April 16, 2025 • 42 mins
Rising country star Levi Foster joined us on the show to chat about his new single and talk about his new album coming out in the Fall of 2025! Tune in to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey y'all, this is Levi Foster and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine and on KYBN ninety eight point one.
You can also stream the show on Tarhelworldnetwork dot org
and KISW Country.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Back after a nice
breakdown to Cabo in Mexico, down there too for my
sister's wedding, and all was great down there too with
the festivities a little bit of jet lag, but you
know what, we're here back for another week of shows.
Here KISW Country, Tarhelworldnetwork dot org and our friends out
there to KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, KYB
(00:40):
in ninety eight point one. iHeartRadio two out there, and
of course out there at the backstage Pass powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com. Always some new talent
walking through the door. I feel like a Vegas show
sometimes with a residency here on the show there too.
The curtain opens, and please welcome in Levi Foster. Here
a new single called She's en Richmond, the first angle
off this album coming out too, called We've Made Fire.
(01:03):
What's going on? My friend?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hey, Bud, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Ah good? You know, telling people their little R and
R man down in Cabos. Somebody had to do the
hard work.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Right, that's right. Yeah, feel bad for you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, so bad to you. And we have to swim,
I'll tell you this, man. It was fun to kind
of swim and the Sea of Cortes down there, and hey, man,
all those great great countrymen down there, they work so
hard and they value the American dollars so much down there.
I love the Mexican culture so much because I got
to see a different side of something down there too,
from water taxis to people taking you on tours, all
(01:35):
the different things down there. Man, to see how Mexico
what makes it tick. And it is a fine country,
I gotta say that. So that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Take me with you next time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I know a lot of country artists go down there
for like all these or at least in Mexico parts
of it, country cruises and stuff like that that I've
seen in the pastor at least read on the social
media out there too. But it's always fun to be
down there too. And like I said, water was crystal
clear on the Pacific. I got the fish and just
have a good time. Man has a rooftop wedding. My
sister got married, so they got married on the beach
and then we got to go up to the rooftop
(02:06):
see the entire skylight of Cabo and it was just
the marina and yeah, it was lit up at night. Man.
Pretty cool. That's awesome. And we talked about this single
before we get to play here on the audio side
for those affiliates. But hey, tell me what made you
tick when it came down to country music and just
that love of the business and artists that you were
inspired by and kind of when you're like, you know what,
(02:28):
I'm gonna take this, you know from maybe some people
say it starts out as a hobby but then it
goes full time. Just that musical influence in that background
for you. Talk about that for me?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I grew up in Virginia and my dad would
play all this old country growing up, so I was
just kind of around you know, Marty Robbins and Merle Haggard,
guys like that. So I've always been had a deep
love for country music. And you know, I got my
first guitar when I was like thirteen and fourteen, and
you know, like myself in the room, try to learn
(02:58):
all these old songs. And then I started writing my
own and stuff and playing little clubs and stuff around
Virginia and moved to Nashville a couple of years ago,
and uh wanted wanted to write songs for a living,
and you know, been been working at deb you know
that's I think you'll do that till you die, if
you if you start that. So yeah, just it never
was a question to me, you know, asking myself should
(03:20):
I be doing this? You know, I just was just
doing it, never stopped to think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, and just do it. That's kind of thing. Put
it in motion and kind of see where it goes.
To talk about that first publishing deal that was a
pant Or Music and middle Ground Music. Correct on that
too at the same time. Talk about that and just
how exciting that was to take that story you mentioned
in Virginia to the great city of Nashville, the home
of country music, no doubt when it comes down to it,
for all the great artists that have done their thing,
(03:45):
but that first publishing deal and kind of what you've
you know, learned from that too as you continued to
perfect your craft and Solwrighting. Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So so once I first got to town, I only
had one connection that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'd never met before.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But he was actually from the same town in Virginia
that I grew up in and our families knew each other.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So I got his number.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I reached out to him, and he was a
staff writer at Banner Music with published company here in town.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So he kind of took me under his wing. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We made fast friends and connected on you know, where
we were from, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We just started writing music together.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And within like a year, you know that, the people
at Banner introduced me to Middle Ground and they did
a joint venture deal and wanted to sign me as
a staff writer there, and I wanted to to help
me with my artist thing too, and helped me release
music and record it. So it's it's been a it's
been a great experience, man, And you know, just just
waking up every day and like, dang, I get to
(04:39):
write a song today, you know, like it's that that's
your job, and that's you know, that's still hard for
me to believe some mornings, you know, when I wake up.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But yeah, I want to talk about the single, and
of course the album coming up here in a little bit.
But I want to talk about just working with h
just a collection of just great people for this record
called We Made Fire coming up a little. Ken Komer
was involved with this too, it's at the same time
and a three time Grammy nominated drummer too producer. Talk
about this and just working with a great team because
(05:10):
as people know, it's not just a single. You're working
on an entire project of songs to come out, and
you're putting together a whole body of works of trying
to choose the songs, get the right producer and the
right team behind you. It kind of shds some bly
on that for me.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, So I was you know, I knew I was
going to do a record at some point. This was
before you know I. We reached out to Ken and
we had kind of compiled a bunch of songs that
were potential to record and getting with him, you know,
he has such a creative mind as a producer. You know,
he's worked with so many independent artists, you know, even
in the country Van but you know, Indie Brock, things
(05:44):
like that. So we kind of blended a lot of
different elements that are in an alternative scene into this
Country record. I think that you know, he was staring
me in ways that I wouldn't have thought to go to,
and we kind of had a strong semblance of trust
that would would keep us on track.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He'd always say as we were recording, He's like, you
scared yet, Like are you scared that this is not
sounded like what you wanted to?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And I said, I said no. He said, well, that's
not good. You need to be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So he's always trying to push me out, you know,
outside the box on things, and I appreciated him, you know,
staying on me and want me to do stuff that
might have not been you know, too keen on. But
you know, at the end, I was like, man, this
is great. So it was just such a pleasure to
work with him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know what's great out there is this ever changing
business and I've never seen I guess back to the
nineties country when I started like DJing for different stations.
It's time, you know, And I'm celebrating thirty years in
the business going on here in the fall of twenty
twenty five, and I start thinking back, like, man, from
all the people that have you know, taken part in
this industry too. From the firepower right now. Talk about
just what you've seen between the ladies, all the guys
(06:49):
in this right now and the firepower of country music
that I haven't seen really since nineties country, which I.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Grew up on, right I think, you know, country music
is so active now. You know, there's so many different
genres that are coming into it, which I think is
a good thing. You know, people have different opinions on that,
but I think that bringing into light, you know, the
whole genre of country and getting back to kind of
the roots of country in a sense of you know,
(07:15):
this genuine songs is it's real life stories that people
are relating to. I think that is coming more in
the forefront, and you know, I'm excited the way the
direction the country is going. I mean, it's good for me,
good for everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know, it's becoming more of the norm now in
the industry with collaborations and things like that that are
going on with the industry right now. To talk a
little bit about how important you see collaborations in the
industry and how important that is to you know, crossover
right now, because you see it with a Maraicana country,
you see a little bit of R and B, a
little bit of hip hop, things like this, and collaborations
are becoming just that more of the norm in the
(07:50):
country music industry is kind of variety of spice of life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, you know, i'd say it's it's not necessarily a
new thing that's happening in country, you know, with with collaborations,
there's always been you know, genre crossing and collaborations within genres.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But I think that yeah, bringing bringing.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
An audience that necessarily wouldn't wouldn't be used to hearing country,
bringing them into that world, you know, is opening up
a whole musical door for them that you know, they
can discover all this genre genre that goes back decades.
So I think that it's great for country music as
a whole. I think that especially with the duets now,
the duets are happening a bunch, and I think that
you know, male and female and even you know that
(08:30):
you have some rappers coming in, which I think is interesting.
You know, I mean, I'm knocking to down the hill
of it needs to have steel and fiddle in it
to be country, because I think country as a whole
is just it's just genuine music. You know, if it's
if it invokes some type of real emotion in somebody,
I think that's country music.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I agree with that too at the same time, and
that's where you get a such a broad version of
people that are coming in fans of all of all kinds.
When you look back at it and you start to
and I see it there too, because like you have
people that are willing to fly seventeen hours from Australia
who love country music for CMA Fest. They'll come down there,
and you get several offseas that perform on those glamorous
(09:08):
stages out there too, not just Nissan the major, major
major stages out there, but also Doctor Pepper stage, Chevy
Vibe Stage, all this. And we did the first CMA
show last year and I was amazing on the flight
up to Nashville and going, y'all flew how many hours
to come from down Under? And it's like, man, this
is a cool thing because it's it's become global now
country music. And I think that's what I'm saying, that
(09:29):
variety is what's attracting so many fans because not necessarily
does it have to have that. You mentioned that pedal
still in fiddle to be successful.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know, well, yeah, which I love pedals. I love
all the traditional sound and country stuff. And I think
that I mean even throughout the history of country, you know,
all the old old stuff that we think is old
now was breaking the barriers back then, you know. So,
I mean it's it's it's just a cyclical thing. I mean,
there's there's so many, so many styles of country that
(09:57):
will will ebb and flow throughout the decade. I think that,
you know, just touching on on on any style of
country is is good in my book, because I mean,
as long as you're you're making genuine, honest music, that's
you know, that's that's what I subscribe to.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You. Well, you've done a great thing too, And I
always love country music Americana singers that give back. And
we're gonna play this great song here. It's called Walter.
It's by Levi Foster. Here the backstage past KYB in
ninety eight point one, and of course their friends out
there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, Tar Hill
World Network dot Org out there friends there and ki
(10:34):
s W Country, iHeartRadio empowered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot com. It's called Walter coming back after this performance
lead by Foster. Here it is the backstage pass, stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Rain is beaten on bedroom wind and I reach for
them over rong.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I bet the work day is gone. The things a little,
but I grabbed my boots. It down the hall. The
coffee is made and I take Monday's mad case, walk.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Out the scream door to the drive. Climb in the
truck cab. But the keys and missing, I reckon. I
let them back inside.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Couldn't find him in the kitchen, so why chick find them?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Are sitting on at night's time, Crossing.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Over that said, hello, good morning, everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
This is you leave and I be there that mind
since you quit working. Here's a list of things to do.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Coffee is in the kitchen, hond and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
By that time, I heard a knocked out the door.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I said over, watched my surprise, and walked to warm
and night I have never seen before much he had warm,
smiling fam there. I walked up to her and say,
(12:57):
can I help you now?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Then she softly said to me, while holding both my names.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Hello, good morn, and everything is fine. My name is Julie.
Sometimes it's spits your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I'm your daughter.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You might be confused, but your name is Walter and
I love you.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's her eyes as well.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
She loves me, and I asked her, why can i'm
man you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You have a spitten name age of my sweet dog
and wife.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And you'll see when Sigi gets home soon. And Julie said,
Mama's not coming home, Daddy, she's passed on. We buried
her a year ago at the Pentecostal church. But how
(14:21):
about we go for a drive. It won't take too long.
Or get some flowers and I'll go take you to
see her. I get out of car and Judy helps me.
Fine the great as it all comes back to me,
(14:42):
I leave down and say good morning, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Everything's all right.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I've been a little forgetful lately, but I still know
you mine, and.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You should see our daughter.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
See.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It reminds me a lot of you.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
This is Walter and I will always love you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
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Speaker 2 (16:14):
Back your lead by Foster on the backstage pass here.
Get all our affiliates out through. Appreciate the work you
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True Country ninety nine point nine. I'm gonna get to
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the song with you because I thought it was heartfelt
when I first heard this, and I think it struck
a nerve with me. But you've teamed up with Alzheimer's
Association to raise money for the Longest Day. That's pretty
a free special benefit show there that occurred to Nashville too,
and you're giving back and this song really touches a
lot of hearts the song Walter shed some light on
(16:55):
that for the listeners.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I had this idea, Yeah, because I had played a
lot of music back in Virginia before I moved to
Nashville at nursing homes and memory care centers, and uh
it was kind of my job just to just to
play music and it was almost a therapy for the
for the residents there, so they could they might not know,
you know, what their name is or you know who
their who their family's names are, but they'll remember words
(17:21):
to these old gospel songs. And that was a really
you know, humbling experience for me, just to experience that
and then just put your life into perspective about you know,
how fragile it can be. I think that, Uh well,
initially when I when I brought it into the room
to write it. The co writers. I wrote it with
Sabria Stewart and court Taylor. They both had grandparents that
(17:44):
that had Alzheimer's and unfortunately passed from them from Alzheimer's
and uh so we pulled in a lot of personal
experience from them and uh, you know, personal experience for me.
And I think that we just wanted to tell a
story from the perspective of the person with Alzheimer's and
how you know, how fleeting memories can be and how
(18:05):
how how it can play tricks on your mind. And
I think that it doesn't only affect the person, affects
the families and the caregivers.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's just such a nasty disease.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And you know, very very grateful got to team up
with the Alzheimer's Association here in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They've been great to work with.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We end up raising over three thousand dollars for them,
which I'm very proud to say, and a lot of
people in the community came out and showed their support
and that I think it's a it's a good cause.
It's it's something that needs to be talked about year round, obviously,
but it's it's something that's affecting people younger and younger now.
So I think the more people know about it, the
more that we can reach out to the communities, and
(18:45):
the more we can raise money for research and things
like that, I think the better. And hopefully this song
can help somebody that hears it, that's going through this
situation to know that they're not alone in that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So no, it's great you're giving back to and you
great you had that benefit to And it's always the Yeah,
those type of songs, they really touch people in country
music out there and just music of all genre that
really can speak to the heart because we all know
someone who has really fought My grandma too at the
same time had fault Alzheimer's at the same time, looking
back at it too, just tough to see or go
through that, or dementia or things that are just different
(19:19):
things that are out there really affect people mentally, physically, emotionally.
And that committee for this song, great song, thank you,
and Walter loved this one too. I want to go
back to your EPs. You've done a couple of EPs
in your career too, one title actually Levi Foster, which
was twenty twenty four, and of course looking back at
it to love this talk about just you know, coming
together and how important it is to choose the right
(19:41):
songs for an EP or a record. And you've got
the debut album coming out, We've made Fire coming out
the fall of this year.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh, huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So so that was the first recordings I did here
in Nashville, the first chords i'd put out as an artist, and.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They gave me a lot of you know, a lot
of creat I mean all the creative freedom to basically
record what I want, but you know, I used their
opinions on things. But I wanted to to put out
songs that kind of represented me and you know, just
where I came from and everything. So there's a song
called bright Leaf, which is you know, takes place during
the Civil War. You know, I'm coming from Virginia that
(20:16):
steeped in a lot of Civil War history there. So
that's another story song things.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Like that that I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know, I had that bluegrass element that I wanted
to put in there. I just wanted to have that
Appalachian sound kind of used with the country, and I
think we we pulled it off for the first t
fe there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, I gotta ask you about one off there too,
just really has a cool title.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Uh, I love saying that's Actwards.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did I say that right?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah? Have you ever heard that saying before?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, we have, because big from the country down here
to a little bit of redneck at the same time.
But I grew up on forty acres of land down
here in Texas near Houston, where I'm from. And yeah,
fast backwards. I heard say talk about your origin behind
this song and the idea. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've just always heard that term
so much, and I've always thought like, if I was
going to ever make a bluegrass group, I'd call it
grass backwards.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And then.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
But anyways, I you know, just heard that saying growing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Up and took it to a room one day and
I had like the first verse or something, and then
I don't know if maybe nobody else had any better ideas,
so we just we just wrote that one.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But I love it. It's a fun song. I mean it's,
you know, kind of kind of a simple thing, but
I love it. It's it's got a good beat to it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I no doubt it has a great feel to it.
Saw meil Man for I played the latest single here
diving a little bit of saw meal Man. I love
this one too. This was August of twenty twenty four,
and I had to be a fun project.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Right, Yes, that was great.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Actually teamed up with a guy here in Tennessee He's
got a meal called Hill's Mill, and uh, he let
me run his saw mill.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And the inspiration behind that song was just we were we.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Were listening to I've been working on the railroad all
the live long day. We were just that one just
came out of thin air. We weren't, you know, really
pulling too much off of experience. But I've had so
many people reach out to me that man I've been
I've been working in a saw mill for all my life,
you know, my granddaddy started and everything. And He's like,
I could tell you were a saw mill man too
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when you sing that song.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And I'd be like, well, I'm not really just doing
the work on that that guy's meal down here in Tennessee.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So if this whole songwriting thing don't work out, I'm
going to work at the saw mill for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I think the songwriting thing is gonna be okay, no
doubt about it. I think you've got a great bright
future in that too. Ever, since that first publishing deal, uh,
we had talked about building on that second EP, which
was October of last year. Looking at this one south
of Boulder, gott to ask you about song I Can't
Make You always the songs to me, not just the
titles and kind of where they come from, the stories
behind them too, but picking the right song to set
(23:07):
the tone for the rest of an EP that kind
of fits you perfect in my mind.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, for that EP, you know, I wanted to make
an acoustic kind of singer songwriter thing a little more,
you know, metaphorical lyrics, nothing too straight to the point
on things. South of Older was, you know, a story
about going back home and you know, coming back and
your your parent has has Alzheimer's or dementias was another
(23:34):
one of those things, and just trying to get back
before it's too late, you know. And I think a
lot of people can relate to that, especially they are
far away from their home, you know, working or doing whatever.
But yeah, I Can't Make You Thats a song I
wrote pretty soon when I came into town, and I
had that in my back pocket, and I was trying
(23:55):
to compile this acoustic EP kind of around South of
Boulder after I mean as Mine wrote that song and
decided to do a cover Chris Christofferson cover on that
record too. So I'm proud of that acoustic EP. I
think I think it turned out great.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I do too, no doubt about it too. That's
why we're definitely bringing it up here on the show
and highlighting a little bit of everything here across the
different category of the music out there, of the songs,
your catalog that you've released out there. Of course more information.
Give him a follow on social media out there. To
Levi Foster too, we're gonna play the latest single out
there across all the DSPs.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I was in Cabo and I got to hear it
there and it was just released on April eleventh. If
you guys are gonna go get it now across all
those digital streaming platforms. She's enrichment. She's not in Cabo.
She's in richment. Here is kyb in ninety eight point
one and her friends A KKTC, True Country ninety nine
point nine out there in Tallas, New Mexico, KISW Country
and thhw N dot Org. Back in the flash, Levi Foster,
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the backstage past, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Pull out of Dynastree, did I straight to Barman?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I am a monna.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Set that stage on fire and do my thing, burning
it up in all the rections out here, trying to
get some traction, make a whole lot of money for
a little old diamond ring. Oh, I tell you, wasn't man. Well,
(25:22):
I'm holding her hand. It's better than being a rich man.
Got the rocky mountain high. I did a three night
stretch on course of time, just trying to find that high.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Alway back to her.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I'm a down lady, a right back to that level stain.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I'm gonna take that rock and make that girl my world.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I tell you, wasn't.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Man when I'm holding her hand, better.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Than being rich mind. But season rich my.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Living her life, She's gonna make a good wife. There's
a lucky man some day.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I know it's git. It ain't no mans, but it
can get her dancing on the rain of days.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Ain life for bitch man, because I'm in love.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Season rich, I tell you what my when I'm holding
(27:02):
her hand spreader than.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Being a rich mind.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
On season Richma.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Living her life, She's gonna make a good wife. There's
a lucket mane someday, I know this gets tired. It
ain't no minds, but it can get her dancing on a.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Rainy day or season Richmas.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Living whole life.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
She gonna make a good wife.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
There's a lucket nice someday.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I know this gets tired.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
It ain't no.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Mansion, but it can get her dancer on the rainy day.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
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Speaker 2 (29:06):
All Right, if anybody ever had bought a ring for
their sweetheart, this is the song where you'd want to
do it. She's in Richmond. Leave I Foster back here
in the Backstage Past. I got that from the first
few verses when you started singing it too, because I
can always try to dive into the meaning of a song,
and I'm like, you know, I'll talk to my wife
or other people about it for you know, artists to
have here coming on the show. But I'm like, man,
I want to get to the nuts and bolts of like,
(29:27):
really what this is saying. I hope I hit that
on the nail of the head when it came to
buying a ring for your sweetheart, because this had like
a long distance relationship feel to it.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You know, when I first moved to town, I started
writing that song in my van because I was living
in my van at that point, and you know, I
was kind of missing home, you know, and I had
some friends in Richmond. I don't have a sweetheart in Richmond,
but I had some friends in Richmond. And then anyways,
just that she's in love or I'm in love and
she's in Richmond kind of just stuck with me.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So ended up writing that that was some friends.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And yeah, it was some personal some personal ties to it,
just because you know, I was kind of missing home
at that point, and you know, wanted to write something
about Virginia when I first moved to town because I
don't know, I didn't know if I was gonna make
it or not, just being in the van, but it
wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You know, it was summertime, so.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The feeling I got to a little summertime field long
distance relationship to at the same time, and like I said,
buying that ring for your sweetheart too, and trying to
basically get that feeling down of you know what, we
shouldn't be long distance anymore. This was just a really
cool feel too. I love that one. She's in Richmond.
I hope you guys enjoyed that one here on our
affiliates out there, all right. So diving into this Fall
(30:44):
twenty twenty five, the whole body of work comes out
as this was the first single released off the one
new album full record We Made Fire. I know you
guys to make Fire, no doubt about it. You're excited
about this record and the full length the body of
work to come out. Are you doing singles off of
it leading up to the Well, yeah, we're just going
to have the full release coming up soon.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, we'll be putting another single out which is a
duet and that'll be out on May thirtieth. It's a
duet with Gloria Anderson. She's here in Nashville, but she's
a Texas artist too. That's that's real traditional country sound
and try to capture a little bit of George Jones taman.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Wynette vibe with that one.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Then we'll have another single six weeks after that, and
then the full week full length album six weeks after that.
And I'm looking forward to it for sure because it's
it's something I'm real proud of and hopefully people will like.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It, love the sound there too. Hey, what's it been
like for you as your rise to the industry. We
talked about a lot of songwriting too, but performing on stage.
How exciting that is to to play in front of
an audience too. But I mean the list for you,
Ashley McBride, Tray Sadkins, the list goes on and on,
John Conley, Vince gild Pam Tillis, some of those great,
great artists have been here right here on this very show,
looking back at it, but getting a chance to open
(31:54):
or support those type of artists. Talk about what that
means to you a little bit as you step on
stage and grow your own care.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh yeah, I mean it's a blessing just to play
in front of anybody. I'll play in a Croker parking lot. Man,
it don't matter to me. It's just it's so fun
to play. I've been doing it since, you know, since
I was a young teenager, and it's you know, there's
no high like a natural high when you know when
you're on stage and you're just doing your thing. That's
that's that's the best place to be in my book.
(32:21):
It's it's been such a great experience. Last year I
did a run with Oliver Anthony and those are some
big shows, probably the biggest shows I've ever done, probably
like ten thousand people, and that was just nothing but
excitement in those days. So I mean, yeah, I mean
it's nothing like it. That's it's a blessing anytime I
(32:42):
can get to play.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's the beauty of it. Get that in front of
your audience. And I love it too because a different
independent artists that I've supported before, just any artists for
that matter. I love the fact that you can actually
go to the show, take it all in, and then
at the end of that somebody's always there standing by
the merchant booth. They're like sign this, do this, and
you're making new fans or T shirts or caps or whatever,
and it could be headline act, could be the opening
act too, and somebody's always discovering new talent. It just
(33:07):
has a very good feel to it. I'm sure you
do the same thing, like stick around after your shows
and interact with your audience and get to know people.
That has to be pretty cool forming relationships, right.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh yeah, that's some of the best friends I've made
have been in situations like that, And I think that
that's the beauty of playing live. You get to meet
people that are like minded or people that appreciate what
you're doing, and that makes you feel good for sure,
makes you feel.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Like you're doing something special.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And I still talk to people that I've met through
situations like that, and in no other way would you've
met those people other than music or performing music.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So that's a blessing in itself.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And sure as Jon, of course, we made Fire coming
out the fall of twenty twenty five, and that she's
in Richmond the current single across all the DSPs. Now,
all right, let's have a little fun with this as
we wrap it up to because you know, we definitely
got to have you back on when the album gets
closer to release. Now, if there are all those sports
conversation in it because I know you being for Virginia,
is it Calves all the way? And I say Calves
(34:05):
short of Cavaliers coming down to a football but uh,
the NFL Pro who are some of the teams you
root for?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I would say Tech Virginia Tech over Cavaliers, Okies, yeah, okies, Yeah,
just because just because they're wilder.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
The people.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Uh you know, I've been to Charlottesville, have been to
the UVA campus is pretty campus, but I don't think
they have a good football team.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
On the way back up trying to resurrect that football program.
I go back and you said that name, and I
started thinking about that too when you said Hokey's in
Virginia Tech rank Beamer one of the all time greatest
coaches in college football?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And the uh what's that Metallica song that they always
run out to your master puppets or yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Man, man understand man, that's right. I think they get
that for a second. Pro teams. What do you get
into being I guess Virginia there, Nashville Titans fan? What
do you get into proteins? Football, baseball or basketball? Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, I mean I'm not a huge pro football fan.
I like college more than the pro but I would say, yeah,
I'm a roof for the Titans now now that I've
moved here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Can't go along with that, my friend, no doubt. Yeah,
Nashville's no shortage of restaurants. I think there's there's something
opening on every corner. Every time I go there for
a week or CRS that we just did over the
past six years, and I've been there participating in that
great event. Looking back at it, but this has got
to be a cool thing because it's like, whatever food
you want, I feel like it's a costco. There's something
(35:40):
on every corner. You just want to go get it.
Because there's so many new places opening in Nashville to eat.
Where do you like to to kind of hang out
and get drinks or get eats from? Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, I live over here in East Nashville, and there's
a sushi spot right next to me, and then there's
New York style pizza. And I'm terrible at the names.
I'm trying to remember what this.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I'm trying to plug these restaurants.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I just know where they're at.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Uh, there's a Bill's Sandwich Palace. Ain't there the other
day is pretty good. But yeah, like you said, you could.
You could go to a different restaurant every day of
the year and find something new and it's all good.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It really is all right for youh What toppings go
on the Levi Foster pizza. I gotta favorite flavor of
ice cream?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Okay, pizza, I'd say meat lovers, loaded up, loaded up
baby with whatever you got, and then like some ricotta
cheese something like that, Basil fresh, Basil.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
New York style for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Okay, some of that, Like sweets, do you get into
like I know for me, I need a lot of them,
but like the occasional cinnamon roll from a bakery, or
like the the muffin banana ut muffins, something like that. Sweets,
do you ever get into it?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, I'm I make my own bread, so I don't.
I try not to eat anybody else's breads. I'll make
biscuits and I made some banana bread not that long ago.
I'm a biscuits and gravy fool, though I leave that
every day.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Being from Texas, I was raised on that practically, those
biscuits and gravy. And of course if I had that too,
sausage had to be in the gravy itself to give
it the flavor.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Oh that's implied. Yeah, sausage gravy is is implied.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
There's no and we don't.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
We don't do that like red eye gravy or tomato
gravy or whatever. That's a Tennessee thing. But just straighting
sausage gravy. It ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Don't fix it all right. If you were not a
working musician, what other career path would you have chosen?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Uh, framing houses construction. That's what I was doing before
I moved here. My dad is a general contractor, and
I grew up framing houses doing that. I enjoyed it
because it was, you know, something different every day, you know,
however long far along you are in the process of
building the house. Yeah, I'm glad I learned those skills
or because you never know, I'll could crash and burn.
(38:04):
I pick up a hammer then and.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Then you go back to what he like, I said,
You'll be doing fine. There's been many more years ahead
of you in your career, but hey, good to have
those backup skills. I also have them too. At the
same I was like well, if this radio thing didn't
work out, I could fall back on this and whatever
this is. But I say, sometimes you know what it's there.
But I'm like, I don't even think about a playing pet.
It's like what comes naturally to you too? What did
you learn to play guitar? Did you teach yourself? Did
(38:29):
you watch videos? Talk to me about that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, so bluegrass was a big thing where I was
growing up and still is. And I grew up just
getting in with different bluegrass is like at festivals and stuff.
After the shows, people would just pick around campfires or
pick back at their RVs, and that's.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Where I learned.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
A lot of stuff was just from being thrown into
the mix of jam. But yeah, I never took lessons
or didn't really like watching videos. But yeah I would
hear and just try to pick out stuff if if
I if I couldn't figure it out, you know, then
i'd go to somebody who knew it and then we're like, hey,
(39:10):
you show me that.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I love that, and that's the beauty of it. Like
I said, playing pick and learning some chords. I got
my daughter into a piano lessons now and she started
out doing a little the Goodle a ley. You think
they call it goodle a ley where it had the
strings and everything to it. She goes, well, dadd in
my fingers, she's likely five years old now to my
fingers hurt fingersres I said, welcome to playing the guitar
out and it's not gonna get any better with piano.
We put you in that to learn a few things too,
(39:34):
and so far six eight months or something like that
into it. At the same time, she's learned a little
bit of piano skills keys, so she thought it was easier,
but it turned out it it's not.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah, well it was just like everything, you gotta practice it,
so it's not gonna come overnight.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
It's not no doubt about it. For you guys, being musicians,
there comes a lot of that patience had practiced before
you just you don't just hit the stage. There's a
lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to
make all this great stuff happen too. Well, I tell
you what your first showback, glad to have you here
on the podcast. Had a great time there in Cabo,
but it's going to be back in the suttle here
doing this again too, and more great things. She's in
(40:12):
Richmond across all the digital streaming platforms. The first single
off the debut album We Made Fire, coming out in
the fall of October twenty twenty five. Levi Foster here
at the backstage pass kyb in ninety eight point one
of our friends KKTC, True Country ninety nine point nine,
KISW Country and out there THCHWN dot org. My friend,
appreciate the time, the best of what going forward with
(40:33):
all the music it gets released and the album dropping
this fall. Appreciate you being with us and come back
anytime if you will.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Thank you so much for having me Brandon, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
You got it to Levi Foster out there, give him
a like across all social media, and of course I
always say, get some merch out there where you can
visit that artist's website and the artist's website I want
you to put out there for everybody so they will
grab some merch and hear more about the tour dates
coming up to What is that website, my.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Friend, It is www Levi Foster music dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
There it is, you heard it right here on the
backstage pass, and of course coming up more great talent
over the next few weeks. And don't forget about this
Kenny Wayne Sheppard coming by next week with the Grammy
winner Bobby Rush here on the program too as well,
collaborating on a brand new record. More about that on
our affiliates and of course our social media pages and
so many great shows we can't even talk about them
right now too, what's coming in over the next few weeks,
(41:23):
and our countdown is on too. Of course a week
coming up June fifth through eighth at the Music City
Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Will be on the lookout for
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more about them as we get closer to the event.
That'll wrap it up for this week. More great artists
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We'll see you soon. Take care, God bless Hey.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
It's Brandon.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
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Speaker 3 (42:01):
We're Lanco and you're listening to the Backstage Pass of
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in Tallas, New Mexico.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
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.
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the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine and on KYBN ninety eight point one.
You can also stream the show on Tarhelworldnetwork dot org
and KISW Country.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Back after a nice
breakdown to Cabo in Mexico, down there too for my
sister's wedding, and all was great down there too with
the festivities a little bit of jet lag, but you
know what, we're here back for another week of shows.
Here KISW Country, Tarhelworldnetwork dot org and our friends out
there to KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, KYB
(00:40):
in ninety eight point one. iHeartRadio two out there, and
of course out there at the backstage Pass powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com. Always some new talent
walking through the door. I feel like a Vegas show
sometimes with a residency here on the show there too.
The curtain opens, and please welcome in Levi Foster. Here
a new single called She's en Richmond, the first angle
off this album coming out too, called We've Made Fire.
(01:03):
What's going on? My friend?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hey, Bud, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Ah good? You know, telling people their little R and
R man down in Cabos. Somebody had to do the
hard work.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Right, that's right. Yeah, feel bad for you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, so bad to you. And we have to swim,
I'll tell you this, man. It was fun to kind
of swim and the Sea of Cortes down there, and hey, man,
all those great great countrymen down there, they work so
hard and they value the American dollars so much down there.
I love the Mexican culture so much because I got
to see a different side of something down there too,
from water taxis to people taking you on tours, all
(01:35):
the different things down there. Man, to see how Mexico
what makes it tick. And it is a fine country,
I gotta say that. So that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Take me with you next time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I know a lot of country artists go down there
for like all these or at least in Mexico parts
of it, country cruises and stuff like that that I've
seen in the pastor at least read on the social
media out there too. But it's always fun to be
down there too. And like I said, water was crystal
clear on the Pacific. I got the fish and just
have a good time. Man has a rooftop wedding. My
sister got married, so they got married on the beach
and then we got to go up to the rooftop
(02:06):
see the entire skylight of Cabo and it was just
the marina and yeah, it was lit up at night. Man.
Pretty cool. That's awesome. And we talked about this single
before we get to play here on the audio side
for those affiliates. But hey, tell me what made you
tick when it came down to country music and just
that love of the business and artists that you were
inspired by and kind of when you're like, you know what,
(02:28):
I'm gonna take this, you know from maybe some people
say it starts out as a hobby but then it
goes full time. Just that musical influence in that background
for you. Talk about that for me?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I grew up in Virginia and my dad would
play all this old country growing up, so I was
just kind of around you know, Marty Robbins and Merle Haggard,
guys like that. So I've always been had a deep
love for country music. And you know, I got my
first guitar when I was like thirteen and fourteen, and
you know, like myself in the room, try to learn
(02:58):
all these old songs. And then I started writing my
own and stuff and playing little clubs and stuff around
Virginia and moved to Nashville a couple of years ago,
and uh wanted wanted to write songs for a living,
and you know, been been working at deb you know
that's I think you'll do that till you die, if
you if you start that. So yeah, just it never
was a question to me, you know, asking myself should
(03:20):
I be doing this? You know, I just was just
doing it, never stopped to think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, and just do it. That's kind of thing. Put
it in motion and kind of see where it goes.
To talk about that first publishing deal that was a
pant Or Music and middle Ground Music. Correct on that
too at the same time. Talk about that and just
how exciting that was to take that story you mentioned
in Virginia to the great city of Nashville, the home
of country music, no doubt when it comes down to it,
for all the great artists that have done their thing,
(03:45):
but that first publishing deal and kind of what you've
you know, learned from that too as you continued to
perfect your craft and Solwrighting. Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So so once I first got to town, I only
had one connection that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'd never met before.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But he was actually from the same town in Virginia
that I grew up in and our families knew each other.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So I got his number.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I reached out to him, and he was a
staff writer at Banner Music with published company here in town.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So he kind of took me under his wing. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We made fast friends and connected on you know, where
we were from, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We just started writing music together.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And within like a year, you know that, the people
at Banner introduced me to Middle Ground and they did
a joint venture deal and wanted to sign me as
a staff writer there, and I wanted to to help
me with my artist thing too, and helped me release
music and record it. So it's it's been a it's
been a great experience, man, And you know, just just
waking up every day and like, dang, I get to
(04:39):
write a song today, you know, like it's that that's
your job, and that's you know, that's still hard for
me to believe some mornings, you know, when I wake up.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But yeah, I want to talk about the single, and
of course the album coming up here in a little bit.
But I want to talk about just working with h
just a collection of just great people for this record
called We Made Fire coming up a little. Ken Komer
was involved with this too, it's at the same time
and a three time Grammy nominated drummer too producer. Talk
about this and just working with a great team because
(05:10):
as people know, it's not just a single. You're working
on an entire project of songs to come out, and
you're putting together a whole body of works of trying
to choose the songs, get the right producer and the
right team behind you. It kind of shds some bly
on that for me.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, So I was you know, I knew I was
going to do a record at some point. This was
before you know I. We reached out to Ken and
we had kind of compiled a bunch of songs that
were potential to record and getting with him, you know,
he has such a creative mind as a producer. You know,
he's worked with so many independent artists, you know, even
in the country Van but you know, Indie Brock, things
(05:44):
like that. So we kind of blended a lot of
different elements that are in an alternative scene into this
Country record. I think that you know, he was staring
me in ways that I wouldn't have thought to go to,
and we kind of had a strong semblance of trust
that would would keep us on track.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He'd always say as we were recording, He's like, you
scared yet, Like are you scared that this is not
sounded like what you wanted to?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And I said, I said no. He said, well, that's
not good. You need to be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So he's always trying to push me out, you know,
outside the box on things, and I appreciated him, you know,
staying on me and want me to do stuff that
might have not been you know, too keen on. But
you know, at the end, I was like, man, this
is great. So it was just such a pleasure to
work with him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know what's great out there is this ever changing
business and I've never seen I guess back to the
nineties country when I started like DJing for different stations.
It's time, you know, And I'm celebrating thirty years in
the business going on here in the fall of twenty
twenty five, and I start thinking back, like, man, from
all the people that have you know, taken part in
this industry too. From the firepower right now. Talk about
just what you've seen between the ladies, all the guys
(06:49):
in this right now and the firepower of country music
that I haven't seen really since nineties country, which I.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Grew up on, right I think, you know, country music
is so active now. You know, there's so many different
genres that are coming into it, which I think is
a good thing. You know, people have different opinions on that,
but I think that bringing into light, you know, the
whole genre of country and getting back to kind of
the roots of country in a sense of you know,
(07:15):
this genuine songs is it's real life stories that people
are relating to. I think that is coming more in
the forefront, and you know, I'm excited the way the
direction the country is going. I mean, it's good for me,
good for everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know, it's becoming more of the norm now in
the industry with collaborations and things like that that are
going on with the industry right now. To talk a
little bit about how important you see collaborations in the
industry and how important that is to you know, crossover
right now, because you see it with a Maraicana country,
you see a little bit of R and B, a
little bit of hip hop, things like this, and collaborations
are becoming just that more of the norm in the
(07:50):
country music industry is kind of variety of spice of life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, you know, i'd say it's it's not necessarily a
new thing that's happening in country, you know, with with collaborations,
there's always been you know, genre crossing and collaborations within genres.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But I think that yeah, bringing bringing.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
An audience that necessarily wouldn't wouldn't be used to hearing country,
bringing them into that world, you know, is opening up
a whole musical door for them that you know, they
can discover all this genre genre that goes back decades.
So I think that it's great for country music as
a whole. I think that especially with the duets now,
the duets are happening a bunch, and I think that
you know, male and female and even you know that
(08:30):
you have some rappers coming in, which I think is interesting.
You know, I mean, I'm knocking to down the hill
of it needs to have steel and fiddle in it
to be country, because I think country as a whole
is just it's just genuine music. You know, if it's
if it invokes some type of real emotion in somebody,
I think that's country music.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I agree with that too at the same time, and
that's where you get a such a broad version of
people that are coming in fans of all of all kinds.
When you look back at it and you start to
and I see it there too, because like you have
people that are willing to fly seventeen hours from Australia
who love country music for CMA Fest. They'll come down there,
and you get several offseas that perform on those glamorous
(09:08):
stages out there too, not just Nissan the major, major
major stages out there, but also Doctor Pepper stage, Chevy
Vibe Stage, all this. And we did the first CMA
show last year and I was amazing on the flight
up to Nashville and going, y'all flew how many hours
to come from down Under? And it's like, man, this
is a cool thing because it's it's become global now
country music. And I think that's what I'm saying, that
(09:29):
variety is what's attracting so many fans because not necessarily
does it have to have that. You mentioned that pedal
still in fiddle to be successful.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know, well, yeah, which I love pedals. I love
all the traditional sound and country stuff. And I think
that I mean even throughout the history of country, you know,
all the old old stuff that we think is old
now was breaking the barriers back then, you know. So,
I mean it's it's it's just a cyclical thing. I mean,
there's there's so many, so many styles of country that
(09:57):
will will ebb and flow throughout the decade. I think that,
you know, just touching on on on any style of
country is is good in my book, because I mean,
as long as you're you're making genuine, honest music, that's
you know, that's that's what I subscribe to.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You. Well, you've done a great thing too, And I
always love country music Americana singers that give back. And
we're gonna play this great song here. It's called Walter.
It's by Levi Foster. Here the backstage past KYB in
ninety eight point one, and of course their friends out
there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, Tar Hill
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(10:34):
s W Country, iHeartRadio empowered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot com. It's called Walter coming back after this performance
lead by Foster. Here it is the backstage pass, stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Rain is beaten on bedroom wind and I reach for
them over rong.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I bet the work day is gone. The things a little,
but I grabbed my boots. It down the hall. The
coffee is made and I take Monday's mad case, walk.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Out the scream door to the drive. Climb in the
truck cab. But the keys and missing, I reckon. I
let them back inside.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Couldn't find him in the kitchen, so why chick find them?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Are sitting on at night's time, Crossing.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Over that said, hello, good morning, everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
This is you leave and I be there that mind
since you quit working. Here's a list of things to do.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Coffee is in the kitchen, hond and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
By that time, I heard a knocked out the door.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I said over, watched my surprise, and walked to warm
and night I have never seen before much he had warm,
smiling fam there. I walked up to her and say,
(12:57):
can I help you now?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Then she softly said to me, while holding both my names.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Hello, good morn, and everything is fine. My name is Julie.
Sometimes it's spits your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I'm your daughter.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You might be confused, but your name is Walter and
I love you.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's her eyes as well.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
She loves me, and I asked her, why can i'm
man you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You have a spitten name age of my sweet dog
and wife.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And you'll see when Sigi gets home soon. And Julie said,
Mama's not coming home, Daddy, she's passed on. We buried
her a year ago at the Pentecostal church. But how
(14:21):
about we go for a drive. It won't take too long.
Or get some flowers and I'll go take you to
see her. I get out of car and Judy helps me.
Fine the great as it all comes back to me,
(14:42):
I leave down and say good morning, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Everything's all right.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I've been a little forgetful lately, but I still know
you mine, and.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You should see our daughter.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
See.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It reminds me a lot of you.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
This is Walter and I will always love you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
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and you're listening to Brandon on the backstage Pass exclusively
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Speaker 4 (15:40):
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Speaker 8 (15:54):
Hey guys, this is Nashville recording artist City Bass and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstone Pass on KYBN
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Speaker 2 (16:14):
Back your lead by Foster on the backstage pass here.
Get all our affiliates out through. Appreciate the work you
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True Country ninety nine point nine. I'm gonna get to
(16:35):
the song with you because I thought it was heartfelt
when I first heard this, and I think it struck
a nerve with me. But you've teamed up with Alzheimer's
Association to raise money for the Longest Day. That's pretty
a free special benefit show there that occurred to Nashville too,
and you're giving back and this song really touches a
lot of hearts the song Walter shed some light on
(16:55):
that for the listeners.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I had this idea, Yeah, because I had played a
lot of music back in Virginia before I moved to
Nashville at nursing homes and memory care centers, and uh
it was kind of my job just to just to
play music and it was almost a therapy for the
for the residents there, so they could they might not know,
you know, what their name is or you know who
their who their family's names are, but they'll remember words
(17:21):
to these old gospel songs. And that was a really
you know, humbling experience for me, just to experience that
and then just put your life into perspective about you know,
how fragile it can be. I think that, Uh well,
initially when I when I brought it into the room
to write it. The co writers. I wrote it with
Sabria Stewart and court Taylor. They both had grandparents that
(17:44):
that had Alzheimer's and unfortunately passed from them from Alzheimer's
and uh so we pulled in a lot of personal
experience from them and uh, you know, personal experience for me.
And I think that we just wanted to tell a
story from the perspective of the person with Alzheimer's and
how you know, how fleeting memories can be and how
(18:05):
how how it can play tricks on your mind. And
I think that it doesn't only affect the person, affects
the families and the caregivers.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's just such a nasty disease.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And you know, very very grateful got to team up
with the Alzheimer's Association here in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They've been great to work with.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We end up raising over three thousand dollars for them,
which I'm very proud to say, and a lot of
people in the community came out and showed their support
and that I think it's a it's a good cause.
It's it's something that needs to be talked about year round, obviously,
but it's it's something that's affecting people younger and younger now.
So I think the more people know about it, the
more that we can reach out to the communities, and
(18:45):
the more we can raise money for research and things
like that, I think the better. And hopefully this song
can help somebody that hears it, that's going through this
situation to know that they're not alone in that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So no, it's great you're giving back to and you
great you had that benefit to And it's always the Yeah,
those type of songs, they really touch people in country
music out there and just music of all genre that
really can speak to the heart because we all know
someone who has really fought My grandma too at the
same time had fault Alzheimer's at the same time, looking
back at it too, just tough to see or go
through that, or dementia or things that are just different
(19:19):
things that are out there really affect people mentally, physically, emotionally.
And that committee for this song, great song, thank you,
and Walter loved this one too. I want to go
back to your EPs. You've done a couple of EPs
in your career too, one title actually Levi Foster, which
was twenty twenty four, and of course looking back at
it to love this talk about just you know, coming
together and how important it is to choose the right
(19:41):
songs for an EP or a record. And you've got
the debut album coming out, We've made Fire coming out
the fall of this year.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh, huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So so that was the first recordings I did here
in Nashville, the first chords i'd put out as an artist, and.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They gave me a lot of you know, a lot
of creat I mean all the creative freedom to basically
record what I want, but you know, I used their
opinions on things. But I wanted to to put out
songs that kind of represented me and you know, just
where I came from and everything. So there's a song
called bright Leaf, which is you know, takes place during
the Civil War. You know, I'm coming from Virginia that
(20:16):
steeped in a lot of Civil War history there. So
that's another story song things.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Like that that I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know, I had that bluegrass element that I wanted
to put in there. I just wanted to have that
Appalachian sound kind of used with the country, and I
think we we pulled it off for the first t
fe there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, I gotta ask you about one off there too,
just really has a cool title.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Uh, I love saying that's Actwards.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did I say that right?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah? Have you ever heard that saying before?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, we have, because big from the country down here
to a little bit of redneck at the same time.
But I grew up on forty acres of land down
here in Texas near Houston, where I'm from. And yeah,
fast backwards. I heard say talk about your origin behind
this song and the idea. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've just always heard that term
so much, and I've always thought like, if I was
going to ever make a bluegrass group, I'd call it
grass backwards.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And then.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
But anyways, I you know, just heard that saying growing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Up and took it to a room one day and
I had like the first verse or something, and then
I don't know if maybe nobody else had any better ideas,
so we just we just wrote that one.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But I love it. It's a fun song. I mean it's,
you know, kind of kind of a simple thing, but
I love it. It's it's got a good beat to it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I no doubt it has a great feel to it.
Saw meil Man for I played the latest single here
diving a little bit of saw meal Man. I love
this one too. This was August of twenty twenty four,
and I had to be a fun project.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Right, Yes, that was great.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Actually teamed up with a guy here in Tennessee He's
got a meal called Hill's Mill, and uh, he let
me run his saw mill.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And the inspiration behind that song was just we were we.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Were listening to I've been working on the railroad all
the live long day. We were just that one just
came out of thin air. We weren't, you know, really
pulling too much off of experience. But I've had so
many people reach out to me that man I've been
I've been working in a saw mill for all my life,
you know, my granddaddy started and everything. And He's like,
I could tell you were a saw mill man too
(22:31):
when you sing that song.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And I'd be like, well, I'm not really just doing
the work on that that guy's meal down here in Tennessee.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So if this whole songwriting thing don't work out, I'm
going to work at the saw mill for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I think the songwriting thing is gonna be okay, no
doubt about it. I think you've got a great bright
future in that too. Ever, since that first publishing deal, uh,
we had talked about building on that second EP, which
was October of last year. Looking at this one south
of Boulder, gott to ask you about song I Can't
Make You always the songs to me, not just the
titles and kind of where they come from, the stories
behind them too, but picking the right song to set
(23:07):
the tone for the rest of an EP that kind
of fits you perfect in my mind.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, for that EP, you know, I wanted to make
an acoustic kind of singer songwriter thing a little more,
you know, metaphorical lyrics, nothing too straight to the point
on things. South of Older was, you know, a story
about going back home and you know, coming back and
your your parent has has Alzheimer's or dementias was another
(23:34):
one of those things, and just trying to get back
before it's too late, you know. And I think a
lot of people can relate to that, especially they are
far away from their home, you know, working or doing whatever.
But yeah, I Can't Make You Thats a song I
wrote pretty soon when I came into town, and I
had that in my back pocket, and I was trying
(23:55):
to compile this acoustic EP kind of around South of
Boulder after I mean as Mine wrote that song and
decided to do a cover Chris Christofferson cover on that
record too. So I'm proud of that acoustic EP. I
think I think it turned out great.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I do too, no doubt about it too. That's
why we're definitely bringing it up here on the show
and highlighting a little bit of everything here across the
different category of the music out there, of the songs,
your catalog that you've released out there. Of course more information.
Give him a follow on social media out there. To
Levi Foster too, we're gonna play the latest single out
there across all the DSPs.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I was in Cabo and I got to hear it
there and it was just released on April eleventh. If
you guys are gonna go get it now across all
those digital streaming platforms. She's enrichment. She's not in Cabo.
She's in richment. Here is kyb in ninety eight point
one and her friends A KKTC, True Country ninety nine
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(24:50):
the backstage past, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Pull out of Dynastree, did I straight to Barman?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I am a monna.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Set that stage on fire and do my thing, burning
it up in all the rections out here, trying to
get some traction, make a whole lot of money for
a little old diamond ring. Oh, I tell you, wasn't man. Well,
(25:22):
I'm holding her hand. It's better than being a rich man.
Got the rocky mountain high. I did a three night
stretch on course of time, just trying to find that high.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Alway back to her.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I'm a down lady, a right back to that level stain.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I'm gonna take that rock and make that girl my world.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I tell you, wasn't.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Man when I'm holding her hand, better.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Than being rich mind. But season rich my.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Living her life, She's gonna make a good wife. There's
a lucky man some day.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I know it's git. It ain't no mans, but it
can get her dancing on the rain of days.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Ain life for bitch man, because I'm in love.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Season rich, I tell you what my when I'm holding
(27:02):
her hand spreader than.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Being a rich mind.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
On season Richma.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Living her life, She's gonna make a good wife. There's
a lucket mane someday, I know this gets tired. It
ain't no minds, but it can get her dancing on a.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Rainy day or season Richmas.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Living whole life.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
She gonna make a good wife.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
There's a lucket nice someday.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I know this gets tired.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
It ain't no.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Mansion, but it can get her dancer on the rainy day.
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Speaker 2 (29:06):
All Right, if anybody ever had bought a ring for
their sweetheart, this is the song where you'd want to
do it. She's in Richmond. Leave I Foster back here
in the Backstage Past. I got that from the first
few verses when you started singing it too, because I
can always try to dive into the meaning of a song,
and I'm like, you know, I'll talk to my wife
or other people about it for you know, artists to
have here coming on the show. But I'm like, man,
I want to get to the nuts and bolts of like,
(29:27):
really what this is saying. I hope I hit that
on the nail of the head when it came to
buying a ring for your sweetheart, because this had like
a long distance relationship feel to it.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You know, when I first moved to town, I started
writing that song in my van because I was living
in my van at that point, and you know, I
was kind of missing home, you know, and I had
some friends in Richmond. I don't have a sweetheart in Richmond,
but I had some friends in Richmond. And then anyways,
just that she's in love or I'm in love and
she's in Richmond kind of just stuck with me.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So ended up writing that that was some friends.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And yeah, it was some personal some personal ties to it,
just because you know, I was kind of missing home
at that point, and you know, wanted to write something
about Virginia when I first moved to town because I
don't know, I didn't know if I was gonna make
it or not, just being in the van, but it
wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You know, it was summertime, so.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The feeling I got to a little summertime field long
distance relationship to at the same time, and like I said,
buying that ring for your sweetheart too, and trying to
basically get that feeling down of you know what, we
shouldn't be long distance anymore. This was just a really
cool feel too. I love that one. She's in Richmond.
I hope you guys enjoyed that one here on our
affiliates out there, all right. So diving into this Fall
(30:44):
twenty twenty five, the whole body of work comes out
as this was the first single released off the one
new album full record We Made Fire. I know you
guys to make Fire, no doubt about it. You're excited
about this record and the full length the body of
work to come out. Are you doing singles off of
it leading up to the Well, yeah, we're just going
to have the full release coming up soon.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, we'll be putting another single out which is a
duet and that'll be out on May thirtieth. It's a
duet with Gloria Anderson. She's here in Nashville, but she's
a Texas artist too. That's that's real traditional country sound
and try to capture a little bit of George Jones taman.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Wynette vibe with that one.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Then we'll have another single six weeks after that, and
then the full week full length album six weeks after that.
And I'm looking forward to it for sure because it's
it's something I'm real proud of and hopefully people will like.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It, love the sound there too. Hey, what's it been
like for you as your rise to the industry. We
talked about a lot of songwriting too, but performing on stage.
How exciting that is to to play in front of
an audience too. But I mean the list for you,
Ashley McBride, Tray Sadkins, the list goes on and on,
John Conley, Vince gild Pam Tillis, some of those great,
great artists have been here right here on this very show,
looking back at it, but getting a chance to open
(31:54):
or support those type of artists. Talk about what that
means to you a little bit as you step on
stage and grow your own care.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh yeah, I mean it's a blessing just to play
in front of anybody. I'll play in a Croker parking lot. Man,
it don't matter to me. It's just it's so fun
to play. I've been doing it since, you know, since
I was a young teenager, and it's you know, there's
no high like a natural high when you know when
you're on stage and you're just doing your thing. That's
that's that's the best place to be in my book.
(32:21):
It's it's been such a great experience. Last year I
did a run with Oliver Anthony and those are some
big shows, probably the biggest shows I've ever done, probably
like ten thousand people, and that was just nothing but
excitement in those days. So I mean, yeah, I mean
it's nothing like it. That's it's a blessing anytime I
(32:42):
can get to play.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's the beauty of it. Get that in front of
your audience. And I love it too because a different
independent artists that I've supported before, just any artists for
that matter. I love the fact that you can actually
go to the show, take it all in, and then
at the end of that somebody's always there standing by
the merchant booth. They're like sign this, do this, and
you're making new fans or T shirts or caps or whatever,
and it could be headline act, could be the opening
act too, and somebody's always discovering new talent. It just
(33:07):
has a very good feel to it. I'm sure you
do the same thing, like stick around after your shows
and interact with your audience and get to know people.
That has to be pretty cool forming relationships, right.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh yeah, that's some of the best friends I've made
have been in situations like that, And I think that
that's the beauty of playing live. You get to meet
people that are like minded or people that appreciate what
you're doing, and that makes you feel good for sure,
makes you feel.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Like you're doing something special.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And I still talk to people that I've met through
situations like that, and in no other way would you've
met those people other than music or performing music.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So that's a blessing in itself.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And sure as Jon, of course, we made Fire coming
out the fall of twenty twenty five, and that she's
in Richmond the current single across all the DSPs. Now,
all right, let's have a little fun with this as
we wrap it up to because you know, we definitely
got to have you back on when the album gets
closer to release. Now, if there are all those sports
conversation in it because I know you being for Virginia,
is it Calves all the way? And I say Calves
(34:05):
short of Cavaliers coming down to a football but uh,
the NFL Pro who are some of the teams you
root for?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I would say Tech Virginia Tech over Cavaliers, Okies, yeah, okies, Yeah,
just because just because they're wilder.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
The people.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Uh you know, I've been to Charlottesville, have been to
the UVA campus is pretty campus, but I don't think
they have a good football team.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
On the way back up trying to resurrect that football program.
I go back and you said that name, and I
started thinking about that too when you said Hokey's in
Virginia Tech rank Beamer one of the all time greatest
coaches in college football?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And the uh what's that Metallica song that they always
run out to your master puppets or yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Man, man understand man, that's right. I think they get
that for a second. Pro teams. What do you get
into being I guess Virginia there, Nashville Titans fan? What
do you get into proteins? Football, baseball or basketball? Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, I mean I'm not a huge pro football fan.
I like college more than the pro but I would say, yeah,
I'm a roof for the Titans now now that I've
moved here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Can't go along with that, my friend, no doubt. Yeah,
Nashville's no shortage of restaurants. I think there's there's something
opening on every corner. Every time I go there for
a week or CRS that we just did over the
past six years, and I've been there participating in that
great event. Looking back at it, but this has got
to be a cool thing because it's like, whatever food
you want, I feel like it's a costco. There's something
(35:40):
on every corner. You just want to go get it.
Because there's so many new places opening in Nashville to eat.
Where do you like to to kind of hang out
and get drinks or get eats from? Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, I live over here in East Nashville, and there's
a sushi spot right next to me, and then there's
New York style pizza. And I'm terrible at the names.
I'm trying to remember what this.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I'm trying to plug these restaurants.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I just know where they're at.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Uh, there's a Bill's Sandwich Palace. Ain't there the other
day is pretty good. But yeah, like you said, you could.
You could go to a different restaurant every day of
the year and find something new and it's all good.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It really is all right for youh What toppings go
on the Levi Foster pizza. I gotta favorite flavor of
ice cream?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Okay, pizza, I'd say meat lovers, loaded up, loaded up
baby with whatever you got, and then like some ricotta
cheese something like that, Basil fresh, Basil.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
New York style for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Okay, some of that, Like sweets, do you get into
like I know for me, I need a lot of them,
but like the occasional cinnamon roll from a bakery, or
like the the muffin banana ut muffins, something like that. Sweets,
do you ever get into it?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, I'm I make my own bread, so I don't.
I try not to eat anybody else's breads. I'll make
biscuits and I made some banana bread not that long ago.
I'm a biscuits and gravy fool, though I leave that
every day.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Being from Texas, I was raised on that practically, those
biscuits and gravy. And of course if I had that too,
sausage had to be in the gravy itself to give
it the flavor.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Oh that's implied. Yeah, sausage gravy is is implied.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
There's no and we don't.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
We don't do that like red eye gravy or tomato
gravy or whatever. That's a Tennessee thing. But just straighting
sausage gravy. It ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Don't fix it all right. If you were not a
working musician, what other career path would you have chosen?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Uh, framing houses construction. That's what I was doing before
I moved here. My dad is a general contractor, and
I grew up framing houses doing that. I enjoyed it
because it was, you know, something different every day, you know,
however long far along you are in the process of
building the house. Yeah, I'm glad I learned those skills
or because you never know, I'll could crash and burn.
(38:04):
I pick up a hammer then and.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Then you go back to what he like, I said,
You'll be doing fine. There's been many more years ahead
of you in your career, but hey, good to have
those backup skills. I also have them too. At the
same I was like well, if this radio thing didn't
work out, I could fall back on this and whatever
this is. But I say, sometimes you know what it's there.
But I'm like, I don't even think about a playing pet.
It's like what comes naturally to you too? What did
you learn to play guitar? Did you teach yourself? Did
(38:29):
you watch videos? Talk to me about that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, so bluegrass was a big thing where I was
growing up and still is. And I grew up just
getting in with different bluegrass is like at festivals and stuff.
After the shows, people would just pick around campfires or
pick back at their RVs, and that's.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Where I learned.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
A lot of stuff was just from being thrown into
the mix of jam. But yeah, I never took lessons
or didn't really like watching videos. But yeah I would
hear and just try to pick out stuff if if
I if I couldn't figure it out, you know, then
i'd go to somebody who knew it and then we're like, hey,
(39:10):
you show me that.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I love that, and that's the beauty of it. Like
I said, playing pick and learning some chords. I got
my daughter into a piano lessons now and she started
out doing a little the Goodle a ley. You think
they call it goodle a ley where it had the
strings and everything to it. She goes, well, dadd in
my fingers, she's likely five years old now to my
fingers hurt fingersres I said, welcome to playing the guitar
out and it's not gonna get any better with piano.
We put you in that to learn a few things too,
(39:34):
and so far six eight months or something like that
into it. At the same time, she's learned a little
bit of piano skills keys, so she thought it was easier,
but it turned out it it's not.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah, well it was just like everything, you gotta practice it,
so it's not gonna come overnight.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
It's not no doubt about it. For you guys, being musicians,
there comes a lot of that patience had practiced before
you just you don't just hit the stage. There's a
lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to
make all this great stuff happen too. Well, I tell
you what your first showback, glad to have you here
on the podcast. Had a great time there in Cabo,
but it's going to be back in the suttle here
doing this again too, and more great things. She's in
(40:12):
Richmond across all the digital streaming platforms. The first single
off the debut album We Made Fire, coming out in
the fall of October twenty twenty five. Levi Foster here
at the backstage pass kyb in ninety eight point one
of our friends KKTC, True Country ninety nine point nine,
KISW Country and out there THCHWN dot org. My friend,
appreciate the time, the best of what going forward with
(40:33):
all the music it gets released and the album dropping
this fall. Appreciate you being with us and come back
anytime if you will.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Thank you so much for having me Brandon, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
You got it to Levi Foster out there, give him
a like across all social media, and of course I
always say, get some merch out there where you can
visit that artist's website and the artist's website I want
you to put out there for everybody so they will
grab some merch and hear more about the tour dates
coming up to What is that website, my.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Friend, It is www Levi Foster music dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
There it is, you heard it right here on the
backstage pass, and of course coming up more great talent
over the next few weeks. And don't forget about this
Kenny Wayne Sheppard coming by next week with the Grammy
winner Bobby Rush here on the program too as well,
collaborating on a brand new record. More about that on
our affiliates and of course our social media pages and
so many great shows we can't even talk about them
right now too, what's coming in over the next few weeks,
(41:23):
and our countdown is on too. Of course a week
coming up June fifth through eighth at the Music City
Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Will be on the lookout for
you tuning in across all the affiliates out there too,
and our sponsors making it happen out there. We'll talk
more about them as we get closer to the event.
That'll wrap it up for this week. More great artists
coming up and more great music on your affiliates out
there too, KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine, KYBN
(41:46):
ninety eight point one, and KISW Country along our friends
at the Sports Guys podcast dot com and THWN dot org.
We'll see you soon. Take care, God bless Hey.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
It's Brandon.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Hey, y'all, this is Timer and this is Trip.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
We're Lanco and you're listening to the Backstage Pass of
Brandon exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Tallas, New Mexico.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
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.
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