February 26, 2025 • 37 mins
Chris Berardo joined us on the show to talk about his plans for 2025 and lots more! Join us on KKTC True Country 99.9 and on iHeartRadio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Chris Berardo and I'm here on True
Counting ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Heck, welcome inside the backstage past. Always a busy day
of shows and of course we're not slowing down After
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in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Omni Hotel. If you miss
any of those episodes, or if you miss them, they'll
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The videos are everywhere at fifty six artists come through
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As always, a new artist here is on the show
to welcome me, and I welcome them to the show.
(00:47):
See it's two way street here, Chris Barardo here on
the show. We're gonna play music and have fun. Chris,
how you doing, brother, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Man, Hey man, Please to be here too as well,
and love the fact that we get a chance to
feature your music here from this upcoming album coming up
a couple of tracks off here take me back and
wanted to leave. But as far as it goes, Chris, Uh,
like I said, you know, strangers to this thing called music,
and it's a funny, funny career to say the least,
No doubt about it. The music business, no doubt. Yeah,
(01:14):
talk to me about just how you got started in
this whole thing and this crazy thing called the music business.
And I guess exactly when the bug kind of bit
that you were gonna do this forever?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, uh, you know I had I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I had a babysitter when I was about seven years old,
Kathy Downs had a pretty big crush on her, and
she brought me all her Monkeys albums.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And h that was it for me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I figured out, you know, I wanted to be uh
just like that, and uh, you know, I listened to
all that great music. Mike Nessmith had all these country
rock songs on those records, and that was about it
until I was fourteen and my buddy down the street
had a band going, and uh, I convinced him somehow
to get me involved, and uh, that's been here.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I've never really had a proper job since.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
What's a proper We don't need that to it. Yeah, yeah, right,
no playing B right, no playing B.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hey, I'm not a big playing B guy. No, I
don't have that. I didn't have much going.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
One career, one job, go after man, like I said,
only one trip around the sun, no doubt, that's right. Hey,
tell me about musical influences growing up, because I know
the music you know, specifically say Americana, but there's a
lot of cool things to kind of go into this
vibe for these two songs and this upcoming record. But
who were you mostly influenced by growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like I said, those Monkeys records that I didn't
know that was country rock, you know if Mike Instant songs.
And the radio where I grew up outside of New
York City was really eclectic, the AM radio, and you hear.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Every kind of different thing R and B and and
heavy rock.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But in those days, but they played a lot of
the Southern rock bands, which which I loved, and like
Marshall Tucker Band and Poco and things that I loved
like that, and you know, there was just a lot
of the things that we didn't know were called Americana
back then, like the Eagles and Neil Young and things
like that hit me pretty hard, and that was sort
(03:04):
of the crossover country stuff from back then that you'd
hear that. That was, Like I said, it's a big
tent maricon of music, so a lot of things go
into that. But I just found myself like in the
country rock kind of sound and people like that and
you'd hear it on the radio back then.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I love that, and that's the such of MEXICANUS. You
see it being the crossover Chris, you know the word
Nashville last week too, talking to a lot of people
up there. You know, it's definitely kind of infused now
with a little bit of southern rock and you got
the country pop kind of going on. Talk about how
just from when you started, you know, now for what
thirty thirty five years later, how's it really changed? And
I guess for the good and for the bad. Of course,
(03:41):
there's always going to be changing everything, but specifically streaming
and just how the music business has changed just in
your mind, Yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Changes a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I mean I've been around enough that I can remember,
you know, when people would get dropped from their labels
for selling a quarter for a million records.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know, that's different when I first started.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
When I came back and kind of had to restart
around like the nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Or nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I could make an album and I'd get boxes of
it from the label and you go out in a
van and a trailer and sell them, and you know,
and sell a lot of them and have a It
would support us out there. And that's been cut into
a lot because that was before streaming. So that's the
downside of it is people think music's for free, and
that's that makes it a little trickier for guys like me.
(04:30):
But the good thing is that people can get things
out and heard and everybody's got their mits on it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And that feels good to me because I never.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Got into this racket to get rich anyway, which is
going pretty well. I just want you know, if you
want people to hear what you do, it's it's a
quick delivery system.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So that's a big difference though. That's that's made a
big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, and you got a couple of that Chris, you
mentioned there too, not just was streaming, but also too,
I know these shows out there, American Idol and of
course The Voice and other things that of just a
huge competitions out there everywhere for every artist too, because
there's so many people out out there wanting to do
these things and of course, you know, be the next
big thing and get discovered out there in the music
industry because there's so many different artists out there that
(05:13):
otherwise may not have a chance to get their music out.
Talk about just the uh, the growth of these TV
shows and these reality shows that have really changed the landscape.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They sure have, and it is a quick way and
you know, I kind of I kind of missed that.
I skipped over that part, you know, but it's I
see that boy, it'll get somebody a lot of attention
fast if they're talented, and and that's that's a beautiful
part of it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think my home.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In my opinion, I just think some sometimes you miss
the those years of hard training that you might need
because I see a kid who's full of talent and
does great on a show like that, and it's you know,
you got to kind of backtrack to learn how to
how to perform and how to write and how to
because you know it'll come at you pretty fast in
one of those situations.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But it's the schure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is a great way to get a lot of eyes
and find out who's talented.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
But I think you can't forget about that part. You
got to be able to go out and deliver it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You got to be able to you know, take a
few bruises and lumps along the way. And uh so
so once you if you could do all that and
then get all those eyeballs on you, and I guess
then you really got something.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love man, listening to your song this year. I
want to talk about this one too, because I love
the writing when it comes down to it. And of
course it's just the backstory of songs and how they
come to life. Tell us all about this.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
One this year was uh, it's a it was a
holiday song. I didn't even know you had that there.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And uh because I had a manager who said, you know,
if you if you write something around the holidays, you know,
a Christmas song, you know, you get to go back
to it every year. It's there forever like an evergreen
And and I just thought, well, I don't think that's
I don't see myself writing and I was thinking of
candy canes and reindeers, and I just couldn't imagine where
I would start.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But then I just got an idea. We lost our
dad in the.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Interim, our family did, and so of course that hit
everybody hard, and I just it was right around then,
and I started thinking of it in a different way,
and I wrote it just as a as a song
that could stand up hopefully anytime a year, just about
the idea that we're here now and we're with family,
and cherish it when you do have those moments because
(07:23):
it could be gone in a minute, but here we
are at this moment. So and I just said, song,
I'm proud of holidays or not, but it does come
around then every every year we get to play it
a little and people dig into it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So I'm happy that I found a way to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, with this coach, we've talked about pros and
cons and all this too, but I want to focus
really on I guess both in a little bit, but
the cons really, because a lot of fans may not see,
you know, Chris, the ups and downs of the business
or the obstacles that you guys face as artists. Talk
about just some of the ones that really am impact
you in a way that are just really tough to overcome.
(08:03):
But on the flip side of it, it keeps the
grind going. Talk about that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, it's it's not for the timid, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I always tell people don't don't uh, don't get into
this if you're thin skinned or they can't take a hit.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But if you love it enough, then the process is
so rewarding.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But you know, trying to have a band, I had
a pretty steady band for twenty or more years, a
lot of guys in and out, but a real definite
core of talented, great guys. My rule is, you know,
you gotta be smart and funny, like, no, we don't
want any I don't know word I could say, but
we don't want no jerks in the band and we
want to like good people and so that limits the
(08:43):
pool some in this in this racket. So I keeping
a band together that long is it's a challenge and
a lot of times it'd be heartbreaking, and that that'll
that'll get you in the gut because when.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You lose a guy, that's a hard thing.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And when your career is and flying enough that you
can keep the kind of guys you want, those are
hard things. When you have people in the business end
of it that are supposed to come through, or you
know it's a business full of promises, those things can
can take the wind out of you. But I always
say that if you enjoy it, if you enjoy the process,
if you like doing it, that's the payoff.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Don't think of that other stuff. Just the payoff is.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Keep it, doing it and enjoying the thing you do,
because there will be a lot of bumps in the
road along the way.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Like anything else in life, no doubt my for here
play one from Chris Barardo here of the single they
released last year, take Me Back Here it is We're
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Speaker 5 (09:49):
Two A Bell of Darkness.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I have been torn up good. This one will leave
my turn inside, head up and tear my Sanda away,
roll me over rough room.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
So I have been twist, I bend.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Turn and I'll steal the league.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Because I have still bird, but not my models back
with my young heart you sprees every wild perfect see
(11:19):
said I'm from.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Take me.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
To my.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Raised me back where I started again.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Kill me you know I have brought again, Take me back,
let me start again.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Home by the sick green spring, the suta her tide,
the young Girl's gold in here.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
God, you buy.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
One more more.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
And baming across the time a scar pop mascammer.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Row grey tide.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I have a weakened There's a lot I have you still.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
That's not unclose my eyes.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
The mo of them.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Berlin baby is so winding his ride to be about
the head.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Taking me.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
He's back.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
To my.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Raise me heel.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Let's take back where I started again.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Feel me know I am the.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Again. Take me he by you start again.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Losing, but not my moneve that.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
With my young heart soul brace.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Every while perfectly that I'm from, Take me.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To my.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Raise me here that will started again, kim.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Me take me back the least again.
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here with Chris Berardo, so let's dive into this one. Chris,
take me back. Love the vibe, I love the feel
it just had like really got Americana roots feel too it.
Talk about this one for me.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, that's a fun one to play. It's a song
I love. It's the band that is the on this album,
the whole band.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's six of us, three three.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Guys from Rectus Kelly, who's my favorite band, the guys
from Austin, and three of the guys from my band,
Chris Bardo and the Desperadoes.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And it's a great Uh. That was a great mix,
and I think the vibe there really, it's the way
we play it live.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's a it's a fun one. We brought in Lloyd
Main's the Uh. There's a great steel guitar player from
Austin and he played on the track as well.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
So I love it. It's a song means a lot
to me.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You know, I ran into a health problem years ago.
I feel great now, but it was a you know,
like a gut check and a time to sort of
regroup and think about where you're at and just thinking
about wanting to be a kid and when you didn't
have things to worry about.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And this is one of my.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
First adult doses, you know, of something that happened like
it's gonna happen all of us. So gave me a
chance to sort of restart the engines and think about that.
And so it's a song I care about. I feel
good when I sing it because I feel fine now
and I'm healthy and feeling great, and it's just it's
kind of a fun stomper there that I guess. It's
great to get up and play. People seem to react
(18:16):
to that album pretty well.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, I love man. It's got a great feel to
it too. And off that same EP mentioned I'll release.
The single was also on an EP last year, Somebody
Like Me, which came out in August of last year
too at the same time talk about somebody like Me.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, that's a fun song too.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's kind of a little bit of throwback to, like
I said, when I was a kid to like pop
rock records and the same Lloyd Mains that I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Playing steel on it and the rest of us. It's
a you know, it's a fun song.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's just the idea that maybe some times you see
something in somebody that they don't see themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's just saying, so you need somebody like me to
come along to remind you of how great you are.
Because I think a lot of people love it. Forget
it sometimes, right, so it's uh, yeah, it's just a
fun song. I think it's a positive thing about uh,
remembering to find the good in each other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, I agree with that too, you know. And I'll
tell you, Chris, it's always fun to get out there
and just meet people. I said that Country Radio seminar.
I've gotten to deal there six years in a row
and just talk to people about, like you said, how
the industry has changed so much and kind of one
of the new norms of today. And you know, see
a lot of the new faces in there. I can't
really recall the time. I guess maybe since nineties country,
and if you're a big fan of nineties country, but
I grew up on it too, like the outlaw music,
(19:32):
Whale and Willie stuff like that too that I love
so much, and Connolly Twitty and Merle Haggard and like
I said, George Jones was from my area too. Pretty
healthy right now too, with so many great artists yourself included,
doing their their thing out there.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And and maybe since what nineties country has been this hot?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, that's when I kind of I had come back
from La then and was sort of restarting and figuring
out my direction. I wanted to go, and the stuff
in the nineties was exciting to meet, you know, And
and I'd already grown up with things like Whalen, you know,
and Willy of course that I loved, and that at
that time the songwriter guys were coming along on country
(20:09):
radio like Mary Chapman, Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And and Low love It. Stuff like that really got
to me and that I thought was really pointed me
kind of in that direction.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Like I heard when I was a kid, these records
that were country tinged but not always so traditional.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I think that's Americana there you have it, you know.
That was sort of the birth of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And Whale and Jenny's I could you know, he'd be
the king of anything right now.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I love the fact that the old school sound, like
I said, just playing outlaw type music. Man love that stuff,
and there's there's so many guys doing their thing out
there there sticking to that that persona of you.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Know, came and felt like that to me like when
I was a kid, and it still does. I loved
all of a sudden and rock guys that I.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Think, you know, Whaling and them were kind of the
precursor to that that the two people like Marshall Tucker
Band and the Alma Brothers and things sometimes and I
think of that all that big tent too, that that
was a big influence on me. If a guy wants
to be in a rock band but loves his country music,
that's said. You know, that's a lot of fertile ground there.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
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Speaker 8 (21:41):
I see you love.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Sloo up there come turn nine, all seeing look at me.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You believed I love you?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
You could get so lowly.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Find out the art.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Had kid me.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
But the fe set in your bones down a new
will let of down, so you hang around.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Oh wa, it's all right. You can't dance all night.
Let the sun like the sweet.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Super fris his begin.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Oh won, it's okay. He can't wash your sands away.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Let your fat fatts guns bones.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Boe with me, Wanda some Mont train ride line to.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Playing a child's game le gin know see, I don't
want to see you clamb out there and I don't
want to see you.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
You believe more. Oh, it's all ride. You can't dance upbyn.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
Let the sunrise like a sweet soup fris the game.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Oh won, It's okay. You can't wash your sands work.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
You can let your flat line dark nut.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Scotch run through brobably badly.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
It's okay.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
Take a breath and m where take yourself album lot.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
It's a lot sometimes. Oh mon, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
You can't dance all away.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
He denied it.
Speaker 11 (24:42):
He watched the summer like the sweets crass bid.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Oh, it's okay. You can't wash your sands.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
We let your flat line talk nuts gun.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Follow me. Thanks bother.
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(26:38):
There fround five to six Mountain Standard time there and
of course out there angel Fire Broadcasting and of course
you can stream it out there LMNOC Broadcast Company. Chris,
we've got to talk about Wanda Lee. Let's get the
load down.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wanda Lee is the single where sort of the album
comes out the end of this week, February twenty eighth.
I don't know when you'll be seeing this, but it's
Blue Lots. The album it's called Wilder all the Time,
and this is kind of the one we're pushing as
the album comes out and like you know, sending around
to radio.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It feels like a fun radio song to me and
the guys, it feels like you want to get the
top down, you know, and hear it loud at your dashboard.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So I was just I wrote it thinking about sometimes,
you know, women who or anybody who might be up
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Late at night and trying to make a connection, you know,
when that.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I don't know if it's still like that now, but
when the Internet started first, you know, kind of coming
around it was it was almost like ham radio. People
were like just trying to see what was out there.
And I was just thinking to my mind about a
woman who's, uh, maybe things haven't worked out exactly like
she expected and she's sort of just reaching out there
for a connection in the in the night. But it's
(27:49):
a but it's I think it's just a fun song
about somebody who could be anybody. You know, we all
probably know someone like it. So I hope the listener will,
you know, hear something in there and make them think
about something that connects with them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
But it's a fun song, fun to play, and we're
proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I love it, man, love it can't wait for the
album to come out, and I want to talk to
you a little bit about too as well. Other goals
and plans for twenty twenty five. What are you most
looking forward to? Obviously the album and touring.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, yeah, I've getting this album out. This album tell
a lot of twists.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And turns, boy with the story, but it's been It's
just good that we found a really good home at
a Blue a lot of records for I'm really excited
to because we've been playing these songs live for a while,
so I'm really excited to get it out there, to
get back to touring. Things kind of slowed up a little,
you know, at the pandemic, things slowed up, but you know,
it's mostly back now.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But American is a little different than some things, you know,
It's it doesn't always get the traction right away.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We're not playing as many shows as we did, but
we're you know, about to get back to that, to
more of that, and that makes me really excited.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Sometimes I do.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Acoustic thing, trio things with half the guys and I
and smaller rooms and I love that. And a lot
of times we're the opening guys with the band, and
we've been out there for years with people like the
dB Brothers and America those kind of which I think.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Now are Americana bands.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
So more of that and just more meeting new people,
more you know, shaking hands and finding new people to
preach all this too.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Preach all the brother no doubt. Hey, when you're out
there on the road and doing those shows, I guess
with somebody ordering food or a catering thing, or if
you get to stop by a local cuisine, if it's
a recommendation, what do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Man, we're like the guys who most of the guys
in and out of this band in the last ten
fifteen years, like almost all had been barbecue maniacs and
imt So if we could find if we're in the
right part of the country and find something that's real.
We spent a lot of time in Texas like a
second home, and I know the arguments about the different
kinds of barbecue, but we like them all. We cut
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the last record in North Carolina and barbecue was you know,
that was the goal every night, used to find the
best new place. So there's a lot of that, and
then there's a lot of whatever the venue will give us.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, man on the hounse is on the house. Yeah, yeah,
to eat out there too. All right, we're tying a
little bit of this. Are you a sports fan? Do
you follow a college the pro teams?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Chris if lifelong, lifelong here Yankees fan. You're a Giants fan,
your Knicks fan. And I went to the University of
Miami briefly until we had a disagreement about philosophy down there.
But I'm a big University Miami football fan too, So
all the three New York teams and um down there
in Florida, big fan.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
All right, So I gotta ask you, being a lifelong
Yankee fan, I gotta go here, dude. I'm an Astros
fan down here too, So you're here.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
We go.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So I'm gonna say this. We're kind of falling off
after these last I say falling off, and I say
it every year, but eight out of nine, trying to
make it nine out of ten had some great rivalry
there with the Yanks there over the past few years.
Let me ask you get into the World Series last year,
the Soto Aaron Judge. Then what's the prediction now as
we embark on another season? Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, it's disappointing being a Yankee fan. It's a little
different than some things. You can't believe it. But if
you listen to New York radio, you find everybody's just
ticked off. Like we went to the World Series last year,
and everybody's mad, you know, because you gotta it's win
that or nothing, the study, you know. The I think
we're expecting that again this year. Losing out at Soho
and Sona was a big thing, and losing it losing
(31:24):
into the Mets Cross Town has burred everybody's butts right
out here. So but I think we might have strengthened
the team still. You know, we brought in, uh, filled
a bunch of other holes. Didn't get your third basement
there from Houston and he went to the Red Sox,
which some people are disappointed about it. But I think
we filled up a few holes, got another ace for
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the front of the rotation. So we're expecting to go back.
I mean, I think, you know, the rival Ruth Houston
has been has been tough, and uh, they might be
falling off. I think they're rebuilding. I think they're just
gonna readload and and be there and uh you know
that's uh what we expect to get back, and you know,
people still I gotta be honest, people around here is
(32:07):
still pretty mad at the Astros for U for all
the Shenanigans.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, it's one of those things. When I heard that
a few years back, I'm like, what That's all I
could say was what what happened? Now it's like, well,
you know what, Hey, the grant immunity whenever you want
to call it right there too. But at the same time, hey,
championship out there. And look, as a former coach, Chris,
I don't get too heated here on the show for
stupid stuff like that. But look, man, just because I
knew what sign was there, you still had to go
out and execute the pitch and swing the back.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What just because I knew what sign was coming, or
if I was stealing signs quote unquote, you know you could.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You could tell me what pitches comes out can help me.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Because I knew I'd stand there a third placed coaches
boxing like fastball inside, like I said, take it the
other way, fastball away, take it the other way, fastball
inside dry.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Stealing signs steals to me, stealing side is part of
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's that's Okay, you know, I think you know, they
might have there was a different element to it was
the problem.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But that's that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But guys tipping pitches or anything else, or you know,
if the shortstop's got his you know hand on is
New Year and that that's you're supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So I'm you know, I'm for that. Got to get
an edge man.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Hey man, I love it because it feels like a
resurgence for the Knicks. Man, give me a little prognostication
year for the New York Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Been you know, the Knicks. This town is like set
up where the Knicks haven't been good for so long.
They were great when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They haven't be getting so long, and they this town
goes crazy when the Knicks are good and they're starved
for it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
And this team is a real good team.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
We've had a bad weekend and just I think it's
starting to shake out like we're probably better.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Than all but three teams in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And we got to go through the Celtics Cleveland and okay,
see if we were gonna gonna have a championship, and
they're not even close they're own seven against those teams
so far this year, so.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I think they've taken a step up to like that
next level. And they're real good.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
They just don't really kind of have a rim defender
and that they that they need and they're they're just not.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
The defensive team they should be right now. But they're
fun to watch again.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And you know, like I said, this said a great
town when for the next one they're when they're good,
and they're good.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Hey, New York fans love their sports man. They're passionate
about it, just like New Englanders up there to at
the same time. And yeah, lost my third base for
their Alex Bregman to the Boston Red Sox. And what
does you do Chris a couple of days ago, first
at bat or first couple of bats, he just homers
as a member of the Red Sox and drives you
a couple of runs.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I want him here. A lot of people didn't
want him here.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I did.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I was for it, you know, uh for it. But
I think the Red Sox are on their way back too.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
They've had a couple down years, but I think, uh,
they're going to be contender in the East.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The Yankees definitely, which is always fun. It's always good
when those two teams are good.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, and that's where, like, you know, I wis Jim
Crane would have paid Alex Bregman to come back. Hey,
I know, look sore, sore subject here watching the Eagles
whin the Super Bowl had to be tough, right.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, there's not much kind
of stuff I could say about Philly fans.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
One of my guys in the band is a is
a Philly guy, the great Gary Dillon. I love him
and he's ah, so I'm happy for him. But yeah,
there's no love lost between those towns, right, Philly fans.
I'm just being honest with you. Man. They are They're rough,
So that's the that's the nicest word I could think of.
So I wasn't written for them.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We got a plan twice a year and they've been
real good lately and the Giants have been terrible. So
you know, I just have to I just have to
take it for a while.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But we'll see if we can turn that around, see you,
Because that's tough.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's a big tough, no doubt. I guess getting that
foundational quarterback and that piece which they thought was Daniel
Jones at the same time, but hey, you know what,
you get one of those studs.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And uh, well, I'm hoping for my man for Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I'm hoping for cam Ward because you know the University
of Miami fan. I watched every game. I think they're
you know, they accidentally wont a game, which is so stupid.
And uh, I dropped a third.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I thought they were gonna grab him, him or Sanders,
but it could he could fall and if so, I
know They're gonna grab one of them.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
And I'd love it to be cam Wartz. I could
see my man from Miami there.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
That would be a prototypical fit right there. For the
New York Giants too as well. And like I said,
this album is coming out this week, you know, the
twenty eight, So make sure you guys get out there
and support him on social media and grab the album
across some of your favorite digital streaming platforms out there
where you download a stream music. And uh, he's a
sports fanatic, he's a music guy. It's a jack of
all trades out there. Chris bar the time here on
(36:33):
the show, My friend and don't be a stranger, come
back anytime. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I plea left you. I appreciate your time. This is
fun and let's do it again. Thank you, thanks for
having me.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
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See it's two way street here, Chris Barardo here on
the show. We're gonna play music and have fun. Chris,
how you doing, brother, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Man, Hey man, Please to be here too as well,
and love the fact that we get a chance to
feature your music here from this upcoming album coming up
a couple of tracks off here take me back and
wanted to leave. But as far as it goes, Chris, Uh,
like I said, you know, strangers to this thing called music,
and it's a funny, funny career to say the least,
No doubt about it. The music business, no doubt. Yeah,
(01:14):
talk to me about just how you got started in
this whole thing and this crazy thing called the music business.
And I guess exactly when the bug kind of bit
that you were gonna do this forever?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, uh, you know I had I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I had a babysitter when I was about seven years old,
Kathy Downs had a pretty big crush on her, and
she brought me all her Monkeys albums.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And h that was it for me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I figured out, you know, I wanted to be uh
just like that, and uh, you know, I listened to
all that great music. Mike Nessmith had all these country
rock songs on those records, and that was about it
until I was fourteen and my buddy down the street
had a band going, and uh, I convinced him somehow
to get me involved, and uh, that's been here.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I've never really had a proper job since.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
What's a proper We don't need that to it. Yeah, yeah, right,
no playing B right, no playing B.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hey, I'm not a big playing B guy. No, I
don't have that. I didn't have much going.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
One career, one job, go after man, like I said,
only one trip around the sun, no doubt, that's right. Hey,
tell me about musical influences growing up, because I know
the music you know, specifically say Americana, but there's a
lot of cool things to kind of go into this
vibe for these two songs and this upcoming record. But
who were you mostly influenced by growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like I said, those Monkeys records that I didn't
know that was country rock, you know if Mike Instant songs.
And the radio where I grew up outside of New
York City was really eclectic, the AM radio, and you hear.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Every kind of different thing R and B and and
heavy rock.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But in those days, but they played a lot of
the Southern rock bands, which which I loved, and like
Marshall Tucker Band and Poco and things that I loved
like that, and you know, there was just a lot
of the things that we didn't know were called Americana
back then, like the Eagles and Neil Young and things
like that hit me pretty hard, and that was sort
(03:04):
of the crossover country stuff from back then that you'd
hear that. That was, Like I said, it's a big
tent maricon of music, so a lot of things go
into that. But I just found myself like in the
country rock kind of sound and people like that and
you'd hear it on the radio back then.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I love that, and that's the such of MEXICANUS. You
see it being the crossover Chris, you know the word
Nashville last week too, talking to a lot of people
up there. You know, it's definitely kind of infused now
with a little bit of southern rock and you got
the country pop kind of going on. Talk about how
just from when you started, you know, now for what
thirty thirty five years later, how's it really changed? And
I guess for the good and for the bad. Of course,
(03:41):
there's always going to be changing everything, but specifically streaming
and just how the music business has changed just in
your mind, Yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Changes a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I mean I've been around enough that I can remember,
you know, when people would get dropped from their labels
for selling a quarter for a million records.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know, that's different when I first started.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
When I came back and kind of had to restart
around like the nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Or nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I could make an album and I'd get boxes of
it from the label and you go out in a
van and a trailer and sell them, and you know,
and sell a lot of them and have a It
would support us out there. And that's been cut into
a lot because that was before streaming. So that's the
downside of it is people think music's for free, and
that's that makes it a little trickier for guys like me.
(04:30):
But the good thing is that people can get things
out and heard and everybody's got their mits on it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And that feels good to me because I never.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Got into this racket to get rich anyway, which is
going pretty well. I just want you know, if you
want people to hear what you do, it's it's a
quick delivery system.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So that's a big difference though. That's that's made a
big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, and you got a couple of that Chris, you
mentioned there too, not just was streaming, but also too,
I know these shows out there, American Idol and of
course The Voice and other things that of just a
huge competitions out there everywhere for every artist too, because
there's so many people out out there wanting to do
these things and of course, you know, be the next
big thing and get discovered out there in the music
industry because there's so many different artists out there that
(05:13):
otherwise may not have a chance to get their music out.
Talk about just the uh, the growth of these TV
shows and these reality shows that have really changed the landscape.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They sure have, and it is a quick way and
you know, I kind of I kind of missed that.
I skipped over that part, you know, but it's I
see that boy, it'll get somebody a lot of attention
fast if they're talented, and and that's that's a beautiful
part of it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think my home.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In my opinion, I just think some sometimes you miss
the those years of hard training that you might need
because I see a kid who's full of talent and
does great on a show like that, and it's you know,
you got to kind of backtrack to learn how to
how to perform and how to write and how to
because you know it'll come at you pretty fast in
one of those situations.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But it's the schure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is a great way to get a lot of eyes
and find out who's talented.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
But I think you can't forget about that part. You
got to be able to go out and deliver it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You got to be able to you know, take a
few bruises and lumps along the way. And uh so
so once you if you could do all that and
then get all those eyeballs on you, and I guess
then you really got something.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love man, listening to your song this year. I
want to talk about this one too, because I love
the writing when it comes down to it. And of
course it's just the backstory of songs and how they
come to life. Tell us all about this.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
One this year was uh, it's a it was a
holiday song. I didn't even know you had that there.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And uh because I had a manager who said, you know,
if you if you write something around the holidays, you know,
a Christmas song, you know, you get to go back
to it every year. It's there forever like an evergreen
And and I just thought, well, I don't think that's
I don't see myself writing and I was thinking of
candy canes and reindeers, and I just couldn't imagine where
I would start.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But then I just got an idea. We lost our
dad in the.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Interim, our family did, and so of course that hit
everybody hard, and I just it was right around then,
and I started thinking of it in a different way,
and I wrote it just as a as a song
that could stand up hopefully anytime a year, just about
the idea that we're here now and we're with family,
and cherish it when you do have those moments because
(07:23):
it could be gone in a minute, but here we
are at this moment. So and I just said, song,
I'm proud of holidays or not, but it does come
around then every every year we get to play it
a little and people dig into it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So I'm happy that I found a way to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, with this coach, we've talked about pros and
cons and all this too, but I want to focus
really on I guess both in a little bit, but
the cons really, because a lot of fans may not see,
you know, Chris, the ups and downs of the business
or the obstacles that you guys face as artists. Talk
about just some of the ones that really am impact
you in a way that are just really tough to overcome.
(08:03):
But on the flip side of it, it keeps the
grind going. Talk about that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, it's it's not for the timid, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I always tell people don't don't uh, don't get into
this if you're thin skinned or they can't take a hit.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But if you love it enough, then the process is
so rewarding.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But you know, trying to have a band, I had
a pretty steady band for twenty or more years, a
lot of guys in and out, but a real definite
core of talented, great guys. My rule is, you know,
you gotta be smart and funny, like, no, we don't
want any I don't know word I could say, but
we don't want no jerks in the band and we
want to like good people and so that limits the
(08:43):
pool some in this in this racket. So I keeping
a band together that long is it's a challenge and
a lot of times it'd be heartbreaking, and that that'll
that'll get you in the gut because when.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You lose a guy, that's a hard thing.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And when your career is and flying enough that you
can keep the kind of guys you want, those are
hard things. When you have people in the business end
of it that are supposed to come through, or you
know it's a business full of promises, those things can
can take the wind out of you. But I always
say that if you enjoy it, if you enjoy the process,
if you like doing it, that's the payoff.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Don't think of that other stuff. Just the payoff is.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Keep it, doing it and enjoying the thing you do,
because there will be a lot of bumps in the
road along the way.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Like anything else in life, no doubt my for here
play one from Chris Barardo here of the single they
released last year, take Me Back Here it is We're
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Speaker 5 (09:49):
Two A Bell of Darkness.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I have been torn up good. This one will leave
my turn inside, head up and tear my Sanda away,
roll me over rough room.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
So I have been twist, I bend.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Turn and I'll steal the league.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Because I have still bird, but not my models back
with my young heart you sprees every wild perfect see
(11:19):
said I'm from.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Take me.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
To my.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Raised me back where I started again.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Kill me you know I have brought again, Take me back,
let me start again.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Home by the sick green spring, the suta her tide,
the young Girl's gold in here.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
God, you buy.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
One more more.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
And baming across the time a scar pop mascammer.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Row grey tide.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I have a weakened There's a lot I have you still.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
That's not unclose my eyes.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
The mo of them.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Berlin baby is so winding his ride to be about
the head.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Taking me.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
He's back.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
To my.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Raise me heel.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Let's take back where I started again.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Feel me know I am the.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Again. Take me he by you start again.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Losing, but not my moneve that.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
With my young heart soul brace.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Every while perfectly that I'm from, Take me.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To my.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Raise me here that will started again, kim.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Me take me back the least again.
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here with Chris Berardo, so let's dive into this one. Chris,
take me back. Love the vibe, I love the feel
it just had like really got Americana roots feel too it.
Talk about this one for me.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, that's a fun one to play. It's a song
I love. It's the band that is the on this album,
the whole band.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's six of us, three three.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Guys from Rectus Kelly, who's my favorite band, the guys
from Austin, and three of the guys from my band,
Chris Bardo and the Desperadoes.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And it's a great Uh. That was a great mix,
and I think the vibe there really, it's the way
we play it live.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's a it's a fun one. We brought in Lloyd
Main's the Uh. There's a great steel guitar player from
Austin and he played on the track as well.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
So I love it. It's a song means a lot
to me.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You know, I ran into a health problem years ago.
I feel great now, but it was a you know,
like a gut check and a time to sort of
regroup and think about where you're at and just thinking
about wanting to be a kid and when you didn't
have things to worry about.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And this is one of my.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
First adult doses, you know, of something that happened like
it's gonna happen all of us. So gave me a
chance to sort of restart the engines and think about that.
And so it's a song I care about. I feel
good when I sing it because I feel fine now
and I'm healthy and feeling great, and it's just it's
kind of a fun stomper there that I guess. It's
great to get up and play. People seem to react
(18:16):
to that album pretty well.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, I love man. It's got a great feel to
it too. And off that same EP mentioned I'll release.
The single was also on an EP last year, Somebody
Like Me, which came out in August of last year
too at the same time talk about somebody like Me.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, that's a fun song too.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's kind of a little bit of throwback to, like
I said, when I was a kid to like pop
rock records and the same Lloyd Mains that I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Playing steel on it and the rest of us. It's
a you know, it's a fun song.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's just the idea that maybe some times you see
something in somebody that they don't see themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's just saying, so you need somebody like me to
come along to remind you of how great you are.
Because I think a lot of people love it. Forget
it sometimes, right, so it's uh, yeah, it's just a
fun song. I think it's a positive thing about uh,
remembering to find the good in each other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, I agree with that too, you know. And I'll
tell you, Chris, it's always fun to get out there
and just meet people. I said that Country Radio seminar.
I've gotten to deal there six years in a row
and just talk to people about, like you said, how
the industry has changed so much and kind of one
of the new norms of today. And you know, see
a lot of the new faces in there. I can't
really recall the time. I guess maybe since nineties country,
and if you're a big fan of nineties country, but
I grew up on it too, like the outlaw music,
(19:32):
Whale and Willie stuff like that too that I love
so much, and Connolly Twitty and Merle Haggard and like
I said, George Jones was from my area too. Pretty
healthy right now too, with so many great artists yourself included,
doing their their thing out there.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And and maybe since what nineties country has been this hot?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, that's when I kind of I had come back
from La then and was sort of restarting and figuring
out my direction. I wanted to go, and the stuff
in the nineties was exciting to meet, you know, And
and I'd already grown up with things like Whalen, you know,
and Willy of course that I loved, and that at
that time the songwriter guys were coming along on country
(20:09):
radio like Mary Chapman, Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And and Low love It. Stuff like that really got
to me and that I thought was really pointed me
kind of in that direction.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Like I heard when I was a kid, these records
that were country tinged but not always so traditional.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I think that's Americana there you have it, you know.
That was sort of the birth of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And Whale and Jenny's I could you know, he'd be
the king of anything right now.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I love the fact that the old school sound, like
I said, just playing outlaw type music. Man love that stuff,
and there's there's so many guys doing their thing out
there there sticking to that that persona of you.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Know, came and felt like that to me like when
I was a kid, and it still does. I loved
all of a sudden and rock guys that I.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Think, you know, Whaling and them were kind of the
precursor to that that the two people like Marshall Tucker
Band and the Alma Brothers and things sometimes and I
think of that all that big tent too, that that
was a big influence on me. If a guy wants
to be in a rock band but loves his country music,
that's said. You know, that's a lot of fertile ground there.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That sure is no doubt. All right, jackers More, He's
a gear. Chris Barardo kk t C True Country ninety
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Wanda Lee here it is the Sports Guys podcast dot
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Speaker 8 (21:41):
I see you love.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Sloo up there come turn nine, all seeing look at me.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You believed I love you?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
You could get so lowly.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Find out the art.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Had kid me.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
But the fe set in your bones down a new
will let of down, so you hang around.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Oh wa, it's all right. You can't dance all night.
Let the sun like the sweet.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Super fris his begin.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Oh won, it's okay. He can't wash your sands away.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Let your fat fatts guns bones.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Boe with me, Wanda some Mont train ride line to.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Playing a child's game le gin know see, I don't
want to see you clamb out there and I don't
want to see you.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
You believe more. Oh, it's all ride. You can't dance upbyn.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
Let the sunrise like a sweet soup fris the game.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Oh won, It's okay. You can't wash your sands work.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
You can let your flat line dark nut.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Scotch run through brobably badly.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
It's okay.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
Take a breath and m where take yourself album lot.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
It's a lot sometimes. Oh mon, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
You can't dance all away.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
He denied it.
Speaker 11 (24:42):
He watched the summer like the sweets crass bid.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Oh, it's okay. You can't wash your sands.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
We let your flat line talk nuts gun.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Follow me. Thanks bother.
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(26:38):
There fround five to six Mountain Standard time there and
of course out there angel Fire Broadcasting and of course
you can stream it out there LMNOC Broadcast Company. Chris,
we've got to talk about Wanda Lee. Let's get the
load down.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wanda Lee is the single where sort of the album
comes out the end of this week, February twenty eighth.
I don't know when you'll be seeing this, but it's
Blue Lots. The album it's called Wilder all the Time,
and this is kind of the one we're pushing as
the album comes out and like you know, sending around
to radio.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It feels like a fun radio song to me and
the guys, it feels like you want to get the
top down, you know, and hear it loud at your dashboard.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So I was just I wrote it thinking about sometimes,
you know, women who or anybody who might be up
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Late at night and trying to make a connection, you know,
when that.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I don't know if it's still like that now, but
when the Internet started first, you know, kind of coming
around it was it was almost like ham radio. People
were like just trying to see what was out there.
And I was just thinking to my mind about a
woman who's, uh, maybe things haven't worked out exactly like
she expected and she's sort of just reaching out there
for a connection in the in the night. But it's
(27:49):
a but it's I think it's just a fun song
about somebody who could be anybody. You know, we all
probably know someone like it. So I hope the listener will,
you know, hear something in there and make them think
about something that connects with them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
But it's a fun song, fun to play, and we're
proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I love it, man, love it can't wait for the
album to come out, and I want to talk to
you a little bit about too as well. Other goals
and plans for twenty twenty five. What are you most
looking forward to? Obviously the album and touring.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, yeah, I've getting this album out. This album tell
a lot of twists.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And turns, boy with the story, but it's been It's
just good that we found a really good home at
a Blue a lot of records for I'm really excited
to because we've been playing these songs live for a while,
so I'm really excited to get it out there, to
get back to touring. Things kind of slowed up a little,
you know, at the pandemic, things slowed up, but you know,
it's mostly back now.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But American is a little different than some things, you know,
It's it doesn't always get the traction right away.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We're not playing as many shows as we did, but
we're you know, about to get back to that, to
more of that, and that makes me really excited.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Sometimes I do.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Acoustic thing, trio things with half the guys and I
and smaller rooms and I love that. And a lot
of times we're the opening guys with the band, and
we've been out there for years with people like the
dB Brothers and America those kind of which I think.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Now are Americana bands.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
So more of that and just more meeting new people,
more you know, shaking hands and finding new people to
preach all this too.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Preach all the brother no doubt. Hey, when you're out
there on the road and doing those shows, I guess
with somebody ordering food or a catering thing, or if
you get to stop by a local cuisine, if it's
a recommendation, what do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Man, we're like the guys who most of the guys
in and out of this band in the last ten
fifteen years, like almost all had been barbecue maniacs and
imt So if we could find if we're in the
right part of the country and find something that's real.
We spent a lot of time in Texas like a
second home, and I know the arguments about the different
kinds of barbecue, but we like them all. We cut
(29:51):
the last record in North Carolina and barbecue was you know,
that was the goal every night, used to find the
best new place. So there's a lot of that, and
then there's a lot of whatever the venue will give us.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, man on the hounse is on the house. Yeah, yeah,
to eat out there too. All right, we're tying a
little bit of this. Are you a sports fan? Do
you follow a college the pro teams?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Chris if lifelong, lifelong here Yankees fan. You're a Giants fan,
your Knicks fan. And I went to the University of
Miami briefly until we had a disagreement about philosophy down there.
But I'm a big University Miami football fan too, So
all the three New York teams and um down there
in Florida, big fan.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
All right, So I gotta ask you, being a lifelong
Yankee fan, I gotta go here, dude. I'm an Astros
fan down here too, So you're here.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
We go.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So I'm gonna say this. We're kind of falling off
after these last I say falling off, and I say
it every year, but eight out of nine, trying to
make it nine out of ten had some great rivalry
there with the Yanks there over the past few years.
Let me ask you get into the World Series last year,
the Soto Aaron Judge. Then what's the prediction now as
we embark on another season? Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, it's disappointing being a Yankee fan. It's a little
different than some things. You can't believe it. But if
you listen to New York radio, you find everybody's just
ticked off. Like we went to the World Series last year,
and everybody's mad, you know, because you gotta it's win
that or nothing, the study, you know. The I think
we're expecting that again this year. Losing out at Soho
and Sona was a big thing, and losing it losing
(31:24):
into the Mets Cross Town has burred everybody's butts right
out here. So but I think we might have strengthened
the team still. You know, we brought in, uh, filled
a bunch of other holes. Didn't get your third basement
there from Houston and he went to the Red Sox,
which some people are disappointed about it. But I think
we filled up a few holes, got another ace for
(31:47):
the front of the rotation. So we're expecting to go back.
I mean, I think, you know, the rival Ruth Houston
has been has been tough, and uh, they might be
falling off. I think they're rebuilding. I think they're just
gonna readload and and be there and uh you know
that's uh what we expect to get back, and you know,
people still I gotta be honest, people around here is
(32:07):
still pretty mad at the Astros for U for all
the Shenanigans.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, it's one of those things. When I heard that
a few years back, I'm like, what That's all I
could say was what what happened? Now it's like, well,
you know what, Hey, the grant immunity whenever you want
to call it right there too. But at the same time, hey,
championship out there. And look, as a former coach, Chris,
I don't get too heated here on the show for
stupid stuff like that. But look, man, just because I
knew what sign was there, you still had to go
out and execute the pitch and swing the back.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What just because I knew what sign was coming, or
if I was stealing signs quote unquote, you know you could.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You could tell me what pitches comes out can help me.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Because I knew I'd stand there a third placed coaches
boxing like fastball inside, like I said, take it the
other way, fastball away, take it the other way, fastball
inside dry.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Stealing signs steals to me, stealing side is part of
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's that's Okay, you know, I think you know, they
might have there was a different element to it was
the problem.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But that's that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But guys tipping pitches or anything else, or you know,
if the shortstop's got his you know hand on is
New Year and that that's you're supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So I'm you know, I'm for that. Got to get
an edge man.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Hey man, I love it because it feels like a
resurgence for the Knicks. Man, give me a little prognostication
year for the New York Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Been you know, the Knicks. This town is like set
up where the Knicks haven't been good for so long.
They were great when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They haven't be getting so long, and they this town
goes crazy when the Knicks are good and they're starved
for it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
And this team is a real good team.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
We've had a bad weekend and just I think it's
starting to shake out like we're probably better.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Than all but three teams in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And we got to go through the Celtics Cleveland and okay,
see if we were gonna gonna have a championship, and
they're not even close they're own seven against those teams
so far this year, so.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I think they've taken a step up to like that
next level. And they're real good.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
They just don't really kind of have a rim defender
and that they that they need and they're they're just not.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
The defensive team they should be right now. But they're
fun to watch again.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And you know, like I said, this said a great
town when for the next one they're when they're good,
and they're good.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Hey, New York fans love their sports man. They're passionate
about it, just like New Englanders up there to at
the same time. And yeah, lost my third base for
their Alex Bregman to the Boston Red Sox. And what
does you do Chris a couple of days ago, first
at bat or first couple of bats, he just homers
as a member of the Red Sox and drives you
a couple of runs.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I want him here. A lot of people didn't
want him here.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I did.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I was for it, you know, uh for it. But
I think the Red Sox are on their way back too.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
They've had a couple down years, but I think, uh,
they're going to be contender in the East.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The Yankees definitely, which is always fun. It's always good
when those two teams are good.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, and that's where, like, you know, I wis Jim
Crane would have paid Alex Bregman to come back. Hey,
I know, look sore, sore subject here watching the Eagles
whin the Super Bowl had to be tough, right.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, there's not much kind
of stuff I could say about Philly fans.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
One of my guys in the band is a is
a Philly guy, the great Gary Dillon. I love him
and he's ah, so I'm happy for him. But yeah,
there's no love lost between those towns, right, Philly fans.
I'm just being honest with you. Man. They are They're rough,
So that's the that's the nicest word I could think of.
So I wasn't written for them.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We got a plan twice a year and they've been
real good lately and the Giants have been terrible. So
you know, I just have to I just have to
take it for a while.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But we'll see if we can turn that around, see you,
Because that's tough.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's a big tough, no doubt. I guess getting that
foundational quarterback and that piece which they thought was Daniel
Jones at the same time, but hey, you know what,
you get one of those studs.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And uh, well, I'm hoping for my man for Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I'm hoping for cam Ward because you know the University
of Miami fan. I watched every game. I think they're
you know, they accidentally wont a game, which is so stupid.
And uh, I dropped a third.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I thought they were gonna grab him, him or Sanders,
but it could he could fall and if so, I
know They're gonna grab one of them.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
And I'd love it to be cam Wartz. I could
see my man from Miami there.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
That would be a prototypical fit right there. For the
New York Giants too as well. And like I said,
this album is coming out this week, you know, the
twenty eight, So make sure you guys get out there
and support him on social media and grab the album
across some of your favorite digital streaming platforms out there
where you download a stream music. And uh, he's a
sports fanatic, he's a music guy. It's a jack of
all trades out there. Chris bar the time here on
(36:33):
the show, My friend and don't be a stranger, come
back anytime. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I plea left you. I appreciate your time. This is
fun and let's do it again. Thank you, thanks for
having me.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Chris Barardo here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
More great music coming up and the Sports Guys podcast
dot com Grand Slam of music and sports, and out
there on High Tide Country dot Net. More to come
here uh Andy Bosco this week and so many more
are coming up here on KKTC True Country ninety nine
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and streaming on angel Fire Broadcasting. We'll talk to you soon.
(37:05):
God bless us. Take care.
Speaker 12 (37:06):
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