Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to it, everybody. Yeah. Yeah, So this was
Speaker 1: the episode where we were nervous for two reasons. One,
Speaker 1: we just set the student bye. We Mike de settled
Speaker 1: it all up. It's like two days at the studio
Speaker 1: up uh so. And then two it was Kimberly Slatman
Speaker 1: from a little big town who just personally I really like,
Speaker 1: and we were messing with somebody we really liked and
Speaker 1: a new studios. We're a little nervous before we went
Speaker 1: into it. So that being said, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy this. I'm just a big, little big town fan.
Speaker 1: It's episode one sixteen of the Bobby Cast. Does she
Speaker 1: reference that she was late and I felt back Listen,
Speaker 1: I moved to a new place. Traffics terrible. I was like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. But yeah, she felt super guilty.
Speaker 1: But she brought food. Listen. If anybody listen to this
Speaker 1: and you want to bring food, you have ten minutes.
Speaker 1: You have a window. You have a good window now.
Speaker 1: But she's really really the best. I think you'll hear that.
Speaker 1: Let me say this though a couple of things. One
Speaker 1: that there's some really great episodes in the past. If
Speaker 1: you want to catch up if you're a new listener.
Speaker 1: The woman Red Akins is Fantastic talks about his career
Speaker 1: as an artist, his career as a songwriter, also being
Speaker 1: Thomas Right's dad. Like check that one out or check
Speaker 1: out another one of the podcasts on the Nashville Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: Jake Owen has a podcast called good Company, Really Good.
Speaker 1: The guys from Whiskey Riff. They're big fans of country music.
Speaker 1: You know, they bring artists by, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: very much the fan perspective called Whiskey Riff Raff. Christian
Speaker 1: Bush from sugar Land talks about things like friends or
Speaker 1: it's called geeking Out where he talks to people about
Speaker 1: things that are really really geeky about. And then Velvet's
Speaker 1: Edge is a new podcast if you're listening and you
Speaker 1: love style. I think one of the last ones was
Speaker 1: Kelly Henderson and Amy from My Bobby Bones Show. So
Speaker 1: search Velvet's Edge. So here you are an episode one
Speaker 1: sixteen with Kimberly Schlapman. How does this sound good? Sounds
Speaker 1: really good? Yeah, new equipment. You may not know the difference.
Speaker 1: My ear is not even as trained as Mike ds
Speaker 1: is for audio. We have new microphones, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: excited about this. So here we go, Episode one six,
Speaker 1: Team from a Little Big Town. Kimberly Schlapman. All right,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of the Bobby Cast. This is
Speaker 1: the first time we've used the studio, so this table
Speaker 1: is much shorter than I'm remember sitting this close to anyone. No,
Speaker 1: I never have. I don't mean that like in a
Speaker 1: good or bad way, but it's kind of so. Kemberly
Speaker 1: Slapman is here and I can I can reach out
Speaker 1: and touch you here. And in the past, yes, in
Speaker 1: the past, we've had these big recliners which looked sloppy,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to change it up. But I didn't
Speaker 1: know we'd be able to reach out and give each
Speaker 1: other high fives. Mike de So, how are you good.
Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm so happy to do this. I've been
Speaker 1: looking for We've been trying to work this out for
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, but I'm gone, You're gone. We have
Speaker 1: to traveling themes. Yeah, you guys go hard? When do
Speaker 1: you not go hard? Because you guys, You guys are reminiscent,
Speaker 1: Like I see you guys in the road because I
Speaker 1: follow you guys on Instagram and I feel like I
Speaker 1: know everybody from Instagram me too, and I feel like
Speaker 1: you and I are friends over Instagram. There's this, but
Speaker 1: there's this like weird part of life where you can
Speaker 1: we don't have each other's text, but I needed it
Speaker 1: on the way over here because I was seven minutes later,
Speaker 1: you're killing you. There was nothing terrible over here, but
Speaker 1: we don't. There's like three levels. There's email, there's Insta
Speaker 1: Story friends, and then there's text, and so we'll actually
Speaker 1: send messages on Insta Story. So we're at that level.
Speaker 1: So by the end of this though, let's just trade
Speaker 1: fund number. Sure. In my life, I don't bother people.
Speaker 1: What did you bring over over to the house? Some
Speaker 1: kind of food I brought you? Slap happy bars those.
Speaker 1: My husband's name is Steve, but so is my late husband,
Speaker 1: So I don't call my current husband Steve because that
Speaker 1: would be weird to be married. It is already weird.
Speaker 1: I'm married to Steve's so the second Steve I call
Speaker 1: schlap because our last name is Schlapman. So there. Starbucks
Speaker 1: once made this bar that he was crazy about and
Speaker 1: they quit making it, and he loved it so much
Speaker 1: that I decided I would figure it out for myself,
Speaker 1: so they discontinued it. But I figured it out. I
Speaker 1: figured it out, and um, I call him schlap happy
Speaker 1: bars because they make him very happy. So I brought
Speaker 1: you a plate of appreciate and I know you don't
Speaker 1: eat much of that, but just indulge. You do look
Speaker 1: well you know this too. Whenever you can get on TV,
Speaker 1: you do look bigger. Listen, one time I was at
Speaker 1: my sister's church down in Georgia and this lady walked
Speaker 1: up and she goes, oh, honey, you look a whole
Speaker 1: lot bigger on t V. How do you cook so
Speaker 1: much but you're so skinny. I'm just careful. I eat
Speaker 1: like I already ate a slap happy bar at my
Speaker 1: house when I cut them. But um, but then I won't.
Speaker 1: I'll just be careful the rest of the day. I
Speaker 1: just take it like day. But but if I if
Speaker 1: I go to my mama's house and have biscuits and gravy,
Speaker 1: which I'm not going to turn down, then for the
Speaker 1: next day or two I'll be just real strict. I
Speaker 1: think it's about moderation. I really do, because I do indulge,
Speaker 1: but then I'll restrain when I waited tables, So I
Speaker 1: gotta say I didn't eat a lot of the food
Speaker 1: that I was serving. Yeah, I've waited tables here too.
Speaker 1: You wait tables here in Brentwood at a little cafe
Speaker 1: called Maggie's Cafe. It's not open anymore. What was What
Speaker 1: was your job like that when you waited tables? What
Speaker 1: do I just served? I've took um the orders and
Speaker 1: took it back to the kitchen and handed it in
Speaker 1: and then took it to the table. Oh, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was when I first got here. Yeah, it was a little, tiny,
Speaker 1: little lunch cafe. It was just lunch only in Brentwood.
Speaker 1: And so what would you do You work in the
Speaker 1: daytime and then seeing at night. Yeah, I was working
Speaker 1: in the daytime, and then Karen and I would hang
Speaker 1: out at night and dream and brainstorm and figure out.
Speaker 1: We knew we wanted to do something together. I know
Speaker 1: you talked to Karen through all this on her podcast,
Speaker 1: But we we knew we wanted to do something together,
Speaker 1: but we just didn't know what. And for months and
Speaker 1: months and months we tried to figure it out. And
Speaker 1: we just hang out together all the time. And you
Speaker 1: guys went to school together and you were friends through school,
Speaker 1: moved to Nashville and still stayed friends. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: met in college and we were in there at Sanford.
Speaker 1: They Sanford University in Birmingham. They have this incredible a
Speaker 1: cappella choir, and so we literally met on the bus
Speaker 1: going to choir camp. She was sitting in front of me,
Speaker 1: I was behind her, and we struck up a conversation
Speaker 1: because we were both from Georgia. And I mean, I
Speaker 1: I remember that vividly. I remember the seats and everything,
Speaker 1: and her face and her long Amy Grant hair which
Speaker 1: she had back then, and I just remember the conversation
Speaker 1: and and stracking up a friendship that has lasted a very,
Speaker 1: very decades, very long time. Then individually, we both moved
Speaker 1: here to Nashville. She came first. Oh you guys didn't
Speaker 1: move at the same time. No, because we never did
Speaker 1: talk about doing anything in country music together until both
Speaker 1: of us got here, because we were all just always
Speaker 1: just really good friends. We had so we had already
Speaker 1: at that point experienced so much fun stuff together, and
Speaker 1: so we just kept in touch and we would just say.
Speaker 1: It first started with you know, we're both here in town,
Speaker 1: let's go to lunch, let's just catch up. Did you
Speaker 1: guys ever consider just being a duo a female duo?
Speaker 1: Was that a thing? Even? I mean the Judds, the
Speaker 1: Juds and the chicks were really hot at that time,
Speaker 1: so we didn't want to do an all girl thing.
Speaker 1: And that's why we thought, let's let's put a male,
Speaker 1: at least one male. Le's took up with some you
Speaker 1: know guy and start singing. And then and then somewhere
Speaker 1: along the way, we decided, well if we had two
Speaker 1: guys and we could do even better harmony. Um. So
Speaker 1: at first we were singing with Jimmy for many months,
Speaker 1: so as you Karen and Jimmy right. And then first
Speaker 1: of all, it took when Karen and I finally were like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just do a mixed group. It took us probably
Speaker 1: a year to even start singing with Jimmy just to
Speaker 1: figure it out. And then it took us many many
Speaker 1: more months to find Philip, and then finally in I
Speaker 1: think it was late not it was the fall of
Speaker 1: n when we first sang together in my living room,
Speaker 1: and that was the beginning. But even those guys like
Speaker 1: they probably came to town looking to do their own thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all did. Karen was gonna do country music. I
Speaker 1: was gonna do country music on our own thing. Yeah, Philip, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: everybody was just going to chase their own dreams. Is
Speaker 1: there a bit of an ego drop to go, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm part of a group. I didn't come as
Speaker 1: a band and now we're a band. It's like a
Speaker 1: relationship almost where there's a lot of compromise that then
Speaker 1: goes in. Yeah, but I don't. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was an ego thing at all. I think it We
Speaker 1: were so excited about the idea um and we had
Speaker 1: all been in groups before, well, Karen and I had,
Speaker 1: Jimmy had, and Philip had sung with his family a
Speaker 1: lot at his mom's um country music theater in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: So we had all, you know, had that experience and
Speaker 1: we loved being in groups. So you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't like it was a compromise or anything. Is
Speaker 1: there a code with you guys, because you're all of
Speaker 1: you guys are notoriously super nice like always to me
Speaker 1: at least, I don't know how you are everybody else,
Speaker 1: but you are super kind and you've been kind to
Speaker 1: me even when people weren't kind to me when I
Speaker 1: came to town and I was the guy that was
Speaker 1: trouble or the guy that was different. You guys were
Speaker 1: always so nice to me. And I'll always be thankful
Speaker 1: because you are nice to me when other people weren't.
Speaker 1: But I wonder, is there some kind of secret code
Speaker 1: in the band where you have to be nicer and
Speaker 1: then when you get away you're just mean? Ever? But
Speaker 1: are you? Is that? Is it like written somewhere that
Speaker 1: you guys really try to be kind? Everybody's not written anywhere.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's just how we were raised. We
Speaker 1: were just raised on some good Southern roots to treat
Speaker 1: people well. All four of you guys. It's hard. Usually
Speaker 1: there's a turd in there somewhere. And I've been able
Speaker 1: to be friends with Philip a bit outside of the
Speaker 1: music world, Philip and his wife and so. And he's
Speaker 1: the quietest of all four of you guys. Yeah. Sometimes
Speaker 1: well whenever you guys come in and do you know publicity, Okay,
Speaker 1: he usually doesn't say much. And he's who I've probably
Speaker 1: become socially the friendliest, right, And he's super nice. And
Speaker 1: he's the least nice because he doesn't talk as much. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys have always been super super kind since the
Speaker 1: very beginning. And I just if that was like because
Speaker 1: our show, you know, we have roles on the show,
Speaker 1: in radio show. I do wonder if you guys had
Speaker 1: a role, like, Okay, even you're feeling bad, you got
Speaker 1: the rules. You have to be nice and if you're
Speaker 1: not nice, you can find a thousand dollars. That's hilarious. No, no,
Speaker 1: nothing like that. I feel like, um, I feel like
Speaker 1: the reason maybe that you would say we're all nice
Speaker 1: still is because of our journey, because it wasn't handed
Speaker 1: to us on a silver platter. We worked so very
Speaker 1: very hard and we are very very grateful for what
Speaker 1: we've been given and know that any day, you know,
Speaker 1: it could it could go away. But I think that
Speaker 1: that appreciation just keeps us grounded and helps us remember that,
Speaker 1: you know, remember what the other way was lack and
Speaker 1: and and just just you know, my just my parents
Speaker 1: taught me to treat people well and to be good
Speaker 1: to everybody. And you know, you never know what somebody
Speaker 1: else is going through, even if they're you know, ugly
Speaker 1: or mean, you never know why they might be ugly
Speaker 1: in me, and you don't know what's going on at home,
Speaker 1: so just be sweet to him. I feel like a
Speaker 1: bit and maybe more than a bit. But Keith Urban's
Speaker 1: like that too, because I'll talk to Keith even outside
Speaker 1: of the world of whatever we're in, and keeps always
Speaker 1: super kind to everyone. But I'll talk to him, and
Speaker 1: you know, keeps going to a lot of drug issues
Speaker 1: and we talk about we we'll talk about that because
Speaker 1: my my mom died of you know, drugs and or
Speaker 1: forties and I was around that my whole life. And
Speaker 1: so I think he's been a little more open with
Speaker 1: me about that. And he'll talk about not even remembering
Speaker 1: yours and being rude, and I think now he appreciates,
Speaker 1: and so that makes him kind and I hope that's
Speaker 1: what makes me nice because I get it. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys are just you. And I have only have
Speaker 1: like three plaques. I have that one you guys gave me,
Speaker 1: and I don't keep plaques. I normally don't even take plaques,
Speaker 1: but that one. I have that one. And then it's
Speaker 1: it's a girl crush plaque. That's before it even sold
Speaker 1: all of it, like that's way. But then Lorie, that
Speaker 1: the whole group and Hillary, they all they did a
Speaker 1: handwritten lyric and given it is it really kind of that,
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Speaker 1: get the deal right there. So you're a mom twice
Speaker 1: now and you have a baby baby, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a one year old. Whenever you came in, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: how you know has your girlfriend? I was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't go au Frond like six months and you said,
Speaker 1: forgive me, Oh my goodness, that little angel phase she
Speaker 1: she she you know, she requires a lot of time,
Speaker 1: and I don't. I feel like I really have felt
Speaker 1: the last six months like I'm struggling socially to keep
Speaker 1: up with what is happening in this world. It's so
Speaker 1: weird how I feel like I know things about social media?
Speaker 1: Does it? But I know? I watch your daughter and
Speaker 1: your husband Karate Taekwonda, Oh my goodness, they just got
Speaker 1: their black belts. I saw that, and that's and oddly
Speaker 1: I'm proud of them. Listen. I told Daisy I was
Speaker 1: coming to see you today, and she said, oh, I
Speaker 1: love Bobby Bones. When I tell her that you know,
Speaker 1: she got her black belt. She's going to feel like
Speaker 1: the biggest kid in the on Instagram And I was like,
Speaker 1: and then I watched after she finished a singing recital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all that that's why I feel like I know you.
Speaker 1: I think we all feel a bit like I know
Speaker 1: each other more than we do. Yeah. So how old
Speaker 1: does she? She's tin And then you have a one
Speaker 1: year old. Dolly is one, so she's sixteen months. So
Speaker 1: you've done it before. So is it harder the second time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's a decade later, mama is older. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's I mean, I guess it's harder physically, but
Speaker 1: oh my word, it's this the sweetest thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the best. The best part of my laugh is
Speaker 1: being a mama. Ah, you look forward to going home.
Speaker 1: I love it. They go with me on the road,
Speaker 1: though I don't leave them. I rarely ever have to
Speaker 1: leave him at home. Um, but yeah, I love if
Speaker 1: I've been working all day in town and I walk
Speaker 1: in the door and Daisies like mommy, and Dolly starts
Speaker 1: running towards me. There's nothing better. Amy, my co host,
Speaker 1: adopted two children and it was a five year process
Speaker 1: for the kids to get here, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was obviously a whole different situation, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: in a third hand way, I know what it's like
Speaker 1: to at least be close to someone who goes to
Speaker 1: the process. And so how long were you in the
Speaker 1: adoption process? Well, Um, Daisy started praying for a baby
Speaker 1: when she was five years old. She wanted a baby
Speaker 1: brother or sister. She didn't care what, she just wanted
Speaker 1: a baby brother sister. So we were trying to have
Speaker 1: another baby very hard. We did everything you know, under
Speaker 1: the sun medically that we could do, and so then
Speaker 1: we decided, well, maybe God that's not in his will.
Speaker 1: Maybe he just wants us to adopt a baby because
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to adopt a child. So we started
Speaker 1: the process um, and they told us it would be
Speaker 1: eighteen months at least we'd waited eighteen months, and we
Speaker 1: were like, oh, that's a big bummer, but okay, because
Speaker 1: we were doing it domestically. Um, and lo and behold,
Speaker 1: it happened. About four months later. I got a call
Speaker 1: about Dolly. It just happened. It just you know, it
Speaker 1: was just this fluke thing that happened. And someone called
Speaker 1: and said there's a baby girl. Are you interested? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: But here's the great thing. Um. That was in Um
Speaker 1: January of two thousand seventeen, and Daisy had asked Santa
Speaker 1: Claus for a baby that year we got her when
Speaker 1: whenever she asked, did you know no, no, and my
Speaker 1: husband and I were like, oh, baby, you and asked Santa.
Speaker 1: But you know, Santa really we really didn't have control
Speaker 1: over that. So you know, I mean, he probably talks
Speaker 1: to Jesus so you can have him, you know, put
Speaker 1: in a good word. But but I don't think Santa
Speaker 1: can do that. And even when she sat on Santa's lap,
Speaker 1: he said, oh, she sat on his lap and asked him,
Speaker 1: and and before she got out there, I was like, baby,
Speaker 1: you know he probably I don't know what he's going
Speaker 1: to say to this because I don't know Santa can
Speaker 1: even Santa can do this. And so she said, um,
Speaker 1: I wanted the only thing I want this Christmas is
Speaker 1: a baby, and I know you might not can do it,
Speaker 1: but if you talk to Jesus, would you tell him
Speaker 1: that I want a baby? And that's what we got.
Speaker 1: So whenever you told her, did you tell her at
Speaker 1: Christmas Okay, I got a text on my phone and said,
Speaker 1: there's a baby, are you interested? And we were um
Speaker 1: out of town. We were, she, myself and my husband
Speaker 1: were all sitting on the bed together very late at night,
Speaker 1: and when I read that text, it took my breath
Speaker 1: and I went and of course Dasy's like, what what what? What? What?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it? So I turned my
Speaker 1: phone so that she and my husband could see it,
Speaker 1: and oh. She burst into tears and started jumping up,
Speaker 1: jumping up and down on the bed saying thank you Jesus,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jesus, thank you Jesus, jumping up crying. And
Speaker 1: my husband are like, baby, hey, we don't know if
Speaker 1: this is our baby. We don't know, we don't know,
Speaker 1: and she was going I believe it as I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe, and she was really so emotional, and it
Speaker 1: was just one of the most beautiful visions I still have.
Speaker 1: It will last me my whole life, just her on
Speaker 1: that little bit, jumping up and down crying because she
Speaker 1: knew that was her baby. That's crazy. It's crazy that
Speaker 1: she asked Santa. She did. She wanted it so bad
Speaker 1: and now she's the best little mother. She loves that
Speaker 1: baby to pieces. Yeah, okay, gratulations, that's a special How
Speaker 1: important it's faith to you? Most important? Yeah? It is
Speaker 1: most important. Um. I just I have a very strong faith.
Speaker 1: I grew up that way, my parents raised me that way,
Speaker 1: and I just believe that my whole life is because
Speaker 1: of God and what He's given me. And I've been
Speaker 1: incredibly blessed and I've been through a lot of hardship also,
Speaker 1: and um, but what He's given me now I could
Speaker 1: have never even dreamed or I've never could have even
Speaker 1: dreamed up, both business wise and personal mostly really, what
Speaker 1: kind of church did you grow up in? Southern Baptists?
Speaker 1: So did? I? YEA a non dancing because we weren't.
Speaker 1: They let us dance. They let us dance that we
Speaker 1: were a non drinking one though the only down there
Speaker 1: if you were a Southern Baptist, only way you could
Speaker 1: drink is if you were in the closet. You had
Speaker 1: the hide in your closet, and you know, nobody And
Speaker 1: maybe I was just a kid and my parents didn't
Speaker 1: go to church with me, so I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I went to us in Arkansas, Southern Baptist Church and
Speaker 1: it was pretty free considering what a lot of we
Speaker 1: were to church camp and they would be hardcore. I
Speaker 1: mean there were kids that couldn't dance. It was like footloose.
Speaker 1: We would go to church camp and there were other
Speaker 1: kids that were they were in footloose um and they
Speaker 1: couldn't dance. I thought it was so crazy that we were.
Speaker 1: We danced, did you have because we would go it.
Speaker 1: I went to I was in a very small town.
Speaker 1: How big was your town? Oh? I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I really don't even know. I still don't know. It
Speaker 1: was we had one high school in our whole county,
Speaker 1: and there's about in our in my class, my graduation
Speaker 1: class there was like okay, well mine was like forty
Speaker 1: oh years was smaller, probably the same type of area. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very rural. Not his rural anymore? Is your town are
Speaker 1: they super? Kimberly Slapman's from here? This is embarrassing, But
Speaker 1: like three years ago they had Kimberly Schlapman Day on
Speaker 1: my birthday. It was the whole big It was sweet,
Speaker 1: really sweet and precious, and that year that day we
Speaker 1: announced a scholarship that we do now every year down
Speaker 1: there to someone in the high school because it's really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's been the coolest part of any sort of success
Speaker 1: that I've been able to have. One they put up
Speaker 1: a sign when you're drive into my town. I didn't
Speaker 1: put it up. I've seen it on Instagram Boo boyhood
Speaker 1: home and I'm proud of my hometown. And I didn't
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna put that sign up. But I
Speaker 1: started a scholarship at my school too, and I give
Speaker 1: it to a senior. And I was driving in and
Speaker 1: Amy my coast and my girlfriend at the time. We
Speaker 1: were driving and I had no idea and it was raining,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what did that sign? You didn't
Speaker 1: know it was there. I had no idea. It was
Speaker 1: really one of the coolest moments. And I don't have
Speaker 1: a bad problem with taking in cool things like I
Speaker 1: really it's helped me to appreciate awesome moments because I
Speaker 1: feel like they're fleeting and so yeah, it's a whole
Speaker 1: therapy thing. Yeah, I was going to go there, but
Speaker 1: I didn't want to. But I know I know why,
Speaker 1: because that because you were disappointed in your young laft
Speaker 1: and so that's what you expect always. But I really
Speaker 1: took that and I'm like, man, although my town is
Speaker 1: seven seven and seventy seven people. That's the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: They have a son and listeners will go in the
Speaker 1: old drive for hours and take a picture with the sign.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. That's what I think I've seen. I think
Speaker 1: I've seen a listener with the sun. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I don't even know why people like
Speaker 1: the show where like I really don't, like I say
Speaker 1: it on the air, like I'm confused as to why
Speaker 1: they're such passion for the show. Like I get Amy.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Amy. Well, of course she's a little angel.
Speaker 1: But I think first of all, it's very entertaining, and secondly,
Speaker 1: you give people an inside look at Nashville. They fishing,
Speaker 1: by the way, this is I'm not fishing. That's this
Speaker 1: is really what I believe. I believe that you give
Speaker 1: people such an insight in the city of Nashville and
Speaker 1: the workings of country music that they don't get anywhere else.
Speaker 1: You're like the live social media now Comfortable'm gonna change
Speaker 1: the subject here for a minute. You talk about the
Speaker 1: little bit town struggles. What was so the moment where
Speaker 1: you guys thought, I don't know if we can do
Speaker 1: this anymore. Well, we never collectively thought that, or at
Speaker 1: least we never collectively said it out loud. UM. I
Speaker 1: feel like we we had a few very very low points.
Speaker 1: One was after we lost our second record deal from Sony,
Speaker 1: and then one was when my husband died and and
Speaker 1: nothing was going well for us. At that point. We
Speaker 1: had written and recorded Boondocks, and so we had that
Speaker 1: in our back pocket, and and it was it was
Speaker 1: actually about to come out right around the time that
Speaker 1: he died, UM, and we were already signed to Equity Records,
Speaker 1: which was that little independent label that sold over a
Speaker 1: million records for us UM. But that was a very
Speaker 1: low moment. And told me much much later that she
Speaker 1: thought the band was probably over at that point, not
Speaker 1: that anybody wanted it to be, but they didn't know
Speaker 1: that I would want to continue UM. So we never
Speaker 1: ever said this isn't gonna work together, at least in
Speaker 1: my head. After he died, I was just so numb.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to really do anything. But I've showed up,
Speaker 1: you know. We went on the road a few weeks later,
Speaker 1: on the radio tour four Boondocks. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: I remember moments of that. I remember really really super
Speaker 1: sad moments of that, and then I remember a couple
Speaker 1: of highs. You know, I remember the first time we
Speaker 1: heard on the radio. That was really super cool because
Speaker 1: we've been struggling for at that point six years. We've
Speaker 1: been a band six years and so many struggles, and
Speaker 1: so when we heard it live for the first time,
Speaker 1: that was just amazing. Yeah. Do you think all four
Speaker 1: of you guys remember that hearing it for the first time.
Speaker 1: We were in a car together, and that was after
Speaker 1: Steve had died and we heard that and we just, oh,
Speaker 1: we celebrated. That's probably the first celebration or a moment
Speaker 1: that we had to celebrate after his death. You know,
Speaker 1: that was the first happy moment together. How high did
Speaker 1: this song elevate you guys as a band? Meaning did
Speaker 1: your guarantees go up? Did you make more money? Were
Speaker 1: you starting to get awards show bookings? Because of this song?
Speaker 1: We started making money, period. And when this song came out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had prior to that, we had told Cia to
Speaker 1: just book us for enough money to rent a van
Speaker 1: and pay for the gas and stop at McDonald's. That's
Speaker 1: all we needed. So there was no money coming in
Speaker 1: because well, anything that did come in went back out
Speaker 1: because of the expenses. It's very expensive to tour, whether
Speaker 1: you're in a minivan or you're in ten bus as
Speaker 1: you know, it's super expensive. It's all relative. But um,
Speaker 1: at that point we were just barely sometimes we make
Speaker 1: five and that was enough to rent a van and
Speaker 1: gas and food. Um. So yes, after Boondocks hit, you know,
Speaker 1: the money went up a little bit, the invites went
Speaker 1: up a lot and and the credibility went up a
Speaker 1: lot um because people they just so connected with that
Speaker 1: song and it became their anthem and it changed everything
Speaker 1: for us. What was the quickest thing that it changed, Um,
Speaker 1: probably our spirits. Yes, our spirits were kind of broken
Speaker 1: and wounded, and yeah, now we had something that people
Speaker 1: actually believed in us. And you know how that is.
Speaker 1: That's that's worth more than anything when someone who believes
Speaker 1: in you and invites you to come to shows. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this is so funny. We pulled up in
Speaker 1: a parking lot in I think it was Lexington, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: We pulled up in a parking like one not to
Speaker 1: sing this is rote when Boondocks had come out, and
Speaker 1: the parking lot was crammed full of people and it
Speaker 1: was just the four of us in this van, and
Speaker 1: we looked around, like, who are we opening up for?
Speaker 1: Who is this? Who's here tonight? We we genuinely wondered
Speaker 1: who was here that we were opening up for, and
Speaker 1: we found it it was for us, and that moment
Speaker 1: was like, holy cow, these people came to see us.
Speaker 1: This is amazing, um and that not. They asked for
Speaker 1: an encore, so we played all the songs we knew
Speaker 1: and they wanted an encore, so we played Boondocks again
Speaker 1: because we didn't have any more songs. That's Funny again
Speaker 1: and loved it. Yes, I love the end of the song,
Speaker 1: like my favorite parts, and so are all four of
Speaker 1: you guys on that and all going over the top.
Speaker 1: It starts around around Philip starts it, then Jimmy, then
Speaker 1: Karen than me. Yeah, because I was working a pop
Speaker 1: at the time. Still listen in the country, but not
Speaker 1: as much because I was totally in pop trying to
Speaker 1: build my own syndication. I was talking for the most part,
Speaker 1: but still all that have with pop music around me.
Speaker 1: But I remember that song because I plup over the
Speaker 1: country station and out here you get a line I
Speaker 1: We'll go fishing, and I was like, oh, I love
Speaker 1: that song, but you know, five cop Poker, that was
Speaker 1: that song. I don't sing it back to you because
Speaker 1: you know, I love it. And that's my favorite part
Speaker 1: of every single show that yes, because the crowd, well,
Speaker 1: the crowd sings that whole song. But at the end
Speaker 1: of that song usually that means the show's just about
Speaker 1: over and the crowd they'll pick their parts and they'll
Speaker 1: sing it. It's so much fun. Do you put that
Speaker 1: at the end of the show? Mostly yeah, And we've
Speaker 1: tried not putting it at the end of the shows.
Speaker 1: We've tried to put it up farther in the show,
Speaker 1: and then we get to the end of whatever, you
Speaker 1: know we're we end with and it's like, oh, nope,
Speaker 1: we needed to end with the knucks. Every time we
Speaker 1: experiment on something else, Nope. Whenever you guys get your
Speaker 1: clothes because you can and dressed so well, thank you
Speaker 1: differently but so well, thank you? Did they loan you this?
Speaker 1: Are you buying that stuff? Both? Because holy I know listen,
Speaker 1: Karen has a shopping problem. Everyone knows that. But it's
Speaker 1: working out really well for me and the rest of
Speaker 1: the van. She Um, she's got such a gift at
Speaker 1: fashion and putting things together, so we have it. We
Speaker 1: do things a couple of different ways. When we're on television,
Speaker 1: usually we have a stylus out in l A named
Speaker 1: Carla Welch, and she's amazing and she'll put looks for
Speaker 1: us together for all that, but then for tours and
Speaker 1: other things, Karen shops and pulls just incredible clothes and
Speaker 1: then we just kind of I mean, we also buy
Speaker 1: for ourselves. She doesn't buy everything, but she buys a lot.
Speaker 1: Like last night. I remember at the last show, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, from head to toe I'm Karen Fairchild
Speaker 1: because she bought everything I have on But um, I
Speaker 1: love it when she shops from me. She'll go out
Speaker 1: shopping and she'll be like, I bought you something. I
Speaker 1: was like, WHOA, I love that. I love that. Um.
Speaker 1: And so you know, every when we get ready for
Speaker 1: the show, we have these incredible wardrobe cases, which we
Speaker 1: used to not have and now we do, and they're
Speaker 1: just so amazing. So we keep all our tour clothes
Speaker 1: in him, and you know, we just all pick out
Speaker 1: what we want to wear. And sometimes Jim, you'll come
Speaker 1: in our room and I'll go, what color are you
Speaker 1: all wearing to that? And so we'll try to coordinate
Speaker 1: and look like we're going to the same party. But um,
Speaker 1: Karen pulls a lot of that for us. She picks
Speaker 1: a lot of that out for us. I have so
Speaker 1: intrigued because you guys dressed so well. But I wonder
Speaker 1: if it's on Instagram? Do you wear it again or
Speaker 1: is it dead? I wear it again, Yeah, yeah, just
Speaker 1: because that's how I was raised. I just I just
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem wearing again. Sometimes Karen's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you need to retire that, So yeah, I'll wear it again.
Speaker 1: What's been the biggest surprise in the little big town life?
Speaker 1: Like the whole the thing you really didn't think was
Speaker 1: going to work out that ended up going Wow? Why
Speaker 1: because you were working hard, obviously and grinding towards that
Speaker 1: first single. Obviously you expected something to paper. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: never continued to do it. What was the big one?
Speaker 1: Were you? Well? That was unexpected? Um? Maybe the Forrell
Speaker 1: record that we did. We got a phone call and
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. That was such a treat to make.
Speaker 1: What a genius he is. We adore him. We got
Speaker 1: a phone call and they said, do you want to
Speaker 1: Farrell wants to write with you? Like, what for? Wait Forrell? Yeah,
Speaker 1: heck yeah. So we booked a day with him and
Speaker 1: it was a day in Nashville. He came here. It
Speaker 1: was a day in Nashville where we had a little
Speaker 1: snow storm storm and you know how that that goes here,
Speaker 1: So that's everything down. We all made it to the
Speaker 1: studio and we started writting. We wrote two songs that day,
Speaker 1: and he said, let's come back tomorrow. So we said,
Speaker 1: of course. We came back to our I wrote another song.
Speaker 1: You wrote two songs the same day, a lot of songs.
Speaker 1: And with him and pop pop music, I guess this
Speaker 1: is pretty common. They write a song, but as they
Speaker 1: write it, they go ahead and record it. They start
Speaker 1: tracking it and go ahead and get it down, which
Speaker 1: we had never done before. And it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: So at the end of two days we had three
Speaker 1: songs written and recorded, and so he said, let's just
Speaker 1: do this again, and so we said, well sure, So
Speaker 1: we started just rotten more and more, and every time
Speaker 1: we wrote, we would get it cut. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to say, get it on tape, but you know
Speaker 1: how that goes. No, that's that sounds like I'm really old.
Speaker 1: But before we knew it, we had eight songs written
Speaker 1: and recorded and we weren't going to do anything with it.
Speaker 1: But then when we ended up with that many that
Speaker 1: we loved so much, we thought, wow, wouldn't we put
Speaker 1: it out? So let's just put it out. And you know,
Speaker 1: we weren't like trying to make a statement of that
Speaker 1: we're switching teams or anything like that. We just had
Speaker 1: a ball and he's so musical and we learned so
Speaker 1: much from him and ended up making a record. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the record, and I because you guys did a
Speaker 1: press tore two and Farrell came by the studio. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I loved it because I'm a big Farrell fan.
Speaker 1: I'm for all. It's got three different versions of Farrell,
Speaker 1: you know, his big band, his little band, just him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so that was really cool for me. What was
Speaker 1: frustrating a bit, though, was some of the Nashville old
Speaker 1: school country people are like, what's happening? How is a
Speaker 1: little big town with Pharrell? That's got to be a
Speaker 1: little bit unnerving, right, It's a little almost a little
Speaker 1: hurtful because we are to our bones country and we
Speaker 1: country music is our music, but we love all music
Speaker 1: and we the four of us is such a melting
Speaker 1: pot of influences, and when we were approached by someone
Speaker 1: as genius as Pharrell, we could not turn that down.
Speaker 1: And we were just having fun. We weren't taking ourselves
Speaker 1: too seriously. We weren't trying to, like I said before,
Speaker 1: go pop or change teams. We were just having a
Speaker 1: ball in the studio and that's all that was. When
Speaker 1: you write, are you a melody writer first? Or are
Speaker 1: you a lyric writer? Because it just for those listening.
Speaker 1: I have friends that are both, and some will sit
Speaker 1: with the guitar and just do that's a Buddha and
Speaker 1: then insert the words over the melody that's written. And
Speaker 1: some will write the words and then assign the melody
Speaker 1: to the lyric. How do you write? Usually to me personally,
Speaker 1: it's words that come first, and um, I'll make some notes,
Speaker 1: you know, something will come to me and I'll I'll
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I gotta write that down before I
Speaker 1: forget it, and then maybe later I'll work on some
Speaker 1: more lyric to go with it. And so so it's
Speaker 1: usually that that comes first in the early days that
Speaker 1: all you guys just sit around and write songs all
Speaker 1: the time. Is that what you did every day? Almost
Speaker 1: almost every day the first couple of years we were together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he sat around. Not many of them were very good,
Speaker 1: well early on they probably weren't. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: the story. I was talking to Ryan Herd, who's a songwriter, artist,
Speaker 1: and he's married to Maran now, but he has like,
Speaker 1: man I rose in terrible songs on my songwriter. I'm
Speaker 1: such a fan of songwriters, and he's a man I
Speaker 1: moved to town because he graduated with like a sociology degree.
Speaker 1: Really wasn't gonna do music. Wow. Yeah, And he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I started writing songs and they were really bad,
Speaker 1: but I thought I can improve at it. Like, man,
Speaker 1: they were so bad at the beginning. Yeah, some of
Speaker 1: ours were too, Some of were doozies. You ever keep
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it feels like not long ago.
Speaker 1: It's usually Philip that pulls out the old songs. He
Speaker 1: remembers every word, every every melody. Has there ever been
Speaker 1: a time with all four of you guys were so
Speaker 1: much said Hey, I want to step out and do
Speaker 1: something by myself. That never been a conversation, not even
Speaker 1: as a like a fun one song anything. No, Now
Speaker 1: Karen and Philip and Jimmy have um that's that makes
Speaker 1: that kind of hurts my feelings. But the three of
Speaker 1: them have been, you know, on other like duet on
Speaker 1: other projects like Karen and Luke, and no one ever
Speaker 1: want to put a single. We've never ever even talked
Speaker 1: about it. I've actually never even thought about that until
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Speaker 1: he said, how do you feel about doing a cooking show?
Speaker 1: And I was like, holy yah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean it. It had become a dream of mine
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Speaker 1: I cook for people a lot, and um, I love it.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a passion of mine a young girl, would
Speaker 1: you have rather been a singer or a chef? At
Speaker 1: ten years old? At ten years old, I started getting
Speaker 1: the singing bug because I had sung a little bit
Speaker 1: in church and then probably eleven I was probably my
Speaker 1: first talent show at eleven UM and then I really
Speaker 1: caught the bug but I always still cooked, but cooked,
Speaker 1: But then I didn't think about cooking as a as
Speaker 1: a career at that point when you say you caught
Speaker 1: the bug, was it because you were looking? Because for me,
Speaker 1: performing and doing stand up or being on the radio,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a search for some kind of love,
Speaker 1: Like I really is, Like that's that's I'm terrible at
Speaker 1: accepting it, and so I go on, I try to
Speaker 1: get it from strangers. It's back to your therapy part
Speaker 1: for sure. Absolutely, and so and that's not funny. I'm
Speaker 1: not laughing at that. But I think it's so self
Speaker 1: aware of it and I work on it. And but
Speaker 1: for me, that's where the performance comes in and I'm
Speaker 1: searching for some sort of validation or so, why you
Speaker 1: why did you start with singing? Were you just so
Speaker 1: good at it? You enjoy it? Were you looking for love? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I felt very loved. I wasn't looking for love. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, and I did. I did enjoy the the accolade,
Speaker 1: you know in the applause. I've had a talent, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like Taylor Swift good you know when I
Speaker 1: was a little but um, yeah, everybody around me, I
Speaker 1: thought that I was talented, which now that probably encouraged
Speaker 1: me to do another talent show and another talent show
Speaker 1: and then sing started singing for the Rotary Club or
Speaker 1: whoever would have me and my daddy would drive me,
Speaker 1: you know, all over the state of Georgia, whoever would
Speaker 1: listen to me sing for whatever function it was. And um,
Speaker 1: probably the encouragement of that grooma desire and you were
Speaker 1: good at you had a god given talent too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you take less you work on it? Did you? Um? Not?
Speaker 1: At first? My daddy is a singer and my sister
Speaker 1: is a singer. Um, so it was always we always
Speaker 1: did it. But I started taking voice lessons, uh late
Speaker 1: in high school and then in college. Is it a
Speaker 1: thing where what if one of you guys get sick?
Speaker 1: We ever fake it like one of you four and
Speaker 1: just move your mouth because it's such a full group.
Speaker 1: But you're probably so strong that maybe you don't have
Speaker 1: to sing that hard if one of you go down.
Speaker 1: Have you ever to do that? Oh? Yeah, we've We've
Speaker 1: had We've had each of us go down at some point.
Speaker 1: And we normally have so much fun in a show.
Speaker 1: We can't wait for the show. Which is the best
Speaker 1: part of the day. We can't wait to get out
Speaker 1: there and do it. But except for the days when
Speaker 1: somebody's down, because then we're each going, Okay, if it's Karen,
Speaker 1: then I got to cover her part on this, this,
Speaker 1: and this. If it's me, then Karen's got to cover
Speaker 1: my part. If it's Jimmy, you know, then we're all
Speaker 1: we're not able to just put it on copilot and
Speaker 1: do our thing. We're having to think super hard about Oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta cover that part. I gotta cover that part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we've We've had to do it plenty of times.
Speaker 1: Is there a single text thread that just you four
Speaker 1: keep like one text one group text? That is it?
Speaker 1: Is it labeled anything like us? Just it's just it's
Speaker 1: just it's just the four of us at this point.
Speaker 1: What do you for talk about? What at me thinking
Speaker 1: about the last one? Um? Oh goodness, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are many one on one conversations. Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 1: And and Karena I have the best ones because we
Speaker 1: get ready together in the same dressing room every night.
Speaker 1: So those are friends that Yeah, that's that's so rare
Speaker 1: and awesome. It's really special. And I know you're telling
Speaker 1: I'm acting a lily bit like I don't know that,
Speaker 1: but I know you're telling the truth because I'll see
Speaker 1: you guys back in the back and you're in the
Speaker 1: same dressing room. You're about big stars. You can have
Speaker 1: your own rooms, have your own buildings where we know
Speaker 1: what we did get this year, which has been such
Speaker 1: a treat and um, we've never ever had this before.
Speaker 1: We each have our own bus now and it's been
Speaker 1: really special. Um, the Westbrooks have a family bus. I
Speaker 1: have one and Philip. Now each of us also has
Speaker 1: a crew person um also on our bus, so it's
Speaker 1: not just our families. But that's been really really cool
Speaker 1: and special for our families, you know. But we still
Speaker 1: spend all the time together and get ready together and
Speaker 1: spend the whole day together. We park our buses in
Speaker 1: a little square so that we can all get out
Speaker 1: there in the mornings and the lounge chairs and watch
Speaker 1: the babies run around, and um, we're always together. Ok.
Speaker 1: Are you guys still liking each other? Yeah? We do.
Speaker 1: Like I have a staff of eight and you know,
Speaker 1: everybody that I've hired has been a friend. You know.
Speaker 1: I've been lucky that we did things a weird way
Speaker 1: as a radio show. Then we have any money. So
Speaker 1: I just brought my friends on. And we still like
Speaker 1: each other, you know, so as you talk about this,
Speaker 1: it's crazy for me to hear this, but I put
Speaker 1: the mirror up and I go, but you know, but
Speaker 1: you know, AY have it together almost fifteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can happen. There are still times like with Amy
Speaker 1: and we have this white board we keep up because
Speaker 1: Amy and I are together more than anybody else. So
Speaker 1: we in my office, there's a white board and we
Speaker 1: walk in right now, what number we feel like we
Speaker 1: are that day? One through ten? Like tin is great
Speaker 1: means I'm fantastic. I'm in a great mood. If you're
Speaker 1: down below four, it's like, give me a little space.
Speaker 1: And so we write this number down, so we have
Speaker 1: to fill each other out. It's just like, got it
Speaker 1: your fourth today? I know what something I didn't get
Speaker 1: me sleep? Maybe it's you know that is so smart.
Speaker 1: That's so smart, and it saves us any sort of
Speaker 1: you know, step each other's toes a bit, because you
Speaker 1: get really close when you spend that much time together,
Speaker 1: say just fights. That's really cool. Karen and I can
Speaker 1: read each other's mind. I know when she's a four
Speaker 1: and when she's a tin, just pretty much by spinning
Speaker 1: about three minutes with her in the morning, and she
Speaker 1: knows the same about me. Um, are you ever a ten? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like tin is a great right A lot. You seem
Speaker 1: like a super positive. I'm a tin a lot. I
Speaker 1: have my moments. You know, I'm real and normal And yeah,
Speaker 1: I was with your I was one seat back behind
Speaker 1: your husband and your daughter. We're flying Southwest, and they're
Speaker 1: like you, they're so not. Usually there's a yang. Usually
Speaker 1: there's because I feel like if I ever get married,
Speaker 1: if I ever get a girlfriend like she has to,
Speaker 1: I don't have much to say I want. When I'm
Speaker 1: not doing this, I'm very quiet, kind of solitude, and
Speaker 1: I feel like any time I've ever been with anyone,
Speaker 1: their big personality have to be to kind of make
Speaker 1: up for the fact that I'm not. Ddly, I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know. I do my my little song and dance
Speaker 1: and then I shut it down. And so you would
Speaker 1: think you would be with like, but he's the sweetest guy, sweetheart,
Speaker 1: No he yeah, he's is there too much sweetness? Now?
Speaker 1: Now he's a tough he's a tough dude. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he's not he and he's he's a he's strong,
Speaker 1: but he's beautifully strong, you know. He. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: he's the best to me. He picked me out out
Speaker 1: of the darkest, deepest hole and I never thought I
Speaker 1: would escape from and fixed me and is such a
Speaker 1: beautiful soul inside and out. I mean he is an
Speaker 1: incredible man and now an incredible daddy. You know you
Speaker 1: talk about your kids. Didn't you have your baby like
Speaker 1: right after a show? Now that I think about it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys were playing a show. Yes. So we were
Speaker 1: on the Martina McBride tour back in two thousand seven,
Speaker 1: and the tour had two more weeks left, and I
Speaker 1: had three more weeks left of my pregnancy. So you're
Speaker 1: nine months pregnant and you're still up there singing and
Speaker 1: they're singing and dancing. I was the happy. I wanted
Speaker 1: to baby my whole life. I wanted to be a mommy,
Speaker 1: So I was happy as a lark. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I was huge and happy. And I have a picture
Speaker 1: of the night that I went into labor and I
Speaker 1: was in six or seven inch wedge shoes. I still
Speaker 1: have nine months pregnant you so oh, so we The
Speaker 1: plan was, we'll finish up the Martina McBride tour in
Speaker 1: the next two weeks and I'll have one week to
Speaker 1: get my house all perfect and ready and pack my
Speaker 1: bag for the hospital, and I'll have a baby. But
Speaker 1: the good Lord had a different story. So um, we
Speaker 1: finished up a show on the Martina tour in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling very good that day, but I had
Speaker 1: a bad cold, so I thought, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: I'm just not I'm just tired and very pregnant. So um,
Speaker 1: I went and got my bunk after the show. Something
Speaker 1: woke me up two hours later, like a like a cramp,
Speaker 1: you could. So you're in a bunk to a nine
Speaker 1: months pregnant. It was in a bunk, a special bunk.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was. It was the you know the
Speaker 1: difference in the bunks. There's the bunks that are like coffins,
Speaker 1: are stacked three hot, and then then the condo bunks,
Speaker 1: which are real fancy and they're amazing. But we were
Speaker 1: was twelve of us still on this bus. So I
Speaker 1: was rolling in and out of the bottom bunk, not
Speaker 1: able to sit up her hardly able to get my
Speaker 1: belly and I was freend yeah, and I was on
Speaker 1: the bottom bottom of the you know, the three stacks,
Speaker 1: so I'll just roll in and roll out. So and
Speaker 1: um so it shocked me. I mean, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: the pickle jars in the grocery store. It wasn't that dramatic.
Speaker 1: But um so, I got up and I went to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and I'm on the bathroom and I'm freaking
Speaker 1: out in the bathroom and then my husband, who was
Speaker 1: doing merch for us at the time, comes on the bus.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is asleep. He comes on the bus because
Speaker 1: he had just finished the merch merchandise, and he walked
Speaker 1: on with one of Martina's guys while I'm in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: He didn't know that. And Martine's guy says, you really
Speaker 1: think Kimberly is gonna last for another two weeks till
Speaker 1: this tour is over? And Schlap was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's gonna be fine. She's gonna be fine. Is gonna
Speaker 1: make him? So that guy leaves the bus and I
Speaker 1: slammed op from the bathroom were and I'm like, something's
Speaker 1: happening something. I'm freaking out. My whole body is shaken.
Speaker 1: My chin isingla la la la la la. I can
Speaker 1: hardly even speak, and he's like, okay, okay, let's call
Speaker 1: your nurse. So he called my nurse and she who
Speaker 1: did not want me to have this baby out of town.
Speaker 1: She wanted me to get back to Nashville because she
Speaker 1: wasn't with you know, she's here in Nashville. I'm in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: And she's like, okay, maybe it's just maybe it was
Speaker 1: just uh, you cough too hard because of your bad
Speaker 1: cold and you know, you know, just a little link
Speaker 1: get your something from your bladder. That's just t m I.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so she said, but you should go to
Speaker 1: the hospital and get checked out. So everybody's still asleep
Speaker 1: in the back of the bus. So Slap tells the driver,
Speaker 1: don't tell a soul this, but find us the closest
Speaker 1: hospital and we're gonna need to go get checked out.
Speaker 1: So he went back in the venue and he asked
Speaker 1: for the best hospital and they sent him just down
Speaker 1: the road to this incredible hospital called Banner Australia Hospital
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona. And I went in and they took
Speaker 1: me right in in the emergency room, and I said
Speaker 1: to the lady, we just want to get checked out
Speaker 1: because we're going to go back on tour and we
Speaker 1: have to be in Las Vegas in the morning, so
Speaker 1: I just want to get checked out and then we're
Speaker 1: going to go. And she goes, oh, honey, you're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. You are in labor, and so oh jeezs
Speaker 1: And then I really freaked out. I'm like, what, anut,
Speaker 1: I have nine more shows to do, I can't have
Speaker 1: a baby yet, and my mom is not here. Most
Speaker 1: of all, my mother is across the country in Georgia. So, um,
Speaker 1: yeah it happened. How long was your labor eight hours?
Speaker 1: Did your nurse end up coming from Nashville? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: so just so you just went and had they in Phoenix,
Speaker 1: in Phoenix at the hospital. Yes, and um Schlap sister
Speaker 1: who lives in vin her in California, so sweet, she
Speaker 1: flew in so that she could be there. So when
Speaker 1: I did deliver, Slap walked out and he was able
Speaker 1: to say to someone, it's a girl. You know, otherwise
Speaker 1: there would have been nobody but um the band. So
Speaker 1: I labored all night. The band came in about ten
Speaker 1: o'clock the next morning, and Um, you know, hung out
Speaker 1: with me for a while, and then they had to
Speaker 1: cool because the show must go on, so they had
Speaker 1: to drop to face had a baby. They did nine
Speaker 1: they had to do nine shows without me those last
Speaker 1: two weeks, and they finished the tour Martina Tour, and
Speaker 1: we stayed in Phoenix for four days and then though
Speaker 1: the most precious gift, this is my husband, the most
Speaker 1: precious gift. We're packing up and we and the doctor
Speaker 1: didn't want us flying with Daisy, so we had to
Speaker 1: bring a bus out. So we were going to ride
Speaker 1: the bus home thirty three hours with a brand new baby.
Speaker 1: So we were packing up stuff. I was kind of
Speaker 1: nervous about that, but still so excited just to be
Speaker 1: in my mamma and um. As I'm packing up my
Speaker 1: stuff getting ready to go, I turned around and into
Speaker 1: the room walks my mother Slap had flown her out
Speaker 1: to surprise me and ride the bus home with us.
Speaker 1: Was a mass I've lost it and she lost it,
Speaker 1: and oh, it's just the sweetest. It turned out to
Speaker 1: be just the most beautiful four days, first slapping me
Speaker 1: in little Daisy, and then my mama all the way
Speaker 1: home in thirty three hours. Back the Star Room at
Speaker 1: least are you still on the are you still on
Speaker 1: the coffin ball? Now? We were in there, we got
Speaker 1: the I think we had the condo bunks on that bus. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, yeah a little bit. But Schlap pulled out
Speaker 1: one of the drawers in the front of the bus
Speaker 1: and patted it out, and that was Daisy's baby bed,
Speaker 1: a little drawer. That's cool. I want a good story,
Speaker 1: So that's a really good story. I'm glad you did.
Speaker 1: I love that story. Whenever I think about you guys
Speaker 1: in the past five or six years that I've been here, like,
Speaker 1: I just know you guys is the big, big, big
Speaker 1: little big town, you know, because you guys have really
Speaker 1: stepped up to that next level where you wanted all
Speaker 1: the awards. By the way, I remember when you said
Speaker 1: my name at the what was the c M as
Speaker 1: RA c MS. I don't remember which one it was
Speaker 1: now I'm just thinking thinking out loud here, I can't
Speaker 1: remember which the pre uh show, And I've been on
Speaker 1: the radio. I don't know what I was doing. I
Speaker 1: was nuts, who knows what I was doing early on
Speaker 1: and you said someone said thank you Jesus and said
Speaker 1: thank you Bobby Bond. Yeah, because I told you we would. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: and I remember, like, I owe you one, and I
Speaker 1: still remember that in my heart, like someday I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you back, and I'm gonna something's gonna happen that
Speaker 1: people are gonna think I'm cool one day and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to put it back on you guys.
Speaker 1: But that was that was really cool. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: these people, the nice of this to someone name on
Speaker 1: National TV. We told you we would. That's true, you did.
Speaker 1: I forgot all about that at all? The what's up? Wow?
Speaker 1: How about that? How about that you would know who
Speaker 1: the cash me Outside girl is? Do you know who
Speaker 1: that is? Oh? Never mind, I don't know. Never look
Speaker 1: her up? Yeah, get me in trouble and if afterwards
Speaker 1: she's the girl that goes cash me outside? How about that?
Speaker 1: See I'm listening to Elmo and Sest Me Street right now,
Speaker 1: So I don't know the cash me out girl? How
Speaker 1: How long ago she? Mike? How long goes cash me
Speaker 1: Outside girl? It was like two years ago. She's not
Speaker 1: someone to look up to. Uh. The I felt like
Speaker 1: happy people got a raw deal? Oh me too. I
Speaker 1: really thought of me too all of you guys as songs.
Speaker 1: I really felt like Happy People was the one. Oh there,
Speaker 1: it is right there, this song was. I was disappointed,
Speaker 1: like a my, my, good, thank you and thank you
Speaker 1: for everything you did on air to try to make
Speaker 1: this a hit for us. I mean, you were the
Speaker 1: you were waving the flag. I just didn't understand, Like
Speaker 1: I really didn't understand how it wasn't. I don't either,
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I will tell you in our live show.
Speaker 1: It's one of the sweetest moments because we made a
Speaker 1: video that I'm so proud of and it's just a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different people with happy smiles on their
Speaker 1: faces or their dancing or their giggling, and our kids
Speaker 1: are in it, and it's so special. And at our shows,
Speaker 1: um on the Breakers tour which just ended, we have
Speaker 1: this video on the huge screens behind us, and every
Speaker 1: night I have to just turn around and watch. It
Speaker 1: just makes me happy and and that that that song
Speaker 1: means a lot to people in the shows, in our audience.
Speaker 1: When I just think about you guys, I think about
Speaker 1: that song like one of the At first I think
Speaker 1: about Girl Crushed first, but this song probably second of all.
Speaker 1: Your songs really cool because again I was so irritated
Speaker 1: at whatever country radio or country whatever that is. I
Speaker 1: don't even understand it anymore, but whatever they is, I
Speaker 1: was so disappointed in it. Thank you guys got such
Speaker 1: a Do you know why? What was? What were they
Speaker 1: telling you guys? I don't know why. I just couldn't
Speaker 1: get it played great, message, was upbeat, everything that's supposed
Speaker 1: to that people say it's supposed to be. It was precious.
Speaker 1: Lori McKinnon wrote that, and Haley Winters and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was going to be a
Speaker 1: big song when you put the last record out the Breakers,
Speaker 1: I mean, critics loved it, like loved it. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even even when you had to struggle it was Was
Speaker 1: that a normal for the critics to just love a
Speaker 1: record is rare for someone that's big like you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was rare. It is my favorite record we've ever done.
Speaker 1: I'm super I'm proud of everything we've done, but that
Speaker 1: record really meant a lot to me. Um. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: critical acclaim was really cool and the best we had
Speaker 1: ever had. And not because your other stuff isn't good,
Speaker 1: but you guys had achieved that point of you you're
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal now, and usually when you
Speaker 1: get to be a big deal, you're not as critically
Speaker 1: love because the critical well, they're already a big deal.
Speaker 1: I'll get more clicks by taking a shot, yes, right
Speaker 1: then I will by saying something is good. And even
Speaker 1: with that, that's how you know the record was fantastic
Speaker 1: because even with that, you guys were getting loved in
Speaker 1: all the award nominations even while being a big deal.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. I thought it was really cool. Anyway, UM,
Speaker 1: tell me about your cookbook. My cookbook UM is a
Speaker 1: collection of recipes that have been handed down to me
Speaker 1: or that I came up with along the way. Some
Speaker 1: of them are from my cooking show, and um, it's
Speaker 1: that and then pretty much my life story because the publisher, HarperCollins,
Speaker 1: let me like them, love them, they really lett gave
Speaker 1: me a lot of leeway on the book to tell
Speaker 1: a lot of my life story, which I love. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm mostly I'm glad I have that book for Daisy
Speaker 1: and Dolly because it has so much history of my
Speaker 1: life and my family and how my parents got together
Speaker 1: and my grandparents got together, and just sweet stories about
Speaker 1: recipes and um, so it's it's both. It's a memoir
Speaker 1: and a cookbook. That's cool. It's cool that you're able
Speaker 1: to do what you love and then also do what
Speaker 1: you love while doing it with people you love. Let
Speaker 1: me have any note? I tooks, haven't been to them yet.
Speaker 1: Let me see I have anything? How do I open
Speaker 1: this thing up? Mike? So you're born in Cornelia, Georgia,
Speaker 1: little hometown, Oh Gussie on Twitter? I know this, but
Speaker 1: that's an expression, that's a Southern express. I'm right about that, right,
Speaker 1: Oh Gussie. Yeah, And it can mean so many things.
Speaker 1: It can mean that you're happy. It can mean you
Speaker 1: that you're mad. You can mean that you're excited. You
Speaker 1: have I didn't know this. You have a kitchen line,
Speaker 1: Loving Daisies, so people can buy it right now? Is
Speaker 1: that a Is that a TV thing where you're on
Speaker 1: TV the Home Shopping Network that Loving Daisy is at
Speaker 1: at the Home Shopping Network and it's really some really
Speaker 1: beautiful kitchen things. And then at Cracker Barrel, I also
Speaker 1: have a line of things that I've had for several
Speaker 1: years at Cracker Barrel. The coffee MiG I brought used
Speaker 1: from Cracker Barrel, and um, my daddy makes pottery and
Speaker 1: he's a beautiful potter. Some of my greatest treasures are
Speaker 1: his pieces of pottery. And we have a line at
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel called Paul Paul Pottery because we call it
Speaker 1: Paul Fall. So, um, Paul Paul Pottery is at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Well, well, well, and the name of your book, oh, come,
Speaker 1: you have to tell me now if it was prepared,
Speaker 1: it's called Gussie and then it's something like the Childhood
Speaker 1: in and really slapping this kitchen or something unprepared. I
Speaker 1: thought I would just know that. Please, don't think you're unprepared.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you weren't dating anymore. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be prepared. You just came over
Speaker 1: to the house. Listen. I really appreciate you coming over.
Speaker 1: You're so welcome. You guys are my favorite people. You're
Speaker 1: on my favorite people. You're so kind. I was standing
Speaker 1: on the side of the road one day. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember this. I was standing. I was
Speaker 1: down by church treet. I was getting my haircut and
Speaker 1: you were driving and I was walking and you stopped
Speaker 1: the card. Do you remember seen me remember, and we
Speaker 1: looked at each other and we're like, yeah, we know
Speaker 1: each other and give it a thumbs up, and that
Speaker 1: was cool. I should have asked you if you needed
Speaker 1: a rod. No, yeah, I would have. Never, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe I would have. You're safe stranger danger though, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dane danger Um. Well, thank you very much, welcome, Thanks
Speaker 1: for breaking in the studio. This person I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that I was able to. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having and I have some slap happy bars on you.
Speaker 1: I know that's I can't keep anything in the house
Speaker 1: because I'll eat it. Well, just eat that, eat one
Speaker 1: and pass them out. I'll take them to work, Tom
Speaker 1: take him to work. All right, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, see you next time on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: Everybody be sure to download all little bit tast of
Speaker 1: music about all the stuff that Kimerly is talking about.
Speaker 1: Buy it all by three of them. Buy one for
Speaker 1: you and one for your cousin and then one for
Speaker 1: her friend. All right, thanks guys,