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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode eleven of the Bobby Cast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. In uh the studio today is

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Speaker 1: Natalie Stovall, singer, fiddle player, dancer. You did have to

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Speaker 1: dance as a kid when you were doing operaing Land,

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Speaker 1: you were a dancer. The weird thing about Natalie is

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Speaker 1: um and by the way, at Natalie Stovall on Twitter

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Speaker 1: is would you say that you were a prodigy if

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Speaker 1: you were looking at yourself from someone else's eyes? Because

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Speaker 1: I see prodigy because I know how young you started.

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Speaker 1: I feel like prodigy is like I don't know, just

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Speaker 1: beyond the way, beyond anything ever. Okay, well then let's

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Speaker 1: just go back. You started playing the fiddle. Win four. Okay,

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Speaker 1: a four year old even care about playing the fiddle.

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Speaker 1: It's weird, but that's a really good time to start,

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Speaker 1: because then it's just part of your life to start

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Speaker 1: for too. It's a wonderful fun to start. But no

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Speaker 1: four year old really wants to pick up a fiddle.

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Speaker 1: So I just want to be able to pay attention

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Speaker 1: to me. Just four. How do you get a fiddle

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Speaker 1: into your hands? My grandmother read an article in the

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Speaker 1: newspaper and we had a violent teacher coming to Columbia, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: and she thought it'd be a good idea if I played.

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Speaker 1: So she called mama, and Mama asked me if I

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Speaker 1: wanted to play, and I said, yeah, four years old,

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Speaker 1: you committed to playing the violin. Was it the violin?

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Speaker 1: I was it the fiddle. It was the violin. I

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Speaker 1: started with classical music. So that's even crazier that you

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Speaker 1: cared about classical music before. Okay, so you picked it up.

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Speaker 1: And when did you start to be where people will

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Speaker 1: be like, wow, this kid's kind of good. How old

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Speaker 1: were you then? I think I started fiddle competitions when

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Speaker 1: I was seven or eight. I don't remember my first competition,

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Speaker 1: but I started out in like the junior competitions and stuff,

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Speaker 1: probably eight, because I guess eight is when I started

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Speaker 1: playing fiddle music and taking like double lessons classical and fiddle,

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Speaker 1: and so then I just started. I don't know, i'd

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Speaker 1: play for anyone that would listen, though, Yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's this case of a lot of musicians. But you're seven,

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Speaker 1: eight years old playing the fiddle. Were you the best

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Speaker 1: when you were seven? No? No, I definitely wasn't, especially

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Speaker 1: like in the classical world. I mean, I was not

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Speaker 1: the best. There were kids in in my group that

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Speaker 1: or kind of more of the countryside of things. As

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Speaker 1: soon as so my teacher brought in a fiddle team

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Speaker 1: first to play because she was trying to introduce this

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Speaker 1: I mean that's when I was like, oh, oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: I want to do this because I used to get

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Speaker 1: in trouble for smiling while I was playing my concertos

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Speaker 1: on stage. You're not to know because they want you

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Speaker 1: to take it really seriously, but I was performing. It

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Speaker 1: was just what I wanted to do. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't really think about it, and so um so

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Speaker 1: when a fiddle tune came in, that's when I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I like played two strings at once and like, smile

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Speaker 1: all I want. And so then Mama went and found

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Speaker 1: a fiddle teacher for me, and so then I started

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Speaker 1: playing fiddle music. So if you're four and you have

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Speaker 1: this need to perform, was there a lack of love?

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Speaker 1: Why would you want to perform at four years old?

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Speaker 1: Why did you Why did you need the love from

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Speaker 1: being in front of you. No, there wasn't not for me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm I'm I'm a weirdo that

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Speaker 1: is a songwriter and creator and musician that had a

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Speaker 1: very loving upbringing. And it's not a family and still do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and all my siblings are supportive. And you know, I've

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Speaker 1: more older. Um, I don't know, I think because also

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Speaker 1: I started acting classes when I was three and started

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Speaker 1: doing commercials and stuff. When I was said, parents, pro

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Speaker 1: are you into this? Like not at all? So they're trying.

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Speaker 1: They saw like a little golden child. So at three

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Speaker 1: you started taking I don't even have a memory at

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Speaker 1: three years old. Can I take this off it back? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're sure. The microphone, y'all. Microphone. You're the first guest

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Speaker 1: to ever take the microphone off because really, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: feel like I saw a picture with somebody. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like I'm being too proper sitting

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Speaker 1: a pants off. So you're taking acting lessons at three.

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Speaker 1: You're playing the fiddle at four, Um, you know that's

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Speaker 1: what you want to do. In school? Were you the

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Speaker 1: you know. I always did the performing thing. You went

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Speaker 1: to college. You went to a music school in Boston, right, Yeah? Berkeley?

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Speaker 1: Berkeley not the world? Did you get in there? I

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Speaker 1: first heard about Berkeley through my voice teacher in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: But Berkeley was like super prestigious and like where we

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Speaker 1: Like Berkeley is not real. It's like it's something you

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying, like, as soon as I found

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Speaker 1: going to stop me from going to school there. Um.

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Speaker 1: I started working on my scholarship audition pretty much in

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Speaker 1: to get in until then. Audition you play in front

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Speaker 1: of someone. Yeah, you you audition on your principal instruments,

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Speaker 1: and mine was voice. That's what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: You got it on voice, not fiddle, yeah, I that's

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Speaker 1: that's kind of a funny story. They destroyed my confidence

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Speaker 1: on fiddle at Berkeley. I stopped playing for a while

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Speaker 1: because they told to stop um. But I had never

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Speaker 1: had started at eleven. We'd worked more on repertoire and

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Speaker 1: we worked a little on technique, but that wasn't really

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Speaker 1: his forte. So then I went to college and I

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Speaker 1: and I worked. I picked this four and a half

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Speaker 1: learned every note. Went to Berkeley on a vocal scholarship.

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Speaker 1: Did that's crazy? It is crazy. I didn't think of

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Speaker 1: myself as a singer. I was always like the performer

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Speaker 1: that could sing, you know, were you heads and shoulders

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Speaker 1: when you got there? A better singer than most of

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Speaker 1: the people there. No, No, I had I had a

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of those site readers that you can

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Speaker 1: But if I can hear it at least once ahead

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Speaker 1: I no idea you went on a voice scholarship. And

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Speaker 1: I've told Natalie even just like driving around, like she's

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Speaker 1: So you go to Berkeley with the fiddle and they

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Speaker 1: say you're just not good. Yeah. I kept auditioning for

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Speaker 1: I didn't get in the first couple of times that

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Speaker 1: I auditioned for it. But I would always I would

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Speaker 1: and he was like, would you please just put the

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Speaker 1: every semester after that. And now it's weird because you're

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Speaker 1: And so then there were a few songs I'd play

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Speaker 1: So going back, you were on Oprah. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: it was in Okay. So when I was in Kids Club,

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Speaker 1: from like ages ten of fourteen. So, um, when I

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Speaker 1: and said, Natalie, you gotta come to your baby cry

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Speaker 1: because I had learned how to do this ventriloquist kind

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Speaker 1: David Letterman, and I was like freaking out. But the

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Speaker 1: I was like fourteen, and they sent my tape to

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Speaker 1: David Letterman. They were like, um, no, we don't want

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Speaker 1: I can crawl like a baby. But then I didn't

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Speaker 1: know this was happening, but tricks the sponsors of the competition.

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Speaker 1: They sent in my tape to Oprah because she was

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Speaker 1: doing a show on her funniest viewers, like silly viewers

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Speaker 1: by the time this happened, and said, do you want

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Speaker 1: to come be on the show? We'd love for you

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Speaker 1: to do something else though, too, And so that's when

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Speaker 1: I played. I played the fiddle between my knees. So

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Speaker 1: you want here's Natalie Stoball at Oprah. Here, Oh that's

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Speaker 1: is Oprey never mind. Couldn't we looked hard for hard?

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Speaker 1: little Jenny. So Forrest Gump did for Little Jenny. They

428
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: came to Nashville. Yeah, yeah, and I don't remember the audition,

429
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: Like I don't remember what we did. I don't know

430
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 1: if I said any of that. But um, but yeah,

431
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,439
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't even let you in that, like they

432
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 1: would look at each kid. Because my best friend and

433
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 1: I and she was also at opry Land. We both

434
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: auditioned for it and she actually made it, I think

435
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: to a third callback, like she made it even further. Um.

436
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, you had to have blonde hair and blue eyes,

437
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: and you know, they would kind of look at you

438
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: before you go in, and then you'd go in and

439
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: do your lines or talk to him or whatever. I

440
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: don't know. So you go in to get the part

441
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: of Jenny, obviously, but she didn't know what for. You

442
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: just knew it was a Tom Hanks movie. You know

443
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: what it was yet And then when I saw the movie,

444
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: I was like, dang it, I could have been Little Jenny. Yeah,

445
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: it's I Can Fly Far, Far Away. Um. So okay,

446
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: So so this is happening. You're you're trying everything. Yeah,

447
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 1: young're you got through a high school normal, like twelfth grade.

448
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: You graduate school, so then you go to Berkeley. You

449
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: graduate from Berkeley. Yes, so you finished school there too, Yeah, okay,

450
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: and then you're at a crossroads. Do you go out

451
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: to Nashville? Do you? Oh? I knew I was coming

452
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: straight back here, straight back and start. While I was

453
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: at Berkeley. UM, my sophomore year, I I met a

454
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: guy named James, and he was now my husband and drummer,

455
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: but he was I had a crush on his roommate,

456
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: so I would always like try to hang out and

457
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: fill in James's room. And I went and I met

458
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: this dude named James, and I was like, hey, well,

459
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: I'm a country singer and he was like I'm a

460
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: country drummer and I was like no, wall, oh my gosh.

461
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 1: And he still swears to this day. Did not say that,

462
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: but I swear he said he was a country drummer.

463
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: But we were talking one day and he was like, hey,

464
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: why are you singing for all these other people? Because

465
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: I was singing backgrounds and playing fiddle for a lot

466
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 1: of people. I was like, why don't you have your

467
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: own band? And I was like, I don't know, I

468
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: don't have my own band. So we started a band,

469
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: and you know, I had auditions and brought in all

470
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: these other players. And then I called my parents and

471
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: was like, hey, and this is weird. What do you

472
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 1: think about a band moving into the house during the summer?

473
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: And in my parents how in Columbia, Tennessee, And I'll

474
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: just book shows for us all summer. They're like, okay,

475
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: I cannot believe. They said, okay to that. How many

476
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 1: people have been to your parents house? The first summer

477
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: it was four guys, and the second summer was five

478
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: guys plus you guys plus me. So they were told

479
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: of eight people living in your house at one point.

480
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: Us cook and stuff. Yeah, Mama would cook all the time,

481
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,719
Speaker 1: and and you know we need to like not to

482
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: expect that. But and I just like it's crazy. I

483
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: can't believe they let us do that. Your band is

484
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: Natalie stove All on the Drive. I always I think

485
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: it's like the other people didn't care, like how comments

486
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: it's not you know, the Drive or a bunch of

487
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: any name, but it was you then a side band.

488
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: Oh well, at first I really wanted it to just

489
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: be stove All. But there was another band in Atlanta

490
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: that is a bunch of duds that play on the

491
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: weekends and stuff, and their name is Stoveall. And now

492
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: with the way the world works, um, it's like you,

493
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: because of Facebook, you're established worldwide if you have a name,

494
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you know, before Facebook and stuff,

495
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: was there an issue like hey, why do we have

496
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: me to drive and you get your own name as

497
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: the head of the band. No, because with that, because

498
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: also when it was at Berkeley, it was Natalie Stovell

499
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: on Green Line South. It was a different name. Um,

500
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: but for years we toured under just Natalie stove All.

501
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: But after about well, i mean this November, William Miguel's

502
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: tenth year on the road with me and Joel's almost

503
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: a five years and so it's like after a while,

504
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: it was like, man, I don't I don't feel like

505
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: me without these guys, And so that was really a

506
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: call on my part to give the band a name

507
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: and recognize them more, elevate them more. As my band

508
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: were called Natalie Stival on the drive right right, And

509
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: when we from Natalie stove All to deciding to name

510
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: it as a band, that's when I was looking at

511
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,959
Speaker 1: stove All and when that didn't pan out, you know,

512
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: we were searching for a name, and then we decided

513
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: to do the end. Yeah, here's a weird hard and

514
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: maybe a question that you take in a weird way.

515
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: Why do you think that you haven't popped yet? Because

516
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: I say that in the most complimentary way, because you

517
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: are one of the best singers in a city of

518
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: the best singers, and to watch you play the fiddle,

519
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: nobody does what you Nobody does what you do, and

520
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: it's just like, why why do you think you haven't

521
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: popped yet? I think part of it is that I

522
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: have kind of gone at it from a little backwards

523
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: way than a lot of people did, because I was

524
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: on the road for so long before I really started

525
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: to kind of take more time in Nashville and spend

526
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,959
Speaker 1: more time writing and developing the music side. Because you know,

527
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: the typical Nashville route is it's like you move here,

528
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: you start writing, you start honing in on what your

529
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: sound is. And I really, I really just wanted to

530
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: be on the road. I wanted to do anything I

531
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: could to be working full time as a musician, and

532
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: I went that route instead of writing all the time.

533
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: And I would write as often as I could in town.

534
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't I don't know. I think

535
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: you are one of the most talented people I've ever met.

536
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: Why do you think I haven't popped. I don't know

537
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: the answer to that, because I didn't know that that

538
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: you went road dogging way early instead of because people

539
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: that's what happens. People come to Nashville. They try to

540
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: establish an identity or a sound. They right right right

541
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: with as many people as possible they play. Then they

542
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: start to play a little bit locally and they try

543
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: to branch them. So I didn't know you went backward

544
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: like that. That makes a little sense. Um, yeah, because

545
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: I've done the college market for you know, since two

546
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and we've I mean, we were doing

547
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: between two hundred and two fifty shows a year up

548
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: until last year. You're so so talented that I asked

549
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: Natalie and she plays on the road with the Raging Idiots.

550
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 1: Some it was just like, would you please play with us?

551
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: Because and I can ask frankly, I can ask anybody

552
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: musicians everywhere. And I was just like, hey, would you

553
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,239
Speaker 1: please play with us? Because you're so good? And at

554
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: times I feel guilty because I felt like, man, I'm

555
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: holding you back because I mean also, I'm really good

556
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: and I'll overshadow you alive. So I felt bad there. Um,

557
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: what is you're You're raising the bar so that I

558
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: can hold my own stage, so that I can get

559
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: up to your level. You do get a deal, a

560
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: record deal? Okay, how long ago is that when you

561
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: get your first record deal? So three years ago roughly

562
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: you get a record deal? Um, and so what what's

563
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: the first song you start with? Like, first time, first

564
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: record deal, first single, you're excited? What song you put

565
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: out there? Baby? Come on with it, Baby, come on

566
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: with it, Come on with drink on that, I'll drink,

567
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: sing show me the outside down by the fis, come

568
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: in all song with it, I don't me and you

569
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: and dance do there wrong with? So what did this

570
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: song do? Uh? Did chart? Yeah? I got to thirty six,

571
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: He got a thirty six? Is this your biggest song? Yes,

572
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: it's my only song to radio that we actually shipped

573
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: to radio. So baby, come on when it comes out.

574
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: You hit thirty six, do you think, okay, this is it,

575
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: like we're about to hit big. Um, there's no. There

576
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of time to think too much. But

577
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: I felt like we were in We had positioned ourselves

578
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: really well. I felt, you know, because we we were

579
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: meeting every radio station in the country and just going

580
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: like crazy, going NonStop. I mean all the crazy stories

581
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: you hear about radio tours and Um, the way you

582
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: hit Shop did it was pretty cool because they would

583
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: book a show like a real show in a club,

584
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: and they were the record deal, Yeah, the record label,

585
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: so they would fly all these radio p ds and

586
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: all these people, all the representatives from the station's out

587
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: to see our live show instead of just going into

588
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: the conference room and just playing acoustic. And that was

589
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: really an amazing way to do it. Um, and I

590
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: felt like our second single. Once we recorded it and

591
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: started working on it, I felt like that was I

592
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: don't know, I just I was really excited to see

593
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: where it went. It was called Mason Jar got me

594
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: from them. So this is how you thought, Okay, this

595
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: could really be out for us. Yeah, well, I just

596
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 1: I felt like it was gonna I don't know. I

597
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: was really really excited about it, and it was. It

598
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: was really reacting well to crowds, which is always my gauge.

599
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: Like when we were playing on stage, if the crowd

600
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: gets into it when they don't know the song, then

601
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: it it feels really good and you feel like you're

602
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: on a good a good plan, a good route. I

603
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: guess um what happened the week before that got shipped

604
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: to radio the label clothes. The investor said, we don't

605
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore, and so that was about

606
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: a year into signing the deal. So a couple of

607
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: years ago, you're on a label, you chart, you have

608
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: a second song you feel great about, and the level

609
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: goes at we're out. So then what do you do?

610
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: So then everything just kind of you know, all the

611
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: stuff that we had worked for really fell away in

612
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. I mean, we were the good

613
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: thing about my band is it's like we're gonna play

614
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: and we're gonna tour the crap out of the country

615
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: no matter what. Happens. Deal, no deal, it doesn't matter.

616
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that we're touring. Um, But yeah,

617
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: it was. It's it's hard to have help both financially

618
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: and just support wise in the industry and then have

619
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: everything fall away because everything were breaking the band up.

620
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: No no, no no, and like it's cheaper to go

621
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: solo now on, I don't even think it is. Also,

622
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: my guys have put in so much time and work

623
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: and work done, done more jobs than they needed to

624
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: as far as like they work so hard for me.

625
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: Joel does merch during like after the shows for me,

626
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: and Miguel does the stage and James tour manages, and

627
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: we all take on about fifteen extra rolls to make

628
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: this thing work. And I mean, I think being by myself,

629
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have it with my guys to share it with,

630
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, And I don't know. It's it's a family

631
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: that we've worked really hard to build and it's really

632
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: fun to see these highs and lows together. It sucks

633
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: when it's a low, but we're we're experiencing it together,

634
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: you know. So now you're not on a label, um,

635
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: are you trying to be on the label? And are you,

636
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: it's like, are you on the meetings and they're just like, ah,

637
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: we just don't feel it right now. Um, yes, and no,

638
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm I would love to have the right partnership again.

639
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: That'd be amazing, you know, and I'm constantly looking for it,

640
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: but I try very hard not to worry too much

641
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: about that. That's what management and all the other parts

642
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: of your team were for, I think, because it all

643
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: starts with the music, and it's all about the song.

644
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: And I'm just been writing a bunch and trying to

645
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: find the right next thing, you know. I mean, as

646
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm writing and working, I've been meeting with different producers

647
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: and talking to people, and that's another relationship that's really

648
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: integral to your your sale. And what happens next is

649
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: recording the right music and the right sound and kind

650
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: of taking everything I've learned from the last few years

651
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: and what worked and what didn't, what I'm good at,

652
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, what do I do that other artists don't do?

653
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: Or you know, what is the one thing that I'm

654
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: better at? You know, because I think we all have that. You. Um,

655
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: you label folds and you decided to crowd fund a record.

656
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: How were you doing this? And like, if you give

657
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: me a dollar, I'll come to your house and give them.

658
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: The songs were stuff And so is that where the

659
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: EP that you guys have about now came from. Yeah,

660
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: that was you know, when the label folded all the music.

661
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: I mean they owned all the music, and um, well

662
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: they that was. It took a while, but they were

663
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: great about it. Once I called. I personally called the

664
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: one of the investors and talked to him because they

665
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: took it offline. So we kind of lost all the

666
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: all the reviews and all the fun things, and it

667
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: looked like we didn't have anything out, you know, it

668
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: looked like we were just some them band music. Probably

669
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: we had had a couple of records out before this

670
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: stuff that we took down at the request of the

671
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: label because they wanted to put up all new stuff.

672
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 1: But then, I'm not going to go back and put

673
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: up stuff I released in two thousand and eight, you know,

674
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten or eleven, I guess, but

675
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put up older stuff. And when I

676
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: don't even have newer stuff to put up. So the

677
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: name of the EP now is called Heartbreak. Okay. Here

678
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: is the song which is called heartbreak, they'll take away

679
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: little and this was paid for all by fans for

680
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: the most part. Yeah, that's that's cool. It was amazing.

681
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: It also shows the age were in. Yeah that you know,

682
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: if people a passionate enough. And I remember, I mean listen,

683
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: I put ten grand down myself. You didn't know, but

684
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: I did. You're welcome. I didn't not really didn't get

685
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: No one put in den Graham, not one single person.

686
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: I give it to Stove all why did you give

687
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: it too? So you have the EP out there and

688
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: so you're on the road supporting that. But is that

689
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: something that like, you guys are gonna take that and

690
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: make that into a bigger record or you just kind

691
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 1: of starting from scratch now. I feel like I'm starting

692
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: from scratch now. I mean at first I was, I'm

693
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 1: open to all options. But this EP was really cool

694
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: because we got the chance to experiment a lot. We

695
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: worked almost every song with a different producer, and I

696
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: was writing thematically. Most of the songs are kind of

697
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: about you know, the the label falling apart or just

698
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, just hanging in and not giving up on

699
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: what you believe in. Um. But but musically I was

700
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: trying a lot of different things and seeing what worked

701
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: and what didn't end. So that EP was really fun

702
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: for us and kind of a great experiment. And so

703
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take what I learned from that and

704
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: turn that into the next thing. You still downloaded now too.

705
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: By the way, it's a heartbreak here. You're married to

706
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: your drummer. That's a lot of time together. It is

707
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: a lot of time. The reality of it. It's a

708
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: lot of time together. And they say, you know, distance

709
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: makes the heart grow fonder. That's not the case with you, guys. No,

710
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean it is, and we do when

711
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: we are a part which isn't very often, but it's

712
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it would work for everybody. I think

713
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: because we were had such a musical partnership that was

714
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: not at all romantic for a few years before it

715
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: turned into something romantic. I think that was a big

716
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: advantage for us. And uh, you know, we worked really

717
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: hard to to make it. We don't ever want people

718
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: to feel like they're out with the married couple, you know,

719
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: So even when we're on the road, it's we're we're working.

720
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: We're not loved whenever. Um. Because by the way, Natalie

721
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: comes out, and we're lucky enough that she should played

722
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: the Raging Idiot shows. She'll she's done some shows. You know.

723
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: It's like a cycle, and I'm lucky you have great

724
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: artists come in and Natalie comes and sings the brains

725
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 1: out and plays a fiddle and has really been as

726
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: part of the growth of our stupid band. Um, it's fun.

727
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: It's been what you've actually been a part of the

728
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: growth of what is just a it's a nutty thing, right,

729
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: it's crazy, like it's crazy. The Raging Idiot thing is crazy.

730
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's so fun and until you see it,

731
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: you just don't understand it because I can't think, and

732
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: I've gotten better, but it can't sing. But it is

733
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: a very entertaining show. And people that will scream for

734
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: us to go, and we'll go down and get undressed.

735
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: I never expected people are just like God. So for

736
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: what you do, I always feel guilty because we go

737
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: out and we've had this talk off just to ourselves

738
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: to where we shouldn't have these crowds come to these shows.

739
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: We shouldn't be having two thousand people show up at

740
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: a theater and sell out and go nuts. And here

741
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: you are that one of the most talented people I've

742
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: ever met, and you're like my side Federal player. I

743
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: disagree that that you shouldn't and I disagree that you

744
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: can't sing to you because you can sing and what

745
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: you do is so accessible and the show is so

746
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: fun and people just want to be there and have

747
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: a good time, and you provide that for him, and

748
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: you know, for the thing is I mean, I'm I

749
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: don't know why it hasn't happened for us yet. I

750
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: guess what I'm what have I taught you as an artist?

751
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: What have I taught you as an artist? What do

752
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: you mean? Oh, you're genuinely asking, No, you need I'm

753
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: not gonna let you be facetious at that, though, because

754
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,720
Speaker 1: I have learned so much from you by being okay

755
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: with being on my toes and being okay with whatever

756
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: happens roll with it, because I'm I'm much more. I

757
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: like for things to be rehearsed, and I like for

758
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: to know what we're gonna do. And there are times

759
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: in my show where it does go somewhere, or there's

760
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: a solo or some kind of instrumental or something that happens.

761
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: It's off the cuff, but that's a lot less often

762
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: than a raging idiot show, because you will look at

763
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: us at times and say, hey, hey, do you know

764
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: this song? And I'll be like, well, I mean i've

765
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: I've heard it, I've heard it before, and you're like,

766
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: play it thousands of Oh yeah, no, we need a

767
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: thong song we practice five minutes hilarious. Um, I was

768
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 1: kidding with that, but um. But I have learned so

769
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: much from that, and I think that's part of being

770
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: on the road too. And it's been good for me

771
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: to do different tours and play with different people, because

772
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: you do you learn something from everybody you're out with.

773
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: Who do you you're out there now doing a lot

774
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: of stuff. Who do you see out there now that

775
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: you're like, man, that's special and it doesn't you know,

776
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: the major artists are out there. We know they're special

777
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: because they've broken through there. But who who's out there

778
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: now that you're like, that's special and it's ready. It's

779
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: also ready to pop. You're just kind of watching for it.

780
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean, I'm I mean my friends. Of course,

781
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm part of the reason I'm friends with some of

782
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: the people. And I don't know, there's God there's so

783
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: many in Nashville. Um, you know, Ruthie Collins is one

784
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: of my best friends, and I just I think she's

785
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: one of the best writers in Nashville. I just think

786
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: I think I don't understand why she hasn't because I

787
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: think what she does as an artist is incredible, unique,

788
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: very specific style that is so cool. Well, and she's

789
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: you know, and he's on Curb and they're they're working

790
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: on putting some stuff out, so hopefully you'll hear stuff saying, Um,

791
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: I think Kelly Bannon is amazing, you know. I mean,

792
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: we're the three of us are doing the Three Girls

793
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Rocking to a Our tour and it's been so that's

794
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: another one I'm learning so much from because I watch

795
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: what these girls do and and the struggles that they

796
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: have as artists and and trying to make what they

797
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: do make sense all together. And it's it's kind of

798
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: it's crazy to me the talent in this town and

799
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: the people that are so good and that just haven't

800
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: gotten there yet. But it's fun to see people like

801
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: Lucy Silva's really starting to pop right now. I mean,

802
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: you know, people are really She's getting on some of

803
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: the bigger festivals and the stuff with her music and

804
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: Caitlin Smith and you know, and even Maren, Like, god,

805
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: I'm so glad her stuff is coming through right now.

806
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: It's awesome. You mentioned a lot of women. Everyone you

807
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: just mentioned was a woman that wasn't on purpose. But

808
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: I think the women though, have been making some incredible music.

809
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: And not to take away from the men, because the

810
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: men have been too, but um, that's part of what happens,

811
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: is a backlash when you're you know, it's like then

812
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: you have to step up your game. You know, it's

813
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 1: like the women aren't getting played as often on radio.

814
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: But some of the women have been putting out some

815
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: of the most stellar records. You know. Maren is awesome

816
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: because I don't think she cares, you know, and knowing

817
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 1: Maren and I've gotten the I've gotten to know Maren.

818
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: It's special when someone is just like this is me

819
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't,

820
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: if it and that's part of her appeal. Yeah, it

821
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: really is. I think that's such a blessing to have

822
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: that attitude too, because you know, I want it so

823
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: bad and I'm I get a little too crazy about

824
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 1: like trying to find the p afect thing and trying

825
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: to find the perfect sound and do the thing, and

826
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: to have the luxury to to I don't know whether

827
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: she did or not, but I'm just saying for myself

828
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 1: to have the luxury to just sit back and write

829
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 1: a whole bunch, just get in the room with people

830
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: and find your people. And you know, I've always kind

831
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: of balanced that when you're I mean that was when

832
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: year we were only home sixty days out of the

833
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: whole year, you know, and talking about Lucy to Lucy,

834
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: Sylvia's one of my favorites. Like, I mean, I've had

835
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: her on the show two or three times I've she played.

836
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: She'll come out and if there's any time I can

837
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: put her on any show, I put her off. She's

838
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: open for She's played the women of country with this,

839
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: Like it's just it's it's exciting for me to see

840
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: because you're starting to see that little shift and not

841
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: every year you see it a little more and more.

842
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: And and I get interviewed about it a lot because

843
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: I've been really one of the guys. There are a

844
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: couple of us in the industry that really are like

845
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: fighting for the females um and so it's cool to

846
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: see it start to shift a bit and then shifting.

847
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: It's shifting all uh Lucy and yourself and even like

848
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: Lindsay and Lindsay good Lord, Lindsay. Lindsay is by the way,

849
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: Lindsay l is on such a different level as an

850
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: artist and just her playing as a She's just someone

851
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: who like like you to something. No one else can

852
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: do what she does. No one else can do what

853
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: you do, and it will be interesting for you guys

854
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: to find your voices. Yeah, and that's what I think

855
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 1: you got a searching for right now, Like what's your voice? Yeah?

856
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: Like what what is the sound of of Lindsay l?

857
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: And what is the sound of Natalie Stove? All in

858
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: the drive? You know, because I mean I I always

859
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: feel like I feel it when I'm on stage and

860
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: then putting that into the perfect song, you know, is

861
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: much easier said than done. Mike, any questions over there

862
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: they'd like to ask in the corner Mike destro there,

863
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: go ahead, So when did you start writing songs? And

864
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: how old were you? Because you started playing what was

865
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: like the first song you wrote about? I started when

866
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: I was eleven, but I wouldn't shown anybody but I

867
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: have like probably a boy. I don't remember the first

868
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: thing I wrote about. I think I have the journal

869
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: somewhere in my room at my parents. Also, it's hilarious. Oh,

870
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 1: what's something your hometown is known for. We are the

871
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: mule capital of the world. The um Yeah, well back

872
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: in the day when that was a lot more important,

873
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: we were the mule trading capital of the world. And

874
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: I don't It's just we have Mule Day every year.

875
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: We have a big parade with all the mules and

876
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: they do mule races and it's awesome. Mule Day is

877
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: so fun. And then what's your favorite move on stage?

878
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: My favorite move on stage? I know the answer to that.

879
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: I know Natalie's signature move. It's where she plays the

880
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: fiddle on back, bends all the way down and the

881
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: crowd goes nice. She plays the fiddle and then she

882
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: bends all the way backward to our heads almost touching

883
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: the ground, actually plays and the like every every time,

884
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: like I every time. The weird thing is like Natalie

885
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: is a dancer. Like Natalie has soul, and so like I,

886
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: I like soul. I'm comfortable with soul, and so when

887
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: Natalie and I are together on stage. I like to dance,

888
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: and we dance a lot together, and I love dancing

889
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 1: and I love dancing. However, when now his husband's playing

890
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: drum behind us, no no, no, no, no no no,

891
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: I can do it. There was a dancing I talked

892
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: about it forever to it. So I'm not going to

893
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: dance if I'm not dancing like well, dance, you know,

894
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: it's a show. To me, it's a show like we're

895
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: there to entertain the crowd, and it's when when we

896
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: play the REGI idiots. I do not have lead singer disease.

897
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: There's a thing called lead singer disease. But the lead

898
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: singer has got to be the star all the time.

899
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: I have the opposite of that. I want the best,

900
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: the most fun thing happening, if it's Natalie singing, or

901
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: if it's a mom odd or if it's Eddie, like

902
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come from all directions. And part

903
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: of it is like we get down, Natalie has play

904
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: the drums, we got up. I was out, like I was.

905
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: I was blinding my Eddie, like I had Eddie bent

906
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: over because I was her husband played them was loud

907
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: and he's big, and I was like just today having

908
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: it and I'm not doing it. I even went up

909
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: to you at one point and you wouldn't even look

910
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: like I was trying to You got a six or

911
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: four husband behind me, went playing the drums, and I

912
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: got nothing to do with you right now. That is

913
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 1: so funny. But he doesn't care. No, he does not care. No, okay,

914
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure, alright. So Natalie Stoball

915
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: and the Drive. I put them as one of the

916
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: ten acts that you have to see live if they're around.

917
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: So if they if Natalie comes out, you have to

918
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: see her. I mean, just fantastic live even if you

919
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: come and see it with the Raging Idiots. Um. And

920
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: it's been cool to like you played the rhyme and

921
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: with this last year with a million dollars show. Yeah,

922
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: that was my first show with you. Was that the

923
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: first show that it was cool for me because that

924
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: was a big show because like it was Natalie and

925
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: like it was carry and all these dirks and everybody

926
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: was playing and so. And then we played I Heart

927
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: Radio Music Festival and we just played acoustic, but we

928
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: went out in the Irwin Center and arena and it

929
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: was me, Eddie and Natalie it was crazy and we

930
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: played so you know, it was so many people in

931
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: an arena and that was gonna play the operaty with

932
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: this on Tuesday, depending on when you hear this. So

933
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: Eddie and I are playing and I was like, Nady,

934
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: we could please come and play with us. And so

935
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: I know I take up a lot of your time.

936
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 1: Did your band get mad? No, no, they're so happy

937
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,479
Speaker 1: for me, because I want to get annoyed. I think

938
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: if you're an interview it. Some one was like, hey,

939
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: so tell me about when you played with the rate.

940
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: I would. I Sometimes i'll see a clip and I'll

941
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: be like, oh cringe, and I'll text you me like

942
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: I'm stuff. Sorry, No, it's it, really, I promised, though.

943
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,959
Speaker 1: I mean they know that that it's it's all good

944
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: for all of us. My only goal is to get

945
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: more people to see your name in your face, and

946
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 1: that's it. You're just so good. And I remember talking

947
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and I was like, I know you're

948
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: gonna leave soon, but just thank you for playing with us,

949
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: because you've just been an incredible run. And um, I

950
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 1: hope people kind of start to see that now. And no,

951
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: thank you. I mean it's it's it's been. It is

952
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: so much fun and it still is. And I I've

953
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: had a ball being on the road with you, and

954
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful you asked me to. And you know,

955
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: the guys they know how much fun I'm having and

956
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: they talking about it because you have so much fun. No,

957
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: they always ask, they always ask how it was, you know,

958
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: every week, how the last weekend was? And I don't

959
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: know talking about everything. No, it's not all right. I

960
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: just get scared they're gonna jump me in an alley.

961
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: They love you, all right. Natalie Soball how you can

962
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: follower on Twitter, Instagram It's at Natalie Soball. Yes, Natalie

963
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: Stowball on the Drive. They're all over the place and

964
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: she's with us some but she's really out, you know,

965
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: doing her thing. Can't wait to hear a record. I

966
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: know you have things popping right now. You're working on

967
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: new stuff hopefully. Yeah, I'm excited and I can't wait

968
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: to like play it on the radio because yeah, as

969
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: soon as I find something I love, I just I

970
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: can't wait to play it on the radio. Um, and

971
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: I encourage you better to download Heartbreak. It's the EP

972
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: now and I'm a huge Natalie stowball fan, and then

973
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us today, Thanks for having me. Yeah,

974
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: it's good. Anything else you'd like to ask, Mike, You're good,

975
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: all right, Natalie? About popsicles? Listen, I had a thing

976
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: here at my house last night. I got rid of

977
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: all the popsicles because I've been need nothing popsicles because

978
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: I've been sick for like three weeks, had some sort

979
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: of weird pneumonia that I couldn't shake. And aumonia actually

980
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: sounds a lot worse than it is. Like pneumonia sounds

981
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: like you should beat the little house on the parades.

982
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: That pretty bad, no matter how Yeah, so I was

983
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: just good. It's a terrible coughing. And so I had

984
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: my get rid of all the popsicles. Mike, I can't

985
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 1: go in the room discard all of them. Now they

986
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: walks five boxes of popsicles both drops them on the

987
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: counter and that, and I was like, well, I guess

988
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: I'll have a coupful game. It's trying to bring something

989
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: to need. Like it's like some people you a bottle

990
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: the wine or or now they brought popsicles. You know

991
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 1: you're definitely not drinking the wine. I'm not. Do you

992
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: see how much liquor I have, Like I don't know

993
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: if you could see it's it's in the corner I

994
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: have because of like people will send me gifts that

995
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: don't know me, know me, don't send me like Crystal

996
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: or dom or have thousands of dollars in alcohol just

997
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: sitting in my house and they don't drink. But much

998
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: like popsicles, once up, pop, I'm gonna prinkle those things

999
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna drink thousands of dollars in one night,

1000
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be a supermarket sweep, like and you

1001
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: can have all the big Hams and you throw it

1002
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: in the day of just alcohol, like I'm going I'll

1003
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: a like Joe, We'll have a big party. Thank you

1004
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: for the popsicles. Thank you for stopping Natalie Snowball the

1005
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: Forest Gump of country music. She played for the President,

1006
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 1: she audition to be Jenny and Forrescum, which we learned

1007
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 1: later she played the operay at twelve years old, started

1008
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: playing the fiddle, went to Berkeley. I mean, it's just

1009
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: a nutty story. Thank you, and we will, Uh, I

1010
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: guess I'll see you sun soon, tay for Tuesday. Yeah,

1011
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: if you hear this later on. If you hear this

1012
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: later on, Man, we killed the Operator was awesome, Like,

1013
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: if you listen to Tuesday they standing ovation for like

1014
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: ten minutes. It's crazy. There's there's nuts. Even Dirk's came

1015
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: out who played earlier, and it's like, that's awesome. It

1016
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: was amazing. So thanks. Natalie Stoball At Natalie Stoball, Mike

1017
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: destro At, Mike D E. E. S. T r Oh.

1018
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike, somebody asked, Hey, if Mike has

1019
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: a podcast, why does he doing. Don't you don't do

1020
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: your podcast anymore? No, but he used to do a

1021
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: punk punk rock podcast, but he doesn't do it anymore.

1022
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: What happened? He's got you too busy, and you have

1023
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: a lot of friends in like a watch of punk

1024
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: dudes sit around crazy talking about the ears Pierce and

1025
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: tattoos and stuff, and talking about music I've never heard of.

1026
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: I'll get in a mix car and it's it's not

1027
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: like this, like every song exactly, I don't even know

1028
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: what the listening to, but that that's this thing. Favorite

1029
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: band all right now, probably Maria. What do you think

1030
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: I've seen him the most every band I've seen him

1031
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: like over fifteen times you go to their house. That's

1032
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: how it. No, I have no idea next paper band band.

1033
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: I really like Julian Baker right now. She's a solo artist.

1034
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: Is that the girl you post like a guitar pickure?

1035
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: She's like, she's twelve. It looks like Natalie playing the Obrey,

1036
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: but I see the other night. I really like her

1037
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: right now. Well, thank you all for being here this

1038
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: episode eleven of the Boby Cast until next time our sponsor.

1039
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: Right now, still no one, but hopefully that changes in

1040
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: all right, good everybody