September 9, 2024 • 28 mins
Caleb Lee Hutchinson joins us on show number two on WSM AM 650! Tune in each and every Sunday morning from 5:30-6:00 AM on the home of The Grand Ole Opry!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, it's Kleb Lee Hutchinson on Backstage Pass on WSM,
Home of the Grand O.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Opry, and welcome inside the backstage past another Sunday morning,
and if you guys are headed to church, you're getting
up with your coffee right there. We appreciate you spending
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slam of music and sports, and we get to that
too from time to time here on the show toward
the end of it too as well. But please to
be welcome here. As another show rolls around these Sundays
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come fast, we get to feature a certain artist per
month here on AM six to fifty WSM, the Home
of the Grand Ole Opry. And you know this gentleman
very well. He was once American Idol. He's done a
lot of those reality competitions out there. Caleb Lee Hutchinson
to the show, Caleb, how you doing, man?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Doing very well, Very honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And definitely you know, looking back, just what twenty eighteen,
a little competition called American Idol. It was a great
story to tell for you, and I'm sure it was
a whirlwind and look looking back, I mean, you think
about the time that flies here, what twenty twenty four
and we're saying, what six seven, eight years now, since
it's come around, as you look back and think about
some of those memories and how far you went in
that competition, tell me what best comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's a tough question. I mean, honestly, it feels like
it's been longer than it even has. I'm sure I
think more than anything, I think enough time has happened
where I just kind of look back on and really
impressed that I was able to do that. Like I
look at it now and be like, man, I don't
know like that would be. I don't know if I
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could do it. So, you know, I used to dislike
watching because it felt like, you know, looking at your
high school pictures or something. It just there was a
disconnect there with me. But I've now gotten to the
point where I can really appreciate it. It was pretty impressive.
I don't know if I could do it now.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And it's still going no doubt too. And you know,
you guys had to pick a lot of different themes
in there, and choices and wardrobe choices and picking songs,
and of course, you know, getting right in front of
the judges and like millions of people watching around the
nation to make sure week any week out. That's just
a tough competition, and that's a hell of a grind, right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah. Well, you know, I think I can't really speak
for any of the other you know, seasons and stuff,
but I know ours. We were all really close for
the most part, so the best I can recall, like,
I never got wrapped up in the whole competitive aspect
of it. I just kind of figured it would go
how it went. But I really enjoyed everyone I got
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to work with and spend time with, and you know,
I'm connected to a lot of those people to this day.
So yeah, it's it's weird. You know, I fully understand
that framework of it. But looking back, I don't think
I ever was like in this real like I gotta
beat them type thing. It was just like, oh, another week,
let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I love it, dude. Well, anybody knows you knows your background,
I mean, growing up there, I said, Georgia boy, and
living on a lot of those old school type of
records and old school sounds. What I love about you
and you kind of get the feel is you got
a lot of Johnny Cash and your music, and definitely
it's a little bit of that Elvis Presley kind of
sound that you grew up with one of those karaoke
machines at backstory too. Tell everybody that may not know
just the love for music from a young age and
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you started songwriting at a very young age too.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, No.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For whatever reason, I never had any other aspiration, Like
even as a little, little, tiny fella, I never wanted
to be a fireman or a scientist. I always wanted
to be like a rock star. And it all became
a very real possibility, at least in my mind when
I think I was like five or six or so.
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I may have retold this story wrong already, but I
think my granny got me this karaoke machine, and that
was when I realized, like, oh, I can be the
singer to music. So I was singing constantly and wearing
out karaoke discs. And then my great uncle made a
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challenge to my brother and my cousins whoever could learn
to play guitar first, he would buy them a guitar.
So I took that and went to the people around
me who could play and ask them to show me
how to play guitar. Start doing that. And I mean really,
since like sixth seventh grade, I've been playing out you know,
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and at least having it like an air quote job
throughout high school and everything. So no, it's weird, like
I'm twenty five now, but I've essentially spent like fifteen
years playing music, you know, professionally a lot of those
were flea markets and stuff like that, but I played,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No doubt, dude, and gaining that experience and getting that
confidence to be in the performing arts and just be
an artist in itself, you know, like I said, trying
to be creative out there and making the sound making music.
This is not an easy job. And like I said,
you've definitely paid your dues ever since a young age.
And I go back to even Johnny cash Heart, which
you were just what nineteen when Johnny cash Heart came out,
and tell people about that that debut single and just
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the ride and the growth you've seen in your career.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, well, you know, Johnny cash Heart, it was an
insanely good song. I think it was like top seven.
Everyone had to record a single in case you're in
the top three, five, whatever it was. But anyway, so
I frankly I didn't put a whole lot of thought
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into it because I didn't think I would be getting
to the top three. So at first I was just like, okay, whatever,
I'll sing whatever song they want me to sing, and
they sent me a few and that was the only
one that I listened to where I was like, this
is a good song. No offense to the other writers
of those other great songs, but that was the only
one that I really liked. And the demo was very
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like Keith Urban kind of to me. So it was
really just a matter of making it lower and taking
a swing at it. But it's been really you know,
I got to work in like an incredible studio with
the top of the line engineers and tech and everything else,
and you know, I've recorded in all kinds of different places.
Seven Galactic, my most recent album was made in like
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an office dining room kind of thing. But man, like,
just I think it's really got to I've got to
learn a lot that I'm really not even qualified to
be trying to learn, but just from being around experts,
and it's you know, over the years I think more
and more. It's kind of allowed me to feel more
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comfortable taking more of a of a driver's seat role
in some of the music making stuff, which you know,
I'm finding really fun.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No doubt, dude. That's the beauty of the business, like
you said, to be creative and to get out there
and just make music and see how it impacts the
fans out there, because that's the critical the key out
there is the fans will buy the tickets for the
shows and come out and support you guys, even on
like I said, tough days and things like that. To
get out there and take a load off and have
a few drinks and stuff like that. And know you guys,
are you mentioned to me about the Calgary Stampede. Tell
people about that, and of course you flying internationally, going
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to Canada and participating in one of the greatest worldwide
country events ever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, no kidding. It's mind blowing. It's it's so I'm
I'm thinking maybe they must have me confused with someone else,
but I'm not telling them yet. Now I'm so excited.
I've never I've never left the United States. So I'm
going to our friendly neighbors in the North and very
excited to immerse myself in the Calgary culture as an
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international traveler.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey, that's a good My friends of mine have gone
up there. It's a great part of the country too,
and it's almost like a Texas thing down here too.
It's very, very pasteurized, very green, a lot of a lot
of the hills out there, a lot of farming too
where that takes place in the south there in Calgary,
and I've gone to Edmonton, and I've gone as far
west as Grand Prairie and it's just a beautiful territory
up there. A lot of farming too. Yeah, the beautiful
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picturesque of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, it looks a lot like Texas. It looks a
whole lot like Texas everything I've ever seen. So I
think I'll feel right at home.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know it well, or Southern boys, so we know
what that's like to hey tell me from a young
age too. Also opening for such legends. I was just
at the opera a few weeks ago and got to
see T. Graham Brown, you know, one of the best
to take on the stage and headline that. No stranger
to do that too at the same time with him,
and also the Kentucky Headhunters and bo Bison, just kind
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of you know, taking that all in from a young
age and being able to you know, kind of watch
what they do and say, you know what, this is
my career, this is what I want to do, and
kind of watch how they work the stage and how
they have that stage presence and then take some of that.
Now as you're you know, you mentioned what ten fifteen
years in your career. What was that like from a
young age to open for big acts like that?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh? It was. It was super weird. Look, the only
thing I've ever done in my life was just be
really lucky, like that's that's kind of it. And so
with that whole thing, it all stemmed from this amazing
venue in West Georgia that sadly no longer exists, the
Milltown Music Hall. They would host West Georgia singoffs and
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they would have like a kids and teens category and
then an adult and if you won, one of the
things things was you got to open up for an act,
you know, in Milltown. And so that experience was crazy
because I went from playing in like, you know, town
festivals on the side of the street and flea markets
and the occasional Mexican restaurant. If I was lucky to
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like getting on an actual stage with a thousand people
in a room and getting to see people who've been
doing it for ten, twenty thirty forty years, and just
getting to be kind of a sponge in that environment
that was also like so home territory for me. It
was a really great experience, and I think it kind of,
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you know, early on, made me realize that, like celebrities
aren't anything special other than like being well known for
the thing they do.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's like when I remember being on like Idol and
the Voice and stuff, like you'd have these people freaking
out about like we're going to see Luke Bryant, like
he's going to be there, and I'm like, yeah, you know,
he's like a person like born from a mother, just
like you and me. You know, bleeds red hair, He's
a normal guy. And I think that probably kept me
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from embarrassing myself a lot. I've only messed up and
embarrassed myself a few times, but I'm sure it would
have been hundreds had I not had that experience.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's what it's all about. Gaining that knowledge and gaining
that experience from that too. And just like you said,
keeping the fire, keeping the hunger around too, well, I say, well, we
got to play what off the record right now here
on AM six fifty WSM from the Great Kleblee Hutchinson.
And it's the new album Southern Galactic. It came out
in October of last year. If you guys have not
heard these songs, it's a different spin on country and music.
I love it too, and it's got his own personal
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flavor on it. It's called Silverado here. It is on
WSM AM six fifty The Home for the Grand Old Lockry.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
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just throw me away. I kind of rock and war
your talking child. Don't eat every day the wall whiskey
let barn. I wanna chipday.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I wanna take your phone ride in my phone, whe
drive if you wanna get ciudad, your crowd, the passenger
side by.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
The ship you ride of the d.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I would hate it if you told me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It's good to sing a fifth year riveing hide and
you hold me, you make it holp me esteem. So
it's pulling off and watch a servant say, climbing to
my trouble and I'm n I won't ever take you.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Go ride in before you drive. If you wanna get
hide the clown the messages side by the silver ride
over the back.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
It's kind of bad. Don't have to be BA, But
what can't I say? If you're ready to play, I
can't be down my ship.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I will be taking cold ride before job. If you
want to have you clown past side Silver guys, I
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won't be taking gold ride the job.
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Caleb Lee Hutchinson talking about Southern Galactic and a lot
more so let's dive really into this album, Caleb, because
I love it and mentioned the different feel that it
has too, and it's like almost this futuristic style of
country music being galactic too. But Silverado, man, this has
a really good spin on the song.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, thank you very much. Silverado was the last song
that we wrote for the album. And full credit to Cory,
my producer. He was he made like that kind of
like the bass groove, super like cool and funky, and
he sent it to me and he's like, I don't
know if this is I don't know if it'd work
(16:05):
on your album and We sat down with it one
night and just kind of wrote it, and it was
it was really fun because you know, I'm not a
country singer who has a lot of songs about trucks.
I try to limit that, but you know, I really
wanted this album to have some fun sounding music on it,
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which is something I hadn't really focused on so much
in the past. And when we wrote that song, you know,
it was just it was so easy and fun, and
the whole thing we were trying to just rip off
miss You by the Stones, which I think is like
one of the coolest songs ever. So we tried to
rip off the and that's where we got the and
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kind of that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We wrote everything and then we got to the last
line and he's like, man, we just need dead dad Dad.
I was like, silver ido tonight and we cut the vocals.
We just demoed it because it was late at night
and his son, he's got a little baby son, was
sleeping in the next room. So I had the microphone
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and he's like, just sing it quiet so we don't
wake them up, and cut the vocals. Next day we
were listening to it and I was like, I don't
think I can top this. So the vocals you hear
on the verses are me trying to sing quietly. I'm
not trying to sound sexy. I'm just trying not to
wake the baby.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's a good thing. I love if you keeping that
baby quiet, keeping them in bed, because you wake them up,
Like it's hard to get them to go back there.
As a father, now, yeah, it's hard to get them
to go back to sleep. That's a really a certain
theme when you have children, no doubt. I got to
tell another one off there too, besides Silverado off of it,
Southern Galactic out there was. Man, it's had like that
Johnny Cash, that dark feel to it. It's just things
to burn. That had to be fun to stand in
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a studio and put your spin on that one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, that was super fun. I wrote it with my
buddy Garrett Jacobs. He's like my best friend, another guy
I met on the Idol years ago, but he's one
of the best songwriters in Nashville, one of the most
talented people ever. More than that, probably the best person
I know. And so we wrote that song. It wasn't
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even it's funny because it's a breakup song, so you
would think I was sitting around like crying. But we
sat in this very room and tried to write a
song for like four hours and we couldn't come up
with anything. And he was like, man, why don't we
just go to Kroger and get some Dike coke, you know, like,
let's crack a few cold ones and just see what
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if that helps. And that's not code, it was Dike coke.
And so we pulled back in the driveway and I
had a bunch of boxes and stuff in my backyard
because you know, I'm from the country. I don't care
what the neighborhood thinks. And he goes, man, what are
you going to do with those? It's like, I don't know, dude.
I got a long list of stuff I need to burn.
And he was like, oh, let's write that song. And
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I was like, no, we can't do that. We can't
have one of those stupid cliche songwriting moments. But we did. Yeah,
and yeah, we wrote that song. It was super fun
and putting it, you know, recording it. It was so
easy to do, I think from a production standpoint, just
because the song so clearly tells you what it is,
the whole vibe of it, that kind of swampy country.
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It's my favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So it was a blast, and I love the fact
that what your producers and your studio engineers did because
this was unlike any album that I've heard in the past.
And like I said, everybody's got their own different kind
of spin on the way they kind of put their
music and the final product comes out, but you had
to be pleased with the way the sound engineers and
the producers kind of really put those those different sound
effects and those kind of special effects into specific songs.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. No, it's one man. It's his artist's name. His
Titanic Sinclair is the name. His mama gave him this
Corey mixture, but he is soridiculously talented. If you even
kind of like this album, it all goes to him.
I mean he played pretty much all the instruments, recorded everything,
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mixed everything, oversaw mastering, like he is the MVP. And
it's crazy for me because I found his music and
his work when I was like fifteen years old, and
you know, almost ten years later, he's making my debut album.
So it was all very surreal and I owe him
the world and we'll always forever owe him.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Hey, So studio engineers, those producers man that, like you said,
make it come to life too and like you lay
down some tracks and they do the rest of the expertise.
That's what they're good at, too well. Time to play
another one here off the album Southern Galactic from Caleable Hutchinson.
It's out there. It's called used to here on AM
six fifty WSM the whole of the grand Oel Loprary enjoy.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
My heart can't chuck much longer the days, and I've
drove it through the mother, through the tents of sweating
blood and but to spell a lot of love, wan say.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And I can can't do me then shut.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
In talking me it.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Come on over.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Man's leading you as it don't mean sname thing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
My heart can't tag b spawn a day. Let me win, No.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Jons Magi Tomas came over.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
This is very up and ride away. I just got myself.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Tell my head.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Churs, I've caught you might ever let you win and
through your cover and I've never seen saying.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
As I gives God I'm used.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
To, but I've pass upon the train and I.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Don't care if you crys.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Didn't count. So gives to big needs to Pasi against
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Steve got use stiff a pass a potentially and I
don't check you cry your ship didn't count.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Stiff bass.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
A games step got give step.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Passion. I don't change you cry.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Some didn't count, so hims to be used to.
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on the show used to good feel to it. This
was one that I'm sure had to be fun to
make off of a Southern galactic.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Super fun Yeah, Corey, my producer made the whole track
that you hear in the beginning, the super western feeling thing. Yeah,
it was so fun. Which I started writing it, and
I remember my concern being like, I don't want this
to be to cliche, you know, just do the full
Western route. And he brought that magic, you know, and
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made it this kind of weird rock, funk, country western
whatever it is. It's super cool, that's all I know.
I listened back to it and I was like, Ah,
this this is way too cool to be something I did,
you know, but we did it, so I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You take it no doubt too. Hey, another cool song.
I loved what you got to collaborate since collaborations becoming
more of a really important, a really important part of
the industry right now. Jesse Wilson good friend of mine,
good friend of the show, and a just a great
artist in her own right too. Airstream Dreams. How did
this come about? The collaboration here, because man, both of
you guys vocally like killed it on that single.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Oh thank you, Yeah, no, we it was pretty much
right when we met. I ended up playing a show
with her and we were driving there and she saw
an airstream and said Airstream Dreams. And I was kind
of like making fun of it because you know, I'm
a boy, and I was like, oh, that's a country song, paddle,
and I was like, you know what, that actually ain't
that bad. And we just we wrote the song, and
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you know, we recorded here in Nashville with the folks
that she works with, and it was super easy, really great,
like classic kind of song. So I'm honored to have
been part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The cool thing about the record that it's a lot
of fun. That's the theme of it too, because you
don't take anything seriously. Everything from all the tracks on
there too, from all this If you guys want to
check it out, it's across all the DSPs out there
too at the same time from calebly Hutchinson the album
Southern Galactic, and also check out Caleb Lye Hutchinson dot
com for tour dates and merchandise and all that good
stuff out there too. All Right, I have a little fun.
You're a Southern boy, so I love baseball, love my football.
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You got to tell me your teams, my friend, is
it NFL, MLB, NBA, college sports? Tell me who you
root for.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I'm a big Atlanta Braves fan. Okay, uh, I'm a
big Dogs fan e ga. But frankly, I don't watch
the NFL A ton I never had. It was easy
for me to get into college football when I was younger. Yeah,
those are my two. Those are my main things I'm
riding for. And then of course anything in Nashville where
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they want me to come to their stadium. I'm like,
you know what I like Vandy. Sure, black and gold
looks pretty good. You know, I love my Titans. They
want me to come to the halftime show. They love
this album.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's called Southern Galactic, gets across all those digital streaming platforms.
Check you out at Caleblye Hutchinson dot com for more
good stuff out there too, with merchandise and tour dates. Hey,
best of luck with the Calgary Stampede, my friend, and
looking forward to all the new music coming out and
looking forward to doing this again. Hope you had a
great time.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Hi, thank you very much. Thank you for your time.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You got it, calebly Hutchinson here on AM six fifty WSM,
the home of the grand O Lopry. We'll see you
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week on Sunday with a brand new artist. Until then,
take care, God bless.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Deep pass to the end Zone.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
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some time with us here on the backstage Pass powered
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slam of music and sports, and we get to that
too from time to time here on the show toward
the end of it too as well. But please to
be welcome here. As another show rolls around these Sundays
(00:26):
come fast, we get to feature a certain artist per
month here on AM six to fifty WSM, the Home
of the Grand Ole Opry. And you know this gentleman
very well. He was once American Idol. He's done a
lot of those reality competitions out there. Caleb Lee Hutchinson
to the show, Caleb, how you doing, man?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Doing very well, Very honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And definitely you know, looking back, just what twenty eighteen,
a little competition called American Idol. It was a great
story to tell for you, and I'm sure it was
a whirlwind and look looking back, I mean, you think
about the time that flies here, what twenty twenty four
and we're saying, what six seven, eight years now, since
it's come around, as you look back and think about
some of those memories and how far you went in
that competition, tell me what best comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's a tough question. I mean, honestly, it feels like
it's been longer than it even has. I'm sure I
think more than anything, I think enough time has happened
where I just kind of look back on and really
impressed that I was able to do that. Like I
look at it now and be like, man, I don't
know like that would be. I don't know if I
(01:27):
could do it. So, you know, I used to dislike
watching because it felt like, you know, looking at your
high school pictures or something. It just there was a
disconnect there with me. But I've now gotten to the
point where I can really appreciate it. It was pretty impressive.
I don't know if I could do it now.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And it's still going no doubt too. And you know,
you guys had to pick a lot of different themes
in there, and choices and wardrobe choices and picking songs,
and of course, you know, getting right in front of
the judges and like millions of people watching around the
nation to make sure week any week out. That's just
a tough competition, and that's a hell of a grind, right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah. Well, you know, I think I can't really speak
for any of the other you know, seasons and stuff,
but I know ours. We were all really close for
the most part, so the best I can recall, like,
I never got wrapped up in the whole competitive aspect
of it. I just kind of figured it would go
how it went. But I really enjoyed everyone I got
(02:27):
to work with and spend time with, and you know,
I'm connected to a lot of those people to this day.
So yeah, it's it's weird. You know, I fully understand
that framework of it. But looking back, I don't think
I ever was like in this real like I gotta
beat them type thing. It was just like, oh, another week,
let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I love it, dude. Well, anybody knows you knows your background,
I mean, growing up there, I said, Georgia boy, and
living on a lot of those old school type of
records and old school sounds. What I love about you
and you kind of get the feel is you got
a lot of Johnny Cash and your music, and definitely
it's a little bit of that Elvis Presley kind of
sound that you grew up with one of those karaoke
machines at backstory too. Tell everybody that may not know
just the love for music from a young age and
(03:10):
you started songwriting at a very young age too.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, No.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For whatever reason, I never had any other aspiration, Like
even as a little, little, tiny fella, I never wanted
to be a fireman or a scientist. I always wanted
to be like a rock star. And it all became
a very real possibility, at least in my mind when
I think I was like five or six or so.
(03:34):
I may have retold this story wrong already, but I
think my granny got me this karaoke machine, and that
was when I realized, like, oh, I can be the
singer to music. So I was singing constantly and wearing
out karaoke discs. And then my great uncle made a
(03:54):
challenge to my brother and my cousins whoever could learn
to play guitar first, he would buy them a guitar.
So I took that and went to the people around
me who could play and ask them to show me
how to play guitar. Start doing that. And I mean really,
since like sixth seventh grade, I've been playing out you know,
(04:14):
and at least having it like an air quote job
throughout high school and everything. So no, it's weird, like
I'm twenty five now, but I've essentially spent like fifteen
years playing music, you know, professionally a lot of those
were flea markets and stuff like that, but I played,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No doubt, dude, and gaining that experience and getting that
confidence to be in the performing arts and just be
an artist in itself, you know, like I said, trying
to be creative out there and making the sound making music.
This is not an easy job. And like I said,
you've definitely paid your dues ever since a young age.
And I go back to even Johnny cash Heart, which
you were just what nineteen when Johnny cash Heart came out,
and tell people about that that debut single and just
(04:54):
the ride and the growth you've seen in your career.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, well, you know, Johnny cash Heart, it was an
insanely good song. I think it was like top seven.
Everyone had to record a single in case you're in
the top three, five, whatever it was. But anyway, so
I frankly I didn't put a whole lot of thought
(05:18):
into it because I didn't think I would be getting
to the top three. So at first I was just like, okay, whatever,
I'll sing whatever song they want me to sing, and
they sent me a few and that was the only
one that I listened to where I was like, this
is a good song. No offense to the other writers
of those other great songs, but that was the only
one that I really liked. And the demo was very
(05:39):
like Keith Urban kind of to me. So it was
really just a matter of making it lower and taking
a swing at it. But it's been really you know,
I got to work in like an incredible studio with
the top of the line engineers and tech and everything else,
and you know, I've recorded in all kinds of different places.
Seven Galactic, my most recent album was made in like
(06:01):
an office dining room kind of thing. But man, like,
just I think it's really got to I've got to
learn a lot that I'm really not even qualified to
be trying to learn, but just from being around experts,
and it's you know, over the years I think more
and more. It's kind of allowed me to feel more
(06:22):
comfortable taking more of a of a driver's seat role
in some of the music making stuff, which you know,
I'm finding really fun.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No doubt, dude. That's the beauty of the business, like
you said, to be creative and to get out there
and just make music and see how it impacts the
fans out there, because that's the critical the key out
there is the fans will buy the tickets for the
shows and come out and support you guys, even on
like I said, tough days and things like that. To
get out there and take a load off and have
a few drinks and stuff like that. And know you guys,
are you mentioned to me about the Calgary Stampede. Tell
people about that, and of course you flying internationally, going
(06:54):
to Canada and participating in one of the greatest worldwide
country events ever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, no kidding. It's mind blowing. It's it's so I'm
I'm thinking maybe they must have me confused with someone else,
but I'm not telling them yet. Now I'm so excited.
I've never I've never left the United States. So I'm
going to our friendly neighbors in the North and very
excited to immerse myself in the Calgary culture as an
(07:20):
international traveler.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey, that's a good My friends of mine have gone
up there. It's a great part of the country too,
and it's almost like a Texas thing down here too.
It's very, very pasteurized, very green, a lot of a lot
of the hills out there, a lot of farming too
where that takes place in the south there in Calgary,
and I've gone to Edmonton, and I've gone as far
west as Grand Prairie and it's just a beautiful territory
up there. A lot of farming too. Yeah, the beautiful
(07:44):
picturesque of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, it looks a lot like Texas. It looks a
whole lot like Texas everything I've ever seen. So I
think I'll feel right at home.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know it well, or Southern boys, so we know
what that's like to hey tell me from a young
age too. Also opening for such legends. I was just
at the opera a few weeks ago and got to
see T. Graham Brown, you know, one of the best
to take on the stage and headline that. No stranger
to do that too at the same time with him,
and also the Kentucky Headhunters and bo Bison, just kind
(08:14):
of you know, taking that all in from a young
age and being able to you know, kind of watch
what they do and say, you know what, this is
my career, this is what I want to do, and
kind of watch how they work the stage and how
they have that stage presence and then take some of that.
Now as you're you know, you mentioned what ten fifteen
years in your career. What was that like from a
young age to open for big acts like that?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh? It was. It was super weird. Look, the only
thing I've ever done in my life was just be
really lucky, like that's that's kind of it. And so
with that whole thing, it all stemmed from this amazing
venue in West Georgia that sadly no longer exists, the
Milltown Music Hall. They would host West Georgia singoffs and
(08:54):
they would have like a kids and teens category and
then an adult and if you won, one of the
things things was you got to open up for an act,
you know, in Milltown. And so that experience was crazy
because I went from playing in like, you know, town
festivals on the side of the street and flea markets
and the occasional Mexican restaurant. If I was lucky to
(09:16):
like getting on an actual stage with a thousand people
in a room and getting to see people who've been
doing it for ten, twenty thirty forty years, and just
getting to be kind of a sponge in that environment
that was also like so home territory for me. It
was a really great experience, and I think it kind of,
(09:38):
you know, early on, made me realize that, like celebrities
aren't anything special other than like being well known for
the thing they do.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's like when I remember being on like Idol and
the Voice and stuff, like you'd have these people freaking
out about like we're going to see Luke Bryant, like
he's going to be there, and I'm like, yeah, you know,
he's like a person like born from a mother, just
like you and me. You know, bleeds red hair, He's
a normal guy. And I think that probably kept me
(10:11):
from embarrassing myself a lot. I've only messed up and
embarrassed myself a few times, but I'm sure it would
have been hundreds had I not had that experience.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's what it's all about. Gaining that knowledge and gaining
that experience from that too. And just like you said,
keeping the fire, keeping the hunger around too, well, I say, well, we
got to play what off the record right now here
on AM six fifty WSM from the Great Kleblee Hutchinson.
And it's the new album Southern Galactic. It came out
in October of last year. If you guys have not
heard these songs, it's a different spin on country and music.
I love it too, and it's got his own personal
(10:39):
flavor on it. It's called Silverado here. It is on
WSM AM six fifty The Home for the Grand Old Lockry.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I think out of the way and talk, but don't
just throw me away. I kind of rock and war
your talking child. Don't eat every day the wall whiskey
let barn. I wanna chipday.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I wanna take your phone ride in my phone, whe
drive if you wanna get ciudad, your crowd, the passenger
side by.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
The ship you ride of the d.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I would hate it if you told me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It's good to sing a fifth year riveing hide and
you hold me, you make it holp me esteem. So
it's pulling off and watch a servant say, climbing to
my trouble and I'm n I won't ever take you.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Go ride in before you drive. If you wanna get
hide the clown the messages side by the silver ride
over the back.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
It's kind of bad. Don't have to be BA, But
what can't I say? If you're ready to play, I
can't be down my ship.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I will be taking cold ride before job. If you
want to have you clown past side Silver guys, I
(13:50):
won't be taking gold ride the job.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
You want, kid, y'all.
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(15:07):
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and welcome into the Backstage Basketbook. And that's usually when
we record shows or go live out there on the
social media too. But you can always catch us out
there too every Sunday morning on WSMAM six fifty, the
Home of the Grand ol Opry from five thirty am
to six am. And of course this week our guest
(15:29):
Caleb Lee Hutchinson talking about Southern Galactic and a lot
more so let's dive really into this album, Caleb, because
I love it and mentioned the different feel that it
has too, and it's like almost this futuristic style of
country music being galactic too. But Silverado, man, this has
a really good spin on the song.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, thank you very much. Silverado was the last song
that we wrote for the album. And full credit to Cory,
my producer. He was he made like that kind of
like the bass groove, super like cool and funky, and
he sent it to me and he's like, I don't
know if this is I don't know if it'd work
(16:05):
on your album and We sat down with it one
night and just kind of wrote it, and it was
it was really fun because you know, I'm not a
country singer who has a lot of songs about trucks.
I try to limit that, but you know, I really
wanted this album to have some fun sounding music on it,
(16:28):
which is something I hadn't really focused on so much
in the past. And when we wrote that song, you know,
it was just it was so easy and fun, and
the whole thing we were trying to just rip off
miss You by the Stones, which I think is like
one of the coolest songs ever. So we tried to
rip off the and that's where we got the and
(16:51):
kind of that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We wrote everything and then we got to the last
line and he's like, man, we just need dead dad Dad.
I was like, silver ido tonight and we cut the vocals.
We just demoed it because it was late at night
and his son, he's got a little baby son, was
sleeping in the next room. So I had the microphone
(17:13):
and he's like, just sing it quiet so we don't
wake them up, and cut the vocals. Next day we
were listening to it and I was like, I don't
think I can top this. So the vocals you hear
on the verses are me trying to sing quietly. I'm
not trying to sound sexy. I'm just trying not to
wake the baby.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's a good thing. I love if you keeping that
baby quiet, keeping them in bed, because you wake them up,
Like it's hard to get them to go back there.
As a father, now, yeah, it's hard to get them
to go back to sleep. That's a really a certain
theme when you have children, no doubt. I got to
tell another one off there too, besides Silverado off of it,
Southern Galactic out there was. Man, it's had like that
Johnny Cash, that dark feel to it. It's just things
to burn. That had to be fun to stand in
(17:54):
a studio and put your spin on that one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, that was super fun. I wrote it with my
buddy Garrett Jacobs. He's like my best friend, another guy
I met on the Idol years ago, but he's one
of the best songwriters in Nashville, one of the most
talented people ever. More than that, probably the best person
I know. And so we wrote that song. It wasn't
(18:19):
even it's funny because it's a breakup song, so you
would think I was sitting around like crying. But we
sat in this very room and tried to write a
song for like four hours and we couldn't come up
with anything. And he was like, man, why don't we
just go to Kroger and get some Dike coke, you know, like,
let's crack a few cold ones and just see what
(18:40):
if that helps. And that's not code, it was Dike coke.
And so we pulled back in the driveway and I
had a bunch of boxes and stuff in my backyard
because you know, I'm from the country. I don't care
what the neighborhood thinks. And he goes, man, what are
you going to do with those? It's like, I don't know, dude.
I got a long list of stuff I need to burn.
And he was like, oh, let's write that song. And
(19:01):
I was like, no, we can't do that. We can't
have one of those stupid cliche songwriting moments. But we did. Yeah,
and yeah, we wrote that song. It was super fun
and putting it, you know, recording it. It was so
easy to do, I think from a production standpoint, just
because the song so clearly tells you what it is,
the whole vibe of it, that kind of swampy country.
(19:24):
It's my favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So it was a blast, and I love the fact
that what your producers and your studio engineers did because
this was unlike any album that I've heard in the past.
And like I said, everybody's got their own different kind
of spin on the way they kind of put their
music and the final product comes out, but you had
to be pleased with the way the sound engineers and
the producers kind of really put those those different sound
effects and those kind of special effects into specific songs.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. No, it's one man. It's his artist's name. His
Titanic Sinclair is the name. His mama gave him this
Corey mixture, but he is soridiculously talented. If you even
kind of like this album, it all goes to him.
I mean he played pretty much all the instruments, recorded everything,
(20:10):
mixed everything, oversaw mastering, like he is the MVP. And
it's crazy for me because I found his music and
his work when I was like fifteen years old, and
you know, almost ten years later, he's making my debut album.
So it was all very surreal and I owe him
the world and we'll always forever owe him.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Hey, So studio engineers, those producers man that, like you said,
make it come to life too and like you lay
down some tracks and they do the rest of the expertise.
That's what they're good at, too well. Time to play
another one here off the album Southern Galactic from Caleable Hutchinson.
It's out there. It's called used to here on AM
six fifty WSM the whole of the grand Oel Loprary enjoy.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
My heart can't chuck much longer the days, and I've
drove it through the mother, through the tents of sweating
blood and but to spell a lot of love, wan say.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And I can can't do me then shut.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
In talking me it.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Come on over.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Man's leading you as it don't mean sname thing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
My heart can't tag b spawn a day. Let me win, No.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Jons Magi Tomas came over.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
This is very up and ride away. I just got myself.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Tell my head.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Churs, I've caught you might ever let you win and
through your cover and I've never seen saying.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
As I gives God I'm used.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
To, but I've pass upon the train and I.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Don't care if you crys.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Didn't count. So gives to big needs to Pasi against
(23:22):
Steve got use stiff a pass a potentially and I
don't check you cry your ship didn't count.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Stiff bass.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
A games step got give step.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Passion. I don't change you cry.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Some didn't count, so hims to be used to.
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Speaker 4 (24:26):
The Caden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
the best in country music. So check it out at
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Show dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And back here on Sunday morning inside the WSM of
course here in Texas, of course, but we're coming to
you out here in Nashville AM six fifty WSM, the
home of the Grand ol opryret There you can listen
to the broadcast every night at seven o'clock. That there's
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(25:02):
one of the greatest radio stations in the world, if
not the grets out there too. Am six fifty ws
in the home of the Backstage Past, powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot Com. Back you were Kallably Hutchinson
on the show used to good feel to it. This
was one that I'm sure had to be fun to
make off of a Southern galactic.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Super fun Yeah, Corey, my producer made the whole track
that you hear in the beginning, the super western feeling thing. Yeah,
it was so fun. Which I started writing it, and
I remember my concern being like, I don't want this
to be to cliche, you know, just do the full
Western route. And he brought that magic, you know, and
(25:42):
made it this kind of weird rock, funk, country western
whatever it is. It's super cool, that's all I know.
I listened back to it and I was like, Ah,
this this is way too cool to be something I did,
you know, but we did it, so I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You take it no doubt too. Hey, another cool song.
I loved what you got to collaborate since collaborations becoming
more of a really important, a really important part of
the industry right now. Jesse Wilson good friend of mine,
good friend of the show, and a just a great
artist in her own right too. Airstream Dreams. How did
this come about? The collaboration here, because man, both of
you guys vocally like killed it on that single.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Oh thank you, Yeah, no, we it was pretty much
right when we met. I ended up playing a show
with her and we were driving there and she saw
an airstream and said Airstream Dreams. And I was kind
of like making fun of it because you know, I'm
a boy, and I was like, oh, that's a country song, paddle,
and I was like, you know what, that actually ain't
that bad. And we just we wrote the song, and
(26:41):
you know, we recorded here in Nashville with the folks
that she works with, and it was super easy, really great,
like classic kind of song. So I'm honored to have
been part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The cool thing about the record that it's a lot
of fun. That's the theme of it too, because you
don't take anything seriously. Everything from all the tracks on
there too, from all this If you guys want to
check it out, it's across all the DSPs out there
too at the same time from calebly Hutchinson the album
Southern Galactic, and also check out Caleb Lye Hutchinson dot
com for tour dates and merchandise and all that good
stuff out there too. All Right, I have a little fun.
You're a Southern boy, so I love baseball, love my football.
(27:16):
You got to tell me your teams, my friend, is
it NFL, MLB, NBA, college sports? Tell me who you
root for.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I'm a big Atlanta Braves fan. Okay, uh, I'm a
big Dogs fan e ga. But frankly, I don't watch
the NFL A ton I never had. It was easy
for me to get into college football when I was younger. Yeah,
those are my two. Those are my main things I'm
riding for. And then of course anything in Nashville where
(27:45):
they want me to come to their stadium. I'm like,
you know what I like Vandy. Sure, black and gold
looks pretty good. You know, I love my Titans. They
want me to come to the halftime show. They love
this album.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's called Southern Galactic, gets across all those digital streaming platforms.
Check you out at Caleblye Hutchinson dot com for more
good stuff out there too, with merchandise and tour dates. Hey,
best of luck with the Calgary Stampede, my friend, and
looking forward to all the new music coming out and
looking forward to doing this again. Hope you had a
great time.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Hi, thank you very much. Thank you for your time.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You got it, calebly Hutchinson here on AM six fifty WSM,
the home of the grand O Lopry. We'll see you
guys back next week from five thirty to six am.
Coming up here on the home of the Grandul Lopry
AM six fifty WSM. You can listen each week from
five point thirty to six ams. You guys are tuned in,
Get up, drink some coffee with us, and have a
good time out there on one of the greatest to
radio stations in the world. We'll see you guys next
(28:36):
week on Sunday with a brand new artist. Until then,
take care, God bless.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Deep pass to the end Zone.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
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