Speaker 1: Caroline. She's a queen of talking. He was son. She's
Speaker 1: only yes, actually got the snoop on on the on side.
Speaker 1: No one can do within clie my Carola, Caroline. No
Speaker 1: one can do within quiet Caroline Carola. Hey, y'all, welcome
Speaker 1: to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby.
Speaker 1: I know music, I know people, and I know the
Speaker 1: questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper
Speaker 1: heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there
Speaker 1: could be adult content. And I have Cree Harrison joining
Speaker 1: me this week. I'm obsessed with Creed. I've loved her
Speaker 1: for like ten years. I've known her and Nashville for
Speaker 1: over a decade. She's an angel on earth. She has
Speaker 1: the best voice I've ever heard in my life. I
Speaker 1: really mean that. She's so good and her story is incredible.
Speaker 1: She got second place on American Idol in the midst
Speaker 1: of a lot of other amazing things she's done, which
Speaker 1: she just released new music too, called This Old Thing
Speaker 1: and it is so good and I got to hear
Speaker 1: the whole ep, and I'm telling you the whole album.
Speaker 1: She made a whole album. It is knock your socks
Speaker 1: off good. So get excited, world, because Cree Harrison is
Speaker 1: here and I cannot wait for you to hear everything
Speaker 1: she has going on. Welcome Cree. Okay, Cree Harrison, Hi,
Speaker 1: sitting here with a fabulous create. We must know this
Speaker 1: is round two. Yes, it is, which is exciting because
Speaker 1: I just like hanging out with you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I love hanging out with you. I know you're so busy, though,
Speaker 1: and I have to tell everybody what happened. Cree is
Speaker 1: a badass, and I was like, Cree, can I interview you?
Speaker 1: And she's like yes, and she's all this stuff going on.
Speaker 1: She's releasing her new album. She's like so incredible. We
Speaker 1: did this interview was so fun. It was, and then
Speaker 1: I didn't record it. I just think that we were
Speaker 1: having too much fun, and that lead to not realizing
Speaker 1: that we were recording anything, which is fine with me.
Speaker 1: Until you're cool though, I mean, like so many people
Speaker 1: will be like, hell, no, I'm not doing another interview
Speaker 1: with you. Get out my hair. No, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Get in there, get in all of the hairs, get
Speaker 1: in you. I wish you do use dry shampoo. Yes, literally,
Speaker 1: just put some of my hair and you have I do.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of it looks like which hair. No.
Speaker 1: I think dirty hair is the only way to go
Speaker 1: is get that body. Curls better, stays better, do curler hair.
Speaker 1: I do a little bit. Yeah, it looks really nice.
Speaker 1: Your hair looks really nice. I curled it for you.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do on myself up a little more
Speaker 1: this time. I was like, I'm gonna pull my hair.
Speaker 1: You always have good hair. Yes, I know, round too.
Speaker 1: And look it's recording. I see numbers happening. Your microphone's rolling.
Speaker 1: It is. You have a quieter voice to me as
Speaker 1: I do. Okay, so I'm this is cool. I just
Speaker 1: I'm holding this People magazine right now and it's called
Speaker 1: the Best of American Idol. And oh wait, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: open and up there you are a creed because wait,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you were runner freaking up on American Idol.
Speaker 1: I was. It's it's funny because when people they'll see
Speaker 1: me out. It was actually yesterday somebody was like, where
Speaker 1: are you on the Voice or American Idol? And I
Speaker 1: always say Dancing with the Stars And they're like, what, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I lost Dancing with the Stars. Hang it. They don't
Speaker 1: they goes right over their head, like you were in
Speaker 1: my living room. I just don't know why, but you
Speaker 1: were there. You were there. I remember what you did
Speaker 1: do some dancing on American Idol. Did you have to
Speaker 1: learn those moves? Yeah? Do you do a lot of
Speaker 1: spirit fingers, jazz hands, jazz hands? Do they call him
Speaker 1: jazz hands? Do? No? I know you know, Kelly, but
Speaker 1: we were, Yes, we were um back for the finale
Speaker 1: and they made us line dance, which was hilarious. Everyone
Speaker 1: we did like a country medley. Well, I watched the
Speaker 1: finale and we all wear white and you come out
Speaker 1: and it's like amazing, all the people who have been
Speaker 1: affected by American Idol. Yeah, like the Idol family. It
Speaker 1: was really it was honestly like a high school reunion.
Speaker 1: It really is an Idol family, it is. I know,
Speaker 1: you keep up with your cast, yeah, um, I mean
Speaker 1: you spend so much time with these people. You become
Speaker 1: really really close to him. I mean adore everyone that
Speaker 1: was you know, my top ten. After the show ends,
Speaker 1: you go on tour together. You know, how's the Idol Tour.
Speaker 1: It's the only one top five females, right, Yeah, Yes,
Speaker 1: we made Idol history. It was awesome. It was genuinely
Speaker 1: like at estrod Infest, there's so much did Joss periods
Speaker 1: all link up? Probably? Yeah? Actually yeah for sure. On tour,
Speaker 1: yeah we did. How was that it was fun? I
Speaker 1: mean it was, um, you know, fast paced. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like that in the show. I had to
Speaker 1: like center myself and rather than be tired and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to like take every minute in
Speaker 1: because it was just so fast. Were you conscious of
Speaker 1: taking it in? Yeah? I was. I think being here
Speaker 1: in Nashville for so long, I realized that, like you know,
Speaker 1: ship happens so quickly, comes and goes, and the good
Speaker 1: or bad ways, and if you so, if you like,
Speaker 1: you have to just stay in a moment being here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: being here for as long as I did, I think
Speaker 1: that helped with my So you start at the beginning.
Speaker 1: You grew up in Texas. I did, And you always
Speaker 1: knew you wanted to sing. Yes, starting from like ten
Speaker 1: years old, you were doing competitions, You went on the
Speaker 1: ROSEO Donald Show. Yeah, well, I I sang at every
Speaker 1: freaking local event in Texas that you can possibly imagine,
Speaker 1: from like churches to rodeos to festivals, operis um and
Speaker 1: then a friend sent in a videotape of me opening
Speaker 1: for Percy Sledge or Wayne Tubes one of those um
Speaker 1: and rose O'donald was like, hey, we want you to
Speaker 1: be a part of you know, our Talented Kids segments
Speaker 1: that in. Yeah, and then she like scooped you up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I came home from school and my mom was like,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna be on Roseo Donald. We got a
Speaker 1: peck or stuff and I was like, what what do
Speaker 1: you mean Donald? You kind of feel like, okay, cool?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was fucking pumped. You were ready? Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you did the Roseo Donald show and then you
Speaker 1: also I thought it was cool you played the Apollo
Speaker 1: thing I did, yes for you? What was that? It
Speaker 1: was fun? How old were you like that age? No,
Speaker 1: I was eight then that was before I know, it's dumb.
Speaker 1: I was an infant. Uh you could already sing when
Speaker 1: you're that young. I mean literally, it's the only thing
Speaker 1: that I know how to do. Right, That's not true.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, like my hair like
Speaker 1: you're here. No, uh no, seriously, though I've known forever.
Speaker 1: I mean we were talking about this last time, like
Speaker 1: the first interview, which no, I mean how crazy it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've known for your whole life that you
Speaker 1: wanted to be in entertaining and I didn't know singing
Speaker 1: like you knew and mine is not singing. Now I've
Speaker 1: realized you're singing, it's hosting, but you knew yours was singing.
Speaker 1: I feel like when you, while we have that in common,
Speaker 1: whenever you grow up and you're just like wanting to
Speaker 1: be creative in every way. Um, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: start writing till I was fourteen, and that was another
Speaker 1: outlet for me. I think that you just realized that
Speaker 1: once you get older. But you had always stemmed from
Speaker 1: me performing for sure, And we were talking in the
Speaker 1: first interview, but I think this is such a great
Speaker 1: point that we talked about. When you know your passion,
Speaker 1: like when you are born, knowing why you're waking up
Speaker 1: and knowing what you're meant to do on this earth,
Speaker 1: Like that's a really amazing thing, because some people kind
Speaker 1: of wander and they never figure it out. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I always I feel for that because I
Speaker 1: could I could not imagine not knowing and then also
Speaker 1: not being able to pursue music like I love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I live eve and breathe music. I feel like some
Speaker 1: people think like chasing passions is exhausting, like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I could never do that. That's so time would be
Speaker 1: more exhausting too, not that. Yeah, that's more draining to
Speaker 1: me because at least you know what you're chasing and
Speaker 1: why you're chasing it, and every little thing is it's
Speaker 1: a little step forward. Totally. No, I agree. I agree. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you got to Nashville, you had a you had
Speaker 1: Rosie o'donald so that kind of like got you into
Speaker 1: the public eye, which got you noticed by Lyric Street
Speaker 1: Records when you were ten. Yeah, and that's like a
Speaker 1: label that Rascale Flats got started on Daisy and then
Speaker 1: they signed you at ten. So talk about that as
Speaker 1: a ten year old now working with a major label
Speaker 1: record deal, that's a big deal and kind of overwhelming,
Speaker 1: but probably not for you, know. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: just like, where do I sing? Where do you put
Speaker 1: me somewhere? And whether it be the city or on
Speaker 1: the stage, there was so great with me. I mean
Speaker 1: for working with a child, I thought, um, I mean
Speaker 1: even though I was never like one of those little
Speaker 1: annoying kids, running around. I've literally been this same adult,
Speaker 1: chill person my whole life. But because you're only twenty five,
Speaker 1: but you feel so wise. You do. You have a
Speaker 1: just a constant, calm wisdom about you that I did
Speaker 1: not have a tent and I probably don't have that.
Speaker 1: You're really so chill and calm and like you just
Speaker 1: embrace things. Yeah you have to. How do you know
Speaker 1: that so young? Um, convincing myself that I don't know anything?
Speaker 1: That that works, I think like pretending that you know
Speaker 1: everything is not in your favor. So me admitting saying
Speaker 1: I'm going to learn something every day. I don't know. Shit,
Speaker 1: that's mom and Dolly. But how do you get that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think my my parents probably, Yeah,
Speaker 1: my mom was very wise. Well, yeah, I'm a humble person.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that humble and kind an we talking about that.
Speaker 1: For your song, I just se hard. But every time
Speaker 1: it's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. I want. I mean,
Speaker 1: whenever you think about this is where my head went.
Speaker 1: Like eventually, even like playing the song for my niece
Speaker 1: or something, my it's I'm just They're gonna come out
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna continuously play them that song everything.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect lyric. It's perfect La McKenna, everyone, Lori McKenna,
Speaker 1: humble and kind timmercrossing in it, and it is the best.
Speaker 1: I think it's the best song I've ever heard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that mentality my parents definitely like embedded
Speaker 1: at that in my head. My whole family, Like my
Speaker 1: sister is, you know, lazy, she's amazing, she's the same way. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mother of the Year, the years, the years. So you
Speaker 1: had to record that lyric street and at that point
Speaker 1: your family uprooted from Texas and they said, hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move with you to Nashville. Yeah. Well, the day
Speaker 1: we got the development deal offer, um, it was kind
Speaker 1: of it was just kind of emotional, Like me and
Speaker 1: my mom both were crying. It was like, I don't
Speaker 1: this last time, like our Judd's moment, Like we're literally
Speaker 1: like making fun of each other about um. So it
Speaker 1: was because we like she didn't sing or anything, but
Speaker 1: we were definitely a dream team. Like she she supported
Speaker 1: you all the way, all the way. She took me everywhere, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, made sure that I still wanted to do
Speaker 1: it every day. She wasn't a stage mom. She just
Speaker 1: was supporting your dream. Yeah for sure. How cool. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was awesome, So would happened. It's just like overall,
Speaker 1: so the family is I just think it's so cool
Speaker 1: that you had a family that was like all about
Speaker 1: your passion, like that believed in that stuff. Because some
Speaker 1: people would be like, oh, we're going to just stay
Speaker 1: here and you can go do stuff maybe when you're going, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you turn eighteen, do what you want. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: they I mean I feel like too. It brought us
Speaker 1: closer together, if anything, like our family, um, and also
Speaker 1: you know, took us out of you know, a smaller
Speaker 1: town and um and in the best of ways. You know,
Speaker 1: my brother got to see snow and big tall buildings
Speaker 1: and uh, we got to travel together. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it was a good opportunity for everyone. I think.
Speaker 1: So you have the older sister and an older brother
Speaker 1: and a little brother and there's four of y'all, yes
Speaker 1: at the third or four, which makes so much sense
Speaker 1: because because I'm like the what's the word, not the
Speaker 1: I don't know, the calm one like the referee is think,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that that's the reason why
Speaker 1: I am the way I am, Like I'm very calm
Speaker 1: and will defuse any sort of situation because I've had
Speaker 1: I've been in the middle of both sides, like you
Speaker 1: need to calm down, you need to sit down. So
Speaker 1: never you're never causing the I definitely have. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: most of the time not. I love my siblings. You know,
Speaker 1: Lazy Lacey is awesome, She's amazing. Yes, so she moved
Speaker 1: here with us. It was just you and Lazy and
Speaker 1: your parents and my little brother brother. Everyone else stayed
Speaker 1: in Texas. Um, which is your one older brother. I
Speaker 1: guess right, Okay, so he stayed. Uh and you know
Speaker 1: she what is she doing with this? Lacey fell in
Speaker 1: love with Nashville. She did, Yeah, she did. She had
Speaker 1: a baby fourteen years ago. That's crazy than like help
Speaker 1: not right, I guess raise Yeah, yeah for sure. Oh no,
Speaker 1: well it's basically yeah, so your record I fell through
Speaker 1: it did well, I basically, I mean we butted heads
Speaker 1: for a while. Um, even then I knew that I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do like pop country or yeah, and
Speaker 1: not in a bad way, just as a I don't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to do that, Like I was very stubborn,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, they got it. I mean they
Speaker 1: respected it, if anything. And um, shortly after we lost
Speaker 1: my dad, um, which was you know, sudden and tragic.
Speaker 1: So it was a year after I got the deal.
Speaker 1: So I just I needed to go home. I think
Speaker 1: we all just needed to like regroup and recharge and
Speaker 1: do some soul searching because I was not in the
Speaker 1: state of mind to like try and figure out who
Speaker 1: I was as an artist at eleven after you know,
Speaker 1: having a tragedy. So we went home. We moved back
Speaker 1: and lost my deal, which was for the best. Um,
Speaker 1: So how did you when you were home? I mean,
Speaker 1: just spending time with family, honestly, Like it's it's very
Speaker 1: easy to recharge and think in an environment that we
Speaker 1: were raised in because there's literally it's a dear lease,
Speaker 1: it's it's there's nothing in that town, which is my
Speaker 1: favorite part. So you go there and you just, you know,
Speaker 1: that's how you sold search. I think we're removing yourself
Speaker 1: from like a rat race or a fast paced city.
Speaker 1: For me, anyway, it's just like getting in tune with
Speaker 1: your self yep, for sure, and spending time with family.
Speaker 1: It was good for us at the time. Um. And
Speaker 1: then I was like thirteen and I started. I mean
Speaker 1: I kind of like stopped music for a second. Uh.
Speaker 1: I went to school and was like super normal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, what a weirdo being normal? Creet, that's not
Speaker 1: a good idea. UM, and my mom and I would
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking, and I was unhappy because I
Speaker 1: wasn't seen, because I wasn't being creative and realizing that
Speaker 1: that that's what I needed to do to to heal
Speaker 1: and grieve. Um, I like started writing songs and felt
Speaker 1: like I had something mistake because I was thirteen. Oh no,
Speaker 1: for sure, you already lived a big life at thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah a little bit. So my sister still living
Speaker 1: in Nashville, we all thought it was a good idea
Speaker 1: for me to move with her. Um at that time,
Speaker 1: your mom she was just gonna stay back in Texas,
Speaker 1: right to uproot him again, was you know, just not
Speaker 1: a good idea. So I went back and forth. Me
Speaker 1: and my sister basically raised each other. She's the best
Speaker 1: mom in the world. And how old was she? She
Speaker 1: had Rayley, who was like two or so one or
Speaker 1: two years old. So I played house, you know, I
Speaker 1: would go and write songs and do whatever during the
Speaker 1: day and then go home and play house and she
Speaker 1: would go to work you know nights. Yeah, no, she's
Speaker 1: literally I'll always think that lazys ng the mood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, she's just awesome. Yeah. Why is she's such
Speaker 1: an awesome mom? Um? Because she's selfless. She's still fun.
Speaker 1: She's really got that spunk you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: for sure, she's she's just self worry she was. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's got a million purposes in life that I'm sure
Speaker 1: she'll tackle all but um, one of them was how
Speaker 1: maternal she is. Like she was she always did that
Speaker 1: with us. You know, I was like her baby doll
Speaker 1: growing up. She was eight when I was born, so
Speaker 1: she literally played house with me. You know, it's full
Speaker 1: circle anyway. And then with amazing that I know, I
Speaker 1: love that kids, and it was so was it kind
Speaker 1: of fun though when y'all were just two sisters in
Speaker 1: your thirteen now, so I mean, yeah, you could get
Speaker 1: into a lot of trouble if you wanted to. Absolutely
Speaker 1: we got into some trouble together. And then when it
Speaker 1: came to the time, she would be like, all right,
Speaker 1: sit your auk down, this is then she would like
Speaker 1: play a mom. You know, she's amazing. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: so I wrote for a while and um, Trey Bruce
Speaker 1: actually was the first one that got me into writing.
Speaker 1: He's a big hit songwriter and producer. He's written Whisper
Speaker 1: My Name to You Can't Lose Me by Faith Hill, Yes,
Speaker 1: Faith Everything she is. Um yeah, and introduced me to
Speaker 1: like the writing unity, and I just you know, befriended
Speaker 1: like basically everyone that was over at Chris Slis where
Speaker 1: we all signed, Like King Billy was your first publishing.
Speaker 1: It was King Billy and Chris Jansen and Lucy Sylva's
Speaker 1: who are all Osborne or brothers Osborne met Lucy was
Speaker 1: through because I remember that day. Now they're married, which
Speaker 1: is my favorite couple. Lucy Sylvias if you don't know her,
Speaker 1: she's from England and she's a songbird amazing, She's incredible.
Speaker 1: She's married to John Oswinne from Brothers Osborne Cree hangs
Speaker 1: with a cool group of people. Somehow they let me
Speaker 1: because you're a I'm just kidding, umall, and like yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Jansen and King Billy they were like the biggest
Speaker 1: band in town in Nashville firm. Yeah, we were like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was the female artist and Chris Jansen
Speaker 1: was the Mill and then they had their band King Billy.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what, just kind of felt like
Speaker 1: college for me, you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 1: was taught a lot by um Given John. Oh. You know,
Speaker 1: I've listened to great music growing up, from Otiss Ready
Speaker 1: to Role Haggard, but he taught me like who Patty
Speaker 1: Griffin was and Darrell Scott and um you know all
Speaker 1: those guys. We learned a lot from my friends at
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, I still do. But there was
Speaker 1: inspiring to like get in the writing world of things,
Speaker 1: not knowing that growing up, you know, which is also
Speaker 1: cool because on American Idol you're saying when a Patty
Speaker 1: Griffin song, and it was like I did bring the
Speaker 1: house down. That was It was fun. It was I mean,
Speaker 1: that whole experience was freaking nuts up on a mountain,
Speaker 1: up to the mountain, up to the mountain, and then
Speaker 1: full circle. Since I know that since Arity interviewed you, yes,
Speaker 1: and then Emily Harris happens to watch American Idol, she
Speaker 1: loves it and she loves you. Yeah, well it's freaking mutual.
Speaker 1: That woman's an angel. But the fact that Emily Harris
Speaker 1: watched American Idol. I know a Patty Griffin song, and
Speaker 1: then she tell me what she invited you to do
Speaker 1: well is like unbelievable. It is full circle. It's can't
Speaker 1: actually handle it. Tell that whole story because people are
Speaker 1: going to die. She and I've become pretty good friends.
Speaker 1: You've become pretty good friends, Emily Harritt, like you have
Speaker 1: her cell phone? I do. I know, it's freaking weird.
Speaker 1: Manad my dog gave me love after her you did so.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. God, I mean, she would actually
Speaker 1: love that. She don't. She's obsessed with dogs. The first
Speaker 1: time I met her, I sing at her or for
Speaker 1: her pet what's it called? She has that pet? Adoption?
Speaker 1: Apt you or I saying at that little benefit concert
Speaker 1: or whatever that she asked me to do, and she was,
Speaker 1: you know, so lovely, and we've just befriended each other.
Speaker 1: Went over to your house like a month ago. I
Speaker 1: played on my record just because I was like so
Speaker 1: auntie and anxious to know what she thought because I
Speaker 1: respect her so much. She freaking loved it, which is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't have to go play in traffic now. And
Speaker 1: then that was the ultimate litmus test. Good, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was so she called me, uh yeah, yeah. She
Speaker 1: called me a couple weeks ago and asked if um
Speaker 1: I would be their special guests for this around that
Speaker 1: her Petty Griffin and Buddy millerd are doing. It's crazy
Speaker 1: full circle. But I've I've obviously you know, known to
Speaker 1: me for a minute, and Buddy Miller, who I love
Speaker 1: as well. But I've never got to watch Petty live,
Speaker 1: much less hang out with her. So we're in around
Speaker 1: with her on a show. I'm playing a song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even know. Can you even believe
Speaker 1: your life? I mean you were meant to sing? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I'm very very thankful for the people that I'm around
Speaker 1: to materialized dreams though, like okay, you go on American Idol,
Speaker 1: you get second place, like your voice is so good,
Speaker 1: but like to actually now have it be like notice
Speaker 1: on the level it should. And then Emmy Lou Harris,
Speaker 1: people that you respect what to do with my hands ever? Um,
Speaker 1: for the people that respect, you know, my stuff as
Speaker 1: much as I respect them, I don't know, It's just
Speaker 1: a crazy thing. It's like I'm very very blessed. I
Speaker 1: think that's so freaking yeah. Okay, so you're in the
Speaker 1: writers I had a segue because we can't forget that
Speaker 1: story because it's just love. It's the best. So you're
Speaker 1: in the writing community. Now you're hanging out with the
Speaker 1: brothers Osborne, Chris Jansen, Licy Syliva's and your friends with
Speaker 1: Kasey Musgraves. And now like you're living with Marion Morris,
Speaker 1: who's like up and coming in country. Like you're just
Speaker 1: in the scene. So a lot of record labels were
Speaker 1: really interested in you, and I remember I told you this,
Speaker 1: like you were like the darling of this town. You
Speaker 1: still are so sweet when you came to Nashville. When
Speaker 1: I came to Nashville, I think you've been here a
Speaker 1: little before me. I'm like a decade older than you,
Speaker 1: and you and you look younger. Could be your mother. God,
Speaker 1: actually you should raise me that you're much wider. I'm
Speaker 1: like years behind. You'd be screwed, let's be honest. But yeah,
Speaker 1: what was it like being in Nashville with like all
Speaker 1: the record labels because so many people wanted to sign you,
Speaker 1: and then it's just I felt like it nothing quite
Speaker 1: came together all the way. No there was you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I would do showcases and there would be things on
Speaker 1: the table and then it just wouldn't make sense or
Speaker 1: it didn't work out or um. I mean honestly, I
Speaker 1: didn't feel uh I realized that now that I was
Speaker 1: completely ready for any of that, Red, why weren't you
Speaker 1: ready yet? I mean I just wasn't exactly sure who
Speaker 1: I was as an artist. I mean I think that
Speaker 1: you you know constantly, Uh can what's the word I'm
Speaker 1: looking for? Evolve? As a thank you? I'm a dropout
Speaker 1: as well? Um not everyone needs school? Oh god, yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually disagree with you. Think I definitely need to
Speaker 1: go back to school. I can't. I have to look
Speaker 1: up those words and the Children's Dictionary and then those
Speaker 1: words and then just kidding, um no, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I just didn't think I was ready emotionally
Speaker 1: or um as an artist and which is sure of
Speaker 1: your talent, but just totally yeah, what what exactly what
Speaker 1: I wanted to say? And um my lane as far
Speaker 1: as you know being an artist anyway, So it worked
Speaker 1: out for the best. I've never released anything, but um,
Speaker 1: I remember one time in particular, like we were signing,
Speaker 1: like paperwork was on the table. We had a fucking
Speaker 1: cake like we were celebrating still and it's official. Um
Speaker 1: And a week later, these two labels merged. It was
Speaker 1: John Grady and Mark Brown. It's so many and they
Speaker 1: emerged and I was like, oh ship, now what I said? Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're not going to do this because they weren't there.
Speaker 1: The people that were signing me were leaving. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing too, that people don't realize. You don't. It's
Speaker 1: not like this record label. It's like this this this machine.
Speaker 1: It is a machine, but it's people to have your
Speaker 1: team that gets you, that believes in you. It's your advocate.
Speaker 1: So when you're they were amazing. Yeah right, you just
Speaker 1: don't know. But again, like I said, everything happens for
Speaker 1: a reason. I really do believe that it was a blow.
Speaker 1: But then honestly, I mean I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: that you just have to we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 1: I think my parents just embedded that in my head,
Speaker 1: like having the whole life isn't fairs. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's honestly just kind of annoying, Like I don't like
Speaker 1: being around it or putting it out, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: get you anywhere, because no one feels really sorry for
Speaker 1: a victim because truly, Also, it could be so much
Speaker 1: fucking worse, Like I could be starving in a fucking
Speaker 1: foreign country rather than going, oh they don't want to
Speaker 1: sign me anymore. That it's just silliness. But that's perspective,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel that everyone has that. Now, you're right,
Speaker 1: but I mean those people are in my life, but
Speaker 1: that don't have that mentality because it's you know, life
Speaker 1: isn't fair, get over it. Yeah, it's true. And we're
Speaker 1: supposed to learn the lessons, and I think you don't
Speaker 1: learn all the lessons if you just have perfect all
Speaker 1: the time. Exactly, you have to have no the bitter
Speaker 1: before the sweet, right to taste the sweet. Is that
Speaker 1: how it goes? It is true, it is yeah. And
Speaker 1: then so after that happened the other blow. Um My,
Speaker 1: we lost my mom. So at this point to right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so at this point, how is nineteen And it was
Speaker 1: just honestly like the worst case scenario for our family,
Speaker 1: you know. Um so I went back Texas again. It
Speaker 1: was just like this, Oh yeah, like where you grew up.
Speaker 1: Texas will always have my heart. I love Nashville, but
Speaker 1: my whole family is there, you know, and I just
Speaker 1: like the culture like we live in. I went back
Speaker 1: to him where my family is. Yeah, we don't you know,
Speaker 1: have the house we grew up into. Well, and you
Speaker 1: did a really cool piece on did so you saw that,
Speaker 1: like we still have that property, but the house is
Speaker 1: you know, okay, and then it's kind of weird, like
Speaker 1: we want to fix it and like redo it, but
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's it's hard to like go
Speaker 1: back and think that you have to like remove the
Speaker 1: literal like wall where your you know, your family was
Speaker 1: last at that, you know, like because they're not here anymore.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, it's just the memories are in
Speaker 1: the walls and stuff like you know. Literally, Yeah, how
Speaker 1: was doing that piece for American Idol? Like for people
Speaker 1: who didn't see it, what was that like for you?
Speaker 1: Those emotional So Top three you get to go to
Speaker 1: a home story. Um, I have to say that one
Speaker 1: of the producers was his name was b Rob and
Speaker 1: he went he came and didn't mind like the camera guys,
Speaker 1: we were all very close at this point because you
Speaker 1: spent like a damn year of your life with him
Speaker 1: um so I just remember him like pulling me aside
Speaker 1: and saying, look, I know how like emotional and impact
Speaker 1: and impacting is that a word? Yeah? God, like you
Speaker 1: don't you don't need school. You think you do, but
Speaker 1: you don't need at all. I'm ever thinking it, um
Speaker 1: which is what they teach you in school is to
Speaker 1: not overthink in second guess yourself. So yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just it was just really emotional and I just remember
Speaker 1: him pulling me aside and saying, like, at any point,
Speaker 1: you need to stop or whatever. Like it was so
Speaker 1: selfless of him to do that, because I mean it's TV.
Speaker 1: It's like it's good TV. You can't make this ship up.
Speaker 1: So it's like they would probably most of the time
Speaker 1: be like, yes, let's get her, she's bawling, and corner,
Speaker 1: let's follower. You know. It was just really really thoughtful.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that, but um, it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean I felt so much love and support from
Speaker 1: you know where I'm from, which was really cool to
Speaker 1: like it was almost tangible, like the amount of support. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really fun. And Lacey came with you did
Speaker 1: my little rock. Yeah, it was really fun. We were
Speaker 1: very very much all though, like walking in the house
Speaker 1: and um, you know, like you said you can if
Speaker 1: you know phil um the presence of you know, people
Speaker 1: that we've lost, and then also like the same smells
Speaker 1: and I don't know, it's kind of eery, but it
Speaker 1: was fun. It was really cool. It was a really
Speaker 1: cool moment, and I have it captured. Honestly, I have
Speaker 1: not seen it because I feel like I would ball
Speaker 1: like a little brat, but um, it was. I was
Speaker 1: happy that I did it. I am, and I saw
Speaker 1: that I thought you were very brave to do that,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was very um. He share seemed healing,
Speaker 1: you sharing your story and well, I've always sicking, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm interrupted. Well, I always always thought there's no way
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that because I don't want like the
Speaker 1: pity party or like the sympathy vote. No. I realized
Speaker 1: that as I was doing it, like for people to
Speaker 1: not just to get to know me, but um, I
Speaker 1: don't know, for people to have something to relate to
Speaker 1: and not fill alone and see like, oh, you have
Speaker 1: had a lot of loss and it's been rough and whatever,
Speaker 1: that you can come out on the other side and
Speaker 1: not have like the ship end of the stick mentality.
Speaker 1: You know, truly, you stayed inspired, you stayed totally. But
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've gone up and down for sure.
Speaker 1: It's a freaking roll, you know, roller coaster of emotion.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm blessed that
Speaker 1: I had good parents for as long as I did,
Speaker 1: even if it was a short time, rather than parents
Speaker 1: all life. You know, that's a really it's quality not quantity,
Speaker 1: you know. I agree. And your parents are so involved
Speaker 1: in your life. They were like hands on and they
Speaker 1: were really just cool. My dad wrote Harley's and listen
Speaker 1: to you know, bad Company. Yeah, I love it though.
Speaker 1: He was the sweetest thing ever. Um, but yeah, where
Speaker 1: are we? Okay? So you're on American Idol. You do
Speaker 1: that awesome piece your top three. How are you feeling
Speaker 1: when you're standing there and now you are the final
Speaker 1: freaking two for American Idol on the biggest reality singing
Speaker 1: show in the entire world and you are freaking standing
Speaker 1: on there as one of the two remaining. I just
Speaker 1: I didn't see it as like is that that situation?
Speaker 1: For some reason, Literally, me and Candice, who was the
Speaker 1: winner of season twelve, She's amazing, literally one of the
Speaker 1: funniest people I know. I think Ryan Secrets was a
Speaker 1: little freaked out of how calm we were, because I
Speaker 1: mean he literally said, I've never known to finalist finalists too,
Speaker 1: just be here because we are very much alike, just
Speaker 1: very like, we're very similar in that way. Um. And
Speaker 1: the truth is we're standing there talking shipped to each
Speaker 1: other because we think it's funny that everybody's like, it's
Speaker 1: going to happen, yes, because I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: we already feel like we've made it, We've done. We've
Speaker 1: came here to do what we were trying to, which
Speaker 1: is basically have a following, have a platform of you know,
Speaker 1: immediate uh following. I guess you know people be aware
Speaker 1: of Yeah, totally, which is exactly what happened. It was
Speaker 1: amazing we get to go on tour together. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there was never like, oh god, what if I don't win. Um,
Speaker 1: so this is I swear to you from like top forty.
Speaker 1: We would just always be like, hey, whenever you win,
Speaker 1: don't embarrass me, Like we would say that to each
Speaker 1: other all the time. So we're standing there, um, and
Speaker 1: it's right before Ryan's like, dim the lights. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like literally gives me anxiety about it. Oh god. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're just like talking to each other. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember what I said. Oh I know, So when
Speaker 1: you win, you have to perform your single, whether or
Speaker 1: not you're bawling or not, Like you have to go
Speaker 1: for it right then, right totally? No one, Um, and
Speaker 1: even if you're not like a very emotional person, the
Speaker 1: journaline rush, the energy, the support from everything, this crowd
Speaker 1: going nuts. I mean, it's just like it will make
Speaker 1: anybody emotional. It's overwhelming, and I'm the best of ways.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just said, um, she said, whenever you win,
Speaker 1: don't embarrass me. I was likening like right before. Ryan's like,
Speaker 1: what the funk are y'all doing? And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: whenever you win. Um, if you if you cry, I
Speaker 1: mess a song up, I'm gonna push you off the stage.
Speaker 1: Like we're just waking ship to each other a little.
Speaker 1: I swear like I love so much. Oh god, no,
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, god, I'm after this, we should
Speaker 1: just sucking FaceTime er because you would love her so much.
Speaker 1: She's hilarious and I probably verbat him. Sure, she'll be
Speaker 1: able to be able to remember why can't I talk
Speaker 1: right now? A little miss? She will be able to
Speaker 1: remember it probably verbat him because it was hilarious. How
Speaker 1: great though that you guys weren't like devastated, like because
Speaker 1: you got second place that's winning. I mean if I
Speaker 1: got like forty forty place, I would have thought, this
Speaker 1: is awesome, you know, just to be like in validated
Speaker 1: that you honestly to say that you're like one of
Speaker 1: the best voices in the kind tree like that is well,
Speaker 1: I just never thought of it that way. But more
Speaker 1: than anything, like to be involved in that process and like, yes,
Speaker 1: being in Nashville has taught me so much does every day.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't have worth ethic without that show. I
Speaker 1: would have never I would never know what to do
Speaker 1: with a damn camera in my face. I would not
Speaker 1: you know, have made lifelong friends like it. For me,
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily about the popularity contest of winning. It
Speaker 1: was the everything that I learned and people have met
Speaker 1: through the whole damn process. Like it was crazy. I
Speaker 1: made lifelong friends. Um, I mean there's just so many
Speaker 1: like some of the producers, uh gosh, down to like
Speaker 1: hair and makeup. I mean that you just because it
Speaker 1: take it so close, the whole old team. It literally
Speaker 1: took the idle village. And you said you got to
Speaker 1: like have a wardrobe every day. I know it was
Speaker 1: a girl's dream for that part. And I hate shopping.
Speaker 1: I hate shopping for myself. I hate shopping for clothes.
Speaker 1: I love antiquing or like going and buying gifts or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I do not like going to a damn dressing
Speaker 1: room with hospital lighting and trying on clothes. I get hot.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's stressful. I have someone who
Speaker 1: already has all your measurements and sizes and fine, and
Speaker 1: they just bring you clothes it fit. You're like, nope, yes, nope,
Speaker 1: chance they're going to fit. Right, That's so wonderful. It
Speaker 1: was really fun. And the shows the Shower's Girl. I
Speaker 1: got some shoes to show you. Do you take home
Speaker 1: your outfits? Do you still own them? I? Seven? What
Speaker 1: do you wear? I figured you did? You would wear
Speaker 1: a seven. I feel like all of my friends have
Speaker 1: the tiniest fucking feet. Maybe that's normal, and I just
Speaker 1: have huge skis. Nine that's great, right, But I'm shure.
Speaker 1: So you think that my he would be smaller and
Speaker 1: they're not. My sister has like sized tin Really is
Speaker 1: she my hype five four? That makes sense? I don't know. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I would share my skis with you, but they would veit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what were the judges like? They're awesome? I mean yes,
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey, Keitherban, Riney Jackson and you were wife these
Speaker 1: with Nikki? What ho was about that? There was? There
Speaker 1: was this um particular time where I think it was
Speaker 1: top forty I'm pretty sure. And she I don't know.
Speaker 1: She was just really sweet and was always about me,
Speaker 1: and she made this comment of like, well, you know
Speaker 1: you're my wife. That was her thing and yes, can
Speaker 1: you imitate her voice? Yes? Yeah. She she she would just
Speaker 1: be like creed, um, I am cessed with you. You're
Speaker 1: you know you're my wife. And I would just be like, yes,
Speaker 1: I know this, um And then she's like I think
Speaker 1: she said, how is it possible that your sexiness? Oh?
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I don't know, That's all I got.
Speaker 1: I don't ask, I can't. But she did say, um,
Speaker 1: how how possible? How is it possible that you're sexy?
Speaker 1: Sexiness level? What up again? Tonight and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to do my wife proud, and everybody lost it.
Speaker 1: And then from then on we were like the couple.
Speaker 1: I wore a fake engagement men just to be an
Speaker 1: ass because I thought it was funny. Um. Yeah, she's awesome.
Speaker 1: She's the sweetest thing and very very smart. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: very smart she is. I mean some people would call
Speaker 1: it a gimmick, and I just think that it's a
Speaker 1: fucking marketing. She's a marketing genius and she's authentically owns it.
Speaker 1: She does like it's like not fake for her, Like
Speaker 1: she like is that all the time? And then Keith
Speaker 1: urban the sweetest And then you played the Opery with him?
Speaker 1: I did, and you said, oh I have a quote
Speaker 1: from you that what what did you say? Where's all
Speaker 1: my notes? Um? He said something about how like playing
Speaker 1: the Opery was your greatest dream and like it was
Speaker 1: to accomplished that kids always wanted to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a Whenever I was on Rosie the
Speaker 1: first time they she asked me like, what are my
Speaker 1: dreams and goals or whatever? And I told her, you
Speaker 1: know a few things. And then grand Ole Opry would
Speaker 1: would just be an honor to play. So I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to do that for Mob, you know, since I
Speaker 1: was probably three, and then you did it with Keith Urban. Yes,
Speaker 1: he told me after the finale of my season and
Speaker 1: vital that I was asked to play and we both cried.
Speaker 1: He told you that you're asked to play after Did
Speaker 1: he tell you that on TV? It was after it
Speaker 1: was back, Like we were literally walking to press and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I gotta tell you something that's stopped
Speaker 1: really quick, and like we literally both cried. He cried too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just I mean, he's the sweetest thing. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the sweetest thing ever. But he Eithervan. I've always
Speaker 1: I thought you've met I thought you've met him in
Speaker 1: my dreams. He's just he's genuine, like he's one of
Speaker 1: the few, and he like he looks at you when
Speaker 1: you're talking. There's no like, where else do I need
Speaker 1: to be, even in the middle of chaos, and he um,
Speaker 1: why do you think he's like that? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I really, I mean maybe it's rain or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that was pretty as so he started crying with you.
Speaker 1: He did. Now, it was very emutional. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just couldn't believe it. I was like, what am I
Speaker 1: to do now? Like, this is one of my biggest
Speaker 1: I mean genuinely though, that was the big leagues for
Speaker 1: me seeing on the opera stage. How does that feel
Speaker 1: to like accomplish things on your bucket list just like
Speaker 1: you think it would? Do you have to get new dreams? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's good for you, right, it is good
Speaker 1: for you. So after Idle, you made an album I did.
Speaker 1: I took a little bit of time off just because
Speaker 1: I needed to like recharge after the craziness of you know,
Speaker 1: you think about it was a year and a half
Speaker 1: of my life. So I wanted to come back to
Speaker 1: Nashville right, figure out my team, make sure I was okay,
Speaker 1: you know, in a good place, uh, Because I mean
Speaker 1: after that it was like a crash. I was like,
Speaker 1: what do I do now? You know, it's crazy. I
Speaker 1: can relate to you just from an amazing rate to
Speaker 1: exactly it is so intense. You have crew falling around,
Speaker 1: you have cameras everywhere. You're so intense every day and
Speaker 1: then it literally is over. Yeah, it's it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of it's a it's not like a a low moment,
Speaker 1: but you cry just from totally you're on. When you're
Speaker 1: on for that long period of time, you're never off.
Speaker 1: And so how long was American Idol a year and
Speaker 1: a half. I mean auditions, that process goes, you know, months,
Speaker 1: and then once you know, you start filming that's I
Speaker 1: don't know, three weeks, and then the show is live
Speaker 1: for another three weeks and then you go on tour.
Speaker 1: But you're just at this high adrenaline, adrenaline constantly, just
Speaker 1: like you were saying, like once you once you get
Speaker 1: off whatever show, whatever schedule, that's crazy. Yeah, I crashed,
Speaker 1: So basically I had to just like regroup, come back
Speaker 1: and regroup again. Um, which was good for me. I
Speaker 1: definitely do I think it is too Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: for me, I speak for myself, but I have to
Speaker 1: what happens, Like you said, nothing last forever, Like these
Speaker 1: highs don't last forever. These lows and lasts forever, and
Speaker 1: you're constantly just having to navigate the highs and the lows. No,
Speaker 1: and I think it's good for you, like to just
Speaker 1: be on all that time, that whole time. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you gotta I feel like you gotta separate yourself or
Speaker 1: I do again just me? Yeah, you know, didn't happen
Speaker 1: when you crashed. I just like needed to figure out
Speaker 1: how I was going to make a live studio record
Speaker 1: and with who who would want to do that? Everyone?
Speaker 1: Um well, I mean as a new artist, it's kind
Speaker 1: of scary. Your voice is like one in a million.
Speaker 1: That's what you maybe don't know. No, I know, I
Speaker 1: mean I it's you know what you have to know.
Speaker 1: I do know, yeah, yeah, I know, it's what I do.
Speaker 1: But um, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna have asced. So I didn't want to like come
Speaker 1: off the show Russia, good record and then have to
Speaker 1: go play it just for the momentum Like I just
Speaker 1: needed to remove myself. Um, so I did. I wrote
Speaker 1: for UM. I started writing for this company called Plaid
Speaker 1: Flag Um and we sat down and had a conversation
Speaker 1: about getting an investor for a live studio record. Did it?
Speaker 1: I started writing a year before, Uh, we make the writer.
Speaker 1: We made the record and studio album. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to like more than just me, wanting
Speaker 1: to emote more, you know, and I feel like live
Speaker 1: I did explain most albums are studio album. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: what's the difference between a live album and a studio
Speaker 1: recorded album. Obviously you're in a studio, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: break down the difference. Well, my influences would go to
Speaker 1: a studio, be in one big room and literally track
Speaker 1: everything to tape. So that's what I did. I picked
Speaker 1: a studio in Asheville, North Carolina. It was beautiful. I
Speaker 1: didn't even see any of it take except for the studio,
Speaker 1: but it was enough for me. Um, it was this
Speaker 1: old church. Jordan Lenning, I know it was, I'll show
Speaker 1: you pictures, but Jordan's Lenning is just a brilliant man,
Speaker 1: and he told me about the studio. Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just like Erie likes walking in with all of
Speaker 1: my amazing friends who played on the record, um, like
Speaker 1: eight dudes, and it was like some somewhere somebody did
Speaker 1: something wrong. This is all too freaking perfect. That's that's
Speaker 1: how you know you're on the right path. No, totally,
Speaker 1: but it was just like, oh god, this is happening. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah that I was like, this is your first album.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. But that's the reason why I want
Speaker 1: to do it live, because all the you know, little
Speaker 1: imperfections and like you know otis reddings, you know, breaths
Speaker 1: in the middle of whatever of tracking like that that
Speaker 1: makes me so happy. You don't want it to be perfect,
Speaker 1: well I did. I wanted it to be real, but
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be Um. I didn't want it
Speaker 1: to be too like clean, if that makes any sense. Um,
Speaker 1: because a lot of albums, each instrument will go in track,
Speaker 1: each part, and then you can cut and paste in
Speaker 1: like auto tune, and obviously everybody does some of that,
Speaker 1: and I respect that. I just didn't want to do
Speaker 1: it that way because, um, I didn't think that it
Speaker 1: would come across as real as I wanted it to,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. But yeah, it was really fun and
Speaker 1: um we had our friend Jason coming like just capture everything,
Speaker 1: like and it was just like, I don't know, seeing
Speaker 1: this footage there's a lyric video for this old thing
Speaker 1: that he did. Uh. Seeing it all together was just
Speaker 1: like it seemed like a dream. It really did. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cheesy, But what is a dream? You dreamed
Speaker 1: it up? I did. That's what it feels like a dream. Well,
Speaker 1: we all did. I mean, it was definitely a team
Speaker 1: of amazing people. That now I have. So that's that's
Speaker 1: why it took so long to make a record. You
Speaker 1: found your team. Yeah, isn't it crazy that that you
Speaker 1: literally can dream things up in your head and they
Speaker 1: can become real. I'm a huge believer in that visual lies. No,
Speaker 1: I do, Like, I don't know how you would say this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think of dumb things, mostly at
Speaker 1: a bar stool on a bar stool with my friends
Speaker 1: drinking whiskey, and I'm like, oh man, what if so
Speaker 1: you're always dreaming? Oh yeah, right, I mean I feel
Speaker 1: like all creative people are that way. I agree. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, I'm really proud of this record.
Speaker 1: And it's called this is the Whole album called this
Speaker 1: Whole Thing, which that is the coolest title. Really. Well,
Speaker 1: when when I heard that you put out a song
Speaker 1: and your album is to come and you haven't released
Speaker 1: the album yet, right, No, that'll be uh this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know when. Really, I think it will be
Speaker 1: like the end of summer perfect or something. When you
Speaker 1: released this Whole Thing though, I just thought to myself, like,
Speaker 1: that is like the perfect song for you, because just
Speaker 1: knowing you and how cool you are and how like humble,
Speaker 1: you are company. You're so talented, but you don't like
Speaker 1: take yourself so seriously, like you know, like you're just
Speaker 1: like so chill and so cool and so relatable and
Speaker 1: yet so unrelatable because your talent is out of this world.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you don't make anyone feel like you're on
Speaker 1: voating in the galaxies because you're so good, like you
Speaker 1: make people feel you're you don't, You're just relatable. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're so talented. And then that title, I was like,
Speaker 1: of course, it feels like just home. I love that
Speaker 1: you're saying that, mostly because I don't know. I had
Speaker 1: this like crazy, uh, I thought when I was there,
Speaker 1: you know, we're recording this, and I have this old book. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just like I don't know why it's my favorite thing,
Speaker 1: but I was bringing it to show one of the
Speaker 1: guys because I just thought it was cool. It looked
Speaker 1: like old and it looks like I think this book
Speaker 1: was published in like the eight hundreds or something like,
Speaker 1: it's just an old poetry book. I was just being
Speaker 1: a nerd, like showing it off and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it as we're recording, Um, and we're recording this old thing.
Speaker 1: And I was like, holy shit, this is the cover
Speaker 1: of the record, this book and this fun and it's
Speaker 1: going to be called this old thing because this is
Speaker 1: like this old sound I've been trying to find and
Speaker 1: figure out and make for how many years? You know? Yeah,
Speaker 1: sixteen years. Yeah, I don't know. It was just kind
Speaker 1: of a commitment to craft. Yeah, yes it is. Yes, committed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so committed that I'm going to be admitted pretty soon.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means actually, ever. No, it's
Speaker 1: so good because they're just trying to truth in it.
Speaker 1: I think insane, absolutely, but it's insane together, which makes
Speaker 1: it fine exactly. That's amazing. So committed I'm going to
Speaker 1: be when you Oh god no, but that's the best
Speaker 1: part too, Like I didn't realize how much we could
Speaker 1: use this whole thing to our advantage, like making merge
Speaker 1: right now, and like there's two shirts to say that
Speaker 1: this old thing, like this whole I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just I'm I'm really proud of that song and then
Speaker 1: also having it to be the you know, the name
Speaker 1: of the record title track. So excited, Thanks fabe, thank you,
Speaker 1: You're the best. Okay, So I'm gonna wrap up, and
Speaker 1: this interview did record glory hallelujah. If it didn't, I
Speaker 1: could totally just do it again. Not there are times
Speaker 1: a charm. Two times you're an angel. For redoing it,
Speaker 1: You're an angel. I don't mind. But actually everyone is
Speaker 1: gonna be jealous because after we wrap this interview, I
Speaker 1: get to hear your whole album, of this whole thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for you to hear it. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to hear it. But leave your life. Give me
Speaker 1: some inspiration. How do you inspire people or how have
Speaker 1: you been inspired? What's just an inspirational, inspiration, inspiring message
Speaker 1: you want to share? Um? Oh yeah, that smokey Um.
Speaker 1: Smokey Robinson was one of the mentors on IDOL and
Speaker 1: he was just very very sweet. I was trying to
Speaker 1: take it all in because I was fan growing the
Speaker 1: funk out of him. I was one star struck and
Speaker 1: I've never been that way ever. Um, what was it
Speaker 1: about him? He's just I don't know, he's got just
Speaker 1: such a star quality walk into the room. He walks
Speaker 1: into the room and just takes it all up like
Speaker 1: in the best of ways. He's the sweetest I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been one of my influences my whole life, so
Speaker 1: that has a huge part to do with it. But
Speaker 1: he's just cold human being. But he uh, he said,
Speaker 1: you're amazing. But just remember, no matter how high her
Speaker 1: head gets in the clouds, always keep your feet on
Speaker 1: the ground. And I was like, that's just something that
Speaker 1: everybody should live by in general. So that is my
Speaker 1: inspirational quote for the day. I love it and I
Speaker 1: think I do cheers. We both do? Yes? Is that
Speaker 1: a thing? Though? Yeah? That is freaking beautiful. Also, thanks
Speaker 1: Marine God. Yeah, my cousin, Cannon Louis designed it. She
Speaker 1: does Cannon Louis jewelry. If anyone wants to know Cannon Louis. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would love I would love that. Okay, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: talk to her because you got good stuff and I
Speaker 1: love your bolo that you have on Thanks Kitty Nashville, everybody, yes,
Speaker 1: his favorite story. I didn't interview with Sarah about her store. Kitty.
Speaker 1: I genuinely a I love all of the girls because
Speaker 1: they really sweet. But um, it's just good stuff, good stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's comfy. I know, I feel cute in cash
Speaker 1: all the same time. Okay, Caree Harrison, You're the best,
Speaker 1: the best. Okay, this whole thing, everyone get it? Yes,
Speaker 1: iTunes ituned, Carol Lam, She's a queen of talking. She's
Speaker 1: only got the scoop on. No one can win, caral Lam.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys loved hearing from Cree. She is
Speaker 1: just the best. She's the best in everyway. Love that girl.
Speaker 1: Go get her song, this whole thing. I'll be on
Speaker 1: the look up for her album coming soon. It is
Speaker 1: so good you are not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 1: Her music. It is amazing. So excited for her future
Speaker 1: because it's bright as the sun. Next week, Corey Crowder
Speaker 1: is joining me. He is a hit songwriter. He wrote
Speaker 1: several hits for Chris Young, I'm Coming Over, and he
Speaker 1: just had Think of You with Cassidy Pope and Chris
Speaker 1: Young that Do What They both went number one. He's
Speaker 1: on a streak. He is also an incredible producer. He
Speaker 1: produces Chris Young Cassidy Pope. He also is married to
Speaker 1: spoken hot wife and they are having a baby on
Speaker 1: the way. He already has a little boy and he
Speaker 1: just talks all about how I got started his MTV days,
Speaker 1: how he got picked up and all the songs got
Speaker 1: put on, like Real World and all the MTV shows,
Speaker 1: and he tells us all that journey. He's hilarious and
Speaker 1: awesome and so talented. So tune in next week for
Speaker 1: Corey Crowder and don't forget to subscribe on iTunes under
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