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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, guys and gals, this is recording artists Jenella Master
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass with
Brandon Morel on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, welcome inside the Backstage Past and of course almost
what Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and winding down the fourth quarter
of twenty and twenty five. Hard to believe we're still
saying that out there. Of course, we're bringing to you
the best and the brightest artists out there too, here
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(00:45):
anytime on iHeartRadio podcast too. I'll tell you what, guys.
You know, it's my show and I get to do
what I want to do, so I can always call
the shots too, and love to do that here and
feature whoever I want to feature here on this very
brand or new single out there called Gave Me the Gun.
At Recording, it's Jenna Li Master here to the backstage past. Gena.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How you doing, Brandon, I'm doing good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's good. You know that the weather's finally changing. We're
getting that fall feeling. I'm sure Tennessee's the same way too.
And I missed Tennessee this time of year, but walked
outside this morning and I went fifty four degrees. I
was like, finally falls here.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Finally. I feel like it has been one hundred and
ten degrees in Nashville for like the past six months.
But it's starting to cool off here too. It's actually
raining today, so I'm kind of thankful for the change
of weather.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, it's nice. And the wind picks up now and
it starts to blow, and you're like, my trash can
was not in that position. It was only but I
do have it now, so okay. I guess somebody had
moved it, or a neighbor, or the wind maybe blew
it over. Either way, it's it's back in its original position.
Fall is here. Hey, let's get to know you. I
love your story, the fact that you came from that
rodeo background, and ye loving both passions between that and
(01:52):
music kind of tell the listeners a little bit about
the story a little bit. You you are kind of
chasing one dream, always having the recording artist kind of
in the back of your mind, and then physically having
to stop and kind of, you know, actually pursue that
that one that you love the most. I'm sure it's
hard to differentiate between the two, but talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
For me, Yeah, absolutely. I grew up in a little
town in northern California called Placerville. It's pretty much right
between Tahoe and Sacramento, and grew up in a big
rodeo family, me and my siblings. I have siblings that
are triplets. We started competing in rodeo goodness, I don't.
(02:28):
I think I was eight and pretty much competed my
whole life from then on. And there wasn't a huge
music scene in northern California. I grew up singing in church,
but just you know, I didn't know if that was
going to be in the cards for me. I always
knew that I was passionate about singing. Obviously, country music
(02:51):
rodeo go hand in hand together, and yeah, it wasn't
until after I turned eighteen I went on the road
with my sister. We both went on the PRCA circuit,
so we were barrel racing. We'd moved to Texas to
be more centrally located, and I was working for a
(03:13):
horse trainer in Texas, and you know, on the weekends
that the rodeos, they would have these cowboy church services,
and a lot of the times they wouldn't have any
worship beforehand. So I was like, you know what, that's silly.
Like I grew up singing in church. I'll learned to
play the guitar. I have my grandpa's guitar and the
horse trailer. Anyway, let me learn and I'll do that.
(03:33):
So that's kind of where like my country music story
somewhat started, was just leading worship at Cowboy Church on
the weekends. And once I learned to play the guitar,
it was like, oh, man, I cannot put it down.
So i'd been competing was pretty competitive, as in you know,
(03:55):
my younger years of high school rodeo and junior rodeo
and all that. The professional level was kind of kick
my butt a little. I was having a tough time
and it was during that time that I was just like, man,
I feel my passion for music growing. Once I picked
up the guitar, it was like I need to learn
(04:16):
every country song I ever knew, and I kind of
became the girl after the rodeo that I was like, Hey,
you know, we're having a campfire, Go get your guitar
and the horse trailer and let's play some songs. So
it was just kind of like I felt that passion
growing and my passion for rodeo dying, which honestly, it
was just kind.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Of like.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I had set up. I saw the dream for the
rodeo stuff. You know, I had dreams of making it
to the NFR and you know, just creating a career
out of that. To actually have to face that and
be like, man, I feel like I'm called to do
something else, like and I feels a little scary because
I don't really know much about the other's but I'm
(05:00):
in the business of risking it all anyway, might as well.
And so any who, I was working for the horse
trainer in Texas and he was like, you know, I
really think that you ought to consider pursuing music full time,
and yeah, thanks to him, I didn't know what that
(05:21):
looked like. But one thing led to another, and I
wound up in Nashville and had been writing and singing
ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, beautiful story too it And I tell you what
you mentioned working with horses too at the same time.
That's such a very tough job, first of all, because
I've got a good friend of ours here in the
family too that just loves writing and she does barrel
racing too at the same time, And they got her
in at a very young age too, and she's really
stuck to it too. But also working with horses, and
I see how things overlap with rodeo and music too.
(05:49):
There's a lot of good therapy in that too. But
there's also a lot of life lessons learned that probably
you took from working with horses and into now just
being working with animals in general, into being an artist now.
And I'm sure Patient has to be one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's so funny. I feel like when I first moved
to Nashville, I was a little bit overwhelmed because I'm like, WHOA,
I moved to this town where you know, the best
of the best of their hometowns all moved here to
do the same thing. And it was like I kept
meeting people that were like, I've been doing this since,
you know, I was two years old, and I'm like,
oh boy, I'm behind. I got a late start. But
(06:22):
I think as the longer that I've been here, the
more I've been grateful for the way that I was raised.
And you're right. I mean, it's a lot of hard work.
And there was a time when I think we were
up to forty horses, and so it was like, you know,
it's cleaning stalls, it's feeding animals, it's all the brunt
(06:44):
work that a lot of people don't really see behind
the scenes of that. It really did prepare me for
my time in Nashville. And yeah, I'm thankful because by
the time that I got here, I had lived life
and actually had stories that I wanted to tell.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The time that I learned the craft, it was like,
oh man, I've been there, I've done this, I've rodeoed
all over the country.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I could.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I know, you know, let's thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Let's go and do it too well. I'll tell you what.
It's songs like this. While we had to have her
here on the backstage past. It came out last September.
I love this song too. A truth is and sometimes
it was the two hardest words that are out there
in life in general general Little Master here the backstage past.
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Speaker 4 (08:02):
The sun's burning out and the world's on fire. The
Devil's pinning lives on.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
The internet wire.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You only get heard if you all reel out. The
bottom's falling out of the middle ground. Guns ain't the
only thing killing our kids. Daddy can't shine more real, mannis.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The rich stay rich and the poor steeple.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
They're making us sick and seal and us the cure.
But God still.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Real's still good and we know how it ends at
the end of the.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Group lives still hard.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It always if there ain't nothing new underneath that sun.
We've seen all the stays of war and them the
helling back again.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
If we made it through that, we'll make it through.
Throwing out blame.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
And their pessingal pills, prett new money in my pain,
old bills. The dinner table's gone and they're closing church doors.
They don't lot Us talking about him anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
God still real, I'm still good.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
And bring on our it ends at the end of
the book live still it always wise. You're carrying up
the new and need that song. We've seen all the stays,
more in hate than the hell, and back again the
(09:54):
true things. If we made it through that, we'll make it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Say the worst is man or as bad a sick be.
Maybe I'm the crazy one.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Believe, have still believed.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I have believe.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
God still real, Love still good. We know how it
is at the end of the book.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Loves still hard, always well, marry nothing new underneath that Son.
We've seen off the stays, more orang than the hell,
back again the truth things. If we made it through that,
(10:50):
we'll make it through.
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Speaker 14 (14:32):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Pass powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Back your general and master on the show The Backstage Past,
KYBN ninety eight point one, your bay Area broadcasting network
out there to love the Bay Area and all the
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top search podcast on iHeartRadio Podcast. I love this one
because it was really the two words that we all
(15:07):
kind of need to hear. Jenna. I think it was
fantastic and sometimes we need to accept that this song
truth is. I want to know the backstory and kind
of where you came up with this particular idea for
such a great song.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, you know, as songwriters, a lot of us write
if we're not on the road. We write Monday through Friday,
and so that's a lot of songs to come up with.
But I think every time we go into the room
with other co writers. We hope to have some ideas
stored up. A lot of us keep notes on our
phones when you know it could be anything somebody says,
(15:42):
you know, just hits you a certain way, and so
you write it down and you're like, man, I think
that could be a song. That happens a lot. But
on this day, I had walked in with my co
writers Lee Starr and Whitney Duncan. They're two dear friends
of mine, and none of us really had an idea
for the day, and it doesn't always happen that way,
(16:04):
but we just kind of talked about, you know, the
way the world was and what we were all going through,
and it just kind of felt like a like a
therapeutic day for us, just being able to we were
feeling about things. I'm trying to remember if we were
in twenty twenty or if it was just shortly after
twenty twenty, and it was like, man, the world feels crazy.
(16:26):
I kind of feel though like the world maybe has
always been crazy and just continues getting crazier. But I
think that was our way of processing everything that was
going on, and it was just one of those that
felt special when we got done, and I'd played it
for my team and my management and they're like, man,
(16:47):
they loved it, and so I was lucky to get
to record that one and put it out.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, it's a great song. It's hit a lot of
great people too out there and really can resonate with
something like that about life and Jay you mentioned a
keyword there. Team. I can't do it without a producer,
a marketing director, people behind the scenes. When I can
do these shows and put out a lot per week,
but without it going to production and you know, things
that get de nooised or for your sake, you know
the team where you send a single to work in
the studio to mix and master something and get it
(17:17):
down to the right producer to work on these singles.
Talk about that from just your your management team to
production to people you hire people that are on your
team to put out a song, because that's such an
integral part of what you do as an artist.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, Yes, Yes, I love getting to highlight every single
person because it's so true. There is so many people.
You know, by the time that we actually put out
the song, it's every musician that played on the song,
it is the producer, it's your publisher, it's your manager,
it's your photographer that shot the cover art, everybody that
(17:51):
shot content for the song, graphic designer, website people. It's like, man,
there is so many moving parts to just even releasing
a song, and they're all so crucial. I just feel
so blessed that I have been able to kind of
(18:12):
put together this team of people that I just admire
and respect so much. They're all hustlers. My manager is incredible.
I got to meet her through putting out my very
first song completely independently. It's a song called Drunk Thoughts.
You know, I've been in Nashville eight nine years now,
(18:36):
and I came here to hopefully be able to put
out my music one day. But I came here and
really got plugged into songwriting and was very fortunate. I'm
so grateful for the cuts that I've gotten as a songwriter.
Speaker 13 (18:52):
I love.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Writing. I love storytelling. That will always always kind of
be my first loved business, I guess. But I got
to go into the studio and record some songs, and
Drunk Thoughts was one of them that I was like,
you know, I would really love I'd love to be
able to put out my own music. Let's just see
what happens. And I put out that song and that
(19:17):
got the attention of my now manager, Martie mclymon at Maverick,
and she also manages Brooks and dun and Terry Clark
and she had found you know, the song organically and
was like, hey, what are you doing? You know, do
you have management? And so she has. She has changed
my life for sure, her and her in that song,
(19:40):
just putting out the first one. You know, I've gotten
to I've gotten to do some cool things, and I've
gotten to now open for Terry and Brooks and done,
and I got to go on my first tour with
Ian Munsick out West. He's awesome, incredible. I got to
play the rhymen for the first time, which was insane,
like so crazy. So yeah, it takes so many people
(20:05):
to make all of those things happen. And I'm just so.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Grateful, well and well deserved too at the same time
to come from someone here who's you know, paid their
dues in this business that continues to pay their dues.
And you climb the ladder and just because you've reached
the top of the mountain, you get knocked off. You
got to find a way to climb back up to.
And I can see this added to that list there too,
if it hadn't been already, or at least it hadn't
been discussed. There's going to be a siding one day
that I'm gonna have to be there in the front
road to say genital a master and grand old Opry
(20:32):
now that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Hope, Man, I can't. I don't know, I don't know.
I sure hope. So because that, oh I can't, I am.
I've gotten. I've gotten to watch a lot of my
friends make their opry debutes, which has been so special.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When I first moved here, there's a group of girls that,
you know, none of us had anything going on, and
we were just basically surfing on each other's couches and
dreaming of someday, you know, when something actually hits. And
so I've gotten to watch a lot of them make
their operativities Ashland Kraft, Casey Tindall, Lannie Wilson, Megan Patrick,
(21:17):
and it's just been kind of fun. And it's like, man,
I just you know, you watch each of them get
emotional when they stand into the circle, and I'm like, man,
I can't. I've gotten emotional every time I've watched them.
I can't imagine, you know, me actually getting to stand
in there, So I hope so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I just make predictions. When I had Lani back on
in December of twenty twenty before she kind of blew
up there, I kind of made that same prediction on
there too, So you're going to blow up in the
next year or two. And so I've been known to
make a few good predictions here on this very show.
So hopefully that's Hey.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Too. Gendler Master and grand Old Opery go together. Well,
I'll tell you what. Speaking of that too as well,
those ladies out there and just life in general. She sings,
uh from the heart to we always need more of them,
and you're gonna get that here from Genital Master KYB
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and our friends again the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
If you're on that very website, you can watch these
(22:13):
two music videos too at the same time. Of course,
in your car the MP three and the song versions
out there too. For all the great work the artists
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Speaker 4 (22:48):
Gloves and the roo pic shows from the day I
Got That's Over and then the keepball try from the
Three Legged Dog Main Happy.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
They took a tip stuck in a farm truck to
get to falling in love with the post name Jones.
I wish I could take the credit book I didn't
get here on my home.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
A little WI don't let'll tag.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
A little easy nothings to been on a strong ta, a.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Little a little back home, a little sounded like the
mama on the telephone. I got a lot of folks
to think and water two the flame for the good
and bad never twine. These days when I look in.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
The mirror, I see more them then me. I've got the.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
As in my blood and ready around from the shiving,
I got a tending my car, and I'm breaking my
heart from the grown ass, for there wasn't ready and who.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Knews I hadn't turned down with I would have been
name he didn't name. Yeah, it'd be a lot of things.
I sure wouldn't be.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Me A little wild, a little tame.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
A little easy messits and been on a strong.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Drink a little, a little back home a little.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Sounded like my mom on the telephone. I've got a
lot of folks to think, one or two to blame.
Couldn't I never train me? These days?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
When I look in the mirror, I see more than
than me.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Oh that a wild don't it? A tag on it?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
An easy? Does it sit? Then on the strong thing?
Does it on.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
A little back home ale? It'll sound like my mama
on the telephone. I got a lot of folks that
think and want or to the flame for the doesn't
that never between?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
These days? When I look in the mirror, I see.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
More than then memm more of them, then.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
More then more then more of them? Then?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
What's up?
Speaker 14 (26:41):
Y'all?
Speaker 15 (26:42):
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Hey y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Rainer Roberts and
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Speaker 14 (28:28):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Pass powered by The
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And back here the Backstage Past Genital Master joining us
here on the show. Here KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area broadcasting network, and out there to our
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so watch out for that disclaimer too as well. Wouldn't
(29:01):
be surprised if we add more out there too going
into twenty six. Out There, I love this one. You
mentioned about just loving songwriting and just have it tell
a story if there ever was one, and you've done
that with a lot of your cuts, but this one,
more of them, was Man, those songs, it just every
time you hit the chorus, everything that you said coming
out to about what you were talking about when you
(29:22):
said more of them, it really caught me and I
put it on the l PA speaker. The Bow's out
there too. I was like, you know what, really going
to crank this up and dive deep into the song.
And this cut really did it for me.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It did thank you that really means a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That was a fun one. I got that idea.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I was doing my makeup in the mirror, and it
was when we were out on the road. One of
my best friends, Fan Rachel's, she was doing her makeup
and she's like, man, I looked just like my mother,
and I was doing mine and I'm like, well, I
look just like my father. So I don't know, you
know what's worse here. But as I was thinking about it,
I'm like, you know what the truth is. I think
(30:04):
as I'm getting older, I'm realizing that when I look
in the mirror, I see a lot of people and
a lot of people that have poured into my life
and made me who I am, the good, bad, the ugly.
You know, my family, my everything, the pets I've had,
the friends that don't meet, you know, every single person.
(30:25):
It's like, man, I'm starting to I think it was
just like I think we should all be proud of
who we are when we look in the mirror. It's
I think all of us have a story that you
know took us. Maybe we took a few turns to
get to where we're at, but that's kind of where
that's where that song originated. I brought that idea into
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our room with Wyat mccobn, he's a great songwriter in town,
and Jason Nicks, who's also a great songwriter in town,
and and yeah, we finished it, and we all kind
of high fived after because I was like, man, I think.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We I think we nailed it on this one, no doubt,
toun And you mentioned that name. Yeah, why mccobn, one
of my good friends out there to a tremendous talent
and a great songwriter in his own right. This last single, too,
which came out in June, another just storytelling aspect in itself,
What Country music is Too, gave me the gun. Let's
let's dive into this one a little bit too.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, that one, I just had that title in my
phone and we kind of crafted a story around the title.
I was writing with Whitney Duncan, who I write with
quite a bit, and another girl named Lydia Vonn who's incredible.
I'm sure you know all these writers I mean again,
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I try to mention the songwriting community as much as possible,
because there's just I mean, they're the best of the
best here. They're incredible storytellers. And so we just kind
of we took that title and ran with it. We
wrote it on a rainy day, a lot like the
rain outside today. But yeah, I think one of the
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things I love about songwriting is you have an idea
or something and you try to turn it or you
try to you know, just craft a story or make
a new metaphor or something that that is that's so
much fun to me. And so.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
That's what we did with that with that title the
Great Titles. And another one too I'm sure you'll had
fun with was a single that was this year too
as well. Can't recall two words that go together such
as holy smokes, and I think does that to be
interested to hear the backstory of this one too, because
I'm sure you this was just a great story to
put to a song, and I'm sure sometimes I know
that it's like the most unorthodox situations where you come
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up with these ideas and I'm not sure this is
one of them, but I want to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I know you know that one is hilarious. I wrote
it with Dan Wilson and Joseph Patten to close friends
of mine, two Christian guys, and I think we, I
honestly think we got started talking about what heaven might
look like when we get there. You know, the Bible
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kind of talks about it but leaves a lot of
you know, there's also a lot that we don't know
about what heaven might look like. And I probably joked
and said, I don't know, but I think my first
question is will there be wine? And uh, I think
Joseph said, I don't know, will there be cigarettes? And
you know, leave it to a group of songwriters to
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be like, huh, I wonder if there's something in here.
But I love that song. It has it has kind
of a feel of my influences. Liamn Womack is definitely
at the top of people that influenced me, but a
lot of artists in the nineties did and and it
just felt like, you know, kind of a nod to
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to that, to that era and that part of who
I am. So that was that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, I love it too. I've alsos often wondered it
to myself you know, just being a faithful and just
believing that power. You start going, yeah, what is heaven like?
And you mentioned some of that too as well, about
the cigarettes and wine, and I just I'm like, you
know what, just give me a place to have fun
with and just a big old I don't know why
I've always said this, but I want a swimming pool, Hey,
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I want Yeah, I just want to swim all day
and like hang out by the water and or the
water falls and just enjoy the scenery and nature when
we arrive through those pearly gates and not have a
care in the world. And that's just I don't know,
I've often often wondered that too.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You know that is the truth.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I know the song, you know, the song comes from
a place of heartbreak, of feeling like I'll never get
over you, even in heaven when we all know I
don't think we're gonna be worried about much in heaven.
But but yeah, if anybody can build a cool swimming pool,
I would bet I bet God can.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
For sure carest some type of I guess a body
of water with a different name that's yeah on Earth
or something like that too. Hey, you looking at about
what's next as we close this year and get into
twenty twenty six. What are you most looking forward to?
More single releases, LPEP full length album? Tell us about that?
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What you can't.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You know at this point with just the way releasing
music kind of goes. I feel like we've had some
luck with releasing singles and kind of being able to
get people's attention span that quickly. You know, a lot
of people we have the range all over the market
from people releasing singles to release in you know how
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many songs from Morgan's record thirty something. You know, that's
a ton of songs. But you know there's a project
in the future coming for sure. But we are going
into the studio in less than a month, so we're
gearing up for some new music. And I can't really
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share much past that, but I'm so excited for for
new songs. I think, you know, I've really hunkered down
and been writing a lot and just trying to beat
out everything I have and and writing some songs that
really say something and tell a story. So I'm excited
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to get to share those with with everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, it means you have to come back here on
the show. And you keep me busy with more releases
and more talking about music and playing it on videos,
and that's what's what are They keep me in business.
That's the good thing about it out there too, and
sponsors keep paying for the advertising. So you see, it's
a nice little will oiled greasy machine. Is the squeaky wheel.
A sweet squeaky wheel gets the grease. Lady once told
me one time too that kind of keeps it in place.
And I have that on tape that she used that
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very saying right here on this show.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That squeaky and she squeaks quite a bit now she
is always squeaking.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
She sure is no doubt about it too. How you
mentioned cuts as a songwriter too, Which one of those
songs are songs out there too, whether it be one
or two, are you most proud of too? Because I
know you had a publishing gill you probably still do
at the same time when you got to town there too,
and I love reading that story. But the cuts that
got picked up by other artists that you were a
got the songwriter credit on which ones are you most
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proud of?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I think the first song, my first major label cut
was a song called Your Mama still does that I
wrote with Jonathan's Singleton. It was my first rite with
Jonathan and it was before I signed with his company
at the time, and that was an outside cut by
an artist named ashland Craft, who was incredible. I was
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such a big fan and it was just kind of like,
that song I think will always be very special to
me because it was it was validating. It was my
first like, hey, you might actually be able to do it,
So that song will always be special. I had a
cut come out recently on Jake Gorthington's record with a
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song that I wrote I wrote with him and Marty Stewart,
which was incredible, mind blowing. I've been a fan of
Marty's for a long time. I actually got to tell him.
I was like, Marty, I went to your show and Jackson, Mississippi,
because you were playing at the rodeo I was competing at,
so like the stage lowered in the middle of the
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rodeo arena and I remember I was sitting there on
my horse being like, WHOA, that's so cool. I'm like,
so to get to sit here in the room with
you is crazy, So that one's special. Yeah, I guess
those those two would probably be my favorite at the moment,
but but I'm thankful.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I'm gonna let you know a little secret too. Marty
Stewart's actually coming here on this very show in a
few weeks, so we we gotta. I'll tell you more
about that off air, but it's just a little secret
that is out there. And yeah, we're gonna that's amazing there.
And I'm gonna say, you know what, one of your
biggest fans was on with this gener little master on
the yeah path, So put it in, you know, just
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two words and that Tali role here on the show.
That's just what I do.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
So you're the man.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
You're the man I'm driving to be, no doubt. Hey,
when you get some of the downtime and you kind
of step away, I know from for me, it's like,
you know, doing this radio show and things like that,
I like to go, you know, hiking or fishing or
doing something out there with the little one, even kicking
the ball outside playing soccer, get off the grid and
kind of do something. What do you kind of dive
into for hobbies and things you like to do when
not doing music.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah, you know, I I think the horse, you know,
coming from a ranching, background, lifestyle, all of that. That's
always like my sense of peace. I feel like it
brings me back home. It recenters me anything really, getting
outside honestly, fishing. I've started doing a little bit of
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turkey hunting. That's been a lot of fun, really getting
out there, getting to go ride. And there's a place
in town that I still go to and ride some
and that's just always it's good for the soul to
kind of get away from the music stuff for a while.
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Go get some more stories, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Stay busy with the next cuts. Now do I get
those stories and bring into life too at the same time.
All right, there's no shortage of food in that town.
I love it there. It seems like it's a test
market now for either big chains or local restaurants to
come through there and put their flavor out there. And
I guess they know how tough it is to make
it in that town from a restaurant standpoint, much less
as an artist even owning a restaurant, can only imagine
how much harder that is too. But I loved it.
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Got to try. Let's see, there was this place in
Germantown three one two pizza. It was actually pretty good.
It had some some Chicago style with the owners from Chicago,
okay for deep dish, and I think this time was
of course, I already settled my hot chicken debate years
ago and people can argue about that. I still love
Hatty Bees. That's still my favorite. And then Staple or Diner.
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I believe it was just off Broadway there, the diner
with you go up to the top the yeah, yeah,
pretty good food. Actually ate pretty healthy that day of salad.
Where do you like to kind of go out and
and eat those places? Others tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Oh man, don't get me started on this. Now a
girl likes food. Let me think favorites. Okay, there is
oh boy, let me think. Let me think. Okay, let's
start here for sandwiches. Like I'm a big like if
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you can make a great sandwich, I'm in.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
There's a place called Fat Belly Deli. Fat Belly Pretzel Deli.
Fat Belly Deli came remember somewhere around there East Nashville.
It's hands down best sandwich in town. I think that's
where all start. They have opened actually an Italian place
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in Germantown called Polado. It started in Chicago, it's incredible.
It's kind of like small plates, so you get different
stuff and share. That's my favorite way to go out
and eat with friends and stuff is you know, everybody
trying something new and that place. There's a place called
Noco and it's like Asian fusion. That place is incredible.
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I'll have to think I could. I mean, I could
write a list. Okay, you put me on the spot now,
but I could. I could talk about the food around
here all day. Martin's Martin's Barbecue is a staple obviously,
like Hattie Bees.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, those are Martin's. I got there the first cr
as we were there doing the show, the radio show
Live from Nashville too at the same time, and I said, man,
Martin's was one of the first barbecue places I had
to someone take me there and say, Brandon, you got
to try this, and it was. It was really good.
I can't deny that. Martin's. Those baked beans, my friend, the.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Baked beans, calm on incredible.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Those were really really good out there too. All right,
if you weren't a working musician, I mentioned you mentioned Rodeo.
Was there another Was it Rodeo pretty much or was
there another career path. You were like, you know, with rodeo,
I could have done this. What would this have been?
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It probably it would have been in some capacity of
the horse world, rodeo horse training, you know, given barrel
racing lessons. That was kind of that was kind of
my original plan, even moving to Nashville. You know, I
was working for a cutting horse trainer in Texas and
was like, Okay, I think I'm really going to make
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the move to Nashville, but I don't know what I'm
going to do when I you know, I got to
have a job when I get there, and he connected
me with a cutting horse trainer out here and I worked.
I worked on the farm for the first full year
I was in town, and you know, that's a lot
of hard work that I think we had forty horses
in training and it was just me and the head trainer,
so a lot of a lot of weeks. It was
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seven days a week and fourteen hour days, and so
I kind of, you know, I guess that's the only
other thing I'm really decent at. Maybe, but that's what
I would That's what i'd probably do. But I'm from
a family of entrepreneurs, and everybody's always you know, finding
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something new to do. I'm sure who knows, who knows?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah, I just to go into the no pun intending
when I'd say that, it's always all due respect the
medical business, the a lawyer, let's see, an accountant, two doctors,
one doctor, a cousins, wise cousins, and it was all
the upper hierarchy. I mean, I've done some of the education.
I've done teaching things like that, which I still can
you stay in And then now it's like, you know,
it's this radio thing, and I could have gone to
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medical school, but you know, it just it wasn't for me.
So it was like, just do this radio thing, and
I think it's gonna work out. Okay, So so far
it's been been pretty pretty good out there too, So
I think you you chose the Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's awesome. Also, like I just think that's so cool
anybody that has, you know, a drenaem and a passion
and the fact that you have you've built you've built
your thing up pretty dang high, and like that's it's
so cool. It's so encouraging and inspiring to a lot
of people. It doesn't matter what you know, what it
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is that you want to do, It's like, man, anybody,
anybody can do anything they want. They put their mind
to it and they can do it. So I think
that's awesome. I think a lot. I think a lot
of you and how you've built up, built up your passion.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Really it's a one hundred percent I agree with that.
It's definitely one of those things not for the faint hearted.
But you got to go after what you want to
go after, because, like you said, we're guarantee that one
ride around the sun. At the same time, we all
wonder what heaven looks like up there too. We're gonna
find out one day, no doubt about it too. And
I'll tell you what, you just got to swing for
the fans, and you've done that too, And this music
is so fantastic. Glad to share it to my listeners
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out there too, in the different radio markets in the
different countries worldwide. Gave me the gun, the current single
across all the DSPs out there, all the songs available
for digital streaming. And you know what, while you're at it,
I'm always out there. Jenna Lomaster dot com. Make sure
you guys check it out there. Fantastic website. Read about
the story listen to the show, and of course out
there check out tour dates and if there's any merchandise
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out there, I'll be wearing a Jenna Master T shirt.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Next let's you, Hey, I'll hook you up.
Speaker 14 (46:32):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Hook me up there, my friend. Hey, we appreciate you
being with us. Really songs that speak from the heart,
continued success, going forward, live out those dreams, and always
come back here on the show. Hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Thank you so much, Brandon. I'm looking forward to next
time already.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
You got it. Jenna Lomaster out there, make sure you
guys go check her out. Across all the DSPs. We're
back with more great artists and yeah, we'll let you
know when Marty Stewart's coming here on the Backstage pass again.
Thanks to our affiliates KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area Broadcasting Network, the Sports Guys Podcast dot com,
iHeartRadio podcast, and Tarheel Worldnetwork dot Org. Will catch you
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on the next episode. Until then, God bless take care.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
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