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Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon Show today's best country mix.
Joining me right here today is Caitlin Lainer. Caitlin, how are you?
I'm good. Thank you for having me on the show today.
It's my pleasure.
So why don't we get started by getting to know you a little bit
and how you got started in music.
Yeah, so music has been a part of my life since I was a little kid.
My first time I was ever on stage was for my preschool Christmas concert.
I was three years old and somehow ended up as a starring role of The Christmas Tree.
And ever since then, I just fell in love with music and performing
and being in front of people.
I'm a trained vocalist.
I took RCM lessons when I was younger.
I played at lots of just showcases and talent shows around my hometown and province.
I'm in Canada, Saskatchewan.
So just lots of shows in and around here and
loved performing, always wanted to have a good time.
I mean, always wanted to have a career in music, but didn't really,
I guess, go for it fully until just a couple of years ago.
Actually, during the pandemic is when I started my professional career.
And it was just that was the point in which I was finally graduated from university.
I have a degree in kinesiology and through university.
I was a track and field athlete as well.
So I was pretty busy.
My time was was pretty taken up while I was in school, just, you know, being a student,
being a track and field athlete and working part time track
kept me really busy with training and competitions.
I competed for Team Canada in the Heptathlon.
So I knew that that wasn't the time to go after a music career,
but it was always in the back of my mind for when I was done university.
Is there something about music that you absolutely love about it?
Oh, music just makes me happy.
I feel like, you know, with whatever mood you're in,
there's there's always music that can connect to, I think, anybody
and whatever they're going through, whether it be a happy time, a sad time.
You know, if someone wants to be a little sassy
and if they want to have a night out with their girls or whatever,
if they want to have a night out with their girls or for really whatever instance,
I think that music has just always been that happy and safe space for me.
And as an artist, I think that's just something that's so important to me
and that I love about my live shows.
And, you know, I just want to be able to kind of be a light for people
and be a safe space and have my music and my shows, you know, be a time
where people can listen to me and come to my live shows
and kind of just forget about everything else going on in the world
and in their lives and kind of just have a fun night.
If someone wants to write a song about you,
what do you think that they would take the time to write about?
That's a good question.
Um, oh, man, I feel like just so many of my friends
know me kind of from track and field.
And like I say, that was such a big part of my life for a really long time.
So probably something about like being fast and running hurdles.
Miranda Lambert has that song Fastest Girl in Town.
And I feel like I connected with that song.
So it would probably be along the same lines.
Do you have any upcoming singles or projects you want to tell us a little bit about?
I have a current single out right now at Canadian Country Radio.
Um, last week it was charted at number 83 on our Canadian media based charts.
Um, and I released the music video for that single as well, just a couple of weeks ago.
And it's doing really well on YouTube right now.
I spent a lot of time with this music video and it was a really big
and fun project for me to be a part of.
And I think my favorite thing about the video is that I got to wear
a custom outfit in the final scene.
So if you haven't watched the video for 10 bucks, go watch it on YouTube.
And the only hint I'm going to give you about the custom outfit
is that it is the most expensive outfit I've ever worn.
Oh, wow. That's that's that's interesting.
Have you seen it?
I have not seen it now, but now I got to pay.
Yes, go. You have to do a little deep dive.
I've done a little bit of a deep dive on your music and stuff, but.
I have not seen that video in particular, so I definitely will have to check that out.
OK, amazing.
Caitlin, walk me through a somewhat typical day of Caitlin.
OK, I feel like I'm not like a super early bird, but I'm usually up by like 730 ish.
I like to wake up.
I always go and have a nice cup of coffee in the summertime.
I like to start my morning reading, but it's only in the summer.
I don't know why I don't do it in the wintertime.
It's usually just in the summer.
I go up to my little patio and read a couple of chapters of a book.
My mornings are usually just kind of going through emails and checking what I have to do for the day.
Because I'm such a I know athletics is such an important and big part of my life.
I like to work out about five times a week.
So usually I go and kind of in the late mornings go and do a workout and have some lunch right now,
just because it's starting to be summer here in Saskatchewan again.
I've been getting into golf recently, so every once in a while,
I'll go out to the driving range for a good like hour in the afternoon
just to get some fresh air and move my body a little bit more.
And evening, depending on kind of the day in the week, sometimes I have band practices
with my guys or I'm working in the studio or sometimes just hanging out with friends, having a Netflix night.
And yeah, it's a fun life as a musician.
It's kind of like you get to make your own schedule and kind of pick and choose what you get to do throughout the day.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start doing music?
Ooh, it's a it's a very fun career, but it definitely has its hard days.
So I think just, you know, nothing in this industry comes easy.
It takes a lot of time and commitment and work.
So I would just say take every baby step that you can and surround yourself with a great group of people that's so talented.
And surround yourself with a great group of people that support you and are there for you through the thick of it.
And, you know, as tough as it can be, some days those those baby steps lead to bigger steps
and those big memories of, you know, hearing your song on the radio for the first time or opening for one of your favorite artists.
Make everything a hundred times worth it.
If people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
You guys can find me on Instagram and Facebook at Caitlin Lanner Music.
You can check out my upcoming tour schedule and shows on my website, CaitlinLanner.com.
And you can check out my YouTube channel.
Everything is pretty much under Caitlin Lanner Music.
I am quite findable these days.
Where do you see yourself in the next couple of years or where do you want to be?
I would love to still be making music.
I really want to have a top 50 here up in Canada on country radio.
It's a big bucket list goal of mine to be on tour as an opener for some country acts in Canada.
I would love to make my way across the country here.
I really want to get into the States sometimes too.
So that is also on my bucket list.
I would love to come down and play some shows for your country fans down there because they love their country music.
If you had an opportunity to do or collaborate with any singer, whether they're with us today or not,
who would you choose and why Caitlin?
Carrie Underwood.
I think that she's just been such a big inspiration for me for so long throughout my music career.
I remember watching her on Idol when I was a kid and just being mesmerized with her and loving her vocal ability.
And her live shows are so fun and so exciting and just so well thought out.
And her stage outfits are so incredible too.
I feel like I draw a lot of inspiration from her on that side as well.
You know, it's funny that you mentioned that I went to go see Carrie back in February and it was an incredible show.
Everything that you said, Caitlin, is 100% factual.
I agree.
I'm so jealous, okay.
So I've seen her twice, but it was a few years ago.
I wasn't able to make it out to her recent tour.
But I see that her Vegas residency is coming back up in the fall time through December.
And I've never been to Vegas before, but I've been really wanting to make a trip.
So I'm debating if I should go down and have a little trip and check out her residency while we're there.
There you go.
Caitlin, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention today?
I think we covered a lot of stuff.
I would just love to, like I say, keep on sharing this single 10 bucks and the music video with people and your listeners.
And yeah, the custom outfit too.
It's pretty cool.
I feel like with you guys being in the States as well, it'll be fun.
I feel like you guys will like it.
Caitlin, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Caitlin Gordon Show today's best country mix.
We definitely appreciate your time and support.
Thank you so much for having me, Caitlin.
Hello and welcome to the Caitlin Gordon Show today's best country mix.
Joining me right here today is Steve Coughlin.
Steve, how are you doing?
Doing fine, Caitlin.
That's so nice to hear.
So why don't we get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you got started in the music industry?
Well, I was a retired police officer and back in 1997 when I retired,
I moved to Nashville and started working on my guitar, my acoustic guitar and writing music.
And I just happened to hook up with a fellow by the name of Cheryl Millett.
And Cheryl was Waylon Jennings guitar player.
And Cheryl in his own right had song of the year, songwriter of the year.
He was very well tuned into the Nashville scene and through him and him mentoring me.
That's basically how I got started.
I got to meet a lot of people.
Michael McDonald, Billy Carrington, Denise, the strawberry, Dina Carter, met a lot of folks.
And just started writing on my own.
And that's basically how I got started.
What is it about music that you absolutely love about it, Steve?
Music is to me is an expression of feelings.
You know, of all the things, the tangible things we have on this earth for enjoyment or pleasure or just for satisfaction,
music is only one that's it just I don't care what kind of mood you're in.
I don't care where you are.
Music always sets a tone.
And I don't have a genre that I'm favorite with because I like I listen to everything from classical.
I play a little classical piano, everything to rhythm and blues to just about all genre of music.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
And and I always tell people if you weren't born in that era in the 50s, 60s or whatever, you missed a lot of good music.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start doing music, whether that be performing singing writing?
What would you tell them?
Well, if you want to perform or you want to get into the music business, the best thing to do is whatever you are, a singer or or you play an instrument or whatever,
work hard, be diligent and learn the word.
No, because just stick with it.
I tell a lot of people all the time, I don't do any covers at all for our shows.
All three albums or everything that I've written.
Try to be original and just, you know, just just hone your skill and understand in music.
There's failure because without failure, you wouldn't know success.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would write about?
Huh? Lives every day like it's the last day he's going to live, enjoys life.
I take life by the by the hand and just enjoy the, you know, and very and loves my music.
You know, my music is my passion.
Some people play golf to me picking up a guitar and sitting down and writing music.
That's that's my golf.
That's my vacation and appreciate other people because you can't do it by yourself.
Everybody surround yourself with talent and good people and you'll prevail.
You know, success doesn't matter.
You know, you don't have to win multi awards to be successful.
Successful is when you get up in the morning, you look in the mirror and if you're into music
and you're happy what you're doing, that's success and let other people enjoy it.
Steve, do you have any upcoming projects or singles you want to tell us a little bit about?
Well, we've got some smaller venues we're coming up to.
We have one in Hartwell, Georgia.
Hartwell is a heart county is I've never seen so many talented musicians in my life that live here Lake
Harwell, but we have a outdoor music show.
We're going to do.
We're going to do a full show at a place called Common Ground and it is a like a deli coffee shop.
It's outside on their their patio area and we set up a stage and we've got a big Fourth of July bang.
We've got coming up here out on the lake where they shoot thousands of dollars with the fireworks.
And this is the first year the owners all came to me and wanted us to do a full show that night on Fourth of July.
So we're going to do that and we've got other stuff that are coming up in the loop.
We're just coming off of the studio and we've been working really hard on this third album just whisper and we're about
ready to release this thing here within another probably two months or so.
Steve, what do you like doing outside of music?
Do you have any hobbies interest anything like that?
I like I like to travel.
I've done a lot of traveling in my life.
I was a Navy veteran and but I love to travel and I like to to look at old antiques this kind of stuff and and talk to people,
you know, everywhere you go, there's always a interesting person in the crowd.
And other than that just just taking it easy,
you know, just I can't imagine anything without music because I always throw music in there somewhere.
Grab my guitar and go.
Walk me through a somewhat typical day of Steve Coughlin.
Get up in the morning, drink a cup of coffee, listen to some good classical music or rhythm and blues.
I have a big surround system in my den and I'll sit and listen to that think about what I'm going to do that day.
Sometimes I have my business interests several things going besides music.
I have a painting business.
I'll make sure those, you know, everybody's up to where they need to be and just doing that and then usually in the afternoon or in the evening.
I go into my studio and work on a lot of stuff that we have come.
I'm writing all the time. All the time.
And I usually write two or three at a time.
So I kind of work on all three and pull off of one.
But the typical day that's it.
And except when we're getting ready for rehearsals or we're going to a show or or something like that.
If people want to learn more about you and your band, by the way, where can they find you?
They can go to Steve Coughlin music dot com.
We have a website there or they can catch us on Facebook.
Steve Coughlin music.
A lot of our stuff is on iTunes.
I don't know all the social stuff that it's all and it's just oodles of it.
If you Google Steve Coughlin singer songwriter, you're liable to get two or three pages of stuff.
Steve, if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening, any of your fans, my fans, what would you tell them?
If you hear that, if you if you see the name or you hear a song, just listen, because when I write my music, I tell the story of life itself.
And just sit down and give the music a try.
It's I have two on country radio and I have the rest of them on Americana.
But just sit and listen and and enjoy the music.
Where do you see yourself in the next couple of years?
Where do you want to be?
Really?
I'm kind of happy where we're at.
We get to play a lot of shows.
I'd like to get a little bit bigger on Broadway.
We're in about 900 stations, not on rotation for different.
We got six songs out on the radio now.
We're trying to get get them into rotation and all and try to start getting them going.
But just keep doing what I'm doing.
Just keep writing good music.
Steve, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
Well, I just wanted to say, I think that your show, too.
Also, we were last year.
I was nominated by the International Singer Songwriters Association for, I think, four off of Have You Ever Been Off of our first album, which is Out of the Cold.
I mean, excuse me, Wins of Home, the second album.
Have you ever been in love before?
We were nominated on four.
And then this year we were nominated for City Man, which is one that that was one of my first on the radio ever.
And it still gets a lot of European and Asia play and it gets played all over the world.
But we were nominations for both of them.
And congratulations to all the folks that did get nominated because it's a very competitive business.
But I don't look at so much competition.
I just do what I do.
And if you like it, you do.
And if you don't, you can't make everybody happy.
I definitely agree with that, Steve and Steve Coughlin.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon Show.
Today's Best Country Mix.
Definitely appreciate your time and support.
Thank you.
Well, thank you, Kaden.
And good luck to you on your end, on your broadcasting end.
You know, I kind of started out in broadcasting years and years and years ago.
And it's a tough thing, too.
And you're doing a good job.
And I appreciate it.
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Joining me right here today is Tootsie Barron.
Tootsie, how are you?
I'm just fine and how are you, dear?
I am doing wonderful.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show.
My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
So why don't we get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you got started and becoming an author.
Well, I originally was started out to be an English major and I always wanted to be a writer.
I think I wrote my first poem for my father, for Father's Day when I was like seven or eight years old.
It's just something I always wanted to do.
But life took me in a different direction and I wasn't able to do it until, well, what got in the way is my husband, my beloved late husband, got Alzheimer's and he had it for many years.
But while he was still lucid, he said to me, after I am gone, pick up the pen and fulfill your destiny.
And that's what I'm trying to do.
Fulfill my destiny.
What do you like most about being able to write your own books?
I love to be able to play with the characters, especially naming them whatever I wish to name them because I have carried the nickname Tutsie for so many years.
I've been Tutsie. I love nicknames.
I could nickname most anybody and you get to do that as an author of fiction.
I mean, I can call my cavities whatever I wish.
And that intrigues me. I really enjoy doing that.
If you had the opportunity to collaborate with any author Tutsie, who would you choose and why?
Well, my mentor is no longer with us.
But if she was, it would have been Grace Matalias.
She was a writer back in the 50s and 60s, early 60s maybe, and she very famously wrote Peyton Place and I believe The Return to Peyton Place, which went on to become not only a mega hit, it became a hit movie.
And I believe it was the first night weekly cereal ever made for TV, I believe, with Peyton Place.
And Grace wrote that book.
And she was just, I read it in the mid 60s, and she was just a great storyteller.
And I said, and I loved her work, and I'm sad that she died very young. But if she had not, I think she would have went on to be one of the really great ones.
And I kind of modeled my work after her because when I am writing fiction, and I mostly write fiction and poetry, I model my work after her. I really, after her work.
And I try to tell a great story. And that's my favorite part of writing, telling a story.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start writing their own book and becoming an author?
Oh, I would tell them, go for it.
I have met so many people in my lifetime who have told me, they started writing a book, and maybe they have five or ten pages.
And it's been sitting in their nightstand forever. And they just never got back to picking it up and moving along with it.
My advice would be, if you want to be a writer, pick up the pen. Or as they do, I pick up the pen because I write longhand.
I have an assistant that puts everything in my computer. But they would get on the computer now and just go for it. Tell your story.
I personally, by the way I was taught way back when in school, I make an outline first of the entire work.
And then I put the first chapter in. And I usually will go to the end. I want to see what's going to start and where it's going to be at the end.
And then I go back and I fill in the rest of it. But that's my style.
People write different times of the day. And everybody's got their own way of doing it. I do it by outline.
And that works for me because that's how I was taught in school.
So Tutsi, what do you like doing outside of being an author and writing books? Do you have any hobbies, interests, anything like that?
Not really. I live outside. I like to travel. And I did before the pandemic.
The only trip I've made since, I just came back from Las Vegas. I love to go to Las Vegas.
And I do like to travel. And I'm going to start doing it again.
Hobbies? No. Writing, this is what I do. I write. It's not just, it's not a job for me.
For me, this is my hobby because I enjoy it so much. It relaxes me.
I was already retired. My husband had been retired before he passed away. We did a lot of traveling.
So I didn't have to pick up the pen. And I did it because I always wanted to do it. And I absolutely love it.
So in a sense, writing is my hobby. I write novels.
I work with screenplay that goes along with sugar paper. That's up for sale right now in Hollywood.
I write games books. The second one, the sequel to I Can See the Rainbow Bridge, just went in production on Monday.
That is called Will You Be There When I Call to You. And I write poetry.
Actually, poetry is my favorite, but there's really not much of an outlet for that.
So I just write that for myself and let it go with that.
There you go. That works.
It does. It works for me. Yes.
So Tootsie, if someone was to write a book about you, what do you think that they would write about?
You know, I have been asked if I would ever write an autobiography about my life.
And I told them not at this time, but I would never say never. If somebody was to write about me, well, I had a very, very unusual life.
Having grown up in Jersey City.
Frankly, I grew up with a lot of guys that went on to become wise guys.
That's how I was able to write the book Sugar Paper to our knowledge that is the only entirely Italian mobbed up book ever to be written by a woman.
So obviously, there's something in my background that put me around that environment.
Because it is accurate, although it's a work of fiction, what's real is accurate.
So I did have a very unusual life.
As a matter of fact, I was married to two of them. I called them wise guy number one and wise guy number two. And I was in that world.
And it was, but in a very unusual capacity for a woman.
So, but I don't want to give that away, because that's in the book in my novel that's out now.
And the one I wrote the screenplay for.
Because if history is taught us one thing, mob movies make all the money.
And it is mobbed up from cover to cover, and never done by a woman.
So hopefully, I'm going to be able to find the right person that sees the value in it.
As Hollywood's been choping the last few years, they really want more work from women.
They want to be more inclusive.
Well, you know, let's stop talking about it. Let's come and get it.
Because I've got what's never been done before.
And because they do make a lot of money in Hollywood.
And, you know, Hollywood could really, they could use a big blockbuster right about now.
Since they came back from the pandemic, aside from all the kids movies, like now it's Mario Brothers, they make all the money.
But there hasn't been an adult movie with the exception of the Tom Cruise remake of Top Gun.
They're not doing much. Not with adult movies. Well, come and get it, because I've got it.
And so I'm working on that as well, trying to get it out there, trying to find the right buyer for it.
And because I did write the screenplay.
And do I think it belongs on the big screen?
But of course, because, like I said, history has taught us, people are fascinated with the mob.
And they all make money. So if they want to make some money, they should be knocking on my door.
I shouldn't be knocking on theirs in plain English.
But one of these days I am going to sell it.
And I am going to see it up on the big screen. And it will become a blockbuster. I am convinced of that.
That's that.
Tootsie, if people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
I'm at www.tootsiebarron.com. And all my work is up there, including the two minute movie trailer that we are pitching.
And the pitch that goes with it to Hollywood. And everything's up. All my work is up there.
And I think you can find all my work.
And as soon as this next book comes out, we'll be adding that one as well.
If you had one message that you would like to tell anyone that might be listening, one message at all, what would you tell them?
Oh, I would tell them, you're never too old to do anything.
I love you. And I never deny that.
If you've got a goal or there's something you've always wanted to do, don't be afraid.
Step up. Step out there. And try it. And go for it.
And age doesn't matter. Gender doesn't matter. Nothing matters.
If you've got a dream, go after it.
Throw a lasso around it and give it your best shot, because that's exactly what I'm doing.
And I never gave up on that dream.
And I'm going to take it as far as I can take it. As long as I'm alive, I'm going to keep on writing.
Tootsie, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention today?
Well, only that the sequel is in production to I Can See the Rainbow Bridge.
Will you be there when I call to you? That will be out very soon.
Sugar Paper, of course, is out there. It's on Amazon, Books, Barnes & Noble, wherever you can buy books.
Hopefully, I'm going to get this screenplay made into a movie. That's another goal.
And I'm completing another novel, which is completely different from Sugar Paper.
It's called Into Foreverland, and it's a story of a lifelong friendship and a beautiful love story.
And hopefully, I will have that finished by the end of the year, and that will be my next novel that I will be releasing.
And if I live long enough, someday I might just write the sequel to Sugar Paper, because I have an outline for that.
And that will be called The Bartender's Daughter, because that's who I am.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come on The Cate and Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
We appreciate your time and support, so thank you.
Thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure talking to you.
And stay well, and as I sign every book, I wish you all that heaven allows.
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Joining me right here today is Terry Lawrence. Terry, how are you?
Real good, Caten. Glad to be here.
So let's get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you got started in the music industry.
Well, I started keyboards when I was a kid. About six took some lessons.
And then I guess when The Beatles came out and the surf music and everything, I started playing guitar and keyboards and a couple bands and everything.
And then Motown, I guess around 65, I get into all the Motown music with Smokey Robinson and doing a lot of different songs like a lot of other people through the years.
So I had good ear for music and singing and playing guitar and keyboards.
So I got into it through, you know, through the 60s, all different types of music.
I would tell them to look with their strengths where they feel comfortable, whether they have an ear or they can create which direction they want, they feel comfortable they want to go.
And I would say start out with your best gift that you feel that you have and contact an agent to get involved trying to place you in different places to perform or and different ideas with the Internet,
trying to get on different websites to present your music and things.
But to be inspired to do what you feel you would like to do, whether it's writing, singing, playing or a combination of both, whatever your gift is.
That's what I would say. If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would write about?
About me, a song about me? Yeah.
I would say they would probably write about my, probably my experiences with, oh boy, that's a hard one.
What would they write about me? They'd write about, I guess, kindness and free flowing spirit.
Somebody that enjoys life and free spirit. That's what I would say.
So Terry, tell me a little bit about My Angel Baby.
Well, the song came out in 1978. It was written, it was, I don't, I'm not sure who they wrote the song, but it was performed by Toby Bow, an artist.
It was a nice song, a bluesy tune. And I was performing that in Burbank with a trio back then.
I had the guitar player, The Grassroots, the drummer for Rita Coolidge and I were in a trio.
And I performed that song along with some other ones.
The song was a nice bluesy tune and I've sung it, started singing it then and through the years it's kind of like my signature tune that I sang.
So I enjoyed singing it. And so I performed it for years off and on with different people.
I mean, I've gone on to do, you know, a lot of different other tunes, but I, it's one of my favorites.
It's a really good tune from the late seventies. So that's one of the reasons why it was good.
It has a nice harmonica solo. We put a guitar solo in there instead.
And this is my version of Toby Bow's tune.
In fact, I was on a cruise and I won a, back in 2005, I won the cruise performance that night.
I sang that song and I got, actually, Toby Bow's drummer was in the audience and he played on that tune with me.
So it was nice.
Terry, if someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would write about?
They were right about my kindness, generosity that I think I have with people and, and, you know, creativity for music and enjoyment of life.
That's pretty much it.
Walk me through a somewhat typical day of Terry Lawrence.
Well, when I get up in the morning and have a cup of coffee, kind of relax and, you know, listen to a couple of tunes,
communicate with my producer on a few different updated things we may want to record in the future.
And then, then I may just go for a walk. I'm pretty much an athlete. I exercise and lift weights and just get the juices flowing in the morning.
And, you know, I just see what comes throughout the day. You know, I may get a call for to do a gig or another recording session or something.
And so I'm always open to anything that's coming up. I do some communication with, I'm on Spotify and some of the other digital stations there.
So I interact with people and things like that. That's pretty much my day.
Terry, if people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
They can find me on Spotify. My albums and single tunes are on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon.com. I've been on there for a while.
I'm in an international recording artist and I have a wide variety of tunes. I have three or four country tunes. I have R&B. I have some salsa.
I have rock and roll, doo-wop. They can find me on Reverb Nation also. They can find me on the YouTube also, my tunes, my acting career.
I was in a couple of movies. They could find me on through the Internet. Google me, Terry Lawrence. I was in a movie with Barbara Samick and Joan McRae. It still plays.
I was a little Indian boy back in the 50s, also a Lone Ranger version. I did a lot of TV and motion picture work back then.
They can find me on the Internet. I also have terrylaurencemusic.com. They can look at that website too. Reverb Nation, Google me. A lot of different areas. I'm in there.
Terry, if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now, what message would you tell them?
Keep doing what you're doing. If you're doing music or whatever career, whatever you're doing, do it well. Find out what you want to do in life, what makes you feel good, and continue on and don't quit.
You'll be happy. Take life slow. Smell the roses. Have a cup of coffee. Enjoy life. Do what you do best or what you feel like you like to do. Be kind and live a long life. That's what I would tell them.
Wonderful. Terry, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention today?
No. I pretty much will be doing some more interviews with people. They can find me on Facebook, terrylaurencefacebook.com. I don't know the exact... They can find me on Google and everything.
No, that's pretty much it. I'll be doing some gigs coming up in the future. Look out for some messages for me. I've got my fifth album that came out. Terry Lawrence classic hits. You can look me up there. I'll have some more tunes. Be on the lookout. That's pretty much it. Yeah, Kayden.
Hello and welcome to the Kayden Gordon Show today's best country mix. Joining me right here today is Terry Lawrence. Terry, how are you?
Real good, Kayden. Glad to be here.
So let's get started. Began to know you a little bit and how you got started in the music industry.
Well, I started keyboards when I was a kid. About six took some lessons and then I guess when the Beatles came out and the surf music and everything, I started playing guitar and keyboards and couple bands and everything.
And then Motown, I guess around 65, I get into all the Motown music with Smokey Robinson and doing a lot of different songs like a lot of other people through the years. So I had good ear for music and singing and playing guitar and keyboards.
So I got into it through, you know, through the 60s.
All different types of music.
What about music that you absolutely love about it, Terry?
I love the feeling of being able to sing and play creatively different genres of music. I have an ear for music and I just the rhythm and the feel and everything.
I just love to perform and I love to play just to feel the overall, you know, feeling of performing and singing. It just appeals to me. It has for years.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start doing music, Terry, whether that be writing, singing, performing, what would you tell them?
I would tell them to look with their strengths where they feel comfortable, whether they have an ear, they can create which direction they want, they feel comfortable they want to go.
And I would say start out with your best gift that you feel that you have and contact an agent to get involved trying to place you in different places to perform or different ideas with the Internet,
trying to get on different websites to present your music and things.
But to be inspired to do what you feel you would like to do, whether it's writing, singing, playing or a combination of both, whatever your gift is.
That's what I would say.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would write about?
A song about me?
Yeah.
I would say they would probably write about my, probably my experiences with, oh boy, that's a hard one.
What would they write about me?
They would write about, I guess, kindness and free flowing spirit.
Somebody that enjoys life and free spirit.
That's what I would say.
So Terry, tell me a little bit about My Angel Baby.
Well, the song came out in 1978. It was written, it was, I'm not sure who wrote the song, but it was performed by Toby Bow, an artist.
It was a nice song, a bluesy tune, and I was performing that in Burbank with a trio back then.
I had the guitar player, The Grassroots, the drummer for Rita Coolidge and I were in a trio and I performed that song along with some other ones.
The song was a nice bluesy tune and I've sung it, started singing it then and through the years it's kind of like my signature tune that I sang.
So I enjoyed singing it and so I performed it for years off and on with different people.
I mean, I've gone on to do, you know, a lot of different other tunes, but it's one of my favorites.
It's a really good tune from the late 70s.
So that's one of the reasons why it was good. It has a nice harmonica solo.
We put a guitar solo in there instead and this is my version of Toby Bow's tune.
In fact, I was on a cruise and I won a, back in 2005, I won the cruise performance that night.
I sang that song and I got, actually, Toby Bow's drummer was in the audience and he played on that tune with me.
So it was nice.
Terry, if someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would write about?
They were right about my kindness, generosity that I think I have with people and, you know, creativity for music and enjoyment of life.
That's pretty much it.
Walk me through a somewhat typical day of Terry Lawrence.
Well, when I get up in the morning and have a cup of coffee, kind of relax and, you know, listen to a couple of tunes,
communicate with my producer on a few different updated things we may want to record in the future.
And then I may just go for a walk. I'm pretty much an athlete.
I exercise and lift weights and just get the juices flowing in the morning.
And, you know, I just see what comes throughout the day. You know, I may get a call for to do a gig or another recording session or something.
And so I'm always open to anything that's coming up.
I do some communication with the, I'm on Spotify and some of the other digital stations there.
So I interact with people and things like that.
That's pretty much my day.
Terry, if people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
They can find me on Spotify. My albums and single tunes are on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon.com.
I've been on there for a while. I'm an international recording artist and I have a wide variety of tunes.
I have three or four country tunes. I have R&B. I have some salsa. I have rock and roll, doo-wop.
They can find me on Reverb Nation also. They can find me on the YouTube also.
My tunes, my acting career. I was in a couple of movies. They could find me on through the Internet. Google me, Terry Lawrence.
I was in a movie with Barbara Samick and Joan McCray. It still plays. I was a little Indian boy back in the 50s.
Also a long ranger version. I did a lot of TV and motion picture work back then.
So they can find me on the Internet. I also have TerryLawrenceMusic.com. They can look at that website too.
So Reverb Nation, Google me. A lot of different areas. I'm in there.
Terry, if you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now, what message would you tell them?
Keep doing what you're doing. If you're doing music or whatever career, whatever you're doing, do it well.
Find out what you want to do in life, what makes you feel good, and continue on and don't quit.
And you'll be happy. Take life slow. Smell the roses. Have a cup of coffee. Enjoy life.
Do what you do best or what you feel like you like to do. Be kind and live a long life. That's what I would tell them.
Wonderful. Terry, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention today?
No. Pretty much. We'll be doing some more interviews with people. They can find me on Facebook.
Terry Lawrence, Facebook.com. I don't know the exact – they can find me on Google and everything.
That's pretty much it. I'll be doing some gigs coming up in the future. Look out for some messages for me.
I've got my fifth album that came out. Terry Lawrence, Classic Hits. You can look me up there.
I'll have some more tunes. Be on the lookout. That's pretty much it. Yeah, Kayden.
Terry Lawrence, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the KT Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
We appreciate your time and support so much. So thank you.
Thank you, Kayden. Have a great day. Very good. Thank you.
Our new little baby gets made up. God has his little ways.
He can make a mountain.
He can make oceans.
He can make rivers run to the sea.
He can make the moon glow and the grass grow.
He can make a difference in you and me.
God has his little ways to make big things happen every day.
When no one dies and flies away,
a greeting soon a new little baby gets made.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
God has his little ways.
I was downhearted when my daddy died.
I cried and cried when I buried him that day.
Was it very long? We heard a different song.
A new kind of crying came our way.
Round and round are the circle of gods.
Seasons change. They come and they go.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, through it all, one thing I know.
God has his little ways.
God has his little ways to make big things happen every day.
When no one dies and flies away,
a greeting soon a new little baby gets made.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
God has his little ways.
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