WEBVTT - #457 - Drew Baldridge on Playing 300 Backyards + Everyone Being Against Him 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.600 The song comes out Friday, right, it jumps up on 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.400 streams because this video is reacting. I don't have a manager, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.840 I don't have a record label. It's just me and 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.520 this goes kaboom and I'm sitting here like what do 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.439 I do? I hope I get a record deal and 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.320 nobody calls. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.759 Episode four fifty seven with Drew Baldridge. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.520 He has a song called She's Somebody's Daughter that's currently 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.479 Top twenty, and it's his first ever top twenty, which 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.199 I was surprised to hear. And it's his first ever 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.080 top forty, is what he said, right, yep. But his 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.280 whole story of how he got here, I did not 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.839 know it until I started to read about him and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.840 talk about him, and I was kind of blown away 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.800 by this interview. I don't think I've ever met him 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.720 until he came over and we did this. As a 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.680 matter of fact, I didn't know what to expect, but 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.839 really I came away from this this has been one 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.040 of my favorites in a long time. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.120 His name is Drew Baldridge. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.680 I'm just gonna shut up and let you hear it 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.639 because it's an awesome story. I'm not crazy, right, No, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:58.520 It's an awesome story. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:00:59.480 Amazing. Yeah. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.520 I kind of just kind of waded into it not 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.840 knowing what to it was, and the whole time I 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:04.399 could have done. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:05.480 Two hours with this guy. Uh. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.440 Drew Baldridge Follow him on Instagram Drew Baldridge Music. Check 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.840 out his music, go buy his merch He you know, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.600 worked on a farm. It's a family farm of Potokio, Illinois. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.199 And next thing you know, he's here. Next thing you know, well, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.840 all this happens here. He is Drew Baldridge. True. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:23.280 How's it going? 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:23.639 Buddy? 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:24.240 Good? 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:25.080 Buddy, how are you good? 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:25.960 Are you a sports fan? 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.000 Huge sports fan? 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.920 Are you a former athlete? 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:30.800 I am? Yep. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.479 What is your thought on why? Because I have a thought? 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.360 What is your thought on why there are so many 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.520 athletes that are also successful artists? 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:39.199 Oh man? 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.399 Or maybe there's no correlation at all. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:43.040 I don't know. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.600 I think I think it's also like the hard work 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.840 determination aspect. Maybe, you know, I know, growing up sports 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.760 was like everything. Like music really wasn't anything until I 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.560 was like sixteen seventeen. But just talking to a lot 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.200 of other athletes, know, I feel like, if you're an artist, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.240 you want to be a baseball player a basketball player 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.120 and vice versa. You know, I know several other like 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.880 sports guys that would like love to sing. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.080 You know, it's super interesting. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.760 I think that has a lot to do with the 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.079 culture of competition within yourself. I think if you grew 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.400 up an athlete, you know how to work. Yeah, you 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.160 know how to train, you know that you've got to 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.600 get better. You're comparing yourself against others, against what you've 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:35.160 done in the past yesterday. Hard work is a big 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.639 part of it. I mean, to be an elite athlete. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.120 It's not like even if you're super talented, it's that 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.720 easy to still be an eleaite athlete. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:42.080 Yeah. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.280 I think that's a lot to do with it. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.359 And only asked that because it got a lot of 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.600 d ms of people just asking me random questions, and 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.760 one of them was that it was why are there 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:56.440 so many athletes slash artists? And I think those cultures 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:58.720 mix well together. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.240 Yeah, I do agree the challenge aspect of like competition, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.000 you know, there's always I mean, as much as we 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.560 don't want to do it, and we always say we don't, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.280 look at the friends around you. You know, some of 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.519 my friends have been uber successful and some of the 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.960 went home, you know, And but there's always that drive 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.320 of no matter if they're your friend or not, you 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:19.760 want to win. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:20.360 You know. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.480 It's like you got a pickle ball court, you know 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.280 you're talking about It's like, no matter who you have 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.880 on that court, you're gonna try to you're gonna try 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:26.080 to win. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.440 Yeah, we'll kill you. Do you ever to play pickleball? 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:29.640 I have? 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.400 So we used to do it all time in high school, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.560 which is interesting. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.440 Well that was before I even thought pickleball exists. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:34.360 I know. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.560 And so now it's like this whole new craze and 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.280 I'm like, man, everybody is talking about pickleball. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:40.480 And we did in high school pickleball. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.880 In high school, we did yeah. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.760 Yeah, they had like tape on the gym floor and 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.920 we would play. We played in high school, like twelve 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.320 years ago. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:48.080 Where'd you grow up? 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.840 Grew up in southern Illinois? Patka, Illinois, Boom in metropolis? 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.000 What's that near? How far is away from somewhere that 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:54.240 I know? 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:55.920 Probably? 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.480 Have you ever heard of Mount Vernon, Illinois? Or Saint 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.600 Louis eighty. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.920 Miles east straight east now we're talking, or straight yeah, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.000 straight east of Saint Louis, Saint Louis. We were in 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.080 Saint Louis two weeks ago, and what was annoying to 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.960 us was because we went to work out with the Cardinals, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:12.600 which is super cool. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.200 They invited us up. We get to love that work 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:15.240 out with a huge Cardinals fan. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.120 Are you the massive It's cool. I give you a 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.840 couple of stories then. But we were there and we 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.360 wanted to we wanted to bet. We couldn't because it's 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.680 not legal in Missouri and have a big deal with DraftKings, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:25.960 and they were like, just drive over. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:26.280 The state line. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.479 Not the Cardinals, by the way, it wasn't the Cardinals said. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.400 We were doing a podcast there out in front of 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.360 the stadium before we went into work with the Cardinals, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.599 and Eddie and I were so frustrated because we couldn't 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.480 bet inside Missouri because you Canton, Tennessee. Yeah you can 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.440 in Illinois. And they were like, they have like boats there. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.119 I guess the boat the boats, Yeah, it makes the water. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:48.480 Okay, that makes sense. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.680 Which is also the most ridiculous thing because growing up 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.440 in Arkansas, there was no gambling in Arkansas except for 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.000 the race track, the horse race track, but nothing else. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.880 You can only gamble on horse in this one spot. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.400 So we would drive to Louisiana, and even in Louisiana 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:05.880 you couldn't gamble unless. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.600 You were gambling on the water on a boat. But 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.320 it wasn't really a boat. It was a big, huge, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.840 like old school. It looked like one of those old 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:14.360 civil wars. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.400 Doesn't move, it just states it's not really a barely 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.240 floating Yeah, because it's on water, they allowed you to 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:20.920 gamble on it. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.200 That's funny. What was what was home like for you? 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:24.600 Parents together? 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.760 Parents together? Yeah, I was very blessed man. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.520 I had a great family, very Christian household. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:33.120 You know. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.159 We were farm family. So my grandpa farmed and he 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:42.280 farmed corn and beans, and we uh had cattle a hundred. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.520 Head of cattle or so. So we did a lot 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.120 of work on that. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.200 And it's you know, I always tell everybody a lot 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.200 of music, you know, kind of comes with that. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.359 We were not rich farmers. You know. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.919 It's old tractors and combine combine, Yeah, old white tractors, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.039 and they would break down like every every year, you know, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.640 like something would break and it would be like, well, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.800 we're just gonna try to fix it, you know, and 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.280 see what we can move on That's how always fell 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.200 about music a little bit too kind of interesting, of 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.880 like something always breaks, you know, something doesn't go your way, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.080 but you just hey, you got to get the crop in, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:12.280 you know, you got to get it out. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.320 Did you have a new combine? Oh? Did you ever 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:14.720 get to it? 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.920 We had this old gleaner, all right, and it's called 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:17.400 a gleaner. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.599 And I'll never forget one time my grandpa was combined 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.720 in the field. It was wheat, and sparks were flying 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.880 out the top of this whole week of this old combine, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.359 and I had one of my best friends with me 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.080 and caught the whole field on fire. The whole thing 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.159 was up because the sparks. Yeah, because sparks fell out. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.200 And I run out there and I'm like waving my grandpa. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.440 Now, I was like stop stopping. He's like what what. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.839 I'm like, the whole look behind you. There's a trail 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:42.279 of fire. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.560 And I'm like running up to my uncle's house with 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.440 buckets out of the pool and like trying to put 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:47.120 this fire out. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:47.679 Wow. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.400 When I did a show on that GEO called Breaking 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.000 Bobby Bones, one of the deals that I did was 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.719 I went to a farm in Virginia, and they had 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:02.719 me use every version basically a combine, but I used 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.600 a hand and then that's tractor pulling, and then I 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.039 used a big, new, nice combine. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.480 Those things are so nice, so nice. It's like a million. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:16.400 Dollars drives itself GPS, it's air conditioned. You just sit 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.840 in and basically turn the corner. It's like an anesthesiologist. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.680 You're trained for if something goes wrong. Otherwise you just 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.960 sit and chill and helped that. The day is what 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:26.680 the day brings. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.840 And we didn't have any of those new ones. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.320 And my brother is still farms back home, and I 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.520 think my brother and my cousins are getting newer. But 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.200 like when I was growing up, man, all they I 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:37.920 was the baby of the family, so it was like 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.120 got all the crap jobs, you know. It's like, hey 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.880 you haul the grain in, you know, or hey you 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.040 disked the field. There was nothing of me driving the 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.720 combine because they did not trust little baby Drew to 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:48.000 do that. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.880 Who lived in the house, Your mom or dad? You? 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.680 My mom, my dad? Me and my older brother how 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.760 much older. He was two and a half years older. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.280 So when I when he was a senior, I was 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.720 a freshman and uh, you know they all still live 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.320 in little Patoka. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.440 If you wanted to go to a concert or too. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.840 We had town if you wanted to go to town, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.400 but there were no concerts in town. You have to 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.200 keep going to Littleron to get to town to a concert. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.440 Where would concerts be or whe would you go grocery shopping? 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.160 Well, like you know school, like if we go school 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.960 close shopping, we'd go to Saint Louis area, like Fairview. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:19.880 Heights and half our and a half. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.480 Yeah, their concerts Verizon Wireless, you know, Amphitheater, I don't 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.280 know if it's still called that or not. Out on 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.720 in Saint Louis area. That's where we would go to 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.320 like watch Tobe Heath, you know, and Tray Atkins. That 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.920 was like one of my first prominent concerts was watching them. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.240 But you know you could drive up to We've gone 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.080 up to Springfield, Illinois, which is state capitol like state Fair, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.960 you know, watched Aldan and Chris Young there like my 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.959 senior year high school, and that was like another place 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.559 like county fairs, you know, And they're starting to become 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.400 more shows than what they were when I was growing 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.280 up because it was just hard. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.880 It's just hard to get to a concert. You know, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:58.720 you go to church. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.640 And you play music, and you watch people on CMT, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.680 and you know you would just that's where you found 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.439 your music, was the radio. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.160 Or that where was music in your house? 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.720 My dad sang. My dad sang in church, and so 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.280 I just wanted to sing in church too. So I 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.360 started singing in church when I was I think first 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.120 time I sang was first grade Christmas program at my school, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.400 and then that turned into anytime there was a talent 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.160 show in town or anytime there was, you know, a 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.040 church function, I would lead worship. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.000 Did your dad want to be a singer or was 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.840 it just something he liked to do since he was 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.400 home He's like to do it at home. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:39.599 Yeah, I just think he liked to do it. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.040 He liked to sing Southern gospel music, so lots of 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.440 old cassettes of the Cathedrals and Statesman Quartet, and he 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.959 just loved singing, you know, Southern gospel church music. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.520 So it was just something he was passionate about. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.440 So but when I started doing it, it's definitely made 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.800 like his passion. I think he sees a lot of 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.000 himself and probably what we're doing now of music, and 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.280 he never misses a show and we're up there. They 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.880 traveled down here a lot. He follows me to a 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.040 lot of places, and it's been really fun to kind 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.520 of share that hobby with my dad. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.960 What did he and or your mom think whenever you 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.080 wanted to get into this non traditional career. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.960 Well, you know, I had a scholarship to go to 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.520 a little little college and next it's called Kaskaskia College 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.719 and went there for a year. And that whole year 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.440 I was coming here for like a week out of 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.560 a month and like trying to write, meet people, do 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.800 all thing. And then the next year I said, hey, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.800 I'm gonna move to Nashville, but I'll still do the 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.960 junior I'll do it all online. And here they were, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.520 you know, put so much time into me at sports. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.800 And I had a chance for a scholarship and I 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.440 turned that down because I wanted to play music, and 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.160 I thought my mom was going to kill me. But 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.920 I will say like they supported it. You know, They're like, hey, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.520 this is your dream, go do it. And I talked 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:00.880 to my mom and I was like, man, you let 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.160 me nineteen year old, like didn't know how to drive 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:08.920 in the city. Go down to Nashville, kid, and just 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:09.839 figure it out, and she goes. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.120 I thought always thought you'd come home. I always thought that. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.800 That would be like you go down for a little 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.360 bit and you'd get tired of that and you'd come home. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.840 What was your first time to Nashville. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.680 Man, My first time to Nashville. I saw Josh Turner 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.800 in concert. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.800 At for that reason, you came to a show here. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.280 Came to a show when I was for my eighteenth birthday. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.600 My Mama brought me and I went downtown Broadway, bought 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.560 a hat, cowboy hat, just because it was the thing, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.160 and I had meet and greets. I was front row 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:37.880 at what was. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.600 A Wildhorse Yeah me and great, that's funny. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.440 Oh yeah, I got meet and greet to meet Josh Turner. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.560 He signed my cowboy hat. And I still have the 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.720 picture that's awesome somewhere of me and Josh Turner. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.080 And you know the fast forward. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.360 The first time I played the Opry, I sang a 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.839 Josh song and he came out on stage and surprised me. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:55.600 And that was pretty cool. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.559 Dang, that's awesome. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.040 I cried. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.600 It was like I got a little chill you hearing that, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.960 are me hearing that? Yeah, you came to a Josh 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.480 show and then your opry. I mean I I first 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:07.880 time I played the opera do and stand up? I 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.200 told my grandmother's favorite joke, because she is who I 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.240 watched the opry with. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.319 It's kind of like when you get to the opera. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.160 You know, obviously playing the oprey is cool, and it's 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.320 something that you wait to do, but you always want 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:21.760 to like do something that kind of. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.600 Brought you to it, like to that that's interesting some 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:25.640 kind of respect. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.760 It could be something you wear, something you do, or 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.560 a song, but that was it for me too. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.679 I was like, man, I would only be here really 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:32.200 if it wasn't for. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.400 My grandma who made me when I was real young, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.520 like listen to the opera or watch the opry on 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.000 TNN or CMT or wherever it was. And to you, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.559 you played a Josh Turner song the first concert in Nashville. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.400 That's freaking cool. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.640 Yeah, And I haven't really told anybody that story, you know, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.440 about seeing Josh Turner first at the Wild Horse, but 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.839 it was just you know that's I always covered your 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.680 man at every karaoke thing there ever was that was 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.920 the go to song, and so I sang it, and 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.400 I'll never forget my guitar player stepping up on when 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.120 he was on the opp he started playing a solo 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.960 and everybody started cheering for my guitar player. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.240 But you didn't You for sure didn't know. You didn't 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.439 not know Josh Starner was coming. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:07.040 Oh clue. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.400 Okay, not even five minutes before, because that would still 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:09.840 been cool. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.439 Yeah, not even five minutes before. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.560 He my guitar players playing a solo and the crowd 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.320 starts screaming. I'm like, what the freaking heck, you know, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.280 they're all screaming from my guitar player. And I turned around, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.480 looking's Josh standing behind me, and I was like, oh 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.440 my gosh, I'm literally crying tears on the opry stage 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.040 and he starts singing and I just quit and he 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.240 just kept singing, and I'm just like trying to do 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.440 little parts. And then I'm like lost in it, you know, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.440 and he's like take it Drought, and I forget every word. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.480 I'm like, uh, I say on the mic, I don't even. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.080 Know where we're at. And the old man had like 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:42.760 take it to the end. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.480 But it was so special awesome story. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:45.679 Yeah, I'll never forget it. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.040 And no one tipped you off. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.120 Nobody tip me, but. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.920 For them too, because I'm sure some people knew. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.520 Oh yeah, I mean at that time, my manager was 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:53.840 rusty gassing. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.240 And he pulled it and that's all off. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.920 No idea. Nobody at the opera even even told me 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.680 you're hinted at it. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.520 Did you ever hear Josh's stories about going to Willie 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.280 Nelson's or no, Johnny Cash's house. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.720 No, that's probably I. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.560 Know we've talked about it like on my show, and 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.280 I don't want to like be wrong about it. But 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.600 he just drove up to his house. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.920 One day and like knocked on the door, and it's 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.160 like Johnny Cash live here, Oh, and like wanted to 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.440 ask him questions that he went in. Yeah, and I 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.600 And again, this only popped in my head because you 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.680 brought Josh up. But it seems to me and Mike, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.160 you ma can help me with the memory of this, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:29.680 But it seems to me like Johnny Cash was like, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:30.600 what are you doing here? 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:30.920 All right? 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:31.240 Come on in. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.840 Yeah, you opened the door and let him in, Oh 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.400 my gosh, and they had a conversation. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.080 And then yeah, that's what it feels a special. There's 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.280 a couple of really cool Johnny Cash stories. Ronnie Dunn 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.080 from Brooks and Done obviously, who's a family friend of ours. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.880 He said that he moved here and he had been 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:50.680 doing music. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:55.800 And in Oklahoma and Texas kind of the Arkansas region, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:15:02.200 but really just there. His girlfriend then wife was really 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.360 good friends with June, and so he came and he 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.040 lived with Johnny Cash. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.600 Yeah, Ronnie Done did. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.040 Yeah, Wow, that's it, Ronnie Okay, yeah, Ronnie Done. And 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.520 so he there's like a little house on the property, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:19.880 and so we've been living in that house. But he'd 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.920 go over to Johnny's house and he'd be like, Johnny's 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.000 watching CNN, just hanging out and Ronnie that was just 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:30.320 sitting on the couch with him. And ron I was like, yeah, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.240 it was weird because that's Johnny Cash, but also that 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.440 was like my wife's friend, and that's who like, if 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.040 you're coming to Nashville, come stay with us. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:40.960 How wild is that? Yeah? 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.240 I mean talking about your heroes. I mean, yeah, that's 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:43.720 pretty cool. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.440 You and Josh. Do you guys ever become buddies at all? Anyway? 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:47.840 Yeah? 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.520 I mean, could you ever call him and just be like, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:50.400 what we didn't I. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:51.720 Don't have Josh's number. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.640 We've played several shows after that together, you know, we 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.800 played one this past year and just catching up. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.400