September 9, 2024 • 28 mins
Country superstar Kaylee Bell joins us on The Backstage Pass on the home of the Grand Ole Opry AM 650 WSM! Tune in each and every Sunday morning from 5:30-6:00 AM on WSM!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi all, this is Kaylee Bell and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on the Home of the Grand Ole
Opry six fifty Am WM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass another Sunday morning right here.
Hope you're drinking your coffee here on WSM Radio AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand ol Opry. And
of course the last few shows we've done, we've enjoyed
pumping them out and hopefully you guys are listening and
downloading there of course worldwide and always love the Opry
and they get to listen in I don't know two
or three times a week to all the great coverage.
(00:28):
Kelly Sutton does a great job there as the Opry
announcer and the lineups just keep getting better and better.
We'll please to be joined from Australia and moved to
Nashville the Lover a year ago, and this new album
is making some waves across the entire country scene called
Nights Like This. It came out in March. The most
stream country artist in New Zealand and of course Australia
right now too. And there's that wonder why she's out there.
(00:50):
Super talented Kaylee Bell to the broadcast here on the
backstage pass powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. Kaylee,
how you doing very well?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you, Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's good, you know, good to be affiliated now with
the I say, the holy grail of country radio. Right
there you go. What an honor.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's still a bucket list to play the Grand a
lot prey, So this is this is a lovely first step.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, there you go. Like I said, we're on the
Grand old Opery station to AM six fifty w SM
heard worldwide. Hey, let's talk about this in your career because,
like I said, you've done a lot in your career
to get to this point and mentioned move to Nashville
there a little over a year ago, so many talented
Australian artists, and this album really defined you in so
many great ways. For nights like this, talk about this
the project yourself as an artist and just how far
(01:32):
you've come over the last three or four years.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, I feel like a big turning point for my
whole thing was the Voice Australia. When I went on
Matt Show and got to play a song Keith that
I written basically using Keith urban song titles. I'd written
it a few years back, and it was sort of
just a tribute to Keith that I'd put out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And nothing much had happened, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was sort of like it did well at radio
in Australia and then I got to go on the
show and play the song too, Keith, and that was
something that I just feel like sometimes in life we
just have no control over how things are going to
turn out, and that was something that just kind of
blew up and went very viral globally and that sort
(02:15):
of really set the tone, I would say, post COVID
and for like this next kind of run of music
in the last sort of couple of years, it's just
kind of blown up and hasn't stopped, and I've kind
of just been trying to hit the ground running and
this kind of music in this record.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Nights like this.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We've had so many amazing nights like this, you know,
over the last couple of years, opening for each year
and just doing some real bucketless stuff, you know, putting
on nationwide tours through New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We just finished one.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We sold, you know, over eleven thousand tickets and a
country the size of New Zealand is wild and country
music is changing really really quickly over that side of
the world, and it's so cool to be I guess
you know, part of that change and seeing happen firsthand
in front of your eyes is it's wild and getting
a lot of mainstream kind of backing now, which is
(03:07):
really cool on radio New Zealand and Australia. We're touring
a lot over there as well, which is awesome. And yeah,
it's just it's so great to have a record I
think out that's very positive and empowering. I think is
is really what I'm just trying to put out with
my music. It's I just think after COVID, I really
felt that we needed to be together as fans as artists.
(03:31):
It was more evident than ever, and so this record
really I just wanted to reflect the joy that music brings.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I love it too. And you mentioned that big tour
for the album itself too, but there's another one coming up,
I believe in November of this year. Kane Brown yourself
kb KB, I love that too.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean today.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Love on the show, Cameron Marlove heading before too. This
is gonna be big and I know. Tickets went on
sale as of July twelfth, and of course Kane Brown
Music dot Com backslash home. You can actually find some
tickets there too, according to what's online of social media
out there to check it out. This has got to
be exciting for you because I love it KB KB
and then you get to sprinkling a little bit of
Cameron Martel. It's pretty cool, right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's insane. I'm a massive Camra Marlow fan. I love
his voice and Caine yet. I mean, it's actually really
funny because my band in New Zealand that I've had
for about seven years, I feel like one of caine
songs I Love country music was like their real first
turning point of like they're like obsessed with country music now,
(04:32):
which is so funny. And it's like we sing that
song all the time backstage at gigs. We always have
that song and our like warm up pre playlist, and
it's just like just really cool now to be out
on the road with Kine. I just think he's one
of the most versatile artists, you know, like he can
do the most beautiful ballad and then do something really
like mainstream, like with Marshmallow. You know, like he's just
(04:54):
so incredibly talented that I can't wait to just watch
him and learn from him and be part of an
arena tour.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's our very.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
First full arena tour, which is very very exciting.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And yeah, it's just all things great.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Really, it really is no doubt. And actually, you had
a great year of participating in CMA Fest. You got
to play these Chevy Vibe stage the week we were
there for CMA Fest twenty twenty four, we got to
do a lot of interviews there. I just missed you,
but that's why we're catching up today here on WSMAM
six fifty, the Home of the Opry. Talk about that
stepping on the Chevy Vibe stage and just really seeing
the fans because a lot of offseas will come, they'll travel.
(05:31):
I mean I've met a few on the plane as
I flew up there, Kayley, and they'll travel for the
best in country music.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely, there's half of Australia at CMA first, I think,
and you'll hear them. I mean, I've been coming to
Nashville four fourteen, fifteen years now. Twenty ten was my
first year and so CMA was always when I would come,
you know, So it was like it's very much a
part of just like my calendar every year for the
(05:56):
last fifteen years, I'd always keep coming back, always made
sure CMA was part of it. So, you know, to
finally be playing it fourteen years later on the Chevy Stage,
which has always been one of my favorite stages to
go and watch artists play on, and yeah, to get
to do that, it was a pretty big honor. And
(06:16):
there was actually just so many fans singing the songs back,
which was something that I kind of just you know,
when you're not from here, it's like it could go
a lot of different ways, but to have like genuine
fans they're singing the words, it was such a beautiful
treat for us. And yeah, I mean I just want
(06:36):
to keep playing CMA Fist now. It was such a
buzz and the band loved it. It was their first time.
I bought the band over from New Zealand and it
was their first time playing it too, so it was
like a real yeah, a real lot of first for
a lot of us. And yeah, it was just so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Did you get to do any of the meet and
greets and like kind of sign autographs there at the
Music City Center?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It was so lovely. It's honestly, meet and greets are
one of my fasavorite thing. We've been, like I said,
headline touring in New Zealand and Australia for the last
couple of years, and a big part of my show
is that I've always done meet and greets after no
matter how long I stand there, it's just like we
never charged for them. I just think it's so important
to make that connection, especially with kids and you know,
(07:20):
anyone that you can influence in a positive way. I
think it's such a cool thing to get to have
that one on one and have a little chad and
so yeah, it was really cool to get to do
that here at CMA as well, and to just been
starting to make some connections with people because America has
always been the dream for me and I've always you know,
wanted to tour America.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, I love it too because I do a lot
of prognostications or prophecies here on the show. So a
couple of years ago we had Lannie Wilson on before
I mean, she really blew up and I said, don't worry.
Just in a few years we got to do this.
You're going to blow up and be just big worldwide.
And of course everybody tries to stay mellow and grounded
in this business. You're very humbled and things like that.
So I'm making a prediction other couple of years is
(08:00):
gonna make an Opry debut.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How thank you so much. That would be a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I would love it too, And time to play some
music here on the show here on wsm AM six fifty,
the Home of the Grand Ole Opry. Feature and Kaylee
Bill this week on our Sunday morning slot, and you
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too worldwide. And of course it's songs like this Time
to Take It to the Highway from Kayley Bill off
the album Nights Like This. Here it is on wsm
(08:26):
AM six fifty, the Home of the grand Ole Opry.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Enjoy sitting there waiting to the end of the week
(08:49):
and kind of been cleaving that tou ling field, and how.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We got some time to we soon guess.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I just want a few zular Blue and then go
somewhere like we ain't returning, Take those niles as far
as they can last.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Never gonna look bad, No, we won't do that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Take it to the hallway, get out of town way,
past the edge.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Speakers turned up while we watch that Sundays.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Down, Down Down, take it to the back, curs for
yours fine, nothing on the world we can't leave behind
their back taste a freedom job you want to.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Then take it to the hollway.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Take it to the highway.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
I want to disappear into that who rust and feel
them enough coming love it.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I want you to.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Take me all the way, never gonna look back.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
We don't have to do that. Take it to the
hall away, get up of town lay passage.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Speakers turned up while we watched that sun dance down, down, Down,
Take it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
To the back the curls fuels fine.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
Nothing on the world we can't leave behind their batiste.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
A freedom joby whiles.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
Then take it to the hollway.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Take it to the hallway. Let everybody else in me
over review. Hey, everybody else from me, and you.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Got me somebody with nothing I lose and that that's why.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Let's repla. Take it to the hall away.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Get out of town lay passage.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Speakers turned up while we watch that Sun, Dance Down, Down, Down,
Take it to the back the curls for It's fine.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Nothing on the party.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Can't leave there that taste of freedom.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Tackle.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Take it to the sybody else coming.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Take to.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Take it to the else coming, Take it, Take.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
It to the.
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with talk and of course a lot of great shows
coming up over the next few weeks. Kaylee, Bill Johonni
gets here. Nights like this just came out in March,
the debut album from the Great Australian Artists too, and
of course we played a great song there, take It
to the Highway, and y'all took it to the Highway.
My friend talk about this one too, because this had
to be as much fun to record and step in
the studio as it is to sing live, right.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I wrote this song with Lindsay Rhymes and Phil Barton,
who are like probably my little go to team.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We wrote.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We've written a lot together. We wrote my song Kick together,
and I feel like our writing day is basically ninety
percent laughing and then ten percent writing a song. Like
that's just how it seems to operate, Like, I just
love their sense of humors and they're just always cracking
jokes and it is actually a really great way to
lay sort of the energy of the room out and
(13:30):
I think from that we all just relax and get
the chance to kind of be comfortable together, which is
a really big thing when you're writing with people. And
so I've just got to know them so well over
the years that you know, anytime I go into a
room and I'm like, we need a song to open
the set, or we need that song that's gonna be
like something that I want to, you know, play at
(13:51):
a fest. Phil they are my guys, and that's what
that was. The energy and the vibe of the song.
I had the chorus, I had that take It to
the Highway little hook in my head for about six
months and I held on to it because I knew
they were who I was going to write it with,
and walked in the room, was like, this is the
energy for the day, this is it, and we were
kind of off.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And yeah, take It to the Highway.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's just it literally is the song that opens our
whole show on tour, and it's just a a big
energy and yeah, it's it's fun to play.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know. With the year being almost halfway over, I
still can't believe where it's gone. For twenty twenty four,
we're looking back at it, but talk about just building
and writing that momentum. We mentioned the Kinge Brown and
Cameron Marlow tour, which you're going to be on coming
up in November, and people can check out your social
media and of course Kayley Billmusic dot com for tour
dates and merchandise out there too, but also too What
are you most looking forward to as we move forward
down to well into the second half of this year.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I feel like I'm always looking ahead like a
lot of artists, and starting to work on a new
project to release next year.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I finally got some team around me in America. I've
always been self managed, independent, and that's been awesome. I've
I really loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I love having control over my career and knowing what's
going on. But for America, I always wanted to have
a bit more of a team around me, and so
it's nice to be starting to put those people in place.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And I really do feel.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Like next summer we'll be underway and we'll be out
playing a lot over here in the States, which is,
like I said, it's the goal, it's the dream. I've
been obsessed with Nashville since I was four years old
and grew up singing country music since then and just
always knew one day I wanted to be in America touring.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So yeah, we're getting closer to the goal every day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
We are no doubt about it too, love it, love
the story too. You know, so many great Australian artists.
We were talking about this a little bit off air,
but one of my friends, Haley Jensen who turned me
on to you no doubt about it, and Jane Denham
and just so many great female artists doing their thing.
What does that say about Australian country music now really
impacting Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're right, so many great females over there doing really
cool things. And I just think, as we've kind of
talked about, you know, country music is a global genre.
Now we've seen it just explode in the last part,
in the last two years, I would say, And so
I just think it's exciting that, you know, the gap
is getting bridged hopefully, and you know, I can jump
(16:09):
on a Cane Brown tour in Australia and then it's
sort of like the favor works both ways.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I love seeing Americans come out to our side of
the world, and I love seeing Aussies have success in America.
So I just think hopefully, you know, those lines are
going to get a bit more blurred, and and that
whole thing of you know where you come from is
sort of more and more irrelevant, you know. I just
think if you're making great music and if people are
loving it, then that's all that really matters.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There was another song off this record. I loved it
for nights like this, and you guys can check it
out across all the DSPs out there for wherever you're
streaming takes place. I thought it was just really cool.
I love the title Boots and all, let's talk about
this Boots.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I feel like this song is brings me the greatest joy.
We end our set with this song, and it's just
it's been one of those songs that's really knocked down
a lot of walls, you know. We released this to
radio straight off the back of the Edgeher Until that
we were on last year, and it was a top
twenty pop hit right through the country and mainstream radio,
(17:13):
which was again a massive game change I think for
the genre. And it's just a song that, like I said,
we get people up doing a little line dance thing
when we.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Played, and my bands learn how to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Which is hilarious because they're the most uncoordinated humans in
the world and they can manage to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So it just brings a lot of joy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I feel like this song has been the massive
connector for me to a lot of people and for
people discovering my music for the first time. I think
a lot of it has been done through the song.
So yeah, I just feel like this song, I don't know.
I just wish it was on every Boots commercial because
it makes you want to dance as soon as you
hear it. But it's basically I guess it's like I
(17:56):
went into that writing down. I was like, I want
to write a song somewhere between Shannaia Twain and Heim,
and I think we really walked away with the song
that fits that brief.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, really did too. And here's another one off that record,
Nights like This from Kaylee Bell here on wsm AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand ole Opry, and I
hope one day she's making that grand ol Opry debut
and it's songs like this too. We're talking about today
off the record, and here's one called good Things.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I'm running call him My Way, Sleepless Night head and
down in less house.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It's only when you're missing home.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Jane, good bussy gave your moves deep insided.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
She just couldn't be clean.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
I don't give him now because it all comes round
something fil different, it's all good? Did it change?
Speaker 11 (19:02):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The piece is just bulling, Jason.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
We looked at colorless moment one day, the memories we
made and dreams that we chase it, whining Rover, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
All worth the way. I'm ready the good things that.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Come hid, things to come away.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Away hard, wide.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Open, have the walls down, drow that caution out into
the ins and least we all got doubts hit all
over cow.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Something it's different, is all gone and change, all.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The pieces just falling and chasing. We look up homeless
moment one day, the memories we make and dreams.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
That we chase it.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Whin the Rover's aer the way a maday for good
things that come my way, So good things to come.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Way, Jess. The time it's fine.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Here in front of my.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Because it's uncommon, telling the honey competitor who was coming
my way, because it's uncommon. We look homeless moment one day,
the memories we make and dreams that we chase.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
Him winding rovers so the way a man for good.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Says, say come away, say.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Say come.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Come day, say come Hi, sack, come.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
For pleasant sick, Come.
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got to talk about it. I mentioned if people kind
of you know, put themselves out there and always do
good things, good things will happen on the flip side,
And this one had to be fun to put your
vocals on too, right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Absolutely, I'm a big believer in the universe and stepping
in at times of you know, change or when you
when you go and take that risk and do something scary.
And Good Things was a song that I actually wrote
just before I moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It was like that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Crossroads you know, where you're like, you know you're about
to change your life, and it's really it's terrifying in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But I remember as a.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Kid, I had another moment like that, a massive crossroad,
and Kelly Clarkson's song Breakaway had just come out, and
I listened to that song literally on repeat, and I
can't tell you how helpful that song was for me
as a kid going through a change. And so I've
always wanted to write a song for people that hopefully
can do the same thing. And I feel like that
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good Things is exactly that it's saying to the universe,
Like I'm doing the scary thing, but I know that
if I put myself out there, I will be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And yeah, I think it is. It happens a lot
in life. I've seen it, so I truly believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I do too, no doubt. Good karma equals good karma,
no doubt. It's almost like going out to a restaurant
and some people say, you know, some people are like,
you have the service is great, We're gonna tip well.
I'm like, look, I always believe in just tipping well
in general, because like, if you tip well to the
service and people to take care of you in a
restaurant or a bar or sports bar or whatever, good
karma is going to come back around. So good things
will happen always.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Like you treat people well and it will come back
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It'll come back to you, no doubt about it. Good
karm and karma could be a good or a bad record.
Small town Friday Nights, let's dive into this one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, so I grew up in a tiny little country
town in the South Island of New Zealand. My mum
and dad still live there. Actually it's three thousand people.
It's actually very similar to small town America. I feel
like when you look at images, it kind of looks
like a little American ski town or something.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And grew up singing.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Country music from like I said, from the age of
four with my brother and sister, and I've just always
been incredibly I guess grateful would be the word to
have grown up in a small town. I think the
sense of like community and support you get just from
the whole community, not just your family, you know, like
the whole town kind of does actually raise you in
a way because you're so injected into so many different things,
(24:57):
and you get to do so many different things as
a kid, because often you just chucked into a sports
team here or a musical.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Production there just to make up numbers or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But I just I just feel such a strong sense
of who I am because of, you know, being from
a small town, and so I have always wanted a
song that kind of reflected that. And one thing in
a small town, as everybody knows, is Friday night is
like the night of the week. It's like we used
to always go and play touch rugby. The whole town
would turn up, and then if you were old enough,
(25:28):
you go to the pub.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you weren't.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You'd go out to a field somewhere in the country
and there'd be a bonfire and it was just like
those were some of the best memories I have. Like
it really is like the movies. It's as simple as that.
And so yeah, I just wanted a song that just
talked about that. And I think, like I said, it's funny,
I grew up on a town at the bottom of
the world, you know, but I see so many similarities
(25:52):
between small towns everywhere I've traveled, and again, I just
love that music can like remind people of that that
were actually a lot more similar then maybe we realize.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, I love it too, and you know over there too,
you mentioned about sports. I love working it in because
rugby is a big deal in Australia, right, Oh yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The all Blacks are the best.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And I mean that was the other thing about growing
up in a small town though, you know, like playing
music was quite rare, you know, it was like sport
was the thing that was encouraged. And it makes me
even more super grateful to have had parents in a
family that, you know, when I told them I was
moving to Australia and was going to pursue country music.
(26:34):
They never hesitated, They never told me that's ridiculous or
you know, there was absolutely like it was insane. Actually,
when I look back, and there was a lot of
safer options around that they could have kind of steered
me in that direction. But I'm so so grateful that
they were just like, absolutely, if that's what you love
to do, go and do it. And yeah, so very
(26:54):
and very grateful to appearents that have always just been
so encouraging.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I love it too, and I love this little rapid
fire second we get to know you more on a
personal basis. So when not doing music, what does Kaylee
Bell like to do for fun like hobbies things like that?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh ah, well, I love like working out. I box
a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't want to mess with her watch out careful.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I really do love sport like I love watching
I love playing basketball, tennis, just anything. Really always been
a big sports girl. And I really love reading and
painting and art and yeah, just like kind of shutting
myself off for the world and doing things like that
that kind of ground me.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Again. I think the older I'm getting and the more
we're getting just into phones and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I just have really found that time away from that
just even more and more important and just you know,
it's like we have to remember, we've got to keep learning.
Speaker 12 (27:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's like it's all good to be scrolling Instagram for
an hour, but I could have been reading a book
and learning something, and so I'm really trying to get
back to that kind of mind.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hey, so please to have you here again nights like this.
The current album from the great Kaylee Bell out there
across all the digital streaming platforms and of course check
her out at Kayleebell music dot com k y l
e e Bell music dot com. Hey, we appreciate you
being with us being featured here on WSMAM six fifty
the Home of the Opry. Best of luck with the
tours and of course the new album continued success going forward,
(28:21):
and we appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Being with us here Legion. Thanks Brandon, it's been awesome chatting.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Thank you got it, Kayleebell out there, Tim. We're back
next Sunday, five thirty am to six am with another
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Hi all, this is Kaylee Bell and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on the Home of the Grand Ole
Opry six fifty Am WM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass another Sunday morning right here.
Hope you're drinking your coffee here on WSM Radio AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand ol Opry. And
of course the last few shows we've done, we've enjoyed
pumping them out and hopefully you guys are listening and
downloading there of course worldwide and always love the Opry
and they get to listen in I don't know two
or three times a week to all the great coverage.
(00:28):
Kelly Sutton does a great job there as the Opry
announcer and the lineups just keep getting better and better.
We'll please to be joined from Australia and moved to
Nashville the Lover a year ago, and this new album
is making some waves across the entire country scene called
Nights Like This. It came out in March. The most
stream country artist in New Zealand and of course Australia
right now too. And there's that wonder why she's out there.
(00:50):
Super talented Kaylee Bell to the broadcast here on the
backstage pass powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. Kaylee,
how you doing very well?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you, Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's good, you know, good to be affiliated now with
the I say, the holy grail of country radio. Right
there you go. What an honor.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's still a bucket list to play the Grand a
lot prey, So this is this is a lovely first step.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, there you go. Like I said, we're on the
Grand old Opery station to AM six fifty w SM
heard worldwide. Hey, let's talk about this in your career because,
like I said, you've done a lot in your career
to get to this point and mentioned move to Nashville
there a little over a year ago, so many talented
Australian artists, and this album really defined you in so
many great ways. For nights like this, talk about this
the project yourself as an artist and just how far
(01:32):
you've come over the last three or four years.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, I feel like a big turning point for my
whole thing was the Voice Australia. When I went on
Matt Show and got to play a song Keith that
I written basically using Keith urban song titles. I'd written
it a few years back, and it was sort of
just a tribute to Keith that I'd put out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And nothing much had happened, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was sort of like it did well at radio
in Australia and then I got to go on the
show and play the song too, Keith, and that was
something that I just feel like sometimes in life we
just have no control over how things are going to
turn out, and that was something that just kind of
blew up and went very viral globally and that sort
(02:15):
of really set the tone, I would say, post COVID
and for like this next kind of run of music
in the last sort of couple of years, it's just
kind of blown up and hasn't stopped, and I've kind
of just been trying to hit the ground running and
this kind of music in this record.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Nights like this.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We've had so many amazing nights like this, you know,
over the last couple of years, opening for each year
and just doing some real bucketless stuff, you know, putting
on nationwide tours through New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We just finished one.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We sold, you know, over eleven thousand tickets and a
country the size of New Zealand is wild and country
music is changing really really quickly over that side of
the world, and it's so cool to be I guess
you know, part of that change and seeing happen firsthand
in front of your eyes is it's wild and getting
a lot of mainstream kind of backing now, which is
(03:07):
really cool on radio New Zealand and Australia. We're touring
a lot over there as well, which is awesome. And yeah,
it's just it's so great to have a record I
think out that's very positive and empowering. I think is
is really what I'm just trying to put out with
my music. It's I just think after COVID, I really
felt that we needed to be together as fans as artists.
(03:31):
It was more evident than ever, and so this record
really I just wanted to reflect the joy that music brings.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I love it too. And you mentioned that big tour
for the album itself too, but there's another one coming up,
I believe in November of this year. Kane Brown yourself
kb KB, I love that too.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean today.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Love on the show, Cameron Marlove heading before too. This
is gonna be big and I know. Tickets went on
sale as of July twelfth, and of course Kane Brown
Music dot Com backslash home. You can actually find some
tickets there too, according to what's online of social media
out there to check it out. This has got to
be exciting for you because I love it KB KB
and then you get to sprinkling a little bit of
Cameron Martel. It's pretty cool, right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's insane. I'm a massive Camra Marlow fan. I love
his voice and Caine yet. I mean, it's actually really
funny because my band in New Zealand that I've had
for about seven years, I feel like one of caine
songs I Love country music was like their real first
turning point of like they're like obsessed with country music now,
(04:32):
which is so funny. And it's like we sing that
song all the time backstage at gigs. We always have
that song and our like warm up pre playlist, and
it's just like just really cool now to be out
on the road with Kine. I just think he's one
of the most versatile artists, you know, like he can
do the most beautiful ballad and then do something really
like mainstream, like with Marshmallow. You know, like he's just
(04:54):
so incredibly talented that I can't wait to just watch
him and learn from him and be part of an
arena tour.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's our very.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
First full arena tour, which is very very exciting.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And yeah, it's just all things great.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Really, it really is no doubt. And actually, you had
a great year of participating in CMA Fest. You got
to play these Chevy Vibe stage the week we were
there for CMA Fest twenty twenty four, we got to
do a lot of interviews there. I just missed you,
but that's why we're catching up today here on WSMAM
six fifty, the Home of the Opry. Talk about that
stepping on the Chevy Vibe stage and just really seeing
the fans because a lot of offseas will come, they'll travel.
(05:31):
I mean I've met a few on the plane as
I flew up there, Kayley, and they'll travel for the
best in country music.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely, there's half of Australia at CMA first, I think,
and you'll hear them. I mean, I've been coming to
Nashville four fourteen, fifteen years now. Twenty ten was my
first year and so CMA was always when I would come,
you know, So it was like it's very much a
part of just like my calendar every year for the
(05:56):
last fifteen years, I'd always keep coming back, always made
sure CMA was part of it. So, you know, to
finally be playing it fourteen years later on the Chevy Stage,
which has always been one of my favorite stages to
go and watch artists play on, and yeah, to get
to do that, it was a pretty big honor. And
(06:16):
there was actually just so many fans singing the songs back,
which was something that I kind of just you know,
when you're not from here, it's like it could go
a lot of different ways, but to have like genuine
fans they're singing the words, it was such a beautiful
treat for us. And yeah, I mean I just want
(06:36):
to keep playing CMA Fist now. It was such a
buzz and the band loved it. It was their first time.
I bought the band over from New Zealand and it
was their first time playing it too, so it was
like a real yeah, a real lot of first for
a lot of us. And yeah, it was just so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Did you get to do any of the meet and
greets and like kind of sign autographs there at the
Music City Center?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It was so lovely. It's honestly, meet and greets are
one of my fasavorite thing. We've been, like I said,
headline touring in New Zealand and Australia for the last
couple of years, and a big part of my show
is that I've always done meet and greets after no
matter how long I stand there, it's just like we
never charged for them. I just think it's so important
to make that connection, especially with kids and you know,
(07:20):
anyone that you can influence in a positive way. I
think it's such a cool thing to get to have
that one on one and have a little chad and
so yeah, it was really cool to get to do
that here at CMA as well, and to just been
starting to make some connections with people because America has
always been the dream for me and I've always you know,
wanted to tour America.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, I love it too because I do a lot
of prognostications or prophecies here on the show. So a
couple of years ago we had Lannie Wilson on before
I mean, she really blew up and I said, don't worry.
Just in a few years we got to do this.
You're going to blow up and be just big worldwide.
And of course everybody tries to stay mellow and grounded
in this business. You're very humbled and things like that.
So I'm making a prediction other couple of years is
(08:00):
gonna make an Opry debut.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How thank you so much. That would be a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I would love it too, And time to play some
music here on the show here on wsm AM six fifty,
the Home of the Grand Ole Opry. Feature and Kaylee
Bill this week on our Sunday morning slot, and you
can listen every Sunday morning here to the backstage past
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too worldwide. And of course it's songs like this Time
to Take It to the Highway from Kayley Bill off
the album Nights Like This. Here it is on wsm
(08:26):
AM six fifty, the Home of the grand Ole Opry.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Enjoy sitting there waiting to the end of the week
(08:49):
and kind of been cleaving that tou ling field, and how.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We got some time to we soon guess.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I just want a few zular Blue and then go
somewhere like we ain't returning, Take those niles as far
as they can last.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Never gonna look bad, No, we won't do that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Take it to the hallway, get out of town way,
past the edge.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Speakers turned up while we watch that Sundays.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Down, Down Down, take it to the back, curs for
yours fine, nothing on the world we can't leave behind
their back taste a freedom job you want to.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Then take it to the hollway.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Take it to the highway.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
I want to disappear into that who rust and feel
them enough coming love it.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I want you to.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Take me all the way, never gonna look back.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
We don't have to do that. Take it to the
hall away, get up of town lay passage.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Speakers turned up while we watched that sun dance down, down, Down,
Take it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
To the back the curls fuels fine.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
Nothing on the world we can't leave behind their batiste.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
A freedom joby whiles.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
Then take it to the hollway.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Take it to the hallway. Let everybody else in me
over review. Hey, everybody else from me, and you.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Got me somebody with nothing I lose and that that's why.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Let's repla. Take it to the hall away.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Get out of town lay passage.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We will never be found.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Speakers turned up while we watch that Sun, Dance Down, Down, Down,
Take it to the back the curls for It's fine.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Nothing on the party.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Can't leave there that taste of freedom.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Tackle.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Take it to the sybody else coming.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Take to.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Take it to the else coming, Take it, Take.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
It to the.
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with talk and of course a lot of great shows
coming up over the next few weeks. Kaylee, Bill Johonni
gets here. Nights like this just came out in March,
the debut album from the Great Australian Artists too, and
of course we played a great song there, take It
to the Highway, and y'all took it to the Highway.
My friend talk about this one too, because this had
to be as much fun to record and step in
the studio as it is to sing live, right.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I wrote this song with Lindsay Rhymes and Phil Barton,
who are like probably my little go to team.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We wrote.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We've written a lot together. We wrote my song Kick together,
and I feel like our writing day is basically ninety
percent laughing and then ten percent writing a song. Like
that's just how it seems to operate, Like, I just
love their sense of humors and they're just always cracking
jokes and it is actually a really great way to
lay sort of the energy of the room out and
(13:30):
I think from that we all just relax and get
the chance to kind of be comfortable together, which is
a really big thing when you're writing with people. And
so I've just got to know them so well over
the years that you know, anytime I go into a
room and I'm like, we need a song to open
the set, or we need that song that's gonna be
like something that I want to, you know, play at
(13:51):
a fest. Phil they are my guys, and that's what
that was. The energy and the vibe of the song.
I had the chorus, I had that take It to
the Highway little hook in my head for about six
months and I held on to it because I knew
they were who I was going to write it with,
and walked in the room, was like, this is the
energy for the day, this is it, and we were
kind of off.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And yeah, take It to the Highway.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's just it literally is the song that opens our
whole show on tour, and it's just a a big
energy and yeah, it's it's fun to play.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know. With the year being almost halfway over, I
still can't believe where it's gone. For twenty twenty four,
we're looking back at it, but talk about just building
and writing that momentum. We mentioned the Kinge Brown and
Cameron Marlow tour, which you're going to be on coming
up in November, and people can check out your social
media and of course Kayley Billmusic dot com for tour
dates and merchandise out there too, but also too What
are you most looking forward to as we move forward
down to well into the second half of this year.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I feel like I'm always looking ahead like a
lot of artists, and starting to work on a new
project to release next year.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I finally got some team around me in America. I've
always been self managed, independent, and that's been awesome. I've
I really loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I love having control over my career and knowing what's
going on. But for America, I always wanted to have
a bit more of a team around me, and so
it's nice to be starting to put those people in place.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And I really do feel.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Like next summer we'll be underway and we'll be out
playing a lot over here in the States, which is,
like I said, it's the goal, it's the dream. I've
been obsessed with Nashville since I was four years old
and grew up singing country music since then and just
always knew one day I wanted to be in America touring.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So yeah, we're getting closer to the goal every day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
We are no doubt about it too, love it, love
the story too. You know, so many great Australian artists.
We were talking about this a little bit off air,
but one of my friends, Haley Jensen who turned me
on to you no doubt about it, and Jane Denham
and just so many great female artists doing their thing.
What does that say about Australian country music now really
impacting Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're right, so many great females over there doing really
cool things. And I just think, as we've kind of
talked about, you know, country music is a global genre.
Now we've seen it just explode in the last part,
in the last two years, I would say, And so
I just think it's exciting that, you know, the gap
is getting bridged hopefully, and you know, I can jump
(16:09):
on a Cane Brown tour in Australia and then it's
sort of like the favor works both ways.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I love seeing Americans come out to our side of
the world, and I love seeing Aussies have success in America.
So I just think hopefully, you know, those lines are
going to get a bit more blurred, and and that
whole thing of you know where you come from is
sort of more and more irrelevant, you know. I just
think if you're making great music and if people are
loving it, then that's all that really matters.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There was another song off this record. I loved it
for nights like this, and you guys can check it
out across all the DSPs out there for wherever you're
streaming takes place. I thought it was just really cool.
I love the title Boots and all, let's talk about
this Boots.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I feel like this song is brings me the greatest joy.
We end our set with this song, and it's just
it's been one of those songs that's really knocked down
a lot of walls, you know. We released this to
radio straight off the back of the Edgeher Until that
we were on last year, and it was a top
twenty pop hit right through the country and mainstream radio,
(17:13):
which was again a massive game change I think for
the genre. And it's just a song that, like I said,
we get people up doing a little line dance thing
when we.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Played, and my bands learn how to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Which is hilarious because they're the most uncoordinated humans in
the world and they can manage to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So it just brings a lot of joy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I feel like this song has been the massive
connector for me to a lot of people and for
people discovering my music for the first time. I think
a lot of it has been done through the song.
So yeah, I just feel like this song, I don't know.
I just wish it was on every Boots commercial because
it makes you want to dance as soon as you
hear it. But it's basically I guess it's like I
(17:56):
went into that writing down. I was like, I want
to write a song somewhere between Shannaia Twain and Heim,
and I think we really walked away with the song
that fits that brief.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, really did too. And here's another one off that record,
Nights like This from Kaylee Bell here on wsm AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand ole Opry, and I
hope one day she's making that grand ol Opry debut
and it's songs like this too. We're talking about today
off the record, and here's one called good Things.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I'm running call him My Way, Sleepless Night head and
down in less house.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It's only when you're missing home.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Jane, good bussy gave your moves deep insided.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
She just couldn't be clean.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
I don't give him now because it all comes round
something fil different, it's all good? Did it change?
Speaker 11 (19:02):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The piece is just bulling, Jason.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
We looked at colorless moment one day, the memories we
made and dreams that we chase it, whining Rover, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
All worth the way. I'm ready the good things that.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Come hid, things to come away.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Away hard, wide.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Open, have the walls down, drow that caution out into
the ins and least we all got doubts hit all
over cow.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Something it's different, is all gone and change, all.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The pieces just falling and chasing. We look up homeless
moment one day, the memories we make and dreams.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
That we chase it.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Whin the Rover's aer the way a maday for good
things that come my way, So good things to come.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Way, Jess. The time it's fine.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Here in front of my.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Because it's uncommon, telling the honey competitor who was coming
my way, because it's uncommon. We look homeless moment one day,
the memories we make and dreams that we chase.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
Him winding rovers so the way a man for good.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Says, say come away, say.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Say come.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Come day, say come Hi, sack, come.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
For pleasant sick, Come.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Play what y'all with mocking them?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Checking in right now with the Porn Guy Podcast.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
If you want getting up on everything music, sports, lad
get him up.
Speaker 13 (21:48):
Check him out w w dot Thasport podcast dot com.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
The Caiden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
the best in country music. So check it out at
the Kadangordonshow dot com. Again, that is the Caden Gordon
Show dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And more great shows coming up over the next few weeks.
On Sunday morning from five thirty am to six am.
Right there, grand O Lopprey Station, the home WSM AM
six fifty, multiple ways to listen, you guys know those ways,
the app of course, Wsmradio dot com and I heard
Radio two out there back here with Kaylee Bell on
these shows. Some more great shows coming up over the
next few weeks t Grand Brown, Robert Earlkeen, and just
(22:29):
a whole lot more. We're pumping them out probably faster
than you can download. Appreciate you guys listening out there,
and of course are other syndicated radio stations, so we
got to talk about it. I mentioned if people kind
of you know, put themselves out there and always do
good things, good things will happen on the flip side,
And this one had to be fun to put your
vocals on too, right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Absolutely, I'm a big believer in the universe and stepping
in at times of you know, change or when you
when you go and take that risk and do something scary.
And Good Things was a song that I actually wrote
just before I moved to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It was like that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Crossroads you know, where you're like, you know you're about
to change your life, and it's really it's terrifying in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But I remember as a.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Kid, I had another moment like that, a massive crossroad,
and Kelly Clarkson's song Breakaway had just come out, and
I listened to that song literally on repeat, and I
can't tell you how helpful that song was for me
as a kid going through a change. And so I've
always wanted to write a song for people that hopefully
can do the same thing. And I feel like that
(23:32):
good Things is exactly that it's saying to the universe,
Like I'm doing the scary thing, but I know that
if I put myself out there, I will be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And yeah, I think it is. It happens a lot
in life. I've seen it, so I truly believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I do too, no doubt. Good karma equals good karma,
no doubt. It's almost like going out to a restaurant
and some people say, you know, some people are like,
you have the service is great, We're gonna tip well.
I'm like, look, I always believe in just tipping well
in general, because like, if you tip well to the
service and people to take care of you in a
restaurant or a bar or sports bar or whatever, good
karma is going to come back around. So good things
will happen always.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Like you treat people well and it will come back
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It'll come back to you, no doubt about it. Good
karm and karma could be a good or a bad record.
Small town Friday Nights, let's dive into this one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, so I grew up in a tiny little country
town in the South Island of New Zealand. My mum
and dad still live there. Actually it's three thousand people.
It's actually very similar to small town America. I feel
like when you look at images, it kind of looks
like a little American ski town or something.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And grew up singing.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Country music from like I said, from the age of
four with my brother and sister, and I've just always
been incredibly I guess grateful would be the word to
have grown up in a small town. I think the
sense of like community and support you get just from
the whole community, not just your family, you know, like
the whole town kind of does actually raise you in
a way because you're so injected into so many different things,
(24:57):
and you get to do so many different things as
a kid, because often you just chucked into a sports
team here or a musical.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Production there just to make up numbers or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But I just I just feel such a strong sense
of who I am because of, you know, being from
a small town, and so I have always wanted a
song that kind of reflected that. And one thing in
a small town, as everybody knows, is Friday night is
like the night of the week. It's like we used
to always go and play touch rugby. The whole town
would turn up, and then if you were old enough,
(25:28):
you go to the pub.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you weren't.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You'd go out to a field somewhere in the country
and there'd be a bonfire and it was just like
those were some of the best memories I have. Like
it really is like the movies. It's as simple as that.
And so yeah, I just wanted a song that just
talked about that. And I think, like I said, it's funny,
I grew up on a town at the bottom of
the world, you know, but I see so many similarities
(25:52):
between small towns everywhere I've traveled, and again, I just
love that music can like remind people of that that
were actually a lot more similar then maybe we realize.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, I love it too, and you know over there too,
you mentioned about sports. I love working it in because
rugby is a big deal in Australia, right, Oh yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The all Blacks are the best.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And I mean that was the other thing about growing
up in a small town though, you know, like playing
music was quite rare, you know, it was like sport
was the thing that was encouraged. And it makes me
even more super grateful to have had parents in a
family that, you know, when I told them I was
moving to Australia and was going to pursue country music.
(26:34):
They never hesitated, They never told me that's ridiculous or
you know, there was absolutely like it was insane. Actually,
when I look back, and there was a lot of
safer options around that they could have kind of steered
me in that direction. But I'm so so grateful that
they were just like, absolutely, if that's what you love
to do, go and do it. And yeah, so very
(26:54):
and very grateful to appearents that have always just been
so encouraging.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I love it too, and I love this little rapid
fire second we get to know you more on a
personal basis. So when not doing music, what does Kaylee
Bell like to do for fun like hobbies things like that?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh ah, well, I love like working out. I box
a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't want to mess with her watch out careful.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I really do love sport like I love watching
I love playing basketball, tennis, just anything. Really always been
a big sports girl. And I really love reading and
painting and art and yeah, just like kind of shutting
myself off for the world and doing things like that
that kind of ground me.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Again. I think the older I'm getting and the more
we're getting just into phones and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I just have really found that time away from that
just even more and more important and just you know,
it's like we have to remember, we've got to keep learning.
Speaker 12 (27:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's like it's all good to be scrolling Instagram for
an hour, but I could have been reading a book
and learning something, and so I'm really trying to get
back to that kind of mind.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hey, so please to have you here again nights like this.
The current album from the great Kaylee Bell out there
across all the digital streaming platforms and of course check
her out at Kayleebell music dot com k y l
e e Bell music dot com. Hey, we appreciate you
being with us being featured here on WSMAM six fifty
the Home of the Opry. Best of luck with the
tours and of course the new album continued success going forward,
(28:21):
and we appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Being with us here Legion. Thanks Brandon, it's been awesome chatting.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Thank you got it, Kayleebell out there, Tim. We're back
next Sunday, five thirty am to six am with another
new episode featuring another great artist out there here on
the Home of the Grand ol Opry, AM six fifty WSM.
It's been the Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast dot com. Check out the website out there, and
check us out on social media while you're at it,
till you can catch all the shows out there too,
(28:45):
on our other syndicated stations and of course social media.
Out there the best place beside WSM the Sports Guys
Podcast dot com. We'll see you next Sunday from five
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