July 2, 2025 • 35 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Celeste Kellogg is back on the show to talk about her new single, Driving East and lots more! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Nashville Recording Artists Celeste
(00:03):
Kellogg and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past
podcast on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
Broadcasting Network. Stream the show anytime on iHeartRadio podcasts and
at the Sports Guys Podcast dot com and on THWN
dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Always a busy day full of shows here KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts
and of course our friends the Sports Guys Podcast dot
com and of course out There two presented by our
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her friends over at B and B Construction Services, Guys,
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(00:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
There.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
B and B Construction Services seven one, three, eight nine
zero twenty five fifty one. I'd love to hear from
you too. A lot of summer projects going on there too. Well,
She's got a lot of summer projects here. One of
Nashville's best and brightest. We caught her at CMA Week
this year from the Big Festival. She had some performances,
some meet and greets, and a great friend of the program,
here's you. Always great to have her on, Celest Kellogg
(01:08):
to the backstage past to Celesta, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I am great, Thank you so much for having me
back on.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's the follow ups. We've got to do those two
because it's old news.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Like I said, you guys told us they're back in
a few first week in jim and now we're moving
forward now to put out new shows there too. Well,
let's talk about this one too. I'm not gonna waste
any time. It's been out through a while and we're
gonna play it pretty quick here on the show Driving East.
I want to talk about this this latest single.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I love it. It's got a great feel.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's got like a nineties country feel to it, which
is tremendous because that's the era that I grew up in,
loving that style and that brand of neo traditional sound.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, well, it's a song I wrote about my musical
journey and where music's taken me from California to Nashville
and all the places in between. But I'm a Virginia
girl at heart, and it's basically my homeword bound song.
It's a song that talks about when I see Virginia
through my front windshield. It's just kind of where I
feel my piece, where I find myself again and kind
(02:04):
of re establish my roots. So it's a song I
wrote dedicated to my home and it's been it's been
receiving really cool feedback. Some people even think it's kind
of leans towards southern rock country rock, which I'm like
all about. And when you said nineties country, I was like, oh,
thank you, because.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I love nineties country.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So but yes, and the music video is out for it,
and I'm just I'm so excited about all the feedback
we've gotten and just just the song in general.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Tell us about that music video now that it's out there,
And of course, so where did you guys shoot at? Locations?
So who did you get to do it? And of
course photography all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So what's really cool about it is it starts out
with a bunch of videos from my childhood basically and
when I really started growing up singing because I wanted
it to take on that whole journey from start through
the middle, and you know where I am now.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And so it starts out with the home.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Home style videos, and then it talks about all of
the places that I've been and shows some clips from
California and from Nashville, and then it ends up in
Virginia Beach at the ocean Front doing a big performance
there for like a hometown crowd. And so I had
an amazing Sergio Lorenzana. He was the director of photography.
(03:20):
I wrote the script and I also edited the video,
and he did a color grading for it. So I've
been editing videos since I was in middle school. They
weren't great back then, but it was my favorite thing
to do. I'd put on a song, I'd lip sync
to it, and film like twenty different takes of different.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Things, and I'd edit it all together.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So it is really a part of One of my
favorite parts of being an artist is the music video too,
because you can bring the song to life visually.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well y'all have done that too, and encourage everybody go
check it out across all the platforms wherever you guys
receive your music videos out there too as well.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Here can't believe it's July already.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I still say that too, with the Fourth of July
weekend holiday coming up, and of course it's gonna fly
over the next few weeks and into the third quarter
now of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We've got to play it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Now to the single we're talking about, driving East. It's
from celest Kellogg, two al's and two g's, and you
guys go look for that website out there, celest kellogg
dot com. Back in the Flash, presented by B and
B Construction Services and our friends at the Cadan Gordon
Show dot com. Today's best country mix. We're gonna drive East.
Here it is, stay.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Tuned, yess Kelly post sun sets there on.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
I got nothing against Swido.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
In the wild blvest guys with on Brocken Broadway shows.
I spill tena see it doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Where the compass is spawning, drab driving.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Is where a fun mop bees.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah driving driving.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Tell me to see.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I was born in it.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Beneath this we talk of the pad.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Spent my childhood to the last summer.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Sic, girl, we.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Would grab it drumming.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Were myself feel street.
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Yeah crown drumming.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
So the lad please.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Say yeah by well Feel.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
It's got Monte one it is, and your bet Ba
Job Drumming, well Gon Monty.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
Gol Drama, The.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Last These City Drumming, whim As Music Sama Drama, Back
to My Jencause.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Your Job Dramas, Goby Jomy.
Speaker 12 (08:12):
What's up, y'all? This is Nashville recording artist Brook Eden
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Speaker 14 (08:47):
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Speaker 3 (09:07):
I was going through a lot of the songs there too.
From our guest, the less Kellogg Dude I've been popular
so far in June and July. We'll get to this
in a little bit. It's kind of a tease here
on the backstage past, but we're gonna get to this one.
Hope you guys enjoyed that one. Driving east from celest
Kellogg here Celes Kellogg dot com from more information back here,
presented by the Acadian Gordon Show dot com. Today's best
country mixing. Our friends at B and B Construction Services
(09:28):
out there, make sure you guys give them a holler.
Keep them working this summer too. Brent was telling me
the other day. A lot of projects custom homes, cover
commercial remodels of bard dominium steel buildings are based out
of Sealy, Texas. They will travel uh seven one, three,
eight nine zero, twenty five fifty one. It's done correct
and with respect. So the one I'm getting at here
because I've been down there so much on the camper
this year. There's a beach somewhere and down here near
(09:50):
which is great. I love this song when he came
out in twenty nineteen. Tell everybody about it who have
not heard this track, because we all love the beach
somewhere right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's right, and and obviously, Like I said, I grew
up in Virginia, Virginia Beach area and I just love
the coast.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So I had met Aaron Goodvin w who you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He's a very talented singer, songwriter and recording artists from Canada.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
He lives in Nashville now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I was telling him I just wanted to write
a song about a beach somewhere, and he was like,
I think that's our title, and I said, okay, So
we got together, we wrote the.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Song, and it's done really really well for me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It was my second song to country radio, and it
charted on the Music Row airplay charts, and it's nearing
a million streams on Spotify, which is amazing. And I
just I absolutely love performing the song because I feel
like it puts people in that place that they're on
a beach somewhere and just you know, close your eyes
and you're like, oh, if I could only, like, you know,
(10:50):
be somewhat like Kenny Chesney or Jimmy Buffett and that
this song kind of transports them somewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
That was my goal. So hopefully it does that audience.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
A lot of great things happening now too in the
country music you mentioned Aaron Goodman and so many great
male artists and female artists, and that's where I want
to go with this one. Love it because now it's
about time for girl power to really kind of rise
to the occasion in country music. Talk about that, and
just as you watch these ladies, and many of them
are friend of your, friends of yours, to it the
same time as they go through stages putting out great music,
you know, kind of being badasses on stage and getting
(11:23):
up there playing live shows and now getting the due
diligence and the recognition they deserve.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
For me, I just love it.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I love that that, you know, because we went through
a drought, a female drought for a little while, and
it was just all about the guys. But you know,
I love the guys and they have great music, but
you kind of got to not spread it out a
little bit. But I feel like females can bring so
much to country music. And I feel like when we
were going through that drought, that's when a lot of
(11:50):
female up and coming artists that you see now on stage,
we're really kind of developing and honing in their craft,
and you almost have to work a little extra hard
because to get noticed in the country music industry as
a female and to be put on country radio. So
I think that's where, like you know, you're Lady Wilson's
and everybody that's coming up now really kind of developed
(12:10):
that their craft and their music.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
And I just absolutely love the girl power. I am
here for it. I'm supportive of all of them, and
I'm just proud to be a small part of that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I will make a bold prediction here on the show.
I did a few of these in Nashville too, which
is always great to do this, and I kind of
may put it out there and maybe I did this
in the show we did there at the same time.
But I'm gonna say, Celeste Kellogg acm CMA nominated in
the future, in this next year or two, like in
that new Hurles whatever they're calling new female vocalist, new
kind of category. Yeah, so I'm gonna throw that out there,
(12:43):
and I'm gonna say grand o'lpry you coming up real soon.
How about those bold predictions?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I would love that that. I'll take it. I got
chills when you said that. Okay, sure, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I got it major dues for a long time, and
like I said, we love the music and it's taken
people back. Hey, take me through that timeline. You mentioned
how much this is to you know, a very expensive
career and you're always out there needing support from the
fans and of course the touring and everything else out
there too, and of course a team behind you. But
take me back to the timeline from that first EP,
you and me all the way through the music that
(13:18):
we're talking about now, how much you've changed as an artist,
how things are the same maybe different, and how you
really discovered your sound over those years and just kind
of what made you tick as an artist since that
first EP.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, it's funny listening back to it now because some
of it I'm like, okay, you know, you go like
eighteen year old Celeste or whatever, and then some of
it I'm like, oh, that's so cringey. So and I
feel like that's probably a common thing for artists that
have been out and around for a bit or really
trying trying to push their music. And that really started
(13:51):
like on an indie basis. And so I think I've
developed as a songwriter with different life experiences and different
things that I've gone through. It's not just like a
surface level topic anymore, you know, I kind of dive
into the feelings and getting into that raw emotion that
I was kind of scared to touch on or really
hadn't hadn't experienced in life yet enough to touch on
(14:13):
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So I'm trying to, you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Know, incorporate that more in my music as I get
older and mature a little bit more. But also I've
been trying to have a lot more of like a
bold stance in some of my music, like Gossip, Queen
of the South, and Driving Me.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
It's very very bold.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not a passive They aren't passive songs, if that
makes sense. And so I because I love that nineties
country and I feel like that's what all of that
that was.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
It was.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It was very either very bold or very very vulnerable
in like opening yourself up to the audience. So I
feel like I've developed a lot as an artist over
the last I guess it's almost ten years now since
I released that first DP, and I'm just I'm just
really proud of the work that I've that I've done,
and especially of the newest stuff that's come out over
(15:04):
the last couple of years. The singles that kind of
led up to this EP that I just released that
are eventually leading to this full album that I'll be
releasing in early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I cannot wait for that too.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And she keeps us visiting here on the backstage past
to actually talk about more great music too, you guys,
I know working on that daily. We're gonna play some
more music. Here came out last May and it's still
one of the best songs, one of my favorite tunes.
You just mentioned that title. Gossip Queen of the South
Here from celest Kellogg Here again, presented by B and
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Speaker 4 (15:37):
Too, yes Up, Clean in the South?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Better?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
What's the words coming out to me?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Told me, told the whole town on the yessup Clean
in the South.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So you know I've gotten X.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
And my vinery in through his text. He says, I've
got a reputation on but I'm calling speculation. He says,
all I care about is me and everybody else agrees.
(16:26):
I live head nice for show.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He wants everyone to know.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm not gossip.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Queen in the South.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Better.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What's the words coming out?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
John now told me it told.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
The whole town on the gonsick queen.
Speaker 15 (16:47):
No secret safe with me and confidential royalty of going
down in his story the conceque on the South.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Guess what my mama said that it is true? People
accuse you a worthy do.
Speaker 13 (17:12):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You wrapped us over.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Take a bow.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
This is my king Now, I'm my gossip Queen of
the South. Part what's the words coming out your mouth?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Told me it's told the whole town.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
I'm the gossip queen, No sacred safe with me and
confidentiality or go down in his story the concept Queen
of the South. I can see it also, Dear why check,
come here round mirror make it's time for you go
(17:53):
to your frontwhere.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Gossap Queen of the South?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Boy, you bet watch your man told me you told
the whole town on the.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Satin Wake up.
Speaker 15 (18:09):
You must be an annultinate reality.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Take the clowns on me gust the South.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
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Speaker 3 (19:16):
And I love that one too, because somebody's talking out
there too, And it always happens in the South where
you're from down here too, right queen or king out
there too, if you're you guys, if you're listening for
all the ladies, somebody's talking out.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
There back here.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
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us out there. I mean, I love it because you've
got a little bit of it. You mentioned that nineties
country field with it. But what a title for song?
I mentioned about there's a beach somewhere, and Aaron said,
let's just go write that. This just had like everything
included for a country song about somebody you happen and
(20:08):
talking and being spelling the beach.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I love it. I love it. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, it was. It's a true story.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I actually got a text from an ex calling me
the gossip Queen of the South, and I was like, hmmm,
I think he's kind of projecting. So despite the end,
I say, you can take the crown from me, because,
like you said, gossip king.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
But yeah, no, it was a.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Relationship that I was in a while back, and obviously
it didn't end well, and I got a text from
him calling me the gossip Queen of the South. And
when I first received that text, I was like crying.
I was devastated, and this is what I say where
I said up getting bolder with my music.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I was just upset, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And I was still in the cloud of like that
toxic relationship, like you believe everything that the other person's saying,
even if it's not true. So then a few years
passed and I was scrolling through old stuff and I
saw this text and that said gossip Queen of the South,
and I was like, oh my gosh, this would make
the best country song. You know, I was away from
(21:08):
the relationship. It wasn't affecting me anymore. And I'm like,
now I can just really write this from like a
healthy perspective mentally on my end, but just make it
really sassy, like like you'd hear the the girls and
the beauty shop talking about whatever, and this is what
my ex is saying about me, and the other girl's like,
(21:30):
oh no, he didn't like come on. So it's just
it was so much fun to write and legit. Like
half the song was kind of written based off of
text messages back and forth between me and this this
ex so we kind of wrote itself, but but it
was it was so fun and now I can look
back at it and it's it's produced something good, you know.
(21:50):
It produced a song that people find fun and sassy,
and hopefully anybody out there that's gone through a relationship
where it's just it's just not good, not healthy, they
can see in this that that not everything that the
other person says is necessarily true, and you can come
back with confidence after that. So that's what I would
(22:11):
like people to take away from this song.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
A lot of great, great advice in that particular tune
right there too. Hey, I love the holidays, and I
mentioned somebody told me today it's like Christmas in July.
It's Christmas year round. Decorations up or the Christmas trees
right there in the garage, in the boxes ready to
be pulled out and decorated, there in the front Livy River,
wherever you put it in your house. I'm going to
go back to one I love so much. Added it
to my because I build these playlists all the time,
(22:34):
you know it, with so many shows we put out
there and start building playlists to study all the music
because I tell people one of the biggest keys to
do in the radio show like this is do your homework.
Listen to the tunes when they come out too, So
we put them on a playlist, have fun putting them
out there. And I loved it with Save a Dance
for Me This Christmas. Tell everybody about this one and
just the holiday. Feel any any more of this coming up,
(22:55):
because I love you your take on Christmas music.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, So it's funny. It's kind of funny. How Save
a Dance for Me This Christmas came about. I was
doing a Christmas show and I was trying to pair
Christmas songs with some of my originals that I had
already released. So like, we played There's a Beach Somewhere
into Kenny Chesney's All I Want for Christmas is a
real big tan. So it's kind of like the whole
setup of the show. I was pairing some originals with
(23:20):
some Christmas songs that were already popular, so I had
nothing to pair with my song Country Swagger. I was like,
I'll just write a song, and so I wrote Save
a Dance for Me This Christmas, and it turned out
I was like, oh, wait, this is actually kind of good,
Like I think I actually want to record this song,
not just play it live for this one show.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
And so.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I just love the Christmas season.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We're the people that are pulling out the boxes on
Halloween and the trigger treaters come up to the door
like why are their point set is on your stairs already,
and I'm like, listen, it's okay, you guys. Enjoy your candy.
Take a candy and go, don't steal my joy. I
love the Christmas season. I love the joy that it
can bring. And I really wanted just to to release
(24:06):
a fun song, a happy song, one of those Hallmark
rom com type songs. And I also film filmed the
music video for it and edited that as.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, all in my house.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So if you guys ever watch music video for it,
it legit looks like a Hallmark house.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We have twelve Christmas treez.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's just kind of crazy, uh, But I love it,
grew up with it, and and that's why I really
wanted to kind of pour my love for Christmas and
just like a happy Christmas dancing song that's also still
kind of sounds country, like if you didn't hear the
lyrics that they were it could just be a country song,
so I didn't want it to be like overly jingle belly.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But yeah, anyways, I love it too.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's got get your own flavor, your own sound. It's
out there. It's like I said, it's not like, you know,
one of the classics. I mean it can't.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Who knows one day maybe a classic out there, like
a Brenda Lee type song, you know. But I love
it because you know it's your own flavor, your own
voice on it. Very unique and you put that personal
touch in there to make it, make it just an
idea and turn it into something. It's really spectacular. I
will go back a little bit to a song Carolina
that I love so much too, Virginia Carolina border right
(25:12):
there till you love it so much up there and uh,
the specific EP that it came on, keep it on repeat.
Let's talk about this one when this came out right
there during COVID if I remember this came out, yeah,
in February of that year. Talk about just that ep,
the body of work, and specifically I love Carolina.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Thank you so Aaron Good but actually co produced a
lot of that album. Well it's five songs, so I
think it was two out of the three. Out of
the five songs he co produced with sal Olaveri, Carolina
was one of them. I brought the song to him
and I had already written it, and he just kind
of came in and helped me tweak it a little
(25:48):
bit to make it a little bit more audience friendly.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What I had written was very personal and very.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Specific about a place, and he thought, maybe we should
make it a little bit more like a love song.
You could be talking about a place, but you could
also be talking about a summer love that eventually had
to end. And I was like, Okay, I like that idea,
because from my perspective, I just absolutely love Myrtle Beach
and that's what I wrote the song about originally. So
we just tweaked a few lyrics and kind of put
(26:17):
a little bit of a fresher spin on it, and
it's just it's still one of my favorite songs to
perform live because it does mean a lot to me,
and it brings back my nineties, not country, but nineties
summer nostalgia, all my memories from Myrtle Beach in early
two thousands in the Outer Banks, and that's really what
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brought the inspiration about for that song and how it
came to life in the studio.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I just thought it was I thought it was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
You struck a cord when you sit out of Banks
because I love the TV series too. I thought they
did a pretty good rendition of kind of what's out
there too, and a lot of the actors and actresses
in there too.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Really great job. Did you like that series?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I've watched the first couple of seasons. I haven't seen
the most recent season, but it's it's funny seeing Charles
I can't ever pronounce his last name, is it Eston Easton? Yeah,
one of those the guy that played Ward, I think
on the Outer Banks. So he was also in the
TV show Nashville, So if you SMA Fest to Go,
(27:20):
I got to meet him, which was was cool.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
He's a He's a really really nice guy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So it's funny kind of seeing the different characters that
he plays from one end of the spectrum to the other,
especially on Outer Banks. But yeah, I think they do
a great job of bringing that that coastal Carolina vibe
to life with that TV show.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Any other series or kind of documentaries or any TV
programs you're getting into now I watch all.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
The old stuff. It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So like we went through Miami Vice last year, and
I love the music in Miami Vice, so that's inspired
in itself. I just like the saxophone You Belong to
the City, Glenn Fry is such a good song, and
a lot of Phil Collins songs were used as well.
In the Air Tonight was another one, and just I
(28:13):
absolutely love the music, so since it's like a music
driven soundtrack show. And then obviously The Beach again. So
Miami Vice is one that I rewatched recently rewatched. I
never watched it in the eighties because I wasn't here yet.
But you know, magnum p I is a woman that's on.
I'm literally going through all the old stuff. Watch Dallas
(28:33):
baywatch all that stuff. But one documentary that I found
very interesting recently was that just came out was the
remaking of or not the remaking, but the making of
We Are the World with Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson.
Obviously Michael isn't here anymore, but all the behind the
scenes stuff that went on that night was crazy, and
(28:54):
what they had to do to get that song and
all of those artists together in the same room in
secret because they knew if anybody knew about it, that
everybody in the world would show up just to just
to see all those people together.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
So that was really cool. And I tell you guys,
y'all should totally watch it if you are able. I
think it's on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, those old classics. Even mind advice. You can sit
there and watch and binge watch that all day long. Yes,
get out of bed or get out of your lazy
boy too at that time when it comes down to
that day.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Let's talk about another one.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
This was twenty twenty two was up there high on
my list speed and I love the song just because
I look at words so much. And we end up
doing it every day when we're driving in our car
and cranking it, you know, seventy miles an hour to
seventy five or whatever the speed limit is.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And I'm guilty of it.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
We've all sped before, no doubt about it, in our trucks,
in our cars, and this one will get you in
that frame of mind to not watch.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
You don't right right exactly. I actually just got a
ticket for the first time in my life this year.
Speaker 13 (29:51):
But no.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So the funny story is I actually wrote and recorded
this song when I was fourteen in Nashville, and I
wanted to pitch it to NASCAR back in the day,
and so I produced it with my producer at the time,
Andrew Lane, and he also produced Driving East, and it
was one of my first ever co writing experiences. I
just loved NASCAR because they had a Kellogg's car, so
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it was something I grew up with. And when twenty
twenty two came around, I wanted to redo it because
so much it changed just a NASCAR alone from like
the link of the pit stops and everything. So I
rewrote it and re recorded it, and I kind of
released a Speed two point zero, but sal A Laveria
(30:36):
produced that one, and I feel like it's just just
as good as the original, but obviously updated, and the
original you kind of have to dig to find, which
I'm kind of glad because I was fourteen when I
recorded it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So during that CMA week, where did you guys go
for food and for restaurants? And I went to a
little bit of everything, but one of my favorite places
was out by Germantown and it was three one two
pizza that Chicago deep Dish.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I loved it.
Speaker 13 (30:59):
Too.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Where did you guys get What was your favorite place?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
So I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I I literally got food poisoning the day before I
came to see a Mayfest, so my my taste buds
were a little skewed, and I wasn't all about eating.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Everything right away. But let's see what did Logan's Logan Steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
That's good, Love Logans. We don't uh, we don't come
across those often. Uh so when when there's one nearby,
love Logans. What else did we Where did we go?
Speaker 13 (31:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Luke Bryan's place. Uh yeah, down on Broadway. I don't
go down on Broadway often unless I, like, you know,
have to be down on Broadway for something. So so
Luke Bryan's thirty two Bridge was was great and they
had a great burger.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Give that a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And they so kindly allowed me to reapply my makeup
because I was sweating at the table before I was
going to my next show on Broadway. So yeah, that
was That was cool and it was my first time there,
so I really liked it. Definitely would go back.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
It's a lot of fun there too, and it's a
big country music reunion, biggest week out of the year
there and Nashville love it so much, and I'm like,
you'd like to stay off Broadway, but people just kept
pulling us out. We're like, we're not doing anything after hours,
and they keep texting her calling. You're like, hey, just
go out of your brain and go do this and
come see this and do this. I'm like, guys, I'm
one person. But and I must have got around at
four or five shows. So each night was like midnight
(32:26):
till one o'clock in the morning, and then we were
back up. Oh, no City Center doing all this stuff again.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh, we went to Paladines too.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Have you been to Palladines?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I didn't get to try that once I heard it's fantastic.
I think there's one here that she's got to it.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, I've been to the Beach. I hadn't been to Nashville.
But it was great. We I had. There are four
of us at the table, so we each got to
order a main course and a side course, and we
got everything.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
It was.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It was all good. I can't even remember. I think
pot Road.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Country fried steak, which I'd never tried before, and that
was great.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
We got.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Some kind of pork chop and something else that I
can't remember, but anyways, it was everything was good.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
That's that's the main takeaway. It was all great.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'll try that. Paulo Dean's in Nashville too next time.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
There's one here in Texas that they've been talking about,
hearing people talk about for quite some time, so hopefully
we'll get a chance to get around to getting back
there and kind of join it there too. At the
same time, well, I love this music so much. It's
always great. You and I consider and talk for hours too,
and like I said, the time us out here on
Radio two at the same time, but one of our
favorites out there, the Ogs to the show here so
less Kellogg so less Kellogg dot com and Driving East
(33:41):
the current single across all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I know you're ready for more great projects to come out.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
EP singles, full length albums and you know, waiting for
that album to kick off in twenty twenty six. Appreciate
you being with us, and hey continue success going forward.
You one of those ones. I got my eye on
two out there, so one of those bold predictions I
want them to come true.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Tame, I'll take it, claim it, Yes, yes, Lord.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Let's do it, no doubt. We appreciate you being with us,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You got it. One of the best out there, celest Kellogg.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Here the Backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts and the Sports
Guys Podcast dot com and of course more great music
coming up across all those platforms and then some to
look her up Driving East the latest single and check
out Celesti Kellogg dot com. Two l's, two g's when
you guys are putting it in your search database out
there too.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
God blessed, Take care.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Represented by B and B Construction Services and our friends
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We'll see you soon.
Speaker 17 (34:37):
Hey, y'all, this is two time Guinness World recordsitting rapper
d Yo Gibson and you're listening to the award nominated
Backstage Past on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
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Speaker 10 (34:58):
Oh yeah,
Hey, guys and gals, this is Nashville Recording Artists Celeste
(00:03):
Kellogg and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past
podcast on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
Broadcasting Network. Stream the show anytime on iHeartRadio podcasts and
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Always a busy day full of shows here KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts
and of course our friends the Sports Guys Podcast dot
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
B and B Construction Services seven one, three, eight nine
zero twenty five fifty one. I'd love to hear from
you too. A lot of summer projects going on there too. Well,
She's got a lot of summer projects here. One of
Nashville's best and brightest. We caught her at CMA Week
this year from the Big Festival. She had some performances,
some meet and greets, and a great friend of the program,
here's you. Always great to have her on, Celest Kellogg
(01:08):
to the backstage past to Celesta, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I am great, Thank you so much for having me
back on.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's the follow ups. We've got to do those two
because it's old news.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Like I said, you guys told us they're back in
a few first week in jim and now we're moving
forward now to put out new shows there too. Well,
let's talk about this one too. I'm not gonna waste
any time. It's been out through a while and we're
gonna play it pretty quick here on the show Driving East.
I want to talk about this this latest single.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I love it. It's got a great feel.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's got like a nineties country feel to it, which
is tremendous because that's the era that I grew up in,
loving that style and that brand of neo traditional sound.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, well, it's a song I wrote about my musical
journey and where music's taken me from California to Nashville
and all the places in between. But I'm a Virginia
girl at heart, and it's basically my homeword bound song.
It's a song that talks about when I see Virginia
through my front windshield. It's just kind of where I
feel my piece, where I find myself again and kind
(02:04):
of re establish my roots. So it's a song I
wrote dedicated to my home and it's been it's been
receiving really cool feedback. Some people even think it's kind
of leans towards southern rock country rock, which I'm like
all about. And when you said nineties country, I was like, oh,
thank you, because.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I love nineties country.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So but yes, and the music video is out for it,
and I'm just I'm so excited about all the feedback
we've gotten and just just the song in general.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Tell us about that music video now that it's out there,
And of course, so where did you guys shoot at? Locations?
So who did you get to do it? And of
course photography all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So what's really cool about it is it starts out
with a bunch of videos from my childhood basically and
when I really started growing up singing because I wanted
it to take on that whole journey from start through
the middle, and you know where I am now.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And so it starts out with the home.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Home style videos, and then it talks about all of
the places that I've been and shows some clips from
California and from Nashville, and then it ends up in
Virginia Beach at the ocean Front doing a big performance
there for like a hometown crowd. And so I had
an amazing Sergio Lorenzana. He was the director of photography.
(03:20):
I wrote the script and I also edited the video,
and he did a color grading for it. So I've
been editing videos since I was in middle school. They
weren't great back then, but it was my favorite thing
to do. I'd put on a song, I'd lip sync
to it, and film like twenty different takes of different.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Things, and I'd edit it all together.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So it is really a part of One of my
favorite parts of being an artist is the music video too,
because you can bring the song to life visually.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well y'all have done that too, and encourage everybody go
check it out across all the platforms wherever you guys
receive your music videos out there too as well.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Here can't believe it's July already.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I still say that too, with the Fourth of July
weekend holiday coming up, and of course it's gonna fly
over the next few weeks and into the third quarter
now of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We've got to play it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Now to the single we're talking about, driving East. It's
from celest Kellogg, two al's and two g's, and you
guys go look for that website out there, celest kellogg
dot com. Back in the Flash, presented by B and
B Construction Services and our friends at the Cadan Gordon
Show dot com. Today's best country mix. We're gonna drive East.
Here it is, stay.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Tuned, yess Kelly post sun sets there on.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
I got nothing against Swido.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
In the wild blvest guys with on Brocken Broadway shows.
I spill tena see it doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Where the compass is spawning, drab driving.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Is where a fun mop bees.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah driving driving.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Tell me to see.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I was born in it.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Beneath this we talk of the pad.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Spent my childhood to the last summer.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Sic, girl, we.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Would grab it drumming.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Were myself feel street.
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Yeah crown drumming.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
So the lad please.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Say yeah by well Feel.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
It's got Monte one it is, and your bet Ba
Job Drumming, well Gon Monty.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
Gol Drama, The.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Last These City Drumming, whim As Music Sama Drama, Back
to My Jencause.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Your Job Dramas, Goby Jomy.
Speaker 12 (08:12):
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and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on
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Speaker 13 (08:33):
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Speaker 14 (08:47):
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Speaker 3 (09:07):
I was going through a lot of the songs there too.
From our guest, the less Kellogg Dude I've been popular
so far in June and July. We'll get to this
in a little bit. It's kind of a tease here
on the backstage past, but we're gonna get to this one.
Hope you guys enjoyed that one. Driving east from celest
Kellogg here Celes Kellogg dot com from more information back here,
presented by the Acadian Gordon Show dot com. Today's best
country mixing. Our friends at B and B Construction Services
(09:28):
out there, make sure you guys give them a holler.
Keep them working this summer too. Brent was telling me
the other day. A lot of projects custom homes, cover
commercial remodels of bard dominium steel buildings are based out
of Sealy, Texas. They will travel uh seven one, three,
eight nine zero, twenty five fifty one. It's done correct
and with respect. So the one I'm getting at here
because I've been down there so much on the camper
this year. There's a beach somewhere and down here near
(09:50):
which is great. I love this song when he came
out in twenty nineteen. Tell everybody about it who have
not heard this track, because we all love the beach
somewhere right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's right, and and obviously, Like I said, I grew
up in Virginia, Virginia Beach area and I just love
the coast.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So I had met Aaron Goodvin w who you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He's a very talented singer, songwriter and recording artists from Canada.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
He lives in Nashville now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I was telling him I just wanted to write
a song about a beach somewhere, and he was like,
I think that's our title, and I said, okay, So
we got together, we wrote the.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Song, and it's done really really well for me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It was my second song to country radio, and it
charted on the Music Row airplay charts, and it's nearing
a million streams on Spotify, which is amazing. And I
just I absolutely love performing the song because I feel
like it puts people in that place that they're on
a beach somewhere and just you know, close your eyes
and you're like, oh, if I could only, like, you know,
(10:50):
be somewhat like Kenny Chesney or Jimmy Buffett and that
this song kind of transports them somewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
That was my goal. So hopefully it does that audience.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
A lot of great things happening now too in the
country music you mentioned Aaron Goodman and so many great
male artists and female artists, and that's where I want
to go with this one. Love it because now it's
about time for girl power to really kind of rise
to the occasion in country music. Talk about that, and
just as you watch these ladies, and many of them
are friend of your, friends of yours, to it the
same time as they go through stages putting out great music,
you know, kind of being badasses on stage and getting
(11:23):
up there playing live shows and now getting the due
diligence and the recognition they deserve.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
For me, I just love it.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I love that that, you know, because we went through
a drought, a female drought for a little while, and
it was just all about the guys. But you know,
I love the guys and they have great music, but
you kind of got to not spread it out a
little bit. But I feel like females can bring so
much to country music. And I feel like when we
were going through that drought, that's when a lot of
(11:50):
female up and coming artists that you see now on stage,
we're really kind of developing and honing in their craft,
and you almost have to work a little extra hard
because to get noticed in the country music industry as
a female and to be put on country radio. So
I think that's where, like you know, you're Lady Wilson's
and everybody that's coming up now really kind of developed
(12:10):
that their craft and their music.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
And I just absolutely love the girl power. I am
here for it. I'm supportive of all of them, and
I'm just proud to be a small part of that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I will make a bold prediction here on the show.
I did a few of these in Nashville too, which
is always great to do this, and I kind of
may put it out there and maybe I did this
in the show we did there at the same time.
But I'm gonna say, Celeste Kellogg acm CMA nominated in
the future, in this next year or two, like in
that new Hurles whatever they're calling new female vocalist, new
kind of category. Yeah, so I'm gonna throw that out there,
(12:43):
and I'm gonna say grand o'lpry you coming up real soon.
How about those bold predictions?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I would love that that. I'll take it. I got
chills when you said that. Okay, sure, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I got it major dues for a long time, and
like I said, we love the music and it's taken
people back. Hey, take me through that timeline. You mentioned
how much this is to you know, a very expensive
career and you're always out there needing support from the
fans and of course the touring and everything else out
there too, and of course a team behind you. But
take me back to the timeline from that first EP,
you and me all the way through the music that
(13:18):
we're talking about now, how much you've changed as an artist,
how things are the same maybe different, and how you
really discovered your sound over those years and just kind
of what made you tick as an artist since that
first EP.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, it's funny listening back to it now because some
of it I'm like, okay, you know, you go like
eighteen year old Celeste or whatever, and then some of
it I'm like, oh, that's so cringey. So and I
feel like that's probably a common thing for artists that
have been out and around for a bit or really
trying trying to push their music. And that really started
(13:51):
like on an indie basis. And so I think I've
developed as a songwriter with different life experiences and different
things that I've gone through. It's not just like a
surface level topic anymore, you know, I kind of dive
into the feelings and getting into that raw emotion that
I was kind of scared to touch on or really
hadn't hadn't experienced in life yet enough to touch on
(14:13):
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So I'm trying to, you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Know, incorporate that more in my music as I get
older and mature a little bit more. But also I've
been trying to have a lot more of like a
bold stance in some of my music, like Gossip, Queen
of the South, and Driving Me.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
It's very very bold.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not a passive They aren't passive songs, if that
makes sense. And so I because I love that nineties
country and I feel like that's what all of that
that was.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
It was.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It was very either very bold or very very vulnerable
in like opening yourself up to the audience. So I
feel like I've developed a lot as an artist over
the last I guess it's almost ten years now since
I released that first DP, and I'm just I'm just
really proud of the work that I've that I've done,
and especially of the newest stuff that's come out over
(15:04):
the last couple of years. The singles that kind of
led up to this EP that I just released that
are eventually leading to this full album that I'll be
releasing in early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I cannot wait for that too.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And she keeps us visiting here on the backstage past
to actually talk about more great music too, you guys,
I know working on that daily. We're gonna play some
more music. Here came out last May and it's still
one of the best songs, one of my favorite tunes.
You just mentioned that title. Gossip Queen of the South
Here from celest Kellogg Here again, presented by B and
B Construction Services and our friends at the Caayden gordonshow
dot com Today's Best Country backs back in the flash stay.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Too, yes Up, Clean in the South?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Better?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
What's the words coming out to me?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Told me, told the whole town on the yessup Clean
in the South.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So you know I've gotten X.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
And my vinery in through his text. He says, I've
got a reputation on but I'm calling speculation. He says,
all I care about is me and everybody else agrees.
(16:26):
I live head nice for show.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He wants everyone to know.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm not gossip.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Queen in the South.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Better.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What's the words coming out?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
John now told me it told.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
The whole town on the gonsick queen.
Speaker 15 (16:47):
No secret safe with me and confidential royalty of going
down in his story the conceque on the South.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Guess what my mama said that it is true? People
accuse you a worthy do.
Speaker 13 (17:12):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You wrapped us over.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Take a bow.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
This is my king Now, I'm my gossip Queen of
the South. Part what's the words coming out your mouth?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Told me it's told the whole town.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
I'm the gossip queen, No sacred safe with me and
confidentiality or go down in his story the concept Queen
of the South. I can see it also, Dear why check,
come here round mirror make it's time for you go
(17:53):
to your frontwhere.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Gossap Queen of the South?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Boy, you bet watch your man told me you told
the whole town on the.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Satin Wake up.
Speaker 15 (18:09):
You must be an annultinate reality.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Take the clowns on me gust the South.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Megan Lindsay and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
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Speaker 13 (18:44):
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Speaker 16 (18:59):
Hey'all is Chandler Marie, and you're listening to the award
nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area broadcasting network. You can listen to on THHWN
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Speaker 3 (19:16):
And I love that one too, because somebody's talking out
there too, And it always happens in the South where
you're from down here too, right queen or king out
there too, if you're you guys, if you're listening for
all the ladies, somebody's talking out.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
There back here.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network,
iHeartRadio Podcasts and these sports Guys the podcast dot com
guys were just a few weeks away. Now it's from
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(19:48):
right number sixteen in the state. So looking forward to
a lot of cool things with high school football at
the sports Guys podcast dot com. So lay it on
us out there. I mean, I love it because you've
got a little bit of it. You mentioned that nineties
country field with it. But what a title for song?
I mentioned about there's a beach somewhere, and Aaron said,
let's just go write that. This just had like everything
included for a country song about somebody you happen and
(20:08):
talking and being spelling the beach.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I love it. I love it. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, it was. It's a true story.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I actually got a text from an ex calling me
the gossip Queen of the South, and I was like, hmmm,
I think he's kind of projecting. So despite the end,
I say, you can take the crown from me, because,
like you said, gossip king.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
But yeah, no, it was a.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Relationship that I was in a while back, and obviously
it didn't end well, and I got a text from
him calling me the gossip Queen of the South. And
when I first received that text, I was like crying.
I was devastated, and this is what I say where
I said up getting bolder with my music.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I was just upset, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And I was still in the cloud of like that
toxic relationship, like you believe everything that the other person's saying,
even if it's not true. So then a few years
passed and I was scrolling through old stuff and I
saw this text and that said gossip Queen of the South,
and I was like, oh my gosh, this would make
the best country song. You know, I was away from
(21:08):
the relationship. It wasn't affecting me anymore. And I'm like,
now I can just really write this from like a
healthy perspective mentally on my end, but just make it
really sassy, like like you'd hear the the girls and
the beauty shop talking about whatever, and this is what
my ex is saying about me, and the other girl's like,
(21:30):
oh no, he didn't like come on. So it's just
it was so much fun to write and legit. Like
half the song was kind of written based off of
text messages back and forth between me and this this
ex so we kind of wrote itself, but but it
was it was so fun and now I can look
back at it and it's it's produced something good, you know.
(21:50):
It produced a song that people find fun and sassy,
and hopefully anybody out there that's gone through a relationship
where it's just it's just not good, not healthy, they
can see in this that that not everything that the
other person says is necessarily true, and you can come
back with confidence after that. So that's what I would
(22:11):
like people to take away from this song.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
A lot of great, great advice in that particular tune
right there too. Hey, I love the holidays, and I
mentioned somebody told me today it's like Christmas in July.
It's Christmas year round. Decorations up or the Christmas trees
right there in the garage, in the boxes ready to
be pulled out and decorated, there in the front Livy River,
wherever you put it in your house. I'm going to
go back to one I love so much. Added it
to my because I build these playlists all the time,
(22:34):
you know it, with so many shows we put out
there and start building playlists to study all the music
because I tell people one of the biggest keys to
do in the radio show like this is do your homework.
Listen to the tunes when they come out too, So
we put them on a playlist, have fun putting them
out there. And I loved it with Save a Dance
for Me This Christmas. Tell everybody about this one and
just the holiday. Feel any any more of this coming up,
(22:55):
because I love you your take on Christmas music.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, So it's funny. It's kind of funny. How Save
a Dance for Me This Christmas came about. I was
doing a Christmas show and I was trying to pair
Christmas songs with some of my originals that I had
already released. So like, we played There's a Beach Somewhere
into Kenny Chesney's All I Want for Christmas is a
real big tan. So it's kind of like the whole
setup of the show. I was pairing some originals with
(23:20):
some Christmas songs that were already popular, so I had
nothing to pair with my song Country Swagger. I was like,
I'll just write a song, and so I wrote Save
a Dance for Me This Christmas, and it turned out
I was like, oh, wait, this is actually kind of good,
Like I think I actually want to record this song,
not just play it live for this one show.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
And so.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I just love the Christmas season.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We're the people that are pulling out the boxes on
Halloween and the trigger treaters come up to the door
like why are their point set is on your stairs already,
and I'm like, listen, it's okay, you guys. Enjoy your candy.
Take a candy and go, don't steal my joy. I
love the Christmas season. I love the joy that it
can bring. And I really wanted just to to release
(24:06):
a fun song, a happy song, one of those Hallmark
rom com type songs. And I also film filmed the
music video for it and edited that as.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, all in my house.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So if you guys ever watch music video for it,
it legit looks like a Hallmark house.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We have twelve Christmas treez.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's just kind of crazy, uh, But I love it,
grew up with it, and and that's why I really
wanted to kind of pour my love for Christmas and
just like a happy Christmas dancing song that's also still
kind of sounds country, like if you didn't hear the
lyrics that they were it could just be a country song,
so I didn't want it to be like overly jingle belly.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But yeah, anyways, I love it too.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's got get your own flavor, your own sound. It's
out there. It's like I said, it's not like, you know,
one of the classics. I mean it can't.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Who knows one day maybe a classic out there, like
a Brenda Lee type song, you know. But I love
it because you know it's your own flavor, your own
voice on it. Very unique and you put that personal
touch in there to make it, make it just an
idea and turn it into something. It's really spectacular. I
will go back a little bit to a song Carolina
that I love so much too, Virginia Carolina border right
(25:12):
there till you love it so much up there and uh,
the specific EP that it came on, keep it on repeat.
Let's talk about this one when this came out right
there during COVID if I remember this came out, yeah,
in February of that year. Talk about just that ep,
the body of work, and specifically I love Carolina.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Thank you so Aaron Good but actually co produced a
lot of that album. Well it's five songs, so I
think it was two out of the three. Out of
the five songs he co produced with sal Olaveri, Carolina
was one of them. I brought the song to him
and I had already written it, and he just kind
of came in and helped me tweak it a little
(25:48):
bit to make it a little bit more audience friendly.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What I had written was very personal and very.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Specific about a place, and he thought, maybe we should
make it a little bit more like a love song.
You could be talking about a place, but you could
also be talking about a summer love that eventually had
to end. And I was like, Okay, I like that idea,
because from my perspective, I just absolutely love Myrtle Beach
and that's what I wrote the song about originally. So
we just tweaked a few lyrics and kind of put
(26:17):
a little bit of a fresher spin on it, and
it's just it's still one of my favorite songs to
perform live because it does mean a lot to me,
and it brings back my nineties, not country, but nineties
summer nostalgia, all my memories from Myrtle Beach in early
two thousands in the Outer Banks, and that's really what
(26:41):
brought the inspiration about for that song and how it
came to life in the studio.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I just thought it was I thought it was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
You struck a cord when you sit out of Banks
because I love the TV series too. I thought they
did a pretty good rendition of kind of what's out
there too, and a lot of the actors and actresses
in there too.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Really great job. Did you like that series?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I've watched the first couple of seasons. I haven't seen
the most recent season, but it's it's funny seeing Charles
I can't ever pronounce his last name, is it Eston Easton? Yeah,
one of those the guy that played Ward, I think
on the Outer Banks. So he was also in the
TV show Nashville, So if you SMA Fest to Go,
(27:20):
I got to meet him, which was was cool.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
He's a He's a really really nice guy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So it's funny kind of seeing the different characters that
he plays from one end of the spectrum to the other,
especially on Outer Banks. But yeah, I think they do
a great job of bringing that that coastal Carolina vibe
to life with that TV show.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Any other series or kind of documentaries or any TV
programs you're getting into now I watch all.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
The old stuff. It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So like we went through Miami Vice last year, and
I love the music in Miami Vice, so that's inspired
in itself. I just like the saxophone You Belong to
the City, Glenn Fry is such a good song, and
a lot of Phil Collins songs were used as well.
In the Air Tonight was another one, and just I
(28:13):
absolutely love the music, so since it's like a music
driven soundtrack show. And then obviously The Beach again. So
Miami Vice is one that I rewatched recently rewatched. I
never watched it in the eighties because I wasn't here yet.
But you know, magnum p I is a woman that's on.
I'm literally going through all the old stuff. Watch Dallas
(28:33):
baywatch all that stuff. But one documentary that I found
very interesting recently was that just came out was the
remaking of or not the remaking, but the making of
We Are the World with Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson.
Obviously Michael isn't here anymore, but all the behind the
scenes stuff that went on that night was crazy, and
(28:54):
what they had to do to get that song and
all of those artists together in the same room in
secret because they knew if anybody knew about it, that
everybody in the world would show up just to just
to see all those people together.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
So that was really cool. And I tell you guys,
y'all should totally watch it if you are able. I
think it's on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, those old classics. Even mind advice. You can sit
there and watch and binge watch that all day long. Yes,
get out of bed or get out of your lazy
boy too at that time when it comes down to
that day.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Let's talk about another one.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
This was twenty twenty two was up there high on
my list speed and I love the song just because
I look at words so much. And we end up
doing it every day when we're driving in our car
and cranking it, you know, seventy miles an hour to
seventy five or whatever the speed limit is.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And I'm guilty of it.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
We've all sped before, no doubt about it, in our trucks,
in our cars, and this one will get you in
that frame of mind to not watch.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
You don't right right exactly. I actually just got a
ticket for the first time in my life this year.
Speaker 13 (29:51):
But no.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So the funny story is I actually wrote and recorded
this song when I was fourteen in Nashville, and I
wanted to pitch it to NASCAR back in the day,
and so I produced it with my producer at the time,
Andrew Lane, and he also produced Driving East, and it
was one of my first ever co writing experiences. I
just loved NASCAR because they had a Kellogg's car, so
(30:15):
it was something I grew up with. And when twenty
twenty two came around, I wanted to redo it because
so much it changed just a NASCAR alone from like
the link of the pit stops and everything. So I
rewrote it and re recorded it, and I kind of
released a Speed two point zero, but sal A Laveria
(30:36):
produced that one, and I feel like it's just just
as good as the original, but obviously updated, and the
original you kind of have to dig to find, which
I'm kind of glad because I was fourteen when I
recorded it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So during that CMA week, where did you guys go
for food and for restaurants? And I went to a
little bit of everything, but one of my favorite places
was out by Germantown and it was three one two
pizza that Chicago deep Dish.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I loved it.
Speaker 13 (30:59):
Too.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Where did you guys get What was your favorite place?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
So I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I I literally got food poisoning the day before I
came to see a Mayfest, so my my taste buds
were a little skewed, and I wasn't all about eating.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Everything right away. But let's see what did Logan's Logan Steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
That's good, Love Logans. We don't uh, we don't come
across those often. Uh so when when there's one nearby,
love Logans. What else did we Where did we go?
Speaker 13 (31:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Luke Bryan's place. Uh yeah, down on Broadway. I don't
go down on Broadway often unless I, like, you know,
have to be down on Broadway for something. So so
Luke Bryan's thirty two Bridge was was great and they
had a great burger.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Give that a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And they so kindly allowed me to reapply my makeup
because I was sweating at the table before I was
going to my next show on Broadway. So yeah, that
was That was cool and it was my first time there,
so I really liked it. Definitely would go back.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
It's a lot of fun there too, and it's a
big country music reunion, biggest week out of the year
there and Nashville love it so much, and I'm like,
you'd like to stay off Broadway, but people just kept
pulling us out. We're like, we're not doing anything after hours,
and they keep texting her calling. You're like, hey, just
go out of your brain and go do this and
come see this and do this. I'm like, guys, I'm
one person. But and I must have got around at
four or five shows. So each night was like midnight
(32:26):
till one o'clock in the morning, and then we were
back up. Oh, no City Center doing all this stuff again.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh, we went to Paladines too.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Have you been to Palladines?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I didn't get to try that once I heard it's fantastic.
I think there's one here that she's got to it.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, I've been to the Beach. I hadn't been to Nashville.
But it was great. We I had. There are four
of us at the table, so we each got to
order a main course and a side course, and we
got everything.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
It was.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It was all good. I can't even remember. I think
pot Road.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Country fried steak, which I'd never tried before, and that
was great.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
We got.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Some kind of pork chop and something else that I
can't remember, but anyways, it was everything was good.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
That's that's the main takeaway. It was all great.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'll try that. Paulo Dean's in Nashville too next time.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
There's one here in Texas that they've been talking about,
hearing people talk about for quite some time, so hopefully
we'll get a chance to get around to getting back
there and kind of join it there too. At the
same time, well, I love this music so much. It's
always great. You and I consider and talk for hours too,
and like I said, the time us out here on
Radio two at the same time, but one of our
favorites out there, the Ogs to the show here so
less Kellogg so less Kellogg dot com and Driving East
(33:41):
the current single across all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I know you're ready for more great projects to come out.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
EP singles, full length albums and you know, waiting for
that album to kick off in twenty twenty six. Appreciate
you being with us, and hey continue success going forward.
You one of those ones. I got my eye on
two out there, so one of those bold predictions I
want them to come true.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Tame, I'll take it, claim it, Yes, yes, Lord.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Let's do it, no doubt. We appreciate you being with us,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You got it. One of the best out there, celest Kellogg.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Here the Backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, iHeartRadio Podcasts and the Sports
Guys Podcast dot com and of course more great music
coming up across all those platforms and then some to
look her up Driving East the latest single and check
out Celesti Kellogg dot com. Two l's, two g's when
you guys are putting it in your search database out
there too.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
God blessed, Take care.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Represented by B and B Construction Services and our friends
at the Caaan Gordon Show dot com. Today's best Country Mix.
We'll see you soon.
Speaker 17 (34:37):
Hey, y'all, this is two time Guinness World recordsitting rapper
d Yo Gibson and you're listening to the award nominated
Backstage Past on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
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Speaker 10 (34:58):
Oh yeah,
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