Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode one oh six of the
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast. A couple of things. First of all, thanks
Speaker 1: to our sponsors Blue Apron and Quip. About to have
Speaker 1: David Lee Murphy on. I'll say this that the last
Speaker 1: episodes we've done, we've had this would be David Lee Murphy.
Speaker 1: We've had Dave Haywood, Dave Barnes, and Dave Cohen. Somehow
Speaker 1: we've gotten into this string of Dave's all accidental and
Speaker 1: the only other ones we can think about bringing in.
Speaker 1: We're miked what we have. David Nail, maybe we considered him.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in a while. Any other Dave's Dave,
Speaker 1: David Duke Company, David Dave Cool yea, yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: been four daves man. But I was excited about David
Speaker 1: Lee Murphy because the dust on the bottle and his
Speaker 1: new song. Everything's gonna be all right, So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about all that. He's got ninety cuts, he's got big,
Speaker 1: huge hits that you wouldn't even know he wrote. I
Speaker 1: do want to remind you to listen to Christian Bush's podcast.
Speaker 1: It's called Geeking Out, where he brings on somebody that's
Speaker 1: known for something else. He brought in the woman who
Speaker 1: wrote and created Nashville, the TV show, and so first
Speaker 1: she talks about that because she wrote Delman Louise as well.
Speaker 1: Delman Louise was our first script ever. I didn't write
Speaker 1: my first script until I was in my early thirties,
Speaker 1: but that was Stilman Louise, so I kind of didn't
Speaker 1: have a there was no going back from that. That
Speaker 1: was your first one, that was my first one. So
Speaker 1: you can listen to that podcast. But what Christian does?
Speaker 1: He take someone's specialty like that and turns it into
Speaker 1: what else do you love? And what she loves his music.
Speaker 1: I opened this one right, excuse me, cooking, cooking, cooking,
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Speaker 1: That's the opposite of like a Reese's peanut butter, right,
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Speaker 1: the guys at Whiskey Riff have one called Whiskey Riff Raff.
Speaker 1: And as we get into this, what I try to
Speaker 1: do is I try to avoid any substance talk. Before
Speaker 1: the podcast and Davidlee Murphy's sit down, we were just
Speaker 1: briefly talking for a second. He's like, Hey, what's up
Speaker 1: American idol, And that's why I think it starts with
Speaker 1: us talking about Right into it, I was like, hold
Speaker 1: on to start the podcast. So he asked me about that,
Speaker 1: and that's where it started. So welcome to episode one
Speaker 1: oh six David Lee Murphy, which, by the way, he's
Speaker 1: almost sixty years old. Man rocking it too. Got a
Speaker 1: new song up. It's okay, davidly Murphy, episode one or
Speaker 1: six of the Bobby Cast. Tell your friends about this
Speaker 1: some police. You're here with David Lee Murphy and talking
Speaker 1: about idle right before I came on. So what I'm
Speaker 1: doing is they have twenty I'm the mentor to the
Speaker 1: twenty four. So when they make it to the twenty four,
Speaker 1: then they I guess I spent about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half with them. You just do you. I don't
Speaker 1: teach you how to sing, because you've seen me sing.
Speaker 1: I'll teach them how to sing. I'll stay away from
Speaker 1: that part of it because they have loose You're an
Speaker 1: entertainer though, but and that's why they brought me, because
Speaker 1: I do comedy and I do radio and TV and
Speaker 1: music and so they wanted me since I already have
Speaker 1: people teach them how to sing, they wanted somebody to
Speaker 1: kind of say, hey, this is how you perform, this
Speaker 1: is how you work. You work crowd, this is how
Speaker 1: you do social see you, I've seen you work a
Speaker 1: crowd before. That's all you can do, like fourteen fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand people, that's all I know. I can't think, so
Speaker 1: I have to do extra work. And you and I
Speaker 1: actually spent time. I guess the last time we said
Speaker 1: time together in any long amount was right us oide
Speaker 1: of d C. We were in Northern Virginia. The band
Speaker 1: just go because yeah, yeah, yeah, they went back to
Speaker 1: the fifth They were good. Yeah, you were out riding
Speaker 1: with Toby, right Toby Keith. I was and uh that
Speaker 1: was like outside of d C Virginia, like northern Virginia.
Speaker 1: And so I saw you on the side and I went, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I want because just in passing we had said hello,
Speaker 1: but I'd never stopped and be like, hey, I'm Bobby
Speaker 1: because I don't bother you, because I feel like that's
Speaker 1: Davidly Murphy. I don't bother Davidly Murphy man just hanging out.
Speaker 1: And then we yeah, we sat and talked for a bit.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, so I had a couple of
Speaker 1: friends said, hey, do you know Dadily, They're all like,
Speaker 1: I love You're well loved in town. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: awesome as a people they love right, people love writing
Speaker 1: with you. You know, well, that's that's that's the best
Speaker 1: compliment you could get. You know, just writing songs is
Speaker 1: that's what we I mean, all of us love to
Speaker 1: do that. And if when somebody says that, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: We sat on the side and I was embarrassing. You
Speaker 1: had to watch our band play at the time. You guys,
Speaker 1: you I'll did a good job. I mean, you had
Speaker 1: the crap. We weren't even a real band yet. There
Speaker 1: was just two of us up there. We were struggling,
Speaker 1: and I was thought, man, he's watching us and we're struggling.
Speaker 1: I mean, to go up there with guitars in front
Speaker 1: of that many people, you know, it was good. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what do your friends call you? They
Speaker 1: call you David or David Lee. They call David David Lee.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just varies and depending up on the
Speaker 1: time of the day or the night, it can vary,
Speaker 1: you know. Let me tell you about this new song.
Speaker 1: I heard it and now I've been saying on the radio.
Speaker 1: Now I think it's the best song on the radio.
Speaker 1: I love this groove. She's readily as in my plastic Man,
Speaker 1: I thank you kill me something good. I don't know
Speaker 1: just what has been kicking behind you record this. We'd
Speaker 1: recorded it probably a year and a half ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about the date wise, but it was
Speaker 1: it's been at least a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: So did you have big plans for it when you
Speaker 1: cut it? Did you think it'd be a single? Actually,
Speaker 1: when we cut it, I didn't. I hadn't even really
Speaker 1: considered it in my stash of songs, you know. I
Speaker 1: had Kenny and I had picked out tenoral eleven songs
Speaker 1: that we wanted to do, and uh, we had been
Speaker 1: concentrating on those, and uh, we cut this song and
Speaker 1: it just felt so good. And I actually Kenny was
Speaker 1: working on a record, and uh, so I wasn't really
Speaker 1: thinking of it for me at the time. And so
Speaker 1: I get it, I see in it over to Kenny,
Speaker 1: and uh, he was like, dam man, I love that song,
Speaker 1: and he was he was gonna record it on his
Speaker 1: last record, and then just for reasons whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: there's just so many reasons when you pick songs on
Speaker 1: a record. It just didn't really fit in with the
Speaker 1: batch of songs that he had. So he goes, man,
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be on this record, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to keep it for the next one, because he
Speaker 1: really loved the song. And uh so, you know, time
Speaker 1: goes and it takes a little while for a record
Speaker 1: to you know, materialize, and so somebody else was gonna
Speaker 1: cut the song. Somebody else wanted that song to record,
Speaker 1: and it was I remember, it's like a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: I was sitting out in my backyard drinking coffee and
Speaker 1: I called Kenny and I said, hey, man, somebody wants
Speaker 1: that song. What should we do? And he goes, man,
Speaker 1: hang onto that thing. And I said, well, what if
Speaker 1: I put it on mine? He goes, oh, hell yeah, man,
Speaker 1: put that on yours, you know, because he loved it
Speaker 1: and he wanted he wanted somehow or the other too,
Speaker 1: you know, still have something to do with that song.
Speaker 1: And uh so we did it, and we decided, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. And graciously he came in and
Speaker 1: sang the second verse, which like he he kills it.
Speaker 1: He's a communicator, man. He he cuts through. And there
Speaker 1: there's great guys you know, uh Tim and Kenny and
Speaker 1: Garth and those guys. Man, they just they reach out
Speaker 1: and grab you, you know, with their voice and and uh,
Speaker 1: he comes in there. Man, I just he he does it.
Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be. He's gonna be. Well's Kenny, Buddy and
Speaker 1: Chris Stevens and such a great bad as got to
Speaker 1: world nothing. Don't go getting that Dannic good. It ain't
Speaker 1: words speeling your dream I have. I've just I've been
Speaker 1: doing it acoustically and uh it's you know, you don't
Speaker 1: have the you know what that's like. And uh, what's
Speaker 1: really fun is just over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: people have really been singing it back to me. And
Speaker 1: we did a show Thursday night in Almaha, Nebraska, and
Speaker 1: actually I'll show you the little clip of it. Somebody
Speaker 1: took a video clip of It's really cool. People are
Speaker 1: really singing it back to me. I love it. It's again,
Speaker 1: I don't say this to your face. I've been saying
Speaker 1: it for weeks on the radio. It's my favorite song
Speaker 1: on the radio. Thank you from the Texture of the song,
Speaker 1: to the groove, to the words, the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I can't tell you how much fun we're having.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're really having a ball. So what's the
Speaker 1: deal with the record is? Are you Kenny doing all
Speaker 1: the songs together on the album now? Just we're just
Speaker 1: doing this one Kenny, Kenny, Um, I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: I'll happen. I you know, over the years, I've sent
Speaker 1: Kenny's recorded a bunch of my songs and uh from
Speaker 1: living in Fast Forward and bar at the End of
Speaker 1: the World, Pirate Flag. Sorry about that big old peepop
Speaker 1: there our studios put together like a nickel. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: we take that as a badge of honor. But I've
Speaker 1: been sending Kenny songs um And one night I sent
Speaker 1: him this one particular song that's on my record, and
Speaker 1: he called me back and he goes, man, I freaking
Speaker 1: love that song. And he goes, I would cut that.
Speaker 1: He goes, but I'm He goes, I don't want to
Speaker 1: ask you something. He goes, you you sent me all
Speaker 1: this stuff. He goes, what if if we go in
Speaker 1: the studio and we pick a bunch of songs and
Speaker 1: me and Buddy produces album. We'll put it out. We'll
Speaker 1: just put it out on you and we'll we'll do
Speaker 1: whatever we gotta do. He goes, I think people should
Speaker 1: hear these songs, And of course I did a few
Speaker 1: little back flips, you know, because I was like, how,
Speaker 1: I mean when Kenny, When Kenny's like, hey man, why
Speaker 1: don't you do that? It's like, yeah, that that was
Speaker 1: really cool. So I asked that about Kenny because I
Speaker 1: remember when the announcement was that you guys were doing
Speaker 1: a record together, and so that means that he was
Speaker 1: producing the record, involved in the record somehow. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he produced it and he just got the whole In fact,
Speaker 1: he said something that we had a number one party
Speaker 1: for until it's gone, and he said something about it then,
Speaker 1: and we had been kind of keeping it a secret
Speaker 1: and uh, because we didn't know exactly what what we
Speaker 1: were going to do with it at that time period.
Speaker 1: But we we had we've had so much fun with it,
Speaker 1: just picking the songs, going in, going in and recording,
Speaker 1: doing over dub, singing this stuff, mixing master and you
Speaker 1: know that whole process. Is it crazy to put So
Speaker 1: you're playing the song in the crowd now, singing it back.
Speaker 1: But you have from you know when I was a teenager,
Speaker 1: one of the most anthemic country songs period with dust
Speaker 1: on the Bottle. People have to scream that song back
Speaker 1: at you, right, we had well Friday night. What we
Speaker 1: did was, I mean, people have to that makes me
Speaker 1: feel good to still here. That does it? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're not tired of it never. I mean I can
Speaker 1: play this today and I do at times on my show.
Speaker 1: Just play it and everybody in the room goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's still you have one of the songs that have
Speaker 1: that have twenty years. Yeah, thank god, man. I mean
Speaker 1: the I remember as a kid growing up and almost thought,
Speaker 1: I want I want one of those songs that like
Speaker 1: help me make it through the night and for the
Speaker 1: good times to one of those old classic kind of
Speaker 1: Christopherson or one of those guys who read those songs
Speaker 1: that you know, I wanted one of those songs that
Speaker 1: stuck around for a long time. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: dust on the Bottom by I think it is you
Speaker 1: wrote that by yourself? Do you? Is it one of
Speaker 1: those songs? Because I know as a songwriter and you
Speaker 1: have I think I read some like ninety cuts in
Speaker 1: the last X amount of years. But and every song
Speaker 1: isn't remembered where they were, and you have to start
Speaker 1: creating a story because people always want to know where
Speaker 1: were you? But you wrote that by yourself, that being
Speaker 1: the biggest song, like what do you know? Vividly? You do?
Speaker 1: Really like you really do. Yeah. I was in Ashland
Speaker 1: City and I had a little house in n Ashland
Speaker 1: City and I lived, um I lived in I lived
Speaker 1: on Blair Boulevard first when I moved to Nashville over
Speaker 1: near the Vandy area near Music Row, and then uh,
Speaker 1: I was living in like a garage apartment. And then
Speaker 1: I found this little bitty house out in Nashtan City,
Speaker 1: the settle ten Reef House, and um I moved out
Speaker 1: there and I lived out there for almost ten years.
Speaker 1: And I wrote that at the kitchen table, and and
Speaker 1: we had started recording the out of the Bang album.
Speaker 1: And I remember the first morning we cult like out
Speaker 1: with a Bang party crowd and Can't Turn It Off,
Speaker 1: which were three songs off that with a Bang album,
Speaker 1: And I was really excited. I was really happy. It
Speaker 1: was it was Tuesday morning and I got up and
Speaker 1: I was drinking coffee and I was getting ready to
Speaker 1: come to town, and we were probably gonna start it.
Speaker 1: You know, I was probably gonna get there at ten
Speaker 1: o'clock and you know, you know, start cutting again because
Speaker 1: we had four days to record the record. And I
Speaker 1: just started tearing through dust on the bottle. It was
Speaker 1: just like coming out and um and I had basically
Speaker 1: both verses in the course, and I called Tony Brown
Speaker 1: up and I had one of those remember those phone
Speaker 1: cords that were like that went like twenty feet. I
Speaker 1: had one of those, and I pulled Mike. My kitchen
Speaker 1: phone was on the wall, and I pulled that over
Speaker 1: on my table and I said, Tony, check us out, man.
Speaker 1: I said this this might be a hit. And I
Speaker 1: played him Drio Williams lived down a dirt road and
Speaker 1: I played him mad and he goes, oh, man, we
Speaker 1: gotta cut that. And I didn't have the bridge yet.
Speaker 1: So I had the music for the bridge, but I
Speaker 1: didn't have the bridge lyrics yet, and so he goes,
Speaker 1: damn man, And so I go in the studio and
Speaker 1: we didn't cut it that day. We cut it the
Speaker 1: next day. So um, that gave me time to go
Speaker 1: home and figure out what the bridge lyrics were. But
Speaker 1: you can still hear the strings kind of squeaking my
Speaker 1: acoustic strings on the record, because you know, we cut
Speaker 1: those things and that was before pro tools and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and it was it was magic when we
Speaker 1: cut it. I think everybody it just felt like magic.
Speaker 1: It was just like one of those when lightning just
Speaker 1: boom comes down. I think everybody in the room. Uh.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the guys that played on that
Speaker 1: record played on my new stuff too. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: So you moved to town, I guess you're what we're
Speaker 1: about ten years before you got a record deal. So
Speaker 1: what's that ten years like for you. It was great, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I had a great time. I mean it
Speaker 1: was tough. I mean it was during that time period
Speaker 1: people were going there you maybe you should, you know,
Speaker 1: think about doing something ill, you know. And I actually
Speaker 1: lived from where when where we're sitting right here, I
Speaker 1: probably lived two miles and but um, anyway, I had
Speaker 1: ten years of just um trying to write songs. I
Speaker 1: had a Reba McIntyre cut, I had a Doug Stone cut,
Speaker 1: Dobie Gray cut one of my songs, The Man's Brothers.
Speaker 1: I had just a few, you know, little cuts here
Speaker 1: and there, but nothing that really was a big hit.
Speaker 1: Were those cuts so substantial enough? And records were bought
Speaker 1: to actually keep you paying your mortgage? I'm yeah, well
Speaker 1: I didn't have a mortgage. Your rent, yeah, keep paying
Speaker 1: really kept me playing my rent. But no, it wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: It wasn't enough. I mean, now, if that would have
Speaker 1: been on like a Garth record or Alabama or something
Speaker 1: like that, yeah, but those records at the time, it
Speaker 1: just it wasn't enough. It was enough to keep you
Speaker 1: kind of going, keep you just to keep you, you know,
Speaker 1: living the lifestyle of I'm a country music songwriter. What
Speaker 1: was only growing up with you? What was always home
Speaker 1: like in Illinois? It was great. It was small town USA,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, it was small. Um. I grew up
Speaker 1: in a small town called here in Illinois that about
Speaker 1: you know, eight or nine thousand people and just like
Speaker 1: so many small towns across the South and the Midwest
Speaker 1: and the North, and you know all those little towns
Speaker 1: with downtowns and dairy queen's and you know, so you're
Speaker 1: a Cardinal fan. Yeah, so you live that part of
Speaker 1: Illinois because I'm a huge Cubs fan. But you know
Speaker 1: there's that Illinois part that's still Missouri is oh yeah, well, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a line in Illinois that is Cardinal fans or
Speaker 1: Cub fans. Like my father in law is a huge
Speaker 1: Cub fan. But the thing about Cardinal and Cub fans
Speaker 1: is there's nothing more fun than to go, like to
Speaker 1: a St. Louis Cardinal Chicago Cub game in St. Louis
Speaker 1: or at Rigley Field. And I've been, I've been at both,
Speaker 1: and uh it's fun, man, And it's a good hearted rivalry.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like the girl might have on the
Speaker 1: Cardinal shirt and a guy might have the Cub shirt
Speaker 1: on and everybody's sitting around a table at at a
Speaker 1: place having a good time. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: fun game to go to. I'm a huge Cubs fan.
Speaker 1: I've been to a bunch of those games in both places.
Speaker 1: It's not like the Yankees and Red Sox where you
Speaker 1: worry about getting beat up. You leave, you go, you
Speaker 1: go with In the Boston hat to Yankees game, you
Speaker 1: might get jumped. You probably will get jumped. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people may they're listening to this may
Speaker 1: not know all the songs you've written, and holy crap.
Speaker 1: So did you ever just go you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put the artist stuff on hold consciously and just focus
Speaker 1: on writing. Was that a thing? It wasn't on purpose,
Speaker 1: but it kind of turned into that. I mean it
Speaker 1: got to that and um, and then after I started
Speaker 1: doing that, I just I wanted to just the the
Speaker 1: lifestyle of being a songwriter is is pretty nice. What
Speaker 1: was the first big cut that you had out that
Speaker 1: we'll go single that wasn't your voice? The first one
Speaker 1: that comes to mind, the first, like the biggest one,
Speaker 1: I would say living in Fast Forward and um, I
Speaker 1: have it right here, Basketball Star. So when I said
Speaker 1: that in your mind, that's the first big one to you,
Speaker 1: the first one that was the first one that was
Speaker 1: just like the first one that just like I remember,
Speaker 1: I was playing out at the Opry and one of
Speaker 1: the guys from Sony or whatever label it was that
Speaker 1: Kenny was on at the time came up and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if you heard your Living in fast forward cut? And
Speaker 1: I go, no, I haven't. I can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 1: He goes, come on out, I'll played, I'll played in
Speaker 1: my car and he played me that cut and I
Speaker 1: was like, holy crap, man, I mean that thing rocked
Speaker 1: better than well. First of all, we didn't do a
Speaker 1: demo on that song, and when you do a demo,
Speaker 1: um you basically cut the song. So whoever is listening
Speaker 1: to produce, So as the artist, the A and R
Speaker 1: people at the label, did they hear that song? And
Speaker 1: they go okay, so and tell he could do this song.
Speaker 1: And on that particular song, I was writing with Rivers,
Speaker 1: Rutherford and uh Rivers and I had written all day
Speaker 1: long writing another song, and uh, he goes, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta go, I got we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: About thirty minutes I gotta go meet with Buddy Cannon
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna play some songs for Kenny. And I go,
Speaker 1: all right, So we started, we started wrapping up, and
Speaker 1: I go, hey, man, check out this idea and just
Speaker 1: say if it does anything for you. And because you know,
Speaker 1: it was a kind of a cool little groove and
Speaker 1: and uh, I played, I played, I played a little
Speaker 1: bit of that and rivers just on the guitar you
Speaker 1: record it. I was just playing it, and he whipped out,
Speaker 1: you know, his notebook, and he's like, the body is
Speaker 1: a temple. That's what we're taught. I treated this plane,
Speaker 1: and he just started writing and and we sat there
Speaker 1: and wrote a verse and a course and part of
Speaker 1: the second uh, part of the second verse. And he
Speaker 1: left and he went to his meeting with Buddy, and
Speaker 1: I guess at the end of the meeting, and he
Speaker 1: played Buddy a couple of songs and he goes, hey man,
Speaker 1: check out this little idea we just just wrote like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago, and Buddy goes, man, I wanna put
Speaker 1: that song on home for Kenny. And we hadn't even
Speaker 1: finished We haven't finished it. I mean the second verse.
Speaker 1: We had some questions about greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if Kenny would want to sing that.
Speaker 1: And the other one is hill billy rock star line,
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember calling Buddy again, well, well,
Speaker 1: uh we we were talking to him as like, you think, Kenny,
Speaker 1: I'll sing um greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes. And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, I think he'll sing that, And how about
Speaker 1: the hill billy rock star out of control and he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he because I think he'll do that. And uh so
Speaker 1: we we finished the song on and just recorded it
Speaker 1: on like garage band, you know, on the computer, and
Speaker 1: and gave it to Buddy and they cut it off
Speaker 1: that so we literally didn't do a demode. So when
Speaker 1: you heard it, it was really like you're hearing yeah
Speaker 1: they I mean that whole production, everything they did, the
Speaker 1: guitar parts, and I was like, damn, you know, have
Speaker 1: you have you ever written a song and that situation
Speaker 1: comes up with that, like I love this song, I
Speaker 1: just can't talk about a red truck because I've never
Speaker 1: had a red truck before. And you have to make
Speaker 1: the decision do you change it? Did they change it?
Speaker 1: Ended up being a writer on it, Like does that
Speaker 1: has that popped up before? Uh? Not really not? You
Speaker 1: mean like if some artists said, well I don't have
Speaker 1: a red truck. Well, like Kenny, if you would have
Speaker 1: said I don't rust the thing that you know cheeseburgers
Speaker 1: and and cheap, you know, would he have changed it?
Speaker 1: What do you have not taken a song? Are you
Speaker 1: that much invested that you can't change the lirics of
Speaker 1: the song? Oh no, I mean I would change a song.
Speaker 1: I mean if if okay, now there's there's certain songs
Speaker 1: that I might not change depending upon what I thought.
Speaker 1: But if somebody said, no, I don't drive this kind
Speaker 1: of truck. I drive that kind of truck and I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a blue truck, not a red truck.
Speaker 1: If they just said that, I go, oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: sure I'd changed that. Has that everybody issue before or
Speaker 1: someone comes back because I need this line changed? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah sure, and depending on the artist, you'll do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if somebody really just wants a line changed,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not it's not like, um so important
Speaker 1: you know that it couldn't be changed, you know to me?
Speaker 1: I mean if somebody said, well, I can't say Chevy
Speaker 1: because I've got Afford endorsement, and it's just you know,
Speaker 1: I got this one right here pretty much launched Aldine
Speaker 1: and the superstartup. He was pretty big, he was pretty
Speaker 1: he was doing pretty good. He was doing good. But
Speaker 1: this wasn't one that I say, super are This song
Speaker 1: took him to the hold of the level. I mean,
Speaker 1: this one was the one where I started to go
Speaker 1: outside the country to it. People started to go, what's that?
Speaker 1: What's that song? Big green tractor? So you wrote this
Speaker 1: for who? Jim Collins? Did you when you wrote it?
Speaker 1: Did you just throw it out to the world and
Speaker 1: see who wanted or did you pitch it straight to Aldine?
Speaker 1: Actually we pitched it to a couple of people first,
Speaker 1: and it was Jason and his guys, like right off,
Speaker 1: I mean, Michael Knox, who's Jason's producer, he uh, he
Speaker 1: loved it right off the bat. But I remember the
Speaker 1: night I came. I was I was at my farm
Speaker 1: and uh, I've got a big green tractor and uh
Speaker 1: I was riding around at it one night and I
Speaker 1: had the headlights on and uh, bush Hogan as we
Speaker 1: call it, you know, with the big more behind a
Speaker 1: tractor and you know, just cutting down sticker bushes and everything.
Speaker 1: And uh, I came up with that idea, and I'm
Speaker 1: singing it to myself, you know, take your full right
Speaker 1: on a big green tractor, just singing that and uh.
Speaker 1: And I can't remember if it was the next day
Speaker 1: or the day after that. I was writing with Jim
Speaker 1: Collins and Jim wrote, she thinks my tractor sexy. And
Speaker 1: so I walked in there and I go, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you feel like you're writing another tractor song. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. So we sat down there and we wrote
Speaker 1: that song. And that's probably that. That song is really
Speaker 1: fun to do live. I do it in my shows,
Speaker 1: you know. Well, I do a bunch of those songs.
Speaker 1: And uh, but big Green Tractor is a really special song.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody sings along to that one. How many
Speaker 1: of these songs? Here's another one? How about Jake on
Speaker 1: anywhere with you? Because you wrote it, you can play?
Speaker 1: What right you ever play this one? Played it the
Speaker 1: other night? Have you ever seen this is another one
Speaker 1: of this's gotten better with age? Like it? It's harden
Speaker 1: out the songs to stick because they move so fast
Speaker 1: and so it's the ones that kind of come back again.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those. Good anywhere anywhere with
Speaker 1: you some earli ish Jake. They made a great record there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really love that record. I thought they
Speaker 1: did a fantastic job. I did it the other night
Speaker 1: and I'm Aha Nebraska and I did the Oh have
Speaker 1: you ever seen? Oh Mahana Nebraska. Every time you set
Speaker 1: them up the old gag. Everybody loves that old gag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the easy one. Well you just hit the name
Speaker 1: of the town and somewhere and everybody like he's talking
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Speaker 1: but so you're doing radio shows again where you go
Speaker 1: out yeah and yeah, you go having a ball. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really loving it because it kind of man,
Speaker 1: you're just going you're going out and and hanging out
Speaker 1: with the folks and and playing music. And they love music, man,
Speaker 1: I mean people love music. And they love those old
Speaker 1: songs too. I mean not hope, I mean those are
Speaker 1: not old songs. But um, it's fun because to go
Speaker 1: out there and do those songs and then they here
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be all right and they get and dust
Speaker 1: on the bottling. They put like two and two together
Speaker 1: and they go, oh, yeah, that's pretty cool. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a pleasure. Really, it's not. It's not a chore.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure. You have so many monsters here. I
Speaker 1: made this one. Are you Gonna kiss me? The monsters?
Speaker 1: That the biggest song, the most played song of the year,
Speaker 1: and was just written. No, it wasn't. Um it was
Speaker 1: it was it was just it was a guy song.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a girl's song. In fact, Kieffer called me
Speaker 1: up and he goes, hey, man, can you write this?
Speaker 1: Can we change this? Here's an example of of what
Speaker 1: we were talking about a while ago. Keefer called me
Speaker 1: up and he said, hey, man, Kim, can we write
Speaker 1: this to where all right, guy like Shaunikin sing some
Speaker 1: of it because she was really that she was really
Speaker 1: the main vocalist in in the band. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: I got a damn man, I don't know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of it's kind of a guy's song. Uh, let's see
Speaker 1: what we can do, you know. And then they called
Speaker 1: back and said, forget it, We're just gonna do it
Speaker 1: like it is. And so she sings harmony, she doesn't
Speaker 1: really take the lead role in the song. And they
Speaker 1: killed it. Man, I mean that song, and it played
Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and weeks, you know with a
Speaker 1: bullet which was which is a bullet means it's still
Speaker 1: moving at the charts And they just did a great
Speaker 1: job with it. And the guys um, the guys that
Speaker 1: that produced the record did a great job too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a monster. I believe it was the biggest
Speaker 1: song of Like I think it was the most played song. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be add a plaque somewhere that
Speaker 1: says most most played song. Man wrote this one. That
Speaker 1: was me Keefer and Brett James, and we wrote that
Speaker 1: in Um Colorado. Yeah. When you write with an artist,
Speaker 1: are you always writing for the artist? Yeah. If you're
Speaker 1: writing with Keeper from Tomas Square, you're working on a
Speaker 1: specific Thompson Square projects. We're trying to write something. We're
Speaker 1: trying to write something that is what they feel like
Speaker 1: they need for their project. Like if they if they
Speaker 1: say they want a party song, usually people want party.
Speaker 1: Want me to write like a party kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Did ever go, let's do something like dust on the Bottle.
Speaker 1: I've had people say that said, damn man, it took
Speaker 1: me fifteen years to write that one and I haven't
Speaker 1: written another one since. So. Yeah. So you get with
Speaker 1: Thompson Square and they have the kind of song that
Speaker 1: they want to write, and so you sit down and
Speaker 1: you try to knock it up, try to It doesn't
Speaker 1: always work. Do you enjoy writing with artists or Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, Yeah, because I mean they I mean
Speaker 1: most artists know what they kind of want to do,
Speaker 1: and they kind of know what they're missing in their show.
Speaker 1: And I get it because I get out there and
Speaker 1: play and and I know what it's like. It's like
Speaker 1: I want something that rocks. I want something that I
Speaker 1: can walk around the stage and you know, just seeing
Speaker 1: at the top of my lungs, or I want something,
Speaker 1: I can just hit the brakes in the show and
Speaker 1: slow down and have a cool like moment, you know
Speaker 1: of a song. So you know what's funny about you?
Speaker 1: As you ain't broke? You got sure a hole in
Speaker 1: the armpit of it? What you got? You sure? I
Speaker 1: got a big hole in the armpit. You an't? Yeah, broke.
Speaker 1: It's comfortable. Yeah, that's fine. But that's why people like you.
Speaker 1: That's what everybody says. They's like, man, David Murphy's the
Speaker 1: nicest guy. Like he hasn't there's no he's just as him.
Speaker 1: Well that's good, Yeah, that's true. When you were growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid, who did you idolize musically? Oh? Man, Well,
Speaker 1: I was a big skinnered fan when I when I
Speaker 1: was young, I like skinnered. Do you remember the plane crash? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was camping the night that it came over the
Speaker 1: air and I would I had tickets to go see
Speaker 1: Leonard Skinner the following Sunday in Evansville, Indiana. After the
Speaker 1: plane crafter, the plane crashed and my buddy and I,
Speaker 1: there were two or three of us. We were sitting
Speaker 1: out in the woods in lawn chairs and we had
Speaker 1: a camp fire and it was like on a Thursday
Speaker 1: night when when I think it was a Thursday night
Speaker 1: when the plane crashed and we're sitting out in the woods.
Speaker 1: We gotta camp fire one and we're sitting there listening
Speaker 1: to you know, music, and we turned over and you know,
Speaker 1: we're just flipping through the channels and we turned over
Speaker 1: to the classic mine. I don't even know what they
Speaker 1: called the classic rock then, but we turned over to
Speaker 1: the rock and rock and roll station and it said
Speaker 1: Leonard Skinner's planes crashed. I was like, what I mean?
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, it was just crazy. And
Speaker 1: then we we were all going to go to the concert,
Speaker 1: you know in Evansville, which was probably a two hour
Speaker 1: drive from where I was. Remember that the radio, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they didn't know who was They didn't know at
Speaker 1: the time who was in which plane? Yeah, and who left?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, they just said Leonard Skinner. Uh, And that's
Speaker 1: not really a person. Leonard Skinner is not really a person.
Speaker 1: It was a band, right, it's the band Wow. But
Speaker 1: it ended up being Ronnie van zandt Steve Gaines and
Speaker 1: Cassie Gaines and in the band. But um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a huge skinnered fan and and and I
Speaker 1: mean whenever I first moved to town. When I first
Speaker 1: moved to Nashville, Uh, my manager worked for, um, Charlie
Speaker 1: Daniels organization, so I was kind of tied in with
Speaker 1: Charlie Daniels when I first moved to town, with that
Speaker 1: whole organization. But I was a huge Whaling fan. I
Speaker 1: mean I was a gigantic Whaling fan. I loved Haggard
Speaker 1: and all of those classic guys. And at that time,
Speaker 1: I mean I was really young, and they didn't have
Speaker 1: like young country singers. You had to be forty life
Speaker 1: experiences to sing about life experiences. Yeah, you had to
Speaker 1: have like tons of wrinkles, you know, two scars and
Speaker 1: have been there and done that to be taken seriously
Speaker 1: as a country singer. And I was just a kid,
Speaker 1: you know. So but I loved it. I had a
Speaker 1: great time. I mean I love growing up in that
Speaker 1: time period. Do you ever have any close calls an airplane?
Speaker 1: Never have? Thank god? Man? Uh no, I mean I
Speaker 1: think so, but no, not really. Yeah, like my cup
Speaker 1: fell over because they had turbulence. I was gonna die. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we'll scream on the plane. Oh yeah, me, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a scream. Oh yeah, I'll be on the Southwest
Speaker 1: flight I think when we're crashing in the ocean, like
Speaker 1: right over Iowa. Yeah, those planes don't. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I've I've been lucky so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah gone would yeah, man, this this song now, and
Speaker 1: you have the record coming in April, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's what it's don't that's what it's called. ZEP. Where'd
Speaker 1: that come from? Uh? It was we were just writing
Speaker 1: one day and we came up with we started writing
Speaker 1: a song and um, it's just about this guy imagining
Speaker 1: that he would like to live in a place where
Speaker 1: the whole the whole thing is like he's got this
Speaker 1: imaginary girl and he's land and you know, a place
Speaker 1: where his no zip code and he's it's just imaginary place.
Speaker 1: From right now, everything's gonna be all right, everything's gonna
Speaker 1: be back in the day. But our song was on
Speaker 1: was in eight seconds? Yeah? What was that song called? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this this is the first song on the eight Seconds times?
Speaker 1: I big you deal? Was it to get on that?
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool? At the time that when when
Speaker 1: that um we did the video on that with the film,
Speaker 1: with the footage from the movie, and that was the
Speaker 1: first time. That was probably the first time that I
Speaker 1: would walk through somewhere and somebody would come up and go, hey, man,
Speaker 1: aren't you David Leege Murphy, you know, and because it
Speaker 1: was like total anonymity up until that point, and then
Speaker 1: it was like I saw your video and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: videos were huge at that time period. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: all the country music channels, and it was really fun.
Speaker 1: I mean I missed those videos because it was entertainment.
Speaker 1: You could put the videos on and just be goofing
Speaker 1: around in your house and there's a country music video
Speaker 1: playing of whoever you know, Brooks and Dunn or you know,
Speaker 1: Dwight Yoakum or Shinai Twain or it was just it
Speaker 1: was there was always something playing. Who was in your
Speaker 1: class when you moved to town? Who kind of moved
Speaker 1: to town around that time? You guys kind of come up,
Speaker 1: started writting together, figuring out the city together. Well, there
Speaker 1: were guys that that I got to be friends with
Speaker 1: early on it that were, you know, playing around in bars,
Speaker 1: like Steve Earle, he was playing, Umm, Bill Lloyd, Radney Foster,
Speaker 1: those guys, we were all kind of in the same
Speaker 1: little time period there. And um but I remember Randy
Speaker 1: Travis playing out at the Nashville Palace and U yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the house band out there. But I remember,
Speaker 1: oh and Kicks. I remember Kicks and Ronnie Kicks and
Speaker 1: I were the two, um, token skinny white guy bouncers
Speaker 1: for the concert down there. You know, we were the
Speaker 1: two you know, we were both musicians, and they had us,
Speaker 1: you know, down there in yellow T shirts. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like they put us backstage, you know, it was.
Speaker 1: It was really funny. But we got like thirty five
Speaker 1: bucks apiece to stand down there and make sure, you know,
Speaker 1: when when you're at that point in your life, and
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars means a lot. But Kicks and I
Speaker 1: we still laugh about. I mean we still talk about.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I remember because they they had all
Speaker 1: these other guys who were these great, big o like
Speaker 1: defensive linemen you know, from you know, college kids down there,
Speaker 1: and Kicks and I were down there and I probably
Speaker 1: probably waged about one Kicks is probably about one seventy,
Speaker 1: you know, but we both we both worked for UM
Speaker 1: Sound seventy indirectly and they did all the big rock
Speaker 1: shows in the big concerts here in in Nashville. So
Speaker 1: look at this from just one dust on the bottle,
Speaker 1: a little on the bottle. Everything's gonna be all right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be I got it again. Here you going
Speaker 1: like right now, you're the top twenty. I look before
Speaker 1: you came over the top twenty. It's crazy. I can't
Speaker 1: stop stop. It's fun man. Good luck with the record.
Speaker 1: Thank you I played. Listen to it and play it
Speaker 1: when it comes out. Yeah, thank you for playing this
Speaker 1: one again. I love it, I said at the beginning,
Speaker 1: I said again, this is my favorite song right now
Speaker 1: on the radio. I'm really if I appreciate you comingup
Speaker 1: with the house. I'm a big fan. You've always been
Speaker 1: very kind to me out and about, and so I
Speaker 1: was very I was excited when you were coming over.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for having me. So we'll wrap
Speaker 1: it up. Thanks. No zip code in April, and if
Speaker 1: you're listening to this after April, no zip codes out now,
Speaker 1: and you'd like for them to listen to it, would
Speaker 1: they listen? Listen to listen. They're back in there. Bringing
Speaker 1: the horns there. It is all right, good, it's good
Speaker 1: to see you. Good talk to you. All right,