February 14, 2025 • 34 mins
Another breakout artist in country music to keep an eye on is Dee White! Dee has a new single across all of the digital streaming platforms called, Heart Talkin'. Check it out now and tune in as Dee talks about his plans for 2025!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, it's d White and you're listening to the
award nominated Backstage Past podcast powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast dot Com, exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome inside the Backstage Past, and of course Happy Valentine's
Day to everybody out there too and the weekend. Whatever
you're doing, make sure you do it safe out there too,
and you know what, just show that loved one in
your life too as well that you appreciate them so much.
And I know, for me, fourteen years, yeah, fourteen years,
I can't forget that of marriage. So definitely going to
be a lot of fun out there too to take
her out to dinner and enjoy the Valentine's Day weekend,
(00:35):
and of course coming up next week, we're going to
join Valentine's Day in Nashville, Tennessee Country Radio seminar coming
up twenty twenty five there too as well. The Backstage
Past exclusive at the Omni Hotel February nineteenth to twenty first,
and of course presented by our friends over at the
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(00:56):
I'll tell you what. This next gentleman here joining me
is one of those that is on the way up
out there too, from the great state of Alabama, and
a whole lot more here. We got a lot of
news to talk about today. D White joining us here
on the backstage pass. D How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm doing well. How are you, Brandon? Thanks so much
for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Man, good to have you here. Will I tell you what,
As most everybody always says, we want to know more
about your guest at the top, I was like, you
know what, well, you guys are chiming in, You're asking questions,
So we're gonna ask that very question here at the top.
D White from Alabama, let's get that start the whole background.
When did that music bug bite my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The music bug bit for me? Officially, I would say
around my senior year of high school. And I ended
up putting in a full year at Auburn University and
signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and dropped out
after one year and moved to Nashville recorded my first album.
It was called Southern Gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I remember that too, and I want to talk
about that album a little bit too, because I actually
found a chance to listen to a lot of great
songs off of there too and love this debut album too.
Just talk about the over body of work and the
catalog of songs on this particular record, because I really
enjoyed listening to this Wherever you Go it kind of
set the tone for the record, and crazy Men was
one of my favorites off.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Of there absolutely well, thank you sir. Yeah, so Wherever
you Go. I was a writer on that one. But
crazy Man was a song that was written many decades
ago and never got recorded. I found it up at
a sports bar in Bramson, Missouri. There was a duo
of older gentlemen and they played the song while I
was sitting there, and after their set, I went up
and inquired about it, and I kind of kept it
(02:31):
in my front pocket for about a year and a
half and then went into the studio and we made
it into something a little bit different than they were
doing and moved it up to G from E major.
And that's what you hear there.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
When you first started to kind of grab that guitar.
I'm always curious to know that story or just any
instrument for that batter I mean a lot of musicians
will play the guitar out there and start learning three
chords and the truth or at least you mentioned you
were telling me about that. G corps talk about just
learning that the process of it too, and a lot
of people say, well, my fingers had to coordinate with
the vocals. The vocals had to coordinate with the fingers
and stuff like that. Learning the chords. Tell me about that,
(03:04):
was it kind of like a deer in the headlight moment?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, you know, guitar did not come naturally to me.
I don't know that it's that it's come through me
and all yet, but you know, after playing for ten years,
I'm getting to where I can play a little bit now,
to where I at least feel like I can adequately
accompany myself, which ultimately that's sort of the goal as
a performer and as a songwriter. You just want to
be able to fit the changes together. And I don't
(03:29):
struggle with it as much as I used to. But
there was always an acoustic guitar around went throughout my childhood.
My mother had an old Yamaha under the bed, and
I dusted that thing off around middle school, and my
grandmother and my aunt used to pick me up from
school and take me to guitar lessons, and I learned
some Hank Junior songs and some Leonard Skinnered songs.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They were all just.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Three or four chords, you know, relatively simple ones. And
I think the first first quarter I ever learned was
a G major. And I'll tell you that's an important one.
You know, if you can learn G C major, D
A minor, a major, E minor, maybe throw an F
in there, but that one's a little bit harder when
you first learn, you can do anything pretty much with
(04:13):
a KPO after that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That is the truth. I started getting my daughter into
she started five this year and she got into the
guitar lesson so we got her one of those good
lallies that you've seen out there, the little small ones,
and she started taking to the guitar center. She had
my fingers just don't do what they're supposed to do.
I'm like, well, you're early, like four and a half.
It's okay. But now that she's into like piano lessons,
(04:37):
so yeah, you're right. If the first crack at it,
it doesn't sit well with people learning, especially her ages too.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, I wish I would have started around her age,
I'd probably a lot further along now.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And we kept the instrum, but just in case she
wants to get back into it as she gets old
her Hey from the Southern Gentleman record, tell me about this.
A lot of great collaborations. You had one with Road
It goes both ways. Tell us about that one?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh boy wow. Well, first of all, the writing process
was a heck of a collaboration in itself. I wrote
that with Dan Auerbach, who co produced the album, and
a songwriting legend named Joe Allen. He was in his
late seventies at the time, and Joe came in with
that whole melody, and he was playing on acoustic guitar.
He's got such a beautiful touch, but he's a bass
(05:25):
player by trade, and Joe played on all of Gene
Watson's records and most of Don Williams records. He would
either play in an old sixty two Fender jazz bass
or upright bass. So yeah, Joe came in with the
idea and we ended up getting a pen in it.
(05:46):
And when we went to record the album, Warner Brothers
had just signed a young lady named Ashley McBride. We
hit the scene around the same time. Of course, Ashley
had been paying her dues a lot longer than I have,
but we sort of hit the Nashville scene the same
time and recorded that duet and then Ashley just went
boom after that. She ended up taking me on tour
(06:06):
and I did close to forty dates with her on
her very first headlining tour called The Girl Go and
Nowhere Tour. And yeah, Ashley's my hero. She's been a
great friend over the years, and I'm proud to have
a record out with her as The Road That Goes
Both Ways.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I love that song too, no doubt of Courtia. She's
made headway out there too. Is one of the top
females in country music. Speaking of that, let me get
your opinion on that too, because not for just Ashley McBride,
but Lanny Wilson and so many others out there. D
I mean, just this women's category right now a phenomenal singers,
performers and songwriters talk about that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
For me, yeah, for sure. So Laney is definitely one
of my favorites. I'm glad you mentioned her. I actually
like Morgan Wade a lot also, and there are several
others I like. I don't hear that many that I
don't like. As far as the ones that have really
broken through, I like all of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Really good, strong lady ladies out there doing their thing,
keeping it man, keeping it real in country music. He
of course I don't. Magan Maroni. It's another one out
there is about to go on a big, big tours.
That for some music. It's the latest single from d
White here on these show. It's called Heart Talking. That's
the name of the album. It comes out in Gune.
We'll talk about that and then some Here it is
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Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your talk. He's always up for fighting. If you don't
tell you tease to buy him, you're gonna lose the
one you love. Your tongue.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He knows this dream don't taste the same, and he's
to blame cause she ain't here to make a toast.
You're eyes what more could they be looking for? And
don't trust them anymore? They don't see clean through those tears.
(08:16):
It would be hard on me. I'd be heavy as
a rock if there's still a post. Don't give me
the shock. And this is your heart talking. We both
know I can't take a break when you lie down
at night. You're mind and I you're wide awake. So
(08:37):
can you get your feet walk in that's straight line?
You then on because the rate I'm ad boy, you
won't last. Sope your tab and take me home. And
this is your heart talking.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Your loans.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Need to take a big deep breath and lifts hell everything.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And ain't so good for me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Your head.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I know you're all in it right now, but you
had better you it out.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I've got your back.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh it was always quick to turn of all the
branches in this town.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
She had the one to burn. This is your hard talking.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We both know I can't take a break when you
lie down at night, your mind and I you're wide awake.
So can you get your feet to walk in that
straight line? You then all because a right, I'm a boy.
You want less of your have and take me home.
(10:03):
And this is your heart talking.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Your lips can say I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You can show it head to toe, but if you
wanna make it right and let it go, she's got
to know whoa. This is your heart talking. We both
know I can't take a break when you.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Lock down at night your mind and I an't want
a way. So can you keep your feet walk in.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That straight line you get on because the rate I'm had, boy,
you want less?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Ophee your tab and take me home.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
This is your heart talking. Listen to your hard talking.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
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Country ninety nine point nine. That Caden Goordon Show Today's
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Speaker 3 (11:39):
Music you know and love.
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Be sure to check it out at the kangordonshow dot
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Speaker 1 (11:48):
Hey guys, I'm Tiffany Woyce and you're listening to the
award nominated Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
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Speaker 2 (11:58):
Add back here with d why on the Backstage Past again.
Coming up next week. Country Radio Seminar will be there
the nineteenth to the twenty first at the Omni Hotel,
broadcasting the show live and I'm and a host man
of artists coming by. Over fifty interviews in two and
a half days covered you're not going to find anywhere
else there inside the Omni Hotel and the media room
(12:18):
right there live on the KKTC Facebook page, and of
course out there at the Sports Guys podcast dot com. So,
my friend, this came out January twenty second, Heart Talking,
the Heart is Talking. Let's talk about this one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, this whole album is from the heart. That's why
we selected that to be our title track. I wrote
that song with a dear friend of mine named Sergio
Sanchez and Tony Brown that produced the project. Had requested
a ballad because most of the other songs that we
had recorded were rather upbeat, So we went into the
writing session with that in mind. That was a ten
(12:51):
am writing session there in Nashville, and we didn't get
a pin in that thing until two or three o'clock
in the morning the next morning, and we ended up
going straight into the studio and recording that thing afterward.
But it was Sergio's idea. He presented me with that
hook Heart Talking, and you know, I'll be real with you,
(13:12):
I didn't quite get it at first, but we looked
into a couple of other things, and we kept coming
back to his idea and we decided to persist. And
as that verse material began to emerge from the inspirational abyss,
we realized that we had something worth polishing up and
we leaned into it. And I'm very proud of that song.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, it's kind of extrapolate a little bit Tony Brown,
huge man in the industry and icon, no doubt about
it too. Just a chance to work with that guy,
you know. You and I had conversations about, you know,
it's almost like going back to school in a way
to kind of be a sponge in the industry. He's
worked on records whither you talk about just the collaborations
and the work with Tony Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, always, Well, he knows how to get it out
of the musicians that he calls. He knows how to
assemble the perfect group of music to really bring an
artists project to life. And he pushed me to perform
like I, you know, used to sing in the old
days when I was a little bit greener. They had
toned me down a little bit with the first project.
(14:15):
And yeah, Tony's just an absolute legend he really knocks
heads together and gets it done. And like you said,
it was quite an educational experience for me. Dropping out
of college to record my debut album with Dan Auerbach
and David Ferguson. You know, that was like basically the
equivalent of getting my college degree. And I would say
(14:37):
going back into the studio with Tony was sort of
an extension.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Of the education.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And maybe that was kind of like going back for
your masters. I don't know, but I've made a point
to be all ears and soak up as much of
it as I could.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's part of the industry, man, anything out there worth
working for, you got to be a sponge. You keep
climbing that lab and get it from the experts out there.
Before we talk about whiskey, please and play here on
the show, which comes out March fifth, when we get
a little sneak peek of it today on KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine. Well, let's talk about Quicksand.
You got a couple other singles they're going to be
on this album, Heart Talking to Do out June thirteenth.
(15:15):
The Quicksand will come out April sixteenth, which is going
to be the third single from this record talk about
quicksand for me, very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, Like I mentioned to you before, that's a somber
little song about a relationship on the rocks. I wrote
that with another dear friend. Her name is Melissa Aaron.
That's the second song we ever wrote, and she's originally
from New York City and she moved down to Nashville.
So I showed up to her house for a ten
(15:44):
am writing session and we were shooting the breeze a
little bit before we put our noses to the grindstone
and buckle down, and somehow the conversation brought up Bucky's
truck stop. They were building one in Auburn, Alabama at
the time, and they halted construction for a little while
on that because they thought they might be building on
(16:04):
Quicksand Well, after I told her that story, we kind
of looked at each other and we looked at the.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wall, and then we looked at each.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Other again and said, quick sand, Quick sand, maybe there's
something to that. And a song was born. Brother, I
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Bucky's one of the most famous truck staff down here
in Texas, and of course here in the South, they're
getting more and more. Was gradually northeast up in there too,
so I love it. Of course, Alabama, Florida, all the
way out that way, the more east you go, traveling
up and down height out there. Coming up May twenty eighth,
another one I got a chance to listen to before
it's released out there. Yet we get to do that
(16:41):
here on this show, which I love. And we've used
this phrase before, but not necessarily in the same former fashion.
Up the Creek. Let's talk about the writing and the
release of this one that you guys are excited.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's a fun, upbeat country song, and yes, I certainly
am excited for the world to hear it. Up the
Creek again. She's done sent me up the Creek again.
I think a few of those old boys out there
listening could relate to that. Funny enough, I wrote that
with a buddy of mine named Daniel Donato, and we
were both very ill with COVID nineteen. We couldn't taste
or smell a thing, and we decided we'd quarantine together
(17:14):
and ride the virus out. So that's what we did,
and he came down to Alabama and we sat on
the screened in porch and reminisced about a time back
during the summer that we had taken my old boat
about fifteen miles up the river to the honky Tonk. Well,
we had a drink or two and we had the
guitars in the boat with us. So after we left
the honky Tonk, we floated up in Chestnut Creek, which
(17:37):
is about two miles long. We went all the way
up in the back. We got the guitars out and
just played country songs until around sunset. And while we
were sitting there in the screened in porch up the
creek again it came to us. The song is about
that honky tonk called JJ's Lounge on the Coosa River
there and for beinga Alabama and it's a long way
(17:59):
by cars. The way to get there from where I
am is by boat, and there's a hole in the
wall I'll be hiding in that is JJ's Lounge.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's a great song. I love it so much. Again
that comes out They're Up the Creek is going to
be one of the ones released there from d White's
And give you a little sneak peek of that coming
up there as it gets closer to the release date.
There Your Heart Talking. The current single out there across
all the DSPs out there too, and of course up
the Creek is May twenty eight, so we're not up
the creek yet, but of course sit here on the station,
but we've give it a few plays here too, and
(18:30):
a few spins right there too. June thirteenth, Heart Talking,
the entire album comes out for your listing pleasures across
all the DSP's time to play another one from d White.
You can check out d White dot com for more
information of the tour nights. And you know what, while
you're there, and we always say, support the artist, grab
some birch. We like selling t shirts. They do to
extra source of income, so make sure you do that.
Support your artists out there, whiskey please, We'll give you
(18:51):
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nine point nine. Guess what it comes out March fifth.
You get to hear it first right here on True
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Speaker 3 (19:14):
I know what she do. If she knew.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That last night in her arms, I thought of you.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
She'd be gone with the wind because she can't go
through it again.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And after what we don't under her?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Why did I walk in? Whiscap? Please leave me whiskey? Please?
Can't you see I'm trying to move long. I told
(20:11):
you of us through with you? Now want you set
me free one more time? Water it be whiskey? Please?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Why do I still taste your kids when there ain't
no part of us worth being lived?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You got a list of other of us? Hall in
line love you bad? He's just asking for my or order.
You don't know about our past. Whiskey, please EASi leave
(21:10):
me whiskey, please catches you see I'm trying to live long.
I told you I was through with you. Now won't
(21:30):
you send me free one more time? Bottle it whiskey? Please?
Everything I got from you your hamble want you to
(21:52):
if she finds a seedy gad? How's that gone? Lurk whiskey?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Please easy leave me alone, whiskey please change you see
I'm trying to move all.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I told you I was through with you.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Will want to set me free one more time?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Wattle is be whiskey. Please?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I told you through idio wall set me free one
last time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Wadle is be whiskey.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
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Speaker 1 (23:31):
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We got to drive a dive into it. I loved it.
Whiskey please A great writing, great storytelling.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, thank you very much. Yeah, I'll tell you a
little bit about that thing. That's a that's a very
down the middle, straightforward country record. And I'm just as
proud of that song as I am of any of
my other songs, any of my mature whitetail Bucks, any
of my big Fish, or any of my big Tom Turkeys.
I almost didn't record it, though, because I like to
live my music, and you know, I'm not an alcoholic.
(24:46):
I haven't quit drinking. I still like to have a
drink once in a while. But I wrote that with
my friend Taylor Craven, who has been sober for about
twenty five years, and we met in twenty seventeen at
the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival at the Florabama on
the Alabama Gulf Coast, and in our spare time, we
(25:06):
started that song, and about two years went by before
we finally got it how we wanted it, and we
trimmed a lot of fat off and kind of whittled
away on it until we got it where we needed
needed it to be. And like I say, I still
almost didn't record it, but I decided that the message
is so relatable and it was such a good song,
(25:28):
I just had to record that thing, and I do.
I dedicate that to my friend Taylor Craven. The idea
came about because he told me a story about whenever
he was ten years sober. He woke up in the
middle of the night one night and he had the
taste of bourbon whiskey in his mouth because that was
his drink of choice, and he looked over at his
wife and it reminded him that if he ever had
(25:49):
another sip of that stuff, she'd be gone. And I'm
talking about miss Alice. She's a wonderful lady. And he
credits himself still alive to miss Alice. And that's where
the second verse came from. Why do I still taste
your kiss when there ain't no part of us worth
being missed?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, it's deep lyrically that's what's so good about it.
Out there too, is. It has that meaning, and of
course I love it for a song like this too,
and I make some bold predictions here on the show.
So I'm gonna make one about this this track, because
there's one right there that could be, in my opinion,
a top ten hit on most charts. So I'm just
throwing that out there, Whiskey Please. And I my fingers
cross branded. I have done that. Hey, when Landy was
(26:32):
all with me a few years back, she goes, I'll
do that, don't do that. I made some of those
prophecy type predictions. So again, and look what happens. So
you just never know here on the backstage past, what's
going to happen when you make those bold predictions. And
we'll keep our fingers crossed. That's how good and deep
that storytelling is lyrically how good that song is. Whiskey
Please comes out March fifth across all the platforms, but
(26:52):
you heard it first right here on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine here in Tawas, New Mexico. Let's
have a little fun with this one to get to
see you next week. We're gonna hang out and go
to dinner. All this good stuff here coming up for
Country Radio Seminar. Where are we going to eat? Pick
a spot?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, you know, we might have to just grab a
quick bite. You brought pizza up whenever we were talking
the other day, and sport I had a hankering for it.
I'm gonna make a point not to have any until
I get up with you. But hey, I like soul food.
I like southern cooking. You know, when I'm in Nashville,
I go down to Arnold's Country Kitchen or Wendell Smith's Diner.
(27:30):
I like breakfast and I like country cooking.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, so we gotta pick. I'm gonna let you
pick a place. We're just gonna meet you there at
a certain time, too, because there'll be a lot of
nights to have a dinner, a lot of hungry families,
and of course people out there, to myself included, they're
gonna want to get together after all the media stuff
and go find the best spots out there to eat
in the beautiful Nashville, Tennessee out there ticket next week
Country Radio Seminar too. All right, if you'd never become
(27:56):
a working musician, I always love having fun with this one.
What other career path would white have followed.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, I'm not sure, you know. I love the outdoors,
I love wildlife, I like science and being born under
the sign Pisces. I've always been a big fish guy.
I just love fish. Uh. And I probably would have
would have been into aquaculture one way or another. I
don't know if it would have been marine biology or
lake management, or maybe the renewal of some of our
(28:26):
river systems.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But I'm pretty passionate about that kind of stuff. I
like it. I like it all right. Give me some
of those obstacles that maybe fans don't see that you,
as an artist have to overcome in this industry. But
I wanted to get that out of you too. Some
of those obstacles you.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Have, you know, there are plenty of them. Uh. Money
is a big one. It takes a lot of money
to do this, and a lot of times there's there's
not a whole lot of meat left on the bone
to live off of once you get everybody paid. And
just the nature of the business these days, being so
heavily dependent upon social media and streaming rather than traditional
(29:08):
terrestrial radio. There's no jukebox anymore. It's just a lot
harder to break as an artist. Because there's not as
much of a set formula, if you will, as there
traditionally was. Brandon.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, it makes sense. I miss those jukebox days, the
jukebox days. I used to go into several different restaurants
out there too, and I'm like, you know what a
quarter V six D five push it and say you
know what? Those were the glory days and back in radio.
And I get to fortunate enough we get to play
when we get to play here on ninety nine to
nine KKTC, which is still a great radio station out
there too at the same time, and love introducing our fans.
(29:49):
It listeners to new artists too. And I'm with you,
those jukebox days need to come back. I really think
they do.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh well, maybe there's a chance I'd give anything to
have been born a little bit before.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I was, no doubt tode nineties country. It's a often
imitated but not duplicated when it comes back to it.
It's also good to see some of those guys trying
to bring it back today, like Randall King and Zach
Top out there to that nineties country era. Just love it,
love it so much. All right toppings on a d
white pizza. I gotta know what it is before we
actually try it in person.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh well, I'm a big meat guy, so I can't
go wrong with any of the meats the way I
see it now. Not so much sausage. I'm not huge
on the grease and sausage. I like ground beef on
a pizza. I like some good lean pepperoni, fresh cheese.
You know, people overdo the sauce a lot of times.
(30:39):
I can't stand that. It's just moderation is good on
pizza toppings if you ask me. And look, I'm a
thin and crispy crust guy. I don't like a big,
heavy dowe crust. No, no way. I'd rather stay hungry
than eath.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
That you mean, right right up the same valley my
friend too, as just said, thin crust and a lot
of topings and a lot of sauce. And I wanted
to be very good out there too. All right, dream
vacation if you could take one. You want the lottery
this kind of thing out there, to collect that check
and go anywhere in the world. Where would you go?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Well, you know, if you're predicting Landy Wilson being a star,
you might should buy a lottery ticket. Brandon. But you know,
it's funny that you asked me that question. Being at
home is kind of like being on vacation for me,
traveling so much in this business. You know, I've played
all forty nine states. I've toured in Australia and New Zealand,
and I really like being at home. I'll tell you
(31:32):
where I love to spend a lot of time is
on the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle. But you know,
I wouldn't mind going somewhere like Costa Rica or one
of those other places where they just catch the heck
out a big billfish.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I knew it had to be somewhere on the water.
I knew it had to be somewhere on the water,
my friend, no doubt about it with those big fish,
because I love deep sea fishing. In fact, coming up
here in a few months, my sister's actually getting married
out in Cabos. We're going to Los Cabos, and one
of the trips out there is an all guy I
guess guys, I say guys, due mostly they could bring
their spouses, but me and my brother in law are
(32:13):
as soon to be brother in law too. He is
going to take us out there on a fishing trip
for whatever out there too in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh wow, Well, maybe while you're really in one of
those big mahis or one of those marlins or one
of those sailfish, maybe old Dal will cross your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I said, d some pictures. I'll never forget about that
too as well. That's always good because I love deep
sea fishing. But for read, no doubt, Heart Talking comes
out to you at thirteenth. It's across all the digital
streaming platforms as a single currently right now. All the
other music there too coming out and Whiskey Police March
the fifth, and of course all the great songs we
talked about there today will put out some liners out
there too and everything. Talk about the dates here on
(32:50):
the broadcast, and of course give us some radio spens
on the KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. D
We appreciate the time, my friend. Looking forward to seeing
you at CRS. We'll have our pizza ordered and on standby,
and I always appreciate you giving us some time here
on the broadcasts here on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine. Continue success going forward.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Thanks so much, Hey, I appreciate you so much for
having me on Brandon and thanks a million to all
the listeners out there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You got it dy dot com for more information and
check out Heart Talking across all the DSPs out there,
and of course the full length album June thirteenth. They
We're back with some more great music here on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine and of course next
week Country Radio Seminar Are we Invade Nashville, Tennessee at
the Omni Hotel the nineteenth to the twenty first live
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best Country Mix. We'll see you on the flip side.
Until then, take care, God blessed. We'll see you suit.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artists Noah Thompson and
you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast powered by the
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ninety nine point nine. In house, New Mexico out
Hey all, it's d White and you're listening to the
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Podcast dot Com, exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine ED.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome inside the Backstage Past, and of course Happy Valentine's
Day to everybody out there too and the weekend. Whatever
you're doing, make sure you do it safe out there too,
and you know what, just show that loved one in
your life too as well that you appreciate them so much.
And I know, for me, fourteen years, yeah, fourteen years,
I can't forget that of marriage. So definitely going to
be a lot of fun out there too to take
her out to dinner and enjoy the Valentine's Day weekend,
(00:35):
and of course coming up next week, we're going to
join Valentine's Day in Nashville, Tennessee Country Radio seminar coming
up twenty twenty five there too as well. The Backstage
Past exclusive at the Omni Hotel February nineteenth to twenty first,
and of course presented by our friends over at the
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of course our friends over at Olivia Rock's Music well,
(00:56):
I'll tell you what. This next gentleman here joining me
is one of those that is on the way up
out there too, from the great state of Alabama, and
a whole lot more here. We got a lot of
news to talk about today. D White joining us here
on the backstage pass. D How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm doing well. How are you, Brandon? Thanks so much
for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Man, good to have you here. Will I tell you what,
As most everybody always says, we want to know more
about your guest at the top, I was like, you
know what, well, you guys are chiming in, You're asking questions,
So we're gonna ask that very question here at the top.
D White from Alabama, let's get that start the whole background.
When did that music bug bite my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The music bug bit for me? Officially, I would say
around my senior year of high school. And I ended
up putting in a full year at Auburn University and
signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and dropped out
after one year and moved to Nashville recorded my first album.
It was called Southern Gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I remember that too, and I want to talk
about that album a little bit too, because I actually
found a chance to listen to a lot of great
songs off of there too and love this debut album too.
Just talk about the over body of work and the
catalog of songs on this particular record, because I really
enjoyed listening to this Wherever you Go it kind of
set the tone for the record, and crazy Men was
one of my favorites off.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Of there absolutely well, thank you sir. Yeah, so Wherever
you Go. I was a writer on that one. But
crazy Man was a song that was written many decades
ago and never got recorded. I found it up at
a sports bar in Bramson, Missouri. There was a duo
of older gentlemen and they played the song while I
was sitting there, and after their set, I went up
and inquired about it, and I kind of kept it
(02:31):
in my front pocket for about a year and a
half and then went into the studio and we made
it into something a little bit different than they were
doing and moved it up to G from E major.
And that's what you hear there.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
When you first started to kind of grab that guitar.
I'm always curious to know that story or just any
instrument for that batter I mean a lot of musicians
will play the guitar out there and start learning three
chords and the truth or at least you mentioned you
were telling me about that. G corps talk about just
learning that the process of it too, and a lot
of people say, well, my fingers had to coordinate with
the vocals. The vocals had to coordinate with the fingers
and stuff like that. Learning the chords. Tell me about that,
(03:04):
was it kind of like a deer in the headlight moment?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, you know, guitar did not come naturally to me.
I don't know that it's that it's come through me
and all yet, but you know, after playing for ten years,
I'm getting to where I can play a little bit now,
to where I at least feel like I can adequately
accompany myself, which ultimately that's sort of the goal as
a performer and as a songwriter. You just want to
be able to fit the changes together. And I don't
(03:29):
struggle with it as much as I used to. But
there was always an acoustic guitar around went throughout my childhood.
My mother had an old Yamaha under the bed, and
I dusted that thing off around middle school, and my
grandmother and my aunt used to pick me up from
school and take me to guitar lessons, and I learned
some Hank Junior songs and some Leonard Skinnered songs.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They were all just.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Three or four chords, you know, relatively simple ones. And
I think the first first quarter I ever learned was
a G major. And I'll tell you that's an important one.
You know, if you can learn G C major, D
A minor, a major, E minor, maybe throw an F
in there, but that one's a little bit harder when
you first learn, you can do anything pretty much with
(04:13):
a KPO after that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That is the truth. I started getting my daughter into
she started five this year and she got into the
guitar lesson so we got her one of those good
lallies that you've seen out there, the little small ones,
and she started taking to the guitar center. She had
my fingers just don't do what they're supposed to do.
I'm like, well, you're early, like four and a half.
It's okay. But now that she's into like piano lessons,
(04:37):
so yeah, you're right. If the first crack at it,
it doesn't sit well with people learning, especially her ages too.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, I wish I would have started around her age,
I'd probably a lot further along now.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And we kept the instrum, but just in case she
wants to get back into it as she gets old
her Hey from the Southern Gentleman record, tell me about this.
A lot of great collaborations. You had one with Road
It goes both ways. Tell us about that one?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh boy wow. Well, first of all, the writing process
was a heck of a collaboration in itself. I wrote
that with Dan Auerbach, who co produced the album, and
a songwriting legend named Joe Allen. He was in his
late seventies at the time, and Joe came in with
that whole melody, and he was playing on acoustic guitar.
He's got such a beautiful touch, but he's a bass
(05:25):
player by trade, and Joe played on all of Gene
Watson's records and most of Don Williams records. He would
either play in an old sixty two Fender jazz bass
or upright bass. So yeah, Joe came in with the
idea and we ended up getting a pen in it.
(05:46):
And when we went to record the album, Warner Brothers
had just signed a young lady named Ashley McBride. We
hit the scene around the same time. Of course, Ashley
had been paying her dues a lot longer than I have,
but we sort of hit the Nashville scene the same
time and recorded that duet and then Ashley just went
boom after that. She ended up taking me on tour
(06:06):
and I did close to forty dates with her on
her very first headlining tour called The Girl Go and
Nowhere Tour. And yeah, Ashley's my hero. She's been a
great friend over the years, and I'm proud to have
a record out with her as The Road That Goes
Both Ways.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I love that song too, no doubt of Courtia. She's
made headway out there too. Is one of the top
females in country music. Speaking of that, let me get
your opinion on that too, because not for just Ashley McBride,
but Lanny Wilson and so many others out there. D
I mean, just this women's category right now a phenomenal singers,
performers and songwriters talk about that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
For me, yeah, for sure. So Laney is definitely one
of my favorites. I'm glad you mentioned her. I actually
like Morgan Wade a lot also, and there are several
others I like. I don't hear that many that I
don't like. As far as the ones that have really
broken through, I like all of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Really good, strong lady ladies out there doing their thing,
keeping it man, keeping it real in country music. He
of course I don't. Magan Maroni. It's another one out
there is about to go on a big, big tours.
That for some music. It's the latest single from d
White here on these show. It's called Heart Talking. That's
the name of the album. It comes out in Gune.
We'll talk about that and then some Here it is
from D White on the Backstage Past powered by the
(07:15):
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nine point nine coming right back. And you know what
I always say, guys, we love playing the music, so
enjoy here. It is.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your talk. He's always up for fighting. If you don't
tell you tease to buy him, you're gonna lose the
one you love. Your tongue.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He knows this dream don't taste the same, and he's
to blame cause she ain't here to make a toast.
You're eyes what more could they be looking for? And
don't trust them anymore? They don't see clean through those tears.
(08:16):
It would be hard on me. I'd be heavy as
a rock if there's still a post. Don't give me
the shock. And this is your heart talking. We both
know I can't take a break when you lie down
at night. You're mind and I you're wide awake. So
(08:37):
can you get your feet walk in that's straight line?
You then on because the rate I'm ad boy, you
won't last. Sope your tab and take me home. And
this is your heart talking.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Your loans.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Need to take a big deep breath and lifts hell everything.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And ain't so good for me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Your head.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I know you're all in it right now, but you
had better you it out.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I've got your back.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh it was always quick to turn of all the
branches in this town.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
She had the one to burn. This is your hard talking.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We both know I can't take a break when you
lie down at night, your mind and I you're wide awake.
So can you get your feet to walk in that
straight line? You then all because a right, I'm a boy.
You want less of your have and take me home.
(10:03):
And this is your heart talking.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Your lips can say I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You can show it head to toe, but if you
wanna make it right and let it go, she's got
to know whoa. This is your heart talking. We both
know I can't take a break when you.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Lock down at night your mind and I an't want
a way. So can you keep your feet walk in.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That straight line you get on because the rate I'm had, boy,
you want less?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Ophee your tab and take me home.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
This is your heart talking. Listen to your hard talking.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Taylor Austin Die
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass on KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine. That Caden Goordon Show Today's
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Speaker 3 (11:39):
Music you know and love.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Be sure to check it out at the kangordonshow dot
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Speaker 1 (11:48):
Hey guys, I'm Tiffany Woyce and you're listening to the
award nominated Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Add back here with d why on the Backstage Past again.
Coming up next week. Country Radio Seminar will be there
the nineteenth to the twenty first at the Omni Hotel,
broadcasting the show live and I'm and a host man
of artists coming by. Over fifty interviews in two and
a half days covered you're not going to find anywhere
else there inside the Omni Hotel and the media room
(12:18):
right there live on the KKTC Facebook page, and of
course out there at the Sports Guys podcast dot com. So,
my friend, this came out January twenty second, Heart Talking,
the Heart is Talking. Let's talk about this one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, this whole album is from the heart. That's why
we selected that to be our title track. I wrote
that song with a dear friend of mine named Sergio
Sanchez and Tony Brown that produced the project. Had requested
a ballad because most of the other songs that we
had recorded were rather upbeat, So we went into the
writing session with that in mind. That was a ten
(12:51):
am writing session there in Nashville, and we didn't get
a pin in that thing until two or three o'clock
in the morning the next morning, and we ended up
going straight into the studio and recording that thing afterward.
But it was Sergio's idea. He presented me with that
hook Heart Talking, and you know, I'll be real with you,
(13:12):
I didn't quite get it at first, but we looked
into a couple of other things, and we kept coming
back to his idea and we decided to persist. And
as that verse material began to emerge from the inspirational abyss,
we realized that we had something worth polishing up and
we leaned into it. And I'm very proud of that song.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, it's kind of extrapolate a little bit Tony Brown,
huge man in the industry and icon, no doubt about
it too. Just a chance to work with that guy,
you know. You and I had conversations about, you know,
it's almost like going back to school in a way
to kind of be a sponge in the industry. He's
worked on records whither you talk about just the collaborations
and the work with Tony Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, always, Well, he knows how to get it out
of the musicians that he calls. He knows how to
assemble the perfect group of music to really bring an
artists project to life. And he pushed me to perform
like I, you know, used to sing in the old
days when I was a little bit greener. They had
toned me down a little bit with the first project.
(14:15):
And yeah, Tony's just an absolute legend he really knocks
heads together and gets it done. And like you said,
it was quite an educational experience for me. Dropping out
of college to record my debut album with Dan Auerbach
and David Ferguson. You know, that was like basically the
equivalent of getting my college degree. And I would say
(14:37):
going back into the studio with Tony was sort of
an extension.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Of the education.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And maybe that was kind of like going back for
your masters. I don't know, but I've made a point
to be all ears and soak up as much of
it as I could.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's part of the industry, man, anything out there worth
working for, you got to be a sponge. You keep
climbing that lab and get it from the experts out there.
Before we talk about whiskey, please and play here on
the show, which comes out March fifth, when we get
a little sneak peek of it today on KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine. Well, let's talk about Quicksand.
You got a couple other singles they're going to be
on this album, Heart Talking to Do out June thirteenth.
(15:15):
The Quicksand will come out April sixteenth, which is going
to be the third single from this record talk about
quicksand for me, very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, Like I mentioned to you before, that's a somber
little song about a relationship on the rocks. I wrote
that with another dear friend. Her name is Melissa Aaron.
That's the second song we ever wrote, and she's originally
from New York City and she moved down to Nashville.
So I showed up to her house for a ten
(15:44):
am writing session and we were shooting the breeze a
little bit before we put our noses to the grindstone
and buckle down, and somehow the conversation brought up Bucky's
truck stop. They were building one in Auburn, Alabama at
the time, and they halted construction for a little while
on that because they thought they might be building on
(16:04):
Quicksand Well, after I told her that story, we kind
of looked at each other and we looked at the.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wall, and then we looked at each.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Other again and said, quick sand, Quick sand, maybe there's
something to that. And a song was born. Brother, I
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Bucky's one of the most famous truck staff down here
in Texas, and of course here in the South, they're
getting more and more. Was gradually northeast up in there too,
so I love it. Of course, Alabama, Florida, all the
way out that way, the more east you go, traveling
up and down height out there. Coming up May twenty eighth,
another one I got a chance to listen to before
it's released out there. Yet we get to do that
(16:41):
here on this show, which I love. And we've used
this phrase before, but not necessarily in the same former fashion.
Up the Creek. Let's talk about the writing and the
release of this one that you guys are excited.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's a fun, upbeat country song, and yes, I certainly
am excited for the world to hear it. Up the
Creek again. She's done sent me up the Creek again.
I think a few of those old boys out there
listening could relate to that. Funny enough, I wrote that
with a buddy of mine named Daniel Donato, and we
were both very ill with COVID nineteen. We couldn't taste
or smell a thing, and we decided we'd quarantine together
(17:14):
and ride the virus out. So that's what we did,
and he came down to Alabama and we sat on
the screened in porch and reminisced about a time back
during the summer that we had taken my old boat
about fifteen miles up the river to the honky Tonk. Well,
we had a drink or two and we had the
guitars in the boat with us. So after we left
the honky Tonk, we floated up in Chestnut Creek, which
(17:37):
is about two miles long. We went all the way
up in the back. We got the guitars out and
just played country songs until around sunset. And while we
were sitting there in the screened in porch up the
creek again it came to us. The song is about
that honky tonk called JJ's Lounge on the Coosa River
there and for beinga Alabama and it's a long way
(17:59):
by cars. The way to get there from where I
am is by boat, and there's a hole in the
wall I'll be hiding in that is JJ's Lounge.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's a great song. I love it so much. Again
that comes out They're Up the Creek is going to
be one of the ones released there from d White's
And give you a little sneak peek of that coming
up there as it gets closer to the release date.
There Your Heart Talking. The current single out there across
all the DSPs out there too, and of course up
the Creek is May twenty eight, so we're not up
the creek yet, but of course sit here on the station,
but we've give it a few plays here too, and
(18:30):
a few spins right there too. June thirteenth, Heart Talking,
the entire album comes out for your listing pleasures across
all the DSP's time to play another one from d White.
You can check out d White dot com for more
information of the tour nights. And you know what, while
you're there, and we always say, support the artist, grab
some birch. We like selling t shirts. They do to
extra source of income, so make sure you do that.
Support your artists out there, whiskey please, We'll give you
(18:51):
a little sneak peek here on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine. Guess what it comes out March fifth.
You get to hear it first right here on True
Country ninety nine point nine. Powered alright, the Sports Guys
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Speaker 3 (19:14):
I know what she do. If she knew.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That last night in her arms, I thought of you.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
She'd be gone with the wind because she can't go
through it again.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And after what we don't under her?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Why did I walk in? Whiscap? Please leave me whiskey? Please?
Can't you see I'm trying to move long. I told
(20:11):
you of us through with you? Now want you set
me free one more time? Water it be whiskey? Please?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Why do I still taste your kids when there ain't
no part of us worth being lived?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You got a list of other of us? Hall in
line love you bad? He's just asking for my or order.
You don't know about our past. Whiskey, please EASi leave
(21:10):
me whiskey, please catches you see I'm trying to live long.
I told you I was through with you. Now won't
(21:30):
you send me free one more time? Bottle it whiskey? Please?
Everything I got from you your hamble want you to
(21:52):
if she finds a seedy gad? How's that gone? Lurk whiskey?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Please easy leave me alone, whiskey please change you see
I'm trying to move all.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I told you I was through with you.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Will want to set me free one more time?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Wattle is be whiskey. Please?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I told you through idio wall set me free one
last time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Wadle is be whiskey.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Please, Hey, this is Nashville recording artist Michelle Wright, and
you're listening to the Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country
(23:14):
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Speaker 1 (23:31):
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Tyler Rich and
you're listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And of course next week we invade Nashville the twenty
twenty five of course Country Radio Seminar out there. You're
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Kadengordonshow dot com. Today's best Country Mix all I did.
We got to drive a dive into it. I loved it.
Whiskey please A great writing, great storytelling.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, thank you very much. Yeah, I'll tell you a
little bit about that thing. That's a that's a very
down the middle, straightforward country record. And I'm just as
proud of that song as I am of any of
my other songs, any of my mature whitetail Bucks, any
of my big Fish, or any of my big Tom Turkeys.
I almost didn't record it, though, because I like to
live my music, and you know, I'm not an alcoholic.
(24:46):
I haven't quit drinking. I still like to have a
drink once in a while. But I wrote that with
my friend Taylor Craven, who has been sober for about
twenty five years, and we met in twenty seventeen at
the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival at the Florabama on
the Alabama Gulf Coast, and in our spare time, we
(25:06):
started that song, and about two years went by before
we finally got it how we wanted it, and we
trimmed a lot of fat off and kind of whittled
away on it until we got it where we needed
needed it to be. And like I say, I still
almost didn't record it, but I decided that the message
is so relatable and it was such a good song,
(25:28):
I just had to record that thing, and I do.
I dedicate that to my friend Taylor Craven. The idea
came about because he told me a story about whenever
he was ten years sober. He woke up in the
middle of the night one night and he had the
taste of bourbon whiskey in his mouth because that was
his drink of choice, and he looked over at his
wife and it reminded him that if he ever had
(25:49):
another sip of that stuff, she'd be gone. And I'm
talking about miss Alice. She's a wonderful lady. And he
credits himself still alive to miss Alice. And that's where
the second verse came from. Why do I still taste
your kiss when there ain't no part of us worth
being missed?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, it's deep lyrically that's what's so good about it.
Out there too, is. It has that meaning, and of
course I love it for a song like this too,
and I make some bold predictions here on the show.
So I'm gonna make one about this this track, because
there's one right there that could be, in my opinion,
a top ten hit on most charts. So I'm just
throwing that out there, Whiskey Please. And I my fingers
cross branded. I have done that. Hey, when Landy was
(26:32):
all with me a few years back, she goes, I'll
do that, don't do that. I made some of those
prophecy type predictions. So again, and look what happens. So
you just never know here on the backstage past, what's
going to happen when you make those bold predictions. And
we'll keep our fingers crossed. That's how good and deep
that storytelling is lyrically how good that song is. Whiskey
Please comes out March fifth across all the platforms, but
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you heard it first right here on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine here in Tawas, New Mexico. Let's
have a little fun with this one to get to
see you next week. We're gonna hang out and go
to dinner. All this good stuff here coming up for
Country Radio Seminar. Where are we going to eat? Pick
a spot?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, you know, we might have to just grab a
quick bite. You brought pizza up whenever we were talking
the other day, and sport I had a hankering for it.
I'm gonna make a point not to have any until
I get up with you. But hey, I like soul food.
I like southern cooking. You know, when I'm in Nashville,
I go down to Arnold's Country Kitchen or Wendell Smith's Diner.
(27:30):
I like breakfast and I like country cooking.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, so we gotta pick. I'm gonna let you
pick a place. We're just gonna meet you there at
a certain time, too, because there'll be a lot of
nights to have a dinner, a lot of hungry families,
and of course people out there, to myself included, they're
gonna want to get together after all the media stuff
and go find the best spots out there to eat
in the beautiful Nashville, Tennessee out there ticket next week
Country Radio Seminar too. All right, if you'd never become
(27:56):
a working musician, I always love having fun with this one.
What other career path would white have followed.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, I'm not sure, you know. I love the outdoors,
I love wildlife, I like science and being born under
the sign Pisces. I've always been a big fish guy.
I just love fish. Uh. And I probably would have
would have been into aquaculture one way or another. I
don't know if it would have been marine biology or
lake management, or maybe the renewal of some of our
(28:26):
river systems.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But I'm pretty passionate about that kind of stuff. I
like it. I like it all right. Give me some
of those obstacles that maybe fans don't see that you,
as an artist have to overcome in this industry. But
I wanted to get that out of you too. Some
of those obstacles you.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Have, you know, there are plenty of them. Uh. Money
is a big one. It takes a lot of money
to do this, and a lot of times there's there's
not a whole lot of meat left on the bone
to live off of once you get everybody paid. And
just the nature of the business these days, being so
heavily dependent upon social media and streaming rather than traditional
(29:08):
terrestrial radio. There's no jukebox anymore. It's just a lot
harder to break as an artist. Because there's not as
much of a set formula, if you will, as there
traditionally was. Brandon.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, it makes sense. I miss those jukebox days, the
jukebox days. I used to go into several different restaurants
out there too, and I'm like, you know what a
quarter V six D five push it and say you
know what? Those were the glory days and back in radio.
And I get to fortunate enough we get to play
when we get to play here on ninety nine to
nine KKTC, which is still a great radio station out
there too at the same time, and love introducing our fans.
(29:49):
It listeners to new artists too. And I'm with you,
those jukebox days need to come back. I really think
they do.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh well, maybe there's a chance I'd give anything to
have been born a little bit before.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I was, no doubt tode nineties country. It's a often
imitated but not duplicated when it comes back to it.
It's also good to see some of those guys trying
to bring it back today, like Randall King and Zach
Top out there to that nineties country era. Just love it,
love it so much. All right toppings on a d
white pizza. I gotta know what it is before we
actually try it in person.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh well, I'm a big meat guy, so I can't
go wrong with any of the meats the way I
see it now. Not so much sausage. I'm not huge
on the grease and sausage. I like ground beef on
a pizza. I like some good lean pepperoni, fresh cheese.
You know, people overdo the sauce a lot of times.
(30:39):
I can't stand that. It's just moderation is good on
pizza toppings if you ask me. And look, I'm a
thin and crispy crust guy. I don't like a big,
heavy dowe crust. No, no way. I'd rather stay hungry
than eath.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
That you mean, right right up the same valley my
friend too, as just said, thin crust and a lot
of topings and a lot of sauce. And I wanted
to be very good out there too. All right, dream
vacation if you could take one. You want the lottery
this kind of thing out there, to collect that check
and go anywhere in the world. Where would you go?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Well, you know, if you're predicting Landy Wilson being a star,
you might should buy a lottery ticket. Brandon. But you know,
it's funny that you asked me that question. Being at
home is kind of like being on vacation for me,
traveling so much in this business. You know, I've played
all forty nine states. I've toured in Australia and New Zealand,
and I really like being at home. I'll tell you
(31:32):
where I love to spend a lot of time is
on the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle. But you know,
I wouldn't mind going somewhere like Costa Rica or one
of those other places where they just catch the heck
out a big billfish.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I knew it had to be somewhere on the water.
I knew it had to be somewhere on the water,
my friend, no doubt about it with those big fish,
because I love deep sea fishing. In fact, coming up
here in a few months, my sister's actually getting married
out in Cabos. We're going to Los Cabos, and one
of the trips out there is an all guy I
guess guys, I say guys, due mostly they could bring
their spouses, but me and my brother in law are
(32:13):
as soon to be brother in law too. He is
going to take us out there on a fishing trip
for whatever out there too in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh wow, Well, maybe while you're really in one of
those big mahis or one of those marlins or one
of those sailfish, maybe old Dal will cross your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I said, d some pictures. I'll never forget about that
too as well. That's always good because I love deep
sea fishing. But for read, no doubt, Heart Talking comes
out to you at thirteenth. It's across all the digital
streaming platforms as a single currently right now. All the
other music there too coming out and Whiskey Police March
the fifth, and of course all the great songs we
talked about there today will put out some liners out
there too and everything. Talk about the dates here on
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the broadcast, and of course give us some radio spens
on the KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. D
We appreciate the time, my friend. Looking forward to seeing
you at CRS. We'll have our pizza ordered and on standby,
and I always appreciate you giving us some time here
on the broadcasts here on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine. Continue success going forward.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Thanks so much, Hey, I appreciate you so much for
having me on Brandon and thanks a million to all
the listeners out there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You got it dy dot com for more information and
check out Heart Talking across all the DSPs out there,
and of course the full length album June thirteenth. They
We're back with some more great music here on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine and of course next
week Country Radio Seminar Are we Invade Nashville, Tennessee at
the Omni Hotel the nineteenth to the twenty first live
broadcast here on the Facebook page again presented by our
(33:36):
friends over at Olivia Rocks Music and of course out
there too as well the Kaden gordonshow dot com Today's
best Country Mix. We'll see you on the flip side.
Until then, take care, God blessed. We'll see you suit.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artists Noah Thompson and
you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot com, exclusively on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine. In house, New Mexico out
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