December 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Ever wondered what really goes on before the lights go up and the music starts? We’re taking you where no camera has gone before, granting unprecedented backstage access to Tonya Mitchell’s live show. Witness the raw energy, the meticulous rituals, and the hidden moments that shape a touring artist’s world, all from the ultimate insider’s perspective.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey y'all, this is recording artist Tanya Mitchell and you're
listening to a grand slam of music, sports and entertainment.
It's the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morell
on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Stream the show anytime at the Sports Guys podcast dot
(00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Org and welcome inside the Backstage Past. Of course, always
a busy day full of shows and happy holidays to
everybody out there too in radio and podcast land. KYB
in ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network
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(00:46):
always love bringing back I say music icons, or at
least you know music great artists that got started there
too when they got founded, and the music really left
an impression on a lot of different fans out there.
Her brand new single Nobody Loves Me Like You as
out across all the DSPs, the one the only Tanya
Mitchell to the Backstage Past. Tanya, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hey, I'm doing good? How are you doing Brandon.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's good, you know, it's good to be back, and
you know, we're closer now to the holidays than we
ever have been before. So first, let me wish you
guys a merry Christmas and all the great stuff out
there family wise, and I know for you exciting times,
brand new releases and what a better way to do
it in the month of December.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Right, oh man, this month has been absolutely insane. I'm
actually getting ready to do Christmas for Kids December the
fifteenth in Hendersonville, So this is something new for me
as well, and I'm super excited to be one of
the featured artists there.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, talk to me a little bit about you mentioned
the first release here in about twenty five years since
coming out with all those great hits back in the day.
For people that may not know you as an artist,
talk about just how you got discovered at justin Timberlake
a very keyword in that too at the same time
and just you know, kind of a part two on that.
Let's build on it, you know, the comeback and you know,
coming back to music and wanting to put out some
(01:59):
new stuff that can really kind of, you know, really
gravitate too.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, so my background, I kind of grew up singing
before I could talk. And I was in Barbara Mandrell
Studio there in Nashville when I was seven, recording my
first song.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
My dad, you know, paid all the money it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Took, and bought all the costumes and the outfits and
spent every last penny he had doing things like this
for me and making sure.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That I could make it to the events. So fast
forward a little bit. After singing through all of the
talent shows and.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Beauty reviews and anything I could get my hands on
as a kid, I was singing at a charity benefit
for Saint Jude's and I was selling my little cassette
tapes that I was selling at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This was back in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Ninety eight, and so this man came up and bought
all of my tapes and of course all the proceeds
with the Saint Jude's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But he was talking to my dad about how good
I was. He couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
He said, my daughter is starting a management company and
my grandson is in a boy band. But they're not
known here in the US, but they're huge in Germany
right now. So of course my dad saw stars right
and so long story short, that was justin Timberlake's mom
and that was his grandfather that night that discovered me.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So it has.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Created a lifelong family friendship. And I released my first single,
Broken Promises, and I believe it was like February of.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Two thousand and one, and then my album I Represent
came out in April.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So we started doing like radio shows and we would
fly out to wherever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We could because we didn't have the internet back then.
We couldn't do what we're doing right now, and so
it was a much different world.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So after twenty five years, it is it's interesting to
say the least a lot, a lot has.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Changed, you know it has, and that's the key thing.
You've been around Nashville, so you know the town very well.
You know it's music city, no doubt about it. And
like I said, it's a people call it a ten
year town. When it comes to being trying to break
yourself as an artist or break into the industry get noticed.
You know, some people want that record deal, they go
down that path, or somebody you know wants to be independent.
(04:14):
And of course it's hard doing all the work, you know,
by yourself out there to social media, and all these
different things. It's a lot I think easier now, coming
down to it because of what social media has done
when you broke into it. Talk about even and there's
still challenges and everything out there, But when you broke
into it, compared to the way it is now, how
would you say it really has the music industry has
changed so much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, first of all, I would probably start with back then,
you know, you pretty much had a CD with twelve
songs on it that people had to go buy in
the store or record it off the radio and hope
the djil wasn't talking. So as soon as my album
came out, Napster became a thing. So for those who
don't know what that is, it was illegally streaming music
(04:56):
and that was kind of the beginning of it all.
So I, you know, I do take I feel like
people were stealing music around that time, so it was
very unfortunate. But definitely that has changed, and just music
in general. You know, the two thousands is coming back
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It really is too and that's a good thing. And
I love it because you were talking about growing up
before we played the new single out there. You loved
it so much because I grew up on nineties country.
That was a little part of that. I know, Shanaia
Twain was a huge influence for you two at the
same time, and before that bro country movement and all
the different movements in music. You had your you know,
your American idol kind of reality TV shows coming in
(05:34):
there too at the same time, and now the voice
is taken over for the last twenty eight or so
seasons two at the same time. Talk about just your
influences and you know, growing up with those type of
artists and that nineties country into that bro country movement.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, so my dad used to work at Lorettalynn's ranch
for like thirty something years, so I grew up with
Loretta Lynn. Of course I love singing her songs now,
but nineties country was really like Tracy's Lawrence for me
was one of my all time favorite artists. Mark chestnutt
Oh my goodness, Diamond Rio amazing in Shania Twain. So
(06:09):
Shania is like probably one of my biggest idols besides
maybe Mariah Carey when I was growing up, but I
was that's my roots. So, you know, I grew up
in nineties country and it was kind of before the
country pop thing along came along, but Shania Twain kind
of paved the way for that as well.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That kind of started the pop country thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So that was still in my teenage years, you know,
I was still trying to find myself musically and personally
and stuff. So I think that has kind of helped
me be able to go from the pop that I
had into more country today.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, this is a great song, and you picked a
I'm gonna hit right now. I can say right now too.
I love this and it's a great anthem. Everybody needs
to go check it out here or released. Nobody loves
Me like You. It's Tanya Mitchell the Backstage Pass, a
very powerful ballad. Will come back and talk about it here,
addressing domestic violence out there too, and of course a
profound return to her roots right here in music here
(07:07):
on the backstage past more with Tanya Mitchell coming up here,
quick break time out here, Stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I look at you. I'm still trying to see the
man you used to be.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
How did these arms they used?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Home meets I.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Start to suffocate me. I know you say sorry, I
know you think you care. But with you, I'm along,
Miss Silent Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Like you.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Like you.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
My heart races.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Neevery you're around, so I don't make sound.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You've controlled my heart like you've controlled my mind. Maybe, Bellie,
you're the best I could find.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I know you say you're sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I know you think you care, But with you, I'm
a lost stick in the silent.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Nod.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He loves me.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Thank you, Nobody he loves me.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is what you put me through. When you wake up.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
At the light of time, you real love to lay,
I'll already be called.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And this is what you putting me through. This is
what you putting me through. This is what you put
me through. Nobody he loves me. Hey, guys and gals,
(10:49):
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Speaker 7 (10:50):
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Speaker 3 (11:56):
Dot org, and back here on the show again. That
was the new release Noody Loves Me Like You. Tanya
Mitchell out there too, And I mentioned that ballad, you know,
when it came down to it, kind of that profound
return to music. You had to love this talk about
just how special it is to put something out that
is very meaningful for you, we mentioned domestic violence and
a song that is very much everybody who knows somebody
(12:18):
has gone through something like this too, and I feel
like they can really resonate with this too.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, So this became a concept from the guy I
was working with, Gen Ruben, and he did like five
songs on my album I Represent. So many years later
we reconnected and he had this idea for a song.
And at the time, my sister was going through it.
She lived kind of far away, a couple hours, maybe
(12:43):
three hours, so it wasn't like an easy commute, and
so I learned about what she was going through. I
absolutely could not believe it. But I had never been
through it. So you're always asking why did you stay
or what took you so long to leave? Satistics are ridiculous,
And it's not just about women. It's men, children, elderly siblings.
(13:07):
It's domestic violence is like an umbrella term because you
have financial abuse, you've got manipulation, gaslighting making you feel crazy.
And so I basically this is the only song I've
ever written, by the way. So I took it down
to paper and I kind of wrote it out in
poem format, just trying to live through what she was
(13:30):
going through from what I had heard of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We recorded the music video.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He was living in New Jersey at the time, and
it was snowing and I had to do a photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
In the snow in a tank top.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I remember this very specifically for this trip that we
recorded Nobody Loves Me. And so we got the video done,
our project kind of fell apart, and then over the years,
I myself have gone through domestic violence issues on more
than one occasion. It's not just one person, it can
be every single relationship. You know, there's God to therapy
(14:04):
for all of this, I know, but now it is
literally an anthem, and I'm an advocate for those that
you know need help or somebody you're concerned about somebody
else and they don't have resources, or you don't have
a support team, because if you don't have support team,
it's going to be ten times harder. So this this
(14:26):
video is very visually and musically moving. I mean, I've
had countless grown men tell me I'm crying.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, and that's something that it's a message people need
to hear. And it's always great when artists you know,
able to come out, you know, work with a charity
give back. And this is something especially if you've gone
through it. And I feel like sometimes you know, artists
either you know, kind of write their own songs and
put them out to the public based on things they've
gone through through personal experience, or even if they get
pitched a song, they still can go through something like
that if it really fits them, it fits their cattle
(15:00):
log of songs. And this one just felt like whether
you wrote it or not, and I'm glad you did,
but it really felt like it just really fit you know,
your catalog and was right in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It was meant to be a very simple project, which
sometimes the simpler the better, like it captures your attention.
The music video shows, you know, the bruising gradually coming
on and you know, dissipating, and so an interesting fact
about this is I had cried so many tears over
(15:31):
those years after recording that video. Now looking back at it,
when my eyes tear up, a tear does not fall,
it doesn't fall. So basically it's saying no more wasted
tear drops. So it's very powerful, and they were trying
to get me to cry. I was just wearing these
fake lashes and I don't think the tear would come out,
(15:53):
but it never fell, and I was like winking.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, congrats on the job, well done, and thanks for
letting us play it here on the stage past. I
want to go back. You mentioned that debut single and
it feels like yesterday. I always tell you, know, kids,
now enjoy your youth while you can, because it does
fly by like nothing else is tomorrow broken promises. Let's
go back to that one and just talk about how
much success you know that game for you too. Early
(16:16):
on you mentioned the kind of the backstory with Timberlake
and things like that with justin Timberlake. At the same time,
what do you remember best about this single and did
you kind of feel like this had that top forty
you know feel to it and getting recognized in it
and everything kind of you know, going so fast and
then you're you know, you're touring. I mean you've done
things like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, things
like that, you know, played stages such as that that
(16:38):
have been different venues. When you think back to that
song and just you know what it created for you
and you think back to those times, what comes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
To mind, Well, I remember it was the first song
I recorded for the album. We flew out to Las Vegas,
so that was my first trip to Las Vegas. We
recorded it in two days. We did the background vocals
the first day and then we did the lead vocals
the second day, and I knew at that time in
two thousand and one, that was definitely a hit. We
(17:09):
actually had a little battle between I represent and Broken
Promises because everybody kind of thought Broken Promises sounded more
like Brittany, But at the same time, everybody was kind
of wanting their Brittany and I just happened to be
signed to Motown Universal, so I guess they were trying
to I.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Mean, I guess they were differentiating me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
They gave me darker hair because I was blonde when
I got a record deal.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And stuff, so that, you know, they were trying to differentiate.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
But the song itself, so I had zero promotion on
this song and I had zero music video. This is
also my first music video today, this is my first
music video ever. So I never had a music video,
no promotion, and the song hit number thirty eight on
the Top forty with no promotion and video, and back
(17:55):
then videos were so important like TRL and things that
people would watch and vote.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
On, and it was very important. But I guess it
was meant to be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
When you think back, mentioned those early days too, and
you look at songs like that really resonated with me too,
back because I'm early DJ days and I'm spending things
and of course we're getting copies back when CDs were
the thing, and you know, you're rip opening kind of
an envelope and you say, well, who's on this, and
you look back you're like this this. Of course, you
read all your different music articles and publications out there,
and you look at songs like Stay and of course
(18:26):
a little too late, I Don't want to fall in
love songs like that from that old one to two thousand,
two thousand and one era. Looking back at it, those
were just songs that really also from your catalog, spoke
to people in a way that can remember a lot
of different things. And I mentioned, you know, we talked
about one, you know, addressing domestic violence. People need to
hear that message because we all know somebody who's gone
(18:47):
through that. But with those songs like Stay and I
represent I don't want to fall in love and a
little too late, just to me, iconic anthems that still
stand the test of time because you'll never forget those
are like your babies. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Absolutely, an interesting uh, stay and I don't want to
fall in love.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We're done by the same guy that did. Nobody loves
me like you.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, and he's Grammy Award winning too, so this is
a great deal for me.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That's a cool thing too, because you get a chance
to kind of pick who you want to pick on
your team. Absolutely, we'll give Shannon some some props out
there to the same time, thank you, it's awesome. Loves
what he does. To At the same time, how critical
is that when you look back and you say to yourself,
you know, I couldn't do this without a team because
it's as hard to do you know, X, Y, and
Z by myself and critical to have that that support
(19:38):
system and what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, back in the day, it was I guess I
would say a lot harder because you would actually have
to be out in front of people. Like I said,
there was no internet, so you would have to put
your you know, yourself in these positions and travel and
do all the things. And then you know, so if
(20:00):
you got lucky enough to sign a record deal or something,
or had somebody in your family that was super rich
that could help you do things. But now it's kind
of like you you can be your own manager. Actually,
Shannon asked me the other day, he goes, what do
you need me for? Because I corrected him on an
interview time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And he's like, what do you even need me for?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And I was like, but we are a team, but
right now it's just me and him, So I think
we're doing pretty dying good.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You are, no doubt. Now let me ask you this.
Do you know when it comes down to the female
empowerment in country music right now? Too? I know you
follow it because, like I said, being up there kind
of first firsthand in Nashville when you look back at
it too, but you see what's taking place over the
last two or three years. Landis Wilson's kind of the
queen Bee of country music. CMA Awards coming out and
I had her on the show here December twenty twenty
(20:48):
and I asked me, you're going to blow up in
two years.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He goes on, oh goodness.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, and I said, well, she goes, well, thank you
for this. She was very modest. I mean, no doubt
but she she kind of was telling her story and
you know going through all that too as well. And yeah, no, no,
no story. Shorts was actually in a truck stop in
Arizona at the times one out there to see some
family and I heard a couple of songs come on
truck stop radio pandor whatever it was in there too,
(21:12):
and I said, I just had her on the radio show,
and I said the same thing there. And then you
look at the ladies right behind her too, that are
now making headlines with Ella Langley for still a block block.
What does that mean to you as far as being
a female artist knowing the music is right there in
the country popular side of things, and this come back
for you. You see these women kind of doing their
(21:33):
thing in country music right now.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Talk about that about that, well, they're obviously inspirations. I
don't have a lot of experience with the country music
side of things, even though, like I said, the.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Who Loretto Land thing, I never even met her. My
dad worked for her for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But they're definitely paving the way and I think that
I think there's an audience for everyone. So you know,
if the if the Lady Wilson fans are just you know,
die hard and they don't like you because there's like
beef in the press or.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Something like that. You know, you just let people do
what they do.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But I feel like, genuinely everybody can have an audience
and they're definitely paving the way. So I'm thankful for that,
especially being my age, because most of the time you're
much younger when you start, you know, releasing music and
coming out. So going from eighteen to you know, forty three,
it's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's been a few minutes there, no doubt too. We
just keep adding up those numbers. I wish you sometimes
we could take a little bit off our h do
at the same time, but yeah, a lot of difference there.
But just glad you're back in this thing. It's time
to play another cut from Tomy Mitchell and the catalog
of music out there is time to go here on
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Speaker 4 (23:02):
Where did you stop thinking big?
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Whatever happened to getting out of here?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Unlock the door?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Le me.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
The light of scream much and not in gear dead living.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Baby, we will move on ball, no stop, size, no
liv mis.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Just grab your keys and walk out your door.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Hell will.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
At the steet o like God on the way, take
it to rap hem a ways will standing the turn
whel flags yet, make it.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
This time and well will do settles down and there's
no one else from miles around, from off the people
never touch well baby, just say go. We used to
(24:11):
run with our dreams forever reason to read another day?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
When did you start losing speed?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Can't want you idle your life away? Am I deady witch?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
For us?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
There still have aust fall the roads way over ben,
so don't stop before.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
We stop away half.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
The speed all like God along.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
The way, take it to round him wills wisted and.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
The turn will fight. Yeah, Conna, make it.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
This time and we'll just settle down in the store
one us the miles around.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Buffy, you don't even touch the crown. Maybe just say go.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Saygel, don't go.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Dead leaving. Maybe we will move from more the roadway,
then the wall, your keys and walk out to.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
A door.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Road.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Have the speed of God on the way, take it
to round.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
In the way.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Will stay him. Yeah, make it this time.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Said on the stand and one the month around. I
see you don't even touch the ground.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Baby, Just say you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Say, go.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
On and say, just.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Say the word.
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Speaker 14 (27:56):
Hey y'all, this is Texas recording artist Marcy Grace and
your listening into the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN
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Speaker 3 (28:16):
And welcome back here to the show again. That was
go from Tommy Mitchell here talking everything music and the
comeback to the music here soon. And of course they
knew me anthem is cross all those ESPs out there
for you guys, and you can check her out a
crop on Instagram. Nobody loves Me like You. And we
got to play another great song there too. Talk about
this one because I gotta from the song go go.
(28:36):
I loved it very much. It's as much as I
love the anthem we talked about there too, but great
feel forward it and another song that really kind of
fits in your willhelp.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is also done by Gen Rubin. So he's a
very intricate part of my existence and music for sure.
So the song that released today, Nobody Loves Me Like You,
is kind of about somebody else holding you back? How
can I break free from this? So a good transition
(29:06):
over into that is Go. So in the song Go,
it's basically that you're holding yourself back. And sometimes when
we get out of those narcissistic abuse relationships or domestic
violent situations, you know, it's it's hard, it's hard to
get yourself going again. And basically it's like the light
is green, but you're not in gear.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You know, go just go, just go be happy, let them. So, yeah,
it's I think it's a good transition over into that.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, there's something someone for everybody out there too, And
just because you've come out of a bad situation doesn't
mean you can't just pick up the pieces and go
do something else, and you know, find someone else no
matter what. Again, like I said, what your beliefs are
out there, there's someone for everybody too at the same time,
and I feel like, like I said, sometimes cleaning up,
for lack of a better term, that broken glass and
creating a new opportunity and that's why people really feel
(29:57):
like in our different markets and out there too worldwide
in the twenty seven countries, we're in need to hear
this music out there. Hey, talk about this. We mentioned
the holiday season. I know things are kind of slowing
down at least I know for me, hitting the brakes
a little bit there too, after a very strenuous last
few months too, which is great to stay busy. But
plans for twenty twenty six include a memoir I understand,
(30:19):
and maybe a tour, so I know, as much as
you can talk about this, this would be another cool
thing for me to come see you live.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yes, So in twenty twenty six, we are planning possibly
some kind of little anniversary celebratory party, maybe in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
For that I represent twenty fifth anniversary release.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I think we might be getting maybe some exclusive memorabilia,
those types of things, so I'm kind of excited about that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We're still working on it, so I really don't I
don't really have a.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Lot of details on that, and I keep hearing him
talk about a tour, but I also don't know anything
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, okay, But we.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Are working on a memoir and basic it would just
be my career path, you know, and then later on
I can get into my autobiography and stuff where I
tell my whole life stories.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's pretty interesting. But those things are definitely coming.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I feel like we might be releasing a second single
maybe in the spring or summer as well. So, but
I just partnered with the National Alliance of Domestic Violence
for Survivors, and so now I'll be going to their
conferences and telling my story and they're going to show
my video.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So twenty twenty six, I'm coming in. I'm coming in hot.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Oh. I like that way. She put that too. Well,
Like I said, jet landing on a runway or taking
off their too, that's gonna be ton you mentioned right
there too, coming in hot right here too. For all
these great releases here y'all mentioned you got a chance
step on those big venue stages. Rock and roll Hall
of Fame was one of them too. But I wanted
to get your feedback on what that was like as
far as career milestones go, because again, one of the
(31:53):
most prestigious ones, just like a grand old Opry, had
to rank right up there, didn't it.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Absolutely, It's one of the stories I probably remember the most,
just how I felt so many fans. Like I said,
I didn't really have any promotion, but the song on
the radio is what number thirty eight, And so I
had a lot of listeners in these.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
In these areas.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And so when I went to Ohio, anytime I went,
I had quite a crowd, and it was just I mean,
I was flabbergasted.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I mean, what do you say to that?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You know, yeah, take it with a grain of salt,
and you say, you know what, thank you, rock and
or Hall of Fame, glad to go check that box.
I forgot my name.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I'm so excited I forgot my name.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So excited I forgot my name, no doubt about it too.
Let me ask you this, as far as the holiday season,
any traditions that kind of go on there in Tennessee,
staying at home. What's going on for Christmas and.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
For the New Year's usually home very quiet time.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
My kids will get out of school, I think next week,
and they'll be out till the New Year.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But we just do the Santa thing.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So it's kind of lot.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You've got a five year old and a ten year old.
They're sneaking around the house all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, my daughter's going to turn six years old, and
I made a deal with her last week. I said,
you know, if you do well in school and she
gets out next week, I said, Daddy's gonna put up
the lights. And I went to home depot and I said, yeah,
I'm only gonna spend about one hundred dollars. Now it
was h yard decorations and then what goes on the
front of the house where brother the gutters and things
like that. I never realized lights cost that much because
(33:25):
we didn't put them up in about three four years.
But now that she's five years old and soon to
be six, it's like, okay, now they have to see
it because Christmas is kind of like right in front
of them, and they see everybody else doing it, so
you've got.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
To do it too.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I realized Christmas lights had gone up since I. Actually
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
The music industry changed, so has the electric bill.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, But I did put them up for her, and
she got some good a Senna and a couple other
things like yard decorations. So I told her, I said,
it was either the Christmas tree or the lights this year,
because we're gonna be gone for Christmas. And I said, well,
if I come back, I only want to come back
and take down as not everything.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Amen, so that's my thing. What's on the menu for
the holiday season?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh, that I have not figured out yet. You stumped
me there.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
What about your favorite foods? Just in general? What do
you like to eat?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Man, I love these, some tacos, pizza.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I don't think there's a I mean, I don't have
a gallbladder anymore, so there's things I shouldn't eat, but
I still eat it, and I'll just suffer because I can't.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I love my food. It's worth it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Well, I tell people, frequent trips to the gym is
a key thing for me for the holiday season because
we love to eat, and we love to get in
there and just enjoy it and eat all the food.
And there's got to be that rhyme to reason when
it comes down to it. I can tell you I've
lost forty five pounds. So I tell you right now,
it's great to eat it, but I tell you I
got to do it in moderation, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Congratulations, Man, that's doll on. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
All right. Let me ask you this, And you never
got into the industry so early. Was there another career
path you would have taken had it not been.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
For music, Yes, and I would say that would be meteorology.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, Yeah, I've always been into the weather, so I'm
kind of obsessed with tornadoes and learning about them, and
so I follow all the storm chaser people on Facebook
and like I make posts and update people locally about
the weather.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I'm like a warning in your town run so weather
channel type of ordeal. Right yeah, probably could see me
being a weather a girl there too, like I said
on the Weather Channel, would be something I could definitely
see right there, too, is for a career path goes.
Let me ask you this when it comes down to
we talked about I just got great. The ladies are
(35:35):
just moving so well in the industry today. But it's
hard to find that balance of just you know, personal
life because this thing can really suck you in and
really keep you busy. And you got it, like you said,
you have your kids, so you got to make time
for the personal life. How do you balance that and
then kind of a you know a second part of
that too as well, balancing that act right there too.
Do you have any musical talents you see in your
(35:56):
five year old or ten year old yet.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Okay, So the way I manage it is, I have
a manager, thank you staying then, So we talk all
the time, all day long, and of course I tell
him about my day to day life and when I'll
be able to do this or that or can't do
it that day or this day or whatever. He also
helps run my social media because I can't keep up
(36:18):
like I'm old when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But yeah, I have a manager. So that's how I
manage that.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
When you look back at it. Musical talents for the
kiddos right now, they starting to kind of see with
mama and the day with the songs and then back
with the songs. Now they getting into piano, playing musical instruments,
instruments are singing.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So I have a twenty one year old as well,
and they're all daughters. And so the twenty one year
old she can, I mean, she played the flute, the ocarina, banjo, guitar,
she has a Hello Kiddy electric guitar.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
So she's very musically. She's just she's more artsy.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
She just graduated college for her associates and art, so
she's wanting to go into like storyboarding. The ten year
is constantly singing on my karaoke machine and constantly singing
my songs.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Too, So of course the five year old gets in
on that.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
And one day she walked up to me after I
was doing all these interviews and stuff, and she goes, hey, Mom,
are we famous?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I I just looked at her and I was like, well, baby,
I'm sure some people might think that, but I don't
know how to answer that question.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Just tell her it's another interview. MAM's promoting her music
out there too, and you know what, she's making one
hell of a comeback with these great great songs out there.
Any other kind of hidden talents or hobbies away from
from music that we may not know about? Tanya Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I enjoy cooking. I mean I'm not bad. I'm probably
not the best, but you know my kids love my cooking.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
They say you're the best cooker in our life. So
I'll take that one. And roller skating. I've been roller
skating my whole life since I was.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Five, all right, I like the real we're skating too.
Let's take you up on that offer too, Like I said,
next time I get to Tennessee, you'll you'll beat me,
but I guarantee you me on a pair of skates
do not go together.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
So elling you my second video, we go roller State.
I always wanted that that is going to be a
dream come true. In my next music video, I'll be
Roller State.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I'm roller skating too. Like I said, you guys sing
better than me, And like I said, I just host
a radio show and she I know she skates well
around the competition out there too. Nobody loves me like
you across all the DSPs out there too, And you
guys can get a chance to check out the exclusive
look at the official video out there too. I just
came out right after Thanksgiving there and of course some
big plans coming up in twenty twenty six. KYBN ninety
(38:39):
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and also iHeartRadio
podcasts and our friends at THHWN dot org. A pleasure
to have you here on the backstage pass and I
always would look forward to meeting you in person. Congratulations
on the comeback and looking forward to many more new
career milestones for you.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Thanks so much, awesome, Brandon, Thank you so you got it.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
The one, the only Tanya Mitchell here on the Backstage past.
More great interviews coming up next week. Nashville recording artist
Tyler Farr on the show. Be on the lookout for
that one coming up as we talk about some new music.
God blessed, Take care. We will see you soon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Kraft and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight, one,
your Bay area broadcasting network. You can also listen on
iHeartRadio podcasts and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
Hey y'all, this is recording artist Tanya Mitchell and you're
listening to a grand slam of music, sports and entertainment.
It's the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morell
on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Stream the show anytime at the Sports Guys podcast dot
(00:20):
com and on iHeartRadio Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You can also stream at THWN dot.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Org and welcome inside the Backstage Past. Of course, always
a busy day full of shows and happy holidays to
everybody out there too in radio and podcast land. KYB
in ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network
and our friends at THHWN dot org, iHeartRadio podcast empowered
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(00:46):
always love bringing back I say music icons, or at
least you know music great artists that got started there
too when they got founded, and the music really left
an impression on a lot of different fans out there.
Her brand new single Nobody Loves Me Like You as
out across all the DSPs, the one the only Tanya
Mitchell to the Backstage Past. Tanya, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hey, I'm doing good? How are you doing Brandon.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's good, you know, it's good to be back, and
you know, we're closer now to the holidays than we
ever have been before. So first, let me wish you
guys a merry Christmas and all the great stuff out
there family wise, and I know for you exciting times,
brand new releases and what a better way to do
it in the month of December.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Right, oh man, this month has been absolutely insane. I'm
actually getting ready to do Christmas for Kids December the
fifteenth in Hendersonville, So this is something new for me
as well, and I'm super excited to be one of
the featured artists there.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, talk to me a little bit about you mentioned
the first release here in about twenty five years since
coming out with all those great hits back in the day.
For people that may not know you as an artist,
talk about just how you got discovered at justin Timberlake
a very keyword in that too at the same time
and just you know, kind of a part two on that.
Let's build on it, you know, the comeback and you know,
coming back to music and wanting to put out some
(01:59):
new stuff that can really kind of, you know, really
gravitate too.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, so my background, I kind of grew up singing
before I could talk. And I was in Barbara Mandrell
Studio there in Nashville when I was seven, recording my
first song.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
My dad, you know, paid all the money it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Took, and bought all the costumes and the outfits and
spent every last penny he had doing things like this
for me and making sure.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That I could make it to the events. So fast
forward a little bit. After singing through all of the
talent shows and.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Beauty reviews and anything I could get my hands on
as a kid, I was singing at a charity benefit
for Saint Jude's and I was selling my little cassette
tapes that I was selling at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This was back in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Ninety eight, and so this man came up and bought
all of my tapes and of course all the proceeds
with the Saint Jude's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But he was talking to my dad about how good
I was. He couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
He said, my daughter is starting a management company and
my grandson is in a boy band. But they're not
known here in the US, but they're huge in Germany
right now. So of course my dad saw stars right
and so long story short, that was justin Timberlake's mom
and that was his grandfather that night that discovered me.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So it has.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Created a lifelong family friendship. And I released my first single,
Broken Promises, and I believe it was like February of.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Two thousand and one, and then my album I Represent
came out in April.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So we started doing like radio shows and we would
fly out to wherever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We could because we didn't have the internet back then.
We couldn't do what we're doing right now, and so
it was a much different world.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So after twenty five years, it is it's interesting to
say the least a lot, a lot has.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Changed, you know it has, and that's the key thing.
You've been around Nashville, so you know the town very well.
You know it's music city, no doubt about it. And
like I said, it's a people call it a ten
year town. When it comes to being trying to break
yourself as an artist or break into the industry get noticed.
You know, some people want that record deal, they go
down that path, or somebody you know wants to be independent.
(04:14):
And of course it's hard doing all the work, you know,
by yourself out there to social media, and all these
different things. It's a lot I think easier now, coming
down to it because of what social media has done
when you broke into it. Talk about even and there's
still challenges and everything out there, But when you broke
into it, compared to the way it is now, how
would you say it really has the music industry has
changed so much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, first of all, I would probably start with back then,
you know, you pretty much had a CD with twelve
songs on it that people had to go buy in
the store or record it off the radio and hope
the djil wasn't talking. So as soon as my album
came out, Napster became a thing. So for those who
don't know what that is, it was illegally streaming music
(04:56):
and that was kind of the beginning of it all.
So I, you know, I do take I feel like
people were stealing music around that time, so it was
very unfortunate. But definitely that has changed, and just music
in general. You know, the two thousands is coming back
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It really is too and that's a good thing. And
I love it because you were talking about growing up
before we played the new single out there. You loved
it so much because I grew up on nineties country.
That was a little part of that. I know, Shanaia
Twain was a huge influence for you two at the
same time, and before that bro country movement and all
the different movements in music. You had your you know,
your American idol kind of reality TV shows coming in
(05:34):
there too at the same time, and now the voice
is taken over for the last twenty eight or so
seasons two at the same time. Talk about just your
influences and you know, growing up with those type of
artists and that nineties country into that bro country movement.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, so my dad used to work at Lorettalynn's ranch
for like thirty something years, so I grew up with
Loretta Lynn. Of course I love singing her songs now,
but nineties country was really like Tracy's Lawrence for me
was one of my all time favorite artists. Mark chestnutt
Oh my goodness, Diamond Rio amazing in Shania Twain. So
(06:09):
Shania is like probably one of my biggest idols besides
maybe Mariah Carey when I was growing up, but I
was that's my roots. So, you know, I grew up
in nineties country and it was kind of before the
country pop thing along came along, but Shania Twain kind
of paved the way for that as well.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That kind of started the pop country thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So that was still in my teenage years, you know,
I was still trying to find myself musically and personally
and stuff. So I think that has kind of helped
me be able to go from the pop that I
had into more country today.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, this is a great song, and you picked a
I'm gonna hit right now. I can say right now too.
I love this and it's a great anthem. Everybody needs
to go check it out here or released. Nobody loves
Me like You. It's Tanya Mitchell the Backstage Pass, a
very powerful ballad. Will come back and talk about it here,
addressing domestic violence out there too, and of course a
profound return to her roots right here in music here
(07:07):
on the backstage past more with Tanya Mitchell coming up here,
quick break time out here, Stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I look at you. I'm still trying to see the
man you used to be.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
How did these arms they used?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Home meets I.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Start to suffocate me. I know you say sorry, I
know you think you care. But with you, I'm along,
Miss Silent Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Like you.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Like you.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
My heart races.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Neevery you're around, so I don't make sound.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You've controlled my heart like you've controlled my mind. Maybe, Bellie,
you're the best I could find.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I know you say you're sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I know you think you care, But with you, I'm
a lost stick in the silent.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Nod.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He loves me.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Thank you, Nobody he loves me.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is what you put me through. When you wake up.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
At the light of time, you real love to lay,
I'll already be called.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Nobody loves me.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Like you.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And this is what you putting me through. This is
what you putting me through. This is what you put
me through. Nobody he loves me. Hey, guys and gals,
(10:49):
this is recording.
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Speaker 3 (11:56):
Dot org, and back here on the show again. That
was the new release Noody Loves Me Like You. Tanya
Mitchell out there too, And I mentioned that ballad, you know,
when it came down to it, kind of that profound
return to music. You had to love this talk about
just how special it is to put something out that
is very meaningful for you, we mentioned domestic violence and
a song that is very much everybody who knows somebody
(12:18):
has gone through something like this too, and I feel
like they can really resonate with this too.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, So this became a concept from the guy I
was working with, Gen Ruben, and he did like five
songs on my album I Represent. So many years later
we reconnected and he had this idea for a song.
And at the time, my sister was going through it.
She lived kind of far away, a couple hours, maybe
(12:43):
three hours, so it wasn't like an easy commute, and
so I learned about what she was going through. I
absolutely could not believe it. But I had never been
through it. So you're always asking why did you stay
or what took you so long to leave? Satistics are ridiculous,
And it's not just about women. It's men, children, elderly siblings.
(13:07):
It's domestic violence is like an umbrella term because you
have financial abuse, you've got manipulation, gaslighting making you feel crazy.
And so I basically this is the only song I've
ever written, by the way. So I took it down
to paper and I kind of wrote it out in
poem format, just trying to live through what she was
(13:30):
going through from what I had heard of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We recorded the music video.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He was living in New Jersey at the time, and
it was snowing and I had to do a photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
In the snow in a tank top.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I remember this very specifically for this trip that we
recorded Nobody Loves Me. And so we got the video done,
our project kind of fell apart, and then over the years,
I myself have gone through domestic violence issues on more
than one occasion. It's not just one person, it can
be every single relationship. You know, there's God to therapy
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for all of this, I know, but now it is
literally an anthem, and I'm an advocate for those that
you know need help or somebody you're concerned about somebody
else and they don't have resources, or you don't have
a support team, because if you don't have support team,
it's going to be ten times harder. So this this
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video is very visually and musically moving. I mean, I've
had countless grown men tell me I'm crying.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, and that's something that it's a message people need
to hear. And it's always great when artists you know,
able to come out, you know, work with a charity
give back. And this is something especially if you've gone
through it. And I feel like sometimes you know, artists
either you know, kind of write their own songs and
put them out to the public based on things they've
gone through through personal experience, or even if they get
pitched a song, they still can go through something like
that if it really fits them, it fits their cattle
(15:00):
log of songs. And this one just felt like whether
you wrote it or not, and I'm glad you did,
but it really felt like it just really fit you know,
your catalog and was right in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It was meant to be a very simple project, which
sometimes the simpler the better, like it captures your attention.
The music video shows, you know, the bruising gradually coming
on and you know, dissipating, and so an interesting fact
about this is I had cried so many tears over
(15:31):
those years after recording that video. Now looking back at it,
when my eyes tear up, a tear does not fall,
it doesn't fall. So basically it's saying no more wasted
tear drops. So it's very powerful, and they were trying
to get me to cry. I was just wearing these
fake lashes and I don't think the tear would come out,
(15:53):
but it never fell, and I was like winking.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, congrats on the job, well done, and thanks for
letting us play it here on the stage past. I
want to go back. You mentioned that debut single and
it feels like yesterday. I always tell you, know, kids,
now enjoy your youth while you can, because it does
fly by like nothing else is tomorrow broken promises. Let's
go back to that one and just talk about how
much success you know that game for you too. Early
(16:16):
on you mentioned the kind of the backstory with Timberlake
and things like that with justin Timberlake. At the same time,
what do you remember best about this single and did
you kind of feel like this had that top forty
you know feel to it and getting recognized in it
and everything kind of you know, going so fast and
then you're you know, you're touring. I mean you've done
things like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, things
like that, you know, played stages such as that that
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have been different venues. When you think back to that
song and just you know what it created for you
and you think back to those times, what comes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
To mind, Well, I remember it was the first song
I recorded for the album. We flew out to Las Vegas,
so that was my first trip to Las Vegas. We
recorded it in two days. We did the background vocals
the first day and then we did the lead vocals
the second day, and I knew at that time in
two thousand and one, that was definitely a hit. We
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actually had a little battle between I represent and Broken
Promises because everybody kind of thought Broken Promises sounded more
like Brittany, But at the same time, everybody was kind
of wanting their Brittany and I just happened to be
signed to Motown Universal, so I guess they were trying
to I.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Mean, I guess they were differentiating me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
They gave me darker hair because I was blonde when
I got a record deal.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And stuff, so that, you know, they were trying to differentiate.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
But the song itself, so I had zero promotion on
this song and I had zero music video. This is
also my first music video today, this is my first
music video ever. So I never had a music video,
no promotion, and the song hit number thirty eight on
the Top forty with no promotion and video, and back
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then videos were so important like TRL and things that
people would watch and vote.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
On, and it was very important. But I guess it
was meant to be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
When you think back, mentioned those early days too, and
you look at songs like that really resonated with me too,
back because I'm early DJ days and I'm spending things
and of course we're getting copies back when CDs were
the thing, and you know, you're rip opening kind of
an envelope and you say, well, who's on this, and
you look back you're like this this. Of course, you
read all your different music articles and publications out there,
and you look at songs like Stay and of course
(18:26):
a little too late, I Don't want to fall in
love songs like that from that old one to two thousand,
two thousand and one era. Looking back at it, those
were just songs that really also from your catalog, spoke
to people in a way that can remember a lot
of different things. And I mentioned, you know, we talked
about one, you know, addressing domestic violence. People need to
hear that message because we all know somebody who's gone
(18:47):
through that. But with those songs like Stay and I
represent I don't want to fall in love and a
little too late, just to me, iconic anthems that still
stand the test of time because you'll never forget those
are like your babies. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Absolutely, an interesting uh, stay and I don't want to
fall in love.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We're done by the same guy that did. Nobody loves
me like you.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, and he's Grammy Award winning too, so this is
a great deal for me.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That's a cool thing too, because you get a chance
to kind of pick who you want to pick on
your team. Absolutely, we'll give Shannon some some props out
there to the same time, thank you, it's awesome. Loves
what he does. To At the same time, how critical
is that when you look back and you say to yourself,
you know, I couldn't do this without a team because
it's as hard to do you know, X, Y, and
Z by myself and critical to have that that support
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system and what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, back in the day, it was I guess I
would say a lot harder because you would actually have
to be out in front of people. Like I said,
there was no internet, so you would have to put
your you know, yourself in these positions and travel and
do all the things. And then you know, so if
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you got lucky enough to sign a record deal or something,
or had somebody in your family that was super rich
that could help you do things. But now it's kind
of like you you can be your own manager. Actually,
Shannon asked me the other day, he goes, what do
you need me for? Because I corrected him on an
interview time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And he's like, what do you even need me for?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And I was like, but we are a team, but
right now it's just me and him, So I think
we're doing pretty dying good.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You are, no doubt. Now let me ask you this.
Do you know when it comes down to the female
empowerment in country music right now? Too? I know you
follow it because, like I said, being up there kind
of first firsthand in Nashville when you look back at
it too, but you see what's taking place over the
last two or three years. Landis Wilson's kind of the
queen Bee of country music. CMA Awards coming out and
I had her on the show here December twenty twenty
(20:48):
and I asked me, you're going to blow up in
two years.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He goes on, oh goodness.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, and I said, well, she goes, well, thank you
for this. She was very modest. I mean, no doubt
but she she kind of was telling her story and
you know going through all that too as well. And yeah, no, no,
no story. Shorts was actually in a truck stop in
Arizona at the times one out there to see some
family and I heard a couple of songs come on
truck stop radio pandor whatever it was in there too,
(21:12):
and I said, I just had her on the radio show,
and I said the same thing there. And then you
look at the ladies right behind her too, that are
now making headlines with Ella Langley for still a block block.
What does that mean to you as far as being
a female artist knowing the music is right there in
the country popular side of things, and this come back
for you. You see these women kind of doing their
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thing in country music right now.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Talk about that about that, well, they're obviously inspirations. I
don't have a lot of experience with the country music
side of things, even though, like I said, the.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Who Loretto Land thing, I never even met her. My
dad worked for her for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But they're definitely paving the way and I think that
I think there's an audience for everyone. So you know,
if the if the Lady Wilson fans are just you know,
die hard and they don't like you because there's like
beef in the press or.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Something like that. You know, you just let people do
what they do.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But I feel like, genuinely everybody can have an audience
and they're definitely paving the way. So I'm thankful for that,
especially being my age, because most of the time you're
much younger when you start, you know, releasing music and
coming out. So going from eighteen to you know, forty three,
it's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's been a few minutes there, no doubt too. We
just keep adding up those numbers. I wish you sometimes
we could take a little bit off our h do
at the same time, but yeah, a lot of difference there.
But just glad you're back in this thing. It's time
to play another cut from Tomy Mitchell and the catalog
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Speaker 4 (23:02):
Where did you stop thinking big?
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Whatever happened to getting out of here?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Unlock the door?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Le me.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
The light of scream much and not in gear dead living.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Baby, we will move on ball, no stop, size, no
liv mis.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Just grab your keys and walk out your door.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Hell will.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
At the steet o like God on the way, take
it to rap hem a ways will standing the turn
whel flags yet, make it.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
This time and well will do settles down and there's
no one else from miles around, from off the people
never touch well baby, just say go. We used to
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run with our dreams forever reason to read another day?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
When did you start losing speed?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Can't want you idle your life away? Am I deady witch?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
For us?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
There still have aust fall the roads way over ben,
so don't stop before.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
We stop away half.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
The speed all like God along.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
The way, take it to round him wills wisted and.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
The turn will fight. Yeah, Conna, make it.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
This time and we'll just settle down in the store
one us the miles around.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Buffy, you don't even touch the crown. Maybe just say go.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Saygel, don't go.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Dead leaving. Maybe we will move from more the roadway,
then the wall, your keys and walk out to.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
A door.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Road.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Have the speed of God on the way, take it
to round.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
In the way.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Will stay him. Yeah, make it this time.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Said on the stand and one the month around. I
see you don't even touch the ground.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Baby, Just say you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Say, go.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
On and say, just.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Say the word.
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Speaker 3 (28:16):
And welcome back here to the show again. That was
go from Tommy Mitchell here talking everything music and the
comeback to the music here soon. And of course they
knew me anthem is cross all those ESPs out there
for you guys, and you can check her out a
crop on Instagram. Nobody loves Me like You. And we
got to play another great song there too. Talk about
this one because I gotta from the song go go.
(28:36):
I loved it very much. It's as much as I
love the anthem we talked about there too, but great
feel forward it and another song that really kind of
fits in your willhelp.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is also done by Gen Rubin. So he's a
very intricate part of my existence and music for sure.
So the song that released today, Nobody Loves Me Like You,
is kind of about somebody else holding you back? How
can I break free from this? So a good transition
(29:06):
over into that is Go. So in the song Go,
it's basically that you're holding yourself back. And sometimes when
we get out of those narcissistic abuse relationships or domestic
violent situations, you know, it's it's hard, it's hard to
get yourself going again. And basically it's like the light
is green, but you're not in gear.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You know, go just go, just go be happy, let them. So, yeah,
it's I think it's a good transition over into that.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, there's something someone for everybody out there too, And
just because you've come out of a bad situation doesn't
mean you can't just pick up the pieces and go
do something else, and you know, find someone else no
matter what. Again, like I said, what your beliefs are
out there, there's someone for everybody too at the same time,
and I feel like, like I said, sometimes cleaning up,
for lack of a better term, that broken glass and
creating a new opportunity and that's why people really feel
(29:57):
like in our different markets and out there too worldwide
in the twenty seven countries, we're in need to hear
this music out there. Hey, talk about this. We mentioned
the holiday season. I know things are kind of slowing
down at least I know for me, hitting the brakes
a little bit there too, after a very strenuous last
few months too, which is great to stay busy. But
plans for twenty twenty six include a memoir I understand,
(30:19):
and maybe a tour, so I know, as much as
you can talk about this, this would be another cool
thing for me to come see you live.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yes, So in twenty twenty six, we are planning possibly
some kind of little anniversary celebratory party, maybe in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
For that I represent twenty fifth anniversary release.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I think we might be getting maybe some exclusive memorabilia,
those types of things, so I'm kind of excited about that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We're still working on it, so I really don't I
don't really have a.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Lot of details on that, and I keep hearing him
talk about a tour, but I also don't know anything
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, okay, But we.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Are working on a memoir and basic it would just
be my career path, you know, and then later on
I can get into my autobiography and stuff where I
tell my whole life stories.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's pretty interesting. But those things are definitely coming.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I feel like we might be releasing a second single
maybe in the spring or summer as well. So, but
I just partnered with the National Alliance of Domestic Violence
for Survivors, and so now I'll be going to their
conferences and telling my story and they're going to show
my video.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So twenty twenty six, I'm coming in. I'm coming in hot.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Oh. I like that way. She put that too. Well,
Like I said, jet landing on a runway or taking
off their too, that's gonna be ton you mentioned right
there too, coming in hot right here too. For all
these great releases here y'all mentioned you got a chance
step on those big venue stages. Rock and roll Hall
of Fame was one of them too. But I wanted
to get your feedback on what that was like as
far as career milestones go, because again, one of the
(31:53):
most prestigious ones, just like a grand old Opry, had
to rank right up there, didn't it.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Absolutely, It's one of the stories I probably remember the most,
just how I felt so many fans. Like I said,
I didn't really have any promotion, but the song on
the radio is what number thirty eight, And so I
had a lot of listeners in these.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
In these areas.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And so when I went to Ohio, anytime I went,
I had quite a crowd, and it was just I mean,
I was flabbergasted.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I mean, what do you say to that?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You know, yeah, take it with a grain of salt,
and you say, you know what, thank you, rock and
or Hall of Fame, glad to go check that box.
I forgot my name.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I'm so excited I forgot my name.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So excited I forgot my name, no doubt about it too.
Let me ask you this, as far as the holiday season,
any traditions that kind of go on there in Tennessee,
staying at home. What's going on for Christmas and.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
For the New Year's usually home very quiet time.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
My kids will get out of school, I think next week,
and they'll be out till the New Year.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But we just do the Santa thing.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So it's kind of lot.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You've got a five year old and a ten year old.
They're sneaking around the house all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, my daughter's going to turn six years old, and
I made a deal with her last week. I said,
you know, if you do well in school and she
gets out next week, I said, Daddy's gonna put up
the lights. And I went to home depot and I said, yeah,
I'm only gonna spend about one hundred dollars. Now it
was h yard decorations and then what goes on the
front of the house where brother the gutters and things
like that. I never realized lights cost that much because
(33:25):
we didn't put them up in about three four years.
But now that she's five years old and soon to
be six, it's like, okay, now they have to see
it because Christmas is kind of like right in front
of them, and they see everybody else doing it, so
you've got.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
To do it too.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I realized Christmas lights had gone up since I. Actually
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
The music industry changed, so has the electric bill.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, But I did put them up for her, and
she got some good a Senna and a couple other
things like yard decorations. So I told her, I said,
it was either the Christmas tree or the lights this year,
because we're gonna be gone for Christmas. And I said, well,
if I come back, I only want to come back
and take down as not everything.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Amen, so that's my thing. What's on the menu for
the holiday season?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh, that I have not figured out yet. You stumped
me there.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
What about your favorite foods? Just in general? What do
you like to eat?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Man, I love these, some tacos, pizza.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I don't think there's a I mean, I don't have
a gallbladder anymore, so there's things I shouldn't eat, but
I still eat it, and I'll just suffer because I can't.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I love my food. It's worth it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Well, I tell people, frequent trips to the gym is
a key thing for me for the holiday season because
we love to eat, and we love to get in
there and just enjoy it and eat all the food.
And there's got to be that rhyme to reason when
it comes down to it. I can tell you I've
lost forty five pounds. So I tell you right now,
it's great to eat it, but I tell you I
got to do it in moderation, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Congratulations, Man, that's doll on. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
All right. Let me ask you this, And you never
got into the industry so early. Was there another career
path you would have taken had it not been.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
For music, Yes, and I would say that would be meteorology.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, Yeah, I've always been into the weather, so I'm
kind of obsessed with tornadoes and learning about them, and
so I follow all the storm chaser people on Facebook
and like I make posts and update people locally about
the weather.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I'm like a warning in your town run so weather
channel type of ordeal. Right yeah, probably could see me
being a weather a girl there too, like I said
on the Weather Channel, would be something I could definitely
see right there, too, is for a career path goes.
Let me ask you this when it comes down to
we talked about I just got great. The ladies are
(35:35):
just moving so well in the industry today. But it's
hard to find that balance of just you know, personal
life because this thing can really suck you in and
really keep you busy. And you got it, like you said,
you have your kids, so you got to make time
for the personal life. How do you balance that and
then kind of a you know a second part of
that too as well, balancing that act right there too.
Do you have any musical talents you see in your
(35:56):
five year old or ten year old yet.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Okay, So the way I manage it is, I have
a manager, thank you staying then, So we talk all
the time, all day long, and of course I tell
him about my day to day life and when I'll
be able to do this or that or can't do
it that day or this day or whatever. He also
helps run my social media because I can't keep up
(36:18):
like I'm old when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But yeah, I have a manager. So that's how I
manage that.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
When you look back at it. Musical talents for the
kiddos right now, they starting to kind of see with
mama and the day with the songs and then back
with the songs. Now they getting into piano, playing musical instruments,
instruments are singing.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So I have a twenty one year old as well,
and they're all daughters. And so the twenty one year
old she can, I mean, she played the flute, the ocarina, banjo, guitar,
she has a Hello Kiddy electric guitar.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
So she's very musically. She's just she's more artsy.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
She just graduated college for her associates and art, so
she's wanting to go into like storyboarding. The ten year
is constantly singing on my karaoke machine and constantly singing
my songs.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Too, So of course the five year old gets in
on that.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
And one day she walked up to me after I
was doing all these interviews and stuff, and she goes, hey, Mom,
are we famous?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I I just looked at her and I was like, well, baby,
I'm sure some people might think that, but I don't
know how to answer that question.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Just tell her it's another interview. MAM's promoting her music
out there too, and you know what, she's making one
hell of a comeback with these great great songs out there.
Any other kind of hidden talents or hobbies away from
from music that we may not know about? Tanya Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I enjoy cooking. I mean I'm not bad. I'm probably
not the best, but you know my kids love my cooking.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
They say you're the best cooker in our life. So
I'll take that one. And roller skating. I've been roller
skating my whole life since I was.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Five, all right, I like the real we're skating too.
Let's take you up on that offer too, Like I said,
next time I get to Tennessee, you'll you'll beat me,
but I guarantee you me on a pair of skates
do not go together.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
So elling you my second video, we go roller State.
I always wanted that that is going to be a
dream come true. In my next music video, I'll be
Roller State.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I'm roller skating too. Like I said, you guys sing
better than me, And like I said, I just host
a radio show and she I know she skates well
around the competition out there too. Nobody loves me like
you across all the DSPs out there too, And you
guys can get a chance to check out the exclusive
look at the official video out there too. I just
came out right after Thanksgiving there and of course some
big plans coming up in twenty twenty six. KYBN ninety
(38:39):
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and also iHeartRadio
podcasts and our friends at THHWN dot org. A pleasure
to have you here on the backstage pass and I
always would look forward to meeting you in person. Congratulations
on the comeback and looking forward to many more new
career milestones for you.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Thanks so much, awesome, Brandon, Thank you so you got it.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
The one, the only Tanya Mitchell here on the Backstage past.
More great interviews coming up next week. Nashville recording artist
Tyler Farr on the show. Be on the lookout for
that one coming up as we talk about some new music.
God blessed, Take care. We will see you soon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Hey y'all, this is Ashland Kraft and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight, one,
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