Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode eleven of the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. In uh the studio today is
Speaker 1: Natalie Stovall, singer, fiddle player, dancer. You did have to
Speaker 1: dance as a kid when you were doing operaing Land,
Speaker 1: you were a dancer. The weird thing about Natalie is
Speaker 1: um and by the way, at Natalie Stovall on Twitter
Speaker 1: is would you say that you were a prodigy if
Speaker 1: you were looking at yourself from someone else's eyes? Because
Speaker 1: I see prodigy because I know how young you started.
Speaker 1: I feel like prodigy is like I don't know, just
Speaker 1: beyond the way, beyond anything ever. Okay, well then let's
Speaker 1: just go back. You started playing the fiddle. Win four. Okay,
Speaker 1: a four year old even care about playing the fiddle.
Speaker 1: It's weird, but that's a really good time to start,
Speaker 1: because then it's just part of your life to start
Speaker 1: for too. It's a wonderful fun to start. But no
Speaker 1: four year old really wants to pick up a fiddle.
Speaker 1: So I just want to be able to pay attention
Speaker 1: to me. Just four. How do you get a fiddle
Speaker 1: into your hands? My grandmother read an article in the
Speaker 1: newspaper and we had a violent teacher coming to Columbia, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and she thought it'd be a good idea if I played.
Speaker 1: So she called mama, and Mama asked me if I
Speaker 1: wanted to play, and I said, yeah, four years old,
Speaker 1: you committed to playing the violin. Was it the violin?
Speaker 1: I was it the fiddle. It was the violin. I
Speaker 1: started with classical music. So that's even crazier that you
Speaker 1: cared about classical music before. Okay, so you picked it up.
Speaker 1: And when did you start to be where people will
Speaker 1: be like, wow, this kid's kind of good. How old
Speaker 1: were you then? I think I started fiddle competitions when
Speaker 1: I was seven or eight. I don't remember my first competition,
Speaker 1: but I started out in like the junior competitions and stuff,
Speaker 1: probably eight, because I guess eight is when I started
Speaker 1: playing fiddle music and taking like double lessons classical and fiddle,
Speaker 1: and so then I just started. I don't know, i'd
Speaker 1: play for anyone that would listen, though, Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's this case of a lot of musicians. But you're seven,
Speaker 1: eight years old playing the fiddle. Were you the best
Speaker 1: when you were seven? No? No, I definitely wasn't, especially
Speaker 1: like in the classical world. I mean, I was not
Speaker 1: the best. There were kids in in my group that
Speaker 1: were just, you know, like they could play anything. When
Speaker 1: did you flip over and start to do the fiddle
Speaker 1: or kind of more of the countryside of things. As
Speaker 1: soon as so my teacher brought in a fiddle team
Speaker 1: first to play because she was trying to introduce this
Speaker 1: to different things, and that's when my whole world opened up.
Speaker 1: I mean that's when I was like, oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to do this because I used to get
Speaker 1: in trouble for smiling while I was playing my concertos
Speaker 1: on stage. You're not to know because they want you
Speaker 1: to take it really seriously, but I was performing. It
Speaker 1: was just what I wanted to do. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I didn't really think about it, and so um so
Speaker 1: when a fiddle tune came in, that's when I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like played two strings at once and like, smile
Speaker 1: all I want. And so then Mama went and found
Speaker 1: a fiddle teacher for me, and so then I started
Speaker 1: playing fiddle music. So if you're four and you have
Speaker 1: this need to perform, was there a lack of love?
Speaker 1: Why would you want to perform at four years old?
Speaker 1: Why did you Why did you need the love from
Speaker 1: the crowd four? Like I know that's why I started
Speaker 1: being in front of you. No, there wasn't not for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm I'm I'm a weirdo that
Speaker 1: is a songwriter and creator and musician that had a
Speaker 1: very loving upbringing. And it's not a family and still do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all my siblings are supportive. And you know, I've
Speaker 1: got three older siblings that are either ten years or
Speaker 1: more older. Um, I don't know, I think because also
Speaker 1: I started acting classes when I was three and started
Speaker 1: doing commercials and stuff. When I was said, parents, pro
Speaker 1: are you into this? Like not at all? So they're trying.
Speaker 1: They saw like a little golden child. So at three
Speaker 1: you started taking I don't even have a memory at
Speaker 1: three years old. Can I take this off it back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're sure. The microphone, y'all. Microphone. You're the first guest
Speaker 1: to ever take the microphone off because really, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like I saw a picture with somebody. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like I'm being too proper sitting
Speaker 1: up at the front of the chair. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a pants off. So you're taking acting lessons at three.
Speaker 1: You're playing the fiddle at four, Um, you know that's
Speaker 1: what you want to do. In school? Were you the
Speaker 1: music kid? Yes? Yeah, I was always the weirdo that
Speaker 1: you know. I always did the performing thing. You went
Speaker 1: to college. You went to a music school in Boston, right, Yeah? Berkeley?
Speaker 1: Berkeley not the world? Did you get in there? I
Speaker 1: first heard about Berkeley through my voice teacher in Nashville.
Speaker 1: But Berkeley was like super prestigious and like where we
Speaker 1: come from? Are you and I? That's not even real? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like Berkeley is not real. It's like it's something you
Speaker 1: see on TV where kids go there, rich and super.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying, like, as soon as I found
Speaker 1: out that it existed, though, there was nothing that was
Speaker 1: going to stop me from going to school there. Um.
Speaker 1: I started working on my scholarship audition pretty much in
Speaker 1: my sophomore year of high school. And you know I
Speaker 1: didn't audition until senior year. I mean, you don't audition
Speaker 1: to get in until then. Audition you play in front
Speaker 1: of someone. Yeah, you you audition on your principal instruments,
Speaker 1: and mine was voice. That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: You got it on voice, not fiddle, yeah, I that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of a funny story. They destroyed my confidence
Speaker 1: on fiddle at Berkeley. I stopped playing for a while
Speaker 1: because they told to stop um. But I had never
Speaker 1: had technical vocal training. My vocal teacher in Nashville I
Speaker 1: had started at eleven. We'd worked more on repertoire and
Speaker 1: we worked a little on technique, but that wasn't really
Speaker 1: his forte. So then I went to college and I
Speaker 1: knew if I wanted to do this for real, I
Speaker 1: needed to, you know, really focus on it and do
Speaker 1: vocal performance. So I started working on my scholarship audition
Speaker 1: and I worked. I picked this four and a half
Speaker 1: minute Ella Fitzgerald's got solo for my jazz piece, and
Speaker 1: learned every note. Went to Berkeley on a vocal scholarship.
Speaker 1: Did that's crazy? It is crazy. I didn't think of
Speaker 1: myself as a singer. I was always like the performer
Speaker 1: that could sing, you know, were you heads and shoulders
Speaker 1: when you got there? A better singer than most of
Speaker 1: the people there. No, No, I had I had a
Speaker 1: good ear. I've always gotten by on my ear. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those site readers that you can
Speaker 1: just put a sheet of paper in front of me.
Speaker 1: But if I can hear it at least once ahead
Speaker 1: of time, I'm pretty good. And so there are people
Speaker 1: there that can just read anything you put in front
Speaker 1: of them, and there were, but I was one of
Speaker 1: the only country singers, so that was interesting. That helped
Speaker 1: make me different. And I thought I wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: get away from country when I went to Berkeley for
Speaker 1: a minute, because I had always been the girl that
Speaker 1: played the fiddle, that was always given the country music song.
Speaker 1: I no idea you went on a voice scholarship. And
Speaker 1: I've told Natalie even just like driving around, like she's
Speaker 1: one of the better singers in Nashville, Like there's a
Speaker 1: one percent group that that we put certain people in
Speaker 1: and Natalie sobas one of the better singers in all
Speaker 1: of the city. And I thought you were the fiddle place.
Speaker 1: So you go to Berkeley with the fiddle and they
Speaker 1: say you're just not good. Yeah. I kept auditioning for
Speaker 1: this one show. It was their big singer showcase, and
Speaker 1: I didn't get in the first couple of times that
Speaker 1: I auditioned for it. But I would always I would
Speaker 1: audition and play fiddle too, and they would always encourage
Speaker 1: you to come in and watch your tape with one
Speaker 1: of the judges and he would give you advice. So
Speaker 1: I went in because I wanted to get into this sucker,
Speaker 1: and he was like, would you please just put the
Speaker 1: fiddle down. It's what's hurting you, Like, just stop playing
Speaker 1: the fiddle and just sing. And the next time I
Speaker 1: auditioned just on vocals, and I I made the show
Speaker 1: every semester after that. And now it's weird because you're
Speaker 1: the girl that plays the fiddle like a monster. That's
Speaker 1: what you're known for. I mean, you're the baddest fiddle
Speaker 1: player around. It's crazy, it will and it it took
Speaker 1: me a while. It really destroyed my confidence on fiddle.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought I was horrible, and I thought
Speaker 1: I shouldn't play anymore, and so I kind of put
Speaker 1: it down for a little. I mean I always still
Speaker 1: kind of played, but then when I started putting a
Speaker 1: band together at school, um, you know, Devil and Down
Speaker 1: to Georgia was always one of our big show stopping moments.
Speaker 1: And so then there were a few songs I'd play
Speaker 1: on but it didn't really play much. I just sang.
Speaker 1: So going back, you were on Oprah. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: on Oprah. That was that was weird. Um. I I
Speaker 1: had won the Silliest Kid in America contest through No
Speaker 1: it was in Okay. So when I was in Kids Club,
Speaker 1: the adult Kid Club is Oprey Land and you were
Speaker 1: a performer. Yes, I was in that show for four years,
Speaker 1: from like ages ten of fourteen. So, um, when I
Speaker 1: was in Kids Club, the adult in the show, she
Speaker 1: was hosting Nashville Silliest Kid competition and she called me
Speaker 1: and said, Natalie, you gotta come to your baby cry
Speaker 1: because I had learned how to do this ventriloquist kind
Speaker 1: of baby cry thing I can. It's not gonna work
Speaker 1: over my mouth is not and it drinks a bottle
Speaker 1: of Bourbs. There's a whole act. So I won. I
Speaker 1: won the Nashville Silliest Kid Competition, which wasn't difficult because
Speaker 1: I was up against like your mom was so fat jokes,
Speaker 1: you know. It was like at the East Nashville y
Speaker 1: and it was just it was kind of funny. And
Speaker 1: then they sent my tape into national judges. I won
Speaker 1: the national competen ash and I got like a free
Speaker 1: trip to Disney World for my whole family because I
Speaker 1: did a baby cry, and one of the prizes was
Speaker 1: supposed to be to be on either j Letto or
Speaker 1: David Letterman, and I was like freaking out. But the
Speaker 1: thing was I was at the end of the age group.
Speaker 1: I was like fourteen, and they sent my tape to
Speaker 1: David Letterman. They were like, um, no, we don't want
Speaker 1: her on the show, because I think they were expecting
Speaker 1: like a little kid, like a little funny kid. And
Speaker 1: now I'm like a fourteen year old kid that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I can crawl like a baby. But then I didn't
Speaker 1: know this was happening, but tricks the sponsors of the competition.
Speaker 1: They sent in my tape to Oprah because she was
Speaker 1: doing a show on her funniest viewers, like silly viewers
Speaker 1: and stuff. So um, the producers of Oprah called one
Speaker 1: day and I was like a freshman in high school
Speaker 1: by the time this happened, and said, do you want
Speaker 1: to come be on the show? We'd love for you
Speaker 1: to do something else though, too, And so that's when
Speaker 1: I played. I played the fiddle between my knees. So
Speaker 1: you want here's Natalie Stoball at Oprah. Here, Oh that's
Speaker 1: is Oprey never mind. Couldn't we looked hard for hard?
Speaker 1: You can just call my parents. I'm sure they have
Speaker 1: want o. And you did the baby cry and you
Speaker 1: played the fiddle between your knees. Yeah yeah. And so
Speaker 1: did you meet Oprah? Was cool? It was awesome? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: When I walked out and she said, so what are
Speaker 1: you going to do? When she introduced me and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I told her I was going to play the
Speaker 1: violin between moneies and she was like, of course you
Speaker 1: are Natalie as the video that I saw a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago where it was the first time you
Speaker 1: played the Grand ol Opry and you were how old? Twelve? Okay?
Speaker 1: And so this is a Natalie at the Grand ol Opry.
Speaker 1: She's only twelve years old. So I want you to
Speaker 1: make her welcome here tonight, ladies and gentlemen. Natalie Stowall
Speaker 1: and I was him. She's in a cowgirl outfit, full
Speaker 1: cowgirl and that's not guess and the games and you're
Speaker 1: still blowing it and down tonight the guy right, and
Speaker 1: then days the bigger says like, I'm in an she's
Speaker 1: twelve playing the Opery, So how do you get that?
Speaker 1: Was so cool? People like, wait, the whole life to
Speaker 1: play the Opery. It was yeah, yeah, they do, and
Speaker 1: it was It was crazy because when I was in
Speaker 1: the kids Club show out at the theme park, they
Speaker 1: we did a video that they wanted to sell at
Speaker 1: the shows and one of the songs was called Think
Speaker 1: Big and it was all talking about like you can
Speaker 1: be anything you want to be when you grow up.
Speaker 1: And they asked all of the kids in the song,
Speaker 1: what do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 1: And said they would ask me and I would say,
Speaker 1: I want to be on the Grand Ole Opry. And
Speaker 1: then they just they made it happen. The first time
Speaker 1: you were supposed to be on there, you got bombed, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you go your and Natalie's gonna go and play
Speaker 1: the Opery fwelve years old and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Garth shows up. Well it was crazy because this that's
Speaker 1: such a crazy time in my life because I had
Speaker 1: just been invited to go audition for Pilot Season in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So my mom and I were getting ready
Speaker 1: to just go live in l A for a few months,
Speaker 1: and we kept postponing our leave date for the Opery.
Speaker 1: But then they kept postponing on me. They did twice
Speaker 1: and so finally the operaly and said, hey, just go
Speaker 1: on and we'll just fly you back whenever the date
Speaker 1: comes through. So I was actually living in l A
Speaker 1: at the time, and then they flew me back and
Speaker 1: I bought the most country outfit I've ever worn in
Speaker 1: l A, like I wouldn't got that outfit in l A,
Speaker 1: and then wore it on the opry that and I'd
Speaker 1: already had the hat of course, but yeah, and then
Speaker 1: a fule back to l A and finished out. Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I never booked anything out there, because that's really where
Speaker 1: I've was like, Okay, I don't want to be an actress.
Speaker 1: I want to be on stage all the time. You
Speaker 1: were so composed at twelve. You I played the Outbreak
Speaker 1: for the first time at thirty five, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, Like I don't even know what I'm
Speaker 1: doing here. I'm looking around, my eyeballs are beady, and
Speaker 1: but for you at twelve, you were just like it
Speaker 1: was just you, just that they're smiling, having a good time.
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy it when I did it, really because
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy awesome things while they're happening, because I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna screw them up. Yeah. I enjoyed things
Speaker 1: that go well, and looking at pictures afterwards, I don't
Speaker 1: enjoy them while they're happening. You were enjoying enjoying this.
Speaker 1: I was enjoying every second. And I told myself before
Speaker 1: I went out there, like, enjoy this. This is not
Speaker 1: something that anyone gets to do. You sang for the president.
Speaker 1: I did, which President George W. Bush. So I have
Speaker 1: Natalie singing for the president here. God, it is my
Speaker 1: great pleasure to welcome tonight from Nashville, Tennessee. Ms. Natalie Stowball.
Speaker 1: God bless um America. Then love stand beside, and God
Speaker 1: through the nine went the light from a book. Now
Speaker 1: I know who you are, and I've figured it out
Speaker 1: as we're talking. You're the forest gulp of country music.
Speaker 1: She's you're the first. You have the odd off stories
Speaker 1: that all just kind of come back together, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's like Forrest Gump. I mean, I was not
Speaker 1: composed for that one. They asked you to come sing
Speaker 1: for President Bush. Yes, and so did someone just call
Speaker 1: you and say, hey, we've heard you sing. I got
Speaker 1: an email from my agent At the time, I was
Speaker 1: out touring colleges, and I was on one of my
Speaker 1: very first big college shows and I remember getting in
Speaker 1: the back of the suburban and it was, you know,
Speaker 1: one or two in the morning, and this was back
Speaker 1: when I had my little Trio Palm Pilot or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I see this email coming that says, hey, um,
Speaker 1: what was the gray headed dude from American idol Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 1: Taylor Hicks just dropped out of singing for the president.
Speaker 1: It's all pro bono. Does anybody want this? And I
Speaker 1: was like, does anybody want this? And the reason they
Speaker 1: were asking was because you had to pay your own way.
Speaker 1: You weren't going to get paid to do it or anything.
Speaker 1: And I was going, who wouldn't do this? And I
Speaker 1: immediately was like, please, please, please, I'll do anything to
Speaker 1: do this. And they asked for a recording of me
Speaker 1: singing the national anthem. It was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: anthem um, so I sent that in and they called
Speaker 1: and asked me to come do it. So you're singing
Speaker 1: in front of the president, you're able to see him
Speaker 1: while you're singing. I got to meet him right before.
Speaker 1: He was on my right and the first lady was
Speaker 1: on my left and in front of me, it was
Speaker 1: you know, it was the correspondent stenter, so it's all
Speaker 1: movie stars and you know, famous people. And in front
Speaker 1: of me Larry King and Larry David were sitting at
Speaker 1: a table right next to each other, right in the
Speaker 1: front row. And I was like, this is crazy, Like
Speaker 1: where am I right? Like a girl from smalltown Tennessee
Speaker 1: is singing pent in the United States And regardless of
Speaker 1: who the president is, that's still the franking president of
Speaker 1: the United States. Yes, I know it was. It was
Speaker 1: one of the most incredible honors of my life. I
Speaker 1: mean it was so surreal, nervous, yes, shaking, And they
Speaker 1: told me they were, you know, the guy Steve Scully
Speaker 1: who was introducing me there, he was gonna put the
Speaker 1: little step stool up because even with my heels on,
Speaker 1: I was too short to reach the mic and so um,
Speaker 1: but they forgot to do that. So I had to
Speaker 1: get there like in my ball gown and pull the
Speaker 1: little steps stool out and then stand up on it myself.
Speaker 1: And I think that was good. It kind of called
Speaker 1: me down for a second, yeah, but I was so nervous.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about the performance once it was over?
Speaker 1: Did you feel like you did pretty good. I did, okay.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to listen to that, though, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't like that one. Why don't you like that?
Speaker 1: Because I can hear myself. I can hear the nerves,
Speaker 1: I can hear a little pitch issues. I can tell
Speaker 1: that I was not on my game. Do you have
Speaker 1: a picture do you look at and go, okay, this
Speaker 1: is awesome? Yes, I have one? Backstage? So right before
Speaker 1: we went out, um, they had just introduced me to
Speaker 1: President Bush and the first Lady, and then they cleared
Speaker 1: the room of everyone except for me, the two of
Speaker 1: them in secret service and a photographer. And as we're
Speaker 1: standing there, I'm talking to him and he I think
Speaker 1: I think. The first lady said, George is Natalie. She's
Speaker 1: gonna sing the anthem, and he goes, no, she's not.
Speaker 1: She's gonna sing America is beautiful. And then I'm standing
Speaker 1: there thinking like, oh no, do you correct the president?
Speaker 1: And the first lady like what do you do? And
Speaker 1: I kind of put my hand on my my heart
Speaker 1: and was like, God, bless America. And then we all
Speaker 1: started laughing. And I wouldn't have remembered this, but they
Speaker 1: snapped a picture right when we're all laughing at the
Speaker 1: same time, and apparently I put my hand down on
Speaker 1: his arm, like I'm that's just how I am. I'm
Speaker 1: real kind of I don't know, I'm I'm touchy with people,
Speaker 1: you know. And I got my hand on the President's
Speaker 1: arm and the first ladies kind of looking at me,
Speaker 1: but we're all laughing, and it's just one of my
Speaker 1: favorite piers. So cool. You got to meet the president
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. And when I was done,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. When I was done, when I got
Speaker 1: down off of the stage, as I was passing by,
Speaker 1: President Bush put his left hand to his side but
Speaker 1: kind of underneath like a low five, like when you
Speaker 1: give someone a low five. And that was another moment
Speaker 1: where I'm like, yeah, I give them president on five.
Speaker 1: What do I do right now? I just kinda put
Speaker 1: my hand in his like like a soft five. I guess,
Speaker 1: really awkward, and he goes he nailed it, and I
Speaker 1: was like, for like the four's music like before, they're
Speaker 1: blowing me away right now. So it's so funny. You
Speaker 1: started acting at three fiddle. At four You're in the
Speaker 1: kids club at opry landa opus Landa not exist anymore
Speaker 1: because it wasn't It was a theme park. And you,
Speaker 1: as a kid, I would assume we're making pretty good
Speaker 1: money performing. Yeah. Yeah, for I'm making any money performing
Speaker 1: for me, Like and I I put every single penny
Speaker 1: away in the bank. Um. And the only way that
Speaker 1: I got to do that Los Angeles trip and go
Speaker 1: live out there for a couple of months was that
Speaker 1: I paid for the whole thing for me and Mama
Speaker 1: and then, um, the rest of it went to college.
Speaker 1: So you go to l A to be an actress,
Speaker 1: and what you did just audition for a bunch of
Speaker 1: roles and yeah, I auditioned. I had about I don't know,
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen auditions, which wasn't a ton for the time.
Speaker 1: My acting coach's son was my age. He was my boyfriend,
Speaker 1: and uh, he had like twenty six auditions. Dudes at
Speaker 1: the time, twelve year old kids at the time had
Speaker 1: a lot more opportunities. And that it just fluctuates, just
Speaker 1: like crazy because women have all the opportunities. Oh I
Speaker 1: know now they all especially catch love in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you go out and I was I guess you
Speaker 1: didn't land You know, they worked really hard um to
Speaker 1: help me get rid of my accent, which I am
Speaker 1: glad did not work on me. And I started listening
Speaker 1: to tapes and I started trying to but they just
Speaker 1: stuff I did that I want to speak with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went for years. See that's the thing. I would
Speaker 1: have to go for years, and you still don't lose
Speaker 1: it because you're maybe if you're in l A. It's
Speaker 1: different for me. I never left the South. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: meaning I lived in Arkansas and as I'm learning speech
Speaker 1: path and you know your your eyes guy, yeah, I
Speaker 1: say I now, but when you're in Arkansas, need you
Speaker 1: know that's how that's how I would talk, or you know,
Speaker 1: you go fishing, you wanna go fishing? You know there
Speaker 1: were different things that you would learn by doing that.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to remove your accent. I would think
Speaker 1: they would try to put you into roles where your
Speaker 1: accent was kind of a character, you would think. So
Speaker 1: I guess there weren't really any auditions because I mean
Speaker 1: I was only out there for a couple of months.
Speaker 1: You got nothing, were you destroyed? H I got to
Speaker 1: audition for Roseanne for Roseanne show DJ's first girlfriend. But
Speaker 1: and in some girl that was on a lot of shows,
Speaker 1: like you knew who she was, got the part they
Speaker 1: see at the video store. I've seen every episode of Roseanne.
Speaker 1: Know he went he was taking her to a dance.
Speaker 1: It was like his middle school dancer could be it
Speaker 1: could have been me, Oh, I've got one for you.
Speaker 1: I audition. I got a call back to be a
Speaker 1: little Jinny in Forrest Gump. Really you look like a
Speaker 1: little Jenny. So Forrest Gump did for Little Jenny. They
Speaker 1: came to Nashville. Yeah, yeah, and I don't remember the audition,
Speaker 1: Like I don't remember what we did. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I said any of that. But um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't even let you in that, like they
Speaker 1: would look at each kid. Because my best friend and
Speaker 1: I and she was also at opry Land. We both
Speaker 1: auditioned for it and she actually made it, I think
Speaker 1: to a third callback, like she made it even further. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you had to have blonde hair and blue eyes,
Speaker 1: and you know, they would kind of look at you
Speaker 1: before you go in, and then you'd go in and
Speaker 1: do your lines or talk to him or whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't know. So you go in to get the part
Speaker 1: of Jenny, obviously, but she didn't know what for. You
Speaker 1: just knew it was a Tom Hanks movie. You know
Speaker 1: what it was yet And then when I saw the movie,
Speaker 1: I was like, dang it, I could have been Little Jenny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I Can Fly Far, Far Away. Um. So okay,
Speaker 1: So so this is happening. You're you're trying everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: young're you got through a high school normal, like twelfth grade.
Speaker 1: You graduate school, so then you go to Berkeley. You
Speaker 1: graduate from Berkeley. Yes, so you finished school there too, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and then you're at a crossroads. Do you go out
Speaker 1: to Nashville? Do you? Oh? I knew I was coming
Speaker 1: straight back here, straight back and start. While I was
Speaker 1: at Berkeley. UM, my sophomore year, I I met a
Speaker 1: guy named James, and he was now my husband and drummer,
Speaker 1: but he was I had a crush on his roommate,
Speaker 1: so I would always like try to hang out and
Speaker 1: fill in James's room. And I went and I met
Speaker 1: this dude named James, and I was like, hey, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a country singer and he was like I'm a
Speaker 1: country drummer and I was like no, wall, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And he still swears to this day. Did not say that,
Speaker 1: but I swear he said he was a country drummer.
Speaker 1: But we were talking one day and he was like, hey,
Speaker 1: why are you singing for all these other people? Because
Speaker 1: I was singing backgrounds and playing fiddle for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. I was like, why don't you have your
Speaker 1: own band? And I was like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't have my own band. So we started a band,
Speaker 1: and you know, I had auditions and brought in all
Speaker 1: these other players. And then I called my parents and
Speaker 1: was like, hey, and this is weird. What do you
Speaker 1: think about a band moving into the house during the summer?
Speaker 1: And in my parents how in Columbia, Tennessee, And I'll
Speaker 1: just book shows for us all summer. They're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe. They said, okay to that. How many
Speaker 1: people have been to your parents house? The first summer
Speaker 1: it was four guys, and the second summer was five
Speaker 1: guys plus you guys plus me. So they were told
Speaker 1: of eight people living in your house at one point.
Speaker 1: Us cook and stuff. Yeah, Mama would cook all the time,
Speaker 1: and and you know we need to like not to
Speaker 1: expect that. But and I just like it's crazy. I
Speaker 1: can't believe they let us do that. Your band is
Speaker 1: Natalie stove All on the Drive. I always I think
Speaker 1: it's like the other people didn't care, like how comments
Speaker 1: it's not you know, the Drive or a bunch of
Speaker 1: any name, but it was you then a side band.
Speaker 1: Oh well, at first I really wanted it to just
Speaker 1: be stove All. But there was another band in Atlanta
Speaker 1: that is a bunch of duds that play on the
Speaker 1: weekends and stuff, and their name is Stoveall. And now
Speaker 1: with the way the world works, um, it's like you,
Speaker 1: because of Facebook, you're established worldwide if you have a name,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you know, before Facebook and stuff,
Speaker 1: was there an issue like hey, why do we have
Speaker 1: me to drive and you get your own name as
Speaker 1: the head of the band. No, because with that, because
Speaker 1: also when it was at Berkeley, it was Natalie Stovell
Speaker 1: on Green Line South. It was a different name. Um,
Speaker 1: but for years we toured under just Natalie stove All.
Speaker 1: But after about well, i mean this November, William Miguel's
Speaker 1: tenth year on the road with me and Joel's almost
Speaker 1: a five years and so it's like after a while,
Speaker 1: it was like, man, I don't I don't feel like
Speaker 1: me without these guys, And so that was really a
Speaker 1: call on my part to give the band a name
Speaker 1: and recognize them more, elevate them more. As my band
Speaker 1: were called Natalie Stival on the drive right right, And
Speaker 1: when we from Natalie stove All to deciding to name
Speaker 1: it as a band, that's when I was looking at
Speaker 1: stove All and when that didn't pan out, you know,
Speaker 1: we were searching for a name, and then we decided
Speaker 1: to do the end. Yeah, here's a weird hard and
Speaker 1: maybe a question that you take in a weird way.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that you haven't popped yet? Because
Speaker 1: I say that in the most complimentary way, because you
Speaker 1: are one of the best singers in a city of
Speaker 1: the best singers, and to watch you play the fiddle,
Speaker 1: nobody does what you Nobody does what you do, and
Speaker 1: it's just like, why why do you think you haven't
Speaker 1: popped yet? I think part of it is that I
Speaker 1: have kind of gone at it from a little backwards
Speaker 1: way than a lot of people did, because I was
Speaker 1: on the road for so long before I really started
Speaker 1: to kind of take more time in Nashville and spend
Speaker 1: more time writing and developing the music side. Because you know,
Speaker 1: the typical Nashville route is it's like you move here,
Speaker 1: you start writing, you start honing in on what your
Speaker 1: sound is. And I really, I really just wanted to
Speaker 1: be on the road. I wanted to do anything I
Speaker 1: could to be working full time as a musician, and
Speaker 1: I went that route instead of writing all the time.
Speaker 1: And I would write as often as I could in town.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: you are one of the most talented people I've ever met.
Speaker 1: Why do you think I haven't popped. I don't know
Speaker 1: the answer to that, because I didn't know that that
Speaker 1: you went road dogging way early instead of because people
Speaker 1: that's what happens. People come to Nashville. They try to
Speaker 1: establish an identity or a sound. They right right right
Speaker 1: with as many people as possible they play. Then they
Speaker 1: start to play a little bit locally and they try
Speaker 1: to branch them. So I didn't know you went backward
Speaker 1: like that. That makes a little sense. Um, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I've done the college market for you know, since two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and we've I mean, we were doing
Speaker 1: between two hundred and two fifty shows a year up
Speaker 1: until last year. You're so so talented that I asked
Speaker 1: Natalie and she plays on the road with the Raging Idiots.
Speaker 1: Some it was just like, would you please play with us?
Speaker 1: Because and I can ask frankly, I can ask anybody
Speaker 1: musicians everywhere. And I was just like, hey, would you
Speaker 1: please play with us? Because you're so good? And at
Speaker 1: times I feel guilty because I felt like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: holding you back because I mean also, I'm really good
Speaker 1: and I'll overshadow you alive. So I felt bad there. Um,
Speaker 1: what is you're You're raising the bar so that I
Speaker 1: can hold my own stage, so that I can get
Speaker 1: up to your level. You do get a deal, a
Speaker 1: record deal? Okay, how long ago is that when you
Speaker 1: get your first record deal? So three years ago roughly
Speaker 1: you get a record deal? Um, and so what what's
Speaker 1: the first song you start with? Like, first time, first
Speaker 1: record deal, first single, you're excited? What song you put
Speaker 1: out there? Baby? Come on with it, Baby, come on
Speaker 1: with it, Come on with drink on that, I'll drink,
Speaker 1: sing show me the outside down by the fis, come
Speaker 1: in all song with it, I don't me and you
Speaker 1: and dance do there wrong with? So what did this
Speaker 1: song do? Uh? Did chart? Yeah? I got to thirty six,
Speaker 1: He got a thirty six? Is this your biggest song? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's my only song to radio that we actually shipped
Speaker 1: to radio. So baby, come on when it comes out.
Speaker 1: You hit thirty six, do you think, okay, this is it,
Speaker 1: like we're about to hit big. Um, there's no. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of time to think too much. But
Speaker 1: I felt like we were in We had positioned ourselves
Speaker 1: really well. I felt, you know, because we we were
Speaker 1: meeting every radio station in the country and just going
Speaker 1: like crazy, going NonStop. I mean all the crazy stories
Speaker 1: you hear about radio tours and Um, the way you
Speaker 1: hit Shop did it was pretty cool because they would
Speaker 1: book a show like a real show in a club,
Speaker 1: and they were the record deal, Yeah, the record label,
Speaker 1: so they would fly all these radio p ds and
Speaker 1: all these people, all the representatives from the station's out
Speaker 1: to see our live show instead of just going into
Speaker 1: the conference room and just playing acoustic. And that was
Speaker 1: really an amazing way to do it. Um, and I
Speaker 1: felt like our second single. Once we recorded it and
Speaker 1: started working on it, I felt like that was I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just I was really excited to see
Speaker 1: where it went. It was called Mason Jar got me
Speaker 1: from them. So this is how you thought, Okay, this
Speaker 1: could really be out for us. Yeah, well, I just
Speaker 1: I felt like it was gonna I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was really really excited about it, and it was. It
Speaker 1: was really reacting well to crowds, which is always my gauge.
Speaker 1: Like when we were playing on stage, if the crowd
Speaker 1: gets into it when they don't know the song, then
Speaker 1: it it feels really good and you feel like you're
Speaker 1: on a good a good plan, a good route. I
Speaker 1: guess um what happened the week before that got shipped
Speaker 1: to radio the label clothes. The investor said, we don't
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore, and so that was about
Speaker 1: a year into signing the deal. So a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, you're on a label, you chart, you have
Speaker 1: a second song you feel great about, and the level
Speaker 1: goes at we're out. So then what do you do?
Speaker 1: So then everything just kind of you know, all the
Speaker 1: stuff that we had worked for really fell away in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. I mean, we were the good
Speaker 1: thing about my band is it's like we're gonna play
Speaker 1: and we're gonna tour the crap out of the country
Speaker 1: no matter what. Happens. Deal, no deal, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that we're touring. Um, But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It's it's hard to have help both financially
Speaker 1: and just support wise in the industry and then have
Speaker 1: everything fall away because everything were breaking the band up.
Speaker 1: No no, no no, and like it's cheaper to go
Speaker 1: solo now on, I don't even think it is. Also,
Speaker 1: my guys have put in so much time and work
Speaker 1: and work done, done more jobs than they needed to
Speaker 1: as far as like they work so hard for me.
Speaker 1: Joel does merch during like after the shows for me,
Speaker 1: and Miguel does the stage and James tour manages, and
Speaker 1: we all take on about fifteen extra rolls to make
Speaker 1: this thing work. And I mean, I think being by myself,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have it with my guys to share it with,
Speaker 1: you know, And I don't know. It's it's a family
Speaker 1: that we've worked really hard to build and it's really
Speaker 1: fun to see these highs and lows together. It sucks
Speaker 1: when it's a low, but we're we're experiencing it together,
Speaker 1: you know. So now you're not on a label, um,
Speaker 1: are you trying to be on the label? And are you,
Speaker 1: it's like, are you on the meetings and they're just like, ah,
Speaker 1: we just don't feel it right now. Um, yes, and no,
Speaker 1: I'm I would love to have the right partnership again.
Speaker 1: That'd be amazing, you know, and I'm constantly looking for it,
Speaker 1: but I try very hard not to worry too much
Speaker 1: about that. That's what management and all the other parts
Speaker 1: of your team were for, I think, because it all
Speaker 1: starts with the music, and it's all about the song.
Speaker 1: And I'm just been writing a bunch and trying to
Speaker 1: find the right next thing, you know. I mean, as
Speaker 1: I'm writing and working, I've been meeting with different producers
Speaker 1: and talking to people, and that's another relationship that's really
Speaker 1: integral to your your sale. And what happens next is
Speaker 1: recording the right music and the right sound and kind
Speaker 1: of taking everything I've learned from the last few years
Speaker 1: and what worked and what didn't, what I'm good at,
Speaker 1: you know, what do I do that other artists don't do?
Speaker 1: Or you know, what is the one thing that I'm
Speaker 1: better at? You know, because I think we all have that. You. Um,
Speaker 1: you label folds and you decided to crowd fund a record.
Speaker 1: How were you doing this? And like, if you give
Speaker 1: me a dollar, I'll come to your house and give them.
Speaker 1: The songs were stuff And so is that where the
Speaker 1: EP that you guys have about now came from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was you know, when the label folded all the music.
Speaker 1: I mean they owned all the music, and um, well
Speaker 1: they that was. It took a while, but they were
Speaker 1: great about it. Once I called. I personally called the
Speaker 1: one of the investors and talked to him because they
Speaker 1: took it offline. So we kind of lost all the
Speaker 1: all the reviews and all the fun things, and it
Speaker 1: looked like we didn't have anything out, you know, it
Speaker 1: looked like we were just some them band music. Probably
Speaker 1: we had had a couple of records out before this
Speaker 1: stuff that we took down at the request of the
Speaker 1: label because they wanted to put up all new stuff.
Speaker 1: But then, I'm not going to go back and put
Speaker 1: up stuff I released in two thousand and eight, you know,
Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten or eleven, I guess, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put up older stuff. And when I
Speaker 1: don't even have newer stuff to put up. So the
Speaker 1: name of the EP now is called Heartbreak. Okay. Here
Speaker 1: is the song which is called heartbreak, they'll take away
Speaker 1: little and this was paid for all by fans for
Speaker 1: the most part. Yeah, that's that's cool. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It also shows the age were in. Yeah that you know,
Speaker 1: if people a passionate enough. And I remember, I mean listen,
Speaker 1: I put ten grand down myself. You didn't know, but
Speaker 1: I did. You're welcome. I didn't not really didn't get
Speaker 1: No one put in den Graham, not one single person.
Speaker 1: I give it to Stove all why did you give
Speaker 1: it too? So you have the EP out there and
Speaker 1: so you're on the road supporting that. But is that
Speaker 1: something that like, you guys are gonna take that and
Speaker 1: make that into a bigger record or you just kind
Speaker 1: of starting from scratch now. I feel like I'm starting
Speaker 1: from scratch now. I mean at first I was, I'm
Speaker 1: open to all options. But this EP was really cool
Speaker 1: because we got the chance to experiment a lot. We
Speaker 1: worked almost every song with a different producer, and I
Speaker 1: was writing thematically. Most of the songs are kind of
Speaker 1: about you know, the the label falling apart or just
Speaker 1: you know, just hanging in and not giving up on
Speaker 1: what you believe in. Um. But but musically I was
Speaker 1: trying a lot of different things and seeing what worked
Speaker 1: and what didn't end. So that EP was really fun
Speaker 1: for us and kind of a great experiment. And so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take what I learned from that and
Speaker 1: turn that into the next thing. You still downloaded now too.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's a heartbreak here. You're married to
Speaker 1: your drummer. That's a lot of time together. It is
Speaker 1: a lot of time. The reality of it. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of time together. And they say, you know, distance
Speaker 1: makes the heart grow fonder. That's not the case with you, guys. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean it is, and we do when
Speaker 1: we are a part which isn't very often, but it's
Speaker 1: I don't think it would work for everybody. I think
Speaker 1: because we were had such a musical partnership that was
Speaker 1: not at all romantic for a few years before it
Speaker 1: turned into something romantic. I think that was a big
Speaker 1: advantage for us. And uh, you know, we worked really
Speaker 1: hard to to make it. We don't ever want people
Speaker 1: to feel like they're out with the married couple, you know,
Speaker 1: So even when we're on the road, it's we're we're working.
Speaker 1: We're not loved whenever. Um. Because by the way, Natalie
Speaker 1: comes out, and we're lucky enough that she should played
Speaker 1: the Raging Idiot shows. She'll she's done some shows. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like a cycle, and I'm lucky you have great
Speaker 1: artists come in and Natalie comes and sings the brains
Speaker 1: out and plays a fiddle and has really been as
Speaker 1: part of the growth of our stupid band. Um, it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's been what you've actually been a part of the
Speaker 1: growth of what is just a it's a nutty thing, right,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, like it's crazy. The Raging Idiot thing is crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's so fun and until you see it,
Speaker 1: you just don't understand it because I can't think, and
Speaker 1: I've gotten better, but it can't sing. But it is
Speaker 1: a very entertaining show. And people that will scream for
Speaker 1: us to go, and we'll go down and get undressed.
Speaker 1: I never expected people are just like God. So for
Speaker 1: what you do, I always feel guilty because we go
Speaker 1: out and we've had this talk off just to ourselves
Speaker 1: to where we shouldn't have these crowds come to these shows.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't be having two thousand people show up at
Speaker 1: a theater and sell out and go nuts. And here
Speaker 1: you are that one of the most talented people I've
Speaker 1: ever met, and you're like my side Federal player. I
Speaker 1: disagree that that you shouldn't and I disagree that you
Speaker 1: can't sing to you because you can sing and what
Speaker 1: you do is so accessible and the show is so
Speaker 1: fun and people just want to be there and have
Speaker 1: a good time, and you provide that for him, and
Speaker 1: you know, for the thing is I mean, I'm I
Speaker 1: don't know why it hasn't happened for us yet. I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm what have I taught you as an artist?
Speaker 1: What have I taught you as an artist? What do
Speaker 1: you mean? Oh, you're genuinely asking, No, you need I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna let you be facetious at that, though, because
Speaker 1: I have learned so much from you by being okay
Speaker 1: with being on my toes and being okay with whatever
Speaker 1: happens roll with it, because I'm I'm much more. I
Speaker 1: like for things to be rehearsed, and I like for
Speaker 1: to know what we're gonna do. And there are times
Speaker 1: in my show where it does go somewhere, or there's
Speaker 1: a solo or some kind of instrumental or something that happens.
Speaker 1: It's off the cuff, but that's a lot less often
Speaker 1: than a raging idiot show, because you will look at
Speaker 1: us at times and say, hey, hey, do you know
Speaker 1: this song? And I'll be like, well, I mean i've
Speaker 1: I've heard it, I've heard it before, and you're like,
Speaker 1: play it thousands of Oh yeah, no, we need a
Speaker 1: thong song we practice five minutes hilarious. Um, I was
Speaker 1: kidding with that, but um. But I have learned so
Speaker 1: much from that, and I think that's part of being
Speaker 1: on the road too. And it's been good for me
Speaker 1: to do different tours and play with different people, because
Speaker 1: you do you learn something from everybody you're out with.
Speaker 1: Who do you you're out there now doing a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. Who do you see out there now that
Speaker 1: you're like, man, that's special and it doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: the major artists are out there. We know they're special
Speaker 1: because they've broken through there. But who who's out there
Speaker 1: now that you're like, that's special and it's ready. It's
Speaker 1: also ready to pop. You're just kind of watching for it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean, I'm I mean my friends. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm part of the reason I'm friends with some of
Speaker 1: the people. And I don't know, there's God there's so
Speaker 1: many in Nashville. Um, you know, Ruthie Collins is one
Speaker 1: of my best friends, and I just I think she's
Speaker 1: one of the best writers in Nashville. I just think
Speaker 1: I think I don't understand why she hasn't because I
Speaker 1: think what she does as an artist is incredible, unique,
Speaker 1: very specific style that is so cool. Well, and she's
Speaker 1: you know, and he's on Curb and they're they're working
Speaker 1: on putting some stuff out, so hopefully you'll hear stuff saying, Um,
Speaker 1: I think Kelly Bannon is amazing, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're the three of us are doing the Three Girls
Speaker 1: Rocking to a Our tour and it's been so that's
Speaker 1: another one I'm learning so much from because I watch
Speaker 1: what these girls do and and the struggles that they
Speaker 1: have as artists and and trying to make what they
Speaker 1: do make sense all together. And it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: it's crazy to me the talent in this town and
Speaker 1: the people that are so good and that just haven't
Speaker 1: gotten there yet. But it's fun to see people like
Speaker 1: Lucy Silva's really starting to pop right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, people are really She's getting on some of
Speaker 1: the bigger festivals and the stuff with her music and
Speaker 1: Caitlin Smith and you know, and even Maren, Like, god,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad her stuff is coming through right now.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. You mentioned a lot of women. Everyone you
Speaker 1: just mentioned was a woman that wasn't on purpose. But
Speaker 1: I think the women though, have been making some incredible music.
Speaker 1: And not to take away from the men, because the
Speaker 1: men have been too, but um, that's part of what happens,
Speaker 1: is a backlash when you're you know, it's like then
Speaker 1: you have to step up your game. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like the women aren't getting played as often on radio.
Speaker 1: But some of the women have been putting out some
Speaker 1: of the most stellar records. You know. Maren is awesome
Speaker 1: because I don't think she cares, you know, and knowing
Speaker 1: Maren and I've gotten the I've gotten to know Maren.
Speaker 1: It's special when someone is just like this is me
Speaker 1: and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: if it and that's part of her appeal. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really is. I think that's such a blessing to have
Speaker 1: that attitude too, because you know, I want it so
Speaker 1: bad and I'm I get a little too crazy about
Speaker 1: like trying to find the p afect thing and trying
Speaker 1: to find the perfect sound and do the thing, and
Speaker 1: to have the luxury to to I don't know whether
Speaker 1: she did or not, but I'm just saying for myself
Speaker 1: to have the luxury to just sit back and write
Speaker 1: a whole bunch, just get in the room with people
Speaker 1: and find your people. And you know, I've always kind
Speaker 1: of balanced that when you're I mean that was when
Speaker 1: year we were only home sixty days out of the
Speaker 1: whole year, you know, and talking about Lucy to Lucy,
Speaker 1: Sylvia's one of my favorites. Like, I mean, I've had
Speaker 1: her on the show two or three times I've she played.
Speaker 1: She'll come out and if there's any time I can
Speaker 1: put her on any show, I put her off. She's
Speaker 1: open for She's played the women of country with this,
Speaker 1: Like it's just it's it's exciting for me to see
Speaker 1: because you're starting to see that little shift and not
Speaker 1: every year you see it a little more and more.
Speaker 1: And and I get interviewed about it a lot because
Speaker 1: I've been really one of the guys. There are a
Speaker 1: couple of us in the industry that really are like
Speaker 1: fighting for the females um and so it's cool to
Speaker 1: see it start to shift a bit and then shifting.
Speaker 1: It's shifting all uh Lucy and yourself and even like
Speaker 1: Lindsay and Lindsay good Lord, Lindsay. Lindsay is by the way,
Speaker 1: Lindsay l is on such a different level as an
Speaker 1: artist and just her playing as a She's just someone
Speaker 1: who like like you to something. No one else can
Speaker 1: do what she does. No one else can do what
Speaker 1: you do, and it will be interesting for you guys
Speaker 1: to find your voices. Yeah, and that's what I think
Speaker 1: you got a searching for right now, Like what's your voice? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like what what is the sound of of Lindsay l?
Speaker 1: And what is the sound of Natalie Stove? All in
Speaker 1: the drive? You know, because I mean I I always
Speaker 1: feel like I feel it when I'm on stage and
Speaker 1: then putting that into the perfect song, you know, is
Speaker 1: much easier said than done. Mike, any questions over there
Speaker 1: they'd like to ask in the corner Mike destro there,
Speaker 1: go ahead, So when did you start writing songs? And
Speaker 1: how old were you? Because you started playing what was
Speaker 1: like the first song you wrote about? I started when
Speaker 1: I was eleven, but I wouldn't shown anybody but I
Speaker 1: have like probably a boy. I don't remember the first
Speaker 1: thing I wrote about. I think I have the journal
Speaker 1: somewhere in my room at my parents. Also, it's hilarious. Oh,
Speaker 1: what's something your hometown is known for. We are the
Speaker 1: mule capital of the world. The um Yeah, well back
Speaker 1: in the day when that was a lot more important,
Speaker 1: we were the mule trading capital of the world. And
Speaker 1: I don't It's just we have Mule Day every year.
Speaker 1: We have a big parade with all the mules and
Speaker 1: they do mule races and it's awesome. Mule Day is
Speaker 1: so fun. And then what's your favorite move on stage?
Speaker 1: My favorite move on stage? I know the answer to that.
Speaker 1: I know Natalie's signature move. It's where she plays the
Speaker 1: fiddle on back, bends all the way down and the
Speaker 1: crowd goes nice. She plays the fiddle and then she
Speaker 1: bends all the way backward to our heads almost touching
Speaker 1: the ground, actually plays and the like every every time,
Speaker 1: like I every time. The weird thing is like Natalie
Speaker 1: is a dancer. Like Natalie has soul, and so like I,
Speaker 1: I like soul. I'm comfortable with soul, and so when
Speaker 1: Natalie and I are together on stage. I like to dance,
Speaker 1: and we dance a lot together, and I love dancing
Speaker 1: and I love dancing. However, when now his husband's playing
Speaker 1: drum behind us, no no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: I can do it. There was a dancing I talked
Speaker 1: about it forever to it. So I'm not going to
Speaker 1: dance if I'm not dancing like well, dance, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a show. To me, it's a show like we're
Speaker 1: there to entertain the crowd, and it's when when we
Speaker 1: play the REGI idiots. I do not have lead singer disease.
Speaker 1: There's a thing called lead singer disease. But the lead
Speaker 1: singer has got to be the star all the time.
Speaker 1: I have the opposite of that. I want the best,
Speaker 1: the most fun thing happening, if it's Natalie singing, or
Speaker 1: if it's a mom odd or if it's Eddie, like
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come from all directions. And part
Speaker 1: of it is like we get down, Natalie has play
Speaker 1: the drums, we got up. I was out, like I was.
Speaker 1: I was blinding my Eddie, like I had Eddie bent
Speaker 1: over because I was her husband played them was loud
Speaker 1: and he's big, and I was like just today having
Speaker 1: it and I'm not doing it. I even went up
Speaker 1: to you at one point and you wouldn't even look
Speaker 1: like I was trying to You got a six or
Speaker 1: four husband behind me, went playing the drums, and I
Speaker 1: got nothing to do with you right now. That is
Speaker 1: so funny. But he doesn't care. No, he does not care. No, okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure, alright. So Natalie Stoball
Speaker 1: and the Drive. I put them as one of the
Speaker 1: ten acts that you have to see live if they're around.
Speaker 1: So if they if Natalie comes out, you have to
Speaker 1: see her. I mean, just fantastic live even if you
Speaker 1: come and see it with the Raging Idiots. Um. And
Speaker 1: it's been cool to like you played the rhyme and
Speaker 1: with this last year with a million dollars show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first show with you. Was that the
Speaker 1: first show that it was cool for me because that
Speaker 1: was a big show because like it was Natalie and
Speaker 1: like it was carry and all these dirks and everybody
Speaker 1: was playing and so. And then we played I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio Music Festival and we just played acoustic, but we
Speaker 1: went out in the Irwin Center and arena and it
Speaker 1: was me, Eddie and Natalie it was crazy and we
Speaker 1: played so you know, it was so many people in
Speaker 1: an arena and that was gonna play the operaty with
Speaker 1: this on Tuesday, depending on when you hear this. So
Speaker 1: Eddie and I are playing and I was like, Nady,
Speaker 1: we could please come and play with us. And so
Speaker 1: I know I take up a lot of your time.
Speaker 1: Did your band get mad? No, no, they're so happy
Speaker 1: for me, because I want to get annoyed. I think
Speaker 1: if you're an interview it. Some one was like, hey,
Speaker 1: so tell me about when you played with the rate.
Speaker 1: I would. I Sometimes i'll see a clip and I'll
Speaker 1: be like, oh cringe, and I'll text you me like
Speaker 1: I'm stuff. Sorry, No, it's it, really, I promised, though.
Speaker 1: I mean they know that that it's it's all good
Speaker 1: for all of us. My only goal is to get
Speaker 1: more people to see your name in your face, and
Speaker 1: that's it. You're just so good. And I remember talking
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and I was like, I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna leave soon, but just thank you for playing with us,
Speaker 1: because you've just been an incredible run. And um, I
Speaker 1: hope people kind of start to see that now. And no,
Speaker 1: thank you. I mean it's it's it's been. It is
Speaker 1: so much fun and it still is. And I I've
Speaker 1: had a ball being on the road with you, and
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful you asked me to. And you know,
Speaker 1: the guys they know how much fun I'm having and
Speaker 1: they talking about it because you have so much fun. No,
Speaker 1: they always ask, they always ask how it was, you know,
Speaker 1: every week, how the last weekend was? And I don't
Speaker 1: know talking about everything. No, it's not all right. I
Speaker 1: just get scared they're gonna jump me in an alley.
Speaker 1: They love you, all right. Natalie Soball how you can
Speaker 1: follower on Twitter, Instagram It's at Natalie Soball. Yes, Natalie
Speaker 1: Stowball on the Drive. They're all over the place and
Speaker 1: she's with us some but she's really out, you know,
Speaker 1: doing her thing. Can't wait to hear a record. I
Speaker 1: know you have things popping right now. You're working on
Speaker 1: new stuff hopefully. Yeah, I'm excited and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to like play it on the radio because yeah, as
Speaker 1: soon as I find something I love, I just I
Speaker 1: can't wait to play it on the radio. Um, and
Speaker 1: I encourage you better to download Heartbreak. It's the EP
Speaker 1: now and I'm a huge Natalie stowball fan, and then
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us today, Thanks for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. Anything else you'd like to ask, Mike, You're good,
Speaker 1: all right, Natalie? About popsicles? Listen, I had a thing
Speaker 1: here at my house last night. I got rid of
Speaker 1: all the popsicles because I've been need nothing popsicles because
Speaker 1: I've been sick for like three weeks, had some sort
Speaker 1: of weird pneumonia that I couldn't shake. And aumonia actually
Speaker 1: sounds a lot worse than it is. Like pneumonia sounds
Speaker 1: like you should beat the little house on the parades.
Speaker 1: That pretty bad, no matter how Yeah, so I was
Speaker 1: just good. It's a terrible coughing. And so I had
Speaker 1: my get rid of all the popsicles. Mike, I can't
Speaker 1: go in the room discard all of them. Now they
Speaker 1: walks five boxes of popsicles both drops them on the
Speaker 1: counter and that, and I was like, well, I guess
Speaker 1: I'll have a coupful game. It's trying to bring something
Speaker 1: to need. Like it's like some people you a bottle
Speaker 1: the wine or or now they brought popsicles. You know
Speaker 1: you're definitely not drinking the wine. I'm not. Do you
Speaker 1: see how much liquor I have, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: if you could see it's it's in the corner I
Speaker 1: have because of like people will send me gifts that
Speaker 1: don't know me, know me, don't send me like Crystal
Speaker 1: or dom or have thousands of dollars in alcohol just
Speaker 1: sitting in my house and they don't drink. But much
Speaker 1: like popsicles, once up, pop, I'm gonna prinkle those things
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna drink thousands of dollars in one night,
Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be a supermarket sweep, like and you
Speaker 1: can have all the big Hams and you throw it
Speaker 1: in the day of just alcohol, like I'm going I'll
Speaker 1: a like Joe, We'll have a big party. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the popsicles. Thank you for stopping Natalie Snowball the
Speaker 1: Forest Gump of country music. She played for the President,
Speaker 1: she audition to be Jenny and Forrescum, which we learned
Speaker 1: later she played the operay at twelve years old, started
Speaker 1: playing the fiddle, went to Berkeley. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a nutty story. Thank you, and we will, Uh, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll see you sun soon, tay for Tuesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you hear this later on. If you hear this
Speaker 1: later on, Man, we killed the Operator was awesome, Like,
Speaker 1: if you listen to Tuesday they standing ovation for like
Speaker 1: ten minutes. It's crazy. There's there's nuts. Even Dirk's came
Speaker 1: out who played earlier, and it's like, that's awesome. It
Speaker 1: was amazing. So thanks. Natalie Stoball At Natalie Stoball, Mike
Speaker 1: destro At, Mike D E. E. S. T r Oh.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike, somebody asked, Hey, if Mike has
Speaker 1: a podcast, why does he doing. Don't you don't do
Speaker 1: your podcast anymore? No, but he used to do a
Speaker 1: punk punk rock podcast, but he doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: What happened? He's got you too busy, and you have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends in like a watch of punk
Speaker 1: dudes sit around crazy talking about the ears Pierce and
Speaker 1: tattoos and stuff, and talking about music I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: I'll get in a mix car and it's it's not
Speaker 1: like this, like every song exactly, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what the listening to, but that that's this thing. Favorite
Speaker 1: band all right now, probably Maria. What do you think
Speaker 1: I've seen him the most every band I've seen him
Speaker 1: like over fifteen times you go to their house. That's
Speaker 1: how it. No, I have no idea next paper band band.
Speaker 1: I really like Julian Baker right now. She's a solo artist.
Speaker 1: Is that the girl you post like a guitar pickure?
Speaker 1: She's like, she's twelve. It looks like Natalie playing the Obrey,
Speaker 1: but I see the other night. I really like her
Speaker 1: right now. Well, thank you all for being here this
Speaker 1: episode eleven of the Boby Cast until next time our sponsor.
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