May 29, 2025 • 37 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Sierra Hull joined us on the show to talk about her new single and brand new album! Tune in to hear from one of the best in country and bluegrass music!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Of course, a busy week
leading up to CMA Fest coming up June fifth to
the seventh at the Music City Center, live in Nashville, Tennessee.
There at the Music City Center, looking forward to all
those great artists coming through there too. All the covered
starts about eleven o'clock on June fifth and runs to
the seventh. We'll be down there to having a lot
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here and place to welcome in, one of my favorites
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out there too. We've been trying to track her down.
Her schedule's been so busy. She's been playing the opera.
She's been hiding in that center circle. It's a sierra
hole on the backstage past. How you doing, my.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Friend, Howdy Brandon, I'm doing good. How about yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Holding up? Ironically enough? You know, it's like it's an
in and out of running errands, a little bit of
extended vacation. But next week we storm into Music City
and all the media just comes, and you know, it's
a hectic week. You're doing a lot for it. But
I can't stress enough to all the listeners out there. Man,
CMA Fest is just one exciting week and it only
happens one week out of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Right, That's right, That's right, just this one week. So
come hang, you know, get it all in, I.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Get it all. I have about seventy to seventy five
interviews of great content you're not going to find anywhere
else out there on all the different platforms. Hey, let's
talk about you before we dive into all this great
music stuff too. You've been mentioned it hiding in that
center circle playing the opera a lot too, one of
those just great Mileston. This new album, I love it,
a tiptoe high wire across all the platforms out there
(02:04):
to stream. Great start for twenty twenty five. How would
you sum it up so far?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's been a wildly busy few months, but man, just
pretty magical in a lot of ways. We just wrapped
up just this past week a tour playing some bucket
list venues with a pretty bucket list lineup. My band
and I were out on the Outlaw Tour, Willie Nelson's
Outlaw Tour with Willie and Bob Dylan and Billy Strings,
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and Yeah, that's been an amazing couple weeks. Before that,
last few months really been busy out there doing my
own headline shows. The new record came out early March,
so it's been kind of NonStop since then. But it's
just been awesome. It's been great to be out there
and be busy getting to share all this new music
with folks.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah. I love your sound too, because it's very authentic too.
I'm assuming you write a lot of your own music too.
I know some songs get pitched in the industry with
song pitches, but I love the fact is do you
love to sit out, kind of write a song and
kind of see it come to life.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, definitely. That's been a big part of kind of
my musical you know, exploration and creativity over the last
ten years or so. So yeah, everything on this record
I either wrote or co wrote with, you know, another writer,
And I don't know, it's like, I'm always still open
to be in pitch songs. It's not that I feel
like I can only do my own music, but I
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feel like, you know, in writing, I can express myself
in a really deep way, you know, finding things that
feel really personal to me, stories that that I relate to,
and you know, musical ideas. Also writing things kind of
sometimes specifically for like some of what I wrote on
this record was specifically for the touring band that I'm using.
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That's also a big part of this record, which is,
you know a little bit different than some of my
previous records where I've had a lot of heroes and
things spread throughout, and there are some on this record too,
but the core band is essentially my touring band, which
has been a really special thing to be able to, like,
you know, write and record the music and then also
take it on the road essentially in the same kind.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Of fashion growing up. Talk about just to the audience
out there a little bit of just who influenced you
growing up? All these great ladies are doing their thing
even right now in country music, but looking back to
the nineties, eighties, nineties country things like that, who kind
of made you tick growing up as an artist?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, well, you know, I grew up pretty immersed in
the bluegrass world. I'm a mandolin player, and you know
from right here in Tennessee. Grew up a couple hours
north northeast to Nashville in a little town called Birdstown,
like seven hundred people, no red light, you know, and
most of the major radio stations were country radio, so like,
you know, a lot of the country in the two thousands,
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you know, late nineties, early two thousands was a lot
of what I was listening to, you know, think about
Shanaia Twain and Dixie Chicks and you know, different things
like that. You can pretty much turn on any kind
of country song from back in that day and I
could probably sing along. You know, because that's what was
on the radio at the time, while while simultaneously on
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the weekends, I was, you know, really immersed in the
world of bluegrass and going to these jam sessions and
playing music by Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scrugs and
the Stanley Brothers and the you know, first generation bluegrass
kind of stuff. I also was, like, you know, started
playing when I was eight, and when I was nine,
I got my first Alison Kraus album. So Allison became
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one of my you know, biggest heroes still is, and
and bands like Nickel Creek who were kind of coming
on the scene and sort of bridging that line between
the acoustic country kind of field a little bit. You know,
you turn on CMT for example as a kid and
watch music videos and and you know, that was a
way I would see like Mandolin, you know, I have
(05:46):
to see in Chris Deely in that band play, or
anytime i'd see Alison come on there. It was particularly
exciting to kind of see those worlds crossover a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love the fact you mentioned that too, because one
of my favorite and great friends of the program. I
love her music, Queen of Bluegrass. You know, I'm going
with this. Ronda Vincent has been on Vicent and the
sound is very unique and it takes a very special
person to do a bluegrass record, have that type of
sound and play all those different instruments, but man, she
can kill it on stage. Was it a lot of
her music too that was basically influencing to you?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Absolutely. Ronda has been one of my biggest heiros since
I was a kid as well, you know, and you
think about in a genre of music which at the
time was pretty male oriented. You know, a lot of
my heroes growing up were males, and and you know,
that's okay, that's there's there's They've been wonderful to me
as as people have always been encouraging as I got
to know a lot of them at a young age,
and and uh, you know, always went out of their
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way to make me feel welcome. But I think seeing
people like Ronda and Allison was such an impactful thing
as a young person. I remember I'd been going to
these jams on the weekends and you know, oftentimes was
the only female in the room and a lot of
times the only kid. Me and a bunch of like
older dudes sitting in the circle play of the music,
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and they welcomed me and it was totally never made
me feel like I didn't belong or anything like that.
But I do remember very specifically, like seeing a Rohnda
Vincent album in the store one day, a CD of
hers called Back Home Again, and she's sitting there like
on what looks like a front porch or something, just
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like holding the mandolin, and I remember seeing myself in it.
I remember looking at that and going, Wow, look at
this beautiful woman holding a mandolin, and I thought, I
want that to be me someday, I want to make records.
I'm going to be an adult. It's like I just
hadn't seen it as much. So I do think that
kind of representation that, you know, someone like Ronda has
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been kind of carrying the torch for her for many years,
and Alison too had a big impact on me and
a lot of other women of my generation.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I wanted the best out there to do it, no doubt,
and of course still going strong after somebody years. The
best always goes strong, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, they do a tiptoe high wire across all the
platforms out there. We're gonna play a song. Now, we've
been having fun with this one too, on and off
the air and kind of going through some of these
things here on the backstage pass had the lead off.
It's the leadoff track to the album from Sierra Hall.
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Speaker 4 (08:30):
Who turned down? Blove in your heart? Flip the switch
left you lonely sitting in the dun.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Loo key for you on in needs one sport.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Love to Love.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Again promises break like little figuring.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
We slip up, they get busted.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
All springs, take some time to cry.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It makes some time to clean. Then boom, love the
Love again. Boom.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You gotta fall man up the window.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You gotta let some sunlight.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Because it's weod and moll day, so let the shadows
have the shade and.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Then boom, love the Love Again.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
You had starts being boom. You can't that being like
fall way to the scene.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You gotta all up the window. You gotta left suicide
because it's a beauty of mold day. So let the
shadows fade away and lived to love again, Lived and
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love again.
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I love this one because it had a great feel
to it. We were joking every little segment we went
(13:35):
through there in the pre show boom, and this had
to be a great way to lead off this new record, right, you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Know, it was very intentional leading off the record with
this song for multiple reasons. You know, you mentioned it
as a feel good song. That's how I feel about
it too. It's one of those that, you know, I've
sort of described this song now that the record's been
out and I've had time to kind of reflect on
a lot of the music that is part of this
body of songs, this this one. You know, there's always
songs that are a little bit uh, you know, instrumentally challenging,
(14:05):
or things that you know, have a certain kind of
emotional thing that they're harder to sing, or maybe for
some reason this song is just so fun and relaxed
to play and sing. And every time I, you know,
even play this live, I see it pop up on
the set list and it's like, you know, it's almost
like one of those songs I can kind of almost
listen to while I'm playing it, which is not always
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the thing, but it just it's just one of those
songs that, like, you know, to this day, feels really
fun and good and kind of puts me in a
good mood to get to sing this song.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It really does. So, like I said, I used it
for like a workout jam. I started losing a little
bit of weight, you know, last year and taking better
care of just me self care things like that in
September with a place called Crunch Fitness and not afraid
to just throw it out there, a little little feel
for the trainers and everybody out there too, because they
really do care about their clients when they do sign
up and thirty two pounds down Now later I would
just say boom, and I'll tell boom. Maybe weight gave
(14:58):
off like a knife through Way to Go, which it
was my feel good song there, Hey tell me about this.
The new single was across the platform, so you got
to collaborate with a lot of great people, since that's
becoming more of the norm. Now for this a song
called Crossroads, I want to know all about this. I
love this collaboration. You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I have a friend everybody calls him orby he's a
drum that he is the drummer on the Almond Betts Tour,
which I was a part of the last few years
with Devin Almond and Dwayne Betts. And so he connected
me with Sebastian Robertson, who's like one of the main
guys who kind of puts this together. But it's thing
(15:36):
called Playing for Change and basically they travel all over
the world and kind of pair musicians together doing various
like songs honoring people. So in this case the song
being Crossroads, and I mean they had people that they
you know, filmed from, like I say, all kinds of
different places in the world, and then they decided to
(15:58):
come to Nashville and of course Mississippi kind of honoring
that Mississippi Blues tradition. So I was honored just to
get to be part of it. You know, you might
be remotely performing with somebody from you know, India or
somebody from you know, Italy or Hawaii, you know, all
(16:19):
these different regions of the world. So it's a pretty
cool project they do if folks want to check it out.
They've gotten unbelievable YouTube presence with all kinds of cool
video components, so they essentially record all of it remotely,
put all these musicians together, and then stitch together the
video performances when we're all recording our parts live. So
it's a really cool project. I was honored to be
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asked to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's a great, great project there, and I love the
if I've mentioned the collaborations becoming more of that norm
here in the industry, and we're seeing all these different
crossovers now with different genres of music kind of invading
country now too as well. I love this and I
think the female category was talking to you about it
earlier here on the show about who you listened to
growing up and things like that, Ron de Vincent, But
this stacked, and I mean really good female class right now.
With all the names you can run it down from
(17:04):
A to Z. This is and of course I know
Lane's doing her thing, but this is a really cool
time to be a female artist in country music right Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Absolutely. I mean, I think some of the artists that
I find myself both you know, you mentioned Laney being
somebody that I think is just awesome, you know, like
basically across the board and a lot of genres. A
lot of the music that I find myself being most
inspired by is female led bands or artists.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And it's pretty cool, great time, no doubt. Ashley Cook
and Hannah Ellis and as go on and on out
there too, really DSPs out there. I want to go
back to a little bit and reflect. I love to
reflect on previous bodies of work out there, twenty five
Trips that titles track to that song, and that record
was fantastic, Beautifully out of Place that they're one of
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my favorite songs off of their two great body of work.
Just just you got a knack for making great music.
Give me some best memories of that album, and I'm
sure there are still lot of show favorites on there
when you go live right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, well, thank you. I appreciate you diving into that
record as well. Yeah, I mean, Beautifully out of Place
is still one that we often play live Poison how long.
You know, a lot of songs off that record are
still pretty heavily in rotation in my live show. That record,
for me was my sort of first record working with
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a great engineer here in Nashville named Shanni Gandhi. I
decided that I wanted to, you know, find a cool engineer,
and sure, of course, she's a Grammy Award winning engineer,
just unbelievable in the studio, and I think for capturing
the tones of the acoustic instruments, you know, being a
mandolin player playing some guitar, it's like, you know, especially
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kind of in the bluegrass world, we spend our whole
lives working to kind of create the best kind of
tone and sounds that we can out of the instruments.
So I just really wanted to make a record with
someone that I knew could capture the sense of all
these great musicians that I had kind of assembled, and so,
you know, shout out to her. It was great like
working with her as as co producer on that record
(19:09):
and both engineer and all that as well. But yeah,
that record, some of that we we started kind of
building from the ground up. You mentioned the title track
twenty five Trips, you know, some of that music, unlike
say this last record where all of it was kind
of recorded together with the band tracking together in the studio.
Some of that record started with just my mandolin and
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voice and then kind of taking a step back and going, Okay,
here's the bones of what this song and this arrangement is,
and now let's add the bass, and now let's you know,
get some strings going or bringing like maybe I'll play
acoustic guitar. So I layered a lot of instruments myself
on that record as well, playing like octave, mandolin and guitar,
acoustic guitar, a little bit of electric and things like that.
(19:51):
So it was it was fun and in some ways
like felt a little bit experimental. It was the first
time I'd had, you know, as a mostly bluegrass artist,
you know, for the early part of my career especially.
It was the first time playing with drums on a record,
you know, adding some of those elements that had a
bit more crossover.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I suppose you know, I love it. We're in CMA
season now too, and of course the big award show
coming up again this November. We just had the Academy
Country Music Awards too. You're no strateger for stepping up
there and playing with a few ladies that actually play
those instruments. And I recently saw you. Correct me if
I'm wrong on this, but you were on one of
those major award shows, and I think they gave a
segment to bluegrass players.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
It was the CMA's last year. I played with Dirk Spintley,
Yes there, yeah, and Dirk's you know, it was longtime
fan and friend of our bluegrass community, and you know,
always loves the chance to kind of shine a spotlight
on the bluegrass artists and music that he loved. So
he invited myself and Molly Tuttle and Bronwin Keith Hines
(20:51):
to join him for his CMA performance just this last fall.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I remember that too because she told me to tell
you hello, Bronin Keith. I stepped on this show a
while back ago, so we got to talk to her.
Fantastic player, My goodness, terrific.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Shock all right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Time for a song here on the backstage pass. I
love attitude and songs and just one that has a
cool title. It's a Sierra Hall. The album is a
tiptoe high wire across all the DSPs out there. Uh
spitfire here. It is from Sierra Hall on the backstage
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(21:29):
Coming up next week there June fifth and seventh, and
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the eighth, and Sunday Morning Country Back in the Flash.
More from Sierra Hall. Stay tuned.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
You You took him under, took his left.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Oh Lord, how can I be wado over before?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Love? Moved too fast?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Little lady baby blue lights a crush, she cried, Oh God, is.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
This a dream?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
How could you take him from me?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
She's a spitfire, spitfire, suffered.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Thorns on bry and you really can blame her. She's
easy to and girl. She is a spitfire. Third love
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not qut the charm doctor born addiction stores hard.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
She cried, Oh God, just take me down, damn it,
give me streaks of five kads and broke with noise.
She's a spitfire, spitfire, Queen of tiptoe, How way queen
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you elegant blame her when nobody can get taper.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
She's a spitfire, old day saying it all Factory's tragedies,
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big and small. Some that young her kidney into Kallas.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Smile, she pushes through. She's a spitfire smitfer take it,
leave it, design in you real again, lave her. She's
easy to a girl. She is a sweet five. She's
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in my bla. Oh, she is a smit Fie. She's
in my pod. She is a spit five.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Hey y'all, this is Darryl Worthy and you're listening to.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
One of my biggest number Wood songs, Awful Beautiful, live
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Today's best Country mix. I mentioned a song with a
(26:10):
cool title, and Spitfire just has that really cool title
and cool fire. I love this.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, well, thank you. I wrote this about my granny.
You know, I've sort of been I've been setting this
song up a little bit by telling folks that, you know,
I wrote this song about her because she was truly
a spitfire. I mean, she's born and raised here in
the hills of Tennessee. You know, really hardly ever left
the state of Tennessee in her eighty years that we
had her. But man, she lived this kind of wild
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life through a lot of tragedy and a lot of
hard times, but you know, still came out on the
other side with a smile on her face and this,
you know, this beautiful, bold but fiery spirit. You know,
you could tell that her life experiences had had toughened her,
you know, but yet she still had this this ability
to like love in the deepest of ways. So you know,
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if I'm ever having a hard time or feeling like,
you know, woe is me, I just kind of think
about her and all she went through and how she
made it through all this stuff. So I wrote this
about her life. You know, probably could have added about
twenty more verses, to be honest, but it's a little
glimpse into some of the tragedies and things that she
went through. But it's kind of more. It never explicitly
says it's about her, you know, it's more of a
(27:22):
story about a young woman all the way up from
the time she was seventeen till she, you know, is
in her old age. But it's more of an ode
to all those you know, resilient souls out there who
remind us about strength and that we're going to make it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know, no doubt we're all going to be there
one day too, whether we like it or not. Father
time catch us up. And hey, like I said, my
grandnage that way, she would have loved to hear that song.
I had her till she was in the early nineties
right there too at the same time. But more she
was that spitfire you mentioned, that little ball of fire.
She lived a tough life, went through the Great Depression.
So it reminded me a lot of my grandma who's
in along with us. But God rest her soul and
(28:00):
your Australia. Just having them for eighty plus years was
pretty pretty darn cool. And so songs remind us a
lot of that. And that's what music does. You know.
Music reminds me so much of therapy because I really understand,
you know, anybody could be going through anything in life,
no matter if it's celebrations or tragedies or any aspect
of life for that matter too. But man, when they
buy those tickets to come out and see you guys play,
(28:22):
I think they leave the show better than what they
showed up at because it's like, yeah, you want to
drink and do all this too. But I'll tell us
somebody today, it's got to be cool for you guys
to be in the arts business and be in the
music industry to heal somebody and make somebody feel better
from when they left the show after they bought tickets
to come see you guys, compared to what they were
going through before they got to the show, right.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's the name of the game.
I think we all make music with hopes that it
can mean something, not just to us but the I mean,
we all could sit around and sing songs to ourselves,
you know, in our living rooms and bedrooms at home
and all that kind of stuff. But it's the shared
experience of music that keeps me, you know, wanting to
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do this. I think like like writing something from my
heart that means something to me and hoping that it
can you know, move someone or have meaning in their life.
And you know, there's another song off my record call
come Out of My Blues, and it's one that now
that I've been playing this music live, I often think
about the fact that, you know, people come out to
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a live show like what you're saying, and maybe they
have had a really rough day, month, week. You know,
we're all going through stuff, and sometimes you know, it
can feel like you're the only one. But you know,
usually even if it's you're a stranger, you're standing next
to somebody else may have come to that show needing
to just escape their troubles for a while. And and
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so you know, there's a song that kind of celebrates
that feeling of like when you've been kind of just
having a rough time and you're starting to see the
light again and hear the birds singing, and you know,
starting to feel like your spirit come back. And I
think like live music and that shared experience is that
for a lot of people. I know it certainly is
for me. So I feel lucky that we get to
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kind of gather together and experience those those kind of moments.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Very much a celebration to love that we're gonna get
our fill of it. Next to it to Nashville, all
great show played, all the stages and of course all
the action at the Grandell Library so I got to
ask you about you remiss if I didn't. Black River
was such a special song for you. It was on
the Weighted Mind album too, that came out there with
it on there. I love this so much as Stranded
was also on there too, one of my favorite songs,
(30:30):
but black River has to still go down as one
of your favorites today, right.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I do really enjoy that song actually, and that's one
that you know, that record that you're referencing. The album's
called Weighted Mind. It's a little bit different for me
than any other kind of record I've made, and that
it's mostly just mandolin and voice. It's a very stripped down,
bare bones kind of album with mandolin and bass, so
you know, it's very lyric forward and you know, mandolin
(30:55):
melody forward in this way. And it's been really fun
to to, you know, after having those songs kind of
go through that season of a very stripped down thing,
to be able to now, you know, find creative ways
to play some of those songs with the full band too.
And I will say, even to this day now with
the full band arrangement with drums and everything like that,
black River is still one of my favorite songs to
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get to sing and play.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
All right, so stepping in that center circle. I mentioned
you hot out there too, which is great because I
love you seeing you on shows and listening on WSA
I'm the home of the Opera there too, and maybe
on Saturday Night Circle Network all that good stuff, and
here in your live performances because I just get a
kick out of it. I love it. It's a feel
good moment and a great time, and you really bring
it every time. But I'm sure never gets old stepping
inside that center circle at the mecca of country music.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right, oh never. I mean, you know, I'm from right
here in Tennessee, and you know we're talking about my
Spitfire Granny and all my family. It's like, you know,
I was lucky to get invited to come play the
Opry at a really young age. So I've now been
playing the Opry since I was basically ten years old.
I first played when I was ten years old, and
you know, honestly, I can say even then, at that
(32:03):
young age, I knew the gravity of what it meant
to get to go play there. You know, it's the
the you know, birthplace in so many ways of you know,
especially the Ryman, the birthplace of bluegrass music. You know,
every country artist and bluegrass artist that you can think
of that has been, you know, a hero to any
(32:23):
of us in the music business, you know, has played
on that stage. And yeah, I still get goosebumps every time.
You know, I'm just really really thrilled to get to
be back there. I guess this time next week to
kind of help kick off CMAFS, So I always look
forward to it, and I'm just so honored that I still,
all these years later, still get to come back and play.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There right at home, no doubt about it too. Let's
have a little fun as we close our segment. Of
course next week, if we get a chance to see
you in person, it's always great to make that connection
in person, and come by the booth there at the
Music City Center and have a great time again. A
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dot com. See we can spell things for you here
on the backstage past. Just good. I'll bet I've got
to have that there. Bar taco is gonna be one
of them. I always say I'm gonna go there. I
had my hot chicken. What are you kind of craving
right now? When you get out there to eat? What
do you like?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Okay, it's funny that you say this because literally right
before we started doing our interview here, my husband's cousin
was in town from Mountain, East, Tennessee. They're flying out
from the airport this evening, so uh, he just went
to go drop them off. But we decided, you know,
they would drive into town this morning and we would
have lunch somewhere, and so we just went to Monel's.
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Have you ever had monails?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, mon Els is if you love southern cooking, which
you know I'm from here in Tennessee, so is my
husband Mounta, East, Tennessee. So you know, we knew his
family would love some biscuits and fried chicken and that
kind of thing. Monails is a Nash staple. It's it's
a spot where you go in, you sit down, you
eat family style, so you might be sitting today. We
sat with some folks from Portland, Oregon, and some other
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folks from down in like Southern Georgia whose daughter lives
here in Nashville. So you'll find yourself at a table
with strangers, but in this really kind of beautiful way
to kind of socialize, and they just start bringing out food.
So it's family style. They'll bring a huge thing of
biscuits and corn bread, gravy, fried chicken, pot roast, all
the fixens, green beans, all the way down to you know,
(34:32):
like tons of great sides, but all the way down
to you know, banana pudding and different things for dessert.
So it's very gluttonous, but very good. I'm here to
tell you every once in the blue moon when we
have family come to town, we're like, well, we got
to take them to Monel's cause it's kind of a
Nashville staple. So check it out if you have time.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's gonna be a recommendation I have right there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Make sure you're hungry.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That's hungry here. That just went to the top of
the list right here, Ale me there too. Yeah, what
else if you've never been a working musician, what other
career path would you have followed? Whether the interest was there?
I know it's a musician in your great add but
was there another hidden occupation out there.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know, it's hard. It's it's hard for me to say,
because I truly like music has been all I have
ever wanted. I think there's you'll probably find this funny.
I think I would have enjoyed doing some kind of
like reporter like you know, news kind of broadcasting something
like that, or I think I would have enjoyed I've
always been fascinated by homes, and I love like interior
(35:33):
design and things like that. I think even something like
real estate would have been an interesting kind of fun path.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
They have to have you come do my house now
and decorate the interior design too when it comes back,
get somebody something.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I always have time to do that at my own house,
but you know it's something I like to watch all
the shows and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Fun too, no doubt love that too. At the same time,
her music is fantastic, and like I said, out there too,
her smiles beautiful. And this music has got to be
heard across everything. That's what we're playing it out there.
KKT see True Country ninety nine point nine KYB in
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(36:12):
Hope to see you next week, my friend. I appreciate
you spending some time with us here as well, and again,
continue success going forward. Appreciate the time of the chat.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Thank you, Brandon. Good to chat with you, and let
me know if you go to Monell's, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You're gonna be one of the first roues to go
out there too. I'll let you know. Monell's is on
the doctor see it May for twenty twenty five rolls
on June fifth to seventh, Music City Center doing our
show live down there too, about seventy five interviews in
three days. And of course, the Grand Old Library forty
third annual Sunday Morning Country host is Brenda Lee. Hope
to get to speak to her there this year. She
was unable to attend last year, but I heard she's
(36:46):
doing well and she's excited to come back for the
Sunday Morning Country coming up this year. We give worship
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Of course, a busy week
leading up to CMA Fest coming up June fifth to
the seventh at the Music City Center, live in Nashville, Tennessee.
There at the Music City Center, looking forward to all
those great artists coming through there too. All the covered
starts about eleven o'clock on June fifth and runs to
the seventh. We'll be down there to having a lot
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might check out cmafest dot com and of course all
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here and place to welcome in, one of my favorites
(01:05):
out there too. We've been trying to track her down.
Her schedule's been so busy. She's been playing the opera.
She's been hiding in that center circle. It's a sierra
hole on the backstage past. How you doing, my.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Friend, Howdy Brandon, I'm doing good. How about yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Holding up? Ironically enough? You know, it's like it's an
in and out of running errands, a little bit of
extended vacation. But next week we storm into Music City
and all the media just comes, and you know, it's
a hectic week. You're doing a lot for it. But
I can't stress enough to all the listeners out there. Man,
CMA Fest is just one exciting week and it only
happens one week out of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Right, That's right, That's right, just this one week. So
come hang, you know, get it all in, I.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Get it all. I have about seventy to seventy five
interviews of great content you're not going to find anywhere
else out there on all the different platforms. Hey, let's
talk about you before we dive into all this great
music stuff too. You've been mentioned it hiding in that
center circle playing the opera a lot too, one of
those just great Mileston. This new album, I love it,
a tiptoe high wire across all the platforms out there
(02:04):
to stream. Great start for twenty twenty five. How would
you sum it up so far?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's been a wildly busy few months, but man, just
pretty magical in a lot of ways. We just wrapped
up just this past week a tour playing some bucket
list venues with a pretty bucket list lineup. My band
and I were out on the Outlaw Tour, Willie Nelson's
Outlaw Tour with Willie and Bob Dylan and Billy Strings,
(02:30):
and Yeah, that's been an amazing couple weeks. Before that,
last few months really been busy out there doing my
own headline shows. The new record came out early March,
so it's been kind of NonStop since then. But it's
just been awesome. It's been great to be out there
and be busy getting to share all this new music
with folks.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah. I love your sound too, because it's very authentic too.
I'm assuming you write a lot of your own music too.
I know some songs get pitched in the industry with
song pitches, but I love the fact is do you
love to sit out, kind of write a song and
kind of see it come to life.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, definitely. That's been a big part of kind of
my musical you know, exploration and creativity over the last
ten years or so. So yeah, everything on this record
I either wrote or co wrote with, you know, another writer,
And I don't know, it's like, I'm always still open
to be in pitch songs. It's not that I feel
like I can only do my own music, but I
(03:25):
feel like, you know, in writing, I can express myself
in a really deep way, you know, finding things that
feel really personal to me, stories that that I relate to,
and you know, musical ideas. Also writing things kind of
sometimes specifically for like some of what I wrote on
this record was specifically for the touring band that I'm using.
(03:48):
That's also a big part of this record, which is,
you know a little bit different than some of my
previous records where I've had a lot of heroes and
things spread throughout, and there are some on this record too,
but the core band is essentially my touring band, which
has been a really special thing to be able to, like,
you know, write and record the music and then also
take it on the road essentially in the same kind.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Of fashion growing up. Talk about just to the audience
out there a little bit of just who influenced you
growing up? All these great ladies are doing their thing
even right now in country music, but looking back to
the nineties, eighties, nineties country things like that, who kind
of made you tick growing up as an artist?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, well, you know, I grew up pretty immersed in
the bluegrass world. I'm a mandolin player, and you know
from right here in Tennessee. Grew up a couple hours
north northeast to Nashville in a little town called Birdstown,
like seven hundred people, no red light, you know, and
most of the major radio stations were country radio, so like,
you know, a lot of the country in the two thousands,
(04:43):
you know, late nineties, early two thousands was a lot
of what I was listening to, you know, think about
Shanaia Twain and Dixie Chicks and you know, different things
like that. You can pretty much turn on any kind
of country song from back in that day and I
could probably sing along. You know, because that's what was
on the radio at the time, while while simultaneously on
(05:04):
the weekends, I was, you know, really immersed in the
world of bluegrass and going to these jam sessions and
playing music by Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scrugs and
the Stanley Brothers and the you know, first generation bluegrass
kind of stuff. I also was, like, you know, started
playing when I was eight, and when I was nine,
I got my first Alison Kraus album. So Allison became
(05:26):
one of my you know, biggest heroes still is, and
and bands like Nickel Creek who were kind of coming
on the scene and sort of bridging that line between
the acoustic country kind of field a little bit. You know,
you turn on CMT for example as a kid and
watch music videos and and you know, that was a
way I would see like Mandolin, you know, I have
(05:46):
to see in Chris Deely in that band play, or
anytime i'd see Alison come on there. It was particularly
exciting to kind of see those worlds crossover a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love the fact you mentioned that too, because one
of my favorite and great friends of the program. I
love her music, Queen of Bluegrass. You know, I'm going
with this. Ronda Vincent has been on Vicent and the
sound is very unique and it takes a very special
person to do a bluegrass record, have that type of
sound and play all those different instruments, but man, she
can kill it on stage. Was it a lot of
her music too that was basically influencing to you?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Absolutely. Ronda has been one of my biggest heiros since
I was a kid as well, you know, and you
think about in a genre of music which at the
time was pretty male oriented. You know, a lot of
my heroes growing up were males, and and you know,
that's okay, that's there's there's They've been wonderful to me
as as people have always been encouraging as I got
to know a lot of them at a young age,
and and uh, you know, always went out of their
(06:41):
way to make me feel welcome. But I think seeing
people like Ronda and Allison was such an impactful thing
as a young person. I remember I'd been going to
these jams on the weekends and you know, oftentimes was
the only female in the room and a lot of
times the only kid. Me and a bunch of like
older dudes sitting in the circle play of the music,
(07:03):
and they welcomed me and it was totally never made
me feel like I didn't belong or anything like that.
But I do remember very specifically, like seeing a Rohnda
Vincent album in the store one day, a CD of
hers called Back Home Again, and she's sitting there like
on what looks like a front porch or something, just
(07:24):
like holding the mandolin, and I remember seeing myself in it.
I remember looking at that and going, Wow, look at
this beautiful woman holding a mandolin, and I thought, I
want that to be me someday, I want to make records.
I'm going to be an adult. It's like I just
hadn't seen it as much. So I do think that
kind of representation that, you know, someone like Ronda has
(07:45):
been kind of carrying the torch for her for many years,
and Alison too had a big impact on me and
a lot of other women of my generation.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I wanted the best out there to do it, no doubt,
and of course still going strong after somebody years. The
best always goes strong, no doubt about it too.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, they do a tiptoe high wire across all the
platforms out there. We're gonna play a song. Now, we've
been having fun with this one too, on and off
the air and kind of going through some of these
things here on the backstage pass had the lead off.
It's the leadoff track to the album from Sierra Hall.
Out there too the backstage Pass again powered by the
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crack it out.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Who turned down? Blove in your heart? Flip the switch
left you lonely sitting in the dun.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Loo key for you on in needs one sport.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Love to Love.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Again promises break like little figuring.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
We slip up, they get busted.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
All springs, take some time to cry.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It makes some time to clean. Then boom, love the
Love again. Boom.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You gotta fall man up the window.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You gotta let some sunlight.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Because it's weod and moll day, so let the shadows
have the shade and.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Then boom, love the Love Again.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
You had starts being boom. You can't that being like
fall way to the scene.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You gotta all up the window. You gotta left suicide
because it's a beauty of mold day. So let the
shadows fade away and lived to love again, Lived and
(11:43):
love again.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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I love this one because it had a great feel
to it. We were joking every little segment we went
(13:35):
through there in the pre show boom, and this had
to be a great way to lead off this new record, right, you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Know, it was very intentional leading off the record with
this song for multiple reasons. You know, you mentioned it
as a feel good song. That's how I feel about
it too. It's one of those that, you know, I've
sort of described this song now that the record's been
out and I've had time to kind of reflect on
a lot of the music that is part of this
body of songs, this this one. You know, there's always
songs that are a little bit uh, you know, instrumentally challenging,
(14:05):
or things that you know, have a certain kind of
emotional thing that they're harder to sing, or maybe for
some reason this song is just so fun and relaxed
to play and sing. And every time I, you know,
even play this live, I see it pop up on
the set list and it's like, you know, it's almost
like one of those songs I can kind of almost
listen to while I'm playing it, which is not always
(14:26):
the thing, but it just it's just one of those
songs that, like, you know, to this day, feels really
fun and good and kind of puts me in a
good mood to get to sing this song.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It really does. So, like I said, I used it
for like a workout jam. I started losing a little
bit of weight, you know, last year and taking better
care of just me self care things like that in
September with a place called Crunch Fitness and not afraid
to just throw it out there, a little little feel
for the trainers and everybody out there too, because they
really do care about their clients when they do sign
up and thirty two pounds down Now later I would
just say boom, and I'll tell boom. Maybe weight gave
(14:58):
off like a knife through Way to Go, which it
was my feel good song there, Hey tell me about this.
The new single was across the platform, so you got
to collaborate with a lot of great people, since that's
becoming more of the norm. Now for this a song
called Crossroads, I want to know all about this. I
love this collaboration. You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I have a friend everybody calls him orby he's a
drum that he is the drummer on the Almond Betts Tour,
which I was a part of the last few years
with Devin Almond and Dwayne Betts. And so he connected
me with Sebastian Robertson, who's like one of the main
guys who kind of puts this together. But it's thing
(15:36):
called Playing for Change and basically they travel all over
the world and kind of pair musicians together doing various
like songs honoring people. So in this case the song
being Crossroads, and I mean they had people that they
you know, filmed from, like I say, all kinds of
different places in the world, and then they decided to
(15:58):
come to Nashville and of course Mississippi kind of honoring
that Mississippi Blues tradition. So I was honored just to
get to be part of it. You know, you might
be remotely performing with somebody from you know, India or
somebody from you know, Italy or Hawaii, you know, all
(16:19):
these different regions of the world. So it's a pretty
cool project they do if folks want to check it out.
They've gotten unbelievable YouTube presence with all kinds of cool
video components, so they essentially record all of it remotely,
put all these musicians together, and then stitch together the
video performances when we're all recording our parts live. So
it's a really cool project. I was honored to be
(16:40):
asked to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's a great, great project there, and I love the
if I've mentioned the collaborations becoming more of that norm
here in the industry, and we're seeing all these different
crossovers now with different genres of music kind of invading
country now too as well. I love this and I
think the female category was talking to you about it
earlier here on the show about who you listened to
growing up and things like that, Ron de Vincent, But
this stacked, and I mean really good female class right now.
With all the names you can run it down from
(17:04):
A to Z. This is and of course I know
Lane's doing her thing, but this is a really cool
time to be a female artist in country music right Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Absolutely. I mean, I think some of the artists that
I find myself both you know, you mentioned Laney being
somebody that I think is just awesome, you know, like
basically across the board and a lot of genres. A
lot of the music that I find myself being most
inspired by is female led bands or artists.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And it's pretty cool, great time, no doubt. Ashley Cook
and Hannah Ellis and as go on and on out
there too, really DSPs out there. I want to go
back to a little bit and reflect. I love to
reflect on previous bodies of work out there, twenty five
Trips that titles track to that song, and that record
was fantastic, Beautifully out of Place that they're one of
(17:54):
my favorite songs off of their two great body of work.
Just just you got a knack for making great music.
Give me some best memories of that album, and I'm
sure there are still lot of show favorites on there
when you go live right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, well, thank you. I appreciate you diving into that
record as well. Yeah, I mean, Beautifully out of Place
is still one that we often play live Poison how long.
You know, a lot of songs off that record are
still pretty heavily in rotation in my live show. That record,
for me was my sort of first record working with
(18:27):
a great engineer here in Nashville named Shanni Gandhi. I
decided that I wanted to, you know, find a cool engineer,
and sure, of course, she's a Grammy Award winning engineer,
just unbelievable in the studio, and I think for capturing
the tones of the acoustic instruments, you know, being a
mandolin player playing some guitar, it's like, you know, especially
(18:48):
kind of in the bluegrass world, we spend our whole
lives working to kind of create the best kind of
tone and sounds that we can out of the instruments.
So I just really wanted to make a record with
someone that I knew could capture the sense of all
these great musicians that I had kind of assembled, and so,
you know, shout out to her. It was great like
working with her as as co producer on that record
(19:09):
and both engineer and all that as well. But yeah,
that record, some of that we we started kind of
building from the ground up. You mentioned the title track
twenty five Trips, you know, some of that music, unlike
say this last record where all of it was kind
of recorded together with the band tracking together in the studio.
Some of that record started with just my mandolin and
(19:30):
voice and then kind of taking a step back and going, Okay,
here's the bones of what this song and this arrangement is,
and now let's add the bass, and now let's you know,
get some strings going or bringing like maybe I'll play
acoustic guitar. So I layered a lot of instruments myself
on that record as well, playing like octave, mandolin and guitar,
acoustic guitar, a little bit of electric and things like that.
(19:51):
So it was it was fun and in some ways
like felt a little bit experimental. It was the first
time I'd had, you know, as a mostly bluegrass artist,
you know, for the early part of my career especially.
It was the first time playing with drums on a record,
you know, adding some of those elements that had a
bit more crossover.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I suppose you know, I love it. We're in CMA
season now too, and of course the big award show
coming up again this November. We just had the Academy
Country Music Awards too. You're no strateger for stepping up
there and playing with a few ladies that actually play
those instruments. And I recently saw you. Correct me if
I'm wrong on this, but you were on one of
those major award shows, and I think they gave a
segment to bluegrass players.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
It was the CMA's last year. I played with Dirk Spintley,
Yes there, yeah, and Dirk's you know, it was longtime
fan and friend of our bluegrass community, and you know,
always loves the chance to kind of shine a spotlight
on the bluegrass artists and music that he loved. So
he invited myself and Molly Tuttle and Bronwin Keith Hines
(20:51):
to join him for his CMA performance just this last fall.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I remember that too because she told me to tell
you hello, Bronin Keith. I stepped on this show a
while back ago, so we got to talk to her.
Fantastic player, My goodness, terrific.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Shock all right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Time for a song here on the backstage pass. I
love attitude and songs and just one that has a
cool title. It's a Sierra Hall. The album is a
tiptoe high wire across all the DSPs out there. Uh
spitfire here. It is from Sierra Hall on the backstage
pass powered by the Sports guys a podcast dot com
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(21:29):
Coming up next week there June fifth and seventh, and
live at the Grand ol Oprary doing our show June
the eighth, and Sunday Morning Country Back in the Flash.
More from Sierra Hall. Stay tuned.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
You You took him under, took his left.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Oh Lord, how can I be wado over before?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Love? Moved too fast?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Little lady baby blue lights a crush, she cried, Oh God, is.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
This a dream?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
How could you take him from me?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
She's a spitfire, spitfire, suffered.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Thorns on bry and you really can blame her. She's
easy to and girl. She is a spitfire. Third love
(22:45):
not qut the charm doctor born addiction stores hard.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
She cried, Oh God, just take me down, damn it,
give me streaks of five kads and broke with noise.
She's a spitfire, spitfire, Queen of tiptoe, How way queen
(23:12):
you elegant blame her when nobody can get taper.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
She's a spitfire, old day saying it all Factory's tragedies,
(23:47):
big and small. Some that young her kidney into Kallas.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Smile, she pushes through. She's a spitfire smitfer take it,
leave it, design in you real again, lave her. She's
easy to a girl. She is a sweet five. She's
(24:21):
in my bla. Oh, she is a smit Fie. She's
in my pod. She is a spit five.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Hey y'all, this is Darryl Worthy and you're listening to.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
One of my biggest number Wood songs, Awful Beautiful, live
right here with Brandon on backstage past.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
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Speaker 3 (25:16):
Hey, everybody, this is Day Everything Mersey twenty five years
and knocking the dust off the bottle.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
You listening to.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Brandon and Nick right here on the backstage pass.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And of course he'll be there with yours truly there
next week in Nashville, Tennessee. Having a good time there.
Cmafes twenty twenty five. All the tickets and packages there
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course we're gonna have two shows left for this week,
and then we're going to Nashville next week on Tuesday
(25:48):
and staying there for the full week. And yes, I'll
beat some good food out there and do it the
little restaurant things that I do out there. From where
we do eat. We'll give you guys a little social
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Here a hull again, presented by All about r VS
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Today's best Country mix. I mentioned a song with a
(26:10):
cool title, and Spitfire just has that really cool title
and cool fire. I love this.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, well, thank you. I wrote this about my granny.
You know, I've sort of been I've been setting this
song up a little bit by telling folks that, you know,
I wrote this song about her because she was truly
a spitfire. I mean, she's born and raised here in
the hills of Tennessee. You know, really hardly ever left
the state of Tennessee in her eighty years that we
had her. But man, she lived this kind of wild
(26:38):
life through a lot of tragedy and a lot of
hard times, but you know, still came out on the
other side with a smile on her face and this,
you know, this beautiful, bold but fiery spirit. You know,
you could tell that her life experiences had had toughened her,
you know, but yet she still had this this ability
to like love in the deepest of ways. So you know,
(27:00):
if I'm ever having a hard time or feeling like,
you know, woe is me, I just kind of think
about her and all she went through and how she
made it through all this stuff. So I wrote this
about her life. You know, probably could have added about
twenty more verses, to be honest, but it's a little
glimpse into some of the tragedies and things that she
went through. But it's kind of more. It never explicitly
says it's about her, you know, it's more of a
(27:22):
story about a young woman all the way up from
the time she was seventeen till she, you know, is
in her old age. But it's more of an ode
to all those you know, resilient souls out there who
remind us about strength and that we're going to make it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know, no doubt we're all going to be there
one day too, whether we like it or not. Father
time catch us up. And hey, like I said, my
grandnage that way, she would have loved to hear that song.
I had her till she was in the early nineties
right there too at the same time. But more she
was that spitfire you mentioned, that little ball of fire.
She lived a tough life, went through the Great Depression.
So it reminded me a lot of my grandma who's
in along with us. But God rest her soul and
(28:00):
your Australia. Just having them for eighty plus years was
pretty pretty darn cool. And so songs remind us a
lot of that. And that's what music does. You know.
Music reminds me so much of therapy because I really understand,
you know, anybody could be going through anything in life,
no matter if it's celebrations or tragedies or any aspect
of life for that matter too. But man, when they
buy those tickets to come out and see you guys play,
(28:22):
I think they leave the show better than what they
showed up at because it's like, yeah, you want to
drink and do all this too. But I'll tell us
somebody today, it's got to be cool for you guys
to be in the arts business and be in the
music industry to heal somebody and make somebody feel better
from when they left the show after they bought tickets
to come see you guys, compared to what they were
going through before they got to the show, right.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's the name of the game.
I think we all make music with hopes that it
can mean something, not just to us but the I mean,
we all could sit around and sing songs to ourselves,
you know, in our living rooms and bedrooms at home
and all that kind of stuff. But it's the shared
experience of music that keeps me, you know, wanting to
(29:03):
do this. I think like like writing something from my
heart that means something to me and hoping that it
can you know, move someone or have meaning in their life.
And you know, there's another song off my record call
come Out of My Blues, and it's one that now
that I've been playing this music live, I often think
about the fact that, you know, people come out to
(29:23):
a live show like what you're saying, and maybe they
have had a really rough day, month, week. You know,
we're all going through stuff, and sometimes you know, it
can feel like you're the only one. But you know,
usually even if it's you're a stranger, you're standing next
to somebody else may have come to that show needing
to just escape their troubles for a while. And and
(29:43):
so you know, there's a song that kind of celebrates
that feeling of like when you've been kind of just
having a rough time and you're starting to see the
light again and hear the birds singing, and you know,
starting to feel like your spirit come back. And I
think like live music and that shared experience is that
for a lot of people. I know it certainly is
for me. So I feel lucky that we get to
(30:05):
kind of gather together and experience those those kind of moments.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Very much a celebration to love that we're gonna get
our fill of it. Next to it to Nashville, all
great show played, all the stages and of course all
the action at the Grandell Library so I got to
ask you about you remiss if I didn't. Black River
was such a special song for you. It was on
the Weighted Mind album too, that came out there with
it on there. I love this so much as Stranded
was also on there too, one of my favorite songs,
(30:30):
but black River has to still go down as one
of your favorites today, right.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I do really enjoy that song actually, and that's one
that you know, that record that you're referencing. The album's
called Weighted Mind. It's a little bit different for me
than any other kind of record I've made, and that
it's mostly just mandolin and voice. It's a very stripped down,
bare bones kind of album with mandolin and bass, so
you know, it's very lyric forward and you know, mandolin
(30:55):
melody forward in this way. And it's been really fun
to to, you know, after having those songs kind of
go through that season of a very stripped down thing,
to be able to now, you know, find creative ways
to play some of those songs with the full band too.
And I will say, even to this day now with
the full band arrangement with drums and everything like that,
black River is still one of my favorite songs to
(31:17):
get to sing and play.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
All right, so stepping in that center circle. I mentioned
you hot out there too, which is great because I
love you seeing you on shows and listening on WSA
I'm the home of the Opera there too, and maybe
on Saturday Night Circle Network all that good stuff, and
here in your live performances because I just get a
kick out of it. I love it. It's a feel
good moment and a great time, and you really bring
it every time. But I'm sure never gets old stepping
inside that center circle at the mecca of country music.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right, oh never. I mean, you know, I'm from right
here in Tennessee, and you know we're talking about my
Spitfire Granny and all my family. It's like, you know,
I was lucky to get invited to come play the
Opry at a really young age. So I've now been
playing the Opry since I was basically ten years old.
I first played when I was ten years old, and
you know, honestly, I can say even then, at that
(32:03):
young age, I knew the gravity of what it meant
to get to go play there. You know, it's the
the you know, birthplace in so many ways of you know,
especially the Ryman, the birthplace of bluegrass music. You know,
every country artist and bluegrass artist that you can think
of that has been, you know, a hero to any
(32:23):
of us in the music business, you know, has played
on that stage. And yeah, I still get goosebumps every time.
You know, I'm just really really thrilled to get to
be back there. I guess this time next week to
kind of help kick off CMAFS, So I always look
forward to it, and I'm just so honored that I still,
all these years later, still get to come back and play.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There right at home, no doubt about it too. Let's
have a little fun as we close our segment. Of
course next week, if we get a chance to see
you in person, it's always great to make that connection
in person, and come by the booth there at the
Music City Center and have a great time again. A
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S I E R R A h U L L
(33:07):
dot com. See we can spell things for you here
on the backstage past. Just good. I'll bet I've got
to have that there. Bar taco is gonna be one
of them. I always say I'm gonna go there. I
had my hot chicken. What are you kind of craving
right now? When you get out there to eat? What
do you like?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Okay, it's funny that you say this because literally right
before we started doing our interview here, my husband's cousin
was in town from Mountain, East, Tennessee. They're flying out
from the airport this evening, so uh, he just went
to go drop them off. But we decided, you know,
they would drive into town this morning and we would
have lunch somewhere, and so we just went to Monel's.
(33:44):
Have you ever had monails?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, mon Els is if you love southern cooking, which
you know I'm from here in Tennessee, so is my
husband Mounta, East, Tennessee. So you know, we knew his
family would love some biscuits and fried chicken and that
kind of thing. Monails is a Nash staple. It's it's
a spot where you go in, you sit down, you
eat family style, so you might be sitting today. We
sat with some folks from Portland, Oregon, and some other
(34:10):
folks from down in like Southern Georgia whose daughter lives
here in Nashville. So you'll find yourself at a table
with strangers, but in this really kind of beautiful way
to kind of socialize, and they just start bringing out food.
So it's family style. They'll bring a huge thing of
biscuits and corn bread, gravy, fried chicken, pot roast, all
the fixens, green beans, all the way down to you know,
(34:32):
like tons of great sides, but all the way down
to you know, banana pudding and different things for dessert.
So it's very gluttonous, but very good. I'm here to
tell you every once in the blue moon when we
have family come to town, we're like, well, we got
to take them to Monel's cause it's kind of a
Nashville staple. So check it out if you have time.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's gonna be a recommendation I have right there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Make sure you're hungry.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That's hungry here. That just went to the top of
the list right here, Ale me there too. Yeah, what
else if you've never been a working musician, what other
career path would you have followed? Whether the interest was there?
I know it's a musician in your great add but
was there another hidden occupation out there.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know, it's hard. It's it's hard for me to say,
because I truly like music has been all I have
ever wanted. I think there's you'll probably find this funny.
I think I would have enjoyed doing some kind of
like reporter like you know, news kind of broadcasting something
like that, or I think I would have enjoyed I've
always been fascinated by homes, and I love like interior
(35:33):
design and things like that. I think even something like
real estate would have been an interesting kind of fun path.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
They have to have you come do my house now
and decorate the interior design too when it comes back,
get somebody something.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I always have time to do that at my own house,
but you know it's something I like to watch all
the shows and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Fun too, no doubt love that too. At the same time,
her music is fantastic, and like I said, out there too,
her smiles beautiful. And this music has got to be
heard across everything. That's what we're playing it out there.
KKT see True Country ninety nine point nine KYB in
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(36:12):
Hope to see you next week, my friend. I appreciate
you spending some time with us here as well, and again,
continue success going forward. Appreciate the time of the chat.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Thank you, Brandon. Good to chat with you, and let
me know if you go to Monell's, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You're gonna be one of the first roues to go
out there too. I'll let you know. Monell's is on
the doctor see it May for twenty twenty five rolls
on June fifth to seventh, Music City Center doing our
show live down there too, about seventy five interviews in
three days. And of course, the Grand Old Library forty
third annual Sunday Morning Country host is Brenda Lee. Hope
to get to speak to her there this year. She
was unable to attend last year, but I heard she's
(36:46):
doing well and she's excited to come back for the
Sunday Morning Country coming up this year. We give worship
to our maker out there and our Good Lord, and
of course all the action can be heard out there
on our stations at affiliates iHeartRadio and the Sports Guys
podcast Dot Couch out seers music across all the DSPs.
Take care, God bless we'll see you. So. Hey, it's
Sewn Salisbury with Sean Salisbury Sports Sox seven ninety six
(37:08):
to ten, Money to Friday and Houston. And you are
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Hey guys, this is Annie Bosco and you're listening to
the Backstage Past with Brandon.
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