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October 28, 2025 40 mins
Get ready for a behind-the-scenes pass you won’t find anywhere else! We’re taking you inside a live studio session with Presley Tennant, showing you every intricate step of how a song is truly born. From the initial takes to the final mix, prepare to see music magic unfold.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, this is recording artist Presley Tennant and you're
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(00:23):
welcome inside the Backstage Past.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Always a busy day full of shows. Halloween coming up
next week there too, and before you know it, we'll
be sitting around the Thanksgiving table having a lot of
fun out there, given thanks to our family, our friends
or colleagues at work, or at least most of them,
I guess, and of course a good man up above,
the good Lord out there too. And I always appreciate
you guys tuning in KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area broadcasting network, iHeartRadio podcast, THWN dot org, and

(00:49):
our friends at the Sports Guys Podcast dot com and
work Siding News coming up in a few weeks to
stay tuned for that here on the show. Well, the
cool thing is, you know, we get to always welcome
back the ogs to the program, and I always we
were texting day. I was like, you know, she just
got that O G feel and the new single out there,
a song single where you're gonna call it let Lying
Dogs Sleep out there, she's doing that, and then some

(01:10):
Presley Tenant to the backstage past. How you doing, my friend,
I'm doing pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
How about yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Good? You know? I mentioned with Thanksgiving coming up, that
means vacation time, so I'm looking forward downtoime. You don't
get much of that, but.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm looking for.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I said, do you take away? You can at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Out to Arizona for for at least a week out
there to get away from off the map like Sedona
and just hike out there and enjoy red rock and
a beautiful time. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oh, I'm jealous of that. I'm so jealous of that.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Vacation too.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's not like it's one hundred and twenty five degrees
like out in Tennessee or not. In Tennessee and Arizona.
I was out there this past weekend and it was
like eighty and it.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Was beautiful, and I.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Don't know, it was nice, But the past time I
was out there, it was one hundred and twenty four.
So I was like, okay, so this is we are
in the devil's armpit right now. This is I may
have used other decorative words, but I'm not going to
repeat those right now.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
But that's what it felt like.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
In our minds. We could the decorative words that you
have there, We could actually picture those in our mind
and say, but yes, the hot, hot, hot imagination. And
I can't recall like a time. And you've known this too.
You're maybe a California based too, and maybe in Texas
that it's been this hot or humid this time of year,
from like these temperatures, especially this deep into October. Right well, I.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Will say back in California, we've had a few days
without have already rained, which is kind of unheard of.
We usually don't get any rain up until December. Maybe
like we might get something in November, but not in October.
Usually it's still like ninety degrees at least where I'm at,
and but it's dry heat wherever I am, and for

(02:55):
some reason there's humidity. I walk outside and my hair
starts puffing up, and I'm like, what is this. I
live in California, I'm not in Tennessee right now, What's
going on Mother Nature.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
She didn't get the memo.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Apparently didn't get the memo. Now they didn't too, And
even though the calendar when it flipped the fall back
in late September, it's like the calendar didn't get the memo,
nor did it care either. But at the same time,
weather report hopefully some cold fronts coming into as we
get deeper into November, all that good stuff changes too. Hey,
speaking of you and traveling and weather things like that.
Before we kind of took to air, you have been

(03:30):
going a lot of places, putting out a great live
show things like that. Tell me about what's been going
on this quarter, eating some good food out there. I
want to know it all because the live show is
where it's at. You guys have been playing a lot, right.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, So we just got back from Tucson, Arizona yesterday.
We did another show with Boots in the Park, which
I am extremely thankful for, and then we were in
Las Vegas for rit Fontaine Blue and then we'll be
back out there in December. During Nfar week. We have
December third that will be there, and then December twelfth
and thirteenth, or December fourth, sorry, Somber fourth, and then

(04:06):
December twelfth and thirteenth, and then some very fancy names
are coming in and making a little pop up show
in the middle.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
So I'm very excited for that. You have no idea
they told me about that. I said, oh, yeah, I'll
be there. Let me clear my schedule real quick. Some
people that I.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Really looked up to for a while, and yeah, and
then we were traveling up to like Canada. We've been
going back and forth to Tennessee and so just been
a lot of days on the road. But it's been
so much fun, a lot of food. As like I
said earlier, I'm going to need your personal trainer's number
to help me out. I'm feeling a little fluffy right now.

(04:43):
But no, it's been so much fun.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
The people that I met along the journey, especially recently,
I've been so incredible and I'm just very thankful for
it all.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's a beautiful thing too, and it makes it more
gratifying for you guys and doing this and getting out there.
And because it's all about the fans. It's about you know,
the people you see who buy the tickets to the show,
and yeah, they can see all the other great pop
up artists, but speaking for you and you know, when
you take the stage out there to your music is
just got It's the storytelling aspect of it, the authenticity

(05:14):
of it. And give a chance to meet those people
after a show, you know, coming over to your march
booth and just giving it. They're all hugs, photos, all that.
It makes it more worthwhile, didn't it.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I think I will say meeting people is my favorite
part to ever do. Like I love performing, I love
being on stage and that feels like home to me.
But I think what makes it special, like extremely special,
is getting to meet everyone.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I don't know, there's something about it.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
We're connecting with people that actually listen to my music
instead of because I feel like a lot of it,
especially through social media, it's just kind of like a
difference of you don't get to see anyone face to face,
but then when you finally do, it's like even this
when I run into you over at CMA or not
cmaf I, CRS and all that, it's like you finally
get to Like I don't know, it's just it's a
different aspect and I think that is the coolest thing ever.

(06:00):
And so yeah, it's one of my favorite things to
do is just go out and meet people after the shows.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, and we get to hang out. That's the cool thing, man.
It's like, you know, you don't plan to go into
bar lines and get recognized, but look, you know, doing
these radio shows too, it's who we kidding out there.
We got listeners to and we've got some cool fans
and being syndicated out over twenty seven countries worldwide, so
somebody's bound to know you. Of course, when you do
these things too, is a they do you when you sing?
So I love the same thing too. Like I said,

(06:24):
we'll give a coozie out to somebody or give a
shirt or something. And that's the cool part of going
up there too, is your pocketbook. You reach back, you go,
wait a minute, I'm a little light there, but hey,
you know what the gratification is. I got to meet
a new fan and we love to know. It's all.
It's all worth it, fun and games, all right. Trying
to play some music here too, with time to play
some of that music here, we'll try to play some music.

(06:45):
And it's time to play the music here on the backstage.
Bats a new single that came out just a few
weeks ago there September the nineteenth, to let lying dogs sleep.
She's gonna tell you this story here on the backstage baths.
We've heard that sing many many times here kyb in
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(07:05):
podcast dot com. As Presley Tennant, stay tuned Moredico.

Speaker 7 (07:19):
He says he is out with his friends.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
They say he ain't been around.

Speaker 8 (07:27):
He says he's places.

Speaker 9 (07:28):
He's not anything, so I'll find out sometimes the truth
hats in the middle of the room, curl up on
a blanket, making a fool Loulli.

Speaker 10 (07:44):
He s I was loving him and the only one
that comes lying down, a waking up with him knowing
he don't know. I know, I'm packing my things.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
He was never minded king, So I learned anything is let.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Lie in, don't sleep, Let see they seen the little
things will catch you with.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
Your pants down.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
In the end, and.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
There was three am with some girl in the parking
a lot for him. He don't find his way patient on.

Speaker 10 (08:36):
I was living him a calling one I closed.

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Cling no, waking up with him knowing he don't know.
I know, I'm packing my things. He was never minded king,
So I learned anything it is, let lie and don't sleep.

Speaker 11 (09:01):
Let him say that lion don't sy.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Let him see that.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
Lie not.

Speaker 11 (09:19):
Sometimes the truth.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
I t in the Maid of the hoom, curled up
on the blanket and making a.

Speaker 10 (09:26):
Fool out of.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
Should have known I was living him a doney one.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
I gos.

Speaker 10 (09:36):
Lying, not awaking up with him knowing.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
He don't know.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
I know.

Speaker 9 (09:43):
I'm packing my things.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
He was never mind.

Speaker 9 (09:47):
The key to learned anything.

Speaker 12 (09:52):
That lion don'cy Let him sae that lion don't see Lemson, then.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Lion dulce the lie and dump them sing then Lion.

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Speaker 8 (13:32):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past powered by the
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Speaker 2 (13:44):
And back here Presley Tenant on the show Let Line
Dogs Sleep Here KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay
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iHeartRadio Podcast, and of course everywhere else you can now
find the show. So, first of all, the title, and
it really to me, Presley. It got right to the
point of what the song was all about, the bad

(14:07):
experiences will have in life in general. Tell us all
about this one and how this latest single came to be.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, So I wrote this one with mister Trey Bruce,
I want to say sometime mid late.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Mid last year. It was kind of one of those things.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
He ended up bringing that idea into the right which
and I feel like I've always heard that saying it's like, oh,
let's sleeping Dogs Lie, but it was a different play
on it, so it felt very familiar. But also it
was one of those things as soon as he said it,
it kind of took me back in time too. II
and I remember growing up all like my mom's friends,
like they would like tell me.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
The stories about like what they were going through.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
And I was like, oh yeah, like this is a
song for them, like everyone's gone through this. And I
listened to and I was thinking about it, and I
was like more people around me everything along these lines.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I was like, this has some some.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Attitude and some relatability, and it's also saying it takes
like a very heavy subject, I mean, you know, but
then turning it into something that's a little sassy, a
little fun, a little more lighthearted.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
And I knew that was something that I.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Always wanted because I had songs like before Each Cheats
and like White Liar in my sets before and I
wanted something of my own and that was along the
same vein and the same lines, and so we wrote
that one, and that was kind of the follow up
to one of my other songs, pick Your Poison, And
sometimes it passed in between, but I'm really glad that
it's coming out now.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, no doubt that's that Fall releases we love here too,
at least that we're trying to get Fall Weather to
catch that with the Fall releases now too. As we
talked about this was also a couple that really were
out there too, released a little bit before the songs
we're talking about there. I loved it. If it was easy,
let's get some story. That was last year for twenty
twenty four. Untably we're saying that too, but one of

(15:46):
my favorites and had that you know, authentic message toward
listeners too.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
You're right, yeah, that one was.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
That one was a super fun song to be a
part of. I remember Noah had reached out and it
was kind of like a no brainer. As soon as
I heard the song, it was just like, yeah, like
this is I feel like says what everyone is thinking.
If everyone could do it, then they would, which I
think is what makes relationships special. It's putting the work
and the effort into each other and seeing the result

(16:12):
that comes out of it. And so it was kind
of like the easiest.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I was like, yeah, I love this song, let's do it.
And yeah, it's just been a fun one to write.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's the beauty of the songs for you, and I
think you've talked about this on every show we've done
or in person there in Nashville, going for the big events,
to having fun with music and just letting it kind
of dictate, kind of speak to itself, even if it's
not from a personal experience. But the catch, the hook,
and the whole songwriting process tell me about that.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
For me, I would say a lot of whenever I
go into like songwriting, like a session or something like that,
it kind of just depends. A lot of times I
do come in with my ideas and I'm like, hey,
I really want a song about this, But it also
kind of varies, and I think that's with a lot
of conversation that I've had with different writers, and I'll
bring something in and we might say something that will
spark another idea and we're like, okay, let's write that.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
So it kind of it varies time to time.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
But there's a lot of times where I'm like, hey,
like I'm dead set and I'm like I want a
song like this. I want it to sound like this,
or at least have like inspiration from there, etc. That
sort of thing. But I don't know. The songwriting process
to me is like magic because you can just take
something from just an idea and then all of a
sudden you have this final product and you're like, Okay, yeah,
this is this is what I'm gonna put out and

(17:26):
this is what.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'm excited for.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Y'all have a great rendition for a tune as well.
Last August, I think we did a show on that
bad Decisions, and this was a really fun one to
kind of put together because again, down that road, country
music tells it to its core, no doubt when it
comes to things or experiences that you go through, no
doubt and lead by example. This one did that for me.
It did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Well, it's funny because i feel like I'm one to
tend to make good decisions every single time. I'm an overthinker.
I'm like, I'm a rule follower. But then also sometimes
you know, just someone made the little drink or too
might lead to something else. I'm like, that sounds so horrible.
I sound like I got problems. I don't, but I

(18:12):
was like, it's one of those things. It's like, you
know sometimes when you're like I know for myself, and
I'm like my girls call and they're like, hey, we
want to go have a night out, and I'm like, okay,
let's do it. And so they were like, okay, well,
bad decisions will be made tonight, and I'm like, oh,
let's maybe not live by that mantra, but.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
It might be really fun. The stories that come out
of it are the best things ever. Yeah, but it's
also it's really cool to.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Look back on like different moments in life and get
to see that, like I've shared it with people, kind
of just feels like a journal or like a journal
or a diary in a way. And I'm like, maybe
some things I shouldn't have shared. But then also I'm like,
you know what you're living. You learn you're young.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Ones those words that Grandma uttered to me, nothing boy,
nothing good ever happens after midnight. Get your butt home too.
When it comes down to it, you'll end up in handcuffs.
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's so funny. I'm the first one to go to
bed at eight every night. I am inside my bed
trying to fall asleep at eight or nine pm almost
every day unless I'm like playing a show or something.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
And so I feel like I've grown a lot, I've matured.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, I know, look, you're very mature. I've been around
you too. We've hung out at several places there in
Nashville where those events we've always gone to. And one
of the more mature people I know out there too.
Sometimes we do make those bad decisions, but it leads
me to this song right here too, on the backstage past.
When it comes to bad decisions, you got to pick
your poison. Pick you. She's gonna explain that here KYPN
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(19:36):
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Speaker 6 (19:46):
Tuned that and he not an all passle. It'll be
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(20:11):
smo top by you a drink girl, you better stop.
I know how much of thinking right now. There's only
one way in the skull stuff.

Speaker 10 (20:22):
When it's time I can handsome strong as whiskey on
the shop, you'll.

Speaker 9 (20:28):
Feel as i's headingybody'll put your hard your health.

Speaker 12 (20:34):
Think of knowing about so you're gonna read of the
girl you're bound and loose.

Speaker 11 (20:40):
Sometimes you'll pick your poison, but sometimes sometimes it picks
You're all paw.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
It won't be along until you wandering. Well, hell he's
been and you say he's busy.

Speaker 11 (21:00):
Thought you hadn't gotta come on weekend, and he'll be
coming home.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Soon like somebody else.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
A bye to his teeth, girl, annoy, you can tell
he's the same A story, but you won't want to
leave it. Where's child talking, handsome, strong as whiskey on
the shell, You'll feel last high heading.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
No, don't put y'all on you. Heal if then you
can know better.

Speaker 12 (21:30):
So you're I'm gonna let him the girl, you're bound
and loose.

Speaker 11 (21:34):
Sometimes he'll beck advising the Sometimes sometimes it's when it's
ChIL talking, handsome, strong.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
As whiskey on the shell. You'll feel ass high through your.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Girl.

Speaker 11 (22:08):
You're bound and sometimes you pick your parsy sometimes sometimes
sometimes sometimes.

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Tow pick your poison. Presley Tennant has done that for
you here on the backstage pass two. How did this one?
You've mentioned that title several times and it's like there's
another old saying too, like let Lying Dog Sleep. Just again.

(25:53):
You got right to the point with the song. There's
great lyrics in it too, and it's like, Okay, pick
your poison or you gonna let your poison pick you.
It's it's just another smash of a song.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
I love this, Thank you it was you know, it's
just one of those things.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
It's like you know something's bad for you and then
for some reason you still decide, yeah, that's a good idea,
and then it comes to but you in the butt.
It's just I mean, it says it. I don't know
it A was one of those ones. I was kind
of inspired by just like a conversation that we were
having in the room and we were like we had
an idea already picked out, and then all of a
sudden it just kind of switched and I was like.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh, like we should write that, Like why aren't we?
Like this is how I'm.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Feeling right now, this is where I'm at in that
moment of life, and it became one of my favorite
songs that we've written and then put it out and
now it's out there for.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Everyone to hear.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I heard here ready show doubt. Let's go back to
a little bit of some old school stuff. I'll talk
about this one. Something in the Orange well told story
and artwork on cover. When I look at that stuff
from time to time on records and albums, man, it's
just so cool to see what you guys tell a story,
not just through a song, but through artwork to at

(27:00):
the same time tell us about the cover for the
single and in particular just the message you're trying to
sit on this one. I love the title of no.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
So Something in the Orange was actually it was a
cover of Zack Bryan Something in the Orange. But I
remember I was flying home from Nashville. He had just
released I think it was the American Heart Right album.
There was like thirty thirty five songs on there. So
I downloaded the entire thing, listened to it top to
bottom and then but already had kind of heard little
bits and pieces of Something in the Orange on social media,

(27:31):
but I didn't get to listen to the full thing
until then. But I was like, what if he's just
an overthinker like I am. And he's talking about this
girl that's not coming back, and I'm like, what if
she's just at the grocery store and she's like, babe,
like I'm fifteen minutes away.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
What are you crying about?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
And so I just kind of like made the female
perspective of like hey, like calm down, like I'm coming back,
Like I don't know what you got in your.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Mind right now.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
And I posted it to to talk I feel like
as musicians do nowadays, and I didn't, I literally, I
think i'd like rewrote it, rewrote very loosely in quotes,
and put it to TikTok, and it kind of just
blew up out of nowhere, and everyone was asking for
like the female, like the full thing of the female's perspective.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
And I put.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
It out there, and I remember I went over to
my guitarist's house and I recorded it on garage band.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I recorded my vocals on garage band, look up, looked up.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
A video on how to mix a master for dummies,
put it out there, and uh, the rest is history.
I don't know, I have no idea what I was doing.
I was like, I can like cut music in a
way because I grew up dancing, but also I don't
know how to mix like today. I even had to
like do something for an acoustic video and I was like,

(28:46):
you know what, I'm going to send this.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Off to the professionals.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
So I called my producer and I was like, Hey,
how much would you do for this? He's like, let
me see and I was like, okay, great, just make
it better. You would make it better than anything I
could ever do with it.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
But to you, yep, it's amazing what we teach ourselves
in this industry to mix and master things that we're
not good at something. You're right, I've been there a
few times, even though I've been in this business for
a long time, to say, yep, send it off and
a few hundred bucks here a jazz it up, make
it better, and I'll tell you what was good out there?
Do you guys jazzed up? No doubt about it was
that first EP. I'll go back to it a little
bit November twenty twenty two. Feels like it's just been

(29:25):
recently there too, looking back at it, But a lot
of cool things off this six hundred miles was the
title of people that don't know the actual EP. What
do you remember best? Not just the leadoff song there too,
but a lot of cool things that not just putting
out a single at a time, but this was a
way to get a few songs out there more to
your fans and really hand pick what you wanted to

(29:45):
select on that record. And there's a lot of cool
things that really still stand out to me from that project.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I think for me a lot, especially during that time,
there were so many heavy things going on in the world.
I mean, I know, was like there was COVID that
we all had just kind of come out of and
that we were living through. There was a lot of
things that were happening just in general, and it felt
like a very heavy and dark time and I feel
like and then even like going through like personal things

(30:13):
where I remember it was like the first boyfriend I
ever had and I was like going I was like
my heart was broken. But then also it's like there's
little things in those moments where especially that entire project
kind of felt just like a diary, like essentially that
I was taking like journal entries and I just put
it out there, and uh, I don't know, it's really
cool to get to look back on those moments in

(30:35):
life and say like, oh, this is like where it
all kind of stemmed from. Like I've been in this
industry since I was ten, but I feel like at
that moment those are really more like the defining moments
where it was like, Okay, I know what I'm doing now,
like I want to take the next step.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And just put my full, full effort out there.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I don't know, but there was something like even even
the songs, I think it was like six or miles,
I mean, how Many Kisses is still one of my
favorite songs to play and to sing live. But then
there's also a lot of songs on there that I
feel like still relate to today's day and age and
where we are in the world. And I think it's
really cool that some songs can still kind of be
like can travel through time and they kind of seem timeless.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
It can, and those songs really stick out to a
lot of your fans too. At the same time, and
congratulations and other streams have really gone up for you too.
I've been listening to a lot of just music that
I put on a playlist out there too, got my
daughter singing some of your songs too, So it's just
a really cool time to really enjoy the female category
two And not like I know you and I've spoken
on this before, but I'm will say it again. With
the CMA Awards coming up here in just a couple

(31:38):
of weeks, looking at this, Laney is everywhere. It's so
cool to see man just the queen bee do her thing,
and then you look it right behind her. It's like
a to z. You can name somebody now and really
be affected by that person emotionally, mentally, physically follow them.
And you mentioned you've been in this since you were
ten years old, but it's got to just continue to

(31:58):
feel your fire to know that you're on the cusp
of where you're at in your career and looking at
these Priscilla Blocks and Ella Langley's and you know these
other great ladies come out Megan Maroning and just continue
to kick some ass, right.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
It is really inspiring. Especially I'm not going to lie
and say that sometimes it's like ooh, like how much
longer like is this going to be? Because I feel
like I have been in it since I was I
mean since I was ten. I'm twenty three now. But
also it's like my journey is just getting started. Like
all of that was just the prep, and so it's
really easy to kind of fall into that moment where
it's like, oh, like, I'm out here, I'm doing it,

(32:34):
Like why is it not where I want it to
be when I imagined it when I.

Speaker 19 (32:37):
Was so young?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
But also then you take a step back and you
look at it and it's like, never in a million
years would I think I'd be doing this. And everyone's
journey is so different and the people that you meet
and everything happens for a reason, and it's all in
God's God's timing and then God's plan, and I think
that's something that is always really inspiring.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
And so getting out to Nashville and being.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Surrounded by just so many positions that are not even
just good, like they are incredible, I think is for
me the most inspiring because I look at them and
it pushes me to be better.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
It motivates me. And so that's why I'm excited to
get back out.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
There and also just continue writing and to continue putting
out music that really speaks true to me in my
heart and what I want to say and who I.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Want to be.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Like, I am so so excited for this next chapter
of new music.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
As we close this fourth quarter going in next year,
and seeing some artists kind of already announce about projects
and things coming up and things they're most excited about
for next year, good things in store. They're teasing it
right now a little bit out there as you close
this fourth quarter going in next year, you mentioned moving
out there and kind of you know, taking it slowly
in the move and everything and picking up and U's

(33:46):
gonna be hard to leave home. I did that one
time and I got homesick, and look I came back
again down here in Texas. It happens. But what are
you most looking forward to the next chapter going into
next year.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I think.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I think it's just the new is like this new stuff,
I feel like it has a different kind of sound
to it in a way, but also it dives into
a lot of like vulnerability that I feel like I haven't.
I feel like I've shared, but it hasn't been too
much on which I'm really excited to share with everyone.
It's funny because it's within my music that's where I
speak a lot of my feelings, but like outside of it,

(34:21):
I'm like, oh yeah, Like.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
If someone asks me like oh, like are you fine,
or like are you good? I'm like, yeah, I'm great.
And then it's like deep down, you're.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Like it's it's it's a joke partially sometimes you know,
just like I'm gonna stop talking now anyways, right now.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
This is the problem.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
But no, I feel like there's a different side that
I feel like a lot of people will finally get
to see. I feel like I try to put on
like this perfection kind of thing, but it's like there's something.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
So real and so.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So relatable and to like these artists that I look
up to, and I'm like, they are just themselves, like
they aren't trying to be anything.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
And I think that's so cool that they get to
be who.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
They are and say the music and sing the music
that they want. And that's something that I'm really looking
forward to with this new stuff.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
All you mentioned you hit the road out there, it
was all that bad food, you know, hire my personal
train or things like that. But and I still have
a couple of cheat days. I'm not gonna lie a
couple of weeks and they put pizza like coke in
front of me, or Cheetos or something like that, or
my favorite dessert or something like that. I'm still gonna
have a couple of cheat days because work hard, play
hard too. What was your favorite thing in a state
or when you travel food wise? To lighten the load,

(35:35):
a little bit of just eating that junk food that
you really enjoyed over this recent travel and play in
these shows, you got to have had a few favorite meals,
right jump food.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
So I will say I am a sucker for anything
that is related to fries, loaded or actually potatoes potatoes
in general.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
I don't judge potatoes. Potatoes love me.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I love potatoes, so like a fry, a loaded fry preferably.
I think my favorite was poutine from Canada. There's something
about that. I love make a cheese curd and they
had that on there with some gravy. I added a
little bit of chicken to get some protein in and uh,
it was the most magical thing. Throw a bunch of

(36:19):
hot sauce. I am a sauce conn of sewer of well,
hot sauce makes everything better.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I cannot have a dry meal.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
So anything I feel like I get like a personalized
loaded fry from every place that I travel to, I'm like, okay,
whatever is the go to just put it on some
fries and I'm happy, That's.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
What I'm saying. Or carbs, and I want those carbs
because the workouts I do were not for the faint hearted.
So when it comes down to it, almost CrossFit version,
so you you crave carbs and every single day, and
I'm like, so nervous at my next doctor check out, like,
cut the carbs, man, don't do that. When it comes
down to it your blood bridge. Which I'm not joking
about stuff like that to because I always encourage people

(37:03):
to take care of yourself too. But God, it's hard
to pass up those pizzas and chicken and this stuff
because I'm like you, I don't like food that's just
blamed out there. I don't like that. I can't stay it.
It's got to have some seasoning. It has to.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
So I'm like, I, yeah, everything has to be also
another thing. Everything has to be for the most part,
like spicy of some sort. I hated spice growing up,
and then all of a sudden, my parents or my
mom and my brother, they loaded everything up where I
was like, you can't enjoy this, this isn't good. And
then I grew up and I was like, oh, this
is the most deluctable thing. I borderline can't enjoy it,

(37:36):
but it's so right, it's so right. So yeah, that's
where I'm at.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
All right, next stage to conquer going into twenty twenty six,
A lot of them you stepped onto, but uh, I
know for you, and you've told me this story too
in future past shows we've done, and they got the
future shows we're going to do going forward. That I
just see Presley Tennant and grand ol Opery stage mixing
and mastering, and it's a match one day too. It's

(38:05):
gonna happen, right.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Hey, I'm crossing my fingers. I think that would that
would be one of I have two places that I
would love to play at that is an ultimate bucket list,
and that is the grand Ole Opry stage.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
That is by far number one.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
But then the other one would be like Red Rocks,
just because the whole thing is beautiful. But I I
think playing the grand Ole Opry is just kind of
one of those things where it's like I made it,
Like I like all my hard work is like paid off,
just kind of like that solidifying thing where I'm like,
that is the ultimate goal.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
So hopefully that's in the future crossing my fingers. Yeah,
but I'm just gonna.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Work a hard it will be you know what, I'll
make the prediction right or too, because I never thought
this very radio show was gonna be on the grand
ot work check that box. It's been done. Can it
be done again? Who knows? But hey, you know what,
I die tomorrow. I did what I wanted to do.
The show was so put your music up there too.

(39:04):
So I've made a prediction when Laney came on a
few years ago too, that you got it before she
hit it big, and I said, you're gonna, you know,
break out a couple of years. Let's say the same thing.
Keep those same vibes for press, lieutenant here on the backstage,
it's going to happen. And usually when I tend to
make predictions on this very show, like I said, I'm
not a psychic, but you know what, I know talent
when I see it too at the same time, at

(39:24):
the same time, and it is songs such as let
Lion Dogs Sleep out there across all the DSPs for
you guys, and all the music we've talked about today
is available for your streaming purposes. My friend always appreciate
you coming back here on this very brand to promote
all the great music. And I know I say these
words with very confidence. I'm going to see you again
there at CRS in March of twenty twenty six, and

(39:46):
we get to hang out, have some fun, and you
know you're an og to this program and come back anytime.
There's always love talking to you, always do.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Thank you so much, Brandon. I appreciate you having me.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
You got it and the one the only Press League tenant.
You can check out more out there too, across all
these social media and we're back with more great shows
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(40:16):
have no idea, but anyway, it is out there the
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We'll see you guys soon. Take care, God bless Hey y'all.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
This is Nashville recording artist Caleb Sanders and you're listening
to the Grand Slam of music, sports, and entertainment on
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