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Speaker 1: He was out on the road with me, riding the bus, and I was putting in my in-ear monitors, and I looked at him as I was about to walk on stage in front of all these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song. And I put the ear in and I just walked in.
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Speaker 2: All right, a special episode. I'm going to do my favorite 10 Brett Eldridge songs, but with Brett Eldridge in the room. And so he'll just tell me about the songs, how he felt when he wrote them. Brett is a massive superstar in country music. Big songs, number ones like Don't Ya, Be To The Music, Mean To Me, Lose My Mind, Wanna Be That Song.
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Speaker 3: He is Mr. Christmas.
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Speaker 2: And it's 10 years of the GLOW Christmas tour, which is wild. He's got some great Christmas albums. If you haven't been to the GLOW show, it's fantastic. It is the GLOW 10-year anniversary tour. which, again, is Nashville, Chicago, New York, Boston. He's newly married, great friend of mine, and we're going to do this. I'd like to encourage you, again, if it's Christmas time, go to the Glow Shows. Get tickets now, though. They always sell out everywhere he goes. Here he is, and let's do my top 10 Brett Eldridge songs.
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Speaker 3: With Brett Eldridge. Okay, so I deep dove into your music.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Already kind of live in it. Yeah. Every morning.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: All the hits, Brett Eldridge all day. Yep.
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Speaker 2: And so I have my 10 favorite Brett Eldridge songs of all time in order.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 2: So, and then at the end, I want you to be honest with me and like give me your top five, but don't let my judgment of your songs affect your judgment of your songs.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Deal? Deal. And what if I'm like, I don't think that's in my top 10. Is that okay? Well, yeah, this is my top 10.
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Speaker 1: Don't let your judgment, like if you don't have one that I think should be in the top 10, that's okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say, what I'm going to do is I'm going to like go down the list and give you a song at number 10 and then you tell me like a story about it or what part of your life you were in at that point.
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Speaker 3: Yes. But these songs don't have to make your list. Okay, good. But don't let my songs affect your list. Got it. Okay. Okay.
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Speaker 2: At number 10 on my deep dive, I have songs about you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So give me a little, just a slight melody of that.
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Speaker 4: Uh, I'm just trying to get through.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. These songs about you. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Tell me about that one.
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Speaker 1: Um, it's, uh, in the video, basically I'm having my brain erased from all the memories of, of this person in the past in my life. Everything I go through my life, every song I hear, every smell I smell, um, every song, is a song about you.
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Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get through these songs about you.
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Speaker 1: And it's just like walking through Wrigley thinking I'm, I'm over you. And then I hear, you know, uh, can't make you love me. And like, you know, it's, it's right back.
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Speaker 3: Like Bonnie, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I referenced can't make you love me in there. And, uh, uh, dancing in the dark, uh, Springsteen, um, and the song. And those are a couple.
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Speaker 3: So you got to go through Wrigley for the video. No, but I did. Um, no, but I cut want to be that song at Wrigley. The, or the, we did the music video for want to be that song at Wrigley.
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Speaker 2: Well, then why did you just say songs about you at Wrigley? There's a line in there about walking.
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Speaker 3: Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I was walking in Chicago at a Wrigleyville bar heard. I can't make you love me or, uh, at a Wrigleyville bar. Um, I thought I might be moving on until I heard Dancing in the Dark. Now I'm just trying to get through these songs about you.
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Speaker 3: Nice recall. Yeah, I know. Because I was like, wait a minute, that's not the lyric. Do you perform that song still? Yeah, I do. Do you know all the words to all your songs? Most of the time. I'm about to play a show here pretty soon. We're going to find out.
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Speaker 2: Do you think, because there are times where I'm not, maybe I wouldn't know the words, but if I hear a couple, it gets me in. It reminds me, like maybe if you can't catch on, but you get the first.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Like in your ear, you're like, I forgot. And then they're like, I won't, drunk, drunk.
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Speaker 3: No, I had that, maybe you'll get to the song, so I don't want to waste the story about it. You can tell, tell it.
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Speaker 1: Mean to Me, once, I was singing that, and I think it was the first line. And then, you know, we're playing it, and there's like this whole buildup to it, and it's very emotional and just.
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Speaker 3: a vibe. And then all of a sudden I'm like, turn around to my piano player. I'm like, what's, what's the opening line? What is it? I'm like, I wrote this song, but it's so weird.
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Speaker 1: Cause you've sang it a million times, but there's this weird block every once in a while. And sometimes I think I've asked the crowd before too. Like, um, once you realize that, you know, you're definitely going to mess up sometimes it helps to kind of bring them into it anyways, but it is frightening sometimes when you don't, when you don't remember.
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Speaker 2: There have been times where Eddie and I have been playing the Opry and we're doing Raging Idiot, just acoustic, two guitars. And I'll just be kind of sitting on it to be like a GC, something super simple. And I don't remember the first line.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so then I just keep going GC and I'll lean back.
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Speaker 3: First word, first word, first word. And he'll be like, dog. Got it. So what if he doesn't have it? You're screwed. Yes. Extremely screwed. We'll go back to this one later. Okay. So I have at number 10 songs about you. How'd that one do? Was that a single? It was. I don't know what are singles anymore. What's that? I don't know what are singles anymore. I don't either. Like some of your songs that I picked here weren't singles. It was okay. That's my favorite. That's my favorite kind.
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Speaker 2: You probably also get people that will be like, my favorite song is, and then it wasn't like a massive song, right?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm fine with that. Cause what didn't make the list was Raymond. Yep. It was close. Yeah. Great story. And also, was that your first single? Yes. And that's a story of, let me see if I remember this right. A guy with Alzheimer's? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was a fictitious story, but I wrote it because my grandmother had Alzheimer's. Wrote about a guy that works at a nursing home. The lady mistakes him as her son, like a patient there. And then he, instead of correcting her, he is that for her. And it's just like a real heartfelt kind of emotional song.
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Speaker 3: Do you still sing that one? Every once in a while, I'll do it acoustic. Do they go crazy because they know you don't sing it that often?
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, like the hardcore, like from the, from the jump fans, we'll, we'll get pumped about it.
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Speaker 3: Cause yeah, it's just, I'll dig that one deep.
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Speaker 1: Cause I mean, I, yeah, we don't like go full band, you know, deep emotion, but I'll tell the story kind of how it affected my family and me personally. And the first time I sang it, I was at the Opry. My, grandfather was in the crowd and he got real emotional and everything.
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Speaker 3: And so that was really cool.
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Speaker 2: It feels like when John Mayer plays Comfortable, not what it's about, but it's like you're just waiting and you're going, I wonder if he's going to.
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Speaker 3: Play Comfortable because he doesn't do it a lot. Yeah. I think the last John Mayer show, you and I went together. We went together, yeah. And he played it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And it was that whole solo show where he just sat there. And that was actually, I knew it'd be great because we're both fans. So it didn't matter what he did.
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Speaker 3: We were going to love it. Yeah. But that was a really cool show. It was. And it's hard to do that.
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Speaker 1: But, like, I think, obviously, he's unbelievable guitar, but those songs, I mean, he does have deep cuts that, if you're a fan, man, I mean, yeah, comfortable. Like, I don't hear a lot of people even mention that.
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Speaker 3: That was from that Inside Wants Out EP. Yeah, before it. Before that record even came out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I remember getting that, like, you know, on a burnt CD or something. Like, it was before he was a big deal.
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Speaker 3: God, that song was so good. So good. All love was... So perfect. Yeah. That reminds me of like a part of my life, like 2001 or two. Yeah. It was. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I remember laying underneath a tree on a blanket listening to that song.
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Speaker 2: And if I'm remembering, I think like maybe Neon was also on that before it made that record.
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Speaker 3: But it was like a live version, right? Yeah. Yeah. Man, that was cool. Okay. At number 10, I have songs about you. At number nine, I do have a Christmas song on here. Hell yeah. Let's go. Glow.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: You wrote that. I wrote that.
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Speaker 2: When you write Christmas songs, can you go in in July? Or right now, we record this, we're in the.
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Speaker 3: Middle of August. Do you need to have things on the walls that make you feel like Christmas? Or can you just go in and.
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Speaker 2: Bop one out?
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of always there. I kind of have to be. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: And our tickets go on sale for the tour earlier. You're building the... We're working on different set tweaks and all that. So I'm kind of always there working... And so I kind of stay in that world. It's not like I have sugar plums dancing in my head all the time, but I do feel.
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Speaker 3: Connected to that.
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Speaker 1: It's a very strange thing, but it just feels like I can always go there when I need to.
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Speaker 2: Do you write a Christmas song like you would write another song with either title, concept, melody? How do you do that, and is it different than if you're writing a country song?
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Speaker 3: I was writing one the other day and it's weird. It's similar.
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Speaker 1: I think glow, um, I wrote with Russ Copperman, our buddy, and he was like, um, I kind of had this whole concept, like, uh, I sang on my phone. Um, this was, well, this is 10 years of glow this year. So we're celebrating 10 years of glow this year on the tour. So it's, um, 11 years ago, I went to him with this little thing that I recorded, and I said, I want to write a song called Glow.
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 1: a tour to be called Glow. I want the album to be called Glow. I had this whole thing because I just liked the idea of that being almost a brand of my spirit and heart of Christmas in it. It works somehow.
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Speaker 3: Did you have some of the lyrics already done or did you just have the idea? Yeah. I think I had like, you look good in the light of my Christmas tree. So good. Like I had that kind of feel and I love to watch you glow. And then like, like I kind of had the heart of the chorus.
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Speaker 2: When you write with Ross, who is a wildly accomplished songwriter and producer and And he's also one of our good friends. But when you write with him, who traditionally doesn't write Christmas music, you have to bring him to that, right?
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Speaker 1: Well, the thing a lot of people don't know about him is that he's like a trained jazz, Black American songbook kind of piano player. So we wrote a song called The Reason on.
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Speaker 3: One of my.
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Speaker 1: records that I love. And that was kind of had some jazz elements and we wrote Mr. Christmas together and he like is dying for the opportunity to write that kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: Cause he loves it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of people aren't consistently writing jazz in the modern world. Um, so it's really cool. It like, I see some spark light in his eye just to write that kind of thing. And so whenever I come to him with that, it's, it's pretty cool. And number eight, the reason.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know that one.
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Speaker 3: Saved you some time there.
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Speaker 2: Whenever you think of songwriters and I think of Elton John and like Bernie Taupin and Elton John did the music and he did the lyrics. It's kind of a cool, but I mean, symbiotic for sure, but odd relationship where.
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Speaker 3: Could you ever.
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Speaker 2: Just write the music to something and then pass it off and go, okay, can't wait to see.
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Speaker 3: What you do here.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of let go of control there. I was talking to my manager, John Pete's about it the other day, because he's like, I've been writing a bunch of songs on my own. And he's like, this would be really cool. And I think it'd be really cool to cut it with this person in this band. And you could literally, like you have such a good guitar vocal, you can have them cut it. And you walk in there and just be ready to sing kind of thing. And like the let go of, of that is wild for my brain, but I kind of get it. Like when you, if you have the guts of a great song and going in and trusting that process is probably a good practice for me to try. But I usually like to be there from, um, inception of the song of like, you know, the idea or, you know, somebody can walk in and have an idea, um, And I can kind of start trying to build something around that. But I kind of like to come in with a melody, something. I like to be there at the birth of the song and kind of go all the way through. So if I was to write just the music and pass it off, that would be hard for me, for sure.
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Speaker 2: What about if you wrote a song and you had a good demo and you laid down the vocal and then you just let the producer do what the producer does, meaning he's going to track it.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he puts guitars, maybe he puts piano. Could you leave a song like that?
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Speaker 1: Like if it was just like guitar vocal and then let them build around it?
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Speaker 3: Like completely. Have you done that ever?
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Speaker 1: I've done stuff like that. I usually tweak it after they've done stuff. I can do that. Because on some of the first records I produced with Ross together, like we co-produced them. And he's very good at translating. I would be like, what does this sound? I don't know how to describe it, but it sounds kind of like a stapler sound. clipping or whatever. And then like, he'll get it. We actually recorded a stapler once.
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Speaker 3: That's how I thought of that. You put a staple on a microphone? Yeah, we just put a stapler on it.
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Speaker 1: Like just weird sounds, or I would play guitar with my mouth and just make that sound. And then we're like, oh, actually that works. To do just the guitar vocal, I think it'd be an interesting practice. I, most of the time I'm there for the whole thing. So that's probably a good challenge, but that would be hard for me. It's like making me sweat thinking about it.
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Speaker 2: I never thought about that so much, but we had Pat Monahan and he was sitting there and we were talking about it. And so he dreamed- at least parts of Drops of Jupiter, where he had the idea and he woke up and in the dream it was his mom. And so his mom died and that song is about her. But he said he went in and laid down basically the basics and let them do the work. And so this piano, the horns, all of that was added, not him, by whomever was producing.
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Speaker 3: And so I asked him and I said, is.
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Speaker 2: That weird or hard or? Do you ever hear it and go, that ain't it? He goes, yeah, sometimes I hear it and that ain't it. But sometimes I hear it and it's freaking beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Because I wouldn't have thought to do that. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And that's what he said he did with Drop to Jupiter. And I thought it was so cool.
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Speaker 3: That's so cool. Because I couldn't do that. Yeah. No, it's hard. I have a brain that needs to know every detail. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Um, or I feel out of control and it might get anxious, but it's a good practice. I think I'm glad you brought that up to me because maybe I need to try it. You'll forget to do it as soon as you leave here.
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Speaker 2: But I think at times I can sabotage things by being way, way, way too involved.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I think more times than not, my success has been because I'm way, way involved. Like I know what got me here and it can kill me sometimes, but I think more times than not, I like to be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Super involved. Okay. Glow is at nine. Number eight, Sunday Drive. Ah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I really like this song. This is a later, this is a later you. That's my favorite record you've ever done too, by the way.
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Speaker 3: My favorite.
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Speaker 2: And so I, I pick Sunday Drive because I don't know, that song just makes me feel.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 2: It's such an easy word to say because I don't feel good as descriptive enough, but like whole.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So tell me about Sunday Drive. What do you think about when I say that song?
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Speaker 1: That song I've had such a journey with because that's one of two songs I've recorded that I didn't write.
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Speaker 3: Dang, is that insulting to you that I picked a song you didn't write? No, no, no. It's one of my favorite songs ever. A little bit more insulting? No, I really am not.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 3: In fact, if you picked it one, I'd be like, that's great.
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Speaker 1: Because I was an intern at Universal Music Publishing, and I was in the basement. And they had kind of like a– basically called it the dungeon. And it was– my job as an intern was to fresh out of college was to transfer CDs to MP3s. So there was just endless walls of CDs and I'm, I'm, I'm filing them away and I would listen to songs as it to make sure they didn't have skips or whatever. And I was going through this catalog of this guy named Barry Dean, who I became loving his writing and his voice too. And there was a song called Sunday drive. And so I, I got that. I just started listening to it all the time. And, but I was only, you know, 20 low twenties and I hadn't lived enough life yet at that point to be like able to tell that story, I think, or seeing that story. And so I, I took it and I, I was like, one day I'm going to record this. And I just kept praying no other artists would record it. I kind of stayed, I kind of left it under I wouldn't bring it up to a lot of people. I think some other artists almost recorded it. And then when the right time came, I was like, I want a whole album concept around Sunday drive and, and, uh, recorded it in Chicago, um, with, um, with Daniel Tash and Ian Fitchick.
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Speaker 3: And it was amazing. Those guys I know from Casey Musgraves. Is that true? Okay. Barry Dean, I know from pontoon. Yes. Uh, he had another little big talent. He has a bunch of hits. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, maybe day drinking. Did he write that? Possibly. You guys can fact check me on that. But we've had him on the Bobbycast. I loved him.
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Speaker 1: He's like one of those cred guys. He's like a songwriter, songwriter too. You love songwriters. You're like, I will listen to his music over some artists because I just love it.
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Speaker 3: Would you check in to see if his song was recorded? That song was recorded? Yes. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I would always check on the status of it. And then just a year would go by and it wouldn't. And then I was like, here's the time.
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Speaker 3: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: I bet it's weird for him for a song to exist for that long. Somebody to hear it and remember it for that long.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And then for it to get cut. Yes. Did he say anything to you when you said, hey, I'm going to cut this song?
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Speaker 1: He actually gave me a, I was looking at it this morning because I meditate in the morning and I have some coffee table books just like this in front of me. And there's a book called Frank Sinatra's Got a Cold. And it's a picture book because he knew I love Sinatra. He loves Sinatra. And so I got it from him when he knew I was recording the song. And he was just so grateful. And he's such a nice guy.
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Speaker 3: That's cool. Did you guys fact check me on that? I did. He wrote Day Drinking and Pontoon?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I feel like I wrote something with him a long time ago, like a comedy song. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I've done that. I've had that where I, I mean, when you're right. I've had strokes though. Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 5: Like.
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Speaker 3: You got good excuses. Like I was like, I don't want. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to.
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Speaker 1: Use that because I have. No, don't have a stroke though. No, I definitely don't want to have one, but.
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Speaker 2: Number seven on my list of your songs is Don't you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you think it'd be higher? No, I think that's right. It's a good spot. It was the first song that got me to the, to the dance. I mean, no way. That was your first number one. Yeah. Huh?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Me and Ashley Gorley and, uh, Chris Stefano. I did not know that was your first number one. What was the video?
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Speaker 1: Uh, it was at a, it was at like a old Victorian house in East Nashville. And I was, um, basically at a playing live at a party never like naturally everybody does. And I'm hanging out and see a beautiful girl across the room and, and, uh, kind of following her around and flirting and you know what you're doing, baby.
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Speaker 3: Don't you? Don't you? It's like flirtatious and Very like young version.
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Speaker 2: Of me, you know.
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Speaker 3: That's a jam.
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Speaker 2: I forgot how much of a jam it was. I've been playing your songs. Also, Caitlin's been like, why are you playing so much Brett?
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Speaker 3: Cause it's kind of weird.
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Speaker 2: Cause you're a friend and we're playing your music in the house. I'm like, I gotta get back to a songs. Like I'm listing them all out. What do you remember about that song moving toward number one?
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Speaker 3: It was a long climb. I think it took 50. I think it took a year. to climb the chart.
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Speaker 1: And, you know, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a grind to get out there and play, you know, a million different shows and you're out there and you're doing everything you can. You're like, well, I hope some people hear it. And then you hear it for the first time on the radio. Cause I remember hearing Raymond on the first time on the radio, but don't show it was the first time where I started to hear it often. And then you start hearing it more often. And all of a sudden I was like, okay, I I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do something that crazy if this goes number one.
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Speaker 2: I remember you doing crazy stuff every song and you had to quit because you were going to kill yourself. You kept doing crazier and crazier stuff.
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Speaker 1: Several number ones later, I said I was going to kiss a bear in the lips with honey or something. And people got really... I would do it with a trained bear, but it would still be a grizzly bear. And they said, let's not do that.
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Speaker 3: What did you do for this one? Skydive. And I was... I'm very....
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Speaker 1: Trying to reframe it as I do in therapy. I, I am not a huge fan of heights and I can't like stand by a ledge and not feel, you know, weird sensation.
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Speaker 3: It just feels weird.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, I'll go skydiving. If, if don't, she goes number one and gets a 30, gets to 20, you know, it gets a 10. You're like, Oh damn, we're going to have to start looking at places that possibly, you know, just in case. And then I remember looking out that window when they opened it up, and I mean, there's no feeling like that.
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Speaker 2: Which feeling was crazier, them telling you you got your first number one, or are you looking out that door of the plane?
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Speaker 3: Definitely the door of the plane.
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Speaker 1: Because it's like, you know, I've been grinding to that point where it's like, you know, we're going to get there, we're going to get there. I believe, I don't know how, but we're going to get there. And then, but when they open a door to a plane, you're like, I was the one that got all these other people into this, on this plane. I'm going to be the first one to jump out.
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Speaker 3: I was... So scared.
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Speaker 1: And luckily you have somebody attached to you that's done thousands of them. So you're like, okay, there are, um, 100%, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, not a hundred, but yeah, I mean, I mean, they probably had some mistakes, some things that didn't work perfect, but they've made it to 100% life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's a good point. Um, I remember I, I hate heights. I, I'm not, I'm not going to reframe it. I'm scared to crap of heights.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And I was so scared to skydive that I just drove up to skydive one morning.
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Speaker 3: With by myself. No way. Yeah. And you never told me that. Yeah.
00:23:26
Speaker 2: And so I, I just don't like being afraid of things. And so I drove up and it was in San Marcos, Texas. And I went up and I said, Hey, I'm here to skydive. And they said, uh, you have to book reservations.
00:23:39
Speaker 3: Like how many in your group? I was like, no, no, it's just me.
00:23:41
Speaker 2: And I think they thought, I think they thought I was like a solo, like a Unabomber or like some sort of single is going to take the plane. And they thought it was weird that I showed up by myself to just go up and skydive. And They said, well, if you're by yourself, and it was like, she had talked to her manager. I guess if you're by yourself, we can fit you in to this group that's going. And I was like, okay, like you, I'm scared to death. And so they had one instructor that wasn't jumping with that group. And they said, we do have someone that can go with you. And I'm not kidding. It was a woman about five foot three. So, and she's attached to my back. And so we're walking and she can't even see because she has.
00:24:24
Speaker 3: To like look around me because she's so small. And you're right. When you go up there and they open that door. Oh, I could feel it, right? Yeah, me too. I can feel it right now. Me too. It's like this gut thing. It's like, oh.
00:24:35
Speaker 1: How was it when you jumped? They tell you to scream or like, you know, exhale really hard. So like yell or whatever, because you're obviously got a ton of force going towards your lungs. I remember doing that. My mouth was dry as hell. And then I, you know, I'm six foot four. So like the guy, the guy was a pretty big guy, but like when he, he, I remember jumping kind of blacking out. Like I don't remember a lot. Then I remember him pulling the shoe or I remember, no, I remember flying for a while and he had like some guy who was just like casually filming you with a camera flying in your face. And I remember you're supposed to tuck your legs behind your back. behind your butt, kind of like, so they're not dangling. I look like a falling spider because my legs are dangling. And, and so that was really intense. And you could tell he was having trouble, like getting me balanced. Cause they have to kind of do that while you're doing that. You were doing that exactly. And he, so, and then once they pull the chute, that's the second, that was almost worse because he pulls a chute. He's like, all right, we're going to try a spin or whatever. And he pulls one side and we just go like that going down in circles. And I was like, at one point I'm like, I can't do any more of that. And I almost threw up, which I know happens sometimes. There's people where I get thrown up on all the time.
00:26:00
Speaker 3: Oh, yuck. Like it goes up into the person. Oh, God. Just think about all the videos of that.
00:26:06
Speaker 2: That would go so viral now.
00:26:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. You ever watch the videos where people get on that thing at the– the fair or the carnival. And it's the rubber band thing. Oh, I hate that thing. And the guy's like, all right. Oh, it looks like it's broken. That's so good. They launch it when they're not expecting it.
00:26:20
Speaker 2: I had a cool video of me skydiving, but somebody broke into my house and it was, it was a DVD and it was in my PlayStation. Once they broke into my house, they stole your PlayStation. I didn't have a DVD player.
00:26:29
Speaker 3: I wasn't playing it. I wasn't playing me skydiving. I didn't have a DVD player. It was the PlayStation and they stole that. What?
00:26:39
Speaker 2: I know.
00:26:40
Speaker 3: You know, that's really strange you say that.
00:26:42
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a conspiracy out there because somehow my footage of my skydiving has also never been able to be found.
00:26:50
Speaker 3: Do you have pictures of it? Maybe it was the same.
00:26:54
Speaker 1: Well, I have a couple of pictures, but my brother jumped with me too. Not at the same time, but behind me. He did a backflip out of there. I would love to have a... A video of that, but we.
00:27:05
Speaker 3: Can't find it.
00:27:05
Speaker 2: I did a backflip, too, but there's no video. I did a backflip, and then I did a pirouette, and then.
00:27:11
Speaker 3: A handstand? Yeah, I did like nine things. It was really great.
00:27:14
Speaker 2: We don't have video, so I can't prove it. But yeah, they broke into my house and stole all kinds of stuff, and that was.
00:27:20
Speaker 3: One of the things I stole. But of all things, that was the thing? No, of all things, I was really playing poker a lot at the time. A lot.
00:27:27
Speaker 2: I was traveling to games. I was playing cash games in Texas, and I had a jar of... like this big, just stuffed with cash for games.
00:27:35
Speaker 3: And they stole that. That was the big one. Yeah, that's a big one. The DVD was too. Yeah. That was the big one. I remember landing though and going, thank God, I'm never doing this again. Yeah, same.
00:27:46
Speaker 2: Some people are like, I wanted to go right back up, so I never again. It hurt when they pulled the chute. That was the worst part, was the floating, because if that goes wrong, you die. If something goes wrong in the free fall, you got two chutes. But if that goes wrong, you do this, like you did, and.
00:28:00
Speaker 3: Then you die. Have you seen the.
00:28:01
Speaker 1: Video that 80 or 90 year old lady skydiving and she slips out of the harness.
00:28:07
Speaker 3: She doesn't die. She doesn't die. Wait, what? There's a video.
00:28:11
Speaker 1: How does she slip out of the harness? And I watched this, unfortunately, before I skydived, I think. But this lady is, I mean, she's in her, she's like, oh, before I die, I want to go skydiving. And she goes skydiving and somehow they didn't have her fully in. And so she's like falling out of the harness. And the guy's like holding onto her.
00:28:30
Speaker 3: They land just holding on to her? Yeah, like she's basically completely slipped out. Mike, have you seen that? I'm watching it right now. Oh, my God. It's real? It's real. It's so insane. That makes my stomach like queasy just thinking about that. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm like dangling right there. Her butt is dipping. Is it bad? She didn't die, so it can't be so bad. Hopefully she's doing great. Her shirt almost comes completely off. Did you say, hopefully she's doing great?
00:29:03
Speaker 2: She'd be like a hundred something now. Like right now, she's watching this on Netflix, thriving. I just want to say that you're my hero and you inspired me to go ahead and jump. If you made it through that, I could make it.
00:29:14
Speaker 3: And I did. I'm going to have to watch that when we're done. Okay. So yeah, I'm good. Never skydiving. Okay. Next up on my list is... Oh, you hit number one. Congratulations on that song. Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, you're good. What number are we at here? We are now at number six. Oh, yeah. At number six, I have, I don't know a lot of words, so I'm just doing some melodies.
00:29:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:29:40
Speaker 3: Put some time to beat it. I'm even early on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beat of the music. Beat of the music. Yes. That's a jam. That was a jam. That was.
00:29:50
Speaker 1: Ross and I and Heather Morgan. We wrote that song. I had just been in the Bahamas and I had this whole concept in my head of, um, I walked in, I had this idea and Ross and I started writing it. Uh, and Heather hadn't gotten there. Heather can tend to be late sometimes back then she's gotten more timely now, but back then she would show, show up a little late to rights, but she'd bring smoothies or something, you know, that was it.
00:30:21
Speaker 3: I remember her doing that once. She'd be like an hour late, but well, you were on time.
00:30:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:30:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker 1: But, uh, but that day she rolled up and we're jamming on it. And, and I, I mumbled a lot when I'm, I'm a lot when I'm talking to, but when I'm singing or writing songs, like I'll just do it kind of what you were just doing. I'll, I'll say syllables all here. Like I hear it all. Like I feel it formed together. And sometimes I'll, I'll say the words kind of, but, not realize I say it. And that's one of the best things I've had with Heather and I writing through the years is she'll, even if I don't exactly say it, it's like she energetically or whatever says, did you just say falling in love with the beat of the music? And I said, sure, I guess so. And it just fell out like that. And then we wrote this whole story about going to an island. I say Mexico because it rhymed instead of Bahamas.
00:31:17
Speaker 3: What's the rhyme?
00:31:18
Speaker 1: I get hooked up. I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: Oh. So it would be hard to say Bahamas. Wait, what's the rhyme with Mexico? Oh. I just met you a couple hours ago. Oh, got it. My last night in town. Hey, wouldn't you know? Yeah.
00:31:40
Speaker 4: I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: Oh.
00:31:46
Speaker 1: And so it was Mexico. It was really Bahamas. But who's actually fact-checking on that? We just did, and we're putting it on Wikipedia.
00:31:52
Speaker 3: He did not. Yeah, yeah. Take the number one back. Is that the pigs? Yes.
00:31:57
Speaker 1: So that was back before, like, it was cool to swim with the pigs. You're like, now you see it on all sorts of things. Back then, they were just, you know, kind of stinky swimming pigs. But it was so cool. I'd never seen anything like that. I'd never even been... This was before... This is probably 2010. And so I just got a record deal. I'm trying to figure it all out. I've never been to a cool. Our friend invited us to go on their boat in the Bahamas.
00:32:28
Speaker 3: And we fly in. It's this beautiful place.
00:32:31
Speaker 1: And we go hang on their boat, stay in their boat for like four days, me and my brother. We go on a boat ride. And they say, we're going to go feed some swimming pigs. I said, that's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
00:32:41
Speaker 3: Let's go.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: Oh.
00:32:42
Speaker 1: They fill up scraps from whatever we had for dinner or whatever, probably pork or sausage.
00:32:48
Speaker 3: I've seen that actually, too. That's rude of me. It's so weird. I don't like it.
00:32:52
Speaker 5: I don't like it either, but I remember them having breakfast burritos and giving it to them.
00:32:56
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's so messed up. But anyways, I think there was some broccoli in there, so that was good. But we brought it over to them, and we're rolling over there, and we see this beautiful girl.
00:33:07
Speaker 3: In the back of a boat. Yeah.
00:33:11
Speaker 1: We hadn't seen anybody other than like older people than us this whole trip.
00:33:15
Speaker 3: And we're like, Whoa, okay. I said, forget the swimming pigs. Let's go see what's going on over here. Like pigs can fly. I don't care. Let's, this is beautiful, beautiful girl back here.
00:33:24
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like 23, four years old or whatever.
00:33:28
Speaker 3: And, uh, so we go, we get closer, we get closer, we get closer.
00:33:31
Speaker 1: And these two, like in my mind, I'm sure it wasn't this scary, but in my mind it was like James Bond villains pop up like out of the, this yacht, uh, And we get closer, and you could tell they're like, you're not getting close to this boat. So we went and we fed the pigs instead. And I wrote a story. I was like, I want to write a story about falling in love in this magical place.
00:33:58
Speaker 3: And as a songwriter, you get to.
00:34:01
Speaker 1: Play God in that scenario where you get to make it finish however you want. And then we went back years later and shot the video there.
00:34:11
Speaker 3: And you never saw her again though. No. No. Okay. No. Uh, was that your number two, second number one? Uh, that was my second number one.
00:34:21
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:34:22
Speaker 2: I never know when I look something up, it says reach number one, June of 2014. So your second number one.
00:34:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:34:30
Speaker 2: Dang.
00:34:30
Speaker 3: It's that's been that long. Yeah, I know. It's still a jam though. Yep. Number five. I get drunk, drunk on your love. Drunk on your love? Yeah. Number five to me. Yeah. That song. Number one, 2016, it says here. Yeah. True or false?
00:34:49
Speaker 2: I think that's definitely true.
00:34:51
Speaker 3: Tell me a story about drunk on your love. Ross and I wrote this. We wrote a very... It.
00:35:00
Speaker 1: Was almost like we would make really weird demos that because we were, we weren't making it for anybody else, but we're just having fun. And then we would know, we knew we would go cut it in a different way, but if it had a element of catchiness and uniqueness, we would just let it be what it was. And so he had put some like really weird, I wish I had my phone, I'd play it for you, but I, some really weird, um, like T-Pain kind of things on my voice, you know, at the end of the song and like through it and, and there was bongos on it and, and.
00:35:33
Speaker 3: Just having fun with it. And we were like, man, this is so catchy.
00:35:36
Speaker 1: We, It was just one of those songs that kind of wrote itself once we had the hook. And it felt so good. And still, when we play that song live, people go nuts for it. You don't have to overthink it. It's not changing the world with the subject matter or anything like that.
00:35:55
Speaker 3: It just feels good. And sometimes you need songs like that, and that one does that. The lyric is... I get drunk. I woke up. Oh, see. Still drunk. So insulting. Yeah. That's okay. You don't have to know the words. I woke up. Still drunk.
00:36:14
Speaker 5: Okay.
00:36:15
Speaker 3: I don't want to sing after you. Yeah. I was way better singing that before you sang that.
00:36:19
Speaker 2: Do you ever have a song and it is so catchy and it feels so good, but you feel like it's too simple?
00:36:26
Speaker 3: There's a... Yes. I have those. And then sometimes.
00:36:31
Speaker 1: that's sometimes the hardest kind of song to write. Like the simple, catchy, sometimes it could be, the subject matter can be so simple. You're like, nah, it's not compelling enough, but it's like, it's catchy, but it's not, but it's just doesn't quite do enough to like, you're going to go home and tell all your friends about it. But then there's some that are, um, so naturally an expression of yourself and your soul, even if it's simple, that it, It comes out in a way that is infectious. And, you know, they call it an earworm, whatever you want to call it. That kind of weirds me out, earworms. But I like the.
00:37:08
Speaker 3: We'll call it something else.
00:37:11
Speaker 1: But I like it's, yeah, it's really hard to write a simple song and make it really good, I think, a lot of the time.
00:37:18
Speaker 2: You said something a minute ago that I liked. You were talking about not every song has.
00:37:23
Speaker 3: To change the world. And exactly. Exactly.
00:37:27
Speaker 2: Every song doesn't have to change the world, except those songs end up, we'll call it changing the world because they're just fun. Yeah.
00:37:33
Speaker 3: And like joy does do that. Make people smile, make it feel good.
00:37:39
Speaker 2: And I can see that as a creator, as a writer, and you want to write the most poignant thing you could possibly write, or it's got a great callback or it's got. Like that's your craft. You've worked so hard to get so good at it. But then this thing falls out of you that feels super simple where you would go like, wait, is that too simple? I can see where that could be a struggle.
00:37:56
Speaker 3: It does.
00:37:56
Speaker 1: It gets in your head and you're like, okay, I really want to write something really deep and meaningful and everything. And you kind of forget that this is meaningful. It's just a different part, you know? It is a hard part of songwriting for sure.
00:38:13
Speaker 3: Do you think of any songs... that you've heard.
00:38:17
Speaker 2: It's not yours in country music or it all in the last 10 years, it is such an earworm or whatever term you'd like to use there. Um, Cause I remember the first time that I heard meant to be, and that's a song that is simple and it's so catchy. The first time I heard that song, if it's meant to be.
00:38:36
Speaker 3: It'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be. Yeah.
00:38:40
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh my God. I don't even know what they just said. I think there were six words in that song. That's the catchiest song I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:38:48
Speaker 3: Like meant to be was that to me, like the catchiest song.
00:38:51
Speaker 2: Anything come to your mind just in general? I'm trying to think don't say baby shark can't say baby shark baby shark does do that though baby shark doesn't leave it doesn't it gets in and it's there forever it's a worm that embeds into the brain and.
00:39:02
Speaker 1: Then it causes you insanity and then one year you're like a hundred ten years down the road you're crazy just singing in your head.
00:39:08
Speaker 2: And then you realize you didn't get that from baby shark you got that from pork you ate it was bad it wasn't from baby shark at all it was trichinosis it's a whole thing you're right anything come to mind super catchy songs you've heard in the last five six seven years.
00:39:20
Speaker 3: Oh man Um, I'm, I'm really bad at remembering that. Um, this is called being put on the spot. It is. It is called being on the spot. I can't think of anything right now. And that's like, what would you even listen to right now as music? Um, all comfortable, old stuff. Yeah. Americana stuff.
00:39:41
Speaker 5: Wow.
00:39:41
Speaker 3: You have, you have anybody? Gregory Allen, Isaacov. Say that again. Gregory Allen, Isaacov. Yeah. I don't know who that is. Um, he's like, uh, Yeah, he's Americana, Rootsy.
00:39:53
Speaker 1: There's a band called Watch House I really like. It used to be called Mandolin Orange.
00:40:00
Speaker 3: Dang, you like bands that don't even have a real name yet. Like, they're still so new.
00:40:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to be called Mandolin Orange and they changed it somewhere. That's how you know you're cool. You like a band before they even settle on a name. It's not, it's like, I just really connect to like, at this point in life, I like, I mean, of course I listen to all the old stuff and stuff I grew up with, but I connect with kind of traveling, uh, organic lyrics that are like about the pines and being in the, in the woods and, and traveling down the roads and old cars and shit like that. I like stationary plastic fake lyrics.
00:40:38
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's more of my thing. Mine are mainly from Fisher price at this point. Yeah, absolutely. I hit one of the keys and yeah, it's just about like elephants running down the road or something.
00:40:49
Speaker 7: The Bobby cast. We'll be right back. This is the Bobby cast.
00:41:01
Speaker 3: All right.
00:41:02
Speaker 2: Number four, top red Eldridge songs of all time.
00:41:06
Speaker 3: It should be nice to love someone. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Because when I wake.
00:41:12
Speaker 2: Up in the middle of the night and I wake up in the middle of the day.
00:41:16
Speaker 3: Is that how it goes? He never wakes up in the day because he's always awake because I don't nap. How's it go then? What's that? How's the lyric go? When I wake up.
00:41:24
Speaker 4: In the middle of the night, you holding me so tight.
00:41:28
Speaker 3: There's no waking up in the day then. And then what's the next lyric? Okay, hold on. No one ever knows this part. I didn't know that. Because I don't even know what I'm saying, really.
00:41:34
Speaker 2: When I wake up in the middle of the night, this moves to the middle of the day. We run down to the palm tree. We run down to the palm tree is my guess. It all of a sudden turns into an island song.
00:41:45
Speaker 3: Is that correct? No.
00:41:47
Speaker 4: Oh.
00:41:47
Speaker 1: But it goes, good glory, me, my, oh, my. Good glory, me, my, oh, my. That's one of those things where, once again, like you're going to write. I just randomly mumbled it.
00:41:57
Speaker 3: I don't even know. what that is it just feels right so it goes when I wake up in the middle of the night you holding me so tight good glory me my oh my sure feels good to love someone oh.
00:42:12
Speaker 2: That's fun yeah cause it's you're like emoting yeah it's just emoting I do that a lot that's fun but it's also like in the song like you're actually expressing with words it's.
00:42:22
Speaker 1: Like streamer conscious writing which I do a lot of you just sometimes none of it makes sense I always heard Paul Simon used to do this thing where he'd do stream of conscious writing and he would take a tennis ball and he'd throw it against the wall and he would just introduce, somehow it would lock in with his brain. You know, he would just do weird things that kind of do that. And he would stream of conscious just like spit out, kind of like call me out.
00:42:47
Speaker 3: You know that song?
00:42:47
Speaker 1: There's a lot of kind of stream of conscious writing. Lyrics there that don't really make sense.
00:42:53
Speaker 3: Love that song. I love that song, too.
00:42:54
Speaker 2: Man walks down the street, says, why am I soft in the middle now?
00:42:58
Speaker 3: Why am I soft in the middle now? The rest of my life. It's so good. So good. And the video's got Chevy Chase in it. Chevy Chase, I know. Home, home. Oh, I love that so much.
00:43:08
Speaker 2: And that song moves around so much.
00:43:11
Speaker 3: I like the bongo breakdown.
00:43:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. The guy that produced Glow and Mr. Christmas, he arranged... the horns. So like he did all a bunch of Paul stuff with Paul Simon and he arranged call me out. And I was just like, that's awesome. I mean, that's, that's enough of a, of a, uh, all I need to know for a resume to sign you up for my Christmas albums.
00:43:36
Speaker 3: It's like the grave dig, uh, Mr. B belly. Uh, no, don't let go.
00:43:43
Speaker 2: I get too many melodies in my head. I get like six and I crap out, but it goes, uh, man, boom, Can't do it.
00:43:50
Speaker 3: I'm broken. We'll get there next time.
00:43:52
Speaker 2: No.
00:43:52
Speaker 3: Doesn't it say Gravedigger is one of the repeating things? It says Gravedigger, but I can't remember. But that's also a monster truck.
00:43:57
Speaker 2: It is.
00:43:57
Speaker 3: Because Bigfoot versus Gravedigger. Yeah. That was the big one.
00:44:01
Speaker 2: And you had the two were the toys. My nephews are brilliant. It's definitely still a huge thing. Are they still things?
00:44:07
Speaker 3: Bigfoot and Gravedigger? My nephews. Oh, yeah. They were playing with it the other day. Okay.
00:44:13
Speaker 1: They love monster trucks. They have probably 50 or 60 of them.
00:44:17
Speaker 3: Here we go. They collect them. They know every one of their names. One's four. One's two. And they know all their names. Okay. I'm going to find this here. Okay. It does say that in the song, right? Oh, here it is. I got it. I got it.
00:44:32
Speaker 2: A man walks down the street. He says, why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard. I need a photo opportunity. I want a shot of redemption. Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.
00:44:45
Speaker 3: Bone digger. I'm thinking bone digger, bone digger. That's the repeater. Dang, that is such a jam. See, but that's all like....
00:44:53
Speaker 1: It's like if you tell somebody to sit down and write me a song, that's just not what you expect, which is so cool. And I think that a lot of that is just you're just... You get on this flow state of a thing and you kind of just follow it. And if you could step back enough from it and not judge what's showing up and just kind of let it be what it is, sometimes it's really bad when you get out of it. And sometimes it's like... I don't know exactly what all this says, but for some reason it makes sense.
00:45:24
Speaker 2: I've had different seasons in my life where I just fall in love with an artist. It was before my time. And so I've had like a Led Zeppelin a couple of years. I definitely had a Paul Simon a couple of years. And it's the most cliche thing ever, but I love that Graceland album so much where I would listen to it. And even like, she's a good girl, diamonds on the soul.
00:45:49
Speaker 3: That was so good.
00:45:49
Speaker 2: All of that was, like, I can think about exactly where I was those few years that I just fell in love with that record. And then I just wanted to know everything about Paul Simon.
00:45:59
Speaker 3: Yeah. She's a rich girl. I don't know any words to any songs. That's Hall & Oates. Yeah, yeah. Then how does it go? She's a mint girl. She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes. I mean, that album's like religious. I mean, it's like an experience.
00:46:16
Speaker 2: But I don't know any words, so don't hold that I'm being a poser. I don't know even some of these are your songs.
00:46:20
Speaker 3: That's okay. Number three, Brett Eldridge songs. Top three, baby. Let's go.
00:46:25
Speaker 2: I want to be that song that gets you there, that makes you dance in your underwear.
00:46:32
Speaker 3: She does. That is a jam. I love that one.
00:46:34
Speaker 2: I want to be that song. How does it actually go?
00:46:36
Speaker 3: You don't have to sing. I want to be that? Okay. I want to be that song. No, you can. I just want to... You don't want to make me sing. Yeah, but if you want to just give me... Yeah, I mean, it might help me to remember all the words.
00:46:45
Speaker 4: I want to be that song that gets you high, makes you dance, makes you fall. That melody rewinds years, once disappeared, makes time fall.
00:46:57
Speaker 3: Stall.
00:46:58
Speaker 4: I want to be those words that fill you up, roll your windows down, keeps you young, makes you believe you're right where you belong. I want to be that song.
00:47:10
Speaker 3: That song is awesome. I love that one. You still do? That's one of my favorite ones, yeah.
00:47:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one, it's weird because I'm about to go play a show in Kansas, like a racetrack or something. I wonder if it's the same one, but in Kansas... I think it was like Kansas Motor Speedway or whatever. Scooter Caruso, the songwriter, his name's Travis Hill too, but Scooter Caruso is a songwriter. We've written Mean to Me together. We wrote this. We wrote several songs together. He was out on the road with me on the ride in the bus. And I had this idea called, and I was putting my in-ear monitors and I looked at him as I was about to walk on stage in front of all these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song. And I put the ear in, and I just walked in. And then I played the show. Months go by, I forgot that I told him that. And then he and I and Ross get together to write one day. He's like, remember when you told me you wanted to write a song, you wanted to be that song?
00:48:08
Speaker 3: And I totally forgot. I was like, oh, yeah. And he's like, I've got a whole kind of lyric.
00:48:12
Speaker 1: Thing going for that. And then Ross and I kind of start jumping on the music, and then it just comes together in this beautiful way of capturing that feeling Wanting to be that, you know, depth of what a song means to you, you know, and singing every word.
00:48:32
Speaker 3: Of Night Moves.
00:48:32
Speaker 1: Like whenever I hear Night Moves, I get chills almost hearing it because it takes me to a place. I want to be that feeling that you get when you hear that song. I want to be that song. And I just loved that thought. I love that emotion. And it was a beautiful ride with that song.
00:48:49
Speaker 3: My skull got some chills there.
00:48:51
Speaker 2: That's a great story. It's an awesome song. And the fact that he held on to that for that long.
00:48:55
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:48:56
Speaker 3: And he didn't go write it with somebody else. Yeah, yeah. Because it's a good idea. And he's, oh, I heard this. He won't remember. I'll go write this with someone else. Yeah. That he saved it that long.
00:49:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, that song is a jam.
00:49:06
Speaker 5: And I got to shoot that video at Wrigley Field.
00:49:10
Speaker 3: How do you make that call? Well, luckily, that was one of the best years of life right there. Cause it was 2016. Oh, like a world series. Yeah.
00:49:19
Speaker 1: So, and I, and I, I don't want to, you know, I think we all as a fans play a tiny part in getting us there. And I'll just say that the being, I said, so this year feels like a special year, which every Cubs fan says every year.
00:49:33
Speaker 3: Cause we, it was before the season started. It was free.
00:49:35
Speaker 1: You know, Chicago was cold at the start of the home opener and everything. And, Field was empty, and I got to have, you know, I had gotten to be friends with a lot of the players and such. And so I got in contact with, we got in contact with the whole front office of Wrigley, and they let us basically have Wrigley Field as our playground for a day.
00:50:00
Speaker 3: They didn't charge you? No. Well, you're a real fan, though, too.
00:50:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a real fan. I mean, I was in the parade. I sang Go Cubs Go at the, At the, when they won the world's like, it was just like the whole year starting with shooting the video there. And when we shot the video, we're like, well, there's no fans. Cause we're playing a, basically I was playing a, um, I was playing a baseball player and also playing like all these memories. And I had to like shave my, that was one of the last times I had a fully shaved face. So if you watch the, want to be that song video, my face is completely shaven. Is it weird to see that now?
00:50:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's very weird.
00:50:36
Speaker 1: I mean, it freaks me out sometimes for sure. It looks so different. Um, because back then in the, whatever it was, fifties, forties, whatever it was, cause we were playing like way back Wrigley days. Um, nobody had facial hair really much like that. And so we're like, okay, let's show a younger version of this character. And, but it was so cool. We like, I got my brother in there, a lot of my best friends. Um, And we'd play on the field. Some of my family members were in it, and they had to play Cardinals players because it was Cubs versus Cards, which is a famous rivalry. And some of them that are huge Cub fans had to be Cardinals, which was pretty funny. But yeah, I was hitting a rubber baseball, I think.
00:51:23
Speaker 2: That's still awesome to take swings.
00:51:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't want to screw up the grass at Wrigley either. So they weren't having us run out in the grass a lot and stuff. But yeah, they let us just hang out and it was really cool. Then we won the World Series.
00:51:40
Speaker 3: Which is probably why we won the World Series. 100%. I'll take it right now. Thank you guys so much for this opportunity.
00:51:48
Speaker 2: I have a funny story to tell you someday on a microphone about me telling a Cubs player how much they meant to me and their reaction.
00:51:58
Speaker 3: I would tell you right now Yeah. I just don't think right now is the time and place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, tell me. It's a great one, though. Is it? It's your fault, too. It is it? Yeah, it's completely your fault. Number two. Was it recent? Yeah. I figured so. Did he tell you? No, no, no.
00:52:16
Speaker 2: Was I so lame that he told you? No, he never told me, but I was sitting next to him.
00:52:23
Speaker 3: Can I say what it is then? Or no? I don't know. I mean, I don't know what the story is. Well, it's your wedding. Can I mention it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I say who was there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
00:52:31
Speaker 2: So we, it was Caitlin and I's first time out of the house period since we had the baby. Obviously we love you dearly. So we're not, even if the baby came out of her an hour before, we were still going to your wedding.
00:52:41
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:52:42
Speaker 3: Which is amazing.
00:52:43
Speaker 2: And so we go to your wedding and. Rossi, I know a little bit from, he did Dancing with the Stars. So we were following each other on social, but he was also on that team that won the World Series. And I don't want to bother anybody ever. And he came up to me and he was so nice. And he was like, Bobby, what's up? And I was like, what's up?
00:53:00
Speaker 3: And so we're talking.
00:53:01
Speaker 2: And so we get to, after you guys had your ceremony to the reception and it's him and Rizzo. And I'm like, I got to just go tell him like, There were people that never got to see the Cubs win it. Like the last time they won it was 1908. Heck, the last time they had been was 1945.
00:53:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:53:21
Speaker 2: There are people that didn't get to see it. And I even skipped my first ever network television offer to watch game seven.
00:53:28
Speaker 3: And we won.
00:53:29
Speaker 2: And my stepdad was a massive fan. And it just brought so many people together. I'm just a lifelong fan.
00:53:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:53:35
Speaker 2: And so I'd already been talking to Rossi, but I didn't know Rizzo at all. And I went up and I said, hey. And they weren't talking to anybody. And I definitely don't want to bother people.
00:53:43
Speaker 3: You know me. I don't want to bother anybody.
00:53:45
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:53:46
Speaker 2: And I said, hey, just so you know, like that 2016 year, and I just told the story. And it's only like a minute or so. I just took out what it meant to me.
00:53:55
Speaker 3: And Rizzo said, cool.
00:53:59
Speaker 2: How's that? I walked off, and I was like, oh, I just poured out my heart, and I got hit with a K.
00:54:06
Speaker 3: No way.
00:54:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
00:54:08
Speaker 3: Which is rare. That's rare. Yeah.
00:54:10
Speaker 1: Because he's a man of many words. He's the nicest dude ever, too.
00:54:13
Speaker 3: Oh, he was nice. He just cooled me, though.
00:54:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:54:15
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, well, I'll be going back over to that side, and thank you very much. Oh, man.
00:54:22
Speaker 6: Got it out.
00:54:23
Speaker 3: That's so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, what is it? We'll have to get him in here and sit him in. You guys can unhash it all. No, I hashed it all. No, there was no... And he was just like, cool. And I said, okay, I shall leave now. Maybe that's him just taking it in.
00:54:36
Speaker 2: Maybe he was enjoying it so much he was speechless.
00:54:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was almost like exploding with joy inside.
00:54:42
Speaker 6: Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. And we're back on the Bobbycast.
00:54:56
Speaker 3: Number two, Mean to Me. I'll make sure I show this to Rizzo. He'll love it. Mean to Me. Yes. Was that my third number one song? I'm trying to remember. It was early though, huh?
00:55:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an earlier one. And Chicago always has played a huge role in a lot of my music.
00:55:16
Speaker 2: 2014, 2015, it hit that. It reached the number one mark in his third straight from his debut album.
00:55:22
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, so that was Mean to Me. And that one.
00:55:28
Speaker 1: I wrote with Scooter Cruz, the same guy I wrote I Want to Be That Song With. And Songs About You and a bunch of them. But yeah, he and I were writing. This is maybe the first song he and I wrote together. And we wrote it on Music Row in Nashville. And I love the sentiment of just how we turn the phrase. He's a really good, there's a, in my opinion, my two favorite lyricists in Nashville are Tom Douglas and Scooter Caruso. And he just has a great way of, you know, if I could be the reason your hair's a mess.
00:56:07
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to forget the lyric. You got to sing it then.
00:56:11
Speaker 4: If I could be the reason your hair's a mess.
00:56:16
Speaker 3: Oh, God. He needs a way to feed him a line. Remember, this is the song that I said I did live, too. Oh, that you forgot then? Yeah. I'll find it. Brandon, you know it? Bass drum?
00:56:35
Speaker 5: Bass?
00:56:36
Speaker 2: Up here it goes, if I could be the reason your hair's in a mess, the bass drum beating.
00:56:41
Speaker 3: No, that's not it.
00:56:42
Speaker 2: That's what it says here on this. The bass drum beating way down deep in your chest. Bass drum beating way down deep in your chest.
00:56:46
Speaker 3: You just said that's not it. You just argued me on your lyric. It's weird.
00:56:51
Speaker 1: It's like if I picked up a guitar or something, maybe I'll do it. But it's so weird thinking about it straight out of the rawness. But anyways, the lyric of this song, I just love the turn of phrase when it comes to the hook of, then I'd be what you mean to me, like all these things. And it, it was such a cool song. I actually recorded this with Luke Laird actually produced it. I think it was the only song on that album that Luke produced, but I'm pretty sure he produced that one.
00:57:20
Speaker 2: When you have a, something that works like that, like mean to me and the wordplay of it and you hit it the first time you hit it, you're like, Oh my God, this is perfect.
00:57:27
Speaker 3: I mean, do you, is it, do you feel it? Yeah.
00:57:29
Speaker 1: I think sometimes like when you have the demo, yeah, it kind of, Back in the day, you used to do whole demo sessions, you know, and you'd go in and have the band or whatever. But when you have a work tape that's just you on a guitar and like you listen to that over and over and you write, you know, because you write hundreds of songs and you never even remember you wrote them. And then there's ones like this one where it was just, yeah, it felt like we landed something really good. And it can be really frustrating to write songs sometimes because you... you get, there's a, there's a wave of emotions just writing a song, but then you get hungry for a little while. Then somebody is a little distracted and there, and then you had all this excitement, like we're about to write a really huge song. And then all of a sudden by the end of it, you're like, well, should we just like go home? But like on songs like this, I remember feeling that like walking out of the room with Scooter and just feeling like that one has some depth and like, that's going to be a real one. And, I can't tell you how many times I've watched thousands of people hold up the fireflies.
00:58:40
Speaker 3: On that song.
00:58:41
Speaker 1: And, um, and just, it's a, it's emotional experience to sing that one. Cause it just kind of brings me back to the start, you know.
00:58:48
Speaker 3: Have you ever accepted a decent check to play these songs at a wedding?
00:58:51
Speaker 1: Trying to think about playing any weddings, definitely at private events, but I don't think I've, I don't think I've played at a wedding. I've only just started to go to weddings period since I, In the last couple of years, I've not toured as much because I was never able to go to weddings because I'd always have a gig. And so like I'm starting to go to, I had my own wedding, but like I'm starting to go to, to weddings now and stuff.
00:59:16
Speaker 3: And like, but I missed all that stuff, you know, in the beginning. You probably would have sang one at our wedding. You're right. I didn't get to make it. Didn't make it. Got COVID. I got COVID. Made us think we had COVID. Man, there was some behind the scenes on that. Yeah. That was back when.
00:59:39
Speaker 2: We were with you. We were all together all the time. And so you were like, I got COVID. And we're like, oh my God. Do we have COVID and we're getting married in five days? And if we do, do we tell everybody? And my wife has integrity. Because I'm like, we ain't testing.
00:59:55
Speaker 3: Yeah. If we don't test, we don't have COVID. It's just like, there's no COVID if you don't know. Yeah. And my wife's like, no, we have to take COVID test. Yeah. Because if we have it, we can't have people be in danger. Yeah. And so we took it and we were negative. But what if you would have ruined our wedding? Dude, that's a movie right there. A bad one. A bad one. But you didn't get to come. I didn't get to come. I know.
01:00:17
Speaker 1: And I, that was a really, back then too, it was, Later on, you get COVID. Everybody gets COVID. But at that point, it was very touchy and all that stuff.
01:00:32
Speaker 3: I remember I got COVID.
01:00:33
Speaker 1: I had to cancel one of the first times I ever had to cancel a show for a Chicago Christmas show. And I was like, well, I could have played, but you're like, I don't want anybody to die. It was so heavy. And so I'm glad that your wedding went great.
01:00:48
Speaker 3: Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I was home just blowing my nose and crying. I remember you telling us. Not that we were worried.
01:00:54
Speaker 1: We didn't even think about that at first. I was pacing around my pool trying to figure out how I... Because I didn't know I was sick. And I remember pacing around my pool like, I've got to call him and tell him. He's already stressed out. Now that I've had my own wedding or whatever, I know how much stress goes into just any kind of gathering or hosting or anything. A wedding, there's a lot that goes into it. So I was like, how do I tell them this?
01:01:17
Speaker 2: And I told Caitlin, we're not testing. She goes, that doesn't mean we don't have it. I said, no, we don't have it if we don't test.
01:01:23
Speaker 3: She said, we're going to. And I remember. You just spit a little bit on them.
01:01:26
Speaker 2: Well, it had to be like those movies where they take a pregnancy test and it ends up positive.
01:01:31
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's kind of what it felt like. Oh, God, please don't be positive. Don't be positive. And it wasn't. Thank God. All right. Time for the number one song. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
01:01:39
Speaker 2: Do you know what my number one song is of yours? What have I left out that you think? I can't believe you haven't said that one yet. This one is so far number one, it's not even close to number two. This is a tier of its own.
01:01:51
Speaker 3: Was it a hit? What are hits? Yeah, what is that?
01:01:55
Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying I don't want to give you a hint yet. If you miss it, I'll give.
01:01:58
Speaker 3: You a hint. Was it from the Sunday Drive album? I think so. Hold on. This is its sale. Let's see. The Long Way. Yeah. Yes. Take me the long... Yeah, because I was going to maybe sing that at your wedding. You interrupted me singing. I was in the middle of singing your song. Oh, yeah, yeah, go ahead, please. And then I'll tell you I was going to sing it at your wedding. That's very rude of you. So let me finish. Sing it and then I'll say, I was going to sing that at your wedding. That's right. Go.
01:02:28
Speaker 2: Take me the long way around your town.
01:02:31
Speaker 3: I was going to sing that at your wedding. That song is so good. I love that one. Do you still sing that one? I do all the time. Is that an every night song? Every night song. I sang that.
01:02:45
Speaker 1: A lot of the time I sing acoustic because that's my favorite. I started out as a songwriter here playing acoustic shows, so I love pulling out a bar stool and sitting and playing some songs. That's when I break out and listen to everybody sing.
01:03:01
Speaker 3: It's really cool.
01:03:04
Speaker 2: I like slow songs because I can at least understand what the lyrics are saying. As you can tell, I'm much of a lyric guy because I can't remember much of them. But that song also reminds me of my wife.
01:03:15
Speaker 5: Really?
01:03:16
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now that I think about.
01:03:17
Speaker 2: It, because that came out in like 16 or 17, I think.
01:03:23
Speaker 3: I think it was later. Maybe. God, I don't know. Probably 18. Yeah. Let's not fight about years. Let's fight about years. Yeah.
01:03:35
Speaker 2: I just remember hearing that song.
01:03:37
Speaker 3: And then after I'd met Caitlin and being like, oh, that song is how I feel about her.
01:03:41
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:03:42
Speaker 3: I remember you telling me that. I was like.
01:03:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not making this up for you now. I've told you this already.
01:03:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
01:03:47
Speaker 2: And so I think it's a great song. I think the lyrics are so good.
01:03:49
Speaker 3: And it reminds me of my wife. Yeah. Like all those things together. Yeah. Make this my favorite Brett Eldridge song. Heck yeah. I love that. That's a good one. I love your list. What did I not put on that list? What would you have expected?
01:04:06
Speaker 1: I don't know about expected. I mean, I have ones that would be on it that.
01:04:10
Speaker 3: Do you want to do your top five? Oh, boy. Number one. There's a song called Hideaway that I had. I really like.
01:04:21
Speaker 1: That was on the Songs About You album. I wish it was a single because it was one of my favorite ones. Yeah, that's up there with one of my favorite ones for sure.
01:04:33
Speaker 3: Number two. Oh, boy. Probably... want to be that song.
01:04:41
Speaker 2: You were going to say the long way and then you shifted halfway through.
01:04:43
Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out if it was the long way or want to be that song. I'd like, yeah, maybe. No, you said we're going to commit to want to be that song. Yeah, want to be that song. Then the long way.
01:04:53
Speaker 1: And number three, the long way. Then, uh, ah, hmm. There's a song. Um, I mean, I would pick obscure ones though.
01:05:05
Speaker 3: That's okay.
01:05:06
Speaker 1: Probably like, um, the one you need is a song I really like of mine. It's on, uh, that's on Sunday drive too. Um, I love that one. That's a, that's an obscure one. Um, and then maybe there's a song called crowd in my mind on Sunday drive.
01:05:26
Speaker 3: I really like to, so that Sunday drive album really sits in there strong.
01:05:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was, yeah, that was, that was, you know, I mean, we've known each other a long time now, you know, when I got a flip phone and I started, I don't know, I have a lot of nostalgia or just growing up in the industry and you grind it and you grind it and you grind it and then you kind of find the parts that really resonate with you and the parts that make you feel maybe not as true to yourself or whatever and doesn't mean your past music wasn't. It's just like you grow up. And I think Sunday drive was like a big grow up for me. Like, um, the kind of reflect and ended up happening to coming out during COVID, which was a weird, um, experience to like put on an album you can't promote or anything, but it was such, but it was kind of the, also the time that we were in where we were all kind of having to reflect. And I think that's why that album is just really, uh, it's kind of stuck with me on it.
01:06:32
Speaker 3: You know, do you have any singles that, You're like, eh, if I play this, it's okay. If I don't, it's okay. Yeah. Which one? Something I'm good at. I didn't put that in the top 10. Yeah. That one, I really loved writing. Straight jacket video?
01:06:53
Speaker 1: No, that's losing my mind. That was the number one. But that was, yeah, losing my mind. That was, no, something I'm good at. I shot in like, somewhere in California. And I was like in a robe. watering the grass. It was like almost a dreamlike world that I was in, but I actually loved writing the song. I thought it was a really unique song. And there's a lot of people that say it's their favorite song. I brought it to the label and it was like, and it was a really, I wrote a Tom Douglas, which is a totally not a typical Tom Douglas kind of song.
01:07:24
Speaker 3: Um, cause he wrote the house that built me.
01:07:26
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:27
Speaker 3: Like he's that. Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:28
Speaker 1: And he, it's just like, but The lyrics are really cool and fun, but it's just really quirky. And it is part of a large part of my personality, but we, I went and I cut a little demo of it and I brought the label and everybody just freaked out over the demo and loved it. Well, once, you know, somebody plays it for some radio person showed up or whatever, and they were in the office and they play it for him. They're like, Oh, they love that song. And all of a sudden it was like, well, this is going to be a single. And I don't regret it. It was just like, uh, cause it still did really well. Um, but that would probably be one that is one of my not as favorite ones, but I don't, I don't regret it.
01:08:11
Speaker 3: I hope you don't regret it. It doesn't like kill anybody. Nobody got hurt in the making of it.
01:08:17
Speaker 1: And a lot, it's funny. It's like a lot of the kids, like it's a lot of kids' favorite songs. Cause it's kind of that kind of thing. Um, which I love, like there are a lot of people that, when they need to feel good and dance around it, just when it comes to playing it live, you know, when I'm, when I'm strumming and playing the long way or want to be that song or, you know, some of that stuff, it just doesn't feel as good next to those. Um, so different vibe.
01:08:41
Speaker 3: Yeah. You brought some records.
01:08:43
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:08:44
Speaker 2: So show me some of the most important records from your collection here, if you don't mind and hold them up. Cause this is going to be on, on Netflix, obviously.
01:08:50
Speaker 3: I really just, um, I thought I was only able to pick one. No, just show us a couple. What do you got here and why do you love them? What's that one? This is.
01:08:58
Speaker 1: this is, uh, this is, uh, it's called a portrait of Sinatra, 40 songs from the life of a man. And it's actually, uh, it's hard to pick one Sinatra album. I could almost do this with, uh, hang on.
01:09:12
Speaker 3: How are you guys doing? Um, I could do it.
01:09:14
Speaker 1: Along with this one because this one is, uh, I'm not going to show you this one yet. Um, so this is my favorite Sinatra album, which is called the wee small hours and the wee small hours.
01:09:28
Speaker 3: It's one of the best, I think one of the best albums. Why that one? Why does that one resonate so much?
01:09:32
Speaker 1: It's, it's such a, like, um, there's certain albums that like, are like one really strong emotion. And like, um, this one is heavy in a way that's, um, in remembrance and longing for someone. And it's just like, just even the cover, like him underneath the streetlights, smoking a cig. Um, I mean, it's obviously a depiction of him, but it's like the whole album is just perfection.
01:10:06
Speaker 3: In my opinion, like of, of emotion.
01:10:08
Speaker 1: Like nobody could turn a phrase like Sinatra. Like he could, he could create space in a song, um, and never make you feel like you're, he has to say something, you know, because sometimes, you know, as a singer, you feel like you got to fill space or whatever. I think growing up, singing his music and listening to it, it helped teach me to kind of deliver a song. And so I think that album and the We Small Hours is there. And I picked this one. This is actually, so this is, it's not technically a greatest hits album, but it's impossible to, because he had so many songs. This was big in Britain. So, like, it was more based on his performances around in Britain. But it's got, you know, Come Fly With Me and Fly Me to the Moon. All the, you know, everything. Send in the Clowns. There's so many endless.
01:11:06
Speaker 3: Classics.
01:11:07
Speaker 1: I Got You Under My Skin. I'm just a huge Sinatra fan.
01:11:11
Speaker 3: No, you don't say.
01:11:12
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:11:12
Speaker 3: So, yeah. And I brought this one just because I thought you'd think it was funny. That is excellent. Hold that up.
01:11:20
Speaker 2: I'm going to send a picture of this to Caitlin right now and tell her we're talking about this right now.
01:11:25
Speaker 5: There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as an elephant's eye.
01:11:40
Speaker 3: And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky. That's awesome. You were in that, huh? Yeah, I was.
01:11:49
Speaker 2: So for those that don't know, not only was Brett in Oklahoma, my wife is from Oklahoma. And it was my wife's birthday. And so Brett sang that song at.
01:12:00
Speaker 3: Her birthday party. Multiple years. Yeah. Yeah, multiple years in a row. And then he got COVID one year. And then he got COVID and I've never seen him again since. That's funny. I'm going to send her that right now. Yeah, those are some picks for you right there. You've been doing the Glow Tour. This is your 10th year? Yep. Yep. Wow.
01:12:19
Speaker 1: This is the 10th year of the album coming out. And, you know, I've been doing a version of the Glow shows for every bit of that. Because it stemmed from a show I did. John Esposito, who we both know very well, was the head of... Warner signed me to my record deal. He loves Sinatra more than I'd even do. I mean, he just knows every song he ever put out. And so we both bonded on that. I was like, I would love to go eventually make a Christmas record in that style, completely different from, separate from what we're doing in the country stuff, make a big band. So we're like, let's go play live. And we went and started playing live shows with it in the In a basement at the Suttler.
01:13:08
Speaker 3: Back in the day. On 8th Avenue, a little bar. How many people were you there? 80 to 100.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: It was an invite-only kind of thing. Maybe like an eight-piece band or six-piece. Maybe a quartet even. And it was really fun. People loved it. That's what I started singing. I have such a love for it. And then the next year we did it at Skoll's Rainbow Room. and invite only again. And then all of a sudden it was just like, then we went and recorded. We're like, okay, I think it's time to record it, recorded glow. And, and then, and now, yeah, 10 years of, of glow. And yeah, it's probably, I've probably been touring it for every bit of close to that.
01:13:55
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
01:13:55
Speaker 2: It's been 10 years of this. Who would have thought it would got, it'd be so large and your brand.
01:14:02
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because it was so, anti what anybody was doing. Yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker 2: It was so counterintuitive to a guy who's got hits happening on country music and he did it and nailed it.
01:14:12
Speaker 1: It was, it was almost like for me, it was never because it was such a natural thing for me just because I was more comfortable. Every bit as much comfortable singing that is like what I was already singing. It was like, I have to do this.
01:14:27
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
01:14:28
Speaker 1: And so I don't know what it's going to do, but I feel like if we fully commit and we don't like, try to put steel guitar in there, try to cut it in Nashville. And not that there's anything wrong with cutting in Nashville, but we flew to New York. I did all that fully went for it. I think not one of my fans was like, what is this or whatever? It was just me. And that was, that was, that was it. And then it just kind of just keep doing it. And, and people keep showing up in every year. It's pretty awesome.
01:14:57
Speaker 2: We were talking about it in the intro before you came, but the tour, you can go to Brett's website, BrettEldridge.com. And the cities are Nashville, Chicago, New York.
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Speaker 3: Let me make sure I'm right here.
01:15:12
Speaker 2: We got Nashville starting November 27th. Then Boston for a couple nights.
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Speaker 3: Is it day after Thanksgiving? Yeah.
01:15:18
Speaker 1: So we have a residency at the Ryman three days starting the day after Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 3: Two in Boston. Then Milwaukee. Then Chicago. That's got to be fun for you, too. The Chicago Theater one is going to be awesome. um, St. Louis, Columbus, Ohio, and you ended in New York.
01:15:37
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:15:38
Speaker 3: That's cool. You guys should go to the shop. I've been many times. It's really, really an amazing show.
01:15:43
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:15:43
Speaker 1: And this year we're, we're, we're doing some different things, but last year we got this really cool stage and it's just like, uh, it feels like home now. And I just 10 years of it. Hopefully I can do it till I'm 80. I saw Tony, uh, Tony Bennett backstage, probably a few years before he passed. And I saw him backstage. We were both filming. I think it was a Rockefeller tree lighting. And, and I was just thinking, damn, he's been doing this. He was like 90 years old or upper eighties. And I was thinking, okay, I'm like 35 or whatever at this point or 33. And I'm thinking, dang, if I can do that and still love it, like, He was just sitting there eating a granola bar and chilling and said, hey, what's up? And he was singing a song, you know, to kids from one to 92. And I'm thinking he's basically 92. If he gets 93, he's going to be past whatever the 92. Like he has been doing it that long. And I think it's cool to create a tradition like the Glow Show is to create a place where people can keep coming back every year and tell the stories. And there are elements of it that they remember each year. That I keep the same because I want it to feel like I go there to get a specific feeling and be able to share that with my family and friends.
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Speaker 3: And it's going beautifully. And that's all I want to do. Yeah. So, guys, get tickets. It's an awesome show. You should go. I didn't even like Christmas and I liked it. Yeah, that's right. I wasn't a Christmas guy. I changed you now. Just so we can have this documented for posterity. Yeah. We became friends many, many, many years ago. Yeah. We were both very single. Yeah. Very clueless. Yeah. Even lonely, even if we didn't know it. No, we knew it. I think we knew it. At times we did. And we'd go, I wonder if this is ever going to work for us. Yeah.
01:17:40
Speaker 2: And then something would happen a little bit.
01:17:43
Speaker 3: Yeah. off again and we get back together again it doesn't happen for guys like us I guess for us it just is.
01:17:50
Speaker 2: Not I remember you telling me that once at dinner it's not for us I guess for guys like us it just never and again we've been friends for a long time I would say very close but you're one of my dearest friends and how I'll end this story is you had texted me before you're like hey afterward do you want to go and get something to eat and I said I can't Because.
01:18:15
Speaker 3: I have to give the baby a bath. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And here you are married. Yeah. I'm always a little bit ahead of you. I've been a little bit ahead of you for a while now.
01:18:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have.
01:18:26
Speaker 3: But you can teach me with experience, though. And that's weird.
01:18:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:18:30
Speaker 3: And so now I have a baby.
01:18:32
Speaker 2: And we're not those two guys wondering if it's for guys like us anymore.
01:18:36
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's pretty cool. We're two guys that can tell other guys. They're going, I wonder if this is for us. Just hang in there.
01:18:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:18:41
Speaker 2: Because if you hang in there long enough and you don't settle, something really amazing will happen.
01:18:46
Speaker 3: So thanks for going through your music with me. Yes. I love you. Love you, brother.
01:18:52
Speaker 2: One of my best friends in the whole wide world. I'm so happy for you and your wife. And it's just crazy to see us.
01:18:59
Speaker 3: How about mature?
01:19:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:19:01
Speaker 3: Get more mature. We're growing up, baby. Yeah, that's crazy. Still a lot more to go. Yeah, you hope. Yeah. You hope. To the next chapter. I mean, anything can happen. You're right. Let's go skydive and see. There he is. Guys, go to the show. The great Brett Eldridge.
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Speaker 7: Thanks for listening to a BobbyCast production.
Speaker 1: He was out on the road with me, riding the bus, and I was putting in my in-ear monitors, and I looked at him as I was about to walk on stage in front of all these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song. And I put the ear in and I just walked in.
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Speaker 2: All right, a special episode. I'm going to do my favorite 10 Brett Eldridge songs, but with Brett Eldridge in the room. And so he'll just tell me about the songs, how he felt when he wrote them. Brett is a massive superstar in country music. Big songs, number ones like Don't Ya, Be To The Music, Mean To Me, Lose My Mind, Wanna Be That Song.
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Speaker 3: He is Mr. Christmas.
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Speaker 2: And it's 10 years of the GLOW Christmas tour, which is wild. He's got some great Christmas albums. If you haven't been to the GLOW show, it's fantastic. It is the GLOW 10-year anniversary tour. which, again, is Nashville, Chicago, New York, Boston. He's newly married, great friend of mine, and we're going to do this. I'd like to encourage you, again, if it's Christmas time, go to the Glow Shows. Get tickets now, though. They always sell out everywhere he goes. Here he is, and let's do my top 10 Brett Eldridge songs.
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Speaker 3: With Brett Eldridge. Okay, so I deep dove into your music.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Already kind of live in it. Yeah. Every morning.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: All the hits, Brett Eldridge all day. Yep.
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Speaker 2: And so I have my 10 favorite Brett Eldridge songs of all time in order.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 2: So, and then at the end, I want you to be honest with me and like give me your top five, but don't let my judgment of your songs affect your judgment of your songs.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Deal? Deal. And what if I'm like, I don't think that's in my top 10. Is that okay? Well, yeah, this is my top 10.
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Speaker 1: Don't let your judgment, like if you don't have one that I think should be in the top 10, that's okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say, what I'm going to do is I'm going to like go down the list and give you a song at number 10 and then you tell me like a story about it or what part of your life you were in at that point.
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Speaker 3: Yes. But these songs don't have to make your list. Okay, good. But don't let my songs affect your list. Got it. Okay. Okay.
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Speaker 2: At number 10 on my deep dive, I have songs about you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So give me a little, just a slight melody of that.
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Speaker 4: Uh, I'm just trying to get through.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. These songs about you. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Tell me about that one.
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Speaker 1: Um, it's, uh, in the video, basically I'm having my brain erased from all the memories of, of this person in the past in my life. Everything I go through my life, every song I hear, every smell I smell, um, every song, is a song about you.
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Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get through these songs about you.
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Speaker 1: And it's just like walking through Wrigley thinking I'm, I'm over you. And then I hear, you know, uh, can't make you love me. And like, you know, it's, it's right back.
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Speaker 3: Like Bonnie, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I referenced can't make you love me in there. And, uh, uh, dancing in the dark, uh, Springsteen, um, and the song. And those are a couple.
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Speaker 3: So you got to go through Wrigley for the video. No, but I did. Um, no, but I cut want to be that song at Wrigley. The, or the, we did the music video for want to be that song at Wrigley.
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Speaker 2: Well, then why did you just say songs about you at Wrigley? There's a line in there about walking.
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Speaker 3: Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I was walking in Chicago at a Wrigleyville bar heard. I can't make you love me or, uh, at a Wrigleyville bar. Um, I thought I might be moving on until I heard Dancing in the Dark. Now I'm just trying to get through these songs about you.
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Speaker 3: Nice recall. Yeah, I know. Because I was like, wait a minute, that's not the lyric. Do you perform that song still? Yeah, I do. Do you know all the words to all your songs? Most of the time. I'm about to play a show here pretty soon. We're going to find out.
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Speaker 2: Do you think, because there are times where I'm not, maybe I wouldn't know the words, but if I hear a couple, it gets me in. It reminds me, like maybe if you can't catch on, but you get the first.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Like in your ear, you're like, I forgot. And then they're like, I won't, drunk, drunk.
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Speaker 3: No, I had that, maybe you'll get to the song, so I don't want to waste the story about it. You can tell, tell it.
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Speaker 1: Mean to Me, once, I was singing that, and I think it was the first line. And then, you know, we're playing it, and there's like this whole buildup to it, and it's very emotional and just.
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Speaker 3: a vibe. And then all of a sudden I'm like, turn around to my piano player. I'm like, what's, what's the opening line? What is it? I'm like, I wrote this song, but it's so weird.
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Speaker 1: Cause you've sang it a million times, but there's this weird block every once in a while. And sometimes I think I've asked the crowd before too. Like, um, once you realize that, you know, you're definitely going to mess up sometimes it helps to kind of bring them into it anyways, but it is frightening sometimes when you don't, when you don't remember.
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Speaker 2: There have been times where Eddie and I have been playing the Opry and we're doing Raging Idiot, just acoustic, two guitars. And I'll just be kind of sitting on it to be like a GC, something super simple. And I don't remember the first line.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so then I just keep going GC and I'll lean back.
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Speaker 3: First word, first word, first word. And he'll be like, dog. Got it. So what if he doesn't have it? You're screwed. Yes. Extremely screwed. We'll go back to this one later. Okay. So I have at number 10 songs about you. How'd that one do? Was that a single? It was. I don't know what are singles anymore. What's that? I don't know what are singles anymore. I don't either. Like some of your songs that I picked here weren't singles. It was okay. That's my favorite. That's my favorite kind.
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Speaker 2: You probably also get people that will be like, my favorite song is, and then it wasn't like a massive song, right?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm fine with that. Cause what didn't make the list was Raymond. Yep. It was close. Yeah. Great story. And also, was that your first single? Yes. And that's a story of, let me see if I remember this right. A guy with Alzheimer's? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was a fictitious story, but I wrote it because my grandmother had Alzheimer's. Wrote about a guy that works at a nursing home. The lady mistakes him as her son, like a patient there. And then he, instead of correcting her, he is that for her. And it's just like a real heartfelt kind of emotional song.
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Speaker 3: Do you still sing that one? Every once in a while, I'll do it acoustic. Do they go crazy because they know you don't sing it that often?
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, like the hardcore, like from the, from the jump fans, we'll, we'll get pumped about it.
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Speaker 3: Cause yeah, it's just, I'll dig that one deep.
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Speaker 1: Cause I mean, I, yeah, we don't like go full band, you know, deep emotion, but I'll tell the story kind of how it affected my family and me personally. And the first time I sang it, I was at the Opry. My, grandfather was in the crowd and he got real emotional and everything.
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Speaker 3: And so that was really cool.
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Speaker 2: It feels like when John Mayer plays Comfortable, not what it's about, but it's like you're just waiting and you're going, I wonder if he's going to.
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Speaker 3: Play Comfortable because he doesn't do it a lot. Yeah. I think the last John Mayer show, you and I went together. We went together, yeah. And he played it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And it was that whole solo show where he just sat there. And that was actually, I knew it'd be great because we're both fans. So it didn't matter what he did.
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Speaker 3: We were going to love it. Yeah. But that was a really cool show. It was. And it's hard to do that.
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Speaker 1: But, like, I think, obviously, he's unbelievable guitar, but those songs, I mean, he does have deep cuts that, if you're a fan, man, I mean, yeah, comfortable. Like, I don't hear a lot of people even mention that.
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Speaker 3: That was from that Inside Wants Out EP. Yeah, before it. Before that record even came out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I remember getting that, like, you know, on a burnt CD or something. Like, it was before he was a big deal.
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Speaker 3: God, that song was so good. So good. All love was... So perfect. Yeah. That reminds me of like a part of my life, like 2001 or two. Yeah. It was. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I remember laying underneath a tree on a blanket listening to that song.
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Speaker 2: And if I'm remembering, I think like maybe Neon was also on that before it made that record.
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Speaker 3: But it was like a live version, right? Yeah. Yeah. Man, that was cool. Okay. At number 10, I have songs about you. At number nine, I do have a Christmas song on here. Hell yeah. Let's go. Glow.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: You wrote that. I wrote that.
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Speaker 2: When you write Christmas songs, can you go in in July? Or right now, we record this, we're in the.
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Speaker 3: Middle of August. Do you need to have things on the walls that make you feel like Christmas? Or can you just go in and.
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Speaker 2: Bop one out?
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of always there. I kind of have to be. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: And our tickets go on sale for the tour earlier. You're building the... We're working on different set tweaks and all that. So I'm kind of always there working... And so I kind of stay in that world. It's not like I have sugar plums dancing in my head all the time, but I do feel.
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Speaker 3: Connected to that.
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Speaker 1: It's a very strange thing, but it just feels like I can always go there when I need to.
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Speaker 2: Do you write a Christmas song like you would write another song with either title, concept, melody? How do you do that, and is it different than if you're writing a country song?
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Speaker 3: I was writing one the other day and it's weird. It's similar.
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Speaker 1: I think glow, um, I wrote with Russ Copperman, our buddy, and he was like, um, I kind of had this whole concept, like, uh, I sang on my phone. Um, this was, well, this is 10 years of glow this year. So we're celebrating 10 years of glow this year on the tour. So it's, um, 11 years ago, I went to him with this little thing that I recorded, and I said, I want to write a song called Glow.
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 1: a tour to be called Glow. I want the album to be called Glow. I had this whole thing because I just liked the idea of that being almost a brand of my spirit and heart of Christmas in it. It works somehow.
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Speaker 3: Did you have some of the lyrics already done or did you just have the idea? Yeah. I think I had like, you look good in the light of my Christmas tree. So good. Like I had that kind of feel and I love to watch you glow. And then like, like I kind of had the heart of the chorus.
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Speaker 2: When you write with Ross, who is a wildly accomplished songwriter and producer and And he's also one of our good friends. But when you write with him, who traditionally doesn't write Christmas music, you have to bring him to that, right?
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Speaker 1: Well, the thing a lot of people don't know about him is that he's like a trained jazz, Black American songbook kind of piano player. So we wrote a song called The Reason on.
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Speaker 3: One of my.
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Speaker 1: records that I love. And that was kind of had some jazz elements and we wrote Mr. Christmas together and he like is dying for the opportunity to write that kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: Cause he loves it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of people aren't consistently writing jazz in the modern world. Um, so it's really cool. It like, I see some spark light in his eye just to write that kind of thing. And so whenever I come to him with that, it's, it's pretty cool. And number eight, the reason.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know that one.
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Speaker 3: Saved you some time there.
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Speaker 2: Whenever you think of songwriters and I think of Elton John and like Bernie Taupin and Elton John did the music and he did the lyrics. It's kind of a cool, but I mean, symbiotic for sure, but odd relationship where.
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Speaker 3: Could you ever.
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Speaker 2: Just write the music to something and then pass it off and go, okay, can't wait to see.
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Speaker 3: What you do here.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of let go of control there. I was talking to my manager, John Pete's about it the other day, because he's like, I've been writing a bunch of songs on my own. And he's like, this would be really cool. And I think it'd be really cool to cut it with this person in this band. And you could literally, like you have such a good guitar vocal, you can have them cut it. And you walk in there and just be ready to sing kind of thing. And like the let go of, of that is wild for my brain, but I kind of get it. Like when you, if you have the guts of a great song and going in and trusting that process is probably a good practice for me to try. But I usually like to be there from, um, inception of the song of like, you know, the idea or, you know, somebody can walk in and have an idea, um, And I can kind of start trying to build something around that. But I kind of like to come in with a melody, something. I like to be there at the birth of the song and kind of go all the way through. So if I was to write just the music and pass it off, that would be hard for me, for sure.
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Speaker 2: What about if you wrote a song and you had a good demo and you laid down the vocal and then you just let the producer do what the producer does, meaning he's going to track it.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he puts guitars, maybe he puts piano. Could you leave a song like that?
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Speaker 1: Like if it was just like guitar vocal and then let them build around it?
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Speaker 3: Like completely. Have you done that ever?
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Speaker 1: I've done stuff like that. I usually tweak it after they've done stuff. I can do that. Because on some of the first records I produced with Ross together, like we co-produced them. And he's very good at translating. I would be like, what does this sound? I don't know how to describe it, but it sounds kind of like a stapler sound. clipping or whatever. And then like, he'll get it. We actually recorded a stapler once.
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Speaker 3: That's how I thought of that. You put a staple on a microphone? Yeah, we just put a stapler on it.
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Speaker 1: Like just weird sounds, or I would play guitar with my mouth and just make that sound. And then we're like, oh, actually that works. To do just the guitar vocal, I think it'd be an interesting practice. I, most of the time I'm there for the whole thing. So that's probably a good challenge, but that would be hard for me. It's like making me sweat thinking about it.
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Speaker 2: I never thought about that so much, but we had Pat Monahan and he was sitting there and we were talking about it. And so he dreamed- at least parts of Drops of Jupiter, where he had the idea and he woke up and in the dream it was his mom. And so his mom died and that song is about her. But he said he went in and laid down basically the basics and let them do the work. And so this piano, the horns, all of that was added, not him, by whomever was producing.
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Speaker 3: And so I asked him and I said, is.
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Speaker 2: That weird or hard or? Do you ever hear it and go, that ain't it? He goes, yeah, sometimes I hear it and that ain't it. But sometimes I hear it and it's freaking beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Because I wouldn't have thought to do that. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And that's what he said he did with Drop to Jupiter. And I thought it was so cool.
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Speaker 3: That's so cool. Because I couldn't do that. Yeah. No, it's hard. I have a brain that needs to know every detail. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Um, or I feel out of control and it might get anxious, but it's a good practice. I think I'm glad you brought that up to me because maybe I need to try it. You'll forget to do it as soon as you leave here.
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Speaker 2: But I think at times I can sabotage things by being way, way, way too involved.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I think more times than not, my success has been because I'm way, way involved. Like I know what got me here and it can kill me sometimes, but I think more times than not, I like to be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Super involved. Okay. Glow is at nine. Number eight, Sunday Drive. Ah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I really like this song. This is a later, this is a later you. That's my favorite record you've ever done too, by the way.
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Speaker 3: My favorite.
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Speaker 2: And so I, I pick Sunday Drive because I don't know, that song just makes me feel.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 2: It's such an easy word to say because I don't feel good as descriptive enough, but like whole.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So tell me about Sunday Drive. What do you think about when I say that song?
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Speaker 1: That song I've had such a journey with because that's one of two songs I've recorded that I didn't write.
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Speaker 3: Dang, is that insulting to you that I picked a song you didn't write? No, no, no. It's one of my favorite songs ever. A little bit more insulting? No, I really am not.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 3: In fact, if you picked it one, I'd be like, that's great.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: Because I was an intern at Universal Music Publishing, and I was in the basement. And they had kind of like a– basically called it the dungeon. And it was– my job as an intern was to fresh out of college was to transfer CDs to MP3s. So there was just endless walls of CDs and I'm, I'm, I'm filing them away and I would listen to songs as it to make sure they didn't have skips or whatever. And I was going through this catalog of this guy named Barry Dean, who I became loving his writing and his voice too. And there was a song called Sunday drive. And so I, I got that. I just started listening to it all the time. And, but I was only, you know, 20 low twenties and I hadn't lived enough life yet at that point to be like able to tell that story, I think, or seeing that story. And so I, I took it and I, I was like, one day I'm going to record this. And I just kept praying no other artists would record it. I kind of stayed, I kind of left it under I wouldn't bring it up to a lot of people. I think some other artists almost recorded it. And then when the right time came, I was like, I want a whole album concept around Sunday drive and, and, uh, recorded it in Chicago, um, with, um, with Daniel Tash and Ian Fitchick.
00:17:43
Speaker 3: And it was amazing. Those guys I know from Casey Musgraves. Is that true? Okay. Barry Dean, I know from pontoon. Yes. Uh, he had another little big talent. He has a bunch of hits. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, maybe day drinking. Did he write that? Possibly. You guys can fact check me on that. But we've had him on the Bobbycast. I loved him.
00:18:02
Speaker 1: He's like one of those cred guys. He's like a songwriter, songwriter too. You love songwriters. You're like, I will listen to his music over some artists because I just love it.
00:18:13
Speaker 3: Would you check in to see if his song was recorded? That song was recorded? Yes. Oh, yeah.
00:18:18
Speaker 1: I would always check on the status of it. And then just a year would go by and it wouldn't. And then I was like, here's the time.
00:18:25
Speaker 3: Let's go.
00:18:26
Speaker 2: I bet it's weird for him for a song to exist for that long. Somebody to hear it and remember it for that long.
00:18:33
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then for it to get cut. Yes. Did he say anything to you when you said, hey, I'm going to cut this song?
00:18:40
Speaker 1: He actually gave me a, I was looking at it this morning because I meditate in the morning and I have some coffee table books just like this in front of me. And there's a book called Frank Sinatra's Got a Cold. And it's a picture book because he knew I love Sinatra. He loves Sinatra. And so I got it from him when he knew I was recording the song. And he was just so grateful. And he's such a nice guy.
00:19:03
Speaker 3: That's cool. Did you guys fact check me on that? I did. He wrote Day Drinking and Pontoon?
00:19:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:19:08
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00:19:22
Speaker 3: I feel like I wrote something with him a long time ago, like a comedy song. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I've done that. I've had that where I, I mean, when you're right. I've had strokes though. Yeah, you're right.
00:19:32
Speaker 5: Like.
00:19:33
Speaker 3: You got good excuses. Like I was like, I don't want. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to.
00:19:37
Speaker 1: Use that because I have. No, don't have a stroke though. No, I definitely don't want to have one, but.
00:19:42
Speaker 2: Number seven on my list of your songs is Don't you?
00:19:47
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you think it'd be higher? No, I think that's right. It's a good spot. It was the first song that got me to the, to the dance. I mean, no way. That was your first number one. Yeah. Huh?
00:20:01
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:20:02
Speaker 3: Me and Ashley Gorley and, uh, Chris Stefano. I did not know that was your first number one. What was the video?
00:20:08
Speaker 1: Uh, it was at a, it was at like a old Victorian house in East Nashville. And I was, um, basically at a playing live at a party never like naturally everybody does. And I'm hanging out and see a beautiful girl across the room and, and, uh, kind of following her around and flirting and you know what you're doing, baby.
00:20:27
Speaker 3: Don't you? Don't you? It's like flirtatious and Very like young version.
00:20:31
Speaker 2: Of me, you know.
00:20:38
Speaker 3: That's a jam.
00:20:39
Speaker 2: I forgot how much of a jam it was. I've been playing your songs. Also, Caitlin's been like, why are you playing so much Brett?
00:20:43
Speaker 3: Cause it's kind of weird.
00:20:44
Speaker 2: Cause you're a friend and we're playing your music in the house. I'm like, I gotta get back to a songs. Like I'm listing them all out. What do you remember about that song moving toward number one?
00:20:54
Speaker 3: It was a long climb. I think it took 50. I think it took a year. to climb the chart.
00:21:00
Speaker 1: And, you know, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a grind to get out there and play, you know, a million different shows and you're out there and you're doing everything you can. You're like, well, I hope some people hear it. And then you hear it for the first time on the radio. Cause I remember hearing Raymond on the first time on the radio, but don't show it was the first time where I started to hear it often. And then you start hearing it more often. And all of a sudden I was like, okay, I I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do something that crazy if this goes number one.
00:21:32
Speaker 2: I remember you doing crazy stuff every song and you had to quit because you were going to kill yourself. You kept doing crazier and crazier stuff.
00:21:39
Speaker 1: Several number ones later, I said I was going to kiss a bear in the lips with honey or something. And people got really... I would do it with a trained bear, but it would still be a grizzly bear. And they said, let's not do that.
00:21:51
Speaker 3: What did you do for this one? Skydive. And I was... I'm very....
00:21:57
Speaker 1: Trying to reframe it as I do in therapy. I, I am not a huge fan of heights and I can't like stand by a ledge and not feel, you know, weird sensation.
00:22:09
Speaker 3: It just feels weird.
00:22:10
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, I'll go skydiving. If, if don't, she goes number one and gets a 30, gets to 20, you know, it gets a 10. You're like, Oh damn, we're going to have to start looking at places that possibly, you know, just in case. And then I remember looking out that window when they opened it up, and I mean, there's no feeling like that.
00:22:32
Speaker 2: Which feeling was crazier, them telling you you got your first number one, or are you looking out that door of the plane?
00:22:37
Speaker 3: Definitely the door of the plane.
00:22:38
Speaker 1: Because it's like, you know, I've been grinding to that point where it's like, you know, we're going to get there, we're going to get there. I believe, I don't know how, but we're going to get there. And then, but when they open a door to a plane, you're like, I was the one that got all these other people into this, on this plane. I'm going to be the first one to jump out.
00:22:53
Speaker 3: I was... So scared.
00:22:56
Speaker 1: And luckily you have somebody attached to you that's done thousands of them. So you're like, okay, there are, um, 100%, you.
00:23:04
Speaker 2: Know, not a hundred, but yeah, I mean, I mean, they probably had some mistakes, some things that didn't work perfect, but they've made it to 100% life.
00:23:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:11
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Um, I remember I, I hate heights. I, I'm not, I'm not going to reframe it. I'm scared to crap of heights.
00:23:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:20
Speaker 2: And I was so scared to skydive that I just drove up to skydive one morning.
00:23:23
Speaker 3: With by myself. No way. Yeah. And you never told me that. Yeah.
00:23:26
Speaker 2: And so I, I just don't like being afraid of things. And so I drove up and it was in San Marcos, Texas. And I went up and I said, Hey, I'm here to skydive. And they said, uh, you have to book reservations.
00:23:39
Speaker 3: Like how many in your group? I was like, no, no, it's just me.
00:23:41
Speaker 2: And I think they thought, I think they thought I was like a solo, like a Unabomber or like some sort of single is going to take the plane. And they thought it was weird that I showed up by myself to just go up and skydive. And They said, well, if you're by yourself, and it was like, she had talked to her manager. I guess if you're by yourself, we can fit you in to this group that's going. And I was like, okay, like you, I'm scared to death. And so they had one instructor that wasn't jumping with that group. And they said, we do have someone that can go with you. And I'm not kidding. It was a woman about five foot three. So, and she's attached to my back. And so we're walking and she can't even see because she has.
00:24:24
Speaker 3: To like look around me because she's so small. And you're right. When you go up there and they open that door. Oh, I could feel it, right? Yeah, me too. I can feel it right now. Me too. It's like this gut thing. It's like, oh.
00:24:35
Speaker 1: How was it when you jumped? They tell you to scream or like, you know, exhale really hard. So like yell or whatever, because you're obviously got a ton of force going towards your lungs. I remember doing that. My mouth was dry as hell. And then I, you know, I'm six foot four. So like the guy, the guy was a pretty big guy, but like when he, he, I remember jumping kind of blacking out. Like I don't remember a lot. Then I remember him pulling the shoe or I remember, no, I remember flying for a while and he had like some guy who was just like casually filming you with a camera flying in your face. And I remember you're supposed to tuck your legs behind your back. behind your butt, kind of like, so they're not dangling. I look like a falling spider because my legs are dangling. And, and so that was really intense. And you could tell he was having trouble, like getting me balanced. Cause they have to kind of do that while you're doing that. You were doing that exactly. And he, so, and then once they pull the chute, that's the second, that was almost worse because he pulls a chute. He's like, all right, we're going to try a spin or whatever. And he pulls one side and we just go like that going down in circles. And I was like, at one point I'm like, I can't do any more of that. And I almost threw up, which I know happens sometimes. There's people where I get thrown up on all the time.
00:26:00
Speaker 3: Oh, yuck. Like it goes up into the person. Oh, God. Just think about all the videos of that.
00:26:06
Speaker 2: That would go so viral now.
00:26:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. You ever watch the videos where people get on that thing at the– the fair or the carnival. And it's the rubber band thing. Oh, I hate that thing. And the guy's like, all right. Oh, it looks like it's broken. That's so good. They launch it when they're not expecting it.
00:26:20
Speaker 2: I had a cool video of me skydiving, but somebody broke into my house and it was, it was a DVD and it was in my PlayStation. Once they broke into my house, they stole your PlayStation. I didn't have a DVD player.
00:26:29
Speaker 3: I wasn't playing it. I wasn't playing me skydiving. I didn't have a DVD player. It was the PlayStation and they stole that. What?
00:26:39
Speaker 2: I know.
00:26:40
Speaker 3: You know, that's really strange you say that.
00:26:42
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a conspiracy out there because somehow my footage of my skydiving has also never been able to be found.
00:26:50
Speaker 3: Do you have pictures of it? Maybe it was the same.
00:26:54
Speaker 1: Well, I have a couple of pictures, but my brother jumped with me too. Not at the same time, but behind me. He did a backflip out of there. I would love to have a... A video of that, but we.
00:27:05
Speaker 3: Can't find it.
00:27:05
Speaker 2: I did a backflip, too, but there's no video. I did a backflip, and then I did a pirouette, and then.
00:27:11
Speaker 3: A handstand? Yeah, I did like nine things. It was really great.
00:27:14
Speaker 2: We don't have video, so I can't prove it. But yeah, they broke into my house and stole all kinds of stuff, and that was.
00:27:20
Speaker 3: One of the things I stole. But of all things, that was the thing? No, of all things, I was really playing poker a lot at the time. A lot.
00:27:27
Speaker 2: I was traveling to games. I was playing cash games in Texas, and I had a jar of... like this big, just stuffed with cash for games.
00:27:35
Speaker 3: And they stole that. That was the big one. Yeah, that's a big one. The DVD was too. Yeah. That was the big one. I remember landing though and going, thank God, I'm never doing this again. Yeah, same.
00:27:46
Speaker 2: Some people are like, I wanted to go right back up, so I never again. It hurt when they pulled the chute. That was the worst part, was the floating, because if that goes wrong, you die. If something goes wrong in the free fall, you got two chutes. But if that goes wrong, you do this, like you did, and.
00:28:00
Speaker 3: Then you die. Have you seen the.
00:28:01
Speaker 1: Video that 80 or 90 year old lady skydiving and she slips out of the harness.
00:28:07
Speaker 3: She doesn't die. She doesn't die. Wait, what? There's a video.
00:28:11
Speaker 1: How does she slip out of the harness? And I watched this, unfortunately, before I skydived, I think. But this lady is, I mean, she's in her, she's like, oh, before I die, I want to go skydiving. And she goes skydiving and somehow they didn't have her fully in. And so she's like falling out of the harness. And the guy's like holding onto her.
00:28:30
Speaker 3: They land just holding on to her? Yeah, like she's basically completely slipped out. Mike, have you seen that? I'm watching it right now. Oh, my God. It's real? It's real. It's so insane. That makes my stomach like queasy just thinking about that. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm like dangling right there. Her butt is dipping. Is it bad? She didn't die, so it can't be so bad. Hopefully she's doing great. Her shirt almost comes completely off. Did you say, hopefully she's doing great?
00:29:03
Speaker 2: She'd be like a hundred something now. Like right now, she's watching this on Netflix, thriving. I just want to say that you're my hero and you inspired me to go ahead and jump. If you made it through that, I could make it.
00:29:14
Speaker 3: And I did. I'm going to have to watch that when we're done. Okay. So yeah, I'm good. Never skydiving. Okay. Next up on my list is... Oh, you hit number one. Congratulations on that song. Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, you're good. What number are we at here? We are now at number six. Oh, yeah. At number six, I have, I don't know a lot of words, so I'm just doing some melodies.
00:29:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:29:40
Speaker 3: Put some time to beat it. I'm even early on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beat of the music. Beat of the music. Yes. That's a jam. That was a jam. That was.
00:29:50
Speaker 1: Ross and I and Heather Morgan. We wrote that song. I had just been in the Bahamas and I had this whole concept in my head of, um, I walked in, I had this idea and Ross and I started writing it. Uh, and Heather hadn't gotten there. Heather can tend to be late sometimes back then she's gotten more timely now, but back then she would show, show up a little late to rights, but she'd bring smoothies or something, you know, that was it.
00:30:21
Speaker 3: I remember her doing that once. She'd be like an hour late, but well, you were on time.
00:30:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:30:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker 1: But, uh, but that day she rolled up and we're jamming on it. And, and I, I mumbled a lot when I'm, I'm a lot when I'm talking to, but when I'm singing or writing songs, like I'll just do it kind of what you were just doing. I'll, I'll say syllables all here. Like I hear it all. Like I feel it formed together. And sometimes I'll, I'll say the words kind of, but, not realize I say it. And that's one of the best things I've had with Heather and I writing through the years is she'll, even if I don't exactly say it, it's like she energetically or whatever says, did you just say falling in love with the beat of the music? And I said, sure, I guess so. And it just fell out like that. And then we wrote this whole story about going to an island. I say Mexico because it rhymed instead of Bahamas.
00:31:17
Speaker 3: What's the rhyme?
00:31:18
Speaker 1: I get hooked up. I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: Oh. So it would be hard to say Bahamas. Wait, what's the rhyme with Mexico? Oh. I just met you a couple hours ago. Oh, got it. My last night in town. Hey, wouldn't you know? Yeah.
00:31:40
Speaker 4: I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: Oh.
00:31:46
Speaker 1: And so it was Mexico. It was really Bahamas. But who's actually fact-checking on that? We just did, and we're putting it on Wikipedia.
00:31:52
Speaker 3: He did not. Yeah, yeah. Take the number one back. Is that the pigs? Yes.
00:31:57
Speaker 1: So that was back before, like, it was cool to swim with the pigs. You're like, now you see it on all sorts of things. Back then, they were just, you know, kind of stinky swimming pigs. But it was so cool. I'd never seen anything like that. I'd never even been... This was before... This is probably 2010. And so I just got a record deal. I'm trying to figure it all out. I've never been to a cool. Our friend invited us to go on their boat in the Bahamas.
00:32:28
Speaker 3: And we fly in. It's this beautiful place.
00:32:31
Speaker 1: And we go hang on their boat, stay in their boat for like four days, me and my brother. We go on a boat ride. And they say, we're going to go feed some swimming pigs. I said, that's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
00:32:41
Speaker 3: Let's go.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: Oh.
00:32:42
Speaker 1: They fill up scraps from whatever we had for dinner or whatever, probably pork or sausage.
00:32:48
Speaker 3: I've seen that actually, too. That's rude of me. It's so weird. I don't like it.
00:32:52
Speaker 5: I don't like it either, but I remember them having breakfast burritos and giving it to them.
00:32:56
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's so messed up. But anyways, I think there was some broccoli in there, so that was good. But we brought it over to them, and we're rolling over there, and we see this beautiful girl.
00:33:07
Speaker 3: In the back of a boat. Yeah.
00:33:11
Speaker 1: We hadn't seen anybody other than like older people than us this whole trip.
00:33:15
Speaker 3: And we're like, Whoa, okay. I said, forget the swimming pigs. Let's go see what's going on over here. Like pigs can fly. I don't care. Let's, this is beautiful, beautiful girl back here.
00:33:24
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like 23, four years old or whatever.
00:33:28
Speaker 3: And, uh, so we go, we get closer, we get closer, we get closer.
00:33:31
Speaker 1: And these two, like in my mind, I'm sure it wasn't this scary, but in my mind it was like James Bond villains pop up like out of the, this yacht, uh, And we get closer, and you could tell they're like, you're not getting close to this boat. So we went and we fed the pigs instead. And I wrote a story. I was like, I want to write a story about falling in love in this magical place.
00:33:58
Speaker 3: And as a songwriter, you get to.
00:34:01
Speaker 1: Play God in that scenario where you get to make it finish however you want. And then we went back years later and shot the video there.
00:34:11
Speaker 3: And you never saw her again though. No. No. Okay. No. Uh, was that your number two, second number one? Uh, that was my second number one.
00:34:21
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:34:22
Speaker 2: I never know when I look something up, it says reach number one, June of 2014. So your second number one.
00:34:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:34:30
Speaker 2: Dang.
00:34:30
Speaker 3: It's that's been that long. Yeah, I know. It's still a jam though. Yep. Number five. I get drunk, drunk on your love. Drunk on your love? Yeah. Number five to me. Yeah. That song. Number one, 2016, it says here. Yeah. True or false?
00:34:49
Speaker 2: I think that's definitely true.
00:34:51
Speaker 3: Tell me a story about drunk on your love. Ross and I wrote this. We wrote a very... It.
00:35:00
Speaker 1: Was almost like we would make really weird demos that because we were, we weren't making it for anybody else, but we're just having fun. And then we would know, we knew we would go cut it in a different way, but if it had a element of catchiness and uniqueness, we would just let it be what it was. And so he had put some like really weird, I wish I had my phone, I'd play it for you, but I, some really weird, um, like T-Pain kind of things on my voice, you know, at the end of the song and like through it and, and there was bongos on it and, and.
00:35:33
Speaker 3: Just having fun with it. And we were like, man, this is so catchy.
00:35:36
Speaker 1: We, It was just one of those songs that kind of wrote itself once we had the hook. And it felt so good. And still, when we play that song live, people go nuts for it. You don't have to overthink it. It's not changing the world with the subject matter or anything like that.
00:35:55
Speaker 3: It just feels good. And sometimes you need songs like that, and that one does that. The lyric is... I get drunk. I woke up. Oh, see. Still drunk. So insulting. Yeah. That's okay. You don't have to know the words. I woke up. Still drunk.
00:36:14
Speaker 5: Okay.
00:36:15
Speaker 3: I don't want to sing after you. Yeah. I was way better singing that before you sang that.
00:36:19
Speaker 2: Do you ever have a song and it is so catchy and it feels so good, but you feel like it's too simple?
00:36:26
Speaker 3: There's a... Yes. I have those. And then sometimes.
00:36:31
Speaker 1: that's sometimes the hardest kind of song to write. Like the simple, catchy, sometimes it could be, the subject matter can be so simple. You're like, nah, it's not compelling enough, but it's like, it's catchy, but it's not, but it's just doesn't quite do enough to like, you're going to go home and tell all your friends about it. But then there's some that are, um, so naturally an expression of yourself and your soul, even if it's simple, that it, It comes out in a way that is infectious. And, you know, they call it an earworm, whatever you want to call it. That kind of weirds me out, earworms. But I like the.
00:37:08
Speaker 3: We'll call it something else.
00:37:11
Speaker 1: But I like it's, yeah, it's really hard to write a simple song and make it really good, I think, a lot of the time.
00:37:18
Speaker 2: You said something a minute ago that I liked. You were talking about not every song has.
00:37:23
Speaker 3: To change the world. And exactly. Exactly.
00:37:27
Speaker 2: Every song doesn't have to change the world, except those songs end up, we'll call it changing the world because they're just fun. Yeah.
00:37:33
Speaker 3: And like joy does do that. Make people smile, make it feel good.
00:37:39
Speaker 2: And I can see that as a creator, as a writer, and you want to write the most poignant thing you could possibly write, or it's got a great callback or it's got. Like that's your craft. You've worked so hard to get so good at it. But then this thing falls out of you that feels super simple where you would go like, wait, is that too simple? I can see where that could be a struggle.
00:37:56
Speaker 3: It does.
00:37:56
Speaker 1: It gets in your head and you're like, okay, I really want to write something really deep and meaningful and everything. And you kind of forget that this is meaningful. It's just a different part, you know? It is a hard part of songwriting for sure.
00:38:13
Speaker 3: Do you think of any songs... that you've heard.
00:38:17
Speaker 2: It's not yours in country music or it all in the last 10 years, it is such an earworm or whatever term you'd like to use there. Um, Cause I remember the first time that I heard meant to be, and that's a song that is simple and it's so catchy. The first time I heard that song, if it's meant to be.
00:38:36
Speaker 3: It'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be. Yeah.
00:38:40
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh my God. I don't even know what they just said. I think there were six words in that song. That's the catchiest song I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:38:48
Speaker 3: Like meant to be was that to me, like the catchiest song.
00:38:51
Speaker 2: Anything come to your mind just in general? I'm trying to think don't say baby shark can't say baby shark baby shark does do that though baby shark doesn't leave it doesn't it gets in and it's there forever it's a worm that embeds into the brain and.
00:39:02
Speaker 1: Then it causes you insanity and then one year you're like a hundred ten years down the road you're crazy just singing in your head.
00:39:08
Speaker 2: And then you realize you didn't get that from baby shark you got that from pork you ate it was bad it wasn't from baby shark at all it was trichinosis it's a whole thing you're right anything come to mind super catchy songs you've heard in the last five six seven years.
00:39:20
Speaker 3: Oh man Um, I'm, I'm really bad at remembering that. Um, this is called being put on the spot. It is. It is called being on the spot. I can't think of anything right now. And that's like, what would you even listen to right now as music? Um, all comfortable, old stuff. Yeah. Americana stuff.
00:39:41
Speaker 5: Wow.
00:39:41
Speaker 3: You have, you have anybody? Gregory Allen, Isaacov. Say that again. Gregory Allen, Isaacov. Yeah. I don't know who that is. Um, he's like, uh, Yeah, he's Americana, Rootsy.
00:39:53
Speaker 1: There's a band called Watch House I really like. It used to be called Mandolin Orange.
00:40:00
Speaker 3: Dang, you like bands that don't even have a real name yet. Like, they're still so new.
00:40:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to be called Mandolin Orange and they changed it somewhere. That's how you know you're cool. You like a band before they even settle on a name. It's not, it's like, I just really connect to like, at this point in life, I like, I mean, of course I listen to all the old stuff and stuff I grew up with, but I connect with kind of traveling, uh, organic lyrics that are like about the pines and being in the, in the woods and, and traveling down the roads and old cars and shit like that. I like stationary plastic fake lyrics.
00:40:38
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's more of my thing. Mine are mainly from Fisher price at this point. Yeah, absolutely. I hit one of the keys and yeah, it's just about like elephants running down the road or something.
00:40:49
Speaker 7: The Bobby cast. We'll be right back. This is the Bobby cast.
00:41:01
Speaker 3: All right.
00:41:02
Speaker 2: Number four, top red Eldridge songs of all time.
00:41:06
Speaker 3: It should be nice to love someone. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Because when I wake.
00:41:12
Speaker 2: Up in the middle of the night and I wake up in the middle of the day.
00:41:16
Speaker 3: Is that how it goes? He never wakes up in the day because he's always awake because I don't nap. How's it go then? What's that? How's the lyric go? When I wake up.
00:41:24
Speaker 4: In the middle of the night, you holding me so tight.
00:41:28
Speaker 3: There's no waking up in the day then. And then what's the next lyric? Okay, hold on. No one ever knows this part. I didn't know that. Because I don't even know what I'm saying, really.
00:41:34
Speaker 2: When I wake up in the middle of the night, this moves to the middle of the day. We run down to the palm tree. We run down to the palm tree is my guess. It all of a sudden turns into an island song.
00:41:45
Speaker 3: Is that correct? No.
00:41:47
Speaker 4: Oh.
00:41:47
Speaker 1: But it goes, good glory, me, my, oh, my. Good glory, me, my, oh, my. That's one of those things where, once again, like you're going to write. I just randomly mumbled it.
00:41:57
Speaker 3: I don't even know. what that is it just feels right so it goes when I wake up in the middle of the night you holding me so tight good glory me my oh my sure feels good to love someone oh.
00:42:12
Speaker 2: That's fun yeah cause it's you're like emoting yeah it's just emoting I do that a lot that's fun but it's also like in the song like you're actually expressing with words it's.
00:42:22
Speaker 1: Like streamer conscious writing which I do a lot of you just sometimes none of it makes sense I always heard Paul Simon used to do this thing where he'd do stream of conscious writing and he would take a tennis ball and he'd throw it against the wall and he would just introduce, somehow it would lock in with his brain. You know, he would just do weird things that kind of do that. And he would stream of conscious just like spit out, kind of like call me out.
00:42:47
Speaker 3: You know that song?
00:42:47
Speaker 1: There's a lot of kind of stream of conscious writing. Lyrics there that don't really make sense.
00:42:53
Speaker 3: Love that song. I love that song, too.
00:42:54
Speaker 2: Man walks down the street, says, why am I soft in the middle now?
00:42:58
Speaker 3: Why am I soft in the middle now? The rest of my life. It's so good. So good. And the video's got Chevy Chase in it. Chevy Chase, I know. Home, home. Oh, I love that so much.
00:43:08
Speaker 2: And that song moves around so much.
00:43:11
Speaker 3: I like the bongo breakdown.
00:43:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. The guy that produced Glow and Mr. Christmas, he arranged... the horns. So like he did all a bunch of Paul stuff with Paul Simon and he arranged call me out. And I was just like, that's awesome. I mean, that's, that's enough of a, of a, uh, all I need to know for a resume to sign you up for my Christmas albums.
00:43:36
Speaker 3: It's like the grave dig, uh, Mr. B belly. Uh, no, don't let go.
00:43:43
Speaker 2: I get too many melodies in my head. I get like six and I crap out, but it goes, uh, man, boom, Can't do it.
00:43:50
Speaker 3: I'm broken. We'll get there next time.
00:43:52
Speaker 2: No.
00:43:52
Speaker 3: Doesn't it say Gravedigger is one of the repeating things? It says Gravedigger, but I can't remember. But that's also a monster truck.
00:43:57
Speaker 2: It is.
00:43:57
Speaker 3: Because Bigfoot versus Gravedigger. Yeah. That was the big one.
00:44:01
Speaker 2: And you had the two were the toys. My nephews are brilliant. It's definitely still a huge thing. Are they still things?
00:44:07
Speaker 3: Bigfoot and Gravedigger? My nephews. Oh, yeah. They were playing with it the other day. Okay.
00:44:13
Speaker 1: They love monster trucks. They have probably 50 or 60 of them.
00:44:17
Speaker 3: Here we go. They collect them. They know every one of their names. One's four. One's two. And they know all their names. Okay. I'm going to find this here. Okay. It does say that in the song, right? Oh, here it is. I got it. I got it.
00:44:32
Speaker 2: A man walks down the street. He says, why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard. I need a photo opportunity. I want a shot of redemption. Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.
00:44:45
Speaker 3: Bone digger. I'm thinking bone digger, bone digger. That's the repeater. Dang, that is such a jam. See, but that's all like....
00:44:53
Speaker 1: It's like if you tell somebody to sit down and write me a song, that's just not what you expect, which is so cool. And I think that a lot of that is just you're just... You get on this flow state of a thing and you kind of just follow it. And if you could step back enough from it and not judge what's showing up and just kind of let it be what it is, sometimes it's really bad when you get out of it. And sometimes it's like... I don't know exactly what all this says, but for some reason it makes sense.
00:45:24
Speaker 2: I've had different seasons in my life where I just fall in love with an artist. It was before my time. And so I've had like a Led Zeppelin a couple of years. I definitely had a Paul Simon a couple of years. And it's the most cliche thing ever, but I love that Graceland album so much where I would listen to it. And even like, she's a good girl, diamonds on the soul.
00:45:49
Speaker 3: That was so good.
00:45:49
Speaker 2: All of that was, like, I can think about exactly where I was those few years that I just fell in love with that record. And then I just wanted to know everything about Paul Simon.
00:45:59
Speaker 3: Yeah. She's a rich girl. I don't know any words to any songs. That's Hall & Oates. Yeah, yeah. Then how does it go? She's a mint girl. She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes. I mean, that album's like religious. I mean, it's like an experience.
00:46:16
Speaker 2: But I don't know any words, so don't hold that I'm being a poser. I don't know even some of these are your songs.
00:46:20
Speaker 3: That's okay. Number three, Brett Eldridge songs. Top three, baby. Let's go.
00:46:25
Speaker 2: I want to be that song that gets you there, that makes you dance in your underwear.
00:46:32
Speaker 3: She does. That is a jam. I love that one.
00:46:34
Speaker 2: I want to be that song. How does it actually go?
00:46:36
Speaker 3: You don't have to sing. I want to be that? Okay. I want to be that song. No, you can. I just want to... You don't want to make me sing. Yeah, but if you want to just give me... Yeah, I mean, it might help me to remember all the words.
00:46:45
Speaker 4: I want to be that song that gets you high, makes you dance, makes you fall. That melody rewinds years, once disappeared, makes time fall.
00:46:57
Speaker 3: Stall.
00:46:58
Speaker 4: I want to be those words that fill you up, roll your windows down, keeps you young, makes you believe you're right where you belong. I want to be that song.
00:47:10
Speaker 3: That song is awesome. I love that one. You still do? That's one of my favorite ones, yeah.
00:47:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one, it's weird because I'm about to go play a show in Kansas, like a racetrack or something. I wonder if it's the same one, but in Kansas... I think it was like Kansas Motor Speedway or whatever. Scooter Caruso, the songwriter, his name's Travis Hill too, but Scooter Caruso is a songwriter. We've written Mean to Me together. We wrote this. We wrote several songs together. He was out on the road with me on the ride in the bus. And I had this idea called, and I was putting my in-ear monitors and I looked at him as I was about to walk on stage in front of all these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song. And I put the ear in, and I just walked in. And then I played the show. Months go by, I forgot that I told him that. And then he and I and Ross get together to write one day. He's like, remember when you told me you wanted to write a song, you wanted to be that song?
00:48:08
Speaker 3: And I totally forgot. I was like, oh, yeah. And he's like, I've got a whole kind of lyric.
00:48:12
Speaker 1: Thing going for that. And then Ross and I kind of start jumping on the music, and then it just comes together in this beautiful way of capturing that feeling Wanting to be that, you know, depth of what a song means to you, you know, and singing every word.
00:48:32
Speaker 3: Of Night Moves.
00:48:32
Speaker 1: Like whenever I hear Night Moves, I get chills almost hearing it because it takes me to a place. I want to be that feeling that you get when you hear that song. I want to be that song. And I just loved that thought. I love that emotion. And it was a beautiful ride with that song.
00:48:49
Speaker 3: My skull got some chills there.
00:48:51
Speaker 2: That's a great story. It's an awesome song. And the fact that he held on to that for that long.
00:48:55
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:48:56
Speaker 3: And he didn't go write it with somebody else. Yeah, yeah. Because it's a good idea. And he's, oh, I heard this. He won't remember. I'll go write this with someone else. Yeah. That he saved it that long.
00:49:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, that song is a jam.
00:49:06
Speaker 5: And I got to shoot that video at Wrigley Field.
00:49:10
Speaker 3: How do you make that call? Well, luckily, that was one of the best years of life right there. Cause it was 2016. Oh, like a world series. Yeah.
00:49:19
Speaker 1: So, and I, and I, I don't want to, you know, I think we all as a fans play a tiny part in getting us there. And I'll just say that the being, I said, so this year feels like a special year, which every Cubs fan says every year.
00:49:33
Speaker 3: Cause we, it was before the season started. It was free.
00:49:35
Speaker 1: You know, Chicago was cold at the start of the home opener and everything. And, Field was empty, and I got to have, you know, I had gotten to be friends with a lot of the players and such. And so I got in contact with, we got in contact with the whole front office of Wrigley, and they let us basically have Wrigley Field as our playground for a day.
00:50:00
Speaker 3: They didn't charge you? No. Well, you're a real fan, though, too.
00:50:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a real fan. I mean, I was in the parade. I sang Go Cubs Go at the, At the, when they won the world's like, it was just like the whole year starting with shooting the video there. And when we shot the video, we're like, well, there's no fans. Cause we're playing a, basically I was playing a, um, I was playing a baseball player and also playing like all these memories. And I had to like shave my, that was one of the last times I had a fully shaved face. So if you watch the, want to be that song video, my face is completely shaven. Is it weird to see that now?
00:50:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's very weird.
00:50:36
Speaker 1: I mean, it freaks me out sometimes for sure. It looks so different. Um, because back then in the, whatever it was, fifties, forties, whatever it was, cause we were playing like way back Wrigley days. Um, nobody had facial hair really much like that. And so we're like, okay, let's show a younger version of this character. And, but it was so cool. We like, I got my brother in there, a lot of my best friends. Um, And we'd play on the field. Some of my family members were in it, and they had to play Cardinals players because it was Cubs versus Cards, which is a famous rivalry. And some of them that are huge Cub fans had to be Cardinals, which was pretty funny. But yeah, I was hitting a rubber baseball, I think.
00:51:23
Speaker 2: That's still awesome to take swings.
00:51:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't want to screw up the grass at Wrigley either. So they weren't having us run out in the grass a lot and stuff. But yeah, they let us just hang out and it was really cool. Then we won the World Series.
00:51:40
Speaker 3: Which is probably why we won the World Series. 100%. I'll take it right now. Thank you guys so much for this opportunity.
00:51:48
Speaker 2: I have a funny story to tell you someday on a microphone about me telling a Cubs player how much they meant to me and their reaction.
00:51:58
Speaker 3: I would tell you right now Yeah. I just don't think right now is the time and place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, tell me. It's a great one, though. Is it? It's your fault, too. It is it? Yeah, it's completely your fault. Number two. Was it recent? Yeah. I figured so. Did he tell you? No, no, no.
00:52:16
Speaker 2: Was I so lame that he told you? No, he never told me, but I was sitting next to him.
00:52:23
Speaker 3: Can I say what it is then? Or no? I don't know. I mean, I don't know what the story is. Well, it's your wedding. Can I mention it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I say who was there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
00:52:31
Speaker 2: So we, it was Caitlin and I's first time out of the house period since we had the baby. Obviously we love you dearly. So we're not, even if the baby came out of her an hour before, we were still going to your wedding.
00:52:41
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:52:42
Speaker 3: Which is amazing.
00:52:43
Speaker 2: And so we go to your wedding and. Rossi, I know a little bit from, he did Dancing with the Stars. So we were following each other on social, but he was also on that team that won the World Series. And I don't want to bother anybody ever. And he came up to me and he was so nice. And he was like, Bobby, what's up? And I was like, what's up?
00:53:00
Speaker 3: And so we're talking.
00:53:01
Speaker 2: And so we get to, after you guys had your ceremony to the reception and it's him and Rizzo. And I'm like, I got to just go tell him like, There were people that never got to see the Cubs win it. Like the last time they won it was 1908. Heck, the last time they had been was 1945.
00:53:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:53:21
Speaker 2: There are people that didn't get to see it. And I even skipped my first ever network television offer to watch game seven.
00:53:28
Speaker 3: And we won.
00:53:29
Speaker 2: And my stepdad was a massive fan. And it just brought so many people together. I'm just a lifelong fan.
00:53:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:53:35
Speaker 2: And so I'd already been talking to Rossi, but I didn't know Rizzo at all. And I went up and I said, hey. And they weren't talking to anybody. And I definitely don't want to bother people.
00:53:43
Speaker 3: You know me. I don't want to bother anybody.
00:53:45
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:53:46
Speaker 2: And I said, hey, just so you know, like that 2016 year, and I just told the story. And it's only like a minute or so. I just took out what it meant to me.
00:53:55
Speaker 3: And Rizzo said, cool.
00:53:59
Speaker 2: How's that? I walked off, and I was like, oh, I just poured out my heart, and I got hit with a K.
00:54:06
Speaker 3: No way.
00:54:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
00:54:08
Speaker 3: Which is rare. That's rare. Yeah.
00:54:10
Speaker 1: Because he's a man of many words. He's the nicest dude ever, too.
00:54:13
Speaker 3: Oh, he was nice. He just cooled me, though.
00:54:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:54:15
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, well, I'll be going back over to that side, and thank you very much. Oh, man.
00:54:22
Speaker 6: Got it out.
00:54:23
Speaker 3: That's so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, what is it? We'll have to get him in here and sit him in. You guys can unhash it all. No, I hashed it all. No, there was no... And he was just like, cool. And I said, okay, I shall leave now. Maybe that's him just taking it in.
00:54:36
Speaker 2: Maybe he was enjoying it so much he was speechless.
00:54:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was almost like exploding with joy inside.
00:54:42
Speaker 6: Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. And we're back on the Bobbycast.
00:54:56
Speaker 3: Number two, Mean to Me. I'll make sure I show this to Rizzo. He'll love it. Mean to Me. Yes. Was that my third number one song? I'm trying to remember. It was early though, huh?
00:55:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an earlier one. And Chicago always has played a huge role in a lot of my music.
00:55:16
Speaker 2: 2014, 2015, it hit that. It reached the number one mark in his third straight from his debut album.
00:55:22
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, so that was Mean to Me. And that one.
00:55:28
Speaker 1: I wrote with Scooter Cruz, the same guy I wrote I Want to Be That Song With. And Songs About You and a bunch of them. But yeah, he and I were writing. This is maybe the first song he and I wrote together. And we wrote it on Music Row in Nashville. And I love the sentiment of just how we turn the phrase. He's a really good, there's a, in my opinion, my two favorite lyricists in Nashville are Tom Douglas and Scooter Caruso. And he just has a great way of, you know, if I could be the reason your hair's a mess.
00:56:07
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to forget the lyric. You got to sing it then.
00:56:11
Speaker 4: If I could be the reason your hair's a mess.
00:56:16
Speaker 3: Oh, God. He needs a way to feed him a line. Remember, this is the song that I said I did live, too. Oh, that you forgot then? Yeah. I'll find it. Brandon, you know it? Bass drum?
00:56:35
Speaker 5: Bass?
00:56:36
Speaker 2: Up here it goes, if I could be the reason your hair's in a mess, the bass drum beating.
00:56:41
Speaker 3: No, that's not it.
00:56:42
Speaker 2: That's what it says here on this. The bass drum beating way down deep in your chest. Bass drum beating way down deep in your chest.
00:56:46
Speaker 3: You just said that's not it. You just argued me on your lyric. It's weird.
00:56:51
Speaker 1: It's like if I picked up a guitar or something, maybe I'll do it. But it's so weird thinking about it straight out of the rawness. But anyways, the lyric of this song, I just love the turn of phrase when it comes to the hook of, then I'd be what you mean to me, like all these things. And it, it was such a cool song. I actually recorded this with Luke Laird actually produced it. I think it was the only song on that album that Luke produced, but I'm pretty sure he produced that one.
00:57:20
Speaker 2: When you have a, something that works like that, like mean to me and the wordplay of it and you hit it the first time you hit it, you're like, Oh my God, this is perfect.
00:57:27
Speaker 3: I mean, do you, is it, do you feel it? Yeah.
00:57:29
Speaker 1: I think sometimes like when you have the demo, yeah, it kind of, Back in the day, you used to do whole demo sessions, you know, and you'd go in and have the band or whatever. But when you have a work tape that's just you on a guitar and like you listen to that over and over and you write, you know, because you write hundreds of songs and you never even remember you wrote them. And then there's ones like this one where it was just, yeah, it felt like we landed something really good. And it can be really frustrating to write songs sometimes because you... you get, there's a, there's a wave of emotions just writing a song, but then you get hungry for a little while. Then somebody is a little distracted and there, and then you had all this excitement, like we're about to write a really huge song. And then all of a sudden by the end of it, you're like, well, should we just like go home? But like on songs like this, I remember feeling that like walking out of the room with Scooter and just feeling like that one has some depth and like, that's going to be a real one. And, I can't tell you how many times I've watched thousands of people hold up the fireflies.
00:58:40
Speaker 3: On that song.
00:58:41
Speaker 1: And, um, and just, it's a, it's emotional experience to sing that one. Cause it just kind of brings me back to the start, you know.
00:58:48
Speaker 3: Have you ever accepted a decent check to play these songs at a wedding?
00:58:51
Speaker 1: Trying to think about playing any weddings, definitely at private events, but I don't think I've, I don't think I've played at a wedding. I've only just started to go to weddings period since I, In the last couple of years, I've not toured as much because I was never able to go to weddings because I'd always have a gig. And so like I'm starting to go to, I had my own wedding, but like I'm starting to go to, to weddings now and stuff.
00:59:16
Speaker 3: And like, but I missed all that stuff, you know, in the beginning. You probably would have sang one at our wedding. You're right. I didn't get to make it. Didn't make it. Got COVID. I got COVID. Made us think we had COVID. Man, there was some behind the scenes on that. Yeah. That was back when.
00:59:39
Speaker 2: We were with you. We were all together all the time. And so you were like, I got COVID. And we're like, oh my God. Do we have COVID and we're getting married in five days? And if we do, do we tell everybody? And my wife has integrity. Because I'm like, we ain't testing.
00:59:55
Speaker 3: Yeah. If we don't test, we don't have COVID. It's just like, there's no COVID if you don't know. Yeah. And my wife's like, no, we have to take COVID test. Yeah. Because if we have it, we can't have people be in danger. Yeah. And so we took it and we were negative. But what if you would have ruined our wedding? Dude, that's a movie right there. A bad one. A bad one. But you didn't get to come. I didn't get to come. I know.
01:00:17
Speaker 1: And I, that was a really, back then too, it was, Later on, you get COVID. Everybody gets COVID. But at that point, it was very touchy and all that stuff.
01:00:32
Speaker 3: I remember I got COVID.
01:00:33
Speaker 1: I had to cancel one of the first times I ever had to cancel a show for a Chicago Christmas show. And I was like, well, I could have played, but you're like, I don't want anybody to die. It was so heavy. And so I'm glad that your wedding went great.
01:00:48
Speaker 3: Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I was home just blowing my nose and crying. I remember you telling us. Not that we were worried.
01:00:54
Speaker 1: We didn't even think about that at first. I was pacing around my pool trying to figure out how I... Because I didn't know I was sick. And I remember pacing around my pool like, I've got to call him and tell him. He's already stressed out. Now that I've had my own wedding or whatever, I know how much stress goes into just any kind of gathering or hosting or anything. A wedding, there's a lot that goes into it. So I was like, how do I tell them this?
01:01:17
Speaker 2: And I told Caitlin, we're not testing. She goes, that doesn't mean we don't have it. I said, no, we don't have it if we don't test.
01:01:23
Speaker 3: She said, we're going to. And I remember. You just spit a little bit on them.
01:01:26
Speaker 2: Well, it had to be like those movies where they take a pregnancy test and it ends up positive.
01:01:31
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's kind of what it felt like. Oh, God, please don't be positive. Don't be positive. And it wasn't. Thank God. All right. Time for the number one song. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
01:01:39
Speaker 2: Do you know what my number one song is of yours? What have I left out that you think? I can't believe you haven't said that one yet. This one is so far number one, it's not even close to number two. This is a tier of its own.
01:01:51
Speaker 3: Was it a hit? What are hits? Yeah, what is that?
01:01:55
Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying I don't want to give you a hint yet. If you miss it, I'll give.
01:01:58
Speaker 3: You a hint. Was it from the Sunday Drive album? I think so. Hold on. This is its sale. Let's see. The Long Way. Yeah. Yes. Take me the long... Yeah, because I was going to maybe sing that at your wedding. You interrupted me singing. I was in the middle of singing your song. Oh, yeah, yeah, go ahead, please. And then I'll tell you I was going to sing it at your wedding. That's very rude of you. So let me finish. Sing it and then I'll say, I was going to sing that at your wedding. That's right. Go.
01:02:28
Speaker 2: Take me the long way around your town.
01:02:31
Speaker 3: I was going to sing that at your wedding. That song is so good. I love that one. Do you still sing that one? I do all the time. Is that an every night song? Every night song. I sang that.
01:02:45
Speaker 1: A lot of the time I sing acoustic because that's my favorite. I started out as a songwriter here playing acoustic shows, so I love pulling out a bar stool and sitting and playing some songs. That's when I break out and listen to everybody sing.
01:03:01
Speaker 3: It's really cool.
01:03:04
Speaker 2: I like slow songs because I can at least understand what the lyrics are saying. As you can tell, I'm much of a lyric guy because I can't remember much of them. But that song also reminds me of my wife.
01:03:15
Speaker 5: Really?
01:03:16
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now that I think about.
01:03:17
Speaker 2: It, because that came out in like 16 or 17, I think.
01:03:23
Speaker 3: I think it was later. Maybe. God, I don't know. Probably 18. Yeah. Let's not fight about years. Let's fight about years. Yeah.
01:03:35
Speaker 2: I just remember hearing that song.
01:03:37
Speaker 3: And then after I'd met Caitlin and being like, oh, that song is how I feel about her.
01:03:41
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:03:42
Speaker 3: I remember you telling me that. I was like.
01:03:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not making this up for you now. I've told you this already.
01:03:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
01:03:47
Speaker 2: And so I think it's a great song. I think the lyrics are so good.
01:03:49
Speaker 3: And it reminds me of my wife. Yeah. Like all those things together. Yeah. Make this my favorite Brett Eldridge song. Heck yeah. I love that. That's a good one. I love your list. What did I not put on that list? What would you have expected?
01:04:06
Speaker 1: I don't know about expected. I mean, I have ones that would be on it that.
01:04:10
Speaker 3: Do you want to do your top five? Oh, boy. Number one. There's a song called Hideaway that I had. I really like.
01:04:21
Speaker 1: That was on the Songs About You album. I wish it was a single because it was one of my favorite ones. Yeah, that's up there with one of my favorite ones for sure.
01:04:33
Speaker 3: Number two. Oh, boy. Probably... want to be that song.
01:04:41
Speaker 2: You were going to say the long way and then you shifted halfway through.
01:04:43
Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out if it was the long way or want to be that song. I'd like, yeah, maybe. No, you said we're going to commit to want to be that song. Yeah, want to be that song. Then the long way.
01:04:53
Speaker 1: And number three, the long way. Then, uh, ah, hmm. There's a song. Um, I mean, I would pick obscure ones though.
01:05:05
Speaker 3: That's okay.
01:05:06
Speaker 1: Probably like, um, the one you need is a song I really like of mine. It's on, uh, that's on Sunday drive too. Um, I love that one. That's a, that's an obscure one. Um, and then maybe there's a song called crowd in my mind on Sunday drive.
01:05:26
Speaker 3: I really like to, so that Sunday drive album really sits in there strong.
01:05:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was, yeah, that was, that was, you know, I mean, we've known each other a long time now, you know, when I got a flip phone and I started, I don't know, I have a lot of nostalgia or just growing up in the industry and you grind it and you grind it and you grind it and then you kind of find the parts that really resonate with you and the parts that make you feel maybe not as true to yourself or whatever and doesn't mean your past music wasn't. It's just like you grow up. And I think Sunday drive was like a big grow up for me. Like, um, the kind of reflect and ended up happening to coming out during COVID, which was a weird, um, experience to like put on an album you can't promote or anything, but it was such, but it was kind of the, also the time that we were in where we were all kind of having to reflect. And I think that's why that album is just really, uh, it's kind of stuck with me on it.
01:06:32
Speaker 3: You know, do you have any singles that, You're like, eh, if I play this, it's okay. If I don't, it's okay. Yeah. Which one? Something I'm good at. I didn't put that in the top 10. Yeah. That one, I really loved writing. Straight jacket video?
01:06:53
Speaker 1: No, that's losing my mind. That was the number one. But that was, yeah, losing my mind. That was, no, something I'm good at. I shot in like, somewhere in California. And I was like in a robe. watering the grass. It was like almost a dreamlike world that I was in, but I actually loved writing the song. I thought it was a really unique song. And there's a lot of people that say it's their favorite song. I brought it to the label and it was like, and it was a really, I wrote a Tom Douglas, which is a totally not a typical Tom Douglas kind of song.
01:07:24
Speaker 3: Um, cause he wrote the house that built me.
01:07:26
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:27
Speaker 3: Like he's that. Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:28
Speaker 1: And he, it's just like, but The lyrics are really cool and fun, but it's just really quirky. And it is part of a large part of my personality, but we, I went and I cut a little demo of it and I brought the label and everybody just freaked out over the demo and loved it. Well, once, you know, somebody plays it for some radio person showed up or whatever, and they were in the office and they play it for him. They're like, Oh, they love that song. And all of a sudden it was like, well, this is going to be a single. And I don't regret it. It was just like, uh, cause it still did really well. Um, but that would probably be one that is one of my not as favorite ones, but I don't, I don't regret it.
01:08:11
Speaker 3: I hope you don't regret it. It doesn't like kill anybody. Nobody got hurt in the making of it.
01:08:17
Speaker 1: And a lot, it's funny. It's like a lot of the kids, like it's a lot of kids' favorite songs. Cause it's kind of that kind of thing. Um, which I love, like there are a lot of people that, when they need to feel good and dance around it, just when it comes to playing it live, you know, when I'm, when I'm strumming and playing the long way or want to be that song or, you know, some of that stuff, it just doesn't feel as good next to those. Um, so different vibe.
01:08:41
Speaker 3: Yeah. You brought some records.
01:08:43
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:08:44
Speaker 2: So show me some of the most important records from your collection here, if you don't mind and hold them up. Cause this is going to be on, on Netflix, obviously.
01:08:50
Speaker 3: I really just, um, I thought I was only able to pick one. No, just show us a couple. What do you got here and why do you love them? What's that one? This is.
01:08:58
Speaker 1: this is, uh, this is, uh, it's called a portrait of Sinatra, 40 songs from the life of a man. And it's actually, uh, it's hard to pick one Sinatra album. I could almost do this with, uh, hang on.
01:09:12
Speaker 3: How are you guys doing? Um, I could do it.
01:09:14
Speaker 1: Along with this one because this one is, uh, I'm not going to show you this one yet. Um, so this is my favorite Sinatra album, which is called the wee small hours and the wee small hours.
01:09:28
Speaker 3: It's one of the best, I think one of the best albums. Why that one? Why does that one resonate so much?
01:09:32
Speaker 1: It's, it's such a, like, um, there's certain albums that like, are like one really strong emotion. And like, um, this one is heavy in a way that's, um, in remembrance and longing for someone. And it's just like, just even the cover, like him underneath the streetlights, smoking a cig. Um, I mean, it's obviously a depiction of him, but it's like the whole album is just perfection.
01:10:06
Speaker 3: In my opinion, like of, of emotion.
01:10:08
Speaker 1: Like nobody could turn a phrase like Sinatra. Like he could, he could create space in a song, um, and never make you feel like you're, he has to say something, you know, because sometimes, you know, as a singer, you feel like you got to fill space or whatever. I think growing up, singing his music and listening to it, it helped teach me to kind of deliver a song. And so I think that album and the We Small Hours is there. And I picked this one. This is actually, so this is, it's not technically a greatest hits album, but it's impossible to, because he had so many songs. This was big in Britain. So, like, it was more based on his performances around in Britain. But it's got, you know, Come Fly With Me and Fly Me to the Moon. All the, you know, everything. Send in the Clowns. There's so many endless.
01:11:06
Speaker 3: Classics.
01:11:07
Speaker 1: I Got You Under My Skin. I'm just a huge Sinatra fan.
01:11:11
Speaker 3: No, you don't say.
01:11:12
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:11:12
Speaker 3: So, yeah. And I brought this one just because I thought you'd think it was funny. That is excellent. Hold that up.
01:11:20
Speaker 2: I'm going to send a picture of this to Caitlin right now and tell her we're talking about this right now.
01:11:25
Speaker 5: There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as an elephant's eye.
01:11:40
Speaker 3: And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky. That's awesome. You were in that, huh? Yeah, I was.
01:11:49
Speaker 2: So for those that don't know, not only was Brett in Oklahoma, my wife is from Oklahoma. And it was my wife's birthday. And so Brett sang that song at.
01:12:00
Speaker 3: Her birthday party. Multiple years. Yeah. Yeah, multiple years in a row. And then he got COVID one year. And then he got COVID and I've never seen him again since. That's funny. I'm going to send her that right now. Yeah, those are some picks for you right there. You've been doing the Glow Tour. This is your 10th year? Yep. Yep. Wow.
01:12:19
Speaker 1: This is the 10th year of the album coming out. And, you know, I've been doing a version of the Glow shows for every bit of that. Because it stemmed from a show I did. John Esposito, who we both know very well, was the head of... Warner signed me to my record deal. He loves Sinatra more than I'd even do. I mean, he just knows every song he ever put out. And so we both bonded on that. I was like, I would love to go eventually make a Christmas record in that style, completely different from, separate from what we're doing in the country stuff, make a big band. So we're like, let's go play live. And we went and started playing live shows with it in the In a basement at the Suttler.
01:13:08
Speaker 3: Back in the day. On 8th Avenue, a little bar. How many people were you there? 80 to 100.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: It was an invite-only kind of thing. Maybe like an eight-piece band or six-piece. Maybe a quartet even. And it was really fun. People loved it. That's what I started singing. I have such a love for it. And then the next year we did it at Skoll's Rainbow Room. and invite only again. And then all of a sudden it was just like, then we went and recorded. We're like, okay, I think it's time to record it, recorded glow. And, and then, and now, yeah, 10 years of, of glow. And yeah, it's probably, I've probably been touring it for every bit of close to that.
01:13:55
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
01:13:55
Speaker 2: It's been 10 years of this. Who would have thought it would got, it'd be so large and your brand.
01:14:02
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because it was so, anti what anybody was doing. Yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker 2: It was so counterintuitive to a guy who's got hits happening on country music and he did it and nailed it.
01:14:12
Speaker 1: It was, it was almost like for me, it was never because it was such a natural thing for me just because I was more comfortable. Every bit as much comfortable singing that is like what I was already singing. It was like, I have to do this.
01:14:27
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
01:14:28
Speaker 1: And so I don't know what it's going to do, but I feel like if we fully commit and we don't like, try to put steel guitar in there, try to cut it in Nashville. And not that there's anything wrong with cutting in Nashville, but we flew to New York. I did all that fully went for it. I think not one of my fans was like, what is this or whatever? It was just me. And that was, that was, that was it. And then it just kind of just keep doing it. And, and people keep showing up in every year. It's pretty awesome.
01:14:57
Speaker 2: We were talking about it in the intro before you came, but the tour, you can go to Brett's website, BrettEldridge.com. And the cities are Nashville, Chicago, New York.
01:15:11
Speaker 3: Let me make sure I'm right here.
01:15:12
Speaker 2: We got Nashville starting November 27th. Then Boston for a couple nights.
01:15:17
Speaker 3: Is it day after Thanksgiving? Yeah.
01:15:18
Speaker 1: So we have a residency at the Ryman three days starting the day after Thanksgiving.
01:15:24
Speaker 3: Two in Boston. Then Milwaukee. Then Chicago. That's got to be fun for you, too. The Chicago Theater one is going to be awesome. um, St. Louis, Columbus, Ohio, and you ended in New York.
01:15:37
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:15:38
Speaker 3: That's cool. You guys should go to the shop. I've been many times. It's really, really an amazing show.
01:15:43
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:15:43
Speaker 1: And this year we're, we're, we're doing some different things, but last year we got this really cool stage and it's just like, uh, it feels like home now. And I just 10 years of it. Hopefully I can do it till I'm 80. I saw Tony, uh, Tony Bennett backstage, probably a few years before he passed. And I saw him backstage. We were both filming. I think it was a Rockefeller tree lighting. And, and I was just thinking, damn, he's been doing this. He was like 90 years old or upper eighties. And I was thinking, okay, I'm like 35 or whatever at this point or 33. And I'm thinking, dang, if I can do that and still love it, like, He was just sitting there eating a granola bar and chilling and said, hey, what's up? And he was singing a song, you know, to kids from one to 92. And I'm thinking he's basically 92. If he gets 93, he's going to be past whatever the 92. Like he has been doing it that long. And I think it's cool to create a tradition like the Glow Show is to create a place where people can keep coming back every year and tell the stories. And there are elements of it that they remember each year. That I keep the same because I want it to feel like I go there to get a specific feeling and be able to share that with my family and friends.
01:17:05
Speaker 3: And it's going beautifully. And that's all I want to do. Yeah. So, guys, get tickets. It's an awesome show. You should go. I didn't even like Christmas and I liked it. Yeah, that's right. I wasn't a Christmas guy. I changed you now. Just so we can have this documented for posterity. Yeah. We became friends many, many, many years ago. Yeah. We were both very single. Yeah. Very clueless. Yeah. Even lonely, even if we didn't know it. No, we knew it. I think we knew it. At times we did. And we'd go, I wonder if this is ever going to work for us. Yeah.
01:17:40
Speaker 2: And then something would happen a little bit.
01:17:43
Speaker 3: Yeah. off again and we get back together again it doesn't happen for guys like us I guess for us it just is.
01:17:50
Speaker 2: Not I remember you telling me that once at dinner it's not for us I guess for guys like us it just never and again we've been friends for a long time I would say very close but you're one of my dearest friends and how I'll end this story is you had texted me before you're like hey afterward do you want to go and get something to eat and I said I can't Because.
01:18:15
Speaker 3: I have to give the baby a bath. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And here you are married. Yeah. I'm always a little bit ahead of you. I've been a little bit ahead of you for a while now.
01:18:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have.
01:18:26
Speaker 3: But you can teach me with experience, though. And that's weird.
01:18:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:18:30
Speaker 3: And so now I have a baby.
01:18:32
Speaker 2: And we're not those two guys wondering if it's for guys like us anymore.
01:18:36
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's pretty cool. We're two guys that can tell other guys. They're going, I wonder if this is for us. Just hang in there.
01:18:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:18:41
Speaker 2: Because if you hang in there long enough and you don't settle, something really amazing will happen.
01:18:46
Speaker 3: So thanks for going through your music with me. Yes. I love you. Love you, brother.
01:18:52
Speaker 2: One of my best friends in the whole wide world. I'm so happy for you and your wife. And it's just crazy to see us.
01:18:59
Speaker 3: How about mature?
01:19:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:19:01
Speaker 3: Get more mature. We're growing up, baby. Yeah, that's crazy. Still a lot more to go. Yeah, you hope. Yeah. You hope. To the next chapter. I mean, anything can happen. You're right. Let's go skydive and see. There he is. Guys, go to the show. The great Brett Eldridge.
01:19:16
Speaker 7: Thanks for listening to a BobbyCast production.
