Speaker 1: Hello, they're my friend. That welcome to love someone with Delilah.
Speaker 1: You know, I've often mentioned that country music it's a
Speaker 1: very special place in my heart. For those of you
Speaker 1: who have not heard this from me before, you might
Speaker 1: not know that I come from from a music filled childhood,
Speaker 1: specifically mostly country music. My parents were close with two
Speaker 1: other families that we considered family. I mean, they were friends,
Speaker 1: but they were family closer than family. We spent most
Speaker 1: weekends in each other's company. It often involves some kind
Speaker 1: of project that the adults worked on together. They did
Speaker 1: home remodeling together, fence repairs, fishless fishing trips. That'd go
Speaker 1: on fishing trips, but they never brought any fish home.
Speaker 1: And kids. There were four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
Speaker 1: of us. Nine kids underfoot, ten kids doing crazy things
Speaker 1: that kids do while parents are otherwise occupying. Dinners were
Speaker 1: rambunctious and delicious affairs. Lots of Southern fried chicken that
Speaker 1: was Mom's specialty, baked beans, fresh baked bread. Everyone loved
Speaker 1: my mom's homemade pizza. After dinner, the men and one
Speaker 1: of the women would settle down with their guitars and
Speaker 1: their playbooks filled with hits by Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard,
Speaker 1: Marty Robbins, Charlie Pride, Hank Williams, and they would begin
Speaker 1: hours long jam sessions till the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Early in the morning, us kids nine and all would
Speaker 1: still be up to our high jinks, but tired from
Speaker 1: a long day. Our muscles and mine would relax. The
Speaker 1: music soaked into us, becoming a part of us, even
Speaker 1: if we were unaware at the time of its profound
Speaker 1: influence in our lives. Today, I'm excited to welcome a
Speaker 1: profound and prolific country artist to love someone. He's a
Speaker 1: man easily described as larger than life, because well, because
Speaker 1: he is larger than life. He is a big man
Speaker 1: with a big voice and is really incredibly talented his songwriting,
Speaker 1: his musical hits, and I hear he has an even
Speaker 1: bigger heart. Will hold onto your hats, will be back
Speaker 1: to talk with the man himself, Lee Bryce, after I
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Speaker 1: with Delilah. I had Lee Bryce on my radio show
Speaker 1: as an honorary Friday Night girl, and I promised you
Speaker 1: then that we would do a podcast, and so Lee,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you were listening when I did my little introduction,
Speaker 1: but my dad and his two best friends um had
Speaker 1: a country western band and they played at honky Tonks,
Speaker 1: they played at the Elks and the Eagles, They played
Speaker 1: at the local nursing homes for folks. So I grew
Speaker 1: up listening every weekend to my dad and his friends jamming.
Speaker 1: But Hank Williams and Tennessee Ernie Ford and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we we were raised picking and grinning and watching heha
Speaker 1: every week. I mean that's kind of a piece of
Speaker 1: who you are, you know. I mean, that's the piece
Speaker 1: of where you came from. If you're talking about those
Speaker 1: country roots, you know, and and those love songs man
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas Connie. If you've never heard the song, uh,
Speaker 1: it's the hard thing of ever had to do holding
Speaker 1: her loving you one you need to check out. Oh
Speaker 1: I know that song. Well. I know you would be
Speaker 1: surprised at if you ever saw my my iPhone or
Speaker 1: iPod library the music that I listened to when I'm
Speaker 1: not playing Celine Dion um yea. And my sister and
Speaker 1: I both love old country. I mean, we love new
Speaker 1: country too, but we love old country. You know. I
Speaker 1: got to interview Crystal Gail, I got to interview um
Speaker 1: so many you know, artists back in the day that
Speaker 1: spent their whole life on the road and just had
Speaker 1: great stories to tell. Realie Nelson come in, come on,
Speaker 1: you know he could. One of my favorite songs, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite songs that he recorded that Chrisker Stopson
Speaker 1: wrote take the Ribbon from Shake and Loose and Let
Speaker 1: It Fall Oh, my gosh, such great music. And I
Speaker 1: assume you were raised on the same just listening to
Speaker 1: your songs and your lyrics. You had to have been
Speaker 1: raised on the same kind of poetry set to music. Yes, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And that was the stuff, you know, is that Willie
Speaker 1: and some of those love songs that Kenny Rogers. My
Speaker 1: daddy listened to. He listened a lot of vocal groups
Speaker 1: because he was like, you know, gospel kind of quartet stuff.
Speaker 1: So like he was way into Alabama and Oakwards Boys
Speaker 1: and the Statler Brothers and stuff like that. To the harmonies.
Speaker 1: And my mama and her sisters all, you know, they
Speaker 1: sang every harmony there was and they even made a
Speaker 1: Nashville record when they were kids, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I grew up with my mom and her aunt doing
Speaker 1: all the singing, and so I learned harmonies in every
Speaker 1: which way, shape and form from from them and singing
Speaker 1: in church and and so that's the roots right there.
Speaker 1: Everyone in my family, there are four kids and my folks.
Speaker 1: Everyone in my family is musical except me. I cannot.
Speaker 1: I cannot carry a tune in a bucket if it
Speaker 1: only had four notes. And I think the reason I
Speaker 1: figured out because that there's not many things I cover
Speaker 1: it like, I've never coveted things. I could care less
Speaker 1: about things. Um. When I was younger, I coveted a husband.
Speaker 1: I wanted a good husband because the ones I found
Speaker 1: were rotten to the bone. But but the one thing
Speaker 1: I coveted and I still do, I mean, I confess
Speaker 1: it all the time is musical talent. And I think
Speaker 1: the reason that God said no to that is because
Speaker 1: I have such a bad ego, and I think he
Speaker 1: knew if I had that gift, I would abuse it,
Speaker 1: um and and put myself in harm's way. Boll. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you you know, it's easy to do if you're
Speaker 1: coming out young and you got music and um, and
Speaker 1: you could find yourself. And there's been plenty of people
Speaker 1: I know, and myself included who you know. You find
Speaker 1: yourself doing your dream, which is basically all you ever
Speaker 1: could dream of is playing music for a living, right,
Speaker 1: writing songs for a living, for producing playing songs live,
Speaker 1: and then you can find yourself in a quickly if
Speaker 1: you let yourself, you can find yourself in a place
Speaker 1: to where all of a sudden, music isn't the most
Speaker 1: important thing. And that's when you catch yourself and go away. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, it's nothing, has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: with fame, has nothing. I always had everything to do
Speaker 1: with the music, and so you know, luckily I was
Speaker 1: able to catch myself. And I've got a bunch of
Speaker 1: friends have been through it, and they they said, manage
Speaker 1: And I could always tell, like I could tell if
Speaker 1: they were going through it, maybe a patch and like
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden their music change, even
Speaker 1: their look, their field of looking there out of twinkling
Speaker 1: their eye, and I'm like, you're back, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of caught myself, you know, falling off that
Speaker 1: edge and realized and that that that the music was
Speaker 1: always what it was supposed to be about, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it wasn't. You know, whenever you
Speaker 1: make it a business and then you start having fun,
Speaker 1: you get on the road and make it about fame
Speaker 1: or money or anything like that, and none of that
Speaker 1: has anything to do with what we all dreamed about
Speaker 1: when we were kids, you know, and listen to some
Speaker 1: music that we love and so so yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that can happen pretty quickly. I've taken piano lessons, I've
Speaker 1: taken music lessons. I've taken vocal lessons from three different
Speaker 1: vocal coaches and they all say the same thing. Stick
Speaker 1: with your nighttime job. You know, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of musicians, including myself, A big piece of y
Speaker 1: love to do music is because I love people to
Speaker 1: hear it, right, I want them to hear my heart
Speaker 1: through music, and that would be mostly through my songs,
Speaker 1: but of course I found outside songs, and so a
Speaker 1: little bit of a I just gotta tell you this,
Speaker 1: I think we we are a lot of like in
Speaker 1: that way. You know, you might not be a singer,
Speaker 1: but you're sharing your music and your musical heart with
Speaker 1: with people, and you have been for so long and
Speaker 1: you have influenced so many lives, including mine, and um,
Speaker 1: you just want to you just want to impact people,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's a big part of why
Speaker 1: most of us do this. Now we'll say the whole
Speaker 1: some of us who are kind of meant to be
Speaker 1: on that stage, you know, like we're missing those live
Speaker 1: shows right now, you know, we're missing that piece of
Speaker 1: us as a whole, a little bit a little hole
Speaker 1: in our hearts, like wanting to get out there and
Speaker 1: see people's faces when whenever we're playing that guitar and
Speaker 1: in or playing that piano and and and seeing that
Speaker 1: song that we rode. So but I think you you
Speaker 1: have there's a musician in you, and you get it
Speaker 1: out in your own way. So tell me. I I
Speaker 1: got the video. I don't know when Janie, my producer,
Speaker 1: sent it to me. She sent me the video of
Speaker 1: Hey World, and I wrote her back and I said, um,
Speaker 1: and that is why I am so happy at my ranch.
Speaker 1: I'm reading off my my um my text back to her.
Speaker 1: It says, and this is why I'm so content and
Speaker 1: happy at my ranch. This song says it all. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And people have been trying to to understand why I'm
Speaker 1: not going crazy because I'm at a ranch, my husband's
Speaker 1: cattle ranch, five acres out in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and they're like, aren't you missing this? Aren't you missing that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, of course i am. I'm missing
Speaker 1: the Big Apple, I'm missing Nashville. I'm but but but
Speaker 1: the lyrics of hey World and the the video of
Speaker 1: you and your babies and fishing and and just being
Speaker 1: shut in with your family just blessed my heart so much.
Speaker 1: It's so I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: where the song came from. My co writer. We were
Speaker 1: talking that morning, we were going to write, and he said,
Speaker 1: now you know we got any duds? He said, well,
Speaker 1: I got you know, this happened this morning, and he
Speaker 1: would be proceeded to tell me that he got up
Speaker 1: early and you know, and he had a TV young
Speaker 1: watching the news and his four year old, little Dallas,
Speaker 1: walked in and said, hey, Daddy, can we turn the
Speaker 1: TV off? And Dallas, my my friend, Dallas said, said
Speaker 1: my co writer, Well said yeah, I mean cand son,
Speaker 1: but like wow, like what you know, wy would you
Speaker 1: want why would you want me to turn the TV off?
Speaker 1: You know? And uh a little Dallas, his four year
Speaker 1: old son, said, well, because it's it's scaring me. Well,
Speaker 1: Dallas was watching the news and the heck, if you
Speaker 1: really think about it, at the time, in the beginning
Speaker 1: of this this pandemic and this whole thing, everything on
Speaker 1: that TV was scary even to an adult, much left
Speaker 1: a four year old. You know, so many cases and
Speaker 1: so many of this mat depths and not in the
Speaker 1: danger and all the stuff. And so it hit Dallas
Speaker 1: how much that impacted that moment with his son, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, and I always said, was hey, world,
Speaker 1: leave me alone, and it and it wasn't anything. You know.
Speaker 1: We we we kind of struggle a little bit with
Speaker 1: we don't want to make people think, we don't want
Speaker 1: to like beunify, to be together. But you know, even
Speaker 1: ten years ago and ten years from now, there are
Speaker 1: times when this world gets moving so fast that everybody
Speaker 1: at some time wants just a second. They want to breathe,
Speaker 1: They want a minute. You know, you need a minute
Speaker 1: to yourself and to understand and maybe reevaluated, rEFInd yourself
Speaker 1: in a in in a quiet space, you know, and
Speaker 1: let and hear the wind and see that you know
Speaker 1: the stuff the song talks about, and and listen to
Speaker 1: the pines. I love that. You know. That's where we
Speaker 1: went the song and we said, you know this the
Speaker 1: song really does. Yes, obviously it comes from this moment, right,
Speaker 1: but truthfully, it could have been twenty years ago or
Speaker 1: twenty years from now, and like it's on. You know,
Speaker 1: I think a piece of this whole thing. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe God was saying, you know, you guys are going
Speaker 1: too fast. I need to slow you guys down. I
Speaker 1: need a lot of you to look up and see
Speaker 1: what's important right and and not take so many things
Speaker 1: for grant and and and take advantage of some of
Speaker 1: the small things I give you every day. And I
Speaker 1: think it has for pro most of I find I
Speaker 1: think most of the whole world has realized and learned
Speaker 1: a lot of those little things that are really actually
Speaker 1: big things, you know. And And so we didn't really
Speaker 1: we just wrote it how we would write it, you know.
Speaker 1: And we I didn't know what was gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: then I met blessing and and and a whole new
Speaker 1: level came into the song, you know, and just um
Speaker 1: it was. It was a special song. And actually I
Speaker 1: was supposed to play on a on a big network
Speaker 1: show my new, brand new single, right and I decided
Speaker 1: which label wasn't too happy about at the time, But
Speaker 1: I decided that the world and the moment needed to
Speaker 1: hear Hey World. So I played Hey World instead last minute,
Speaker 1: didn't tell anybody, and they couldn't turn the cameras office time.
Speaker 1: I love that you don't need my label blowing up
Speaker 1: my phone and my manner to go what are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What are you doing? In your
Speaker 1: new single, You're supposed I said, well, I felt like
Speaker 1: the world needs to hear it. And because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't know if it was gonna
Speaker 1: be able to reach the ready or reach this or that.
Speaker 1: It was just a song we'd written and it wasn't
Speaker 1: even supposed to be on the record, and then it
Speaker 1: ended up being the title of the record because right now,
Speaker 1: that's where I am, and that's what my records are
Speaker 1: all about, is where I'm at or I'm out of
Speaker 1: my life at that point in time, you know, and
Speaker 1: those those last year or two and and so, Hey
Speaker 1: World has been a very special song since day one,
Speaker 1: and and it's real, and it's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: it's okay to not be okay sometimes, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Hey worlds alone. I don't want to turn
Speaker 1: on the TV. Ain't nothing but bad news on. You're
Speaker 1: the rain way for another day, and this heart's worn out,
Speaker 1: it's had all it cantay, Hey worm, leave me in
Speaker 1: long you don't calm me up today, I won't be
Speaker 1: picking up the phone. I'm gonna sit here on this
Speaker 1: portsway and listen to the pine saying everything I need
Speaker 1: right here at home. Hey you are I just need
Speaker 1: some space. Could you give mind it? Catch my path today?
Speaker 1: I leave that long. But you ain't going no where.
Speaker 1: So if you don't mind, if you don't care, care worm,
Speaker 1: leave me alone. Don't call me up today. I won't
Speaker 1: be picking up the phone. I'm gonna sit here on
Speaker 1: this tord swinging, listen to the pine sing everything I
Speaker 1: need is right here at home. Hey worm, leave me mabe,
Speaker 1: hey whorl leet me alone. Don't call me up today.
Speaker 1: I won't be picking up the phone. I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: you on this porsway and listen to the post saying
Speaker 1: everything I need right here at home. Hey world, Hey world.
Speaker 1: Well I love you, Lee, Bryce, thank you. Go get
Speaker 1: my love to the boys and keep writing and I
Speaker 1: will talk to you soon