Speaker 1: What's up with Granger Smith? This is episode twelve. I'm
Speaker 1: in Delaware and I'm about to play a show here
Speaker 1: in about thirty minutes. But I thought, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and start this episode twelve because I need to,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna finish it up this week in Virginia
Speaker 1: and South Carolina. So many things to say. Where do
Speaker 1: I start? This has been a wild summer. I know
Speaker 1: I say that all the time, but we just finished
Speaker 1: doing The Bachelorette. Jimmy Kimmel got back from Canada heading
Speaker 1: to Australia. It's crazy. I just met someone in a
Speaker 1: meet and greet line, and maybe the reason I'm doing
Speaker 1: this podcast now is because of this. But I met
Speaker 1: this girl and she brought me a amazing gift. She
Speaker 1: made me a pickle jar, which symbolizes the old days
Speaker 1: of when I used to use pickle jars as tip
Speaker 1: jars on the stage. So this unique picklejar that she
Speaker 1: made me has a collage all over it with all
Speaker 1: the different stories that I've set on these podcasts in
Speaker 1: the past, which is amazing. I mean, she included everything.
Speaker 1: Her name is Brittany Baltzer, and she put a note
Speaker 1: inside the pickle Jar and it says, after listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast, I felt a deeper connection with your music
Speaker 1: because I understand the work that it took to get
Speaker 1: you to where you are today. Thank you, Brittany. I
Speaker 1: hope that you know by your words that you wrote
Speaker 1: to me, this is exactly why I started this podcast
Speaker 1: to get a better connection with the fans. That is awesome.
Speaker 1: People have been asking me to continue the story that
Speaker 1: I started a couple of episodes ago, and it was
Speaker 1: the timeline of my career. When I was working on
Speaker 1: Maya Don't Listen to the Radio album. That was an
Speaker 1: important time for me, most importantly because that's when I
Speaker 1: met my wife Amber. It was actually for the music
Speaker 1: video of that song Don't Listen to the Radio. So Yes,
Speaker 1: one of the things I want to talk about today
Speaker 1: is that story. It's a huge part of who I am.
Speaker 1: I also want to talk about something that has been
Speaker 1: so fun for me to work on this last ten
Speaker 1: twelve months, and that is this brand new Earl Divils
Speaker 1: Junior book. It's called If Your City, If Your Country?
Speaker 1: Did you know I was working on that because I've
Speaker 1: kept it a secret, and this thing is finally ready
Speaker 1: to launch and depending on when you hear this podcast,
Speaker 1: Hey maybe it's already out there. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that. And I also want to remind you that
Speaker 1: on every one of these podcasts, if you need me
Speaker 1: to answer a question, if you have some kind of
Speaker 1: burning question you want me to answer, go to social
Speaker 1: media hashtag Granger Smith podcast ask your question. I could
Speaker 1: search for them and I could start to answer. Here's
Speaker 1: one right here. This is from Twitter from Tracy Heffernan,
Speaker 1: and it says, I wonder how many songs do you
Speaker 1: write that we don't ever get to hear? That's a
Speaker 1: great question. And right after that, there's one from Kara
Speaker 1: and Jesse on Twitter. It says, was we got it
Speaker 1: among the songs not chosen for the album? When the
Speaker 1: good guys win? If so, why? And will fans ever
Speaker 1: get to hear the songs that didn't make the cut? Now,
Speaker 1: those two questions are very similar and they deserve a
Speaker 1: good answer. Forty anchors, cotton field pasture, square veils, and
Speaker 1: a barn with a tractor, ten point buck rilling, dove
Speaker 1: on wires, let on the tires, Friday night fires Man.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for some home cooking here's some chickens,
Speaker 1: light a chair up in the kitchen, Mama get tea
Speaker 1: on the fix, and we got it. We got it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got it, We got it all. We're out our,
Speaker 1: tipping a fifth and picking. The kids are just watching
Speaker 1: the stars fall. Yeah, we got it. We got it all.
Speaker 1: So the real think on why do some songs make
Speaker 1: the cut on an album and others don't is there's
Speaker 1: too many songs. By the way, sorry, I finished the
Speaker 1: show in Delaware. I'm sitting on the back of my
Speaker 1: bus and now the engine is running, so there might
Speaker 1: be a rumble, But yeah, that's the answer. There's too
Speaker 1: many songs that I've written, and when I put an
Speaker 1: album together, I can't put thirty two songs on an album.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't really have to do with the best
Speaker 1: songs win. Unfortunately, it's usually every album needs certain moments,
Speaker 1: it needs to be a roller coaster, and you can't
Speaker 1: have too many of the same kind of songs. Now,
Speaker 1: all of this is just my opinion, but unfortunately, then
Speaker 1: you get a bunch of songs that are left over
Speaker 1: that didn't make the album, and then I have to
Speaker 1: figure out what am I going to do with them? Now,
Speaker 1: one idea is I could tease some of them right
Speaker 1: here on this podcast. In fact, do you want me
Speaker 1: to play you a song I wrote that I love
Speaker 1: that actually did not make when the good guys win.
Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean that it's not gonna come out
Speaker 1: in the world one day, but I just don't know
Speaker 1: how yet. This one's called I'm a fan. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of a three on the tree too, tone Chevron they.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of a Friday night right after rag
Speaker 1: get paid. I'm a fan of Rangler jeans. It's guffed
Speaker 1: up red wing boot just like I'm a fan of you.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of a farmer shop and broken beef
Speaker 1: store calves, rolling around with the wind is down, and
Speaker 1: the spelling of fresh cut grass. I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: a rocking chair Sunday afternoon, just like I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of OI. Heard you setting my heart offside every test,
Speaker 1: taking me high? Who Star I l I'm riding in
Speaker 1: that run again. Don't want to end. Thank you, fan,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan you. If you have comments questions about
Speaker 1: this podcast, go to social media hashtag Granger Smith podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, this is an announcement I've been waiting to
Speaker 1: make for a long time. I have a brand new
Speaker 1: book out, well, technically, Earl Dibbles Junior has a brand
Speaker 1: new book out. It's called If Your City, If You're Country,
Speaker 1: and This Ladies and Gentlemen, is a coffee table book
Speaker 1: with many pictures of a cartoon version of Earl acting
Speaker 1: out these scenarios so that you, if you are in doubt,
Speaker 1: can tell the difference. Are you city or are you country?
Speaker 1: You know what? Let me let Earl explain a few
Speaker 1: of these pages for you. Fast food if your city,
Speaker 1: fast food is perfect. If you're in a big herd
Speaker 1: to eat. If your country, fast food is not perfect.
Speaker 1: If you're in a big herd to eat, avoid deer
Speaker 1: and stick with slower foods like turtles. Browsing the web.
Speaker 1: If your city, you can browse the web for all
Speaker 1: sorts of things shopping, games, sports, dating. If your country,
Speaker 1: you could browse the web for all sorts of things flies, moths,
Speaker 1: june bugs, grasshoppers. Apartment If your city, an apartment is
Speaker 1: one of the only places you could live. There's no
Speaker 1: houses in the city. If your country. Sometimes chewing tobacco
Speaker 1: is better mixed together apart winter green and apartment four
Speaker 1: oh one k. If your city and you need a
Speaker 1: retirement plan, get a four to oh one K. If
Speaker 1: your country and you need directions to the field party,
Speaker 1: go about a mile past the cree across the cattle guard,
Speaker 1: then turn left on County Road four oh one. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so you get the idea of how these
Speaker 1: jokes are going to go. And we had an absolute
Speaker 1: blast making this thing, and I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 1: You could pre order it right now on Amazon dot
Speaker 1: Com or you could order it on Amazon depending on
Speaker 1: when you're listening to this podcast. Now. The book's gonna
Speaker 1: come with a CD inside it that has all of
Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles Junior's music on it. I hope that you
Speaker 1: guys grab a copy, and I hope it makes you smile.
Speaker 1: So I've moved now since I've done this podcast, I'm
Speaker 1: in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and I have been writing all day.
Speaker 1: I have some buddies on the road writing some songs,
Speaker 1: and I've just finished the show and I'm not tired
Speaker 1: at all, so I figured, why not do this podcast
Speaker 1: until I get too sleepy. This has been a fun day.
Speaker 1: I woke up early and I went with the local
Speaker 1: radio station. We went and toured Fredericksburg a little bit
Speaker 1: because it's a very historic town and I'm also a
Speaker 1: huge history buff. Did you know that I love all
Speaker 1: kinds of history? That was my major at Texas A
Speaker 1: and M. And I love the Civil War and there
Speaker 1: is a lot of Civil War history in this town.
Speaker 1: So I went and saw some battlefields for about an
Speaker 1: hour and a half before I came back to this venue.
Speaker 1: And by the way, great fans in Virginia, you guys
Speaker 1: represent ye nations so well. I love seeing all that
Speaker 1: EEE apparel, hats and T shirts. It makes me feel welcome,
Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of history, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: my history a little bit. And as I've said before,
Speaker 1: the whole purpose of this podcast for me is for
Speaker 1: a more personal relationship with the fans, because you hear
Speaker 1: me on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook, and this is
Speaker 1: the time you could hear the whole story from me, right,
Speaker 1: just me by myself back of my bus, telling you
Speaker 1: the comp leat picture. So a few episodes ago I
Speaker 1: left off with my story. About two thousand and eight nine,
Speaker 1: my brother Tyler becomes my manager and I'm making an
Speaker 1: album called Don't Listen to the radio, and I should
Speaker 1: lead into where that title came from, where that album
Speaker 1: came from. And that, by the way, is a huge
Speaker 1: album for me. It really it took me from one
Speaker 1: level to the next and put me on the map
Speaker 1: in Texas country music. It was about this time I
Speaker 1: was writing songs and someone had told me. They said,
Speaker 1: you know what the big guys do in Nashville is
Speaker 1: they go and they listen to a bunch of songs
Speaker 1: from a publisher. They'll play you, you know, some of
Speaker 1: their best songs, some of the songs that they think
Speaker 1: are good for you, and you could take one of
Speaker 1: them and you could record it for your album. And
Speaker 1: I thought, well, that sounds pretty cool. I've never done
Speaker 1: anything like that. So I flew to Nashville. I set
Speaker 1: up this meeting with a publisher and they didn't know
Speaker 1: who I was, but they were doing their job and
Speaker 1: they were great playing me some songs. And when I left,
Speaker 1: he gave me a CD to take home with me
Speaker 1: so that I can go home and kind of soak
Speaker 1: in some of these songs and see if I liked
Speaker 1: any for myself. And I remember going home and I
Speaker 1: was driving around in my truck and I was listening
Speaker 1: to this CD and there was so many songs about
Speaker 1: breaking up with a girl and how depressed the guy was,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, right then, I thought, popped in
Speaker 1: my head. Man, don't listen to the radio if you
Speaker 1: got your heart broke, because it always knows exactly what
Speaker 1: to play. And right then and there, through all of
Speaker 1: those songs that I had listened to, I didn't take
Speaker 1: any of them, but they inspired the title track to
Speaker 1: my next album. If you like to try fast, don't
Speaker 1: listen to the Stay True, if you like to drink slow,
Speaker 1: don't listen to the Barton. If you don't like to
Speaker 1: court her truth, don't listen to the six o'clock woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got a thigure too, my flirt, And don't listen
Speaker 1: to the radio if you got your Heart Gone, because
Speaker 1: it always knows exactly want to play. You're bounding your
Speaker 1: lesson for noveling you she's gone because you did a
Speaker 1: wrong and troll for away. Don't you do to get
Speaker 1: a buy of your heads? You don't, But wherever you go,
Speaker 1: don't listen to the radio. So this is another album
Speaker 1: that I made right out of my house in College State,
Speaker 1: Texas with my band, and by now this is my
Speaker 1: second album to record myself, and so I was getting
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But I also really loved to
Speaker 1: do it, to produce these things out of my house.
Speaker 1: All of these songs were written by myself except for
Speaker 1: one co write, and that was with ironically, Chris Lee,
Speaker 1: who's now my tour manager and back then he was
Speaker 1: just a friend of mine. We did it over Skype.
Speaker 1: It was a song called long Way Home. A lot
Speaker 1: of these songs I just look at today and I
Speaker 1: wish that more people knew them. And the reason that
Speaker 1: we don't get to play a lot of these songs
Speaker 1: live is very simple. People say, why don't you play
Speaker 1: some of your older songs, Man, The answer is simple.
Speaker 1: I love performing, I love entertaining, I love connecting with
Speaker 1: the crowd, and sometimes if I play these older songs,
Speaker 1: Let's face it, most of the time, if I pull
Speaker 1: out one of these older songs, there might be one
Speaker 1: or two people that know it in the crowd, but
Speaker 1: then there's thousands of people that don't, and they're staring
Speaker 1: at me like I'm a fish in a bowl, and
Speaker 1: it's just not fun. I wish I was hipster enough
Speaker 1: and artistic enough to say, Man, I don't care what
Speaker 1: nobody thinks. I'm gonna play what I want to play.
Speaker 1: But the reality is I want to play what everyone
Speaker 1: likes me to play, because then I'm having more fun,
Speaker 1: and everybody's having more fun. There's more energy. That's the
Speaker 1: long story, but there's I'm looking at this list right now.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to the radio, Pacific five more minutes, Superstitious seventeen,
Speaker 1: Cherry Lipstick, I almost am turning on dirty dishes, long
Speaker 1: way home, Gypsy Rain, November never came this little house,
Speaker 1: unset letters. These are These are some of my favorite
Speaker 1: songs that I've ever written. And who knows, maybe one
Speaker 1: day one of these will get popular again and I'll
Speaker 1: start playing it at my normal show. I'm just a booge.
Speaker 1: Then we kind of got getting better and better, getting
Speaker 1: by just a good old one dotal ways around with me.
Speaker 1: I don't have much stead out in so much life
Speaker 1: that takes the americaches to understand, but she takes me
Speaker 1: by the head. You've never last before, the man almost. Hey,
Speaker 1: I know some of you are mad at what I
Speaker 1: just said, aren't you? That riled you up a little
Speaker 1: bit because you thought to yourself. Man, I don't care
Speaker 1: about all those other people. Granger, I want you to
Speaker 1: play some older songs. How about this? How about we
Speaker 1: continue this conversation. How about one of these days I
Speaker 1: do a throwback concert and I'll pick a city right
Speaker 1: in the middle of America, and me and the band
Speaker 1: will learn all these old songs, put them all together,
Speaker 1: and then we'll make a big Yee Nation throwback concert.
Speaker 1: Sound good. I think that'd be pretty cool. So when
Speaker 1: we had to start thinking about how we're gonna launch
Speaker 1: this album, the first thing we had to do was
Speaker 1: pick the first single, because we were gonna pick a
Speaker 1: first single and we're gonna launch that to Texas radio first.
Speaker 1: And the album wasn't even fit jet. But I knew
Speaker 1: that Don't Listen to the Radio would be a great
Speaker 1: lead single to this album. I had never done a
Speaker 1: music video before, and I thought, you know, what'd be
Speaker 1: really cool if we did a music video and launched
Speaker 1: that and got this single cooking a little bit. I'll
Speaker 1: finished the album and then we'll put that thing out there. Now.
Speaker 1: My keyboard player, Eric Barrera at the time his brother
Speaker 1: Andrew Barrera, was a videographer, a really good one. He
Speaker 1: had never done a music video. I hadn't either, but
Speaker 1: we came together and we had this plan, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we could do this, we could film our own music video.
Speaker 1: Now looking back now, we were totally amateurs. We barely
Speaker 1: even had an idea. We just we knew of this
Speaker 1: old warehouse in Waco, Texas, and we decided to sorry,
Speaker 1: we decided to break into this place, okay, And it
Speaker 1: was It was a beautiful old warehouse that had all
Speaker 1: these really cool foggy windows or light came in and
Speaker 1: it looked real misty and mysterious, and so we thought, okay,
Speaker 1: we could film part of the performance there. We could
Speaker 1: film part of the performance up up on this mountain
Speaker 1: overlooking the three sixty Bridge in Austin, Texas. And then
Speaker 1: we can go to my ex keyboard player and one
Speaker 1: of the godfathers of my band, Mitch Connell. We can
Speaker 1: go to his house because he has a baller house
Speaker 1: in Colleen, Texas, and we'll film the little story side
Speaker 1: and me playing on his grand piano, which he had
Speaker 1: this sweet baby grand piano in his house. We'll film that.
Speaker 1: The only thing missing in the scenario is my love interest.
Speaker 1: So we got to get a girl and she'll be
Speaker 1: my girlfriend, and we'll act out this fight scene where
Speaker 1: we break up, and then we'll have these looking back
Speaker 1: on the memory scenes of us when we're actually in love,
Speaker 1: and that'll create the story of don't listen to the radio.
Speaker 1: We just didn't have a girl. So if you're an
Speaker 1: amateur at making music video and you need a girl
Speaker 1: for your love interest, what do you do? Yes, you
Speaker 1: go to Craigslist. That's exactly what we did. We put
Speaker 1: out an ad in Craigslist, the creepiest thing in the world,
Speaker 1: and it said country singer looking for a love interest
Speaker 1: girlfriend for music video, and we had them submit pictures
Speaker 1: and a little bio about themselves and then it's creepy
Speaker 1: as hell, I know. But we had a meet at
Speaker 1: a hotel in the conference room of a hotel in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: and we had I'm trying to remember. I think it
Speaker 1: was like probably fifteen girls. And of course, as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, there was a handful of girls that we
Speaker 1: knew right away would not wouldn't make sense with me
Speaker 1: on camera. And you really have no idea, according to Andrew,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what they're going to look like
Speaker 1: in the music video to you get them on a
Speaker 1: real camera. So that's why we had to meet them.
Speaker 1: We couldn't just go by the picture. We had to
Speaker 1: meet him. So we brought them in there, and we
Speaker 1: set up a little desk, you know, like we were
Speaker 1: really official, and we were the most hack amateurs in
Speaker 1: the world. We would meet and we're filming the whole thing.
Speaker 1: We did this all day, and I just had the
Speaker 1: whole time, I had a bad feeling about it. Not
Speaker 1: because the girls were bad, I just I never really
Speaker 1: felt like any of those girls would be my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: And I realize, now that's the wrong way to approach
Speaker 1: this whole thing. That's not the right way to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't have to really be my girlfriend
Speaker 1: and just needs to look believable enough on the music video.
Speaker 1: But needless to say, I went home that night and
Speaker 1: I was a little frustrated that I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: we had what we needed from my very first music video.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting at home and kind of cruising on
Speaker 1: Facebook and I see this face pop up on the
Speaker 1: on the little tab that says people you may know,
Speaker 1: and it was this beautiful blond headed girl, blue eyes,
Speaker 1: and my first thought was the bat Girl would be
Speaker 1: perfect for this video. There's a front door swing at
Speaker 1: your mama's house and a little stream up in the mountains.
Speaker 1: A shot gun seed and an ocean green. There's the
Speaker 1: fairest wheel just spending around midnight moon I shine him down,
Speaker 1: a red sunset and a cotton dress. You read it,
Speaker 1: every single good time. We're a red vine in my mind,
Speaker 1: jampe and every down. I'm what like it? Me all
Speaker 1: log and not dreaming. Everybody, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: usion hole don know? It's gerlium. This podcast is brought
Speaker 1: to you by EEE Energy. That's the official drink of
Speaker 1: yee Nation. And as you know, this is a drink
Speaker 1: that me and my brothers made, not some company that
Speaker 1: we collaborated with that called us and said, hey, will
Speaker 1: you put your slap your name on our drink. No,
Speaker 1: this is a drink that me and my brother's made
Speaker 1: from scratch from the very beginning recipe because we really
Speaker 1: loved it. Have you heard my brand new single You're
Speaker 1: in It. We're so excited about this song and just
Speaker 1: hit country radio. And I gotta thank you guys for
Speaker 1: first of all buying this thing or streaming it or
Speaker 1: watching the YouTube videos of it. I just have a
Speaker 1: brand new lyric video with my little girl London. And
Speaker 1: as you know, all of these streams and YouTube views,
Speaker 1: they all count for making the song into a hit.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that. I hope you stream it
Speaker 1: a million times. I hope you watch the YouTube videos
Speaker 1: a million times. And by the way, we have a
Speaker 1: brand new music video for this song, and I just
Speaker 1: saw a rough cut today in Virginia. I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of music videos and this one is different than
Speaker 1: any of them I've ever done. It's very cinematic. It's
Speaker 1: coming out very soon and I can't wait for you
Speaker 1: to watch it. You're in Yeah, you read it every
Speaker 1: single good time when I read every wine in my mind, yeah,
Speaker 1: every time of what it beat all I see you,
Speaker 1: my dreaming everything. I don't know what the future. All
Speaker 1: I know is here your So. Speaking of music videos,
Speaker 1: back to the very first one I was creating and
Speaker 1: me the big Creepster on Craigslist. I had finally found
Speaker 1: what I thought would really work on Facebook, and I
Speaker 1: texted my director Andrew and I said, Hey, I know,
Speaker 1: we spent all day looking at these girls in the hotel,
Speaker 1: but scratch all that I think I found one that
Speaker 1: could really work, and he was like who. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I haven't asked her yet, but somebody on face Book.
Speaker 1: I think she's a friend of mine. He was frustrated,
Speaker 1: but he said, man, let me know. I go on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I send a message. This girl's name is Amber Barlett.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, you don't know me, but I'm a
Speaker 1: country singer and I'm making a music video. Would you
Speaker 1: ever be interested in being in the video? Send? Wait? Wait,
Speaker 1: I think an hour, maybe two hours go by, and
Speaker 1: guess what, there's a message in my inbox. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: what's she doing you in bed? No? Not yet to me?
Speaker 1: I was you want to be on my podcast? If
Speaker 1: you want me to be on your podcast? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: what is it? All? Right? So I'm talking about how
Speaker 1: I was looking for girls for a music video and
Speaker 1: I saw you on Facebook and I messaged you. I
Speaker 1: don't remember exactly what I said, but it was basically like, Hi,
Speaker 1: you don't know me, but where you be in my
Speaker 1: music video? Yeah? And then like an hour or two
Speaker 1: goes by and then you messaged me back. But I
Speaker 1: don't remember what you said. Now I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: I wish we had this messages thing. Yeah, you said,
Speaker 1: you said, you asked the question of like what it
Speaker 1: was about or or what are what they doing? Or yeah,
Speaker 1: and I didn't tell you that there was a kissing scene? Right?
Speaker 1: When did I tell you there was a kissing scene?
Speaker 1: I don't think you did. I think Andrew did. I
Speaker 1: was embarrassed and nervous. I was very nervous. Okay, So
Speaker 1: you agreed to do it, and first Andrew had to
Speaker 1: interview me. That's right, that's right. Andrew needed to hear,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's a director. He needed to feel
Speaker 1: some control. So he said, send me this girl you're
Speaker 1: talking about. So I sent your contact info to him,
Speaker 1: and he drove to Fort Worth, Yes, and took his
Speaker 1: camera so that we could be fair, just like we
Speaker 1: did with the other girls, and put you on camera, right,
Speaker 1: and he interviewed you. I think he said, I don't
Speaker 1: think this is the girl. Oh gosh. I saw about
Speaker 1: three seconds of the video and I said, yep, that's her.
Speaker 1: It was undeniable. And then the date comes around and
Speaker 1: you showed up with your friend. Yes, we met me
Speaker 1: and my brother Tyler didn't know you or where we
Speaker 1: were going. He didn't want to be murdered. Yes. So
Speaker 1: we met at Starbucks in Waco, Texas. Yep, right off.
Speaker 1: I thirty five and you walked in Starbucks and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, that was it for you, baby,
Speaker 1: that was it? Nodding, it was it was. So it
Speaker 1: was raining, and we caravaned to uh, Mitch's house and
Speaker 1: Colleen from from Waco, and which is kind of a
Speaker 1: long drive now that I think about it. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: probably what hour, Yeah, you're probably thinking where are we going?
Speaker 1: So we we show up, show up to Mitch's house,
Speaker 1: and we kind of had the whole day planned out.
Speaker 1: And at that point we didn't know or did you
Speaker 1: know you were going to get into lingerie? Yes, because
Speaker 1: I had to borrow it from another friend. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you had to you had to bring lingerie with you.
Speaker 1: I did. And there was a kissing scene. Great first date.
Speaker 1: It was like something out of that bats Arette weekednance
Speaker 1: we read cookie, we kissed, We took a bath. I
Speaker 1: forgot you were in the bathtub with a colored colored skin,
Speaker 1: colored bathing suit, yes, nude bra yes, And you can
Speaker 1: kind of see it in the video. And I had
Speaker 1: to fall into the bathtub fully clothed, yes, and all
Speaker 1: of this we had. That was the first day we met. Yep,
Speaker 1: we had to kiss under the sheets. And Andrew is
Speaker 1: under the sheets with us with the camera. So the
Speaker 1: three of us, three of us are in the bedroom
Speaker 1: in a bed, under the sheets. One two dudes, one
Speaker 1: with the camera. This sounds terrible, This sounds absolutely terrible. Yeah. God,
Speaker 1: I hope our kids don't hear this. Oh good, but
Speaker 1: they actually kids love the video. Yeah. Well, London cried.
Speaker 1: London was about three years old one day and she
Speaker 1: watched it with me and started bawling, crying, and I
Speaker 1: literally had to pull over on the side of the
Speaker 1: road to console her because she was so sad because
Speaker 1: in the video, me and you were fighting, and she
Speaker 1: thought it was real and she thought mommy and daddy
Speaker 1: are fighting, and she thought I left you and drove away.
Speaker 1: She thought you left. I said, baby, it's just to pretend. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the whole point of this conversation we've just described
Speaker 1: the video. Everyone has probably seen this video. But what
Speaker 1: happens after the video is what all your fans, which
Speaker 1: you have a ton of fans on Instagram, All your
Speaker 1: fans are always asking you what happened after the video, Like,
Speaker 1: how the heck did we get together after? So you
Speaker 1: you tell them that, Okay, have we established that I
Speaker 1: was I'd been dating somebody for a few weeks. I
Speaker 1: haven't said anything yet, Okay, Well, I had been dating somebody.
Speaker 1: I was currently dating somebody when the video took place.
Speaker 1: And after the video or during the video shoot, I
Speaker 1: just there was that. I mean, I knew that I've
Speaker 1: had feelings for you, and obviously there was something there
Speaker 1: for me, and I had to find out if there
Speaker 1: was something there with you too. My friend tried to
Speaker 1: tell me, no, You're it was just acting. It was
Speaker 1: you know, it was like a great first day. You
Speaker 1: were just acting like you were married and you'll you'll
Speaker 1: get over it tomorrow. And I was like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: really don't. I'm not a really really like I felt something.
Speaker 1: There's something there. So I messaged you. Everybody always asked,
Speaker 1: how did you ask me out? But you really didn't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of either way around. And I messaged you
Speaker 1: and I just said I don't remember exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: I just said, you know, I need to know if
Speaker 1: you felt something too, or if it was just we
Speaker 1: were caught up in the moment of the day, but
Speaker 1: I felt something was there something there for you too,
Speaker 1: and then you shot me down. I didn't shoot you down, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. No. Being the gentleman and the very
Speaker 1: sweet man that you are, you know, you just said,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether there's feelings for me or not, you
Speaker 1: obviously need to break up with whoever you're dating, because
Speaker 1: if you're already feeling things for somebody else, you don't
Speaker 1: need to be with that person, which was completely true.
Speaker 1: So I did. And then a whole like a month
Speaker 1: went by and you called me when you were coming
Speaker 1: home from a show and asked if I wanted to
Speaker 1: have coffee, and then we were together ever since. Yep.
Speaker 1: And we shut down Starbucks and we said we did
Speaker 1: shut down Starbucks. There's a theme here, ye, Starbucks, Starbucks
Speaker 1: and rain. That's true. And then you realized you came
Speaker 1: to a show and you realized I was a nobody,
Speaker 1: that I didn't have any fans, that didn't matter. For
Speaker 1: some reason, you stayed with me. You found out I
Speaker 1: was a deadbeat country singer that didn't have any fans
Speaker 1: or anything going for him, and some reason you stayed
Speaker 1: with me. So I wasn't going after your country star.
Speaker 1: I've just had feelings for you. Thank you. You tell
Speaker 1: that story way better than I did. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: called you. I do. Why did you try to tell
Speaker 1: it first? I was going to tell it but and
Speaker 1: I've told it to radio lots of times, but you
Speaker 1: just tell it better. Thanks? All right? Is that all
Speaker 1: you got? That's only all I got. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: see you in on Sunday. Two days, two wake ups,
Speaker 1: two wake ups. I love you, love you. After that,
Speaker 1: we were we were dating and then we were engaged,
Speaker 1: and Amber was in many music videos. She was she
Speaker 1: makes an appearance in Gypsy Rain, She's the star of
Speaker 1: I Almost Am Gosh. She's in Five More Minutes, She's
Speaker 1: in she makes an appearance in I'm Wearing Black Country Blue.
Speaker 1: Love Happens like that. She's in this brand new You're
Speaker 1: in It video that we just filmed. So this has
Speaker 1: been a fun tradition for us, and our relationship with
Speaker 1: music videos is very special, and I'm excited for one
Speaker 1: day our kids to look back and maybe even our
Speaker 1: grandkids to look back and see us young and in
Speaker 1: love and right there in the music video. That's pretty cool. Musically,
Speaker 1: Don't Listen to the Radio did really good on Texas
Speaker 1: country radio, went to number five on the Texas Country Chart,
Speaker 1: and every radio single after that on that album was
Speaker 1: top ten. And I thought I was on my way
Speaker 1: to becoming a big star. But I wasn't even close.
Speaker 1: Now we had a little bitty fan base growing, and
Speaker 1: we were cruising the highway hard in a van and trailer,
Speaker 1: and those days inspired a new album called Poets and Prisoners.
Speaker 1: I still hadn't even yeeed yet. And that's all another
Speaker 1: story out of the scat the last year. When it
Speaker 1: happen you Julie, you can do just to keep her
Speaker 1: around until the moon goes down in her back into
Speaker 1: your house. One thing with you another you love each other.
Speaker 1: When looking you never look back. It happens like that.
Speaker 1: Y'all Come find me on tour Grangersmith dot com, Forward
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