1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast on Buzz Night, 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 2: and we're continuing our Valentine's Week celebration with love songs 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: and heartbreak stories, revisiting episodes that explore the many dimensions 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 2: of love through music. This week is about the artists 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: who wear their hearts on their sleeves, who transform their 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: most personal experiences into songs that resonate with all of us. 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: Today's guest is Romeo Vaughn, an artist whose music blends 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: in a little bit of R and B and soul 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: and contemporary sounds with deeply personal storytelling. Romeo brings an 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: authentic voice, crafting songs that explore vulnerability, passion, and the 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: complexity of romantic relationships. 13 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: Whether he's singing. 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: About falling in love, navigating the challenges of relationships, or 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: dealing with the pain of lost connections, Romeo's music has 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: that rare quality of feeling both deeply personal and universally relatable. 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: Coming up next, as we continue celebrating Valentine's Week, a 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: conversation that we revisit on Taking a Walk with Romeo Vaughn. 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: Taking a Walk. 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: Romeo, thanks for being on Taking a Walk. 21 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. 22 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: So if you could take a walk with someone living 23 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: or dead, do you know who you would take a 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: walk with and where you would take that walk? Now, 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 2: it can be someone musical Romeo, but it doesn't have 26 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: to be It's up to you. 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 3: Yes, I would go take a walk with my grandfather 28 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 3: who I don't remember, but his name is he was 29 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: Grandpa Lupe. I would love because I never had a 30 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: grandfather growing up because my mom's dad passed away when 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 3: she was five, and my grandfather died when I was 32 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: a baby, so I never I don't remember bring him, 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: but I would love to meet, like walk with him. 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: And I know you're a fan of places to walk 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 2: and to reflect and to think about things. We're going 36 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: to talk about your your new single, big dreams from 37 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: a small town and the creative process behind it. But 38 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: when you're out and you're walking, what does that take 39 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: you towards creatively as a person and an artist. 40 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 3: It brings me, It makes me real creative. It takes 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: me closer to God and seeing all of his creativeness 42 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: and his majestic ways of the trees and the hills 43 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 3: and the the levees and just everything that He created. 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: You know that I believe that he created, and so 45 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 3: I look at his craftsmanship, and he makes music with 46 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 3: the trees and the water and the sounds, and so 47 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: it just is craft and music with the birds, turkeyen 48 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 3: and the water going. And that brings me closer to 49 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: my craftsmanship. And I can get home and write a song, 50 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: or I can get home and come up with the 51 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: melody from the melodies that by here. When I go 52 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 3: to Two Rivers Parkway, that's where I go. 53 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: That's so beautiful the way you described it. As you 54 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: were describing that feeling, it actually it took me back 55 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: to the first episode of taking a walk that I 56 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: did at one of my favorite places in the world 57 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: that's right near me. I live outside of Boston. Actually 58 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: the place I'm speaking of is Walden Pond and Conquered Massachusetts, 59 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: where Henry. 60 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: David Thalreaux found the movement of. 61 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: Mindfulness and meditation and taking in the universe and realizing 62 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: it's a special place. 63 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: So thank you for the way you shared that. 64 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: You took me back to a pleasant place and a 65 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: memory of somewhere that in fact, I would say, Romeo, 66 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 2: if you could ever walk there, go to Walden Pond 67 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: you'll feel that energy. 68 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing. Yeah, I would love to go 69 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 3: to Walden Pond. 70 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 2: What about the energy of Nashville If I step back 71 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: as someone who doesn't live there and who visits Nashville, 72 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: it really does epitomize in its own way your single, 73 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,239 Speaker 2: big dreams from a small town. 74 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: When you think about but tell me about. 75 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 2: The energy creatively and spiritually that you feel from the 76 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: Nashville community. 77 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: You know, nashvill is amazing. Now there's more in Nashville 78 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 3: than the Broadway lights. And when you go to places 79 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 3: like the Local in West nd when you go to 80 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: places like Losers in Midtown, and you go to places 81 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 3: like Scoreboard in Music Valley or music when you go 82 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 3: to Music City Bar. Music City Bar is my favorite, 83 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: you know to go when you go to Live Oak, 84 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 3: when you go to these places that there's these writers 85 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 3: and these writers arounds that are happening, and the community 86 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 3: just embraces you. Because the thing about Nashville is I 87 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 3: know my truth. I know what I am and who 88 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 3: I am, and I know that I am a Mexican 89 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 3: American country artist. But when you go to these places 90 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: like the Local, like Music City Bar, like Scoreboard, like 91 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: Live Oak and the Nashville Palace. When you go to 92 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 3: these places and there's other artists there and other songwriters there, 93 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: they're not It's not hey, this is the white singer songwriter. 94 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 3: This is the Mexican country artist, this is the black 95 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 3: country artist. We're just all artists and we're all songwriters. 96 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 3: And that vibe, that family. You mess with one of us, 97 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 3: you mess with all of us. Type of deal that 98 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 3: we have here, that little big town vibe and the family, 99 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 3: and you know, we care for one another. Now. Is 100 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: it all rainbows and butterflies. No, This is the music business, cutthroat, right. 101 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, when you go 102 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 3: to those places and like the local I love that 103 00:06:53,120 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 3: place because that's where the songwriters and the artists and 104 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: they come and they can be unapologetic to themselves and 105 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 3: talk about you know, oh man, I have this idea, 106 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 3: and so we have this term here. It's called demo jail. 107 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 3: So I don't know if you know what that is, 108 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: but so demo jail is where like you cut a 109 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 3: demo and then you're like making all your friends hear it, 110 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 3: like what you did, Like you're this guy like there 111 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 3: you can't like you know. So we try not to 112 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 3: put our friends in demo jail, but sometimes but even 113 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 3: if they don't want to, even if they don't want 114 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: to be in demo jail, they're not going to cut 115 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 3: you off. They're going to hear the song and I 116 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 3: and and that community of just you know, we're all 117 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: we all have big dreams from a small town. Because 118 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: none of us are from Nashville. Some of us are 119 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 3: from Oklahoma, some of us are from Long Island, New York, 120 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 3: you know, like you know, and some of us are 121 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 3: from California. So but we all have big dreams from 122 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: this from our small town and we come to Nashville 123 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 3: to chase it, you know. But some catch it and 124 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 3: some don't. But at the end of the day, nobody 125 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 3: can ever take away from us that we gave it 126 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 3: our best shot. 127 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. 128 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 2: I want to thank you for your service to our country. 129 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: Thank you, And I want you to talk to those 130 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: out there listening who maybe have been in your position 131 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: serving our country and have been dealt with, you know, 132 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: trauma and difficulties in their life. Some of those same 133 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 2: themes that you talked so brilliantly on our music saved 134 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: Me Podcasts with Lynn Hoffman. 135 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: Talk directly if you can. 136 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: To someone who maybe was in your position, who's listening 137 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: on how they maybe want to approach challenges that they're 138 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 2: facing and get help for their situation. 139 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: I would say that you're not alone. There's no shame 140 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 3: and guilt. You gotta call somebody. I read the Bible 141 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 3: and I call I had talked to God. But if 142 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 3: that's not your faith, it's okay. Call somebody. Call Call 143 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 3: your brother, call your sister. If you don't have that, 144 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 3: call somebody, go somewhere. Because the world that loves you, 145 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 3: we love you. It's not your fault. You were doing 146 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 3: what the one percent of Americans do, and that's fighting 147 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 3: for freedom. You're not alone, and people love you, and 148 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,719 Speaker 3: you're not a monster. People love you, and you're you're 149 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 3: a hero. Call somebody and whatever you do, whatever you're thinking, 150 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 3: don't do because we love you. 151 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: Romeo. 152 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: You are an amazing inspiration and you're so giving, You 153 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 2: are so transparent, and you are so loving yourself. And 154 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough for the great work you're doing. 155 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 2: Congratulations on the new work, Big Dreams from a small 156 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 2: Town and everything else that you're creating. Thank you, and 157 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 2: we know we're going to continue to see big things 158 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: from you. Extremely grateful for you taking the time on 159 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: Taking a Walk. 160 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. And yeah, well 161 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 3: we pray and we pray that this gets going and 162 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 3: and you we got some cool stuff up our sleeve. 163 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 3: And I are working with with a really cool team 164 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 3: and got some really cool people out of Scottsdale, Arizona 165 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 3: that take a chance on this old boy. So we're 166 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 3: excited to see what we got going. 167 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: Thank you, Romie. 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