January 19, 2024 • 10 mins
On this episode of Backstage Pass with Austin James, former American Idol winner and South Louisiana resident Laine Hardy, opens up about his personal life and gives us some information on new music!
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(00:17):
And welcome to Backstage Pass. Iam Austin James, and I'm sorry about
that. You're not supposed to eatwhile you were on the air doing a
show. But these women cookies fromthe Girl Scouts are amazing. They dropped
off a whole bunch of cookies forus, so I've been having some Womon
cookies. So on this edition ofBackstage Pass, we are going to talk
to a guy that you probably knowof household name. His name is Lane
(00:42):
Hardy. Probably remember him from theAmerican Idol days and doing a lot of
tours and whatnot. Well he's beentaking a break because basically he said he
needed it, and well we'll letLane explain that. Lane, how you
doing, man, I'm doing goodand good to see you. You have
your cousin Casey with you. He'syour bass player, going to be playing
(01:03):
a lot of shows, and ofcourse your dog Jet and wait, don't
tell me Golden Doodle. Yes,I got it right, finally, Okay,
good, So dude, welcome back. It's been a while and you
took a much needed, I guessdeserved break a little rest. Tell us
about that. I've had a lotof time to kind of hone my craft
(01:27):
of playing guitar and also songwriting.I've worked on a lot of songs,
and I've also worked on my likeproducing things kind of thing at my house.
I have a studio at my house. Oh good, it's ten foot
off the ground. We call itthe Chicken Coop. We got fifteen pilings
(01:51):
and it's a pole barn up tenfoot for no, we've never heard of
a recording studio called the Chicken Coop. It's called the Chicken I love that.
It's because it's next to the realchicken coop. Okay, good,
yeah, good. So after youproduce a session, you can go out
and collect eggs, yes, sir, awesome? Okay awesome. What about
some new music? Man? Iknow you've got the standards that you like
to play, like a Hurricane byleon I Everad and some other tunes,
(02:15):
But what about some new musaic fromLane Hearty I've written with other people up
in Nashville. Last year, Iwrote a good bit of songs. Out
of those songs my favorites, I'mgonna be releasing this year, one or
two at first, and then maybean album. I don't know, but
(02:37):
I really like I really like thesongs that I wrote, because they they're
true. Right, You've had somechanges in your life, and of course
I don't know if you're shopping fora new label. I mean, what's
the what's the word on that?Of A lot of labels reached out to
you, A lot of other folkshave reached out to you said, hey,
let's collaborate and let's make some music. H Well, I'm not in
(03:00):
a hurry or any kind of hastinessto jump on any kind of deal,
uh, being that I want tomake sure that I have my own kind
of foundation of what I want beforeI jump on something like that, because
I want to know what I wantbefore other people kind of helped me to
make decisions for that. Sure,you said that you wanted to, I
(03:23):
guess take things at an easier pace. You wanted to kind of not really
slack off a little bit, butkind of choose pick and choose the shows
that you want to perform, andwhere do you want to perform, and
and when you'd like to perform whereyou kind of, I don't know,
(03:43):
burnt out on a lot of thestuff that was that was going on with
the touring and the and the goinghere and going there and and and the
and the rigorous schedule that you hadat that time. I mean, I
don't think I was burnt out.I was. I just did have any
time home or like away from musicitself because music was everything for me and
(04:09):
that's what all I depended on andI didn't know I did, so like
being I had some time to kindof simmer down a little bit. I've
been able to disconnect from the musica little bit and not make it a
main focus because it's a selfish thingto do. So I didn't do.
I don't do. I like Ilearned that about it. But I don't
think I was burnout, but onlyburn out because of that. Yeah,
(04:30):
do you think that you may havecontributed to more creativity that way, you
know, kind of taking a breath, maybe taking a step back. Yes,
if you force creativity, it won'twork because it will be fake.
Yeah, it won't be fake.I'm musa say, like creativity that takes
a lot of effort, mental effortto make and it causes like obstacles to
(04:57):
finish it or something. That's whenyou know you need to take a little
breather or break or something like that, because it's never gonna it's like a
writer's block thing. Really, Yeah, are you collaborating or writing with the
same folks that you did, say, a few years ago, or you're
finding some new writers to sit downwith and write new songs. I've written
(05:18):
with the same people through like throughoutthe past few years or whatever, but
I've also had new opportunities to writewith other people. I haven't written with
or with the same people with addingother people or something like that. But
I've somebody that's that I really grewup like a relationship with up in Nashville,
(05:43):
like a connection. Wise is Abbygucci Areas. He wrote Long Lived
Cowgirls. Okay, he wrote itwith other people. He didn't just write
it, you know what I mean? Right, there's other writers I just
don't remember. But yeah, Italked to him the other day and uh,
we're actually scheduling to write from March. Okay. So he's one guy
that I like to go write with. Eric Dillon also, And there's a
(06:05):
bunch of good writers out there thatthey don't get enough credit for what they
do. So how often do youget a chance to go up to Nashville.
I'll go up there if I schedulesomething or somebody's available. To write
or they have an open day orsomething like that, because I think it's
like one hundred to one hundred andfifty songs a day are written out as
(06:27):
you're writing a song. There's hundredsof other people writing a song too.
Yeah, so that's pretty cool.Yeah, it's like a metropolitan songwriting town.
Wow. Yeah, Well, Nashvillein and of itself has changed.
Yeah, there are a lot ofother creative influences that have cast themselves upon
the city. So there's a lotof information out there, there's a lot
(06:50):
of there's a plenty of bodies ofwork from which to choose. So I
think you're in a good spot now. Country is I guess near and dear
to your heart? Is that theformat that you'd like to pursue. Are
the other kinds of formats you're lookingat? Or what's the deal? I
mean, how are you going tomix yourself? Well, the way of
(07:12):
living is country for me, andcountry music is founded upon that, which
is George Jones and all that kindof old classic stuff that they were country
boys that had something to say andthey said the truth. So I think
me keeping like, I'm always goingto be country at heart as a person,
sure. The style wise, it'llbe country, but it also have
(07:36):
my influences blended with it, likeLeonard Skinner and Modern Eye all that kind
of stuff. Yeah, a littlebit like not like Whiskey Myers or anything
like that. I love Whiskey Myers, but it would be something that I
kind of like put my head toand I'm like, I like to compose
this stuff. So well, you'rea great guitar player. Have you ever
(07:57):
considered playing the spoons on stage?I have mister Jody and Walker he got
one of those. Yeah, right, yeah, one of the things that
rank well, if you ever needan extra band member, I'm really good
at spoons. You don't you doingall that stuff? I could jump on
stage with you all. So wewere talking about just getting far away from
(08:20):
music, talking about the kind ofweather that you like. Uh, winter
as opposed to summer. What doyou like winter? Summer? Winter?
Yeah? Why's that? I cantake off layers of clothes if I get
too hot, yeah, or ifit's too cold, then I'm going to
deal with it. But right ifI can help it and it gets like
(08:41):
if the weather, yeah, ifthe weather gets hotter or something, I
could just take layers off if Igot would you rather go to the hunting
camp or take the boat out onthe water in the summertime and fish take
the boat out, take the boatout on the water and go fishing or
something. Okay, your brother wasgonna confiscate your boat. A couple of
(09:01):
years ago. You had just gottena boat and you were on the road
and you basically told you brother,hey, man, just stay away from
the boat. Yep, that didn'thappen, though, I'm talking to you.
He's gonna listen to this later.I'm gonna tell him. He's gonna
be listening right now. Yeah,I just want to tell you I'm just
joking. But he did. Ilet him use it sometimes, but that
thing was raggedy. I loved itthough, couldn't complain one time. But
(09:24):
and then I got home and itwas well, it wasn't in good condition.
Yeah, it wasn't his thought though. Yeah, hey, look man,
you know that's what a boat isfor. And they got another thousand.
I love that Lane. It's beena pleasure talking with you, dude.
I know you've been busy and we'repulling for you, and we cannot
(09:46):
wait to hear some new music fromLane. Hardy. Will you let us
know the very first time that it'sreleased, Yes, sir I will.
Can you please knock on the doorand come on in and sit down with
us and we'll play some new musicfrom Lane Hardy because I can't wait.
Yes, sir, I appreciate that. All right, Lane Harty is on
Backstage Pass. Thank you so muchfor listening. Thanks to Lane and his
(10:09):
family for coming in and spending sometime with us. Remember, you can
catch more episodes of Backstage Pass onour free iHeartRadio app.
And welcome to Backstage Pass. Iam Austin James, and I'm sorry about
that. You're not supposed to eatwhile you were on the air doing a
show. But these women cookies fromthe Girl Scouts are amazing. They dropped
off a whole bunch of cookies forus, so I've been having some Womon
cookies. So on this edition ofBackstage Pass, we are going to talk
to a guy that you probably knowof household name. His name is Lane
(00:42):
Hardy. Probably remember him from theAmerican Idol days and doing a lot of
tours and whatnot. Well he's beentaking a break because basically he said he
needed it, and well we'll letLane explain that. Lane, how you
doing, man, I'm doing goodand good to see you. You have
your cousin Casey with you. He'syour bass player, going to be playing
(01:03):
a lot of shows, and ofcourse your dog Jet and wait, don't
tell me Golden Doodle. Yes,I got it right, finally, Okay,
good, So dude, welcome back. It's been a while and you
took a much needed, I guessdeserved break a little rest. Tell us
about that. I've had a lotof time to kind of hone my craft
(01:27):
of playing guitar and also songwriting.I've worked on a lot of songs,
and I've also worked on my likeproducing things kind of thing at my house.
I have a studio at my house. Oh good, it's ten foot
off the ground. We call itthe Chicken Coop. We got fifteen pilings
(01:51):
and it's a pole barn up tenfoot for no, we've never heard of
a recording studio called the Chicken Coop. It's called the Chicken I love that.
It's because it's next to the realchicken coop. Okay, good,
yeah, good. So after youproduce a session, you can go out
and collect eggs, yes, sir, awesome? Okay awesome. What about
some new music? Man? Iknow you've got the standards that you like
to play, like a Hurricane byleon I Everad and some other tunes,
(02:15):
But what about some new musaic fromLane Hearty I've written with other people up
in Nashville. Last year, Iwrote a good bit of songs. Out
of those songs my favorites, I'mgonna be releasing this year, one or
two at first, and then maybean album. I don't know, but
(02:37):
I really like I really like thesongs that I wrote, because they they're
true. Right, You've had somechanges in your life, and of course
I don't know if you're shopping fora new label. I mean, what's
the what's the word on that?Of A lot of labels reached out to
you, A lot of other folkshave reached out to you said, hey,
let's collaborate and let's make some music. H Well, I'm not in
(03:00):
a hurry or any kind of hastinessto jump on any kind of deal,
uh, being that I want tomake sure that I have my own kind
of foundation of what I want beforeI jump on something like that, because
I want to know what I wantbefore other people kind of helped me to
make decisions for that. Sure,you said that you wanted to, I
(03:23):
guess take things at an easier pace. You wanted to kind of not really
slack off a little bit, butkind of choose pick and choose the shows
that you want to perform, andwhere do you want to perform, and
and when you'd like to perform whereyou kind of, I don't know,
(03:43):
burnt out on a lot of thestuff that was that was going on with
the touring and the and the goinghere and going there and and and the
and the rigorous schedule that you hadat that time. I mean, I
don't think I was burnt out.I was. I just did have any
time home or like away from musicitself because music was everything for me and
(04:09):
that's what all I depended on andI didn't know I did, so like
being I had some time to kindof simmer down a little bit. I've
been able to disconnect from the musica little bit and not make it a
main focus because it's a selfish thingto do. So I didn't do.
I don't do. I like Ilearned that about it. But I don't
think I was burnout, but onlyburn out because of that. Yeah,
(04:30):
do you think that you may havecontributed to more creativity that way, you
know, kind of taking a breath, maybe taking a step back. Yes,
if you force creativity, it won'twork because it will be fake.
Yeah, it won't be fake.I'm musa say, like creativity that takes
a lot of effort, mental effortto make and it causes like obstacles to
(04:57):
finish it or something. That's whenyou know you need to take a little
breather or break or something like that, because it's never gonna it's like a
writer's block thing. Really, Yeah, are you collaborating or writing with the
same folks that you did, say, a few years ago, or you're
finding some new writers to sit downwith and write new songs. I've written
(05:18):
with the same people through like throughoutthe past few years or whatever, but
I've also had new opportunities to writewith other people. I haven't written with
or with the same people with addingother people or something like that. But
I've somebody that's that I really grewup like a relationship with up in Nashville,
(05:43):
like a connection. Wise is Abbygucci Areas. He wrote Long Lived
Cowgirls. Okay, he wrote itwith other people. He didn't just write
it, you know what I mean? Right, there's other writers I just
don't remember. But yeah, Italked to him the other day and uh,
we're actually scheduling to write from March. Okay. So he's one guy
that I like to go write with. Eric Dillon also, And there's a
(06:05):
bunch of good writers out there thatthey don't get enough credit for what they
do. So how often do youget a chance to go up to Nashville.
I'll go up there if I schedulesomething or somebody's available. To write
or they have an open day orsomething like that, because I think it's
like one hundred to one hundred andfifty songs a day are written out as
(06:27):
you're writing a song. There's hundredsof other people writing a song too.
Yeah, so that's pretty cool.Yeah, it's like a metropolitan songwriting town.
Wow. Yeah, Well, Nashvillein and of itself has changed.
Yeah, there are a lot ofother creative influences that have cast themselves upon
the city. So there's a lotof information out there, there's a lot
(06:50):
of there's a plenty of bodies ofwork from which to choose. So I
think you're in a good spot now. Country is I guess near and dear
to your heart? Is that theformat that you'd like to pursue. Are
the other kinds of formats you're lookingat? Or what's the deal? I
mean, how are you going tomix yourself? Well, the way of
(07:12):
living is country for me, andcountry music is founded upon that, which
is George Jones and all that kindof old classic stuff that they were country
boys that had something to say andthey said the truth. So I think
me keeping like, I'm always goingto be country at heart as a person,
sure. The style wise, it'llbe country, but it also have
(07:36):
my influences blended with it, likeLeonard Skinner and Modern Eye all that kind
of stuff. Yeah, a littlebit like not like Whiskey Myers or anything
like that. I love Whiskey Myers, but it would be something that I
kind of like put my head toand I'm like, I like to compose
this stuff. So well, you'rea great guitar player. Have you ever
(07:57):
considered playing the spoons on stage?I have mister Jody and Walker he got
one of those. Yeah, right, yeah, one of the things that
rank well, if you ever needan extra band member, I'm really good
at spoons. You don't you doingall that stuff? I could jump on
stage with you all. So wewere talking about just getting far away from
(08:20):
music, talking about the kind ofweather that you like. Uh, winter
as opposed to summer. What doyou like winter? Summer? Winter?
Yeah? Why's that? I cantake off layers of clothes if I get
too hot, yeah, or ifit's too cold, then I'm going to
deal with it. But right ifI can help it and it gets like
(08:41):
if the weather, yeah, ifthe weather gets hotter or something, I
could just take layers off if Igot would you rather go to the hunting
camp or take the boat out onthe water in the summertime and fish take
the boat out, take the boatout on the water and go fishing or
something. Okay, your brother wasgonna confiscate your boat. A couple of
(09:01):
years ago. You had just gottena boat and you were on the road
and you basically told you brother,hey, man, just stay away from
the boat. Yep, that didn'thappen, though, I'm talking to you.
He's gonna listen to this later.I'm gonna tell him. He's gonna
be listening right now. Yeah,I just want to tell you I'm just
joking. But he did. Ilet him use it sometimes, but that
thing was raggedy. I loved itthough, couldn't complain one time. But
(09:24):
and then I got home and itwas well, it wasn't in good condition.
Yeah, it wasn't his thought though. Yeah, hey, look man,
you know that's what a boat isfor. And they got another thousand.
I love that Lane. It's beena pleasure talking with you, dude.
I know you've been busy and we'repulling for you, and we cannot
(09:46):
wait to hear some new music fromLane. Hardy. Will you let us
know the very first time that it'sreleased, Yes, sir I will.
Can you please knock on the doorand come on in and sit down with
us and we'll play some new musicfrom Lane Hardy because I can't wait.
Yes, sir, I appreciate that. All right, Lane Harty is on
Backstage Pass. Thank you so muchfor listening. Thanks to Lane and his
(10:09):
family for coming in and spending sometime with us. Remember, you can
catch more episodes of Backstage Pass onour free iHeartRadio app.
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