1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: Hi, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 2: Walk Nashville, and tonight we are at the iconic music 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: venue Third in Lindsley, right near downtown Nashville, and I'm 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: you're in the green room today with our guest Wendy Morton. 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: She was on the Women Behind the Lyrics episode with 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 2: us on Taking a Walk Nashville, and she is about 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 2: to go on stage with the Time Jumpers here in 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: a bit. 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: They perform here at Third and Lindsley. 11 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 4: Every Monday night in Nashville, and there's just such a 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 4: stellar lineup of award winning musicians in the Time Jumpers. 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 3: Wendy, thanks for being back on Taking a Walk Nashville. 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 3: Thank you for inviting me. 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 4: This is exciting, it is How long have you been 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 4: with the Time Jumpers? 17 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 3: I will say this is six years. I've been in 18 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 3: math for six years, which is I never thought this 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 3: could happen. Yeah, that's amazing. 20 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 5: And so in that six years, do you perform every 21 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,279 Speaker 5: Monday night? And do you guys rehearse every week and 22 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 5: change up the set list? 23 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 3: We don't rehearse, which is really ironic. But when somebody 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: wants to add a new song. They just bring it in, 25 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: they put it, bring your body a chart, and then 26 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: we just try to do it that night. Wow, just 27 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 3: like tonight, I probably try for a couple of songs 28 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 3: that hadn't done before. But these guys they make their 29 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 3: living as session musicians, and so there is easy for 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: them just to pick up a heart, read it and play. Yeah. 31 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: Very fun. 32 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 4: And Vin Skill used to be a part of the 33 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 4: Time Jumpers and he was the one you introduced you 34 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 4: to this group. 35 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, it's because of him that he's turned me 36 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: onto this path. And I think we've never talked about it, 37 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 3: but I think that he probably felt, you know, when 38 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 3: he was going to the Eagles, if he didn't want 39 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 3: to leave them, you know, not that they needed anybody. 40 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 3: They were here before he became a member, and then 41 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: when he was a member for like thirteen fourteen years, 42 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 3: and he just starts saying, you know, when I started 43 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: touring with him, it was like, come sit in with us. 44 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: So I'm like, sit in with her, come sit in 45 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 3: with the Time Jumpers. And then I love the music, 46 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 3: love the musicianship, and love of those guys, so I 47 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 3: would just sit in every once in a while, and 48 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: I thing I know, they were just like, Hey, we're 49 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 3: going to add you to our team, even though that's 50 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 3: something they didn't have to do, and I'm so glad 51 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 3: they did. Yeah. 52 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I recommend anyone who was visiting Nashville, especially on 53 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 4: a Monday, to check out the time Jumpers at Third 54 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 4: in Lensley. And I kind of want to circle back 55 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 4: to the beginning of your career. 56 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 3: So you grew up in Memphis and you always say 57 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: that you watched Soul Train and he all growing up 58 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: and we're drawn to all sorts of genres. 59 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 4: And then you had to deal with EMI in the 60 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 4: nineties releasing Coming Out of the Rain, which was a 61 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 4: top five hit on Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart. What was 62 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 4: it like to you when you relocated to Nashville thirty 63 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,839 Speaker 4: years ago and got your first label deal. 64 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 3: Well, it happened like I got my record deal first. 65 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 3: I was still in Memphis when I got the record deal, 66 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 3: and it was during the Whitney Houston era, so it 67 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 3: was Whitney Selenium, Mari Carry and I will consider myself 68 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 3: number four, but every label was looking for Whitney Houston. 69 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 3: So the only way I got to Nashville was because 70 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 3: my guy David Santo's Fixed Bared to the Stars, was like, Hey, 71 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 3: I'm gonna move to Nashville. I'm like, Memphis. People don't 72 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 3: live in Nashville. What are you talking about? So it 73 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 3: was not a bad move because I was a recording artist, 74 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: so it didn't matter where I lived. But we're in 75 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: the same state, so it wasn't It wasn't too strange 76 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 3: to be in Nashville other than I only knew it 77 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 3: for country music. But moving here thirty years ago was 78 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 3: still a little traumatizing. Yeah, but I moved here for 79 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: love and we're still here. Yeah, it's two together. There 80 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 3: was a lot different in Nashville thirty years ago. Now 81 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 3: it's all new and new restaurants, and people are from 82 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: everywhere and you know, this other place, but there's still 83 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: a small town element here. Yeah. 84 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 4: I'm definitely embracing other genres besides country music now too. 85 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 3: Yes, that was not in existence thirty years ago, right. Yeah. 86 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 4: And from there in your career, you became one of 87 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 4: the most in demand background vocalists. You toured with Julio Iglesias, 88 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 4: Martina McBride, and now Vince Gale. Was it kind of 89 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 4: a strange transition, going from an artist with a label 90 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 4: deal to a background vocalist. 91 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 3: No, because I didn't know what I wanted to do. 92 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: So when those opportunities presented themselves, it gave me a 93 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: chance to make a living when I was still trying 94 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 3: to figure it out, you know, and you're gonna have 95 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 3: to work one way or the other. You're gonna either 96 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 3: work at a department store or you can sing background 97 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 3: for somebody else. So I said, let me just try that. 98 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 3: And I used their experience to learn something from these icons. 99 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 3: And so that's what it was really about, was every 100 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 3: time I said yes, I the goal was to learn 101 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: something new that could take with me and add to 102 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 3: my artsal of things. And you know, it gave me, 103 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: brought me some time because I didn't know if I 104 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: wanted to be a solo artist anymore. I didn't know 105 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 3: if I wanted I love music enough to stay in it, 106 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 3: So those gigs gave me opportunity to stick around till 107 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 3: I can figure that out. 108 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 4: And I think it's so important that you bring that 109 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,799 Speaker 4: up because it's not always easy for artists just to 110 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 4: get a label deal and go forward from there. A 111 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 4: lot of artists and creatives have to do other gigs 112 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 4: or side gigs while they're trying to make it as 113 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 4: a solo artist. 114 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 3: And like you said, it can bring you so much experience. Yes, 115 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: and that's what it did. And it gave me realistic 116 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 3: idea of what I really want out of my journey. 117 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 3: You know, I could check some things off. Do I 118 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 3: need a three million dollar maintenance G five six every year? 119 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: Do I need that? No? I don't need my private jet. Okay, good, 120 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 3: that's less pressure, you know. So it gave me a 121 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 3: chance to check some things off to help me, you know, 122 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: really figure out where I want to be and what 123 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 3: I don't want. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. 124 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 4: And Vince Gale, he's been such a huge mentor in 125 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 4: your career as well and person in your life. He 126 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 4: produced your twenty twenty solo country album I've Got You Covered, 127 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 4: and it was this project that gave you the courage 128 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 4: to enter the show the voice in your fifties. 129 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 3: Correct. Yes, I just don't think that had I not 130 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 3: done that record with Vance, because Vice he chose the 131 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 3: songs at the end of the session. I mean, I 132 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 3: gonna do I know, so that was already story. So 133 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 3: he's like, oh, let's do each season, and I'm wondering, 134 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 3: like what is each season? Like, I've never heard it before, 135 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: So Dolly Parton do it? And so he would play 136 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 3: the song he had chosen. All the musicians. We did 137 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: it at his house, and he would choose a song 138 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 3: and then they would play it like two times. Somebody 139 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: would write a chart and then they're ready to cut. Now, 140 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 3: I've never been in that kind of situation before, because 141 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 3: you know, I'm not used to I'm used to jumping 142 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: in on live gigs, but on recording sessions you usually 143 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 3: have a little bit more planning. And so he called 144 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 3: the song and I never heard it before, but I 145 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 3: was like, can I make my own? Can I get 146 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 3: a lyric sheet and like make my notes? And I 147 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 3: told himself that I was not going to be afraid today, 148 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: like I don't care what happens, I'm going to jump 149 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 3: in today. I will not be the weakest link with 150 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 3: all these iconic musicians in the realm. So if I 151 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 3: don't know going to jump in, and Vin said, because 152 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 3: you don't know these songs, you're truly gonna make them 153 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 3: your own. That was the psychology behind that, which was brilliant. 154 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been able to come up with that. 155 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: I was terrified, but I was like, I'm just gonna 156 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 3: jump in even if I don't know the melody well enough. 157 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: I don't know the song at all. And he said, well, 158 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 3: that's what the magic is, and then you'll make it 159 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 3: your own. That's an interesting perspective, isn't it. And I 160 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: was like, okay, there was a method to his madness 161 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 3: instead of obsessing over it exactly and over analyzing and 162 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 3: you know, not even finding yourself in it. So that 163 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 3: process really helped me think more like an artist again 164 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 3: for the first time, and I decided I would trust 165 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: my instincts for myself. I do it for all the 166 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: other people that I work with. That's why they get 167 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 3: the call, because they know I can deliver. But as 168 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 3: a song little artists, I hadn't had to use that 169 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 3: in a while, and so that gave me an opportunity 170 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: to to say, yes, I'm ready to do that again, 171 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: A ready to trust my artistry, just trust my instincts. 172 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 3: And that was the first step. Trust your voice, trust 173 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 3: my voice. Yeah, well, I don't get you know. I 174 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 3: always made a living with my voice, so I never 175 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 3: worried about that. But as you know, being out front, 176 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 3: it takes a whole other mental challenge. 177 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 4: It's speaking of mental challenges, you know, it's it's hard 178 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 4: enough being on live TV with the Voice. And I'm 179 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 4: sure a lot of people know the time in the 180 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 4: show when you fell on stage and you. 181 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 3: Broke your elbow right yeah, yeah. 182 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 4: What was it like having to go right on TV 183 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 4: right after that after falling on stage? How did you 184 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 4: overcome that or how did you deal with that? 185 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: At least well, going on the Voice after everything that 186 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 3: I've done was a big decision. And this was post COVID, 187 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 3: so we weren't sure we would ever get a chance 188 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 3: to be in a place where you got other people 189 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 3: sitting there with our mask on. So I said, when 190 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 3: the world opens back up, you know what am I 191 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 3: going to do? And so I decided that I needed television? Okay, 192 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 3: what can I stomach? Because everything is real? How I 193 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 3: need TV? And I'm from the era that you don't 194 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: talk about yourself at all. If you don't boast, you 195 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: don't brag. And so I was like, Okay, I need TV. 196 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 3: It's obvious because I don't have a team, I don't 197 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 3: have a label, agent, management, I don't have a machine, 198 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,599 Speaker 3: and so I decided I was going to send a 199 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 3: video in to the voice. I didn't tell anyone, and 200 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 3: I said, if they accept me, then I know that's 201 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: the path I need to take. If they don't because 202 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,719 Speaker 3: I got way too much experience, then I will have 203 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: to find another way to make a living. And sure 204 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 3: enough it took a few months. So I didn't even 205 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 3: tell David Well, my significant other for third one, Geers. 206 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 3: I didn't even tell him that I set the video 207 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 3: in because I knew what he was gonna say. He 208 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 3: was gonna say, why are you doing that? That can't 209 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 3: teach you anything? But I knew I had nothing else nothing, 210 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 3: So I sent the video in and I said, I'll 211 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 3: just keep it to myself because then if they reject 212 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 3: me for whatever reason, too much experience, whatever, then I 213 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 3: can live with that. Nobody will be like I thought 214 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 3: you were gonna be on the ball, and I was like, 215 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 3: I don't want to live with that. So I set 216 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 3: that video in I and once they said yes, then 217 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 3: I had to figure out my purpose, like what to 218 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 3: expect out of this. And I needed to number one, 219 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 3: know if I was still competitive, if it still mattered. 220 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 3: Number Two, I needed to know if there were people 221 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: that still liked the type of song I loved singing. 222 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 3: And then number three was I had to I wanted 223 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 3: to be an advocate for people over fifty to say 224 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 3: that we still have dreams and have things that we 225 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: want to do and say so I needed to get 226 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 3: those things answered me on a reasonable doubt because I 227 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 3: knew wats the show was over. I'm gonna be on 228 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 3: my own again, but I'll have what I need. So 229 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 3: when I got on the show, I just left my 230 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 3: ego at the house. I said, I'm just gonna pay 231 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 3: attention to the challenge of the week, and I should 232 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 3: go far, because if I think about all my experience, 233 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 3: it's just gonna make everybody miserable, and I'm gonna be 234 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 3: miserable too, because like, come here, we're doing it this 235 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 3: way and not that way. So I got rid of 236 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 3: all of that comes treatum the challenge of the week. 237 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 3: So when I did fall, I got this three weeks 238 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 3: before the finale. I had just turned fifty seven on 239 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 3: the show, So that was November my birthday, twenty second, 240 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. I turned fifty seven on the show. 241 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 3: The next day, I fed, oh, why TV five sixty 242 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 3: eight million people. So when I fell, there was only 243 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 3: two other people on team Blake left because we're three 244 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 3: weeks from the Fanala and the Gentleman Paris. He was 245 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 3: also on Blake's team, but he had been in the army. 246 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 3: And nobody was picking me up off the ground. Oh, 247 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 3: none of the crew, nobody. They were all in shock. 248 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 3: And then I heard him say, Wendy, I'm going to 249 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 3: pick you up because I couldn't get up. They were 250 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 3: all waiting on me to get up and I didn't 251 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: get up. I said okay, So he reached under my 252 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 3: arms and then he got me up. But he was 253 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 3: the only one. Nobody else touched me. Everybody was like, 254 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 3: LetGo we ate the ground and so you got me up, 255 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 3: and I was like okay. I looked over and I 256 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 3: realized I'm injured, Like, oh my god, that's what a 257 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 3: break looks like. Because I've never been injured before. I 258 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 3: didn't cry. Got me up. They cut to commercial, took 259 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 3: me off to the stage and had me sit down, 260 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 3: and still wasn't crying yet or anything. I never cried, 261 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 3: and they said can you come back out there? And 262 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 3: I knew why because they having a Live TV. I'm 263 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 3: sure the network was going crazy. I'm sure the producers 264 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 3: of the show were going crazy. They're like what and 265 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 3: I'm a true professional. Yeah, they were like even cursing day. 266 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: It's like everybody was like, are our lives gonna changed before? 267 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: You know? So I was just like, so I went 268 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 3: off to the side. I still hadn't cried, and can 269 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 3: you come back on? So I said yes, And mainly 270 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 3: because my family, I want people to know that I 271 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 3: was injured but not life threatening. Yeah, so I said yeah, 272 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: and I'm sure to help that work and all that 273 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 3: stuff too. And so I ended up going to the 274 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 3: hospital and you know, the show was still going on. 275 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 3: And then it took me about three hours before I 276 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 3: saw a doctor. Me in a room, and I had 277 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 3: three phone calls while I was waiting to see a doctor. 278 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 3: One was vest Gill. He said, I just saw the fall. 279 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 3: Where are you. I said, I'm at the hospital. He 280 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 3: was like, okay, well you have to stay on the show. 281 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 3: I said, I don't know. I'm broken. I don't know 282 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: how broken. And he was like, well, he still wasn't registering. 283 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 3: Everybody thought because they saw me after the fall, they 284 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: thought I was okay. He's like, well, you have to 285 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 3: stay on the show. I said, okay. The second call 286 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 3: was Leslie Fram see him to us the fram She called, 287 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 3: I saw the fault. Where are you at the hospital? 288 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: And she said, you have to stay on the show. 289 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 3: So I got two successful people telling me that I 290 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: have to stay on the show. Dam and I'm like, okay, 291 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: well if the show lets me stay, because I'm thinking 292 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 3: that I'm on my way home, I'm thinking that it's over. 293 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 3: And then the third call was a friend, christ Klaus, 294 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 3: who used to be the CEO of Northwest Carolinas. So 295 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: he used the CEO and king too, and he called, 296 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: you have to stay on the show. Like okay, three 297 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 3: successful people say I have just said it's okay. So 298 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: finally I get to a room and of course they 299 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: have somebody with me. The voice people have somebody with me. 300 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: And then I asked the doctors finally like what's wrong? Okay? 301 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 3: You got two broken arms? This is completely broken my 302 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: elbow and this is broken mayfractured and broken pieces in here. 303 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 3: So I said, how long do I have before I 304 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 3: can't get this repair? And they were like, you got 305 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: three weeks. So a person I was like, when is 306 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 3: the finhale three weeks? I said, okay, I guess I'll 307 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 3: stay and then she was like really, and so she 308 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: was so, let me make some phone calls. They called 309 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 3: some people and they were like, hey, she wants you 310 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 3: to stay on the show. So we were like, okay, 311 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 3: I said, if they'll have me, because I didn't know 312 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 3: I was gonna have splints and I would be you know, 313 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 3: it's obvious that my arms are like this. I didn't 314 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: have that idea. I didn't I've never been injured. So 315 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 3: that night, by now we're like six o'clock in the morning, 316 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: around three pm, I checked out of the hotel, went 317 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 3: back on the set with you broken arms. And then 318 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 3: when I walked on the set, they had Blake on 319 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 3: a screen and he was talking to me and he 320 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 3: was like, man, break a leg, not your arms, and 321 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, I know, I know. So if I 322 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 3: hadn't had those phone calls, I don't think I wouldn't 323 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 3: I wouldn't have known them to keep going. I just 324 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 3: wouldn't have thought about it. I was I was thinking that, okay, 325 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 3: well this is it. And when I said, you know, well, 326 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 3: they let me stay on the show, they were like, yeah, 327 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 3: you can stand on the show, just don't fall again. 328 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 3: And I was like, you gotta worry about that. I'm 329 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 3: gonna be taking my time. But it was amazing that 330 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 3: fall was for me because it was like if I 331 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 3: can do that in front of all millions of people, 332 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: and it not phased me at all. Like I was 333 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 3: still singing, still being active, never complaining, never cried. I 334 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 3: still didn't cry. Even Blake talk about it a lot. 335 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 3: She don't even talk about it. But I'm like, if 336 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: I talk about it, you might as well just go home. 337 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 3: You know, nobody wants to hear it. 338 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, you just want to keep going and focus on 339 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: your singings. 340 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 3: Focus on why I'm there. I was too close to 341 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 3: the finish line to just stop, and thank goodness, I 342 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: had those people in my life who said you have 343 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 3: to stay on the show, because I thought they would 344 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 3: even want me on the show. So when I talked 345 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 3: to the producers the next day, and you know, I'm 346 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: sure they told everybody, you know, don't talk or do 347 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 3: you know, do do too much because they don't know 348 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 3: I to beget sued or what. And I didn't go 349 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 3: down that process. I just didn't feel like going even 350 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 3: though my arm is crooked for life in my spirit, 351 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 3: It's just it wouldn't have passed. I just felt like 352 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 3: it would have been a waste of time. And I 353 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,959 Speaker 3: don't know if I would have really reaped the benefits 354 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 3: that people would us assumed that I would. I just 355 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 3: I just didn't see. I saw that being like a 356 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 3: short lived type of thing where I lose instead of 357 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 3: on all of my life. Yeah. 358 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's great that you embraced it, kept 359 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 4: going and you made it to runner up of the 360 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 4: season because you stayed on. 361 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 3: Yes, I loved it. I love the opportunity. And it 362 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 3: was for me that whole process of the three things 363 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 3: I needed to know to stay on the journey because 364 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 3: age is a factor, being a gender as a factor 365 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: in the music industry. Yeah, it's just this, And I said, 366 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 3: I need a way to get rid of all of 367 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 3: that noise in order to continue. And that's what happened 368 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,719 Speaker 3: in the fall was the ice And it was like 369 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 3: you like have two broken arms on TV for three weeks. 370 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 3: You have everything going against you, but you're still gonna 371 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 3: do it that and just not you know, that not 372 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: being enough to stop anything. M h. 373 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, And also, yeah, be persistent. Yes, yeah, yeah, thank 374 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 4: you for sharing them. I have a couple of questions left 375 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: for you, and I just feel fortunate to have gone 376 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 4: to know you through the past year through I'm behind 377 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 4: the lyrics and performing with you. 378 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 3: You know, I've gotten just. 379 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 4: You through so many different events like time Jumpers, Muscle 380 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 4: showals at the CMA Theater, Todd Rendering last April. 381 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: That and I know you performed. 382 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 4: Around the world, and I think I already know the 383 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 4: answer to this question, but do you have a favorite 384 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 4: moment or a place that you performed at. 385 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 3: Yes. My number one ultimate performance was in front of 386 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 3: the pyramids in Egypt when I was touring with Leioid 387 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 3: Glaciers because I was his duet partner. So I'm singing 388 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 3: duets with one of the most amazing singers in music history. 389 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 3: I am in front of the pyramids. Are right here, 390 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 3: This Finx is right here. We're singing love songs and 391 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 3: people have a tuxio and stars. It's like the Starry Night. 392 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 3: And so after we did our duet and he was like, Darling, 393 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 3: are you happy? And I was like, yes, I mean, 394 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 3: I'm dear en, I'm thinking about it. He said, yes, 395 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 3: and he's like, why are you happy? 396 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: You know? 397 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 3: All I could do was sparty. People started to clap, 398 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 3: but that was so like, I don't know, other worldly. Yeah, yeah, 399 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 3: that's amazing. 400 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 4: I always say you never know where music can take you, 401 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 4: and now music's definitely taken you a lot of places. 402 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: Do you have an idea where it's taking you next? No, 403 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 3: I just know to stay open and keep working at 404 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 3: it and keep believing in myself and me and kind 405 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 3: and nice and learning and being and having gratitude. 406 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 4: Well, last time you're on taking a walk in Nashville, 407 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 4: I asked you if you had a favorite place to walk. 408 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: I think you said downtown. 409 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 5: So this time I'm going to ask you, do you 410 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 5: have a favorite place in Nashville, like a favorite restaurant 411 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 5: or a place to eat? 412 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,719 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes I do. I love Princess Chicken, 413 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 3: the one off of Old Eir Grey Boulevard and Noah's 414 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 3: Phil because I love that chicken hot chicken, Medium, and 415 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 3: I love mac and cheese and green. 416 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I was going to ask the spice a 417 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 4: little again, Medium, but I want the reviews and I 418 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 4: want the mac and cheese. Yeah, even medium can be 419 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 4: pretty hot there you he can handle it though. 420 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 3: That job all the way from spring Hill, get it? Wow? Yeah? Nice, 421 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 3: that's all you know. It's good. 422 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 4: Yes, well, Wendy, thank you so much for being on 423 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 4: Taking a Walk in Nashville tonight and I hope you 424 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 4: have a wonderful time with the time Jumper. 425 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for comedy, thank you for inviting me, 426 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 3: and congratulations being on your podcast. Thank you. 427 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with singer 428 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: songwriter Sarah Harrelson, and check out our other podcasts, Music 429 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: Save Me, Comedy Save Me, and Taking a Walk. Available 430 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 431 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: your podcasts.