Speaker 1: Carolam, she's a queen of talking. He was sown your man.
Speaker 1: She's only yes, actually got the scoop on on the
Speaker 1: on side. No one can do win quiet, my Carol, Carola.
Speaker 1: No one can do win quiet Carol Carola. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby.
Speaker 1: I know music, I know people, and I know the
Speaker 1: questions do you want to ask? So let's get Hyper
Speaker 1: heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there
Speaker 1: could be adult content. This episode is a double episode.
Speaker 1: I have Old Dominion joining me and Drake White, and
Speaker 1: it was just announced that Old Dominion when their first
Speaker 1: a c M Award for Best New Groups. So congrats guys.
Speaker 1: That's super exciting. And Drake White is an up and
Speaker 1: comer who is probably one of the best performers I've
Speaker 1: ever seen live. He is it's like a revival watching
Speaker 1: him on stage, so you're not gonna want to miss
Speaker 1: this interview. Welcome, guys. Here is Old Dominion. We're here
Speaker 1: with the Old Dominion. I'm Caroline Hobby, So this is
Speaker 1: a herd of you guys, and I did some research
Speaker 1: on how y'all got together. Did you say you never
Speaker 1: heard of us. This is a herd of you guys.
Speaker 1: Definitely it could have, but definitely, So you guys got together.
Speaker 1: Who's the drummer? So you're like the glue for this,
Speaker 1: right apparently, because didn't you pick some of these guys
Speaker 1: up in college? You picked one up in middle school? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I've known Madson's middle school, and I played
Speaker 1: in bands with Jeff, in a band with Jeff in college,
Speaker 1: and then we all so our band played with Brad's
Speaker 1: man um, you know, and Matt was kind of playing
Speaker 1: in the same scene, same circuit or whatever. You played
Speaker 1: with us a few times, and so you know, we
Speaker 1: were all very well acquainted before we got down here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so did i'll come together? Where is it all just separate?
Speaker 1: One by one? One by one? That was WIT's planned.
Speaker 1: Who came first first? You go build finished, it's safe
Speaker 1: now a smoke signal out, smoke sickle And then you
Speaker 1: guys meant Brad here right, Well, I had known from
Speaker 1: college from college, right, and then you are the one
Speaker 1: that was retrieved here when sent Matt here. Matt and
Speaker 1: I met each other right away, so I was like
Speaker 1: twelve and a half years so we've known each other
Speaker 1: since then, and then I got to know the other guys.
Speaker 1: How long have I been Old Dominion? I mean we've
Speaker 1: been playing together for probably like nine years or so.
Speaker 1: But I guess the name. We've gone through a couple
Speaker 1: of names, but aren't band name is just the worst,
Speaker 1: the worst. I don't know, we've probably been old like
Speaker 1: functioning as Old Dominion for the Old Dominion is one
Speaker 1: of those names that feels iconic, though, like when you
Speaker 1: all came up with, well, we're an iconic. I know
Speaker 1: when y'all came out with break Up with Him and
Speaker 1: it was Old Dominion. I was like, I know, I've
Speaker 1: heard of this band forever because y'all it's such a
Speaker 1: strong name. So you landed on a good one. And
Speaker 1: it has to do with Virginia roots, Is that right?
Speaker 1: I mean almost change at one point, almost quite if
Speaker 1: that's that trying huh. Yeah. I just didn't want to
Speaker 1: go through it anymore. I was. I was angry. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do it, and I'm so glad we
Speaker 1: didn't have to. But I mean it was like it
Speaker 1: was so hard to find a name, you know, and
Speaker 1: we knew we were trying to do something that was
Speaker 1: Virginia related, but everything was taken. And then like we
Speaker 1: were setting up at the Blue Bar one night and
Speaker 1: and I said, man, the only thing I can find
Speaker 1: it's not taking his old dominion and everybody the best
Speaker 1: one probably out of all of them. So that was
Speaker 1: the first night I said, wor old dominions so wide
Speaker 1: named just wait approved with a good job. Good job.
Speaker 1: So you guys are all songwriters, Yeah, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of how y'all got going. Yeah, we definitely uh have
Speaker 1: been here for a while working on that. So I
Speaker 1: mean that's what I moved here for, whichever moved here,
Speaker 1: Brad moved here for. And these guys didn't even move
Speaker 1: here to do that, and now their songwriters happened. What
Speaker 1: did you guys move here to do? Well? I moved
Speaker 1: to try to do uh work, playing for the people recording.
Speaker 1: We're playing for the people, people playing people. Where can
Speaker 1: I go to play for the people? For the people
Speaker 1: people that's who I want to play to? Where are
Speaker 1: the people I'm ready to playable for? Play for other people?
Speaker 1: Like as a hired hired musician, I played bass one
Speaker 1: other people, so someone else hits for other people because
Speaker 1: I want to get to you all, but I wanna
Speaker 1: start with how badass you guys are outside of the band.
Speaker 1: Y'all written for Kenny Blake, Shelton Dirk's is it, Luke
Speaker 1: Bryant either have been band Perry. That's amazing. You've had
Speaker 1: number ones with other people. That's kind of unheard of
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, you know, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's just mostly because I think it seems bigger because
Speaker 1: there's more than you know, we're a band and we're yeah,
Speaker 1: we're a Gagle, so you know, but there are certain
Speaker 1: the other artists out there that have written, you know,
Speaker 1: for other people. It's just I guess it just the
Speaker 1: list gets longer when you add you know, we're all
Speaker 1: part of a unit, and so the list gets longer.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's definitely people out there, you know,
Speaker 1: that that are doing the same thing. We will, we will,
Speaker 1: we will gladly wear that badass badger. Yes, So break
Speaker 1: Up with Him came out, big song and you're kind
Speaker 1: of like talk rapping in it some of it, which
Speaker 1: is awesome. Was that like just how it came to you.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, just we thought maybe we would
Speaker 1: copy Sam Hunt. People ask that you guys are the originals. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we like what he's doing. Let's copy him,
Speaker 1: Let's do exactly what Sam does. No, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just what happened, you know. And we always whenever we're
Speaker 1: writing a song, we just try to you know, we
Speaker 1: just try to serve the song. And this was an idea.
Speaker 1: It was like a one sided phone conversation song. And
Speaker 1: you don't sing on the phone, do not would? Yeah,
Speaker 1: slick is what would happen? I sing on the phone?
Speaker 1: Is a guy? Where is Caterine? Is it a true story? No? Really,
Speaker 1: I mean yes, it wants to be a true story
Speaker 1: all the time. Does somebody have like Allison etched out
Speaker 1: on their arm? Actually just a random guess, so alsn't
Speaker 1: clearly stuck around? Okay, so not a true story people. Really,
Speaker 1: we were just trying to make each other laugh right
Speaker 1: writing that song. You know, it was really anything. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why we got that idea. It was
Speaker 1: just something funny, you know, But it seems to have effects. Definitely,
Speaker 1: Definitely it resonates. Yeah, we get people saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we're together because the song love connections. You're making love connections.
Speaker 1: That's the way that's great. Thank you for focus on
Speaker 1: the flip to that. No, actually, if you're with the
Speaker 1: wrong person, you should break up with them. Why would
Speaker 1: you stay with someone you should be doing the interviews
Speaker 1: from other people for us. You got this down. Thanks dog,
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Appreciate it than you. So you guys say
Speaker 1: your album is Meet and Candy, which I like that
Speaker 1: that draws your attention right away. I had a totally
Speaker 1: different image of my mind until I write your bio
Speaker 1: about what Meat and Candy could possibly mean. It could
Speaker 1: be a lot of things, but what you guys are
Speaker 1: applying it to mean is you started writing, like some
Speaker 1: lighter songs, feel good, fun, but then you wanted to
Speaker 1: get some Yeah, the album was kind of stacking up
Speaker 1: with the candy songs. You know, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of good sing along stuff, but we needed to have
Speaker 1: the balance, We needed to get the meat there. So
Speaker 1: somebody said, just called Meeting Candy. We were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't overthink. We we realized when trying to name
Speaker 1: the band, once you get on one that works, you
Speaker 1: don't say that's actually really true. So would you guys
Speaker 1: consider snap Back, which is your new song, would you
Speaker 1: consider that Meat candy or combo meal. That's definitely a combombo.
Speaker 1: I was thinking combo. I think it's a combo meal,
Speaker 1: but it has a lot of candy on it. It
Speaker 1: definitely has a lot of candy. But it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: we have some songs that are definitely meat and some
Speaker 1: that are definitely candy, and this one we felt like
Speaker 1: it was a good bridge to the meat. So what
Speaker 1: was break up was such a weird thing. This is
Speaker 1: a bridge to meat, so that past, Yeah, take the
Speaker 1: bridge to the meat. I think the bridge to the
Speaker 1: meat is break up with him? Candy or meat. That's
Speaker 1: that's candy, but this also has meat. There's a bigger
Speaker 1: there's a bigger message. I think they all have a
Speaker 1: little secret meat. Ye, it's got a mystery meat. If
Speaker 1: we can't be old anymore, let's be so when you guys,
Speaker 1: we're making your record, which is another cool thing. Not
Speaker 1: only are you all amazing musicians, you're writing all your stuff,
Speaker 1: you're playing on your album. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: play on their albums too, They hire studio musicians. I
Speaker 1: think that's like a rarity and that's also a unique
Speaker 1: Well that ass badge, thank you, thank you, We we
Speaker 1: definitely played on You know, it was important to us
Speaker 1: to play on it because we are band and that's
Speaker 1: a big part of you know, being a bandoned and
Speaker 1: having a sound. We also brought in a keyboard player
Speaker 1: and an acoustic guitar player too, just because you know,
Speaker 1: we also know our abilities to you in our limitations
Speaker 1: and there's some things that that people can bring in
Speaker 1: that we can't. But it was definitely important for us
Speaker 1: to be on there. So yeah, can you start off
Speaker 1: with the bank Canny Chesney fell short of him all
Speaker 1: last year and now you're doing it again this year.
Speaker 1: So what is it like every year until ever and
Speaker 1: ever until no more until the restraining order comes up?
Speaker 1: Those they're a big love fest going on there. Um
Speaker 1: on our spread love spread to, that's right, spread love to.
Speaker 1: What have we all learned from Kenny because he's one
Speaker 1: of the best of the best. Yeah, how to how
Speaker 1: to entertain a stadium? How do you entertain a stadium?
Speaker 1: You jump really high? Jumping is important? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: His his set list just just you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: he has the he has this like crazy ability to
Speaker 1: put together this this set that is just one after another,
Speaker 1: just like is it all a beat. I mean, he
Speaker 1: has moments, have to build those moments in and and
Speaker 1: that is also an art to figure out how to
Speaker 1: build that moment and when it when it hits, you're like,
Speaker 1: it's it's impressive. We watched it every night and I
Speaker 1: even knew the moment was coming and it would still
Speaker 1: get me. So he's great. That's one of many things
Speaker 1: that we learned from him. And what's he like? See?
Speaker 1: Hang is he cool? Yeah? He's super cool. He seems
Speaker 1: so Yeah, you can't like he's like barefoot Kenny. He's
Speaker 1: on the beach like as a blue chair exactly. Think
Speaker 1: that guy's gonna be uptight. I wouldn't think. So. You
Speaker 1: guys had a huge year, number one single, awesome Kenny Chesny.
Speaker 1: And now you guys are nominated for two words vocal
Speaker 1: new Vocal group and vocal group. How are you nominated
Speaker 1: for both of those? Because you're old, dominion is so solid,
Speaker 1: don't know how I do? And you have secret meat?
Speaker 1: How did you know that it's getting around starting to spread?
Speaker 1: So that's exciting. Are you guys freaking out? Um? You know?
Speaker 1: I think we are and we aren't. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like so many things have happened all year that like
Speaker 1: every time something cool happens, we celebrate it and then
Speaker 1: we just sort of move on to the next thing. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: freaking out a little bit. But I think I'll freak
Speaker 1: out if they call our name. I mean I thought
Speaker 1: about it. I will. I'm like a little nervous that
Speaker 1: I will freak the f out. What will that look
Speaker 1: like for you? I don't know. Maybe that's I'm nervous. Like,
Speaker 1: where's the footage of him bailing on a skateboard? I
Speaker 1: can show you exactly what it was. That's not like
Speaker 1: freaking out like, but like you're trying to skateboard and
Speaker 1: you froze mid skates. You'll see I need a story
Speaker 1: the whole world. Is it going to show like on
Speaker 1: an episode of Jackass or something? It's our video. Oh
Speaker 1: you're new first at that. But I did see you
Speaker 1: freak out standing next to a horse once, and I
Speaker 1: wonder if it would be like that. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: That was bad. Do you not like horses? Well? I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be okay with it, but he
Speaker 1: was behind me and his head was like right here,
Speaker 1: and I could I could hear him and feel and breathe.
Speaker 1: This is Jeff. Did you like it there? I mean,
Speaker 1: they got some big teeth, Like I just kept thinking,
Speaker 1: he's going by my face and of course these sweet people.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's fine, he's the sweetest swords. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt you. And I'm like, I'm fine, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: that's okay, I'm fine. Take the picture. So you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully it won't be like that, would be like that.
Speaker 1: I hope if we get called I want you to
Speaker 1: do all the time, just do that the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine. Should spokesperson. Yeah, they call me
Speaker 1: the great communic, great communicator. I can see that because
Speaker 1: he could either he could either get up there and
Speaker 1: freak out like that or he would get up to
Speaker 1: the mic and be like, um, weird, not not excited,
Speaker 1: and then everybody was standing. So speaking of like phobias
Speaker 1: wanted being the band, I hope you guys went just
Speaker 1: for the accepted speech. Speaking of phobias having phobias, of
Speaker 1: you guys have sort of a new you know, over
Speaker 1: the past few years, I've discovered that heights are harder
Speaker 1: and harder for me. Really, I live for him, which
Speaker 1: is tough. Because we're soaring to do, because we're going
Speaker 1: straight to the top. You better, you better get comfortable
Speaker 1: every day. Why are you up on heights? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just just like looking over a ledge, just like
Speaker 1: even pretending to look over a ledge. Just now kind
Speaker 1: of breaking out phobias. Anybody else, you'll have some. I
Speaker 1: really don't like cramped spaces, tight spaces. So living on
Speaker 1: a bus with five guys this is odd because I
Speaker 1: love living in small all spaces, but I don't like
Speaker 1: my shoulders really, Like if I have to go on
Speaker 1: the cross space where you sleep every night on the bus,
Speaker 1: there's ten ten ten, Okay, you don't mind that. I
Speaker 1: don't mind that. But if I have to go into
Speaker 1: cross space, you know, maybe it's spiders, because when I
Speaker 1: think about it, it's when i'm crowing and I'm nervous
Speaker 1: about you see why we want him? Why are you
Speaker 1: in a cross space on a regular basis? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: not because I'm afraid of the spiders in them. But
Speaker 1: I feel like most people maybe go to cross space
Speaker 1: maybe once or twice period. When you go to the
Speaker 1: commercial okay, I want to lose. You're causing media training
Speaker 1: for us right, No, No, it's okay. I want to actually,
Speaker 1: before I do this, I want to play one little
Speaker 1: game with you, but I want to ask you one
Speaker 1: more question. Ya are doing all these national TV shows
Speaker 1: like coming Up, you've done something? You're doing them with
Speaker 1: Today and Jimmy Kimmel. That's awesome, Okay, so exciting? When
Speaker 1: are your doing that? What's that happening? Brad, it happens,
Speaker 1: It already happened. How was it? It was amazing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was one of those things that you think you're
Speaker 1: going to freak out about, but they make it super
Speaker 1: easy for you, and you know, it just kind of
Speaker 1: there's this all this stuff that you have to do
Speaker 1: leading up to it, and then just by the time
Speaker 1: you play, it's just another thing that you had to
Speaker 1: do and the realm small with no people watching. Really right,
Speaker 1: did you all do the bar what we did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There was a proud troop. Do you guys drink occasional? Okay?
Speaker 1: So that's nice. We're wasted right now, You're I couldn't
Speaker 1: you even tell? That's how pro we are. We weren't, okay,
Speaker 1: any pet Pete, I don't like literally I appreciate that, Brad.
Speaker 1: Spiders spiders. I just found out bad service. Okay, really
Speaker 1: kind of bothers me. Here you at like a restaurant.
Speaker 1: I don't know what just about a restaurant? Man? Really
Speaker 1: about you got another one? What? This guy? This guy?
Speaker 1: I don't I can narrow that down a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's really when like you're trying to get service and
Speaker 1: they're ignoring you, and all they have to do is
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry, I'll be with you in one second.
Speaker 1: Then I can wait as long as as you need
Speaker 1: me to. I hear you. But if you just ignore me,
Speaker 1: not cool. I got you. You guys, I like everything
Speaker 1: seem like back you do, like you've been like nothing
Speaker 1: ever bothers me. There's that guy. Okay, thank god you're
Speaker 1: in the band. Okay, would you rather be a giant
Speaker 1: rodent or a tiny elephant? Definitely giant rodent. It's not
Speaker 1: three choices. I thought if you could be a giant,
Speaker 1: or you could be you could be a very large
Speaker 1: rat or a giant. Yeah, actually, what are we talking
Speaker 1: like pocket? Let's talk about like a small chirt waball
Speaker 1: size elephant. Oh yeah, that's pretty cool that you would yeah,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, And if you would get you would
Speaker 1: get met with a lot more adoration. People would be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one would really shoot at you, I don't think.
Speaker 1: But rat comes walking down? Does it just for you? Guys?
Speaker 1: I thought you would really have a good answer, but
Speaker 1: a giant wrote it. You could pretty much do anything
Speaker 1: you wanted because every little regular just say, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about like a car, small Nissan. Yeah, I mean you'd
Speaker 1: be hunted. It would be a lonely existence. Yeah, it's true. Yes,
Speaker 1: you had a tail like a squirrel because the tails
Speaker 1: that really ruins it because the rats basically rap. But
Speaker 1: if it's a cute tail, that's true. But if it's
Speaker 1: a giant, still a giant pushing tail, well let's talk
Speaker 1: about We talked about how how small elephant would be,
Speaker 1: but how she said, how scary scary even if it's
Speaker 1: a squirrel. Yeah, you know how big a squirrels teeth
Speaker 1: like like like that long. That's scary. That's okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think thank you for considering that. Okay. So I
Speaker 1: like to end all of my episodes with leave your light,
Speaker 1: Give me some inspiration? Oh what, leave your light? Give
Speaker 1: me some inspiration? Like just what's inspired you or what
Speaker 1: keeps you motivated? Or inspire somebody with your life what
Speaker 1: you've learned, m M. You know, just don't stop if
Speaker 1: you love it. We always say, like people always ask us,
Speaker 1: you know about moving to town and like succeeding. You
Speaker 1: just have to keep doing it. And if you love
Speaker 1: it and it's followed in, it's in your heart and
Speaker 1: it's moving you, and that is what's going to move
Speaker 1: other people. So don't try to chase what other people
Speaker 1: are are doing. If you just stick to your thing,
Speaker 1: keep doing it, and eventually that is going to be
Speaker 1: what's attractive to other people. If you want to attract
Speaker 1: other people, that's what even you know, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about like fame or anything, just the right people around
Speaker 1: you in your life. I think if you just stick
Speaker 1: to your thing and do it with confidence, you're good.
Speaker 1: I love that. You guys agree, Yes, I agree? Okay,
Speaker 1: the goggle of old dominion. Thank you, guys, thank you.
Speaker 1: I hope you loved hearing from old dominion. I think
Speaker 1: I would probably rather be a tiny elephant over a
Speaker 1: giant rat myself. So now we have Drake White joining us,
Speaker 1: get excited here he is, Hello, Drake White, what is up?
Speaker 1: How are you doing today? How are you well, you
Speaker 1: know CRS Country Radio seminar. Have you done a lot
Speaker 1: of these? A lot of people don't know what CRS is. Well,
Speaker 1: I've done. This is my third one. You know. We
Speaker 1: we it's cool because like I feel like three you've
Speaker 1: you've gotten to know a lot of the people and
Speaker 1: you've seen them and you've had steak dinners with them
Speaker 1: and you've you know, all that good stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's cool to come in and shake some hands.
Speaker 1: And it's basically like all of radio across the country
Speaker 1: comes to one place. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty unreal because
Speaker 1: it is at the end of the day, it is
Speaker 1: a small community and the air waves are are we're
Speaker 1: a spiritual thing for me growing up, Like listening to
Speaker 1: the radio was a thing, Like it was constantly Hey
Speaker 1: turned radio and turn this, you know, and I remember
Speaker 1: the static. I remember everything about the radio. And so
Speaker 1: to realize that it's it is this group of people,
Speaker 1: this almost this family from all over the country and
Speaker 1: how small it is is pretty unreal. It is and
Speaker 1: you're a part of it. Yeah, how did you get
Speaker 1: started to music? Because you kind of have like a revival,
Speaker 1: Like your show is almost spiritual love that you are
Speaker 1: a revival and I feel like your show is an experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I've seen you play, it's like okay, which wants church? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's that's exactly what it was. I grew up.
Speaker 1: My grandfather was a preacher um in uh In Alabama
Speaker 1: and rule Alabama. But he was a cool preacher. Not
Speaker 1: not to say that all Alabama's aren't. He just he
Speaker 1: was just a cool dude and he understood and he
Speaker 1: helped people like he would you know, he was He
Speaker 1: was an outdoorsman in a just he loved wildlife and
Speaker 1: loved to be out on the land and he got people. Man,
Speaker 1: he would have a beer. He would have a beer
Speaker 1: and hang out with people, and he got Jesus, he
Speaker 1: got it, and he got the whole gospel and the
Speaker 1: whole music and all that stuff. So I was pretty
Speaker 1: much raised by him and my mom and dad and
Speaker 1: and just people that really love music and put it
Speaker 1: put it around. It was always going my dad's old
Speaker 1: school record collection with things like Marshall Tucker Band and
Speaker 1: uh Stevie, Ray Vaughan and Ray Charles and so that's
Speaker 1: where you got your Yeah, So you grew up and
Speaker 1: cut your Teeth on the Church and Dad's old record collection.
Speaker 1: I love that you sh yeah, I we should do it.
Speaker 1: That's great, all you, I'll talk about it. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: how did you become this dynamic performer? And where did
Speaker 1: that confirms? It just come out of you. I've always
Speaker 1: I loved Joe Cocker. I loved that video of him
Speaker 1: at Woodstock when I was young, you know, watching that
Speaker 1: video and watching him kind of come out of his body,
Speaker 1: and like I've always that's how we describe you. It
Speaker 1: comes kind of your body. Yeah. When I quit worrying
Speaker 1: about what people thought and quit worrying about like what
Speaker 1: what how people? You know, I just quit worrying about
Speaker 1: what people thought and I did what I just I
Speaker 1: got permission from Like it was just like praying, like
Speaker 1: thinking about what I was supposed to do and what
Speaker 1: God put me on this earth to do. And then
Speaker 1: I started feeling how good it felt to go out
Speaker 1: there and just be a maniac for an hour and
Speaker 1: just do exactly what you want to do. And and
Speaker 1: so I just kept doing it, kept stomping, kept screaming,
Speaker 1: kept you know, I think that's so interesting how you
Speaker 1: said you do what you're supposed to do. Do you know,
Speaker 1: this is what you're called to do. There has never
Speaker 1: been a The only more important thing than this is
Speaker 1: my relationship with my wife and that's that's He's an angel,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, an amazing cook. Let's plug her company.
Speaker 1: What's Milk and Honey food company? And he makes all
Speaker 1: this amazing food. And especially for touring musicians, I think, yep,
Speaker 1: it's slapped your mama good. I mean it's like really
Speaker 1: good healthy stuff. And I got to I like to
Speaker 1: be healthy. I like to stay healthy. And it's eating
Speaker 1: real stuff that comes from the earth and and she
Speaker 1: you know, grows it with a lot of farmers that
Speaker 1: are out there and just north of town. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's but back to the music, you know, like I
Speaker 1: just no every day when I get up in the
Speaker 1: morning that this is why God put me on this earth,
Speaker 1: and that's to to to serve through through my music
Speaker 1: and serve people and help people, you know, maybe realize
Speaker 1: their dreams. I know this is what I was supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and it's in my guts, you know. And
Speaker 1: speaking of dreams, you have a new single called Living
Speaker 1: the Dreams. By the way, my husband Michael in a
Speaker 1: thousand horses and I heard it on the radio and
Speaker 1: we literally literally pulled over and listened because it was
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, it's such a great single and song.
Speaker 1: And that was a good ease into that. That was
Speaker 1: very professional. I'm a professional, Thank you, thank God. That
Speaker 1: was amazing. But you know, I heard that song and
Speaker 1: we've got a video out, a little lyric video that's
Speaker 1: me and me and my wife out on our land
Speaker 1: and out on our property and really you know, Jared
Speaker 1: Johnson our friend, and yeah, Cadillact three and uh Tom
Speaker 1: Douglas who's blowing in and Luke Layard wrote that song.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a song writer. I love writting
Speaker 1: all the stuff. And so when I got pitched this song,
Speaker 1: I heard it and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the life men Alex Live. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the weekend. I can really I can really bond
Speaker 1: myself with that and like really really give, give that
Speaker 1: my my personality and give. And that's a big deal
Speaker 1: as a songwriter because you write all your stuff pretty
Speaker 1: much to cut an outside song that but I think
Speaker 1: that's such an amazing That shows what a confident performing
Speaker 1: artist you are because you know yourself so well to
Speaker 1: know that when you hear a song that matches you,
Speaker 1: you don't have to write it. Yeah, that that's great
Speaker 1: that you said that, and I appreciate that, But I
Speaker 1: think that's that's really true. And the fact that we're
Speaker 1: in Nashville people, it's the best, it's the best songwriters
Speaker 1: in the whole world. So how selfish would I be
Speaker 1: to the listeners out there if I if I was
Speaker 1: stubborn and was like, Nah, I'm not gonna I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna listen to anymore songs I want my songs to
Speaker 1: be because the truth of the matter is, there's so
Speaker 1: many great songs crank that a Nashville you know every
Speaker 1: day that never get heard. So why can't I dig
Speaker 1: them up and and really put that that proof back
Speaker 1: in the pud? You know that that good, good soul
Speaker 1: back in And so that's what I'm gonna do this song.
Speaker 1: Tell me what Drake White and the Fire, how would
Speaker 1: you describe your yourself and your sound with your band? Well,
Speaker 1: if I've got a I've got a description. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: If Joe Cocker and Janice Joplin hooked up on the
Speaker 1: Koe River in in Northeast and North Georgia and like
Speaker 1: gathered around the fire with with uh leve on Hem
Speaker 1: and the band and just jam for a while. And
Speaker 1: they had like a prodigal kid that would kind of
Speaker 1: be me in the big fire I locked. I like soul.
Speaker 1: I like to get funky and get down. I like
Speaker 1: to make people turn off their dad gum phones at
Speaker 1: a show and really encompass. You know what I compassed
Speaker 1: when I was fourteen and heard Merl Haggard for the
Speaker 1: first time had a live show, or when I heard
Speaker 1: Pearl Jam for the first time, or you know, I
Speaker 1: want to experience experience. Yeah, you're an experienced performer. It's
Speaker 1: an experience watching you. Yeah, well, thank you. That's and
Speaker 1: you wouldn't was Zach Brown. That's awesome experience. How is
Speaker 1: that you guys are a perfect match. I feel like
Speaker 1: we're touring. Yeah awesome. Well it was unbelievable. And I
Speaker 1: think that if you want to do something, you find
Speaker 1: somebody that's already doing it and you ask him what
Speaker 1: the hell they they're doing? Is open to advice? Yes,
Speaker 1: he's just any He first of all said anyway you
Speaker 1: can anyway that I can help you. Let me know,
Speaker 1: and I had rehearse that if he asked me that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell him this. I said, well, I can
Speaker 1: tell you what you can do. You can put me
Speaker 1: on all the dates of the tour next year, give
Speaker 1: me a little bit longer of a slot, so you
Speaker 1: like stepped right up, let's stand right up and hit
Speaker 1: it out of the part. And he respected it. He
Speaker 1: was like, cool, man, so we're gonna be with him now,
Speaker 1: you asked. If you don't ask, how can you ever receive? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's this cool thing, like the big hipster thing,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be cool and just be like wait,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you wait around, man, I feel
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be sitting on the porch and like
Speaker 1: I don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna go up
Speaker 1: and be like hey man, appropriately asked, appropriately asked. But
Speaker 1: I felt like we had created some enough relationship where
Speaker 1: you know, we've been hunting together and hung out, so
Speaker 1: I figured why not go out there and ask why not?
Speaker 1: It's not like you're an annoying person. Worst thing he
Speaker 1: does say, sorry, man, Yeah, you know what, there's nothing
Speaker 1: to lose. Follow your bliss, follow what God puts in
Speaker 1: your head and like whether it be you know, start
Speaker 1: your own radio show or start your own whatever, let's
Speaker 1: do what we want to do and don't be afraid
Speaker 1: to ask. Okay, So I like to end my segments
Speaker 1: because I know you're busy with leave your light, give
Speaker 1: me some inspiration. Cool. I love I love that. That's killer.
Speaker 1: It's crazy the things that people have said. Yeah, so uplifting,
Speaker 1: very cool. There's a lot of chatter out there, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things, and we're so connected with social networking.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to leave a little seed
Speaker 1: from what people have told me. You know, get quiet,
Speaker 1: get quiet with God, get quiet and hang out on
Speaker 1: your own, on your property, whether it be in a
Speaker 1: room or whatever, and really think about what you want.
Speaker 1: Because when you quit thinking about what other people want
Speaker 1: and you really start thinking about what you want, I
Speaker 1: really think that you you become a lot to other people,
Speaker 1: and you become inspirational. And I think art, especially for
Speaker 1: artists and people. Everybody is an artist in their own right.
Speaker 1: So quit telling yourself that you you're not creative. You
Speaker 1: are creative people. Everybody's creative in their own right. So
Speaker 1: go out there and just wake up with that attitude
Speaker 1: of I'm going to change the world today, and you
Speaker 1: have a choice whether to be positive or negative. Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not live positive? That Drake White and the Big
Speaker 1: Fire and his song is called living a Dream Boom
Speaker 1: Boom Carol, she's a queen of talking. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much for joining me on hyper Caroline Hobby. I
Speaker 1: hope that you loved hearing from Old Dominion and Drake White.
Speaker 1: They're both incredible artists. And next week isn't really exciting.
Speaker 1: I have my first female joining me, Brooke Eden. She's
Speaker 1: a song fresh out to country radio called Daddy's Money
Speaker 1: and she's giving Shania Twain a run for her money
Speaker 1: in the spandex department. You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 1: See your next Wednesday. M