Ever wanted to get inside the head of a country artist? You're in luck! This episode of Skip Happens takes you on a captivating journey with one of country music talents - Ryan Jewel. From his unique voice to the stories behind the songs, there's much to uncover. You'll love hearing about Ryan's experiences on the road, as well as his love for hunting and living atop a breathtaking mountain in the Shenandoah Valley.
We take a detour from music and dive into the importance of stand safety when hunting, inspired by a tragic incident that forever changed Ryan's perspective. Moving back to music, Ryan regales us with his early guitar days and that intoxicating feeling of his first performance. The episode takes an unexpected and delightful turn with a surprise call from Skip Clarks daughter, adding an extra dash of authenticity to our conversation. Ryan shares his struggles and successes within the industry, opening up about his move to Nashville in 2017 and the challenging, yet rewarding path of songwriting.
Ever wondered about the grind behind the glamour of being an artist? George gives us a raw insight into designing his own merchandise, his first experience of hearing his song on the radio, and the thrill and terror of performing live. We also touch upon life off-stage, exploring Ryan's outdoor hobbies, his job at Walmart and plans for his future shows. Ending on a high note, we discuss Ryan's exciting role in the upcoming movie "Two Sinners and a Mule" and his anticipation for future performances. Grab your headphones, this episode of Skip Happens is one wild ride through the life, music, and adventures of Ryan Jewel.
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
Ever wanted to get inside the head of a country artist? You're in luck! This episode of Skip Happens takes you on a captivating journey with one of country music talents - Ryan Jewel. From his unique voice to the stories behind the songs, there's much to uncover. You'll love hearing about Ryan's experiences on the road, as well as his love for hunting and living atop a breathtaking mountain in the Shenandoah Valley.
We take a detour from music and dive into the importance of stand safety when hunting, inspired by a tragic incident that forever changed Ryan's perspective. Moving back to music, Ryan regales us with his early guitar days and that intoxicating feeling of his first performance. The episode takes an unexpected and delightful turn with a surprise call from Skip Clarks daughter, adding an extra dash of authenticity to our conversation. Ryan shares his struggles and successes within the industry, opening up about his move to Nashville in 2017 and the challenging, yet rewarding path of songwriting.
Ever wondered about the grind behind the glamour of being an artist? George gives us a raw insight into designing his own merchandise, his first experience of hearing his song on the radio, and the thrill and terror of performing live. We also touch upon life off-stage, exploring Ryan's outdoor hobbies, his job at Walmart and plans for his future shows. Ending on a high note, we discuss Ryan's exciting role in the upcoming movie "Two Sinners and a Mule" and his anticipation for future performances. Grab your headphones, this episode of Skip Happens is one wild ride through the life, music, and adventures of Ryan Jewel.
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
Now more Skip Happens. Please return Bubbles, your flight attendant, to her fully upright and locked position. Oh wait a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seat and buckle up seat backs and tray tables in their full upright position. It's another episode of Skip Happens, your weekly view from 30,000 feet, From the first music lesson to the first paid gig to signing the deal. It's the journey that is the life of an artist. Now here are your captain and co-captain, aka your hosts, Skip Clark and Deb Lamphere.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Deb is taking care of her bird. See, we're live just a couple of nights here before Thanksgiving and it's going to be a good show tonight. By the way, did you recognize that voice? Ryan Joule is joining me here tonight. We're going to talk about him, talk about his music and all the good stuff in his life, but did you recognize that voice? Probably not. You know who. That is right. His name is John Williard, and I mentioned that every time we come on, because John is a legend. If you've watched the CMAs growing up I know he's not doing it currently, but he was always the voice of the CMAs. He'd be the guy going, coming up, carry on the wood. That was him. That was always him. That's cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:We actually became friends in Nashville and well, I've known him for quite a while but we actually hooked up in Nashville and had some cold ones and we talked about doing stuff and he said you know what, I'll voice your podcast. And I said that's cool man. Yeah, there you go. That's the intro. That's one of them. So, ryan Joule, what is going on? Pleasure to meet you, my friend. How are you?
Speaker 3:Wonderful, Wonderful Pleasure to meet you as well. I apologize that we had to. We were scheduled this thing like three or four times.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what? It's a good thing, though, because you were on the road. Oh yeah, you're on the road and you're doing what you gotta do, and that's fine. That's much more important. Now you get a night at home. Maybe you're just getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday and now we got a few minutes to chit chat and find out all about you. But is that really your voice?
Speaker 3:Got it, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's cool. Yeah, I'm not like a Scotty McCreary tone. You got that deep voice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've heard. Yeah, Scotty and Josh Turner and.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've got some off the wall ones too.
Speaker 2:I'm afraid to ask like.
Speaker 3:I've got a. You really remind me of Kenny Chesney. I'm like, huh, okay, I mean if I have half of Kenny Chesney's career, I'll be okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get that, but I don't get the rest of it. No.
Speaker 3:Eastern Corbin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could see a little bit of Eastern in you. Yeah, yeah, I get that, I get that. But the most important thing is you need to be yourself. You're Ryan Jewel. That's what I try to tell myself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I appreciate all that y'all. But I don't want everybody. I don't want to hear people come up to me and say, hey, you sound like you sound just like I don't want. I want to say you sound just like you and I'm like great, all right, now we're on to something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, you don't want to be like anybody else. You want to be Ryan Jewel. This is you. You got to be unique in your own way. But I'm just saying you got that voice and you know I mentioned Scotty, yeah, and you know you mentioned Josh Turner and I can actually hear that, yeah, but I don't think you do your own thing, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah yeah. I like their demeanor and I like their music, so it does kind of help when I sing their songs. I was going to ask if you do.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, and I guess I reckon I do them better than if somebody were to sing like a tenor. You know, it might be easier to sing them in my register. So yeah, it works out for you.
Speaker 2:And if music doesn't work out for you for whatever reason and I can't see that happening you can always be like a voiceover guy. You could always do a little bit, you know whatever, with your voice. So you have.
Speaker 3:There's been a couple of offers Really that I've had. I've not done any of them. But yeah, you know, hey, I would love for you to do some commercials or I'd love for you to do some some voiceover stuff and I say, yeah, it'd be fun, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you haven't had that opportunity. I mean, have you been on a radio tour? That's what I just got back from yeah.
Speaker 3:So last week, when we were supposed to do it, I was traveling from Lewisburg, tennessee, to Blue Ridge, georgia, wow, so that's all. Yeah, I said I'm there, ain't no way I'm going to get back to the hotel by eight o'clock, so we can do this, not a problem.
Speaker 2:That's what's going to save me, but I was asking about the radio tour and as you go in and out of so many doors of radio stations, is any of the PDs or production guys go? Hey, hey, well, you're, well, you're here. Can we use your voice? Can you voice this commercial?
Speaker 3:Well, that has not happened. I did some, some kind of blips. I did some blips down in Blue Ridge, georgia, like you know. Hey, you're listening to.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 3:Right, but I haven't had any, haven't had to do any, haven't had the opportunity to do any commercials yet, which I'm all for. I think it'd be fun. You know what a side gig to think about.
Speaker 2:Absolutely yeah, I ain't all together, dude, yeah.
Speaker 3:It was funny too when I checked into Rocky Mount Virginia this past Thursday. Last Thursday it was like 1130 at night and the lady she said you know, you're the last room I got at the hotel. Thank you so much, enjoy your evening. Yada, yada, yada. And I was walking out the door and she said you know, just so you know, you have a voice that could be really good on radio. And I just kind of chucked. I was tired, I was really really tired. But I kind of chucked when I said well, I just want you to know, I'm on a radio tour right now and I'm visiting this local radio station tomorrow morning. And she just thought that was the coolest thing.
Speaker 4:And I thought that was very flattering because it's like, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3:I'm glad y'all can hear that. It makes me feel good.
Speaker 2:And do you know? By doing exactly what you did as a newer artist, independent artist, you just made another fan.
Speaker 3:Oh, I made a new university and all that stuff before I left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did it right. You did it right. She's all excited. She met you, she probably she listened in the morning and there you go Now you've made a new fan.
Speaker 3:Yeah exactly, and that's cool stuff. Stuff like that happened it's, it's, it's cool. I enjoy that. That's that makes it. That makes it worthwhile.
Speaker 2:It's part of what you guys do and us. You know what I'm saying. That's a part of what we do. Where are you, ryan, right now? Where are you?
Speaker 3:My house is in Linden Virginia, so right outside of my hometown of Front Royal Virginia.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have no idea where the hell that is.
Speaker 3:That is at the top of the Shenandoah Valley. So if you're, it's near Winchester. Yeah, I can actually out my back doors right there. I can see Winchester. It's like 20 miles away, but I can see it Really. Yeah, I've got a. Really I'm up on top of the mountain.
Speaker 2:I was. You have to be. Oh, my God, I bet you that's gorgeous.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, it is, it is. I haven't been able to see anything today because of the rain and the fall, but when it's clear, it is.
Speaker 2:We're in the Northeast and it's been cold and rainy.
Speaker 3:Right, so yeah, well, yeah, yeah, today, just it's, it's been raining nonstop since this morning. It's been a good day to get some stuff done inside the house. It's good to be back home. It is, it's good to be back home, oh yeah, yeah, it feels good to be back home and just kind of I wish I would say, I wish I could say it feels good to do nothing at the house, but there's always something to do. I have that list. Yeah, if you like it.
Speaker 2:I know my wife has a list for me, so it's just you know not that I ever get it all done but no, I just keep doing more stuff. Yeah, and now she's on the push to get the decorations out and everybody else in the neighborhood has them out and it's like we don't just makes it worse. Oh yeah, but you're up on that mountain. How close is your closest neighbor?
Speaker 3:They're pretty close. The lots are kind of close together, but I mean they're high up, which is cool. Yeah, it's quiet up here. It's one and one and one. Blue mountain is where I'm at and yeah, it's a lot of people. You know it's totally different weather. I mean, we're probably, I would say, 2400 feet above, so I think, Roy, so it's totally different weather pattern, totally different. So you get the snow up there, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm surprised it didn't snow today honestly. Yeah, well, I mean, we're in the low to middle 30s today. It's even. It's gone down more now. But yeah, yeah, they're talking about some ice here in the Northeast tonight, so different.
Speaker 3:I would think it was going to ice overnight. If it was going to do anything, it'd be icing over, but it hasn't yet, and when I get up tomorrow to go hunting I guess I'll find out one way or the other.
Speaker 2:You're reading my mind because eventually I was going to go there about hunting because, being in the mountains and I know it's one of your hobbies you can probably just go out in the backyard and you'll see the deer and you know the doze, the box.
Speaker 3:I've got, I've got, I've got a couple of cameras set up around the back property and yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2:Have you caught anything cool on those cameras?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, you got all kinds of well I've got. There's a big rock pile at the back of the property and it's. The backyard is straight down pretty much. I mean it's very, very steep but there's a bunch of rock built up. When they built the house and built the, you know kind of leveled out the the lot. They put a bunch of rocks in the back and made a big you know kind of erosion control. I don't know how many foxes live back there, but there's a bunch of red foxes and I wish I mean it's almost to the point where I can name them. I see them so frequently and they've been here for years, so really, really cool. So I get, I get them on the camera all the time. I see them every time I go out in the morning to have coffee on the deck, I see them all the time Coyotes and gray foxes, red fox, deer bear, I mean anything you can think of.
Speaker 2:Oh bear. Oh yeah, oh yeah so you know I'm reading that the bear. I mean, we're supposed to be talking music here, but we'll get to that in a moment the bear population is growing again. I mean even here well, we're based in Syracuse, right, there's been bear sightings and we never used to have those.
Speaker 3:Right Now it's, you know, less hunters in the woods and more with the proper conditions and the right conditions. It's, it's, they're. They're bound to either get hit by a car or the population is going to spike, and it's fortunate that we haven't got hit by too many cars.
Speaker 2:No, I can't even imagine a bear getting hit by a car.
Speaker 3:I think it's not. It's not, it wouldn't win. No, it wouldn't. It wouldn't win.
Speaker 2:Or the truck, depending on what you drive. So let's talk about you a little bit, how long you been doing music.
Speaker 3:I've been, you know, professionally doing you're singing in front of people, yeah. Since we're going on 10 years now.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I got my start to college.
Speaker 2:Excellent. Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 3:Clemson University. I knew you're going to say we're in Syracuse.
Speaker 2:What do you want?
Speaker 3:me to do. I wouldn't do that topic to come up because the I'm good, I'm sorry, but they yeah, I know, I know. I was waiting for that.
Speaker 2:Well, you got it. Yeah, that's cool. What did they? The Clemson wolves, right? The Tigers, no, tigers, tigers, that's it, tigers, tigers, that's it, yes. And they got the orange paw Correct. Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 3:And when they come to town, they kick our ass. So it's just, it's, it's crazy. I wish I could agree with that all the time, but there's been. What was it? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I don't, I don't know. I know that, I know that no-transcript, I don't know what it is about it, but y'all, y'all, y'all, you sometimes give us a really good run for your, for our money, and it was down to our backup quarterback. When I'm thinking of, it was like four or five years ago.
Speaker 2:I think we beat you once and it was totally unexpected. Yeah right, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't happen too often, so yeah, no, it was the one time I went.
Speaker 3:I was right out. I graduated Clemson in 2013. And me and my buddy Chris, we came back to. I try to go to at least a game a year. I brought him to a Syracuse game. I want to say it was probably 2015 or 16, something like that. I'm sorry, I think we beat y'all like 70 to three or something like that it was in Death Valley, I was like well, this is a good game to go.
Speaker 2:Well, let me put it this way we just fired about football.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 2:It does happen, but let's talk about you. We're talking about music. Oh, wait a minute. I just noticed somebody made a comment here Larissa Ronaldo. I want to tell you a little bit. Do you hunt in a tree stand?
Speaker 3:I hunt all over the place, but mostly in a tree stand, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, now I'm going to. I know she's watching and she's going to go. Oh my gosh, but it just because you do hunt and I know you're an avid hunter you like to get out there. She lost her husband because he fell out of a tree stand.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:She is now on a mission to promote tree stand safety and putter safety. Yeah, this is something she's doing, so hopefully you go up, you strap yourself in.
Speaker 3:I do and I tell you what I'll be. I'll be honest with you. I didn't start really strapping myself in until probably last year. I never, I never would. And cause I was like I'm young, I'm, I'm in shape, I'm good, I got good balance, all that. But my buddy would hunt. We would hunt with my buddy Chris, and he would always. Well, I got you know, when we put tree stands up, hang stands, move stands, whatever, he would always put his you know safety harness strap above to where he can hook in. I'm like, oh, you ain't got to do that. And he's like, I just, you know, just in case I fall asleep or something. And I'm a stickler for like, if it's nice and quiet and I'm nice and warm, I have no problem sleeping anywhere. So that's probably a good idea. So I got a really good harness Every tree stand I sit in. Now I strap it in. It's a, it's a. Now it's just kind of like putting your seatbelt on. It's second nature to me now.
Speaker 2:So her husband went out of the tree stand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he didn't survive, my buddy probably he fell out and he broke his back and he. It was a long recovery back to normal for him. So, so I appreciate that and I will. I will in your husband's honor and legacy. I will. I will push that forward to my buddies that that don't have them. So yeah, yeah, that is big, it's huge.
Speaker 2:And she's a big country music, she's a big fan of big country music fan and and all that. She's just a beautiful woman who had this happen. Now, what happened? She's on a mission to promote that and it's a big thing around town here. She's getting it out there and she wants everybody this time of the year to to please, please, strap yourself in if you're going out. So anyway, all right. Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 3:I do.
Speaker 2:I do. Did it? Was it good or did it suck? I never shared it with anybody. I, as every artist I talked to, I only asked do you remember the first song? And it's usually usually exactly what you said, or pretty much.
Speaker 3:it'd be like yeah, I do, but I sang that song probably seven or eight years ago at a winery called Desert Rose winery, near dear friends of mine, bob and Linda Clay my own that winery and we had some good times there. And one day I was like I'm I'm tired of singing these cover songs. I said I'm just going to flip the. And that was when I was, when I was singing, and I had my like notebook full of my songs, you know, in front of me, just in case I want to sing one of my own. I didn't have it memorized and I flipped. I said I'm just going to take a random song, whatever I flipped to, that's what I'm going to play. And lo and behold, I I flipped it to that song. I said, oh God, I thought I took that thing out of this book, but I didn't. And I said I don't even know how. I don't remember how to play that song Cause I didn't.
Speaker 3:I wrote that song probably back in high school and I kind of picked around with the chords a little bit and it came back to me and I said I'm going to give this one. And it was a big. I usually brought a pretty, pretty big crowd out to that little winery and it all got quiet and I said y'all ain't got to get quiet for this song. I promise you that it's not going to be that good and I, I played it. I I'm trying to think of the title of it, um.
Speaker 2:But it's cool that you did do that, because a lot of artists won't. They won't even bring it up, even if they for some reason open up to it in book, like you did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no I couldn't do that. That's me, Me, I'm who I am. It's like yeah this is.
Speaker 2:You know, this is where it's gotten to.
Speaker 3:So you know I didn't start up here. You know I started just like everybody else.
Speaker 2:So so when did you first learn to play guitar? You said you were singing in front of people back in the day, but when did you actually pick up a guitar? When did you learn to play that? How did you learn to play?
Speaker 3:it. Um, I got my first guitar when I was like seven as a Christmas gift. But you know I got a couple pictures of me, you know, acting like I'm playing it, but I never was really playing it. Um, didn't really take it serious until I want to say 14 or so years old 15, maybe and uh, my buddy Tyler Jenkins and his dad Steve Jenkins they live right around the block from us at the time. We moved around a lot so we fortunately lived right pretty close by. I had just begged my mom to buy my, my buddy Corey. He had this old um Yamaha and the strings were probably like that far off the neck and it was not in the good shape at all. But I was like I want that guitar, I want to learn how to play, because my buddy Tyler Jenkins and his dad Steve talk about all the guitars they had and how they've been playing a lot and my buddy T's been learning how to play from his dad.
Speaker 3:I kind of jumped in on that and they, they, uh, they taught me, you know, the basic chords, gc and D and A, and I. So I just kept picking up on that. We'd go play and and I would, you know, pick along and string. They were, they were better than me and I just wanted to, I wanted to be able to keep up with them. So, um, yeah, it was about, yeah, I want to say about 14 years old or something. That's when I started really taking a liking to it and T kind of went to the electric guitar and his dad went to electric guitar. He would still do the acoustic and and I would just stick on the acoustic and play along the tracks and slowly started writing songs.
Speaker 3:When I was in high school you know, my junior, senior year but again, I never, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. Again, I never sang out in front of anybody. I never um, you know, definitely never shared my songs with anybody. That was my own thing I did. It wasn't a lot either, it was just, you know, on occasion, but I didn't sing in front of anybody until, oh, hang on.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Just my daughter calling from Virginia.
Speaker 3:Oh, tell us. Hello, newport News, good to see you.
Speaker 2:That was just the police text me message. I didn't realize the. Uh, the volume was up. Um that's why it skip, happens, dude.
Speaker 3:Hang on, yeah, we're going to do it right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 2:Watch this Hi Ang hey, what's up Nothing? Say hi to Ryan Joule. Hello.
Speaker 3:Well, hello, how are you doing? I'm interviewing Ryan Joule, who is a country music artist, and he lives in Virginia.
Speaker 2:So oh, so cool, so he goes, go ahead into the phone. So hang in there, you are yeah, so anyways. Sorry Did my phone call you yeah All right, sorry, we are Was that a butt dial. It must have been. Yeah. I'm interviewing Ryan Joule. Yeah, was that a butt dial? It must have been because, I am at great wolf lodge with the kids. Yeah, yeah, great wolf lodge, I don't know.
Speaker 4:They're running around solving some magic quest game and I'm wondering when my next, where my next class line is.
Speaker 2:Well, that's probably why you butt dialed me, because you're looking for your next class. I haven't even started yet. So all right, all right. I'm going to interrupt. Well, you are now putting it. You are now part of the skip happens podcast. It's my daughter, angela, who lives in Virginia, and Ryan lives in Virginia, so this has never happened before. This has never happened before. I love you, I love you, I love you. I'll talk to you later All right, good night, bye.
Speaker 2:Bye. See, she had no idea. She even called me and she says she hadn't even started yet.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I believe that I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it won't. The kids are gone. It's like, oh yeah, she's having a good time, she enjoys your wine. Let me just leave it at that he's got some good stuff.
Speaker 3:My apologies for that. No, please don't be. Don't be, that's why it happens.
Speaker 2:It happens that has never happened before. I've been doing this for how many years? You're the first. You're the first, so, anyways, we're talking about you playing the guitar. Did you? Did you learn by going to YouTube? Did you self-taught? Did you take?
Speaker 3:No, yeah, yeah, from the chords, the one, the basic chords. I learned from then on, um, I was self-taught because, you know, youtube wasn't popular then and I was in college when I started playing out and about and it was. I mean, youtube was going good then, but I didn't really I'm old school I didn't really know how, I didn't know you could learn how to play guitar on YouTube. So I taught yeah, I'm self-taught. I mean, um, that's excellent yeah.
Speaker 3:It's, uh, it's way, everything I know besides those basic chord structures that T and Steve's taught me. It's all been in my head. I can just hear it.
Speaker 2:I hear. By the way, uh, john Griffin wanted me to ask about you being in a movie.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, good old John, he's, he's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, good old John, I love.
Speaker 3:John. He's in the rock and roll and he's been helping me out like crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's a good guy to have on your side. Definitely knows his stuff. Love John. Tell me about the movie deal or whatever you did. Uh in a movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was in a. I was in a country Western movie called two centers in a mule. We shot that out of the Nancy Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, new Mexico. Wow, um, directed by the one and only Raleigh Wilson. It's a good buddy, good friend of mine, good good friend of, uh, my guy in Nashville that I've known since I moved there, david Castle.
Speaker 3:He's been he actually linked me up with grassroots promotion and, um, he linked me up with, with, uh, raleigh Wilson and the movie thing and, uh, I originally started out, I had a really, really big part in the movie, but over the years it kind of it would. They would say, all right, we're getting ready to film it, and then it'd be like, oh, no, something got pushed back, we got to wait. And then two months later they say, okay, we're getting ready to film it. And no, no, we got to wait again. So that went off like two years and I think it was last spring, um, so 2022, david called me and said, hey, they're getting ready to start shooting this movie. And this was like in February. I think, Okay, we're going to start filming this movie. You better learn your lines, because they're going to, they're going to fly out there in like two weeks. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, that sounds good, I'm looking forward to it. You know it's been going on for two years.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And lo and behold, raleigh's um assistant said hey, you called me. Hey, I need all your information. We're booking flights. Um, you got to get everything out here. You got to be in Santa Fe, new Mexico, like next week. And I was like, oh, no doubt, okay.
Speaker 3:So luckily, from from the start of the talk of the movie to Then, when I got on set, my part had changed and it's a smaller part. It's like a turning point of the movie, but it's, it's a. It's a. It's a smaller part, thankfully, because I was not ready to have the part that I originally had. There was no way in hell that I would be able to Do that, because, I mean, that guy was out there for like Seven weeks or something and I'm not an actor, I mean, I think I am. Now One movie, tom Hanks. You got nothing, that's right, but Got the movie, met a lot of really cool people out there. We had a. I was out there for a week. We had a really, really good time. Once the movie was done shooting, raleigh came to me and said hey, we want some music for this. So I sent him a whole bunch of songs. None of those songs fit.
Speaker 3:And he said, hey, I need, I need a song for this part of the movie which is kind of like the end of the movie rolling into the credits, and I said okay. And I said, well, send me that part, me and my writers. I said I got the two, two really good writers that I want to put on this because they're they just have that kind of style for an old Western movie and we saw the part, we kind of compared the song with the part of the movie and we wrote a song called rest in peace, which is in the movie as well as it's on my third album. Wow yeah number eight, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That is cool.
Speaker 3:It's a real I mean, I'm telling you it's a, it's a Unbiased opinion. It's a pretty good song too. I don't. I've never even seen the movie. I've never watched the movie. I don't want to watch the movie because I don't want to see my part, because I know I'm probably hate it and I'm gonna change a bunch of it.
Speaker 2:They can't change it. Now it is I know.
Speaker 3:That's the problem I think I have with. It is like I know I can't go back and do anything about it, so I'm just I'll just let everybody else.
Speaker 2:It wasn't good, it wouldn't be there.
Speaker 3:That is true, that is very.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know I get where you're coming from. It's like people don't like to hear their own voice. You don't like to see yourself on the screen. Nobody likes to see that. I don't think as well, so it's. You know, it is what it is. If it wasn't good, it wouldn't be there, dude, yeah so you can find it in the movie.
Speaker 3:You can find it on all the streaming download sites like Apple video and yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2:I've got all, the, all the apps, so I'll have to go and I'll have to explore that a little bit later. Oh, by the way, I'd like the, the heads in the background, the, the mounts, oh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, one they're. And at a 12 pointer, what? Is that that's a 15 pointer.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's got a little bit of that big I know he's got. He's got triple brow tines, he's got a drop time on his on his left side and he scored 154. That's pretty big beer for here, for Virginia that's yeah, were you shaking when you took it down?
Speaker 3:to be honest with you, and this is God's honest truth. I just woke up from a nap Up against a tree and it was like a day like today, like just overcast cold I was. I got all comfortable, I was on the ground I wasn't in a tree stand and I fell asleep up against tree house, probably out for like an hour and a half, because when I woke up the lighting had changed and I was like, how long have I been out? And I woke up to doze running by me about 20. Yeah, pretty much yeah.
Speaker 3:It was good everything was good, the conditions were perfect, and then he was the one chasing all the does and I said good, and I'm my eyes are still fuzzy, I work, contact my Blurry and something like what in the world. It just worked out, so I didn't have time to start shaking. I got that that he's a 15 and then there's a eight pointer and then behind him there's another, there's a 10 pointer, behind him and there's a couple.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I can see just the edge of one on the other side too. That's cool man, that's I got a game room.
Speaker 3:There's a. I got some bear in there, some turkey, more deer, all kinds of stuff you get them all stuffed.
Speaker 2:I mean, you got some beautiful mounts, and if you got the turkey and a bear and all that holy cow.
Speaker 3:Everything you've taken correct, not everything, just the ones that are worthy of, of getting, getting. Getting getting now, obviously I don't just, I used Anything and everything, I can't know. The deer even at the rack, small, which I kind of once I shot that 15 pointer. I kind of stopped shooting Smaller bucks because they don't do anything for me anymore. But it's me getting the freezer. Oh, it's full and it's only getting fuller because I've got another upright freezes, got five racks on it. Wow, and I, that, I, we, I eat it all, I eat it year-round and yeah, I really, if I have stuff left over, start giving it away or I should start really eating it towards the end of summer so I can make room for them for next season.
Speaker 2:Do you have a like a secret recipe when you cook it up onions, butter, liver, I mean Onions and butter and trying to think what else maybe buddy of mine used to have all this stuff. I do.
Speaker 3:I've got. I've got a couple of they're not really secret recipes, but I've got a couple ways I like to do it, that I've made a believer out of a few people that Just promise dear me and they'll. I'm not Eating deer meat, no, no, and I butcher, I do all the, I butcher it all myself. I do all the processing, do all the cleaning, do all the packaging on stuff.
Speaker 2:All right, but, that being said, when do you find time? Because, being on the road, being an artist, you're doing these shows. Yeah, when do you find time to do that?
Speaker 3:I Just have to. I just have to say this is, if I'm hunting today and tomorrow, that's all I'm doing. You know, I, it's okay, no, and I'll still. I still stretch myself thin To where I'm a hunt this morning, but I got a show tonight. It's like you know, if I shoot, something's got to be worthwhile, it's got to be worthwhile. I can't just shoot some dough or something because it's gonna take up an hour and a half my time.
Speaker 2:So but how do you so? If you're gonna go out hunting, you're, you're going out before dawn? Sure, yeah, all right, but yet you might have a show that night. They may not start till nine or ten. Oh, I imagine you would nap in the afternoon.
Speaker 3:find a place to snooze naps, or I'm a good napper.
Speaker 2:Against a tree for about an hour and a half. Yeah, I think that's pretty good sweet anywhere man. I want to give a shout out to. I see George Davis is chiming in. I don't know if you've been on his podcast or not, but you may want to look him up. He does something called before Nashville. He does. He's a great guy and he's in the Midwest and I love to George let's talk. Yep, there you go, george. Love George, good guy, radio guy to what um we're about?
Speaker 3:we're about to look at it.
Speaker 2:I want to see he's in the Midwest. I don't have the exact. I'd have to look it up but, I'm sure he's told me a million times and I just I've gotten old and I forget things, so it's crazy. So, anyways, I want to hear about the same bar, different town.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, tell me about that. The radio single, the one that's yes, it's going aluminum.
Speaker 2:Well, hey, something because I'm metal, I'm sort of now exactly. Tell us about the song a little bit.
Speaker 3:Now we I wrote that song with Blaine younger and Lord mclam, okay, and I tried to cancel that right that day. This we wrote this song 2019. We tried to put it on my second album. It didn't make the cut, which is fine, but, um, you know, at the time I had been in Nashville to tune about two years at that time and Things just weren't going like I thought they should be going. You know, I was already supposed to be a big star at that time and the 10 year town dude exactly.
Speaker 3:Oh, I said. I said heck, I've been putting my time in since 2011. I've already got seven years on everybody and that ain't the case, and I would be very quickly. But you know, we've had some things working our favor and then it just got shut down. And we had some more things working our favor, got shut down. So it's kind of just like it was.
Speaker 3:It was very frustrating at the time and I'm like man, this is just not, I'm not digging this. You know this is not fun for me. What? What do I need to do? What else do I need to do to to kind of get to the next level Get a pub deal, get a record label, get a song on a radio, whatever.
Speaker 3:And so we brought I brought that emotion to the right and you know, it's kind of the whole same I'm not gonna say the word same stuff, different day, same skip, same skip, different day, exactly. That's kind of what it mimicking, that's kind of just like the same old thing. Just Say it's not just that's the same bar, just in a different town, it's the same stuff that's going on, just different, different place. And that's kind of what it, what the song is about With, you know real life stuff that I've experienced or that I've witnessed or that I've been through, that I've known somebody that's gone through. Yeah, I mean, it's all true in that song, yeah, so you're writing entirely about life experiences, Things that you know that that are really happening.
Speaker 2:It's nothing fictitious, nothing like. You know being in a Different world and you know you're writing about the real stuff.
Speaker 3:If I can't and I've always said like if I'm gonna write a song and sing it to people, I have to. I don't want to get up there and just sing the song I got. I want to sell the song to the audience. I want them to relate, I want to put, I want them to like to hear my emotions, to feel my emotion. Um, because you can tell, if somebody just gets up and sings a song, he's like, oh okay, cool that's. You know, cool man, that's one thing, but when it connects, yeah, with somebody.
Speaker 2:That and you know, I've said this a million times. I know John Griffin, and partly the gang at grassroots, has told you this Well, that if you touch the heart or if they go damn, that happened to me, to that he's singing about me now. You've made that connection. Oh my god, I went through that or this happened or that happened. Yeah, it's all about me and it's all about real life, because you go through it, I go through it. Listeners go hands go through it. So you make that connection and You're doing well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. See, I want, I try to make Any song that I sing or that I record or that I put on an album or that I release. I Want their overall, my audience, my demographic, whatever it may be, I want them to Relate to it. Whether it's young crowd, old crowd, middle-a, I don't Exactly, oh, I don't care what it is. I want them to be able to say, hey, I Remember when such and such happened, or I remember when I went through that, or I remember when that happened to me, or that happened to my mom, or whatever, exactly, exactly when did so?
Speaker 2:you actually moved to Nashville. For a little bit you lived in Nashville, then you moved out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 2000, july 11th, 2017. I was there and I was there full time till November of 2019. Yeah, right before the band. It all worked out. It was crazy how it all worked out. And all in looking back in Ohio State 2020, it all worked out. I was supposed to. I Was supposed to be up here, I was supposed to be in Nashville about that time because my grandfather passed away in 2019, sorry, and that was you know. That was a five-hour drive from them and they lived right outside of Clemson in South Carolina. Okay, and then my grandmother passed away in 2020. It was, if this was a tough little stretching years right here, wow. And then, right after that, she passed away in January of 2020, right before the whole pandemic thing. Right after that, my dad gets real sick and he passed away in September or August of 20 my god, yeah, but it rained at port, yeah.
Speaker 3:So fortunately I had moved back up here in Virginia and and I was barely, I was with him that whole time. Well, like I said it, when I say, when I tell people like it all happened, how it's supposed to, that was, that's literally the reasoning for it, it's because I was with him the whole time right until what, and then After that it's just been.
Speaker 3:I've been back and forth. Usually when things are firing off eight cylinders, I'm there like Every two weeks for at least a week at a time. Really. Yeah, I come back, do my shows, play my shows wherever I got to be. So it's worked out good. I need to be in Nashville, but I also need to be out playing my shows and being on the road and keeping my, keeping my, my audience satisfied.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean, that's all part of the game. Yeah, that are what you're doing, and when you were in Nashville, were you there full-time as a musician or did you actually work a different job as well?
Speaker 3:I Started off as a full-time musician and realized that that money that I saved up wasn't gonna last too long. So I got a job at At the Walmart in no longer off in no Lansville Road in South Nashville. Yeah, I was changing oil and changing tires. It was a paycheck. It was a payday. I was, you know for what I was doing. 16 bucks an hour wasn't too bad, no no, especially back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so nowadays minimum wage, but still back then it's. Yeah, that was decent. Yeah, you have. I guess my point is in the reason. I ask is anybody that's watching this? It just it goes to prove that Sometimes you got to do other things. You got it. You've got to still pay your bills and you're still pursuing your dream. Yeah, you know what you want to do and you're doing it. I think you're rolling. You're rolling in the right direction and you got a great team. So you know. So now, right now, today, all you're doing is music. Musician.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've been just doing music for the last Four yeah, four years, just just straight music and I did? I did straight music Before the Walmart gig for you know, two and a half, three years.
Speaker 2:But, yes, full-time musician, nothing else, that's it and let me ask how did you get involved with grassroots? And for those that don't know, grassroots is a promotion Company. They help independent artists such as Ryan jewel. They help them get their songs on radio. You still have to go, you still have to send them the demos. You still have to do all that. But that one thing with grassroots for anybody that's thinking about this, and I think you would agree is they're run by Musicians, the run by people that have been in the business. It. The company, is run by not only those people the musicians but also radio people are involved, or past radio people are involved. I know RJ and others that are involved with with grassroots, and these are the people that you want on your side, because you got musicians that know what you need to do. You got the guys that worked radio that say, okay, if you're gonna hit radio stations, this is what you got to do. Yeah, so I mean, it went all the way around to be with them. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they know, they know what you guys, they've been there before. They've been, they've done it for years.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's what I meant to say. Yes, exactly from all different angles, Mm-hmm, you know which is which is cool.
Speaker 3:I got a grassroots, though, through my buddy, david Castle.
Speaker 2:Right, that's what we say, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm at David Castle. Probably a month after I moved to Nashville and back in 2017 and I did a, I wrote I met a guy named Steven Grawberger, real good friend of mine, songwriter guy. We. We met down at Puckets and leapers fork for one of their songwriters nights right after I moved there and we got together. Not long after that we met. We wrote a song called just let go, which might be on my fourth album, we don't know yet Wrote that song.
Speaker 3:Steve really liked it. He said now I'm getting ready to cut, I don't have any songs. It was 10 or 12 songs and I Can't think of the the studio. I'll think it'll come to me. But he said I love free to sing. I've got like four or five songs. I like I got another guy coming to sing some songs, but I love for you to sing four or five of these songs and so I can put them on a demo. I can send them out to these labels and publishers and stuff. And I said I'd love to. I'd love to do that.
Speaker 3:Well, we got into the studio, probably the next week or so, and there David sat just hanging out listening to the session and we became friends and he loved my voice and he loved, you know, we. We got talking about football and hunting and music and all that good stuff and he's been a really good friend of mine ever since and he wants nothing but the best for me and likewise, I want nothing but the best for him. He's been a really I mean just just a really valuable asset to my music career and just in it, just personally, just as a friend too. But yeah, that's how he said I, you know, I want you, I want your music career. You know I wanted to get to that next level he's, so I got. I know Teresa, me and Teresa know each other for years and years and I'm gonna hook you up with them and and lo and behold, here we are so here you are yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, got a good team, man. Yeah, got a great team. Have you been able to get on any of the big stages with some of the big artists?
Speaker 3:I've opened up for some some pretty big names over the years. Yeah, okay, you know the heavy hitters like Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan and Jason Yaldine and Lauren Elena and Marty Stewart I love Marty. Yeah, all those Joe Diffie Very cool, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Has all that been when you've been with grassroots or you've been able to do this on your own?
Speaker 3:No, that was. That was that was prior to grassroots. Yeah, okay. All right few years and Over the last, over the course of the last probably five years, yeah, Now, have you had a chance to perform in in Nashville?
Speaker 2:I know you do the writers nights and all that and get together and Record in a studio, but have you been able to perform down on Broadway or any of the you know? Now you have your corners got some artist bar on it, so, uh, have you been able to do anything down there?
Speaker 3:Yeah, um, when I first moved to tennis, like that was my big thing, like I got to get down on Broadway, I got to play all these bars. And so I signed with a management company Not long after I've moved to Tennessee and I was with them for a little over two years and, um, you know, I was like I get there and I'm like, okay, guys, you know what am I doing here, let's get some going. And I just started going all these bars. Very first bar played in Nashville was was tootsies, and I still I think the guy's name is John or something, but he, uh, I tried out for tootsies. I made it.
Speaker 3:I, you know, made it through the tryout, whatnot um, and I started playing at honky tonk central and tootsies and yeah, yeah, yeah, with the tip tower out front, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I realized and I was like real adamant about that, like I got to play these show, I got to play downtown, I got to play lower Broadway and I would I mean I was I was paying more in parking and lunch than I was making it on Broadway. I was like how people do this like this is stupid.
Speaker 2:But you take a chance. Yeah, you have a good point. I'm sure you don't get paid much, but you never know who's gonna walk in that bar and go. This guy's damn good, I can need to talk to this guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you never know, you never know and that's where I was like this is how people get discovered in Nashville. This is it right here now and I. My managers were like I had two managers and and um, they were like yeah, I mean, you know, 30 years ago, yeah, probably so, but now, it's all. Internet driven and youtube and social media. Yeah, ain't nobody getting discovered on Broadway anymore.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. But everybody goes there. There's, you know, there's so many people just like you and there's a lot of those that are probably on the road heading the Nashville right now Say they're gonna make it, yeah, but yeah, you hear that it's a 10 year town and it's not a lie. I mean seriously. It takes a little bit of time. Nothing happens overnight. It took 13 years to get McGraw out there. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, and it's they just try so hard to. You got to be persistent, you got it. You got to stay, you got to continue to do whatever you Stay.
Speaker 3:The yeah stay the course Exactly, and you have to, I mean, and with persistence comes the sacrifice, because you got to kind of keep your name fresh In in the town. It's a big town, I mean, it's a lot of people there, but it's a small, tight-knit community when it comes to musicians and songwriters. Absolutely. Yeah, you got to. Just you got to. Just how bad do you look? Tim McGraw has a song. You know how bad do you want it.
Speaker 2:And that's true. That's true. How bad do you want it?
Speaker 3:I mean that's very, very true, very. Alan Jackson once said Made it up to music row and, lordy, don't the wheels turn slow.
Speaker 2:And that is the God's honest truth, because yeah, yep, no, you're right, I see you out. Roger is saying now tim has 47 or 48 number ones. I think, roger.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Ryan's on his way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've got. I've got a one song that's about to break the top 100s. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:That's cool. No, no, if you break that top 100, that's cool. Yeah, you probably follow the media, the music row chart, or they don't do. They still have the music row chart. Yeah, that's that's the chart I'm talking about. Yeah, all right. All right, so you break the top 100 once you get 80. Then you know you're starting to move in the right direction, which is really cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you gotta, you gotta set little stepping stone. You can't, you can't just expect in me. At least me I don't want, I don't want overnight success. Right, I don't want to be a flash in the pan, no, I mean out there exactly. And then they, they fizzle themselves out just as quick as they showed up.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 3:I want to. You know, I'm working slowly but surely, just just, you know, paying my dues and you know not nothing. Oh, you do Cutting my teeth in the bars, but I mean, that's kind of what I'm doing, just just really getting my name solidifying and showing people that, yes, this is what I want to do, because I'm putting, I'm so endelved and I'm so into this whole thing, yeah, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 2:And now, if somebody, somebody's watching this, whether it's live now or down the road when they get the replay that if they want to find out more about you, where can they go?
Speaker 3:Oh, all the social media sites.
Speaker 3:You know the Facebook and Instagram and I've got a website, ryanjulemusiccom, and, like I said previously, I'm an old school dude but you know, the stuff I put up on all my social media usually has a pretty good meaning. I'm not just going to put up, like you know, hey, just having a cigar and whiskey on the back deck and hope you're all having a good day. I'm never going to do that, because when I'm having a cigar and whiskey on the back deck, I'm going to enjoy that moment myself. And I appreciate, if y'all want to know what's going on in my life to down to that much, but that's probably not something. But if I'm getting ready to play a big show or my weekend gigs, my weekend schedule, my schedule for the next month, if I'm traveling and going hunting somewhere, I'll tell you where I'm going to, what's going on in Nashville, who I'm writing with that particular day, like stuff that that I feel is of importance. You know that people actually say, oh, that's cool man. You know, I want to know more, are you?
Speaker 2:so you're doing all your own social media.
Speaker 3:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:You do it all. That's a lot of work, dude. That's that's where sometimes you need like okay, I got to get somebody to do this, it's, it's, it's getting there.
Speaker 3:It's been getting there for for a few years but it's really getting there now because I've got to ref shift my focus on. You know we got this third album I need to promote. We're with that. You know we're already starting to purge through songs for my fourth album. We got working in Nashville. Like I'm getting, I'm probably going to end up getting another place in Nashville next year so I can be down there a lot more. I'm trying to get all that squared away, trying to get with my new band and get out and about and play bigger shows or just play out of Virginia and up and down the East Coast a lot more next year. So we're trying to get my schedule squared away from next.
Speaker 2:I mean, Can you post all those when those dates get announced or whenever you make that the final arrangements?
Speaker 3:they're all posted on your website, yeah, and that's why I try to tell folks like, if you can't find my show dates on my social media, just go to my website, because they're always there, usually two or three months out, but I do all the updating on that too, so sometimes it gets behind, so I apologize in advance If it does. Man doing a lot of things. Yeah, all the merch. I mean you can see all this, all the artwork on my CD covers, all the merch that's designed. I do all that stuff All from from nothing to what you're holding in your hand. That's me.
Speaker 3:That's cool yeah but I pride myself in it. It's not because I don't I mean one. I don't have money to help to get somebody to do Right, but I know I hear you, but I think it's fun and if I have the opportunity to do that like, why wouldn't I? You know, it's just another stamp of me saying here this Not only is this my music. I'm about to play a concert. You can hear my CD. But take this merch, take this hat, take this t-shirt, take this Cousy. That's also part of me, because I designed all that stuff to that's so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty neat, so cool. And what's in your hand Is that, like a bourbon.
Speaker 3:It is a bourbon, yeah, I thought so. I had a long day today and it's a good day for a productive day, but I figured you know it's, it's it's. You know what time is nine o'clock it's. I'm due for one, you know.
Speaker 2:I'd hit one with you if I could. Let me tell you man?
Speaker 3:Hey, we'll do that one day, I promise you that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Exactly. Now I see, I don't know if you know her or not, but Christine Glasscock Schiffler, yeah, yeah, she says sing us a couple of lines.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can do that. She, she, she's, she's one of my diehards, her and her husband, paul. Really good, nice, and we actually just went to the Rhonda Vincent concert this past. Oh wow, nice, chester. Yeah, and I will say I'd be friend and Rhonda and we exchange numbers and nice. We're going to get together when I get back to Tennessee and maybe one day we'll write some songs they all write some bluegrass songs and or she'll, she'll delve into the countryside of things you never know.
Speaker 2:No, no, rhonda's going to do it. I'll tell you she's a great person and, yeah, it would definitely help you out. There's no doubt, no doubt, and that's what's nice about a lot of the the older. I shouldn't call them older, but maybe I call them seasoned.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah. That's a good.
Speaker 2:And their knowledge and everything they've been through. There's some those are people you'd want to listen to, right, or you could sit down and have a conversation. It'd be great to do that with Rhonda, for example.
Speaker 3:You know, I look forward to when we can, because she seemed I gave her my third album and I told her about my radio tour and she, she seemed very interested. Obviously she just got done with a concert so I know you know she's probably ready to get back on that bus and and kick her feet up, because I've been here and I know what she's feeling like. But it was really, really enjoyable. Love it, love it, yeah. But yeah, chris and Paul, the week before I went on that radio tour they came out Friday night, saturday and Sunday. They're they're diehards, they're very nice. Oh yeah, yeah, they don't live too far from me up here in Virginia, so ah, ok really cool.
Speaker 2:I love that. I love that. Well, it's good that they're there and I thank you for the time tonight. What I'm going to do is actually I will if it's OK with you, I'll take the produce version of your song and put it after this, this video. Oh yeah. You know, that way they get the full effect at the actual studio. And you know, sometimes when you play live over the internet, we do these podcasts. It doesn't. It sounds good, but you know what I mean. It's not the same.
Speaker 3:You never and I tell you what with I don't zoom, you know, you have these certain things that you can turn off and turn on to make it sound better. I was really, really like anxious about doing that radio tour and doing live, live songs on the radio, because I have no idea how it sounds. I don't know if the DJ is got the level set, I just want microphones. So if it's a slower song and the guitars overpower my voice, it's, it's a wash to me.
Speaker 2:But exactly, exactly, you just go and go into it and hit them, but yeah as you were pulling away from one of the radio stations or any of them, did you hear the song on the radio?
Speaker 3:I did, and how was that?
Speaker 2:Was that the first time?
Speaker 3:That was the first time for this song. Yeah, it was yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, but what about the first time you heard yourself on the radio?
Speaker 3:That was at a local station here in front, royal 95.3, the river 95.3. Okay, and we had just released I don't know if it was my second album or if we, if we just released a single off of my third one called Toasted summertime, summertime drinking anthem, which is on my third album, number five on my third album, one or the other I think it was Toasted though, but it might have been heads on yours which is the title track to my second album. We did an interview in studio interview, talking about, you know, what's coming up in the future, what we're doing, yada, yada, yada. And they were, as I was pulling out of there, you know they said well, he was just in the studio, let's go ahead and fire this song up again. And it was pretty cool. I mean, it's when you see your name going across the.
Speaker 2:RDS. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Pretty cool Again. You never see me like you'll never see me do a video and posted on social media like me mouthing words to my own song and my vehicle because my song's on the radio. But you'll see, you'll definitely see me pull over in this video because I want to keep that on this. Pretty neat man.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, 100%. It's a memory that you'll have for a lifetime.
Speaker 3:Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:Well, I wish you a lot of luck in your career. I know hopefully we get to say hello in person sometime. I'm always at the country radio seminar which is in Nashville in February I think it's late February, early March this year, but the next one coming up. But yeah, you know, it's great to see a lot of the independent artists and those you know out. You know doing what you got to do to get yourself known and you've got the right people behind you. I know that for a fact. I know a lot of them and just it's just wonderful. So, excuse me, and we'll have to cook up some venison. I do like venison.
Speaker 3:I've got a couple of solid recipes that I thoroughly enjoy. You should do a cookbook on that. Maybe one day I'll get to that Dolly Parton level and I can do a cookbook.
Speaker 2:Well, you could look at. I mean, if you got like almost two freezers full of venison, you obviously just you know die hard hunter, so to speak. Go out there, you do your thing. You live off the land. I mean that's pretty cool. You should do like a cookbook how do you cook your?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've got blue grid. I've got bluegill, crappy bass, all the deer. I got some elk in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's all kind of what are you that's so? You fish, you hunt. Yeah, is it bow or rifle, or both?
Speaker 3:I do all. Yeah, you do all. Bow one muzzle, loader rifle, anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Is there one that's more fun than the other?
Speaker 3:I mean my brother in law is do I do? I mean, obviously, bow hunting. You got to get and I feel I feel comfortable 50 yards and in with my, because I'm not a crossbow hunter, I'm a compound. So, yeah, 50 yards and in. So you, obviously they have to be a lot closer. You're up close in person with the animal. You got to really watch your scent, you got to really watch the wind. There's a lot more factors that go into it, rather than Sitting on a power line and shooting the deer from 400 yards.
Speaker 2:It's fun but Right, right, not as hard as it is with a bow you know it's not fun when you got to drag them out of the woods. Well, you get a big beer.
Speaker 3:You're either yeah, you're not wrong there either the four-wheelers or a Godson when it comes to yeah, yeah, my brother-in-law is.
Speaker 2:They have a few of those. Oh yeah, and the hunting lodge and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I tell you what my my drummer. He's from upstate New York and and he's been talking about getting us some shows up there next year. So whenever we do that, I'll be there, I'll bring a bottle of whiskey and we'll have ourselves that drink.
Speaker 2:Absolutely whereabouts in upstate New York. Real quick, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 3:I can't think of the, I Cannot the name where we're right in central New York.
Speaker 2:I mean like people from like New York City and they say somebody says they're from upstate. It's usually like Pocipsy, which is just north the New York City, but no, we're really upstate New York, we're central New York. Albany water yeah, watertown is really up north, yeah.
Speaker 3:I've got some friends that have a Little cabin right outside of Watertown and I've heard Mike, my drummer, talk about Watertown as well.
Speaker 2:There's places like inlet, the Adirondacks. You know a lot of a lot of hunting places up there.
Speaker 3:Sure, well, I'm hoping we can get, we can give a weekend run up there.
Speaker 2:We'll play up, lay down and We'll put you in front of some fans. Oh Well, I definitely do that in a second. So excellent, all right. All right, my friend, I want to take a moment to thank you for joining us here on skip happens tonight and talking about you and your life and your music. And Somebody wants to find out more? They can go online. What's your website again?
Speaker 3:Ryan jewel music calm easy.
Speaker 2:Find out about this guy. You will not be disappointed. New enough for coming artists with a voice that is just phenomenal, and iTunes, all that good stuff. There you go, make sure you download it, make sure you check out the merch, support the artist. As you can see, these guys, you know if this is all they do. Well, you got to help them out a little bit because you know I don't want to go back to Walmart.
Speaker 3:Help me, guys.
Speaker 2:Let me ask what shift did you work?
Speaker 3:I? I pretty much. So here's the thing, and I'm not bragging on myself I was. I was gonna go to college out of high school for auto technician.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 3:I got there for the interview that day and At the end of the interview I was asking the manager, the auto technician manager. I was busy him on stuff that he obviously did not know. I work on all my vehicles myself, I do all maintenance and all that stuff on, so I know I mean I've been around motorcycle and stuff since I was really little Um, so I pretty much got to work Any shift I wanted to and he was really cool. He was a Cory that's awesome, really cool guy. He would let me leave if I needed to go play shows for the weekend. He was right, it was. Yeah, I tried to get it done in the morning, get done by three o'clock, but sometimes Let me ask what do you drive?
Speaker 2:Um, let me get, let me guess. Let me guess You've got a silvarado. A? Um Am I close or by? Um you got the truck part right, okay?
Speaker 3:silvarado. No, I'm not a Chevy guy.
Speaker 2:No no, I see I've owned. I've owned the Ford. I had the 150. It wasn't really big. I had the 150 at the Dodge Ram 1500 here again not really big, it's the lower one. Uh, I had the silvarado. Uh, um, I know I did, but you know what, I wasn't using it and with the gas, the gas prices going up and all that, I just said you know what at my age and everything, I don't really need the truck anymore. I love, I loved it, but what do you drive? So you got a Chevy, no silver.
Speaker 3:I've got a. I've got a Ford f-150. Okay, all right, I got the four doors. Um, it was my. It was my college graduation gift to myself. Cool yeah, so 2000, 2003, ford f-150, but it's got a big lift on it, it's got big Uh 37.
Speaker 1:Yeah 2003?
Speaker 2:how many miles you got on it?
Speaker 3:Uh, just rolled over 220,000, but you take care of it, oh yeah, yeah, I think runs like it's very new, exactly because you take care of it. That's my, that's my grocery getter and my hunting vehicle.
Speaker 2:Okay how many four-wheelers?
Speaker 3:Uh, I've got four four-wheelers. Um, I knew you had more and I got, I got them. I got the same amount of motorcycles as well, uh.
Speaker 2:What kind of bike do you have? Um, is it a? What'll? We call them a crotch rocket? Or you? Uh, I've got a.
Speaker 3:I've got a uh Zx6 r ninja calisaki.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't kill yourself.
Speaker 3:I know, I know, yeah, I got a k 1200 bmw. That's a nice uh Sport touring bike. That was my dad's before he passed. I got him that. Um, he got to use it for about a year and then, and then I got it back. Um that's a cattle. I have a freaking motorcycle, I bet it is Um. I got his old gpz 750 Um the top crew, the top gun motorcycle that tom cruise rides.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh my god, my dad's got one mint condition that I got from him. Wow, yeah, yeah, got some dirt bike.
Speaker 2:You and he, you and your dad did. You used to ride together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah and he. That's what he brought me up on the dirt bikes and In the small engines and that's that's really how I kind of Learned. Everything was through him. I mean, I learned how to work on motors and the ins and outs of a carburetor through my dad.
Speaker 2:So am I correct to say that if, for whatever reason, this music thing, that you're doing this career, when and I think you're gonna be fine, but it doesn't work out, you can easily go back and get into the auto technician field or Something like that, or walmart.
Speaker 3:Um, you run a walmart. I guess I've got. I've got my bachelors in wildlife and fisheries biology. So oh wow, how cool, yeah, so I'd probably, I'd probably pick something Um that towards that. You know, um, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a wildlife biologist. There's something, something outside, something in the woods, yeah, you've got that, you've got that degree.
Speaker 2:Yeah you've got a lot of knowledge when you're doing music.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you're doing what you love.
Speaker 3:I'm doing what I love and some some days, the, the behind the scenes stuff feels like work. But when I'm up there, even if it's been a bad day and I don't feel like going to sing which we all I have those days I don't, everybody has a day. Yeah, yeah, I'm driving to go, set my stuff up and play a show. Um Once I start singing, it's like Everything goes away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's literally gone and it's weird how that happens and I know it's gonna happen, but I'll still get anxious and I'm like I don't even want to be here, I don't want to do this, I just want to go home and just hang out. And yeah, it's nuts man, it's crazy, it is.
Speaker 2:Right there, it shows how much you love it. That's cool, that's cool. Yeah, ryan, jewel, it's been awesome man, great conversation.
Speaker 2:But I very, very much enjoyed this. Thank you. Thank you so much. Like I said a few minutes ago, hopefully we get to shake hands and have that drink and, uh, you know I I will definitely be at the country radio seminar so we get. Uh, if you do go, you know I know the guys from grass root will let me, grass roots will let me know who's there and who isn't, and we'll definitely catch up. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3:I look forward to that. Yeah, I'll definitely be there.
Speaker 2:All right. So ryanjewel musiccom is the website and just they can google you and find you on all the other social platforms. Download your music off iTunes. You can buy the tunes, which is pretty cool. We got the three albums that are up there and you got your fourth one coming out pretty soon.
Speaker 3:I'm hoping um, I'm not gonna put a date or time on it, but I'm thinking the next fall sometime, it'll be here before you know it, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We're not, we're not gonna, we're not gonna make people wait another Three years, like it has been in the past.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I forgot to ask, so you being a, I know I'm carrying on this conversation. It's like you keep going. I know you're probably going. Which is guy would just shut the hell up. Um, so every hunter has. I'll be right over. Might take me a few hours to get there, but I love you, um. So every hunter has a dog. Do you? Do you have dogs?
Speaker 3:I travel too much to have a dog. Oh, okay, yeah, I will. One day I will, if I have a bus, I will definitely have a dog. I guess we had a. We had a family yellow lab. That was an awesome dog.
Speaker 2:We have yellow lives.
Speaker 3:Yep, but yeah, right now I don't but, but it's, it's coming definitely.
Speaker 2:I guess, ryan jewel, thank you, thank you for being here again. Love you, buddy man, I'll tell you this, your music's phenomenal. You got the voice to go with it. Uh, you seem to have your head on right, if you know what I mean. You, you're doing it right and you got a great team behind you. And again, I'm gonna mention the website, because anybody watching this, please check them out, ryanjewel musiccom, and enjoy, Virginia, my friend, while you're there.
Speaker 3:Surely we'll try.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and next week is nashville and you kind of go back and forth. Is that what you do?
Speaker 3:I'll be. Uh, I think I'll be up here. Yeah, I think I'll be up here until after christmas. It's kind of everything, all my, all my writing buddies. They're going on their yeah, holiday trips and they're going away and it's, it's. It's hard to coordinate rights and it's.
Speaker 2:Everything. Well, they say, for people in your type of business and nashville, the music side the office is kind of closed down early december, well, maybe the second week in december, and they don't open up again until after the first of the years.
Speaker 3:Well, after the first year, middle of january, they fire back. I like that December. December is pretty busy up here. Um, for me with I've got I play Three or four times a week every week in december. So they got me busy up here yeah that's cool, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, and then I'll be out in vegas December. Well, well, well, vegas, you're playing in vegas. I'm not playing out there. Um, I played out your playing, but you're not playing. I'm playing, but I'm not playing it big.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the nfr, the national finals rodeo, is going on. And, yes, cowboy christmas and Raleigh wilson, the director of the movie. We were out there last year this time and promoting the movie and I sang to all the old cowboy, all the broken down cowboys that all the Raleigh wilson used to be number eight in the world Bearback rodeo back in the 70s. So he got me into the, the horseshoe club, the golden horseshoe club, which is at the at the final's rodeo, and it's his old, 60, 70, 80 year old Broken down cowboys and I sang. I sang for them for three nights in a row. So that was a lot of fun. We're gonna do it again this year. I don't know if I'm gonna sing as much, but we're gonna do something like that.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, oh, wow, what an opportunity. You know, I just keep rambling on. One more time repeat the movie so I can look it up. Two centers and a mule.
Speaker 3:Two centers and a mule, and I'm not a center nor. Oh, I guess I am kind of a center, but you don't want to be the mule.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that means yeah, I can't ask come on, that's right. That's right, all right. Two centers and a mule, all right, you know. Ryan jule, thank you so much for being with us tonight. You can hang on there. I just want to say good night to everybody and thank you for joining us. Make sure you look him up. You will not be disappointed. Great artist, it's got a lot of good things coming down, and thanks for watching skip happens.