September 26, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Kaylee Hammick and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass with Brandon on the Home of the
Grand Ole Opry six fifty am WSM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Of course, another Sunday morning.
People drinking coffee out there, getting up worshiping the Lord,
which is always good here on the Backstage Pass, powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And of course
thanks to everybody that makes the show possible here on
the Home of the Grand Ole Opry. He's just heard
there at the top. She's one of the most accomplished singer, songwriters, producers.
She's done it all out there too, and she's one
(00:29):
of the rising stars in country music right now. Nashville
recording artist Kaylee Hammick are featured artist of the Week
here on WSM on the Backstage Past, Miss Kaylee, how
you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I am doing good, Happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, happy to have you too. Well, let's talk about
this the latest single, and then we're going to play
it right out of the gate because I love it
and when I say the Hill times too. The Hill
was the current single that came back out in June,
which was your song No. Doubt, but you got a
chance to work with an amazing singer songwriter. He's been
many titles in the business. The Hill came out in
July with a gentleman named foy Vance. Talk to the
(01:02):
audience about this.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh my goodness, it was a dream come true. When
I wrote the song The Hill, I put in a
lot of Celtic influences from Scotland and Ireland.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
When I was touring.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Over there, I realized how strong of a fan base
I had, And then I had a week off in
the middle of it. Between some shows in Canada, I
had to do in the shows in Scotland, so I
took a week. I went solo high King, did about
forty six miles in five or six days, and went
up into the Islive Sky, into the Caregorn Mountains and
really just dove into Scottish I guess culture, the music
(01:34):
of the times that I was hearing on the radio
as I was driving from.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Sight to sight, and just kind of fell in love
with Scotland, to.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Be completely honest. And I've always been a fan of
fory Vance. I think I remember the first time I
ever heard She Burns. That was the way I really
got into his music, and he's from Ireland. He lives
in Scotland right now. And you know, I was telling
you right before this interview started that the big thing
I always tell folks my shows is if you never
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asked that question, that question is always going to be
an oath. The answer will always be a no. If
you never ask the question, they may just say yes
if you ask. And so I knew some of my
management team knew some of his folks, and so I
had just thought, you know, with this song having so
much Celtic influence and it was inspired by some of
my time in Ireland and Scotland, I thought, is there
(02:22):
a way I could bring in one of my absolute
favorite artists from over there? And boy was willing to
sing on it. And he came into town and he
is just.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Sweet as apple pie.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He just is so sweet and funny and down to earth,
and then he opens his mouth and it's like the
voice of God comes out. I mean, the guy is
just so insanely good and has so much passion in
his voice that he just I feel as if he
brought this song to the next level. And I'm forever
grateful that he was willing to do that. While he
was in town for the little amount of time he
had in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well he brought it to the next level. We get
to play in here on the backstage past and feature
here WSM the whole of the grand Ole Lobry, Kaylee,
Hammock and Foy Vance. It's called the Hill. Crack it
up here on w s M.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I know food directly. If we ever barred city love,
see neither of us talking.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Loose? It sells the world. Don't cutters?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lag my?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Why try to ask here of the soul and all
we both get in tied? Your side man, a real fine.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Paint?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Who mask well made you?
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Loo?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Who really gust?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Who's side of.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
If this is a huge dying lord?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Will you find some new friends and a new apartment?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I don't think I can if I'm being lo.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Your side of man, a real time repaid, A nastly
mag you sir?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Who really cares? Who's rider?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If this is the huglier dieon hor Some things are
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pass saved, Some words don't need We listen all home
save it's my heart, don't need.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
HI?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What's up you guys?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I am a Nashville recording artist. And you are listening
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Speaker 7 (06:15):
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Speaker 1 (07:01):
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Speaker 2 (07:11):
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dot com and of course after we thank everybody that
makes the show possible. You know, you have done a
lot of great things in your career when it comes
down to it, Kaylee, a lot of great collaborations. You
mentioned that question about if you never ask, you'll never
know what's on the other side of it too. We
can all handle a no, it's just what next door
we walk through. You mentioned the chance to collaborate with
so many great artists, I mean songs like small Town Hypocrite,
(07:52):
Fooled Around and Fell in Love of course with Miranda Lambert,
Chris Stapleton, Reba talk about that, just how excited he
is to ask that question, and they get rewarded by
working with some of the greatest talent in the industry.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's extremely humbling when you start to realize, you know,
why is it that they be willing to work with me,
you know, you kind of get imposter syndrome.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To be completely honest, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I honestly think that it has less to do with me,
and it has more to do with the kindness and
the encouragement and the support that older artists and this
genre specifically country music specifically, that they give to these
younger artists such as myself. I can't tell you how
loved I have felt from Reva, how kind Alan Jackson
(08:39):
was to me, Ashley McBride, I mean Ashle McBride and
and Neil Towns. I got to make that song with them,
and two of them are two of my closest friends
in this industry.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I love them dearly. I bury a body for either
of them.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But the thing is, with all of this said, it's
it's it's wild, It's I don't really know how to
explain it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's something that if I went back and tried to
tell thirteen year old Cayley that was starting to play
in bars and churches and anywhere that they let her play,
she wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
She wouldn't believe it at all.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I'm here and I get to say that the
thing I love telling people is whenever I work with
an artist and they're good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
One thing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As a child, I always wanted to meet some of
my favorite idols, and they said, never meet your idols
because they may not be what you think they are.
And I got to tell you, Alan Jackson and Riva
and Chris Stapleton and Foy Vance, they're exactly as you
would expect them to be.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There kind they.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Are down to earth and they're just spectacular talents that
encourage others that they see talent in and I'm just
grateful I get to know them in this lifetime, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Speaking of fool Around and fell in Love, we got
to talk about the big honor. There was the Academy
of Country Music Music Event of the Year with Miranda. Now,
that had to be one of the highest things as
far as rewards go, and getting the accolades in this
business when it comes down to it, and knowing that
one of the top award industries out there, or the
Academy of Country Music voted that as music Event of
the Year. What emotions and kind of what went through
(10:05):
you when you got that announcement on that night, And
I believe that was back in what twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, so we didn't even get I didn't get to
go to the event or the awards or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We found out over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And I screamed so loud, probably my neighbors five miles
away heard me. But I just it's the coolest thing
for me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I feel as if.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
God has given me such a beautiful moment that the
first times I've got to go on the ACM Awards,
the first time I got to play and perform on
the CMAS, the first award I ever got, I got
to do it with my friends. I got to do
it with other women in this industry that I love dearly,
that have either inspired me or encouraged me in some
way when I really really needed it. And Miranda. It's
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just the coolest thing the entire world that at sixteen,
I had my first three hour gig in a bar
and I started it with kerosene, and I believe I
ended it with gunpowder and let And to then become,
you know, a friend of hers and get to work
with her and learn from her. She's just working with
Miranda is a masterclass and how to do it. You know,
I just love her dearly, and I'll never forget that day.
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I was in the studio, Ashton McBride and Miranda we
were all standing there and Jay Joyce's studio, and I
went to pick up my bag because I thought, well,
you know, these two were friends. I want to make
sure that they get some time alone together.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They know each other.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And i'd go to pick up my bag and Miriena
look at me and goes, where are you going?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And I said, well, I just was going to go home.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Y'all as artists, you never get to just hang out
one on one with your friends, so I just thought
I'd give y'all some time to hang out.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And she goes, put your bag down. We're listening to music.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You want to drink, And Mariana goes and makes me
a drink and puts it in my hand and goes,
stay for a couple more hours, let's listen to music.
And just she has this open arm approach I think
to any artist that needs it. And Ashley McBride does
the same thing, and all those women. It was just
a powerhouse day in the studio. And then to get
that award. I got the award in the mail a
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few months later, and I definitely might got drunk with
my best friend and definitely I love a little bleakful
moments where you get to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So, you know you mentioned this. We're on the Home
of the Opry talking about it here this week. You've
gotten to play the Opry a few times, and everybody
says they never take it for granted when they step
in that center circle, because it's just one of those
lifelong dreams when you get the call. And do you
remember what it was like? I guess the first time
you get that call and you're going to step in
the center circle, what emotions kind of went through you?
And you were talking about a little bit before the show,
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like what songs you get to choose?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was that a difficult choice?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
At the very beginning, I knew I needed to do
Family Tree. That was my big song at radio at
that point. And my thing was the only reason I
got into country music is the artist that came before me.
Loretta Lynne was my very first concert. Patsy Klimb Johnny
Cash were two of my biggest loves in country music.
And so I do this thing now and Tammy Whine
(12:54):
add as well. But I do this thing that I
would come in and sing one of my songs, and
then I would sing a cover to pay homage to
somebody that stood in this circle before me. And you
know what, for people that may not believe, I completely understand.
But people that believe may may understand what I'm saying
with this. But every time I've ever stepped in that
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circle and sang a song from an artist that's passed away,
I feel them with me. I have felt Patsy be
in that circle with me. I felt Tammy be in
that circle. I felt Loretta Lynd be in a circle
with me. And it is so cool to get to
play your own music, but for me personally, it is
even more sacred and special in my heart to get
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to play some of these songs that made me even
want to learn how to write songs, want to learn
how to play guitar, and feel for just those three
minutes at a time, I feel as if that artist
is truly with me in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That sacred house.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And that's really my favorite thing is singing songs from
the people that passed on before me that made me
want to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
The granted opry is always special. Every time you played
it feels like your first time.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I'll tell you what it really does too. And like
I said, sitting in the audience, it just gives you
goosebumps when you have a great lineup out there too,
and of course tickets out there. You know Kayla's gonna
be back on there at some point again, so opry
dot Com get those tickets out there too. As you're
listening here to the backstage pass on the home of
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and time to play some more music gear. We get
to crank it up again and we're gonna do a
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little double shot of this when it's not the collaboration
with boy Advance, but it came out in June from
Kaylee Hammock. It is called the Hill. Enjoy it here
on wsm AM six fifty. Crank it out.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Handc It's we ever bard City Oney loves neither rivers
talking these eggs as we all don't cut us le
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Barbier right edge, kipp us, hold along, we're both getting tireder.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Your sign of line a real pie.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
We're plain a mass. We're making a love Who really cares?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Who's had a right?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
If this is the Hill dying nor.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Leave fronds.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Some new friends in need.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Too, Bard.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I don't think that I can't if I'm being of it,
You're sad Ofrmonde.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Who real kind?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
We're paying a mass, We're baking a blody?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Who really cares?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Who's right? If this is the lear dieon hole. Some
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things are pass save some moves don't need wait. Listen
all home say it's my heart need break.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
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(18:14):
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for all the great programming and of course all the
great Opry performances out there. Our guest this week, Kaylee Hill,
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talking everything music and then some here again the Hill,
you know, went to the collaboration with Foyd, but your
own rendition and the fact that you just keep you know, writing,
producing or co writing and just working with great teams
on this and putting out great music. Kaylee, this had
to be a lot of fun to work on as
well as you mentioned family Tree, and of course I
mean something with Ashley McBride and small town hypocrite. You're
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never a stranger to a great song, and the Hill
is just another great song in your catalog.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It kind of felt like the Hill felt like it
was kind of a war anthem, a war chant about
you know, losing a battle to not lose the person,
or fighting the war four and it was really cool
to get to bring in some of those the Celtic
influences in it. I wrote it with to Neil Towns
and another friend of ours, a songwriter in town named
Logan Wall, and it was cool, you know, we wrote
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it a few years back and it just kept coming up.
It just kept coming up, and I love that. In Nashville, Tennessee,
you see it a lot in the nineties and eighties
when people would re record versions and each version of
it would have to be a big hit, you know,
for and as a songwriter you see it as well
that the age old saying of good songs stick around,
and in my catalog that one just kept kind of
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coming up to the top. And finally I really sat
down with it and started thinking about how we'd want
to produce it. And that's when the moment hit that
I went, oh, this is the one I do for
my fans overseas. This is the one I kind of
tip my hat to them. Because the coolest thing about
getting to tour, not just the US, but starting to
tour in different places of the world is country music
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is everywhere and it connects people from so many different places.
You're playing downtown, you know, London, and yet people are
just as into it and wearing their cowboy hats as
I would at a small town festival in Iowa. And
it's cool to see how country music connects us all.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
When you look at that debut album and it's so
many great songs off of there too. You mentioned Redhead
with Reba and of course The Mean Something featuring Ashley
McBride out there too, and I loved to gain small
Town Hypocrite of my favorites. When you look back at
that debut album, if it wasn't for you, it just
makes me think about just great country music, great storytelling,
so many great songs on there too. What do you
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remember best about just that album too? And now these
songs are we're talking about what three four five years
old now, but these songs are going to carry on
and stand the test of time at least, I think.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So, oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It was really cool because at that point it was
me and one of my really good friends still to
this day, Mikey Reeves. We were both you know, he
was starting to produce some stuff, but both of us
are just staff writers. The universal and the reason if
you go back and you listen to that stuff in
comparison to the stuff I'm putting out on this next album.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
A lot of it was samples.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's why it kind of has more of a pop
probably side to it than the new stuff. But we
have five hundred dollars demo budgets. That's what we had
to be able to put these songs out, and so
me and him would try to make as much as
we could in the studio and make it as country
as we could while using samples. And anyways, it's really
cool to kind of step away from that album years later.
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As you're playing shows and I'm playing new songs, people
will shout out just friends or you know, a name
of one of the songs.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Off of that album, and it just it feels so
good to know that, you know, I tell.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
People all the time as songwriters we all go through
and as humans in this world, we go through certain heartbreaks,
real bad moments, natural disasters, that everything's taken away from us.
It doesn't matter what the heartbreak is, but we've all
felt similar heartbreaks, and as songwriters and as artists, we
get to try to take those heartbreaks and try, for
three and a half minutes at a time, make someone
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feel a little less alone in whatever heartbreak that is.
And that album was a lot of heartbreak songs and
a lot of moments where I had felt very alone,
and getting to put those songs out, sit around for
a few years and now feeling people come back to
that album and reconnect with it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It makes every heartbreak you go through as a person
worth that if you got to write a song that
helped at least one other first and through a heartbreak
similar and that album is that for me.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Let's talk about a couple of great singles too, which
I loved out there too from Kayley Hammick, A history
of repeating. Let's get the backstory on that.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh yeah, the funniest thing in the entire world to me.
That was the one day.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It was the very first rite I had in the studio.
I'm actually sitting in right here. I had Ashley McBride
and pill Box Patty. They were gonna come over at eleven.
And well before that, I had found out there was
this skin lady, this skin esthetician that did all these
different artists that I know, that has beautiful skin, and
so I was like, I'm gonna go to her and
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get this thing done.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's called micro needling. And well, just to let y'all know,
if you've never done that, you look like a lobster.
You are bright red, ugly, ugly. Okay. So the thing is,
I was had ran out of coffee at the house.
I stopped by Starbucks, and these two girls.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
In the in the drive through, they kind are elbowing
one another, and I'm like, oh no, they're gonna make
fun of me when I leave, you know, I look
so bad. And then one of the girls comes over
and says, we really love your music, and I was like,
the first time I get recognized I am as red
as a lobster.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, the thing is, I go home and I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Feeling really good even though I look hideous, and Ashon
McBride comes, Pillbox Patty comes over, and we start talking
about the.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Cycles you go through with love. When you really love
someone and then you kind of obsess about them.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You just can't seem to let them go, and you're
completely fine until you get drunk and you see them
post online about somebody new, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's, oh no, we're back in the spiral, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And we wrote the song, and there is just something
about certain songs once you finish them in the writing
room that we all collectively looked at one another and
we were like, we gotta go drink. We need to
go to a bar and sit somewhere and talk about
this song and drink a couple of drinks. And I
looked so bad, and I still was like, yeah, we're
going to the bar right now. And anyways, it just
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was such a silly thing, sitting out there in the
sun with this bright red face, sitting around two incredible
writers and artists themselves, and just we didn't really know
what we had. We just you get this feeling sometimes
when you write songs, you're like this is something, this
is something And only song ever that I have not
really argued, but went back and forth with another artist
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actually wanted to cut it, and I wanted to cut it,
and I didn't really have anything else right then that
I wanted to pull the trigger on, and so I
just said, I was like, would you be willing to
come in and sing it with me?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That would mean the world to me. And she said
of course.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
So she came in and sang on it with me,
and then we didn't put her name on it because
we were talking about how one of my favorite ones.
You know the song either way, Chris Stapleton wrote it
Lee and will not cut it. If you listen to
Liam's version, Chris Stapleton sing in the backgrounds and it
was like a cool little easter egg.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Go back and listen and.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You'll definitely hear it. But I wanted to Ashley and
I talked about how we wanted to do that more
on our records. Have some of our friends come in
and sing and then when someone's listening, they go, wait,
a mint is that? Ashley cried, And so that's what
we did with History of Repete. Ashley was sweet enough
to come in and sing on that one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, you got another one too. I just love because
of the sound and what you brought to it out there,
and it came out as a single called That Dog,
And we've got to dive into this one too, because
just what a fun, fun country song to have that
you know, people can kind of relate to and resonate
with in a different.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Way, right, Yes, you know, it's so funny you brought
up that song specifically because right before this, I went
to YouTube and I have been told by many artists,
don't go to the comments, don't read the comments. You know,
a hundred people will say something nice and one person
says something mean, and it will just get stuck in
your head.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
But I just I was like, you know what, I
want to make sure that all the people that write.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Something kind and listen and follow up with my music
and put their stories out in the comments of how it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Relates to them. I want them to feel seen and appreciated.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
And so I went to That Dog and so many
people were writing such kind stuff about it, and it
just it made me feel so good that people were
able to relate to it, and well, kind of unfortunate
that they're relating to a song about, you know, a
dog leaving a good dog in a bad relationship.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But it was so cool to get to see people's
reaction to it, and it just it makes it all
worth it, all the harder days or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know, they say I'm living the dream, but they
never said living the dream was going to be easy.
And I'm so grateful. Whenever I'm having a hard day
or just a hard time where I don't feel as
if I'm getting as much done as I want to,
I go look at comments and I just remind myself
if one person connected to it and it helped somebody,
or it make someone happy for a little bit, then
that song was worth putting out.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I love it all right. We'll do the million dollar
question here as we wrap up here on the segment
of the week here for WSMA six fifty favorite restaurant.
I was gonna say Nashville, Tennessee. But have you been
to Houston? Do you have a favorite restaurant in Houston, Texas?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
No? Now, in Dallas, there's a place called Ferris Wheelers.
Have you ever been there? I played everyone through the
barbecue play. It has a Fairis wheel in the back.
That's the place I think of Houston. I don't know
if I.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Really ate out enough in Houston. Normally when we're playing
they bring food to you backstage and they keep you
in the green room. But in Nashville, Tennessee, oh my goodness,
it might be sweats.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I'm a big meat and three girl.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Arnold's is a good one. And if they have an
espresso martini. Now, if you're downtown, this is one place
I would suggest. If you're going to the Broadway area,
there's a place called Blanco and they have an espresso
martini with this stuff called gide Up powder on it
and it's like cinnamon and cocoa, bean and sugar and
I could drink my weight in it.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Tell you what great songs out there. The Hill of
course came out back in Gin, and the one called
the Hills featuring Foy Vance out there too, one of
the greats and music came out in July from the
great Kaylee Hammock. Hey appreciate you being here on the program.
Great for Future here as the artist of the week
here on WSMAM six fifty the Home on the Grandel Lobrary.
Continue success going forward on this new record, and I
would love to have you back to you anytime, Brannan.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'd love to come back anytime. Thank you so much
for thinking on me. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Hey, y'all, this is Terry McBride and you're listening to
The Backstage Pass on WSM Radio.
Hey, y'all, this is Kaylee Hammick and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass with Brandon on the Home of the
Grand Ole Opry six fifty am WSM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Of course, another Sunday morning.
People drinking coffee out there, getting up worshiping the Lord,
which is always good here on the Backstage Pass, powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And of course
thanks to everybody that makes the show possible here on
the Home of the Grand Ole Opry. He's just heard
there at the top. She's one of the most accomplished singer, songwriters, producers.
She's done it all out there too, and she's one
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of the rising stars in country music right now. Nashville
recording artist Kaylee Hammick are featured artist of the Week
here on WSM on the Backstage Past, Miss Kaylee, how
you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I am doing good, Happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, happy to have you too. Well, let's talk about
this the latest single, and then we're going to play
it right out of the gate because I love it
and when I say the Hill times too. The Hill
was the current single that came back out in June,
which was your song No. Doubt, but you got a
chance to work with an amazing singer songwriter. He's been
many titles in the business. The Hill came out in
July with a gentleman named foy Vance. Talk to the
(01:02):
audience about this.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh my goodness, it was a dream come true. When
I wrote the song The Hill, I put in a
lot of Celtic influences from Scotland and Ireland.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
When I was touring.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Over there, I realized how strong of a fan base
I had, And then I had a week off in
the middle of it. Between some shows in Canada, I
had to do in the shows in Scotland, so I
took a week. I went solo high King, did about
forty six miles in five or six days, and went
up into the Islive Sky, into the Caregorn Mountains and
really just dove into Scottish I guess culture, the music
(01:34):
of the times that I was hearing on the radio
as I was driving from.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Sight to sight, and just kind of fell in love
with Scotland, to.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Be completely honest. And I've always been a fan of
fory Vance. I think I remember the first time I
ever heard She Burns. That was the way I really
got into his music, and he's from Ireland. He lives
in Scotland right now. And you know, I was telling
you right before this interview started that the big thing
I always tell folks my shows is if you never
(02:01):
asked that question, that question is always going to be
an oath. The answer will always be a no. If
you never ask the question, they may just say yes
if you ask. And so I knew some of my
management team knew some of his folks, and so I
had just thought, you know, with this song having so
much Celtic influence and it was inspired by some of
my time in Ireland and Scotland, I thought, is there
(02:22):
a way I could bring in one of my absolute
favorite artists from over there? And boy was willing to
sing on it. And he came into town and he
is just.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Sweet as apple pie.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He just is so sweet and funny and down to earth,
and then he opens his mouth and it's like the
voice of God comes out. I mean, the guy is
just so insanely good and has so much passion in
his voice that he just I feel as if he
brought this song to the next level. And I'm forever
grateful that he was willing to do that. While he
was in town for the little amount of time he
had in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well he brought it to the next level. We get
to play in here on the backstage past and feature
here WSM the whole of the grand Ole Lobry, Kaylee,
Hammock and Foy Vance. It's called the Hill. Crack it
up here on w s M.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I know food directly. If we ever barred city love,
see neither of us talking.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Loose? It sells the world. Don't cutters?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lag my?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Why try to ask here of the soul and all
we both get in tied? Your side man, a real fine.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Paint?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Who mask well made you?
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Loo?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Who really gust?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Who's side of.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
If this is a huge dying lord?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Will you find some new friends and a new apartment?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I don't think I can if I'm being lo.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Your side of man, a real time repaid, A nastly
mag you sir?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Who really cares? Who's rider?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If this is the huglier dieon hor Some things are
(05:49):
pass saved, Some words don't need We listen all home
save it's my heart, don't need.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
HI?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What's up you guys?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
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(07:31):
dot com and of course after we thank everybody that
makes the show possible. You know, you have done a
lot of great things in your career when it comes
down to it, Kaylee, a lot of great collaborations. You
mentioned that question about if you never ask, you'll never
know what's on the other side of it too. We
can all handle a no, it's just what next door
we walk through. You mentioned the chance to collaborate with
so many great artists, I mean songs like small Town Hypocrite,
(07:52):
Fooled Around and Fell in Love of course with Miranda Lambert,
Chris Stapleton, Reba talk about that, just how excited he
is to ask that question, and they get rewarded by
working with some of the greatest talent in the industry.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's extremely humbling when you start to realize, you know,
why is it that they be willing to work with me,
you know, you kind of get imposter syndrome.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To be completely honest, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I honestly think that it has less to do with me,
and it has more to do with the kindness and
the encouragement and the support that older artists and this
genre specifically country music specifically, that they give to these
younger artists such as myself. I can't tell you how
loved I have felt from Reva, how kind Alan Jackson
(08:39):
was to me, Ashley McBride, I mean Ashle McBride and
and Neil Towns. I got to make that song with them,
and two of them are two of my closest friends
in this industry.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I love them dearly. I bury a body for either
of them.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But the thing is, with all of this said, it's
it's it's wild, It's I don't really know how to
explain it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's something that if I went back and tried to
tell thirteen year old Cayley that was starting to play
in bars and churches and anywhere that they let her play,
she wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
She wouldn't believe it at all.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I'm here and I get to say that the
thing I love telling people is whenever I work with
an artist and they're good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
One thing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As a child, I always wanted to meet some of
my favorite idols, and they said, never meet your idols
because they may not be what you think they are.
And I got to tell you, Alan Jackson and Riva
and Chris Stapleton and Foy Vance, they're exactly as you
would expect them to be.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There kind they.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Are down to earth and they're just spectacular talents that
encourage others that they see talent in and I'm just
grateful I get to know them in this lifetime, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Speaking of fool Around and fell in Love, we got
to talk about the big honor. There was the Academy
of Country Music Music Event of the Year with Miranda. Now,
that had to be one of the highest things as
far as rewards go, and getting the accolades in this
business when it comes down to it, and knowing that
one of the top award industries out there, or the
Academy of Country Music voted that as music Event of
the Year. What emotions and kind of what went through
(10:05):
you when you got that announcement on that night, And
I believe that was back in what twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, so we didn't even get I didn't get to
go to the event or the awards or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We found out over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And I screamed so loud, probably my neighbors five miles
away heard me. But I just it's the coolest thing
for me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I feel as if.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
God has given me such a beautiful moment that the
first times I've got to go on the ACM Awards,
the first time I got to play and perform on
the CMAS, the first award I ever got, I got
to do it with my friends. I got to do
it with other women in this industry that I love dearly,
that have either inspired me or encouraged me in some
way when I really really needed it. And Miranda. It's
(10:46):
just the coolest thing the entire world that at sixteen,
I had my first three hour gig in a bar
and I started it with kerosene, and I believe I
ended it with gunpowder and let And to then become,
you know, a friend of hers and get to work
with her and learn from her. She's just working with
Miranda is a masterclass and how to do it. You know,
I just love her dearly, and I'll never forget that day.
(11:09):
I was in the studio, Ashton McBride and Miranda we
were all standing there and Jay Joyce's studio, and I
went to pick up my bag because I thought, well,
you know, these two were friends. I want to make
sure that they get some time alone together.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They know each other.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And i'd go to pick up my bag and Miriena
look at me and goes, where are you going?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And I said, well, I just was going to go home.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Y'all as artists, you never get to just hang out
one on one with your friends, so I just thought
I'd give y'all some time to hang out.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And she goes, put your bag down. We're listening to music.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You want to drink, And Mariana goes and makes me
a drink and puts it in my hand and goes,
stay for a couple more hours, let's listen to music.
And just she has this open arm approach I think
to any artist that needs it. And Ashley McBride does
the same thing, and all those women. It was just
a powerhouse day in the studio. And then to get
that award. I got the award in the mail a
(11:57):
few months later, and I definitely might got drunk with
my best friend and definitely I love a little bleakful
moments where you get to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So, you know you mentioned this. We're on the Home
of the Opry talking about it here this week. You've
gotten to play the Opry a few times, and everybody
says they never take it for granted when they step
in that center circle, because it's just one of those
lifelong dreams when you get the call. And do you
remember what it was like? I guess the first time
you get that call and you're going to step in
the center circle, what emotions kind of went through you?
And you were talking about a little bit before the show,
(12:27):
like what songs you get to choose?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was that a difficult choice?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
At the very beginning, I knew I needed to do
Family Tree. That was my big song at radio at
that point. And my thing was the only reason I
got into country music is the artist that came before me.
Loretta Lynne was my very first concert. Patsy Klimb Johnny
Cash were two of my biggest loves in country music.
And so I do this thing now and Tammy Whine
(12:54):
add as well. But I do this thing that I
would come in and sing one of my songs, and
then I would sing a cover to pay homage to
somebody that stood in this circle before me. And you
know what, for people that may not believe, I completely understand.
But people that believe may may understand what I'm saying
with this. But every time I've ever stepped in that
(13:15):
circle and sang a song from an artist that's passed away,
I feel them with me. I have felt Patsy be
in that circle with me. I felt Tammy be in
that circle. I felt Loretta Lynd be in a circle
with me. And it is so cool to get to
play your own music, but for me personally, it is
even more sacred and special in my heart to get
(13:35):
to play some of these songs that made me even
want to learn how to write songs, want to learn
how to play guitar, and feel for just those three
minutes at a time, I feel as if that artist
is truly with me in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That sacred house.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And that's really my favorite thing is singing songs from
the people that passed on before me that made me
want to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
The granted opry is always special. Every time you played
it feels like your first time.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I'll tell you what it really does too. And like
I said, sitting in the audience, it just gives you
goosebumps when you have a great lineup out there too,
and of course tickets out there. You know Kayla's gonna
be back on there at some point again, so opry
dot Com get those tickets out there too. As you're
listening here to the backstage pass on the home of
the Opry, am six fifty w sm out there too,
and time to play some more music gear. We get
to crank it up again and we're gonna do a
(14:19):
little double shot of this when it's not the collaboration
with boy Advance, but it came out in June from
Kaylee Hammock. It is called the Hill. Enjoy it here
on wsm AM six fifty. Crank it out.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Handc It's we ever bard City Oney loves neither rivers
talking these eggs as we all don't cut us le
(15:22):
Barbier right edge, kipp us, hold along, we're both getting tireder.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Your sign of line a real pie.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
We're plain a mass. We're making a love Who really cares?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Who's had a right?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
If this is the Hill dying nor.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Leave fronds.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Some new friends in need.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Too, Bard.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I don't think that I can't if I'm being of it,
You're sad Ofrmonde.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Who real kind?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
We're paying a mass, We're baking a blody?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Who really cares?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Who's right? If this is the lear dieon hole. Some
(17:10):
things are pass save some moves don't need wait. Listen
all home say it's my heart need break.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Hey y'all, this is Phil Vasser and you're listening to
the Backstage Past on the Home of the Opera w
sm A N six fifty.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
The Caiden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
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Go behind the scenes with some of the biggest artists
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(18:14):
dot Com each and every Sunday morning from five point
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Speaker 8 (18:22):
Hi, this is Grammy Award winning bluegrass artist Ronda Vincent
and you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast on the
Home of the Grand Ole Opry WSM AM six fifty.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, of course we record during those hours Monday through
Friday to put out the best of the best artists
of the week for WSM and for other affiliates. So
thank you guys for tuning in and for joining us
here on this ride every Sunday morning, right here on
the Home of the Grand ol Opry AM six fifty
WSM from five thirty am to six am. Right there too,
for all the great programming and of course all the
great Opry performances out there. Our guest this week, Kaylee Hill,
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talking everything music and then some here again the Hill,
you know, went to the collaboration with Foyd, but your
own rendition and the fact that you just keep you know, writing,
producing or co writing and just working with great teams
on this and putting out great music. Kaylee, this had
to be a lot of fun to work on as
well as you mentioned family Tree, and of course I
mean something with Ashley McBride and small town hypocrite. You're
(19:17):
never a stranger to a great song, and the Hill
is just another great song in your catalog.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It kind of felt like the Hill felt like it
was kind of a war anthem, a war chant about
you know, losing a battle to not lose the person,
or fighting the war four and it was really cool
to get to bring in some of those the Celtic
influences in it. I wrote it with to Neil Towns
and another friend of ours, a songwriter in town named
Logan Wall, and it was cool, you know, we wrote
(19:46):
it a few years back and it just kept coming up.
It just kept coming up, and I love that. In Nashville, Tennessee,
you see it a lot in the nineties and eighties
when people would re record versions and each version of
it would have to be a big hit, you know,
for and as a songwriter you see it as well
that the age old saying of good songs stick around,
and in my catalog that one just kept kind of
(20:08):
coming up to the top. And finally I really sat
down with it and started thinking about how we'd want
to produce it. And that's when the moment hit that
I went, oh, this is the one I do for
my fans overseas. This is the one I kind of
tip my hat to them. Because the coolest thing about
getting to tour, not just the US, but starting to
tour in different places of the world is country music
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is everywhere and it connects people from so many different places.
You're playing downtown, you know, London, and yet people are
just as into it and wearing their cowboy hats as
I would at a small town festival in Iowa. And
it's cool to see how country music connects us all.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
When you look at that debut album and it's so
many great songs off of there too. You mentioned Redhead
with Reba and of course The Mean Something featuring Ashley
McBride out there too, and I loved to gain small
Town Hypocrite of my favorites. When you look back at
that debut album, if it wasn't for you, it just
makes me think about just great country music, great storytelling,
so many great songs on there too. What do you
(21:10):
remember best about just that album too? And now these
songs are we're talking about what three four five years
old now, but these songs are going to carry on
and stand the test of time at least, I think.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So, oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It was really cool because at that point it was
me and one of my really good friends still to
this day, Mikey Reeves. We were both you know, he
was starting to produce some stuff, but both of us
are just staff writers. The universal and the reason if
you go back and you listen to that stuff in
comparison to the stuff I'm putting out on this next album.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
A lot of it was samples.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's why it kind of has more of a pop
probably side to it than the new stuff. But we
have five hundred dollars demo budgets. That's what we had
to be able to put these songs out, and so
me and him would try to make as much as
we could in the studio and make it as country
as we could while using samples. And anyways, it's really
cool to kind of step away from that album years later.
(22:01):
As you're playing shows and I'm playing new songs, people
will shout out just friends or you know, a name
of one of the songs.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Off of that album, and it just it feels so
good to know that, you know, I tell.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
People all the time as songwriters we all go through
and as humans in this world, we go through certain heartbreaks,
real bad moments, natural disasters, that everything's taken away from us.
It doesn't matter what the heartbreak is, but we've all
felt similar heartbreaks, and as songwriters and as artists, we
get to try to take those heartbreaks and try, for
three and a half minutes at a time, make someone
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feel a little less alone in whatever heartbreak that is.
And that album was a lot of heartbreak songs and
a lot of moments where I had felt very alone,
and getting to put those songs out, sit around for
a few years and now feeling people come back to
that album and reconnect with it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It makes every heartbreak you go through as a person
worth that if you got to write a song that
helped at least one other first and through a heartbreak
similar and that album is that for me.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Let's talk about a couple of great singles too, which
I loved out there too from Kayley Hammick, A history
of repeating. Let's get the backstory on that.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh yeah, the funniest thing in the entire world to me.
That was the one day.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It was the very first rite I had in the studio.
I'm actually sitting in right here. I had Ashley McBride
and pill Box Patty. They were gonna come over at eleven.
And well before that, I had found out there was
this skin lady, this skin esthetician that did all these
different artists that I know, that has beautiful skin, and
so I was like, I'm gonna go to her and
(23:39):
get this thing done.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's called micro needling. And well, just to let y'all know,
if you've never done that, you look like a lobster.
You are bright red, ugly, ugly. Okay. So the thing is,
I was had ran out of coffee at the house.
I stopped by Starbucks, and these two girls.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
In the in the drive through, they kind are elbowing
one another, and I'm like, oh no, they're gonna make
fun of me when I leave, you know, I look
so bad. And then one of the girls comes over
and says, we really love your music, and I was like,
the first time I get recognized I am as red
as a lobster.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, the thing is, I go home and I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Feeling really good even though I look hideous, and Ashon
McBride comes, Pillbox Patty comes over, and we start talking
about the.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Cycles you go through with love. When you really love
someone and then you kind of obsess about them.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You just can't seem to let them go, and you're
completely fine until you get drunk and you see them
post online about somebody new, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's, oh no, we're back in the spiral, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And we wrote the song, and there is just something
about certain songs once you finish them in the writing
room that we all collectively looked at one another and
we were like, we gotta go drink. We need to
go to a bar and sit somewhere and talk about
this song and drink a couple of drinks. And I
looked so bad, and I still was like, yeah, we're
going to the bar right now. And anyways, it just
(24:58):
was such a silly thing, sitting out there in the
sun with this bright red face, sitting around two incredible
writers and artists themselves, and just we didn't really know
what we had. We just you get this feeling sometimes
when you write songs, you're like this is something, this
is something And only song ever that I have not
really argued, but went back and forth with another artist
(25:19):
actually wanted to cut it, and I wanted to cut it,
and I didn't really have anything else right then that
I wanted to pull the trigger on, and so I
just said, I was like, would you be willing to
come in and sing it with me?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That would mean the world to me. And she said
of course.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
So she came in and sang on it with me,
and then we didn't put her name on it because
we were talking about how one of my favorite ones.
You know the song either way, Chris Stapleton wrote it
Lee and will not cut it. If you listen to
Liam's version, Chris Stapleton sing in the backgrounds and it
was like a cool little easter egg.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Go back and listen and.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You'll definitely hear it. But I wanted to Ashley and
I talked about how we wanted to do that more
on our records. Have some of our friends come in
and sing and then when someone's listening, they go, wait,
a mint is that? Ashley cried, And so that's what
we did with History of Repete. Ashley was sweet enough
to come in and sing on that one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, you got another one too. I just love because
of the sound and what you brought to it out there,
and it came out as a single called That Dog,
And we've got to dive into this one too, because
just what a fun, fun country song to have that
you know, people can kind of relate to and resonate
with in a different.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Way, right, Yes, you know, it's so funny you brought
up that song specifically because right before this, I went
to YouTube and I have been told by many artists,
don't go to the comments, don't read the comments. You know,
a hundred people will say something nice and one person
says something mean, and it will just get stuck in
your head.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
But I just I was like, you know what, I
want to make sure that all the people that write.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Something kind and listen and follow up with my music
and put their stories out in the comments of how it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Relates to them. I want them to feel seen and appreciated.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
And so I went to That Dog and so many
people were writing such kind stuff about it, and it
just it made me feel so good that people were
able to relate to it, and well, kind of unfortunate
that they're relating to a song about, you know, a
dog leaving a good dog in a bad relationship.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But it was so cool to get to see people's
reaction to it, and it just it makes it all
worth it, all the harder days or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know, they say I'm living the dream, but they
never said living the dream was going to be easy.
And I'm so grateful. Whenever I'm having a hard day
or just a hard time where I don't feel as
if I'm getting as much done as I want to,
I go look at comments and I just remind myself
if one person connected to it and it helped somebody,
or it make someone happy for a little bit, then
that song was worth putting out.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I love it all right. We'll do the million dollar
question here as we wrap up here on the segment
of the week here for WSMA six fifty favorite restaurant.
I was gonna say Nashville, Tennessee. But have you been
to Houston? Do you have a favorite restaurant in Houston, Texas?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
No? Now, in Dallas, there's a place called Ferris Wheelers.
Have you ever been there? I played everyone through the
barbecue play. It has a Fairis wheel in the back.
That's the place I think of Houston. I don't know
if I.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Really ate out enough in Houston. Normally when we're playing
they bring food to you backstage and they keep you
in the green room. But in Nashville, Tennessee, oh my goodness,
it might be sweats.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I'm a big meat and three girl.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Arnold's is a good one. And if they have an
espresso martini. Now, if you're downtown, this is one place
I would suggest. If you're going to the Broadway area,
there's a place called Blanco and they have an espresso
martini with this stuff called gide Up powder on it
and it's like cinnamon and cocoa, bean and sugar and
I could drink my weight in it.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Tell you what great songs out there. The Hill of
course came out back in Gin, and the one called
the Hills featuring Foy Vance out there too, one of
the greats and music came out in July from the
great Kaylee Hammock. Hey appreciate you being here on the program.
Great for Future here as the artist of the week
here on WSMAM six fifty the Home on the Grandel Lobrary.
Continue success going forward on this new record, and I
would love to have you back to you anytime, Brannan.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'd love to come back anytime. Thank you so much
for thinking on me. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Hey, y'all, this is Terry McBride and you're listening to
The Backstage Pass on WSM Radio.
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