Join us as we sit down with the vibrant Lanie Gardner, the internet sensation who's captivating the world with her authentic covers and original music. From her North Carolina origins to her Nashville dreams, Lanie's story is a tapestry woven with threads of passion, perseverance, and raw talent. Her rise through the ranks of viral fame is a narrative steeped in the richness of old-school influences and the electrifying buzz of the Music City scene. In our conversation, she peels back the curtain on her journey, sharing anecdotes of family, mentorship, and the joyful chaos that comes with a life dedicated to music.
Imagine a world where social media serves as both a stage and a gauntlet for emerging artists. Lanie Gardner lives in that world, riding the highs of viral success while navigating the unpredictability of online presence. Our chat traverses the landscape of her career, touching on the pivotal role of platforms like TikTok and the ever-changing dynamism of the Nashville music community. Lanie's reflections on the impact of radio and her personal strategies for balancing public life and privacy offer a fascinating glimpse into the modern musician's playbook.
Capping off our session, Lanie's aspirations for collaborations with country greats like Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton color the conversation with a sense of endless possibility. Her stories of unexpected interactions with music legends, the support she receives from family, and her own growing legacy remind us that her journey is far from over. With wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of Southern charm, Lanie Gardner leaves us not only inspired but also eagerly awaiting the next chapter of her musical adventure.
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Join us as we sit down with the vibrant Lanie Gardner, the internet sensation who's captivating the world with her authentic covers and original music. From her North Carolina origins to her Nashville dreams, Lanie's story is a tapestry woven with threads of passion, perseverance, and raw talent. Her rise through the ranks of viral fame is a narrative steeped in the richness of old-school influences and the electrifying buzz of the Music City scene. In our conversation, she peels back the curtain on her journey, sharing anecdotes of family, mentorship, and the joyful chaos that comes with a life dedicated to music.
Imagine a world where social media serves as both a stage and a gauntlet for emerging artists. Lanie Gardner lives in that world, riding the highs of viral success while navigating the unpredictability of online presence. Our chat traverses the landscape of her career, touching on the pivotal role of platforms like TikTok and the ever-changing dynamism of the Nashville music community. Lanie's reflections on the impact of radio and her personal strategies for balancing public life and privacy offer a fascinating glimpse into the modern musician's playbook.
Capping off our session, Lanie's aspirations for collaborations with country greats like Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton color the conversation with a sense of endless possibility. Her stories of unexpected interactions with music legends, the support she receives from family, and her own growing legacy remind us that her journey is far from over. With wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of Southern charm, Lanie Gardner leaves us not only inspired but also eagerly awaiting the next chapter of her musical adventure.
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
Here we go. Yeah, all right, it's a little uh, little uh later than usual. Skip happens tonight, because you know what they say when skip happens, skip really happens, and it was doing that tonight. Hello everybody, my name's skip Clark. I am the host of skip happens and, uh, wow, I'm very excited to be talking to, uh, this young lady, uh, lanny Gardner. Right there, she is the artist we're going to be talking to tonight. Um, let me, uh, I'm going to do something here, lanny, just hold on one second, because I want everybody to realize who you are. I don't think there's anybody that's going to be out there and go. They'll be going. I have no idea, but once I play this, they're, they're, they're going to know who you are. So, because this is why I put you on the map Big time, I'm a man. Listen, if I close my eyes, I think it's Fleetwood Matt.
Speaker 2:So good, so good. Here we go Now, here you go again you say you want your freedom.
Speaker 1:Well, who am I? Tick, tock, yep. So do you remember that? What was that? Three, three and a half, four years ago, a little while ago now? And it's that young lady right here next to me. It's Lanny. Lanny Gardner, uh here Lanny Gardner. Yeah, is it Lanny or Lanny?
Speaker 2:It's Lanny, but it's. It's okay. There's a lot of people who have been trying to to figure out which one it is, cause I usually don't really say my name much.
Speaker 1:No no, no, I get that. I get that. But you know we think of Lanny Wilson, but then she's got the eye in there. You don't have the eye in there, so I didn't know if it was Lanny, or say, lanny, I got it.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, you are a internet sensation. Um, you know, seriously, when I was given the the chance to sit down and have a conversation with you, I said yeah, what are you kidding? I'm going to say, no, no, I don't think so. Uh, a young lady that, uh, you told me before the lights in the camera went on that you, just you, you're in Nashville now, right, yes, yep, yep. But where do you call home?
Speaker 2:Uh, north Carolina, um, burnsville North Carolina it's about. It's near Boone, it's kind of in the middle of Boone in Asheville. So it's a very small town in a valley of mountains. No one really knows where it's at unless you've been up there.
Speaker 1:So how long does it take for you to get to like the outer banks from if you were to go home? Oh, my gosh Um we vacation there every year. That's I always said whenever I talked to somebody from North Carolina. It's like how far are you from the outer banks?
Speaker 2:from the other banks. Um, probably it's a little bit huh Four or five hours.
Speaker 1:Bam, that's too long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, north Carolina is very long, it's it's like I get it. It's it's not very wide but it's very long, and so going from the mountains to the the coast Over there.
Speaker 1:Over there. Yeah, wow, you know your numbers. Um, I was just kind of these are probably outdated by now, but I did pull them up before we talked uh, youtube, 53 million. Spotify, 65 million. Pandora, 4.7,000. Apple uh, 80,000. Amazon, 83 K. What do you think about all that? It's you.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I, I don't. I think at some point numbers just became numbers. Almost it was, it was out of my comprehension, almost it was just like um all, I was just grateful that that people enjoyed the song and and people found comfort in it, and so it was just like thank you, you know so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what um? So you're a big fan of Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you do, really you're. You're in your low twenties, correct? Yes, so Fleetwood Mac was like mom and dad's day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But yet you're such a big fan. Why is that?
Speaker 2:My dad. My dad um definitely raised me up on a lot of Fleetwood Mac and um ACDC and Jimmy Buffett and, uh, just all sorts of everything just across the board of just you know, some of those old legendary um artists, and so, um I was, I was very um just thankful, to say the least, that that that is so cool. People had showed so much love towards the song and it, you know, and it being a cover though too so I was uh, but your voice?
Speaker 1:I would never know. I mean you have a great voice, obviously. Thank you Talking with you, but you would never know I mean. That is so. I mean, if I was to close my eyes, as I said a couple of minutes ago, I would say Fleetwood Macs on my phone. This is great, I'm playing a Fleetwood Mac song. But it was you. Yeah, it was Laney.
Speaker 2:Gardner, yep, yep, but basically what we did is, um. Well, I guess what I did there's really no one there to help me out, but um, I'd started um doing these live recordings with um live audio. So I would um um hit record on my camera and then hit record on my digital audio workspace, or DAW I was using Ableton at the time for any music nerds out there.
Speaker 1:Well they're they're believe me.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and then I would just, I would just put the video with the audio that I had just gotten and, um, there it was. So there's a lot of people had questioned if it was lip singing or anything like that, which I get you know, cause a lot of people do.
Speaker 1:but no lip singing there. Did you do that like in a closet? You know they said one of the best places to do that, places to go is in a closet.
Speaker 2:I actually. My first studio was in my closet back home.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:And um cause of the clothes and how it dampens the sound and everything. So I, I, I would do my covers there, Um, but I was. I was at college during this time and I was just sitting on my college apartment bed and that's how I did. That's how I did dreams.
Speaker 1:And and how did um all your colleagues? Uh, how did they accept it? Did they go? Holy crap girl, look at this, look at these. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:There was. There was when this first started blowing up. Of course, I started getting a lot of um, cause my friends have always been supportive of of what I do and singing and everything like that. Um, so they were. They were definitely the first to call me and be like, hey, like you know your videos doing really well on social media, and I'm like, oh, okay, see, I didn't know A lot of the times, um, I would just post it and then, you know, not really look at it for a couple of days, just so I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't get too far into my head about things, cause I wasn't getting anywhere near those views before. So, um, yeah, it was actually my friends that that first saw it, and so that's when I finally looked at it and I was like oh wow, I've never gotten anything like this before, so it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:And on Tik Tok it became a some sort of um like. I remember seeing different videos of uh individuals taking that song, and I don't know if there was skateboarding or what, but there's, there was something too. And I go oh my God, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and you know, it was a whole new, whole new thing going on with Tik Tok.
Speaker 2:So, yep, yep, that's actually how I found kind of reunited with the song. Um, my dad obviously had played it, um. But when it resurfaced on radio, um, because it was blowing up on Tik Tok, I was like man, I missed this song and, and I think it would be a good one to to post, and, um, I sang it a couple times, just playing with it, and I was like okay. Then I tried the karaoke version with it. I was like I kind of sound all right on this song. I might, you know, post it on YouTube. And so One morning I just, you know, got the guts to do it and did it.
Speaker 1:And you've done other Fleetwood Mac songs as well. I think I saw Rhiannon on there I I think I saw landslide great, great song.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, how long have you actually been in the music? Well, first of all, where did you go to college?
Speaker 2:I went to Middle Tennessee State University in. Murphreesboro Tennessee.
Speaker 1:Yep. So what did you major in?
Speaker 2:I majored in music business. I first went for audio production and then I was like wow, like I don't know if I totally love the whole Science of sounds. I think I just liked it to just be, you know, natural and by ear I just thought not really know too much about it. But so I switched to music business because I had I had hoped to make a career out of music one day. So I figured Figured.
Speaker 1:How long have you been doing music, though, did I read? It was like four at the age of four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would. I started singing corn into mom. She said I was, I was basically singing since I could talk. And so she said, you know, it kind of evolved into something when I, you know, I could really carry a tune, and so they were very supportive of it from the very beginning and it was cute at first and then it turned into something that was like Alright.
Speaker 1:Exactly and when did you you started writing? At what age? Like 12, 13?
Speaker 2:Yeah, 12, 12 or 13, my dad had taught me how to play guitar. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. So I finally asked him to teach me to play guitar, and and as soon as I started playing guitar is when I started writing songs. And so beforehand I would, I would write songs like on the playground, just, you know, not really writing them down, but just Poems turned into, you know, mixed with singing, kind of turned into just singing to myself, and so I like to think I was writing songs.
Speaker 1:But you were 12 years old. Yeah, do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, it was about. It was called I love you and it was about a boy in my class and I actually Performed it in front of the entire school, which I have no idea where I got the guts to do that, but yeah so no, they're not doing that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, I my think. I think I have my mom and dad to thank for that, because they were definitely, you know, pushing me out of my comfort zone, for you know my with my best interest at heart, because they knew I loved it and so yeah, well, we can see that you love it too.
Speaker 1:Tell us a little bit about your family. You said your dad taught you how to play guitar. He's a musician, then, I would presume.
Speaker 2:He, he's more like a campfire musician. Um, all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so. So he just he plays guitar for fun, which is a lot Usually what people up in the mountains will do. It's just, you know, making music and getting together and Bringing whatever instrument you could afford and, and it was, just come to the house and we'll all play. His dad played guitar before him and I think my grandpa's, who I really Gained the inspiration to move out to Nashville and actually do the whole music business thing. He had mentioned that he had died at a really you know young age 60, 64 is young, and so when when he he had passed, I was actually four years old, so it was kind of interesting how I started singing whenever he had passed, and so I truly believe that he passed that down to me after, after he had passed away. So and he had said you know, if I could make it out of buy the money and make it out of Burnsville and make it to Nashville, he thinks he would have made it in the make it big.
Speaker 1:So that dream and he's watching you do it and he's got to be absolutely. Absolutely so. How long have you been in Nash Vegas, Nashville?
Speaker 2:Nash Vegas. I've been here since 2017.
Speaker 1:Pretty young.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you go there on your own?
Speaker 2:Well, the only way that I was gonna make it out here with, you know, financial support was if I went to college, and so I was very blessed with my parents helping to move me out there and, and, and, and, you know, pay for my schooling and Everything like that. And then, once I moved off of campus, is when I, you know, started standing on my own two feet and right now to be a big girl and Well, you got no choice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're on your own, you're living your dream, you've got a passion for what you do. You actually performed at CMA Fest last time around, correct?
Speaker 2:and yes, three, how was that was the first time, tell us about that experience so, of course, I was over the moon whenever they had announced that I would be playing CMA Fest and, honestly, I was in a group of artists that I adore some of the smaller artists in Nashville that I'd actually become friends with too but I was just honored. You know, I've seen my friends play to CMA Fest and just was waiting for my turn, basically, and finally got it, and so I was just awesome, honored.
Speaker 1:Which Laney, which stage were you on?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. And you got to ride the golf cart.
Speaker 1:It's like people were, they were taking you to different.
Speaker 2:I've been there, seen it, so yeah, yeah, I can't remember the state, for some reason. I'm blanking on the stage the hard rock, hard rock.
Speaker 1:I got you Right there on the river, got you yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, it's, it's. It's a little bit inward. It's right outside the hard rock yes Restaurant, Yep.
Speaker 1:But it's a stone's throw away from the, from the river. We used to the country radio seminar years ago. They used to dock to general Jackson there and we used to go on that for a show while we were out there. And that you know. I want to say it was RCA, sony, that group. They bring all their artists on board and then we would just cruise down the river and we would listen to all of them play live Wow, and it was always a lot of fun. They don't do it anymore. They don't do a lot of things anymore Things are changing, but so exciting.
Speaker 1:Do you have plans to be back there this year?
Speaker 2:Um, we are hoping. We've definitely, you know, kind of threw our name in there to hopefully get it this year and I think I think we got, I think we got some some good luck in that. So we will see.
Speaker 1:So, of course, you know, before we went on and I'm kind of hanging out just going through the things on the computer and I came across a video, uh, and it just I went no kidding, it's you and jelly roll. You were opening for jelly roll.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't even, just a hat. That's got to be crazy. I mean, Jeff is one of the biggest artists nowadays and we have Laney Gardner opening up for jelly roll.
Speaker 2:It was, it was surreal. Honestly, I was he, definitely, you know, uh, I was, he, was he, was, he was, he was he was the biggest artist I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:I just I, just I, I just I think it's really you know um, believe in me and that's all I could ask for Um, he's a great guy, he's got a lot going.
Speaker 2:So, yes, we're under we're under the same management, um, right now. So it's been a pleasure just to get into know him and his team and I can tell you for sure that they, they are one big family out there and it's it's what I was hoping for, cause we're, you know, I grew up very family oriented, so, and he's just he, he is inspirational to me and he answers questions that I have and, just you know, all sorts of advice. Being patient was a big one. That that.
Speaker 1:I was gonna ask if he gave you some really good advice. I mean, here's a man that's been on both sides and now he's. He's very focused and, yeah, really good. I was wondering what kind of advice that somebody like that would give somebody like you.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes it. Patience was a big one. And you know, he said you know you're gonna, there's gonna be times where you think that you should be Somewhere already. And he just said you know you're gonna, you're gonna weigh yourself out doing that. So he just said let things come and as they may and Work hard and hustle. And he said you know, just love what you do and enjoy it.
Speaker 1:And so he's awesome you know you're on your way and in jelly roll is right, you know, just it's patience. You are on your way and it started with all you know, actually, when you were four years old and losing your grandpa, because I believe he had a lot to do with this, and now look at him, or look at you and he's watching you, and now you're living in Nashville. I would assume that you're in meetings during the day. You have songwriting sessions. Talk about that. What is your day like?
Speaker 2:Um, it's we do have a lot of writing sessions right now. We're working on, you know, projects and just figuring out what we're gonna do this year. We're really excited about this year. But that's that's pretty much what a day looks like is just going to writer sessions and then I do make time for for friends and family as much as I can, because I think that's important. Um, we're in a lot of meetings right now just just looking for, you know, publishers and record label reason, opportunities and and everything. So it's a lot of stuff is on the phone Right now, rather than too much of stuff in person, just because everyone is so busy out here. So, but most of these meetings, you know, thankfully are are are in person, but the ideas and the, the events, opportunities and stuff like that are usually on the phone.
Speaker 1:So when you get oh yeah, sorry, I cut you off my bad no no, go ahead. Yeah, I have a bad habit of doing that and I just got. But so when you have friends that come into town, you have family that comes into town and they say, lanie, what can we do? Let's go do something, where do you take them?
Speaker 2:Broadway. Everybody's got to go to Broadway. Um, I take them to bar taco, which is a great restaurant, yeah, favorite restaurant, yeah, um, a lot, of, a lot of bar, a lot of bar areas, just because. We're big party family. You say to the gulch oh yeah to go out to the gulch, 12 south midtown the mumbrian street.
Speaker 1:I used to call me a demon burl, but when it, like over 20 years ago, when I first started going to nashville and I'd be in the uh Well, back then it was a cab heading to downtown and it's like trying to pronounce go, oh, this is demon burl. That remember.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the mumbrean. Yes, we actually had a um, A friend that came down that pronounced it Like that and she's like I don't know if I want to go down this street.
Speaker 1:Especially with that name. So do you know anything like this upcoming summer or whereabouts you're gonna be? You're gonna be out on tour jelly again. What's going on?
Speaker 2:um, we are doing two festivals tailgate and tall boys and um, another one that I'm blanking out on, um, but anyway, two, two upcoming, two upcoming festivals, um, and then hopefully some like little one-off dates. Um, if we get a tour, that would be fantastic. There's some opportunities that are coming in right now and we're kind of just sifting through everything as to To what we believe would be, you know, a good idea and and helpful, and just, you know, making sure everything fits and um, but Mostly I think I might be around nashville just writing music and working on projects and you know um yeah.
Speaker 1:So was this a big weekend hearing your new single on like serious and Another radio station or some radio stations. Can you tell us about that a little bit?
Speaker 2:I, you know, I, my mom, had played the highway and what we call 99.9 kiss country in ashville. Yeah, and she would turn it on every morning and we would just hear, um, you know everybody talk on it and and we would hear celebrities or our country artists come on there and, you know, give their little Little introduction and then their song would play. And so I remember telling mom, um on my more you know confident days, uh, that you know one day that's gonna be me, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be on there. Um had no idea how it worked or anything like that. I was like you know what? I'm gonna have a, I'm gonna have a song on there one day. And so, um, actually hearing it on the highway for the first time that's big ever on the radio at all, um was really, really special. And so we FaceTime mom and dad and got them in on it because they couldn't be here.
Speaker 1:But um, you hear the screaming, the laughing, the jumping over the furniture, everybody, or did you? Yeah, I think when I was watching it you may have ran out to the car or something is like everybody jumped into the car. Uh, yes, you know, was that a brother in the backseat?
Speaker 2:No, that was. That was my boyfriend at max. No, that's not max. Max was. Max was the old. That's okay. Max was all the way. Yeah, yeah, I don't even know how anybody found out about that old boyfriend. Yeah, yeah, that is so, yeah, so his name, his name's Fisher, and then I had my best friend next to me in the, in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I thought that was so cool, though, and I'd love seeing the expression a new artist like you, an independent artist, somebody that's making headway, gonna be somebody and you just the joy and the excitement and the look on somebody's face when they hear that, because you've worked so hard to get to that point, and now a whole lot in front of you yet too, which is cool, so, oh, yeah, yeah, yes, yep. No, tell us a little bit about the song.
Speaker 2:Six feet deep, so it might come as a shock to people I because I usually write my own music, but I actually didn't write six feet deep. It was sent to me through Republic, who I was signed to at the time they had pitched it to me and and, um, you know, at first, like I wasn't in, you know Into the whole. Like you know, six-feet deep thing. Like you know hatching somebody, like you know just getting rid of somebody. But I'd actually never sang the song before we went into the studio to cut it.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I sang it all the way through. I just kind of listened to it. You know I didn't really think I was gonna cut it, so I was just like, oh, whatever, I'll just, you know, give it a try. And so went in there and and they said we're gonna get levels on vocals, so just sing the whole thing, you know, all the way through. So I'm standing there, I've got my headphones on and I go to sing it and Sing it all the way through, and I just remember by the end of the song I was just shaking and just vibrating and I it was kind of just a realization point of you know, I didn't know I could sing that way. First of all I did. I'd always just sing those little pretty acoustic songs and it was almost like a release of, you know the angry part of relationships and you know fury and everything, and so it felt really good and so that was kind of the birth of you know a little bit more grittier Laney Yarner.
Speaker 1:So Lane Laney, I watched the video too, and I think the guy flipped you off when he was leaving the day in the video was it's really good, well put together.
Speaker 2:Well, that was. That was a that was a fantastic video. I'm really happy with it. So very blessed to be able to work with the people I did for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who was in the video? Because I saw a little caption under it. Thanks for having me in your video. Yeah, is that one of your best friends, or is it a BFF of some sort, or who was the guy?
Speaker 2:So am be. I didn't know am be beforehand, and so she was the, the female in the in the video, and and she's very, very nice, I met her. I met her on set of the video, but Kate and McGuire, he's one of my, my good friends, so Very, very cool, love it.
Speaker 1:So what else? What do you do for fun? It sounds like you're so wrapped up in this. I mean, you're out of school now. You're out of college and you're doing your own thing. You know your meetings and your songwriting. But when you want to take a break from all that, what do you do?
Speaker 2:Um Gosh, I guess, just hang around my friends and we just go and do fun things. I go watch Movies at the theater and we'll go to the bars. Obviously I like Preferably I like going to like bonfires, like out in the middle all those fields somewhere and or like little house parties or something, just a little bit like smaller group setting, and I just really enjoy just the more intimate like relationship building now um.
Speaker 1:You know we have the big game, the Superbowl is coming up this weekend and, yes, watch any of football. Does your boyfriend watch it? How does all that go?
Speaker 2:um, I don't. I don't think he really keeps up with it. Um, I know some of my friends do. I don't really keep up with it too much, but we definitely watch the Superbowl every year. Um, I'm actually gonna be in Charlotte, north Carolina, for this year with my family, so it's for a good party.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah and uh.
Speaker 1:Charlotte, now you said the rest of your family is there. Are you in the NASCAR or anything like that?
Speaker 2:I I do like NASCAR, I don't. I don't keep up with it. Like I said, I kind of just keep up with more music industry things and, um, unfortunately, social media things. Sometimes it gets overwhelming, but it's not. It's not too bad, but um, keep up with that. And uh, my mom and dad are actually still in burnsville, north carolina but um my siblings are all in in charlotte.
Speaker 1:Very cool, very cool. Have you been asked to uh sing the national anthem at any of these sporting events? I mean, there's so much going on now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so growing up I actually had a lot of practice singing the national anthem. Um. I would sing it for the high school football games and the basketball games and um, I would sing it for, uh, actually, casino events and the pbr professional bull riding. Um, I actually got to sing it while while I was still in school and um here recently I think I sang it not really recently, um, but outside of of school, high school, uh, vanderbilt football um.
Speaker 2:I think, I think Hopefully nascar at some point. So I'd really like to do that.
Speaker 1:What's your favorite food?
Speaker 2:Favorite food fajitas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you, you mentioned they have good fajitas in that place. You mentioned a little while ago, right? I don't I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they have any fajitas there. It's most of it's like taco, like as things like fish tacos, oyster tacos, pork, belly tacos.
Speaker 1:I got you? Do you ever go to like the national sounds to go to the AAA team? That's their baseball. They don't have a major league team yet, but they're talking about I've.
Speaker 2:I've never been Um. I've been to the national soccer league, okay which also sing the national anthem, for actually I can't believe I forgot that one. Um, but yeah, I've never been. I'd love to go to a baseball game. The national sounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah with, oh yeah, always a good time. We have a AAA team here, we're in seracuse, so it's you know, we're with the new york met, so it's always a lot of fun. Um, what, uh, would you say, is the craziest thing that has ever happened to you in your career so far. Oh man no, it's a tough question. I get it. But you know what you live, you learn and you move on.
Speaker 1:I Like negative or just like no, it's just something like something you're always going to remember, as long as you know you're doing this, or forever, forever.
Speaker 2:Um, I think when I opened for Jelly Roll in South Dakota in front of the arena and when he asked me to come out on stage and we had the crowd sing Simple man back to us, and I think that's when I realized that I would kill to do this for my entire life. It was insane. Hopefully one day I'll have as great of a community around me as Jelly Roll does with his fans and supporters. Bigest cross man.
Speaker 1:Just keep doing what you're doing? What about social media? I read your numbers here a little while ago the views and the streams. I'm sure there are a lot more now. I don't know how recent those numbers were, but there's a good side and then there's got to be a bad side. What is the bad side to all that?
Speaker 2:Social media. I think I haven't really gotten a whole lot of negative comments. My fan base is pretty protective of me, which I am so thankful for. I think probably just the discouragement of if a video doesn't do as well as other videos, just simple stuff. I don't think I've been exposed to my personal life really being exploited or anything. So yeah, I think that's the worst right now, which I'll probably look back one day and laugh and just wish it was like that, but that's probably the worst part, and obviously the good thing is it got you to where you are now.
Speaker 2:That's the best part is that it's a fantastic tool for people who live in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1:Oh, exactly right. Look at the artists that we have. I know every afternoon. I got the Zach Bryan, Warren Ziders, I got these artists that were just social media and then they noticed and just like with you, and now they're at the top of the charts.
Speaker 1:Zach Bryan his fan base is just unbelievable. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's what's happening to you. So that's a good thing. I just hope it doesn't overwhelm you like your life, because you still have to have a life of your own. You still have to be able to do things you enjoy. If you want to go down on Broadway when it's you can walk on heads. It's so crowded that you should have that opportunity. And I speak from experience because we were there in June for the NASCAR race, my wife and I, and we were there for the whole weekend. I said come on Saturday night. I said let's walk on over to Broadway Number one. It was the Saturday night, so it was a mess, oh no. And it's cool to see in the music. Every place has got the music blaring, everybody's having a good time, but it was just so crowded.
Speaker 2:So horrible, it's horrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's so many brides to be, and you know, it was just crazy. Oh yeah, over here and a group over here, and it's just like OK, we need to go back to the hotel.
Speaker 2:Time to go. We've had enough.
Speaker 1:What places. On the outskirts of town, though, I used to go and hang at the station in. I love the station in.
Speaker 2:Station in. I've actually been there once and I really liked it. It was really nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of how do you want to like it's a hockey talk, but it's it's not. I mean, how can I say that it's like run down but it's cool? Yeah, it was when I was there. I'm trying to think of the right words to use.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I totally understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1:The atmosphere and I loved it. Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, that more retro, vintage kind of, you know like not not really corporate kind of feeling. Right, it's not just one of those down bars, good old, good old out me.
Speaker 1:I don't do that anymore. Yeah, I really like.
Speaker 2:I really like Rosemary. Rosemary is a really oh yeah, I bought it but it just caught on fire. So, yeah, I caught on fire. I didn't burn everything down, but they've got a repair a lot of things, so I'm waiting for it to come back up is great, bar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cool. What about radio? How are you pushing any of your music to radio? I know we talked about serious a few minutes ago. We talked about the radio station in Asheville, but what are you overall? Are you pushing all your music to radio? Am I going to see something land on my desk here pretty quick, or you know what's? What's the deal with that?
Speaker 2:We're hoping to grab a spot on radio. We definitely pushed six feet deep to radio and they, they loved the song, so they, they, they put it on their rotation and help. Hopefully, you know, some of our new music will make it out there and so when you.
Speaker 1:Lainey when you talk about radio, though, you're talking about the station in Asheville that they put in the rotation, or radio stations in general radio stations in general.
Speaker 2:Yeah we're trying to. We're trying to go everywhere.
Speaker 1:When I get back in the office in the morning I'm definitely going to take a look. So that's pretty cool, that's pretty cool, all right. So let's see here. What else can I ask? What do you drive?
Speaker 2:I drive a Jeep, a white Jeep, mm-hmm White year. Jeep Sahara yeah, 2021.
Speaker 1:I've always loved Jeeps.
Speaker 2:Love it and just I love the beach and I like all things just cruising, and you know it must be why I like Fleetwood Mac so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you crank up Fleetwood Mac and do you cruise on the beach. Yes, go girl, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:I mean, you gotta live an easy that. Or Jimmy Buffett yeah, it's definitely. Or Bob Marley.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, look at you. I love it, I love it, I love it. What is the reaction today? I don't know if you're around other people or not, that we're talking about this, but the fact that we lost big T last night, yesterday oh my God, so sad, so sad.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:But you know there's a lot, of, a lot of buzz coming out of the Nashville community about that and you know he was only 62 and cancer sucks. We know that.
Speaker 2:So yep, yep, I honestly he died. He died way too young and it definitely shook Nashville, it shook the world, I think anybody who's a Toby Keith fan especially, you know, country music fans. Toby Keith basically said a lot of things that sorry, there's a car alarm going off, okay.
Speaker 1:It stopped.
Speaker 2:I know, that's why I looked down the. I looked outside for a second, but no, it it he. He said a lot of things that other people wouldn't in country music and did it, you know, as tastefully as possible, I think. But he is just, he is. He is a. It seemed to be a rebel at heart, but was just a good man and I wish I could have got to to meet him. But I'll just have to meet him later.
Speaker 1:I was going through a lot of my picks today and you know I went to Chicago to see him once, spent time with him Radio thing. Many years ago a Toby flew like 60 radio program directors out to his place in Norman Oklahoma. We're around at golf. I don't play golf, but I still went in a party afterwards at his house and it was just a time I will never, ever forget. It was just. It was Toby being Toby crazy. He would his beer, if you know what I mean. It was just it was a good time. And then there were other times in Nashville that my wife and I both got many opportunities to to hang with Toby. So it's just, he's going to be missed. And you're right, when it came to speaking his mind he didn't hold back. But that's what Toby was about.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, and he did it. He was, he's very, he's very proud of where he came from, and that was something that I definitely related to and something that you know. My mom even, of course, I called my parents up and like did you see? Did you see it? Cause they're big Toby Keith fans, and that's that's what my mom had mentioned too. She was just, you know, he's proud of where he comes from and he's he's proud of who he is, and I just, I wish I got to meet him.
Speaker 1:You know, we talk about all the stuff with the, the socials and how dreams went viral and all that. What your parents take on that. What was that? Were they like? Oh my God, this is crazy girl. What were they? How did they feel about all that?
Speaker 2:I think they had been waiting for it for a long time and they were the type of parents that want the best for their kids and hope, you know, that all their dreams come true. And so I think they saw the the ups and downs of just waiting for that moment and I think they were very, they were very overjoyed when it finally happened for them. It was kind of a stress lifted off their shoulders of just you know, is it going to happen for it? Is it going to not? And they, they were very, very happy, to say the least.
Speaker 1:I want to say not only did I see that on TikTok and, you know, on the socials, I want to say it definitely hit the news too. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was on various programs. I might have seen it because you did such a great job with that cover. Has anybody from like Fleetwood Mac, if they reached out to you, or anybody from that genre?
Speaker 2:Yes, so Mick Fleetwood actually reached out to me on TikTok, out of all places, and I remember the morning that I saw it. I can't remember what time he had sent it it may have been the day before and I just saw it the day after but the morning of is, you know, I saw it and I ran into my dad's bedroom and I said, um, my mom, dad's bedroom, um, they were getting ready to get up and get ready for work. But, um, I said you will never believe who just texted me and I mentioned it was Mick Fleetwood and dad leaped out of bed in his underwear and started running around the house.
Speaker 2:It was just hilarious and he was just like you know, Laney, you don't understand. That's a legend, that's a legend. And I don't think I don't think I would understand, cause I didn't live, you know, during that time to really just connect with that artist, and so seeing his reaction was, you know, made me more excited about the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Um, so yeah, what about collaborating with somebody? I know you're doing the thing with jelly, but, uh, if you could anybody but jelly roll, who would you collaborate with? Like love to collaborate with.
Speaker 2:Um, probably Miranda Lambert. I looked up to her my entire life just on the song about an aspect and and? Um, listening to her saying I think I've taken a little bit of um, just inspiration from her. Um, chris Stapleton would be absolutely amazing. Yeah, um, if it was like an, an, a love or dead thing. Probably Amy Winehouse, if you know, she was still with us and a big fan of her, um cool. So yeah, there's. There's just some of the, the few your dream tour who?
Speaker 1:if you had the option of going on tour with anybody, who would that be?
Speaker 2:Hold on. Can you still hear me?
Speaker 1:I hear you, yes, you can still hear me.
Speaker 2:I've lost sound.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:This is not good. Hold on.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm hanging, but uh, many partners, the two we're talking to tonight, and, of course, uh, hello. But anyways, uh, laney, uh, you know, if you watch the tick talk video of dreams, Fleetwood back, uh, landslide and some of those other ones this is the young lady that did that. Now she's living in Nashville. This is pretty cool and doing some really really good stuff. So just a little bit of a disconnect with the sound. No, that's all you know. So this is, uh, this happened to us earlier.
Speaker 1:I don't know exactly what to say Everybody's probably explaining I was, I was, I was, you know what? Uh, you know what we could do here? Watch this. I'm just we can say good night. So here's you know what. This is the old fashioned way. So we can say let's say good night, so hang on, hang on.
Speaker 2:This is what we're doing here. Let's just hold on, we're going to see. I'm can't see the screen right now. Oh wait, what'd you say?
Speaker 1:I don't know, Hang on. This is like did I fold it wrong? Oh, we can do this. We can say let's say good night. No, you can't read it.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to read it. I'm mirrored.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. No, holy cow, hang on a minute. It's mirrored. You're right, and that shouldn't be like that. So we're going to do this. Let's see. Bye, now, we do this, all right, look, I know this is what we're going to do, and she is actually probably dialing my phone.
Speaker 2:You know what we should do.
Speaker 1:Yes, do it. Anyways, Laney Gardner, this is great because, oh so, don't ever think that. See, now we have, see, I have her number and she's got my number. There she is. There you go, you know what? What I wanted to do was, right now, I just wanted to thank you for joining us, laney Gardner. We spent a lot of time together tonight.
Speaker 2:Just trying to figure out everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly. And actually now she has my number so she's probably going to prank call me. So no, I'm just kidding. But hang on to that, hang on to the number, because country radio seminars in a couple of weeks. Love to you, know, be able to shake your hand and thank you for being who you are. And you know you can find us in bar lines just saying which is in the Omni hotel. So that's pretty cool, can you? Uh, oh, what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. All right, we're back. I think we're back what? I don't know what it's doing, so weird.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:We can also continue, if you would like to, until it messes up again.
Speaker 1:No, we're good, we're good. I've taken up a lot of your time tonight and it wasn't my intention to do that, but we got it all figured out and that's why you know Skip Clark and Skip happens, and you know and it happens, but um real quick. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Speaker 2:Hopefully, dream girl, dream, hopefully with a Grammy. That would be cool. Just seeing the Grammys here recently, I just, you know, it was definitely just a wish. You know I was there and so hopefully with a Grammy and hopefully with a good, solid career and hopefully still doing it, you know.
Speaker 1:What would? Uh, before we say goodbye and you're mentioning the Grammys, so I know what my favorite part was and I have the feeling it might have been the same with you. Um, of the Grammys, what was your favorite part?
Speaker 2:Miley Cyrus's performance was just immaculate and I really I really love, I really love Miley Cyrus. That's another collaboration I would just love to do. Um, she definitely went all out and she just she's just awesome. And then, and then, lainey Wilson's speech. I thought was really personal and fantastic, and so Lainey's the best One of the best, they're all good, they're all good.
Speaker 1:I don't mean she's the best, you're the best, they're all good, you're all good. Um, I was going to say, of course, the Tracy Chapman, luke Combs, and Luke kept looking at her like he was in awe that Tracy Chapman was on that stage at 59 years old, singing like she. She didn't miss a beat and it was just like brought tears to my eyes. I remember the original when Tracy did it and Luke Combs did it and they have that. Have them both on stage. To me that was the highlight of the night.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 1:What was the mess up of the night? This is what I'm thinking Now. You know how they go back and they remember all those that have passed throughout the year that that was very sloppy put together.
Speaker 1:You saw Jimmy Buffett, then you didn't see Jimmy Buffett. Then you saw Jimmy Buffett, then you had Steve uh, stevie Wonder singing and then it was just kind of a sloppy mix and it kind of dragged on. I know it needs to be recognized and I saw a good friend of mine, charlie Monk, on that screen and it's like wow, but still to me that wasn't very well put together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have. We have a lot to owe to them and so I think you know anything that that is done, should be done, you know, well thought out and I completely agree. You know we, we owe everything to these legends. Just, you know, basically paving path for us and for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, someday I'm going to go. Is that? Is that Laney Garner? Oh my God, look at her. You know what I would love to do. I'd love to be on that red carpet someday. I mean, I've done interviews in my life, I've done a lot of shows. We do the Syracuse area music awards, we do all that. But at that level I would love to be on the red carpet. I would I just eat that stuff up and I just love doing it. I love talking to people. Hence that's why we're talking tonight. And absolutely so cool, it's so cool. Well, I'm not going to keep you any longer. Laney, laney Garner, if somebody wanted to get info on you, check on your music. I know you dropped some songs back in October as well. If somebody wanted to get all that, where can they go?
Speaker 2:If you're on Facebook, instagram, pretty much any social media, there is a link in my bio that takes you to all of those things. We've tried to make it, you know, as easy as possible for people to see everything that we're doing right now. But music wise, it's on Spotify, apple Music, everywhere on every music platform, youtube, so there's a lot of access points.
Speaker 1:Love it, love it, and I hope to see you on the road this summer too. We make our rounds.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Pretty cool, and will you be with Jelly again?
Speaker 2:I think. So I think we've definitely got some plans where we'll reunite with Jelly and, if he'll have me, no doubt.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt. Laney Garner, thank you again for joining us on Skip Happens. You're a great person, great personality, fantastic talent. You've got it all going and you're on your way. You're on your way, just don't look back and look ahead Alright. Thanks for joining us tonight. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1:Laney, garner, everybody, there she is.