
(04:48):
the rehab been like, oh man, I mean I still
have nerve damage, my left foot don't fully function properly. Um,
but it's it's supposed to come back, one of the saying,
and it's slowly but showly coming. I'm just blessed. Yeah,
it's not slowing. You're down on stage though, I mean
it slowed me down, but not to the point that
(05:10):
I came perform. But I'm used to running on stage.
I can't run. I can't do. My knee dropped my
spin around. You know what I'm saying. I can't I
can't do, but I'm still having fun. You're gonna get up.
Uh an amazing show, always are. You bring it every
time when it comes to new music. I know you've
got a lot of stuff that you've been working on. Show, Um,
(05:31):
when will that be out? What you tell us about
the album is gonna be called Nobody's More Country. It
sounds like a title to me. Well, I'm a little
bit against the grain, so I wouldn't. I wouldn't name
the album Nobody's More Country because the single is already
that now and now the single just happened to blow
(05:51):
all the way through the roof and go five times platinum.
Or something. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna name an album.
Nobody's more country. What can you tell us about the
music on the new album. It's more in depth in
my story, and I mean, you just get a lot
of feel good music. I have traditional country. I have
trailer trap. It's full of you know, it's talking about
(06:13):
the accident and talking about just life, lessons them and blessings.
So it's a full circle moment for me with this
UM sophomore album, Lessons and Blessings. That sounds like a
title right there too. Yep, real quick, that sounds like
a good one. Trailer Trap. You've you've talked to me
(06:35):
before about this, But in case people don't know exactly
what you mean by that, what exactly does that mean?
Trailer trapp is trailer park music, which I can see
the country, good old country and trap music against eight
oh waits and high hats uh from like rap artists.
You know, they corned it and made trap a whole thing.
But I just breathed the gap. I put them both
(06:57):
together and call the trailer trap. I love it, Blanco,
I love you, Thank you for calling in. Always love
having you on the show. Have fun out there, on
the road and let's hope some of those wounds men,
fast man, Blessings and purpose. Love. This has been Cody Cast.
Subscribe now on iTunes, listen anytime on the I Heart
(07:18):
radio app. Cody is heard on hundreds of radio stations
across America and seen on CMT Hot twenty Countdown every weekend.
Or more, go to CMT Cody dot com.
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