The soul-stirring rhythms of Cecily Wilborn's "Southern Man" might have taken the world by storm, but it's the story behind the music that truly captivates. I had the unique pleasure of hosting this West Memphis, Arkansas native on my show to unravel the threads of her musical journey. Our conversation was a tapestry woven with personal struggles, a supportive partnership that triumphed over pandemic-induced adversity, and the transformation from holding down a day job to embracing music full-time. Cecily's candid revelations, from her heartfelt tribute to her husband to her educational pursuits at Full Sail University, will leave you inspired and tapping your foot to the beat of resilience.
As we explored the spontaneity of creativity, Cecily illuminated the serendipitous encounters that have shaped her career. From the viral sensation that "Southern Man" became, to the chemistry with producers like Kang 803 and Chris Thomas, our chat was a testament to the unexpected twists that define the music industry. She wasn't just sharing her own narrative - Cecily paid homage to the mentors like King George who've guided her through the maze of the music business. Listeners, prepare to be moved by the power of mentorship and the magic that happens when the right people come together at the right time.
Wrapping up our session, Cecily extended an open invitation to her vibrant social media world, promising a journey filled with soul, story, and song. As we looked ahead to 2024, brimming with the anticipation of success yet to be seized, our chat was a reminder of the collective energy that fuels us. Join us and become part of Cecily's community, where the music is always playing and the stories never fail to touch the heart.
If your in the music industry- singer, songwriter, composer, indie, neo singer, rapper, country artist, promoter, manager, music lawyer or blues please email me to be a guest on my show at myguest@spit2dabeat.com I would love to hear your Spit about the Music Industry.
The soul-stirring rhythms of Cecily Wilborn's "Southern Man" might have taken the world by storm, but it's the story behind the music that truly captivates. I had the unique pleasure of hosting this West Memphis, Arkansas native on my show to unravel the threads of her musical journey. Our conversation was a tapestry woven with personal struggles, a supportive partnership that triumphed over pandemic-induced adversity, and the transformation from holding down a day job to embracing music full-time. Cecily's candid revelations, from her heartfelt tribute to her husband to her educational pursuits at Full Sail University, will leave you inspired and tapping your foot to the beat of resilience.
As we explored the spontaneity of creativity, Cecily illuminated the serendipitous encounters that have shaped her career. From the viral sensation that "Southern Man" became, to the chemistry with producers like Kang 803 and Chris Thomas, our chat was a testament to the unexpected twists that define the music industry. She wasn't just sharing her own narrative - Cecily paid homage to the mentors like King George who've guided her through the maze of the music business. Listeners, prepare to be moved by the power of mentorship and the magic that happens when the right people come together at the right time.
Wrapping up our session, Cecily extended an open invitation to her vibrant social media world, promising a journey filled with soul, story, and song. As we looked ahead to 2024, brimming with the anticipation of success yet to be seized, our chat was a reminder of the collective energy that fuels us. Join us and become part of Cecily's community, where the music is always playing and the stories never fail to touch the heart.
If your in the music industry- singer, songwriter, composer, indie, neo singer, rapper, country artist, promoter, manager, music lawyer or blues please email me to be a guest on my show at myguest@spit2dabeat.com I would love to hear your Spit about the Music Industry.
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Speaker 3:Arkansas.
Speaker 2:Right on the bridge from it. Okay, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 3:I'm great glad to be on the show, man. Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I'm glad you able to take out the time to get on with me and stuff like that. Let's make sure, okay, I've got you recording. Good, look, let's talk about you. I mean, before we jump into that, the number one singer that you got out and and that past release, let's start off. Go, give us a, give my audience, a little history about you man, I thank you first of all.
Speaker 3:You didn't waste no time. My name is Cecily one. I'm a soul singer out of Arkansas. Um man, I started early doing covers and Doing cover bands with a couple of the bands and when COVID hit, I Lost my job, lost my nine to five and God bless, I got a good man. My husband said, baby, you already in school for you know, just do it for time. And I took, I hit the ground running, ain't took my foot off the gas yet.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. I see that you went to full sale. I want to fool, sell myself. Yeah, I went, I, and it's so ironic that our world are so similar, course, with full sale university. You went there for music production, I believe.
Speaker 3:Right, yes, that's right, I went there for recording the production as well, I almost did that program, but I'm I'm more along the lines of the composition side, okay, okay. I'm cool with the technical stuff because I record my own stuff. I got my own studio here.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That wasn't the direction I want to go and I want to be where they make them, you know yeah, yeah okay cool, Cool.
Speaker 2:I just when I read I was just so excited about like oh man, it's just like home.
Speaker 1:I hear we can talk.
Speaker 2:Oh Okay, well, we got going on in 2024. What, what events did you got playing for Coming?
Speaker 3:up, I told you I hit the gas right. We coming out the gate, january 28, me and my husband are hosting weekend at the will boys. This is gonna be the first Live edition of weekend at the will boys. People see us clowning at the shows and kicking it with the artists all the time. They're like man, I would love to be in the room with y'all. We got just kicking it like that. I say you know what, babe, let's do that. I don't want to host a concert. I don't want. I don't want them to come in like we all behind the stage kicking it and they out there waiting Like nah, if you came to my house, if y'all go look at our lives, I've.
Speaker 3:We had p2k over for Thanksgiving, had read top over for Thanksgiving, and that's really what sparked the idea, because we were just hanging out, being family. You know, we ate a little bit, we sang a little bit, we danced around, played around. I was like you know, people would love to experience this with their favorite artists. You know what I'm saying. So we had the idea we're gonna do weekend at the will-borns live edition. So we got squirt. Kelly hosting Prince. Dj is co-starring with me. We got Prince. I mean Marcella's, the singer, johnny Cron. We even got the OG Mr Sam covered Like it's man.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, it's been a long time bro.
Speaker 3:It's been a big party, bro. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, wow.
Speaker 3:And what day is this gonna take place? January 28th. You can get your tickets from CecilyWilborncom. Okay. You can get those tickets, get those reserved. That VIP is almost sold out. We got a few seats left but General Emission is still selling. We'll be selling tickets at the door. We got it's BYOB but we'll be selling mixers. We got food trucks coming. We got spade tables on the call.
Speaker 2:That's what it would be.
Speaker 3:Man, I'm telling you, it's a family, get together, man, it's weekend at the. Wilborns Weekend. At the Wilborns January 28th, right here in West Memphis, y'all pull up.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm definitely praying for the great weather and everything that needs to go right.
Speaker 3:That's right because it always seems to snow here in the Delta around Martin Luther King's holiday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I prayed the other day and I was like all right, lord, I need you to go over there and talk to Martin Luther and tell him to hold that snow one more week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's January. It was very cold month.
Speaker 3:Man, it is just so flip floppy over here in the Delta.
Speaker 2:And the funny thing about it, you know how, like I said, you ride across the bridge or whatever. Sometimes you in January we get a, two, maybe three warm days. You know it's crazy.
Speaker 3:It did literally like two days ago it was 60 degrees and then we got ready to go out for the new year, for my new year's Eve show 30 degrees outside and I was like, okay, I don't know what to wear.
Speaker 2:Right, you don't know how to dress it as well. It can get you sick easily.
Speaker 3:You never know like. You'll hear me cough every now and then. I'm God bless man. That virus that's going around is taking a lot of these singers and stuff through it. Shout out to John Moran. John Moran had to play with that virus.
Speaker 3:Okay man, a lot of people that that game that Memphis just lost, he's fighting that virus too. It's hard, but even after you get over it there's like this lingering cough. So a lot of people things that you're still sick like it's a dry cough, you're not coughing up anything, it's just it's hard to get rid of. So yeah. Everybody. Take care of yourselves. Mask up, wash your hands, don't be kissing people. You don't know what they mouth, being normal stuff, you know do all the right, right, right.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about a little bit more about you. Oh, your style of music is so blues. How did you come about being a soul artist, blues?
Speaker 3:Shout out to my parents. I grew up. My dad is quartet, he's a pastor. My mom is a music lover. So you're thinking yeah, he came my whole life man. I came in here. Cool my mom ain't no singer but she sings right, okay, music fanatic. So like there was always a broad spectrum of music in our house, from country music to soul music, to blues, saturday morning my mama would get up and make us clean up to something called a Saturday morning fish fry.
Speaker 3:Shout out to one of five point three down in Helena. Yeah, like they raised me on the blues. So I grew up listening everything from, I would say, from country music to Anita Baker To Betty right to, like it didn't matter. And then I was still in there top top, my juvenile, my dad, like who was juvenile? You know, we listen to everything. So when I grew up it was like I wanted to be able to fuse everything that I knew.
Speaker 3:Into one thing, you know. So I didn't. I didn't want to just be a singer. I can rap. I didn't want to be a rapper, though Like I didn't want to be a blues singer. I just wanted to find some feel-good music that people could relate to, and if I sing it and they feel it, I really didn't care how I sounded. If they feel it, they feel it, you know right, right.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, is this like a new blues versus the old-school blues that I see coming out, even though People are singing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people are trying to name it Southern Soul. That's what I'm calling it. They're naming it Southern Soul. I'm gonna be honest with you I Like the fact that they're naming it Southern Soul, but then again, I don't like the fact that they're classifying it. And I'm gonna say this because, like West, love is one of the biggest Artists in Southern Soul right now.
Speaker 3:Okay, she's got that greedy churchy vibe, you know. But then you got Jason a she's coming and she gives you like a real smooth 90s R&B kind of blues. And then you got me coming around here I sound like gospel, country blues R&B. So even though we're all considered Southern Soul, I like the fact that you can just call it soul music and we can just give you what we give you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I like.
Speaker 3:I like where it's going, but I also like that it's bringing real music back.
Speaker 3:It's taking the bars off and we're bringing back room when you can listen to these lyrics and it's healing people and these kids ain't got a feel-nicking To enjoy the music they can come in. It feels so good. When I get people sending me videos of their kids singing Southern man in the backseat. I'm like, yes, you know, this is stuff that my kids can sing with me when I'm cooking. You know what I mean. Like they don't have to say I'm on, that's old people music. It's good music.
Speaker 2:Right, let's talk about your your first album release back in 2021. Stages love. How was doing that project?
Speaker 3:I Just started school, man. I had just started school and I finally got into a point where I was comfortable enough to record myself and because I was struggling, artists didn't have a budget. I wanted to do something for my birthday and that was a gift to myself because I said, if I can do it for me, somebody, somebody gonna feel it. You know what I'm saying. So I sat down, man, and I did spoken word, I did some neo soul, I did some R&B, I did some folk music. I got tonight. All of this is on one album.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:I had no idea the direction that my journey was gonna go in. I just want to put out the music that I felt, you know, and it was a blessing that people tapped in the way they did.
Speaker 2:Cool. Hey, look, hold tight, I'm gonna take a quick break and we're gonna come. I won't talk about them. Singles and it's he'd over one point. Some six million is still going viral. Hey, this is Stacy aka beat unstoppable per your wit. Spit to the beat podcast. Will you like to be my guest? If your singer, songwriter, musician, producer or promoter, give me a call at 901-341-6777 or email me at my guests at spit to the beat dot com. You and we're back to spit to the beat podcast, I'm your host. Station aka be unstoppable for your. Joining me live in the studio, virtually, is miss Cicely we're born. We talking about she already coming out the gates, talking about the thing that she got January the 28th. Don't kick it off at the home. You got artists coming in and they say we just pray that they have a wonderful time that day. The weather, everything cooperate. So I'm Excited for you. So I can't wait to hear the results of that.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be great weather and even if it's bad weather, don't worry about it. I got plugs on four by four. Backhomes will come get y'all, don't.
Speaker 2:There you go. Okay, let's jump into your single, the one that has hit over a million views. Now I'll downloads and stuff like that. Kyle Southern man, tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker 3:Southern man is my baby. That is my very first hit single. Right now we are sitting at almost seven point six million view, and that's all organic. That is all God. I haven't paid any promo, I haven't had to pay radio DJs, I haven't had to do anything but just watch people enjoy Good music, and God is so good. So the man came about.
Speaker 3:I dropped it on Father's Day 2022, and that was my first year being a full-time musician and I was struggling. I had no money. Yeah, so me and my husband have this thing. My husband is my best friend. If y'all see us clowning, like that's how we are so I have this thing. Mother's Day, father's Day, birthdays. We make big deals of everything, even the small things, because you just never know how life will take you, you know. So my husband had a stroke Back in 2020.
Speaker 3:Yeah, december 2020, and after that I made a vow to myself that I would make sure I outdid myself, and not just monetarily, but I wanted him to know how much he was appreciated. So that year I was low on funds. I've got him some tickets to go to the Wild N Out show in Dallas, and I didn't have any money to do anything else other than that trip. So I said, okay, don't worry about it, I'm gonna write him a song and put it out. Man, I put the song out in June. In June and by September it had blown up on me and I didn't even know how big it had gotten, until I'm going places. I was shout out to BB Kings in Memphis, tennessee. I was working at BB Kings and people from all over the other countries were coming in and they're requesting. So the man I'm like, how do they know? How do they know about my song?
Speaker 2:So wait a minute, you working Right.
Speaker 3:You work it, I'm working.
Speaker 2:Wherever you was working it.
Speaker 3:The. I was with a band and they did strictly request Okay, yeah, and that was the. That was the show. We come out, we give you like one song and then we put this tablet out and you get to write your song down and you put $20 in the bucket. Even if we don't know the song, we have to take a break, listen to it real quick for about 30 seconds and we come back and we hit your song. That was the show. Okay, they started freaking me out because I would start looking at the list and they were writing Cecily will, born southern man, and I'm like who's requesting my music? What's this so?
Speaker 3:you had to say your own song it was crazy because at first the band didn't know my song. That's how crazy it was.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:From other countries are asking for my song in the band. It's like, let us listen to a real quick will catch it. And it got to where it was a staple, where we had to do it every show we had to do southern man. And people were coming from Germany, amsterdam, you're man, there cut all over the United States, california, canada, and they're wanting to hear southern man. So I figured out now, no matter what country you're in, everybody has a South. Excuse me, everybody's got a south. And if you got a south, you got a southern man. And for some reason there's something about the cultures in the south that are so rich in Values and there we're, so we're so lovable. You know what I mean. We're always willing to give it. We work hard. We don't ask for a lot, but we do a lot, you know.
Speaker 2:It's. It's not heard. Southern man, we're gonna play it on the show right now. Ah, yes, yes, we go. Southern man, by Cecily, we're born.
Speaker 1:Say oh, I love me a southern man. Back in the day I heard an old woman say nothing like a southern man. I asked how cuz she tell apart? She put her hand right on her. By the way that he wears his pants. Now she's talking. She was talking about his jeans, mr Charlie, walk up with a smile on his face and I see just what she mean.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, hey, hey, wow, wow, that's your baby, huh.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Cool, cool. Hey, I enjoyed listening to it as well, so the work went into that song. I mean, you just talked about there's something feeling, everything like that. You do feel like you deliver it.
Speaker 3:Man, I honestly wasn't trying to deliver it for the south. I'm just being dead of this. This was supposed to give for my husband. I was not expecting this song to blow up. I was talking about my husband and my daddy. You know my brother.
Speaker 3:I have so many men in my family that spoil me, right? I'm the baby of my siblings. My husband is my best friend and I only have one biological brother and he treats me like a princess. So when I'm around I don't open doors. I have to walk on a certain side of the street because my husband, my daddy, my brother, they don't let me walk on the wrong side of the street. That's right. Like this is. This is yeah, this is normal for me, my husband. I laugh about this because it popped up in my memories the other day where I got up and was like, girl, get you a husband that get up before you and go to work. Like, listen, these are hard working men. They don't ask for a lot, they don't require a lot, they're very simple. But, yeah, they are some of the most humble, most intelligent, gentle yet don't play with me kind of men, and I was just writing about my man.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. I wanted people to know that I love my southern man, so apparently I don't know.
Speaker 2:Hey, you got a, you got a major hit out there and I just, I'm so good, go all across the waters, international stuff. Have you heard anything international from it?
Speaker 3:Oh man, like those are the people that were calling from, like that were coming to BB's and asking about it. So yeah, it's, it's charting in the uk, not really sure where other countries, but there are countries that are playing. I know Ireland at one point had me in a playlist, australia had me in a playlist, germany had me in a playlist. So there are bj's that'll reach out to me and like, tag me on facebook and I'd be like, oh my god.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:As well.
Speaker 2:It's really cool Very good, hey, I'm gonna take another little short break. I'm gonna be right back. You're gonna come back and talk about party. Okay, yeah, all right. Hey, this is Stacy, aka be unstoppable for you. Thank you for listening to our show, spit to the beat podcast. If you would like to be a sponsor, visit our website at wwwspit to the beat calm and click the support tab and leave a donation. We really will appreciate. Thank you again for listening. Also, kids. Every episode Thursday morning at 8 am.
Speaker 3:You're listening to Spits, to the Beat podcast with your host, the one, the only Stacey. Be unstoppable per year.
Speaker 2:And we're back to spit to the beat podcast. Look, I'm having a wonderful time, a great time with my guest. She's talking about her music, she's talking about what's coming on, what's going on, and got a viral song, southern man, that is out not only national but international. So, hey, welcome to the show again. Thank you, how you doing, how you doing Great.
Speaker 3:Excited to be on your show, man. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Okay, great, thank you. Look, let's talk about party. How did that come about?
Speaker 3:Shout out to Kang 803. Kang 803 is the producer for the great King George and came, reached out to me Kang has a coat, has actually two songs out with me now and I ran into. I ran into them 2020, early part of 2023 actually and Kang sent me this track and I was like man, I want it. He was like see what you become a with. I sent him, I sent him the vocals and, no joke, the man came back with a guitar line. I said, yep, this is it. We put it out. I don't care. Okay, don't do nothing else. It was, it was magic. Man, I have a chemistry with certain producers. Shout out to Kang 803. Chris Thomas out of Arkansas and Prince DJ out of Memphis, tennessee. Those are the three producers that I've been working with feverishly, and those guys just get me. They don't put me in a box, they'll just send me with clips of stuff and my writing goes from there. So, party was just, party was just a magical song. Man, it just it went off.
Speaker 2:I want to step back just a second. You you said you do your own recording and writing and stuff like that. So just the. That was your first album back in 2021 that you wrote, produced everything in your home studio.
Speaker 3:That's right Everything I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2:You took that degree to a purpose.
Speaker 3:Man, listen, I'm putting that 60,000 to you. You hear what I say? Every darn dollar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Believe it or not, southern man was recorded at the house. I actually sent it to my husband and on his lunch break I was like listen to this man, I'm gonna put this out for you for Father's Day. He was the first one ever here and, no joke, he emailed me. It's sitting in his work emails. They haven't deleted it, it's sitting in his work email. He emailed me back and was like dude. That's all he could say. Dude, he's like it's three in the morning because he was working night shift at a prison.
Speaker 1:He was in the morning.
Speaker 3:Three in the morning. He feed and shout. He was like you got everybody over here bumping right now.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about some of your influence. Who's the people that you look up to in the business right now?
Speaker 3:Right now in the business, living wise in the business, I have to say the King George, kelsey, wiss, wiss, love those two. I've actually had a chance. Those are artists that I've actually had a chance to actually sit and ask questions and they've shown me the ropes. I will say this was a lot harder than I anticipated it to be. They made it look so easy. This is all you got to do. You got the tools. Shout out to Stan Butler. No, no, no, before the artist. I call him Sensei, he's a teacher.
Speaker 3:He's like the karate kid teacher of the industry right now.
Speaker 3:Stan Butler, if you have because you are an artist and you're trying to do this on your own and you want somebody that's going to give you the unadulterated truth and he's going to tell you what you need. He's not going to sugarcoat it. If it sucks, he's going to tell you it sucks. If it's great, he's going to tell you it's great. And if you want to know how to make something that sucks, be great, he'll do that too. Like, the dude is amazing and he never asks for anything. He doesn't do it and say okay, this is what I need for you to do for me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I've connected with Cupid the Cupid. Because of him, I've gotten some of the biggest shows that I performed at 2023, but just because he named, dropped me. Like that's a great guy. So those people are people that are in the industry. They are not just making money, y'all, but they're taking care of their family and building generational wealth for their children because they got a gift. So those are the people that I'm pattering myself after, because I thank God for the gift, but if I leave this world and I didn't teach anybody coming behind me, I didn't do my job.
Speaker 2:Have you had any challenges being a blues singer, being in this male dominant arena, you as a female comedy, trying to put your foot through the door? Have you experienced any challenge that almost stopped you or derailed you?
Speaker 3:I've experienced some challenges and I'm not going to blame it on being a girl. I'm a very tough cookie. If you ever meet Cecily Willborn in person, y'all. I'm sorry. I love God, but I cuss a lot. Okay, I love God, he's still working on you.
Speaker 3:He's still working on me. But the challenges that I faced were not because I was a woman. The challenges I faced was because I was just a little ignorant and a little green and I didn't know the business the music industry is 10% music, 90% business and because I didn't take time to learn certain things. Before I jumped in the water, I had to learn how to swim while I was kind of sinking at the same time and I had to fight my way back up to the top. So I said that to say this artists, especially female artists, take the entitlement away, take it completely away. Nobody's going to give you anything.
Speaker 3:I was at one point working seven days a week, seven days a week for three months. I did not take a break between BB Kings, my personal band Los Cabos, right off of Kirby in Memphis, tennessee. I was working seven days a week for three months y'all and it didn't kill me. I'm still here. Look, I'm strong, I'm not fake or anything. This isn't a hologram. I'm okay and I still love my job. So the heartaches that I endured were because of the lack of knowledge. I saw the red flags, but because the knowledge wasn't there to say how to deal with the red flags. It made it a little hard for me.
Speaker 3:And I like what you just said.
Speaker 2:You said something. Really, what my show is really based around is for my artist to know young, well, female or female, to understand the business side of it and to listen before you just go out there and leap and jump the top. Ask questions.
Speaker 1:They're a dumb question.
Speaker 3:Ask questions and if they say it and you don't understand it, recite back what you thought you heard and they'll tell you where you messed up or where you got it mixed up. But a lot of times, a lot of times, we think that people will look down on us or, well, they expect me to be all put together. I'm going to be honest with you, even a bit. King George and Kelsey West were the first two artists that were up there to tell me baby, we all still learning something.
Speaker 3:Amazing so if the king can say we still learning. Who am I new to the game to say I know everything, I degree and all y'all? There were certain things that college still couldn't prepare me for.
Speaker 3:You got to get these veterans go back and get these OGs and be like, okay, this is what I'm trying to do, these are the tools I got. How do I make this work? And I promise you you just ask these OGs and don't do it expecting them to just do like they got you. They're going to have some questions. They don't want to know you real. They're not going to invest time in somebody that ain't about that life, you know. But if they see you about that life, they go. I promise you they're going to get hands on with you.
Speaker 2:Amazing. I want to let you teach it. Wonderful, wonderful. Look how I know you talked about January 28. Is there anything else fall down the road in the next three months? You got coming up.
Speaker 3:I've got some new music coming out. Y'all, you were talking about my signature sound. So I'm doing something a little different, something called Red Cup Blues. It's coming out on my birthday, february 7th. So leading up to that, I'm doing tour dates. I'm doing Red Cup music all first quarter of the year.
Speaker 3:So I'm gonna be in Tuscaloosa, alabama, february 2nd, with my brother, marcelus the Singer. February 8th I'm gonna be right here at the casino in West Memphis. I'll be in Oxford on February 9th, february 10th I'm gonna be right here at the Fitz in Tunica. So, hell, in the Arkansas I'm coming to y'all in February. Natchez, mississippi, I'm coming to y'all in February. Man, I'm going to Dallas in March. So I've got a calendar up, guys, like when I tell you every Saturday starting in February it's booked all the way from February all the way up to the end of March, like early April, every Saturday is booked. I got some Fridays and Sundays open, but every Saturday thank the Lord it's gone.
Speaker 3:So y'all catch these tour dates because I'm bringing something new and it's a little intimidating where you don't really know how people are gonna react when you're doing new stuff. You know what I'm saying, because they could be the consumers, could be like I don't know, we ain't feeling this. This is too deep, it's too much, but so far, everything I've been dropping, everybody's like man. This is how I felt yesterday. This is how I woke up feeling this morning. So that relatability makes it so much easier to drop music, because I know somebody feeling like me. You know, I said that in part. If somebody like me, you just trying to make it.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Look, tell us, give my audience your social media platforms where they can reach out to you, contact, subscribe and anything like that, and get your music as well.
Speaker 3:I would love for y'all to follow me on anything. If you look for me, I should be there anywhere. Google me. But Facebook, instagram, twitter, if you look hard enough in the cgo, you might find me in there too. Cecily Wilborn, c-e-c-i-l-y, w-i-l-b-o-r-n. And if the social media tag is doing too much, my website CecilyWilborncom, and you can get the music. You can get the social media tags. You can buy tickets to the shows. Whatever you need. You can find it at that website too.
Speaker 2:There you have it, cecily Wilborn on the show. Yeah, awesome, awesome, glad you was able to come on and join me for a little moment of your time, your precious time and talk to my audience about the music industry and plus what you got going on. Again, I wish you much success all over the world and everything that God just blessed you and all your endeavors in 2024.
Speaker 3:Yes, he gonna bless all of us in 2024 because we put in too much work. These guys are here working, y'all we working, they see us. So 2024, all we doing is reaping what we manifested in 2023. That's what we doing energy all 24.
Speaker 2:That's it. Our devil was saying that yesterday. I'm telling you I was freaking it.
Speaker 3:We manifest it all 24,. That's what we doing Right right.
Speaker 2:Well, hold tight as I wrap up the show, Okay.
Speaker 3:I got you.