Speaker 1: Right back with Eddie and Rocky and Mark. I've seen
Speaker 1: this woman on Facebook on her seen her reels. She
Speaker 1: is a singer, songwriter and just kind of in her
Speaker 1: spare time. She has deemed to write a Bengals song
Speaker 1: pretty much every week after the Bengals games.
Speaker 2: And they're they're thematic right like there they fit the theme.
Speaker 2: The song fits the theme of what may or may
Speaker 2: not have happened.
Speaker 1: Generally in the style of another artist, Yes.
Speaker 3: Nother lnder or hearts the seasons over. Often they're still
Speaker 3: drying and only so much can be expected.
Speaker 2: Is the same old thing with the third cube.
Speaker 3: It's been said, it's been said, walls up.
Speaker 1: And we have her with us right now. From a
Speaker 1: dry Ridge to your radio? Is that our friend Sammy Riggs? Sammy,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Hello, So was Sammy? Singer songwriter
Speaker 1: Dry Ridge? Explain your story because you just want a
Speaker 1: songwriting award in Nashville? Is that correct?
Speaker 4: So it's Nashville, Indiana?
Speaker 1: But yes, well, hey, Nashville's Naville. That's it. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So I grew up.
Speaker 3: In Northern Kentucky. I've been playing music since I was
Speaker 3: really young, and I mean I've always been a songwriter,
Speaker 3: but I feel like I've really honed in on the
Speaker 3: craft probably over the last five years or so. And
Speaker 3: I definitely have always used humor to relate to people,
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 4: With the Bengals songs, it was.
Speaker 3: Just kind of a way to recap what has happened
Speaker 3: during games during the season, and I kind of started
Speaker 3: doing it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Very nice. So are all the songs you write or
Speaker 2: perform are they themed around sports or local events that
Speaker 2: that are things that are happening in the world, or what.
Speaker 3: Every I write about everything? So I have original music
Speaker 3: on Spotify. Those are obviously more serious songs. So I mean, really,
Speaker 3: if you're friends with a songwriter, anything can be turned
Speaker 3: into a song. So you have to be careful what
Speaker 3: you do and say, yeah, you might end up in
Speaker 3: a song.
Speaker 2: It's like, Taylor Sweat, try you write a song about you?
Speaker 3: Now, I mean pretty much. Taylor and I are very
Speaker 3: close in age. So when she was, you know, coming
Speaker 3: into the picture, I was still in high school and
Speaker 3: so I actually had a lot of animosity towards her
Speaker 3: when I was younger. I think it was a lot
Speaker 3: of jealousy of like man, she's doing what I want
Speaker 3: to be doing. But now obviously, like I have so
Speaker 3: much respect for her. But yeah, I just really enjoy
Speaker 3: just writing and I always want to make people.
Speaker 4: Laugh if I can.
Speaker 2: You know, right now in your career doing this, can
Speaker 2: you recall or take us back to a moment when
Speaker 2: you had one hit big right or like got a
Speaker 2: lot of attention, you know, because like music business is tough.
Speaker 2: You can do this for a long time and kind
Speaker 2: of go unnoticed, but do your call one that really
Speaker 2: got a lot of play and kind of got you
Speaker 2: a little recognition.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, up until now, the Bengals stuff has
Speaker 3: probably gotten me more recognition than anything, just because you know,
Speaker 3: the algorithm and people seeing things through the years.
Speaker 4: Just being a local and you know, playing throughout the area.
Speaker 3: I've I've had people following me for a while just
Speaker 3: from like singing in bars and restaurants and things like that.
Speaker 3: But I feel like up until now I've kind of
Speaker 3: been and part of it too, is just the grind
Speaker 3: of like getting myself out there more, getting my original
Speaker 3: music out there more. So I feel like over the
Speaker 3: past year or two that's kind of it's it's just
Speaker 3: all taking off more. But I think also because I've
Speaker 3: been focusing on that more.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've been Samy Rigazar guest and now are do
Speaker 1: you find the It sounds like you just started doing
Speaker 1: this for fun writing the Bengals song the Bengals songs.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling pressure now that after every game people
Speaker 1: are going, Okay, when's the net? What's summarize my feeling
Speaker 1: of the song? Is this one going to be Guns n'
Speaker 1: Roses latest Laws or what explain?
Speaker 3: I definitely feel a lot more pressure now. When I
Speaker 3: first started doing it. I mean, obviously I started doing
Speaker 3: it because it was fun and I was just being silly,
Speaker 3: but I mean there was a lot of nervousness of like,
Speaker 3: is anyone going to.
Speaker 4: Care about this?
Speaker 3: And so when I started doing it a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago, there would be weeks where I didn't do
Speaker 3: a song because I'm like, I don't really know if
Speaker 3: anybodybody really cares about this, And then I would have
Speaker 3: people say, man, I was looking forward to your song.
Speaker 3: So then I started realizing that people were kind of
Speaker 3: paying attention, and I was like, Okay, well, if you
Speaker 3: really care about this, I guess I'll just keep trying
Speaker 3: to do it. And this season is probably the first
Speaker 3: season I've really really felt the pressure of like, okay,
Speaker 3: I got to put.
Speaker 4: Out a song and it's not even I mean, okay.
Speaker 3: So the Thursday night game wide Out with the Steelers,
Speaker 3: that was an eight o'clock game. I have work the
Speaker 3: next day, and I had people like where's your song?
Speaker 1: Where the song?
Speaker 3: And the guys I have a day job, Okay, I don't,
Speaker 3: just this is not what I do for a living.
Speaker 3: So they had to wait until, you know, after five
Speaker 3: o'clock on Friday to hear my you know, recap of
Speaker 3: that game. So, I mean, I'm watching the game and
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of songs, and I'm like, can.
Speaker 4: I write this?
Speaker 3: And I mean on Sunday, I wrote my song in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter of the game.
Speaker 4: Pretty much.
Speaker 1: Oh, the story was already told.
Speaker 4: I was told.
Speaker 3: But you know with the Cardiac Cats, okay, the which game?
Speaker 3: Was it? A couple of games before that, I thought
Speaker 3: we were going to win the.
Speaker 1: Jets game probably, yeah, the Jets game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I wrote a whole song about winning and
Speaker 3: then had to.
Speaker 4: Throw it all away.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's you know, there was many writers that write
Speaker 2: columns about the Bengals had had the same thing happened.
Speaker 2: So now, any plans of adopting this to UH Reds games,
Speaker 2: you know, there's only one hundred and sixty two of them,
Speaker 2: so you know, Cutch quick turnaround, bang those out like four,
Speaker 2: four or five a week, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I follow the Reds, but I'm
Speaker 3: I don't know as much about baseball as I do
Speaker 3: about football, So that's my only that would be the
Speaker 3: difficult part for me there. But I mean, even with
Speaker 3: the football stuff, I have moments where I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 3: you're never going to satisfy everyone's thought in a song.
Speaker 3: And so even with you know, the songs that I'm posting,
Speaker 3: I'll have commentary on and of like, well, the defense
Speaker 3: actually did good this game, but the offense and it's like, okay, I.
Speaker 4: Know, but like notoriously, our defense sucks. So that's what
Speaker 4: I'm capitalizing on.
Speaker 3: Some people are very literal about it, and they want.
Speaker 4: Me to be very detailed, and it's like, okay, well
Speaker 4: I can only do so much in ninety seconds.
Speaker 1: No, if you gotten any feedback from many of the
Speaker 1: players at all, just curious about that.
Speaker 3: No, But I wish I did. I was hoping that
Speaker 3: when when I wrote the Hallelujah song about Joe Burrow,
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe he'll see it because I asked him,
Speaker 3: you know, if you ever want to collab because he
Speaker 3: plays piano.
Speaker 4: Now let me know.
Speaker 2: Every big maybe you know what, maybe least reach a
Speaker 2: little less high, maybe give find I don't know, if.
Speaker 1: I've got to get the long snappers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them will start slow, might embrace that
Speaker 2: a little big it. I don't know, no offan or
Speaker 2: something or Chase Brown. Chase Brown is having a good
Speaker 2: year running back. You might want to collab and get
Speaker 2: a little little pub, little mileage for himself. It'll be good.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you that I wrote a song
Speaker 3: today about the Spitgate scandal, so I will be posting
Speaker 3: that tonight about Chase.
Speaker 1: I saw your post the other day on Facebook and
Speaker 1: you said I will be spitting out a song in
Speaker 1: a little bit nice. That's great. Yeah, what what is this?
Speaker 1: What is this in the style of or is this
Speaker 1: a Sammi original?
Speaker 4: It's not a semi original.
Speaker 2: It's fisha boozy okay, taboozy, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: And I'm pretty I'm pretty proud of myself for this one.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that'll be posted on Facebook and it's
Speaker 1: reels and so you're on Instagram, Facebook, I assume both,
Speaker 1: Yeah and TikTok.
Speaker 3: But I'll probably I'll probably get home after this and
Speaker 3: record it and post it sometime this evening.
Speaker 2: All right, And if folks want to want to check
Speaker 2: this out, where do they go? How do they follow
Speaker 2: you or check your stuff out?
Speaker 3: If you go to Sammyriigs dot com, it's S A M, I,
Speaker 3: R I G G S dot com. All of my
Speaker 3: handles are there. It'll take you to my Spotify, my Facebook,
Speaker 3: my Instagram, and my TikTok as well.
Speaker 1: Now do you play out a lot, Sammy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 3: I I probably play at least three or four shows
Speaker 3: a month. I've definitely pivoted to doing more original music,
Speaker 3: so I have. My next show is going to be
Speaker 3: on Black Friday at South Kate House Revival, and that
Speaker 3: is going to be all original music. So myself, my
Speaker 3: friend Keayleen Talent, and my friends Chelsea and.
Speaker 4: Zack of by SALLYA.
Speaker 3: Gold.
Speaker 4: It's just going to.
Speaker 3: Be a showcase of all the songs that we've written.
Speaker 3: Nothing about the Bengals though.
Speaker 1: Very cool with that, Sammy, well will let you go,
Speaker 1: good luck and keep up the good war.
Speaker 3: Kid, Thank you very much for having me have a
Speaker 3: great night.
Speaker 2: Thanks Sammy.
Speaker 1: Her name is Sammy Riggs. She's from dry Ridge and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, see, I'm like she's saying she's jealous of
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Well, I'm jealous of people who can do
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I tried to learn how to play guitar. Dude,
Speaker 1: I couldn't strum a chord.
Speaker 2: I we know I played. Did I tell you I
Speaker 2: played drunes for the band gun Middle Gray No, No, okay,
Speaker 2: well let me tell you all about it.
Speaker 1: They were a metal, kind of a fair metal hair metal.
Speaker 1: But we're kind of all over the map.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't like to know.
Speaker 1: I don't like to talk about these things.
Speaker 5: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think Gun Metal Grade did a whole lot
Speaker 1: of James Taylor tunes.
Speaker 5: No, we didn't do that.
Speaker 2: We were all over the map, but we played very loud,
Speaker 2: very average.
Speaker 1: How long did the did the band last?
Speaker 2: It's about you know, three years? Well, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's not we played twenty five shows a year or anything.
Speaker 2: But you know, of course about two and a half years.
Speaker 2: We played maybe twelve, played a couple of festivals, played
Speaker 2: a played a barn party.
Speaker 1: Kind of it was it. I get the impression. It
Speaker 1: was kind of spinal tappy.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We were we were decent, you know, we we were good.
Speaker 1: I mean that you guys, you know, didn't get long and.
Speaker 2: We looked there was there was some some you know.
Speaker 1: There's always the guy. The lead singer generally is the guy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: Our our main argument and was always our our lead singer,
Speaker 2: Ben Wilson, w my best friends in the world, great guy,
Speaker 2: good singer. He would always want to play like, you know,
Speaker 2: b sides off of Motley Cruz, like original first bootleg tape. Right,
Speaker 2: I'm like, do you gotta play? We gotta play stuff
Speaker 2: people know, you know what I mean, Right, and but
Speaker 2: and you got to play a few songs that are obscure.
Speaker 2: But there's there would be a couple of people in
Speaker 2: the art like we played Firewoman by the Cult, and
Speaker 2: you know that's not like a super well known song,
Speaker 2: but there were a couple of people in the audience
Speaker 2: are probably.
Speaker 1: Like, hell, yeah, that was a fire Woman.
Speaker 2: Good job we.
Speaker 1: Killed that song.
Speaker 2: By the way, but uh, you know, but then sometimes
Speaker 2: you would want to play again. Just some some.
Speaker 1: Stuff no one knew. I mean, we're not talented enough
Speaker 1: to carry that. Just see Boyman back there with the
Speaker 1: headband on, the shirt shirt, the sass T shirt.
Speaker 2: I'll do our first show are that it was that
Speaker 2: we used to call black Sheet was a public house
Speaker 2: of ben Cheviot. Our speakers caught fire. We were running
Speaker 2: so much amperage. These like like small speakers. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the back of it and it's like glowing hot.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh man, final ten, this is a problem.
Speaker 3: Yes.
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