December 9, 2024 • 35 mins
MORIAH is a Mexican-Amercian Recording Artist and she stopped by the show to talk about her background in music and some of the artists that insprired her growing up and we got to chat about her new Christmas single, Winter Wonderland! Tune in to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ola. This is Latin country artist Mariah and you are
listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass, always powered by the Sports.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Guys Podcast dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Brandon Murrel here exclusively KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine and of course presented by our friends out
there at the Cadenbordonshow dot com Today's best Country mix
and always a brand new week. Just what a couple
of weeks out now from Christmas and the holidays, A
lot of shopping, a lot of pictures, and a lot
of great family time going on. And she's one of
my favorites out there too. Latino country artist out there.
(00:40):
Mariah joins us here on the backstage Pass. Maria, how
you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm so good. I'm so good. I wish that people
could see, not just hear, all about the Santa Christmas
pictures that you just took with your daughter.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
They can't see it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'll have to make some posts of that too with Sanna,
And like I said, those action shots that they took
with their reading like the Nightmare before Christmas. I'll put
some on the Facebook page to get the audience kind
of more engaged to but they're always always great pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, I want to know your backstory, of course.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I mean obviously now your husband well known a Joel Smallbone,
one of the lead singers and founders of for King
and Country. But your background, you know, you've done this
thing called music for a long time, and just talk
a little bit about just kind of the upbringing and
the connection to just country music, Latino music, and a
little bit of both kind of embedded for each other.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, it's such a good question. I love that you've
had my husband on the show. He spoke so highly
of it, which was why I was a very quick
yes when you invited me on backstage past. But you know,
we had very different upbringings. My husband grew up on
the road touring. His older sister was an artist, and
so he was raised with this entertainment industry. I grew
(01:50):
up in southern California with my dad being a judge,
a lot of my family members being in law enforcement,
and so I I didn't even know that the music
industry existed. Living in concrete jungle Chino, California and spending
every holiday in El Paso, Texas, which is a little
border town. Shout out to all my border town Texans
(02:13):
out there. But you know, my cousins, my family, you know,
we did you know, plumbing, electricians, Like I said, law enforcement,
I just didn't. It wasn't even on my radar that
music could be a career path for me. So when
(02:34):
I was a senior in high school, I first got
introduced to Nashville and all of the opportunity that's there
for someone who's an aspiring singer songwriter. And initially I
got really just thrown into the deep end. And I
signed a record deal at seventeen, a booking agent, a
(02:55):
management deal, all the things. I just I got thrown
into the system. And that was my college education. And
I'm so glad that I learned kind of trial by fire,
like I just got thrown in. My first tour was
an arena tour. I was opening that tour with just
a guitar, and I just, you know, I got to
(03:16):
learn what it was like to live on a bus,
to sleep in a coffin essentially, and my family every
step of the way was so supportive. I cannot tell
you how many shows I've played in Texas, in New Mexico,
in southern California and Arizona, where every show that I had,
(03:36):
my family would drive for hours, sometimes a day to
get to where I was playing a show. And it
didn't matter how big it was, how small it was,
but it was family that got me through that season.
And so now being an artist and having those years
of development behind me, you know, sometimes you tend to
do a full circle. You know, you start at your
(03:57):
most honest place and then you have to kind of experiment,
and then you end at the most effortless place. And
so now here I am Latin country artist. Every song
I sing is somehow connected to my family, to my husband,
you know, to my immediate family and my siblings. And
I love being able to now bridge the gap between
(04:20):
the Hispanic audience and the country audience, which truly is
the smallest bridge ever, Like it's already, it's already there.
I just get to walk across it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You know, some beautiful songs have come over the last
few years, and if you look at it, Mariah too.
At the same time, a lot of collaborations in country music.
You look at post Malone, what he's doing now, kind
of bringing his background in music and kind of bringing
it over to that multitask and multi talented professional Luke
Combs and Vince Gil some of the newer country to
(04:50):
the older nineties country. You know a little bit of
that you mentioned bringing that Latino sound into country music
now and just kind of embracing that. And I think
that's what has changed over the last twenty twenty five
years because it was all neo traditional back in the nineties.
You know, that song hit automatically, you knew when those
first chords came in, You kind of knew who that
artist was. Now you have to look it up and
(05:12):
there's so much more impact on social media. But I
love that versatility now that you bring to it, and
I think other artists kind of, you know, bringing their
own little kind of like dime package to country music
now and blending it very well together.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Would you agree, Well, thank you for saying that, and
I appreciate that. I mean, you know you're married to
a Latina. Congratulations When Lisi that is you know, when
you blend cultures, there's something really magical that happens and
everyone is richer for it. Look, my husband is an immigrant,
(05:46):
and he became a citizen only a couple of years ago.
He's from Australia, you know, and my family comes from Mexico,
from what is Mexico, Granados, Mexico, Sonora. And I think
that what's been really beautiful about our two worlds coming
together is that we have so much more in common
(06:08):
than we actually have that's different. You know, our love
for family, I love for dancing, you know, our love
for late nights, you know, tequila in the desert, like
in the outback. Like it's just there's so many beautiful
cross connections, and I think it's a very humbling thing
to set back and go wow, on the outside we
(06:29):
look super different, but our background, our backstage pass of
our lives, if you will, is so similar.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's the beauty of it too, is like you said,
you bringing that together and just seeing what else, like
you said, can come out of it at various amongst
that that they're not much differences out there, and just
bringing something new to light. I can tell you this,
you know, when it comes down to it, had a
beautiful baby girl just about four and a half years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
She's the light of my life now too. When it
comes to it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love her so much because you see how much
she's got me and her and her mom at the
same time. And I think it's just a beautiful thing
when both cultures, like you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Said, come together.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I want to ask you about you know that
female country stay with that category because now you know,
as I go back to the nineties country, what I
was heavily influenced on, so many ladies even today are
still staying strong. Anita Cocker and Terry Clark and Martina McBride,
Leanne Wilmack and all that. But if you flip the
script now to Lady Wilson and of course Ashley McBride,
Carly Pearce, Hannah Ellis, Ashley Cook, so many of those
(07:31):
great Megan Maroney, how does that motivate you to kind
of want to be where they are and kind of
following those footsteps, because now this girl power movement, I
love it in female country.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh spoken like a true girl dad, I love it.
You know, I love that you mentioned some of those
ladies in the nineties who really paved away, you know,
the Martinez, the Gretchens, the Rebas. I personally I still
listen to nineties in early two thousands country, probably more
so than what I listened to when it comes to
(08:06):
the songs that have come out in the last year.
And I think part of that is just because those
women were pioneers. They were paving away and things were
a lot harder for them in some respects than they
are for female artists. Now, you know. I went to
this really wonderful event with Tracy Gershon and Leslie fram
(08:29):
and it is about changing the conversation as far as
women in the country industry, and Martina McBride was their guest,
and she shared a little bit about her story and
how she got started and how she built her career
and the toughness and the grit of being able to
(08:51):
move into a town like Nashville and say this is
what I'm gonna do, this is not what I'm going
to do. And in the middle of the interview she
took a tequila shout like I was just like, this woman,
this woman is so unbelievably sure of herself. And those
are the women that I look to when when I
(09:12):
get to the point where I'm just like, oh my gosh, like,
how am how am I going to make a difference?
How am I going to make an impact. I think,
you know, I think of those women. I think of
the women in my family who have overcome incredible challenges.
You know, a lot of women in my family have
worked in factories and worked in fields, you know, tomato fields.
(09:35):
That that's hard work, you know. So for me, when
I get to wake up in a hotel room like
today in New York City and get on a phone
call with you, I just I'm flabbergasted that that I
get to do this as work. This is not this
is not work to me. This is like a privilege,
(09:55):
is an absolute privilege, And there's not too many days
that go by that I don't really really appreciate the
women that have gone before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Me, No doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Those ladies just continue to pave the way and always
say the great ones. They always stay around there. In
country music and of course all the genres out there. Well,
time to play one now from Mariah KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine, Austin, Maniana. Here it is on
exclusive Country out there, KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and presented
(10:24):
by our friends over at the Kadan Gordons Show dot
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Speaker 4 (10:40):
This feelings alto from the words about doing. It's like
the Son's fund.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Just to get.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Get to choose if I get to tonight, I can't
tell the future to give me the time.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
And when I'm with you all again at the time
is oys will have to.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Maniana San did I get cry up? But I don't
want to ask. I have some Moniana taking the Tennessee's
guy to night.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
With the star shirt fo. It doesn't mean that we're
gonna die. Just make goolish, that's all. And I don't
get to choose if I get a little.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Tonight, I can't tell the future to give me the time.
And when I'm with you, I forget what the time
his oys will.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Have to ask Maniana at Maniana.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Died more, I get crying on my bad.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I don't want us has some Niana. Why don't we
(12:35):
quiet all the servants in the morning. It's nothing we
can't face. And when that troubles, maybe early in the
morning look at them and say, as Manianama hoted Mara
(13:14):
the most I get col.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Hey, y'all, this is Casey Tendall and you're listening to
the backstage past exclusively on KKTC ninety nine nine True
Country in Towst, New Mexico. For more of my music,
catch me at caseytendallofficial dot.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Com and welcome back here on the show too. Appreciate
all the artists that have joined us here on the
program in twenty twenty four made it a lot of
just great fun out there spreading the word of music
and keeping the live artistry alive and right joining us
here on the program. So we got to dive into
this one a little bit here KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine out there in Tawston, Mexico, Austin, Manyana.
(13:55):
First of all, I want to make sure I had
pronounced it correctly. I love the song and the field
because you allow people in your music. And I'll talk
a lot about curtain calling here in a little bit,
which I love.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The EP.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Got a chance to listen to every song on there too,
and a lot of your just great body of work
over the last few years. This one just made people
want to get up and dance. And I love to
feel this one because again my wife Latina. At the
same time, Latina just coming from a proud family. I
love this song. It really did.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I just got to say, that's an eleven out of
ten on pronunciation. You crushed it. That was beautiful. That
was beautiful. Hey, I love that you're enjoying, Austin and Yanna.
It's you know, we tried to leave some room in
the production to move the hips. As they say, it's
one of those songs that, you know, when you put
(14:42):
it on, I close my eyes and I think about being,
you know, on the back of a pontoon boat on
Tim's Ford Lake in Tennessee, or you know, and I
remember being on that boat with my grandparents from El Paso, Texas,
and you know, it's a desert and I remember then
we just listen to country song after country song after
country song, and Astamniana just fits in that vein. It's easy,
(15:06):
it's breezy, it makes you want to dance. And what's
fun is that, you know, we specifically release to astain
Maniana in a time that is not what everybody would
call the easiest, breeziest time of the year. You know,
we we intentionally released it this fall in an attempt
to try to counterbalance some of the crazy going on
(15:29):
in the world. You know, with the elections and and
the holidays, and you know that last quarter of the
year that can often feel like a race to the
finish line. And I just felt like, you know, people,
people have a lot going on, you know. I communicate
with my audience over social media every day, you know,
and I and people get real deep and real honest,
(15:51):
particularly in my in my Mariah Familia channel, you know,
and so many people it's the same thing. They're stressed,
they're overworked, and they're overwhelmed. And I wanted to give
them a song because I see myself as a public servant,
right Everything I do is motivated by serving people. And
(16:12):
I wanted to gift people with a song that when
they heard it, maybe for three minutes and twelve seconds,
they could just feel like their problems weren't so heavy,
you know, that they could worry about the things that
are stressing them out. Leave that thing to tomorrow, the
thing that you can't control. Don't worry about it today.
(16:33):
There's nothing you can do about it today. Leave it
to tomorrow, and enjoy the present. Enjoy the people that
you get to share this moment with.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
No doubt too.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I'll go back to that EP Curtain Call. I
go a chance to listen to let mention all those
selection of songs that were on there. I thought, again,
just amazing catalog of songs, a great body of work.
What do you remember best about that particular EP for
Curtain Call and just the body of work on there,
and what you're most proud of for that collection of songs?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, thank you? You know that was I knew that
that would be one of my last opportunities to produce
and write something by myself. I just, I don't know.
I had this, call it an omen call it a foreshadowing.
I just I had a feeling that the next project
(17:20):
I was going to do was going to be the
thing that I could build a full team around, a producer,
you know, the right writing partners and and and that's
really happened, you know, with with Austin Maniana and with
this Latin Country project. The team that has come around
this has been unlike anything I've ever seen before. And
(17:41):
Curtain Call was probably that that last that last season
that I had where I was doing it completely by
myself and no one, no one could tell me not
to produce my own record at the time. So so
I thought, you know what, I'm gonna write this, I'm
going to engineer it, I'm gonna produce it, I'm gonna
play every instrument. And I worked with my friend Conrad Snyder,
(18:05):
who's an incredible mixing engineer in Nashville. He's worked on
the Casey Musgraves record, He's worked with me to Breathe,
and he very kindly mixed the record with me and
for me, and every day that I got to spend
in the studio with him, you know, he just kept
encouraging me and and affirming like, Hey, you don't need
(18:26):
to hire a music a Nashville musician to replay that
that drum sample, Like what you did was was good,
and we can and we can make all of this
work together. So yeah, if you ever listen to that record,
it's it's my ma. I'm not gonna say it's my last,
but I think it's It. Certainly was my first attempt
at writing, producing, engineering my own record, and I'm so
(18:50):
glad that I had that experience because it gave me
so much confidence going into the studio for this Latin
country album. I'm working with a Grammy Award winning producer, Maybury.
This man has been doing this work for a very
long time. And I think that the more confident you
are as a musician, as a songwriter, even as a producer,
(19:13):
the more collaborative you can actually be. You know, I
remember in the earlier years of me creating music, I
would be in the studio with producers and I didn't
know the language. I didn't know how to ask for
what I was hearing, or how to ask for something
to be different, and so I just felt trapped and
I felt scared, and I felt like I just couldn't
(19:34):
say anything. Whereas now it's like I've got my ten
thousand hours, and so I love to yield to a
great idea and I love to challenge a good idea
to be great, and now I have the language to
do that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know, as we get into that twenty twenty five
New Year talk about just some New Year's resolutions, I know,
for me, self care became more important. So I was telling,
you know, Joel, and our discussion we had in our
show we did about that self care and about how
important that is as a musician to take time away
from even what you love to do, what you're passionate about.
(20:13):
That was my New Year's resolution. To get in better shape.
And I feel like I've done that for the past,
you know, three four months. But musicians, because the life
is spent. You mentioned, you know, doing live shows and this,
and that it still worked, no doubt, even though it's work.
You love talk about how important self care is for
you and any New Year's resolutions you might have.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's that's so great. Congrats on getting more fit. It's wonderful.
Here's the thing, everybody's different. All of us are so
so different. I am an incredibly ambitious person. I new
Year's resolutions. It's kind of like how I live my life.
(20:56):
Every day, Like every day is like the last day
of the year. I wake up feeling like it's New
Year's Day. I gotta finish this, this and that.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
So it's you.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Know, I really what my personal self care looks like
is cutting myself some slack, is taking a step back
and going you know, I name my years based on
my birthday every year, so every birthday, this one was
October second. I guess they're all October second, but this
(21:28):
last one, on October second, my word was released. This
is my year of release, and release can look like
a bunch of different things. Releasing songs, releasing plans, you know,
releasing worries. But for me, you know, I have goals
(21:48):
all all the time, every day, every week, every month.
My goals are literally timelined out. And sometimes for a
personality like mine, can get to the end of the
year and just feel so frustrated that all the things
that you tried to get done in a year didn't
get done, you know, because there's some things that, whether
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we like to admit it or not, are completely out
of our control. So I think that's, you know, coming
back to the whole message of Austin Manyana. I could
cry all night, but I don't want to Austin Manyana
goodbye and until tomorrow to those stressors. And I think,
you know, my my New Year's resolution is similar to
my resolution that I've had for my birth my birthday
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and into the next year, and that is just to release,
to let go, to let go of the things that
I can't control, to let go of the timelines that
I've written that are not going to play out the
way that I want. And so for anyone else listening
who might be a little they might resonate with this
(22:55):
type of personality. You know, I hope that that this
year you get to experience what release looks like and
cut yourself some slack if you didn't, if you didn't
cross everything out on your list of things to do
this year, that's okay, You're gonna be all right. And
next year, who knows. Maybe it was supposed to happen
(23:17):
in twenty twenty five and not twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's what they say. Goodbye for the today and welcome
in tomorrow. We can only do so much with twenty
four hours in today? What tell you what you did?
A great rendition of this song, one of the all
time great classics. When it came to Christmas, we got
to play here on the backstage, past KKTC True Country
ninety nine point ninety toast to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We're gonna take him to a winter wonderland.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Here it is when Mariah again, presented by the kadigordonshow
dot com Today's best country mix Enjoy are you listening?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
In the line snow is listening a beautiful sake? We're
happy tonight walking I know and t Underland the garden
Live is the blooe bird. Here to stay is the
new bird.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He sings a love song.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
It's we go walking down under Wonderland in the middle
week middle snow inside and pretended he's Parson Brown his horse.
He will say are you married? We'll say, you know,
say you can do the job on your time. Later
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on will conspire as we dream by the fire to face.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'm afraid the plans.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That we've made walking on and turn Underland, I got
(25:15):
ms mona go then this. Do you think I must
get some bad soul Thursdays? I did almost no joke
on this. I's not getto's mess nos run though your
no just gets a chine freaking play the ESCU boy
(25:41):
walking and Underland, walking in and do under the walking
in under that.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Taylor Austin Die
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass on KKTC Free
Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And welcome back to the show again k k TC
True Country ninety nine point nine. The Backstage Pass again
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and of
course out there Mariah across all those digital streaming platforms,
you know, and I mentioned Austin Minyana.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
How much fun that was. But it's so cool to
put people in the mood.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Whether they like it or not, whether I guess they're
a ba humbug or that they're grant or whatever it
might be. You know, for Christmas, but you take people
to such a special place, and I know for Texas
down here, and you know, for some time, I guess
even I'll passo. You don't get the white Christmas that
you want. But I will say that when you sing
that song, my friend, you actually paint a white Christmas
(26:40):
through a winter wonderland. Talk about this one and just
how much carm it is to put your own kind
of spin on on Christmas, A classic Christmas tune.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh, it's so perfect that we're having this conversation because
for anyone living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, centthererl California
a winter wonderland, those lyrics never made sense growing up
in the desert. You're just like building a snowman like
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that's impossible, that's impossible. And sleigh bells, what are sleigh
bells like? You know, it was always such a confusing
song to me, But I love the way it sounded.
I love the melodies. I loved, you know, the chord progressions.
I always thought it was such a beautiful song. I
just didn't I just didn't relate to it. I didn't
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understand what the world that it was describing. Even as
a little girl and now being an adult, what I've
gotten to do is have a little fun with it.
And so if you listen through to that version, you'll
hear there's a Spanish background vocal that goes in one
of the stanzas, and then there's a whole Spanish translation.
(27:55):
I'm not changing any of the words to this beautiful song.
I am singing one of the stanzas in Spanish, but
the call and response is really hilarious to me. It's like,
it goes in the meadow, we can build a snowman,
and in Spanish, what the background vocals are saying is
there's only cactus outside, and pretend that he is pars
(28:18):
and Brown. Who the hell is Parson Brown. So it's
just funny to be able to like take these lyrics
and just go, you know what, this is so beautiful.
I love this winter wonderland. Also, there's a large part
of the country and the world that does not have
(28:39):
a winter wonderland. We have ninety seven degrees and we
have cactus and palm trees and desert outside, and we're
happy if it's raining.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm actually driving to El pasom away to Arizona for
a vacation toward the end of the month to the
same time. But it actually is one of my favorite cities.
It's long as hell to get to, no doubt, from
where I'm at here in Houston, but across the state
like going west out there.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But when you get there and you get to see beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
The mountains and Las Crusis and of course everything through
Tucson and Phoenix and Scottsdale and Sedona, it is one
of my favorite towns.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I've got some great friends that live there too, And
sometimes you get out toward that, you know, Las Crusis
and Tauston, Mexico, so they do experience a little bit
of a winter wonderland. So I love the fact to
travel and go that way because, like I said, different
weather patterns do different do different things. But you sure
really did shed a light on this song, and I
think it was beautifully done, and I commend you on
(29:41):
just such a great, a great Christmas tune.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh you're so kind, and make sure when you're going
through El Paso. Make sure you don't see what other
people say, which is al Paso right through it. Stop
and stop and go catch us off. Some chikos, tacos,
Chickos City, Chico's tacos.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
See I was looking for asking you about that too,
speaking vil Passa Wood recommendations. So there are chicos tacos. Hey,
when you and Joel kind of have a night on
the town just away from like everything, and I know
that you know I say everything meaning this, but you
get to go out and experience some things that you
like to do. Of course, you strike up conversations about
music with friends and things like that. But is there
like an escape or maybe an oasis that y'all go
(30:19):
to that's just like, you know, this is our time.
This is a time for husband and wife and we
like to go do this. What would it be?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You know, I'm telling you one of our favorite places
to go. It's actually on the outskirts of Alpasso. My grandmother,
who passed a year ago, she had a piece of land.
She still has it. My family still goes. But she
she bought a couple acres of land of just desert
(30:51):
and she called it Elran like it was this like paradise,
this big plot of land in this like oasis, and
it's it's a you know, it's a pack of dirt
with a double wide trailer on it and no running water,
no electricity. And when my husband and I go out there,
(31:11):
and we go out with my cousins, my aunts and
my uncles will go shooting, you know, we'll ride around
on our little four wheel earth, our little little motorcycles.
And my grandpa, you know, he'll jimmy riggs some sort
of container that looks like it definitely should not be
cooking meat up, but he does, and we eat out
(31:34):
of that and and we listen to music, and we
watch the sunset and the desert. I mean, I can't
I can't describe anything more beautiful than that. And no
hotel in New York and no you know, beautiful boutique
place in London or you know, nothing can compare to that. Nothing.
(31:55):
And so much of that has to do with the
land and my family and the quiet, you know, getting
getting out of all the noise. We deal in an
industry that's all about noise and sound, and for us,
you know, taking a break looks like quieting the world
and just being present with the ones that we love,
who could care less what what we accomplish or what
(32:19):
our accolades look like. They just know us as h
THEO Joel and THEO Maria, and and that's that's a
beautiful thing. It's a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It is too.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'll tell you what my favorite Mexican dish I have
gotten into now. I want to learn how to make them,
but I heard they're tough out there to do. Uh,
most restaurants can can kind of nail it depend on
where you go. Now, the further I go here in
I say, Texas, to Houston and San Antonio, it's going
to get, of course a lot better because I mean,
for me, San Antonio, Texas, where my wife is from,
has the best Mexican food. But the further I go
(32:51):
out toward Arizona where we like to vacation out there,
and into El Paso. I love molay enchiladas.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Sauce man mollay.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I just made a big pot of molay like a
couple months ago for some friends. It was my first
time ever making it from scratch, and I followed the
Sieta recipe. Oh my gosh, it it was amazing. Yeah,
and good on you, because a lot of people don't
like Molly. It can be a very polarizing thing because
(33:28):
they were like chicken and chocolate. You shut it next
to the tap, but it's like why not, they're both gray.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
There's some places that do it right, and I'm just like,
I gotta at least experience that too.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
And I'll tell you this one of my other weaknesses.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm sure just for a lot of people out there,
but any pork or chicken tomalas and it just to
maalas gets you in a mood for that. And here's
coming Christmas if it's not. I'm not a big mell
eat turkey, which is great when you're having like barbecue,
but I think the tamales and the ham that's like
the Christmas dish right well.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Also, I'll tell you something that I told my friends
at Telemundo on and interview last week. Uh Argunos, Avren
Regalosros with Avren Damalis. Some people open presence, some people
unwrapped Tomali's around Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm going to wrap a few of those coming up
on Thanksgiving. There again, you guys, check out out there.
Winter Wonderland, the current single across all the platforms. All
the music is available for download out there or wherever
you guys down on their street music. One of my
favorite artists out there and a tremendous lady in her
own right, Mariah, joining us here on the Backstage Pass. Hey,
I appreciate you so much for taking the time to
(34:41):
give us a little bit of a history and music
and you know your career path continuing. Happy holidays to
you and to Joel and continue success going forward. Make
God bless you both, and looking forward to catching up
meeting you guys in person one day.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh my gosh, we'll have molay together. And Hey, for
anyone else who wants to stake connected online, all my
social media handles are Ola, that's h O L A,
Mariah m O R I A H and I can't
wait to connect with you. Maybe you should send me
your favorite mole recipe and I'll give that one a try.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Give that one to do that, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
We'll catch you guys on other episodes of The Backstage
Pass again, powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot com
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Speaker 3 (35:25):
Today's best Country Mix. More great music coming.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Up here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Stay tuned for more, take Care and God Bless.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
What's up, y'all, it's like for you
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on
KKTC ninety nine point nine True Country in Taos, New
Mexico
Ola. This is Latin country artist Mariah and you are
listening to the Backstage Past, powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass, always powered by the Sports.
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Guys Podcast dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Brandon Murrel here exclusively KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine and of course presented by our friends out
there at the Cadenbordonshow dot com Today's best Country mix
and always a brand new week. Just what a couple
of weeks out now from Christmas and the holidays, A
lot of shopping, a lot of pictures, and a lot
of great family time going on. And she's one of
my favorites out there too. Latino country artist out there.
(00:40):
Mariah joins us here on the backstage Pass. Maria, how
you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm so good. I'm so good. I wish that people
could see, not just hear, all about the Santa Christmas
pictures that you just took with your daughter.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
They can't see it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'll have to make some posts of that too with Sanna,
And like I said, those action shots that they took
with their reading like the Nightmare before Christmas. I'll put
some on the Facebook page to get the audience kind
of more engaged to but they're always always great pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, I want to know your backstory, of course.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I mean obviously now your husband well known a Joel Smallbone,
one of the lead singers and founders of for King
and Country. But your background, you know, you've done this
thing called music for a long time, and just talk
a little bit about just kind of the upbringing and
the connection to just country music, Latino music, and a
little bit of both kind of embedded for each other.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, it's such a good question. I love that you've
had my husband on the show. He spoke so highly
of it, which was why I was a very quick
yes when you invited me on backstage past. But you know,
we had very different upbringings. My husband grew up on
the road touring. His older sister was an artist, and
so he was raised with this entertainment industry. I grew
(01:50):
up in southern California with my dad being a judge,
a lot of my family members being in law enforcement,
and so I I didn't even know that the music
industry existed. Living in concrete jungle Chino, California and spending
every holiday in El Paso, Texas, which is a little
border town. Shout out to all my border town Texans
(02:13):
out there. But you know, my cousins, my family, you know,
we did you know, plumbing, electricians, Like I said, law enforcement,
I just didn't. It wasn't even on my radar that
music could be a career path for me. So when
(02:34):
I was a senior in high school, I first got
introduced to Nashville and all of the opportunity that's there
for someone who's an aspiring singer songwriter. And initially I
got really just thrown into the deep end. And I
signed a record deal at seventeen, a booking agent, a
(02:55):
management deal, all the things. I just I got thrown
into the system. And that was my college education. And
I'm so glad that I learned kind of trial by fire,
like I just got thrown in. My first tour was
an arena tour. I was opening that tour with just
a guitar, and I just, you know, I got to
(03:16):
learn what it was like to live on a bus,
to sleep in a coffin essentially, and my family every
step of the way was so supportive. I cannot tell
you how many shows I've played in Texas, in New Mexico,
in southern California and Arizona, where every show that I had,
(03:36):
my family would drive for hours, sometimes a day to
get to where I was playing a show. And it
didn't matter how big it was, how small it was,
but it was family that got me through that season.
And so now being an artist and having those years
of development behind me, you know, sometimes you tend to
do a full circle. You know, you start at your
(03:57):
most honest place and then you have to kind of experiment,
and then you end at the most effortless place. And
so now here I am Latin country artist. Every song
I sing is somehow connected to my family, to my husband,
you know, to my immediate family and my siblings. And
I love being able to now bridge the gap between
(04:20):
the Hispanic audience and the country audience, which truly is
the smallest bridge ever, Like it's already, it's already there.
I just get to walk across it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You know, some beautiful songs have come over the last
few years, and if you look at it, Mariah too.
At the same time, a lot of collaborations in country music.
You look at post Malone, what he's doing now, kind
of bringing his background in music and kind of bringing
it over to that multitask and multi talented professional Luke
Combs and Vince Gil some of the newer country to
(04:50):
the older nineties country. You know a little bit of
that you mentioned bringing that Latino sound into country music
now and just kind of embracing that. And I think
that's what has changed over the last twenty twenty five
years because it was all neo traditional back in the nineties.
You know, that song hit automatically, you knew when those
first chords came in, You kind of knew who that
artist was. Now you have to look it up and
(05:12):
there's so much more impact on social media. But I
love that versatility now that you bring to it, and
I think other artists kind of, you know, bringing their
own little kind of like dime package to country music
now and blending it very well together.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Would you agree, Well, thank you for saying that, and
I appreciate that. I mean, you know you're married to
a Latina. Congratulations When Lisi that is you know, when
you blend cultures, there's something really magical that happens and
everyone is richer for it. Look, my husband is an immigrant,
(05:46):
and he became a citizen only a couple of years ago.
He's from Australia, you know, and my family comes from Mexico,
from what is Mexico, Granados, Mexico, Sonora. And I think
that what's been really beautiful about our two worlds coming
together is that we have so much more in common
(06:08):
than we actually have that's different. You know, our love
for family, I love for dancing, you know, our love
for late nights, you know, tequila in the desert, like
in the outback. Like it's just there's so many beautiful
cross connections, and I think it's a very humbling thing
to set back and go wow, on the outside we
(06:29):
look super different, but our background, our backstage pass of
our lives, if you will, is so similar.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's the beauty of it too, is like you said,
you bringing that together and just seeing what else, like
you said, can come out of it at various amongst
that that they're not much differences out there, and just
bringing something new to light. I can tell you this,
you know, when it comes down to it, had a
beautiful baby girl just about four and a half years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
She's the light of my life now too. When it
comes to it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love her so much because you see how much
she's got me and her and her mom at the
same time. And I think it's just a beautiful thing
when both cultures, like you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Said, come together.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I want to ask you about you know that
female country stay with that category because now you know,
as I go back to the nineties country, what I
was heavily influenced on, so many ladies even today are
still staying strong. Anita Cocker and Terry Clark and Martina McBride,
Leanne Wilmack and all that. But if you flip the
script now to Lady Wilson and of course Ashley McBride,
Carly Pearce, Hannah Ellis, Ashley Cook, so many of those
(07:31):
great Megan Maroney, how does that motivate you to kind
of want to be where they are and kind of
following those footsteps, because now this girl power movement, I
love it in female country.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh spoken like a true girl dad, I love it.
You know, I love that you mentioned some of those
ladies in the nineties who really paved away, you know,
the Martinez, the Gretchens, the Rebas. I personally I still
listen to nineties in early two thousands country, probably more
so than what I listened to when it comes to
(08:06):
the songs that have come out in the last year.
And I think part of that is just because those
women were pioneers. They were paving away and things were
a lot harder for them in some respects than they
are for female artists. Now, you know. I went to
this really wonderful event with Tracy Gershon and Leslie fram
(08:29):
and it is about changing the conversation as far as
women in the country industry, and Martina McBride was their guest,
and she shared a little bit about her story and
how she got started and how she built her career
and the toughness and the grit of being able to
(08:51):
move into a town like Nashville and say this is
what I'm gonna do, this is not what I'm going
to do. And in the middle of the interview she
took a tequila shout like I was just like, this woman,
this woman is so unbelievably sure of herself. And those
are the women that I look to when when I
(09:12):
get to the point where I'm just like, oh my gosh, like,
how am how am I going to make a difference?
How am I going to make an impact. I think,
you know, I think of those women. I think of
the women in my family who have overcome incredible challenges.
You know, a lot of women in my family have
worked in factories and worked in fields, you know, tomato fields.
(09:35):
That that's hard work, you know. So for me, when
I get to wake up in a hotel room like
today in New York City and get on a phone
call with you, I just I'm flabbergasted that that I
get to do this as work. This is not this
is not work to me. This is like a privilege,
(09:55):
is an absolute privilege, And there's not too many days
that go by that I don't really really appreciate the
women that have gone before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Me, No doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Those ladies just continue to pave the way and always
say the great ones. They always stay around there. In
country music and of course all the genres out there. Well,
time to play one now from Mariah KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine, Austin, Maniana. Here it is on
exclusive Country out there, KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and presented
(10:24):
by our friends over at the Kadan Gordons Show dot
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Speaker 4 (10:40):
This feelings alto from the words about doing. It's like
the Son's fund.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Just to get.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Get to choose if I get to tonight, I can't
tell the future to give me the time.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
And when I'm with you all again at the time
is oys will have to.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Maniana San did I get cry up? But I don't
want to ask. I have some Moniana taking the Tennessee's
guy to night.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
With the star shirt fo. It doesn't mean that we're
gonna die. Just make goolish, that's all. And I don't
get to choose if I get a little.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Tonight, I can't tell the future to give me the time.
And when I'm with you, I forget what the time
his oys will.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Have to ask Maniana at Maniana.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Died more, I get crying on my bad.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I don't want us has some Niana. Why don't we
(12:35):
quiet all the servants in the morning. It's nothing we
can't face. And when that troubles, maybe early in the
morning look at them and say, as Manianama hoted Mara
(13:14):
the most I get col.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Hey, y'all, this is Casey Tendall and you're listening to
the backstage past exclusively on KKTC ninety nine nine True
Country in Towst, New Mexico. For more of my music,
catch me at caseytendallofficial dot.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Com and welcome back here on the show too. Appreciate
all the artists that have joined us here on the
program in twenty twenty four made it a lot of
just great fun out there spreading the word of music
and keeping the live artistry alive and right joining us
here on the program. So we got to dive into
this one a little bit here KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine out there in Tawston, Mexico, Austin, Manyana.
(13:55):
First of all, I want to make sure I had
pronounced it correctly. I love the song and the field
because you allow people in your music. And I'll talk
a lot about curtain calling here in a little bit,
which I love.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The EP.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Got a chance to listen to every song on there too,
and a lot of your just great body of work
over the last few years. This one just made people
want to get up and dance. And I love to
feel this one because again my wife Latina. At the
same time, Latina just coming from a proud family. I
love this song. It really did.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I just got to say, that's an eleven out of
ten on pronunciation. You crushed it. That was beautiful. That
was beautiful. Hey, I love that you're enjoying, Austin and Yanna.
It's you know, we tried to leave some room in
the production to move the hips. As they say, it's
one of those songs that, you know, when you put
(14:42):
it on, I close my eyes and I think about being,
you know, on the back of a pontoon boat on
Tim's Ford Lake in Tennessee, or you know, and I
remember being on that boat with my grandparents from El Paso, Texas,
and you know, it's a desert and I remember then
we just listen to country song after country song after
country song, and Astamniana just fits in that vein. It's easy,
(15:06):
it's breezy, it makes you want to dance. And what's
fun is that, you know, we specifically release to astain
Maniana in a time that is not what everybody would
call the easiest, breeziest time of the year. You know,
we we intentionally released it this fall in an attempt
to try to counterbalance some of the crazy going on
(15:29):
in the world. You know, with the elections and and
the holidays, and you know that last quarter of the
year that can often feel like a race to the
finish line. And I just felt like, you know, people,
people have a lot going on, you know. I communicate
with my audience over social media every day, you know,
and I and people get real deep and real honest,
(15:51):
particularly in my in my Mariah Familia channel, you know,
and so many people it's the same thing. They're stressed,
they're overworked, and they're overwhelmed. And I wanted to give
them a song because I see myself as a public servant,
right Everything I do is motivated by serving people. And
(16:12):
I wanted to gift people with a song that when
they heard it, maybe for three minutes and twelve seconds,
they could just feel like their problems weren't so heavy,
you know, that they could worry about the things that
are stressing them out. Leave that thing to tomorrow, the
thing that you can't control. Don't worry about it today.
(16:33):
There's nothing you can do about it today. Leave it
to tomorrow, and enjoy the present. Enjoy the people that
you get to share this moment with.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
No doubt too.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I'll go back to that EP Curtain Call. I
go a chance to listen to let mention all those
selection of songs that were on there. I thought, again,
just amazing catalog of songs, a great body of work.
What do you remember best about that particular EP for
Curtain Call and just the body of work on there,
and what you're most proud of for that collection of songs?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, thank you? You know that was I knew that
that would be one of my last opportunities to produce
and write something by myself. I just, I don't know.
I had this, call it an omen call it a foreshadowing.
I just I had a feeling that the next project
(17:20):
I was going to do was going to be the
thing that I could build a full team around, a producer,
you know, the right writing partners and and and that's
really happened, you know, with with Austin Maniana and with
this Latin Country project. The team that has come around
this has been unlike anything I've ever seen before. And
(17:41):
Curtain Call was probably that that last that last season
that I had where I was doing it completely by
myself and no one, no one could tell me not
to produce my own record at the time. So so
I thought, you know what, I'm gonna write this, I'm
going to engineer it, I'm gonna produce it, I'm gonna
play every instrument. And I worked with my friend Conrad Snyder,
(18:05):
who's an incredible mixing engineer in Nashville. He's worked on
the Casey Musgraves record, He's worked with me to Breathe,
and he very kindly mixed the record with me and
for me, and every day that I got to spend
in the studio with him, you know, he just kept
encouraging me and and affirming like, Hey, you don't need
(18:26):
to hire a music a Nashville musician to replay that
that drum sample, Like what you did was was good,
and we can and we can make all of this
work together. So yeah, if you ever listen to that record,
it's it's my ma. I'm not gonna say it's my last,
but I think it's It. Certainly was my first attempt
at writing, producing, engineering my own record, and I'm so
(18:50):
glad that I had that experience because it gave me
so much confidence going into the studio for this Latin
country album. I'm working with a Grammy Award winning producer, Maybury.
This man has been doing this work for a very
long time. And I think that the more confident you
are as a musician, as a songwriter, even as a producer,
(19:13):
the more collaborative you can actually be. You know, I
remember in the earlier years of me creating music, I
would be in the studio with producers and I didn't
know the language. I didn't know how to ask for
what I was hearing, or how to ask for something
to be different, and so I just felt trapped and
I felt scared, and I felt like I just couldn't
(19:34):
say anything. Whereas now it's like I've got my ten
thousand hours, and so I love to yield to a
great idea and I love to challenge a good idea
to be great, and now I have the language to
do that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know, as we get into that twenty twenty five
New Year talk about just some New Year's resolutions, I know,
for me, self care became more important. So I was telling,
you know, Joel, and our discussion we had in our
show we did about that self care and about how
important that is as a musician to take time away
from even what you love to do, what you're passionate about.
(20:13):
That was my New Year's resolution. To get in better shape.
And I feel like I've done that for the past,
you know, three four months. But musicians, because the life
is spent. You mentioned, you know, doing live shows and this,
and that it still worked, no doubt, even though it's work.
You love talk about how important self care is for
you and any New Year's resolutions you might have.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's that's so great. Congrats on getting more fit. It's wonderful.
Here's the thing, everybody's different. All of us are so
so different. I am an incredibly ambitious person. I new
Year's resolutions. It's kind of like how I live my life.
(20:56):
Every day, Like every day is like the last day
of the year. I wake up feeling like it's New
Year's Day. I gotta finish this, this and that.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
So it's you.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Know, I really what my personal self care looks like
is cutting myself some slack, is taking a step back
and going you know, I name my years based on
my birthday every year, so every birthday, this one was
October second. I guess they're all October second, but this
(21:28):
last one, on October second, my word was released. This
is my year of release, and release can look like
a bunch of different things. Releasing songs, releasing plans, you know,
releasing worries. But for me, you know, I have goals
(21:48):
all all the time, every day, every week, every month.
My goals are literally timelined out. And sometimes for a
personality like mine, can get to the end of the
year and just feel so frustrated that all the things
that you tried to get done in a year didn't
get done, you know, because there's some things that, whether
(22:11):
we like to admit it or not, are completely out
of our control. So I think that's, you know, coming
back to the whole message of Austin Manyana. I could
cry all night, but I don't want to Austin Manyana
goodbye and until tomorrow to those stressors. And I think,
you know, my my New Year's resolution is similar to
my resolution that I've had for my birth my birthday
(22:34):
and into the next year, and that is just to release,
to let go, to let go of the things that
I can't control, to let go of the timelines that
I've written that are not going to play out the
way that I want. And so for anyone else listening
who might be a little they might resonate with this
(22:55):
type of personality. You know, I hope that that this
year you get to experience what release looks like and
cut yourself some slack if you didn't, if you didn't
cross everything out on your list of things to do
this year, that's okay, You're gonna be all right. And
next year, who knows. Maybe it was supposed to happen
(23:17):
in twenty twenty five and not twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's what they say. Goodbye for the today and welcome
in tomorrow. We can only do so much with twenty
four hours in today? What tell you what you did?
A great rendition of this song, one of the all
time great classics. When it came to Christmas, we got
to play here on the backstage, past KKTC True Country
ninety nine point ninety toast to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We're gonna take him to a winter wonderland.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Here it is when Mariah again, presented by the kadigordonshow
dot com Today's best country mix Enjoy are you listening?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
In the line snow is listening a beautiful sake? We're
happy tonight walking I know and t Underland the garden
Live is the blooe bird. Here to stay is the
new bird.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He sings a love song.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
It's we go walking down under Wonderland in the middle
week middle snow inside and pretended he's Parson Brown his horse.
He will say are you married? We'll say, you know,
say you can do the job on your time. Later
(24:44):
on will conspire as we dream by the fire to face.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'm afraid the plans.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That we've made walking on and turn Underland, I got
(25:15):
ms mona go then this. Do you think I must
get some bad soul Thursdays? I did almost no joke
on this. I's not getto's mess nos run though your
no just gets a chine freaking play the ESCU boy
(25:41):
walking and Underland, walking in and do under the walking
in under that.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Taylor Austin Die
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass on KKTC Free
Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And welcome back to the show again k k TC
True Country ninety nine point nine. The Backstage Pass again
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and of
course out there Mariah across all those digital streaming platforms,
you know, and I mentioned Austin Minyana.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
How much fun that was. But it's so cool to
put people in the mood.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Whether they like it or not, whether I guess they're
a ba humbug or that they're grant or whatever it
might be. You know, for Christmas, but you take people
to such a special place, and I know for Texas
down here, and you know, for some time, I guess
even I'll passo. You don't get the white Christmas that
you want. But I will say that when you sing
that song, my friend, you actually paint a white Christmas
(26:40):
through a winter wonderland. Talk about this one and just
how much carm it is to put your own kind
of spin on on Christmas, A classic Christmas tune.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh, it's so perfect that we're having this conversation because
for anyone living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, centthererl California
a winter wonderland, those lyrics never made sense growing up
in the desert. You're just like building a snowman like
(27:09):
that's impossible, that's impossible. And sleigh bells, what are sleigh
bells like? You know, it was always such a confusing
song to me, But I love the way it sounded.
I love the melodies. I loved, you know, the chord progressions.
I always thought it was such a beautiful song. I
just didn't I just didn't relate to it. I didn't
(27:31):
understand what the world that it was describing. Even as
a little girl and now being an adult, what I've
gotten to do is have a little fun with it.
And so if you listen through to that version, you'll
hear there's a Spanish background vocal that goes in one
of the stanzas, and then there's a whole Spanish translation.
(27:55):
I'm not changing any of the words to this beautiful song.
I am singing one of the stanzas in Spanish, but
the call and response is really hilarious to me. It's like,
it goes in the meadow, we can build a snowman,
and in Spanish, what the background vocals are saying is
there's only cactus outside, and pretend that he is pars
(28:18):
and Brown. Who the hell is Parson Brown. So it's
just funny to be able to like take these lyrics
and just go, you know what, this is so beautiful.
I love this winter wonderland. Also, there's a large part
of the country and the world that does not have
(28:39):
a winter wonderland. We have ninety seven degrees and we
have cactus and palm trees and desert outside, and we're
happy if it's raining.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm actually driving to El pasom away to Arizona for
a vacation toward the end of the month to the
same time. But it actually is one of my favorite cities.
It's long as hell to get to, no doubt, from
where I'm at here in Houston, but across the state
like going west out there.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But when you get there and you get to see beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
The mountains and Las Crusis and of course everything through
Tucson and Phoenix and Scottsdale and Sedona, it is one
of my favorite towns.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I've got some great friends that live there too, And
sometimes you get out toward that, you know, Las Crusis
and Tauston, Mexico, so they do experience a little bit
of a winter wonderland. So I love the fact to
travel and go that way because, like I said, different
weather patterns do different do different things. But you sure
really did shed a light on this song, and I
think it was beautifully done, and I commend you on
(29:41):
just such a great, a great Christmas tune.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh you're so kind, and make sure when you're going
through El Paso. Make sure you don't see what other
people say, which is al Paso right through it. Stop
and stop and go catch us off. Some chikos, tacos,
Chickos City, Chico's tacos.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
See I was looking for asking you about that too,
speaking vil Passa Wood recommendations. So there are chicos tacos. Hey,
when you and Joel kind of have a night on
the town just away from like everything, and I know
that you know I say everything meaning this, but you
get to go out and experience some things that you
like to do. Of course, you strike up conversations about
music with friends and things like that. But is there
like an escape or maybe an oasis that y'all go
(30:19):
to that's just like, you know, this is our time.
This is a time for husband and wife and we
like to go do this. What would it be?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You know, I'm telling you one of our favorite places
to go. It's actually on the outskirts of Alpasso. My grandmother,
who passed a year ago, she had a piece of land.
She still has it. My family still goes. But she
she bought a couple acres of land of just desert
(30:51):
and she called it Elran like it was this like paradise,
this big plot of land in this like oasis, and
it's it's a you know, it's a pack of dirt
with a double wide trailer on it and no running water,
no electricity. And when my husband and I go out there,
(31:11):
and we go out with my cousins, my aunts and
my uncles will go shooting, you know, we'll ride around
on our little four wheel earth, our little little motorcycles.
And my grandpa, you know, he'll jimmy riggs some sort
of container that looks like it definitely should not be
cooking meat up, but he does, and we eat out
(31:34):
of that and and we listen to music, and we
watch the sunset and the desert. I mean, I can't
I can't describe anything more beautiful than that. And no
hotel in New York and no you know, beautiful boutique
place in London or you know, nothing can compare to that. Nothing.
(31:55):
And so much of that has to do with the
land and my family and the quiet, you know, getting
getting out of all the noise. We deal in an
industry that's all about noise and sound, and for us,
you know, taking a break looks like quieting the world
and just being present with the ones that we love,
who could care less what what we accomplish or what
(32:19):
our accolades look like. They just know us as h
THEO Joel and THEO Maria, and and that's that's a
beautiful thing. It's a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It is too.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'll tell you what my favorite Mexican dish I have
gotten into now. I want to learn how to make them,
but I heard they're tough out there to do. Uh,
most restaurants can can kind of nail it depend on
where you go. Now, the further I go here in
I say, Texas, to Houston and San Antonio, it's going
to get, of course a lot better because I mean,
for me, San Antonio, Texas, where my wife is from,
has the best Mexican food. But the further I go
(32:51):
out toward Arizona where we like to vacation out there,
and into El Paso. I love molay enchiladas.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Sauce man mollay.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I just made a big pot of molay like a
couple months ago for some friends. It was my first
time ever making it from scratch, and I followed the
Sieta recipe. Oh my gosh, it it was amazing. Yeah,
and good on you, because a lot of people don't
like Molly. It can be a very polarizing thing because
(33:28):
they were like chicken and chocolate. You shut it next
to the tap, but it's like why not, they're both gray.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
There's some places that do it right, and I'm just like,
I gotta at least experience that too.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
And I'll tell you this one of my other weaknesses.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm sure just for a lot of people out there,
but any pork or chicken tomalas and it just to
maalas gets you in a mood for that. And here's
coming Christmas if it's not. I'm not a big mell
eat turkey, which is great when you're having like barbecue,
but I think the tamales and the ham that's like
the Christmas dish right well.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Also, I'll tell you something that I told my friends
at Telemundo on and interview last week. Uh Argunos, Avren
Regalosros with Avren Damalis. Some people open presence, some people
unwrapped Tomali's around Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm going to wrap a few of those coming up
on Thanksgiving. There again, you guys, check out out there.
Winter Wonderland, the current single across all the platforms. All
the music is available for download out there or wherever
you guys down on their street music. One of my
favorite artists out there and a tremendous lady in her
own right, Mariah, joining us here on the Backstage Pass. Hey,
I appreciate you so much for taking the time to
(34:41):
give us a little bit of a history and music
and you know your career path continuing. Happy holidays to
you and to Joel and continue success going forward. Make
God bless you both, and looking forward to catching up
meeting you guys in person one day.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh my gosh, we'll have molay together. And Hey, for
anyone else who wants to stake connected online, all my
social media handles are Ola, that's h O L A,
Mariah m O R I A H and I can't
wait to connect with you. Maybe you should send me
your favorite mole recipe and I'll give that one a try.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Give that one to do that, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
We'll catch you guys on other episodes of The Backstage
Pass again, powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot com
and presented by our friends open at the Kadancornershow dot com.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Today's best Country Mix. More great music coming.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Up here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Stay tuned for more, take Care and God Bless.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
What's up, y'all, it's like for you
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And you're listening to the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on
KKTC ninety nine point nine True Country in Taos, New
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