May 14, 2025 • 38 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Channing Wilson stops by to talk about his latest release and what the rest of this year has in store. Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, folks, this is Channing Wilson and you're listening to
award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine and KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
area broadcast and network.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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we're gonna pass along to you too, and please to.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Have on here too as well.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He's got a new album out called dead Man Like
I Said The One Thing I Say new as of
twenty twenty four is working on new music now to
Channing Wilson to the broadcast, Channing, how.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You doing, brother, Hey?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Brandon doing pretty good? Man? Just down here in between
storm Clouds and northwest Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hey Man, a good part of the country too. One
of my favorite artists I've had on the show here
from many times. I love Brandley Gilbert, the Georgia boy
Born and Bred loves it down there too as well.
Many great singers such as yourself and Brantley from Georgia. Hey,
talk about this. You know, so much of your sound
is being described as the old school eighties nineties, you know,
whal and Willie kind of sound out there too, But
that's the music you grew up on. And for the
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fans and the radio markets that we're on that don't know,
Channing Wilson the person talk about just how you got
really infected if you were by that music and that
sound growing up to create your own.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah. Well, you know, when I was younger, eight, nine,
ten years old, my dad listened to all kinds of music,
but the thing that always really anchored in was Hank
Williams Junior, who at that time was on top of
the world. You know, I didn't even know who Hank
william Senior was at the time, and just uh, I
just know Hank Junior was on on coming out of
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my dad's old Blazer speakers and uh and uh and
I used to sing the words to it, and I
just remember thinking, I was like, man, that's you know,
like I saund just like that guy, you know, even
though when I was eight years old, there's no way
I did. But so, I mean, you know, growing up
on on that kind of stuff during the eighties, and
then of course eighties radio was was really uh was
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pretty wild man. You get everything from you know, the
more popular stuff like Alabama all the way to Steve
Earl and then uh Dwight Yoakum and and of course
Hank Williams Junior. I'd hear him on the radio all
the time, but but nothing really took hold. Like when
I seen Billy Joe Shaver live for the first time,
and that and h seeing him in a little club
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uh caused h chain raction that within a month I'd
quit the the real job I had, and that was
the last time I ever punched the clock.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I think we all want to go do what we love,
not what we have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When it comes down to, you know, looking back at
something like this again, that music, that storytelling aspect of it,
it's so true. It really speaks to the core out there.
Till I mentioned the album was twenty twenty four, it
was actually twenty twenty three. My birthday is always February
twenty third. That album came out February twenty four of
twenty twenty three. Tell me about dead Man, just you know,
leading off with a song such as Drink that Strong
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and of course running down a song which we're gonna
play today, and of course that big big hit for
you Blues coming on. All the good stuff out there,
and just some of the best memories from dead Man
that you had, which you gots are still writing this
record too. Great great body work.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, thanks man, You know that that record even though
it wasn't twenty three. The wild thing about the internet
is people are finding it now like if it just
come out this year, you know. And that's what's cool
because there the more popularity I gained, people are finding
my album. You know. I was out on the road
with oh Riley Green this weekend, so I was exposed
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to a whole new crop of fans. So to speak,
you know, And I watched my streaming numbers tick up
over the last couple of days just from that. You know.
Even though that record's two years old, it's brand new
to these folks, you know. So that's the cool thing
about the Internet, I guess. But that that album was
really technically a debut record for me. And I've been
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at this for a long time and just finally had
just enough money in the bank to kind of independently
finance my own record release, you know. And so really
that's kind of what helped me up for a lot
of years and then just live stuff and different things.
And so, yeah, Man, dead Man was was about fifteen
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years in the make and and finally I got with
old Dave Cobb and he settled me down long enough
to make an album man, and we did, And that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You mentioned that name too, because so synonymous with so
many great country acts out there too. The one that
I'm gonna throw out there is the Oukreage Boys produced
a lot of their records that Dave Cobb has done.
And what's that like when you meet just an award
winning singer, songwriter, really producer, I say there because he's
got so much knowledge, probably in that singer songwriter aspect
of it, but from the production standpoint, doing exactly what
you want to do on your record and bringing out
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the kind of sound you want to bring out. Like
on Dead Man when you first met him and go
through his catalog and his knowledge of the music industry,
what kind of kind of stuck out the most?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, you know, well, first of all that those Ochreage
Boys records, I also wrote songs for those, so I
got a couple of cuts on those. And that's so
when you mentioned those guys, they're they're close to my
heart man, because they're they're out there doing it at
in their seventies, you know, and he's still killing it,
which is what I hope to be doing. But as
far as Dave Man, you know, I tried to make
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a record in Nashville three or four different times with
other producers, and nobody could just scratch the itch I had,
you know, Uh, they loved my songs, and they every
time we went to try to make a sound for him,
it just it was always a little too slick, or
it was a little too uh you know, same kind
of adjective polished or something and just too uh too produced,
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so to speak, and and UH I'd met Dave through
his cousin Brent, who I'm also really good friends with,
Brent Cobb, and and I knew after hearing Brent's records
and hearing uh sturge old records and those things, that
I wanted to eventually work with him to the point
to uh to where I'd almost talked to myself into
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not putting out a record until I got to do
it with him. And that's what ended up happening. And
so I knew that I knew that once I got
in with him, that he would be able to guide
me and help capture the sound that I was looking for.
I wanted to be fresh, but not modern. I wanted
to be uh. I was very intentional about it. I
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wanted UH to sound have that that sound that I
love without being a retro band, because I'm not a
retro band. I don't write songs about picking cotton, and
I don't write songs about necessarily hopping freight trains, even
though I dream about it, because you know, because I
have an iPhone and I drive a four diesel truck,
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and I'm not I wasn't born in the twenties, you know.
And uh so I'm not a retro band or any
of that stuff, you know. I'm just I'm a bluesy
singer songwriter from Georgia. And when I open my mouth
to sing, that's the way I sound, and that's the
way I talk when I talk to I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Love it too that it really exposes itself in that music.
So I gotta ask you about one here. We're gonna
come back talk about this one. We got to play
one now from Chenning Wilson off the album dead Man.
Guess what blues coming on? And of course when the
blues come on too, they're gonna speak the truth of
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Here it is. You find more information at Chenning Wilson
dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Back in the flash of Disney, Backstage Past KYBN ninety
eight point one, in Our Friends kk TC, True Country
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Speaker 3 (07:56):
Back in the Flash stick.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Two, I heard that rain, whistle Mom this mom. I
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got that old time be laying in my ball.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Wind and whimper wills, cry, Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I filled the blue it's.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Coming on, well Lord, the rain nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It's longsome's hearing your heartbeats all long.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And the echo.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It was a nothing around you.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Boy, that's the sound of the blue was coming on.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Lord, I I feel the blue was coming on.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
My pride, sinking, hearts ache and my b Lord gone
like a.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Man walking a line out of song.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Can't will your song, the Lord, I feel the.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Blue's coming on.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
And I heard that train whistle mom this morning. I
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got that all time feeling in my bone.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It winding that whipper wos a cry.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The Lord. I I feel the blood it's coming on.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well, Lord fell, the blood's coming on.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
My crime shaking my heart's ache.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Cob Hord daughter like a man walking alive, had a
man old mag with your song, Lord, I feel the.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Coming on.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Hold up.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Coming on.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
My frishing and my parting my hour, guys, a band walking.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Body, an old fank with you, sow.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
DA's coming home, walking.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Away out of an old hallin foodsng.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Lord Ifield the blue.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
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You know, I love this Channing, such a great song.
You mentioned you open your mouth and this is what
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comes out the blues, speak the truth, my friend, and
this one was a great song in blues.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Coming on talking about this one.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, man, you know, a friend of mine and I
got together one one night over a half a quarter moonshine.
I know it sounds cliche, but it's all true. And
we were down on the Tennessee River and we were
trying to write song, a song that would kind of
a body the spirit of Hank Williams. Uh and uh
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and I mean, really that's as simple as that. We
we put the guitar and dropped d and we started
catching a buzz and and uh he he looked at
me and goes, Man, I got this. He goes, I
got this line that I've had for ten years.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He said, it's I heard that train whistle moaning this
morning and I and immediately I just went, oh, you know,
I know exactly what we're gonna ride. And uh, because
I remember growing up next to the railroad tracks and
hearing the trains whistle blow, and and uh it would
cause me to wander, you know, and uh. And I
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never wandered at that point in my life before, but
I used to think, Man, where's that train going where's
this train going. I bet that train's going to Florida.
I bet that train's going out west, you know. And uh,
and that caused just a big wanderlust in my head
and uh and which which created a whole lot of
different feelings, including the blues, you know, and I've had
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them ever since, ever since I was young.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Boy, you would have loved the show we got to
be a part of just a couple of weeks ago
there in Houston, Texas. Loved the House of Blues every
time we get to go to a show there too.
And it was the great Bobby Rush and of course
he partnered with of course the new album they put
out called Young Fashion Ways Kenny Wayne Sheppard playing the guitar.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh Wow, Yeah, rock all night.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I was sitting there going, I.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Said, Channing would appreciate that from someone coming from the
blues singer songwriter, that he'd love that style of music.
And that's what I feel like has been missing over
the last you know, fifteen twenty years. And I never
felt like blues you know, died out. But I really
feel like it's starting to resurrect itself there now, because
you know, you mentioned the Okres Boys, but you have,
like I mean, Bobby Rush ninety one, he'sed to be
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ninety two years old, still doing this thing out there
playing harmonica and playing the blues. I mean, Kenny Wayne,
the guitar buddy Guy BB King. That's such a great
genre of music that I grew up on too, And
it's so important to have all these crossovers now in
the country, right.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. Well, you know that's the thing about the blues too,
is uh you know, I mean Hank Williams Junior, Well,
Hank Wims, that was to me, the you know, probably
the ultimate country blues guy, him and Jimmy Rodgers and
and uh and then but for me, you know, Hank
Wims Junior was uh, you know, he was on the
radio and it was in my daddy's tape player when
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I was a kid, and and he would just play
songs that just man, they just hit you right where
it hurts, you know. And uh, and I didn't even
know what hurt at ten or eleven years old, you know,
I just know it hurt me, you know. And uh,
that's the blues, you know. And and and it's in
country blues. There's rock, blues, rhythm and blues. Uh, and
then you got the old Delta blues and all that stuff, man,
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And it's it's to me, it's what's missing from modern
country music is there is no uh representation of the blues. Really.
There's people, you know that's doing nineties country stuff, and
that's cool, man, I I did. I loved Alan Jackson,
and I love Brooks and Dunn and all that stuff.
But there was also a side of country music in
the nineties. Uh that was bluesy.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You had uh you had uh Travis tript was it
was a big one. Uh, Marty Stewart, Uh, a lot
of blues influence and and uh shoot, you had just
all kinds of people. Man, I'm trying to throw up
a few of them.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But but you know, and and so nowadays, man, I'm
that's kind of where I feel like my my homes at,
you know, is uh is modern country music h version
of country blues, you know, and it takes you can't
fake it, you know, you can't just go sing about whatever.
Like it's got to be something that the blues is
a feeling and you gotta have you got to be
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able to feel it, and you got to have got
to have that in you. You can't uh can't learn
it from YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, you gotta have it. Either it's for you
or it's not. Like I said, you're born to be
able to sing, and uh, it's not something you've said.
You would have it out there too. At the same time,
we get the album dead Man across all the DSPs
out there for streaming, and of course we're gonna play
one right now Chenning Wilson dot com for more information
out there to five great information giving but life across
all the social media. So it's called running down a song.
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We're gonna run down this song here kyb A ninety
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Speaker 3 (18:20):
Enjoy it, stay tuned.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
I'm alone with from home running down a song on
hell Man.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
To Ride, and it's puting up the fire the days
they fly by, dark tics, It's.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
All sweet time, cheep, whiskey, burn for the fires.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Have you learn some fuss card and paying.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Dude, I call it have enohing a lose for time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You can waste and chase.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
And kill TI crowd, or you can face.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
It head on, sing your song into you time.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
You gotta cry walk a line for it, man of
them in the sky, when angel down but.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
Losing only one five before your soul, the blood from
your veins, the glove and the.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Pain of years being gone, running down song.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Some fust call the painted, I.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Call it heaven Donna lose the time.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
And you can waste it, chase and kill ten Frida,
you can take it head on, sing your song into
you dive.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Where the miles at of that they don't pay the
bill's pool up real nize, but they don't Steve Rhyme's
coming busy please like me. I gotta ease on down
the Rudy. There's a new sound calling. And my family
name is like a tools don't tizzled in my brain.
I was born out of phase, going out in a
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blaze to biller rup but it up at gotta go.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Something's come of?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Can you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And I calling?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Having nothing to lose.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Pow you can waste and chas and kill ten price
for face it head on singer song into.
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festival world wide. Here back with Channing Wilson. So we
got to talk about this with my friend. Love it
running down a song.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I just love the title to that one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, you know, actually I wrote that tune. I've been
in Nashville for a long time. I'm beating the streets,
you know, trying to figure this music business out. And
and what I what I ended up doing was I
just kind of quit for a minute. I was still
kind of playing shows, but I went back home to
Georgia and I just I kind of just relaxed. I
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got my head right and remembered why I was doing
this to begin with. And that was the first song
I wrote after a big six month reset for me,
and and it was it just poured out at the
kitchen table one morning, and it's it's really just a
song about my commute back and forth to Nashville, which
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was one hundred and fifty eight Miles weekly that I
was doing trying to provide for my family and trying
to trying to figure out my next step and to
how to how to make the dead Man record. Really
it all started back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's got a great sound to it again, and authentic
music out there to love listeners. There Beer for Breakfast,
I want to know all about this one too.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I love this song, so yeah, man, Beer for Breakfast
was uh was a song that is actually funny because
I was writing it inside the offices of Warner Chapel
Music Publisher, which is right in the heart of music
row and uh and and me and my co writer,
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we were surrounded by freshly uh transferred people from California
who were all writing track beats around us, and you
can hear them through the walls, and uh and it
was just really getting on my nerves. You know, I'm
up there and we're we're trying to write country music
and you can just hear people playing beats and and
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all this all this stuff, and and almost out of
an act of rebellion, we said, let's just write something
that uh completely opposite, something that we leave and Meryl
would have been proud of and uh, my my friend said,
I seen this bumper sticker on the way to on
the way here today that said, uh, it said beer,
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It's not just for breakfast anymore. And I and I
thought to myself, I was like, man, you know, I've
woke up and cracked a beer, uh in Florida, you know.
But I was like, I grew up around some real
deal alcoholics that they woke up and cracked a beer
for a whole different reason. And uh and by noontime
they were always uh grabbing that bottle of Canadian Club
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and and really getting to work. And uh, and I
just remember thinking how sad it was to think, you know, that, uh,
someone woke up in the first thing they thought of
was I better go get drunk, you know. And so
we just really just took that image and just painted
the picture and set the room and and uh so
that song is really just a snapshot of, uh, of
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that idea of a couple of them old people that
I remember from my early days that were really addicted
to drinking.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Great song, great little buzz title for to love that
one beer for breakfast and check it out out there
across all the DSPs. And of course Channing Wilson dot com.
So kind of what's next? You mentioned this album came
out there in twenty twenty three. Great tours you get
on the road, it's good to kind of be home
now working on some new music and some writing. Tell
the audience about that for me.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, man, So I'm I've been literally on the road
since January this year, and I've this week is my
first week off, and I'm I'm getting ready to mow
the grass finally, you know, and all that kind of
stuff and start writing some new songs. I've got a
whole batch of new songs that I've got enough to
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make a record. But I want to make sure that
that I don't have something pressing inside me to get
out right now. Make sure you know that I want
to write a different kind of record. So so for
the next two weeks, I'm gonna dial in and I
got a couple buddies I'm don't get with and write
some write some new songs and see what comes and
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record new music. I'd say within a month, I hope
to be in a studio making a new record.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Can't wait for the new stuff to come out too
as well. I know one thing musicians never rest on
those laurels out there too. All right, let's have a
little fun and closing. I don't know if you heard
the breaking news today that I heard on Facebook two
that came out. I don't know if you were a
baseball fan, but it was Pete Rose and remember Shoeless
Joe Jackson. They've now been removed from Major League Baseball's
permanent ineligible list, which makes them now unbanned, creates a
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pathway for the National Baseball Hall of Fame eligibility for
the all time hits leader. And that was kind of
just on a fly, rob Man, for the Commissioner of Baseball.
I guess, being from Georgia, are you a Braves fan.
I'm not surprised of that ruling because Pete Rose did
say what happened one day after he passed, which now
it has there too, which you know, congratulations to those guys,
because I feel like two Baseball is such America's national
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pastime where the Braves your team.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Braves are still my team. Yeah, to the heart, the
good and the bad years for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
How about that now that you get the all time
hits leader and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, now eligible
for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you know, I mean I'll start off by saying,
everyone's human, everybody makes mistakes. And I remember when that
went on, and I remember the commissioner banning him from baseball.
You know, in times were different back then, you obviously
couldn't pick up your phone and bet on any ball
that moves like you can now, you know, And I
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thought it was harsh back then. I mean, you know,
he definitely made a mistake, and he apologized for it.
I'm you know, think about all those autograph baseballs that
he signed, Pete Rose, I'm sorry, I bet on baseball.
You know, this man went to his grave showing remorse
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because he knew that he had done wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And and.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There's nothing more human than giving a second chance to someone,
I feel like, and it's just a shame really that
it took his his death happening before we did it.
You know, I think they should have. I think they
should have at least lifted the band while he was alive,
so that he knew there was a chance. And uh
(30:19):
and uh, because redemption is the you know, it's the
ultimate story that we all hope to achieve in life,
and and I think they should have done it while
he was alive. As far as Shule as Joe Jackson,
you know, I'm not as Uh, it didn't happen in
my lifetime, so I'm not as passionate about that. But yeah,
I mean I've seen the movie, you know, Eight Men
(30:40):
Out and all that, all that kind of stuff, and uh,
you know, you never I don't know exactly what happened,
but once again, I just say the same thing. People
are human and if you and the Baseball Hall of
Fame is supposed to be your best baseball players, but
then you know, there is that legacy tooth.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Does you know if you commit a really bad crime,
should you be in a Hall of Fame for something?
Speaker 9 (31:06):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
So it is a It's definitely not a black and
white issue. But I'm I'm excited to hear that news.
I haven't seen it yet, so you're the first one
to tell me.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
There you go. Like I said, just came down. We
trying to keep people updated here Sports and New.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Sports Guys podcast dot Com and of course high school
football around the Corner will have more information on that.
With the Hampshire Finight Longhorns coming up this season, our
second season being affiliated with them too. It's going to
be exciting out there too, all the home and away games.
At the sports Guys podcast dot com, I mentioned, you know,
c m A Fest was coming up there Chanting in
just a few weeks there, June fifth to eighth. And
I'm always kind of finding myself getting new places to
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eat out there too, because Nashville's no shortage, has no
shortage of restaurants out there too at the same time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And uh, I guess always looking for new recommendations.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Do you have any too, Well, I'll tell you. We'll
start with Martin's Barbecue. I don't know if you've been there,
but uh, it's yeah, it's my favorite barbecue and Nashville
that I would say Martin's and peg Leg Porkers for
ribs for sure. Martin's has dry rub chicken wings and
(32:14):
Alabama white sauce that I just can't get enough of, man,
I mean, it's I must I'm a dry rub fan.
And if and if you are, you're not gonna you're
not gonna be disappointed there. I mean, the food in
Nashville is I I liked in my hole in the
wall joints and a lot of my favorite places of
have moved on. You know, Nashville has been a gold
(32:37):
rush in the last ten years, and a lot of
my favorite places are gone now. But for breakfast, you
can't beat Wendell Smith's over in Silvern Park. It's it's
like walking into nineteen seventy two and sitting down having
a coffee and a biscuit. You know, used to see
John Prin in there all the time. You'll you'll see
(32:59):
a lot of my buddy in there now, Drake White,
Ben Chapman, Brent Cobb, if he's in town. You know,
that's a great place to set. It feels like you
walk into a truck stop right off the interstate.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So, so hit Wendell Smiths for a for a breakfast
one morning and uh and uh Jim Jimmy Kelly's steakhouse
kind of off of West End. Over there is a
Nashville staple. Probably my favorite steakhouse though, is Sperry's over
in uh in Bellevue, old school steakhouse, got a salad bar.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You gotta wear a collar shirt at least in there too,
So don't walk in there with your crops on. You
know they'll kick you out. But that's if you're gonna
have a steak. That's where I suggest going.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's a good place out there too. I will take
those into consideration. I will probably eat there and have
the time to go there and join myself too, because
with the hard work comes a little bit of hard
play out there too.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Alright, to ask you this one too.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
What's the best part about doing this thing as a
career And what's the most challenging part of being a musician?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Kind of a two part.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, well, you know, the best part is UH is
working for myself getting to UH. I learned something from
listening to music all them years ago, and I got it.
I grew up passion for it when I sing. Like
I said earlier, when I seen Billy Joe Shaver play live,
(34:23):
it changed my life. I just seen this. I seen
this old man who I just found out about at
the time, and and how much he loved to do it.
And that's what I connected with him on was I
love to play guitar and I love to sing, even
though at the time I wasn't good at either one
of the two, but I felt like I was. I
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was good enough to quit my job apparently because I did,
and so yeah, I mean getting to uh, you know,
getting to uh sit in rooms with some of my
favorite songwriters and write songs together and talk about music.
I mean, I just you know, it's a language that
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I speak, and I love nothing more to get with
people who are fluent in the language, whether whether it
be an artist, or whether it be a fan or
a radio DJ, or someone who just speaks the language.
You know, they love it as much as me. I
just happen to be the guy that writes songs and
plays it. But some people play the record and they
love it just as much as I do. Some people
(35:25):
have other areas of the career, you know, but I
just love to get together and talk the language with
people who speak it with me.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
That's my favorite thing about music, is it it's an
instant connection with people who are connected to it. The
most challenging thing, obviously is getting through the bottleneck of
modern of the way things are nowadays, which is social
media being the number one driving factor on kind of popularity.
(35:56):
You know, it's tough to get through the bottleneck sometimes
as an independent artist, and you need these little viral
moments to happen to help kind of get you over
these humps. Used to you could just travel and tour
and put music out and people would find you. But
nowadays people's attention spands are so small that I mean,
(36:19):
you got to stay. You got to be on their
phone every day. And in order to be on their
phone every day, you either have to create viral moments
or pay for advertising. And so in my case, I'm
gonna have to create more viral moments.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, no doubt about it too. And that's one of
those things. Either on it every day or advertisement and
create those viral moments out there too. But hey, you
know what, you got your name and the flow out
there too as well. Put that name and the hat
to at the same time you're out there. It's a
great brand of music.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's what we had to have you here on the
program at Kemmy Wilson dot com and of course dead
Man across all the DSPs out there for more information,
giving them a Michael social media and go find an
authentic brand of music out there. From Channing Wilson again
KYBA ninety eight point one in Our Friends at KKTC,
True Country ninety nine point nine there at tas in
New Mexico. Hey, sure, appreciate you being a part of
the show, my friend. If you do happen to find
(37:09):
your way at cmafest, don't be a stranger. Come holler
at me down there at the Music City Center and
appreciate you being on. Talk about your brand of music,
and we'd love to do it again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yes, sir, I'm glad to be on any time, and
thank you for having me too. This the radio still matters,
is still relevant, and it's something. It's a format that
I love and I hope never dies and I can
anything I can do to help keep it alive. I'm
always in brother, you got it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
One of the best out there.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Channing Wilson here the backstage pass again powered by the
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Take care, God bless we'll see you sir.
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For all the tickets and information cmafest dot com. You
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Have on here too as well.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He's got a new album out called dead Man Like
I Said The One Thing I Say new as of
twenty twenty four is working on new music now to
Channing Wilson to the broadcast, Channing, how.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You doing, brother, Hey?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Brandon doing pretty good? Man? Just down here in between
storm Clouds and northwest Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hey Man, a good part of the country too. One
of my favorite artists I've had on the show here
from many times. I love Brandley Gilbert, the Georgia boy
Born and Bred loves it down there too as well.
Many great singers such as yourself and Brantley from Georgia. Hey,
talk about this. You know, so much of your sound
is being described as the old school eighties nineties, you know,
whal and Willie kind of sound out there too, But
that's the music you grew up on. And for the
(01:31):
fans and the radio markets that we're on that don't know,
Channing Wilson the person talk about just how you got
really infected if you were by that music and that
sound growing up to create your own.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah. Well, you know, when I was younger, eight, nine,
ten years old, my dad listened to all kinds of music,
but the thing that always really anchored in was Hank
Williams Junior, who at that time was on top of
the world. You know, I didn't even know who Hank
william Senior was at the time, and just uh, I
just know Hank Junior was on on coming out of
(02:04):
my dad's old Blazer speakers and uh and uh and
I used to sing the words to it, and I
just remember thinking, I was like, man, that's you know,
like I saund just like that guy, you know, even
though when I was eight years old, there's no way
I did. But so, I mean, you know, growing up
on on that kind of stuff during the eighties, and
then of course eighties radio was was really uh was
(02:27):
pretty wild man. You get everything from you know, the
more popular stuff like Alabama all the way to Steve
Earl and then uh Dwight Yoakum and and of course
Hank Williams Junior. I'd hear him on the radio all
the time, but but nothing really took hold. Like when
I seen Billy Joe Shaver live for the first time,
and that and h seeing him in a little club
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uh caused h chain raction that within a month I'd
quit the the real job I had, and that was
the last time I ever punched the clock.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I think we all want to go do what we love,
not what we have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When it comes down to, you know, looking back at
something like this again, that music, that storytelling aspect of it,
it's so true. It really speaks to the core out there.
Till I mentioned the album was twenty twenty four, it
was actually twenty twenty three. My birthday is always February
twenty third. That album came out February twenty four of
twenty twenty three. Tell me about dead Man, just you know,
leading off with a song such as Drink that Strong
(03:25):
and of course running down a song which we're gonna
play today, and of course that big big hit for
you Blues coming on. All the good stuff out there,
and just some of the best memories from dead Man
that you had, which you gots are still writing this
record too. Great great body work.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, thanks man, You know that that record even though
it wasn't twenty three. The wild thing about the internet
is people are finding it now like if it just
come out this year, you know. And that's what's cool
because there the more popularity I gained, people are finding
my album. You know. I was out on the road
with oh Riley Green this weekend, so I was exposed
(04:00):
to a whole new crop of fans. So to speak,
you know, And I watched my streaming numbers tick up
over the last couple of days just from that. You know.
Even though that record's two years old, it's brand new
to these folks, you know. So that's the cool thing
about the Internet, I guess. But that that album was
really technically a debut record for me. And I've been
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at this for a long time and just finally had
just enough money in the bank to kind of independently
finance my own record release, you know. And so really
that's kind of what helped me up for a lot
of years and then just live stuff and different things.
And so, yeah, Man, dead Man was was about fifteen
(04:46):
years in the make and and finally I got with
old Dave Cobb and he settled me down long enough
to make an album man, and we did, And that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You mentioned that name too, because so synonymous with so
many great country acts out there too. The one that
I'm gonna throw out there is the Oukreage Boys produced
a lot of their records that Dave Cobb has done.
And what's that like when you meet just an award
winning singer, songwriter, really producer, I say there because he's
got so much knowledge, probably in that singer songwriter aspect
of it, but from the production standpoint, doing exactly what
you want to do on your record and bringing out
(05:18):
the kind of sound you want to bring out. Like
on Dead Man when you first met him and go
through his catalog and his knowledge of the music industry,
what kind of kind of stuck out the most?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, you know, well, first of all that those Ochreage
Boys records, I also wrote songs for those, so I
got a couple of cuts on those. And that's so
when you mentioned those guys, they're they're close to my
heart man, because they're they're out there doing it at
in their seventies, you know, and he's still killing it,
which is what I hope to be doing. But as
far as Dave Man, you know, I tried to make
(05:48):
a record in Nashville three or four different times with
other producers, and nobody could just scratch the itch I had,
you know, Uh, they loved my songs, and they every
time we went to try to make a sound for him,
it just it was always a little too slick, or
it was a little too uh you know, same kind
of adjective polished or something and just too uh too produced,
(06:13):
so to speak, and and UH I'd met Dave through
his cousin Brent, who I'm also really good friends with,
Brent Cobb, and and I knew after hearing Brent's records
and hearing uh sturge old records and those things, that
I wanted to eventually work with him to the point
to uh to where I'd almost talked to myself into
(06:35):
not putting out a record until I got to do
it with him. And that's what ended up happening. And
so I knew that I knew that once I got
in with him, that he would be able to guide
me and help capture the sound that I was looking for.
I wanted to be fresh, but not modern. I wanted
to be uh. I was very intentional about it. I
(06:57):
wanted UH to sound have that that sound that I
love without being a retro band, because I'm not a
retro band. I don't write songs about picking cotton, and
I don't write songs about necessarily hopping freight trains, even
though I dream about it, because you know, because I
have an iPhone and I drive a four diesel truck,
(07:18):
and I'm not I wasn't born in the twenties, you know.
And uh so I'm not a retro band or any
of that stuff, you know. I'm just I'm a bluesy
singer songwriter from Georgia. And when I open my mouth
to sing, that's the way I sound, and that's the
way I talk when I talk to I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Love it too that it really exposes itself in that music.
So I gotta ask you about one here. We're gonna
come back talk about this one. We got to play
one now from Chenning Wilson off the album dead Man.
Guess what blues coming on? And of course when the
blues come on too, they're gonna speak the truth of
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Here it is. You find more information at Chenning Wilson
dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Back in the flash of Disney, Backstage Past KYBN ninety
eight point one, in Our Friends kk TC, True Country
ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Back in the Flash stick.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Two, I heard that rain, whistle Mom this mom. I
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got that old time be laying in my ball.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Wind and whimper wills, cry, Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I filled the blue it's.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Coming on, well Lord, the rain nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It's longsome's hearing your heartbeats all long.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And the echo.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It was a nothing around you.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Boy, that's the sound of the blue was coming on.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Lord, I I feel the blue was coming on.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
My pride, sinking, hearts ache and my b Lord gone
like a.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Man walking a line out of song.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Can't will your song, the Lord, I feel the.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Blue's coming on.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
And I heard that train whistle mom this morning. I
(10:04):
got that all time feeling in my bone.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It winding that whipper wos a cry.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The Lord. I I feel the blood it's coming on.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well, Lord fell, the blood's coming on.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
My crime shaking my heart's ache.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Cob Hord daughter like a man walking alive, had a
man old mag with your song, Lord, I feel the.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Coming on.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Hold up.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Coming on.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
My frishing and my parting my hour, guys, a band walking.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Body, an old fank with you, sow.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
DA's coming home, walking.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Away out of an old hallin foodsng.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Lord Ifield the blue.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
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You know, I love this Channing, such a great song.
You mentioned you open your mouth and this is what
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comes out the blues, speak the truth, my friend, and
this one was a great song in blues.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Coming on talking about this one.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, man, you know, a friend of mine and I
got together one one night over a half a quarter moonshine.
I know it sounds cliche, but it's all true. And
we were down on the Tennessee River and we were
trying to write song, a song that would kind of
a body the spirit of Hank Williams. Uh and uh
(14:05):
and I mean, really that's as simple as that. We
we put the guitar and dropped d and we started
catching a buzz and and uh he he looked at
me and goes, Man, I got this. He goes, I
got this line that I've had for ten years.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He said, it's I heard that train whistle moaning this
morning and I and immediately I just went, oh, you know,
I know exactly what we're gonna ride. And uh, because
I remember growing up next to the railroad tracks and
hearing the trains whistle blow, and and uh it would
cause me to wander, you know, and uh. And I
(14:43):
never wandered at that point in my life before, but
I used to think, Man, where's that train going where's
this train going. I bet that train's going to Florida.
I bet that train's going out west, you know. And uh,
and that caused just a big wanderlust in my head
and uh and which which created a whole lot of
different feelings, including the blues, you know, and I've had
(15:05):
them ever since, ever since I was young.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Boy, you would have loved the show we got to
be a part of just a couple of weeks ago
there in Houston, Texas. Loved the House of Blues every
time we get to go to a show there too.
And it was the great Bobby Rush and of course
he partnered with of course the new album they put
out called Young Fashion Ways Kenny Wayne Sheppard playing the guitar.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh Wow, Yeah, rock all night.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I was sitting there going, I.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Said, Channing would appreciate that from someone coming from the
blues singer songwriter, that he'd love that style of music.
And that's what I feel like has been missing over
the last you know, fifteen twenty years. And I never
felt like blues you know, died out. But I really
feel like it's starting to resurrect itself there now, because
you know, you mentioned the Okres Boys, but you have,
like I mean, Bobby Rush ninety one, he'sed to be
(15:47):
ninety two years old, still doing this thing out there
playing harmonica and playing the blues. I mean, Kenny Wayne,
the guitar buddy Guy BB King. That's such a great
genre of music that I grew up on too, And
it's so important to have all these crossovers now in
the country, right.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. Well, you know that's the thing about the blues too,
is uh you know, I mean Hank Williams Junior, Well,
Hank Wims, that was to me, the you know, probably
the ultimate country blues guy, him and Jimmy Rodgers and
and uh and then but for me, you know, Hank
Wims Junior was uh, you know, he was on the
radio and it was in my daddy's tape player when
(16:24):
I was a kid, and and he would just play
songs that just man, they just hit you right where
it hurts, you know. And uh, and I didn't even
know what hurt at ten or eleven years old, you know,
I just know it hurt me, you know. And uh,
that's the blues, you know. And and and it's in
country blues. There's rock, blues, rhythm and blues. Uh, and
then you got the old Delta blues and all that stuff, man,
(16:47):
And it's it's to me, it's what's missing from modern
country music is there is no uh representation of the blues. Really.
There's people, you know that's doing nineties country stuff, and
that's cool, man, I I did. I loved Alan Jackson,
and I love Brooks and Dunn and all that stuff.
But there was also a side of country music in
the nineties. Uh that was bluesy.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You had uh you had uh Travis tript was it
was a big one. Uh, Marty Stewart, Uh, a lot
of blues influence and and uh shoot, you had just
all kinds of people. Man, I'm trying to throw up
a few of them.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But but you know, and and so nowadays, man, I'm
that's kind of where I feel like my my homes at,
you know, is uh is modern country music h version
of country blues, you know, and it takes you can't
fake it, you know, you can't just go sing about whatever.
Like it's got to be something that the blues is
a feeling and you gotta have you got to be
(17:46):
able to feel it, and you got to have got
to have that in you. You can't uh can't learn
it from YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, you gotta have it. Either it's for you
or it's not. Like I said, you're born to be
able to sing, and uh, it's not something you've said.
You would have it out there too. At the same time,
we get the album dead Man across all the DSPs
out there for streaming, and of course we're gonna play
one right now Chenning Wilson dot com for more information
out there to five great information giving but life across
all the social media. So it's called running down a song.
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We're gonna run down this song here kyb A ninety
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in the flash.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Enjoy it, stay tuned.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
I'm alone with from home running down a song on
hell Man.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
To Ride, and it's puting up the fire the days
they fly by, dark tics, It's.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
All sweet time, cheep, whiskey, burn for the fires.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Have you learn some fuss card and paying.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Dude, I call it have enohing a lose for time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You can waste and chase.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
And kill TI crowd, or you can face.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
It head on, sing your song into you time.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
You gotta cry walk a line for it, man of
them in the sky, when angel down but.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
Losing only one five before your soul, the blood from
your veins, the glove and the.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Pain of years being gone, running down song.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Some fust call the painted, I.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Call it heaven Donna lose the time.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
And you can waste it, chase and kill ten Frida,
you can take it head on, sing your song into
you dive.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Where the miles at of that they don't pay the
bill's pool up real nize, but they don't Steve Rhyme's
coming busy please like me. I gotta ease on down
the Rudy. There's a new sound calling. And my family
name is like a tools don't tizzled in my brain.
I was born out of phase, going out in a
(21:33):
blaze to biller rup but it up at gotta go.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Something's come of?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Can you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And I calling?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Having nothing to lose.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Pow you can waste and chas and kill ten price
for face it head on singer song into.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
A gold It Doe.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
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Speaker 2 (23:01):
And back here Jenning Wilson on the show again. We'll
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and the biggest week for the biggest largest country music
festival world wide. Here back with Channing Wilson. So we
got to talk about this with my friend. Love it
running down a song.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I just love the title to that one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, you know, actually I wrote that tune. I've been
in Nashville for a long time. I'm beating the streets,
you know, trying to figure this music business out. And
and what I what I ended up doing was I
just kind of quit for a minute. I was still
kind of playing shows, but I went back home to
Georgia and I just I kind of just relaxed. I
(24:16):
got my head right and remembered why I was doing
this to begin with. And that was the first song
I wrote after a big six month reset for me,
and and it was it just poured out at the
kitchen table one morning, and it's it's really just a
song about my commute back and forth to Nashville, which
(24:37):
was one hundred and fifty eight Miles weekly that I
was doing trying to provide for my family and trying
to trying to figure out my next step and to
how to how to make the dead Man record. Really
it all started back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's got a great sound to it again, and authentic
music out there to love listeners. There Beer for Breakfast,
I want to know all about this one too.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I love this song, so yeah, man, Beer for Breakfast
was uh was a song that is actually funny because
I was writing it inside the offices of Warner Chapel
Music Publisher, which is right in the heart of music
row and uh and and me and my co writer,
(25:24):
we were surrounded by freshly uh transferred people from California
who were all writing track beats around us, and you
can hear them through the walls, and uh and it
was just really getting on my nerves. You know, I'm
up there and we're we're trying to write country music
and you can just hear people playing beats and and
(25:48):
all this all this stuff, and and almost out of
an act of rebellion, we said, let's just write something
that uh completely opposite, something that we leave and Meryl
would have been proud of and uh, my my friend said,
I seen this bumper sticker on the way to on
the way here today that said, uh, it said beer,
(26:09):
It's not just for breakfast anymore. And I and I
thought to myself, I was like, man, you know, I've
woke up and cracked a beer, uh in Florida, you know.
But I was like, I grew up around some real
deal alcoholics that they woke up and cracked a beer
for a whole different reason. And uh and by noontime
they were always uh grabbing that bottle of Canadian Club
(26:33):
and and really getting to work. And uh, and I
just remember thinking how sad it was to think, you know, that, uh,
someone woke up in the first thing they thought of
was I better go get drunk, you know. And so
we just really just took that image and just painted
the picture and set the room and and uh so
that song is really just a snapshot of, uh, of
(26:56):
that idea of a couple of them old people that
I remember from my early days that were really addicted
to drinking.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Great song, great little buzz title for to love that
one beer for breakfast and check it out out there
across all the DSPs. And of course Channing Wilson dot com.
So kind of what's next? You mentioned this album came
out there in twenty twenty three. Great tours you get
on the road, it's good to kind of be home
now working on some new music and some writing. Tell
the audience about that for me.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, man, So I'm I've been literally on the road
since January this year, and I've this week is my
first week off, and I'm I'm getting ready to mow
the grass finally, you know, and all that kind of
stuff and start writing some new songs. I've got a
whole batch of new songs that I've got enough to
(27:43):
make a record. But I want to make sure that
that I don't have something pressing inside me to get
out right now. Make sure you know that I want
to write a different kind of record. So so for
the next two weeks, I'm gonna dial in and I
got a couple buddies I'm don't get with and write
some write some new songs and see what comes and
(28:04):
record new music. I'd say within a month, I hope
to be in a studio making a new record.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Can't wait for the new stuff to come out too
as well. I know one thing musicians never rest on
those laurels out there too. All right, let's have a
little fun and closing. I don't know if you heard
the breaking news today that I heard on Facebook two
that came out. I don't know if you were a
baseball fan, but it was Pete Rose and remember Shoeless
Joe Jackson. They've now been removed from Major League Baseball's
permanent ineligible list, which makes them now unbanned, creates a
(28:34):
pathway for the National Baseball Hall of Fame eligibility for
the all time hits leader. And that was kind of
just on a fly, rob Man, for the Commissioner of Baseball.
I guess, being from Georgia, are you a Braves fan.
I'm not surprised of that ruling because Pete Rose did
say what happened one day after he passed, which now
it has there too, which you know, congratulations to those guys,
because I feel like two Baseball is such America's national
(28:56):
pastime where the Braves your team.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Braves are still my team. Yeah, to the heart, the
good and the bad years for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
How about that now that you get the all time
hits leader and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, now eligible
for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you know, I mean I'll start off by saying,
everyone's human, everybody makes mistakes. And I remember when that
went on, and I remember the commissioner banning him from baseball.
You know, in times were different back then, you obviously
couldn't pick up your phone and bet on any ball
that moves like you can now, you know, And I
(29:30):
thought it was harsh back then. I mean, you know,
he definitely made a mistake, and he apologized for it.
I'm you know, think about all those autograph baseballs that
he signed, Pete Rose, I'm sorry, I bet on baseball.
You know, this man went to his grave showing remorse
(29:52):
because he knew that he had done wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And and.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There's nothing more human than giving a second chance to someone,
I feel like, and it's just a shame really that
it took his his death happening before we did it.
You know, I think they should have. I think they
should have at least lifted the band while he was alive,
so that he knew there was a chance. And uh
(30:19):
and uh, because redemption is the you know, it's the
ultimate story that we all hope to achieve in life,
and and I think they should have done it while
he was alive. As far as Shule as Joe Jackson,
you know, I'm not as Uh, it didn't happen in
my lifetime, so I'm not as passionate about that. But yeah,
I mean I've seen the movie, you know, Eight Men
(30:40):
Out and all that, all that kind of stuff, and uh,
you know, you never I don't know exactly what happened,
but once again, I just say the same thing. People
are human and if you and the Baseball Hall of
Fame is supposed to be your best baseball players, but
then you know, there is that legacy tooth.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Does you know if you commit a really bad crime,
should you be in a Hall of Fame for something?
Speaker 9 (31:06):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
So it is a It's definitely not a black and
white issue. But I'm I'm excited to hear that news.
I haven't seen it yet, so you're the first one
to tell me.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
There you go. Like I said, just came down. We
trying to keep people updated here Sports and New.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Sports Guys podcast dot Com and of course high school
football around the Corner will have more information on that.
With the Hampshire Finight Longhorns coming up this season, our
second season being affiliated with them too. It's going to
be exciting out there too, all the home and away games.
At the sports Guys podcast dot com, I mentioned, you know,
c m A Fest was coming up there Chanting in
just a few weeks there, June fifth to eighth. And
I'm always kind of finding myself getting new places to
(31:44):
eat out there too, because Nashville's no shortage, has no
shortage of restaurants out there too at the same time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And uh, I guess always looking for new recommendations.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Do you have any too, Well, I'll tell you. We'll
start with Martin's Barbecue. I don't know if you've been there,
but uh, it's yeah, it's my favorite barbecue and Nashville
that I would say Martin's and peg Leg Porkers for
ribs for sure. Martin's has dry rub chicken wings and
(32:14):
Alabama white sauce that I just can't get enough of, man,
I mean, it's I must I'm a dry rub fan.
And if and if you are, you're not gonna you're
not gonna be disappointed there. I mean, the food in
Nashville is I I liked in my hole in the
wall joints and a lot of my favorite places of
have moved on. You know, Nashville has been a gold
(32:37):
rush in the last ten years, and a lot of
my favorite places are gone now. But for breakfast, you
can't beat Wendell Smith's over in Silvern Park. It's it's
like walking into nineteen seventy two and sitting down having
a coffee and a biscuit. You know, used to see
John Prin in there all the time. You'll you'll see
(32:59):
a lot of my buddy in there now, Drake White,
Ben Chapman, Brent Cobb, if he's in town. You know,
that's a great place to set. It feels like you
walk into a truck stop right off the interstate.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So, so hit Wendell Smiths for a for a breakfast
one morning and uh and uh Jim Jimmy Kelly's steakhouse
kind of off of West End. Over there is a
Nashville staple. Probably my favorite steakhouse though, is Sperry's over
in uh in Bellevue, old school steakhouse, got a salad bar.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You gotta wear a collar shirt at least in there too,
So don't walk in there with your crops on. You
know they'll kick you out. But that's if you're gonna
have a steak. That's where I suggest going.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's a good place out there too. I will take
those into consideration. I will probably eat there and have
the time to go there and join myself too, because
with the hard work comes a little bit of hard
play out there too.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Alright, to ask you this one too.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
What's the best part about doing this thing as a
career And what's the most challenging part of being a musician?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Kind of a two part.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, well, you know, the best part is UH is
working for myself getting to UH. I learned something from
listening to music all them years ago, and I got it.
I grew up passion for it when I sing. Like
I said earlier, when I seen Billy Joe Shaver play live,
(34:23):
it changed my life. I just seen this. I seen
this old man who I just found out about at
the time, and and how much he loved to do it.
And that's what I connected with him on was I
love to play guitar and I love to sing, even
though at the time I wasn't good at either one
of the two, but I felt like I was. I
(34:44):
was good enough to quit my job apparently because I did,
and so yeah, I mean getting to uh, you know,
getting to uh sit in rooms with some of my
favorite songwriters and write songs together and talk about music.
I mean, I just you know, it's a language that
(35:05):
I speak, and I love nothing more to get with
people who are fluent in the language, whether whether it
be an artist, or whether it be a fan or
a radio DJ, or someone who just speaks the language.
You know, they love it as much as me. I
just happen to be the guy that writes songs and
plays it. But some people play the record and they
love it just as much as I do. Some people
(35:25):
have other areas of the career, you know, but I
just love to get together and talk the language with
people who speak it with me.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
That's my favorite thing about music, is it it's an
instant connection with people who are connected to it. The
most challenging thing, obviously is getting through the bottleneck of
modern of the way things are nowadays, which is social
media being the number one driving factor on kind of popularity.
(35:56):
You know, it's tough to get through the bottleneck sometimes
as an independent artist, and you need these little viral
moments to happen to help kind of get you over
these humps. Used to you could just travel and tour
and put music out and people would find you. But
nowadays people's attention spands are so small that I mean,
(36:19):
you got to stay. You got to be on their
phone every day. And in order to be on their
phone every day, you either have to create viral moments
or pay for advertising. And so in my case, I'm
gonna have to create more viral moments.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, no doubt about it too. And that's one of
those things. Either on it every day or advertisement and
create those viral moments out there too. But hey, you
know what, you got your name and the flow out
there too as well. Put that name and the hat
to at the same time you're out there. It's a
great brand of music.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's what we had to have you here on the
program at Kemmy Wilson dot com and of course dead
Man across all the DSPs out there for more information,
giving them a Michael social media and go find an
authentic brand of music out there. From Channing Wilson again
KYBA ninety eight point one in Our Friends at KKTC,
True Country ninety nine point nine there at tas in
New Mexico. Hey, sure, appreciate you being a part of
the show, my friend. If you do happen to find
(37:09):
your way at cmafest, don't be a stranger. Come holler
at me down there at the Music City Center and
appreciate you being on. Talk about your brand of music,
and we'd love to do it again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yes, sir, I'm glad to be on any time, and
thank you for having me too. This the radio still matters,
is still relevant, and it's something. It's a format that
I love and I hope never dies and I can
anything I can do to help keep it alive. I'm
always in brother, you got it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
One of the best out there.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Channing Wilson here the backstage pass again powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot com. It's a grand slam of
music and sports and of course out there too, KYBN
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(37:54):
more radio markets out there too as we speak, and
more to come here. More great music on the Backstage
Pass out there too as well across all of our affiliates.
Take care, God bless we'll see you sir.
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Hey y'all, this is recording artist Dusty Black and you're
listening to the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on KKTC True
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