Speaker 1: Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown. She's
Speaker 1: on the side. She got the snoop on on the
Speaker 1: one side. No one can do with Clie Carola Carola.
Speaker 1: No one can do with Clie Carola 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. You guys, I have j B
Speaker 1: O'Neill in the house. What what So? When she came
Speaker 1: out two thousand, her album Shiver went to gold, number one,
Speaker 1: back to back singles, to number one, back to back singles.
Speaker 1: There is no Arizona when I think about Angels. She's
Speaker 1: not made for Grammys. She won a c M Top
Speaker 1: New Artists. She's saying all by myself in Bridget Jones Diary, Okay,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? That's like the movie of my life.
Speaker 1: She's amazing, She's so much fun to talk to. I'm
Speaker 1: so honored, thrilled, kind of fan girled out a little
Speaker 1: bit that I got to interview her because I'm such
Speaker 1: a fan of her. Here is Jamie O'Neil. Jamie O'Neil
Speaker 1: in the house. Actually, I'm in your house. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here. Thank you. I'm sorry, and
Speaker 1: I'm pay you. Your house is amazing. It's like a
Speaker 1: you walk in it, It's an experience that's so cozy.
Speaker 1: You have all these great feeling colors. What's the vibe
Speaker 1: that you could call your house? I would call it
Speaker 1: um Castle meets kind of. I mean, I like the
Speaker 1: idea of it being cozy and kind of like um
Speaker 1: earth tones, nothing too garish and bright, more like soothing.
Speaker 1: But it's it's pretty dark. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like moody. And I love it. Thank you. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love it. And I've kind of collected things all over
Speaker 1: from all the places I've been, so everything has kind
Speaker 1: of a memory attached to it. I love that. I
Speaker 1: really think that's so special because you see, it takes
Speaker 1: you back. You never forget where you've been. Absolutely, by
Speaker 1: the way, you're from Australia. I never knew that. I know. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's throws people because I don't have an accent
Speaker 1: where it's kind of like I always say, it's the
Speaker 1: opposite of Nicole Kidman. She was born in New York
Speaker 1: or Hawaii or something, and then she moved to Australia. Well,
Speaker 1: I was born in Australia and then I moved here
Speaker 1: when I was two, Okay, because I moved back there
Speaker 1: and I ended up touring with Kylie Minogue and going
Speaker 1: all all over the world with her, and that was
Speaker 1: a major It was just a life changing experience in
Speaker 1: my twenties. And I lived back there for nine years
Speaker 1: before I came. I got offered by publishing deal and
Speaker 1: came back to Nashville. Okay, So we have to break
Speaker 1: that down a little bit. How it's very confusing. Your
Speaker 1: family is you're from a family band, So you grew
Speaker 1: up playing music your parents? What kind of family band
Speaker 1: were you at? My mom was a singer dancer. My
Speaker 1: dad was a songwriter and a guitar player, great guitar
Speaker 1: player and um singer and yodeler yodeler, can you get us? No? No,
Speaker 1: My sister is a master yodeler. Now I can only
Speaker 1: do a little old Lady who from the Knock Knock jokes.
Speaker 1: That's That's all I'm good for, That's right. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: family and my younger sister and then um, my parents divorced.
Speaker 1: That kind of broke up the family band. So what
Speaker 1: it was it was yodeling, it was country. It was
Speaker 1: country music. And we did like Pop Goes the Country
Speaker 1: with Ralph Emery here in Nashville when I was little,
Speaker 1: and we worked with Ronnie millsap, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gale.
Speaker 1: We opened up for a lot of different country artists.
Speaker 1: You are like a very successful family band. Well, we
Speaker 1: grew I grew family, you know, it's kind of like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had the overalls, we had the bus, you know,
Speaker 1: we had we just we in between fairs. We would
Speaker 1: just go to a koa campground, plug in and live
Speaker 1: there until the next fair. So you really like gypsies.
Speaker 1: We just traveled wherever the work was. How long did
Speaker 1: you do that? My whole childhood from the age of
Speaker 1: probably seven. I started singing at eight, but from the
Speaker 1: age of seven I was on the road with my
Speaker 1: parents because they did it all the way up till
Speaker 1: about um, wow, and you and your sister, is it
Speaker 1: just y'all too? And then my dad remarried and had
Speaker 1: three more kids. About the family band was overbeted right exactly.
Speaker 1: And then he started a new family band with my
Speaker 1: sisters and and my step mom. So he's always been
Speaker 1: in the business and now he's co managing me. So
Speaker 1: so he had the first family band with your mom
Speaker 1: and your sister, so it's four of y'all. And then
Speaker 1: your parents divorced and he started a new family band
Speaker 1: with his new wife and three new kids. Well they
Speaker 1: didn't really go on the road though, they were just
Speaker 1: playing in Washington State. But yeah, everyone in my family
Speaker 1: sings or writes music, and yeah, it's really it's really
Speaker 1: cool because we have karaoke nights. We really have Karen
Speaker 1: Go Hard. My dad does Baby Got Back, and it
Speaker 1: brings down the house. He is a master rapper. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: He'll be here in a little while, so he might
Speaker 1: do it. Maybe you could pop into a little yodeling
Speaker 1: a little rap session. It would not be funny. I
Speaker 1: had a yodel in a rap song. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: That yodeling really is the country version of rapping. I
Speaker 1: guess I totally agree. That's amazing. You don't meet many
Speaker 1: people who actually grow up in a family band like
Speaker 1: into the music like that. Music industry like that, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were singing, and you know the thing is, we
Speaker 1: thought it was so fun, so much fun. And my
Speaker 1: dad used to give us quarters to go to the arcade.
Speaker 1: So to us, you know, just being able to play
Speaker 1: the games, sing and then ride the rides and then
Speaker 1: eat a corn dog and then do another show and
Speaker 1: then get back on the right. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: great way to grow up, you know. And we never
Speaker 1: thought we were missing out on anything, and all we
Speaker 1: ever wanted to do was sing, and so it's just
Speaker 1: I think it was just, you know, something that started
Speaker 1: early and took a hold and it's never gone away.
Speaker 1: Did you'll tour all over the States? We did nice? Okay.
Speaker 1: So then from two years old you're born in Australia.
Speaker 1: From two to thirteen, you're touring in the family band
Speaker 1: in the United States. At some point though, you moved
Speaker 1: back to Australia and you link up with Kylie Minogua.
Speaker 1: And how did that is very confusing. Well, I went,
Speaker 1: I was actually singing in Canada with a couple of
Speaker 1: the guys from a Lover Boy and they gave me
Speaker 1: all these contacts. I said, I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: Australian visit my mom who was living over there at
Speaker 1: the time, and my sister, and do you have any
Speaker 1: musical contacts and so one thing led to another. They
Speaker 1: gave me a list of people to call. I called
Speaker 1: all those people. Um, somebody that I was in a
Speaker 1: band with at the time said hey, you know she
Speaker 1: she needs a backing vocalist. Would you like to do
Speaker 1: the tour? And I was like, I said, heck yeah,
Speaker 1: So yeah. What was Kylie like? Really great? She's Madonna
Speaker 1: of Australia for sure, right, she really is. And I
Speaker 1: think I feel like I learned so much from her
Speaker 1: because of her work ethic. Would you never seen anybody
Speaker 1: work so hard? What's her what's her regime? Like? She's very,
Speaker 1: very structured and very disciplined and she would dance all day.
Speaker 1: She would do interviews and dancing. We were over there
Speaker 1: doing rehearsals for like ten days, and um, is it Birmingham.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say Birmingham because it's like I
Speaker 1: don't want to pronounce mispronounce it. But set up in
Speaker 1: a huge, you know, arena type of rehearsal space for
Speaker 1: ten days and she would come in early in the morning.
Speaker 1: They do dance rehearsals, they do fittings, and we were
Speaker 1: there to be there for like ten hours, and she
Speaker 1: would go beyond that because she had interviews to do
Speaker 1: and things like that, and I think, you know, just
Speaker 1: being super super disciplined and coming off stage and still
Speaker 1: working on stuff. I mean, probably like Taylor Swift, does
Speaker 1: you know, they just never stopped. They're really driven in
Speaker 1: very She never complained. She loved her complain and I
Speaker 1: feel like that was a lot for me to to
Speaker 1: learn because I would look at her and I think
Speaker 1: she's never saying, oh I'm so tired, I can't take
Speaker 1: this anymore anything like that. I never heard a complain
Speaker 1: out of her. So now when I work with other
Speaker 1: artists as I do because I'm producing, if they complain,
Speaker 1: if these young girls start complaining about being too tired,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, you're not, suck it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great job and it's a big job, but
Speaker 1: it's it takes a lot of commitment. And I think
Speaker 1: that drive where you wake up just with that burning
Speaker 1: ambition to keep going and to keep doing it into
Speaker 1: and that nothing's too hard that you can get through it.
Speaker 1: You know, what a great boot camp experience, and it
Speaker 1: really was you're like made for this. Though you started
Speaker 1: off in your family band, you go straight to Kylie Minoga,
Speaker 1: I mean, like honestly. And then okay, so after that
Speaker 1: you moved from Australia because you get offered a publishing
Speaker 1: deal states How did that happen? Which was, well, it
Speaker 1: was Harold Shed and it was kind of new to
Speaker 1: me because I've been writing since I was eighteen. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't something like in my mind all I wanted
Speaker 1: to me was an artist. I didn't really think, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be a songwriter and if an artist
Speaker 1: steel comes great. It was more I want to be
Speaker 1: an artist steal, and I'll write to help get my
Speaker 1: artist steal. I mean you were like trying to write
Speaker 1: for other people. You just wanted to not at that time,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the artist exactly. Yeah, and I was.
Speaker 1: And when people would want to pitch my songs, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you know, like when when I think about Angels, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. Whitney Dane was like, what do you pitch
Speaker 1: this to Jessica Andrews. I'm like, no, it's fine, it's fine,
Speaker 1: mind mine. And now I'd like to take it, take it.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to actually talk to you about your
Speaker 1: songwriting because your songwriting is you write such incredible lyrics,
Speaker 1: like when I think about that's really sweet. I was
Speaker 1: just about to say I'm more of a melody person, though,
Speaker 1: I have to say I have to give it back
Speaker 1: to my co writers, because if I didn't write, I would.
Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of person that's going to sit
Speaker 1: home writing lyrics, but I will hum melodies all day long.
Speaker 1: All my melodies started first, So you're a melody first,
Speaker 1: melody first, and then put Yes, I've never put a
Speaker 1: melody to lyrics. I've tried, but it just doesn't. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't work out for me. The melody has to
Speaker 1: come first, and the lyrics come yes yea. And titles
Speaker 1: like I mean, I get titles, but but not pages
Speaker 1: and pages of lyrics. I have so much respect for
Speaker 1: like Lisa Drew, who I wrote Arizona with, because all
Speaker 1: she does is lyrics, and she'll come in with just
Speaker 1: pages and pages of songs and she'll fit it precisely
Speaker 1: to my melody. I could just send her a melody
Speaker 1: and she'll do. That's a great comb team. There is
Speaker 1: no Arizona is one of the most amazing songs. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Ever that was your big breakup song. I will never
Speaker 1: forget when that song came out, I was like, Holy cow,
Speaker 1: this girl can sing and that song is so cool.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It was different for the time, you know
Speaker 1: it was. It has like a almost like a Hotel
Speaker 1: California vibe a little bit, and we do Hotel California
Speaker 1: in the middle of that song. It's funny you should
Speaker 1: say that, are you serious? We do when we do
Speaker 1: the bridge, we go into the verse of Hotel California
Speaker 1: and then go back to the chorus of Arizona. It's
Speaker 1: so cool, Thank you. So tell me how that felt
Speaker 1: like you got hooked up with Keith Steagall. Who is
Speaker 1: it Steagall or Stea Gale? I can never get stall
Speaker 1: And he did all of Alan Jackson's records, so you
Speaker 1: get a publishing deal and then does he hear you
Speaker 1: and like, I will have to work with her. She's amazing. Um.
Speaker 1: I was so lucky too. I feel like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a career if it wasn't for Keith, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean he Gary Overton was at e m I
Speaker 1: and set up an audition in the studio sort of
Speaker 1: like this where I was singing on the other side
Speaker 1: of the glass and Keith came in to listen to me,
Speaker 1: because I guess he liked the idea of hearing someone
Speaker 1: in the studio because you really can hear someone's voice.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when people say you sound so different live, you
Speaker 1: sound so much better live than you do on record,
Speaker 1: it's because when you're on record and it really picks
Speaker 1: up your tone you're being in the studio. There are
Speaker 1: things that they can cover up afterwards, but when you're
Speaker 1: singing live on a mike, that's it. That is you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear every single thing that might be wrong with
Speaker 1: a with a singer or a voice or whatever, or
Speaker 1: what they're doing in their throat, you know, and things
Speaker 1: like that. The studio is a great a great place
Speaker 1: to discover that, and I think Keith knew that, and
Speaker 1: I think it was a really different way to audition.
Speaker 1: But when you think about it's so smart because you
Speaker 1: know what people are really like and what they can do.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I had prepared to do four songs and
Speaker 1: I made it through two and he's like, stop, stop, stop,
Speaker 1: I've heard enough. And I thought, oh, it is yeah,
Speaker 1: you know and everything, and no he was like he
Speaker 1: told Gary, he said, I want to sign her, like
Speaker 1: before he left that day, he was so he was
Speaker 1: just instantly on board. And I just feel like everybody
Speaker 1: needs that one person that's their champion, and he was
Speaker 1: definitely my champion. You have to get that power player
Speaker 1: in your corner. He's just cheerleader, going to make it happen.
Speaker 1: Who believes in you? But I feel like you would
Speaker 1: be very easy to believe in. Your voice is insane.
Speaker 1: Like when I heard a lot of nose, I went
Speaker 1: around twice to different labels. Yes, people said, are you serious? Wow?
Speaker 1: You know, but it only takes one yes. And that's
Speaker 1: what I always tell everybody, Like, you can't get discouraged
Speaker 1: because every time you hear no, you're just like next, next, next.
Speaker 1: And you also really have to keep songwriting, you know,
Speaker 1: writing songs because I didn't have Arizona when I got
Speaker 1: my deal. I wrote it after I got my record deal.
Speaker 1: But you just never know when that next song is
Speaker 1: going to be your breakout song. If anybody had asked me,
Speaker 1: I would have said Angels would be my first single.
Speaker 1: It was my second one. But um, I hadn't even
Speaker 1: written Arizona wasn't even on the radar. So I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's the songwriting thing. It's very discipline. You
Speaker 1: have to. Like, my daughter is writing every day and
Speaker 1: she has that passion of running up to a room
Speaker 1: and creating and doing all that. For me, I had
Speaker 1: to be more disciplined, like make an appointment, show up,
Speaker 1: have my pages of ideas, melodies on my notes and
Speaker 1: things like that, because I didn't write by myself. And
Speaker 1: I'm so I I really admire the fact that, you know,
Speaker 1: she can't wait to get home from school and go
Speaker 1: right Eliah, Eliah. She's alread sometimes though, oh thank you,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I see all your Instagram videos that
Speaker 1: proud mom. You should be. Yeah, she can see like
Speaker 1: a crazy person for thirteen years old. I know she well,
Speaker 1: she loves it, you know, and that's what Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's posting in a curse. Though Ronnie and I are like,
Speaker 1: go to medical school, go to law school. She's like, heck, no,
Speaker 1: I got I got musician, producer parents. I'm not doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's funny because she could probably you know, you
Speaker 1: would think have an album recorded by now, but she doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know. We're always working with other people, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I will work with her, but I feel like she's
Speaker 1: so young, and I feel also like having been a
Speaker 1: child performer myself, where I put everything into that, it
Speaker 1: kind of makes you grow up quicker and you're thinking
Speaker 1: about the business side of things and your childhood goes
Speaker 1: to the wayside. And I really want her to enjoy
Speaker 1: her childhood. And I also feel like, besides Leanne Rhymes,
Speaker 1: who I feel, it's like the exception of a person
Speaker 1: who made it when she was thirteen, has really kept
Speaker 1: herself together and it's so amazingly talented and has sustained
Speaker 1: a career. But that doesn't happen. That's not the norm.
Speaker 1: A lot of people fall off the rails and go crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, gonna end up on a therapist couch, you know,
Speaker 1: and I at one time or another, we definitely do.
Speaker 1: But but that it's handed to them so soon, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you're not ready for it, it's a lot
Speaker 1: to process. That's actually very smart. Yeah, So let her
Speaker 1: have her childhood and maybe when she's ready to fly, well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing is it takes so much work. It
Speaker 1: takes so much conditioning when it comes to everything about
Speaker 1: you know, your songwriting and you're singing and getting better,
Speaker 1: and if you don't work on it, I don't know
Speaker 1: that it's going to come. You know, if you if
Speaker 1: it's one of those things, I just want to be
Speaker 1: a star, but the work ethic isn't there. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna work. I could not agree with you more.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big misconception people have, is they think, oh,
Speaker 1: people live this glamorous life and they're flying around and
Speaker 1: playing shows. That's like the very least of the job.
Speaker 1: I feel like, don't you think absolutely and the steps
Speaker 1: you have to take to get there? So what are
Speaker 1: the steps? Tell me the steps When you got your
Speaker 1: big break and your big record deal, there is no
Speaker 1: Arizona came out and then right after when I think
Speaker 1: about Angels, tell me what that looks like. You're also
Speaker 1: touring with Reeba, you toward Kenny Chesney Alan Jackson, like
Speaker 1: you've toured with the great Martina McBride. I know what
Speaker 1: did your life look like in that season? Um, it
Speaker 1: was very busy. It was definitely like when I look
Speaker 1: back on it, I think I wish I could have
Speaker 1: enjoyed the moments a little bit more. I think everybody
Speaker 1: would say the same thing. You know, Um, I wish
Speaker 1: I could have stayed in the moment, But I feel
Speaker 1: like for me, it did happen so quickly that I
Speaker 1: was just bamboozled by all that I wanted to do
Speaker 1: and wanting to sustain in that kind of thing. And
Speaker 1: then you know, with leaving record companies, and then I
Speaker 1: had my baby, and then my focus completely changed. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be there with her. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: just life changes and it takes you down roads you
Speaker 1: never expected, and that's definitely what show businesses like. But
Speaker 1: I feel like if you can make yourself be prepared
Speaker 1: for what you think might be coming, um and and
Speaker 1: lots of things are distractions for me. I didn't even
Speaker 1: get my record deal until I was thirty three, and
Speaker 1: I was as I was getting married, and my grandfather
Speaker 1: was sick, my aunt was sick. They were both sick
Speaker 1: with cancer at the same time as I was getting
Speaker 1: married and my record was coming out, so that it
Speaker 1: was it was all like how pening it once? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? It was hard to take in
Speaker 1: and stay focused and you know, do what I needed
Speaker 1: to do and also be emotionally prepared for everything. I think, So,
Speaker 1: how old were you when there is no air? When
Speaker 1: is it just it? There is no Arizona as the
Speaker 1: whole title, is it just Arizona? How old? I love
Speaker 1: when people say there ain't no Arizona, or they say
Speaker 1: or one person told me I love that song yours
Speaker 1: Raise in Arizona, Like that was a movie with Nicolas
Speaker 1: Cage and it was a great one. It's not my song.
Speaker 1: How old were you when that song came out? Um?
Speaker 1: I say, I got my record deal in pretty much
Speaker 1: the next year, so like thirty four, Wow, what was touring?
Speaker 1: You're actually before I get start, I interned at Capitol
Speaker 1: Records and you were on Capitol really what we were
Speaker 1: than we there at the same time, and I was
Speaker 1: so start Oh my gosh, you're so sweet. I swear
Speaker 1: like this whole my whole life has been so fun
Speaker 1: because starting off in Turning, I turned it like Universal
Speaker 1: South you see at all. Yes, I entered all these
Speaker 1: record labels and I would just be around these artists
Speaker 1: like just kind of wide eyed and silent, so scared
Speaker 1: to breathe. Because I was such a fan of country music.
Speaker 1: So it was so cool to inter where you are
Speaker 1: and now I'm getting to that's amazing. So you were
Speaker 1: there with John's Arling and where were you Capital or
Speaker 1: Capital Capital? Okay because Mercury. John's Arling was an intern there.
Speaker 1: It was Jimmy Harnan was there and Steve um My, gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting his name. He did. I know everybody. That's terrible.
Speaker 1: I know. You know when you have a baby, a
Speaker 1: lot of your memories they get all fuzzy and I'm
Speaker 1: just like that and head lights, Yeah I do too,
Speaker 1: would you and you don't even have any kids? Wait
Speaker 1: till that happens, Lord bless me. Yeah. Probably leave him
Speaker 1: at the Kroger accident. Oh gosh, leave him in the
Speaker 1: diaper aisle. Where to leave them? My baby? Um that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was I guess that was kind of
Speaker 1: the Atlantas and Somebody's hero days. Was that when you
Speaker 1: were there, Somebody's here. That song was so great. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I feel like you have message songs. I did well.
Speaker 1: I do try to think about that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do like to really write story songs. I love writing
Speaker 1: because then you can go anywhere. If you're saying I
Speaker 1: I I all the time, and you want to project
Speaker 1: a certain image. But when you do the story songs
Speaker 1: like say, Carrie Ona, what does you can go anywhere?
Speaker 1: You can kill somebody, I mean you can, you can
Speaker 1: drink yourself blind, you can beat someone up, and you
Speaker 1: do all those things if you're saying exactly, but you
Speaker 1: can't if your I you really have to be honest
Speaker 1: about who you are. You know, because I remember now
Speaker 1: I write all kinds of songs. I mean, especially with
Speaker 1: these younger artists, I find myself writing more like friendship songs,
Speaker 1: are falling in love songs. But if I'm writing songs
Speaker 1: just for anybody and no matter who it is, I
Speaker 1: can write about anything nowadays. But when I was thinking
Speaker 1: as an artist, I would be well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to write any songs about cheating. I don't want to
Speaker 1: write any songs about saying it's okay to cheat. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to write any songs about getting drunk.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You didn't want to know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, and it's it's just it's not really me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I really wanted to be
Speaker 1: true to what I what I felt was right. Um
Speaker 1: even though I know those those are great songs, and
Speaker 1: I sing them, you know, I sing Patsy Klein songs
Speaker 1: and I sing you know, some of these songs that
Speaker 1: just amazed me. I just kind of wanted the audience
Speaker 1: and the fans to know who I was and what
Speaker 1: I kind of stood for, you know. I think that's
Speaker 1: so crucial to represent yourself truly as an artist. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the fans know when you're being fake. I
Speaker 1: think they recognize authenticity, and I think, um, that's what
Speaker 1: they really connect with, you know, is I know who
Speaker 1: this person is and that's exactly how I feel, and
Speaker 1: that's how what I would do in a relationship or not,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. And so some of the artists that
Speaker 1: I feel like you have to believe them are the
Speaker 1: ones that make it to the top because you absolutely
Speaker 1: believe every word they're saying, you know, Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: people like that, where when they when they sing a
Speaker 1: song and then you believe it, you're in the palm
Speaker 1: of their hand, you absolutely And you know, it takes
Speaker 1: being a fan to get fans, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So that fans of I've always been a fan,
Speaker 1: and I love the Waye Taylor Swift fan girling all
Speaker 1: the time. She recognizes talented people and you know, pass
Speaker 1: them on the back. And I feel like other people
Speaker 1: see that and love that too, because that's the way
Speaker 1: most people are supporting, to support everyone. Loretta Lynn always says,
Speaker 1: there's enough room for everybody, exactly, and there is. If
Speaker 1: you're doing you and you're doing it like how you
Speaker 1: feel called to do the right, it's going to happen
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to. Yeah, if you're being yourself.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Okay. So in this whirlwind, you won a c
Speaker 1: M New Artists the Year. Because a c M, then
Speaker 1: you like Billboard New Arts the Year, you're nominated for
Speaker 1: four Grammys? Are you freaking out? I was freaking out.
Speaker 1: And when I did the announcements for the Grammys, it
Speaker 1: was really cool and it was like Ussher and Stevie
Speaker 1: Nicks and Beyonce and and I remember that was when
Speaker 1: I was looking around, going, am I really amongst these people?
Speaker 1: They don't know who I am, but I know who
Speaker 1: they were. That's the company you're in, that's your yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think, and I remember the Dixie Chicks to
Speaker 1: Natalie Maines came up to me on the c M
Speaker 1: A red carpet, my very first cimas and said I
Speaker 1: love your song, I love your voice. That was a
Speaker 1: huge moment for me. If anybody says, what are your
Speaker 1: big moments, I'm like, well that was as a new artist,
Speaker 1: you know, barely known, you know, still living in a
Speaker 1: little rental apartment, you know, with my with my husband. Um,
Speaker 1: that was a big, huge moment for me, just that recognition.
Speaker 1: And I love that about her, And I thought, I
Speaker 1: always want to be that way. I always want to
Speaker 1: recognize other people because you know how great it made
Speaker 1: you feel. Like Myelu says, you know, people won't remember
Speaker 1: what you said, but they'll always remember how you make
Speaker 1: them feel. And I think it's it's so important. I
Speaker 1: love that you live that way. Yeah, well I don't
Speaker 1: know if I live that way. I don't want to be.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be like totally you know, UM,
Speaker 1: you know saying I do it all the time because
Speaker 1: we all in our own world, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm driving my car and I turn off the radio
Speaker 1: deliberately to try to get melodies because that's when they
Speaker 1: come to me in the car. So a lot of
Speaker 1: times on my voice notes. You hear all this, you know,
Speaker 1: fire trucks going past, the people honking and me screaming
Speaker 1: at another driver or whatever. But it's it's that's the
Speaker 1: time when I you know, really the melodies do come
Speaker 1: to me, but I do. If I'm thinking about other things,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a block, you know, like I need to
Speaker 1: do this, I need to get take care of this.
Speaker 1: You know. Just every day shouldn't shut off because as
Speaker 1: a mom, I probably drive sixty miles a day. A
Speaker 1: lot of time is spent in the car, and I think,
Speaker 1: I guess the car is a quiet space, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're home, you're doing stuff. I'm usually
Speaker 1: down here singing background vocals or riding upstairs with co writers.
Speaker 1: And you know, with Rodney here, you know, he busts in,
Speaker 1: you know, in on my groove. And so how did
Speaker 1: you and Rodney meat? And how long about the studio?
Speaker 1: We have been to other for twenty one years, um,
Speaker 1: married for sixteen this year. I don't know if there
Speaker 1: is a secret, because I feel like what works for
Speaker 1: one people one person doesn't work for another. UM. It's
Speaker 1: weird because if you had said to me, you're gonna
Speaker 1: end up working with your husband in the studio and
Speaker 1: on the road and still be together and doing everything
Speaker 1: that we do. I would have said, no way could
Speaker 1: I take that, because I remember doing a cruise with
Speaker 1: him before I had any any success, and we were
Speaker 1: just dating and we did a cruise together and he
Speaker 1: drove me crazy in that little space. Well, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was just it was a confined space, and I
Speaker 1: just thought, this is what marriage must be like. You know,
Speaker 1: you can relieve if we if we didn't have this
Speaker 1: house with some space. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he needs your own separate thing.
Speaker 1: But he's never been the kind of person that would
Speaker 1: ever stop me from doing what I want to do,
Speaker 1: which I think is important for any relationship. And he's
Speaker 1: never been jealous, and he's never needed to be reassured.
Speaker 1: And those are really unattractive things that I think someone
Speaker 1: can do, especially in entertainment. In entertainment, if you don't
Speaker 1: understand what someone is doing and let them go do
Speaker 1: it with a healthy respect, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You don't want to like just ignore them and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: well i'll see you when you get back. But um,
Speaker 1: because you are it's kind of cool when you're gonna
Speaker 1: miss that person, you know they're gone for a little while.
Speaker 1: You know, three husbands on the road. Actually, my husband's
Speaker 1: been home for two months after CHRISTI driving you crazy.
Speaker 1: It's not driving me crazy, but I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm gonna be excited to miss you. And
Speaker 1: I think I felt the same way because we we
Speaker 1: always have a little bit of time to miss each other.
Speaker 1: That kind of keeps you your relationship always fresh, it does, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean we don't really have that now,
Speaker 1: but we had a lot of that in the beginning
Speaker 1: because you know, I was a new artist and everything,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't. He was in the band, but I'd
Speaker 1: have to go do different things, you know, often fly
Speaker 1: off for things that he wasn't involved in. So we
Speaker 1: at all that in the early days. And it's also
Speaker 1: great to have him included in your life because I
Speaker 1: do think artists that are totally separate from their spouses
Speaker 1: that could also be problems. That's true, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it just it takes a special person to understand
Speaker 1: this crazy business and the fact that you know, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the things that that he and
Speaker 1: I hit quite a lot with any issues. Is He'll
Speaker 1: always say to me, you don't tell me, you don't
Speaker 1: keep me in the loop. You don't tell me what's
Speaker 1: going on with our daughter. And I'm like, we're two chicks,
Speaker 1: you know. We we don't have time to stop and
Speaker 1: tell you every move we're making. It's just tedious. But
Speaker 1: it's funny because when when I get it as a dad,
Speaker 1: because if he if we had a son, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it would be the two of them going everywhere and
Speaker 1: making plans and then be going, wait, where are you
Speaker 1: guys going? What's going on? You know? But for for
Speaker 1: my daughter and I were like looking at each other,
Speaker 1: rolling our eyes. Here comes dad again with there's twenty
Speaker 1: questions as we're walking out the door. So we a
Speaker 1: lot of times because he's working in the studio, we
Speaker 1: sneak out the front and he goes out there and
Speaker 1: we're going, he calls us, what's going on? When did
Speaker 1: you guys leave? We're like, we're gonna want the questions,
Speaker 1: So we just left it, just booked it out of here.
Speaker 1: You guys are a cute family. Oh thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet of you. That's well. At the end,
Speaker 1: of the day. That's all that really matters. Sense of
Speaker 1: humor is huge, It really is huge. I feel sorry
Speaker 1: for people who don't have it. You know, they can't
Speaker 1: laugh serious hysterically, are too uptight to laugh. And every
Speaker 1: honestly you can laugh at everything. You can find a
Speaker 1: little bit of humor and everything. Yeah, I think our
Speaker 1: daughters sometimes thinks we're nuts because we're like you know,
Speaker 1: Modern Family a little bit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We laugh at that show so much. But wait, it's
Speaker 1: because we can relate a lot to those crazy characters.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, Okay, So another cool thing that
Speaker 1: I'm going a fan girl out about is I'm obsessed
Speaker 1: with the Bridget Jones is iri. It's like for my
Speaker 1: single years in my twenties, I felt like I was
Speaker 1: Bridget Jones, just like the hottest missed ever is a Disaster.
Speaker 1: But in the yeah you say all by myself, which
Speaker 1: they had had seln Dion when they were going to
Speaker 1: have her do it right, I think it was going
Speaker 1: to be too expensive, so they got old cheap oh
Speaker 1: over here. But the fact that like you and Selene,
Speaker 1: how that is the caliber of your voice is like
Speaker 1: neck and neck was Celendon I mean, hello, Jamie O'Neill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I think she wants to go. She's so
Speaker 1: bored with this. She's she's y'all and she's like, Adios,
Speaker 1: peace out the watches, Okay, bye, Chelsea. That's a little dog.
Speaker 1: She's a little terrier. She's a Marky. I call it
Speaker 1: a y'all tee. It's Maltese and YORKI so yll tee
Speaker 1: instead of Marky. I know, I know my stepmom is though, Um,
Speaker 1: I think that's weird. I haven't seen Bridget Jones's baby.
Speaker 1: I haven't either, but um, they had already shot the
Speaker 1: movie when I when I got to sing it, so
Speaker 1: I had to watch her and follow her. When I sang,
Speaker 1: I had to follow her lip syncing. She had already
Speaker 1: lip sync to the other version. So that was like
Speaker 1: a first for me, was trying to do something like that.
Speaker 1: Holy cow. So did you actually get to meet Renee Zellweger?
Speaker 1: I did. I got to go to the movie and
Speaker 1: meet Hugh Grant and m Renee's Yeah. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: So would you have Paris Hilton was there too, I
Speaker 1: remember that was big at the time. Would you have
Speaker 1: picked Hugh Grant or Colin Firth, if you were a grant,
Speaker 1: not his personality. I guess I'm just going by looks.
Speaker 1: He's so charming. He is charming. He is charming for sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: so how did that field? But I would pick Patrick
Speaker 1: Dempsey and the new one over any of them. I love.
Speaker 1: I'm so upset. I started crying. I started crying on
Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy when that happened, and my daughter was like, Mom,
Speaker 1: get it together. This isn't real. What is going on
Speaker 1: with you? And then my husband's so sweet. He's like, sweetie,
Speaker 1: you gotta realize she's had a lot of years invested
Speaker 1: in this character. He was so sweetie. I'm like, thank you,
Speaker 1: you're understanding. Yeah, I love Gray's and out of me,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge grades fan and I really miss Patrick Dempsey.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well he's McDreamy. How could the show go
Speaker 1: on without McDreamy. I don't know. And they shocked us.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like we knew it was coming. We can't
Speaker 1: kill the main character. Well apparently they did, and they're
Speaker 1: going for it. They're still going strong rude. No one consulted,
Speaker 1: no exactly, But how did that feel? Just have that
Speaker 1: huge moment in Bridget jones Diary, amazing all by myself.
Speaker 1: She's lip singing and having this big dramatic moment and
Speaker 1: it's your voice. It was amazing. I I feel like
Speaker 1: I can't use a bigger word than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was life changing for me because it happened so
Speaker 1: early in my career. Um, and I would love to
Speaker 1: do it again. But then when it came on Bridget
Speaker 1: Jones's Baby, everyone was like, hey, Britney Spears, it's on
Speaker 1: Bridget Jones Baby too. Yeah. Britney Spears even put it up.
Speaker 1: She put up a little YouTube of that scene, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Britney Spears is talking about that scene?
Speaker 1: Is in the new movie? Not that scene. But they
Speaker 1: do play the song again and she says something like, oh,
Speaker 1: screw off, Oh my god, kiss off of something. Very yeah, cheers,
Speaker 1: high five. I know the song that lives on. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know that. I didn't even know it was
Speaker 1: a repeat. And what a cool movie to be. It's
Speaker 1: the Girl movie. Did you see? So you haven't seen
Speaker 1: the movie obviously, because I want to see it. I
Speaker 1: want to see Patrick Dempsey. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1: So Okay, that leads me to another question. Is he
Speaker 1: your hot pass. I'm gonna say that would have to
Speaker 1: be Ryan Reynolds for the sense of humor that I
Speaker 1: love Ryan Reynolds. I love the way so dry and
Speaker 1: I just canna. I want to go to dinner at
Speaker 1: Blake and and Ryan's house, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: want to watch their sense of humor together. I think
Speaker 1: they're the cutest couple, so cool, so cute. Ryan Reynolds's
Speaker 1: he's pretty, Yeah he is. He's good looking, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't know it. And I don't know that that's attractive
Speaker 1: to Yeah, funny. We always get the guys with a
Speaker 1: sense of humor always get us, don't you think. I
Speaker 1: think so because he wants to be like all stiff
Speaker 1: and serious, I know. And you don't want someone that's
Speaker 1: that has more mirror time with hair products than you either,
Speaker 1: And you just want the guy who just puts on
Speaker 1: a ball cap, hasn't showered in two days and goes
Speaker 1: out the door. That's my husband. You're like, I don't care. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're in speaking of your husband. We're in your
Speaker 1: studio called the Grotto, which is awesome, which is a
Speaker 1: little grotty, right, now, as we say in Australia, it's
Speaker 1: a little grotty. What does that mean? Messy? Dirty? Not clean.
Speaker 1: It's great though, it's got this great vibe. Tell me
Speaker 1: about it. A vibe, it's a full vib. It's just
Speaker 1: it can use a little made action. I think right now,
Speaker 1: I think you're being hard on yourself when Rodney comes
Speaker 1: in here with his dust. You saw him dusting when
Speaker 1: you got here. It's just it's very it's very cute.
Speaker 1: He plays the maid, you know, with a little the
Speaker 1: best dusting feather. So y'all have this grotto and you
Speaker 1: produce too. He's seeing and you produce. None of my
Speaker 1: artists right now is Kaylee Rutland and her song is
Speaker 1: on radio Disney Country. Is it radio? Is it Radio
Speaker 1: Disney Country or Radio Country? I think it's Disney Country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big slightly dyslexic, I guess anything. And we
Speaker 1: just shot a video with Kristen Barlow for it and Kaylee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kristen is she's so cool. She's so funny. Speaking of
Speaker 1: funny and gorgeous, she's amazing and um so yeah, Kaylee
Speaker 1: did a great job. The video is going to be
Speaker 1: incredible and it's about to be premiered UM at I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Summit and CRS is coming up. How did
Speaker 1: you get into producing and do you like producing or
Speaker 1: being an artist more? Is it two different animals? I
Speaker 1: think it's all part of the same animal, you know,
Speaker 1: it's more like the leg that no, But I think
Speaker 1: I still love being on stage. I mean, love performing
Speaker 1: and singing. It's just like there's nothing else like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But I also love seeing
Speaker 1: the results of helping someone else. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Like I love seeing someone getting better and helping them find,
Speaker 1: you know, the right stylist or maybe finding the look
Speaker 1: that works for them and connecting them with you know,
Speaker 1: photographers or video directors and people that I've known in
Speaker 1: the business. And I don't know the whole, the whole
Speaker 1: start to finish thing about helping, mentoring an artist, writing
Speaker 1: with them and everything, every part of it is something
Speaker 1: I enjoy being in the studio too. So when you
Speaker 1: work with an artist, you don't just produce them. You
Speaker 1: do the full meal deal you started begetting. If it's
Speaker 1: for Momentum my label that UM we started a few
Speaker 1: years ago with Rochelle and a which is awesome amazing.
Speaker 1: You have a record label. Yeah, well my dad does
Speaker 1: most of the heavy lifting and a couple of others.
Speaker 1: We have a great team of people. But um so
Speaker 1: I'm more the creative side. But I do love all
Speaker 1: aspects of it. I love performance, helping people with their
Speaker 1: performance and just everything being on set watching someone else.
Speaker 1: Now that's when I watched someone else do a video,
Speaker 1: it makes me be like I want to I want
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, but I do love seeing all
Speaker 1: as spects of the editing and it's just everything, you know,
Speaker 1: going into the booth and seeing it come together. Tell
Speaker 1: me the three top experiences of your career that you
Speaker 1: could say off the top of your head that you've
Speaker 1: had so far. Um, being at the Grammys being nominated
Speaker 1: that always, to me is my first. Bridget Jones is
Speaker 1: a huge one. And I think making the connection with
Speaker 1: other artists that I've always looked up to. Reba, for instance,
Speaker 1: Reba McIntyre is a hero of mine. And then when
Speaker 1: she cut my song and I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you. Which is another thing that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: is Reba, Hey, oh is this this is my dad?
Speaker 1: And you're the yodel you go to learn the rapper. Okay,
Speaker 1: we need to hear him. We're gonna have a guest
Speaker 1: guest spot from you. You have to come in. We've
Speaker 1: heard all about it. Can you yodel on the spot? Here?
Speaker 1: You talking to the microphone really fast. So this is
Speaker 1: Jamie's dad. Dad's coming in with some coffees and um
Speaker 1: being put on the spot. Oh yes, this is very
Speaker 1: it is real. Okay, we're just gonna say a little
Speaker 1: hello to you because you started the whole thing with
Speaker 1: a family band and the yodeling. Okay, so give us
Speaker 1: anything you want to give us, Just a little nugget, okay,
Speaker 1: little I don't know, country, western country and western Yoli lady,
Speaker 1: Lodi Holadio, Lodi Holadio. Holy loony loonily loily my. But
Speaker 1: the wrapping, now, I don't know. I feel like maybe
Speaker 1: we need the wrapping, some wrapping. One note, Dad, why
Speaker 1: don't you put the coffees down, grab a guitar and
Speaker 1: do the thing right. Put the coffees now, grab a guitar. Here,
Speaker 1: I'll take the coffee. Do you stay here. Let's grab
Speaker 1: your guitar and now we gotta hear there rapping. This
Speaker 1: is too good to be true. So you and you
Speaker 1: walk about him and then he shows up with bringing coffee. Perfect.
Speaker 1: You're like a visit, your dream come true. This is
Speaker 1: this is called Hi Caroline. This is Caroline. Hello. It's
Speaker 1: so nice to be you. Okay, I'm gonna hold this
Speaker 1: to you and you now give us your wrapping. You
Speaker 1: have pink run Oh, here you go here you okay,
Speaker 1: this is so exciting. M what it is? Check it
Speaker 1: out running down? That's right. Hey, hey, I like big
Speaker 1: butts and I cannot lie you. Other brothers can't deny.
Speaker 1: When a girl walks in with a nittybity ways round
Speaker 1: thing in your face, you get strong. I want to
Speaker 1: get up beside it because you see that button stuffed
Speaker 1: trying the jeans and she's wearing I'm hoaxed and I
Speaker 1: can't stut staring. Oh baby, I want to get witcher
Speaker 1: and take your picture. My homeboys trying to warn man
Speaker 1: that but you got makes me so horny. Oh whispoons
Speaker 1: skin say you want to get muppins. Why use man?
Speaker 1: Use me because you ain't that average grouping. I see
Speaker 1: her dancing to hell the room mance. She sweats went
Speaker 1: gotta going like a terrible bet. I'm tired of magazines
Speaker 1: saying flat butts on the flank taking that ridge black
Speaker 1: man and asked him that she gotta pack much bag.
Speaker 1: So fellas, fellas you your friend got that button? Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: shake it, shake it, shake that healthy but baby got
Speaker 1: back baby god, Oh my gosh. Okay, So yes, introduced yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Murphy. He's like Madonna. He just
Speaker 1: goes by Jimmy goes by Jimmy Jimmy Murphy. That is
Speaker 1: Jammie O'Neil's father. And oh my gosh, how incredible is that?
Speaker 1: I told you we have the best karaoke nights are
Speaker 1: family nights. Trump that that's on a bar with the
Speaker 1: shark bite. It is. Yeah, I'm sorry, it just is
Speaker 1: when you talk to you dad about coolness, he might
Speaker 1: I got bit in the face by a shark, but
Speaker 1: he cannot seeing about butts, so I think you might
Speaker 1: he really got bit by a shark in the face. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I well, thank you for joining us. That was such
Speaker 1: a treat. That was too much fun. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: gonna go. That is gonna gona go viral. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Dad's gone viral. Dad's gone viral. I don't know what's funny,
Speaker 1: or bending over with the coffees and yodeling, yeah you know,
Speaker 1: or the baby got back. I think it's the combo
Speaker 1: meal of it all. It's proby m. It's pretty spectacular,
Speaker 1: and it just it actually gives me so much more
Speaker 1: insight into you, Jamie. Right, you see what's going on
Speaker 1: behind the scenes craziness. I like it. If you're not crazy,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the point. You know? You gotta have
Speaker 1: you gotta have that gut, I mean loose and written
Speaker 1: a moment's notice. Yeah he didn't. He didn't even need
Speaker 1: any time to warm up. He's totally ready to go.
Speaker 1: He I have put him on the spot at the
Speaker 1: opery too. I was playing at the opera and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, you know, we just had
Speaker 1: some yodelers here. I think I want to bring my
Speaker 1: dad out to yodel and Dad's like, you could have
Speaker 1: warned me. I'm like, but then it wouldn't be fun
Speaker 1: if you didn't do a spur at the moment. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: I freaking love it. Okay, So I think, let me see,
Speaker 1: is there anything amissing you? You also do a songwriter cruise.
Speaker 1: We are doing one, and that's great. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: you brought that up because, um, Randy hobb Day at
Speaker 1: Daily Travel will be so happy that you brought up
Speaker 1: doing an Alaskan cruise. I've never been to Alaska. I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to go to Alaska. Colin Ray has been
Speaker 1: to Alaska on this Yeah, he was just here actually,
Speaker 1: and Ronnie mills Up were doing some interviews at your house. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I forget that these people are just your friends, like
Speaker 1: we're using the studio. Came up together the same class
Speaker 1: like you and Tie Herndon and Colin Ray. Who else
Speaker 1: was in that class with you? Um? Well, those guys
Speaker 1: when I got to Nashville, they were already big stars.
Speaker 1: They were so Yeah. I feel like they've had, you know,
Speaker 1: been around longer than I haven't had, you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: number ones. I think Colin has had something like incredible
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, he's a jam I sang I can't
Speaker 1: live if living is without you with him because he
Speaker 1: did that with Susan Ashton and so I was doing
Speaker 1: a show with him and so we come out and
Speaker 1: sing with me, and I was like, sure, we didn't
Speaker 1: even rehearse. I walked out there and was just like,
Speaker 1: Holy Molly, his voice is so incredible. He has so
Speaker 1: much power. He's just as good as he as he
Speaker 1: ever was, and it was that was definitely a highlight
Speaker 1: for me singing that song with him because he's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay to go back to the The Alaskan Cruise is
Speaker 1: July nine through the sixte My daughter, my husband and
Speaker 1: I are going on it and we're doing acoustic shows
Speaker 1: and songwriting seminars and you know, Lee is gonna talk
Speaker 1: to him about her writing and what her processes. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk to him about writing Gona tank Q and
Speaker 1: A and even it work within anybody who's actually a
Speaker 1: songwriter who wants to come on there and do some writing. Heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: how do we sign up for it? It? I think
Speaker 1: you'd go to Jamie O'Neil um Cruise or Alaskan Cruise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all. It's on my website, It's on my Facebook.
Speaker 1: Tell me what your website, JA, Jamie O'Neil dot com.
Speaker 1: And then I'm on Facebook UM and I'm on Instagram
Speaker 1: Jamie O'Neil Official and Twitter and you can find out
Speaker 1: all the information about and you can also go to
Speaker 1: Daily Travel, which is d A Y L E E Travel.
Speaker 1: Because the booking for that cruise and many other cruises.
Speaker 1: I'm really super excited. That's gonna be awesome. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be incredible. I'm gonna see a glacier. We might write
Speaker 1: a song on a glacier. You probably should. I think
Speaker 1: we should. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, Okay, anything else
Speaker 1: that I missed? I mean, there's so much. We talked
Speaker 1: about the artists, and we talked about the cruise, and
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm doing. Okay. I like to wrap
Speaker 1: up with Oh, by the way, I had to tell you,
Speaker 1: you know, you're telling me a recipe because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't off the top of my head, I can't
Speaker 1: think of one. You know who your double Gamer gang is? No.
Speaker 1: I was watching your videos obviously because I was like
Speaker 1: stopping you back background search, because you're a good interviewer.
Speaker 1: When I think about angels, you and Meg Ryan are like,
Speaker 1: y'all are the same. I was gonna say, Meg Ryan,
Speaker 1: back in the day, I would get asked all the time,
Speaker 1: and you Meg Ryan. One woman in Jersey was like,
Speaker 1: I know who you are when Harry met Sally. You
Speaker 1: are huh that Ryan? Can you do that thing a scene? Now?
Speaker 1: That would be like after a few glasses of wine,
Speaker 1: I think before I No, I love that movie, though,
Speaker 1: I can't wait till my daughter is old enough to
Speaker 1: show her that, you know, Like that's one of the
Speaker 1: things you think about when you have a child and
Speaker 1: they start getting older and they become like your buddy
Speaker 1: is like, I can't wait to show you this movie,
Speaker 1: but you can't see it now, not yet. Come back
Speaker 1: in like three or four years, and then you'll be
Speaker 1: ready to see the sandwich scene or whatever. That. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love Meg Ryan, I love the two of them together, Crystal,
Speaker 1: he's still okay. So is there anything left on your
Speaker 1: bucket list? And what are you excited about? You've done
Speaker 1: so much for me. That was going on safari to
Speaker 1: South Africa and seeing the animals and taking pictures, and
Speaker 1: that would be like just a dream trip. Um. But
Speaker 1: I think also going back to Europe and singing and
Speaker 1: playing some shows and seeing one of my artists make
Speaker 1: it to the level that you know we all want
Speaker 1: to make it too. Yes, that's a dream. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I like to wrap up with leave your light.
Speaker 1: So leave some inspiration, how you've been inspired or how
Speaker 1: you would like to inspire people. Oh wow, okay, yes, um.
Speaker 1: One of the most important things that I can tell
Speaker 1: people is you know, when they're when they have this
Speaker 1: talent and this innate ability to connect with people and
Speaker 1: want to make music is um to keep going, but
Speaker 1: to write everything down, like if you have a title,
Speaker 1: or if you're you know, going into a bookstore and
Speaker 1: you're just looking and seeking out ideas or melodies, it
Speaker 1: will come to you, you know, because everybody has something
Speaker 1: to give, and everybody's different than the next person. I
Speaker 1: always tell people, don't compare yourself to others. Don't try
Speaker 1: to compete. It's not a competition, you know. Um. So
Speaker 1: I guess that I'm probably giving way too much advice
Speaker 1: to people that are like, Okay, I'm like a mom
Speaker 1: to a lot these people because they're so young. But
Speaker 1: you need to give it. People need to know yeah
Speaker 1: that's true, and know that it really is hard work,
Speaker 1: but it's so worth it at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: It's so worth it. Hellove it. Thank you, Jane, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming out, Thanks for having me. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: to be here. In the grotto. Okay, piece out. I
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Speaker 1: you may know him to recognize him from I Love
Speaker 1: Kelly Pickler on CMT. He is Kelly Pickler's husband and
Speaker 1: he is the best guy ever. Love him so much.
Speaker 1: He's also Lee Bryce, Bryce's producer. Amazing. He wrote More
Speaker 1: Than a Memory for Garth Brooks. Do you remember that song?
Speaker 1: It came out. It was the first song to ever
Speaker 1: debut at number one on the country charts. It was
Speaker 1: insane and he's probably just the sweetest guy ever. Love
Speaker 1: him like a brother. Cannot wait for him to join me.
Speaker 1: So next week Kyle Jacobs will be in the house.
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