E063- Talk with Teddy - Artist Sunshine James Nashville Singer/Songwriter

We sit down with a young man from Nashville, TN and discuss his love of music and even hear a few songs. Sunshine James is amazing folks. Country Music Fans will love him. Expect to see him on the big stage in the near future.

Episode Transcript

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Heard of the same old, sameold fin Checko Talk with Teddy. It's
a variety show and each week thereare new guests and new topics. What
started because of the epidemic and socialdistancing is now casting shadows over other shows.
Talk with Teddy Tuesday, Thursday,and Saturday nights at eleven pm Eastern
Standard Time, only on WLFE dBRadio Network. Al Right, everybody,

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awesome, awesome. We are heretonight and we are talking with a gentleman
who is in Nashville. He hasa singer songwriter, and he's a friend
of actually a few of mine,actually Eliza, she's good friends on this
web and I asked him a whileback to join us, and we finally

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got him here, which I'm veryexcited about. And we're going to talk
about his music and all that.His name first off, because they call
him Sunshine James. So Sunshine James, welcome to the show. Thanks for
having me. Man, Hey,not a problem. I'm glad we finally
got you here, so it'd bea fun time. So I I gotta

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ask real quick before we get intoanything else. Sunshine James, where did
that come from? Well, Along time ago, I was when I
lived in Buffalo. I was justout of high school and I was running
furniture in Bailey Broadway area, soa tifferent area in Buffalo, and I

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was walking downstairs after delivering some furnitureand his huge, monstrous guy thugged out
tattoo tear drop tattoos. Building looksat me and he goes, you look
like Sunshine moving the Titans. Iwas like, okay, cool, But

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that that tagged on the ghetto peopleremember it. And I told my producer
that a few years ago and goesthat name can sell some T shirts my
middle name to James. So,yeah, no, that's awesome, man.
I think it's I think it's decent. I like it. I like
the story too. Yeah. Allright, So we're gonna say hi over

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here to my watch party. We'regonna say hi to Jim Jenkins, our
Jerkins, and we're gonna say helloto La Dame Martin and Desiraate over there.
Um other ones are coming in here. One of our top fans,
Chanel Fletchers in the house, andso is Tom and there's a whole bunch
more popping in here as well.We are on four outlets. We are
on WLF dB Radio um on theirFacebook as well as their YouTube, and

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then talk with Teddy Facebook and YouTubeas well. Hello Michelle Millins, Um,
so we're gonna get right into thisand we're gonna have some fun and
and and chat with this young manabout his singing career and all of that.
So real quick, tell me,tell me you know what happened,

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how you got into this, Likewas it something you decided like overnight or
was it something somebody said or karaoke? I'm terrible at everything else, so
you're terrible at everything else. Idon't know if I believe that. I

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grew up in a very, verymusical family. My mom was a singer
and she had a couple of dealsout here in Nashville. And my grandpa
her dad, same way. Mydad as a drummer. Grandma was a
piano like music was. I grewup out the campfire with a bunch of
old cowboys and bikers and pickers,and so it's just I've just been trying
to be them my whole life.Yeah. Well, I listened to a

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coup of your tunes today and um, you got the feel um of a
little bit of uh Chris Stapleton,there a little bit and you got the
look going as well. I see, Um, he's just what you said
that I didn't. I didn't saynothing. I was good. I was

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just giving you some some you know, uh what do they call it?
Uh? Some props? That's whatI was doing. But um, okay,
so real quick. His his littlebio that he sent to Meieceas.
I grew up in East Valley nearPhoenix, Arizona, and spent my childhood
weekends listening to my mother and grandfatherplaying same country music at local clubs.

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The experience and sold a passion forlive music, country music, especially.
I spent ten years playing in bandsand recording, first in Buffalo, New
York, then Denver, Colorado.I made my first solo EP in Denver
in a studio I helped build fromscratch on a label, and I helped
form and to which I was eventuallysigned. It's been a huge adventure living

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my dream, and it leads meto decide I have to make the move
to Nashville, which you did.I've been here ten months playing on Broadway.
I just finished working with friends tobuild a new studio where I'm working
on a full record that will beout in twenty twenty. That's amazing.
I like it, Thank you.Awesome. A lot of work, Well,

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yeah, I would guess, so, I would guess it would be
a lot of work. I don'tknow. I'm a musician as well.
I you know, eighteen years onthe road back and forth and finally retired
from it, and so I knowthe work that goes into it, especially
writing and the songs that you putout on your Reverb Nation and you know,

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stuff like that. I really enjoyed. You got a you got a
pretty unique voice on top of itall, which I think is very cool.
Um. And I've watched a coupleof live feeds with you and um
Eliza too, So I mean it'syou know, it's uh good stuff,
man, really good stuff. Thankyou. I mean yeah, Jill Jill

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const Oh yeah, she's uh,I've known her for a long time.
Yeah. Though it was a littlefun, just like trolling you guys during
that last interview. That's awesome,all right, So let's see what we
got in here. Frank Clevenger isin here. He's my Godzilla buddy.

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Um, he's in here. UhDominic he says love it, Uh.
Chanelle said shared. Uh. Joesays Sunshine. You are so handsome,
says Joe. Yes, it isall right, there you go. Um,
let's see Nick says, good evening. Um. Oh, and that's

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Liz on Frank's account. Well,okay, Liz, thanks for Jack and
your husband's account. That's nice ofyou. Um. Kimberly Porty Porter is
on here as well. She said, Teddy, your hair fell out?
What happened? Does she have aclose encounter of the ghostly kind? No,
I shaved my head. Uh.Jillian is actually in the chat room.

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Um, and that's awesome. SoI'm Morgan and I can attest to
that, she says, Ello,l So it must be you and not
me. So and I don't thinkshe's talking about my hair falling out,
that's for sure. Um. Let'ssee what else is being set in here.
Um. Dominics says uh, oh, hey, Teddy you or oh

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I'm not even repeating that. Umoh yeah, yeah, all right here
we got back over here, SusanNaville. Uh, Tom Scott wells Brian
Wilson. So the house is fillingin little by little here. So that's
awesome. So writing for you nowthat you you know you came from a
musical family. So how easy wasit for you to start writing your own

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stuff? Um? It was.I think, just like anybody, you
just do it, and you do. You write terrible songs for a long
time, and so one day,oh, this one's actually pretty good.
I was just talking about someone.The first song I actually sat down a
row. I think I was nineyears old, and it was aggressive.

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It was called like shut up wellI'm talking, or something aggressive for a
nine year old. But I likedit. I liked the title shut up,
shut up while I'm talking? Isthat what you said? A shut
up I'm talking? That's cool.I like it. But yeah, oh
um oh that Jillian said that wasbecause that he's not good at anything else.

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Ha ha ha. So yes,they can contest that you're not good
at anything else, but that apparently, ummin, isn't that nice of your
friend? Um? Dominic is askingdo you have a ghostwriter? Uh?
No, I'm doing uh um.Nashville is the co write capital, so

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I'm learning how to co write.I just wrote a song with two of
my buddies, well, one ofmy buddies in a new buddy now yesterday.
That turned out well, So I'mgetting more comfortable with it. But
um, everything I've put out isall my lyrics except one song, um
was written by a buddy of minethat he wanted me to cut. So
hmm, that's cool, that's verycool. Well, you know, Morgan

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Lynn White is on here says loveyou Sunshine. Uh, so there's you
know, I know how it workshere as well. But you know that,
Um, well let's use the guyI mentioned already. Um, you
know, they all start out aswriters first, and they become known as
writers, and then they become singersand national you know, recording artists afterwards.

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So getting your foot in the doorand both both ways is definitely the
way to go. Um. Ithink you know, from what I heard
today, I liked what what you'reputting together and what you're putting out there.
I'm very excited that you're gonna beputting a full album out as well.
That's a lot of work. It'sa lot of work, but it's
I think everyone's doing singles and youknow, we're talking about different ways releases.

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But I was a part of thevery last little trickle, the generation
that went to went to the storeand like scanned it and listen to records
and I'm gonna buy the CD.I'm gonna buy this record, and I
missed that the physical romancism of it, So I'm gonna I want to keep
that going, right, Um,So I'm gonna gas because it's the same

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with a lot of the other musiciansthat I've I've spoken with, is that
when you're um the whole COVID thing, when you're sitting there at home,
you know, what are you gonnado? You can't go anywhere, you
can't do anything. You pick upthe guitar, you right, right?
I mean so, so I'm notsurprised you have an album four months of
sitting around and doing nothing unless you'replaying video games. You know. It's

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uh, you know, that's that'spretty much what's gonna happen if you're a
writer, you know, yeah,and it's it Definitely. It's definitely easy
to to just watch TV and eatjunk food, which I've been kind of
in that for a few except forwhen I go out and right or I
go out and played for a fewhours. Last few days been bad,
so I need to get back outand get exercising. I live right next

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to a big, beautiful lake,so I need to get back out swimming,
get get the juice is going again. There you go. That's great.
Um, Dominic is saying, nicejob, brother, with everything that
you're doing there, saying nice job. Let's see here, Joe, your
buddy, uh says what was thefirst song you wrote in Nashville. It's

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a song called Colorado. Oh thatkind of reminds me. You said you
were in Denver. I used tolive about thirty to forty miles east of
Denver. Actually, yeah, eastof Denver. I was in a little
town called Deer Trail, Colorado,population seventy four, one of those little

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mountain downs. Yeah, we didn'thave much there. Dairy actually was a
dairy king. It wasn't a dairyqueen, der king, grocery store store.
Everything all in one gas station,don't forget that. The Yeah,

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yeah, all from the gas station. Man, where else could you get
him from? Right? I gotmy jack from there, you know that's
all the man. You can getyour jack, your gas, and your
gun at the same time. Soall right, let's see here. Um,
yes, guys, you were talkingabout what is behind me? I
got rid of my green screen.I am now three um display cases deep,

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now of my Godzilla displays I have. I was trying to figure out
how much I actually have worth behindme and just in three pieces of fifte
bucks and just three pieces, soit's gonna take me a while to figure
out how much is actually there.Yeah, um chanels as I write poetry,

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short stories and bills the people,LLL COVID nineteen is annoying as hell.
When you want to go skiing,where did your mind goes channel?
Halfway through that you kind of wentsomewhere else, So I don't know that's
gonna be when Yeah, it's likeI don't know. It's like, look,
there goes a squirrel. I meanwhatever, you know, it's say

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it and yeah, the next lineisn't any better? Hats are hot to
wear in his new office space.Oh me, my hat? Oh I
guess you like? I don't haveone in here? Ye usually wear a

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flat cap? Yeah you got thecool Bruce Arians look gone. Yeah yeah
yeah yeah. I normally had myflat caps in here for my Ireland caps,
but I don't have them. UmChanel says. I lived in Randomville,
Michigan, population one hundred and sixpeople, and it had the bar
post office gas station in store onestop shot man. She's her place was

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just as bad as mine. MyTom is thing. I made videos during
the whole COVID thing. Just thoughti'd mentioned it since none of you probably
know that. Laugh my ass offput him out. He actually does it.
It's called This is Tom's World.It's on YouTube. It's actually pretty

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cool. Um dominic scess. SoI'm interested to hear a voice. Is
it possible hear a voice? Heara voice? Oh, you mean his
voice? Maybe maybe in your head? In your head? Never mind,

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that was just bad, man,I know it was. It's worse than
It's worse than any drug you cantake, because by the time you get
the end of COVID, you're likedone, you're toasted fry. Yeah,
exactly, all right. So I'mgoing to assume that the majority of the
music, or all their music thatyou raid is country music or country based

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music. Correct, h the foundationis traditional country music. That's it.
So on inspiration for you, somebodythat you've looked back on to help become
Sunshine James. Who would that be, Well, my mom and my grandpa
first and foremost, and then uhI think I mean anybody who knows me

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knows how obsessed that I with TravisTrip. Really he is. I think
just here's a quarter alone. Iwas just thinking that he wrote that in
fifteen minutes for himself, and like, I love those stories. Yeah,
yeah, I have. I'm gonnachange this down a little bit. I

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have a I have a friend.Um, I think he's a friend,
an associate whatever from the music industryhere in New York. And he does.
In fact, one of my favoriteperformances from him is that he does
a rendition of Travis Tritt. I'venever heard anyone sing um is close to

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Travis Tritt. Is this this fella? And every time he was in town,
I saw him and I was thefirst one in lineup there going Travis.
You know, I was van girlingas all the girls say, and
um, you know I was upthere. I mean I just I was
one of those people as well thatI really felt that Travis Tritt was a

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good staple back in the day forcountry music. He was one of those
guys that the outlaw music, youknow. I mean, that's that's what
he was doing, you know.Um, prior to that was what Johnny
Cash and Waylon Jennings and all thoseguys and Marty Stewart and Travis Tritt were
the new guys. And you know, I'm not sure if there was anybody
else that fit in there, butI know those two at least um and

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it was just good shit. Imean, nobody wrote like those two,
No, Marty, Marty Stewart isone of the best writers, musicians,
storytellers and amazing, amazing guy.Yeah, I've seen him live up close
and personal. I have not seenTravis up live and personal. Um,

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but one of my favorite bands.Um. Actually, if we're going to
talk about um, like the badboys in country music, my all time
favorite would be the Kentucky Headhunters.Those guys were, um, they were
out there, but you know,those guys were awesome. I love those

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nineties. It's like that hillbilly rocknineties country. Yeah, oh yeah.
They had a song called My DaddyWas a Milkman. That was my favorite
song they ever did. So,if you get a chance, my Daddy
was a Milkman, You'll never forgetthat line ever again, now that I
told you so. You will findit and you will listen to it and

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you go, what the hell didhe like about this song? I don't
know. I'm in the drum parts, everything about that song. I just
I really loved it. It wassomething different, it was it wasn't something
that they normally would do. Youknow, they did do Miss Walker,
they did, you know, somany other songs. They did some covers.
Um Wild guys looked like they justhad They were actually the country version

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of zz Top. That's a reallygood way to put it. I agree
with that, you know. Yea. And they were awesome, you know
so um and the drummer had theseamazing side burns that came all the way
down to his belly. I mean, it's like I just wanted to tie
him up in like a little knotunder his chin because I didn't know what
else to do with him. Theywere just you're waiting from the catch it,

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just y, I bet you hedidn't smoke, all right. So
let's go back over here to someof the comments real quick. Um,
I have no idea what that is, Chanelle. I don't know if you've
been drinking, but that definitely lookslike it. U Um. I guess

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they're having their own conversation in here, oh Ruth, such says Hello Teddy
and Hello Sunshine, James, UmJoe Joe says, don't mention Nickelback.
What's that all about? I loveNickelback and all my friends love to make
fun of me for it. Youknow what though, fist bump me too?
Where's the where's the camera? Allright? Man? I love so

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do I and and I just recentlygot into Daughtry as well, not too
long ago, so I'm into allthat type of stuff. It's really cool
Joe. Joe bought me tickets onmy birthday that last year the year before,
and I saw Daughtry open for Nickelback. They are just they belong together,

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that band, Those two bands shouldtour together. They're just awesome cool.
I love Nickelback, um, andI give a lot of shit for
it up here too, So don'tfeel long, brother. We're in our
own little up now, remember,So we're going there was there was,
There was a million of us whenI saw him at yeah or whatever.

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He Um, I think it's Ithink it's still that because I still call
it the Blue Cross Arena. Butshit, I'm old. Um let's see
here. Day two surprise was cooltoo. I love the thrill of your
voice. Who are you talking to? Are you reading something? Writing something?

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Chanelle, I do not know what'sgoing on with you, and Jillian
says, uh, drinking my tequila. I see, I'm nuts, I'm
drinking. I'm ringing Crown Royal.Thank you very much. There you go,
there you go. Um see,and he's happy with that. That's
right. Um, I don't know. I have no idea what Chanelle is

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talking about. So I'm gonna moveon to this side and say hi to
Laura, Jean Ernie att Well,check Tom and Christopher Ares and Angel Stole.
Hello. Angel, that is thewife to my well to the drummer
in my band. Um, that'sawesome. Nice to see Kimberly Porter's in
here. I'm a nickel Backer herself, and she loves Daughtry. Look at

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that. We're not alone, buddy, we got a third we got a
backup. Um. And Nick saysthat Chanelle is just looking for something to
do. Okay, you guys,I don't know if you're on the same
feat as we are. I don'tknow what's going on here with you guys
over there, but that's okay.So we talked about your influences. We

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talked about the music and what youwrite. Weren't it's a country base,
um, which is great, andit with your own let's like say on
your own words when you write,who do you think you write? Like
like Sunshine James Yea. When peopleask me what I'm doing that, they

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go, you're a songwriter, right, and I'm like, I always say
I'm an aspiring songwriter because I haven'tgot a cut yet, you know,
doesn't It's until until someone cuts it. Then I'll be like, Okay,
I'm a songwriter, but um,I'm I think it's all over the place.
There's I'm very because I love Ialso grew up with BGS and Journey

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and Dixie Chicks, so very hotmelodies mix of bluegrass one day and then
one day I'm gonna metaly move becauseI love Pantera and House and Chains and
metality and I don't know, man, it's uh, that's tough for me
to say. Okay, no,that's cool. That's a good answer.
I asked, you answered, andbelieve it or not, I was right.

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Chanella is drinking vodka cranberry juice,so I was right on girl Okay,
and kim U, I want tosay gel again, get Gail,
Uh, I don't know, Yeah, yep, she's she's on here and
says, Sunshine with a big heart. I Kim, I gotta stay,

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Uh, gotta keep that ice teaworking. It's like ninety degrees in here
today. Um, let's see.So you know I asked you about playing
some of your songs. Um,so you have your acoustics. We're actually
gonna go that route. I thinkif you want to play a couple of
songs that way tonight and um.Tim Dally is on here. He says,
I love you, Sunshine and missplaying with you in Nashville's brother Tim.

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That dude writes some damn songs,really he is. I'm a huge
here has a song called Chicken anddumplins or no Chicken and Biscuits, and
it's it's one of my favorite songsI've ever heard in my life. Awesome,
awesome, So why don't you giveus a feel of what you do?
And uh and then uh we'll talksome more. How about that sounds

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good? All right? I'm wantto do a do a tune called someone
somewhere right in South Dakota. Well, I've spinning my whole life, chasing
rainbows, whole knight fight. What'sat the end? All I found her

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hats, hawks and hortags, cheapmotails and by fights and shine hand what
Lately I've been wondering what I'm doing. It's worth a way to worth it,
It's way and go even when myname's out on mykey bos don't burn

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and the light stuff seemed the blue, But towntimes, when it's out nosing
homes and not so far way hotsout on stage, it's Calorn bugs bun
flying nuts to standing up, meetingme on thats sing my song trying be

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something but so awsomewhere. I don'tbroke, just try mad, living open.
This tink gets us to the show. When rap songs she different down

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the Man's feet open Mom hears iton the radio, but I down times,
living down news, hold nuts sofar. When houts out on stage,
it's Calorn bun flying nuts to standingup, beating me on thats sing

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my songs trying to be something soawesomewhere on Sunday, hold of Home with

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the road and fall in love.But for now I'm mating memories school stories
when I'm but I outtimes when it'sout nosday holding not so far. When
it arts out on stage, it'sCalhorne. But fighting that you standing up

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meeting me out. That's saying mysong try to be something. But song
bansomewhere the some Wansome. That's awesome. Dude, thank you. I don't

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really like that. That's so Iput up here for you, your reverb
Nation, and I also put yourfa Facebook up. I didn't know what
else to put up there for you, so that's what I put up.
I hope that's okay. Yeah,if you guys actually go to reverb Nation,
I actually have an account there aswell. But you can check out
his songs on reverb Nation. Um, they do put them up there for

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you. You can't purchase them aswell, I believe still they used to.
I haven't looked at mine in tenyears. Yeah, you're probably your
your number seventy six in Western NewYork. I am. I don't know
those ratings. Sorry that joke.That joke, I was like, shit,

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I should check MANO. I gotta. I got a buddy of mine.
That's he made me the Lincoln Biothing, so I have it on
my Instagram. It's one click andit takes you to everything and I'm an
idiots stuff. So he's saved mylife with that. Oh that's awesome.
So he's on Instagram. Two folks, he just told you that, so
you can check him out there aswell. Um, that's cool. Cool,

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let's see see. Oh yeah,yeah, let's see here. Um
Nick says, okay, I needto get this out. I think this

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is a night of drinking and talkwith Teddy Tom. How much have you
been drinking so far? Uh?He says, not a single drop.
But Chanelle is drinking tonight, that'sfor sure. Dominic says, I gotta
run, love y'all. Keep upthe talent. Thank you for stopping in
here, Dominic, we do appreciateit. Um Nick says, great tune,
by the way, and Kimberly says, oh that's good stuff. And

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uh, that's cool. Let mesee what do we got over here?
Eric Harrison, thank you for stoup in as well. Um, very
very cool. So what's your dream? I mean, is it like what
normal well all of us at onepoint? Is it to just be a
songwriter? Or do you actually wantto be a performer on stage and touring
and and doing all that stuff?I mean, come on, your your

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your hero. I guess this isTravis Trip, so I would think that
that I would think that that's partof that, isn't it. I mean
absolutely, I love touring and Ilove playing live and I love I love
playing guitar. I love I lovegoing out to meet people. And it's
as soon as I was eighteen outwith the road man. I just I

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love being everywhere in new places anddo what I love and making enough to
eat and sleep. Yeah. Well, I think, um, there's nothing
like and this is my own observation, um from being on stage, is
that there's nothing like getting up thereand performing and watching people stop, turn
around, watch you tap their foot, start dancing. You're taking them away

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from their everyday bullshit life and you'regiving them three three minutes of fun and
music and entertainment and just an escape. You know. Yeah, you know
that's something that I myself, Ido miss from time to time. I
just think it's amazing that I hadthe opportunity to do it. And I

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really hope that musicians such yourself,the younger generation, will continue to do
the same thing and keep pushing themforward because you know, it's beautiful,
you know, it really is.Music. Is that is that language that's
universal? And I don't we'll lookat ACDC just for instance. I mean,
they played everywhere around the world,and some of these countries didn't even

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understand that goddamn word they were saying. In fact, half a sad America.
I didn't understand what they were sayingat the time. But you know,
they were fantastic. They're my favoriteband of all time, and but
their living proof that you can prettymuch take any song that you write and
put it out there, put iton a record, and travel the world,

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you know, and it's good.I mean not to be cliche,
but it's it's the universal language,man. Yeah, oh yeah, it's
it's fantastic. I mean, there'snothing like it. Um. You can
sit down, like go in themiddle of Japan, now Japan, those
some of those countries over there loveAmerican music. And you can sit down
with a guitar like on a waterfountain in the middle of some damn town

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square and play and you will havea ton of people around you listening,
whether they understood the words or not, because they just love it. They
love the music. It takes themaway. Chanel, thank you for putting
that back up there. I reallydo appreciate it. She put up your
reverb Nation, um link for meagain. Thank you, thank you.

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That's awesome, Chanelle, you getthe gold Star tonight. Damn it,
there you go, Vaka Granberry.So how tough is it in Nashville these
days for young writers? If youdon't mind me asking, is there a
lot better? Oh? Yeah,it's it's you're not You're not a small
fish in a big ocean. You'rethe smallest minnow in the smallest pond with

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the biggest fish in the world.Wow. So it's but it's I wouldn't
call it hard because most most ofmy life I've been I've worked pretty hard
at real jobs. So this isa pretty easy. Well that's that's good
to hear. Yeah, I meanthat's. Uh. There was a movie

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that came out, Oh my God, about singers songwriters back Oh God,
I don't know I fans fifteen twentyyears maybe. Um River Phoenix was in
it, and they all went toNashville. They played at the Bluebird Cafe.
Uh. Sandra Bullock was in themovie as well. I can't remember
the damn the name of the movie. And um, it was all about

(34:00):
them going there and trying to makeit big by writing their songs. And
playing at the Bluebird and all thatstuff and everything they had to go through.
In fact, one part of thatmovie that I thought was a phasing
as they all walked up to theto the tallest building, got all the
way up to the roof and gotup there and yelled off their music city
I am here and I am neverleaving, And it was just one of

(34:23):
those things. It's like an iconicyou know, lying in that movie,
and it just makes me think aboutthe times I was in Nashville as well.
I wanted to do that and Inever did. It's yeah, it's
a lot of sacrifice. It's alot of it's I mean, the sacrifice
is tough. That is the hardpart, not being around your family,

(34:45):
not being around friends, and beinga new spot and intimidating like you're you're
with the big dogs now right,so right. And the other thing too,
is your It's not like here oreven Arizona or Denver. I'm I
mean there, you could play agig and get paid for it. Nashville
it's tougher because I do know thata lot of the places there don't pay

(35:06):
you to play. You're there toshowcase. You're there to show the people
what you got, you know,And I don't know how many times driving
through the middle of Nashville you wouldsee people on the street playing and singing,
you know, oh yeah, yeah, what's his name? Stergill Simpson
was busting outside the CMAS ten yearsago. Yeah, it's just amazing.

(35:29):
I mean there, it does havesome of the best talent in the world.
It's right there, you know,which is fantastic. Eric Harrison is
asking how's the adjustment from the Arizonadry heat to the Tennessee humidity. I
thought it was gonna be miserable,but I kind of love it. There

(35:49):
you go, not so. Iwish I had more of a story to
that, but it's it's yeah,I'm constantly what and it's hot, but
it's I love it. I don'tknow what, Nick, you are hearing
somebody. There's someone in the backgroundsomewhere tapping on my internet service here.
I don't know if it's I don'tknow what that is. Every once in
a while I get it, andthe only way I can stop it is

(36:12):
by hopping off and hopping back on. But I'm not leaving this interview,
so we have to deal with it. Yes, and Jillian says, with
his grammy in his guitar case.Yeah, exactly. He really sang and

(36:35):
played music during the movie. Ohyou must be talking about River Phoenix.
In the movie, I was talkingabout Chanel. So if you are,
tell me what the hell the nameof it was. Hello, Liz,
Now you're back on your own feetinstead of your husband's. Well, thank
you, thank you for joining uson your own name. Morgan Lynn White.

(36:55):
It only got to one hundred andeighteen today in Phoenix, Arizona.
O. That's it's a dry youknow. I heard that in Texas too,
but you know some of it wasn't. And I can tell you that
when you drove across the border toget those twenty five cent tequila shots,

(37:20):
you didn't care anyways. Yeah youdon't care about the heat. You didn't
care. No, um, Ericsays sure, but I would take the
Arizona dry then Tennessee humid. Okay, Oh, thank you Chanelle. The
movie was called The Thing Called Love. It was a good movie. I
enjoyed it. It might have beena be rated movie and I'm just out

(37:44):
of my head, but whatever,I enjoyed it. So maybe maybe that
should be a new segment there Chanelwill start rating movies here. Give it
to the drunken Chanelle. All right, um trying to the questions, Yes,
entry what Robert, he says,the clicking. It's the NSA,

(38:07):
CIA, FBI or some other letteredagency trying to jot down what the questions
are to asking interrogation techniques. Thankyou for oh my gosh, um and
Morgan White says, uh, SonicSlushy for the win. There you go.

(38:31):
Those are in Arizon Summer favorite.Oh yeah, well, Sonic used
to also have, or maybe itwas Dairy Queen. I can't remember.
It was a peanut butter milkshake andyou could also get a foot long hot
dog. I think it was Sonics, to be honest with you, Yeah,
um yeah, Cody and slushy forlike three bucks. Yeah, yeah

(38:53):
you could. Sonic was amazing backin the day. Not anymore. I
think it's changed. Still. Istill like their hot flood Sundays with the
Spanish peanuts. Yep, there yougo. Um you guys, let's get
off the whole conspiracy theories about thenoise. They're driving me nuts. Hello,

(39:19):
Stage Accord and Gregory Myers and NickKates, thank you for joining as
well. So let's get on topichere. So we're talking about music and
being a writer in Nashville. Andyou know, I asked you what it
was like, um down there?How hard? Like you know, a
small fish and a small pond withsome really big fish. I get that.

(39:43):
But do you find like now youguys have to get jobs down there
as well? I mean, youcan't just sit around your apartment all the
time and just write because you haveto pay your bills. So do you
find that difficult to do when allyou really want to do is write and
play? I mean no, becausewe uh, I play on Broadway during
the day and uh, and thenI go to writers rounds and co writes

(40:07):
at night. So during during theday I'm on Broadway playing for playing for
tips, and and then I gogo with my writer friends who are too
cool for that, and they makefun of me for being a Broadway.
But you know, what you haveto do what you have to do,
right what I mean? I'd tellman, I was like two years ago,

(40:28):
I was playing out a third storyroof, being a framer in the
snow and the heat. Now I'mjust playing guitar for money. So all
right, I'm not complaining. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's no
better life, right. I mean, you know, someday it all is
gonna pay off, you know,that's the end game hopefully, as long
as that I'm screw it up.Nah. Nah, you can't have that

(40:53):
atitude. You won't. You'll You'llmake it, brother, you'll make it.
Um. The hair, the longhair and the facial you know hair
these days, and and having theability to write, um great tunes is
where it's at these days, youknow, to be honest with you,
UM, not only UM. Therewas another singer that I was thinking of

(41:15):
and for some reason, I can'tthink of his name, and I think,
oh man, UM, I knewI was going to do this too,
and I was gonna write it downlike nah, I'll remember Um Damn,

(41:36):
I can't remember it. That's gone. Yeah, we don't have the
one know, maybe I should bedrinking. But anyways, UM, he
kind of remind me, UM ofyou, while you remind me of him,
actually, UM with your writing.And that's why I was going to
bring him up, and I can't. I can't think of him. So
that's okay. We'll move on.Um with music today, I mean there's

(41:58):
a lot of different things out there, and it seems like that everything's got
a pop feel to it these days. Even country has gone that route.
Um, Like what you just sayingkind of reminds me of just the plain
country roots. There was no popin there. Is that? What you
prefer is to keep it like reallydown home country. I mean, what

(42:20):
happens if you do get signed,because they may say, hey, you
need to, you know, giveus something more of today? How would
you feel about that? Man?I I was just having this conversation about
with jill Um that we were wehad this young kid around us and he's
all hyped up on I'm gonna changethis town and I'm an outlaw bout and

(42:45):
it's and he's not wrong. Butmy whole thing is nobody can tell you
what to do if you get onstage and do it your way, and
you just do it better than anyoneelse, right. And I come from
a long line of athletes and competitors, and so I was one, and
so I in a friendly way,it's it's a competition for me when I

(43:07):
get on this stage. I wantto fully in insane everybody, and I
want to make sure everyone walks awaylike that again, not to be cliche,
but the dude left it all onstage, right, And that's that's
what's important to me. And that'smy that's my competitive side, my my
aggro side. Right. I hada I had a friend before he passed.

(43:29):
He told me once he goes,um, being a front man from
a band is hard, and youdo well at it. And I'm like,
well, thanks, and he said, there's two things you want to
happen. One you want to leaveit all on stage. So when most
people look at you at the endof the night, they go, holy
shit, this was fun. Andremember your name or you want them to

(43:49):
say, man, he sucked.Remember remember that guy he sucked. Look
at that's awesome. Um. Hewas one of my mentors. His name
is Steve Waldough. He was probablyone of the last dinosaurs Teley Pickers out

(44:10):
of Rochester. He was amazing.Um and he died of cancer probably almost
ten years ago. And there wasnobody like him. In fact, it
took us a long time to gethim to go from standard you know,
Telly Picking, you know on atelecaster. Um. Brent Mason was his
hero. Let me put it thatway. Chet Aikins and this is what

(44:32):
this guy played like, this ishow he played, and um, I'm
amazing. You know. There wasnobody like him. And it took us
a good year to get him totry to do like a zz top Bret
And we used to laugh about itall the time to get him to whale
on a rock tune. And hedid all right, you know, and
then after a while he got intoit and I kept thinking, oh,

(44:55):
man, look at him, he'sgoing he's got it. He's got it,
you know. And then you know, on stage you're kind of like
jamming with them and stuff, andyou know it just when the whole stage
is working well together. Um,you could say, like here in New
York, it's forty songs easy ona new and if you can get thirty
of those songs that come off likethere was no mistakes, no hitch.

(45:19):
It was rocking hard, it wasin the pocket. Um, nobody cared
about the other ten songs, youknow. And and that's the way it
should be. Now. Do youfind like when you perform that you have
to do covers as well as yourown down there on Broadway? Yeah?
Um, but again the cool partabout the cool part about doing the Broadway

(45:43):
things when they see how passionate andhow into we are, and they go,
all right, man, you gotsome soul. What they throw twenty
bucks and go, I only hearsome new stuff. That's that's cool,
that's but yeah, I'm broadaway whenI'm we're trying to sell beer and make
Tootsie's money. We're we're playing covers, you know, and stuff like that.

(46:04):
Though, like we just said,you got some soul that that just
puts a little notch in your andyour ego and it helped you drive forward,
you know, And that's amazing.Now, sane. We got a
question from Chanel, the vodka drinker. She says, um asked Sunshine please,
um if he would ever do aduet and who with O. That's

(46:30):
a long long list. Remember Jillian'son here, so it'll be nice.
Jill Jill's We're doing one. We'redoing one. We wrote a song together
that um oh man, because Ilove so much, like I literally have
a dream of one day putting outa cover record and getting all my favorite

(46:53):
singers of all time to come singwith me. And that's just like you
know, your music, you havethe weird fantasies for you, right right?
Oh yeah, probably it's I mean, it's gotta be it's gotta be
Marty Raybon Shanon Billah singer. Yeah, yeah, I think he has the

(47:15):
most beautiful voice and it's got likeauto compression somehow. But he'll he'll go
for a higher note and more power, but his volume doesn't increase. He's
not right. But yeah, I'llpick Marty right now. That's cool,
That's very cool. Um, oneof my favorites. And and I'm gonna
answer this too because one of myfavorite all time singers was Terry Clark,

(47:38):
and I just I loved her voice. I love the way she she sang
and or still things I should say. Um. And her guitar player for
the longest time was Anita Cochrane andI actually um opened up with her in
a couple of places here. She'sone of my favorites as well. Um.
She she's recovering from cancer, Ibelieve still or hopefully she beat it,

(48:01):
one of the two. But um, she's a hell of a guitar
player now, Um she was.She was Terry Clark's guitar player for years,
and that woman can play. Infact, she had a song called
let the Guitar Do the Talking andit was an amazing tune, man,
an amazing tune. Don't check thatout. Yeah, Bonnie Waite says,

(48:22):
love you Sunshine. That's that's GrammyGrammy. Wow, Hi Grammy. She
made my Grammy the musician and thenher daughter is my mom the musician.
Awesome, Grammy spirit singer too great. That's awesome that you come from a
good line of singers. You know, that's cool as all. Um.

(48:45):
Let's see, has Sunshine ever beencompared to Dan haggardief Grizzly Adams. He
has? Now, Yeah, Ithink I've heard that one a few times.
I get Clay Matthews. Uh uhGod, was na the dude from

(49:07):
Sons of Anarchy? Oh he wasn'tremember the Titans? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, you can't think his damnname either. Yeah, big biget
him and Clay Matthews and Chris Stapleton. We I have a buddy bear down
here, my buddy bear down here. He'll literally just start talking to me
at like just like I'm Chris Stapletonand he had he has people believing that

(49:30):
they're hanging out Chris Stapleton. Andit's the funniest thing because he won't tell
me that they believe, like Iwon't know that the joke, and we'll
go we'll bar hopp and then likefour bars, it's like right, and
this one girl's leaving and she goes, Chris, I love your music.
It was great to meet you byand I was like, she was kidding,
right, And Bear's like, no, she believe. We have fun.

(49:58):
You know what you should though,he's still if you don't want me
asking how old are you? Twentynine? Yeah, see you got you
got a good twelve years left.Yeah, easy, you got twelve years
to make it. That's just kiddingbecause look at Chris. Chris Stapleton was
not young when he finally got hisrecord deal. Well now, yeah,

(50:23):
he had one before that too,and a lot of people don't know.
He had a whole record that wassupposed to come out following what are you
listening to? Do you remember thatsingle? M Yeah? And then label
heads were shifting and changing and itall went on pause and and so then
then he made the Traveler record,so he hasn't put out. Garth Brooks

(50:45):
was one of the other ones.He was a big He was a big
boy when he started out as well, you know, so I always looked
at that. When I first startedsinging, I'm like, man, if
Garth can do it, I cando it. I just couldn't swing off
the rafters and all that like hecould. He's freak. Oh, it
was definitely a freak. What thehell is happening? One night picture?

(51:07):
Oh well, um, let's seechanels is I guess eighteen? Lol?
Twenty nine is an aj amazing age. She says. It's fun, especially
when you know Nashville getting drunk andgoing on boats, girls in the kings.

(51:27):
Oh, there you go. Seehe'll be writing a song about boats
and girls in bikinis pretty soon.And see, I'm gonna, damn it,
I'm gonna have a broke country song. There'll be five o'clock somewhere.
That's where's this one? So Igotta asked, because it just because you

(51:49):
you are a country fan of anartist. What did you ever think of
Uncle Cracker breaking into the country music? Um? I thought it was goofy.
Then one day I was watching theopery and he sang, okay,
what are you? What are yousaying? He's sang George jones H Grand

(52:12):
Tour. He sang the Grand Tourand blew me away and so yeah,
back in the day, I waslike, I was like, this is
goofy because it was Uncle Cracker Andthen Nelly and Tim McGraw did that song
together and it was starting the thing. It was starting to go in motion
where the world's were colliding him.I was just like, what is going
on? And then but yeah,I saw unclel Crackers sing the Grand Tour

(52:36):
and blew me away with a greatvoice he has. Yeah. I mean
it was funny because for years therethere was a lot of cross on,
you know, crossovers. What wasthe other one? Who do he in
the Blowfish? You know? Andhe you know, stuff like that.
I mean there was some really bigcrossovers and he was there for a while,

(52:57):
and I think he just went backto pop, I think. But
um, you know, Big andRich. They they were one of those
bands that you wouldn't consider them traditionalcountry or even a country country. They're
more like a country rock or acountry pop. But shit, they made
a ton of money with some oftheir stuff. I mean, save a
Horse Ride a Cowboy was the biggestsong for years. I mean everybody followed

(53:22):
that damn song. Well, no, not John Rich, but the other
half of Big and Rich, theblonde guy I can't even remember his name.
He wrote. He had a bighit that. Tim McGraw made a
hit we want You three lack birdassingdues, you giving Me most beautiful,
said of Bayings. He wrote thatsong. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(53:44):
yeah, yeah, yeah, thatwas a big hit. M hm.
You know that made me think ofum, well, Tim mcgrad did
a lot of that. He hada lot of songs that other people wrote
that. Um, there was asong he and I think he co wrote
it. It was called sing MeHome, and it was an amazing tune
and I can't remember who the cowriter was, but it kind of reminded

(54:07):
me of that a little bit.But you know, when you become one
of those country singers that have beenaround for a while, you've made it
big in the scene and you becomea big dog or a big fish like
what you said earlier. Um,you can do that. You can bring
other people into, you know,the music scene, especially from rock to

(54:27):
country and stuff like that. BigKenny, Big Kenny, Um, big
and Rich I think that was.But yeah, I think it was Big
Kenny. Yeah, that was thatwas chance goats here he was He just
said that, Um, good night, Eric, thank you for popping in.

(54:49):
I know you got to get backto work. Um have fun.
Thanks for popping in for your break. We appreciate that. Um Chanelle,
keep drinking, dare she says,I it was Pike Pat Boone doing rock
but better. He sounded great.Love Uncle Cracker, m okay, That's

(55:15):
where I'm leaving it. Cheeseburger inParadise. Oh my god, I hated
that song. She hated so muchhate. But I love his songs.
I love it. I love themajority of his stuff, but that song.
I hated that song. I hatedthat song. I'm sorry, I

(55:37):
just know didn't like it. No, um, Joseph's boats and bikinis,
but can you fish? Trying todecide how to answer this me and the
joke. Joe visited me in Arizona. Wants to jose in Denver, and

(55:59):
he came down to Arizona to visitme at one time, and we went
fishing and it was just it wasa summer day. It's one hundred and
twenty. We're on the Lower SaltRiver. We're not catching anything, and
I go, man, there's alittle looks like there's a little sand bank
out there. Like, we swimout to that we can get in the
middle, and that's probably where thefishing are because it's it's hot and it's

(56:19):
deeper out there. And we swamagainst the current got out there. There
was no sand banks, so wewere just up to here with water,
and so we just kept fishing likethat, and then we had to swim
out with the current and go downa couple eggits off it to get off
the river and then find our stuffa mile away. It was hilarious and

(56:40):
Morgan White says, no, hecan't fish. Oh my god, get
out of here. Mom. Troll, just a troll. She's the killer
fisher. She's she's a butified redneck. But oh that's cool. Um Nick

(57:01):
says, actually, just before Icame back, I'll tell you I'm My
parents and sister and brother in laware huge Jimmy Buffett fans. Okay,
now that's okay, not a problem, that's all right, everything. Yeah.
Yeah. So you know, ifyou had the opportunity to to work

(57:22):
with one of your favorites all timefavorites that are alive, who would it
be? Hughe Thompson. Yeah,he was singing guitar player for the Outlaws.
Yeah, that's my favorite electric guitarplayer. It's hughe Thompson. Amazing,

(57:43):
And Morgan says, haha, Ilove you, bro, I love
you too. That's because he calledyou a troll's Oh man. Andy Mead
is on here and he says,I want to hear a yoak And I'm
like, I don't know Andy,uh. And he is a very talented

(58:06):
guy. And we we used toplay together a bunch before the COVID stuff,
and I at one time I toldmy one go to joke and uh,
you're not supposed to tell jokes thatdirty over the mic. And uh,
I think it's a great joke.But a lot of people, uh
fifty fifty love head. Okay,so I'll tell the joke, all right.

(58:27):
So guy, it's it's dirty,it's gross. Okay, Hey,
we're rated, are go for it? All right? I want to I
want to hear I want to hearChanel from all the way from where she's
in Wisconsin or something, from hereto New York spitting out her vodka.
I want to hear that this thismight do that, this might do it.

(58:50):
Okay. Guy wakes up on hisbirthday, goes out to kitchen has
has this cup of coffee with hiswife and his honey, I want to
go fishing. She goes, Idon't want to go. Well, it's
my birthday and I want to gofishing. She just no, I'm not
going. And he goes, allright, you got two ways out and

(59:13):
do oral or anal And she goes, oh, fine, goes down,
starts doing a thing, and thenall of a sudden she pulls back and
she goes, Jesus, honey,your dictus like shit. He goes,
yeah, the dog don't want togo fishing either. It's my favorite joke.

(59:45):
Well, just so you know whyyou were telling the joke. Uh.
Jillian says, please, don't tellthe joke. Morgan says don't.
Andy says, oh lord. Uh. Morgan says, don't tell the joke.
Joe said no. Everybody else chancedto say and do it. Jillian

(01:00:05):
said, don't. Um and yes, I made a mistake. Chanelli's from
Wisconsin. I'm sorry, And shesaid she's not a spitter. I like
Chanelle. Oh there you go,Chanelle, you've made you meet and our
night now. Um, and Ithink Jillian put a whole bunch of little
emojis. Up and it looks likethey're puking. Probably they're green and puking.

(01:00:30):
Oh yeah, And Morgan said,sorry Grammy, oh man, Grammy
turned out. I hope Grammy's noton still I forgot about that. But
wow, Chanelle says a great littlejoke. So there you go. Thank

(01:00:52):
you. All right, So youfeel like picking up that guitar again and
playing a little side with these folks. You guys want to hear another song?
That's what were you doing here?Hull Hogan? Here? Is that
what you were doing? And Juliansays, your grandmother was watching. Uh,

(01:01:15):
you're gonna have paid for that one. Go mow the yard, sorry,
grab me, Yeah, so she'llcall me in. She goes just
ten hell, Harry's eight our fathersand give the dog a bath. Sorry,

(01:01:37):
holy cow? Mm hmm, okay, we'll do that. Uh that
song Joe brought up, first songI wrote in Nashville, sent out a
couch. The song is called ColoradoAwesome. I get a funy feeling every

(01:02:06):
time it rains that you think andnothing me in your whole bib face.
There's a thousand miles between us anda know hurts all voice. There's nothing
I want to change just to hesmiling. See if you come and told

(01:02:31):
me to come back to Colorado,can you forgive my leading fives? Come
home. I won't pack my bangs. I'll just hid the gas and show
tennessee my tail lights. But thatphone ain't ringing yes to the sway see

(01:03:01):
me even now and then? Can'tyou sometimes feel me on the other side
of bead or do you wish thattime? I'm heel the way the good
book said? What I wish younow? The only thing that I'm on

(01:03:24):
known for you to come and tellme to come back to Colorado. You
forgive my lead and a five yearscome home. I won't pack my bags.
I'll just hit the gas and shoetennessee my tail lights. That phone

(01:03:51):
danger ing yes, bands far toplay that burns to get enough down cattlecation
mat you see she's worth away,this man away, Oh that day when

(01:04:17):
you come tell me to come backto Colorado, you forgive my leave and
figs come home. I won't packmy bags. I'll just hit the gas
and show dassy, I tell lies, but that phon hanging in. Yeah,

(01:04:53):
that's a beautiful song man, thankyou, that's a beautiful song.
Um. Okay, so back uphere. Chanelle says, yes, sing
sing sing um. Nick says,to tell you that Santa maybe watching you
Sunshine. I'm yeah. And thenJoe says to Jillian, I thought you

(01:05:14):
told him never to tell that joke. Kimberly Porter says, I'm rolling around
on the floor laughing my ass off. Hope Grandma didn't fall off for Rocker.
And Jillian said, uh yeah,because he ever listens to me lol.
And Nate says, come back toColorado, seriously, just come back

(01:05:38):
ma boo. Yeah, Nate justmoved back to Denver. I think he
probably just got there today. Ohno, kidding. Nix is another great
song. Well done, Chanelle says, amazing. So I guess we're all
in agreeing son now and we alllike that song. Somebody called Jerks Bellian,

(01:05:59):
so I'm to cut it. Thereyou go. Dirt's Bentley, huh.
He's an arizontal boy, so I'vealways had a special special love for
him. I saw him live.He was amazing. Yeah I've heard that
line. Yeah all right, soI'm going to take an opportunity here real
quick. We're a little past thehour. I want to say, guys,

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(01:08:11):
just so many different varieties over there, So make sure you go check out
w lfeed dash dB dot com.And one more time, um, mister
Sunshine James check him out on reverbnation dot com. Uh at reverb nation
dot com, Sunshine James five.There must be four other ones, um,

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and I have no idea. Uh, that's you put it up there.
You said five, right, SoI don't know why it's there.
Yeah. So and Facebook dot comon Sunshine James c O. So make
sure you guys check him out andplease go over and buy a tune or
two. Uh. Starving starving artists, That's what I like to say,

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starving artist. Try to try toavoid that term because look at me and
they're like, you know, starving, You're starving. Yeah, I get
it real quick. I hadn't performing, and this kind of falls online with
that. I'm six six two.When I was performing, I was two
eighty five to ninety. Um,I'm six two and pushing three hundred right

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now, so I'm not a smallboy. And so on stage, my
my bass player, used to sayto me all the time, Hey,
Ted, I'm like, what youknow, you always wanted to be big
on stage? Look at you?You're big on stage. I'm like,
oh, I go, you knowI am in shape? He goes,
yeah, you are in shape.Round is a shape. Johnny Johnny Russell

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one of my heroes. He's thishuge which is huge, dude. And
every time you can walk on thestage of the opera, he go,
can everybody see me? Uh?Nate says, uh, he found you
on farmers only dot com page.Oh that Nade. Sorry, Nate Lurkin.

(01:10:08):
Oh man, he's funny. UmNick says, will drinking, we'll
drinking being involved to Teddy. Iknow Chanelle and Tom would love that.
Oh yes, we're going to acouple of pubs and we're gonna be having
some nice beer while we're in Ireland, because that's what you do when you're
in Ireland. Fish for trout isthere? Yeah, I never heard that

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either. My dad's from Ireland,my mom is from here. So yeah,
they're drinking in Ireland. Oh man, thank you, Nick. Nick
says, I've been trying to shareyour page. Well I appreciate that.
Thank you so much. Um Chanellesays, the five is the number of
songs he has on Reverb Nation.Teddy, is that what you have?

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His fly songs? So must beprobably Kimberly Porter says, hey, you're
stealing my line, ted I'm fiveone and fat too, and she's about
the pha two phat. That's funny. We're not fat, we're pleasingly plump.
We rushed Anon Rexie, we crushedANAXI destroyed it and if you think

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about it, we're curvalicious sick boy. There you go. That's right,
that's it. We're right So ona typical day in Nashville for you,
what how does that work for you? What is it? What's a typical
day for Sunshine James usually usually getinto a gig by eleven or two,

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sometimes six, and then around thatyou're just sending up co rights and going
to rights rounds, and you're goingto a bar where Shane mcinelli's gonna show
up and form couple songs, oryou're just you're trying to be everywhere all
the time, right, you know, want it's an opportunity exactly a lot
of people say, you know,it's all about the right place at the

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right time, and it's like,well, no, it's not. You
have to be everywhere all the time, and eventually it works out right well
that I remember back in the day. I'm saying that again because I'm not
a young a young rooster. Nashvilleput out a book a long time ago,

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and I don't remember where it camefrom, but it was a handbook
for if you were going to bea serious musician or singer, this is
what you needed. And I thinkthe thing was written in like nineteen sixty.
It was an interesting old book.I haven't seen it since, but
it was interesting reading through that.I do remember some of it where it
told you you had to have properyour portfolios with your music and your photos

(01:12:54):
and all this crap you had todo. That. Is that something that
still happens down there, is youhave to put all that stuff together and
send them to certain places or candeliver them or well, luckily, thank
god the iPhone. If you onthe iPhone, that you have this thing
called it's called my card at thetop of your contact and it's literally it's

(01:13:15):
a business card, and that's Isend my contact to people. And it's
a business card. It's got mywebsite, it's got everything I do,
my credentials, you can go toeverything, everything I have online, you
can go right to it. Justwant to share my contact And so there's
yeah, and there's I made friendswith a guy. I made acquaintances with
a guy from Arizona who he's gottenhe's a writer for Jason Albion pretty much.

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He's gotten cutting Valdeen on the lastfive or six records. And we
had a great talk and he toldme he goes man. I was like,
I was worried. I was like, is the old school way done?
Is everyone kind of just you justgot to get big on YouTube.
He goes, no, dude,he goes go down music roat and knock
on everything to get every door,holding your guitar and have your music ford

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to pull up and just be likeanybody want to hear some songs. And
so that that hasn't gone away.The nice the door to door salesman has
not died in that in that formand which I love because that's the only
way I know how to do thingsis be a professional pest right right,
Well, that's that's awesome. Hey, you're you're good at something, you're

(01:14:24):
good at something else, right,And you said you're only going to one
thing, So now that that's tooso put that on your resume. Um,
here's that moment. Oh man,that's funny. Um. You know.
One of the other things I wasthinking about with Nashville is like,
um, now, I'm sure you'rerecording in some of the studios there as

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well you had have you had anopportunity to go to some of the bigger
studios and check them out, youcan do or anything like that. I
got to go to a party AdvancePalace Studio, which was killer um mix.
He mixed traveler and he's done alot of huge, huge records.
He's a huge producer. And itwas a small, quaint studio with a

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couple of rooms, Killer Studio.And then I got to go do a
session as a guitar player at OmniStudios where Traves Trip actually recorded Country Club,
his very first single ever, andthen his record ten Futall Bullproof and
a bunch there. But both studioshave been small like that. You know
you have in your head big LaCapitol Records, right, there's these small,

(01:15:31):
comfortable, cozy rooms that are justit's vibes on vibes on vibes all
right. I was in I wasin Tricia Yearwood Studio and it was a
like a what do they call thosethings? A almost like a double wide
trailer. They just parked and openedit all up and made it into a
studio. It wasn't big, that'sall it was. It was, you

(01:15:57):
know, out in the middle ofnowhere, and it was great. Yeah,
you know, so um opportunities likethat, I mean, you get
it. It's like you can't believeit at first, and then it's gone
in a second. If you don't, you know, if you're not what
they're looking for, you know.Uh, but you have to keep trying.
You have to keep trying. Um, where is that? Kimberly says,

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I've always said I'm not overweight,I'm just under tall. Cute Chance
says, I'm six foot five andthree seventy six foot five is a big
boy. Yeah, six foot throughgood lord, he's gonna oh yeah,
yep. Or everybody else is likeleaning poles or furniture or something. You

(01:16:47):
know, one of those things youknow, oh they're walking coffee table.
Um, you know, one ofthose things like with you know, for
for everybody that I've talked to youso far that are down in Nashville,
like Jillian and Megan and all thatdown there. Um, it seems like

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like the past ten fifteen years thatthe music industry has really been trying to
push out more female artist than maleartists. But the male artists are putting
out I will tell you they're amazing. I mean we talk about Chris Stapleton,
Luke Holmes is fantastic, and youknow he was sitting there doing the

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same thing you are for many years. Yeah, we're finally getting some good
representation for the big guys with beardsright right, and and that's it's fantastic.
And I think too that Nashville haskind of gotten off there. You
have to be i don't know,five ten to six foot, well built,

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blonde hair or cowboy hat. Youknow, you have to be this
um model on a calendar. Youdon't have to be that anymore. You
know. You have to have talent, big talent, though. You have
to fill the room. And Ilike musicians and singers that they're not soft
singers, they're full voice singers.They they give everything that they have and

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they leave it right there, youknow. And I think that's what they're
looking for, is somebody that canperform and and leave it every single time
they perform. Yeah, you know, and I think it's just changed for
the better these days. What doyou think? Yeah, I can uh.

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I mean, obviously Napster created aworld that we didn't think we'd be
living in that we are now,and so artist, artist development it's kind
of gone out the window, whichin a good way, has made record
labels literally or even more so,I get the vibe that they're going after

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people that are already established and alreadyknow what they're doing. They don't have
to spend a lot of money developingthem. They don't have to spend them
all these all this time on them, or they just stick them in a
room for with the best writers ontheir staff for a few years until they're
ready to go out and be astar. They proved they can put us
the number one. It's Nashville's veryif you were the work, the hard

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work pays off. And that's that'san easy mentality for me to wrap my
head around, because that's that's allI was raised. You want to work
your ass soft for it, right. Well, see, I remember back
then, what was it that theyput you in the studio? There was
studio musicians. You gave them yoursong or you played their song. You
gave him the night before they learnedit all they came in they played it

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for you. And some of thesemusicians that performed your song were some big
names. I mean they were theywere noticeable drummers and guitar players and bass
players like you could pick up anywell for me, because that's back in
the day, and you can seetheir name. You can see their name
on the back of the consta theinside flap and uh um, I'll tell

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you those are experiences you never whetheryou make it or not. That's something
you can go back and tell yourgrandkids or great grandkids that this is I
did this, you know, andand they're good stories. You know.
Everybody has to take their shot.Yeah, and that's that's the coolest thing
is playing on Broadway all uh Like. So the two weeks ago it happened.

(01:20:30):
We're playing and I call out Johndear Green the Joe Diffy song great
man. We're going through it andI'm just like, God, this guitar
play whole, Like Shane Shane's agreat guitar player. Um, but we
were just playing it. I waslike, this is this is better than
the record, Like, what what'sgoing on? And then afterwards the drummers
laughing, he goes, hey Shane. So we tell Shane, Yeah,

(01:20:53):
I go what he goes? Hegoes Shane Shane. Uh. Shane played
for Joe Diffy for years, andI was like, oh cool, and
that that happens all the time.Joey guitar player and the guy Lurch Bentley's
old guitar player who wrote Free andEasy and a couple other songs that were
huge. He's on Broadway playing andthese guys, these cats are everywhere,

(01:21:17):
and it's just amazing that you getthe opportunity to play with them. Huh.
It's it's just awesome. Yeah,yeah, you uh, you find
out real fast what you're not.I've always I've always called myself guitar player
first. And then uh, Igot to town and and I started jamming
on stage with my now roommate.She got me on stage and I'm we

(01:21:42):
ripped through, called me the breeze, I'm shredding it, and I'm feeling
good. And I get off stageand Brad goes, hey, man,
you're a real good singer. AndI go, what didn't you hear my
guitar playing? When he huh?And then I kind of paid attention.
I was like, oh, Ineed to go back to the woodshed.
I need to go back to thewoodshed, right right. Uh. Let's

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see. June Harts has joined ushere, and she says, Hi,
I am from Buffalo, New Yorkand love my Jillian Eliza. And then
that's great, that's awesome. Thatis Basil Church lady. Huh. Let's
see. Uh uh, Joe,I'm guessing I don't even know what's going

(01:22:31):
on in there. But I knowJillian just put in there, get a
room you two. So I don'tknow who she's talking to. Two guys,
that's all I know. Um.So I had the opportunity with with
Aaron Tippin. Now there's a writer, UM truck driver writer you know the

(01:22:56):
guy. Uh, Aaron Tippin wasjust amazing, the hardest working man in
country music. Yeah, yeah,fantastic guy. Um loved his music and
uh still do. I mean,there's there's a lot of musicians that come
out of Nashville, and you stopand think about it. At where you
are at this point in your life, you could be that someday, you

(01:23:19):
know. I mean, does whatdoes that stir in you? I mean,
honestly, what what do you Whathappens if if somebody signed you today
and you started cutting records and outthere living the life. Oh, I'm
through the roof. That's that's thelike we're talking about, Eli, That's

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that's the goal, and that's that'sall you want, And that's why you
put up That's why you eat thoseshit sandwiches day in and day out,
and that's why that's why when youget the shit kicked out of you,
you get up and say thank you, man, I have another. You
put mayonnaise on your ship sandwich?I do, I do, man,
it's a little out of great pupa. There you go, Matt Foley,

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says Sunshine. Matt Foley, whatup? Man? So Chanelle, here's
your favorite person again, says sodid Sunshine James start singing as a kid?
Was he in a band or inchorus in school? No? Like
I said earlier, I just grewup around a campfire with a bunch of

(01:24:24):
old cowboys and bikers and yeah hillbilly's, and that taught me how to
sing. And my mom, Mymom was always just she's all about pitch
and not singing through my nose,and she drilled it into me young.
All I could think of is Iused to do the little camp singing thing

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too. And I used to havethis friend. I don't know what kind
of friend you would call him,but if you you know, we're sitting
around, we're all just singing tryingto this is like way back when when
I was a real kid. Andhe's I don't want your singing through your
nose. I want you to singingfrom your your gullet. I want you
to push it up and push pullit out and blah blah blah. If

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I if it even sounded like Iwas singing through my nose, he freaking
punched me in the face, likewhat kind of friend is that you need?
That? It sounds so huge?But you know what you do when
you pay attention? Yeah, youknow you do. Um, let's see,

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she has a secondary question for you. How many instruments do you play?
Guitar? Bass? Um? Iknow the scales on piano because I
did percussion and school grown up soI played bells, So it's the same
scales, same set up. Um. I'm a I'm not a drummer,
but I've gone on tour as adrummer, so I I've got on the

(01:25:49):
resume. Um, keep a littlerhythm going. Huh yeah, I keep
the beat. I'm not I'm notmister Phil guy. I do my nest
to rip up John Bottom, butuh yeah, I half thought, and
I keep the beat. You,Morgan says in here I remember him singing
in junior high at Hello out justkidding. Um. Joe says, have

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you ever seen on stage with yourmom? Oh? I was like,
Joe, what do you Yeah?Yeah, we uh we sold uh well,
I didn't sell out. I wasI was signed to a label and
uh, the label artist there,the girl that was being developed. She
she sold a lot of tickets andwe it all sold out and I played

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there at the Lambor Lounge and uhyeah, my mom happened to be visiting
from Arizona in Denver and we gother on stage and we did a seven
Bridges road. Wow, that's abig song. Yeah, it's a lot.
And that's again something just we justdid in the living room every night

(01:26:57):
after dinner or something. You know. Wow, it's a big song.
So how are you harmonies then,now that you're bringing that up, not
great. I'm getting better. Jill'sreally working with me because she's acreble harmony
singer. I'm I've never I've neverhad to sing them, so I just
never learned it. I can giveyou a little bit of advice if you
want it. Absolutely, when you'resinging harmony, you'll know when it's on

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and when it's right you're when you'relistening to yourself, they'll be you know
that ringing you get in your earevery once in a while. It's something
sort of like that, but umweirder. But once you hit that harmony.
You'll know it because that little soundwill be playing in your ear and
and you're like, oh shit,there it is, and you'll just you'll

(01:27:43):
you'll figure it out. But listento yourself because you will hear a difference
when it comes to harmony. Youknow, in yourself, in yourself,
you will hear it. It's amazingstuff. I uh, that's that's actually
how I started was harmony. Harmonies, yeah, UM, gospel choir,

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um. It was just it wasone of those things. And then I
had a friend. Her name wasRobin. She was a fantastic female um
artist and she never went anywhere.She was hearing Rochester. But that I
swear to god. You know whenyou listen to a woman sing and she
sounds like a freaking angel. Imean her voice was just so smooth and

(01:28:26):
so, I mean it was light, but it was ah, it was
just fantastic, and she says,here, I want you to sing this
note. So I'm like okay.So I started singing with her, and
she taught me how to sing harmony. And I never told that story before.
I hope she's not listening because Ididn't. I never told her she
taught me how to do it right. So but yeah, that's that's how

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I learned, believe it or not. It was just all of those little
tricks and listening. And you know, growing up, when you start listening
to bands such as Shannandoah or umLet's see Restless Art, you know there
you you hear their harmonies, youknow, and you you pick that stuff

(01:29:08):
up and you try to copycat it, you know, And that's that's what
happens. The drummer, the originaldrummer from Rustless Heart, was from where
I live right now, a littletown of that von. He used to
talk about the Avon Railroad. There'sactually a song that he wrote with that
that's really cool. Yeah yeah,um, Nick says, old boy Teddy,

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Now you're busted. Yeah, probablythat's okay. You only live once.
I'm fifty three. Who gives ashit? Yeah, so I got
I'm gonna ask because we lost agreat one here. We lost freaking Charlie
Daniels. How did you know?That's just everybody took a took a dead

(01:29:50):
silence. Man. I mean thatguy, Oh my god, an inspiration
to so many people. And youknow, he was one of those guys.
He was he was he stood,he stood out, but he you
knew he was real. It's kindof like bo Sefish. You knew what
he stood for in his songs.Um. They don't make him like that

(01:30:12):
anymore, you know, they justdon't. No, you just pray,
guys, he influenced enough for thenext generations behind him. Yeah, yeah,
he'll live on forever him, JohnnyCash, Um, Wayne Jennings,
Um, let's see, uh uh, Willie Nelson, you know yeah,

(01:30:36):
David elicole Um. There's so manyof them, Um, even the possum.
I mean, they all played theirrole um in the way country music
is today. And I'm not leavingout the females, because you know,
you had Dolly Cardon, you hadPatsy Klein, you had Louretta Lynn,

(01:30:56):
you had you know, you hadall these females, that strong powerhouse females.
They wrote, they sang, theydid. They lived through a time
period as well, I should say, where women were in as respected as
men were at that time too,so you know, they didn't have as
many freedoms, I should say.But they made country music what it is

(01:31:16):
today. And I love when someof the old musicians can get up there
in stage with some of the youngerones, and in my time, George
Strait now is considered one of theall time greats. Alan Jackson, you
know, I mean these guys arephenomenal. So I said, I heard

(01:31:43):
somebody saying one time talking about ifaliens came down to Earth and they wanted
to know about human human life throughmusic, what would you send them?
And my without down in my mind, I was like, Al Jackson,
you just said, am Al Jackson'scatalog. Yeah, that's the aliens.
They'll they'll figure out her. It'spretty quick. Yeah. One of my

(01:32:04):
other all time favorites is Clint Black. Yeah, he doesn't get as much
love as all those guys. Andhe wrote all those songs and co wrote
those songs. Yeah, he hadhe had some great tunes. And um,
I don't know, I think backon some of these musicians from from

(01:32:27):
that would be my time period ofbeing a kid growing up. Um but
see, I still the tail endof mac Davis was there for me.
Mac Davis, I mean, uh, stop and smell the roses. You
know, you're one hell of awoman. I mean those songs like I've
always wanted to redo my own renditionof your hell of a woman because the

(01:32:49):
song is just so awesome. Yeah, you know, and who was one
of the other ones that Randy Travis. But he went through hell and high
water, but you know he hadhe had some good, real country sounding
tunes. Well, yeah, hebrought he not only brought back traditional country

(01:33:11):
music when he brought it back inthe eighty seven after the whole urban cowboy
thing, he put more butts andseats and sold more records than country music
and ever sold. And that firstrecord, Storms of Life is that's one
of the greatest records of any genreanything, all time, right, just
pure pure country music, and Ilove it so much. Yeah, Chanella

(01:33:36):
is saying she's got her list here, she says Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash,
June Carter, George Jones, RebaMcIntyre, Dolly Pardon or at the
Lynn, Patsy Klein, and mypersonal favorite Patsy Montana. So she's got
her own favorites there as well.I think country music, I mean the
past twenty five years, country musichas been uh these strong young genre of

(01:34:00):
music and um, I only seeit, you know, going further and
keep going. And with the inclusionof um the pop feel some of this
stuff and the country rap and stufflike that. Um, I don't know.
I mean, and when I thinkcountry rap, I think of Neil

(01:34:23):
McCoy. There was nobody else doingthat shit. Neil McCoy was the only
one doing. It's so funny.Hey, hey, you know here you
come out and doing that stuff.Um, you mentioned his name earlier.
Kenny Chesney came out and did anac DC tune. Very first tune on

(01:34:45):
his tour was easy Day. Itwas amazing. Oh yeah, it was
fantastic. Yes, chance, wewill not forget Chris LaDue. Chris Ladu
was an amazing cowboy. He wrotecowboy music. It wasn't just country,
it was cowboy music. Um,fantastic. And now his son is redoing
it. His son is doing hismusic as well, so it's awesome.

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Chanel says, Randy Travis worked formy grandma before he was famous as a
bartender in her bar. Nice.That's interesting, yeah, Kimberly says Tanya
Tucker. There you go, oh, there you go. Yeah. But
you know what's funny is it's countrymusic. Um me being I was country

(01:35:33):
singer for eighteen to twenty years,and my influences weren't just country I mean
I had gospel, I had blues, I had jazz. I had um
standards as they would say, Um, Karen, Karen Carpenter, Um,
I had uh who else? Um. This is gonna sound really stupid,

(01:35:59):
but some of the old movies,these singers in the old movies, like
Danny kay Bing Crosby, you know, stuff like that influenced me as well.
Captain and Til. You want totalk about getting rassed about listening to
Captain Antinio, how much I gotharassed about that, But you know,
it was it was whatever influenced you. It's kind of like, I don't

(01:36:24):
know, if you're a giant ballof energy. All this music just kind
of swirls into it and makes upwho you are today, you know,
And that's just that's the way itis. And I think if you can
take all that and mold it intosomething fantastic, I think the world's ready
for you at that point, youknow what I mean? If that makes
sense? Yeah, Yeah, Themost important thing is just be yourself and

(01:36:47):
don't pigeonhole yourself. Right, Oh. Lone Star. Lone Star was amazing,
Morgan. I had the opportunity tomeet those guys and talk backstage.
Fantastic guys. Um. I reallythink they had his nuts and advice when
he hits some of those notes.But you know it's uh oh man,

(01:37:12):
um, there was like you can'tforget those names from like hehun either Roy
Clark, you know Roy Clark,was he played any any genre of music.
Yeah, it was the best you'dever heard it on a guitar.
Yeah, and Buck Owens was there, and there was so many names in
country music and people go, ahcountry music I hated. I'm like,

(01:37:33):
if you actually sit down and thinkabout what country music has influenced as in
music today, you'd be amazed.Yeah, oh yeah, and it's and
a lot of people they when theya lot of guys will you know Outlaw
Well William Merle, but then theyonly they only they only celebrate a portion

(01:37:58):
of those guys catalogs. I'm like, you're forgetting all these other songs that
didn't sound like that. And earlyWhaldas, Uh, they did a lot
of they did a lot of balladsand they did some you know Willie,
Willie did anything he wanted, ButI wonder why Yeah, yeah, he
kind of bucked Nashville, grout hishair and started smoking a bunch of lead

(01:38:19):
and he was like, the hellyou guys. Yeah, at this point
he can do whatever he wants andnobody even bothers him, so it doesn't
matter. Yeah he did. Hedid a ring As album. Really.
Yeah, there's actually a really goodsong on there that Johnny Cash wrote,
uh called worried Man. That's andthat's I love. I love all that

(01:38:41):
stuff. I love all those theweird stuff those guys didn't. Yeah,
Morgan, I love you. Thankyou so much because you just put up
the name that I was thinking aboutearlier on in this interview. Jamie Johnson.
Oh what a what a powerhouse voicethat guy right there. I mean,
you want to talk about a badboy. You want to talk about

(01:39:05):
one of those guys that can sitdown and play anything and sing anything.
That's Jamie Johnson. The boy isamazing. Yes, you are my Sunshine.
He did that for suns mad Archieand it's the eeriest, darkest thing

(01:39:25):
ever. But it's so good.I have his I have his Black and
White album, and that is likethe that's my I played that thing way
too much. To be honest withyou, is that the one he did?
Set him up? Joe? Ithink yeah, set him up,
Joe, Yeah, oh yeah,it was a great It's great. You

(01:39:50):
know what surprises me? And Ihope that this is gonna ring true for
you when you finally get up thereon stage and you're you're singing for thousands.
Is that your songs that you recordsound just like your life? Because
there are so many bands out therethat make it in Nashville and what they
record does not sound like when they'reperforming live. Yeah, they go to

(01:40:15):
Nashville, they hire all these musiciansand spend all this money on manbelin and
filler stuff, and then they goout through with drums, bass and guitar,
and you're like, guy, whatdo you Yeah, if like the
guitar blayed better house and drips upa sleep, you've better been doing a
lot of films, pitch a lotof films. Yeah, that thing cry,

(01:40:35):
You better figure out how to makethat thing sound good. Well,
they have those new those new padalsnow where you can program it to do
like twenty or thirty different sounds.Piano trumpets. Isn't amazing? No,
I mean I walked into a bar, the band is playing on the tiniest
little stage, and I hear theopening to the dance and I look and

(01:41:00):
I'm like, it was like,there's no piano. And then I keep
like, no, that's kind ofthat's no. And then I look again.
I'm watching like the guitar players fuckingand the sound is matching, and
I'm like, I look at him. I was like, are you like
did one of those from like isthat? He's like he just started laughing.
He goes in the hell technology,man, technology, it's like taking

(01:41:24):
taking musicians voices these days and andmessing with it. So I can what
do they call that? Oh shit, oh the melodone? Auto tune?
Yeah, auto tune. Oh mygod, I hate auto tune. Yeah,
I mean you can't help it.Hear it in the song. It's
like stop using auto tune. Yeah, I think. I think the first

(01:41:45):
time I ever heard it, Ithink it was it was intentionally used as
an effect. It was that FaithHill song, Uh way at me?
I think She's There's there and thatwas like ninety nine or something. Yes,
first time I ever heard that.I heard it. I think the
first time was Sharon believe it ornot, because she hasn't had a lot

(01:42:09):
of her songs and oh my god, yes, and I'm just like,
why why are you getting that old? You can't sing anymore? That was
bad to me. I'm sorry,sure, Uh, Patty loves us,
Timber, tim Timber. I'm fallingin love the Judds, judge did.

(01:42:30):
They were big there for a while, you know, tell me about the
good old days. I love thatsong. Oh yeah, yeah, um
oh. Chanel says one of thefunniest singers was Mini Pearl. Oh yes
she was. But you can't forgetlike Roger Miller and all these guys that
did all their funny Mississippi Squirrel Revival. Come on here, I mean song

(01:43:00):
down the Ruining a white Catillac,got girls from the front, got girls
in the girl from the back.And then uh, well, you can't
play baseball, and you can't playball this swimming pool and you can't put
the ball in a pair of keycase. You're like, what, Yes,
you can't roll a skate in theBuffalo herd bo. No, there

(01:43:23):
was somebody else that came out withsome of that stuff too, and I
think his name was Judd. That'swhat it reminded me of, this kind
of the biggest clad Yes, pleadhis t Judd. Oh my god,
some of his ship was so funny. Oh my god, he was amazing.
Um, Nick, Tom's probably theresomewhere. But you know what,

(01:43:48):
I've had a blast talking with youtonight. I mean this is fantastic.
I mean, this is this isgreat. And everybody's been hanging in there
with us, which I think isfantastic as well. Um, I really,
you know, I'm gonna I'm gonnawait to hear from you again because
I'd love to have you come backon the show. I told the girls
that as well. It's like,let me know how things are going,

(01:44:09):
send me a message. We'll getyou on here. You can play some
more music and we'll talk and see. You know what's happening with Sunshine James?
Now, you know, I'm curious, is that is that gonna be
a title to yourself your first album, because that's the way they do it.
Is that just gonna be Sunshine James? Or are you gonna come up?
I mean, don't just don't putwalking on Sunshine? My trouble with

(01:44:34):
that one, Uh, I thinkI think I've always I came up with
fifth and Flat Top a long timeago, and I've always wanted to name
a record that. Um, I'ma big fan of records having their own
names and not just doing a selftitled because it's it's such a it's such

(01:44:55):
a stamp in time and that Ithink those words for me like what I
listened around. I don't know,it's again the romanticism thing. When I
see the album art and I cansee you in my head and I used
to be able to hold it.So I'm a little outdude. But yeah,
definitely gonna name I don't I don'twant to just call it Sunshine James.
Yeah, well see that's that's awesome. Um, I'm definitely looking forward

(01:45:18):
to hearing your stuff on their radio. Man. I think I think you
got what it takes. I'm reallyimpressed with you. Um. I think
you got great personality as well.You're easy to talk to, and I
think that's another good thing. Um, A personality and ego is a big
thing in music. You gotta haveit, believe it or not. But
you know, just remember where youcame from and the people who helped you

(01:45:40):
get there and uh and all that. You know. Um, I am
gonna put your stuff up here againand so everybody can check you out and
go over and check them out onreverb nation dot com Sunshine James five,
go over and buy a song ortwo. Um, I did listen to
one, and I was gonna talkto you about something about a bottle.

(01:46:00):
I think put the bottle down.Yeah, put the bottle down. You
feel like singing a little bit ofit, I can do that for it.
Hell yeah, that would be awesome. I love this song, folks,
So if you get a chance,go over to rerib nation dot com,
check out Sunshine James and download thissong. I really do like this
song. Thank um, and realquick. What's funny is uh? That

(01:46:21):
song is in D but the riffis in ecor position, so everything is
set up in ecor position, andI'm too lazy to tune down my guitar.
So I think I'm the only guy. I'm the only guy on the
planet that sings his song live astep higher than the record. That's okay,
that's all right? That now,yeah, I see I'm gon that

(01:47:04):
my son phone now there. Istill fingure you hold plut that biles out.
Yeah, you don't your search ladywhen you're like this. You don't

(01:47:32):
your search lady when you're like this. I still figure you hold plut that
biles out. Well this fun Ican't hear r a little mother call your

(01:48:35):
mother your mask? Well s sepull that line line that using bull stop

(01:49:05):
shot down. I love that song, I really do. That is such
an awesome song. Hey, that'sall right. Uh, Chanelle just put
up here. I listened to allfive songs. I loved it. And

(01:49:27):
she says, by the way,the harmonica player is amazing. Mark so
man, Mark Bell. He playedfor Bow did Lee, he played for
Keith Richards a little bit, anduh, my record was his last record.
He passed away about six months afterthat. Wow. Yeah, he
killed it and he was just asgreat. Great guy, great stories,

(01:49:49):
you know, killer guy, killerguy I was. I was very very
happy I got to have him onmy record. Nick againss fantastic job.
I think he made some fans.Man, I think you made some fans.
I appreciate that. Man. That'sthat's cool. That makes me happy.
Yeah, it makes me happy too. So we're gonna have to have
you back. That's all there isto it. Man, blew its arm

(01:50:13):
there you got twisted all right.So, um, I guess that's it.
From the night, My god,it was it was good. Nick's
funny. When I was repeatedly clickingon the emoji reactions, it created a
drum like sound. Actually went perfectlywith the song There you go, you
Ma and your own music right alongwith them. So there you go.
So it's good. Well, youknow what, Thank you again, James.

(01:50:36):
I really appreciate you being here withus and showing off your talent and
uh fantastic. I mean, Ican't say enough about it. You know,
it's great. Yeah, this isa lot of fun. I really
appreciate you having me on man.Yeah, you know what, I think
I might I may just send youone of my songs to get your opinion
of it, just because I don't. I don't write country. I read

(01:51:00):
alternative, so you might find thata little different and a little weird,
maybe a little fun even, younever know. Cool cool. Just remember
I'm an old fart. UM.Actually I did my first album just a
real quick thing. I did myfirst album in nineteen ninety nine. UM

(01:51:20):
I recorded in Nashville the year afterUM did a song for them called Still
Missing You. I wasn't I wasn'timpressed with a song myself, but I
did record one out there. ButI did my own album and it was
done, believe it or not,in a closet. I just went in

(01:51:41):
the closet and recorded my songs thatway, in a closet. It was
amazing. Yeah yeah you hey,you make shift, man, You do
what you gotta do, right.Yeah. Yeah. Like I said earlier,
everyone expects like beautiful grandios, marbletop Like no, man, you
can you can in a closet wholerecord. It was a pain. And

(01:52:03):
he asked because I'm a big guyin a little tiny closet, um,
and it was dark as shit,microphone and me just barely fit in there.
But it was great. Yeah.Um, actually, Chanelle, that's
a good question. I did forgetto do that. In the beginning of
the show, Tony Deville was supposedto be my guest co host tonight.

(01:52:25):
Um, we were gonna he wasgonna ask some questions because he's a musician
as well. Um, he actuallyplays in a Motley Crewe tribute band.
Um, and he was gonna comeon and and and enjoy it. But
I got a quick message from theyhad a huge storm come through Baltimore and
they have no electrics, so hewasn't able to get on bober So,

(01:52:48):
Um, I tried to get himto use his phone, but he said
he didn't have enough life left andso he couldn't plug it into charge it
either. So um, all right, that's it man. You know,
awesome job. You know, Let'ssee one more time guys, Reverb Nation,

(01:53:11):
Sunshine James. Go check it out, buy a song or two.
Helped the boy out, and don'tforget to go over to like, share
and subscribe and share this feed.Share this video with your friends. I'm
sure they'd love it. And wewill say one more time. Tonight's sponsor
with the Mysterious Adventures Tours dot Com. All right, guys, we had
a great night. We will seeyou guys on Saturday. We will have

(01:53:32):
Liz Clevenger here and we are actuallyshifting gears, going from musicians to her
talking about deadly plants, plants tostay away from deadly plants. So I
didn't think I was gonna you know, I've talked about plants before in the
show and it was cool as hell, and I figured, what the hell,

(01:53:54):
let's do it again. Yeah,it's a variety show. I mean,
what's the worst it happened? Youknow? We had a poet on
here Tuesday and it was great,you know, so it doesn't matter what
it is, Petty, I'll putit on the air. Who cares,
as long as it's good ship.We all have a good time. Morgan
says, bye, Chanelsa's great show. Nick says, great guest tonight,

(01:54:17):
Teddy. Uh, well, thankyou, but thanks sunshine James. He
was the guests fantastic. Um lovedhaving him here. Save the alcohol for
the next show. Okay, Um, Oh, there you go. And
Nick, um to your answer toSaturday's show about the deadly plans? He

(01:54:42):
says, oh, does that includebio Lante from Godzilla? You never know?
He was a plan you never know? And Chanel says, thank God
for beer and vodka Cranberry. Allright, guys, thank you so much.
Again, we're out of here.We'll see us soon and stay in
touch. James, okay, absolutelyall right, buddy, see you guys
later. Thank you and my guestsfor joining me here on Talk with Teddy.

(01:55:15):
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