September 6, 2024 • 30 mins
TICKETS: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36023/production/120881810-04-24 at 7:30 pm Song Theater, Columbiana, AL.KEVIN DERRYBERRY BANDKevin Derryberry is an American Christian musician and former lead singer of Birmingham-based, rock band, Telluride. Kevin spent eighteen years touring with Telluride as lead singer and keyboardist. Join us for an evening with Kevin Derryberry and his music from Telluride until Now!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Imagine, Create Inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know when when you write a song called if
Jesus was a Cowboy and it makes your record.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
That's sad. Yeah, I wrote that song.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Can you can? You? Can? You?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
No? No?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
You sure?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean you know, if Jesus was a cowboy, he'd
have been a good one.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You were listening to Imagine, Create Inspire the podcast. Join
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm with my friend Kevin Derdberry. Hi y'all, Hi, y'all
might know And if you don't, I think it's serve
is a good intro anyway. Kevin's a worship leader, a
music minister, which is best.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Uh you know worship leaders could leader Yeah at Westwood
through music.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's right, that's what Baptists right.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Let me say this about about that. I mean, having
gone to Westwood every time I go, I mean, if
I if I was to put myself in the shoes
of somebody who's a not religious or not steeped into
Baptist ways and walked into church. You know, I might
presume that a lot of things, but when I see that,
when I walk in and see you leading worship, I'd
(01:29):
be led to think at least two things. Number One,
this guy is authentic, He's passionate, he's telling the truth.
And this is kind of the thing that kind of
delineates you from maybe some other folks. He's been there,
done that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And that could be a lot of things. He's been
there and done all that.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, And I and I have because I've been there,
I understand the great and the mercy of Jesus Christ,
you know. And so when you get up and you're
you have the not just responsibility, but the privilege of
telling people about that through psaul and worship, leading others
(02:15):
to worship the Lord you love, and trying to influence
them or encourage them to love him the same.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's just a privilege, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I consider it, you know, a calling, of course, but
it's and it's not easy, because I mean it's not
easy doing that stuff, especially that early in the morning. Yeah,
but it is a blessing in Westwood, Like you said,
you've been there I've been there for eighteen nineteen years now,
(02:48):
longest I've ever kept the job. But it's it's a
good place. You know, it's a good place.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I'm on staff.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And I just got through telling Philip earlier, I says,
we get along. There's nothing going on there that that
we're like going, wow. You know it's and from what
I understand, that's hard to find where all the staff
is clicking. And I believe it's because we all have
one goal, and that's just to to share the love
of Jesus Christ and to make make disciples and followers
(03:19):
of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, Yeah, that's our goal.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, and you do. I mean, like I said, if
if somebody was coming from a from a a non
believer or seekers platform right or or way of thinking,
they they I think that that your experience in playing
in bars all those years and live shows of different magnitudes,
(03:46):
I mean you you acquired the skill of through music
connecting with people. I'll sell you that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I would say that because you know, when you're
in front of people most of your life to entertain.
Uh you you you're not there really at the church
to entertain, But some of those skills and experiences enable
you to do that when to draw people to you
(04:13):
know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Also, you know, I always think.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If I had someone from back then, from a club,
from an old band from this walk into this place,
I want to make sure they go while you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Know, that was good and I want to come back.
And not that I'm good or the choir is good,
but that was good. That was you know, I don't
want them to walk out going.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man, that preacher was great, but that music it was
lacking a little bit. Now, you know, the style don't
doesn't appeal to everybody. But but it's really not about that.
It's really about the message and the song and Prayerfully
that will be what happened. But you know there are
those who come in and I'll do it too. I'll
(05:04):
go to another church. I'm observing, just like when I
walked in here, I was observing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm going m M.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But you know it's it's it's you want to appeal
to them in a way that it's not distracting but attracting.
And so when you do that, it enables people to
lock in on the message.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah yeah, and uh, you know you let's talk about
the style I mean where you came.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You came from Selma, yep, right, we were born there, Yeah,
born and raised.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Did you teach yourself to play?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I had one teacher that lasted about four months, and
she called my parents and said, you're wasting your money.
He doesn't listen. Come to find out, I'm like dyslexic
or something that and those notes just didn't make a
bit of sense than me.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So I would listen to her.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And I just play, you know what I would hear
and when I come back play the song, it wasn't
anything that was written. She was like, so, so, you know,
my parents said, well, we're not gonna waste that money.
And you know, I still love music and I wanted
to play, so I had to teach myself.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah, so maybe that was the So you went down
the route of what's the first band you were in?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The first band was probably called the Blue Americans. And
we set up in my friend's playhouse down the road.
Let's see, I had a set of drums. He had
a keyboard, but I realized he wanted to play the
drums and I want to play the keyboards.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And you know, and guy Allbrook, you know that far. Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We grew up on the same street. His brother was
in a band called the fourteen Feet of Soul and
they were from right there. They were out of Tuscaloosa.
Our first big gig was at the NCO Club at
Craig Air Force Base and they let us set up
and play during their break and it was one Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I remember, It's like and we were like.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In the second third grade or something.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's amazing they let us in the NCO Club at
that dage, but his parents took us. We played like.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Four songs and left. That was you know, at that
point I'd hit the big time.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know. Yeah, I didn't play the club, but.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You know, that was the first experience like playing in
the band. Played in bands all through high school and
just always wanted to be in a band, Always in
a band.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So you you when you start writing music.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, because well because I couldn't read music, I had
to write music.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So I had to take it up. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It caused me to be creative and you know, just
all the emotions and stuff that you go through growing up.
You know, I just write about it and I'd play
it and I'd write about it and.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Bang on the piano. My mama says, can't you write
a half a song? Yeah? No, ball, you know, but
it was, you know, that's kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And so, you know, just they weren't all good songs,
you know, you know, you most, I'd say probably ninety
percent songs you write, they're really not you know, meant
for human consumption.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know, it's just they're not that great.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Every now and then you hit one that does well,
and usually it's one that you never thought would do well,
but it You know, just.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Writing has been a thing. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I write two or three things a week that that
I just put down for a second, you know, just ideas.
I got a phone, I just hit record, and I
play the idea. I go back and listen to them
when I get a chance. I say, I can work
with that. I can work with that. That's garbage. That's garbage.
You know what was I thinking? You know, that kind
of thing. If somebody ever finds that after I'm gone
(08:54):
and listen to it, they go, what the world is this?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
One time I was writing on the road in my car,
and this back when you didn't have you know, uh,
cell phones.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That you could record on.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I just I had an idea and I ride down
the road so I called my my.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Answering machine and I sang to it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And a week later I get home. I get home
and I turned it on. I go, what in the
world is this? And I'm thinking it is Oh that's me.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It was horrible, you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Know, like it was horrible, But I wanted to get
the idea down, yeah, because I knew I'd forget if
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The idea manifest in anything. Yeah, make a song.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I ended up being on a record. It was called Okaha.
It was about Selma and growing up you know, down there.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It was a pretty decent song, but it never did anything.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, it was just you know, an idea, you know,
but it you know, it made one of my records
because back then, every song I wrote went over my
records because it was I was in charge, right I
could you You know, when when you write a song
called if Jesus was a cowboy and it makes your record,
that's sad.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I wrote that song.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Can you can you can you explain?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah? I mean, you know, if Jesus was a cowboy,
he'd have been a good one. Yeah, yeah, Allelujah.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You'll be kaya you know that's good and you won't
hear that one at the Song Theater on October.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
The fourth, probably, speaking of which we're going to talk
about that for sure. I'm looking forward to that. You know, well,
you'll be able to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh yeah, I'm going to do a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, I'm still putting it together in my head
and which is probably not going to be at all
what happens, but you know, I'm trying to. You know,
I got a great band, Quinton Nathan, and have my
son Cameron. We'll have some special guests there and and
not I'm not sure if I've locked him in yet,
but you know, well, well it'll be great.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I mean, is that your? I mean, is that your?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
We know what the objective is, both for both of us,
is to get a bunch of people in there, have
a good time, listen to you play and connect with
you and have a good time. But from your perspective,
I mean, you know, one might say, well, Kevin, You've
got this big church that you do in two or
three services every weekend, and why in the world would
you want to do a show outside of that. I
(11:20):
mean it's like I'm thinking, and then you tell me
I add on this to tell me where I'm wrong.
I'm thinking, Well, you know, it's a different palette. I mean,
you got you gotta you can run with a little
creative mindset that you can't do and have the license
to do in church, right, Nothing wrong with that, just
like just like it's a different track to run on.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I mean, it's it's several things.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's it's it's an opportunity to go outside the walls
of the church and share a message. I mean, we're
not going to be like preaching, but we're going to
be singing songs that I've written that that aren't worship
type songs. They might be you know, songs around you know.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The Lord or Jesus.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And but it's it's an opportunity to maybe reach someone
that won't walk inside side of church. But it really,
it really wasn't born from that idea. It was born
from just going to the Song Theater and going, man,
what a great venue, What a great place to see music,
(12:24):
What a great choice of artists in this place.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And you know, I've been there.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Three or four times and a couple of times she says, hey, Kevin, you.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Want to open up?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I go, yeah, you know, and why not, you know,
and it's just fun.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I mean, you've done a great job at that place.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean, I don't people and usually when I go,
it's it's full, and you know, it's not too big,
you don't have to park three miles away. You know,
it's it's the perfect little venue, and the people are listening,
they're appreciating music, and it is just an opportunity to
do different songs than I do every Sunday and to.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know, just have fun.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know, there are certain elements I miss about, you know,
not playing around and different venues and stuff because I'm
at the church all the time. So you know, it's
a chance to you know, do that and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Just let people hear other stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, like if you want to run on with the
guitar ride or something like that, or you want to
extend a song, you can do those things that Maybe
that's the things that you would miss about playing in
the club, you know, that you can't do in church.
For good reason.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mean here's a little secret that people might
not know. Playing music's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, it's like, especially when you're with a group
of guys and it's really clicking.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You know, you could just you feel it, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean, and that's the type artist you get in
your place. They're not just out there to promote a
record or whatever. They're there because they love music and
the people know that that come there.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So it's good. And you know, my son will be
playing drums and.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It gives him an opportunity to experience something like that,
and now he's good.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Now, how'd you get Cam to come around to be
thinking dad was cool enough to play with it?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, I mean he had to, no, but you know,
of course I was thinking, son, you want to grow
up to sing play keyboards like a dad? I said,
what do you want to do something? I want to
play drums? I went, great, drums.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Of course I needed a drummer. Yeah, I grew a
good one. You've heard him.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
He's great.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, and so and it's just natural for him. I
couldn't do what he does.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
There's no way. He played a good guitar, played the bass,
I mean, he's good. Then we got Quinton Smith Aman,
you know who's just.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He sat in the church for a year before I
even knew he played anything. And then I needed a
bass player one Sunday and his daughter said, well.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
My daddy can played the bass.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I went, okay, so it gets it there he plays bass,
and then oh, he can play the guitar better than that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I'm like, what, what tell me these things? You know?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So then then Nathan the bass player, we got the
same thing. He was sitting in church for several years,
and finally somebody said, well, Nathan plays guitar, plays bass.
I'm like, why are you sitting out there on the bench.
Why don't y'all tell me so I could get.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You in here.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, you usually gift to glorify the Lord. And
so these guys, all of them, you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Know, they're good and they love the Lord.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And they love music. Yeah, you know, and that's the key,
you know. And you know, we played together long enough
that it clicks. You know, we know what each other's
gonna do.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know, what's your I mean, you're you vamp on
stuff like like good old gospel. I mean, what's your influences?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Like we like soul music.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know, you have my one of my biggest influences
all the time, Jimmy Hall yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
When I first heard him, I was in high school.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He probably wasn't much out of high school, but I
thought that guy can sing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh my goodness. I want to be like that dude.
I want to sing like him. And so that blues,
soul music.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Funk, you know, it's all of it, you know, the
contemporary Christian stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's a stretch for me. It's it's like it's it really.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Is not what I would say my core style. But
I've had to, you know, learn it because I want
to do what needs to be done, and but I
love it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's just it's not like what I would naturally go to.
As far as style.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I've written a lot of songs like that, but
you know, as far as style, you know, basically when
people say, well, why don't you play more of your
own stuff in church, I'm like, it's not, you know,
church type stuff. Not that it's lyrically wrong, it's just
stylistically different than what you would expect.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And so we you know, you have to be versatile. Yeah,
does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, it makes total sense. I mean, like, you know,
a lot of people from around here, know for Birmingham
Tonight and that's that's that structured. It's a great song.
It's not sold though, structured like a pop song of
that era, and in a good way. Yeah, I mean
the form and everything. It's like super cool.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That was the first song I had that hit the
radio like it did. And I was right out of Selma,
you know, joined the band and are producer was Johnny
Sandlin who produced the Almond Brothers. I mean, he was
the man. And so we would go in there and
play and play and play, and he make us do
(18:09):
it again and again and again. And so one time,
you know, I got through singing it and I went
home and he said, that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's the one. And I went home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I went, okay, I'll only singing it like a hundred times.
And I get a phone called Kevin, you need to
come back in singing again. I'm like, oh my goodness,
you know. Like so, so when you listen to it,
you go, wow, that guy's you know, it's a it's
kind of a classic song. It's very very popular. But
(18:40):
if you really listen to it, you go, man, that
dude can't even talk much less sing, you know. But uh,
you know, I've gotten better since then. Let's put it
like that. That was what, you know, ninety No. Eighty one, Yeah,
you know eighty nineteen eighty. So you know, I've it'd
be nice to be able to go back and redo
it and get it right.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But well, it work.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You agreed to do it on October fourth.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I will redo it on October fourth, Yes, yes, I will.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, that knows the things.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Because you had Lolly Lee playing with the Sugarcane Jane
not so long ago, and she sang backup on that song.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You know, Birmingham has and had a rich musical community.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's really unbelievable how rich it was. I mean I
would I would have put it up against anything.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
In Nashville at that time. Yep.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I mean good people coming from it out of here. Well,
I'm looking forward to you being there October fourth. I mean, now,
how about your your various ministries? Are they? I mean
they keep you occupied all the time when you're not
at a church. I mean, yeah, is your prison ministry still?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What we do now?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We do a place called safety Net and it's uh
for a teen boys who can't be placed in a
foster care home.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Sit down there.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yep that's exactly where it is, and it's hard for
them to function productively in a normal home setting. It
would be disruptive, and so DHR can't place them.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So they are probably.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're taken away, or their parents have been imprisoned or
murdered or for some other reason not fit to raise them.
So these kids, at no fault of their own, they're
you know, kind of abandoned, and so they have to
come into this facility. And I've been going there for
(20:35):
probably eighteen nineteen years and doing a program for them.
We provide Christmas for every one of them. We'll take
a list of theirs and we'll fill the list as
best we can and take it to them. We don't
even get to see them open it. We just take it,
(20:56):
you know, put their name on it, and that's what
they get. And or else they wouldn't get anything at Christmas.
We'll do Thanksgiving. We I have a group of men
from the church that go every every month at least
to love on them, and we staggered so we could
have two or three times a month to go down there.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's a.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's a tough place because these kids are hurt, they're
they're angry, they're they're they don't know why they're there.
And then when you take they're coming in and out
all the time, and they'll age out most of them.
And so once they leave there, you know, hopefully they're
equipped to deal with life. We do that, We do
(21:40):
the Love Lady Sinner, which is kind of the same thing,
but adults. These adults might be the parents of these kids.
Matter of fact, we met one adult there, one lady
whose son was at Safety Net and when we took
bibles and he gave it to his mama and she
had it, and she came up and told me about it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It was really really.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Cool and he finally she finally got to where she
could raise him again. And it was really neat that
we got to pray with them and love on them
and minister to them. So those are the things we did.
We did a lot of prison stuff at first, but
it got harder and harder to get in with the
type of ministry I wanted to do. I want to
(22:24):
take a band, I want to take, you know, products
to give them, and they wouldn't allow that, and so
uh and for years we did a thing called life Tech,
which was a part of the PARTNS of Parole Board
of Alabama, and there were men coming out of prison
being acclimated back into society.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Through a program of about nine months.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And we were we were like, you know, they would
let us get in there without any question, and because
we had a proven track record of being you know,
obeying the rules stuff like that, they just let us in.
We didn't have to have background checks or nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
They just trusted me. And it was really, really, really good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We saw thousands of men come to faith in Christ
and thousands of women come to faith in Christ.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And to this.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Day, I still run into people, Hey, you were at Lifeteck,
you were this, and so that was really cool. But
when they closed that down, it kind of we kind
of had to, you know, just pray and say God,
where you want us now? Then Love Lady opened up
and when you know, we have safety net. So we
do those things and that takes money. So we you know,
(23:34):
we have a nonprofit. We have golf tournament, we have
a clay shoot, that kind of thing, and you know
what we're doing at the Song Theater. You know that
that helped support it. That's another reason we're doing it.
It helps support So y'all come out by a ticket.
You're helping a lot of things other than just you
know me. You know, you're you're helping the ministry, you're
helping kids, you're helping us to minister to families. And
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then you know, we do the Man Church with Rick Buck,
Rick Burgess, and we do just we get called out
to do, you know, events and churches conferences. We just
did a teen boys conference, probably three hundred guys there
and we led worship and they had speakers, and we
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just do a lot of things. We go to a
lot of churches too, you know, so we stay busy.
We stay busy, there's no doubt about it. We do
have a clay shoot coming up on September the nineteenth
at Selwood Farm. Anybody interested to go to Kevinderybrady dot
com and check it out. We're doing the Celebrate the
Family for Birmingham Christian Magazine at the Hoover met on
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September the fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I believe it is. So we're staying busy, stay in busy.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
So you're staying air Tuesday night, yeah, every Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh yeah, by the way, there's that.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Every Tuesday night Surah fix. Sound is that they saying.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Serrific Sounds Studio Live.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Dude, you don't like Season five, episode twenty something.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Season five, episode twenty six, it started at COVID, right,
so we we just kind of went down in there.
My daughter said, hey, just won't you go live because
you can't go to Love Lady can't go here. And
so we called him and say, y'all tune in. And
you know, when we're first started, it was just me
Cameron on the drums and like a cell phone, you know,
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and it was it was terrible. It was and you
know some people might think it's still terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
But exactly good man, it's good sound everything.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But we you know, it's like Brice, we're talking about
the Internet, Philip, we were talking about the Internet, you know,
dropping out, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You're in the middle of things. Are we on the air? No?
What happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We go out there in the cables, cut you know,
all this kind of stuff. So, you know, we finally
got to where we could actually be stabilized and stay
on the air for a while, you know, maybe an
hour and a half and we're figuring all this out
as we go. But when we first started, we'd have
like nine thousand people watching because they had nowhere else
to go, nothing else to do. Now we're down to
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about twenty five hundred, and we got it to where
it's almost decent, and we don't have near as many
watchers because they got everything else to do now, right,
But you know, it's still it's still fun. We got
people who watch and they communicate with us through post.
I mean they text back and forth on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
And on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's on Kevin Deryberry YouTube and Facebook every Tuesday night,
seven point thirty. It's almost like, well, I have to
do it because I've been doing it for almost five
years now and everybody expects it. I'm wondering when the
producer of this show is going to say that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, and the producer is Connie, right, yeah, so you
ain't getting out of it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
No, I'm like, yeah, my wife, and we got three
incredible friends, Melinda and Belinda and then Steven who all
helped out with Connie and Mellenna. Ballinda love you know,
being a part of it. They love being on camera.
They love you know, they're just fun. They're twins, you know,
and and where you got them, then you got conye
(27:12):
or there. She doesn't want to be on camera. She
doesn't want to talk and they're they're having to pull
it out of her and they do. And I just
love watching that little tuggle Warris. You know, I'm sitting
over there just laughing, playing you know, every and I
mess up on every single song. I'll mess up every song, Bruce,
you do, Yeah, because I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Everything that's going on. I'm so distracted.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And i know there's a camera there, but I hardly
ever look at it because I'm looking at all the screens.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You know, I'm like butterfly, you know, you know, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Just well, you know you're seeing you.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, just like right now.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
That's right. So October fourth, seven thirty pm. Yes, you
ain't got your tickets to Song Theater come. I mean,
I'll say this because I'm charge of booking that theater
with all kinds of acts, as you know. I mean,
I would not have booked you there if I didn't
think it was artistically excellent. Oh yeah, I mean you're
you're I mean above, not above and beyond. But in
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addition to all things that we've talked about, you're a
great singer, songwriter, well things, and so people should come
hear you.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah. Well, you know, I appreciate that we we do
take it serious.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I take it very serious, and but I try I
make it look fun, you know what I mean? Yeah,
and that and I think that's from years of doing it,
you know, years of on the road where you're traveling.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hundreds and hundreds of mile to do a gig.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You want to have fun. You want people to have fun,
but you want it to be good. And that's what
our goal is. To bring in some fun, bring in
something that that moves people and entertain them at the
same time, a quality thing. So and that's one of
my worries. I'm going, Am I gonna be as good
as everybody else have sitting there? Well, I got to
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get over that and just be be what God made me,
and we're gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yeah, that's right man. You know you warmed up for
Jimmy Hall that one.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Oh, I mean, come on, I mean you know.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Both of us got watching warm up that day and
I thought everything's come around full circle. Yeah yeah, But
they loved you, man, so that they like I said,
those people were there to hear Jimmy here Jimmy, and
they picked up on your sincerity and it came across
great and it was super entertaining. And that's what's gonna
be October for.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, and I appreciate you having me. I surely do
y'all come out if if nothing else, just to check
out the venue.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
You got a lot going on at that place. And
it's all really cool and artsy. Thank you, really is
really is. It's impressive.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
If you haven't been there, I know a lot of
people that haven't been there and they need where is
it in Columbiana?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Y'all? Come on.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I understand it's a bit of a hidden I mean
a lot of times people use the word hidden, Jim,
and they don't. They just mean that like cliche. We
literally are hidding a bit. So I get it. We're
hard to find.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We're trying to dig out in the capital of Shelby County.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I know it, man. I mean, you gotta go get
miles of beauty right in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're gonna have a good time too. Come on. So
it's October the fourth. It starts at what time?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Seven thirty?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Brother, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You come October the fourth, seven thirty. Kevin Deryberry and the.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Band's gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Thank you Bruce, Thank you brother.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Thanks for listening to Imagine, Create, Inspire the podcast. For
more information on the Shelby County Arts Council, please visit
www dot Shelby Countyartsconcil dot com
On this episode of Imagine, Create Inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know when when you write a song called if
Jesus was a Cowboy and it makes your record.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
That's sad. Yeah, I wrote that song.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Can you can? You? Can? You?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
No? No?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
You sure?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean you know, if Jesus was a cowboy, he'd
have been a good one.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm with my friend Kevin Derdberry. Hi y'all, Hi, y'all
might know And if you don't, I think it's serve
is a good intro anyway. Kevin's a worship leader, a
music minister, which is best.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Uh you know worship leaders could leader Yeah at Westwood
through music.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's right, that's what Baptists right.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Let me say this about about that. I mean, having
gone to Westwood every time I go, I mean, if
I if I was to put myself in the shoes
of somebody who's a not religious or not steeped into
Baptist ways and walked into church. You know, I might
presume that a lot of things, but when I see that,
when I walk in and see you leading worship, I'd
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be led to think at least two things. Number One,
this guy is authentic, He's passionate, he's telling the truth.
And this is kind of the thing that kind of
delineates you from maybe some other folks. He's been there,
done that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And that could be a lot of things. He's been
there and done all that.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, And I and I have because I've been there,
I understand the great and the mercy of Jesus Christ,
you know. And so when you get up and you're
you have the not just responsibility, but the privilege of
telling people about that through psaul and worship, leading others
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to worship the Lord you love, and trying to influence
them or encourage them to love him the same.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's just a privilege, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I consider it, you know, a calling, of course, but
it's and it's not easy, because I mean it's not
easy doing that stuff, especially that early in the morning. Yeah,
but it is a blessing in Westwood, Like you said,
you've been there I've been there for eighteen nineteen years now,
(02:48):
longest I've ever kept the job. But it's it's a
good place. You know, it's a good place.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I'm on staff.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And I just got through telling Philip earlier, I says,
we get along. There's nothing going on there that that
we're like going, wow. You know it's and from what
I understand, that's hard to find where all the staff
is clicking. And I believe it's because we all have
one goal, and that's just to to share the love
of Jesus Christ and to make make disciples and followers
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of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, Yeah, that's our goal.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, and you do. I mean, like I said, if
if somebody was coming from a from a a non
believer or seekers platform right or or way of thinking,
they they I think that that your experience in playing
in bars all those years and live shows of different magnitudes,
(03:46):
I mean you you acquired the skill of through music
connecting with people. I'll sell you that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I would say that because you know, when you're
in front of people most of your life to entertain.
Uh you you you're not there really at the church
to entertain, But some of those skills and experiences enable
you to do that when to draw people to you
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know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Also, you know, I always think.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If I had someone from back then, from a club,
from an old band from this walk into this place,
I want to make sure they go while you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Know, that was good and I want to come back.
And not that I'm good or the choir is good,
but that was good. That was you know, I don't
want them to walk out going.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man, that preacher was great, but that music it was
lacking a little bit. Now, you know, the style don't
doesn't appeal to everybody. But but it's really not about that.
It's really about the message and the song and Prayerfully
that will be what happened. But you know there are
those who come in and I'll do it too. I'll
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go to another church. I'm observing, just like when I
walked in here, I was observing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm going m M.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But you know it's it's it's you want to appeal
to them in a way that it's not distracting but attracting.
And so when you do that, it enables people to
lock in on the message.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah yeah, and uh, you know you let's talk about
the style I mean where you came.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You came from Selma, yep, right, we were born there, Yeah,
born and raised.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Did you teach yourself to play?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I had one teacher that lasted about four months, and
she called my parents and said, you're wasting your money.
He doesn't listen. Come to find out, I'm like dyslexic
or something that and those notes just didn't make a
bit of sense than me.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So I would listen to her.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And I just play, you know what I would hear
and when I come back play the song, it wasn't
anything that was written. She was like, so, so, you know,
my parents said, well, we're not gonna waste that money.
And you know, I still love music and I wanted
to play, so I had to teach myself.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah, so maybe that was the So you went down
the route of what's the first band you were in?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The first band was probably called the Blue Americans. And
we set up in my friend's playhouse down the road.
Let's see, I had a set of drums. He had
a keyboard, but I realized he wanted to play the
drums and I want to play the keyboards.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And you know, and guy Allbrook, you know that far. Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We grew up on the same street. His brother was
in a band called the fourteen Feet of Soul and
they were from right there. They were out of Tuscaloosa.
Our first big gig was at the NCO Club at
Craig Air Force Base and they let us set up
and play during their break and it was one Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I remember, It's like and we were like.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In the second third grade or something.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's amazing they let us in the NCO Club at
that dage, but his parents took us. We played like.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Four songs and left. That was you know, at that
point I'd hit the big time.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know. Yeah, I didn't play the club, but.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You know, that was the first experience like playing in
the band. Played in bands all through high school and
just always wanted to be in a band, Always in
a band.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So you you when you start writing music.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, because well because I couldn't read music, I had
to write music.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So I had to take it up. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It caused me to be creative and you know, just
all the emotions and stuff that you go through growing up.
You know, I just write about it and I'd play
it and I'd write about it and.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Bang on the piano. My mama says, can't you write
a half a song? Yeah? No, ball, you know, but
it was, you know, that's kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And so, you know, just they weren't all good songs,
you know, you know, you most, I'd say probably ninety
percent songs you write, they're really not you know, meant
for human consumption.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know, it's just they're not that great.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Every now and then you hit one that does well,
and usually it's one that you never thought would do well,
but it You know, just.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Writing has been a thing. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I write two or three things a week that that
I just put down for a second, you know, just ideas.
I got a phone, I just hit record, and I
play the idea. I go back and listen to them
when I get a chance. I say, I can work
with that. I can work with that. That's garbage. That's garbage.
You know what was I thinking? You know, that kind
of thing. If somebody ever finds that after I'm gone
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and listen to it, they go, what the world is this?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
One time I was writing on the road in my car,
and this back when you didn't have you know, uh,
cell phones.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That you could record on.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I just I had an idea and I ride down
the road so I called my my.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Answering machine and I sang to it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And a week later I get home. I get home
and I turned it on. I go, what in the
world is this? And I'm thinking it is Oh that's me.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It was horrible, you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Know, like it was horrible, But I wanted to get
the idea down, yeah, because I knew I'd forget if
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The idea manifest in anything. Yeah, make a song.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I ended up being on a record. It was called Okaha.
It was about Selma and growing up you know, down there.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It was a pretty decent song, but it never did anything.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, it was just you know, an idea, you know,
but it you know, it made one of my records
because back then, every song I wrote went over my
records because it was I was in charge, right I
could you You know, when when you write a song
called if Jesus was a cowboy and it makes your record,
that's sad.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I wrote that song.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Can you can you can you explain?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah? I mean, you know, if Jesus was a cowboy,
he'd have been a good one. Yeah, yeah, Allelujah.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You'll be kaya you know that's good and you won't
hear that one at the Song Theater on October.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
The fourth, probably, speaking of which we're going to talk
about that for sure. I'm looking forward to that. You know, well,
you'll be able to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh yeah, I'm going to do a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, I'm still putting it together in my head
and which is probably not going to be at all
what happens, but you know, I'm trying to. You know,
I got a great band, Quinton Nathan, and have my
son Cameron. We'll have some special guests there and and
not I'm not sure if I've locked him in yet,
but you know, well, well it'll be great.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I mean, is that your? I mean, is that your?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
We know what the objective is, both for both of us,
is to get a bunch of people in there, have
a good time, listen to you play and connect with
you and have a good time. But from your perspective,
I mean, you know, one might say, well, Kevin, You've
got this big church that you do in two or
three services every weekend, and why in the world would
you want to do a show outside of that. I
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mean it's like I'm thinking, and then you tell me
I add on this to tell me where I'm wrong.
I'm thinking, Well, you know, it's a different palette. I mean,
you got you gotta you can run with a little
creative mindset that you can't do and have the license
to do in church, right, Nothing wrong with that, just
like just like it's a different track to run on.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I mean, it's it's several things.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's it's it's an opportunity to go outside the walls
of the church and share a message. I mean, we're
not going to be like preaching, but we're going to
be singing songs that I've written that that aren't worship
type songs. They might be you know, songs around you know.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The Lord or Jesus.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And but it's it's an opportunity to maybe reach someone
that won't walk inside side of church. But it really,
it really wasn't born from that idea. It was born
from just going to the Song Theater and going, man,
what a great venue, What a great place to see music,
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What a great choice of artists in this place.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And you know, I've been there.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Three or four times and a couple of times she says, hey, Kevin, you.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Want to open up?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I go, yeah, you know, and why not, you know,
and it's just fun.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I mean, you've done a great job at that place.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean, I don't people and usually when I go,
it's it's full, and you know, it's not too big,
you don't have to park three miles away. You know,
it's it's the perfect little venue, and the people are listening,
they're appreciating music, and it is just an opportunity to
do different songs than I do every Sunday and to.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know, just have fun.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know, there are certain elements I miss about, you know,
not playing around and different venues and stuff because I'm
at the church all the time. So you know, it's
a chance to you know, do that and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Just let people hear other stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, like if you want to run on with the
guitar ride or something like that, or you want to
extend a song, you can do those things that Maybe
that's the things that you would miss about playing in
the club, you know, that you can't do in church.
For good reason.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mean here's a little secret that people might
not know. Playing music's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, it's like, especially when you're with a group
of guys and it's really clicking.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You know, you could just you feel it, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean, and that's the type artist you get in
your place. They're not just out there to promote a
record or whatever. They're there because they love music and
the people know that that come there.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So it's good. And you know, my son will be
playing drums and.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It gives him an opportunity to experience something like that,
and now he's good.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Now, how'd you get Cam to come around to be
thinking dad was cool enough to play with it?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, I mean he had to, no, but you know,
of course I was thinking, son, you want to grow
up to sing play keyboards like a dad? I said,
what do you want to do something? I want to
play drums? I went, great, drums.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Of course I needed a drummer. Yeah, I grew a
good one. You've heard him.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
He's great.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, and so and it's just natural for him. I
couldn't do what he does.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
There's no way. He played a good guitar, played the bass,
I mean, he's good. Then we got Quinton Smith Aman,
you know who's just.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He sat in the church for a year before I
even knew he played anything. And then I needed a
bass player one Sunday and his daughter said, well.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
My daddy can played the bass.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I went, okay, so it gets it there he plays bass,
and then oh, he can play the guitar better than that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I'm like, what, what tell me these things? You know?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So then then Nathan the bass player, we got the
same thing. He was sitting in church for several years,
and finally somebody said, well, Nathan plays guitar, plays bass.
I'm like, why are you sitting out there on the bench.
Why don't y'all tell me so I could get.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You in here.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, you usually gift to glorify the Lord. And
so these guys, all of them, you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Know, they're good and they love the Lord.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And they love music. Yeah, you know, and that's the key,
you know. And you know, we played together long enough
that it clicks. You know, we know what each other's
gonna do.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You know, what's your I mean, you're you vamp on
stuff like like good old gospel. I mean, what's your influences?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Like we like soul music.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know, you have my one of my biggest influences
all the time, Jimmy Hall yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
When I first heard him, I was in high school.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He probably wasn't much out of high school, but I
thought that guy can sing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh my goodness. I want to be like that dude.
I want to sing like him. And so that blues,
soul music.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Funk, you know, it's all of it, you know, the
contemporary Christian stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's a stretch for me. It's it's like it's it really.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Is not what I would say my core style. But
I've had to, you know, learn it because I want
to do what needs to be done, and but I
love it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's just it's not like what I would naturally go to.
As far as style.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I've written a lot of songs like that, but
you know, as far as style, you know, basically when
people say, well, why don't you play more of your
own stuff in church, I'm like, it's not, you know,
church type stuff. Not that it's lyrically wrong, it's just
stylistically different than what you would expect.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And so we you know, you have to be versatile. Yeah,
does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, it makes total sense. I mean, like, you know,
a lot of people from around here, know for Birmingham
Tonight and that's that's that structured. It's a great song.
It's not sold though, structured like a pop song of
that era, and in a good way. Yeah, I mean
the form and everything. It's like super cool.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That was the first song I had that hit the
radio like it did. And I was right out of Selma,
you know, joined the band and are producer was Johnny
Sandlin who produced the Almond Brothers. I mean, he was
the man. And so we would go in there and
play and play and play, and he make us do
(18:09):
it again and again and again. And so one time,
you know, I got through singing it and I went
home and he said, that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's the one. And I went home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I went, okay, I'll only singing it like a hundred times.
And I get a phone called Kevin, you need to
come back in singing again. I'm like, oh my goodness,
you know. Like so, so when you listen to it,
you go, wow, that guy's you know, it's a it's
kind of a classic song. It's very very popular. But
(18:40):
if you really listen to it, you go, man, that
dude can't even talk much less sing, you know. But uh,
you know, I've gotten better since then. Let's put it
like that. That was what, you know, ninety No. Eighty one, Yeah,
you know eighty nineteen eighty. So you know, I've it'd
be nice to be able to go back and redo
it and get it right.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But well, it work.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You agreed to do it on October fourth.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I will redo it on October fourth, Yes, yes, I will.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, that knows the things.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Because you had Lolly Lee playing with the Sugarcane Jane
not so long ago, and she sang backup on that song.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You know, Birmingham has and had a rich musical community.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's really unbelievable how rich it was. I mean I
would I would have put it up against anything.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
In Nashville at that time. Yep.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I mean good people coming from it out of here. Well,
I'm looking forward to you being there October fourth. I mean, now,
how about your your various ministries? Are they? I mean
they keep you occupied all the time when you're not
at a church. I mean, yeah, is your prison ministry still?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What we do now?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We do a place called safety Net and it's uh
for a teen boys who can't be placed in a
foster care home.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Sit down there.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yep that's exactly where it is, and it's hard for
them to function productively in a normal home setting. It
would be disruptive, and so DHR can't place them.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So they are probably.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're taken away, or their parents have been imprisoned or
murdered or for some other reason not fit to raise them.
So these kids, at no fault of their own, they're
you know, kind of abandoned, and so they have to
come into this facility. And I've been going there for
(20:35):
probably eighteen nineteen years and doing a program for them.
We provide Christmas for every one of them. We'll take
a list of theirs and we'll fill the list as
best we can and take it to them. We don't
even get to see them open it. We just take it,
(20:56):
you know, put their name on it, and that's what
they get. And or else they wouldn't get anything at Christmas.
We'll do Thanksgiving. We I have a group of men
from the church that go every every month at least
to love on them, and we staggered so we could
have two or three times a month to go down there.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's a.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's a tough place because these kids are hurt, they're
they're angry, they're they're they don't know why they're there.
And then when you take they're coming in and out
all the time, and they'll age out most of them.
And so once they leave there, you know, hopefully they're
equipped to deal with life. We do that, We do
(21:40):
the Love Lady Sinner, which is kind of the same thing,
but adults. These adults might be the parents of these kids.
Matter of fact, we met one adult there, one lady
whose son was at Safety Net and when we took
bibles and he gave it to his mama and she
had it, and she came up and told me about it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It was really really.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Cool and he finally she finally got to where she
could raise him again. And it was really neat that
we got to pray with them and love on them
and minister to them. So those are the things we did.
We did a lot of prison stuff at first, but
it got harder and harder to get in with the
type of ministry I wanted to do. I want to
(22:24):
take a band, I want to take, you know, products
to give them, and they wouldn't allow that, and so
uh and for years we did a thing called life Tech,
which was a part of the PARTNS of Parole Board
of Alabama, and there were men coming out of prison
being acclimated back into society.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Through a program of about nine months.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And we were we were like, you know, they would
let us get in there without any question, and because
we had a proven track record of being you know,
obeying the rules stuff like that, they just let us in.
We didn't have to have background checks or nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
They just trusted me. And it was really, really, really good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We saw thousands of men come to faith in Christ
and thousands of women come to faith in Christ.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And to this.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Day, I still run into people, Hey, you were at Lifeteck,
you were this, and so that was really cool. But
when they closed that down, it kind of we kind
of had to, you know, just pray and say God,
where you want us now? Then Love Lady opened up
and when you know, we have safety net. So we
do those things and that takes money. So we you know,
(23:34):
we have a nonprofit. We have golf tournament, we have
a clay shoot, that kind of thing, and you know
what we're doing at the Song Theater. You know that
that helped support it. That's another reason we're doing it.
It helps support So y'all come out by a ticket.
You're helping a lot of things other than just you
know me. You know, you're you're helping the ministry, you're
helping kids, you're helping us to minister to families. And
(24:00):
then you know, we do the Man Church with Rick Buck,
Rick Burgess, and we do just we get called out
to do, you know, events and churches conferences. We just
did a teen boys conference, probably three hundred guys there
and we led worship and they had speakers, and we
(24:22):
just do a lot of things. We go to a
lot of churches too, you know, so we stay busy.
We stay busy, there's no doubt about it. We do
have a clay shoot coming up on September the nineteenth
at Selwood Farm. Anybody interested to go to Kevinderybrady dot
com and check it out. We're doing the Celebrate the
Family for Birmingham Christian Magazine at the Hoover met on
(24:46):
September the fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I believe it is. So we're staying busy, stay in busy.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
So you're staying air Tuesday night, yeah, every Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh yeah, by the way, there's that.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Every Tuesday night Surah fix. Sound is that they saying.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Serrific Sounds Studio Live.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Dude, you don't like Season five, episode twenty something.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Season five, episode twenty six, it started at COVID, right,
so we we just kind of went down in there.
My daughter said, hey, just won't you go live because
you can't go to Love Lady can't go here. And
so we called him and say, y'all tune in. And
you know, when we're first started, it was just me
Cameron on the drums and like a cell phone, you know,
(25:29):
and it was it was terrible. It was and you
know some people might think it's still terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
But exactly good man, it's good sound everything.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But we you know, it's like Brice, we're talking about
the Internet, Philip, we were talking about the Internet, you know,
dropping out, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You're in the middle of things. Are we on the air? No?
What happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We go out there in the cables, cut you know,
all this kind of stuff. So, you know, we finally
got to where we could actually be stabilized and stay
on the air for a while, you know, maybe an
hour and a half and we're figuring all this out
as we go. But when we first started, we'd have
like nine thousand people watching because they had nowhere else
to go, nothing else to do. Now we're down to
(26:10):
about twenty five hundred, and we got it to where
it's almost decent, and we don't have near as many
watchers because they got everything else to do now, right,
But you know, it's still it's still fun. We got
people who watch and they communicate with us through post.
I mean they text back and forth on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
And on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's on Kevin Deryberry YouTube and Facebook every Tuesday night,
seven point thirty. It's almost like, well, I have to
do it because I've been doing it for almost five
years now and everybody expects it. I'm wondering when the
producer of this show is going to say that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, and the producer is Connie, right, yeah, so you
ain't getting out of it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
No, I'm like, yeah, my wife, and we got three
incredible friends, Melinda and Belinda and then Steven who all
helped out with Connie and Mellenna. Ballinda love you know,
being a part of it. They love being on camera.
They love you know, they're just fun. They're twins, you know,
and and where you got them, then you got conye
(27:12):
or there. She doesn't want to be on camera. She
doesn't want to talk and they're they're having to pull
it out of her and they do. And I just
love watching that little tuggle Warris. You know, I'm sitting
over there just laughing, playing you know, every and I
mess up on every single song. I'll mess up every song, Bruce,
you do, Yeah, because I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Everything that's going on. I'm so distracted.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And i know there's a camera there, but I hardly
ever look at it because I'm looking at all the screens.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You know, I'm like butterfly, you know, you know, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Just well, you know you're seeing you.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, just like right now.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
That's right. So October fourth, seven thirty pm. Yes, you
ain't got your tickets to Song Theater come. I mean,
I'll say this because I'm charge of booking that theater
with all kinds of acts, as you know. I mean,
I would not have booked you there if I didn't
think it was artistically excellent. Oh yeah, I mean you're
you're I mean above, not above and beyond. But in
(28:08):
addition to all things that we've talked about, you're a
great singer, songwriter, well things, and so people should come
hear you.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah. Well, you know, I appreciate that we we do
take it serious.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I take it very serious, and but I try I
make it look fun, you know what I mean? Yeah,
and that and I think that's from years of doing it,
you know, years of on the road where you're traveling.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hundreds and hundreds of mile to do a gig.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You want to have fun. You want people to have fun,
but you want it to be good. And that's what
our goal is. To bring in some fun, bring in
something that that moves people and entertain them at the
same time, a quality thing. So and that's one of
my worries. I'm going, Am I gonna be as good
as everybody else have sitting there? Well, I got to
(28:59):
get over that and just be be what God made me,
and we're gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yeah, that's right man. You know you warmed up for
Jimmy Hall that one.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Oh, I mean, come on, I mean you know.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Both of us got watching warm up that day and
I thought everything's come around full circle. Yeah yeah, But
they loved you, man, so that they like I said,
those people were there to hear Jimmy here Jimmy, and
they picked up on your sincerity and it came across
great and it was super entertaining. And that's what's gonna
be October for.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, and I appreciate you having me. I surely do
y'all come out if if nothing else, just to check
out the venue.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
You got a lot going on at that place. And
it's all really cool and artsy. Thank you, really is
really is. It's impressive.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
If you haven't been there, I know a lot of
people that haven't been there and they need where is
it in Columbiana?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Y'all? Come on.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I understand it's a bit of a hidden I mean
a lot of times people use the word hidden, Jim,
and they don't. They just mean that like cliche. We
literally are hidding a bit. So I get it. We're
hard to find.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We're trying to dig out in the capital of Shelby County.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I know it, man. I mean, you gotta go get
miles of beauty right in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're gonna have a good time too. Come on. So
it's October the fourth. It starts at what time?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Seven thirty?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Brother, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You come October the fourth, seven thirty. Kevin Deryberry and the.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Band's gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Thank you Bruce, Thank you brother.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Thanks for listening to Imagine, Create, Inspire the podcast. For
more information on the Shelby County Arts Council, please visit
www dot Shelby Countyartsconcil dot com
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