August 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Chris Janson's new album "Wild Horses" featuring his single "Me And A Beer" is out now. He stopped by the studio to catch up with Graham B & Sarah Lee and to do an album release party with fans. Surprise - Chris bought one of those fans a boat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris Janssen Bud. First of all, I want to shake
your hand. It's been a minute. It's good to see you, Mane.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You guys appreciate it very much, and yeah, we're proud
to be here in Charlotte. It's been a been one
heck of a whirl. One day, man, been a good day.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I would imagine, Yeah, what's life like right now? Because
album's out. This is the fifth one, right, this is the.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Fifth one, Yeah, and came out of the first so
just a couple of days old now, and it's really great.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We woke up this early in this.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Morning and in the Tennessee and h went to Detroit
and now we're hearing Charlotte closing out the day with
you guys. I'm super proud about and appreciate it. You know,
we only did six album release parties across the United States,
and you guys are one of them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So we're super stoked.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And the album is uh man, this is the realest,
rawest organic album I ever made because I made it
at my house. I made it at my cabin, my
hunting cabin, my fishing camp. We set up shop a
lot like my favorite bands.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Did it like Marshall, Tucker, Leonard Skinner, they you know,
they would they'd hole up in a house and put
up gear and record stuff. And that's how we did it.
So we wrote the songs, recorded them same day right then.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You co wrote and co produced every song. Yeah, And
I was like, okay, yeah, look at this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So we did it right there at the cabin and uh.
And I mean the record could have been called Cabin Songs,
you know, but but we called it Wild.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Horses because of the wild Horse's cut.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I wrote that with Kelly and it's uh just epitomizes
everything about me, you know. It's this is the freest
I ever been and now you're getting the best music.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Because of it, which is such a great feeling. So
what is the most personal song on the album to you?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Hardest hunting Season? Uh and father Figure. Father Figure is
the for me personally, that's the most personal. Hardest Hunting
Season is the most personal, I think for the people
I wrote it for, which is the true story is
a tribute to some friends of mine in Florida. Father
Figure is my favorite one for me, uh selfishly, and
I wrote that about my I have two bonus kids,
(02:01):
as you ford me talked about in the past. But
my bonus daughter we had this really awesome impromptu connection
on December nineteenth last year, and that's where the song
came from.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Do you get emotional when you perform it? Did she
get emotional when she heard it the first time?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think so, and I sent it to you know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Of course I wrote it in the context though, for
both of my bonus kids, because you know, I don't
love one more than the other. It just happened to
be one of those instances. And yes, they did get
emotional when they heard it. And I have not played
it live yet, so I don't know what it's going
to feel like, but I can already tell you I'm
trying to like just bypass that I keep saying, almost
save it for the right time, save for the right time, which.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Maybe never emails, only ever hear it on the album.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you know, songs like that are tough to sing.
Certain songs are easy to sing, certain ones are not.
And that's the thing about this Wild Horse's record is
unlike anything I've ever done in the past. You know,
albums usually take a long when you really look at it,
they take it a long time. To get out like
two year processes and stuff, not this one. We started
writing this in late August last year, and here we
(03:07):
are and it's already out in August.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So we did it in under a year.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I also re signed a new record deal with an
under a year with with my own imprint mixed with Warner,
my previous record label from when we had all the
hits of Bomby Boat and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I left there for a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now I'm back there, and it's really good and like
the best thing ever. But so you know, it's been
a really an interesting journey in the last the last
twelve months have been like a really awesome tornado, and
in a positive manner. And so I spun all that
into this album and worked real hard on it and
took my time on it, but also didn't waste any
(03:44):
time on it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So I knew pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We wrote probably thirty thirty three songs for this thing
and picked fifteen, and it was.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So hard to dwindle them down.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, no, it's not, honestly, it's how I do it.
I mean, I take the songs to the house.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Thirty three is pretty conservative the other albums. When you
say you were above that probably.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean, you know, give her take and you know,
just digging through catalogs and stuff. But anyway, I just
know my song process is so simple. We do it
in house, Me and Kelly get together, and if I'm
being completely honest, I really only there's usually there's maybe
three or four tracks on this record that I said
I'm puting on this record.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The rest of them are like, what do you think
you're a girl? You listen to music, you like it?
You know, do you think your people are gonna like it?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I let her kind of pick she A and
R is it?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Really?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And then the third set of ears and voice that
we allow in and that we're proud to have in
is this lady named Chris who's from Warner Brothers, who's
I would we worked with on our previous albums and
we do now and she's now the head of the label,
but she's we still work on that level with her,
like just on a very personal basis, and so that's nice.
But we play songs for our kids, playing for our friends,
(04:48):
and just really just do what I like first and
then see what everybody else likes. And that's how you
find it collective and totally.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Like that you're not going to the label. You're going
to people aren't your typical yes people. They're going to
tell you the truth. And that's why your records are
so good.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Thank you very much. Well, and that's the nice uniqueness.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Like I said about the girl Chris I mentioned as
our friend, she runs Warner Brothers. But that was a
reason that we wanted to go back there and do
this record and continue for the rest of time now
is because we've always had a good connection us three
like her and Kelly get along great. We all get
along great, and she's a good voice of reasons sometimes
to bounce things off of.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So that's nice.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I had total creative control, and I've never had
total creative control my whole career, and that feels really good.
It's very humbling, but it also gives me a great
sense of pride and makes me want to do better
because when you're doing things for you first, you only
have your face to fall on.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And so you know, I.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Really feel good about this album. I think it's really good.
I think I would put it up towards I would
put it up against anything out there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, no worries. I mean I have that much confident
in myself.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You talked about being freer in your life.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I am in this season.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Did something click? Was it a seed that you wake
up one morning you felt different?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Was there something that led to that feeling?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yes, I've had a transformative last couple of years. It
started two years ago at Thanksgiving when my nephew brought
a homeless boy to our house for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
How awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I love your nephew.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I didn't know he was homeless. That's that's the cool part.
I didn't know he was. And now I'm not talking theoretically,
I mean like literally homeless.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He was nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, he was living with my brother in law and
my nephew and we didn't know it. So to me,
a long story short, this little boy came to the
house and said to me, look around. And I looked
around and I'm like, yeah, cool, what am I looking at?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And he says you, I mean you have this house,
you have this pond, and like we got this fire pit.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You have two fridges, like two refrigerators full of cokes
and mountain dews. It's unbelievable, pantry full of food. And
I'm thinking I was like, God, yeah, the perspective, Oh my.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
God for granted every day.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So the next day I I well, actually, the next morning,
two o'clock in the morning, I got woken up. I'm
a I'm a believer in Christ and I am not.
If you're not out there listening in radio world, that's okay.
I don't not judging. I'm just telling you my story.
I got slapped in the chest. God hit me as
hard as he could, woke me up two o'clock in
the morning. I set up in the middle of bed
and I had this huge thing, just this huge heavyweight
(07:23):
to cloud over me, and and I mean, I just
it's almost as if he told me something, but I
just knew it subconsciously, and it said get rid of
the vanity out of your life and get rid.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Of it right now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So the next day when I woke up, I sold
all of my stuff that I coveted, which was like
cool cars that I collected, cool watches I collected at
cool guitars, and I sold it all like in a
day I've been I gave some of it away. I
just I needed out in my life. It felt really good.
And so that was the first that was awesome, Thank you.
That was the first transformative thing. Now get this a
(07:56):
year later, which is last augusty where about the time
we started this album, we were going through some changes,
you know, career wise, everything on everything good, but just
met taking the next step right.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And so.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I started this new album, started writing for it. We
had really no game plan for it, and we didn't
have any kind of things solidified even with the record
label yet, and who knows if that was going to
come together.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But I started just grinding and going to the cabin
every day and writing songs, writing songs, putting the work in.
And during that same month, one of the guys who
had sold two of the classic cars to that I
really did miss the cars, but you know I got rid.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Of the vanity.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. He calls me one day on a Tuesday and goes, hey, man,
you know what, I just had it on my heart
and I'm gonna give you these cars back.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wow, look at God.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So I got those cars back. I mean it was wild.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's dude, It's the craziest thing. It's all God, honestly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then I started wood shedding on this record and
of wood shedding. Witch had working real hard, working real hard,
not having any sort of clarity of what the future
may hold. I, honest to god, had no idea that
now I'd be sitting where I am, talking about an
album that people are more excited about than they've ever
been about an album of mine, and having a hit
off this record with me and a beer and all
(09:08):
these things happening, and we are doing it in revert.
We're doing it in the old school way. When Buy
Me a Boat Hit nine years ago, me and Kelly
were totally independent. We had we were beholden to no
one buy me a Boat Hit. I didn't even have
a record, you'll understand. So we've went back to the
same methodology, even though we have a deal now in
(09:29):
place again. It's it feels so good because we went
back to the We reverted back to the original way
we do things. She handles the business, I make the music.
We make it happen. Hence why we're hearing Charlotte doing
an album release party and we said this, she set
this up like we said that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You know, I love that too, and I love the
way that you give your wife credit because when you
get where you're as one and you compliment it how
that you're equally yoked.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And she's awesome, by the way, and it's not just
a credit thing.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean, she's she earns it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I mean it's just really it's just realist. She is
the boss of everything. I'm just the creative one who's like,
you know, she manages me too. I'm hard to man,
I'm unmanageable. So I'm just doing my thing and we
make a good team, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And you know, as long as well.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The reactions for you coming here, you know, I know
that you chose and selectively only did a few of these.
The reactions that we got with you coming it was good,
was amazing. New to the area, so like getting a
grip on what people are really drawn to.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This giveaway has been wild.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They would call after the giveaway.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Crazy questions to make people win.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
That is so nice.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Thank you and looked at him like there's my eyes
are like looking at him. It's early in the morning,
people are waking up. You have to make it so easy.
Question was like, does Chris Jansen have facial hair?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Like this question legitimately, what did.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Chris Jansen get initiated into the grand ol operation he
did eighteen Yeah, they got it, got it right? Wow?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Man, Well that's really good. Well I appreciate hearing that
because you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Know, uh, at the end of the day, you you
have to have the fans to have the job.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And I appreciate it very much. And I'm living my dream.
I mean I really am.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to
do and getting to do what I wanted to do
and that goes hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But but yeah, it's a huge one.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
More if you want to go. This is my last
question because I know there's a lot of people out
there that are going to kill us if we don't know.
We're good.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm I'm in no hurry.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You Uh no, they are. You know. I wanted to
know if you've got a tax break or a write
off for brid the Bride video.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's a great question, So thank you. I love the
song to Bride from the new record. Yeah, super personal
song to me by the way, by the way, to
answer your question the first question you asked me, there's
a lot of personal songs on this record, so it's
hard to pick one over the other, surely, and the
Bride is just so us you know, it's just so
every day, but we it's so special because we actually
(12:01):
dug up. We found the original videographer who videoed our
wedding for like I don't know, I don't know how
TV did. It was cheap, it was he cut us
such a deal. And this is like when you had
tape like like video like cam quarter. Yeah all right,
so yeah, yeah, totally. Anyone hearing this, go check out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The music video. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Thank you. So it's it's real footage. And I did
not have facial hair in that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Video is a whistle.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact,
when we were going through the editing process, Kelly was.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm glad she did because if you look at
me when we got married, I look like a twelve
year old.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You look great, nice hands here to ask this question.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But the tattoo of lips.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
On your arms, Oh that's her for sure. You don't
have to be scared. I'm an open book. I say anything,
no problem.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That was real lips.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Just kids that's.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Her name and on my chest and that is her lips.
I got that on the back of Lee Brice's bus
we were in we were playing the Coronado uh for
the military and and California years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Like, baby, kiss my arm. I'm gonna get it atted
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well, if you know, leave Rice Like he's Carolina guy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He's like, dude, I got a tattoo on the bus.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And I was like, wow, you're so weird and cool
at the same time, Like what, He's like, yeah, we
got a tattoo.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Studio in the back of man, I got a studio
on the bus and everything. I was like.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Then at the end of he's like, do you want
to ride home with me on my bus? I was like, dude,
I gotta watch the kids out of here. And I
flew here and no, I did not want to ride
your bus across the damn country, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I d to ride a bus and love it from
California to Nashville. I said, I love you, but absolutely not.
And and last time saw totally he's not. But he's
not kidding, He's really serious. And so anyway, he was like,
you gotta get a had you gotta get a tatto
on my cool. So I went back there and I
was like, Kelly kiss Marmor, quicks, skiss my arm. I
got a tattooed Chris dancing yank.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Congrats man, it's so good. Thank you you, but like
really proud of you and everyone.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I really appreciate it. Well, it's my pleasure to be here.
You guys.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You guys have always been great to me, and it
means a lot. And and I'll tell you, I am
just really thankful for the place that we're at in
our life and career. And there's a great sense of
confidence that comes with that and just happiness, you know overall.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So it's working.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I looked, we looked at a charterlaer as single is rocking.
You know, we've been inside the top forty for a
week now, we're thirty five today. Like, yeah, song's doing
really good thanks to this station. And that means a lot,
you know. It's I am a radio guy. I always
wanted to be a radio guy. And that's all I
ever cared about. I've said it in the beginning, I
say it now, and I'll say it in the end.
It's all I ever wanted was to have radio hits
and getting to do it so big blessing radio hits.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Awesome Christian, that's so cool man, Thank you cool
Chris Janssen Bud. First of all, I want to shake
your hand. It's been a minute. It's good to see you, Mane.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You guys appreciate it very much, and yeah, we're proud
to be here in Charlotte. It's been a been one
heck of a whirl. One day, man, been a good day.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I would imagine, Yeah, what's life like right now? Because
album's out. This is the fifth one, right, this is the.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Fifth one, Yeah, and came out of the first so
just a couple of days old now, and it's really great.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We woke up this early in this.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Morning and in the Tennessee and h went to Detroit
and now we're hearing Charlotte closing out the day with
you guys. I'm super proud about and appreciate it. You know,
we only did six album release parties across the United States,
and you guys are one of them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So we're super stoked.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And the album is uh man, this is the realest,
rawest organic album I ever made because I made it
at my house. I made it at my cabin, my
hunting cabin, my fishing camp. We set up shop a
lot like my favorite bands.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Did it like Marshall, Tucker, Leonard Skinner, they you know,
they would they'd hole up in a house and put
up gear and record stuff. And that's how we did it.
So we wrote the songs, recorded them same day right then.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You co wrote and co produced every song. Yeah, And
I was like, okay, yeah, look at this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So we did it right there at the cabin and uh.
And I mean the record could have been called Cabin Songs,
you know, but but we called it Wild.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Horses because of the wild Horse's cut.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I wrote that with Kelly and it's uh just epitomizes
everything about me, you know. It's this is the freest
I ever been and now you're getting the best music.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Because of it, which is such a great feeling. So
what is the most personal song on the album to you?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Hardest hunting Season? Uh and father Figure. Father Figure is
the for me personally, that's the most personal. Hardest Hunting
Season is the most personal, I think for the people
I wrote it for, which is the true story is
a tribute to some friends of mine in Florida. Father
Figure is my favorite one for me, uh selfishly, and
I wrote that about my I have two bonus kids,
(02:01):
as you ford me talked about in the past. But
my bonus daughter we had this really awesome impromptu connection
on December nineteenth last year, and that's where the song
came from.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Do you get emotional when you perform it? Did she
get emotional when she heard it the first time?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think so, and I sent it to you know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Of course I wrote it in the context though, for
both of my bonus kids, because you know, I don't
love one more than the other. It just happened to
be one of those instances. And yes, they did get
emotional when they heard it. And I have not played
it live yet, so I don't know what it's going
to feel like, but I can already tell you I'm
trying to like just bypass that I keep saying, almost
save it for the right time, save for the right time, which.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Maybe never emails, only ever hear it on the album.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you know, songs like that are tough to sing.
Certain songs are easy to sing, certain ones are not.
And that's the thing about this Wild Horse's record is
unlike anything I've ever done in the past. You know,
albums usually take a long when you really look at it,
they take it a long time. To get out like
two year processes and stuff, not this one. We started
writing this in late August last year, and here we
(03:07):
are and it's already out in August.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So we did it in under a year.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I also re signed a new record deal with an
under a year with with my own imprint mixed with Warner,
my previous record label from when we had all the
hits of Bomby Boat and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I left there for a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now I'm back there, and it's really good and like
the best thing ever. But so you know, it's been
a really an interesting journey in the last the last
twelve months have been like a really awesome tornado, and
in a positive manner. And so I spun all that
into this album and worked real hard on it and
took my time on it, but also didn't waste any
(03:44):
time on it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So I knew pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We wrote probably thirty thirty three songs for this thing
and picked fifteen, and it was.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So hard to dwindle them down.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, no, it's not, honestly, it's how I do it.
I mean, I take the songs to the house.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Thirty three is pretty conservative the other albums. When you
say you were above that probably.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean, you know, give her take and you know,
just digging through catalogs and stuff. But anyway, I just
know my song process is so simple. We do it
in house, Me and Kelly get together, and if I'm
being completely honest, I really only there's usually there's maybe
three or four tracks on this record that I said
I'm puting on this record.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The rest of them are like, what do you think
you're a girl? You listen to music, you like it?
You know, do you think your people are gonna like it?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I let her kind of pick she A and
R is it?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Really?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And then the third set of ears and voice that
we allow in and that we're proud to have in
is this lady named Chris who's from Warner Brothers, who's
I would we worked with on our previous albums and
we do now and she's now the head of the label,
but she's we still work on that level with her,
like just on a very personal basis, and so that's nice.
But we play songs for our kids, playing for our friends,
(04:48):
and just really just do what I like first and
then see what everybody else likes. And that's how you
find it collective and totally.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Like that you're not going to the label. You're going
to people aren't your typical yes people. They're going to
tell you the truth. And that's why your records are
so good.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Thank you very much. Well, and that's the nice uniqueness.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Like I said about the girl Chris I mentioned as
our friend, she runs Warner Brothers. But that was a
reason that we wanted to go back there and do
this record and continue for the rest of time now
is because we've always had a good connection us three
like her and Kelly get along great. We all get
along great, and she's a good voice of reasons sometimes
to bounce things off of.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So that's nice.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I had total creative control, and I've never had
total creative control my whole career, and that feels really good.
It's very humbling, but it also gives me a great
sense of pride and makes me want to do better
because when you're doing things for you first, you only
have your face to fall on.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And so you know, I.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Really feel good about this album. I think it's really good.
I think I would put it up towards I would
put it up against anything out there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, no worries. I mean I have that much confident
in myself.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You talked about being freer in your life.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I am in this season.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Did something click? Was it a seed that you wake
up one morning you felt different?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Was there something that led to that feeling?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yes, I've had a transformative last couple of years. It
started two years ago at Thanksgiving when my nephew brought
a homeless boy to our house for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
How awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I love your nephew.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I didn't know he was homeless. That's that's the cool part.
I didn't know he was. And now I'm not talking theoretically,
I mean like literally homeless.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He was nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, he was living with my brother in law and
my nephew and we didn't know it. So to me,
a long story short, this little boy came to the
house and said to me, look around. And I looked
around and I'm like, yeah, cool, what am I looking at?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And he says you, I mean you have this house,
you have this pond, and like we got this fire pit.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You have two fridges, like two refrigerators full of cokes
and mountain dews. It's unbelievable, pantry full of food. And
I'm thinking I was like, God, yeah, the perspective, Oh my.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
God for granted every day.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So the next day I I well, actually, the next morning,
two o'clock in the morning, I got woken up. I'm
a I'm a believer in Christ and I am not.
If you're not out there listening in radio world, that's okay.
I don't not judging. I'm just telling you my story.
I got slapped in the chest. God hit me as
hard as he could, woke me up two o'clock in
the morning. I set up in the middle of bed
and I had this huge thing, just this huge heavyweight
(07:23):
to cloud over me, and and I mean, I just
it's almost as if he told me something, but I
just knew it subconsciously, and it said get rid of
the vanity out of your life and get rid.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Of it right now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So the next day when I woke up, I sold
all of my stuff that I coveted, which was like
cool cars that I collected, cool watches I collected at
cool guitars, and I sold it all like in a
day I've been I gave some of it away. I
just I needed out in my life. It felt really good.
And so that was the first that was awesome, Thank you.
That was the first transformative thing. Now get this a
(07:56):
year later, which is last augusty where about the time
we started this album, we were going through some changes,
you know, career wise, everything on everything good, but just
met taking the next step right.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And so.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I started this new album, started writing for it. We
had really no game plan for it, and we didn't
have any kind of things solidified even with the record
label yet, and who knows if that was going to
come together.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But I started just grinding and going to the cabin
every day and writing songs, writing songs, putting the work in.
And during that same month, one of the guys who
had sold two of the classic cars to that I
really did miss the cars, but you know I got rid.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Of the vanity.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. He calls me one day on a Tuesday and goes, hey, man,
you know what, I just had it on my heart
and I'm gonna give you these cars back.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wow, look at God.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So I got those cars back. I mean it was wild.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's dude, It's the craziest thing. It's all God, honestly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then I started wood shedding on this record and
of wood shedding. Witch had working real hard, working real hard,
not having any sort of clarity of what the future
may hold. I, honest to god, had no idea that
now I'd be sitting where I am, talking about an
album that people are more excited about than they've ever
been about an album of mine, and having a hit
off this record with me and a beer and all
(09:08):
these things happening, and we are doing it in revert.
We're doing it in the old school way. When Buy
Me a Boat Hit nine years ago, me and Kelly
were totally independent. We had we were beholden to no
one buy me a Boat Hit. I didn't even have
a record, you'll understand. So we've went back to the
same methodology, even though we have a deal now in
(09:29):
place again. It's it feels so good because we went
back to the We reverted back to the original way
we do things. She handles the business, I make the music.
We make it happen. Hence why we're hearing Charlotte doing
an album release party and we said this, she set
this up like we said that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You know, I love that too, and I love the
way that you give your wife credit because when you
get where you're as one and you compliment it how
that you're equally yoked.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And she's awesome, by the way, and it's not just
a credit thing.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean, she's she earns it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I mean it's just really it's just realist. She is
the boss of everything. I'm just the creative one who's like,
you know, she manages me too. I'm hard to man,
I'm unmanageable. So I'm just doing my thing and we
make a good team, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And you know, as long as well.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The reactions for you coming here, you know, I know
that you chose and selectively only did a few of these.
The reactions that we got with you coming it was good,
was amazing. New to the area, so like getting a
grip on what people are really drawn to.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This giveaway has been wild.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They would call after the giveaway.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Crazy questions to make people win.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
That is so nice.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Thank you and looked at him like there's my eyes
are like looking at him. It's early in the morning,
people are waking up. You have to make it so easy.
Question was like, does Chris Jansen have facial hair?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Like this question legitimately, what did.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Chris Jansen get initiated into the grand ol operation he
did eighteen Yeah, they got it, got it right? Wow?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Man, Well that's really good. Well I appreciate hearing that
because you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Know, uh, at the end of the day, you you
have to have the fans to have the job.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And I appreciate it very much. And I'm living my dream.
I mean I really am.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to
do and getting to do what I wanted to do
and that goes hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But but yeah, it's a huge one.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
More if you want to go. This is my last
question because I know there's a lot of people out
there that are going to kill us if we don't know.
We're good.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm I'm in no hurry.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You Uh no, they are. You know. I wanted to
know if you've got a tax break or a write
off for brid the Bride video.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's a great question, So thank you. I love the
song to Bride from the new record. Yeah, super personal
song to me by the way, by the way, to
answer your question the first question you asked me, there's
a lot of personal songs on this record, so it's
hard to pick one over the other, surely, and the
Bride is just so us you know, it's just so
every day, but we it's so special because we actually
(12:01):
dug up. We found the original videographer who videoed our
wedding for like I don't know, I don't know how
TV did. It was cheap, it was he cut us
such a deal. And this is like when you had
tape like like video like cam quarter. Yeah all right,
so yeah, yeah, totally. Anyone hearing this, go check out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The music video. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Thank you. So it's it's real footage. And I did
not have facial hair in that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Video is a whistle.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact,
when we were going through the editing process, Kelly was.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm glad she did because if you look at
me when we got married, I look like a twelve
year old.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You look great, nice hands here to ask this question.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But the tattoo of lips.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
On your arms, Oh that's her for sure. You don't
have to be scared. I'm an open book. I say anything,
no problem.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That was real lips.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Just kids that's.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Her name and on my chest and that is her lips.
I got that on the back of Lee Brice's bus
we were in we were playing the Coronado uh for
the military and and California years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Like, baby, kiss my arm. I'm gonna get it atted
right now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well, if you know, leave Rice Like he's Carolina guy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He's like, dude, I got a tattoo on the bus.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And I was like, wow, you're so weird and cool
at the same time, Like what, He's like, yeah, we
got a tattoo.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Studio in the back of man, I got a studio
on the bus and everything. I was like.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Then at the end of he's like, do you want
to ride home with me on my bus? I was like, dude,
I gotta watch the kids out of here. And I
flew here and no, I did not want to ride
your bus across the damn country, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I d to ride a bus and love it from
California to Nashville. I said, I love you, but absolutely not.
And and last time saw totally he's not. But he's
not kidding, He's really serious. And so anyway, he was like,
you gotta get a had you gotta get a tatto
on my cool. So I went back there and I
was like, Kelly kiss Marmor, quicks, skiss my arm. I
got a tattooed Chris dancing yank.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Congrats man, it's so good. Thank you you, but like
really proud of you and everyone.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I really appreciate it. Well, it's my pleasure to be here.
You guys.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You guys have always been great to me, and it
means a lot. And and I'll tell you, I am
just really thankful for the place that we're at in
our life and career. And there's a great sense of
confidence that comes with that and just happiness, you know overall.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So it's working.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I looked, we looked at a charterlaer as single is rocking.
You know, we've been inside the top forty for a
week now, we're thirty five today. Like, yeah, song's doing
really good thanks to this station. And that means a lot,
you know. It's I am a radio guy. I always
wanted to be a radio guy. And that's all I
ever cared about. I've said it in the beginning, I
say it now, and I'll say it in the end.
It's all I ever wanted was to have radio hits
and getting to do it so big blessing radio hits.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Awesome Christian, that's so cool man, Thank you cool
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