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Speaker 1: Kenny, thank you for being here, Thanks for having me man,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. This is our first Netflix episode,

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Speaker 1: so I am honored. Thank you very much. I have

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Speaker 1: my hometown sign up here. Yeah, I see that seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two people story behind it? Yeah, or

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Speaker 1: not that one? Well, no, that's the literal. Well, they

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Speaker 1: had three of them, and I asked for the design

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Speaker 1: of it, and they sent this. The designs ordered it.

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Speaker 1: But the one in my hometown literally has bullet holes

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Speaker 1: all in it.

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Speaker 2: So somebody didn't like Bobby.

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Speaker 1: Somebody. I think he's a tired of my name. Somebody

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Speaker 1: on the town.

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Speaker 2: Somebody was jealous of Bobby.

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Speaker 1: How many people in Lectoral, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know, maybe a little more than seven hundred.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys have like a Walmart or anything?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously we had.

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Speaker 3: A church, We had a post office, we had a

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Speaker 3: couple of meeting threes. And that's I mean, that's like

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Speaker 3: an old school grocery store. Like not. It was a

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Speaker 3: the change. You know, we had to go in the

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Speaker 1: Like that. I was gonna ask if there was town,

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Speaker 1: because for us to go to town, then we went to

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: No, we would go into town at Christmas. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I didn't go down a lot of roads as a kid.

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Speaker 3: I went down the road I lived with my grandmother

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Speaker 3: for three or four years, so that meant I knew

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Speaker 2: Road to the ballpark where I played ball.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: But my grandfather was one of these people, you know,

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Speaker 3: during Christmas, he goes, let's all get in the car

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Speaker 2: And that was a big deal.

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Speaker 3: So how far was that forty five minutes maybe, but

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Speaker 2: We didn't go that much. So that's how I grew up.

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Speaker 3: So that when I came in and saw that, oh wow,

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Speaker 2: They just did. They didn't want to see it. So literally, there.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't a compliment like someone stolen because so.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's I mean there's a small chance that that's it,

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Speaker 3: but you could just I don't know, you could just

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Speaker 3: it was gone and they didn't put another one back,

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Speaker 3: but they did put another one, like right down from

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Speaker 3: in front of the Latoral City Hall there was this

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Speaker 3: Country Music Entertainer where they say Chad Atkins right. Well,

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned your grandma and grandpa. My grandma adopted

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Speaker 3: Well, my mom, my mom, and my real father divorced

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Speaker 3: before I was one, and then my mom got married

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Speaker 3: So we lived with my mom's parents for three or

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Speaker 2: It's from really East Tennessee stuff. But that's how it happened,

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Speaker 1: Who was born first, you or your aunt?

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Speaker 2: My aunt Missy six days before me. She's six days

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Speaker 1: My Arkansas version of that story is my mom who

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Speaker 1: that mean you do it with them? I was like, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: Well? In her in her house, it was bluegrass. It

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Speaker 3: it's funny the things you remember, right because he had

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Speaker 2: Swear to God. I remember that as a child.

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Speaker 1: That's true story. So I guess my question would be

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what that even meant as a child

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Speaker 1: You know, I know, But do you think that was

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Speaker 2: Then it possibly, I mean it had to have been,

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Speaker 3: So funny, right, these were adults that were doing the marketing,

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Speaker 3: That's that's the kind of So that's where I first

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Speaker 2: So, but that's It's.

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Speaker 3: Funny though, what happens to you as a kid, or

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Speaker 1: Whenever my grandmother was playing music for me, I thought

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Speaker 1: And it were a lot of gospel records like Andy

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Speaker 3: Well, I heard a lot of you know. Of course,

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Speaker 3: Con Huntley was from Knoxville, and I still look up

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Speaker 1: Were you musical in high school?

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Speaker 1: You just played ball?

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Speaker 3: I was, it was singing, so, but I was. It

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Speaker 3: was in college where I decided that, you know, my

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Speaker 2: I just didn't know.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea, Bobby, that I was going to

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Speaker 1: Then where did you sing as a kid? Like church?

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Speaker 3: I had a guitar and I was sitting outside my

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Speaker 3: And there was a couple of people that said, you know,

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Speaker 3: This is in Johnson City, Tennessee. There's people playing down

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Speaker 1: You're doing it for free. It's basically what they're saying.

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Speaker 3: You can do that, really, and it just kind of

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Speaker 1: Did you have to go on play for them? Yes,

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Speaker 1: So I talked to somebody.

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Speaker 3: Because you have a very Because I didn't have a

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Speaker 3: It wasn't the restaurant I went wow, this is cool.

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Speaker 1: What would you have done if you wouldn't have had

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Speaker 3: I mean, this was a godsend. I mean, this was

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Speaker 1: Did you finish school?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I got a I graduated East Tennessee State University

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Speaker 1: Then what happens right when you graduated? You move here?

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Speaker 3: I think, I think, you know, my mom and my

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Speaker 3: here trying to meet people and write songs.

441
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,720
Speaker 2: But I got a publishing deal pretty quickly.

442
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:41,360
Speaker 3: I mean.

443
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,640
Speaker 2: It was a little over a year.

444
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 3: I got a publishing dealt at Acuff Rose Music, which

445
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 3: was eventually bought by Sony.

446
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 2: But it was crazy, Bobby.

447
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, I was in town about a

448
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,119
Speaker 3: month and I was playing down on Lower Broadway at

449
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,919
Speaker 3: at a bar that no longer.

450
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 2: Exist is called the Turf Covers again covers.

451
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,239
Speaker 3: Kind of like I did in college because I had

452
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 3: been doing that for two or three years in college

453
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 3: and once and then I got here. I got to Nashville,

454
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,920
Speaker 3: and there was nowhere to do that unless you wanted

455
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 3: to go down there.

456
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 2: And and.

457
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 3: You know, get uh get it was an area of town.

458
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 3: Now if you go down the Lower Broadway. Now, you know,

459
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 3: every singer's got a bar. It's like, you know, there's

460
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,719
Speaker 3: it's a bachelorette destination for whatever reason. It's it's much different.

461
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 3: It was well, I mean there was a there was

462
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,879
Speaker 3: a yeah it was. It was dirtier and a little

463
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 3: more dangerous than it is now, but still it had

464
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 3: a lot of charm that built this town. And I

465
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 3: got to see that and I was down there. That's

466
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 3: what I did. But when I first got to town.

467
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 1: Did you audition again there like you did at the

468
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: barbecue place? Yeah?

469
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 3: But I I auditioned that afternoon and and sang that night.

470
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 3: So it was pretty wonderful.

471
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 1: Was it another night of four hour sets?

472
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a yeah, it was forty

473
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 3: five minutes on and fifteen minutes off. I did that

474
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 3: four times and and so I would do that at

475
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 3: nine and I was able to write during the day,

476
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 3: and I would. I was parking cars at a couple

477
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 3: of places around town, uh, you know, working valets and

478
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,199
Speaker 3: doing all that kind of stuff. But then when I

479
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 3: got when I got signed Aca Froze, it was all

480
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 3: of a sudden. I mean, it was bigger than life

481
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 3: to me because I was in the hallways and seeing

482
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 3: people that I truly looked up to, like you know,

483
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 3: Dean Dylon and Wade Schaeffer and Don Samson and Skip

484
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 3: Ewing and all these people that were great songwriters. And

485
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 3: I was in those rooms. I couldn't understand why, but

486
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 3: I was there, and that truly changed my life.

487
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: When you're valeting cars here, did you valet for anyone famous?

488
00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,360
Speaker 3: A lot of executives, right, I don't remember valeting or

489
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 3: anybody that was that was famous.

490
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: No, Johnny Cashtrum, the truck, none of that.

491
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 3: I think I think it wasn't his car. But Kenny

492
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 3: Rogers was in one of the cars that I did valet,

493
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: you know. But I remember a lot of the executives

494
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: would roll in and I would I would, I would

495
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 3: valet their car, and that was and I was used

496
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: to my mom's car and my grandmother's car, and then

497
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 3: the truck that I had that didn't have air conditioning

498
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 3: in it. Right now, I would I would get their

499
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 3: car and when I would valet it, I would go,

500
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 3: I go, damn, this this smells really successful, you know

501
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 3: what I mean?

502
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: It was just different if.

503
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: You drop off your car truck now, and I've had

504
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 1: this happen to me, especially when I've the first five

505
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: or six years here, people would leave music in my car.

506
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 2: Oh, they that's happened to you?

507
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Or if I'm eating dinner. Yeah, And I've

508
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: had it before where people would leave something like a

509
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: waiter and I would take time. I've brought them up

510
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: on the show before if they were good, and some

511
00:23:59,280 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: of them weren't.

512
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 3: Right.

513
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: But the problem with that was when I did it

514
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 1: and talked about it, then it created more of that.

515
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the thing.

516
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: I know.

517
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 3: Has that happened to you as it in and now

518
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 3: it's more Yes, that's happened to me a lot, but

519
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 3: not in leaving leaving it in my car or whatever. Look,

520
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 3: my mom used to cut hair for a living, right,

521
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 3: so people would just come there and just drop off

522
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 3: stuff to her.

523
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 2: I mean that was there. That was one way.

524
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: You know.

525
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 3: Now it's much different because they don't have to go anywhere.

526
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 3: They can just send it to you on social media.

527
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 2: Yeah have you have you got?

528
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 1: Yeah? So much so that it's everywhere all the time

529
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: that I don't see anything. People are always sending me

530
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: stuff because it's so much.

531
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't because I don't want to listen

532
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: to any of it because I don't want them to

533
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 3: come back at me and going, hey, I sent you this,

534
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 3: and you recorded some kind of similar, like in some

535
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 3: lyric that I didn't even write, you know what I mean?

536
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: So I just I got my people.

537
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: I had to buy insurance because when I started recording

538
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: comedy music, I had to buy insurance that said if

539
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: I get sued because I hear something, if somebody hands

540
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: me something and they sued me my business manager. And

541
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: again business manager was new to me much less having

542
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: to buy insurance for stealing somebody's song, and I thought

543
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: that was wild. But because I was taking and listening

544
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: to so much new music for one part of my career,

545
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: I had to have insurance to cover me in case

546
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: someone said, oh, I gave you this music and you

547
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: recorded a funny song and there's a couple lyrics in

548
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: that that you took. I thought that was wild.

549
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 2: Now I get also that.

550
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: Look, people are trying to build their own dream and

551
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: they're trying to find their way, and I'm like, I

552
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 3: was that person. But I don't think I ever left.

553
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 3: I mean I never left a CD and IRV Woolsey's

554
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 3: truck or his car.

555
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: Did you think about it, right?

556
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't have to actually, because I was

557
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 3: a writer for a cuff Rose and then they had

558
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: people to take to walk it across the street and

559
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: give it to Irvin George or whatever, you know. But

560
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: I understand why they're doing it. But to this point

561
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 3: now it's just so it's such the wild, wild West

562
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: out there. I can't I don't ever listen unless it's

563
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 3: given to me by people that I really trust.

564
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: When you move here, But when you got a publishing deal,

565
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: did you come with a bunch of songs?

566
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: Yeah? Like that they weren't refined at all. I mean

567
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 3: I had to learn, you know. Look, I learned from

568
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 3: Afar Like I loved songwriters, and I learned so songwriting,

569
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: and so I when I first started writing songs, and

570
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 3: then I started looking at a lot of the people

571
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 3: that I loved who were songwriters, and their songs. I

572
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 3: realized that those were a lot more, a lot more

573
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 3: well crafted than what I was doing. Mine was like,

574
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 3: I'd write a song about a girl and it was

575
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: seven minutes long, you know, and I realized, you know, Okay,

576
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 3: that doesn't work. That's not going to work if I

577
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 3: want to do this, you know. But I one of

578
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 3: the first people I met in Nashville. There were a

579
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 3: few people that really, you know, gave me a lot

580
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 3: of great advice. And that was Klay Bradley at BMI

581
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 3: at the time, and he's there now. A guy named

582
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 3: Tom Collins. There was a guy named Jeff Gordon, not

583
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 3: the not the NASCAR driver, but there was a guy

584
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 3: that worked at MCA named Jeff Gordon, and I was

585
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: able to go and play him songs. And then there

586
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: was a girl that really became a huge part of

587
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 3: my record making life. Her name was Renee Bell and

588
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 3: Renee Bell and I made almost every record that people

589
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: have heard in my career. And those people were able to,

590
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: you know, give me a lot of direction when I

591
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 3: first came to town, which was a blessing. Not everybody

592
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 3: has that, you know, but they I think they could

593
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 3: see how much I wanted wanted it, and I think

594
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: they could see how much I loved creating and how

595
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 3: much I cared about songwriters and songs and I still do.

596
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: When you moved here, did you play any like rex

597
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: softball leagues or any like, because you're an athlete. And

598
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: when I moved here, it was like, how do I

599
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: find people that by way? I I didn't know. You

600
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: gave it, they gave that all up played.

601
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, well really, I mean, I love sports

602
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 3: so much, and that's the thing. One of the things

603
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: I missed the most, Like me and my buddies out

604
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 3: on the road, you know, one of the one of

605
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 3: the things that we have that we feel very grateful

606
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: and fortunate for is we're out there on the road

607
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 3: and you're on the bus outside of the Pittsburgh Steeter

608
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 3: Football Stadium.

609
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: We were, Wow, this is amazing.

610
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 3: You know. We would go in and play all these places.

611
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 3: And when I played the Rose Bowl in Pasady in California,

612
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 3: I brought my dad and his buddies out there because

613
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times I've sat on

614
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: a couch a lot like this, went and watched the

615
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: Rose Bowl with my father, and now all of a sudden.

616
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: I'm a small part of that history, you know, through music.

617
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: So we have we've talked about the thing that that

618
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 3: we missed the most, and the thing that I miss

619
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 3: a lot is competitive sports. I don't have that much

620
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 3: in my life anymore. You know, Uh, maybe one day

621
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: I'll I'll get on church softball team or something.

622
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 4: You know.

623
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 1: I started playing pickleball, and I started competing at pickleball.

624
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: Well, I got a lot of friends that play pickleball too.

625
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: Do you like that I need to compete at something? Yeah,

626
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: Like I love to play ball, and so pickleball you

627
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: could pick it up pretty easy. I'm still pretty athletic.

628
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: I was playing tournaments. I was driving, and I was

629
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: playing in like three point five tournaments, which is a

630
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: pretty high level. Not the hets, but pretty high. And

631
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: I tore my ankle. So it's like my age met recently. Yeah,

632
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: I just got out of a boot. Oh yeah, so

633
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: it's awesome. But I'm like that I need that fulfillment.

634
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: I need to compete. I was playing when I moved here,

635
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: like found a Rex softball league to play. I was

636
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: playing just trying to find that and I wanted if

637
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: you still tried to find yeah, maybe I should do that.

638
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: You shouldn't now, No. Yeah, I've been in a boot

639
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: and on a scooter for like four months. It sucks.

640
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I work out a lot, but especially

641
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 3: when I'm training to go on the road. I worked

642
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 3: out with the same guy for a long time. And

643
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: are you a yoga yoga guy?

644
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: No, you don't do yoga.

645
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 2: I've done hot yoga.

646
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I like it.

647
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: I love how you feel when you get out of there.

648
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: I feel so depleted.

649
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: I've done hot yoga too. I guess that's still yoga

650
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: to me. It's not yoga to you. That's insulting to

651
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: say yoga if you do hot.

652
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's a form of yoga, right.

653
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: Isn't it the same?

654
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 3: Just it's just I don't think it's Maybe I'm wrong.

655
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not the yoga expert.

656
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 3: But I think when I I have a great group

657
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: of friends in Malibu where that's a more healthier of

658
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: a group than I have in my life in other places.

659
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 3: And I've done and I've done uh yoga with them,

660
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 3: and it's much it's harder to me than doing hot yoga.

661
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: How yoga?

662
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: I mean I'm sure there's a lot of poses and

663
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 3: stuff that that's.

664
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 2: That's part of yoga, but.

665
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: It didn't seem as difficult to me, and I maybe

666
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 3: completely wrong. Maybe it's because I'm just so hot in there.

667
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: I don't it doesn't seem so good. But yeah, I

668
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 3: in any way that I can get where you can sweat,

669
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 3: and I heat and ice all the time.

670
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: I do a sauna.

671
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 3: I do fifteen minutes in the sauna and I do

672
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 3: about I'm working my way back up to three minutes

673
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 3: in the ice, which is hard for me, but you know,

674
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,479
Speaker 3: being I'm fifty seven now, So anything that you can

675
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 3: do to get toxins out of your body and help

676
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: your body heal, you know, especially from working out as

677
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 3: hard as I do, it's it's great.

678
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: And especially when you're on stage.

679
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 3: When I'm working out there, you know, I beat my

680
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 3: body up.

681
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: Do you ever get really gassed out there?

682
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, especially if it's if it's human, you know.

683
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: But that's one of the things that I One of

684
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,719
Speaker 3: the reasons I train so hard is but is just

685
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 3: for my cardiovascular you know, to be in shape for

686
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 3: that because if you're out there, I can't help it.

687
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: I have video footage in my grandmother's kitchen of her

688
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: and my mom and my aunt Sharon and my aunt Missy,

689
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: all of them listening to music. And I'm Bobby. I'm

690
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 3: telling you, if you look at that video, I'm moving

691
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 3: the same way as a child as I do on

692
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 3: stage as an adult. It's the same move, the same stance, everything.

693
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 3: But I can't help it.

694
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: So when you have the.

695
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: Band that I have and the drummer that I have,

696
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 3: and the guitar players and all of it, I move,

697
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 3: and so I have to be That's the thing I

698
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 3: am in constant thought of thinking about. Okay, it's one

699
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 3: thing to train and be in shape and you know,

700
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 3: to get in what I call my show jeans, right,

701
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 3: But it's another thing to be up there in the

702
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: moment feeling all that energy and the rush of the

703
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 3: audience and the band and those two energies and synergies meeting, okay,

704
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 3: and you not feeling overwhelmed, and so you can sing

705
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: in the middle of it. And that's what I train

706
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: for is and that's something you can't simulate on a

707
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: treadmill or in the gym or anywhere. It's just got

708
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 3: to you gotta work your way through it.

709
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: Do you ever do the merch lottery with your guys?

710
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: Did merch lottery for a long time, can you?

711
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: We explained that, well, I.

712
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: Did merch lottery.

713
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's four or five years in a row,

714
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 3: and it was I started doing it the first year.

715
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: We were playing football stadiums across America, and I went,

716
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna like, these guys are out

717
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 3: here working really hard, and I've decided that I was

718
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 3: going to pick one stadium show on the tour and

719
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 3: whatever was made that night, we're going to do a

720
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 3: merch lottery. And we we When I played Sammy Hagar's

721
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: birthday party one year, he gave me this.

722
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: He met me and the band.

723
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 3: At the airport and gave us all sambreros and had

724
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 3: had trays of tequila shots. He met us at the airport,

725
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: you know, and he goes, happy birthday to me, and

726
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 3: so here we are in the We're going through customs

727
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: and doing tequila shots on sombreros. It's great, you know.

728
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't take anything for that brero, you know,

729
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 3: I had it. I caught a blue marlin off the

730
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 3: North Drop in the Virgin Islands, one year and and

731
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: had it, you know, took it to the taxidermist, and

732
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 3: so we still have it out on the road and

733
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 3: I have that sombrero Sammy gave me on top of

734
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 3: that blue Marlin. We've had a road case built built

735
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: for it and everything, and it's still out there. So

736
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 3: I decided we were going to It's almost like drawing

737
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 3: names for Christmas, you know, So we put everybody's name

738
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 3: on a piece of paper in that sombrero, and we

739
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 3: brought everybody together and I would go out there and

740
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 3: shake it all around and pull out a name, and

741
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 3: whoever's name I pulled, got all the merch for the

742
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 3: stadium that night, all the money, all the money, all

743
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: the all the merchandise. Would that which could be life

744
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 3: changing money. It's six figures really.

745
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

746
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 3: So what they ended up doing, though, is after a

747
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 3: couple of years, whoever got them most to say, you

748
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 3: got the money, you know, you're you're you're part of

749
00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: the video crew. And I pulled out Bobby Bones's name right. Well,

750
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 3: what they started doing is just sharing it with everyone,

751
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: which was great. You know, they split it up amongst everyone.

752
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: So the first couple of years, though, someone would win,

753
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: like two, three hundred thousand dollars.

754
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

755
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 5: Wow, the Bobby cast will be right back. This is

756
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 5: the Bobby Cast.

757
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: What if?

758
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: Because that were my That makes me think of like

759
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: those lines at Starbucks where they keep passing it on.

760
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: What if somebody didn't share it? It's like two years

761
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: and then gym wins and he's like, screw this, I'm

762
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: keeping it. Yeah. Well, I mean that happened a couple times,

763
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: Like somebody that cuts off the Starbucks pass it online.

764
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, they didn't know they had to share it.

765
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: You know, that was part of the thing.

766
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, somebody's life could you know, be changed whatever.

767
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 2: But then then they.

768
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 3: Decided, oh, well you know what, all of our lives

769
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 3: are going to change little bit.

770
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be crazy to win the merch lary.

771
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 2: I know. I yeah.

772
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 3: When I first did it, I was like, all my

773
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 3: buddies are going, you sure you want to do that?

774
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. And then then we did it.

775
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, you put your own name in it. Yes,

776
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: you moved to town. How long until you actually have

777
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: but think about that, Think about moving the town and

778
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: not even not having anything to a point where oh

779
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: you're doing merch law. Ye, how long until you get

780
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: any sort of as an artist, any sort of traction.

781
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 2: Well, I when.

782
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 3: I got my my songwriting deal, first with a Coach Froze,

783
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: and then that was It was about a year and

784
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 3: a half later that I saw my first deal with Capricorn.

785
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: Records.

786
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 3: But that was that was a lot like playing you know,

787
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 3: Triple A baseball. I thought I was in the major leagues.

788
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 3: My family thought I was.

789
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: In a major record label.

790
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 3: You're saying, yeah, like yeah, being on that, you know, because.

791
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: I didn't know.

792
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: I was so green and oblivious. I thought that I

793
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 3: had a record deal, and I did, but it was

794
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 3: it was a it was getting to learn things, and

795
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for it. But I was not competing

796
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 3: I would I wasn't even on the same playing field

797
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: as the major labels, you know. But it gave me

798
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go out on the road. I had

799
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: a band, I was growing an audience barely. I was

800
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 3: selling a little bit of merchandise, you know, I was.

801
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 3: I was learning and and it was not until after

802
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: the There's a guy named Joe Galante who was running

803
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 3: RCA in New York, and he signed Dave Matthews and

804
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 3: he signed a lot of people that we all know

805
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: and love. But he came back to Nashville to run

806
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: the Nashville division and I was one of the first

807
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 3: people that he signed.

808
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: How did you get out of the Capricorn deal?

809
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: That I went and asked off of it?

810
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 3: Because you knew there was I was, and I knew

811
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 3: we weren't going to and I learned, you know, very

812
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 3: quickly that I was on an independent if you will

813
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 3: record label. Now it was a very big label out

814
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: of making Georgia. I mean, they had a lot of

815
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: big acts on there, and I to this day, I

816
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 3: am very thankful for Phil Walden and everyone involved in that,

817
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 3: because you know, you get to a place in your

818
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 3: life and you know that every single part of it

819
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: is for a reason, and that is no different.

820
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: Do they keep a little percentage of the Kenney after

821
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: you left?

822
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 3: Well, it wouldn't. They didn't let me go for free.

823
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we had to, you know, to Phil's credit.

824
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 3: You know, I went in there and Phil knew what

825
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 3: I was coming to talk about, and he was nervously

826
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 3: moving some papers around and he goes, what's going on?

827
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 3: Can you tell me something good? And I said it

828
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: was in the fall. I said, well, Tennessee play Saturday.

829
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 3: That's good and and I said, Phil, you know we're

830
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: not competing, you know, I said, please let me off

831
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: the label, you know, so I can go and pursue

832
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 3: something else and I'll never forget it. He goes, Kenny,

833
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 3: I signed you because I believed in you, and I'm

834
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 3: letting you go because I believe in you. He goes,

835
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 3: Have the lawyers call me and we'll.

836
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: Work it out. I went, okay, great.

837
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 3: I didn't care what the details were. I was out

838
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 3: that door very quickly. But yeah, it wasn't for free,

839
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 3: but it changed my life.

840
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: When you started having hits, do you feel like those

841
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: hits are still in the same vein of the music

842
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 1: you make now?

843
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 4: Now?

844
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: The reason I asked, we're doing this documentary type series

845
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: on the nineties in general. Yeah, and I think we

846
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: talk about you a lot in ninety seven, and that

847
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: may be when you uch first number one. Yeah, but

848
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: it also that music, as awesome as it was, it

849
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the same.

850
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: Kenny, Well, it's sonically much different. And I was making

851
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 3: music in the night. Look, I was just trying to

852
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 3: get on the radio. So I was trying to be

853
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 3: anything that was successful. I had no idea who I

854
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 3: was as an artist. I had no idea where this

855
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 3: was going to take me. I had no idea. I

856
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 3: didn't I was so green. I was just making records

857
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 3: that I thought would get played. And some of those

858
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 3: records I'm proud of today. Some of them I'm not.

859
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 3: But when you do this a lot, you start to

860
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: grow as And I've co produced almost everything that I've

861
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 3: ever done. I did that with Barry Beckett, and me

862
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: and Buddy Cannon have made all the records since then.

863
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 3: But sonically it's a much different well, it's a much

864
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 3: different time in our genre in the music worldwide. But

865
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 3: if you listen to nineties country Kenny and then you

866
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 3: can see the progression sonically. And I think that the

867
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 3: song since got better. And I remember having a coming

868
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: to Jesus meeting with myself and I said, you have

869
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: to be better. You have to be better. The songs

870
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 3: have to be better, the production has to be better.

871
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 3: You as a human being, you have to be better. You.

872
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: I'll never forget it.

873
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 3: I was in my apartment complex out east of town

874
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 3: and it was one of those epiphany moments and I

875
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 3: had a list of things on a yellow note, on

876
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 3: a yellow legal pad, of things that I could change,

877
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 3: that would that needed to happen for me to go

878
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,479
Speaker 3: to the next step, and I started working on that list.

879
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: Did you ever feel like you wouldn't make it? Did

880
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: it ever get so bleased that you're going I think

881
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: this may not work out? Yes?

882
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 3: I mean, well even so, Okay, so after Capricorn, you know,

883
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: Joe signed me to a major label deal and it

884
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 3: wasn't working.

885
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: You know, we had a few hits.

886
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: I had a few songs and that that you know,

887
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 3: got into the top five, and and but look, Bobby,

888
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 3: I had What's crazy, What is really crazy about my

889
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 3: life and my career is I had an eighteen song

890
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 3: Greatest Hits album and nobody knew who I was.

891
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: So then why did you make the greatest hits if

892
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: they weren't that great?

893
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: Because we had the songs and it was honestly, it

894
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 3: was a marketing move by the label. Okay, now, okay,

895
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 3: none of these are really successful, so we're just going

896
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 3: to bunch them all together and make it successful. We

897
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 3: went double platinum on a bunch of songs that weren't

898
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 3: that successful.

899
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 2: So that's a true story.

900
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: And then that led me into the where that it

901
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 3: was during that period that I went, Okay, we have

902
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: to make this better.

903
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: So you had the Greatest Hits album that launched your career,

904
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: like we didn't super charge it.

905
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 3: I would say it was double platinum. We sold two million.

906
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 3: Greatest Hits were records, you know. And but that gave

907
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: me time. And there was about about a two year

908
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 3: period from when the Greatest Hits package came out to

909
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 3: whin the no Shoes, no Shirt, No Problems album came

910
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 3: out that completely changed my life. And because the music

911
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 3: had changed, I had changed mentally, I had changed physically.

912
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 3: I was in shape, I was my brain was on

913
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 3: fire with creativity, and.

914
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: It just changed.

915
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna ask if you ever had a

916
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: tough love yourself. It sounds like you were doing that

917
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: to where they're probably decisions you have to make. If

918
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to be better, I have to stop. And

919
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. It could have been drink.

920
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 2: I mean it was it was.

921
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 3: I changed my diet, I changed my I don't know,

922
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 3: I uh, I gave all of it.

923
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: Are there any songs that you recorded back then that

924
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: you don't like to play now there were number one.

925
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't.

926
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say don't like to play. You know, we

927
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 3: still do. Don't happen twice on the show, and for

928
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 3: whatever reason, it still fits in our show, we do

929
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 3: tractor every now and then. Just now, there's a moment

930
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 3: that I got really sick attractor, Like I just said, wow,

931
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: if I don't have to sing tractor anymore, it's not

932
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 3: going to hurt my feelings. But then Mega Maroney comes

933
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 3: out on the road with us, and she's out there

934
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 3: for a couple of weekends, and she goes, why are

935
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: you not antractor?

936
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: I want to hear tractor?

937
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 3: She was, everybody out there wants to hear a tractor.

938
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 3: I want to hear tractor. And I said, okay, well

939
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 3: you're about to come up and sing it with me,

940
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 3: and she goes, deal, and then I did it, and

941
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 3: she was right.

942
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: They go crazy, they go crazy.

943
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 3: It's just it's like, okay, me mentally, I'm passed it,

944
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 3: but it's it will forever be there, you know. And

945
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: that's when she and I became started to become really

946
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 3: good friends, you know. So but that's how I started,

947
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 3: That's how I started playing tractor again. It is because

948
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 3: Megan more or less forced it on me.

949
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: I think she for sure my favorite. I think she,

950
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: if not the best, is one of the best new

951
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: in this new version of greats. I think she's one

952
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: of the best songwriters that exists.

953
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: I think that she has a.

954
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 3: You know, I've had the luxury of being around her

955
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 3: now for a couple of years and getting to know her,

956
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 3: and she has a very unique work ethic.

957
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: She has.

958
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 3: A very unique song since. She has an unbelievab personality,

959
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 3: she has an unbelievable sense of hearing.

960
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: She's so funny. I was about to say that she's

961
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: so funny.

962
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 3: And not everybody. I mean, you have to really get

963
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 3: to know her and peel the onion back to see

964
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 3: how thoughtful she is. I mean, she's just an amazing

965
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 3: human being. And but there's a work ethic in there

966
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 3: that early on that I recognized that makes sense, you know,

967
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 3: And that's how we became really good friends out there,

968
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,879
Speaker 3: you know, And so over the over the course of

969
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four summer tour, Megan and I became

970
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 3: became very close, you know, and I mean we're it's

971
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 3: we played the Atlanta Falcons Football Stadium in twenty eighteen,

972
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 3: and she was a college kid up in the three

973
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 3: hundred section with her friends.

974
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 2: Now, think about how powerful the universe is.

975
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 3: And if you would have told me on stage that

976
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 3: night that you're you're going to become really great friends

977
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 3: with a person up there, you know, I told you

978
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 3: you're crazy, But that that happened, you know, And to

979
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: see what's happened to her, and to see her take

980
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 3: it and run with it, and to see how speaking

981
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 3: I told you earlier that my brain was on fire,

982
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 3: I recognized that because her brain is completely on fire

983
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 3: with creating music and giving her audience positive energy and love.

984
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 3: And it's it's been really interesting to see what happened

985
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 3: to us. It's it's happening to one of your friends,

986
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 3: and I get to watch it, you know, from the

987
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 3: side of the stage.

988
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: Just let that though, when you who were you in

989
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: the crowd for that was that? Well, later on you're

990
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: the kid and I got to know, yeah, And but

991
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: you were watching them at a show and again, same

992
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: thing happens. It's like, holy crap, I'm on stage with whomever,

993
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: or I'm friends with whomever.

994
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 2: Well, when I was in.

995
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 3: When I was in high school and I went to

996
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 3: see Jackson Brown by myself because I was I loved

997
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 3: that music and I was beginning to think about, you know,

998
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 3: how much I love songs and whatever. And I went

999
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 3: to see Jackson Brown, never knowing that I would meet

1000
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 3: him ever. Right, I went to see George Straight, never

1001
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: knowing that I would ever be on the road with

1002
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 3: George Straight ever, and I was. I That's how I

1003
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 3: got introduced to the world of doing stadiums. I was

1004
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 3: out there two summers in a row with George and

1005
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 3: it changed my life. But I now, of course, you

1006
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 3: never can think that, you know, But I think it's

1007
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: very interesting. I think people are pushed into our lives

1008
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 3: for reason in and out, you know, and it's it's

1009
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's just the universe works in

1010
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 3: crazy ways, and to see that what's happening to Megan

1011
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: is is beautiful. But also, I mean, the one that

1012
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 3: really comes to mind is when I first moved to Nashville,

1013
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 3: I had zero money. I was living with a friend

1014
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 3: that I was in a bluegrass band with in college

1015
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 3: off of Belmont, Okay. She let me stay in her

1016
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 3: house because I had nothing. It was right before I

1017
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 3: signed with a coach Fro's Music, and a lot of

1018
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 3: my friends were going to go see Jimmy Buffett at

1019
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: which is no longer there at a place called Starwood Amphitheater,

1020
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 3: and I went to see Jimmy. It was pouring rain

1021
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 3: that night. We went in a party bus and I

1022
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 3: went home that night and I was lying in bed

1023
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 3: and I was staring at the ceiling, going what did

1024
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 3: I just see. I'd been to a lot of concerts,

1025
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 3: but I never saw somebody love their audience quite like that.

1026
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 3: And it made an impression. Right now you fast forward.

1027
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 3: That was in nineteen ninety That was in the summer

1028
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 3: of ninety one. Now you fast forward twelve years. Right,

1029
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 3: whatever it was when I first met Jimmy Buffett, I went.

1030
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 3: I was with my friend Holly Gleeson and she had

1031
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 3: a friend in Palm Beach that knew Jimmy and we

1032
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 3: were playing in Vegas at the same time. Jimmy was

1033
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 3: playing across the street at the end GM and I

1034
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 3: was playing. This was right when my life changed. And

1035
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 3: I was playing the the UH the arena at Mandalay Bay,

1036
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 3: and we walked over UH and there was Jimmy and

1037
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 3: some of his you know, road family with him at

1038
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 3: the pool at the Four Seasons in one of those cabanas,

1039
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 3: and I walked up and I went, there's the guy

1040
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,240
Speaker 3: that I saw play in the pouring rain in Nashville,

1041
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 3: you know, and never knowing that I would become friends

1042
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 3: with him and collaborate with him and be in the

1043
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 3: studio with him and become friends with him and get

1044
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 3: to know him on any level. So that was That's

1045
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 3: kind of a my.

1046
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: Version of me and Meghan, if.

1047
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 4: You will, let's take a quick pause for a message

1048
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 4: from our sponsor, and we're back on the Bobby Cast.

1049
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: Do you ever just go to Sonic or Chick fil

1050
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: A and order something and they look at you like,

1051
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: there's no way Kenny Chesney's ordering Sonic or Chick fil

1052
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: A by himself.

1053
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's been a minute since I went

1054
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 3: to Sonic or Chick fil A. But I do love

1055
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 3: when I was eating Chick fil A.

1056
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 2: I love the sweet tea. I did love that when

1057
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 2: I was drinking that stuff.

1058
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: But cheesecake fact anywhere anywhere, anywhere, not specific, but just

1059
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, I mean, like, why is Kenny Chesney

1060
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: at a gas station in Tupelo Mississippi. It just random.

1061
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: Do you ever just do that? You ever buy yourself

1062
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: in normal places?

1063
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I go to normal places. I mean

1064
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,399
Speaker 3: I can walk between the rain drops pretty well. No way,

1065
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 3: grocery store kind of well, it's been a minute since

1066
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 3: I've been to a grocery store, but I go early.

1067
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: If I go to the grocery, where do you go?

1068
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: That's so normal that we'd be like, there's no way

1069
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney goes there.

1070
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: Oh well, I don't know.

1071
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,240
Speaker 3: But I mean I've been I've been at gas stations

1072
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 3: or whatever, or you know, I would be at a

1073
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 3: at a.

1074
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 2: Restaurant, you know, whatever it is.

1075
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 3: And I remember this guy recently and he's, you know,

1076
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 3: him and his wife are staring at me. I got

1077
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 3: raid are pretty good, you know, and I could just

1078
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 3: tell okay, well you know there, or if my phone's

1079
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 3: up at the attention ever was when they could do

1080
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 3: it backwards, make an act clock and you know whatever,

1081
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 3: but he could.

1082
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 2: He finally comes up to me and he goes, you're him,

1083
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 2: aren't you?

1084
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: I said, what.

1085
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 2: Depends on who you're talking about, you know, but you

1086
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 2: know what usually I mean, look, yeah, when.

1087
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: What about traffic? If someone looks over. You ever see

1088
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: people look over and try all the time and they're like,

1089
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: it's all Jesny and traffic.

1090
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 3: But when people come up to me, and I mean

1091
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 3: nine times out of ten, it's pretty positive. You know,

1092
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 3: I haven't drank in a while. So when especially if

1093
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 3: I went on Island or down South and they you know,

1094
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 3: back when I was really partying a lot and people

1095
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 3: would want to picture and I would say no, I mean,

1096
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 3: I can't see your camera.

1097
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 2: You know, I'd rather not take a picture.

1098
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 3: But but now, I mean, there's worse things that people

1099
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 3: could say to you than I love your music. And man,

1100
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 3: that's what happens. We just wanted to tell you that

1101
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 3: we love your music, and there's a lot worse things

1102
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 3: people could say to you.

1103
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 2: That means a lot.

1104
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: I only got a few more minutes with you. But

1105
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: people bring their best, their favorite or one of the

1106
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: records that influenced them the most. And we talked about

1107
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett. Is that a Jimmy Buffer record over there?

1108
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: That's it? Would you mind holding that out by telling

1109
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: us why you picked this record?

1110
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 3: Well?

1111
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 2: I picked this record, and it's interesting.

1112
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 3: We talk about the greatest hits or a compilation, because

1113
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 3: I believe this is a compilation, you know, what is

1114
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 3: it which records the songs you know about heart And

1115
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 3: this was one of the records that captured my imagination.

1116
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 3: I say this a lot about my friend Jimmy Buffett.

1117
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 3: He was one of the first people that taught me

1118
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 3: it was possible to paint pictures with words, and it

1119
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 3: took my brain somewhere else, a kid from East Tennessee

1120
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 3: that didn't know that it was possible to sit on

1121
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 3: that boat somewhere that boat. It just it was. This

1122
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 3: music really meant a lot to me. And this album,

1123
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 3: you know, because I you know, the first time I

1124
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 3: heard Pirate looks At forty, which is still one of

1125
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 3: my favorite songs ever, I played Pirate looks At forty

1126
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 3: because just the story of it, you know, It's just

1127
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 3: I played that song on a stool with a tip

1128
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 3: jar and a lot of different places, and I don't know,

1129
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 3: I just I truly loved the storytelling. I love the

1130
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 3: simplicity of it. I love how it took if it

1131
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 3: can take a kid's imagination from East Tennessee anywhere, you know,

1132
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 3: this was one of the albums that I feel like

1133
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 3: that that you know, built Jimmy's life, you know, and

1134
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 3: it sure made me curious about what was out there.

1135
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: Do you think about mortality ever?

1136
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 2: Well, I mean not recently.

1137
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 1: I mean I mean no, when I heard Pirate looks

1138
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: at forty, well no, that's a yeah, that's what I think.

1139
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, not really.

1140
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 2: Okay, I wow, I'm mam now I will tonight, fair enough?

1141
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: What do you want to be remembered for?

1142
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 3: Then? Oh? Wow? Yeah? I mean I guess legacy is

1143
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: only what people think about you, right, I don't know,

1144
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 3: do you care?

1145
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: Do you even care?

1146
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 2: I think everybody cares.

1147
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: I don't care that much. But I don't have kids yet.

1148
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 2: I don't have kids either, so I think it's still

1149
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 2: like I don't know. I think somebody that that.

1150
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 3: Loves spreading positive energy and love to their audience, that

1151
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 3: loves songs and songwriters that you know, love the ocean,

1152
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 3: love protecting it, loved, so that's.

1153
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: Become important to you, protecting the ocean, sure, environment?

1154
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1155
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I don't know.

1156
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 3: Like people people have asked me about legacy, you know,

1157
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 3: and I think that it would be important for people

1158
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 3: to know that. I because somebody asked me in an

1159
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: interview once they said, we think it's great that you

1160
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 3: give so much of yourself to what you do, and

1161
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 3: I stop them. I said, no, no, no, I give

1162
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 3: all of it. So I think that that would be

1163
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 3: a part of it. You know that I truly have

1164
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 3: given almost all of myself to do what I do.

1165
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 3: But I but it never wants I swear to God.

1166
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 3: It's never once seemed like sacrifice. I truly loved and

1167
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: love what I do. I love creating. I love the

1168
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 3: look on people's faces when I'm up there and I

1169
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 3: know I just played their favorite song.

1170
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: I know it is unless this tractor and you tractor

1171
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: and whatever. All right, three final questions. Okay, growing up

1172
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: without a lot, Now you've done quite well for yourself.

1173
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: What's the coolest part about being rich that you didn't know?

1174
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:01,959
Speaker 2: That you can help other people?

1175
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 3: That?

1176
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: I mean, such a good answer.

1177
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: I mean, you can help other people.

1178
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: I wanted you say an airplane.

1179
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's a perk. That's that's that's you can

1180
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:15,479
Speaker 3: help other people with that perk.

1181
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 1: Okay, got it?

1182
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 2: Which we did.

1183
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, after.

1184
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: We saved a lot of animals.

1185
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 3: Like being able to help you know, I, I uh,

1186
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 3: that's the that's the best thing about being blessed, you know,

1187
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 3: with with what's happened to me is being able to

1188
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 3: help people that need help.

1189
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: Final question two of three. Of all of your songs,

1190
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: which song ended up being a monster that maybe you

1191
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: didn't quite think it would be? And I'm sure you

1192
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: have confidence in all of that.

1193
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, but one that surprised me was Save It for

1194
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 3: a Rainy Day? And I don't know that it was

1195
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 3: the biggest hit, but I didn't. I mean, it was

1196
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 3: it was on brand. I knew when I heard it

1197
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 3: that it was on brand, if you will, and that

1198
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 3: it might be fun live. But when we kick into

1199
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 3: that today, I went, oh wow, I mean that was

1200
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 3: a real hit.

1201
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 2: There's that one.

1202
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 3: What I mean the first time I heard when the

1203
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 3: Son goes down and went, oh, yeah, that's going to work.

1204
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's going to be an eight

1205
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 3: week number one, which it was, but I didn't know

1206
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 3: it was going to be that. That surprised me, but

1207
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 3: I knew it was going to be, you know, good

1208
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 3: for us. You went tequila. I didn't know what it

1209
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 3: was going to do. But that song didn't even go

1210
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 3: number one. I had more number two records than probably

1211
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 3: any act in the world. I mean, I've had like

1212
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 3: fourteen or fifteen songs that didn't hit number one that

1213
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 3: was number two, like no Shoes, no Shirt, no problems,

1214
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 3: went to number two that.

1215
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: Wasn't a number one Nope, and.

1216
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 3: It got stuck behind my friend Jimmy Buffett and Alan

1217
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 3: Jackson's five o'clock somewhere for eight straight weeks.

1218
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: Wow, that's just bad time. The same label pissed me off.

1219
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: Oh ok, because they didn't make the call to go

1220
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: pull that one back.

1221
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 2: Let's do a little bit. But that record was so

1222
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 2: hot they couldn't maneuver it.

1223
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

1224
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: You in Tequila is a top five all time song

1225
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: for me.

1226
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 2: Thank Yeah.

1227
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: It's not a top five Kenny song, like a top

1228
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: five all times oh thank you.

1229
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 2: I mean that song was.

1230
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 3: You know, I had that song recorded, but I didn't

1231
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 3: know who I wanted to sing on it, and I

1232
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 3: didn't want someone expected within the format. Was nothing wrong

1233
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 3: with that, I mean, that happens all the time, but

1234
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 3: I felt like that song was so special and little

1235
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 3: left the center for me. You know, I felt like

1236
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 3: that You in Tequila you could be in an uber

1237
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 3: or a taxi or your own car. Somewhere in Italy

1238
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 3: or wherever in the world, and that song come on

1239
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 3: and it fit, and so it needed the voice, the

1240
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 3: perfect female voice to be that the ying andy of it,

1241
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 3: you know. And when I heard Grace Potter, I went, oh,

1242
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 3: my god, that's the voice. I never met her, and

1243
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,439
Speaker 3: I sent her You in Tequila, And less than three

1244
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 3: days later after I sent it to her, she was

1245
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 3: in Nashville on my birthday, marsh the twenty six and

1246
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 3: we were in the studio recording doing our vocals on

1247
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 3: You and Tequila.

1248
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: When you recorded it, do you think you'd be a single?

1249
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: Didn't know if it was going to be a single. No,

1250
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 2: I had no idea.

1251
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 3: It was part of the Hemingways Whiskey album and we

1252
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 3: had no idea what was going to be the first

1253
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 3: single ended up being Boys of Fall was the first

1254
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: single off that because we released it in late summer.

1255
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 3: But You in Tequila as one of my top five

1256
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 3: songs of mine.

1257
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: Oh that's what I'll do. The final question, then do

1258
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: your top five songs of you? You do your top

1259
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: five five to one or one to five. It's probably

1260
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: easier to go one to five, right, but it changes.

1261
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like it like you could ask me tomorrow, but.

1262
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: You can't, Okay, but I'm asking you today and you

1263
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: open that up because to day I want one through

1264
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: five Kenny Chesney doing Kenny Chesney songs.

1265
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 2: Number one, number one. Probably it would be.

1266
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 3: Old Blue Chair, just because it's such it's such a

1267
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 3: portrait of my soul.

1268
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: It's it was.

1269
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 3: It stamped a time of my life where I was

1270
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 3: in the Virgin Islands and man, I remember I was out.

1271
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 2: This was remember, and I started writing this song at.

1272
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 3: The writing New Year's Day, well, New Year's Eve, whatever

1273
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 3: it was. It was in nineteen ninety nine. There was

1274
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 3: this this person I forgot the name, that the name

1275
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,919
Speaker 3: god that did this. But he predicted that the world

1276
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 3: was going to end at the at Front at the

1277
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 3: year two thousand.

1278
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 2: So everybody was just kind.

1279
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: Of like Y two K was also going to kill everybody. Yeah,

1280
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: like not, what what's that was?

1281
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 2: Yes?

1282
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was like somebody you knew.

1283
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 2: No, I didn't know.

1284
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: It was like freds of years after my uncle. Oh yeah,

1285
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: that was like I thought it was like Cress at

1286
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: the Credit Union. Again, I didn't know.

1287
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 2: Yeah it was not Michael, but yeah, gotta gotta got it.

1288
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:04,919
Speaker 3: But so everybody, the whole country was, the whole world

1289
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 3: was kind of okay, well this is gonna be weird.

1290
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 2: And I thought, well, that's gonna happen. I want to

1291
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 2: have fun, you know.

1292
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 3: So I was. I was down in the Virgin Islands

1293
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 3: and I was, I was, you know, having a blast.

1294
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 3: And the place that I rented had two blue wicker

1295
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 3: rocking chairs, and I stayed there for like three or

1296
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 3: four years. And I remember I came in from town

1297
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 3: and I had I had a cup that tall full

1298
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 3: about you know, coconut rum and diet coke, and I

1299
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 3: went out there and sat in that chair and I

1300
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 3: was looking up at it was beautiful, and I was,

1301
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 3: you know, rock up right on the beach, and I

1302
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 3: was looking up at the sky and there was a

1303
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 3: million stars in the sky. And I had to drink

1304
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 3: betray my legs and I fell asleep and I woke

1305
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 3: up the next morning with the sun coming right over

1306
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 3: the hill, and I was covered in mosquito bites. And

1307
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 3: that day I started writing down the lyrics Stow Blue

1308
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 3: Chair and finished it several months later.

1309
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Speaker 2: But that'd be I mean, as a songwriter, that would.

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01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: Be number one number two.

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Speaker 3: Number two would as a songwriter slash artist would be

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01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 3: I go back. Uh. Number three would probably probably be

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 3: there goes my life. Number four would probably be.

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Speaker 2: Anything but mine.

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01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 3: And then I don't know, there's like young summertime.

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01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: When you said you went Tequila's top five. I met

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01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: te keilast to be five. But if I had it

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01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,919
Speaker 1: could do another five. It would be young, it would

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01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: be summertime. It wouldn't be saving for any day. It

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Speaker 1: would be I don't know. Uh uh, you know, the

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01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: duet with Pink was a lot of fun. I'm not

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Speaker 1: forcing to do a top other five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, some alternates we could put that in there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I really enjoyed this. We were talking about before

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01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: you got here, this fear too. So those after you

1326
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: do it the first time, I guess people have seen it,

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01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: they want to come back. Do you do you feel

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01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: like you need a promo as much now? Do you

1329
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: just feel like it's gonna sell like crazy because the

1330
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: proof of concepts already there?

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01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,919
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you got a promo promo for sure,

1332
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 3: but it's just such a unique experience.

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01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: I'm coming to this one. I'm coming to this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, please come.

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01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: I just saw so many of my friends going like

1336
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: they were like, we're with like coaches that I know,

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01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: Like I saw like Dan maull and I got the

1338
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: all these guys that are like.

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01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,959
Speaker 2: My Dan mull and I believe was at every show

1340
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Speaker 2: he let us.

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01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: By the way, Dan mullin for those who don't know

1342
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: right now, he's the UNLV head coach, but he was

1343
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: at Florida, he was a television.

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01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 3: A Mississippi State, and he was you know a lot

1345
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 3: of places, and he got a he got the gig

1346
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 3: at UNLV, so uh he let he let me and

1347
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 3: Bailey come.

1348
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:39,439
Speaker 2: Work out that we were.

1349
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 3: I worked out at UNLV's football facility every single day

1350
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 3: for a month and a half that I was in Vegas.

1351
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 3: So I would go into that backstage area, you know,

1352
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 3: I had a little area we called the sock Monkey Lounge,

1353
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 3: and I'd go in there and say how to people,

1354
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 3: you know, and nine times out of ten I'd see

1355
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 3: Dan there, you know, Like.

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Speaker 1: That was the trade off. That's awesome.

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01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 3: I love it.

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I've often said many times because

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01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: I'm from Arkansas, we didn't have beaches, ye, so to me,

1360
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm not drawn to beach. I love Emo Kenny.

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01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: Beach Kenny's got some bangers, yeah, but I love Emo Kenny.

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Speaker 3: Yes. That's what's interesting though, is like it's not necessarily

1364
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 3: a beach thing. It's more of an island culture.

1365
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't have that culture either, and so I

1366
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: get annoyed they don't bring food quicker.

1367
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 3: So there's the Emo in that too, though. I mean

1368
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 3: there's a lot of singer songwriter in me that came

1369
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 3: from that.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a huge influence. I spent five.

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Speaker 3: Years like well, I would get off the road and

1372
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 3: there was there was a huge part of about five

1373
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 3: or six year period of my life where I truly

1374
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 3: I would pack to go home.

1375
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 2: I was gone so much.

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01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 3: So what that means is I would get off the

1377
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 3: bus and I wouldn't come to Nashville. I would go

1378
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 3: to my boat in the Virgin Islands, and so I

1379
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 3: over a period of about five years, I wrote a

1380
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 3: lot of different songs that didn't necessarily fit on your

1381
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 3: you know anywhere else in your life that you're building,

1382
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 3: which which ended up being some of my favorite records.

1383
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: You ever get stung by starfish or a jellyfish? I

1384
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: guess starfish don't sting. Yes, jellyfish douce I got stung, yeah,

1385
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Shark encounter with a shark. No.

1386
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 3: I went diving a lot with my friend Bob Schenners

1387
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 3: into Virgin Islands and I saw a bunch of sharks.

1388
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: No risk, no death. No.

1389
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 3: I mean like if they when they know you're not food,

1390
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 3: you know you're pretty safe, all right, That's what happens though,

1391
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 3: Like if they think you're food and they don't, you know. Yeah.

1392
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you coming by, really because this

1393
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: is our first man first, I'm gonna be the first one,

1394
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: number one. You know, we've we've we have some others

1395
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: in the can. We got to go a one with Kenny.

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01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 3: I'm really appreciative, first round draft shake you man, and

1397
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:43,439
Speaker 3: for everything, and it's it's good to be your.

1398
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it. There is Kenny Chesney thinks come

1399
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: to fear Bobby. Yeah, I said I would last time.

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01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: This time though I'm only partially lying. All right, there

1401
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: is the great Kenny Chesney. Thanks for listening to a

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01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast production