February 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Two-time Grammy winner Rebecca Lynn Howard joined us on the show to talk about her upcoming album release in May of 2025! Rebecca is one of the best singer-songwriters in the music industry! Tune in to hear more on KKTC True Country 99.9!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Rebecca Len Howard and you're listening to.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Backstage Past exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine ED.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome inside the Backstage Past, of course, now you know
we're in Nashville, Tennessee. Coming up there too. Country Radio
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Speaker 4 (00:28):
And please to have her on here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We finally get to catch up with her rockstar country superstars.
She's done it all. She's on tour with Lee Brice. Now,
good friend of the program here, and I'm not who
you think I am, but you know what, I know
who she is. That's the title of the latest record,
Rebecca Len Howard of the program, Miss Lynn Howard, how.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
To have you here on the broadcast talking music for
the next twenty or so minutes. I mentioned that at
the top there, good friend of the program love Lee Brice.
He's done the program here several times. And of course
brother Lewis always have the last name Bryce. You're gonna
stay busy out there. How's the I know, the tours
getting underway for you guys, exciting times starting there in
Kentucky and man, this is gonna be big for you
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and I cannot wait to talk about This album is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Thank you so much. Yeah, we're having a ball on
the road with Lee and touring with him.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Is so much fun because you know, he has a
studio set up on his bus and so after the
show we go back to the bus and we write
songs and we record and it's just never ending with
that guy. I'm like, how much offee are you drinking?
I don't know how he finds all that energy. But yeah,
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So last night was We actually played Birmingham and it
was a great, great show. If you've not gotten a
chance to see the You, Me and My Guitar tour,
it's so good. I mean, Lee holds down a two
hour show just him and a bunch of guitars. The
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stories are so good and it's just it, I don't know,
it's just a really magical show, unlike anything I've ever seen.
So he's done a really great job, and I just
you know, we've been friends for years and years now
and we just respect each other so much and love
each other's songs and voices, and it's just it's been
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really fun. I do like a twenty minute set opening
up his show, and then I come out and sing
some songs with him in the middle, and it's really great.
It's really great, and we're having a really fun time
out here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well you should. He's one of the best to do
it out there too, and definitely, man just love the
fact to get out there, hold his own and just
play some of the best songs. One of the greatest
songwriters ever there in Nashville, Tennessee, and just a great storyteller.
And that's what you've done with this record. Let's dive
into it before I start playing songs. Everybody saying you
don't play music brounds it's coming.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
A couple of songs back in the day, but this
feels like the one. You know, at least we were
talking before the show a little bit that was like destiny,
this is the one that you've been waiting your whole
career to put out through this album coming out full
length May second, of this year. I'm not who you
think I am. Just talk about the overall body of
work and how excited you are to get these these
songs out to your fans.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Man putting this record together. I swear I feel like this,
this album has been twenty years and then making. I've
got a couple songs on there that I wrote twenty
plus years ago, and you know, they were songs when
I wrote them all those years ago, I was like, man,
if I was making a record right now, I would
love to put these on. And then here we are,
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you know, a couple decades later. And that's the great
thing about great songs. They're always relevant, you know, they
just they're timeless, their classic. And then you know, I
wrote some some newer songs that sort of filled the
holes that it didn't feel like, you know, we had
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on this record. And the style it's rootsy, it you know, raw,
it's real, and to me, that's you know, all I
ever wanted to do with my music was to be
just really raw and authentic and it come from a
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place of just vulnerability. And so I feel like that
resonates with people, you know, it strikes a chord, it
cuts to the heart. A little faster, and you know this,
I'll just be honest with you. The past three years
and making this record has been one of the most
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glorious periods of time and one of the darkest periods
of time I've ever walked through because just personal things
going on in my life, like I lost my dad
three years ago and in the middle of making this record,
and you know, the resilience that I had to dig
within myself and find. You know, I didn't realize I
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as strong as I am, And that's what music has
always done for me, though. It's always been a healer,
and so I thank God for this record because I
don't know what I would have done during this time
in my life had I not had this music to
kind of pull me through. So I hope everybody finds
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themselves in at least one of the songs.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But it really is.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Just such a body of work that I'm so proud of.
There's a lot of really deep and introspective songs on there,
but then there's so much fun to be had listening
to this record too, and I feel like that's kind
of just me wrapped up in a neat little package
because I try not to take myself too seriously. But
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you know, life is serious sometimes and it's good to
sing about it. But it's also good to just kind
of step outside and have a little fun too, And
so that's what I tried to do on this record,
because man, I was trying to get through one of
the hardest times in my life, and so I feel
like it, you know, really came across well on this
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body of work.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No I did, and I'm kind of with you there.
In the last year and a half, I lost my
father at the same time, it really makes me resonate
in a lot of ways to think back to the
good times and not think about the bad. And I
think a lot of people can really understand these songs
and these tracks, and they will when it comes out
full length. May second, I've listened to the whole thing
cover to cover, which is fantastic, and there's so many
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things off of there, such as flower Bed, I Am
My Mother, of course ho now we're gona play here
a little bit too, but some fun stuff, some more
serious things that really captivate people to bring them in
to their cored and really hit to the heart. Just
talk about the I guess the writing on this too
because I believe country music is just as much writing
as it is storytelling, and you've done a great job
with these tracks on there.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I Am My Mother. I'm gonna start with that one.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We got to get a little bit of backstory that one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So I Am My Mother. I wrote that with Rachel Thibodeaux,
Carolyn Don Johnson, and Jamie Floyd. We wrote it December nineteenth,
twenty nineteen. I remember it like it was yesterday. We
were at Carolyn Don's house and she had just lost
her mother, and the rest of us girls are super
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close to our moms. So the way that that title
came about, the four of us were on a text
thread prior to this writing appointment, and the girls had
been just chatting it up one day on a text thread,
and I was cleaning house and didn't really have my
phone on me. By the time I got finished, and
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I looked at my phone, there was like sixty four
unread text messages, and I was like, whoa, you know,
somebody's been burning it up. So I'm like going through
the whole thread like reading. We were trying to put
a show together, and so they were just going back
and forth, and so then I chimed in.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I was like, hey, girls, I wasn't ignoring you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm just now getting back to you, but been cleaning
house all day. And you know, us country women, we
can't stop my mother, you know. And when I saw
I Am my Mother written out, I was like, whoa,
we have to write that. So everybody was into it,
and we got together at Carolyn Don's house and I'm
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there wasn't a dry eye the whole day. It was
just a big old sob vest. But you know, I
wanted to honor my mom and pay homage to her
because she's literally the strongest woman I know. If I
was just an inkling of her, I would be happy.
We have these conversations all the time. I'm like, Mom,
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I just man, I could never have gone through the
things that she's gone through in her life and be
standing up. And she just rocks it. She rocks through
life and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She's just like bopping and she's.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Praising Jesus and she's doing all the things and baking
people cakes and just bringing joy wherever she goes. And
she's literally my hero. So I just wanted to write
her a song.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well you did justice, no doubt about that love it too,
And this is one if you go pre save the
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out there too. But we're gonna play one of the
four here on the backstage pass and not who you
think I Am from Rebecca lenn Howard here on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. Time for a little
hoe down here on the backstage pass. Here it is
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And of course I just love saying it because it's
such a great song. And you love to dance. You
love a hoe down, you know you do? Cracking up
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Speaker 5 (09:54):
Song and you gotta get don't get a move on.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
You shouldn't need those boys long when they're short skirts.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And tall dregs. And don't forget your lipstick.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You sure you're gonna need it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We got something if you won't sit, So here we go.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's dope.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
She don't because there's.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
A hot house down at the barn.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
She's on everybody else's home.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No doubt what she's gonna do.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
She's not gonna try to take her bed from you.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
And if she gets m in the winding bad and
gets come out and a pistol bean bag and go here.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Want to take this older pout and you'll have a full.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We You can't miss her.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Those bubblets came from a doctor, a bottled each blonde hair,
no underwear down there and skin like remember her.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Yeah, there's a hole down down at the bar. She's on.
Everybody else is home, no little down. What she's going
to do.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She's don't want to try to take her bag down
you And.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Then she got a missle with man the girls coming.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
The pistol beef bag.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Again wolf beer. Will I take this old her? Thou?
She don't quick shaking that thing talking call that trash
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the pack.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
It's gonna get the grass.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Girls.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
There's a wool down down at the barn.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Somebody's down the hold on.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Down.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
She tried to do it and knock this.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Why talk to the wood down down at the corn.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
She was on everybody else in car and down she
tried to do.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
She was gonna take your bad from me down and then.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
She got in to missing with again. He came out
and a biscuit bagg and balking up here, She's still
own mere pack.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
How he got away Down, He got a Word, He
got the wood down.
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Speaker 4 (14:04):
So we mentioned this one. What a fun song. You
cannot have a song and not have ho down and
just not have a good time. You're gonna have a
good time when you hear this, right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I tell you, that's literally one of my favorite
songs to play live. And it goes over like everybody
loves it. And it's so funny too, because the way
I introduce it in my show is how you know,
we were putting the record together and I realized that
there wasn't a love song on the record yet, and
so we got together and wrote this song and it
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just proves my undying love for my husband. And so
when I start the song, everybody's kind of looking at
each other, going, wait, what this is a love song?
But yeah, it's a fun one. And you know, growing
up thirteen miles from Butcher Holler, where Loretta Lynn's from,
it's sort of I don't know if the spunk is
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in the water, what the deal is, but I just
I love writing those kind of lyrics that are sassy
and fifty and so yeah, we tried to do that
on a few songs on this record.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You did no doubt were going to talk about a
couple others here in a little bit. And I love
the fact that you can really have that, you know,
good feel of a mix of today's country but also
that nineties country. Take me back there like the SuDS
of the buckets, Sarah Evans kind of feel a little
bit too. I'm sure you've heard that from people before
out there too, But talk about just growing up and
just those musical influences for yourself and and was it
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ninety's country kind of made over for you?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Let me tell you nintes countries where it's at. But
I mean, I cut my teeth on that stuff. Well
I didn't cut my teeth. I was a teenager by
the time that stuff was rolling around. But that really
instilled my love for songs that were just written to
the wall, you know, you know what I'm talking about.
Those songs, even if they were the fast diddies, they
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were still written really And so that's what I've always
tried to do in my music, is like that's the
bar and if it can't be that good, then we
got to go back and fix it. So I you know,
I'm a sucker for it. I'll always say nineties country
is the best because you know, that's just what shaped
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my childhood and my teen years and I just can't
get enough of it. So it just comes so natural,
and that's what comes out, you know, when I write songs,
most of the time, that's what comes out. But I
love it so much and I'm glad to see that there's,
you know, a resurgence of people just wanting to hear
real songs. You know, we've got all this sort of
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folk movement that's happening and people you know, wanting to
go see people just them and their guitar sitting down
singing a song. And you know, to me, if I
can't hold it with just a guitar, then I might
need to go and evaluate and see if I've got
the songwriter or not, because you can't just rely on
an awesome track all the time, like either the song
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is there or not, so the song will always be king.
I'm kind of a stickler when it comes to that.
So yeah, nineties country is the best.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It sure is no doubt about it till you get
a little bit of that mix on this new record
again coming out May second from Rebecca Lynn Howard. I'm
not who you think I am, and of course were
war track here We're gonna play on ninety nine point
nine KKTC True Country. You know, speaking of that out there,
this women's category, you match nineties to what's going on
right now, and there was a gap there for at
least for me in my opinion, that went by that
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you didn't maybe not have that strong of a ladies
category that we do right now. Of course, Landy's blown
up over the last two or three years. I know,
it's it's a had her here on the show, like
you know what you're gonna blow up? And there you go,
twenty twenty. It's been a few years since we've talked
and everything. Talk about just what that means, you know
for you as one of those rising stars kind of
the next wave of that category, this lady's movement.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, you know, it feels good back, you know, I
remember back in the nineties you had Shanaiah, Tricia and
Martina and Reba and Mindy McCready and Sarah Evans and
just on and on and on, and there was no
shortage of amazing female talent, and so I feel like,
you know, we're with Megan Maroney, with you know, Lanny
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Wilson and Kelsey Vallerini and Carrie Underwood, and it feels
like we're you know, Miranda Lambert.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Feels like we're kind of getting a good little body.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But I would, obviously, i'd love to see more females
having their breakthrough, but you know, it's just one of
those things. I didn't really understand the business and why
it seemed to be so short on females at one point.
Like I just try to go with the flow, not
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take anything personally, not get offended by anything, and just
make the best music that I can make and just
see where it lands. I've always had that attitude with
my songs. You know, if it never gets a song
of the Year, never goes to the top of the charts,
I believe that song was given to me for a reason,
and you know, it'll do its job wherever it was meant,
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you know, to go, and whoever's ears it was meant
to reach, it will. So I just I try not
to get.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wrapped up in the politics of all of it too much.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I'm just glad that you know, there are so many
platforms that were able to put our own music out
and just do it ourselves. You know, like if we
can't get anybody to kind of get on board, then
we'll just do it ourselves. So women have been doing
it for centuries when doing it ourselves for centuries, so
we'll just keep doing itselves.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's a good segue into my next question for you too.
But I we'll take you back a little bit to
some old school Rebecca Lynn Howard too, that album that
came out in two thousand and eight. If I remember too,
this is going back I say, my younger days, because
now we look back, we're like, yeah, it's coming up
a what twenty years since that came out. But I
love it because no rules and this had everything from
uh like you said, sass and then some told some
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great stories with those songs, like Shaky Ground and some
other ones what Dyan Feels Like, which was just one
of those like wow type type songs. Talk about this
as we're coming up on that timeline. These songs have
been out there for a while and they really shaped
who you are and your body of work. I mean,
this is still one of my favorite records you put out.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Thank you so much. You know, it's just it's such
so telling that the things that we go through in
our lives, it's all for a reason. Like you know,
I don't understand a lot of stuff that I've had
to walk through in the last three years, but I
know that it's for a reason, because everything that's ever
happened to me in my life has always been for
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a reason.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I always like it reveals itself in time.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And that was a really dark time in my life.
It seems like I always make albums like right after
I've come out of the darkest times in my life,
you know, going through a divorce and it was just bad.
My heart was broken, it was it just sucked. You know,
I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. It was not easy time
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to get through. But if I hadn't have gone through that,
songs like you know what dying feels like wouldn't be there.
And a lot of people have been healed through listening
to those songs and going Okay, somebody understands the way
I feel, and so I always try to take those
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those experiences, those troubles, those you know, being in the
Muddy Grubs and just write about it because honestly, I
don't know what else to do. That's just who I am,
and it's the best form of therapy. I've actually been
to therapy before, and the whole time I was sitting there,
I was like, Man, I get so much more out
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of my songwriting sessions than I do. So I'm so
thankful because I'm able to pour my heart out into
this music and sort of move beyond the pain. And
it's not always writing songs out of pain. Sometimes I'm happy,
you know, and something great's happened, and it's like I
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want to write a bop, you know, let's write a ditty.
Let's something that people can drive fast to and roll
the windows down, and so I just, you know, I
love how music encompasses everything we go through and so
no rules. That was, you know, that was one of
those times and I just had to get a bunch
of junk out of my heart and put it on
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the paper and get it out to the world.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So I'm glad you like it because it's one of
my problems too.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That's all I know about you as an artist.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Loved the style then everything was there, the spunk, it
was just telling stories, and that's what songs really, you know,
did it for me and continue to do it even today.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I love this one.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We got to get a little backstory because this is
one of my favorite ones that would come up on
a playlist.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
People like, who's that.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm like, that's Rebecca Lyn Howard. You've not heard of them?
Just like, where have you been hitting under a rock
or something or whatever. I'm just trying to tell them, like,
this is good music.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Do right woman, do right man. We got to talk
about this a do right.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Woman, Do right man. That's an old Wreatha Franklin song
cut that record in Muscle Shows, and she sang her
version in Muscle Shows. So I wanted to kind of,
you know, put my spin on something that she had
worked on in that same recording studio with you know,
some of that same soul. Man. It's just muscle shows
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is a different place.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It just it just is and.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know, getting to wrap your voice around something that
Areatha Franklin sang is something that I did not take lightly,
believe me. You know, I grew up singing gospel music
in church and so that soul it's always been something
that's been a big part of my musical influence growing up,
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and I've always loved those soul singers, so I just
loved it. I loved getting to sing this song and
just have fun, like listen karaoke is one of my
favorite things to do. I know it might seem cheesy
to a lot of people, but singing covers, I just
I love it because these songs are great, and you know,
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they just need to be brought back to life and
put in front of people again because they're just amazing songs.
I'm just a champion of a great song. I don't
care who wrote it, who's so I just want great songs,
and this is definitely a great song.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It really was no doubt about it. Aretha Franklin put
her her fingers on it too, and of course her vocals.
You know you're cutting something that is just living on
in infamy in music too. I give the new record
I'm Not who you think I Am, re Becca Lyn
Howard coming out May second pre or now get this
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Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't love you, but my heart steal does. I
don't love you, but my heart steal does.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Can't get over you over away because I don't love you,
but my heartsteal does.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I heard it through the small town.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Bring fine. You been having too good of a time,
too many teams.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
He's too much fine. Thank God on miney. I'm in
my right eye.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
I don't love you, but my heart steel does. I
don't love you the heartstealers can't get over you love
a waycause I don't love you, but my heart steak.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Boots.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
If it was up to it, A done took you back?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
What a matter than a hen and a gun, he said,
I can beat you over the head with a bad mans.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
To be hard and won't live me to do that.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I don't love you, but.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
My heart steel does. I don't love you, but my
heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Can't get over you all the way because I don't
love you.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
About my heartstea.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
Butts, I'm done a cooking your lives and a sweeping
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your floor.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
You ain't not making hood door out of bean on
hutting my hand on a bottle and a sword of
the board by my head and my chest still bind
this ward.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I know you put my heart steel does? I know
ugh you put my heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Can't get over you, all awakers.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
I don't know you, but my heart steel does. I know,
but my heart steel does. I don't know ething from
my heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Can't get it over you, loll awakers.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I don't know you from my heartstead.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
Boys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
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Speaker 2 (28:45):
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(29:15):
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too on iHeartRadio two as well. Rebecca Leenn Howard back
here on the backstage past Heart still does and pointed
you another one. You mentioned that you're a sucker for
(29:37):
good songs, and again with the writing of this one,
I started going, Yes, I get it, I understand what
this is about. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So we were on tour with Steven Tyler. I played
bass in his band about ten years and we'd been
on a world tour and we had just gotten off
of the road and my husband and I at the
time my husband was in the band too, and at
the time we were renovating our house. So when we
got back to Nashville, we were homeless because our house
wasn't done. It was completely gutted.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So a friend of ours, who's actually one of our
co writers too, he was like, look, I've got the
studio apartment. I want you to come live over top
of the garage for a little while. We'll start work.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We had been talking about, you know, making a record together,
and so he was like, this would be the perfect
opportunity for us to start like putting some stuff down.
And Heart Still Does is one of the first songs
that we wrote in that studio apartment after being on
a world tour getting ready for this record. And Jenney Fleener,
who if you don't know her, look her up. She's one,
(30:42):
you know, CMA Musician of the Year, like four years
in a row, I think, And she's just awesome. She's
one of the greatest fiddle players I've ever heard in
my life. She's amazing. But anyway, she's a real good
friend of mine, and we just cackle and have the
best time together and we invite or over to write.
And I'd had this title for a long time and
(31:05):
we just kind of started jamming. My husband had this
little lick on the ukulele that you actually hear at
the very first of the record, and I just started going,
you know, I don't love you, but my heart steal
it does.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And it just fell out.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I mean, we had the whole thing written in about
thirty minutes and the vote. We recorded the vocals everything
right then and there.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So what you hear is what we wrote that day
and we just had the best time.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And this is another one of those that man, I
just wanted to channel my inner Loretta Lynn and just
bring that that funny sort of you know, humorous, little
dark humor, because you know it is a heartbreak song,
but how do we make it a little bit lighter,
you know, let's add a little bit of that tongue.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In cheek, you know. She was like can Janey was like,
can we say I want to beat you over the head.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
With a bat? And I was like, I think we
could say anything we want to say. It's my song,
but it's all in fun. And I think that's what,
you know, resonates with people so much when they hear it.
They're like, I like this, I'm not even going through
a heartbreak, but I want to say this because it
is a fun, little you know, beaten and kind of
(32:22):
a throwback sort of like Waylon Jennings feel like I
can just imagine singing this on the opry right now,
you know. So it's one of my favorite tracks on
the record.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
It's one of the ones you guys can get on
the pre order out there too. Rebecca le and Howard.
Check her out on social media, giver a like, and
of course, so go to that website out there too
for all the great music too. That website. You know what,
you wouldn't give that to people so they could just
go ahead and dot com for yourself, go ahead and
give them your website, Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
My website is Rebecca Lenhowardofficial dot com.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
The official is in there, official music out there, not
who you think I am. You know, I got a
chance love that title track and just love those words
because that is something where you don't want to be
false or fake or something like that to or be
somebody you're not. And you really brought the authenticity out
with that tune to as well.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I wrote that song over twenty years ago, and what
inspired that song was my uncle back when I was
a kid, I grew up and all I ever remember
was that he battled alcoholism his whole life, and you know,
we got the call one night tragically that and this
(33:33):
was after he had sobered up for six months that
he had been killed by a drunk driver, and I
just could, you know, back when I was a kid,
I didn't appreciate the irony of that, the way that
that all went down. But as I got older, I
started thinking about that, and I wanted to write a
song in his memory that told the struggle that you know,
(33:56):
he was going through and it doesn't have to be
is that that we have a hard time with, that
we struggle with and that feels like it's got, you know,
kind of a death grip on us. And I just
wanted to write a song that that made people feel
like they weren't alone in going through that, and that
you can you can overcome it. It feels dark in
(34:19):
the moment, but you just got to keep going. Just
never give up, you know, when those voices talk to you.
So that's kind of where that song was born. And
when I was putting the whole album together, I thought, man,
it just really speaks volumes. I'm not who you think
I am. Because so many people have tried to pigeonhole
(34:42):
me my entire career, to put me in a corner,
to put me in a box and say, well, you
can't be this because that's not country enough, and you
can't be that because that's too country, and and I just,
you know, I got sick of that because I'm an artist,
and you can't tell an artist what kind of of
art they want to make. They have to make the
(35:02):
art that inspires them, and that can be ever evolving.
So I just, you know, that's what I wanted to
give people on this record, and I thought, I'm not
who you think I am was the perfect title.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
So you did it justice again there too. And you
know what, I'll never say those words on my program too,
because I believe in just everything that's out there, and
that thing you said, field of being the hardest creating
a lot of arts out there out in the masses.
So hey, like I said, somebody likes it, they're gonna
pick it up. And that's what, you know, gains the
popularity too. But when it's a good song, a good
(35:36):
song is gonna speak to the masses out there too.
All right, let's have a little fun with this to
wrap up here, because I can't wait to get to
a show, just meet you in person one day and
it just really you know, shoot that you know what
out there when it comes down to it, over a
good bourbon or a good whiskey. Like I said, drink's
on me. First first drink. I'll get to I get
to buy you a drink out there too. But hey,
looking back at it too, Nashville, no shortage when it
(35:57):
comes to restaurants. I love going out there to sit
to the town and maybe not so much Broadway anymore,
but you know, midtown things like that. But I love
this new restaurant. People are like talking about her, at
least new to me. Bar Taco out there. Can't wait
to try that one. When you're out in the town,
where do you like to go eat? Where do you
like to go hang out?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Well, so when we're out on the road, it's a
little tricky, you know. I know a lot of people
think that we're out here and we're seeing all this stuff.
But I know you can see me, but like your
listeners can't see I'm sitting in a dressing room, huh,
with fluorescent lights over the top of my head. I've
(36:35):
been on a bus all day and in a venue
all day doing soundcheck, we'll do the show, we'll get
back on the bus, and we'll leave. So we're kind
of at the mercy of what we call after show food.
And Lee have this guy who tries to search out
the best food in whatever town we're in and he'll
order a bunch of stuff for us, because usually after
(36:57):
the show we're like starving to death. And so last night,
for example, we were we were in Birmingham, Alabama, and
on he walks on the bus here with like all
of these takeout trays and it's got like ramb kebobs
and chicken kebabs and shrimp and hummus and rice. And
(37:19):
I'm a pretty healthy eater, so so I enjoy that
kind of stuff. They brought ribs on and I'm you know,
I just can't do that. So, uh, I try to
eat healthy. I try to, you know, and if I
can't find it, sometimes I'll just go to the grocery
store and get a bunch of fruit. And I know
it's probably not the sexiest anser in the world, but
(37:41):
that's that's the truth. I really do try to take
care of myself and eat the healthiest that I can.
So I can be here the longest that I can.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Try.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Tried that keyword, no doubt. We try to do it said,
sometimes it doesn't work out, but then I'm like, you
work out. It's got to be free rate out there
to choose what you want to eat too as well.
But I a the kebabs. I'd have to have a
few kebobs if I got back on a tour bus
out there too, because I couldn't turn down it. Just
a good cobob out there too. All right, let me
ask you this one, have a little fun. If you've
never were a working musician, what other career path would
(38:14):
you have chosen.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh that's such a good question because I know the answer.
I would probably be in some sort of field within
like holistic health, because I love natural health. I'm super
into that. Growing up, my grandma she just knew all
the home remedies for everything, and I'm just fascinated by
(38:38):
that kind of stuff. I've researched all the time. You know,
my whole house looks like an apothecary, So don't walk
in my house with any kind of ailment, because I've
probably got the juice for it. That stuff really interests
me so I love anything health related when it comes
to like natural health. Also, if it wasn't that, I
(39:02):
also love animal rescue, so anything to do with I'm
allergic to cats. I really can't personally do anything with cats,
but I love them the same. The animal rescue has
such a big place in my heart, and I try
to help with some organizations there in Nashville get dogs
placed and just help raise money, and you know, because
(39:25):
it's sort of a never ending cycle of vet bills
and all the things that they have to do to
take these animals in.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So I do have a heart for the little fur babies.
So that would be one of those two things.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
A great heart and a great just artist out there too,
and a great choice of these songs that are out
there now makes you, guys, preload everything, pre save it,
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Speaker 4 (39:50):
I'm not who you think I am.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
The current record out there and we'll be coming up
May second of this year, coming out across all the
digital streaming platforms. Guys, go pre save now. Rebecca let
Howard Official dot com and of course out there give
her a like on social media. I want to say,
you know what, it's been great catching up with you,
getting to know you, the music, everything there. One of
my favorites out there of all time, kicking ass and
taking names. The Lee Brice Tour is kicking off out
(40:14):
there too as well, has kicked off. Makes you guys
go get tickets on the websites out there. Appreciate you
being a part of what we got going on here
on the program Sad. We're gonna miss you though next
week at CRS, but you know what, always a good
time to catch up closer to the album release, and
I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Thanks so much, Thank you, Brandon.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
One of the best out there, Rebecca led Howard on
the show. I'm not who you think I am, but
you know what, She's authentic out there too. The title
of the record coming out May the second, Rebecca len
Howard Official dot com, makes you guys go check out
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(40:51):
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Speaker 1 (41:10):
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Speaker 2 (41:21):
Ninety nine point nine
Hey, y'all, this is Rebecca Len Howard and you're listening to.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Backstage Past exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine ED.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome inside the Backstage Past, of course, now you know
we're in Nashville, Tennessee. Coming up there too. Country Radio
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Speaker 4 (00:28):
And please to have her on here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We finally get to catch up with her rockstar country superstars.
She's done it all. She's on tour with Lee Brice. Now,
good friend of the program here, and I'm not who
you think I am, but you know what, I know
who she is. That's the title of the latest record,
Rebecca Len Howard of the program, Miss Lynn Howard, how.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
To have you here on the broadcast talking music for
the next twenty or so minutes. I mentioned that at
the top there, good friend of the program love Lee Brice.
He's done the program here several times. And of course
brother Lewis always have the last name Bryce. You're gonna
stay busy out there. How's the I know, the tours
getting underway for you guys, exciting times starting there in
Kentucky and man, this is gonna be big for you
(01:09):
and I cannot wait to talk about This album is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Thank you so much. Yeah, we're having a ball on
the road with Lee and touring with him.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Is so much fun because you know, he has a
studio set up on his bus and so after the
show we go back to the bus and we write
songs and we record and it's just never ending with
that guy. I'm like, how much offee are you drinking?
I don't know how he finds all that energy. But yeah,
(01:40):
So last night was We actually played Birmingham and it
was a great, great show. If you've not gotten a
chance to see the You, Me and My Guitar tour,
it's so good. I mean, Lee holds down a two
hour show just him and a bunch of guitars. The
(02:01):
stories are so good and it's just it, I don't know,
it's just a really magical show, unlike anything I've ever seen.
So he's done a really great job, and I just
you know, we've been friends for years and years now
and we just respect each other so much and love
each other's songs and voices, and it's just it's been
(02:23):
really fun. I do like a twenty minute set opening
up his show, and then I come out and sing
some songs with him in the middle, and it's really great.
It's really great, and we're having a really fun time
out here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well you should. He's one of the best to do
it out there too, and definitely, man just love the
fact to get out there, hold his own and just
play some of the best songs. One of the greatest
songwriters ever there in Nashville, Tennessee, and just a great storyteller.
And that's what you've done with this record. Let's dive
into it before I start playing songs. Everybody saying you
don't play music brounds it's coming.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
A couple of songs back in the day, but this
feels like the one. You know, at least we were
talking before the show a little bit that was like destiny,
this is the one that you've been waiting your whole
career to put out through this album coming out full
length May second, of this year. I'm not who you
think I am. Just talk about the overall body of
work and how excited you are to get these these
songs out to your fans.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Man putting this record together. I swear I feel like this,
this album has been twenty years and then making. I've
got a couple songs on there that I wrote twenty
plus years ago, and you know, they were songs when
I wrote them all those years ago, I was like, man,
if I was making a record right now, I would
love to put these on. And then here we are,
(03:34):
you know, a couple decades later. And that's the great
thing about great songs. They're always relevant, you know, they
just they're timeless, their classic. And then you know, I
wrote some some newer songs that sort of filled the
holes that it didn't feel like, you know, we had
(03:54):
on this record. And the style it's rootsy, it you know, raw,
it's real, and to me, that's you know, all I
ever wanted to do with my music was to be
just really raw and authentic and it come from a
(04:15):
place of just vulnerability. And so I feel like that
resonates with people, you know, it strikes a chord, it
cuts to the heart. A little faster, and you know this,
I'll just be honest with you. The past three years
and making this record has been one of the most
(04:38):
glorious periods of time and one of the darkest periods
of time I've ever walked through because just personal things
going on in my life, like I lost my dad
three years ago and in the middle of making this record,
and you know, the resilience that I had to dig
within myself and find. You know, I didn't realize I
(05:00):
as strong as I am, And that's what music has
always done for me, though. It's always been a healer,
and so I thank God for this record because I
don't know what I would have done during this time
in my life had I not had this music to
kind of pull me through. So I hope everybody finds
(05:24):
themselves in at least one of the songs.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But it really is.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Just such a body of work that I'm so proud of.
There's a lot of really deep and introspective songs on there,
but then there's so much fun to be had listening
to this record too, and I feel like that's kind
of just me wrapped up in a neat little package
because I try not to take myself too seriously. But
(05:52):
you know, life is serious sometimes and it's good to
sing about it. But it's also good to just kind
of step outside and have a little fun too, And
so that's what I tried to do on this record,
because man, I was trying to get through one of
the hardest times in my life, and so I feel
like it, you know, really came across well on this
(06:12):
body of work.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No I did, and I'm kind of with you there.
In the last year and a half, I lost my
father at the same time, it really makes me resonate
in a lot of ways to think back to the
good times and not think about the bad. And I
think a lot of people can really understand these songs
and these tracks, and they will when it comes out
full length. May second, I've listened to the whole thing
cover to cover, which is fantastic, and there's so many
(06:35):
things off of there, such as flower Bed, I Am
My Mother, of course ho now we're gona play here
a little bit too, but some fun stuff, some more
serious things that really captivate people to bring them in
to their cored and really hit to the heart. Just
talk about the I guess the writing on this too
because I believe country music is just as much writing
as it is storytelling, and you've done a great job
with these tracks on there.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I Am My Mother. I'm gonna start with that one.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We got to get a little bit of backstory that one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So I Am My Mother. I wrote that with Rachel Thibodeaux,
Carolyn Don Johnson, and Jamie Floyd. We wrote it December nineteenth,
twenty nineteen. I remember it like it was yesterday. We
were at Carolyn Don's house and she had just lost
her mother, and the rest of us girls are super
(07:21):
close to our moms. So the way that that title
came about, the four of us were on a text
thread prior to this writing appointment, and the girls had
been just chatting it up one day on a text thread,
and I was cleaning house and didn't really have my
phone on me. By the time I got finished, and
(07:42):
I looked at my phone, there was like sixty four
unread text messages, and I was like, whoa, you know,
somebody's been burning it up. So I'm like going through
the whole thread like reading. We were trying to put
a show together, and so they were just going back
and forth, and so then I chimed in.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I was like, hey, girls, I wasn't ignoring you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm just now getting back to you, but been cleaning
house all day. And you know, us country women, we
can't stop my mother, you know. And when I saw
I Am my Mother written out, I was like, whoa,
we have to write that. So everybody was into it,
and we got together at Carolyn Don's house and I'm
(08:26):
there wasn't a dry eye the whole day. It was
just a big old sob vest. But you know, I
wanted to honor my mom and pay homage to her
because she's literally the strongest woman I know. If I
was just an inkling of her, I would be happy.
We have these conversations all the time. I'm like, Mom,
(08:48):
I just man, I could never have gone through the
things that she's gone through in her life and be
standing up. And she just rocks it. She rocks through
life and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She's just like bopping and she's.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Praising Jesus and she's doing all the things and baking
people cakes and just bringing joy wherever she goes. And
she's literally my hero. So I just wanted to write
her a song.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well you did justice, no doubt about that love it too,
And this is one if you go pre save the
link now, you're gonna get this one out there most
of your subscriptions digital streaming platforms. One of the four
out there too. But we're gonna play one of the
four here on the backstage pass and not who you
think I Am from Rebecca lenn Howard here on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. Time for a little
hoe down here on the backstage pass. Here it is
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And of course I just love saying it because it's
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Speaker 5 (09:54):
Song and you gotta get don't get a move on.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
You shouldn't need those boys long when they're short skirts.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And tall dregs. And don't forget your lipstick.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You sure you're gonna need it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We got something if you won't sit, So here we go.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's dope.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
She don't because there's.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
A hot house down at the barn.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
She's on everybody else's home.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No doubt what she's gonna do.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
She's not gonna try to take her bed from you.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
And if she gets m in the winding bad and
gets come out and a pistol bean bag and go here.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Want to take this older pout and you'll have a full.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We You can't miss her.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Those bubblets came from a doctor, a bottled each blonde hair,
no underwear down there and skin like remember her.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Yeah, there's a hole down down at the bar. She's on.
Everybody else is home, no little down. What she's going
to do.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She's don't want to try to take her bag down
you And.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Then she got a missle with man the girls coming.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
The pistol beef bag.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Again wolf beer. Will I take this old her? Thou?
She don't quick shaking that thing talking call that trash
(11:39):
the pack.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
It's gonna get the grass.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Girls.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
There's a wool down down at the barn.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Somebody's down the hold on.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Down.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
She tried to do it and knock this.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Why talk to the wood down down at the corn.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
She was on everybody else in car and down she
tried to do.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
She was gonna take your bad from me down and then.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
She got in to missing with again. He came out
and a biscuit bagg and balking up here, She's still
own mere pack.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
How he got away Down, He got a Word, He
got the wood down.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
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Speaker 4 (14:04):
So we mentioned this one. What a fun song. You
cannot have a song and not have ho down and
just not have a good time. You're gonna have a
good time when you hear this, right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I tell you, that's literally one of my favorite
songs to play live. And it goes over like everybody
loves it. And it's so funny too, because the way
I introduce it in my show is how you know,
we were putting the record together and I realized that
there wasn't a love song on the record yet, and
so we got together and wrote this song and it
(14:34):
just proves my undying love for my husband. And so
when I start the song, everybody's kind of looking at
each other, going, wait, what this is a love song?
But yeah, it's a fun one. And you know, growing
up thirteen miles from Butcher Holler, where Loretta Lynn's from,
it's sort of I don't know if the spunk is
(14:59):
in the water, what the deal is, but I just
I love writing those kind of lyrics that are sassy
and fifty and so yeah, we tried to do that
on a few songs on this record.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You did no doubt were going to talk about a
couple others here in a little bit. And I love
the fact that you can really have that, you know,
good feel of a mix of today's country but also
that nineties country. Take me back there like the SuDS
of the buckets, Sarah Evans kind of feel a little
bit too. I'm sure you've heard that from people before
out there too, But talk about just growing up and
just those musical influences for yourself and and was it
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ninety's country kind of made over for you?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Let me tell you nintes countries where it's at. But
I mean, I cut my teeth on that stuff. Well
I didn't cut my teeth. I was a teenager by
the time that stuff was rolling around. But that really
instilled my love for songs that were just written to
the wall, you know, you know what I'm talking about.
Those songs, even if they were the fast diddies, they
(15:58):
were still written really And so that's what I've always
tried to do in my music, is like that's the
bar and if it can't be that good, then we
got to go back and fix it. So I you know,
I'm a sucker for it. I'll always say nineties country
is the best because you know, that's just what shaped
(16:19):
my childhood and my teen years and I just can't
get enough of it. So it just comes so natural,
and that's what comes out, you know, when I write songs,
most of the time, that's what comes out. But I
love it so much and I'm glad to see that there's,
you know, a resurgence of people just wanting to hear
real songs. You know, we've got all this sort of
(16:42):
folk movement that's happening and people you know, wanting to
go see people just them and their guitar sitting down
singing a song. And you know, to me, if I
can't hold it with just a guitar, then I might
need to go and evaluate and see if I've got
the songwriter or not, because you can't just rely on
an awesome track all the time, like either the song
(17:05):
is there or not, so the song will always be king.
I'm kind of a stickler when it comes to that.
So yeah, nineties country is the best.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It sure is no doubt about it till you get
a little bit of that mix on this new record
again coming out May second from Rebecca Lynn Howard. I'm
not who you think I am, and of course were
war track here We're gonna play on ninety nine point
nine KKTC True Country. You know, speaking of that out there,
this women's category, you match nineties to what's going on
right now, and there was a gap there for at
least for me in my opinion, that went by that
(17:36):
you didn't maybe not have that strong of a ladies
category that we do right now. Of course, Landy's blown
up over the last two or three years. I know,
it's it's a had her here on the show, like
you know what you're gonna blow up? And there you go,
twenty twenty. It's been a few years since we've talked
and everything. Talk about just what that means, you know
for you as one of those rising stars kind of
the next wave of that category, this lady's movement.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, you know, it feels good back, you know, I
remember back in the nineties you had Shanaiah, Tricia and
Martina and Reba and Mindy McCready and Sarah Evans and
just on and on and on, and there was no
shortage of amazing female talent, and so I feel like,
you know, we're with Megan Maroney, with you know, Lanny
(18:19):
Wilson and Kelsey Vallerini and Carrie Underwood, and it feels
like we're you know, Miranda Lambert.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Feels like we're kind of getting a good little body.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But I would, obviously, i'd love to see more females
having their breakthrough, but you know, it's just one of
those things. I didn't really understand the business and why
it seemed to be so short on females at one point.
Like I just try to go with the flow, not
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take anything personally, not get offended by anything, and just
make the best music that I can make and just
see where it lands. I've always had that attitude with
my songs. You know, if it never gets a song
of the Year, never goes to the top of the charts,
I believe that song was given to me for a reason,
and you know, it'll do its job wherever it was meant,
(19:13):
you know, to go, and whoever's ears it was meant
to reach, it will. So I just I try not
to get.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wrapped up in the politics of all of it too much.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I'm just glad that you know, there are so many
platforms that were able to put our own music out
and just do it ourselves. You know, like if we
can't get anybody to kind of get on board, then
we'll just do it ourselves. So women have been doing
it for centuries when doing it ourselves for centuries, so
we'll just keep doing itselves.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's a good segue into my next question for you too.
But I we'll take you back a little bit to
some old school Rebecca Lynn Howard too, that album that
came out in two thousand and eight. If I remember too,
this is going back I say, my younger days, because
now we look back, we're like, yeah, it's coming up
a what twenty years since that came out. But I
love it because no rules and this had everything from
uh like you said, sass and then some told some
(20:08):
great stories with those songs, like Shaky Ground and some
other ones what Dyan Feels Like, which was just one
of those like wow type type songs. Talk about this
as we're coming up on that timeline. These songs have
been out there for a while and they really shaped
who you are and your body of work. I mean,
this is still one of my favorite records you put out.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Thank you so much. You know, it's just it's such
so telling that the things that we go through in
our lives, it's all for a reason. Like you know,
I don't understand a lot of stuff that I've had
to walk through in the last three years, but I
know that it's for a reason, because everything that's ever
happened to me in my life has always been for
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a reason.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I always like it reveals itself in time.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And that was a really dark time in my life.
It seems like I always make albums like right after
I've come out of the darkest times in my life,
you know, going through a divorce and it was just bad.
My heart was broken, it was it just sucked. You know,
I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. It was not easy time
(21:11):
to get through. But if I hadn't have gone through that,
songs like you know what dying feels like wouldn't be there.
And a lot of people have been healed through listening
to those songs and going Okay, somebody understands the way
I feel, and so I always try to take those
(21:35):
those experiences, those troubles, those you know, being in the
Muddy Grubs and just write about it because honestly, I
don't know what else to do. That's just who I am,
and it's the best form of therapy. I've actually been
to therapy before, and the whole time I was sitting there,
I was like, Man, I get so much more out
(21:57):
of my songwriting sessions than I do. So I'm so
thankful because I'm able to pour my heart out into
this music and sort of move beyond the pain. And
it's not always writing songs out of pain. Sometimes I'm happy,
you know, and something great's happened, and it's like I
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want to write a bop, you know, let's write a ditty.
Let's something that people can drive fast to and roll
the windows down, and so I just, you know, I
love how music encompasses everything we go through and so
no rules. That was, you know, that was one of
those times and I just had to get a bunch
of junk out of my heart and put it on
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the paper and get it out to the world.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So I'm glad you like it because it's one of
my problems too.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That's all I know about you as an artist.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Loved the style then everything was there, the spunk, it
was just telling stories, and that's what songs really, you know,
did it for me and continue to do it even today.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I love this one.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We got to get a little backstory because this is
one of my favorite ones that would come up on
a playlist.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
People like, who's that.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm like, that's Rebecca Lyn Howard. You've not heard of them?
Just like, where have you been hitting under a rock
or something or whatever. I'm just trying to tell them, like,
this is good music.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Do right woman, do right man. We got to talk
about this a do right.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Woman, Do right man. That's an old Wreatha Franklin song
cut that record in Muscle Shows, and she sang her
version in Muscle Shows. So I wanted to kind of,
you know, put my spin on something that she had
worked on in that same recording studio with you know,
some of that same soul. Man. It's just muscle shows
(23:38):
is a different place.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It just it just is and.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know, getting to wrap your voice around something that
Areatha Franklin sang is something that I did not take lightly,
believe me. You know, I grew up singing gospel music
in church and so that soul it's always been something
that's been a big part of my musical influence growing up,
(24:06):
and I've always loved those soul singers, so I just
loved it. I loved getting to sing this song and
just have fun, like listen karaoke is one of my
favorite things to do. I know it might seem cheesy
to a lot of people, but singing covers, I just
I love it because these songs are great, and you know,
(24:26):
they just need to be brought back to life and
put in front of people again because they're just amazing songs.
I'm just a champion of a great song. I don't
care who wrote it, who's so I just want great songs,
and this is definitely a great song.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It really was no doubt about it. Aretha Franklin put
her her fingers on it too, and of course her vocals.
You know you're cutting something that is just living on
in infamy in music too. I give the new record
I'm Not who you think I Am, re Becca Lyn
Howard coming out May second pre or now get this
one out there too when you order across all the DSPs.
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Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't love you, but my heart steal does. I
don't love you, but my heart steal does.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Can't get over you over away because I don't love you,
but my heartsteal does.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I heard it through the small town.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Bring fine. You been having too good of a time,
too many teams.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
He's too much fine. Thank God on miney. I'm in
my right eye.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
I don't love you, but my heart steel does. I
don't love you the heartstealers can't get over you love
a waycause I don't love you, but my heart steak.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Boots.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
If it was up to it, A done took you back?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
What a matter than a hen and a gun, he said,
I can beat you over the head with a bad mans.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
To be hard and won't live me to do that.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I don't love you, but.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
My heart steel does. I don't love you, but my
heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Can't get over you all the way because I don't
love you.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
About my heartstea.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
Butts, I'm done a cooking your lives and a sweeping
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your floor.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
You ain't not making hood door out of bean on
hutting my hand on a bottle and a sword of
the board by my head and my chest still bind
this ward.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I know you put my heart steel does? I know
ugh you put my heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Can't get over you, all awakers.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
I don't know you, but my heart steel does. I know,
but my heart steel does. I don't know ething from
my heart steel does.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Can't get it over you, loll awakers.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I don't know you from my heartstead.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
Boys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Hi guys, this is Twiny here and you're listening to
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Speaker 10 (28:30):
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Speaker 2 (28:45):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Robbie Johnson and
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Speaker 4 (28:51):
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(29:15):
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too on iHeartRadio two as well. Rebecca Leenn Howard back
here on the backstage past Heart still does and pointed
you another one. You mentioned that you're a sucker for
(29:37):
good songs, and again with the writing of this one,
I started going, Yes, I get it, I understand what
this is about. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So we were on tour with Steven Tyler. I played
bass in his band about ten years and we'd been
on a world tour and we had just gotten off
of the road and my husband and I at the
time my husband was in the band too, and at
the time we were renovating our house. So when we
got back to Nashville, we were homeless because our house
wasn't done. It was completely gutted.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So a friend of ours, who's actually one of our
co writers too, he was like, look, I've got the
studio apartment. I want you to come live over top
of the garage for a little while. We'll start work.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We had been talking about, you know, making a record together,
and so he was like, this would be the perfect
opportunity for us to start like putting some stuff down.
And Heart Still Does is one of the first songs
that we wrote in that studio apartment after being on
a world tour getting ready for this record. And Jenney Fleener,
who if you don't know her, look her up. She's one,
(30:42):
you know, CMA Musician of the Year, like four years
in a row, I think, And she's just awesome. She's
one of the greatest fiddle players I've ever heard in
my life. She's amazing. But anyway, she's a real good
friend of mine, and we just cackle and have the
best time together and we invite or over to write.
And I'd had this title for a long time and
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we just kind of started jamming. My husband had this
little lick on the ukulele that you actually hear at
the very first of the record, and I just started going,
you know, I don't love you, but my heart steal
it does.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And it just fell out.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I mean, we had the whole thing written in about
thirty minutes and the vote. We recorded the vocals everything
right then and there.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So what you hear is what we wrote that day
and we just had the best time.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And this is another one of those that man, I
just wanted to channel my inner Loretta Lynn and just
bring that that funny sort of you know, humorous, little
dark humor, because you know it is a heartbreak song,
but how do we make it a little bit lighter,
you know, let's add a little bit of that tongue.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In cheek, you know. She was like can Janey was like,
can we say I want to beat you over the head.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
With a bat? And I was like, I think we
could say anything we want to say. It's my song,
but it's all in fun. And I think that's what,
you know, resonates with people so much when they hear it.
They're like, I like this, I'm not even going through
a heartbreak, but I want to say this because it
is a fun, little you know, beaten and kind of
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a throwback sort of like Waylon Jennings feel like I
can just imagine singing this on the opry right now,
you know. So it's one of my favorite tracks on
the record.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
It's one of the ones you guys can get on
the pre order out there too. Rebecca le and Howard.
Check her out on social media, giver a like, and
of course, so go to that website out there too
for all the great music too. That website. You know what,
you wouldn't give that to people so they could just
go ahead and dot com for yourself, go ahead and
give them your website, Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
My website is Rebecca Lenhowardofficial dot com.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
The official is in there, official music out there, not
who you think I am. You know, I got a
chance love that title track and just love those words
because that is something where you don't want to be
false or fake or something like that to or be
somebody you're not. And you really brought the authenticity out
with that tune to as well.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I wrote that song over twenty years ago, and what
inspired that song was my uncle back when I was
a kid, I grew up and all I ever remember
was that he battled alcoholism his whole life, and you know,
we got the call one night tragically that and this
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was after he had sobered up for six months that
he had been killed by a drunk driver, and I
just could, you know, back when I was a kid,
I didn't appreciate the irony of that, the way that
that all went down. But as I got older, I
started thinking about that, and I wanted to write a
song in his memory that told the struggle that you know,
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he was going through and it doesn't have to be
is that that we have a hard time with, that
we struggle with and that feels like it's got, you know,
kind of a death grip on us. And I just
wanted to write a song that that made people feel
like they weren't alone in going through that, and that
you can you can overcome it. It feels dark in
(34:19):
the moment, but you just got to keep going. Just
never give up, you know, when those voices talk to you.
So that's kind of where that song was born. And
when I was putting the whole album together, I thought, man,
it just really speaks volumes. I'm not who you think
I am. Because so many people have tried to pigeonhole
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me my entire career, to put me in a corner,
to put me in a box and say, well, you
can't be this because that's not country enough, and you
can't be that because that's too country, and and I just,
you know, I got sick of that because I'm an artist,
and you can't tell an artist what kind of of
art they want to make. They have to make the
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art that inspires them, and that can be ever evolving.
So I just, you know, that's what I wanted to
give people on this record, and I thought, I'm not
who you think I am was the perfect title.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
So you did it justice again there too. And you
know what, I'll never say those words on my program too,
because I believe in just everything that's out there, and
that thing you said, field of being the hardest creating
a lot of arts out there out in the masses.
So hey, like I said, somebody likes it, they're gonna
pick it up. And that's what, you know, gains the
popularity too. But when it's a good song, a good
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song is gonna speak to the masses out there too.
All right, let's have a little fun with this to
wrap up here, because I can't wait to get to
a show, just meet you in person one day and
it just really you know, shoot that you know what
out there when it comes down to it, over a
good bourbon or a good whiskey. Like I said, drink's
on me. First first drink. I'll get to I get
to buy you a drink out there too. But hey,
looking back at it too, Nashville, no shortage when it
(35:57):
comes to restaurants. I love going out there to sit
to the town and maybe not so much Broadway anymore,
but you know, midtown things like that. But I love
this new restaurant. People are like talking about her, at
least new to me. Bar Taco out there. Can't wait
to try that one. When you're out in the town,
where do you like to go eat? Where do you
like to go hang out?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Well, so when we're out on the road, it's a
little tricky, you know. I know a lot of people
think that we're out here and we're seeing all this stuff.
But I know you can see me, but like your
listeners can't see I'm sitting in a dressing room, huh,
with fluorescent lights over the top of my head. I've
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been on a bus all day and in a venue
all day doing soundcheck, we'll do the show, we'll get
back on the bus, and we'll leave. So we're kind
of at the mercy of what we call after show food.
And Lee have this guy who tries to search out
the best food in whatever town we're in and he'll
order a bunch of stuff for us, because usually after
(36:57):
the show we're like starving to death. And so last night,
for example, we were we were in Birmingham, Alabama, and
on he walks on the bus here with like all
of these takeout trays and it's got like ramb kebobs
and chicken kebabs and shrimp and hummus and rice. And
(37:19):
I'm a pretty healthy eater, so so I enjoy that
kind of stuff. They brought ribs on and I'm you know,
I just can't do that. So, uh, I try to
eat healthy. I try to, you know, and if I
can't find it, sometimes I'll just go to the grocery
store and get a bunch of fruit. And I know
it's probably not the sexiest anser in the world, but
(37:41):
that's that's the truth. I really do try to take
care of myself and eat the healthiest that I can.
So I can be here the longest that I can.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Try.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Tried that keyword, no doubt. We try to do it said,
sometimes it doesn't work out, but then I'm like, you
work out. It's got to be free rate out there
to choose what you want to eat too as well.
But I a the kebabs. I'd have to have a
few kebobs if I got back on a tour bus
out there too, because I couldn't turn down it. Just
a good cobob out there too. All right, let me
ask you this one, have a little fun. If you've
never were a working musician, what other career path would
(38:14):
you have chosen.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh that's such a good question because I know the answer.
I would probably be in some sort of field within
like holistic health, because I love natural health. I'm super
into that. Growing up, my grandma she just knew all
the home remedies for everything, and I'm just fascinated by
(38:38):
that kind of stuff. I've researched all the time. You know,
my whole house looks like an apothecary, So don't walk
in my house with any kind of ailment, because I've
probably got the juice for it. That stuff really interests
me so I love anything health related when it comes
to like natural health. Also, if it wasn't that, I
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also love animal rescue, so anything to do with I'm
allergic to cats. I really can't personally do anything with cats,
but I love them the same. The animal rescue has
such a big place in my heart, and I try
to help with some organizations there in Nashville get dogs
placed and just help raise money, and you know, because
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it's sort of a never ending cycle of vet bills
and all the things that they have to do to
take these animals in.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So I do have a heart for the little fur babies.
So that would be one of those two things.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I love it too.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
A great heart and a great just artist out there too,
and a great choice of these songs that are out
there now makes you, guys, preload everything, pre save it,
and get those four songs we have talked about today
here on the show.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
I'm not who you think I am.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
The current record out there and we'll be coming up
May second of this year, coming out across all the
digital streaming platforms. Guys, go pre save now. Rebecca let
Howard Official dot com and of course out there give
her a like on social media. I want to say,
you know what, it's been great catching up with you,
getting to know you, the music, everything there. One of
my favorites out there of all time, kicking ass and
taking names. The Lee Brice Tour is kicking off out
(40:14):
there too as well, has kicked off. Makes you guys
go get tickets on the websites out there. Appreciate you
being a part of what we got going on here
on the program Sad. We're gonna miss you though next
week at CRS, but you know what, always a good
time to catch up closer to the album release, and
I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Thanks so much, Thank you, Brandon.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
One of the best out there, Rebecca led Howard on
the show. I'm not who you think I am, but
you know what, She's authentic out there too. The title
of the record coming out May the second, Rebecca len
Howard Official dot com, makes you guys go check out
the website out there too and checking all the great
music across all the digital streaming platforms. We're back with
more great music, presented by the kadangordonshow dot Com, Today's
(40:51):
best Country Mix and of course our friends out there
to Olivia Rocks Music and Sandy June Music are great sponsors,
and of course more great music coming up here you
never know it be at Rebecca Len Howward Solin Coming
up here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine and
powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot Com. Until then,
take care, God Bles, We'll Seezue.
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