July 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Jaret Ray Reddick of the world renowned band Bowling for Soup joined us on the show to talk about his new single and singing and playing country music! We also talk about Bowling for Soup tour dates and lots more! Tune in to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, this is Jared Ray Reddick and you're listening
to the award nominated Backstage Pass podcast on k y
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
full of shows and of course on vacation next week.
Looking forward to that out there too, Corpus Christy, Texas,
an area I know very well down there too, and
a chance to get step back and be with the
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(01:05):
tell you what. I got a chance to go to
an event a few weeks ago out in the Woodlands
at dosey Do. Thank you Karen Walder for inviting us
out there. What a fine lady, she has no doubt
about it. In the music industry. And you get a
chance to meet a little bit of music royalty, you
get the bout too. A huge fan of a long
time bowling for Suit Jered Ray Reddick, Johanna Gacier of
the Guys or Bowling for Suit Jared. What's up man, man?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know I just got back from vacation and I
took my family to the Dominican. We had a great time.
About four days in though, I was walking back to
my hotel room and I had a fall. And I'm
fifty three, apparently I'm not as I'm not made of
rubber anymore. And I brought home a couple of broken ribs.
So if I start to breathe funny or make any
(01:46):
odd noises, you'll know why.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, no, why Hey? That show was very special for
a lot of people, man, and a lot of cool
things happened out there too. You got a chance to
see you guys played for the first time, a little
bit of mix with some bfs you know hits out there,
and of course all the country stuff now too, which
is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You got this little Kyle Park vibe going on talk
about you know, I guess man, you're the career in
music and how far you guys have come since the
early two thousands, and you know the crossover now and
and and kind of having that country sound now, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know, it's funny. I got asked today, you know,
earlier today, because you said you've done three. I think
I've done four today. But I'm not asking the question,
so I'm just I'm just knocking it off the tee here.
But you know, I got asked earlier, you know, just
how things have changed. And you know, we started Bowling
for Soup in ninety four and our first album came
out on cassette, and you know, we I was I
(02:38):
was tour managing the band with a pager and a
calling card from payphones and we didn't have map Quest yet.
And you know, it's it feels like the Dinosaur age
really when you come now of like we I record
most of the stuff, you know, most of the vocals
and guitars at my house, you know, and and things
have just changed so much. But yeah, you know, I
(02:59):
believe started small Town which Tall Falls, Texas, and a
couple of years into it, we moved to Denton and
really found our groove, you know. And then in those
next few years nine years in the van, and then
we had a song called Girl the Bad Guys Want
That that blew up. It crossed over to pop radio,
and you know, the rest, as they say, is kind
of history. That song got us a Grammy nomination, and
(03:21):
then our next record came out and had four or
five really big singles for us, nineteen eighty five being
our biggest song except Phineas and Ferb which is also US.
And so yeah, you know, I always wanted to do
a country record. You know. We're, as I said, born
and raised in Texas. Country is a huge part of
my life. It's inspiration to how I write songs, if
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you think about it, you know, bulling for soup, you know,
the songs are stories, and that's how I learned to write.
Kenny Rodgers, Whalan Willie Dolly Parton and so I always
wanted to do a country record, and the pandemic happened,
and year one, I'm made a h we made a
Bowling for Soup record, and year two kind of starts
and we're still not playing shows. So my buddy Zach Malloy,
(04:07):
who was in a band called the Nixons and who
now has a bunch of number ones in Nashville, it
was like, dude, you've been talking about this country record forever.
Let's just do it. And uh so I went in.
I wanted to make an organic, you know, more way
more Willy leaning record than than a Nashville leaning record,
and uh I did that. That's been three crazy years ago,
(04:28):
so you know, it's uh but now I'm working on
new stuff. I got about a half of an album
written and mostly recorded, and uh, you know, hopefully get
that out sometime early next year. But uh, you know,
I say it's been out three years. I was so
busy doing this country thing for a while, and then
Bowling for Soup. There's just this huge pop punk you know,
(04:51):
this this just it's just re re lit, you know, reinvigorated,
and and people are way into it again. And so
we've been really really busy. So I'm blessed for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No doubt. And when you look at a song like
nineteen eighty five, I'm sure it never gets old being
asked about it too, because you're right, it's a storytelling aspect.
It's the lyrics in there. I want to get your
kind of your thoughts on where you guys were and
you know when this came to mind and the writing
behind it, and of course like the lyrics, man really
speak to the heart.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you know, nineteen eighty five is a very interesting
song because I did. It wasn't ours originally, it was
actually a song by SR seventy one, and I got
sent that we were done recording how Hangover you Don't
Deserve almost was going to be the first single, almost
went on to be a big hit for us. But
you know, it wasn't the lead single because I got
(05:37):
sent this song by my manager named Jonathan Daniel, who
Mitch Allen from SR seventy one had contacted about some
management and he sent me this song. He goes, you know,
I just got this song across my desk and SR
seventy one put it out in Japan. But this is
a bullying for soup song. This sounds like bulling for soup.
And so their version is out there because everything is
(05:59):
accessible now, but you know, theirs was it had a
lot more grit to it. You know, they weren't kind.
They weren't near as kind to her, to Debbie as
what you know, I felt like we should be, you know,
I felt like that that we needed to be a
little bit more gracious. And so Mitch the singer was
was very good about letting me have my way with it.
(06:20):
So it ended up being becoming a co write and
it was the right decision for both of us. You know,
it was the right decision for me to do the song,
and it was the right decision for him to let
me have my way with it because we had a
huge hit with it, and uh, you know, we got
one of those songs. You know, it's I tell bands
all the time, you know, it's like our buddies in
lit you know, they have one of those songs. My
own worst Enemy will be somewhere all the time in
(06:42):
nineteen eighty five is just one of those songs. And
you know that you just got to be really really
thankful for that, no.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Doubt those moments happening. Just thanks one and the music
industry as tough as it is. We're gonna take you
back a little bit and play that very song right
here at the backstage past Jared Grig Reddick and pulling
for suit. Really lift some memories. I heard it there
just a couple of weeks ago too. They play a
hell of a rendition of it. But it's always good
when you played the track here, the backstage pass here
nineteen eighty five, ball in Pursuit Jared Rick Reddick back
in the flash, Stay two.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Mab He just hit the walls.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Never had it all one Prozaca day, husband's a CPA.
Her dreams went out, the dar couldn't see turned twenty four,
only been with one man.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What happened to her plan?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
He was gonna be an actress, She was gonna be
a star. She was gonna save her ass on the
hood of White Snakes, car or Yellow usu V is
now the enemy looks at her average live and nothing
has been all right.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Since We're Speasty mcconna Maybefore Nirvana, there was YouTube and Blanchie.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And He's is still on MTV.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Her two kids in high school. They tell her that
she's uncool because she's still free out Dubai in nineteen nineteen,
nineteen eighty five. She's seen all the classics.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
She knows every line, Breakfast but Pretty and Think even
Saint Elmo's Fire. She rocked out to Wham not a
big limp biscuit fan thought she'd get a hand on
a member of Deranda Ren where's the mini skirt made
of snake skin? And who's the other kind of singing?
(08:49):
In Vinland? When dead reality become teeth? Whatever happened to say?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Comes Kat Shows Radio Spacetin.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Madonna David fuer Vada. There was YouTube and Blazi music
still an MTB for two kiss in high school. They
tell her that she's uncool cause she still pre an
Jubai in nineteen nineteen, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Five, Sime, make kids stop.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
When did Motley Crue become class segro Lindydas become an actor?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Please make this stop, stop stop and bring back Ristein Manjona.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
David fuer Vada.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
There was YouTube and Blasi and music Stilla MTV for
two kiss in high school. They tell her that.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
She's uncool she still pre Anjubai music high school beg
teller that's five nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
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Back here, Jent Gray, Reddick Bowling pursup and we'll talk
about the country album and a new song called Royal
Family coming up here in a little Bit Too Love
this one, we mentioned that one. How big it was.
I want to go back to the album you guys
put out earlier this year in April, the fishing for
Wu's album tell us all about this, it's eighteen twenty
(11:34):
new songs.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, no, it's it's it's a reissue because that album
was turning, gosh, thirteen and thirteens our lucky number. So
we did an extended version of it and a new
a new with some new material and with all the
B sides put on there. And so you know, that's
a really important record for us because we had done
we were on Jive from two thousand and well two
(11:57):
thousand to two thousand and nine, we had released an
album called Sorry for Partying, and Sorry for Partying was
supposed to be our big, big blow up. I mean,
you know, we were we were five major label records
in who gets to do that? You know, and we
really thought we had the singles, but the label reorganized
actually sold and you know, if you weren't making them,
(12:19):
you know, millions of dollars you got dropped. And so
you know, the business side of the of the label
game is something that we got to experience at that
time and got dropped, and you know, we could have
we kind of we had a decision to make it,
and I was very very honest with the guys about it.
I was just like, you know, we can either go
back to Denton with our tails between our legs and
(12:41):
just call it, you know, and man, it's been a
great run, or we go right into the studio right
now and we make a record and we get it
out there and uh man, So you know, it gave
us songs like Turbulence, which is probably the biggest crowd
favorite next to nineteen eighty five in high school Never Ends.
You know, it's a it's a theme to a lot
of people, a lot of organizations and things like that,
(13:04):
and so you know, I I'm it was a very
important record. It kind of got us to that next
phase of being DIY. And we've been doing that now
for fifteen years, you know, since then. So so yeah, man,
just just a really really really important record for us.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You mentioned DIY. How hard is that, Jared to kind
of keep that consistency going in this business because of
it being ever changing and then getting dropped from a label.
You know, you said you till you mentioned that running
back to Denton tail between your legs, but keeping that
focus in this ever changing music industry.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, one of the things I mean, first of all,
the DIY thing. I mean, luckily that it's everything's gotten cheaper,
you know, I mean, like that's that's a big thing.
Is that, like people don't expect music videos to be
you know, two hundred thousand dollars epics anymore. And recording,
like I said, I can do so much of it
at my house and Rob has a studio in his house,
and so you know, that's gotten cheaper. And so you know,
(13:58):
when you're using your own money, uh, you know, or
or at least you know, hedging your bet so to speak,
you know, putting forth money that that you don't even
have yet. Uh you know, there's a lot of pressure.
Uh And so luckily there's that. But really the thing
is is just you know, I have to I have
to say the fan base is what keeps us going.
I mean, we have such a loyal fan base and
(14:20):
you know, more people show up to our shows now
than they did when nineteen eighty five was on the
radio and thirty one years in. To be able to
say that it is just we just feel so lucky
and uh, you know, and that is a testament I
think to you know, not only the songs themselves, but
to you know, to the to the fans, and then
to our own drive and to our our consistency and
(14:41):
and you know, you have to be able to put
a good product out there, you know. And and even
though we're getting a little bit older, you know, I
definitely don't want to ever get us to a point
where we're not delivering, you know, the best thing that
we can put out there. And and and as of
right now, we're we're you know, we're firing on all cylinders,
as I said, and h and you know, I'm feeling
good about it in the future.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Ye know, you talked about the Grind, speaking of that,
she's been doing a long time. Karen Waldrip love having
her out that night, inviting you out there to kind
of do the thing out there too, which put on
a great show. YEA cool place, doc do, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh yeah, one of our favorite uh one of our
favorite venues maybe ever. I mean, you know, the country
band especially, and you know Rob is in both bands,
and so we tell everybody about the Docy dough all
the time. You know, it's just it's such a cool,
unique listening room. It's like a combination between listening room
and dinner theater. And it's got great sound and a
(15:35):
great uh staff, and just you know, great accommodation for
the artists. And you know, I uh, they they've they've
actually inquired about getting bowling for soup there, and I'm
thinking about doing it. I think that might be a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Dude. I'm coming to that one Tennessee at all. Like
it is it presentable too as well. Like I said,
you guys turned up another notch out there too again
to check out the latest music Jared Ray Reddick and
of course out there bowling for soup across all those DSPs.
I gotta play one right now too. I mentioned that
Kyle Park's sound too, which we had a chance to
do at Camp Morgridaville last year, the Kyle Parks show
which was down there. It's royal family, It's Jerk great
Reddick here the backstage past, stay tuned, coming right back.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
You can't choose the blood that's in your veins. You
can't redo yesterday. You can go by a brand new name,
but your heart still beats the same. Thank God, that'll
(16:46):
never change.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So here's to the.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Sisters I never knew I had, and to the brother
that I did, my kid.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Sam, my mother, and the man I called my dad.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He gave me everything he had.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
No castles or thrones, but lifetime of loving memory.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Here's to my.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Royal family.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
Looking back as easy now we've come so far. No
more shooting four stars. We never needed crowns.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
We know who we are.
Speaker 11 (17:45):
Deep breaths coming from this guitar.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It all started in a bar.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
So here's to you, the sisters I never know I have,
and the brothers that I did.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
To drive in all night.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
We cannot been the van.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We didn't do it for the fans.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
No child soles or drones, butter lifetime of love and
never re.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Appears.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
To my.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
Royal family. There's a girl that loves me now for
who I am, And with her came a little man
(18:53):
looks just like his mama, talks like his dad. Thinks
his brother might be batman. Think God, he had a plan.
So here's to the sisters I never knew I had,
(19:14):
and to the brothers that I did, my sons and
my daughter, and a live time of friends. So many
ways that we still had no chastels or thrones, but
a live time of love and memories.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Love those memories.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Here's to my.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Royal family.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Here's to my royal family.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Who.
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here with Jared Ray Reddick on the air here too
with us so Royal family. Dude, Like you mentioned Roden
(21:21):
songs and coming up with this album two which I loved,
which was called Just Woke Up that you released in
twenty twenty two, kind of a new vibe, a new
kind of a feel for it too.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Melt.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I was like, if anybody can do country, it's Jered
Rey Reddick and I love this.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Thank you. Yeah, man, you know, I it was really
cool because I the other thing with with you know,
doing the country record is I get to sort of
go all the way with the with the fields, you
know what I mean. With bowling for soup, I I
kind of have a bit of responsibility most of the time.
I really need to be putting a smile on your
face because that's what our band does. And so, you know,
(21:55):
with the country thing, it's I was sort of able
to go all the way with the you know, with
the more of the heartfelt stuff, and so it's it's
a really good creative outlet. And uh and I you
know it's gonna be it's actually gonna be somewhat difficult
to follow up that record because I think it's so
it just came out, you know, exactly the way that
I wanted it to be. I mean, it's just it's just,
(22:16):
you know, as far as I'm concerned, it's just perfectly
done because that's what I wanted. So, you know, I
love just the way that it sounds and the songs
and all of that. So, you know, I you know,
but I am stoked about getting new material out there,
and I'm I'm also working on a covers album, but
I'm doing covers that you sort of wouldn't expect in
(22:37):
sort of sort of how we we do ninets eighty
five covers, not a cover of nineteen eighty five. When
we play live, we do a country version. You know.
It's it's kind of the same kind of thing. We're
picking material that you really wouldn't think you would hear
as a country as a country song, but that's what
we're doing with it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A lot of cool collabs on that record, So you
mentioned it came out just the way you wanted to.
It was really cool. Uncle Cracker was on there with you,
a good friends the sho know, your Cody Canada love
his stuff and Frank Turner talk about just the uh
the overall crossover now with Collapse, and you mentioned it,
like you said, come from alternative side, you can make country.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
You do.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
See what Acon's doing now with Gary Lavaux and hold
the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's pretty cool, right, Yeah, you know that that was
another big thing was you know, I nobody was doing anything,
and I've got a lot of friends, and so I
could have probably done a feature on every song. But
the one thing that I was trying not to do
on on that record was become make I didn't want
to make it a novelty because it'd be very easy
(23:32):
to go, oh, the guy from Bowling for Soups putting
out a country record and sort of laugh it off,
you know, and I think some people did that until
they heard the music. And so I wanted to make
sure that the collaborations that I put on there made
sense and that you know, I was I didn't overdo it.
And so Uncle Cracker was an obvious one, you know,
just because he's he's been in the country world before
(23:52):
and and uh, it just the guy has just had
such a cool voice. Cody was the first person I
actually thought of to be on the record because I've
known him now for twenty plus years and and he's
the sweetest human being I think on the planet, and
you know, I just really wanted to have him and
his voice on the record. And then Frank Turner, you know,
(24:13):
just one of my favorite songwriters out there working today.
And then finally Stephan Edgerton, who's the guitar player for
my favorite punk band, The Descendants, is on there as well.
So I got four really really good ones, and you know,
and I feel like that was that was the right move.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No one you put out last year. I thought that
country kind of broke the barrier there. This is you
talk about this one for me too, because I'm a
different side. They're too. Love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Thank you so much man. Yeah. So, you know, I'm
if you don't know me, you know you don't follow
me on social media, I'm I'm very active in mental
health and awareness. I serve on the board of two
charities here in the States and am about to be
on a third one out of the UK. And uh
(25:02):
it's social media is just are you know my mental
health is just something that's very important to me. And
uh so I I Uh, Actually it was Zach again.
He goes, man, you need to write a song that's
just like you and a piano or you and a guitar,
you know, because people don't really know, you know, your
voice is is so unique and it's you know, I'm
(25:24):
not really like, I don't really sound like everybody else,
you know. And and I'm not saying that that's good
or bad. I just don't. In fact, you know, when
I started doing the country thing, my managers were on
the phone just going, well, we all know that he
doesn't have the most country of voices or whatever. And
I would just like, hey, I'm right here, you know.
But he was like, you know, let's let's do something.
(25:45):
What's something that you feel really strongly about. And I'm
just like, well, I really need to do a mental
health song. And so yeah, there's you. There's a song
you know just about how you know, you know, you're important,
you know, And it's it's very easy to fill alone
in this world, and especially as busy as we all
stay in, as insane as our lives are, it's just
(26:07):
so easy to just become you know, overwhelmed and feel
like you're all in this by yourself. And so, you know,
I just wanted a song to where people could put
that on and realize, hey, man, you know, if this
guy's been through it then and he made it, then
I could go through it and I can make it,
you know. And it's just it's a really important song
(26:27):
to me. I really appreciate you bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I love that too. Anything with mental health awareness, health
charities out too as well, and bring awareness to what
is going on out there too as well. We see
a lot of artists kind of give back. You're one
of those guys that does it. I follow you on
social media, great stories, great content, any way to give
back to, like I said, those charities of people fighting
this too. At the same time, I mean, I find
anxiety a lot of people that fight a lot of
different you know, diseases out there and different you know,
(26:51):
mental health things and just health things in general too.
So love when artists give back. It's for great cause
always too. And I want to ask you about man.
We mentioned Karen walgerb lot too because you're just very
good friend of mine. But looking back, man, do this
female category in country right now? You pick a name
and it's like, yep, she's dominating she's dominating. But I
could go through a list from A to Z. Give
me some thoughts on not just Landy Wilson, but like
(27:12):
all these ladies now impacting country music now here for
twenty twenty five. It's crazy, you know, It's.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Just it's about time. I mean, you know, when I
when I talk about Texas country, you know, there's so
many of these female artists that are just so great,
and you know, I just don't feel like they get
the same chances as some of the male as some
of the male artists do, and and they don't and
quite frankly, and I'll just say it, I mean, they
just don't get the support from the live audiences either.
(27:40):
You know, I just don't understand why Bree Bagwell isn't
the biggest artist in the world. It makes no sense.
She has the look, she's good, she's a star on stage.
She just everything is just there. It's it's there, Like
I don't it doesn't make sense to me. And then
you've got the Julia Hatfields and the and you know,
the Page Lewis's and all of these other just amazing
(28:01):
female artists. So you know, I'm glad that they're dominating,
right now, and you know, and you know, I I
think it's about time. I hope that trickles into Texas country,
and I hope we start to see some of these
female artists headlining some of these bigger festivals and bigger
clubs and things like that, because it's about time. So
with with Jared Ray Reddick, I try every single time
(28:23):
we go out to take a female artist with me
because I feel like, you know what they that's that's
that people need to be exposed to these artists. And
so you know, go see go see bands first of all,
no matter what you know, but but go support female country, true.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No doubt. And one of them we got to see
once again that Karen waldrop Man. Special times for her too,
because like I said, she's paid more than paid her
dues in this industry, been doing it for over ten
years now. Yeah, just great songs and I love the
the new one she's actually put out now, Blue Cowboy Boots.
I know you've known her for a long time too.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Right, yeah, yeah, for a while, and uh yeah, I
just think the world of her.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I think it's you know, one of those things where
it's you know, she got into it at a time
where things were just changing so fast, you know, and
then of course a pandemic and then you know, again
it's just all it's a roller coaster, you know, and
you have to be a creator now, and you it's
not enough just to be a great singer. It's not
enough to be a great showman. You have to have
(29:24):
the full package. And and so, you know, I think
anybody that's out there trying right now, it's just trying
to figure out how to navigate this whole thing. And so,
you know, I think she's doing a great job. And
it was really fun playing that show with her, and
uh and and her fans were certainly happy and and
uh and mine that we're there too, that we're there.
We're really happy too.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Also back to sit next to the younger audience back there,
and they were like, man, that's pretty cool nineteen eighty five.
And he kept hollering, and I'm like, dude, he's probably
gonna get to it, just chilling singing a yeah, And
then he just he was like singing it like he
was back in college. You looked at him, was like, yeah,
we know every lyric that song too. Take us back
to early college days out there too. You mentioned the
record and of course you Rob got going on to
(30:05):
as well. But I know there's a big tour coming
up because you mentioned this, that thirst and that hunger
for bowling for soup again, talk about that too. You
guys are gonna be over in Europe.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Right, Yeah, Well, first we're doing we're doing the States
with Simple Plan three OZ three and Lo Lo, So
just a big almost like a warped tour reunion kind
of thing that we're doing for most of August and September.
And then yeah, our biggest headline show ever is going
to be at Wembley Arena December thirteenth over in the UK,
(30:33):
and then we'll come back and then next year Australia
the UK again and then our own US tour and
so it's yeah, like I said, we're as busy now
as we've ever been. And thirty one years in, you
know you gotta kind of really just kind of take
a step back and basking it, enjoy it and just think,
(30:54):
oh my god, I can't I can't even believe it.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Do what you love to do for fun, never working
day in your life, no doubt about it too. You
know we're talking about this and hey, the food was
really good at Dosy Dough. But every time I go
back to Nashville, Jared, I always find myself into some
new restaurant out there too, which is really cool. I
went to a little place a three one two pizza
in Germantown over there by the Sounds Ballpark, and then
there was another Napoliotano pizza. Love Italian food. When you
travel and you guys kind of y'all yelp something, do
(31:18):
you talk to the locals? Where do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Mostly, so you know what, we're pretty boring. And here's why.
You know, our stomachs are a funny thing when you're
traveling and when you're in a different city every day,
and then you know there's nine or ten of us
on the bus. Most of us are pretty big guys,
and you can't go number two on the tour bus,
and so you have to be pretty careful. So we
(31:42):
do keep it pretty boring. I mean, we do like
a deli or something, you know, But every once in
a while, if it's a place where they've got like
a famous pizza place or whatever, we'll get it and
everybody will have a little bit of something. But really
we try and keep it as boring as we can
to just to save save our guts and save our noses.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's the way on that too. You need to be
able to use the instrument in the voice and stella.
Guess you don't necessarily uh don't help that when you
have fet your watch what you eat, so that's it's simple,
is a good thing too. I know you mentioned about
the tour and everything you're looking forward to to the most,
but looking back, hey, what advice would you give just
a younger artist getting into this thing called music right now?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Honestly, I'd say, learn a second thing, and I don't
mean it as back up. I mean in addition to
so learn graphic design or photography, or learn to be
a great social media manager or whatever, and then surround
yourself with other people, because de I Y is the
key these days. And you know, everybody wants to get
a manager, and everybody wants to get a get a
booking agent, but just a lot of artists jump into
(32:46):
that stuff too quickly. And you really don't need an
agent until you do, and you don't need a manager
until you do, and you don't need a lawyer until
you do. You know what you need to do is
get out there and bust your butt and do everything
that you can do on your own and you just
be so prize. And I can say all this with
the confidence of somebody that did it that way. You
know again, we did nine years in the van and uh,
(33:08):
you know we we weren't. We took us six years
to get signed and three more years to have a
hit after that and then you know so uh but
but that's my advice to everybody. Learn a second. Learn
learn something in addition to being a musician that you
can contribute to your own, your own project, to your
own whether you're an artist or a band or whatever
(33:29):
that is. And you'll be glad you did. You know,
like I said, you know, uh, graphic design, digital, you know,
learned a website build or whatever and that because the
great thing is is you can start a side hustle
and help other bands with that, and that's how you
make a little bit of money on the side.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
No doubt to Andy. Also, you mentioned we're your own business,
like I've got my own podcast there. You can charge
what you want to charge, no doubt about it. When
you run your own company, nobody else to answer to.
Looking back, at it too. Hey, I want to ask
you about this one I mentioned with the foody category two,
which was always fun too. But if you never had
become a working musician, what other career path would you
have chosen.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Well, I was going to school to be a corporate psychologist,
and so I have a degree in marketing and a
degree in psychology, and I bailed out before graduate school
and just decided I was going to give this band
thing a try. And honestly, it was more of just
a sabbatical. I just really thought I'd just take a
couple of years and just being a band with my friends,
have some fun, and you know, a couple of years later,
(34:24):
it was just like, Okay, we're going to really give
this a shot, and that's what we did. So I
fear that I probably would have been doing something, you know,
like really corporate and it's super boring and and but
either that or an entrepreneur. I mean, I was a
pretty aggressive kid as far as that's concerned, and I
had started a few different businesses before I even finished
(34:47):
college and stuff, and so you know, I've definitely always
been a hustler. The music business was pretty made for
me in that regard. Because I you know, I tend
to to always be just just consumed with whatever it
is I do, And for thirty one years, that's what
I've done with Bowling Pursue.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I love it too, Hey, a lot of great artwork.
I ask you about your favorite tattoo that you got,
because I love the tattoos. It speaks to me.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I don't have one myself, but they do tell a
lot of stories out there too and meaning behind it.
What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Man? My favorite tattoo has got to be my latest one.
It's this rose on my neck and it is done
by my friend here in Dallas, Deanna James. It's important
to me for a lot of reasons, mostly because she
is such an amazing artist that it's like I have
a piece of art on me, you know, And I
love that people can recognize it and see it and go,
(35:38):
is that a Deanna James?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And she's just another big mental health advocate and somebody
that has her own demons and struggles and stuff like
I do, and someone that's fighting through it. And so
it's an important tattoo to me. And also it hurt
really bad, and so since I made it through it,
should be the most important.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm gonna say had to be a little bit of
pain on that one too, no doubt, especially all the
very sensitive area right here on the side of the
neck out there too again check you out at jaredray
Reddick dot com and of course this is you across
all the DSPs and of course just woke up the
latest to country album too, and a lot more in
the works, and of course Bowling for Soup their website
out there too for all the great tour dates. Jared
appreciate the time here on the backstage pass and brother
(36:23):
would love to do this again when the new music
comes out.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Thanks so much anytime. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You got it, Jared reg Reddick out there Bowling for
Soup and of course all the great country music out
there Jaredrayreddick dot com. And of course we're back with
more great shows this week. Sunny Sweeney's gonna stop buy
on Friday to the great Texas country artists out there too.
Rhinestone Wrequiem, her album comes out August first. KYBN ninety
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Let's take care. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
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And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
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(01:05):
tell you what. I got a chance to go to
an event a few weeks ago out in the Woodlands
at dosey Do. Thank you Karen Walder for inviting us
out there. What a fine lady, she has no doubt
about it. In the music industry. And you get a
chance to meet a little bit of music royalty, you
get the bout too. A huge fan of a long
time bowling for Suit Jered Ray Reddick, Johanna Gacier of
the Guys or Bowling for Suit Jared. What's up man, man?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know I just got back from vacation and I
took my family to the Dominican. We had a great time.
About four days in though, I was walking back to
my hotel room and I had a fall. And I'm
fifty three, apparently I'm not as I'm not made of
rubber anymore. And I brought home a couple of broken ribs.
So if I start to breathe funny or make any
(01:46):
odd noises, you'll know why.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, no, why Hey? That show was very special for
a lot of people, man, and a lot of cool
things happened out there too. You got a chance to
see you guys played for the first time, a little
bit of mix with some bfs you know hits out there,
and of course all the country stuff now too, which
is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You got this little Kyle Park vibe going on talk
about you know, I guess man, you're the career in
music and how far you guys have come since the
early two thousands, and you know the crossover now and
and and kind of having that country sound now, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know, it's funny. I got asked today, you know,
earlier today, because you said you've done three. I think
I've done four today. But I'm not asking the question,
so I'm just I'm just knocking it off the tee here.
But you know, I got asked earlier, you know, just
how things have changed. And you know, we started Bowling
for Soup in ninety four and our first album came
out on cassette, and you know, we I was I
(02:38):
was tour managing the band with a pager and a
calling card from payphones and we didn't have map Quest yet.
And you know, it's it feels like the Dinosaur age
really when you come now of like we I record
most of the stuff, you know, most of the vocals
and guitars at my house, you know, and and things
have just changed so much. But yeah, you know, I
(02:59):
believe started small Town which Tall Falls, Texas, and a
couple of years into it, we moved to Denton and
really found our groove, you know. And then in those
next few years nine years in the van, and then
we had a song called Girl the Bad Guys Want
That that blew up. It crossed over to pop radio,
and you know, the rest, as they say, is kind
of history. That song got us a Grammy nomination, and
(03:21):
then our next record came out and had four or
five really big singles for us, nineteen eighty five being
our biggest song except Phineas and Ferb which is also US.
And so yeah, you know, I always wanted to do
a country record. You know. We're, as I said, born
and raised in Texas. Country is a huge part of
my life. It's inspiration to how I write songs, if
(03:45):
you think about it, you know, bulling for soup, you know,
the songs are stories, and that's how I learned to write.
Kenny Rodgers, Whalan Willie Dolly Parton and so I always
wanted to do a country record, and the pandemic happened,
and year one, I'm made a h we made a
Bowling for Soup record, and year two kind of starts
and we're still not playing shows. So my buddy Zach Malloy,
(04:07):
who was in a band called the Nixons and who
now has a bunch of number ones in Nashville, it
was like, dude, you've been talking about this country record forever.
Let's just do it. And uh so I went in.
I wanted to make an organic, you know, more way
more Willy leaning record than than a Nashville leaning record,
and uh I did that. That's been three crazy years ago,
(04:28):
so you know, it's uh but now I'm working on
new stuff. I got about a half of an album
written and mostly recorded, and uh, you know, hopefully get
that out sometime early next year. But uh, you know,
I say it's been out three years. I was so
busy doing this country thing for a while, and then
Bowling for Soup. There's just this huge pop punk you know,
(04:51):
this this just it's just re re lit, you know, reinvigorated,
and and people are way into it again. And so
we've been really really busy. So I'm blessed for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No doubt. And when you look at a song like
nineteen eighty five, I'm sure it never gets old being
asked about it too, because you're right, it's a storytelling aspect.
It's the lyrics in there. I want to get your
kind of your thoughts on where you guys were and
you know when this came to mind and the writing
behind it, and of course like the lyrics, man really
speak to the heart.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you know, nineteen eighty five is a very interesting
song because I did. It wasn't ours originally, it was
actually a song by SR seventy one, and I got
sent that we were done recording how Hangover you Don't
Deserve almost was going to be the first single, almost
went on to be a big hit for us. But
you know, it wasn't the lead single because I got
(05:37):
sent this song by my manager named Jonathan Daniel, who
Mitch Allen from SR seventy one had contacted about some
management and he sent me this song. He goes, you know,
I just got this song across my desk and SR
seventy one put it out in Japan. But this is
a bullying for soup song. This sounds like bulling for soup.
And so their version is out there because everything is
(05:59):
accessible now, but you know, theirs was it had a
lot more grit to it. You know, they weren't kind.
They weren't near as kind to her, to Debbie as
what you know, I felt like we should be, you know,
I felt like that that we needed to be a
little bit more gracious. And so Mitch the singer was
was very good about letting me have my way with it.
(06:20):
So it ended up being becoming a co write and
it was the right decision for both of us. You know,
it was the right decision for me to do the song,
and it was the right decision for him to let
me have my way with it because we had a
huge hit with it, and uh, you know, we got
one of those songs. You know, it's I tell bands
all the time, you know, it's like our buddies in
lit you know, they have one of those songs. My
own worst Enemy will be somewhere all the time in
(06:42):
nineteen eighty five is just one of those songs. And
you know that you just got to be really really
thankful for that, no.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Doubt those moments happening. Just thanks one and the music
industry as tough as it is. We're gonna take you
back a little bit and play that very song right
here at the backstage past Jared Grig Reddick and pulling
for suit. Really lift some memories. I heard it there
just a couple of weeks ago too. They play a
hell of a rendition of it. But it's always good
when you played the track here, the backstage pass here
nineteen eighty five, ball in Pursuit Jared Rick Reddick back
in the flash, Stay two.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Mab He just hit the walls.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Never had it all one Prozaca day, husband's a CPA.
Her dreams went out, the dar couldn't see turned twenty four,
only been with one man.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What happened to her plan?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
He was gonna be an actress, She was gonna be
a star. She was gonna save her ass on the
hood of White Snakes, car or Yellow usu V is
now the enemy looks at her average live and nothing
has been all right.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
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Speaker 3 (08:06):
And He's is still on MTV.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Her two kids in high school. They tell her that
she's uncool because she's still free out Dubai in nineteen nineteen,
nineteen eighty five. She's seen all the classics.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
She knows every line, Breakfast but Pretty and Think even
Saint Elmo's Fire. She rocked out to Wham not a
big limp biscuit fan thought she'd get a hand on
a member of Deranda Ren where's the mini skirt made
of snake skin? And who's the other kind of singing?
(08:49):
In Vinland? When dead reality become teeth? Whatever happened to say?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Comes Kat Shows Radio Spacetin.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Madonna David fuer Vada. There was YouTube and Blazi music
still an MTB for two kiss in high school. They
tell her that she's uncool cause she still pre an
Jubai in nineteen nineteen, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Five, Sime, make kids stop.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
When did Motley Crue become class segro Lindydas become an actor?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Please make this stop, stop stop and bring back Ristein Manjona.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
David fuer Vada.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
There was YouTube and Blasi and music Stilla MTV for
two kiss in high school. They tell her that.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
She's uncool she still pre Anjubai music high school beg
teller that's five nineteen eighty five.
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Back here, Jent Gray, Reddick Bowling pursup and we'll talk
about the country album and a new song called Royal
Family coming up here in a little Bit Too Love
this one, we mentioned that one. How big it was.
I want to go back to the album you guys
put out earlier this year in April, the fishing for
Wu's album tell us all about this, it's eighteen twenty
(11:34):
new songs.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, no, it's it's it's a reissue because that album
was turning, gosh, thirteen and thirteens our lucky number. So
we did an extended version of it and a new
a new with some new material and with all the
B sides put on there. And so you know, that's
a really important record for us because we had done
we were on Jive from two thousand and well two
(11:57):
thousand to two thousand and nine, we had released an
album called Sorry for Partying, and Sorry for Partying was
supposed to be our big, big blow up. I mean,
you know, we were we were five major label records
in who gets to do that? You know, and we
really thought we had the singles, but the label reorganized
actually sold and you know, if you weren't making them,
(12:19):
you know, millions of dollars you got dropped. And so
you know, the business side of the of the label
game is something that we got to experience at that
time and got dropped, and you know, we could have
we kind of we had a decision to make it,
and I was very very honest with the guys about it.
I was just like, you know, we can either go
back to Denton with our tails between our legs and
(12:41):
just call it, you know, and man, it's been a
great run, or we go right into the studio right
now and we make a record and we get it
out there and uh man, So you know, it gave
us songs like Turbulence, which is probably the biggest crowd
favorite next to nineteen eighty five in high school Never Ends.
You know, it's a it's a theme to a lot
of people, a lot of organizations and things like that,
(13:04):
and so you know, I I'm it was a very
important record. It kind of got us to that next
phase of being DIY. And we've been doing that now
for fifteen years, you know, since then. So so yeah, man,
just just a really really really important record for us.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You mentioned DIY. How hard is that, Jared to kind
of keep that consistency going in this business because of
it being ever changing and then getting dropped from a label.
You know, you said you till you mentioned that running
back to Denton tail between your legs, but keeping that
focus in this ever changing music industry.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, one of the things I mean, first of all,
the DIY thing. I mean, luckily that it's everything's gotten cheaper,
you know, I mean, like that's that's a big thing.
Is that, like people don't expect music videos to be
you know, two hundred thousand dollars epics anymore. And recording,
like I said, I can do so much of it
at my house and Rob has a studio in his house,
and so you know, that's gotten cheaper. And so you know,
(13:58):
when you're using your own money, uh, you know, or
or at least you know, hedging your bet so to speak,
you know, putting forth money that that you don't even
have yet. Uh you know, there's a lot of pressure.
Uh And so luckily there's that. But really the thing
is is just you know, I have to I have
to say the fan base is what keeps us going.
I mean, we have such a loyal fan base and
(14:20):
you know, more people show up to our shows now
than they did when nineteen eighty five was on the
radio and thirty one years in. To be able to
say that it is just we just feel so lucky
and uh, you know, and that is a testament I
think to you know, not only the songs themselves, but
to you know, to the to the fans, and then
to our own drive and to our our consistency and
(14:41):
and you know, you have to be able to put
a good product out there, you know. And and even
though we're getting a little bit older, you know, I
definitely don't want to ever get us to a point
where we're not delivering, you know, the best thing that
we can put out there. And and and as of
right now, we're we're you know, we're firing on all cylinders,
as I said, and h and you know, I'm feeling
good about it in the future.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Ye know, you talked about the Grind, speaking of that,
she's been doing a long time. Karen Waldrip love having
her out that night, inviting you out there to kind
of do the thing out there too, which put on
a great show. YEA cool place, doc do, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh yeah, one of our favorite uh one of our
favorite venues maybe ever. I mean, you know, the country
band especially, and you know Rob is in both bands,
and so we tell everybody about the Docy dough all
the time. You know, it's just it's such a cool,
unique listening room. It's like a combination between listening room
and dinner theater. And it's got great sound and a
(15:35):
great uh staff, and just you know, great accommodation for
the artists. And you know, I uh, they they've they've
actually inquired about getting bowling for soup there, and I'm
thinking about doing it. I think that might be a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Dude. I'm coming to that one Tennessee at all. Like
it is it presentable too as well. Like I said,
you guys turned up another notch out there too again
to check out the latest music Jared Ray Reddick and
of course out there bowling for soup across all those DSPs.
I gotta play one right now too. I mentioned that
Kyle Park's sound too, which we had a chance to
do at Camp Morgridaville last year, the Kyle Parks show
which was down there. It's royal family, It's Jerk great
Reddick here the backstage past, stay tuned, coming right back.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
You can't choose the blood that's in your veins. You
can't redo yesterday. You can go by a brand new name,
but your heart still beats the same. Thank God, that'll
(16:46):
never change.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So here's to the.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Sisters I never knew I had, and to the brother
that I did, my kid.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Sam, my mother, and the man I called my dad.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He gave me everything he had.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
No castles or thrones, but lifetime of loving memory.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Here's to my.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Royal family.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
Looking back as easy now we've come so far. No
more shooting four stars. We never needed crowns.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
We know who we are.
Speaker 11 (17:45):
Deep breaths coming from this guitar.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It all started in a bar.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
So here's to you, the sisters I never know I have,
and the brothers that I did.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
To drive in all night.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
We cannot been the van.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We didn't do it for the fans.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
No child soles or drones, butter lifetime of love and
never re.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Appears.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
To my.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
Royal family. There's a girl that loves me now for
who I am, And with her came a little man
(18:53):
looks just like his mama, talks like his dad. Thinks
his brother might be batman. Think God, he had a plan.
So here's to the sisters I never knew I had,
(19:14):
and to the brothers that I did, my sons and
my daughter, and a live time of friends. So many
ways that we still had no chastels or thrones, but
a live time of love and memories.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Love those memories.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Here's to my.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Royal family.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Here's to my royal family.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Who.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Hey, y'all, this is Craig Cambelin. You're listening to award
nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area broadcasting Network, stream anytime on the Sports Guys
podcast dot com and on iHeartRadio podcasts. You can also
stream on THWN dot org.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
The Caiden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
the best in country music, so check it out at
the Candangordonshow dot com. Again, that is the Cadangordonshow dot com.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Hey y'all, this is Lana Love and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and on iHeartRadio podcasts and
anytime at the Sports Guys podcast dot com. You can
also stream the show on THWN dot org.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Thanks and Cker, Thank our friends again. B and B
Construction Services, The Caden Gordon Show and k C. Beck Music,
The Backstage Fast King YBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area Broadcasting network, iHeartRadio podcast and the Sports Guys
podcast dot com and of course THHWN dot org. Beck
here with Jared Ray Reddick on the air here too
with us so Royal family. Dude, Like you mentioned Roden
(21:21):
songs and coming up with this album two which I loved,
which was called Just Woke Up that you released in
twenty twenty two, kind of a new vibe, a new
kind of a feel for it too.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Melt.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I was like, if anybody can do country, it's Jered
Rey Reddick and I love this.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Thank you. Yeah, man, you know, I it was really
cool because I the other thing with with you know,
doing the country record is I get to sort of
go all the way with the with the fields, you
know what I mean. With bowling for soup, I I
kind of have a bit of responsibility most of the time.
I really need to be putting a smile on your
face because that's what our band does. And so, you know,
(21:55):
with the country thing, it's I was sort of able
to go all the way with the you know, with
the more of the heartfelt stuff, and so it's it's
a really good creative outlet. And uh and I you
know it's gonna be it's actually gonna be somewhat difficult
to follow up that record because I think it's so
it just came out, you know, exactly the way that
I wanted it to be. I mean, it's just it's just,
(22:16):
you know, as far as I'm concerned, it's just perfectly
done because that's what I wanted. So, you know, I
love just the way that it sounds and the songs
and all of that. So, you know, I you know,
but I am stoked about getting new material out there,
and I'm I'm also working on a covers album, but
I'm doing covers that you sort of wouldn't expect in
(22:37):
sort of sort of how we we do ninets eighty
five covers, not a cover of nineteen eighty five. When
we play live, we do a country version. You know.
It's it's kind of the same kind of thing. We're
picking material that you really wouldn't think you would hear
as a country as a country song, but that's what
we're doing with it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A lot of cool collabs on that record, So you
mentioned it came out just the way you wanted to.
It was really cool. Uncle Cracker was on there with you,
a good friends the sho know, your Cody Canada love
his stuff and Frank Turner talk about just the uh
the overall crossover now with Collapse, and you mentioned it,
like you said, come from alternative side, you can make country.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
You do.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
See what Acon's doing now with Gary Lavaux and hold
the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's pretty cool, right, Yeah, you know that that was
another big thing was you know, I nobody was doing anything,
and I've got a lot of friends, and so I
could have probably done a feature on every song. But
the one thing that I was trying not to do
on on that record was become make I didn't want
to make it a novelty because it'd be very easy
(23:32):
to go, oh, the guy from Bowling for Soups putting
out a country record and sort of laugh it off,
you know, and I think some people did that until
they heard the music. And so I wanted to make
sure that the collaborations that I put on there made
sense and that you know, I was I didn't overdo it.
And so Uncle Cracker was an obvious one, you know,
just because he's he's been in the country world before
(23:52):
and and uh, it just the guy has just had
such a cool voice. Cody was the first person I
actually thought of to be on the record because I've
known him now for twenty plus years and and he's
the sweetest human being I think on the planet, and
you know, I just really wanted to have him and
his voice on the record. And then Frank Turner, you know,
(24:13):
just one of my favorite songwriters out there working today.
And then finally Stephan Edgerton, who's the guitar player for
my favorite punk band, The Descendants, is on there as well.
So I got four really really good ones, and you know,
and I feel like that was that was the right move.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No one you put out last year. I thought that
country kind of broke the barrier there. This is you
talk about this one for me too, because I'm a
different side. They're too. Love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Thank you so much man. Yeah. So, you know, I'm
if you don't know me, you know you don't follow
me on social media, I'm I'm very active in mental
health and awareness. I serve on the board of two
charities here in the States and am about to be
on a third one out of the UK. And uh
(25:02):
it's social media is just are you know my mental
health is just something that's very important to me. And
uh so I I Uh, Actually it was Zach again.
He goes, man, you need to write a song that's
just like you and a piano or you and a guitar,
you know, because people don't really know, you know, your
voice is is so unique and it's you know, I'm
(25:24):
not really like, I don't really sound like everybody else,
you know. And and I'm not saying that that's good
or bad. I just don't. In fact, you know, when
I started doing the country thing, my managers were on
the phone just going, well, we all know that he
doesn't have the most country of voices or whatever. And
I would just like, hey, I'm right here, you know.
But he was like, you know, let's let's do something.
(25:45):
What's something that you feel really strongly about. And I'm
just like, well, I really need to do a mental
health song. And so yeah, there's you. There's a song
you know just about how you know, you know, you're important,
you know, And it's it's very easy to fill alone
in this world, and especially as busy as we all
stay in, as insane as our lives are, it's just
(26:07):
so easy to just become you know, overwhelmed and feel
like you're all in this by yourself. And so, you know,
I just wanted a song to where people could put
that on and realize, hey, man, you know, if this
guy's been through it then and he made it, then
I could go through it and I can make it,
you know. And it's just it's a really important song
(26:27):
to me. I really appreciate you bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I love that too. Anything with mental health awareness, health
charities out too as well, and bring awareness to what
is going on out there too as well. We see
a lot of artists kind of give back. You're one
of those guys that does it. I follow you on
social media, great stories, great content, any way to give
back to, like I said, those charities of people fighting
this too. At the same time, I mean, I find
anxiety a lot of people that fight a lot of
different you know, diseases out there and different you know,
(26:51):
mental health things and just health things in general too.
So love when artists give back. It's for great cause
always too. And I want to ask you about man.
We mentioned Karen walgerb lot too because you're just very
good friend of mine. But looking back, man, do this
female category in country right now? You pick a name
and it's like, yep, she's dominating she's dominating. But I
could go through a list from A to Z. Give
me some thoughts on not just Landy Wilson, but like
(27:12):
all these ladies now impacting country music now here for
twenty twenty five. It's crazy, you know, It's.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Just it's about time. I mean, you know, when I
when I talk about Texas country, you know, there's so
many of these female artists that are just so great,
and you know, I just don't feel like they get
the same chances as some of the male as some
of the male artists do, and and they don't and
quite frankly, and I'll just say it, I mean, they
just don't get the support from the live audiences either.
(27:40):
You know, I just don't understand why Bree Bagwell isn't
the biggest artist in the world. It makes no sense.
She has the look, she's good, she's a star on stage.
She just everything is just there. It's it's there, Like
I don't it doesn't make sense to me. And then
you've got the Julia Hatfields and the and you know,
the Page Lewis's and all of these other just amazing
(28:01):
female artists. So you know, I'm glad that they're dominating,
right now, and you know, and you know, I I
think it's about time. I hope that trickles into Texas country,
and I hope we start to see some of these
female artists headlining some of these bigger festivals and bigger
clubs and things like that, because it's about time. So
with with Jared Ray Reddick, I try every single time
(28:23):
we go out to take a female artist with me
because I feel like, you know what they that's that's
that people need to be exposed to these artists. And
so you know, go see go see bands first of all,
no matter what you know, but but go support female country, true.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No doubt. And one of them we got to see
once again that Karen waldrop Man. Special times for her too,
because like I said, she's paid more than paid her
dues in this industry, been doing it for over ten
years now. Yeah, just great songs and I love the
the new one she's actually put out now, Blue Cowboy Boots.
I know you've known her for a long time too.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Right, yeah, yeah, for a while, and uh yeah, I
just think the world of her.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I think it's you know, one of those things where
it's you know, she got into it at a time
where things were just changing so fast, you know, and
then of course a pandemic and then you know, again
it's just all it's a roller coaster, you know, and
you have to be a creator now, and you it's
not enough just to be a great singer. It's not
enough to be a great showman. You have to have
(29:24):
the full package. And and so, you know, I think
anybody that's out there trying right now, it's just trying
to figure out how to navigate this whole thing. And so,
you know, I think she's doing a great job. And
it was really fun playing that show with her, and
uh and and her fans were certainly happy and and
uh and mine that we're there too, that we're there.
We're really happy too.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Also back to sit next to the younger audience back there,
and they were like, man, that's pretty cool nineteen eighty five.
And he kept hollering, and I'm like, dude, he's probably
gonna get to it, just chilling singing a yeah, And
then he just he was like singing it like he
was back in college. You looked at him, was like, yeah,
we know every lyric that song too. Take us back
to early college days out there too. You mentioned the
record and of course you Rob got going on to
(30:05):
as well. But I know there's a big tour coming
up because you mentioned this, that thirst and that hunger
for bowling for soup again, talk about that too. You
guys are gonna be over in Europe.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Right, Yeah, Well, first we're doing we're doing the States
with Simple Plan three OZ three and Lo Lo, So
just a big almost like a warped tour reunion kind
of thing that we're doing for most of August and September.
And then yeah, our biggest headline show ever is going
to be at Wembley Arena December thirteenth over in the UK,
(30:33):
and then we'll come back and then next year Australia
the UK again and then our own US tour and
so it's yeah, like I said, we're as busy now
as we've ever been. And thirty one years in, you
know you gotta kind of really just kind of take
a step back and basking it, enjoy it and just think,
(30:54):
oh my god, I can't I can't even believe it.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Do what you love to do for fun, never working
day in your life, no doubt about it too. You
know we're talking about this and hey, the food was
really good at Dosy Dough. But every time I go
back to Nashville, Jared, I always find myself into some
new restaurant out there too, which is really cool. I
went to a little place a three one two pizza
in Germantown over there by the Sounds Ballpark, and then
there was another Napoliotano pizza. Love Italian food. When you
travel and you guys kind of y'all yelp something, do
(31:18):
you talk to the locals? Where do you like to eat?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Mostly, so you know what, we're pretty boring. And here's why.
You know, our stomachs are a funny thing when you're
traveling and when you're in a different city every day,
and then you know there's nine or ten of us
on the bus. Most of us are pretty big guys,
and you can't go number two on the tour bus,
and so you have to be pretty careful. So we
(31:42):
do keep it pretty boring. I mean, we do like
a deli or something, you know, But every once in
a while, if it's a place where they've got like
a famous pizza place or whatever, we'll get it and
everybody will have a little bit of something. But really
we try and keep it as boring as we can
to just to save save our guts and save our noses.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's the way on that too. You need to be
able to use the instrument in the voice and stella.
Guess you don't necessarily uh don't help that when you
have fet your watch what you eat, so that's it's simple,
is a good thing too. I know you mentioned about
the tour and everything you're looking forward to to the most,
but looking back, hey, what advice would you give just
a younger artist getting into this thing called music right now?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Honestly, I'd say, learn a second thing, and I don't
mean it as back up. I mean in addition to
so learn graphic design or photography, or learn to be
a great social media manager or whatever, and then surround
yourself with other people, because de I Y is the
key these days. And you know, everybody wants to get
a manager, and everybody wants to get a get a
booking agent, but just a lot of artists jump into
(32:46):
that stuff too quickly. And you really don't need an
agent until you do, and you don't need a manager
until you do, and you don't need a lawyer until
you do. You know what you need to do is
get out there and bust your butt and do everything
that you can do on your own and you just
be so prize. And I can say all this with
the confidence of somebody that did it that way. You
know again, we did nine years in the van and uh,
(33:08):
you know we we weren't. We took us six years
to get signed and three more years to have a
hit after that and then you know so uh but
but that's my advice to everybody. Learn a second. Learn
learn something in addition to being a musician that you
can contribute to your own, your own project, to your
own whether you're an artist or a band or whatever
(33:29):
that is. And you'll be glad you did. You know,
like I said, you know, uh, graphic design, digital, you know,
learned a website build or whatever and that because the
great thing is is you can start a side hustle
and help other bands with that, and that's how you
make a little bit of money on the side.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
No doubt to Andy. Also, you mentioned we're your own business,
like I've got my own podcast there. You can charge
what you want to charge, no doubt about it. When
you run your own company, nobody else to answer to.
Looking back, at it too. Hey, I want to ask
you about this one I mentioned with the foody category two,
which was always fun too. But if you never had
become a working musician, what other career path would you
have chosen.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Well, I was going to school to be a corporate psychologist,
and so I have a degree in marketing and a
degree in psychology, and I bailed out before graduate school
and just decided I was going to give this band
thing a try. And honestly, it was more of just
a sabbatical. I just really thought I'd just take a
couple of years and just being a band with my friends,
have some fun, and you know, a couple of years later,
(34:24):
it was just like, Okay, we're going to really give
this a shot, and that's what we did. So I
fear that I probably would have been doing something, you know,
like really corporate and it's super boring and and but
either that or an entrepreneur. I mean, I was a
pretty aggressive kid as far as that's concerned, and I
had started a few different businesses before I even finished
(34:47):
college and stuff, and so you know, I've definitely always
been a hustler. The music business was pretty made for
me in that regard. Because I you know, I tend
to to always be just just consumed with whatever it
is I do, And for thirty one years, that's what
I've done with Bowling Pursue.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I love it too, Hey, a lot of great artwork.
I ask you about your favorite tattoo that you got,
because I love the tattoos. It speaks to me.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I don't have one myself, but they do tell a
lot of stories out there too and meaning behind it.
What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Man? My favorite tattoo has got to be my latest one.
It's this rose on my neck and it is done
by my friend here in Dallas, Deanna James. It's important
to me for a lot of reasons, mostly because she
is such an amazing artist that it's like I have
a piece of art on me, you know, And I
love that people can recognize it and see it and go,
(35:38):
is that a Deanna James?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And she's just another big mental health advocate and somebody
that has her own demons and struggles and stuff like
I do, and someone that's fighting through it. And so
it's an important tattoo to me. And also it hurt
really bad, and so since I made it through it,
should be the most important.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm gonna say had to be a little bit of
pain on that one too, no doubt, especially all the
very sensitive area right here on the side of the
neck out there too again check you out at jaredray
Reddick dot com and of course this is you across
all the DSPs and of course just woke up the
latest to country album too, and a lot more in
the works, and of course Bowling for Soup their website
out there too for all the great tour dates. Jared
appreciate the time here on the backstage pass and brother
(36:23):
would love to do this again when the new music
comes out.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Thanks so much anytime. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You got it, Jared reg Reddick out there Bowling for
Soup and of course all the great country music out
there Jaredrayreddick dot com. And of course we're back with
more great shows this week. Sunny Sweeney's gonna stop buy
on Friday to the great Texas country artists out there too.
Rhinestone Wrequiem, her album comes out August first. KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bank Area Broadcasting Network, The Sports
Guys podcast dot com, iHeartRadio Podcast, and THWN dot Org
(36:50):
were presented by The Kadangordon Show dot com, Today's Best
Country mis B and V Construction Services, and our friends
at KC. Beck Music. We'll see you on the flip side. God,
Let's take care. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Bucky Heard with the Righteous Brothers
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network.
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