Collin Nash | Singer/Songwriter

Melodies N’ Memories: The Podcast | Show Notes

Welcome to a special edition of the podcast where we take you on a trip down memory lane with fourth-generation singer-songwriter, Collin Nash. Prepare yourself for an enthralling journey into the heart of this gifted artist's life and music. From his origins, singing in a family band to his much-anticipated single 'Secondhand Stories', we uncover the untold stories behind his inspiration and passion.

We navigate the bustling music scene in Nashville, the hub of his creativity, and tease out its influence on Collin's career. Together, we stroll down Broadway, soaking in the vibrancy that's shaped his musical journey. Collin recounts his experiences with songwriter rounds and the role they've played in his development as an artist. We also delve into his friendships within the music industry, revealing the driving force behind his competitive creative environment and its impact on his music.

As we wrap this musical odyssey, we shine a light on memorable moments from his career and the country music legends that have left an indelible impact on his style. We get a sneak peek into his upcoming single, 'Secondhand Stories', and the inspiration behind this masterpiece. For anyone seeking to understand the grit, passion, and dedication that goes into making music, this episode is a must-listen.

We are honored to discuss the Melodies and Memories that make up his journey.  

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Chapters

• 0:01 Melodies and Memories Podcast With Colin
• 9:40 Family Band, Concerts, and Musical Influences
• 18:54 Early Songwriting and Musical Journey
• 29:35 Nashville's Music Scene and Songwriting Community
• 35:06 Connections and Musical Collaborations
• 46:43 Country Music History and New Single
• 59:35 Memories and Music
• 1:15:21 Highlighting Successful Musician Colin Nash
• 1:22:45 Closing Chapter and Musical Journey

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

No. Hey, this is James McNaren. You're streaming the melodies and memories podcast with Gillian and Aaron Trot

Speaker 2: 0:13

Welcome to the Melody's and Memories podcast with Jillian in and Shriver brought to you by Harlow Revolution. Each week, they connect melodies and memories with fans and singer songwriters from all genres alike. When all else in life is gone, music will be left to leave the legacy of life's adventures. Please welcome your hosts of the melodies and memories by cast. Jillian and Aaron Shriver.

Speaker 3: 0:38

Hello and welcome everyone to season seven of the Melody's and Memories podcast. I'm your cobos, Jillian Travert.

Speaker 4: 0:44

I'm your host, Erin Travert.

Speaker 3: 0:46

And our mission tonight is to provide a platform for motivated singersongwriters, passionate bands, or someone who's making a difference in and around the music community. We hope everyone listening leaves inspired with a positive outlook and begins connecting their own melodies to memories. Tonight, we're presented by our own good friends at Arlo Revolution, cinematic wedding films, music videos, and promos. Find them at arlo revolution dot com. When tree planted, for every one thousand downloads of the show, we plant a tree with one tree planted. Download the show on your favorite podcast app. And Padex. Padex are the hottest tool to get your next great interview, unique interview questions, the palm of your hand. Our on screen sponsors are art on a higher wire by Joel, original custom artwork inspired by your life moments, treasured photos, and memories. If you're looking for ways to support our responsibilities and memories, music media, then head on over to our Patreon page where tiers started just a dollar a month. The next best way to support the show is to like share review on all podcast platforms. Remember, you can join us live every Monday night. It's seven PM central on Facebook and YouTube. Where you can interact with the show, ask questions, or join in on the live chat with your favorite guests. Visit our website, melody's and memories dot com for music news, concert reviews, photos, playlists, and more.

Speaker 4: 2:01

That bug in my water up here. Oh. Next season, you're writing the the this all out. I'm gonna I promise. I'm gonna let you write it next season flows a lot better.

Speaker 3: 2:10

I think it does fine. Alright. Let's get going.

Speaker 4: 2:13

I get that bug out. Guys, I am like I said, I'm a very excited for tonight. We have for the last couple of years, we followed this one singer songwriter, Ben Chapman for a while. And if you guys have seen him at all last year or two, you've seen this guy out with him playing guitar, but now it's time for Colin to do his own thing. And I I love it. And we're gonna talk to him about his his just journey into all this. And Dude, it's pretty cool one too. I'm I'm excited for this because a lot of cool stories tonight. But tonight, we welcome in to the show, senior songwriter Colin Nash. Nash is born and raised in Salem, Missouri. Now his eyes out. No other than Music City, Nashville. He's a fourth generation musician, and he comes from a long line of musical geniuses. Colin is the kind of musician who lives eats and breathes his craft. You can hear the passion and dedication. Every single note, these things are plays, or whether he's performing in front of a packed venue as a lead guitar player for captivating audiences with his lyrics. At songwriting rounds. Colin puts his heart and soul into every performance, but don't just take my word for it. Stick around for this episode where we dive into it, Colin's background. Inspiration and, of course, his music. We'll talk about his favorite artists and what's coming up next form. We are honored to discuss in all of his memories that make up his journey we're working on.

Speaker 5: 3:20

Hey.

Speaker 4: 3:22

What's up, buddy? How are you doing? Right. Oh, I'm sorry. Who was that? So we got this delay again a little bit, I think.

Speaker 3: 3:31

Yeah. We'll see. We'll see how it goes.

Speaker 4: 3:34

K. I I heard him start talking and it went out.

Speaker 3: 3:36

It's okay. We'll be okay. We're gonna make it work.

Speaker 4: 3:39

How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 6: 3:41

I'm doing great. How are you doing?

Speaker 4: 3:42

Man, we're hanging in there, man. We're excited for this episode. And man, once again, sorry, we missed you. She tobler a couple of weeks ago, we had an argument out of the house of blues. We tried to get over and just wasn't in time. But, dude, we heard we heard some of the things that you you put on a show over at Carol's dude. Tell me a little bit about your trip in Chicago a week ago.

Speaker 6: 3:59

Well, it was awesome. I I love Chicago. As you as you see, I'm a, you know, a Cardinal fan. So every time that I see Covey Blue, it kinda makes me wanna puke. But AREL's being just a couple blocks from Wrigley. That was the first time that's seen Wrigley field in person. And What an awesome place to consume baseball? I just kind of got it. I understood for a moment. Why people love Chicago Cubs Baseball. All the bars around there, like, wrigglyville wrigglyville is just so cool. And I I I loved my time there and Carol's was Amazing too. The staff was very kind, met a lot of cool people there too. So, yeah, it was it was a success and they getting to play with Meg anytime that I get to be out with her is is wonderful.

Speaker 4: 4:49

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll we'll talk about her and Ben every the whole bang later on. But, yeah, dude, I saw that one. I was researchers of the show. I saw a lot of cardinal red, and I was like, dude, because I got a club shot too on my legs. So I was like, alright. That's gonna be a fun one. And I won't turn my camera. I got all the cubs stuff from our our one and only world series that we've ever seen. So

Speaker 6: 5:07

Well, hey. You know, I was happy for you guys.

Speaker 4: 5:10

I wasn't I was actually in Ridleyville outside Ridley the night that they won. Do you watch in the Marquis switch over his coolest thing ever?

Speaker 6: 5:17

Yeah. That's for you, that'll definitely be a once in a lifetime moment.

Speaker 4: 5:22

So we're gonna take a shit off for sure, dude. Like, I saw somebody that my grandfather was was born and he died. I mean, he never got to see it. He was the biggest cubs fan I ever knew. I was like, dude, how how do you go a life time. Outstanding. Your favorite team when they were, ah, it sucks.

Speaker 3: 5:37

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 5:37

But, oh, well, dude, we wanna throw this way back to man, to your earliest musical memory, man. Kind of what was being played around the house when you're growing up. I mean, I you come from a long line of musicians, man. Tell me a little bit about the family background.

Speaker 6: 5:50

I I do come from a long line. So my great great grandparents on every branched or musicians So the the one that I can name my my grandpa Jesse was a was a fiddler. This is back in, like, the great depression you know, pre great depression. He's a Ozark fiddler, and then a great grandpa was a Banjo player. All my grandmas play piano and saying, all my grandpa's play guitar and my parents sing. So it's It's kinda one of those things where and it's an Ozark thing, I think. Because I'm not the only family from that region that has the same sort of background. It's just there's nothing to do there but work. And when you're not working, the only way to have fun is just to sing and play with your family. So that was how I was raised. I was lucky enough to be raised with that. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, I you were saying something about, like, earliest musical memory. It would've that sort of thing, like, seeing my grandpa lead the hymns at church on day mornings. They used to sit in the sound booth back in the very back. While he had to handle out and was, you know, leading the service, that's probably the earliest thing that I can remember of, you know, just being around it and already being, like, consumed with it, wanting to know what it was all about.

Speaker 4: 7:21

So you started singing in church, man. I wrote about that, but what I what I I was really interested in it's kinda funny to throw this back to when we got married. We had an elvis impersonator show up to our wedding, but little help us, man. You gotta tell me a little bit how how that came about and just about your time being a little help us too. That was kinda cool reading about that though.

Speaker 6: 7:38

Yeah. That's a that's a strange story. So, like I said, a group singing in church, The guy that came and replaced my grandpa as the praise and worship leader when the church was going modern was this guy who had grown up in the area but had come to us from Oklahoma. He had spent time in a church down there. And when he was down there, he started a career on the weekends before church, you know, as a elvis impersonator. And he wasn't, like, you know, your pokey poke birthday party, Elvis impersonator. I mean, he would he won the contests and Memphis that they have every year during Elvis Week. I think he won it twice. And he played

Speaker 3: 8:22

So he was legit.

Speaker 6: 8:25

Get legit. And so because my family was kind of known for being very musical. He wanted to put together a band that he could travel around and play with on the weekends. And so he recruited my grandpa to play guitar, my uncle to play lead guitar, my cousin to play bass, my grandma and my mom and my dad just background vocals, and then another cousin to sing background vocals. So my whole family made up that backing band, and that started when I was probably seven. So after about a year of them doing that, Richard, who was the Edison personator, noticed that I had really dug into some Elvis music, and I loved it, ate it up, and could sing all the songs that they did during the show, and he said, hey, What would you think about dressing up and coming out and doing a song during our show and you could be literally. And I was like, well, that sounds awesome. So My mom got on got online and bought me an Elvis suit and some little white ropeers and a wig. And I started mad for Oh, probably three or four years. Mhmm. Loved it. Still love Elvis. That was such a formative time for me as a musician, learning to perform, and getting to do that. And then I I only did that for maybe about three or four years. And then I had started playing guitar at that point, and they let me hop in as the rhythm player. Then my uncle moved to Nashville to write songs, and I took the lead guitar playing position. So I did that until I was probably fifteen or sixteen. So my whole childhood was that family band playing on the weekends.

Speaker 4: 10:12

It's like a modern day partridge family band. I love that.

Speaker 6: 10:16

Pretty good.

Speaker 4: 10:17

What was your favorite album song to do on your your little album is over there? What what was your favorite one?

Speaker 6: 10:22

There I did this song called Man Woman Blues, and I wish that I could place the movie that it's from. But I've always loved that song. Favorite Elvis song though outside of what I was saying was I just can't help believe it, which is on the that's the way it is album. I love It's beautiful.

Speaker 4: 10:44

Yeah. I love that. We used to live outside Memphis. We lived in Mississippi for a while, and we we went out to we went to two Blowers to see the house. We used to live in the Graceland. One of the coolest things we got to go to Sun Sun studios, and I that's why I got to hear the whole story about million dollar quartet, I'm like, dude. That is awesome. Oh, yeah. How all four of them came together that night of Memphis. And I actually bought the CD and listened to it. It was just phenomenal to have every track on it.

Speaker 6: 11:05

It is. That it's a fantastic record. Such a cool moment music history, you know? Just It's a cloud. So

Speaker 4: 11:15

what was your first concert that you actually paid to to go to as a fan? Like, nothing from church or anything like that, but, like, hey, I'm gonna go, who was it? And did you take anything away from that?

Speaker 6: 11:24

I'll tell you that the first concert that I paid to go see was Cadillac three. I went and saw the Cadillac three when I was fifteen or sixteen. My mom drove me and my girlfriend at the time to a casino in Oklahoma. And it was a terrible setup, but I was just I loved those guys so much in school. That was like my Jeep playlist. I had this the first album on CD, and it did not leave my CD player, my the entire duration of high school. So that was the first concert that I paid money to go see. Was those guys?

Speaker 4: 12:03

Hell yeah, dude. We got to see him here a few months back. They put the rave -- Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:07

--

Speaker 4: 12:07

as the night they shot the music video in the pool for the recent song out. Yeah. Dude, that place is cool.

Speaker 3: 12:13

Yeah. They found a great show.

Speaker 4: 12:15

So they've

Speaker 6: 12:16

they've whole, like, top notch. I I guys, Jared is a very good guy. I enjoy anytime I get to spend time around him and talk to him.

Speaker 4: 12:28

Hell brothers too, man. I love what they're doing too. They're one of the one of the few that are out there are just still doing it their way, and I love that.

Speaker 6: 12:36

Yeah. Yeah. There are few and far between, and they've always stayed true. It's it's great to see.

Speaker 4: 12:41

So for you, did guitar come easy for you, having everybody around playing and being an intro. I mean, I'm sure you do you watch YouTube videos or anything to learn how a player do you just pick up from who was next to you?

Speaker 6: 12:54

No. I I didn't take I I took one guitar lesson from my uncle, and it was basically like hey, this is the guitar. This is how you tune it. This is how it works. Now go do it. I I didn't learn stuff off YouTube. I've never been like the I wanna learn this song. I wanna learn that song. Like, I I was never really that guy. The closest I came to that was when I got really into John Mayer when I was probably fourteen or fifteen, and that was kinda learning how to play lead, and and doing stuff like that. But it did it came easier than what I think the way it goes for other people. And it's because what you said, like, everybody in my family plays. And if you wanna hang out, if you wanna be in the living room and converse with the adults, Well, you have to converse with music and with an instrument. And so I could tell by watching my grandpa's play guitar. This is what sounds good and this was this is what doesn't. And until I can play like that, I'm not allowed to sit in.

Speaker 4: 14:03

Yes. It's a boys table until you can play like that. And we go to the adults table.

Speaker 6: 14:07

Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 4: 14:11

I love it too. So I I love that your your first concert was t c three two that you actually saved up to go see those guys. That's a good one, but I love that you were just born into music and and all, dude. Is this so cool to have surrounded to you. Have the universal language in your house just be music. It's just it's freaking awesome, man.

Speaker 6: 14:31

Yeah. I won the lottery. I'm concerned. I mean, I've never known it any different, and I still love it so much. It's like it's the biggest part of my life, you know. And I listen to it every day. I play it. I watch YouTube videos about my favorite artist. Like, it's I'm consumed by it. It's it's all I've known and it's it's it's been this way my whole lives. I've never known any different.

Speaker 4: 15:00

I love it. So who is some other account when you got a little bit older? Me or your teenage So you kinda started developing maybe a different case for music or something. Who are some of your influences that you were listening to at that point? And how did you incorporate them into your music at the time?

Speaker 6: 15:16

Well, so as far as influences goes, it's it's kind of a weird thing because I grew up not being able to listen to secular music, like, at all because of the the whole church thing. So it wasn't until I was eleven or twelve that I could start listening to. Little bit of whatever I wanted. So I just went as far as I could in a direction of my, oh, I can listen to anything. I'm gonna listen to the heaviest thing that there is metallica, you know. So it was like metallica, Green Day, my chemical romance. I was really big into that pop talk thing that was happening in the mid two thousands. And once that kind of sowing wild oats musically once that wore off, I started to circle back to some of the stuff that I could listen to, Ronda, which a lot of that was country in Bluegrass. So many of my on my dad's side, all the pickers on that side are Bluegrass. And all the pickers on my mom's side are country and blues and rock and roll. So I started listening to all the stuff that my grandparents listened to, which was, you know, grandpa Jones, you know, that Bancho player. Back in the day, Roger Miller, Tom C. Hall, John Hartford. And then on the other side of that was like the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Elvis. My mom loved Michael Jackson. So it was this melting pot of influences. And I gravitated towards country music because I've always been lyrically driven and you know, they're talking about where I'm from. They they're talking about what we do, what I know. That's that's kind of how that started. In high school, it was like, Hank Junior. I listened to a ton of Hank Junior in high school. And Johnny Cash and Randy Travis, Keith Whitley. That was my my guys in high school and then modern stuff like TC3. I really like Midland when they first came out. Stuff like that. It was a huge melting pot of influence.

Speaker 4: 17:35

I know where you get the story telling from now of those influences, man, definitely some storytellers.

Speaker 6: 17:39

You're listening there.

Speaker 4: 17:41

Yeah. So when did you finally get into songwriting and and really start writing Did you dabble in writing beforehand or maybe journal or anything like that? Or, I mean, when did it really start coming into you?

Speaker 6: 17:55

You know, I've always kept a journal off and on, and I was always making stuff I can always make up words to songs. I would hear a song on the radio and not know the words to but know the melody and I just make up my own words. Too. You know? Like, she thinks my tractor's sexy. I got a whole slew of alternative leers to that.

Speaker 3: 18:21

Sounds like Avery.

Speaker 4: 18:22

I still dreads this day. Yeah.

Speaker 6: 18:25

Yeah. So all these jobs

Speaker 3: 18:27

He's good. It doesn't matter. Right?

Speaker 6: 18:29

Sounds good. I I honestly think that doing that might have really set me up for success and knowing how to work cadets and Rime scheme and understanding that. Like, when you're that young and you're starting to understand how that works, I mean, your brain's a sponge. You'll learn more about that than trying to do it than you ever will when you're twenty and moving to Nashville and trying to add out. So I I started writing songs when I was in fourth grade as when I think I wrote my first song. Wrote two that year. And then I would just write a couple songs here and there through the grades, you know, fifth sixth grade, and that eighth grade is when I started doing like, oh, I'm gonna write a song one a week, you know. And I've got I had written a hundred and fifty songs before I moved to Nashville, and I moved to Nashville right after I graduated high school. So I was writing songs all through high school trying to get better at it and not really playing them out and doing that until I was, you know, my junior year. That's why I started playing bars, doing gigs every weekend of my stuff. So, yeah, I've I've always written

Speaker 4: 19:47

I was born.

Speaker 3: 19:48

That's awesome.

Speaker 4: 19:49

So the first song I read was about a girl. Did she know that you had a song where are you she wrote are you a song for?

Speaker 6: 19:56

Yeah. I had a I had a crush on this girl's third grade, the sixth grade. And I wrote her song in fourth grade, we were both an Honors choir. And once a month, our choir director would have, like, a show and tell segment. So, like, you know, we stop practicing whatever dome song that we were working all the time to show what we could do. And so, you know, at that time, kids would get up and they do like a Camp Rock song or a high school musical song. And I got up there with my little guitar, about that girl. And it was just, like, two verses in a chorus. But I kinda got hooked. That that was when I knew, like, oh, you can write songs and it affects people because they had just loved it. Like, I had this little fan club for a while in the art world. It was it was that's when I got hooked. That that fed my ego way too much in a young age. Kinda set me up, you know, to for do it forever.

Speaker 3: 21:06

That's incredible. Our son's that age right now, and I can't see him ever doing anything like that.

Speaker 4: 21:10

No. We'll see. But he will all get into.

Speaker 6: 21:15

I was I was very unaware, you know. Like, I was just kinda coasting through and doing whatever I wanted. There's no social cues involved with me at age, you know. So it's probably pretty obnoxious. You know? I if you're a parent, you'd probably rather have a kid that, like, isn't so outward that they're just doing stuff like that. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 21:38

So I I was I was looking into this. When your first gigs was in Cuba, dude, tell me a little bit about this. You're, like, a fifteen plan to show out in Cuba. How did this go?

Speaker 6: 21:49

Yeah. There was a there was a barn party, which they have I'm sure they have them everywhere, but in Missouri, barn parties, you know, they just hang up a ton of Christmas lights and barn and fill up a bunch of coolers full of beer and go at it. And that band that I grew up playing, and the bass player was offered the gig. And he kinda saw an opportunity for me to get for me to go, you know, go do this thing and get introduced to doing it on my own because of the time, like, that was starting to die off the whole album's band thing. So he's like, you should take this gig. It's fifty dollars. You'll play four hours, and you can go set up a little speaker. And so I did. I still since they don't think I've ever been that nervous to play show, even with all the performing prior, you know. Because then it was like, it's amazing. It's it's my name, you know. People say, who's playing tonight? And I hadn't really had that yet. So but I got through it and really enjoyed that fifty dollars that I got. And I started just picking up every little bar gig that I could get. Mhmm. Yeah. This is a snowball fact.

Speaker 4: 23:06

To you guys. Awesome. So a little I'm just gonna kinda get this little sidetracked here, but I've been showing some pictures throughout the night. And a couple of times, this this old band showing showing up dude. You gotta tell me about this band because honestly, it looks like there's some memories or some stories behind this thing. Yeah. Just tell me a little bit about traveling this thing.

Speaker 6: 23:26

Yeah. It was a nineteen ninety four Ford f three fifty O'Connell line. It was diesel. We bought it, let's see, twenty sixteen. So I moved to Nashville in twenty fifteen. Realize that gigging is not really a thing here unless you plant Broadway. And I wanted to hit the road. And all my buddies that were playing with me at the time. We were all from the same area, and they were sitting around there, working hard jobs, like, we wanna hit the road. So we got signed to an awful booking agency deal out of the Lake of the Ozarks and the guy who owned that company also owned this van and sold me this van for twenty hundred dollars. And it broke down not as often as you think that it would. It was pretty dependable. But I loved that band. We had we had two rows of seating and it was so big that we had room to fit two bean bag chairs on the and, of course, when we were really road dogging, we figured out that we could save a lot of money, just throwing the gear in the back of the van and not bringing the trailer. So that's what we ended up doing most of the time. And we we took that van everywhere all the way from, you know, North Dakota down to the very tip of Louisiana. Just a bunch of twenty and twenty one year old boys on the road and that thing having the time of their lives. There was a a little stretch of time where I moved back to Salem, Missouri in twenty seventeen. To save up some money for a new place here. And so it was, like, six months there. Me and my buddy, Dalton Brown, who I moved here with. He's not working for Lainie Wilson.

Speaker 4: 25:22

Yeah. Is he over Lainie? I thought so. Yeah.

Speaker 6: 25:24

Yeah. He's a he's her guitar tech now. So me and him moved to Nashville together. We grew up playing in my band together. So Dalton and I moved back for six months. And every day, it was getting that van, turn up k kids, which was like the local rock station. Old sound radio in there. We go to sonic and we get, you know, all the food that we could buy. And we play rock and roll all day. And then when I got to late at night, we'd run through McDonald's and get a twenty piece snugget each and watch king of the hills till four in the morning. That was our routine for six months, and that was bands the centerpiece of that. That was one of the funnest times of my life. Just being young and no responsibilities, just playing music.

Speaker 4: 26:12

Yeah. I miss those days, man. I miss those days when you get eat Sonic and McDonald's both in the same day and never put a pound on. Yeah. Now here I am forty one years old almost and I can't do that anymore. Lose weight will save my life.

Speaker 3: 26:25

Right? But,

Speaker 6: 26:26

yeah, now starting to realize that I can't do that anymore. The way I used

Speaker 3: 26:31

Yeah. It catches up with you.

Speaker 6: 26:34

It does.

Speaker 4: 26:36

So you jumped down to Nashville out of high school, but you played sports throughout high school too. You coulda you coulda went and done some baseball school scholarship stuff. Right?

Speaker 6: 26:46

Yeah. I got offered a scholarship my senior year. To go play at a SBU, Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. It's a D2 school. And, you know, I just kind of felt my arm starting to give. As a lot of musicians in Nashville do those former athletes, you know? And so I thought, well, that's not gonna hold up. I am a thousand percent gonna flunk out of college. I'm gonna move to Nashville. And the conversation that I have with my parents about it went, relatively smooth, and it just kinda wheels up. I I wanted to go write songs and play music. Not that I didn't wanna play baseball, but I played so much baseball growing up. That I was not burnt out on it, but I was fulfilled if that makes sense. Like, I I've I've played enough. You know, I don't miss, like, a Tuesday afternoon anymore the way I used to. So, you know, I'm happy with the decision. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 27:58

Good. Was

Speaker 4: 27:58

there ever a time that you regretted it or just felt like, man, maybe I should at least tested the waters with that?

Speaker 6: 28:08

Maybe maybe sometimes in the spring when it gets really warm, and nice. And there's a certain smell that there has that kinda just I don't know. It reminds me of, like, I was finally warming up to go hit balls and play catch, and I kinda wanna do that. The bug really bit me again, maybe about a year ago, and I joined this Sandlot League here in Nashville that's pretty much made up of bar tenders and songwriters and producers It's like a eight to ten team league and they meet on Saturdays and Sundays and and play. And I ended up playing, like, three or four games and getting that out of my system. It it was able to get my system so fast because I realized that my body does not do the same things.

Speaker 3: 29:01

Yeah.

Speaker 6: 29:02

It does not. I was so sore. I I couldn't believe how sore that I was after

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Thirteen or twenty fourteen. And that the summer going into my junior year, my cousin and I drove my keep Cherokee down here for CMA fast. It's just me and him. We're both sixteen. And we saw Jared play at bluebird with Rodney Claussen and Lee Thomas Miller.

Speaker 4: 29:55

Mhmm.

Speaker 6: 29:56

And that is what really set the hook for me of, like, I want to move to Nashville. Watching these guys and like, the people who wrote these songs that you've heard on the radio, hearing it like that was a game changer for me. I was like, this is the coolest thing that I could ever think about doing. I know I could do this. I'd love to do it. And I kind of decided then that I was gonna end up here and I was gonna do it. From that trip.

Speaker 4: 30:24

Dude, that's awesome. I mean, you're just taking that away and seeing that city for the first time. I remember the first time I went there's I went to radio broadcast school rail, high school. Two thousand one. I wanna say, two thousand two. And I interviewed for a job in Huntsville, and I swung through Nashville And I think that was one of my first times. If not my very first time I ever in Nashville, I was like, dude, this is place just feels different. I mean, that's before it it looks like it does now, but it had a completely different feel to it then.

Speaker 6: 30:52

Yeah. It's hard to describe what that feeling is. Of if if you don't live here or you're about to move here, it's it's indescribable. It's it feels like there's magic in this valley. And I still believe that there is.

Speaker 4: 31:07

Oh, yeah. For sure.

Speaker 6: 31:08

It's a special place.

Speaker 4: 31:10

There's one time. This is probably the time when Dash really started trans transferring or forming for me at least. One side of the Broadway was a slowest while smoking bars. The other one was was non smoking bars. You go to the smoking bars and hear a traditional Johnny Cash type country. You go over to the smoking bars with all your new pop country coming in all the newer stuff. Like, okay. You kind of pick what side of the street you wanna go on. Now it's all over the place, but I still remember that. I'll never forget that little moment where you it kinda was a little divided and broadway there.

Speaker 6: 31:39

Yeah. When I when I first got here, I was not old enough to be down there at all. And so I didn't really get to experience that. Plus that, that might have been even a little bit before my time of getting here. But I I can remember that during the daytime when I just go, you know, brown that Tootsies and Roberts was always like old country. There was always a really great pedal steel player in there and an insanely good guitar player. And it all kinda led to me thinking, like, what what am I doing here? I I or I don't know. Like, I'm not on this level. I think everybody has that moment when they first go to Broadway and they see how good everybody is down there.

Speaker 4: 32:27

Everybody said I'm good. Yeah. You gotta put pick any way off of Broadway and put them in on a stage in arena somewhere in there, there's gonna be just some phenomenal noise.

Speaker 3: 32:35

Great. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 32:35

So many good people. So over the times of being in Nashville and stuff, it's been cool to watch all these different writers rounds pop up over the time. And being a songwriter, jumping on him is really cool. We were lucky enough a couple years ago to host revival for our hundredth episode and have an all phenomenal lineup. It was actually one of the last revival was at Tin Roof too. I think it was like the last revival that Tim Ruff that we got the host and we loved it. But how things like revival and whiskey jam, everything else, play a part in just kinda your career?

Speaker 6: 33:10

Well, whiskey jam was this my dog's crawling up in my lap.

Speaker 5: 33:16

Yeah. I'm

Speaker 4: 33:17

so good. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3: 33:19

Oh, it's so sweet.

Speaker 6: 33:21

He's curious. I see. On whiskey jam was this thing to me when I first moved to town that, you know, everybody played. If you were gonna be anybody, you played whiskey jams. So I strived to get to the point where I could play whiskey jam. That was a bucket list thing for me. And I think I finally got to play it in twenty seventeen, so I've been in town two years. Revival is probably the single most important community that I've that I've been a part of since I moved to town and started started chasing this. Revival for me is like it's all of the misfit toys of town. And I don't mean that as in, like, they don't fit in anywhere, but they don't fit in with that de mambrian. There's not a lot of, you know, fist bumps and growing down at Red Door with the revival crowd. You know, everybody that belongs to that community is bit left of center musically. And is a little bit more thought out reserved in public and really dedicated to the craft, not for the love of money, but because of the importance of writing songs and what songs do to culture and how they affect how they affect everything, you know. I met all of my best friends at revival. Then Paylizzie was working with me at a golf course here in town. That's how we got introduced. And I was about fed up with talent because I couldn't break through on the top forty thing. I hated ride hated writing those songs, number one, because that was still, like it was still Florida Georgia Lonestown at that point. That's just It's not me. So I couldn't play that game anymore. And I was really thinking about moving home and just doing my thing from Missouri. And Then he was like, man, you should just come to revival and meet some of these people. I'll get you up. You can play and see how you like it. See if you can find some friends. And the first night, I'm I was there. I met Harper Meg and Tyler Halbertson. And that struck up lifetime friendships or lifelong friendships, you know, There's still all of them are my my best friends in the whole world and do anything to them. It all started there. And at that time, we were all just outcasts, you know. Everybody was telling us in these meetings that we were getting like, what you're doing isn't marketable and it doesn't make money, but keep trying. You you go kiddo. Keep on going. And we were just kinda like, you know, that, you know, we're just gonna band together and have, like, not, like, sort of, like, friendly competition, but we really did want each other to keep getting better and we all liked each other's songs. So we all just started writing together pretty exclusively. And we had a big group chat couple different times where hey, check this song out I got today. It's like, oh, it's so good. Now I gotta write something better than that. So you back a few days later, and you'd be like, here's what I did. Everybody's like, oh, that's so good. And Meg would be like, here's what I did, and it's still like one of the best songs I've heard. No. That was the poster that was created out of that revival thing with all of us. I'm so thankful for that.

Speaker 4: 37:24

Yeah. I mean, we I got like I said, we got the host one revival. I also think we've just be able to watch everybody sit on a church view like that and share the stories and tell the songs. This is something completely different. I love it. I'm so glad they're back to you. They're back doing shows again. It's just phenomenal they are. I got very lucky. In two thousand seven, I used to follow Church around Eric Church around a lot.

Speaker 5: 37:43

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 37:43

I mean, I went and saw him at little bar in Mississippi and Jonathan Singleton was on a stool playing songs, man. I'm like, who the hell is this guy? I've been following. I actually got Singleton on the shirts and that, but been following Singleton forever, and I know with the input being a big staple in revival too, playing a lot of shows there. So

Speaker 6: 38:03

Yeah. I I seen him maybe the second or third time I've I've played revival or went to revival and he was playing. You know, him, Shannon Wilson, Chris Canterbury, who do this day, is one of my dearest friends. And he's also he's my favorite songwriter in Nashville. I love Chris Canterbury. Rob, I I saw Luke play there. Luke there's so many people. Brick Cobb out of the loop, like, the names are just kinda endless. That class of that class that came before and the class that came before that of revival is just so stacked with incredible writers that it's it's kind of mind numbing to think about what was going on down there at tenders. But I am glad that it's back, and the place that is happening now is two blocks from my apartment. So

Speaker 3: 38:59

That's perfect.

Speaker 6: 39:01

Off down, you know. And

Speaker 4: 39:03

Oh, yeah. I have a cold cocktail. Don't worry about driving home. It's like, hell yeah. You can't beat that.

Speaker 6: 39:08

Go. Yep. So you

Speaker 4: 39:10

you played guitar for a little bit with Ben Chapman, a good friend of ours. We've known Ben for years, man. He was a baby when he first met him. He looked like a baby too. I don't know how they they even let them in the town of Nashville, but amazing dude, amazing guitar player. And he kinda launched his own little thing. Peach Jam, and you're there with him when he launched and everything. So it kinda stemmed off the whole writers on, but he took it a little bit further. Tell me a little bit about your time with Ben, meeting Ben, and just Pete Sham in general.

Speaker 6: 39:38

So I met Ben. I don't know if it was the first night that he was in Nashville, but it was when he first moved to Nashville, like within days, and then he introduced me to him. And like you said, I mean, this kid looked like he was fourteen years old. Baby faced, short hair. Hey, I've been nice to meet you, you know, like, so solid, so nice. And we just started talking and realized that we both love the Almond Brothers and Little Feed. The skinner deep cuts, we just really hit it off on our tastes. And I told him that night, I'm like, Dude, if you're ever looking for a guitar player, that's the stuff I wanna be playing. I'll join you wherever I'll do whatever with you. Sure enough, like, we started writing some songs together and hanging out, doing a bunch of whatever, and he started making a record, cut a song that him and I wrote together called you and Shuhanee, and he was gonna start playing her out town. And he called me, he's like, hey, would you would you wanna play guitar for me? It's totally cool if you don't want to. And I was like, absolutely. Like, I would love to. And the first lineup was me and my buddy Dalton who were talking about earlier. Meg was still singing harmonies. Our buddy, Grady, was playing drums the time. Dylan hadn't entered the picture yet. So it was just like a four piece. And we did that for maybe about two months. And then Dylan, the drummer, hopped in with us. And we got Ivan. Ivan was like playing keys, and then we got Jordan Malogic on pedal steel.

Speaker 2: 41:27

Mhmm.

Speaker 6: 41:28

And we started getting really good. We're opening for, like, Flatland, Calvary, Drake, Wyatt. We did some shows with Marshall Tucker, which was just, like, or even come true. And I'm not really sure how it ended up happening, but we ended up getting a show at the basement. Just kind of, like, attest the water's sort of thing. With Gil over there. And we killed. We did really good. We sold a lot of tickets. And then we did one more this is, let's see, twenty twenty one. Yeah. We had two that year at the very end of the year. And they liked it so much that they gave us a monthly residence. See, all twenty twenty two. And so that band, we went to work, you know, we were playing shows on the weekends. And then we were getting together during the weeks to rehearse for Pete's jam. And we were always having two or three guests, and we'd have to learn two of their songs. And a cover, plus the covers that we were learning for because we always wanted to have like a fresh show. And we just, like, got exponentially better. And better and better. And Page Jam started turning into this really cool gathering of like minded people who just wanted to have fun. There was a lot of industry people that were coming out that it was kind of like a lecture hair down situation where if they're going to a showcase, you know, they've kinda got their arms crossed and they're sitting in the back and they're looking for every reason why not to sign somebody. And this was like, we're just gonna listen to some good music and have fun. I'm not here to sign anybody. I'm not here to, you know, talk anybody in anything or talk anybody out of anything. I just wanna fun. Mhmm. It was a really special thing that got built last year. And it's still going on now. It's I believe, quarterly, they just moved it to outside. It's gonna be happening outside from now on, I believe. And I and I was there was hanging out. I wasn't on stage, but I was having a couple to Quilisota, you know, walking through the crowd, just having the best time. Those guys just keep getting better. That band is is so good and Ben's fantastic. I love her brothers and sisters.

Speaker 4: 43:48

Yeah. There's a phenomenal band. I we've been lucky to see him. I think you were probably with him. I want I think you were with him when I'm the Muscadine Tour. Right?

Speaker 6: 43:58

I think I I think I might have done a date or two, but I did not do the entire I heard.

Speaker 4: 44:03

Okay. I don't know. I saw Ben at Joe's, but you were with him last year at American manifest for teaching. I walked in to that was phenomenal. That set Dude,

Speaker 6: 44:14

that was probably the hardest all of us have ever worked on anything in our lives because there was o twelve or thirteen artists that we had to learn songs for. We ended up learning at, like, nineteen or twenty songs for that event. At a daytime time show. And it was relentless. It was cut throat. That was probably the first time that I saw anybody get frustrated with anybody in that group, you know, very light, like, you know, just, like, puff and puff and about, like, just can't get this part right. But it's because everybody wanted it to be so good and and to do a good job. We did. We knocked it out of the park. It's awesome. That was the first time

Speaker 4: 44:55

I ever heard of Joshua Joshua Ray Walker, and that dude blew me away.

Speaker 6: 45:00

I love Joshua. He's a sweetheart. He's a really nice guy. Take the world up.

Speaker 4: 45:05

I had my dad with me and my dad and I looked at each other like, oh, shit. Who is this guy playing? Yeah. Got to see him a couple nights later at the Westin or somewhere on one of their rooftops. And once again, he was amazing. I was like, good. He won a fan now for sure.

Speaker 6: 45:22

Oh, yeah. He he's got a fan on me too. Like, I love his music. I'm really excited for his new record that he's getting ready to put out. It's like a kind of a left turn in a good way for him. You know, I'm I'm pumped about it. Love him.

Speaker 4: 45:38

Dude, I love that. So before we move on to our our fun part of the night and wrap up the interview portion, when I was researching for the show, I was on your Linktree, and it said that You are a country music historian and a maker of breakfast. So I had to I had to bring this up and ask you about this. What's your favorite thing that kinda cooked for breakfast? And Honestly, cut your music and story. What's some of your favorite events, man, that you remember you you thought of?

Speaker 6: 46:03

Okay. Well, for breakfast, this is easy. I love hash browns. I love hash browns so much. So I love fixing hash browns, biscuits, and gravy. My favorite thing to do when I'm home, and I haven't got to do this in a long time. I'd really like to do it for my girlfriend some time because she hasn't had it yet, but at making fried deer meat in the morning with gravy and biscuits, eggs and hash browns is is the best of breakfast that I can pause. I love doing all of that.

Speaker 4: 46:39

Yeah. Making me hungry now. Sounds good.

Speaker 6: 46:41

Yeah. As you know, like, the country music historian thing is it's it's one of my greatest interests. Things that I one of the things I really enjoy studying. And I know a lot of just random facts about a bunch of random different artists that people just, like, really wouldn't care about so much that when I get put on the spot, it kind of like, oh, there's just so many going through going through my head. This is one that some people know, but my girlfriend and I love watching the tales from the of us, and they portray this great. But the story about George Jones and Annie Weinout, George being drunk, Tammy taken all the keys to every vehicle he had. And the only thing that he could drive was his ride along the road. He wrote that thing two and a half hours in the town with the blades on kicking rocks at cars going by, to the liquor store to ride all the way back. And like Tammy, finding out about it, meeting him on the way back, like, riding alongside him on the interstate just cussing him, you know, and him not even carrying just sitting there with a bottle of whiskey on that lawn mower. I love that story.

Speaker 4: 48:07

Yeah. I love I got a shirt. It look it's John Deere Green with the yellow print on it. It's a picture of a tractor with George Jones sitting on it and riding it, one of the bus shirts. Coolest story I have, though, or the funniest thing that I have to play off that is my ex girlfriend, she lived about half a block or a megawatt block from the liquor store just back in my days I used to drinking. I I was staying with her, and my own one job was I always had to cut the grass once a week. So I'd be on that wrong number. I'd drive that block up to the liquor store. Give me a six packs. Start cracking them open on the way back. And drop the blade to go to town.

Speaker 6: 48:37

There's alcohol and mommowers. Like, I'm not married to one another.

Speaker 4: 48:44

I used to when I was drinking, I cut the front yard. That was my thing.

Speaker 6: 48:48

I'll tell you a quick one real quick about a character in my hometown. His name is farmer. And I think since then like, since he's quit drinking, he he found the Lord. He's he's all good now. But when I was growing up, farmer used to just get hammered, and he couldn't drive, so he would just ride his lawnmower everywhere. You could tell where farmer had gone in town because he'd run that lawn mower off in the ditch with the blades on, and there would just be snakes. Off the ditches in Salem during the summertime.

Speaker 4: 49:22

Mhmm.

Speaker 6: 49:23

And I have some stories about farmer that you know, can't tell on here. But if you ever wanna hear them, they're really good.

Speaker 4: 49:30

Well, what the what the shoes and fun story is one of these nights before.

Speaker 3: 49:34

That's hilarious.

Speaker 4: 49:35

So, buddy, you got a new single coming out July sixth. Secondhand stories, man. Tell me a little bit about where this song came from. Everything else is amazing, amazing dude. I cannot wait till you drop this song, but, yeah, tell me where this song came from a little bit.

Speaker 6: 49:50

Well, let's see. A couple months ago, I was I took a trip home to Missouri, and we were on our way back and we stopped off at Winona, Missouri at the case he's there to get some pizza. And I had I got my pizza. I was looking in the back and the lady making it was this young woman, like, pretty. I was kind of, like, why in the world is she working here? You know, that sort of thing? And while I'm getting my stuff put together, this young girl and her boyfriend walk in, and she walks around the back and goes, hey, mama, we're here to pick up that pizza, but she's talking to her mom. And I kinda realized I'm like, wow, like, this lady is very young to be having a daughter that old. And that that story kinda just tells itself. You know, it's it's kinda sad. But she's in there. She's busting her butt. And she's working really hard to have what little they've got to provide for that family. And I thought, well, that's the story of my back home kind. And so it initially started like that, that title. And I got to Nashville. A couple days later, I had arrived with Andy Austin, and I brought this idea to him. And we kind of, you know, went back and forth with it. I think Andy was like, man, what if this is just like stuff you've heard about people? It's kinda like It's like about gossip culture in small towns. And I thought, well, that's great. So then we just wrote a dozen different stories about people that we had either heard over the years and that we were making up. And we picked the, you know, three or four best stories we could find and wrote a chorus around it, and that's how we got this song. We we both love Tom t hall, and we knew we wanted to write something storytelling in that band of Tom T. And so that's that's how that song came to be. It's probably one of my favorite songs I've ever been a part of. I I love it.

Speaker 4: 51:51

Who's the co co writers on it?

Speaker 6: 51:53

Just Andy Austin. Andy Austin. So

Speaker 4: 51:56

Nice. You're nice. I love it. So what else does the rest of the year look like for you? I know you just came over to Chicago with Meg at Carol's, which is what we talked about, is a phenomenal bard. I love that place. Any any given that dude is good a great crowd in there.

Speaker 6: 52:09

I'd love to go back.

Speaker 4: 52:12

We got talent to beat you back as a headliner.

Speaker 6: 52:15

Oh, yeah. Well, I hope so. Hope made it get enough impression this time around, you know. Right. Oh, this year, I'm gonna put a record out this year. Kind of in the middle of recording that right now, but we've we've made our way into it enough to where we're gonna be putting out single about every month or so for the rest of the year. And so we just released the whole record. So I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna be playing some shows and doing some things here and there. I'm headed to Texas next week with Ross Cooper. Open up for him. And we're doing, like, three nights in Turkey, Texas, and then we're doing, like, new Braunfolds Fort Worth. We're doing that whole Texas thing. I've never been down there playing like that, so I'm I'm really excited. And then I got some other stuff in the works opening for people. And personally, you know, I think it's like a year of positive change and growing up and growing into some things. Growing out of other things. I'm excited about this year. I think it's gonna be a really good year in the Colin Nash camp.

Speaker 4: 53:23

Really?

Speaker 3: 53:25

Awesome.

Speaker 4: 53:25

I love that for you, man. Because like I said, we've seen you in a jam with Ben for a while and everything else that you're out doing your own thing again. I I love it. You're doing your own thing, you're shining all the way, dude. And good things are gonna come your way.

Speaker 6: 53:37

I appreciate that.

Speaker 7: 53:38

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Speaker 4: 54:03

Alright. But like I said, we're gonna move on to our our fun part of the night. Well, before the fun part, we'll get a couple couple serious questions in, I guess. But our powered by Prodex is our sponsored part of the night. Our first card that we pulled earlier is What is the most successor? Who is the most successful person you know? And what have you learned from them?

Speaker 6: 54:23

Probably right now, Lainie Wilson is probably the most successful person that I know. I love Lainie. Lainie is always been so genuine, so nice, and kind. I've heard a couple of my friends mention this in their podcast. So it's it's neat to see that it resonates within the way it did with me. When she was on the ACMs, and she said if you're gonna be a dreamer you better be a doer. I feel like that is a quote that should be put on billboards everywhere. It's a good reminder to people that it it takes more than having a big imagination. Like, you have to work hard. And if I I've learned something from Lainie is like, this is what hard work can do. I don't know if there's anybody that works harder than Lainie Wilson does in this entire industry. She gets no rest there are no days off. She is just out there pounding the pavement, doing everything she can. And I'm so thankful she's getting rewarded for it. She deserves everything that's come to her.

Speaker 4: 55:29

Yeah. Yeah. She's amazing in a frame, but I think she'd look overnight, man. Like you said, she's been working her ass off for a while, for a long time, living in a camper, everything else down there just in the national writing songs, and It's awesome to see the success she's got over the last couple years too. It's just been phenomenal. We've seen her a few times, actually. I've I've been doing a lot of concert photos. I think she's my most shot artist. I've actually taken photos of, which is crazy because it just shows how hard she works because she's at every festival. She's everywhere. Everywhere we're covered and there's Lane. I mean, Country Thunder's coming up in Wisconsin again. In a couple weeks, there's Laney again. It's like she's just everywhere. I saw her with Luke Holmes. I I don't know if that was the AC or CMA Week or whatever it was. It was a couple weeks ago. She was Erica months ago. She was in Pittsburgh. On a Saturday, but then Sunday, she was somewhere Monday, she was somewhere on my team. This girl ever sleeps. It's like, what is she doing?

Speaker 6: 56:19

No. I don't know how she does it. I don't know how she does it because it seems like it's incredibly exhausting. But I'm thrilled for her, proud of her excited to see where it goes. I mean, she's already, I think, gonna be considered an all time. Right?

Speaker 4: 56:34

I get exhausted trying to watch her sometimes, dude. It's crazy. So our second one was, what is your greatest fear? And how do you manage fear?

Speaker 6: 56:45

Poorly. That's what I manage fear. That's all. You know, the thing that I'm most afraid of I'm afraid of wasting whatever sort of gift that I've been given whether that's, like, nope. Just knowing how to, like, write a song, knowing how to play guitar, like, having the abilities that I have. I'm afraid of wasting that and not using it for good purposes. And something that's like really important to me is spreading a positive message, you know, and and having something to say with every song. There there's some sort of something that you can get out of it. And it's not just pandering to a certain demographic of people. Like, the song is for these people because it's by this person that comes from these people. That's, you know, that's really important to me. And I guess the other thing I'm I'm afraid of is being too hung up on the shiny object of the music business and, like, oh, you know, when I get to this point, you know, everything's gonna be okay and then but it's, you know, it's that endless cycle of, like, nothing's ever good enough and you don't enjoy the journey. And so I'm especially going into the rest of this year and hopefully, you know, for the next decade of my life. I really wanna focus on not being focused on that shiny object and missing out. On not just the journey of this, but like real life and relationships with people that have nothing to do with music. That's something that I think a lot of us struggle with. And focusing on those things in my lives, and embracing them and enjoying them. You know? Here in the next decade, you know, I'm gonna have a kid. I'm gonna get married. That's something that I'm looking forward to and want to, you know, build myself up as a person to be ready for that and to be a good follower. To be a good husband. Those are stuff that those are things that, like, I'm afraid of getting distracted and not becoming my best in those areas. So how I handle fear? I I don't know. I'm I'm still working on this stuff. I I just try to do the best I can every day with that mic.

Speaker 4: 59:16

But as it comes, man, just a day to time, man. That's what what do you gotta do? Gotta live life the best way you can.

Speaker 6: 59:22

Literally.

Speaker 4: 59:23

Well, you gotta watch out for that kid thing though, man. We got two of them and boy. It's a lot of work

Speaker 6: 59:28

at times. It's not gonna be time soon, but I'm looking forward to that chapter.

Speaker 4: 59:33

Oh, dude. That's a good one. It's definitely a good one. We I was how old was that? Thirty eight, I think what? No. When thirty thirty, how old was that line for me first?

Speaker 3: 59:42

When we first was.

Speaker 4: 59:43

When Jack was born, I was thirty. I was thirty. Yeah. So I was thirty years old when we had our first kid. Now I thought that was a good age of that time because I I I was a kid for a while, man. I wanna stay young for as long as I still

Speaker 6: 59:54

feel like kids. Right. I've I've been a kid for a long time and I'm ready to man up and and just the fruits of adulthood. You know? So I'm right there with you. Thirty thirty seems like good age. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:00:10

It was good. Alright. But it is our a fun part. I was talking about the fun part tonight. So this is our our melodies and memories. I picked four songs kinda like when I was researching for this show. They have, like, a band name or a song name popped up or something. I'm like, no. I'm gonna write that down. And I I grabbed four songs from there. And the first memory you have with these songs was gonna talk. If you don't have a memory, we'll go to the next one. Go ahead and hit the other one.

Speaker 2: 1:00:31

I'll be going down hill like, so far.

Speaker 4: 1:00:36

Gaggard, man. Good times over for good, man. When you hear that song, where does it take you?

Speaker 6: 1:00:41

To salty Jack's Bar in Inns, Missouri and getting tips twenty dollars to play that song. And none of my band had ever played it live, but I had sang that song over and over again, growing up, and just, like, watching us kind of felt like, you know, fumble through it and play it and people sing in every word. I love

Speaker 3: 1:01:04

the song.

Speaker 6: 1:01:05

I love the Ag. Yeah. Look, great pick.

Speaker 4: 1:01:09

Alright. Alright. Go ahead and take green one. Tom petty, last chance was Mary Jane, man. When you hear that song, where is it taking you?

Speaker 6: 1:01:21

That bad man. Band riding with the windows down. That band had no ACs, so the windows were were down at all times. Am I here? Out to here. So, like, when whipping through, we always had top petty on. He's my north star. I love top petty.

Speaker 4: 1:01:40

Out of that. My dad and I got tickets to see him after he played the Super Bowl. And we got tickets to Detroit. I was living in Mississippi at the time. And if something happened, we couldn't go and I'm selling the tickets and he died shortly after that. I was like, shit. I'm never gonna see Patty now. I'm I've I never got to see him while I was like, damn. That's one of my biggest regrets.

Speaker 6: 1:01:58

That's that is my biggest regret, is that I never got to see Tom Live.

Speaker 4: 1:02:02

Him and Johnny Cash at the other two that I'm, like, damn, I kicked myself. Well and and another one that we're gonna play here in a minute. So Actually, we'll play it now. Hit that green one. So Michael Jackson, man in the mirror, dude. Where's that one taking you?

Speaker 6: 1:02:20

That takes me to my little music room, and my mom's house in Raleigh, Missouri. I was probably thirteen or fourteen going through a big Michael Jackson phase. And I'm just, like, trying to, like, hit those vocal movements You know? I can still sing that high at that age. I can't do that more. I think back to a certain time for sure.

Speaker 4: 1:02:44

My dad and I, we were talking well, I mean, before he died, and he was getting ready to do the this is a tour. And I said, we're gonna go see him. Said, when he comes to Chicago and this is it, we're not

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going. Torriam.

Speaker 4: 1:02:54

Yeah. Mike, where anybody else, like, alright. We'll go because we've seen everybody. Dude, aerosmith, you name them. We've seen them. And which is cool. Because when I was in high school and teenage years, my dad, I would go to college every weekend. That's why why I'm still doing it this day. But that's one thing, man. I never got to see Jacks. And I was like, and I will love to see them.

Speaker 6: 1:03:12

Yeah. I mean, maybe maybe the greatest entertainer of all time. I think Oh, this are, you know I does it get bigger than that? Mhmm. How about the Beatles and Michael Jackson? I think that's maxed out during my days when he died. Yeah. June twenty fifth two thousand nine, I still remember.

Speaker 4: 1:03:35

I wouldn't say it was just a couple of days ago because it popped up on my on my time line on Facebook because I was saying but yeah. Because we were moving back from two thousand nine. We're moving back We moved back from Mississippi on my birthday, June twenty ninth. So four days later, we moved back from Mississippi. Remember that?

Speaker 3: 1:03:49

Yep. We were at the Brooklyn School. Aren't we? When we when we saw that on the TV?

Speaker 4: 1:03:54

Yeah. But you we were yeah. We were off teeth somewhere and saw it on TV. Yep. And

Speaker 3: 1:03:58

I thought you were gonna cry.

Speaker 4: 1:03:59

I think I probably did start crying.

Speaker 3: 1:04:02

I remember them.

Speaker 6: 1:04:03

Hotel room in Branson, Missouri on a parents patching it up trip.

Speaker 3: 1:04:08

Yeah. One of them.

Speaker 4: 1:04:12

Well, that's a good one. But so it's funniest thing, though, with this is, like and we never planned it, like, this, well, whatever. Our son's name is Jackson. It wasn't planned for metal jacks or anything,

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but

Speaker 4: 1:04:22

but we got rushing to the whatever had to have a emergency c section and our doctor was it must've been a music fan. Had the radio play in the background and, literally, when I was cutting the cord, they were playing Michael Jackson on the radio and I was cutting Jackson's cord. I was like, that's cool.

Speaker 3: 1:04:39

How about that?

Speaker 4: 1:04:40

Yep. Never looked at that.

Speaker 6: 1:04:44

You know, Bobby Bobby Osborne died today. Yeah. Osborne brothers. When they were cut in my court, rocky top was playing on the radio.

Speaker 3: 1:04:54

Really? Yep. Wow.

Speaker 4: 1:04:57

Tell you, you're born into this dude.

Speaker 3: 1:04:59

That's weird.

Speaker 6: 1:05:01

That for I was meant to be a grasser.

Speaker 4: 1:05:05

Oh, let's do the last one, the yellow one. This one is one of my favorites. Metallica fade to black, dude. I I saw some of these pictures. You were in the Killam Mall shirt and everything. I was

Speaker 6: 1:05:17

like, dude, I that shirt.

Speaker 4: 1:05:19

When you hear that, man, where does it take you? It

Speaker 6: 1:05:23

me and my cousin Cody. You know, my cousin and I grew up like brothers. His family just kinda struggled when we were growing up. So they lived in the same house with us a lot. He was the one that really got me into it. We used to sit at my mom's Dell laptop and fry her computer with LimeWire, download and all these alrika songs. That was one of the very first ones. So we just man, that brings me back to that time having a shaved head and being years old, you know, just on fire. There's nothing that feels like metallica when you're that age.

Speaker 4: 1:05:59

The my dad took me in, like, ninety eight to the grudging tour. I'll never forget that, like, old stage collapse at the end.

Speaker 6: 1:06:06

Yeah. That I would love to go see metallica, like, pre two thousand eight.

Speaker 4: 1:06:14

Yeah.

Speaker 6: 1:06:14

Any any time in that? I'd I'd love to go see it. I'd go see it now. For sure. James Hatfield is one of my all time favorites.

Speaker 4: 1:06:22

They're gonna be here. They're gonna be in Chicago next year with Panther. I don't like doing that. Every show.

Speaker 6: 1:06:28

That would be really fun. That would be

Speaker 4: 1:06:32

Man, I just thought it was something else that's funny. One way I got it. I went to have a Telepus show. I was seventeen, eighteen at the time. And before the concert, my dad had his nocklers. I come here and people cheer. And go crazy. My dad has binoculars out. He's all, like, looking around. And I'm, like, dad, were you looking at? No. No. No. Nothing. Nothing. He won't give me the binoculars. I'm, like, why? What's going on? There's a girl's taking their tops off. My dad went past them and I was like, dude, come on. Oh, boy. Alright. Let's do the hot seat. Go ahead, Ted. Alright. Here's ten quick questions that we're gonna ask. First thing comes in mind. And we'll try it through them in sixty seconds. We'll see what happens. Your first CD or vinyl that you ever purchased?

Speaker 6: 1:07:17

S and M by Metallica.

Speaker 4: 1:07:18

Hell yeah. Where's your where's your happy place?

Speaker 6: 1:07:22

In the Holler back in Salem, Missouri.

Speaker 4: 1:07:25

Alright. And who is the best pizza that you ever had?

Speaker 6: 1:07:31

I really like five points. I like five points pizza here in Nashville.

Speaker 4: 1:07:35

Mhmm. What's the wallpaper on your phone?

Speaker 6: 1:07:39

My girlfriend. Uh-huh.

Speaker 4: 1:07:42

What's a movie that always make you laugh?

Speaker 5: 1:07:45

Days that confused.

Speaker 7: 1:07:47

Yes.

Speaker 4: 1:07:48

What did you oh, what was your first job? Your first paying job?

Speaker 6: 1:07:51

No one grasped for the city.

Speaker 4: 1:07:54

What's the oldest thing you own? Oh,

Speaker 6: 1:07:58

I got a a nineteen sixty three Gibson LGO. Nice.

Speaker 4: 1:08:03

What chore do you not like doing?

Speaker 6: 1:08:09

I hate ondry.

Speaker 4: 1:08:12

What was your favorite childhood television show to watch?

Speaker 6: 1:08:17

Spongebob or Grivavan Ventures affiliate Mandy.

Speaker 4: 1:08:21

Alright. Alright. It's spongebob. How's it going, dude? And then our last one on this one and the last question we got for you for tonight, man. What's something that's on your bucket list? What's something that may have been you you won't play or something you wanna achieve in the musical industry before you kind of hang up your boots for the day?

Speaker 6: 1:08:36

I wanna headline the rhyme.

Speaker 4: 1:08:37

Hell, yeah, dude. Dude, that's awesome. That's gonna happen. You know that's gonna happen.

Speaker 6: 1:08:43

I I believe it. I'm gonna manifest that. I'm gonna manifest it.

Speaker 4: 1:08:47

Hell, I do. I love that, man. Well, if you do, we're gonna be there. You know that? We'll have to we'll have to be there for that show.

Speaker 6: 1:08:54

Oh, you'll have we'll all hang out backstage and Celebrate. We'll talk about this.

Speaker 4: 1:09:01

Chapman, I might be in the alleyway.

Speaker 5: 1:09:04

Yeah. Ben, I'll I'll have to

Speaker 6: 1:09:06

get Ben out of the alleyway.

Speaker 4: 1:09:10

I I

Speaker 6: 1:09:11

Say that not too. I don't know. You know?

Speaker 4: 1:09:14

My day my day job is a dispensary. So every time I go see Ben, I always bring him some treats.

Speaker 6: 1:09:18

Oh, he he told me. He's like, man, there ain't your guy if you ever go to Chicago.

Speaker 4: 1:09:25

Yep. Just let me know, man. I got you. Alright, buddy. Well, before we let you go tonight, man, can we get you to play one for us?

Speaker 6: 1:09:32

Yeah. I'll play the the one I'm about to put out next week.

Speaker 4: 1:09:36

Hell, yeah, dude. Alright. Well, we're gonna go ahead and give you this stage and we'll mute ourselves and we'll see you in a comments.

Speaker 6: 1:09:42

Alright, man.

Speaker 5: 1:09:52

Can it works? Bar because she lost her job at the bank. And it don't pay as much, but she don't have a attitude centered on my man made. And after every shift to Cook Jerry's gotta get run. That's just another second hand story on my back home kind. Now, mister Jimmy's been the mayor since my older brother Taylor was the second gray. He said half a dozen pretty blunt secretaries move to different states. I'm swear sauce fish. She said, son-in-law, Ricky started from mine. Oh, it's just another second and a story of my back. Go kind. Get light started, mister Rimmer, but the Rimmer's rally or come That little bird's going to share about the trouble that you got into. It spreads like fire at the diner in the grocery line. It's just another second hand story of my back on time. Beautiful on its apples, sailing, hill. That's where all my ladies go to the ear. What's been running through the real heart meal? If you think you heard it first, best stolen a hundred times. All the word. Mass second and stories. I'm about Comcast. It might have started in his room about the rumors, Randy, That little bird's going to ensure about the trouble and you gotta streetlights. It's just not a seggy day story.

Speaker 6: 1:12:34

I'm a back home down.

Speaker 5: 1:12:38

All the word mouse second man stories in my back home. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:13:12

I love that old school vibe of that song. I love that.

Speaker 3: 1:13:16

This is the big boys.

Speaker 4: 1:13:17

Bam. That was all big. I don't know. Jillian took her headphones off, like, right at the beginning, like, scratulate. I'm like, hey. Put those back on. This sounds awesome. So, dude, thank you so much for responding. I know we ran way over tonight, but the the stories and everything was just amazing. That's why I'm like, just keep running Google's keep going. So but thank you for spending some time with us tonight, dude.

Speaker 6: 1:13:40

Hey. Thanks for letting me talk. You know, I'm really good at it as you

Speaker 4: 1:13:46

Hey, dude. That's what we love. We love the stories, Omany.

Speaker 3: 1:13:49

It was great. Absolutely.

Speaker 4: 1:13:51

I don't know about the whole cardinals thing. Wait. I have to circle back to that.

Speaker 6: 1:13:55

Let me come up there and watch cardinals' cubs with you wriggly I

Speaker 4: 1:13:58

was gonna say, man, if you never been inside rigley or seen a game yet, then we'll have to look at the schedule in the cardinals and clubs. If if not this year, maybe next year, we'll we'll have to see him.

Speaker 3: 1:14:05

We haven't done this there. So Yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:14:07

We'll have to get you out to a game sometime, man. Because it's a different experience here. It's a whole in our ballgame. We we we choose that regular stuff.

Speaker 3: 1:14:13

It's a cool experience even if you're not scam -- Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:14:16

--

Speaker 3: 1:14:16

because I didn't do those same.

Speaker 6: 1:14:17

Ring worked. I would love to do that. Y'all just holler at me and tell me, I'll be there. I'll make

Speaker 4: 1:14:24

Alright, buddy. Well, hey. Well, thank you again so much for spending some time with us. Take care. We cannot wait to get that new single out. We'll we'll just push a review out for you and try to do what we can for that single for you.

Speaker 6: 1:14:33

Well, thank you so much for having me. Really enjoy it at y'all.

Speaker 3: 1:14:37

Absolutely. Alright.

Speaker 4: 1:14:37

Well, you have a great night, and we'll talk soon.

Speaker 6: 1:14:40

I'll take care. See you.

Speaker 4: 1:14:41

Bye. Love that, man. That was awesome, man. Oh, dude. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:14:45

It's pretty great.

Speaker 4: 1:14:46

Ben amazing and, like, honestly, his talent with Ben's talent. I saw him last year was just phenomenal, but love to see Colin on his own.

Speaker 3: 1:14:53

What he's doing? That's exciting. Let me show him what's showing his own head.

Speaker 4: 1:14:57

Alan there. Yeah. And he's like too. And he's like he said, he wants to live his life to the fullest man, and and see it all in the honesty. Just keep going, dude. There's one question I skipped over because we were running real over by by the songwriting about, like, what he keeps himself when he gets away for cuts and stuff like that. I hope he keeps a lot of his stuff and stuff because but he's been working on lately and everything else going forward is some amazing thing. So But thank you guys so much for tuning in tonight. We had a blast talk with them. Sorry that we did run over a little bit. I know the last couple of episodes, we ran over a little bit here and there. But You know, we're if we're having fun and the conversation's good and the stories are good, I'm not gonna cut these guys off. No worries. I'm gonna let them roll. And as long as we don't have kids running down here yelling or anything else, and we could roll

Speaker 3: 1:15:38

out much much more and behaved.

Speaker 4: 1:15:41

Yeah. Ever last night, we asked them in their place. So if you guys are we say last thing after last episode. So if you listened to the episode before this one, there was there was a lot of editing done to it. And everything else, which is

Speaker 1: 1:15:53

--

Speaker 3: 1:15:53

Lots of interruptions.

Speaker 6: 1:15:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:15:54

--

Speaker 3: 1:15:54

but they're being good tonight.

Speaker 4: 1:15:56

So while all night last night, but tonight was a phenomenal one, and it was really cool talking calling all the stories. So we're gonna throw it back before we wrap it up, and we'll see what are those pod deck questions. You know what? This is gonna be a good question. Who is the most successful person you know? And what have you learned from them? Oh,

Speaker 3: 1:16:20

You go first.

Speaker 4: 1:16:22

You want me to go first? Sure. You don't mind.

Speaker 3: 1:16:26

Eric.

Speaker 4: 1:16:26

No. Oh, yeah. Me, church is the most successful person I know. But, no, when I when I look at, like, success and, like

Speaker 3: 1:16:34

Success to me isn't

Speaker 4: 1:16:35

A story book career and everything else, my uncle, dude. My uncle Danny, by far, is he's been on the show. We had him on the show last September, was it? But my uncle, Danny is one of the most successful people I ever known. I've learned a lot for them over the years. One cool thing though is if you guys don't follow me on my personal or anything that every he retired last September

Speaker 1: 1:16:58

--

Speaker 4: 1:16:58

Mhmm.

Speaker 1: 1:16:59

--

Speaker 4: 1:16:59

from working at Arena that saw my first concert and everything else, then a couple weeks ago, he announced he's gonna run for mayor next year. I'm like, dude, slow down. I'm talking about something that doesn't stop and works all the time. Mhmm. But he's gonna be the type of guy that's going the damn thing. And I'm not I would not be shocked if he wins it, and he becomes mayor mayor of Wheeling, West Virginia, but he is by far the most successful person I know. And it's been amazing looking up to him and getting him. But of all the things that I had to say what I learned from him, And it was funny because this is just something quirky that I learned from. And he said it in his retirement speech, but if you're around a road trip, don't take the haters. Don't think the house. And that's something I've always learned from when I love doing. On your Google Maps, whatever is three little dots, click it, and there'll be a little box that says avoid highway. Click that avoid highways box. Take that route that it gives you and see the world because you're gonna see some cool things. You're gonna go through these small towns. You're gonna see some quirky things. You're just gonna see the world. If you're on a highway, if you're on an interstate, you're not gonna see nothing but road. And maybe some road side signs and a truck stop here and there. That's all you're gonna see. If you do the avoid a highways, you must see some cornfields, a lot of cornfields, but then you're gonna go in these little little tiny towns that have these little courthouses in the middle and squares that go around them and some cool stores and restaurants and stuff. Okay. Check those out. Check those places out. Check the history out of those towns. And you never know what you're gonna come stumble across. We did that one day and we're going through this town and we see a welcome sign as his home of Elvish Shane. I'm like, holy shit. We're in Elvish Shane's hometown. We'd even know it. We'd even plan on going there. We're just cool as hell. They're all But definitely, that's one thing I learned from. And if there's ever anything that I could leave a while years later, it's honestly just road trips are make them fun. Boyd highways, go have a good time and see the world because I don't know how are you and go see not. So alright. Now I'll see who's the most successful person you know and what's something you got from?

Speaker 3: 1:18:47

I don't have an answer for that. Are you serious? Yeah.

Speaker 4: 1:18:51

There's not anybody in your in your line of work that went on to be, like, a successful doctor

Speaker 1: 1:18:55

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Speaker 3: 1:18:55

Successor.

Speaker 1: 1:18:56

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Speaker 4: 1:18:56

or anything else that you saw them that you learned from. Maybe they weren't a doctor or something before that. I mean, I I could tell you I know exactly who I if I was you, who I would answer?

Speaker 3: 1:19:06

There's so many people that I think are successful for different reasons. Not necessarily, like,

Speaker 4: 1:19:13

but It doesn't have to be money. It could be anything.

Speaker 3: 1:19:16

I don't I really don't know. I think my I mean, I think a lot of people I look up to that are successful.

Speaker 4: 1:19:21

Who's who has been the biggest

Speaker 3: 1:19:24

influence on my life

Speaker 4: 1:19:25

in my career. Very successful has amazing family. Yes. Exactly.

Speaker 3: 1:19:30

Is my cousin.

Speaker 4: 1:19:32

That's why I think you're gonna go Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:19:34

Amanda is probably Like my sister I look up to her. Everything I've done is because of her She's

Speaker 4: 1:19:41

kicking ass with what she's doing in her career.

Speaker 3: 1:19:43

She's a wonderful mother. She's a wonderful wife. She's such an amazing person, but she's smart.

Speaker 4: 1:19:50

Mhmm.

Speaker 3: 1:19:50

She's hardworking, and she's kind, and She's just amazing.

Speaker 4: 1:19:54

Hers does not matter. I'm like, damn. She is she definitely got her shit going.

Speaker 3: 1:19:58

Yes. That's who I was gonna say. But, I mean, there's lots of people that I look up to as well that are successful for different reasons. So Yeah. You know? And but I don't know. Yeah. That's probably who

Speaker 4: 1:20:08

I would I love that we both I love that we both.

Speaker 3: 1:20:10

No. For sure, that's in immediately who I was gonna say

Speaker 1: 1:20:12

--

Speaker 3: 1:20:12

Mhmm. -- and then I got in my head and I was like, well, you know, I'm super proud of my best friend. I think she's super successful. You know, like, there's lots of people that successful for comparison. So

Speaker 4: 1:20:23

Exactly. But now you that's a good choice.

Speaker 3: 1:20:25

Yeah. No. For sure, Amanda's probably the one is immediately who I thought of.

Speaker 4: 1:20:29

Our boys as well. Yeah. Our boys love the hell out there with her boys. So love to get them together more often. Mhmm. Because that's man's house picking up.

Speaker 3: 1:20:39

My god. They're like and they're like my kids and her kids are like how her and I were and how her mom and my mom were and just

Speaker 4: 1:20:47

It's just it's just a big Bon Joey fan, Paul's a big Van Helen fan, so it's good to see me.

Speaker 3: 1:20:51

We work. We all work very well.

Speaker 4: 1:20:55

Good to see some music. No. I love that. So, honestly, guys, is there something in your life that you think successful that's done a lot of stuff before you get for you or anything coming? Make sure they know that. Because honestly, that's life's too short, not to not to give somebody acknowledgement that deserves it for sure. But we wanna thank you guys so much for joining us tonight, and we wanna thank Colin Nash for joining us as well. Throughout our conversation with Colin, we've learned about his deep passion for music, and how has shaped him into the talented artist he is today. From a young age, Colin knew he was destined to pursue a career in music. He has put in countless hours of hard work dedication and creativity to craft the sound that we know and love. With each new song, Colin puts his heart and soul into every note, and it truly shows in the music. He produces. Colin Nash has an impressive repertoire to his name, and there is no doubt that his journey has only just begun. In fact, Colin has exciting projects coming up lesser should be on the lookout for. We can't wait to see where this passion for music takes him next, and we know his fans are eager to come along for the ride. So be sure to follow him on social media and streamers latest releases And stay tuned for all the incredible things Colin Nash has the sword for us in the future. Thank you guys for so much for joining us tonight, and we hope you enjoyed the episode as much we did doing my favorites that we've done for a while. Don't forget to catch up on everything you missed from tonight and pass episodes over at meleysmemories dot com. And we're having another amazing show coming up next Wednesday. Yeah. Next Wednesday. I gotta say good. I gotta see because it's fourth of July next week. Mhmm. And we're taking Monday off. And we're taking Tuesday off season. It's a holiday. So next Wednesday and next Thursday, we have two shows coming up, and that's leading to our show one seventy five over in Nashville, July ninth, so we cannot wait. We should be announcing the lineup, I think, by next Monday, well, the next Sunday a week before, so we should have the lineup. So I'm ready to go. We're excited. We can't wait, and we'll see you guys neither next week or down Nashville here soon. Have a good night guys.

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