September 7, 2023 • 9 mins
Alyssa and Wayne Brewer talk their new George Jones & Tammy Wynette tribute record, "A&W Sing George & Tammy" that comes out next week and Finley Fest that is happening this Sunday...
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(00:00):
We've got some Kentucky legends who've beencranking out music for a long long time,
and this weekend and we're gonna playHey, honor to a patriarch in
the family with something called finlay Fests. I want to bring in Wayne Brewer
and his wife Alyssa. Hey,welcome to both of you. Howdy Howdy
now Hi lessa Hey, Terry.Wayne will text me and he's, you
(00:26):
know, he's like, hey,Terry, what's up one of us.
I don't hear much from you often, but I'm glad to get you on
the radio. As you two.You've got this most recent song, We're
gonna hold on. I just sawa little while ago. You have over
one million fews already. Two arepopular somewhat. I guess. Oh.
(00:50):
We we're doing a George Jones andTammy Wantett tribute Terry, and it's going
to be out on Sony Music andit's going to drop next Friday on the
fifteen. That's great, but youmean all the songs are George and Tammy.
Yes, Sir, a whole album. They wanted us to do the
whole tribute album as our debut album, and I agreed to do that before
(01:12):
I really thought through what I wasagreeing to the words. I was agreeing
to do our debut album as aduet couple to two of the best country
singers of all time, which waspretty crazy thing to agree to. And
then I called a listen. Isaid, hey, I told them we'd
(01:33):
do this, and she said dowhat And I said, do this duet
album? And uh, she waslike, I was like a month postpartum,
so we didn't have all the timein the world, but we made
time. And you know, nowwe've done it. Let's let people hear
a little bit of you two atwork. This is pretty phenomenal listening.
(02:00):
I can sometimes it's time. Theheart is her heart is n But the
best love is all we know.And maybe we have between the speaks some
(02:27):
lovel and some room, don't We'vegot the time of love reads us,
happy us all through the day thatcan ever big. We're gone the home
(02:57):
man. That sounds good. That'ssome great work, Thanks Terry Man.
We appreciate it. All I noticedsay, is God blessed. Georgia Jones
and Tammy want it right. Andthey had kind of a unlessa They had
kind of a tumultuous relationship and Iknow you guys well enough to know you
just have this nice, loving lifehere. So it's kind of interesting that
that, you know, you don'thave to take on all the drama that
(03:19):
goes on with being George and Tammy. Just the beautiful music, right right,
they told us, Terry, theysaid that was kind of which I
didn't even think about that, butbut it's kind of cool, like you're
saying, it's kind of in otherwords, it's a love and take a
loving take on their their whole thing. Because another words, me and her,
I think she loves me most ofthe time. And the only thing
(03:42):
we have in common with them is, you know how much we love each
other. I think at one timethey loved each other. They did they
did you hear their love and alltheir music, so I think we did
the same thing. Okay, Sowhat's going on here on Saturday? Aren't
you doing a whole fast all kindsof different performers Sunday, Terry? Yes,
my dad Gary, of course,he purchased the property right here,
(04:06):
right beside o'howe Valley drag way downhere. It's actually the last road in
Jefferson County. It's called Catherine Station, with a K and one turn off
Dixie Highway right beside o'howe Valley Dragway. We've started a brand new music venue,
over two hundred acres of outdoor venueand it's called Brewer Nation. And
(04:29):
so how how appropriate but to havethe first events finly cised and that is
on the anniversary of his passing fromback in twenty twenty when we lost it.
Great man, wonderful person and wasso proud of all of you,
all of all the offspring and thefamily that were part of you know,
have been a part of so manygreat musical traditions, obviously your dad,
(04:51):
Gary Brewer of the Kentucky Ramblers andeverybody else connected with you. This is
a beautiful thing. So it's freeadmission, and it's Sunday, but you're
asking people just bring your own chair, bring your own chair. Everybody come
out. We've got country legend tGraham Brown, We've got Nashville recording artist
(05:12):
UMG Nashville recording artist Ashton Sheppard,wonderful country singer. And then we've got
Gary Brewer in the Kentucky Ramblers anda listen. And I decided to do
a set of basically our album liveand to celebrate the release early. We
thought it'd be very appropriate to doit at Finley Fists because he always encouraged
us and that new album that drops. Was wanting a lista to tell you
(05:36):
how people can pre order that.Actually right now now, we just got
our vinyls in as well, Sowe have vinyls and CDs up for a
pre order on our website. It'saw Brewer Tom Slash Store, and you
can pre order that and then we'llget them to you before that it's actually
released, and we'll autographed them personally. But we'll also have him at finley
(05:59):
Fest as well, anybody that wantsto get them early, so before they're
available with So what happens The deliverytruck shows up and then they've just got
boxes of vinyl albums. That mustbe kind of exciting. Man, our
Fourrier, it's kind of an oddsituation. I'll send you a picture here
when we get off. You're ona text. Our Fourier is stacked as
tall as I am the boxes ofvinyls. Here's the deal, man,
(06:20):
everybody's this vinyl thing's crazy. Iknow we ain't got a lot of time
on here, Terry, but thevinyl thing's crazy. Some people it's taken
major labels like almost six months ora year to get their vinyls, and
I got mine turned around within sixweeks. But I'm not going to tell
you my secret. But they wouldnot send them straight to our distribution.
They had to send them me downhere, and I've got them stacked in
(06:43):
our fourier, and then I've gotto turn around Monday after Finly Fest and
send them to Sony. So kindof a fun little game of ship wars.
Yeah, you're a producer, director, you do it all, musician,
creative person and good husband. Yeah, I try. And Daddy,
(07:04):
oh that's right. Well it's greattalking great Daddy, Great talking to both
of you. So happy for thewhole family, the whole Brewer family.
You guys are legends around here andreally legends around the United States. With
the millions and millions of views anddownloads that you've had on all the music,
the family music is astounding, staggering, how great the family's music has
(07:26):
been embraced everywhere. Well, Terry, we appreciate you and you've always been
a wonderful supporter of the Brewer familyand our music, and we love you.
Finn loved you. It's just beenwonderful every time we're out somewhere and
and look around. If you showup or just anywhere, we're tickled if
you can come, come and bewith a Sunday Terry. And my dad's
(07:47):
actually got a new CD out hisselftoo, and it's called House of Acts.
I'd like to encourage the folks tocheck it out if you like guitar
acoustic guitar music. It's, inmy opinion, one of the best.
And they are going to finally featurehim after all these forty something years in
the music business this month on GuitarPlayer magazine. All right, well,
I know the family website is Brewgrassb R E W Grass instead of Bluegrass
(08:15):
brewgrass dot com. Send people there. And then the website for you and
Alyssa is aw Brewer dot Com.Slash store, Yes, sir, the
store where they can buy them up, buy them vinyls of CDs and we'll
send you out one. Terry,are you a fan of vinyls? You
know I am. I got arecord player right here somewhere, all right,
(08:35):
figured you might be. Just lookfor one and the mail brothers.
All right, love to the wholefamily, Alyssa, thanks for coming on,
appreciate it, thanks for having usthere. Okay, Wayne Brewer,
you rock all right. Back ina few, there you go. It
is the Finley Fast this Sunday atthe Brewer Nation outdoor Venue fifteen two oh
(08:56):
three Catherine Station Road. That's WestPoint, Kentucky. It's right in the
corner of Jefferson County, in thesouthwest corner of Jefferson County. These are
some of the sweetest people you'll everknow, the Brewer family. Back in
a few on news radio Wade fortywahs
We've got some Kentucky legends who've beencranking out music for a long long time,
and this weekend and we're gonna playHey, honor to a patriarch in
the family with something called finlay Fests. I want to bring in Wayne Brewer
and his wife Alyssa. Hey,welcome to both of you. Howdy Howdy
now Hi lessa Hey, Terry.Wayne will text me and he's, you
(00:26):
know, he's like, hey,Terry, what's up one of us.
I don't hear much from you often, but I'm glad to get you on
the radio. As you two.You've got this most recent song, We're
gonna hold on. I just sawa little while ago. You have over
one million fews already. Two arepopular somewhat. I guess. Oh.
(00:50):
We we're doing a George Jones andTammy Wantett tribute Terry, and it's going
to be out on Sony Music andit's going to drop next Friday on the
fifteen. That's great, but youmean all the songs are George and Tammy.
Yes, Sir, a whole album. They wanted us to do the
whole tribute album as our debut album, and I agreed to do that before
(01:12):
I really thought through what I wasagreeing to the words. I was agreeing
to do our debut album as aduet couple to two of the best country
singers of all time, which waspretty crazy thing to agree to. And
then I called a listen. Isaid, hey, I told them we'd
(01:33):
do this, and she said dowhat And I said, do this duet
album? And uh, she waslike, I was like a month postpartum,
so we didn't have all the timein the world, but we made
time. And you know, nowwe've done it. Let's let people hear
a little bit of you two atwork. This is pretty phenomenal listening.
(02:00):
I can sometimes it's time. Theheart is her heart is n But the
best love is all we know.And maybe we have between the speaks some
(02:27):
lovel and some room, don't We'vegot the time of love reads us,
happy us all through the day thatcan ever big. We're gone the home
(02:57):
man. That sounds good. That'ssome great work, Thanks Terry Man.
We appreciate it. All I noticedsay, is God blessed. Georgia Jones
and Tammy want it right. Andthey had kind of a unlessa They had
kind of a tumultuous relationship and Iknow you guys well enough to know you
just have this nice, loving lifehere. So it's kind of interesting that
that, you know, you don'thave to take on all the drama that
(03:19):
goes on with being George and Tammy. Just the beautiful music, right right,
they told us, Terry, theysaid that was kind of which I
didn't even think about that, butbut it's kind of cool, like you're
saying, it's kind of in otherwords, it's a love and take a
loving take on their their whole thing. Because another words, me and her,
I think she loves me most ofthe time. And the only thing
(03:42):
we have in common with them is, you know how much we love each
other. I think at one timethey loved each other. They did they
did you hear their love and alltheir music, so I think we did
the same thing. Okay, Sowhat's going on here on Saturday? Aren't
you doing a whole fast all kindsof different performers Sunday, Terry? Yes,
my dad Gary, of course,he purchased the property right here,
(04:06):
right beside o'howe Valley drag way downhere. It's actually the last road in
Jefferson County. It's called Catherine Station, with a K and one turn off
Dixie Highway right beside o'howe Valley Dragway. We've started a brand new music venue,
over two hundred acres of outdoor venueand it's called Brewer Nation. And
(04:29):
so how how appropriate but to havethe first events finly cised and that is
on the anniversary of his passing fromback in twenty twenty when we lost it.
Great man, wonderful person and wasso proud of all of you,
all of all the offspring and thefamily that were part of you know,
have been a part of so manygreat musical traditions, obviously your dad,
(04:51):
Gary Brewer of the Kentucky Ramblers andeverybody else connected with you. This is
a beautiful thing. So it's freeadmission, and it's Sunday, but you're
asking people just bring your own chair, bring your own chair. Everybody come
out. We've got country legend tGraham Brown, We've got Nashville recording artist
(05:12):
UMG Nashville recording artist Ashton Sheppard,wonderful country singer. And then we've got
Gary Brewer in the Kentucky Ramblers anda listen. And I decided to do
a set of basically our album liveand to celebrate the release early. We
thought it'd be very appropriate to doit at Finley Fists because he always encouraged
us and that new album that drops. Was wanting a lista to tell you
(05:36):
how people can pre order that.Actually right now now, we just got
our vinyls in as well, Sowe have vinyls and CDs up for a
pre order on our website. It'saw Brewer Tom Slash Store, and you
can pre order that and then we'llget them to you before that it's actually
released, and we'll autographed them personally. But we'll also have him at finley
(05:59):
Fest as well, anybody that wantsto get them early, so before they're
available with So what happens The deliverytruck shows up and then they've just got
boxes of vinyl albums. That mustbe kind of exciting. Man, our
Fourrier, it's kind of an oddsituation. I'll send you a picture here
when we get off. You're ona text. Our Fourier is stacked as
tall as I am the boxes ofvinyls. Here's the deal, man,
(06:20):
everybody's this vinyl thing's crazy. Iknow we ain't got a lot of time
on here, Terry, but thevinyl thing's crazy. Some people it's taken
major labels like almost six months ora year to get their vinyls, and
I got mine turned around within sixweeks. But I'm not going to tell
you my secret. But they wouldnot send them straight to our distribution.
They had to send them me downhere, and I've got them stacked in
(06:43):
our fourier, and then I've gotto turn around Monday after Finly Fest and
send them to Sony. So kindof a fun little game of ship wars.
Yeah, you're a producer, director, you do it all, musician,
creative person and good husband. Yeah, I try. And Daddy,
(07:04):
oh that's right. Well it's greattalking great Daddy, Great talking to both
of you. So happy for thewhole family, the whole Brewer family.
You guys are legends around here andreally legends around the United States. With
the millions and millions of views anddownloads that you've had on all the music,
the family music is astounding, staggering, how great the family's music has
(07:26):
been embraced everywhere. Well, Terry, we appreciate you and you've always been
a wonderful supporter of the Brewer familyand our music, and we love you.
Finn loved you. It's just beenwonderful every time we're out somewhere and
and look around. If you showup or just anywhere, we're tickled if
you can come, come and bewith a Sunday Terry. And my dad's
(07:47):
actually got a new CD out hisselftoo, and it's called House of Acts.
I'd like to encourage the folks tocheck it out if you like guitar
acoustic guitar music. It's, inmy opinion, one of the best.
And they are going to finally featurehim after all these forty something years in
the music business this month on GuitarPlayer magazine. All right, well,
I know the family website is Brewgrassb R E W Grass instead of Bluegrass
(08:15):
brewgrass dot com. Send people there. And then the website for you and
Alyssa is aw Brewer dot Com.Slash store, Yes, sir, the
store where they can buy them up, buy them vinyls of CDs and we'll
send you out one. Terry,are you a fan of vinyls? You
know I am. I got arecord player right here somewhere, all right,
(08:35):
figured you might be. Just lookfor one and the mail brothers.
All right, love to the wholefamily, Alyssa, thanks for coming on,
appreciate it, thanks for having usthere. Okay, Wayne Brewer,
you rock all right. Back ina few, there you go. It
is the Finley Fast this Sunday atthe Brewer Nation outdoor Venue fifteen two oh
(08:56):
three Catherine Station Road. That's WestPoint, Kentucky. It's right in the
corner of Jefferson County, in thesouthwest corner of Jefferson County. These are
some of the sweetest people you'll everknow, the Brewer family. Back in
a few on news radio Wade fortywahs
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