Beth Holli Country Artist

At the age of 4, Beths dad was a music producer and had put a set of headphones on her and said " sing what you hear', that started a singing career which had Beth singing on a local TV program called The Country Boy Eddie Show. Needless to say, music was in her soul from then on!  
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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hi, I'm Beth Holly, and you're listening to me on the David Bradley Show.

SPEAKER_02 0:09

So Beth, what have you been up to, huh?

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Well, last time I saw you, I think was 2024.

SPEAKER_02 0:16

No, 20 no, well the last time you was on my show was like 23. Really? That long? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Oh god. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Yeah, y'all were in like season two.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

Because you c had came with uh that whole radio tour thing that y'all had said.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

I didn't think it was that long ago though.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

Yeah. Well time flies when you sleep. And I do a lot.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

You know me. I well, working nights. I like to sleep.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Well, yeah. But you know, just well, I mean, I did I did all those nights where I was driving all night long, you know, and then I would first thing in the morning, it was like my co-driver have was having breakfast, I was having dinner, and then I go to bed and sleep all freaking day.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Well, most people don't understand that we have real jobs outside of our loving jobs.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Yeah, but the I have to give credit to the real job of the nighttime stuff because that's what keeps us looking so young.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

That's right, because we're not, you know, we stressed out on the craziness of the day.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Right, because day shift is a whole nother world. Yeah. Most people are they're tense. Night shift just ease. You know, because y'all your pa well, me being a nurse, all patients are asleep. Well, yeah. Most of the time.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

No. And if not, if if if they're bothering you, you can always just hit them with something that knocks them out so you nobody will know.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

I'm gonna have to take the fifth on that one.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

I know several people I'd like to do that too.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

I like to keep my license. Yeah. We do call an o call the doctor and ask for something to help them calm down, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

I work mental health. Well, I mean, you have those moments too where you got to do the whoosah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Woo-sah. Yeah. Because between work in prisons and mental health, oh yeah. I get all the crazies.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

Well, that's where 85% of the crazies are.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it don't stop just because you get locked up.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

So that's way back in the day. Mm-hmm. But I did decide to, because my husband says, You hadn't written a song in a while. And you need to get busy. And I was like, okay. So he said, Do you want to write a song about your mom? And I said, Hmm. He said, Do you want to write a song about the dog?

SPEAKER_00 2:48

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

You want to write a song about your dad? Yeah, he's my hero. Yeah, I'll write one about him.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

So that's how this all came about.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

I think it's awesome.

unknown 2:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

He don't look it.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

He no, he don't. But he is. He's he's eighty-eight, and I'm thankful to have him every day. Every day. That man started me off when I was four years old. I can remember vividly him coming in after work and putting headphones on me and saying, Sing what you hear.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

That's what I did. And he started me off singing, and next thing I know, he had me in plays. Next thing I know he had me on the Country Boy Eddie show. I don't know if you remember this or not, but it was a TV show in Birmingham. I don't remember that one. Well, it was a TV show in Birmingham, and it was um Tammy Wanette got her started there. Oh, sweet. Um Wendy Holcomb got her start there. And that was the little girl that did the banjo with Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton. She actually died of iron overload back in 86. Wow. Yeah. But still, she was very successful. She was from um Shelby County down there where I live now. Yeah. But she's so there's a lot of people that started on there. And dad got me started on there and uh five o'clock in the morning and I was in makeup and fully dressed and cowboy hats and on the road. And a little white hat. No, well, I did not have a white hat. I did have a black hat. No, I did have a black hat though. So, and if you'll I don't know if you'll notice this or not, but on my social media page, there's now me with a black hat and a crown. Yeah. That crown is actually every time I win an award, a friend of mine from high school sends me a tiara. Oh, that's where the the tiars come from. Okay. So I put that my favorite one on my hat, and now that's just my own tiara.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

You gotta be careful. I mean, that people have started stealing that idea.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

They already have. They already have. Because I saw some girl on Snapchat or something, and she she had put uh a big embroidery crown on there, like she got in New Orleans for Mardi Gras or something. I thought, no, it's gotta fit the hat. It can't just go over the hat, you know. You ever done Mardi Gras? Yeah, many, many times.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

I've never been there.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Oh my god, you gotta go. Because now it it's it is a lot different though. Now it's not about the you know, show me your tits, get your beads. Oh, I don't want to go then. Well, now you get arrested for doing that. So now people just throw you beads. But, you know, I have walked past and men thought they were, you know, gonna get some attention, and yeah, I guess they were playing ring the beads from up, you know, down there, but I just some of them you gotta walk by. There is a sign actually in a spot down there that says do not have sex in this spot. This is how bad it is down there. That is weird. It they do it during decadence, which is the the uh gay holiday, gay pride time. Yeah. They do it during Mardi Gras. They do it during like um the quarterfest.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Just a specific spot.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

There, yeah, because it's it's the way it's hidden off. They'll they'll put that sign there and then the arrows point to it. It's that bad. That is weird. It's bad.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

I've never heard it before though.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

But it's I'll tell you this. You can go down that street and it is trashed from all of the the beads and the confetti and all that, and you wake up the next morning and it is clean as it can get.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

That is wild.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I understand the urine smells still there somewhere because it's all up and down the street of bourbon. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Still and down the street of Broadway, too.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Uh-huh. I don't hang out in Broadway. I don't go to Broadway. Never really have. But then again, nobody that actually lives in Nashville or plays in Nashville really goes to Broadway. No. You we usually go to some obscure places. And honestly, the bigger stars don't hang out on Broadway where everybody thinks they are.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

They used to back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Back in the day when it was safer.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

Well, back in the day it was you played what you wrote.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Yeah.

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Now it's you play what the establishment tells you to play.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Yeah, and I have heard that there's a lot of people that don't enjoy doing that anymore.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

And it's it takes the whole part of the point of country music. The storytelling, the writers' rounds, everything else. It takes away from the country music where the heart started it.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Well, it's gotten so commercialized that they have taken the music business and turned into nothing but a money money business. Yeah. They've taken the love out of for music out of it. I work I work with one particular engineer and he told me I would rather work with you because you do it for the love of the music than I would somebody else that pays me a lot because I know they're just doing it for the money. Yeah, they can turn around because they're a bigger singer and they can turn but I would rather work with somebody who wants the love of the music.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Yeah, because I mean that's uh we're few and far between anymore. And I hate to say this, but I mean, it this is the truth. There are people in this industry that claim that they are all about this industry. They claim that they are doing things for this industry. But when you get to the heart of it, it's all about their fame and how much money they can make off of everybody else.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Right. My thing is the I surround myself with a group of people that are supportive of each other, uh, such as Amanda Walker. She and I and you've met her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

I love Amanda. She's nice.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

She and I are so supportive of each other. We write songs together. Uh matter of fact, she wrote the second one that I'm gonna release later this year, uh Greatest Regrets. She has put in um I have called her at 2 o'clock in the morning and said, Hey, I got three verses. I need a chorus and a melody. And she goes, It's two o'clock in the morning. I said, Well, what the hell you got to do? She goes, Sleep, bitch.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

I said, Well, I'm up, let's get up. So five minutes later, 15 minutes at best, she goes in the bathroom, she picks a tune, she sends it to me on text, and it is wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 9:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

And I will do anything in the world with her, work with her anyway, because she is, she's she's incredible. She really is. And we support each other very, very much. And when there Caitlin Myers is another one. Um there's um Megan Droke, there's another one.

SPEAKER_03 10:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

We all support each other for whatever we're doing. We'll we'll support each other on social media, push things out for the other one. And you don't really have that. You pretend to have it. And a lot of the people in the upper realms do it in public, but I don't know that their people that run their social medias really do that.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

Well, I mean, that that was one thing that when I first met you and we got to talking and everything, that was the one thing that really I think connected me and you was because we remember country music as it was. Yeah. We remember fanfare, which is why Yeah, fanfare was was a big thing. And um your values. Because my values, your values kind of align a little bit, you know. I want to help people out. I want to get things out there, you know, and and get people to the masses where everybody else is, they just want to see how much money they can make off of them.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

Well, and that would be the reason why your success is going up and theirs is not.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Unless they're paying for it. And in this business, a lot of people pay to get where they want to be.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

It amazes me how many people are actually paying for added subscribers on YouTube and added followers and all this other stuff. It blows me away. I'm not spending that kind of money.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

I ain't got time for it. If you enjoy my music, which I play my music when I'm at work for other coworkers, or when I was working at another facility, I had um donors that come in and out because I was working at a plasma center.

SPEAKER_04 12:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

These people come uh join my Facebook or my Instagram or my TikTok, and they'll say, Okay, I saw I heard the buzz on the the T's, and I'm ready for this song to come out now. So, you know, and I want my I want my fans honestly, and I don't even like the word fan because that that's just short for fanatic. I like to call them loves.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Move your mic a little bit. I have no other way to say it.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Well, my nose keeps bumping. That's fair. You were hiding your face. You were hiding your face. You don't want to hide your face, you can't do it. We want to see your face. I'm sorry. Okay. You're gonna know. Anywho. Okay. But I wanted you to read my mind.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Oh you know um, I'm sorry, we don't use Walmart cordless mics here, okay?

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Oh, well.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

It's one of those things.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Yeah. Sorry, Caitlin. You're good. But yeah, it it's uh I want something to be organic and generally I want people that's gonna listen to the music and support it honestly. Yeah. If I've got to buy bots, I don't need it.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Well it's a bad part about this. I think about this. It puts me in mind of a kid that has no friends, nothing else, and is just a lonely individual, but they can go out and buy all the friends they want.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Still alone. You're still alone. Yeah, you're not doing anything. If it's organic, then at least to me I know that they actually like what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Right. I have um been fortunate enough to write the song When I Dream, which is gonna be um released number one on the EP.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

How many times did you call her in the middle of the night? Amanda.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Oh, for that one? No, that one came from a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Okay, well, I didn't know. I was just checking.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

That was uh written, gosh, eighties. But it was uh Oh, that was back in the good days. Yeah, yeah. I had uh yeah, I think it was eighties, nineties, n 2000s, I don't know, it's an old song. But it's a favorite song. It's the one that I wrote when my fiance died. Okay. And I was in a deep, deep depression. And I couldn't get out of bed. So I was only happy and h when I was dreaming. So somebody told me.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Back in the eighties, the only time I was happy was when I was drinking. So anyway.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

I was I was in the 2000s because I met him afterwards. Met my husband afterwards, yeah. Sweet. Yeah, a year afterwards. So that song meant means a lot to me, and that's the one that I've won the most awards for. Right. And people will take that on TikTok and play it in the background for as a memorial for other people. Yeah in their love life. They're that you know, in their life that they were meant a lot to them. And I discovered that and I didn't even know that that's what they were doing. And I thought, well, that's real sweet.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

See, I think that's really, really fascinating because you do something for one reason and you don't realize how many people it actually touches, you know. And then when you see what people are doing and how many people it's actually touching, it's that I call it the the holy crap moment, you know. It's like, damn.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

I didn't even know what was going on until a friend call and said, Have you ever Googled that song? And I said, No. Have you ever put it on TikTok and look listen to that song? I said, No. She said, Well, go put it in the search bar, and I did, and all of a sudden, all these videos come up where they were using that song to promote to memorialize their loved ones.

SPEAKER_04 16:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

And that was probably I mean, I cried. I went to Kurt and I said, I can't believe this. This song is helping this many people.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

And so it was it was something, you know, because you just write it. That's what you gotta do. I mean just like with dad.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Writing a song about him. He was a soldier, he was a provider, he was a husband and a dad. And that's the only way that I can ever ex describe him. And we but you think about it in everybody's dad.

SPEAKER_04 17:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

I've had men listen to this song and cry. I've had women listen to this song and cry. I've had my mother right here sitting here listening to it and crying. I ain't gonna lie. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

I listened. And then I started crying and I turned it off. Did you really? I couldn't listen to all of it.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Really? I'm all I'm touched. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Because that's that's how far emotionally it touched me.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Well, good. I'm glad. Of course, when dad told me that he cried about it, I said, I live to make you cry. He said, Well, you've been doing it for 63 years. I was fixing to say.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

My kid's been making me cry for a long way, though.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

He caught me and goes, You made Granny cry. I go, Well, I live to do that.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

There you go. Go ahead and check that off the bucket list.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Well, I'm I'm glad it was that touching because I wondered whether or not it would be that touching to as many men as as it has been. But I have gotten it just for the T's, I have gotten several men in the chat, uh, you know, in my DMs that said, this song is phenomenal. This song really touched my heart, just the chorus. Yeah. So that's but you know, my dad has always been my life. He has always been my life. I wanted to do everything he did. Play golf, was a swimmer, was a diver. Anything he did, I wanted to do it.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Including rebuild carburetors.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Um, yeah. I was outside in the cars when he was tinkering in the cars too.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Well, I mean, I just want to make sure it goes.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Everything.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

Yeah, we had vacuum a lock a while ago, so I mean.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Well, my daddy is my daddy. Yep. You know, and you know, they they come around and they say things that are, you know, I can I can make you a star. I just need your most prized possession. Well, my most prized possession will get you in a lot of trouble.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

Well, of course, when I hear people say that, I just look at them and laugh, my butt off.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Yeah. I'm giving up my daddy for nothing.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Cause my industry knowledge, if anybody comes up and says, I can make you a star.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

You know they're full of it.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

They're full of crap.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Yeah. Or they've got something at their sleeve.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

Well, usually they got their handout.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Uh-huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Because I know I know one guy, he was pushing that that whole thing about how great and everything else. And actually had uh one of his artists call and tell me how in the heck can I get rid of this guy? Because he is done all this stuff and he's took over social media and and all this other stuff.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

And I'm just like, See, that's one thing that uh really bothers me about some of the young people that get in here because the first thing they hear is you know, they go down to Broadway. I'm like, and honestly, the people out on the street of Broadway are more talented than some of the people that own the bars. Yeah. That's just my opinion. I'm probably I I am probably chapping a lot of people's buttons, but I'm gonna chap it even further because most of the people that own the bars down there don't have a clue about music, but they know how to run a bar.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

They know how to run a business. All those names that are on those bars down there, that business pays for them people's names to be on that bar.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yep. You're right. I mean, it those people aren't really there in those bars. No. They're not associated with it. But a lot of people go in there simply because, oh, I think I'm gonna see so-and-so in their bar.

unknown 21:04

No.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

You got a better chance of seeing somebody at Caster Knotts or Musician's Friend or, you know, some uh the Guitar Center, you know. I've seen a lot of musicians at Guitar Center, you know.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Fox and Lot, Tornado Room, yeah, places out there. Oh yeah. So I've seen more people out there than I have anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Yeah, and I pretty much guarantee when we start doing the the bonfire in the backyard, uh you're gonna see some out there too.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

It's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

There's a lot of people that we would close down um the tornado room and we would go and sit in the backyard and do the bonfires. Yeah. People would come that live out there would they just show up. Wainana does, uh Kix Brooks does. Yeah. You know, a lot of people. Chris Stapleton, Justin Timberlake, they all show up out there.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

Yeah. And the weird part about it is they're an individual with a talent. Y'all keep forgetting these people are people.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Well, I will tell you this too. Me being a bad paparazzi, a lot of them I don't recognize. Like Vince Neil. I didn't know I didn't recognize him because he wasn't on stage jumping around in spandex. He don't look good in spandex now, does he?

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

But and I'm not picking on Vince Neil because honestly. None of us look good in Spandex anymore. I don't look good in Spandex anymore. And my big thing when I first started doing, you know, music and everything, I was doing light shows and stuff, and I was helping all these glam metal bands around Nashville, you know. And uh I ain't gonna lie, back then I had a pair of uh turquoise blue spandex that were I thought I looked pretty good in. But uh yeah, not happening nowadays.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

And thank you.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Yeah, it's just not gonna happen. But you know It's called growing up, growing old.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

I mean the thing I want to tell you about these people that show up. They come out just as themselves, and they are not pretentious, they are in a relaxed environment, and they're just fun. They sit around and pick the guitars and sing with us like the rest of us.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

And we've all you know became friends, and it's just it it's it's enjoy, it's relaxing. We'll sit out there till four or five in the morning. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

You know, and that's a big thing because I can't tell you how much fun I had back in the day. We would go, you know, off-roading and drinking beer and setting around a bonfire.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

What is that song Miranda Lambert does? Oh, smoking and drinking. Well, I mean, we did some of that too. Yeah, yeah. But what I'm saying is that reminds you of your childhood. I personally didn't smoke or drink. Wink wink? Yeah. Okay. I never smoked though. Never smoked. Because I was a singer, I never smoked. And I really didn't drink. I really didn't drink a lot. I really didn't. I was pretty, I was usually designated decoy.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah, but I had my moments, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Well, I mean, you had your moments, but you also had you had that connection. I mean, your dad had written some songs, he helped you with your vocals and everything else. Yeah. So you had that training that a lot of people don't have. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

My dad, I'll be honest with you, can't sing a flick. Cannot carry a tune. But recorded a record in 1957. It sold on eBay as a 45 for 500 bucks.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Don't ask me how. It was less than the jokers. But he managed to do it. You'd be surprised. Yeah. There was a guy from the Netherlands that came over just to meet us. Yeah. And he said that song was more popular over there in the 2000s than it was in the 50s. I have songs from the 70s that are popular over there now.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Yeah. So Well, I mean, you know, doing CMA Fest and all the people that I've met, we've had, what was it, Caitlin, Australia, Scotland. Actually had a guy on here the other day from Finland. Yeah. I mean, it just it amazes me at how many people actually seeing all this stuff, you know? Right. And listening to music. Because like back in the day it was like word of mouth went from one town to the next town.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yeah, because we didn't have social media.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Uh if you could get on Mayberry RFD, then that's how you got booked on the next town, you know. Right.

unknown 26:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

But I think somehow we need to bring back the old fanfare or Nashville Winterfest or things where we actually let ourselves be ourselves and interact with the people that love us as musicians and singers. Get close to the people, get them involved again. To me, it's just nowadays everybody's in such a panic. Oh, somebody's gonna kill me if they look at me. You know, not everybody is gonna kill me.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Well, it depends on how many loan sharks you've got hooked up. Well, that may be true.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

That may be true. It depends on who's who's invested in you, in you, and what you owe. But I'm just saying that if people will start treating people like humans?

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

And real and appre and really appreciating them for appreciating the what we do.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

To put out good music.

SPEAKER_04 27:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

And stop worrying about, listen, there I want nothing more in this life than to be. And I used to tell my dad, you can have you can have the uh the fortune if I can have the fame. Then I thought, mm-hmm, no. But what I want is not the fame, and it's not the fortune, it's the opportunity to perform in front of people that I can make smile.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

That's really all it is. I would love the idea of making someone smile.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

See, when I started this podcast, my big thing was I wanted to help people get out there.

SPEAKER_05 28:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

I wanted people that watch the show to be able to learn something. And find some kindness, find some happiness. Because laughter is the best medicine.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Well, the singers that we call legends today didn't have themselves up on this high horse. They appreciated the people that got out and paid $15 for a front row ticket.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

$35 for a front row ticket, I believe, was the highest I know of than our day. Now they're talking $1,500 for a front row ticket. Think of how many concerts as a child, a kid, young person we went to because we could afford it with our allowance money. And then think about how many concerts kids go to today because they can't afford it. They have to go to mom and dad, or they or you know, they have to sneak in, sit outside. I mean, some of these concert goers, and I don't know, Ticketmaster is really blowing up.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

The big thing is I used to get my tickets at the municipal auditorium.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Mm-hmm. Yeah, you had to go stand in line for them.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Monday through Friday, when I got out of school, I was coming home and I was cutting grass. I had a riding mower and a push mower and away I went. Mm-hmm. But when it came to somebody that I wanted to see, I was paying $12.50 for a ticket.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

And then I read the other day where somebody was paid like $5,000 for a frickin' ticket and it wasn't even front row. No. Mm-mm. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do it. No. It's that's a lot of freaking yards to be cutting.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Yeah, but also it doesn't, I and I never It didn't go to the artist. It goes to the That's the thing. It doesn't go to the artist.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

No, it goes to the artist.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

And they have a misconception that, oh man, they're rich because they're paying this and they're paying, they're charging this. It's not them, it's the ticket master people. They're setting the price.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

And then everybody's blaming the artist for it. But artists basically get their money from merchandise.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

That's where they mostly get it. Especially if you got a 360 deal.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

And the bad part about it is most of these artists are probably getting that $12.50 per ticket.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

The people that are selling the tickets are like scalpers nowadays.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

And they're getting the top dollar once that once they sign off. Okay, yeah, you can sell our tickets for us. Well, here's your $12.50 for that ticket, and I want to go charge, you know, Joe Blow $3,000 for this ticket.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Right. But have you noticed that in general our world is coming, kind of reverting back to the old ways, such as people are now becoming more holistic. And that's what they were in the 1800s. They're with their medicine, they're coming more realistic holistic. There are people that are using making their own bread now. There are people that are doing a lot of things from the old quote unquote days. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Caitlin's the queen of sourdough sitting right over there.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Good for you. I bought a bread machine. See, my bread machine stopped working, so I had to get a Dutch oven and then I just started sourdough. Oh, good. I don't know how to start that, but Kurt loves sourdough. It's very easy. It's just you have to uh baby it for a while. I have to get a recipe from you. I can give it to you after. Okay, thanks. But I think if we as artists said, uh uh stop, stop with all these these high prices. I understand that the stadiums are expensive. But if we went back and said, you know, pay us a reasonable thing. I mean, fifty dollars is probably the max is what I would pay for anybody.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

Look, here's what I want to see.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Okay. Let's see if I can do it.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

I think you can do it. I think a lot of these artists could do it.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Get with the venue. I agree. Get the venue to sell the ticket. This is what you're charging to be at this venue. Only allow the venue a five dollar add-on. This is all you can add on to this ticket price. These tickets have to be at this amount. And I guarantee them well to you 15 bucks, 20 bucks to go see one of these artists, and that place will be sold out. Oh, yeah, real quick. But don't do it over the frickin' internet.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

You got to go down to get your tickets. I think that's honest the way it should be.

SPEAKER_02 33:19

That's the way it should be. It's the way it should be. And don't allow scalpers. Two tickets a person. That's all you can do. Two tickets.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

I agree. I think that uh, and then I believe they would fill up more than the stadium. Some of them are having to cut off certain parts of the stadium. Do like we did in their old days. Put it in the round. Work work a sc work a square. And that way you can fill up every seat all the way around.

SPEAKER_02 33:45

You want to really put a damper on them? Sure. Make them go back to how it used to be in the 50s and the 60s.

SPEAKER_05 33:55

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Where did all these artists play in the 50s and 60s? They didn't have venues. They went to school auditoriums. Yeah. And they went to the school outside fairground area, the football stadium, all that stuff where they were playing. And they allowed these artists to come in, set up a stage, do this, do that, sold the tickets, and you're right there. Get back to the community.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

I agree. I think we'd have a lot more successful good artists. Yes. I mean, I'm not discounting anybody that I'm not, I mean, because I absolutely love Lainey and Miranda and Ashley McBride and Bells. Oh my God. Oh yeah, I love that. That girl is so cute. You know, I I love them all. But we could have so many more people join that crowd if they all went back to like we're talking about the old days where you were performing for the love of the music instead of for the love of the dollar.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Exactly. And that's what it needs to be.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

I agree.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Because when you have artists like yourself that are still creating creating from the love of their heart and everything else. That song about your dad. When that hits, that's gonna be amazing. Get back to while you write. Get back to where you write with love. From your heart, how you feel. Stop writing because you think it might be good, or it might be a commercial song, or it might could be on the chart. You've heard that before. Oh yeah. Oh, that's a chartable song.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Mm-hmm. I will tell you, when I wrote it and sent it to Dad, Dad said, I have been praying for this to be your release and to be your topper for your s your career. This is this is what I feel in my gut is your your big song, your big break here. So much that he said, where you want to record it, we're we're gonna get it done. Because I was gonna wait and save the money up and you know because I like to I don't like to owe anybody anything. I'm gonna save it up and pay for it and have it done. Dad said, Go get it done, we'll pay for it.

SPEAKER_04 36:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

And it made him cry. It made my mother cry. That was it. I knew then I had done something right. Oh yeah. And Kurt was like it's really touchy. It is. And it the the tune sticks in your head, the the word sticks in your head.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

It's you know the chorus even sticks in your head. And I have had several people tell me, you know a song is good. From the first time you heard it, you cannot get a chorus out of your head, or you can't get part of a lyric out of your head. And you topped several of those in one song.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Oh, well, thank you. That's so sweet. But I did it from my heart. I didn't do it for it was wanting to be his Father's Day present.

SPEAKER_02 37:42

So Well, happy Father's Day.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Well, we're gonna release it before Father's Day. Right now it's in mastering, and you know, the version you have is a good mix, but it's not mastered yet. Yeah. But yeah, we can it's good enough to play, but once it gets out when we release it properly, we're gonna be releasing it close to Father's Day. Sweet. Yeah, we're gonna have it put out in as many places as possible.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

I'm a father and I don't even know when Father's Day is. When is Father's Day?

SPEAKER_01 38:12

22nd, I think, of June. Huh? He didn't know either. It's June 22nd, I think it is. 21st. 21st, okay. I was close. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

But you know, him being my life, I mean, my I almost lost my daddy three times.

SPEAKER_04 38:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

He coded when he had his knee done replaced. He coded because he had too much albuterol uh from asthma. Um he coded when he got pneumonia so bad. So, you know, I'm just thankful that he's still here.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

There's no telling how many times this man's heart stopped because of the crap you did.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Well, that's true. Can you imagine getting a getting a phone call that goes, hey dad, um, I got fired from um um upper land because they found out I was too old. I mean, it's too young. I was supposed to be 16 instead of 14, but I'm going on the road, Nobody wins. Yeah. My mother, hell no, you're not.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

But that worked out good.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

Let me talk to dad. Hey dad. Okay, well, just let me know where to pick you up.

SPEAKER_02 39:22

Yep. When you're leaving.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

And I'm in the background, you hear my mother going, James Leslie. And then dad hangs up, so hey, it was fun though. Yeah, it was an experience and a half. And it's something that I I honestly, my children are 30 and 34. There is no way if they called me and said, I'm going to do that. I would say, Oh, I know you're not old enough. But at 14, 15 years old, trusted me. But I was also what they called the old soul of it. So yeah, but you learned so much from her. I did. I did. She was my everything when it came to the music business. Got a song already written about her that Kurt thought that he was gonna write a book about my past. Right. So we uh sat down and Kurt started writing um a song. And at 14 and I started chasing dreams. On the road with Dottie, it seems. So, you know, it it that'll come out next. That'll be fun. We got two more songs after after this to come out. So we're still working with them. And talks about Barbara Mandrell and so it's here's the thing that always bothered me.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

A lot of these artists would get big. They would be doing fantastic things and then they just disappear. It's like what happened? And then it hit me the other day. I think a lot of them just got sick of the pressure and everything that goes along with all of it. Because a lot of these older artists, it wasn't about meet and greets and hanging out at the merch table and all this other stuff. You were put on stage and then you were herded off.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Well, wait a minute. Miss Dottie was never herded off. She was ex uh they walked her out from the tunnel. And if there was somebody that said, Hey, Miss Dottie, I've got a recipe for you, or hey, Miss Dottie, I bought this for you, or hey, Miss Dottie, listen, it didn't matter if she was on that stage or not. She was gonna sit right there and discuss that recipe and discuss and tell them thank you for whatever they were giving her, and then hand it, you know, to her her um uh guy that was escorting her. But she was gonna sign that autograph on the way out, and I firmly believe that that is where I learned how to treat my public.

SPEAKER_04 42:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Because she took time and the people that she said, you know, I got all night, I can go out there and sing. But that I I mean not but five minutes with this person.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

And if this five minutes makes their world just rock and go, you know, for the rest of their life, oh yeah, then I made them happy, and it took me five minutes to make somebody happy. That's what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

Well, see, that's something I'm liking about a lot of these new artists now. A lot of them, they want that meet and greet, they want to hang out at the merch table. They'll take a picture, they'll shake your hands. Absolutely. Uh I even had several of them tell me, I love just talking to these people that have come to my show and having a little bit of a conversation with them. Absolutely. Yeah, Wade Jennings told me, he said, I don't care if it's three, four o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

Right.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

I'm gonna stay there and I'm gonna talk to every person that wants to talk to me.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

You remember when we did uh Christmas for kids and Chris Stapleton was up there?

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

He stayed, I think, till midnight just signing autographs because his line was so long. Now, granted, my Morgan wasn't there because the kids were homesick, but he was there and he did not leave until the last person had the autograph.

SPEAKER_04 43:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Or picture made.

SPEAKER_04 43:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

And I was I was very impressed with the fact that somebody of his status did that. And he took that much time. That tells me that some of these artists are like the old artists. Yeah. And they want to be, but their management sometimes won't let them be.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

And that's the bad part about it. It's, you know, a lot of it is sometimes it's their PR, sometimes it's their management. A lot of times it's their label. My label's sitting right there. I know it's a good label. Uh but that's the whole thing about all of it. You know, it's country music was about the interaction and talking and hanging out.

unknown 43:59

That's

SPEAKER_01 44:00

That's how you built your base too.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

Yeah, and and that's a lot of reasons why a lot of the freaking rock bands of the past those labels tried to pack 'em in, get them out there, get them to perform the show, get them off stage, get them going to the next place. And that's where a lot of these artists lost their shit.

SPEAKER_00 44:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

That's why we have lost so many artists.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

They've lost a lot of appreciation for the fans because they have been told you're not, you're too big, you're too good, you're too you're above this. That's your livelihood.

SPEAKER_02 44:42

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Those people spend hard on money to come see you and to to download your music and to be supportive of you. And if you don't appreciate them, then get another job.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Yeah. Because I mean, I'm not an artist, I'm just a podcaster. You're never just eating. But if somebody comes up and says, dude, I listen to your show all the time, I'm like, really? Yes. Yeah. You know, and I'll sit there and I'll talk to them and I'll have fun. You know, because I'm entertaining somebody.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Right.

SPEAKER_02 45:15

And they like what I do, and I'm happy about that.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Well, that's why we get in this business is to be able to be entertaining to somebody.

SPEAKER_04 45:23

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

But one thing I can tell all these young people, anybody that listens, you don't have to go to a big time label and give them 97% of your money. No. You don't have to take a 360 deal. I mean, no. Make your own label. My dad made one for me in 1974.

SPEAKER_04 45:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

And I've been on that label ever since.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

That's the only thing I've ever released my songs under is Camellia Records. That's all I will ever do it. So if money comes back, it comes back to my family, it comes back to my my dad's, you know, as the label head, it comes back that way. And I appreciate each and every download that some make. And I don't put my downloads out there for three and four and five dollars. No. I put them out there so kids that like the songs. And one of my nurses' children was going to school and she said, What are you singing in the background? Well, she was singing my song Bell Money. Because her mom and I were both jail nurses. So she was singing Bell Money. And she goes, Well, how did you get that song? She said, Well, I downloaded it for 99 cents, Mom.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

And that's what it's all about is those kids being able to listen to good music. And it's clean songs. It's yeah, you know, kids can understand it.

SPEAKER_02 46:43

That's what we did back in the day when it was like all these music, all these songs were on the radio. And we would sit there with a recorder. Yes. Put on your cassette take care. And when they come out with the boom box that had everything built in together, oh man.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

Yeah, you were something then.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

I'm saying, and this is the way I felt when I got it. I am shitting in high cotton now by God. I was just like, holy crap.

SPEAKER_01 47:10

Yeah, but you had to have the muscles to carry it. They're so big.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

I could make those romantic mixtapes. Seen a girl I liked, I'd make a mix tag. Yeah. Next time I seen her, I'd hand her the mixtape. Then the next day it would either get thrown back at me or I oh, thank you so much. I love that. You know? Yeah. Now it's okay. You hold your iPhone up and you stream it and you go, What do you think about this?

SPEAKER_00 47:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

The bad part about it is back then we owned what we bought.

unknown 47:51

Right.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

If I bought your album, then everything that was on that album, the physical album, it was mine. Yeah. I got to play it. My friends could hear it. And if my friends liked it, they could buy uh go buy it too, you know. Now it's like, okay, 99 cents and I can stream this, and 99 cents I can stream this.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

Oh, not a lot of them are done. Uh no, they're not 99 cents. Most of them are not. They're three and four and five dollars.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

And I'm just like a dollar forty-nine.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with a dollar forty-nine for what you got, you know, because you we got you know, I mean, each song that I I've done is how much is it, what, $3,500 per song? That's about what the average is. Is you you put out $3,500 per song to have it recorded. Now understand, my recording at my engineers of Grammy winner, Randy Kors. My drummers are um, I've used Anton Figg, who is David Letterman's drummer. I've used um some of Nashville's best um studio musicians, and I they do it when I'm not there, so I don't really haven't met some of them, but they do it when I'm not there.

SPEAKER_04 49:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:11

I've used Stu Ham, which is a world-renowned bassist. I've used Brendan Fitzpatrick. Vicki Carico lives here in Nashville. She is one of the top background vocalists. And matter of fact, she toured with Dottie for a long time too. Yeah. And she's been with Brenda Lee all these years. And so even though it's $3,500, I'm getting some top-notch people. I've got some incredible musicians. Mark Fain is one of them. Um Cody, I think Cody Robbins is one of. I mean, they've got some great musicians on these songs.

SPEAKER_04 49:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:45

And Grammy winning, winning people that are on Josh Schillings, he's a uh organ and piano player. So even though it's $3,500, it's not, that's really not a lot for some of these people that make pay $10,000 or more, but they use because of the studio name they want to use.

SPEAKER_03 50:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:04

And it's the what they want to put into it. And they want to hire somebody that I'm these people that I'm using are down to earth. They enjoy what they do. They do it for the love of the music. And I would rather use them than to go out and hire and spend ten thousand dollars on a song just because a label says, well, this is where we're gonna do it because you know, uh sometimes a home studio is better than these big huge studios.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

Look, I remember when people wouldn't make cassettes, four or five songs on it. And they would sell them outside Kmart or Sears or at Rivergate Mall or Hickory Hollow Mall. They would get their name out there. And if they wanted to play a gig, they contacted that bar or went there. Or went there and dropped off their CD and a little bit of a bio and gave it to them, and now everything's internet.

unknown 51:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:17

You to even get on Sirius XM, you but now at Sirius Cirrus XM, you have to send a physical copy of the song through the mail, and they have a team that listens to them. You don't just email through the internet with them.

SPEAKER_02 51:33

My big thing, and I hate to say this, I'm gonna get a lot of hate over this. Quit streaming.

SPEAKER_01 51:42

Yeah, because the artists don't get anything out of it.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

Artists don't get nothing out of it. If we all went back to the record days.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:55

Kurt and I play records in the house.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

I love records. I just I don't have uh I got the phonograph back there that I can do. But I'm actually wanting to get a big old nice turntable. I miss my big Serwin Vega home stereo speakers that I had. I'm wanting to get a set of. And I'm just wanting to get it all dialed in and have a lot of fun with it because I can't tell you how many people they're they're wanting to go back to vinyl. They love the sound of the vinyl, the warmth.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

When you put that needle on that and you hear it go right before it starts that song.

SPEAKER_02 52:42

I want to tell you, I felt like Wolfman Jack back in the day when I could drop that needle right where it needed to be in between those two songs.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

That was skill. That was skill. Because you find you find your favorite song, and it's like three or four in, you gotta get it right there. Drop it.

SPEAKER_02 53:03

But see, that's the other thing. I remember these old DJs, Wolfman Jack. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:10

I remember a lot of the DJs from KDF. He was on Midnight Special too. Yeah, he was on the midnight special. I love the midnight special because everybody came on, came on at midnight, uh, Friday nights. Let the midnights fashion shine an ever-loving light on you. Oh yeah. But you got to see all these different acts and all I mean, that's where I fell in love with Bob Seeger.

SPEAKER_04 53:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:34

Then I got to see him in person up at Muscles sound. Oh, yeah.

unknown 53:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

That voice. That's a voice.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

Uh yeah. What was your favorite Bob Seeger song?

SPEAKER_01 53:46

Uh, Turn the Page.

SPEAKER_02 53:48

See.

SPEAKER_01 53:49

That one that one in Night Moves. Mine was Night Moves.

SPEAKER_02 53:53

I loved Night Moves.

SPEAKER_01 53:56

I like Turn the Page simply because it was about being on the road.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

Well, yeah, I I like that aspect of it. But to me, night moves that told more about him as an artist, yeah. Me as a person. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

Well, you know it was about him, actually.

SPEAKER_02 54:16

It was about him as an artist. But it resonated with me.

SPEAKER_01 54:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

Because I had a 67 fastback.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

It also resonated with a lot of young men.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

Back in those days.

SPEAKER_02 54:27

I didn't have the 57 Chevy, but the 67 fastback had the fold-down back seat.

unknown 54:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:34

We could sit and look at the moon. Oh, yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_01 54:38

Yeah, for about what, three minutes.

SPEAKER_02 54:40

Well, she she could watch it the moon.

SPEAKER_01 54:46

I mean, gonna give you some distraction here.

SPEAKER_02 54:48

Yeah. It just, it was just, but you had the stereo going at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

Right. You know, and it was just there was just so many things about those old days that I feel bad for these kids today. They're not.

SPEAKER_01 55:11

They're not they're not tuned in, no. They're not tuned into what really life is about. I will tell you this now. I when I drive home from work, I drive home early in the morning. And so people are going to work and I'm coming home. Or when I was working late down day shift and I was coming home. 280 in Birmingham, Alabama is very, very crowded. And it doesn't matter. My my sunroof is open, my windows are down, my music is cranked up, and I am singing and dancing in the seat. I get people that drive up high beside me and look. And I just wave. And my grandmother used to say, Oh, give them a thrill. You'll never see them again. Well, yeah. And I do. I just smile and wave. And sometimes I've I've been going to say about a hundred down the road sometimes when I'm coming up here, and the cops I've had one cop pull up beside me and kind of hit his you know sirene and looked at him. Looked at him and he was like, Yeah. And then he would like this.

SPEAKER_02 56:18

I actually like that one that I seen. It was uh it was on YouTube, and it was this police officer, and he was singing a Taylor Swift song. It was Shake It Off. Oh, yeah. And I was just like, This guy's got his shit together. I mean, he's like word for word with her and everything. And I was just like, good job, man. He probably has a daughter.

SPEAKER_01 56:47

He probably has a daughter.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

Probably. But me and my daughter back in the day, it was like she got me hooked on InSync.

SPEAKER_01 56:55

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:58

And there's no greater feeling in the world when you break up with a girl to pull up outside of where you know she's at, and you're cranking in sync, looking at her, giving her that wave while you're sitting there with your hand on the steering wheel going, bye-bye, bye, bye, bye. It was fun stuff. We had a lot of fun doing that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 57:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

But we enjoyed our childhood because we were outside.

SPEAKER_02 57:24

I enjoyed people. Yeah. Nowadays I don't enjoy that many people. Well, it's like you can go into there that that's a whole nother podcast. Yeah. That's true. That's true. That's a five-hour version.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Well, I just want to tell you I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

Appreciate what?

SPEAKER_01 57:51

Just being here today.

SPEAKER_02 57:52

Oh, it's always fun to see you.

SPEAKER_01 57:54

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

It's always fun whenever we talk on the phone.

SPEAKER_01 57:57

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:59

Because we're always updating each other on all the bull crap of the world.

SPEAKER_01 58:03

Yeah. Go ahead. Just call it gossip. Hey, did you hear no? Sometimes I mean, you know, my some of my best friends are all men. Yeah. Because I don't really get along with women. I think I have maybe five women friends.

SPEAKER_02 58:19

I get along better with women than I do men.

SPEAKER_01 58:22

But, you know, uh the truth of the matter is you're all the same because you like to gossip. No. You especially. No. Yeah, you especially. Colonel goes, Who are you talking to? I go, David. He goes, uh, what's happening now?

SPEAKER_02 58:37

Here's here's the thing. Look, there there's gossip and then there's hearsay. Now, hearsay is actually more accurate than gossip.

SPEAKER_01 58:49

Well, that's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 58:52

So if I call and say, hey, you ain't gonna believe this, then you know it's hearsay. But if I call and I'm very urgently going, dude, you ain't gonna believe this yet. Then that's a possible gossip.

SPEAKER_01 59:13

I yeah, yeah, I usually get that first one all the time. Hey, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 59:21

You did what? Who said what? You're kidding.

SPEAKER_01 59:28

Really? They did what?

SPEAKER_02 59:29

I ain't believing that. And I think it's funny as y'all get out. So, yeah, you know the one thing that we haven't done.

unknown 59:44

What?

SPEAKER_02 59:44

You haven't told nobody what the name of the song is.

SPEAKER_01 59:47

Oh, mm-hmm the song is called Dad is My Hero. And that's the truth. And it's coming out. We're gonna shoot for June the 1st, but it will be out. If if we miss the June the 1st deadline, we will have it out before Father's Day so everybody can download it and give it to their dad. Yeah. For Father's Day. That'll be it. That's what we really want. I want because when when my dad, I was pregnant with my second child, and my dad for Christmas, I had done redone one of his religious songs. So I had to sneak the tape out of the house, go down to the recording studio, have it baked, and all because that was the old days when you had 18 tracks, 16, 24 tracks. And I put my voice on the old music. Right. And my dad was sitting there at Christmas time, and I turned on the stereo, and he was sitting there and he was patting his foot, and while we were all opening presents, and he goes, Wait a minute, that's my song. Who stole my song? I said, Happy Merry Christmas, Dad, that's your song. That's what we did for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:54

That's awesome. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:56

So he was surprised.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

Well, I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:58

Yeah. So this was another surprise, and I think everybody ought to surprise their dad with the song.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:04

Well, yeah, because it's a touching song. It it it amazed me how much you actually put into the lyrics, and those lyrics will actually oh, dude, I'm telling you, it'll grab that little thing in the back of your head and make you start crying a little bit, and it's grabbing the strings on the heart and everything else.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:29

You're making me cry now thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:30

Well, I mean, it's the truth. It's one of the best songs I've heard in a long time, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:35

Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate it. I hope everybody else enjoys it and their dads enjoyed as much. Because it was written really with the spectrum of even though it was written specifically for my dad because every one of those elements are him, it was written because everybody's dad was a you know a provider. Yeah. And you know a father, a husband, a dad. And you know, majority of the people that I know's parents were soldiers. Yeah. And I know my dad has written songs for the military called The Honor of the Red, White, and Blue. My dad's written religious songs that I've recorded. Um you can go to our our label website, it's cr205.com and hear all the songs. You can download my songs, you can download other artists' songs, and we take new artists, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

Yeah, and uh and promote 'em. Remind me, because I'll put that all on the the YouTube and everything else. Okay. Everywhere that you get a podcast, I'll make sure that it's all down there. And that way people can look at it and take a look and and listen to it. And I want everybody to download this song because it's it's a great song.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

Thank you. I appreciate it. You are a great friend too. I just want to tell you, I'm very thankful that we met.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

Well, I am too, and you know, and uh it's uh a friendship I feel that's not on any conditions. We are just good friends.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:04

And I really appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:06

Yeah. I think that we are sharing our old days is what really connected us in that first. Bring me a rocking chair. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:15

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:16

But let's do our let's do our best to bring back fanfare where the where the the the good you know artists that want to participate want to be there with their art their um their levies.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

Well, I mean, it's uh I know it would be hard to do, but I think that we've got if we could get enough people to just do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:39

Here's my big thing on everything. I've been on it, I've been listening to it, I've been looking at it, I've been a part of this music music community forever. Once you get the people out of trying to make money at every day gun thing and put it back into the hands of the community and the musicians, then that's what it needs to go.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

Well, that's the one thing about our record label is dad's not making a mint off the artist.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:15

It they can use the label and promote them off of our website, and they get it's not a 360 deal.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:24

Okay, and you'll probably get like 15 people within the next week wanting to be an artist.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:30

So it's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:31

All right, we're gonna get off here.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:33

Yep. I gotta drive back to Birmingham.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:35

Yep, Holly, I love you, honey. I appreciate you being on.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:38

Thank you, dear. I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

All right, and we're gonna get off here. Everybody, please pay attention to when did we say June? What? Let's go with June 1st. Okay, June 1st. We're going with June 1st. Yeah, name of the song.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:51

Dad is my hero.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:53

Work with me here, kid. Come on. All right, there we go. And y'all go listen to it. You're gonna be amazed.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:02

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:03

All right, tell everybody bye.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:04

Bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:05

All right, everybody, please remember love.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:07

Where can they find her? Oh, yeah. Where do they where do they find you? You can find me at uh Beth at Beth Holly.com. Oh, you finally got a website. I got a website up, yeah. I'm happy. It's it's in the works. I'm still putting it together trying to cut this stuff up.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:22

Any of my social media is at real Beth Holly or Beth Holly Music. Um, and you can email me at Beth at Beth Holly.com. Or you can just www.bethhawley.com. Or you can call Beth at number 100. Or yes, yes, sure. At two o'clock in the morning, make sure it's you know, this thing's writing time. Yeah, give them purchase number.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:48

Yeah, give them purchase number.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:49

But you can also um listen to other artists on the label Camellia Records at cr205.com.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:57

Cr205.com.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:59

Camellia Records, yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:01

That almost pushed me into mine in BR549.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:03

Exactly, exactly. I think that's why dad did it to me, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:08

Probably. All right, we're gonna get off here. Everybody, please remember, like, share, follow, and subscribe. It helps us all. I'm really wanting to start pushing that by by record again.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:25

I mean, it just I think you need to start doing vinyl. Start doing vinyl.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

Dad, start doing vinyl.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:31

Hey, dad, do vinyl. There we go. He's looking into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:36

There is a vinyl place in the sale. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:40

There we go. That's all we need to do. That'll be fun. All right, everybody, we're out of here. Thanks. Love you mean it bye.