September 9, 2024 • 30 mins
Country music icon Phil Vassar joins us this week on WSM Radio! Tune in every Sunday morning from 5:30-6:00 AM CT to hear us on the hom of the Grand Ole Opry WSM!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Phil Vasser and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on the Home of the Opry w
SMAM sixty fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Another great show. It's
Sunday morning out there, getting up, drinking your coffee with
the show, and of course, if you're worshiping the Lord,
we appreciate that too. Here at five point thirty eight
m always early here on the Backstage Pass powered by
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there presented by our friends the kadengordonshow dot com. Today's
best country mix here on WSMAM six fifty, the home
(00:32):
of the Grand ol Opry too. And of course, I
tell you what, I was a huge fan of this
gentleman back in the nineties. He's got ten number one singles,
twenty seven top forty hits, and uh, we're gonna play
one of them today on the show, the great Phil
Vasker on the program. Here, Phil, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm doing great. Brandon, how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's good. It's another great Sunday morning here with everybody
on the Home of the Opry, and of course wsm
AM six fifty. I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I love it, I love it. I'm glad to be here,
and thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You got it? Brother. Well, hey, let's talk a little
bit about some of those glory days too before we
get into the collaboration with Jeffrey Steeler right there too
on the new single which we're gonna play today. But
you know, we look back at that ten number one singles,
twenty seven top forties, those songs such as Carlene, just
Another Day in Paradise, six Pack, Summer, when I Love You,
and many more too, and man, I'm sure for you guys,
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it never gets old. And I'm sure it's gonna be
great to be back on the road this summer singing
some of the old classics and performing some of the
new music.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right It's great, man. I just I love playing live, says.
You know, that's the payoff for us, and we're having
a great time. So it's you know, we're just taking
it all in right now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You know, as you look back and we start talking
about those songs, you know, coming out in nineties country,
early part of two thousand, when all those great hits
come back, what do you remember best about about those days?
Because man, when you were on fire, you were technically
you were on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know what's it's even it's hard now to just
think about those times because it was such a you know,
such a blur.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know, I had all the hits.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
With Jod and Tim and Alan and all these folks
coming out, and then you know, I got my own
deal finally, you know, which is what I was trying
to do the whole time. And anyway it Carlene came
out and Paradise. It was just it's been pretty nuts.
You know, it's been a crazy time, and you know
it's hard to look back over twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Five years of your life and go what happened? You know,
it's great though.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm very blessed, no doubt too. I want to ask
you about of course, you know, we all go through
health scarers in our life too, and you know, for
me it was one last to fall when I unfortunately
lost my dad at the time too, And I know
for you guys, it was a major health scare for
you tell people about that, and of course a lot
of times too, we sometimes forget to take care of
the most important thing. I'm victim of it. We all
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are when it comes to trying to eat bad, not
hydrate enough and things like that too, and just take
care of our health awareness. But for you guys, I
mean obviously you bounce back in a good way too,
but sometimes those things have to be a wake up call.
And I guess for you it was that correct, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It totally was. You know here, you know I'm not
a drinker.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know, I ate right every day I worked out,
I did, you know, you know, it just doesn't matter.
My doctor said, he said, it doesn't matter. He said,
you're in great shape, but you had bad jeans. I said, well,
there you go. So it was it was quite the shock,
you know, to wake up in a in a wheelchair.
You know, I had a stroke and a heart attack,
and you know, it just it's like something out of
(03:29):
a dream, a bad dream. But you know what, it's uh,
I feel so much better now. I'm very blessed to
be alive, you know, first of all, and very thankful.
And you know, I'm back doing what I love to do,
and it's to make music, write songs, and I'm very
very blessed to be doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I love it, Brandon, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No doubt about it too. And it makes us really
realize the important things in life too, you know, family
and of course our health and things like that before
a career. But of course a career must continue, you know,
to go on out there to make money and provide
for those people we love to. You mentioned those hits
as well as the covers, I mean, from a lot
of things that you guys came up with, obviously working
with Colin Ray, Little Red Rodeo, of course, Alan Jackson,
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Ride on the Money, Tim mcgrawl, My Next thirty Years
for a little while, Jodie Messina you mentioned, tell me
what makes just a great Phil Vasser songwriting? Take me
to school here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's a good question, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I you know, I just think it's get getting in
a room and I just sit down at a piano
and start, you know, start doodling around, and you know,
and so much of it comes out of conversations, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, Jeffery and I we're talking about it too,
you know, and you know we've.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You know, you just you live your life and you
just you're kind of a scope, you know, you're just
watching everybody and you know, just another day in paradise.
It is just something out of that, you know, we
just you know, my my washing machine flooded my kitchen.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I was like, oh my gosh, it's a disastrous day.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm trying to you know, go right with my buddy
and and he you know, he had car trouble and
we were late, and we just started you know, moaning
and growing it and we just started laughing. I said,
just d in paradise, and we just went, let's write
that right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So it's just funny where the songs come out of.
It's great. We're just storytellers and that's what we left
to do.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, it's the beauty of it too as well. And
you know what time and take a trip down memory
lane to and you actually segued perfect here on the
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a trip back down memory lane? This is another day
in paradise. Here it is on WSMAM six fifty, the
home of the Grand Old Opry. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You can't screaming boone, ringing dog barking at the moon man.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Bringing that stackle to overdue.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Good morning, baby, how.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Are you got a half hour a quick shower, take
a drink of milk, and milks on sod of my county.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Pence makes you laugh, Twist.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The top bone and a bulleted bag. They're called the
washing machine. Baby, don't kick it must out.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Pick's long about a bill up, big mons our pasts
so nice. It's just another day and avertines, butthers not
pays out. I'd betther be well sill hearts. One't tam
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I one't train to poor anything, and as.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Lord every night for just another day in Paradie, riding uliche.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I guess we'll never make a dinner day at the restaurants.
You start to cry, baby, we'll just simplize.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, man bee looks like Domino's pizza in the candle light.
They will getting too to a room.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Nikolo, love that sober bud. But somebody had a fat Jean.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Mama and Paddy and my daddy call me to see
ben queen got some pace. So nice, Just another day
in paradise.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Weather's no pays out.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I'd rather be well so hard one. I wasn't training
for anything.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And as lord every night, just another.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Day, didn't paradise, Oh that's outcade, so nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Just another day of Paradise, but no pason, I'm not
there's so possible one thing, won't tada for anything and
a aslord any nights, just.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Another dam in Paradise, Just another day.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
In paradi Oh bess Kid Street before me.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Hi, what's up you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
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Speaker 5 (09:53):
Hey y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Russell Dickerson and you're
listening to the backstage pass with Brandon on the Home
of the Three six fifty am WSM.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And back here with Phil Vassar again on WSM AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand Ole Opera. Here
now the great Sunday morning here, hope you guys are
getting off of your day to a great star, drinking
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we appreciate you being with us worldwide not just in Nashville, Tennessee,
and of course multiple ways to listen after the program.
So that took me back. I mean, I remember doing
radio here in Texas back in the nineties when I
first started phil and Paradise. I used to say that
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was a short version of it when it came to
the song title. But I mean, you know what, now
that I'm an adult, I really understand the meaning of
the song.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, I'm telling you it's it just tells the story,
and it's you know, I'm grateful for you know, all
the stuff you know musically, and you know, my life,
my kids are growing up, and you just sometimes forget
because you're in the middle of the race. You know,
you're in the heat of the storm and you're just
busted at, you know, trying to do everything you can
to do, you know, to succeed. And now now I've
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got a time to reflect, you know, I've had some
time to look back on things, and and you know,
it's very very uh it's it's you know, I appreciate it.
You know, it's it's tumbling.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, you've got a great show out there too.
The songs from the Seller TV show, which is air
and on Circle Network, and it's done a lot of
great things with artists and songwriters, entertainers, I mean, athletes,
things out there, a lot of conversational style, just like
I like to keep it here on the show. Things
like that remind folks where they can catch it, and
just how excited you are to perform that show on
the Circle Network.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, I mean we we had a great time. We
did that thing for you know, three seasons. I had
brothers Osbourne and Dennis Quaid. I mean, it's it's so funny.
Jody Wassen, it was on and I just really got
my neighbors. It's pretty funny and say hey, hey, you
do a TV show real quick, and and it was
it was really cool to do do it that way.
You know Tommy Shaw from Styx, he's he's my neighbor too,
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and my dear friend.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And you know, I just, uh, I just loved it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I just love doing it and uh and you know,
just having these kindsversations with folks, you know, you just
they're everyday folks like us. You know, we're just just
just hanging out and just telling the stories about why
we wrote a song or you know, how it's going
on tour, and you know, Kelly Pickler was on too
with me. He was great, and you know, just so
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much fun.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And of course if anybody missed those episodes out there,
you can catch it out there too on a different
streaming on the American Songwriter Network on OS one, SFTC
podcast streaming there too, Pandora, Spotify, wherever you enjoy your
podcast out there. So if you miss anything from Phil's
a song from the Seller episode to be sure, and
that check out some of those that had a great
run there too. And of course you never know may
(12:38):
come back and do it again. And I want to
ask you about, of course the ASCAP Songwriter of the
Year trophies and things like that. You want two of those,
and of course the ACM, which is a huge organization
out here, the Academy of Country Music, Stop New Mail
Vocalist and things like that. But you know, when you
build that resume and you look at that catalog of
songs in that body of work, which award to you
kind of stands out the most.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, I've always been a song writer and an entertainer.
Of course, having those songwriter awards is pretty amazing, and
especially I was such a fan of such a you know,
they were my heroes, these guys, you know, not just
artists like Elton John and Billy Joel and Merle Haggard
was one of my favorite songwriters. And and you know,
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you just you know, you just you find your own
way and your own voice. And and that was cool
because I got to hang out with guys like Merle
and and you know, they were just you know, Buck
Owens was a great, great man too.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know, we just we just had a great relationships.
And I loved those guys.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I loved knowing where we came from, right, you know,
because uh, I used to listen to a lot of
George Jones and a lot of that stuff when I
was a kid, you know, And and you know, and
now I have his bus, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean when George.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Passed away, you know, Nancy College, she was phil, do
you want do you want George's bus?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I said, yes, ma'am. It's pretty pretty amazing, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And when stuff like that happens, I've just been so
so blessed to have such great relationships with these guys,
and you know, now we're losing a lot of them,
and it really is sad, you know, but you know
there their legacy goes on forever.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Man, they really do. You know.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Before we played the new single, I've got to ask
you to talk about losing some of the greats phil
in the industry right now, Joe Bonsel, it was just
just the opera a few weeks ago, doing backstage broadcast
event there for the Sunday morning Country event, which is
fantastic if people never have been there during the late week,
it's a great event to attend to. And I just
talked to William Ley Golden on the program with Joe
ments as far as a member of the Oakras Boys
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and lead tenor for a lot of years and the
great songs and the touring that he did, and definitely
I'm sure impacted your career too, right, we.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Got to tour with those guys and Joe, Joe was
great and William Lee and I mean, you know, they
were always wonderful. You know, when you're a new artist,
you never know how artists are. You know, other artists
are going to act or uh, you know, react to
your music or whatever. And they were always wonderful, and Joe,
I was I was really just broke my heart. But
you know what a great man, but joy he brought
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to the world, you know, and to everybody he came
in contact with, No doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
To him, continue that legacy. We'll live on, no doubt. Hey,
take me back to the last album too, which I
know was January of twenty twenty. I enjoyed listening to
strip Down with the title track off of There Too
as well for that one, and of course let off
with a Postmark Birmingham, which is one of my favorite tunes.
And then takes me back again, what do you remember
best about Stripped Down?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know what, it was just really fun to get
in and just you know, be protests a songwriter, you know,
and you know you don't have all the bells and whistles.
I mean, I'm telling you what they can make you
sound great in the studio. I mean there's a lot
of artists. You can see him live and you go,
is that the same person on this?
Speaker 9 (15:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, my mom could probably make a good you know,
it's just amazing what they can do and manipulate. But
it was really the Strip Down record was so much fun.
We just did it at the house and and just
had a great time doing it, you know, And it
was It was one of my favorite experiences, so.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You would I love this collaboration to get with Jeffrey Steele.
We'll come back talk about it. We got to play
first here on the Home of the Grand ol Opry
six fifty WSCM. Of course out there too, it's Phil
Basser and Jeffrey Steele hill Billy in Hollywood. I think
you'll get the gist of this song.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Here.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is I am six to fifty on the backstage
pass here, crack it up and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Last time I saw you, girl, it was Hotel California,
Tuesday night at the juvie door.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Make it out by the backstage.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Door, cigarette in the elly, motive back to the Valley
and the King Jamminder.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Ronstad singing, You're good baby, you know good, baby, you
know good?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And it folt soo.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Why i'd get down for that Mustang top down, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Mean road holding down by hunting like we.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
Only hanging that rain on sunset. The couple kill bill
isn't Hollywood. Sunburning in malabus, I's not a hood kill bill,
isn't Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Back when the world was for wisping it in a
song on the radio, SI, I was in the Tuesday
night man jemming out at the paddle men.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
And kicking up in Bakersfield and always talking about Nashville
somewhere between out five and say goodbye and trade our
dreams for living our lives.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Every end of it says, could I've been missing you
as what I did now?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But that Mustang topped down yellow be.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Reworded, Holy Holy last we owned hanging that band on sunset.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Couple kill bandies in Hollywood, sunburning and metal.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Both shipping all the bood kill benes in Hollywood, black
wre the world was four Wi spitting in a song
on the radio song.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
What a get up for the Mustang? Top down yellow
ring road, holding up the holding lad We.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Only hanging that rid on sunset. Hill Billy isn't Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Sunburned in matacoons If no good Hillbilly is in Hollywood,
back where the world was before.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
We're spin into the song on the video.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Last time I saw you, Girly was Hotel, California, Tuesday
night at to chew the door, naked out by the backstage.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Door, cingarette in the alley, motor back to the valley,
hitting up lore O Canyon.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Jamming Durronstad singing you know good, baby, you know good.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It felt so.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Good.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
Hi, this is Grammy Award winning bluegrass artist Ronda Vincent
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass podcast on the
Home of the Grand Ole Opry wsm AM six point fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Philastar on the program talking about the new single out
there Hillbillies in Hollywood Too, collaborating with Jeffrey Steele. So
I gotta know about this one too, because this had
to be a lot of fun. You guys put your
own spin on this one, Phil, and I really love
how this came out with you and Jeffrey.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, Jeffrey's one of my He's one of my brothers, man,
he really is. You know, we we actually had the
same last name. He's a lot faster and I'm faster,
you know, so it's really kind of crazy and uh,
but Jeffery is a he's an amazing entertainer and performer.
And we've we've we've talked about it for thirty years,
I mean forever. Let's do something together, man, Let's do
something together. And of course, you know, we wrote these
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songs for everybody, and then you know, we he got
a record deal and I got a record deal, and
you know, everything blew up and so you know, you
put things on the back burner, but man, I want
it on the front burner now. So we're we're doing
a whole record and we're pumped about it too. I
love it, and uh it makes you feel like a
kid again, just getting in with the with your buddies
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and you know, getting in the studio writing writing songs,
and we just love it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Hillbillies is a really cool song. I love that song.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And you know, like you know, like a man's supposed
to is a lot of fun. It's a lot of
it's you know, it's different, you know, and and I
just think, uh, you know, it's good to get out
there and just do something new, something exciting, you know,
for you know, even guys like us that have been
in the business forever.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It makes you, uh, it makes you excited again, it
really does. And I love it, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Speaking of the new artist out there too, man, it's
it's pretty cool to see this women's movement now, girl
power whatever you want to call it, right now too
because Laney Wilson on fire. We just got to see
her during ce May Week and just so many other ladies.
Man doing their thing, because I go back again to
your music, which was so inspirational there in the nineties,
but every time you turned it on, everybody kind of
knew that listened to the classic country or that neo
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traditional sound. The first few sounds are instrumental. When the
song started, you knew directly who that artist was. Give
me your take on kind of the I guess health
if you will, of the industry these days, with all
these young artists really taken over, and for some of them,
they're bringing back the nineties country sound.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I love it. You know.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
We just did a show with Laney two nights ago,
and it was a lot of fun. And yeah, she's uh,
she's just great. And she puts on a heck of
a show. And and you know it's you know, music changes,
it evolves, and it goes, you know, through peaks and valleys,
it does.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You know, it changes. But I think it's uh, it's
very healthy, you know, and and and uh, you know,
I just love being part of it.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I think you know, when older people.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Say this, or some people say this, as kids say this,
and you know, it's all it's all just country music,
you know, And and that's what we love and it's
what we grew up on and and we're just blessed
to have the opportunity to get out and play music. Brandon,
I love it what we do, and and we get
to go out to the to the maths and and
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just put it on every night. Man, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Give me some thoughts on some of these shows now
that are impacting the music industry and a lot of
good ways. I love watching The Voice. I'm always out
for new talent things like that, and of course American
Idol and a g T. America's got talent. What are
some thoughts on these these shows and how they're impacting
the industry now.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You know, it's it's a good way to showcase talent,
you know, I mean, I guess I mean when Star
Stars when I was young, and.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know, and Nashville Star and I was a judge
on that show. And you know, we had a good
time doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's just, uh, you know, it's it's fun to you know,
to get to see I mean, these these are guys
and you know, men and women that that have no
opportunity to come out, you know, they can they can
get in front and showcase their their talents.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
In front of folks right away, you know, And so
I mean it really does.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's a shortcut in a way, you know, which we
we never got the shortcut much so it was it
was always hard. But now there's there's kind of a
way with with you know, with radio, social media, all
these things, you can you can get out there and
uh and showcase your talent and not you know, not
have to go through all the craziness that we had
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to go through as kids. Man, just trying to I mean,
I'm telling you, I'm gonna write a book and it's
gonna be something.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You know the deal, Brandon, you know it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, signing you can write a book to I'll be
one of the first ones to get a copy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Of the man, I'm telling you, I'll read it cover
to cover. Yeah, it's it's it's been a it's been
an adventure. I can say that for sure. I'm very blessed.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You know, for a lot of people that have stepped
on at grand Old Loppery stage, they say it never
gets old. I was talking to t Graham a couple
of weeks ago, just back here on the show too,
and he always talks about. Yeah, they they work us
to the bone.
Speaker 12 (25:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They put us in that center circle maybe two nights
a week or three nights a week ago. But you know,
it's the pinnacle of my career. And it just never
gets old sleeping in at center Circle, does it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It doesn't, It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's just it's such like you said, it's a blessing
to It's just a blessing to be there. I mean,
just to have the opportunity to get up and play
on the at the opry and and meet all these artists. Uh,
you know that that came before us, and you know
it was you know, it's just such a I mean
kindway twitter I meant. And uh, you know, you think
about all these guys, you know, and Buck and and
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all these guys and and Merle Haggard and and uh,
you know, you know, we just we got to talk
to these guys and you know, they've always been they
were always nothing but generous and gracious, you know, to us.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And you know, it's it's been, it's been just amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, I can't I can't say anything else except
I just I wake up and pinch myself sometimes still
after all these years, crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Hell of a career, no doubt. Hey, speaking of cover songs,
you know, stranger to those two and a little. A
lot of artists love playing cover songs, especially when they're
out there on the road for either a single show
or they joined somebody on tour. Give me maybe your
top two or three cover songs to kind of kind
of feature out there too, when you're playing in front
of an audience.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, you know, it's always fun to do. I do
Billy Joel, I do piano Man. Every night I sit
there in the show with it.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's Billy was such a hero of mine. And and
uh musically and and uh, you know I always loved
the Eagles. I loved you know, Don Handling and Glenn Frye.
And you know, Vince is getting to play with those guys,
and you know, Vince who I love dearly and as
a dear friend, and and you know, he's he's it's
pretty incredible that he gets to step into that role.
(27:05):
And and uh, they couldn't they couldn't get anybody better
than that. You know, he's just I mean, he is
the most real, just a humble guy, and you know,
just extremely talented. I mean it didn't get more talented
than Vinchkill. So it's just, uh, it's just pretty crazy that,
you know, he gets to play with the Eagles. I
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love it, and I says that just a what's like
to play with the beginning Eagle. He's just like, I
don't even know he's I can't even talk. It's just
a you know, but it's just it's crazy. And just
the songs and the catalog of music that they've given
us over the decades is just it's unimaginable.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Really, it really is. Too.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The fact that he said that the greats never died,
they always stay strong too. And Vince Gill still doing
his thing on the Operatune. It was just there a
few weeks back, and man, it's just amazing to see
those guys still out there, like I said, taking names
of doing with her out there, playing of great shows
out there too. Give me some of those favorite Phil
Vasser sports teams. A Tennessee Titans fan, who do you
root for in any sport?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I've got to root for the Titans because I did
buy this uh you know, p s L. You know, so,
you know, but it's always, you know, I always go
back to the you know, I've gotten to meet I've
gotten to meet so many of the legends, you know,
and uh, the Stallbacks and uh, you know, the Fran Tarkington,
I mean some of.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
The guys that you know.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I've gotten to play the Hall of.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Fame induction in Canton several times, Marino, I got to
hang out with Dan and uh In Dupah all the
all those guys, and and uh, I just I just
love it, man, you know, Alex Kars and you know
it's you You're you're a kid again when you when
you see those guys, you know, and and uh so
(28:51):
I still love I love going to the Titans games,
you know, whenever you know, we had We've had a
couple off years for sure, you know when we but anyway,
hopefully we'll come back, and you know, do okay. I'm
just always fun to love to put you know. We
always played Houston, you know, and it's always such a
great uh you know, of course, you know the Titans
came from Houston, you know, with those guys and and uh,
(29:14):
you know, it's just you're getting faster and bigger, and uh,
these kids just keep getting getting getting.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Better and better. It's just great to watch it.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Sure is no doubt too, going to tell you what's
great to watch as you guys back out the road
doing your thing out there too. The great Phil Baster
here on the program, hill Billies and Hollywood is across
all those digital streaming platforms out there too. Make sure
you guys get that one. And of course, like a
man supposed to is out there too as well too. Phil.
We appreciate the time here on the program on wsm
AM six fifty, the Home of the Grand Ole Opry.
Goodnes see your health doing well and you guys back
(29:45):
out there doing what you love to do. I appreciate
the contributions and country music and just continued success man
going forward. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Brandon, thanks my brother. I appreciate you having me man,
Thanks so much. You got it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
The great Phil Baster here on wsm AM six fifty,
the Home of the Grand Ole Line. We're back next
Sunday for more great artists highlights out there too. You
can hear us worldwide Theesports Guys podcast dot Com and
of course out there too as well anywhere you find
your podcast. The great Phil Vasser here on the program.
We'll see you guys next Sunday. Until then, take care
and God blow us.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Hey this is Parker mccollumn and you're listening to the
Matten stage fast
Hey, y'all, this is Phil Vasser and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on the Home of the Opry w
SMAM sixty fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And welcome inside the backstage Pass. Another great show. It's
Sunday morning out there, getting up, drinking your coffee with
the show, and of course, if you're worshiping the Lord,
we appreciate that too. Here at five point thirty eight
m always early here on the Backstage Pass powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com, and of course out
there presented by our friends the kadengordonshow dot com. Today's
best country mix here on WSMAM six fifty, the home
(00:32):
of the Grand ol Opry too. And of course, I
tell you what, I was a huge fan of this
gentleman back in the nineties. He's got ten number one singles,
twenty seven top forty hits, and uh, we're gonna play
one of them today on the show, the great Phil
Vasker on the program. Here, Phil, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm doing great. Brandon, how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's good. It's another great Sunday morning here with everybody
on the Home of the Opry, and of course wsm
AM six fifty. I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I love it, I love it. I'm glad to be here,
and thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You got it? Brother. Well, hey, let's talk a little
bit about some of those glory days too before we
get into the collaboration with Jeffrey Steeler right there too
on the new single which we're gonna play today. But
you know, we look back at that ten number one singles,
twenty seven top forties, those songs such as Carlene, just
Another Day in Paradise, six Pack, Summer, when I Love You,
and many more too, and man, I'm sure for you guys,
(01:21):
it never gets old. And I'm sure it's gonna be
great to be back on the road this summer singing
some of the old classics and performing some of the
new music.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right It's great, man. I just I love playing live, says.
You know, that's the payoff for us, and we're having
a great time. So it's you know, we're just taking
it all in right now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You know, as you look back and we start talking
about those songs, you know, coming out in nineties country,
early part of two thousand, when all those great hits
come back, what do you remember best about about those days?
Because man, when you were on fire, you were technically
you were on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know what's it's even it's hard now to just
think about those times because it was such a you know,
such a blur.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know, I had all the hits.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
With Jod and Tim and Alan and all these folks
coming out, and then you know, I got my own
deal finally, you know, which is what I was trying
to do the whole time. And anyway it Carlene came
out and Paradise. It was just it's been pretty nuts.
You know, it's been a crazy time, and you know
it's hard to look back over twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Five years of your life and go what happened? You know,
it's great though.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm very blessed, no doubt too. I want to ask
you about of course, you know, we all go through
health scarers in our life too, and you know, for
me it was one last to fall when I unfortunately
lost my dad at the time too, And I know
for you guys, it was a major health scare for
you tell people about that, and of course a lot
of times too, we sometimes forget to take care of
the most important thing. I'm victim of it. We all
(02:49):
are when it comes to trying to eat bad, not
hydrate enough and things like that too, and just take
care of our health awareness. But for you guys, I
mean obviously you bounce back in a good way too,
but sometimes those things have to be a wake up call.
And I guess for you it was that correct, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It totally was. You know here, you know I'm not
a drinker.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know, I ate right every day I worked out,
I did, you know, you know, it just doesn't matter.
My doctor said, he said, it doesn't matter. He said,
you're in great shape, but you had bad jeans. I said, well,
there you go. So it was it was quite the shock,
you know, to wake up in a in a wheelchair.
You know, I had a stroke and a heart attack,
and you know, it just it's like something out of
(03:29):
a dream, a bad dream. But you know what, it's uh,
I feel so much better now. I'm very blessed to
be alive, you know, first of all, and very thankful.
And you know, I'm back doing what I love to do,
and it's to make music, write songs, and I'm very
very blessed to be doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I love it, Brandon, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No doubt about it too. And it makes us really
realize the important things in life too, you know, family
and of course our health and things like that before
a career. But of course a career must continue, you know,
to go on out there to make money and provide
for those people we love to. You mentioned those hits
as well as the covers, I mean, from a lot
of things that you guys came up with, obviously working
with Colin Ray, Little Red Rodeo, of course, Alan Jackson,
(04:08):
Ride on the Money, Tim mcgrawl, My Next thirty Years
for a little while, Jodie Messina you mentioned, tell me
what makes just a great Phil Vasser songwriting? Take me
to school here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's a good question, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I you know, I just think it's get getting in
a room and I just sit down at a piano
and start, you know, start doodling around, and you know,
and so much of it comes out of conversations, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, Jeffery and I we're talking about it too,
you know, and you know we've.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You know, you just you live your life and you
just you're kind of a scope, you know, you're just
watching everybody and you know, just another day in paradise.
It is just something out of that, you know, we
just you know, my my washing machine flooded my kitchen.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I was like, oh my gosh, it's a disastrous day.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm trying to you know, go right with my buddy
and and he you know, he had car trouble and
we were late, and we just started you know, moaning
and growing it and we just started laughing. I said,
just d in paradise, and we just went, let's write
that right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So it's just funny where the songs come out of.
It's great. We're just storytellers and that's what we left
to do.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, it's the beauty of it too as well. And
you know what time and take a trip down memory
lane to and you actually segued perfect here on the
backstage pass to Gain powered by the Sports Guys podcast
dot com. It's Phil Vasser or why not take you
a trip back down memory lane? This is another day
in paradise. Here it is on WSMAM six fifty, the
home of the Grand Old Opry. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You can't screaming boone, ringing dog barking at the moon man.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Bringing that stackle to overdue.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Good morning, baby, how.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Are you got a half hour a quick shower, take
a drink of milk, and milks on sod of my county.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Pence makes you laugh, Twist.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The top bone and a bulleted bag. They're called the
washing machine. Baby, don't kick it must out.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Pick's long about a bill up, big mons our pasts
so nice. It's just another day and avertines, butthers not
pays out. I'd betther be well sill hearts. One't tam
(06:48):
I one't train to poor anything, and as.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Lord every night for just another day in Paradie, riding uliche.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I guess we'll never make a dinner day at the restaurants.
You start to cry, baby, we'll just simplize.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, man bee looks like Domino's pizza in the candle light.
They will getting too to a room.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Nikolo, love that sober bud. But somebody had a fat Jean.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Mama and Paddy and my daddy call me to see
ben queen got some pace. So nice, Just another day
in paradise.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Weather's no pays out.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I'd rather be well so hard one. I wasn't training
for anything.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And as lord every night, just another.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Day, didn't paradise, Oh that's outcade, so nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Just another day of Paradise, but no pason, I'm not
there's so possible one thing, won't tada for anything and
a aslord any nights, just.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Another dam in Paradise, Just another day.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
In paradi Oh bess Kid Street before me.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Hi, what's up you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's Mary Sarah.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
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Speaker 5 (09:53):
Hey y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Russell Dickerson and you're
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Speaker 2 (10:03):
And back here with Phil Vassar again on WSM AM
six fifty the Home of the Grand Ole Opera. Here
now the great Sunday morning here, hope you guys are
getting off of your day to a great star, drinking
some coffee, getting up worship with the Lord here toom
we appreciate you being with us worldwide not just in Nashville, Tennessee,
and of course multiple ways to listen after the program.
So that took me back. I mean, I remember doing
radio here in Texas back in the nineties when I
first started phil and Paradise. I used to say that
(10:26):
was a short version of it when it came to
the song title. But I mean, you know what, now
that I'm an adult, I really understand the meaning of
the song.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, I'm telling you it's it just tells the story,
and it's you know, I'm grateful for you know, all
the stuff you know musically, and you know, my life,
my kids are growing up, and you just sometimes forget
because you're in the middle of the race. You know,
you're in the heat of the storm and you're just
busted at, you know, trying to do everything you can
to do, you know, to succeed. And now now I've
(10:59):
got a time to reflect, you know, I've had some
time to look back on things, and and you know,
it's very very uh it's it's you know, I appreciate it.
You know, it's it's tumbling.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, you've got a great show out there too.
The songs from the Seller TV show, which is air
and on Circle Network, and it's done a lot of
great things with artists and songwriters, entertainers, I mean, athletes,
things out there, a lot of conversational style, just like
I like to keep it here on the show. Things
like that remind folks where they can catch it, and
just how excited you are to perform that show on
the Circle Network.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, I mean we we had a great time. We
did that thing for you know, three seasons. I had
brothers Osbourne and Dennis Quaid. I mean, it's it's so funny.
Jody Wassen, it was on and I just really got
my neighbors. It's pretty funny and say hey, hey, you
do a TV show real quick, and and it was
it was really cool to do do it that way.
You know Tommy Shaw from Styx, he's he's my neighbor too,
(11:52):
and my dear friend.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And you know, I just, uh, I just loved it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I just love doing it and uh and you know,
just having these kindsversations with folks, you know, you just
they're everyday folks like us. You know, we're just just
just hanging out and just telling the stories about why
we wrote a song or you know, how it's going
on tour, and you know, Kelly Pickler was on too
with me. He was great, and you know, just so
(12:16):
much fun.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And of course if anybody missed those episodes out there,
you can catch it out there too on a different
streaming on the American Songwriter Network on OS one, SFTC
podcast streaming there too, Pandora, Spotify, wherever you enjoy your
podcast out there. So if you miss anything from Phil's
a song from the Seller episode to be sure, and
that check out some of those that had a great
run there too. And of course you never know may
(12:38):
come back and do it again. And I want to
ask you about, of course the ASCAP Songwriter of the
Year trophies and things like that. You want two of those,
and of course the ACM, which is a huge organization
out here, the Academy of Country Music, Stop New Mail
Vocalist and things like that. But you know, when you
build that resume and you look at that catalog of
songs in that body of work, which award to you
kind of stands out the most.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, I've always been a song writer and an entertainer.
Of course, having those songwriter awards is pretty amazing, and
especially I was such a fan of such a you know,
they were my heroes, these guys, you know, not just
artists like Elton John and Billy Joel and Merle Haggard
was one of my favorite songwriters. And and you know,
(13:19):
you just you know, you just you find your own
way and your own voice. And and that was cool
because I got to hang out with guys like Merle
and and you know, they were just you know, Buck
Owens was a great, great man too.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know, we just we just had a great relationships.
And I loved those guys.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I loved knowing where we came from, right, you know,
because uh, I used to listen to a lot of
George Jones and a lot of that stuff when I
was a kid, you know, And and you know, and
now I have his bus, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean when George.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Passed away, you know, Nancy College, she was phil, do
you want do you want George's bus?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I said, yes, ma'am. It's pretty pretty amazing, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And when stuff like that happens, I've just been so
so blessed to have such great relationships with these guys,
and you know, now we're losing a lot of them,
and it really is sad, you know, but you know
there their legacy goes on forever.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Man, they really do. You know.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Before we played the new single, I've got to ask
you to talk about losing some of the greats phil
in the industry right now, Joe Bonsel, it was just
just the opera a few weeks ago, doing backstage broadcast
event there for the Sunday morning Country event, which is
fantastic if people never have been there during the late week,
it's a great event to attend to. And I just
talked to William Ley Golden on the program with Joe
ments as far as a member of the Oakras Boys
(14:37):
and lead tenor for a lot of years and the
great songs and the touring that he did, and definitely
I'm sure impacted your career too, right, we.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Got to tour with those guys and Joe, Joe was
great and William Lee and I mean, you know, they
were always wonderful. You know, when you're a new artist,
you never know how artists are. You know, other artists
are going to act or uh, you know, react to
your music or whatever. And they were always wonderful, and Joe,
I was I was really just broke my heart. But
you know what a great man, but joy he brought
(15:08):
to the world, you know, and to everybody he came
in contact with, No doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
To him, continue that legacy. We'll live on, no doubt. Hey,
take me back to the last album too, which I
know was January of twenty twenty. I enjoyed listening to
strip Down with the title track off of There Too
as well for that one, and of course let off
with a Postmark Birmingham, which is one of my favorite tunes.
And then takes me back again, what do you remember
best about Stripped Down?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know what, it was just really fun to get
in and just you know, be protests a songwriter, you know,
and you know you don't have all the bells and whistles.
I mean, I'm telling you what they can make you
sound great in the studio. I mean there's a lot
of artists. You can see him live and you go,
is that the same person on this?
Speaker 9 (15:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, my mom could probably make a good you know,
it's just amazing what they can do and manipulate. But
it was really the Strip Down record was so much fun.
We just did it at the house and and just
had a great time doing it, you know, And it
was It was one of my favorite experiences, so.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You would I love this collaboration to get with Jeffrey Steele.
We'll come back talk about it. We got to play
first here on the Home of the Grand ol Opry
six fifty WSCM. Of course out there too, it's Phil
Basser and Jeffrey Steele hill Billy in Hollywood. I think
you'll get the gist of this song.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Here.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It is I am six to fifty on the backstage
pass here, crack it up and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Last time I saw you, girl, it was Hotel California,
Tuesday night at the juvie door.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Make it out by the backstage.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Door, cigarette in the elly, motive back to the Valley
and the King Jamminder.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Ronstad singing, You're good baby, you know good, baby, you
know good?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And it folt soo.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Why i'd get down for that Mustang top down, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Mean road holding down by hunting like we.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
Only hanging that rain on sunset. The couple kill bill
isn't Hollywood. Sunburning in malabus, I's not a hood kill bill,
isn't Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Back when the world was for wisping it in a
song on the radio, SI, I was in the Tuesday
night man jemming out at the paddle men.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
And kicking up in Bakersfield and always talking about Nashville
somewhere between out five and say goodbye and trade our
dreams for living our lives.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Every end of it says, could I've been missing you
as what I did now?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But that Mustang topped down yellow be.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Reworded, Holy Holy last we owned hanging that band on sunset.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Couple kill bandies in Hollywood, sunburning and metal.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Both shipping all the bood kill benes in Hollywood, black
wre the world was four Wi spitting in a song
on the radio song.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
What a get up for the Mustang? Top down yellow
ring road, holding up the holding lad We.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Only hanging that rid on sunset. Hill Billy isn't Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Sunburned in matacoons If no good Hillbilly is in Hollywood,
back where the world was before.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
We're spin into the song on the video.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Last time I saw you, Girly was Hotel, California, Tuesday
night at to chew the door, naked out by the backstage.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Door, cingarette in the alley, motor back to the valley,
hitting up lore O Canyon.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Jamming Durronstad singing you know good, baby, you know good.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It felt so.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Good.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
Hi, this is Grammy Award winning bluegrass artist Ronda Vincent
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass podcast on the
Home of the Grand Ole Opry wsm AM six point fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Philastar on the program talking about the new single out
there Hillbillies in Hollywood Too, collaborating with Jeffrey Steele. So
I gotta know about this one too, because this had
to be a lot of fun. You guys put your
own spin on this one, Phil, and I really love
how this came out with you and Jeffrey.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, Jeffrey's one of my He's one of my brothers, man,
he really is. You know, we we actually had the
same last name. He's a lot faster and I'm faster,
you know, so it's really kind of crazy and uh,
but Jeffery is a he's an amazing entertainer and performer.
And we've we've we've talked about it for thirty years,
I mean forever. Let's do something together, man, Let's do
something together. And of course, you know, we wrote these
(21:16):
songs for everybody, and then you know, we he got
a record deal and I got a record deal, and
you know, everything blew up and so you know, you
put things on the back burner, but man, I want
it on the front burner now. So we're we're doing
a whole record and we're pumped about it too. I
love it, and uh it makes you feel like a
kid again, just getting in with the with your buddies
(21:36):
and you know, getting in the studio writing writing songs,
and we just love it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Hillbillies is a really cool song. I love that song.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And you know, like you know, like a man's supposed
to is a lot of fun. It's a lot of
it's you know, it's different, you know, and and I
just think, uh, you know, it's good to get out
there and just do something new, something exciting, you know,
for you know, even guys like us that have been
in the business forever.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It makes you, uh, it makes you excited again, it
really does. And I love it, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Speaking of the new artist out there too, man, it's
it's pretty cool to see this women's movement now, girl
power whatever you want to call it, right now too
because Laney Wilson on fire. We just got to see
her during ce May Week and just so many other ladies.
Man doing their thing, because I go back again to
your music, which was so inspirational there in the nineties,
but every time you turned it on, everybody kind of
knew that listened to the classic country or that neo
(22:27):
traditional sound. The first few sounds are instrumental. When the
song started, you knew directly who that artist was. Give
me your take on kind of the I guess health
if you will, of the industry these days, with all
these young artists really taken over, and for some of them,
they're bringing back the nineties country sound.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I love it. You know.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
We just did a show with Laney two nights ago,
and it was a lot of fun. And yeah, she's uh,
she's just great. And she puts on a heck of
a show. And and you know it's you know, music changes,
it evolves, and it goes, you know, through peaks and valleys,
it does.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You know, it changes. But I think it's uh, it's
very healthy, you know, and and and uh, you know,
I just love being part of it.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I think you know, when older people.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Say this, or some people say this, as kids say this,
and you know, it's all it's all just country music,
you know, And and that's what we love and it's
what we grew up on and and we're just blessed
to have the opportunity to get out and play music. Brandon,
I love it what we do, and and we get
to go out to the to the maths and and
(23:30):
just put it on every night. Man, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Give me some thoughts on some of these shows now
that are impacting the music industry and a lot of
good ways. I love watching The Voice. I'm always out
for new talent things like that, and of course American
Idol and a g T. America's got talent. What are
some thoughts on these these shows and how they're impacting
the industry now.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You know, it's it's a good way to showcase talent,
you know, I mean, I guess I mean when Star
Stars when I was young, and.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know, and Nashville Star and I was a judge
on that show. And you know, we had a good
time doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's just, uh, you know, it's it's fun to you know,
to get to see I mean, these these are guys
and you know, men and women that that have no
opportunity to come out, you know, they can they can
get in front and showcase their their talents.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
In front of folks right away, you know, And so
I mean it really does.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's a shortcut in a way, you know, which we
we never got the shortcut much so it was it
was always hard. But now there's there's kind of a
way with with you know, with radio, social media, all
these things, you can you can get out there and
uh and showcase your talent and not you know, not
have to go through all the craziness that we had
(24:39):
to go through as kids. Man, just trying to I mean,
I'm telling you, I'm gonna write a book and it's
gonna be something.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You know the deal, Brandon, you know it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, signing you can write a book to I'll be
one of the first ones to get a copy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Of the man, I'm telling you, I'll read it cover
to cover. Yeah, it's it's it's been a it's been
an adventure. I can say that for sure. I'm very blessed.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You know, for a lot of people that have stepped
on at grand Old Loppery stage, they say it never
gets old. I was talking to t Graham a couple
of weeks ago, just back here on the show too,
and he always talks about. Yeah, they they work us
to the bone.
Speaker 12 (25:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They put us in that center circle maybe two nights
a week or three nights a week ago. But you know,
it's the pinnacle of my career. And it just never
gets old sleeping in at center Circle, does it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It doesn't, It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's just it's such like you said, it's a blessing
to It's just a blessing to be there. I mean,
just to have the opportunity to get up and play
on the at the opry and and meet all these artists. Uh,
you know that that came before us, and you know
it was you know, it's just such a I mean
kindway twitter I meant. And uh, you know, you think
about all these guys, you know, and Buck and and
(25:54):
all these guys and and Merle Haggard and and uh,
you know, you know, we just we got to talk
to these guys and you know, they've always been they
were always nothing but generous and gracious, you know, to us.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And you know, it's it's been, it's been just amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, I can't I can't say anything else except
I just I wake up and pinch myself sometimes still
after all these years, crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Hell of a career, no doubt. Hey, speaking of cover songs,
you know, stranger to those two and a little. A
lot of artists love playing cover songs, especially when they're
out there on the road for either a single show
or they joined somebody on tour. Give me maybe your
top two or three cover songs to kind of kind
of feature out there too, when you're playing in front
of an audience.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, you know, it's always fun to do. I do
Billy Joel, I do piano Man. Every night I sit
there in the show with it.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's Billy was such a hero of mine. And and
uh musically and and uh, you know I always loved
the Eagles. I loved you know, Don Handling and Glenn Frye.
And you know, Vince is getting to play with those guys,
and you know, Vince who I love dearly and as
a dear friend, and and you know, he's he's it's
pretty incredible that he gets to step into that role.
(27:05):
And and uh, they couldn't they couldn't get anybody better
than that. You know, he's just I mean, he is
the most real, just a humble guy, and you know,
just extremely talented. I mean it didn't get more talented
than Vinchkill. So it's just, uh, it's just pretty crazy that,
you know, he gets to play with the Eagles. I
(27:27):
love it, and I says that just a what's like
to play with the beginning Eagle. He's just like, I
don't even know he's I can't even talk. It's just
a you know, but it's just it's crazy. And just
the songs and the catalog of music that they've given
us over the decades is just it's unimaginable.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Really, it really is. Too.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The fact that he said that the greats never died,
they always stay strong too. And Vince Gill still doing
his thing on the Operatune. It was just there a
few weeks back, and man, it's just amazing to see
those guys still out there, like I said, taking names
of doing with her out there, playing of great shows
out there too. Give me some of those favorite Phil
Vasser sports teams. A Tennessee Titans fan, who do you
root for in any sport?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I've got to root for the Titans because I did
buy this uh you know, p s L. You know, so,
you know, but it's always, you know, I always go
back to the you know, I've gotten to meet I've
gotten to meet so many of the legends, you know,
and uh, the Stallbacks and uh, you know, the Fran Tarkington,
I mean some of.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
The guys that you know.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I've gotten to play the Hall of.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Fame induction in Canton several times, Marino, I got to
hang out with Dan and uh In Dupah all the
all those guys, and and uh, I just I just
love it, man, you know, Alex Kars and you know
it's you You're you're a kid again when you when
you see those guys, you know, and and uh so
(28:51):
I still love I love going to the Titans games,
you know, whenever you know, we had We've had a
couple off years for sure, you know when we but anyway,
hopefully we'll come back, and you know, do okay. I'm
just always fun to love to put you know. We
always played Houston, you know, and it's always such a
great uh you know, of course, you know the Titans
came from Houston, you know, with those guys and and uh,
(29:14):
you know, it's just you're getting faster and bigger, and uh,
these kids just keep getting getting getting.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Better and better. It's just great to watch it.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Sure is no doubt too, going to tell you what's
great to watch as you guys back out the road
doing your thing out there too. The great Phil Baster
here on the program, hill Billies and Hollywood is across
all those digital streaming platforms out there too. Make sure
you guys get that one. And of course, like a
man supposed to is out there too as well too. Phil.
We appreciate the time here on the program on wsm
AM six fifty, the Home of the Grand Ole Opry.
Goodnes see your health doing well and you guys back
(29:45):
out there doing what you love to do. I appreciate
the contributions and country music and just continued success man
going forward. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Brandon, thanks my brother. I appreciate you having me man,
Thanks so much. You got it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
The great Phil Baster here on wsm AM six fifty,
the Home of the Grand Ole Line. We're back next
Sunday for more great artists highlights out there too. You
can hear us worldwide Theesports Guys podcast dot Com and
of course out there too as well anywhere you find
your podcast. The great Phil Vasser here on the program.
We'll see you guys next Sunday. Until then, take care
and God blow us.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Hey this is Parker mccollumn and you're listening to the
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