January 24, 2025 • 39 mins
The Castellows are a trio on the rise as Nashville Recording Artists! Tune in to hear from the ladies as we chat about their new single and lots more plans for 2025!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is the Castellos and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot Com, exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day of
shows and for some of you guys, that's what you're
listening to. Is radio out there too, and Radio Land
because it's cold around different parts of the country out
there too, So just get a cup of hot chocolate
out there too, your favorite dessert and turn on the
Backstage past two. We got a great show here for you.
Today is always too previous, some new music and some
songs coming out over the next few weeks as we
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count down to Country Radio Seminar twenty twenty five, February
nineteenth to twenty first at the Omni Hotel and Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee,
will be broadcasting live there too. The Castellos joining us
today too. Always one of the hottest groups out there
too in country music. How are you ladies doing?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Doing very way? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's talk about this because I want to hear about
this journey when you guys kind of got this band
together known as the Castle Lows and just Man, just game, Momentum,
game Fire, put off, all these great songs. Just kind
of give me the backstory of how you guys formed
and just the love of country music, because I love
your sound. It's so just genuine and beautiful and it's
tremendous harmony. It's kind of tell me the story of
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when you guys knew you wanted to take this and
in form the group.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So we're sisters, So we've been playing music ever since.
We don't even know how long, because we grew up
together doing all that. I think everything kind of started
happening whenever we first wrote songs in twenty twenty two,
which really wasn't that long ago. It's kind of crazy
how quickly life changes and how unexpected everything is. But
we've been playing music since it feels like the dawn
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of time, just not really thinking about having a career,
just because we loved it and that's what we did.
We grew up on a farm in rural Georgia, so
country music has always been a love of ours, just
from a fans perspective, and now being an artist. It's
really cool to be able to do this thing and
live out this type of dream.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, talk about just how the industry now is becoming
a part of it now because you're getting a lot
more of the duos and trios out there, these groups,
you know, forming together, and like I said, a lot
of them could be have a similar background to you guys,
where they have a similar grow up in a family
family of music, and some are kids, some are not.
But again they put this together, have tremendous vocal harmonies
and then also storytelling in the songs, picking the right
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songs for the record. Talk about just how important that
is too, and also to Gell as a cohesive you know.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I'm really happy that there's so many groups
that are emerging back because I feel like we were
in a time of a lot of just single artists,
which is so cool. But there is really something special
about being in a band and playing music and being
an instrumentalist and doing all of that. I think really
like choosing songs when you are either a duo, trio
or a band can be really unique.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's it's almost like you can you know, write and
create and choose songs that you know, relate to like
a large group of people, there being three of us
or so, it's really neat to like write stuff that
the three of us love and relate to and about
our home and like how we grew up, and so
that's something that we really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I loved a lot of this A Little Goes a
Long Way from that debut EP out There Too, which
was last February.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Seven great songs off of there. Let's talk about just
the body of work off of there too, and just man,
some songs that really resonated with me, all the country
music fans out there. We've been playing a lot on
KKTC for a lot of these songs, Cowboy kind of
Love and of course off of their Hurricane Love. All
these tunes and man, does it really speak to the
general public out there.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A Little Goes a Long Way was our first introduction
into the world of music. It was our first time
ever in the studio. It was our first time playing
on a record, and it's our first time writing. It
was our first time writing rights on there. There was
a lot of I mean, there's the cover of Hurricane
which we very deliberately wanted to put our version of
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that song on that record because we've been playing that
song for almost eight years and has really been a
powerful song in our lives. And so the cover of
Hurricane was very deliberate, and also we wanted it to play.
We wanted to play it live for the rest of time,
and so we needed a way to do that. And
Heartline Hill is a song on there. That was the
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fourth song I ever wrote. I wrote that song by myself.
We love that record. We love that project so much
because it is such a pure representation of us and
where we were specifically at that time at the beginning
of this journey. And so thank y'all for playing those songs.
We love them as much as y'all do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Again, just beautiful harmonies, beautiful sounding like aus. I've been
radioed near thirty years, and I always tell people, yeah,
I got an ear and an eye for it too,
what the ear likes and what the eyes like to
at the same time, they're going to give it to
the fans out there. Also, you mentioned I kind of
mentioned that titled Cowboy kind of Love Man, what a
song just to really kind of pull people in as
far as telling a story too. And just terrific lyrics
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and songwriting. Talk about that one for me.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Thank you, Yeah, that one. That one is super special
to us because that was one of our very first
songs we wrote in Nashville, and so we just we
were kind of just starting to get introduced into like
how learning how to write and writing with people that
you know, we're just so talented. So we really enjoyed
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writing that. We love the instrumentation. There's so much of
that song that we you know, just we just learned
so much from it and it means a lot to us.
And we also we also love playing that song live.
It's been really so fun of our favorites to play live.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Talk about growing up and just the music you guys
were listening to it. It could be anything from country
to to hip hop and R and B and maybe
a little bit of everything, but it seems like a
lot of the old school kind of country. The feel
I'm getting in you guys music, at least the songs
we've been playing and the ones I've been listening to,
is that old school kind of feel. And it completely
solo artists or bands, people that really influenced you as.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Artists growing up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I think beautiful thing about having us three do
music is we all have pretty different music tastes, but
there's certain things that we land on. We because we
grew up singing in church. We you know, we listen
to a lot of gospel worship music. And then also
you know, stuff our parents played, which was Alabama and
Alan Jackson and some of those great harmony bands like
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Diamond Rio and Shannondoah. We listen to a lot. So
those are some and then you know, kind of on
our own, we like developed our own music taste and
stuff we like. So it's cool to like bring that
together the three of us. Yeah, I'm a big fan
of rock music. I love like classic rock music, and
so I feel like elements of that is kind of
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in our music. And then also we love like folk
music and bluegrass music and a ton of the like
red dirt music and Texas music. We really love Americana
music and want to make sure the elements of that
are in our sound as well.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh you hit a nerve there, you struggle one the
Americana and of course Texas country where I'm at down here,
and I've had a lot of those Texas country artists,
you know, do their thing here on the show too,
and tell their stories because a lot of them don't
really have to leave the state of Texas to have
a career as well. Just played here. They got you
and they pull you into and they're just they're they're
ready for it to get out to the shows and
stuff like that. Uh, give me some Texas artists there
(07:25):
you mentioned like Texas Country Americana that you guys, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We're I mean the place they call home that comes
out on Friday. We wrote that with Cluto Cordello and
it features a Flatland Cavalry and so we've been a
fan of Flatland Cavalry for like ever and uh, the
fact that we get to put out a song with
them is a very like surreal full circle moment for
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us because we saw them our freshman year of college
and concert. I think we saw them, you know, two
or three times throughout the time we were in college.
So that's a fun full circle moment for us. And
now we're all friends with them. We're big, we're big
Turnpike Troubadours fans. And also, like you know, if you
go back a little more like a cross Canadian rag weed,
you know, some of these red dirt legends that really,
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you know, were the people that allowed that genre to
be so as big as it is now. And it's
so deserving because the music's so honest and it's authentic,
and like, you know, we aren't from Texas and Oklahoma,
but like we we want to be respected by those
people because we respect them so much.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Great great action, no doubt to kind of pinpoint learn
from too, because they've been doing it for a long
long time too.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We got to play one here on the show right now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
One of two coming up today again from the group
The Castle Low is out there too, across all the
digital streaming platforms. It's called the Alabama Stone here it
is on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Back in the Flash sty two.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
She was born on the border of the Red Clay River,
someplace south of Chickasaw, where the cotton grew, hide the
stars free fall. The world stands still while the copper
is crawled cardboards, and the yard and weeds over grown.
But Daddy Bill that house on Alabama storm on that side, right,
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she sands all other ground the sinking sing. But you
can't ever get to park on when your roots run
deep through Alapham storm. She liked to say, she get
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out Sunday may be making to move Bill. Well, she
met him and just get enough to make or stop
turning those wings. Now she cleans the kitchen and he's
never home. Soshal stairs at her hand, at that Alabama's
stone on.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
That side of rock.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
She sands all other ground to sinking sand. But you
can't ever get too far gone when you're roots trying
to through Alabam's Stone, through Alabama Stone, fresh ballack dirt
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and a fake red rooms. They carved her name last
one in a room. I know that solid Rochy lies
too old to dream, too young to die. You can't
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ever get to fark on one when your roots roundy
though Alephenstone on that side, Rochy stands all other ground
on the sinking sand. But you can't ever get too
fark one when your roots roundy though elephant storm, through
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Elephenston though elephant storm.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
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Speaker 4 (12:30):
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Speaker 2 (12:44):
Hey y'all, this is Tarren Papa and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico. I'm backing
with the Castillos KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
Amma Stone. So let's dive into this one, one of
three songs you guys have just released back in December
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of twenty twenty four. Can't believe we're still saying that
it's already twenty twenty five, but it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Love this one. Melody, I mean, harmonies, everything. It really
spoke to me a lot, it did.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Thank you. It's one of our it's one of my favorites.
I enjoyed writing this one. The studio, you know, putting
this one together was amazing, and so it's it's one
of my favorites. The concept for this song came so
our hometown in Georgia, because it's we're from Georgia, so
it's like Albams stone. What's going on there? Our hometown
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in Georgia borders the state of Alabama, and a lot
of our family is from state of Alabama. And we
because our hometown was so small, a lot of the
things that we did growing up, we're in the state
of Alabama. We were like a couple miles from the
state line. And our grandmother lives in Alabama and she
has a fireplace at her log cabin she lives in
Alabama that has a stone right at the centerpiece that
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has shaped like the state of Alabama. And Lily saw
it and said, Alabama's stone. That sounds like a song.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And so.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
That stone, that physical literal stone in our grandmother's fireplace
kind of sparked the idea for the story behind this song,
A girl who can't leave the State of Alabama. And
it's actually it's actually a really sad song. We we
haven't put out a sad song like that, and we
love it. We love what it represents and that part
of our lives that hadn't been shown in our music yet.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know, y'all mentioned how fast the ride has been
ever since, like I said, you started, you know, singing
and growing up together and of course getting into the
music industry. I want to ask you what's been kind
of a few of the biggest challenges that maybe fans
don't see behind the scenes as you kind of went
into it full throttle and you'll management record label things
like that and kind of going into it, what have
you learned the most and talk about just some of
the challenges you've gone through as a trio.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, well, you know, one thing this might sound kind
of silly, One thing that we've had to learn to
do is travel.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You know, we the three of us grew up on
a farm in South Georgia. You know, we were not
well traveled, and so we've been all over the place
this year, which has been fun and exciting, but it's
also been you know, a little bit scary and something
that we've kind of had to learn to do. And
you know, us being a trio and working together and
you know, we've lived together and worked together our whole lives.
(15:21):
But it's been you know, fun and unique to face
this new little challenge of you know, running a business together,
because that's essentially what we're doing is running our own
business together. So it's been fun, it's been you know,
I feel like making us better human beings.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
And you know, we love it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
We love working together, and so it's been it's been interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm sure it has the same time, a lot to
learn and like you said, experience to do the dudes
and don'ts and pros and cons of the industry. I
love the album We Gain a Little Girls A Long Way.
I had to ask you about another one that really
just resonated with me. Number seven wrote, let's dive into
this one a little bit, get a little backstorre.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So this song was the first song we ever put out,
and the reason why we wanted to put it out
was because we felt that the lyrical content represented us
very well. The whole story is a narrative about a
literal road, and all of the lyrics from the there's
seven of us sitting at the table and then talking
about our granddad, like our granddad walked walked down number
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seven road, our great granddad, excuse me, walk down number
seven road going to school. And so this whole story
is just a complete narrative. And like you know how
whenever you write songs, you might embellish a thing or
two there to make the story more cohesive. Or do
something like that. This was not the case with this song.
It's just completely a literal narrative and we out of
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the collection of songs, we were like, this song lets
people know who we are, and so we wanted that
to be the first song we ever put out.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Love It Too, and go back to October a little bit.
It was another great tune. You guys released Ways to Go,
Let's dive into this show.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, that was a on one to write. We wrote
that one with Will Bundy and Nicole Gallian in Nashville,
and you know that that song, I think we we
really didn't have any intentions for it, but I think
it's a song that we relate to a lot. When
we play it live, we always introduce it and say,
you know, us girls like to think we got a
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long ways to go. And I feel like there's you know,
lots of truth to that, and I hope it's a
song people can relate to because you know, at the
end of the day, you know, we're all going somewhere
and we got you know, we all probably got a
long ways to go, and it's just, you know, we
kind of see ourselves and the girl we're singing about
and her story.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know, we mentioned that collaboration you mentioned with Clato
Cordero Flatland Calvary with the new single We're gonna play
in just a little bit a place they call home.
But at the same time I love the collaboration with
White Flores and at the same time from Sober Sundays,
which for me, I don't drink much anymore. But hey,
I think we get this sugust in the meaning of.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What that means.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, this is this song is so so for Sundays,
is so special to us, and why it's become such
a dear friend of ours since we wrote it. We
wrote it a year ago, from December, and a couple
of weeks ago we were playing at bridge Stone Arena
with Little Big Town and why it was playing at
the Ryman, and so we got to sing that song
once at bridge Stone and once at the Ryman on
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the exact same night. A couple of weeks ago, we
got he got to play with our band and we
got to go play with his band, and uh, why
it's a dear friend of ours, and we also just
have so much respect for him and his music, and
we really whenever we wrote the song, none of us
were like, let's cut this, like we're gonna this is
a you know. It was one of those things where
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a couple months later we looked back and we were like,
this is a good song, and the recording process was
absolutely it was so wonderful and just what it means,
like the lyrical content of that song, I'm very we're
all super super proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh you should be again. It's that body of work.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And in the catalog of songs, it shows the great
recording and the voices and of course the writing alone,
the writing and all these songs. And I'd be remiss
if I didn't ask about because everybody was telling me,
are you gonna ask about it?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Brandon?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I said, yeah, I'm gonna ask about Miss America because
that was last June one of my favorites out there too,
And I said, we definitely have to get the backstory
of that one, because man, what another one to get home?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Right?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, we that that song, well, that that one's one
of our favorites. We wrote that one and we just
we knew that was going to be one of our favorites.
We love our country, we love where we come from.
We're very proud of it where we we say every
time we introduced this song, we say we're patriots and
we love this country. And we kind of took it
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from our home in rural Georgia. You know, we we
love that place, and you know, Ellie, you've always have
a good Yeah. No, I mean that song is really uh,
it's really it's really special, and it's a love letter
to our hometown. And but it's also an acknowledgement that
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like maybe it doesn't feel the same as it did
when you were younger and more innocent, and you know,
times change, and but no matter like what happens, we're
always gonna love our hometown and love this country. And
I think the way it personifies America as like a
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woman and like, you know, like the way the way
the lyrics are picturesque and kind of painting that picture
is something that we're proud of and like we love
we love that song so much, no doubt too.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I'll tell you what I love preview and this
one here and it's across all the digital streaming platforms.
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Speaker 3 (20:51):
Enjoy.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
For as long as I remember Ben staring at the sky,
looking to the father of a billion twinkles and his uh.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Listen to him whisper sweet song through the paless.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Been a witness of his wanderers since.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The dawn of time.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
I was made to be warm. It all stand by ground,
two watering souls.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Who lost their way. No, you're always found. I was
made to be walms. Go away, gonna get to always
been around on earth.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
For you, rivers, rocks and mountains, got no flesh.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Bok, I hain't shake the glam the footstool to him,
lots of days to con me to pea school spirit worms.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Our mother too is children place they go home.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Mose made to be warm, don't lost down by ground
to one sous lost their way. No, you're always spelling.
Nose made to be long, don't go away, Gonna get
to always been around love everything from falling trees to colonies.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Work is never dunk.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
Forced from dust and turning rice, the towers and the sun,
the pride and rage and battles wage on't wars, never
wal to try to break my heart and too, but
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I'm foreveryone.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
I was made to be walk don't but I'll stand
by ground to one souls who lost their way. No,
you always found I was made to.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Be all don't go and gone again, always been around
on me.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
It wasn't make befund, that's what you gonnered.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Hey y'all, this is Bruce Wallis of the Little Riverband
and you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass exclusively
on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at Tausan,
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Speaker 14 (24:42):
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Speaker 2 (24:55):
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nine at the Omni Hotel. It's Country Radio Seminar twenty
(25:16):
twenty five. All right, you go, ladies, talked about this one.
It's out across all the platforms. Thanks for letting us
premier it after you just came out this past Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I love it too.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You mentioned just a great opportunity to collaborate and work
with one of the best in the industry, good friend
of mine in Cluto Cordero from flat Land Cavalry, And
I'll say this, you nailed it. Now we got to
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Thank you. Yeah, this one. This was our first rite
we ever did with Kluto, and I don't know, I
had had this idea in my notes for a long
time about personifying land. I am a big outdoors person,
like I studied agriculture in college and so like the
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land and what it does for us is like really
important to me, and so well all of us really,
but but more so particularly you because of your agriculture. Yeah,
but I had this note in my phone called land,
and underneath it it was like if we were if
the if the land could speak to us, what would
it say? And so I feel like that's such a
(26:18):
powerful message, especially what's going on within our world right now.
I feel like, you know, if if it could speak,
it would say a lot. And so the fact that
uh Cletto got to write this with us and bring
the idea to life, and then with the rest of
the band bring the song to life in the production
(26:42):
is so fun. Yeah, we cut the song. We cut
the song in Austin, and every single instrument that's played,
every single vocal is all between the three of us
in the Flatland guys. There's no like outside players or
anything like that. It's completely we. We did it can
as a unit of nine. I played guitar on it,
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Pale played banjo, and then the rest of the Flatline
guys played all the other instruments. So it was really special.
We wanted to get in the studio and all like
work together and it was so much fun for us
because we're such a big fan not only of Kleto
and his songwriting and his vocals, but like reads guitar
playing and West's fiddle playing and everything. So it was.
(27:23):
It was one of the funnest days in the studio
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You don't want to ask you too.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We just did a slew of shows here for the
backstage pass on the Opry AM six pot fifty which
out there too.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Got to go a couple of times last year broadcast
backstage from the Opery at the event they did at
the Opry called Sunday Morning Country, which is always a
big worldwide event that they do there. First time y'all
stepped on that stage, I got to get the feelings
and the emotions and things that went through. Because I've
not seen y' all live. I'm dying to get out there,
to see y'all on the road at some point, bring
the family out there in the team. But the first
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time y'all stepped in that center circle, what kind of
emotions it? What went through your mind?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know, that was such a crazy moment, and I'm
sure you know everybody has, you know, different things to say.
It was almost like you just completely black out from
the feeling It's such a like crazy experience. And I
remember standing in the circle and then looking over and
Little Big Town is standing there introducing us, and I'm like,
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I grew up listening to them, like I remember watching
them on the TV. And that was like a crazy
moment for me to like look over a Little Big Town.
You look down and you're standing in the Auvrey circle
and just to think of everybody that stood in that
circle and on that stage and you get to do it.
It's like, you know, what did what did we do
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to be here? But it was it was such a
such a crazy experience. It was crazy. We all like
held hands and then stepped in the circle together and
then uh Pou and I you know, peeled off to
the other mics cause that's where we were, but we
were like, we all need to step in the circle together.
And it was, it was, it was, It was so beautiful.
We love the Opery and have so much respect for them.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Great place to broadcast the show and a great place
definitely to like I said, attend to show Opery dot com.
Get those tickets. Always tell people if you're in Nashville,
that's one of the muss things to do. Besides eating. Now,
I gotta talk about food here because I'm sure you
guys are food. He's just like me, and you're like,
you know what if I eat something bad, I have
a couple of cheap days during the week, I gotta
go to the gym, work it off, burn those calories.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Nashville is no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Shortage when it comes to restaurants, and there's a bunch
of them out there, so I guess the night of
the town are just kind of going out to eat somewhere.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Where do y'all like to dine in?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh, that's a good question. We're big, like we're beef
cattle farmers. So any steak place, any burger place. We're
big red meat people. I know, the hot chicken is
the thing, right, We're big. We're big beef people, and
Nashville has so much great any of that. We're also
big notice people. We love like any type of brunch.
I know First Watch is kind of a chain place,
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but that's new to us living in Nashville. We just
discovered that. And then a place called Bricktops and Franklin
is pretty good if you want to spend a little
money when you're eating.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
So there's one that are some artists to be bringing
up bar taco. I've not tried it yet, but yeah,
so good. Okay, so that's that's a must at CRS
this year. All right, talk about just hobbies away from
we're not doing music out there some things that you
guys you mentioned agriculture and just being outside doing things.
Maybe some people say fitness is a big one hobbies
for for you guys when when not doing music or traveling.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, we're all big hunters. We love to deer hunt,
duck hunt, will hunt anything. We ride horses a lot
when we go home. We all our family farm is
kind of like obviously it's a family run thing. So
anytime we go home, we're working on the family farm,
and we love that. It's something that you know, we
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would do all the time if we could. And uh,
you know, and then in Nashville we don't live on
a farm obviously. So we're all pretty big readers. We've
read a lot. I just recently picked up sewing, so
she can alter our stage clothes. Now if we get
something this too, bid, Yes, I love the hang.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We need somebody who's seamstress and is really expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So I was like to do this myself instead of
painting somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I love it too, all right, I know, I say
you three, well, we have two of the cast of
those with us today. But if you too were not
doing music individually, what other career path would you have
taken if it wasn't music.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We also can answer for Lily too. Yeah, I know,
I know her well enough to know what she would
be doing. Lily's very She's very cool. She's a lot
cooler than we are. No, I'm kidding, but no. Lily
has her private pilot's license and can fly planes, so
if she wasn't if she wasn't doing music, she would
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be flying planes for people because she's really cool. And
then pow, you can go. If I wasn't doing music,
I would be doing something in the cattle business. That
was my career path other than music. So and then
mine's kind of random. I studied management, information systems and
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international business in college, so I would probably be doing
like it project management. But I'm also a really big
sports fan, so I might have tried to weasel my
way into something NFL related or something like that. So
three very different career paths there.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I love it how Ali can almost host this show
She just let to strike a nerve there too, because
beging of sports. That's why I say powered by the website,
because you know somebody's a sports fan like Ella. You
got to bring it up here too, so you get
the NFL. We're out of the file four.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I think my prediction was to say out the window
now still that the Bills are still alive, but barely.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I guess two part question, La, did you watch the playoffs?
And two? Is your team in it?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Not in it?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Who do you root for?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I've watched every single playoff game. I've gotten Powell
pretty much in. We're slowly but surely getting Powell into
the NFL as well. We're from Georgia, so we are
Falcons fan. We sang the national anthem Ata Falcons game
a couple of weeks ago at the last game with
the Panthers that they lost in overtime unfortunately. But in
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terms of our we're also graduates from the University of Georgia,
So I tell people that I love the NFL more
as just a general product. I'm invested in all of it,
and I also follow Georgia players that went to certain teams,
which I don't. I would don't want the Eagles in
the Super Bowl. I really want the Commanders the Super Bowl.
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I'm like the rest of the world. I want the
Super Bowl to be Commander's Bills and not Chiefs Eagles.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Now I'm as on a Cardinals fan, So getting the
Rams eliminated that was awesome just because of that whole
getting a no team in that division.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
If we can't have it, nobody can have it out.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
There, That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, the Commanders have been very surprized with Jayden Daniels
and at rookie quarterback position and just what he's done.
You don't see too many rookie quarterbacks come in and
have that kind of just that that immense, uh you know,
power that he has and like I said, getting out
there and showcasing all the skills he has and that
forty two to just be like I said, just he
looks like a veteran guy's but he looks insane.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I mean I watched him in college because I was
in college whenever he was having his Heisman season and
everything like that. And when when you saw him in college,
you were like, Okay, this guy's a guy. And uh,
I think the Commanders have done a really good job
of getting the right pieces in play because you draft,
you know, you draft these guys so high, and then
they're normally going to a crappy organization and you have
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nothing to kind of help them, help foster environment where
they can be successful. So it's it's a hymn, and
it's the whole organization. It's really awesome to see at
the turnaround because it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
He's definitely brought it to So you got you'll catch
me at the CRS and you want to sit down
and just do kind of a sports show, Ellie, and
and then policy Dragon.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
All day. I love it.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
We'll do that too.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Here's a question I had for my buddy the other day,
and I got to give him props to it too,
because we did the show with him. Christian Bush of
Sugarland had come on with us the other day and
we were talking and we got to and of course
he he loves like WWE. He loves the wrestling stuff
and all the aw all the stuff out there too,
which is just fun to go to. And my daughter's
like really into it now. But I want to I
want to go here if there was a solo artist
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or a band that we could set up. And what
I'm trying to do with this is like have like
the first backstage past country music slash wrestling like Marathon
in Nashville, like set up a ring and kind of
have some of this. So I'm gonna say, I guess,
even if you're not a fan, is there a band
or say a solo artist that yourself and and Powell
would wrestle?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And if you if you were to, what would be
your finishing move?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Gosh, I actually know nothing about wrestling. I know the
WWE is like very cool and I really respect everything
that they do, but I know not.
Speaker 15 (36:00):
If I could wrestle anybody, is this this is who
he'd wrestle in the music industry.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah, music industry, And like I said, we could quoreograph.
Speaker 15 (36:09):
Say it again, I said, I feel like I have
a fair chance against Bailey Zimmerman.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's fifty.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He's scrappy though, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I love it well.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I just want to set up a ring and do
like the first like Christian Bush for the other day.
We want to do like a little uh you know,
w W style kind of backstage past with the wrestling,
country music, and like bands have bands and bands, but
we can have I guess mix tag to it at
the same time, like I said, I love that, and
then go through the choreographer, you some of their people,
you know, teach you guys what you get out there
in the ring, and you know, if you fall, get
(36:39):
back up, and like I would do all the commentary
with my buddy and said, we co host and host
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
And you know, just have drinks and food.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I don't know if I can.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Watch or or a three verse like I said, three
three verses three, we could have mixed tags.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I feel like we'd have a tactical advantage of twintle.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Hey back to Alabama Stone. Tell me about Place to Leave?
Another great song off that record.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, Place to Leave is one of our favorite songs
to play live since we started doing it a couple
of months ago. That's kind of one of those and
more really like soulful Americana type songs. And as soon
as we wrote it, we were like, this is awesome,
like the cord things that happened and the key change
and then the modulation back down. It's really we love
it so much. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And then off the record, Jo, I'll wrap it with
this one here Girl that Boy, which really told the
story right there.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
I love.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
That's the beauty of country music is telling those stories
and having a storytelling relate to the fans out there,
and that really does.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Thank you. That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 15 (37:44):
I think it was my favorite out of the ones
we released, and I just think it's so sweet, you know,
because we want to grow up and when they have
daughters and stuff, and you think about what you tell
a boy, and men aren't perfect, even the even the
best man, even our you know, the man we love
most of this world, our Daddy's like, men aren't perfect,
and they're gonna make mistakes, but you know he's gonna
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he's gonna make you mad and act the fool, but
you're gonna be everything to lose is the sentiment of
that song.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And I really like it a lot. Yes, we love it.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
It's a beautiful song about too and I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
And again, the new ones out there across all the
digital streaming platforms and a place they call home with
Cleto Cordero out there, a Flatland Cavalry and of course
Alabama Stone.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
The full EP is out there across all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Tell you you ladies are killing it out there across
all the digital streaming platforms. Congrats on all the success
and continue success going forward, looking forward to hopefully seeing
y'all in Nashville, Tennessee at the Country Radio Seminar from
around Waler Aving Elliott, I still love to do that'
sports show with you. Just go live and forward, and
I appreciate y'all being with us, and of course guess
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all you guys can download the music and listen to
it right here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine out there. Can appreciate you being with us, and hey,
continue success going forward and keep kicking ass and pick names,
is what I say.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Out there, Hey, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
The Castello is here on the program here again KKTC
True Country ninety nine point out across all those digital
streaming platforms out there, to go get the music and
visit the website out there too find out if they're
coming to a city near you. We're back with more
great music out here at ninety nine point nine KKTC
True Country and powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot Com.
We'll see you guys on the flip side out there too.
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Coming up CRS February nineteenth to twenty first at the
Omni Hotel. We'll be doing the show live from that
very venue too. We'll see you then, and lots of
coffee and lots of shows coming up during that entire week.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We'll see you soon. God Blet's and take care.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Hey, this is recording artist Kolbyekov and you're listening to
the backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine
Hey, y'all, this is the Castellos and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports
Guys podcast dot Com, exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day of
shows and for some of you guys, that's what you're
listening to. Is radio out there too, and Radio Land
because it's cold around different parts of the country out
there too, So just get a cup of hot chocolate
out there too, your favorite dessert and turn on the
Backstage past two. We got a great show here for you.
Today is always too previous, some new music and some
songs coming out over the next few weeks as we
(00:33):
count down to Country Radio Seminar twenty twenty five, February
nineteenth to twenty first at the Omni Hotel and Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee,
will be broadcasting live there too. The Castellos joining us
today too. Always one of the hottest groups out there
too in country music. How are you ladies doing?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Doing very way? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's talk about this because I want to hear about
this journey when you guys kind of got this band
together known as the Castle Lows and just Man, just game, Momentum,
game Fire, put off, all these great songs. Just kind
of give me the backstory of how you guys formed
and just the love of country music, because I love
your sound. It's so just genuine and beautiful and it's
tremendous harmony. It's kind of tell me the story of
(01:12):
when you guys knew you wanted to take this and
in form the group.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So we're sisters, So we've been playing music ever since.
We don't even know how long, because we grew up
together doing all that. I think everything kind of started
happening whenever we first wrote songs in twenty twenty two,
which really wasn't that long ago. It's kind of crazy
how quickly life changes and how unexpected everything is. But
we've been playing music since it feels like the dawn
(01:37):
of time, just not really thinking about having a career,
just because we loved it and that's what we did.
We grew up on a farm in rural Georgia, so
country music has always been a love of ours, just
from a fans perspective, and now being an artist. It's
really cool to be able to do this thing and
live out this type of dream.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, talk about just how the industry now is becoming
a part of it now because you're getting a lot
more of the duos and trios out there, these groups,
you know, forming together, and like I said, a lot
of them could be have a similar background to you guys,
where they have a similar grow up in a family
family of music, and some are kids, some are not.
But again they put this together, have tremendous vocal harmonies
and then also storytelling in the songs, picking the right
(02:16):
songs for the record. Talk about just how important that
is too, and also to Gell as a cohesive you know.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I'm really happy that there's so many groups
that are emerging back because I feel like we were
in a time of a lot of just single artists,
which is so cool. But there is really something special
about being in a band and playing music and being
an instrumentalist and doing all of that. I think really
like choosing songs when you are either a duo, trio
or a band can be really unique.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's it's almost like you can you know, write and
create and choose songs that you know, relate to like
a large group of people, there being three of us
or so, it's really neat to like write stuff that
the three of us love and relate to and about
our home and like how we grew up, and so
that's something that we really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I loved a lot of this A Little Goes a
Long Way from that debut EP out There Too, which
was last February.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Seven great songs off of there. Let's talk about just
the body of work off of there too, and just man,
some songs that really resonated with me, all the country
music fans out there. We've been playing a lot on
KKTC for a lot of these songs, Cowboy kind of
Love and of course off of their Hurricane Love. All
these tunes and man, does it really speak to the
general public out there.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A Little Goes a Long Way was our first introduction
into the world of music. It was our first time
ever in the studio. It was our first time playing
on a record, and it's our first time writing. It
was our first time writing rights on there. There was
a lot of I mean, there's the cover of Hurricane
which we very deliberately wanted to put our version of
(03:52):
that song on that record because we've been playing that
song for almost eight years and has really been a
powerful song in our lives. And so the cover of
Hurricane was very deliberate, and also we wanted it to play.
We wanted to play it live for the rest of time,
and so we needed a way to do that. And
Heartline Hill is a song on there. That was the
(04:13):
fourth song I ever wrote. I wrote that song by myself.
We love that record. We love that project so much
because it is such a pure representation of us and
where we were specifically at that time at the beginning
of this journey. And so thank y'all for playing those songs.
We love them as much as y'all do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Again, just beautiful harmonies, beautiful sounding like aus. I've been
radioed near thirty years, and I always tell people, yeah,
I got an ear and an eye for it too,
what the ear likes and what the eyes like to
at the same time, they're going to give it to
the fans out there. Also, you mentioned I kind of
mentioned that titled Cowboy kind of Love Man, what a
song just to really kind of pull people in as
far as telling a story too. And just terrific lyrics
(04:54):
and songwriting. Talk about that one for me.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Thank you, Yeah, that one. That one is super special
to us because that was one of our very first
songs we wrote in Nashville, and so we just we
were kind of just starting to get introduced into like
how learning how to write and writing with people that
you know, we're just so talented. So we really enjoyed
(05:20):
writing that. We love the instrumentation. There's so much of
that song that we you know, just we just learned
so much from it and it means a lot to us.
And we also we also love playing that song live.
It's been really so fun of our favorites to play live.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Talk about growing up and just the music you guys
were listening to it. It could be anything from country
to to hip hop and R and B and maybe
a little bit of everything, but it seems like a
lot of the old school kind of country. The feel
I'm getting in you guys music, at least the songs
we've been playing and the ones I've been listening to,
is that old school kind of feel. And it completely
solo artists or bands, people that really influenced you as.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Artists growing up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I think beautiful thing about having us three do
music is we all have pretty different music tastes, but
there's certain things that we land on. We because we
grew up singing in church. We you know, we listen
to a lot of gospel worship music. And then also
you know, stuff our parents played, which was Alabama and
Alan Jackson and some of those great harmony bands like
(06:24):
Diamond Rio and Shannondoah. We listen to a lot. So
those are some and then you know, kind of on
our own, we like developed our own music taste and
stuff we like. So it's cool to like bring that
together the three of us. Yeah, I'm a big fan
of rock music. I love like classic rock music, and
so I feel like elements of that is kind of
(06:45):
in our music. And then also we love like folk
music and bluegrass music and a ton of the like
red dirt music and Texas music. We really love Americana
music and want to make sure the elements of that
are in our sound as well.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh you hit a nerve there, you struggle one the
Americana and of course Texas country where I'm at down here,
and I've had a lot of those Texas country artists,
you know, do their thing here on the show too,
and tell their stories because a lot of them don't
really have to leave the state of Texas to have
a career as well. Just played here. They got you
and they pull you into and they're just they're they're
ready for it to get out to the shows and
stuff like that. Uh, give me some Texas artists there
(07:25):
you mentioned like Texas Country Americana that you guys, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We're I mean the place they call home that comes
out on Friday. We wrote that with Cluto Cordello and
it features a Flatland Cavalry and so we've been a
fan of Flatland Cavalry for like ever and uh, the
fact that we get to put out a song with
them is a very like surreal full circle moment for
(07:48):
us because we saw them our freshman year of college
and concert. I think we saw them, you know, two
or three times throughout the time we were in college.
So that's a fun full circle moment for us. And
now we're all friends with them. We're big, we're big
Turnpike Troubadours fans. And also, like you know, if you
go back a little more like a cross Canadian rag weed,
you know, some of these red dirt legends that really,
(08:10):
you know, were the people that allowed that genre to
be so as big as it is now. And it's
so deserving because the music's so honest and it's authentic,
and like, you know, we aren't from Texas and Oklahoma,
but like we we want to be respected by those
people because we respect them so much.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Great great action, no doubt to kind of pinpoint learn
from too, because they've been doing it for a long
long time too.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We got to play one here on the show right now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
One of two coming up today again from the group
The Castle Low is out there too, across all the
digital streaming platforms. It's called the Alabama Stone here it
is on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Back in the Flash sty two.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
She was born on the border of the Red Clay River,
someplace south of Chickasaw, where the cotton grew, hide the
stars free fall. The world stands still while the copper
is crawled cardboards, and the yard and weeds over grown.
But Daddy Bill that house on Alabama storm on that side, right,
(09:33):
she sands all other ground the sinking sing. But you
can't ever get to park on when your roots run
deep through Alapham storm. She liked to say, she get
(09:54):
out Sunday may be making to move Bill. Well, she
met him and just get enough to make or stop
turning those wings. Now she cleans the kitchen and he's
never home. Soshal stairs at her hand, at that Alabama's
stone on.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
That side of rock.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
She sands all other ground to sinking sand. But you
can't ever get too far gone when you're roots trying
to through Alabam's Stone, through Alabama Stone, fresh ballack dirt
(10:46):
and a fake red rooms. They carved her name last
one in a room. I know that solid Rochy lies
too old to dream, too young to die. You can't
(11:06):
ever get to fark on one when your roots roundy
though Alephenstone on that side, Rochy stands all other ground
on the sinking sand. But you can't ever get too
fark one when your roots roundy though elephant storm, through
(11:31):
Elephenston though elephant storm.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
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Speaker 4 (12:30):
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Speaker 2 (12:44):
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the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico. I'm backing
with the Castillos KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine,
Amma Stone. So let's dive into this one, one of
three songs you guys have just released back in December
(13:05):
of twenty twenty four. Can't believe we're still saying that
it's already twenty twenty five, but it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Love this one. Melody, I mean, harmonies, everything. It really
spoke to me a lot, it did.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Thank you. It's one of our it's one of my favorites.
I enjoyed writing this one. The studio, you know, putting
this one together was amazing, and so it's it's one
of my favorites. The concept for this song came so
our hometown in Georgia, because it's we're from Georgia, so
it's like Albams stone. What's going on there? Our hometown
(13:37):
in Georgia borders the state of Alabama, and a lot
of our family is from state of Alabama. And we
because our hometown was so small, a lot of the
things that we did growing up, we're in the state
of Alabama. We were like a couple miles from the
state line. And our grandmother lives in Alabama and she
has a fireplace at her log cabin she lives in
Alabama that has a stone right at the centerpiece that
(14:00):
has shaped like the state of Alabama. And Lily saw
it and said, Alabama's stone. That sounds like a song.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And so.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
That stone, that physical literal stone in our grandmother's fireplace
kind of sparked the idea for the story behind this song,
A girl who can't leave the State of Alabama. And
it's actually it's actually a really sad song. We we
haven't put out a sad song like that, and we
love it. We love what it represents and that part
of our lives that hadn't been shown in our music yet.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know, y'all mentioned how fast the ride has been
ever since, like I said, you started, you know, singing
and growing up together and of course getting into the
music industry. I want to ask you what's been kind
of a few of the biggest challenges that maybe fans
don't see behind the scenes as you kind of went
into it full throttle and you'll management record label things
like that and kind of going into it, what have
you learned the most and talk about just some of
the challenges you've gone through as a trio.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, well, you know, one thing this might sound kind
of silly, One thing that we've had to learn to
do is travel.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You know, we the three of us grew up on
a farm in South Georgia. You know, we were not
well traveled, and so we've been all over the place
this year, which has been fun and exciting, but it's
also been you know, a little bit scary and something
that we've kind of had to learn to do. And
you know, us being a trio and working together and
you know, we've lived together and worked together our whole lives.
(15:21):
But it's been you know, fun and unique to face
this new little challenge of you know, running a business together,
because that's essentially what we're doing is running our own
business together. So it's been fun, it's been you know,
I feel like making us better human beings.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
And you know, we love it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
We love working together, and so it's been it's been interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm sure it has the same time, a lot to
learn and like you said, experience to do the dudes
and don'ts and pros and cons of the industry. I
love the album We Gain a Little Girls A Long Way.
I had to ask you about another one that really
just resonated with me. Number seven wrote, let's dive into
this one a little bit, get a little backstorre.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So this song was the first song we ever put out,
and the reason why we wanted to put it out
was because we felt that the lyrical content represented us
very well. The whole story is a narrative about a
literal road, and all of the lyrics from the there's
seven of us sitting at the table and then talking
about our granddad, like our granddad walked walked down number
(16:24):
seven road, our great granddad, excuse me, walk down number
seven road going to school. And so this whole story
is just a complete narrative. And like you know how
whenever you write songs, you might embellish a thing or
two there to make the story more cohesive. Or do
something like that. This was not the case with this song.
It's just completely a literal narrative and we out of
(16:45):
the collection of songs, we were like, this song lets
people know who we are, and so we wanted that
to be the first song we ever put out.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Love It Too, and go back to October a little bit.
It was another great tune. You guys released Ways to Go,
Let's dive into this show.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, that was a on one to write. We wrote
that one with Will Bundy and Nicole Gallian in Nashville,
and you know that that song, I think we we
really didn't have any intentions for it, but I think
it's a song that we relate to a lot. When
we play it live, we always introduce it and say,
you know, us girls like to think we got a
(17:19):
long ways to go. And I feel like there's you know,
lots of truth to that, and I hope it's a
song people can relate to because you know, at the
end of the day, you know, we're all going somewhere
and we got you know, we all probably got a
long ways to go, and it's just, you know, we
kind of see ourselves and the girl we're singing about
and her story.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know, we mentioned that collaboration you mentioned with Clato
Cordero Flatland Calvary with the new single We're gonna play
in just a little bit a place they call home.
But at the same time I love the collaboration with
White Flores and at the same time from Sober Sundays,
which for me, I don't drink much anymore. But hey,
I think we get this sugust in the meaning of.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What that means.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, this is this song is so so for Sundays,
is so special to us, and why it's become such
a dear friend of ours since we wrote it. We
wrote it a year ago, from December, and a couple
of weeks ago we were playing at bridge Stone Arena
with Little Big Town and why it was playing at
the Ryman, and so we got to sing that song
once at bridge Stone and once at the Ryman on
(18:17):
the exact same night. A couple of weeks ago, we
got he got to play with our band and we
got to go play with his band, and uh, why
it's a dear friend of ours, and we also just
have so much respect for him and his music, and
we really whenever we wrote the song, none of us
were like, let's cut this, like we're gonna this is
a you know. It was one of those things where
(18:39):
a couple months later we looked back and we were like,
this is a good song, and the recording process was
absolutely it was so wonderful and just what it means,
like the lyrical content of that song, I'm very we're
all super super proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh you should be again. It's that body of work.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And in the catalog of songs, it shows the great
recording and the voices and of course the writing alone,
the writing and all these songs. And I'd be remiss
if I didn't ask about because everybody was telling me,
are you gonna ask about it?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Brandon?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I said, yeah, I'm gonna ask about Miss America because
that was last June one of my favorites out there too,
And I said, we definitely have to get the backstory
of that one, because man, what another one to get home?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Right?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, we that that song, well, that that one's one
of our favorites. We wrote that one and we just
we knew that was going to be one of our favorites.
We love our country, we love where we come from.
We're very proud of it where we we say every
time we introduced this song, we say we're patriots and
we love this country. And we kind of took it
(19:36):
from our home in rural Georgia. You know, we we
love that place, and you know, Ellie, you've always have
a good Yeah. No, I mean that song is really uh,
it's really it's really special, and it's a love letter
to our hometown. And but it's also an acknowledgement that
(19:58):
like maybe it doesn't feel the same as it did
when you were younger and more innocent, and you know,
times change, and but no matter like what happens, we're
always gonna love our hometown and love this country. And
I think the way it personifies America as like a
(20:20):
woman and like, you know, like the way the way
the lyrics are picturesque and kind of painting that picture
is something that we're proud of and like we love
we love that song so much, no doubt too.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I'll tell you what I love preview and this
one here and it's across all the digital streaming platforms.
Place they call home with the cleadow, Cardero, Flatland, Calfalry,
it's the Costellos here on the backstage, past powered by
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Speaker 3 (20:51):
Enjoy.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
For as long as I remember Ben staring at the sky,
looking to the father of a billion twinkles and his uh.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Listen to him whisper sweet song through the paless.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Been a witness of his wanderers since.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The dawn of time.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
I was made to be warm. It all stand by ground,
two watering souls.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Who lost their way. No, you're always found. I was
made to be walms. Go away, gonna get to always
been around on earth.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
For you, rivers, rocks and mountains, got no flesh.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Bok, I hain't shake the glam the footstool to him,
lots of days to con me to pea school spirit worms.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Our mother too is children place they go home.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Mose made to be warm, don't lost down by ground
to one sous lost their way. No, you're always spelling.
Nose made to be long, don't go away, Gonna get
to always been around love everything from falling trees to colonies.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Work is never dunk.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
Forced from dust and turning rice, the towers and the sun,
the pride and rage and battles wage on't wars, never
wal to try to break my heart and too, but
(23:33):
I'm foreveryone.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
I was made to be walk don't but I'll stand
by ground to one souls who lost their way. No,
you always found I was made to.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Be all don't go and gone again, always been around
on me.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
It wasn't make befund, that's what you gonnered.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
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Speaker 4 (24:27):
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Speaker 14 (24:42):
Hey, everybody is Nashville recording artist Chad Brock and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast powered by
the Sports Guys podcast exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine across all those
digital streaming platforms and five to six every day Mountain
Standard Time. You can catch the show right there and
Drive Time seven days a week, and we're putting out
those shows probably faster than you can download out there too.
We'll be at CRS here in a few weeks doing
the radio show live KKCC True Country ninety nine point
nine at the Omni Hotel. It's Country Radio Seminar twenty
(25:16):
twenty five. All right, you go, ladies, talked about this one.
It's out across all the platforms. Thanks for letting us
premier it after you just came out this past Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I love it too.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You mentioned just a great opportunity to collaborate and work
with one of the best in the industry, good friend
of mine in Cluto Cordero from flat Land Cavalry, And
I'll say this, you nailed it. Now we got to
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Thank you. Yeah, this one. This was our first rite
we ever did with Kluto, and I don't know, I
had had this idea in my notes for a long
time about personifying land. I am a big outdoors person,
like I studied agriculture in college and so like the
(25:56):
land and what it does for us is like really
important to me, and so well all of us really,
but but more so particularly you because of your agriculture. Yeah,
but I had this note in my phone called land,
and underneath it it was like if we were if
the if the land could speak to us, what would
it say? And so I feel like that's such a
(26:18):
powerful message, especially what's going on within our world right now.
I feel like, you know, if if it could speak,
it would say a lot. And so the fact that
uh Cletto got to write this with us and bring
the idea to life, and then with the rest of
the band bring the song to life in the production
(26:42):
is so fun. Yeah, we cut the song. We cut
the song in Austin, and every single instrument that's played,
every single vocal is all between the three of us
in the Flatland guys. There's no like outside players or
anything like that. It's completely we. We did it can
as a unit of nine. I played guitar on it,
(27:02):
Pale played banjo, and then the rest of the Flatline
guys played all the other instruments. So it was really special.
We wanted to get in the studio and all like
work together and it was so much fun for us
because we're such a big fan not only of Kleto
and his songwriting and his vocals, but like reads guitar
playing and West's fiddle playing and everything. So it was.
(27:23):
It was one of the funnest days in the studio
we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You don't want to ask you too.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We just did a slew of shows here for the
backstage pass on the Opry AM six pot fifty which
out there too.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Got to go a couple of times last year broadcast
backstage from the Opery at the event they did at
the Opry called Sunday Morning Country, which is always a
big worldwide event that they do there. First time y'all
stepped on that stage, I got to get the feelings
and the emotions and things that went through. Because I've
not seen y' all live. I'm dying to get out there,
to see y'all on the road at some point, bring
the family out there in the team. But the first
(27:54):
time y'all stepped in that center circle, what kind of
emotions it? What went through your mind?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know, that was such a crazy moment, and I'm
sure you know everybody has, you know, different things to say.
It was almost like you just completely black out from
the feeling It's such a like crazy experience. And I
remember standing in the circle and then looking over and
Little Big Town is standing there introducing us, and I'm like,
(28:22):
I grew up listening to them, like I remember watching
them on the TV. And that was like a crazy
moment for me to like look over a Little Big Town.
You look down and you're standing in the Auvrey circle
and just to think of everybody that stood in that
circle and on that stage and you get to do it.
It's like, you know, what did what did we do
(28:43):
to be here? But it was it was such a
such a crazy experience. It was crazy. We all like
held hands and then stepped in the circle together and
then uh Pou and I you know, peeled off to
the other mics cause that's where we were, but we
were like, we all need to step in the circle together.
And it was, it was, it was, It was so beautiful.
We love the Opery and have so much respect for them.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Great place to broadcast the show and a great place
definitely to like I said, attend to show Opery dot com.
Get those tickets. Always tell people if you're in Nashville,
that's one of the muss things to do. Besides eating. Now,
I gotta talk about food here because I'm sure you
guys are food. He's just like me, and you're like,
you know what if I eat something bad, I have
a couple of cheap days during the week, I gotta
go to the gym, work it off, burn those calories.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Nashville is no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Shortage when it comes to restaurants, and there's a bunch
of them out there, so I guess the night of
the town are just kind of going out to eat somewhere.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Where do y'all like to dine in?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh, that's a good question. We're big, like we're beef
cattle farmers. So any steak place, any burger place. We're
big red meat people. I know, the hot chicken is
the thing, right, We're big. We're big beef people, and
Nashville has so much great any of that. We're also
big notice people. We love like any type of brunch.
I know First Watch is kind of a chain place,
(29:55):
but that's new to us living in Nashville. We just
discovered that. And then a place called Bricktops and Franklin
is pretty good if you want to spend a little
money when you're eating.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
So there's one that are some artists to be bringing
up bar taco. I've not tried it yet, but yeah,
so good. Okay, so that's that's a must at CRS
this year. All right, talk about just hobbies away from
we're not doing music out there some things that you
guys you mentioned agriculture and just being outside doing things.
Maybe some people say fitness is a big one hobbies
for for you guys when when not doing music or traveling.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, we're all big hunters. We love to deer hunt,
duck hunt, will hunt anything. We ride horses a lot
when we go home. We all our family farm is
kind of like obviously it's a family run thing. So
anytime we go home, we're working on the family farm,
and we love that. It's something that you know, we
(30:52):
would do all the time if we could. And uh,
you know, and then in Nashville we don't live on
a farm obviously. So we're all pretty big readers. We've
read a lot. I just recently picked up sewing, so
she can alter our stage clothes. Now if we get
something this too, bid, Yes, I love the hang.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We need somebody who's seamstress and is really expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So I was like to do this myself instead of
painting somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I love it too, all right, I know, I say
you three, well, we have two of the cast of
those with us today. But if you too were not
doing music individually, what other career path would you have
taken if it wasn't music.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We also can answer for Lily too. Yeah, I know,
I know her well enough to know what she would
be doing. Lily's very She's very cool. She's a lot
cooler than we are. No, I'm kidding, but no. Lily
has her private pilot's license and can fly planes, so
if she wasn't if she wasn't doing music, she would
(31:52):
be flying planes for people because she's really cool. And
then pow, you can go. If I wasn't doing music,
I would be doing something in the cattle business. That
was my career path other than music. So and then
mine's kind of random. I studied management, information systems and
(32:14):
international business in college, so I would probably be doing
like it project management. But I'm also a really big
sports fan, so I might have tried to weasel my
way into something NFL related or something like that. So
three very different career paths there.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I love it how Ali can almost host this show
She just let to strike a nerve there too, because
beging of sports. That's why I say powered by the website,
because you know somebody's a sports fan like Ella. You
got to bring it up here too, so you get
the NFL. We're out of the file four.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I think my prediction was to say out the window
now still that the Bills are still alive, but barely.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I guess two part question, La, did you watch the playoffs?
And two? Is your team in it?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Not in it?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Who do you root for?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I've watched every single playoff game. I've gotten Powell
pretty much in. We're slowly but surely getting Powell into
the NFL as well. We're from Georgia, so we are
Falcons fan. We sang the national anthem Ata Falcons game
a couple of weeks ago at the last game with
the Panthers that they lost in overtime unfortunately. But in
(33:19):
terms of our we're also graduates from the University of Georgia,
So I tell people that I love the NFL more
as just a general product. I'm invested in all of it,
and I also follow Georgia players that went to certain teams,
which I don't. I would don't want the Eagles in
the Super Bowl. I really want the Commanders the Super Bowl.
(33:42):
I'm like the rest of the world. I want the
Super Bowl to be Commander's Bills and not Chiefs Eagles.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Now I'm as on a Cardinals fan, So getting the
Rams eliminated that was awesome just because of that whole
getting a no team in that division.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
If we can't have it, nobody can have it out.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
There, That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, the Commanders have been very surprized with Jayden Daniels
and at rookie quarterback position and just what he's done.
You don't see too many rookie quarterbacks come in and
have that kind of just that that immense, uh you know,
power that he has and like I said, getting out
there and showcasing all the skills he has and that
forty two to just be like I said, just he
looks like a veteran guy's but he looks insane.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I mean I watched him in college because I was
in college whenever he was having his Heisman season and
everything like that. And when when you saw him in college,
you were like, Okay, this guy's a guy. And uh,
I think the Commanders have done a really good job
of getting the right pieces in play because you draft,
you know, you draft these guys so high, and then
they're normally going to a crappy organization and you have
(34:37):
nothing to kind of help them, help foster environment where
they can be successful. So it's it's a hymn, and
it's the whole organization. It's really awesome to see at
the turnaround because it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
He's definitely brought it to So you got you'll catch
me at the CRS and you want to sit down
and just do kind of a sports show, Ellie, and
and then policy Dragon.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
All day. I love it.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
We'll do that too.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Here's a question I had for my buddy the other day,
and I got to give him props to it too,
because we did the show with him. Christian Bush of
Sugarland had come on with us the other day and
we were talking and we got to and of course
he he loves like WWE. He loves the wrestling stuff
and all the aw all the stuff out there too,
which is just fun to go to. And my daughter's
like really into it now. But I want to I
want to go here if there was a solo artist
(35:23):
or a band that we could set up. And what
I'm trying to do with this is like have like
the first backstage past country music slash wrestling like Marathon
in Nashville, like set up a ring and kind of
have some of this. So I'm gonna say, I guess,
even if you're not a fan, is there a band
or say a solo artist that yourself and and Powell
would wrestle?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And if you if you were to, what would be
your finishing move?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Gosh, I actually know nothing about wrestling. I know the
WWE is like very cool and I really respect everything
that they do, but I know not.
Speaker 15 (36:00):
If I could wrestle anybody, is this this is who
he'd wrestle in the music industry.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah, music industry, And like I said, we could quoreograph.
Speaker 15 (36:09):
Say it again, I said, I feel like I have
a fair chance against Bailey Zimmerman.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's fifty.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He's scrappy though, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I love it well.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I just want to set up a ring and do
like the first like Christian Bush for the other day.
We want to do like a little uh you know,
w W style kind of backstage past with the wrestling,
country music, and like bands have bands and bands, but
we can have I guess mix tag to it at
the same time, like I said, I love that, and
then go through the choreographer, you some of their people,
you know, teach you guys what you get out there
in the ring, and you know, if you fall, get
(36:39):
back up, and like I would do all the commentary
with my buddy and said, we co host and host
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
And you know, just have drinks and food.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I don't know if I can.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Watch or or a three verse like I said, three
three verses three, we could have mixed tags.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I feel like we'd have a tactical advantage of twintle.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Hey back to Alabama Stone. Tell me about Place to Leave?
Another great song off that record.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, Place to Leave is one of our favorite songs
to play live since we started doing it a couple
of months ago. That's kind of one of those and
more really like soulful Americana type songs. And as soon
as we wrote it, we were like, this is awesome,
like the cord things that happened and the key change
and then the modulation back down. It's really we love
it so much. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And then off the record, Jo, I'll wrap it with
this one here Girl that Boy, which really told the
story right there.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
I love.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
That's the beauty of country music is telling those stories
and having a storytelling relate to the fans out there,
and that really does.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Thank you. That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 15 (37:44):
I think it was my favorite out of the ones
we released, and I just think it's so sweet, you know,
because we want to grow up and when they have
daughters and stuff, and you think about what you tell
a boy, and men aren't perfect, even the even the
best man, even our you know, the man we love
most of this world, our Daddy's like, men aren't perfect,
and they're gonna make mistakes, but you know he's gonna
(38:05):
he's gonna make you mad and act the fool, but
you're gonna be everything to lose is the sentiment of
that song.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And I really like it a lot. Yes, we love it.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
It's a beautiful song about too and I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
And again, the new ones out there across all the
digital streaming platforms and a place they call home with
Cleto Cordero out there, a Flatland Cavalry and of course
Alabama Stone.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
The full EP is out there across all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Tell you you ladies are killing it out there across
all the digital streaming platforms. Congrats on all the success
and continue success going forward, looking forward to hopefully seeing
y'all in Nashville, Tennessee at the Country Radio Seminar from
around Waler Aving Elliott, I still love to do that'
sports show with you. Just go live and forward, and
I appreciate y'all being with us, and of course guess
(38:47):
all you guys can download the music and listen to
it right here on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine out there. Can appreciate you being with us, and hey,
continue success going forward and keep kicking ass and pick names,
is what I say.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Out there, Hey, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
The Castello is here on the program here again KKTC
True Country ninety nine point out across all those digital
streaming platforms out there, to go get the music and
visit the website out there too find out if they're
coming to a city near you. We're back with more
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True Country and powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot Com.
We'll see you guys on the flip side out there too.
(39:22):
Coming up CRS February nineteenth to twenty first at the
Omni Hotel. We'll be doing the show live from that
very venue too. We'll see you then, and lots of
coffee and lots of shows coming up during that entire week.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We'll see you soon. God Blet's and take care.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
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