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March 27, 2025 38 mins
Texas and Nashville Recording Artist David Adam Byrnes joined us on the show to talk about his 2024 year and about his music that is taking the nation by storm! David tells stories in his music and connects with his audience in a way that is unique. Tune in to hear more! 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey allisis Texas country artist David Adam Burns and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC the
True Country ninety nine point nine and KYBN ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network, And.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome inside the backstage past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends at KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine there at Tas, New
Mexico and up into Colorado back here too as well,
presented by our friends over at the Cadengordonshow dot com
Today's best Country Mix, and don't forget this weekend, we're
gonna be having fun out at the Golden Nugget Casino
and Lake Charles. Yeah, Frank Foster a big show out

(00:39):
there too as well, that blue collar country he puts
on too, Rights from the Heart, and of course big
show coming up out there. Will be on the air
in the afternoon, broadcasting live from the Golden Nugget inside
the theater somewhere and then of course bringing you guys
the show coming up that night. Here. It is the
Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
It's some more great shows coming up over the next
few weeks, and you know, we got to take our

(00:59):
days off ever Dow and then just to recharge the batteries.
But to do that. Today we're back with him too
as well. I got some great music out there. A
good friend of mine, a good friend of the show,
Texas country artists David Adam Burns.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
What's up my friend, Hey brother, how you doing, my man?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's been good. Man. Got back from Nashville with the
country radio seminar. Was a lot of fun, always one,
you know, not been there. But how's your liver?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Had long to take your liver to recover? After that?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, you know what's funny. I gave up drinking.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I did, really did.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good for you, man, Yeah, I would bring it back
to you. It's there. So hey, I'm proud of you
for staying strong.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Stans strong. Like I said, you know, back in the gym,
you know, blowing up again, which is good. So, uh,
just fitness, taking care of my health, you know a
little bit better. So that's been one of my uh
news resolutions. Factory back in the gym for about six
months and I've only had actually one sip in the
last what year, actually one sip of one at c
r S. Yeah, that boy, good for you. You finish alone.

(01:55):
I couldn't do it, but it's been good man. And look,
I said, sixty interviews in three days. It's always a
blast in it. It's a light.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, you can't drink. You ain't got no voice left
after it drives it out with that.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Man, Hey, you tell us about man. Just twenty twenty
four in a nutshell crazy music being released. I know
you've got more in the chamber right now. We were
talking off here about how cool this was to have
a great year of just new music, getting married expected
now baby in augustry baby boy talk about this and
just like an in a flurry, it went by, didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Man, it sure did.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
It seems like you know, I always hear the older
folks say many years ago, by faster, and you know,
the older you get, man, then you can't ain't kidding.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I can't believe it's already twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
In fact, I realized that I have now officially been
gone from Arkansas as long as I live there.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
This year it marks that. So it's been great though. Man,
We toured like crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Have our eleventh number one single, I guess that was
technically twenty five when it hit came out in twenty four,
but toward a lot of great places, like you said,
got the Baby on the way, remodeled an entire house
in the middle of it. So we took a little
downtime to finish off twenty four, kicked it in high
gear in January and February had March has been a
little light. But man, we start next week and we're

(03:12):
about to be back in full throttle tour mode again.
So just gearing up for it and trying to grab
life by the horns. If it don't grab me.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
First, they don't grab you first, no doubt. Talk about
just the toury itself. You know, we just had the
Houston Livestock showed Rodeo come to a close there from
the fourth to the twenty third of March. Now March
being over, there was some cool things that happened out
there too at the stock showed Rodeo. Tell everybody about it.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, yeah, you know, we did the cookoff switching, you know,
right before the actual rodeo starts.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
But it's it's pretty meaningful to me.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know, when I've moved to Texas, I had my
little check box of things that I wanted to accomplish.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
And one of those things was Houston Rodeo.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so four years ago I had some friends invite
me out to a little private tent and I played
for a bunch of the vps and whatever, just doing
the like a dog in a puppy store, Pick me,
pick me, and uh, you know that next year we
got to play the Wine Garden stage. So it's great
to be able to say I finally got to play rodeo,
but to move on and.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Actually gets a headline the heid Out this year.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I mean, for those of you who don't know, there's
stages all around the Rodeo, but there's the main, you know,
arena show at the end of the night. Well, unless
you're playing that arena show, the biggest stage you can
play is the Hideout. So four years later we're headlining it,
and man, it was It's everything I would hope it
would have been. Man, it was a lot of fun.
Got to see a lot of great friends, and I
love rodeos anyways. Getting to go to the Rodeo and

(04:32):
be a part of all that, man, it was a
It was an experience I'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Hey, can we make a projection on here? Just prediction
and a projection too, So it starts out right there
at the wine Garden, then goes to the hideout and
then what about turning into the major show inside inn
RG David adam Burn's headline and the rodeo hows that
sound one day.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Hey, I'm for it, man.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I you know, George Straight and Kojo both had to
have somebody bell out so they go play it the
first time.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
So if somebody wants to get sick next year, I'm
your guy.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I love that over future prediction. Hey, talk about this.
You know we mentioned how the year blew by, but
you mentioned that number eleven number ones on Texas country radio.
Can you really kind of put that into words for
me and the emotions and what that's meant to you,
because you mentioned about checking boxes, but really what that's
meant to you in a nutshell?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, you know what's funny is, I'm going to take
you back to the very first one. I got a
call from a buddy of mine to do kind of
an end the round Bluebird Cafe style show in Magnolia, Arkansas, and.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Said, yeah, let me go do it. And I was
on stage at night and it hit me.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was like, you know what, I've only been in
this town one time before this, and it was the
night the beer bucket list went number one. And you
want to talk about the emotions, that's the one I
was emotional on.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
You know, you spend eleven years being.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Told no in your two country what you do is
never going to work, and you finally realize it works somewhere.
But what was nuts is I got home that next
day and realized that it had actually been seven years
to the day or some sorry, six years to the
day that that had happened.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it was kind of ironic. But man, it was
just a week or two before that.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
That we had this, this new number one, More Afraid
of Living and you know, heyboy, saw the interviews I
did before.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
It was one of the songs that got me my
first record deal.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know, I've written, or at least co written, just
about everything I've ever recorded, and I found that song
in the first week or two of living in Nashville
and it was mine ever since. So there was there
was a lot of big dogs that were after that thing.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And the main writer, Daddy I call him Daddy Rick
Rick Tiger, He's he's not with us scene more.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you know he had always said that song was mine,
and so you know, this was the first project that
you know, talking about me and more. Every single thing
I've done has had a label or something attached to it,
whether I had to go lawyer up to get it
back or go through able to do it. You know,
this was this was the first song off this session
that I funded it myself, I promoted it myself, I

(06:46):
picked the songs myself. There were no other hands than
the cookie jars, So I knew that that had to
be the first song considered.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's kind of the one where it all started, anyway.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And so to see it go number one and stream
so well and finally be nobody else but me pushing it, man,
it was.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
It was surreal.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
It definitely was self funded project from a self funded man,
no doubt too. And of course point right here on
kk TC True Country ninety nine point nine in Towns
and of course KYB in ninety eight point one out
there to your Bay Area broadcasting network. You mentioned that
one too, with number one here in Texas and maybe
to go number one in your market right here. More
afraid of Living's David Adam burns, it is the backstage

(07:24):
pass stage.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Two bartender, pour me another hand, just feeler uh and
shuttered down, and I'll take one more on the road

(07:55):
one more time before I go. The reason that I
smoke to pasing day and I dream, or I can
drink living without hers leaving him?

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Lord?

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Why do I do this to myself? If I said
I'm not scared, I be lying. I'm just more afraid
of living than dying. My bed'll being the back scene

(08:48):
of my cars. Just put my kings behind the bar
and all lean holding on to memories.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Waking up with only.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
The reason that I smoke two packs a day and
I drink or I can drag live in without hers
living hair?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Lord?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Why do I do this to myself? If was said
I'm not scared, I be lying. I'm just more afraid
of living than dying. Could this be my last drinking

(09:56):
or my last cigarete? I praise the day I'll get
over her and learn to live again. If it said

(10:21):
I'm not scared, I'd be lying. I'm just more afraid
of living than dying. Far tend or for me another around,

(10:46):
Just fill her up, sat her down.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
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Speaker 7 (11:27):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
Hey back here, David Adam Burns joining us the Backstage Pass,
and of course we're counting down those days to be
back here in Nashville, Tennessee. There see May week coming
up there. I think it's June fifth to eighth. Checker calendars.
They actually release some schedules today the Country Music Association.
So looking forward to being back at the Music City
Center with Caden Goordon. Here, yours truly, Brandon Morell, and
of course back here at the Backstage Past, powered by

(12:02):
it the Sports Guys Podcast dot Com. Check it out
there too. Some great interviews over the last a few weeks,
just had the War and Treaty come on, and a
whole lot more here on the show. So we got
to talk about this, my friend, I love it more
afraid of living. You mentioned number one in Texas, but
what you've always had the capability of doing, and you
and I have talked about this. Where the songs come from.
You write your stuff, or over half your stuff there

(12:23):
or co writ It is just music that puts out
that resonates with fans. And this is a song that
again tells a great story, right.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Man, I thought. So, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I was nineteen when I found the song, and you know,
you wouldn't imagine a nineteen year old relating with that,
but I have. I've said forever it's my favorite song
I've ever heard. I mean, I think it's the greatest
country song ever written. Maybe I'm a little biased, but it's, uh,
you just don't find ones.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
That are that great every day. I remember Rip talking about.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
He goes, Yeah, when you get a title that good,
you just do your best not to screw it up.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And so I don't think they did. And so to give.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
My first songwriting mental for a number one down here
in Texas. Like you said, he's no longer with us,
but uh, to give him that meant so much to me.
It was it was more uh for Rick and the
fiddle Fan, which you know now I'm talking terms of
somebody talking. You know, when I moved to Nashville, the
only place that had let me in was a place
called the Fiddle and Still Guitar Bar because I was
nineteen and so it was kind of that hidden place

(13:20):
and it's kind of the cheers bar in Nashville at
the time, you know. It's the people that hung out
there were the fiddle Fan, and so that just kind
of came the theme song of the place, and it
just there was so much more meaning to this one
than any other song I've recorded. So it's just it
meant a lot.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, and it should too, because like I said,
when you speak out there, when you sing your songs,
I always tell people it's great music when an artist
has the great vocals to put with it, but you
also have a great band and a great instrumentation because
I can always tell you know, when that song kicks in,
no matter what album I've listened to or any songs
out there too, and I've downloaded and played his stuff,
and you guys are gonna go do that too for

(13:56):
my radio audience out there too, if you're not already. Uh,
it's the start of you song that leads to the
first lyrics that you sing, and you send a message
and I think a lot of great songs and it
takes me back to what's so important for me, which
was nineties country, and that was so important for you
out there too, to send a message to those fans
that like It's like, you know, when you listen to
a Ninetish country track, the first thing when it came on,

(14:17):
you knew exactly what that song title was, exactly what
artists when a David Adam Byrne song comes on, I
know it. My listeners have told me too. It's the
first few lyrics that lead into it, the first note.
You know exactly what what's coming. You can say, Yep,
that's him. He's had eleven number ones on Texas radio
and nationwide. You've blown up. Talk about just what that
means from ninety's country standpoint to a little bit of that,
you know, putting out songs that you know, like I

(14:39):
mentioned there, resonate with fans because people have gone through
these things to be able to live them.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Out absolutely, you know, and it's it's funny. And obviously
the nineties country thing is what I grew up on.
It's my favorite era of music, you know, from there
I dove in and wanted to know where all my
heroes came from.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
But you know, I try to make sure I knows it.
I ain't doing nineties country.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm doing country music the way I think it's supposed
to sound.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
At the nineties. It's it's what it's comparable too than
so be it.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
But it's you know, I remember those times, you know,
every song had a signature lick intro, there was something
that made you know what that song was the second
it came on, and so I always try to make
sure we had that. And you know, and I as
far as the studio band, you know, I've got a
great group of the A listers that play on you
know a lot of the country people's stuff. So luckily

(15:25):
they know how to to deliver everything that I hear
in my ear and want.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Them to do.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
But yeah, man, it's people last all the time, you know,
especially as a songwriter. Eve when I'm listening to for
recording a song you know?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Is it a lyric? Is it a melody? And for me,
it's just a great idea.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
And the idea may be the title or maybe the
ideas within just the song itself.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
But I mean, more afraid of living than dying? How
do you hear that?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Not?

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Go dang?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I gotta know what that song is, like what you know?
And so it uh, I don't know. It's just always
stuck out to me. I think it's a great country title,
and I think Rick and the Boy wrote the heck
out of it. And I said, it's only the second
song I've ever singled that I didn't right myself.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
So it tells you how much I like the song.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I love him too. It's why he's here on this brand,
right here on the backstage pass. And like I said,
we don't like it, we don't play it here on
the show. Correct KPC True Country ninety nine point nine
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(16:30):
your podcast. Fact we had a stat come back today.
Actually we're one of the top fifty in Denmark. Listen
to Denmark. I was like, holy right, there you go.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
We gouts playing Europe here back this August.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, we played in American rodeo in Saint I know
I'm gonna say the word wrong, so I'm just gonna
say it how I think a Saint of Grevey I
think is what it was called friends, But it was
totally cool, and you know, they brought in a bunch
of American cowboys and just put on this full blown
rodeo just like they would do it here and had
concerts every night.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
So that was cool.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I've never got to leave the country, you know without
just going to Mexico or something on a cruise and
actually get to play, so that that was definitely a
surreal as well.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Have you, uh have you actually played out in Cabo
Capo Saint Lucas.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
So I think yes, I think that's where I did
a destination deal. Once I may be messing up. They
all start blending together.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I know I've been on some trips to Mexico and
done like the cruises and this and that, but I
know there was somewhere that we did an actual you know,
acoustic you know, five six seven artists type things, different shows,
different not And I'm pretty sure Cobo's where it was.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, I'm heading there in a couple of weeks. My
sister's getting married out there too, so we're gonna live
it up and it'll be some David Adam Bird's music
on my playlist.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Oh no, it's not.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I know why.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I know Cowbos where I got engaged at, well, I
was not played Cobo.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I went there for my life's birthday and got gaged there.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I knew there was a tip, but I knew there was,
So I'll be there. I'll see you some pictures and
of course, uh you know, be just a great wedding.
And of course you got to have some David Adam
Burns on her playlist, so I'll make sure she does
that at the reception at some point.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
So hey, now I'm gonna throw your bone on this one.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
So I think it's called the Mad Dog or something
like that. There's a place everybody kept telling us they
had lobster and shrimp for cheap, and me and a mandate.
You know, we had a few drinks and we didn't
know the translation of kilograms and you know, pounds, and
we accidentally bought a tray bigger than I could even

(18:31):
try to do. That was just stacked with lobster and shrimp,
and I was terrified what that bill was about to be.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
And we didn't even spend fifty bucks. So you need
to find a place and load up, man.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I got a load up down there too, David Adam Burns.
It's here on the backstage pass, Keep Up with a Cowgirl,
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Speaker 1 (19:19):
Hot Little bessir Hart, as wild as the West.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
On the spoons.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
We're just going to run shoots from a hell got
a fast trigger, then, Ben, she'll tear you up just
for fun. Restless, says the wind. You can't convince that in.
But if you can keep up with the cow girl,

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she's gonna take you on a.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Hell he rides.

Speaker 8 (19:50):
If you can keep up.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
With the cow girl, you've got a lot on for
dear life.

Speaker 9 (19:59):
Like to me all the town and the sun goes down.
She's gonna keep you up on I my putting little und.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
In your world. If you can keep up with the
cowgirls ugh as it comes. It's always been in her
blood and like green o running through her veins. If

(20:30):
you're lucky enough, she'll give him your love before she
up and rides away.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
She's gone a hard of gold.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And it rd to hold. If you can keep up
with the.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Cow girl, she's gonna take you on a hell and rides.

Speaker 8 (20:53):
If you can keep up with.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
The cowgirl, you're gone on run on on her, dear lie.

Speaker 9 (21:03):
I can knee on town and the sun goes down.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
She's gone keep you up on my my putt little
line in your world.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
You can keep up with the cow girl, I can
tell you first.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Ten, it's worth it. If you can keep up with
the cow girl, she's gonna take you on a hempy ride.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
If you can keep up with the.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Cow girl, you're gone on on on for dear life.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
I can knee on town when the sun goes He's
going to keep you up.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
All my little little down in the world.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
If you can keep up with the.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
Canar Hey, everybody is Nashville recording artist Chad Brock, and

(22:34):
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Hey y'all, this is nashviow recording artists Braandley Gilbert, and
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Speaker 2 (23:12):
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to eight, two thousand and twenty five at the Music

(23:35):
City Center. So you talked about this title track of
that album that you released there back in twenty twenty two.
Man again, so many great songs. You know, we talked
about this on previous episodes. We had done one honky
Tonk Town and of course that particular title. Man, he's
just again telling stories and putting out music that is
just so near and dear to your heart in this

(23:56):
one out here for keep Up with a calgaryl fantastic bro.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Man siate it and it's you know, it's funny that
song came out what two years ago maybe three by now,
and uh, I don't know what it was last March
that sucker went viral on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Just the sound, and so it's giving us a little resurgence.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's it's kind of cool, you know, because we do
play some places where you're you know, they're just there.
They don't necessarily know who's playing, and it's it's funny
to watch all them ears perk up, people start singing
along and they realize.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
That they know that song and who it is. So
it's uh, it shows TikTok and those things. As much
as I don't want to admit it, it definitely helps.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
But yeah, man, that song, Uh, I always thought Sean
Wanted Flowers was probably the biggest song I was ever
gonna have.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
And man, this sucker, this sucker is a trumpet it.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
So hey, I got my kids singing it. I'll tell
you about that before. So she's into that past my
blood time and she's a beer song now cold beer time.
So on stage, I'm sure the audience just gets just
as excited for those as any any other song you
put out right.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
That's me and all those tempos and stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
You know, that's one thing with us, is I mean,
you know, obviously I've made my my living off some
of the ballads and the sad songs, but you know
it's you know, you're gonna come and have a good
time and haveing a tempost show.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
So those are those are definitely ones that keep the
party alive.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Let's talk about a little bit about country Gonna be
all right from that particular title track to still have
some Cowboy left, and man, it takes me back to
just good old western movie. Sit down and watch something
that John Wayne was in. And if you actually have
a theme song where just like one of those the
show on Netflix that's escaped me right now too. I'm
trying to think of that Kevin Coster's in Yeah, you

(25:32):
thinking of talking about Yellowstone? Yellowstone? Yeah, really be in
a show like that. Has there been any discussions from
this particular album, but you guys have elevated this thing
to it. It also went viral too many honky Tonks
and just again, those songs that I could see in
old Western movies are really good.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
That's it's funny all those years in Nashville when what
I did wasn't cool. You know, I'd always said, I
was like, we need an urban cowboy movement, we need
something to make a cowboy cool. And you're right, man,
Taylor Sheridan and Yellowstone and this whole thing's kind of
brought that wave around. But we uh, it's funny, you know,
it's talking about still has some cowboy left.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
If you look up the.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Writer credits, there's a lot of writers on that song.
And it's because I actually had written that song back
in Nashville with two other people, and it was you
know about the two time and the player you know
that still has you know it just you know, you
could try to tame him, but he's still gonna just
walk away with your heart and be a cowboy.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
And I always knew. I was just like, something ain't right.
I don't know what it is. And I played that
song for Carlton and Jay, and you know, Carlton said,
he goes, it's cool to be a cowboy. Man, it goes,
it's cool to be again.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
We just gotta we got to write this song about
how it is now and so we just rewrote the
thing and it made sense. And like I said, that's
one of the crowd favorites. We played with our second
song in the show now and it's definitely one of
my favorites.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
At least I will throw it another one. My kid
loves to sing. And I had to ask you about
this too, because I know a lot of things. There's
music licenses and things such as that nature and of
course you know when a song is on the record
taking off in this but you put out one I
love so much that she got heard of singing. And man,
it's a two step in dance hall jukebox kind of
song that's got to go up hit P. Three on

(27:09):
a jukebox. But what about better love? Next time? I
gotta ask you, Ques, I love singing it in the
fact is I noticed on on I'd like to speak
for the Apple side of things. The subscription I had
with Apple Music, something happened where it wasn't on a
record you would put out, or it was all or whatever.
So I went to your YouTube channel and I was
able to access it there, and of course I'd already

(27:30):
downloaded it to and bought it a while back. But
it was one of my favorites you did. And I
love that song because I couldn't find it on Apple
Music anymore. But I tell people they haven't heard better
love next time, But David Adam Burns it need to
go look it up.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, let's steal out there.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'll tell you what happened that last deal I had
that song keep Up with the Cowgirl Too Much Texas,
and I find a reason all four of those Basically
I own those songs and least from the label.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
So when I left that deal, they reverted back to me.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
So probably what it is is it got pulled down
from then, but now it's back up under my label
or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
So it is out there. You just gotta find it.
But now, man, that's another one the songs. It was special.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
In fact, that was I think the first song me
Jay and Carlton wrote together was too Much Texas, and
I think that was the second one, and Jay came
in with that title and I was just like, oh yeah,
we're right in that today. And you know, a lot
of times I'll try to think of a song that
I grew up on as like a reference or an inspiration,
and somehow I brought up Easy Come, Easy Go George

(28:30):
Strait and we just kind of tried to follow that
same you know, stage plot, I guess you would call it,
and just kind of tried to make her own version
of it. But yeah, that's another of them songs. It's
a lot of fans and folks come up tell me
how much they love that one, and I do too,
man' That's honestly one of my favorite songs I've ever written.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I love it so much. And then a deep one
meaning you mentioned those ballads too, but count You're gonna
be all right. So one I had to bring up
here because we probably have talked about this on previous episodes,
but what would Lynch Bird do? And this was deep? Man,
This was you know, one of those songs really hit
the heart right there, man, it did.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know what's funny is once again. Jay brought in
that idea and I thought it was dumb.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
It was like one of the.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
First warm days, and so I was out sitting outside
in the sun and I was like, man, I do
just some days you just you just kind of plo
out through a song, like yeah, sure, let's get this
over with. I just thought that song was so stupid
when we wrote it, and everybody kept hearing it and
tell me how much they loved it, and so I
want ahead and recorded it, and of course, you know,

(29:32):
once it came to life, I was like, all right,
this is pretty cool. But now it's funny because the
day we were writing that song, I had zero interest.
I thought it was so cheesy, but it ended up
being a really fun song.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Man.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Good stuff out there too. All right, let's have a
little fun here. A Major League baseball season is back.
Here we go, Houston Astros twenty twenty five, going on again.
I'm excited to go to some games next week to
open with the Mets and the Giants, and they got
some road series coming up with the Twins. Things like that.
For you, I guess I have a two part of here.
Pennsball Wise in Texas and if you're a Rangers fan,

(30:04):
I respect that too, and I think we've had these
conversations in the past. I still love my Astros, you know,
forty five years later, been a fan since I was
a kid old enough to talk and run and play
the game. Got my daughter playing t ball now, excited
going to get to some games. In any conversation about you,
because I'm gonna recommend it to the powers to be
David Ada Burns needs to sing the national anthem at
Dykin Park now, which used to be Minute Make Park,

(30:25):
but Dykin's like they called the ice Box and what
the juice box was? It changed sponsorships as it happens,
But I'd love to see you singing the national anthem
at an Astros game. Can we make that happen?

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Hey, I'm all four and the other Rangers have had me,
so why not come on down to hGe town. Man.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I want to say, Well, I know you mentioned Rangers Astros.
Can't go wrong with either one. Some people say you
got to be one or the other. But hey, it's
nice to see that two of the last three World
champions have come from Texas, right.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Hey, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I didn't grow up a huge baseball guy.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I was a major you know, football and basketball are
my two and so I never anywhere with the pro team,
and everybody in Arkansas either rooted for the Rangers or
the Cardinals. And so when I got here, I in
fact Amanda in the day, I think we finally became
a couple was we got taken to a Rangers game,
and so I.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Kind of adopted them just because it had a meaning
in my heart. And you know, they invited me to
do the anthem, which was cool.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
But I can't say I'm anna die hard, but you know,
I got to pretend that I was when they won
the World Series.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'll see if I can't make that happen going next
week talking to the powers that be, at least I
can put it out there and I'll tell you what
you get out. He'll bring a crowd, and I'd love
to do that for you. I really would.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Hey, I'd love it. I'd love it. I've done a
lot of anthems over the years, so that'd be cool
to come down.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
But I'll tell you, if there's a sport we're gonna
talk about, it's how about them Hogs being in sixteen.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Give me some feedback, and look, Cayle's done it. Legendary coach,
over eight hundred wins in his career. He did it
at Kentucky and a lot of places too, And it
was kind of cool to see that matchup against Rick
Patino Saint John's. They were trying to reach I think
the Sweet sixteen for the first time. So it's nineteen
ninety nine, which was amazing out there too, great, right,
he had and a lot of great players. But for
cal and this story, to see a team out of

(32:08):
the SEC come in there and dominate reach this Sweet sixteen,
it's got to be really really cool for you too.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
It is.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, first off, I can finally look at the TV
and not be confused and not want to scowl when
I see you know, it's for the longest time I'd
see him on the court and I'm just like, oh, wait,
that's our coach. Now I don't hate him anymore, but
h yeah, man, it's been cool to watch he's done
with this team. I mean, you hear him keep saying
how it's the most rewarding season he's ever had. I mean,
at one point, I think we had what six players

(32:34):
that weren't injured, and that wouldn't even you know they
weren't healthy, they just weren't injured. So we actually have
all what eight or nine of the guys on the
roster back for this game tomorrow. I mean, Texas Texts
will be a tough matchup. One thing that we struggled
with is teams that shoot it out to the three
and let them tank it from there. So it's I'm
a little more worried about this one that I've been
the others. But yeah, man, to watch him take down Patino,

(32:57):
and I mean, let's be honest, somebody to watch that
game kept them innute. Arkansas probably should have won that
game by twenty or thirty. It was absolutely ridiculous the
way they were calling that game. But I aman to
see us back in the sweet sixteen again, I think,
what for the fourth time in five years, So I'm
for it. I'm glad to see HOWKS ball finally coming back,
because the Lord knows football is not giving me much
a cheer abouts.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Me.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Neither of my squad, the Arizon, the Cargals that don't
give me much a cheer about too. Now I will
say the Houston Texans are back where they need to be.
So that's a little Cowboy fans. I got no prayer
for you there too. I'm sorry, I say, Jerry Jones
is in running the game there and trying to take
on all the titles. Cowboys won't be back for a while,
but it's good to see the Texans in it right.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know, if I really gave a flying you know
what about the Texans, I'd be excited. All the Cowboys
being bad did was just freed up my sundays this
past year.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
So I love that. It's but a good stuff there.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I don't know, I guess I don't know if it's
from touring or life or having this property. I've just
gotten to where I'm like, I used to care about
sports like every team. Now I'm just like I care
about my team. Ain't my team.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I don't care anyone.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Hey, I gonna mention about going to Cabo there too.
And you had a special story where you got engaged,
and I love it because we talked about this one.
You'd come down to a Beaumont down here where I'm at,
you know, doing the show. We got to play a
little dive out there in Fort Arthur, Texas in that
particular area too, And I remember getting that T shirt
from you, and you and I talking about a special song.

(34:23):
I think this was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen somewhere in
there when you came down and I just begun the
show Tequila Salt and Time, and brother, there's not a
beat song out there. I mean, Kenny chest you can
have all his hits and be mister Beach and no shoes,
no shirt, no problem, or no shoes radio or whatever,
but hey could be a David Adam Burns Tequila Salt
in Time. Tell everybody how special that one is for you.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, that was a you know, Trent Willman is who
produced that Neon Town record for me, and that was,
you know when I talked about having to unbrainwash myself.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
You know, I'd been writing all the stuff Nashville wanted out.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Of me and to the point that I almost I
had to retrain my brain how to do country music again.
And so that was kind of what started the relationship
with me and Trent. Trentp really helped guide me back
to myself and my roots, and so that that being
the first song that we really wrote to click together. Man,
that was kind of start over. But I'll tell you
A funnier part about that song is, I don't know

(35:15):
what it is. Every time I'm in Mexico on the beach,
somehow I end up with the Mariauci guys guitar in
my hand while they drink my beer, and I'm always.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Playing that song. That's only when it makes it. It's
like clockwork. I don't know how they find out. We
won't tell them. We won't tell nobody there.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I'm a singer, and I swear somehow every time I
end up with a dang guitar in my hand and
it makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I love that too, but hey, you're putting out some
of that great country music. Hey, speaking of Christmas, you've
kind of dabble a little bit with some some Christmas
tunes out there. I love this one, just kind of
sets the mood for it. And uh, in November of
last year, tell everybody about all year four because this
was a really cool different side of you. But still, man,
a great way to lyrically tell a story.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Well, you know, It's funny, is it's hard to write songs.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
When you've written, you know, you try to find a
new way to say I love you or I hate
you because there's a million songs out there. Well, I'd
never written a Christmas song at that point, so.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
It's kind of easy.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I just kind of sat down and just thought of
all the things that I look forward to when the
holidays come around, and the stuff that I you know,
miss or this and that, and so I don't write
by myself very often, but that song is kind of
came out and so I was glad to finally get
to release it this year.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's good stuff out there, brother, Well, I tell you
what a more to come. I know twenty twenty five
you're excited about what's in the chamber right now and
let the cat out of the bag. I know we
can't say too much with that, but I know you'll
come back on here and let us know what's in
that chamber. Because brother, I love sending all your stuff
to radio out there for all the play and appreciate
you being a great friend. For more information, check you
out across all social media, all the digital streaming platforms

(36:51):
out there. B y r any S. When I say Burns,
I want to spell it correctly there for you guys,
because I learned that very on how difficult. It is
when somebody has a different last name and that is
a B y r n e s. David Adamburns dot
Com out there too for that website, brother. Always appreciate
you too. Congrats on all the success, a little one
coming up in August and getting married, and more great

(37:12):
stuff coming up here on the Backstage Past. And for you,
my friend and your career. I always appreciate you giving
us a little time here to talk to music and
talk a little sports.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Appreciate it, yeah, man, good to be bad.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
You got it. David adam Burns dot Com out there too,
and of course back with more Shalin coming up tomorrow
on the show here on the Backstage Past, KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine and of course their friends
out there too at KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area broadcasting network and wherever you guys find your
podcast out there, we're available iHeartRadio and of course chapter
two as well the Sports Guys Podcast dot com. We'll

(37:44):
see you soon, God blessed, take care.

Speaker 11 (37:46):
Hey guys, this is Jane Denham coming to you from
Australia and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past
podcast exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Hy AVISU is Nancy Jones, and you're listening to the
award nominated Backstage Pass on k y b N ninety
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