May 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Angie K stopped by the show to talk about her latest EP and lots more! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Angik and you are listening to
the Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area Broadcasting Network, and on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine. You can also stream the show on THHWN.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dot org and welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a
busy day here too, and of course getting closer and
closer now to CMA Fest twenty twenty five. They're coming
up June fifth, to the eighth beautiful Nashville, Tennessee at
the Music City Center. All the information can be found
from all the stages, to Nissan to everything out there
ticket package at cma fest dot com. Make sure you
guys don't miss out. Will be there our second year
(00:37):
in a row, broadcasting live with the Music City Center
and all the action out there KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Pain Area Broadcasting Network, and our friends at KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. And of course, one
of those strong females in that category will be with
us during CMA Fest and performing on that Chevy Vibe stage.
We'll talk more about that as we get through this
entire broadcast. Angik to the show. What's up, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm doing so good. I'm so excited to get to
see you soon at EMA Fest.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's coming fast. It seems like every year you finish
one project and then you're on to the next, right,
It just.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It feels so real. I'm excited especially for this year though,
because I feel like every year I get one stage
bigger and I I'm in the Chevy Vibe stage this year,
which is like always been one of my favorites, like
the Riverwalk Hall of Fame it be It's gonna be
a really really cool, cool day for me.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think it's amazing, Like all the fans you mentioned
there that flock, I mean just travel from all over
the world. I mean on my flight last year when
I was going there, we had several and many from
Australia and England, and it means everywhere all over the world.
And it's amazing how something like this can bring hundreds
of thousands of people together, right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's pretty incredible. And I think my favorite part of
it is ninety percent of it is free, so like
I mean, actually there's a couple of cool upgrades that
I've noticed, Like for like, I think it's like three
dollars a ticket. You can get like and all the
Riverfront stage, my Chevy Vibe Stage, and a couple other stages.
You can get like this nice little oasis that has
(02:06):
like you can watch the stages from a private bar,
covered area, shaded seating and all this stuff. So there's
so much out there, so like, if you're not like
a super big crowd person, you can just pay a
little bit and be in these like nice areas. And
it's just imagine paying for like three hundred bucks for
a private area at every stage for three days and
(02:28):
unlimited number of artists and pretty much every artist you've
heard of in the last few years is going to
be there. So it's like it's just even the stuff
you pay for, it's like insanely good, you know. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
One of my favorite things to go out and scat
it after we get through at the Music City Center
with all the interviews and all the coverage, just to
go out there and find They always say what's the
best food truck you can find? I'm always out there
kind of going it's this one, this one. Do you
try like two or three different ones, and you're like, Okay,
if I want pizza, I'm going to go here. If
I just want food food, I'm gonna do this. But
then I got to get over there, and I'm like, man,
I shouldn't have the hot chicken at the Heady Bees.
(03:00):
That's kind of my favorite place to get hot chicken.
So I'm a foodie out there.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right, you know?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, you know, and you got to try something. We've
had some great, like higher level of restaurants open in
Nashville in the last couple of years. I would say,
like this. In this past year, a restaurant called Sinatra's
opened and it's like a higher end restaurant, but it
has like this really cool jazz feel that live jazz
music and their steak is insane. My favorite recommendation for
(03:26):
anyone like to have a national experience is a place
called Skull's Rainbow Room, and that's off Printer's Alley, and
that's existed since I can remember, and it's not as
publicized as the other ones, but it's always the food
is fantastic. It's a little priceier, talking like maybe thirty
forty dollars an entree, but like their pork chop is
the best I've ever had, and it's like they always
have like full jazz bands, where a sinatras just has
(03:49):
a piano player, a school's rainbow room has a full
jazz or blues bands. I know Darris Recer used to
frequence it a ton, Like a lot of the cooler
people in the industry that are big music people, they
go to schools that they're gonna go downtown.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They go to schools.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I remember having that a couple of years ago at
a CRS. The team went down there too, and we
actually tried it. And I can verify what you're saying
right there and put my stamp on it, because that
is a fantastic restaurant too when it comes down to it,
and I love the fact is that you can order
anything off that menu that you said a little pricey,
but hey, you get what you pay for at the time,
and that is a beautiful place to dine in. The
ambiance is great and I can again vouch for that
(04:25):
food there. Hey, let's talk about this because we could
talk about food all day, no doubt again. Texas A
lot of music to talk about, of course, is current EP.
We're gonna play a couple of songs for today. The
njk EP came out February seventh, across all the digital
streaming platforms. What's it been like for you at the
start of this year as you continue to grow your
career and I know this allotment of music you're very
excited about.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Right, Honestly, it's been just an unbelievable journey, because, like
this is what my fourth record, I think since I started,
I've been in the industry for ten years, and I've
just grown such a great, small but mighty We're in
community of people that come out to the shows, and
they even hang out with each other more than they
like hang out with me. Like, it's kind of great
(05:05):
to see people just enjoy each other so much and
us all get to meet up. It's almost like my
concerts are just a calling sign for everybody to come together.
It's pretty great that this last record was kind of
me deciding I really wanted to make something that felt
really real, something that I could hang my hat on
that I didn't chase any any you know, I love
(05:27):
pop music, I really do, but it's easy when you're
in it. I'll I say, this is actually a good insight.
I don't think I've ever talked about this, but in Nashville,
you know, we have these writing sessions where we go in,
you know, at ten am, and we go until three
or four and we come out with a song. What
started happening is something that you really started in LA
where we used to just have acoustic guitars in the room.
(05:48):
You have a track guy or girl in the room
and they're making a track as you go. The problem
with making a track without a band is you're using
synthetic parts, you know and so, and they're great, and
they're usually have some pop elements in it. And the
thing is is I would get those tracks and I'd
be like, I love this feel. And when you get
(06:10):
when you fall in love with it, you get something
kind of like demoitis. You don't want to change it
because you're like, well, that's why I love the song,
you know. And so I realized that it was I
was starting to not feel like cohesive in like what
I wanted to say, and I wanted to feel like
I thought things out in a way that made it
feel like easy, easily accessible, like this is who I am,
this is what I want to say, you know, if
(06:30):
that makes sense. Like the sonic landscape, I wanted to
fit all together so you could see the picture and
and so what I started to do is I started
not having a track person in the room. And it
was a huge risk because pop goes viral. It's easy
to go viral when you use pop elements because it's
just that's why it's pop. It's literally short for popular.
So I started to do a little more of an
(06:50):
Americana style, and so many people were like, this is great,
but it just doesn't feel like it has the tempo,
it doesn't feel like a hit, or it doesn't whatever,
and so at first I got really scared, and I
hooked up with Stephanie Smith, my producer who also wrote
a dozen number one songs for Dixie Chicks. For Reba,
she wrote It's Your Love by Herself by a TIMC.
(07:12):
Gronfi Hill. So she's a real music songwriter nerd, and
I wrote her into producing and she's the one that
kind of gave me the little push that I needed
to like, if you love these songs, that's all you need.
And I think what happened was I found the kind
of people that appreciate those kinds of songs, and yeah,
it just felt really good to take a chance like
(07:33):
that and to see, I mean, this thing could have
had a thousand streams on it, and part of me
kind of felt like that could happen, and it just
kind of disappear. But this song, this whole out record,
just keeps building on itself and it's been it's so
beautiful to take a risk on honesty and it's a payoff, you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Know it is, And it speaks to the truth of
me volume right there too at the same time that
you're actually resonating with these fans because these words speak
directly to them about situations they've been through in their life,
about things you're getting him through, whether it's happy or
sad too at the same time, and a lot of
these songs really just for me speak to the heart,
like one of them, I Tai I wish we were
playing it today, And if I had a third song,
I would have definitely played it on there too. But
(08:12):
this one called I'm Going Under this is like deep.
This is just like you taking this thing and just
ripping it a new one if you want to me,
because this thing is like very personal to people. And
I'm sure this has got to be a crowd favorite.
If it's not already, you guys have it in the
set list. For the shows, and I know it's gonna
be played at Cmfest, but what a deep cut?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah? No, I what's so funny is I didn't know
how people would you never just ever know. I heard
Blake Shelton saying he didn't know how people would react
to certain songs or if they'd even like him, and
I was like, well, if he's worried, then I don't
feel as bad. But yeah, that was one of those
songs we added a reprise at the end that we
just felt like a reprise basically means this song acts
like it's gonna cut out, and then all of a
sudden it comes back in in this jam and yeah,
(08:53):
I remember just we were in the studio and we
were just like keep going and it was just such
an organic moment. And now he gets to do that
one and it's never the same age time. It's supure jam.
It's pretty it's pretty fun to play.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Can only imagine to We're gonna play one right here
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(09:46):
as well. More with NJK. We're gonna play one called
Golden off the JK EP More to come Stay Twoed.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sitting on my back porch swing on a Thursday, watching
that storm roll in, thinking about Mom and Dad in
my hometown. Can't believe along it's been since I dove
into a lake, felt that cold water on my face.
It's like life just flying by which they I could
(10:29):
slow down time.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We only have what.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
We have, We only got what we've got. Can't stop
fast forward, rewron, got to learn to turn a little
into a lit Nobody knows what's coming to marble. Every
breath will breathing his bottle, making most out of every moment.
(10:57):
Someday these days he'll be gold. I think I'm going
to finally plan on that vacation.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's been so over. Do book a fly home and
visit my grandpa.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Let him tell me about over, to call my friends
up on the floor, talk all night like when we
were young, had ann watt.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And not the seconds. Gonna soak it up before I
miss it.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
We only have what we have, We only got what
we've got. Can't stop fast forward and readwind.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Gotta learn to turn a little into love. Nobody knows
what's coming and marveled. Every breath we're breathing his bottle.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Make the most out of every moment, because some day
these days will be cold.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That'll be gone. Be careful, I don't get you too
off track.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Because once that time is gone, No, we can't get
it back. We only have but we have, we only
got with will God, you can't stop fast forward to rewire.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You gotta learn to turn a little into a life.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Nobody knows what's coming a marble. Every breath for breathing
is bold.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Make the most out of every moment, because someday, these
days we will be gold.
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Angie is another deep cut that I love it out
there too, off this EP and you guys had to
be excited too about this one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I no, Golden, It's funny. It almost didn't make
the record because it felt really slow, and Stephanie was
one of the ones that was like, I think this
is one of your best songs, and so I started
playing it out a lot and the conversations I had
after that song, Like playing that live was beautiful. I mean,
so many people related it to so many people in
their lives, moments in their lives, and just I mean,
(15:05):
it's so human, isn't it, to try to slow down
time a little bit. And we have the power to
do that every day just by taking notice and finding
gratitude and enjoying what we have instead of what we
had or what we want.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Give me a little backstory off another one off of
their Death of Me, because this really was like almost
trapping somebody too. And you're right, you keep doing the
same thing kind of over and over again too. It
really can lead to many different situations. But another deep cut.
I used that a lot because there's a lot of
songs against speaking to the general public and the honesty
that you have in your lyrics. This was very personal too.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, No, Death of Me was probably one of the
most vulnerable songs I've ever written, easily. But what's interesting
is it sounds like a breakup song or a relationship song.
And it did kind of start writing it when Ris
and I were in an argument, But really I wrote
that during twenty twenty, and what that song really came
(16:02):
from was the journey of having a dream as big
as music and as simple as music really, because you
just want to write songs and people to listen to
them and be able to pay your bills. And obviously
twenty twenty was a tough time for everybody and it
was kind of isolating where we're so used to being
in rooms with our co writers and people like us,
and yeah, this song is really for anyone that's like
(16:27):
I knew I could never not do music. So it's
this acceptance of like, yeah, this doesn't feel good right now,
but if it killed me, that's how I want to go.
And it's like that's that's what the entire song is.
But it's funny because it feels like a relationship song,
but truly it's about chasing a dream and those valleys, no.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Doubt it really is. I love to go back a
little bit old school Angik here too, because I love
this so much. And I think when you and I
first met when I started doing the show in twenty nineteen,
the wild ep out there too, or the record there too,
so many cool things off of there. It really just
introduced me to you at the same time, and of
course a number of fans around the world there Too
when it came out, But Made to Live by the
(17:07):
Water was one of my favorite cuts off of There
Too which really set the tone of the record. Some
best memories about that project, talk about that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
For me, oh gosh, for sure, for Me to Live
by the Water was going down to Al Salvador shooting
the music video for Me to Live by the Water,
which I was born in El Salvador, and we went
back to, you know, just to show the band the
beaches and the beauty I grew up around. Was really
cool and yeah, I think I just have so many
(17:33):
memories of us all hanging out on these beaches that
I grew up on as a little kid. And getting
to connect this countryside love for music and the water
and bring it back to where it all started as
a kid was really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
An author too, was one called Born to Drive, and
I think we all we all love a song that
really puts us in a very awesome situation too, because
this was a wild ride. He took us off for
that one too, right, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I Forborn to Drive. The beginning of the whole song
is like I got dirt under my nails, I got
a hole in my blue jeans that those The beginning
of that song kind of came from I was going
into the library after working on cars all day at school,
and I was opening the library door, and I always
(18:22):
washed my hands with like the good stuff, the sandy
soap and everything, but I had some just sometimes you
just can't get all of it off, all the gunk
that just stains your hands, you know, when you're working
on cars a lot. So my hands were a little
bit dirty. But I was opening up the library door
for this guy behind me who's holding a bunch of books,
kind of like this fratty looking guy. Nothing against frat guys,
(18:43):
but I'm just saying, picture them, and I see him
looking at my hands with just like such disgust. I mean,
I don't and I just remember thinking, like, these are
not my people. And so that whole song was kind
of like all signed for people that are like me,
And it's like, it's not about being a quote unquote
(19:05):
blue collar and wanting to just sweat for your life.
The point there's a kind of person that enjoys building
things and the whole idea of getting your hands dirty.
It's because we're curious, because we approach the world with
curiosity and our machines and what we can do with
our lives. And it's like that's the kind of country
people I grew up with, you know, And there's all
(19:26):
kinds of different country people, but like I feel like
the ones that come to my shows tend to have
those same kind of values.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It's again, authentic music speaks from the core right there
to the core of the people out there too. Love
it so much, we've got to play that one off
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Speaker 8 (20:21):
Drove out to a field off a highway nine, opened
the bottle and cursed out sun.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Drank till the tears came and shined out the stars.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I want to forget her, but I can't get that
for this small town and Georges are high heaven. The
dust and the mind, and the blood and the bone.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Where's the cowgirl goat to burn the brand of her high? Well?
That man on the moon says, there's red dirt on marns.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
That bottle turned empty, and so did my mind. Gravity
left me and blurred all the line.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Ain't nobody like her down here on, So take me
away to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Place it on a small town in Georges.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I have nor the dust and the light and the
blood and the balls. Where the cowgirl goats to burn
the brand offer hog, we'll have.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Man on the moon says, there's red dirt on barn
she had on my soul. There's no call now she's gone.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
How it's This small town in georgis alve heaven, the
dust and light and the bread and the mona.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
We the cat on the do to burn the brand offer.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Will have.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Man on the moon says, there's red.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Dird on barn.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Man moses, there's ritter home.
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Red Dirt on Mars, and I guess if you're gonna
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Today's best Country Mix, so red Dirt on Mars. Not
(24:42):
that we actually you know, reached there by Camper, but hey,
one day if we ever get there in space is
a cool thing. But I'll tell you what. It's such
a great song to set the tone for a beautiful record,
and this was excellent writing.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you. Yeah, I mean it's it's interesting because again
it's like I said, I took a lot of risks
on this record, and that was a slower song. But
I just I fell in love with it the day
we wrote it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
It was like so.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Cathartic because it's a song about grief. And what's beautiful
about Nashville is all the writers in the room really
pulled from a different source of grief. And it blows
my mind how many people come up and tell me
their stories and they're so different how they relate to
that song. And yeah, it's like we experience such enormous emotions,
(25:27):
like living in our bodies and it's like you just
never know what someone's going through and like what's going
on inside their body, and it's like that song kind
of reminds me that, Wow, so many people are experiencing.
As much as we can experience the highest highs, we
can also experience the lowest lows and processing those things
and being able to talk about them. Gosh, that's so important.
(25:50):
And I think what's beautiful about this song is that
I think it helped a lot of people tell their
story and how they relate to it. It really does.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And like I said, I not made explanation there to
the planet what have you? But again my think just
layer a song by Mars and I'm thinking it's the
first thing that came to mind too. But again, a
beautiful song helping somebody get through a tough, very tough
situation out there too. And I love space, I love science.
What kind of saying anything with Mars and it's gonna
have the first thought is gonna be yeah, there it is.
I want to ask you about this because this latest
trend of female artists man kicking ass and taking names
(26:20):
out through you're right there with them with Karen Waldrip
and of course what Laney's doing, Carly Pearce, Ashty McBride,
these names, Hannah Ellis, Ella Langley, go on and on
and on for the female category. Is it about time
in your opinion? And is this overdue for ladies and
country music? This is a great thing. I love female power,
do you yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know, It's like it's kind of like who wants
to eat the same flavor of anything. It's just I mean,
it's like to me, it's like people talk about diversity
like it's like this term that is what agreeable to
some and disagreeable to others, And it's like everybody wants
diversity in their life. I mean, like routine is great,
(26:59):
but like, how are you gonna know what you like
if it's you don't even give them the option? And
that's what I love about, you know, throwing some Latin
in my songs too. It's like I'm not no human
is meant to be for everyone, but there's people out
there that dig it, you know, And it's like diversity
is important because that's we're trying to give you the
spices so you can pick what you like the most.
(27:20):
And if you don't like that, that's fine. But like
there's people out there that do. And I think, especially
in radio for a while, there was and I don't
I don't believe anybody's evil and you know, out to
get the woman or whatever, but I do believe that that, uh,
there's such a thing as a positive and a negative
feedback loop that like, when you start to move in
(27:42):
a certain direction, it's easy to keep going in that direction.
And when Broke Country took over, you know with Florida
Georgia line and Luke Brian was really at his peak.
Those kinds of songs and those lyrics lent themselves to
a man singing them, and so it those songs are
doing really well. So they're like, well, more that more, that,
more of that. Everybody's playing them, and all of a sudden,
(28:02):
there's not anyone really developing the young females in the city.
And I think a lot of people kind of miss
their opportunities because of that trend. And now what's happening
is we're noticing, We're like, wait, why is it that
there's like yesterday or a week ago, I went to
the Triple Play Awards, which means anyone that's won three
number ones in a year. They also honor anyone that
(28:23):
had had their first number one. There was maybe thirty
five people honored. There was one woman among all of them.
And the thing is is, I know hundreds of female
songwriters and producers, so we have to ask the question,
like what's the barrier, And the barrier is we're used
to doing what's familiar. You're more likely to like a
(28:45):
song you heard before, whether you thought you liked it
the first time or not. So like, I think what
I'm seeing is a lot of programmers, a lot of
a lot of show opportunities. People are starting to notice,
you know what, let's just start giving people some of
these other spices. And what's happening is people are liking them.
And it's really beautiful to see so many. I mean
(29:06):
Meg and Patrick to Curly Pierce dramatically different music. Then
you look at Megan Maroney, Laney Wilson, it's like these
are not the same audiences. And I think the mistake
people made at the beginning is they said, oh, that
woman didn't work there. So women don't work. And what's
really beautiful now is you're starting to see. Oh, like
I said before, we're not made for it. No person
(29:27):
has made for everybody in the world unless your growth
brooks than you probably are. But there's people out there
that really like us and there's a market for it,
and I think it's beautiful that people are starting to
take a chance and it's paying off. Insane, especially like
in Laney's world. I mean, her manager wasn't even like
a formal manager. She was like someone who wanted to
try to get into management, and now she's one of
(29:48):
the most powerful managers in the world. And it's actually
really wonderful to see the good guys win, if that
makes sense. And yeah, I think it's a really good
time in country music. We got a lot of work
to do, I think, especially in the Latin front. I
would love to see a lot more international country artists.
I think. I think there we're going to see a
lot more in the future, and I'm just curious and
(30:09):
interested to see how that changed things sonically.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, it's funny you bring that up to You mentioned
Latin because one of the artists I'm getting into now
we just had her on the show right there about
Christmas of last year, Delimber December. Mariah who's the wise
yeah right small boom, Yeah for King and Country. She's
bringing it too right now. I love her.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, No, she's a good friend of mine. We're actually
putting together a panel at CMA face called Latin Roots.
I would love for you to come. Uh it is,
I'll tell you exactly what it is. It's on the seventh,
June seventh, and it'll be in the Music City Center.
And the coolest part is at the very end of
the panel, guy named Guttie Leone, who is the biggest,
(30:50):
one of the biggest artists in North America. I mean
he is like a huge He's known more for regional
Mexican but he's starting to do a lot of country
things and he's done. He just put out a song
with Cody Johnson that's insanely good. But yeah, he's going
to be in the last fifteen minutes of the panel,
and I mean that guy has millions and millions of followers,
so we're starting to make a pretty good imprint. I
love Maria, I love her, look, I love her. I
(31:13):
mean she is just like every part of her show
is very aesthetic, like she really thinks about she dresses
all of her band everything. You're lucky to get me
out of the same T shirt, you know when I
get on stage. So it's really fun. Like I said,
it's really cool to introduce people that you think. It's
like saying, oh, I don't like country music and I'm like, no,
(31:33):
you just haven't found your type of country music. And
thing is like, Okay, now we're introducing this crazy concept
of maybe some Spanish flavor and country music. Don't say
you don't like it, just say you don't haven't found
someone you like yet because my music in Maria's music
dramatically different. But we both you know, she comes from
Mexican roots. I come from Alsavador roots. There's Cuban American artists,
(31:55):
there's the Minican artists. I mean, if you follow I
just started called the Country Lot and Association, which is
what's running the panel for CMA. If you follow that
Country Lot and Association on Instagram, TikTok every day, I
post a new artist every single day. So if you
want to look at more international artists, particularly in Brazil,
Brazil has some insanely amazing artists and all of those
(32:16):
guys were Ope and Ride. I mean, some of the
best rodeo cowboys in the world come from Brazil, so
it's fun to see how different people country, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, I have to get some of those names right
here on this very brand here on the backstage pass. Well,
we have to talk about that for who that once
you post on that particular Facebook page there too, and
all that out there again. Anngik's the EP out there too,
across all the DSPs and officialjik dot Com. Is that
website out there too as well. You guys can check
out for tour dates and of course all the different schedules, merchandise,
(32:46):
all the cool things out there. I need to wrap
my Anjik T shirt at CMA FESST, so we're gonna
have to give you a backstage past T shirt and
swap a shirt for an Antik because I've got to
wear it out there at the Chevy Vibe stage.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So I love the way you think will make it happen.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Or they'll do that out there too as well, which
will be fun. All right, as we kind of wrap
this up too, because of course we're gonna see you
there in person. June fifth to eighth, and of course
the panel there at the Music City Center and playing
the Chevy Vibes stage there too. With the schedules out
there cema fest dot Com for tickets and packages, makes
you guys attend, Please do and come from all over
the world to enjoy the biggest music festival over that
(33:24):
four day span toos well, and of course we're gonna
be live. I gotta mention at the Grand Ole Opry
June eighth for the forty third annual Sunday Morning Country
hosted by Brenda Lee. Just got the call today that
the backstage passively backstage at the Opry June the eighth.
Then I will have you broadcasting for a couple hours.
And if Angie k wants to go buye the Grand
Ole Opry, I'm opening the door to let her in
there for Sunday Morning Country. So just some more things
(33:47):
that are there too as well. Big week there for
CMA Fest two. All right, let's have all the fun.
I gotta have a good Italian restaurant while I'm intown
for this. We got to go eat somewhere. I don't
care what really kind of food, It's is my favorite.
But where are we going? You and I have to
eat somewhere.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
There's a place that a friend of mine absolutely adored.
Actually I'm a big Italian person, but my fiance is
not so funny how that works. We don't eat Italian
very often. But there's an Italian place that this guy
was telling you about. Valentinos. Okay, I've heard a few
(34:24):
people tell me about Valentinos, and that is it looks
like it's like kind of on the West Side. Okay,
Valentino's restaurant. Yeah, that looks I mean, I've heard more
than a few people. Oh I'm looking at pictures of
that food. It looks prett dang good. Are you a
red sauce Italian guy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Or red sauce? It has to be red sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yes, the red sauce. That's really how you can tell
if it's any good, the red sauce.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Now, I know you're going to know this too, El
Salvador Roots, because I love the food over there. I
actually got a chance to have We were down in
Mexico years back, and I got a chance to actually
go try Mayan food for the first time. Oh man,
so good too. I need to find just one of
those whole wall spots for some type of Salvador food,
Cuban food, Latin food. Where where would that be?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
We can go? Oh, I've I've already got you. So
on June seventh, I think, starting at like six or seven,
there's a place called Plasa Mariachi okay uh, and it
is I can't even describe it to you. When you
go in, you're gonna lose your mind. It's like it
feels like you just entered Mexico. It's like, I don't
I'm so confused with people that don't know the success
that have lived here for so long. It is literally
(35:29):
like have you ever been to like Disney's Mexico? You
know I'm talking about I haven't been, but what you
talking about yet? It's like that level it's pretty insane.
Like if you walk in, it's just it's pretty insane.
And they have they do events there and they're letting
us do a stage. So like me, I'm gonna play
a little bit Mariah Andrea Vasquez as you're on Nonas.
(35:53):
I mean, it's a crazy lineup and it's it's gonna
be a lot of fun, all.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right, lose my mind walking through the door. Nobody's ever
said that when it comes to restaurants here on the show.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
When it comes, trust me, just trust me. Yeah. Plus
on Mariachi, I'm looking forward to that too.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
So we're definitely gonna communicate through our messages and of
course get out there see or play the Chevy Vibe stage.
We'll have a recap with it there as we get closer.
June fifth to eight at CMA Fest against CMA Fest
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JK dot com and that EP is out there too,
that fourth album AJK across all the DSPs my friend.
Looking forward to seeing you hear in just a few weeks.
Always great to catch up here on the broadcast and
(36:50):
looking forward to making more memories over the next few
weeks too, and hey, best of luck and continue success
going forward. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, I feel like this is a deep, deep podcast.
I really enjoyed this, one of the.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Best out there to do it in the female category.
Angk make sure you guys give her a follow across
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dot org and welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a
busy day here too, and of course getting closer and
closer now to CMA Fest twenty twenty five. They're coming
up June fifth, to the eighth beautiful Nashville, Tennessee at
the Music City Center. All the information can be found
from all the stages, to Nissan to everything out there
ticket package at cma fest dot com. Make sure you
guys don't miss out. Will be there our second year
(00:37):
in a row, broadcasting live with the Music City Center
and all the action out there KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Pain Area Broadcasting Network, and our friends at KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. And of course, one
of those strong females in that category will be with
us during CMA Fest and performing on that Chevy Vibe stage.
We'll talk more about that as we get through this
entire broadcast. Angik to the show. What's up, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm doing so good. I'm so excited to get to
see you soon at EMA Fest.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's coming fast. It seems like every year you finish
one project and then you're on to the next, right,
It just.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It feels so real. I'm excited especially for this year though,
because I feel like every year I get one stage
bigger and I I'm in the Chevy Vibe stage this year,
which is like always been one of my favorites, like
the Riverwalk Hall of Fame it be It's gonna be
a really really cool, cool day for me.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think it's amazing, Like all the fans you mentioned
there that flock, I mean just travel from all over
the world. I mean on my flight last year when
I was going there, we had several and many from
Australia and England, and it means everywhere all over the world.
And it's amazing how something like this can bring hundreds
of thousands of people together, right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's pretty incredible. And I think my favorite part of
it is ninety percent of it is free, so like
I mean, actually there's a couple of cool upgrades that
I've noticed, Like for like, I think it's like three
dollars a ticket. You can get like and all the
Riverfront stage, my Chevy Vibe Stage, and a couple other stages.
You can get like this nice little oasis that has
(02:06):
like you can watch the stages from a private bar,
covered area, shaded seating and all this stuff. So there's
so much out there, so like, if you're not like
a super big crowd person, you can just pay a
little bit and be in these like nice areas. And
it's just imagine paying for like three hundred bucks for
a private area at every stage for three days and
(02:28):
unlimited number of artists and pretty much every artist you've
heard of in the last few years is going to
be there. So it's like it's just even the stuff
you pay for, it's like insanely good, you know. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
One of my favorite things to go out and scat
it after we get through at the Music City Center
with all the interviews and all the coverage, just to
go out there and find They always say what's the
best food truck you can find? I'm always out there
kind of going it's this one, this one. Do you
try like two or three different ones, and you're like, Okay,
if I want pizza, I'm going to go here. If
I just want food food, I'm gonna do this. But
then I got to get over there, and I'm like, man,
I shouldn't have the hot chicken at the Heady Bees.
(03:00):
That's kind of my favorite place to get hot chicken.
So I'm a foodie out there.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right, you know?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, you know, and you got to try something. We've
had some great, like higher level of restaurants open in
Nashville in the last couple of years. I would say,
like this. In this past year, a restaurant called Sinatra's
opened and it's like a higher end restaurant, but it
has like this really cool jazz feel that live jazz
music and their steak is insane. My favorite recommendation for
(03:26):
anyone like to have a national experience is a place
called Skull's Rainbow Room, and that's off Printer's Alley, and
that's existed since I can remember, and it's not as
publicized as the other ones, but it's always the food
is fantastic. It's a little priceier, talking like maybe thirty
forty dollars an entree, but like their pork chop is
the best I've ever had, and it's like they always
have like full jazz bands, where a sinatras just has
(03:49):
a piano player, a school's rainbow room has a full
jazz or blues bands. I know Darris Recer used to
frequence it a ton, Like a lot of the cooler
people in the industry that are big music people, they
go to schools that they're gonna go downtown.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They go to schools.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I remember having that a couple of years ago at
a CRS. The team went down there too, and we
actually tried it. And I can verify what you're saying
right there and put my stamp on it, because that
is a fantastic restaurant too when it comes down to it,
and I love the fact is that you can order
anything off that menu that you said a little pricey,
but hey, you get what you pay for at the time,
and that is a beautiful place to dine in. The
ambiance is great and I can again vouch for that
(04:25):
food there. Hey, let's talk about this because we could
talk about food all day, no doubt again. Texas A
lot of music to talk about, of course, is current EP.
We're gonna play a couple of songs for today. The
njk EP came out February seventh, across all the digital
streaming platforms. What's it been like for you at the
start of this year as you continue to grow your
career and I know this allotment of music you're very
excited about.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Right, Honestly, it's been just an unbelievable journey, because, like
this is what my fourth record, I think since I started,
I've been in the industry for ten years, and I've
just grown such a great, small but mighty We're in
community of people that come out to the shows, and
they even hang out with each other more than they
like hang out with me. Like, it's kind of great
(05:05):
to see people just enjoy each other so much and
us all get to meet up. It's almost like my
concerts are just a calling sign for everybody to come together.
It's pretty great that this last record was kind of
me deciding I really wanted to make something that felt
really real, something that I could hang my hat on
that I didn't chase any any you know, I love
(05:27):
pop music, I really do, but it's easy when you're
in it. I'll I say, this is actually a good insight.
I don't think I've ever talked about this, but in Nashville,
you know, we have these writing sessions where we go in,
you know, at ten am, and we go until three
or four and we come out with a song. What
started happening is something that you really started in LA
where we used to just have acoustic guitars in the room.
(05:48):
You have a track guy or girl in the room
and they're making a track as you go. The problem
with making a track without a band is you're using
synthetic parts, you know and so, and they're great, and
they're usually have some pop elements in it. And the
thing is is I would get those tracks and I'd
be like, I love this feel. And when you get
(06:10):
when you fall in love with it, you get something
kind of like demoitis. You don't want to change it
because you're like, well, that's why I love the song,
you know. And so I realized that it was I
was starting to not feel like cohesive in like what
I wanted to say, and I wanted to feel like
I thought things out in a way that made it
feel like easy, easily accessible, like this is who I am,
this is what I want to say, you know, if
(06:30):
that makes sense. Like the sonic landscape, I wanted to
fit all together so you could see the picture and
and so what I started to do is I started
not having a track person in the room. And it
was a huge risk because pop goes viral. It's easy
to go viral when you use pop elements because it's
just that's why it's pop. It's literally short for popular.
So I started to do a little more of an
(06:50):
Americana style, and so many people were like, this is great,
but it just doesn't feel like it has the tempo,
it doesn't feel like a hit, or it doesn't whatever,
and so at first I got really scared, and I
hooked up with Stephanie Smith, my producer who also wrote
a dozen number one songs for Dixie Chicks. For Reba,
she wrote It's Your Love by Herself by a TIMC.
(07:12):
Gronfi Hill. So she's a real music songwriter nerd, and
I wrote her into producing and she's the one that
kind of gave me the little push that I needed
to like, if you love these songs, that's all you need.
And I think what happened was I found the kind
of people that appreciate those kinds of songs, and yeah,
it just felt really good to take a chance like
(07:33):
that and to see, I mean, this thing could have
had a thousand streams on it, and part of me
kind of felt like that could happen, and it just
kind of disappear. But this song, this whole out record,
just keeps building on itself and it's been it's so
beautiful to take a risk on honesty and it's a payoff, you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Know it is, And it speaks to the truth of
me volume right there too at the same time that
you're actually resonating with these fans because these words speak
directly to them about situations they've been through in their life,
about things you're getting him through, whether it's happy or
sad too at the same time, and a lot of
these songs really just for me speak to the heart,
like one of them, I Tai I wish we were
playing it today, And if I had a third song,
I would have definitely played it on there too. But
(08:12):
this one called I'm Going Under this is like deep.
This is just like you taking this thing and just
ripping it a new one if you want to me,
because this thing is like very personal to people. And
I'm sure this has got to be a crowd favorite.
If it's not already, you guys have it in the
set list. For the shows, and I know it's gonna
be played at Cmfest, but what a deep cut?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah? No, I what's so funny is I didn't know
how people would you never just ever know. I heard
Blake Shelton saying he didn't know how people would react
to certain songs or if they'd even like him, and
I was like, well, if he's worried, then I don't
feel as bad. But yeah, that was one of those
songs we added a reprise at the end that we
just felt like a reprise basically means this song acts
like it's gonna cut out, and then all of a
sudden it comes back in in this jam and yeah,
(08:53):
I remember just we were in the studio and we
were just like keep going and it was just such
an organic moment. And now he gets to do that
one and it's never the same age time. It's supure jam.
It's pretty it's pretty fun to play.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Can only imagine to We're gonna play one right here
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as well. More with NJK. We're gonna play one called
Golden off the JK EP More to come Stay Twoed.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sitting on my back porch swing on a Thursday, watching
that storm roll in, thinking about Mom and Dad in
my hometown. Can't believe along it's been since I dove
into a lake, felt that cold water on my face.
It's like life just flying by which they I could
(10:29):
slow down time.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We only have what.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
We have, We only got what we've got. Can't stop
fast forward, rewron, got to learn to turn a little
into a lit Nobody knows what's coming to marble. Every
breath will breathing his bottle, making most out of every moment.
(10:57):
Someday these days he'll be gold. I think I'm going
to finally plan on that vacation.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's been so over. Do book a fly home and
visit my grandpa.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Let him tell me about over, to call my friends
up on the floor, talk all night like when we
were young, had ann watt.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And not the seconds. Gonna soak it up before I
miss it.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
We only have what we have, We only got what
we've got. Can't stop fast forward and readwind.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Gotta learn to turn a little into love. Nobody knows
what's coming and marveled. Every breath we're breathing his bottle.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Make the most out of every moment, because some day
these days will be cold.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That'll be gone. Be careful, I don't get you too
off track.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Because once that time is gone, No, we can't get
it back. We only have but we have, we only
got with will God, you can't stop fast forward to rewire.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You gotta learn to turn a little into a life.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Nobody knows what's coming a marble. Every breath for breathing
is bold.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Make the most out of every moment, because someday, these
days we will be gold.
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call Larry Vaderen three three seven eight five three zero
six three eight. So we got to talk about Golden
Angie is another deep cut that I love it out
there too, off this EP and you guys had to
be excited too about this one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I no, Golden, It's funny. It almost didn't make
the record because it felt really slow, and Stephanie was
one of the ones that was like, I think this
is one of your best songs, and so I started
playing it out a lot and the conversations I had
after that song, Like playing that live was beautiful. I mean,
so many people related it to so many people in
their lives, moments in their lives, and just I mean,
(15:05):
it's so human, isn't it, to try to slow down
time a little bit. And we have the power to
do that every day just by taking notice and finding
gratitude and enjoying what we have instead of what we
had or what we want.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Give me a little backstory off another one off of
their Death of Me, because this really was like almost
trapping somebody too. And you're right, you keep doing the
same thing kind of over and over again too. It
really can lead to many different situations. But another deep cut.
I used that a lot because there's a lot of
songs against speaking to the general public and the honesty
that you have in your lyrics. This was very personal too.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, No, Death of Me was probably one of the
most vulnerable songs I've ever written, easily. But what's interesting
is it sounds like a breakup song or a relationship song.
And it did kind of start writing it when Ris
and I were in an argument, But really I wrote
that during twenty twenty, and what that song really came
(16:02):
from was the journey of having a dream as big
as music and as simple as music really, because you
just want to write songs and people to listen to
them and be able to pay your bills. And obviously
twenty twenty was a tough time for everybody and it
was kind of isolating where we're so used to being
in rooms with our co writers and people like us,
and yeah, this song is really for anyone that's like
(16:27):
I knew I could never not do music. So it's
this acceptance of like, yeah, this doesn't feel good right now,
but if it killed me, that's how I want to go.
And it's like that's that's what the entire song is.
But it's funny because it feels like a relationship song,
but truly it's about chasing a dream and those valleys, no.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Doubt it really is. I love to go back a
little bit old school Angik here too, because I love
this so much. And I think when you and I
first met when I started doing the show in twenty nineteen,
the wild ep out there too, or the record there too,
so many cool things off of there. It really just
introduced me to you at the same time, and of
course a number of fans around the world there Too
when it came out, But Made to Live by the
(17:07):
Water was one of my favorite cuts off of There
Too which really set the tone of the record. Some
best memories about that project, talk about that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
For me, oh gosh, for sure, for Me to Live
by the Water was going down to Al Salvador shooting
the music video for Me to Live by the Water,
which I was born in El Salvador, and we went
back to, you know, just to show the band the
beaches and the beauty I grew up around. Was really
cool and yeah, I think I just have so many
(17:33):
memories of us all hanging out on these beaches that
I grew up on as a little kid. And getting
to connect this countryside love for music and the water
and bring it back to where it all started as
a kid was really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
An author too, was one called Born to Drive, and
I think we all we all love a song that
really puts us in a very awesome situation too, because
this was a wild ride. He took us off for
that one too, right, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I Forborn to Drive. The beginning of the whole song
is like I got dirt under my nails, I got
a hole in my blue jeans that those The beginning
of that song kind of came from I was going
into the library after working on cars all day at school,
and I was opening the library door, and I always
(18:22):
washed my hands with like the good stuff, the sandy
soap and everything, but I had some just sometimes you
just can't get all of it off, all the gunk
that just stains your hands, you know, when you're working
on cars a lot. So my hands were a little
bit dirty. But I was opening up the library door
for this guy behind me who's holding a bunch of books,
kind of like this fratty looking guy. Nothing against frat guys,
(18:43):
but I'm just saying, picture them, and I see him
looking at my hands with just like such disgust. I mean,
I don't and I just remember thinking, like, these are
not my people. And so that whole song was kind
of like all signed for people that are like me,
And it's like, it's not about being a quote unquote
(19:05):
blue collar and wanting to just sweat for your life.
The point there's a kind of person that enjoys building
things and the whole idea of getting your hands dirty.
It's because we're curious, because we approach the world with
curiosity and our machines and what we can do with
our lives. And it's like that's the kind of country
people I grew up with, you know, And there's all
(19:26):
kinds of different country people, but like I feel like
the ones that come to my shows tend to have
those same kind of values.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It's again, authentic music speaks from the core right there
to the core of the people out there too. Love
it so much, we've got to play that one off
the Angkep. If you guys haven't downloaded, make sure you
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It's red dirt on Mars here it is coming back
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Speaker 8 (20:21):
Drove out to a field off a highway nine, opened
the bottle and cursed out sun.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Drank till the tears came and shined out the stars.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I want to forget her, but I can't get that
for this small town and Georges are high heaven. The
dust and the mind, and the blood and the bone.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Where's the cowgirl goat to burn the brand of her high? Well?
That man on the moon says, there's red dirt on marns.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
That bottle turned empty, and so did my mind. Gravity
left me and blurred all the line.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Ain't nobody like her down here on, So take me
away to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Place it on a small town in Georges.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I have nor the dust and the light and the
blood and the balls. Where the cowgirl goats to burn
the brand offer hog, we'll have.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Man on the moon says, there's red dirt on barn
she had on my soul. There's no call now she's gone.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
How it's This small town in georgis alve heaven, the
dust and light and the bread and the mona.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
We the cat on the do to burn the brand offer.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Will have.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Man on the moon says, there's red.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Dird on barn.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Man moses, there's ritter home.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
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Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hey guys, this is Annie Bosco and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (23:57):
Red Dirt on Mars, and I guess if you're gonna
go to Mars and your camper or you want to
drive somewhere too as well. All about RVs Larry Vadrine
out there too, mulbile mechanic. You know, it's one thing
to bring things to a shop, No disrespect to shops
out there, but I like somebody coming to me. And
I'm actually taking out a thirty eight foot Tiffin Allegro
Bay motor home these next two weekends to the beach
and to campsites. And they'll tell you what if something
breaks down, I'm calling the one guy. All about RV's
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out there three three seven eight five three zero six
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three eight all about r v's and if you need
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want to show up to Nashville with it one year
at CMA Fest back here with angk on the show
and presented by our friends at the caadengordonshow dot com
Today's best Country Mix, so red Dirt on Mars. Not
(24:42):
that we actually you know, reached there by Camper, but hey,
one day if we ever get there in space is
a cool thing. But I'll tell you what. It's such
a great song to set the tone for a beautiful record,
and this was excellent writing.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you. Yeah, I mean it's it's interesting because again
it's like I said, I took a lot of risks
on this record, and that was a slower song. But
I just I fell in love with it the day
we wrote it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
It was like so.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Cathartic because it's a song about grief. And what's beautiful
about Nashville is all the writers in the room really
pulled from a different source of grief. And it blows
my mind how many people come up and tell me
their stories and they're so different how they relate to
that song. And yeah, it's like we experience such enormous emotions,
(25:27):
like living in our bodies and it's like you just
never know what someone's going through and like what's going
on inside their body, and it's like that song kind
of reminds me that, Wow, so many people are experiencing.
As much as we can experience the highest highs, we
can also experience the lowest lows and processing those things
and being able to talk about them. Gosh, that's so important.
(25:50):
And I think what's beautiful about this song is that
I think it helped a lot of people tell their
story and how they relate to it. It really does.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And like I said, I not made explanation there to
the planet what have you? But again my think just
layer a song by Mars and I'm thinking it's the
first thing that came to mind too. But again, a
beautiful song helping somebody get through a tough, very tough
situation out there too. And I love space, I love science.
What kind of saying anything with Mars and it's gonna
have the first thought is gonna be yeah, there it is.
I want to ask you about this because this latest
trend of female artists man kicking ass and taking names
(26:20):
out through you're right there with them with Karen Waldrip
and of course what Laney's doing, Carly Pearce, Ashty McBride,
these names, Hannah Ellis, Ella Langley, go on and on
and on for the female category. Is it about time
in your opinion? And is this overdue for ladies and
country music? This is a great thing. I love female power,
do you yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know, It's like it's kind of like who wants
to eat the same flavor of anything. It's just I mean,
it's like to me, it's like people talk about diversity
like it's like this term that is what agreeable to
some and disagreeable to others, And it's like everybody wants
diversity in their life. I mean, like routine is great,
(26:59):
but like, how are you gonna know what you like
if it's you don't even give them the option? And
that's what I love about, you know, throwing some Latin
in my songs too. It's like I'm not no human
is meant to be for everyone, but there's people out
there that dig it, you know, And it's like diversity
is important because that's we're trying to give you the
spices so you can pick what you like the most.
(27:20):
And if you don't like that, that's fine. But like
there's people out there that do. And I think, especially
in radio for a while, there was and I don't
I don't believe anybody's evil and you know, out to
get the woman or whatever, but I do believe that that, uh,
there's such a thing as a positive and a negative
feedback loop that like, when you start to move in
(27:42):
a certain direction, it's easy to keep going in that direction.
And when Broke Country took over, you know with Florida
Georgia line and Luke Brian was really at his peak.
Those kinds of songs and those lyrics lent themselves to
a man singing them, and so it those songs are
doing really well. So they're like, well, more that more, that,
more of that. Everybody's playing them, and all of a sudden,
(28:02):
there's not anyone really developing the young females in the city.
And I think a lot of people kind of miss
their opportunities because of that trend. And now what's happening
is we're noticing, We're like, wait, why is it that
there's like yesterday or a week ago, I went to
the Triple Play Awards, which means anyone that's won three
number ones in a year. They also honor anyone that
(28:23):
had had their first number one. There was maybe thirty
five people honored. There was one woman among all of them.
And the thing is is, I know hundreds of female
songwriters and producers, so we have to ask the question,
like what's the barrier, And the barrier is we're used
to doing what's familiar. You're more likely to like a
(28:45):
song you heard before, whether you thought you liked it
the first time or not. So like, I think what
I'm seeing is a lot of programmers, a lot of
a lot of show opportunities. People are starting to notice,
you know what, let's just start giving people some of
these other spices. And what's happening is people are liking them.
And it's really beautiful to see so many. I mean
(29:06):
Meg and Patrick to Curly Pierce dramatically different music. Then
you look at Megan Maroney, Laney Wilson, it's like these
are not the same audiences. And I think the mistake
people made at the beginning is they said, oh, that
woman didn't work there. So women don't work. And what's
really beautiful now is you're starting to see. Oh, like
I said before, we're not made for it. No person
(29:27):
has made for everybody in the world unless your growth
brooks than you probably are. But there's people out there
that really like us and there's a market for it,
and I think it's beautiful that people are starting to
take a chance and it's paying off. Insane, especially like
in Laney's world. I mean, her manager wasn't even like
a formal manager. She was like someone who wanted to
try to get into management, and now she's one of
(29:48):
the most powerful managers in the world. And it's actually
really wonderful to see the good guys win, if that
makes sense. And yeah, I think it's a really good
time in country music. We got a lot of work
to do, I think, especially in the Latin front. I
would love to see a lot more international country artists.
I think. I think there we're going to see a
lot more in the future, and I'm just curious and
(30:09):
interested to see how that changed things sonically.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, it's funny you bring that up to You mentioned
Latin because one of the artists I'm getting into now
we just had her on the show right there about
Christmas of last year, Delimber December. Mariah who's the wise
yeah right small boom, Yeah for King and Country. She's
bringing it too right now. I love her.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah, No, she's a good friend of mine. We're actually
putting together a panel at CMA face called Latin Roots.
I would love for you to come. Uh it is,
I'll tell you exactly what it is. It's on the seventh,
June seventh, and it'll be in the Music City Center.
And the coolest part is at the very end of
the panel, guy named Guttie Leone, who is the biggest,
(30:50):
one of the biggest artists in North America. I mean
he is like a huge He's known more for regional
Mexican but he's starting to do a lot of country
things and he's done. He just put out a song
with Cody Johnson that's insanely good. But yeah, he's going
to be in the last fifteen minutes of the panel,
and I mean that guy has millions and millions of followers,
so we're starting to make a pretty good imprint. I
love Maria, I love her, look, I love her. I
(31:13):
mean she is just like every part of her show
is very aesthetic, like she really thinks about she dresses
all of her band everything. You're lucky to get me
out of the same T shirt, you know when I
get on stage. So it's really fun. Like I said,
it's really cool to introduce people that you think. It's
like saying, oh, I don't like country music and I'm like, no,
(31:33):
you just haven't found your type of country music. And
thing is like, Okay, now we're introducing this crazy concept
of maybe some Spanish flavor and country music. Don't say
you don't like it, just say you don't haven't found
someone you like yet because my music in Maria's music
dramatically different. But we both you know, she comes from
Mexican roots. I come from Alsavador roots. There's Cuban American artists,
(31:55):
there's the Minican artists. I mean, if you follow I
just started called the Country Lot and Association, which is
what's running the panel for CMA. If you follow that
Country Lot and Association on Instagram, TikTok every day, I
post a new artist every single day. So if you
want to look at more international artists, particularly in Brazil,
Brazil has some insanely amazing artists and all of those
(32:16):
guys were Ope and Ride. I mean, some of the
best rodeo cowboys in the world come from Brazil, so
it's fun to see how different people country, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, I have to get some of those names right
here on this very brand here on the backstage pass. Well,
we have to talk about that for who that once
you post on that particular Facebook page there too, and
all that out there again. Anngik's the EP out there too,
across all the DSPs and officialjik dot Com. Is that
website out there too as well. You guys can check
out for tour dates and of course all the different schedules, merchandise,
(32:46):
all the cool things out there. I need to wrap
my Anjik T shirt at CMA FESST, so we're gonna
have to give you a backstage past T shirt and
swap a shirt for an Antik because I've got to
wear it out there at the Chevy Vibe stage.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So I love the way you think will make it happen.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Or they'll do that out there too as well, which
will be fun. All right, as we kind of wrap
this up too, because of course we're gonna see you
there in person. June fifth to eighth, and of course
the panel there at the Music City Center and playing
the Chevy Vibes stage there too. With the schedules out
there cema fest dot Com for tickets and packages, makes
you guys attend, Please do and come from all over
the world to enjoy the biggest music festival over that
(33:24):
four day span toos well, and of course we're gonna
be live. I gotta mention at the Grand Ole Opry
June eighth for the forty third annual Sunday Morning Country
hosted by Brenda Lee. Just got the call today that
the backstage passively backstage at the Opry June the eighth.
Then I will have you broadcasting for a couple hours.
And if Angie k wants to go buye the Grand
Ole Opry, I'm opening the door to let her in
there for Sunday Morning Country. So just some more things
(33:47):
that are there too as well. Big week there for
CMA Fest two. All right, let's have all the fun.
I gotta have a good Italian restaurant while I'm intown
for this. We got to go eat somewhere. I don't
care what really kind of food, It's is my favorite.
But where are we going? You and I have to
eat somewhere.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
There's a place that a friend of mine absolutely adored.
Actually I'm a big Italian person, but my fiance is
not so funny how that works. We don't eat Italian
very often. But there's an Italian place that this guy
was telling you about. Valentinos. Okay, I've heard a few
(34:24):
people tell me about Valentinos, and that is it looks
like it's like kind of on the West Side. Okay,
Valentino's restaurant. Yeah, that looks I mean, I've heard more
than a few people. Oh I'm looking at pictures of
that food. It looks prett dang good. Are you a
red sauce Italian guy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Or red sauce? It has to be red sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yes, the red sauce. That's really how you can tell
if it's any good, the red sauce.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Now, I know you're going to know this too, El
Salvador Roots, because I love the food over there. I
actually got a chance to have We were down in
Mexico years back, and I got a chance to actually
go try Mayan food for the first time. Oh man,
so good too. I need to find just one of
those whole wall spots for some type of Salvador food,
Cuban food, Latin food. Where where would that be?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
We can go? Oh, I've I've already got you. So
on June seventh, I think, starting at like six or seven,
there's a place called Plasa Mariachi okay uh, and it
is I can't even describe it to you. When you
go in, you're gonna lose your mind. It's like it
feels like you just entered Mexico. It's like, I don't
I'm so confused with people that don't know the success
that have lived here for so long. It is literally
(35:29):
like have you ever been to like Disney's Mexico? You
know I'm talking about I haven't been, but what you
talking about yet? It's like that level it's pretty insane.
Like if you walk in, it's just it's pretty insane.
And they have they do events there and they're letting
us do a stage. So like me, I'm gonna play
a little bit Mariah Andrea Vasquez as you're on Nonas.
(35:53):
I mean, it's a crazy lineup and it's it's gonna
be a lot of fun, all.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Right, lose my mind walking through the door. Nobody's ever
said that when it comes to restaurants here on the show.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
When it comes, trust me, just trust me. Yeah. Plus
on Mariachi, I'm looking forward to that too.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
So we're definitely gonna communicate through our messages and of
course get out there see or play the Chevy Vibe stage.
We'll have a recap with it there as we get closer.
June fifth to eight at CMA Fest against CMA Fest
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JK dot com and that EP is out there too,
that fourth album AJK across all the DSPs my friend.
Looking forward to seeing you hear in just a few weeks.
Always great to catch up here on the broadcast and
(36:50):
looking forward to making more memories over the next few
weeks too, and hey, best of luck and continue success
going forward. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, I feel like this is a deep, deep podcast.
I really enjoyed this, one of the.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Best out there to do it in the female category.
Angk make sure you guys give her a follow across
all those DSPs and on social media. We're back here
in a flash too as well. More great shows coming
up as we get ready for CMA Fest June fifth
to the eighth again, twenty twenty five, Nashville, Tennessee, The
Music City Center, presented by All About RV's out there
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(37:25):
We're back in the flash. More great music coming up
here in our affiliates. God blessed, take care well, caeesar.
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