May 16, 2025 • 32 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Jessica Willis Fisher talks about her sophomore album, Blooming! Check it out across all of the digital streaming platforms! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Jessica Willis Fisher and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in KYBN ninety eight point one.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always the busy day
full of shows and of course some may is oppon.
It's hard to believe single demayo and we'll be calling
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out there too and bringing you the best of the
(00:34):
best artists. He's got a brand new album coming out
May sixteenth across all the DSPs. If you pre order now,
you'll get four songs on there too as well, including
a couple we're going to play today on the show,
The Wonderful Jessica Willis Fisher to the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How you doing, my friend, so good?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Thank you so much for having me and chatting about
this project that I'm so excited about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, let's talk about this first.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I want to get your background and for the folks
and listeners that may not know the name Jessica Willis Fisher.
The connection to music from an early age. I'm always
just very much inclined to hear that story. What made
you tick and how music shaped you as a young
one growing up.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, if we were to break down the recipe, there
were a few key ingredients. I had some family members
that was in music, that were in music, you know,
including a great grandmother. My parents both were musicians. Yeah,
I had multiple family members that were into music, and
so I was exposed in our home and in church
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to music, and not just by other people, but people
I knew and loved and were part of my family.
Another big influence early on was my parents went to
see river dance and they got us into Irish dance thing.
And then our Irish dance teacher got us into the music,
and so we started playing traditional Irish folk music when
I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And when we moved to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
When I was a little bit older, right around nine
years old, there was of course the exposure to all
the music in this town which leans bluegrass and country
and all of that. Yeah, and then I had a
stint with my family band in my teen and early
adult years where I was the lead singer, primary songwriter,
and fiddle player. So that's sort of the overview of
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my musical influences and journey.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I like that too, such as that big time a
smorgasboard of everything there. When it comes down to it,
let's talk about this record here before we play some
songs there too. I love it mentioned there too. With
the producer always important, choosing the right producer for any
type of project, no matter how long somebody has done
this thing called music or if they're just getting into it.
Ben Fowler and picking the right producer for this upcoming record, Blooming,
(02:45):
which is coming out in May sixteenth, tell people kind
of what it was like to work with Ben on
this record and finding the right producer, how much how
key that was.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So this is my second project with Ben, and my
experience has been you know, I care about making the
you know, I care about the end product and how
the song is, you know, each song and the project
is going to turn out. I also have a really
high priority of trying to just work with good human
beings as well. I've certainly experienced, you know, achieving some
(03:16):
cool things, but a lot of toxicity mixed in there
with my upbringing and the family band days and my
dad in particular, So it really means a lot to
me when I can work with someone who makes the
process really smooth and positive, challenges me in the right ways,
but is overall uplifting and encouraging and just a real champion.
(03:37):
And Ben has been that from when I first met him.
This is our second project. Both of my solo records
have been with Ben. We happen to live like half
a mile away from each other. I did not know
that when my husband and I bought our house, but
it has worked out very well for me and makes
our collaboration pretty natural and easy. And I first met
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him through my now father in law and manager. They
had worked cross paths, worked with each other back in
the day. They've both been in the industry for a while,
and you know, I really didn't know him from Adam,
but he was interested in hearing the songs that I'd
worked up for my first record. I showed him and
it was really a whirlwind because he was like, Okay,
(04:20):
we can start working on this in a few weeks.
And I was just looking for someone that was willing
to do it. And was going to believe in me,
and you know, that was almost like a blind date
or something, you know, and like we went into this
project and so we know each other a lot better
and have had more time to get to know each
other and to work together to bring the second album
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into existence.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Exciting times, no doubt, to come out May sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We'll give you a little preview of this coming up
today with one song that's already out, and of course
the other song which is out there across all the
DSPs too as well. I heard you were influenced, So
I guess the little Birdie told me Celtic music and
I can hear some of that in the tracks. Talk
about this and the influence of just Celtic music. First
of all, I love that Celtic just the word and
a sell too because so much heritage is involved with
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that in so many different genres of music that you
hear now and depending on what you listen to at
the same time. But I love this and why Celtic music, Well,
I think it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Was that early exposure to the dance and all those
tunes that I learned, you know, hundreds and hundreds of
one hundred year old tunes that you get in your
fingers and then I think it sort of gets in
your blood, and I would go over. I've been over
to Ireland twenty seven times to compete and to study
and to learn. It's called Sean O's style, and you
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sing a cappella and it's really intricate. And when I
listen to someone that I love, like Dolly Parton, I
do hear, you know, like those Celtic sensibilities that came
over to Appalachia and ended up in old time and bluegrass,
and at some point when you get down to the roots,
you know, there's a lot of crossover. And I just
love anything with deep routs. So I really love when
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people can hear that peeking through even some of my
more accessive, you know, fun hopefully fresh takes, I'm still
drawing on those those deep roots.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, I love this too, and you hear it in
the album out there too again blooming across all the
digital streaming platforms too. We gotta play one for you
here kk TC True Country ninety nine point nine, out
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by that and we're gonna do one called Dogwood. Here
(06:28):
it is Jessica Willis Fisher the Backstage Pass, Day two.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm not an oak tree standing full and t I'm
a red one growing all to bullet all and will
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center in oh And I am not in the span
with a lovely silver scin. But in the spring there's
no one that can match me.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
A come on off and white is all you see.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Bring me in.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I'm not the winters over. If I had a wooden bruise,
a branch of his.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Butter and blooms, I'd be a dog white tree.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I'm not a pile or three varginy pie. It's hard
to find love, but with the.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Flower quite like my.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Crimson in the corners, weird moans, with pride, believing in
the beauty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Of many tears. I cried the spray. I'm living in
my glory in the sun. I go another year.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Every rad will tell the sacred story.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
If I had woden rooms, the branch hoops but compus,
I'd be a.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Talkwood treat.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Made me all come back again, and after riding gone
assembling from the yard.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
When the journey Carris, I'm not see as green as
over cold. Oh, I will faith to moving.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
This was always undurst.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Everyone's made up those who came afore. You count the
days you and you're always wanting more.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Spree. There's no one like match me.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
They come up and white is all you see, read
in and all the winters of. If I had Looden
Roots and branch is Boken blues Y talk wood treat,
(10:33):
if I had a London Roots branch is Boken Blooms,
I'd be talk Wood Tree.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville Recording Artists Aaron Give Me
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hey, back here on the show again.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jessica las Fisher joining us here on the Backstage Pass again,
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If you're looking for the podcast, you can find it
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mentioned here. Throughout the show, you mentioned how inspiring this was,
and this being the second full release of an album,
I can think of a better song to really describe
(11:20):
than dogwood, tell us, tell us all about this.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, that song is a great representation about the whole
theme and what the whole album is about. For me,
it's about growth and healing and coming into your own
and figuring out who you are and you know, doing
that being that shamelessly, you know, purposefully. And for me,
I've always loved dogwoods. They bloom around my birthday. I
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just had my birthday a few weeks ago, and dogwoods
aren't the biggest, strongest, you know, most flashy tree, but
when they are blooming, they are just breathtaking, you know,
and they so to have this imagery depending on which
species of dogwood you're looking at, that that looked like
this little blood prick, this little wound prick, this little
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thorn like. And to me, I feel like, uh, the
line I wear my wounds with pride was like a
really vulnerable and strong line all at the same time.
And it's like, it's okay that I don't you know,
I don't sound like or look like, or have the
same story as someone else, But this is my story
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and this is my voice, and this is what I
want to say with it. And so that is just
a sample of you know what we're doing across the
whole album.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, I heard you actually designed your own album cover.
Now that is itself being creatively creative. How did that work?
I want to get get creative. Let's talk about this,
go for it.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, So I'm obsessed with wildflowers, blooming trees, dogwoods, and
more so I for I was. I was homeschooled growing
up all the way through, for better or for worse,
the reading really strong if you had an interest in
something that was great. Few holes in some other areas.
But one year I got super into identifying all the
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wild flowers in the rural area that I lived. And
it's still something to this day. There's plenty. I don't know,
but I love going on hikes and just calling out,
you know, flower names and sort of you know, watching
the season go by and be like, ah, first you
have the dogwoods and the red buds and the cherry blossoms,
but then a few weeks later you have this and that.
(13:33):
And so I actually took sometimes just candid little phone
snaps or nice photos that my husband had taken, and
composited this, you know, just kind of diy album cover
that represented obviously the theme blooming. It's all these flowers, but
it also is just my nerdy geek. Out of all
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my favorite flowers, there's one that's both my husband and
I favorite thing, and we play a game every time
we hike just The game is called trillium, and trillium
is the type of wildflower. It has three different leaves
and a flower in the middle and it grows like
at the base of trees on like woodland trails and paths.
(14:15):
And I was almost sad, and I was like, wait,
we got to have trillium on there. So yeah, I
should do a breakdown of like all identify all the
different flowers on my album covered.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You should do that, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's very creatively creative how you can get with something
like that too at the same to have it get
Jessica Willis Fisher joining us here. The backstage pass blooming
across all the DSPs as of May sixteenth, So make
sure you guys get that for your listing pleasure. So
I've gotten this feel of a little bit of Dolly
and Allison Kraus and you've probably been told this too
from by a number of your fans and listeners out
(14:50):
there too. Two very well known country music singers Bloodgrass
out there for a long time. Does that kind of
fuel your fire in a way, or is it like,
you know, hearing those comparisons or some people like you know,
that's nice, but I'm kind of my own artist too
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Uh oh, I am delighted, And I have heard that before,
and I don't think it will will ever get old
I do. I mean kind of like we were talking
about with the song Dogwood, Like, I know I am
my own person, but I also know I'm not inventing anything.
I'm not inventing techniques. I'm not inventing new scales or
(15:27):
new chords, or new melodies or new emotions. We're all,
you know, storytellers and artists that are drawing on what
does it mean to what does it feel like to
be in love? What does it mean to suffer loss?
And we're all trying to contribute art that moves people
and makes people feel seen. And I personally love Dolly
and Alison. Alison in particular was one of my earliest influences,
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along with a bunch of Irish singers. Nicol Creek was
a really big influence. People that you know had clearly
studied a genre and you know, learned kind of how
to work within the rules, but then kind of break
the rules and cross boundaries. And some of these most
successful people that we're talking about here, but definitely artists
(16:14):
that I would inspire to sort of follow their path,
you know, to stick to your guns and your roots
and what you know and who you are, but to
let that reach as wide and as full as possible.
And I think it really resonates with people. I've always
kind of encounter people saying I don't necessarily like all
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Irish or Celtic music, but I like your music, or
I'm not into bluegrass, but I like your music, and
you know, just kind of or I'm not into country
or prop and I think it's interesting to sort of
be be the exception. I think there's a lot of
people that love alson Krause and otherwise their genre listening
habits are totally different. So anyway, yes, you compliment, they're
(16:56):
my favorites, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Give me a little take on just how great this
current female empowerment movement is for country music. I mean,
one name after another. Obviously, Laney's the kind of you know,
taking home all the hardware of the past two or
three years. Ella Langley blowing up now, just so many
great ladies, Ashley McBride, Carly Pearce, the names go on,
and I'll Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, so many of these
(17:21):
great ladies, and kind of when you see yourself in
the future of this, I could picture you in that
because the voice is so angelic and it's beautiful. I
love it with these songs and the connection you mentioned
through the storytelling, talk about just what that means to
you of being a female country music artist, and you
see those ladies doing so well in their career right now,
and kind of every dog has its day and they're like,
you know what, this female group is super talented.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I'm just a few of the names that you
had thrown out there. I've been able to cross paths
a little bit with them. There's certainly a lot of
people out there, I think making some great strides, and
I think we have a lot to say. And I
think it's a real shame whenever or you know, someone
isn't given the chance to use their voice. And you know,
(18:07):
I think the songs are what really keep me in this,
you know what it is. I'm here to say, it's
less about oh, I just got to be out in
front of people, or I just want to achieve, whether
it's that hardware, or whether it's that I want to
be on the radio, or I want to you know,
some external goal. It's more about, you know, I have
these things that I'm carrying, and I think what's really
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connecting for people is hearing women's stories, hearing women's experience articulated.
And if we don't get that in our platforms and
people don't make space for that, and people, you know,
discount and not you know, not let us in the room,
like we're missing out on half, Like we're half women
are half the world.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Of course we have things to say. Of course we
have things to contribute, and it is good to feel
like there's some momentum there. I also just think like
that can go backwards really quickly, and it's something that
we just have to hopefully accept and champion, just as
the way things are like that. Of course we're of
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course we have a seat at the table. Of course
we are allowed to tell our stories. It should be
that way.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It should be that way, no doubt. I love this one.
Build a house off the record too, pre order now
one of the ones you guys will get across all
the DSPs, the fans, the listeners out there. It really
encompasses life in a lot of ways, for this record,
for blooming and co menu on this song, for really
telling a beautiful story.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Thank you. It's a I think it's a funky little
song because it's sort of a folk like. The structure
feels kind of folk to me, kind of an aa
ba sort of thing, you know, not necessarily like a
super big hook and a super big chorus, but just
unfolding right in the way that life unfolds naturally. And
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I would sum up that song with saying, you know,
we don't, I don't know, we don't none of us
know what life is going to hold, what all adventures,
what all directions life is going to take us. But
I do know who I want to do that with.
And it's a love song that you know, when we
as long as humans are been alive, we've been talking
about love and approaching it from different angles. But for me,
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you know, certainty, the only certainty is change. And so
that was something that I've experienced in my relationship with
my husband is we've already lived a lot of life
together in kind of a short amount of time. We
really emphasize adventure, and we frequently look at each other
and like, should we just like move overy CDs or
like get a van or you know, and there's a
(20:40):
lot of things we talk about doing, and you know,
I can think of all of those and go, yeah,
like with you, let's do it like I you know,
it's more about we're each other's companion and we don't
have to know exactly what's around the corner. So I
just love finding little angles to talk about. It's life,
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it's love, you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Sure is a beautiful song there build a house And
now we're going to play a little song called June
from this record here Blooming Jessica Willis Fisher. The backstage passes.
June is right around the corner. Here it is from
the beautiful talented Jessica Willis Fisher. The backstage pass kk
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Speaker 3 (21:27):
Here it is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Here.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
You not good at the tour don't waiting anymore. Off,
oh jee the heart, I feel the change, shoes turning over,
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the page grown in the soil, long home loom.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's secsar waiting for the blooming.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
One more day, grounding in the green, keeping counting in between.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Don't be, don't be in all the way. Oh say,
it's the head of me jo. I hear you not
get at the door. Don't give me waiting any more.
Comes in my after choo. I need your flowers in July.
Give me your augustomer high. I'll see you soon.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Oh too, here for the summer.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I come lie.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I home in the heather and the hide till with
the door ran ring on the rain.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh, I'm ready for robing on the day. See me
with you to leave me behind? Well, you're rolling wild
in the grime.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
One mor day to bee all the way. Oh say,
it's the head of day choo. And here you're knocking
at the door.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Don't give me waiting any more. Come take my afternoon.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Look chum, I need job overs in July, and meet
your Ugese summer high.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I'll see you so, oh.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Chi, don't be, don't be alway?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Would you say it's the end o day, June, I
hear you knocking at the door.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Don't get me awaiting any more. Comesack my after.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
June.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I may joke thursan in July and the rougust Sunday,
I'll say, oh June.
Speaker 13 (24:45):
Hey, guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kersey Krauss and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast right
here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Welcome back to the show again, tune. I'll forget more
great shows coming up over the next few weeks as
we get into June. Of course, we'll be live at
CMA Fest coming up there at the Music City Center
of yours truly and Caiden Gordon and a whole lot
of great people out there too in Nashville, Tennessee out there.
CMA Fest twenty twenty five. Tickets available now packages cmafest
dot com. This was beautiful because I mentioned that month
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was right around the corner, June, and you know, this
one had a great feel to it as far as
you know, fitting a great portion of the record. How
would you describe this one in the storytelling behind the song?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
June?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, this is the energy, you know, I at my
husband at my husband and I's wedding part of At
one point I said something to him, you know, had
a message to him, and I was like, let's do
all the adventures. Just take me with you, right, and
that there's actually that line in the song take me
with you, don't leave me behind. And the song is
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just an anticipation for a season a person and I
tivity whatever it is that makes you feel most alive
and to feel you know, I personally feel like I'm
just coming into my prime. And you know, we were
just talking about women in the industry, women as artists,
so we run into these messages about you know, you
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have to be a certain age or you have to
look a certain way, and you know, I just reject
the idea that anyone else is in charge of that
except for me. I know who I am, I know
what I have, you know, to say, and I'm kind
of circling around that idea, keep bringing it back up
here in the in the interview. But yeah, I just
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wanted to capture that feeling about like, let's go on
an adventure. So you know, it's the analogy of a
season June. But you know, all that's allegory for whatever
it is that you feel that longing for, you want
to get up and go and have that adventure. And
obviously there's some fun fiddle in there too, which is
fun to kind of showcase and articulate that. I like
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when the words are saying something and then the musical
production and you know, if there's any sort of musical
hook or tune, I really like to feature that kind
of on equal footing. I think that's one of my
signature things.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You know, we talked a lot about Dolly and Allison
Kraus and all those great things, But was there one
or two, maybe three nineties country artists that necessarily have
to be female could be male too that really kind
of influenced you or you were like, you know what,
I had this person when they came out with a
new song, I had to like listen to this on
the radio or this record really impacted me and I
got to listen to the entire album and I still
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have that album today.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Who would that be?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
You know what's interesting is I actually was I was
born in the nineties. I was born in ninety two,
but it really wasn't until I got out of my
family's house that I really was in charge of what
I was allowed to listen to without getting super into it.
It was sort of a culture sort of situation by
the end, and being extremely religious and extremely homeschooled, we
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weren't allowed to listen to music or books or movies
or anything that wasn't okay by my parents. So through
most of the nineties there was zero zero country music
in our house. And there was, like I said, like
some of those folkier artists like Alison and Nickel Creek,
John Denver was in there, but like we weren't listening
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to contemporary stuff that was on the radio. So still
to this day, when I encounter stuff, I have a
little bit of a hard time placing when it was
coming out because I wasn't keeping track at the time.
This is not country, but I will single out somehow.
The one band that was able to kind of get
through was The Course, and they are an Irish band.
They are not a country band, but they were taking
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their you know, Irish music sensibilities and putting it into
these David Foster produced some of their albums, and you know,
when I do now listen to like I don't know,
Shanaia or different people that were blending, you know, like
pop and country, and I hear a lot of those
same things, where like there's a really good fiddle tune
and then there's really good harmonies and really catchy production.
(29:04):
A lot of the modern stuff that I like tends
to be Americana and ROOTSTI And when when I hear
that nineties pop and that nineties country come on that
that hits like a nostalgic thing because it makes me
think of the cores. And I just was sad that
I missed out at the time, because I think it's
some really fun music.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's great music too, and like I said, hey know
oninge where you came from knowing your roots and then
getting a chance to spread your wings and fly a
little bit and discover that too, gets around to it
is a beautiful thing. Let me ask you about this
as we kind of closed the show to get the
album Blooming comes out across all the DSPs Base sixteenth
pre order, Now get those four songs we had talked about, Dogwood,
build a House, find a Lover, and Honest across all
the DSPs. Now looking back at it for fun, I
(29:48):
guess you mentioned family, their husband and of course a family,
some things you like to do when not doing music, hobbies,
things like that, oh so many.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And I must say I feel like I have been
having a a whole season of getting more into all
of my hobbies. I don't know what it is about.
Maybe it's just spring. Maybe it's that I'm putting out
a record that I really care about. But I have
some long standing loves like reading. I love being outside nature,
I love traveling. I also have loved food for a
(30:18):
long time. And I am on that sourdough train. Man,
I'm always baking something. There's even an allusion to baking
in build a House. It sounds very domestic for the
first verse, of course, the next versus, let's travel the
world and never look back. I also carve leather, and
I'm making myself. I've made straps for everybody else, but
(30:38):
I'm just now making my own first guitar strap for me.
I've taken up crocheting. Yeah, it's it's like a pick
pick a craft around here. I try, you know, I
at least dabble with it all. And I'm also writing
a novel on the side, so you know, throw author
in there. It's not exactly a hobby. It's more like
a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, all the things, all those things. Entrepreneur, jack of
all trades too, they say. When it comes down to
it again, the album comes out Call Blooming across all
the DSPs as of May sixteenth. Make sure you guys
go check it out. Give her a like across all
these social media out there. The wonderful, talented Jessica Willis
Fisher here on the backstage pass again powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot Com. I always appreciate learning about
(31:22):
new artists. It feels my fire to keep this thing going.
Pleasure to chat with you and looking forward to connecting
again as we get closer to the project. And I
hope you're at CMA Fest because I would love to
see you, my friend, And thanks so much for being
with us.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Thank you so much. Thanks for the really great positive
energy and for taking a little time premier platform to
tell other people about this. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You got it. The one, the only, Jessica Willis Fisher.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
We're back with more great music here across all the
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take care. We'll see you, sir.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Hey, this is Nashville recording artist Anita Cochran and you're
listening to the Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports
Guys Podcasts exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico. Hey, guys, Tana here and
Michael and we are the War Intreaty and you're listening
to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight
(32:32):
point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network,
Hey, this is Jessica Willis Fisher and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in KYBN ninety eight point one.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always the busy day
full of shows and of course some may is oppon.
It's hard to believe single demayo and we'll be calling
it summertime before long. Their affiliates KYB in ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting network, and our friends
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(00:34):
best artists. He's got a brand new album coming out
May sixteenth across all the DSPs. If you pre order now,
you'll get four songs on there too as well, including
a couple we're going to play today on the show,
The Wonderful Jessica Willis Fisher to the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How you doing, my friend, so good?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Thank you so much for having me and chatting about
this project that I'm so excited about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, let's talk about this first.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I want to get your background and for the folks
and listeners that may not know the name Jessica Willis Fisher.
The connection to music from an early age. I'm always
just very much inclined to hear that story. What made
you tick and how music shaped you as a young
one growing up.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, if we were to break down the recipe, there
were a few key ingredients. I had some family members
that was in music, that were in music, you know,
including a great grandmother. My parents both were musicians. Yeah,
I had multiple family members that were into music, and
so I was exposed in our home and in church
(01:35):
to music, and not just by other people, but people
I knew and loved and were part of my family.
Another big influence early on was my parents went to
see river dance and they got us into Irish dance thing.
And then our Irish dance teacher got us into the music,
and so we started playing traditional Irish folk music when
I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And when we moved to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
When I was a little bit older, right around nine
years old, there was of course the exposure to all
the music in this town which leans bluegrass and country
and all of that. Yeah, and then I had a
stint with my family band in my teen and early
adult years where I was the lead singer, primary songwriter,
and fiddle player. So that's sort of the overview of
(02:19):
my musical influences and journey.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I like that too, such as that big time a
smorgasboard of everything there. When it comes down to it,
let's talk about this record here before we play some
songs there too. I love it mentioned there too. With
the producer always important, choosing the right producer for any
type of project, no matter how long somebody has done
this thing called music or if they're just getting into it.
Ben Fowler and picking the right producer for this upcoming record, Blooming,
(02:45):
which is coming out in May sixteenth, tell people kind
of what it was like to work with Ben on
this record and finding the right producer, how much how
key that was.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So this is my second project with Ben, and my
experience has been you know, I care about making the
you know, I care about the end product and how
the song is, you know, each song and the project
is going to turn out. I also have a really
high priority of trying to just work with good human
beings as well. I've certainly experienced, you know, achieving some
(03:16):
cool things, but a lot of toxicity mixed in there
with my upbringing and the family band days and my
dad in particular, So it really means a lot to
me when I can work with someone who makes the
process really smooth and positive, challenges me in the right ways,
but is overall uplifting and encouraging and just a real champion.
(03:37):
And Ben has been that from when I first met him.
This is our second project. Both of my solo records
have been with Ben. We happen to live like half
a mile away from each other. I did not know
that when my husband and I bought our house, but
it has worked out very well for me and makes
our collaboration pretty natural and easy. And I first met
(03:58):
him through my now father in law and manager. They
had worked cross paths, worked with each other back in
the day. They've both been in the industry for a while,
and you know, I really didn't know him from Adam,
but he was interested in hearing the songs that I'd
worked up for my first record. I showed him and
it was really a whirlwind because he was like, Okay,
(04:20):
we can start working on this in a few weeks.
And I was just looking for someone that was willing
to do it. And was going to believe in me,
and you know, that was almost like a blind date
or something, you know, and like we went into this
project and so we know each other a lot better
and have had more time to get to know each
other and to work together to bring the second album
(04:40):
into existence.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Exciting times, no doubt, to come out May sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We'll give you a little preview of this coming up
today with one song that's already out, and of course
the other song which is out there across all the
DSPs too as well. I heard you were influenced, So
I guess the little Birdie told me Celtic music and
I can hear some of that in the tracks. Talk
about this and the influence of just Celtic music. First
of all, I love that Celtic just the word and
a sell too because so much heritage is involved with
(05:05):
that in so many different genres of music that you
hear now and depending on what you listen to at
the same time. But I love this and why Celtic music, Well,
I think it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Was that early exposure to the dance and all those
tunes that I learned, you know, hundreds and hundreds of
one hundred year old tunes that you get in your
fingers and then I think it sort of gets in
your blood, and I would go over. I've been over
to Ireland twenty seven times to compete and to study
and to learn. It's called Sean O's style, and you
(05:34):
sing a cappella and it's really intricate. And when I
listen to someone that I love, like Dolly Parton, I
do hear, you know, like those Celtic sensibilities that came
over to Appalachia and ended up in old time and bluegrass,
and at some point when you get down to the roots,
you know, there's a lot of crossover. And I just
love anything with deep routs. So I really love when
(05:56):
people can hear that peeking through even some of my
more accessive, you know, fun hopefully fresh takes, I'm still
drawing on those those deep roots.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, I love this too, and you hear it in
the album out there too again blooming across all the
digital streaming platforms too. We gotta play one for you
here kk TC True Country ninety nine point nine, out
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by that and we're gonna do one called Dogwood. Here
(06:28):
it is Jessica Willis Fisher the Backstage Pass, Day two.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm not an oak tree standing full and t I'm
a red one growing all to bullet all and will
(06:58):
center in oh And I am not in the span
with a lovely silver scin. But in the spring there's
no one that can match me.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
A come on off and white is all you see.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Bring me in.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I'm not the winters over. If I had a wooden bruise,
a branch of his.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Butter and blooms, I'd be a dog white tree.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I'm not a pile or three varginy pie. It's hard
to find love, but with the.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Flower quite like my.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Crimson in the corners, weird moans, with pride, believing in
the beauty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Of many tears. I cried the spray. I'm living in
my glory in the sun. I go another year.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Every rad will tell the sacred story.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
If I had woden rooms, the branch hoops but compus,
I'd be a.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Talkwood treat.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Made me all come back again, and after riding gone
assembling from the yard.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
When the journey Carris, I'm not see as green as
over cold. Oh, I will faith to moving.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
This was always undurst.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Everyone's made up those who came afore. You count the
days you and you're always wanting more.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Spree. There's no one like match me.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
They come up and white is all you see, read
in and all the winters of. If I had Looden
Roots and branch is Boken blues Y talk wood treat,
(10:33):
if I had a London Roots branch is Boken Blooms,
I'd be talk Wood Tree.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville Recording Artists Aaron Give Me
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hey, back here on the show again.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jessica las Fisher joining us here on the Backstage Pass again,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and thanks
to all the work the affiliates do out there too.
If you're looking for the podcast, you can find it
out there that website or any of the affiliates we
mentioned here. Throughout the show, you mentioned how inspiring this was,
and this being the second full release of an album,
I can think of a better song to really describe
(11:20):
than dogwood, tell us, tell us all about this.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, that song is a great representation about the whole
theme and what the whole album is about. For me,
it's about growth and healing and coming into your own
and figuring out who you are and you know, doing
that being that shamelessly, you know, purposefully. And for me,
I've always loved dogwoods. They bloom around my birthday. I
(11:46):
just had my birthday a few weeks ago, and dogwoods
aren't the biggest, strongest, you know, most flashy tree, but
when they are blooming, they are just breathtaking, you know,
and they so to have this imagery depending on which
species of dogwood you're looking at, that that looked like
this little blood prick, this little wound prick, this little
(12:09):
thorn like. And to me, I feel like, uh, the
line I wear my wounds with pride was like a
really vulnerable and strong line all at the same time.
And it's like, it's okay that I don't you know,
I don't sound like or look like, or have the
same story as someone else, But this is my story
(12:29):
and this is my voice, and this is what I
want to say with it. And so that is just
a sample of you know what we're doing across the
whole album.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, I heard you actually designed your own album cover.
Now that is itself being creatively creative. How did that work?
I want to get get creative. Let's talk about this,
go for it.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, So I'm obsessed with wildflowers, blooming trees, dogwoods, and
more so I for I was. I was homeschooled growing
up all the way through, for better or for worse,
the reading really strong if you had an interest in
something that was great. Few holes in some other areas.
But one year I got super into identifying all the
(13:12):
wild flowers in the rural area that I lived. And
it's still something to this day. There's plenty. I don't know,
but I love going on hikes and just calling out,
you know, flower names and sort of you know, watching
the season go by and be like, ah, first you
have the dogwoods and the red buds and the cherry blossoms,
but then a few weeks later you have this and that.
(13:33):
And so I actually took sometimes just candid little phone
snaps or nice photos that my husband had taken, and
composited this, you know, just kind of diy album cover
that represented obviously the theme blooming. It's all these flowers, but
it also is just my nerdy geek. Out of all
(13:55):
my favorite flowers, there's one that's both my husband and
I favorite thing, and we play a game every time
we hike just The game is called trillium, and trillium
is the type of wildflower. It has three different leaves
and a flower in the middle and it grows like
at the base of trees on like woodland trails and paths.
(14:15):
And I was almost sad, and I was like, wait,
we got to have trillium on there. So yeah, I
should do a breakdown of like all identify all the
different flowers on my album covered.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You should do that, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's very creatively creative how you can get with something
like that too at the same to have it get
Jessica Willis Fisher joining us here. The backstage pass blooming
across all the DSPs as of May sixteenth, So make
sure you guys get that for your listing pleasure. So
I've gotten this feel of a little bit of Dolly
and Allison Kraus and you've probably been told this too
from by a number of your fans and listeners out
(14:50):
there too. Two very well known country music singers Bloodgrass
out there for a long time. Does that kind of
fuel your fire in a way, or is it like,
you know, hearing those comparisons or some people like you know,
that's nice, but I'm kind of my own artist too
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Uh oh, I am delighted, And I have heard that before,
and I don't think it will will ever get old
I do. I mean kind of like we were talking
about with the song Dogwood, Like, I know I am
my own person, but I also know I'm not inventing anything.
I'm not inventing techniques. I'm not inventing new scales or
(15:27):
new chords, or new melodies or new emotions. We're all,
you know, storytellers and artists that are drawing on what
does it mean to what does it feel like to
be in love? What does it mean to suffer loss?
And we're all trying to contribute art that moves people
and makes people feel seen. And I personally love Dolly
and Alison. Alison in particular was one of my earliest influences,
(15:51):
along with a bunch of Irish singers. Nicol Creek was
a really big influence. People that you know had clearly
studied a genre and you know, learned kind of how
to work within the rules, but then kind of break
the rules and cross boundaries. And some of these most
successful people that we're talking about here, but definitely artists
(16:14):
that I would inspire to sort of follow their path,
you know, to stick to your guns and your roots
and what you know and who you are, but to
let that reach as wide and as full as possible.
And I think it really resonates with people. I've always
kind of encounter people saying I don't necessarily like all
(16:35):
Irish or Celtic music, but I like your music, or
I'm not into bluegrass, but I like your music, and
you know, just kind of or I'm not into country
or prop and I think it's interesting to sort of
be be the exception. I think there's a lot of
people that love alson Krause and otherwise their genre listening
habits are totally different. So anyway, yes, you compliment, they're
(16:56):
my favorites, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Give me a little take on just how great this
current female empowerment movement is for country music. I mean,
one name after another. Obviously, Laney's the kind of you know,
taking home all the hardware of the past two or
three years. Ella Langley blowing up now, just so many
great ladies, Ashley McBride, Carly Pearce, the names go on,
and I'll Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, so many of these
(17:21):
great ladies, and kind of when you see yourself in
the future of this, I could picture you in that
because the voice is so angelic and it's beautiful. I
love it with these songs and the connection you mentioned
through the storytelling, talk about just what that means to
you of being a female country music artist, and you
see those ladies doing so well in their career right now,
and kind of every dog has its day and they're like,
you know what, this female group is super talented.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I'm just a few of the names that you
had thrown out there. I've been able to cross paths
a little bit with them. There's certainly a lot of
people out there, I think making some great strides, and
I think we have a lot to say. And I
think it's a real shame whenever or you know, someone
isn't given the chance to use their voice. And you know,
(18:07):
I think the songs are what really keep me in this,
you know what it is. I'm here to say, it's
less about oh, I just got to be out in
front of people, or I just want to achieve, whether
it's that hardware, or whether it's that I want to
be on the radio, or I want to you know,
some external goal. It's more about, you know, I have
these things that I'm carrying, and I think what's really
(18:28):
connecting for people is hearing women's stories, hearing women's experience articulated.
And if we don't get that in our platforms and
people don't make space for that, and people, you know,
discount and not you know, not let us in the room,
like we're missing out on half, Like we're half women
are half the world.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Of course we have things to say. Of course we
have things to contribute, and it is good to feel
like there's some momentum there. I also just think like
that can go backwards really quickly, and it's something that
we just have to hopefully accept and champion, just as
the way things are like that. Of course we're of
(19:09):
course we have a seat at the table. Of course
we are allowed to tell our stories. It should be
that way.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It should be that way, no doubt. I love this one.
Build a house off the record too, pre order now
one of the ones you guys will get across all
the DSPs, the fans, the listeners out there. It really
encompasses life in a lot of ways, for this record,
for blooming and co menu on this song, for really
telling a beautiful story.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Thank you. It's a I think it's a funky little
song because it's sort of a folk like. The structure
feels kind of folk to me, kind of an aa
ba sort of thing, you know, not necessarily like a
super big hook and a super big chorus, but just
unfolding right in the way that life unfolds naturally. And
(19:55):
I would sum up that song with saying, you know,
we don't, I don't know, we don't none of us
know what life is going to hold, what all adventures,
what all directions life is going to take us. But
I do know who I want to do that with.
And it's a love song that you know, when we
as long as humans are been alive, we've been talking
about love and approaching it from different angles. But for me,
(20:18):
you know, certainty, the only certainty is change. And so
that was something that I've experienced in my relationship with
my husband is we've already lived a lot of life
together in kind of a short amount of time. We
really emphasize adventure, and we frequently look at each other
and like, should we just like move overy CDs or
like get a van or you know, and there's a
(20:40):
lot of things we talk about doing, and you know,
I can think of all of those and go, yeah,
like with you, let's do it like I you know,
it's more about we're each other's companion and we don't
have to know exactly what's around the corner. So I
just love finding little angles to talk about. It's life,
(21:01):
it's love, you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Sure is a beautiful song there build a house And
now we're going to play a little song called June
from this record here Blooming Jessica Willis Fisher. The backstage passes.
June is right around the corner. Here it is from
the beautiful talented Jessica Willis Fisher. The backstage pass kk
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of course, KYBN ninety eight point one. Out there in
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(21:24):
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Speaker 3 (21:27):
Here it is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Here.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
You not good at the tour don't waiting anymore. Off,
oh jee the heart, I feel the change, shoes turning over,
(21:58):
the page grown in the soil, long home loom.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's secsar waiting for the blooming.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
One more day, grounding in the green, keeping counting in between.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Don't be, don't be in all the way. Oh say,
it's the head of me jo. I hear you not
get at the door. Don't give me waiting any more.
Comes in my after choo. I need your flowers in July.
Give me your augustomer high. I'll see you soon.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Oh too, here for the summer.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I come lie.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I home in the heather and the hide till with
the door ran ring on the rain.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh, I'm ready for robing on the day. See me
with you to leave me behind? Well, you're rolling wild
in the grime.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
One mor day to bee all the way. Oh say,
it's the head of day choo. And here you're knocking
at the door.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Don't give me waiting any more. Come take my afternoon.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Look chum, I need job overs in July, and meet
your Ugese summer high.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I'll see you so, oh.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Chi, don't be, don't be alway?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Would you say it's the end o day, June, I
hear you knocking at the door.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Don't get me awaiting any more. Comesack my after.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
June.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I may joke thursan in July and the rougust Sunday,
I'll say, oh June.
Speaker 13 (24:45):
Hey, guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kersey Krauss and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast right
here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Welcome back to the show again, tune. I'll forget more
great shows coming up over the next few weeks as
we get into June. Of course, we'll be live at
CMA Fest coming up there at the Music City Center
of yours truly and Caiden Gordon and a whole lot
of great people out there too in Nashville, Tennessee out there.
CMA Fest twenty twenty five. Tickets available now packages cmafest
dot com. This was beautiful because I mentioned that month
(25:21):
was right around the corner, June, and you know, this
one had a great feel to it as far as
you know, fitting a great portion of the record. How
would you describe this one in the storytelling behind the song?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
June?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, this is the energy, you know, I at my
husband at my husband and I's wedding part of At
one point I said something to him, you know, had
a message to him, and I was like, let's do
all the adventures. Just take me with you, right, and
that there's actually that line in the song take me
with you, don't leave me behind. And the song is
(25:55):
just an anticipation for a season a person and I
tivity whatever it is that makes you feel most alive
and to feel you know, I personally feel like I'm
just coming into my prime. And you know, we were
just talking about women in the industry, women as artists,
so we run into these messages about you know, you
(26:16):
have to be a certain age or you have to
look a certain way, and you know, I just reject
the idea that anyone else is in charge of that
except for me. I know who I am, I know
what I have, you know, to say, and I'm kind
of circling around that idea, keep bringing it back up
here in the in the interview. But yeah, I just
(26:36):
wanted to capture that feeling about like, let's go on
an adventure. So you know, it's the analogy of a
season June. But you know, all that's allegory for whatever
it is that you feel that longing for, you want
to get up and go and have that adventure. And
obviously there's some fun fiddle in there too, which is
fun to kind of showcase and articulate that. I like
(26:57):
when the words are saying something and then the musical
production and you know, if there's any sort of musical
hook or tune, I really like to feature that kind
of on equal footing. I think that's one of my
signature things.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You know, we talked a lot about Dolly and Allison
Kraus and all those great things, But was there one
or two, maybe three nineties country artists that necessarily have
to be female could be male too that really kind
of influenced you or you were like, you know what,
I had this person when they came out with a
new song, I had to like listen to this on
the radio or this record really impacted me and I
got to listen to the entire album and I still
(27:32):
have that album today.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Who would that be?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
You know what's interesting is I actually was I was
born in the nineties. I was born in ninety two,
but it really wasn't until I got out of my
family's house that I really was in charge of what
I was allowed to listen to without getting super into it.
It was sort of a culture sort of situation by
the end, and being extremely religious and extremely homeschooled, we
(27:57):
weren't allowed to listen to music or books or movies
or anything that wasn't okay by my parents. So through
most of the nineties there was zero zero country music
in our house. And there was, like I said, like
some of those folkier artists like Alison and Nickel Creek,
John Denver was in there, but like we weren't listening
(28:18):
to contemporary stuff that was on the radio. So still
to this day, when I encounter stuff, I have a
little bit of a hard time placing when it was
coming out because I wasn't keeping track at the time.
This is not country, but I will single out somehow.
The one band that was able to kind of get
through was The Course, and they are an Irish band.
They are not a country band, but they were taking
(28:40):
their you know, Irish music sensibilities and putting it into
these David Foster produced some of their albums, and you know,
when I do now listen to like I don't know,
Shanaia or different people that were blending, you know, like
pop and country, and I hear a lot of those
same things, where like there's a really good fiddle tune
and then there's really good harmonies and really catchy production.
(29:04):
A lot of the modern stuff that I like tends
to be Americana and ROOTSTI And when when I hear
that nineties pop and that nineties country come on that
that hits like a nostalgic thing because it makes me
think of the cores. And I just was sad that
I missed out at the time, because I think it's
some really fun music.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's great music too, and like I said, hey know
oninge where you came from knowing your roots and then
getting a chance to spread your wings and fly a
little bit and discover that too, gets around to it
is a beautiful thing. Let me ask you about this
as we kind of closed the show to get the
album Blooming comes out across all the DSPs Base sixteenth
pre order, Now get those four songs we had talked about, Dogwood,
build a House, find a Lover, and Honest across all
the DSPs. Now looking back at it for fun, I
(29:48):
guess you mentioned family, their husband and of course a family,
some things you like to do when not doing music, hobbies,
things like that, oh so many.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And I must say I feel like I have been
having a a whole season of getting more into all
of my hobbies. I don't know what it is about.
Maybe it's just spring. Maybe it's that I'm putting out
a record that I really care about. But I have
some long standing loves like reading. I love being outside nature,
I love traveling. I also have loved food for a
(30:18):
long time. And I am on that sourdough train. Man,
I'm always baking something. There's even an allusion to baking
in build a House. It sounds very domestic for the
first verse, of course, the next versus, let's travel the
world and never look back. I also carve leather, and
I'm making myself. I've made straps for everybody else, but
(30:38):
I'm just now making my own first guitar strap for me.
I've taken up crocheting. Yeah, it's it's like a pick
pick a craft around here. I try, you know, I
at least dabble with it all. And I'm also writing
a novel on the side, so you know, throw author
in there. It's not exactly a hobby. It's more like
a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, all the things, all those things. Entrepreneur, jack of
all trades too, they say. When it comes down to
it again, the album comes out Call Blooming across all
the DSPs as of May sixteenth. Make sure you guys
go check it out. Give her a like across all
these social media out there. The wonderful, talented Jessica Willis
Fisher here on the backstage pass again powered by the
Sports Guys podcast dot Com. I always appreciate learning about
(31:22):
new artists. It feels my fire to keep this thing going.
Pleasure to chat with you and looking forward to connecting
again as we get closer to the project. And I
hope you're at CMA Fest because I would love to
see you, my friend, And thanks so much for being
with us.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Thank you so much. Thanks for the really great positive
energy and for taking a little time premier platform to
tell other people about this. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You got it. The one, the only, Jessica Willis Fisher.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
We're back with more great music here across all the
affiliates KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting
Network and our friends KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
There seven days a week, five point thirty to six
thirty Mountain Standard Time and I Heart Radio wherever you
guys find podcasts. Were great music coming up here. Just
a little bit on the stations and the affiliates. God bless,
take care. We'll see you, sir.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Hey, this is Nashville recording artist Anita Cochran and you're
listening to the Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports
Guys Podcasts exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Taos, New Mexico. Hey, guys, Tana here and
Michael and we are the War Intreaty and you're listening
to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight
(32:32):
point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network,
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