January 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Tyler Rich joined us on the show to chat about his latest singel and lots more! Tune in on KKTC True Country 99.9 and on iHeartRadio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Tyler Rich and
you're listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Always a busy day and of course, happy New Year
to everybody out there to listening in radio land. KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico
are a new time five to six drive time every
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And of course you can listen via the web and
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to all the great music and a chance to talk
to one of the best. And he's doing it out
(00:33):
there his own way. Tyler Rich joins us here on
the program. Tyler, what's up man?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now see you Brandon? I'm good. How you doing man?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Just you know, hanging in there, getting counting down these
days to country radio Seminar in Nashville, Tennessee coming up.
Always a big event for artists to kind of get
out there and talk about the new projects they're working on.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
For you guys, it was a new single, just a
few days ago.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And I love this one too, when it's a give
up to get it, just a fantastic solitude. Let's kind
of dive into this one already too, because you know,
for you and Camp it's already getting rave reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it's a uh man. I wrote the song a
couple of years ago on the road, and it's perfect,
a perfect songwrit on the road because it's just about
being away from family, chasing a dream and the reality
and just I mean, we just went really deep with
the actual things I've missed in my life and everything
from the fact it took me four months to meet
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my first nephew, and birthdays and baptisms and golfing trips
my grandpa and just you know, it's just the regular
life that when you're chasing a dream and you live
on the road, it's it's we have a great life, right,
We have so much fun. We get to do the
best thing in the world. We get to play music.
But there is a sacrifice that comes with that, and
that is friends, with time, time with friends and family
and little moments you'll never get back. And it's the
(01:46):
things that you give up to get it. And you know,
we just had the music video doing an USO tour
overseas right before Christmas, and I got to play that
song live for the first time for the troops in
different countries, and so we filmed the entire music video
on that USO trip of just b roll basically of
visiting these troops, sailors, soldiers and just all the be
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roll of me gone hotel to hotel to hotel. And
it's a good, you know, depiction of what it is
really like. And we've just done our best to promote
it and relate to truck drivers, soldiers, you know, first responders,
people that are just away from their home, doctors, nurses
that are gone for the greater good, because our greater
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good is a little different than theirs for sure, but similar.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And wellstad too, because I always talk about this with
every you know artist we have, every band here on
the program. Country music Tyler is all about storytelling. I
think it's the note the song. I go back to
nineties country. Every time the intro of the song started
for me, I was like, yep, that's so and so
and the song title is this, and I feel like
that is the way with your music now. And so
(02:55):
many great songwriters out there in Nashville kind of doing
their thing, talk about just the importance of songwriting and
being able to tell that story to the fans out there.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, especially since I moved to Nashville from
California almost ten years ago, which is crazy. You get
you get sucked into this beautiful songwriting world where you're
with some of the best songwriters of all time. Sometimes
you're with people that work at cookout and also write songs,
you know, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you're writing ten
songs a week and get you can get caught up
(03:28):
super easily in the all right, cool, we're gonna be
here for four hours. We're gonna write a three minute
song and it's gonna feel and sound like this, and
just it's really easy to get into this flow of
surface level lyrical stories, right. And but then you gotta
remember the biggest thing, like you said, about country music,
is the storytelling. Even people that don't listen to country music,
you said, oh, you know you have a listen to country, man,
(03:48):
I really like the storytelling. I don't really listen to
it much, but stories, and so as long as you
can just constantly remind yourself that you're in that room,
you're in that studio that day for very important purpose,
and that is to tell a story for you or
for somebody else that somebody else can relate to. And
you need to choose the words and the emotion and
just the real depth of what's going to tell that story.
(04:10):
And I think that's it's hard to do, right. It's
hard to tell your own story in a way that
people are going to listen to it and be like, man,
he's talking about me. And there's twelve different words. Sometimes
you can choose out of for one, and it takes
a long time to get to that point where you're
writing in the right words.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It does.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, what's this ride been like for you over
the last you know, really two three years, I mean
ever since after COVID People see, you know, peaks and
valleys in this whole thing and experience, like I said,
loss and grief and things like that, and then of
course you hit you know, everybody tries to recover from
this whole thing. What's it been like for you to
kind of get on this ride, you know, be on
a successful you know tour out there too. You guys
(04:49):
can get back on the road here very soon for
a new year, talk about just you know, the ups
and downs of this business and maybe some things that
the fans don't see out there too because they think
it's Clinton glamor gal ory things like that at three G's.
But at the same time, you guys, are you know,
busting your ass to gets to the top and do
what you have to do to continue to put music
out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, you know, it's uh, the rite is crazy. It
is beautiful, but grueling. COVID was interesting for me because
I was on a tour right before COVID hit and
it when it got cut off just like everybody and
we basically got sent home. I used that entire year
to just get really, really crazy and really time invested
into social media and different Instagram, live shows and stuff
(05:30):
with my wife, and it really blew my career up
in a way which wasn't supposed to happen when you
can't do anything for a year. And so when we
got to hit the ground running, which never happened because
it was just more shows that then would get canceled,
and then more shows we get canceled, then booked and canceled,
and we eventually finally I guess probably like early twenty
(05:51):
two really were like fully touring again, and it feels
like it just didn't matter how much it had blown up.
It didn't matter what songs went crazy over, you know, COVID.
It's every year it almost feels like you have to
restart sometimes, and that one felt like a real big restart,
and I just yeah, I just kept focusing on trying
to write and release the best music that I was creating,
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and I was. I was at the same record label
for a long time, and then we were at a
point where it came out to like two and a
half songs a year that was being released, and I
was just like, this is just not up to my
part of what time should be for releasing. We need
to be bands are hungry, they need content, they need
songs and need all this stuff, or what are we
supposed to tour on right? And it just it got
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to a point where we had talked about it way
too many times and then agreed to part ways, which
was something I fought for for a long time. And
so at the beginning of this year, when it was official,
I took sorry. Last year it was official, I decided
to take most of the year off to finally do
a full second album. And my label had given the
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fans eighteen songs over seven years, which is really small,
and so as a thank you to the fans of
being patient, I dedicated most of last year to creating
what will be eighteen songs in one year for all
the fans, which you have seen just started with the
last three to have put out over the last three months.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hey, talk to me about the holidays again. Back here
with Tyler rich on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Tallasit, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Here the holidays had to be special too.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We talked about you guys getting so busy and you know,
putting all these records and all these songs to just
really out there cater to the fans and stuff like
that too. But the holidays always a fun time to
get a little bit of R and R and do
a bit of self care.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, And that is we do not say
that lightly. It is it is such a recharge and
a reboot for the next year. And my family, my
wife is from western Massachusetts. We live in Nashville. I
am from northern California, and so every year Nashville's Massachusetts
Massachusetts to northern California, then usually back to Massachusetts to
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get my dog, and then we come back to Nashville.
And I know that sounds chaotic, but somehow it is
actually super relaxing and it's the best. Luckily, this this
year we actually got to be gone. It was a
total like thirteen or fourteen days. Sometimes we try to
squeeze the whole thing into about nine, depending on touring
schedule and my wife's work. But yeah, we had to
solid almost two weeks of just eating too much, regretting
(08:21):
it now, but uh, not regretting the laughs and the
good times.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's what you make a holidays, the laughs and the
good times out too. We're gona have a good time
here on the show now too, And play a single
the Guy's Got to release last year from the Tyler
Rich Camp. It's all the Small Things here. It is
exclusive KKTC True Country nine a nine point nine from
Tyler Rich.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Craig it out.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You're a little camp, the same dream as big as
you can see.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You start making plans.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You see big habits on a big keel and a
big power hundred dollar bills with the Don sings. What
you really have doesn't look the same, wing looking bad.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
You can lose it all in the New York Many
bacon lay money won regular letting, time runs out. Uh,
you can make it.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Count with brock count the memories.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
You can have it and pictures up on the long
and I hope my fillful, biggest picture frame with all
the small things, all the beers around the fire, ran
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them up on the eers with your friends the hay.
Do you remember when all the laughs at made you cry,
All the drive, just driving, all sunset, sunrise, good times, that.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Big j'n big tracking, every buying out.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
You close it all in the New York Man. They
can land money on beg you living time runs out.
You can make it count with.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
The rock con the memory.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
You can have your pictures up all along, and I
hope my feels a bigger picture.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
For a.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
With all small, with all small.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
They ain't luing with the diamond that you give her
noddy worth things.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
It's we say, dude, when you kiss her. You close
it all in the New York.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Man, them money won't mag you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Live time on towbo.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
You can make a count for rack on limory.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
You heavy.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
And pinches up alaw and I hope I feel the
biggest picture pray. Yeah, hope, I feel the biggest picture frame.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
With all the.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Small fans, with all small things, with all smile fings,
with all small.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
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Country ninety nine point nine.
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Speaker 10 (12:20):
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Speaker 3 (12:31):
And Becker are Tyler Rich KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine in Taus, New Mexico. Out there too for
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there too. So we got to dive into it, my friend,
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all the small things that we're talking about, you know,
like it's the current single out there that you have,
but it's the smallest things that you mentioned in the song,
the small things that sometimes we take for granted, but
y'all summed it up well in this particular tune, right.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, it's a yeah, it's just about I was thinking
one day. I know we touched the base on the
songwriting a little earlier, but there's a thing I like
to do a method that is, because we write so
many songs sometimes that you get to a studio and
you're like, oh, man, I don't know what I would
want to write today, And so sometimes I look at
other song titles from other genres that are old and
(13:24):
I think, if I was to write that song today
about something in my life, what would it be? And
blinkwinitty too, all the small things popped up on this website.
So I was like, all the small things, I'm pretty
sure they're talking about not what I'm talking about, but
it's a yeah. I was like, you know, at the
end of the day, when I'm hopefully you know, a
hundred year old man, I'm looking at my wall. I'm
looking at all the picture frames that is my life
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as a whole. I just hope that the biggest picture
frame of life is full of all the small things,
just all the little things that matter. And there's a
line in the song in the Bridge where it says
it ain't the ring or the diamond that you giver
that ain't worth the thing. It's when you say I
do and you kiss her and like to me, that
just fully embodied what that entire song is trying to
(14:08):
say through a few minutes. And it's just you know,
material things that they come and go. We can't take
them when when we leave, but the memories that we
leave with hopefully is just a sweet memories to other
people too, and all the good times.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's what life's all about should be. I loved the
fact a chance to listen to EP that you put
out there, which was the Unplugged in Nashville too, and
there were so many great songs off of there too.
I have a chance to kind of check out there
on my subscription, No pun intended here, like I said,
with iTunes out there too, but I do enjoy it
because you get a chance to kind of, you know,
peruse through there and see what you want to play
and things like that, talk about just the overall body
(14:43):
of work for that project, and uh, you know, just
so some fun things to have some some things that,
like you said, Unplugged in Nashville an EP, you've got
to have fun with.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that was one of my favorite projects I've gotten
to do because there was a kim basically to the
table that hey, we're gonna do some an acoustic song
acoustic versions of these you know, your biggest songs. And
immediately the idea is the easiest idea, which a lot
of times artists and teams will want to just take
away drums and take away things that are already on
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these records, and it just becomes a guitar vocal that
we've already heard, just minus instruments, right, And so I
talked them into it and they agreed, which was awesome.
That I wanted to re envision all five of these
songs and I wanted to go in there and pretend
we hadn't recorded these full production, full band versions already,
and how to just view them in a different light.
(15:35):
And so with Lever Wilde, which is for sure my
biggest song, everybody has always asked me if I were like,
I really wish there was a wedding version of this song.
Wish there was the first dance version of this song,
kind of thing father daughter dance. And so we did
just like a full blown grand piano ballad of that
to be the wedding version. And I mean the difference
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another of my biggest songs to me that I just
like the vocal flow and the rhythm of it all.
I was like, I feel like this would be cool
if it just sounded like we're kind of just chilling
in like a smoky like jazz bar. And so we
just got super creative and just had just such a
fun day making that here in Nashville with a lot
of the players that actually had done my real records
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as well.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I love it, and it was like a chance to
put that creativity just in the arts business is still amazing.
It's what you guys want to do with these songs
out there to another one. Remember twenty twenty two when
I first started listening to you, about that time with
twenty twenty two, because I listened to everything across all
the different platforms, mostly country, but I get a chance
to check out not just prime country, but the Highway
and things like that too, and of course all the
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Nashville new artists and spotlight stuff and you know, all
the up and comers like yourself too.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But Trucks Don't Lie.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have to go there because this had to be
a lot of fun twenty twenty two when this came
out to it, and I think a lot of fans
could really relate to this particular song. And I'm a guy,
so I drive a truckerstand what it means.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I felt like I couldn't ever, I couldn't be
an official country singer until I had a song with
truck in the title. For sure. Yeah, Trucks don't Live.
It was a story of mine, which goes right back
to sometimes you don't know what you want to write
about that day, and we were just talking about old
high school memories and stuff, and I dug down, I'm
happily married, right, but you know, I dug deep into
high school girlfriend and being cheated on, and then me
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thinking like, oh, everything's fine, it's cool, you know, it's good.
Takes some time to move on, and then driving by
her house and it was a new truck in her driveway,
and you know, she could tell me like, Oh, nothing's happening,
blah blah blah. But trucks don't lie in that truck
right there, it's it's got San Francisco giants, you know,
frame round it's license plate. So I know him and
I'd probably be friends time or place, time or place,
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and it's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, it's a fun song. Hey, you've done some collaborations.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I noticed out there Alexander Ka was on the Unplugged
in Nashville too, And you've got a chance to work
with some amazing, you know ladies in this business. Also
some eyes too that have just you know, making their
mark in the country music industry. Talk to me about
just how important that is, because we're seeing more and
more that now in the industry that somebody will call
somebody or somebody like you said, it's a small town,
even bigger town because everybody knows everybody in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee.
(18:16):
But talk about just collaborations becoming more and more of
kind of the norm in the business. And when you
get a chance to collaborate with someone just as good
as you are, who's a great songwriter and a great.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Singer, thank you. It's yeah, a collaboration to me is
one of the you know, it's one of the sweetest
things about the gig, and especially like with the Alexander
K collaboration, Thinking We're in Love was released the full
production with Mari May, which is a Quebec pop star.
(18:45):
Basically she's like massive in Quebec, and when we got
to do the acoustic version, which I was just explaining
in the different they're reimaginations of these songs, and I
wanted it to be just kind of a country folky,
really simple, because that I think of were Love's for sure,
probably the poppiest song I've ever put out, I would guess,
(19:08):
but it was with a pop star, right, and so
we kind of like met in the middle a little bit,
and so for the reimagination of it, I wanted it
to be super organic, super stripped down. And Alexandra K
just has such a beautiful voice. She's a sweetheart. And
when you do these collaborations, you know, it opens the
door because you know, a lot of my fans I
didn't know who Alexander was, and a lot of her fans,
but I didn't know who I was, and it instantly
(19:30):
just opens doors on both sides for our fans. To
walk through and us to walk through the doors at
the same time. And you it's you know, it's fun,
especially when you're a solo artist and you're just out
here doing this alone forever. I've got a band and stuff.
I love my boys, but you're alone, right, it's just
always you. It's just your face, pictures on videos, all stuff,
and all of a sudden you got another person to
do the content with and it feels a little less awkward.
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It's nice.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Hey, let's give those boys some props in the band too, Tyler,
Because I always say when I get a chance to
go out and sometimes I'll just take my RV to
live shows out there and actually interview on the spot
before that artist takes the stage out there to that
mobile studio.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I love doing it just to get out there and
have like a bus man.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I feel like you guys do up and down the road,
running it and going to cover fairs and festivals and
different venues out there too, which is always fun, ripping
and running across the country. Props to the boys, man,
how important it is? That important is it to have
that camaraderie in the band so everybody is on the
same page for set lists for songs for performances.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Talk about that for me.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, I mean, if you've got a strong foundation, you
got a strong unit that's you know, then you will
be strong. It's about as strong as you could be.
Is how happy the people are around you is something
I've always tried to live by and believed. And my guys,
we all, you know, before I was a solo artist
doing this thing, we all have been in different bands
and rock bands and country projects and stuff with band names,
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and so then all of a sudden, I'm just Tyler
Rich and it's not a band, but I hired my guys,
and I don't know, there's just such a stigma about
being a road dog that's per higher, right, and you
know it for hire to me just sounds disposable. And
I've never liked that. And so my thing from day
one with my guys is we're going to operate as
a band. We're going to operate as if you know
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your name is on the shirt all these things like,
I want you guys to take ownership and pride and
what we're doing. And I want you to know that
I take ownership and pride that you were in my
band and that we are in this together. You don't
work for me, you work with me. And it's just
some some groundwork that I laid down really early on.
And because of that, I mean, my bass player has
been with me for it'll be ten years in August.
(21:34):
I think my guitar players six years. My just yeah,
my whole crew of at least the ones that have
been there since the beginning are pretty much still with us.
The only one that left was because he had a
baby and decided he wanted to be a dad, and
well dad at home.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, that's wrong with that too. I got a five
year old now to asson it be five year old.
And remember during that COVID time, I was like, you
know what, we take this for granted sometimes, but it's
just nice to be a stay home dad enough to
go to work at the day job, to stay home
and do interviews all day. I enjoyed that, and there's
nothing wrong with the stay home mom or stay home
dad too as well. Hey did I read somewherefore I
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play my next track with the music out there again
Tyler rich dot com for more information out there too,
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Make sure you guys check that out here a KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. I want to ask
you about you. I read somewhere too, and this could
be who knows true false?
Speaker 9 (22:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You read a lot of stuff on the internet. They're
like always don't trust the internet. But you had a
degree from college and economics.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, that's true?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, you is here any plans? I mean, obviously music
was there as that real love.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You still kind of dive into our economy now and
I'm not getting it. I don't get political on the show,
but is there plans for that economics degree?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't even think I'd dove into economics when I
was in college. I feel like I was, like I said,
I had been in bands right for a few years,
touring and whatnot, and then but I'd promised my grandparents,
who were my had one car payment I won Billa
and it was a car payment when I was on
the road with these bands, and between paying my car
(23:08):
payment and other help financially while I was on the
road not making money for a couple of years, I'd
promise my grandparents my mom that I if this band
breaks up, not the last one, this one, I promise
you I will go back to school. And so when
that band broke up, it was actually perfect timing because
at that point I was fed up with so much
stuff about music, and so I went back to school
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and I started. Originally I was a music business major
and out Chico State, which has a massive music business program.
And then as soon as I started it, I realized
that the first two years is actually like theory and
technical music, you know, like prerequisites, and it's like, this
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is just making the thing. I actually love homework and
I hate this. And so when I decided to get
out of that, I had an ECON association. It's randomly
as I was going through my business stuff from like
the early two years of college, and my counselor she
was like, well, you got an A and micro and
macro like entry level econ, So have you ever thought
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about that? And I was like, sure, why not, Let's
just do it. And so that was a terrible decision.
I feel like I'm very proud of it because it
was really hard and I did well, but it was
that was a terrible decision. I didn't know how hard.
ECON is not easy, it is It's like speaking in
the Greek alphabet and having to like create equations with
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letters and things you've never seen before. And so as
soon as I graduated, because I did graduate with a
really I did well. And so when I graduated, I
got offered a job as a financial advisor working in
one of the state departments of California. They need me now.
But I turned it down because I had promised myself
that if and when I did finish school, I was
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gonna give musical more shot. And that's when this started.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You have it to fall back on.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nothing With that, I said, I've got a couple of them,
those degrees, and it's always good because always always said
to go to college for this one and this one.
Do what you love, and then of course you got
to get out there sometimes do not what you love
to fall back on. But hey, I always say good
education before I became a parent was definitely something that
I do not take for granted because you've earned those
degrees and you can put them to use in so
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many different ways out there too. Tyl to play some
more music here from Tyler Rich again. Check you out
Tyler Rich dot com for more information out there from
the tour days to the merchandise, see everything involved. Of course,
the latest single across all those the digital streaming platforms
we talked about, give up to get it across all
those platforms to go stream, and we're gonna play one now,
Tyler to put out last year, twenty twenty four. It's
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hard to believe we're still saying twenty twenty four. But
the same time, home we choose here it is from
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Speaker 5 (25:53):
Stay ten, she's eighteen with the dreams, guitar and boxes
in the back seat. Ma'ma cry the whole way to Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
It's twenty one, calling your own mums.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Dump.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
He can move back to where he's from.
Speaker 13 (26:26):
That degrees taking him to the city. With these twists
and turns and life sure can't leave some things behind.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
We're all looking for some sunway too.
Speaker 14 (26:46):
We found.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Steady place we can plan on.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
We're all lost until we found some solid ground.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
From boats down we can set on.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Boots whether it stands away toutos down place that's old
New y'all got a hometown, no homeweed eat you.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
You y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Homeweat you you.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Can stay where you raged nothing boot street and man
change grass and green hair, and where.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
You could pack up. You halt your at any age.
Now you ain't stuck a big brying new stock. Find yourself.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
We're all looking for some summer too.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
We found.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Steady places we can play on roots you roll out sometime.
We found some solid ground from coats down. We can
sell on boots.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Whether it's stands away totos down.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Place that's all new.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Y'all got a hometown the homeweed at you We y'all
got a hometown the homeweed choose.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Y'all got different stories stiffen dollars in the same man.
We're all where we're supposedly ride here where we are, and.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We're all looking for somewhere too.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
He found.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Steady place we playing all.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
We roll also to who We found some solid dron.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Thrown bat stamp.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We can set head off boots, whether it stands away,
toot those down play stsl y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Home we choose. Y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 13 (29:29):
Home.
Speaker 14 (29:30):
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Man of Course, Countdown is a here backstage Pass powered
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Nashville there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at
the Omni Hotel February nineteenth to twenty first. Hard to
believe it's coming up here just a matter of weeks,
and it'll be a little cold up there. Every year
I go there during the wintertime the one year they
put it, and of course in March two it's always
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cold and rainy, and I know another arready blast coming
in over the next few weeks, So stay warm out there, pets,
pipes and plants. Makes sure those three piece are taking
care of out there. Packy with Tyler Rich this is
always fun because we've talked about songwriting, we've dived into
how much the lyrics mean to the fans and storytelling,
but this one had a different meaning for me, just
to say, you know what homes, where it's at and
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if you can understand kind of where you're going with
this one. This had to be as much fun to
write as it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Is to sing.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, starting over right the idea of starting over,
no matter what that means, whether it's in a relationship
and a career path or if it's maybe you're starting
over because you just graduated college with an econagree and
you don't know what you want to do with it.
And the song is just about you could be. There's
a line about my best friend in it and where
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it says you know, you might live three doors down
from where you grew up because the grass isn't greener
on the other side, and you might decide this is
what's perfect for me, whereas in your best friend, which
is me decided right after we graduated I had to
get as far away as physically possible to find what
else was out there. And here I am still chasing
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down crazy things every year. And it's just about finding
peace and knowing that home is wherever you choose it
to be and wherever you're going to create memories and
your relationships with in those moments. And it doesn't have
to make sense to anybody else, and your timing does
not have to make sense to anybody, doesn't even have
to make sense to you. You just got to go
with it. And yeah, the home we choose, I got
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lots of them.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, no, it just comes from like I said, man
from the heart. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You mentioned he talked about lever Wilde, which was fantastic.
Out there came out in twenty nineteen, which was awesome.
The difference, I would ask you about the difference, because
that's another one that really texts people on as a
lot of your music does, from the beginning on that
roller coaster ride to get to that point in the
climax and then getting to the end of where it's
just like, man, you know, settled, we feel like we've
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been on that ride. We can live it, breathe it
you know, put it into action. The Difference. Man, y'all
really hit the nail on the head with that one too.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, thank you, that's a that's the one, that's the
that's a song that kick started this whole thing for
me once I got my record deal. And it's, uh,
it's funny because that is one of the only songs
I did not write that I put out. And when
I got my record deal, I've been signed for a
year and we were looking through different songs for basically
the label is like, we love this song for number two,
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we love this song for like third single, and we
love this song. Still trying to find that number one
first song. It's come out, so you can just come
out swinging. And so I've just been writing a bunch
of songs. People started pitching me music whatnot, and we
did a it's kind of like speed dating, but for
songwriting for publishing. And so I jumped around ten different
publishers thirty minutes at a time because they'll live right
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next to each other on music row or working next
to each other. And it was the last meeting of
the day with Warner, I believe so, and The Difference
started playing and I'd put a bunch of songs on
hold that day, just like, yah, i'll listen to it tomorrow.
I want to hear it again. But when the Difference
started playing, there was something about the lyric, melody and
the rhythm and my wife, who at the time was
(34:15):
not my wife, she was my fiance. Anytime I'd say
love you, she'd always say, I love you because I
love you means I'm in love with you. Love you
means I love you. And I was like, I never
thought about that way. I guess you're pretty. I guess, yeah,
it's true, like I say love you tons of people,
but like I love you, you know, it means something else.
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And the song was going and I was like, man,
I love this, this is amazing, blah blah blah, and
and then it got to the hook and when he said, yeah,
there's a difference between I love you and I love you,
and I want to be the difference. I was like,
Oh my god, that's it. Let's go. I was like,
my wife is going to be so pumped when she
hears this, and she's gonna be so pissed. She's been
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feeding me these lyrics and I didn't write this song
on my oh, but it also turns out that Devin
Dawson was on the songwriters on it, and he's from Sacramento,
right outside of where I'm from, And so I was like,
I think that's also why, you know, within the first
few seconds of hearing it, I was like connected to it,
and I was like, this guy's who's singing and wrote
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it is was Yeah, from where I'm from, and I
know him and stuff, and so I was like, yeah,
it feels like a little moment of fate right here,
a little serendipitous moment. Let's run with it and see
what happens. And here we are.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It worked out really well for you, no doubt too.
We'll have some fun with these last few again. Check
it out, give up to get it across all the
digital streaming platforms, and then of course Tyler rich dot
com for more information out there to the tour schedule
and all the great merchandise. All right, let's have a
little bonus round love doing this. You mentioned Sacramento favorite
baseball team, sports team out there, Kings fan, growing up,
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NFL college, whatever it is. When you're sitting back tube
drinking a coal when what do you like to sports
wise in the family or just yourself.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
What teams do you root for?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, so forty nine Ers, like die hard forty nine
Ers fan. I'm pretty sure my first two words were
Joe Montana. Yeah, San Francisco Giants. I did grow up
a Kings fan. And because I'm from Ubi City, it's
about an hour north of Sacramento. Give your take, I
grew up a Kings fan. But I've just I'm just
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not a massive basketball fan in general. I love to
watch it when it's on. Am I gonna go out
of my way?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It might have to do with the fact that the
Kings all of a sudden were terrible for like ten
years plus. And then I moved in with a roommate
in Sacramento that was from the Bay. He was a
die hard Warriors fan. So it was on all day
like everything, all day news, highlights, games for like those
two years we were together living together, and it then
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the second year was when they won that championship, the
first of the dynasty. And then so I just bandwagon
the hell ra out on that train and I started
watching and loving the Warriors for you know, the past,
like I guess, god, twelve years now probably something like that.
But that being said, I root for the Kings just
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the same because it's the Kings in its hometown and yeah,
and their Western conference. You're technically not supposed to do that,
but to me, I would never do that in football
or baseball, but a basketball it's just fun for me,
and so I like to support both those Norkel teams.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I love the fact this is a bro a good
point here with this being the Major League Baseball but
the Oakland Athletics are leaving that to go to Vegas. Well,
I know this year coming up for twenty twenty five,
and I think it's just the season that may not
be for twenty twenty six, but so that complex gets
built in Vegas out there too for their new professional
baseball team. It's gonna be weird saying Sacramento Athletics that
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for this twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Right, super weird. And the I think the opening game
Clitics is against it's a big team, the Cubs. Yeah.
A couple of my buddies are really big Cubs fans,
and they're like, dude, we're gonna go to Triple A
Stadium and watch Sacramento A's play the freaking Cubs. He's like,
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it's gonna be like we're just watching high school kids
because it's a small field. Yeah, yeah, I think it's
really cool. I think it's cool for my city. I
love Sacramento. It's such a cool community and such a
people that have never been there before. It's just really
good food city, it's good music city. It's you know,
it's cool downtown and stuff. And I think it's really
really cool for the city.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I did too, I mean have to, like I said, vacation,
get out there just to go see U. Because I
love Triple A Baseball. And I worked in baseball for
a few years back and did some public address announcing,
of course, other stuff out there for the team in
the minor league, so I know what it's all about
and putting on a show for the fans and all
that good stuff too, and catering to your ticket buyers
and ticket holders that come through there to watch a
good product. And so we did some on field promotions.
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But I love Triple A Baseball, and of course I
know it's some major leaguers out there too, and you know,
kind of cool to see was just the other day
Tyler to see the A's actually keep one of the
guys that busted out in Brent Rooker, to like sign
him to a big deal, which was pretty cool, and
I think that's stuff. You know, they spent some money
this offseason too, so they're saying, you know what, we're
cashing in all our chips and we want to compete
and not just move to Sacramento and eventually Las Vegas.
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But I think that's kind of cool to see besides
your Giants and Dodgers and your rich teams out there
too that do it. I think it's a really cool
thing to see that the oaklanse I see Oakland a'.
I'm always gonna say that Las Vegas Athletics what it
will become to get out there to be competitive again too.
A speaking of food, Nashville no shortage of great restaurants, taco, coffee,
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good places out there, pizza night on the town. Where
do you like to kind of dine in or I
guess take out?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's such a good question. I'm so bad at these.
I literally have to keep lists on my phone so
that when people ask. Because we're creatures of habits, so
we'll use to just go to the same couple like
random small like ramen places or order pizza in I
will say my favorite restaurant in town. The view alone
is insane. So Bourbon Steak at the top of the JW.
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Marriott is the best view you'll ever get of Nashville.
Go at sunset. The food, it's like it's Chef Michael Meana.
It's a nicer restaurant. It's gonna you know, it's a
little on the price of your side, but it's incredible food,
incredible view. And so that's that's one of our main
date nights when we're actually gonna go out as we
go down there and soak that in. But honestly, my wife,
we just eat junk food. I mean we eat like
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just quick, easy, just crap all the time. But that's
a that's a good one for sure. Bar Taco is
really good ponchos and lefties, which is kind of over
by our house is a cool little taco spot. I
love Black Dynasty Ramen. It started off as a food
truck ramen spot and now it's a it's kind of
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like a speakeasy in the middle of bearded Irish brewery.
But it's one of the best bulls of ramen I've
ever had. But ever so you should that for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, I is one I'm gonna during CRS. We're gonna
definitely try that one to a lot of great artists
mentioned Bartako out there. I will finish with this one too,
whether it's a playlist or somebody you're listening to on radio.
When it's not, like I said, either immediate friend or whatever,
I'm gonna take you back because I grew up on
I'm sure you did too, loving worshiping religious on nineties country,
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especially being down here in Beaumont, Texas where I'm at
George Jones, Klay Walker, Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesta, so I
knew everything about those guys being from here. And there's
a lady named Janis Joplin who got to fame and
fortune out there too, who's from my area too. When
it comes to nineties country stars, give me your top
two or three you were jamming to growing up.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I mean my number one was always and mostly still
is Garth Brooks. Those were some of the first songs
I ever learned how to play, some of the first
songs I ever learned how to sing, just because my
family and he's on there be family functions, barbecues, Christmas,
birthdays didn't matter. There was my uncle with his friend
and their guitars and beers and they would just be
singing Garth Brooks songs Forever and Brooks and Dune for
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Sure like no question and then third, I mean those
are my clear two. Third and be Maybe I like
to say George straight, but it's such an easy, just
giveaway answer. But mostly because I fell in love with
George Strait's music because when I was like eight years old,
Pure Country the movie came out, and so I would
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watch that movie with my mom because it's a chick flick,
you know, she loved it. And all of a sudden,
my mom my cousin were like, hey, hey, we're gonna
go down to Arco Arena and Sacramento go see George Strait.
I was like, who's that. They're like, it's Dusty from
Pure Country. And I got to watch George Strait sing
all those songs from the freaking soundtrack, and so he
was one of my favorites, especially that soundtrack when I
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was a kid. And yeah, Vince Gill, George Strait, Brooks
and done Garth Brooks. I know you said three.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Really it's your show, brother.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Black I mean, I'm trying to think of who's like
my for sure. Three. You know it's in driving me crazy.
We'll get back to you five.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
To hold it just at three, especially when you had,
like I said, that song came of the radio you knew,
and the the intro to that song and obviously the
song in itself and the instrumentation and the title and
the artist and miss so yeah, I know if they'll
ever be another decade when it comes to that nineties
early part of two thousands country.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
But we got some artists. Hey, they're bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
And I'll tell you man, one of them that I've
been into lately has been this cat named Zach Top,
and I'm like, I'm really feeling his vibes out there
when he's putting out there, I'm digging, And I tell
you man, it's he's writing with some amazing writers Wat mccoven,
who's fantastic and good friend of mine too, as well
as written a lot of hits for a bunch of
artists here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
But uh man, this guy' Zach Top is blowing up too.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I will say that is my one hundred percent third
is Alan Jackson.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Alan Jackson.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, no question. Yeah, Alan Jackson. And the reason I
just came to mind is because Zach top is to
me is like, you know, he's today's Alan Jackson. Oh yeah,
and the best way to say that possible.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
And I think my wife and another comparison. One day,
We're just riding in the car and she goes, hey,
Zach Top sounds a little bit like Doug Stone. I went, oh, wow,
that's I get it. I see it now, I get
the resemblance. I was like, there, so yeah, it's it's uh.
But I tell you this, Tyler Rich sounds like Tyler
Rich and nobody else. We don't make comparisons here, and
if we do, you know what it's it's all complimentive
out there too. At the same time, make sure you
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guys go check it out across the give up to
get it and of course all the music we talked
about today across all the digital streaming platforms. And my friend,
appreciate you being with us and continued success going forward
to Big twenty twenty five coming up for you and
for the band and just continue man to kick ass
and take names out there too. Love having you and
hopefully we'll see you at the CRS festivities. If we don't,
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my friend, I know that the next few releases, we'll
have you back here on the program and do appreciate
the time and again continue success going forward.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Awesome, Thanks Brandon, I'll see a Bartako.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
He got it, Bartako. We got to go there, my
friend about it.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Turn out to Tyler Rich dot com and to give
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We're back here with more music KKTC True Country ninety
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God bless and we'll see you on the other side
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Speaker 9 (45:36):
Hey y'all, this is Casey Tendall and you're listening to
the backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC ninety nine to nine
True Country and Tows New Mexico. For more of my music,
catch me at Caseytendallofficial dot com
Hey all, this is Nashville recording artist Tyler Rich and
you're listening to the Backstage Pass with Brandon exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Tallas, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Always a busy day and of course, happy New Year
to everybody out there to listening in radio land. KKTC
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the program. Tyler, what's up man?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now see you Brandon? I'm good. How you doing man?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Just you know, hanging in there, getting counting down these
days to country radio Seminar in Nashville, Tennessee coming up.
Always a big event for artists to kind of get
out there and talk about the new projects they're working on.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
For you guys, it was a new single, just a
few days ago.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And I love this one too, when it's a give
up to get it, just a fantastic solitude. Let's kind
of dive into this one already too, because you know,
for you and Camp it's already getting rave reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it's a uh man. I wrote the song a
couple of years ago on the road, and it's perfect,
a perfect songwrit on the road because it's just about
being away from family, chasing a dream and the reality
and just I mean, we just went really deep with
the actual things I've missed in my life and everything
from the fact it took me four months to meet
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my first nephew, and birthdays and baptisms and golfing trips
my grandpa and just you know, it's just the regular
life that when you're chasing a dream and you live
on the road, it's it's we have a great life, right,
We have so much fun. We get to do the
best thing in the world. We get to play music.
But there is a sacrifice that comes with that, and
that is friends, with time, time with friends and family
and little moments you'll never get back. And it's the
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things that you give up to get it. And you know,
we just had the music video doing an USO tour
overseas right before Christmas, and I got to play that
song live for the first time for the troops in
different countries, and so we filmed the entire music video
on that USO trip of just b roll basically of
visiting these troops, sailors, soldiers and just all the be
(02:09):
roll of me gone hotel to hotel to hotel. And
it's a good, you know, depiction of what it is
really like. And we've just done our best to promote
it and relate to truck drivers, soldiers, you know, first responders,
people that are just away from their home, doctors, nurses
that are gone for the greater good, because our greater
(02:30):
good is a little different than theirs for sure, but similar.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And wellstad too, because I always talk about this with
every you know artist we have, every band here on
the program. Country music Tyler is all about storytelling. I
think it's the note the song. I go back to
nineties country. Every time the intro of the song started
for me, I was like, yep, that's so and so
and the song title is this, and I feel like
that is the way with your music now. And so
(02:55):
many great songwriters out there in Nashville kind of doing
their thing, talk about just the importance of songwriting and
being able to tell that story to the fans out there.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, especially since I moved to Nashville from
California almost ten years ago, which is crazy. You get
you get sucked into this beautiful songwriting world where you're
with some of the best songwriters of all time. Sometimes
you're with people that work at cookout and also write songs,
you know, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you're writing ten
songs a week and get you can get caught up
(03:28):
super easily in the all right, cool, we're gonna be
here for four hours. We're gonna write a three minute
song and it's gonna feel and sound like this, and
just it's really easy to get into this flow of
surface level lyrical stories, right. And but then you gotta
remember the biggest thing, like you said, about country music,
is the storytelling. Even people that don't listen to country music,
you said, oh, you know you have a listen to country, man,
(03:48):
I really like the storytelling. I don't really listen to
it much, but stories, and so as long as you
can just constantly remind yourself that you're in that room,
you're in that studio that day for very important purpose,
and that is to tell a story for you or
for somebody else that somebody else can relate to. And
you need to choose the words and the emotion and
just the real depth of what's going to tell that story.
(04:10):
And I think that's it's hard to do, right. It's
hard to tell your own story in a way that
people are going to listen to it and be like, man,
he's talking about me. And there's twelve different words. Sometimes
you can choose out of for one, and it takes
a long time to get to that point where you're
writing in the right words.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It does.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, what's this ride been like for you over
the last you know, really two three years, I mean
ever since after COVID People see, you know, peaks and
valleys in this whole thing and experience, like I said,
loss and grief and things like that, and then of
course you hit you know, everybody tries to recover from
this whole thing. What's it been like for you to
kind of get on this ride, you know, be on
a successful you know tour out there too. You guys
(04:49):
can get back on the road here very soon for
a new year, talk about just you know, the ups
and downs of this business and maybe some things that
the fans don't see out there too because they think
it's Clinton glamor gal ory things like that at three G's.
But at the same time, you guys, are you know,
busting your ass to gets to the top and do
what you have to do to continue to put music
out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, you know, it's uh, the rite is crazy. It
is beautiful, but grueling. COVID was interesting for me because
I was on a tour right before COVID hit and
it when it got cut off just like everybody and
we basically got sent home. I used that entire year
to just get really, really crazy and really time invested
into social media and different Instagram, live shows and stuff
(05:30):
with my wife, and it really blew my career up
in a way which wasn't supposed to happen when you
can't do anything for a year. And so when we
got to hit the ground running, which never happened because
it was just more shows that then would get canceled,
and then more shows we get canceled, then booked and canceled,
and we eventually finally I guess probably like early twenty
(05:51):
two really were like fully touring again, and it feels
like it just didn't matter how much it had blown up.
It didn't matter what songs went crazy over, you know, COVID.
It's every year it almost feels like you have to
restart sometimes, and that one felt like a real big restart,
and I just yeah, I just kept focusing on trying
to write and release the best music that I was creating,
(06:14):
and I was. I was at the same record label
for a long time, and then we were at a
point where it came out to like two and a
half songs a year that was being released, and I
was just like, this is just not up to my
part of what time should be for releasing. We need
to be bands are hungry, they need content, they need
songs and need all this stuff, or what are we
supposed to tour on right? And it just it got
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to a point where we had talked about it way
too many times and then agreed to part ways, which
was something I fought for for a long time. And
so at the beginning of this year, when it was official,
I took sorry. Last year it was official, I decided
to take most of the year off to finally do
a full second album. And my label had given the
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fans eighteen songs over seven years, which is really small,
and so as a thank you to the fans of
being patient, I dedicated most of last year to creating
what will be eighteen songs in one year for all
the fans, which you have seen just started with the
last three to have put out over the last three months.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hey, talk to me about the holidays again. Back here
with Tyler rich on KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine in Tallasit, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Here the holidays had to be special too.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We talked about you guys getting so busy and you know,
putting all these records and all these songs to just
really out there cater to the fans and stuff like
that too. But the holidays always a fun time to
get a little bit of R and R and do
a bit of self care.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, And that is we do not say
that lightly. It is it is such a recharge and
a reboot for the next year. And my family, my
wife is from western Massachusetts. We live in Nashville. I
am from northern California, and so every year Nashville's Massachusetts
Massachusetts to northern California, then usually back to Massachusetts to
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get my dog, and then we come back to Nashville.
And I know that sounds chaotic, but somehow it is
actually super relaxing and it's the best. Luckily, this this
year we actually got to be gone. It was a
total like thirteen or fourteen days. Sometimes we try to
squeeze the whole thing into about nine, depending on touring
schedule and my wife's work. But yeah, we had to
solid almost two weeks of just eating too much, regretting
(08:21):
it now, but uh, not regretting the laughs and the
good times.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's what you make a holidays, the laughs and the
good times out too. We're gona have a good time
here on the show now too, And play a single
the Guy's Got to release last year from the Tyler
Rich Camp. It's all the Small Things here. It is
exclusive KKTC True Country nine a nine point nine from
Tyler Rich.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Craig it out.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You're a little camp, the same dream as big as
you can see.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You start making plans.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You see big habits on a big keel and a
big power hundred dollar bills with the Don sings. What
you really have doesn't look the same, wing looking bad.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
You can lose it all in the New York Many
bacon lay money won regular letting, time runs out. Uh,
you can make it.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Count with brock count the memories.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
You can have it and pictures up on the long
and I hope my fillful, biggest picture frame with all
the small things, all the beers around the fire, ran
(09:47):
them up on the eers with your friends the hay.
Do you remember when all the laughs at made you cry,
All the drive, just driving, all sunset, sunrise, good times, that.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Big j'n big tracking, every buying out.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
You close it all in the New York Man. They
can land money on beg you living time runs out.
You can make it count with.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
The rock con the memory.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
You can have your pictures up all along, and I
hope my feels a bigger picture.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
For a.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
With all small, with all small.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
They ain't luing with the diamond that you give her
noddy worth things.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
It's we say, dude, when you kiss her. You close
it all in the New York.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Man, them money won't mag you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Live time on towbo.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
You can make a count for rack on limory.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
You heavy.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
And pinches up alaw and I hope I feel the
biggest picture pray. Yeah, hope, I feel the biggest picture frame.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
With all the.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Small fans, with all small things, with all smile fings,
with all small.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
Thing Hey, this is Nashville recording artist Michelle Wright and
you're listening to the back stage Pass on KKTC True
Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
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Speaker 10 (12:20):
Hey, y'all, this is Texas country artist Brete Bagwell and
you're listening to Brandon on the backstage Pass exclusively on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine in Pals, New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And Becker are Tyler Rich KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine in Taus, New Mexico. Out there too for
the new drive time slot five to six Mountain Standard
Time right there too as well, seven days a week,
So make sure you guys check us out. The backstage
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of course out there iHeartRadio and that very website out
there too. So we got to dive into it, my friend,
(12:51):
all the small things that we're talking about, you know,
like it's the current single out there that you have,
but it's the smallest things that you mentioned in the song,
the small things that sometimes we take for granted, but
y'all summed it up well in this particular tune, right.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, it's a yeah, it's just about I was thinking
one day. I know we touched the base on the
songwriting a little earlier, but there's a thing I like
to do a method that is, because we write so
many songs sometimes that you get to a studio and
you're like, oh, man, I don't know what I would
want to write today, And so sometimes I look at
other song titles from other genres that are old and
(13:24):
I think, if I was to write that song today
about something in my life, what would it be? And
blinkwinitty too, all the small things popped up on this website.
So I was like, all the small things, I'm pretty
sure they're talking about not what I'm talking about, but
it's a yeah. I was like, you know, at the
end of the day, when I'm hopefully you know, a
hundred year old man, I'm looking at my wall. I'm
looking at all the picture frames that is my life
(13:46):
as a whole. I just hope that the biggest picture
frame of life is full of all the small things,
just all the little things that matter. And there's a
line in the song in the Bridge where it says
it ain't the ring or the diamond that you giver
that ain't worth the thing. It's when you say I
do and you kiss her and like to me, that
just fully embodied what that entire song is trying to
(14:08):
say through a few minutes. And it's just you know,
material things that they come and go. We can't take
them when when we leave, but the memories that we
leave with hopefully is just a sweet memories to other
people too, and all the good times.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's what life's all about should be. I loved the
fact a chance to listen to EP that you put
out there, which was the Unplugged in Nashville too, and
there were so many great songs off of there too.
I have a chance to kind of check out there
on my subscription, No pun intended here, like I said,
with iTunes out there too, but I do enjoy it
because you get a chance to kind of, you know,
peruse through there and see what you want to play
and things like that, talk about just the overall body
(14:43):
of work for that project, and uh, you know, just
so some fun things to have some some things that,
like you said, Unplugged in Nashville an EP, you've got
to have fun with.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that was one of my favorite projects I've gotten
to do because there was a kim basically to the
table that hey, we're gonna do some an acoustic song
acoustic versions of these you know, your biggest songs. And
immediately the idea is the easiest idea, which a lot
of times artists and teams will want to just take
away drums and take away things that are already on
(15:13):
these records, and it just becomes a guitar vocal that
we've already heard, just minus instruments, right, And so I
talked them into it and they agreed, which was awesome.
That I wanted to re envision all five of these
songs and I wanted to go in there and pretend
we hadn't recorded these full production, full band versions already,
and how to just view them in a different light.
(15:35):
And so with Lever Wilde, which is for sure my
biggest song, everybody has always asked me if I were like,
I really wish there was a wedding version of this song.
Wish there was the first dance version of this song,
kind of thing father daughter dance. And so we did
just like a full blown grand piano ballad of that
to be the wedding version. And I mean the difference
(15:55):
another of my biggest songs to me that I just
like the vocal flow and the rhythm of it all.
I was like, I feel like this would be cool
if it just sounded like we're kind of just chilling
in like a smoky like jazz bar. And so we
just got super creative and just had just such a
fun day making that here in Nashville with a lot
of the players that actually had done my real records
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as well.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I love it, and it was like a chance to
put that creativity just in the arts business is still amazing.
It's what you guys want to do with these songs
out there to another one. Remember twenty twenty two when
I first started listening to you, about that time with
twenty twenty two, because I listened to everything across all
the different platforms, mostly country, but I get a chance
to check out not just prime country, but the Highway
and things like that too, and of course all the
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Nashville new artists and spotlight stuff and you know, all
the up and comers like yourself too.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But Trucks Don't Lie.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have to go there because this had to be
a lot of fun twenty twenty two when this came
out to it, and I think a lot of fans
could really relate to this particular song. And I'm a guy,
so I drive a truckerstand what it means.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I felt like I couldn't ever, I couldn't be
an official country singer until I had a song with
truck in the title. For sure. Yeah, Trucks don't Live.
It was a story of mine, which goes right back
to sometimes you don't know what you want to write
about that day, and we were just talking about old
high school memories and stuff, and I dug down, I'm
happily married, right, but you know, I dug deep into
high school girlfriend and being cheated on, and then me
(17:26):
thinking like, oh, everything's fine, it's cool, you know, it's good.
Takes some time to move on, and then driving by
her house and it was a new truck in her driveway,
and you know, she could tell me like, Oh, nothing's happening,
blah blah blah. But trucks don't lie in that truck
right there, it's it's got San Francisco giants, you know,
frame round it's license plate. So I know him and
I'd probably be friends time or place, time or place,
(17:48):
and it's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, it's a fun song. Hey, you've done some collaborations.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I noticed out there Alexander Ka was on the Unplugged
in Nashville too, And you've got a chance to work
with some amazing, you know ladies in this business. Also
some eyes too that have just you know, making their
mark in the country music industry. Talk to me about
just how important that is, because we're seeing more and
more that now in the industry that somebody will call
somebody or somebody like you said, it's a small town,
even bigger town because everybody knows everybody in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee.
(18:16):
But talk about just collaborations becoming more and more of
kind of the norm in the business. And when you
get a chance to collaborate with someone just as good
as you are, who's a great songwriter and a great.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Singer, thank you. It's yeah, a collaboration to me is
one of the you know, it's one of the sweetest
things about the gig, and especially like with the Alexander
K collaboration, Thinking We're in Love was released the full
production with Mari May, which is a Quebec pop star.
(18:45):
Basically she's like massive in Quebec, and when we got
to do the acoustic version, which I was just explaining
in the different they're reimaginations of these songs, and I
wanted it to be just kind of a country folky,
really simple, because that I think of were Love's for sure,
probably the poppiest song I've ever put out, I would guess,
(19:08):
but it was with a pop star, right, and so
we kind of like met in the middle a little bit,
and so for the reimagination of it, I wanted it
to be super organic, super stripped down. And Alexandra K
just has such a beautiful voice. She's a sweetheart. And
when you do these collaborations, you know, it opens the
door because you know, a lot of my fans I
didn't know who Alexander was, and a lot of her fans,
but I didn't know who I was, and it instantly
(19:30):
just opens doors on both sides for our fans. To
walk through and us to walk through the doors at
the same time. And you it's you know, it's fun,
especially when you're a solo artist and you're just out
here doing this alone forever. I've got a band and stuff.
I love my boys, but you're alone, right, it's just
always you. It's just your face, pictures on videos, all stuff,
and all of a sudden you got another person to
do the content with and it feels a little less awkward.
(19:51):
It's nice.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Hey, let's give those boys some props in the band too, Tyler,
Because I always say when I get a chance to
go out and sometimes I'll just take my RV to
live shows out there and actually interview on the spot
before that artist takes the stage out there to that
mobile studio.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I love doing it just to get out there and
have like a bus man.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I feel like you guys do up and down the road,
running it and going to cover fairs and festivals and
different venues out there too, which is always fun, ripping
and running across the country. Props to the boys, man,
how important it is? That important is it to have
that camaraderie in the band so everybody is on the
same page for set lists for songs for performances.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Talk about that for me.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, I mean, if you've got a strong foundation, you
got a strong unit that's you know, then you will
be strong. It's about as strong as you could be.
Is how happy the people are around you is something
I've always tried to live by and believed. And my guys,
we all, you know, before I was a solo artist
doing this thing, we all have been in different bands
and rock bands and country projects and stuff with band names,
(20:50):
and so then all of a sudden, I'm just Tyler
Rich and it's not a band, but I hired my guys,
and I don't know, there's just such a stigma about
being a road dog that's per higher, right, and you
know it for hire to me just sounds disposable. And
I've never liked that. And so my thing from day
one with my guys is we're going to operate as
a band. We're going to operate as if you know
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your name is on the shirt all these things like,
I want you guys to take ownership and pride and
what we're doing. And I want you to know that
I take ownership and pride that you were in my
band and that we are in this together. You don't
work for me, you work with me. And it's just
some some groundwork that I laid down really early on.
And because of that, I mean, my bass player has
been with me for it'll be ten years in August.
(21:34):
I think my guitar players six years. My just yeah,
my whole crew of at least the ones that have
been there since the beginning are pretty much still with us.
The only one that left was because he had a
baby and decided he wanted to be a dad, and
well dad at home.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, that's wrong with that too. I got a five
year old now to asson it be five year old.
And remember during that COVID time, I was like, you
know what, we take this for granted sometimes, but it's
just nice to be a stay home dad enough to
go to work at the day job, to stay home
and do interviews all day. I enjoyed that, and there's
nothing wrong with the stay home mom or stay home
dad too as well. Hey did I read somewherefore I
(22:11):
play my next track with the music out there again
Tyler rich dot com for more information out there too,
with the website, the tour dates, all the merch and everything.
Make sure you guys check that out here a KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine. I want to ask
you about you. I read somewhere too, and this could
be who knows true false?
Speaker 9 (22:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You read a lot of stuff on the internet. They're
like always don't trust the internet. But you had a
degree from college and economics.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, that's true?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, you is here any plans? I mean, obviously music
was there as that real love.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You still kind of dive into our economy now and
I'm not getting it. I don't get political on the show,
but is there plans for that economics degree?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't even think I'd dove into economics when I
was in college. I feel like I was, like I said,
I had been in bands right for a few years,
touring and whatnot, and then but I'd promised my grandparents,
who were my had one car payment I won Billa
and it was a car payment when I was on
the road with these bands, and between paying my car
(23:08):
payment and other help financially while I was on the
road not making money for a couple of years, I'd
promise my grandparents my mom that I if this band
breaks up, not the last one, this one, I promise
you I will go back to school. And so when
that band broke up, it was actually perfect timing because
at that point I was fed up with so much
stuff about music, and so I went back to school
(23:29):
and I started. Originally I was a music business major
and out Chico State, which has a massive music business program.
And then as soon as I started it, I realized
that the first two years is actually like theory and
technical music, you know, like prerequisites, and it's like, this
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is just making the thing. I actually love homework and
I hate this. And so when I decided to get
out of that, I had an ECON association. It's randomly
as I was going through my business stuff from like
the early two years of college, and my counselor she
was like, well, you got an A and micro and
macro like entry level econ, So have you ever thought
(24:13):
about that? And I was like, sure, why not, Let's
just do it. And so that was a terrible decision.
I feel like I'm very proud of it because it
was really hard and I did well, but it was
that was a terrible decision. I didn't know how hard.
ECON is not easy, it is It's like speaking in
the Greek alphabet and having to like create equations with
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letters and things you've never seen before. And so as
soon as I graduated, because I did graduate with a
really I did well. And so when I graduated, I
got offered a job as a financial advisor working in
one of the state departments of California. They need me now.
But I turned it down because I had promised myself
that if and when I did finish school, I was
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gonna give musical more shot. And that's when this started.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You have it to fall back on.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nothing With that, I said, I've got a couple of them,
those degrees, and it's always good because always always said
to go to college for this one and this one.
Do what you love, and then of course you got
to get out there sometimes do not what you love
to fall back on. But hey, I always say good
education before I became a parent was definitely something that
I do not take for granted because you've earned those
degrees and you can put them to use in so
(25:21):
many different ways out there too. Tyl to play some
more music here from Tyler Rich again. Check you out
Tyler Rich dot com for more information out there from
the tour days to the merchandise, see everything involved. Of course,
the latest single across all those the digital streaming platforms
we talked about, give up to get it across all
those platforms to go stream, and we're gonna play one now,
Tyler to put out last year, twenty twenty four. It's
(25:43):
hard to believe we're still saying twenty twenty four. But
the same time, home we choose here it is from
Tyler Rich Exclusive KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Stay ten, she's eighteen with the dreams, guitar and boxes
in the back seat. Ma'ma cry the whole way to Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
It's twenty one, calling your own mums.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Dump.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
He can move back to where he's from.
Speaker 13 (26:26):
That degrees taking him to the city. With these twists
and turns and life sure can't leave some things behind.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
We're all looking for some sunway too.
Speaker 14 (26:46):
We found.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Steady place we can plan on.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
We're all lost until we found some solid ground.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
From boats down we can set on.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Boots whether it stands away toutos down place that's old
New y'all got a hometown, no homeweed eat you.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
You y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Homeweat you you.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Can stay where you raged nothing boot street and man
change grass and green hair, and where.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
You could pack up. You halt your at any age.
Now you ain't stuck a big brying new stock. Find yourself.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
We're all looking for some summer too.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
We found.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Steady places we can play on roots you roll out sometime.
We found some solid ground from coats down. We can
sell on boots.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Whether it's stands away totos down.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Place that's all new.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Y'all got a hometown the homeweed at you We y'all
got a hometown the homeweed choose.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Y'all got different stories stiffen dollars in the same man.
We're all where we're supposedly ride here where we are, and.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We're all looking for somewhere too.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
He found.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Steady place we playing all.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
We roll also to who We found some solid dron.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Thrown bat stamp.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We can set head off boots, whether it stands away,
toot those down play stsl y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Home we choose. Y'all got a hometown.
Speaker 13 (29:29):
Home.
Speaker 14 (29:30):
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Speaker 16 (30:26):
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Man of Course, Countdown is a here backstage Pass powered
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Nashville there KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at
the Omni Hotel February nineteenth to twenty first. Hard to
believe it's coming up here just a matter of weeks,
and it'll be a little cold up there. Every year
I go there during the wintertime the one year they
put it, and of course in March two it's always
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cold and rainy, and I know another arready blast coming
in over the next few weeks, So stay warm out there, pets,
pipes and plants. Makes sure those three piece are taking
care of out there. Packy with Tyler Rich this is
always fun because we've talked about songwriting, we've dived into
how much the lyrics mean to the fans and storytelling,
but this one had a different meaning for me, just
to say, you know what homes, where it's at and
(31:22):
if you can understand kind of where you're going with
this one. This had to be as much fun to
write as it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Is to sing.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, starting over right the idea of starting over,
no matter what that means, whether it's in a relationship
and a career path or if it's maybe you're starting
over because you just graduated college with an econagree and
you don't know what you want to do with it.
And the song is just about you could be. There's
a line about my best friend in it and where
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it says you know, you might live three doors down
from where you grew up because the grass isn't greener
on the other side, and you might decide this is
what's perfect for me, whereas in your best friend, which
is me decided right after we graduated I had to
get as far away as physically possible to find what
else was out there. And here I am still chasing
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down crazy things every year. And it's just about finding
peace and knowing that home is wherever you choose it
to be and wherever you're going to create memories and
your relationships with in those moments. And it doesn't have
to make sense to anybody else, and your timing does
not have to make sense to anybody, doesn't even have
to make sense to you. You just got to go
with it. And yeah, the home we choose, I got
(32:35):
lots of them.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, no, it just comes from like I said, man
from the heart. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You mentioned he talked about lever Wilde, which was fantastic.
Out there came out in twenty nineteen, which was awesome.
The difference, I would ask you about the difference, because
that's another one that really texts people on as a
lot of your music does, from the beginning on that
roller coaster ride to get to that point in the
climax and then getting to the end of where it's
just like, man, you know, settled, we feel like we've
(33:01):
been on that ride. We can live it, breathe it
you know, put it into action. The Difference. Man, y'all
really hit the nail on the head with that one too.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, thank you, that's a that's the one, that's the
that's a song that kick started this whole thing for
me once I got my record deal. And it's, uh,
it's funny because that is one of the only songs
I did not write that I put out. And when
I got my record deal, I've been signed for a
year and we were looking through different songs for basically
the label is like, we love this song for number two,
(33:31):
we love this song for like third single, and we
love this song. Still trying to find that number one
first song. It's come out, so you can just come
out swinging. And so I've just been writing a bunch
of songs. People started pitching me music whatnot, and we
did a it's kind of like speed dating, but for
songwriting for publishing. And so I jumped around ten different
publishers thirty minutes at a time because they'll live right
(33:53):
next to each other on music row or working next
to each other. And it was the last meeting of
the day with Warner, I believe so, and The Difference
started playing and I'd put a bunch of songs on
hold that day, just like, yah, i'll listen to it tomorrow.
I want to hear it again. But when the Difference
started playing, there was something about the lyric, melody and
the rhythm and my wife, who at the time was
(34:15):
not my wife, she was my fiance. Anytime I'd say
love you, she'd always say, I love you because I
love you means I'm in love with you. Love you
means I love you. And I was like, I never
thought about that way. I guess you're pretty. I guess, yeah,
it's true, like I say love you tons of people,
but like I love you, you know, it means something else.
(34:35):
And the song was going and I was like, man,
I love this, this is amazing, blah blah blah, and
and then it got to the hook and when he said, yeah,
there's a difference between I love you and I love you,
and I want to be the difference. I was like,
Oh my god, that's it. Let's go. I was like,
my wife is going to be so pumped when she
hears this, and she's gonna be so pissed. She's been
(34:56):
feeding me these lyrics and I didn't write this song
on my oh, but it also turns out that Devin
Dawson was on the songwriters on it, and he's from Sacramento,
right outside of where I'm from, And so I was like,
I think that's also why, you know, within the first
few seconds of hearing it, I was like connected to it,
and I was like, this guy's who's singing and wrote
(35:19):
it is was Yeah, from where I'm from, and I
know him and stuff, and so I was like, yeah,
it feels like a little moment of fate right here,
a little serendipitous moment. Let's run with it and see
what happens. And here we are.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It worked out really well for you, no doubt too.
We'll have some fun with these last few again. Check
it out, give up to get it across all the
digital streaming platforms, and then of course Tyler rich dot
com for more information out there to the tour schedule
and all the great merchandise. All right, let's have a
little bonus round love doing this. You mentioned Sacramento favorite
baseball team, sports team out there, Kings fan, growing up,
(35:55):
NFL college, whatever it is. When you're sitting back tube
drinking a coal when what do you like to sports
wise in the family or just yourself.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
What teams do you root for?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, so forty nine Ers, like die hard forty nine
Ers fan. I'm pretty sure my first two words were
Joe Montana. Yeah, San Francisco Giants. I did grow up
a Kings fan. And because I'm from Ubi City, it's
about an hour north of Sacramento. Give your take, I
grew up a Kings fan. But I've just I'm just
(36:27):
not a massive basketball fan in general. I love to
watch it when it's on. Am I gonna go out
of my way?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It might have to do with the fact that the
Kings all of a sudden were terrible for like ten
years plus. And then I moved in with a roommate
in Sacramento that was from the Bay. He was a
die hard Warriors fan. So it was on all day
like everything, all day news, highlights, games for like those
two years we were together living together, and it then
(36:54):
the second year was when they won that championship, the
first of the dynasty. And then so I just bandwagon
the hell ra out on that train and I started
watching and loving the Warriors for you know, the past,
like I guess, god, twelve years now probably something like that.
But that being said, I root for the Kings just
(37:14):
the same because it's the Kings in its hometown and yeah,
and their Western conference. You're technically not supposed to do that,
but to me, I would never do that in football
or baseball, but a basketball it's just fun for me,
and so I like to support both those Norkel teams.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I love the fact this is a bro a good
point here with this being the Major League Baseball but
the Oakland Athletics are leaving that to go to Vegas. Well,
I know this year coming up for twenty twenty five,
and I think it's just the season that may not
be for twenty twenty six, but so that complex gets
built in Vegas out there too for their new professional
baseball team. It's gonna be weird saying Sacramento Athletics that
(37:52):
for this twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Right, super weird. And the I think the opening game
Clitics is against it's a big team, the Cubs. Yeah.
A couple of my buddies are really big Cubs fans,
and they're like, dude, we're gonna go to Triple A
Stadium and watch Sacramento A's play the freaking Cubs. He's like,
(38:13):
it's gonna be like we're just watching high school kids
because it's a small field. Yeah, yeah, I think it's
really cool. I think it's cool for my city. I
love Sacramento. It's such a cool community and such a
people that have never been there before. It's just really
good food city, it's good music city. It's you know,
it's cool downtown and stuff. And I think it's really
really cool for the city.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I did too, I mean have to, like I said, vacation,
get out there just to go see U. Because I
love Triple A Baseball. And I worked in baseball for
a few years back and did some public address announcing,
of course, other stuff out there for the team in
the minor league, so I know what it's all about
and putting on a show for the fans and all
that good stuff too, and catering to your ticket buyers
and ticket holders that come through there to watch a
good product. And so we did some on field promotions.
(38:55):
But I love Triple A Baseball, and of course I
know it's some major leaguers out there too, and you know,
kind of cool to see was just the other day
Tyler to see the A's actually keep one of the
guys that busted out in Brent Rooker, to like sign
him to a big deal, which was pretty cool, and
I think that's stuff. You know, they spent some money
this offseason too, so they're saying, you know what, we're
cashing in all our chips and we want to compete
and not just move to Sacramento and eventually Las Vegas.
(39:17):
But I think that's kind of cool to see besides
your Giants and Dodgers and your rich teams out there
too that do it. I think it's a really cool
thing to see that the oaklanse I see Oakland a'.
I'm always gonna say that Las Vegas Athletics what it
will become to get out there to be competitive again too.
A speaking of food, Nashville no shortage of great restaurants, taco, coffee,
(39:38):
good places out there, pizza night on the town. Where
do you like to kind of dine in or I
guess take out?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's such a good question. I'm so bad at these.
I literally have to keep lists on my phone so
that when people ask. Because we're creatures of habits, so
we'll use to just go to the same couple like
random small like ramen places or order pizza in I
will say my favorite restaurant in town. The view alone
is insane. So Bourbon Steak at the top of the JW.
(40:07):
Marriott is the best view you'll ever get of Nashville.
Go at sunset. The food, it's like it's Chef Michael Meana.
It's a nicer restaurant. It's gonna you know, it's a
little on the price of your side, but it's incredible food,
incredible view. And so that's that's one of our main
date nights when we're actually gonna go out as we
go down there and soak that in. But honestly, my wife,
we just eat junk food. I mean we eat like
(40:28):
just quick, easy, just crap all the time. But that's
a that's a good one for sure. Bar Taco is
really good ponchos and lefties, which is kind of over
by our house is a cool little taco spot. I
love Black Dynasty Ramen. It started off as a food
truck ramen spot and now it's a it's kind of
(40:50):
like a speakeasy in the middle of bearded Irish brewery.
But it's one of the best bulls of ramen I've
ever had. But ever so you should that for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, I is one I'm gonna during CRS. We're gonna
definitely try that one to a lot of great artists
mentioned Bartako out there. I will finish with this one too,
whether it's a playlist or somebody you're listening to on radio.
When it's not, like I said, either immediate friend or whatever,
I'm gonna take you back because I grew up on
I'm sure you did too, loving worshiping religious on nineties country,
(41:24):
especially being down here in Beaumont, Texas where I'm at
George Jones, Klay Walker, Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesta, so I
knew everything about those guys being from here. And there's
a lady named Janis Joplin who got to fame and
fortune out there too, who's from my area too. When
it comes to nineties country stars, give me your top
two or three you were jamming to growing up.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I mean my number one was always and mostly still
is Garth Brooks. Those were some of the first songs
I ever learned how to play, some of the first
songs I ever learned how to sing, just because my
family and he's on there be family functions, barbecues, Christmas,
birthdays didn't matter. There was my uncle with his friend
and their guitars and beers and they would just be
singing Garth Brooks songs Forever and Brooks and Dune for
(42:06):
Sure like no question and then third, I mean those
are my clear two. Third and be Maybe I like
to say George straight, but it's such an easy, just
giveaway answer. But mostly because I fell in love with
George Strait's music because when I was like eight years old,
Pure Country the movie came out, and so I would
(42:30):
watch that movie with my mom because it's a chick flick,
you know, she loved it. And all of a sudden,
my mom my cousin were like, hey, hey, we're gonna
go down to Arco Arena and Sacramento go see George Strait.
I was like, who's that. They're like, it's Dusty from
Pure Country. And I got to watch George Strait sing
all those songs from the freaking soundtrack, and so he
was one of my favorites, especially that soundtrack when I
(42:52):
was a kid. And yeah, Vince Gill, George Strait, Brooks
and done Garth Brooks. I know you said three.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Really it's your show, brother.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Black I mean, I'm trying to think of who's like
my for sure. Three. You know it's in driving me crazy.
We'll get back to you five.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
To hold it just at three, especially when you had,
like I said, that song came of the radio you knew,
and the the intro to that song and obviously the
song in itself and the instrumentation and the title and
the artist and miss so yeah, I know if they'll
ever be another decade when it comes to that nineties
early part of two thousands country.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
But we got some artists. Hey, they're bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
And I'll tell you man, one of them that I've
been into lately has been this cat named Zach Top,
and I'm like, I'm really feeling his vibes out there
when he's putting out there, I'm digging, And I tell
you man, it's he's writing with some amazing writers Wat mccoven,
who's fantastic and good friend of mine too, as well
as written a lot of hits for a bunch of
artists here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
But uh man, this guy' Zach Top is blowing up too.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I will say that is my one hundred percent third
is Alan Jackson.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Alan Jackson.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, no question. Yeah, Alan Jackson. And the reason I
just came to mind is because Zach top is to
me is like, you know, he's today's Alan Jackson. Oh yeah,
and the best way to say that possible.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
And I think my wife and another comparison. One day,
We're just riding in the car and she goes, hey,
Zach Top sounds a little bit like Doug Stone. I went, oh, wow,
that's I get it. I see it now, I get
the resemblance. I was like, there, so yeah, it's it's uh.
But I tell you this, Tyler Rich sounds like Tyler
Rich and nobody else. We don't make comparisons here, and
if we do, you know what it's it's all complimentive
out there too. At the same time, make sure you
(44:25):
guys go check it out across the give up to
get it and of course all the music we talked
about today across all the digital streaming platforms. And my friend,
appreciate you being with us and continued success going forward
to Big twenty twenty five coming up for you and
for the band and just continue man to kick ass
and take names out there too. Love having you and
hopefully we'll see you at the CRS festivities. If we don't,
(44:47):
my friend, I know that the next few releases, we'll
have you back here on the program and do appreciate
the time and again continue success going forward.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Awesome, Thanks Brandon, I'll see a Bartako.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
He got it, Bartako. We got to go there, my
friend about it.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Turn out to Tyler Rich dot com and to give
up to get it across all those digital streaming platforms.
We're back here with more music KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine in Tas, New Mexico and powered by
the Sports Guys Podcast dot Com. Until then, take care,
God bless and we'll see you on the other side
of February nineteenth to twenty first at Country Radio Seminar
in Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Until then, take care and always,
(45:22):
if you want an artist here on the program, just
email us. We'll do our best to go grab them,
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Speaker 9 (45:36):
Hey y'all, this is Casey Tendall and you're listening to
the backstage Pass exclusively on KKTC ninety nine to nine
True Country and Tows New Mexico. For more of my music,
catch me at Caseytendallofficial dot com
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