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Speaker 1: that floud let got of Style Cloud, everyone rid me home.
Speaker 1: That's why ChIL a gun belt. What's Up Mountains Granger
Speaker 1: Smith Podcast, Episode eighteen. I've taken a long hiatus. The
Speaker 1: last podcast I did was in April of this year,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and I've had a lot of life happen
Speaker 1: in between the time, and that's that's why I took
Speaker 1: a little hiatus from the podcast. That's also why I
Speaker 1: actually got off track listening back to episode seventeen and
Speaker 1: kind of recapping where I was. I got off track
Speaker 1: from the one song, one music video every month that
Speaker 1: I promised you guys I was going to put out,
Speaker 1: and there was nothing that would have broken that promise
Speaker 1: besides a major life change for me, and that's what happened.
Speaker 1: One of these days, I'll probably get into that and
Speaker 1: get into my process through that and how me and
Speaker 1: my family have been since the summer twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: here we are rolling up on Christmas. But I think
Speaker 1: that's another podcast and I'll probably need to put together
Speaker 1: more thoughts before I get into that. Amber my wife
Speaker 1: as much a much better speaker when it comes to
Speaker 1: that right now, and I don't have as many words.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense for what we've been through? And
Speaker 1: so if you if you came to this podcast to
Speaker 1: hear something about that, I'll get I'll get into that
Speaker 1: one of these days and talk about this journey specifically
Speaker 1: for us and what it means to me and what
Speaker 1: I what I hope, how I hope will find the
Speaker 1: meaning through all this. And I've said this a couple
Speaker 1: of times before that I'm not personally searching for reasons
Speaker 1: for why life happens. I'm searching for meaning. And I
Speaker 1: think there's a substantial difference in those two things. And
Speaker 1: just like I think there's a big difference between joy
Speaker 1: and happiness. I feel like happiness can just happen upon you.
Speaker 1: The sunshines a certain way, and you know, you get
Speaker 1: rest one night and you wake up and you're happy.
Speaker 1: Joy is something much deeper. It's cultivated, it's it's a
Speaker 1: light inside of you, and that's a it's a completely
Speaker 1: different animal way and happiness, just like reason and meaning,
Speaker 1: these are just you know, a lot of thoughts. I've
Speaker 1: had a lot of thoughts over the last several months.
Speaker 1: But I'm back to the podcast, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about music, because that's how this podcast started. That's
Speaker 1: how seventeen episodes before this one went down. And there's
Speaker 1: still story to tell. There's still you know, extension of
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. And first of all, I want
Speaker 1: to apologize for not having this podcast up and running
Speaker 1: the last several months. I've heard from a lot of
Speaker 1: you and meet and greets, and the reason I'm actually
Speaker 1: sitting here now and spoke inne Washington in the back
Speaker 1: of my bus firing up the old microphone again is
Speaker 1: because almost every single day in a meet and greet,
Speaker 1: and we're we're on a West Coast tour right now,
Speaker 1: I hear somebody tell me when are you bringing back
Speaker 1: the podcast? In fact, somebody there's these dudes yelling several
Speaker 1: shows ago. Could hear them yelling in the crowd. They
Speaker 1: were like coordinating it one, two, three, bring back the podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, yelling. And so I don't know if I
Speaker 1: hadn't have had that motivation from you guys, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'd sit here and talk again on a podcast.
Speaker 1: Because now I have all these YouTube channels like the Smith.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the Smiths, but it's
Speaker 1: our family vlog channel on YouTube. We put out episodes
Speaker 1: every Tuesday and Thursday, and that's really been my only
Speaker 1: voice these last several months. I've made moderate social media posts,
Speaker 1: and usually they're pretty deep and not not to surface
Speaker 1: level come see our show type stuff. But the smith
Speaker 1: is what I've really been able to dig into. I
Speaker 1: haven't done any radio interviews yet, i haven't done any
Speaker 1: TV nothing. In fact, this podcast will be the first
Speaker 1: thing since The Smiths that I've actually spoken out. So
Speaker 1: if you followed The Smiths, thank you for subscribing to channel.
Speaker 1: Thank you for watching our our little, our little series
Speaker 1: we have going. It's been very therapeutic for me. I've
Speaker 1: really enjoyed talking to the camera that way. I've also
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the videography involved in that, and I've kind
Speaker 1: of nerded out with cameras and if you've if you've
Speaker 1: watched that channel, you've seen it kind of evolve from
Speaker 1: literally cell phone type stuff at the beginning to really
Speaker 1: nice cameras and fun angles of the bus and drone
Speaker 1: stuff that you know, I've gotten into droning and I've
Speaker 1: really really kind of jumped into that whole aspect of
Speaker 1: the Smiths and Ye Life and the Granger channel, which
Speaker 1: I'm kind of using all three. It's not something new
Speaker 1: for me, though. I have been doing camera work since
Speaker 1: I was a little kid. I would borrow my dad's
Speaker 1: camcorder and create some kind of show or some kind
Speaker 1: of documentary type thing ever since I was seven eight
Speaker 1: years old, and I have all that footage. I actually
Speaker 1: have it right here on my hard drive, and one
Speaker 1: of these days I think it'd be really funny to
Speaker 1: kind of release a little bit of it. My old
Speaker 1: camera adventures. I got to the point where, like when
Speaker 1: I was in high school, everyone just knew I had
Speaker 1: a camera around. So it's really not that big of
Speaker 1: a deal for me to do the Smiths like I
Speaker 1: do now, and I actually just love it. If you
Speaker 1: want to ask me a question something podcast related, something
Speaker 1: for me to talk about, go to social media. Twitter
Speaker 1: is what I'm on right now looking at it because
Speaker 1: it's just easy hashtag Granger Smith Podcast. Ask me a question.
Speaker 1: I could easily sit here and search it out like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at right now. Way cool. Underscore Junior back
Speaker 1: in September says, do you have any plans on doing
Speaker 1: the podcast? Again. Well, buddy, yes, here we go looking
Speaker 1: at another one. Livia one of my favorite fans in
Speaker 1: the world. She says, Oh okay. So it's been a
Speaker 1: year since Granger Smith showed a snippet of still Find
Speaker 1: You on the hashtag Grangersmith podcast and Haley and I
Speaker 1: still jam out to the short snippet of it. We
Speaker 1: would love that song, need the rest of it. Thank you, Livia,
Speaker 1: You're amazing. Matt balloons. Right after that, he says, hashtag
Speaker 1: Grangersmith podcast. I think it would be a great idea
Speaker 1: to interview those guys you used to tour with. I'm
Speaker 1: super interested in hearing how life was with the old
Speaker 1: band mates or people you opened for at Granger Smith.
Speaker 1: Please keep the podcast. I really love them. See you
Speaker 1: soon about. There's a lot of them on here, and
Speaker 1: if you guys want me to dig into that, just
Speaker 1: go to socials hashtag it and I'm interested in all
Speaker 1: of this stuff. So to kind of catch you guys
Speaker 1: up musically on what I got going on since the
Speaker 1: last time you heard a podcast in April, I was
Speaker 1: talking about one song, one music video per month. Now
Speaker 1: instantly decided that that wasn't going to still be the
Speaker 1: plan and kind of pivoted towards That's why I love
Speaker 1: Dirt Roads, which is a song that I had completely finished,
Speaker 1: and then I went in there towards the end of
Speaker 1: the summer and started messing with that song. I kind
Speaker 1: of heard everything in a different light with our new situation,
Speaker 1: and I went and listened to that song again, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the songs we were planning on releasing,
Speaker 1: and I just thought, man, this song is special. It's
Speaker 1: really special, and I changed. I went in there and
Speaker 1: changed up the second verse, kind of altered it a
Speaker 1: little bit to where I was in my life, which
Speaker 1: has always been important when I released songs for them
Speaker 1: to kind of parallel to my life, and so I
Speaker 1: changed some words around. Got back in the studio, which
Speaker 1: is for me, my studio. As you guys know, it's
Speaker 1: always been just a closet, and that's what it is
Speaker 1: today right now. It's the back of the bus. But
Speaker 1: all the records that you've heard me sing have never
Speaker 1: been in a major studio. That's always me singing in
Speaker 1: a closet. So that actually makes it really nice for
Speaker 1: me to be able to go in and change lyrics
Speaker 1: even when songs are finished. That can go in and
Speaker 1: re sing some things, and it's typically not hard to
Speaker 1: get my voice to sound the exact same as it
Speaker 1: did if I recorded it a month or two ago.
Speaker 1: I could quickly find that same voice again, and so
Speaker 1: it sounds like I sang it all in one day.
Speaker 1: And reality of that's why the Dirt Roads is. That's
Speaker 1: like a verse in chorus and bridge or no, excuse me,
Speaker 1: verse chorus and second chorus, sang it one time. A
Speaker 1: couple months later, I go in and sing the second
Speaker 1: verse in the bridge. Totally rewrote both of those for
Speaker 1: where I was in my life, and I can't even
Speaker 1: tell the difference if I listen to it all the
Speaker 1: way down. So now the question is, well, what happened
Speaker 1: to the songs that we were planning on releasing. Well,
Speaker 1: we still have them. In fact, some of them are
Speaker 1: completely finished, completely mixed, everything's ready to go or just
Speaker 1: kind of excuse me, I am just kind of waiting
Speaker 1: for the right time, and I kind of want That's
Speaker 1: why I love Dirt Roads to simmer a little bit.
Speaker 1: I have a music video completely finished for that song,
Speaker 1: and I love the music video. I shot it behind
Speaker 1: the scenes for it, which I will put on the Smiths.
Speaker 1: Whenever we get closer to releasing, when is that going
Speaker 1: to be? I usually leave that stuff up to my
Speaker 1: brother Tyler, and last time I asked him, he said, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to just throw it out there. There's
Speaker 1: no reason to just throw a music video out there
Speaker 1: just because we haven't finished. We might as well at
Speaker 1: least be a little bit strategic about it and let
Speaker 1: the holidays come and go, because it's you know, everything's
Speaker 1: holiday themed right now, and it's it's not really the
Speaker 1: greatest time to put out a music video, so we'll
Speaker 1: wait for that to die down. We have a lyric
Speaker 1: video finished that I just shot. I'd shot that over
Speaker 1: at mom and da house and sent that footage over
Speaker 1: to Paul, my video editor who does most of my editing,
Speaker 1: and so we have that finished. So we have two
Speaker 1: things we need to put out for that song, and
Speaker 1: then I could start thinking about when's the album gonna
Speaker 1: come out? And there's got to be an album that
Speaker 1: has all these songs on it. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: these songs, guys, I'm really really excited about. There's one
Speaker 1: of them. I'm probably more excited than any song I've
Speaker 1: put out that I could remember in ten years or so,
Speaker 1: and why am I excited about it? It feels a
Speaker 1: little different for me. It feels it's a little sad,
Speaker 1: like a sad country song, but with a cool groove,
Speaker 1: and I need that for my show. I typically look
Speaker 1: at songs as pieces of the show, you know, pieces
Speaker 1: of the ninety minute show, a little little moments, and
Speaker 1: if I could build up the moments, then the more
Speaker 1: the better. It makes the show better. And we need
Speaker 1: this specific song. It's gonna be great for the live show.
Speaker 1: And so then looking back on the previous episodes of
Speaker 1: this podcast, I went back and kind of heard a
Speaker 1: little bit scanned through episode seventeen, and I was talking
Speaker 1: about kind of the period of my career where we
Speaker 1: were just kind of things were just starting to pop.
Speaker 1: I had the country Boy song out and things were
Speaker 1: really working. I had an album called Dirt Road Driveway
Speaker 1: that changed my life and to this day, that's the
Speaker 1: reason we got nationwide and we got into a lot
Speaker 1: of different venues across the country because of Dirt Road Driveway.
Speaker 1: That included we do it in a field and if
Speaker 1: money didn't matter, and stick around and bear me and
Speaker 1: blue Jeans and Silverada bench seat and mud Tires and
Speaker 1: the country boy song Comfortable Love. So that was a
Speaker 1: really big deal for me, and that's kind of the
Speaker 1: birth of Ye Nation. Was Dirt Road Driveway and after that,
Speaker 1: after that album came out, I lost my dad in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and that was just shortly after Dirt Road
Speaker 1: Driveway was in twenty thirteen, kind of the end of it.
Speaker 1: So so I kind of had to. I had to
Speaker 1: endure grief for the first time. And everyone deals with
Speaker 1: grief in different ways. In fact, the different griefs I've
Speaker 1: gone through in my life have all been different, even
Speaker 1: though it's all me experiencing it different people, and I've
Speaker 1: experienced grief different ways from different losses. And with my dad,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to smile again, you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to feel good. I wanted to feel good again. And
Speaker 1: he was such a huge fan of my music and
Speaker 1: encourager of me and motivator of me and at sometimes
Speaker 1: critic of me in a good way that I needed
Speaker 1: and all he wanted through my struggle. You know, he
Speaker 1: saw me struggle for decades in the music business and
Speaker 1: he just he wanted to see me get the credit.
Speaker 1: He thought I deserved, and I think as a father,
Speaker 1: that's an admirable thing. You see your son out there
Speaker 1: fighting and working and being creative and putting blood, sweat
Speaker 1: and tears into this work. And he just wanted to
Speaker 1: see me enjoy the fruits of that. And so with
Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles and dirt Road Driveway, he finally started seeing that.
Speaker 1: We got in a bus for the first time. We weren't,
Speaker 1: you know, we were actually sleeping in bunks instead of
Speaker 1: taking turns driving a van every night, and that it
Speaker 1: so much to him to see it. It's kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, this proud dad moment. He can kick back
Speaker 1: and smile and say I knew it all along, and
Speaker 1: I could truly say he did. He knew it all along.
Speaker 1: He knew I would get a record deal, he knew
Speaker 1: we would eventually get fans, and he saw so many
Speaker 1: shows with no one there. And then he died in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, so he only saw, you know, six months
Speaker 1: of that, and there was a part of that that
Speaker 1: was tough on me, knowing that he never really saw
Speaker 1: us have success, and success itself, that's a whole different story,
Speaker 1: that's a whole different podcast, a whole different discussion on
Speaker 1: how to judge success and how to define individual success,
Speaker 1: because in a lot of ways, you could say I
Speaker 1: had it all along because I was happy and I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the process, even when we weren't technically successful in
Speaker 1: any kind of numbers and no one was watching the music.
Speaker 1: I thought we were having fun. So that's a whole
Speaker 1: different story. But when Dad died, it was hard to
Speaker 1: go back out and play. It was hard to play
Speaker 1: a show. I had the have you ever have you
Speaker 1: ever lost somebody and had the feeling in the cell
Speaker 1: phone age of a ghost text? Or have you ever
Speaker 1: pulled your phone out and wanted to call somebody and
Speaker 1: then realize they're gone and you literally are holding the
Speaker 1: phone wanting to push their number. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: I did hit his number on Favorites on my home
Speaker 1: screen several times, and then I would go, oh, what
Speaker 1: am I doing? I would hang up, and then actually,
Speaker 1: when we cut off his number, that person would call
Speaker 1: me back and I would decline it. It's weird, weird stuff.
Speaker 1: And I struggled with that on the road, and any
Speaker 1: of y'all that saw me the summer twenty fourteen, maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't know, but I was really struggling, and I
Speaker 1: was struggling mentally without my hero and the person I
Speaker 1: relied on for so long, my whole life, and the
Speaker 1: biggest supporter besides my mom, the biggest supporter of my music.
Speaker 1: I guess I should throw Amber in there too, But Amber,
Speaker 1: you know, she loved my dad too, so she kind
Speaker 1: of went through her own grief in that. So I
Speaker 1: was on an airplane heading to Portland, Oregon, yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I was kind of looking back on a decade of
Speaker 1: my music, specifically my songwriting, and I've always done what
Speaker 1: I call work tapes, and that means it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a demo, I guess you could say. But back
Speaker 1: before I wanted to pay money to actually have people
Speaker 1: play on a demo of the song, which I still
Speaker 1: don't do that, I was making work tapes, meaning I
Speaker 1: would lay down a click track, I'd play guitar, I
Speaker 1: would sing, and then I would sing over myself with
Speaker 1: harmony that I'd play another good part, and I'd played
Speaker 1: some little lead parts, and they started becoming more and
Speaker 1: more elaborate, and I could play some of them. But
Speaker 1: I have a collection of fifteen years of work tapes,
Speaker 1: and yesterday on the plane, I was listening back through
Speaker 1: these work tapes, and I was like, what was the
Speaker 1: song I wrote after Dad? Like, what was the next
Speaker 1: song I wrote after I lost Dad? And I lost
Speaker 1: him in March of twenty fourteen, and then the first
Speaker 1: song that I wrote was in June of twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: and it was Backroad Song. Ironically, my first number one
Speaker 1: song at mainstream country radio. Backgroad Song, my first platinum song,
Speaker 1: and all this was after Dad. Like Dad never knew
Speaker 1: me standing on the stage holding a plaque with a
Speaker 1: platinum record or a number one song. He never even
Speaker 1: knew me on to have any because that was my
Speaker 1: first mainstream single, So he never even knew me to
Speaker 1: have any mainstream song on the radio. Isn't that ironic?
Speaker 1: Like just a few months after was when I wrote
Speaker 1: that song. And maybe that was by design, you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe that was the destiny of Backgroad song. Was
Speaker 1: it took It took Dad, and it took me wanting
Speaker 1: to be happy and wanting to smile and wanting to
Speaker 1: have that nostalgic feeling of driving down the road and
Speaker 1: no troubles, not a single worry in the world. Windows down,
Speaker 1: radio up, what's the rhythm of that song, what does
Speaker 1: that song feel like? And to me, it would be
Speaker 1: a song let's cut to the chase and just called
Speaker 1: Backroad song. And I want to play you the work
Speaker 1: tape of Backroad Song. This has never been heard before.
Speaker 1: This has never been played anywhere outside my closest family circle.
Speaker 1: I don't my band hasn't even heard this old work tape.
Speaker 1: But it's an example of not only of the work
Speaker 1: tapes that I was making for every song I was writing.
Speaker 1: But I also want you to hear this because I
Speaker 1: was just listening to it on the plane, because it's
Speaker 1: really interesting. One more little story before I play it.
Speaker 1: I got connected that year twenty fourteen with an old
Speaker 1: producer friend of mine named Frank Rogers. And I think
Speaker 1: I've talked about Frank on this podcast, But Frank produced
Speaker 1: the Rimington album. And he's a long time Brad Paisley producer,
Speaker 1: Darius Rucker, Josh Turner, there's a kind of a long list,
Speaker 1: Scotty McCreery. There's a long list of not only Frank
Speaker 1: is produced, but he's also written a lot of big hits.
Speaker 1: And when Frank and I kind of agreed to do
Speaker 1: a project together which was going to become the four
Speaker 1: x four EP, which then evolved into the Rimington album.
Speaker 1: He said, hey, send me some songs you have, And
Speaker 1: Frank's really good at taking kind of the components of
Speaker 1: a song, the fundamentals of a song, and digging in
Speaker 1: and making it become a radio song or a mainstream song.
Speaker 1: He's really good at kind of taking what the song
Speaker 1: is and then like rearranging these words here and flip
Speaker 1: flopping this this here and putting She's kind of like
Speaker 1: he has the puzzle pieces and it makes it. It
Speaker 1: makes a cool picture, but he could make it a
Speaker 1: beautiful painting if he kind of really dives into those pieces.
Speaker 1: And so what you're gonna hear is the original backroad
Speaker 1: song that I wrote. And then this is what I
Speaker 1: sent to Frank. And then Frank called me and goes, dude,
Speaker 1: backroad song that sounds like a hit. He goes, come
Speaker 1: to my house. Let's let's work on a few things,
Speaker 1: and then you'll be able to hear the changes that
Speaker 1: we made together. There's nothing like that rhythm of a
Speaker 1: back road. They're putting melodies in my head and barbed
Speaker 1: wire fence carvering out of hillside, red sunset slinging dust
Speaker 1: on a nom gray blacktop. I hear the thirty five
Speaker 1: whistling by steer the wheel one handed on a two lane,
Speaker 1: hugging that line. I got the wind those down. No
Speaker 1: one else around singing. You't know, mister myvi bling on
Speaker 1: out here cooking two back rows song, A few wheels
Speaker 1: of a malady. It's so sweet that I want to
Speaker 1: sing a long full of cup to the radio. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is my back road song. I'm pulling up to
Speaker 1: a no green tractor. I hammerd down and a passing moon.
Speaker 1: A breeze smells like a summertime hayfield has just been cut.
Speaker 1: I got to wind those downs way out of town,
Speaker 1: singing reader, mister mob, I'm known and known. How you
Speaker 1: including to a back room song? A few music a melody?
Speaker 1: It's so sweet that I want to sing along. You
Speaker 1: look up to the radio. This is my back road song.
Speaker 1: It's not the kind of song about h there's no heart,
Speaker 1: eggs are breaking up. It's not the kind of day
Speaker 1: for that stuff. Free you the mister moth. I'm really on.
Speaker 1: Who I hear recruding to a back roll song? Pull
Speaker 1: the wheels like a malady. It's so sweet that I
Speaker 1: want to sing along. Bill a cup to the radio,
Speaker 1: and this is my back roll song, bill a cup
Speaker 1: to the radio. H this is my back roll song.
Speaker 1: This is my back roll song. The rhythm Huel, the
Speaker 1: rhythm mother feeling my back room song. That's the end
Speaker 1: of money. That's the Ranthom money pulling my back movie song.
Speaker 1: That's the real mother pull of my back huts on
Speaker 1: feud in the living, the in the mother live in
Speaker 1: my back roll song. So those of you that have
Speaker 1: heard that song for a long time, you probably heard
Speaker 1: that version, and it's like, oh makes your ears tweak
Speaker 1: when you hear those different words that are in the
Speaker 1: spots they're not supposed to be, but that's just because
Speaker 1: you're used to the radio version. So Frank gets his
Speaker 1: song and he's like, man, this is awesome, but I
Speaker 1: could tell you could you could tell right off the
Speaker 1: bat like what he said. He said, Man, I love
Speaker 1: barbire fence carving out of hillside. Let's just make that
Speaker 1: the first line. I was like, Okay, that's cool. And
Speaker 1: then there's the part in the chorus about what was it?
Speaker 1: What was it say? Get a cup turn the radio
Speaker 1: fill a cup, turn the radio up. This is my
Speaker 1: back roub song. And Frank was like, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? Are you drinking and driving? I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess we shouldn't even insinuate that that's
Speaker 1: what we might be doing. And then and then the uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. I I looked at the bridge and it
Speaker 1: says old green tractor, and I was like, man, it
Speaker 1: might be cool to say old New Holland, you know,
Speaker 1: cause you'd have the old and new right together. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a kind of sounds kind of song right
Speaker 1: to hit the brakes for an old New Holland. That's
Speaker 1: so that was an easy change. And then the bridge.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because now you see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: With what I was going through with my dad, I
Speaker 1: was I was trying to write a song that was like, Man,
Speaker 1: hell no, this ain't no song about love or it's
Speaker 1: not the kind of day for that stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: And Frank gets ahold of it, and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get that that's on your mind.
Speaker 1: But man, I feel like we got to bring a
Speaker 1: girl into this song. I feel like we got to
Speaker 1: be pulling up like the whole thing was cruising to
Speaker 1: go and pick her up. She slides on in this truck.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that could make this day better.
Speaker 1: That type of idea, and you know what, he was right,
Speaker 1: And who knows, Maybe the song was a hit because
Speaker 1: of that. Maybe not, But it's cool now that now
Speaker 1: that background song has a girl in it instead of
Speaker 1: their original way I wrote it was like making sure
Speaker 1: that everyone knew it absolutely wasn't about a relationship of
Speaker 1: any kind. You know, there's the time and a place
Speaker 1: for those kind of songs too. You know, I have
Speaker 1: kind of looking at this hard drive. I have so
Speaker 1: much old stuff, like old memories and work type Like
Speaker 1: if you've heard a song of mine, there is a
Speaker 1: work tape version and it's probably not the same as
Speaker 1: the song, you know, So I've got maybe I've just
Speaker 1: been uh, maybe I've been bored over the years, but
Speaker 1: I've documented everything pretty well. I still have all these
Speaker 1: poets logs, which I know I was playing on one
Speaker 1: of these last podcast episodes. It's like these little voice
Speaker 1: memos I would say on my phone and kind of
Speaker 1: talk about where we were at the time. In fact,
Speaker 1: here's one, this is one I'll play right now. Of
Speaker 1: our last van trip. Right before we were going to
Speaker 1: a bus like we had the new bus. It wasn't new,
Speaker 1: it was used, but it was new to us, ready
Speaker 1: to go at home, and we were making one more
Speaker 1: run in the van. This is in two thy thirteen.
Speaker 1: Here it is all right, it's October the fourteenth, right,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. What's going on? Wait on, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff
Speaker 1: is uh inside McDonald's. He likes to wait for everybody
Speaker 1: else to get their food. Let the plays clear out
Speaker 1: real well, and then before he gets his food, before
Speaker 1: he even goes in. And this is the last trip
Speaker 1: in the van. Yeah, it's the final excursion. I'm pissed
Speaker 1: off about it. I want to stand in the van
Speaker 1: for forever. Yeah. God doesn't mind because he doesn't jive.
Speaker 1: So I've got those little memory gems for days on
Speaker 1: this computer and maybe if I keep making more episodes,
Speaker 1: I'll eventually play them all in here. So I'm about
Speaker 1: to run in here soundcheck and Spokane. And I'm proud
Speaker 1: of myself that I'm back to the podcast. All those
Speaker 1: dudes that were yelling bring back the podcast, Hey here
Speaker 1: I am bro I'm back, and I want you guys,
Speaker 1: please to go to social media and tell me what
Speaker 1: you would like to hear more of hashtag Grangersmith podcast,
Speaker 1: Insta or Facebook or Twitter, whatever your favorite is. Hey,
Speaker 1: you could also watch a Smith's episode if you haven't already,
Speaker 1: go comment below one of those videos and tell me
Speaker 1: about what you want to hear on the podcast there
Speaker 1: because I also check those comments. That's another way. Or
Speaker 1: you can come to meet and greet, which is how
Speaker 1: I've been hearing about this recently from people that want
Speaker 1: to hear the podcast back is just go to the
Speaker 1: meet and greet you could get. You can get a
Speaker 1: meet and greet for any of my shows on grangersmith
Speaker 1: dot com. Go to the tour schedule or dates or
Speaker 1: whatever it's called tab and each tour d eight how
Speaker 1: a little little square that says meet granger and hit
Speaker 1: that and then gives you an opportunity to meet me
Speaker 1: at each and every show and then we could talk
Speaker 1: about this and if I keep them all like this,
Speaker 1: this is actually manageable for me because I've sat down,
Speaker 1: I've only been here like what forty five minutes, and
Speaker 1: the sucker's done, I get to go do sound check.
Speaker 1: I want to continue the story from that Frank Rogers
Speaker 1: story of background song. We released it independently and then
Speaker 1: that was still before I got a record deal. Now,
Speaker 1: getting a record deal was a life dream of mine.
Speaker 1: And that's a whole different story. And I'll tell you soon.
Speaker 1: See you guys. Happens out of the blue scados Iner
Speaker 1: Blue last year. When it happenside nothing, the MoES turns
Speaker 1: right into you. Do it or you can do just
Speaker 1: to keep her around you. The moon goes down in
Speaker 1: your back, into your house. One thing was doing another.
Speaker 1: You love in each other when you can, you never
Speaker 1: look back. It happens like that. Spanks for listening to
Speaker 1: the granger Smith podcast. I hope to see you on tour.
Speaker 1: Go to grangersmith dot com Forward slash tour. See you soon,