Bobby, Eddie talked about the "10 Most Unforgettable Country Music Moments of the 2010s." Sadly, the Route 91 tragedy was #1. On the bright side, GARTH BROOKS returned, and CHRIS STAPLETON got discovered. We also found some demos of Major Pop songs…some of these sung by other artists…some were acoustic rough demos…and one was one of the biggest songs of all-time…and had an entirely different name!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Bobby Cast number two eighteen. This is our
kind of last Friday Bobby Cast of the year. This
is the ten most unforgettable country music moments of the
two thousand tens, which would be fun good and bad
or mostly good both, because when you hear number one,
you'll be like, oh um, So after this, I'll say
this though, is I was kind of thinking of this year.
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The biggest moment musically has been that freaking Old Town Road.
That was a big moment. I've never seen a song
and do that before it became viral from TikTok. I
got pulled into the mix you did early before it
was even a real thing because and just by happenstance,
I just happened to be in New York and they're like, Hey,
they're gonna put this Old Town Road song on the
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country chart, and is it country guys? I didn't even
heard the song yet, and I was like, and so
they listened to it on the way to Good Morning America.
I was up there anyway to do g M A
for maybe idol or something. I'm not sure what I
was up there. What was your first thought when you
heard it that people need to shut up about what's
defined as anything. I'm just always irritated when people try
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to say what's not something. People spend so much time
talking about what they don't like that it just creates
a negative culture. And that's true. And but this is
probably gonna go on forever. Bounce It's happening has gone
off will But they were like, hey, people are saying
it's not a country song. No, it's ridiculous. Or if
they had a positioned a different and said, hey, listen
to the song, I m gona tell what format it is,
tell me what it is. I don't know what I
would have said. I probably wouldn't say country. But you
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heard it before Billy Ray. You heard it when it
was just a little bit. That's true because we came
on and we're like, here's the Billy Ray version. Yeah,
I just and that song just blew up, like and
it was the number one song for almost a whole year.
Whatever it did. It set the record. When I was
thinking about this year, that's what I was thinking about
when it got to music that most unforgettable country music
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moments of the decade number ten. And I'll tell you
we've talked about this on this podcast a lot, but
Chris Stapleton's two thousand fifteen c m A Awards with
him and justin timber Lake to Tennessee Whiskey, and he
wanted a lot of awards that year. It doesn't matter.
This performance is what submitted him as he's now Chris Stapleton,
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that's the whole deal. And we were so lucky. And
it was lucky because we we'd have him on the
show before a bunch and it wasn't like we were
jumping on the bandwagon when everybody else was like, we're
now Christ Appleton. Fans come on our show and Chris
is a private guy, doesn't do a lot of appearances.
But it was always cool because Chris song was like, dude,
you put me on before everybody was wanting to put
me on, so he would keep coming on the show.
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But isn't it cool to discover artists a little earlier
before everyone else does because you were on to Chris
and his bands before Chris. I remember we were on
the road somewhere, maybe in Florida, and you're just say, hey,
listen to this, like this is cool as a band
called a couple of them. Yeah, I remember, But when
you played some of them like, dude, that guy's really
the voice is really good. It was Chris Stapleton, so
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that's kind of cool, right to know that because he
was in rock bands. It was this country. Well, so
that was number ten. Christ appleson't jumping on the scene.
He didn't win, but again a lot of people won
awards and they kind of flutter or owned, but it
was that performance with Justin timber like that everybody talked about.
My friend Robert Deaton, who producers that show, said within
ten minutes he could look at the at the time
iTunes chart and the song had blown up and number
one and all he was like, well, this is now
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here to stay. And they met because and one of
these Bobbycats. We talked about that maybe with Chris Stapleton,
because we did one of these with Chris Stapleton where
or somebody else told me, but he went and Justin
Timberlake was just a fan of his and they only
met like in Wyoming at Justin to my birthday party.
I've heard the story. I wondered, where did that come from?
Remember a songwriter? Was it? Yeah? Well so that's number ten.
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Number nine is Glenn Campbell fighting Alzheimer's disease. He was
already battling the disease when he went public in two
thousand and eleven with it. He died two years ago.
But here's some Glenn Campbell for you. Did you watch
his documentary? Really really, really good. I mean this. I
grew up. My parents would listen to Glen Campbell, and
I didn't know anything about him other than he was
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Glenn Campbell, Ryan Stone, Cowboy, which tall lineman, all that stuff.
But I didn't know that he was a session player
and how important he was to just studio music before
he was a country music artist. He was the extremely
skilled guitar player that played on everybody's record yep and
then had no clue. And he's from Arkansas, which is
what I knew him as. It was, you know, Johnny
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Cash mostly, but Conway Twitty and Glenn Campbell were like
my grandmother's Arkansas people. And he has a daughter named
Ashley Campbell. Do you know she is a good banjo player.
She's really cool to just check out because just that
you can tell the music ran in the family. Yeah,
I think one point, let me before I step in
it here. Also, it was Mike Duncan. It was Mike Duncan. Yeah,
that's a great podcast. Mm hmm. I'm looking up something
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real quick. What are you looking at? No, I probably
shouldn't say this worries me. Whatever you're looking at, I'll
tell you after. Oh great, Okay, you're ridiculous. I know. Uh.
Number eight George Straight rides Away from the Road in
two thousand twelve. Cowboy Rides Away was his farewell tour.
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But was it? Yeah, because he still plays Vegas, but
it is a tour. Oh, that's true. It is just
Vegas and we've we've been to that. Yeah. So and
the Cowboy Stadium right, didn't wrap it up there? Yeah,
I don't remember. I think so they shot a whole DVD. Yeah,
Garth Brooks returns two thousanour and we were part of
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this because we were here in two thousand thirteen. God damn,
we've been here for almost a whole decade. It's crazy.
That's crazy. It is crazy. And with Garth coming back,
I don't know if you I guess he was saying
it for a while that he was waiting for his daughter,
his last daughter, to go to high school or go
to college, and then he was going to get back
to music, but I didn't think it was ever really
gonna happen. He retired in two thousand to raise his daughters.
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And you know what, he didn't come back as a
legacy act. At first, people are like, oh, call Garth's back.
But he came back retouring huge places, putting out new music,
had number ones. It was. It's so hard too, because
I've heard people like Rascal Flast talk about it where
they go, you know what, we don't have to just
make good music. We have to make songs that are
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better than our biggest songs ever. But if you're gonna
pick a song to play, why would you not play
God Bless the Broken Road instead of a new Rascal
Flats ballot. So with Garth, he had to make songs
at least somewhat near as good as his old stuff.
Did he come back with this song? I think he
had a couple before this. His first one was because
he put out a record that wasn't a big hit
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at first, when he had that little necklace thing. That's right,
that machine, Uh yeah, that's number seven, number six of
the decade. Joey of Joey and Rory Battle stage four
cancer she was diagnosed with several cancer and died two
years later at age forty. That was a bit as
far as like us getting here, I didn't know them.
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I think she died. Um, I don't know when she
but yeah, I didn't know them because we got here.
We learned about them after all that. But now I
didn't know him before that. Number five is Troy Gentry
dies in a helicopter crash. Crazy. Was it the same
day that Don Williams died. I don't know the same day,
but this was September when he accepted that helicopter ride.
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And yeah, that was a bad one from Montgomery Gentry.
Number four Taylor Swift leads country music. So that's one
of the biggest country music of the decade. You know
Taylor to me, I knew her from country music before
I got here. She came into a couple appearances here. Yeah,
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we had our brief friendship. She was available and then
she then she fell out if she was like, it's
weird when we when we moved to Nashville, she was here.
I remember our first week we went to that we
were here in Nashville. I went to go see Florida
Georgia line downtown and she popped up on stage and
in cruise with him. It was like that, and I guess,
oh that was the norm. Like we're in Nashville, Taylor's
always here and this is what she does. Then after
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that gone gone, then you see her driving in the car,
apparently driving like you make fun of me, but I did.
I saw her. He was in my rear view mirror,
and I saw her what kind of car driving something
like because that's what Taylor drives by herself, driving a
Toyota is not Number three. Randy Travis gets arrested, suffers
a stroke, and continues to recover. Randy had big troubles
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in two thousand and twelve when he was arrested twice
for alcohol related incidents. The next year, he had a
stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He still continued to recover.
But Randy Travis and number three, we weren't really in
this story because we had her two thirteen, two thousand
twelves and it happened. But that being said, I'm it
was a huge Randy Travis fan. Tomato Gate and if
you're not familiar, A consultant tried to explain the lack
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of female country artists in the chart by saying they're
the tomato in the salad, with males the lettuce. At
the very least I ignited a conversation. I feel like
people that held onto that tomato thing, we're a little lame.
You had to remind me of what that was because
I don't remember the tomato thing because there obviously is
an issue, but the tomato thing years are there still
going like, let's get tomato fest. That's I'm like, yeah,
(09:00):
I just dropped stewo po tomato thing, Like, no one
gonna think you seriously if if you keep bringing up
some dumb consultant who wrote something kind of ingest because
I agreed not with him, but with everyone else that
was going, hey, okay, if it seems like this, there's
a problem. I think his analogy was probably accurate, but
it was just how dope the analogy was and how
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everyone ran with it. And number one was the root
Nighty one mask Her Boy. That was a rough one
for everyone. That was a rough one. I mean, the
hardest thing we've had to do on the show. I
mean we came back Eddie and I played that festival
this weekend. The night before this happened, and it happened
on Sunday, and then we came back and I got
in bed, and then that's when everybody sort of texting me,
going are you here? And then we just came on
(09:46):
the show, and we didn't know what was happening. We
just jumped on live. As all this stuff is still
pretty much coming to an end. People are still running
around Vegas. Put us on live at three in the morning.
They just turned the satellite and will we're taking to
take the East Coast feed. A lot of artists came
by all week, a lot of tears in the studio
that week. One of the coolest things that happened recently
(10:10):
was the day after when we brought all these artists in.
And I've never talked about this before, but I just
kept thinking of us playing that stage, and I remember
when we play, I look at the crowd and I
just remember people, certain people that are in the crowd,
and I remember a little girl sitting on top of
someone's that maybe her mom's shoulders, and I just kept
thinking like, oh my gosh, like what if she was there,
(10:32):
what if she was one of the injured, And you know,
it's just that kind of thing that just brought it
home to me, and I always thought about her, this
little girl. Well, when we were playing in Vegas not
too long ago, I guess about a month ago, she
showed up to the meeting great and she said I'm
the little girl with a sign on, which I was like,
oh my gosh, I just brought it full circle. And
I'm kind of getting chucked up just thinking about It's
(10:53):
like I thought about you all the time and hoping
that you were okay. Just one little person that I
remember from that from that show. But man, that was hard. Yeah,
hard for a lot of us. And it was in comparison,
not the hard for us. It was really hard for
us for the people who are actually dealing with it firsthand. Um.
I remember seeing in the newspaper there was a kid
who went and in his obituary listed that he went
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because he's going to watch the raging idiots. So I
reached out to the family and had that was a
tough one. And I remember two brothers Osborne talking about
just using the word family a lot in them describing
like truntry music as a family and when you mess
with a family member like what happened that night, everyone
gets really emotionally, even people that weren't even there. It's
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pretty amazing. And when the just the days that follow
that on our show was pretty amazing. By the way,
this is this whole list I'm reading here is from
the Boot the ten most unforgettable country music moments of
the tens, and the Root ninety one tragedy was number one.
But you know what, nothing was ever done about it?
You know. But in that what did you do feel
like that was a good thing? With guns? Oh? No, no, no, not.
(11:59):
I meant I meant moving on from it. You know.
I feel like a lot of times we kind of
do the whole let's not forget kind of thing, but
not the not the gun thing. I mean that. That's
that's my point. That was the biggest massacre and nothing
was done. Nothing's ever done. Rent repeat, Rent repeat, And
I have guns, and I'm like, we gotta chill with
the fan guns. What's happening here? Uh? So that yeah,
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when you asked are they all good? On like half
of them were good. It was just the biggest And
shout out to the Boot again for putting that list up.
Um here this as we end the year here, I
can give you some music news, Takashi six nine was
only sentenced to two years in prison. He's to do
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with sixty nine tattoo on his face? You use the
word only, yeah, because they were like, he's gonna be
in jail the rest of his life, right, Mike, for
a lot of that, at least like ten twelve years
because he was snitched on everybody and so he got far, far,
far far or less time. Wow. He was sentenced to
two years prison after plading guilty and nine felonies. Do
you have any of his music? I mean you can't
really playing it so hard? Yeah, it's like hardcore rock craft.
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What it sounds like like to me? It sounds like
what he looks like. He'll also get a credit for
thirteen month serves. That means on track he's not trying
to be released sometime late next year, so he already
gets a year. He has eleven months basically to do.
He snitches, get stitches though, like he says, he's not right, Mike,
it's hard to put that guy in wait for the location.
He got sixty nine tatched Alliver space, Clint all over him. Uh.
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Selena Gomez once soiled herself at a net sharing concerts
really Selena gomezat she soiled herself at an edt Sharing
concert because she didn't want to leave. She just covered
herself with a sweater and made it the rest of
the show. As someone who wants pooped on himself before,
it doesn't. You can't do that. It smells really bad.
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So I don't know if that's completely super at maybe
it was like a little one. Well, I know people
people that go to festivals do that. I think it
was a hybrid. Oh yeah, okay, well that I can
understand trying to hang around for a little bit. It's
a hybrid hybrid that's disgusting. Garth Brooks has the top
country tour of according to Paul Star As we talked
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about Garth and not being a legacy act. Number ten,
Luke Combs, Wow, Luke Homs already in top ten, number nine,
Chris Stapleton, George Straight at eight, This the Vegas Shows,
Luke Bryant at seven, Zach Brown at six, Thomas Read
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at five, Carry Underwood at four, Florida Georgia Line at three,
Eric Church at two. And the number one tour was
Garth Brooks. Best concert you went to in nineteen That
might be cheating on this one. But I would say
the c m A Awards cheating. That doesn't count because
I mean that is the best. It doesn't count. That
doesn't count. I would say that Raging Idiots million dollar
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show there because it was even more fun. I mean
we didn't stopping at the end. Look Brian and Gavin,
a girl and us and we're all singing, sting Caroline
and stand by me. Okay, let's do that one. Then?
Is that your favorite? No, we have to actually think
of one. Concerts are tough because I don't get to
go to many of them because we're on the road
a lot on the weekends, and if it's here in town,
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you're kind of like I see music all the time.
Unless somebody really good, it's hard. Like the other day,
I want to go see Ryan Heard and I was
like told him, like, dude, this, that's the first time
I've ever seen your live and we've known Ryan for
a few years. He's like, what to like you had that?
We don't get out to see shows A lot to
think about that one? Bones? What concerts about? Even been
to this year where I got a ticket and Jesse
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when enjoyed it. Yeah, we went to the Eagles. That
was pretty cool, pretty good. What else have we seen?
Were you just going like, I'm making a night of it,
let's go to a show. I feel like I went
to the Rhyman for a show. Recently, I went to
the Rhyman and saw Sweepy amos Lee. He was sick.
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He was sick, he was trying to sing it up,
blown out voice. I saw Casey Muskrat as the Rheman. Well,
that hadn't been cool. It was really good. Man Bones,
I can't think of mine. Might be Casey musgro to
the Rieman like like just just like I said, just recently,
I saw the Ryan Herd thing, but I got to
see Michael Ray, I got to see um Blanco Brown.
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It was it was a radio station cause and literally
I was right in the front row because I never
get to do that, enjoy it with everyone. The whole
bat team was there. We were having fun. So I
guess that was it. I mean, because yeah, you're right,
we don't get to do this stuff very much. I'm
looking at the list that yeah, I'm gonna go must
Casey must Grabs as the Rheman. Mike can't think any
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of the concerts I've been to. I mean you just
went to bred Aldridge. Oh the Christmas show that was
real good. Yeah, you didn't really talk about that. Was
it really awesome? He thinks all the Christmas songs had
the whole orchestra thing there, big band, stylish and he
had the boxes. You know how that like Brian SAIDs orchestra.
They all said, like the play the horns. Just hear
you went to Vegas to see Brooks and Dunne. I
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did go see Brooks and dun and Reba. That's a
great one because it was all hits. That's a good one. Bang,
that's a good one. Yeah, Casey Brooks and Dunne Reba
was good. We have and we have so much in here.
Um so yeah, we did this other uh and I
encouraged to go check out the songwriter demos that we've
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done this podcast. I just wanted to kind of leave
with this because people love when we bring these demos
to the to this music podcast, and so go back
and listen to the songwriters sing the demos for the
famous songs. It's a couple of episodes back. But what
we have is some major pop songs. I wanted to
put them in this episode here. Some of these were
saying by other artist some of acoustic rough demos. One
of those, one of the biggest songs of all time
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had an entirely different name. Really, we'll do this one.
So there's a song called Starlight back in the day.
Do you know about Starlight by Michael Jackson. It later
was Thriller. What it was called Starlight? Here's the demo,
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give Me the Starlight. That is awesome. Give me the
Starlight and you know why. It would have been a
great song. But it would have died a long time
ago if it wasn't for the title change. Thriller. We
play that every year because it's Halloween. Well because the
music video was the Monsters and Zombies, right, But I
wonder Starlight it would have just fallen like Billy Jean
unless it had been like National Astronomy Day. Yeah, possibly,
(18:42):
that's interesting. Here's another one from Michael Jackson. This is
beat It. But this is by Michael Jackson and he
did it before he had the lyrics. This is a melody.
This is It's interesting. The melody sounds like Panatonics. I
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have friends that are melody writers, like Michael Jackson, and
they'll they'll do the whole song and they'll they'll go
zab pooda do. They'll put it over music and then
it's okay, well, let's not find the words that fit
with zab about due I went down to a dog store,
met you, and they'll insert it after that. Michael Jackson,
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did I do? I do like that because melody, like
we've talked about this, melody to me is first when
I listen to music like, that's good, good melody, and
then I'll be like, what's the song about? Oh, didn't
even realize Beyonce Halo, which was Biden this is the
song Halo. But Ryan Teer of One Republic wrote it. Yeah,
this is his version the demo. It sounds like a
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One Republic song, doesn't it? Pretty close? Yeah, jesse J
wrote Party in the USA. She did which she just
broke up with Chantetom Hunt saw that, So jesse J.
And then here is jesse J though she did the
demo Jesus and the Jesus Almazon and the Jesus Alaza.
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But do you know she wrote it for Miley? No?
I don't think so, because I mean it's just perfectly
a story for Miley. There probably some little changes in it,
just like a Nashville party. That stuff is mile. I
think that's anybody's story going to l A though. Yeah,
but it was specific to her because she was an
l A actress, but Nashville roots, but could have been
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anyone if you just party, if you put to Peka party,
even it wasn't party and it was like in the
which says, oh, I think I'm gonna like So it's
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about her because she's from the UK. I think I'm
gonna like the US A good one, Mike d good
cats there, Queen under Pressure, which you may know this
Bowie queen. All right, So, but it originally was called
feel Like Here's the Queen demo, You're Not Fun. I
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got to Kim in our show the other day on
the Bibe Bone Show and saying like Mark Martin Mercury,
Yeah real good, huh so good, you give me you
know what, t um me one hit wonder. This was
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originally called the Juicy Fruit Song. Yeah, there you go happy,
that's to be every rays okayaf I ain't no bad.
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It should be saved so a bit different, yeah, yeah,
especially that chorus. Charlie xc X actually did the demo
for Selena go mess same. All of this is Selena.
Here's Charlie xc X very similar. You know Taylor Swift
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Ti McGraw, Yes song, Tim McGraw. Here's the acoustic demo
of that song. When you think Tim McGall, I hope
you think my favorite song when we'd add to on
the Long the Moon like a spy lad on the leg.
When you think happiness, I hope you think that little blagress.
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Think my head on your chest and my old faded
blue jeans. When you think Tim mcgral, I hope you
think me. That's awesome. A little different. They're really cool
into the tag. But yeah, finally I'll do one more
Weezer sweater song if you want to destroy my sweater.
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Here's the demo by Wheezer, recorded in the Kitchen Tape
Demo session, which was named after the place to get
the best sound for the drum kid during recording, and
night Work's where the band rehearsed to you go there
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you have it. These are cool, man. I kind of
geek out of that stuff too. I love hearing songs
grow and how they started. Check out Eddie on the
Sore Losers podcast. Yeah Sports Podcast, Yeah yeah, yeah, you're
talking a lot of Bowl games right now and uh
or just a guy talk whatever. You should check out
that show and thanks for listening to the Bobby Cast.
We will have another new one um that we're doing
(24:30):
with Russell Dickerson and his wife Kayleie Dickerson and we
were also got sick, but we should that should be
coming up after this one, so that's be a good one. Yeah,
I think so right because they worked together. He's the artist,
she's the man manager slash business and wife creative. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
thank you guys. Well see you next time with the
Bobby Cast. Eddie, thank you very much. Thanks and we'll
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by everybody, It is just the star
Welcome to Bobby Cast number two eighteen. This is our
kind of last Friday Bobby Cast of the year. This
is the ten most unforgettable country music moments of the
two thousand tens, which would be fun good and bad
or mostly good both, because when you hear number one,
you'll be like, oh um, So after this, I'll say
this though, is I was kind of thinking of this year.
(00:22):
The biggest moment musically has been that freaking Old Town Road.
That was a big moment. I've never seen a song
and do that before it became viral from TikTok. I
got pulled into the mix you did early before it
was even a real thing because and just by happenstance,
I just happened to be in New York and they're like, Hey,
they're gonna put this Old Town Road song on the
(00:44):
country chart, and is it country guys? I didn't even
heard the song yet, and I was like, and so
they listened to it on the way to Good Morning America.
I was up there anyway to do g M A
for maybe idol or something. I'm not sure what I
was up there. What was your first thought when you
heard it that people need to shut up about what's
defined as anything. I'm just always irritated when people try
(01:05):
to say what's not something. People spend so much time
talking about what they don't like that it just creates
a negative culture. And that's true. And but this is
probably gonna go on forever. Bounce It's happening has gone
off will But they were like, hey, people are saying
it's not a country song. No, it's ridiculous. Or if
they had a positioned a different and said, hey, listen
to the song, I m gona tell what format it is,
tell me what it is. I don't know what I
would have said. I probably wouldn't say country. But you
(01:27):
heard it before Billy Ray. You heard it when it
was just a little bit. That's true because we came
on and we're like, here's the Billy Ray version. Yeah,
I just and that song just blew up, like and
it was the number one song for almost a whole year.
Whatever it did. It set the record. When I was
thinking about this year, that's what I was thinking about
when it got to music that most unforgettable country music
(01:47):
moments of the decade number ten. And I'll tell you
we've talked about this on this podcast a lot, but
Chris Stapleton's two thousand fifteen c m A Awards with
him and justin timber Lake to Tennessee Whiskey, and he
wanted a lot of awards that year. It doesn't matter.
This performance is what submitted him as he's now Chris Stapleton,
(02:08):
that's the whole deal. And we were so lucky. And
it was lucky because we we'd have him on the
show before a bunch and it wasn't like we were
jumping on the bandwagon when everybody else was like, we're
now Christ Appleton. Fans come on our show and Chris
is a private guy, doesn't do a lot of appearances.
But it was always cool because Chris song was like, dude,
you put me on before everybody was wanting to put
me on, so he would keep coming on the show.
(02:29):
But isn't it cool to discover artists a little earlier
before everyone else does because you were on to Chris
and his bands before Chris. I remember we were on
the road somewhere, maybe in Florida, and you're just say, hey,
listen to this, like this is cool as a band
called a couple of them. Yeah, I remember, But when
you played some of them like, dude, that guy's really
the voice is really good. It was Chris Stapleton, so
(02:50):
that's kind of cool, right to know that because he
was in rock bands. It was this country. Well, so
that was number ten. Christ appleson't jumping on the scene.
He didn't win, but again a lot of people won
awards and they kind of flutter or owned, but it
was that performance with Justin timber like that everybody talked about.
My friend Robert Deaton, who producers that show, said within
ten minutes he could look at the at the time
iTunes chart and the song had blown up and number
one and all he was like, well, this is now
(03:10):
here to stay. And they met because and one of
these Bobbycats. We talked about that maybe with Chris Stapleton,
because we did one of these with Chris Stapleton where
or somebody else told me, but he went and Justin
Timberlake was just a fan of his and they only
met like in Wyoming at Justin to my birthday party.
I've heard the story. I wondered, where did that come from?
Remember a songwriter? Was it? Yeah? Well so that's number ten.
(03:35):
Number nine is Glenn Campbell fighting Alzheimer's disease. He was
already battling the disease when he went public in two
thousand and eleven with it. He died two years ago.
But here's some Glenn Campbell for you. Did you watch
his documentary? Really really, really good. I mean this. I
grew up. My parents would listen to Glen Campbell, and
I didn't know anything about him other than he was
(03:57):
Glenn Campbell, Ryan Stone, Cowboy, which tall lineman, all that stuff.
But I didn't know that he was a session player
and how important he was to just studio music before
he was a country music artist. He was the extremely
skilled guitar player that played on everybody's record yep and
then had no clue. And he's from Arkansas, which is
what I knew him as. It was, you know, Johnny
(04:19):
Cash mostly, but Conway Twitty and Glenn Campbell were like
my grandmother's Arkansas people. And he has a daughter named
Ashley Campbell. Do you know she is a good banjo player.
She's really cool to just check out because just that
you can tell the music ran in the family. Yeah,
I think one point, let me before I step in
it here. Also, it was Mike Duncan. It was Mike Duncan. Yeah,
that's a great podcast. Mm hmm. I'm looking up something
(04:43):
real quick. What are you looking at? No, I probably
shouldn't say this worries me. Whatever you're looking at, I'll
tell you after. Oh great, Okay, you're ridiculous. I know. Uh.
Number eight George Straight rides Away from the Road in
two thousand twelve. Cowboy Rides Away was his farewell tour.
(05:06):
But was it? Yeah, because he still plays Vegas, but
it is a tour. Oh, that's true. It is just
Vegas and we've we've been to that. Yeah. So and
the Cowboy Stadium right, didn't wrap it up there? Yeah,
I don't remember. I think so they shot a whole DVD. Yeah,
Garth Brooks returns two thousanour and we were part of
(05:27):
this because we were here in two thousand thirteen. God damn,
we've been here for almost a whole decade. It's crazy.
That's crazy. It is crazy. And with Garth coming back,
I don't know if you I guess he was saying
it for a while that he was waiting for his daughter,
his last daughter, to go to high school or go
to college, and then he was going to get back
to music, but I didn't think it was ever really
gonna happen. He retired in two thousand to raise his daughters.
(05:48):
And you know what, he didn't come back as a
legacy act. At first, people are like, oh, call Garth's back.
But he came back retouring huge places, putting out new music,
had number ones. It was. It's so hard too, because
I've heard people like Rascal Flast talk about it where
they go, you know what, we don't have to just
make good music. We have to make songs that are
(06:08):
better than our biggest songs ever. But if you're gonna
pick a song to play, why would you not play
God Bless the Broken Road instead of a new Rascal
Flats ballot. So with Garth, he had to make songs
at least somewhat near as good as his old stuff.
Did he come back with this song? I think he
had a couple before this. His first one was because
he put out a record that wasn't a big hit
(06:29):
at first, when he had that little necklace thing. That's right,
that machine, Uh yeah, that's number seven, number six of
the decade. Joey of Joey and Rory Battle stage four
cancer she was diagnosed with several cancer and died two
years later at age forty. That was a bit as
far as like us getting here, I didn't know them.
(06:50):
I think she died. Um, I don't know when she
but yeah, I didn't know them because we got here.
We learned about them after all that. But now I
didn't know him before that. Number five is Troy Gentry
dies in a helicopter crash. Crazy. Was it the same
day that Don Williams died. I don't know the same day,
but this was September when he accepted that helicopter ride.
(07:12):
And yeah, that was a bad one from Montgomery Gentry.
Number four Taylor Swift leads country music. So that's one
of the biggest country music of the decade. You know
Taylor to me, I knew her from country music before
I got here. She came into a couple appearances here. Yeah,
(07:32):
we had our brief friendship. She was available and then
she then she fell out if she was like, it's
weird when we when we moved to Nashville, she was here.
I remember our first week we went to that we
were here in Nashville. I went to go see Florida
Georgia line downtown and she popped up on stage and
in cruise with him. It was like that, and I guess,
oh that was the norm. Like we're in Nashville, Taylor's
always here and this is what she does. Then after
(07:53):
that gone gone, then you see her driving in the car,
apparently driving like you make fun of me, but I did.
I saw her. He was in my rear view mirror,
and I saw her what kind of car driving something
like because that's what Taylor drives by herself, driving a
Toyota is not Number three. Randy Travis gets arrested, suffers
a stroke, and continues to recover. Randy had big troubles
(08:16):
in two thousand and twelve when he was arrested twice
for alcohol related incidents. The next year, he had a
stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He still continued to recover.
But Randy Travis and number three, we weren't really in
this story because we had her two thirteen, two thousand
twelves and it happened. But that being said, I'm it
was a huge Randy Travis fan. Tomato Gate and if
you're not familiar, A consultant tried to explain the lack
(08:38):
of female country artists in the chart by saying they're
the tomato in the salad, with males the lettuce. At
the very least I ignited a conversation. I feel like
people that held onto that tomato thing, we're a little lame.
You had to remind me of what that was because
I don't remember the tomato thing because there obviously is
an issue, but the tomato thing years are there still
going like, let's get tomato fest. That's I'm like, yeah,
(09:00):
I just dropped stewo po tomato thing, Like, no one
gonna think you seriously if if you keep bringing up
some dumb consultant who wrote something kind of ingest because
I agreed not with him, but with everyone else that
was going, hey, okay, if it seems like this, there's
a problem. I think his analogy was probably accurate, but
it was just how dope the analogy was and how
(09:24):
everyone ran with it. And number one was the root
Nighty one mask Her Boy. That was a rough one
for everyone. That was a rough one. I mean, the
hardest thing we've had to do on the show. I
mean we came back Eddie and I played that festival
this weekend. The night before this happened, and it happened
on Sunday, and then we came back and I got
in bed, and then that's when everybody sort of texting me,
going are you here? And then we just came on
(09:46):
the show, and we didn't know what was happening. We
just jumped on live. As all this stuff is still
pretty much coming to an end. People are still running
around Vegas. Put us on live at three in the morning.
They just turned the satellite and will we're taking to
take the East Coast feed. A lot of artists came
by all week, a lot of tears in the studio
that week. One of the coolest things that happened recently
(10:10):
was the day after when we brought all these artists in.
And I've never talked about this before, but I just
kept thinking of us playing that stage, and I remember
when we play, I look at the crowd and I
just remember people, certain people that are in the crowd,
and I remember a little girl sitting on top of
someone's that maybe her mom's shoulders, and I just kept
thinking like, oh my gosh, like what if she was there,
(10:32):
what if she was one of the injured, And you know,
it's just that kind of thing that just brought it
home to me, and I always thought about her, this
little girl. Well, when we were playing in Vegas not
too long ago, I guess about a month ago, she
showed up to the meeting great and she said I'm
the little girl with a sign on, which I was like,
oh my gosh, I just brought it full circle. And
I'm kind of getting chucked up just thinking about It's
(10:53):
like I thought about you all the time and hoping
that you were okay. Just one little person that I
remember from that from that show. But man, that was hard. Yeah,
hard for a lot of us. And it was in comparison,
not the hard for us. It was really hard for
us for the people who are actually dealing with it firsthand. Um.
I remember seeing in the newspaper there was a kid
who went and in his obituary listed that he went
(11:16):
because he's going to watch the raging idiots. So I
reached out to the family and had that was a
tough one. And I remember two brothers Osborne talking about
just using the word family a lot in them describing
like truntry music as a family and when you mess
with a family member like what happened that night, everyone
gets really emotionally, even people that weren't even there. It's
(11:37):
pretty amazing. And when the just the days that follow
that on our show was pretty amazing. By the way,
this is this whole list I'm reading here is from
the Boot the ten most unforgettable country music moments of
the tens, and the Root ninety one tragedy was number one.
But you know what, nothing was ever done about it?
You know. But in that what did you do feel
like that was a good thing? With guns? Oh? No, no, no, not.
(11:59):
I meant I meant moving on from it. You know.
I feel like a lot of times we kind of
do the whole let's not forget kind of thing, but
not the not the gun thing. I mean that. That's
that's my point. That was the biggest massacre and nothing
was done. Nothing's ever done. Rent repeat, Rent repeat, And
I have guns, and I'm like, we gotta chill with
the fan guns. What's happening here? Uh? So that yeah,
(12:23):
when you asked are they all good? On like half
of them were good. It was just the biggest And
shout out to the Boot again for putting that list up.
Um here this as we end the year here, I
can give you some music news, Takashi six nine was
only sentenced to two years in prison. He's to do
(12:44):
with sixty nine tattoo on his face? You use the
word only, yeah, because they were like, he's gonna be
in jail the rest of his life, right, Mike, for
a lot of that, at least like ten twelve years
because he was snitched on everybody and so he got far, far,
far far or less time. Wow. He was sentenced to
two years prison after plading guilty and nine felonies. Do
you have any of his music? I mean you can't
really playing it so hard? Yeah, it's like hardcore rock craft.
(13:07):
What it sounds like like to me? It sounds like
what he looks like. He'll also get a credit for
thirteen month serves. That means on track he's not trying
to be released sometime late next year, so he already
gets a year. He has eleven months basically to do.
He snitches, get stitches though, like he says, he's not right, Mike,
it's hard to put that guy in wait for the location.
He got sixty nine tatched Alliver space, Clint all over him. Uh.
(13:34):
Selena Gomez once soiled herself at a net sharing concerts
really Selena gomezat she soiled herself at an edt Sharing
concert because she didn't want to leave. She just covered
herself with a sweater and made it the rest of
the show. As someone who wants pooped on himself before,
it doesn't. You can't do that. It smells really bad.
(13:54):
So I don't know if that's completely super at maybe
it was like a little one. Well, I know people
people that go to festivals do that. I think it
was a hybrid. Oh yeah, okay, well that I can
understand trying to hang around for a little bit. It's
a hybrid hybrid that's disgusting. Garth Brooks has the top
country tour of according to Paul Star As we talked
(14:14):
about Garth and not being a legacy act. Number ten,
Luke Combs, Wow, Luke Homs already in top ten, number nine,
Chris Stapleton, George Straight at eight, This the Vegas Shows,
Luke Bryant at seven, Zach Brown at six, Thomas Read
(14:35):
at five, Carry Underwood at four, Florida Georgia Line at three,
Eric Church at two. And the number one tour was
Garth Brooks. Best concert you went to in nineteen That
might be cheating on this one. But I would say
the c m A Awards cheating. That doesn't count because
I mean that is the best. It doesn't count. That
doesn't count. I would say that Raging Idiots million dollar
(14:57):
show there because it was even more fun. I mean
we didn't stopping at the end. Look Brian and Gavin,
a girl and us and we're all singing, sting Caroline
and stand by me. Okay, let's do that one. Then?
Is that your favorite? No, we have to actually think
of one. Concerts are tough because I don't get to
go to many of them because we're on the road
a lot on the weekends, and if it's here in town,
(15:17):
you're kind of like I see music all the time.
Unless somebody really good, it's hard. Like the other day,
I want to go see Ryan Heard and I was
like told him, like, dude, this, that's the first time
I've ever seen your live and we've known Ryan for
a few years. He's like, what to like you had that?
We don't get out to see shows A lot to
think about that one? Bones? What concerts about? Even been
to this year where I got a ticket and Jesse
(15:40):
when enjoyed it. Yeah, we went to the Eagles. That
was pretty cool, pretty good. What else have we seen?
Were you just going like, I'm making a night of it,
let's go to a show. I feel like I went
to the Rhyman for a show. Recently, I went to
the Rhyman and saw Sweepy amos Lee. He was sick.
(16:03):
He was sick, he was trying to sing it up,
blown out voice. I saw Casey Muskrat as the Rheman. Well,
that hadn't been cool. It was really good. Man Bones,
I can't think of mine. Might be Casey musgro to
the Rieman like like just just like I said, just recently,
I saw the Ryan Herd thing, but I got to
see Michael Ray, I got to see um Blanco Brown.
(16:24):
It was it was a radio station cause and literally
I was right in the front row because I never
get to do that, enjoy it with everyone. The whole
bat team was there. We were having fun. So I
guess that was it. I mean, because yeah, you're right,
we don't get to do this stuff very much. I'm
looking at the list that yeah, I'm gonna go must
Casey must Grabs as the Rheman. Mike can't think any
(16:45):
of the concerts I've been to. I mean you just
went to bred Aldridge. Oh the Christmas show that was
real good. Yeah, you didn't really talk about that. Was
it really awesome? He thinks all the Christmas songs had
the whole orchestra thing there, big band, stylish and he
had the boxes. You know how that like Brian SAIDs orchestra.
They all said, like the play the horns. Just hear
you went to Vegas to see Brooks and Dunne. I
(17:06):
did go see Brooks and dun and Reba. That's a
great one because it was all hits. That's a good one. Bang,
that's a good one. Yeah, Casey Brooks and Dunne Reba
was good. We have and we have so much in here.
Um so yeah, we did this other uh and I
encouraged to go check out the songwriter demos that we've
(17:27):
done this podcast. I just wanted to kind of leave
with this because people love when we bring these demos
to the to this music podcast, and so go back
and listen to the songwriters sing the demos for the
famous songs. It's a couple of episodes back. But what
we have is some major pop songs. I wanted to
put them in this episode here. Some of these were
saying by other artist some of acoustic rough demos. One
of those, one of the biggest songs of all time
(17:48):
had an entirely different name. Really, we'll do this one.
So there's a song called Starlight back in the day.
Do you know about Starlight by Michael Jackson. It later
was Thriller. What it was called Starlight? Here's the demo,
(18:13):
give Me the Starlight. That is awesome. Give me the
Starlight and you know why. It would have been a
great song. But it would have died a long time
ago if it wasn't for the title change. Thriller. We
play that every year because it's Halloween. Well because the
music video was the Monsters and Zombies, right, But I
wonder Starlight it would have just fallen like Billy Jean
unless it had been like National Astronomy Day. Yeah, possibly,
(18:42):
that's interesting. Here's another one from Michael Jackson. This is
beat It. But this is by Michael Jackson and he
did it before he had the lyrics. This is a melody.
This is It's interesting. The melody sounds like Panatonics. I
(19:14):
have friends that are melody writers, like Michael Jackson, and
they'll they'll do the whole song and they'll they'll go
zab pooda do. They'll put it over music and then
it's okay, well, let's not find the words that fit
with zab about due I went down to a dog store,
met you, and they'll insert it after that. Michael Jackson,
(19:35):
did I do? I do like that because melody, like
we've talked about this, melody to me is first when
I listen to music like, that's good, good melody, and
then I'll be like, what's the song about? Oh, didn't
even realize Beyonce Halo, which was Biden this is the
song Halo. But Ryan Teer of One Republic wrote it. Yeah,
this is his version the demo. It sounds like a
(20:02):
One Republic song, doesn't it? Pretty close? Yeah, jesse J
wrote Party in the USA. She did which she just
broke up with Chantetom Hunt saw that, So jesse J.
And then here is jesse J though she did the
demo Jesus and the Jesus Almazon and the Jesus Alaza.
(20:28):
But do you know she wrote it for Miley? No?
I don't think so, because I mean it's just perfectly
a story for Miley. There probably some little changes in it,
just like a Nashville party. That stuff is mile. I
think that's anybody's story going to l A though. Yeah,
but it was specific to her because she was an
l A actress, but Nashville roots, but could have been
(20:52):
anyone if you just party, if you put to Peka party,
even it wasn't party and it was like in the
which says, oh, I think I'm gonna like So it's
(21:13):
about her because she's from the UK. I think I'm
gonna like the US A good one, Mike d good
cats there, Queen under Pressure, which you may know this
Bowie queen. All right, So, but it originally was called
feel Like Here's the Queen demo, You're Not Fun. I
(21:38):
got to Kim in our show the other day on
the Bibe Bone Show and saying like Mark Martin Mercury,
Yeah real good, huh so good, you give me you
know what, t um me one hit wonder. This was
(22:03):
originally called the Juicy Fruit Song. Yeah, there you go happy,
that's to be every rays okayaf I ain't no bad.
(22:27):
It should be saved so a bit different, yeah, yeah,
especially that chorus. Charlie xc X actually did the demo
for Selena go mess same. All of this is Selena.
Here's Charlie xc X very similar. You know Taylor Swift
(22:54):
Ti McGraw, Yes song, Tim McGraw. Here's the acoustic demo
of that song. When you think Tim McGall, I hope
you think my favorite song when we'd add to on
the Long the Moon like a spy lad on the leg.
When you think happiness, I hope you think that little blagress.
(23:18):
Think my head on your chest and my old faded
blue jeans. When you think Tim mcgral, I hope you
think me. That's awesome. A little different. They're really cool
into the tag. But yeah, finally I'll do one more
Weezer sweater song if you want to destroy my sweater.
(23:41):
Here's the demo by Wheezer, recorded in the Kitchen Tape
Demo session, which was named after the place to get
the best sound for the drum kid during recording, and
night Work's where the band rehearsed to you go there
(24:09):
you have it. These are cool, man. I kind of
geek out of that stuff too. I love hearing songs
grow and how they started. Check out Eddie on the
Sore Losers podcast. Yeah Sports Podcast, Yeah yeah, yeah, you're
talking a lot of Bowl games right now and uh
or just a guy talk whatever. You should check out
that show and thanks for listening to the Bobby Cast.
We will have another new one um that we're doing
(24:30):
with Russell Dickerson and his wife Kayleie Dickerson and we
were also got sick, but we should that should be
coming up after this one, so that's be a good one. Yeah,
I think so right because they worked together. He's the artist,
she's the man manager slash business and wife creative. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
thank you guys. Well see you next time with the
Bobby Cast. Eddie, thank you very much. Thanks and we'll
(24:51):
see you guys and follow us on Instagram at the
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