April 24, 2023 • 31 mins
Austin James talks with Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame member Chase Tyler about his current music career and how he played a "Blues Brother" on stage in New York City!!!
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And welcome to backstage pass. Iam Aston James. I want to give
a salute and a shout out toall of those good folks listening overseas,
especially in Egypt and Israel and theUnited Kingdom and of course up north in
Canada and Saudi Arabia. Thanks toall all of the military bases who have
checked in. We appreciate your serviceand we hope to see you soon.
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I am Austin James, along withChase Tyler, who is from South Louisiana
and he's an amazing singer songwriter andhe has a lot of range. Chase,
would you call it range, notonly in voice but repertoire. I
would definitely call it range. Yeah, we span, you know. And
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I've worked on that for many years, trying to figure out what works best
for me, and I found whatworks best for me is everything. I
just love to entertain and sing songsand write songs. I hate being put
in a category and saying you arethis and this is what you have to
be. I just like music.I like songs. I like energetic things
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and that's kind of what I gravitatetowards. And if that's not exactly hardcore,
tier in your beer country. Thenthen I don't do that, and
I do this, and that's whatI like. Now. I saw a
video online of you, I think, singing the national anthem when you are
ten. There's a video that yourwife shared and it's a long long time
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ago. I think you may havebeen in school. Maybe I was,
yes, yes, okay, thatwas a talent show. I think that
I did in uh in schools America, the Beautiful UM. And I was
in a sequence vest situation. Yeah, talk about the sequin vest. That's
that was a part of my lifethat I lived one time, a long
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long time ago, starting out UM. But you know it was I mean,
look it was in front of theentire school and nerve wracking, and
but it was fun. I enjoyed. I enjoyed that kind of stuff.
Was that your first time performing infront of her? That was my first
time? Really? Like, yeah, that was really it. The the
UM, the school, you know, had a talent show and my Mom's
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like, look, you have areally good voice. You need to try
and and I'm just a kid.I'm trying new things. And I did.
I signed up and I won.I won. So in the end,
it was man, it was thesequence pulled me out first place,
so it was all worth it.And then it was music from then on.
Now, did you play an instrumentnow with them? No, I
sang to a track. It wasthe track, and I mean it was
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man. It's literally in front ofevery schoolmate that I had, you know,
So it was It was nerve wrackingat the time, but it was
really cool. I remember signing autographswhen I came out the gym for the
very first time. My first autographswere my friends, you know, and
they were they were really excited andit was a lot of fun. When
did you pick up a guitar?I was probably so. I took guitar
lessons when I was a kid,when I was around eight, and then
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I got into sports and I'm like, yeah, I really want to play
football and basketball. So I putthe guitar down for quite a few years
and really didn't pick it up againuntil I was about sixteen. Wow,
yeah, it was. It wasa while, and I just like,
Okay, if I'm gonna sing,I have to have something to go along
with that, and so I startedworking on it again. And I love
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playing guitar. I loved sitting bymyself playing a song, writing a song,
and it's uh, you know,the guitar stays right there in the
corner and you pick it up anddoesn't talk back to you. It doesn't
eat, it doesn't do anything.It's just there when you need it.
So it eats strings sometimes. Absolutely, that is It's unfortunate, but that
is part of it. Yes,So you said you got into sports.
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What was your favorite? I lovebasketball really. I played football, baseball,
but basketball was my favorite. Ihit a gross spurt when I was
man twelve or thirteen, and Iwas I towered over everyone and I actually
skipped the sixth grade because of that. I went from fifth to seventh because
I was just a foot taller thaneveryone else and it just getting fitted desk,
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it just didn't work. So theyskipped me and I completely skipped the
sixth grade and then I failed theeighth grade. So it was a terrible
decision on their terrible decision on theirpart. I've blamed the school system one,
but it's part of my life thatI live with. You know,
Yeah, skipped that and then you'vegot Yeah, it was terrible. From
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then on, it was just schoolwas not my thing. So I guess
at that point, everybody caught upto you as far as grow absolutely,
yeah, yeah, absolutely, Ihad my gross spurt earlier and everyone caught
up to me went from he wroteas it was terrible. It's a terrible
time aside from sports. So youyou know, you went to school and
then you said, all right,I want to be a singer songwriter.
Yeah. So my you know,my mom and dad both played music separately
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in different bands growing up, andthey met playing music. So music was
always a part of my family onboth sides, grandparents, aunts, uncles.
Everybody plays a guitar, a banjo, a mandolin something, So it
was just always around in the housesinging. People are doing you know,
jams together, and it's just alwaysbeen a huge part of my family.
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So me taking it a little,you know, further than the garage as
has really been excited for everyone tosee. Can you remember your first song
that you wrote? I actually can, Yeah, so the very first song
that I So I've written several songs, most of them are complete garbage,
but the first one that I everreally remember having a hand in going what
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this is a this is a song? You know, it was it's well,
it's part of part of one ofour biggest songs now. It's called
Louisiana's My Home. That was oneof the first ones. And I have
several songs before that that never reallypanned out, but that was the one
that really hit home, and I'mlike, this is really going to be
a great song. And then Ididn't do anything with it for a few
years. It just kind of hungout and I would go back to it
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and rewrite it and do some thingsand work on it until finally a friend
of mine named Scott Feski from DenhamSprings I got called him. I'm like,
I had a great idea for asong. Let's see if you and
I can can finish it. It'sjust not where I wanted to be.
And we finished it and it's putit out as a single and it's called
Louisiana's My Home. It's our biggestsong that we play live. And you
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can find that anywhere anywhere, anywhereyou can find music. Yep. So
um, let's talk about going further, all right. So I understand that
you went to Nashville for a while. I did. I did so describe
that experience, Harold, worst,absolute worst experience of my entire life,
and I hate Nashville because of it. Now I understand. Look and I'm
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gonna get a bad rappling. You'regonna get phone calls, and you know,
country music artists are supposed to livein Nashville and have a rough time,
and I did that and it wasit was terrible. I did it
for a year. I went forone year, and at the end of
that year, I was so broke, disheartened, like I was just in
a terrible place and it just didnot work for me. And so I
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called my mom. They had repossessedmy truck and I'm like, this is
it. This is the sign.I was walking on the side of the
road after after I got pulled overthe police officer would not let me go
because I had illegal tent, Ihad expired the tags, no seatbelt like
this, I mean literally ran thegonft on everything, everything that could possibly
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find, and they towed my vehicle. I'm walking home on the side of
the road and I called my momand I'm like, this is it.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait,you're wait in Nashville. This is in
Nashville. Yeah, you're walking onthe side of the interstate. I had
been there for about a year andit had been right out a year and
I was just struggling. I washaving such a hard time. I was
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a bartender at Logan's roadhouse, justtrying to make anything happen. I knew
not a soul. I didn't knowanyone. I moved up there just trying
I'm gonna be the next star,of course, right, so you know,
I'm just trying to make ends meetand do anything musically. I ended
up, you know, running astop sign, I think it was,
and so a cop pulled me over, and it was I was probably a
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mile from my apartment, and soit was a lady cop and she's like,
you have you know, illegal tagsand inspired this and illegal tent,
you ran a stop sign, noseatbelt, I mean, it was a
list of things. And she said, I cannot allow you to take this
vehicle home and you make it home. And I'm like, if you just
let me go, don't arrest me, I'll make it home. I'll find
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my way. It was on thatone mile walk to my apartment that I'm
like, this is the sign.This is I have no ride at this
point, I have no money,I've made no connections. Really, I'm
coming home in Louisiana, and Idid, and I came home and started
a band. Well glad you wereonly one mile from your apartment. It
was only a mile. But Itell you, you know, I wrote
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a song about it, and it'sit's it's it was an experience and it's
something that I had to go throughto realize that home Louisiana is where I
want to be and grow and havea band, and the Nashville thing just
did not work out for me.A big fish in a small pond exactly.
That was my whole thing. I'mgonna come back to Louisiana, build
my fan base, make my homehere and big fish, small pond.
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Yeah, gosh yeah. So um, what about your wife, Lindsay,
Yes, she's sweetheart. Does shelike to go to Nashville? She would
move to Nashville tomorrow if I saidit's time tomorrow, in a heartbeat.
She loves Nashville. And now goingback and visiting from time to time,
like because I'm you know, thatpressure I think is off of me now
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and I've I've made a name formyself here and and that sort of thing,
so it's a little bit easier.I still get those feelings anytime we
rolled into Nashville and I'm just like, ah, just a bad taste,
just a bad taste. Well,how long ago was that? So let's
see, this would have been twothousand and four, two thousand and five,
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two thousand and six, so it'stwo thousand and twenty three, nowns
it. It's I was twenty Iwas twenty, yeah when I turned twenty
one in Nashville, so you know, and I had my birthday party and
friends took me out and all ofthat. I did meet some some really
nice friends and I'm still friends withand still talk to you this day.
But um, as far as music, it just did not work out for
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me as well as it doesn't workout for a lot of people. Okay,
it is. There's a million Chasetylers up there on every street corner
that can outplay out seeing outright,and why they're they're not where they should
be was my boggling to me.So it was. It's a very difficult
town. And I just, uh, Louisiana is my home. Yeah,
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I can tell on your music,Yeah, they say, right, what
you know? I love I loveLouisiana. I love the culture of the
food, the people, so Istarted writing songs about that, and that's
some kind of what led me toSouthern Summertime song. We have now,
yeah, tell us about Southern summertime. So you know, look, I
this this song. I can tellyou right now, Austin. It's it's
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not going to win any Grammys,okay, and I'm well aware of that.
It's just a fun, upbeat,summertime boat jam. And that's exactly
what I wanted it to be.I didn't want it, you know,
It's there's nothing serious about it.It's just a fun summertime song. As
we get into the summertime months here, we have a lot of shows coming
up that involve water being on theriver, the lake, and I wanted
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to write a song about that verything. So it's just a good fun
boat song. But in the song, we mentioned a little artist that people
have never really heard of, namedWayne Tubes. The little guy. Yeah,
he's just trying to get out there. You know. I'm trying to
help him out a little bit.I don't know if he's gonna make it,
but we're you look, maybe sincehe's on this song, maybe that'll
give him the push that he reallyneeds. You might you might be the
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key that opens the door for asuccess for Wayne Tubes, for Wayne toopes
finally he's gonna get hurt. Ijust hope that he has the correct tent
on his vehicle. Oh that's thetruth, and the tags are all registered
and everything we've talked about all that. I've went through everything, all the
checklist to make sure that he's okay, and I think he's good to go.
But it worked out great, man, it really did. And your
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wife has a crush, has amajor crush on Wayne Tubes. And when
when we were writing the song,it kind of worked out. We were
Southern summertime, was like, youknow, because we're in a boat,
who are we going to put thatwe're listening to on the radio? And
it came up as Wayne Tubes.And I know Wayne's stage manager, So
I said, look, let mejust shoot my shot. Let me put
it out there. Maybe possibly,if all the stars aligned, I'll call
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him. I'll talk to him.Maybe he'll be like, yeah, I'd
love to do it. Maybe he'llbe like, screw you, it's not
happening. You know whatever. Younever know unless you ask, right,
and I asked and he was veryreceptive, more than happy. To do
it and has been absolutely amazing towork with, very very cool guy that's
incredible, very cool on the videonext too, So he's gonna be in
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the video. So the video willbe coming out in another month and a
half, so you have some somevisual to go along with everything. It's
very awesome and naturally your wife willbe there. She will be every part
of the way. Oh man.We got to take him to dinner and
we spent about twelve hours with theguy, you know, and and him
and his wife and me and mywife and just literally spend the whole day
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with him. And they're just socool. And Lindsay was just beside herself
excited, so very cool. SoI got Brownie points if nothing else.
You've got that. Now, tellus about some some of the past songs
and videos that you have done,and there's one in particular that will save
until after this conversation that really hasa deep place in your heart. Yeah,
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definitely, man, we we've sothe video thing started, you know,
to come along just a few yearsago, and I'd never done one
before, and man, just figuringout that process, it's it's a little
more difficult than people realize. Youmight shoot, you know, a full
entire day to only get a oneminute segment, and so it's it's kind
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of difficult in that in that respect, but it's a lot of fun to
hang out with your friends and dependingon what scene you're doing, just a
good time, you know. Butputting a video with a song is is
very it's very difficult in the waythat you you listen to the song and
you want the video to reflect that. But I think the song that you're
talking about would be tell Gate Sunset. Yeah. So our friend who's no
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longer with us, miss Carly McCord, which and actually tell Gate Sunset is
our very first video. So itwas a learning process for everyone involved.
And she agreed to be in thevideo and was my love interest, which
I got a lot of hate forlater on I found out people just could
not you know, me and anotherwoman, you know, and it is
not my wife. I got alot of hate, believe it or not.
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But people love the video and yeah, definitely that that video and song
will ever be um ingrained and specialto us for more more reasons than it
should be. Yeah, and uh, you know, we love we all
miss her. We miss her.Yeah, every time I saw Carly at
a show. She was so niceto me. I just came up to
him and getting a hug and let'stake a picture together. Blah blah blah.
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Just a very sweet person with anamazing personality and great talent. And
she really she never met a stranger. No, no, she did not,
no, no. All right.Now, another video that I want
to talk about is uh I forgotthe tite lever forgive Me, but your
wife is featured in it. Yeah. So it's a song called just like
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a Woman, and so actually thatwas the second song after Tailgate Sunset and
the reason that we put Lindsay inthis one because it's a very love song
and there's no way I would havebeen able to get away with an out
of another love interest. It hadto be my wife because people gave me.
Hell they really did. Really,we really got a lot of hate
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mail, people just messaging text andemails. Why wasn't Lindsay in there?
What it like? So no problem. We did the song and we had
such such a great tie with that. That was that coming from her side
of the family. It really wasn'tit. She was totally. Lindsey was
there the whole time and we're youknow, she was involved in it.
She was telling college, just putyour arm around him here and do that,
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you know, kiss him on thecheek here. So it was totally
fine, But it was other peopleoutside of that. It just that we're
not expecting me to be with anotherwoman, I guess. But yeah,
um it was. It was stillfun. But yeah, we we shot
just like a woman. And uh, that was a lot of fun.
I got to work with my wifeand and see her act and you know,
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and that was that was it wasa lot of fun to do.
Now you have a daughter, Ido, and she is now she's a
grown woman if you ask her,dude, in a couple of years,
she's going to be a teenager andthat's going to accelerate even more. Absolutely,
are you ready for that? No? No, in every in every
form of the word. No.Uh, She'll always be my baby,
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right, That's always my baby girl, no matter how big she gets or
how old. And um, she'srecently found uh boys, and I'm oh,
no, I'm uncomfortable with this becauseI just don't know how to react
to that. She's recently started toshe loves Joe Burrow and she loves uh
Sam Hunt and she loves you know, he's other Morgan Wallen. Oh my
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goodness, Morgan Wallen. So it'sit's it's becoming a thing. And we're
gonna have a problem with that becauseshe's just absolutely dropped bag gorgeous. So
it's it's only gonna get Yeah,she read my baby though, that's my
baby. Are you? Uh,do you consider yourself an overprotective dad?
I do. I do consider myselfoverprotective. Um, mainly in the fact
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because I was I was a verybad child. Okay, I was a
very bad I was a bad boy. So I know where are you that's
the ultimate question. While I wasarrested and thrown out of high school,
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um, okay, and went tojail. So you know, as far
as all right, I don't knowhow deep into the podcast we can go.
Well, look that that's why.That's why we're sitting here. That's
okay, that's why we're sitting acrossfrom me, to tell your story,
to tell things that have happened inyour life. Like I didn't know,
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well, I knew you went toNashville, and I knew you had a
tough time of it, yes,um, but I didn't know that you
had your truck repossessed. I mean, that's almost every country singers situation.
The song, the song is calledBroken Road, and that's the song I
wrote after I left Nashville, andthat's that's exactly what it was. Okay.
So okay, the quick version is, I was seventeen years old,
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I was in high school. Schoolwas not going well for me. I
was never going to be a rocketscientist, Okay. Uh So I was
focusing on music, and I wasdoing things that I should not have been
with, people that I should nothave been with, and I was partaking
in I'm just try to say thispolitically correct. I was partaking in what
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is now pretty much legalized throughout theentire country. Okay, in the parking
lot of the school. Should nothave been there, should not have done
it. Totally my fault, that'sall me. So you were dancing,
you were quote unquote dancing in public. I was dancing in public exactly,
that's all. That's it, um. And the cops found out, the
principal found out, shut the schooldown, arrested me on site, oh
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oh, and expelled me from highschool from then on. That So you
were a senior, No, Iwas I was finishing up my sophomore year.
Oh that's right, because I'm sorry, No, no, no,
I'm just keep bringing it up,keep telling them about it. So you
were held back. I was heldback. You were seventeen and a sophomore
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in school. I was finishing sophomore, yes, finishing sophomore. Yeah,
and then this particular situation popped upand the police were called in and you
were expelled. Yes, that's it, And that ended my school career.
At that point, I was notgoing to My options were to homeschool or
wait two years and come back asa nineteen year old eleventh grader. That
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was not gonna happen. No,So that was not gonna happen. I
mean you could, I mean atthat age you could. You could have
been a teacher, right exactly.Yeah, yeah, no, no,
it was not gonna happen. Soit wasn't long after I got my audition
to Branson to go to Branson,Missouri, and I spent two years in
Branson. Now, how was thatexperience? Amazing? That was that was
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that Branson? And I credit mystage ability for anything that I do on
stage to Branson because they teach youhow to perform for a live audience.
They showed me how to dance andhow to engage the audience and how to,
you know, just just what todo on stage because before that I
had no idea. They mean Iwas college. The shows that I was
in in Branson. I was inseveral different stage shows for almost three years.
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Okay, so you weren't doing yourown thing, you were working.
Yes, I was in other show, Mo Bandy. I was in Mo
Bandy show for a little while.You remember Mo BANDI back in Moe Bandy.
Um. I did a band JillStanley Stanley, Yeah, man Um
I did. Uh. I wasin Mickey Gilley's show for a little while,
singer and singer. And then allof these and all of these shows
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you were backup. So I wasbackup singers and I did variety shows where
we changed costumes nine times throughout theshow. It was a really really cool
learning experience and one that I'm veryproud to say that I did, and
it taught me so much. Thatwas my college. So I dropped out
of high school and went directly intomusic college for me, and that that
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did a world of difference, worldof difference. So in comparison to Nashville.
It was just no comparison, nocomparison. This was before Nashville.
So I left Branson to go toNashville. Ah, that's when I'm like,
here's you know, I've had allthe experience. Now I'm gonna go
to Nashville and be a big star, right, and there's all everything,
all my experience so far has beenokay. After I left high school,
this is gonna be amazing. I'mgonna be the next Skinny Chesney. Knock
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knock, Nashville. Here I come. And it was complete opposite. It
was the complete opposite to get arrestedin Branson. I did not get arrested
in Branson. No, I didnot get arrested in Branson. No problems
there. It was awesome. It'sa great experience and I loved it.
But I ultimately I wanted to domy own songs. I wanted to do
my own music. I want todo my own thing, and Nashville was
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the next logical step and it wasnot. And I left Nashville and moved
to New York. So I waiteda minute, not wait a minute.
Yeah, I've been knowing you along time. I had no idea you
lived in New York and after Ileft Nashville, I came home and I'm
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like, Okay, what do Ido now? How do I start a
band? How do I do this? I was trying to figure all of
that out, working odd jobs,and I got a call from a producer
who was producing a show in NewYork and he's like, you know,
I know you from Branson. Imet him in Branson, you know,
when we were there or whatever.And he's like, I know you're great,
you'd fit the role perfect. Cameaudition, Come do this, and
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if you're right, we'll set youup in New York. It's an off
Broadway play, which it's gonna bea part of it. I auditioned and
I got it. They flew meout to New York. I was in
New York for about six months.Oh kidding. I was what's the name
of the play, so you knowthe Blues Brothers. Yeah, I was
Elwood Blues. I had the thelong side urns going down, Yeah I
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did. I had to learn theentire show in its entirety. The only
thing I didn't do was play harmonica. That was the only thing that was
lacking in my in my abilities,But I had, I had. I
nailed Elwood Blues. I watched themovie a gazillion times, learned all of
the songs, all of the danceroutine, and I spent six months mid
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Western accent did Western accent. Itwas It was awesome. It was awesome.
And I spent six months in atheater in New York and another great
killer learning opportunity in a different statethat nobody knew who I was. I
literally started over and it was avery very cool experience in a very short
amount of time. For me leavinghigh school to me coming back home and
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starting what is now the Chase TylerBand was about five years. And I
learned everything that I know. Itis very quick, It is very quick.
And I learned everything that I neededto know about music and the industry,
and I came home and start myown band. You went to the
school of hard knocks, big time, big time. I've been through it,
man, I've been through it,but it's all led me to who
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I am, and you know,and that's that's how come. You know.
I love the songs that we doand the shows that that we put
on, I feel like are veryenergetic and positive and that's what we want
to get across to everybody. Andyou do a lot of New Year's Eve
stuff. Oh yeah, a lotof New Year's Eve stuff. Yeah.
Uh, you know we have aNew Year's Eve show coming up. Um,
this will be our tenth time atthe Crown Plaza. I've been done,
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man, I'm I love it.I love New Year's Eve stuff.
There's so much fun. Everybody's ina great mood. Everybody's happy and festive,
and everybody wants to dance and singin party and you know, yeah
New Year's Eve is is it given? And you get to kiss your wife
at midnight? Absolutely every little kissat any better than that at midnight.
So you have the Chase Tyler band. Yeah. Uh. Is it difficult
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holding a band together because I knowthere's always lineup changes? Oh always,
Yeah. Putting a band together isthe second hardest thing that I've ever done.
Keeping a band together, it's thefirst hardest thing that I've ever had
to do, because everybody has differentideas, different schedules, different this different
that I've been really fortunate enough tokeep most of the same guys from from
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starting out a very long time,and they're they're amazing and it is difficult
sometimes. I mean, look,COVID obviously hurt everybody, right, and
that was difficult on everybody. Butkeeping a band, this is all we
did. There's six guys on stageand we all played music for a living.
So when COVID hit, all ofthat shut down and we all had
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to go get real jobs to beable to We had no gigs. We
all seventy six dates in twenty twentyalone, so we all had to go
get real jobs and still try tomake things happen musically. And when it
shows started to come back a littlebit, some of the guys weren't able
to just come back. You know. They're like, man, I got
a good job, I got awife, got a kid. You know,
I totally get it. So sometimesyou have to make those tough decisions,
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move people in and out and justfind wood works. Who are your
current band members? Oh, man, I got JD. White Jad has
been with me now going on it'sbeen close to eight years, so he's
the longest running band member and justan amazing guitar talent. Gregory Fuque on
the keys from Walker Louisiana, theWalker Legend. He's been with me probably
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about five years. The newest memberswould be the bass player who's been with
me about a year. He's fromRochester, New York. And the drummer
is the newest member who's been withme about a year as well. He's
from matt Super super nice guy.And then of course the lovely and talented
miss Ambert McCann from Baton Rouge.I'm glad you recruited her because she's such
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a talent. She's look and alot of people don't realize him. Just
an amazing voice of an angel,but in soul as well. She is
just a sweetheart of a person andbrings nothing but positive energy to the band
and just makes us sound so muchbetter. Yeah, there's some songs that
she'll do Shanaya and some Carrie andit's like wow. I mean her voice
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just shakes the roof. It does, it does, and that's why we
like to showcase her and it worksreally well. We can do duets,
I can step back, have asimple water, let her take over the
show and it just man, itreally works out well and she's so good
at it. I have a request. I do request, okay, if
you can fit in an Eagle songor two during your set. That great,
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boy. We have been working onsomething that that's right, and I
don't know that it's ready yet,but there is something in the works and
we will send that out to you. It's okay, good, Yes,
I can't wait. Very very verycool stuff, all right. So if
someone wanted to look up the newsingle, how do they do that?
Anywhere you download music. It isofficially available today, So anywhere you get
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iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify,anywhere you download your music, just look
up the Chase Tyler band singles calledSouthern Summertime and we would appreciate all your
support absolutely. Now, if somebodywanted to reach out to you via social
networking, yeah they do that.Chase Tyler Band, Facebook, Instagram,
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all of the fun stuff. Justcheck us out and give us a like
and a follow, and we'd appreciateit. What about my Space, Nah,
my Space I had on my Spaceabsolutely, I'm that old, so
old. Yeah that what it wasthe absolute and then you could you could
change your background. Remember that Ihad all the sparkles. Point really got
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tacky kids. My Space was Facebookbefore Facebook was Facebook. Okay. Yeah,
MySpace actually was kind of fun,and that there were no MySpace jails.
Right. No, this was beforeany you know, yeah, I
mean you could communicate with people andtalk to them and whatnot. This is
before iPhones too, so you know, he really had to get on a
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computer and sit down and do that. So it's yeah, yeah, that's
that's a whole different world now.Man, it seems like so long ago.
Who was it that trying to revitalizemy space? Just Lake? Yeah,
didn't he buy it? He boughtit. He bought it after he
was in the movie the social mediaand the social network. I think,
yeah, he's like, I'm gonnabuy it and I'm gonna try to redo
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it. And then I think hehad good plans and yeah, it just
yeah, it was time. Itjust didn't work. Oh well it's over.
That's how that's how it goes.Chase, thanks for talking with us.
Thank you appreciate it. Man,Thank you. I know you're on
the road now and that's that's whatyou love. What's the before we let
you go? I'm just curious,what's the farthest place that you've played from
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Louisiana, Charlevoi, Michigan. Wedid the Venetian Yacht Festival in char LaVoi.
That's that's in the up the UpperPeninsula. If anybody knows anything about
Michigan, Uh, that's up toeverybody. And that was amazing, really
it was. They flew us upthere in a jet and it was very
very cool. We got to dothe whole festival, thousands of people and
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man, it was just a delight. It really was cool. Really was
cool. Boyd Michigan, all right, follow follow Chase Tyler band online and
Facebook and Twitter and all that stuff. So Chase, thanks for talking with
us. Tell your lovely wife,lindsay hello, and your beautiful daughter tell
her hello, and keep the guysaway from him. I'm gonna try,
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trust me, all right. ChaseTyler Band, Chase Tyler from the Chase
Tyler Band. He's Chasing and Iam Austin James on backstage bands
And welcome to backstage pass. Iam Aston James. I want to give
a salute and a shout out toall of those good folks listening overseas,
especially in Egypt and Israel and theUnited Kingdom and of course up north in
Canada and Saudi Arabia. Thanks toall all of the military bases who have
checked in. We appreciate your serviceand we hope to see you soon.
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I am Austin James, along withChase Tyler, who is from South Louisiana
and he's an amazing singer songwriter andhe has a lot of range. Chase,
would you call it range, notonly in voice but repertoire. I
would definitely call it range. Yeah, we span, you know. And
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I've worked on that for many years, trying to figure out what works best
for me, and I found whatworks best for me is everything. I
just love to entertain and sing songsand write songs. I hate being put
in a category and saying you arethis and this is what you have to
be. I just like music.I like songs. I like energetic things
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and that's kind of what I gravitatetowards. And if that's not exactly hardcore,
tier in your beer country. Thenthen I don't do that, and
I do this, and that's whatI like. Now. I saw a
video online of you, I think, singing the national anthem when you are
ten. There's a video that yourwife shared and it's a long long time
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ago. I think you may havebeen in school. Maybe I was,
yes, yes, okay, thatwas a talent show. I think that
I did in uh in schools America, the Beautiful UM. And I was
in a sequence vest situation. Yeah, talk about the sequin vest. That's
that was a part of my lifethat I lived one time, a long
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long time ago, starting out UM. But you know it was I mean,
look it was in front of theentire school and nerve wracking, and
but it was fun. I enjoyed. I enjoyed that kind of stuff.
Was that your first time performing infront of her? That was my first
time? Really? Like, yeah, that was really it. The the
UM, the school, you know, had a talent show and my Mom's
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like, look, you have areally good voice. You need to try
and and I'm just a kid.I'm trying new things. And I did.
I signed up and I won.I won. So in the end,
it was man, it was thesequence pulled me out first place,
so it was all worth it.And then it was music from then on.
Now, did you play an instrumentnow with them? No, I
sang to a track. It wasthe track, and I mean it was
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man. It's literally in front ofevery schoolmate that I had, you know,
So it was It was nerve wrackingat the time, but it was
really cool. I remember signing autographswhen I came out the gym for the
very first time. My first autographswere my friends, you know, and
they were they were really excited andit was a lot of fun. When
did you pick up a guitar?I was probably so. I took guitar
lessons when I was a kid,when I was around eight, and then
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I got into sports and I'm like, yeah, I really want to play
football and basketball. So I putthe guitar down for quite a few years
and really didn't pick it up againuntil I was about sixteen. Wow,
yeah, it was. It wasa while, and I just like,
Okay, if I'm gonna sing,I have to have something to go along
with that, and so I startedworking on it again. And I love
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playing guitar. I loved sitting bymyself playing a song, writing a song,
and it's uh, you know,the guitar stays right there in the
corner and you pick it up anddoesn't talk back to you. It doesn't
eat, it doesn't do anything.It's just there when you need it.
So it eats strings sometimes. Absolutely, that is It's unfortunate, but that
is part of it. Yes,So you said you got into sports.
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What was your favorite? I lovebasketball really. I played football, baseball,
but basketball was my favorite. Ihit a gross spurt when I was
man twelve or thirteen, and Iwas I towered over everyone and I actually
skipped the sixth grade because of that. I went from fifth to seventh because
I was just a foot taller thaneveryone else and it just getting fitted desk,
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it just didn't work. So theyskipped me and I completely skipped the
sixth grade and then I failed theeighth grade. So it was a terrible
decision on their terrible decision on theirpart. I've blamed the school system one,
but it's part of my life thatI live with. You know,
Yeah, skipped that and then you'vegot Yeah, it was terrible. From
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then on, it was just schoolwas not my thing. So I guess
at that point, everybody caught upto you as far as grow absolutely,
yeah, yeah, absolutely, Ihad my gross spurt earlier and everyone caught
up to me went from he wroteas it was terrible. It's a terrible
time aside from sports. So youyou know, you went to school and
then you said, all right,I want to be a singer songwriter.
Yeah. So my you know,my mom and dad both played music separately
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in different bands growing up, andthey met playing music. So music was
always a part of my family onboth sides, grandparents, aunts, uncles.
Everybody plays a guitar, a banjo, a mandolin something, So it
was just always around in the housesinging. People are doing you know,
jams together, and it's just alwaysbeen a huge part of my family.
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So me taking it a little,you know, further than the garage as
has really been excited for everyone tosee. Can you remember your first song
that you wrote? I actually can, Yeah, so the very first song
that I So I've written several songs, most of them are complete garbage,
but the first one that I everreally remember having a hand in going what
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this is a this is a song? You know, it was it's well,
it's part of part of one ofour biggest songs now. It's called
Louisiana's My Home. That was oneof the first ones. And I have
several songs before that that never reallypanned out, but that was the one
that really hit home, and I'mlike, this is really going to be
a great song. And then Ididn't do anything with it for a few
years. It just kind of hungout and I would go back to it
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and rewrite it and do some thingsand work on it until finally a friend
of mine named Scott Feski from DenhamSprings I got called him. I'm like,
I had a great idea for asong. Let's see if you and
I can can finish it. It'sjust not where I wanted to be.
And we finished it and it's putit out as a single and it's called
Louisiana's My Home. It's our biggestsong that we play live. And you
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can find that anywhere anywhere, anywhereyou can find music. Yep. So
um, let's talk about going further, all right. So I understand that
you went to Nashville for a while. I did. I did so describe
that experience, Harold, worst,absolute worst experience of my entire life,
and I hate Nashville because of it. Now I understand. Look and I'm
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gonna get a bad rappling. You'regonna get phone calls, and you know,
country music artists are supposed to livein Nashville and have a rough time,
and I did that and it wasit was terrible. I did it
for a year. I went forone year, and at the end of
that year, I was so broke, disheartened, like I was just in
a terrible place and it just didnot work for me. And so I
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called my mom. They had repossessedmy truck and I'm like, this is
it. This is the sign.I was walking on the side of the
road after after I got pulled overthe police officer would not let me go
because I had illegal tent, Ihad expired the tags, no seatbelt like
this, I mean literally ran thegonft on everything, everything that could possibly
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find, and they towed my vehicle. I'm walking home on the side of
the road and I called my momand I'm like, this is it.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait,you're wait in Nashville. This is in
Nashville. Yeah, you're walking onthe side of the interstate. I had
been there for about a year andit had been right out a year and
I was just struggling. I washaving such a hard time. I was
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a bartender at Logan's roadhouse, justtrying to make anything happen. I knew
not a soul. I didn't knowanyone. I moved up there just trying
I'm gonna be the next star,of course, right, so you know,
I'm just trying to make ends meetand do anything musically. I ended
up, you know, running astop sign, I think it was,
and so a cop pulled me over, and it was I was probably a
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mile from my apartment, and soit was a lady cop and she's like,
you have you know, illegal tagsand inspired this and illegal tent,
you ran a stop sign, noseatbelt, I mean, it was a
list of things. And she said, I cannot allow you to take this
vehicle home and you make it home. And I'm like, if you just
let me go, don't arrest me, I'll make it home. I'll find
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my way. It was on thatone mile walk to my apartment that I'm
like, this is the sign.This is I have no ride at this
point, I have no money,I've made no connections. Really, I'm
coming home in Louisiana, and Idid, and I came home and started
a band. Well glad you wereonly one mile from your apartment. It
was only a mile. But Itell you, you know, I wrote
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a song about it, and it'sit's it's it was an experience and it's
something that I had to go throughto realize that home Louisiana is where I
want to be and grow and havea band, and the Nashville thing just
did not work out for me.A big fish in a small pond exactly.
That was my whole thing. I'mgonna come back to Louisiana, build
my fan base, make my homehere and big fish, small pond.
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Yeah, gosh yeah. So um, what about your wife, Lindsay,
Yes, she's sweetheart. Does shelike to go to Nashville? She would
move to Nashville tomorrow if I saidit's time tomorrow, in a heartbeat.
She loves Nashville. And now goingback and visiting from time to time,
like because I'm you know, thatpressure I think is off of me now
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and I've I've made a name formyself here and and that sort of thing,
so it's a little bit easier.I still get those feelings anytime we
rolled into Nashville and I'm just like, ah, just a bad taste,
just a bad taste. Well,how long ago was that? So let's
see, this would have been twothousand and four, two thousand and five,
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two thousand and six, so it'stwo thousand and twenty three, nowns
it. It's I was twenty Iwas twenty, yeah when I turned twenty
one in Nashville, so you know, and I had my birthday party and
friends took me out and all ofthat. I did meet some some really
nice friends and I'm still friends withand still talk to you this day.
But um, as far as music, it just did not work out for
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me as well as it doesn't workout for a lot of people. Okay,
it is. There's a million Chasetylers up there on every street corner
that can outplay out seeing outright,and why they're they're not where they should
be was my boggling to me.So it was. It's a very difficult
town. And I just, uh, Louisiana is my home. Yeah,
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I can tell on your music,Yeah, they say, right, what
you know? I love I loveLouisiana. I love the culture of the
food, the people, so Istarted writing songs about that, and that's
some kind of what led me toSouthern Summertime song. We have now,
yeah, tell us about Southern summertime. So you know, look, I
this this song. I can tellyou right now, Austin. It's it's
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not going to win any Grammys,okay, and I'm well aware of that.
It's just a fun, upbeat,summertime boat jam. And that's exactly
what I wanted it to be.I didn't want it, you know,
It's there's nothing serious about it.It's just a fun summertime song. As
we get into the summertime months here, we have a lot of shows coming
up that involve water being on theriver, the lake, and I wanted
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to write a song about that verything. So it's just a good fun
boat song. But in the song, we mentioned a little artist that people
have never really heard of, namedWayne Tubes. The little guy. Yeah,
he's just trying to get out there. You know. I'm trying to
help him out a little bit.I don't know if he's gonna make it,
but we're you look, maybe sincehe's on this song, maybe that'll
give him the push that he reallyneeds. You might you might be the
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key that opens the door for asuccess for Wayne Tubes, for Wayne toopes
finally he's gonna get hurt. Ijust hope that he has the correct tent
on his vehicle. Oh that's thetruth, and the tags are all registered
and everything we've talked about all that. I've went through everything, all the
checklist to make sure that he's okay, and I think he's good to go.
But it worked out great, man, it really did. And your
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wife has a crush, has amajor crush on Wayne Tubes. And when
when we were writing the song,it kind of worked out. We were
Southern summertime, was like, youknow, because we're in a boat,
who are we going to put thatwe're listening to on the radio? And
it came up as Wayne Tubes.And I know Wayne's stage manager, So
I said, look, let mejust shoot my shot. Let me put
it out there. Maybe possibly,if all the stars aligned, I'll call
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him. I'll talk to him.Maybe he'll be like, yeah, I'd
love to do it. Maybe he'llbe like, screw you, it's not
happening. You know whatever. Younever know unless you ask, right,
and I asked and he was veryreceptive, more than happy. To do
it and has been absolutely amazing towork with, very very cool guy that's
incredible, very cool on the videonext too, So he's gonna be in
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the video. So the video willbe coming out in another month and a
half, so you have some somevisual to go along with everything. It's
very awesome and naturally your wife willbe there. She will be every part
of the way. Oh man.We got to take him to dinner and
we spent about twelve hours with theguy, you know, and and him
and his wife and me and mywife and just literally spend the whole day
(13:39):
with him. And they're just socool. And Lindsay was just beside herself
excited, so very cool. SoI got Brownie points if nothing else.
You've got that. Now, tellus about some some of the past songs
and videos that you have done,and there's one in particular that will save
until after this conversation that really hasa deep place in your heart. Yeah,
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definitely, man, we we've sothe video thing started, you know,
to come along just a few yearsago, and I'd never done one
before, and man, just figuringout that process, it's it's a little
more difficult than people realize. Youmight shoot, you know, a full
entire day to only get a oneminute segment, and so it's it's kind
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of difficult in that in that respect, but it's a lot of fun to
hang out with your friends and dependingon what scene you're doing, just a
good time, you know. Butputting a video with a song is is
very it's very difficult in the waythat you you listen to the song and
you want the video to reflect that. But I think the song that you're
talking about would be tell Gate Sunset. Yeah. So our friend who's no
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longer with us, miss Carly McCord, which and actually tell Gate Sunset is
our very first video. So itwas a learning process for everyone involved.
And she agreed to be in thevideo and was my love interest, which
I got a lot of hate forlater on I found out people just could
not you know, me and anotherwoman, you know, and it is
not my wife. I got alot of hate, believe it or not.
(15:16):
But people love the video and yeah, definitely that that video and song
will ever be um ingrained and specialto us for more more reasons than it
should be. Yeah, and uh, you know, we love we all
miss her. We miss her.Yeah, every time I saw Carly at
a show. She was so niceto me. I just came up to
him and getting a hug and let'stake a picture together. Blah blah blah.
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Just a very sweet person with anamazing personality and great talent. And
she really she never met a stranger. No, no, she did not,
no, no. All right.Now, another video that I want
to talk about is uh I forgotthe tite lever forgive Me, but your
wife is featured in it. Yeah. So it's a song called just like
(16:00):
a Woman, and so actually thatwas the second song after Tailgate Sunset and
the reason that we put Lindsay inthis one because it's a very love song
and there's no way I would havebeen able to get away with an out
of another love interest. It hadto be my wife because people gave me.
Hell they really did. Really,we really got a lot of hate
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mail, people just messaging text andemails. Why wasn't Lindsay in there?
What it like? So no problem. We did the song and we had
such such a great tie with that. That was that coming from her side
of the family. It really wasn'tit. She was totally. Lindsey was
there the whole time and we're youknow, she was involved in it.
She was telling college, just putyour arm around him here and do that,
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you know, kiss him on thecheek here. So it was totally
fine, But it was other peopleoutside of that. It just that we're
not expecting me to be with anotherwoman, I guess. But yeah,
um it was. It was stillfun. But yeah, we we shot
just like a woman. And uh, that was a lot of fun.
I got to work with my wifeand and see her act and you know,
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and that was that was it wasa lot of fun to do.
Now you have a daughter, Ido, and she is now she's a
grown woman if you ask her,dude, in a couple of years,
she's going to be a teenager andthat's going to accelerate even more. Absolutely,
are you ready for that? No? No, in every in every
form of the word. No.Uh, She'll always be my baby,
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right, That's always my baby girl, no matter how big she gets or
how old. And um, she'srecently found uh boys, and I'm oh,
no, I'm uncomfortable with this becauseI just don't know how to react
to that. She's recently started toshe loves Joe Burrow and she loves uh
Sam Hunt and she loves you know, he's other Morgan Wallen. Oh my
(17:48):
goodness, Morgan Wallen. So it'sit's it's becoming a thing. And we're
gonna have a problem with that becauseshe's just absolutely dropped bag gorgeous. So
it's it's only gonna get Yeah,she read my baby though, that's my
baby. Are you? Uh,do you consider yourself an overprotective dad?
I do. I do consider myselfoverprotective. Um, mainly in the fact
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because I was I was a verybad child. Okay, I was a
very bad I was a bad boy. So I know where are you that's
the ultimate question. While I wasarrested and thrown out of high school,
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um, okay, and went tojail. So you know, as far
as all right, I don't knowhow deep into the podcast we can go.
Well, look that that's why.That's why we're sitting here. That's
okay, that's why we're sitting acrossfrom me, to tell your story,
to tell things that have happened inyour life. Like I didn't know,
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well, I knew you went toNashville, and I knew you had a
tough time of it, yes,um, but I didn't know that you
had your truck repossessed. I mean, that's almost every country singers situation.
The song, the song is calledBroken Road, and that's the song I
wrote after I left Nashville, andthat's that's exactly what it was. Okay.
So okay, the quick version is, I was seventeen years old,
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I was in high school. Schoolwas not going well for me. I
was never going to be a rocketscientist, Okay. Uh So I was
focusing on music, and I wasdoing things that I should not have been
with, people that I should nothave been with, and I was partaking
in I'm just try to say thispolitically correct. I was partaking in what
(19:36):
is now pretty much legalized throughout theentire country. Okay, in the parking
lot of the school. Should nothave been there, should not have done
it. Totally my fault, that'sall me. So you were dancing,
you were quote unquote dancing in public. I was dancing in public exactly,
that's all. That's it, um. And the cops found out, the
principal found out, shut the schooldown, arrested me on site, oh
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oh, and expelled me from highschool from then on. That So you
were a senior, No, Iwas I was finishing up my sophomore year.
Oh that's right, because I'm sorry, No, no, no,
I'm just keep bringing it up,keep telling them about it. So you
were held back. I was heldback. You were seventeen and a sophomore
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in school. I was finishing sophomore, yes, finishing sophomore. Yeah,
and then this particular situation popped upand the police were called in and you
were expelled. Yes, that's it, And that ended my school career.
At that point, I was notgoing to My options were to homeschool or
wait two years and come back asa nineteen year old eleventh grader. That
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was not gonna happen. No,So that was not gonna happen. I
mean you could, I mean atthat age you could. You could have
been a teacher, right exactly.Yeah, yeah, no, no,
it was not gonna happen. Soit wasn't long after I got my audition
to Branson to go to Branson,Missouri, and I spent two years in
Branson. Now, how was thatexperience? Amazing? That was that was
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that Branson? And I credit mystage ability for anything that I do on
stage to Branson because they teach youhow to perform for a live audience.
They showed me how to dance andhow to engage the audience and how to,
you know, just just what todo on stage because before that I
had no idea. They mean Iwas college. The shows that I was
in in Branson. I was inseveral different stage shows for almost three years.
(21:30):
Okay, so you weren't doing yourown thing, you were working.
Yes, I was in other show, Mo Bandy. I was in Mo
Bandy show for a little while.You remember Mo BANDI back in Moe Bandy.
Um. I did a band JillStanley Stanley, Yeah, man Um
I did. Uh. I wasin Mickey Gilley's show for a little while,
singer and singer. And then allof these and all of these shows
(21:52):
you were backup. So I wasbackup singers and I did variety shows where
we changed costumes nine times throughout theshow. It was a really really cool
learning experience and one that I'm veryproud to say that I did, and
it taught me so much. Thatwas my college. So I dropped out
of high school and went directly intomusic college for me, and that that
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did a world of difference, worldof difference. So in comparison to Nashville.
It was just no comparison, nocomparison. This was before Nashville.
So I left Branson to go toNashville. Ah, that's when I'm like,
here's you know, I've had allthe experience. Now I'm gonna go
to Nashville and be a big star, right, and there's all everything,
all my experience so far has beenokay. After I left high school,
this is gonna be amazing. I'mgonna be the next Skinny Chesney. Knock
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knock, Nashville. Here I come. And it was complete opposite. It
was the complete opposite to get arrestedin Branson. I did not get arrested
in Branson. No, I didnot get arrested in Branson. No problems
there. It was awesome. It'sa great experience and I loved it.
But I ultimately I wanted to domy own songs. I wanted to do
my own music. I want todo my own thing, and Nashville was
(22:56):
the next logical step and it wasnot. And I left Nashville and moved
to New York. So I waiteda minute, not wait a minute.
Yeah, I've been knowing you along time. I had no idea you
lived in New York and after Ileft Nashville, I came home and I'm
(23:17):
like, Okay, what do Ido now? How do I start a
band? How do I do this? I was trying to figure all of
that out, working odd jobs,and I got a call from a producer
who was producing a show in NewYork and he's like, you know,
I know you from Branson. Imet him in Branson, you know,
when we were there or whatever.And he's like, I know you're great,
you'd fit the role perfect. Cameaudition, Come do this, and
(23:40):
if you're right, we'll set youup in New York. It's an off
Broadway play, which it's gonna bea part of it. I auditioned and
I got it. They flew meout to New York. I was in
New York for about six months.Oh kidding. I was what's the name
of the play, so you knowthe Blues Brothers. Yeah, I was
Elwood Blues. I had the thelong side urns going down, Yeah I
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did. I had to learn theentire show in its entirety. The only
thing I didn't do was play harmonica. That was the only thing that was
lacking in my in my abilities,But I had, I had. I
nailed Elwood Blues. I watched themovie a gazillion times, learned all of
the songs, all of the danceroutine, and I spent six months mid
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Western accent did Western accent. Itwas It was awesome. It was awesome.
And I spent six months in atheater in New York and another great
killer learning opportunity in a different statethat nobody knew who I was. I
literally started over and it was avery very cool experience in a very short
amount of time. For me leavinghigh school to me coming back home and
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starting what is now the Chase TylerBand was about five years. And I
learned everything that I know. Itis very quick, It is very quick.
And I learned everything that I neededto know about music and the industry,
and I came home and start myown band. You went to the
school of hard knocks, big time, big time. I've been through it,
man, I've been through it,but it's all led me to who
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I am, and you know,and that's that's how come. You know.
I love the songs that we doand the shows that that we put
on, I feel like are veryenergetic and positive and that's what we want
to get across to everybody. Andyou do a lot of New Year's Eve
stuff. Oh yeah, a lotof New Year's Eve stuff. Yeah.
Uh, you know we have aNew Year's Eve show coming up. Um,
this will be our tenth time atthe Crown Plaza. I've been done,
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man, I'm I love it.I love New Year's Eve stuff.
There's so much fun. Everybody's ina great mood. Everybody's happy and festive,
and everybody wants to dance and singin party and you know, yeah
New Year's Eve is is it given? And you get to kiss your wife
at midnight? Absolutely every little kissat any better than that at midnight.
So you have the Chase Tyler band. Yeah. Uh. Is it difficult
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holding a band together because I knowthere's always lineup changes? Oh always,
Yeah. Putting a band together isthe second hardest thing that I've ever done.
Keeping a band together, it's thefirst hardest thing that I've ever had
to do, because everybody has differentideas, different schedules, different this different
that I've been really fortunate enough tokeep most of the same guys from from
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starting out a very long time,and they're they're amazing and it is difficult
sometimes. I mean, look,COVID obviously hurt everybody, right, and
that was difficult on everybody. Butkeeping a band, this is all we
did. There's six guys on stageand we all played music for a living.
So when COVID hit, all ofthat shut down and we all had
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to go get real jobs to beable to We had no gigs. We
all seventy six dates in twenty twentyalone, so we all had to go
get real jobs and still try tomake things happen musically. And when it
shows started to come back a littlebit, some of the guys weren't able
to just come back. You know. They're like, man, I got
a good job, I got awife, got a kid. You know,
I totally get it. So sometimesyou have to make those tough decisions,
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move people in and out and justfind wood works. Who are your
current band members? Oh, man, I got JD. White Jad has
been with me now going on it'sbeen close to eight years, so he's
the longest running band member and justan amazing guitar talent. Gregory Fuque on
the keys from Walker Louisiana, theWalker Legend. He's been with me probably
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about five years. The newest memberswould be the bass player who's been with
me about a year. He's fromRochester, New York. And the drummer
is the newest member who's been withme about a year as well. He's
from matt Super super nice guy.And then of course the lovely and talented
miss Ambert McCann from Baton Rouge.I'm glad you recruited her because she's such
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a talent. She's look and alot of people don't realize him. Just
an amazing voice of an angel,but in soul as well. She is
just a sweetheart of a person andbrings nothing but positive energy to the band
and just makes us sound so muchbetter. Yeah, there's some songs that
she'll do Shanaya and some Carrie andit's like wow. I mean her voice
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just shakes the roof. It does, it does, and that's why we
like to showcase her and it worksreally well. We can do duets,
I can step back, have asimple water, let her take over the
show and it just man, itreally works out well and she's so good
at it. I have a request. I do request, okay, if
you can fit in an Eagle songor two during your set. That great,
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boy. We have been working onsomething that that's right, and I
don't know that it's ready yet,but there is something in the works and
we will send that out to you. It's okay, good, Yes,
I can't wait. Very very verycool stuff, all right. So if
someone wanted to look up the newsingle, how do they do that?
Anywhere you download music. It isofficially available today, So anywhere you get
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iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify,anywhere you download your music, just look
up the Chase Tyler band singles calledSouthern Summertime and we would appreciate all your
support absolutely. Now, if somebodywanted to reach out to you via social
networking, yeah they do that.Chase Tyler Band, Facebook, Instagram,
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all of the fun stuff. Justcheck us out and give us a like
and a follow, and we'd appreciateit. What about my Space, Nah,
my Space I had on my Spaceabsolutely, I'm that old, so
old. Yeah that what it wasthe absolute and then you could you could
change your background. Remember that Ihad all the sparkles. Point really got
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tacky kids. My Space was Facebookbefore Facebook was Facebook. Okay. Yeah,
MySpace actually was kind of fun,and that there were no MySpace jails.
Right. No, this was beforeany you know, yeah, I
mean you could communicate with people andtalk to them and whatnot. This is
before iPhones too, so you know, he really had to get on a
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computer and sit down and do that. So it's yeah, yeah, that's
that's a whole different world now.Man, it seems like so long ago.
Who was it that trying to revitalizemy space? Just Lake? Yeah,
didn't he buy it? He boughtit. He bought it after he
was in the movie the social mediaand the social network. I think,
yeah, he's like, I'm gonnabuy it and I'm gonna try to redo
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it. And then I think hehad good plans and yeah, it just
yeah, it was time. Itjust didn't work. Oh well it's over.
That's how that's how it goes.Chase, thanks for talking with us.
Thank you appreciate it. Man,Thank you. I know you're on
the road now and that's that's whatyou love. What's the before we let
you go? I'm just curious,what's the farthest place that you've played from
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Louisiana, Charlevoi, Michigan. Wedid the Venetian Yacht Festival in char LaVoi.
That's that's in the up the UpperPeninsula. If anybody knows anything about
Michigan, Uh, that's up toeverybody. And that was amazing, really
it was. They flew us upthere in a jet and it was very
very cool. We got to dothe whole festival, thousands of people and
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man, it was just a delight. It really was cool. Really was
cool. Boyd Michigan, all right, follow follow Chase Tyler band online and
Facebook and Twitter and all that stuff. So Chase, thanks for talking with
us. Tell your lovely wife,lindsay hello, and your beautiful daughter tell
her hello, and keep the guysaway from him. I'm gonna try,
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trust me, all right. ChaseTyler Band, Chase Tyler from the Chase
Tyler Band. He's Chasing and Iam Austin James on backstage bands
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