November 20, 2024 • 26 mins
One of the most talented young artists in the music industry joined us on the show as Erin Gibney dropped by to talk about her latest single and what it means for this girl power movement in country music! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville Recording Artists Aaron Get Me
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome into the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day of
shows here too, again, powered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot com and presented by our friends over at the
Kaden Gordonshow dot Com. Today's best country mix and speaking
of country, is a little bit of mix of everything,
kind of the SaaS, the attitude, a little bit of rock,
and she can do some ballads. Man, she can do
it all. We had to have her here on the
show to talk more about the music and the current
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single by June, which we're going to play here too
on the show today. Here at KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine, It's True Country. It's Aaron gibneing on
the show. Erin how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I am doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, I tell you what, I'm excited to get to
know you as an artist because we have to in
the background. The connection to music and you're kind of
like a jack of old trades. You can do a
lot of things with your voice, and I'm just like
I wish I could do if I was a singer,
which I'm not, but being a radio host too. At
the same time, we can bring you the great music.
Got there. Talk about your background and just the connection
to country music or just music in general growing up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, absolutely so. I grew up in Southington, Connecticut, small
town in the Northeast, and you know, country music wasn't
really a big scene where I grew up, but I
always had an infatuation with it. My dad when I
was growing up, always played the guitar. There's always music
in the house. I played instruments growing up. But when
I was about thirteen, I decided to pick up the
guitar and start songwriting. I always loved to write. It
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was love to write poetry, you know, creative writing, anything
along those lines. So you know, it was just kind
of a natural, a natural occurrence for me to marry
the two, the guitar and the creative writing aspects. So
I started songwriting and absolutely fell in love with it.
From the time I walked on stage at thirteen years old,
I knew that it was going to be, you know,
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the love of my life that music would be the
love of my life. So I've been doing it ever
since I moved to Nashville when I was just eighteen
to attend Belmont University, and I have been here for
gosh now years, which is crazy. I'm twenty five now,
and I've just loved every single minute of it. I
you know, after I graduated, it was a no brainer
for me to stay here and continue my music career.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
When I guess moving there at first, was it kind
of that, man, I've got this, I know what I
want to do. You mentioned you have that connection from
thirteen on, and some people are like, yeah, maybe a
little scary during the headlights, you know, packing up everything
and moving there to chase a dream. Talk to me
and kind of walk me through that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Absolutely. It's funny that you mentioned that, because when I
look back now, I'm like, I should have been a
lot more terrified than I probably was in the moment
packing up everything.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I knew.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I just I had this huge dream and that I
still have, which I'm so blessed to still have, and
I knew that I wanted to chase it with every
single thing that I had. And so eighteen I was
ready to get out of my hometown. Honestly, the hardest
part was was that my family was all back up
in the Northeast. I'd never been apart from them, so
that was that was really difficult. But looking back, I'm like, wow,
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you know, as a full adult now, making a move
like that would have terrify I mean, for some reason,
at eighteen, I was just ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Love that, chase your dreams, don't look back. And as
they say that, don't pass go, don't collect two hundred
dollars when it comes down to it. But she's going
on chasing those dreams too. We're gonna play a couple
of cuts here off from the latest music of the
Library of Aaron give me here on the backstage past.
You know, always really cool thing, this female movement. I
love it too. It can put you, you know, right
there in that category of just a lot of great
artists that are chasing their dream out there. You let me.
(03:25):
Laney's just dominated over the past two or three years,
ever since I talked to her back in twenty twenty.
It like many moons ago here on this very show.
But you know, so many cool things the CMA Week
This week and you see like Hannah Ellis and Ashley
Cook and Megan Maroney and so many others, I mean,
Ashley McBride, Carly Pearce have been out there on the scene.
What's that mean for just a female movement in general,
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that girl power movement and just how you fit in
there too, to give you that more confidence to fuel
the fire seat. And these ladies do very well so
that you can do well at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, it absolutely does. I mean every single woman coming
up in country music has been such a big inspiration
me and truly has made me feel confident in being
raw and honest with my music. I think that women
in country music right now are absolutely dominating. It's amazing
to see. I'm excited to, you know, play one tiny
little part in it, but yeah, I love it. There's
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such an inspiration to me. I can't wait to see
them clean up at the CMAS, at the Grammys and
just you know, you know, take.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Charge, walk me through some of the challenges. You know,
we mentioned all the big kind of the headlights are
on and like I said, those bright lights if you
will when you guys walk out there on stage, So
maybe fans kind of see that aspect of it. Maybe
they don't see the things that go on kind of
behind the scenes a little bit, you know, with what
it takes to kind of put on a show, or
the booking side, or the social media side, that kind
of thing, you know, getting the streams up, you guys,
(04:43):
delegating this out to a team, you know, the pr side.
Talk to me about some of the challenges that maybe
fans don't see that you face as an artist. Some
of the struggles.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Absolutely, you know, I think I think artistry now is
you have to be that drack of all trades that
you were referencing earlier. You really have to play, you know,
such a big role in every aspect of your career.
And I know you mentioned social media. Social media has
been truly such a game changer for me and has
come with its own set of challenges of you know,
how to close the gap between you know, personality content
(05:13):
and music content, and how to make people care about
all of it and to really care about you as
an artist, because that's why we all do it. We
all want our music to be heard. We have something
to say and we want to say it, and so
it really is difficult to put all the moving pieces,
you know, of the of the puzzle into place, and
I think for me specifically, it's when I walk onto stage,
(05:36):
onto the stage and see those bright lights that make
all that chaos worth it. So yeah, those are my
favorite moments. But it truly does come with its challenges,
and I'm not without.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That for sure, no doubt too. But it shows that
the music too at the same time, and that's why
you put together a great team behind. You have one
of those here for the radio show too at the
same time, gentlemen, and just a team I can depend on,
and just everybody out there is in my corner, I mean,
and you've got a great team out there too that
does a lot of great work behind the scenes. See well,
time to get a little bit kind of that I say,
head banging, but you're gonna move your head to this one.
(06:07):
If you're in your car and driving to work. Here
is you can hear us seven nights a week there
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas,
New Mexico and up into Colorado if you're skiing. Uh,
time to get a little ryptonite here on the show
from Eron Gibney. Here it is Aeron Gibney dot com.
You got to be any Y. Make sure you check
out the website there too. Give her a like on
social media too. Here it is kryptonite from Aaron Gibney,
(06:28):
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flash m.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I don't think I want to like you.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I'm not ready for my heart's a book again, but
you got me confuse Lenny, such your fingers bush my
hands all halfway between getting any and all friends will
never kissing kid. I don't want to miss this ten
(07:06):
nine a million.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Times I've ruined a pelcal but crossing a town. So
let's come on a night and I'll go back inside.
You feel too good to fight guys?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
You alla rip tonight, You'll dripped tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Never really had a hotel and trying to keep my
head on straight, but you give me those hoards and
my girl since goes away. I'm halfway between chipping round
off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And turn it around and saving the friendship.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I don't want to miss this whistle till not a
million times I've ruined a pilicale by crossing a time.
So let's come in and I'll go back and say
you feel too cus to fight.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
You're not draft tonight. You're not draft tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Heartbeats racing Asian And the part of me that's thinking
is thinking this. I don't want to miss this up.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I don't want to miss this hstle don't matter any Allen,
I'm ruining awan crossing so lit.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Mab back inside.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You feel too good to fights. You're a pepton, You're
my reptin, holy am.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
My captain.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey all, this is national recording artist Halle Kurns and
you're listening to the Backstage Past with Brandon exclusively on
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Speaker 2 (10:15):
Back here with Aaron Gibney the backstage pass to get
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into it because I loved it. My daughter loved it too.
She's moving her head, She's like, who is that, daddy?
And I was like, that is Aaron Gibney on the
song Kryptonite as she could really say kip ric kryptonite
And at five years older, will be five next year too,
But her language and speech is getting a lot better.
She's doing the best she can, but she knows good
music when she hears it too. At the same down game,
this had to be a fun song to put your
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spin onto. Great writing, great lyrics in it, and man,
what a personal story.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh thank you so much. This was truly such a
fun song for me to write. I was coming off
of the heels of, you know, starting something with a
guy best friend that kind of fizzled and died out,
and I remember standing in front of that, in front
of that situation and thinking to myself, gosh, what an
inspiring moment. I think that we've all had that where
(11:22):
we fall for someone that is a friend and we're
not sure where it's going to go. And we know
that if it doesn't work out, it's going to be
a lot worse than, you know, than if it was
just a stranger. And so that's really where the song
was born from. And I had a blast writing it.
I had a blast recording it. And so I'm so
happy to hear that you and your daughter liked it.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Loved it, no doubt about it. To you not liked it,
she loved it. I love that one. You know, we
have a chance to talk to another one of my
favorite artists out there, very creative side of this gentleman
to and his vocals are like spot on every time
he hits a note to exit Signs. We got to
talk about this with former American Idol contestant and winner
of American Idol I Farmer if Iver call Back. He
actually on the episode of the season. He was on
(12:02):
Chris Allen, Who's out there too? You did this? Do
it with called exit Signs? Walk me through meeting Chris,
collaborating with him and kind of picking his brain when
it comes to just music and songwriting in general.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Absolutely so, I actually wrote this was the first rite
that I ever did with Chris. I love writing with Chris.
He's so talented. It was really kind of a starstruck
moment for me when I walked into the writing room.
But of course I was twenty two, fresh off the
heels of a very big breakup in my life, and
so I kind of poured my heart out and poured
my heart and soul out into this writing room, and
(12:33):
he helped me sort it all out and we came
up with Exit Signs. It was so flattered and so
honored when he said that he would feature on it
as well. So it's been great to have Chris a
part of the mix, and I love working with him.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Great guy, great artist. And is all right? I love
this too because we talked about this one all the
time and it's a phrase we use. One of the
songs came out. I think this was last September. If
I'm not mistaken, you made your bed. We've turned that
expression time and time again. And man, what a personal
background storyes.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, definitely, yeah, this is about said breakup that I
was referencing earlier. I think when you sit on a
breakup for long enough, you start to look at all
the things that happened and you say, wait a second,
I don't know if I was okay with that, and
maybe I should have handled that situation with a tougher
(13:21):
out outcome. And so that's really where you major bed
came from. I wrote this song in about thirty minutes.
It all kind of poured onto the page. It was
all those feelings of just anger and hurt that I
think I needed to get out after that breakup. And
so that's what you hear.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now We've got a lot of those stories. And that's
the beauty thing, A beautiful thing about country music is
it does tell a lot of stories out there too,
storytelling and songs. And another one out there that did
it for me was talked me out of him. Let's
let's dive into this one too.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Absolutely. Yeah. So this song actually is not about my
personal experience. It's about one of my best friends. When
every one of my best friends ever goes through a
breakup or it was starting to see a new guy,
we kind of all come together and you know, we
talk about it. We talk about the goods, the bad,
you know, everything. And so this was a situation where
one of my best friends was falling for a guy
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that just wasn't the right person, was not treating them right,
and so we had that honest conversation of maybe this
isn't isn't the direction that you want to go in,
and they were asking us, like, talk me out of him,
tell me all the bad things so I don't fall
with this person that's gonna hurt me.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I love it too, Hey, take me real quick to that.
Aaron Gibney A school of songwriting. I'm always fascinated to
know kind of what goes on in the artist head,
the creative side of what we've mentioned here on the
broadcast from time to time too. But what do you
look forward I guess most too in creating just music
out there, and I mean a lot of people say
ask them for personal experience, or some of it can
come from, you know, just kind of looking out there,
reading something in a newspaper or maybe a fantasy world,
(14:49):
things like that. Take me to kind of your school
and what you look forward most in the process of songwriting.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Absolutely, yeah. I pull from so many different things in
my life, and I think it really depends on the
stage of my life where amm in I read a lot,
so a lot of stories come from the books that
I read in my own personal life. Of course, ninety
nine percent of the things that you hear will will
be things that I pull from my own life, but
even movies and TV shows I draw inspiration from really anything.
(15:15):
I just I love to tell stories. It's my favorite
part about being a musician, and so I take inspiration
from anything anywhere that I can find it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh, beautiful inspiration for the songwriting too. And we got
to play one by June here on the broadcast. No
pun intended, but that is the title of the song
here it is from here and give Me by June
from the current single out there across all the digital
streaming platforms. Back in the last year KKTC True Country
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Speaker 3 (15:58):
These memories keep holding back last stay lost in this
moment playing.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
With I thought we had.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I can't imagine a day way.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Not on the mind, everyone says, while I was still
next year on beIN.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But August, I'll be calling just to hear you sing
name the sam will remember with your hands felt on moist.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
In my mind, it won't be so hogh to picture
me with someone.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
New and if they're rid on the tunnel line and
now the over bad Joe.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
I'll be ov you badji fella compared.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
To your side of town. How can I play the
same songs and nothing can use some hell? I can
imagine the doing nothing on the mad Everyone says, rather
storm next year on these fun my agust stop with Colin.
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Just see here you sing name to send the.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Man with your hands almois em My March.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
It won't be so hard to picture new with someone new.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And if the ride on the town, I'm the no
the Olvi magine tell me old you imagine. I oaply
(18:00):
Collin to see you Sam name the William Hanson onst
them Alon you will be so hot, picture me whistle.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And it's on the town.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I'm the the old love you.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
June.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
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Speaker 9 (19:03):
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Country ninety nine point nine.
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Back on the Calls with Shelley in the morning playing
some music and we're gonna play this one called by
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June and we played it here on the show. Look
forward to playing it on the morning show too as well.
Another great story. And I tell you what a lot
of country ballads cross my desk every day. This had
to be one of the best stuff had in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. This is definitely
the most vulnerable song that I have probably ever released.
It details that feeling of when you get out of
a relationship and you're like, wow, I I don't know
if I will ever get over this. I don't know
if time will heal the wound. And I took it
from the advice that I got from my loved ones,
and they said, you know, this time next year, you're
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going to feel completely differently about this situation. And they
were right, and I actually was over him by June,
which was amazing, And that's kind of where the inspiration
of the song came from. I remember thinking back on
the year and thinking how far it come, and all
the stuffs that I'd taken in Moving.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
On, let's talk about just the plans for the holidays,
you know, with Thanksgiving coming up and then you got
Christmas and New Year's and all that good stuff too.
Always interested to see if there's any kind of those
rich traditions in the household, the cooking or the at
least the traveling. I know I'll be on the road
to just in a camper and kind of going west
to San Antonio sets family up there too, which is
always cool. To go to parties or people like, we
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know I've decorated early or have white elephant gifts. What
are some traditions and that give me household or things
like that. What are you most looking forward to for
the holiday season?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Absolutely. Well, I'm definitely an early decorator too. I don't
know if you could see my actually it's somewhere, but
I'm definitely an early decorator. My whole family is. I'm
actually starting a new tradition this year. I am now
living with my boyfriend, which has been so amazing, and
we're going to see his family in Michigan, so that'll
be a new little tradition for us. And then of
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course spending time with my family in Connecticut for Christmas,
which I'm so excited about. I love seeing my family,
I love being in Connecticut for Christmas, so I'm definitely excited.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right. The kind of forecast the next as best
you can the next two to three, maybe three to
five years for me too. Obviously, musicians never rest on
their laurels. That is the statement I use every time
in one of those sentiments. It's echoed out there too.
At the same time, but I know there's more projects
you guys are looking forward to twenty twenty five with
Like I said, this is the last quarter of this
year at the first quarters coming up very fast for
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next season. Talk about just what you're looking forward most
and forecast for me over the next three to five years.
What are you most looking forward to?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Definitely, I think this past year I went to my
first headlining tour in over the summer, which was asolutely incredible.
I'm so excited about the music that I've coming this
next year. I can't wait to tour with it, to
actually play it live. It's going to be so amazing.
I'm actually kicking off twenty twenty five with a brand
new release in the first week of January. I've not
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released that yet, so I'm excited to tell the world
that I've got a new single coming. I'm excited to
look into, you know, actually releasing a full album. I've
been on that singles train for so long, so I'm
excited to put a full body of work out out
into the world and get to tour with it, which
is primarily what I love to do.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, count me in if I'm there for CRS in
February and you get to join us for that Country
Radio seminar because of Fine you're playing somewhere out in
a bout on Broadway and we're doing the radio show
live from there too, as we've done the past four years.
If we get to come back, count me in on
a front road ticket for an Aaron Gibney show. If
you don't mind me coming out, I'd love to thank you.
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I'll count in be good out there too as well.
Get me the new single by June across all those
digital streaming platforms too. All right, give me favorite eating
I say, eating, holes, hole in the wall, whatever it is. Restaurants,
places to eat there in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. A lot
of people I have been getting lately is like Hattie
Bee's Hot Chicken Bar, taco things like that. But where
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do you like to go kind of a night out?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, night out. I actually love Belenapoli, which is over
in the Edgehill area. It's delicious, truly some of the
best pizza in town. It's amazing. They've got awesome pasta
as well. And right in front of there, which I
believe that this is a chain, but Barcelona Wine Bar
is in that same like little plaza that Beleannapoli is in.
It's a really cute little plaza. They've got a speakeasy
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called Old Glory over there. So definitely one of my
favorite places if I'm going to go go get a
bite to eat.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I love it to go put those on the high
recommendation list for the backstage Pass, no doubt. All right,
if they giving had never become a musician, what other
career path would you follow?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's a great question. I actually never been asked that before.
But it's pretty easy because for a while all of
my childhood, I always wanted to be this until I,
you know, stepped on stage and that was an author.
If I was never a musician, I would have been
an author. So I think writing has always been my
love since I can remember, so definitely would steal stick
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in that realm.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I like it too, all right. Some fun hobbies away
from music there you mentioned kind of the night out
of the town to go to some of those favorite
restaurants to eat at too. I guess uh you know.
For me, I just love self care when it comes
to fitness things like that too. What do you like
to do kind of in that downtime.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm definitely a self care person as well. I
love to read, That's honestly my main hobby. I spend
my most time outside of music and work doing that,
So I love to read. I love to honestly anything
that involves like knitting or crocheting, reading. It's all pretty
pretty boring over here, but most of it, most of
it involves in all stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well, it's not boring if you love it. That's the
best question. I'll be crazy for getting up at five am,
going to take like an interval class, a hit classic
crunch fitness or like CrossFit similar to that. I'm like,
look man works for me. I love doing it. And
the rest of my day from seven am on is
always busy booking shows, doing great interviews with great artists
such as yourself, and hearing the crack in my voice
as I do it too at the same time, knowing
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how many of these shows we put out on a
weekly basis too, That's how busy we stay. But I'll
tell you what's getting ready to get busy is by
June across all those digital streaming platforms. Make sure you
guys go check it out out there and high recommendations
for this fantastic female artist out there aeron Gibney dot com.
Make sure you guys check it out GiB n e
y and you never know, a Grand ol Lopery debut
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could be in the future plans. I would love to
see it wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I would love to see it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I hope that's coming down the pike and of course
getting back on WSM Radio, the home of the Opera.
Just finished a good fall campaign with the great station
one hundred years celebrating in twenty twenty five. Will hope
they have a slew of spring shows coming up there,
hopefully starting back in February. For everybody that makes the
show possible, we appreciate you guys out there, powered ya
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ninety nine point nine. Hope you enjoyed it. My friend
Aaron and looking forward to doing this again no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Thank you so much. Thank you guys for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
One of the best out there by June and of
course you guys can go download that song as we
speak right now. More great music coming up here too
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Keep it
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King and Country coming up, and also Ricky Skaggs. Over
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twenty second at the Ryman Auditorium. We'll talk to you soon.
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Hey, y'all, this is Nashville Recording Artists Aaron Get Me
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome into the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day of
shows here too, again, powered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot com and presented by our friends over at the
Kaden Gordonshow dot Com. Today's best country mix and speaking
of country, is a little bit of mix of everything,
kind of the SaaS, the attitude, a little bit of rock,
and she can do some ballads. Man, she can do
it all. We had to have her here on the
show to talk more about the music and the current
(00:31):
single by June, which we're going to play here too
on the show today. Here at KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine, It's True Country. It's Aaron gibneing on
the show. Erin how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I am doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, I tell you what, I'm excited to get to
know you as an artist because we have to in
the background. The connection to music and you're kind of
like a jack of old trades. You can do a
lot of things with your voice, and I'm just like
I wish I could do if I was a singer,
which I'm not, but being a radio host too. At
the same time, we can bring you the great music.
Got there. Talk about your background and just the connection
to country music or just music in general growing up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, absolutely so. I grew up in Southington, Connecticut, small
town in the Northeast, and you know, country music wasn't
really a big scene where I grew up, but I
always had an infatuation with it. My dad when I
was growing up, always played the guitar. There's always music
in the house. I played instruments growing up. But when
I was about thirteen, I decided to pick up the
guitar and start songwriting. I always loved to write. It
(01:28):
was love to write poetry, you know, creative writing, anything
along those lines. So you know, it was just kind
of a natural, a natural occurrence for me to marry
the two, the guitar and the creative writing aspects. So
I started songwriting and absolutely fell in love with it.
From the time I walked on stage at thirteen years old,
I knew that it was going to be, you know,
(01:48):
the love of my life that music would be the
love of my life. So I've been doing it ever
since I moved to Nashville when I was just eighteen
to attend Belmont University, and I have been here for
gosh now years, which is crazy. I'm twenty five now,
and I've just loved every single minute of it. I
you know, after I graduated, it was a no brainer
for me to stay here and continue my music career.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
When I guess moving there at first, was it kind
of that, man, I've got this, I know what I
want to do. You mentioned you have that connection from
thirteen on, and some people are like, yeah, maybe a
little scary during the headlights, you know, packing up everything
and moving there to chase a dream. Talk to me
and kind of walk me through that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Absolutely. It's funny that you mentioned that, because when I
look back now, I'm like, I should have been a
lot more terrified than I probably was in the moment
packing up everything.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I knew.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I just I had this huge dream and that I
still have, which I'm so blessed to still have, and
I knew that I wanted to chase it with every
single thing that I had. And so eighteen I was
ready to get out of my hometown. Honestly, the hardest
part was was that my family was all back up
in the Northeast. I'd never been apart from them, so
that was that was really difficult. But looking back, I'm like, wow,
(02:56):
you know, as a full adult now, making a move
like that would have terrify I mean, for some reason,
at eighteen, I was just ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Love that, chase your dreams, don't look back. And as
they say that, don't pass go, don't collect two hundred
dollars when it comes down to it. But she's going
on chasing those dreams too. We're gonna play a couple
of cuts here off from the latest music of the
Library of Aaron give me here on the backstage past.
You know, always really cool thing, this female movement. I
love it too. It can put you, you know, right
there in that category of just a lot of great
artists that are chasing their dream out there. You let me.
(03:25):
Laney's just dominated over the past two or three years,
ever since I talked to her back in twenty twenty.
It like many moons ago here on this very show.
But you know, so many cool things the CMA Week
This week and you see like Hannah Ellis and Ashley
Cook and Megan Maroney and so many others, I mean,
Ashley McBride, Carly Pearce have been out there on the scene.
What's that mean for just a female movement in general,
(03:45):
that girl power movement and just how you fit in
there too, to give you that more confidence to fuel
the fire seat. And these ladies do very well so
that you can do well at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, it absolutely does. I mean every single woman coming
up in country music has been such a big inspiration
me and truly has made me feel confident in being
raw and honest with my music. I think that women
in country music right now are absolutely dominating. It's amazing
to see. I'm excited to, you know, play one tiny
little part in it, but yeah, I love it. There's
(04:16):
such an inspiration to me. I can't wait to see
them clean up at the CMAS, at the Grammys and
just you know, you know, take.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Charge, walk me through some of the challenges. You know,
we mentioned all the big kind of the headlights are
on and like I said, those bright lights if you
will when you guys walk out there on stage, So
maybe fans kind of see that aspect of it. Maybe
they don't see the things that go on kind of
behind the scenes a little bit, you know, with what
it takes to kind of put on a show, or
the booking side, or the social media side, that kind
of thing, you know, getting the streams up, you guys,
(04:43):
delegating this out to a team, you know, the pr side.
Talk to me about some of the challenges that maybe
fans don't see that you face as an artist. Some
of the struggles.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Absolutely, you know, I think I think artistry now is
you have to be that drack of all trades that
you were referencing earlier. You really have to play, you know,
such a big role in every aspect of your career.
And I know you mentioned social media. Social media has
been truly such a game changer for me and has
come with its own set of challenges of you know,
how to close the gap between you know, personality content
(05:13):
and music content, and how to make people care about
all of it and to really care about you as
an artist, because that's why we all do it. We
all want our music to be heard. We have something
to say and we want to say it, and so
it really is difficult to put all the moving pieces,
you know, of the of the puzzle into place, and
I think for me specifically, it's when I walk onto stage,
(05:36):
onto the stage and see those bright lights that make
all that chaos worth it. So yeah, those are my
favorite moments. But it truly does come with its challenges,
and I'm not without.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That for sure, no doubt too. But it shows that
the music too at the same time, and that's why
you put together a great team behind. You have one
of those here for the radio show too at the
same time, gentlemen, and just a team I can depend on,
and just everybody out there is in my corner, I mean,
and you've got a great team out there too that
does a lot of great work behind the scenes. See well,
time to get a little bit kind of that I say,
head banging, but you're gonna move your head to this one.
(06:07):
If you're in your car and driving to work. Here
is you can hear us seven nights a week there
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas,
New Mexico and up into Colorado if you're skiing. Uh,
time to get a little ryptonite here on the show
from Eron Gibney. Here it is Aeron Gibney dot com.
You got to be any Y. Make sure you check
out the website there too. Give her a like on
social media too. Here it is kryptonite from Aaron Gibney,
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KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine back in the
flash m.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I don't think I want to like you.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I'm not ready for my heart's a book again, but
you got me confuse Lenny, such your fingers bush my
hands all halfway between getting any and all friends will
never kissing kid. I don't want to miss this ten
(07:06):
nine a million.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Times I've ruined a pelcal but crossing a town. So
let's come on a night and I'll go back inside.
You feel too good to fight guys?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
You alla rip tonight, You'll dripped tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Never really had a hotel and trying to keep my
head on straight, but you give me those hoards and
my girl since goes away. I'm halfway between chipping round
off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And turn it around and saving the friendship.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I don't want to miss this whistle till not a
million times I've ruined a pilicale by crossing a time.
So let's come in and I'll go back and say
you feel too cus to fight.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
You're not draft tonight. You're not draft tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Heartbeats racing Asian And the part of me that's thinking
is thinking this. I don't want to miss this up.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I don't want to miss this hstle don't matter any Allen,
I'm ruining awan crossing so lit.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Mab back inside.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You feel too good to fights. You're a pepton, You're
my reptin, holy am.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
My captain.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey all, this is national recording artist Halle Kurns and
you're listening to the Backstage Past with Brandon exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine nine in Tauska, Mexico.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
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Speaker 2 (10:15):
Back here with Aaron Gibney the backstage pass to get
powered by that website, the Sports Guys Podcast dot com.
Make sure you guys go check it out. We're doing
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(10:36):
into it because I loved it. My daughter loved it too.
She's moving her head, She's like, who is that, daddy?
And I was like, that is Aaron Gibney on the
song Kryptonite as she could really say kip ric kryptonite
And at five years older, will be five next year too,
But her language and speech is getting a lot better.
She's doing the best she can, but she knows good
music when she hears it too. At the same down game,
this had to be a fun song to put your
(10:56):
spin onto. Great writing, great lyrics in it, and man,
what a personal story.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh thank you so much. This was truly such a
fun song for me to write. I was coming off
of the heels of, you know, starting something with a
guy best friend that kind of fizzled and died out,
and I remember standing in front of that, in front
of that situation and thinking to myself, gosh, what an
inspiring moment. I think that we've all had that where
(11:22):
we fall for someone that is a friend and we're
not sure where it's going to go. And we know
that if it doesn't work out, it's going to be
a lot worse than, you know, than if it was
just a stranger. And so that's really where the song
was born from. And I had a blast writing it.
I had a blast recording it. And so I'm so
happy to hear that you and your daughter liked it.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Loved it, no doubt about it. To you not liked it,
she loved it. I love that one. You know, we
have a chance to talk to another one of my
favorite artists out there, very creative side of this gentleman
to and his vocals are like spot on every time
he hits a note to exit Signs. We got to
talk about this with former American Idol contestant and winner
of American Idol I Farmer if Iver call Back. He
actually on the episode of the season. He was on
(12:02):
Chris Allen, Who's out there too? You did this? Do
it with called exit Signs? Walk me through meeting Chris,
collaborating with him and kind of picking his brain when
it comes to just music and songwriting in general.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Absolutely so, I actually wrote this was the first rite
that I ever did with Chris. I love writing with Chris.
He's so talented. It was really kind of a starstruck
moment for me when I walked into the writing room.
But of course I was twenty two, fresh off the
heels of a very big breakup in my life, and
so I kind of poured my heart out and poured
my heart and soul out into this writing room, and
(12:33):
he helped me sort it all out and we came
up with Exit Signs. It was so flattered and so
honored when he said that he would feature on it
as well. So it's been great to have Chris a
part of the mix, and I love working with him.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Great guy, great artist. And is all right? I love
this too because we talked about this one all the
time and it's a phrase we use. One of the
songs came out. I think this was last September. If
I'm not mistaken, you made your bed. We've turned that
expression time and time again. And man, what a personal
background storyes.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, definitely, yeah, this is about said breakup that I
was referencing earlier. I think when you sit on a
breakup for long enough, you start to look at all
the things that happened and you say, wait a second,
I don't know if I was okay with that, and
maybe I should have handled that situation with a tougher
(13:21):
out outcome. And so that's really where you major bed
came from. I wrote this song in about thirty minutes.
It all kind of poured onto the page. It was
all those feelings of just anger and hurt that I
think I needed to get out after that breakup. And
so that's what you hear.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now We've got a lot of those stories. And that's
the beauty thing, A beautiful thing about country music is
it does tell a lot of stories out there too,
storytelling and songs. And another one out there that did
it for me was talked me out of him. Let's
let's dive into this one too.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Absolutely. Yeah. So this song actually is not about my
personal experience. It's about one of my best friends. When
every one of my best friends ever goes through a
breakup or it was starting to see a new guy,
we kind of all come together and you know, we
talk about it. We talk about the goods, the bad,
you know, everything. And so this was a situation where
one of my best friends was falling for a guy
(14:10):
that just wasn't the right person, was not treating them right,
and so we had that honest conversation of maybe this
isn't isn't the direction that you want to go in,
and they were asking us, like, talk me out of him,
tell me all the bad things so I don't fall
with this person that's gonna hurt me.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I love it too, Hey, take me real quick to that.
Aaron Gibney A school of songwriting. I'm always fascinated to
know kind of what goes on in the artist head,
the creative side of what we've mentioned here on the
broadcast from time to time too. But what do you
look forward I guess most too in creating just music
out there, and I mean a lot of people say
ask them for personal experience, or some of it can
come from, you know, just kind of looking out there,
reading something in a newspaper or maybe a fantasy world,
(14:49):
things like that. Take me to kind of your school
and what you look forward most in the process of songwriting.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Absolutely, yeah. I pull from so many different things in
my life, and I think it really depends on the
stage of my life where amm in I read a lot,
so a lot of stories come from the books that
I read in my own personal life. Of course, ninety
nine percent of the things that you hear will will
be things that I pull from my own life, but
even movies and TV shows I draw inspiration from really anything.
(15:15):
I just I love to tell stories. It's my favorite
part about being a musician, and so I take inspiration
from anything anywhere that I can find it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh, beautiful inspiration for the songwriting too. And we got
to play one by June here on the broadcast. No
pun intended, but that is the title of the song
here it is from here and give Me by June
from the current single out there across all the digital
streaming platforms. Back in the last year KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine. Keep it Tune, you Love Mama.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
These memories keep holding back last stay lost in this
moment playing.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
With I thought we had.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I can't imagine a day way.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Not on the mind, everyone says, while I was still
next year on beIN.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But August, I'll be calling just to hear you sing
name the sam will remember with your hands felt on moist.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
In my mind, it won't be so hogh to picture
me with someone.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
New and if they're rid on the tunnel line and
now the over bad Joe.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
I'll be ov you badji fella compared.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
To your side of town. How can I play the
same songs and nothing can use some hell? I can
imagine the doing nothing on the mad Everyone says, rather
storm next year on these fun my agust stop with Colin.
(17:24):
Just see here you sing name to send the.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Man with your hands almois em My March.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
It won't be so hard to picture new with someone new.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And if the ride on the town, I'm the no
the Olvi magine tell me old you imagine. I oaply
(18:00):
Collin to see you Sam name the William Hanson onst
them Alon you will be so hot, picture me whistle.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And it's on the town.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I'm the the old love you.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
June.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
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Speaker 9 (19:03):
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Back on the Calls with Shelley in the morning playing
some music and we're gonna play this one called by
(19:36):
June and we played it here on the show. Look
forward to playing it on the morning show too as well.
Another great story. And I tell you what a lot
of country ballads cross my desk every day. This had
to be one of the best stuff had in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. This is definitely
the most vulnerable song that I have probably ever released.
It details that feeling of when you get out of
a relationship and you're like, wow, I I don't know
if I will ever get over this. I don't know
if time will heal the wound. And I took it
from the advice that I got from my loved ones,
and they said, you know, this time next year, you're
(20:10):
going to feel completely differently about this situation. And they
were right, and I actually was over him by June,
which was amazing, And that's kind of where the inspiration
of the song came from. I remember thinking back on
the year and thinking how far it come, and all
the stuffs that I'd taken in Moving.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
On, let's talk about just the plans for the holidays,
you know, with Thanksgiving coming up and then you got
Christmas and New Year's and all that good stuff too.
Always interested to see if there's any kind of those
rich traditions in the household, the cooking or the at
least the traveling. I know I'll be on the road
to just in a camper and kind of going west
to San Antonio sets family up there too, which is
always cool. To go to parties or people like, we
(20:46):
know I've decorated early or have white elephant gifts. What
are some traditions and that give me household or things
like that. What are you most looking forward to for
the holiday season?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Absolutely. Well, I'm definitely an early decorator too. I don't
know if you could see my actually it's somewhere, but
I'm definitely an early decorator. My whole family is. I'm
actually starting a new tradition this year. I am now
living with my boyfriend, which has been so amazing, and
we're going to see his family in Michigan, so that'll
be a new little tradition for us. And then of
(21:15):
course spending time with my family in Connecticut for Christmas,
which I'm so excited about. I love seeing my family,
I love being in Connecticut for Christmas, so I'm definitely excited.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right. The kind of forecast the next as best
you can the next two to three, maybe three to
five years for me too. Obviously, musicians never rest on
their laurels. That is the statement I use every time
in one of those sentiments. It's echoed out there too.
At the same time, but I know there's more projects
you guys are looking forward to twenty twenty five with
Like I said, this is the last quarter of this
year at the first quarters coming up very fast for
(21:46):
next season. Talk about just what you're looking forward most
and forecast for me over the next three to five years.
What are you most looking forward to?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Definitely, I think this past year I went to my
first headlining tour in over the summer, which was asolutely incredible.
I'm so excited about the music that I've coming this
next year. I can't wait to tour with it, to
actually play it live. It's going to be so amazing.
I'm actually kicking off twenty twenty five with a brand
new release in the first week of January. I've not
(22:13):
released that yet, so I'm excited to tell the world
that I've got a new single coming. I'm excited to
look into, you know, actually releasing a full album. I've
been on that singles train for so long, so I'm
excited to put a full body of work out out
into the world and get to tour with it, which
is primarily what I love to do.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, count me in if I'm there for CRS in
February and you get to join us for that Country
Radio seminar because of Fine you're playing somewhere out in
a bout on Broadway and we're doing the radio show
live from there too, as we've done the past four years.
If we get to come back, count me in on
a front road ticket for an Aaron Gibney show. If
you don't mind me coming out, I'd love to thank you.
(22:52):
I'll count in be good out there too as well.
Get me the new single by June across all those
digital streaming platforms too. All right, give me favorite eating
I say, eating, holes, hole in the wall, whatever it is. Restaurants,
places to eat there in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. A lot
of people I have been getting lately is like Hattie
Bee's Hot Chicken Bar, taco things like that. But where
(23:13):
do you like to go kind of a night out?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, night out. I actually love Belenapoli, which is over
in the Edgehill area. It's delicious, truly some of the
best pizza in town. It's amazing. They've got awesome pasta
as well. And right in front of there, which I
believe that this is a chain, but Barcelona Wine Bar
is in that same like little plaza that Beleannapoli is in.
It's a really cute little plaza. They've got a speakeasy
(23:36):
called Old Glory over there. So definitely one of my
favorite places if I'm going to go go get a
bite to eat.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I love it to go put those on the high
recommendation list for the backstage Pass, no doubt. All right,
if they giving had never become a musician, what other
career path would you follow?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's a great question. I actually never been asked that before.
But it's pretty easy because for a while all of
my childhood, I always wanted to be this until I,
you know, stepped on stage and that was an author.
If I was never a musician, I would have been
an author. So I think writing has always been my
love since I can remember, so definitely would steal stick
(24:13):
in that realm.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I like it too, all right. Some fun hobbies away
from music there you mentioned kind of the night out
of the town to go to some of those favorite
restaurants to eat at too. I guess uh you know.
For me, I just love self care when it comes
to fitness things like that too. What do you like
to do kind of in that downtime.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm definitely a self care person as well. I
love to read, That's honestly my main hobby. I spend
my most time outside of music and work doing that,
So I love to read. I love to honestly anything
that involves like knitting or crocheting, reading. It's all pretty
pretty boring over here, but most of it, most of
it involves in all stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well, it's not boring if you love it. That's the
best question. I'll be crazy for getting up at five am,
going to take like an interval class, a hit classic
crunch fitness or like CrossFit similar to that. I'm like,
look man works for me. I love doing it. And
the rest of my day from seven am on is
always busy booking shows, doing great interviews with great artists
such as yourself, and hearing the crack in my voice
as I do it too at the same time, knowing
(25:13):
how many of these shows we put out on a
weekly basis too, That's how busy we stay. But I'll
tell you what's getting ready to get busy is by
June across all those digital streaming platforms. Make sure you
guys go check it out out there and high recommendations
for this fantastic female artist out there aeron Gibney dot com.
Make sure you guys check it out GiB n e
y and you never know, a Grand ol Lopery debut
(25:33):
could be in the future plans. I would love to
see it wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I would love to see it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I hope that's coming down the pike and of course
getting back on WSM Radio, the home of the Opera.
Just finished a good fall campaign with the great station
one hundred years celebrating in twenty twenty five. Will hope
they have a slew of spring shows coming up there,
hopefully starting back in February. For everybody that makes the
show possible, we appreciate you guys out there, powered ya
these Sports Guys podcast comming out there KKTC True Country
(26:02):
ninety nine point nine. Hope you enjoyed it. My friend
Aaron and looking forward to doing this again no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Thank you so much. Thank you guys for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
One of the best out there by June and of
course you guys can go download that song as we
speak right now. More great music coming up here too
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Keep it
tuning right here at the Backstage past powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot com. It's where you can find
all the great shows out there and more great artists
coming up next week here on the show and throughout Christmas.
(26:30):
King and Country coming up, and also Ricky Skaggs. Over
the next few weeks, we're talking to Ricky about fifteen
Grammy Awards and his Beautiful Christmas show coming up December
twenty second at the Ryman Auditorium. We'll talk to you soon.
God bless and take care. What's up, y'all. It's Lakeview
and you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast, exclusively on
KKTC ninety nine point nine True Country in Taos, New Mexico.
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