November 1, 2024 • 28 mins
The great Joe Nichols joined us on the show as we talked about his new album Honky Tonks and Country Songs! Tune in to hear more! We also played a pair of songs on the show from the new record! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Quartz Hill Recording Artists Joe Nichols, and
you're listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot com, exclusively on WSM AM six fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And welcome inside of the Backstage Past. Another Sunday morning,
you guys, getting up worshiping with us and worship with
the Lord, drinking the coffee out there WSM Radio, the
home of the Grand o' Opry out there too as well,
and the great Joe Nichols joining us here. Cose the
new album is out and about right now, Hawkie talks
and country songs out there, you guys, wake up for
another great Sunday morning of programming here on the Home
of the Grand Old Opry WSM. Joe, I know you
(00:34):
guys have been busy. This new album is out. How's
everything going.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's going great, off to a great start.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The single first single, better than Yous, is off to
an incredible start.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Everything's been trucking right along.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I appreciate you asking you now.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You guys have been busy with the tour schedule and
things going on there too, And of course it never
ends a black people. Check out Joe Nichols dot com
for all the good stuff out there for the tour schedule,
and uh, I'm sure it's been busy in the crowds
just keep getting bigger and big.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You're right, man, been a hell of a year, you know,
as far as touring goes, done a lot of really
important stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We've done a lot of shows.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I think we'll wind up in the ninety five number
for total shows this year and then next year, I've
got some really cool stuff, including the Justin Moore tour
will be hitting in the middle of the year and uh,
you know, a lot of our own tour day so
we're we're everywhere we can be and uh, and more so,
it's been an incredible ride this year. Actually, it's been
an incredible ride since the coming back from COVID. Since
(01:30):
about middle of twenty one, we've been slamming it. So,
I don't know, maybe three hundred shows, three hundred and
fifty shows since then.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know what's it been like for you on this ride, man?
Ever since the those big hits came out with you know,
Broken Heartsville and Kila Makes Your Clothes Fall Off and
Sunny and seventy five and so many Give Me That
Girl and all that kind of stuff ever since that
those those years of five and o two, you guys were,
you know, bursting on the scene during that great nineties
country around early two thousands, man just still have a
long career and beat this consistent, put out great records
(02:01):
and have good things behind you. Talk about that and
just what that means in a very very tough industry
that's being used industry.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I think it's a testament to people believing in you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
There are certainly records that we put out that aren't successful,
but I think we've been fortunate to be in business
with people that see the big picture and know that
traditional country comes and goes. Sometimes it goes in cycles,
and what's popular today might not be popular tomorrow and
vice versa. And so I think that has allowed us
to put out less than stellar performing album here and
(02:32):
there and still get another chance to kind of come
back and have success. And thank goodness, country music goes
in cycles where a guy like me can have success
about every other album. You know, I've had more comebacks
than McRib that's what. So I think it's because of that. Really,
I think I've got great people that believe in me,
(02:53):
and I know that you can't live and die by
what's popular today, because overall, I think t additional country
music always has existed.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Hey, talk to me about just streaming. We see a
lot of those newer artists now, you know, kind of
bursting on the scene doing their thing now. And of course,
the opportunities they have now we're not available just back
then in the nineties with all the different technology now too,
and they're bursting on the scenes with not just reality
shows to get their music out to, but streaming. You
say somebody's name, you type it in and boom just said,
I mean fingertips right there. Any of these streaming platforms
(03:22):
out there. How cool is it to see kind of
this new wave of artists and just so much talent
in the industry right now.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It does a couple of things, I think the streaming
I think it makes a lot of things, keeps a
lot of things honest, as far as data goes, you
can kind of pump up a song with promo and
you can kind of manipulate a lot of sales or whatever.
Labels have done that historically, but with streaming, everything's kind
of data driven. There's no fudging numbers. As far as
(03:52):
streaming goes and whatever's hot, it's hot. I will say
that there's you know, it has brought in some negative
you know. The interpretation of streaming can kind of be
tricky because you can hear a song that's terrible, and
I've known this to happen in first hand experience, with
hearing something that's so bad you want to share it
(04:13):
with somebody to show how bad it is, and the
algorithm interprets that as somebody's somebody likes something enough to
share it, and therefore it gets out there and heard
even more.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And so that's what I see so far.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's the only way you can manipulate that number in
a negative way, but it is You're right. It is
a good tool for the younger, non label affiliated artists
to get their business going. And I think the further
away from signing anything you can stay as an artist,
the better because sometimes a label can just come along
and muddied up for it. So the more you can own,
(04:48):
the more you can, you know, advance your career yourself
out there in the streaming services, you know, build up
a fan base, build up a streaming number. The less
reliant on on bad contracts you have to be, I'll
put it that way. You know, I think that's a
really great tool that really streaming has offered that to
new artists. It wasn't there when I was coming up,
(05:10):
and certainly the artists before me had it even tougher,
where you know, you have no protection from you know, the.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Fat cats getting fattered.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You know, you just kind of had to be a
slave to the industry until you can kind of break
through and you know, say no, thanks, I don't have
to sign out if I don't want to. And you know,
now I can tour myself outside independent of any kind
of radio success if I need to. But I would
love to have more radio success. That always helps make
the world go around. But there are guys, there are
(05:42):
people that have come along, artists that have come along
that weren't so fortunate. And I think today the artists
are lucky in that way that they get a chance
to be direct to market with fans. You know, I
could put my music out on YouTube and be instantly
in front of fans without being shelved by a label
or without somebody being promoted over me, you know, by
(06:02):
a label. So oh, it's kept the industry honest in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Is Joe Nichols, The Sports Guys Podcast, The Backstage Pass
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We're gonna pay run right now. Time to bottle it up.
Let's we'll talk about life here. It is the hope
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Speaker 5 (06:31):
Currently headed babies running wild in the yard, catch and
fireflies while the day goes dark. Dogs on the front porch, streaming,
batter at it halfway working through a six pack, hab.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
It or swing kissing on the level of my life.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Wish and just once I could take tonight, pod it away,
bottling it up and rainy day going to cloud in
out of sipping this summer wrong ice again.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They's so sweet and it feels so good. I know
I can't buddy, if.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I could out bottle it up. Yeah, bottle it up,
old farm truck, you can drive away us. Mormy and
I are waving it us. Didn't mean a post, just
fashion on by. I got a bucket bull of chicken
and the feet can buy nothing going on gonna make
(07:27):
the frumpage of the country boy's dream getting Betty with Eve.
We all a bottle lit up, hood it away, Bottle
it up or rainy day.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Bottle it up. Went the clouds on end, I'm slipping
the summer on ice again. Yeah, they's so sweet and
it feels so good.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I know I can't buddy if I could out.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Bottle it up.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah, bottle it up, live vain, no big riddle, just
(08:22):
Jesus and the table and the people in the middle.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Now I'm to us.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Jeeps, on digging every now and then take a blessing
your gather. Then bottle it up, pod it away, Bottle
it up or rainy day, bottle it up. When the
clouds old ran on the sipping the summer on ice.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yet, she's so.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Sweet and it feels so good. I know I can't
put anyth I good. I bottle it up.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, bottle it up, pull it off the shelf and
go walk dust keep being there back of sell this stuff. Yeah,
well about.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
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Speaker 6 (09:28):
Hi, what's up you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
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(10:54):
about this entire album for Honky Talks and Country Songs.
Just an album. This is fantastic, a lot of great
songs and this one man really set the tone for
record and it did it for me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Bottle it up right on, man, I appreciate it's.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I like to call it front porch country like a
rock and share country where I love Don Williams.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don Williams was always one of my favorite artists.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He just had a mellow, even if tempo songs kind
of had a chill rock and chair kind of vibe
to him. And that's what bottled it up is it's
kind of it's got some tempo and it's a cool
you know song you can listen to by bonfire or
you know, on the front porch, having a cold one
on the back porch whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love country music like that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like I said, it's kind of more like a hanging
out bonfire or blasted around the parking lot while you're
hanging out in your truck whatever with your friends.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Or it's actually a good dancer too. There's a lot
of good dancers on this record. But I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It speaks to people like me, that that kind of
song right there speaks to a guy just like me.
And that's I think that's why it's believable from me
because I would I would buy it if I was
if I was buying.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It, no doubt about it too. And also one of
the top ones added the country radio to him. We
played it out there at KKTC True Country ninety nine
to nine was of course the great Annie Bosco a
chance to collaborate, and we're seeing more and more of
that in the industry. I guess, how did you guys
meet put this arrangement together? For I believe No. One
of the third most added country song to country radio
for better than You Man, great job on this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
For you and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, for I guess this is our fourth week being
the top in the top three or four most added,
which is a huge deal. I don't think I've had
a song like that since maybe Yeah, that was twenty fourteen,
fifteen and so wonderful start. I think it's because it's
a hit, and I think Annie came in and made
it a hit. She was suggested to me by our
(12:43):
label president Benny Brown, who's phenomenal human being, and we
had this song that was a duet, felt like a hit.
We just needed the right singer, and so we tossed
around a few names, but Benny said, man, you know
Annie Bosco.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'd seen her play and El Passa.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We did a show together, and she's like a supermodel,
like beautiful and when she started singing, she sang helped
me make it through the Night Chris Christopherson's song, and
I was like, there's no way a woman that looks
like that should be singing songs like that unless she's
incredibly unique, and she is, And it turns out she's
an incredibly warm person too. She's a extremely likable, energetic,
(13:26):
warm personality. I think all the things that you expect
from a star quote unquote star she has and hard worker, man.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
She wants to make everything as good as it can be.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I really appreciate her work ethics and her ability to
go in the studio and get it right. A lot
of people you never know how it's gonna go with
a duet partner. You never know if it's going to
be you know, come across as like a hassle to
you know, kind of keep tweaking, like, oh maybe if
you try this, maybe if you try that, it might
be a little better. But she wanted it to be
as good as it can be. And I'm a bit
(13:59):
of a affectionists like that in the studio, and I
know she is as well. And so I think what
we've got, because she's a perfectionist, I think what we've
got is a freaking hit. She sounds incredible on it.
She's such a good singer and a good vibe. You know,
that's no drama, none whatsoever with her, And you know,
never know what to expect with that either, And so
(14:21):
I was super pleasantly surprised with that. But like I
said that, initial seeing her play in El Paso, Texas,
I was like, Wow, this is that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And you know when we thought about it with the song,
where like, she's a natural, no brainer fit.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know, all the great hits you talk about having
just hitting radio. We talked about some of those titles
at the beginning. Is there one that's still out there
at the live show that the fans just say, you
know what if they're screaming back at you singing it
word for word, or there maybe one or two of
those songs and stick out from the glory days that
you're like, you know what, this never gets old singing.
We just love doing this on stage. What would they be?
Those top two or three.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Broken Artsville for sure? I mean tequilam extra clothes fall
off always, you know, that's one of my favorites. Give
me that Girls another one from you know twenty ten.
That was a huge song for me. Every time we
kick into the first couple of notes and hang up
that red dress, people go nuts and that that's that
(15:18):
never gets old here and people sing that song in
any of those songs loud as they can.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I will say, you mentioned bottle it up.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That song has that kind of vibe live when we
do it live. By the end of the song, people
are singing it already. It's got such a hooky melody
and such a hooky catch line.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You know. The hook line is bottled it Up, it away,
And by the end of the song people saying bottle
it up, Yeah, bottle it up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's just that kind of tune. But I think Better
than You is a powerful song. It's a I think
it's gonna be one of those. It's gonna be a
different song for me, different than I anything I've ever
done before. I've never had to do it as a
single before, so this will be a first in that way.
But I think it'll It'll touch markets and demographics that
(16:08):
I've never really hit home runs with, So I think
that could be something significant. But back to your original point,
Broken Hartsville to killing extra clothes fall off. She only
smokes when she drinks. I'll wait for you, you know,
give me that girl. Sonny seventy five always slams, always hits.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you know you're on my playlist when it's Joe
Nichols and those songs, all five of those are on
the playlist. When at Crutch Fitness and we're actually working
out doing the way heavy, You're always it's just great
work out I'm doing upper lower body or the staremaster.
Those songs just give me the interest to keep pushing through.
They really do. Brother.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I appreciate that you have no idea what what kind
of compliment that is?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's That's the one thing I believe.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It don't sound funny, but I ask myself all the
time in the studio, can it Can a person run
to this and a person exercises this is a given
any kind of feeling because I believe that over anything
else with our job as art is to make you
feel something. And so whether it's a sad song, happy song,
doesn't matter. It's got to make you feel something. And
(17:08):
sometimes or most of the time, that means you can
work out to you're gonna add some energy behind your feelings.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And so I appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You got it, brother, It makes you feel something, no doubt.
It's time to play another one off Honky Talks and
Country Songs here on the Backstage pass powered by the
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It's called do it life with you. I think you'll
get the gist of this. Here it is from Joe
Nichols on the backstage pass Crank it up.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Good, even up the fall and hit some moones. Being
on the side of righting wrong down nothing better at all,
ben cold and hot and mild of life, bit our tongues,
trying not to cuse You've seen falling dreams and falling leaves,
(18:10):
stars on top of Christmas tree beaches, up and down
the Californi senior brunette hair five off the gray still got.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
That same pretty you falling will.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, we've seen our share, but I wouldn't change in anything.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
I love the babies and the crazies and to think.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'm down and save me this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Tones called because silly fights and making up happy tears
and up on nights every year Senior life line.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I love them flying for its sundown days brands and
didn't go our Wavemmy here in my room, you.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
All the lungs and eyes the girl.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
I love doing life with you, all.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Them highway around the suitcasewack and dashboard drums and better laughing,
living in and out of hotel rooms, yellow lighting, bulls
and mace and jars, little foot prints in the front yards.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And June.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We had out of nowhere circumstance, break uards and tire
hands find.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
A way to love each other through.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
If I could do it all again a thousand times
with you, girls, I swear I do.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
I love the famies and the crazies and the thing.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I'm around and savedies morning till called because silly.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Bites and making up.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Happy tears, and of home nights every year, Senor.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Live line grow. I love it every.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Run for sundown days, the prayers that didn't go our
way every year in my review, all the little ones
and eyes the girl I love doing live with you.
(20:42):
I love the babies and the crazies and I they
gone drown and saving me the morning times and coffee cups,
silly bites and making up happy tears and all nights
every year, sen your life lines grow.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I love them, Ragie A lot of dude.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
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All right, this is the love the title, and it
made for another great country song. People love doing life
with you, and my friend loved this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Boy, It's one of my favorite things on the whole album.
Such a great message, especially for me and my family.
My wife and I have been through some really super
high peaks and some really super low valleys, and we've
struggled and we've succeeded, but it has been a journey
to say the least. And this song when when she
(23:25):
first heard it completed, she started crying, which made me
start crying. And just a personal song to me. I
love that it sounds good. It's kind of like just
a bonus to me. But I think the song is
just super meaningful to me, and I hope people hear
that that this song is just a personal thing to me.
It sounds like a good country song, great message about
(23:46):
you know, it ain't about how.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Successful we are or the good times.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's about I love this whole roller coaster ride with you,
the person I've chosen lived my life with good and bad.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We're here and I love it even the bad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Let's touch on a couple others off the record too.
I think people are gonna enjoy I enjoyed listening to
it in the preview. I got I love the title
man Helpless and a hawky talk. Where was this idea from?
I love it?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Man, brother.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
This is one of those that I mean it's it's
a straight up rip off from nineties country right there.
I mean it should have been even the late eighties.
You know some of those late eighties records. I love
those old dancers. I call them dancers from the nineties,
where you could just two step or double two step
or line dance to a country song used to be
so much fun. I was a teenager in the nineties,
(24:38):
but it was a It was a fun time for
country music because you could tell a story in three minutes,
and you could have some meat on the bones, and
you could have a catchy melody, and you could dance
to it and made you feel good, Like I said before,
made you feel something. And I think that's what makes
(24:59):
nineties country so special, is that all those things happened
all the time. It wasn't just an every now and
then thing like you hear on the radio today. You
hear every you know, one in every four or five
songs has a good story and a good melody and
you can dance to it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
But back in the nineties, that was every song.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Was every song for the nineties, no doubt you knew
when the instrumentation hit, you knew exactly who that singer
was back in the day, no doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Let's talk about hard Fires. So the great Stevie woodword
that mentioned collaborations gets to feature her too. This had
to be fun to work.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
On, right man. I love her, She's great. I love
Annie Bosco. I mean both of the girls that women
that I worked on music with on this album Blew
Me Away. They're just they're phenomenal singers, incredible talents. Runaway June.
I had no idea how impressed that would be until
I did a show with them, a run of shows
(25:50):
with them in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I had this song called Hardfires that was.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Kind of done for several months, but it was missing
something and I kept telling, you know, Mickey Cones and
Derek George, the producer of this record, I'm like, guys,
this song is good, but it's not great.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's just missing something.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And in my opinion, it's missing a really great female vocal,
like a feature without being a huge dominant part.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Just she has to be in the room with me.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
There's to be a female that's in the song with me,
and I think it might tip it over the top,
and just to do some answering, just some cool vocalizations
and stuff. And like I said, I did this run
of shows with Runaway June. I was like, holy smokes,
these girls are freaking awesome. They harmonized beautifully. They're great entertainers.
(26:38):
And I got back to Texas and I called the label.
I said, hey, is there any chance that Stevie would
come in and do hard Fires, maybe as soon as
possible before we you know, turned this record in because
I think she would kill it. And sure enough, man,
she was in there Monday morning and laid down a
super cool more like a vibe and a feel to
(26:59):
the song. I think it put it over the top
to me, that that song went from maybe the seventh
or eighth best song in the record to one of
the top maybe three or four. You know, it just
it turned it into a new song. I think she
made it super special.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, she really did, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I gotta get a little sports prediction from me here too,
because it's not the World Series. I wanted to see
being down here from Texas, and of course an Astros
fan after all those years of the glory days, with
seven out of eight years of the American League Championship series.
But hey, look, TV networks, sponsors, marketing, they got what
they wanted. East Coast, West Coast, Dodgers, Yankees. I guess
one for me, I'll be watching, because how can you
not watch? It's the World Series. Prediction wise, I got
(27:34):
Dodgers in seven. What's your prediction?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I got Dodgers as well. It'll be a great series,
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't think the big money on in the betting
or the networks can afford a sweep of any kind.
Then they're gonna milk this series as long as they can,
so it'll go seven.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But I think you're right. I think the Dodgers have
the pitching.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think even their you know, pitchers three and four
are top notch guys. You know, I think they got
the pitching. With and with Otani being inhuman, I think
they're just I think they're unstoppable. They just got the
line up top to bottom and Yankees got the power.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I just don't think they have all the pitching top
to bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
No Doubt's some good for projections are and predictions. Of course,
Honkey talks and country songs out there across all the
digital streaming platforms. Look out for it. Make sure you
guys go stream and have a good time out there,
and of course check out Joe Nichols dot com for
more of those tour dates. Of course, merchandise and he
could be coming to a city, New York, get those
tickets out there. Joe, appreciate the time, always a great
friend of the program, my friend, and always love having
(28:34):
you on and talking some music and always catching up
as to what's going on late the latest. Did the
Joe Nichols camp and now my friend come back anytime?
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I appreciate you, brother, Thank you for your time today.
Look forward to it again. Man, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Hey, this is Megan Patrick and you're listening to the
Backstage Pass on the Home of the Grand Old Opry
on AM six fifty WSM
Hey, this is Quartz Hill Recording Artists Joe Nichols, and
you're listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot com, exclusively on WSM AM six fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And welcome inside of the Backstage Past. Another Sunday morning,
you guys, getting up worshiping with us and worship with
the Lord, drinking the coffee out there WSM Radio, the
home of the Grand o' Opry out there too as well,
and the great Joe Nichols joining us here. Cose the
new album is out and about right now, Hawkie talks
and country songs out there, you guys, wake up for
another great Sunday morning of programming here on the Home
of the Grand Old Opry WSM. Joe, I know you
(00:34):
guys have been busy. This new album is out. How's
everything going.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's going great, off to a great start.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The single first single, better than Yous, is off to
an incredible start.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Everything's been trucking right along.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I appreciate you asking you now.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You guys have been busy with the tour schedule and
things going on there too, And of course it never
ends a black people. Check out Joe Nichols dot com
for all the good stuff out there for the tour schedule,
and uh, I'm sure it's been busy in the crowds
just keep getting bigger and big.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You're right, man, been a hell of a year, you know,
as far as touring goes, done a lot of really
important stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We've done a lot of shows.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I think we'll wind up in the ninety five number
for total shows this year and then next year, I've
got some really cool stuff, including the Justin Moore tour
will be hitting in the middle of the year and uh,
you know, a lot of our own tour day so
we're we're everywhere we can be and uh, and more so,
it's been an incredible ride this year. Actually, it's been
an incredible ride since the coming back from COVID. Since
(01:30):
about middle of twenty one, we've been slamming it. So,
I don't know, maybe three hundred shows, three hundred and
fifty shows since then.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know what's it been like for you on this ride, man?
Ever since the those big hits came out with you know,
Broken Heartsville and Kila Makes Your Clothes Fall Off and
Sunny and seventy five and so many Give Me That
Girl and all that kind of stuff ever since that
those those years of five and o two, you guys were,
you know, bursting on the scene during that great nineties
country around early two thousands, man just still have a
long career and beat this consistent, put out great records
(02:01):
and have good things behind you. Talk about that and
just what that means in a very very tough industry
that's being used industry.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I think it's a testament to people believing in you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
There are certainly records that we put out that aren't successful,
but I think we've been fortunate to be in business
with people that see the big picture and know that
traditional country comes and goes. Sometimes it goes in cycles,
and what's popular today might not be popular tomorrow and
vice versa. And so I think that has allowed us
to put out less than stellar performing album here and
(02:32):
there and still get another chance to kind of come
back and have success. And thank goodness, country music goes
in cycles where a guy like me can have success
about every other album. You know, I've had more comebacks
than McRib that's what. So I think it's because of that. Really,
I think I've got great people that believe in me,
(02:53):
and I know that you can't live and die by
what's popular today, because overall, I think t additional country
music always has existed.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Hey, talk to me about just streaming. We see a
lot of those newer artists now, you know, kind of
bursting on the scene doing their thing now. And of course,
the opportunities they have now we're not available just back
then in the nineties with all the different technology now too,
and they're bursting on the scenes with not just reality
shows to get their music out to, but streaming. You
say somebody's name, you type it in and boom just said,
I mean fingertips right there. Any of these streaming platforms
(03:22):
out there. How cool is it to see kind of
this new wave of artists and just so much talent
in the industry right now.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It does a couple of things, I think the streaming
I think it makes a lot of things, keeps a
lot of things honest, as far as data goes, you
can kind of pump up a song with promo and
you can kind of manipulate a lot of sales or whatever.
Labels have done that historically, but with streaming, everything's kind
of data driven. There's no fudging numbers. As far as
(03:52):
streaming goes and whatever's hot, it's hot. I will say
that there's you know, it has brought in some negative
you know. The interpretation of streaming can kind of be
tricky because you can hear a song that's terrible, and
I've known this to happen in first hand experience, with
hearing something that's so bad you want to share it
(04:13):
with somebody to show how bad it is, and the
algorithm interprets that as somebody's somebody likes something enough to
share it, and therefore it gets out there and heard
even more.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And so that's what I see so far.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's the only way you can manipulate that number in
a negative way, but it is You're right. It is
a good tool for the younger, non label affiliated artists
to get their business going. And I think the further
away from signing anything you can stay as an artist,
the better because sometimes a label can just come along
and muddied up for it. So the more you can own,
(04:48):
the more you can, you know, advance your career yourself
out there in the streaming services, you know, build up
a fan base, build up a streaming number. The less
reliant on on bad contracts you have to be, I'll
put it that way. You know, I think that's a
really great tool that really streaming has offered that to
new artists. It wasn't there when I was coming up,
(05:10):
and certainly the artists before me had it even tougher,
where you know, you have no protection from you know, the.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Fat cats getting fattered.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You know, you just kind of had to be a
slave to the industry until you can kind of break
through and you know, say no, thanks, I don't have
to sign out if I don't want to. And you know,
now I can tour myself outside independent of any kind
of radio success if I need to. But I would
love to have more radio success. That always helps make
the world go around. But there are guys, there are
(05:42):
people that have come along, artists that have come along
that weren't so fortunate. And I think today the artists
are lucky in that way that they get a chance
to be direct to market with fans. You know, I
could put my music out on YouTube and be instantly
in front of fans without being shelved by a label
or without somebody being promoted over me, you know, by
(06:02):
a label. So oh, it's kept the industry honest in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Is Joe Nichols, The Sports Guys Podcast, The Backstage Pass
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We're gonna pay run right now. Time to bottle it up.
Let's we'll talk about life here. It is the hope
of the opry W S m Am six fifty and
our friends over at kk TC True Country ninety nine
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Speaker 5 (06:31):
Currently headed babies running wild in the yard, catch and
fireflies while the day goes dark. Dogs on the front porch, streaming,
batter at it halfway working through a six pack, hab.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
It or swing kissing on the level of my life.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Wish and just once I could take tonight, pod it away,
bottling it up and rainy day going to cloud in
out of sipping this summer wrong ice again.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They's so sweet and it feels so good. I know
I can't buddy, if.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I could out bottle it up. Yeah, bottle it up,
old farm truck, you can drive away us. Mormy and
I are waving it us. Didn't mean a post, just
fashion on by. I got a bucket bull of chicken
and the feet can buy nothing going on gonna make
(07:27):
the frumpage of the country boy's dream getting Betty with Eve.
We all a bottle lit up, hood it away, Bottle
it up or rainy day.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Bottle it up. Went the clouds on end, I'm slipping
the summer on ice again. Yeah, they's so sweet and
it feels so good.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I know I can't buddy if I could out.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Bottle it up.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah, bottle it up, live vain, no big riddle, just
(08:22):
Jesus and the table and the people in the middle.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Now I'm to us.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Jeeps, on digging every now and then take a blessing
your gather. Then bottle it up, pod it away, Bottle
it up or rainy day, bottle it up. When the
clouds old ran on the sipping the summer on ice.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yet, she's so.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Sweet and it feels so good. I know I can't
put anyth I good. I bottle it up.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, bottle it up, pull it off the shelf and
go walk dust keep being there back of sell this stuff. Yeah,
well about.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
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Speaker 6 (09:28):
Hi, what's up you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
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Speaker 5 (10:24):
Hi, this is.
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Speaker 2 (10:33):
And back you with Joe Nichols again, Hankey Talks and
Country Songs Here on the Backstage Past, powered by the
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True Country ninety nine point nine. Hey, talk to me
(10:54):
about this entire album for Honky Talks and Country Songs.
Just an album. This is fantastic, a lot of great
songs and this one man really set the tone for
record and it did it for me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Bottle it up right on, man, I appreciate it's.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I like to call it front porch country like a
rock and share country where I love Don Williams.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don Williams was always one of my favorite artists.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He just had a mellow, even if tempo songs kind
of had a chill rock and chair kind of vibe
to him. And that's what bottled it up is it's
kind of it's got some tempo and it's a cool
you know song you can listen to by bonfire or
you know, on the front porch, having a cold one
on the back porch whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love country music like that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like I said, it's kind of more like a hanging
out bonfire or blasted around the parking lot while you're
hanging out in your truck whatever with your friends.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Or it's actually a good dancer too. There's a lot
of good dancers on this record. But I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It speaks to people like me, that that kind of
song right there speaks to a guy just like me.
And that's I think that's why it's believable from me
because I would I would buy it if I was
if I was buying.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It, no doubt about it too. And also one of
the top ones added the country radio to him. We
played it out there at KKTC True Country ninety nine
to nine was of course the great Annie Bosco a
chance to collaborate, and we're seeing more and more of
that in the industry. I guess, how did you guys
meet put this arrangement together? For I believe No. One
of the third most added country song to country radio
for better than You Man, great job on this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
For you and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, for I guess this is our fourth week being
the top in the top three or four most added,
which is a huge deal. I don't think I've had
a song like that since maybe Yeah, that was twenty fourteen,
fifteen and so wonderful start. I think it's because it's
a hit, and I think Annie came in and made
it a hit. She was suggested to me by our
(12:43):
label president Benny Brown, who's phenomenal human being, and we
had this song that was a duet, felt like a hit.
We just needed the right singer, and so we tossed
around a few names, but Benny said, man, you know
Annie Bosco.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'd seen her play and El Passa.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We did a show together, and she's like a supermodel,
like beautiful and when she started singing, she sang helped
me make it through the Night Chris Christopherson's song, and
I was like, there's no way a woman that looks
like that should be singing songs like that unless she's
incredibly unique, and she is, And it turns out she's
an incredibly warm person too. She's a extremely likable, energetic,
(13:26):
warm personality. I think all the things that you expect
from a star quote unquote star she has and hard worker, man.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
She wants to make everything as good as it can be.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I really appreciate her work ethics and her ability to
go in the studio and get it right. A lot
of people you never know how it's gonna go with
a duet partner. You never know if it's going to
be you know, come across as like a hassle to
you know, kind of keep tweaking, like, oh maybe if
you try this, maybe if you try that, it might
be a little better. But she wanted it to be
as good as it can be. And I'm a bit
(13:59):
of a affectionists like that in the studio, and I
know she is as well. And so I think what
we've got, because she's a perfectionist, I think what we've
got is a freaking hit. She sounds incredible on it.
She's such a good singer and a good vibe. You know,
that's no drama, none whatsoever with her, And you know,
never know what to expect with that either, And so
(14:21):
I was super pleasantly surprised with that. But like I
said that, initial seeing her play in El Paso, Texas,
I was like, Wow, this is that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And you know when we thought about it with the song,
where like, she's a natural, no brainer fit.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know, all the great hits you talk about having
just hitting radio. We talked about some of those titles
at the beginning. Is there one that's still out there
at the live show that the fans just say, you
know what if they're screaming back at you singing it
word for word, or there maybe one or two of
those songs and stick out from the glory days that
you're like, you know what, this never gets old singing.
We just love doing this on stage. What would they be?
Those top two or three.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Broken Artsville for sure? I mean tequilam extra clothes fall
off always, you know, that's one of my favorites. Give
me that Girls another one from you know twenty ten.
That was a huge song for me. Every time we
kick into the first couple of notes and hang up
that red dress, people go nuts and that that's that
(15:18):
never gets old here and people sing that song in
any of those songs loud as they can.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I will say, you mentioned bottle it up.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That song has that kind of vibe live when we
do it live. By the end of the song, people
are singing it already. It's got such a hooky melody
and such a hooky catch line.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You know. The hook line is bottled it Up, it away,
And by the end of the song people saying bottle
it up, Yeah, bottle it up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's just that kind of tune. But I think Better
than You is a powerful song. It's a I think
it's gonna be one of those. It's gonna be a
different song for me, different than I anything I've ever
done before. I've never had to do it as a
single before, so this will be a first in that way.
But I think it'll It'll touch markets and demographics that
(16:08):
I've never really hit home runs with, So I think
that could be something significant. But back to your original point,
Broken Hartsville to killing extra clothes fall off. She only
smokes when she drinks. I'll wait for you, you know,
give me that girl. Sonny seventy five always slams, always hits.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you know you're on my playlist when it's Joe
Nichols and those songs, all five of those are on
the playlist. When at Crutch Fitness and we're actually working
out doing the way heavy, You're always it's just great
work out I'm doing upper lower body or the staremaster.
Those songs just give me the interest to keep pushing through.
They really do. Brother.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I appreciate that you have no idea what what kind
of compliment that is?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's That's the one thing I believe.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It don't sound funny, but I ask myself all the
time in the studio, can it Can a person run
to this and a person exercises this is a given
any kind of feeling because I believe that over anything
else with our job as art is to make you
feel something. And so whether it's a sad song, happy song,
doesn't matter. It's got to make you feel something. And
(17:08):
sometimes or most of the time, that means you can
work out to you're gonna add some energy behind your feelings.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And so I appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You got it, brother, It makes you feel something, no doubt.
It's time to play another one off Honky Talks and
Country Songs here on the Backstage pass powered by the
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It's called do it life with you. I think you'll
get the gist of this. Here it is from Joe
Nichols on the backstage pass Crank it up.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Good, even up the fall and hit some moones. Being
on the side of righting wrong down nothing better at all,
ben cold and hot and mild of life, bit our tongues,
trying not to cuse You've seen falling dreams and falling leaves,
(18:10):
stars on top of Christmas tree beaches, up and down
the Californi senior brunette hair five off the gray still got.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
That same pretty you falling will.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, we've seen our share, but I wouldn't change in anything.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
I love the babies and the crazies and to think.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'm down and save me this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Tones called because silly fights and making up happy tears
and up on nights every year Senior life line.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I love them flying for its sundown days brands and
didn't go our Wavemmy here in my room, you.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
All the lungs and eyes the girl.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
I love doing life with you, all.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Them highway around the suitcasewack and dashboard drums and better laughing,
living in and out of hotel rooms, yellow lighting, bulls
and mace and jars, little foot prints in the front yards.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And June.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We had out of nowhere circumstance, break uards and tire
hands find.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
A way to love each other through.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
If I could do it all again a thousand times
with you, girls, I swear I do.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
I love the famies and the crazies and the thing.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I'm around and savedies morning till called because silly.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Bites and making up.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Happy tears, and of home nights every year, Senor.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Live line grow. I love it every.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Run for sundown days, the prayers that didn't go our
way every year in my review, all the little ones
and eyes the girl I love doing live with you.
(20:42):
I love the babies and the crazies and I they
gone drown and saving me the morning times and coffee cups,
silly bites and making up happy tears and all nights
every year, sen your life lines grow.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I love them, Ragie A lot of dude.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
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All right, this is the love the title, and it
made for another great country song. People love doing life
with you, and my friend loved this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Boy, It's one of my favorite things on the whole album.
Such a great message, especially for me and my family.
My wife and I have been through some really super
high peaks and some really super low valleys, and we've
struggled and we've succeeded, but it has been a journey
to say the least. And this song when when she
(23:25):
first heard it completed, she started crying, which made me
start crying. And just a personal song to me. I
love that it sounds good. It's kind of like just
a bonus to me. But I think the song is
just super meaningful to me, and I hope people hear
that that this song is just a personal thing to me.
It sounds like a good country song, great message about
(23:46):
you know, it ain't about how.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Successful we are or the good times.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's about I love this whole roller coaster ride with you,
the person I've chosen lived my life with good and bad.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We're here and I love it even the bad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Let's touch on a couple others off the record too.
I think people are gonna enjoy I enjoyed listening to
it in the preview. I got I love the title
man Helpless and a hawky talk. Where was this idea from?
I love it?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Man, brother.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
This is one of those that I mean it's it's
a straight up rip off from nineties country right there.
I mean it should have been even the late eighties.
You know some of those late eighties records. I love
those old dancers. I call them dancers from the nineties,
where you could just two step or double two step
or line dance to a country song used to be
so much fun. I was a teenager in the nineties,
(24:38):
but it was a It was a fun time for
country music because you could tell a story in three minutes,
and you could have some meat on the bones, and
you could have a catchy melody, and you could dance
to it and made you feel good, Like I said before,
made you feel something. And I think that's what makes
(24:59):
nineties country so special, is that all those things happened
all the time. It wasn't just an every now and
then thing like you hear on the radio today. You
hear every you know, one in every four or five
songs has a good story and a good melody and
you can dance to it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
But back in the nineties, that was every song.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Was every song for the nineties, no doubt you knew
when the instrumentation hit, you knew exactly who that singer
was back in the day, no doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Let's talk about hard Fires. So the great Stevie woodword
that mentioned collaborations gets to feature her too. This had
to be fun to work.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
On, right man. I love her, She's great. I love
Annie Bosco. I mean both of the girls that women
that I worked on music with on this album Blew
Me Away. They're just they're phenomenal singers, incredible talents. Runaway June.
I had no idea how impressed that would be until
I did a show with them, a run of shows
(25:50):
with them in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I had this song called Hardfires that was.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Kind of done for several months, but it was missing
something and I kept telling, you know, Mickey Cones and
Derek George, the producer of this record, I'm like, guys,
this song is good, but it's not great.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's just missing something.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And in my opinion, it's missing a really great female vocal,
like a feature without being a huge dominant part.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Just she has to be in the room with me.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
There's to be a female that's in the song with me,
and I think it might tip it over the top,
and just to do some answering, just some cool vocalizations
and stuff. And like I said, I did this run
of shows with Runaway June. I was like, holy smokes,
these girls are freaking awesome. They harmonized beautifully. They're great entertainers.
(26:38):
And I got back to Texas and I called the label.
I said, hey, is there any chance that Stevie would
come in and do hard Fires, maybe as soon as
possible before we you know, turned this record in because
I think she would kill it. And sure enough, man,
she was in there Monday morning and laid down a
super cool more like a vibe and a feel to
(26:59):
the song. I think it put it over the top
to me, that that song went from maybe the seventh
or eighth best song in the record to one of
the top maybe three or four. You know, it just
it turned it into a new song. I think she
made it super special.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, she really did, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I gotta get a little sports prediction from me here too,
because it's not the World Series. I wanted to see
being down here from Texas, and of course an Astros
fan after all those years of the glory days, with
seven out of eight years of the American League Championship series.
But hey, look, TV networks, sponsors, marketing, they got what
they wanted. East Coast, West Coast, Dodgers, Yankees. I guess
one for me, I'll be watching, because how can you
not watch? It's the World Series. Prediction wise, I got
(27:34):
Dodgers in seven. What's your prediction?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I got Dodgers as well. It'll be a great series,
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't think the big money on in the betting
or the networks can afford a sweep of any kind.
Then they're gonna milk this series as long as they can,
so it'll go seven.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But I think you're right. I think the Dodgers have
the pitching.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think even their you know, pitchers three and four
are top notch guys. You know, I think they got
the pitching. With and with Otani being inhuman, I think
they're just I think they're unstoppable. They just got the
line up top to bottom and Yankees got the power.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I just don't think they have all the pitching top
to bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
No Doubt's some good for projections are and predictions. Of course,
Honkey talks and country songs out there across all the
digital streaming platforms. Look out for it. Make sure you
guys go stream and have a good time out there,
and of course check out Joe Nichols dot com for
more of those tour dates. Of course, merchandise and he
could be coming to a city, New York, get those
tickets out there. Joe, appreciate the time, always a great
friend of the program, my friend, and always love having
(28:34):
you on and talking some music and always catching up
as to what's going on late the latest. Did the
Joe Nichols camp and now my friend come back anytime?
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I appreciate you, brother, Thank you for your time today.
Look forward to it again. Man, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Hey, this is Megan Patrick and you're listening to the
Backstage Pass on the Home of the Grand Old Opry
on AM six fifty WSM
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