July 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Australian Country Artist Andrew Swift is back on the show to talk about his latest single and lots more! Tune in for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, folks, this is Australian country star Andrew Swift and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN
ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass and busy, busy days
full of artists there too as well. Some great shows
coming up next week there. The Flat River Band is
gonna stop by our friend Sarah Angel and of course
Nashville recording artist Sonny Sweeney. She's got a brand new
album coming out there August the first. Looking forward to
talking to her about that too as well. Always Sonny,
welcome here on the program. The new album comes out
(00:40):
August first. Rhyin Stone Wreck, Well, I'm looking forward to
that from one of the greats of all time to
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great to have another show favorite back. I've mentioned Sunny
Sweeney there too, but we met last year during CMA
Week twenty and twenty four. Always fun times out there.
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One of Australia's top country artists too, and a brand
new dad at that Andrew Swift Gerald the program.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
What's up man, Hey man, I'm good, I'm I'm living,
I'm living a lot. I'm finding some new fate as
a dad, and I kind of believe it's being over
years since since the last time I saw each other
in say maythis it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It been a hot minute, no doubt, brother, since we've
talked to the last time too. We'll get to the
song here a little bit too. But tell me what,
I guess what's been going on. I guess I know
what's going on right there too. And you look at
it being a brand new dad. I can tell you
from a five year old experience what that's been like
for me over the past few years, which had definitely
changes perspective for all the good, no doubt about it,
to be a father, But how has it changed you,
not just as a human being, as an artist and
(02:04):
just wholeheartedly everything.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, I mean we at the moment, I feel
like we're constantly adjusting to a new normal. And like
she's only just over six weeks old, so every time
we think we've got it worked out, she changes a
sleeping pattern or you know something. You know, we think
we know how to get it asleep, and she's like, no, no, no,
I don't do that anymore. So that it's great. She's
(02:27):
she's at that stage now where she's starting to smile
and cooing and she's even trying to copy me when
my poke my tongue out and makes my heart melt.
So it's it's great that she's a little more interactive
and a little less of a potato right now.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So great, six weeks different from being a newborn, which
is still newborn. But I know what you're saying, Like
I said, moving the lips in the mouth and stuff
like that. Little the coop and the queues and things
like that too. Remember those nights where we didn't get
much sleep through when she was that little too, and
of course I had to get up at night do
all the feeding and everything too. Don't miss those days.
But I tell you what, enjoy that way you can,
because you're right it does. You look up and they're
(03:02):
five or ten, they're fifteen, and they're graduating high school
out there too. Hey, speaking of CMA fes, another man.
Slew of great Australian country artists always invaded there. I
met Tyler Rodriguez, a fantastic My god, just a girl
who's just banging right now to doing her thing out
there too. Sounded great, of course, I know Hayley Jensen
came down to and just so many others. What is
(03:23):
it about CMA Fest? I want to get your opinion.
Maybe we talked about this last year on the show,
but it's crazy how CMA Fest brings out the best artists,
not just in Nashville but worldwide. Man, there's so many
great ones coming from Australia, right.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I mean, look, we're very fortunate to have a
lot of great Australian country odyssey. But I mean the
drive to get to Nashville is something that's ingrained in US.
I mean we grew up. We grew up on American
culture on TV. When any time anybody quotes a movie
or a TV show in Australia, they put on an
American accent, even if it's an Australian show they quote him.
(03:56):
It's just it's built into us. But there is love
in the country. Saint for nash feel. It's like, I mean,
Nashville is country music mecca. Everybody wants to Everybody has
to make that pilgrimage man and and uh that's you know,
it's always a big thing if you get on CMA
fist if you're in Australian it's everybody celebrates the fact
(04:16):
that you're heading over and not just going over to
do some writing. You there to represent Australia on a
on the worldwide country platform.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Really love this one TOI let's go back talk about there.
We talk about the new single Lightning Strikes and Neon Nights.
I love this one too. A lot of cool things
from Boom Box Romance on there too, and of course
cheap Liquor Talk to take us through this one, and
of course, uh Love Like a Wrecking Ball was one
of my favorites. There too, a lot of cool things
on there, some cool duets. I know, you got to
feature Kevin Bennett on a song there too, called the Question,
(04:44):
which was really cool. Uh Man. A lot of just
great body of work on this record. Talk about that
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Thanks so much, man. It's and I appreciate you saying that.
Uh you know, I love I Loves Like a Wrecking Ball,
because nobody ever says that. Nobody picks that one, so
that's it's not as nice as someone's picked that. We
haven't even played that live in forever because it's just
never been one of those songs. But look, I mean,
it was a real fun album to make, very much.
(05:10):
We tried to capture some a bit of a nostalgic
feel with maybe some eighties soundscapes in there to try
and bring that in. But it was a lot of
fun for me. A highlight is definitely You and Me
and a Bottle of Whiskey. It's the first song that
my girlfriend and I wrote together, so and she's doing
a lot of backing vocals on this album, so it
(05:30):
was really great to have her involved in this project.
She has always done music is a bit of a
bit of a hobby, but she's got the most incredible
voice and she's a great songwriter. So you know, for me,
I was really happy to be able to include her
in something a little more professional than some bedroom demos,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Give me a little something more challenging as getting the
studio and put some of those background vocals to it. Hey,
take me through your songwriting process, you know, back to
the school of one on one. Watch you enjoyed most
about the process, and then what's the most challenging part
about it, I guess besides being a joyable.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, right, Well, I mean the whole reason I started
writing songs for me was a way to express myself.
You know, Like I started writing songs when I was
going through all those teen ags to moments in high school.
And I mean I look back on those songs and
they're absolutely woeful, But you know, it was a good
way for me to get my feelings out. And I mean,
these days, there are still songs that I write for myself,
(06:26):
but I also write for a different reason. You know,
I'm a different level in my career where I'm writing
songs and I hope will do well on radio and
be fun to play at festivals. So my songwriting has
changed a lot now because the majority of my songs
are co writes. So they never used to be that way.
Used to be very much me just sitting down taking
my time. But I'm a slow writer. If I'm left
(06:47):
to my own devices, I just write about what I
need to write about. And so a lot of the
time it's the co writing sessions where we sit down
and we have a bit of a bit of a power,
a bit of a chat work out where we're at
what you know, fine coming ground with the other writers
and work out something to write about. Someone might have
an idea to pitch and we go from there. And
(07:09):
but look at it's there's still songs that I write
for myself, but it usually it starts with a bit
of an idea. Sometimes I love coming up with a
song when I'm on a road trip, like there's a
lot of a lot of road to travel in Australia,
so a lot of the time you just left to
your own thoughts and listening to music and you go,
oh man, this is I think I've got an idea
and half the time you've got a chorus or a
(07:29):
verse written by the time you pull up to your
next show.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I love that, just in a lot of the
music you put out to And we've talked about this,
like I said, over the years, so you've been a
guest here on the show. The Art of Letting Go
was actually before the album we talked about right there too.
This one came out the end of twenty twenty one.
A lot of cool things on there too, and a
lot of great body of worked there too. As you
guys were again putting out some more cool music and
a head full of Honey, I thought it was one
of my favorite softa there.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, that's that's a crab favorite.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's I need to mix it up because that's been
the show closer for a little while now. That's it's
everyone's favorite, and it's definitely a song that helped put
me on the map. It was crazy. I'd be doing
shows opening for some other bands here at that point
and people would come up to the show and just go, man,
I didn't know that headful of Honey song was yours.
That's like, it's in my playlist. So I didn't know
(08:16):
that's you. So and that song in particular is a
funny one because I pitched that idea to about six
or seven different writers. I said I've got this idea
for song. It's called Headful of Honey, and everybody was like,
I don't get it, man, I don't get it. And
so I just started like fiddling around with it on
(08:36):
my own and ended up writing with a friend here
in Australia. Her name is Billy Joe Porter, and I
said I've got this idea and she goes, I love it.
Luckily for me, she's overly enthusiastic about absolutely everything and
jumped on it and we wrote it. But I mean
a lot of that album I feel has somewhat of
some somber hundred times as well. Like I finished writing
(09:00):
album during the lockdowns. We were lockdown here in Melbourne,
Australia for like two hundred and seventy odd days, so
over two years. It was pretty full on and goes
back to writing for myself about expressing how I was feeling.
The closing track on that album is all about being
stuck at home and dealing with the lockdown pressures.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You all have that same record too, we all do
this and no matter how anxious we get in life
and how life treats us, and I guess how we
treat it. Sometimes we got to remember one breath at
a time. And I love your condition of this one
off that record right there, the art of letting go.
Tell everybody about this one who have not heard that?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, well, look, this is a song that I actually
wrote when I was in Nashville with another Australian artist.
A friend of ours back home had recently lost her
husband and it was while we were writing the song.
I think the funeral was happening and we couldn't be there.
We were both in Nashville. We couldn't be there to
support her and the family and you know the people
(10:00):
that we loved, and we felt here where we couldn't
be there, and we That's where this song came from,
is being there for someone. It's funny because like my
my I've got my mom, I think interprets this song
as just such a fantastic love song of being there
for somebody love and but for me, it's a heartbreaking
song of being there for someone when you know they're
(10:20):
in this overwhelming place in life, but when it comes
down to it. It is about being there for someone through
through something tough and just sticking it out with them.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No doubt that one breath of the time is every day.
We have to remember that here across everything we do
in life. These days we'll talk for the latest single again.
Andrew Swift can check him out across all these social
media out there too, and of course we'll get to
that website here and just a little bit here on
the backstage past. I always love to give that out
of here too as well. K yb in ninety eight
point one your area broadcasting network, iHeartRadio podcast, are friends
at the Sports Guys podcast dot com and of course
(10:52):
th hw N dot org. It's time to get lost here.
It's Andrew Swift craig it up in.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
The back top two earth, way out the map with
alls on, work like your apitch and the earth going
just get lost.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Fan's a way too loud, the lights dim way too low.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
If I'm gonna get annoying. We need a new place
to go.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh, the bars out on the main drag feel a
little bit been there, done that. I got a bitter idea,
why don't we just get lost out.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Away in the black top turns to earth way on
the map with alls don't work me like you're at
the inch and the Earth's gone.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Just get lost out in.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Scrub under the bars, feel like loose track of time.
You won't believes why charm gone?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Just get lost caught up. My old man said, it'll
need some advice. Let's be on jungle, don't sleep. What's
a man gotta do to survive? Will want to do something?
Just get a backpack, put your foot on the fiddle,
don't look back.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's as easy as that gone.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Just get lost away the black top turns the dirt,
pay on the back, but bones don't work, be like
your age, your the earth gone.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Just get lost out.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
In strup under the basket.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Who's track to tip?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You don't believe? Just watch your combine gone. Just get lost.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
We don't need to know exactly where we're going to.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
If we want to find out, Maybe all you've gotta do.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Just getting long, get long, get low, get long, Come on,
(13:34):
get lost.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Out here in the black top turns the dirt way
out the nap.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The phone somewhere for me, like you're at beitch at
the earth and go on, Just get lost.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Water aside it comes through.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
The die on Seeing Ray the mis to the world just.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
For a while, going just get lost.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Your Andrew Swift the Backstage Pass again out there kyb
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Now I realized what you guys did with this spin.
You had a lot of fun with this one. This
latest single came out there back in May, middle of
May of this year. Tell us all about this one.
I love the writing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, well, look as much as I love writing MYND songs.
This one was actually written by friend of mine. So
a good friend of mine's then is Blake Dantea. We
were doing some chirotes for some other tracks on my album,
on the next the album I've been working on, and
I just said to him, Man, if you've got any
songs kicking around that you think would be a good
fit for me, I'm open to it. I love the
(16:09):
way you're right. He sent me about three or four songs,
and the moment I heard get Lost, I was like,
oh man, this is my song. I connected with it.
I love being on the road. I've never enjoyed being
in around big cities. I like to explore, Like even
when I go to the States, I love to get
a rental car and just road trip from destination to destination.
I just it's all, you know, that's me. And so
(16:33):
when like that was an easy decision to record the song,
and then once we got into the studio, my producer
Matt Fell, and we just had a lot of fun
with it, like and I think that definitely comes across
in the recording. And I feel like every session person
we sent it to to add something to you could
tell that they were having fun with it. Like it
was just right from the get go, the vibe was there.
(16:56):
And you know, that little breakdown bridge part is something
a little bit different for me, you know, the I
think Matt did maybe three different little bass lines over
the top, which my bass player player has gone, yeah, cool,
challenge accepted, let me see if I can do it.
But and then you know, even there's that, you know,
the the deeper tones of my voice through that just
(17:17):
we're just having some fun with it, and I think
that definitely comes across.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Another great artists. I got to catch up with a
good friend of yours, and of course she's She's dominating
over there, Catherine Britt. The collabs are becoming the norm
now these days too. I got to check out her
line of work out there, folks. If you had her
Captain Britt, you might want to look up one of
Australian's top country artists out there too, along with Andrew Swift,
Fire and Ikes just came together. What twenty eighteen. This
is where I first discovered you on this collab. I
know collabs are always fine, but man, doing it with
(17:44):
a hometown mate there too's gonna be a lot of
fun too, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, Well, I didn't really. I didn't even know Catherine
too well when I knew her music, but I didn't
know her personally when I asked her to do this song,
and man, I felt like a you know, an awkward
teenager trying to ask someone out on a date all
over again. You know. I reached out to her. I
was like, hey, and I you don't know me, but
you know, I really like what you do. Would you
(18:07):
be interested in doing a duet with me? And she
was really cool. She like, you know what, send me
through some stuff, let me have a listen. And we
picked Fire and Ice as the option and like for me,
it was I was just like, oh my god, this
is amazing. It's Catherine Brett and it's been one of
those songs that people just they love it like it
was my first number one here on seeing equivalent to
(18:29):
semt CEMC Australia. So I mean it was a real
She was an absolute gem throughout the whole process with recording,
doing music, video and we've just become such good mate since.
And you know, she's still killing it over here. She's
got a new project called The Pleasures. It's with another artist,
Lachland Brian and then putting me out some incredible music.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, a lot of cool things too. There was looking
at some of the latest things we get updates out there.
Was it something I said? A single? She just about
July fourth, So we had to definitely get in touch
with her. A lot of cool projects out there too.
And I love just getting those automatic updates too, because
you're like, you know what, got a follow up with
that person to get them on the show. Hey, tell
us about one that came out there and there right
there COVID, I believe this was right on down tell
(19:14):
us about this one. Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Another one of those songs where I didn't actually write.
This is a song I found originally by Canadian blues artists.
It was on a demo recording of his. I loved
it made of my own. Originally was singing it as
a duet with a friend of mine when we were
touring around and she's on the backing vocals on that.
It's I mean, it's one of those songs that just
(19:38):
connected with me. It's coming home at the end of
a long, hard day. But this one we found was
really tricky to release because it was COVID, So we
were trying to do a music video for it, and
every time we thought things would open up we could
get out and record a music video, the government would
shut us back down again. Go no, no, no, you
can't go more than a few miles from h and
(20:00):
you have to be home by sitting more than No,
you can't be more than an hour. So I ended
up messaging a whole heap of friends and get it
o from around the world too, but getting them to
send me snippets of them spending quality time with the
people they love, and we piece it all together. It's
probably the lowest budget music video we've ever done, but
it's there something really hot, warming about it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Love it so much. You know, we talked about how
great the ladies are doing it. Man, I tell you,
even I'm here in the States too, you think about
it too. I'll mentioned Haley Jensen and Tyler rod riggez
for Australian great country acts out there, Catherine Britton and
Jane Demmim and a whole lot more out there. But man,
here in the States, the the word was I guess
around nashvill at least my ear kind of found it.
I was like all the names kept coming up, from
Landy Wilson to Ashley McBride, Carly Pearson of course, Hannah
(20:43):
Ellis and all these great ladies that are doing their
thing out there too. Right now, what does that say
about country music? Just in your opinion? Right now, the
ladies now Nashville recording artists are finally getting their due
diligence when it comes to like top of the charts.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Look, I think it's amazing because the majority of country
out I listened to a probably female like my favorite
artists every year on a Spotify rap. The will be
you know, Laney Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBride, Hailey Witters.
You know, it's you know, those American artists are incredible,
and you know, we do have some incredible Australian artists
as well. I think, you know, there's definitely been a
(21:21):
push in the in the industry to try and even
things out with with the airtime and charts and all
that sort of stuff, and I think it's happening, you know,
But I think that no matter what your gender, as
long as you're doing incredibly like making great music, it's
gonna be it's gonna be heard, it's gonna be seen,
it's gonna be recognized. So it's I mean, it's fantastic
seeing so much equality across the board though, really is.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And of course a lot of talented guys out there,
you know, really doing their thing right now too. I
tell you, I'm digging a lot of the Parker mccollumn
stuff that's coming out right now too. There's just fantastic.
Of course, ac top I love it, old nineties kind
of sound, new traditional. And then Randall King. I saw
him a few weeks ago and let Charles down here
Louisiana and call him one of the shows you got
to stay hi to him, and man, just what does
some great music Rainble is putting out there too at
(22:04):
the same time, and of course the great Cody Johnson
from the great state of Texas down here too at
the same time. You know, looking back on it too,
as your years passed by, you continue to perfect your
craft and find your sound. Give me some of the
backstories of what's been I guess the most challenging part
of being consistent in this business, well, I.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Think, you know, going back to the songwriting, I feel like,
you know, that first album I put out back in
twenty eighteen, I could take my time with those songs.
I could take my time with that release. You know,
it was you know, I really did it over a
couple of years, and then all of a sudden I
realized I had to back it up while juggling touring.
(22:45):
I had to be trying to re write and then record,
and I realized quickly that I was like, man, I
need to be able to continually release music because the
way that the system is set up at the moment
with the streaming services, if you're not releasing music, it's
very easy to die off and disappear, and then you've
got to fight to get that momentum back again. So
(23:07):
that's that's definitely been a challenge, especially with the COVID thing.
You know, like twenty nineteen, I won a couple of
seeing Double A Awards. I was really had some good
momentum with that album, and then COVID hit and I
was like, man, I'm stuck at home. How do I
navigate this? That's that's definitely been the biggest challenge, is
was navigating how to stay relevant and consistently release music
(23:28):
when you can't leave your house. So luckily for me,
we'd recorded half the album and I had some singles
that I could dribble out. But yeah, look that those
have definitely been the challenges. But I mean, you know,
making a living from it in general is that that's
a big challenge in itself. And for years people would
say to me, Swifty, what do you want out of
(23:49):
your music? I just want to make a living touring,
you know, playing my songs to people, telling my stories.
And I'm very fortunate I get to do that now.
But it's it's still a very consistent thing. You know.
I've taken three months off to you know, be around
my newborn daughter, and you know, there's no income, so
it's like, you know, it's definitely a juggle the whole thing.
(24:12):
There's there's a lot where do I start.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right, it's a lot, no doubt be here and talking
for hours too, no doubt. Have we started at the
beginning of Go Allway A to Z two. Looking back,
I know there's a lot of cool things coming up,
you know, as far as touring, and you mentioned this
new album. You're working on this right now. Tell us
I guess what you can as far as this new
record coming out and what fans can expect.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, well, it's it's pretty much done. I'm just plating
on the final mixes to come through and then some
mastering and artwork, hoping to have it out you know,
a little later in the year. So we've got a rough,
rough timeline that we're booking some shows around you know,
October November around then, and then the album should be
at around then as well. So it's you know, it's
(24:52):
an album that I'm very proud of. I'm really happy
with the collection of songs. A lot of them were
written last year when I was in Nashville as part
of a song writing camp that we were doing right
before CMA fest. So there's a lot of fantastic, you know,
international artists on these rights, and probably more more people
in a room than I was used to. But we
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got some really cool songs out of it, and and
there's a couple of really special ones that I've written
with my partners and my own and yeah, I'm really
excited to share it with people.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm looking forward to and the title of this record
is going to be Oh, I can't tell you that
just I'm all right, Hey, well, we'll get the press
release on it, we'll put it back on. Looking forward
to playing some new visit across all the stations out
there too. Hey, I love music videos just as much
as you do. A lot of work, speaking of that,
trying to make a living in this business. There's a
lot of work putting out music videos. Much left a
song too at the same time, but I thought one
(25:46):
of your top stream ones, and really what was pretty
cool out there was a song called nothing Better tell
us about the writing of this one and then the
shooting of the music video, because I want to hear
the story.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, Well, so I read this one at that songwriting
camp in Nashville last year, and my girlfriend and I
had literally just moved in together, like three days before
I think we moved house and then I had three
days it was a birthday, and then went to Nashville.
So that was my first time buying a home. It
was my first time living together with it, and I
(26:15):
just wanted to be back home. I was very homesick
for the first time ever. And we're writing these songs
sitting in these rooms. A lot of the songs from
that session were about Simon and about my life at
the moment, and I was reflecting and it wasn't that
long ago that I was fixing trailers for a living
and trailer homes for a living, and I was didn't
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have a solid relationship and didn't think I was going
to be able to make a living for music. And
it's all changed and things are going pretty good right now.
So that's where the songs come from, with nothing better.
And then when it came to the music video, I
was like, how do we capture that in three minutes
of film? And we did. We started shooting at actually
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the childhood home that I grew up in. It turns
out my friend's auntie owns it now. So a small
town life, you know, So we shut it at the
front of that hoss and we filmed us, you know,
driving over through the hills and stuff, towards where we're
living now, and we shut the rest of it over
where we live now. And at the end of it,
(27:19):
Simon makes an appearance. She's got to baby bump in
her overalls and stuff and she's living gorgeous. So it
was a really nice music video that we've pieced together
that kind of summed up that journey. I love it too.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The best thing is that told the story nothing and
nothing better looking back at one like that too, I'll
make sure you guys have it. Andrew Swift dot com
dot au is the website out there too for one
of Australia's top artists out there for all the tour
dates and of course merchandise and all the great songs
check out music. I love just reading artists to websites
out there. It's what we do here on the backstage
pass to get powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
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So you're not got to throw in some sports with
you because I know you're a huge sports fan. We
talked a lot about this too during the CMA week,
so I know, look professionals. Teams over here in the
States I always love like the Astros and of course
my Cardinals in football. I know Austine's completely different on
the sports side of the spectrum, but the cool thing
is you play the game the same way too. Your
version of football is different than America's. But when it
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comes to sports, what teams college or pro would you
say you root for here in the States?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Look lightly because we've been so hit down with life,
I've only been able to see snippets of things. So
I think these these days have been like I'm a
Caitlin Clark fan, you can't help but watch air and
be I pressed. So I think I'm a favor of
fam when it comes to the w n b A,
I do have my teams over there, so nothing I
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get to watch them all the time. I'm also Arizona
Cardinals when it comes to the football. When I started
going to America, all my friends that I made in
Long Beach in California originally from Arizona. So we I
think we watched the Cardinals in the Super Bowl. Unfortunate
result like a few years back. But yeah, and I
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mean I grew up with Jordans, so I'm bulls, you know.
Uh but yeah and then yeah, I mean I've got
my teams. I've got my teams, you do, man.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I can't wait to get over to Melbourne. They say
it's beautiful over there, the beaches. I would love to
at the same time, the outdoor, the drinks. I'm excited
to get over to Australia and on the other side
of the world one day. And I gotta go down
Under with you guys. Man, I just have to, I do.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah. Man, we got some pretty pretty impressive festivals dan
here that you should come of hang out sometime and
we'll show you around.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I'd love to. I love to be a part of
that too. They put together like a backstage past tour
to go overseas there too, to go across the world
and do some coverage with this live radio show set
up there do some live broadcast back here India in
the States too. All right, food, what do you guys?
I know, of course, with the lifestyle, the little one,
you just pretty much pretty much eat whatever you can catch.
But at the same time cooking or takeout. What's been
(29:51):
something good you've had lately that you've gotten into food wise?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
What actually look some minds. Mum made an incredible date
sluice the other day. That's been. That's been a great
little snack, just sitting on the bench occasionally. But look
I go to for takeaway is Greek. We and I
we love sharing this bit of Greek food. But I
did a bit of cooking around the house. Actually the
other we've just got a little rot hisserie for the
(30:18):
for the barbecue. We had done a couple of good
good chucks on there, good chickens. But yeah, it's it's
funny because we juggle the boys as well. They're nine
and eleven. One of them pretty much only eats like cheese.
It's noting. As long as we have cheese on it,
he'll eat it, you know. So it's it's a bit
of a mix and match these days.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I select food groups for the little one.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Take you.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
My daughter's a picky eater too. She just turned five
back in April and look back and I'm going, yep,
you're going to kindergarten. But she is very picky. And
she used to like some cheese on some stuff and
then some without, and lately it's been like a carb
kick for her. So like you get your cheeseburgers and
you get your trying to eat more protein and just
a little some of the vegetables. But now man bread bread,
He's a carb carb coin now.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And I just love it if the boys would align
on what they like. So one of them likes Chase,
the other one doesn't. One likes hot chips, like fries,
the other one doesn't like. I'm like, can you guys
just can we get one way? Can we get it
from one place? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I have to go to two other different restaurants out there,
or in a grocery store having to buy two or
three different brands of some kind after when it comes
down to favor. Love that too, Hey man, I appreciate
the story again again the single Get Lost to across
all those DSPs and getting ready for preparation for the
brand new record coming out. No title for it yet,
and of course when there is, we'll announce it here
on the backstage pass and of course daytime sometime hopefully
(31:39):
in the fall out there Andrew Swift dot com dot
au make sure you guys check it out and check
out Get Lost across all the DSPs again, KYBN ninety
eight point one Your Bay area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts,
The Sports Guys Podcast dot com, and of course t
XWN dot org. My friend, always great to catch up.
Let's not let another year go by before we do
this again.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right, Well, maybe we need to have a chat around
the album when that drops.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You keep me posted, brother, You're back here on the show.
Gives a good parking spot right here on the backstage pass.
We're back with more great shows coming up next week.
Uh Sunny Sweete, you gotta drop by to talk about
herding brand new record. And of course another great artist
is Sarah Angel and a whole lot more of the
Flat River Band gonna stop by here on the backstage pass.
We're back with more great music coming up here in
a little bit. Across all the affiliates KYBN ninety eight
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Speaker 7 (32:46):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass and busy, busy days
full of artists there too as well. Some great shows
coming up next week there. The Flat River Band is
gonna stop by our friend Sarah Angel and of course
Nashville recording artist Sonny Sweeney. She's got a brand new
album coming out there August the first. Looking forward to
talking to her about that too as well. Always Sonny,
welcome here on the program. The new album comes out
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August first. Rhyin Stone Wreck, Well, I'm looking forward to
that from one of the greats of all time to
do it out there too. We're presented by our friends
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great to have another show favorite back. I've mentioned Sunny
Sweeney there too, but we met last year during CMA
Week twenty and twenty four. Always fun times out there.
(01:23):
One of Australia's top country artists too, and a brand
new dad at that Andrew Swift Gerald the program.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
What's up man, Hey man, I'm good, I'm I'm living,
I'm living a lot. I'm finding some new fate as
a dad, and I kind of believe it's being over
years since since the last time I saw each other
in say maythis it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It been a hot minute, no doubt, brother, since we've
talked to the last time too. We'll get to the
song here a little bit too. But tell me what,
I guess what's been going on. I guess I know
what's going on right there too. And you look at
it being a brand new dad. I can tell you
from a five year old experience what that's been like
for me over the past few years, which had definitely
changes perspective for all the good, no doubt about it,
to be a father, But how has it changed you,
not just as a human being, as an artist and
(02:04):
just wholeheartedly everything.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, I mean we at the moment, I feel
like we're constantly adjusting to a new normal. And like
she's only just over six weeks old, so every time
we think we've got it worked out, she changes a
sleeping pattern or you know something. You know, we think
we know how to get it asleep, and she's like, no, no, no,
I don't do that anymore. So that it's great. She's
(02:27):
she's at that stage now where she's starting to smile
and cooing and she's even trying to copy me when
my poke my tongue out and makes my heart melt.
So it's it's great that she's a little more interactive
and a little less of a potato right now.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So great, six weeks different from being a newborn, which
is still newborn. But I know what you're saying, Like
I said, moving the lips in the mouth and stuff
like that. Little the coop and the queues and things
like that too. Remember those nights where we didn't get
much sleep through when she was that little too, and
of course I had to get up at night do
all the feeding and everything too. Don't miss those days.
But I tell you what, enjoy that way you can,
because you're right it does. You look up and they're
(03:02):
five or ten, they're fifteen, and they're graduating high school
out there too. Hey, speaking of CMA fes, another man.
Slew of great Australian country artists always invaded there. I
met Tyler Rodriguez, a fantastic My god, just a girl
who's just banging right now to doing her thing out
there too. Sounded great, of course, I know Hayley Jensen
came down to and just so many others. What is
(03:23):
it about CMA Fest? I want to get your opinion.
Maybe we talked about this last year on the show,
but it's crazy how CMA Fest brings out the best artists,
not just in Nashville but worldwide. Man, there's so many
great ones coming from Australia, right.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I mean, look, we're very fortunate to have a
lot of great Australian country odyssey. But I mean the
drive to get to Nashville is something that's ingrained in US.
I mean we grew up. We grew up on American
culture on TV. When any time anybody quotes a movie
or a TV show in Australia, they put on an
American accent, even if it's an Australian show they quote him.
(03:56):
It's just it's built into us. But there is love
in the country. Saint for nash feel. It's like, I mean,
Nashville is country music mecca. Everybody wants to Everybody has
to make that pilgrimage man and and uh that's you know,
it's always a big thing if you get on CMA
fist if you're in Australian it's everybody celebrates the fact
(04:16):
that you're heading over and not just going over to
do some writing. You there to represent Australia on a
on the worldwide country platform.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Really love this one TOI let's go back talk about there.
We talk about the new single Lightning Strikes and Neon Nights.
I love this one too. A lot of cool things
from Boom Box Romance on there too, and of course
cheap Liquor Talk to take us through this one, and
of course, uh Love Like a Wrecking Ball was one
of my favorites. There too, a lot of cool things
on there, some cool duets. I know, you got to
feature Kevin Bennett on a song there too, called the Question,
(04:44):
which was really cool. Uh Man. A lot of just
great body of work on this record. Talk about that
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Thanks so much, man. It's and I appreciate you saying that.
Uh you know, I love I Loves Like a Wrecking Ball,
because nobody ever says that. Nobody picks that one, so
that's it's not as nice as someone's picked that. We
haven't even played that live in forever because it's just
never been one of those songs. But look, I mean,
it was a real fun album to make, very much.
(05:10):
We tried to capture some a bit of a nostalgic
feel with maybe some eighties soundscapes in there to try
and bring that in. But it was a lot of
fun for me. A highlight is definitely You and Me
and a Bottle of Whiskey. It's the first song that
my girlfriend and I wrote together, so and she's doing
a lot of backing vocals on this album, so it
(05:30):
was really great to have her involved in this project.
She has always done music is a bit of a
bit of a hobby, but she's got the most incredible
voice and she's a great songwriter. So you know, for me,
I was really happy to be able to include her
in something a little more professional than some bedroom demos,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Give me a little something more challenging as getting the
studio and put some of those background vocals to it. Hey,
take me through your songwriting process, you know, back to
the school of one on one. Watch you enjoyed most
about the process, and then what's the most challenging part
about it, I guess besides being a joyable.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, right, Well, I mean the whole reason I started
writing songs for me was a way to express myself.
You know, Like I started writing songs when I was
going through all those teen ags to moments in high school.
And I mean I look back on those songs and
they're absolutely woeful, But you know, it was a good
way for me to get my feelings out. And I mean,
these days, there are still songs that I write for myself,
(06:26):
but I also write for a different reason. You know,
I'm a different level in my career where I'm writing
songs and I hope will do well on radio and
be fun to play at festivals. So my songwriting has
changed a lot now because the majority of my songs
are co writes. So they never used to be that way.
Used to be very much me just sitting down taking
my time. But I'm a slow writer. If I'm left
(06:47):
to my own devices, I just write about what I
need to write about. And so a lot of the
time it's the co writing sessions where we sit down
and we have a bit of a bit of a power,
a bit of a chat work out where we're at
what you know, fine coming ground with the other writers
and work out something to write about. Someone might have
an idea to pitch and we go from there. And
(07:09):
but look at it's there's still songs that I write
for myself, but it usually it starts with a bit
of an idea. Sometimes I love coming up with a
song when I'm on a road trip, like there's a
lot of a lot of road to travel in Australia,
so a lot of the time you just left to
your own thoughts and listening to music and you go,
oh man, this is I think I've got an idea
and half the time you've got a chorus or a
(07:29):
verse written by the time you pull up to your
next show.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I love that, just in a lot of the
music you put out to And we've talked about this,
like I said, over the years, so you've been a
guest here on the show. The Art of Letting Go
was actually before the album we talked about right there too.
This one came out the end of twenty twenty one.
A lot of cool things on there too, and a
lot of great body of worked there too. As you
guys were again putting out some more cool music and
a head full of Honey, I thought it was one
of my favorite softa there.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, that's that's a crab favorite.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's I need to mix it up because that's been
the show closer for a little while now. That's it's
everyone's favorite, and it's definitely a song that helped put
me on the map. It was crazy. I'd be doing
shows opening for some other bands here at that point
and people would come up to the show and just go, man,
I didn't know that headful of Honey song was yours.
That's like, it's in my playlist. So I didn't know
(08:16):
that's you. So and that song in particular is a
funny one because I pitched that idea to about six
or seven different writers. I said I've got this idea
for song. It's called Headful of Honey, and everybody was like,
I don't get it, man, I don't get it. And
so I just started like fiddling around with it on
(08:36):
my own and ended up writing with a friend here
in Australia. Her name is Billy Joe Porter, and I
said I've got this idea and she goes, I love it.
Luckily for me, she's overly enthusiastic about absolutely everything and
jumped on it and we wrote it. But I mean
a lot of that album I feel has somewhat of
some somber hundred times as well. Like I finished writing
(09:00):
album during the lockdowns. We were lockdown here in Melbourne,
Australia for like two hundred and seventy odd days, so
over two years. It was pretty full on and goes
back to writing for myself about expressing how I was feeling.
The closing track on that album is all about being
stuck at home and dealing with the lockdown pressures.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You all have that same record too, we all do
this and no matter how anxious we get in life
and how life treats us, and I guess how we
treat it. Sometimes we got to remember one breath at
a time. And I love your condition of this one
off that record right there, the art of letting go.
Tell everybody about this one who have not heard that?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, well, look, this is a song that I actually
wrote when I was in Nashville with another Australian artist.
A friend of ours back home had recently lost her
husband and it was while we were writing the song.
I think the funeral was happening and we couldn't be there.
We were both in Nashville. We couldn't be there to
support her and the family and you know the people
(10:00):
that we loved, and we felt here where we couldn't
be there, and we That's where this song came from,
is being there for someone. It's funny because like my
my I've got my mom, I think interprets this song
as just such a fantastic love song of being there
for somebody love and but for me, it's a heartbreaking
song of being there for someone when you know they're
(10:20):
in this overwhelming place in life, but when it comes
down to it. It is about being there for someone through
through something tough and just sticking it out with them.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No doubt that one breath of the time is every day.
We have to remember that here across everything we do
in life. These days we'll talk for the latest single again.
Andrew Swift can check him out across all these social
media out there too, and of course we'll get to
that website here and just a little bit here on
the backstage past. I always love to give that out
of here too as well. K yb in ninety eight
point one your area broadcasting network, iHeartRadio podcast, are friends
at the Sports Guys podcast dot com and of course
(10:52):
th hw N dot org. It's time to get lost here.
It's Andrew Swift craig it up in.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
The back top two earth, way out the map with
alls on, work like your apitch and the earth going
just get lost.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Fan's a way too loud, the lights dim way too low.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
If I'm gonna get annoying. We need a new place
to go.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh, the bars out on the main drag feel a
little bit been there, done that. I got a bitter idea,
why don't we just get lost out.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Away in the black top turns to earth way on
the map with alls don't work me like you're at
the inch and the Earth's gone.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Just get lost out in.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Scrub under the bars, feel like loose track of time.
You won't believes why charm gone?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Just get lost caught up. My old man said, it'll
need some advice. Let's be on jungle, don't sleep. What's
a man gotta do to survive? Will want to do something?
Just get a backpack, put your foot on the fiddle,
don't look back.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's as easy as that gone.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Just get lost away the black top turns the dirt,
pay on the back, but bones don't work, be like
your age, your the earth gone.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Just get lost out.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
In strup under the basket.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Who's track to tip?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You don't believe? Just watch your combine gone. Just get lost.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
We don't need to know exactly where we're going to.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
If we want to find out, Maybe all you've gotta do.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Just getting long, get long, get low, get long, Come on,
(13:34):
get lost.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Out here in the black top turns the dirt way
out the nap.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The phone somewhere for me, like you're at beitch at
the earth and go on, Just get lost.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Water aside it comes through.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
The die on Seeing Ray the mis to the world just.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
For a while, going just get lost.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
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Now I realized what you guys did with this spin.
You had a lot of fun with this one. This
latest single came out there back in May, middle of
May of this year. Tell us all about this one.
I love the writing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, well, look as much as I love writing MYND songs.
This one was actually written by friend of mine. So
a good friend of mine's then is Blake Dantea. We
were doing some chirotes for some other tracks on my album,
on the next the album I've been working on, and
I just said to him, Man, if you've got any
songs kicking around that you think would be a good
fit for me, I'm open to it. I love the
(16:09):
way you're right. He sent me about three or four songs,
and the moment I heard get Lost, I was like,
oh man, this is my song. I connected with it.
I love being on the road. I've never enjoyed being
in around big cities. I like to explore, Like even
when I go to the States, I love to get
a rental car and just road trip from destination to destination.
I just it's all, you know, that's me. And so
(16:33):
when like that was an easy decision to record the song,
and then once we got into the studio, my producer
Matt Fell, and we just had a lot of fun
with it, like and I think that definitely comes across
in the recording. And I feel like every session person
we sent it to to add something to you could
tell that they were having fun with it. Like it
was just right from the get go, the vibe was there.
(16:56):
And you know, that little breakdown bridge part is something
a little bit different for me, you know, the I
think Matt did maybe three different little bass lines over
the top, which my bass player player has gone, yeah, cool,
challenge accepted, let me see if I can do it.
But and then you know, even there's that, you know,
the the deeper tones of my voice through that just
(17:17):
we're just having some fun with it, and I think
that definitely comes across.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Another great artists. I got to catch up with a
good friend of yours, and of course she's She's dominating
over there, Catherine Britt. The collabs are becoming the norm
now these days too. I got to check out her
line of work out there, folks. If you had her
Captain Britt, you might want to look up one of
Australian's top country artists out there too, along with Andrew Swift,
Fire and Ikes just came together. What twenty eighteen. This
is where I first discovered you on this collab. I
know collabs are always fine, but man, doing it with
(17:44):
a hometown mate there too's gonna be a lot of
fun too, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, Well, I didn't really. I didn't even know Catherine
too well when I knew her music, but I didn't
know her personally when I asked her to do this song,
and man, I felt like a you know, an awkward
teenager trying to ask someone out on a date all
over again. You know. I reached out to her. I
was like, hey, and I you don't know me, but
you know, I really like what you do. Would you
(18:07):
be interested in doing a duet with me? And she
was really cool. She like, you know what, send me
through some stuff, let me have a listen. And we
picked Fire and Ice as the option and like for me,
it was I was just like, oh my god, this
is amazing. It's Catherine Brett and it's been one of
those songs that people just they love it like it
was my first number one here on seeing equivalent to
(18:29):
semt CEMC Australia. So I mean it was a real
She was an absolute gem throughout the whole process with recording,
doing music, video and we've just become such good mate since.
And you know, she's still killing it over here. She's
got a new project called The Pleasures. It's with another artist,
Lachland Brian and then putting me out some incredible music.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, a lot of cool things too. There was looking
at some of the latest things we get updates out there.
Was it something I said? A single? She just about
July fourth, So we had to definitely get in touch
with her. A lot of cool projects out there too.
And I love just getting those automatic updates too, because
you're like, you know what, got a follow up with
that person to get them on the show. Hey, tell
us about one that came out there and there right
there COVID, I believe this was right on down tell
(19:14):
us about this one. Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Another one of those songs where I didn't actually write.
This is a song I found originally by Canadian blues artists.
It was on a demo recording of his. I loved
it made of my own. Originally was singing it as
a duet with a friend of mine when we were
touring around and she's on the backing vocals on that.
It's I mean, it's one of those songs that just
(19:38):
connected with me. It's coming home at the end of
a long, hard day. But this one we found was
really tricky to release because it was COVID, So we
were trying to do a music video for it, and
every time we thought things would open up we could
get out and record a music video, the government would
shut us back down again. Go no, no, no, you
can't go more than a few miles from h and
(20:00):
you have to be home by sitting more than No,
you can't be more than an hour. So I ended
up messaging a whole heap of friends and get it
o from around the world too, but getting them to
send me snippets of them spending quality time with the
people they love, and we piece it all together. It's
probably the lowest budget music video we've ever done, but
it's there something really hot, warming about it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Love it so much. You know, we talked about how
great the ladies are doing it. Man, I tell you,
even I'm here in the States too, you think about
it too. I'll mentioned Haley Jensen and Tyler rod riggez
for Australian great country acts out there, Catherine Britton and
Jane Demmim and a whole lot more out there. But man,
here in the States, the the word was I guess
around nashvill at least my ear kind of found it.
I was like all the names kept coming up, from
Landy Wilson to Ashley McBride, Carly Pearson of course, Hannah
(20:43):
Ellis and all these great ladies that are doing their
thing out there too. Right now, what does that say
about country music? Just in your opinion? Right now, the
ladies now Nashville recording artists are finally getting their due
diligence when it comes to like top of the charts.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Look, I think it's amazing because the majority of country
out I listened to a probably female like my favorite
artists every year on a Spotify rap. The will be
you know, Laney Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBride, Hailey Witters.
You know, it's you know, those American artists are incredible,
and you know, we do have some incredible Australian artists
as well. I think, you know, there's definitely been a
(21:21):
push in the in the industry to try and even
things out with with the airtime and charts and all
that sort of stuff, and I think it's happening, you know,
But I think that no matter what your gender, as
long as you're doing incredibly like making great music, it's
gonna be it's gonna be heard, it's gonna be seen,
it's gonna be recognized. So it's I mean, it's fantastic
seeing so much equality across the board though, really is.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And of course a lot of talented guys out there,
you know, really doing their thing right now too. I
tell you, I'm digging a lot of the Parker mccollumn
stuff that's coming out right now too. There's just fantastic.
Of course, ac top I love it, old nineties kind
of sound, new traditional. And then Randall King. I saw
him a few weeks ago and let Charles down here
Louisiana and call him one of the shows you got
to stay hi to him, and man, just what does
some great music Rainble is putting out there too at
(22:04):
the same time, and of course the great Cody Johnson
from the great state of Texas down here too at
the same time. You know, looking back on it too,
as your years passed by, you continue to perfect your
craft and find your sound. Give me some of the
backstories of what's been I guess the most challenging part
of being consistent in this business, well, I.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Think, you know, going back to the songwriting, I feel like,
you know, that first album I put out back in
twenty eighteen, I could take my time with those songs.
I could take my time with that release. You know,
it was you know, I really did it over a
couple of years, and then all of a sudden I
realized I had to back it up while juggling touring.
(22:45):
I had to be trying to re write and then record,
and I realized quickly that I was like, man, I
need to be able to continually release music because the
way that the system is set up at the moment
with the streaming services, if you're not releasing music, it's
very easy to die off and disappear, and then you've
got to fight to get that momentum back again. So
(23:07):
that's that's definitely been a challenge, especially with the COVID thing.
You know, like twenty nineteen, I won a couple of
seeing Double A Awards. I was really had some good
momentum with that album, and then COVID hit and I
was like, man, I'm stuck at home. How do I
navigate this? That's that's definitely been the biggest challenge, is
was navigating how to stay relevant and consistently release music
(23:28):
when you can't leave your house. So luckily for me,
we'd recorded half the album and I had some singles
that I could dribble out. But yeah, look that those
have definitely been the challenges. But I mean, you know,
making a living from it in general is that that's
a big challenge in itself. And for years people would
say to me, Swifty, what do you want out of
(23:49):
your music? I just want to make a living touring,
you know, playing my songs to people, telling my stories.
And I'm very fortunate I get to do that now.
But it's it's still a very consistent thing. You know.
I've taken three months off to you know, be around
my newborn daughter, and you know, there's no income, so
it's like, you know, it's definitely a juggle the whole thing.
(24:12):
There's there's a lot where do I start.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right, it's a lot, no doubt be here and talking
for hours too, no doubt. Have we started at the
beginning of Go Allway A to Z two. Looking back,
I know there's a lot of cool things coming up,
you know, as far as touring, and you mentioned this
new album. You're working on this right now. Tell us
I guess what you can as far as this new
record coming out and what fans can expect.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, well, it's it's pretty much done. I'm just plating
on the final mixes to come through and then some
mastering and artwork, hoping to have it out you know,
a little later in the year. So we've got a rough,
rough timeline that we're booking some shows around you know,
October November around then, and then the album should be
at around then as well. So it's you know, it's
(24:52):
an album that I'm very proud of. I'm really happy
with the collection of songs. A lot of them were
written last year when I was in Nashville as part
of a song writing camp that we were doing right
before CMA fest. So there's a lot of fantastic, you know,
international artists on these rights, and probably more more people
in a room than I was used to. But we
(25:13):
got some really cool songs out of it, and and
there's a couple of really special ones that I've written
with my partners and my own and yeah, I'm really
excited to share it with people.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm looking forward to and the title of this record
is going to be Oh, I can't tell you that
just I'm all right, Hey, well, we'll get the press
release on it, we'll put it back on. Looking forward
to playing some new visit across all the stations out
there too. Hey, I love music videos just as much
as you do. A lot of work, speaking of that,
trying to make a living in this business. There's a
lot of work putting out music videos. Much left a
song too at the same time, but I thought one
(25:46):
of your top stream ones, and really what was pretty
cool out there was a song called nothing Better tell
us about the writing of this one and then the
shooting of the music video, because I want to hear
the story.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, Well, so I read this one at that songwriting
camp in Nashville last year, and my girlfriend and I
had literally just moved in together, like three days before
I think we moved house and then I had three
days it was a birthday, and then went to Nashville.
So that was my first time buying a home. It
was my first time living together with it, and I
(26:15):
just wanted to be back home. I was very homesick
for the first time ever. And we're writing these songs
sitting in these rooms. A lot of the songs from
that session were about Simon and about my life at
the moment, and I was reflecting and it wasn't that
long ago that I was fixing trailers for a living
and trailer homes for a living, and I was didn't
(26:37):
have a solid relationship and didn't think I was going
to be able to make a living for music. And
it's all changed and things are going pretty good right now.
So that's where the songs come from, with nothing better.
And then when it came to the music video, I
was like, how do we capture that in three minutes
of film? And we did. We started shooting at actually
(26:59):
the childhood home that I grew up in. It turns
out my friend's auntie owns it now. So a small
town life, you know, So we shut it at the
front of that hoss and we filmed us, you know,
driving over through the hills and stuff, towards where we're
living now, and we shut the rest of it over
where we live now. And at the end of it,
(27:19):
Simon makes an appearance. She's got to baby bump in
her overalls and stuff and she's living gorgeous. So it
was a really nice music video that we've pieced together
that kind of summed up that journey. I love it too.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The best thing is that told the story nothing and
nothing better looking back at one like that too, I'll
make sure you guys have it. Andrew Swift dot com
dot au is the website out there too for one
of Australia's top artists out there for all the tour
dates and of course merchandise and all the great songs
check out music. I love just reading artists to websites
out there. It's what we do here on the backstage
pass to get powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
(27:53):
So you're not got to throw in some sports with
you because I know you're a huge sports fan. We
talked a lot about this too during the CMA week,
so I know, look professionals. Teams over here in the
States I always love like the Astros and of course
my Cardinals in football. I know Austine's completely different on
the sports side of the spectrum, but the cool thing
is you play the game the same way too. Your
version of football is different than America's. But when it
(28:14):
comes to sports, what teams college or pro would you
say you root for here in the States?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Look lightly because we've been so hit down with life,
I've only been able to see snippets of things. So
I think these these days have been like I'm a
Caitlin Clark fan, you can't help but watch air and
be I pressed. So I think I'm a favor of
fam when it comes to the w n b A,
I do have my teams over there, so nothing I
(28:41):
get to watch them all the time. I'm also Arizona
Cardinals when it comes to the football. When I started
going to America, all my friends that I made in
Long Beach in California originally from Arizona. So we I
think we watched the Cardinals in the Super Bowl. Unfortunate
result like a few years back. But yeah, and I
(29:02):
mean I grew up with Jordans, so I'm bulls, you know.
Uh but yeah and then yeah, I mean I've got
my teams. I've got my teams, you do, man.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I can't wait to get over to Melbourne. They say
it's beautiful over there, the beaches. I would love to
at the same time, the outdoor, the drinks. I'm excited
to get over to Australia and on the other side
of the world one day. And I gotta go down
Under with you guys. Man, I just have to, I do.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah. Man, we got some pretty pretty impressive festivals dan
here that you should come of hang out sometime and
we'll show you around.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I'd love to. I love to be a part of
that too. They put together like a backstage past tour
to go overseas there too, to go across the world
and do some coverage with this live radio show set
up there do some live broadcast back here India in
the States too. All right, food, what do you guys?
I know, of course, with the lifestyle, the little one,
you just pretty much pretty much eat whatever you can catch.
But at the same time cooking or takeout. What's been
(29:51):
something good you've had lately that you've gotten into food wise?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
What actually look some minds. Mum made an incredible date
sluice the other day. That's been. That's been a great
little snack, just sitting on the bench occasionally. But look
I go to for takeaway is Greek. We and I
we love sharing this bit of Greek food. But I
did a bit of cooking around the house. Actually the
other we've just got a little rot hisserie for the
(30:18):
for the barbecue. We had done a couple of good
good chucks on there, good chickens. But yeah, it's it's
funny because we juggle the boys as well. They're nine
and eleven. One of them pretty much only eats like cheese.
It's noting. As long as we have cheese on it,
he'll eat it, you know. So it's it's a bit
of a mix and match these days.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I select food groups for the little one.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Take you.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
My daughter's a picky eater too. She just turned five
back in April and look back and I'm going, yep,
you're going to kindergarten. But she is very picky. And
she used to like some cheese on some stuff and
then some without, and lately it's been like a carb
kick for her. So like you get your cheeseburgers and
you get your trying to eat more protein and just
a little some of the vegetables. But now man bread bread,
He's a carb carb coin now.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And I just love it if the boys would align
on what they like. So one of them likes Chase,
the other one doesn't. One likes hot chips, like fries,
the other one doesn't like. I'm like, can you guys
just can we get one way? Can we get it
from one place? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I have to go to two other different restaurants out there,
or in a grocery store having to buy two or
three different brands of some kind after when it comes
down to favor. Love that too, Hey man, I appreciate
the story again again the single Get Lost to across
all those DSPs and getting ready for preparation for the
brand new record coming out. No title for it yet,
and of course when there is, we'll announce it here
on the backstage pass and of course daytime sometime hopefully
(31:39):
in the fall out there Andrew Swift dot com dot
au make sure you guys check it out and check
out Get Lost across all the DSPs again, KYBN ninety
eight point one Your Bay area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts,
The Sports Guys Podcast dot com, and of course t
XWN dot org. My friend, always great to catch up.
Let's not let another year go by before we do
this again.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right, Well, maybe we need to have a chat around
the album when that drops.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You keep me posted, brother, You're back here on the show.
Gives a good parking spot right here on the backstage pass.
We're back with more great shows coming up next week.
Uh Sunny Sweete, you gotta drop by to talk about
herding brand new record. And of course another great artist
is Sarah Angel and a whole lot more of the
Flat River Band gonna stop by here on the backstage pass.
We're back with more great music coming up here in
a little bit. Across all the affiliates KYBN ninety eight
(32:26):
point one, your Bay Area broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcast, tw
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Casey Beck Music, God blessed, take care. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
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