January 28, 2025 • 43 mins
British Country Artist Brook Ellingworth joined us on the show to talk about his new music and lots more! Tune in to hear from a rising star in the industry! We are presnted by Clay Aery music! Check out Clay Aery at theclayaery.com!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Bruce Wallace of the Little Riverband
and you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at taws
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a busy day,
and of course our new presenting sponsor out there, Theclayair
dot Com Clay Aremusic and his new single Time for
that across all those digital streaming platforms. I appreciate Clay
joining the team here and also the Caadangordon Show dot com.
Today's best Country mix KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine out there in Tawson, New Mexico and up into
(00:33):
Colorado powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And
I tell you, guys were such global all those great
shows we did last year with WSM Radio, the home
of the Grand Ole Opry. And it's always good to
go across the pond and meet friends of the UK
British country artists of Brooke Ellingworth joining us here. Brook.
What's up man?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Not much, dude, how's it going? Brandon?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good to speak to you, good man. You know, just
a couple of weeks away now from the country Radio Seminar.
Hope to see you there. We'll be at the Omni
Hotel doing our thing from the nineteenth to the twenty
first of February. Looking forward to that, I am.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's gonna be good. It's gonna be my first time there.
And yeah, I got invited out to a few months
ago and I was just like, great, I'll just come
for the whole month.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
About three days, let's just make it four weeks, why not.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
So yeah, I'm heading out in a couple of weeks
and then yeah, I'm looking forward to meeting you and
meeting everyone there and should be a good old time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Good old time, brother, no doubt that way. Hey, talk
to me about your backstory. I always love to learn
how people get into this crazy industry called music, you know,
when it comes down to it. But obviously, you know,
family oriented or like I said, just self inflicted, they say,
in a good way to get into it, you know,
open mic night, what is it? Give me the backstory
of the love of just country music and how you
found it and it found you.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I did. I was kind of speaking about this a
little bit last night with a friend. We were having
a beer shooting some pool, you know, as you're doing
on Monday, and I was, and we were both each
other like, why the hell do we do It? Was like, man,
this industry, but we just do it because we love it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It all started. I live in the countryside.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I grew up here and I started playing guitar when
I was eight.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I saw some local.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Musicians playing at this little festival that's local to us.
It's like a blues and beers festival, super small charity thing,
and I wanted to play keys originally, and then I
saw these guys, I saw these cats playing guitars, and
I was just like, I think I'm gonna do that,
(02:37):
and then I just I. I had my first gig
when I was eleven. I'd played in rock bands throughout
my teens, but I always loved country music at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I grew up on it. And then I.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Decided to take this solo career path.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Around twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
After leaving university and fell into it almost with the
whole songwriting thing, and I found I finally found my voice.
I'd only really done backing vocals before, and that's sort
of how it all started. And then the pivotal trip
to Nashville in twenty eighteen, opening my eyes to.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Country music.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Being a country musician could be a could be a
thing here for me.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, and talk about just the musical influences behind this too,
because this could be kind of nex Smorgan's board of everything,
not just country artists. But I'm sure there were other
different genres of music that influenced.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You, right, There were massively massively like first favorite gig
post everything that was bon Jovi for me, and then
I grew up listening to bon Jovi and the Rolling
Stones and loads of Bob Dylan, loads of Bruce Springs.
(04:01):
There was Zezy Top in there and all of that,
and that was sort of before I started even reaching
out to my own tastes. That was all through my dad,
and then my mum would play all the countryside of
things she'd be playing at the time, the Dixie Chicks
and Dolly Parton and Keith Urban, and you know, it
(04:24):
was a big mix of classic and slightly nineties. And
then another dude from across a different pond, and then
you know, I fell in love with like heavy Southern
rock like Blackstone Cherry and I love Leonard Skinner and
(04:46):
BlackBerry Smoke and all those all those bands whilst I
was in college and school and throughout all these rock bands,
huge huge rock fan, and I used to play lead
guitar on always bands I wasn't and I used to write
the songs as well, but I was never much of
(05:07):
a front man at that particular point.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So yeah, it all jelled.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It jelled really well. And I'll tell you for some
of the songs, and we got to check out here
on the show, which I love doing for all my
guests too, which was Dive Bars and Heartaches. This is
that live acoustic like feel man, with that that that
raspiness and the voice, that grit that Graul always said
that you have in the music. Will feature truck Stop
here on the show a little bit, but talk about
that one because that was one of the first ones,
you know, you put out out there to the masses
(05:35):
out there to kind of get the audience you know,
you know, really resonating with your music and kind of
pulled in. I love to hear backstories on tunes and
then you're where songs kind of originate from, oh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
For sure, man.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So that was the Dive Bars and Heartbreaks.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That was the first thing I'd ever really put out
on a streaming end of the world as a musician,
it was. It was the first thing I publicly released,
and that was the beginning of twenty twenty three. So
twenty twenty two. I recorded it in Nashville with my
(06:11):
really good friend Jake Burns over at a Loud recording
studios and.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I've been, you know, I've been.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've been writing, and I had some songs under my belt,
and I knew that I needed to get something out there.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So when I was I did.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I did three trips over to Nashville that year. I
was super keen, you know, after on the back of
COVID and all of that, I was just raring to go.
And I did one trip and I was out there
for about a month, and then when that finished, I
was like, right, I need to come back. I want
some songs to finish. There's some unfinished business, all this
sort of stuff. And then that then happened again. I
(06:50):
went out for a few more weeks, and then I
came back home and I went back out and in
that period we recorded this live acoustic EP because I
was just like, all right, how can I do this
without completely bankrupting myself at the time, at the time,
you know, not no, I didn't know that many people
(07:12):
in town. I didn't have a band in town. These
songs were pretty fresh for me, and so we did
this live acoustic epe, no bells, no whistles, just me,
a bunch of vintage guitars in a room, a few mics.
There's no auto tune, it's just it sort of is
(07:32):
what it is. And so yeah, Dive Bars and Heartbreaks
was the first body of work I stuck out there,
and it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Stuck with me too, Like I said, love of that
acoustic especially here in a different side of things that
you don't hear. Like I said, the recorded version is
one thing out there too, But when you get a
chance to hear that live acoustic track, that's always a
fun time for me. And then let's talk a little
bit about like it was the first time. That was
twenty twenty four when that one came out to a
little bit of a different feel to me, but still
you know, still with that kind of up tempo rock
(08:04):
and fused country music, which I which I enjoyed the fans.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do, Yeah, for sure, I mean that was that was
definitely a huge step up from the Dive Bars and
Heartbreaks EP.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I thought, I've definitely grown a lot since then. I
still love it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But with I was out there, I was again. I
was out in town twenty twenty three and we did again.
I was working with Jake Burns. We recorded over at
Curb Studios as time m HM, and he co produced
the track with me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
This was just like it was the first time. Was
the solo, right.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The story is about if you could go back and
experience that one kiss that changed everything for you with
that one person. You know, it's not it's not that
that awkward first kiss where you butck teeth with someone.
It is that if it's with your partner now, someone
(09:02):
that got away, or you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's going back to that moment and just reliving it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And I took it out with me and I was
just like, Jake, I need a let's do a single
this time, and then let's pull a session band in
And I'd sat in on one of his sessions before.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
With this with these group.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Of incredible players, I was just like, right, I want
to do exactly that is exact what we did. And
we cut it and it was under an hour, and
then we did the vocals separately and then yeah, I know,
launching that and hearing that as a full sound, full band,
full production, everything, it was just yeah, utterly different.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I love it too. We get a chance to feature
some music here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
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Speaker 5 (10:35):
Old me clues.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
If you take this chance, I won't step on your toes.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
If you leave these names, I might be out of
my mind. I might be out of your range. But
you bring me back.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Lack summaryge.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Support out the landmark, help me handle all the back rooms.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Show me the stars, follow.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
Nine big I can go back, Show me the role
map to.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Save me through every time to my.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Tizes a burning I find you in the dar, show
me the road ap to your.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'll be at that same bar, on that same stage,
in that same town, waiting for you to come back
around me.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Save it your favorite song, some lines come on or
until I see you in the crowd, Support out the landmark,
help me handle all the back rooms.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Show me the stars you follow.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Not think I can go back, Show me the hole
made see through you every time till five size of burning,
I find you in the dark. Show me the romance your.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Man destination doesn't have to meeting if a bar way
just around the base.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Not think I can go back, Show me the.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
Ny taking me do every turn and to mattiz a
burn and so I can find.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You in the door. Show me the romance Roman to you.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Hey, y' all, this is Nashville recording artist Tyler Rich
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Taos,
New Mexico, Roadtier.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'm playing these thanks till me long s you're riding.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Hey all, this is national recording artist Halle Kerns, and
you're listening to the Backstage Past with Brandon exclusively.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
On KKTC True Country ninety nine nine in Taws, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
At background Brook Ellingword KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
Toss New Mexico up into uh Colorado Pueblo up there.
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running them to eat somewhere, hardly ever a home cooked
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the latest single right there. Time for that across all
those TSPs road back to your Heart. My friend Brooke Ellingworth,
we got to know all about this one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Uh, this is gonna be the next single.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And me and me and my me and my friend
George Hucks wrote this together and we started co writing
last year and as soon as we saw it, we.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Kind of just couldn't stop. It was great.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We just clicked straight away. And I love those relationships
and friendships. And just as soon as you find, especially
a co writer that you can just click with and
you can empty everything out of the table with, you
can run with that. He bought.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
He bought the idea to the table.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
He already had most of the chorus done. And it's
about it's a it's a love story, but it's about
a guy that doesn't want to get it wrong. He
likes this person, he likes his girl so much that
he doesn't want to screw it up because he's maybe
(16:20):
maybe he's already screwed it up before. So he's asking,
He's like, show me, He's saying, you know, show me
the stars that you follow home, show me the backroads,
show me the way to your hearts, so I don't
mess it up along the way.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So I know that this is going to work.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's every fourteenth Valentine's Day, the fourteenth Valentine's Day
Roadmap to your Heart. So I love that one too.
At the same time, i'd love to I'm glad we
get to feature in here before it comes out of here
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine out there to
course again on the the visual side, you're not able
to hear it out there too, but the audio show
comes out tomorrow. They're on the True Country ninety nine
(17:06):
point nine in tas out there too. And I love
this other one too that you had across all the platforms.
We'll talk about here in just a second with a
truck stop, which is fantastic. First, I want to know
a little bit about just obstacles. I'm always just should
you know, like you said, roadmap to someone's heart, well,
the roadmap and the music industry to take the little
twist and turns, and you mentioned that word bankrupt and
things like that. You know, when I started this years ago,
(17:28):
I'm thinking to myself, what am I doing? Am I crazy?
I've got the money to do this, the sponsors and
all this crazy stuff and coming in contact with a
lot of great people, and it's all about relationships. But
talk to me about the roadmap, if you will, of
just the obstacles and some of the hardest things and
the challenges you face in this business.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's a tough one. I mean, yeah, I mean the
whole thing is a tough one. But you've just got
to keep throwing everything you have at it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And it's this crazy dream and I don't know what
else I would do. It is exactly what I know
that I should be doing, and to be successful in it,
you do just have to throw everything you have at
it emotionally, financially, physically, with all your songs and your time.
(18:27):
So that part is definitely exhausting. But I feel like
I've been really blessed with the way that the roads
that I've been going down with my career have ended
up and where they've taken me so far and where
they keep taking me. Like I'm coming back to Nashville
(18:49):
in a couple of weeks for CRS, and that's sick
and everyone that I've met along the way, and all
the hands I've shaken and the studios that I've recorded with,
than the producers I've worked with, the songwriters and it
all has more ups than it does downs. And I
feel like in any industry, there's gonna be hurdles and
(19:11):
there's gonna be potholes and speed bumps. And that's that's
what some of my friend hucks last night when we
were chatting. I was just like, no matter what road
you go down, there's going to be a pothole, there's
going to be a speed bump.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's going to slow you down.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, And that's just in any scenario really, And like,
let's say you stick a single out and it doesn't
get the streams that you want it to get because
maybe it doesn't get caught on an algorithm, or maybe
it doesn't get playlisted, or.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just maybe it.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Sucks and maybe it just doesn't reach the streams that
you were expecting. So that's that speed bump or that
pothole that's just slowing you down a little bit. You're
gonna get back on the road, you're gonna get that
momentum back up, and then you're gonna release something else mm. Yeah,
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and you just got to keep plugging away, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And it's the same way with radio, the same way
even podcasting and all this other stuff too. You just
keep plugging away, you keep finding the word grind in
this industry, that becomes a big part of it too.
At the same time, I want to know all the
flip side of the coin. When you look at that
and you go through all that you mentioned, all those
speed bumps and all that good stuff there. Then to
get on stage and see all this come to life
and perform in front of the live crowd. Is that
(20:31):
the best part, That is.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
The best feeling about all of it is when you
get up there and you get that rush, and yeah,
I'm definitely made to be up there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I think I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I love performing, I love the energy, I love the
how you get from it. It's definitely all worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's definitely in the live shows. Man, There's nothing like
going to till it's a live show now for you guys,
there's a different a brief almost to use that word
of great country music fans. I want to go to
the UK just to see how country music is different
than here in the States. For me, the fairs and festivals,
rodeos things like that over there. I mean, when they
know who you are and they're playing your stuff on
(21:14):
the stations over there too, is I'm sure they're doing yours.
They're gonna come out to see, They're gonna purchase the tickets,
they're gonna buy the merchandise, all that good stuff. I
am excited to get to the UK one day and
like take in like the live show at just any
Artists or any fair and festival. How passionate are those
British country music fans talk about that?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
For me, do we get into it?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
We get into it? The passionate is the right word.
And it's also everyone's so just dialed in if they're
going to see someone big, like if it's a I
mean even if it's a club or a theater instead
of a festival or an arena. If it's solid it
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it doesn't even a sold outshow, but everyone will be
dialed in, even to the support acts. They'll just people
are listening.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I mean, yeah, there's going to be there's always.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
People drinking and chatting, and that's just what happens. It's
a gig. But there are so many folks that will
just switch off and to dial in, even if it's
like a twenty minute supports lot and there's another support act,
and that's the main act. Yeah, they're there for that
and it is Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Quite something.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I got to take it in for myself. Man, if
they call the words spectacle, I want to see that too,
because they'd say the Calgary Stampede. I've got friends up
there who want me to come up to Canada to
experience that in Canada or how country music is different.
I've had a lot of Canadian country artists come on
this very show and talk about again, once they get
to know you, once they like your stuff, They're coming
out there to see you, no doubt about it. They
will buy the tickets to buy the merchant all the
(22:54):
good stuff there too, and support artists and music out
there too, no doubt because, like I said, for music
right now at the top of its game, I want
to get your opinion on that before I played truck
stop here on the audio side of the show. There's
so many great women you know right now in the
industry both and all over the world. I mean, it
just could be anything, not just Nashville, but just to
throw out a few Nashville artists you know whom I've
had here on this show, Landy Wilson, Taylor, Austin die
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Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, Ashley McBride, Carly Pears. I mean,
the names go on and on talk about just how good,
how great this is to see the ladies finally getting
a little bit of that calling.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
It's incredible. It's incredible. I mean, you know, seeing Landy
Wilson when Entertainer of the the other year, when no
one really expected it and she took away how many CMA.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Awards that that?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? More, you know, like it is, it's mind blowing.
And I've been listening to the country radio all day
and I swear I am hearing more and more female
artists than I am maleized and there are songs that
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coming out and I'll just stop and drop whatever I'm
doing and just dial into it and be like, this
is like breaking my heart and blowing my mind at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think it's great. No, it's one of those things where,
like I said, you pick the right song and get
it out to the masses man, and like I said,
it's in the writing and I love it. We'll talk
about the songwriters here a little bit on the show again.
The Backstage Past Countdown is on CRS twenty twenty five,
February nineteenth to twenty first at the Omni Hotel. We're
going to be there doing our show live and of
course Kate and Gordon will be joining me and our
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Here on the backstage pass, we got to play truck
stot from Brooke Ellingworth coming up here too as well.
I'm KKTC True Cut ninety nine point nine back in
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conversation coming up with Brook. We'll talk all about truck
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stars they're coming out, no doubt about it too. And
of course a lot of the rising artists. We have
one of them today. I'll get back here. Presented by
The Caden Gordon Show dot Com Today's Best Country Mix
and our friend Clay Airy out there at the Clayairy
dot Com at time for that the newest single across
all those digital streaming platforms. Brooke Ellingworth, We've got to
know all about truck Stot, my friend take it Away.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Drugstot was one of the first co writes I ever
really did, and it happened to be in Nashville, and
I just I had just met.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
My friend Greg, Greg Crowe who I co wrote the
song with, and it truly Yeah. He was the first
over Coro and he's brought this idea to the table.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Whilst we were hanging out around his pool. We were
drinking tequila and beers and you know, smoken cigarettes and
it was the middle of the summer in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It was stunning, and he brought this idea to the
table of.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
There's this boy and this girl and they grew up
in this tiny little town, never really came from much,
and the girl's got this big dream of leaving town,
going to LA and you know, if it's becoming an
actor or a singer or whatever it is. So they've
got this beat up old truck and they finally fix
(31:42):
it up and she saves up enough money from her
tiny little job and.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
She finally gets to leave town.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
So she does and she chases her dreams and it's great,
but then she leaves. She's leaving the boy back home
heartbroken because she's left.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
And instead of us.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Having the story as if the boys singing to the
girl to come back to him, we had it as
if the boys sing into the truck to tell the
truck to stop and turn around.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
And bring the girl back to him.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
So that was sort of the little twist we had
on it.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I love it. It's got country songs need as many
twists as possible when it comes down to it, because
it's all you know in the songwriting. I wanted to
go back to that too, because you've worked with a
lot of people you mentioned there too, going there in
the curb studios and things like that. When it comes
to the producers and the writers, how critical is that
when you choose the right producer and the right writers
(32:45):
to co write with in a studio to maximize you know,
the writers' rounds things like that, or the writer you know,
the writing When it comes to writing with another partner,
how important is that to you? When it comes to
picking the right song and working with the right people
on a team.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Well, I when I did the when I've always gone
in the studio, I've always had an a game before.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I've always had a game plan.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I'm not actually sat in a studio and written and
recorded sort of same day. But when it comes down
to the writer, I mean, I'll give most people a
chance as long as I like the person, you know.
I mean, that's the biggest thing is that you've kind
of got to like them, and there's gotta be some
(33:35):
sort of level of trust there because you're going to
be expressing a lot of emotion.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You can be putting a lot out there.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And if it works, it works, and you can write
great songs. But there's just it just has to work.
It has to be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
If it's not, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You know, you could have sat, yeah, for a few
hours in that day, had that co write with that person,
written a song that you might love or you might hate,
or you might just think it's pretty good. But then
you sort of just know already to yourself, you side,
I'm probably not gonna write with them again.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You've got to like the person. You've got to like
what they do.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
You guys have to have some sort of energy and
some sort of magic between you when you create something.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I've got to select a.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Couple of songwriters in the UK that I sort of
only work with at the moment. If someone approached me
and goes, hey.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Do you want to write, I'll be like, I'm down,
let's write.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Let's crack a beer and get to know each other
and let's write a song and then if it works,
it works.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
When it comes to producers, I've only ever really worked
with one who is Jake Burns. He co produced my
single like it was the first time. He co produced
the Dia Bars and Hot Rights right with me. He
produced the the next record with me and all these singles,
(35:06):
and uh, again it's down to trust and friendship and credibility.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's a big deal of doubt and that's what they
call it the music business, no doubt about it. And
I think that's something that comes down to you gotta
feel comfortable who you work with. That same thing applies
in any line of workout there, occupation jobs. Uh, build
that team, build that team, feel confident. Everybody is the
same goals and wants to achieve the same you know,
newer heights out there, be be careful who you associate
(35:35):
yourself with. I think we were told that at the
very young age the first job we probably any of
us ever had out there too, but build your team
and and do it wisely, alrights. Get to the fun stuff.
I love doing a little segment called a rapid Fire again.
Brooke Kellingworth joining us here. The backstage pass will be
in National Tennessee Live doing the show the Omni Hotel
again presented by our friends at clay Airy clay Aree
Music out there too, the clay Area dot com be
(35:57):
sure check out the latest single time for that and
of course our friends the caaden goordonshow dot com Today's
best country mix. I appreciate that without the sponsors we
cannot get there to bring all this equipment and do
all these great interviews. We got about thirty five shows
set up in like two and a half days. It's
gonna be big, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
And of course always Aristo gonna throw props out to
Christy Watkins and Taylor Dickens out there do a great
(36:19):
job to take care everybody in that media room because
it is not easy to segue all that good stuff
out there too and love it after too. Great great
networking opportunity. Looking forward to that February nineteenth to twenty
first the Omni Hotel, the backstage, past the sixth year
in a row. I do just have a little fun.
Brook Sports on the American side is a drug. I'll
say that because I love watching it. No matter who's playing.
(36:41):
I'm always rooting for the underdog. For you, what sport,
what teams do you get into?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
When it comes to American football, I have to call
it American football. Book is football? Is football?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Is soccer?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yes soccer?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yes, correct, I'm gonna tie. And it's been a top season.
We don't really need to speak about that too much.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well yeah, true, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And then whenever I am in town, I don't follow
it religiously, but when it comes to ice hockey, I'll
follow the Preds.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Okay, I like that too. Pread's always fun. I've yet
to go to a Preds game this this February. I
might have to on the last second to last night
just to go take one in. I need to do that.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
So it's a good time.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's a good time.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
It's a good time.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Grab a colon and I love ice.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I do.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I watch it on TV. And I've ever been to
one man since uh twenty seventeen, maybe twenty eighteen somewhere
in there. I gotta go back and yeah, check check
one out. Last time I was down in Florida, I
caught the Toronto maple leafs in the Tampa Bay lightning
and that was was fun. I think it was Amili
Arena in downtown Tampa, which was a lot of fun
down there. So it was seventeen eighteen somewhere in there
(37:56):
that went back there and in George Hockey all right, Uh,
Nashville's no shortage of rust rights. I'm sure the UK
isn't either. When it comes down to it, you gotta
love food or all foodies here on the broadcast, give
me your favorite food, whether it's either a UK based
Nashville base. Where do you like to eat? Where do
you like to go.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I'm a big state guy.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
If I'm gonna go out and as a steak on
the man, you know exactly what I'm having. I'm just
gonna go straight for a steak. There's a chain of
restaurants in the UK called Hawks more sort of major cities,
you'll find one in They are stunning. If not a
really good cheeseburger, I'm obsessed smashed patty Burgers. It has
(38:36):
to be like if you go to a pub in
the UK and they've got a cheeseburger on there, or
any kind of burger, I always ask, I'm just like,
is it like is it like this?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Like?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Is it this thick?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Because if it is, I'm not having it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah. Make sure it's big enough, no doubt. It's gonna
be the size you're looking for. When it comes to
a Burger, right, you get what you pay.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
For, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And when it comes to Burger's Nashville, Uh, it's gonna
be Dino's.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
All right, all right, I got it. There's one they said.
Somebody told me the day. Because I love tacos, I
gotta try Bar Taco. Looking forward to that. So that's
another restaurant in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Okay, I got I'm I need to check that out myself.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I think, yeah, Bar Taco. They say it's got a
little bit of everything there too. And you know, for me,
I finally settled the hot chicken battle. For me, I
was a hot chicken fan. It was Hattie Bees over
Princess Now they had those two, but okay there too,
So Hattie Bees on Broadway. There's a particular where I go,
so hatti be'es on Broadway. And I'll tell you this man.
(39:43):
For like the restaurant inside the Omni, you know, bar
Lines is pretty good next to the Country Music Hall
of Fame. It's not bad. Yeah, I like it. So
if you it's quick burger and quick food and and
out and watch some hey catch local talent there too,
people trying to you know, just get their stuff out there.
And Pickle Jars done a great job, you know, putting
that on in the last few years too. They always
do a great job. So I love sitting there eating
(40:04):
a burger and meeting people, having a beer and just
enjoying myself. So it's a great time. All right, let's
finish with this one. If you'd never been a working musician,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Hmm? I thought, as like a kid, like when I
was like maybe like four or five, I thought that
I wanted to be a vet, and then at one
point also thought that I wanted to go into like
marine biology. As a kid, as well, I used to
be obsessed with fish. You saw fish tanks, so that
(40:39):
could have been a path. But then again, I'm very handsy,
I'm very outdoorsy. I'm very practical, So man, I don't know,
it could have been it could have been a vet
or a farmer route.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I think, all right, I could see that too. Respect
the marine biology, man, it's always a on field. I
almost did that too. If I hadn't gone to law school,
I might have gone to I've got a good friend
of mine in marine biology. I may have just kind of,
you know, dabble with that too. At the same time.
But hey, hey, I want to put the social media
out there. Brooke Ellingworth on social media, give us where
they can find you. And of course the website, all
(41:16):
that good jazz.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Website is Brookelingworth dot com, Instagram, brookeling with Music, Facebook,
brookeing Worth Music. I think TikTok might be the same.
I'm not on that much because I'll tell you what,
it is exhausting being trying to be a content creator
as well as a musician.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Yes, that might be a conversation for a different time.
But yeah, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, brookeing with Music and Brookellyworth
dot com for the website.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
There's the website, and of course truck Stop is out
there across all the digital streaming platforms. Make sure you
guys go check that out wherever you download or stream
music out there to again. The audio version comes out
tomorrow KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine and of
course a lot of great shows coming up as we
get toward the end of the week. Tomorrow's hump Day
for us here in the States because of time difference
(42:13):
here of course the estates of the UK, but still
the same time, Tomorrow's Wednesday rock and roll. Have a
good fun out there as we count now the Days
to Country Radio Seminar twenty twenty five, February nineteenth to
twenty first presented by our friends over at the Caden
Gordon Show dot com. Today's best country mix and of
course out there clay Air are presenting sponsor Clayairdclayair dot Com,
a r y and the newest single time for that
(42:36):
be sure check that out along with Brooks Music across
all those DSPs out there and review download our stream music.
We're back this week with Shelley in the morning too
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. It's a
grand slam of music and sports powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot com. We're on the flip side. We'll
see you this week. Two Lane Summer coming by Bronwin,
(42:56):
Keith Hines, and of course coming up here in a
few weeks. Boys, right here on the backstage past, Jojo
is gonna be joining us to talk about some new
projects they have here in just a few weeks. We'll
talk to you soon here KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine and Tas to Mexico. More great music coming
up there. Take care, God bless we'll see you soon.
Speaker 6 (43:16):
Hey, this is Quartziel recording artist Joe Nichols and you're
listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sportsgas podcast
dot com, exclusively at KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico.
Hey, y'all, this is Bruce Wallace of the Little Riverband
and you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at taws
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Always a busy day,
and of course our new presenting sponsor out there, Theclayair
dot Com Clay Aremusic and his new single Time for
that across all those digital streaming platforms. I appreciate Clay
joining the team here and also the Caadangordon Show dot com.
Today's best Country mix KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine out there in Tawson, New Mexico and up into
(00:33):
Colorado powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And
I tell you, guys were such global all those great
shows we did last year with WSM Radio, the home
of the Grand Ole Opry. And it's always good to
go across the pond and meet friends of the UK
British country artists of Brooke Ellingworth joining us here. Brook.
What's up man?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Not much, dude, how's it going? Brandon?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good to speak to you, good man. You know, just
a couple of weeks away now from the country Radio Seminar.
Hope to see you there. We'll be at the Omni
Hotel doing our thing from the nineteenth to the twenty
first of February. Looking forward to that, I am.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's gonna be good. It's gonna be my first time there.
And yeah, I got invited out to a few months
ago and I was just like, great, I'll just come
for the whole month.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
About three days, let's just make it four weeks, why not.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
So yeah, I'm heading out in a couple of weeks
and then yeah, I'm looking forward to meeting you and
meeting everyone there and should be a good old time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Good old time, brother, no doubt that way. Hey, talk
to me about your backstory. I always love to learn
how people get into this crazy industry called music, you know,
when it comes down to it. But obviously, you know,
family oriented or like I said, just self inflicted, they say,
in a good way to get into it, you know,
open mic night, what is it? Give me the backstory
of the love of just country music and how you
found it and it found you.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I did. I was kind of speaking about this a
little bit last night with a friend. We were having
a beer shooting some pool, you know, as you're doing
on Monday, and I was, and we were both each
other like, why the hell do we do It? Was like, man,
this industry, but we just do it because we love it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It all started. I live in the countryside.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I grew up here and I started playing guitar when
I was eight.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I saw some local.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Musicians playing at this little festival that's local to us.
It's like a blues and beers festival, super small charity thing,
and I wanted to play keys originally, and then I
saw these guys, I saw these cats playing guitars, and
I was just like, I think I'm gonna do that,
(02:37):
and then I just I. I had my first gig
when I was eleven. I'd played in rock bands throughout
my teens, but I always loved country music at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I grew up on it. And then I.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Decided to take this solo career path.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Around twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
After leaving university and fell into it almost with the
whole songwriting thing, and I found I finally found my voice.
I'd only really done backing vocals before, and that's sort
of how it all started. And then the pivotal trip
to Nashville in twenty eighteen, opening my eyes to.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Country music.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Being a country musician could be a could be a
thing here for me.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, and talk about just the musical influences behind this too,
because this could be kind of nex Smorgan's board of everything,
not just country artists. But I'm sure there were other
different genres of music that influenced.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You, right, There were massively massively like first favorite gig
post everything that was bon Jovi for me, and then
I grew up listening to bon Jovi and the Rolling
Stones and loads of Bob Dylan, loads of Bruce Springs.
(04:01):
There was Zezy Top in there and all of that,
and that was sort of before I started even reaching
out to my own tastes. That was all through my dad,
and then my mum would play all the countryside of
things she'd be playing at the time, the Dixie Chicks
and Dolly Parton and Keith Urban, and you know, it
(04:24):
was a big mix of classic and slightly nineties. And
then another dude from across a different pond, and then
you know, I fell in love with like heavy Southern
rock like Blackstone Cherry and I love Leonard Skinner and
(04:46):
BlackBerry Smoke and all those all those bands whilst I
was in college and school and throughout all these rock bands,
huge huge rock fan, and I used to play lead
guitar on always bands I wasn't and I used to write
the songs as well, but I was never much of
(05:07):
a front man at that particular point.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So yeah, it all jelled.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It jelled really well. And I'll tell you for some
of the songs, and we got to check out here
on the show, which I love doing for all my
guests too, which was Dive Bars and Heartaches. This is
that live acoustic like feel man, with that that that
raspiness and the voice, that grit that Graul always said
that you have in the music. Will feature truck Stop
here on the show a little bit, but talk about
that one because that was one of the first ones,
you know, you put out out there to the masses
(05:35):
out there to kind of get the audience you know,
you know, really resonating with your music and kind of
pulled in. I love to hear backstories on tunes and
then you're where songs kind of originate from, oh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
For sure, man.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So that was the Dive Bars and Heartbreaks.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That was the first thing I'd ever really put out
on a streaming end of the world as a musician,
it was. It was the first thing I publicly released,
and that was the beginning of twenty twenty three. So
twenty twenty two. I recorded it in Nashville with my
(06:11):
really good friend Jake Burns over at a Loud recording
studios and.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I've been, you know, I've been.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've been writing, and I had some songs under my belt,
and I knew that I needed to get something out there.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So when I was I did.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I did three trips over to Nashville that year. I
was super keen, you know, after on the back of
COVID and all of that, I was just raring to go.
And I did one trip and I was out there
for about a month, and then when that finished, I
was like, right, I need to come back. I want
some songs to finish. There's some unfinished business, all this
sort of stuff. And then that then happened again. I
(06:50):
went out for a few more weeks, and then I
came back home and I went back out and in
that period we recorded this live acoustic EP because I
was just like, all right, how can I do this
without completely bankrupting myself at the time, at the time,
you know, not no, I didn't know that many people
(07:12):
in town. I didn't have a band in town. These
songs were pretty fresh for me, and so we did
this live acoustic epe, no bells, no whistles, just me,
a bunch of vintage guitars in a room, a few mics.
There's no auto tune, it's just it sort of is
(07:32):
what it is. And so yeah, Dive Bars and Heartbreaks
was the first body of work I stuck out there,
and it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Stuck with me too, Like I said, love of that
acoustic especially here in a different side of things that
you don't hear. Like I said, the recorded version is
one thing out there too, But when you get a
chance to hear that live acoustic track, that's always a
fun time for me. And then let's talk a little
bit about like it was the first time. That was
twenty twenty four when that one came out to a
little bit of a different feel to me, but still
you know, still with that kind of up tempo rock
(08:04):
and fused country music, which I which I enjoyed the fans.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do, Yeah, for sure, I mean that was that was
definitely a huge step up from the Dive Bars and
Heartbreaks EP.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I thought, I've definitely grown a lot since then. I
still love it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But with I was out there, I was again. I
was out in town twenty twenty three and we did again.
I was working with Jake Burns. We recorded over at
Curb Studios as time m HM, and he co produced
the track with me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
This was just like it was the first time. Was
the solo, right.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The story is about if you could go back and
experience that one kiss that changed everything for you with
that one person. You know, it's not it's not that
that awkward first kiss where you butck teeth with someone.
It is that if it's with your partner now, someone
(09:02):
that got away, or you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's going back to that moment and just reliving it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And I took it out with me and I was
just like, Jake, I need a let's do a single
this time, and then let's pull a session band in
And I'd sat in on one of his sessions before.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
With this with these group.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Of incredible players, I was just like, right, I want
to do exactly that is exact what we did. And
we cut it and it was under an hour, and
then we did the vocals separately and then yeah, I know,
launching that and hearing that as a full sound, full band,
full production, everything, it was just yeah, utterly different.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I love it too. We get a chance to feature
some music here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
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(10:11):
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lot more coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Old me clues.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
If you take this chance, I won't step on your toes.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
If you leave these names, I might be out of
my mind. I might be out of your range. But
you bring me back.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Lack summaryge.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Support out the landmark, help me handle all the back rooms.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Show me the stars, follow.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
Nine big I can go back, Show me the role
map to.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Save me through every time to my.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Tizes a burning I find you in the dar, show
me the road ap to your.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'll be at that same bar, on that same stage,
in that same town, waiting for you to come back
around me.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Save it your favorite song, some lines come on or
until I see you in the crowd, Support out the landmark,
help me handle all the back rooms.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Show me the stars you follow.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Not think I can go back, Show me the hole
made see through you every time till five size of burning,
I find you in the dark. Show me the romance your.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Man destination doesn't have to meeting if a bar way
just around the base.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Not think I can go back, Show me the.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
Ny taking me do every turn and to mattiz a
burn and so I can find.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You in the door. Show me the romance Roman to you.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Hey, y' all, this is Nashville recording artist Tyler Rich
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Taos,
New Mexico, Roadtier.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'm playing these thanks till me long s you're riding.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Hey all, this is national recording artist Halle Kerns, and
you're listening to the Backstage Past with Brandon exclusively.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
On KKTC True Country ninety nine nine in Taws, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
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we got to know all about this one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Uh, this is gonna be the next single.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And me and me and my me and my friend
George Hucks wrote this together and we started co writing
last year and as soon as we saw it, we.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Kind of just couldn't stop. It was great.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We just clicked straight away. And I love those relationships
and friendships. And just as soon as you find, especially
a co writer that you can just click with and
you can empty everything out of the table with, you
can run with that. He bought.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
He bought the idea to the table.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
He already had most of the chorus done. And it's
about it's a it's a love story, but it's about
a guy that doesn't want to get it wrong. He
likes this person, he likes his girl so much that
he doesn't want to screw it up because he's maybe
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maybe he's already screwed it up before. So he's asking,
He's like, show me, He's saying, you know, show me
the stars that you follow home, show me the backroads,
show me the way to your hearts, so I don't
mess it up along the way.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So I know that this is going to work.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's every fourteenth Valentine's Day, the fourteenth Valentine's Day
Roadmap to your Heart. So I love that one too.
At the same time, i'd love to I'm glad we
get to feature in here before it comes out of here
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine out there to
course again on the the visual side, you're not able
to hear it out there too, but the audio show
comes out tomorrow. They're on the True Country ninety nine
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point nine in tas out there too. And I love
this other one too that you had across all the platforms.
We'll talk about here in just a second with a
truck stop, which is fantastic. First, I want to know
a little bit about just obstacles. I'm always just should
you know, like you said, roadmap to someone's heart, well,
the roadmap and the music industry to take the little
twist and turns, and you mentioned that word bankrupt and
things like that. You know, when I started this years ago,
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I'm thinking to myself, what am I doing? Am I crazy?
I've got the money to do this, the sponsors and
all this crazy stuff and coming in contact with a
lot of great people, and it's all about relationships. But
talk to me about the roadmap, if you will, of
just the obstacles and some of the hardest things and
the challenges you face in this business.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's a tough one. I mean, yeah, I mean the
whole thing is a tough one. But you've just got
to keep throwing everything you have at it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And it's this crazy dream and I don't know what
else I would do. It is exactly what I know
that I should be doing, and to be successful in it,
you do just have to throw everything you have at
it emotionally, financially, physically, with all your songs and your time.
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So that part is definitely exhausting. But I feel like
I've been really blessed with the way that the roads
that I've been going down with my career have ended
up and where they've taken me so far and where
they keep taking me. Like I'm coming back to Nashville
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in a couple of weeks for CRS, and that's sick
and everyone that I've met along the way, and all
the hands I've shaken and the studios that I've recorded with,
than the producers I've worked with, the songwriters and it
all has more ups than it does downs. And I
feel like in any industry, there's gonna be hurdles and
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there's gonna be potholes and speed bumps. And that's that's
what some of my friend hucks last night when we
were chatting. I was just like, no matter what road
you go down, there's going to be a pothole, there's
going to be a speed bump.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's going to slow you down.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, And that's just in any scenario really, And like,
let's say you stick a single out and it doesn't
get the streams that you want it to get because
maybe it doesn't get caught on an algorithm, or maybe
it doesn't get playlisted, or.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just maybe it.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Sucks and maybe it just doesn't reach the streams that
you were expecting. So that's that speed bump or that
pothole that's just slowing you down a little bit. You're
gonna get back on the road, you're gonna get that
momentum back up, and then you're gonna release something else mm. Yeah,
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and you just got to keep plugging away, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And it's the same way with radio, the same way
even podcasting and all this other stuff too. You just
keep plugging away, you keep finding the word grind in
this industry, that becomes a big part of it too.
At the same time, I want to know all the
flip side of the coin. When you look at that
and you go through all that you mentioned, all those
speed bumps and all that good stuff there. Then to
get on stage and see all this come to life
and perform in front of the live crowd. Is that
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the best part, That is.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
The best feeling about all of it is when you
get up there and you get that rush, and yeah,
I'm definitely made to be up there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I think I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I love performing, I love the energy, I love the
how you get from it. It's definitely all worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's definitely in the live shows. Man, There's nothing like
going to till it's a live show now for you guys,
there's a different a brief almost to use that word
of great country music fans. I want to go to
the UK just to see how country music is different
than here in the States. For me, the fairs and festivals,
rodeos things like that over there. I mean, when they
know who you are and they're playing your stuff on
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the stations over there too, is I'm sure they're doing yours.
They're gonna come out to see, They're gonna purchase the tickets,
they're gonna buy the merchandise, all that good stuff. I
am excited to get to the UK one day and
like take in like the live show at just any
Artists or any fair and festival. How passionate are those
British country music fans talk about that?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
For me, do we get into it?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
We get into it? The passionate is the right word.
And it's also everyone's so just dialed in if they're
going to see someone big, like if it's a I
mean even if it's a club or a theater instead
of a festival or an arena. If it's solid it
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it doesn't even a sold outshow, but everyone will be
dialed in, even to the support acts. They'll just people
are listening.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I mean, yeah, there's going to be there's always.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
People drinking and chatting, and that's just what happens. It's
a gig. But there are so many folks that will
just switch off and to dial in, even if it's
like a twenty minute supports lot and there's another support act,
and that's the main act. Yeah, they're there for that
and it is Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Quite something.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I got to take it in for myself. Man, if
they call the words spectacle, I want to see that too,
because they'd say the Calgary Stampede. I've got friends up
there who want me to come up to Canada to
experience that in Canada or how country music is different.
I've had a lot of Canadian country artists come on
this very show and talk about again, once they get
to know you, once they like your stuff, They're coming
out there to see you, no doubt about it. They
will buy the tickets to buy the merchant all the
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good stuff there too, and support artists and music out
there too, no doubt because, like I said, for music
right now at the top of its game, I want
to get your opinion on that before I played truck
stop here on the audio side of the show. There's
so many great women you know right now in the
industry both and all over the world. I mean, it
just could be anything, not just Nashville, but just to
throw out a few Nashville artists you know whom I've
had here on this show, Landy Wilson, Taylor, Austin die
(23:19):
Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, Ashley McBride, Carly Pears. I mean,
the names go on and on talk about just how good,
how great this is to see the ladies finally getting
a little bit of that calling.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
It's incredible. It's incredible. I mean, you know, seeing Landy
Wilson when Entertainer of the the other year, when no
one really expected it and she took away how many CMA.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Awards that that?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? More, you know, like it is, it's mind blowing.
And I've been listening to the country radio all day
and I swear I am hearing more and more female
artists than I am maleized and there are songs that
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coming out and I'll just stop and drop whatever I'm
doing and just dial into it and be like, this
is like breaking my heart and blowing my mind at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think it's great. No, it's one of those things where,
like I said, you pick the right song and get
it out to the masses man, and like I said,
it's in the writing and I love it. We'll talk
about the songwriters here a little bit on the show again.
The Backstage Past Countdown is on CRS twenty twenty five,
February nineteenth to twenty first at the Omni Hotel. We're
going to be there doing our show live and of
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and sports. We love it here CRS twenty twenty five. Myself,
Kayden Gordon will be there too at the Omni Hotel
February nineteenth to twenty first, and guys will put the
schedule out, but I tell you right now, the Oakradge Boys,
Shennan Doah, Darryl Worley, TG Shepherd, John Berry, the big
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stars they're coming out, no doubt about it too. And
of course a lot of the rising artists. We have
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know all about truck Stot, my friend take it Away.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Drugstot was one of the first co writes I ever
really did, and it happened to be in Nashville, and
I just I had just met.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
My friend Greg, Greg Crowe who I co wrote the
song with, and it truly Yeah. He was the first
over Coro and he's brought this idea to the table.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Whilst we were hanging out around his pool. We were
drinking tequila and beers and you know, smoken cigarettes and
it was the middle of the summer in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It was stunning, and he brought this idea to the
table of.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
There's this boy and this girl and they grew up
in this tiny little town, never really came from much,
and the girl's got this big dream of leaving town,
going to LA and you know, if it's becoming an
actor or a singer or whatever it is. So they've
got this beat up old truck and they finally fix
(31:42):
it up and she saves up enough money from her
tiny little job and.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
She finally gets to leave town.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
So she does and she chases her dreams and it's great,
but then she leaves. She's leaving the boy back home
heartbroken because she's left.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
And instead of us.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Having the story as if the boys singing to the
girl to come back to him, we had it as
if the boys sing into the truck to tell the
truck to stop and turn around.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
And bring the girl back to him.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
So that was sort of the little twist we had
on it.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I love it. It's got country songs need as many
twists as possible when it comes down to it, because
it's all you know in the songwriting. I wanted to
go back to that too, because you've worked with a
lot of people you mentioned there too, going there in
the curb studios and things like that. When it comes
to the producers and the writers, how critical is that
when you choose the right producer and the right writers
(32:45):
to co write with in a studio to maximize you know,
the writers' rounds things like that, or the writer you know,
the writing When it comes to writing with another partner,
how important is that to you? When it comes to
picking the right song and working with the right people
on a team.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Well, I when I did the when I've always gone
in the studio, I've always had an a game before.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I've always had a game plan.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I'm not actually sat in a studio and written and
recorded sort of same day. But when it comes down
to the writer, I mean, I'll give most people a
chance as long as I like the person, you know.
I mean, that's the biggest thing is that you've kind
of got to like them, and there's gotta be some
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sort of level of trust there because you're going to
be expressing a lot of emotion.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You can be putting a lot out there.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And if it works, it works, and you can write
great songs. But there's just it just has to work.
It has to be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
If it's not, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You know, you could have sat, yeah, for a few
hours in that day, had that co write with that person,
written a song that you might love or you might hate,
or you might just think it's pretty good. But then
you sort of just know already to yourself, you side,
I'm probably not gonna write with them again.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You've got to like the person. You've got to like
what they do.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
You guys have to have some sort of energy and
some sort of magic between you when you create something.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I've got to select a.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Couple of songwriters in the UK that I sort of
only work with at the moment. If someone approached me
and goes, hey.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Do you want to write, I'll be like, I'm down,
let's write.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Let's crack a beer and get to know each other
and let's write a song and then if it works,
it works.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
When it comes to producers, I've only ever really worked
with one who is Jake Burns. He co produced my
single like it was the first time. He co produced
the Dia Bars and Hot Rights right with me. He
produced the the next record with me and all these singles,
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and uh, again it's down to trust and friendship and credibility.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's a big deal of doubt and that's what they
call it the music business, no doubt about it. And
I think that's something that comes down to you gotta
feel comfortable who you work with. That same thing applies
in any line of workout there, occupation jobs. Uh, build
that team, build that team, feel confident. Everybody is the
same goals and wants to achieve the same you know,
newer heights out there, be be careful who you associate
(35:35):
yourself with. I think we were told that at the
very young age the first job we probably any of
us ever had out there too, but build your team
and and do it wisely, alrights. Get to the fun stuff.
I love doing a little segment called a rapid Fire again.
Brooke Kellingworth joining us here. The backstage pass will be
in National Tennessee Live doing the show the Omni Hotel
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all these great interviews. We got about thirty five shows
set up in like two and a half days. It's
gonna be big, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
And of course always Aristo gonna throw props out to
Christy Watkins and Taylor Dickens out there do a great
(36:19):
job to take care everybody in that media room because
it is not easy to segue all that good stuff
out there too and love it after too. Great great
networking opportunity. Looking forward to that February nineteenth to twenty
first the Omni Hotel, the backstage, past the sixth year
in a row. I do just have a little fun.
Brook Sports on the American side is a drug. I'll
say that because I love watching it. No matter who's playing.
(36:41):
I'm always rooting for the underdog. For you, what sport,
what teams do you get into?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
When it comes to American football, I have to call
it American football. Book is football? Is football?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Is soccer?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yes soccer?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yes, correct, I'm gonna tie. And it's been a top season.
We don't really need to speak about that too much.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well yeah, true, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And then whenever I am in town, I don't follow
it religiously, but when it comes to ice hockey, I'll
follow the Preds.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Okay, I like that too. Pread's always fun. I've yet
to go to a Preds game this this February. I
might have to on the last second to last night
just to go take one in. I need to do that.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
So it's a good time.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's a good time.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
It's a good time.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Grab a colon and I love ice.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I do.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I watch it on TV. And I've ever been to
one man since uh twenty seventeen, maybe twenty eighteen somewhere
in there. I gotta go back and yeah, check check
one out. Last time I was down in Florida, I
caught the Toronto maple leafs in the Tampa Bay lightning
and that was was fun. I think it was Amili
Arena in downtown Tampa, which was a lot of fun
down there. So it was seventeen eighteen somewhere in there
(37:56):
that went back there and in George Hockey all right, Uh,
Nashville's no shortage of rust rights. I'm sure the UK
isn't either. When it comes down to it, you gotta
love food or all foodies here on the broadcast, give
me your favorite food, whether it's either a UK based
Nashville base. Where do you like to eat? Where do
you like to go.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I'm a big state guy.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
If I'm gonna go out and as a steak on
the man, you know exactly what I'm having. I'm just
gonna go straight for a steak. There's a chain of
restaurants in the UK called Hawks more sort of major cities,
you'll find one in They are stunning. If not a
really good cheeseburger, I'm obsessed smashed patty Burgers. It has
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to be like if you go to a pub in
the UK and they've got a cheeseburger on there, or
any kind of burger, I always ask, I'm just like,
is it like is it like this?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Like?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Is it this thick?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Because if it is, I'm not having it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah. Make sure it's big enough, no doubt. It's gonna
be the size you're looking for. When it comes to
a Burger, right, you get what you pay.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
For, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And when it comes to Burger's Nashville, Uh, it's gonna
be Dino's.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
All right, all right, I got it. There's one they said.
Somebody told me the day. Because I love tacos, I
gotta try Bar Taco. Looking forward to that. So that's
another restaurant in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Okay, I got I'm I need to check that out myself.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I think, yeah, Bar Taco. They say it's got a
little bit of everything there too. And you know, for me,
I finally settled the hot chicken battle. For me, I
was a hot chicken fan. It was Hattie Bees over
Princess Now they had those two, but okay there too,
So Hattie Bees on Broadway. There's a particular where I go,
so hatti be'es on Broadway. And I'll tell you this man.
(39:43):
For like the restaurant inside the Omni, you know, bar
Lines is pretty good next to the Country Music Hall
of Fame. It's not bad. Yeah, I like it. So
if you it's quick burger and quick food and and
out and watch some hey catch local talent there too,
people trying to you know, just get their stuff out there.
And Pickle Jars done a great job, you know, putting
that on in the last few years too. They always
do a great job. So I love sitting there eating
(40:04):
a burger and meeting people, having a beer and just
enjoying myself. So it's a great time. All right, let's
finish with this one. If you'd never been a working musician,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Hmm? I thought, as like a kid, like when I
was like maybe like four or five, I thought that
I wanted to be a vet, and then at one
point also thought that I wanted to go into like
marine biology. As a kid, as well, I used to
be obsessed with fish. You saw fish tanks, so that
(40:39):
could have been a path. But then again, I'm very handsy,
I'm very outdoorsy. I'm very practical, So man, I don't know,
it could have been it could have been a vet
or a farmer route.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I think, all right, I could see that too. Respect
the marine biology, man, it's always a on field. I
almost did that too. If I hadn't gone to law school,
I might have gone to I've got a good friend
of mine in marine biology. I may have just kind of,
you know, dabble with that too. At the same time.
But hey, hey, I want to put the social media
out there. Brooke Ellingworth on social media, give us where
they can find you. And of course the website, all
(41:16):
that good jazz.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Website is Brookelingworth dot com, Instagram, brookeling with Music, Facebook,
brookeing Worth Music. I think TikTok might be the same.
I'm not on that much because I'll tell you what,
it is exhausting being trying to be a content creator
as well as a musician.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Yes, that might be a conversation for a different time.
But yeah, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, brookeing with Music and Brookellyworth
dot com for the website.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
There's the website, and of course truck Stop is out
there across all the digital streaming platforms. Make sure you
guys go check that out wherever you download or stream
music out there to again. The audio version comes out
tomorrow KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine and of
course a lot of great shows coming up as we
get toward the end of the week. Tomorrow's hump Day
for us here in the States because of time difference
(42:13):
here of course the estates of the UK, but still
the same time, Tomorrow's Wednesday rock and roll. Have a
good fun out there as we count now the Days
to Country Radio Seminar twenty twenty five, February nineteenth to
twenty first presented by our friends over at the Caden
Gordon Show dot com. Today's best country mix and of
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a r y and the newest single time for that
(42:36):
be sure check that out along with Brooks Music across
all those DSPs out there and review download our stream music.
We're back this week with Shelley in the morning too
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. It's a
grand slam of music and sports powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot com. We're on the flip side. We'll
see you this week. Two Lane Summer coming by Bronwin,
(42:56):
Keith Hines, and of course coming up here in a
few weeks. Boys, right here on the backstage past, Jojo
is gonna be joining us to talk about some new
projects they have here in just a few weeks. We'll
talk to you soon here KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine and Tas to Mexico. More great music coming
up there. Take care, God bless we'll see you soon.
Speaker 6 (43:16):
Hey, this is Quartziel recording artist Joe Nichols and you're
listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sportsgas podcast
dot com, exclusively at KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico.
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