Speaker 1: The calendar says so, the early mornings say so, and
Speaker 1: the grocery aisles full of Halloween treats and decor due
Speaker 1: to it is officially pumpkin season. And I'm not a
Speaker 1: coffee fan, I am surrounded by a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who are who have to have at least one two,
Speaker 1: maybe three cups of coffee a day. And the pumpkin
Speaker 1: spice wafting from those tall take out cups inspire me,
Speaker 1: inspire me to bake pumpkin loaves, pumpkin bars, pumpkin pies,
Speaker 1: and one of my favorites, pumpkin dump cake. If you've
Speaker 1: never had pumpkin dump cake, look it up. It is
Speaker 1: so good and so easy to make, you know. I
Speaker 1: find myself in the kitchen more than in the garden
Speaker 1: these past few weeks, preserving some of the year's harvest.
Speaker 1: Packing lunch is for school, throwing together after school snacks,
Speaker 1: cooking up big meals for our family. We have dinner
Speaker 1: together every night over the sounds of my whistling teapot,
Speaker 1: a sizzling fry pan, or the clanking of dirty dishes
Speaker 1: in the sink comes in nostalgic playlist that reminds me
Speaker 1: of so many other pumpkins seasons past, those of my childhood,
Speaker 1: those of my older children's childhoods. This is a beautiful season.
Speaker 1: Fall is a beautiful season of color, of passion, of nostalgia.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing more nostalgic than the music created by
Speaker 1: Grammy winning singer, songwriter, producer great guy Richard Marks. Besides
Speaker 1: crafting and recording his own hits, Richard has pinned chart
Speaker 1: toppers for the likes of Natalie Cole, Luther Vandross, Keith Urban,
Speaker 1: Barbara Streissan, Barry Manilow, Tony Braxton, Kenny Rogers, Josh Groban.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on and on, Doughtry, so
Speaker 1: many others. He made history as the only male artist
Speaker 1: whose first seven singles reached the top five on the
Speaker 1: Billboard Charts, and he has sold more than thirty million
Speaker 1: albums worldwide. Richard Marks came by the farm in early
Speaker 1: I think he was actually my last in person guest
Speaker 1: before the COVID curtain fell. We had an amazing visit then,
Speaker 1: and his ah depth and breadth of knowledge of the
Speaker 1: music world blew me away. I mean, if you ever
Speaker 1: want to play trivia music trivia and you want your
Speaker 1: team to win. Get Richard Marks on your side. He
Speaker 1: knows everyone, and he knows every song, and he knows
Speaker 1: every lyric, and he knows every person who played every instrument,
Speaker 1: and he knows every producer. He was me, He was engaging.
Speaker 1: He was someone who made all those in the studio
Speaker 1: feel like we had been friends forever. I've been right
Speaker 1: here waiting to welcome Richard Marks back since then, and
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be able to do so today. I
Speaker 1: wish we were together at my farm, what like we
Speaker 1: were the last time. But he is calling us from
Speaker 1: the UK, where he is promoting his brand new, multi
Speaker 1: genre spanning album Songwriter on a new label, Shelter Records.
Speaker 1: Songwriter was released on September details several decades of his music.
Speaker 1: His songwriting accolades across many different genres throughout his amazing career.
Speaker 1: My gosh, when I met this guy, I was blown
Speaker 1: away with how many things musically he has done. Richard
Speaker 1: Marks has made history over and over again. Now he's
Speaker 1: showcasing his amazing versatility with the release of Songwriter. Songwriter
Speaker 1: has twenty tracks spanning four genres. I love that this
Speaker 1: guy mixes it up. He's got pop, rock, country, and ballads.
Speaker 1: He's got contributions from legendary American composer Bert Back, Iraq,
Speaker 1: Keith Urban, David Hodges, and more. Richard has written on
Speaker 1: a number one single in each of the last four decades,
Speaker 1: so every ten years at least he's had a number
Speaker 1: one hit. The only person other than him who's done
Speaker 1: that was Michael Jackson. He's co written chart topping hits
Speaker 1: with numerous artists and has scored fourteen number one singles
Speaker 1: both as a performer and a songwriter producer. He constantly
Speaker 1: challenges himself and blesses his fans. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: Richard to tell us about songwriter. We will get to
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Speaker 1: Hey Delilah, how are you? Long time? No see? You
Speaker 1: know you were the last guest I had in my
Speaker 1: studio before we before we shut down. Yep, it was
Speaker 1: like two weeks after that. I was I was heading
Speaker 1: to New Yorker, maybe even sooner than that. And I
Speaker 1: went to New York to do the Kelly and Ryan Show,
Speaker 1: and I was leaving the next day to fly to
Speaker 1: Estonia to start my European tour behind the Limitless album.
Speaker 1: And uh, we all went, yeah, well, what a crazy, crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy time that was. How did you fare? How did
Speaker 1: you make it through? You look great? Thanks to you.
Speaker 1: I was just about to say, you look great. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, other than it took me a little time
Speaker 1: to adapt to being still, because I've never in my
Speaker 1: adult life stopped. I've always been in motion. I've always
Speaker 1: been either on the road or traveling, or in the
Speaker 1: studio or you know, doing something. Um. I've certainly I've
Speaker 1: developed a much better balance over the last you know,
Speaker 1: eight or nine years since I met Daisy and we
Speaker 1: got married, and she's taught me how to have as
Speaker 1: much fun as work. Now. See, I I find it
Speaker 1: hard to believe you weren't always fun, because since I've
Speaker 1: known you, like fun and charismatic and just full of
Speaker 1: life are some of the words I would use first
Speaker 1: to describe you. That's very sweet. I mean to have
Speaker 1: the career you've had, you had to be very focused
Speaker 1: and very work Yeah. Focused, I mean, you don't have
Speaker 1: number one hits decade after decade after decade after decade
Speaker 1: unless you can laser focus. But you have a very
Speaker 1: light spirit. You're full of light. Well, I take that
Speaker 1: as a great compliment. I would say that the truth
Speaker 1: about me up until the last you know, however many years,
Speaker 1: is that it was difficult for me to really unplug
Speaker 1: and relax and not be you know, churning inside about
Speaker 1: whatever was next. And days taught me to just take
Speaker 1: a breath. But it's still this long time. It wasn't
Speaker 1: it was. It was a little rough in the first couple,
Speaker 1: like six weeks or seven weeks, as it was for
Speaker 1: so many other people. And listen, I'm well aware we
Speaker 1: had it better than most. You know. We were our
Speaker 1: circumstances were so blessed and we were very grateful. Um,
Speaker 1: and then I settled into just like really loving being
Speaker 1: quiet for a long time. So I ended up faring
Speaker 1: pretty well, and we as a couple like we loved
Speaker 1: it because we just love to be alone. I feel
Speaker 1: guilty when I say that to most people because there's
Speaker 1: mental health issues and alcoholism is is crazy, and poverty
Speaker 1: and all that the negatives that came with it. Bote
Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah. For me, if you give me
Speaker 1: a choice between spending a week quiet playing games with
Speaker 1: my family or a week all expenses paid in Disneyland,
Speaker 1: I will take the week with my family any day.
Speaker 1: And that's what we. We got to spend time having
Speaker 1: family meals every day. Now, the negative of that was
Speaker 1: I put on the COVID twenty. You know, I'm working
Speaker 1: hard these days. I went and saw Woman King. Have
Speaker 1: you seen the Woman King? Richard? Take Daisy to go
Speaker 1: see the Woman King? And it's like, yes, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get in shape. I am going to be viola. I
Speaker 1: mean it's so inspiring for getting in shape and claiming
Speaker 1: your power and all that. But I am having a
Speaker 1: hard time re engaging and I will never ever re
Speaker 1: engage to the level I was or plug back into
Speaker 1: the level level I was before COVID. I just I
Speaker 1: don't have it in me. I don't. I don't want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say that. Um, the two things that I
Speaker 1: missed the most I am doing now in a way
Speaker 1: that is heightened one is just hugging people I love,
Speaker 1: especially my son's um. We would see them from a distance.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they would come over and they would be twenty
Speaker 1: ft away. Whatever. The hugging now I appreciate more than ever.
Speaker 1: And I've always been a huggy guy. And not just
Speaker 1: sounds so cliche, but like, I didn't realize how much
Speaker 1: I missed, not just performing and not just an audience,
Speaker 1: but I missed the communal event of a concert. I missed,
Speaker 1: like I realized we all missed it, like that connection
Speaker 1: between a performer and honest when we're all together, there's
Speaker 1: no politics, there's no there's nothing. There's just music and
Speaker 1: love and fun and energy. Yeah. And so I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm making up for it, man, I'm doing a on
Speaker 1: the shows, and I'm just every night I walk out there,
Speaker 1: I'm just so extra grateful. Amen. Amen. So you're doing
Speaker 1: a tour now because you have released a project that
Speaker 1: blew my mind. Uh. Having been in the radio industry
Speaker 1: for so many years, I have record producers or promoters
Speaker 1: or record labels come and they say, Okay, what songs
Speaker 1: should we release first? What genre? You know what our
Speaker 1: our producers will say Okay, we're going in the studio
Speaker 1: in a month, and just tell me, Delilah, like, what's
Speaker 1: what's really hot right now? Is like country crossover really hot?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Trying to pigeonhole somebody And
Speaker 1: in this project you're releasing, there's no pigeon holing you.
Speaker 1: You're just like, no, No, I'm gonna do what I
Speaker 1: love to do. I'm gonna do music. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: great music that is from my soul. Yeah, twenty cuts, Like,
Speaker 1: did the did the folks in the business because you
Speaker 1: and I both I mean, we're in the business, but
Speaker 1: we're not you know, did they just like freak out
Speaker 1: when you said, no, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 1: I want to put country on there. I want to
Speaker 1: put pop on there. You know, it would make sense,
Speaker 1: It would make sense that for me to tell you, like,
Speaker 1: all the people that rejected it or told me I
Speaker 1: shouldn't do it, the only two people that, the only
Speaker 1: two entities I should say that matter when it comes
Speaker 1: to this kind of thing is my manager, who is
Speaker 1: my teammate in terms of like, you know, my career
Speaker 1: and what we do. And I could have done this independently,
Speaker 1: but I started a relationship with BMG which Shelter is
Speaker 1: a division of BMG. That's the label that's putting out songwriter.
Speaker 1: It's all still BMG. UM. We had a great success
Speaker 1: a couple of years, three years ago almost with Limitless Um.
Speaker 1: It was a very collaborative, nice relationship with a record company.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've had a lot of the opposite
Speaker 1: throughout my career, of course, because you've had a long
Speaker 1: career anybody who's been in the industry for more than
Speaker 1: a minute. Yeah, but I was kind of shocked, pleasantly shocked,
Speaker 1: starting with my manager and then the folks at the label.
Speaker 1: They all went, Wow, this is so cool, this is
Speaker 1: really cool. There was no pushback. There was like, nobody's
Speaker 1: ever done this, this is a great idea, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be so much fun. So it was invigorating. You
Speaker 1: know how invigorating that must be. I remember when I
Speaker 1: switched companies eighteen nineteen, almost twenty years ago. To feel
Speaker 1: that instead of somebody pushing against your face and pushing
Speaker 1: you down, to feel the wind against your back pushing
Speaker 1: you forward. WHOA, Well, it's the feeling of Zaiah was
Speaker 1: coined or stated you know, the first twenty years of
Speaker 1: my career, I'm so grateful for the amount of success
Speaker 1: and the amount of hit songs. There wasn't one success
Speaker 1: that was because of my record company. It was in
Speaker 1: spite of in spite of Yeah, and they fought me
Speaker 1: at every turn. They tried so hard, they wrecked everything.
Speaker 1: I would have to put out, every fire I had
Speaker 1: had to like jump through ten. So did right Here
Speaker 1: Waiting change that for them? I mean that was such
Speaker 1: a mega hit and still is one of my most
Speaker 1: requested songs. Yeah, I love hearing that. No, it didn't
Speaker 1: change anything. No, all that happened then was that they
Speaker 1: kept wanting me to do right here waiting again, right
Speaker 1: here waiting too. And I would come to them with
Speaker 1: and I'd go, but you already have you already have it.
Speaker 1: You can go listen to it anytime you want, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: called Delilah, She'll play it for you. I already did that,
Speaker 1: Like I want to do some other stuff. So it
Speaker 1: was it was even that even on the height of that,
Speaker 1: in the height of that success, the people I was
Speaker 1: working with were just they made everything so difficult hard.
Speaker 1: So now you've got a record label that believes in
Speaker 1: you and supports you. A wife that is so beautiful,
Speaker 1: like stunning and adores you. And tell me about the
Speaker 1: collaboration with the boys. Oh my goodness. So all three
Speaker 1: of my sons have three sons, the March Brothers, and uh,
Speaker 1: they're all incredible. I'll give you a second to sorry
Speaker 1: now literally, um there. First of all, they're just the
Speaker 1: most amazing human beings there. I'm so proud of their humanity.
Speaker 1: M my oldest son, Brandon's dirty just turned thirty two. Lucas,
Speaker 1: my middle son, just turned thirty. My baby point Jesse,
Speaker 1: will be twenty nine in January. They're just such good
Speaker 1: people and they're my best friends. Were really close, but
Speaker 1: they're all really great talented singer songwriter musicians. So we've
Speaker 1: done stuff together since they were old enough to practically
Speaker 1: open their mouths and make sound, you know, um, to
Speaker 1: get to a point where I'm now creating records with them,
Speaker 1: and not in a way that's sort of like Dad
Speaker 1: leading the way, but I'm learning from them and I'm
Speaker 1: relying on them. I have Brandon and I didn't do
Speaker 1: anything on this record. I know we will. We just
Speaker 1: haven't figured out his style of music. We you know,
Speaker 1: he's like, we'll figure it out one of these days.
Speaker 1: But he's cheerleading for all of us. Lucas worked on
Speaker 1: my last album. We had a hit that you were
Speaker 1: kind enough to play on another one down that was
Speaker 1: me and Lucas, and Lucas is just on fire as
Speaker 1: a writer and producer. You did a Katie Perry track
Speaker 1: last year. He is really doing well and so he's
Speaker 1: a big part of this album. He he and I
Speaker 1: did three or four tracks together. And for the first time,
Speaker 1: I wrote songs with my youngest son, Jesse, who's a
Speaker 1: rock artist. He has he goes. He just put out
Speaker 1: his first EP under the band name Mark This Hour,
Speaker 1: and it's a heavy rock EP but it's very melodic
Speaker 1: and he sings so great. But it's it's peavy, it's
Speaker 1: heavy guitars and so something my teenage boys will love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll love it. They'll love it. Um. So, he and
Speaker 1: I did two tracks rock songs for this project. And
Speaker 1: you know when I say it's hard to put into words,
Speaker 1: I know that you really understand this. If I were
Speaker 1: to really get deep into it, I'd get really emotional
Speaker 1: because it's well, let's get deep into it. Well, the
Speaker 1: privilege of it, the privilege of it. I think people
Speaker 1: with young kids, especially teenagers, who are going through that
Speaker 1: I roll stage right now where you're so stupid, you
Speaker 1: don't know anything, mom, or you know, people who are
Speaker 1: raising children in a divorce family and might feel like,
Speaker 1: I am I doing enough? Am I contributing enough? Am
Speaker 1: I there enough? Um? To hear your heart of what
Speaker 1: it feels like when you become best friends with an
Speaker 1: adult child, Ye tell me, tell me in your heart
Speaker 1: what that's like. Well, there's there's two things. To watch
Speaker 1: your children become adults, and to watch the kind of
Speaker 1: people that they that they're becoming and have become, what
Speaker 1: they stand for, what matters to them, and to be
Speaker 1: really proud of that, and to and to say to yourself,
Speaker 1: I'd be friends with them whether they were my kids
Speaker 1: or not. But then to take it to another level
Speaker 1: where you're very close and there's no subjects off limits,
Speaker 1: there's no eggshells, there's no dancing around anything. We talk
Speaker 1: about literally everything and anything. Um. The relationships that I
Speaker 1: have formed with them over the years, I confide in them,
Speaker 1: they confide in me, They get advice from me. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I get advice from them there's a very affectionate, deep
Speaker 1: love between my sons and me that is sort of indescribable.
Speaker 1: I I only can relate to it in that my
Speaker 1: father and I had that relationship. My father was my
Speaker 1: best friend and I know I was his, except that
Speaker 1: I lost my dad when I was thirty three, so
Speaker 1: I kind of got ripped off. I didn't really get
Speaker 1: as I was getting older. So many times when I
Speaker 1: turned forty. When I turned fifty, I remember thinking, I
Speaker 1: give anything to just have a conversation with my dad
Speaker 1: about what's going on with me and what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1: Like it's real stuff, Like we're not afraid to be
Speaker 1: vulnerable with each other. We're not afraid to cry in
Speaker 1: front of each other. We're not afraid to just show
Speaker 1: each other the love that we have for each other.
Speaker 1: And it's it's a gift. It's just beautiful. Now cut
Speaker 1: to being in a room with them where a minute
Speaker 1: ago there was nothing, and now there's something amazing that
Speaker 1: we created together. Are you kidding me? It's insane. It's
Speaker 1: like I feel like the luckiest person on earth. You
Speaker 1: are you are You are the luckiest person on earth
Speaker 1: because you have so much good and love in your
Speaker 1: life and you recognize it. Oh yeah, every minute. There
Speaker 1: are so many people who are surrounded with goods, surrounded
Speaker 1: with loves, surrounded with people that cherish them, and they
Speaker 1: never recognize the depth of that blessing. There's nothing you
Speaker 1: could give me, Richard, if somebody walked up and said, here,
Speaker 1: here's a blank check, fill it out anything you want, money, riches,
Speaker 1: a yacht, you name it. There is nothing in the
Speaker 1: world that has any tangible meaning to me outside of
Speaker 1: the relationships that I have with my family and well,
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't obviously, I was only with you
Speaker 1: briefly in person the last time I saw you, but
Speaker 1: I saw a sense of that. I couldn't wait to
Speaker 1: tell Dajus that there's just this vibe in that in
Speaker 1: that house, and just like there's a there's a real
Speaker 1: sort of like team, like this is our tribe, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I felt it even in the
Speaker 1: brief time that I was there at your place. And
Speaker 1: every day, I'm sure you did have the same thing
Speaker 1: with your boys. Every day you discover something new and
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, I never even knew you had that Tallenger,
Speaker 1: I never even knew you had that thought. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like whoa blown away? Blown away? Lucas came yesterday.
Speaker 1: He met us on this tour. Jesse will meet us
Speaker 1: on Monday in London, but just Lucas Medicine Amsterdam. I
Speaker 1: played in Amsterdam last night. It was just one of
Speaker 1: the It was one of my favorite shows of this tour.
Speaker 1: And he was really jet lagged, but he was in
Speaker 1: the wings, sitting next to Daisy. Daisy usually sits in
Speaker 1: a chair in the wings and watches the show, watches
Speaker 1: the audience, and it is this beautiful venue in Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: Carrey Theater is absolutely remarkable, and the audience was insane
Speaker 1: and we were having the greatest time, and they started
Speaker 1: chanting Luca because I mentioned that he was there, and
Speaker 1: he ended up coming out and we did the song
Speaker 1: I wrote for instinct as I Promise You, and he
Speaker 1: just jumped into he's done it with me before. It's
Speaker 1: been a long time, but he just remembered all the
Speaker 1: lyrics and he remembered his parts, and we did it
Speaker 1: in an impromptu duet of this I Promise You and
Speaker 1: you hadn't rehearsed it. No, no, no, no no, come on.
Speaker 1: It was so great and the audience I had a couple.
Speaker 1: I met a couple of the audience members as we
Speaker 1: were leaving. The fans outside as we were getting in
Speaker 1: the van, and I always signed stuff and take pictures
Speaker 1: and stuff, and somebody said, watching you with your son
Speaker 1: tonight is something I'll never forget, and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what a beautiful thing to say. You know, you
Speaker 1: are a blessed, blessed man. We're having so much fun
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Speaker 1: So if somebody wants to to get hold of songwriter,
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to come see you, where do they go? Well?
Speaker 1: Songwriters available everywhere, all the streaming everywhere, Amazon and tour
Speaker 1: dates are always on Richard Marks dot com my website.
Speaker 1: I was gonna call it Michael Bolton dot com, but
Speaker 1: that was already taken. That was already taken. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: have not talked to Michael in a long time, but
Speaker 1: I have. I have some very funny Michael's stories, So
Speaker 1: do I. He he and I having buddies from Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's funny. People don't know how funny he is.
Speaker 1: He's hilarious. I love Michael, Oh my god. I've worked
Speaker 1: with him a bunch and we stay in touch. But
Speaker 1: we when we get together, especially if there's a little
Speaker 1: tequila involved. Ah, Like we have those not since I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Like when you're twelve and you're thirteen,
Speaker 1: you're with your buggy, are your best friend, and you
Speaker 1: didn't those laughing fits, but where you laugh so hard
Speaker 1: that it hurts and then you can't breathe and then
Speaker 1: the next day your stomach hurts. That's me and Bolton.
Speaker 1: That's me and Bolton. Oh my god, what a fun
Speaker 1: life you have. Yeah, I'm very lucky, so are you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am, I am, And I'm so happy you're able
Speaker 1: to tour again because the people that I know that
Speaker 1: are entertainers and the soul of their being, the core
Speaker 1: of their being, really missed that energy. And they said,
Speaker 1: you know, we did room concerts and we did skype concerts.
Speaker 1: But to be able to to soak up that energy
Speaker 1: and that love, you know, it's it's palpable. Yeah. Alright,
Speaker 1: Richard Marks, thank you for spending all this time with us.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful tour. And I can't wait to come
Speaker 1: and see you. You're the best, So good to see
Speaker 1: you and talk to you. And I can't wait for
Speaker 1: the next time. All right, love you Hunt, Bye Bye You.
Speaker 1: Songwriter begins another busy season for Richard, who last summer
Speaker 1: released his best selling memoir Stories to Tell, available now
Speaker 1: via Simon and Schuster, a ruminative and refreshingly candid account
Speaker 1: of his successes and failures in the music industry as
Speaker 1: he's experienced it over the last four decades. There's so
Speaker 1: much going on in this remarkable man's world. To share
Speaker 1: it all would turn this into a two hour podcast.
Speaker 1: I wish I had much much more time with him,
Speaker 1: but he's got other commitments. He's on tour right now,
Speaker 1: so instead I will encourage you to visit Richard Marks
Speaker 1: dot com Richard Marks dot com for the album, for
Speaker 1: the tour and memoir information. You can keep up with
Speaker 1: him on Facebook, on Instagram, on Twitter, and YouTube. The
Speaker 1: twenty tracks on Songwriter should definitely get you through a
Speaker 1: patch or to a pumpkin muffins or pumpkin dump cake,
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