May 22, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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got a good one for you today. And I always
say bat and leadoff man because I record so many
of these. It's Mark and Phil Lister of the group Dixiana.
What's going on, guys?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, Good to see you Brandon, Hey, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good to see you guys too.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, let's talk about this. This group was formed in
nineteen eighty six, and I've been listening to you guys
for a long time. I was just what six years
old at that time, really showing how young I guess.
I still havem right now, not feeling young anymore. But hey,
that's another topic for another day. Hey, we'll start there,
Phil talk about just the group itself, and of course
you guys went through a lot of trials and tribulations
(01:15):
and of course the record deals things like that. But
I'll never forget that album I got to listen to
there at ninety two. That Dixieana album had so many
great songs on it that really made people feel something
in the classic country era because I love peel that
nineties country sound, and you guys really personified that.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It was a very exciting time for us as well.
You know our careers. It has had like four different chapters.
It first started out locally and to where we were
working on the East Coast where we're from originally from Taylor,
South Carolina, and we're working around up and down the
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East Coast and always striving for a record deal. And
so we we did all that. We could do in
the Carolinas, Georgia's and Florida and all, and so we
knew we were smart enough to know that we needed
to get to Nashville. We needed to find original material,
we needed to have a producer, a an attorney, and we
(02:17):
were just fortunate enough to be able to hook up
with Keith Stiegall, and Keith kind of took us under
his wing, and uh after we worked diligently with him
doing demos and and things to present to the labels,
and we finally were That was the first part of
(02:39):
our first chapter. And then the second chapter was that
it was the Epic when we got signed to Epic Records.
There Bob Montgomery signed us and that first album was
it was an exciting time for us. And Mark, would
you like to add anything at this point?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Well, you know, Bob Montgomery was such a music man
and we were so honored to have him to produce
our record for Sony, and he did.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He picked out some great songs.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
We loved every one of those songs that we had
on that album.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
They were all very special to us. And of course
we had success.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We had several of them charted, and that kind of
jump started our national career.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Coming up there, Phil, I was going to say, during
that time in the nineties of so many great artists,
so many great bands doing their thing. Just to kind
of mentioned a few, Brooks and Dunn was on a
hot streak. You had Restless Heart, you had Shenandoah, and
so many bands were kind of you know, finding their
own sound there too. Back then of course duos, trios,
and even now too, the game is still strong. It's
changed so much now being in this modern day country.
(03:52):
Now what twenty five maybe thirty years later compared to
when you guys started there too, How hard was it
to really kind of keep up with the competition field
during that time?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, it was. It was extremely difficult.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Now now getting back to chapter one, we were all
so smart enough to know that we needed to have
a unique sound, and and so we wanted to try
to do something that was different than ever. Well really
the only at the time we were doing this, Alabama
was the only group that had ever really you know,
(04:29):
was been signed to a label and had success in
country radio. And uh, we kind of followed in their footsteps.
Back in the seventies. We had had them on our
little television show at a local CBS station uh in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, and we just kind of fell in behind
them and kind of tried to to do what they
(04:53):
were doing. And and but we wanted instead of it
being a male group, we wanted to have a female
singer out front mark and I wann't sing harmony, uh,
And that's what we did. We felt like that that
was the reason that we got signs of epic was
because the only other act that was like that was
Highway one oh one, and they kind of they kind
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of got released uh sooner than we did. But but
still I think Bob Montgomery recognized that we had something
that was unique and different and that that was that
was we were trying to be different than everybody else.
And I think that was the attraction for us, don't
you think so?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
March Yeah, Uh, I do.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
There there were so many good groups out there, but
also because of the success of Alabama, I think the
labels were looking for a for a group. You know,
this whole thing about the music business in industry, it's
(05:57):
about timing, you know, what's hot and what they're looking for,
what the labels looking for, And so I think Bob
Montgomery came to Clemson University. We were based out of
South Carolina and we did a showcase at Clemson University
and Bob Montgomery flew in to UH to hear us.
(06:19):
And it was kind of wild because he Bob didn't
say a whole lot after the show. He just said, well,
that good, good show, guys. We'll talk y'all later. So
we didn't know if we had a deal with a lot,
but we went a couple of weeks later he had
They called us in to the label and and wanted
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to start playing the songs, you know. And Bob Montgomery
had a vision of where he wanted to go with us,
and and we attributed a lot of that to to
his vision.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, timing is everything, Phil, You're right in this music
industry and that's what But I'll tell you, let me
get your take on this a little bit. Phil, Before
we play our first track off the rent, I could
take people back to that first record Dixiana, back in
nineteen ninety two. You see someone that's great talent now
these days, Phil, and it's very saturated in a good
way with both like I said, bands and solo artists
(07:13):
kind of doing their thing. I guess that's a great
thing for the industry because, you know, country music has
got so much of a crossover now, blending different genres
of music. Give me a take on now, how it's
changed here in twenty twenty five compared to when you
guys got into this, you know, back in the mid
to late eighties.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, music is always changing. That's something that has happened
all down through the years. Genres do go through different
periods of evolution, and I think, like you say that
country music has evolved into something that's totally different than
(07:50):
what it was in the nineties, but it can still
be good. And so, you know, being an older artist
as we are, we are kind of partial to the
old you know, the look of the old country, because
that's what we were about. And it's not to say
(08:12):
that we don't like the new music. It's just that
we don't identify with it as much as the younger
people do. Did that kind of make sense, Brendon.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It does? It does?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And then I love the fact is a mark I'll
throw it back to here with this one. I love
that nineties country is making a resurfacing again by a
guy named Zach Toopp who's real hot, right, now in
the industry. I saw him, had him here on the show.
Like I said before the Big Rise, you know, Landy
Wilson certain aspects of a few songs, you know, is
bringing that back with four by four by you and
and you get a lot of these different tunes now
that that you know Randall King Texas Country right there too.
(08:47):
I love this nineties resurfacing and you couple that with
Vinyl records coming back to at the same time, Mark,
I think it's a great thing for the industry that
it's making uh come back in waves.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, absolutely, I love that talk.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I just really just love what he's doing. And you know,
the industry changed years ago when we had the urban
cowboy thing, you know, and there was so many people
with cowboy hats and boots and that whole urban cowboy sound.
(09:21):
Then when Randy Travis come out, he was just traditional,
old school traditional sound and people just loved it and
he was just took off well. And I think that's
what's happening nowadays too. I think some people are a
lot of people are it's refreshing to hear some of
the traditional sounds coming back.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I think people are getting into that, and I know
I certainly am.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I'll tell you well, we'll continue this conversation here. We
got to play some music here on the show the
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Here the backstage pass it's Phil and Mark Lister. This
one's Lifeline of America. You'll get the gist of this
here on the show Take it Away.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
We held our breath as we watched the storm slam
against Shoe, bringing dead and destruction like we never've seen
wool in the way of disaster.
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The wind and water took its toll, stranded without powered
despiration to control.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
With our prayer answered angels bear dress like firement and policemen,
soldiers and volutis, first responders and trust driver lineman with
the cruise through the line Line of America, and we
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thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
With a whip the tears from a.
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Can.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
We may forget your sacrifice. Lets you answer the barm
like heroes.
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All wis and our face in the pad is we new.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Because our prayers for answer with angels, a weird dress
like barment and policeman for dress in volities, first responders
and frost drivers.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Landing with their dreams or the live line of Maricon.
Can we thank you? You're the live line on the
Mare Recall? Can we thank you?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And so.
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Signer driver.
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Speaker 3 (13:32):
And back here on the show again, Lifeline of America
with Dixie in here, just a few weeks out from
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our friends over there at the Caadan Gordon Show dot
com Today's Best Country Mix and joined by the two
guys that started it all out there Phil and Mark
Listener out there from Dixiana. So I got the release
on this. I love this with Mark because I loved
anything Lifeline all on the side of it too. And
(13:55):
you mentioned we were in some tough times. And I
don't talk politics on the show, but I can tell
you this, that song really hits home to a lot
of people. And for this being the current body of
workman talk about this one lifeline of America.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well let me this is fair, but let me say
this basically, Mark Mark, he wrote the song basically by himself.
And you know, he travels a lot between South Carolina
and Nashville, Tennessee. And when Hurricane Helene hit, it washed
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out a section of Interstate forty over there in the
Blue Rigs Mountains, and Mark was having to take side
roads to be able to get back to and from
South Carolina to Nashville and so forth. So as he
was traveling through well, actually he had come through a
little town and I'll let him tell you about it,
(14:52):
but he was coming through this little town. And this
has been a couple of months after Helene has hit
and it's like the media has left, you know, and
they the folks there in that town were really still struggling.
And on the way back to Tennessee, he called me
(15:14):
and said, Phil, I've had a friend mentioned this and
he said, I've got some ideas for a song. So Mark,
why don't you take it from there and tell him
how you wrote the song.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, originally we had written a song back in nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
We had a severe drought into Carolinas and we had
a bunch of farmers out in the Midwest sent a
bunch of hay, truckloads of hay into our farmers here
in South Carolina, and the radio stations there were so
grateful for that, they wanted us to write a song
and do a video to thank in those farmers. So
we did, and the name of that song was Feared
(15:54):
of the Land.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Well, we had like.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Fifteen hundred people out in the field spun out the
word thank you. And so my friend he had he
had he remembered that video. And when all this devastation
hit the Carolinas, Uh the.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Like in the power.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
His power had been off for several days and the
linemen were out working all hours of the night you're
trying to get his power back on. And he was
just so grateful for that, and he said, man, you know,
all these people that have come in and helped during
this this uh uh tragedy, uh, we need to thank
them for that. And so originally we started, I started
(16:32):
out thinking of how we could say thank you to
all those first responders and all those people who they
have a different mindset if they run toward danger where
we run away from it, you know. And and so
we wanted to do something to honor them and to
tell them how much we appreciated what what they had done.
And so that's what really what started the idea of
(16:54):
Lifeline of America. But as still was saying, is is
I was coming back to Hospit Frings, North Carolina and
seeing this little quaint town that had been so torn
up by the hurricane. And see, two months, two or
three months after it had happened, they were still digging
(17:15):
out from stuff and and and it was like the
world had moved on. They were still struggling. So we
decided to make this song Lifeliut of America twofold to
thank our first responders for all that they had done.
But also to bring awareness to those victims who are
still struggling. And so we teamed up with some Americans
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first to try to raise money to help those victims
who are still struggling. And so it's kind of been
a twofold project there.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kelly how Kelly how you we've never written the song
this work? But Keill him how it happened, Mark, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Got, I got. I was driving.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
I lived in Tennessee. I lived right outside of Nashville,
and so as I was going back home after I
talked to my friend, I started thinking about the ideas.
And so I was driving and I had these ideas
come in my head. So I called Phil. I said, Phil,
write this down, you know. He said okay, So he'd
start writing it down, and so i'd drive on a
(18:21):
little bit, you know, ten fifteen, twenty minutes later, I
called him back and I got another line, you know,
And so we kind of did that all the way
back from all the way back to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tennessee, and then so we kind of had the lyrics.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
And then as I was coming back down from Tennessee
back to South Carolina, I started working on the melody
and I'd called Phil and I'd sing a little bit
for him, you know, and and so any we kind
of that's kind of how it all come together.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Doing it over the phone.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Again.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I love where songs come from and the stories behind those.
We ever can say enough on here in a tribute
out there too to our first sponders. And where like
you said, I think, Mark, you said, well we run
away from danger, they run to it. And like say,
especially during again, I say COVID, which is that I
was still out there and not what it was back
there in twenty twenty twenty one. But man again, our
first responders teamworking a medical our teachers, our firefighters, are policemen.
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Thank you guys for all you do in our military.
I give a shout out to you our military out there.
Time for the second track here again it's a film
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back to nineteen ninety two, waiting for the deal to
go down.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We're waiting for it right here on the backstage pass
Stay tuned.
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Will you saw me?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
You hold me and told me I'll be getting all
your love, But you can go wrong whole on for
so long, just because you hate.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
To give up?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Do I love you?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh, I'm afraid of you? Do you love me? Once
upon a town I was surrounding. I don't like what
I have anything again And it's true? Oh you know before.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
There's two face you promised me forevercoverings, noile sending in.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
The store downtown downstairs, sending here waiting for the deal.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Go, I can no leave and no only its only
the artist way to spend the night. And then you
call me, you call me, install me, swear you're gone
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and make and ye.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Oh it's just the way things are. But the bab
I'm in waiting. It's just my break. Mid I don't
like what I have again and if it's true, oh
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you know, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
They do face you promise me for about brother rings
now sending down the st or downtown.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Now, I'm still sitting here waiting for the dealing of No.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Where is there someone out there I don't know about
miss me baby beside love a dad.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I don't like what I have been again. If it's so, oh,
you go before this is face.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You promise me for about father Red still sending in
the store downtown now, I'm.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Still sitting waiting for the dealing.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Of waiting for the deep, waiting on the ball, waiting
for the deer.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
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as of right now for that week. It's gonna be crazy, fun,
at the same time, and like I said, music City's
biggest week of the year. So Phil, I'm gonna start
with you on this one too, because I go back
one of my favorite records and waiting for the deal
to go down is a song that I still have
on the playlist today.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, well, that song has a cool story behind it.
Bob Montgomery bought the song to us and we all
lock this, but he said, guys, said we may we
might have a little problem. Said, once I pitched it
to you, then I found out that Reba McIntyre has
(24:12):
already recorded this song, and he said, how strongly do
y'all feel about it? And we said, well, we love
the song, but I mean, we don't want to do
something she's already you know, recorded, And he said, well,
he said, let me call her people and find out
if you're going to release it as a single. Well
he did that and got back to us and said, hey, guys,
(24:33):
we got us a single here if y'all want to
go for it. And that's what we did, and the
song was It did great for us, and it had
an extended life on the radio. It was on the
charts for like twenty two weeks and it really boosted
our career. We were off and running at that point.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Mark, go ahead and talk about that before we took us.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like Phil said, it definitely was in a in a
town which is is tough to call it a ten
year town of music city. It just takes one saw
to get somebody notice to get on the charts sometimes right, Well.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
That that's right, and that one was very instrumental in
our career because it opened so many doors for us.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We had been playing music, you know for years and
years and years, and.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
We kept thinking that there's a brass ring out there,
our goal ring that we kept reaching for, you know,
and and we felt like when when we released Waiting
for the Deal, the response from radio and from video
that it was a pick hit on video country back.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In those days, it was a pick hit on the video.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We went to Los Angeles, we shot the video out
in Los Angeles, and that was an experience in itself,
you know, and so it was.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
A very exciting time for us. And when we got
to do it at c m A, you know, at
the it was let's see with the fanfare.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's called fan fare back back in those days that
we played out at the Fair grounds there. They had
to head it all out of the paragrounds and I
see you when we when we've done that song at
the faraground that got the response that we did, uh
we was then and when we got to do it
on the Opry on the Grand.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Old Opry, we said, Okay, I can die now.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That's yeah. I still say that. I love that connection.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Ran some shows on the Grand Old Lopry last year too,
and I was like, man, I'm actually gonna put my
product on the Grand Old Lopry. I'm like Mark said,
I could die there right now too. After the show
was very successful there on the Oprey station on WSF.
Don't forget tickets to that Sunday morning country event all right,
opry dot com out there too, Uh Phil, let me
ask you about this one off that record too. That's
what I'm working on tonight. Is another one I still
(26:52):
play on that playlist too. It had a lot of
streams for you guys. Give us a backstory of that one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That was another song that did Bob mcgummy's Found and
and it it did very well for us.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It was an uptempo song.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Uh, we used Bob had hired some of the best
musicians in the world. I mean Brent Mason, as you
and you know who, he is the greatest guitar player,
you know. I mean he played on everything we recorded.
We had had so many wonderful players on on that recording,
and uh they did a great video of that, and
(27:29):
we were I tell you this, this whole record deal thing,
we had been striving for it for so long and
uh we we honestly did not know how the music
industry worked. But when you signed with the record label,
they're promoting you in every way that they can because
(27:51):
they're hoping and that and putting money behind you that
you will be successful and and that they can make
money and that you can make money. And that was
the whole point of the music business and the industry
of it. But for Mark and I and the rest
of God, it was a time when we were getting
(28:13):
treated like we had never been treated before. It's like
we had people that were coming to hear our recordings
and from the label. We did a showcase there a
twelfth Importer and the place was full and we were
(28:33):
just had all this support team behind us. They gave
us clothes to wear. Brandon and listen this is what's
funny about it. Now you can hear me talk and
know that I'm just a country boy. But they put
an expensive Georgio Armani suit on me, and that was
(28:56):
like putting a show settle on the jackass. I mean,
I tried to pull it off as best I could,
but that was something that was new for us, and
it was it was just something that we had not expected.
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But there again, that was it took us. That song
took us to another level. And we still do it
in our in our show some you know, we haven't.
We retired for a while, but that's still a great
song and I appreciate you bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Like I said, again, raised on that type of music,
and I hope people raised a lot of things. But
my grandma said, here's a stackle Vita Records. Get to
know your music and one day you can host your
own show. So I followed it in those footsteps and
follow that advice, and she said, if you want your
own music show, you got to get good at what
you're doing and do your homework and listen to the
good stuff right there. So I still have the vital
stacks in my garage right there too. I'm not going
(29:55):
to ever ever get get rid of those two. There
was another one off of there, Mark and love it,
are You Over Her? And this was one of those
love songs that you look back and you're like, man,
that's what Natys Country was all about. And I love
the fact is what a title for a.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Song, right, yes, sir, And I'll tell you what what's
special about that song is. Phil mentioned earlier that we
had hooked up with Keith Stiegall who Keith produced Alan
Jackson and you know a lot a lot of great,
great acts and Keith we started with him and he
found that song are You Over Her? And when we
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pitched that song when it was pitched to Bob Montgomery
our project, we had like four songs on on the
on the project that we pitched to Bob Montgomery, and
that was the one that got us to deal. You're
talking about how important one song is. Are You Over
Her is what got us to deal with Bob and
and with Sony Records. Uh he loved that song and
(30:51):
we did too. It is just such a powerful song.
And so we had cut it with uh Key and
then we cut it again with Bob and it just
took a little different take on it, you know, but
it was. It's a great song, and I say, it's
(31:14):
what the song that actually got us our deal.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Another great song off there too.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
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Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, obviously you guys mentioned how the music industry has changed.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
But I'll say this, I'm such a foodie now when
it comes to trying different things out there, because I
do not cook my own food. I'm not afraid to
admit it. I'm a lazy cook. When it comes down
to it, really just go buy it, and I would
you prepare it? And I hate meal prepping one of
the things. Even with my workouts now, I can't stand
meal prepping. But I do like checking out new restaurants
fill and I see Mark Cardie kind of smiling out
there too, because Nashville is no stranger to all these
(31:56):
new restaurants that that are on every corner.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
And one that I'm about to try. Right, we go
back there for c may weeek. I already had my
hot chickens.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm over that whole situation there, and I've had that
craving the tacos. This place called Bar Taco Phil that's
been there for a long time. What are some of
your favorite places to dine in when you go there now,
because like I said, it's changed, even a restaurant on every.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Corner right, oh there is. And the thing that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
A lot of the great restaurants that we really loved,
that Mark and I really loved back in the day
are no longer there. But yes, I tell you, Nashville
is it's I don't know the word that I want
to use here, but restaurants have started in Nashville as
(32:44):
a test to see because you have such a cross
section of people that come to Nashville. People come there
from all over the world, and if a restaurant is
opened up and it becomes successful there in Nashville, then
there's a very good chance that it will be success
in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Or Charlotte or wherever are you know.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So there's been a lot of restaurants like that that
started right in Nashville, But uh, Mark, we don't go out.
We don't go out and eat very much. But Demos
is one of my favorite. I don't know if you, Oh, yes,
(33:28):
Demo's restaurance. Uh, that's where I proposed to my wife
twenty one years ago. Was it Demo's Resturance? There's one
downtown in Nashville, and then there's one out in leven
In Tennessee where I live Wen Murphysboro Tea. Was that
Bonny murphys Boroh? Okay, yep, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Good places after to eat too. Well, I'll tell you what,
I love this so much. Great to see you guys
back together. And just doing what you love is a passion.
I always tell people it's sometimes you retire, but you
never really retire when you love.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It's a passion what you love to do. Whether it's
making music, hosting a radio show.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Or go out there fishing or hunting or things you love,
You're always gonna stick around doing something that as you're passion,
your calling from God out there too, And I love
this sound and it's so good to welcome back one
of those groups. It was significant out there in nineties
country music and made a bold statement back then Dixiana.
It's market Phil Lester too as well. Guys, appreciate you
being on the show. Best of luck with the music,
(34:21):
and I hope we get to cross paths again at
some other point out there too and do another one
of these radio shows again.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We will thank you Brand, Thank you Brandon, you got it.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Fellow Mark Lister of the group Dixiana. Check him out
Dixiana dot com and of course go download the music
across all your digital streaming platforms. Get those numbers up
out there too for those two songs, and of course
listen to all that great classic country in the Dixiana
album of nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We're back in more great shows.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Don't forget Live at CMA Fest June fifth to the eighth,
Live at the Grand ol Lopry, doing our show backstage
there again June eight, Sunday Morning Country, the forty third
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Of course, busy few weeks leading up to CMA Fest
twenty twenty five June fifth to the seventh there at
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iHeartRadio and of course wherever you guys find your podcast,
got a good one for you today. And I always
say bat and leadoff man because I record so many
of these. It's Mark and Phil Lister of the group Dixiana.
What's going on, guys?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, Good to see you Brandon, Hey, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good to see you guys too.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, let's talk about this. This group was formed in
nineteen eighty six, and I've been listening to you guys
for a long time. I was just what six years
old at that time, really showing how young I guess.
I still havem right now, not feeling young anymore. But hey,
that's another topic for another day. Hey, we'll start there,
Phil talk about just the group itself, and of course
you guys went through a lot of trials and tribulations
(01:15):
and of course the record deals things like that. But
I'll never forget that album I got to listen to
there at ninety two. That Dixieana album had so many
great songs on it that really made people feel something
in the classic country era because I love peel that
nineties country sound, and you guys really personified that.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It was a very exciting time for us as well.
You know our careers. It has had like four different chapters.
It first started out locally and to where we were
working on the East Coast where we're from originally from Taylor,
South Carolina, and we're working around up and down the
(01:54):
East Coast and always striving for a record deal. And
so we we did all that. We could do in
the Carolinas, Georgia's and Florida and all, and so we
knew we were smart enough to know that we needed
to get to Nashville. We needed to find original material,
we needed to have a producer, a an attorney, and we
(02:17):
were just fortunate enough to be able to hook up
with Keith Stiegall, and Keith kind of took us under
his wing, and uh after we worked diligently with him
doing demos and and things to present to the labels,
and we finally were That was the first part of
(02:39):
our first chapter. And then the second chapter was that
it was the Epic when we got signed to Epic Records.
There Bob Montgomery signed us and that first album was
it was an exciting time for us. And Mark, would
you like to add anything at this point?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Well, you know, Bob Montgomery was such a music man
and we were so honored to have him to produce
our record for Sony, and he did.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He picked out some great songs.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
We loved every one of those songs that we had
on that album.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
They were all very special to us. And of course
we had success.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We had several of them charted, and that kind of
jump started our national career.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Coming up there, Phil, I was going to say, during
that time in the nineties of so many great artists,
so many great bands doing their thing. Just to kind
of mentioned a few, Brooks and Dunn was on a
hot streak. You had Restless Heart, you had Shenandoah, and
so many bands were kind of you know, finding their
own sound there too. Back then of course duos, trios,
and even now too, the game is still strong. It's
changed so much now being in this modern day country.
(03:52):
Now what twenty five maybe thirty years later compared to
when you guys started there too, How hard was it
to really kind of keep up with the competition field
during that time?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, it was. It was extremely difficult.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Now now getting back to chapter one, we were all
so smart enough to know that we needed to have
a unique sound, and and so we wanted to try
to do something that was different than ever. Well really
the only at the time we were doing this, Alabama
was the only group that had ever really you know,
(04:29):
was been signed to a label and had success in
country radio. And uh, we kind of followed in their footsteps.
Back in the seventies. We had had them on our
little television show at a local CBS station uh in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, and we just kind of fell in behind
them and kind of tried to to do what they
(04:53):
were doing. And and but we wanted instead of it
being a male group, we wanted to have a female
singer out front mark and I wann't sing harmony, uh,
And that's what we did. We felt like that that
was the reason that we got signs of epic was
because the only other act that was like that was
Highway one oh one, and they kind of they kind
(05:14):
of got released uh sooner than we did. But but
still I think Bob Montgomery recognized that we had something
that was unique and different and that that was that
was we were trying to be different than everybody else.
And I think that was the attraction for us, don't
you think so?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
March Yeah, Uh, I do.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
There there were so many good groups out there, but
also because of the success of Alabama, I think the
labels were looking for a for a group. You know,
this whole thing about the music business in industry, it's
(05:57):
about timing, you know, what's hot and what they're looking for,
what the labels looking for, And so I think Bob
Montgomery came to Clemson University. We were based out of
South Carolina and we did a showcase at Clemson University
and Bob Montgomery flew in to UH to hear us.
(06:19):
And it was kind of wild because he Bob didn't
say a whole lot after the show. He just said, well,
that good, good show, guys. We'll talk y'all later. So
we didn't know if we had a deal with a lot,
but we went a couple of weeks later he had
They called us in to the label and and wanted
(06:40):
to start playing the songs, you know. And Bob Montgomery
had a vision of where he wanted to go with us,
and and we attributed a lot of that to to
his vision.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, timing is everything, Phil, You're right in this music
industry and that's what But I'll tell you, let me
get your take on this a little bit. Phil, Before
we play our first track off the rent, I could
take people back to that first record Dixiana, back in
nineteen ninety two. You see someone that's great talent now
these days, Phil, and it's very saturated in a good
way with both like I said, bands and solo artists
(07:13):
kind of doing their thing. I guess that's a great
thing for the industry because, you know, country music has
got so much of a crossover now, blending different genres
of music. Give me a take on now, how it's
changed here in twenty twenty five compared to when you
guys got into this, you know, back in the mid
to late eighties.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, music is always changing. That's something that has happened
all down through the years. Genres do go through different
periods of evolution, and I think, like you say that
country music has evolved into something that's totally different than
(07:50):
what it was in the nineties, but it can still
be good. And so, you know, being an older artist
as we are, we are kind of partial to the
old you know, the look of the old country, because
that's what we were about. And it's not to say
(08:12):
that we don't like the new music. It's just that
we don't identify with it as much as the younger
people do. Did that kind of make sense, Brendon.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It does? It does?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And then I love the fact is a mark I'll
throw it back to here with this one. I love
that nineties country is making a resurfacing again by a
guy named Zach Toopp who's real hot, right, now in
the industry. I saw him, had him here on the show.
Like I said before the Big Rise, you know, Landy
Wilson certain aspects of a few songs, you know, is
bringing that back with four by four by you and
and you get a lot of these different tunes now
that that you know Randall King Texas Country right there too.
(08:47):
I love this nineties resurfacing and you couple that with
Vinyl records coming back to at the same time, Mark,
I think it's a great thing for the industry that
it's making uh come back in waves.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, absolutely, I love that talk.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I just really just love what he's doing. And you know,
the industry changed years ago when we had the urban
cowboy thing, you know, and there was so many people
with cowboy hats and boots and that whole urban cowboy sound.
(09:21):
Then when Randy Travis come out, he was just traditional,
old school traditional sound and people just loved it and
he was just took off well. And I think that's
what's happening nowadays too. I think some people are a
lot of people are it's refreshing to hear some of
the traditional sounds coming back.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I think people are getting into that, and I know
I certainly am.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I'll tell you well, we'll continue this conversation here. We
got to play some music here on the show the
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Here the backstage pass it's Phil and Mark Lister. This
one's Lifeline of America. You'll get the gist of this
here on the show Take it Away.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
We held our breath as we watched the storm slam
against Shoe, bringing dead and destruction like we never've seen
wool in the way of disaster.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
The wind and water took its toll, stranded without powered
despiration to control.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
With our prayer answered angels bear dress like firement and policemen,
soldiers and volutis, first responders and trust driver lineman with
the cruise through the line Line of America, and we
(11:43):
thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
With a whip the tears from a.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Can.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
We may forget your sacrifice. Lets you answer the barm
like heroes.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
All wis and our face in the pad is we new.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Because our prayers for answer with angels, a weird dress
like barment and policeman for dress in volities, first responders
and frost drivers.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Landing with their dreams or the live line of Maricon.
Can we thank you? You're the live line on the
Mare Recall? Can we thank you?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And so.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Signer driver.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
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Speaker 3 (13:32):
And back here on the show again, Lifeline of America
with Dixie in here, just a few weeks out from
CMA Fest again, presented by All about r VS and
our friends over there at the Caadan Gordon Show dot
com Today's Best Country Mix and joined by the two
guys that started it all out there Phil and Mark
Listener out there from Dixiana. So I got the release
on this. I love this with Mark because I loved
anything Lifeline all on the side of it too. And
(13:55):
you mentioned we were in some tough times. And I
don't talk politics on the show, but I can tell
you this, that song really hits home to a lot
of people. And for this being the current body of
workman talk about this one lifeline of America.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well let me this is fair, but let me say
this basically, Mark Mark, he wrote the song basically by himself.
And you know, he travels a lot between South Carolina
and Nashville, Tennessee. And when Hurricane Helene hit, it washed
(14:30):
out a section of Interstate forty over there in the
Blue Rigs Mountains, and Mark was having to take side
roads to be able to get back to and from
South Carolina to Nashville and so forth. So as he
was traveling through well, actually he had come through a
little town and I'll let him tell you about it,
(14:52):
but he was coming through this little town. And this
has been a couple of months after Helene has hit
and it's like the media has left, you know, and
they the folks there in that town were really still struggling.
And on the way back to Tennessee, he called me
(15:14):
and said, Phil, I've had a friend mentioned this and
he said, I've got some ideas for a song. So Mark,
why don't you take it from there and tell him
how you wrote the song.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, originally we had written a song back in nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
We had a severe drought into Carolinas and we had
a bunch of farmers out in the Midwest sent a
bunch of hay, truckloads of hay into our farmers here
in South Carolina, and the radio stations there were so
grateful for that, they wanted us to write a song
and do a video to thank in those farmers. So
we did, and the name of that song was Feared
(15:54):
of the Land.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Well, we had like.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Fifteen hundred people out in the field spun out the
word thank you. And so my friend he had he
had he remembered that video. And when all this devastation
hit the Carolinas, Uh the.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Like in the power.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
His power had been off for several days and the
linemen were out working all hours of the night you're
trying to get his power back on. And he was
just so grateful for that, and he said, man, you know,
all these people that have come in and helped during
this this uh uh tragedy, uh, we need to thank
them for that. And so originally we started, I started
(16:32):
out thinking of how we could say thank you to
all those first responders and all those people who they
have a different mindset if they run toward danger where
we run away from it, you know. And and so
we wanted to do something to honor them and to
tell them how much we appreciated what what they had done.
And so that's what really what started the idea of
(16:54):
Lifeline of America. But as still was saying, is is
I was coming back to Hospit Frings, North Carolina and
seeing this little quaint town that had been so torn
up by the hurricane. And see, two months, two or
three months after it had happened, they were still digging
(17:15):
out from stuff and and and it was like the
world had moved on. They were still struggling. So we
decided to make this song Lifeliut of America twofold to
thank our first responders for all that they had done.
But also to bring awareness to those victims who are
still struggling. And so we teamed up with some Americans
(17:37):
first to try to raise money to help those victims
who are still struggling. And so it's kind of been
a twofold project there.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kelly how Kelly how you we've never written the song
this work? But Keill him how it happened, Mark, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Got, I got. I was driving.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
I lived in Tennessee. I lived right outside of Nashville,
and so as I was going back home after I
talked to my friend, I started thinking about the ideas.
And so I was driving and I had these ideas
come in my head. So I called Phil. I said, Phil,
write this down, you know. He said okay, So he'd
start writing it down, and so i'd drive on a
(18:21):
little bit, you know, ten fifteen, twenty minutes later, I
called him back and I got another line, you know,
And so we kind of did that all the way
back from all the way back to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tennessee, and then so we kind of had the lyrics.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
And then as I was coming back down from Tennessee
back to South Carolina, I started working on the melody
and I'd called Phil and I'd sing a little bit
for him, you know, and and so any we kind
of that's kind of how it all come together.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Doing it over the phone.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Again.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I love where songs come from and the stories behind those.
We ever can say enough on here in a tribute
out there too to our first sponders. And where like
you said, I think, Mark, you said, well we run
away from danger, they run to it. And like say,
especially during again, I say COVID, which is that I
was still out there and not what it was back
there in twenty twenty twenty one. But man again, our
first responders teamworking a medical our teachers, our firefighters, are policemen.
(19:17):
Thank you guys for all you do in our military.
I give a shout out to you our military out there.
Time for the second track here again it's a film
Mark Lister the backstage pass again powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot com Live in Nashville, Tennessee CMA Fest
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(19:37):
lot of artists joining us there for a lot of
great interviews at chats on music and Music City's biggest
week of the year. Time for One will take you
back to nineteen ninety two, waiting for the deal to
go down.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We're waiting for it right here on the backstage pass
Stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Will you saw me?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
You hold me and told me I'll be getting all
your love, But you can go wrong whole on for
so long, just because you hate.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
To give up?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Do I love you?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh, I'm afraid of you? Do you love me? Once
upon a town I was surrounding. I don't like what
I have anything again And it's true? Oh you know before.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
There's two face you promised me forevercoverings, noile sending in.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
The store downtown downstairs, sending here waiting for the deal.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Go, I can no leave and no only its only
the artist way to spend the night. And then you
call me, you call me, install me, swear you're gone
(21:25):
and make and ye.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Oh it's just the way things are. But the bab
I'm in waiting. It's just my break. Mid I don't
like what I have again and if it's true, oh
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you know, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
They do face you promise me for about brother rings
now sending down the st or downtown.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Now, I'm still sitting here waiting for the dealing of No.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Where is there someone out there I don't know about
miss me baby beside love a dad.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I don't like what I have been again. If it's so, oh,
you go before this is face.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You promise me for about father Red still sending in
the store downtown now, I'm.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Still sitting waiting for the dealing.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Of waiting for the deep, waiting on the ball, waiting
for the deer.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Dude that Hi, everybody.
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by Brenda Lee. Busy week at almost sixty interviews booked
(23:31):
as of right now for that week. It's gonna be crazy, fun,
at the same time, and like I said, music City's
biggest week of the year. So Phil, I'm gonna start
with you on this one too, because I go back
one of my favorite records and waiting for the deal
to go down is a song that I still have
on the playlist today.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, well, that song has a cool story behind it.
Bob Montgomery bought the song to us and we all
lock this, but he said, guys, said we may we
might have a little problem. Said, once I pitched it
to you, then I found out that Reba McIntyre has
(24:12):
already recorded this song, and he said, how strongly do
y'all feel about it? And we said, well, we love
the song, but I mean, we don't want to do
something she's already you know, recorded, And he said, well,
he said, let me call her people and find out
if you're going to release it as a single. Well
he did that and got back to us and said, hey, guys,
(24:33):
we got us a single here if y'all want to
go for it. And that's what we did, and the
song was It did great for us, and it had
an extended life on the radio. It was on the
charts for like twenty two weeks and it really boosted
our career. We were off and running at that point.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Mark, go ahead and talk about that before we took us.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like Phil said, it definitely was in a in a
town which is is tough to call it a ten
year town of music city. It just takes one saw
to get somebody notice to get on the charts sometimes right, Well.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
That that's right, and that one was very instrumental in
our career because it opened so many doors for us.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We had been playing music, you know for years and
years and years, and.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
We kept thinking that there's a brass ring out there,
our goal ring that we kept reaching for, you know,
and and we felt like when when we released Waiting
for the Deal, the response from radio and from video
that it was a pick hit on video country back.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
In those days, it was a pick hit on the video.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We went to Los Angeles, we shot the video out
in Los Angeles, and that was an experience in itself,
you know, and so it was.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
A very exciting time for us. And when we got
to do it at c m A, you know, at
the it was let's see with the fanfare.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's called fan fare back back in those days that
we played out at the Fair grounds there. They had
to head it all out of the paragrounds and I
see you when we when we've done that song at
the faraground that got the response that we did, uh
we was then and when we got to do it
on the Opry on the Grand.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Old Opry, we said, Okay, I can die now.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That's yeah. I still say that. I love that connection.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Ran some shows on the Grand Old Lopry last year too,
and I was like, man, I'm actually gonna put my
product on the Grand Old Lopry. I'm like Mark said,
I could die there right now too. After the show
was very successful there on the Oprey station on WSF.
Don't forget tickets to that Sunday morning country event all right,
opry dot com out there too, Uh Phil, let me
ask you about this one off that record too. That's
what I'm working on tonight. Is another one I still
(26:52):
play on that playlist too. It had a lot of
streams for you guys. Give us a backstory of that one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That was another song that did Bob mcgummy's Found and
and it it did very well for us.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It was an uptempo song.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Uh, we used Bob had hired some of the best
musicians in the world. I mean Brent Mason, as you
and you know who, he is the greatest guitar player,
you know. I mean he played on everything we recorded.
We had had so many wonderful players on on that recording,
and uh they did a great video of that, and
(27:29):
we were I tell you this, this whole record deal thing,
we had been striving for it for so long and
uh we we honestly did not know how the music
industry worked. But when you signed with the record label,
they're promoting you in every way that they can because
(27:51):
they're hoping and that and putting money behind you that
you will be successful and and that they can make
money and that you can make money. And that was
the whole point of the music business and the industry
of it. But for Mark and I and the rest
of God, it was a time when we were getting
(28:13):
treated like we had never been treated before. It's like
we had people that were coming to hear our recordings
and from the label. We did a showcase there a
twelfth Importer and the place was full and we were
(28:33):
just had all this support team behind us. They gave
us clothes to wear. Brandon and listen this is what's
funny about it. Now you can hear me talk and
know that I'm just a country boy. But they put
an expensive Georgio Armani suit on me, and that was
(28:56):
like putting a show settle on the jackass. I mean,
I tried to pull it off as best I could,
but that was something that was new for us, and
it was it was just something that we had not expected.
(29:17):
But there again, that was it took us. That song
took us to another level. And we still do it
in our in our show some you know, we haven't.
We retired for a while, but that's still a great
song and I appreciate you bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Like I said, again, raised on that type of music,
and I hope people raised a lot of things. But
my grandma said, here's a stackle Vita Records. Get to
know your music and one day you can host your
own show. So I followed it in those footsteps and
follow that advice, and she said, if you want your
own music show, you got to get good at what
you're doing and do your homework and listen to the
good stuff right there. So I still have the vital
stacks in my garage right there too. I'm not going
(29:55):
to ever ever get get rid of those two. There
was another one off of there, Mark and love it,
are You Over Her? And this was one of those
love songs that you look back and you're like, man,
that's what Natys Country was all about. And I love
the fact is what a title for a.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Song, right, yes, sir, And I'll tell you what what's
special about that song is. Phil mentioned earlier that we
had hooked up with Keith Stiegall who Keith produced Alan
Jackson and you know a lot a lot of great,
great acts and Keith we started with him and he
found that song are You Over Her? And when we
(30:30):
pitched that song when it was pitched to Bob Montgomery
our project, we had like four songs on on the
on the project that we pitched to Bob Montgomery, and
that was the one that got us to deal. You're
talking about how important one song is. Are You Over
Her is what got us to deal with Bob and
and with Sony Records. Uh he loved that song and
(30:51):
we did too. It is just such a powerful song.
And so we had cut it with uh Key and
then we cut it again with Bob and it just
took a little different take on it, you know, but
it was. It's a great song, and I say, it's
(31:14):
what the song that actually got us our deal.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Another great song off there too.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Again, you could download all the music out there across
all the DSPs, and hope you guys enjoyed all the
music we got to play today on our radio show,
The Backstage passed out there kyb A ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends at KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, obviously you guys mentioned how the music industry has changed.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
But I'll say this, I'm such a foodie now when
it comes to trying different things out there, because I
do not cook my own food. I'm not afraid to
admit it. I'm a lazy cook. When it comes down
to it, really just go buy it, and I would
you prepare it? And I hate meal prepping one of
the things. Even with my workouts now, I can't stand
meal prepping. But I do like checking out new restaurants
fill and I see Mark Cardie kind of smiling out
there too, because Nashville is no stranger to all these
(31:56):
new restaurants that that are on every corner.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
And one that I'm about to try. Right, we go
back there for c may weeek. I already had my
hot chickens.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm over that whole situation there, and I've had that
craving the tacos. This place called Bar Taco Phil that's
been there for a long time. What are some of
your favorite places to dine in when you go there now,
because like I said, it's changed, even a restaurant on every.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Corner right, oh there is. And the thing that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
A lot of the great restaurants that we really loved,
that Mark and I really loved back in the day
are no longer there. But yes, I tell you, Nashville
is it's I don't know the word that I want
to use here, but restaurants have started in Nashville as
(32:44):
a test to see because you have such a cross
section of people that come to Nashville. People come there
from all over the world, and if a restaurant is
opened up and it becomes successful there in Nashville, then
there's a very good chance that it will be success
in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Or Charlotte or wherever are you know.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So there's been a lot of restaurants like that that
started right in Nashville, But uh, Mark, we don't go out.
We don't go out and eat very much. But Demos
is one of my favorite. I don't know if you, Oh, yes,
(33:28):
Demo's restaurance. Uh, that's where I proposed to my wife
twenty one years ago. Was it Demo's Resturance? There's one
downtown in Nashville, and then there's one out in leven
In Tennessee where I live Wen Murphysboro Tea. Was that
Bonny murphys Boroh? Okay, yep, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Good places after to eat too. Well, I'll tell you what,
I love this so much. Great to see you guys
back together. And just doing what you love is a passion.
I always tell people it's sometimes you retire, but you
never really retire when you love.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It's a passion what you love to do. Whether it's
making music, hosting a radio show.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Or go out there fishing or hunting or things you love,
You're always gonna stick around doing something that as you're passion,
your calling from God out there too, And I love
this sound and it's so good to welcome back one
of those groups. It was significant out there in nineties
country music and made a bold statement back then Dixiana.
It's market Phil Lester too as well. Guys, appreciate you
being on the show. Best of luck with the music,
(34:21):
and I hope we get to cross paths again at
some other point out there too and do another one
of these radio shows again.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We will thank you Brand, Thank you Brandon, you got it.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Fellow Mark Lister of the group Dixiana. Check him out
Dixiana dot com and of course go download the music
across all your digital streaming platforms. Get those numbers up
out there too for those two songs, and of course
listen to all that great classic country in the Dixiana
album of nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We're back in more great shows.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Don't forget Live at CMA Fest June fifth to the eighth,
Live at the Grand ol Lopry, doing our show backstage
there again June eight, Sunday Morning Country, the forty third
Annual with our host Brenda Lee, and of course out
there too as well. A sleu of artist coming in
all over the PLA or something going on cmafest dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Be there, b Square, get your.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Ticket packages right now, all presented by All about RVs
and our friends out there, the Kadangordon Show dot com,
Today's best Country Mix, and more sponsors coming in as
we speak. We'll talk about them over the coming weeks.
Take care, God blessed, we'll see you soon from all
of us here at the backstage pass.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Hey guys, it's country artist Kelsey Lamb and we've got
a grand slam of country music in sports.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Go check it out on the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
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