September 9, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Russell Dickerson and you're
listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon on the Home
of the Opry six fifty AM WSM.
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And he's doing that too as well. He's one of
the best up and coming artists out there too, tremendous
songwriter on a triple Tigers Records. Our good friend Russell
Dickerson joining us here on the Home of the Grand
Old Opry AM six fifty w SM. Russell, how you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Doing, yes, sir, doing great?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Are you feeling all right?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah? Man, you know we're both under the weather a
little bit too, but we're here. We're doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know, we're we're committed, We're here, We're strong willed,
We're gonna get it done.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We go got to get it done too. Hey, let's
talk about getting it done for you. Man, you've been
chasing this thing for a long time. And we were
talking a little bit before we actually hit the air.
You guys, if you know this thing called music is
a grind, no doubt too, and making videos, putting out music,
and you've been in this thing a while.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
For the folks who may not know Russell Dickerson, the singer,
songwriter and the artist in itself, you've been chasing this
dream for a while, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, man, I mean it's all that's all I've ever
wanted to do. And you know, as soon as I
as soon as I graduated from college, I was on
the road. I was just like, if it's I don't
I don't even I don't even need money, bro, I
just want to play. I want to get my name
out there. I want to just get my music out there.
And so we played every dorm room, lobby, every cafeteria,
every you know, we just like we were fresh out
(01:34):
of college, just loving playing music. And so that's what
we did, and I like, I never wanted to do
the cover bar band thing, Like I never I just
wanted to play my music and and you know, maybe
it maybe it took longer or whatever, but I'm just
always I want to write my songs, I want to
play this, I want to play them, I want to
play the shows. And you know, we've built this thing
(01:55):
from the absolute ground up, and it's just it's so
cool to see now. You know, we're going and all
around the country, all around the world. I mean we're
headed to Europe in a couple of weeks and you
know we our last tour over there, every show was
sold out. So it's just like it's just crazy to
see the progress that just one brick, brick by brick. Man,
that's that's that's how we built this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Let's talk about your wife too, man, She's been hugely
inspirational in your music career and just the things that
she's done, the job she's taken on to get you
where you're at. And I always say, you know, we're
only as good as our significant other is to allow
us to do things like this. Me and myself is
the radio show as a perfect example, but for you
and your music career. Talk about just how inspirational and
how important she's been.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, I mean, she definitely she did. She definitely makes
everything better. We you know, I had yours in the
very beginning. I had this song for a while, and
uh it was like it wasn't until the point that
we were like, all right, we're going to shoot a
music video. And she shot it and she had the
idea for it. And that was the thing that like
blew my career up right off the bat, was this
(02:54):
music video. So to have that, I mean, and she
she shot the first album cover. She's she's super involved
in all the visual side of my entire career because
I'm like I said, I'm like, I'm not I'm not
a colors guy. I don't see the colors. I don't
you know, that's not my vibe. I'm the music. Like
I hear the music, I hear all of that. But uh, yeah, man,
(03:17):
she's just like she's been there since day one. She
drove the van, she sold the merch, she made the merch,
and you know, she's just been there, been there crushing
it with us, right right alongside of us every show.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know, what's it been like for you guys to
track these songs over the last few years. You know,
we talked about Blue Tacoma and just what it did
for your career back in twenty seventeen, but also every
little thing has gone platinum, and of course Blue Tacoma
and I Love You Like I Used To and She
Likes It featuring Jake Scott, which went platinum. All these
things man to it achieved success. In this business, it's
always great when you have everybody kind of out there,
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you know, watching your career grow. And then you get everybody,
like you know, media and different awards, different to organizations
that kind of see things come up and all these
great songs go platinum, and I think a lot of
that too is your song, right, But also the people
you've been collaborate with.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, I mean it's to look at like people that
I'm a fan of and to see people, you know,
having plaques and stuff and I'm like, oh, snap, like
I got plaques too, baby, Like It's it's crazy. It's
a crazy feeling to like, I mean, I think yours
is like triple or four platinum, and like Blue t
of Coma's two or three, it's just like multiple platinum.
(04:24):
Is insane to me. Uh, And so I'm just I'm
just grateful man to to get to be able to
do what I do. And you know, you always dream
of having plaques and platinum and all that fun stuff.
But it's just like to have them, I mean right
sitting right over here is like, you know, and I'm
I'm kind of weird about hanging them up. I don't
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you know, I'm not like, oh yeah, dude, look at
look at the plaques, baby, look at the I've gone
like hanging in a closet.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know, I love it too, Hey, what what makes
the perfect song for Russell Dickerson? Take me to school
for a little bit. As far as the penmanship to
writing the idea in the hooks.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm a big internal ryn, big internal rhyme guy, big
alliteration guy. So I'm just there's no rules, there's no
wrong or right way. I just I call it. I
call it taste. It's gotta taste good, Like it's gotta
be fun to sing. It's gotta be like you can
have the cleverest lyrics ever, but like if it's all
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clunky coming out, it's just it's not worth it. So
so that's my it's gotta have gotta have good taste.
Gotta taste good when you sing it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I like it. Nobody's ever said it here on the show.
It's gotta taste good. Little seasoning, it's gotta put a
little low. I love that one. Well. Time to play
one here for Russell Dickerson. Here on the backstage pass
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Day to have a Great Day. I love the title
of this one and just how much fun you guys
were having with this with us too.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, man, this was We wrote this one pretty quick.
I just I had the idea of my phone. I
was like, this could be the dumbest song idea ever,
or it could be brilliant. I can't tell. And the
guys I was writing with were are like, oh heck, yeah,
we're writing this, and you know, we had a little fun,
little happy track going, and they're just like, bom.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Good day to have a great day, Baby good.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I love it man so much. You know you talked
about yours kind of being that wedding edition out there too,
but this is so cool. I'm gonna go back and
give the song props due you mentioned the twice platinum
or three time platinum. But I can drive anywhere in
the country and just talk about man anthems. You put
out some great anthems and songs and stuff like that
where people just can originate too. But man, this one,
Blue Takoma. Did you ever guys kind of felt when
you guys had put this out back in twenty seventeen
(10:54):
before the pandemic that something was special about this one
because it had that vibe, it had that summer anthem feel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, so the story behind Blue Tacoma is the
first time we wrote it, it wasn't even called Blue Tacoma.
It was like Heaven called it, like Heaven right here,
you know, and it kind of we tried to land
the hook.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
The hook was very clever. It was like like you
don't have to be gone to know that it's whatever,
and it was just like the lyrics were clever, but
it did not taste good. So when we turned it in,
my team was kind of like okay, and I was like,
oh dang, like I know there's something here because it
was still it was still Bluezicomba, California, I ain't Magnolia,
(11:36):
and you're like, all that was kind of the same.
But I just couldn't get that hook out of my
head and we we uh.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I think it was probably.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Six months later or something, I dug it back up
and I was like, I can't stop singing this song.
So I got I went in there, I got my
hands on it, kind of made a little demo and
took it back to the writers and I was like,
we gotta fix this, Like this song is too good.
So we changed all the ris and it actually my
wife and I took a trip down the pH which
is what the song's about anyway. So round one we
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were just kind of making stuff up. But then I
was like, after having lived this song, I was like, guys,
it's so beautiful. You got to pull over to the
shoulder to take it all in. And so that's like
verse two and you're just kind of like putting these
real images back into it. And that's when it really
came to life and ended up being Blue Ta Coma.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's good stuff, no doubt. Hey, the after party Deluxe
Man fun project, I know for you guys, and you
know it was just at the CMA week and got
to see a great group out there too at the
sant Amphitheater Need to Breathe. It kicked off Red Dirt
Church on that record too, which was fantastic, And then
I mean, we talked about Jake Scott and she likes
it and God gave me a girl. Overall body of
work on this project, man, twenty five songs, if people
still want to go out there and listen to it
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across all the platforms, A major body of work.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, it's I mean Record three that was my by far,
my favorite record, and it's just it's full of songs
just like I don't know, just like I don't care anymore,
like if I if I like it, I gotta trust
my instinct on this. And uh, we had a need
to breathe on the on the bonus or the on
(13:10):
the Deluxe, which is like kicked off the whole record,
like you said, and it's a double vinyl. We did
a whole We pressed the whole double vinyl edition, and
it was just fun to go into two like the
acoustic versions of like Over and Over, which was already
a chill song, but we went even further, like just
piano and you know, stuff like that, just like finding
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the deeper. You know, it's not just one like full
band version, like you can you can strip everything back
beers to the summer acoustic, like one of my favorite recordings,
and I remember acoustic is also like, that's one of
my top top faves.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Two when it comes to acoustic out there too. And
maybe you guys have done this, maybe early in your
career and even now, what's kind of your favorite cover
song to play out there, either acoustically or or live
with a full band.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Oh, I mean what we used to play.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean the first one that comes to my head
was look Good in my Shirt, Keith, because I just
love that guitar riff. I used to just love selfishly
like that was that was for me. I just wanted
to play that riff. Boys of Summer is like, that's
always a good that's always a good classic cover. And
then if I if I've had a cocktail or two,
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and you know, I need to rile up the crowd
a little bit. We'll hit the friends in low places,
you know, we'll go there just for a minute, just
for a minute, We'll go there.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And I love when songs tell stories. That's what this
is all about, you know, in country music. And you
guys did it, I mean hit the nail on the
head when you came out with God Gave Me a Girl.
And I think that's something to where I feel blessed
every day. I've been married almost fourteen years coming up
this December. Yeah, implies when you find that partner. You know,
you did that in your life too. You got a
sun named Brimington now, which I know, I hope he's
getting that. I said the COVID baby. I had my
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daughter during that twenty twenty pandemic here. But you kind
of get that early musical feel if they're going to
do something with music. Mine's actually learning to play the
guitar now. But talk about just that song in general,
God gave me a girl and just how special that is.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think the title somebody threw out
the title. I think it was like God gave me
a hometown or something. And I was like I can
go there, like, you know's talk about where we come
from and all that, and I feel like, again a literation.
I love alliteration. And so I was like God, what,
I was like, what about like God gave me a girl?
Like GGG, God gave me a girl. And we were like, okay,
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we'll try it out, you know, and so we kind
of like start playing this thing, and I was like,
God gave me a girl, and you just like build
from there. Girl gave me a kiss, Kiss gave me
a feeling, you know, and it's just like, you know,
it's just like that's that was such a fun one
to write. It's like those the line by line progressive song.
It was just like it was super fun to write.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I love it too. There's another one on there too.
We'll get to the single here a little bit, but
I go back to the twenty twenty two record that
you've put out, your self titled album with your name
Russell Dickerson on it there too. I love eighteen. You
take me back to that one too, because that's always
a fun one that maybe people don't talk about, but
I just love listening to it in the context of
you mentioned a literation too, and just the song meaning
in itself.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I mean that that was my head of radio.
He was like, bro, what if we dropped eighteen as
a single? I was like, you could drop any of them.
I don't care, but I was. I was surprised by that.
But it's just like a I mean, I'm a big,
like nineteen seventy five fan, and you know, I feel
like it has that kind of like that groove to like, and.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I just talked about like what if what if.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Me and my wife didn't meet in college? Like what
if we met when we were eighteen? Like I wish
I could get all those years back that, you know,
I wish I could go back in time and we
could date as long as we could, you know, but
you know, but she was with somebody else. I was
with somebody else, and so it's like kind of that
like that longing of like, man, I wish we had
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more years together than what we've already had.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I want more.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it makes you feel like how much time flies?
And you're like, man, where did those years go to?
If we can always go back to those, that would
be a number that we all want to revisit, like
again out there too, if we played this next thing.
I got to ask you about this because I know
every year for us it's always like, you know, we
love We mentioned about those summer anthems and just kind
of kind of as summer winds down here too, but
I still got to say it, look, man, Piers to
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the summer. This is always a fun tune to get
out there when you're on the beach. As I was
just a couple of weeks ago, getting all the Tan
and in the Gulf down here too and Corpus Christy.
This was on my playlist that for people out there,
this should be on their playlist.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yes, man, I like, I love this song. I uh,
And we played it live for a while and I
don't know, it's just maybe maybe people it was too
early in the record cycle. That probably what it was.
But like now like a lot of people have mentioned
this song and I'm like, maybe we should bring it back,
like maybe we should try it. But yeah, it's just
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like this was a song that is same, same kind
of nostalgic thing and just like I remember that feeling
of like like you come home from college and it's like,
oh yeah, like I went to I went to Belmont
or went to MTSU for a couple of years, and
like people from out of town who went to other
colleges and like everybody's back for the summer and it's
like it's on, like for three months it's on, and
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I just like that's what that that's what that song's about,
and it's it's not so much of a party song
as it is that nostalgic Like that was the best
freaking feeling of all the homies getting back together and
and just spending just ripping it up for three months.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love it too, and that's like you said that,
just that collaboration and getting back together. That almost like
a family reunion when you talk about that. Viers to
the summer out there too, which I love it so
much out there all right, Time to play the latest
single here from Russell Dickerson again listening to the show
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Dickerson The latest single called Bones. Here it is from
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Speaker 3 (18:59):
Crack it out, Chestnut Heaven still be.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
A light up the room kind of smile. There's more
than we you know, you know, girl, I felt it
in my bones, Astronam.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
We talked on my.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Linking to years food right by down a waning bring.
You won't say no, shaking right down from my bone.
See it's your stars above. You ain't shut it, ain't
the sky.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
No more long Hans, I'm living, baby, hy Quinn after love.
You can bet you I fall?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
You heard.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
It's sting six feet down in the crown and the
gold on my fingers wrapped around nothing, burning the bone.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
There's some things on the ever on the stand. How's
the angel wind up with just a man your head
on a heart of gold. Baby, I'm just fishing bones
the sea.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's stars above. You ain't shutting in the sky.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
More mongs a living baby, Hi Quintin, it's it love.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You can bet your life fall.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
It's suiting six feet down in the crown and the
gold on my fingers wrapping.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Around nothing but.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
For toward some about Susan good Lord calls me long
as I raising Unie on.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Baby Canny.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Now six feet down is crowning God.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Almost singing Trouser mountain nothing, Bunny Ball, You're nothing, run ball.
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let's talk about this. One came out in July. Man,
this just like really brought out your voice. This accentuates
a lot of things. I mean, Bones is one of
those songs that really people can feel this from the
start to the finish.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
My friend, thank you man. Yeah, this is uh, this
was one. I mean I just started with a title
like bones and I just saw just saw the title
and I was like, that's so sick, Like I want
that on my discography. And uh, we turned it into
this this beautiful lifelong love story and yeah, we actually
(23:16):
we just shot the music video for it yesterday or
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and so it's like,
I mean, it just pulls on all the heart strings
and it's just that reaffirming love you till I die
kind of song and again like the poetry, and it's
really I got a shout out to the songwriters on
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this one. This was the the last song we wrote
of twenty twenty three, and I'm gassed. I'm just you know,
I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to wrap up the year.
And but but as soon as we started this song,
I realized how special it was. And we really came
together and wrote such a special song, I believe. And
it's the crazy thing to me is like like yes,
(24:01):
like mature audience listeners will connect with this song, right.
But then like my little nieces and nephews and uh
like sixteen years old like QB high school star, and
he's like, dude, because they hear all my stuff, like
they hear all the little demos we do, and they've
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got like you know, the hip, hoppy or pop stuff
that they liked. But he was like, man, Bones is
my favorite song you've ever ever since. And I was
just like really okay, because like I knew I loved it,
but like you know, connecting with that younger audience was
like super surprising to me.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I look how you found that next gear man, because
y'all take that chorus and y'all take that ride up
and you really just put that emphasis on bones and
like go up on that the end of Bones right
there too, just dig down deep. Where do you find
that that gear man? To take that to it just
another oct It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's I mean, it's just like that's the passion of
the song. Man is like there's there's the the low moments,
you know, the verses, and this song is a little
lower than usual. But I think, honestly, I think that's
my new vibe is like that lower. I have a
lower voice. I just like I can sing higher and
(25:15):
I get like super excited. And so that's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Blue to a comic cab.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
But it's like Bones is like bones baby, you.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Know makes you well, y'all paint a picture. You mentioned
that poetic moment, but it makes you think about the afterlife.
It makes you think about so much about that being
true because you know so many people that you know,
find there's significant others. You'll stay married for you know,
forty fifty sixty years, whatever it is, and spend a
lot of time with that person that is your best friend.
And man, this is a song that really connects people
and brings people together. It really does. Yeah, I love it, man,
(25:47):
it's great. Tune out there again all across all those
digital streaming platforms. And I want to ask you about
this female movement now. You know, it's been awesome to
see these ladies come up and I'll get their due
diligence from Ashley McBride to Carly Pierce, to Laney at
the Fire she's on right now, Ashley Cook, Hanna Ellis,
And we're seeing more collaborations now with male and female
artists who want to get your thoughts on just as
the fire, the passion that these women have for country
(26:08):
music right now, they're getting that due diligence.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, oh man, it's like I mean, Carly Peers is
one of my dearest friends in this industry. We've known
each other since eight o seven, you know, and so
to see to see her cash fire, to see her
when we were sitting at the same table when she
won Female Vocalists of the Year, So like we were
(26:32):
we were at the same table and just to see her.
I mean, I've been a fan forever. Her voice is
the most pure thing in country music. So yeah, I
mean we always talk about collabing on something and we
just we're just wait, we're just trying to figure out
the right thing. But yeah, it's just like I love
(26:52):
I mean, I love seeing these ladies on a tear.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's been it's been pretty cool, no doubt about it.
Especially Entertainer of the Year getting in those categories work
and he's just killing it right now too. Hey, talk
to me over the next you know, with Bones and
kind of what's next for you guys obviously, you know,
looking at more singles, more albums and kind of those
goals and things you guys want to reach and r
D camp over the next you know, three four, five years.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, we I mean immediately we got Bones the EP
coming out that's not announced yet, but there you go.
Whatever it'll be this year, I mean, next album will
be early twenty five. And we're just i mean, I'm
always I'm always just like, what's next. What's like, you know,
(27:33):
bigger shows big I'm just always bigger, bigger, bigger, trying
to trying to hit those landmarks, and uh, you know
we'll be We'll be hitting amphitheaters in twenty twenty five.
And so it's gonna because we were we're taking the
rd Party outdoors.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Yeah, it's this.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Coming tour in twenty five, So it's gonna be a
little different. We're gonna I mean, that's that's just like
all I think about is live show, Like can we
how can we make the biggest show, the most memorable show?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
You know in music?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Nashals not even shy when it comes close to some
of the best food out there. What do you like
to go eat when you when you have a night out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We love Yolan, which is at the bottom of the
Joseph right across from the Omni. We love this place
called Santo and Green Hills. Love that place. That's probably
that's probably our top two. We kind of alternate back
and forth from that. Moto is great, Well, Italian, Kales
(28:30):
loves Italian. But there's a I mean there's a new
restaurant every day in this town. So it's like, well,
there's a few we want to try for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Bone's the Kurrt single across all those DSPs digital streaming
platforms out there. Make sure you guys check it out,
go catch you met a show. The tour schedules online
Russell Dickerson dot com. Out there, Hey brother, we appreciate
the time here. Continuing success going forward and when the
new album comes out. I would love to have you
back here on AM six fifty ws. I'm home with
the opera and come back and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Of course. Man, thank you so much for having me.
Bro been an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You got it, my friend. Pleasures all mine to you
out there too. We'll see you guys next Sunday here
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God bless that. Take care
Hey, y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Russell Dickerson and you're
listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon on the Home
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And he's doing that too as well. He's one of
the best up and coming artists out there too, tremendous
songwriter on a triple Tigers Records. Our good friend Russell
Dickerson joining us here on the Home of the Grand
Old Opry AM six fifty w SM. Russell, how you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Doing, yes, sir, doing great?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Are you feeling all right?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah? Man, you know we're both under the weather a
little bit too, but we're here. We're doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know, we're we're committed, We're here, We're strong willed,
We're gonna get it done.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We go got to get it done too. Hey, let's
talk about getting it done for you. Man, you've been
chasing this thing for a long time. And we were
talking a little bit before we actually hit the air.
You guys, if you know this thing called music is
a grind, no doubt too, and making videos, putting out music,
and you've been in this thing a while.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
For the folks who may not know Russell Dickerson, the singer,
songwriter and the artist in itself, you've been chasing this
dream for a while, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, man, I mean it's all that's all I've ever
wanted to do. And you know, as soon as I
as soon as I graduated from college, I was on
the road. I was just like, if it's I don't
I don't even I don't even need money, bro, I
just want to play. I want to get my name
out there. I want to just get my music out there.
And so we played every dorm room, lobby, every cafeteria,
every you know, we just like we were fresh out
(01:34):
of college, just loving playing music. And so that's what
we did, and I like, I never wanted to do
the cover bar band thing, Like I never I just
wanted to play my music and and you know, maybe
it maybe it took longer or whatever, but I'm just
always I want to write my songs, I want to
play this, I want to play them, I want to
play the shows. And you know, we've built this thing
(01:55):
from the absolute ground up, and it's just it's so
cool to see now. You know, we're going and all
around the country, all around the world. I mean we're
headed to Europe in a couple of weeks and you
know we our last tour over there, every show was
sold out. So it's just like it's just crazy to
see the progress that just one brick, brick by brick. Man,
that's that's that's how we built this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Let's talk about your wife too, man, She's been hugely
inspirational in your music career and just the things that
she's done, the job she's taken on to get you
where you're at. And I always say, you know, we're
only as good as our significant other is to allow
us to do things like this. Me and myself is
the radio show as a perfect example, but for you
and your music career. Talk about just how inspirational and
how important she's been.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, I mean, she definitely she did. She definitely makes
everything better. We you know, I had yours in the
very beginning. I had this song for a while, and
uh it was like it wasn't until the point that
we were like, all right, we're going to shoot a
music video. And she shot it and she had the
idea for it. And that was the thing that like
blew my career up right off the bat, was this
(02:54):
music video. So to have that, I mean, and she
she shot the first album cover. She's she's super involved
in all the visual side of my entire career because
I'm like I said, I'm like, I'm not I'm not
a colors guy. I don't see the colors. I don't
you know, that's not my vibe. I'm the music. Like
I hear the music, I hear all of that. But uh, yeah, man,
(03:17):
she's just like she's been there since day one. She
drove the van, she sold the merch, she made the merch,
and you know, she's just been there, been there crushing
it with us, right right alongside of us every show.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know, what's it been like for you guys to
track these songs over the last few years. You know,
we talked about Blue Tacoma and just what it did
for your career back in twenty seventeen, but also every
little thing has gone platinum, and of course Blue Tacoma
and I Love You Like I Used To and She
Likes It featuring Jake Scott, which went platinum. All these
things man to it achieved success. In this business, it's
always great when you have everybody kind of out there,
(03:49):
you know, watching your career grow. And then you get everybody,
like you know, media and different awards, different to organizations
that kind of see things come up and all these
great songs go platinum, and I think a lot of
that too is your song, right, But also the people
you've been collaborate with.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, I mean it's to look at like people that
I'm a fan of and to see people, you know,
having plaques and stuff and I'm like, oh, snap, like
I got plaques too, baby, Like It's it's crazy. It's
a crazy feeling to like, I mean, I think yours
is like triple or four platinum, and like Blue t
of Coma's two or three, it's just like multiple platinum.
(04:24):
Is insane to me. Uh, And so I'm just I'm
just grateful man to to get to be able to
do what I do. And you know, you always dream
of having plaques and platinum and all that fun stuff.
But it's just like to have them, I mean right
sitting right over here is like, you know, and I'm
I'm kind of weird about hanging them up. I don't
(04:45):
you know, I'm not like, oh yeah, dude, look at
look at the plaques, baby, look at the I've gone
like hanging in a closet.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know, I love it too, Hey, what what makes
the perfect song for Russell Dickerson? Take me to school
for a little bit. As far as the penmanship to
writing the idea in the hooks.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm a big internal ryn, big internal rhyme guy, big
alliteration guy. So I'm just there's no rules, there's no
wrong or right way. I just I call it. I
call it taste. It's gotta taste good, Like it's gotta
be fun to sing. It's gotta be like you can
have the cleverest lyrics ever, but like if it's all
(05:22):
clunky coming out, it's just it's not worth it. So
so that's my it's gotta have gotta have good taste.
Gotta taste good when you sing it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I like it. Nobody's ever said it here on the show.
It's gotta taste good. Little seasoning, it's gotta put a
little low. I love that one. Well. Time to play
one here for Russell Dickerson. Here on the backstage pass
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Speaker 5 (06:02):
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the other side of my fore the pillow.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
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Speaker 5 (06:17):
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Speaker 4 (06:21):
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Speaker 5 (06:26):
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Speaker 4 (06:31):
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Speaker 6 (06:33):
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googee silver Line.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
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Speaker 6 (06:40):
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Speaker 5 (06:46):
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the Southern sleet tea that was. It starts keep coming out,
so we keep on it.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
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Speaker 6 (07:09):
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Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't know what to do, but I'm telling something.
Poo Mans on.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
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Speaker 4 (07:32):
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Speaker 6 (07:36):
He's a good day to have a great day. Baby,
I ain't.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
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good day to have a great day. It's a good
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Speaker 5 (07:57):
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Speaker 4 (08:02):
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Speaker 5 (08:10):
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Speaker 6 (08:20):
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Speaker 4 (08:28):
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Speaker 8 (08:52):
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Day to have a Great Day. I love the title
of this one and just how much fun you guys
were having with this with us too.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, man, this was We wrote this one pretty quick.
I just I had the idea of my phone. I
was like, this could be the dumbest song idea ever,
or it could be brilliant. I can't tell. And the
guys I was writing with were are like, oh heck, yeah,
we're writing this, and you know, we had a little fun,
little happy track going, and they're just like, bom.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Good day to have a great day, Baby good.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I love it man so much. You know you talked
about yours kind of being that wedding edition out there too,
but this is so cool. I'm gonna go back and
give the song props due you mentioned the twice platinum
or three time platinum. But I can drive anywhere in
the country and just talk about man anthems. You put
out some great anthems and songs and stuff like that
where people just can originate too. But man, this one,
Blue Takoma. Did you ever guys kind of felt when
you guys had put this out back in twenty seventeen
(10:54):
before the pandemic that something was special about this one
because it had that vibe, it had that summer anthem feel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, so the story behind Blue Tacoma is the
first time we wrote it, it wasn't even called Blue Tacoma.
It was like Heaven called it, like Heaven right here,
you know, and it kind of we tried to land
the hook.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
The hook was very clever. It was like like you
don't have to be gone to know that it's whatever,
and it was just like the lyrics were clever, but
it did not taste good. So when we turned it in,
my team was kind of like okay, and I was like,
oh dang, like I know there's something here because it
was still it was still Bluezicomba, California, I ain't Magnolia,
(11:36):
and you're like, all that was kind of the same.
But I just couldn't get that hook out of my
head and we we uh.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I think it was probably.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Six months later or something, I dug it back up
and I was like, I can't stop singing this song.
So I got I went in there, I got my
hands on it, kind of made a little demo and
took it back to the writers and I was like,
we gotta fix this, Like this song is too good.
So we changed all the ris and it actually my
wife and I took a trip down the pH which
is what the song's about anyway. So round one we
(12:08):
were just kind of making stuff up. But then I
was like, after having lived this song, I was like, guys,
it's so beautiful. You got to pull over to the
shoulder to take it all in. And so that's like
verse two and you're just kind of like putting these
real images back into it. And that's when it really
came to life and ended up being Blue Ta Coma.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's good stuff, no doubt. Hey, the after party Deluxe
Man fun project, I know for you guys, and you
know it was just at the CMA week and got
to see a great group out there too at the
sant Amphitheater Need to Breathe. It kicked off Red Dirt
Church on that record too, which was fantastic, And then
I mean, we talked about Jake Scott and she likes
it and God gave me a girl. Overall body of
work on this project, man, twenty five songs, if people
still want to go out there and listen to it
(12:47):
across all the platforms, A major body of work.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, it's I mean Record three that was my by far,
my favorite record, and it's just it's full of songs
just like I don't know, just like I don't care anymore,
like if I if I like it, I gotta trust
my instinct on this. And uh, we had a need
to breathe on the on the bonus or the on
(13:10):
the Deluxe, which is like kicked off the whole record,
like you said, and it's a double vinyl. We did
a whole We pressed the whole double vinyl edition, and
it was just fun to go into two like the
acoustic versions of like Over and Over, which was already
a chill song, but we went even further, like just
piano and you know, stuff like that, just like finding
(13:31):
the deeper. You know, it's not just one like full
band version, like you can you can strip everything back
beers to the summer acoustic, like one of my favorite recordings,
and I remember acoustic is also like, that's one of
my top top faves.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Two when it comes to acoustic out there too. And
maybe you guys have done this, maybe early in your
career and even now, what's kind of your favorite cover
song to play out there, either acoustically or or live
with a full band.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Oh, I mean what we used to play.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean the first one that comes to my head
was look Good in my Shirt, Keith, because I just
love that guitar riff. I used to just love selfishly
like that was that was for me. I just wanted
to play that riff. Boys of Summer is like, that's
always a good that's always a good classic cover. And
then if I if I've had a cocktail or two,
(14:20):
and you know, I need to rile up the crowd
a little bit. We'll hit the friends in low places,
you know, we'll go there just for a minute, just
for a minute, We'll go there.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And I love when songs tell stories. That's what this
is all about, you know, in country music. And you
guys did it, I mean hit the nail on the
head when you came out with God Gave Me a Girl.
And I think that's something to where I feel blessed
every day. I've been married almost fourteen years coming up
this December. Yeah, implies when you find that partner. You know,
you did that in your life too. You got a
sun named Brimington now, which I know, I hope he's
getting that. I said the COVID baby. I had my
(14:51):
daughter during that twenty twenty pandemic here. But you kind
of get that early musical feel if they're going to
do something with music. Mine's actually learning to play the
guitar now. But talk about just that song in general,
God gave me a girl and just how special that is.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think the title somebody threw out
the title. I think it was like God gave me
a hometown or something. And I was like I can
go there, like, you know's talk about where we come
from and all that, and I feel like, again a literation.
I love alliteration. And so I was like God, what,
I was like, what about like God gave me a girl?
Like GGG, God gave me a girl. And we were like, okay,
(15:25):
we'll try it out, you know, and so we kind
of like start playing this thing, and I was like,
God gave me a girl, and you just like build
from there. Girl gave me a kiss, Kiss gave me
a feeling, you know, and it's just like, you know,
it's just like that's that was such a fun one
to write. It's like those the line by line progressive song.
It was just like it was super fun to write.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I love it too. There's another one on there too.
We'll get to the single here a little bit, but
I go back to the twenty twenty two record that
you've put out, your self titled album with your name
Russell Dickerson on it there too. I love eighteen. You
take me back to that one too, because that's always
a fun one that maybe people don't talk about, but
I just love listening to it in the context of
you mentioned a literation too, and just the song meaning
in itself.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I mean that that was my head of radio.
He was like, bro, what if we dropped eighteen as
a single? I was like, you could drop any of them.
I don't care, but I was. I was surprised by that.
But it's just like a I mean, I'm a big,
like nineteen seventy five fan, and you know, I feel
like it has that kind of like that groove to like, and.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I just talked about like what if what if.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Me and my wife didn't meet in college? Like what
if we met when we were eighteen? Like I wish
I could get all those years back that, you know,
I wish I could go back in time and we
could date as long as we could, you know, but
you know, but she was with somebody else. I was
with somebody else, and so it's like kind of that
like that longing of like, man, I wish we had
(16:49):
more years together than what we've already had.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I want more.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it makes you feel like how much time flies?
And you're like, man, where did those years go to?
If we can always go back to those, that would
be a number that we all want to revisit, like
again out there too, if we played this next thing.
I got to ask you about this because I know
every year for us it's always like, you know, we
love We mentioned about those summer anthems and just kind
of kind of as summer winds down here too, but
I still got to say it, look, man, Piers to
(17:15):
the summer. This is always a fun tune to get
out there when you're on the beach. As I was
just a couple of weeks ago, getting all the Tan
and in the Gulf down here too and Corpus Christy.
This was on my playlist that for people out there,
this should be on their playlist.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yes, man, I like, I love this song. I uh,
And we played it live for a while and I
don't know, it's just maybe maybe people it was too
early in the record cycle. That probably what it was.
But like now like a lot of people have mentioned
this song and I'm like, maybe we should bring it back,
like maybe we should try it. But yeah, it's just
(17:48):
like this was a song that is same, same kind
of nostalgic thing and just like I remember that feeling
of like like you come home from college and it's like,
oh yeah, like I went to I went to Belmont
or went to MTSU for a couple of years, and
like people from out of town who went to other
colleges and like everybody's back for the summer and it's
like it's on, like for three months it's on, and
(18:12):
I just like that's what that that's what that song's about,
and it's it's not so much of a party song
as it is that nostalgic Like that was the best
freaking feeling of all the homies getting back together and
and just spending just ripping it up for three months.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love it too, and that's like you said that,
just that collaboration and getting back together. That almost like
a family reunion when you talk about that. Viers to
the summer out there too, which I love it so
much out there all right, Time to play the latest
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Dickerson The latest single called Bones. Here it is from
r D on the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Crack it out, Chestnut Heaven still be.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
A light up the room kind of smile. There's more
than we you know, you know, girl, I felt it
in my bones, Astronam.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
We talked on my.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Linking to years food right by down a waning bring.
You won't say no, shaking right down from my bone.
See it's your stars above. You ain't shut it, ain't
the sky.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
No more long Hans, I'm living, baby, hy Quinn after love.
You can bet you I fall?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
You heard.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
It's sting six feet down in the crown and the
gold on my fingers wrapped around nothing, burning the bone.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
There's some things on the ever on the stand. How's
the angel wind up with just a man your head
on a heart of gold. Baby, I'm just fishing bones
the sea.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's stars above. You ain't shutting in the sky.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
More mongs a living baby, Hi Quintin, it's it love.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You can bet your life fall.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
It's suiting six feet down in the crown and the
gold on my fingers wrapping.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Around nothing but.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
For toward some about Susan good Lord calls me long
as I raising Unie on.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Baby Canny.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Now six feet down is crowning God.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Almost singing Trouser mountain nothing, Bunny Ball, You're nothing, run ball.
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Speaker 2 (22:16):
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let's talk about this. One came out in July. Man,
this just like really brought out your voice. This accentuates
a lot of things. I mean, Bones is one of
those songs that really people can feel this from the
start to the finish.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
My friend, thank you man. Yeah, this is uh, this
was one. I mean I just started with a title
like bones and I just saw just saw the title
and I was like, that's so sick, Like I want
that on my discography. And uh, we turned it into
this this beautiful lifelong love story and yeah, we actually
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we just shot the music video for it yesterday or
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and so it's like,
I mean, it just pulls on all the heart strings
and it's just that reaffirming love you till I die
kind of song and again like the poetry, and it's
really I got a shout out to the songwriters on
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this one. This was the the last song we wrote
of twenty twenty three, and I'm gassed. I'm just you know,
I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to wrap up the year.
And but but as soon as we started this song,
I realized how special it was. And we really came
together and wrote such a special song, I believe. And
it's the crazy thing to me is like like yes,
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like mature audience listeners will connect with this song, right.
But then like my little nieces and nephews and uh
like sixteen years old like QB high school star, and
he's like, dude, because they hear all my stuff, like
they hear all the little demos we do, and they've
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got like you know, the hip, hoppy or pop stuff
that they liked. But he was like, man, Bones is
my favorite song you've ever ever since. And I was
just like really okay, because like I knew I loved it,
but like you know, connecting with that younger audience was
like super surprising to me.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I look how you found that next gear man, because
y'all take that chorus and y'all take that ride up
and you really just put that emphasis on bones and
like go up on that the end of Bones right
there too, just dig down deep. Where do you find
that that gear man? To take that to it just
another oct It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's I mean, it's just like that's the passion of
the song. Man is like there's there's the the low moments,
you know, the verses, and this song is a little
lower than usual. But I think, honestly, I think that's
my new vibe is like that lower. I have a
lower voice. I just like I can sing higher and
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I get like super excited. And so that's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Blue to a comic cab.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
But it's like Bones is like bones baby, you.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Know makes you well, y'all paint a picture. You mentioned
that poetic moment, but it makes you think about the afterlife.
It makes you think about so much about that being
true because you know so many people that you know,
find there's significant others. You'll stay married for you know,
forty fifty sixty years, whatever it is, and spend a
lot of time with that person that is your best friend.
And man, this is a song that really connects people
and brings people together. It really does. Yeah, I love it, man,
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it's great. Tune out there again all across all those
digital streaming platforms. And I want to ask you about
this female movement now. You know, it's been awesome to
see these ladies come up and I'll get their due
diligence from Ashley McBride to Carly Pierce, to Laney at
the Fire she's on right now, Ashley Cook, Hanna Ellis,
And we're seeing more collaborations now with male and female
artists who want to get your thoughts on just as
the fire, the passion that these women have for country
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music right now, they're getting that due diligence.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, oh man, it's like I mean, Carly Peers is
one of my dearest friends in this industry. We've known
each other since eight o seven, you know, and so
to see to see her cash fire, to see her
when we were sitting at the same table when she
won Female Vocalists of the Year, So like we were
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we were at the same table and just to see her.
I mean, I've been a fan forever. Her voice is
the most pure thing in country music. So yeah, I
mean we always talk about collabing on something and we
just we're just wait, we're just trying to figure out
the right thing. But yeah, it's just like I love
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I mean, I love seeing these ladies on a tear.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's been it's been pretty cool, no doubt about it.
Especially Entertainer of the Year getting in those categories work
and he's just killing it right now too. Hey, talk
to me over the next you know, with Bones and
kind of what's next for you guys obviously, you know,
looking at more singles, more albums and kind of those
goals and things you guys want to reach and r
D camp over the next you know, three four, five years.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, we I mean immediately we got Bones the EP
coming out that's not announced yet, but there you go.
Whatever it'll be this year, I mean, next album will
be early twenty five. And we're just i mean, I'm
always I'm always just like, what's next. What's like, you know,
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bigger shows big I'm just always bigger, bigger, bigger, trying
to trying to hit those landmarks, and uh, you know
we'll be We'll be hitting amphitheaters in twenty twenty five.
And so it's gonna because we were we're taking the
rd Party outdoors.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Yeah, it's this.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Coming tour in twenty five, So it's gonna be a
little different. We're gonna I mean, that's that's just like
all I think about is live show, Like can we
how can we make the biggest show, the most memorable show?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
You know in music?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Nashals not even shy when it comes close to some
of the best food out there. What do you like
to go eat when you when you have a night out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We love Yolan, which is at the bottom of the
Joseph right across from the Omni. We love this place
called Santo and Green Hills. Love that place. That's probably
that's probably our top two. We kind of alternate back
and forth from that. Moto is great, Well, Italian, Kales
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loves Italian. But there's a I mean there's a new
restaurant every day in this town. So it's like, well,
there's a few we want to try for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Bone's the Kurrt single across all those DSPs digital streaming
platforms out there. Make sure you guys check it out,
go catch you met a show. The tour schedules online
Russell Dickerson dot com. Out there, Hey brother, we appreciate
the time here. Continuing success going forward and when the
new album comes out. I would love to have you
back here on AM six fifty ws. I'm home with
the opera and come back and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Of course. Man, thank you so much for having me.
Bro been an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You got it, my friend. Pleasures all mine to you
out there too. We'll see you guys next Sunday here
on the show five thirty to six am. iHeart and
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Here in all Ways, the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
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God bless that. Take care
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