WEBVTT - Love in a Music Video 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.400 What's up with Granger Smith? This is episode twelve. I'm 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.800 in Delaware and I'm about to play a show here 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.160 in about thirty minutes. But I thought, hey, I'm gonna 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.640 go ahead and start this episode twelve because I need to, 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.280 and I'm gonna finish it up this week in Virginia 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.280 and South Carolina. So many things to say. Where do 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.239 I start? This has been a wild summer. I know 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.120 I say that all the time, but we just finished 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.560 doing The Bachelorette. Jimmy Kimmel got back from Canada heading 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.040 to Australia. It's crazy. I just met someone in a 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.040 meet and greet line, and maybe the reason I'm doing 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.920 this podcast now is because of this. But I met 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.080 this girl and she brought me a amazing gift. She 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.240 made me a pickle jar, which symbolizes the old days 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.960 of when I used to use pickle jars as tip 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.920 jars on the stage. So this unique picklejar that she 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.560 made me has a collage all over it with all 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.920 the different stories that I've set on these podcasts in 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.560 the past, which is amazing. I mean, she included everything. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.120 Her name is Brittany Baltzer, and she put a note 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.280 inside the pickle Jar and it says, after listening to 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.120 your podcast, I felt a deeper connection with your music 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.080 because I understand the work that it took to get 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.959 you to where you are today. Thank you, Brittany. I 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.680 hope that you know by your words that you wrote 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.480 to me, this is exactly why I started this podcast 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.520 to get a better connection with the fans. That is awesome. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.360 People have been asking me to continue the story that 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.000 I started a couple of episodes ago, and it was 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.240 the timeline of my career. When I was working on 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.720 Maya Don't Listen to the Radio album. That was an 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.720 important time for me, most importantly because that's when I 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.880 met my wife Amber. It was actually for the music 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.320 video of that song Don't Listen to the Radio. So Yes, 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.919 one of the things I want to talk about today 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.480 is that story. It's a huge part of who I am. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.880 I also want to talk about something that has been 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.360 so fun for me to work on this last ten 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.200 twelve months, and that is this brand new Earl Divils 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.560 Junior book. It's called If Your City, If Your Country? 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.799 Did you know I was working on that because I've 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.720 kept it a secret, and this thing is finally ready 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.320 to launch and depending on when you hear this podcast, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.320 Hey maybe it's already out there. I want to talk 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.560 about that. And I also want to remind you that 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.440 on every one of these podcasts, if you need me 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.440 to answer a question, if you have some kind of 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.240 burning question you want me to answer, go to social 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.880 media hashtag Granger Smith podcast ask your question. I could 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.280 search for them and I could start to answer. Here's 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.480 one right here. This is from Twitter from Tracy Heffernan, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.600 and it says, I wonder how many songs do you 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.520 write that we don't ever get to hear? That's a 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.360 great question. And right after that, there's one from Kara 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.080 and Jesse on Twitter. It says, was we got it 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.200 among the songs not chosen for the album? When the 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.880 good guys win? If so, why? And will fans ever 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.120 get to hear the songs that didn't make the cut? Now, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.000 those two questions are very similar and they deserve a 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:16.600 good answer. Forty anchors, cotton field pasture, square veils, and 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.120 a barn with a tractor, ten point buck rilling, dove 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.919 on wires, let on the tires, Friday night fires Man. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.640 If you're looking for some home cooking here's some chickens, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.959 light a chair up in the kitchen, Mama get tea 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:36.720 on the fix, and we got it. We got it all. Yeah, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:43.000 we got it, We got it all. We're out our, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.440 tipping a fifth and picking. The kids are just watching 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:55.040 the stars fall. Yeah, we got it. We got it all. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.520 So the real think on why do some songs make 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.640 the cut on an album and others don't is there's 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.280 too many songs. By the way, sorry, I finished the 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.240 show in Delaware. I'm sitting on the back of my 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.040 bus and now the engine is running, so there might 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.880 be a rumble, But yeah, that's the answer. There's too 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.760 many songs that I've written, and when I put an 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.400 album together, I can't put thirty two songs on an album. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.560 And it doesn't really have to do with the best 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:32.400 songs win. Unfortunately, it's usually every album needs certain moments, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.239 it needs to be a roller coaster, and you can't 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.440 have too many of the same kind of songs. Now, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.720 all of this is just my opinion, but unfortunately, then 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.600 you get a bunch of songs that are left over 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.279 that didn't make the album, and then I have to 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.720 figure out what am I going to do with them? Now, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.080 one idea is I could tease some of them right 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.760 here on this podcast. In fact, do you want me 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.200 to play you a song I wrote that I love 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.960 that actually did not make when the good guys win. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.200 Now that doesn't mean that it's not gonna come out 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.839 in the world one day, but I just don't know 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:19.560 how yet. This one's called I'm a fan. I'm a 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.680 fan of a three on the tree too, tone Chevron they. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.120 I'm a fan of a Friday night right after rag 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.640 get paid. I'm a fan of Rangler jeans. It's guffed 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:36.479 up red wing boot just like I'm a fan of you. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.600 I'm a fan of a farmer shop and broken beef 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.719 store calves, rolling around with the wind is down, and 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.520 the spelling of fresh cut grass. I'm a fan of 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:58.600 a rocking chair Sunday afternoon, just like I'm a fan 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:04.480 of OI. Heard you setting my heart offside every test, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:12.000 taking me high? Who Star I l I'm riding in 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:18.600 that run again. Don't want to end. Thank you, fan, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:29.559 I'm a fan you. If you have comments questions about 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.320 this podcast, go to social media hashtag Granger Smith podcast. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:35.919 All right, this is an announcement I've been waiting to 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.119 make for a long time. I have a brand new 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.640 book out, well, technically, Earl Dibbles Junior has a brand 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.520 new book out. It's called If Your City, If You're Country, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.839 and This Ladies and Gentlemen, is a coffee table book 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.400 with many pictures of a cartoon version of Earl acting 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.000 out these scenarios so that you, if you are in doubt, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.800 can tell the difference. Are you city or are you country? 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.320 You know what? Let me let Earl explain a few 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.320 of these pages for you. Fast food if your city, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.920 fast food is perfect. If you're in a big herd 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.880 to eat. If your country, fast food is not perfect. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.400 If you're in a big herd to eat, avoid deer 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.800 and stick with slower foods like turtles. Browsing the web. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.440 If your city, you can browse the web for all 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:28.280 sorts of things shopping, games, sports, dating. If your country, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.440 you could browse the web for all sorts of things flies, moths, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:38.520 june bugs, grasshoppers. Apartment If your city, an apartment is 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.760 one of the only places you could live. There's no 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.360 houses in the city. If your country. Sometimes chewing tobacco 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:50.120 is better mixed together apart winter green and apartment four 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.520 oh one k. If your city and you need a 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.000 retirement plan, get a four to oh one K. If 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.760 your country and you need directions to the field party, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.000 go about a mile past the cree across the cattle guard, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.960 then turn left on County Road four oh one. Okay, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.080 all right, so you get the idea of how these 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.280 jokes are going to go. And we had an absolute 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.240 blast making this thing, and I'm really proud of it. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.960 You could pre order it right now on Amazon dot 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.800 Com or you could order it on Amazon depending on 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.520 when you're listening to this podcast. Now. The book's gonna 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.880 come with a CD inside it that has all of 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.640 Earl Dibbles Junior's music on it. I hope that you 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.880 guys grab a copy, and I hope it makes you smile. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.520 So I've moved now since I've done this podcast, I'm 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.000 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and I have been writing all day. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.959 I have some buddies on the road writing some songs, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.000 and I've just finished the show and I'm not tired 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.120 at all, so I figured, why not do this podcast 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.800 until I get too sleepy. This has been a fun day. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.880 I woke up early and I went with the local 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.520 radio station. We went and toured Fredericksburg a little bit 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.640 because it's a very historic town and I'm also a 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.600 huge history buff. Did you know that I love all 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.760 kinds of history? That was my major at Texas A 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.840 and M. And I love the Civil War and there 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.440 is a lot of Civil War history in this town. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.720 So I went and saw some battlefields for about an 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.320 hour and a half before I came back to this venue. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.040 And by the way, great fans in Virginia, you guys 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.000 represent ye nations so well. I love seeing all that 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.200 EEE apparel, hats and T shirts. It makes me feel welcome, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.640 you know. Speaking of history, I want to talk about 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.960 my history a little bit. And as I've said before, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.959 the whole purpose of this podcast for me is for 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.880 a more personal relationship with the fans, because you hear 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.000 me on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook, and this is 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.000 the time you could hear the whole story from me, right, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.000 just me by myself back of my bus, telling you 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.160 the comp leat picture. So a few episodes ago I 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.960 left off with my story. About two thousand and eight nine, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.679 my brother Tyler becomes my manager and I'm making an 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.439 album called Don't Listen to the radio, and I should 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.240 lead into where that title came from, where that album 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.680 came from. And that, by the way, is a huge 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.800 album for me. It really it took me from one 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.440 level to the next and put me on the map 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.960 in Texas country music. It was about this time I 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.120 was writing songs and someone had told me. They said, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.400 you know what the big guys do in Nashville is 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.560 they go and they listen to a bunch of songs 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.800 from a publisher. They'll play you, you know, some of 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.640 their best songs, some of the songs that they think 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.200 are good for you, and you could take one of 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.800 them and you could record it for your album. And 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.000 I thought, well, that sounds pretty cool. I've never done 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.360 anything like that. So I flew to Nashville. I set 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.040 up this meeting with a publisher and they didn't know 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.320 who I was, but they were doing their job and 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.000 they were great playing me some songs. And when I left, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.080 he gave me a CD to take home with me 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.360 so that I can go home and kind of soak 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:05.840 in some of these songs and see if I liked 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.680 any for myself. And I remember going home and I 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.360 was driving around in my truck and I was listening 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.480 to this CD and there was so many songs about 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.760 breaking up with a girl and how depressed the guy was, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.599 and I remember thinking, right then, I thought, popped in 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.880 my head. Man, don't listen to the radio if you 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.880 got your heart broke, because it always knows exactly what 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.960 to play. And right then and there, through all of 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.959 those songs that I had listened to, I didn't take 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.840 any of them, but they inspired the title track to 0:11:34.920 --> 0:12:01.079 my next album. If you like to try fast, don't 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:06.320 listen to the Stay True, if you like to drink slow, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.240 don't listen to the Barton. If you don't like to 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:16.360 court her truth, don't listen to the six o'clock woods. Yeah, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:21.920 I've got a thigure too, my flirt, And don't listen 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:27.720 to the radio if you got your Heart Gone, because 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:33.880 it always knows exactly want to play. You're bounding your 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:40.360 lesson for noveling you she's gone because you did a 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:47.760 wrong and troll for away. Don't you do to get 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.920 a buy of your heads? You don't, But wherever you go, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:58.000 don't listen to the radio. So this is another album 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.959 that I made right out of my house in College State, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.520 Texas with my band, and by now this is my 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.520 second album to record myself, and so I was getting 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.200 a little bit better. But I also really loved to 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.480 do it, to produce these things out of my house. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.880 All of these songs were written by myself except for 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.439 one co write, and that was with ironically, Chris Lee, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.160 who's now my tour manager and back then he was 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.720 just a friend of mine. We did it over Skype. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.360 It was a song called long Way Home. A lot 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.200 of these songs I just look at today and I 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.360 wish that more people knew them. And the reason that 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.000 we don't get to play a lot of these songs 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.600 live is very simple. People say, why don't you play 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.960 some of your older songs, Man, The answer is simple. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.120 I love performing, I love entertaining, I love connecting with 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.960 the crowd, and sometimes if I play these older songs, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.160 Let's face it, most of the time, if I pull 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.360 out one of these older songs, there might be one 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.440 or two people that know it in the crowd, but 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.040 then there's thousands of people that don't, and they're staring 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.400 at me like I'm a fish in a bowl, and 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.560 it's just not fun. I wish I was hipster enough 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.960 and artistic enough to say, Man, I don't care what 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.280 nobody thinks. I'm gonna play what I want to play. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.520 But the reality is I want to play what everyone 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.760 likes me to play, because then I'm having more fun, 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.400 and everybody's having more fun. There's more energy. That's the 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.520 long story, but there's I'm looking at this list right now. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.560 Don't listen to the radio, Pacific five more minutes, Superstitious seventeen, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.680 Cherry Lipstick, I almost am turning on dirty dishes, long 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.400 way home, Gypsy Rain, November never came this little house, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.600 unset letters. These are These are some of my favorite 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.360 songs that I've ever written. And who knows, maybe one 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.120 day one of these will get popular again and I'll 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.000 start playing it at my normal show. I'm just a booge. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.600 Then we kind of got getting better and better, getting 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.680 by just a good old one dotal ways around with me. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.800 I don't have much stead out in so much life 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:06.040 that takes the americaches to understand, but she takes me 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:16.320 by the head. You've never last before, the man almost. Hey, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.320 I know some of you are mad at what I 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.360 just said, aren't you? That riled you up a little 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.160 bit because you thought to yourself. Man, I don't care 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.600 about all those other people. Granger, I want you to 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.520 play some older songs. How about this? How about we 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.760 continue this conversation. How about one of these days I 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.760 do a throwback concert and I'll pick a city right 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.400 in the middle of America, and me and the band 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.600 will learn all these old songs, put them all together, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.960 and then we'll make a big Yee Nation throwback concert. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.280 Sound good. I think that'd be pretty cool. So when 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.400 we had to start thinking about how we're gonna launch 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.760 this album, the first thing we had to do was 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.040 pick the first single, because we were gonna pick a 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.560 first single and we're gonna launch that to Texas radio first. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.000 And the album wasn't even fit jet. But I knew 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.520 that Don't Listen to the Radio would be a great 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.360 lead single to this album. I had never done a 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.880 music video before, and I thought, you know, what'd be 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.600 really cool if we did a music video and launched 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.360 that and got this single cooking a little bit. I'll 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.240 finished the album and then we'll put that thing out there. Now. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.720 My keyboard player, Eric Barrera at the time his brother 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.040 Andrew Barrera, was a videographer, a really good one. He 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.520 had never done a music video. I hadn't either, but 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.120 we came together and we had this plan, like, hey, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.320 we could do this, we could film our own music video. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.200 Now looking back now, we were totally amateurs. We barely 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.480 even had an idea. We just we knew of this 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:48.760 old warehouse in Waco, Texas, and we decided to sorry, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.480 we decided to break into this place, okay, And it 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.560 was It was a beautiful old warehouse that had all 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:00.720 these really cool foggy windows or light came in and 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.400 it looked real misty and mysterious, and so we thought, okay, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.120 we could film part of the performance there. We could 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.199 film part of the performance up up on this mountain 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.159 overlooking the three sixty Bridge in Austin, Texas. And then 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.400 we can go to my ex keyboard player and one 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.000 of the godfathers of my band, Mitch Connell. We can 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.479 go to his house because he has a baller house 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.520 in Colleen, Texas, and we'll film the little story side 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.600 and me playing on his grand piano, which he had 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:36.000 this sweet baby grand piano in his house. We'll film that. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.120 The only thing missing in the scenario is my love interest. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.600 So we got to get a girl and she'll be 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.880 my girlfriend, and we'll act out this fight scene where 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.120 we break up, and then we'll have these looking back 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.240 on the memory scenes of us when we're actually in love, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.280 and that'll create the story of don't listen to the radio. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.000 We just didn't have a girl. So if you're an 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.760 amateur at making music video and you need a girl 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.840 for your love interest, what do you do? Yes, you 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.720 go to Craigslist. That's exactly what we did. We put 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.480 out an ad in Craigslist, the creepiest thing in the world, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.880 and it said country singer looking for a love interest 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:25.080 girlfriend for music video, and we had them submit pictures 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:30.399 and a little bio about themselves and then it's creepy 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.760 as hell, I know. But we had a meet at 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:37.920 a hotel in the conference room of a hotel in Austin, Texas, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.000 and we had I'm trying to remember. I think it 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.920 was like probably fifteen girls. And of course, as you 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.280 can imagine, there was a handful of girls that we 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.199 knew right away would not wouldn't make sense with me 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.440 on camera. And you really have no idea, according to Andrew, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.720 you have no idea what they're going to look like 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.199 in the music video to you get them on a 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.040 real camera. So that's why we had to meet them. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.960 We couldn't just go by the picture. We had to 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.119 meet him. So we brought them in there, and we 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.520 set up a little desk, you know, like we were 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.560 really official, and we were the most hack amateurs in 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.879 the world. We would meet and we're filming the whole thing. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.840 We did this all day, and I just had the 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.560 whole time, I had a bad feeling about it. Not 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.720 because the girls were bad, I just I never really 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.320 felt like any of those girls would be my girlfriend. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.640 And I realize, now that's the wrong way to approach 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.040 this whole thing. That's not the right way to do it. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.480 I mean, it doesn't have to really be my girlfriend 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:44.040 and just needs to look believable enough on the music video. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.159 But needless to say, I went home that night and 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.159 I was a little frustrated that I didn't feel like 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.800 we had what we needed from my very first music video. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.840 And I'm sitting at home and kind of cruising on 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:04.199 Facebook and I see this face pop up on the 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.479 on the little tab that says people you may know, 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.840 and it was this beautiful blond headed girl, blue eyes, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.399 and my first thought was the bat Girl would be 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:35.919 perfect for this video. There's a front door swing at 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.280 your mama's house and a little stream up in the mountains. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.560 A shot gun seed and an ocean green. There's the 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.560 fairest wheel just spending around midnight moon I shine him down, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:52.960 a red sunset and a cotton dress. You read it, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.399 every single good time. We're a red vine in my mind, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:04.120 jampe and every down. I'm what like it? Me all 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:10.280 log and not dreaming. Everybody, I don't know what the 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.560 usion hole don know? It's gerlium. This podcast is brought 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.320 to you by EEE Energy. That's the official drink of 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.680 yee Nation. And as you know, this is a drink 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.159 that me and my brothers made, not some company that 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.000 we collaborated with that called us and said, hey, will 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.320 you put your slap your name on our drink. No, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.160 this is a drink that me and my brother's made 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:37.000 from scratch from the very beginning recipe because we really 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.640 loved it. Have you heard my brand new single You're 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.440 in It. We're so excited about this song and just 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.760 hit country radio. And I gotta thank you guys for 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.240 first of all buying this thing or streaming it or 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.760 watching the YouTube videos of it. I just have a 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.399 brand new lyric video with my little girl London. And 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.399 as you know, all of these streams and YouTube views, 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.000 they all count for making the song into a hit. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.480 So thank you for that. I hope you stream it 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.639 a million times. I hope you watch the YouTube videos 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.080 a million times. And by the way, we have a 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.440 brand new music video for this song, and I just 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.720 saw a rough cut today in Virginia. I've done a 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.199 lot of music videos and this one is different than 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.880 any of them I've ever done. It's very cinematic. It's 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.720 coming out very soon and I can't wait for you 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:36.440 to watch it. You're in Yeah, you read it every 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:41.680 single good time when I read every wine in my mind, yeah, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.879 every time of what it beat all I see you, 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.440 my dreaming everything. I don't know what the future. All 0:22:54.520 --> 0:23:28.399 I know is here your So. Speaking of music videos, 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.680 back to the very first one I was creating and 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.720 me the big Creepster on Craigslist. I had finally found 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:41.280 what I thought would really work on Facebook, and I 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.560 texted my director Andrew and I said, Hey, I know, 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:48.920 we spent all day looking at these girls in the hotel, 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:53.280 but scratch all that I think I found one that 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:57.480 could really work, and he was like who. I was like, well, 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.280 I haven't asked her yet, but somebody on face Book. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.280 I think she's a friend of mine. He was frustrated, 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.960 but he said, man, let me know. I go on Facebook. 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.840 I send a message. This girl's name is Amber Barlett. 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:14.280 I said, Hey, you don't know me, but I'm a 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.240 country singer and I'm making a music video. Would you 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:24.480 ever be interested in being in the video? Send? Wait? Wait, 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:29.040 I think an hour, maybe two hours go by, and 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:40.760 guess what, there's a message in my inbox. Hello, Hi, 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:47.480 what's she doing you in bed? No? Not yet to me? 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:53.679 I was you want to be on my podcast? If 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:57.320 you want me to be on your podcast? Yeah? Well, 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:03.120 what is it? All? Right? So I'm talking about how 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.879 I was looking for girls for a music video and 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:14.960 I saw you on Facebook and I messaged you. I 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:17.479 don't remember exactly what I said, but it was basically like, Hi, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.280 you don't know me, but where you be in my 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.960 music video? Yeah? And then like an hour or two 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:28.960