June 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Brooke Eden is a powerful singer-songwriter and she leaves it all on stage! Brooke stopped by the show to discuss her new songs and lots more! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, y'all. This is Nashville recording artist Brook Eden
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Listen anytime on iHeart podcasts and at the Sports Guys
podcast dot com and on THWN dot org and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Almost July fourth out there, in the second quarter of
the year is approaching to be complete. Hard to believe
out there too, and we're still reminiscing a little bit
from cmafest back there in Nashville, Tennessee at the Music
City Center. If you missed any of those interviews, they're
out there KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
Broadcasting Network, and a friends at the Sports Guys podcast
dot com and of course anytime iHeartRadio podcast out there too.
(00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I tell you what time it's like. The new
line dance taking over the country right now.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I've been seeing her videos out there too, doing this
time to get you up here on the backstage pass
show favorite Brooke Eden to the show, Brook, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm so good man, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good Man?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This is so I gotta start right there with Gidea
up because look I at the socials and we'll talk
about some of these events, and of course the show
coming up in the Bay Area July fifth, coming up
out there. But this has been a pretty cool thing
to see you put this music out, have it resonate
with fans, and there's a little.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Line dance kind of feel catching on right for Gidea
up there.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Sure is, Yeah, it's I mean, I've I grew up
line dancing. My dad is the drummer in our local
country line dancing band, So I started singing with him
when I was five years old out in the in
the Honky Tongs in Florida, and I learned my first
honky tong like the very person I saying, I mean,
I learned the first line dance of very person. So
(01:46):
my line dancing community has always been a huge part
of my life, and I was so excited to get
to put a line dance to gidea up and and
I wanted it to be really accessible to everybody and
kind of, you know, make anybody be able to jump
in and get the hang of it. So it's been
super cool to see people catch on and get pumped
(02:10):
to get out there and line dance and meet a
new community. And it's been really cool. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I go back to your first EP, and I still
love that EP. It's one of my favorite ones. I
stuck it on my playlist. I love it so much.
Welcome to the Weekend. This came out twenty sixteen. I
believe it was so many great songs Act like You
Don't and so many great ones off of there too,
which was Diamond's one of my favorite talk about just
the growth from that first EP until now, the songs
you put out trying to find your sound, what type
(02:36):
of artist you want to be, and right now it's
a really good women's category of country music too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean I think that when I
first moved to Nashville, I was kind of like, you know,
what do I need to what kind of music do
I need to put out in order to get me played?
And I think that now, it's very much what do
I want to hear, What do I feel like is missing?
(03:02):
What do I feel like I want to listen to
when I'm getting ready to go out, or you know what,
where do I feel like there's like a gaping hole
that no one has said this yet, And so I
feel like there's been a huge, you know, journey in
finding my sound and you know, figuring out what I
wanted to say. But I feel so lucky to be
(03:25):
here now and have this music. You know, just feel
so authentic to who I am.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I know you've recently done or had done some of
those award shows, the ACMs, and of course the CMA's
out there to a been no stranger to you in
the past. Always kind of fun to walk the red carpet,
and it's kind of like CMA Fest. I always say
it's a big reunion. Everybody gets together because country music
is such a big family. Talk about just being incorporated
into those award shows, and I've seen more hardware coming
here in the future from those categories of ACM and CMAS,
(03:56):
and just how special the country music family is to
be included in those the work shows.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, totally. I got to play the ACMs a couple
of years ago with a couple of my labelmates, parme
Lee and Blanco Brown, And I mean, I think, uh,
primarily we're like the my first friends here in Nashville,
uh when I moved here like ten years ago, and
to see their success and see what they've done and
(04:23):
just there they never give up. They are just they're
doing what they love and it shows and you know,
getting to perform with them and Blanco who's totally got
his own sound, in his own brand and doing his
own damn thing, and it's it's really cool to yeah,
to to get to be at these you know, big
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events where you get to see your friends and you
get to celebrate, you know, all the accomplishments of your friends.
I remember that show specifically was the first time that
Laney won an award. And you know, she came to
my first Writers Round when we both first moved to Nashville.
We moved around the same time, and she was in
(05:09):
the audience of my first Writers Around and she was
super sweet and was like, I just moved here and
I like, love what you're doing. And I got to
go to one of her shows last year in Seattle
and just tell her how proud of her I was.
You know, it's really cool to see people who you
love and who really deserve it, you know, get the
(05:30):
success that they they should be having, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I love that female category. So just it's very, very
impactful right now with all those great ladies doing their thing,
and I think it's about time you ladies kind of
got your due diligence to be played on the radio.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Would you agree it's a bad damn time. Yeah, totally.
I don't know what everybody's waiting for, but yeah, you know,
I'm a baby in the nineties. I grew up, you know,
listening to Shania Twain and Chrisha Yearwood and McIntyre and
Leanne Rhyme's and Martina McBride and the Chicks, and literally
the list goes on and on and on, Jody Messina,
(06:04):
LeAnn Wollmack. I mean, there was so many incredible female
voices on the radio in the nineties and then, you know,
we know, the last twenty years have just been this
drought and I don't understand it, but I will tell
you it's so cool to hear you know, Mega Maroney
and Landy Wilson and Ella Langley. Finally, you know, getting
(06:26):
getting the women back out there and having our time
in the sun. It's it's I mean, it's a long
time coming.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Love it too.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And we'll talk about a big event you just did
in DC World Pride here in a little bit too.
First we got to play one from brook Eaton out
there across all these streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It is that line dance.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's called Gidea up here, it is on the backstage
past KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting Network,
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Country mixt back in the Flash, Time to lie next
here on deep backstage past. Get you up from brook Eaton,
(07:04):
stay too.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't care where you come from. Just listen to
the sound of the kid jump with a y'all and
a yeehop. Just take a little shout and shake it off.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
If you scare the jaint gonna fit in, just look
at me, because I'm queen and I'm conscious singing. Go
on be who you gonna be where that you're from
out of town, don't your friend, honey, I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Help you out come on. That's gonna hample of the crowd.
It'll be okay. I'm gonna show your house, bring that
out altitude, your found the boot scoot in away moods
set alone and when he saddled up, go.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Left for I left myself. Gide up, get up, Get up,
you guys, die as fire in your toes.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now looks get you looking like you know how to
throw it down out a hole down tave you look.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Good like cravy.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Take a breath, take a second.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Been doing that? Stands forming and I'm not cut like
a skill head. But baby, let's jump back in here.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
That's shop from out of town. Don't your bread, honey.
I'm gonna help you out come on. But that's so
nifoll of the crowd. It'll be okay. I'm gonna show
your house.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Bry that my attitude.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Your found the boot scoot in a way, boot set alone,
and when he saddled up, go left.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I left myself. Get up, d up, get out, get up.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
With a strong and a class.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Gotcha we'll be old body like down with a slide
and a spit.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Come on, baby, do it with a strong ben a class,
got to do your oldbody like that.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It's it's been we do so good. It's a say
where that's from out of town? Don't you right high?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I'm gonna help you album and follow the crown and
it'll be okay. I'm a show where that atitude you
found the Boots food in a way said alone when
he said alone, go let bra Lesel.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Go video.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Hey y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Rain Roberts and
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Speaker 10 (10:20):
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Speaker 2 (10:22):
You're talking with Brandon.
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Speaker 3 (10:34):
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(10:56):
the song and how much fun this was to put
this out there to fans and kind of like this
that great sound. You've loved line dancing in nineties country
ever since growing up and getting this thing called music.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But what a song you really capture the nation. This
is really catching on fast.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh, thank you so much. It's been super fun. We've done.
We did like an eight city Honkytong tour, which was
so cool to just get back to my roots and
you know, get to see these these little clubs that
become you know, these bars that become people's homes, second
homes and their families. And I got to go and
(11:29):
perform giddy up and teach everybody the line dance and Damn,
it was so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'd love to teach me.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I've never been a lot of dance persons, but love
to follow the structure I got.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I topped forty people on my record label a couple
of weeks ago in La So I think if they
can learn it, you can learn a baby.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll learn it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'll try my best. Hey, congratulations on the World Pride event.
I think it's awesome. You guys get a chance to
really champion women, champion just everybody out there, just for
that community. I love it so much. And the fact
is you can actually spread the word out there through
your music and connected with people talk about this and
playing such a big event in our nation's capital.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean World Pride. I mean, if
you think about just the name of that, it's it's
cultures coming together, it's countries coming together. It's you know,
people from all over the world that are coming together
to celebrate love and uh, to celebrate self love and
and authentic authenticity and uh, you know, it's it was
(12:30):
such an incredible event to be a part of. Truly,
there were just a sea of people, uh, just out there,
you know, just loving life and and celebrating who they
are and who they love, and god, it was it
was so much fun. Uh do she played after me?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I don't know if you saw her on the Grammys
last year, but I mean after that performance, it's hard
to forget her and she just slayed, and uh it was.
It was so much fun. And I love getting to,
you know, be a part of visibility and representation for
you know, the LGBTQ plus community within the country music community.
And you know, there's plenty of us who were born
(13:13):
and raised on country music and it's in our blood
and it's down to our core, and it's just good
to be able to write music for, you know, so
that everyone can see themselves in country music, because we
all deserve to be here, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Everybody wants to be seen heard, and definitely spreading that
word through music is one of just the great connections
of this industry.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All Right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I'm gonna go back to a couple of old ones
here too, because I always put these on the playlist
and they come up on a label dep Brook eaton
radio for wherever you listen to things out there. Daddy's
Money one of my favorite ones out there, You guys
really did a kick ass job with the song, so
good through the lyrics and things like that, instrumentation production.
I know that's got to be still one of your
favorites to perform live at shows.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, I mean that song was such a chapter of
my life. You know, it really signified me moving to
Nashville and and just getting trying to figure out how
to get my boots on the ground and how to
dig into this town. It's, uh, it's it's such a
it's such a just every single person has a different journey.
(14:14):
There's no formula, there's no one way to come here
and figure it out. You just got to figure it
out day by day. And uh, that song was such
a a time in my life, such a chapter in
my life, and uh yeah, it goes out to, uh,
to all the the people out there who don't come
from much but are are hustling to make all their
(14:36):
dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That same EP we mentioned this one, I love it
off there after Welcome to the Weekend Silent Speaks, and
also Diamics was.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
On that EP two.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, yeah, Silence Speaks. It's still one of my favorites. Uh,
it's it's such a sassy song.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's uh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I actually wrote that one with Ingrid Andress and yeah, yeah,
I mean it's it's it's very much like if you
have an ex who you know, maybe didn't do you
so right. It's it's totally a song for that person.
But yeah, I just remember one of my relationships in
(15:17):
my twenties and my mom was like, don't you just
want to call them up and you know, give them
a piece of your mind? And I was like, you
know what, silence speaks louder than anything I can say. Uh.
And so that's where that song was born from. And
it's a really fun one to just play if you
need to just vent.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I love that one and this AP that came out
twenty twenty three, I believe called Outlaw Love. Let's dive
into this a little bit too. Some great songs off
of their including the title track.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah uh that saw. That entire EP was kind of
like the journey of my love story with my wife.
It starts out with a song called Whispering. I start
out most of my shows with that song still to
this day. And you know, being gay in country music,
it was it was a little word someime. At first,
(16:06):
I didn't know how it was going to come off
and how people were going to take it, And there
was a lot of whispering around before I came out,
before I was really able to tell my own story.
And it starts there and it ends with our first
dance song. So just the kind of journey and transformation
that our relationship has been through since the beginning. We're
(16:30):
almost we've almost been together for ten years now, ten
years in December, and so yeah, I mean, when you
love somebody, you'll kind of jump through any hoop you
have to in order to be able to be with
them and still live life to how you want to
live it. So yeah, that that EP really meant a
lot to me to be able to put those songs
(16:51):
out and and yeah, Outlaw Love is one of my
favorites to play live. And I just I love that whole,
that whole body of work.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And I always say, if you've made it ten years,
you're doing something right. Congratulations on ten years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I've done this. December will be fifteen.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
So it's fun, isn't it When you got the person
that you love?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Does it?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It really is?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And the it's supportive of what you do in your
career and things like that and just anything in life.
And I'll be honest with you. Had a beautiful baby girl.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
She's growing up, going to kindergarten now, she's five years old.
And it has been one of the best things ever
to become a parent, really, guys.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh, it's the best thing in the world.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We have a seven month old son. Wow. Yeah, and
it's I mean, the last seven months of my life
has just been peak. I feel like I'm peaking, you
know what I mean. I feel like it's just the
coolest time of life to I feel like I'm really
living my dream. And you know, not only on a
career side, but on a personal side. You know, get
(17:51):
to be with the person that I love and have
a baby together. And he's just the coolest little guy.
He's he's our little cow boy. He's so much fun
and he's a little busybody. And my wife is actually
my tour manager, so she's you know, it's a family affair.
And he's been to a couple of shows this summer
(18:13):
and he loves it. Let me tell you, he's ready.
He's for the road.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I was gonna say, and he has probably too young
to tell now, but musical talents will come out. If
they're not there already, they will come out over the
next few years probably, right.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, he's already obsessed with the drums. He loves to
bang on things. Sometimes we'll like beat box with him
and he will just sit there and crack up and
like try to make noises with us. And he's only
seven months, so I can only imagine what he's going
to be able to do when you know he can walk,
and I'm sure he's going to be just banging on
drums at some.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Point very soon, become just like mine musically inclined, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he loves something. They gravitate to it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We'll time for some more music again, brook eaton across
all the digital streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Time for Rainbow Rodeo.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
Coming right back, Stay too, part oaty e Boa.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You want to go har outy eo.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It's like, Wow, two cowgirls in boots and spurs and
they're hole enhances. A couple of cowboys just getting off work,
getting they wanna dance dressed up head tar on stones camels.
They already know about that rainbow roudeo boom boom boom,
(19:37):
that rainbow rodeo boom boom boom.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And drinking blue riving. It's giving.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
We living in the land of the break, wal Southern
Comfort countor love and reach other every color of the flag.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
We wait, a little boat, a little dose a dome.
Let's go to the rainbow. Roudio, A little boat, a
little dose a doe. Let's go to the rainbow audio bred.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Brother put that cake and wrangler Jake, same coloona kings
and queens in them.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But sweet scrabosol ocurs.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
Join up and don't Bowler's gonna go at that rainbow
rodeo and striking blue ribb And it's giving.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We living dinner land of the break.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Real Southern Comfort Consort, love me each other, every color
of a black.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
We wait, a little boat, a little dose a dome.
Let's go to the rainbow. Audio, A little boat, a
little dos a dope. Let's go to the rainbow roudio
present party bo.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
You want to go park Punty, It's like wow, park.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
House kill the town park.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
House, Let's drinking, bou is giving, weird, living din the land,
the break, the side, The comic comes from each other,
every color of the black.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We will do. A little boat, a little dose do.
Let's go to the rainbow. Roudio, A little boat, a little.
Speaker 13 (21:55):
Dose do, Let's go to the rainbow. Audiotti?
Speaker 12 (22:11):
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To get Brent of Call Well seven one, eight nine zero,
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really just upbeat, flavored to it and just a great
(23:20):
feel for Rainbow REDEO.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Thank you. Yeah, it was super fun to write. You know,
I always feel like you're your local honky Tonk is
kind of like your your home away from home, your
second family, and that's what this song was written for.
It's kind of like that safe space that you can find.
And and that was my line dancing bar for me
and all the different colors, all the different types of people.
(23:48):
The chorus says redneck drink and blue ribbon, and that
was you know, Renegades is my my hometown line dancing
bar when I was growing up, and it's still there
to this day, and it's it just reminds me of
all my friends while we were out there dancing, all
my guy friends are drinking PBR at the at the bar,
(24:08):
you know, and uh and just having that community that
is for everybody and just kind of like that that
family feel like when you walk in, they know you
and you know them.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, take me back.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm gonna go back to some old school of brook
Eaton here and this was just a beautiful song here.
Love it when you did that. Off that back to
the EP. Welcome to the weekend. Act Like You Don't.
Let us dive into this one too. For the listeners
who have.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Not heard this one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, Act Like You Don't was about a relationship in
my twenties where things were just really toxic. You know,
we had been together for a couple of years and
it just got to a point where it was like, listen,
I know that we're both so used to being with
each other, but that's not a good enough reason to
stay together. And so yeah, it was like, if you
(24:54):
ever loved me, and even if you still do, I
need you to act like you don't. I need you
to just walk away. And you know that's how you
can show me that you that you loved me or
once loved me, is by you know, doing the best
thing for both of us and walking away.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I love this phrase right now because we've we live
in the greatest country in the world, and we get
to speak our mind. American dreaming. That song sounds familiar, right,
remember that one?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, I got signed to by record deal off of
that song.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I mean that song was kind of the same chapter.
It's like Daddy's Money. When I moved to town and
I just had this this big dream and you know,
I didn't know how to tackle it. I didn't know
how to how to figure it out. And uh, that's
what I originally wrote this song about. But this song
means so much more to me now in a different way.
It's like American Dreaming is is this this hope in
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this dream that you know, uh, that we all get
to live equally to each other and live in this
inclusive place where you know, we don't have to be
worried about guns and schools and guns kind of everywhere,
and you know, people just being responsible with their weapons
and just kind of getting to get to a more
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wholesome place in America kind of how I grew up.
You know, I wish we could kind of go back
to the nineties when you know, Columbine was a crazy thing,
and it wasn't something that was happening.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Every week, no doubt too. And I always say, go
back to the nineties. At the first that Cordy struck
in my head was a song by a country friend
of mine. His name is John Wolf. He's a Texas
country artist, and he says, a good old bar in
the nineties. And that song, when we think about a
lot of the nineties country influence that you had, the
same that I had down here in Texas, from Tracy
Bird to Mark Tesna to Clay Walker to the great
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the Possum George Jones had made me think of all
the great old country music too. Speaking of that, I
guess the great country music of the nineties there too,
and some old bar in the nineties, which is John
song out there. I love to party. I love to
have songs that make you feel upbeat, which I know
these latest tunes have done.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
But I got to go back to a Brook Eaton
song called Party Wherever we Go. I love this one.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, this one. This is the theme song for SEC
Nation for college football, and so yeah, that's where this
one came from.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
We started every Saturday off in the fall with this
song on SEC Nation, uh to start all the SEC games.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So you know, being a Florida girl, I graduated from
University of Florida. Go Gators, and uh, you know, getting
to be a part of this was like a really
full circle moment for me.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Tim Tebow and uh Laura Rutledge hosts the the SEC
Nation show, and uh, I went to school with both
of them, and uh, you know, we all went to
school at the same time at the University of Florida,
and so it really was like this cool family reunion
to get to stay the song and and uh you know,
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get to shout out all my SEC teams.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, go Gators too, because it's I love the SEC
Conference because I've done in Texas'm gonna ague. But like
I said, outside of them not playing each other, it's
always kind of cool just a root for for the
Gators and those rivalries. So that's definitely talking sports. It's
always fun. And TiVo was one of my favorite guys.
Heisman Trophy winners.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You gotta love it, you know, oh totally always always
such a sweet guy and represented the Gators so well.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, and I was rooting for him, like I said,
in the tournament too until LSU. You kind of caught
up in the College World Series just recently in Omaha too,
and I was kind of like, you know, like I said,
my brother's a Tiger fan, so he's all about LSU
and everything. But you know, it's kind of cool to
see Florida teams. I love because I know you guys,
you don't like the Seminoles at all, so that's your
right about it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Although they're not even a part of the SEC, you know,
but you know, just being that close in proximity in
this in the state. A lot of people are deciding
between Florida and Florida State. But I always say that
what do people from Florida and Florida State have in common?
They both got into Florida State. But it's it's all love.
(28:58):
It's all love. It it's fun rivalry. I love the
rivalry of the SEC so much.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's a fun time, no doubt. And those are a
great conference. I always say, one of the best conferences
out there for all sports because college is more fun
to me than pro. It's kind of cool. You'll watch
pro every now and then, but I love being on
that college scale of things. Hey tell everybody who has
not heard it. This was a while back to a
twenty twenty three. I say it while back. It was
like a ainsiul go just a couple of years ago.
Sunroof was one of my favorite ones. You're actually having
(29:25):
a cool time out there with the photograph and got
the bandana on. This was such a cool song, and
it really a Brook Eaton type song.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, I think after twenty twenty,
I just we needed some sunshine, you know, And I
wrote Sunroof after it was it was twenty twenty, and
I remember, you know, being able to open up my
sun roof for the first time after a cold winter
and everyone being you know, shut up in our houses
for all the quarantine, and just remember feeling like, wow,
(29:56):
love feels like this, Like love feels like getting to
open up your sunroom for the first time and feel
in that warm sunshine come into your car and knowing
kind of summer's almost here and everything's going to be good.
And so yeah, center, if it's about love, it's about
you know, joy and happiness. And it was one of
my first songs. I mean, it was one of the
(30:17):
first songs I got to put out literally since act
like you don't. In twenty sixteen, I had five years
where I didn't get to put out music, so it
was kind of like a return for me.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, and how hard is that too, because a lot
of artists, you know, it's tough to putting out a
single a month, and of course you know, full EPs
and full length albums because it costs so much. In
a lot of people now are independent artists.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
And some have the labels and that's for them too,
but you guys having to work extra harder, may not
have that backing of a major label. And talk about
some of the challenges you guys go through as independent
artists or just artists in general.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, I mean, I'm still signed with my record label.
I'm with BMG, but I mean, yeah, just in general,
it's it's a whether you're with a label or you're
doing that on your own. You know, being with a label,
there's a lot of red tape. You got to get
your songs through a whole line of people to make
sure that they, you know, agree that these songs should
be promoted and put out and all those things. And
(31:14):
then as an independent artist, you know, you're you're trying
to figure out how to get everything recorded and all
the money that goes into that, and uh, yeah, it's
I think it's cool because there is such a there's
so much more music that you can find on your
favorite artists, and uh and it's it's more frequent. You're
(31:36):
not getting like an album every two or three years.
You're getting singles, you know, a few times throughout the year.
So for me as a as a listener, I really
love it. As an artist, I really love it too,
because I feel like, you know, you're able to put
out what's happening right now in your life versus you
know what happened three years ago when you wrote the song.
So I really it's it's an uphill journey, but it's
(32:01):
I like where things are going.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Healthy time to be a great artist in this industry
right now, because it's very very healthy out there too.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
All let's have the fun.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
We mentioned that college football and the go Gators type
thing too, But as far as singing the national anthem,
have you actually sang the national anthem either college or
a program or if not, is it kind of down
the work down the road in the works are you
looking at that?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I have not which is wild and I would love
to do that. Yeah, especially you know, being the voice
of the sec nation for the next five years. I
feel like we ought to get that done. That would
be super fun. I've done the anthem a lot of
times and never done it at the Swamp, so I
think it needs to get done.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Get done, make some calls. We'll try to get that done,
no doubt. Hey, when you're out there touring, do you
kind of yelp some things like or ask the locals
about where to go eat, and you like the hole
in the wall places.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I love the hole in the wall places. The smaller days,
the better for me. My wife is a big yelper.
She will pretty much have an entire city figured out
before we even get there. So uh, I feel really
lucky because I'm not the planner in my relationship at all.
I kind of just show up and I like to ask.
(33:10):
I like to ask the locals around you know, where's
the best place to go? And I'll always be like,
don't tell me. The tourists answer a like where are
you going to dinner?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I guess anything out there? Are you a fair game
for any food or do you have a select cuisine?
That you're like, I gotta have this.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I'm a big Mexican food girly. I love going to
different cities, especially Texas. Uh you know, Arizona, New Mexico
like places that I know they've probably got some good
Mexican places. That's always my first stop. Uh So that's
that's that's what I love to go to. But I'm
(33:46):
also down for everything, Like there's not I don't discriminate
with food. I love food.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I love that too, And I'm trying to do like
shakes now.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
But I've been on the shake kick and I've had
some healthy ones and if that's not so healthy ones too,
But like it's weird to have like a sweet tooth
and just want to shake, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh yeah, totally totally, but nolla.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We're chocolate. Just playing Jane for me when it comes
to that too.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
In your spare time when you have a little fun,
what are some of the other hobbies you like to
do when you're not doing music.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, I'm a big ou doorsy girl. I love to
be on a boat. I love to be on the water.
I love to hike, you know pretty much, if I'm outside,
I'm happy. We love to travel, and yeah, if we
can go to a place there's hikes and there's waterfalls
or you know, there's a swimming hole that we can find,
that's my favorite things to do. I love ted Bencher
(34:35):
and explore and kind of just see what's out there
and whatever city we're in, it's one of my favorite
things to do.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well, if you've never done Yellowstone National Park and you
love to hike and you love waterfalls, you've got to
get there. Just recommendation for you because once you get there,
you'll get the miles under you too. At the same time,
you wear yourself out back heavy with food because it
we'll take that too. And also seeing all the guys
was really cool too. So if you ever go to
yellow done you and the wife, just make sure that
you guys just enjoy it too because it will wear
(35:04):
you out, but you'll have The scenery is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It is Oh my gosh, it's definitely on the list.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
We got to be We did that like our first
five years in marriage, and we took a t was
it twelve miles twelve or thirteen it was I think
in and out or something like that. I can't remem
if it was over twenty huge hike out there too.
Enjoyed it, and maybe we'll have to line dance to
the hike next time.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
That might be too much. You might be out there,
you're barely getting enough water and you're gonna start line dancing.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't know, man's there. All I love is wrong.
It's a fun out there too.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Man. Just such a sweethearted country music too. We love
her so much here on the show. Give you up
across all the DSPs out there, and of course Rainbow
Rodeo out there again, the KYB at ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, and our friends iHeartRadio podcasts
and powered by the Sports guysopodcast dot com. Brook Always
appreciate the time here on the backstage past, looking forward
to many more great things happening in your career, Continue
(35:56):
success going forward. Hugged that little one for us and
we'll be talking soon down the road.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Sounds good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Got it Brooke eating out there across all the DSPs.
Give her like across all the social media. We're back
with more great shows coming up this week too. Across
all the affiliates out there, too. Thank you guys for
being with us. God bless take care. We'll see you sir.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Megan Lindsay and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
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Speaker 8 (36:26):
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What's up, y'all. This is Nashville recording artist Brook Eden
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
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the year is approaching to be complete. Hard to believe
out there too, and we're still reminiscing a little bit
from cmafest back there in Nashville, Tennessee at the Music
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I tell you what time it's like. The new
line dance taking over the country right now.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I've been seeing her videos out there too, doing this
time to get you up here on the backstage pass
show favorite Brooke Eden to the show, Brook, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm so good man, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good Man?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This is so I gotta start right there with Gidea
up because look I at the socials and we'll talk
about some of these events, and of course the show
coming up in the Bay Area July fifth, coming up
out there. But this has been a pretty cool thing
to see you put this music out, have it resonate
with fans, and there's a little.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Line dance kind of feel catching on right for Gidea
up there.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Sure is, Yeah, it's I mean, I've I grew up
line dancing. My dad is the drummer in our local
country line dancing band, So I started singing with him
when I was five years old out in the in
the Honky Tongs in Florida, and I learned my first
honky tong like the very person I saying, I mean,
I learned the first line dance of very person. So
(01:46):
my line dancing community has always been a huge part
of my life, and I was so excited to get
to put a line dance to gidea up and and
I wanted it to be really accessible to everybody and
kind of, you know, make anybody be able to jump
in and get the hang of it. So it's been
super cool to see people catch on and get pumped
(02:10):
to get out there and line dance and meet a
new community. And it's been really cool. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I go back to your first EP, and I still
love that EP. It's one of my favorite ones. I
stuck it on my playlist. I love it so much.
Welcome to the Weekend. This came out twenty sixteen. I
believe it was so many great songs Act like You
Don't and so many great ones off of there too,
which was Diamond's one of my favorite talk about just
the growth from that first EP until now, the songs
you put out trying to find your sound, what type
(02:36):
of artist you want to be, and right now it's
a really good women's category of country music too.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean I think that when I
first moved to Nashville, I was kind of like, you know,
what do I need to what kind of music do
I need to put out in order to get me played?
And I think that now, it's very much what do
I want to hear, What do I feel like is missing?
(03:02):
What do I feel like I want to listen to
when I'm getting ready to go out, or you know what,
where do I feel like there's like a gaping hole
that no one has said this yet, And so I
feel like there's been a huge, you know, journey in
finding my sound and you know, figuring out what I
wanted to say. But I feel so lucky to be
(03:25):
here now and have this music. You know, just feel
so authentic to who I am.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I know you've recently done or had done some of
those award shows, the ACMs, and of course the CMA's
out there to a been no stranger to you in
the past. Always kind of fun to walk the red carpet,
and it's kind of like CMA Fest. I always say
it's a big reunion. Everybody gets together because country music
is such a big family. Talk about just being incorporated
into those award shows, and I've seen more hardware coming
here in the future from those categories of ACM and CMAS,
(03:56):
and just how special the country music family is to
be included in those the work shows.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, totally. I got to play the ACMs a couple
of years ago with a couple of my labelmates, parme
Lee and Blanco Brown, And I mean, I think, uh,
primarily we're like the my first friends here in Nashville,
uh when I moved here like ten years ago, and
to see their success and see what they've done and
(04:23):
just there they never give up. They are just they're
doing what they love and it shows and you know,
getting to perform with them and Blanco who's totally got
his own sound, in his own brand and doing his
own damn thing, and it's it's really cool to yeah,
to to get to be at these you know, big
(04:44):
events where you get to see your friends and you
get to celebrate, you know, all the accomplishments of your friends.
I remember that show specifically was the first time that
Laney won an award. And you know, she came to
my first Writers Round when we both first moved to Nashville.
We moved around the same time, and she was in
(05:09):
the audience of my first Writers Around and she was
super sweet and was like, I just moved here and
I like, love what you're doing. And I got to
go to one of her shows last year in Seattle
and just tell her how proud of her I was.
You know, it's really cool to see people who you
love and who really deserve it, you know, get the
(05:30):
success that they they should be having, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I love that female category. So just it's very, very
impactful right now with all those great ladies doing their thing,
and I think it's about time you ladies kind of
got your due diligence to be played on the radio.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Would you agree it's a bad damn time. Yeah, totally.
I don't know what everybody's waiting for, but yeah, you know,
I'm a baby in the nineties. I grew up, you know,
listening to Shania Twain and Chrisha Yearwood and McIntyre and
Leanne Rhyme's and Martina McBride and the Chicks, and literally
the list goes on and on and on, Jody Messina,
(06:04):
LeAnn Wollmack. I mean, there was so many incredible female
voices on the radio in the nineties and then, you know,
we know, the last twenty years have just been this
drought and I don't understand it, but I will tell
you it's so cool to hear you know, Mega Maroney
and Landy Wilson and Ella Langley. Finally, you know, getting
(06:26):
getting the women back out there and having our time
in the sun. It's it's I mean, it's a long
time coming.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Love it too.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And we'll talk about a big event you just did
in DC World Pride here in a little bit too.
First we got to play one from brook Eaton out
there across all these streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It is that line dance.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
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(07:04):
stay too.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't care where you come from. Just listen to
the sound of the kid jump with a y'all and
a yeehop. Just take a little shout and shake it off.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
If you scare the jaint gonna fit in, just look
at me, because I'm queen and I'm conscious singing. Go
on be who you gonna be where that you're from
out of town, don't your friend, honey, I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Help you out come on. That's gonna hample of the crowd.
It'll be okay. I'm gonna show your house, bring that
out altitude, your found the boot scoot in away moods
set alone and when he saddled up, go.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Left for I left myself. Gide up, get up, Get up,
you guys, die as fire in your toes.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now looks get you looking like you know how to
throw it down out a hole down tave you look.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Good like cravy.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Take a breath, take a second.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Been doing that? Stands forming and I'm not cut like
a skill head. But baby, let's jump back in here.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
That's shop from out of town. Don't your bread, honey.
I'm gonna help you out come on. But that's so
nifoll of the crowd. It'll be okay. I'm gonna show
your house.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Bry that my attitude.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Your found the boot scoot in a way, boot set alone,
and when he saddled up, go left.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I left myself. Get up, d up, get out, get up.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
With a strong and a class.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Gotcha we'll be old body like down with a slide
and a spit.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Come on, baby, do it with a strong ben a class,
got to do your oldbody like that.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It's it's been we do so good. It's a say
where that's from out of town? Don't you right high?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I'm gonna help you album and follow the crown and
it'll be okay. I'm a show where that atitude you
found the Boots food in a way said alone when
he said alone, go let bra Lesel.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Go video.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
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Speaker 10 (10:20):
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Speaker 2 (10:22):
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the song and how much fun this was to put
this out there to fans and kind of like this
that great sound. You've loved line dancing in nineties country
ever since growing up and getting this thing called music.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But what a song you really capture the nation. This
is really catching on fast.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh, thank you so much. It's been super fun. We've done.
We did like an eight city Honkytong tour, which was
so cool to just get back to my roots and
you know, get to see these these little clubs that
become you know, these bars that become people's homes, second
homes and their families. And I got to go and
(11:29):
perform giddy up and teach everybody the line dance and Damn,
it was so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'd love to teach me.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I've never been a lot of dance persons, but love
to follow the structure I got.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I topped forty people on my record label a couple
of weeks ago in La So I think if they
can learn it, you can learn a baby.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll learn it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'll try my best. Hey, congratulations on the World Pride event.
I think it's awesome. You guys get a chance to
really champion women, champion just everybody out there, just for
that community. I love it so much. And the fact
is you can actually spread the word out there through
your music and connected with people talk about this and
playing such a big event in our nation's capital.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean World Pride. I mean, if
you think about just the name of that, it's it's
cultures coming together, it's countries coming together. It's you know,
people from all over the world that are coming together
to celebrate love and uh, to celebrate self love and
and authentic authenticity and uh, you know, it's it was
(12:30):
such an incredible event to be a part of. Truly,
there were just a sea of people, uh, just out there,
you know, just loving life and and celebrating who they
are and who they love, and god, it was it
was so much fun. Uh do she played after me?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I don't know if you saw her on the Grammys
last year, but I mean after that performance, it's hard
to forget her and she just slayed, and uh it was.
It was so much fun. And I love getting to,
you know, be a part of visibility and representation for
you know, the LGBTQ plus community within the country music community.
And you know, there's plenty of us who were born
(13:13):
and raised on country music and it's in our blood
and it's down to our core, and it's just good
to be able to write music for, you know, so
that everyone can see themselves in country music, because we
all deserve to be here, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Everybody wants to be seen heard, and definitely spreading that
word through music is one of just the great connections
of this industry.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All Right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I'm gonna go back to a couple of old ones
here too, because I always put these on the playlist
and they come up on a label dep Brook eaton
radio for wherever you listen to things out there. Daddy's
Money one of my favorite ones out there, You guys
really did a kick ass job with the song, so
good through the lyrics and things like that, instrumentation production.
I know that's got to be still one of your
favorites to perform live at shows.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, I mean that song was such a chapter of
my life. You know, it really signified me moving to
Nashville and and just getting trying to figure out how
to get my boots on the ground and how to
dig into this town. It's, uh, it's it's such a
it's such a just every single person has a different journey.
(14:14):
There's no formula, there's no one way to come here
and figure it out. You just got to figure it
out day by day. And uh, that song was such
a a time in my life, such a chapter in
my life, and uh yeah, it goes out to, uh,
to all the the people out there who don't come
from much but are are hustling to make all their
(14:36):
dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That same EP we mentioned this one, I love it
off there after Welcome to the Weekend Silent Speaks, and
also Diamics was.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
On that EP two.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, yeah, Silence Speaks. It's still one of my favorites. Uh,
it's it's such a sassy song.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's uh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I actually wrote that one with Ingrid Andress and yeah, yeah,
I mean it's it's it's very much like if you
have an ex who you know, maybe didn't do you
so right. It's it's totally a song for that person.
But yeah, I just remember one of my relationships in
(15:17):
my twenties and my mom was like, don't you just
want to call them up and you know, give them
a piece of your mind? And I was like, you
know what, silence speaks louder than anything I can say. Uh.
And so that's where that song was born from. And
it's a really fun one to just play if you
need to just vent.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I love that one and this AP that came out
twenty twenty three, I believe called Outlaw Love. Let's dive
into this a little bit too. Some great songs off
of their including the title track.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah uh that saw. That entire EP was kind of
like the journey of my love story with my wife.
It starts out with a song called Whispering. I start
out most of my shows with that song still to
this day. And you know, being gay in country music,
it was it was a little word someime. At first,
(16:06):
I didn't know how it was going to come off
and how people were going to take it, And there
was a lot of whispering around before I came out,
before I was really able to tell my own story.
And it starts there and it ends with our first
dance song. So just the kind of journey and transformation
that our relationship has been through since the beginning. We're
(16:30):
almost we've almost been together for ten years now, ten
years in December, and so yeah, I mean, when you
love somebody, you'll kind of jump through any hoop you
have to in order to be able to be with
them and still live life to how you want to
live it. So yeah, that that EP really meant a
lot to me to be able to put those songs
(16:51):
out and and yeah, Outlaw Love is one of my
favorites to play live. And I just I love that whole,
that whole body of work.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And I always say, if you've made it ten years,
you're doing something right. Congratulations on ten years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I've done this. December will be fifteen.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
So it's fun, isn't it When you got the person
that you love?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Does it?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It really is?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And the it's supportive of what you do in your
career and things like that and just anything in life.
And I'll be honest with you. Had a beautiful baby girl.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
She's growing up, going to kindergarten now, she's five years old.
And it has been one of the best things ever
to become a parent, really, guys.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh, it's the best thing in the world.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We have a seven month old son. Wow. Yeah, and
it's I mean, the last seven months of my life
has just been peak. I feel like I'm peaking, you
know what I mean. I feel like it's just the
coolest time of life to I feel like I'm really
living my dream. And you know, not only on a
career side, but on a personal side. You know, get
(17:51):
to be with the person that I love and have
a baby together. And he's just the coolest little guy.
He's he's our little cow boy. He's so much fun
and he's a little busybody. And my wife is actually
my tour manager, so she's you know, it's a family affair.
And he's been to a couple of shows this summer
(18:13):
and he loves it. Let me tell you, he's ready.
He's for the road.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I was gonna say, and he has probably too young
to tell now, but musical talents will come out. If
they're not there already, they will come out over the
next few years probably, right.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, he's already obsessed with the drums. He loves to
bang on things. Sometimes we'll like beat box with him
and he will just sit there and crack up and
like try to make noises with us. And he's only
seven months, so I can only imagine what he's going
to be able to do when you know he can walk,
and I'm sure he's going to be just banging on
drums at some.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Point very soon, become just like mine musically inclined, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he loves something. They gravitate to it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We'll time for some more music again, brook eaton across
all the digital streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Time for Rainbow Rodeo.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Here it is on the backstage past I Heeart Radio
podcast KYB a ninety eight point one your big area
broadcasting network and powered by the sports guys the podcast
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
Coming right back, Stay too, part oaty e Boa.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You want to go har outy eo.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It's like, Wow, two cowgirls in boots and spurs and
they're hole enhances. A couple of cowboys just getting off work,
getting they wanna dance dressed up head tar on stones camels.
They already know about that rainbow roudeo boom boom boom,
(19:37):
that rainbow rodeo boom boom boom.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And drinking blue riving. It's giving.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
We living in the land of the break, wal Southern
Comfort countor love and reach other every color of the flag.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
We wait, a little boat, a little dose a dome.
Let's go to the rainbow. Roudio, A little boat, a
little dose a doe. Let's go to the rainbow audio bred.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Brother put that cake and wrangler Jake, same coloona kings
and queens in them.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But sweet scrabosol ocurs.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
Join up and don't Bowler's gonna go at that rainbow
rodeo and striking blue ribb And it's giving.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We living dinner land of the break.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Real Southern Comfort Consort, love me each other, every color
of a black.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
We wait, a little boat, a little dose a dome.
Let's go to the rainbow. Audio, A little boat, a
little dos a dope. Let's go to the rainbow roudio
present party bo.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
You want to go park Punty, It's like wow, park.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
House kill the town park.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
House, Let's drinking, bou is giving, weird, living din the land,
the break, the side, The comic comes from each other,
every color of the black.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We will do. A little boat, a little dose do.
Let's go to the rainbow. Roudio, A little boat, a little.
Speaker 13 (21:55):
Dose do, Let's go to the rainbow. Audiotti?
Speaker 12 (22:11):
How do you?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Everybody? Kevin Fowl?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
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Speaker 3 (22:40):
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To get Brent of Call Well seven one, eight nine zero,
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the Caadenbordonshow dot Com back with Brook Eaton on the
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Sports Guys Podcast dot com. So I love this one too,
really just upbeat, flavored to it and just a great
(23:20):
feel for Rainbow REDEO.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Thank you. Yeah, it was super fun to write. You know,
I always feel like you're your local honky Tonk is
kind of like your your home away from home, your
second family, and that's what this song was written for.
It's kind of like that safe space that you can find.
And and that was my line dancing bar for me
and all the different colors, all the different types of people.
(23:48):
The chorus says redneck drink and blue ribbon, and that
was you know, Renegades is my my hometown line dancing
bar when I was growing up, and it's still there
to this day, and it's it just reminds me of
all my friends while we were out there dancing, all
my guy friends are drinking PBR at the at the bar,
(24:08):
you know, and uh and just having that community that
is for everybody and just kind of like that that
family feel like when you walk in, they know you
and you know them.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, take me back.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm gonna go back to some old school of brook
Eaton here and this was just a beautiful song here.
Love it when you did that. Off that back to
the EP. Welcome to the weekend. Act Like You Don't.
Let us dive into this one too. For the listeners
who have.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Not heard this one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, Act Like You Don't was about a relationship in
my twenties where things were just really toxic. You know,
we had been together for a couple of years and
it just got to a point where it was like, listen,
I know that we're both so used to being with
each other, but that's not a good enough reason to
stay together. And so yeah, it was like, if you
(24:54):
ever loved me, and even if you still do, I
need you to act like you don't. I need you
to just walk away. And you know that's how you
can show me that you that you loved me or
once loved me, is by you know, doing the best
thing for both of us and walking away.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I love this phrase right now because we've we live
in the greatest country in the world, and we get
to speak our mind. American dreaming. That song sounds familiar, right,
remember that one?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, I got signed to by record deal off of
that song.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I mean that song was kind of the same chapter.
It's like Daddy's Money. When I moved to town and
I just had this this big dream and you know,
I didn't know how to tackle it. I didn't know
how to how to figure it out. And uh, that's
what I originally wrote this song about. But this song
means so much more to me now in a different way.
It's like American Dreaming is is this this hope in
(25:45):
this dream that you know, uh, that we all get
to live equally to each other and live in this
inclusive place where you know, we don't have to be
worried about guns and schools and guns kind of everywhere,
and you know, people just being responsible with their weapons
and just kind of getting to get to a more
(26:08):
wholesome place in America kind of how I grew up.
You know, I wish we could kind of go back
to the nineties when you know, Columbine was a crazy thing,
and it wasn't something that was happening.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Every week, no doubt too. And I always say, go
back to the nineties. At the first that Cordy struck
in my head was a song by a country friend
of mine. His name is John Wolf. He's a Texas
country artist, and he says, a good old bar in
the nineties. And that song, when we think about a
lot of the nineties country influence that you had, the
same that I had down here in Texas, from Tracy
Bird to Mark Tesna to Clay Walker to the great
(26:38):
the Possum George Jones had made me think of all
the great old country music too. Speaking of that, I
guess the great country music of the nineties there too,
and some old bar in the nineties, which is John
song out there. I love to party. I love to
have songs that make you feel upbeat, which I know
these latest tunes have done.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
But I got to go back to a Brook Eaton
song called Party Wherever we Go. I love this one.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, this one. This is the theme song for SEC
Nation for college football, and so yeah, that's where this
one came from.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
We started every Saturday off in the fall with this
song on SEC Nation, uh to start all the SEC games.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So you know, being a Florida girl, I graduated from
University of Florida. Go Gators, and uh, you know, getting
to be a part of this was like a really
full circle moment for me.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Tim Tebow and uh Laura Rutledge hosts the the SEC
Nation show, and uh, I went to school with both
of them, and uh, you know, we all went to
school at the same time at the University of Florida,
and so it really was like this cool family reunion
to get to stay the song and and uh you know,
(27:48):
get to shout out all my SEC teams.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, go Gators too, because it's I love the SEC
Conference because I've done in Texas'm gonna ague. But like
I said, outside of them not playing each other, it's
always kind of cool just a root for for the
Gators and those rivalries. So that's definitely talking sports. It's
always fun. And TiVo was one of my favorite guys.
Heisman Trophy winners.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You gotta love it, you know, oh totally always always
such a sweet guy and represented the Gators so well.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, and I was rooting for him, like I said,
in the tournament too until LSU. You kind of caught
up in the College World Series just recently in Omaha too,
and I was kind of like, you know, like I said,
my brother's a Tiger fan, so he's all about LSU
and everything. But you know, it's kind of cool to
see Florida teams. I love because I know you guys,
you don't like the Seminoles at all, so that's your
right about it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Although they're not even a part of the SEC, you know,
but you know, just being that close in proximity in
this in the state. A lot of people are deciding
between Florida and Florida State. But I always say that
what do people from Florida and Florida State have in common?
They both got into Florida State. But it's it's all love.
(28:58):
It's all love. It it's fun rivalry. I love the
rivalry of the SEC so much.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's a fun time, no doubt. And those are a
great conference. I always say, one of the best conferences
out there for all sports because college is more fun
to me than pro. It's kind of cool. You'll watch
pro every now and then, but I love being on
that college scale of things. Hey tell everybody who has
not heard it. This was a while back to a
twenty twenty three. I say it while back. It was
like a ainsiul go just a couple of years ago.
Sunroof was one of my favorite ones. You're actually having
(29:25):
a cool time out there with the photograph and got
the bandana on. This was such a cool song, and
it really a Brook Eaton type song.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, I think after twenty twenty,
I just we needed some sunshine, you know, And I
wrote Sunroof after it was it was twenty twenty, and
I remember, you know, being able to open up my
sun roof for the first time after a cold winter
and everyone being you know, shut up in our houses
for all the quarantine, and just remember feeling like, wow,
(29:56):
love feels like this, Like love feels like getting to
open up your sunroom for the first time and feel
in that warm sunshine come into your car and knowing
kind of summer's almost here and everything's going to be good.
And so yeah, center, if it's about love, it's about
you know, joy and happiness. And it was one of
my first songs. I mean, it was one of the
(30:17):
first songs I got to put out literally since act
like you don't. In twenty sixteen, I had five years
where I didn't get to put out music, so it
was kind of like a return for me.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, and how hard is that too, because a lot
of artists, you know, it's tough to putting out a
single a month, and of course you know, full EPs
and full length albums because it costs so much. In
a lot of people now are independent artists.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
And some have the labels and that's for them too,
but you guys having to work extra harder, may not
have that backing of a major label. And talk about
some of the challenges you guys go through as independent
artists or just artists in general.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, I mean, I'm still signed with my record label.
I'm with BMG, but I mean, yeah, just in general,
it's it's a whether you're with a label or you're
doing that on your own. You know, being with a label,
there's a lot of red tape. You got to get
your songs through a whole line of people to make
sure that they, you know, agree that these songs should
be promoted and put out and all those things. And
(31:14):
then as an independent artist, you know, you're you're trying
to figure out how to get everything recorded and all
the money that goes into that, and uh, yeah, it's
I think it's cool because there is such a there's
so much more music that you can find on your
favorite artists, and uh and it's it's more frequent. You're
(31:36):
not getting like an album every two or three years.
You're getting singles, you know, a few times throughout the year.
So for me as a as a listener, I really
love it. As an artist, I really love it too,
because I feel like, you know, you're able to put
out what's happening right now in your life versus you
know what happened three years ago when you wrote the song.
So I really it's it's an uphill journey, but it's
(32:01):
I like where things are going.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Healthy time to be a great artist in this industry
right now, because it's very very healthy out there too.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
All let's have the fun.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
We mentioned that college football and the go Gators type
thing too, But as far as singing the national anthem,
have you actually sang the national anthem either college or
a program or if not, is it kind of down
the work down the road in the works are you
looking at that?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I have not which is wild and I would love
to do that. Yeah, especially you know, being the voice
of the sec nation for the next five years. I
feel like we ought to get that done. That would
be super fun. I've done the anthem a lot of
times and never done it at the Swamp, so I
think it needs to get done.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Get done, make some calls. We'll try to get that done,
no doubt. Hey, when you're out there touring, do you
kind of yelp some things like or ask the locals
about where to go eat, and you like the hole
in the wall places.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I love the hole in the wall places. The smaller days,
the better for me. My wife is a big yelper.
She will pretty much have an entire city figured out
before we even get there. So uh, I feel really
lucky because I'm not the planner in my relationship at all.
I kind of just show up and I like to ask.
(33:10):
I like to ask the locals around you know, where's
the best place to go? And I'll always be like,
don't tell me. The tourists answer a like where are
you going to dinner?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I guess anything out there? Are you a fair game
for any food or do you have a select cuisine?
That you're like, I gotta have this.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I'm a big Mexican food girly. I love going to
different cities, especially Texas. Uh you know, Arizona, New Mexico
like places that I know they've probably got some good
Mexican places. That's always my first stop. Uh So that's
that's that's what I love to go to. But I'm
(33:46):
also down for everything, Like there's not I don't discriminate
with food. I love food.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I love that too, And I'm trying to do like
shakes now.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
But I've been on the shake kick and I've had
some healthy ones and if that's not so healthy ones too,
But like it's weird to have like a sweet tooth
and just want to shake, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh yeah, totally totally, but nolla.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We're chocolate. Just playing Jane for me when it comes
to that too.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
In your spare time when you have a little fun,
what are some of the other hobbies you like to
do when you're not doing music.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, I'm a big ou doorsy girl. I love to
be on a boat. I love to be on the water.
I love to hike, you know pretty much, if I'm outside,
I'm happy. We love to travel, and yeah, if we
can go to a place there's hikes and there's waterfalls
or you know, there's a swimming hole that we can find,
that's my favorite things to do. I love ted Bencher
(34:35):
and explore and kind of just see what's out there
and whatever city we're in, it's one of my favorite
things to do.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well, if you've never done Yellowstone National Park and you
love to hike and you love waterfalls, you've got to
get there. Just recommendation for you because once you get there,
you'll get the miles under you too. At the same time,
you wear yourself out back heavy with food because it
we'll take that too. And also seeing all the guys
was really cool too. So if you ever go to
yellow done you and the wife, just make sure that
you guys just enjoy it too because it will wear
(35:04):
you out, but you'll have The scenery is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It is Oh my gosh, it's definitely on the list.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
We got to be We did that like our first
five years in marriage, and we took a t was
it twelve miles twelve or thirteen it was I think
in and out or something like that. I can't remem
if it was over twenty huge hike out there too.
Enjoyed it, and maybe we'll have to line dance to
the hike next time.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
That might be too much. You might be out there,
you're barely getting enough water and you're gonna start line dancing.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't know, man's there. All I love is wrong.
It's a fun out there too.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Man. Just such a sweethearted country music too. We love
her so much here on the show. Give you up
across all the DSPs out there, and of course Rainbow
Rodeo out there again, the KYB at ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, and our friends iHeartRadio podcasts
and powered by the Sports guysopodcast dot com. Brook Always
appreciate the time here on the backstage past, looking forward
to many more great things happening in your career, Continue
(35:56):
success going forward. Hugged that little one for us and
we'll be talking soon down the road.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Sounds good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Got it Brooke eating out there across all the DSPs.
Give her like across all the social media. We're back
with more great shows coming up this week too. Across
all the affiliates out there, too. Thank you guys for
being with us. God bless take care. We'll see you sir.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Megan Lindsay and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network, and on
iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
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