Speaker 1: You know, over the years, I've taken thousands upon thousands
Speaker 1: upon thousands of phone calls and listen to so many
Speaker 1: of my listeners. Stories. They've been. Stories of celebration, stories
Speaker 1: of joy, stories of surprise babies, bonfires, job promotions, stories
Speaker 1: of graduations or adoptions, of new home purchases, stories of
Speaker 1: four legged fur babies and gardens and glory and kitchen conquest.
Speaker 1: Stories of love, stories of lost, stories of broken hearts.
Speaker 1: Lots and lots and lots of broken hearts. Achy Breaky Hearts.
Speaker 1: But nobody, no body, I mean nobody knows about Achy
Speaker 1: Breaky Hearts better than one of today's guests on Love
Speaker 1: some One. Throughout his three decade career, Billy Ray Cyrus,
Speaker 1: King of the Akey Breaky Heart, has achieved global success
Speaker 1: as a singer, a songwriter, and actor, of producer of philanthropist.
Speaker 1: He's established himself as a household name across multiple areas
Speaker 1: of the entertainment landscape, including music, television, theater, and more,
Speaker 1: winning Grammys and multiple awards from Billboard Magazine, Hip Hop,
Speaker 1: the Country Music Association, American Music, Canadian Music, and more.
Speaker 1: While Achy Breaky Heart went multi platinum, Billy Ray followed
Speaker 1: up with back to back hits like it could Have
Speaker 1: been Me, She's Not Crying Anymore and the anthem Some
Speaker 1: Gave All. He's never stopped creating new music, bending genres
Speaker 1: and stealing hearts in the process. Last year he had
Speaker 1: the huge worldwide bash Old Town Road, and most recently
Speaker 1: with new on the scene Fire Rose and their single
Speaker 1: New Day. It's sort of a dreamy, ethereal song of hope,
Speaker 1: a song of perseverance, perfect for the times we're living in.
Speaker 1: The duo wrote and recorded it together, apart they were
Speaker 1: not actually in the same room together, not even in
Speaker 1: the same state together when it was released this past summer.
Speaker 1: Now Fire Rose as a young woman born and raised
Speaker 1: in Australia. She moved from Sydney to Los Angeles when
Speaker 1: she was nineteen. Since then, she has performed regularly, gaining
Speaker 1: a loyal following of passionate fans, as well as respect
Speaker 1: and recognition within the music industry. Fire Rose is a storyteller,
Speaker 1: and she infuses her soulful vocals with unforgettable melodies and
Speaker 1: fiercely personal lyrics. We're going to catch up without legendary
Speaker 1: Billy Ray Cyrus and the Lovely talented fire Rose just
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Speaker 1: health with Better Help. Billy Ray fire Rose, Welcome aboard.
Speaker 1: I am so glad that you are here with us.
Speaker 1: You amazing human being. Honestly, you are great, great, great humanitarian.
Speaker 1: You have been such a light in this world. And
Speaker 1: it's an auto. If you heard me screeching at my
Speaker 1: kids five minutes ago, you wouldn't be saying those nice things.
Speaker 1: Billy Ray, Oh my gosh. This is the summer that never,
Speaker 1: and it just goes on and on. My friend, I have,
Speaker 1: I'm so blessed. I have, of um, a lot of kids,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those kids are older than you.
Speaker 1: Fire Rose, and I have a lot of kids. So
Speaker 1: between my husband and I we have twenty children and
Speaker 1: twenty three grandchildren. No, and with you know, the shutdowns
Speaker 1: and all the craziness going on in the world and
Speaker 1: people working from home and people transitioning. Um, it became
Speaker 1: Grandma Camp. This summer. I went to Grandma I love
Speaker 1: Grandma Camp. Wow, and it was full. It's it's the
Speaker 1: summer that never. And you know what I did a
Speaker 1: few months ago, I went and bought myself a twenty
Speaker 1: eight year old motor home. We have a big, big
Speaker 1: land yacht motor home. It's like twenty old and I
Speaker 1: call it my husband's man cave because that's where he
Speaker 1: retreats to. When the grandkids are driving him nuts, he
Speaker 1: just goes into the motor home. Um, but I can't
Speaker 1: drive the thing. I mean, it's it's it's long. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to drive the thing. So I
Speaker 1: found this little classy It's basically a truck with a
Speaker 1: little motor home built on the back of it. And
Speaker 1: it says it sleeps six. But I've managed to get
Speaker 1: eight grandkids in the thing. And so we we just
Speaker 1: we just, you know, throw a watermelon in in the
Speaker 1: motor home. It's stocked with really nutritious, nutritious lee Dnse
Speaker 1: stuff like pop ramen and crackers, animal crackers, and we
Speaker 1: go and after I finished this interview with you all today,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing. Yeah, you can come, fires please come. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about how did Billy ray Cyrus? How
Speaker 1: did you meet Fire Rosen? How did New Day come about? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll start with how did I meet this young lady?
Speaker 1: And um, it was ten years ago on the set
Speaker 1: A Hand of Montana, and I had this German shepherd
Speaker 1: named Text and he was with me on every episode,
Speaker 1: every movie, everything Hannah Montana. He was with me from
Speaker 1: the beginning, So was he your own personal dog or
Speaker 1: was he a part of like the show and then
Speaker 1: you hung out with him while you were there, and
Speaker 1: then not I was his own personal human. I was
Speaker 1: his human. I actually got him for therapy for me,
Speaker 1: but quite frankly, I he kind of needed me and
Speaker 1: I needed him, and we were really just partners. And
Speaker 1: he went with me everywhere, whether I was tour and
Speaker 1: playing music or doing show, and he just lay in
Speaker 1: my dressing room and he was kind of he was
Speaker 1: a special little guy, and we had a ritual like
Speaker 1: usually about three or four o'clock in the evening when
Speaker 1: they take a break. Um, there was one tree on
Speaker 1: the whole lot. It's the old lot where they you know,
Speaker 1: where they film My Love Lucy Gallant. Is it called
Speaker 1: Gallon Studios by Rose the name of that st Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: where kt l A is now and they used to
Speaker 1: film Lucy there, and um, so in the front was
Speaker 1: pretty nostalgic sunset boulevard kind of it really felt like Hollywood.
Speaker 1: But there was one tree, like a pine tree, one tree.
Speaker 1: The rest were palm trees, but this pine tree had
Speaker 1: a coolness to it and there was grass underneath it.
Speaker 1: So tex and I would go out there and we'd
Speaker 1: pretend we were in Tennessee for a moment, and I'd
Speaker 1: sit and watch people and look at things, and he'd
Speaker 1: take care business. And then we just sat there and
Speaker 1: we were there. It was like the last season of
Speaker 1: Hannah Montana and um Fire Rose came out. I guess
Speaker 1: up an audition. Maybe you pick it up from there.
Speaker 1: She came out and had done an audition for a
Speaker 1: different show, and she just had a glow about like
Speaker 1: you know when you see a person that got a
Speaker 1: light coming off, like a positivity of She just represented
Speaker 1: a light like she had a It's almost like the
Speaker 1: sun coming out of some positive like some purpose that
Speaker 1: she had it. Sometimes they say, well, don't you know
Speaker 1: that person had it and no one can ever define
Speaker 1: what it is, but she had it, and she came out.
Speaker 1: I thought that girl has to be a star. And
Speaker 1: oddly enough, she came out of there and came over
Speaker 1: and asked if she could pet text. And that's you
Speaker 1: take it from there. But that's kind of how we
Speaker 1: ended up here. But first, like the people I was
Speaker 1: coming out of the audition from did not I feel
Speaker 1: that I had So Billy was smart enough to recognize
Speaker 1: that you had it, but they weren't. You didn't get
Speaker 1: the part. Oh no, I was a cranive rejection. Thomas
Speaker 1: Attison said the most important ingredient for success is failure.
Speaker 1: Every time you fail, you eliminate one way that won't work,
Speaker 1: therefore being one way closer to the one way that well.
Speaker 1: I like, honestly, I just got so used to being
Speaker 1: rejected that when any type of anything sembling success started,
Speaker 1: I was just in complete disbelief because I was like, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't that how it works. I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: stop doing my thing. I didn't stopped writing music because
Speaker 1: I couldn't physically not it's just my soul. But I
Speaker 1: stopped having any idea that there was kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, a day like today or the last few
Speaker 1: months of anything anything close to that. I mean, we um,
Speaker 1: we get really used to sort of especially after years
Speaker 1: and us of the same thing, and so Cirus amazingly
Speaker 1: kind of talks about how the sister and I was.
Speaker 1: But I guess I still did my art, but I
Speaker 1: never I guess I gave up some idea that it
Speaker 1: was ever going to amount to anything. Where's tex By
Speaker 1: the way, has God called text across the bridge, or
Speaker 1: as texts in the other room. He went to the
Speaker 1: other side and God bless me, and uh he came
Speaker 1: back to another Gruman shepherd and we lived the next
Speaker 1: ten years with a dog named Mate. And unfortunately Mate
Speaker 1: passed away. You know, for every reaction, there's an opposite,
Speaker 1: n equal reaction. And for as great as twenty nineteen was,
Speaker 1: and Old Town Road being the number one song and
Speaker 1: just you know, I mean, it was just unbelievable. Of
Speaker 1: every reason I bought a guitar and started the band
Speaker 1: was to move people through the music. Unfortunately, Mate got
Speaker 1: sick and he chose that moment too. He left me.
Speaker 1: It was in the middle of the height of everything.
Speaker 1: I look back and think that he chose that moment
Speaker 1: because he knew I was so busy that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: just hang my head and sat somewhere in a corner
Speaker 1: and grieve. And I became quite an actor. During the
Speaker 1: height of Otown Road, I take the stage and have
Speaker 1: everybody dancing and rocking out while in your heart you
Speaker 1: just you just went through a massive loss. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I come back to that bus. He always stayed with
Speaker 1: me on the bus. He had his own bump beside
Speaker 1: me and I come back to the bus and he
Speaker 1: wasn't there, and uh so it was it was again
Speaker 1: like for everything good, there's something bad, and for everything
Speaker 1: peak of a mountain, there's a valley somewhere and I
Speaker 1: just had to deal with it. And here I am
Speaker 1: low mold. Unless you've been through it, you can't describe
Speaker 1: that loss. It's it's you know, and people are like,
Speaker 1: come on, get over it. It's a dog. I'm like
Speaker 1: you clear Lee, I've never belonged to a dog, because
Speaker 1: when when you are a dog's person and you belong
Speaker 1: to them and they're your heart. H So yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. So now I got a little fella out
Speaker 1: in my truck right now as we speak. I'm his
Speaker 1: person now. His name is Tommy Jack. And in the
Speaker 1: midst of my broken heart and all this, I kept saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: text mate, you gotta come back to me, You gotta
Speaker 1: come back. And I just came in from a show
Speaker 1: and the news came on and they had one little
Speaker 1: dog that had three days before he was going to expire.
Speaker 1: He was on the news and I'm like, oh, my
Speaker 1: goodne three days what who? Like, who does that who
Speaker 1: says that who? And I'm he was rescued from abandoned
Speaker 1: shack in Louisiana. They had had a flood, and so
Speaker 1: is he a German shepherd found him in an attic.
Speaker 1: He's about ten different braids. He's he's a but he's
Speaker 1: such a special Guy's name is Tommy Jack and he's
Speaker 1: just a little special. He's actually a genius, but somewhat
Speaker 1: like myself. We both have issues and we have kind
Speaker 1: of found some common denominator and taking care of each
Speaker 1: other and dealing with our own issues. And I take
Speaker 1: him with me everywhere now too. And you thought you
Speaker 1: were going to go rescue this dog who had you know,
Speaker 1: three days left, and and looking at your face even
Speaker 1: when you say his name, that dog has rescued you.
Speaker 1: I think, I think so. I think you're right, You're
Speaker 1: exactly right. And now you've got a new song. It's
Speaker 1: a new day. Are you guys going to perform it
Speaker 1: for me here? You understand this is now only the
Speaker 1: fifth time we've ever played this song together. Under Now,
Speaker 1: when you guys recorded it, you recorded it separately, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was in California, I was in Tennessee. Zoom Pro
Speaker 1: tools every I'm a their primitive. I used this thing
Speaker 1: called a br which was probably invented, like I'm sure
Speaker 1: Carl Perkins and Chuck Barry both had one like this.
Speaker 1: This was a pretty primitive piece of gear that I've
Speaker 1: had for a long time and kind of like my
Speaker 1: motor hold school I kind of would maybe it might
Speaker 1: have been he's really under selling it. It was the
Speaker 1: foundation of nee day and how it got produced and
Speaker 1: and creative because he'd send me a little clips and
Speaker 1: I put it in my reg in l A and
Speaker 1: we paced together the soul of the song through this.
Speaker 1: I would do my primitive Fred flint Stone recordings and
Speaker 1: do my thing and kind of and then she would
Speaker 1: take it. She's actually really broke, you know, as a musician,
Speaker 1: as a producer, as a songwriter. She wrote the most
Speaker 1: of this song and had the song finished. I just
Speaker 1: I just loved the song and was a fan. I've
Speaker 1: been a believer for a long time and and I
Speaker 1: respected the fact that she persisted she wouldn't give up
Speaker 1: on her dream. And here it was like ten years
Speaker 1: later and she was still believing and still doing it
Speaker 1: for the love of the music, not you know, not
Speaker 1: for any other reason than she's just a natural born talent,
Speaker 1: and she produced the record. She would take my little
Speaker 1: scratches of stuff and take them to the studio and
Speaker 1: they come back sounding like all crisp and shiny and
Speaker 1: like they've been to some kind of reborn factory, and
Speaker 1: like she's really she's she's really a talent. You were
Speaker 1: handing me like diamonds that just needed a tiny bit
Speaker 1: of dusting, and then they were diamonds and I just
Speaker 1: slid them into the track and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is amazing, Like keep on coming, keeping can you do
Speaker 1: this bit? Like can you add a little bit of
Speaker 1: electric guitar? And then you know, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was from the other side of the country, but
Speaker 1: it worked, and it was it really was like a
Speaker 1: message of the song that we were we were kind
Speaker 1: of praying for this new day we all are right
Speaker 1: now and we all are the mid Yeah, we thought
Speaker 1: it was. It was the early spring and summer and
Speaker 1: we're like writing the song and it's new days just
Speaker 1: around the corner. So we all need the song. We
Speaker 1: all need a new day, and let's let's share it
Speaker 1: with the world. Okay, it's a new day, it's a
Speaker 1: new day. It's a new day, in between, in in between,
Speaker 1: going so in July. But what it's well green, oh
Speaker 1: along to take it. It's see when I saw your face,
Speaker 1: the lorda different cha. It took me too, just just
Speaker 1: stop and it's been killing them pas moving again. I'm breathing,
Speaker 1: knock again, and it's you every day and it's any day.
Speaker 1: It's any day, it's any day. This is way become
Speaker 1: under son so typely, oh so low. For long it
Speaker 1: was always it's not a question, little lesson and apprehension.
Speaker 1: When I saw your face, the hold on differnt change,
Speaker 1: she took me to my hot She inspired my fat
Speaker 1: and it's been killing that move no breathing, no again.
Speaker 1: It's a neat day, and it's a neat day. It's
Speaker 1: a new day. It's a new day. Where I saw
Speaker 1: your face, hold on diffront change took me to my heart.
Speaker 1: She didn't spied my fing and it's been calling. I'm
Speaker 1: reading and it's a day. It's a day's day. It's
Speaker 1: a day a surrender. I remember all all that you
Speaker 1: have given for this love I've taken. In between getting
Speaker 1: in between, going by, beautiful, beautiful, thank you. I think
Speaker 1: everybody who listens probably has a different emotional connection or
Speaker 1: emotional takeaway. When when you wrote it, when you sing it,
Speaker 1: what what comes to your heart? That's such a good question.
Speaker 1: She wrote the most of it. So the truth is,
Speaker 1: when I originally wrote the demo, which I wrote on
Speaker 1: my phone, UM, about five years ago, it came to
Speaker 1: me in a moment of the deepest darkness that I've
Speaker 1: ever been. I was in a really bad place in
Speaker 1: my in my life and struggling actually to survive. I
Speaker 1: was dealing with some heavy issues and it was like
Speaker 1: a prayer of light that kind of came to me, um,
Speaker 1: and somehow the melody in those words and uh the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know where music comes from, but if i'm
Speaker 1: if I'm fortunate enough to grab it when it comes
Speaker 1: in the air and through my brain and get it
Speaker 1: into something that I can then UM have with me.
Speaker 1: And I grabbed it, and I kept listening to it
Speaker 1: over and over again, and I guess just brought me
Speaker 1: some semblance of hope that there was a new day
Speaker 1: on the horizon, and thank god there was for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm phenomenally grateful for that. But it was looking
Speaker 1: pretty bleak for a few years, so I was in
Speaker 1: such a different place. But the world, um, we all
Speaker 1: collectively were in a kind of this dark place together
Speaker 1: where we couldn't reach out and touch her loved ones
Speaker 1: or even you know, be around people, which is just
Speaker 1: selling out. I don't think any of us could have fathomed.
Speaker 1: And as soon as it happened, it was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if I had needed a new day, I can only
Speaker 1: imagine the world needs a new day. And that's sort
Speaker 1: of what I feel when I'm thinking it. We definitely
Speaker 1: need a new day. So, Billy, where where where was
Speaker 1: your heart your head when you listened? And what did
Speaker 1: it speak to you? And what do you want? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know everybody wants whoever is listening to a song,
Speaker 1: at least most artists, to take from what they need.
Speaker 1: You know, take what you need and and let that
Speaker 1: resonate in you. But was there something in particular that
Speaker 1: you felt or connected to, like like for me, it's
Speaker 1: my baby's faces and my grand babies faces, and and
Speaker 1: that that the line about when I saw your face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I should make up some really deep story,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm just gonna tell you the um
Speaker 1: we had, Uh, we lost contact for years and she
Speaker 1: went on her journey of life. I went on mine,
Speaker 1: and but one thing stayed consistent was I never changed
Speaker 1: to my email address. My email was fat faced. My
Speaker 1: face is the first thing it usually gets bad on me.
Speaker 1: And I named my first email I ever had fat faced,
Speaker 1: and never changed and long behold, I I get this email,
Speaker 1: like towards the end of twenty nineteen, No one's then.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm celebrating. It's been a great year. And
Speaker 1: everybody that old country road, the old tam road, Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: and yeah. And looking forward, I was nominated for some
Speaker 1: Grammys and looking forward to January was the Grammys in
Speaker 1: l A. And that's the thing. And she sent me
Speaker 1: a song, a different song, and I thought, wow, man,
Speaker 1: she still had it. She's. She persisted, she didn't give up,
Speaker 1: and actually, like listen her recordings, she evolved. She's. You know,
Speaker 1: success is the progressive realization of worthy ideas or goals,
Speaker 1: not necessarily the attainment of them. And I said, man, she's.
Speaker 1: And so I wrote it back and I said, I
Speaker 1: love this song. She made a little video, a little
Speaker 1: cartoon are all running, And I said, that kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of the girl that I'm at. It's running
Speaker 1: girl and this little I'm looking at it. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what I was this is really good. Um,
Speaker 1: I said, have you ever thought I sometimes I just
Speaker 1: get feelings about things. I don't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of talent. I just go on those would no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I just go on emotions and feelings. I get feelings
Speaker 1: about things. And I heard this voice inside telling myself
Speaker 1: to tell her, said have you ever heard of a
Speaker 1: song called Delta Don? And she wrote back and said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking it up right and now, so she checks
Speaker 1: out the song. She goes, I love this song. I
Speaker 1: love it. What would you do to it? I said, well,
Speaker 1: I just make it you, you know, introduce it to
Speaker 1: a whole new generation. And and and that's the one thing.
Speaker 1: I added A little place for a guitar solo. It
Speaker 1: never really had a solo. And I said, just get
Speaker 1: one of your rock and roll friends out there to
Speaker 1: blister an eighties rock guitar solo in the middle of
Speaker 1: this and theymic storyline country song of Delta Don. Well,
Speaker 1: not only did she say I'm gonna do it, she
Speaker 1: did it, and she executed it to perfection. And like
Speaker 1: three weeks later, she sent me this track that just
Speaker 1: totally just kick my ass, and I was like, holy crap.
Speaker 1: And it's impressive. A lot of people say they're going
Speaker 1: to do something and they never do it, but it's
Speaker 1: impressive when somebody says, hey, that's a good idea, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it, and then they do it and I go, wow,
Speaker 1: she killed it. So I'm coming out to the Grammys
Speaker 1: in l A on January. I'm in Tennessee at the time. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out. I'll come sing Delta don because before
Speaker 1: she cut it, she said, if you'll cut it, if
Speaker 1: you'll sing out it, I'm gonna go cut it. And
Speaker 1: she killed it. So I'm going to l A. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be there. I'll come in and sing. And I
Speaker 1: loved what she did. And I get out there long behold,
Speaker 1: Grammy's happened. Blah blah blah. Here it comes to pandemic.
Speaker 1: I leave the Grammys and pretty much they shut the
Speaker 1: lights off and locked the door and everything was shut down.
Speaker 1: I did one more show. I did one show with
Speaker 1: Neil Diamond in Las Vegas and the next day I
Speaker 1: barely met I flew out and that day they closed
Speaker 1: everything and that was the last show I did. And
Speaker 1: then so I didn't want to think I was just
Speaker 1: flaking out, and I didn't. So I wrote it and said, I,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I didn't make it, and the pandemic
Speaker 1: set in and it's locked down, and her being the
Speaker 1: never give up or that she is, goes up well,
Speaker 1: and I guess we'll just have to do it a
Speaker 1: different way. And through um, we've all learned, you know,
Speaker 1: that necessity is the mother of skill, or we've actually
Speaker 1: learned repetition is the mother of skill. But through the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I kind of rewrote that a little bit, at least
Speaker 1: for me, as to necessity as the mother of skill,
Speaker 1: and when you need to do something, then you will
Speaker 1: go through the repetition of learning in it. And I
Speaker 1: kind of had to learn a whole new way of
Speaker 1: stepping up my game of pro tools and everything that
Speaker 1: I've learned. I'm old school, you know, I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: I mean, we can make a record from across the
Speaker 1: country and do it like this, and she kind of
Speaker 1: taught me this way, and I'm always you know, we
Speaker 1: started doing it. Song starts bobbing, and a year and
Speaker 1: a half later, here we are and the song is out,
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of crazy again. I think she's
Speaker 1: a remarkable example of persistence. So now I'm dying to
Speaker 1: hear your version of Delta. Don Okay, she's want and
Speaker 1: a dad is still because of baby Baby. All the
Speaker 1: folks around Browns will say she's crazy, crazy because she
Speaker 1: walks down town like this in case in looking for
Speaker 1: serious dark and you go with us deal, don't what's
Speaker 1: that flower you got on Men in the Dead? I
Speaker 1: love that? Al right, guys are awesome. That's crazy, No,
Speaker 1: thank you. I just did this um uh animation that
Speaker 1: Harry Connick Jr. Wrote and he wrote me in as
Speaker 1: the possum, and I played the possum. I am a
Speaker 1: possum in his if the show gets picked up, and
Speaker 1: so I'm Harry Knick Junior, but no one knows and
Speaker 1: probably never will. It was fun because George Jones was
Speaker 1: one of my best friends. You know, George Johns, he
Speaker 1: stopped love and heard he became one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: And he actually introduced me to Johnny Cash. He drove
Speaker 1: me there and meet Johnny Cash. Uh. George Johns struve
Speaker 1: me to meet Johnny Cash, and so I told Harry
Speaker 1: Connick Jr. That I wanted this role no matter what
Speaker 1: it said, no matter what it did, because this was
Speaker 1: my tribute to the possum. And so there you go.
Speaker 1: And he killed it and he rest in peace. George
Speaker 1: and Johnny Man, great man. God, I loved him so much.
Speaker 1: You just you just mentioned two of the biggest names
Speaker 1: of my childhood. My dad was everybody in my world
Speaker 1: is musical except for me. Um. My dad was in
Speaker 1: a country western band. They started a country Western band
Speaker 1: called Country Velvet, and so they would play at weddings,
Speaker 1: and they would you know, play at the old folks home,
Speaker 1: and they would always play at the Elks or the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Every weekend they'd get a gig at the Elks of
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and you know it was it was George Jones,
Speaker 1: it was Johnny Cash, it was buck O's and the Buckaroos.
Speaker 1: You know, that was that was what I grew up
Speaker 1: listening to every night. You know when when they were
Speaker 1: jamming in the living room and we lived in this
Speaker 1: tiny little our house was feet you can't not hear
Speaker 1: them jam all night long. And and uh, that's that's
Speaker 1: my heart. That's where I go home to that's the music.
Speaker 1: I go home to. Yeah, good stuff there, and you
Speaker 1: got to meet them. I just want to kiss your
Speaker 1: face for that reason. That's possibility. Uh, that's fantastic. It
Speaker 1: has been great spending time with Billy Ray, Cyrus and
Speaker 1: the beautiful fire Rose. Billy Ray has been keeping us
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Speaker 1: for se off. I love it. Yeah, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: leave you with this because you said you like Johnny Cash. Um.
Speaker 1: The reason George Jones drove me to meet Johnny Cash
Speaker 1: with Jones was in my house and he saw a
Speaker 1: letter hanging on the wall that Johnny Cash had written
Speaker 1: me in. And you probably don't know this about me,
Speaker 1: but I lived in my car and uh, I've had
Speaker 1: ten years of failure of being a singer, songwriter, entertainer.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be a baseball player. I was
Speaker 1: going to be a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds. And
Speaker 1: I heard this voice telling me about a guitar and
Speaker 1: start a band and I'd find my purpose in life.
Speaker 1: And I kind of went crazy and listened to the voice.
Speaker 1: And after ten years of failure, I was about to
Speaker 1: give up, and but finally someone said, yes, I've written
Speaker 1: a song about a Vietnam Better and called some Gay Ball.
Speaker 1: And after ten years of being told no, I played
Speaker 1: that song for a man and he said yes, and
Speaker 1: it was with Mercury Records, and we made the album
Speaker 1: Some Gave Hall, which included ak Breaky Heart written by
Speaker 1: Vietnam Better and Lo and Behold. So a year later,
Speaker 1: I wasn't living in my car anymore. It's so. In June,
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash wrote me a handwritten letter and in the
Speaker 1: letter he said, it's good to be reminded where all
Speaker 1: things that are good come from, Almighty God. And when
Speaker 1: Jones read this letter, he said, have you ever met
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash? And I said no, And he goes, well,
Speaker 1: he's down in Franklin tonight. You want to go meet him.
Speaker 1: I said I'd love to, and he put me in
Speaker 1: his car and drove me to meet Johnny Cash so
Speaker 1: that I could thank him for rutting me later. And
Speaker 1: that's kinda so I do, and to this day, you
Speaker 1: know I do. I do good. Thanks for all thanks good,
Speaker 1: and all good and perfect things come from the Father. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: that is a sweet story. Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for Sharon today. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: It's an honor to meet you, I hope, but see
Speaker 1: you in persons, man, I hope. So you and your
Speaker 1: husband taken me for a ride in your Is it
Speaker 1: a Winni bagel? That's my husband's motor home. Um, mine
Speaker 1: is not quite as fancy, just between us, I paid
Speaker 1: all twelve tho dollars for it. But I can Mama
Speaker 1: can drive it. I'm not. Yeah, I don't. I've never
Speaker 1: been fancy schmancy. Um. You know, I like. I like
Speaker 1: thrift stores, and I like things that have been loved on. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and it's perfect because I don't have to say,
Speaker 1: don't get that dirty, don't come in there with sand
Speaker 1: on your feet, you know, because that's the whole purpose
Speaker 1: of it is is it's it's the little it's the
Speaker 1: camper for the grandkids. And I still have four kids
Speaker 1: at home. So my my oldest is in her forties,
Speaker 1: my youngest is five. So I'll be I'll be a thousand.
Speaker 1: I'll be a thousand when I'm done um raising kids.
Speaker 1: But you know it's so Yeah, you can come and
Speaker 1: you can hop in my motor home or I have
Speaker 1: a gator you can ride on here at the farm. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a gator ride in the sound of a gun.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now. I got I got
Speaker 1: four wheels, I got quads. We could go up on
Speaker 1: the mountain and you can sing to me. I'll come
Speaker 1: from Come on. Billy Ray Cyrus something of a chameleon
Speaker 1: after thirty years in the limelight. He's still handsome, talented,
Speaker 1: still writing, still recording, and totally game for whatever each
Speaker 1: new day brings his way. His new single, this collaboration
Speaker 1: with newcomer and indie pop artist Fire Rose, is available
Speaker 1: right now. Catch up with Billy Ray on his website
Speaker 1: Billy Ray Cyrus dot com, and check in with fire
Speaker 1: Rose on her website fire Rose music dot com. You'll
Speaker 1: be able to find all the fun stuff on their
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Speaker 1: you can of course catch me here on Love Someone.
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Speaker 1: radio program, where I hope to help smooth off the
Speaker 1: rough edges of each new day and soothe a few akey,
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