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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of I Tell You What, featuring
Matthew Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of Old Dominion.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So are you.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Calling because you have a new song or is there
is it a different song? Or are you calling because
you're coming to the great Minnesota get Together the State Fair?
Or are you calling because you want to come up
here and you want to do a personal show in
my backyard?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Like?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Which one is it?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Three things can be true? To be all of those things?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good? Good? I'm waiting on the real answer, though, I
really haven't wait.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm kind of hoping that it's see or maybe all
of the above, all of the above and work too.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, you know, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Three things
can be true. It could be all you. But we
got we got a bunch of new music. We're coming
up to see you guys, and why not, we'll swing
by your backyard as long as you can afford it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't know, well, I mean yeah, I think so.
I was kind of hoping for free tickets, to be
honest with you, I mean, I'm pretty how's it going.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's going great, It's going really great. We're super excited
right now, just gearing up for this tour and all
this new music that we've been making. So we're stoked
by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We had somebody on our talk back this morning. Do
you guys remember that I didn't put I don't think
I put it down the air Yet we have this
thing talk back on Capital too. People just call in
or they just they just hit the iHeart app and
they drop like a message. They get thirty seconds and
they say, can you have old dominion come back and
go on a boat?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do that boat? Then the boat thing you did?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That was so fun. That was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, dude, so I'm gonna ask that. That's my fourth
part in the question. So are you coming back to
go on a boat?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Was man, that's a surfire way to get us to
show up. If there's a boat involved, we will be there.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay, hold on, I'm isolating that audio.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm getting it ready for Greg Sweedberg right now.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, we'll hold you to it. What I love.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
About you guys and your songwriting and everything is it's
amazing to me that you can get so many lyrics
packed into like two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
When did that start? Why.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, remember, songs used to be like five minutes long,
and now it's like half that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that's an art.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Dude, No, I know. I think that's just becomes something
that we've been we've been known for as writers anyway,
because I think we just got to this place where
we started to just make sure we wanted something new
and something interesting to be happening at every point in
the song. And we did not want any like skippable
moments or places where there's something boring happening if it's
(02:35):
not a lyrical hook. We wanted a melodic hook. You know,
we're always trying to tweak and make things as interesting
as possible all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So what do you think about the reck of the
Edmund Fitzgerald, Because that song's like.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We were just talking about we were talking about that
song not long ago, and about how we should cover
it someday.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Do it, do it. We'll put you on the book.
We'll be able to go on the river and back
and you still have some time left at the end
of the song. That not in a goda davida. Do
you hey, By the way, do you know what in
a goda davida was originally I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Don't in the garden.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, right, God thought I knew something. Matthew Ramsey didn't
know son of Um.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And you know when they wrote it Iron Butterfly, when
they wrote that song, I don't, Well, the song is
twenty two minutes long or something like that, and they
wrote it in a traffic.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Jam in La.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh wow, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, so I'm just wondering if you write, where's the
weirdest place you wrote a song?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Matthew?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It was in the shower?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Did you really which one did you write in the shower?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah? I wrote I wrote the first half of Save
It for any Day in the tower.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Okay, that is so fitting that.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh my god, you.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Can't make that up. That is super sweet.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I didn't have any ideas that day, and I knew
I was like going into the Right that day, and
I was like, I gotta think of something, I gotta
think of something, and I was just in the shower
and out came the first verse and like chorus of
Save It for a Day. And I showed up to
the Right that day and was like, hey, guys, kick
this out and sang it to him and they said, yes,
let's do that.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Dude, that so now awesome. Due, by the way, did
you do your homework like that? As a Kid's like, oh,
gotta get my homework done. I'll do it on the
way to school, like in the car.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Unfortunately I didn't do much homework as as a kid.
I was known for forgetting my homework.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, same here, that worked out, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I'm very into like literal logistics. So if you're writing
a song in the shower, oh got here?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Do you do you have like.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
A marker that you're writing on the wall? Do you
have do you kind of like have your song on
the glass?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Or is it just in your head?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Just all in your head?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Of things and then I forget them five minutes later.
That would be so disappointing and we wouldn't have that
song today if that happened to you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ye, I was just I just kept singing it over
and over and over in my head until I got like,
you know, obviously I didn't have a guitar or anything
with me. And when I got when I walked into
the right I was like, hey, I just grabbed a
guitar and I was like, hang on, let me try
to get through this. I was just playing what I
was hearing in my head.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Is there a song you walked back that you gave
to somebody else? Like save it for a rainy day.
I mean, that's a very private moment. You're in the
shower kind of naked. Now every time every time Kenny
Chesney plays that, he's thinking about you in the shower,
which is fine, but like, is there one that you
want back that you gave to somebody else?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, you know, there there were songs that were hard
to get rid of, just but just because of the time,
you know, I remember say You Do for Dirk Stintley
when he took that song, it was it was a
kind of a pivotal song for us as a band
because nobody really knew us at that time, but that
(05:51):
was a level up in writing for us, and so
that that was in our set and that really started
to feel like it was defining a sound for us.
But we weren't making any money and we needed to
pay our bills. So when he came along and was
interested in that song, of course we gave it to him.
It was a little bit hard to let go, but
he killed it. He did such a great job, and
it was my first number one song, which paid a
(06:12):
lot of bills for me. So you can't hate that
someone recorded your music.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There's a lot of people in this world that love
you and other artists obviously for music that touches them
their experiences in life. Sometimes it's a loss. My wife
loves you, guys, Old Dominions. She didn't necessarily love you
until this last fall when you guys ganged up on
me and cut my hair backstage.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
In a secret shell. And I gotta give you thank
you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Like at the time, I was really really scared and
I had really long hair, and my wife never said
a word. She just looked at me, going like, is
there going to be a day? And I'm like, well,
you know what, I'm ready and I wasn't ready, but
you guys made me ready and I just thank you
for that. That was just glorious.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'm glad we could. I'm glad we could be there
to make your marriage stronger.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, that's what Old Dominion does with all your songs
and your your grooming skills. Dude, it was beautiful. I
can't thank you enough. I got laid that night.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now that now that's getting down to the real stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, it had been a while. She didn't know who
she was married to.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm just saying, I mean, it was just you guys
are great, so well, dude, thanks for calling.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We appreciate you. We're looking forward to seeing you guys
at the State Fair. I didn't check. I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I imagine there's maybe a ticket or two left. But
I don't think it's going to be easy. But let's
play on. Why don't we play your new song a
few thousand times here?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Please do, please do, man, that would be awesome, so
so everybody can sing it when we come up there
and rock with you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We're looking forward to it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Matthew, thanks for calling him, but we just have such
a rich history with you guys, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Appreciate you absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We appreciate you all so much.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Thank you, Matthew Ramsey, old amnion, great dude. They've been
like turned into the house band of Kmittle two Kmingdal
two house Fandily thanks for listening to this episode up
I tell you you'll always find more of the iHeartRadio
app anywhere. Get your podcast, Please rate, review, subscribe, download,
chair and like.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Thank you
Welcome to another episode of I Tell You What, featuring
Matthew Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of Old Dominion.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So are you.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Calling because you have a new song or is there
is it a different song? Or are you calling because
you're coming to the great Minnesota get Together the State Fair?
Or are you calling because you want to come up
here and you want to do a personal show in
my backyard?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Like?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Which one is it?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Three things can be true? To be all of those things?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good? Good? I'm waiting on the real answer, though, I
really haven't wait.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm kind of hoping that it's see or maybe all
of the above, all of the above and work too.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, you know, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Three things
can be true. It could be all you. But we
got we got a bunch of new music. We're coming
up to see you guys, and why not, we'll swing
by your backyard as long as you can afford it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't know, well, I mean yeah, I think so.
I was kind of hoping for free tickets, to be
honest with you, I mean, I'm pretty how's it going.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's going great, It's going really great. We're super excited
right now, just gearing up for this tour and all
this new music that we've been making. So we're stoked
by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We had somebody on our talk back this morning. Do
you guys remember that I didn't put I don't think
I put it down the air Yet we have this
thing talk back on Capital too. People just call in
or they just they just hit the iHeart app and
they drop like a message. They get thirty seconds and
they say, can you have old dominion come back and
go on a boat?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do that boat? Then the boat thing you did?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That was so fun. That was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, dude, so I'm gonna ask that. That's my fourth
part in the question. So are you coming back to
go on a boat?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Was man, that's a surfire way to get us to
show up. If there's a boat involved, we will be there.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay, hold on, I'm isolating that audio.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm getting it ready for Greg Sweedberg right now.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, we'll hold you to it. What I love.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
About you guys and your songwriting and everything is it's
amazing to me that you can get so many lyrics
packed into like two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
When did that start? Why.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, remember, songs used to be like five minutes long,
and now it's like half that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that's an art.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Dude, No, I know. I think that's just becomes something
that we've been we've been known for as writers anyway,
because I think we just got to this place where
we started to just make sure we wanted something new
and something interesting to be happening at every point in
the song. And we did not want any like skippable
moments or places where there's something boring happening if it's
(02:35):
not a lyrical hook. We wanted a melodic hook. You know,
we're always trying to tweak and make things as interesting
as possible all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So what do you think about the reck of the
Edmund Fitzgerald, Because that song's like.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We were just talking about we were talking about that
song not long ago, and about how we should cover
it someday.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Do it, do it. We'll put you on the book.
We'll be able to go on the river and back
and you still have some time left at the end
of the song. That not in a goda davida. Do
you hey, By the way, do you know what in
a goda davida was originally I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Don't in the garden.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, right, God thought I knew something. Matthew Ramsey didn't
know son of Um.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And you know when they wrote it Iron Butterfly, when
they wrote that song, I don't, Well, the song is
twenty two minutes long or something like that, and they
wrote it in a traffic.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Jam in La.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh wow, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, so I'm just wondering if you write, where's the
weirdest place you wrote a song?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Matthew?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It was in the shower?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Did you really which one did you write in the shower?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah? I wrote I wrote the first half of Save
It for any Day in the tower.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Okay, that is so fitting that.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh my god, you.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Can't make that up. That is super sweet.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I didn't have any ideas that day, and I knew
I was like going into the Right that day, and
I was like, I gotta think of something, I gotta
think of something, and I was just in the shower
and out came the first verse and like chorus of
Save It for a Day. And I showed up to
the Right that day and was like, hey, guys, kick
this out and sang it to him and they said, yes,
let's do that.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Dude, that so now awesome. Due, by the way, did
you do your homework like that? As a Kid's like, oh,
gotta get my homework done. I'll do it on the
way to school, like in the car.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Unfortunately I didn't do much homework as as a kid.
I was known for forgetting my homework.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, same here, that worked out, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I'm very into like literal logistics. So if you're writing
a song in the shower, oh got here?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Do you do you have like.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
A marker that you're writing on the wall? Do you
have do you kind of like have your song on
the glass?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Or is it just in your head?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Just all in your head?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Of things and then I forget them five minutes later.
That would be so disappointing and we wouldn't have that
song today if that happened to you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ye, I was just I just kept singing it over
and over and over in my head until I got like,
you know, obviously I didn't have a guitar or anything
with me. And when I got when I walked into
the right I was like, hey, I just grabbed a
guitar and I was like, hang on, let me try
to get through this. I was just playing what I
was hearing in my head.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Is there a song you walked back that you gave
to somebody else? Like save it for a rainy day.
I mean, that's a very private moment. You're in the
shower kind of naked. Now every time every time Kenny
Chesney plays that, he's thinking about you in the shower,
which is fine, but like, is there one that you
want back that you gave to somebody else?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, you know, there there were songs that were hard
to get rid of, just but just because of the time,
you know, I remember say You Do for Dirk Stintley
when he took that song, it was it was a
kind of a pivotal song for us as a band
because nobody really knew us at that time, but that
(05:51):
was a level up in writing for us, and so
that that was in our set and that really started
to feel like it was defining a sound for us.
But we weren't making any money and we needed to
pay our bills. So when he came along and was
interested in that song, of course we gave it to him.
It was a little bit hard to let go, but
he killed it. He did such a great job, and
it was my first number one song, which paid a
(06:12):
lot of bills for me. So you can't hate that
someone recorded your music.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There's a lot of people in this world that love
you and other artists obviously for music that touches them
their experiences in life. Sometimes it's a loss. My wife
loves you, guys, Old Dominions. She didn't necessarily love you
until this last fall when you guys ganged up on
me and cut my hair backstage.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
In a secret shell. And I gotta give you thank
you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Like at the time, I was really really scared and
I had really long hair, and my wife never said
a word. She just looked at me, going like, is
there going to be a day? And I'm like, well,
you know what, I'm ready and I wasn't ready, but
you guys made me ready and I just thank you
for that. That was just glorious.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'm glad we could. I'm glad we could be there
to make your marriage stronger.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, that's what Old Dominion does with all your songs
and your your grooming skills. Dude, it was beautiful. I
can't thank you enough. I got laid that night.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now that now that's getting down to the real stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, it had been a while. She didn't know who
she was married to.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm just saying, I mean, it was just you guys
are great, so well, dude, thanks for calling.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We appreciate you. We're looking forward to seeing you guys
at the State Fair. I didn't check. I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I imagine there's maybe a ticket or two left. But
I don't think it's going to be easy. But let's
play on. Why don't we play your new song a
few thousand times here?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Please do, please do, man, that would be awesome, so
so everybody can sing it when we come up there
and rock with you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We're looking forward to it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Matthew, thanks for calling him, but we just have such
a rich history with you guys, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Appreciate you absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We appreciate you all so much.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Thank you, Matthew Ramsey, old amnion, great dude. They've been
like turned into the house band of Kmittle two Kmingdal
two house Fandily thanks for listening to this episode up
I tell you you'll always find more of the iHeartRadio
app anywhere. Get your podcast, Please rate, review, subscribe, download,
chair and like.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Thank you
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