January 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Garrett Bradford dropped by the show to talk new music and lots more! Tune in on KKTC True Country 99.9 and always on iHeartRadio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is in Nashville recording artist Garrett Bradford,
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass powered by the
Sportscast podcast dot com, exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine and Task, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day here,
full of shows and of course a happy New Year.
It's still kind of that New Year feel out there too,
with just a couple of weeks into it, twenty twenty five.
Out there, powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
Out there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, right
there in Tawson, New Mexico. And please to have one
of my favorite gentlemen, presented by our friends over at
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the Kadangoordon Show dot com, Today's best country mix. He's
got a song with a yellowstone now yep. Talking about
the TV show there too, and of course a part
one album. It's gonna come out February twenty first two
part installment called Hunky is st of Talkers, and the
second one's gonna follow coming up April the eleventh. The
Nashville recording artist Garrett Bradford to the show. Garrett how
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you doing, my friend.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me on Brandon.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You got it, brother. Well, hey, let's learn a little
bit about you before we dive into all these songs
and get the meat and potatoes of everything. How did
you start? You know, growing up you mentioned that cowboy
and growing up on a ranch. You know, twas very
well out there New Mexico too, beautiful part of the
country too, and I just love wide open space going
west out there anywhere toward California and of course Arizona
and Montana and all that great stuff. But talk about
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just your ride growing up ranching cowboy and then turned
a country music singer.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I want to hear the story.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, well, I grew up here on ranch in Texas.
My mom and dad are neck deep in the western world.
My dad owned a horse hawktion company. We raised bucking bulls,
bucking bronx, and so I grew up doing all of that.
In the middle of all that, when I was about twelve,
I met a guy named Dan Roberts who's written some
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hit songs out there in Nashville, Beaches of Cheyenne with
Garth Brooks and a few more of those, and they
had moved to Texas and his son was in my
grade at school, and that was my first introduction to songwriting.
I mean, I like country music, but that was my
first introduction to actual songwriting. I remember I asked him
what he did for a living, and he said, I
write songs. And I said, what does that mean. He said,
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the songs here on the radio. That's my job to
write them. I said that sounds like a way cooler
job than all my other friends' dads have, you know.
So that's kind of what piqued my interest in and
Dan taught me a lot. I grew up singing in
the choir at church. I didn't necessarily want to, but
my Mama made me, and I got to where I
enjoyed it actually after a couple of years. But so
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growing up, I did all that. Started writing songs as
soon as I started playing guitar, and I would play
around here locally in the Dallas Fort Worth area, anywhere
they would let me play, flee markets, trade shows, little
honky tonks, whatever, and I did that for years. Went
to college briefly, I didn't finish, but I went to college,
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actually went to college in Stephenville at Charlton. I was
there at the same time, this guy co Wetzel, who's
really popular right in country music. And that's pretty much
how I got my store.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You know, I love it too.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And you mentioned Texas because so many different roots down here, man,
with so many different artists kind of doing their things.
Some people say sometimes you know these guys being out there,
and some of the people know what guys I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You look up Texas country.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You're gonna find Robert Earl, Keene, Aaron Watson, Kevin Fowlers,
Tony LaRue, and a host of others out there too,
from even back eighties to nineties country. I mean, even
my world down here at Polmont where I'm at too,
with Clay Walker, Tracy Bird, Mark Chestnutt, George Jones, the
home of Janis Joplin. I know that's not country, but
still Janefs Joplin one of the best to take the
stage out there. It's so cool to see that. You know,
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Texas country has been strong, you know, twenty thirty years
at least as long as I've been listening to it,
probably longer than that too. You find a dance hall
or like in the hole in the Wall place down
here too, and it's somebody that's, you know, kind of
cooking with Crisco's. They always say, your music's being played
on the radio down here too. Man, Texas. If they
love your stuff from that first note you hit, they'll
fall in love with you and they'll come out there
support on the tour. Talk about just that following that
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Texas country artists like yourself have and the fact fact
is you can really just kind of, you know, cultivate
those fans to come out to those live shows.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Absolutely. I mean, that's it's it's totally a blessing to
be from Texas. That's actually where I'm at right now.
I still spend tons of time in Texas. I would
say probably half my time is still spending Texas, playing
down here and come down here and writing. And I
just love my home, you know, my friends and my family,
So I try to get down here as much as
I can. But being able to grow up in Texas
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and come up as an artist and a songwriter and everything,
you know, there's so many venues to play at, so
many places to cut your teeth, is compared to most
other states, and moving to Nashville, I definitely realized that
because I've met people from a lot of other places,
you know, Indiana, Ohio, Washington State, the East Coast, and
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you know, you realize pretty quick that they didn't have
that many opportunities to play country out there. And I
was so blessed to be born here because man, I mean,
you can stay busy in Texas. You never have to
leave the state. Of course, it's a huge state, but
there's so many places to play. There's Texas Radio, They've
got their own radio stations. I mean it's there's guys
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that that do very very well and rarely ever leave
the state. So I think coming up around this area,
and the people love music around here too, especially country music.
So I don't know if I'd be doing this if
I was from somewhere else because you know, just the
all the opportunities that we have here. So it's it's
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definitely a cool place to be from.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No doubt about that too. We gotta play one here too.
It's gonna take you back.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Just a good old drinking song out there too, and
just a talking song. And he's my buddy Randall King's
thing of talking. And I was like, you know, I
honky talking and so I love this because it's one
of my favorites out there too. And this is a
dance hall put your boots on scooting kind of a
song out there too. A hankyest of talk here. It
is from Garrett Bradford. Not easy to say, but just
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the fun to say. Out there again, chuckie out of
Garrett Bradford dot com. To t's out there, make sure
g A R R A T T Bradford dot com.
Honkeyst of talkers. Here it is kk T C True
Country ninety nine point nine back in the flash, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, I've heard it morning.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I heard.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I won't tell you no lies. All I speak is
the truth. Only swift thing about me. It's too on
these boots ain't too much change, he even less science scene.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I ain't got nowhere here, but ain't green.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I mean I it is U litty tuning in. I'm
a stonking man fu honkys tnker. Well, if you see
men come, and you should follow my lead.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
If you see men go, better pack up leave. I
got places to go, leaders to see.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I got everything they want, so then they need man man.
I'm a fact to thinking, gonna play bunkers to lead.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Now, Mom, I'm the honky. Here's the tunker. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Well, I've been roping a cloud, stopping riding free.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I spurt so hard they started dropping my name. So
let me tell you a secret, just between us.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'm tough for the food, drop the guns.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I added on the snapper bit chomper man of people.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
The honky, Yes, the talker, I'm six three three inches
of tone and I'm stomper to let name hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, the talking Honckey is the talking.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
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Speaker 4 (09:23):
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Speaker 8 (09:37):
Hey y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Ian Flanagan and you're
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True Country ninety nine to nine in Taws, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Head back your KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
and towst New Mexico out there, and if you did
love that song, I guess there's no hope for you now. No,
I'm just kidding, hokeyst of Talkers back here with Garrett
Bradford out there too, of cour Part one of that
record coming out February twenty first, looking forward to that
the first installment in the second one April the eleventh.
Hope you get to see you at Country Radio seminar
coming up there February nineteenth to the twenty first at
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the Omni Hotel in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Well, let's talk
about the project and I guess the song at the
same time, Because Matt, it doesn't get more true than
a dance hall on Friday night, a cold beverage in
your hand, and just scooting your favorite lady on the
dance floor out there too. For honkiest of Talkers, had
to be much fun to write and sit down with
the folks that did it as much fun it is
to record and put it out to the fans.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, yes, sir, Yeah, absolutely. Songwriting is such a huge
part of everything I do and try to make these
songs reflect who I am and where I'm from, and
you know just what I'm about, and Honkyest to Tnkers
is a fun one, you know. I feel like it's
easy as a songwriter sometimes for everything to be so
serious and heavy, especially nowadays. You listen to the songs
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and even great songs you know on the radio nowadays,
it seems like a lot of them are either are
either sad songs or breakup songs. Are super introspective, and
I think that's one of the reasons I love to
play that song and enjoy getting people's reactions from because
he usually makes them crap a smile, and that's what
it's all about.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right there, That's what it did for me.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm driving down the road in my truck and I'm like, Yeah,
where's the nearest hole in the wall right there too,
and get myself too, and like I said, have I
don't drink as much as I used to, but hey,
I have a cole one and get in there too
as well.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And my wife and looks like I let's have a
parent night out.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's just go honkeiest of talkers there to our local
hole in the wall spot right there and get out
there on the dance floor, because I'm coming back from
the old days at least for me, my friend, that
you remember what it was like to put a quarter
in a jukebox and go C six or B three
and you're like, you know what, I'm gonna turn on
some Tracy Bird and Mark Chesta down here too.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And that's what it reminded me of too.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Is just that great country song, great storytelling, and it
told a lot about it just it felt like just
you know country music does in general. Another one I
liked that you guys had put out there last May.
I didn't realize it's gonna be out a year. It's
hard to believe. The Recipe. We got to dive into
this too, because that's your current single with this body
of work to follow, talk about.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This one for me.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, So the Recipe is a song. It's a song
about a guy that cooks something and it ain't it
definitely ain't bred. But yeah, I wrote that about a
character that I know actually, and he's gone away for
about twenty years right now, but I was talking to
him one time and he said, you know, nobody's ever
wrote a song about somebody like me, and I said, well,
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maybe I could do that, so maybe in folks in
New Mexico to appreciate it's a little more outlaw than
a lot of my stuff, or at least a lot
of the stuff that I've released. I've got. I've got
quite a few songs that actually kind of fit into
that same niche as the recipe, and at some point
I'll probably put out a project that is more of
like a dark, more kind of outlaw edgy type thing.
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I always just try to try to not be too
eclectic with the songs I put on a record or
an EP, because it can get confusing for people. Well
at one point if one song sounds so much different
than the rest of them. But I try to have
a little bit of diversity in there and different kinds
of songs. And you'll hear that on this, especially Part
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one and two of Honky is the Tonkers. There's a
good mix in there. But I wouldn't be surprised if
I had a whole album coming out here in the
next year to killing songs and prison songs and all
kinds of stuff, because that's what country music's about.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cuse the killing songs and Brison songs and I'm sure
there's a song by the truck and I tell you this,
at least you got one. I love it because I
felt this one the cover. I love artwork on different
singles out there too. You got this eighteen wheeler, uh
you know, riding down a road here too, with a
bunch of the mountains in the background too. But I
love this one because I've never heard a title in
this one, and I call it double p here with
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with the d in there Peterbilt pipe Dream. Let's let's
dive into this one too, because this had to be Again,
your music's just fun, it'd have to be it's serious,
same time and tell stories. But this one had a
different feel to it too, and I loved the fact
of which I'll did with Peterbilt pipe Dream.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, man, I'm glad you enjoyed that song. That song
is one that I wrote. There's two truck driving songs
on part one of the album, keep on Driving a
peterbal pipe Dream, and both of those songs. I've always
loved the old truck and country music song c W.
McCall and Jerry Reid and Smoking in the Bandit and
that whole thing. My dad drove a truck years ago,
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and he was so he was always talking about trucking,
and we'd go up and down the road hauling horses
and bullster rodeos and stuff. We weren't usually in a
semi but he has CB in his dually because at
that time, this was before Google maps and all that stuff,
so you know, you check and see if there was
cops up ahead, and he'd let me talk on it
every now and then. I wrote those songs years ago,
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and I didn't really plan that often because I thought, well,
these are kind of just for me. I just had
fun riding them, and I put one up on TikTok
of all things. And apparently there's a lot of truckers
on TikTok because it just shot off compared to my
other songs, and all these guys were like, man, you
got to record these songs. You got to record these songs.
So I did, and that's why I wanted to put
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them on this album too, so they would be with
this group of songs, because, like you say, they're fun
and I love the truck drivers out there. Man. They
listen to a lot of music too, so it's a
good crowd to have on your side.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's telling people stream music out there too when they're
riding down the road because you get a lot of
those truck drivers and of course there's people driving those
big ricks in general out there too. And I know
a lot of people now, include myself. It's like you
the love that motorhome lifestyle when you go vacation at
the Koa campgrounds and stuff like that, and you get
out there and you have fun with it too at
the same time, and you're always listening to different music
and of course different artists and a different podcast out there.
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Another I want to touch base on too. This was
last January. I love again the cover of just the
single artwork out there, Comanche Moon. Let's jump into Commands
You Moon a little bit too, because this made me
feel like it was like one of those night gatherings
where it's like in the fifties, maybe a fall like
October November feel in Arizona out there. I'm in Scottsdale
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where we have some property out there too. We get
to go visit at least once a year, once every
couple of years, and I love the factors mat me
think because of the sunsets out west, as you know,
even out there in Arizona. Man, just beautiful and Comanche
moon really summed it up for me.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Well, Man, I'm glad you liked that song. That's probably
one of that's one of my more favorites that I
put out and that I've written, just because it's it's
real personal. I love. One of my favorite hobbies to
do is arrowhead hunt, and I've got a whole collection
of arrowheads, and there's a lot of that around here,
and it's one of my favorite things to do. And
I love the Native history and the Native culture in
this area where I'm from. Parker County is where I
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was born and raised in Quanta, Parker, who was one
of the last Comanche War chiefs was actually his mother
was kidnapped and then he and she stayed with the Comanches.
She became one and got married and Quanta was a
product of that, and there's so much of that history
kind of weaved in around here that uh and the
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Comanche moon that that term comes from, especially during the
Civil War in the eighteen sixties to the mid eighteen
seventies whenever there was a big full moon here and
it was bright you could count on the commands. She
used to come right out of Oklahoma and North Texas.
And that's kind of the where I got the idea
and the theme for that song, kind of taking a
modern translation on it about how nowadays me and my
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buddies we go raid Fort Worth every now and then,
you know, but a little different way.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, I love that you did rain fort Worth. The
perst thing that came to my mind too was going
back there last April. I think it was for a
show after we had done and promoted for an artist,
and I remember just going to the Fort Worth Stockyards
and that was the first thing I loved it. We
spent all day there too, because man, once you get there,
you can go galory of restaurants and steak and Mexican
food and whatever you want around there to ice cream
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and all that good stuff. And I love the fact
because of stockyards and that those PBR things they do
there for the bull riders love it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It made me feel like that, like you said, you're
growing up. You said again that connection to Texas made
me think of the stockyard so much out there, So I.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Definitely cut my teeth there as an artist. And then
we would always be taking bulls up there to the
bull riding with my dad. So as a young kid,
I remember I would go up there and I wouldn't
know enough to get in the honky tonks or anything.
But sometimes during the rodeo, I'd slip out and I'd
just go listen. Stand outside and listen outside of the
White Elephant Saloon or any of those places down there,
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even Billy Bobs. Sometimes Billy Bob's will have the concert
playing on the outdoor speakers and I'm just gonna sit
out there and listen. I'd be like, oh, wow, Pat
Green's in there. Somebody just getting me excited.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I love it too, because that's the fact, as you
mentioned again, those great Texas artists and everybody cutting their
teeth right there at those stockyards. Well, I know the
TV show Yellowstone, there's a connection to it too. And
I've got to, you know, kind of kick off this
one right here too as well, because I love the
title of this one, and I think a lot of
people can really kind of feel this too out there,
and my thing is checking out Gary Bradford dot com
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and this way of life. We're gonna play it right
here it's actually featured in the Yellowstone right out there,
and it's coming out there on part two of the
record again. The first we're gonna be released in February,
and the second one April the eleventh, right there too,
and it's from Garrett Bradford. Here it is kk TC
True Country ninety nine point nine. Out there, Tawas New Mexico,
coming right back.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The rain never seems to fall on the prize of
hay the futures going. Men at the feedstore spinning snow
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say it's never been this tough.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
If they were me they moved to town, they say,
there ain't no use and trying. I think our way
life's dying.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Go ahead and car the headstone boys, and right over
Ugy playing your self funeral. But don't bea sped to me. Course,
as long as I'm still breathing in my bloods blowing
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our way laughing day. There's a whole lot more out
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there like me, north south from seas See. You're thinking
we're all gonna fold and quit. You better quit thinking,
because you don't know shit. One hundred years of roots
run deep. Times have changed, but so we feeding them.
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Five weights slinging that rope. Can't quit now because it's.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
All we know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Go ahead and Carlins, don't throw Farewell Party two. Please
don't passed dan Us, because we got work to dus.
Long as we're still breathing, our blood is flowing, our
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well laughing DA.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
What's up, y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
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(23:42):
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more information out there, check out the merchandise and of
course the tour schedule. So this one is gonna come
out on part two of the album too, and this
Way of Life it's featured in Yellowstone. I love this one,
and of other fact that as you meant and how again, man,
this ballad really takes you through from start to finish,
(24:04):
this beautiful roller coaster ride. You feel like you're in
some pasture somewhere and you're just like poling out there
or cutting grass or brush hogging using those country terms
down here being from Texas, riding horses. And you really
tell a story because people can again resonating with country
music songs and this one right up there with it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well, man, I appreciate that that. I mean that song
appearing on Yellowstone really poured gas on my fire as
far as.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
My music career.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
At the time when it, you know, I was I
was pretty content just staying local and being a Texas artist,
not even just a Texas artist, but like a North
Texas artist. I mean, I had my places, I played
around here, and I loved writing songs, but I wasn't
thinking about doing it at that next level. And I
actually got to meet Taylor Shared and he bought some property,
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this about five miles from the rants that I grew
up on and back in Weatherford. I do all kinds
of tree work. I still do it sometimes less and
less is music taking off, but tree trimming, true removals
and then land clear and jobs and stuff. So he
hired me to do some work and we actually became
pretty good buddies over and over the course of a
couple of years. I kept going back and doing work
(25:12):
for him, and he didn't bite me to his house
and anytime he'd have dinner or parties or anything like that.
And he became really good friends with my father Milk too,
And I never really asked him to. I didn't even
have any music out at the time. You know, I
had no songs out at the time, so I never
even thought about getting one of mine on the show.
(25:32):
And one day he said, you know, I've got this
idea for this song about and I'm giving it to
a couple of people, and uh, I won't mention their
names because that would probably be not cool, but man,
I wish I could, because when I first heard this,
these were people that I had definitely heard of, and
it was a little bit intimidating because I thought, well,
he said, I've given this idea to two guys, and
he named them and he said, I didn't like what
(25:54):
they came up with, but I've got a scene in
the in the show, and i want a song about
the Western way life and how it seems like it's
dying but it's really still alive and well and it'll
change and it'll evolve, but there's always gonna be guys
out there feeding cows and doing the thing and ranching.
And man, I sent him the demo of the song
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was just an acoustic vocal that I recorded in the
barn on a Wednesday, and it wound up in the
show on Sunday, So it happened that fast. They helped
me get it up online and on Spotify and all
that in time for the show to air, and it
was just it was incredible. I'll tell you. It was
the opportunity of a lifetime. I can't tell you how
(26:37):
much I appreciate that show for because they could have
anybody's songs on there. You know, it's such a big show,
and they choose to use a lot of independent artists,
and yeah, they don't. They don't just go for the
big celebrity artists, and I think that says a lot
about their character and who they are too.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And you mentioned too again if it's good music and
of course out there putting out a message somebody can
really relate to. And like I said, that storytelling, somebody's
gonna find it just like, hey, I look.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
At it this way too.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Compared that to what you said, is giving someone a
chance a platform to stand on. When I first started
this six years ago, had no idea where this was
gonna go. And they're like, you know what, Hey, the
work did, the talk and the interviews did what they did,
and that's why the resume is out there, and you
add that to your resume and once you do, nobody
can take that away from me. That's the beautiful thing
right there too. You got that connection with one of
the best, biggest the TV shows of all time. And
(27:29):
I still need to catch up on many many episodes
of that Gus I'm way way behind to again. Hockeyst
of Talkers February twenty first is that first installment in
April eleventh is coming up there for that second one again.
All this music we're talking about today is coming out,
and most of it is out. Those two songs are
across all these digital streaming platforms out there are. Let's
(27:49):
have some fun to wrap this up, because I do
hope I see you at CRS Country Radio Seminar twenty
twenty five there the nineteenth of the twenty first of
February at the beautiful Omni Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. It'll
be my We'll see yes six to one. Actually it's
hard play. As many years I've been doing this show,
I've been going, but I gotta find some newer kind
of those hole in the wall restaurants. I've done the
hot chicken thing. I settled my debate on that with
(28:12):
Hetty Bees. That's just my old personal opinion. I only
tried two Hetty Bees and Princes. But for you guess
kind of a two parter here your hot chicken place?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Do you have one?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And if you do, what are some other restaurants I know,
like I want to try Bar Taco and some other
ones there, because Nashville is no shortage with the things
that are opening on every corner. Nashville's got some great restaurants.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It does, it really does. I'm not this is gonna
be a real hot take, no pun intended. I'm not
a fan of the hot chicken. I don't know why.
I mean, it's all right. It's not like i'll turn
it down.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Somebody brings it in, I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But there's a place called Sam's that is I think
they have a location right there in Nashville, and then
there's another one just south of there in Brentwood, and
it's like it's laid back, it's not expense. It's kind
of a sports bar field. But God, leave, their food
is good. They've gotta They call it a Texas Chili burger,
but I'm not so sure because they got beans in
(29:09):
the chili. So we'll let them fight on that. But
it is so good, man, you'll have to go. Maybe
one day when you're at CRS, maybe we can go
out to lunch or dinner at Sam's. Man hang out
A little bit that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah, you mentioned you struck another nerve with me too.
You're right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'm not a beans in my chili kind of person.
When somebody says that, I'm like, nope, no, but I
put you kind of put that finger up, like now
it's true chili, you'll homemake it. Hey, I don't put
beans in mind. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And look, hey there's a guy named we'll see a
Texas guy. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Oh yeah, Cody Johnson came out with a song. Yeah, yeah,
don't put beans in the chili too. I can't think
of the title right now, but oh it's called That's Texas.
I believe it's called Texas song. Yeah, yeah, no sense
thing as chili with beans. You heard that one from
the great Kojo out there too, and love his music
out there. So again, hey, personal flavor for everybody. I'm
(29:59):
just not a beans in my chili. If you are,
hate more power, I guess to you. Hey, looking at
throwing just this out there. When it comes to sports,
what teams? What sport do you follow? If any with football, baseball, basketball, hockey,
what do you get into.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I used to be a huge basketball fan and I'll
still watch the NBA quite a bit. I've never been
huge into college basketball. Well, I mean, I love the
San Antonio Spurs and growing up in the air of
you know, Tony Parker and Tim Duncan and all those guys.
And I'm also a huge Kawhi Leonard fan. I know
he's not the Spurs anymore, but and I'm a reluctant
(30:35):
Cowboys fan. You know, It's just I just I'm a
glutton for punishment. I'm from That's the closest team, and
I've been to you know, probably four or five Cowboys games.
A couple of times. We've gotten friends of my dad's
or something and have really good tickets. But man, they
always let me down. Maybe it helps me write sad
country songs. I watched the Cowboys loose and then you know,
(30:57):
I drown my miseries and write a sad song.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, I dave it is.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Whenever the next head coach has announced whoever it is,
they got their work cut out from, don't they who?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Man, I feel bad for him. I feel bad for him.
It's like a curse at this point. Man, I don't
even expect them to win anymore. Really, I just I
mostly just watched to see the other teams.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hey, the good news, I guess if you and I
want to go to a game, we'll just have to
pull some strings. But uh, the good thing is they're
gonna need fans to come out, and.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
They're gonna need giving away tickets. Here about next year.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
At stadium has been opened out.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I've been to it several times for covering some high
school football playoffs, you know, state championship games and stuff
like that, college football and what have you. And yeah,
I mean it's a great stadium to visit and kind
of drive up in. But uh, I mean, right now
with nobody wanted to come to watch the excuse my
my friends here, piss poor team which is there? I
mean I used to root for him in the nineties.
Eight Man and of course Emmett, Irvin, j Novichik and
(31:55):
all the greats that have done that uniform too, Roger
Staubach and so many greats have you know, warn that
won Super Bowls five of them, and of course down
the uniform for the great franchise in the Dallas Cowboys.
I mean you kind of feel, you know, not I
wanna say sorry, but the same time, but they've had
the talent to win. I'm just so tired of just
the drama.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
To it.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
My goodness, They've always got excuses and drama and somebody
will be injured. And I think they need to start
taking some of the money from those players and giving
it to the cheerleaders. Because of the games that I've
been to, that's probably the most entertaining parts. Yeah, there's
so many more tickets than the players.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
At this point, I think, Hey, we could buy some
of those two, no doubt, I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Hey, we going there to watch football, We're going there
to watch the cheerleaders, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders out there.
Hey uh, back to the food because I stay in
that food category. But who doesn't love to eat When
it comes down to what toppings go on a Garrett
Bradford pizza, we got to.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Know that every kind of meat that they've got, that's
that's what I do. Can of meat that you got,
I want it.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
All, you want it all. He's the beat Lover's got
a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And of course the music out there is across all
the digital streaming platforms and of course Hockeysts of Talkers
first installament coming out February twenty first, we'll be right
there at CRS. Get to talk to me more about it,
and of course the second installment out there to April
the eleventh. Out there great artists and deeply connected with
that lifestyle of Texas ranching, cowboying and growing up becoming
(33:25):
one of the best artists out there Nashville recording artists
Garrett Bradford check.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Him out at Garrett Bradford dot com for more information.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Brother, I appreciate you being with us, looking forward to
seeing you there, and we got to find this a
restaurant to go eat while I'm up there too, no doubt,
and appreciate you being on the show. Looking forward to
seeing you up there in just a few weeks at
CRS twenty twenty five for Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, and they
continued success going forward.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
We appreciate it, man Brandon, thank you so much for
having me on. I can't wait to shake your hand,
get to meet you and go get us a good
burger or something, some hot chicken. I'll eat hot chicken
for you. I'll eat hot chicken for you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I love that Hatty Bees. Here we come again, no
doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
More great music coming up here KKTC True Country ninety
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interview coming up with one of the best writers, producers, singers,
he's done it all, Christian Bush here on the backstage past,
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True Country ninety nine point nine. And a surprise show
coming up here in a few weeks the great Robert
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(34:25):
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(34:46):
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hey y'all, This
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Is tarn Papa and you're listening to the Backstage Pass
with Brandon exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico.
Hey, y'all, this is in Nashville recording artist Garrett Bradford,
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass powered by the
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day here,
full of shows and of course a happy New Year.
It's still kind of that New Year feel out there too,
with just a couple of weeks into it, twenty twenty five.
Out there, powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
Out there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, right
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one album. It's gonna come out February twenty first two
part installment called Hunky is st of Talkers, and the
second one's gonna follow coming up April the eleventh. The
Nashville recording artist Garrett Bradford to the show. Garrett how
(00:55):
you doing, my friend.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me on Brandon.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You got it, brother. Well, hey, let's learn a little
bit about you before we dive into all these songs
and get the meat and potatoes of everything. How did
you start? You know, growing up you mentioned that cowboy
and growing up on a ranch. You know, twas very
well out there New Mexico too, beautiful part of the
country too, and I just love wide open space going
west out there anywhere toward California and of course Arizona
and Montana and all that great stuff. But talk about
(01:21):
just your ride growing up ranching cowboy and then turned
a country music singer.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I want to hear the story.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, well, I grew up here on ranch in Texas.
My mom and dad are neck deep in the western world.
My dad owned a horse hawktion company. We raised bucking bulls,
bucking bronx, and so I grew up doing all of that.
In the middle of all that, when I was about twelve,
I met a guy named Dan Roberts who's written some
(01:46):
hit songs out there in Nashville, Beaches of Cheyenne with
Garth Brooks and a few more of those, and they
had moved to Texas and his son was in my
grade at school, and that was my first introduction to songwriting.
I mean, I like country music, but that was my
first introduction to actual songwriting. I remember I asked him
what he did for a living, and he said, I
write songs. And I said, what does that mean. He said,
(02:09):
the songs here on the radio. That's my job to
write them. I said that sounds like a way cooler
job than all my other friends' dads have, you know.
So that's kind of what piqued my interest in and
Dan taught me a lot. I grew up singing in
the choir at church. I didn't necessarily want to, but
my Mama made me, and I got to where I
enjoyed it actually after a couple of years. But so
(02:32):
growing up, I did all that. Started writing songs as
soon as I started playing guitar, and I would play
around here locally in the Dallas Fort Worth area, anywhere
they would let me play, flee markets, trade shows, little
honky tonks, whatever, and I did that for years. Went
to college briefly, I didn't finish, but I went to college,
(02:53):
actually went to college in Stephenville at Charlton. I was
there at the same time, this guy co Wetzel, who's
really popular right in country music. And that's pretty much
how I got my store.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You know, I love it too.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And you mentioned Texas because so many different roots down here, man,
with so many different artists kind of doing their things.
Some people say sometimes you know these guys being out there,
and some of the people know what guys I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You look up Texas country.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You're gonna find Robert Earl, Keene, Aaron Watson, Kevin Fowlers,
Tony LaRue, and a host of others out there too,
from even back eighties to nineties country. I mean, even
my world down here at Polmont where I'm at too,
with Clay Walker, Tracy Bird, Mark Chestnutt, George Jones, the
home of Janis Joplin. I know that's not country, but
still Janefs Joplin one of the best to take the
stage out there. It's so cool to see that. You know,
(03:40):
Texas country has been strong, you know, twenty thirty years
at least as long as I've been listening to it,
probably longer than that too. You find a dance hall
or like in the hole in the Wall place down
here too, and it's somebody that's, you know, kind of
cooking with Crisco's. They always say, your music's being played
on the radio down here too. Man, Texas. If they
love your stuff from that first note you hit, they'll
fall in love with you and they'll come out there
support on the tour. Talk about just that following that
(04:02):
Texas country artists like yourself have and the fact fact
is you can really just kind of, you know, cultivate
those fans to come out to those live shows.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Absolutely. I mean, that's it's it's totally a blessing to
be from Texas. That's actually where I'm at right now.
I still spend tons of time in Texas. I would
say probably half my time is still spending Texas, playing
down here and come down here and writing. And I
just love my home, you know, my friends and my family,
So I try to get down here as much as
I can. But being able to grow up in Texas
(04:32):
and come up as an artist and a songwriter and everything,
you know, there's so many venues to play at, so
many places to cut your teeth, is compared to most
other states, and moving to Nashville, I definitely realized that
because I've met people from a lot of other places,
you know, Indiana, Ohio, Washington State, the East Coast, and
(04:52):
you know, you realize pretty quick that they didn't have
that many opportunities to play country out there. And I
was so blessed to be born here because man, I mean,
you can stay busy in Texas. You never have to
leave the state. Of course, it's a huge state, but
there's so many places to play. There's Texas Radio, They've
got their own radio stations. I mean it's there's guys
(05:14):
that that do very very well and rarely ever leave
the state. So I think coming up around this area,
and the people love music around here too, especially country music.
So I don't know if I'd be doing this if
I was from somewhere else because you know, just the
all the opportunities that we have here. So it's it's
(05:35):
definitely a cool place to be from.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No doubt about that too. We gotta play one here too.
It's gonna take you back.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Just a good old drinking song out there too, and
just a talking song. And he's my buddy Randall King's
thing of talking. And I was like, you know, I
honky talking and so I love this because it's one
of my favorites out there too. And this is a
dance hall put your boots on scooting kind of a
song out there too. A hankyest of talk here. It
is from Garrett Bradford. Not easy to say, but just
(06:02):
the fun to say. Out there again, chuckie out of
Garrett Bradford dot com. To t's out there, make sure
g A R R A T T Bradford dot com.
Honkeyst of talkers. Here it is kk T C True
Country ninety nine point nine back in the flash, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, I've heard it morning.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I heard.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I won't tell you no lies. All I speak is
the truth. Only swift thing about me. It's too on
these boots ain't too much change, he even less science scene.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I ain't got nowhere here, but ain't green.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I mean I it is U litty tuning in. I'm
a stonking man fu honkys tnker. Well, if you see
men come, and you should follow my lead.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
If you see men go, better pack up leave. I
got places to go, leaders to see.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I got everything they want, so then they need man man.
I'm a fact to thinking, gonna play bunkers to lead.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Now, Mom, I'm the honky. Here's the tunker. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Well, I've been roping a cloud, stopping riding free.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I spurt so hard they started dropping my name. So
let me tell you a secret, just between us.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'm tough for the food, drop the guns.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I added on the snapper bit chomper man of people.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
The honky, Yes, the talker, I'm six three three inches
of tone and I'm stomper to let name hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, the talking Honckey is the talking.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
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Speaker 4 (09:23):
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Speaker 8 (09:37):
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Speaker 2 (09:49):
Head back your KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
and towst New Mexico out there, and if you did
love that song, I guess there's no hope for you now. No,
I'm just kidding, hokeyst of Talkers back here with Garrett
Bradford out there too, of cour Part one of that
record coming out February twenty first, looking forward to that
the first installment in the second one April the eleventh.
Hope you get to see you at Country Radio seminar
coming up there February nineteenth to the twenty first at
(10:11):
the Omni Hotel in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Well, let's talk
about the project and I guess the song at the
same time, Because Matt, it doesn't get more true than
a dance hall on Friday night, a cold beverage in
your hand, and just scooting your favorite lady on the
dance floor out there too. For honkiest of Talkers, had
to be much fun to write and sit down with
the folks that did it as much fun it is
to record and put it out to the fans.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, yes, sir, Yeah, absolutely. Songwriting is such a huge
part of everything I do and try to make these
songs reflect who I am and where I'm from, and
you know just what I'm about, and Honkyest to Tnkers
is a fun one, you know. I feel like it's
easy as a songwriter sometimes for everything to be so
serious and heavy, especially nowadays. You listen to the songs
(10:54):
and even great songs you know on the radio nowadays,
it seems like a lot of them are either are
either sad songs or breakup songs. Are super introspective, and
I think that's one of the reasons I love to
play that song and enjoy getting people's reactions from because
he usually makes them crap a smile, and that's what
it's all about.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right there, That's what it did for me.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm driving down the road in my truck and I'm like, Yeah,
where's the nearest hole in the wall right there too,
and get myself too, and like I said, have I
don't drink as much as I used to, but hey,
I have a cole one and get in there too
as well.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And my wife and looks like I let's have a
parent night out.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's just go honkeiest of talkers there to our local
hole in the wall spot right there and get out
there on the dance floor, because I'm coming back from
the old days at least for me, my friend, that
you remember what it was like to put a quarter
in a jukebox and go C six or B three
and you're like, you know what, I'm gonna turn on
some Tracy Bird and Mark Chesta down here too.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And that's what it reminded me of too.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Is just that great country song, great storytelling, and it
told a lot about it just it felt like just
you know country music does in general. Another one I
liked that you guys had put out there last May.
I didn't realize it's gonna be out a year. It's
hard to believe. The Recipe. We got to dive into
this too, because that's your current single with this body
of work to follow, talk about.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This one for me.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, So the Recipe is a song. It's a song
about a guy that cooks something and it ain't it
definitely ain't bred. But yeah, I wrote that about a
character that I know actually, and he's gone away for
about twenty years right now, but I was talking to
him one time and he said, you know, nobody's ever
wrote a song about somebody like me, and I said, well,
(12:28):
maybe I could do that, so maybe in folks in
New Mexico to appreciate it's a little more outlaw than
a lot of my stuff, or at least a lot
of the stuff that I've released. I've got. I've got
quite a few songs that actually kind of fit into
that same niche as the recipe, and at some point
I'll probably put out a project that is more of
like a dark, more kind of outlaw edgy type thing.
(12:50):
I always just try to try to not be too
eclectic with the songs I put on a record or
an EP, because it can get confusing for people. Well
at one point if one song sounds so much different
than the rest of them. But I try to have
a little bit of diversity in there and different kinds
of songs. And you'll hear that on this, especially Part
(13:10):
one and two of Honky is the Tonkers. There's a
good mix in there. But I wouldn't be surprised if
I had a whole album coming out here in the
next year to killing songs and prison songs and all
kinds of stuff, because that's what country music's about.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cuse the killing songs and Brison songs and I'm sure
there's a song by the truck and I tell you this,
at least you got one. I love it because I
felt this one the cover. I love artwork on different
singles out there too. You got this eighteen wheeler, uh
you know, riding down a road here too, with a
bunch of the mountains in the background too. But I
love this one because I've never heard a title in
this one, and I call it double p here with
(13:45):
with the d in there Peterbilt pipe Dream. Let's let's
dive into this one too, because this had to be Again,
your music's just fun, it'd have to be it's serious,
same time and tell stories. But this one had a
different feel to it too, and I loved the fact
of which I'll did with Peterbilt pipe Dream.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, man, I'm glad you enjoyed that song. That song
is one that I wrote. There's two truck driving songs
on part one of the album, keep on Driving a
peterbal pipe Dream, and both of those songs. I've always
loved the old truck and country music song c W.
McCall and Jerry Reid and Smoking in the Bandit and
that whole thing. My dad drove a truck years ago,
(14:19):
and he was so he was always talking about trucking,
and we'd go up and down the road hauling horses
and bullster rodeos and stuff. We weren't usually in a
semi but he has CB in his dually because at
that time, this was before Google maps and all that stuff,
so you know, you check and see if there was
cops up ahead, and he'd let me talk on it
every now and then. I wrote those songs years ago,
(14:41):
and I didn't really plan that often because I thought, well,
these are kind of just for me. I just had
fun riding them, and I put one up on TikTok
of all things. And apparently there's a lot of truckers
on TikTok because it just shot off compared to my
other songs, and all these guys were like, man, you
got to record these songs. You got to record these songs.
So I did, and that's why I wanted to put
(15:02):
them on this album too, so they would be with
this group of songs, because, like you say, they're fun
and I love the truck drivers out there. Man. They
listen to a lot of music too, so it's a
good crowd to have on your side.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's telling people stream music out there too when they're
riding down the road because you get a lot of
those truck drivers and of course there's people driving those
big ricks in general out there too. And I know
a lot of people now, include myself. It's like you
the love that motorhome lifestyle when you go vacation at
the Koa campgrounds and stuff like that, and you get
out there and you have fun with it too at
the same time, and you're always listening to different music
and of course different artists and a different podcast out there.
(15:39):
Another I want to touch base on too. This was
last January. I love again the cover of just the
single artwork out there, Comanche Moon. Let's jump into Commands
You Moon a little bit too, because this made me
feel like it was like one of those night gatherings
where it's like in the fifties, maybe a fall like
October November feel in Arizona out there. I'm in Scottsdale
(15:59):
where we have some property out there too. We get
to go visit at least once a year, once every
couple of years, and I love the factors mat me
think because of the sunsets out west, as you know,
even out there in Arizona. Man, just beautiful and Comanche
moon really summed it up for me.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Well, Man, I'm glad you liked that song. That's probably
one of that's one of my more favorites that I
put out and that I've written, just because it's it's
real personal. I love. One of my favorite hobbies to
do is arrowhead hunt, and I've got a whole collection
of arrowheads, and there's a lot of that around here,
and it's one of my favorite things to do. And
I love the Native history and the Native culture in
this area where I'm from. Parker County is where I
(16:35):
was born and raised in Quanta, Parker, who was one
of the last Comanche War chiefs was actually his mother
was kidnapped and then he and she stayed with the Comanches.
She became one and got married and Quanta was a
product of that, and there's so much of that history
kind of weaved in around here that uh and the
(16:58):
Comanche moon that that term comes from, especially during the
Civil War in the eighteen sixties to the mid eighteen
seventies whenever there was a big full moon here and
it was bright you could count on the commands. She
used to come right out of Oklahoma and North Texas.
And that's kind of the where I got the idea
and the theme for that song, kind of taking a
modern translation on it about how nowadays me and my
(17:21):
buddies we go raid Fort Worth every now and then,
you know, but a little different way.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, I love that you did rain fort Worth. The
perst thing that came to my mind too was going
back there last April. I think it was for a
show after we had done and promoted for an artist,
and I remember just going to the Fort Worth Stockyards
and that was the first thing I loved it. We
spent all day there too, because man, once you get there,
you can go galory of restaurants and steak and Mexican
food and whatever you want around there to ice cream
(17:48):
and all that good stuff. And I love the fact
because of stockyards and that those PBR things they do
there for the bull riders love it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It made me feel like that, like you said, you're
growing up. You said again that connection to Texas made
me think of the stockyard so much out there, So I.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Definitely cut my teeth there as an artist. And then
we would always be taking bulls up there to the
bull riding with my dad. So as a young kid,
I remember I would go up there and I wouldn't
know enough to get in the honky tonks or anything.
But sometimes during the rodeo, I'd slip out and I'd
just go listen. Stand outside and listen outside of the
White Elephant Saloon or any of those places down there,
(18:27):
even Billy Bobs. Sometimes Billy Bob's will have the concert
playing on the outdoor speakers and I'm just gonna sit
out there and listen. I'd be like, oh, wow, Pat
Green's in there. Somebody just getting me excited.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I love it too, because that's the fact, as you
mentioned again, those great Texas artists and everybody cutting their
teeth right there at those stockyards. Well, I know the
TV show Yellowstone, there's a connection to it too. And
I've got to, you know, kind of kick off this
one right here too as well, because I love the
title of this one, and I think a lot of
people can really kind of feel this too out there,
and my thing is checking out Gary Bradford dot com
(18:59):
and this way of life. We're gonna play it right
here it's actually featured in the Yellowstone right out there,
and it's coming out there on part two of the
record again. The first we're gonna be released in February,
and the second one April the eleventh, right there too,
and it's from Garrett Bradford. Here it is kk TC
True Country ninety nine point nine. Out there, Tawas New Mexico,
coming right back.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The rain never seems to fall on the prize of
hay the futures going. Men at the feedstore spinning snow
(20:08):
say it's never been this tough.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
If they were me they moved to town, they say,
there ain't no use and trying. I think our way
life's dying.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Go ahead and car the headstone boys, and right over
Ugy playing your self funeral. But don't bea sped to me. Course,
as long as I'm still breathing in my bloods blowing
(20:56):
our way laughing day. There's a whole lot more out
(21:21):
there like me, north south from seas See. You're thinking
we're all gonna fold and quit. You better quit thinking,
because you don't know shit. One hundred years of roots
run deep. Times have changed, but so we feeding them.
(21:41):
Five weights slinging that rope. Can't quit now because it's.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
All we know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Go ahead and Carlins, don't throw Farewell Party two. Please
don't passed dan Us, because we got work to dus.
Long as we're still breathing, our blood is flowing, our
(22:15):
well laughing DA.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
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Speaker 1 (22:44):
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Speaker 9 (23:08):
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Speaker 2 (23:21):
And we appreciate you guys listening our new time slot
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up down the roads, you can check out all these
songs we're talking about from our guest today, Garrett Bradford
(23:42):
on the show to tease Garrett Bradford dot com for
more information out there, check out the merchandise and of
course the tour schedule. So this one is gonna come
out on part two of the album too, and this
Way of Life it's featured in Yellowstone. I love this one,
and of other fact that as you meant and how again, man,
this ballad really takes you through from start to finish,
(24:04):
this beautiful roller coaster ride. You feel like you're in
some pasture somewhere and you're just like poling out there
or cutting grass or brush hogging using those country terms
down here being from Texas, riding horses. And you really
tell a story because people can again resonating with country
music songs and this one right up there with it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well, man, I appreciate that that. I mean that song
appearing on Yellowstone really poured gas on my fire as
far as.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
My music career.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
At the time when it, you know, I was I
was pretty content just staying local and being a Texas artist,
not even just a Texas artist, but like a North
Texas artist. I mean, I had my places, I played
around here, and I loved writing songs, but I wasn't
thinking about doing it at that next level. And I
actually got to meet Taylor Shared and he bought some property,
(24:51):
this about five miles from the rants that I grew
up on and back in Weatherford. I do all kinds
of tree work. I still do it sometimes less and
less is music taking off, but tree trimming, true removals
and then land clear and jobs and stuff. So he
hired me to do some work and we actually became
pretty good buddies over and over the course of a
couple of years. I kept going back and doing work
(25:12):
for him, and he didn't bite me to his house
and anytime he'd have dinner or parties or anything like that.
And he became really good friends with my father Milk too,
And I never really asked him to. I didn't even
have any music out at the time. You know, I
had no songs out at the time, so I never
even thought about getting one of mine on the show.
(25:32):
And one day he said, you know, I've got this
idea for this song about and I'm giving it to
a couple of people, and uh, I won't mention their
names because that would probably be not cool, but man,
I wish I could, because when I first heard this,
these were people that I had definitely heard of, and
it was a little bit intimidating because I thought, well,
he said, I've given this idea to two guys, and
he named them and he said, I didn't like what
(25:54):
they came up with, but I've got a scene in
the in the show, and i want a song about
the Western way life and how it seems like it's
dying but it's really still alive and well and it'll
change and it'll evolve, but there's always gonna be guys
out there feeding cows and doing the thing and ranching.
And man, I sent him the demo of the song
(26:15):
was just an acoustic vocal that I recorded in the
barn on a Wednesday, and it wound up in the
show on Sunday, So it happened that fast. They helped
me get it up online and on Spotify and all
that in time for the show to air, and it
was just it was incredible. I'll tell you. It was
the opportunity of a lifetime. I can't tell you how
(26:37):
much I appreciate that show for because they could have
anybody's songs on there. You know, it's such a big show,
and they choose to use a lot of independent artists,
and yeah, they don't. They don't just go for the
big celebrity artists, and I think that says a lot
about their character and who they are too.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And you mentioned too again if it's good music and
of course out there putting out a message somebody can
really relate to. And like I said, that storytelling, somebody's
gonna find it just like, hey, I look.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
At it this way too.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Compared that to what you said, is giving someone a
chance a platform to stand on. When I first started
this six years ago, had no idea where this was
gonna go. And they're like, you know what, Hey, the
work did, the talk and the interviews did what they did,
and that's why the resume is out there, and you
add that to your resume and once you do, nobody
can take that away from me. That's the beautiful thing
right there too. You got that connection with one of
the best, biggest the TV shows of all time. And
(27:29):
I still need to catch up on many many episodes
of that Gus I'm way way behind to again. Hockeyst
of Talkers February twenty first is that first installment in
April eleventh is coming up there for that second one again.
All this music we're talking about today is coming out,
and most of it is out. Those two songs are
across all these digital streaming platforms out there are. Let's
(27:49):
have some fun to wrap this up, because I do
hope I see you at CRS Country Radio Seminar twenty
twenty five there the nineteenth of the twenty first of
February at the beautiful Omni Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. It'll
be my We'll see yes six to one. Actually it's
hard play. As many years I've been doing this show,
I've been going, but I gotta find some newer kind
of those hole in the wall restaurants. I've done the
hot chicken thing. I settled my debate on that with
(28:12):
Hetty Bees. That's just my old personal opinion. I only
tried two Hetty Bees and Princes. But for you guess
kind of a two parter here your hot chicken place?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Do you have one?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And if you do, what are some other restaurants I know,
like I want to try Bar Taco and some other
ones there, because Nashville is no shortage with the things
that are opening on every corner. Nashville's got some great restaurants.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It does, it really does. I'm not this is gonna
be a real hot take, no pun intended. I'm not
a fan of the hot chicken. I don't know why.
I mean, it's all right. It's not like i'll turn
it down.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Somebody brings it in, I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But there's a place called Sam's that is I think
they have a location right there in Nashville, and then
there's another one just south of there in Brentwood, and
it's like it's laid back, it's not expense. It's kind
of a sports bar field. But God, leave, their food
is good. They've gotta They call it a Texas Chili burger,
but I'm not so sure because they got beans in
(29:09):
the chili. So we'll let them fight on that. But
it is so good, man, you'll have to go. Maybe
one day when you're at CRS, maybe we can go
out to lunch or dinner at Sam's. Man hang out
A little bit that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah, you mentioned you struck another nerve with me too.
You're right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'm not a beans in my chili kind of person.
When somebody says that, I'm like, nope, no, but I
put you kind of put that finger up, like now
it's true chili, you'll homemake it. Hey, I don't put
beans in mind. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And look, hey there's a guy named we'll see a
Texas guy. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Oh yeah, Cody Johnson came out with a song. Yeah, yeah,
don't put beans in the chili too. I can't think
of the title right now, but oh it's called That's Texas.
I believe it's called Texas song. Yeah, yeah, no sense
thing as chili with beans. You heard that one from
the great Kojo out there too, and love his music
out there. So again, hey, personal flavor for everybody. I'm
(29:59):
just not a beans in my chili. If you are,
hate more power, I guess to you. Hey, looking at
throwing just this out there. When it comes to sports,
what teams? What sport do you follow? If any with football, baseball, basketball, hockey,
what do you get into.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I used to be a huge basketball fan and I'll
still watch the NBA quite a bit. I've never been
huge into college basketball. Well, I mean, I love the
San Antonio Spurs and growing up in the air of
you know, Tony Parker and Tim Duncan and all those guys.
And I'm also a huge Kawhi Leonard fan. I know
he's not the Spurs anymore, but and I'm a reluctant
(30:35):
Cowboys fan. You know, It's just I just I'm a
glutton for punishment. I'm from That's the closest team, and
I've been to you know, probably four or five Cowboys games.
A couple of times. We've gotten friends of my dad's
or something and have really good tickets. But man, they
always let me down. Maybe it helps me write sad
country songs. I watched the Cowboys loose and then you know,
(30:57):
I drown my miseries and write a sad song.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, I dave it is.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Whenever the next head coach has announced whoever it is,
they got their work cut out from, don't they who?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Man, I feel bad for him. I feel bad for him.
It's like a curse at this point. Man, I don't
even expect them to win anymore. Really, I just I
mostly just watched to see the other teams.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hey, the good news, I guess if you and I
want to go to a game, we'll just have to
pull some strings. But uh, the good thing is they're
gonna need fans to come out, and.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
They're gonna need giving away tickets. Here about next year.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
At stadium has been opened out.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I've been to it several times for covering some high
school football playoffs, you know, state championship games and stuff
like that, college football and what have you. And yeah,
I mean it's a great stadium to visit and kind
of drive up in. But uh, I mean, right now
with nobody wanted to come to watch the excuse my
my friends here, piss poor team which is there? I
mean I used to root for him in the nineties.
Eight Man and of course Emmett, Irvin, j Novichik and
(31:55):
all the greats that have done that uniform too, Roger
Staubach and so many greats have you know, warn that
won Super Bowls five of them, and of course down
the uniform for the great franchise in the Dallas Cowboys.
I mean you kind of feel, you know, not I
wanna say sorry, but the same time, but they've had
the talent to win. I'm just so tired of just
the drama.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
To it.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
My goodness, They've always got excuses and drama and somebody
will be injured. And I think they need to start
taking some of the money from those players and giving
it to the cheerleaders. Because of the games that I've
been to, that's probably the most entertaining parts. Yeah, there's
so many more tickets than the players.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
At this point, I think, Hey, we could buy some
of those two, no doubt, I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Hey, we going there to watch football, We're going there
to watch the cheerleaders, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders out there.
Hey uh, back to the food because I stay in
that food category. But who doesn't love to eat When
it comes down to what toppings go on a Garrett
Bradford pizza, we got to.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Know that every kind of meat that they've got, that's
that's what I do. Can of meat that you got,
I want it.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
All, you want it all. He's the beat Lover's got
a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And of course the music out there is across all
the digital streaming platforms and of course Hockeysts of Talkers
first installament coming out February twenty first, we'll be right
there at CRS. Get to talk to me more about it,
and of course the second installment out there to April
the eleventh. Out there great artists and deeply connected with
that lifestyle of Texas ranching, cowboying and growing up becoming
(33:25):
one of the best artists out there Nashville recording artists
Garrett Bradford check.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Him out at Garrett Bradford dot com for more information.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Brother, I appreciate you being with us, looking forward to
seeing you there, and we got to find this a
restaurant to go eat while I'm up there too, no doubt,
and appreciate you being on the show. Looking forward to
seeing you up there in just a few weeks at
CRS twenty twenty five for Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, and they
continued success going forward.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
We appreciate it, man Brandon, thank you so much for
having me on. I can't wait to shake your hand,
get to meet you and go get us a good
burger or something, some hot chicken. I'll eat hot chicken
for you. I'll eat hot chicken for you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I love that Hatty Bees. Here we come again, no
doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
More great music coming up here KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine, and of course stick around the great
interview coming up with one of the best writers, producers, singers,
he's done it all, Christian Bush here on the backstage past,
one half of the great group Sugarland here on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. And a surprise show
coming up here in a few weeks the great Robert
Earl Keane coming right here on the backstage Pass. Texas
(34:25):
Country legends. Look out for that coming up in February
right there too. We're just a few weeks out. If
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We'll see you back in the flash and more great
(34:46):
music coming up here. Stay tuned, Take care, God bless
hey y'all, This
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Is tarn Papa and you're listening to the Backstage Pass
with Brandon exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico.
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