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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Six, Cat, Graham b and serahly checking in with country's
biggest stars before the CMA Award. Stanks to the Hemp Doctor.
It is Wednesday morning the Cat.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're going hard, but you've missed it. Graham is hump day.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I am moving a little slow. You always told me,
be honest. I have been burning the candle at both ends.
On the side, ye, on the side. It's been such
an amazing time and trip in Nashville. Big shout out
to the Hemp Doctor for making it happen. Yes, such
cool experience. As we're doing our very best to not
be sensory overload, but load stories to our Instagram to
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make sure that everyone at Cat Country feels like they
are a part of this trip because.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's been so cool and you are a part of
our family.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So make sure you follow us on Instagram, Gramby and
Sara Lee.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You can see one of the coolest hand gloves that
Sarah Goodness ever and we're gonna put a polu on scary,
patience imitating or fashion forward. It's grand being Saily ninety
six point nine in the Cats. The day just keeps
getting better and the hits just keep on a coming.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I am so excited. I have the biggest smile on
my face.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I have not seen this guy since I first started
working at ninety six point nine the cap.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So coming up, we are going to be talking to
Brantley Gilbert. Stay tuned. You never know where this conversation
is gonna go, but it's gonna be a good one.
Brandley Gilbert. On the way, it's ninety six point nine
the cat, Brandley Gilbert matches.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Look at this felt something.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We look at that feeling good, looking good.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I pro my wife handing me this all the way out.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I knew it because they know man doing this?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Are you more of the story? Smart man? If you're
a smart man.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
But I will tell you though I did try to
be co ordinat you know what shoes and talk.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Let's get into the tattoos and when you lay out
storyboards and how it plays into your life. Can you
shed some light on that because I don't have tattoos.
So it's interesting to see what people's like psychology behind
choosing them, what it means to the sure man.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, I think younger in life, you know, I
got a couple of them. Look at this kind of thing. Uh,
later in life you know tattoos from my kids that
I got clocks on my chest to remind me I
only have so much time with my kids and to.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Make the best of them again.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You know, they have guardian angels around, and my wife
hates this when my guardian angels have like Ak's and
AARs that I'd like to tell people if you if
you listen to all my albums and look at my tattoos,
like you know where I stand, you know where I am,
just try to be. What you see is what you
get gay and what you say is a lie.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, strategically, let's get into the music.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
The thing is, we just went over to the wheelhouse
of BMG. Is just the first time I've been in
a new level one fifteen years. It's a new landscape
for us, kind of the be the shiny new toy somewhere. Yeah,
man's we've been working our butt off, turning one hundred
and thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Songs loud those down to thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Now we're littling down to fifteen.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And once we have those, we get in the studio
and have y'all some new music out in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Six, Let's go Brantley Gilbert, Let's go and by the way,
you always signing to us man, I appreciate we can
go you always shining over here. Bro Grab Me and
Sarah Lee from Nashville Music City.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Big thank you to the Hymn Doctor for helping us
make this trip out here. For the week of the CMAS, we've.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Been hanging out. The award show is tonight. Can't wait
to see some of your big winners, and honestly, we've
seen a ton of nominees in this room while we've
been here. It's been such a blessing, what an amazing trip.
If you haven't caught it, we've been posting a bunch
of our stories of all of the wonderful shenanigans that
have been going down.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, check it out on our Instagram. Graham B and
Sara Lee.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's ninety six point nine the Cat Graham B and
Sarah Lee. We just got some incredibly exciting news and
it has to do with one of your Entertainer of
the Year nominees at the CMAS.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We didn't know he was going to be coming in
here today, and it looks like we're going to be
talking to him in less than ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Stay tuned to find out who but again it's one
of the biggest country stars in all of country music.
Graham b and Sarah le Cody Johnson, Let's go Joe
in the Hound. The definition of a rhetorical question. Because
you were not on the list, you decided to come
out of the condness of your heart. From what I'm hearing, Hey,
do you guys have for Cody Johnson? Yeah, the definition
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of a rhetorical so thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
No, we kept it a surprise. We wanted to surprise
Charlotte because we haven't we haven't planned on being here.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
You got four.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I mean, there's four nominations, and regardless of whether I'm
playing shows right now or not, you guys are playing
my stuff on the radio.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That means come say thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You're such a nice Rest of the artists out there
that didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Come, you really are genuinely a good person and you
people can sing songs all the time, but your music
works because you're authentic.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Hopefully that gets a Centertainer of the Year.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, I'm just saying, how's how's recovery coming?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's coming along? Man?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
How are you dealing with it? Like, emotionally, how was it?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm not patient at all? And it's but it's one
of those things that it requires patients because you can't
it's not like a torn bicep that you can work
out and rehab like you just have to wait.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And how brutal has it been because obviously your personality
type that doesn't sync up.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I try to really focus on like faith and just
saying that God has a plan. And maybe I was
supposed to be home. You know, we had our baby boy,
probably wouldn't have been around very much congratual I had
to cancel shows, So it's like, what's really worth more?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You don't get that time back.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And my mom always said, if you don't slow down,
the Lord's gonna slow you down.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I think he did. Sometimes you get a burst your drum.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think there's power in knowing what currency is, because
currency is different to different people. Time with family that's
a currency. Most people think money itself is just a currency. No, No,
it's all about little said.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
It's all about me and my kids, man and my
wife just getting to be home and really be the
real me.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Ninety six point nine The Cat, Graham, B and Saly
live from Nashville. But don't you worry. We got breaking
Charlotte News.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, so the CMAS are tonight, but before the CMAS,
we have to let you know that Brad Paisley is
opening up for the Coca Cola six on Jonas.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's the pre race entertainment and we want to send you.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
All you have to do is open up the iHeartRadio app.
You'll see this red talk bat Mike in the upper
right hand corner. Hit that tell us your name, where
you're at, and that you want to go to the race,
and we will get.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You qualified automatic. It's ninety six point nine A Cat, Graham,
b and Saraly. We will see you at the race.
Be and Saly live from Music City, Nashville. And when
we say we get to talk to some of the
biggest names in country music, we mean it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And some of them feel like family.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They all feel like family and that's why they're good
at their job.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But this one, especially, he feels like has Carolina tie.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, so we are going to be talking to Cole
Swindell in just a few minutes. Stay tuned. Loves Charlotte
is a Charlotte native. We're claiming Cole Swindell.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Where his wife is this Charlotte native.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He married into it. Yay, he did ninety six point
nine the Cat. That conversation coming up in just a bit,
Cole Swindell, let's me go, hey, hey, new dad, new dad,
Dad grass. I hadn't seen you in person since that
We were on Baby.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Watch forever man, really a baby Watch. And then you
put out a song that made us all cry. Corney
kept sharing it and I'm like, man, that song just
blew up. Yeah, it's uh, you know this tie.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I've always heard that being an a parent gives you
a different perspective, and I knew that, but I'll just
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You you just know it's you can't explain it.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
And I think now you know, from here on out,
whatever I can do with it, if that's my lyrics,
whatever it is, I gotta try to make this world
a better place for her.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And it's, uh, it.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Just makes you look it lite different. And I'm like,
I said, it took me a minute, but it's just
happened at just the right time, and I think, you know,
pretty dang cool man. So but I'm ready to start
writing about where I am right now. You know, I'll
see I came in full dad alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
My father I'm a husband. I'm on dressed accordingly, function
over're fashioned? You roams thought six point nine The Cats,
The Cat, our local hero Coleswindell, Baby, Yeah, you're just
southern fuddy ninety six point nine The Cat Graham Bincerely
live from Music City. And this morning, two of the
three showed up to work. The third was a little late.
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I was worried because I heard something horrible went down
last night in Nashville.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
You.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I was so scared. I was worried about Producer Hunter.
I called him seventy two times. He did not answer.
You would not believe what you did last night.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, so Gramby, Saraly, Producer Hunter. That's three of us.
Two of us made it to work. One was late.
We'll tell you exactly why coming up. Grammby and Sara
Lee and Producer Hunter is alive and well and we
are relieved.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Thank you Jesus, because I was a mama last night
because I left Producer Hunter after we had done all
the interviews. He rode with me to the church where
we were doing our interviews, and I said, Hunter, are
you sure you don't want to ride back?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And he was working so hard. He's like, no, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Good, and then I call him and I call him
and he doesn't answer. I'm texting him or did you
make it back to the hotel? Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Because I feel like the mama of the group and
producer hunter, what did you do?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Well, let's just say I took one of those electric
scooters that are around the city. I took it for
a joy ride.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You did not answer, though you left me on red Well.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I was about the fall off of that scooter multiple
times as I was riding around Music Row. I even
took it down Broadway. I was dodging cars, dodging people,
and trying to dodge some street signs, almost hit a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You say that nonchalantly, But when you said you rode
the limescooter to our hotel, you have to go around
Music City like there's a big roundabout, and it was.
I told you when I left it is. The traffic
is insane. So when you told me you rode the scooter.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Ain't not. At one am runs.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
A hotel and I'm like, are you like you? Are
you okay?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well, let's just say I took a lot of bike lanes.
I may or may not have road on the sidewalks.
Don't tell the city. I said that because I believe
it is a role.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It is I got around. I was when Saraly told
me that you weren't answering your phone. I let my
boy live. I in the right now.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
There is a thin line between being mam and bird,
and I said, I just need to know you was alive,
and he got's where he needed to be.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Moral of the story, Producer Hunter, you're live and well
and you had a good night.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Graham's gonna let you just be out there and I'd
be worried about you, but I'm gonna make sure we
all get back home safely.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I was proud of y'all. I hope you don't answer
his phone until tomorrow. Graham being Sarah Lee and producer
Hunter is safe and sound, Live from Nat Graham, B
and Sarah Lee. If we were to give you some
of the names that we've been able to see, none
of which are bigger than the gentlemen we're getting ready
to talk to.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And a big thank you to the Hymn Doctor for
making this possible, sending us out here for the week
of the CMA's The CMA Award Show is tonight, but
just here in a few minutes, we get Hardy Party.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Not only does he have a ton of hits that
you hear on the radio, but he's got a ton
of hits that he wrote from some of your favorite artists.
We're gonna talk to him about all of those things
in just a few minutes. It's ninety six point nine
the cat Party in the building. This is gonna be
a corny question, but it's corny because I am super
interested in it. Favorite country song obviously, we spent it.
It's great in the responsibility, great from our fan base.
(10:40):
If you were to be put on the spot and
just talk about one of doesn't have to be the
what would be one of the songs that comes to mind?
Could be from my favorite country song? Yeah, my number
one favorite country song is Homeboy by Eric Church. Okay, yes, yeah, obviously,
as North Carolina people, we subscribe to that. Yeah, I
see grad so I appreciate that. Yeah, Yeah, I just
man that song. I had a very similar experience in
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high school. We're a best good friend of mine and
I got in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Of trouble and then he ended up going to prison.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And then shortly after that, I moved to Nashville and
I heard Homeboy the first time and it just it
rocked my world because it's something I can truly relate to.
So that's it for me. That's my number one favorite
country song. Ninety six point nine The Cat Graham b
In srily Live from Nashville. Now. The award show is tonight.
We have been here for several days and we just
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have had an all time blast.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Thank you to the Hymn Doctor for making this show possible.
We are really truly having such a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I appreciate everyone that checked out the stories too, because
it felt really cool to feel like we were sharing
it with Cat Country, because we are blessed to be
able to do these incredibly cool, amazing things.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Give you behind the scenes, the crazy stuff that goes on.
And if you missed the big news that we shared
at seven this morning, well boy, are you in for
a treat.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, we're in Nashville, but that doesn't mean that Charlotte
is not always on our heart and really cool news.
Breaking news looks like Brad Paisley has been announced as
the pre race entertainment for the Coca Cola six.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Hundred and you can win tickets to this and it's
so easy to get qualified throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
All you have to do is open up the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
At any time. You're just gonna look up at the
upper right hand corner there's a little red talkbag mic
and we do these contests and it's so great. You
just tap that little red talkbag mic, tell us your
name works like a voicemail where you're listening from, and
that you want to go to the Coca Cola six
hundred and you're automatically qualified to win.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And you can do that throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's Graham being Sarah Lee ninety six point nine, The
Cat ninety six point nine, The Cat, Graham B and
Sarah Lee live from Music City, Nashville. The awards are here.
We finally made an award.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It is a busy day and we are so blessed
that so many artists are still making time for us.
Big thank you to the Hemp Doctor for sending us
out here.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah. I said that earlier and it only gets more
and more true. Thanks you help doctor.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yes, and I'm excited. Oh, I know they're your friends,
you know them personally. Old Dominion just walked in the door.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You say that all the time. I don't know Old
should do see.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll walk up and how Graham baying?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And it's like, because we have mutual friends and he
introduced me to a good friend in La years and
years ago. But the guys are great. I haven't seen
him in a while. It'll be good to talk to them.
It looks like they're making their way over here. So
get out. Wait, maybe we'll talk to him here in
a few minutes. Yes, Old Dominion coming up. It's Granby
and Saraly on ninety six point nine, the cat grand
being sourly. We thought we were gonna get to talk
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to Old Dominion and we are all right on the
door by.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So, which one of you guys is messiest? Like the
kid of the group.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
We're all children. Yeah, none of us are too bad.
None of us are too good. Yeah, we're we're all
about fourteen years old. I feel like we all take
our turns being the messy and the grumpy one. Yeah.
Every once in a while, like someone kind of cracks
and like just like cleans up everything and they're like,
you know, like sometimes you just can't say yeah. It's
like college style. It's like when the house gets a
mess and finally just goes all right, I gotta clean.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Thank you, Old Dominion. You guys are awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Those guys never disappoint no Old Dominion. They are the best.
They might be the nicest guys that we've.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Had so far.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Matt Ramsey the lead singer, incredibly talented writer, just underrated,
but just an amazing human. Love talking to those guys.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Great tattoos as well.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, awesome, more of your favorites. Plus we're playing all
of the hits that you want to hear. It's Graham
Being Sarah Lee live from Music City, Grand Being Sarah Lee.
I hope that you can hear the smile on our
faces because we are in Music City and we are
surrounded by the biggest names in country music, and we.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Are such fans at least I am. I get so
giddy when some of the people come out here. Big
thank you to the Hymn Doctor for making this possible
Cmaward show tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Here's a name drop that should tell you everything. We
got a chance to meet and spend a little bit
of time with Randy Travis.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh my goodness, I could not feel my baby tow.
I was so nervous to walk up and shake his hand.
It is a childhood dream come true. Yeah, still on
cloude nine.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Big shout out to the HELMP doctor for we're making
all of these wonderful experiences happen. It's been incredible and
we are just so blessed and so thankful. It's ninety
six point nine in the cat We're gonna get back
to talking to some of these artists and post these
on our stories. So please, if you don't already follow us,
join the community. We would love to share these wonderful experiences.