November 12, 2024 • 34 mins
Texas Country Artist Bri Bagwell joined us on the show to chat about her new single! Join us on the show as we talk about the new single and lots more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, yo, this is Texas country artist Prete Bagwell and
you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Pals, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome on to the backstage past KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico. And he catches
seven nights a week there between six and seven Mountain Time.
Always a great time here featuring the best and bridest
artists in country music too. And I'll tell you what.
She was the Texas Female Artist of the Decade and
the ranting Female vocalist of the Year, and he forced
to be wrecking with in country music. Thirteen number one
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singles on Texas Country Radio. And guess what they're still
counting out there too. We're gonna play a couple today,
my good friend pretty Bagwell here on the backstage pass.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
How you doing, Oh my gosh, great, great to talk
to you. Thank you so much for having us back,
I say, ask him, I got my dog on my lap.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
He loves the personalization. He loves that just being on
the lap and being the center of attention. Right.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, she's like the star of the show. We all
know it. I I found out for sure that she's
more famous than me. Like see it was covid. I'd
let my hair grow out dark. You know, my natural
hair color is like dark brown. And I had no
makeup on. And we were at the river and she
ran by and this guy said, oh, my gosh, that
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looks like three bag Old's dog. And I said, does it?
He goes, yeah, right, and then he just walked away,
and I was like, and all my friends laughed for
like an hour. They thought it was so funny. So
she's famous.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, famous in a way too. Let me say this
because good segue here. Let's talk about that song and
the rescue because I want to get into that too,
because there was a lot of money raised. I believe
it was. It was well north of over five thousand
dollars for local charities and things like that. Tell us
the story about the song the rescue before we get
into more of the meat and potatoes. But it was
great segue you made there. Tell us about that cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sure. I am my favorite songwriter, one of my favorites
in the whole world. Her name is Queen Cronan. She
just got a Coney Johnson cut. Actually last Friday, super
excited for her. But she was down at my house visiting.
We were writing songs, and I told her I really
wanted to write a song about my dog, but every
time I try, I start crying because I love her
so much, And so we weren't planning on writing a
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song about her, and we did, and then I ended
up putting it out. And now we sell stickers with
my dog's face on him and T shirts, and we
donate like one hundred percent of the sticker sales and
part of the tea shirt itself to two local shelters,
and I think we're about to pass with seven thousand
dollars marks now, so pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It is no doubt I saw those two out there
at that Texas Winnie Rice festival, and thanks for all
that great hospitality you gave us out there too. My
little one just loved taking pictures with you. And the
show was kick ass out there. Loved it so much.
I know that was a great crowd for you to
play in front of and just play right there before
Stony had took the other stage over there too, But
just a great festival, and man, it really shows the
heart of you know, Texas country through and through that
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Winnie Rice festival.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, I think that's like my second or third time
to play that festival over the years. But yeah, the
guy that promotes it, Mark he's a great, great ally
for me and my career. And then of course playing
the Son of the Room is one of my favorite
things in the world. You have to be careful because
him and his band, they like to have a real
good time. There were some shots flawing on that tour
bus after that, and the back of Donuts was there.
(03:13):
They're amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, that's another great band too. You got to be
careful with those shots because you never know where it
might lead you to. Hey, talk about just this ride
you've been on too. I mean you've been doing this
thing for a long time, this thing called music, and
I mean thirteen number one singles on Texas Country Radio
Female Artists of the Decade and of course raining Female
Vocalist of the Year. I mean, you don't take these
awards lightly when it comes down to it, but it
(03:36):
appears the publications, the media such as us things like
that very appreciative of what you've done in the body
of work you've put together. Just elaborate on that for
me a little bit just how hard this road has been,
but how a sense of gratitude that you have to
for all these great recognitions.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, thank you so much for pointing those out. I mean,
I'm kind of dying a little bit today, if you
can tell. But I just got off of a three
week run. I did a twelve different states and twenty
two shows in the last like a few weeks. It's
been insane. I went all the way to Ohio, Michigan,
and Georgia, the Carolina as we drove through the night
to drop off the RV and the dogs, got on
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a plane at si KM, and last week we did Boston,
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland. So I'm just so thankful because
I've done a lot of things. Texas music has always
been my home and what has given me a career
for the last decade or more. And so I'm I
just you know, no matter where my music takes me,
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which has been further and further away, which is crazy,
I know I can always come back to Texas and
like they have my back. So really thankful for that.
And yeah, it's been a lot of work and a
lot of investment and a lot of time away from
my family and my home and you know, so it's
definitely not an easy life, but it's the one that
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I love.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a great ride too. If you've never been to
a Breed Baggules show, what are you waiting for? Get
out there too? Okay, if you the website here as
we get through, which is simply breebag Well dot Com
out there too. Hey, talk about just knowing in my
markets out there. Of course, I know New Mexico will
one of them too, Oklahoma City and of course up
into Colorado. But growing up out there in New Mexico
knowing that town and that state very well. Just talk
about what you learned and just growing up with some
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of the best country singers out there and telling stories
and you feel like you've really taken what you've learned
at a young age and you really incorporated that into
your music now to make it you know what it is,
because it's all about storytelling.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean my family are both of my
parents were farmers in southern New Mexico down in the boothill.
We call it high school sweethearts, and so I grew
up on the border in Las Cruces and I just
love I've always loved country music, and we've been really
lucky to have We had a lot of great concerts
at the pan Am down there. I mean I remember
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seeing George Strait and Martina McBride and Alan Jackson. I mean,
we just had all these amazing artists come through. And
so Johnny Cash and my grandma were actually second cousins.
So I blame like, my whole family kind of stings
and plays, and you know, from a real country family.
My aunt just plays piano by ear. So I just
grew up with it. And I guess you don't realize
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how special that is until you talk to other people
and you you know, that's not how everybody gets to
grow up. So I'm so thankful that I had such
a musical family. And I love New Mexico. It's it's
such an underrated state, but I guess sometimes it's kind
of like it that way, so not everyone moved there,
but I love I love, like there's so many parts
of that state that I just I love to go
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to San Fay and then of course going home for
the holidays down to Lost Crusius. I got to get
my green chili fixed.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, some of the best Mexican's good going out that
way too, and I'll act you be going right to
Los Cruses coming up in the end of December, we're
going out to Arizona, just taking the camper out that
way and just going to enjoy some time over in Sedona,
stopping those crisis stay at the KWA campground. So it's
gonna be a lot of fun for me and my
family too.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Koa and last Crusius is really nice actually, so yeah,
if you need I mean, I'm sure you don't, but
if you need restaurant recommendations, I got you. So let
me forget to tell you all my favorite I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Forward to that too. Hey, go back to the last
album be where we talk about this new music that
this come out now, one called Don't Tell Daddy but
Corzone Incabazios. My Spanish is not very good there too,
but I can translate that to which is beautiful. I
love it. But we're gonna play one off there that
was Trenches, but just this one in twenty twenty two.
The way it's shaped, man, just your sound again, you
(07:29):
know what you wanted to be as an artist? Hit
hit on some of the highlights for me from this
particular record.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean, I really think that this record kind
of solidified my sound, like you said, and it was
just I've always been a little bit like I always
think Selena during my shows, like there's always a little
bit of Spanish mixed into just who I am as
an artist, and so this record kind of explored a
lot more of that. And it really was kind of
a songwritery record because for the last you know, decade,
(07:59):
I've been one of those, you know, there's not that
many females in the Texas scenes, so I definitely had
the beer songs and the boot songs and the fun
song for the festivals, and now it was kind of like, Okay,
I get to write the record of my dreams. And
that record was really just really songwriter heavy, and everyone
really leaned into songs like Trenches, which is crazy because
(08:20):
I wasn't even going to record that. My producer was like,
you need to record this song, and I thought, this
record is so specific to me. It's really about my
life trenches especially, it's about my boyfriend being a musician,
me being a musician, and that's kind of just going
through COVID together and being in the trenches together. And
that ended up being the biggest song off the record
by far. And it's crazy how when you write stuff
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that really is true to you and genuine to you,
how much it resonates with your audience even more. And
that was so fun to see with this last record.
So even though albums weren't the cool thing anymore, I
was like, I'm going to put out a record. I
don't care. I don't care if it's not the cool
thing anymore. I put out eleven songs record that tells
the story and has a theme. That's what that record was,
and it will always be very special to me because
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I'm not really sure how much more of that I'm
going to do.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It's a special record thought. And we get to play
the one she's talking about. She took to a number
one here in Texas Country from pre Bagwell it's called
Trenches here it is kk t C True Country ninety
nine point nine. Back in the Flesh, The two.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Honeywee along on the beach, joining in sun and mess
call drinks fall.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
See to the sound of the sea, and you eating
ham and way to me, but here.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We are tell me had the tranches dirt on our faces,
digging up ditches, dunning all the blue. It's boy, I
know it's for Oh there, there's us somewhere in the world,
or making our way.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Boy, hand me shove. If it's just you and me
waiting out the enemy, scared and well I want surrender.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
I just remember to love and a hammock for it to.
The skies are pink and your ears were blue.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They both turned a little gray when the bills are due.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Aside for me and all dub for you. Okay, here
we are tell here in the trenches, turn on our basis,
digging up dishes, dodging all the bulls its. Boy on
though the sport.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
There, here's us somewhere hell around for making away. Boy,
held me a show.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
If it's just hearing me away, not be hearing.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Me up, being stirred with a want of surrender.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'll just remember this kitching.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Maybe real small, but we fill in these fools.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
We find a way out.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Boy, at no.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
We can dig on away leg sick.
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Texas high school football. So you know you mentioned Trenches
was big, but another and I loved off that record,
another one that just was really beautiful and told a
great story. Free man. Let's let's dive into that one too.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh yeah, sure, actually funny because I wrote that song
in jury Duty. I had Jerry duty and New bron Pules,
and I thought, you know, I might as well just
write a song while I'm sitting here, and I thought
it'd be really funny if we could put our x's
on trial and like, so that's what the song is about.
And it just ended up being a funny song. So
I've been gone, I haven't been home and duty. I'm
(13:27):
still not home. I'm not my best friend's house, but
I'm going home tonight. And my boyfriend said that there
was a jury duty notice in my mailbox and I'm like,
what did And then I thought, well, they must want
me to write another song. So yeah, the Raffles County Courthouse,
So that one was written. And if you if you're
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a songwriter that has Jerry Duty, you should know that
the sheriff takes your notes and throws them in the
trash at the end of Jerry Duty. So I don't
really remember what the original third verse of that song
was because it's in the trash at the courthouse.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But I love the place to write a song, Jerry Duty. Yeah,
your pencil and pad. You never know what's gonna transpire there.
And another one off there too was really really a
number one in Texas for you Hello Highway and talking
about traveling and not being home very much. There's a
lot of artists that write songs when it comes to
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highways and things like that, up and down there burning
the rubber and the vans and things. And this is
a cool thing because this really sticks close to your sound.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah. I mean every time I write a song about
being on the road, I don't really expect it to,
like I said earlier, like resonate with people so much.
But anyone who likes to travel, like this song was
one of the favorites from people that they would say,
I love Hello Highway. I'm like, what, that's so crazy,
because I thought it was a musician song, but it's not.
It's for people who love to hit the highway. And
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so I love being on the road. I don't know.
I was just missing the road so bad during COVID,
and and so I remember I was driving to see
my parents and I was just driving my my sprinter
van tols Crusius, and I was writing those lyrics and
while I was driving, and I just I remember, just
you know, the sunset in my rearview mirror and all
and the sound of the tires and all those things
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that I was like, Man, I really miss being on
the road. So that was that was a song born
out of COVID time to a lot of that record
was but now it's so fun. People that just like
to go in the RV they like this song too.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm driving with my driving my RV too infacked up
on driving RV today for a little spin and I said,
that'll be Hello Highway. We'll be right there on my playlist. Well,
time to play the new single from Prebagwell here a
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Uh, a little
secret here, don't till daddy. We're not going to tell
daddy here on the backstage past powered by the Sports
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we'll talk about the latest single out there across all
the dsp First you're gonna hear it right here, don't
till Daddy KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, hangtime.
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I love my job as a wife and mother.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
But he leans one way and I lean the other.
He's always politic and over supper, and I choose my
words and I pass the butter, but won't win or another.
I'm going choose the post children in to for the curtain.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Clothes and cast marbles.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
But don't tail daddy, Daddy, don't tell daddy. Don't tell
daddy it's nineteen twenty. Don't mean a thing with the
right to let bring a ring, but don't tail daddy,
call on, don't tail daddy, cotailay.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
So what if I hit a different button? Have a
mind to depend on of my husband. I told my
little girls she didn't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Except a woman who really.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Believes saying something. When I took her hand and we
took off around it and take two of the post
children into for the curtain clalls and casts Mamas. The
doctor Daddy, don't tell day dot's nineteen twenty. Don't be
a thing with the mine out to every fame with
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doctor Daddy. Don't tell daddy.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm sure there's a man who couldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
My view, but he ain't my on.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
So I had the fun one day I can do.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
As soon as.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
He's gone, I put the shoe.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
On, take you the pot tail.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
And can't tell oh the car loss and past my
don't tell daddy o them, don't tell Daddy tell me
nineties when he don't mean a thing by Don't Tell Daddy,
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Don't tell Daddy, don't call name, don't tell daddy, don't you.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Dad tell Daddy.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
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Speaker 2 (19:13):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
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Country ninety nine point nine. So let's get into this
Don't Tell Daddy. The idea of this one. I love
backstories when it comes to songs, and this one had
to be just as much fun as saying the title
to probably write it too as well.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right, Yeah, I wrote this thing pretty fast. I think
it happened like in less than half an hour. But
my boyfriend sister gave me the title, which was such
a cool title. And so I wrote this song years ago.
And because I've written songs for other people, so I
actually wrote this for a different band. They recorded that
you know, put it out. But I thought, man, it
would be so fun because it's an election year. I'm
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just gonna put this song out because and and it
was it was you know, I don't get publicly political.
I did get political this year. I announced that my
dog was running for president because she would make an
amazing president. That's about as political as I get. But
it was really funny because the message of this song,
you know, to me, the song sounds like it's like
set in the former decade. Really, you know, it doesn't
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really sound but the message is current, which is just
you know, have your own opinion and vote you know
how you see fit basically. But it's a fun song.
And I thought, man, the election is so stressful, I
want to release like a rock and upbeat, like country song.
And I did, and it was. It was pretty crazy
because the message of the song ends up being kind
of the message for both sides of their political ad campaigns,
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which was I mean, I wrote this song years ago,
so that was kind of crazy that that it all
came full circle like that, but it was all in fun.
And then my dogs didn't shouldn't win the presidency that
we did end up releasing with you for President t shirts,
So if you want those, you can get those set
a show. I don't even know if we have any love.
They kind of flew off the self.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I talked to the fans a little bit too, especially
out there in tout that know you very well in
just New Mexico in general, give me some of the
challenges that go through movie fans don't see when it
comes to being not only just a female artist in
this industry, but just the challenges in music in general.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, I mean I think that, you know, after COVID,
we're really seeing a difference in ticket sells for medium
sized venues. The venues are still really struggling at and
the so the artists at my level and the venues
at my level, we're just seeing kind of a polarization
of like fans, it's just been really strange, like people
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maybe want to go have the instagramable experience of maybe
flying to Vegas and seeing a big show at a
big arena and spending a lot of money to do
that rather than supporting like their local honky tonk as much.
So I'm kind of creating that as my like end
of the year challenge to people. It's going to be like, hey,
maybe next year, try once a month to go support
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your local artists and your local venue because it's getting
harder and harder to survive in the current climate. And
streaming has made things very interesting as well, and so
our costs have as artists have just gone up. But
you know, what we're making is getting really divided and
it's very strange. So just you know, give your vocal
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musicians some love and we'd appreciate it very much. And definitely,
you know, I see a lot of things getting better
for females. There's definitely so many more females than when
I started, especially in tex of music. Like the people
told me early on, like, don't be a text with
music artist, there are no girls that really succeed here,
And that was so wild to me. I was like, oh,
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that's the first way to get me to do anything,
first of all, to tell me I can't, But just
seeing the amount of females that are starting in this genre.
It just brings me so much joy, it really is.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And it's good to see everybody you know coming up,
especially the CMA A Wards, which is coming up here
just in the next few weeks November twenty third Bridge.
Don't looking forward to that. I got to vote as
a CMA member myself and get to vote for some
brand new artists. And one of them is not afraid
to say it, because I've been listening to a lot
of his music. Zach Top out there too in those
categories of just bringing back the original sound, kind of
like you've done with a bunch of your songs from
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nineties country too, So just to vote for him, and
like said, all of these new artists that are you know,
Hannah Ellis and Ashley Cook and you know Laney's been
on the tear that she's been on too, and of
course Ashley McBride and Carly Pears and things like that,
and it's just good to see this women women's movement,
girl power in country now finally get it's kind of
due diligence, right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, And like you said, like more traditional sounding voices
are having a moment. I love Zach Top also, so
that's really fun to see and I think traditional sound,
so it's really fun to see people latching onto that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I know you got the holidays coming up too, and
you mentioned Las Crusis Thanksgiving. So what's on the menu
for the Bagwell household this year? Back with the parents
and the family and last cruises. I know for me
it's probably turkey and the regular stuff, but there might
be a surprise dessert or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Right, well, I let me tell you the Bagwell family,
we have this giant controversy. I posted it one year
and I didn't think I was going to get the
you know, it was all in good fun, but we
don't like turkey, so we eat steaks on Thanksgiving and
I posted it and oh my gosh, people were either
like I created this whole argument online about people that
(24:29):
were on my side or not on my side. It
was so hilarious because I just don't love turkey, and
neither and all my family one year we were like,
why are we eating this if we don't like it?
So we just get steaks? Is sad and I think
that's fine. So if you want to come to my house,
anybody in if you guys are near lost cuss and
you don't like Turkey, You're welcome at Mike, You're welcome at.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Our table, especially coming thro your lost cruises, right, But
I love it that a variety of spice of life,
the differentiation, things like that too, because people get tired
and obviousen people go to like the the Honeybee Hams
or that just ham in general right now too, because
Turkey kind of that does get old.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It does, so I don't I just don't love it.
My best friend that I'm saying with today, she she was,
she was like, gretan't like Turkey. I'm like, how do you?
Does everybody know this about me? I guess I'm very public,
so I might as well just announce it to the
world on your on your show.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Nothing wrong with that too, Like I said, we'll get
some comedy, dude, and it's not anything that Roddy's that
spice of life and you get a chance to tell
put out there what you want to eat. Hey, tell
us about the previous album even before that, in my defense,
which I thought was really some of your best work
too out there. But I love that you did a
rendition of uh if you were a cowboy, and that
really resonated with fans out there at that Win You
Rice festival.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Ah yeah, thank you. That song. I know, you know,
it's been almost used on a couple of TV shows,
a couple of big it never has, but I still
holding out hope because it's such a great tune. But
that was my first record that I made with my producer,
Rachel Roy. So the new music that we're talking about
this will be my third project with her, but that
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was my first record with her, and I fell in
love with her work with the William park Green albums
like the Road Queen album and the Ringling Road Album.
I was like, will who produced that record? He said
Rachel Roy So, in my defense, was my first project
with her. And you can really tell the difference in
my records. I mean, we used some of the top
musicians in Nashville, top studios in Nashville for both of
(26:26):
the Lost two records and now this third record, and
you can tell, I mean just the level of musicianships
and care and she and she sits on the floor
with me and her and her husband Brian Keene, who's
written you know a bunch of really great songs that
y'all would know, and they tear parts of songs with
me and build them back together, and really are invested
in making the record the best it could possibly be.
(26:48):
They don't just take my money or you know, they're like,
let's make this record really the best that it can be.
And that's and you hear that, and that's what we're
doing again. So we're making our third third project together
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
To that again, don't tell Daddy across all those digital
streaming platforms. And of course, like I said, the more
number ones coming her way, not just thirteen, There'll be
many more and I wouldn't surprise. We just keep getting
to the twenties very soon. There. For one of the
hottest artists in Texas Country. Hey, speaking a podcasts, I
wanted you to promote that here on the show, especially
for the listeners out here in Taos, you know right
there your home state live up into Colorado only vans.
(27:21):
You got your your own podcasts as well. They can
hear it at prebagule dot com. Kind of elaborate on
that for me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I just I was just chatting as my producer
about uh he was my tour manager at the time,
about just all the things that we talked about in
the vans together and you said you should record this
and make it a podcast, and that we kind of did.
So it started out in the front seat of my
sprinter van and I was interviewing people from the front
seat of my band. Well, now I have an RV
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because that's what we travel around with mostly. I bought
an RV for my dogs. So now we do the
podcast from my RV. But it's still called Only Hans
Who's funny name. But we just just chatting with people
on the scene and it's been amazing. We just got
offered to do four live shows from Steamboat Music Pest
this year, so that's exciting stuff. I'm like really pumped
(28:08):
about that. But I've had Reckless Kelly, you know, making
the motor cars, and Josh Grider and I mean really
amazing guests, and I think Kevin Powler's picking to come
on there. So just it's just a different kind of
point of view. If you're into two artists talking to
each other, it's more of a friendship chatter. Hey remember
this embarrassing thing that happened at Key West or something.
(28:30):
And it's been great. We've gotten sponsorships and we just
got picked up by a big network and it was
totally unexpected for me to be a podcast host.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But here I am the same with me and my friend.
Like I said, network to do that, but it is
what it is when it comes down to it, just
telling stories, putting out good information, and letting the public
just kind of feel the authentic story being told out
there too. All Right. I got to throw a little
sports at you too, because I know it's not the
year for the Tennessee Titans. It really is not the
year for the Dallas Cowboys either, and the Texans have
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kind of been in and out here and there. But
I know you've done some of the national anthems before
at different venues Texas and of course nationwide. It probably
never gets old to sing the national anthem in front
of just thousands of people at a sporting venue.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Right, I don't really love singing the national anthem. It's
like it's super anxiety for me because if you mess up,
now you're all over the internet, you know. So I
know that I was supposed to sing out a Texas
Texans game and it got canceled because of COVID, I believe,
but I was like a little bit relieved without Okay,
(29:38):
it's a hard song. But I was actually talking to
Tracy Byrd about it because he did it as I
think a Rangers game, and I got I got some
tips from Tracy Byrd about it, and he said something
to me that was really interesting, which was, you know,
he said, do you get nervous at shows anymore? And
I was like, no, Like, shows don't really make me
nervous at all. I've done so many times throughout the years,
(29:59):
even crowds, but the aims and makes me nervous. And
he said, yeah, but that's like what makes you that
makes you feel alive, Like if you don't get nervous
that shows anymore, like getting nervous or something like the
national anthem, like it makes you feel alive. And I'm like, okay,
that's right, that's great advice because we don't really feel
nervous anymore. And nervous and excited are the same bodily response.
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So instead of saying I'm nervous, I'm nervous, you say
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I'm excited, and that's the words that come out there.
Doubt the excitement there to put out the beautiful national
anthem that it is to and just and I saw
your pros pro out there too in those live concerts.
So you can check out the tour schedule. What's left
of it for this year for twenty twenty four. I'm
so there's gonna be a big one for twenty twenty
five coming up there. Uh, bringbag well dot com. You're
ranning Female Vocalist of the Year for Texas Country and
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of course the Texas Female Artist of the decade with
thirteen number ones and continuing to just climb the charts.
Don't tell Daddy the latest to single out there. I
always appreciate you my friend coming on here if she
had some light on what we got going on too.
Glad to promote the music and looking forward to play
all week on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Thanks so much for being a part of it, and
I'm looking forward to just coming to another show at
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some point.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, thank you, And it's been fun, you know, giving
me be your friend, and you just such a great job.
And we're independent, you know, or I am, I guess,
and so everything that we do. I have a team now,
but I'm still you know, I don't have a record
label or anything like that. So this stuff we rely
on things like this to help people word out, So
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You got it, dude. It's about naptime too, because I
see Whiskey's taking me that at the same time. But
I'm gonna grab a little one tell her you said
Helloa to at the same time. And looking forward to
getting back out there again to the beautiful, beautiful state
of New Mexico and over to Arizona for a licen
nice R and r vacation coming up with the RV
and more to come here too, and more great artists
including Ricky Skaggs coming up here on the backstage past
just a few weeks, the fifteen time Grammy Award winner
(31:50):
here on the backstage pass and some Christmas music and
it's that time of year you might want to get to.
I guess the stockings down and decorate the houses and
all that good stuff out there too or the outside inside.
Heard a weird story today like people were actually putting lights.
This is this true story on the radio show. I
heard putting lights inside the refrigerator, like go figure that
like bulbs. So that's it's her. Phone's here in Beaumont,
(32:14):
Texas this morning where I'm at and he was talking
about decorating the refrigerator. First he thought about it, he goes,
I'm not sure I want to do that, and he goes,
that kind of sounds interesting. So yeah, that's the thing
that was on social media today. I'm not sure I
could do that and have the lights like be cold
and then open the door and like something happened to
the food or whatever. For decorating putting Christmas lights inside
of my refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, I'm glad I have my headphones in because I
told you. I my best friends as she has three
Christmas trees and they're already up, and I was giving
her heck and she goes, the turkey tastes the same
with whether your Christmas tree is up or not, because
I'm like, you just skipped right over Thanksgiving. But she
loves Christmas. She's like this whole house staying. I threw
up over over this whole house. It's very cute. It's
very cute. I'm just not home very much. So I
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call it a spring. I have a sprinkled Christmas. It
takes me about fifteen minutes to set up everything that did.
I but I'm not going to decorate my refrigerator but
I don't judge you. If you do you do that,
you do you everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I tell my buddy, it's at v shaw Is today, Brandon.
We're not doing that. Like I said, you go forward,
knock yourself out. Like if I decide to do that too,
I'd be hit over the head by two by four
something to do that. But I will do some outside,
some reindeer stuff like that, and lights for the daughter.
And she's turning five next year too. Can't wait to
see you again out through the concert. So make sure
you guys check out Breathe Bagwell dot com and of
course all the good stuff out there, don't tell Daddy
(33:30):
across all the digital streaming platforms. More great artists coming
up here over the next few weeks. Annie Pastco coming by.
We mentioned Rickey Skaggs and a whole lot more, and
just so you got to tune in, Holly Kerns and
a whole bunch more coming up here over the next
few weeks. The Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com exclusively KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Stay tuned. More great music coming up here on KKTC
(33:51):
True Country ninety nine point nine Taus, New Mexico.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Hey, y'all, this is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Teroh worthy and you're listening to one.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Of my big old Umber One songs. Awful, Beautiful, Live
with Brandon on backstage pass
Hey, yo, this is Texas country artist Prete Bagwell and
you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Pals, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome on to the backstage past KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico. And he catches
seven nights a week there between six and seven Mountain Time.
Always a great time here featuring the best and bridest
artists in country music too. And I'll tell you what.
She was the Texas Female Artist of the Decade and
the ranting Female vocalist of the Year, and he forced
to be wrecking with in country music. Thirteen number one
(00:31):
singles on Texas Country Radio. And guess what they're still
counting out there too. We're gonna play a couple today,
my good friend pretty Bagwell here on the backstage pass.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
How you doing, Oh my gosh, great, great to talk
to you. Thank you so much for having us back,
I say, ask him, I got my dog on my lap.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
He loves the personalization. He loves that just being on
the lap and being the center of attention. Right.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, she's like the star of the show. We all
know it. I I found out for sure that she's
more famous than me. Like see it was covid. I'd
let my hair grow out dark. You know, my natural
hair color is like dark brown. And I had no
makeup on. And we were at the river and she
ran by and this guy said, oh, my gosh, that
(01:16):
looks like three bag Old's dog. And I said, does it?
He goes, yeah, right, and then he just walked away,
and I was like, and all my friends laughed for
like an hour. They thought it was so funny. So
she's famous.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, famous in a way too. Let me say this
because good segue here. Let's talk about that song and
the rescue because I want to get into that too,
because there was a lot of money raised. I believe
it was. It was well north of over five thousand
dollars for local charities and things like that. Tell us
the story about the song the rescue before we get
into more of the meat and potatoes. But it was
great segue you made there. Tell us about that cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sure. I am my favorite songwriter, one of my favorites
in the whole world. Her name is Queen Cronan. She
just got a Coney Johnson cut. Actually last Friday, super
excited for her. But she was down at my house visiting.
We were writing songs, and I told her I really
wanted to write a song about my dog, but every
time I try, I start crying because I love her
so much, And so we weren't planning on writing a
(02:08):
song about her, and we did, and then I ended
up putting it out. And now we sell stickers with
my dog's face on him and T shirts, and we
donate like one hundred percent of the sticker sales and
part of the tea shirt itself to two local shelters,
and I think we're about to pass with seven thousand
dollars marks now, so pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It is no doubt I saw those two out there
at that Texas Winnie Rice festival, and thanks for all
that great hospitality you gave us out there too. My
little one just loved taking pictures with you. And the
show was kick ass out there. Loved it so much.
I know that was a great crowd for you to
play in front of and just play right there before
Stony had took the other stage over there too, But
just a great festival, and man, it really shows the
heart of you know, Texas country through and through that
(02:46):
Winnie Rice festival.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, I think that's like my second or third time
to play that festival over the years. But yeah, the
guy that promotes it, Mark he's a great, great ally
for me and my career. And then of course playing
the Son of the Room is one of my favorite
things in the world. You have to be careful because
him and his band, they like to have a real
good time. There were some shots flawing on that tour
bus after that, and the back of Donuts was there.
(03:13):
They're amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, that's another great band too. You got to be
careful with those shots because you never know where it
might lead you to. Hey, talk about just this ride
you've been on too. I mean you've been doing this
thing for a long time, this thing called music, and
I mean thirteen number one singles on Texas Country Radio
Female Artists of the Decade and of course raining Female
Vocalist of the Year. I mean, you don't take these
awards lightly when it comes down to it, but it
(03:36):
appears the publications, the media such as us things like
that very appreciative of what you've done in the body
of work you've put together. Just elaborate on that for
me a little bit just how hard this road has been,
but how a sense of gratitude that you have to
for all these great recognitions.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, thank you so much for pointing those out. I mean,
I'm kind of dying a little bit today, if you
can tell. But I just got off of a three
week run. I did a twelve different states and twenty
two shows in the last like a few weeks. It's
been insane. I went all the way to Ohio, Michigan,
and Georgia, the Carolina as we drove through the night
to drop off the RV and the dogs, got on
(04:12):
a plane at si KM, and last week we did Boston,
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland. So I'm just so thankful because
I've done a lot of things. Texas music has always
been my home and what has given me a career
for the last decade or more. And so I'm I
just you know, no matter where my music takes me,
(04:32):
which has been further and further away, which is crazy,
I know I can always come back to Texas and
like they have my back. So really thankful for that.
And yeah, it's been a lot of work and a
lot of investment and a lot of time away from
my family and my home and you know, so it's
definitely not an easy life, but it's the one that
(04:52):
I love.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a great ride too. If you've never been to
a Breed Baggules show, what are you waiting for? Get
out there too? Okay, if you the website here as
we get through, which is simply breebag Well dot Com
out there too. Hey, talk about just knowing in my
markets out there. Of course, I know New Mexico will
one of them too, Oklahoma City and of course up
into Colorado. But growing up out there in New Mexico
knowing that town and that state very well. Just talk
about what you learned and just growing up with some
(05:15):
of the best country singers out there and telling stories
and you feel like you've really taken what you've learned
at a young age and you really incorporated that into
your music now to make it you know what it is,
because it's all about storytelling.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean my family are both of my
parents were farmers in southern New Mexico down in the boothill.
We call it high school sweethearts, and so I grew
up on the border in Las Cruces and I just
love I've always loved country music, and we've been really
lucky to have We had a lot of great concerts
at the pan Am down there. I mean I remember
(05:48):
seeing George Strait and Martina McBride and Alan Jackson. I mean,
we just had all these amazing artists come through. And
so Johnny Cash and my grandma were actually second cousins.
So I blame like, my whole family kind of stings
and plays, and you know, from a real country family.
My aunt just plays piano by ear. So I just
grew up with it. And I guess you don't realize
(06:09):
how special that is until you talk to other people
and you you know, that's not how everybody gets to
grow up. So I'm so thankful that I had such
a musical family. And I love New Mexico. It's it's
such an underrated state, but I guess sometimes it's kind
of like it that way, so not everyone moved there,
but I love I love, like there's so many parts
of that state that I just I love to go
(06:30):
to San Fay and then of course going home for
the holidays down to Lost Crusius. I got to get
my green chili fixed.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, some of the best Mexican's good going out that
way too, and I'll act you be going right to
Los Cruses coming up in the end of December, we're
going out to Arizona, just taking the camper out that
way and just going to enjoy some time over in Sedona,
stopping those crisis stay at the KWA campground. So it's
gonna be a lot of fun for me and my
family too.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Koa and last Crusius is really nice actually, so yeah,
if you need I mean, I'm sure you don't, but
if you need restaurant recommendations, I got you. So let
me forget to tell you all my favorite I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Forward to that too. Hey, go back to the last
album be where we talk about this new music that
this come out now, one called Don't Tell Daddy but
Corzone Incabazios. My Spanish is not very good there too,
but I can translate that to which is beautiful. I
love it. But we're gonna play one off there that
was Trenches, but just this one in twenty twenty two.
The way it's shaped, man, just your sound again, you
(07:29):
know what you wanted to be as an artist? Hit
hit on some of the highlights for me from this
particular record.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean, I really think that this record kind
of solidified my sound, like you said, and it was
just I've always been a little bit like I always
think Selena during my shows, like there's always a little
bit of Spanish mixed into just who I am as
an artist, and so this record kind of explored a
lot more of that. And it really was kind of
a songwritery record because for the last you know, decade,
(07:59):
I've been one of those, you know, there's not that
many females in the Texas scenes, so I definitely had
the beer songs and the boot songs and the fun
song for the festivals, and now it was kind of like, Okay,
I get to write the record of my dreams. And
that record was really just really songwriter heavy, and everyone
really leaned into songs like Trenches, which is crazy because
(08:20):
I wasn't even going to record that. My producer was like,
you need to record this song, and I thought, this
record is so specific to me. It's really about my
life trenches especially, it's about my boyfriend being a musician,
me being a musician, and that's kind of just going
through COVID together and being in the trenches together. And
that ended up being the biggest song off the record
by far. And it's crazy how when you write stuff
(08:41):
that really is true to you and genuine to you,
how much it resonates with your audience even more. And
that was so fun to see with this last record.
So even though albums weren't the cool thing anymore, I
was like, I'm going to put out a record. I
don't care. I don't care if it's not the cool
thing anymore. I put out eleven songs record that tells
the story and has a theme. That's what that record was,
and it will always be very special to me because
(09:02):
I'm not really sure how much more of that I'm
going to do.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It's a special record thought. And we get to play
the one she's talking about. She took to a number
one here in Texas Country from pre Bagwell it's called
Trenches here it is kk t C True Country ninety
nine point nine. Back in the Flesh, The two.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Honeywee along on the beach, joining in sun and mess
call drinks fall.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
See to the sound of the sea, and you eating
ham and way to me, but here.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We are tell me had the tranches dirt on our faces,
digging up ditches, dunning all the blue. It's boy, I
know it's for Oh there, there's us somewhere in the world,
or making our way.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Boy, hand me shove. If it's just you and me
waiting out the enemy, scared and well I want surrender.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
I just remember to love and a hammock for it to.
The skies are pink and your ears were blue.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They both turned a little gray when the bills are due.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Aside for me and all dub for you. Okay, here
we are tell here in the trenches, turn on our basis,
digging up dishes, dodging all the bulls its. Boy on
though the sport.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
There, here's us somewhere hell around for making away. Boy,
held me a show.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
If it's just hearing me away, not be hearing.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Me up, being stirred with a want of surrender.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'll just remember this kitching.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Maybe real small, but we fill in these fools.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
We find a way out.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Boy, at no.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
We can dig on away leg sick.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
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Speaker 3 (12:19):
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Speaker 2 (12:34):
And back to your Texas country artist breeding bag, well
the backstage Past powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot
com and Grand Slam of music and sports. And yes,
we're gonna have all the high school football playoffs coming
up here in Texas. But you can tell you how
big Texas high school football is. So at the very website,
we're going to broadcast several teams coming up here into
the playoffs, or at least the one for Hampshire Finett,
and we'll keep you posted on all the scores out
there to starting this Thursday, the playoffs get underway for
(12:56):
Texas high school football. So you know you mentioned Trenches
was big, but another and I loved off that record,
another one that just was really beautiful and told a
great story. Free man. Let's let's dive into that one too.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh yeah, sure, actually funny because I wrote that song
in jury Duty. I had Jerry duty and New bron Pules,
and I thought, you know, I might as well just
write a song while I'm sitting here, and I thought
it'd be really funny if we could put our x's
on trial and like, so that's what the song is about.
And it just ended up being a funny song. So
I've been gone, I haven't been home and duty. I'm
(13:27):
still not home. I'm not my best friend's house, but
I'm going home tonight. And my boyfriend said that there
was a jury duty notice in my mailbox and I'm like,
what did And then I thought, well, they must want
me to write another song. So yeah, the Raffles County Courthouse,
So that one was written. And if you if you're
(13:47):
a songwriter that has Jerry Duty, you should know that
the sheriff takes your notes and throws them in the
trash at the end of Jerry Duty. So I don't
really remember what the original third verse of that song
was because it's in the trash at the courthouse.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But I love the place to write a song, Jerry Duty. Yeah,
your pencil and pad. You never know what's gonna transpire there.
And another one off there too was really really a
number one in Texas for you Hello Highway and talking
about traveling and not being home very much. There's a
lot of artists that write songs when it comes to
(14:20):
highways and things like that, up and down there burning
the rubber and the vans and things. And this is
a cool thing because this really sticks close to your sound.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah. I mean every time I write a song about
being on the road, I don't really expect it to,
like I said earlier, like resonate with people so much.
But anyone who likes to travel, like this song was
one of the favorites from people that they would say,
I love Hello Highway. I'm like, what, that's so crazy,
because I thought it was a musician song, but it's not.
It's for people who love to hit the highway. And
(14:50):
so I love being on the road. I don't know.
I was just missing the road so bad during COVID,
and and so I remember I was driving to see
my parents and I was just driving my my sprinter
van tols Crusius, and I was writing those lyrics and
while I was driving, and I just I remember, just
you know, the sunset in my rearview mirror and all
and the sound of the tires and all those things
(15:11):
that I was like, Man, I really miss being on
the road. So that was that was a song born
out of COVID time to a lot of that record
was but now it's so fun. People that just like
to go in the RV they like this song too.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm driving with my driving my RV too infacked up
on driving RV today for a little spin and I said,
that'll be Hello Highway. We'll be right there on my playlist. Well,
time to play the new single from Prebagwell here a
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Uh, a little
secret here, don't till daddy. We're not going to tell
daddy here on the backstage past powered by the Sports
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(15:45):
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till Daddy KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, hangtime.
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I love my job as a wife and mother.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
But he leans one way and I lean the other.
He's always politic and over supper, and I choose my
words and I pass the butter, but won't win or another.
I'm going choose the post children in to for the curtain.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Clothes and cast marbles.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
But don't tail daddy, Daddy, don't tell daddy. Don't tell
daddy it's nineteen twenty. Don't mean a thing with the
right to let bring a ring, but don't tail daddy,
call on, don't tail daddy, cotailay.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
So what if I hit a different button? Have a
mind to depend on of my husband. I told my
little girls she didn't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Except a woman who really.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Believes saying something. When I took her hand and we
took off around it and take two of the post
children into for the curtain clalls and casts Mamas. The
doctor Daddy, don't tell day dot's nineteen twenty. Don't be
a thing with the mine out to every fame with
(17:35):
doctor Daddy. Don't tell daddy.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm sure there's a man who couldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
My view, but he ain't my on.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
So I had the fun one day I can do.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
As soon as.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
He's gone, I put the shoe.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
On, take you the pot tail.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
And can't tell oh the car loss and past my
don't tell daddy o them, don't tell Daddy tell me
nineties when he don't mean a thing by Don't Tell Daddy,
(18:34):
Don't tell Daddy, don't call name, don't tell daddy, don't you.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Dad tell Daddy.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Alright, guys, here whenever I'm in the MoMA area, of course,
anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You got to tune in, you got to listen.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You gotta check this out.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
These Sports Guys Podcast dot com. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But Aiden Gordon Show, it's a two hour show playing
the best in country music. So check it out at
the Cadangordon Show dot com. Again, that is the Caden
Gordon Show dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Hey, y'all is Tina Carter and you are listening to.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
My song Strawberry Line right here on the backstage pass.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I love it too, back here with Breebagwell on the
backstage pass. So I get powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast dot com and out there too on KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine. So let's get into this
Don't Tell Daddy. The idea of this one. I love
backstories when it comes to songs, and this one had
to be just as much fun as saying the title
to probably write it too as well.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right, Yeah, I wrote this thing pretty fast. I think
it happened like in less than half an hour. But
my boyfriend sister gave me the title, which was such
a cool title. And so I wrote this song years ago.
And because I've written songs for other people, so I
actually wrote this for a different band. They recorded that
you know, put it out. But I thought, man, it
would be so fun because it's an election year. I'm
(20:02):
just gonna put this song out because and and it
was it was you know, I don't get publicly political.
I did get political this year. I announced that my
dog was running for president because she would make an
amazing president. That's about as political as I get. But
it was really funny because the message of this song,
you know, to me, the song sounds like it's like
set in the former decade. Really, you know, it doesn't
(20:22):
really sound but the message is current, which is just
you know, have your own opinion and vote you know
how you see fit basically. But it's a fun song.
And I thought, man, the election is so stressful, I
want to release like a rock and upbeat, like country song.
And I did, and it was. It was pretty crazy
because the message of the song ends up being kind
of the message for both sides of their political ad campaigns,
(20:45):
which was I mean, I wrote this song years ago,
so that was kind of crazy that that it all
came full circle like that, but it was all in fun.
And then my dogs didn't shouldn't win the presidency that
we did end up releasing with you for President t shirts,
So if you want those, you can get those set
a show. I don't even know if we have any love.
They kind of flew off the self.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I talked to the fans a little bit too, especially
out there in tout that know you very well in
just New Mexico in general, give me some of the
challenges that go through movie fans don't see when it
comes to being not only just a female artist in
this industry, but just the challenges in music in general.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, I mean I think that, you know, after COVID,
we're really seeing a difference in ticket sells for medium
sized venues. The venues are still really struggling at and
the so the artists at my level and the venues
at my level, we're just seeing kind of a polarization
of like fans, it's just been really strange, like people
(21:41):
maybe want to go have the instagramable experience of maybe
flying to Vegas and seeing a big show at a
big arena and spending a lot of money to do
that rather than supporting like their local honky tonk as much.
So I'm kind of creating that as my like end
of the year challenge to people. It's going to be like, hey,
maybe next year, try once a month to go support
(22:02):
your local artists and your local venue because it's getting
harder and harder to survive in the current climate. And
streaming has made things very interesting as well, and so
our costs have as artists have just gone up. But
you know, what we're making is getting really divided and
it's very strange. So just you know, give your vocal
(22:24):
musicians some love and we'd appreciate it very much. And definitely,
you know, I see a lot of things getting better
for females. There's definitely so many more females than when
I started, especially in tex of music. Like the people
told me early on, like, don't be a text with
music artist, there are no girls that really succeed here,
And that was so wild to me. I was like, oh,
(22:45):
that's the first way to get me to do anything,
first of all, to tell me I can't, But just
seeing the amount of females that are starting in this genre.
It just brings me so much joy, it really is.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And it's good to see everybody you know coming up,
especially the CMA A Wards, which is coming up here
just in the next few weeks November twenty third Bridge.
Don't looking forward to that. I got to vote as
a CMA member myself and get to vote for some
brand new artists. And one of them is not afraid
to say it, because I've been listening to a lot
of his music. Zach Top out there too in those
categories of just bringing back the original sound, kind of
like you've done with a bunch of your songs from
(23:18):
nineties country too, So just to vote for him, and
like said, all of these new artists that are you know,
Hannah Ellis and Ashley Cook and you know Laney's been
on the tear that she's been on too, and of
course Ashley McBride and Carly Pears and things like that,
and it's just good to see this women women's movement,
girl power in country now finally get it's kind of
due diligence, right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, And like you said, like more traditional sounding voices
are having a moment. I love Zach Top also, so
that's really fun to see and I think traditional sound,
so it's really fun to see people latching onto that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I know you got the holidays coming up too, and
you mentioned Las Crusis Thanksgiving. So what's on the menu
for the Bagwell household this year? Back with the parents
and the family and last cruises. I know for me
it's probably turkey and the regular stuff, but there might
be a surprise dessert or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Right, well, I let me tell you the Bagwell family,
we have this giant controversy. I posted it one year
and I didn't think I was going to get the
you know, it was all in good fun, but we
don't like turkey, so we eat steaks on Thanksgiving and
I posted it and oh my gosh, people were either
like I created this whole argument online about people that
(24:29):
were on my side or not on my side. It
was so hilarious because I just don't love turkey, and
neither and all my family one year we were like,
why are we eating this if we don't like it?
So we just get steaks? Is sad and I think
that's fine. So if you want to come to my house,
anybody in if you guys are near lost cuss and
you don't like Turkey, You're welcome at Mike, You're welcome at.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Our table, especially coming thro your lost cruises, right, But
I love it that a variety of spice of life,
the differentiation, things like that too, because people get tired
and obviousen people go to like the the Honeybee Hams
or that just ham in general right now too, because
Turkey kind of that does get old.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It does, so I don't I just don't love it.
My best friend that I'm saying with today, she she was,
she was like, gretan't like Turkey. I'm like, how do you?
Does everybody know this about me? I guess I'm very public,
so I might as well just announce it to the
world on your on your show.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Nothing wrong with that too, Like I said, we'll get
some comedy, dude, and it's not anything that Roddy's that
spice of life and you get a chance to tell
put out there what you want to eat. Hey, tell
us about the previous album even before that, in my defense,
which I thought was really some of your best work
too out there. But I love that you did a
rendition of uh if you were a cowboy, and that
really resonated with fans out there at that Win You
Rice festival.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Ah yeah, thank you. That song. I know, you know,
it's been almost used on a couple of TV shows,
a couple of big it never has, but I still
holding out hope because it's such a great tune. But
that was my first record that I made with my producer,
Rachel Roy. So the new music that we're talking about
this will be my third project with her, but that
(26:03):
was my first record with her, and I fell in
love with her work with the William park Green albums
like the Road Queen album and the Ringling Road Album.
I was like, will who produced that record? He said
Rachel Roy So, in my defense, was my first project
with her. And you can really tell the difference in
my records. I mean, we used some of the top
musicians in Nashville, top studios in Nashville for both of
(26:26):
the Lost two records and now this third record, and
you can tell, I mean just the level of musicianships
and care and she and she sits on the floor
with me and her and her husband Brian Keene, who's
written you know a bunch of really great songs that
y'all would know, and they tear parts of songs with
me and build them back together, and really are invested
in making the record the best it could possibly be.
(26:48):
They don't just take my money or you know, they're like,
let's make this record really the best that it can be.
And that's and you hear that, and that's what we're
doing again. So we're making our third third project together
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
To that again, don't tell Daddy across all those digital
streaming platforms. And of course, like I said, the more
number ones coming her way, not just thirteen, There'll be
many more and I wouldn't surprise. We just keep getting
to the twenties very soon. There. For one of the
hottest artists in Texas Country. Hey, speaking a podcasts, I
wanted you to promote that here on the show, especially
for the listeners out here in Taos, you know right
there your home state live up into Colorado only vans.
(27:21):
You got your your own podcasts as well. They can
hear it at prebagule dot com. Kind of elaborate on
that for me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I just I was just chatting as my producer
about uh he was my tour manager at the time,
about just all the things that we talked about in
the vans together and you said you should record this
and make it a podcast, and that we kind of did.
So it started out in the front seat of my
sprinter van and I was interviewing people from the front
seat of my band. Well, now I have an RV
(27:48):
because that's what we travel around with mostly. I bought
an RV for my dogs. So now we do the
podcast from my RV. But it's still called Only Hans
Who's funny name. But we just just chatting with people
on the scene and it's been amazing. We just got
offered to do four live shows from Steamboat Music Pest
this year, so that's exciting stuff. I'm like really pumped
(28:08):
about that. But I've had Reckless Kelly, you know, making
the motor cars, and Josh Grider and I mean really
amazing guests, and I think Kevin Powler's picking to come
on there. So just it's just a different kind of
point of view. If you're into two artists talking to
each other, it's more of a friendship chatter. Hey remember
this embarrassing thing that happened at Key West or something.
(28:30):
And it's been great. We've gotten sponsorships and we just
got picked up by a big network and it was
totally unexpected for me to be a podcast host.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But here I am the same with me and my friend.
Like I said, network to do that, but it is
what it is when it comes down to it, just
telling stories, putting out good information, and letting the public
just kind of feel the authentic story being told out
there too. All Right. I got to throw a little
sports at you too, because I know it's not the
year for the Tennessee Titans. It really is not the
year for the Dallas Cowboys either, and the Texans have
(29:01):
kind of been in and out here and there. But
I know you've done some of the national anthems before
at different venues Texas and of course nationwide. It probably
never gets old to sing the national anthem in front
of just thousands of people at a sporting venue.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Right, I don't really love singing the national anthem. It's
like it's super anxiety for me because if you mess up,
now you're all over the internet, you know. So I
know that I was supposed to sing out a Texas
Texans game and it got canceled because of COVID, I believe,
but I was like a little bit relieved without Okay,
(29:38):
it's a hard song. But I was actually talking to
Tracy Byrd about it because he did it as I
think a Rangers game, and I got I got some
tips from Tracy Byrd about it, and he said something
to me that was really interesting, which was, you know,
he said, do you get nervous at shows anymore? And
I was like, no, Like, shows don't really make me
nervous at all. I've done so many times throughout the years,
(29:59):
even crowds, but the aims and makes me nervous. And
he said, yeah, but that's like what makes you that
makes you feel alive, Like if you don't get nervous
that shows anymore, like getting nervous or something like the
national anthem, like it makes you feel alive. And I'm like, okay,
that's right, that's great advice because we don't really feel
nervous anymore. And nervous and excited are the same bodily response.
(30:20):
So instead of saying I'm nervous, I'm nervous, you say
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I'm excited, and that's the words that come out there.
Doubt the excitement there to put out the beautiful national
anthem that it is to and just and I saw
your pros pro out there too in those live concerts.
So you can check out the tour schedule. What's left
of it for this year for twenty twenty four. I'm
so there's gonna be a big one for twenty twenty
five coming up there. Uh, bringbag well dot com. You're
ranning Female Vocalist of the Year for Texas Country and
(30:45):
of course the Texas Female Artist of the decade with
thirteen number ones and continuing to just climb the charts.
Don't tell Daddy the latest to single out there. I
always appreciate you my friend coming on here if she
had some light on what we got going on too.
Glad to promote the music and looking forward to play
all week on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Thanks so much for being a part of it, and
I'm looking forward to just coming to another show at
(31:06):
some point.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, thank you, And it's been fun, you know, giving
me be your friend, and you just such a great job.
And we're independent, you know, or I am, I guess,
and so everything that we do. I have a team now,
but I'm still you know, I don't have a record
label or anything like that. So this stuff we rely
on things like this to help people word out, So
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You got it, dude. It's about naptime too, because I
see Whiskey's taking me that at the same time. But
I'm gonna grab a little one tell her you said
Helloa to at the same time. And looking forward to
getting back out there again to the beautiful, beautiful state
of New Mexico and over to Arizona for a licen
nice R and r vacation coming up with the RV
and more to come here too, and more great artists
including Ricky Skaggs coming up here on the backstage past
just a few weeks, the fifteen time Grammy Award winner
(31:50):
here on the backstage pass and some Christmas music and
it's that time of year you might want to get to.
I guess the stockings down and decorate the houses and
all that good stuff out there too or the outside inside.
Heard a weird story today like people were actually putting lights.
This is this true story on the radio show. I
heard putting lights inside the refrigerator, like go figure that
like bulbs. So that's it's her. Phone's here in Beaumont,
(32:14):
Texas this morning where I'm at and he was talking
about decorating the refrigerator. First he thought about it, he goes,
I'm not sure I want to do that, and he goes,
that kind of sounds interesting. So yeah, that's the thing
that was on social media today. I'm not sure I
could do that and have the lights like be cold
and then open the door and like something happened to
the food or whatever. For decorating putting Christmas lights inside
of my refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, I'm glad I have my headphones in because I
told you. I my best friends as she has three
Christmas trees and they're already up, and I was giving
her heck and she goes, the turkey tastes the same
with whether your Christmas tree is up or not, because
I'm like, you just skipped right over Thanksgiving. But she
loves Christmas. She's like this whole house staying. I threw
up over over this whole house. It's very cute. It's
very cute. I'm just not home very much. So I
(32:55):
call it a spring. I have a sprinkled Christmas. It
takes me about fifteen minutes to set up everything that did.
I but I'm not going to decorate my refrigerator but
I don't judge you. If you do you do that,
you do you everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I tell my buddy, it's at v shaw Is today, Brandon.
We're not doing that. Like I said, you go forward,
knock yourself out. Like if I decide to do that too,
I'd be hit over the head by two by four
something to do that. But I will do some outside,
some reindeer stuff like that, and lights for the daughter.
And she's turning five next year too. Can't wait to
see you again out through the concert. So make sure
you guys check out Breathe Bagwell dot com and of
course all the good stuff out there, don't tell Daddy
(33:30):
across all the digital streaming platforms. More great artists coming
up here over the next few weeks. Annie Pastco coming by.
We mentioned Rickey Skaggs and a whole lot more, and
just so you got to tune in, Holly Kerns and
a whole bunch more coming up here over the next
few weeks. The Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com exclusively KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Stay tuned. More great music coming up here on KKTC
(33:51):
True Country ninety nine point nine Taus, New Mexico.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Hey, y'all, this is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Teroh worthy and you're listening to one.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Of my big old Umber One songs. Awful, Beautiful, Live
with Brandon on backstage pass
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