Speaker 1: Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man.
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Speaker 1: Belcome 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. This week is Ashley Campbell, and
Speaker 1: I love this little songbird. She is so funny and
Speaker 1: hilarious and beautiful and sweet. She's just an incredible person.
Speaker 1: She's the daughter of the legendary Glenn Campbell. She has
Speaker 1: a record deal and big machine. Her first single out
Speaker 1: was I'll Do the Remembering, which is a tribute to
Speaker 1: her father and all Alzheimer's that he has been struggling with.
Speaker 1: And she just has so much awesome things to talk about,
Speaker 1: and she's such a beautiful soul. So y'all welcome Ashley Campbell.
Speaker 1: Ashley Campbell, Hello, Hello, I'm so happy to be here
Speaker 1: with you. I'm happy to be here with you. On
Speaker 1: this rainy day. Yes, Nashale has been like gloom City.
Speaker 1: Yeah it has. Um. I I missed the snow honestly
Speaker 1: because I'm from Phoenix and so I grew up like
Speaker 1: round cactuses and desert stuff. So I'm just so excited
Speaker 1: by snow still, But what about this mush? Are you
Speaker 1: excited about all this mush? I mean being from the desert,
Speaker 1: I even like rain, Like rain is a good thing,
Speaker 1: so you're not used to it. Yeah, I'm not used
Speaker 1: to it. And when it did rain, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: our crops will grow. Yeah, this has been a little much,
Speaker 1: but not complaining because as the best city ever, it
Speaker 1: sure is. Okay, so I want to start off with
Speaker 1: a little game. Okay, so I'm gonna say some words,
Speaker 1: and you say the first word that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: I love these Okay. Frodo Doggie. That's her dog, and
Speaker 1: he's cute. What kind of dog is he? He's a
Speaker 1: miniature Schnailzer and he's staring at us right now. He's
Speaker 1: looking at us, his tails going. He's like, are you
Speaker 1: gonna call me? Gon? I heard my name? Okay, pasta
Speaker 1: pasto banjo badass, You're a badass, bando player. Thank you sushi.
Speaker 1: Absolutely delicious tattoos more you want more? I do? How
Speaker 1: many do you have one? Tell me about your tattoo
Speaker 1: because it's special to you. It is um, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a tattoo of a knife that actually my dad
Speaker 1: has on his um on his arm, um kind of
Speaker 1: on his bicep and um. He did it himself when
Speaker 1: he was little, he was like fourteen. He either did
Speaker 1: it himself or his friend did it, just with like
Speaker 1: a needle and ink. So like, that's pretty awesome that
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah. And there's another line on his forearm
Speaker 1: where he wanted to do another knife that the tips
Speaker 1: of the knives were touching, but it hurt too much
Speaker 1: so he stopped and there's just like half of a
Speaker 1: line there self tattoo again. Yeah, So every tattoo your
Speaker 1: dad has is self tattooed. Yes, and your dad's Glenn
Speaker 1: Campbell Yes, by the way, which is you know, no
Speaker 1: big deal em meeting. Okay, So you replicated that, so
Speaker 1: I got the I got like a cleaner version of it.
Speaker 1: You know, why didn't you have him do it my dad?
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have an arm anymore? Okay, sexy mm hmmm,
Speaker 1: I don't know. So many things come to mind. It
Speaker 1: just lured him out. O man, oh man, I can't
Speaker 1: even think of it. It's been a while. Are you
Speaker 1: saying you're single? I am single? Yeah? Okay? Actually Campbell
Speaker 1: on the market to match make you? Yeah, please do,
Speaker 1: I'm here. It would be such a catch. You know what,
Speaker 1: no one, no one can handle you. You're too we
Speaker 1: can't handle me like most people don't make it past
Speaker 1: the first date. Really, yeah, why is that? I get bored?
Speaker 1: I get so bored what it bores you about dating? Um?
Speaker 1: Guys that can't make me laugh? If you can't make
Speaker 1: me laugh, yeah, that's it. It's just over. And you
Speaker 1: have your ship together? Yeah? I do know. You need
Speaker 1: to have your like they need to have the ship together,
Speaker 1: exactly because I do because together. Yeah, I like guys
Speaker 1: that have something going on, that are passionate about something,
Speaker 1: that are totally pursuing that, you know, like confidence and
Speaker 1: passion and knowing where you're going is so important. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want to wander? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I hear you. So there's it's really hard to find.
Speaker 1: Are you looking for a creative type? Do you like
Speaker 1: the creatives. Definitely like the creatives. But I've always wondered
Speaker 1: what it would be like to date someone that wasn't
Speaker 1: in music, but that had a good taste in music,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the most important thing. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, um, like an agent. I mean, yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be cool someone in the music business. But it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to date someone that does exactly what you
Speaker 1: do because you find yourself either judging what they do
Speaker 1: because that's you're kind of qualified to do that, or
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, it's pretty funny. I know, I
Speaker 1: hear you dating and Nashville, but now that I know
Speaker 1: you're single, I'm gonna work help. Okay, I need to
Speaker 1: get more details after this interview. What we're really looking for? Okay,
Speaker 1: gross mm hmm. Dry skin? Oh yeah right, I hate
Speaker 1: don't have dry skin. Yeah, you gotta moisturize, dry hands,
Speaker 1: driving me bananas. Yeah, I use m aquifer ever since
Speaker 1: I got my tattoo. They tell you to put aquifer
Speaker 1: on it, and I've never used it before, but it's
Speaker 1: like this miraculous stuff that I use his chapstick now
Speaker 1: and I use it as hand cream, Like it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Do you put it on your full body. No, that
Speaker 1: would be pretty greasy. But sometimes coconut oil. Hey, going
Speaker 1: back to sexy, coconut oil, you can use over a
Speaker 1: lot of like a good massage oil, and it smells
Speaker 1: like cooking it and it's healthy and then you can
Speaker 1: just eat it. It's so good. I get a massage
Speaker 1: and then have someone like, you're back exactly because I
Speaker 1: know that's what that is. Sexy. Okay, crush, Oh m hmm.
Speaker 1: I think Sam Hunt's really cute. He's total crushed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. Oh yeah, please, I don't
Speaker 1: know him. He can take my time, he can take
Speaker 1: your We know enough people who know him who can
Speaker 1: make this happen. Well, hey, i'll I'll give him a
Speaker 1: first date, right, So what happens after the first date?
Speaker 1: Like you go out with them and then they're born.
Speaker 1: But like someone like Sam Hunt, he wouldn't be boring.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would. I think he would be
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. I think he'd be really interesting. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you think it'd be hard to date someone who has
Speaker 1: a really big schedule? Because you know, because I do too. Like,
Speaker 1: I think that's ideal that you both have something going on.
Speaker 1: And so one of you is not sitting at home
Speaker 1: twiddling your thumbs, you know, and you don't mind like
Speaker 1: flying cross country to each other for like a day.
Speaker 1: Nah travels, no problem, Yeah exactly. Yeah, keep spicy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just text me, just text yeah. Okay at music? Mm
Speaker 1: hmm truth Okay, I love that. So you obviously grew
Speaker 1: up in a very musical family, your dad being Glencampbell.
Speaker 1: Did he put an instrument in your hand when you
Speaker 1: were a child or did you just see it happening
Speaker 1: in front of you and you knew you want to
Speaker 1: be apart? How did you get your lad for it? Um?
Speaker 1: My mom and dad put me and my brothers into
Speaker 1: piano lessons when we were very little, Like I started
Speaker 1: in first grade, so I've always been playing an instrument.
Speaker 1: Um My brother Cal started playing drums when he was two,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was really cool. I was like,
Speaker 1: why didn't I start that early? And then I saw
Speaker 1: a video people even walk it to they can drum
Speaker 1: it too, And I saw a video of me playing
Speaker 1: the drum set when I was like too, and I
Speaker 1: was terrible at the drums, but it was really cute.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I was very basic, but like
Speaker 1: my brother was like he still played the drums. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one of the best drummers I've ever seen, which
Speaker 1: I want to talk about. You went on tour with
Speaker 1: your dad, Yeah, with you, But before you do that,
Speaker 1: the instrument you picked up was banjo, right, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're a finger picking Well, thank you. How did you
Speaker 1: get so good? And you're a female and you're sexy,
Speaker 1: which is like big combination because a lot of badass
Speaker 1: female musicians aren't sexy. You're so hot, thank you, and
Speaker 1: you're so good. Um. Well, I started playing guitar when
Speaker 1: I was fifteen, and I was just kind of okay
Speaker 1: at it. I didn't really work very hard at it
Speaker 1: because I just didn't I didn't have it yet. Um.
Speaker 1: But then, um, when I was in college, I started
Speaker 1: playing banjo for a play that I was in with
Speaker 1: my university theater department, and I just completely fell in
Speaker 1: love with banjo and whatever comes from that and just picking.
Speaker 1: And I started listening to bluegrass and I just got
Speaker 1: really into it and so like something just clicked in me.
Speaker 1: And then I started playing banjo more and getting better
Speaker 1: at that, and then I went back to guitar and
Speaker 1: started doing a lot of fingerpicking with guitar because I
Speaker 1: kind of figured it out with the banjo, and so
Speaker 1: that kind of opened up a whole new world for me.
Speaker 1: Fingerpicking is really difficult. Do you just sit there for
Speaker 1: hours and go over and over the same like movements
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, it's always. Fingerpicking has always come really
Speaker 1: easily to me, just like singing harmonies. It's just I
Speaker 1: just kind of hear it. Yeah, my dad that got
Speaker 1: definitely got that from my dad. He always kind of
Speaker 1: pride himself. He's like, my kids can sing harmonies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're great. It just happens. Um. So fingerpicking, I definitely
Speaker 1: had to work at it, but I think it came
Speaker 1: pretty easily to me. Yeah. So did you know you
Speaker 1: wanted to do music? Not until I started playing banjo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I wanted to be an actress and I
Speaker 1: was doing sketch comedy and improv in Hollywood. Yeah crazy Mary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Yeah so I was. I was in a sketch group.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? So like Saturday Night Live? You know,
Speaker 1: I do sketches that they right that are funny, like
Speaker 1: characters and things like that. I want to do a
Speaker 1: side note though, because you are so stunning, and you
Speaker 1: come from such an amazing family and you're so talented,
Speaker 1: people might be surprised that you're so hilarious. You have
Speaker 1: this really goofy, funny side to you that is your sketch,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Well, thank you. Yeah. Um, So I
Speaker 1: did this video with my friend who had a couple
Speaker 1: of successful YouTube videos on his page, so it was
Speaker 1: a fake American Idol audition. Um. And I made up
Speaker 1: this character called Crazy Mary, and we used footage from
Speaker 1: another from an actual Crazy Mary video online, so it's
Speaker 1: it's me spliced in with actual footage of Simon Cowell
Speaker 1: and Paula Abduel Um. And I'm just acting nuts in
Speaker 1: front of them and singing. I'm like doing I'm playing this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm playing this crazy character. She's just there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with her and and she's doing a Randy Newman impression.
Speaker 1: That's how she sings. So it's like, you got a
Speaker 1: finding me, you got a fwinding me? Do doop boo
Speaker 1: doo doo doop. Did you get picked on American Idol?
Speaker 1: I did not, Simon said. Simon said no, Simon was
Speaker 1: scared of me. What did he say to you? Um?
Speaker 1: He said, I needed violent music behind me, which is
Speaker 1: what I have now. So he was right. Did it
Speaker 1: get some hits on YouTube? Oh my gosh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think at one point, Um, we had about thirteen million hits.
Speaker 1: How do you get a video to go viral? It
Speaker 1: just did people, Girl, that's freaking funny, and then they
Speaker 1: pass it on and I was actually starting to get
Speaker 1: recognized on the streets of Hollywood as Crazy Mary. Like
Speaker 1: I was standing in line at a Starbucks and someone
Speaker 1: was like, hey, you're Crazy Mary. So does anything come
Speaker 1: from being a YouTube sensation? Um, nothing's come from this
Speaker 1: except just I got a lot of satisfaction knowing that
Speaker 1: people saw it, and I think I'm so proud of
Speaker 1: being Crazy Mary. Like the first time some I thought
Speaker 1: someone recognized me was actually my friend who actually made
Speaker 1: the video. I was walking down Melrose and he was
Speaker 1: driving past and he saw me and he thought it'd
Speaker 1: be funny. You know, Hey, it's crazy Mary. So I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, I got recognized, and then I found
Speaker 1: out it was him. I'm sure though a lot of people, no,
Speaker 1: Crazy Mary. Yeah, a lot of people have seen It's
Speaker 1: pretty funny, and even recently I was I was at
Speaker 1: some I was at another Starbucks that, um you love Starbucks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: near Gayalax. Um where was that? Gosh? Um man, where
Speaker 1: were we California, Virginia, Virginia traveling you just know the place?
Speaker 1: You're just like, I don't know where on the map.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the guy that worked at the Starbucks, he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I've seen you on YouTube. I feel like I'm in Galax.
Speaker 1: How do you? Yeah, exactly. Okay, So before you were
Speaker 1: going to do music, you're going to do stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: Not stand up that's sketch comedy. Yeah. I liked I
Speaker 1: liked writing comedy, and I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: been like a writer on a TV show or like
Speaker 1: if I could have written on Saturday Live, that would
Speaker 1: have been great. But yeah, um, I ended up. So
Speaker 1: I was doing this um in prop school called the
Speaker 1: Groundlings in l A, which is like my favorite. They're amazing,
Speaker 1: They're such good training. No I didn't. I moved there
Speaker 1: when I was Yeah, I moved there and when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen. Um, but right when I was taking the
Speaker 1: third level class there, um, my dad was going to
Speaker 1: go on a tour to Australia and New Zealand and
Speaker 1: it was right after I graduated from college, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: can I go as like a vacation and it sounds
Speaker 1: like a cool place to go, and he said sure,
Speaker 1: but you should play banjo on Jennal on my Mind. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of a big deal because even though
Speaker 1: he's your dad, Yeah, I loves you, you actually have
Speaker 1: to be good to play in Glenn Campbell's band, Like, yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just like, are you serious really? And then um,
Speaker 1: so he asked you to play. He asked you to
Speaker 1: play banjo on Jennal in my Mind. And then his
Speaker 1: musical director, t J. Kenster, who played piano in his band, Um,
Speaker 1: he said, I've always wanted to have the strings parts
Speaker 1: in our show. Can you play keyboard and do all
Speaker 1: the strings parts on a keyboard? And I was like sure,
Speaker 1: that's that's awesome. So and me like at that point,
Speaker 1: I mean probably at this point too, but like, piano
Speaker 1: wasn't my main instrument, but I had actually just memorized
Speaker 1: an entire musical score because I was a I played
Speaker 1: by ear I played by ear Um. I was an
Speaker 1: understudy for a piano player in um My Friends comedy
Speaker 1: musical based on the Fellowship of the Rings, so you're
Speaker 1: like a musical freak of nature, I might be. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I learned that whole score just because I wanted to,
Speaker 1: and it was super fun. And right after that, I
Speaker 1: got asked to do all the strings parts for my
Speaker 1: dad's show. So I was pretty like hot on the piano,
Speaker 1: like I felt, but I still had to like go
Speaker 1: through and like I felt like a kindergartener writing out
Speaker 1: the notes in the in the music for my dad's show,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't just read the notes, so I was like,
Speaker 1: so I wrote like B A A flat, Like what
Speaker 1: was it like playing in his band? Were you nervous?
Speaker 1: Because I was super nervous at first he was gonna
Speaker 1: get mad at you and yell at if you messed up.
Speaker 1: I wasn't scared he was gonna yell at me, Like
Speaker 1: I honestly don't think he would have noticed because it
Speaker 1: was strings parts and they were kind of lone his mix.
Speaker 1: But like I was just I was nervous because I
Speaker 1: was just a little shaky, you know, And but it
Speaker 1: was great. He was super nurturing. The whole band was
Speaker 1: super nurturing, and um, it was just really cool to
Speaker 1: have that experience with him and another side. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a trial by fire and that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I got my my wings as far as
Speaker 1: being on stage, So that that's where you learned how
Speaker 1: to be on stage, was touring with her your dad, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: My first ever professional show was the State Theater in Auckland,
Speaker 1: New Zealand. So it was like thousands of people. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, at least yeah, almost a thousand. Did you
Speaker 1: get the bug then, where you like, I have to perform?
Speaker 1: I was terrified. I was very scared. Um at that point,
Speaker 1: I was just like I gotta get through this tour.
Speaker 1: Like um. So then he asked you to come back
Speaker 1: for his farewell tour and play, and you played the
Speaker 1: whole tour, right, I did. I played for him for
Speaker 1: about three years. So you went on the road with
Speaker 1: your dad and your brothers, both brothers. Yeah. At first,
Speaker 1: um um, we were still a goodbye tour, goodbye tour. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That his final tour, his final tour. Yeah. My brothers
Speaker 1: joined on for the goodbye tour. Um. And that lasted
Speaker 1: about two years, which was longer than we expected. But
Speaker 1: we had so much fun. I got to tour the
Speaker 1: UK twice. Really, where's your favorite places that you went? Mm? Oh, man,
Speaker 1: I had so much fun in Brisbane, Australia. And I
Speaker 1: also just love London and I love going up to
Speaker 1: like smaller towns in in Scotland and Ireland because you
Speaker 1: just get to explore all these really cool villages and stuff.
Speaker 1: I know, it's majestic. Yeah, the architecture is amazing. Did
Speaker 1: you ever get tired of being with your family that much? No?
Speaker 1: Not really. We get along pretty well and you know,
Speaker 1: we had our space, so it was fun. What's the
Speaker 1: dynamic of you and your dad and your brothers and
Speaker 1: your mom? Your family dynamic? And well, my mom bless
Speaker 1: her heart, like she's a she's a rock. Absolutely. Um. So,
Speaker 1: the poor thing, Like even if she wanted to come
Speaker 1: hang out with us, if we were all going out
Speaker 1: to dinner, like if my dad didn't want to go,
Speaker 1: she would have to stay back with him, and because
Speaker 1: he had Alzheimers, so she was basically like with him
Speaker 1: seven um. Like occasionally, like the someone on the tour,
Speaker 1: like all of us would band together and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna watch Glenn and she's gonna go out to
Speaker 1: dinner and have a good fun night off, you know.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of fun. We were just like
Speaker 1: a big family. Um. So it was great and it
Speaker 1: was great to have my brothers with me. We did
Speaker 1: I mean, we'd have a little little fights here and there,
Speaker 1: but overall we we got along. Is it just three
Speaker 1: of you guys? Okay? So all of your are musical,
Speaker 1: even though I know there's serious music and the jeans,
Speaker 1: that's still impressive. They're all what do they play? Cal
Speaker 1: my oldest brother. He plays drums. He's the one that
Speaker 1: started when he was two, so he's amazing. But he
Speaker 1: also plays guitar and piano and he's is really well. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's um. He went to engineering school, so he's
Speaker 1: a produces. He's like a whiz with pro tools. He produces,
Speaker 1: he engineers. He has a studio and a girl Hills, California,
Speaker 1: and he just is a total badass musical genius and
Speaker 1: he does his own thing. And then Um Shannon, my
Speaker 1: middle brother, he plays piano and guitar and he sings
Speaker 1: and um. He lives out here in Nashville and he
Speaker 1: plays with me in my band. And you guys were
Speaker 1: duo for a hot second. We were yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got fun. It was super fun. We well, and that's
Speaker 1: why he's still in my band. Like we we just Um,
Speaker 1: even though I kind of wanted to branch off and
Speaker 1: just do my my songs. Um, we still love singing
Speaker 1: together and playing together, and we still right together, and
Speaker 1: so he's very much a part of my musical life.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And we lived together, you might as well
Speaker 1: just keep it all together. Yeah. So you mentioned this
Speaker 1: Goodbye tour and your dad had just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: How did that affect your family? Um, it was pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: and it definitely brought us together. I because that was
Speaker 1: especially for me, Like, um, my brothers had already gone
Speaker 1: out and been like doing their own, Like I'm living alone.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, making away from myself and as an adult.
Speaker 1: But I had just graduated from college, and so I
Speaker 1: was kind of that was the time when I should
Speaker 1: have gone out and be like moved somewhere and just
Speaker 1: lived on my own and started, you know, figuring out
Speaker 1: what I'm doing with my life. But I kind of
Speaker 1: just the responsibility and honor and privilege fell on me
Speaker 1: to help my mom take care of my dad. Um,
Speaker 1: so I just kind of said, I'm going to ride
Speaker 1: this out. I'm gonna just because Dad's not gonna be
Speaker 1: around forever. I'm just gonna I can go off and
Speaker 1: be an adult anytime I want, but this is the
Speaker 1: time that I'm going to be a daughter. Sorry. You
Speaker 1: and your dad really close? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. I lived
Speaker 1: with them. I guess I've lived with them my whole life,
Speaker 1: save like one or two years in college and the
Speaker 1: year I moved to Nashville. But um, I'm just it
Speaker 1: was it's such an honor to know him, and I
Speaker 1: really you like feel the reverence of how impactful your
Speaker 1: father has been. Yeah, definitely, and that that definitely helped
Speaker 1: being on tour and seeing the reaction of the fans
Speaker 1: to him and and how powerful his show was in
Speaker 1: his music. But yeah, as a daughter, it was it
Speaker 1: was really great too. It's a privilege to live with
Speaker 1: him and take care of him. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: beautiful Yeah, thank you. And he's had like nine number
Speaker 1: one albums. Is that it is probably? I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: so many huge songs. He is the Rhinestone cowboy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it ever weird being his daughter? Did you
Speaker 1: ever be like, holy sh it? My dad's like superstar
Speaker 1: legend or was it just it was pretty normal. He
Speaker 1: raised us to be pretty down to earth. Um, Like,
Speaker 1: we grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, so not in Hollywood
Speaker 1: where everyone was going to know and mostly it was
Speaker 1: people's parents that would freak out about him. So like
Speaker 1: my friends in in elementary school and everything, I was
Speaker 1: just Ashley, you know. They were like, who's that? Oh?
Speaker 1: Your dad was Rocketdoodle that rooster cool? You know. So
Speaker 1: it worked out okay. So then you get to Nashville
Speaker 1: after you go on the Goodbye tour that ends, and
Speaker 1: you moved straight to Nashville. I did, Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: decided to move to Nashville? Well, I had already started
Speaker 1: working with a manager out here, t K kimbrell Um
Speaker 1: with t k O Artist Management, and so he was
Speaker 1: before I moved out here after the Goodbye tour. He
Speaker 1: had started looking around first my brother Shannon and I
Speaker 1: to get a publishing deal with our duo. Um. So
Speaker 1: we we auditioned for a couple of publishing companies and
Speaker 1: ended up getting a deal offer from Warner Chapel, which
Speaker 1: is a big deal because huge deal getting a publishing deal,
Speaker 1: and I've been interviewing a lot of interesting, amazing people.
Speaker 1: It is a really hard thing because that means you
Speaker 1: are a great songwriter. No one's going to sign you
Speaker 1: just because you know, you come from a cool family
Speaker 1: and you play instruments. You actually have to be great
Speaker 1: at writing songs. So that's amazing. You clearly have a talent.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I feel incredibly blessed, especially now that I've
Speaker 1: been in Nashville for almost three years and writing songs
Speaker 1: for Warner Chapel and getting to know their crew and
Speaker 1: like writing with all these other amazing songwriters, because I'm
Speaker 1: still relatively new at songwriting. So even as much as
Speaker 1: I've learned in the last three years, looking back and
Speaker 1: when I auditioned for Warner Chapel, I can't believe they
Speaker 1: signed me. I'm like, wow, I just yeah, like I
Speaker 1: learned so much. I'm like, thanks for signing me, thanks
Speaker 1: for believing in me. That's amazing. About three years okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and has it felt like a family. Absolutely, They're wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm just I feel like I'm totally on the A team.
Speaker 1: I just love them so much, so proud of them.
Speaker 1: Like for the last two years they've gotten publisher of
Speaker 1: the Year at the ASKAP Awards, so real, Like, so,
Speaker 1: do you like co writing, because that's a big deal
Speaker 1: in Nashville to co write. I love co writing. Um,
Speaker 1: my favorite way to do it is to start a
Speaker 1: song on my own, like get get the idea that
Speaker 1: I know the direction I want to go in, and
Speaker 1: then when I hit a roadblock, I like to go
Speaker 1: in and present it to a co writer and they
Speaker 1: can often open doors that I wouldn't have seen. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you like to go in with that kind of
Speaker 1: like a melody and lyrical idea or is it generally
Speaker 1: or something you know, It just depends, but that's my
Speaker 1: favorite way. I think. Do you like to see the
Speaker 1: full like do you have to have a concept for
Speaker 1: the song or can you just start chiseling away, Like
Speaker 1: do you need to see the end? Or can you
Speaker 1: start and kind of just walk into the dark wall
Speaker 1: of what the song will be. It's different every time,
Speaker 1: it really is. Like some sometimes you'll be writing a
Speaker 1: song and you'll be stuck on this one part and
Speaker 1: then like say like, okay, we have this awesome pre chorus,
Speaker 1: we don't know what the chorus is going to be,
Speaker 1: and then you work trying to create a course that
Speaker 1: is cooler than the pre chorus, and then you go, well,
Speaker 1: how about the prechorus? Is the chorus? It's crazy? So
Speaker 1: it's it's fun. You just kind of have to be
Speaker 1: open to changing things. So last night we're the Grammys
Speaker 1: and your family is a part of an amazing documentary
Speaker 1: about your dad called Glenn Campbell. I'll be Me And
Speaker 1: I watched the trailer for that. I want to see
Speaker 1: the whole movie. You should definitely watch. It looks incredible.
Speaker 1: So how was that movie and how is being a
Speaker 1: part of it? And he wrote a song which is
Speaker 1: has been a single for you and it's also on
Speaker 1: the soundtrack that Want a Grammy last Night. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: right about all that. Um So yeah, the documentary follows
Speaker 1: um my dad and us on his Goodbye tour. So
Speaker 1: he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in two thousand eleven, and
Speaker 1: these amazing filmmakers Jame Keach, James Keach and Trevor albert
Speaker 1: Um wanted to make a documentary following us on the tour,
Speaker 1: and so they started out and they thought it was
Speaker 1: just gonna be like two weeks and it's done, And
Speaker 1: then it turned into this huge thing. Two years later,
Speaker 1: A hundred and fifty one shows. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: played for Congress in in Washington, d C. I get
Speaker 1: to speak before Congress on behalf of Alzheimer's. What did
Speaker 1: you do when you were speaking before Congress? Like? What
Speaker 1: was that? Scary? I think it was called a testimony.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of just like saying my part
Speaker 1: on why I think Alzheimers Alzheimer's should get more research money.
Speaker 1: Why did you say that? What was your reason? Well? Um,
Speaker 1: even now, Alzheimer's, um, like brain diseases in general get
Speaker 1: just a fraction of the money that say, like diseases
Speaker 1: like AIDS or cancer get you know, um, and that's
Speaker 1: just the whole thing. So Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and dimension
Speaker 1: anything with the brain, that's just like in the millions
Speaker 1: versus like AIDS and cancer in the billions. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, um, And you know, I mean, all
Speaker 1: disease really sucks, but like AIDS is livable, you can
Speaker 1: live with it. It's you know, but so let's let's
Speaker 1: start saving people's lives again with getting rid of Parkinson's
Speaker 1: and Alzheimer's. You know. So I really think the allocation
Speaker 1: of money needs to be seriously thought about. So what
Speaker 1: happens with Alzheimer's. I haven't really, like, known very much
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, and that's what the documentary. That's the
Speaker 1: great thing about the documentary, UM, is that even though
Speaker 1: it's so sad and that it's following someone with Alzheimer's, UM,
Speaker 1: it opens up the world of Alzheimer's to a lot
Speaker 1: of people who otherwise wouldn't have known anything about it.
Speaker 1: Like before my dad got Alzheimers, I didn't anything about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen movies where like The Notebook where
Speaker 1: she's just this nice old lady and she doesn't remember stuff,
Speaker 1: and then he tells her story and she's totally back
Speaker 1: to normal for a couple of minutes, and then she's
Speaker 1: back to not really you know, but the real, dirty,
Speaker 1: grungy truth about Alzheimer's people don't know about. So UM,
Speaker 1: you ask, what is the truth? Um? Alzheimer's takes away
Speaker 1: more than your memory. It takes away your ability to
Speaker 1: function of the human beings. So UM, you don't just oh,
Speaker 1: you're my best friend. I forget who you are, but
Speaker 1: I can still make my coffee and brush my teeth.
Speaker 1: You forget how Eventually, if you live with Alzheimer's long enough,
Speaker 1: you forget how to breathe, you forget how to swallow,
Speaker 1: and that's how you die from Alzheimer's. But um, your
Speaker 1: brain doesn't naturally do that. You can't dress yourself, you
Speaker 1: can't do anything, you can't use the bathroom. Um, so
Speaker 1: it just it gets super hard. And a lot of
Speaker 1: the times, the real victims are the people caring for
Speaker 1: people with Alzheimer's, and that's another big issue. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of an incredible platform. Not only is your
Speaker 1: dad an incredible musician who's touched the world with his music,
Speaker 1: he's also bringing huge awareness to all Alzheimer's. Absolutely, and
Speaker 1: um see one of the first big stars to publicly
Speaker 1: fight this battle. I think he is. Yeah, you feel
Speaker 1: kind of proud that this is part of his legacy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wish it wasn't, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and I'm super proud that
Speaker 1: he decided to be a pioneer for the cause. And
Speaker 1: because a lot of people there have been, you know,
Speaker 1: famous people that have gotten Alzheimer's, but they kind of
Speaker 1: just chose to disappear and keep it private, which is
Speaker 1: totally their prerogative, you know. Um, and there's no shame
Speaker 1: in that either. But a lot of people really need
Speaker 1: their voices heard. Um. So my dad really stepped up
Speaker 1: there and showed the world what people were going through.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people who saw the film who
Speaker 1: are going through Alzheimer's with a loved one or have Alzheimer's,
Speaker 1: they were like, thank you so much for sharing my story.
Speaker 1: Because my dad's story is means of people's stories you
Speaker 1: know that wasn't told before. So it's really really an
Speaker 1: honor to be a part of that and help my
Speaker 1: dad with them. Did he make a conscious decision? Liked it.
Speaker 1: Was there a point where he was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going for this, I'm gonna just talk about it. He did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: He's just very honest and he wanted to it all.
Speaker 1: I think it all started with he he got the
Speaker 1: diagnosis and he wanted to keep touring. He he felt
Speaker 1: totally fine. He didn't want to stop touring just because
Speaker 1: he got diagnosed with Alzheimer's. So he's just like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be honest with my fans and everyone and
Speaker 1: and just do my thing, you know, and if I
Speaker 1: mess up, they'll forgive me and he want a Grammy.
Speaker 1: Right when this all happened, didn't he do a song
Speaker 1: or was it the band Period that covered his song?
Speaker 1: Or he the band Period covered his song Gental on
Speaker 1: my Mind they want to Grammy with it. And then
Speaker 1: he and his producer Julian Raymond Um, who did the
Speaker 1: soundtrack album for I'll Be Me Um, they wrote a
Speaker 1: song together Um, which was really Julian taking things that
Speaker 1: my dad had said and like putting together the lyrics
Speaker 1: and then showing them to my dad and you know,
Speaker 1: getting his okay, and like, how do you like this
Speaker 1: core progression because my dad he wrote, he helped Julian
Speaker 1: write a Grammy winning song with full blown Alzheimer's. Like
Speaker 1: that's talent, you know. So that's pretty cool. So he
Speaker 1: wanted Grammy last year for that and a couple In
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award
Speaker 1: Grammy and we got to perform on the Grammys in
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, and that was that one of
Speaker 1: the best experiences of my life. So, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: in the band. I just played banjo. Oh photo you
Speaker 1: want to say, he's quiet, rubbed my ear sesus. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: so I was in the band, and um. It was
Speaker 1: really cool because it was kind of like a little
Speaker 1: compilation medley. So we had Blake Shelton singing Southern Nights
Speaker 1: and the band Perry singing General in my Mind. Um,
Speaker 1: and then my dad came out and sing rhyin Stone
Speaker 1: Cowboy and remember that. It was so much fun. And
Speaker 1: it was also for those of us in my dad's
Speaker 1: band and not just the people that were hired for
Speaker 1: the Grammys. We were just like, oh my god, what's
Speaker 1: he gonna do, you know, because he's not used to
Speaker 1: sing the teleprompter way out there in the middle of
Speaker 1: the crowd, which is how it is at the Grammys,
Speaker 1: because he needed a teleprompter, And so we were like,
Speaker 1: is he going to go out there and see all
Speaker 1: these thousands of people and just totally get sidetracked, and
Speaker 1: because it could, because he might, Yeah, exactly. But it
Speaker 1: was so amazing. He just went out there and he
Speaker 1: sang the song and played to the crowd like any
Speaker 1: other show. It was amazing. But that's brave too on
Speaker 1: his part, just to go out there and be like,
Speaker 1: like you said, if I mess up, people forgive me,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you know. And then it's funny in the
Speaker 1: in the documentary, his friend Dante, who takes him golfing
Speaker 1: all the time. Um, was the day after the Grammys,
Speaker 1: I think, taking him golfing, and there's footage of him
Speaker 1: in the car and his friends like, Hey, congratulations on
Speaker 1: winning your Grammy yesterday, and he's like, what it's like,
Speaker 1: you want a Grammy yesterday? Oh yeah, I guess I did.
Speaker 1: That's all. Yeah, so, and that's all in the documentary
Speaker 1: it is yeah, okay, So Julian who wrote the song
Speaker 1: that won the Grammy. What was that song called. It's
Speaker 1: called I'm Not going to Miss You? I'm not what's
Speaker 1: that about? I think, Um, that's cool and powerful song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of brings brings me into my song, and
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about how it relates because
Speaker 1: it's kind of the opposite of my song, but they
Speaker 1: kind of go together like a puzzle piece show the
Speaker 1: two sides of the songs. Okay, So, my dad's song
Speaker 1: I'm Not going to Miss You is basically from the
Speaker 1: perspective of someone with Alzheimer's saying, Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't I'm losing memory. I don't remember you. So I
Speaker 1: don't miss you, but know that I'm okay and I
Speaker 1: want you to be okay and that makes you feel Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then my song which is called Remembering, which is
Speaker 1: kind of the opposite saying like you don't remember anymore,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to take care of you and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do the remembering for you. Wow. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we didn't even plan that. That's really that's a really
Speaker 1: big powerful moment. Yeah, definitely. And you I said, I
Speaker 1: read that you said that with this song. It took
Speaker 1: you several rounds to write this song and like a
Speaker 1: while because like you knew it was something special. You
Speaker 1: knew you had something, and you wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: it's perfect. Definitely. Um, this was This is an example
Speaker 1: of song my type of songwriting where I have just
Speaker 1: kind of a general idea. I didn't even know what
Speaker 1: I wanted to say at first, but I knew this
Speaker 1: song was going to be about my dad and that
Speaker 1: I really wanted to get it right. So I started
Speaker 1: writing like right after the tour got over. Um, and
Speaker 1: I was still at my parents house in Malibu, and
Speaker 1: I started playing this initial guitar riff, which is like
Speaker 1: a descending sea riff and the first line popped into
Speaker 1: my head four years old, running up the stairs to
Speaker 1: your bed, and I was like, Okay, this is cool.
Speaker 1: So where does this story go? And I just, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of played with it a little bit and I
Speaker 1: just decided to record it into my phone and hold
Speaker 1: it for another day and think about it, because like
Speaker 1: I do a lot of writing in my car. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll record something and i'll play it and I'll just
Speaker 1: sing while I'm driving. Um. But so I just like
Speaker 1: lived with it for a little while, and then I
Speaker 1: moved to Nashville a couple of months later, and I
Speaker 1: went into write with my good friend Ky Welch, and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I've got this song. And he's he's
Speaker 1: such a brilliant lyricist and he's got such a good
Speaker 1: musical sensibility. Um, we just it just happened that day.
Speaker 1: We just got together and I was like, this song
Speaker 1: and we just wrote it and went to lunch. So
Speaker 1: it came out fast, it did. Yeah, did you feel
Speaker 1: like it was like a gift, like it was meant
Speaker 1: to be written? I think so, yeah, And exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I just I wasn't even thinking like, oh I can't
Speaker 1: got to get a song on the radio, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm gonna write this song. This
Speaker 1: song needs to be written. Um So, and that was
Speaker 1: your first single. It was Yeah, I never would have
Speaker 1: dreamed that you, which leads you to you signed a
Speaker 1: freaking major label record deal with Dig Machine. You're on
Speaker 1: Dot Record. Big Machine is Taylor Swift's label, so it's
Speaker 1: prime time badass label. How did that make you feel?
Speaker 1: And how did that happen? That's a huge accomplishment. Man. Um.
Speaker 1: I was kind of doing my own thing and writing
Speaker 1: and things like that, and um gosh, um, I guess.
Speaker 1: Um So, Scott Borchetta was going to do put up this. Yes,
Speaker 1: Scott Borshetta runs Big Machine, and he was going to
Speaker 1: put out the soundtrack for the documentary and so I think, um,
Speaker 1: and my song Remembering was going to be on the soundtrack.
Speaker 1: I think it was already in the movie. So I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of how he So he kind of
Speaker 1: found you, he kind of noticed me. Yeah. But before that,
Speaker 1: I had worked with Big Machine a little bit. I
Speaker 1: was the banjo player in the Rascal Flats music video Banjo.
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Facebook message. I got a Facebook
Speaker 1: message from some UM agent scout and they were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're looking for female banjo players for Rascal Flats music video.
Speaker 1: Do you have any footage? And I sent him a
Speaker 1: video of me playing duing banjo's with my dad and
Speaker 1: and I got a message back, like a couple of
Speaker 1: hours later, like you got it. Yeah, so your dad
Speaker 1: plays banjo too? Um no, no, no no, he he did guitar,
Speaker 1: but he actually did play banjo back in the day.
Speaker 1: He was pretty badass. Okay, So you had been on
Speaker 1: a Rascal Flats music video. Is the hot banjo player? Yes?
Speaker 1: And that was with Big Machines, So I I UM,
Speaker 1: I met Sandy Borschetta, which is who was Scott's wife
Speaker 1: UM on that project, and so that was kind of
Speaker 1: my first introduction to Big Machine. I was just so
Speaker 1: excited to be a part of it. And then um
Speaker 1: and then yeah, so my my song was going to
Speaker 1: be on the soundtrack, and so Scott Borchetta called me
Speaker 1: in to play a couple of songs for him in
Speaker 1: the office, and then he came and saw a show
Speaker 1: that my brother Shannon and I were doing. And then
Speaker 1: shortly after that, Um, I was offered a record deal
Speaker 1: with his new um label, Branch Dot Records. I have
Speaker 1: to say Steven Tyler's on the label. Steven Tyler is
Speaker 1: my label mate. I have met him and he has
Speaker 1: given me a long, deep neck hug. I guess my
Speaker 1: hair smelled good. So have you played some shows with
Speaker 1: some cool people? Yeah? Absolutely, Um, just a couple of
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I got to open a show
Speaker 1: for Maddie and Tay. Who are these super talented, sweet
Speaker 1: girls with some awesome songs. Don't you feel like it's
Speaker 1: kind of the rise of the female right now in
Speaker 1: country music. I feel like there's this rumble happening or
Speaker 1: it's like everyone wants females back on the radio. I
Speaker 1: definitely hope so um, Yeah there's part of this movement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope so um. There's a lot of badass chicks
Speaker 1: out there, um, with all different kinds of styles and
Speaker 1: things like that. Like it's just really cool to see,
Speaker 1: you know, Like there's the badass chick, there's the sweet chick,
Speaker 1: there's the like vocal powerhouse chick coming up, and like
Speaker 1: then there's me all weird in the corner. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: how okay? You're not weird in the corner. How would
Speaker 1: you describe yourself musically? Um, I'm about to go in
Speaker 1: and record some more songs, so um, I would describe, Um,
Speaker 1: my songwriting and what I want my my sound to
Speaker 1: eventually be is kind of like uh, edgy roots cie vibe,
Speaker 1: you know, with um some grit. Okay, if you had,
Speaker 1: like to say, a few musical icons that you look
Speaker 1: up to, who would be musically like that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to emulate, but that you like respect and you
Speaker 1: love their vibe absolutely. Um, it would be like, um,
Speaker 1: Stevie Nicks, She's awesome, Dolly parton and mixed in with
Speaker 1: a little bit of l King. Yeah, I'm on board
Speaker 1: with that and I love that. So you just recently
Speaker 1: played the Grand Old Operty. I did, yes for the
Speaker 1: second time. That's a big deal. I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: be a part of that because that's the mother church
Speaker 1: of country music. Like, I feel like when you get
Speaker 1: the invitation to play the Grand Old Operate, it's like
Speaker 1: you're legit. You have you know you you are, like
Speaker 1: you're in the club. Yeah, you have to work hard,
Speaker 1: but like to get an invitation means you're not just
Speaker 1: like doing it for fun. It was really cool and um,
Speaker 1: the awesome thing about coming back and playing a second
Speaker 1: time was that, you know, it's all the same people
Speaker 1: in the same crew, and so you all you honestly
Speaker 1: just feel like a family member coming back. They're like, hey, Ashley,
Speaker 1: what's up? Oh you like this and this with your
Speaker 1: stage setup and blah blah blah. So it's really cool,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Which songs did you play so for this time?
Speaker 1: I played? Um, I played some new songs. I played
Speaker 1: a song called had a Few, which is like a
Speaker 1: really fun, drinking, sexy song. What's your favorite drink of choice? Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I think when I'm really thrown down, it's
Speaker 1: just straight whiskey. Yeah. I don't like to mix it
Speaker 1: with anything. I like to taste what I'm drinking and
Speaker 1: know exactly how it's gonna make me feel. How does
Speaker 1: whiskey make you feel? Um? Badass, strong and badass. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come up and talk to you and pull you
Speaker 1: unto the dance floor, heal you, and I'm gonna rub
Speaker 1: coconut oil all over you. Okay, so no too self.
Speaker 1: Who ever goes on a date would actually get her
Speaker 1: some whiskey. You have to make me laugh first, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want the coconut oil and not the nervous laughter,
Speaker 1: not that it's funny, like fake yeah, that fake nervous laughter. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So you played that I had a Few. It's called
Speaker 1: had a Few, Had a Few, and then I played
Speaker 1: Remembering Love, and then I played a new song that
Speaker 1: I wrote called Cry, which is like, I think that's
Speaker 1: my like boom song, Like, hey, this is actually Campbell. Okay,
Speaker 1: tell me about Cry. So this is like introducing Ashley Campbell,
Speaker 1: I think, so, yes, break it down for me, girl,
Speaker 1: all right. So Cry is a song, um about like
Speaker 1: when you get broken up with and you don't want
Speaker 1: to be broken up with and so you're really sad
Speaker 1: and the other the guy seems totally fine and you're
Speaker 1: just like, didn't I mean anything to you? And so
Speaker 1: the song, like the lyrics is, um, I hope you're
Speaker 1: crying in your bedroom. I hope you're just putting on
Speaker 1: a show. So it's like cry cry for me. I
Speaker 1: want to see you bleed. You just kind of want
Speaker 1: to see them in a little bit of pain so
Speaker 1: that you know that your pain is legitimate. You know, yes,
Speaker 1: is this based on a true story? It might be
Speaker 1: someone would break your heart a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: cannot even believe that. Yeah it happens. No, No, okay,
Speaker 1: we haven't met you the right guy yet, because girl,
Speaker 1: you are the whole package. He must not have been
Speaker 1: a man yet. Maybe not he was. He was just
Speaker 1: a boy. He was just a boy. There's just a
Speaker 1: Peter Pan exactly. There's a lot of those in Nashville. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: They just haven't quite grown everywhere. They're everywhere, they are everywhere.
Speaker 1: What do you what is a Peter Pan exactly? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: just someone who just doesn't know what they want. They
Speaker 1: just don't want to settle down. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I want to settle down right now, but someone who's
Speaker 1: afraid to make a commitment, right Yeah, Peter Pan just
Speaker 1: flies away. Yeah nope. So tell me about your fashion
Speaker 1: style because you always look hands sound fabulous. What do
Speaker 1: you what's your go to vibe? Well? Um, my go
Speaker 1: to pieces are like some skin tight skinny jeans. You
Speaker 1: got those legs, thank you those legs. Bow Days, skin
Speaker 1: tight skinny jeans, a comfy T shirt and a black
Speaker 1: leather jacket. Okay, some ankle boots. Yeah, like badass entering
Speaker 1: the room. Yeah, that's my go to pieces. And what
Speaker 1: are you most excited about for mm hmmm. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about making an album. Okay, do you have an idea
Speaker 1: of the songs you want on the album? I do
Speaker 1: all of them, all all the maybe one. So I'm
Speaker 1: super excited and I'm I'm writing my album. I'm writing
Speaker 1: every song. So what is the range of the songs, Like,
Speaker 1: what do they span from? It spans from everything to
Speaker 1: just from fun like drinking too like super serious, like
Speaker 1: my heart's broken and I'm watching you walk away with
Speaker 1: her into the sunset with her. Yeah, so I get
Speaker 1: pretty deep in in there. But um, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's just an honest album and it's a lot of
Speaker 1: autobiographical stuff. Okay, so every song has a little shred
Speaker 1: of truth in it. Yeah, definitely. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love off centic songs like that you really feel like
Speaker 1: the person singing means Yeah, exactly. Like I figured when
Speaker 1: I'm writing a song, like if I write about something
Speaker 1: that happened to me, the odds are it's happened to
Speaker 1: someone else because we're all kind of living within the
Speaker 1: same realm. We're all in this thing together, in the
Speaker 1: same realm of heartbreak. Yeah. Is it scary to put
Speaker 1: yourself out there in a song and be vulnerable and
Speaker 1: kind of like say that out loud sometimes? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm just hoping that the person that I wrote them
Speaker 1: about doesn't feel too bad or feels terrible. Yeah. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: actually I want to wrap up. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being on my show. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: It's always fun chatting with you, it is, and we
Speaker 1: still have had a girl's night absolutely dinner. But I
Speaker 1: like to end my interviews with a little thing called
Speaker 1: leave your Light. So basically what that means is leave
Speaker 1: me some inspiration, something that inspires you, something that you
Speaker 1: want to inspire people with, some sort of inspiration. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: so I go. I've been going by this motto for
Speaker 1: the last year because a very close friend of mine
Speaker 1: who was like another father father figure, he passed away
Speaker 1: last year from pancretit cancer and um. But right before
Speaker 1: he went, when he was staying with us, he was
Speaker 1: a chef and we would always leave dirty dishes in
Speaker 1: the kitchen and stuff, and he'd get really annoyed, and
Speaker 1: so he put up this cardboard heart on the fridge
Speaker 1: and he wrote in sharpie, leave everything better than you
Speaker 1: found it. And so after he passed away, I kind
Speaker 1: of kept that heart and I've been applying it towards
Speaker 1: everything I do in life. So like, even from from
Speaker 1: like oh there's piece of trash on the ground, pick
Speaker 1: it up, pick it up, or all the way to like,
Speaker 1: oh you're not feeling so great today, How can I
Speaker 1: leave you better than I found you? You know? Actually,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of my inspiration right now. So you
Speaker 1: are going out of your way to do a little
Speaker 1: more good. Yeah, exactly. Like when I get a selfish
Speaker 1: thought like well I don't want to hang with you
Speaker 1: and make you feel better, I want to go in
Speaker 1: my room and watch Netflix, I'll say, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's that's not going to help anyone. So just little
Speaker 1: things like that all the way to big big things,
Speaker 1: you know, just anything you do, you kind of just
Speaker 1: use that motto as a mantra. Okay, So not only
Speaker 1: are you amazingly talented incredible, you have a sweetheart too.
Speaker 1: On top of it, I mean, are you real I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pinch you? Yeah, there you are. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for eating. Thank you girl, Carala, She's a queen
Speaker 1: of talking. She's on the inside. She got the stoop
Speaker 1: on no one can do with Caral Carala. I hope
Speaker 1: you guys loved hearing from Ashley Campbell. She is such
Speaker 1: a little angel and Ray of Sunshine next week is
Speaker 1: an incredible episode because I have a world famous, world
Speaker 1: renowned producer, Tony Brown. This dude has produced over a
Speaker 1: hundred number one songs. He has over a hundred million
Speaker 1: album sales. All the artists that he has produced combined
Speaker 1: have sold over a hundred million album of sales. That's insane.
Speaker 1: He's produced Reba, Vince Gale, George Straight Brooks, and Dunne,
Speaker 1: Tricia Yearwood, Rodney Crowd to name a few. He also
Speaker 1: did Lionel Ritchie's album that had all those duets with
Speaker 1: Blake Shelton, Jason Audene, Darius Drugger to McGraw. The list
Speaker 1: goes on. He's won a Grammy. He ran a record label,
Speaker 1: m c A Records, and he signed artists like He
Speaker 1: signed some of the coolest artists ever, like Lyle Lovett,
Speaker 1: Kelly Willis, Alison Moore, Rodney kraw Uh, the Mavericks. He's
Speaker 1: called the founding father of alternative Americana country music, and
Speaker 1: he played freaking piano with Elvis Presley and Emmy Lou Harris.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You are not gonna want to
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