Speaker 1: It is June, my friends, summer is upon us. It's
Speaker 1: a month of sunshine, of lemonade, of Kick the Can.
Speaker 1: Do kids still play Kick the Can? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Most of them are playing on video games. It's a
Speaker 1: month of roses and rhododendrons. It's the month of lawnmowers
Speaker 1: still humming at nine PM, or people mowing their lawns
Speaker 1: at eight am on the weekend. It's the smell of
Speaker 1: barbecue wafting through the neighborhoods across our country. And it's
Speaker 1: the month that we celebrate fathers. Just was we dedicated
Speaker 1: May to the work of motherhood. Let's spend the month
Speaker 1: of June showering dads and all those that filled dad roles,
Speaker 1: granddads and stepdads and godfathers and and those people that
Speaker 1: filled the role of father. Let's celebrate them with heartfelt appreciation.
Speaker 1: My podcast is one place will be sharing the love.
Speaker 1: My radio program is another, and I'll be looking for
Speaker 1: good dad based content from my social media pages too.
Speaker 1: Today's guest uses his writing talents, putting into words and
Speaker 1: then into songs the type of emotions that are only
Speaker 1: felt when one loves on a deep and profound level.
Speaker 1: His latest album, Face the River, was born out of
Speaker 1: love for his father, who was nearing the end of
Speaker 1: his life. It's real and raw and powerful and a
Speaker 1: beautiful testament to exactly what kind of impact the love
Speaker 1: of a father has on his children. Multi Platinum singer
Speaker 1: and songwriter Gavin degra joins US today, will be talking
Speaker 1: about his seventh full length album, Face the River, which
Speaker 1: was released in May. It's fusion of rock, pop, soul,
Speaker 1: and funk. Will be talking about his parents, who inspired
Speaker 1: much of its material. And I'm sure we'll take some
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Speaker 1: I'm nice to meet you, Hi, Gavin, I'm Delilah, nice
Speaker 1: to meet you. Hey. The first time I listened to
Speaker 1: Face the River, I'm glad my sister sent it to me.
Speaker 1: Uh And I was home in my bedroom because I
Speaker 1: was in the pillow, standing there facing that river. I
Speaker 1: couldn't cross. Wow. That's heavy. It's beautiful, heavy, but beautiful. Wow.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So I was told that when you were
Speaker 1: writing this album, you knew that you were going to
Speaker 1: lose your dad. I was pretty sure, you know, I
Speaker 1: was hoping for a miracle, but you know, the miracle
Speaker 1: never came with my mother, so I was less uh
Speaker 1: less sure that a miracle would come from my dad,
Speaker 1: you know. And he kept asking me to hear the
Speaker 1: record that I was working on and I just knew
Speaker 1: I had this thing had to be finished. I had
Speaker 1: to finish this thing. I had to play it for him. Um.
Speaker 1: And he had heard three songs when he was hospitalized.
Speaker 1: At one point I had gotten ahold of three songs
Speaker 1: to play for him and we had a good cry
Speaker 1: in the hospital and that he was very moved and
Speaker 1: he said, Uh, I wish your mother could heard this.
Speaker 1: And I said to him, I said, she wrote the record.
Speaker 1: That you know, she wrote the record And he said
Speaker 1: she did, She did write the record. And when he
Speaker 1: came home, Um, it was home for weeks and weeks,
Speaker 1: and uh, the album was finally completed, you know, mixed, mastered,
Speaker 1: I said him. I said, hey, records done. You want
Speaker 1: to hear it? It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, played for me,
Speaker 1: played for me. So we sat there playing the album.
Speaker 1: We got through the end of the record. My brother
Speaker 1: and I hopped in the car to go for a
Speaker 1: drive out to Kentucky and uh we got a half
Speaker 1: hour and the phone rang and there was a big
Speaker 1: medical emergency and my dad had to be taken to
Speaker 1: the hospital and uh put on heavy, heavy paint killers.
Speaker 1: And that was the last That was the last real
Speaker 1: cognizant time we got to have with him, you know,
Speaker 1: because the next day and a half was basically that
Speaker 1: you know, that slow boat out. So I, I, without exaggeration,
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to play him the album and its
Speaker 1: entirety a half hour before. I wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to do that, and so that it may not seem
Speaker 1: like a big deal to people who weren't in my shoes,
Speaker 1: but me, it provided some semblance of closure with my
Speaker 1: dad that we got to share that experience together because
Speaker 1: he'd been asking me for the music for so long,
Speaker 1: and and I was a race against time to play
Speaker 1: it for him, and I got to complete it rather
Speaker 1: than rather than me finishing after losing him, you know,
Speaker 1: that would have been even more devastating. I would venture
Speaker 1: to say that that was one of the things he
Speaker 1: was hanging on for. Maybe maybe you're right, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: you're right. I don't know. I'll find out when I
Speaker 1: see him again. You know everything I've read, your folks
Speaker 1: were your were your cheerleaders, were always in your corner,
Speaker 1: big time, big time. Even more than that, I mean
Speaker 1: they were they were the coaching staff, you know that
Speaker 1: was the head coach and that's what they were. They
Speaker 1: were they were they were the head coach together and mama,
Speaker 1: anivational team, my tactical squad, you name it. And they
Speaker 1: were the encouragement. You know, there wasn't money to fall
Speaker 1: back on there. It was only the gold and silver
Speaker 1: of that household was them encouraging me and encouraging they
Speaker 1: encourage their kids. You know. They they they were dreamers
Speaker 1: and they weren't living their dreams for their careers and
Speaker 1: their passions. But they wanted us to, Um, they wanted
Speaker 1: us to have the opportunity to do that. And it
Speaker 1: was constant, constant motivation, constant inspiration and challenge and you know,
Speaker 1: don't take no foreign answer kind of thing, um unless
Speaker 1: they know came from that of course. But you know,
Speaker 1: so so so, I've read a little bit of their
Speaker 1: love story. Can you share just a tiny bit because
Speaker 1: it's so sweet, it's so tender. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a kind of story I share on the radio every night,
Speaker 1: that their love stories one of those those classic love stories.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful love story. Yeah, I mean they were
Speaker 1: high school sweethearts. I mean to the point where high
Speaker 1: school sweethearts, at the point where remember in high school.
Speaker 1: I was. I was after school. I was walking down
Speaker 1: the hallway. I was grabbing some things from my locker
Speaker 1: late after school. My father can't pick me up, and
Speaker 1: he said, come down here. I said where it should
Speaker 1: come down here? Come down here? And I walked down
Speaker 1: the hallway and he said, you see this water fountain
Speaker 1: right here. I said yeah. He said, the first time
Speaker 1: I ever saw your mother. She's getting to sit out
Speaker 1: of this water fountain right here. So they were high
Speaker 1: school sweethearts, and you know, I went to the problem together.
Speaker 1: They went to Woodstock together, and as my father told it,
Speaker 1: he went to Woodstock with his draft papers in his
Speaker 1: back pocket for Vietnam because he had to go to
Speaker 1: uh Texas for basic after the weekend and fortunately was
Speaker 1: not sent into combat, was sent to Germany instead. And
Speaker 1: then he got sent home to take care of my
Speaker 1: granddad because my granddad had other issues from the War
Speaker 1: two combat. There's a lot of people who have been
Speaker 1: in military and my family so um. But anyway, he
Speaker 1: came home. She had already gone off to college and
Speaker 1: got married, and then when she came back, she saw
Speaker 1: my dad land pavement on the road doing black you know,
Speaker 1: black top work and uh, psalm said hello and went
Speaker 1: home and got divorced, and uh then they got married.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a long, complex but beautiful, real
Speaker 1: life love story. You know, I saw him and realize
Speaker 1: she had taken a wrong turn and missed out on
Speaker 1: her true love. That's it. Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know they got back together and that
Speaker 1: that was they're married for, you know, forty seven years
Speaker 1: before my mom passed. I think it was did your
Speaker 1: dad know when he saw her at the drinking fountain? Like,
Speaker 1: was it love at first sight? Did he say, I
Speaker 1: knew she was going to be my girl. He's probably like,
Speaker 1: she's taking a really long time. I'm thirsty kidding. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't ask him that specifically, but
Speaker 1: he didn't remember the first time he saw her. And
Speaker 1: he used to play, uh, playing bands, you know, as
Speaker 1: a young man, I always thought he was the greatest singer.
Speaker 1: Um she played music as well, but he was out
Speaker 1: playing music for a living, and uh, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I was real shy, and he said, where my baseball
Speaker 1: cap over top of my face like this? Because I
Speaker 1: had states right. Sometimes i'd peek up and see people
Speaker 1: and girls will be going like this, trying to look
Speaker 1: underneath the brim of my hat he's singing. He said, Uh,
Speaker 1: sometimes there are real pretty girls out there. But if
Speaker 1: I ever pick my head up and I saw your mom,
Speaker 1: it was like there was nobody in the room but her,
Speaker 1: And I said, how nice is this? Is a nice
Speaker 1: stories here? You know when you're when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: it's like a fairy tailed kind of kind of affection,
Speaker 1: which is nice. But we're from an area in upstate
Speaker 1: New York, in the Catskill Mountains that if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen the movie Dirty Dancing, I'm sure you have, right
Speaker 1: many times. I saw it when it first came out.
Speaker 1: I saw it with my kids, and I don't let
Speaker 1: my kids watch the remake. They gotta watch the real thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the real thing, right, I agree. So the place i'm
Speaker 1: I'm from. The area I'm from is the area that
Speaker 1: the film Dirty Dancing is based off of. So in
Speaker 1: the Catskill Mountains in New York State, which is you know,
Speaker 1: we were about an hour and forty minutes out, forty
Speaker 1: five minutes and from Manhattan. That's where a lot of
Speaker 1: people would go to vacation in the summertimes to escape
Speaker 1: the New York City right, particularly in like the forties
Speaker 1: and fifties and sixties, So that was the big industry
Speaker 1: up there was entertainment and uh you know, resort living,
Speaker 1: golf courses and stuff like that, and it was a
Speaker 1: real reflection of U of the time. You know. I
Speaker 1: guess air conditioning wasn't as popular yet, and air travel
Speaker 1: wasn't as easy. It wasn't as easy to be the
Speaker 1: heat back then. It was only a short drive. So
Speaker 1: all the big entertainers would come up there and perform
Speaker 1: at those hotels. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin. Uh I have
Speaker 1: pictures of my my great grandfather who was actually just
Speaker 1: like there to dance, and he was a dance instructor
Speaker 1: at a resort hotel and he made his kids teach
Speaker 1: the guests to teach him how to dance, teach him
Speaker 1: how to mambo and all that stuff. And he was
Speaker 1: an MC at a hotel called the Laurels. And uh,
Speaker 1: I got these great old photos of my great granddad
Speaker 1: with Sam Cook and That'll Fitzgerald and all these great
Speaker 1: stars of the of the time, you know. But the
Speaker 1: hotel industry um for whatever reason, political or just the
Speaker 1: changing of the times, the hotel industry died off in
Speaker 1: the cat Skills, and with that the economy tapered off,
Speaker 1: and then the state built prisons in the area. So
Speaker 1: I grew up in the prison town era of the
Speaker 1: dirty dancing area, right. And then my dad, who was
Speaker 1: a musician playing at those hotels as a kid, became
Speaker 1: a prison guard as a you know, as a motive
Speaker 1: survival in the area, picking up odd jobs and stuff
Speaker 1: along the way on his days off, building houses and
Speaker 1: cleaning chimneys and and momon lawns and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And my mother was a nurse who was putting in
Speaker 1: you know, tons of o t and she decided she
Speaker 1: needed to get her masters w hoping to make more money.
Speaker 1: She joined the Army reserves. She's commuting an hour each
Speaker 1: way for work. She's going to school full time, work
Speaker 1: full time doing the army thing. And it was just
Speaker 1: really heavy to watch them working so so much and
Speaker 1: not complaining to us about it. And they just they
Speaker 1: had their you know, their head to the grindstone and
Speaker 1: there they were just trying to make our lives, our
Speaker 1: lives better. And we were a big time Churchill hallics,
Speaker 1: you know, I say, we we went to church at
Speaker 1: least once a week twice when God didn't listen, you know,
Speaker 1: so he goes Sunday. If nothing changed on Monday, go
Speaker 1: back on Wednesday. And that's it. That's it. Gotta be
Speaker 1: there on Wednesday for youth group. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: I wanna and all that stuff. I think that all
Speaker 1: the good things that happened ultimately were a direct result
Speaker 1: of my mother's prayers and that tenacity and that belief
Speaker 1: in us and that constant, that constant motivation. You can
Speaker 1: do it, and you just need to commit more than
Speaker 1: everybody else. Um. And that's uh. And that's really that's
Speaker 1: really it. You know how proud they must be. You know.
Speaker 1: I I got syndicated out of upstate New York, Rochester.
Speaker 1: That's where my syndication started about six months after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I loved Rochester. I love the frozen custard and upstate
Speaker 1: New York. No place else in the world has frozen custard.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. It's true, right, Why is it? I
Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: The cows make better milk, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But I used to drive the catskills every week, uh
Speaker 1: for almost a year, except when it was snowing so
Speaker 1: hard I couldn't um. But my mom passed in September,
Speaker 1: And like you, my mom was my biggest cheerleader. Like
Speaker 1: when she passed, I found a notebook filled with every
Speaker 1: magazine article, newspaper article that I had ever sent her,
Speaker 1: you know, pictures of me at a at a used
Speaker 1: car shop doing a remote. And she passed in September,
Speaker 1: and then my syndication started the following February, and I
Speaker 1: was so sad, and I was I was telling my
Speaker 1: best friend, I said, gosh, you know, Mom, leave to
Speaker 1: me so much, and and I just I wish she
Speaker 1: could see that I'm finally you know, I'm finally making
Speaker 1: that happen. My dreams are finally coming true. And Janey said,
Speaker 1: what do you mean you wish you could see? She goes,
Speaker 1: why the hell do you think this happened. This happened
Speaker 1: because she's with the Lord nagging him. God, please give
Speaker 1: my daughter a break. She can't get fired again. And
Speaker 1: I said, you're right, that's right, you're right, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she went, that's right. She went from being a member
Speaker 1: of the band to the conductor. Yeah, yeah, she she
Speaker 1: had his undivided attention. Now she's orchestrating. That's right. Now,
Speaker 1: she's orchestrating. That's right. That that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1: And uh and and also you know, just all of
Speaker 1: the things that were we're happening, We're already that we're
Speaker 1: going to happen. We're already set in motion due to
Speaker 1: her participation in your life and her her dedication in
Speaker 1: your life and lessons that you know, she'd already instilled
Speaker 1: into you. And almost as if people go and they
Speaker 1: feel like you're ready for it. I just feel like, however,
Speaker 1: that may have happened for you, even though you think
Speaker 1: you may have thought, you know, initially, I wish she
Speaker 1: could have seen it. She knew what was happening. He
Speaker 1: was already in motion. The pieces were just all coming together.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of it. So your your siblings, how
Speaker 1: many kids did your folks raise in the skills? There
Speaker 1: are three of us. There were three of us, and
Speaker 1: and my sister, she lives in Nashville. We all moved
Speaker 1: to Nashville together, and we all all of us other
Speaker 1: than my sister and her kids. It was my sister
Speaker 1: and my brother and I said, there were three of us,
Speaker 1: and my sister moved into a house south of Nashville,
Speaker 1: just south of Nashville, but the rest of us, my
Speaker 1: brother and I and my parents, we all had apartments
Speaker 1: on the same floor in the same building in downtown.
Speaker 1: So we're like a condo tribe once we relocated, you know,
Speaker 1: because we wanted to be around each other when I
Speaker 1: was off the road. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: see them without having to hop in the car and
Speaker 1: go visit. And so it was a really great way
Speaker 1: to be able to participate in normal life when you know,
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Speaker 1: guys have all of them? Oh? No, there were there
Speaker 1: were a couple of Because can you imagine that being
Speaker 1: the people in the other apartments, Like I can imagine
Speaker 1: if I was a person in the other apartment, I
Speaker 1: would be like, I would just go over to buy
Speaker 1: a cup of sugar every day so I could be
Speaker 1: a part of your family. I'd want to be in
Speaker 1: on the laughter and the music and the fun. I'd
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that. Well that Dolly
Speaker 1: Parton had an apartment down the hall, and and ironically
Speaker 1: I never I never saw her one. I'm not um.
Speaker 1: I would have loved if Dolly would have came over
Speaker 1: and said hey, and no had coffee with Yeah. If I,
Speaker 1: if I had an apartment there, Gavin, I would be knocking.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be knocking at your door and be knocking
Speaker 1: on your mama's door, because she would be the one
Speaker 1: with the stories. She would be the one with the stories. Oh. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And it's funny that you say that because my mother
Speaker 1: was the living encyclopedia of the family, you know, every
Speaker 1: single memory. Every time we couldn't recall an exact story,
Speaker 1: it would always be, hey, mom, what was the section? Sucker,
Speaker 1: that's my sister. I'm the storyteller, and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like it when facts get in the way, you know,
Speaker 1: I just like making up stories. And Deanna is like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not the way it happened, that's not the year
Speaker 1: it happened, that's not the person that was there. Like, gosh,
Speaker 1: she sure can ruin a good story with the facts.
Speaker 1: You can't bring her around the campfire when you're telling
Speaker 1: the tall tales. Yeah, and the older I get, the
Speaker 1: holler they get because I truly don't remember. It's not
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to make stuff up. I just don't remember.
Speaker 1: Like I have an impression of the memory. Like I
Speaker 1: used to write a lot of poems. I used to
Speaker 1: whenever I was in love or whenever I was not
Speaker 1: in love, I would write a poem. Now that'd be
Speaker 1: really good because they're all kind of all those experiences
Speaker 1: are kind of meshed into one, you know. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: one great story, one great story. So your tour, if
Speaker 1: folks want to come and see you, You're you're performing
Speaker 1: again this spring and summer. Yeah, just go to Gavin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just Gavindie Grow. So you know, if they're interested, come
Speaker 1: on out. Hopefully they'll like what they what they see
Speaker 1: here experience, they will. Can I just say I got
Speaker 1: a sneak preview before you released Across the River your record.
Speaker 1: Folks got it to me. They are going to love. Wow,
Speaker 1: thank you love this album. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I just wanted to do my
Speaker 1: best to uh, you know, make a real life record.
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted to I wanted to make a
Speaker 1: real life record, a zero bullshit record, and I was
Speaker 1: permitted to do that. I was giving a very long
Speaker 1: leash and worked with the the producer of My Dreams
Speaker 1: on the record, and he let me write it alone,
Speaker 1: which is what I wanted because my first few records
Speaker 1: I wrote alone, and I had a lot to say,
Speaker 1: and I think the world went through a lot. I
Speaker 1: went through a lot with it, and I didn't wanna
Speaker 1: pretending like nothing happened. I wanted to acknowledge that ship
Speaker 1: went down and document it, make it rhyme, be honest
Speaker 1: and and give people um at least my perspective of things,
Speaker 1: and uh, hopefully they like it. Well. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. That's nice. Thank you. You know. My
Speaker 1: father just he had a way of keeping it simple
Speaker 1: and effective. And you know, I asked him one day
Speaker 1: after my mom passed. I said, Dad, do you have
Speaker 1: any advice for me? And all he said was enjoy
Speaker 1: your life. I said, that's it. He said, yep, just
Speaker 1: enjoy your life. And you're gonna usee that enjoyment on
Speaker 1: other people anyway. You know, you're gonna they're gonna feel that,
Speaker 1: and he also told me one other lesson I always
Speaker 1: stuck with me, which was run to the line. And
Speaker 1: I said, what, what what do you mean? He said,
Speaker 1: don't waste your energy trying to get away from something
Speaker 1: that's that you're fearful of. Whatever it is that you're
Speaker 1: worried about. You attack it. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get away from it. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was just just such a good, simple lesson.
Speaker 1: He was good. Dead I would be trying to tame
Speaker 1: the lion. I'd be like offering the lion to come
Speaker 1: into my house. Uh, let's be friends. You were like,
Speaker 1: you haven't hung out with Wayne de Graw, No, but
Speaker 1: I will someday. Someday I will. And I'm gonna walk
Speaker 1: right up and I'm gonna introduce myself, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, you did a hell of a good job
Speaker 1: raising your son. What was your mama's name, Wayne and Lynne,
Speaker 1: Wayne and Lynde de Graw, You did a fabulous job
Speaker 1: blessing the world with the talent of your boys. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for falling in love, thank you for making
Speaker 1: your family work, and thank you for raising such a
Speaker 1: talented son that shares his gift with the world. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. Wow, Amendlila. I received that. That's beautiful,
Speaker 1: really and generous. Thank you. What a comment. Good lord,
Speaker 1: thank you. Alright. I love your music. I love you,
Speaker 1: will be in touch. Thanks for that, Delila. I appreciate
Speaker 1: it so much. Thanks for taking the time with Let's
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. You're beautiful. Thank you. If you get
Speaker 1: back up to to to Upstate New York, go eat
Speaker 1: some frozen vanilla custard and think of Delilah. Oh damn,
Speaker 1: it's so good. It is so good. It's the best.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely I'm with you. There's nothing like it on
Speaker 1: the planet. Put Seattle on your tour, come out here,
Speaker 1: come out here to the West. I'll take it. You
Speaker 1: know what, if you can put a few extra days
Speaker 1: or go to Portland's you can come down to Oregon
Speaker 1: to our cattle ranch and ride motorcycles with my husband.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. I'm in You are going to love
Speaker 1: love the music on Gavin's new album, Face the River.
Speaker 1: There are ten fold tracks. It's difficult for me to
Speaker 1: say which am I apps favorites, but Face the River
Speaker 1: is definitely one, so Powerful, Summertime and Lighthouse are a
Speaker 1: few more. I really appreciate that each has its own
Speaker 1: unique sound. Some are very soulful, some are kind of funky,
Speaker 1: some really upbeat. You'll find what speaks to you, whatever
Speaker 1: mood you find yourself in. The album was released at
Speaker 1: the end of May, so it will be available to
Speaker 1: everyone by now. Gavin has also taken it on the
Speaker 1: road with his Full Circle tour this summer and into
Speaker 1: the fall, so check out his website Gavin Degrad dot
Speaker 1: com for tour dates, videos, and everything you need to
Speaker 1: know about Face the River. The album would make a
Speaker 1: great gift for a music loving dad or granddad, or
Speaker 1: mom who filled in for dad, or anyone that loves music.
Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy listening to it also, or long
Speaker 1: volume up, windows down as I drive the kids to
Speaker 1: their soccer games and some more activities. A musical reminder
Speaker 1: of how the love and support of a parent plays
Speaker 1: such an important role in the life of a child
Speaker 1: and the life they will eventually lead as an adult.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your some some summertime, my friends, like the rest
Speaker 1: of the seasons that will be here and con before
Speaker 1: you know it. But make it a glorious one full
Speaker 1: of memories that will last a lifetime. And give your dad.
Speaker 1: If you have a dad, or a stepdad or a granddad,
Speaker 1: give them an extra big hug for me. Would Jack