November 19, 2025 • 41 mins
You see the lights, the stages, the glamour… but what about the untold story? Join us as we go deep inside Lauren Anderson’s Nashville music journey, exploring the personal struggles, unexpected breakthroughs, and artistic evolution that shaped her distinct path in country music. This isn’t just a story; it’s an immersive experience.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, this is recording artist Lauren Anderson and you're
listening to a grand slam of music, sports, and entertainment.
It's the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morele
on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Stream the show anytime at the Sports Guys podcast dot
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(00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Busy day full of shows right before the Thanksgiving holidays,
and of course the Christmas release is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Will be accurate on that too, coming up in December.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Brandon Morel here KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
Area Broadcasting Network, and out there thchwn dot org and
our friends at the Sports Guys podcast dot com, and
of course anytime on iHeartRadio podcasts. Out there, right in
the middle of thicke of things, the voice competition is
going on there on NBC, which is exciting times. We
just had Corey Kennedy a few weeks back, and you
know what, I just keep sending emails. You never know
(00:59):
who you're gonna get coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Been here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
She's still in the competition and Hopefully she'll continue to
kick ass and take names out there too as well.
Lauren Anderson of the program she's on the Voice, Lauren,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Not a whole lot. I'm excited to be here chatting
with you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You got it too?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, tell me about that kind of out of the gate,
that typical question you get asked about, you know, being
involved in the competition, kind of that who what, when?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Where?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was it one of those things you were motivated to
do or was this kind of one of those things
somebody was like, you know what, you need to audition
for that, and what's the experience been like for you
so far?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, okay, so I've auditioned for the Voice an embarrassing
amount of times. I used to Back in the day,
I used to do the live like the open calls,
which I don't think they definitely aren't doing those anymore,
and you know, I would occasionally get like, you know,
there's a couple steps before you get to the blind audition,
and I would occasionally get, you know, a step or
(01:52):
two closer, but I never got anywhere. And then actually,
eight years ago I did almost get a chance to
audition for the blind I went out to LA in
twenty eighteen, and then I was supposed to be on
season fifteen and the teams were full by the time
it got to my turn to audition, so I was
sent home and didn't get an audition or anything, and
(02:13):
I kind of closed this chapter. I was like, all right, well,
maybe that's just not for me, you know, And it
would kind of hurt me a little bit every time
I'd be at a show and somebody would come up
to me and be like, you should really try out
for the voice. And then about a year ago I
got an email and they asked me to come in
and audition again, and I thought, yeah, you know what,
let's go see what's going on. And I am very
(02:36):
very glad I did. I'm glad to be here. It's
been like a wild ride.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, And I think that, as you mentioned too, since
the Blinds too, which is really cool because you never
know what coach is going to turn around and how
many chair turns you're going to get on something like this.
Talk about just that, you know, taking a stage for
the first time, going through the blinds again, and then
the four Hall of Fame coaches, they've done it all
in the music industry kind of what was going through
your mind on you know, who you were going to
pick as a coach, and they kind of the chairs
(03:01):
were turned, and then that coaching is so invaluable these
days because you look at something like that too, and
you're getting just top rated music advice from some of
the top professionals in the business who've been there, done that, right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh yeah, I mean it. Wanting to pick people's brains
is like a big part of the industry, and people
are so guarded by the information that they learn. It's
rare that you get to be in a situation like
this where you just have, like like you said, like
four incredible rock stars who are just giving you free
advice like it's it's it's wild. So yeah. So on
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the day of my blind I was the last person
to audition on day three, and so I was waiting
around sitting there all day, listening to all of my
friends audition and kind of knowing that the teams were
starting to get either fill up or get real close
to being full. So I made a point to not
focus on who had how many spots on whose team
(03:58):
or who, you know what I mean, Like, I didn't
want to know any of the details, because what I
knew I needed to go in there and just sing
and just have fun with the song. And so I
went out there and I my very first note is
this just like big aggressive scream, and I put that
in there to like hopefully get some chairs to turn,
and of course nobody turned, and so I'm at that
(04:20):
point the crowd was like just a lot of fun
to like play off of. So at that point, I
was like, I don't know if I'm going to get
a chair turn, but I'm having a lot of fun
with this crowd. So I kind of just went ahead
and just enjoyed myself and just like had as much
fun as I could. And a very very very last note,
Snoop turns around and we kind of have this fun
(04:41):
like like I point at him, he points at me.
We kind of had this moment and it just kind
of it felt real good.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Talk about just growing up on a different genres of
music is that we did a lot of country artists
here on the program. When I continue to do that,
but you got a little bit of everything in your music,
and I wanted to kind of pick your brain a
little bit on what you grew up on to a
little bit and kind of you know what artists really
influenced you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I you know, so I grew up in Chicago,
right outside of Chicago, and so you know, soul music,
blues music, rock was a big influence. I also listened
to a lot of pop. Yeah, I listened to a
little bit of everything. But I think the like most
common thread in all of what I was drawn to,
especially growing up, was I loved big voice, big female voices.
(05:28):
You know, any any you know singer that just got
up there and just like gave it her all. You know.
I listened to the Pointer sisters and Bonnie Rait and
Susan Tedesky and Da James and Whitney Houston and Lauren Hill,
like I just loved all of them. And so that
kind of that that was what lit me on fire.
(05:49):
That was what drew me into wanting to sing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Great artists there are, no doubt too. And I love
that because you got Hall of Fame singers and that
kind of thing. And I think, you know, I've hear
the inspiration at like to start a radio show, went
to a concert time it was like, yeah, love the
singing part, but I can't sing. But I know, I
have a pretty good voice for radio, so I got
to start doing something at least the radio side of it. So, yeah,
it's the appreciation for music and what you guys do,
because this is a as you know, this is a
hard industry to compete in and get involved because there's
(06:15):
so much great talent there in just in and around
Nashville and pretty much all over the world now too,
what's been kind of walk me through some of those
challenging parts when you get through and you put all
this stuff together kind of in a nutshell, what's what's
some of the most challenging parts of being an artist?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, I think the longevity you have to have
as an artist. You know, my first album came out
in twenty fourteen, and you know, I'd already been doing
music for a while, you know, so I've been in
the I've been performing at least as an artist for
at least fifteen years, and like, nothing happens fast in
(06:49):
the industry, and it's I think that, like, really, the
the best advice is just to keep going, Like, if
that's really what you want to do, if music is
truly in your heart, you gotta just keep hanging on
through all the bad days and the good days. You know,
you just gotta like trust the fact that this is
what you feel drawn to do. That's kind of I
(07:11):
think they gets sick away.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I've learned for the new artist out there advice they
need to heed, no doubt about it too well.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I love this song.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's from Lauren Anderson out there too. Makes you guys
check her out on the social media. Out there. Boom
boom boom. We cannot say fast enough here on the show,
enjoy this one here. It is the backstage past.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
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Speaker 7 (07:50):
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Speaker 8 (07:58):
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Speaker 6 (08:01):
You wrote, now though you know that you should go.
I can hear your high goal. Yet you know that
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Speaker 7 (08:29):
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
And back here on the show KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area of Broadcasting Network. Lauren Anderson kind enough
to join us here right there at the thick of
things on the Voice, NBC's hit show. So walk us
through this one, because, as I mentioned, the music had
a lot just to great feel. There's some different things
you can do vocally with your range, and this was
one of the ones that I kind of felt like
that really the acap I mean everything acapella was good.
(13:08):
Like I said, you're a crescendo. Everything in there lyrically
hit it, and it's just amazing how you rolled right
into the chorus. And I love that you put three
words together that are just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 16 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I wrote that one with a friend of mine, Loreen
Flynn Smith, and we wrote it originally because she had
she does a lot of pitching to movies and TVs
and there was a they wanted something kind of bluesy
and kind of sexy and kind of dark and kind
of the true true Blood kind of feeling that theme song,
(13:39):
and so that I don't know, boom boom boom just
kind of rolled out and very quickly became one of
my favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was listening to some of the previous record Love
on the Rocks, got a chance to check out some
of that album too, which was twenty twenty three, I
believe or twenty twenty one when it came out. There
great title track for a song. Let's talk about a
little backstory.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Of that one.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, so that one I wrote. I had this, I
had the chorus idea. Actually, I was working on one
song one night and like was thinking about this guy
that I shouldn't have been thinking about, and all of
a sudden, the chorus of Love on the Rocks just
popped in my head. But then I got stuck with it.
(14:20):
So I actually brought it to again Lauren Flint Smith
and another friend, Sandy Ramo. Sandy wrote the Chicks Let
It Rip back in the nineties, and so I finished
the song with those two ladies, you know, And it
was kind of funny because then once we finished it,
I was like, oh, this is a fun song, but like,
is it too boring? Which is kind of crazy now
(14:44):
that I think that, because all of a sudden it
became the title track of the album. And the next
thing I know it that album debuted at number fourteen
on the Billboard Blues Charts, It got picked up by
a bunch of Spotify editorial playlists, is still streaming, you know,
and it's won a couple of other awards. And and
actually we worked with I partnered with a local whiskey
(15:08):
uh uh company called Guidance Whiskey, and so you know,
we released that song together, you know, partnering Love on
the Rocks. And so that song really changed my life
in a big way. And it literally started with me
just being caught up in some guy I shouldn't have
been caught up.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
The truth comes out where songs come from. I love
that guy you shouldn't have been caught up with. Yeah,
another one off there too was really cool. You mentioned
that Chicago kind of feel there too, And I love
shotdown out there too, love the fact one of my
favorite cities to travel to. And I'm gonna ask you
a little bit Cubs White Sox, but I'm pretty sure
Cubs right, Yeah, Okay, I didn't know Wrily feel had
(15:49):
to be the spot because that's my favorite spot to watch,
and then they were don't build on that on the
sports side of things. A little bit later, back to
Chicago featuring Mike Zito, off there talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
This one for me, Yeah, that I wrote that during
the pandemic, I like gave my you know, so I
was supposed to go on like a big two month
tour and then all of that got canceled right in
spring of twenty twenty, and so I put myself on
a like songwriting challenge and I wrote a song a
day for a month, and that was one of the
ones I wrote. And again I like, I just I
(16:20):
was like, this is a cool song, but it needs
some like flare. And Mike Zito is actually a buddy
of mine that I've I've opened for him a couple
of times and played shows with him, and I send
it to him just to like, he's so busy, but
just let's see. You know, you never know if you
don't ask, right, So I send it to him and
he was nice enough to send me back a guitar
(16:40):
track and and allow me to let him be a
feature on the song. And it's now again like one
of my favorites, So thank you, Mike Zito.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Good stuff there. Burn it all down.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The next collection of songs that came out there, it
was twenty twenty two with this one.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
A lot of collaborations on there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I thought the one that really drew it to me
was not just that title track, but uh, and we'll
talk about that one in a second, but the Zombie Blues.
I don't know if you get asked about this one
all the time. Albert Castiglia household name too in the
music industry. How did this collabse come about?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, Albert. Albert Castilia is another buddy of mine. And
actually Mike and Albert are touring right now with the
One and Only Bill Murray, because right, how exciting is
that they actually just came through and played at the
Rhyme in here in Nashville. But yeah, Albert, again, I
wrote the song Zombie Blues. I'm like a big zombie nerd,
(17:34):
and I just again was like it needs some flare,
and so I called up Albert and again he was like, yeah,
I dig it, here's a track. And I mean, it's
just the music industry is tough, and it just it
really it makes her breaks at knowing some just like
good quality people like Albert and Mike.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And how important is it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You mentioned that it's so different for everybody too, and
it's so tough to break through, but it's also trying to,
you know, yourself, staying true to who you are as
an artist by putting out what you believe in and
the songs, whether it's something you write or it's something
you get pitched, and just really staying true to yourself
and not trying to be something that you're not. But
at the same time, you're staying authentic to what you're
writing to. And it's okay because I believe in like
(18:15):
different music coming out. There's a little bit of that
variety as a spice of life for different fans out there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know. Yeah, you know it's so tricky, right because
like there's benefits to following the crowd, right, like humans
we do well in groups. There's like an evolutionary purpose
for that. But at the same time, you don't want
to just go with the crowd because that gets boring
and then you kind of lose yourself. So I feel
like it's a good you got to find that balance,
(18:40):
right of like finding what works for you that is
that the crowd's doing. But then also, like you said,
you got to stay true to yourself, and I think
a lot of the finding your voice, especially in music,
is just it just takes time, right, it takes It
takes you putting out a lot of music that then
you look back and you're like, well, that wasn't really
(19:02):
that wasn't me. You know, that was me trying to
be who I thought I should be, And it's really
just a lot of trial and error. I think a
big thing I hear from a lot of younger or
newer artists is that they have these songs, but they
just don't feel like they're ready to release them yet.
Just release the music, put it out. Nothing is ever
going to be perfect. You're hopefully going to keep growing
(19:25):
and eventually not like the way that old songs sound anymore.
But that's the whole point, right, is to just put
the music out and then move on from it, grow
from it, and like learn from it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, and like I said, you're going to hit and
not everything has to be that number one hit out
there to make somebody feel something. Music is therapy, no
doubt too. Love this one. We're going to play it
here Lauren Anderson again the backstage pass again, currently on
that NBC hit show The Voice. So make sure you
guys check it out, which I know you're doing already.
I mean, that's just one of those things out there
because we love those hit shows. Season twenty eight hard
(19:57):
to believe they've already announced like a season twenty nine
Action of Judges. It never ends with that show, and
it never will when it comes down to that great
hit TV series. Time to love again here on the
backstage pass, coming right back, stay tune.
Speaker 17 (20:09):
Dining, please, I see you looking at me.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I didn't mean to calls a scene. Just wants you
to know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
You and.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
And you spend me out. I don't know how I
care when you've never.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Truly been there.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
To someone who knowess without Hannah child count what someone
(21:27):
someone who cares for outs.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Who fails.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I don't just want to leave.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Again, a honest leave. I've never even been in love,
(22:11):
So how kill love again? When I never heath began?
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Were you?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You fell?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Like say, didn't know?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
I thought you'd fly be alone, winters your town.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You wan to.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Someone who knows.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Without pan a MPI less.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Something, a book, muscle, some little feels like, I just
want to.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
You just once want to.
Speaker 17 (24:24):
Someone who knows who's who at him without him in
cha wanta listen?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Someone who canceled myself feels like and I'm coming to
my best friend. Just w.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Just wanna love, I just wanna love.
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Speaker 2 (27:04):
So when you mentioned this one, it's always you're right.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It's we can go through so many stages of loving
someone in life and in general at best and then
of course things work out sometimes sometimes they don't, but
we always have to remember love is so important and
you really explained it in this song very well.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To love again is very important, yes, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
To constantly find a way to love again. You know,
sometimes it's just a matter of finding the right people
or just like again, finding the authentic you. Right, You're
not gonna find love if you're not being true to yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, and that's the beautiful thing there too, is like
I said, we all need that, especially in today's world
that is just so negative out there too. I never
talked politics on this show, but I tell you and
I don't even watch the news much anymore. It's so
sad and so yeah, Hey, the single this year, I
really enjoyed getting to really cool a Tracy Parens.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Seasons Changed.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
This was a really cool time to to kind of
hear a good country song out there too, came out
in April this year.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Dive into that One's for us.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, that was a fun one to write because I
released it with Tracy and then we also we both
wrote that song, and she's a good friend of mine,
so you know, when we got together to write that song,
we the first like hour and a half of our
co write was us just griping about life, and we
kind of just kind of came across this concept of like,
instead of running away from all the problems, like just
(28:31):
let it rain, you know, and just kind of just
like feel it, feel all of the ups and downs
because they're they're they're ups and downs. Right, You're gonna
you're gonna have a good day, and then you're gonna
have a bad day and they're gonna have another great day,
and then you're gonna be in the dumps again. And
and instead of just trying to only focus on the
good days, just why don't you just feel it all?
(28:52):
You know, it's all part of it. And that's kind
of where Seasons Change came from. And it also was
just a really cool moment for me because since that
song came out, my life has drastically changed. So it's
been very like, it's felt very real for me, you know,
like seasons always changed. When that came out in April,
(29:13):
I hadn't been on the Voice, i hadn't won late
I've just recently won a Josie Music Award for Best
Vocalist of the Year. And it just goes to show
like life is just you know, let it go around
the corner, right because who knows what you're gonna find
around the corner.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It does too, and like I said, you're right about
when the winds go, the seasons do change. And one
of those songs that timing is everything. Hey, let me
ask you about dream stages to step on a lot
of people will say that grand O Lopary. You mentioned
one the rhyme and things like that. There's many more
out there from the ones you've already stepped on to
what you want to accomplish left in your career. Tell
(29:52):
me what's kind of on that bucket list for stages.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean, the Ryman is definitely a big one. I
think that's a number one for me. And then you know,
there's a lot of venues that are similar to the Ryman,
you know, size wise, but the Ryman is just such
a like God, I would love to play a show
at the Ryman, That's my number one.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I went this past year was the CRS event doing
the show Live from Country Radio Seminar at the Omni
and got invited over to one of those VIP parties
and was kind of cool to catch it for the
first time and it was a man, what a place
to catch a show at the Ryman Chase Matthew had performed. Wow, Yeah, phenomenal.
Love to go back. Would love to see you on
stage there too. To take all that into at the
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same time, did I read somewhere and this is like
I said, hearsay stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Maybe I read it somewhere else. Maybe I didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Who knows, but one of your favorite moments was you
got to open for Beth Heart in Kansas City, and
I just do our homework here on the show. Talk
to us about that moment. And someone you follow for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, you really, you've really done your homework. I'm imbrust.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Back in twenty sixteen in Kansas City at the Uptown Theater,
which is actually one of those venues like the Rhyman,
you know, that just has a great vibe and a
lot of history, and I got to I got to
open for her, and then I got to kind of
sit up in the rafters on the side of the
stage and watch her show, and it was just like
this cool moment where like she's just she puts everything
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into her shows, which is something that I am constantly
striving to do, is just constantly put my heart and
soul and all of my sweat and tears and just
feel it on stage so that anyone else who needs
to feel that doesn't feel so alone. And I feel
like Beth Hart, I mean she doesn't. She doesn't end
(31:39):
a show without being drenched and sweat, and I feel
like that's the sign of a good she's working. She
is working and I got it was so exciting to
be able to open for her.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Well back to that record too, Burn It All Down,
tell us about that title track and how how much
fun it was to put that one together.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, so actually fun story. So Burn It All Down
is the fake pre story too. Chris Stapleton's Midnight Train
of Memphis, which ended up being my audition song, my
blind audition song. So years ago I was learning that
song for a Chris Stapleton tribute show and I realized
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that he never tells you why he got sent to
jail in that song, and I, just the songwriter part
of me, was like, well, we need to make that story.
And so I started thinking to myself if I went
to jail, what would send me to jail? And at
the time, I was where I was bartending and serving
at this at this place that I just was miserable at,
(32:38):
and so I decided to make a fake story about
a bunch of servers in this po dunk, old small
town bar who were just sick of all the bs
and decided one day to just burn it all down.
And it became the title track off of my album.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Experience Creates. I love that we all have those days.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Different places, because sometimes we do not like our job,
even though those jobs do pay the bills. But what
a way to get a song out of something. Yeah, well,
also off of there too. We've talked about Zombie Blues
and some of the other ones I loved. Another collab
you had had called hit the Spot. Tell us all
about this one too? Off that record, which was another
one of those songs caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, that was with John Salloway and him and a
buddy of his, Adam, came over and and and John
had that riff and uh, I don't know, and we
just kind of started just I don't know, just talking
about I don't remember where hit the Spot came from,
but it kind of just that song just kind of
like rolled out really easily that that day. It just
(33:50):
it felt like something that was waiting on the tips
of our tongues to be written. And that one's that
one's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, all right, another collab, So I'm doing them digging here.
I told you we do the homework here on the show.
Another collab because it's always fun to do and I
love because you've got just a little bit of everything.
You can do with your voice. Justine Blazer was all
with me back when I started this twenty nineteen of
the show. She'd come on a couple of times, Oh wow,
I have a tremendous artist, and if other tremendous songwriter
ain't no cure like the Blues, tell us about this one.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Justine's a firecracker, she is, no doubt she is.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, she's a lot of fun. So her and I
got together to write that song, and we we came
across that concept because we were just like, she had
actually just stopped drinking alcohol, and we kind of talked
about the idea of like all of the vices we
have to try to make ourselves feel better, and we
were like, but music is kind of what we go
(34:43):
back to in a lot of ways. And then both
of us are, you know, blues adjacent artists, and so
we were like, how about ain't no cheer like the Blues?
Like that's our hook right there. We wrote it and
then we sat on it for a year, and then
the two of us were like, why don't we make
this a collaboration. We ended up going down a muscle
shoals to record that and made a video together here
(35:04):
in Town and yeah, that one's.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Been a lot of fun, a lot of cool collabs. Well,
I know, I know the show itself.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Your episode has not been released for this whole knockout stage,
so I can't wait to see what's next. And I
know it's just on a process now where they go
through this and get to the lives. What would it
mean to you to get that? And once the America
finds out too, those episodes coming up, getting to that
lives and getting down I think was the final twelve
they have each coach has four per team or something
like that, three per team.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
To the lines sixteen I think is the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, and singing for America on those lives, just that moment,
what would that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You know, that would I've been doing this for so
long and it's so easy to feel like you're not
being heard, you know, and especially especially for girls, you know,
the older we get, there's kind of that narrative that
our voice is not as listened to. And I just
(36:01):
feel like if I got there, it would just kind
of finally be a moment where I feel like America
sees me. You know, I've been grinding for so long
and just putting everything into this career because I want to,
because it's my choice. But it would be really nice
to feel like people are seeing the grind, you know.
(36:23):
I think that's what that would mean to me.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, you definitely want that to pay off. That's one
of the big things there too. And you love something
so much. I've said the same thing about this radio show.
You keep it going and at some point you break
through and just the ability to tell stories, as you
guys do through your music. I like to do it
here and just tell them the stories about the artist
and the song here on the very same show. Let's
have a little fun with this one.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Just going to Nashville, one of my favorite cities, and
we work so much. When we get there, we don't
get a chance to get out a lot. But when
we do, I'm all about Italian food, like in Nashville
or something like they were getting out to the hot
spot to go catch whatever I can catch.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
There are too so many great restaurants.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
It's like I feel like it's a test market for
the different types of genres of foods out there.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Cuisine.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
What do you like when like on the town, whether
it's on Broadway, away from Broadway in a different city,
where's your kind of like dining spots at You know, there's.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Two pizza spots on the West Side. I'm over on
the West Side and one of them is called Nikki's
Coal Fire and it has some of the best coal
file fire pizza. And then there's another one called Midnight
Oil that's in the near the Nations. Those are kind
of my two.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
I love.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I love those spots. Those are They've got good food.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Never adult change in Nashville when it comes to finding something.
I f that one in Germantown called three one two Pizza.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It was like, oh yeah, that's the Chicago spot.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Another one of those you would know because that's a
that's a good yea.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I'll tell you. It wasn't much for deep dash. When
I put like I said, tasted that, I went back
for seconds. He goes, you're gonna have at least two slices.
I'm like, nah, I want to be enough. Hey two
slices and it was pepperoni and it was a pretty.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Damn good night. Oh yeah too, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Hobbies away from music when not doing music, whether it's shopping,
hanging out with friends, playing a sport, playing another instrument
or whatever, hanging out with family.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
What do you like to do well, I don't know
if you can hear. I've got a dog barking in
the other room, and him and I go on a
lot of hikes. He gets me out of the house,
for sure. I also I really like reading. I like
I like gardening in the summer. I'm a big craft nerd.
I love I actually for my shows, I make guitar
string jewelry. I make used guitar string jewelry, and I
(38:34):
saw them at March my March Table on the show
on the Road. So I don't know. Just yeah, getting
creative in a lot of different ways is kind of
my jam.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Like that's a good jam to have to no doubt
about it. Let's talk a little bit about this one.
If you were not a working musician, what other career
path might you have followed.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, I don't know if it counts because it's still
music related, but I so my masters is in music therapy,
and so for a while, actually, before I really dove
headfirst into music full time, I was a music therapist
in Kansas City on a pediatric unit, and so I
(39:14):
probably would still be doing that and actually I still
do similar. I'm not an active therapist, but I do
a lot of songwriting with veterans. Still, I do still
like some music therapy adjacent things.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Well, it's a great story too, and I wish you
the best of luck continued in this competition as the
episodes unfold over the next few weeks and hopefully get
to the lives and singing in front of America all
those live shows, not just what we've heard so far,
which is fantastic. I love it out there too, and
the current single season's change, and I know there's more
coming up, regardless of whatever happens on this competition, and
(39:51):
of course going into twenty twenty six, and there's probably
a lot of unfinished business and a lot more music
you're ready to release too.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, Oh yeah, I'm actually literally was just tracking some
Christmas vocals before the end of the year. I'm going
to be dropping a Christmas single, so people can look
out for that.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I like that. And is there a website out there
they can go to just to get more information besides
your other socials? What's that website?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes, sir, it's Lauren Anderson music dot Com.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You heard it right there from her Hey, we appreciate
the time here on the program. Hope you enjoyed the chat.
Lauren Anderson, check her out across all the social media
and all the great music out there for DSP for
digital streaming. Come back anytime, my friend. Best of luck
in the competition. Looking forward to many more highlights too.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Thank you so much for having me a good talking
with you.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Got it, Lauren Anderson here on the backstage pass. Of course,
more great shows coming up ky B in ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends
THWN dot org empowered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
I love zombie movies and i'd say if you're on television,
time to watch some of those tonight too as well,
especially I watched a bunch for Halloween, so definitely that's
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the best time to catch them too, and of course
on streaming networks out there.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Talk to you guys soon, God bless take care. We'll
see you soon.
Speaker 16 (41:03):
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It's the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morele
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Busy day full of shows right before the Thanksgiving holidays,
and of course the Christmas release is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Will be accurate on that too, coming up in December.
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Brandon Morel here KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
Area Broadcasting Network, and out there thchwn dot org and
our friends at the Sports Guys podcast dot com, and
of course anytime on iHeartRadio podcasts. Out there, right in
the middle of thicke of things, the voice competition is
going on there on NBC, which is exciting times. We
just had Corey Kennedy a few weeks back, and you
know what, I just keep sending emails. You never know
(00:59):
who you're gonna get coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Been here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
She's still in the competition and Hopefully she'll continue to
kick ass and take names out there too as well.
Lauren Anderson of the program she's on the Voice, Lauren,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Not a whole lot. I'm excited to be here chatting
with you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You got it too?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, tell me about that kind of out of the gate,
that typical question you get asked about, you know, being
involved in the competition, kind of that who what, when?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Where?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was it one of those things you were motivated to
do or was this kind of one of those things
somebody was like, you know what, you need to audition
for that, and what's the experience been like for you
so far?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, okay, so I've auditioned for the Voice an embarrassing
amount of times. I used to Back in the day,
I used to do the live like the open calls,
which I don't think they definitely aren't doing those anymore,
and you know, I would occasionally get like, you know,
there's a couple steps before you get to the blind audition,
and I would occasionally get, you know, a step or
(01:52):
two closer, but I never got anywhere. And then actually,
eight years ago I did almost get a chance to
audition for the blind I went out to LA in
twenty eighteen, and then I was supposed to be on
season fifteen and the teams were full by the time
it got to my turn to audition, so I was
sent home and didn't get an audition or anything, and
(02:13):
I kind of closed this chapter. I was like, all right, well,
maybe that's just not for me, you know, And it
would kind of hurt me a little bit every time
I'd be at a show and somebody would come up
to me and be like, you should really try out
for the voice. And then about a year ago I
got an email and they asked me to come in
and audition again, and I thought, yeah, you know what,
let's go see what's going on. And I am very
(02:36):
very glad I did. I'm glad to be here. It's
been like a wild ride.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, And I think that, as you mentioned too, since
the Blinds too, which is really cool because you never
know what coach is going to turn around and how
many chair turns you're going to get on something like this.
Talk about just that, you know, taking a stage for
the first time, going through the blinds again, and then
the four Hall of Fame coaches, they've done it all
in the music industry kind of what was going through
your mind on you know, who you were going to
pick as a coach, and they kind of the chairs
(03:01):
were turned, and then that coaching is so invaluable these
days because you look at something like that too, and
you're getting just top rated music advice from some of
the top professionals in the business who've been there, done that, right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh yeah, I mean it. Wanting to pick people's brains
is like a big part of the industry, and people
are so guarded by the information that they learn. It's
rare that you get to be in a situation like
this where you just have, like like you said, like
four incredible rock stars who are just giving you free
advice like it's it's it's wild. So yeah. So on
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the day of my blind I was the last person
to audition on day three, and so I was waiting
around sitting there all day, listening to all of my
friends audition and kind of knowing that the teams were
starting to get either fill up or get real close
to being full. So I made a point to not
focus on who had how many spots on whose team
(03:58):
or who, you know what I mean, Like, I didn't
want to know any of the details, because what I
knew I needed to go in there and just sing
and just have fun with the song. And so I
went out there and I my very first note is
this just like big aggressive scream, and I put that
in there to like hopefully get some chairs to turn,
and of course nobody turned, and so I'm at that
(04:20):
point the crowd was like just a lot of fun
to like play off of. So at that point, I
was like, I don't know if I'm going to get
a chair turn, but I'm having a lot of fun
with this crowd. So I kind of just went ahead
and just enjoyed myself and just like had as much
fun as I could. And a very very very last note,
Snoop turns around and we kind of have this fun
(04:41):
like like I point at him, he points at me.
We kind of had this moment and it just kind
of it felt real good.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Talk about just growing up on a different genres of
music is that we did a lot of country artists
here on the program. When I continue to do that,
but you got a little bit of everything in your music,
and I wanted to kind of pick your brain a
little bit on what you grew up on to a
little bit and kind of you know what artists really
influenced you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I you know, so I grew up in Chicago,
right outside of Chicago, and so you know, soul music,
blues music, rock was a big influence. I also listened
to a lot of pop. Yeah, I listened to a
little bit of everything. But I think the like most
common thread in all of what I was drawn to,
especially growing up, was I loved big voice, big female voices.
(05:28):
You know, any any you know singer that just got
up there and just like gave it her all. You know.
I listened to the Pointer sisters and Bonnie Rait and
Susan Tedesky and Da James and Whitney Houston and Lauren Hill,
like I just loved all of them. And so that
kind of that that was what lit me on fire.
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That was what drew me into wanting to sing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Great artists there are, no doubt too. And I love
that because you got Hall of Fame singers and that
kind of thing. And I think, you know, I've hear
the inspiration at like to start a radio show, went
to a concert time it was like, yeah, love the
singing part, but I can't sing. But I know, I
have a pretty good voice for radio, so I got
to start doing something at least the radio side of it. So, yeah,
it's the appreciation for music and what you guys do,
because this is a as you know, this is a
hard industry to compete in and get involved because there's
(06:15):
so much great talent there in just in and around
Nashville and pretty much all over the world now too,
what's been kind of walk me through some of those
challenging parts when you get through and you put all
this stuff together kind of in a nutshell, what's what's
some of the most challenging parts of being an artist?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, I think the longevity you have to have
as an artist. You know, my first album came out
in twenty fourteen, and you know, I'd already been doing
music for a while, you know, so I've been in
the I've been performing at least as an artist for
at least fifteen years, and like, nothing happens fast in
(06:49):
the industry, and it's I think that, like, really, the
the best advice is just to keep going, Like, if
that's really what you want to do, if music is
truly in your heart, you gotta just keep hanging on
through all the bad days and the good days. You know,
you just gotta like trust the fact that this is
what you feel drawn to do. That's kind of I
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think they gets sick away.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I've learned for the new artist out there advice they
need to heed, no doubt about it too well.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I love this song.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's from Lauren Anderson out there too. Makes you guys
check her out on the social media. Out there. Boom
boom boom. We cannot say fast enough here on the show,
enjoy this one here. It is the backstage past.
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
And back here on the show KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area of Broadcasting Network. Lauren Anderson kind enough
to join us here right there at the thick of
things on the Voice, NBC's hit show. So walk us
through this one, because, as I mentioned, the music had
a lot just to great feel. There's some different things
you can do vocally with your range, and this was
one of the ones that I kind of felt like
that really the acap I mean everything acapella was good.
(13:08):
Like I said, you're a crescendo. Everything in there lyrically
hit it, and it's just amazing how you rolled right
into the chorus. And I love that you put three
words together that are just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 16 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I wrote that one with a friend of mine, Loreen
Flynn Smith, and we wrote it originally because she had
she does a lot of pitching to movies and TVs
and there was a they wanted something kind of bluesy
and kind of sexy and kind of dark and kind
of the true true Blood kind of feeling that theme song,
(13:39):
and so that I don't know, boom boom boom just
kind of rolled out and very quickly became one of
my favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was listening to some of the previous record Love
on the Rocks, got a chance to check out some
of that album too, which was twenty twenty three, I
believe or twenty twenty one when it came out. There
great title track for a song. Let's talk about a
little backstory.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Of that one.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, so that one I wrote. I had this, I
had the chorus idea. Actually, I was working on one
song one night and like was thinking about this guy
that I shouldn't have been thinking about, and all of
a sudden, the chorus of Love on the Rocks just
popped in my head. But then I got stuck with it.
(14:20):
So I actually brought it to again Lauren Flint Smith
and another friend, Sandy Ramo. Sandy wrote the Chicks Let
It Rip back in the nineties, and so I finished
the song with those two ladies, you know, And it
was kind of funny because then once we finished it,
I was like, oh, this is a fun song, but like,
is it too boring? Which is kind of crazy now
(14:44):
that I think that, because all of a sudden it
became the title track of the album. And the next
thing I know it that album debuted at number fourteen
on the Billboard Blues Charts, It got picked up by
a bunch of Spotify editorial playlists, is still streaming, you know,
and it's won a couple of other awards. And and
actually we worked with I partnered with a local whiskey
(15:08):
uh uh company called Guidance Whiskey, and so you know,
we released that song together, you know, partnering Love on
the Rocks. And so that song really changed my life
in a big way. And it literally started with me
just being caught up in some guy I shouldn't have
been caught up.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
The truth comes out where songs come from. I love
that guy you shouldn't have been caught up with. Yeah,
another one off there too was really cool. You mentioned
that Chicago kind of feel there too, And I love
shotdown out there too, love the fact one of my
favorite cities to travel to. And I'm gonna ask you
a little bit Cubs White Sox, but I'm pretty sure
Cubs right, Yeah, Okay, I didn't know Wrily feel had
(15:49):
to be the spot because that's my favorite spot to watch,
and then they were don't build on that on the
sports side of things. A little bit later, back to
Chicago featuring Mike Zito, off there talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
This one for me, Yeah, that I wrote that during
the pandemic, I like gave my you know, so I
was supposed to go on like a big two month
tour and then all of that got canceled right in
spring of twenty twenty, and so I put myself on
a like songwriting challenge and I wrote a song a
day for a month, and that was one of the
ones I wrote. And again I like, I just I
(16:20):
was like, this is a cool song, but it needs
some like flare. And Mike Zito is actually a buddy
of mine that I've I've opened for him a couple
of times and played shows with him, and I send
it to him just to like, he's so busy, but
just let's see. You know, you never know if you
don't ask, right, So I send it to him and
he was nice enough to send me back a guitar
(16:40):
track and and allow me to let him be a
feature on the song. And it's now again like one
of my favorites, So thank you, Mike Zito.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Good stuff there. Burn it all down.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The next collection of songs that came out there, it
was twenty twenty two with this one.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
A lot of collaborations on there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I thought the one that really drew it to me
was not just that title track, but uh, and we'll
talk about that one in a second, but the Zombie Blues.
I don't know if you get asked about this one
all the time. Albert Castiglia household name too in the
music industry. How did this collabse come about?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, Albert. Albert Castilia is another buddy of mine. And
actually Mike and Albert are touring right now with the
One and Only Bill Murray, because right, how exciting is
that they actually just came through and played at the
Rhyme in here in Nashville. But yeah, Albert, again, I
wrote the song Zombie Blues. I'm like a big zombie nerd,
(17:34):
and I just again was like it needs some flare,
and so I called up Albert and again he was like, yeah,
I dig it, here's a track. And I mean, it's
just the music industry is tough, and it just it
really it makes her breaks at knowing some just like
good quality people like Albert and Mike.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And how important is it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You mentioned that it's so different for everybody too, and
it's so tough to break through, but it's also trying to,
you know, yourself, staying true to who you are as
an artist by putting out what you believe in and
the songs, whether it's something you write or it's something
you get pitched, and just really staying true to yourself
and not trying to be something that you're not. But
at the same time, you're staying authentic to what you're
writing to. And it's okay because I believe in like
(18:15):
different music coming out. There's a little bit of that
variety as a spice of life for different fans out there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know. Yeah, you know it's so tricky, right because
like there's benefits to following the crowd, right, like humans
we do well in groups. There's like an evolutionary purpose
for that. But at the same time, you don't want
to just go with the crowd because that gets boring
and then you kind of lose yourself. So I feel
like it's a good you got to find that balance,
(18:40):
right of like finding what works for you that is
that the crowd's doing. But then also, like you said,
you got to stay true to yourself, and I think
a lot of the finding your voice, especially in music,
is just it just takes time, right, it takes It
takes you putting out a lot of music that then
you look back and you're like, well, that wasn't really
(19:02):
that wasn't me. You know, that was me trying to
be who I thought I should be, And it's really
just a lot of trial and error. I think a
big thing I hear from a lot of younger or
newer artists is that they have these songs, but they
just don't feel like they're ready to release them yet.
Just release the music, put it out. Nothing is ever
going to be perfect. You're hopefully going to keep growing
(19:25):
and eventually not like the way that old songs sound anymore.
But that's the whole point, right, is to just put
the music out and then move on from it, grow
from it, and like learn from it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, and like I said, you're going to hit and
not everything has to be that number one hit out
there to make somebody feel something. Music is therapy, no
doubt too. Love this one. We're going to play it
here Lauren Anderson again the backstage pass again, currently on
that NBC hit show The Voice. So make sure you
guys check it out, which I know you're doing already.
I mean, that's just one of those things out there
because we love those hit shows. Season twenty eight hard
(19:57):
to believe they've already announced like a season twenty nine
Action of Judges. It never ends with that show, and
it never will when it comes down to that great
hit TV series. Time to love again here on the
backstage pass, coming right back, stay tune.
Speaker 17 (20:09):
Dining, please, I see you looking at me.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I didn't mean to calls a scene. Just wants you
to know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
You and.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
And you spend me out. I don't know how I
care when you've never.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Truly been there.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
To someone who knowess without Hannah child count what someone
(21:27):
someone who cares for outs.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Who fails.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I don't just want to leave.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Again, a honest leave. I've never even been in love,
(22:11):
So how kill love again? When I never heath began?
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Were you?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You fell?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Like say, didn't know?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
I thought you'd fly be alone, winters your town.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You wan to.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Someone who knows.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Without pan a MPI less.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Something, a book, muscle, some little feels like, I just
want to.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
You just once want to.
Speaker 17 (24:24):
Someone who knows who's who at him without him in
cha wanta listen?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Someone who canceled myself feels like and I'm coming to
my best friend. Just w.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Just wanna love, I just wanna love.
Speaker 18 (25:30):
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Speaker 2 (27:04):
So when you mentioned this one, it's always you're right.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It's we can go through so many stages of loving
someone in life and in general at best and then
of course things work out sometimes sometimes they don't, but
we always have to remember love is so important and
you really explained it in this song very well.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To love again is very important, yes, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
To constantly find a way to love again. You know,
sometimes it's just a matter of finding the right people
or just like again, finding the authentic you. Right, You're
not gonna find love if you're not being true to yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, and that's the beautiful thing there too, is like
I said, we all need that, especially in today's world
that is just so negative out there too. I never
talked politics on this show, but I tell you and
I don't even watch the news much anymore. It's so
sad and so yeah, Hey, the single this year, I
really enjoyed getting to really cool a Tracy Parens.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Seasons Changed.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
This was a really cool time to to kind of
hear a good country song out there too, came out
in April this year.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Dive into that One's for us.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, that was a fun one to write because I
released it with Tracy and then we also we both
wrote that song, and she's a good friend of mine,
so you know, when we got together to write that song,
we the first like hour and a half of our
co write was us just griping about life, and we
kind of just kind of came across this concept of like,
instead of running away from all the problems, like just
(28:31):
let it rain, you know, and just kind of just
like feel it, feel all of the ups and downs
because they're they're they're ups and downs. Right, You're gonna
you're gonna have a good day, and then you're gonna
have a bad day and they're gonna have another great day,
and then you're gonna be in the dumps again. And
and instead of just trying to only focus on the
good days, just why don't you just feel it all?
(28:52):
You know, it's all part of it. And that's kind
of where Seasons Change came from. And it also was
just a really cool moment for me because since that
song came out, my life has drastically changed. So it's
been very like, it's felt very real for me, you know,
like seasons always changed. When that came out in April,
(29:13):
I hadn't been on the Voice, i hadn't won late
I've just recently won a Josie Music Award for Best
Vocalist of the Year. And it just goes to show
like life is just you know, let it go around
the corner, right because who knows what you're gonna find
around the corner.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It does too, and like I said, you're right about
when the winds go, the seasons do change. And one
of those songs that timing is everything. Hey, let me
ask you about dream stages to step on a lot
of people will say that grand O Lopary. You mentioned
one the rhyme and things like that. There's many more
out there from the ones you've already stepped on to
what you want to accomplish left in your career. Tell
(29:52):
me what's kind of on that bucket list for stages.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean, the Ryman is definitely a big one. I
think that's a number one for me. And then you know,
there's a lot of venues that are similar to the Ryman,
you know, size wise, but the Ryman is just such
a like God, I would love to play a show
at the Ryman, That's my number one.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I went this past year was the CRS event doing
the show Live from Country Radio Seminar at the Omni
and got invited over to one of those VIP parties
and was kind of cool to catch it for the
first time and it was a man, what a place
to catch a show at the Ryman Chase Matthew had performed. Wow, Yeah, phenomenal.
Love to go back. Would love to see you on
stage there too. To take all that into at the
(30:33):
same time, did I read somewhere and this is like
I said, hearsay stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Maybe I read it somewhere else. Maybe I didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Who knows, but one of your favorite moments was you
got to open for Beth Heart in Kansas City, and
I just do our homework here on the show. Talk
to us about that moment. And someone you follow for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, you really, you've really done your homework. I'm imbrust.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Back in twenty sixteen in Kansas City at the Uptown Theater,
which is actually one of those venues like the Rhyman,
you know, that just has a great vibe and a
lot of history, and I got to I got to
open for her, and then I got to kind of
sit up in the rafters on the side of the
stage and watch her show, and it was just like
this cool moment where like she's just she puts everything
(31:19):
into her shows, which is something that I am constantly
striving to do, is just constantly put my heart and
soul and all of my sweat and tears and just
feel it on stage so that anyone else who needs
to feel that doesn't feel so alone. And I feel
like Beth Hart, I mean she doesn't. She doesn't end
(31:39):
a show without being drenched and sweat, and I feel
like that's the sign of a good she's working. She
is working and I got it was so exciting to
be able to open for her.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Well back to that record too, Burn It All Down,
tell us about that title track and how how much
fun it was to put that one together.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, so actually fun story. So Burn It All Down
is the fake pre story too. Chris Stapleton's Midnight Train
of Memphis, which ended up being my audition song, my
blind audition song. So years ago I was learning that
song for a Chris Stapleton tribute show and I realized
(32:17):
that he never tells you why he got sent to
jail in that song, and I, just the songwriter part
of me, was like, well, we need to make that story.
And so I started thinking to myself if I went
to jail, what would send me to jail? And at
the time, I was where I was bartending and serving
at this at this place that I just was miserable at,
(32:38):
and so I decided to make a fake story about
a bunch of servers in this po dunk, old small
town bar who were just sick of all the bs
and decided one day to just burn it all down.
And it became the title track off of my album.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Experience Creates. I love that we all have those days.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Different places, because sometimes we do not like our job,
even though those jobs do pay the bills. But what
a way to get a song out of something. Yeah, well,
also off of there too. We've talked about Zombie Blues
and some of the other ones I loved. Another collab
you had had called hit the Spot. Tell us all
about this one too? Off that record, which was another
one of those songs caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, that was with John Salloway and him and a
buddy of his, Adam, came over and and and John
had that riff and uh, I don't know, and we
just kind of started just I don't know, just talking
about I don't remember where hit the Spot came from,
but it kind of just that song just kind of
like rolled out really easily that that day. It just
(33:50):
it felt like something that was waiting on the tips
of our tongues to be written. And that one's that
one's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, all right, another collab, So I'm doing them digging here.
I told you we do the homework here on the show.
Another collab because it's always fun to do and I
love because you've got just a little bit of everything.
You can do with your voice. Justine Blazer was all
with me back when I started this twenty nineteen of
the show. She'd come on a couple of times, Oh wow,
I have a tremendous artist, and if other tremendous songwriter
ain't no cure like the Blues, tell us about this one.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Justine's a firecracker, she is, no doubt she is.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, she's a lot of fun. So her and I
got together to write that song, and we we came
across that concept because we were just like, she had
actually just stopped drinking alcohol, and we kind of talked
about the idea of like all of the vices we
have to try to make ourselves feel better, and we
were like, but music is kind of what we go
(34:43):
back to in a lot of ways. And then both
of us are, you know, blues adjacent artists, and so
we were like, how about ain't no cheer like the Blues?
Like that's our hook right there. We wrote it and
then we sat on it for a year, and then
the two of us were like, why don't we make
this a collaboration. We ended up going down a muscle
shoals to record that and made a video together here
(35:04):
in Town and yeah, that one's.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Been a lot of fun, a lot of cool collabs. Well,
I know, I know the show itself.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Your episode has not been released for this whole knockout stage,
so I can't wait to see what's next. And I
know it's just on a process now where they go
through this and get to the lives. What would it
mean to you to get that? And once the America
finds out too, those episodes coming up, getting to that
lives and getting down I think was the final twelve
they have each coach has four per team or something
like that, three per team.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
To the lines sixteen I think is the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, and singing for America on those lives, just that moment,
what would that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You know, that would I've been doing this for so
long and it's so easy to feel like you're not
being heard, you know, and especially especially for girls, you know,
the older we get, there's kind of that narrative that
our voice is not as listened to. And I just
(36:01):
feel like if I got there, it would just kind
of finally be a moment where I feel like America
sees me. You know, I've been grinding for so long
and just putting everything into this career because I want to,
because it's my choice. But it would be really nice
to feel like people are seeing the grind, you know.
(36:23):
I think that's what that would mean to me.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, you definitely want that to pay off. That's one
of the big things there too. And you love something
so much. I've said the same thing about this radio show.
You keep it going and at some point you break
through and just the ability to tell stories, as you
guys do through your music. I like to do it
here and just tell them the stories about the artist
and the song here on the very same show. Let's
have a little fun with this one.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Just going to Nashville, one of my favorite cities, and
we work so much. When we get there, we don't
get a chance to get out a lot. But when
we do, I'm all about Italian food, like in Nashville
or something like they were getting out to the hot
spot to go catch whatever I can catch.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
There are too so many great restaurants.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
It's like I feel like it's a test market for
the different types of genres of foods out there.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Cuisine.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
What do you like when like on the town, whether
it's on Broadway, away from Broadway in a different city,
where's your kind of like dining spots at You know, there's.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Two pizza spots on the West Side. I'm over on
the West Side and one of them is called Nikki's
Coal Fire and it has some of the best coal
file fire pizza. And then there's another one called Midnight
Oil that's in the near the Nations. Those are kind
of my two.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
I love.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I love those spots. Those are They've got good food.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Never adult change in Nashville when it comes to finding something.
I f that one in Germantown called three one two Pizza.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It was like, oh yeah, that's the Chicago spot.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Another one of those you would know because that's a
that's a good yea.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I'll tell you. It wasn't much for deep dash. When
I put like I said, tasted that, I went back
for seconds. He goes, you're gonna have at least two slices.
I'm like, nah, I want to be enough. Hey two
slices and it was pepperoni and it was a pretty.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Damn good night. Oh yeah too, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Hobbies away from music when not doing music, whether it's shopping,
hanging out with friends, playing a sport, playing another instrument
or whatever, hanging out with family.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
What do you like to do well, I don't know
if you can hear. I've got a dog barking in
the other room, and him and I go on a
lot of hikes. He gets me out of the house,
for sure. I also I really like reading. I like
I like gardening in the summer. I'm a big craft nerd.
I love I actually for my shows, I make guitar
string jewelry. I make used guitar string jewelry, and I
(38:34):
saw them at March my March Table on the show
on the Road. So I don't know. Just yeah, getting
creative in a lot of different ways is kind of
my jam.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Like that's a good jam to have to no doubt
about it. Let's talk a little bit about this one.
If you were not a working musician, what other career
path might you have followed.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, I don't know if it counts because it's still
music related, but I so my masters is in music therapy,
and so for a while, actually, before I really dove
headfirst into music full time, I was a music therapist
in Kansas City on a pediatric unit, and so I
(39:14):
probably would still be doing that and actually I still
do similar. I'm not an active therapist, but I do
a lot of songwriting with veterans. Still, I do still
like some music therapy adjacent things.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Well, it's a great story too, and I wish you
the best of luck continued in this competition as the
episodes unfold over the next few weeks and hopefully get
to the lives and singing in front of America all
those live shows, not just what we've heard so far,
which is fantastic. I love it out there too, and
the current single season's change, and I know there's more
coming up, regardless of whatever happens on this competition, and
(39:51):
of course going into twenty twenty six, and there's probably
a lot of unfinished business and a lot more music
you're ready to release too.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, Oh yeah, I'm actually literally was just tracking some
Christmas vocals before the end of the year. I'm going
to be dropping a Christmas single, so people can look
out for that.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I like that. And is there a website out there
they can go to just to get more information besides
your other socials? What's that website?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes, sir, it's Lauren Anderson music dot Com.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You heard it right there from her Hey, we appreciate
the time here on the program. Hope you enjoyed the chat.
Lauren Anderson, check her out across all the social media
and all the great music out there for DSP for
digital streaming. Come back anytime, my friend. Best of luck
in the competition. Looking forward to many more highlights too.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Thank you so much for having me a good talking
with you.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Got it, Lauren Anderson here on the backstage pass. Of course,
more great shows coming up ky B in ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends
THWN dot org empowered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
I love zombie movies and i'd say if you're on television,
time to watch some of those tonight too as well,
especially I watched a bunch for Halloween, so definitely that's
(40:56):
the best time to catch them too, and of course
on streaming networks out there.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Talk to you guys soon, God bless take care. We'll
see you soon.
Speaker 16 (41:03):
Hey, y'all, this is recording artists Kelsey Maine and you
are listening to the Grand Slam of Music, Sports and Entertainment.
It's the award nominated Backstage Past Podcast with Brandon Morrell
on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay area broadcasting network.
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