Jimmy Nash | Growing Up with Grammy-Winning Songwriters

What is it like growing up in one of Nashville's most accomplished songwriting families?

On this episode of the Musical Miles Podcast, host Byron Duffin sits down with singer-songwriter Jimmy Nash during the Key West Songwriters Festival for an honest conversation about songwriting, family legacy, and carving out his own path in Music City.

As the son of two Grammy-winning songwriters, Jimmy was immersed in great songs from an early age. In this episode, he shares stories about growing up around Nashville's music scene, developing his own voice as an artist, writing songs across multiple genres, and the experiences that have shaped his career.

Jimmy also discusses:
• Growing up in a legendary Nashville songwriting family
• The lessons learned from Grammy-winning parents
• Finding his own identity as a songwriter and artist
• Writing music for television and other artists
• Performing at the Key West Songwriters Festival
• His creative process and what inspires his music today

If you love hearing the stories behind the songs from today's best songwriters, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:03

Welcome to Musical Mile, the podcast where every mile has a melody and every song has a story. We're your hosts, Byron Kenda Duffin, traveling the highways and back roads of America to sit down with songwriters, artists, and music makers who bring the soundtrack of our lives to life. From dive bars and listening rooms to legendary stages and music festivals, we go where the music is made because every song has a journey and every artist has a story worth telling. So climb in, buckle up, and join us for another unforgettable ride. This is Musical Mild.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Put on my suit, pop my office chair, open out on the dunes. Got a full day ahead of taking it slow. All dressed down with nowhere to go but up through the palm trees, blowing in the breeze that lead up to the bar. Just down the beach. Order up a drink for the pretty girl smiling at me. I could go up through the keys, out on a boat, loose sky's the limit with nowhere clothes, just a salt in my hair, and the sand in my toes. I'm all dressed down. Nowhere to go but up. And my flip-flops have seen better days than I can't remember. Last time I shaved. Only thing working hard today is the ocean. I won't stay where I got nowhere to go but up to the palm. Going in the freeze, the lead up to the bar. Just have a beach. Order up a drink, full of pretty girls smiling at me. I could go up to the key. Out on the boat, through the sky's a limit, with no clothes, just to talk to my head, and stand in my toes, all dressed down. Nowhere to go but up. Turn the buffet up loud. Grab the tequila and pour him one out. And I go up through the palm trees, blown in the freeze, they lead up to the bar, just down a beat. Never wanna give up life down by the sea. I could go up to the quay, out on the boat, to the sky the limit. With no work clothes, just talking my head and stand in my toes. Got a perfect little spot where I can lay low. Yeah, I'm gonna live where the seagrass grows, but I'm all dressed down. But up.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Oh Jimmy Nash. Yes. Thank you. What a great song. It couldn't be more appropriate than here we are. We're in Key West, Florida. We are at the Key West Songwriter Festival, and we're at the Marker Hotel where you just got done playing a set. Yes, I did. A song right around with who are the other options? Seaforth and Chris uh Cripo. Great, great set. We we caught most of it. We had a little here in Key West, there's nowhere to park. So we we drove around for 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

That'll be the next version instead of Nowhere to Go. Nowhere to go.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Thank you. Thanks for sharing that with us. You know, we we like I told you, we always had everybody play the song of the end, but man, what a great what a great way to start off this podcast interview. Thank you. Thanks for joining us on Musical Mods Podcast. We are here for the Songwriter Festival, obviously. Yes. Reached out to you the other day uh as I went through the list and almost got lost in my comments. Well, trust me, you're it it did get lost in a lot of other artists' comments, but that's okay. We have made some incredible contacts here, and it's been really cool. So great. But thanks for reaching out back back, reaching back to me because uh you I got an email from you, I think it was yesterday morning that said, Hey, I just saw this, and which was which was great because timing-wise, we probably didn't have time to do it before today anyway. Yeah, but it's Saturday, day three of the festival, right? Yeah, and uh and we have just it's been a whirlwind. Day four, I think. Well, wait, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, yeah, day four. So it's been a whirlwind for us, and uh, but what a great time. Oh, yeah. It's our favorite time of year. Oh, yeah. Well, you can't beat this because we're in the beautiful Keys, right? As as far south as you can go in the United States. But Jimmy lives with his wife. Tell me your wife's name. Andra. Andra. I should be able to remember that. I had a sister, Andrea, so it's close. Yeah. Um, but we uh um you live in Nashville, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Well, I live in well, I live in St. Petersburg, Florida. I go back and forth. I was raised in Nashville, so it's still it's still home, but uh St. Pete. Uh my wife's a Florida girl.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Okay, well that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

She was away for many years. She said, as long as we have a house in St. Pete, you can go travel, do wherever. Just I want to get my toes in the sand.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

I I love that. And you know what? We love Florida. My wife's an Arizona girl, so you know we we like those, but we live in the great white north. We live in Idaho, so we have some cold winters and and even springs. It was 42 degrees when we left the house the other day. So but we got here and there's just been so much going on. Uh this is amazing. I think over 200 songwriters.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

I think they start with 200, and then by the end, a few more get added on. Yeah, and that's just the official shows. I mean, there's so many showcases, publisher events, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Yeah, it is absolutely amazing. But you mentioned that you did grow up in Nashville. I did. But your parents do they still live in Nashville?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

They live out outside of Houston. My dad's originally from Texas. Okay. So they were in Nashville for 15 years, raised me and my brother there. Okay. And uh they wrote uh a hit for Reba McIntyre called They Ass About You. Oh wow. And it was on her highest-selling album of all time. If you're gonna write a song for Reba, make sure it's on the highest selling album of all time. So uh that was uh a great time, and they eventually they won a Grammy for their song with Diamond Rio and God We Still Trust.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

So yeah, how amazing is that? You you you come from a household that's a uh a Grammy Award-winning household. And actually, we were just talking before we got started uh that we've tried to pay attention, a little better attention to this, but you're actually a third-generation musician.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Grandma. My grandmother, uh Clara Nash, okay. She was an accomplished pianist, and she had the drive from they were from far Texas, that's about magnificent. I've been to far Texas. Not many people have. P-H-A-R. P-H-A-R-R. I shout out to my grandmother. Yeah, she's long past, of course. But uh, she had the drive to take them from far Texas all the way up to New York, got them signed to Columbia Records. My dad, my grandmother, and my uncle, the Nash Family Trio, Columbia Records. They did two albums, uh, one in New York uh with Ernie Alston that produced Perry Como, and then one in Nashville with Don Law that was producing Johnny Cash at the time. So wow.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

Pretty awesome. What a story, what a story. So you so your uncle was also a a he was a bass, he was a big tall bass singer. Oh okay, okay. So um uh they they moved to Nashville, spent about 15 years, and and they were both songwriters. Yes. So they co-wrote most everything together themselves. Did they co co-write with anybody else?

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Yeah, they co-wrote with everybody. So the song they wrote for Reba was with Freddie Weller from Paul Revere and the Raiders. Oh, you're true. So he was their co-writer on that. Uh-huh. And he had the idea to do a key change at the very beginning of the song, and they think that's what caught Reba's attention.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Really?

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Wow, wow, wow. Well, there's there's so many great stories. What we love to hear is the backstories. That's what we like to share with with our our our listeners. And and then not only that, but just the history of the music that you're like your family's story. So your grandmother and and your uncle and your dad, and then and then you ended up, they ended up in Nashville, and you left Nashville about how long ago?

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Oh, well, gosh, we so I got a scholarship to the University of Houston. Really? So um, and at the same time, my dad had we'd started a charity in Houston. My brother's a leukemia survivor, so my parents started a camp. We're going in our 25th year actually, Champions Kids Camp. Uh and so that camp was taking off at the same time I got a scholarship, it all just made sense. We moved to Houston. Okay. I was there for eight years until my wife, who uh she had managed Hank 3 for six years. Oh wow, and she they she was looking for a new client, a new artist, and there I was in Texas, and uh we had a mutual friend that had done some press uh for Hank, and she she liked our music, sent it to us. She came in, she signed me, and uh then pretty quickly she signed the rest of my life. She signed the marriage certificate after that, huh? Yeah, so smart girl. So we um yeah, so my brothers are leukemia survivors, so my parents started Champions Kids Camp, and at that same time that was taking off in Houston, and we were helping a lot of kids, and I got my scholarship to the University of Houston, so it just made sense. Sure. We made the move to Houston, and my dad had a lot of friends there, he'd played there for many years. So um after that, we were singing a lot, and my wife that she wasn't my wife at the time, obviously, but uh she had managed Hank 3 for for six years, and she was looking for a new artist to take on, and we had a mutual friend who had done some press for for Hank, and we were working with and sent her our music, and uh she signed me, and then uh pretty soon she uh signed the rest. Pretty soon you signed her, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Yes, yeah, the way that that's a turnabouts fair play, right? You signed her. Well, well, that's a great story. So you guys have been married for how long? 13 years last month. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a good start. Mishanda and I've been married 44 years. Yeah, we're on our way. Congratulations. So we we uh we always appreciate hearing successful marriages. That's always great. Because you know, you're in a challenging industry, right? With with the touring schedules and whatnot. Do you have any children? No kids. We have a cat. There you go. Coconut, there you go. We're missing him. Yeah, yeah. Well, obviously, obviously, that that impacts some cats are a little different than dogs. I always tell people to you can kind of go away for a few days and leave a cat home. Yeah, a dog's a different story. Yeah, oh no. I said, You got a dog, you might as well have a herd of milk cows, right? So well, so let's talk, let's talk more about the music deal. So, so you you signed with your wife, and you were in Texas at the time.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

I was in Texas, and she loved my writing already, and she saw a lot of my potential, but she's like, we need to get you away from the usual, away from your comfort zone. She moved me out to LA, uh, had me work with her friend Todd Hannigan, who had produced a lot of Jack Johnson stuff. Yeah. Um, and I found that was really a good place for what I like to write. I just didn't know it yet. I'd always been steeped in just country. So my Your Nowhere to Go has a little Jack vibe to it, maybe. That's all still a part of me. Yeah. And so my first album was a lot, people would say it was like a mix of Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, with a little bit of with a little thread of country in there somewhere. So uh we got uh when it was still a thing, iTunes New and Noteworthy out of that first album. We got a placement on ABC Family uh for for one of my songs. So that was a great start, and uh you know, through the without telling you the day to day, we uh uh she ended up connecting me also with Peter Wade, who had produced the hits for Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony, Calymanot, and so I started learning to write pop for him, which is totally different thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

We we ended up in New York for three years, then we ended then we finally ended up in Florida and going back and forth to Nashville.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

So it's a long we went all the way around the you have made the complete circle, haven't you?

SPEAKER_01 12:55

But everything has influenced my writing so so much from the California vibe to New York. New York is a very interesting energy. In New York, you feel like you can do anything. Okay. Like I want to say, like it's just like it provides everything you could want. You gotta work for it. Sure. Oh, but everything is there.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Well, I don't care where you're at. You mean you gotta work for it, right? I mean, you if you have the work ethic though, in my opinion, your parents instilled that in you. You're you come from from good stock, I guarantee you. Grandma made a huge leap of faith by taking the the boys to New York and getting those record albums. So I I know that you're that's bred in you, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Oh yeah. And I know I think it was Craig Weisman who said the same thing about Nashville. He said he said Nashville is a town that offers you everything but owes you nothing. And I think that's just the thing. If you think, okay, I can go there, work for it, put in the time, go out, co-write, right, rewrite, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Well, you gotta you gotta make some connections. I've met several songwriters in the course of the doing this podcast. It's been interesting because we've met some young songwriters that live in Nashville and and are very talented. But one of them she told me, she said, I I have to admit, Byron, she said, I just haven't put myself out there. I said, Man, I've and I've told our children growing up, doesn't matter whether you're in the music business or in the or in uh you know, we grew up in AG in the farming industry, uh uh, you know, in the rodeo world, the horse world, you have to make those connections. It's not what you know, it's who you know. So especially in this industry.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Well, yeah, also I find a lot of times it's not the most talented person, it's the most driven person. I say uh also the you you familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect? No, it's the people who are uh less talented think they're more talented, and the people who are more talented think they're less talented because they have the smarts to know that there's still somebody better than them. Sure. So that's what I think happens a lot of times. People who are overthinking it should just go ahead, put the song out, get that.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

If it's not any good, you're gonna know soon. I I think there's so much truth to that. And and yet, you know, amazingly enough, there we we just had the in the opportunity to interview a songwriter who's kind of been in uh took a 10-year hiatus from Nashville, moved to a ranch in Wyoming, Skip Ewing. I don't know if you know who Skip is. Skip had some huge success years ago, but he just kind of got tired of the drive and or the the the whole game and he moved away. But he had a song that was just cut by Laney Wilson in Ernest, and it uh What if I Could? You know that song? Yeah What If I Could What If I Could And that is a beautiful song, and that song him and Dean Dylan wrote that song 30 years ago. Yeah I love those stories to hear those those stories of success. But you know that those those those people hung out. I mean that that the they they they kept it they kept it out there and and it was available and and the right people came along at the right time. Oh yeah, and you never know when that's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

No, you don't it's like you just I I I knew guys who knew Luke Combs that was just he'd been playing some of those songs that became hits for six years. Just another guy in a bar.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Until he wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Until he wasn't. And and that's that's the great story behind these these stories, and we've heard them all weekend long here in Key West. It it's just I I tell everybody, so there's no no experience, one, there's no replacing a live music experience. Live is without a doubt the very best. Right. Number two, there is no, don't believe me when I tell you that a songwriter festival is the coolest live music experience you'll ever have. Experience it for yourself. Come to Key West, come to Red Lodge, Montana, come to Livingston, Montana, come to Whitefish, Montana. We're headed in three weeks to Cedar Edge, Colorado, to the um uh Grand Mesa Songwriter Festival, which is put on by David Starr, Starz Guitars, and Rodney Crowell's the headliner.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

How cool is that! That's great. So, I mean, we we've just been really blessed, but we love the songwriter festival experience. Uh this is a little different. We got into Sloppy Joe's last night to listen to um Bobby Pinson and uh Lee Thomas Miller, and it was crazy. You couldn't hardly get in the place. It Sloppy Joe's is a great place to play. It is tough to get in and be in the crowd. Tough to get in and listen because people are talking and it's it's loud and obnoxious, but but that's what we love about the songwriter experience. So, how many years have you played here? This is did we decide it was eight?

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I think it's eight years. Eight years, wow. That's cool. Yeah, and we're here for the 30th anniversary of the whole festival this year. Yeah, isn't that amazing?

SPEAKER_00 17:33

30 years that it's gone on, and and and there's been so much, and I've heard story after story of songs that were written here, collaborations that happened while they were here in town. Um I've met a lot of co-writers here.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

You do it, that's the easiest way to is if you're playing around together and you're like, oh, I like your stuff, oh I like your stuff, versus just I'm some random person.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Would you like to write, you know? Well, it was funny because when it came in and listened to you, you guys were already on the on the stage and playing, and and we we we already collaborated with a handful of people. I either see the logo on my shirt, or I I in fact, one of the guys, the guy that was on the stage that made the announcement, I think he's a sponsor of the event. It's from a travel place.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Yeah, whiskey Rick.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Whiskey Rick. And so he he's looking at me, he goes, You got a lot going on there, Byron. I'm trying, or not, he didn't know my name, but you know, trying to figure out. And I said, Well, we do a podcast and we're sponsored by Stetson. So um anyway, it was cool, and he's like pretty quick, he pulls out his business card and says, Let's talk, send me an email. Let's we need to talk about. But we have we have met some incredible people here and had opportunities to network and and and just get get names and and experience something that's just unheard of. We we we got to see uh uh run into Liz Rose yesterday, and we had met Liz in Vegas uh at the Songwriter Festival in Vegas, and the guy that was with her at the table, he he stood up and he says, You guys do a podcast? I said, Yeah. I give him a sticker and he goes, we'll be in touch. And he says, You know, that's Liz Rose. And I said, Oh yeah, and we had a chance to meet him. I said, We met in Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in Vegas, it didn't look like anything was gonna happen, but maybe something's gonna happen with Liz Rose. Who has I think such a legend? Oh, a legend, I think of the the the Spotify list, top 100 songs, top streaming songs of all time, I think she has three or four in the top ten or ten. It's crazy to have one. Oh, and she has three with with uh T Swift uh Taylor Swift. Yeah, Taylor Swift. So anyway, it's amazing. But what a cool industry and a cool BMW.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Well, and the thing of what I find, especially um, you know, I've been with BMI my whole life, but I've been my dad's been there's been a Nash with BMI for over 70 years, I guess. So um the family that I found with with BMI with the Key West Songwriters Festival and the people you get to know. The cool thing I find that there's like no, as I say, no bad vibes allowed. Like the songwriters that are down here, they're humble. Like even the one, like they'll just be like, Yeah, I wrote this song. Yes, yes, and uh it got like a billion streams and it charted. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, it's great. I'm gonna play it for you now.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Like it's just honestly, we've seen that for the most part amongst every songwriter that we've had the the honor of meeting and and interviewing, or even just getting to know briefly. But um the the sad story here associated with this is bringing down a little bit, uh Ronnie Bowman. Right. Uh do you know who Marla Cannon Goodman is? Of course. So Marla Marla became my unofficial uh booking agent. She's helped me in so many ways. So I called her and I said, Marla, we're headed to Key West. She said, Oh, you have got to interview Ronnie. Ronnie Bowman, do you know him? I said, No, I don't. And she goes, Okay, I'll set it up. So she called Ronnie. Ronnie goes, absolutely, we'll meet with him. This was on uh Thursday. I she sent me Garnet's number, I sent Garnet a text, I said, Let's set this up. And Ronnie was in that accident Saturday and died two days later, and what a horrible thing. And and so um, you know, when we were also in uh in uh uh Whitefish, Montana last fall when Brett James was killed in the plane crash. I know, and and we lost so many the last year. Um Knowing You. And so and we were interviewing Kat for the second time during Whitefish and Whatis. Well, it's kind of a bummer, you know, the whole thing. But but you know, there's there's uh life goes on until they will live on forever. Yeah, yeah. You don't even know how long. No, we don't, we have no idea. Well, you think about it, you think about you know your grandmother and and you know what she was able to accomplish with your dad and your brother, and and then you know that legacy just goes on, and that's what's cool, is that you're carrying. On the legacy.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

I am. So well, cool.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Cool. I'm going to be playing, by the way, another BMI Festival, Treasure Coast Songwriters Festival. Where's that? Up in Stewart, Florida. Okay. At Pirates Cove Marina there. So May 14th through 17th, I'll be up there. We've got a lot of the great guys. James Slater's going to be there. Cool. I can't remember everybody else, but there's a lot of great writers. Dylan Altman, I know, is going to be there too. And he's a great Key West favorite here, too.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

So that's on May 14th through the 17th. Yes. In Stewart, Florida. Stewart, Florida. Okay. We unfortunately there's there's not enough hours in the day and there's not and days in the calendar for us to get to everything we want to go to, but we we like to let people know what's going on because not everybody's in the west and not everybody's in the east. Um, so you know, those who can make the the trip, we want to make sure that they're aware of them. A lot of people come to Florida for the festival season and just go around everywhere. Right, right. Well, I can see that, and I would boy, I sure love to do that, huh, honey? Let's just do the Florida festival season starting in January. We we'd well actually, do you know uh uh uh Erica Sunshine Lee? She does Chick Fest. So we're gonna go see her this afternoon and we're gonna I've interviewed her, I met her in Livingston, Montana, and we're gonna interview her and help her promote her her uh Chick Fest all girl songwriter festival here in the you know I saw that. Yeah, that's that's awesome. It's gone on for five years, and a lot of people don't know about it. It takes a while to build the buzz. It really truly does. Well, it takes a while to build the buzz on a s on a podcast as well, but we're getting there. Consistency wins out, basically. Yeah, that's what they say. Well, cool. So after that, where do you go?

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Oh, after that, well, actually, my family, we have our Texas Best Music Fest we've been putting on for 13 years. It raises money for Champions Kids Camp. Okay. So we have some. And that's in Houston. Uh Houston, actually, Katie, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

I've been to Katie at Mo's place there. I've been to Katie to the Great Western uh Equine Center there. I spent 13 years in the cowboy rope business and saddle pad business and so reigning horses. So that's where I actually got to meet uh Mr. Lyle Lovett. Oh, okay. And I've known Lyle for about 25 years. I've yet to sit down with him like this, but we've we've got to hang out with him, and he's agreed at some point. So Lyle, next time I get to Texas, you're on the list. So uh no, Katie's a great town.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Oh, yeah. Yeah, and most places they donate the the spot for us to do our benefit, and we have some other great Texas artists, Hayden Baker, okay, and uh I can't think of any of us. Scotty Alexander, okay, great Texas artists, and uh then of course me and my family were gonna sing. That's great, and that's our big fundraiser for camp 2026, which will be in July.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

So in July, indeed that's over 200 kids. That's a that's a sweltering time in Texas, so it is. That's why we do a lot of water activities. I'll bet, I'll bet. Well, we'll make sure and and uh help you promote that. So thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, so uh what is your can you tell me what's your favorite venue you've ever played?

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Ooh, so there's a lot of favorite venues, but the one of the best sounds is Dosy Does in the Woodlands, Texas.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Okay, I know well of it. I've never been there.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

It's a barn that they reconstructed and then made it entirely with sound first. Okay. They said we want to make a room that has best sound, and that's one of the best sounds. Okay, okay. I mean, if you go into I mean, there's a ton of great rooms everywhere. But that one, that's the one I hear a lot of other artists talk about, like, oh, the sound is perfect there.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Is there an iconic venue that you would like to play that you have yet to play?

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Um I haven't played the Grand Old Opera yet. Okay. My dad has. Oh, awesome. But a lot of friends have, I just haven't uh share your dad's name, your mom and dad.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Bill Nash and Kim Nash. Bill and Kim Nash, okay. And and so they've played the are your dad's played the Opry. Did your mom play it?

SPEAKER_01 25:49

No, my dad played it with the Nash family tree, actually at the Ryman.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Oh, 1958. Oh my gosh. Historical. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's way cool. That is way cool. Well, so uh okay, so the Opry would be the that would be a that would be a big one.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

Yeah, yeah. I mean, any any of the big venues, of course, around the country, but that's one that stands out just for country, of course.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Sure, sure. Cool. Um, I like to ask this question if there's and I it's a two-part question. If you could work with anyone, dream collaboration, whether it's uh living and dead. So I know dead's never gonna happen, but living, what would be your uh pick? Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

That's a tough that's like you know, like a hundred things come. So you know who I really love? It's totally not like anything I'm doing right now music, but Brendan Urey from Panic at the Disco. Okay, okay. He's he's just so insanely talented. Okay, and I rem so it's totally like almost off topic, but like he did on the Frozen 2 soundtrack. So, you know, Adina Menzel sang the main version of the main song, and it that was called uh Into the Unknown. He did it on the soundtrack in her key. You're I listen, I'm like, he's so high. Like, he's in her same key, and she already sings it. Oh my god. He's somebody who's just insanely talented. Uh he does a lot of mentorship, I know, for young artists, and I just think he's super cool creative.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

That's cool. All right, dead. Obviously, no chance of it happening, but who did you really, really who who really stood out to you? Who's yeah, that's no longer with us. Oh gosh. Gosh, your your wife worked with Hank 3, knew of Hank 2, right? So Hank Senior, but I mean I think anyway.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Any country writer would want to work with Hank. I mean, there's nobody that would be like, nope, don't have the time for it. Right, right. Hank senior. Um so I also grew up, my dad always played country, but my mom always played the Bee Gees. Oh, I love Gees. Uh well Barry Gibbs still living, so that doesn't count. Uh but Maurice and Maurice and Robin are Robin are past, and so is Andy.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

So Andy was so if I could have collaborated with all of them, and that's what I said. Andy's dead, sorry. Producers back here feeding me bad information, sorry. So that would be a top one. Yeah. I mean I love the Bee Gees. I I grew up in the 70s, and so well they were so diverse, people just think of their disco stuff, and they were so Oh no. I I I listened to their albums that were cut in Australia before they ever came to the States, and so very intriguing things that they were doing. Yeah, and and they had such unique voices, uh uh Maurice and and Robin Bowl. Yeah, they're all different but blended. Blended. What a what yeah, they could harmonize for sure. Um, well, cool. Well, where can where can our followers find your music?

SPEAKER_01 28:44

So uh Jimmy Nash.com has all the links, uh Jimmy Nash Music on Instagram. Uh those are the top ones people find. But you can find everything on Jimmy Nash.com.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Sure, sure. Sure. Cool. So uh any plans for a new album? You're working on new music all the time, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

My biggest focus has been working with other artists. So my friend Natalia and her sister Tinka with American Blonde. Like I spent a lot of time working on their album that's coming out this year. Okay. Lincoln Parrish uh has produced from Cage the Elephant. Uh pretty, pretty excited. They they wanted to go a little more rock. Okay. And so that's uh so they found a producer that had a little more rock roots with that. And uh so I'm really stoked to hear how it's all I've gotten snippets. That's what you know. That's as a songwriter, you get snippets on the phone from the studio, but I can't wait to hear that. So that's kind of been my big focus is writing with other artists, and uh, as I go, I find ones that I'm like, oh, I really want to record this. And uh so I I'm sure I'll have something in this next year for for myself.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Well, that's awesome. Well, man, we really, really, really appreciate you taking time to sit down with us. This has been cool. It's cool to meet you. Thank you to the Marker Hotel for allowing us to park out here in their uh quiet place. There's a pool right behind us, but uh a little bit of shade. What a great spot! Thank you so much to them, and and thanks to uh Key West Songwriter Festival. Thanks to BMI. You know, we got to meet, I've met a couple of the uh uh I don't know what you'd call them, people from BMI, but I met um one out the other night at uh at the blue flamingo, and then yesterday I met a young lady uh that uh was there. She represents Rob Hatch and uh Hayden Blunt and uh can't remember oh and Mark Collie. Okay and then and then uh the other one was out to Blue Flamingo was Jack Ingram, um uh Marty Frederickson and and yeah, uh Trent Tomlinson.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Yeah, what a great set that was. This has just been phenomenal, this whole thing. Always is all weekend, dude. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, we appreciate you. Hey, for Musical Miles Podcast, I'm your host, Byron Duffin, here with Mr. Jimmy Nash in Key West, Florida. We'll see you somewhere down the road. Adios for now. We good? All right, great. This episode of Musical Miles Podcast is sponsored by Stetson, a true symbol of Western heritage and American craftsmanship. For generations, Stetson has stood for quality, style, and authenticity. Stetson built for those who live the music and the lifestyle.