Melodies N' Memories: Music Media

Rob Hatch | Singer/Songwriter

• Aaron R. Shriver | Jillianne D. Shriver • Season 7 • Episode 172

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Are you ready to step behind the scenes of the songwriting world? This episode is your backstage pass with special guest, Rob Hatch, the mastermind behind some of the biggest country hits. We unravel Rob's musical journey, from his first tender experiences with a guitar in college, to his first chart-topping hit, with plenty of laughs, wisdom, and heartfelt stories along the way. Tune in for an unforgettable conversation that reveals the soul of country music through Rob's eyes.

There's a raw power to live songwriting that's beautifully captured in Enter Song, an ingenious creation co-founded by Rob Hatch and Jerrod Neiman. This hit songwriter booking agent offers an intimate glimpse into the songwriting process, orchestrating unforgettable live shows that draw you into the heart of the music. Rob shares the hilarious anecdotes and unexpected moments that spring up in these performances, and Aaron tells him about an impromptu fist bump sparked by an ill-timed bathroom break. Hear the captivating backstory of Rob's famous song, 'I Don't Dance', and get an insider's look at the talent and camaraderie that fuels the Nashville songwriting scene.

Beyond the music, we delve into the personal side of Rob's journey. From the tender inspiration, his grandfather provided for his hit song 'Heaven Wasn't So Far Away', to the challenges and rewards of balancing family life with a thriving songwriting career. 

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

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Speaker 4:

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Speaker 4:

Alright, I love it. We have in the comment Mr Jackson. He wants his shout out tonight Cryptic Steel on YouTube. So if you guys are out there, follow him. He's nine, he loves gaming, but he always loves his little shout out.

Speaker 3:

So I'll give him one tonight. He thinks his dad's cool no.

Speaker 4:

So, guys, we talked before 170 some episodes in. I still get excited as heck. We've had a couple of past guests Nick Norman and Louis Bryce on the show, and this guy has been around. This music helped create this music of these two that I love so much, and I was like you know what I just got complete the trifecta here and get Rob on. So I'm excited, but tonight we're joined by Florida native, rob Hatch.

Speaker 4:

For years, rob has been the mastermind behind some of the biggest country hits and became a force to be reckoned with in the music world. From his unforgettable collaborations with George Jones, johnny Cash to chart hopping hits for Lee Bryce and Justin Moore, rob's portfolio speaks for itself. But that's not all. In 2020, rob decided to use his talent to help aspiring musicians inform the successful Pump House Records, which focuses on artist development and providing label services to its talented roster. I can't wait for you to hear what Rob has to say about his incredible journey in music and what's in store form at Pump House Records. You're ready to be inspired and tune into this must hear episode tonight. But here we're honored to discuss the melodies and memories that make up Rob's journey. We're going to welcome on Rob Hatch. What's up, buddy? How you doing tonight.

Speaker 5:

Man, it's good to see you guys. Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 4:

Dude, we're excited, like I've been waiting to have you on for a while now. I'm like you know what We've got to have him on the end of the season. Just talk, man, because you're the mastermind behind some of our favorite songs, really, and just some of our favorite artists we talked about. I still remember we were at a Lee Bryce show in Milwaukee, wisconsin, at the rave, and he's like I've never sang this song before. It's going to be one of the first times I've ever played this song live. And he starts playing. I don't dance and Julie and I looked at each other. This is kind of one of those hard dropping moments and we're like dude, this is our song, this is our jam. So it's an honor to be able to talk to you tonight, man, because you are the man behind that song.

Speaker 5:

It's a pleasure to be here, and I just went blank on the stage. There you are. It's just a pleasure to be here, and that was a good day man. I was just one of the guys in the room, so it was a they. Not all the days aren't magic, but that was a good one.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, dude. So we like to throw this way back and kind of get your earliest music memory. Man, Can I always be in play around the house? What do you remember growing up and what was prominent in the music world to you?

Speaker 5:

I mean, I don't, my parents weren't big music listeners. I get bigger big consumers of music, so it was more. You know, the first album I remember is like Alabama, like 40 hour week man, like like and roll on, and you know those songs just kind of knocked me down. Those were the first songs that I like studied the whole record, you know. And then I remember the game where you know the Kenny Rogers stuff I was a big fan of and you know those are kind of my earliest memories and being in church but there wasn't a lot of music being played on the stereo at my house.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, Most of my was in the car. This is my dad listens to himself in the car. And then he had an old vinyl record player and I always would break into his vinyl collection, which I loved. But what?

Speaker 5:

was the no, my parents didn't collect. They had, you know, one parent listening to country music, one parent listening to rock and roll. So you know, I wrote in both cars.

Speaker 4:

There you go, man. That's good, because that's good.

Speaker 3:

You get a good mix.

Speaker 4:

So what was the first concert you went to like and actually saw live music that you might have paid for out your own pocket, and kind of, did you take anything away from that?

Speaker 5:

Well, I didn't know that I paid for it. The first one I remember I was probably the nine, I guess. My parents took me to the O'Connell Center in Gainesville, florida, and it was. This is pre George straight turning into George straight. This was George was opening up for Randy Travis. It was actually a Randy Travis concert. So George only had, like unwound and you know, only a song or two out. So I remember George opening up for Randy George, randy Travis songs just wrecked me, man, the you know 1982, and on the other hand digging up bones and forever and ever Every man. All those songs, man. I remember my dad looking over and I'm like tearing up. You know he's like what is wrong with you, son.

Speaker 5:

I'm like you hear those lyrics right, you heard what he said, right oh?

Speaker 2:

I love that.

Speaker 4:

Is that the first time you really got? The Probably the first concert I remember. Is that the first time you got a taste of like maybe songwriting too in a way, and just like going lyrics really first time and kind of started hitting you?

Speaker 5:

Maybe that's the first time I'm looking back. That's as easy to see now I don't know. Then it meant anything. He just thought I was an emotional train wreck of the kid. Probably it was. You know I was. It was poetry later. And then you know, I didn't start till late, man, I was. I was probably 19 in college before I picked up the guitar and started playing around on it.

Speaker 4:

That's why I was going to ask next what kind of when did you finally start picking that up and say this is kind of what some of I want to test out. So you're in college, huh.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, man, I was going to University of Florida. I was a fraternity guy this is AGR fraternity. I was a college of agriculture farm guy and called fraternity. Brother of mine Got a Jonas Walker, you teach me how to play a guitar. So I still not sure why, but he showed me three chords. I went completely nuts. I didn't want everyone to be a singer, so it was just a hobby kind of thing. He showed me three chords and I went a little crazy. I bought three song books Willie Nelson, jim Croci in Alabama Jim Croci was a mistake Guys don't do that.

Speaker 4:

I was going to say this is before the YouTube days, because when I, when I started playing, I started playing probably early 90s, mid 90s, and I just had Tablature books. That's how I kind of learned how to play. I don't play anymore, but that's why I was kind of messing around with. Now, these days these kids have YouTube videos they could go to and watch and it's like dude okay.

Speaker 5:

So you're exactly right, tablature was the thing. Now you buy a song book and show you where to put your fingers at, and then you listen to the record and try to copy it. Yeah. And see what you can do, and have someone actually show you how to play it. Oh, that's the way the fingers are shaped. That's how they do it.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, they kind of eat so much easier.

Speaker 5:

We weren't that lucky. Yeah right, okay.

Speaker 4:

So when did you get your first guitar? Like, how did you acquire it? Like, everybody has a story about the first guitar. Do you have a story with?

Speaker 5:

yours. Sure, I was living with a guy named Keith Sullivan. He was a roommate of mine in college. His mother actually had a guitar that maybe her father had given her. Anyway, keith had brought it to college. He was the only one who had roommates and I saw it and that was probably the first guitar that I learned to play on. I played on it for a few months and then I do believe Keith helped me front the money to actually buy my first guitar at let's see Lyphum Music Store in Gainesville, florida. That was where I bought my first guitar. I still have that thing somewhere.

Speaker 3:

That's amazing, you got it.

Speaker 5:

I bet it's beat up, I'm sure.

Speaker 4:

But, it can't be as bad as Willie's guitar. That thing is just man. I don't know how that's all together.

Speaker 5:

Well, if you saw how beat up this was, you would be like, wow, why doesn't yours sound like it?

Speaker 4:

I love that. So in college you started playing. When did you really start me writing? Did you like me writing anything in high school, any poetry or anything like that? Or did you have a journal Like when did songwriting or just writing in general come to play?

Speaker 5:

I had a class when I was man you make me think back now. I guess I was probably in eighth grade. This guy named George Farrow was a teacher and he went with this poetry section and he liked some of my writing and I ended up doing quite a bit of poetry for him and I remember thinking I like that. I'm pretty good at that, but I was a little embarrassed about it. I was the job so I didn't want anybody to know, but somehow that carried everyone. I started playing guitar when I was in college I guess I probably didn't forget about that. I went to a party, met a girl that was way out of my league, made a move that did not work, went home and wrote my first song about the situation, called her up and played her the song and that did work. I was like did that help you out a little bit? That did work. I was like, oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 5:

So I probably wrote five, six songs by myself. I didn't know. People wrote songs for other people. I was just messing around.

Speaker 4:

Once we were talking with somebody a couple of weeks ago and we always thought, whenever you picked up the old cassette or whatever, you were like oh Metallica. Metallica wrote all the songs. You would never assume there was a songwriter behind all those songs.

Speaker 5:

I had no idea. I thought George Strait wrote all of his songs and I did think Metallica wrote all the songs. I didn't know a songwriter was a thing, so it was just a hobby. I was just playing around.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, kind of. We used to know those little names underneath the song title. There would always be a couple of names underneath there and the cassette books or whatever I'm like. Who are these? That's what got me curious about songwriters.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I don't even know. At that point I had deep dove enough to know that was a thing. Still it was still. I just really liked music. I like going to bars, listening to people play and I like listening to music records and I could really feel them. But I wasn't smart enough to foresee where it was going to go. For me it all feels like it was an accident, kind of you know, because at that point I had I have a guy call me out of nowhere.

Speaker 5:

I got any Paul Rogers from Ocala, florida, and he had a one of the top local bands around there and he was opening up for all the big action weekends. He calls me out of the blue. It says this Rob Hatch. I go, it is. He goes. Well, this is Paul Rogers. I got the best band in the area.

Speaker 5:

I said well, how can I help you? He goes. Well, I hear you write songs. I'm like I don't even have anything recorded anywhere. How did you hear that? Well, I heard some girls talking about it and told them give me your number. So I go. Well, what can I do? He goes well, I want to play your songs on stage. So I go. Just being negotiated, just being a negotiator I go well, only if I get to be in the band. He's like okay, thursday night, thursday night in Ocala, here's the, here's the location. And I showed up for the location and they were opening up for David Allen Cove and there's like 2000 people there and I'd never even heard him. I could talk to a PA. I'm sure they had me muted the whole time.

Speaker 5:

But I end up playing with Paul on the weekends for you know, three years, maybe, just as just as a hobby, playing all the bars through Florida. And at one point he called me and said man, I need you to come with me in Nashville, play for this guy, and you're the only one. That's all the original songs, or I'd take the good guitar player. So we came to Nashville, met a guy who was doing some label stuff. He often happened to be a hit songwriter and drew my attention to that actually being a job he was. Maybe you should be in Nashville. So the same night I got introduced to a guy named Jared Neiman and 23 years later I'm still here. It's really Jared's fault. I get to be a bit of a blame.

Speaker 3:

That's a great story. I was gonna say cause?

Speaker 4:

that was back when, like uh man, who was the other guy? Lewis would hang out John Stone, he was he a good buddy of yours too.

Speaker 5:

I've known John for years. Absolutely Sure have I got a couple of his early songs.

Speaker 4:

So we're we're big, big Eric church fans. It's a lot of stuff that you see behind us on the walls all Eric church stuff, and I know he wrote some stuff for him way back when.

Speaker 5:

I forgot to hear some of that. If you ran with that crowd, you must be still hung over.

Speaker 4:

I don't drink no more, probably because of that.

Speaker 5:

That'll do it.

Speaker 4:

No, that was back in the back in the day, when Lewis and I were always running around and met John a couple of times. Man, he was one hell of a guy too, but uh.

Speaker 5:

He's super funny, super talented.

Speaker 4:

Well, who's that band? He had American Young, I think. Was that what was?

Speaker 5:

called Young. I think he's still got that band. Yeah, dude, they're good, eric was so good, they're super talented man, I sure are.

Speaker 4:

So what was a big? I mean, that was what else was pushing you towards Nashville at that point. Did you, uh, did you, travel other than that one time to Nashville, or was that your first time there?

Speaker 5:

Nope, first time there. What was your first appearance?

Speaker 4:

or your first impression of Nashville, when you first got into the city. What did you think?

Speaker 5:

I blew my mind. I could feel the energy when I crossed the county line. I was like what is going on here? And then I heard the music and I was like I have to be around these talented people. I was like I have to, I have to be here.

Speaker 4:

I don't know why yet, but I have to be here, Hell yeah.

Speaker 5:

So um, my uh. My father owned a Chevrolet dealership at the time and wanted me to take it over. I did not want to do that, so I packed all my stuff into a Goosh net cattle trailer and headed to Nashville. I'd been at university of Florida for six, six plus years not a doctor, guys. Just a couple of classes before I graduated, I packed all of my stuff into Goosh net cattle trailer and head toward Nashville.

Speaker 4:

What were you studying at the time of college?

Speaker 5:

It. It's six years, brother. You studied everything I was going to say you probably you sort

Speaker 3:

of walked out with a couple of degrees.

Speaker 5:

I was an agriculture guy, so I changed everything from communication to education.

Speaker 3:

You're just well rounded right.

Speaker 5:

Just well rounded. I had a good time in college, I you know. I kept thinking I would find the thing that I wanted to do um while I was there, and the only thing I actually did the whole time was music, so it actually worked out.

Speaker 4:

This is around the same time that you first met Lee Bryce, too, when you first moved to Nashville, or was he come around after a little after that?

Speaker 5:

No, I did. Well, I mean, I was, I was man. I was about as fortunate as you can be, is you know, just moving to town, I was green as I could be and didn't know anything. Jared and even I'd met my first night there and we'd really hit it off. He had had a you know record deal and a publishing deal and kind of knew what things were and how it worked and you know what was good and uh, so he and I ended up living together for about five years, I guess.

Speaker 3:

Wow.

Speaker 5:

But during that first year we all kind of met the crew that we ended up running around with. So which was? You know you knew John. You knew you know Lee Bryce and Jamie Johnson and Randy Houser and Jared and Dallas Davidson and, um, you know.

Speaker 4:

Did you ever hang out? This is kind of he was with Jamie Johnson a little bit. Rick Tiger, does that name sound familiar?

Speaker 5:

I do remember, rick, we didn't get to hang out a lot, but I do remember Rick.

Speaker 4:

He was a good friend of mine and he played here a couple of times. I know we lost him during COVID, but he was my all-time favorite so I know he ran around with those guys a lot. He was a fiddle guy. He was fiddling steel in the alley out there.

Speaker 5:

I do remember that I was trying to put it together and that did it for me.

Speaker 4:

He was the hot dog guy, the hot dog man.

Speaker 5:

The hot dog man Dude. The feeling still was so good. I missed those days.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, dude, that was my hanging. I loved the fiddle.

Speaker 5:

You know, running around playing music for fun. Just glad to be here trying to figure out how to do it, and those were fun times. I mean, I don't know that, I want to redo it. Yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, right, so it was your first number one with. Was the Justin Morecut? Was that your first number one?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, that was my first number one. That one kind of saved my poor broke country backside.

Speaker 4:

So tell me a little bit where that song came from, man, because that's a heaven, wasn't so far away. That's just a song that makes me think of my grandfather. To my hear, just I want to call him up or just go go visit him Now. I have kids now to. I would love for these kids to meet their grandfather. So that's the song that hit.

Speaker 5:

Go ahead. I'm sorry I interrupted you. No, no, you're okay. No, that song basically is truth from top to bottom. It's, you know, from from one of us in the room. Anyway, I wrote the song with myself, dallas Davidson, mr Brett Jones and Brett was the only hit songwriter at the time. Dallas and I were brand new and I don't even think we had publishing deals at the time. We wrote that song.

Speaker 5:

It's funny, sometimes the songs get cut really quick, right, you know, you go in the demo and somebody hears it and they have to fight for it. This song on set up for seven years. Buddy Bardsman, red Acons, had done a version of it at the time. Seven years later, whatever with that didn't work out with RCA or BNA, which her label was. Seven years later, jeremy Stover is cutting Justin Somehow finds the old video of Rhett doing the song, goes in and cuts it on Justin the next day and they put it out, you know, not too many weeks later and it was a big old hit for us. So but that song set up for seven years, for anybody found it.

Speaker 4:

Where were you at when you got the call that you heard it was going number one.

Speaker 5:

I think I was in the woods. I think I was putting up tree stands. That's usually where I'm trying to be if I have a choice.

Speaker 4:

And you have a cell phone out there. Man, I'd leave the phone in the car.

Speaker 5:

I can't get. My wife tracks me. Man. I had, okay, gilly, you get this one. So I was coming down to tree stand here a year or two ago, Jumped off the tree stand, my binoculars slung up, hit me in the eyes, black both eyes and broke my nose. Oh my God, my wife put a tracker on me after that.

Speaker 3:

I have a tracker on him too. It's okay. Yeah, we were at like 360 after we got on my parents too so that's, exactly right, she didn't want to find you in the middle of the woods.

Speaker 5:

Well, I think she does want to find me in the middle of the woods.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's true, no.

Speaker 6:

I love that.

Speaker 4:

Like I was saying, that song is something that everyone can connect with, because everybody has somebody they've lost close to them and they wish they could go and go visit for a day, man, because it'd be awesome and sometimes yeah that song's always been.

Speaker 5:

I mean, where I'm sitting in my office, my grandfather's old truck is parked right in the. You know shied out back. I love that too. That is awesome, the truck we wrote the song about.

Speaker 4:

Awesome, I love that man. So the next one came for you Good Night Kids with Randy Hauser. Dude that song. That had to be a fun write on that one. Who was the co-writer on that one?

Speaker 5:

Randy Hauser, a buddy by the name Jason Sellers, big hit songwriter, super talent, yeah, that'd be a fun one though oh man, it was super fun.

Speaker 5:

Randy at the time had a pretty clear you know vision of what he wanted the record to be like, and he was. He was you know the you know the all the things that ended up being hits on that record. I think he did in you know a week and a half. Maybe you know from our country fields. All that stuff was pretty quick, but he knew he wanted another tempo for the record. He came over to the house and then our buddy Jason, and you know we ended up knocking that thing out in about you know two hours. I guess Randy Bassfield wrote the first verse by itself. We were like, oh okay, but you know he's, that guy is a super freak on epic proportions. So you know, anytime you write and get to create with him and then hear him sing it, it's just kind of like, wow, you know he's, he's on that next level, I love that dude.

Speaker 3:

He's a powerhouse.

Speaker 5:

That's crazy. So to have any success with your buddies man, that's having success at all feels like a damn miracle. So to get to have success with your buddies, that feels like the you know, the hit it out of the park.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, for sure so what made you and Lee kind of come together and do pump house records, man, and what kind of brawled that together?

Speaker 5:

Man. A lot of it was Nick. A lot of it was, you know Lee and Nick had grown up together and you know Nick's one of the best singers in the world. It's amazing If you haven't heard Nick, normie Stan and Key West. But we, we started with Nick. We made what I think is an amazing record and we were basically learning how to do it on my Lee's end. So it's a you know we you know push those, you know, had some singles out. He had some success with some songs. You know our you know deal time ended and we ended up. You know we have an artist named, you know, rebecca Lynn Howard. Do we have a record out on? Now? She has a song out called I am a mother. That's killing it, and Lee and I are just doing our best to learn how to support artists in the digital world.

Speaker 4:

It's crazy, man. It's a different world now. I remember, man, where was I? I was somewhere with Lewis and he hands me this shirt. What was it? Good, good cocaine or good whiskey and cheap cocaine? And I brought it home. One time my wife's like where the hell did you get that shirt? I was like Lewis gave it to me. Why she goes. You are never wearing that outside this house ever.

Speaker 5:

I think I might go away with it once or twice, but it was one of my favorite songs on the record. I don't know if we were doing the record without it. I thought it was fantastic.

Speaker 3:

It was it is.

Speaker 5:

I asked for one of those same shirts, jillian, and they gave me like a medium. I can't wear a medium, so my wife has one of those shirts.

Speaker 4:

I think mine was like a large. I can't even fit it anymore.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, he didn't fit anymore.

Speaker 4:

I love that shirt. I'd wear it all over the place.

Speaker 3:

It's a good song, though it's a good song. It's a great song.

Speaker 5:

I got a pile of Nick Norman and Lewis Brice shirts, but I don't have any good whiskey, cheap cocaine.

Speaker 4:

He needs to make another run of those shirts.

Speaker 5:

They do no.

Speaker 4:

I love how Nick does the point. He does a porch tour every year and he always brings like Lewis or somebody out. I know he's out on it right now and we'll catch him every now and then when he comes to the town.

Speaker 3:

They usually play through here a couple times over the summer?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, they always come up. They kill that tour.

Speaker 5:

They'll go to people's. They'll go anywhere. Man, If you got the cash, they will come to turn the party up.

Speaker 4:

And that's just who Nick Norman is. He, he just loves the laid back life. He said Key West, that guy's Key West to the tee. Like you look up Key West in the dictionary, you're going to see Nick Norman's face right there.

Speaker 5:

It's just yeah, I am Ellis. So that dude's voice and his life yeah, I think both are fantastic yeah.

Speaker 4:

I love that man. So, yeah, you guys came together, you guys formed a pump house with Nick Norman, rebecca Lynn Howard, she, she had a song out, a single a few years back, didn't she?

Speaker 5:

She did. She had a song out for Gibbs several years ago. That's what it was, and we've been friends for gosh I don't know 10 years. Maybe she may be the most talented human I've ever met. I mean, she is off the chart as a player and a singer and she's a savant. It's it's freakishly good.

Speaker 4:

But the checkout some of her newer stuff.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, can I remember? Forgive her for that song. You're fixing to hear a lot of it. So we got a record. We just got finished with her. So the first single is is the I am my mother, but we're going to be pouring the music to it this year, so I can't wait for the world to hear what she's fixing to bring.

Speaker 4:

It's exciting yeah whatever on the show or something we should have around the show Be fantastic.

Speaker 5:

We'd love for you to have it.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, we'll be booking our new season sometime soon. Yeah, we definitely have to have her on and talk with her. So now I love that you guys came together. Pump House is an artist development collective that offers a and a and our promotion. But I love the way the name came up, because Lee Bryce's church that he was at years ago and had a little pump house behind it and it's just cool how everything came together with that and I really love what you're doing. But now you kind of talk to me a little bit today about Enter Song and tell me a little bit about this. You started it was a songwriting booking agent with Jared Neiman.

Speaker 5:

Tell you a little bit about this. Past year we jared now, so we've been buddies forever and best of our media. Inapolis we thought why not put together a hit songwriter way to display the Nashville hit songwriter show? So we called a bunch of our hit songwriter buddies and we thought, OK, let's, let's see if we can't show the world what you do and that they can book you to come play. So we just started Enter Song, which is basically booking hit songwriter shows and private venues, homes and theaters, wherever.

Speaker 4:

So you book porch tours all over the place? No, that's.

Speaker 5:

That's very similar. It is very similar. I love that it is basically all hit songwriters you know and we go in. You can choose by the song or by the writer and they come in and do private events. So a lot like the porch tour. Yeah, very much.

Speaker 4:

Cool.

Speaker 4:

Those are the shows that we love to go to, yeah we'll put those links in the bio for this show so you guys could check all those links out. But that's why I mentioned Rick Tiger earlier. That's what he would. He used to just kind of come around house to house and play house shows and we would put 40, 50 people in our basement I have a little mini stage actually right behind me here and we would just have a little private, intimate like songwriter shows, because sometimes that's the best times because you can hear the stories and people aren't going to interrupt you.

Speaker 5:

Well, the funniest just a little more intimate and which makes it a little more VIP. Maybe and you know, it's the, you know for the people who like the behind the music, that's the behind the music for sure. For the. You know it's more of a variety show with the comedy and the stories and the songs, and you know you get to hear the real thing.

Speaker 4:

We may just have to put a new rule. On our basement, there are no bathroom during performances because we don't we have a bathroom right next to the stage and it's not soundproof and this guy decided to use it during one of our songwriter events. Rick's performance. And it was actually his last time here and you could hear it. He was a standing up doing his business. You could hear it echo through the whole basement.

Speaker 5:

And the worst than the bluebird. I'll even go to the bathroom while I'm playing the show.

Speaker 4:

But the guy comes out of the bathroom. Rick Tiger looks at him dead in the eye, goes man buddy fist bumps for you. The rest of the night I didn't hear no sink water.

Speaker 3:

I'm like I was going to die.

Speaker 4:

Everybody started laughing.

Speaker 3:

Oh man, it was the best.

Speaker 4:

But that's why I love those things, because it's so intimate and it just can be fun. And for the moment, man, these guys are just going crack your dead if you you leave it open.

Speaker 5:

You've seen these guys. My songwriter friend is something most talented people.

Speaker 3:

They're so great, yeah, they're so great.

Speaker 5:

They hear their show and their story is. It's one of my favorites, so we can share it.

Speaker 4:

Talking about Lewis and Nick, though two talented guys too. But, you wrote I Don't Dance with Lee Bryce man and that's one song we talk a little bit, hopefully gets you gets a story of it. We'll get the story of it a little later tonight, but before you play it for us. But your relationship with Lee man, how do you think that's kind of over the years has evolved and kind of developed you guys into two amazing songwriters though Well, we've always been like brothers.

Speaker 5:

You know all our guys are pretty tight. Where he's from and where I'm from, even though he's from South Carolina, from North Florida, are pretty similar. You know the people, the culture, the foods, the water, the it's all, it's all. It's very easy for us to get on the same page quickly so we tend to the vibe on the same same channel. So you know he's a super freak. This guy can. He's one of the greatest writers and players and arrangers and melody guys I've ever been around. He can do all of this by himself. So you know, anytime you're with a guy that talented it's, it's well, it's super fun. You're just trying to take it to the next level. You know I love it, but he's a special cat man. He, he, he inspires you to write your best. So he, you know you can't mess around with him, you better bring it.

Speaker 3:

I love that.

Speaker 4:

So we were talking earlier about we were mentioning kind of our kids and he has a YouTube. But you have two kids, man, and you're married to. How do you juggle everything, man, because it's wild trying to do it. But how do you juggle and how do you kind of keep saying during the times of just like you know, maybe if you're going away for the kid or having a right for awhile like how do you keep it all going? Well, I mean you know you got.

Speaker 5:

You know eight year old and a 10 year old. You know, just a little older than you guys. And you know it's you go. How am I going to get all of the stuff done that I used to get done? You know now that I have to pay attention and try to be a good person and role model for these little people. And you know it's a, it's a I don't know. At the same time, they're the motivation which makes you work twice as hard. So it's the give and the take. You know it's the. I can't imagine what my life looks like without them. I honestly thought I would start writing like sappy kid songs or something. You know when I had kids. I'm like Shannon. What if my brain doesn't work the same? And what if I'm all you know? And then what? Long after the kids and I write a few songs, she's like now you're fine, peace again.

Speaker 6:

You'll be all right.

Speaker 4:

No, I love that. Yeah, because like that's just like me. Like I'll write some stuff in my phone every now and then. If I just think of something and I'm like like today I thought of like an awesome song lyrics, I wrote it down. But I was like man ever since I've had kids. I look back and everything's about the kids. Now it's not about what.

Speaker 5:

I used to think about.

Speaker 4:

It's always about the kids now, so it's crazy.

Speaker 5:

My phone about the time and it's the like if I have, if I have a ride for the day, I have like three hours because I have to pick up kids and I have to. I want to be present for them. So it's more about trying to compartmentalize and you know, when I'm writing, I'm writing, but not being the world I used to live in, where that's all I did, where my brain was always writing. I wasn't paying attention really to anything, but what was in my world? Is it easy?

Speaker 4:

for you to kind of turn off, like, say, if you're out with the wife and kid somewhere, kid somewhere and you have an idea mainly you're having your phone and writing something down or can you kind of just put it on hold for a little bit?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, my wife loves the Dewey Cox the you could be riding on me.

Speaker 3:

Dewey.

Speaker 5:

That's me. If somebody says something or an idea comes up, I will, I will, I will go to work and at that point I just as well walk outside and write it down on my phone and record it really quick, because I'm not really hearing anything else until I get it down.

Speaker 3:

Got it.

Speaker 5:

So you know that's. But now, after years of writing, you're you learn to always be looking for it too, because you know one day it won't show up. So you don't. You know, you never want to miss it. If a great idea shows up, you want to stop what you're doing, right then, and write the inspiration for a minute and you know, see where that's going to go before you go, I'll stick it in my pocket and try that next week.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, you might want to give it a second because you may need to get your that inspiration down fast. I do, I forget.

Speaker 4:

Oh, I've missed you.

Speaker 5:

I don't. I have a terrible memory when it comes to remembering my lines and melodies and stuff. I have to. I have to write it and record it, and 10 minutes later I can list it and go oh, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3:

Where'd that come?

Speaker 6:

from Nice.

Speaker 5:

I don't know. Part of that is pretty good that others trashed I don't know who wrote that part? Yeah what an idiot wrote that. So what do you think is?

Speaker 4:

something you've learned about yourself through your music career over these years.

Speaker 5:

Hmm, continue moving forward, man. Yeah, I told him when I first started writing songs got buddy, my name, ed Hill, super Smart Guy, big Hit songwriter. I asked him if he had any advice on new songwriter. And he goes man, just keep being you, just write what you write and make your music styles will change. If you want to be here a long time, just be great at what you do, do your thing. So for some reason that always stuck with me. I, I, you know I was always the redneck kid from North Florida. I was never not going to be that. So you know, embrace your stories, embrace your people, embrace where you're from. And you know, for me, all those turned out being lucky gifts. I love that. So what does?

Speaker 4:

the rest of the year. Look like for you, man. You got any shows that you're excited to play or you're playing coming up again? Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 5:

A lot of private inner song shows will be out with Lee a little bit We'll be, you know, trying to get records out and chasing kids and hits. Basically that's that's what we. We have a couple of trips coming up this summer that I'm excited about and hunting season starts in October and then I lose all focus, yeah.

Speaker 4:

Did you do a lot of songwriting retreats at all that you go out and just get? We talked about your circle. Your circle is amazing. Do you get those boys together and just go on a retreat for a weekend and is right.

Speaker 5:

It all depends. It's really hard with these guys schedules to get a lot of them together. You know what I mean. There may not be more in small groups, get three or four of us together to go off somewhere, but to kind of disengage from Nashville a little bit and focus on just one person and one objective. You know like there's no need to go on a writer's retreat just for them. Heck of it, you know. I mean you can ride in Nashville. Why go off on a trip?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, but when you have like a project, you have a project coming up you're like, okay, here's what we want to do, here's what it's going to look like, here's what we think's the main cornerstone of the project.

Speaker 5:

I'm trying to write the other parts of it in the second, third singles and where it goes. You know you have a focus so to get all those people together and and you know, you know with kids and and families and everything to have three days where it's just day and night for three days that you're thinking of that artist and what works with them and songs that would fit them and any ideas that come up. It. It works really well for me. I like it. I'd rather get you know where I have more time to work with them honestly. So you're just disengaging from what your normal routine is and taking that extra time where usually I'd be having dinner with my wife and kids. I'm sitting there talking about this same song we've talked about for five hours. So you know, by the time you leave, you've usually got this stack of what is a pretty solid direction on. You know what you're aiming for.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 4:

All right, we're going to move on to our next section of the night. It's powered by pod decks is our sponsor part. We pulled a couple of cards earlier. What are most people afraid of? That doesn't scare you.

Speaker 5:

Oh goodness, I don't know. Maybe the future. I'm pretty excited about seeing what's next and where things go and what the next song is and what the next direction is and who the next artist is, and I don't know if that scares anybody. Maybe everybody's excited about the future. I don't know. Yeah, but I'm pretty fired up about it. I'm curious to see where all of this goes. This post COVID world, this digital world, this you know where we're at. I think there'll be some, some changes that are good for a lot of things. I'm curious to see how it plays out.

Speaker 4:

It's crazy how much social media does play a factor in music now, like you're never used to like as big as it does, but it's crazy how you have to learn that to kind of be successful.

Speaker 5:

Well, yeah, it's just a matter of being able to reach mass amount of people that that that you could have never. You could have never met before. Maybe they couldn't afford to go to a concert, or maybe they just wouldn't have thought country music was something they would even like. But because they can digitally stream in, it doesn't cost that much. They'll try it out and test it out. You know there's a there's just a lot of advantages to it, you know, as well as some disadvantages, but hopefully we'll get that all figured out. What's up? Optimistic area I'm too, man.

Speaker 4:

What's the quote that inspires you, and why?

Speaker 5:

Oh, that's easy. My favorite one is if you're going to be done, you got to be tough. I love it. It really works for everything. Honestly. It from from hitting your nail to dating a girl you shouldn't date to to, you know, getting on restriction. If you're going to be done, you got to be tough man.

Speaker 4:

I love that. I was always a better ask for forgiveness and permission type guy, but over the years this changed.

Speaker 5:

I was too Dude. I was all about the forgiveness, not permission, until my father taught me the going to be done. Got to be tough and it overrode the forgiveness permission.

Speaker 4:

I hear you as I got older. I'm like okay whatever.

Speaker 5:

All right, buddy, I'll say that I'm doing. I write songs. I guess I am. I'm not listening very good anyway.

Speaker 4:

I love it. So this next part's a fun, a little fun. We got a couple of games we're going to play and then, well before we get to get you, get you to play one for us. But I picked four songs, a couple of them. You might have had your hand in writing A couple of them. I don't think you did. But your first memory that you have with this song, the minute you hear it, we'll just go play like five seconds of it. I hit yellow. I have put some Jared Neiman in there. So when you hear love or lover man, when that song comes on, where does that take you? What memory do you think of that song?

Speaker 5:

Austin Texas, jared was opening up for Brad Paisley, or Lee was one of my, I think Jared was. So myself, lee Bryce and Lance Miller were out writing. We jumped on the bus with Jared, went to Austin Texas and they had this huge stage set up on a lake and we were so fired up to be on the show with Brad Paisley that we drank a little too much. I think we got asked to go to our go to our buses at some point, which we just wrote a song. I think we ended up writing a song for Jared, but when I when I hear that song, all I can do is picture those two guys out on the front deck of that stage and lead bailing off into the water and almost drowning because he had jeans on.

Speaker 4:

I love that. All right, hit the green one. Lord, I quit the drinking, the smoking and the honky tonk Keep up with the Joneses. Jamie Johnson, man, when you hear that song, where does that take you?

Speaker 5:

That takes me to Granny White Softball Fields where he and two other buddies had came to watch me play softball because none of us had anything else to do. And walking through the parking lot I mentioned that hook to Jamie. We wrote it the next day. That's what we got to meet. I think it was my first cut and we had George Jones come in the studio. Buddy Cannon produced and those were.

Speaker 4:

Those were good memories, oh yeah, when I saw that song I'm like that's one of my favorite Jamie Johnson's back there. I like I throw that in there. All right, this next one you're going to like this next one. Yellow Dude, that song is just perfect. That was the most perfected song. But, nick Norman, life is good. When you hear that song, man, where does it take you?

Speaker 5:

To Nick, Nick picking it out. I mean, Nick's a great songwriter and had a lot of songs that he didn't need any help with at all. So he he went through my catalog. I think he found two or three that he thought would fit. That was one of them. He was like man, this is my song. He goes this I have to sing. So and I remember thinking, yes, you do, man, that fits you perfectly, I agree. So I love hearing them sing that man, I love that cut too.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that was one of my favorites. When he put that song I was like dude. This is like I beat the cocaine song for sure.

Speaker 5:

I don't know about beat the T shirt, but it's the song, all right.

Speaker 4:

The last one hit that green button.

Speaker 2:

I.

Speaker 4:

Travis Trude I'm gonna be somebody. Man, when you hear that song, where's it taking you?

Speaker 5:

Takes me to Jared Neiman taking me to school, and I'd first moved to Nashville. I knew nothing about writing songs, guys. I had good ideas. So Jared would take me to school. That song will come on the radio and I'd say, man, I love that song. Jared say, what do you love about it? I'm like, well, I just he goes. Do you love the melody? Do you love the beat? You love the story? What do you love? I'm like I don't know. He's like, well, think about it. He goes. Did you, did you write it out? I go write it out. I'm not trying to sing it. He goes, you're so stupid. He goes. If you'll, if you'll write it out, you'll see it different. So I went home and I listened to the lyrics, I wrote it out, and it wasn't till I wrote it that I realized nothing rhymes. None of the verses rhyme at all, not any of them. I go, it doesn't rhyme. I go, how come it feels so good and doesn't rhyme? He goes because Travis Trude's a badass.

Speaker 3:

End of story.

Speaker 5:

One oh one.

Speaker 4:

I read that somewhere about that song. I was like I got to hear the full story behind that. That's why I do that song and they're kind of I knew there's a connection there.

Speaker 5:

That was Jared taking me to school. I.

Speaker 4:

Love that. All right, buddy. This next little portion is we call it the hot seat, so we're gonna put you on the hot seat. 10 quick questions. First thing that comes to mind, your first CD or vinyl you ever purchased. Alabama, nice, where's your happy place? If you're going to blow off some steam, where you going Treestand? All right. Who has the best pizza you ever had? Oh, five points, all right. What's your wallpaper on your phone? My two kids. What's a movie that can always make you laugh?

Speaker 5:

Oh, always makes me laugh. I don't watch movies to laugh. I'm funny all the time. Let's see movies makes me laugh Dumb and dumber words yes.

Speaker 4:

What was your first job, your first paying gig?

Speaker 5:

Washing cars at my father's dealership.

Speaker 4:

What's the oldest thing you own?

Speaker 5:

The oldest thing I own my grandfather shotgun, great grandfather shotgun actually. I gave me chills.

Speaker 4:

I think, man, what chore do you not like doing? This might be a question for your wife, but Holding clothes, dude, I don't like the full.

Speaker 5:

I got yelled at today about it. That's my. That's what's why I'm laughing because I'll dry.

Speaker 4:

I'll wash them all dry. I'm. I was double my kitchen table in the middle of the kitchen table waits for me to come home from work.

Speaker 5:

It's even better. My wife comes in and goes is this? Are all these clothes completely pressed in this Box? Are these, are these cleaner, these dirty? I can't really tell. I'm like they're all clean. He's gonna finish them. What was your favorite? She loves me. She doesn't always like me, yeah right.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, no one. The truth what was your favorite child of television show? Dukes? I have it.

Speaker 4:

Oh hell, yeah, dude, I love that I remember our first episode of that, oh boy, all right, but in this, the last one. Your bucket list man. What's something that's on your musical bucket list that you want to achieve or complete? You've had a couple of number ones. Now, under your belly, play the bluebird there may have venue or something you still want to do to kind of before. Before you call it a day, I'd love to have a big hit artist as a record label I'd love to.

Speaker 5:

I've never been a red rocks, never done that. Yes, I don't know I. I kind of go with the flow and see what opportunities come up. So I don't know, just take a day by day. I love that dude so well before we let you go for the night.

Speaker 4:

Can we get you to play one for us, you think?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, sure, see if we can find a guitar. I say that first one's laying around too, probably now there's.

Speaker 4:

There's more than we need.

Speaker 5:

I don't know there's more than we need. I Written a lot of songs. Can't remember any than the artist called it in the room, but this one I Well.

Speaker 6:

I'll never sit down. That's what I always thought. I'm not that kind of man. I just that scared I don't dance. But here I am, spinning you round and round in circles it ain't my style. I don't care, I do anything with you anywhere. Yes, you got me fall Because I don't Don't dance.

Speaker 5:

Love's never come my way.

Speaker 6:

I've never been this far. But you took these two left feet and walked away with my heart. I don't dance, but here I am Spinning you round and round in circles. It ain't my style, but I don't care, I do anything With you. Yes, you got me, because I don't Dance, I don't dance. But here I am Spinning you round and round in circles. It ain't my style, I don't care, I do anything With you. Yes, you got me fall Because I don't dance, I don't dance.

Speaker 4:

Well, that dude that takes me back, takes me back to Milwaukee. When we first heard Lee sing that song, I was like I was blown away. Dude, it's just that two left things that way better.

Speaker 4:

That's you left feet the line that got me going like oh yeah, I definitely have two left feet for sure. Well, Rob, I can sit here and talk to you forever tonight, but, man, I really appreciate you spending some time with us. This was a wise is telling Jillian this one with the best shows. I think we've done a while so I loved it just sitting here and talking to you right up.

Speaker 5:

Well, thank you J Lee and thank you Eric. It's a pleasure to you know beyond you guys.

Speaker 4:

I appreciate you about me oh, dude, is awesome. We wish you got nothing but the best with pump house, everything. Dude, at least love watching you. Six c, dude, and just we're going from here, so we cannot wait to see what happens. This enter song thing I got check this out, though, because we're gonna put this, like I said, the link in our bio For the show. But some school man, I love what you're doing for artists like this, so it's really cool.

Speaker 5:

Y'all check it out. I appreciate y'all paying attention, letting some hell, yeah, dude.

Speaker 4:

All right, buddy, you have a great night man.

Speaker 5:

Thank you, guys, and we'll see you again soon.

Speaker 3:

I'll talk to somebody. Bye, bye.

Speaker 5:

Thank you, thank you I.

Speaker 4:

Love that. That was so much fun. It was a great show.

Speaker 3:

He was so wonderful.

Speaker 4:

I had a feeling like going in the kind of just like research for this show. Like this guy, we're just gonna have fun talk with them. Oh, yeah, he was said, the guys like honestly his three biggest that he's put out. I don't dance having so far away man. That's just one and good night kiss by Randy Hauser.

Speaker 4:

I was a good one too, I guess that was a fun one though, but it's so much more just like, if you guys are, kind of talked a little bit about it. But remember, a couple episodes back we talked about Nick Norman. That's one that Robin Nick has had an amazing friendship, amazing relationship and partnership with this old music journey there on, and Nick is this man, he's amazing artist. So check him out if you guys can. You know, I think it's a great thing to have a man like Nick and Kind of favorable Lewis Bryce to.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we got their Lewis in there every now and then that's our boy there.

Speaker 4:

So yeah, amazing circle. And, honestly, when you have a circle like that Everything you do you're gonna succeed because everybody supports each other. That's awesome. That's what I'm saying. Everybody has it and I Lewis has always told me how, how give a bond these guys all have together, so that's why I love about it.

Speaker 4:

I loved having Rob on tonight. So amazing, amazing. I mean I'm not gonna talk about I feel like Cody Rhodes, what are you gonna talk about now this weekend? So we got out of a whim. We're like all right, nascar is coming to Chicago, there's four or five concerts, let's see if maybe we can go out and cover it for our website. And so I put it for a media request for NASCAR. We got approved and it was an honor to be able to go out there and we were able to shoot and we're gonna have a review coming up in next day or two, hopefully before we get out of the Nashville this weekend. But wow, what an experience and honestly I know it's not NASCAR fan one bit.

Speaker 3:

Oh, I'm not, not a NASCAR fan, I just have never you never thought you'd be in the middle of it.

Speaker 4:

I'm not not a fan, though Now it's like it's mind-blowing and stuff is this it was wild to see Cars go. I mean, we're from Chicago. You see cars go flying by you all the time on 1994, but it was crazy to see these cars going 150 miles an hour on the Street. You walk and ride or drive around on normally, and so it was just so surreal us talking about it. We can't wait till we put the review out and going through the photos we got. I had over like 2000 photos, but it was crazy. Saturday was fun and ended a little bit earlier Saturday was fun.

Speaker 6:

It was hot.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it was hot. I'm a little bit and we get. We get a hotel, but we put it on the opposite side of the track.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and there was no way to walk straight through Around the entire track to get to it, which is insane.

Speaker 4:

But Sunday was crazy because I have been in rain before but I've never been in like a torrential downpour Up to my ankles in my shoes because, granted, if you guys ever see me on a bob, you see me Sunday in Nashville.

Speaker 4:

I'll be wearing my sandals. That's where I like to roll. I like to wear my sandals all the time, but we had where, since we were so close to the track. We're where jeans and close-toes shoes and I only have like one pair of shoes. I think that I to my name, so I'm over here in ankle deep water and we Uh, right before we left the hotel the funniest thing and jeans.

Speaker 3:

We were in jeans and tennis shoes and nothing.

Speaker 4:

There's no worse feeling than to be in Wet jeans and wet tennis shoes for 12 hours but jillian had this amazing idea she's gonna call down to the front desk and get four ice bags delivered to our hotel room and then tie our feet up in these ice bags, these ice bucket liners, and At one point it felt like I was literally walking in a swimming pool in my shoes, because these I could say all the water.

Speaker 4:

But we had a blast. Uh, we'll have some photos and a review up in a couple of days, but it was just amazing time.

Speaker 3:

In all the concerts were canceled, so we didn't even get to. We got to see black crows.

Speaker 4:

I got to see black crows and the local act, but uh, it was. It was this phenomenal the whole weekend.

Speaker 4:

It was amazing to see these a cool experience to see everything, to see these guys Walk around their umbrellas and rain and their crew guys running around barefooted through the deep water and just Like. We were sitting in the media room with a bunch of other photographers and media people and I looked at jillian I was like, all right, we either sit here and stay dry or we go out there and see the action and see what's going on and see what. What does NASCAR do during a rain delay? I mean, a lot of people might not be able to see what we were had access to be able to see. So I was like let's just go document this and that's kind of where my review is Going to go when we put this out in a couple days. It's going to be like my two days in NASCAR Just kind of document. What we went through and saw and everything else is going to be pretty cool to put out there. So look for that in a couple of days.

Speaker 4:

We talked a little bit about Nashville. We're going to be down there. Uh, sunday. We're leaving saturday are going to be down there sunday for our next riders round. I can't wait for this one. We're still working on the lineup. We have a couple already announced. We're going to be announcing a few more here soon. Um, this is god. I can't wait for that.

Speaker 4:

So, but that live oak in Nashville. I was going to try to pull up the lineup real quick, but you know, here we go. No, I gotta talk about one guy that's on the lineup, though you probably know. So sunday we're in live oak for our next riders round 130 to 5 30 pm, followed by raise rowdy, which is me awesome. They're awesome lineup too, I'm sure. But there's a guy about when do we live, miss sippy? Oh five, so I would say oh seven, probably. We you and I went to a cori smith show At the new daisy in mithas, tennessee, and this guy opened up and he just has a couple songs stuck with me and I didn't find them on facebook or whatever. I've been following them probably since 2006, 2007 or whatever, and I finally was like you know what dude you got? Come on, play. Warmers are right around, so he's gonna be there. Sunday's names clay, come be. I cannot wait to see what he's up to.

Speaker 4:

And what he's been doing. But that's one name you guys want to look for this sunday if you come off to the show, because this, honestly, his some of the songs to make good things was one of his songs I just loved. I had it. But, uh, our friends ever are gonna be coming out and uh, one of their, one of their good friends, brian simpson, was just on the show a couple weeks ago. He's gonna come out to an amazing round pain taylor, amazing up and coming artists, uh, that my buddy, jeff brown, turned me on to. Just amazing singer-songwriter, two people that I'm excited to see together in a round. Uh, kyle austin and hunter thomas mous is going to be there, uh, together. That's gonna be pretty interesting because those boys get together.

Speaker 4:

Then our good friend, uh, lindsay ryan, that helps us out and she sponsored the last couple events. She writes for us in melodies, memories here, but she uh she's actually sponsoring around herself and she's bringing in tray odum, which is amazing artist, sam kuhn, bobby watson, katlyn croaker, who played our last writer, tron. She's gonna come back and play again. And then, of course, a couple of my chicago boys are coming out, which I'm pretty excited for. But, uh, bond henry, you guys saw him on the podcast a couple weeks ago. Uh, he's played a couple of our rounds and johnny miller. Johnny miller is one of my favorite artists. I don't know if you knew johnny was playing, did you?

Speaker 3:

I don't think I knew johnny was going to. I don't think you knew this.

Speaker 4:

That's something that's used now, but johnny miller is going to be coming down. Amazing songwriter, this guy. He is surrounded by what? Nine girls, nine women he has a song called woman's world.

Speaker 3:

That's this he has all daughters and then all granddaughters, all granddaughters yeah, I think it's like eight or nine.

Speaker 4:

Just like you know, we did a photo shoot with him. He did one with all his daughters, all his granddaughters is amazing, though, but if you guys get there early, definitely check out bond henry and johnny miller, and then, uh, caroline dare or caroline dare, sorry. Uh, we got tons of submissions that come in all the time, and I know jillian sat down a couple days ago. I said this one is on you. I said I want you to pick two or three artists. Give me some names and we're gonna invite them. Caroline dare was one of them that she picked out. I checked her out, just phenomenal. We have a couple other invites out. We'll see what happens, but there's a chance we might add one or two more to this lineup on sunday, but we're we're excited because it's a packed, packed lineup. It's gonna be a great day. It's gonna be a beautiful day, in natural, I hope, because after this last weekend, I need some sun some warm sun, agreed no rain, so, but we're anytime of year.

Speaker 4:

I live oak though. Great food, great drinks, great times. So, uh, we just love going and be able to host these events of live oak and uh, we're grateful that we get to do this three or four times a year. So, but, guys, um, I'm gonna stop rambling because that's probably what I've been doing lately, but I'm excited. It was a good show, it was a great show.

Speaker 3:

I have an argument. Thank you, so so, so much. I'm gonna argue when tomorrow night.

Speaker 4:

But this is the one tomorrow night. Talk a little bit about it. It's been a long time coming because this guy's played a few of our riders rounds. Played my birthday last year and I've been waiting for the day to come where we're gonna sit down. Talk to this guy for a little bit, and tomorrow night is the time you know it was a hard day this morning.

Speaker 3:

I just show up.

Speaker 4:

Russell's uh oh yeah.

Speaker 4:

So, yeah, I'm excited for that one. It's gonna be a fun one. So, guys, we cannot wait to see you tomorrow night. Thank you so much for tuning in tonight, for with rob, it just was amazing. Um, it sucks because we've reached the end of another fantastic episode.

Speaker 4:

I just want to take a moment to thank rob hatch for joining us today and sharing his incredible journey as a singer-songwriter. His storytelling ability and genuine talent are unparalleled. Rob's story is not only inspiring, but it's also a testament to hard work and dedication. His music has brought comfort, enjoyed accountless fans around the world, including myself, but I speak for the entire audience want to say that we can't wait to see what the future holds for rob hatch. We're all excited to see the milestones he reaches and the impacts he makes. So, with that said, thank you once again, rob. You're a true inspiration to us all and we wish you all the best in the future endeavors. Until next time, folks, keep chasing your dreams and never forget to turn up the volume on rod.

Speaker 4:

Rob hatches music. Anything he writes, man it's I'm telling you this goal anything he puts his name on. So but, thank you for joining us tonight and we hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did. Don't forget to catch up on everything you missed from tonight and past episodes over at melodies and memoriescom. That's and melodies and memoriescom. And uh yeah, like I said, another amazing show tomorrow night Leading up to our 175th episode this sunday in Nashville.

Speaker 2:

The melodies and memories podcast with jillian and erin schriver, brought to you by arlo revolution. As we close the book on another chapter, remember music gives us soul to the universe, wings to the line, flight to the imagination and life to every fish. Next week, jillian and erin connect more melodies and memories with the fans and artists they love. Thank you for being a part of this musical journey and we will see you next time on the melodies and memories podcast With jillian and erin schriver.