Kelsey Hart reflects on a right time, wrong place kind of relationship on “Something That You’d Miss.” Despite wishing things were different, he doesn’t hold a grudge against the girl who chose her hometown over him. The tender, descriptive track paints a picture of fond memories and an amicable goodbye as he admits he can’t compete with the Carolina coast that captured her heart long before he did. The wistful original serves as the follow-up to Hart’s incendiary “Fireworks,” which impacted Country radio and was #3 Most Added.The country riser recognizes old habits die hard on “Fireworks.” Even as he’s lighting the fuse, he knows he’s playing with fire on a song that acknowledges that irresistible spark is bound to burn out. The explosive summertime jam and current radio single soundtracks the temporary highs that often lead to heartbreak and regret. A fresh twist on a familiar trope, “Fireworks” extends the Kentucky native’s line of new music that’s recently included searing, full-throttle original “I Went to the Bar” and propulsive, hard-hitting offering “Gone With the Wind.”Curb Records recording artist, songwriter, and Kentucky native Kelsey Hart has found his way into the artist spotlight, a place he’s dreamed of being since his childhood days of belting gospel music from the passenger seat in his Dad’s truck. With 190 million career streams, he is making an impact as the launch of his RIAA Gold, Top 30 debut radio single “Life With You” has garnered 130 million global streams, 650 million TikTok views, 1.1M TikTok Creates, debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Digital Songs Chart, and reached #1 on the Hot 30 Weekend Countdown on SiriusXM The Highway. As a songwriter, Hart has secured his place among the best and brightest in the community, penning songs for hitmakers such as Jake Owen, Dylan Scott, and Trace Adkins. Kelsey’s debut album, "Life With You," is available now. During 2025, Kelsey will be releasing more new music with “Gone With The Wind,” “I Went To The Bar,” and "Fireworks” available now, and “Something That You’d Miss” on August 22. This year, Hart toured with Restless Road as direct support on their Goin’ Out Like That Tour.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Arrow. How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Absolutely fantastic. How are you doing today, Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Man, Man, I gotta ask you a question before we
even get started here. That fireworks store that that's featured
in the video, where did you Where did you film
that video?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Where is that? Meg? I mean, I think it's out,
see yeah, it's out, it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was probably twenty minutes from my house and I'm
in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay. Yeah, because because you know how these firework stores
are in the in the South, especially in South Carolina.
I mean, it's it's such a major part of who
we are as people.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh man, I'm telling you. So it was cool about
that place?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Is they The guy came out and said, it's been
family owned for like years and years.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's in goodlet's feel. I just found out.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The song itself is just absolutely fantastic. It's it's one
of those songs that really catches on quickly. Did it
take you long to get to the hook because so
many people that's what people want? They want that look.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, so it was actually a song. I wasn't a
writer on this song. It was sent to me, and
you know, I just immediately loved the song, and I
thought they'd done such a great job on spending the
hook on that song. And you know, it's I think,
just a reality for so many people, you know, going
down that you know, going down a dead end road,
(01:23):
you know, sometimes just more than more than you need
to and you know, not you know, not moving on
from from something that's you know, that's that's bad for you.
And I think the way they you know, they did
that with Fireworks, you know, it's like it's all it's
all good for a minute, but but ends up back
in the dirt pretty quick. And yeah, I think they've
just done such a great job on writing it. And
(01:43):
I was just lucky to be able to record it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Where did you get that skill, then, to to be
able to take a story and share it like you've
lived it?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, Well, I will say that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, when I first got to Nashville, you know,
I didn't consider myself a writer really, you know, I'd
always I grew up singing a lot, but didn't consider
myself a writer. And I think, you know, it's just
it's just taking years to you know, being in the
room with people that are much better than me that
I can.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They they've taught me a lot over the years, and
I still got a lot to learn, but uh yeah,
I think I think just being in the room with
with people that you know can can kind of help
pull pull those ideas and thoughts out too, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, because I love being in the studio when you've
got that engineer that kind of looks at you and
you just know when it's like, okay, let's do it again,
hit let let's do it.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, that's the thing you get in
get in the room with that you know, people that
are that talented, and it's everybody usually knows when whether
it's a musical thing or a lyric thing, usually everybody
in the room knows when it when it's right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Did you save your studio notes? Because that's one of
my favorite things to do, is it? Because I like
to go back to a ten fifteen years later and
just sit there and see, you know, if I if
I agreed with the change that we made in the song.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Right, Yeah, yeah, we'll keep We'll keep some of those
some of those notes and talk about them.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah yeah, the song something that you'd miss. Oh boy,
this is the right time wrong place kind of a
relationship on this song, dude.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh man, it is that's a yeah, that's about a
girl that's going to uh you know that that thinks
she wants something that she don't you know, and uh
it ends up just not h you know, not being
really what she thought it was going to be and
not really geared towards you know, the relationship for nothing
personal with the guy. I think it's you know, we
(03:35):
wrote it just from a perspective of her missing, you know,
missing how she grew up and missing her hometown and
and you know, just dove into it a little too quick.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And it's almost like we can all relate with this
song because we know somebody who's gone through it or
they're going through it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, No, I think I think for for something you'd
miss and fireworks, you know, that's that's you know, it's
it's hopefully relatable, you know, to to a.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Lot of people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I know, everybody, I think at some point in their life,
maybe not currently, but everybody's kind of been through through
that to a degree at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Please do not move. There's more with Kelsey Hart coming
up next. Hey, welcome back to my conversation with singer
songwriter Kelsey Hart. One of your songs is appearing at
a lot of weddings these days. Dude, life with you.
I'm hearing it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, man, that was.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's been pretty crazy man to get to Uh, you know,
have a song that that so many people are using
for their wedding and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So it's yeh, super fortunate for that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Are you on the road? Are you doing? Are you
going to take it on the road? Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, So we've been been playing a lot of affairs
and festivals this summer, and yeah, hoping to to kind
of keep keep it rolling.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Throughout the throughout the fall.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And continue shows and hopefully get on a get on
a good tour for next year.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I'd love to see a coyote Joe's here in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh man, I still you gotta come out.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I would, I really would. I mean to me, you
know that that those those big bars like that are
the best place to catch country music because you still
have that vibration about Hey man, we're all one big,
happy music family sitting right here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, no, that's that's how you know.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've just done that restless road tour with those guys
playing the smaller clubs and stuff, and it was, yeah,
you definitely fill the energy in those places.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's a lot of fun. And you know what you said,
Kyote Joe's is that right? Yes, sir and Charlotte, Yes, sir. Yeah,
I played there a few months ago.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, and it was we played acoustic. Yeah, yeah, that
was that was really cool. I love that place. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That stage is like twelve feet off the ground, which
is like, what the heck, but it's such the experience.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, it's a I didn't realize how big the place
was until we got out there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, it's big. That's a big room.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah. The song Gone with the Wind, this is this
is a song that to me, I can't shake it. Dude.
What is it that you put into it to give
it that energy behind the hook?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, dude, Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That was one of my first times writing with a
producer in town named Jesse Frasier.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And you know, I felt like he had a He
had the track.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Going that day, like before you know, we showed up,
he had already had it, had it playing, and we
I felt like we that day we didn't even really
have the idea going into the room, but I feel
like the track kind of inspired inspired that idea, and
that just the whole feel behind that song. And it
was one man that just poured out. I mean we
we probably wrote the song in an hour and a
(06:47):
half and had he had it all tracked out, and
we used a lot of what he had that day
in the in the mix and in the you know
the version that you hear now. So it's yeah, that
was one of them that just yeah, came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Really Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Where can people go to find out more about you,
Kelsey and get some merchandise because I know you got
some of that for sale, I do.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Man, Kelsey Heart Music.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Is my you know, the handle for everything and yeah,
and then obviously my current single, Fireworks is at radio
and we've got all the you know, all the songs
on all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can check out everything everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah. You Well, please come back to the show anytime
in the future. And when you get back to Kyote
Joe's let's let's hook up, dude.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Let's do it. Man. Well, I appreciate you taking the
time talk to me.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, man, will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay hi buddy, thank you.
Arrow. How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Absolutely fantastic. How are you doing today, Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Man, Man, I gotta ask you a question before we
even get started here. That fireworks store that that's featured
in the video, where did you Where did you film
that video?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Where is that? Meg? I mean, I think it's out,
see yeah, it's out, it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was probably twenty minutes from my house and I'm
in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay. Yeah, because because you know how these firework stores
are in the in the South, especially in South Carolina.
I mean, it's it's such a major part of who
we are as people.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh man, I'm telling you. So it was cool about
that place?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Is they The guy came out and said, it's been
family owned for like years and years.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's in goodlet's feel. I just found out.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The song itself is just absolutely fantastic. It's it's one
of those songs that really catches on quickly. Did it
take you long to get to the hook because so
many people that's what people want? They want that look.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, so it was actually a song. I wasn't a
writer on this song. It was sent to me, and
you know, I just immediately loved the song, and I
thought they'd done such a great job on spending the
hook on that song. And you know, it's I think,
just a reality for so many people, you know, going
down that you know, going down a dead end road,
(01:23):
you know, sometimes just more than more than you need
to and you know, not you know, not moving on
from from something that's you know, that's that's bad for you.
And I think the way they you know, they did
that with Fireworks, you know, it's like it's all it's
all good for a minute, but but ends up back
in the dirt pretty quick. And yeah, I think they've
just done such a great job on writing it. And
(01:43):
I was just lucky to be able to record it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Where did you get that skill, then, to to be
able to take a story and share it like you've
lived it?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, Well, I will say that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, when I first got to Nashville, you know,
I didn't consider myself a writer really, you know, I'd
always I grew up singing a lot, but didn't consider
myself a writer. And I think, you know, it's just
it's just taking years to you know, being in the
room with people that are much better than me that
I can.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They they've taught me a lot over the years, and
I still got a lot to learn, but uh yeah,
I think I think just being in the room with
with people that you know can can kind of help
pull pull those ideas and thoughts out too, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, because I love being in the studio when you've
got that engineer that kind of looks at you and
you just know when it's like, okay, let's do it again,
hit let let's do it.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, that's the thing you get in
get in the room with that you know, people that
are that talented, and it's everybody usually knows when whether
it's a musical thing or a lyric thing, usually everybody
in the room knows when it when it's right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Did you save your studio notes? Because that's one of
my favorite things to do, is it? Because I like
to go back to a ten fifteen years later and
just sit there and see, you know, if I if
I agreed with the change that we made in the song.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Right, Yeah, yeah, we'll keep We'll keep some of those
some of those notes and talk about them.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah yeah, the song something that you'd miss. Oh boy,
this is the right time wrong place kind of a
relationship on this song, dude.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh man, it is that's a yeah, that's about a
girl that's going to uh you know that that thinks
she wants something that she don't you know, and uh
it ends up just not h you know, not being
really what she thought it was going to be and
not really geared towards you know, the relationship for nothing
personal with the guy. I think it's you know, we
(03:35):
wrote it just from a perspective of her missing, you know,
missing how she grew up and missing her hometown and
and you know, just dove into it a little too quick.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And it's almost like we can all relate with this
song because we know somebody who's gone through it or
they're going through it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, No, I think I think for for something you'd
miss and fireworks, you know, that's that's you know, it's
it's hopefully relatable, you know, to to a.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Lot of people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I know, everybody, I think at some point in their life,
maybe not currently, but everybody's kind of been through through
that to a degree at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Please do not move. There's more with Kelsey Hart coming
up next. Hey, welcome back to my conversation with singer
songwriter Kelsey Hart. One of your songs is appearing at
a lot of weddings these days. Dude, life with you.
I'm hearing it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, man, that was.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's been pretty crazy man to get to Uh, you know,
have a song that that so many people are using
for their wedding and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So it's yeh, super fortunate for that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Are you on the road? Are you doing? Are you
going to take it on the road? Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, So we've been been playing a lot of affairs
and festivals this summer, and yeah, hoping to to kind
of keep keep it rolling.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Throughout the throughout the fall.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And continue shows and hopefully get on a get on
a good tour for next year.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I'd love to see a coyote Joe's here in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh man, I still you gotta come out.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I would, I really would. I mean to me, you
know that that those those big bars like that are
the best place to catch country music because you still
have that vibration about Hey man, we're all one big,
happy music family sitting right here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, no, that's that's how you know.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've just done that restless road tour with those guys
playing the smaller clubs and stuff, and it was, yeah,
you definitely fill the energy in those places.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's a lot of fun. And you know what you said,
Kyote Joe's is that right? Yes, sir and Charlotte, Yes, sir. Yeah,
I played there a few months ago.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, and it was we played acoustic. Yeah, yeah, that
was that was really cool. I love that place. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That stage is like twelve feet off the ground, which
is like, what the heck, but it's such the experience.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, it's a I didn't realize how big the place
was until we got out there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, it's big. That's a big room.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah. The song Gone with the Wind, this is this
is a song that to me, I can't shake it. Dude.
What is it that you put into it to give
it that energy behind the hook?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Man, dude, Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That was one of my first times writing with a
producer in town named Jesse Frasier.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And you know, I felt like he had a He
had the track.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Going that day, like before you know, we showed up,
he had already had it, had it playing, and we
I felt like we that day we didn't even really
have the idea going into the room, but I feel
like the track kind of inspired inspired that idea, and
that just the whole feel behind that song. And it
was one man that just poured out. I mean we
we probably wrote the song in an hour and a
(06:47):
half and had he had it all tracked out, and
we used a lot of what he had that day
in the in the mix and in the you know
the version that you hear now. So it's yeah, that
was one of them that just yeah, came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Really Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Where can people go to find out more about you,
Kelsey and get some merchandise because I know you got
some of that for sale, I do.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Man, Kelsey Heart Music.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Is my you know, the handle for everything and yeah,
and then obviously my current single, Fireworks is at radio
and we've got all the you know, all the songs
on all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can check out everything everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah. You Well, please come back to the show anytime
in the future. And when you get back to Kyote
Joe's let's let's hook up, dude.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Let's do it. Man. Well, I appreciate you taking the
time talk to me.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, man, will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay hi buddy, thank you.
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