March 7, 2025 • 42 mins
The always lovely and talented Kirstie Kraus dropped by show to chat about her newest single coming out on March 21st called, Largo! Tune in to hear more on KKTC True Country 99.9 and KYBN 98.1!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kersey Krause and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast right
here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
of shows, and it's been a busy week, no doubt
about it too. And this one's gonna feel like old
time for our affiliates out there too, KYBA ninety eight
point one, your bet Area Broadcasting Network and our friends
at KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Out there,
the Sports Guys podcast dot Com and now everywhere you
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(00:35):
the Sports Guys Podcast dot Com. This lady knows all
too well about what this means to me and what
it means to her because my former host and co
host of the show, she did so much for it.
She's back with a new single coming out the twenty
first of this month. Here from March, Miss Kirsty Krause,
my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hey? This is good? Yes, thank you said, we are.
We're throwing it back. We're having having me on and
like I said, post sitting in the artist seat today.
But this is bringing about all the feelings of just
like cutting my teeth on the backstage pack and just
(01:12):
interviewing so many different artists. So thanks, thank you for that.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's always the doors open my friend. And like I said,
I know, tell people, hey, we're not done yet. She's
still a part of this as much as anything. But
the artistry is going well, it's getting stronger. Hey, talk
to me about the new single coming out. We're gonna
play it on both the affiliates coming up today too
that people can hear on the audio side. Obviously you
won't you'll we're going to perform one today, but it
won't be Largo. We're going to play that when this
goes to radio. But at the same time, and it
(01:40):
was a big twenty twenty four for you as it
was for us here with the brand. WSM Radio featured
about twenty shows on there too. You had a lot
going on with your career and I know the Key
West Songwriters Festival is if it is not happening coming
up soon, it's probably right now too. But you have
a lot of things going on talking about that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
For yeah, Largo. Okay, Largo's coming out the twenty first Friday,
and it's just a beautiful up beach rocken but like
bon Jovi meets sugar Land, fun love song and this
young couple meets and spring break in l that's what
it's called Largo, and they just hit it off. Twin
(02:16):
years later, they're married and they're like, you know what,
we need to get some spark back. We need to
go back to Key Largo have a good time. And
then they get there and they're like, we love this
so much. Why don't we stay? Why don't we're happy here?
This works for us, So they decided to just keep
in Largo. It's just a fun song. It's a duet
with Mike nash h It's just so rocket, it's got
(02:39):
thick guitars and it's just a punch of music all
over it with Thompson square sugar like the bon Jovi
sugar Land vibes. Who says you can't go home? It's
all that. So I'm just really really excited to have
people hear it. This has been my like little baby,
my product now and really just dove into production so much.
(03:00):
I just wanted it to be this down because I'm
really really happy that it is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I'm happy for you too, and I know that
originally people know from Wisconsin too, but Florida's kind of
like a second home, I should say, right there. But
that's really cool. How fitting that is for the keys
down there too, for largo and things like that, because
I've been down there. You know how much we love
this and we've we've talked about this in the past,
like that is a spot if I don't go to
Arizona to like really feel everything out there that has
to offer in like Scottsdale or up into like the
(03:28):
Grand Canyon. I love the keys down there. It's so special.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I love it too. I love I love Florida and
the keys in general because of the fresh seafood. Like
I'm such a foodie. I love all that, like oysters,
you know, grouper, snapper, all the things, Like I'm all
about it. But I will say being in Mobile, Alabama
this last couple of days from Marty Gras, the food
was pretty good there as well, like the oysters, the
(03:55):
just everything was so fresh. It was almost in saltier,
like you could taste the saltwater ocean with this food
and I've never had I've never had stuff from from
that side of the coast right there, like right next
to the water. So that was that was pretty cool.
Key West Songwriters Festival comes up in May, so we
(04:15):
got a little bit before I go back to the Keys.
But yeah, that that tour run that we just did
was was really fun.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Now should I go with you to this Key West
Songwriters Festival? Should we just broadcast live down there? If
I could put this together?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Hey, I mean, if there's an opportunity for the backstays
back to the coming to I don't know why you wouldn't.
It's so it's literally national people take over and it
makes it even more like obviously the Keys is so
fun and especially the Keys just got this like fun
side to it and you just never know what's gonna happen.
But the thing for Kes Songwriter Festival is yet good
(04:52):
idea something just but being down there, being down like
going through Key Largo last tour. I definitely definitely got
a lot of video like singing to the song, let's
sing into the song like all the things because I'm
in I'm in Yo, So yeah, we need to do
(05:12):
a video over here and over there and over there.
It was really fun to do the promo for this
because obviously it's been paradise.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I love that area down there too. It's so much
fun and uh yeah, just that beach vibe you get.
I also love your songs because you get that mix
of everything out there too. But this one that was December,
this Tropic Wonderland. I have to ask you about this one.
So fun to put this together, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah. We we got to get approval, We had to
get approve everything in order to do that based off
the winner Wonderland's clack, and we had so much fun,
just like changing up the words and making you know,
the snowbirds that moment happened in the song, and perspire
word perspire is in the song. It's just it's really fun.
(05:57):
That song automatically is like a classic, you know, Christmas
song with a little bit of jazzy stuff in it.
So it was fun to like make it the lighter,
the beach type and have those two meat Christmas and
trap rock together. It was It was really fun. A
lot of the beach people, the people I played for
(06:17):
at the beach festivals, they absolutely love this song and
ended up pretty high on their Christmas charts, you know,
on all their radio stations. So that was.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, actually put it on my Christmas playlist and the
daughter turning five, turning five, that makes me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh no, but that's amazing. So she's like speaking you
know my nieces. She will be too, So yeah for
getting we I'm still waiting at a whole lot of words,
like any any words happened, so we can but we
communicate the eyeballs right now, a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, you can't get her shut up sometimes too, she's
all just over it. And daddy on radio, Daddy TV,
Daddy interviewing this, Daddy, let me play this song, let
me do it's crazy. Now. We got her t ball,
so getting to be a coach out there with the
little ones out there for t ball, and she just
did soccer and so it's kind.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Of a mix of a little bit of both. And yeah,
she loves music. Yeah, all genres, all genres. But she's
like she'll sing your song, she'll sing her I'll tell
you her favorite band. And we've had on the show here.
She loves that Runaway Drim Runaway June.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, that's the song that she likes.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's her soul. Yeah, when she steps up to the
plate sometimes I say, she'll go up to that. Now,
she'll go up to that one. And she's into the Descendants,
which is a big thing for her right now on
Disney floors.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, that's so fun. I love that. I I was
gonna tell you, I was just in Texas in November
and I got to do a lot more of Texas
than I ever ever have. Like a lot of times
I was coming in really quick and then coming out.
But this time I stopped in Lake Conrod. Yeah, so
(08:16):
pretty close to Houston. The Houston Yeah, the Houston Parrot Club,
Parent Club came out. I was in Galveston Bay a lot.
I'm trying to gross.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We went down to Green Hall. We checked out Green Hall,
did some shows down there. So I got more different
cities than just like Greater Dallas. This this last November.
And check place called Febone Toms Barbecue Place. Ye love
get the rits. Oh my gosh, like that all barbecue
(08:54):
that place, that place and a single barbecue plus that
place that that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm gonna have to remember that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, it's it's pretty much like right near the water there,
which was made it for a fun buy. But yeah,
I really love that Navasota, not just trace.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That Niches Niches look at it might be yeah, but
I have a.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Sweatshirt from there, so I should know. But yeah, these
places are really fun right on the water, like big
big boats, you know, big like whatever. They're all in,
lots of fuel coming through. It was guarentertaining to be
in Tectice. I really liked it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Right again, Texas will get you with the food out
there too. Hey, before we played on the radio side,
you got to tell everybody and Reministes, especially in the
new stations out there we picked up, especially in the
Bay Area KYB in ninety eight point one, the Bay
Area Broadcasting Network. They may or may not have known
about this project with Christy Huff and dab of Dolly.
We probably did the show or at least talked about
(10:03):
it here on the show when it first came out.
I loved it. And this was March of last year,
believe when you guys had put this together. Tell everybody
who does not know about how this came together. And
it's just a special relationship with Christy Huff too.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, her and I met through writers, friends and a
kind of stuff. We've written like a handful of times.
This was I brought up to Wisconsin with me on tour,
which my home state, and we're doing some thhows together.
On stage, I just started saying, here's a little Daba
Dolly for you, and I would cover a Dolly song
(10:38):
and I would just say that kind of like the
sour cream dollop a Daisy commercial. That's that is where
I got from. And she turned to me knowing we
had to write like two days later, and she was like,
we sad that like dab of Dolly, like write that
down and I was like, okay, So I wrote it
down and then we have like a nine am right
(10:59):
schedule before where you're going to drive back to that
day and that was our mum. We're we're gonna write
called and it's gonna be a celebration song for Miss
Delli parton that's what we're doing today, and we jarted
it and just knew that it was a song that
we record. The guy that used to be the head
of Spotify was like all about that song, So I
(11:21):
really truly believe he get a hand in helping us
celebrate and getting that song on Editsburgh's playlist, and it
was just really really awesome to see the the well
well as of everyone liking that song and digging because
we really went like old school, you know, nine to
five kind of style, really celebrating dollar sound.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, you did a great job with Christie and that too,
one of my favorites that you guys came up with
that project, And like you said, sometimes that's the way
the songs create themselves. We talked to so many artists
here on the program through hooks or through ideas or
through a gig or whatever else, or like let me
get my phone, let me put some in there, and
we got to write this in a couple of days
for those those ideas come together. Well, I say you
for the folks on the audio side, I've gone to
play Largo right now. It's coming out in March twenty First,
(12:08):
I'm glad you letting us play in here for KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine, seven days a week,
Drive Time five to six, Mountain Time and her friends
out there in the new station ninety eight point one KYBN,
your Bay Area broadcasting network right there in San Francisco
and beautiful Oakland, California too as well. It's Kirsty Krause.
It is the backstage pass powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com. It's Largo crag it out.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We was seventy.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I had a big idea off spring Burg spree chasing everything.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I was tuning up shots in the bed, parking man
girl down, Uncle Tailsea.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He was acting tough.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Telly was hot stuffed and my girls throwing him up.
But he was cracking me up with his trash jokes.
Had it's big old smile, so out of sun and
stay for lown.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'll see, was looking cut just sitting there.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
She was smiling.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Open me with a foul.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Har knew I was done.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Had a sandy sun Thursday, any man pad one, So
I gave him dumber.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I called you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's funny there standing We were hanging along.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Sitting class reading alass like there was no one move
your hair fall please hair dreams with no spots, biliies loud,
the stream look so ellows.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Some TV shoes.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
It was signing up a little signing up and living long.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
So now here we are.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah, we've come so far.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Some days, may I swear it's locking me so hard.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Hang up pails of page hanles hap of things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
We've been working seven days and we.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Can't catch a bread.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Come whooping me have a pack of bags. Yeah you're oh,
we're saving nor water.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I'm faking in my head.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Somebody says, we guess a car need's big or city
ain't there far?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We been bread longly, we did back. It's just like.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
We were hanging along, sleaving clowns, living in Oulus, like
there was no more young and hard. We're still dreaming
with no spawnsbilities, lot of streaming the story run on us.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Some TV sho.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
It was starting up, a little starting up.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Stay.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
You know what I'm thinking, girl, Sowe, do you see honey?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Really sounds so good to me, baby, I just signed
the deed.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Soon hell with Chicago.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're keep it in long Living in Love.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Was like it was Lord and mar living out dreams.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
You get hard seeking him up bon stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Like dream little story ballad.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Some TV shure.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
We're starting up river shining up, living in long Side.
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hey guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kirsty Kraus and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass podcast on KYBN,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And back here on the show KYB in ninety eight
point one. Out there friends, your Big Area Broadcasting Network,
and are friends KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
and of course more stations look like they're coming our
way to the rest of twenty twenty five. And some
plans in the works that we can't talk about right
now too, But you know what, always interesting times here
on the show. Stay tuned all the social media pages
(17:22):
out there for future announcements. I can't tell you March seventeen,
the War and Treaty coming right here too on the
Backstage Pass going to be big, big show. They're back
here with Kirsty Kraus and Largo here too. We talked
about that song at the top of the show. Here
I got to ask you about one because we'll talk
about the full length album here just a little bit.
But I love the title of this one, and you
and I laughed about this probably a couple of CRS
(17:42):
as it go, when you were out there to helping
me in Nashville to co host this Beaches Be Crazy,
And for people that don't know, I love the title.
I've said it the other way a few times. People
are like beaches like the said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Fuming live, I really really have to nunce ye be
each is because I do get it like some some
looks up, which makes it even more fun to perform
it live. But it's really just about different beaches around
the country and all the fun things that you can do.
I tossed in mullets. I didn't even know what that
(18:16):
meant until I started writing that song. And now going
to golf shs often they're tossing fish, not not hair,
so there you go. But I for some reason thought
maybe they were tossing their own hair. But yeah, it's
just it's a really fun song and I got to
put it out and they'll be atmost, which was super cool.
(18:40):
It's a whole other separate mix and the song ended
up being number six on the radio Trap Rock uh
charts for the year, and so that means it was
just really well received and we'll just kept calling and
requesting it, and so I just was so appreciative of
how that that song had. It's all life. People do
(19:01):
request it like the beaches we created. Yeah, I could
do that. I could do that for you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, I'll tell you what, I know, you're ready for
a performance here too. We'll take a quick time out
for the caidengordonshow dot com Today's best Country mix up
there in Mount Boston, Massachusetts. Definitely up there helped me
co host this year's CRS. If you guys missed any
that coverage's out there across all the digital streaming platforms.
A lot of photos, a lot of good things we
captured for the sixth annual CRS for us just a
couple of weeks ago there too, and always fun to
(19:30):
go to the Ryman. That was the first time we
got to go to the Ryman. It'd be a guest
of Chase Matthew, who will be on this show in
a few weeks too as well. Chase Matthew will be
right with us on the backstage pass and it's Kirsty Kraus.
We'll take quick time out here k YBN ninety eight
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KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine back for the performance.
It's the beautiful, talented Kirsty Krause Hang Time.
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Because I know you got the guitar, You're ready to
do this, Chirsty Krause nick it away.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought a new song that said bring it back
to kind of a story and just the roots. That's
what it explains, called Little Girls m Ever since I
was two years old, I was singing on a bike
the phone, standing in the bomb pick and tables. If
(21:12):
I was in the circle, bos in my hair and
songs in my heart, I was nay. The straightfall started,
took my ways from the country to sing Hello Nashville here.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
I'm never gonn Crown. Don'tse have pun fantasies. No, you
never get to for chasing your testiny. I never one
of these little girl.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So seeing it in my team and planet to see
more I listen. The more I was, I.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Could be someone on the radio given a Little Girls
toll onto the entry.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They have the good.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I'm never gonna oulchrome those half pine fancies. It's get
to but she's me out Destiny, never want booms.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Bad yellows.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
His long he is unburied, and this heart is made
and look fad live Bad have never come Olcrome, those
half pipe fantacasa.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I love it all the great content and the great too.
Comments are coming in there as great content too, because
she puts out great content when it comes to songs
and stuff like that. Uh yeah, Steven, we love it.
Uh looking sound beautiful, Stephen says there too. On the
video side. People in audio can't see this. And of
course Laurie after a great song, love the performances out
there back here, Kirsty Kraus, the backstage pass kk t
C True Country ninety nine point nine in Tawas, New Mexico,
(23:55):
and our friends out there KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network too. So let me go
back to twenty twenty two and this great album comes out.
Yes you can, because I love the whole thing there too,
and you got to play some of that I believe
what we're doing a CRS at the time there to
it and by co helping me host and co host
that whole event up there, and you got down to
(24:16):
barlines one of those year's twenty one twenty two right
there before the album came out, a lot of fun,
a lot of just real true music. Kind of that
big time debut album for you. I loved it because
I had so many good songs. Bird was one of
them that I remember on there too and Better and
of course Silver, and there were so many great songs
in there. I think eleven that people had may have
twenty twenty two seem my memory never slips, you know
(24:37):
how that goes. So it's a big thing for it.
And I know, recap that for me a little bit
and talk about some of the highlights of that record,
because that Baby album was really good.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh my gosh, that was my baby, Like I, oh
my gosh. I focused on that so much. It was
just like, this is the first project that I'm putting out,
and as an independent artist, I get to make all
the calls. So I was like, are you you want
to put on an album that, to me is just
good music that feels my soul like coming out, Like
I'm not putting it in a box and putting it
(25:08):
in a bell for anybody, but stuff that makes me happy.
And if people resonated with that, great, And I really
wanted to go doing and hurst with a record that
I was completely proud of, and I didn't feel like
I put myself in a box for so that's that
album still brings me joy, so much joy. And I
(25:28):
listened to it and I remember us like dig in
to get this guitar solo and just one more Silver
and all those solos and all those parts are all
very unique because we got to record everything individually, so
I got to sit one on one with a gar player,
one on the bass player, and you spend a lot
of time with that project. So having that come out
(25:50):
and just be nominated for things and have the entities
women of country put it on lists, like I was like,
oh hell yeah, Like I feel like I'm feeling very
very well and like happy and accepted that putting out
my own music in the way that I wanted to
do it and then have it people be even resonating
(26:13):
with it made me so happy. So that forever will
be my baby. I have that. I have a plaque
of that up on my wall like a flat out box,
like like going into my kitchen like that that will
ever be like my first big project that I feel
like I could check off the box and accomplish. So
thank you for saying that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love it. It's great and that should be and you
know what, I did the same thing with this show.
Like the first few interviews you had, like the stuff
made forward to whatever. You're like, yeah, had this this, this,
this band, this group or the solo artist. You're like, yeah,
this was the highlights of this, this and this. So
I'm with you. I still go back and listen to
some of those shows in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty when
I first started doing this thing, and it's it's great
(26:54):
how much you improve over time and things go by,
and like I said, you just want to get better
and better at your because I never settled on my laurels,
and I know musicians don't do that either, because you
want to keep getting better and better throughout your profession,
throughout your career, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Oh yeah, And I think every release that you put out,
the process gets better and better. The amount of people
that you know is more, and so I'm able to
send out, you know, a lot bigger mailing list than
I did for my first single or even for that record.
So I'm always just trying to be where I was
(27:28):
in the previous release or the previous year or anything.
So it's I'm constantly in competition with myself.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Tell you what you know what she said it best
right there? Always in competition with ourselves, Nodul you coin
that shirt and put it on a backstage past T
shirt and put her name on it, which is really good.
I know another one out there. When you and I
first met, it was kind of cool because you kept
talking about this song and it really came close to
the name Kirsty. But I loved it because it was
like thirsty and I know sometimes you were talking to
(27:57):
people there in Nashville and you had to kind of
spell it out to them too about the song and
I'll catching close to your name. Best memories about this one,
and this still has to be a show favorite too, right.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, people still request the song. When I did a
full all music video full disclosure, if anyone hasn't seen it,
a will making cry, so it's on you too. I
am very active on YouTube, so I'm very proud of
how that that music video came out. It was essentially
like a mini movie. But there's I definitely wanted to
(28:29):
write a song of that title because of my name.
My name's hard. You know, my name's not like it's
not like Emily, Like it's not like something that you
can say a lot and then people can just spell
right away. So I kind of made it my mission
as well to do all my social media organically and
just to see if I could do it and reach
ten thousands. So now that I've reached ten thousand or
(28:52):
over on you know, in Facebook, it's it's been really
it's another check off the box because I just one
thing I wanted to do and now I'll probably do
some advertisements you know, around though, but I didn't want
to do any of that until it reached ten thousand
on my own. So pace to the backstage pass for
helping me just raise awareness to the music into the brand,
(29:15):
because every little bit counts, and Thirsty is one of
those vulnerable, really vulnerable songs. Beautiful, there's streets in it.
It was a really really to record vocals for because
there's a lot going on in the vocals.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
To that song. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I was having conversations with people at all the events
we got to go to there a couple of weeks
ago for that CRS event. Thank god they moved it
to March up next year because I know it's gonna
be a lot warmer because that had never seen I mean,
I they've never seen it snowed down here in Texas
a few weeks before that, so we're kind of used
to that in the cold and things like that, But
that was the coldest CRS this last year we ever
(29:55):
gone through. The weather was terrible. You were obviously in
a warmer tropical climbate, which I wish I could place
with you at that time. But some of the conversations
were interesting too. And I'll tell you, the industry is
so healthy right now with so many females like kicking
ass out there and doing their thing, yourself included, but
you know Laney, Megan Maroney ashing it, Bride, Carly Pearce,
(30:15):
so many others, Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, just to name
a few out there too that are just digging it.
Ella Langley, how much motivation does that give you, now
that you've reached certain goals in your career that you
now want to step forward and kind of move that
needle more when you see those ladies kind of doing
their thing out there.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
When I see them doing their thing and them reaching
like number ones and just like I really feel like
everyone is hreat for female music, So that makes me
so happy, especially one of these leadies that you sent
are representing female like country music. So well, that's really
important to me because when someone goes up and accepts
(30:53):
an award, they're accepting it on behalf of like kind
of all the people who are trying to get there
and all of the women in country music. So some
they get in, they're just like they're so points, they're
so thankful, like they're really representing countries again such a
wonderful way. And so it makes me really excited to
see hungry for female country music. And I feel like
(31:15):
there's never I feel like the Wags for a while though,
but it's it's gotten so much bigger. It just keeps
getting bigger. I just want to be able to ride
this wave and make sure I'm releasing music that I'm
proud of during this time.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You should be proud of that too. We already said
somebody tuning there in the comment section. I pre saved
the new release on Spotify, so I appreciate you that
going out there. Get those stream counts up out there too.
I want to ask you about before we hit a
little bit. You know, we got to do rapid Fire.
It's just something I started there years ago and it
caught on there really fast too, which is fine. But
(31:52):
this song called What Love Does, and for people that
don't know about it, it's out there across all the DSPs.
September twenty twenty, when that came out, we first met
started doing all the shows. This was a very special
one for you too, right, Yes, What.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Love Does is often used on a lot of like
wedding videos, which is super cool. So it just kind
of keeps having its little own feature. There's a photographer
in Florida and you'll put my wedding back as the
wedding song for the videos. And it's just been it's
been fun. I had no idea that that song would
(32:27):
catch on like it did. I kind of did a
surprise release for it. I didn't do too much teasing.
I just kind of like, tomorrow, I'm releasing this song,
and I'm really happy with their action. And it was fun.
It was fun to to put that out and do
like a live video of that on YouTube and just
have that song be out there. People still request which
(32:48):
I love. I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I love it too, That's all I had to bring
it up to no doubt, one of my favorite songs
from that Kirsty Krause camp out there, all right, let's
have a little fun. Let's throw a couple of things
around to change them too. But it's always thinking of
new ideas because I know you and I bentured back
and forth of these questions and had fun with them too,
all right. So Christian Brush was on with me a
few weeks back before we went to Nashville for the event,
and he came up with a question. We got to
(33:12):
talking to him about his beer and how it looked
like he was like the chief content officer for the
whole wrestling WWE out there too, which just had like
royal rumble they always do wrestle Mania, and of course
he used to be WWF but now with the World
Wrestling Entertainment. So I'm thinking about, here's an idea, and
here comes the question leading into it, and I'm thinking
about having a first ever backstage pass with like the
(33:35):
wrestling ring, the chairs, having like a commentary table with
banners and everything, the first backstage pas w' WWE backstage
passed a wrestling event and contacting someone over there to say,
it's a good idea, get it sponsored the whole nine
yards come there? Have you helped me co host this
thing and like have like females males kind of split
into it from all of our artist friends. Have them
(33:56):
come down. Maybe they take a few days before to
kind of in the choreography. I think it's just a
good idea. But when he and I got to talking
about it, he said, you know, you need to bring
it up in Nashville that people might love this idea.
And the fact is if they were to step into
a wrestling ring, who would they pick as an opponent?
I said, okay, we could use that in rapid fire.
So like any any other musician, you would wrestle at
(34:18):
this event. You learn the choreography from all the people
out there, you step between those ropes, and if it's
either a one one on one or let's say you
got to do a mixed tag me and you who
would you pick in country music? If a male or
female to kind of wrestle with in that ring? And
I guess we could say female there because you probably
need me in a mixed tag match, but hey, either
(34:39):
way you might be able to hold your own. So
who would it be?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh? I mean, Lauren Aleno would be really fun because
she is such a comedian. She's such a hoot. So
I'd like to see her anywhere about, you know what
I mean, I'd like to, like I like to challenge
her on different basis putting Crystal in the ring. We
(35:03):
spend a lot, you know, we've toured together, so it
really fun to like have go had to head like
not not you know, not be on tour on the stage.
Like just doing that. I'm sure a lot of people
would get like a really big kick out of that
since we are like so like I'm Patsy, she's Loretta,
(35:24):
you know what I mean. Like it would be a
very funny thing.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I like that too, just thinking about it. So one
of those ideas we'll see if it ever comes to fruition.
But it's something that wheels keep in and at the
same time and I want to move that needle, and
it's just kind of fun. People really enjoyed the question.
Some people took a pass for like us, we don't
want to you know, upset anybody else in the industry.
I was like, Hey, it's just it's just a fun
question out there too. So yeah, come on, guys, never
(35:52):
know where it's gonna go. All right, we'll do this
one too. So uh, it's always fun out there to
get new technology, and we're just upgraded, like the phones
in the house, all the watches, things like that. So
now streaming has definitely changed the landscape of it. Any
new technology you've kind of hooked into, whether it be
a service or just a device or something that's become
like a fun thing to listen to music on or
(36:12):
just kind of play with her game something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, I definitely got the new phone, so doing all
of it, the you know, getting the new headsets. I
was always like a non Bluetooth user, so I was
on the old phone, I was using stuff like this,
but I felt so I've been upgrading that. But I've
also been using like chat GBT quite a bit for
(36:36):
my job and just finding different ways on how that
tool can be useful. And then that's such a god topic.
So I don't, I don't necessarily, you know, want to
get into detail. But if I'm looking for venues in Houston,
Texas that are very supportive of independent country artists like
(36:56):
chat GPT will tell me what's up, it will just
we'll help me out a lot. So I highly encourage
people to dive in. It can feel weird and like scary,
but once you're just doing it and you just Okay,
that's not the uswer of this. When I need like it,
it will give it. We'll give you things for that
(37:16):
you're looking for. And I was using it for my
Instagram the other day of inactive accounts and finding like
this weird site where I could upload this thing of
cruising active and yeah, stuff stuff like that of a
dive in shout to EB two or any of the
AI stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, it's really cool. And I tell you what I
loved about this was if you saw that post the
other day, We've got a press release on it where
Randy Travis is actually going back out on a tour again,
which this is really cool too, because obviously this is
something that really benefits not everybody, but especially for certain
situations like Randy had gone through. It's tough he went
through that in twenty thirteen with that stroke and now
(37:56):
still holding us on too, but to go back off
there on tour and some of the US a lot
of the vocals are going to be done on that
tour by his wife Mary and a good friend of
the show here, James Dupree as well. So James is
going to go go out there seeing a lot of
the classics and stuff like that on this tour. So
I think you're right about diving into new technology, especially
chat GPT, because I use it too for certain things
(38:17):
that I do for the show. And then of course
this helps out all this AI stuff is really reinventing
with the way some of the way music has changed.
Put it that way. I know it's been a hot
topic over the past, you know, four or five six
months that it came out, But some people it does benefit.
And I'm with you on how this can if it
can work for that individual or that particular person for
(38:37):
their business, their company, for music, or for whatever it is.
The world's going to a as we'll just face it.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right, Yeah, and it is. It does help. It does
help like crafting an email. Like I have more experience
make emails, So I don't say that way. I know
that a lot of people use it to literally dress
initial emails out to to companies and things, and and
it works for them. So I'm be afraid it works.
(39:07):
It works.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I started using it for email too as many as
we're getting out for this and I'm like, yeah, just
type a template and you know, there just put the
address in and send it out there for both sponsors
and for other guests they come up here on the show.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You know, I always say this too. Time is short,
no doubt, but it's so good to reconnect with you
here on the brand because as much a part of
this as me that we did this, you're also right
there with it. I could not have done this without you.
We're still in this together. A lot of things are
coming up. We're going to discuss behind the scenes and
let people know in the future because we've got a
lot of plans with this. But you come back anytime
(39:44):
and here for your music, your career, you as a
host on this show. You've meant so much to me
over the last six years that I've done this. Thank
you for everything you've done out there too to make
this brand behind me, you know, blow up the way
it has, and it's just been a dream for me
to keep this thing flying in the right direct. Largo
comes out March twenty first, you're gonna hear it out
there on KYBN ninety eight point one, your big area
(40:05):
broadcasting network in KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
You know, I thank you so much and honestly, I'm
looking forward to Rea naughty with you again on one
of these broadcasts coming up here in the future, and
some plans behind the scenes that know you and I
are talking about. So thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, thanks so much for Matt and I got to
see you a cerus a cier divicts. I want fun,
but it was cold and I'm glad that I was
seeing the Keys again. We'll tell you, but I so
appreciate this of all the music in general. So excited
for this song to come out. I can't wait to
celebrate it, and thank you for helping me just start
(40:41):
to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
That's what we do here on the show too. Of course,
CMA Week I'll be there. Yeah, you're gonna be there.
We gotta do something for CMA Week, all the stuff
to We'll be talking about that over the next few
weeks and the months as we get closer to June
twenty twenty five and another CA Week hopefully out there
too with the Backstay and Kirsty Krause and everybody who
makes that event possible, the Country Music Association too. At
(41:04):
the same time. We'll see you guys back tomorrow, maybe
a surprise. I'm still waiting to confirm that, but I
can tell you she will be on this show. I'm
not sure at the time of date. We got to
meet her at last year's event we went to at
the Actually you were there with me. It was actually
the Brett Young Show. A fantastic artist out there. Her
name is Shae Lynn. She's going to join us here
on the backstage pass, and of course a whole lot
more of March seventeenth of the War and Treaty The
(41:27):
Beautiful Lovely Michael and Tanya will be on the show
you're too, talking about their latest release and touring in
the Santa Fe, New Mexico area too, So we'll catch
you guys on the flip side here the backstage Pass,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast Dot Colvin out there
ninety eight point one KYBN, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
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nine for Kirsty Krause and everybody that makes the show possible.
(41:49):
Take care, God blessed. We'll see you soon. More great
music coming up. Stay tuned. What's up, y'all, It's Lakeview.
Speaker 10 (41:55):
And you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on
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Speaker 2 (42:04):
Hey everybody, this is Texas country artist Josh Abbott and
you are listening to the backstage past with Brandon, powered
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Hey guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kersey Krause and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast right
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
of shows, and it's been a busy week, no doubt
about it too. And this one's gonna feel like old
time for our affiliates out there too, KYBA ninety eight
point one, your bet Area Broadcasting Network and our friends
at KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine. Out there,
the Sports Guys podcast dot Com and now everywhere you
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(00:35):
the Sports Guys Podcast dot Com. This lady knows all
too well about what this means to me and what
it means to her because my former host and co
host of the show, she did so much for it.
She's back with a new single coming out the twenty
first of this month. Here from March, Miss Kirsty Krause,
my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hey? This is good? Yes, thank you said, we are.
We're throwing it back. We're having having me on and
like I said, post sitting in the artist seat today.
But this is bringing about all the feelings of just
like cutting my teeth on the backstage pack and just
(01:12):
interviewing so many different artists. So thanks, thank you for that.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's always the doors open my friend. And like I said,
I know, tell people, hey, we're not done yet. She's
still a part of this as much as anything. But
the artistry is going well, it's getting stronger. Hey, talk
to me about the new single coming out. We're gonna
play it on both the affiliates coming up today too
that people can hear on the audio side. Obviously you
won't you'll we're going to perform one today, but it
won't be Largo. We're going to play that when this
goes to radio. But at the same time, and it
(01:40):
was a big twenty twenty four for you as it
was for us here with the brand. WSM Radio featured
about twenty shows on there too. You had a lot
going on with your career and I know the Key
West Songwriters Festival is if it is not happening coming
up soon, it's probably right now too. But you have
a lot of things going on talking about that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
For yeah, Largo. Okay, Largo's coming out the twenty first Friday,
and it's just a beautiful up beach rocken but like
bon Jovi meets sugar Land, fun love song and this
young couple meets and spring break in l that's what
it's called Largo, and they just hit it off. Twin
(02:16):
years later, they're married and they're like, you know what,
we need to get some spark back. We need to
go back to Key Largo have a good time. And
then they get there and they're like, we love this
so much. Why don't we stay? Why don't we're happy here?
This works for us, So they decided to just keep
in Largo. It's just a fun song. It's a duet
with Mike nash h It's just so rocket, it's got
(02:39):
thick guitars and it's just a punch of music all
over it with Thompson square sugar like the bon Jovi
sugar Land vibes. Who says you can't go home? It's
all that. So I'm just really really excited to have
people hear it. This has been my like little baby,
my product now and really just dove into production so much.
(03:00):
I just wanted it to be this down because I'm
really really happy that it is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I'm happy for you too, and I know that
originally people know from Wisconsin too, but Florida's kind of
like a second home, I should say, right there. But
that's really cool. How fitting that is for the keys
down there too, for largo and things like that, because
I've been down there. You know how much we love
this and we've we've talked about this in the past,
like that is a spot if I don't go to
Arizona to like really feel everything out there that has
to offer in like Scottsdale or up into like the
(03:28):
Grand Canyon. I love the keys down there. It's so special.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I love it too. I love I love Florida and
the keys in general because of the fresh seafood. Like
I'm such a foodie. I love all that, like oysters,
you know, grouper, snapper, all the things, Like I'm all
about it. But I will say being in Mobile, Alabama
this last couple of days from Marty Gras, the food
was pretty good there as well, like the oysters, the
(03:55):
just everything was so fresh. It was almost in saltier,
like you could taste the saltwater ocean with this food
and I've never had I've never had stuff from from
that side of the coast right there, like right next
to the water. So that was that was pretty cool.
Key West Songwriters Festival comes up in May, so we
(04:15):
got a little bit before I go back to the Keys.
But yeah, that that tour run that we just did
was was really fun.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Now should I go with you to this Key West
Songwriters Festival? Should we just broadcast live down there? If
I could put this together?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Hey, I mean, if there's an opportunity for the backstays
back to the coming to I don't know why you wouldn't.
It's so it's literally national people take over and it
makes it even more like obviously the Keys is so
fun and especially the Keys just got this like fun
side to it and you just never know what's gonna happen.
But the thing for Kes Songwriter Festival is yet good
(04:52):
idea something just but being down there, being down like
going through Key Largo last tour. I definitely definitely got
a lot of video like singing to the song, let's
sing into the song like all the things because I'm
in I'm in Yo, So yeah, we need to do
(05:12):
a video over here and over there and over there.
It was really fun to do the promo for this
because obviously it's been paradise.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I love that area down there too. It's so much
fun and uh yeah, just that beach vibe you get.
I also love your songs because you get that mix
of everything out there too. But this one that was December,
this Tropic Wonderland. I have to ask you about this one.
So fun to put this together, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah. We we got to get approval, We had to
get approve everything in order to do that based off
the winner Wonderland's clack, and we had so much fun,
just like changing up the words and making you know,
the snowbirds that moment happened in the song, and perspire
word perspire is in the song. It's just it's really fun.
(05:57):
That song automatically is like a classic, you know, Christmas
song with a little bit of jazzy stuff in it.
So it was fun to like make it the lighter,
the beach type and have those two meat Christmas and
trap rock together. It was It was really fun. A
lot of the beach people, the people I played for
(06:17):
at the beach festivals, they absolutely love this song and
ended up pretty high on their Christmas charts, you know,
on all their radio stations. So that was.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, actually put it on my Christmas playlist and the
daughter turning five, turning five, that makes me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh no, but that's amazing. So she's like speaking you
know my nieces. She will be too, So yeah for
getting we I'm still waiting at a whole lot of words,
like any any words happened, so we can but we
communicate the eyeballs right now, a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, you can't get her shut up sometimes too, she's
all just over it. And daddy on radio, Daddy TV,
Daddy interviewing this, Daddy, let me play this song, let
me do it's crazy. Now. We got her t ball,
so getting to be a coach out there with the
little ones out there for t ball, and she just
did soccer and so it's kind.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Of a mix of a little bit of both. And yeah,
she loves music. Yeah, all genres, all genres. But she's
like she'll sing your song, she'll sing her I'll tell
you her favorite band. And we've had on the show here.
She loves that Runaway Drim Runaway June.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, that's the song that she likes.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's her soul. Yeah, when she steps up to the
plate sometimes I say, she'll go up to that. Now,
she'll go up to that one. And she's into the Descendants,
which is a big thing for her right now on
Disney floors.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, that's so fun. I love that. I I was
gonna tell you, I was just in Texas in November
and I got to do a lot more of Texas
than I ever ever have. Like a lot of times
I was coming in really quick and then coming out.
But this time I stopped in Lake Conrod. Yeah, so
(08:16):
pretty close to Houston. The Houston Yeah, the Houston Parrot Club,
Parent Club came out. I was in Galveston Bay a lot.
I'm trying to gross.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We went down to Green Hall. We checked out Green Hall,
did some shows down there. So I got more different
cities than just like Greater Dallas. This this last November.
And check place called Febone Toms Barbecue Place. Ye love
get the rits. Oh my gosh, like that all barbecue
(08:54):
that place, that place and a single barbecue plus that
place that that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm gonna have to remember that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, it's it's pretty much like right near the water there,
which was made it for a fun buy. But yeah,
I really love that Navasota, not just trace.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That Niches Niches look at it might be yeah, but
I have a.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Sweatshirt from there, so I should know. But yeah, these
places are really fun right on the water, like big
big boats, you know, big like whatever. They're all in,
lots of fuel coming through. It was guarentertaining to be
in Tectice. I really liked it.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Right again, Texas will get you with the food out
there too. Hey, before we played on the radio side,
you got to tell everybody and Reministes, especially in the
new stations out there we picked up, especially in the
Bay Area KYB in ninety eight point one, the Bay
Area Broadcasting Network. They may or may not have known
about this project with Christy Huff and dab of Dolly.
We probably did the show or at least talked about
(10:03):
it here on the show when it first came out.
I loved it. And this was March of last year,
believe when you guys had put this together. Tell everybody
who does not know about how this came together. And
it's just a special relationship with Christy Huff too.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, her and I met through writers, friends and a
kind of stuff. We've written like a handful of times.
This was I brought up to Wisconsin with me on tour,
which my home state, and we're doing some thhows together.
On stage, I just started saying, here's a little Daba
Dolly for you, and I would cover a Dolly song
(10:38):
and I would just say that kind of like the
sour cream dollop a Daisy commercial. That's that is where
I got from. And she turned to me knowing we
had to write like two days later, and she was like,
we sad that like dab of Dolly, like write that
down and I was like, okay, So I wrote it
down and then we have like a nine am right
(10:59):
schedule before where you're going to drive back to that
day and that was our mum. We're we're gonna write
called and it's gonna be a celebration song for Miss
Delli parton that's what we're doing today, and we jarted
it and just knew that it was a song that
we record. The guy that used to be the head
of Spotify was like all about that song, So I
(11:21):
really truly believe he get a hand in helping us
celebrate and getting that song on Editsburgh's playlist, and it
was just really really awesome to see the the well
well as of everyone liking that song and digging because
we really went like old school, you know, nine to
five kind of style, really celebrating dollar sound.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, you did a great job with Christie and that too,
one of my favorites that you guys came up with
that project, And like you said, sometimes that's the way
the songs create themselves. We talked to so many artists
here on the program through hooks or through ideas or
through a gig or whatever else, or like let me
get my phone, let me put some in there, and
we got to write this in a couple of days
for those those ideas come together. Well, I say you
for the folks on the audio side, I've gone to
play Largo right now. It's coming out in March twenty First,
(12:08):
I'm glad you letting us play in here for KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine, seven days a week,
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out there in the new station ninety eight point one KYBN,
your Bay Area broadcasting network right there in San Francisco
and beautiful Oakland, California too as well. It's Kirsty Krause.
It is the backstage pass powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com. It's Largo crag it out.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We was seventy.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I had a big idea off spring Burg spree chasing everything.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I was tuning up shots in the bed, parking man
girl down, Uncle Tailsea.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He was acting tough.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Telly was hot stuffed and my girls throwing him up.
But he was cracking me up with his trash jokes.
Had it's big old smile, so out of sun and
stay for lown.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'll see, was looking cut just sitting there.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
She was smiling.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Open me with a foul.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Har knew I was done.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Had a sandy sun Thursday, any man pad one, So
I gave him dumber.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I called you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's funny there standing We were hanging along.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Sitting class reading alass like there was no one move
your hair fall please hair dreams with no spots, biliies loud,
the stream look so ellows.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Some TV shoes.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
It was signing up a little signing up and living long.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
So now here we are.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah, we've come so far.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Some days, may I swear it's locking me so hard.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Hang up pails of page hanles hap of things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
We've been working seven days and we.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Can't catch a bread.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Come whooping me have a pack of bags. Yeah you're oh,
we're saving nor water.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I'm faking in my head.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Somebody says, we guess a car need's big or city
ain't there far?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We been bread longly, we did back. It's just like.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
We were hanging along, sleaving clowns, living in Oulus, like
there was no more young and hard. We're still dreaming
with no spawnsbilities, lot of streaming the story run on us.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Some TV sho.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
It was starting up, a little starting up.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Stay.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
You know what I'm thinking, girl, Sowe, do you see honey?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Really sounds so good to me, baby, I just signed
the deed.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Soon hell with Chicago.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
We're keep it in long Living in Love.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Was like it was Lord and mar living out dreams.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
You get hard seeking him up bon stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Like dream little story ballad.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Some TV shure.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
We're starting up river shining up, living in long Side.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Hi, this is Robert ro Keane, Texas country artist Robert
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Speaker 6 (16:32):
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hey guys, this is Nashville recording artist Kirsty Kraus and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass podcast on KYBN,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And back here on the show KYB in ninety eight
point one. Out there friends, your Big Area Broadcasting Network,
and are friends KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
and of course more stations look like they're coming our
way to the rest of twenty twenty five. And some
plans in the works that we can't talk about right
now too, But you know what, always interesting times here
on the show. Stay tuned all the social media pages
(17:22):
out there for future announcements. I can't tell you March seventeen,
the War and Treaty coming right here too on the
Backstage Pass going to be big, big show. They're back
here with Kirsty Kraus and Largo here too. We talked
about that song at the top of the show. Here
I got to ask you about one because we'll talk
about the full length album here just a little bit.
But I love the title of this one, and you
and I laughed about this probably a couple of CRS
(17:42):
as it go, when you were out there to helping
me in Nashville to co host this Beaches Be Crazy,
And for people that don't know, I love the title.
I've said it the other way a few times. People
are like beaches like the said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Fuming live, I really really have to nunce ye be
each is because I do get it like some some
looks up, which makes it even more fun to perform
it live. But it's really just about different beaches around
the country and all the fun things that you can do.
I tossed in mullets. I didn't even know what that
(18:16):
meant until I started writing that song. And now going
to golf shs often they're tossing fish, not not hair,
so there you go. But I for some reason thought
maybe they were tossing their own hair. But yeah, it's
just it's a really fun song and I got to
put it out and they'll be atmost, which was super cool.
(18:40):
It's a whole other separate mix and the song ended
up being number six on the radio Trap Rock uh
charts for the year, and so that means it was
just really well received and we'll just kept calling and
requesting it, and so I just was so appreciative of
how that that song had. It's all life. People do
(19:01):
request it like the beaches we created. Yeah, I could
do that. I could do that for you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, I'll tell you what, I know, you're ready for
a performance here too. We'll take a quick time out
for the caidengordonshow dot com Today's best Country mix up
there in Mount Boston, Massachusetts. Definitely up there helped me
co host this year's CRS. If you guys missed any
that coverage's out there across all the digital streaming platforms.
A lot of photos, a lot of good things we
captured for the sixth annual CRS for us just a
couple of weeks ago there too, and always fun to
(19:30):
go to the Ryman. That was the first time we
got to go to the Ryman. It'd be a guest
of Chase Matthew, who will be on this show in
a few weeks too as well. Chase Matthew will be
right with us on the backstage pass and it's Kirsty Kraus.
We'll take quick time out here k YBN ninety eight
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KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine back for the performance.
It's the beautiful, talented Kirsty Krause Hang Time.
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Speaker 10 (20:06):
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Speaker 2 (20:31):
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nine point nine and what are we going to hear?
Because I know you got the guitar, You're ready to
do this, Chirsty Krause nick it away.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought a new song that said bring it back
to kind of a story and just the roots. That's
what it explains, called Little Girls m Ever since I
was two years old, I was singing on a bike
the phone, standing in the bomb pick and tables. If
(21:12):
I was in the circle, bos in my hair and
songs in my heart, I was nay. The straightfall started,
took my ways from the country to sing Hello Nashville here.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
I'm never gonn Crown. Don'tse have pun fantasies. No, you
never get to for chasing your testiny. I never one
of these little girl.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So seeing it in my team and planet to see
more I listen. The more I was, I.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Could be someone on the radio given a Little Girls
toll onto the entry.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They have the good.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I'm never gonna oulchrome those half pine fancies. It's get
to but she's me out Destiny, never want booms.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Bad yellows.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
His long he is unburied, and this heart is made
and look fad live Bad have never come Olcrome, those
half pipe fantacasa.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I love it all the great content and the great too.
Comments are coming in there as great content too, because
she puts out great content when it comes to songs
and stuff like that. Uh yeah, Steven, we love it.
Uh looking sound beautiful, Stephen says there too. On the
video side. People in audio can't see this. And of
course Laurie after a great song, love the performances out
there back here, Kirsty Kraus, the backstage pass kk t
C True Country ninety nine point nine in Tawas, New Mexico,
(23:55):
and our friends out there KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network too. So let me go
back to twenty twenty two and this great album comes out.
Yes you can, because I love the whole thing there too,
and you got to play some of that I believe
what we're doing a CRS at the time there to
it and by co helping me host and co host
that whole event up there, and you got down to
(24:16):
barlines one of those year's twenty one twenty two right
there before the album came out, a lot of fun,
a lot of just real true music. Kind of that
big time debut album for you. I loved it because
I had so many good songs. Bird was one of
them that I remember on there too and Better and
of course Silver, and there were so many great songs
in there. I think eleven that people had may have
twenty twenty two seem my memory never slips, you know
(24:37):
how that goes. So it's a big thing for it.
And I know, recap that for me a little bit
and talk about some of the highlights of that record,
because that Baby album was really good.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh my gosh, that was my baby, Like I, oh
my gosh. I focused on that so much. It was
just like, this is the first project that I'm putting out,
and as an independent artist, I get to make all
the calls. So I was like, are you you want
to put on an album that, to me is just
good music that feels my soul like coming out, Like
I'm not putting it in a box and putting it
(25:08):
in a bell for anybody, but stuff that makes me happy.
And if people resonated with that, great, And I really
wanted to go doing and hurst with a record that
I was completely proud of, and I didn't feel like
I put myself in a box for so that's that
album still brings me joy, so much joy. And I
(25:28):
listened to it and I remember us like dig in
to get this guitar solo and just one more Silver
and all those solos and all those parts are all
very unique because we got to record everything individually, so
I got to sit one on one with a gar player,
one on the bass player, and you spend a lot
of time with that project. So having that come out
(25:50):
and just be nominated for things and have the entities
women of country put it on lists, like I was like,
oh hell yeah, Like I feel like I'm feeling very
very well and like happy and accepted that putting out
my own music in the way that I wanted to
do it and then have it people be even resonating
(26:13):
with it made me so happy. So that forever will
be my baby. I have that. I have a plaque
of that up on my wall like a flat out box,
like like going into my kitchen like that that will
ever be like my first big project that I feel
like I could check off the box and accomplish. So
thank you for saying that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love it. It's great and that should be and you
know what, I did the same thing with this show.
Like the first few interviews you had, like the stuff
made forward to whatever. You're like, yeah, had this this, this,
this band, this group or the solo artist. You're like, yeah,
this was the highlights of this, this and this. So
I'm with you. I still go back and listen to
some of those shows in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty when
I first started doing this thing, and it's it's great
(26:54):
how much you improve over time and things go by,
and like I said, you just want to get better
and better at your because I never settled on my laurels,
and I know musicians don't do that either, because you
want to keep getting better and better throughout your profession,
throughout your career, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Oh yeah, And I think every release that you put out,
the process gets better and better. The amount of people
that you know is more, and so I'm able to
send out, you know, a lot bigger mailing list than
I did for my first single or even for that record.
So I'm always just trying to be where I was
(27:28):
in the previous release or the previous year or anything.
So it's I'm constantly in competition with myself.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Tell you what you know what she said it best
right there? Always in competition with ourselves, Nodul you coin
that shirt and put it on a backstage past T
shirt and put her name on it, which is really good.
I know another one out there. When you and I
first met, it was kind of cool because you kept
talking about this song and it really came close to
the name Kirsty. But I loved it because it was
like thirsty and I know sometimes you were talking to
(27:57):
people there in Nashville and you had to kind of
spell it out to them too about the song and
I'll catching close to your name. Best memories about this one,
and this still has to be a show favorite too, right.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, people still request the song. When I did a
full all music video full disclosure, if anyone hasn't seen it,
a will making cry, so it's on you too. I
am very active on YouTube, so I'm very proud of
how that that music video came out. It was essentially
like a mini movie. But there's I definitely wanted to
(28:29):
write a song of that title because of my name.
My name's hard. You know, my name's not like it's
not like Emily, Like it's not like something that you
can say a lot and then people can just spell
right away. So I kind of made it my mission
as well to do all my social media organically and
just to see if I could do it and reach
ten thousands. So now that I've reached ten thousand or
(28:52):
over on you know, in Facebook, it's it's been really
it's another check off the box because I just one
thing I wanted to do and now I'll probably do
some advertisements you know, around though, but I didn't want
to do any of that until it reached ten thousand
on my own. So pace to the backstage pass for
helping me just raise awareness to the music into the brand,
(29:15):
because every little bit counts, and Thirsty is one of
those vulnerable, really vulnerable songs. Beautiful, there's streets in it.
It was a really really to record vocals for because
there's a lot going on in the vocals.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
To that song. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I was having conversations with people at all the events
we got to go to there a couple of weeks
ago for that CRS event. Thank god they moved it
to March up next year because I know it's gonna
be a lot warmer because that had never seen I mean,
I they've never seen it snowed down here in Texas
a few weeks before that, so we're kind of used
to that in the cold and things like that, But
that was the coldest CRS this last year we ever
(29:55):
gone through. The weather was terrible. You were obviously in
a warmer tropical climbate, which I wish I could place
with you at that time. But some of the conversations
were interesting too. And I'll tell you, the industry is
so healthy right now with so many females like kicking
ass out there and doing their thing, yourself included, but
you know Laney, Megan Maroney ashing it, Bride, Carly Pearce,
(30:15):
so many others, Ashley Cook, Hannah Ellis, just to name
a few out there too that are just digging it.
Ella Langley, how much motivation does that give you, now
that you've reached certain goals in your career that you
now want to step forward and kind of move that
needle more when you see those ladies kind of doing
their thing out there.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
When I see them doing their thing and them reaching
like number ones and just like I really feel like
everyone is hreat for female music, So that makes me
so happy, especially one of these leadies that you sent
are representing female like country music. So well, that's really
important to me because when someone goes up and accepts
(30:53):
an award, they're accepting it on behalf of like kind
of all the people who are trying to get there
and all of the women in country music. So some
they get in, they're just like they're so points, they're
so thankful, like they're really representing countries again such a
wonderful way. And so it makes me really excited to
see hungry for female country music. And I feel like
(31:15):
there's never I feel like the Wags for a while though,
but it's it's gotten so much bigger. It just keeps
getting bigger. I just want to be able to ride
this wave and make sure I'm releasing music that I'm
proud of during this time.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You should be proud of that too. We already said
somebody tuning there in the comment section. I pre saved
the new release on Spotify, so I appreciate you that
going out there. Get those stream counts up out there too.
I want to ask you about before we hit a
little bit. You know, we got to do rapid Fire.
It's just something I started there years ago and it
caught on there really fast too, which is fine. But
(31:52):
this song called What Love Does, and for people that
don't know about it, it's out there across all the DSPs.
September twenty twenty, when that came out, we first met
started doing all the shows. This was a very special
one for you too, right, Yes, What.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Love Does is often used on a lot of like
wedding videos, which is super cool. So it just kind
of keeps having its little own feature. There's a photographer
in Florida and you'll put my wedding back as the
wedding song for the videos. And it's just been it's
been fun. I had no idea that that song would
(32:27):
catch on like it did. I kind of did a
surprise release for it. I didn't do too much teasing.
I just kind of like, tomorrow, I'm releasing this song,
and I'm really happy with their action. And it was fun.
It was fun to to put that out and do
like a live video of that on YouTube and just
have that song be out there. People still request which
(32:48):
I love. I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I love it too, That's all I had to bring
it up to no doubt, one of my favorite songs
from that Kirsty Krause camp out there, all right, let's
have a little fun. Let's throw a couple of things
around to change them too. But it's always thinking of
new ideas because I know you and I bentured back
and forth of these questions and had fun with them too,
all right. So Christian Brush was on with me a
few weeks back before we went to Nashville for the event,
and he came up with a question. We got to
(33:12):
talking to him about his beer and how it looked
like he was like the chief content officer for the
whole wrestling WWE out there too, which just had like
royal rumble they always do wrestle Mania, and of course
he used to be WWF but now with the World
Wrestling Entertainment. So I'm thinking about, here's an idea, and
here comes the question leading into it, and I'm thinking
about having a first ever backstage pass with like the
(33:35):
wrestling ring, the chairs, having like a commentary table with
banners and everything, the first backstage pas w' WWE backstage
passed a wrestling event and contacting someone over there to say,
it's a good idea, get it sponsored the whole nine
yards come there? Have you helped me co host this
thing and like have like females males kind of split
into it from all of our artist friends. Have them
(33:56):
come down. Maybe they take a few days before to
kind of in the choreography. I think it's just a
good idea. But when he and I got to talking
about it, he said, you know, you need to bring
it up in Nashville that people might love this idea.
And the fact is if they were to step into
a wrestling ring, who would they pick as an opponent?
I said, okay, we could use that in rapid fire.
So like any any other musician, you would wrestle at
(34:18):
this event. You learn the choreography from all the people
out there, you step between those ropes, and if it's
either a one one on one or let's say you
got to do a mixed tag me and you who
would you pick in country music? If a male or
female to kind of wrestle with in that ring? And
I guess we could say female there because you probably
need me in a mixed tag match, but hey, either
(34:39):
way you might be able to hold your own. So
who would it be?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh? I mean, Lauren Aleno would be really fun because
she is such a comedian. She's such a hoot. So
I'd like to see her anywhere about, you know what
I mean, I'd like to, like I like to challenge
her on different basis putting Crystal in the ring. We
(35:03):
spend a lot, you know, we've toured together, so it
really fun to like have go had to head like
not not you know, not be on tour on the stage.
Like just doing that. I'm sure a lot of people
would get like a really big kick out of that
since we are like so like I'm Patsy, she's Loretta,
(35:24):
you know what I mean. Like it would be a
very funny thing.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I like that too, just thinking about it. So one
of those ideas we'll see if it ever comes to fruition.
But it's something that wheels keep in and at the
same time and I want to move that needle, and
it's just kind of fun. People really enjoyed the question.
Some people took a pass for like us, we don't
want to you know, upset anybody else in the industry.
I was like, Hey, it's just it's just a fun
question out there too. So yeah, come on, guys, never
(35:52):
know where it's gonna go. All right, we'll do this
one too. So uh, it's always fun out there to
get new technology, and we're just upgraded, like the phones
in the house, all the watches, things like that. So
now streaming has definitely changed the landscape of it. Any
new technology you've kind of hooked into, whether it be
a service or just a device or something that's become
like a fun thing to listen to music on or
(36:12):
just kind of play with her game something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, I definitely got the new phone, so doing all
of it, the you know, getting the new headsets. I
was always like a non Bluetooth user, so I was
on the old phone, I was using stuff like this,
but I felt so I've been upgrading that. But I've
also been using like chat GBT quite a bit for
(36:36):
my job and just finding different ways on how that
tool can be useful. And then that's such a god topic.
So I don't, I don't necessarily, you know, want to
get into detail. But if I'm looking for venues in Houston,
Texas that are very supportive of independent country artists like
(36:56):
chat GPT will tell me what's up, it will just
we'll help me out a lot. So I highly encourage
people to dive in. It can feel weird and like scary,
but once you're just doing it and you just Okay,
that's not the uswer of this. When I need like it,
it will give it. We'll give you things for that
(37:16):
you're looking for. And I was using it for my
Instagram the other day of inactive accounts and finding like
this weird site where I could upload this thing of
cruising active and yeah, stuff stuff like that of a
dive in shout to EB two or any of the
AI stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, it's really cool. And I tell you what I
loved about this was if you saw that post the
other day, We've got a press release on it where
Randy Travis is actually going back out on a tour again,
which this is really cool too, because obviously this is
something that really benefits not everybody, but especially for certain
situations like Randy had gone through. It's tough he went
through that in twenty thirteen with that stroke and now
(37:56):
still holding us on too, but to go back off
there on tour and some of the US a lot
of the vocals are going to be done on that
tour by his wife Mary and a good friend of
the show here, James Dupree as well. So James is
going to go go out there seeing a lot of
the classics and stuff like that on this tour. So
I think you're right about diving into new technology, especially
chat GPT, because I use it too for certain things
(38:17):
that I do for the show. And then of course
this helps out all this AI stuff is really reinventing
with the way some of the way music has changed.
Put it that way. I know it's been a hot
topic over the past, you know, four or five six
months that it came out, But some people it does benefit.
And I'm with you on how this can if it
can work for that individual or that particular person for
(38:37):
their business, their company, for music, or for whatever it is.
The world's going to a as we'll just face it.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right, Yeah, and it is. It does help. It does
help like crafting an email. Like I have more experience
make emails, So I don't say that way. I know
that a lot of people use it to literally dress
initial emails out to to companies and things, and and
it works for them. So I'm be afraid it works.
(39:07):
It works.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I started using it for email too as many as
we're getting out for this and I'm like, yeah, just
type a template and you know, there just put the
address in and send it out there for both sponsors
and for other guests they come up here on the show.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You know, I always say this too. Time is short,
no doubt, but it's so good to reconnect with you
here on the brand because as much a part of
this as me that we did this, you're also right
there with it. I could not have done this without you.
We're still in this together. A lot of things are
coming up. We're going to discuss behind the scenes and
let people know in the future because we've got a
lot of plans with this. But you come back anytime
(39:44):
and here for your music, your career, you as a
host on this show. You've meant so much to me
over the last six years that I've done this. Thank
you for everything you've done out there too to make
this brand behind me, you know, blow up the way
it has, and it's just been a dream for me
to keep this thing flying in the right direct. Largo
comes out March twenty first, you're gonna hear it out
there on KYBN ninety eight point one, your big area
(40:05):
broadcasting network in KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
You know, I thank you so much and honestly, I'm
looking forward to Rea naughty with you again on one
of these broadcasts coming up here in the future, and
some plans behind the scenes that know you and I
are talking about. So thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, thanks so much for Matt and I got to
see you a cerus a cier divicts. I want fun,
but it was cold and I'm glad that I was
seeing the Keys again. We'll tell you, but I so
appreciate this of all the music in general. So excited
for this song to come out. I can't wait to
celebrate it, and thank you for helping me just start
(40:41):
to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
That's what we do here on the show too. Of course,
CMA Week I'll be there. Yeah, you're gonna be there.
We gotta do something for CMA Week, all the stuff
to We'll be talking about that over the next few
weeks and the months as we get closer to June
twenty twenty five and another CA Week hopefully out there
too with the Backstay and Kirsty Krause and everybody who
makes that event possible, the Country Music Association too. At
(41:04):
the same time. We'll see you guys back tomorrow, maybe
a surprise. I'm still waiting to confirm that, but I
can tell you she will be on this show. I'm
not sure at the time of date. We got to
meet her at last year's event we went to at
the Actually you were there with me. It was actually
the Brett Young Show. A fantastic artist out there. Her
name is Shae Lynn. She's going to join us here
on the backstage pass, and of course a whole lot
more of March seventeenth of the War and Treaty The
(41:27):
Beautiful Lovely Michael and Tanya will be on the show
you're too, talking about their latest release and touring in
the Santa Fe, New Mexico area too, So we'll catch
you guys on the flip side here the backstage Pass,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast Dot Colvin out there
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and our friends at KKTC, True Country ninety nine point
nine for Kirsty Krause and everybody that makes the show possible.
(41:49):
Take care, God blessed. We'll see you soon. More great
music coming up. Stay tuned. What's up, y'all, It's Lakeview.
Speaker 10 (41:55):
And you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on
KKTC ninety nine point nine True Country in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Hey everybody, this is Texas country artist Josh Abbott and
you are listening to the backstage past with Brandon, powered
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