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Stockings hung with so much care,
The joy of Christmas fills the air.
Presents wrapped in red and green,
A perfect tree sets the scene.
Let's drink a cup of cheer,
To the best time of the year.
Christmas magic under mistletoe,
Smiling faces everywhere you go.
Bells are ringing,
Stars are shining bright,
There is peace on earth,
All around the world tonight.
Christmas magic.
Watching frosty come alive,
And reindeer flying in the sky,
Carol is singing a jolly song,
Makes you want to sing along,
And drink a cup of cheer,
To the best time of the year.
Christmas magic under mistletoe,
Smiling faces everywhere you go.
Bells are ringing,
Stars are shining bright,
There is peace on earth,
All around the world tonight.
Christmas magic.
Christmas magic under mistletoe,
Smiling faces everywhere you go.
Bells are ringing,
Stars are shining bright,
There is peace on earth,
All around the world tonight.
Christmas magic.
Christmas magic under mistletoe,
Christmas magic.
Christmas in this long town of birth,
And shall ask you all for every one,
With this light it does bear the nestled trees,
Tradition creates fond memories.
There's Bear Plaza where you'll find,
Pictures with Santa, reindeer all around,
Benches for sitting, watching people as they go,
In the restaurants and shops,
Faces all will glow.
Christmas in your garden,
There's stories all around,
Shopping, eating, walking,
Even strawberries downtown.
Merry Christmas and warm greetings to all.
Hello winter,
It's a ice ball.
Christmas in this historic town,
With this landmark civic theaters and home tours,
On third season oh we've been sent fun place,
That ends to the festive holidays.
The candlelight tours,
The governor's palace,
Superior dancing characters,
And hot cider,
Bring us back to older times,
The churches and the town clock that chimes.
Christmas in your garden,
There's stories all around,
Shopping, eating, walking,
Even strawberries downtown.
Merry Christmas and warm greetings to all.
Hello winter,
Hello winter, goodbye fall.
Christmas with new love,
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas from Newport.
Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.
Once bitten and twice shy,
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye,
Tell me baby do you recognize me,
Well it's been a year it doesn't surprise me.
Merry Christmas I wrapped it up and sent it,
With an old saying I love you I meant it,
Now I know what a fool I've been,
But if you kiss me now I know you'd fool me again.
Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.
A crowded room, friends with tired eyes,
I'm hiding from you and just so revised,
My God I thought you were someone to rely on,
Me I guess I was a shoulder to cry on,
A face on a lover with a fire in her heart,
A girl undercover but you tore me apart.
Now I found a real love you'll never fool me again.
Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.
Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.
Jardana Bryant with Last Christmas
We are going to continue right now with some interviews with John Bergeron and Alex Miller.
Stay tuned.
Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon Show today's best country mix.
And joining me right here today is John Bergeron.
First and foremost, John, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today.
Well, thank you so much for having me.
It is my pleasure.
So let's get started by getting to know you a bit and how you got started in the music industry.
Oh, boy.
You know, I don't remember learning to play the piano because I was probably about four.
And my mother was a teacher, so she would make it into a game.
I know her.
And so by the time I was taking lessons, I could already play.
And then it just continued from there.
When I was 14, I had a nine-piece soul and pop band.
And my mother went to the mayor in my hometown and got permission for us to play at a club.
And from there, we played throughout high school.
It was amazing.
It was a different time.
I played through high school, did a bunch of things.
But by the time I was 17, I was in New Orleans doing horn and string charts and producing.
And then after going to college for a while and I let go, I got into a country rock musical.
It went all the way to Broadway, the Billy Rose Theater.
I stayed at the Chelsea Hotel.
The Chelsea Hotel in the 70s was amazing and had a great time.
After that ran its course, I moved back to Louisiana and found this niche that I have of being a singer-songwriter.
And then I've been doing it ever since.
There's many, many things I've done.
I don't want to confuse your audience, but it all centered around being a songwriter, recording those songs and performing them.
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?
Oh boy.
I think I'd go to New Orleans at the Sanger Theater and invite everybody I know.
And I would bring it to New Orleans.
What advice would you give someone that might want to start doing music?
Would that be singing or songwriting?
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.
Well, I taught.
I have an electrical engineering degree also.
And so I taught at Middlesex and Wesleyan University, and one subject was audio recording, but the other subject was music production.
And even though people couldn't play, I got them past the stage of just guessing.
So I taught them chord theory, scale theory, and they had to make songs using that concept.
And it was very successful and a lot of fun.
I really had a great time.
Also, I taught at Wesleyan had an art school project in Middletown here in Connecticut and Green Street Art Center.
So I taught the kids and the kids would come in and they'd have an idea for a rap, of course.
And then I'd make a beat for them and they go out there and they do the performance.
And I swear one girl had a speech impediment.
And we did.
We got a great song about big lots, but big lots.
And so then after that, I noticed her speech impediment started to lessen.
And then so we did another song during that semester and it really did improve her speech.
I can't tell you why.
I can just tell you what I saw.
It was a joy in my life.
Let's put it that way.
So you have a song out right now and it is called Please Make a Deposit.
Tell me a little bit about that song.
It goes back to right around 1980.
And I can't I don't know why I wrote that song.
I don't have like a special moment that gave me the seed of that's how a song will start.
You have something to work on and then you go to work.
But I thought it was whimsical.
I thought it was an idea like everybody's broke.
Jesus, make a deposit.
And John, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
Oh, boy.
There's too many things.
You know, one of my things is a gift is not a gift till you give it.
And I know that I have a gift to make music.
It didn't matter.
Yeah.
I was signed with a group at Paramount.
I had a publishing deal.
I had this, that.
But through it all, that's the basic business.
But if you got music in you, you got to let it go.
You got to let it come out.
You can't get all the details in the way of it.
And if you think you're going into it to be a star, you better rethink it.
You got to I have no choice.
I have to write these songs.
Once they start, they won't leave me alone.
It's a lot of fun, but it is really hard work.
And I'm not a good singer.
To be, you know, to be.
A songwriter that just does it on a regular basis.
Now I'm not a Nashville songwriter where I go right.
What's expected.
I'm just John Burjong.
And something gave me.
Someone gave me.
A little piece of music.
That I just brought up well enough.
Smart enough to know.
The dollar is cute, but you're not going to get anywhere.
If you don't nurture it.
And develop it.
So.
It's like going to work.
You know,
It's like you bring your mental.
Briefcase.
You sit at the piano and you start.
Playing around and then.
You're just.
Grooving the piano.
There's no, there's no formula to how it comes out.
But.
One thing that I would like to say is.
The fact that I didn't get into the big label.
Successfully. I got there, but.
Things.
Have a way of going south.
And I think that's the biggest reason why I got into the label.
Is because I was.
I was a fan of the music as I.
Went through my career, but one thing was.
I had a joy that I was closer to the dirt.
Closer to the earth.
That I wasn't paying attention to the decadence of rock and roll.
I shouldn't say rock and roll.
The decadence of.
Everything all the time too much.
Too much.
If that.
I was a fan of the music.
I would know what I'm saying.
So.
If you live close to the earth and you live frugally.
And.
Then you may write different kinds of songs.
You have to go through trials that.
You may not have to go through if you had a big bank account.
I can't say they're connected, but in my life, I look back.
And I'm so glad I approached my.
Work as I did. I can do everything.
Make design the studio, build a studio.
Record.
Saying right.
Produce people.
Get people to sound better than they did before they walked in.
It is the whole life has been about.
Let's make music.
I'm so glad I approached you guys.
I'm so glad I approached you.
Thanks for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon show.
Today's best country mix.
We appreciate your time and support and hope to have you on the show
again real soon. Thank you.
Oh, I'd love to.
Okay.
Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon show today's best country mix and
joining me right here today is Alex Miller.
Alex. How you doing today?
I'm doing good to you.
started in music.
Well, sure thing. I grew up in Lancaster, Kentucky, which is a
small town south of Lexington, about 3500 people, and I started
singing and playing in church. And I was about three years old
when I started that. Whenever I was six, I started taking
guitar lessons and playing anywhere they would they'd had
music, you know, it'd be a BFW hall or a nursing home or
anything like that. And I just took whatever came at me, you
know, and so whenever I was about 17 at the time, my mom
signed me up for a little show called American Idol. And that's
where most people know me from.
What an honor to get an opportunity to be on American
Idol. I gotta say that's really amazing.
Well, thank you. Yeah, it was definitely wild times for me.
And especially being a being a teenager at 17. That was that
was pretty, that was a pretty life changing thing. I bet for
sure. And I can tell you definitely have a country accent
there. I was gonna guess if you were from Kentucky, can I could
tell you have that accent?
Yeah, I do. It follows me wherever I go. And I can't shake
it. That's for sure. It's, it's just a part of me is my arm or
my leg is.
If someone was to take the time to write a song about you and
your personality, what do you think that they would write
about?
Oh, that's a great question. I think, I think if someone had to
write a song about me, it'd be I think they would write about
having a good time because that's what I like to do. I like
to have a lot of fun and see everything in the world and in
life. So it would be a be a well rounded party song, I
believe would probably be the best way to say
exactly you only live once, you got to make the best of it.
That's exactly right.
So 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?
Well, that's a good that's a great question, too. I think if
I had to pick a certain spot to go, I'm not going out west, but
also like things kind of close here to home. So one place I
want to play before I will do whatever I need to do, I want to
go play at the Grand Ole Opera, which is the country music Mecca.
It's the it's the one place that every country artist wants to
go play and haven't got to do that yet. So that's that's
that's definitely my priority number one as far as going to
play somewhere and that would be just one of the biggest honors
I could ever get.
So you had a song called putting up hay that recently just came
out back in November. Tell me a little bit about that song.
Well, you know, growing up in a small country town, I grew up on
about 800 acre cattle farm and I would go balay or feed cows or
do things like that. That's what I did. And I was growing up and
I was writing with some guys in Nashville and they were wanting
to write a song that's a little more personal about me in my
life and kind of what I've been doing. So that's kind of where
that song came about. I put up a lot of hay on the farm and they
wanted to add a love interest because I want to tell you whenever
I was out on the farm or what no daisy belt like there is on the
song on our farm, but we we put up hay about every day and the
song kind of came from that it came from my growing up on the
farm and being a farm kid.
That's awesome. And I also see here that tomorrow you're going
to be at the Lincoln Jamboree.
Yes, I've got to I got to show tomorrow I'm really excited
about and it's kind of my Christmas gift back to you.
My fans and the people that are in the local communities here in
Kentucky. It's a free show and what we're doing is we're just
putting it on for the fans like we're calling kind of a fan
appreciation show and I'm doing it just just as a Christmas gift
back to the folks here in Kentucky and I've had a lot of
good people here that have supported me support my music
and come to my shows and I want to give back to the community
and give back to those people and I want to give back to the
people and this is my way of doing it.
Well, that is incredibly nice of you. That is just amazing and
going back to thank those when you didn't have anything was
just so sweet. So that's great.
Well, thank you. Thank you.
So what advice would you give to artists that might want to
start doing music whether that be singing or songwriting? What
would you tell the inspiring artists?
Well, I'll tell them some advice that I was given at the
early age. My my granddad was a big influence in my life and
the one thing he always told me, you know we grew up big
country music fans. You know we listen to the old stuff like
Mike Williams and Merle Haggard and George Jones. A lot of old
country stars were his favorite and when I first started
singing, I kind of tried to emulate those guys and their
style and my my papa was a big big fan of country music and
loved their minute of it, but he sat me down one day and I was
singing. I mean, stop for a minute there. He said that you
know there's already been a Hank Williams. There's already been a
Merle Haggard. There's already been a George Jones, but I want
to hear what Alex Miller sounds like and I want there to be an
Alex Miller in the world and said you need to try singing
like him instead of some other guy and for young for young
artists, that's my advice and my recommendation. There's only
one best version of yourself that you can be and you know you
can emulate other artists and kind of use some of their ideas,
but don't be them. Don't try to be them. Be your own person.
Make your own life and your own decisions on things and be true
to yourself. That's that's the one thing that I can say about
myself. You know my personality the way I am just it's just who
I am. There ain't no faking or any other way around it. Just
be who you are and be genuine and truthful with yourself about
who you are and what you stand for. If you were to do it or
collaborate with any singer whether they're with us or not
today, who would you choose and why would you choose them?
Alex? Well, I choose Dolly Parton just because I've always
liked her music and love her duets and she's not she's not
hard to look at either. So that'd be great. Well, there you
go. So if people want to learn more about you, where can they
find you? Well, I'm like I'm like rising flower. I'm all
over the place. I'm you can find me on TikTok, Instagram,
Facebook, wherever you get on social media and watch social
media stuff. I'm there and if you want to hear some of my
music, make sure to check out Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Apple
music, all that stuff. I'm I'm everywhere like I said and my
handle on social media is A Miller Music and if you want to
look at my website, that's probably the best place to find
my tour dates and where I'm playing at Alex Miller country
.com. If you had one message to tell anyone that might be
listening right now, whether that be my fans, your fans, what
would you tell them? Well, I would tell them thank you and
thank you and and you know this during what you do, you know,
if it wasn't for the folks that listen to us and listen to me
saying and listen to you talk, you know, if it wasn't for them
folks, then we couldn't get to do what we get to do and I just
want to say thank you all for for listening here and
listening to my music and supporting people that are
rising up in the music business. I definitely agree with
you, Alex. You know, if it wasn't for the people that are
listening to any of us, we wouldn't be able to do what we
do. So, huge appreciation to everyone that is listening here
on the show. Amen to that. Amen to that. And Alex, is there
anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to
mention here on the show today? I think we've covered all
the bases but again, I want to say thank you so much for
taking the time to talk to me and I sure appreciate a good
conversation. You had some good questions which I appreciate
like having to answer the same thing every time. So, thank
you. Oh, it's my pleasure. I try to make people think with
their questions and again, I would like to thank Alex
Miller for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon Show,
today's best country mix. We appreciate your time and
support and hope to have you on the show again real soon.
Well, thank you, Kaden. You too. You take care and uh till
we talk again, take care of yourself. Hello and welcome to
the Kaden Gordon Show today's best country mix and joining
me right here today is Joe Eskridge. First and foremost,
Joe, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the
show today. Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure. Thank you. So,
let's get started by getting to know you a bit and how you get
started in music. Sure. Um well, I'm uh I'm an I'm an older
fella. So, I've been playing since I was a kid. My dad put
a bass guitar in my hand and uh uh set of drums in my in my
brother's hand and he had us playing uh since we were, I
don't know, seven, eight, nine years old. My dad was a was a
honky tonk piano player like uh Jimmy Swagger, Mickey Gilley,
Jerry Lee Lewis and so he would play in southern gospel bands.
He was playing country bands and stuff and uh he was just a
real ham, a real entertainer and we just sorta tried to uh
tried to take after him a little bit. So, I've been
playing I started playing guitar uh in high school about
the time videos came out and I started watching music videos
and on CMT and watching the chord progressions and I sorta
picked up guitar from there and you know, high school and
college started playing uh guitar a lot more and singing
a lot more.
If you had the opportunity to duet or collaborate with any
singer, whether they're with us today or not, who would you
choose and why would you choose them?
Well, um let's see. I would probably it's this one's a
little left of center but uh I have my reasons and I'll
explain in a second but there's a there's a singer songwriter
named Nancy Griffith who just passed away uh I think about a
year ago and uh a college friend of mine introduced me to
her uh when we were in college um there was a there was a record
that she did that's called Live from Anderson Fair and she's a
primarily a songwriter and it was just the coolest thing and
that's how I became introduced into songwriting which is
really probably more what I would consider myself. I'm not
a very good singer but I do enjoy you know crafting songs so
if I had a chance to uh go back in time and meet her or sing a
song with her write a song with her that would be my that'd
probably be my first choice.
What advice would you give someone that might wanna get into music
whether that be singing or songwriting? What would you tell
them?
Uh I would just just do it just get you a karaoke machine or
get you a pen and paper and uh and a guitar or a piano or a
kazoo or whatever it is a little recorder and just start
writing your thoughts down get in touch with yourself figure
out who you are uh particularly on the songwriting side it
just it'll help you it'll help you discover who you are and
it'll help you discover what you want in life and it'll help
you kind of reflect on what has shaped you and made you but
man when you get a uh when you get a microphone in your hand
and you start singing then you're a singer and just
embrace it.
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?
Well, this may seem a little strange. I because I really it
wouldn't bother me one bit if there wasn't a soul in the
audience. I would hope there would be but uh I would love to
stand in the circle of the Ryman Auditorium uh in the
Opry House would be would be great obviously but if I could
stand on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium and sing just even
without even without uh a sound system if I could just sing in
that building three or four of my songs uh man that would be
that would be a lottery ticket win right there. That would
definitely be good stuff for me.
What do you like doing outside of music? Do you have any hobbies
or interests or anything like that Joe? Yeah, we do. Um so my
wife and I um and we have a little boy. His name is Lyric
and uh we have uh a side by side a little Polaris 900 Ranger
that's uh full about I don't know but I guess it's about
eight and eight or nine years old now and we live in in
Northwest Tennessee. It's a extremely rural part of the
state and it's a heavily heavily farm, heavily cotton,
heavily soybean, heavily uh heavily corn crops here. So we
just have acres and acres uh and we live about I don't know
about 15 miles off the Mississippi River and uh so my
wife and son and I spend just I don't know four or five nights
a week on our side by side sneaking down back roads that
will take us down to the uh Mississippi River and we ride
what's called the bottom ground down there and we there's no
lights. There's no people and it's just you and the stars and
the and the dust on a gravel road and it's pretty it's pretty
darn relaxing after a long day of uh I'm in the convenience
store business so I sell chicken all day long so it's a
nice little uh escape from pedaling chicken all day. Oh I
bet yeah um and how cool that you live so close to that
river the Mississippi River. Not everybody gets that luxury
but that's really really cool. Well um the I have I put an
album together here recently. This is my fourth record and
the song uh the title track is also the title of the album is
called West Coast Tennessee and we were uh on one of our trips
down to the river um about a year and a half ago
we were sitting on the bank of the river there and it's a
there are sandbars all up and down the uh
the Mississippi River that that are almost like beaches. Now
you know it's it's the muddy Mississippi so it's not like
uh you know it's not like the Atlantic or the Gulf or anything but
I watched the sunset on over the Mississippi River
and uh I told uh I told Elizabeth I said we are sitting on the West Coast of
Tennessee right now and so I be you know songwriter
Joe uh got my phone out and and scribbled it into my phone real quick
and then wrote end up writing the song the next day
and uh so we had released we ended up releasing that song
back in April or May I think and uh it may even have been June but we
filmed a we filmed a video that's uh that's on Strike TV
that's that plays around the country actually we've gotten quite a bit of
feedback from from Europe and then of course it's on
YouTube as well and uh so we've we've had a lot of
success we even charted in Texas with our song West Coast Tennessee
um so you know I I think I think our trips to the
river on the side by side for that song and a little bit of luck we've had with
it
so Joe where can people learn more about you if they want to get to know you a
little better
well uh uh with the exception of the uh of the fourth album West Coast
Tennessee uh all my singles are on Spotify
um and all of my uh all of my catalog is on Spotify it's on YouTube
um it's on Apple Music I have a website uh joeskridgemusic.com
and then of course I have I have a I have a music page
Joe Eskridge Music on Facebook and I have my personal page Joe Eskridge
Facebook backslash joe eskridge I think.8012
I believe is what it is but anyway then find me on Facebook
YouTube Instagram TikTok um I'm trying to learn TikTok I'm getting
there a little bit at a time but I I'm I'm old and slow so it takes me a
little bit longer than it does the use to uh to figure out that new
social media so but TikTok has been good it's been great
for us too to get the songs out
if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now
whether that be my listeners your fans what would that message be Joe
um the message would be you're never too old
you're never not good enough
uh put the insecurity in a drawer you don't have to get rid of the
insecurity but just put it in its proper place in a drawer
somewhere uh you might need it sometime if you
get a little cocky so don't don't don't completely get rid of your
insecurity but uh whatever that dream is for you
whatever that that goal is for you whatever it is that
that holds a place in the back of your mind that you can't seem to shake
pursue it whatever it is uh spend what you can on it uh
but particularly spend time on it because you only get one chance through
this world and it would just be an awful shame for
you not to leave something lasting as a legacy because you
didn't think you were talented enough or didn't think it was a worthwhile
effort to put in so go for it whatever it is go for it
i definitely agree with that and Joe is there anything that i forgot to mention
that you would like to mention here on the show today before we go
no i'm just grateful to you that you would even consider
uh having me on your station i i respect what you're doing it's so
much work to what uh you and your producer his
name is is it graham john john i'm sorry
yeah i mean there's so much work to what you guys are doing and
you know you make it look easy so people just assume it is and i know it's not
and i respect what you're doing and i'm certainly grateful that you would
include uh any of my music uh on your station
because i know that you have thousands and thousands of
options so i'm just grateful to you joe eskridge thank you so much for
taking the time to come on the kaden gordon show today's best country mix
we definitely appreciate your time and support for being with us today and hope
to have you on the show again real soon oh it's my pleasure thank you so much
hello and welcome to the kaden gordon show today's best country mix
and joining me right here today is ida hesson first and foremost ida thank you
so much for taking the time to come on the show today
my sincere pleasure thank you for having me so let's get started by getting to
know you a bit and how you got started in the music
industry oh my goodness my love i've been i've been
doing this i think since the womb um uh initially first started singing
when i was about 13 14 15 uh started performing publicly when
i was 16 um i performed in so many bands
throughout the years lots of cover bands indy bands new country bands
soul bands jazz bands um i was quite lucky that i could travel
um around the world with some of my music um and i performed in different
countries around the world um and it's it's really just since
covid hit that i decided to kind of go back to
college and and be a little bit more uh independent uh for myself to kind of
concentrate more on my own individual solo work
um and and that's really where we are at the moment so just for the last year
just over the last year i've literally really put out my own individual work
that i've actually written that i've composed
that i've performed on and partially that i've also mixed and produced so
yeah it's it's a bit hard to kind of put all of that experience just just in a
very short answer but that's the basic gist of it
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
oh my goodness me i think we all know where that would be that'd be the grand
old opry let's not be silly now um well i mean it's it's the heart and
soul of country music without a shadow of a doubt
um uh this it's it's it's what can i say i mean there's there's so much
that the very first time i ever ever heard about the grand old op you was
um patty klein who was one of my really big kind of heroines in terms of my
my real kind of heroes country music wise
um along the lines of dolly parton and of course my favorite which is garth
brooks who i would love to be able to write and perform with
and i keep sending that prayer up to god please god please god
um but yeah it's really after watching sweet dreams and patty klein and
then just seeing that exquisite stage and and learning a little bit more about
nashville and the grand old opry i mean that that has to be the
the real kind of uh number one goal really for me
if you had the opportunity now to duet or collaborate with
any singer whether they're with us today or not who would you choose and why
would you choose them ida i i think i might have already answered
that one i'm so sorry kaden uh bless your heart um it would most
definitely be garth brooks there's there's no two ways about it
um he's such a phenomenal songwriter um but it's not just the the way that he
writes obviously he has a team with him uh but he's such a powerful entertainer
as well um if if it wasn't garth and who else
would who else would i love to perform with oh my goodness me there's so many
performers oh my lord um
oh my gosh it's impossible to say there's so many i mean there's like neil
diamond there's billy joe um in terms of performers who are no
longer with us i'd probably have to say eva cassidy
um because she was an incredible vocalist
um there's also people like nina simone uh billy holliday
um so just the incredible artists that that that really kind of have just
something incredibly special about their voice
so you have a song that recently just came out a couple days ago
called mama said tell me a little bit about that song
most certainly uh mama said is basically a song about an adult and you
can take it either as as male or female it's it's really
written hopefully to be as universal as possible
um but it's basically where an adult kind of reflects and looks back
on their childhood and the relationship that they had with their mother
and the environment in the household uh is pretty much where it's become so
untenable that the mother has to leave and she never does come back um and it's
just how as an adult how that affects you and the kind of memories that you
have um that early on as a young child
and just those kind little moments where oh i just wish i could have seen you i
wish i could have held you just a little bit longer
um it's really just just a way of just looking back and
and as an adult understanding that even though as a child you couldn't
understand why she left but now as an adult you do
that's basically what mama said is about
what advice would you give someone that might want to start doing music whether
that be singing or songwriting tell us what you would tell them
just be as honest and authentic as you can be straight from the heart
um don't waste your time trying to be like somebody else um you say don't need
to be a copy of anyone the most precious the most beautiful thing you can ever be
in this life is true to yourself um because i think that you will get
that much more positive responses from other people when they see their
authenticity and love what you do you know don't be
afraid to ask questions don't be afraid to study
because i went back to college as a mature student
don't let that put you off um and if you if you hear other people saying well
maybe you should kind of give up the dream because you're a little bit long
in the tooth or whatever don't listen to them this is your life
you're in the driving seat not the passenger seat um
just pursue your dreams as long as you are not hurting another human being
and if god has given you a beautiful gift then it would be a terrible shame
for you to waste it so just go for gold you never know where you'll end up
if people want to learn more about you ida where can they find you
um i'd say everywhere um probably one of the most the largest kind of um
social media profiles i have is facebook or instagram
uh which is simply ida heston music all in one word
lower casing uh or if you want to catch me on on twitter it's a heston music
um or you can get me on youtube as well so is ida heston so it's
i'm i'm very easy to find i'm not hiding i promise
she's not hiding in the shadows waiting for you to come find her
promise i'm not
she's public as she can be yeah well as as decently public as i can be yes
exactly if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now
whether that be your fans my listeners what would you tell them
oh my goodness me um
oh i i because i i'm quite i i have a lot of faith so i do believe in god and i
appreciate there are some people in the world who have church wounds or who
struggle with their relationship with god
um i i would just say if i can give anything to anybody listening i just
say please talk to him you know talk to god and whatever it is
that you're going through if you just give him an opportunity to
help you i promise you he will
that was very very well said that's for sure that's really really true
but it's it's it's meant sincerely it really is
and ida is there anything that i forgot to mention that you would like to
mention here on the show today
um i don't think so my lovey i've had such a pleasure talking with you albeit
quite quite quite short um i i think really more than anything
again by all means anybody who'd love to listen to my music or look on my
profiles please do you're very very welcome
um i have started work on um an album for 2024
which i've tentatively named confessions and lessons
um so yeah i mean it's you can always look me up and
and uh always send me a message if you like um other than that
again just hand on my heart to everybody out there please stay safe
be happy enjoy your life um it's it's quite a short one uh it's not
as long as we think um and again without top thumping
religion because i know some people might be sensitive to the issue but
you know give god a chance to help you along your way i promise you he won't
let you down people will sometimes and that's just a part of
human weakness and just frailty of being human but
you know if you've got a chance and he'll definitely try and help you
amen to that ida heston thank you so much for taking the time
to communicate lorden show today's best country mix we appreciate your time and
support for being with us and hope to have you on the show again
real soon thank you most certainly my sincere pleasure thank you so much for
having me god bless take care
the baby's crying my woman said she's had a fail
i'm tired and blind but all these unpaid bills
i've run out of answers you know i'm no dancer
just a tired romancer trying to see through what he's taking on
so jesus won't you make a deposit why the money straight to my account
jesus please make a deposit it's hard to believe
when you're this down
the banker's calling he said this will be the last time
soon he'll be calling my car on down the line it's not he don't have feeling
but the money's more appealing and i'm staring at the ceiling
i just don't know what to do
jesus please make a deposit send the money straight to my account
jesus please make a deposit it's hard to believe
when you're this down
well the first job that i ever had was working on the farm for big bill lad
his barn law was hot as hell and so was his daughter daisy bell
oh i never will forget those days putting up
it was hard to keep my mind on work the way she filled out that skin tight shirt
and cut off jeans and red pigtails she drove the tractor as we loaded bales
when work was through the two of us would stay
putting up hey working up a sweat hey through a soaking wet hey
in the summer heat hey laughing her was sweet
the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay
putting up hey hey hey hey how in the country would do it that way
that summer job became and went and you know i've made more money since
but to see her bounce on that tractor seat
yes i would have worked for free i learned life on the farm was really great
putting up hey out in the barn hey loving arms hey really stacked hey
when i look back the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay
putting up hey
putting up hey working up a sweat hey through a soaking wet
hey in the summer heat hey loving her was sweet
the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay
yeah the work was hard but it sure was worth the pay
putting up hey in the country lord we do it that way
she said i love you but i gotta go
if i don't i'll never know life beyond this river blood
lauderdale won't ever be enough for me
i said i love you too and i won't ask you to stay
never be happy here anyway last kiss lights go down
over the river and bottom ground lonely
now she's west coast california high west coast tennessee
back to the life before you back to being me
memories don't always warn you in the land of maple leaf
now she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee
see you on the book and on the ground
forgot who you were and who i am lipstick love party girl glamor
i spend my time swinging this hammer we don't talk it's for the best
love sacrifice love regret that packs sunsets into the sea
just like it said in the nesessipia she's west coast california
i'm west coast tennessee
back to the life before you back to being me
memories don't always warn you in the land of maple leaf
she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee
yeah she's west coast california i'm west coast tennessee
west coast tennessee
i was just a kid at school i was no teacher's pet
popularity wasn't high on my list back then my fists were my only friends
playground was a battlefield war declared every day i never got the chance to dance
too busy chasing tears away
i remember mama called me her bags were packed
tears in her eyes she had a black suitcase a broken heart she kissed me goodbye for life
watch mama walk down the road she never once turned back
the collar left my wall every day's been blind
i wish i could have held her
a little longer in my arms
losing her made me stronger but it also it it broke my heart
my mama said baby don't look back today
it wasn't till many years later out of the blue i got the call
you found your peace and lies beneath chennel grass god knows you deserve
so much more it's a funny feeling standing here by your grave
so much left unspoken if you were here now what would you say
i wish i could have held you
a little longer in my arms
losing me made you stronger but it also it it broke my heart
mama said baby
one day you'll understand baby
my mama said baby don't look back today
don't look back
the kating gordon show today's best country mix thanks you for listening