November 7, 2025 • 43 mins
Ross Flora joined us on the show to discuss his new album, The Garden! Tune into to hear Ross chat about the stories behind the songs!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is recording artist Rossfloor and you're listening
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I'll tell you what always great to educate you guys
on the young artists of today. They do a little
bit of everything, country, jazz, blues, rock. We do a
little bit of all this in this domain called the
Backstage Past. Please welcome on. My featured artist of today
is Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and happy holidays
(01:08):
to everybody out there, if you're actually celebrating, I guess
a little bit earlier, no matter where you're at, Ross
Flora to the program, Ross, how you doing, Man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hey, I'm good, Brandon. Thank you for having me. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Man, good to catch up here and get to know
you as an artist and really talk about this record
here too, which is called The Garden, which is actually
the title track of the song we're going to play here.
A little bit came out September nineteenth, just a couple
of months. I want to say October, but October was
last month. It's crazy how these months are flying by.
So the background I noticed, I got to read a
little bit about you, Virginia Rono coping that area. So
(01:41):
growing up on a lot of different influences of music
kind of tell people the story a little bit about yourself.
Background music and the connection from a young age.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, so I grew up in a musical household, started
taking piano lessons when I was about, you know, six
or seven years old. That was a real important thing
for my family and is kind of graph kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I grew up in the heart of bluegrass country out
there in the Appalachians, just south of Renoak. And let's
say my dad played R and B and rock and
kind of funk music all through his career as well
as bluegrass, and so I grew up with that all
just playing all the time around the house. Then came
up in Roanoak really cut my teeth in that market
(02:24):
out there, which has a lot of R and B
influences there and a lot of rock and roll. And
then from there, you know, the one that you know,
got hooked on country music and decided Nashville was the
next stop and the place to really you know, give
it a go in. So I moved out here about
thirteen years ago, and I've been playing music from my
(02:44):
living ever since. And yeah, I've been writing music, playing live,
you know, and doing keeping me irons and the fire
as possible.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, we all do that, no doubt. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I love the fact there was somewhere you had played
or do play like some kind of maybe four thousand
shows in your career, Like that's pretty cool to get
out there and like perform in front of a crowd
and that kind of ignites you like being on stage.
So people have that performing arts and addiction to it
as far as uh, performing arts and being on stage
talk about that too, and just the because it's a
lot of wear and tear to do four thousand shows
(03:15):
in your career.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's so when I first moved out here,
you know, just yeah, I still do, you know. From
the early age, I just wanted to play. I just
wanted to be in front of people and you know,
and spread my music. And whenever I got out here,
I realized, you know, you can stack up gigs, you know,
four hour shifts. So I was doing doubles and triples
(03:37):
and still do you know, but I think I wanted
to try and set a record one year and I
did close to seven hundred shows in like twenty eighteen
and well over six hundred and fifty and twenty nineteen,
and so you know, just yeah, loving being on stage
more than I was sleeping, you know and things.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But I loved it. You know, it is a wearing hair.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You have to you have to take care of yourself
mentally more so, just you get burned out on something
you love.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I was starting to.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Do that and I didn't want to continue down that road,
you know, getting burned out.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You easily can do that too, and have to have
that fine line between balance between, like you said, the
leisurely and of course the work life too. At the
same time, looking back at it, I was mentioned that
we're going to talk about the Garden here in a
little bit too, and just a great ep out there
across all the DSPs.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Your music kind of had a feel for me.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm talking a little bit before the show here that
Confederate Railroad kind of Blackhawk, kind of old school eighties country,
maybe little Shenandoah kind of thrown in there too, And
I love it because I've talked to you know, a
few of those groups are on the show, Shenandoah in particular,
and Marty Raymond and Mike McGuire, and that feel of
that old school kind of country is what gave it
for me for the Garden. And of course a lot
(04:50):
of songs, even the previous record that you had put
out too as well that I got a chance to
listen to, which was really fantastic out there too, called
Shoulders of Giant, talk about just the old school feel
and and growing up on that old style of music,
and it put a little bit of rock and roll
into your country.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. Yeah. As I've gotten older and played more in
my music.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
My my taste definitely tend toward like more of the
organic kind of sounds of that that era. And I've
always tried to we say, I'm a little Americana in
the thing, but mainly that's just coming from the lot
of the organic sounds and in the songwriting. But I mean,
I grew up singing harmony before I really ever started
(05:33):
singing lead.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And my dad taught me.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
How to sing harmonies at a very early age and
fell in love with that. So all those bands you
just named, all them groups, that's that's exactly, yeah, something
I was really wanting to hit on with harmonies in
the in the songwriting and you know, and putting pedal
steel on stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, it's got a great sound too. We're gonna play
the title track right here. A really great song kind
of sets a tone for the record. I've always said
that too, And this one here did it for me, h,
like I said, because it is my show and I
get a chance to play what I want to play
here too as well. Is Ross Flora on the backstage
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Speaker 4 (06:21):
Stay Tuned, Tell them by.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
The Creek Invadall as a child swear I'd worn a
planet seed sprinter as a father Ingraham postcard before man innocence, Foregod,
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before my heart had heart, and before my grace was
solved with falling out in the God.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Telling Orange about and he can seal her fairy pieces
worth your soul. Being mindful of the serpent.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
The forbidden fruit takes.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Its so.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
And the many miles it took me from home I
got alongst I found out on my own. They're the
hard way lessons that I know when I left the God.
(08:26):
Am I still the soon be got? It is my
soul still sobbing.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
If my decisions found.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The parton.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Found in the guard.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Daw do you want about taking silver thirty pieces with
your soul? The green mouthful of the serpent.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
The forbidden fruit takes it so.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Kill the strange to give me mercy.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
If I'm new, eat.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
These scenes I have sown.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
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Speaker 4 (09:38):
You're not worried, because.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
A fine forgiveness.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
In this grounds grown here in the guard, here in
the garden.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Chad, you want about taking silver, sad if it is
with your soul.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
By man for love of serpent.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
The forbidden fruits takes it so here in the guard,
here in the garden.
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dot com back here. A featured artist, Ross Flora on
the show the new album The Garden Across All the DSPs.
I loved it too, because it really justified the title
of the album. First of all, can't wait to hear
the story of this and kind of where you were when,
what you were doing when you came up with this
great title.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
And we all go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Through the busy things in life lack of a better term,
that keep us, I guess in a way we try
to be grounded to but we get so eaten up.
You mentioned earlier the show about work and about things
and how you have that fine line of balance between
work and family and things like that, but this is
one of the ones. Then I was actually sitting in
my car this morning I went to the gym, and
(15:02):
I was like, man, I just have to put this
on to like calm my mind. That makes any sense
because it really it did justice for gardening and like
hobbies and things that are just like peaceful, and it
put me like in a sanctuary almost.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, no, that thank you. That's that's a yeah what
I was trying to do with it. That's what the
garden was to me growing up. I mean outside church,
it was you know, it was more church to me
than actual church probably was. It was, so yeah, I
got to that was the most mesmerizing thing as a
kid and growing up and like saying, real part of
(15:38):
Appalachian Mountains to south a rohono right there. My favorite
part was having a garden in the summer and spending
our time out there and getting to witness the miracle
that is putting the seed in the ground and watching
it grow in this amazing you know into a light
case of you know, corn plant taller than I am
and it uh.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Feeds you and anyway, So that was.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, it was something that was a lot of family
time spent around the garden, you know, all you know,
extended family out there, you know, helping out.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So yeah, I wanted to write that song with my dad.
I had it saved.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I kind of had it just where I wanted to
be like a metaphor for life, for coming back to
your roots, to your childhood to that like I say
it in a sense of being a kid and just
that wonder of you know, being in the garden was
like for me. And then yeah, so last Thanksgiving, you know,
I was like, Dad, we got to sit down and
finally write this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We finally got you know, a night away from you know,
from the family, we could really sit around and just
two of us and hang out, and we ended up
writing that song that night.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And yeah, I'm real proud of it.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Uh well, you should be, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That tranquility I talked about too, and that peacefulness and
I love it too because my wife still loves to
garden too. At the same time and like I said,
she's got my daughter into it at the same time too.
I'm not so much that I can listen to like
the the relaxing, meditative music such as songs like that,
and then you know matha sanctuary is more of the gym,
but also taking like yoga and listening to music, and
that's more of my kind of the hobby, you know,
(17:06):
CrossFit things like that that really you know, put put
me in my uh sanctuaries. I mentioned that song has
done too also off of there too. I want to
touch on a little bit of one that was a
Small Town No More, which was the fourth cut on
this record. Here tell us all about about that one.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, a lot of uh yeah metaphors and literal interpretations
in my hometown. I grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia
and wrote that song with Troy Kemp about a two
years ago, and like I say, we've been saving it.
We kind of you know, I love the uh what's
(17:43):
the Bruce Springsteen song? You know, I love you know,
I've sang that one a thousand times, but uh, my
hometown just kind of loved how that was.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I was like, man, there's a there's a cool version.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We could write that about southern town, you know, kind
have that same gist, but yeah, kind of right is
a letter of my you know, hometown, you know, And
just kind of every time I don't get to go
back very often, usually just for the holidays and and yeah,
and every time I go back, so much has changed.
And it's a little tiny town, you know, and so
(18:13):
it always blows my mind. And kind of just wanted
to write that song about, you know, the sadness of
seeing things that you loved being knocked down and something
else built on top of them. But at the same
time realizing, you know, you don't want stuff to just
stand still, and you know, and the way I remember
this town from my childhood is how kids these days
(18:34):
are still you know kind of it's still the same
to them.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So no, it's another great song to another piece of
work there. I love it, and a great song that
tells a story back to that previous record. I was
talking a little bit about Shoulders of Giants. We'll get
to that title track in a second, but another great song.
It seems like you're you're really like the king of
just setting the tone for great songs to early begin
a record, and this did it. Riding in a car
and talking about another It almost feels like that the
(19:01):
letter there too, or at least that distance relationship, or
you're almost writing a letter to a city out there.
But I love it, because, uh, when you love a
hometown as much as I do, you often you're right
you try to go back to, especially if it made
an impression on you. But the song me and Abilene
did it for me and really kind of set the
tone on the record for that Shoulders of Giants.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Tell us about that one.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, that was Lord, I've got a whole notebook just
to that one song I rewrote over the years, and
that hook had been stuck in my head for years
and years and years, and.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I knew I.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Wasn't I wasn't going to compromise on the way I
wanted it to come out, you know, And I finally
figured out the right words to express what that meant
to me. And I mean, Abilene, I've been out there
a couple of times, you know, I love that town,
but it's a greater metaphor for really about living on
the road, for me personally, being on tour, and when
(19:55):
I did a lot of touring back to me, you know,
years past, and and you know, you're usually only in
town for one or two nights and then you know,
you move on, and sometimes one or two nights is
all it takes for your fall in love with the
town or you know, or just see a life for
yourself there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And there's a couple there's a handful of places that
come to mind when I think about that kind of thing.
You know, there was like, man, I could really see
myself having a life here. But I've already sacrificed and
put you know, put all my eggs in the basket
here in Nashville, and that's my life.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know. And so anyway, there's that was kind of
what that song was about.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
When you look at that title track too, such a
big kind of bold words looking out their shoulders of giants.
I love the fact this because it feels like we
have that or at least that metaphor there too at
the same time where it's just like everything is just
on our shoulders, you know, life is just hitting us
in the face and we have to, like you said,
hit the brakes. Sometimes it can't just be all gased,
no breaks. It has to be some breaks out there too.
(20:57):
But this one really did it for me. And another
story well told for Shoulders of Giants.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, thank you, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I had a childhood friend of mine was out here
in Nashville visiting, and he was my next door neighbor,
and we were talking about our grandfathers and his dad.
So my grandpa and his dad were yeah, around the
same age, and they and they both passed. And then
we were talking about, you know, man, just how lucky
we were to have the mentors we did in our lives,
(21:26):
taught us to tried to teach us to do right
and you know, right from wrong and uh and yeah,
and then he was like, man, we really stand on
the shoulders of giants and he was I was like, man,
that's a song and I'm right in that thing to
and yeah, so that's yeah, it was Travis.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, helped me out with that one.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Put that one together, no doubt too. Hey, you've done
a lot of cool collaborations. Also from that record too,
was one called sky Ain't Falling and I know that was.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Emily Allen was on that cut with you too. Let's
talk about I guess two parts here. How was how
much fun that was to work with emy Lee on
that one? And then if you could actually do another collaboration,
if somebody you haven't worked with, like who would you pick?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Male or female in the industry too?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Oh okay, well yeah, so Sky Fallen was was written
myself and uh yeah, and so yeah, we co wrote
that one and Emily Allen sang on it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And she's one of my best friends.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She you know, been a Yeah, she's a lifelong friend
for me and just so happy to have her voice
on there because she, you know, just sounds amazing, you know,
the voice of the literal voice of an angel, and yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Anytime I can work with her. She was in town,
she was visiting.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
She since moved from Nashville, so I don't get to see
her as often as I used to. But she was
in town visiting and came over and we recorded a
couple of things just in a single night. I was like,
if you're here, I want you on an album, like
whether it's singing harmony and you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So yeah, she play my favorite person I work with
out there.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Another fantastic singer songwriter there too, another one I've had
my eye on two to get here on this very
show to highlight her as another singer songwriter too at
the same time with another fantastic talent out there too.
Love this one too. At the same time. You also
had a cut on the Garden with her, called a
cut a Trail. We'll talk about that coming back here,
I mean a little bit here, but time to play
another one off the record The Garden here Ross Flora.
(23:24):
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This one's called another one of those songs. I love
it because you have that connection to a hometown. You
love it. You're gonna be homebound. Here it is Ross
Flora the backstage bass KYBN ninety eight point one, your
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Speaker 4 (23:55):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I got the wind in my back, got the pedal
to the floor, making some just have a little more
waving you.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It's been a long time coming.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I'm counting down and tags us came.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The thought of with waits that it's overdue.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
She's sitting in the front yard, boy in my She's
got the sun.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
In her hair.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
It's like I'm already there, no clouds, only Blue's got
my piece of no chance of slowing me down.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm on bow.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
My hands on the.
Speaker 20 (25:14):
Parties time see you. I'll come alive again. Listen quotes.
It's no sweetest sound.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Here you calling just around the bell.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
She's sitting in the front yard, pulling in min She's
got the sun in her head.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It's like I'm already there, no clouds under blue the
sky in my peace of mind.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No chance is slowing me.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Joel along down.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Jail time all the way, chasing you on it becon
you'sy today?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Shall I see you?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Me?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Who sitting here in the frontier arch boy in mine,
she's gout the sun in her hair. It's like I'm
already there, No clouds on the blue, this guy and
my piece of mine, no.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
Chance of school in me town.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
She's sitting there in the frontier.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yacht, boy in mine, She's gout the sun in her hair.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It's like I'm already there, No clouds on the blue,
this guy and my piece of mine, no.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Chance of schooling me down.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I'm home now, I'm old.
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Speaker 2 (30:42):
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Speaker 4 (31:08):
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Speaker 4 (31:28):
I got to ask you about this.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Love it just another great song off a record too
that really has that feel up tempo. I loved it
the way you guys made the entire arrangement for a
homebound tell us all about it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
They have a song another one about com being on
the road for me personally, try to write them where
I can apply to more than just being.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
On the road as a musician.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But it was kind of that feeling when you're just
round the bend from home, like you're close enough where
you're not going to like jinx it, you know, and
and then you that's the best part of coming off
the road, you know, is when home is just right
there you kind of smell it and come on to
write a song about that and lovingly kind of say
(32:11):
it's about my dog, you know, coming home to my Duckshun,
say to May and that's why she's on the cover
of it. And yeah, so that was you know, it
was just it's whether you had a bad day at work,
whether you know.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It doesn't matter how long you've been away, it's just
that song. It's a song about.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
That excitement you get when you're almost home and you
know there's some something or some a pet or a
person waiting there for you.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I love that And that's the beautiful thing of songs
come from all different areas. And you've done this on
another EP that you put out. I think this was
twenty twenty three as the Crow Files. Let's talk about
this one too. Another great song to lead off called
Days like these.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, Yeah, there was another one Troy Kemp and I
wrote together, and yeah, just a song I'd.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Had for in my notes for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I was like, you know, i'd had how days like
those led to days like these?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I always thought it was a kind of.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Cool line and talking about how, you know, I write
a lot about how our mistakes, you know, meg's who
we are, you know, and all those things that you
thought were mistakes, you know, if you could go back
and correct them, you'd be somewhere else than where you
are right now. And I believe, you know, I friendly
(33:25):
believe life is a journey.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
We're here to learn and understand ourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And that's that's kind of what that song is about,
you know, is embracing those times it's tripped up, made
mistakes and but there you're here now, and you know
there's something to learn from.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I definitely learned from them, and I'll make those same
mistakes two or three times. I used to coach high
school sports sometimes that I used to tell some athletes. Still,
if you make a mistake one time, it's okay, we
start doing it two or three four times. Intentionally. We
got to chat. We gotta talk I'm just kidding, yeah
out there.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
For that too.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Hey, speaking of sports, do you find yourself rooting for
any college or pro teams out there?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And if so, who are your teams?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I mean football season, it's I'm a Virginia Tech fans,
so I'm an hockey fan and we're going through.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
With this, yeah, this decade.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
But yeah, so I kind of came up in the
I was learning to watch football on the Glory Days. Yeah,
you know, from ninety nine to like, you know to
twenty twelve or something.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Like that, we had a pretty good streak.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
But but yeah, so that's my college team.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Pro.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Growing up in Roanoke, we're pretty much equal distant from Pittsburgh,
you know, Washington, Nashville, and then Charlotte. They're all relatively
five to six and a half hours away from there.
So I never really had like a And when I
was growing up, the Redskins or the Commanders weren't good,
so it's, uh, you know, we weren't watching that, and
(35:05):
so I've just become a Titans fan just because it's
convenient out here. I've never really had a team that
are really rooted for. I always liked the Ravens when
I was growing up. But you know that's just kind
of that was with ray Lewis years and all that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, when you look at Charlotte right now to I
will tay you like over halfway through this season now,
I don't want to say anything right now, but I
mean the Carolina Panthers playing some good defense right now too,
and game over five hundred. This could be something special
for the second half because this this NFL season, my
friend is it's pretty much wide open right now.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, yeah, and yeah, the Panthers are putting some pieces together.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It looks like, I mean, there are some specials going
on right May have to ask Dave Tepper, and he
spent enough money in the offseason, I guess it finally
caught up with he right there, to the owner of
the Panthers for it to finally work out, for him
to say, you know what, open the checkbook, will sign
quality players, finally bring them in, track around them, develop them,
and it's gonna be a good good season so far.
Uh for those Carolina Panthers. Let me ask you about
(36:07):
food that market up there too. I love it. It's
one of my favorite cities to go to Speaking of Nashville,
had a chance to do the show There Live a
couple of times this past year CRS and the CMA
Week in June. I always find something new in every
corner for restaurants. It's like market now for a different
type of restaurants that go there and you know, kind
(36:27):
of do their thing, open up and I guess they
go see if they're gonna make it there obviously, uh
and bringing out a lot of great customers. Where do
you like to go kind of like hangout spots or
just dives to eat at.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
For I love Italian. I mean I love it all
my mom. My mom was an amazing chef. She taught
me to like appreciate all types of food and and
if you don't like it, Trusse is like art, you know,
It's kind of thing she would always instill in me,
and she's like, figure out a way to like it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And but I love Italian. That's probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So go over to onto the house over here in
the Hermitage Mount Juliet kind of line if you're ever
in that area, and it's uh, you know, it's been
there for a long time and it's it's one of
my favorite.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Places to go.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Aside from that, yeah, we have there's this place called
Sushi Kingdom over in Madison that's unlimited sushi. So I
like to I do pretty much like I eat like
one meal a day basically, but when I eat that
one meal out, you know, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
So I love the all you can eat kind of place.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Is that and like Korean barbecues and stuff like that,
and which we have one of those two shaboo shaboo.
But but yeah, so other than that, I mean the
barbecue here. Uh talking to a Texas man about barbecue here,
but this is a shotgum Willies is it's up there,
and I think, are we getting to Terry Blacks?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do we?
Speaker 16 (37:51):
Just?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I think as far as Texas is concerned, it might
get a little something down here too, because you know,
Texas is a great barbecue market about it.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
So it's yeah for beef, yeah, and that's yeah all.
I only like b viecue, but they I think Terry
Blacks is. I just saw a pop up the other
day and that said will be It said something that
gave me a lot of hope that they're opening one
up here.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So Okay, well, Tennessee, he's getting one. I'm there too.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I was gonna say, well, because Texas known for that
barbecue down here too, but you know, my favorite place
to get barbecue like you know also, I mean they're
in West Texas out that way. I'm not so much
down here like Houston what I'm close to here in
Texas here, but I love like West Texas barbecue and
going out to like San Antonio and like Kurveville out
that way for barbecue. But outside of that, my favorite
(38:38):
place to get it was only two places, Kansas City,
Missouri for Memphis, Tennessee. That was my top my top
two where Kansas City, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee for barbecue.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah yeah, there's both dry rub Memphis.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Dry rub, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
In Kansas City, I'm gonna say, the barbecue sauce was
totally different here in uh Kansas City and compared to Texas,
no doubt about it too. And of course that's that's
the varieties of spice of life. You're gonna have different
types of sauces for different things, kind of like your
breakfast tacos, things like that wherever you go places.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
But I thought was really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
As you could get the dry rub with the different
types of sauces, try a little bit of everything right there,
and then kind of give feedback on what what worked
for you is, you know, the taste test thing and what.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Didn't you know?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
That was my thing is I would say, man, Memphis,
Tennessee might top it all when it comes down to it,
but Kansas City's got a really cool city to hang
out into it At the same time, all right, if
ross Flora was not a musician, what other career path
would you have taken.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think I'd be doing something creative, regardless whether it
was another style of writing.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
We also, I mean I grew up on a farm.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I feel that calling all the time, and I kind
of feel I'm the only person at my age in
my family line on my dad's side that isn't actively
farming at my age.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
That kind of haunts me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
For Genneral, I mean, for as far back as we
can count, as far back as you know, we can track,
and so I wish I were closer to home so
I could help out.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
And you know, do that more often than so.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah, I mean, but honestly, from the time I was
about twelve years old. My dad sat me down and
he was a professional musician himself. He kind of he
was like, man, I mean, if you gotta keep working,
you know, don't take this as like you already you know,
nothing's in the bag. You got to keep hustling. But
I'm seeing promise in you. And he gave me a
(40:37):
nice guitar at that age. He was like, look like,
this is my investment in you. He was like this,
I believe in you and help me out with a
few things like getting through school, you know, go to
college and like have a backup plan. But he was like,
then give it all you got. And my mom was
you know, endorsed that as well as well as my
little sister, and so yeah, so this has been my
(41:02):
only trajectory for you know, yes, since I was a
kid and couldn't.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Be happier with it.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
I learned a lot of people go a long time
without finding a purpose and always I thank god I'm
able to you know, he gave me my purpose very
early on, and it was kind of evident like this is, yeah,
this is what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I feel like no doubt about it too, And like
I said, I love it because it's that purpose to
be here. You know, mine, I guess was a radio host,
podcaster type person, so I'm gonna keep doing that thing.
And definitely hears be a musician. You pretty much excel
what you're good at too. At the same time, and
he gives you a gift, you share it with everybody
else out there too well.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Again, the EP is called The Garden.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Make sure you guys go check it out Ross Hyphanflora
dot com, fl o r A. Make sure you guys
check out the website, all the good stuff giving my
like across all the social media out there too, and
go check out this really good blend of man just
the rock country out there too. All that he kind
of said it to a kind of feel out there
too as well, and definitely man Hey continued success going forward.
(42:05):
We appreciate you being here with us and hope you
enjoyed the chat my friend and looking forward to doing
it again.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Oh absolutely, Bren, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You got it ross Flora out there across all the DSPs,
check out the website Ross Hyphenflora dot com and of
course back with more great artists.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Just a few weeks to go.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Until Thanksgiving week is upon us there, Happy early Thanksgiving,
Happy Holidays to everybody out there too. At the same time,
God blessed, take care. We'll see you on the next
episode of The Backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends out there
too THWN dot org, iHeartRadio podcasts, and of course anytime
at the Sports Guys podcast dot com. It's a grand
(42:42):
slam of music, sports entertainment. We'll talk to you soon.
God bless take care.
Speaker 11 (42:46):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
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I'll tell you what always great to educate you guys
on the young artists of today. They do a little
bit of everything, country, jazz, blues, rock. We do a
little bit of all this in this domain called the
Backstage Past. Please welcome on. My featured artist of today
is Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and happy holidays
(01:08):
to everybody out there, if you're actually celebrating, I guess
a little bit earlier, no matter where you're at, Ross
Flora to the program, Ross, how you doing, Man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hey, I'm good, Brandon. Thank you for having me. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Man, good to catch up here and get to know
you as an artist and really talk about this record
here too, which is called The Garden, which is actually
the title track of the song we're going to play here.
A little bit came out September nineteenth, just a couple
of months. I want to say October, but October was
last month. It's crazy how these months are flying by.
So the background I noticed, I got to read a
little bit about you, Virginia Rono coping that area. So
(01:41):
growing up on a lot of different influences of music
kind of tell people the story a little bit about yourself.
Background music and the connection from a young age.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, so I grew up in a musical household, started
taking piano lessons when I was about, you know, six
or seven years old. That was a real important thing
for my family and is kind of graph kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I grew up in the heart of bluegrass country out
there in the Appalachians, just south of Renoak. And let's
say my dad played R and B and rock and
kind of funk music all through his career as well
as bluegrass, and so I grew up with that all
just playing all the time around the house. Then came
up in Roanoak really cut my teeth in that market
(02:24):
out there, which has a lot of R and B
influences there and a lot of rock and roll. And
then from there, you know, the one that you know,
got hooked on country music and decided Nashville was the
next stop and the place to really you know, give
it a go in. So I moved out here about
thirteen years ago, and I've been playing music from my
(02:44):
living ever since. And yeah, I've been writing music, playing live,
you know, and doing keeping me irons and the fire
as possible.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, we all do that, no doubt. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I love the fact there was somewhere you had played
or do play like some kind of maybe four thousand
shows in your career, Like that's pretty cool to get
out there and like perform in front of a crowd
and that kind of ignites you like being on stage.
So people have that performing arts and addiction to it
as far as uh, performing arts and being on stage
talk about that too, and just the because it's a
lot of wear and tear to do four thousand shows
(03:15):
in your career.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's so when I first moved out here,
you know, just yeah, I still do, you know. From
the early age, I just wanted to play. I just
wanted to be in front of people and you know,
and spread my music. And whenever I got out here,
I realized, you know, you can stack up gigs, you know,
four hour shifts. So I was doing doubles and triples
(03:37):
and still do you know, but I think I wanted
to try and set a record one year and I
did close to seven hundred shows in like twenty eighteen
and well over six hundred and fifty and twenty nineteen,
and so you know, just yeah, loving being on stage
more than I was sleeping, you know and things.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But I loved it. You know, it is a wearing hair.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You have to you have to take care of yourself
mentally more so, just you get burned out on something
you love.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I was starting to.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Do that and I didn't want to continue down that road,
you know, getting burned out.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You easily can do that too, and have to have
that fine line between balance between, like you said, the
leisurely and of course the work life too. At the
same time, looking back at it, I was mentioned that
we're going to talk about the Garden here in a
little bit too, and just a great ep out there
across all the DSPs.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Your music kind of had a feel for me.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm talking a little bit before the show here that
Confederate Railroad kind of Blackhawk, kind of old school eighties country,
maybe little Shenandoah kind of thrown in there too, And
I love it because I've talked to you know, a
few of those groups are on the show, Shenandoah in particular,
and Marty Raymond and Mike McGuire, and that feel of
that old school kind of country is what gave it
for me for the Garden. And of course a lot
(04:50):
of songs, even the previous record that you had put
out too as well that I got a chance to
listen to, which was really fantastic out there too, called
Shoulders of Giant, talk about just the old school feel
and and growing up on that old style of music,
and it put a little bit of rock and roll
into your country.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. Yeah. As I've gotten older and played more in
my music.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
My my taste definitely tend toward like more of the
organic kind of sounds of that that era. And I've
always tried to we say, I'm a little Americana in
the thing, but mainly that's just coming from the lot
of the organic sounds and in the songwriting. But I mean,
I grew up singing harmony before I really ever started
(05:33):
singing lead.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And my dad taught me.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
How to sing harmonies at a very early age and
fell in love with that. So all those bands you
just named, all them groups, that's that's exactly, yeah, something
I was really wanting to hit on with harmonies in
the in the songwriting and you know, and putting pedal
steel on stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, it's got a great sound too. We're gonna play
the title track right here. A really great song kind
of sets a tone for the record. I've always said
that too, And this one here did it for me, h,
like I said, because it is my show and I
get a chance to play what I want to play
here too as well. Is Ross Flora on the backstage
pass and the title track is the Garden You're kyb
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dot com back here. A featured artist, Ross Flora on
the show the new album The Garden Across All the DSPs.
I loved it too, because it really justified the title
of the album. First of all, can't wait to hear
the story of this and kind of where you were when,
what you were doing when you came up with this
great title.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
And we all go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Through the busy things in life lack of a better term,
that keep us, I guess in a way we try
to be grounded to but we get so eaten up.
You mentioned earlier the show about work and about things
and how you have that fine line of balance between
work and family and things like that, but this is
one of the ones. Then I was actually sitting in
my car this morning I went to the gym, and
(15:02):
I was like, man, I just have to put this
on to like calm my mind. That makes any sense
because it really it did justice for gardening and like
hobbies and things that are just like peaceful, and it
put me like in a sanctuary almost.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, no, that thank you. That's that's a yeah what
I was trying to do with it. That's what the
garden was to me growing up. I mean outside church,
it was you know, it was more church to me
than actual church probably was. It was, so yeah, I
got to that was the most mesmerizing thing as a
kid and growing up and like saying, real part of
(15:38):
Appalachian Mountains to south a rohono right there. My favorite
part was having a garden in the summer and spending
our time out there and getting to witness the miracle
that is putting the seed in the ground and watching
it grow in this amazing you know into a light
case of you know, corn plant taller than I am
and it uh.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Feeds you and anyway, So that was.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, it was something that was a lot of family
time spent around the garden, you know, all you know,
extended family out there, you know, helping out.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So yeah, I wanted to write that song with my dad.
I had it saved.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I kind of had it just where I wanted to
be like a metaphor for life, for coming back to
your roots, to your childhood to that like I say
it in a sense of being a kid and just
that wonder of you know, being in the garden was
like for me. And then yeah, so last Thanksgiving, you know,
I was like, Dad, we got to sit down and
finally write this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We finally got you know, a night away from you know,
from the family, we could really sit around and just
two of us and hang out, and we ended up
writing that song that night.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And yeah, I'm real proud of it.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Uh well, you should be, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That tranquility I talked about too, and that peacefulness and
I love it too because my wife still loves to
garden too. At the same time and like I said,
she's got my daughter into it at the same time too.
I'm not so much that I can listen to like
the the relaxing, meditative music such as songs like that,
and then you know matha sanctuary is more of the gym,
but also taking like yoga and listening to music, and
that's more of my kind of the hobby, you know,
(17:06):
CrossFit things like that that really you know, put put
me in my uh sanctuaries. I mentioned that song has
done too also off of there too. I want to
touch on a little bit of one that was a
Small Town No More, which was the fourth cut on
this record. Here tell us all about about that one.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, a lot of uh yeah metaphors and literal interpretations
in my hometown. I grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia
and wrote that song with Troy Kemp about a two
years ago, and like I say, we've been saving it.
We kind of you know, I love the uh what's
(17:43):
the Bruce Springsteen song? You know, I love you know,
I've sang that one a thousand times, but uh, my
hometown just kind of loved how that was.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I was like, man, there's a there's a cool version.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We could write that about southern town, you know, kind
have that same gist, but yeah, kind of right is
a letter of my you know, hometown, you know, And
just kind of every time I don't get to go
back very often, usually just for the holidays and and yeah,
and every time I go back, so much has changed.
And it's a little tiny town, you know, and so
(18:13):
it always blows my mind. And kind of just wanted
to write that song about, you know, the sadness of
seeing things that you loved being knocked down and something
else built on top of them. But at the same
time realizing, you know, you don't want stuff to just
stand still, and you know, and the way I remember
this town from my childhood is how kids these days
(18:34):
are still you know kind of it's still the same
to them.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So no, it's another great song to another piece of
work there. I love it, and a great song that
tells a story back to that previous record. I was
talking a little bit about Shoulders of Giants. We'll get
to that title track in a second, but another great song.
It seems like you're you're really like the king of
just setting the tone for great songs to early begin
a record, and this did it. Riding in a car
and talking about another It almost feels like that the
(19:01):
letter there too, or at least that distance relationship, or
you're almost writing a letter to a city out there.
But I love it, because, uh, when you love a
hometown as much as I do, you often you're right
you try to go back to, especially if it made
an impression on you. But the song me and Abilene
did it for me and really kind of set the
tone on the record for that Shoulders of Giants.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Tell us about that one.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, that was Lord, I've got a whole notebook just
to that one song I rewrote over the years, and
that hook had been stuck in my head for years
and years and years, and.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I knew I.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Wasn't I wasn't going to compromise on the way I
wanted it to come out, you know, And I finally
figured out the right words to express what that meant
to me. And I mean, Abilene, I've been out there
a couple of times, you know, I love that town,
but it's a greater metaphor for really about living on
the road, for me personally, being on tour, and when
(19:55):
I did a lot of touring back to me, you know,
years past, and and you know, you're usually only in
town for one or two nights and then you know,
you move on, and sometimes one or two nights is
all it takes for your fall in love with the
town or you know, or just see a life for
yourself there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And there's a couple there's a handful of places that
come to mind when I think about that kind of thing.
You know, there was like, man, I could really see
myself having a life here. But I've already sacrificed and
put you know, put all my eggs in the basket
here in Nashville, and that's my life.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know. And so anyway, there's that was kind of
what that song was about.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
When you look at that title track too, such a
big kind of bold words looking out their shoulders of giants.
I love the fact this because it feels like we
have that or at least that metaphor there too at
the same time where it's just like everything is just
on our shoulders, you know, life is just hitting us
in the face and we have to, like you said,
hit the brakes. Sometimes it can't just be all gased,
no breaks. It has to be some breaks out there too.
(20:57):
But this one really did it for me. And another
story well told for Shoulders of Giants.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, thank you, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I had a childhood friend of mine was out here
in Nashville visiting, and he was my next door neighbor,
and we were talking about our grandfathers and his dad.
So my grandpa and his dad were yeah, around the
same age, and they and they both passed. And then
we were talking about, you know, man, just how lucky
we were to have the mentors we did in our lives,
(21:26):
taught us to tried to teach us to do right
and you know, right from wrong and uh and yeah,
and then he was like, man, we really stand on
the shoulders of giants and he was I was like, man,
that's a song and I'm right in that thing to
and yeah, so that's yeah, it was Travis.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, helped me out with that one.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Put that one together, no doubt too. Hey, you've done
a lot of cool collaborations. Also from that record too,
was one called sky Ain't Falling and I know that was.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Emily Allen was on that cut with you too. Let's
talk about I guess two parts here. How was how
much fun that was to work with emy Lee on
that one? And then if you could actually do another collaboration,
if somebody you haven't worked with, like who would you pick?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Male or female in the industry too?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Oh okay, well yeah, so Sky Fallen was was written
myself and uh yeah, and so yeah, we co wrote
that one and Emily Allen sang on it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And she's one of my best friends.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She you know, been a Yeah, she's a lifelong friend
for me and just so happy to have her voice
on there because she, you know, just sounds amazing, you know,
the voice of the literal voice of an angel, and yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Anytime I can work with her. She was in town,
she was visiting.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
She since moved from Nashville, so I don't get to see
her as often as I used to. But she was
in town visiting and came over and we recorded a
couple of things just in a single night. I was like,
if you're here, I want you on an album, like
whether it's singing harmony and you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So yeah, she play my favorite person I work with
out there.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Another fantastic singer songwriter there too, another one I've had
my eye on two to get here on this very
show to highlight her as another singer songwriter too at
the same time with another fantastic talent out there too.
Love this one too. At the same time. You also
had a cut on the Garden with her, called a
cut a Trail. We'll talk about that coming back here,
I mean a little bit here, but time to play
another one off the record The Garden here Ross Flora.
(23:24):
You can check out rosshypeinflora dot com for all the
tour dates and merchandise and all the cool stuff out
there too. We'd love to put the artist's websites in there.
This one's called another one of those songs. I love
it because you have that connection to a hometown. You
love it. You're gonna be homebound. Here it is Ross
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Speaker 4 (23:55):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I got the wind in my back, got the pedal
to the floor, making some just have a little more
waving you.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It's been a long time coming.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I'm counting down and tags us came.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The thought of with waits that it's overdue.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
She's sitting in the front yard, boy in my She's
got the sun.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
In her hair.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
It's like I'm already there, no clouds, only Blue's got
my piece of no chance of slowing me down.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm on bow.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
My hands on the.
Speaker 20 (25:14):
Parties time see you. I'll come alive again. Listen quotes.
It's no sweetest sound.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Here you calling just around the bell.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
She's sitting in the front yard, pulling in min She's
got the sun in her head.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It's like I'm already there, no clouds under blue the
sky in my peace of mind.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No chance is slowing me.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Joel along down.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Jail time all the way, chasing you on it becon
you'sy today?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Shall I see you?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Me?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Who sitting here in the frontier arch boy in mine,
she's gout the sun in her hair. It's like I'm
already there, No clouds on the blue, this guy and
my piece of mine, no.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
Chance of school in me town.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
She's sitting there in the frontier.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yacht, boy in mine, She's gout the sun in her hair.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It's like I'm already there, No clouds on the blue,
this guy and my piece of mine, no.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Chance of schooling me down.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I'm home now, I'm old.
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Speaker 2 (30:42):
And back you're Ross Flora on the Backstage Pass. Homebound
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Speaker 4 (31:28):
I got to ask you about this.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Love it just another great song off a record too
that really has that feel up tempo. I loved it
the way you guys made the entire arrangement for a
homebound tell us all about it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
They have a song another one about com being on
the road for me personally, try to write them where
I can apply to more than just being.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
On the road as a musician.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But it was kind of that feeling when you're just
round the bend from home, like you're close enough where
you're not going to like jinx it, you know, and
and then you that's the best part of coming off
the road, you know, is when home is just right
there you kind of smell it and come on to
write a song about that and lovingly kind of say
(32:11):
it's about my dog, you know, coming home to my Duckshun,
say to May and that's why she's on the cover
of it. And yeah, so that was you know, it
was just it's whether you had a bad day at work,
whether you know.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It doesn't matter how long you've been away, it's just
that song. It's a song about.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
That excitement you get when you're almost home and you
know there's some something or some a pet or a
person waiting there for you.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I love that And that's the beautiful thing of songs
come from all different areas. And you've done this on
another EP that you put out. I think this was
twenty twenty three as the Crow Files. Let's talk about
this one too. Another great song to lead off called
Days like these.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, Yeah, there was another one Troy Kemp and I
wrote together, and yeah, just a song I'd.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Had for in my notes for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I was like, you know, i'd had how days like
those led to days like these?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I always thought it was a kind of.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Cool line and talking about how, you know, I write
a lot about how our mistakes, you know, meg's who
we are, you know, and all those things that you
thought were mistakes, you know, if you could go back
and correct them, you'd be somewhere else than where you
are right now. And I believe, you know, I friendly
(33:25):
believe life is a journey.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
We're here to learn and understand ourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And that's that's kind of what that song is about,
you know, is embracing those times it's tripped up, made
mistakes and but there you're here now, and you know
there's something to learn from.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I definitely learned from them, and I'll make those same
mistakes two or three times. I used to coach high
school sports sometimes that I used to tell some athletes. Still,
if you make a mistake one time, it's okay, we
start doing it two or three four times. Intentionally. We
got to chat. We gotta talk I'm just kidding, yeah
out there.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
For that too.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Hey, speaking of sports, do you find yourself rooting for
any college or pro teams out there?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And if so, who are your teams?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I mean football season, it's I'm a Virginia Tech fans,
so I'm an hockey fan and we're going through.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
With this, yeah, this decade.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
But yeah, so I kind of came up in the
I was learning to watch football on the Glory Days. Yeah,
you know, from ninety nine to like, you know to
twenty twelve or something.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Like that, we had a pretty good streak.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
But but yeah, so that's my college team.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Pro.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Growing up in Roanoke, we're pretty much equal distant from Pittsburgh,
you know, Washington, Nashville, and then Charlotte. They're all relatively
five to six and a half hours away from there.
So I never really had like a And when I
was growing up, the Redskins or the Commanders weren't good,
so it's, uh, you know, we weren't watching that, and
(35:05):
so I've just become a Titans fan just because it's
convenient out here. I've never really had a team that
are really rooted for. I always liked the Ravens when
I was growing up. But you know that's just kind
of that was with ray Lewis years and all that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, when you look at Charlotte right now to I
will tay you like over halfway through this season now,
I don't want to say anything right now, but I
mean the Carolina Panthers playing some good defense right now too,
and game over five hundred. This could be something special
for the second half because this this NFL season, my
friend is it's pretty much wide open right now.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, yeah, and yeah, the Panthers are putting some pieces together.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It looks like, I mean, there are some specials going
on right May have to ask Dave Tepper, and he
spent enough money in the offseason, I guess it finally
caught up with he right there, to the owner of
the Panthers for it to finally work out, for him
to say, you know what, open the checkbook, will sign
quality players, finally bring them in, track around them, develop them,
and it's gonna be a good good season so far.
Uh for those Carolina Panthers. Let me ask you about
(36:07):
food that market up there too. I love it. It's
one of my favorite cities to go to Speaking of Nashville,
had a chance to do the show There Live a
couple of times this past year CRS and the CMA
Week in June. I always find something new in every
corner for restaurants. It's like market now for a different
type of restaurants that go there and you know, kind
(36:27):
of do their thing, open up and I guess they
go see if they're gonna make it there obviously, uh
and bringing out a lot of great customers. Where do
you like to go kind of like hangout spots or
just dives to eat at.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
For I love Italian. I mean I love it all
my mom. My mom was an amazing chef. She taught
me to like appreciate all types of food and and
if you don't like it, Trusse is like art, you know,
It's kind of thing she would always instill in me,
and she's like, figure out a way to like it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And but I love Italian. That's probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So go over to onto the house over here in
the Hermitage Mount Juliet kind of line if you're ever
in that area, and it's uh, you know, it's been
there for a long time and it's it's one of
my favorite.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Places to go.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Aside from that, yeah, we have there's this place called
Sushi Kingdom over in Madison that's unlimited sushi. So I
like to I do pretty much like I eat like
one meal a day basically, but when I eat that
one meal out, you know, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
So I love the all you can eat kind of place.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Is that and like Korean barbecues and stuff like that,
and which we have one of those two shaboo shaboo.
But but yeah, so other than that, I mean the
barbecue here. Uh talking to a Texas man about barbecue here,
but this is a shotgum Willies is it's up there,
and I think, are we getting to Terry Blacks?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do we?
Speaker 16 (37:51):
Just?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I think as far as Texas is concerned, it might
get a little something down here too, because you know,
Texas is a great barbecue market about it.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
So it's yeah for beef, yeah, and that's yeah all.
I only like b viecue, but they I think Terry
Blacks is. I just saw a pop up the other
day and that said will be It said something that
gave me a lot of hope that they're opening one
up here.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So Okay, well, Tennessee, he's getting one. I'm there too.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I was gonna say, well, because Texas known for that
barbecue down here too, but you know, my favorite place
to get barbecue like you know also, I mean they're
in West Texas out that way. I'm not so much
down here like Houston what I'm close to here in
Texas here, but I love like West Texas barbecue and
going out to like San Antonio and like Kurveville out
that way for barbecue. But outside of that, my favorite
(38:38):
place to get it was only two places, Kansas City,
Missouri for Memphis, Tennessee. That was my top my top
two where Kansas City, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee for barbecue.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah yeah, there's both dry rub Memphis.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Dry rub, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
In Kansas City, I'm gonna say, the barbecue sauce was
totally different here in uh Kansas City and compared to Texas,
no doubt about it too. And of course that's that's
the varieties of spice of life. You're gonna have different
types of sauces for different things, kind of like your
breakfast tacos, things like that wherever you go places.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
But I thought was really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
As you could get the dry rub with the different
types of sauces, try a little bit of everything right there,
and then kind of give feedback on what what worked
for you is, you know, the taste test thing and what.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Didn't you know?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
That was my thing is I would say, man, Memphis,
Tennessee might top it all when it comes down to it,
but Kansas City's got a really cool city to hang
out into it At the same time, all right, if
ross Flora was not a musician, what other career path
would you have taken.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think I'd be doing something creative, regardless whether it
was another style of writing.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
We also, I mean I grew up on a farm.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I feel that calling all the time, and I kind
of feel I'm the only person at my age in
my family line on my dad's side that isn't actively
farming at my age.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
That kind of haunts me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
For Genneral, I mean, for as far back as we
can count, as far back as you know, we can track,
and so I wish I were closer to home so
I could help out.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
And you know, do that more often than so.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah, I mean, but honestly, from the time I was
about twelve years old. My dad sat me down and
he was a professional musician himself. He kind of he
was like, man, I mean, if you gotta keep working,
you know, don't take this as like you already you know,
nothing's in the bag. You got to keep hustling. But
I'm seeing promise in you. And he gave me a
(40:37):
nice guitar at that age. He was like, look like,
this is my investment in you. He was like this,
I believe in you and help me out with a
few things like getting through school, you know, go to
college and like have a backup plan. But he was like,
then give it all you got. And my mom was
you know, endorsed that as well as well as my
little sister, and so yeah, so this has been my
(41:02):
only trajectory for you know, yes, since I was a
kid and couldn't.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Be happier with it.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
I learned a lot of people go a long time
without finding a purpose and always I thank god I'm
able to you know, he gave me my purpose very
early on, and it was kind of evident like this is, yeah,
this is what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I feel like no doubt about it too, And like
I said, I love it because it's that purpose to
be here. You know, mine, I guess was a radio host,
podcaster type person, so I'm gonna keep doing that thing.
And definitely hears be a musician. You pretty much excel
what you're good at too. At the same time, and
he gives you a gift, you share it with everybody
else out there too well.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Again, the EP is called The Garden.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Make sure you guys go check it out Ross Hyphanflora
dot com, fl o r A. Make sure you guys
check out the website, all the good stuff giving my
like across all the social media out there too, and
go check out this really good blend of man just
the rock country out there too. All that he kind
of said it to a kind of feel out there
too as well, and definitely man Hey continued success going forward.
(42:05):
We appreciate you being here with us and hope you
enjoyed the chat my friend and looking forward to doing
it again.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Oh absolutely, Bren, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You got it ross Flora out there across all the DSPs,
check out the website Ross Hyphenflora dot com and of
course back with more great artists.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Just a few weeks to go.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Until Thanksgiving week is upon us there, Happy early Thanksgiving,
Happy Holidays to everybody out there too. At the same time,
God blessed, take care. We'll see you on the next
episode of The Backstage Past KYB in ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Network and our friends out there
too THWN dot org, iHeartRadio podcasts, and of course anytime
at the Sports Guys podcast dot com. It's a grand
(42:42):
slam of music, sports entertainment. We'll talk to you soon.
God bless take care.
Speaker 11 (42:46):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight to one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting network. You can also listen on
iHeartRadio podcasts and at the Sports Guys podcast as dot com.
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