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Stockings hung with so much care,

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The joy of Christmas fills the air.

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Presents wrapped in red and green,

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A perfect tree sets the scene.

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Let's drink a cup of cheer,

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To the best time of the year.

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Christmas magic under mistletoe,

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Smiling faces everywhere you go.

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Bells are ringing,

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Stars are shining bright,

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There is peace on earth,

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All around the world tonight.

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Christmas magic.

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Christmas magic.

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Watching frosty come alive,

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And reindeer flying in the sky,

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Carol is singing a jolly song,

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Makes you want to sing along,

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And drink a cup of cheer,

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To the best time of the year.

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Christmas magic under mistletoe,

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Smiling faces everywhere you go.

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Bells are ringing,

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Stars are shining bright,

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Christmas magic.

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Christmas magic under mistletoe,

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Smiling faces everywhere you go.

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Bells are ringing,

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All around the world tonight.

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Christmas magic.

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Christmas magic under mistletoe,

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Christmas magic.

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Christmas in this long town of birth,

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And shall ask you all for every one,

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With this light it does bear the nestled trees,

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Tradition creates fond memories.

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There's Bear Plaza where you'll find,

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Pictures with Santa, reindeer all around,

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Benches for sitting, watching people as they go,

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Faces all will glow.

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Christmas in your garden,

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There's stories all around,

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Shopping, eating, walking,

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Merry Christmas and warm greetings to all.

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Hello winter,

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It's a ice ball.

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Christmas in this historic town,

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With this landmark civic theaters and home tours,

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On third season oh we've been sent fun place,

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That ends to the festive holidays.

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The candlelight tours,

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Superior dancing characters,

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The churches and the town clock that chimes.

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Christmas in your garden,

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Merry Christmas and warm greetings to all.

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Hello winter,

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Hello winter, goodbye fall.

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Christmas with new love,

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Christmas with new love,

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Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas from Newport.

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart,

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Once bitten and twice shy,

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I keep my distance but you still catch my eye,

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Tell me baby do you recognize me,

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Merry Christmas I wrapped it up and sent it,

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But if you kiss me now I know you'd fool me again.

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart,

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A crowded room, friends with tired eyes,

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I'm hiding from you and just so revised,

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Now I found a real love you'll never fool me again.

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart,

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I'll give it to someone special.

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart,

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Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon Show today's best country mix.

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And joining me right here today is John Bergeron.

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First and foremost, John, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today.

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Well, thank you so much for having me.

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It is my pleasure.

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So let's get started by getting to know you a bit and how you got started in the music industry.

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You know, I don't remember learning to play the piano because I was probably about four.

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And my mother was a teacher, so she would make it into a game.

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I know her.

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And so by the time I was taking lessons, I could already play.

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And then it just continued from there.

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When I was 14, I had a nine-piece soul and pop band.

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And my mother went to the mayor in my hometown and got permission for us to play at a club.

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And from there, we played throughout high school.

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It was amazing.

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It was a different time.

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I played through high school, did a bunch of things.

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But by the time I was 17, I was in New Orleans doing horn and string charts and producing.

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And then after going to college for a while and I let go, I got into a country rock musical.

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It went all the way to Broadway, the Billy Rose Theater.

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I stayed at the Chelsea Hotel.

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The Chelsea Hotel in the 70s was amazing and had a great time.

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After that ran its course, I moved back to Louisiana and found this niche that I have of being a singer-songwriter.

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And then I've been doing it ever since.

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There's many, many things I've done.

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I don't want to confuse your audience, but it all centered around being a songwriter, recording those songs and performing them.

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If you had the opportunity to go anywhere in the world and perform a show, where would you go and why would you go there, John?

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I think I'd go to New Orleans at the Sanger Theater and invite everybody I know.

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And I would bring it to New Orleans.

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What advice would you give someone that might want to start doing music?

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Would that be singing or songwriting?

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I know you were just telling me a story right before we jumped on air, if that's something you wanted to share as well that kind of ties together with this question.

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I have an electrical engineering degree also.

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And so I taught at Middlesex and Wesleyan University, and one subject was audio recording, but the other subject was music production.

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And even though people couldn't play, I got them past the stage of just guessing.

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So I taught them chord theory, scale theory, and they had to make songs using that concept.

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And it was very successful and a lot of fun.

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I really had a great time.

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Also, I taught at Wesleyan had an art school project in Middletown here in Connecticut and Green Street Art Center.

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So I taught the kids and the kids would come in and they'd have an idea for a rap, of course.

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And then I'd make a beat for them and they go out there and they do the performance.

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And I swear one girl had a speech impediment.

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We got a great song about big lots, but big lots.

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And so then after that, I noticed her speech impediment started to lessen.

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And then so we did another song during that semester and it really did improve her speech.

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I can't tell you why.

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I can just tell you what I saw.

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It was a joy in my life.

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Let's put it that way.

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So you have a song out right now and it is called Please Make a Deposit.

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Tell me a little bit about that song.

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It goes back to right around 1980.

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And I can't I don't know why I wrote that song.

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I don't have like a special moment that gave me the seed of that's how a song will start.

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You have something to work on and then you go to work.

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But I thought it was whimsical.

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I thought it was an idea like everybody's broke.

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Jesus, make a deposit.

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And John, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?

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There's too many things.

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You know, one of my things is a gift is not a gift till you give it.

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And I know that I have a gift to make music.

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It didn't matter.

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I was signed with a group at Paramount.

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I had a publishing deal.

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I had this, that.

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But through it all, that's the basic business.

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But if you got music in you, you got to let it go.

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You got to let it come out.

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You can't get all the details in the way of it.

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And if you think you're going into it to be a star, you better rethink it.

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You got to I have no choice.

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I have to write these songs.

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Once they start, they won't leave me alone.

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It's a lot of fun, but it is really hard work.

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And I'm not a good singer.

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To be, you know, to be.

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A songwriter that just does it on a regular basis.

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What's expected.

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I'm just John Burjong.

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And something gave me.

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Someone gave me.

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A little piece of music.

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That I just brought up well enough.

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Smart enough to know.

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The dollar is cute, but you're not going to get anywhere.

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If you don't nurture it.

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It's like going to work.

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It's like you bring your mental.

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You sit at the piano and you start.

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Playing around and then.

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You're just.

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You're just.

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You're just.

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Grooving the piano.

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There's no, there's no formula to how it comes out.

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One thing that I would like to say is.

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The fact that I didn't get into the big label.

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Successfully. I got there, but.

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Have a way of going south.

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And I think that's the biggest reason why I got into the label.

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Is because I was.

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I was a fan of the music as I.

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Went through my career, but one thing was.

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I had a joy that I was closer to the dirt.

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Closer to the earth.

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That I wasn't paying attention to the decadence of rock and roll.

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I shouldn't say rock and roll.

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The decadence of.

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Everything all the time too much.

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Too much.

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I was a fan of the music.

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I would know what I'm saying.

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If you live close to the earth and you live frugally.

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Then you may write different kinds of songs.

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You have to go through trials that.

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You may not have to go through if you had a big bank account.

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I can't say they're connected, but in my life, I look back.

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And I'm so glad I approached my.

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Work as I did. I can do everything.

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Make design the studio, build a studio.

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Record.

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Saying right.

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Produce people.

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Get people to sound better than they did before they walked in.

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It is the whole life has been about.

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Let's make music.

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I'm so glad I approached you guys.

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I'm so glad I approached you.

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Thanks for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon show.

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Today's best country mix.

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We appreciate your time and support and hope to have you on the show

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again real soon. Thank you.

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Oh, I'd love to.

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Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon show today's best country mix and

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joining me right here today is Alex Miller.

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Alex. How you doing today?

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I'm doing good to you.

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started in music.

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Well, sure thing. I grew up in Lancaster, Kentucky, which is a

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small town south of Lexington, about 3500 people, and I started

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singing and playing in church. And I was about three years old

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when I started that. Whenever I was six, I started taking

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guitar lessons and playing anywhere they would they'd had

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music, you know, it'd be a BFW hall or a nursing home or

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anything like that. And I just took whatever came at me, you

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know, and so whenever I was about 17 at the time, my mom

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signed me up for a little show called American Idol. And that's

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where most people know me from.

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What an honor to get an opportunity to be on American

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Idol. I gotta say that's really amazing.

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Well, thank you. Yeah, it was definitely wild times for me.

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And especially being a being a teenager at 17. That was that

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was pretty, that was a pretty life changing thing. I bet for

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sure. And I can tell you definitely have a country accent

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there. I was gonna guess if you were from Kentucky, can I could

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tell you have that accent?

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Yeah, I do. It follows me wherever I go. And I can't shake

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it. That's for sure. It's, it's just a part of me is my arm or

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my leg is.

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If someone was to take the time to write a song about you and

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your personality, what do you think that they would write

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about?

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Oh, that's a great question. I think, I think if someone had to

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write a song about me, it'd be I think they would write about

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having a good time because that's what I like to do. I like

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to have a lot of fun and see everything in the world and in

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life. So it would be a be a well rounded party song, I

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believe would probably be the best way to say

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exactly you only live once, you got to make the best of it.

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That's exactly right.

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So if you had the opportunity to go anywhere in the world and

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perform a show, where would you go and why would you go there?

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Well, that's a good that's a great question, too. I think if

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I had to pick a certain spot to go, I'm not going out west, but

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also like things kind of close here to home. So one place I

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want to play before I will do whatever I need to do, I want to

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go play at the Grand Ole Opera, which is the country music Mecca.

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It's the it's the one place that every country artist wants to

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go play and haven't got to do that yet. So that's that's

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that's definitely my priority number one as far as going to

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play somewhere and that would be just one of the biggest honors

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I could ever get.

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So you had a song called putting up hay that recently just came

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out back in November. Tell me a little bit about that song.

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Well, you know, growing up in a small country town, I grew up on

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about 800 acre cattle farm and I would go balay or feed cows or

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do things like that. That's what I did. And I was growing up and

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I was writing with some guys in Nashville and they were wanting

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to write a song that's a little more personal about me in my

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life and kind of what I've been doing. So that's kind of where

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that song came about. I put up a lot of hay on the farm and they

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wanted to add a love interest because I want to tell you whenever

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I was out on the farm or what no daisy belt like there is on the

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song on our farm, but we we put up hay about every day and the

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song kind of came from that it came from my growing up on the

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farm and being a farm kid.

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That's awesome. And I also see here that tomorrow you're going

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to be at the Lincoln Jamboree.

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Yes, I've got to I got to show tomorrow I'm really excited

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about and it's kind of my Christmas gift back to you.

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My fans and the people that are in the local communities here in

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Kentucky. It's a free show and what we're doing is we're just

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putting it on for the fans like we're calling kind of a fan

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appreciation show and I'm doing it just just as a Christmas gift

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back to the folks here in Kentucky and I've had a lot of

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good people here that have supported me support my music

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and come to my shows and I want to give back to the community

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and give back to those people and I want to give back to the

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people and this is my way of doing it.

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Well, that is incredibly nice of you. That is just amazing and

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going back to thank those when you didn't have anything was

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just so sweet. So that's great.

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Well, thank you. Thank you.

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So what advice would you give to artists that might want to

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start doing music whether that be singing or songwriting? What

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would you tell the inspiring artists?

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early age. My my granddad was a big influence in my life and

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the one thing he always told me, you know we grew up big

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country music fans. You know we listen to the old stuff like

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Mike Williams and Merle Haggard and George Jones. A lot of old

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country stars were his favorite and when I first started

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singing, I kind of tried to emulate those guys and their

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style and my my papa was a big big fan of country music and

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loved their minute of it, but he sat me down one day and I was

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singing. I mean, stop for a minute there. He said that you

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know there's already been a Hank Williams. There's already been a

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Merle Haggard. There's already been a George Jones, but I want

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to hear what Alex Miller sounds like and I want there to be an

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Alex Miller in the world and said you need to try singing

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like him instead of some other guy and for young for young

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artists, that's my advice and my recommendation. There's only

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one best version of yourself that you can be and you know you

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can emulate other artists and kind of use some of their ideas,

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but don't be them. Don't try to be them. Be your own person.

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Make your own life and your own decisions on things and be true

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to yourself. That's that's the one thing that I can say about

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myself. You know my personality the way I am just it's just who

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I am. There ain't no faking or any other way around it. Just

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be who you are and be genuine and truthful with yourself about

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who you are and what you stand for. If you were to do it or

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collaborate with any singer whether they're with us or not

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today, who would you choose and why would you choose them?

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Alex? Well, I choose Dolly Parton just because I've always

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liked her music and love her duets and she's not she's not

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hard to look at either. So that'd be great. Well, there you

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go. So if people want to learn more about you, where can they

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find you? Well, I'm like I'm like rising flower. I'm all

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over the place. I'm you can find me on TikTok, Instagram,

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Facebook, wherever you get on social media and watch social

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media stuff. I'm there and if you want to hear some of my

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music, make sure to check out Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Apple

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music, all that stuff. I'm I'm everywhere like I said and my

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handle on social media is A Miller Music and if you want to

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look at my website, that's probably the best place to find

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my tour dates and where I'm playing at Alex Miller country

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.com. If you had one message to tell anyone that might be

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listening right now, whether that be my fans, your fans, what

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would you tell them? Well, I would tell them thank you and

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thank you and and you know this during what you do, you know,

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if it wasn't for the folks that listen to us and listen to me

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saying and listen to you talk, you know, if it wasn't for them

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folks, then we couldn't get to do what we get to do and I just

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want to say thank you all for for listening here and

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listening to my music and supporting people that are

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rising up in the music business. I definitely agree with

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you, Alex. You know, if it wasn't for the people that are

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listening to any of us, we wouldn't be able to do what we

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do. So, huge appreciation to everyone that is listening here

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on the show. Amen to that. Amen to that. And Alex, is there

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anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to

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mention here on the show today? I think we've covered all

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the bases but again, I want to say thank you so much for

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taking the time to talk to me and I sure appreciate a good

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conversation. You had some good questions which I appreciate

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like having to answer the same thing every time. So, thank

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you. Oh, it's my pleasure. I try to make people think with

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their questions and again, I would like to thank Alex

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Miller for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon Show,

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today's best country mix. We appreciate your time and

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support and hope to have you on the show again real soon.

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Well, thank you, Kaden. You too. You take care and uh till

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we talk again, take care of yourself. Hello and welcome to

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the Kaden Gordon Show today's best country mix and joining

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me right here today is Joe Eskridge. First and foremost,

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Joe, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the

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show today. Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure. Thank you. So,

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let's get started by getting to know you a bit and how you get

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started in music. Sure. Um well, I'm uh I'm an I'm an older

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fella. So, I've been playing since I was a kid. My dad put

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a bass guitar in my hand and uh uh set of drums in my in my

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brother's hand and he had us playing uh since we were, I

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don't know, seven, eight, nine years old. My dad was a was a

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honky tonk piano player like uh Jimmy Swagger, Mickey Gilley,

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Jerry Lee Lewis and so he would play in southern gospel bands.

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He was playing country bands and stuff and uh he was just a

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real ham, a real entertainer and we just sorta tried to uh

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tried to take after him a little bit. So, I've been

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playing I started playing guitar uh in high school about

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the time videos came out and I started watching music videos

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and on CMT and watching the chord progressions and I sorta

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picked up guitar from there and you know, high school and

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college started playing uh guitar a lot more and singing

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a lot more.

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If you had the opportunity to duet or collaborate with any

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singer, whether they're with us today or not, who would you

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choose and why would you choose them?

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Well, um let's see. I would probably it's this one's a

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little left of center but uh I have my reasons and I'll

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explain in a second but there's a there's a singer songwriter

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named Nancy Griffith who just passed away uh I think about a

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year ago and uh a college friend of mine introduced me to

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her uh when we were in college um there was a there was a record

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that she did that's called Live from Anderson Fair and she's a

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primarily a songwriter and it was just the coolest thing and

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that's how I became introduced into songwriting which is

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really probably more what I would consider myself. I'm not

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a very good singer but I do enjoy you know crafting songs so

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if I had a chance to uh go back in time and meet her or sing a

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song with her write a song with her that would be my that'd

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probably be my first choice.

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What advice would you give someone that might wanna get into music

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whether that be singing or songwriting? What would you tell

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them?

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Uh I would just just do it just get you a karaoke machine or

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get you a pen and paper and uh and a guitar or a piano or a

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kazoo or whatever it is a little recorder and just start

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writing your thoughts down get in touch with yourself figure

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out who you are uh particularly on the songwriting side it

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just it'll help you it'll help you discover who you are and

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it'll help you discover what you want in life and it'll help

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you kind of reflect on what has shaped you and made you but

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man when you get a uh when you get a microphone in your hand

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and you start singing then you're a singer and just

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embrace it.

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If you had the opportunity to go anywhere in the world and

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perform a show, where would you go and why would you go there?

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Well, this may seem a little strange. I because I really it

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wouldn't bother me one bit if there wasn't a soul in the

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audience. I would hope there would be but uh I would love to

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stand in the circle of the Ryman Auditorium uh in the

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Opry House would be would be great obviously but if I could

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stand on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium and sing just even

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without even without uh a sound system if I could just sing in

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that building three or four of my songs uh man that would be

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that would be a lottery ticket win right there. That would

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definitely be good stuff for me.

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What do you like doing outside of music? Do you have any hobbies

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or interests or anything like that Joe? Yeah, we do. Um so my

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wife and I um and we have a little boy. His name is Lyric

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and uh we have uh a side by side a little Polaris 900 Ranger

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that's uh full about I don't know but I guess it's about

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eight and eight or nine years old now and we live in in

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Northwest Tennessee. It's a extremely rural part of the

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state and it's a heavily heavily farm, heavily cotton,

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heavily soybean, heavily uh heavily corn crops here. So we

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just have acres and acres uh and we live about I don't know

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about 15 miles off the Mississippi River and uh so my

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wife and son and I spend just I don't know four or five nights

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a week on our side by side sneaking down back roads that

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00:35:11,460 --> 00:35:15,140
will take us down to the uh Mississippi River and we ride

494
00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:19,300
what's called the bottom ground down there and we there's no

495
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,540
lights. There's no people and it's just you and the stars and

496
00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:28,340
the and the dust on a gravel road and it's pretty it's pretty

497
00:35:28,340 --> 00:35:32,900
darn relaxing after a long day of uh I'm in the convenience

498
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:36,580
store business so I sell chicken all day long so it's a

499
00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:41,300
nice little uh escape from pedaling chicken all day. Oh I

500
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,140
bet yeah um and how cool that you live so close to that

501
00:35:45,140 --> 00:35:48,820
river the Mississippi River. Not everybody gets that luxury

502
00:35:48,820 --> 00:35:56,500
but that's really really cool. Well um the I have I put an

503
00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:01,700
album together here recently. This is my fourth record and

504
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:06,180
the song uh the title track is also the title of the album is

505
00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:11,620
called West Coast Tennessee and we were uh on one of our trips

506
00:36:11,620 --> 00:36:18,500
down to the river um about a year and a half ago

507
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:22,420
we were sitting on the bank of the river there and it's a

508
00:36:22,420 --> 00:36:25,940
there are sandbars all up and down the uh

509
00:36:25,940 --> 00:36:29,860
the Mississippi River that that are almost like beaches. Now

510
00:36:29,860 --> 00:36:34,340
you know it's it's the muddy Mississippi so it's not like

511
00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:37,860
uh you know it's not like the Atlantic or the Gulf or anything but

512
00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:41,460
I watched the sunset on over the Mississippi River

513
00:36:41,460 --> 00:36:47,940
and uh I told uh I told Elizabeth I said we are sitting on the West Coast of

514
00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:55,140
Tennessee right now and so I be you know songwriter

515
00:36:55,140 --> 00:37:00,180
Joe uh got my phone out and and scribbled it into my phone real quick

516
00:37:00,180 --> 00:37:03,540
and then wrote end up writing the song the next day

517
00:37:03,540 --> 00:37:08,020
and uh so we had released we ended up releasing that song

518
00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:15,780
back in April or May I think and uh it may even have been June but we

519
00:37:15,780 --> 00:37:21,220
filmed a we filmed a video that's uh that's on Strike TV

520
00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:24,740
that's that plays around the country actually we've gotten quite a bit of

521
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:28,740
feedback from from Europe and then of course it's on

522
00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:32,660
YouTube as well and uh so we've we've had a lot of

523
00:37:32,660 --> 00:37:37,460
success we even charted in Texas with our song West Coast Tennessee

524
00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:43,380
um so you know I I think I think our trips to the

525
00:37:43,380 --> 00:37:47,300
river on the side by side for that song and a little bit of luck we've had with

526
00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:49,460
it

527
00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:53,380
so Joe where can people learn more about you if they want to get to know you a

528
00:37:53,380 --> 00:37:55,860
little better

529
00:37:56,100 --> 00:38:03,460
well uh uh with the exception of the uh of the fourth album West Coast

530
00:38:03,460 --> 00:38:08,500
Tennessee uh all my singles are on Spotify

531
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:16,180
um and all of my uh all of my catalog is on Spotify it's on YouTube

532
00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:25,300
um it's on Apple Music I have a website uh joeskridgemusic.com

533
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:29,140
and then of course I have I have a I have a music page

534
00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:36,340
Joe Eskridge Music on Facebook and I have my personal page Joe Eskridge

535
00:38:36,340 --> 00:38:40,820
Facebook backslash joe eskridge I think.8012

536
00:38:40,820 --> 00:38:44,100
I believe is what it is but anyway then find me on Facebook

537
00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:50,020
YouTube Instagram TikTok um I'm trying to learn TikTok I'm getting

538
00:38:50,020 --> 00:38:55,940
there a little bit at a time but I I'm I'm old and slow so it takes me a

539
00:38:55,940 --> 00:39:01,060
little bit longer than it does the use to uh to figure out that new

540
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:04,260
social media so but TikTok has been good it's been great

541
00:39:04,260 --> 00:39:08,100
for us too to get the songs out

542
00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:13,140
if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now

543
00:39:13,140 --> 00:39:19,140
whether that be my listeners your fans what would that message be Joe

544
00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:24,180
um the message would be you're never too old

545
00:39:24,180 --> 00:39:27,860
you're never not good enough

546
00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:34,020
uh put the insecurity in a drawer you don't have to get rid of the

547
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:38,260
insecurity but just put it in its proper place in a drawer

548
00:39:38,260 --> 00:39:42,580
somewhere uh you might need it sometime if you

549
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:46,100
get a little cocky so don't don't don't completely get rid of your

550
00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:50,740
insecurity but uh whatever that dream is for you

551
00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:56,100
whatever that that goal is for you whatever it is that

552
00:39:56,100 --> 00:40:00,180
that holds a place in the back of your mind that you can't seem to shake

553
00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:07,140
pursue it whatever it is uh spend what you can on it uh

554
00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:11,620
but particularly spend time on it because you only get one chance through

555
00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:14,900
this world and it would just be an awful shame for

556
00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:19,780
you not to leave something lasting as a legacy because you

557
00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:24,340
didn't think you were talented enough or didn't think it was a worthwhile

558
00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:29,860
effort to put in so go for it whatever it is go for it

559
00:40:29,860 --> 00:40:33,780
i definitely agree with that and Joe is there anything that i forgot to mention

560
00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:38,020
that you would like to mention here on the show today before we go

561
00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:41,540
no i'm just grateful to you that you would even consider

562
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:47,460
uh having me on your station i i respect what you're doing it's so

563
00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:52,260
much work to what uh you and your producer his

564
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:57,700
name is is it graham john john i'm sorry

565
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:04,580
yeah i mean there's so much work to what you guys are doing and

566
00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:08,660
you know you make it look easy so people just assume it is and i know it's not

567
00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:12,500
and i respect what you're doing and i'm certainly grateful that you would

568
00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:16,260
include uh any of my music uh on your station

569
00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:19,700
because i know that you have thousands and thousands of

570
00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:24,900
options so i'm just grateful to you joe eskridge thank you so much for

571
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:28,340
taking the time to come on the kaden gordon show today's best country mix

572
00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:31,380
we definitely appreciate your time and support for being with us today and hope

573
00:41:31,380 --> 00:41:36,100
to have you on the show again real soon oh it's my pleasure thank you so much

574
00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:39,620
hello and welcome to the kaden gordon show today's best country mix

575
00:41:39,620 --> 00:41:43,460
and joining me right here today is ida hesson first and foremost ida thank you

576
00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:46,500
so much for taking the time to come on the show today

577
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,660
my sincere pleasure thank you for having me so let's get started by getting to

578
00:41:50,660 --> 00:41:54,100
know you a bit and how you got started in the music

579
00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:57,940
industry oh my goodness my love i've been i've been

580
00:41:57,940 --> 00:42:03,700
doing this i think since the womb um uh initially first started singing

581
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:09,140
when i was about 13 14 15 uh started performing publicly when

582
00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:13,860
i was 16 um i performed in so many bands

583
00:42:13,860 --> 00:42:19,780
throughout the years lots of cover bands indy bands new country bands

584
00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:24,340
soul bands jazz bands um i was quite lucky that i could travel

585
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:28,500
um around the world with some of my music um and i performed in different

586
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:33,860
countries around the world um and it's it's really just since

587
00:42:33,860 --> 00:42:37,380
covid hit that i decided to kind of go back to

588
00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:43,220
college and and be a little bit more uh independent uh for myself to kind of

589
00:42:43,220 --> 00:42:46,340
concentrate more on my own individual solo work

590
00:42:46,340 --> 00:42:50,980
um and and that's really where we are at the moment so just for the last year

591
00:42:50,980 --> 00:42:56,020
just over the last year i've literally really put out my own individual work

592
00:42:56,020 --> 00:42:58,660
that i've actually written that i've composed

593
00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:03,380
that i've performed on and partially that i've also mixed and produced so

594
00:43:03,380 --> 00:43:07,220
yeah it's it's a bit hard to kind of put all of that experience just just in a

595
00:43:07,220 --> 00:43:11,700
very short answer but that's the basic gist of it

596
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:15,780
if you had the opportunity to go anywhere in the world and perform a show

597
00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:18,340
where would you go and why would you go there

598
00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:21,140
oh my goodness me i think we all know where that would be that'd be the grand

599
00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:28,340
old opry let's not be silly now um well i mean it's it's the heart and

600
00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:31,140
soul of country music without a shadow of a doubt

601
00:43:31,140 --> 00:43:37,780
um uh this it's it's it's what can i say i mean there's there's so much

602
00:43:37,780 --> 00:43:41,140
that the very first time i ever ever heard about the grand old op you was

603
00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:49,860
um patty klein who was one of my really big kind of heroines in terms of my

604
00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:53,540
my real kind of heroes country music wise

605
00:43:53,540 --> 00:43:58,580
um along the lines of dolly parton and of course my favorite which is garth

606
00:43:58,580 --> 00:44:01,940
brooks who i would love to be able to write and perform with

607
00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:06,020
and i keep sending that prayer up to god please god please god

608
00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:11,060
um but yeah it's really after watching sweet dreams and patty klein and

609
00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:16,340
then just seeing that exquisite stage and and learning a little bit more about

610
00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:19,860
nashville and the grand old opry i mean that that has to be the

611
00:44:19,860 --> 00:44:26,260
the real kind of uh number one goal really for me

612
00:44:28,180 --> 00:44:31,940
if you had the opportunity now to duet or collaborate with

613
00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:35,460
any singer whether they're with us today or not who would you choose and why

614
00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:39,380
would you choose them ida i i think i might have already answered

615
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:45,380
that one i'm so sorry kaden uh bless your heart um it would most

616
00:44:45,380 --> 00:44:48,500
definitely be garth brooks there's there's no two ways about it

617
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:53,940
um he's such a phenomenal songwriter um but it's not just the the way that he

618
00:44:53,940 --> 00:44:59,140
writes obviously he has a team with him uh but he's such a powerful entertainer

619
00:44:59,140 --> 00:45:03,700
as well um if if it wasn't garth and who else

620
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:07,060
would who else would i love to perform with oh my goodness me there's so many

621
00:45:07,060 --> 00:45:12,180
performers oh my lord um

622
00:45:12,180 --> 00:45:15,220
oh my gosh it's impossible to say there's so many i mean there's like neil

623
00:45:15,220 --> 00:45:19,940
diamond there's billy joe um in terms of performers who are no

624
00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:24,980
longer with us i'd probably have to say eva cassidy

625
00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:28,260
um because she was an incredible vocalist

626
00:45:28,260 --> 00:45:32,980
um there's also people like nina simone uh billy holliday

627
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,820
um so just the incredible artists that that that really kind of have just

628
00:45:36,820 --> 00:45:40,340
something incredibly special about their voice

629
00:45:40,340 --> 00:45:44,020
so you have a song that recently just came out a couple days ago

630
00:45:44,020 --> 00:45:47,620
called mama said tell me a little bit about that song

631
00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:53,780
most certainly uh mama said is basically a song about an adult and you

632
00:45:53,780 --> 00:45:57,060
can take it either as as male or female it's it's really

633
00:45:57,060 --> 00:46:01,140
written hopefully to be as universal as possible

634
00:46:01,140 --> 00:46:05,300
um but it's basically where an adult kind of reflects and looks back

635
00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:09,460
on their childhood and the relationship that they had with their mother

636
00:46:09,460 --> 00:46:13,780
and the environment in the household uh is pretty much where it's become so

637
00:46:13,780 --> 00:46:19,380
untenable that the mother has to leave and she never does come back um and it's

638
00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:23,060
just how as an adult how that affects you and the kind of memories that you

639
00:46:23,060 --> 00:46:27,220
have um that early on as a young child

640
00:46:27,220 --> 00:46:30,740
and just those kind little moments where oh i just wish i could have seen you i

641
00:46:30,740 --> 00:46:33,780
wish i could have held you just a little bit longer

642
00:46:33,780 --> 00:46:37,860
um it's really just just a way of just looking back and

643
00:46:37,860 --> 00:46:42,900
and as an adult understanding that even though as a child you couldn't

644
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:45,620
understand why she left but now as an adult you do

645
00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:49,460
that's basically what mama said is about

646
00:46:50,420 --> 00:46:54,020
what advice would you give someone that might want to start doing music whether

647
00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:58,980
that be singing or songwriting tell us what you would tell them

648
00:46:58,980 --> 00:47:03,540
just be as honest and authentic as you can be straight from the heart

649
00:47:03,540 --> 00:47:10,900
um don't waste your time trying to be like somebody else um you say don't need

650
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:14,740
to be a copy of anyone the most precious the most beautiful thing you can ever be

651
00:47:14,740 --> 00:47:18,580
in this life is true to yourself um because i think that you will get

652
00:47:18,580 --> 00:47:21,780
that much more positive responses from other people when they see their

653
00:47:21,780 --> 00:47:26,180
authenticity and love what you do you know don't be

654
00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:29,940
afraid to ask questions don't be afraid to study

655
00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:33,620
because i went back to college as a mature student

656
00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:38,500
don't let that put you off um and if you if you hear other people saying well

657
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,060
maybe you should kind of give up the dream because you're a little bit long

658
00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:45,380
in the tooth or whatever don't listen to them this is your life

659
00:47:45,380 --> 00:47:48,740
you're in the driving seat not the passenger seat um

660
00:47:48,740 --> 00:47:53,300
just pursue your dreams as long as you are not hurting another human being

661
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:57,300
and if god has given you a beautiful gift then it would be a terrible shame

662
00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:03,620
for you to waste it so just go for gold you never know where you'll end up

663
00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:08,500
if people want to learn more about you ida where can they find you

664
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:16,340
um i'd say everywhere um probably one of the most the largest kind of um

665
00:48:16,340 --> 00:48:20,660
social media profiles i have is facebook or instagram

666
00:48:20,660 --> 00:48:24,660
uh which is simply ida heston music all in one word

667
00:48:24,660 --> 00:48:30,020
lower casing uh or if you want to catch me on on twitter it's a heston music

668
00:48:30,020 --> 00:48:34,100
um or you can get me on youtube as well so is ida heston so it's

669
00:48:34,100 --> 00:48:39,460
i'm i'm very easy to find i'm not hiding i promise

670
00:48:39,460 --> 00:48:42,580
she's not hiding in the shadows waiting for you to come find her

671
00:48:42,580 --> 00:48:45,620
promise i'm not

672
00:48:46,740 --> 00:48:52,180
she's public as she can be yeah well as as decently public as i can be yes

673
00:48:52,180 --> 00:48:57,620
exactly if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now

674
00:48:57,620 --> 00:49:03,700
whether that be your fans my listeners what would you tell them

675
00:49:05,140 --> 00:49:08,580
oh my goodness me um

676
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:16,180
oh i i because i i'm quite i i have a lot of faith so i do believe in god and i

677
00:49:16,180 --> 00:49:19,700
appreciate there are some people in the world who have church wounds or who

678
00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:22,740
struggle with their relationship with god

679
00:49:22,740 --> 00:49:29,620
um i i would just say if i can give anything to anybody listening i just

680
00:49:29,620 --> 00:49:34,420
say please talk to him you know talk to god and whatever it is

681
00:49:34,420 --> 00:49:37,700
that you're going through if you just give him an opportunity to

682
00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:41,140
help you i promise you he will

683
00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:47,060
that was very very well said that's for sure that's really really true

684
00:49:47,060 --> 00:49:51,220
but it's it's it's meant sincerely it really is

685
00:49:52,420 --> 00:49:55,460
and ida is there anything that i forgot to mention that you would like to

686
00:49:55,460 --> 00:49:59,140
mention here on the show today

687
00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:04,420
um i don't think so my lovey i've had such a pleasure talking with you albeit

688
00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:10,900
quite quite quite short um i i think really more than anything

689
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:14,980
again by all means anybody who'd love to listen to my music or look on my

690
00:50:14,980 --> 00:50:18,100
profiles please do you're very very welcome

691
00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:23,860
um i have started work on um an album for 2024

692
00:50:23,860 --> 00:50:28,180
which i've tentatively named confessions and lessons

693
00:50:28,180 --> 00:50:31,860
um so yeah i mean it's you can always look me up and

694
00:50:31,860 --> 00:50:36,340
and uh always send me a message if you like um other than that

695
00:50:36,340 --> 00:50:40,420
again just hand on my heart to everybody out there please stay safe

696
00:50:40,420 --> 00:50:46,580
be happy enjoy your life um it's it's quite a short one uh it's not

697
00:50:46,580 --> 00:50:51,620
as long as we think um and again without top thumping

698
00:50:51,620 --> 00:50:55,700
religion because i know some people might be sensitive to the issue but

699
00:50:55,700 --> 00:50:59,780
you know give god a chance to help you along your way i promise you he won't

700
00:50:59,780 --> 00:51:03,380
let you down people will sometimes and that's just a part of

701
00:51:03,380 --> 00:51:07,620
human weakness and just frailty of being human but

702
00:51:07,620 --> 00:51:12,580
you know if you've got a chance and he'll definitely try and help you

703
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:16,740
amen to that ida heston thank you so much for taking the time

704
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:20,660
to communicate lorden show today's best country mix we appreciate your time and

705
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:23,860
support for being with us and hope to have you on the show again

706
00:51:23,860 --> 00:51:27,700
real soon thank you most certainly my sincere pleasure thank you so much for

707
00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:38,580
having me god bless take care

708
00:51:39,540 --> 00:51:46,340
the baby's crying my woman said she's had a fail

709
00:51:46,340 --> 00:51:52,180
i'm tired and blind but all these unpaid bills

710
00:51:52,180 --> 00:51:59,700
i've run out of answers you know i'm no dancer

711
00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:07,940
just a tired romancer trying to see through what he's taking on

712
00:52:07,940 --> 00:52:21,380
so jesus won't you make a deposit why the money straight to my account

713
00:52:21,380 --> 00:52:29,780
jesus please make a deposit it's hard to believe

714
00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:35,140
when you're this down

715
00:52:38,180 --> 00:52:44,980
the banker's calling he said this will be the last time

716
00:52:44,980 --> 00:52:54,900
soon he'll be calling my car on down the line it's not he don't have feeling

717
00:52:54,900 --> 00:53:01,860
but the money's more appealing and i'm staring at the ceiling

718
00:53:01,860 --> 00:53:07,380
i just don't know what to do

719
00:53:07,380 --> 00:53:21,620
jesus please make a deposit send the money straight to my account

720
00:53:21,620 --> 00:53:30,100
jesus please make a deposit it's hard to believe

721
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:38,100
when you're this down

722
00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:05,780
well the first job that i ever had was working on the farm for big bill lad

723
00:54:05,780 --> 00:54:11,780
his barn law was hot as hell and so was his daughter daisy bell

724
00:54:11,780 --> 00:54:19,540
oh i never will forget those days putting up

725
00:54:22,780 --> 00:54:28,420
it was hard to keep my mind on work the way she filled out that skin tight shirt

726
00:54:28,420 --> 00:54:33,940
and cut off jeans and red pigtails she drove the tractor as we loaded bales

727
00:54:33,940 --> 00:54:39,300
when work was through the two of us would stay

728
00:54:39,300 --> 00:54:46,820
putting up hey working up a sweat hey through a soaking wet hey

729
00:54:46,820 --> 00:54:51,140
in the summer heat hey laughing her was sweet

730
00:54:51,140 --> 00:54:56,260
the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay

731
00:54:56,260 --> 00:55:07,860
putting up hey hey hey hey how in the country would do it that way

732
00:55:07,860 --> 00:55:13,460
that summer job became and went and you know i've made more money since

733
00:55:13,460 --> 00:55:16,660
but to see her bounce on that tractor seat

734
00:55:16,660 --> 00:55:24,420
yes i would have worked for free i learned life on the farm was really great

735
00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:34,660
putting up hey out in the barn hey loving arms hey really stacked hey

736
00:55:34,660 --> 00:55:41,380
when i look back the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay

737
00:55:41,380 --> 00:55:55,380
putting up hey

738
00:56:04,020 --> 00:56:10,660
putting up hey working up a sweat hey through a soaking wet

739
00:56:10,660 --> 00:56:15,860
hey in the summer heat hey loving her was sweet

740
00:56:15,860 --> 00:56:20,980
the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay

741
00:56:20,980 --> 00:56:26,660
yeah the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay

742
00:56:26,660 --> 00:56:42,900
putting up hey in the country lord we do it that way

743
00:56:42,900 --> 00:56:49,220
she said i love you but i gotta go

744
00:56:49,220 --> 00:56:57,460
if i don't i'll never know life beyond this river blood

745
00:56:57,460 --> 00:57:08,660
lauderdale won't ever be enough for me

746
00:57:08,660 --> 00:57:14,660
i said i love you too and i won't ask you to stay

747
00:57:14,660 --> 00:57:23,060
never be happy here anyway last kiss lights go down

748
00:57:23,060 --> 00:57:34,260
over the river and bottom ground lonely

749
00:57:34,260 --> 00:57:44,980
now she's west coast california high west coast tennessee

750
00:57:44,980 --> 00:57:53,540
back to the life before you back to being me

751
00:57:53,540 --> 00:57:59,940
memories don't always warn you in the land of maple leaf

752
00:57:59,940 --> 00:58:09,860
now she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee

753
00:58:29,940 --> 00:58:41,700
see you on the book and on the ground

754
00:58:41,700 --> 00:58:50,820
forgot who you were and who i am lipstick love party girl glamor

755
00:58:50,820 --> 00:58:59,380
i spend my time swinging this hammer we don't talk it's for the best

756
00:58:59,380 --> 00:59:07,380
love sacrifice love regret that packs sunsets into the sea

757
00:59:07,380 --> 00:59:15,460
just like it said in the nesessipia she's west coast california

758
00:59:15,460 --> 00:59:20,660
i'm west coast tennessee

759
00:59:21,380 --> 00:59:29,060
back to the life before you back to being me

760
00:59:29,060 --> 00:59:36,900
memories don't always warn you in the land of maple leaf

761
00:59:36,900 --> 00:59:45,460
she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee

762
00:59:45,460 --> 00:59:56,740
yeah she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee

763
00:59:56,740 --> 01:00:04,100
west coast tennessee

764
01:00:27,380 --> 01:00:37,140
i was just a kid at school i was no teacher's pet

765
01:00:37,140 --> 01:00:46,900
popularity wasn't high on my list back then my fists were my only friends

766
01:00:46,900 --> 01:00:58,100
playground was a battlefield war declared every day i never got the chance to dance

767
01:00:58,100 --> 01:01:03,620
too busy chasing tears away

768
01:01:03,620 --> 01:01:09,540
i remember mama called me her bags were packed

769
01:01:09,540 --> 01:01:21,620
tears in her eyes she had a black suitcase a broken heart she kissed me goodbye for life

770
01:01:21,620 --> 01:01:29,700
watch mama walk down the road she never once turned back

771
01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:39,860
the collar left my wall every day's been blind

772
01:01:39,860 --> 01:01:44,580
i wish i could have held her

773
01:01:44,580 --> 01:01:56,580
a little longer in my arms

774
01:01:56,580 --> 01:02:10,100
losing her made me stronger but it also it it broke my heart

775
01:02:10,100 --> 01:02:37,300
my mama said baby don't look back today

776
01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:45,220
it wasn't till many years later out of the blue i got the call

777
01:02:45,220 --> 01:02:52,580
you found your peace and lies beneath chennel grass god knows you deserve

778
01:02:52,580 --> 01:03:03,700
so much more it's a funny feeling standing here by your grave

779
01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:14,180
so much left unspoken if you were here now what would you say

780
01:03:14,180 --> 01:03:19,700
i wish i could have held you

781
01:03:19,700 --> 01:03:31,060
a little longer in my arms

782
01:03:31,060 --> 01:03:44,500
losing me made you stronger but it also it it broke my heart

783
01:03:44,500 --> 01:03:51,940
mama said baby

784
01:03:51,940 --> 01:04:01,540
one day you'll understand baby

785
01:04:01,540 --> 01:04:19,140
my mama said baby don't look back today

786
01:04:19,140 --> 01:04:33,540
don't look back

787
01:04:33,540 --> 01:04:48,420
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