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God has his little ways to make big things happen every day. One love, one dozen flowers away. Really soon a new little baby gets made.
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. One love, one dozen flowers away. Really soon a new little baby gets made.
God has his little ways. I was down hard when my daddy died.
I cried and cried when they buried him that day. Was a very long, we heard a different song. New kind of crying came our way.
Round and round, oh the circle goes.
Seasons change. They come and they go. Threw it all, one thing I know.
God has his little ways. God has his little ways to make big things happen every day. One love, one dozen flowers away. Really soon a new little baby gets made.
God has his little ways. God has his little ways.
God has his little ways. Amy Jack, right here on the K-Dict-O-Gordon Show, today's best country mix. We got interviews for the next couple minutes, I guess I would say. We got a whole interviews lined up for you. We have Amy Jack, Brooklyn Blackmore, Jay Hog, Jeffrey Allen-Bott, and Al Cotter joining us right here on the K-Dict-O-Gordon Show, today's best country mix.
Hello and welcome to the K-Dict-O-Gordon Show, today's best country mix. And joining us here today is Amy Jack. Amy, how are you today?
I'm great. How are you?
I am doing wonderful. Thank you so much for taking the time to come back. We're excited to have you.
Well, I'm excited that you're in the music industry, Kaden. You are a dynamo.
Thank you so much. So why don't we get started, for those that don't know much about you, to do a quick introduction and how you got started in the music industry.
Well, I don't know. I don't really know when I got started, but I moved to Nashville. But really, when I moved back to Dallas, I got busier actually making music. And I've been working nonstop the last several years.
And working today and getting ready to release a new song for summer. And then working on a Christmas album. So it's just nonstop. Trying to do all you can, you know?
For sure, absolutely. And that's exciting. Now, I know you have one out right now. It's called God Has His Little Ways. Tell us about that.
Well, this one has meaning. A long time ago, my friend's mother told me. She was from Oklahoma. And she told me, she said, you never heard that? It's a universal thing. She said, like, 80,000 people to their feet in a few seconds. That tells you what music can do. That quick.
It's definitely amazing for sure. Now, Amy, if you had an opportunity to go anywhere and play, where would you go and why?
Well, let me see. A lot of places here in the U.S. but also abroad in Europe. I've never been to Europe. But I told someone, I just performed, you know, Christmas Day in front of Tom Brady, his last regular season game.
I performed the anthem, Arizona Cardinals versus Tampa Bay. And I'd love to perform at the brand new Los Angeles Stadium. It's just beautiful.
It has that lake and those fountains.
Absolutely. I know you're really into football. Can I ask what team you are rooting for?
Well, I learned a long time ago to have more than one so I don't get my feelings hurt.
Then I have something else, a Plan B. I live here in Dallas and I have Dallas season tickets, the fact I got to pay my bill this month.
Those are like, you know, they're America's team and those are expensive. And, you know, they put it to you like they're selling real estate, like your tickets are real estate.
But anyway, the Dallas Cowboys and, you know, my song Shaken Bake was inspired by Baker Maseville and he's now at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And so anywhere he goes, they're my team.
The Bucs and I have, you know, the Chiefs. I love the Chiefs. I lived in Missouri in Branson for music and I started watching them then, the Chiefs, and now they're just on top of the world.
And, and I have other teams.
There are several that I like. I mean, I love the Rams because Baker was there last winter, last fall. But that's the fun thing about it, you know.
Same with basketball. You can like as many as you want to or admire. I mean, I'm a big fan of Steph Curry. He's a believer. Speaking of God has his little ways. He's just incredible.
And Trey Young from Oklahoma. I'm a big fan of his. He's an OU alum like me. And he's at the Atlanta Hawks. But Steph Curry, you know, speaks all the time about his, about his believing.
And he just keeps setting records, you know.
Absolutely. He's like a wonder boy.
Amy, if people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
Amyjackmusic.com or my, on Facebook, it's Amyjackmusic page.
And in the other Instagram and everything.
If you had one message to tell anyone right now, what would you tell them, Amy?
Keep your chin up and be good to yourself.
I agree, definitely.
Be fair, be fair with yourself and be fair with others too. But, you know, look at all the good things about yourself.
The good things that you've done to improve the world.
It's hard for everyone to balance. It's hard for everyone to balance, you know. That's another song I may write, balance. It's hard to balance. Everyone's juggling so many things.
Everyone you meet is juggling things you don't even, they don't even talk about. But they, you know, they keep, they keep putting one foot in front of the other.
I definitely agree with that. I think a lot of people are juggling with a lot of different things. And, you know, it takes, it takes a lot of persistence to do that. Especially for people that are in our industry or the acting industry or any really industry.
It takes a lot because you're not always going to get there in your first shot. Not everyone that makes it on TikTok or something overnight becomes like these crazy people and famous in a blink of an eye.
Most people have to work for it, unfortunately.
Uh huh. But you know, in most people, it's like the NFL, we were talking about the NFL. Only one, I think it's 1%. I know it's less than 3% make it in the NFL.
And, and the same thing with music probably. But the thing is, you just do the best you can do and, and your work speaks for itself. And your life speaks for itself.
You know, your life is a legacy. And you do the best you can. And, you know, the truth is the truth. You know, if your music is, is true and pure and everything, that's the prize right there.
You know, virtue is its own reward.
Because not everybody's going to be in that 1% and, you know, be on top of the world and everything. Be a TikTok sensation.
And, you know, virtue is its own reward.
You know, quality just stands for itself.
I agree with that. Amy, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
Just keep doing what you're doing, Kayden. You're a bright star for all of us. And I hope you have a great summer, the best ever.
Thank you. Yes, absolutely. In July, I'll be going to Nashville for the first time. So I am super excited.
Wow. Well, I hope you, I hope you've booked your hotel.
Unless you could stay with someone.
That's true. I didn't even consider that.
Well, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about that more.
Absolutely.
Let's get that booked.
Well, Amy, if I still have my place, you'd be welcome there.
Oh, well, thank you. Amy Jack, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Kayden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
We appreciate you. Keep up the good work. You are also such a rising star. Thank you.
Okay. Thanks a lot.
Hello and welcome to the Kayden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix. Joining me right here today is Brooklyn Blackmore. Brooklyn, how are you?
I'm doing great. How are you doing today?
I'm doing wonderful. Thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show.
Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be chatting with you today.
So let's get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you get started in the music industry.
Yeah, so I picked up actually the fiddle at a really young age. When I was three years old, I saw a local talent on fiddle here called Natalie McMaster. I saw her on breakfast television.
So I thought that was just the coolest instrument ever and I wanted to learn how to play it myself. So I got one for my fourth birthday and that's what kind of started my love for music.
Over the years I picked up fiddle and piano. Not fiddle. I already said fiddle. I picked up the piano, I picked up guitar and then I started finding my voice as a singer and a songwriter.
And then in 2016 I actually competed in the global country Star Search, which is what actually launched my love for country music because I ended up winning that Star Search and that took me on a trip to Nashville and the Canadian Country Cup Music Week.
So that really just opened my eyes to a whole new level of the music industry and everything that goes on behind the scenes.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start doing music, whether that be songwriters, singers, what would you tell them Brooklyn?
I would tell them to just go for it. Don't hold back. Don't be scared that other people are going to judge what you're doing. I just think if you believe in yourself and you believe in your art then everything will just fall into place. So just take that jump and give it a try.
Do you have any upcoming singles or projects you want to tell us about today? I know we were just chatting about it.
Yes. So actually last Friday, May 26, I released my most recent single Been There Too. This is the most vulnerable song I've ever really written. It's very open and honest about a situation that I went through a couple years ago.
I'm unfortunately a victim of sexual assault. So a couple years ago, that's a really hard part of my life. And I was finally at a place where I felt like I could take my power back and start speaking my truth. So I wrote this song to kind of inspire other people who might be going through this.
Just to feel hopeful in their journey and know that healing is a long process, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. And I've been there too. You're not alone.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would take the time to write about?
Oh, that's an interesting question.
I don't know. I like to think that I'm a pretty like energetic bubbly person. Like one of the first songs that I actually kind of wrote was called Flower Child and I felt like that's kind of an anthem for who I am. I'm really kind of an old soul so I could see it kind of just being about enjoying your life and being one with nature and stuff.
Where do you see yourself for the next couple years or where do you want to be Brooklyn?
I would like to get a little more known around Canada, kind of get a presence at the Canadian Country Music Awards. I'm getting ready to release my next record so I'm hoping that's going to be a next stepping stone in my journey for me and bring me to that next level.
I've got a little bit of radio airplay but I would really love that to bump up a little more, maybe see some charting. So that's a really big goal for me in the next few years.
Absolutely for sure.
What do you like doing outside of music? Do you have any hobbies, interests, anything like that?
Most of it's music I'll be honest to you but I do like spending a lot of time outside and you probably wouldn't guess this but I actually do electrical work with my father so I kind of enjoy doing the handy stuff as well.
There you go. That's really really cool. That's probably nothing I would guess but.
Yeah, a lot of people say that she's a jack of all trades.
Absolutely.
If you had an opportunity to play anywhere in the world Brooklyn, where would you go and why?
I would have to say Nashville. Nashville is like a bucket list for me. I was fortunate to take a trip there last year and I got to do a little bit of performing on Broadway.
But just I would love to do more of that on a bigger scale. I think that would be fantastic, especially being in the country industry. It's just, that's the hub, that's where everybody's at.
Absolutely, I definitely agree with that.
Fantastic talent out that way so it would be nice to be surrounded by that when you're so passionate about music.
If you had to choose one singer to do it or collaborate with who would you choose and why?
Easy. Miley Cyrus actually. That might come as a surprise as well but she's been a huge influence for me throughout my entire life starting from Hannah Montana when I was a kid and up to her most recent record I've loved everything she's done in the evolution and I feel like we kind of have similar lower register voices, which is not super common in a lot of females.
So, I think she's a really good role model for me. I'd love to collaborate with her.
If people want to learn more about you Brooklyn, where can they find you?
You can check out my website at brooklynblackmore.ca and I'm also on pretty much all the social medias. You can search Brooklyn Blackmore on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, I'm even on TikTok and YouTube.
And of course your favorite streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, everything like that.
If you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now, what would you tell them Brooklyn?
Just to live your life at the fullest, try to find the positivity and everything because that's what I've been trying to do lately.
Do you have a hidden talent? If so, tell us a little bit about that.
A hidden talent? I don't really know honestly. Nothing comes to mind. I think right now my hidden talent is kind of the fiddle because I haven't been playing it as much over the last few years so I've been kind of popping it back into my shows and people seem to be really enjoying that.
So, I'd say maybe that's my hidden talent.
There you go. I mean that works.
There's probably something else but I don't know. I've never got that question before actually. You stumped me.
I mean I'm glad I stumped you there.
I do like to garden but I don't know if that's a talent.
I mean a lot of people garden so I guess so.
It's on the fence. Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Well, what's next for you? Do you have any upcoming projects or anything?
Yeah, I'm actually currently working towards my next EP which I actually had the privilege to record down in Nashville. So that's going to be the next big step for me after this single release and everything and I've got some cool summer shows coming up that I'm excited for so I think it's going to be a really good year.
Oh, that's wonderful and Brooklyn is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
I think we covered most of it. I think I'd really like your listeners to check out my new single in there too and if they like what they hear maybe check out everything else.
Brooklyn Blackmore, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Kate and Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix. We definitely appreciate your time and support so thank you.
Thank you so much for having me today.
Hello, and welcome to the Kate and Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix. Joining me right here today is Jay Honk. Jay, how are you?
Yes, I'm really fine these days.
I've been swimming in the sun playing guitar.
Yesterday was a bit harder we've been in the studio 12 hours so today was a relaxed day.
Well that's wonderful 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.
A long time ago.
In the early 80s.
I went in Vienna to the clubs with a guitar.
And I was a sort of honker.
I asked the guys to put the music down and ask them if I could play a few songs and I was wondering it was really successful and I couldn't stop it anymore.
I got an addict really and well I played in the clubs in Vienna in the early 80s as a baska as a honker for no money for a few beers.
And in a few years, it grew bigger. I got bands, I got money, record contract, the usual, usual story.
I think.
What advice would you give somebody that might want to start doing music.
That he finds something, which is really his own thing.
I think everybody needs something.
What is really his own personality, which he wants to transport via music.
And there are many things I think he needs a lot of strength, physically, physically, emotionally.
I think also it's a sort of destination. I really believe in this.
Do you have any upcoming singles or projects you want to tell us about today.
Well, the project is a lot of singles, I want to release.
I've been.
I have been recording.
About 404040 tracks 50 tracks.
Three albums, and now I'm really seeing the most interesting songs.
It's a sort of what I would like to leave for the world after me.
What do you like doing outside of music. Do you have any hobbies, interests, anything like that.
Yes, I really like nature. Definitely. I'm a lot of time in the countryside with my girlfriend.
We walk around, watch the trees, animals.
And I really like swimming. Definitely.
Where do you see yourself in the next year or two.
Sorry.
Where do you see yourself in the next year or two.
In the next year or two, I think I hopefully more radio stations play the songs.
At the moment, there is a radio station in California in.
At your place as in Massachusetts.
Also in Montana.
In Australia.
Switzerland.
A lot of countries play my old songs now and I'm happy about it.
And maybe I'm back live on stage in two years.
If people want to learn more about you, where can they find you.
I'm on my website.
www.jivihonk.com
The music is in all web stores, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon.
And there is a Facebook site.
You can write to me, post to me, and have contact on the Facebook.com.
I hope everybody understood this.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would take the time to write about?
It depends what they think about it and I think they should listen to my songs first.
If you had an opportunity to go to any venue in the world, where would you go and why?
To Massachusetts to meet you.
There has to be a better place than here.
I don't know.
I never been to America, but I really like it.
I'm in Vienna.
It's a classical town.
We have Beethoven, Mozart.
Completely different music.
I really like America.
I have the feeling it fits to me.
Simply.
It fits to me.
That's all.
I don't know why, but that's the truth.
Sorry.
You have time?
One minute?
How long do we have time?
One minute?
We have a few minutes.
In the early 80s, I met two guys from the USA.
I have been hanging around with them for four or five years.
That's why I speak a little bit American English.
They had a salsa band.
I was a roadie.
I started as a roadie.
Afterwards I was a special guest.
Afterwards the road manager.
What I really liked is the style.
They transported their music.
They went to clubs.
They said, hey, we have this band.
We would like to play there.
Nobody in Austria from my friends did something like this.
If you had an opportunity to duet or collaborate with any singer, who would you choose and why?
I think it's a girl called Ruthie Foster.
Do you know her?
Not to mine, no.
She's a great singer.
I saw her yesterday on YouTube with Yorma Kalkonen.
I think he's a well-known guitar player, as far as I'm concerned.
However, she had this real power, soul, groove, and this real fun and luck playing music.
She was really great.
It was stuff like this.
Well, we're the Chinese.
I am your music.
Well, only two chords, but they had been grooving, really.
If you had one message to tell anyone that might be listening right now, what would that message be?
Be peaceful.
Be healthy.
Be lucky.
Lastly, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
I have a very nice impression.
I think everything is said, and you know, songwriters are special human beings.
Most of them do not really talk very much, and I'm one of those, and I'm wondering why I talk so much.
I really don't have no message.
What I wish to you listeners, really having a great time listening to radio.
Jay Honk, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
We appreciate your time and support. Thank you.
Have a great time, Kaden. Nice to see you. Bye bye.
Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
Joining me right here today is Jeffrey Allen Vought.
Jeffrey, how are you?
I'm doing great, sir. How are you doing?
I am doing quite alright. Thank you so much for taking your time to come on the show today.
Yes, sir.
So let's get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you got started in the music industry.
Alright, well, I started writing songs when I was a child.
And my father had an old reel-to-reel tape player from way back years ago,
had probably almost right at every song that Hank Williams had ever recorded.
And when I was about six years old, I remember hearing all of that.
And to this day, I bet you I know the second, third verses to that every Hank Williams song.
He died a long time before I was born, but anyway, he was a hero around our house.
And I started writing songs because Hank Williams wrote songs.
And about that time, six, seven years old, I discovered Elvis.
And through some old records that my parents had, they bought me an Elvis Christmas album.
And I guess they got tired of hearing that. It blew Christmas eight hours a day in June and July and August.
And they finally broke down and bought me some more records.
But I had a bout recently, I had a bout with cancer.
And I got to thinking that I'm probably going to die and nobody's ever going to get to hear all these songs that I've written.
And so I've begun to put them out and produce them one by one.
And they're on all the streaming services, wherever anyone streams their music, Spotify or whatever, iTunes, they can hear these songs.
But I'm cancer free now, thank God. But I'm still going to, you know, I still want people to hear the songs.
Anyhow, that is my story.
Do you have any upcoming singles or projects you want to tell us about today?
Well, sir, I've put out, in the last month, I've put out a gospel song and I've also put out a song called The Southern Most on a catamaran.
I've got other songs in the works. Still got to do the mix on some of them.
As I said, I'll be putting these songs out one by one.
The Southern Most, all the radio stations should have it.
And now whether they play it or not, I don't know yet.
But every, all the classic radio stations should have it. The Americana stations should have it.
The internet stations should have it.
And I'm really putting all my focus on the Southern Most right now.
I look on the artist page on Spotify and I see people in Switzerland and Germany and Australia and Belgium all around the world are starting to stream it and listen to it.
That's encouraging.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would take the time to write about?
Well, hopefully they would write that I was who I said I was and what I said I was. I'd like for them to write that I was a good husband and father. I'd rather fail at anything than fail as a father.
I think those things are important.
If you had an opportunity to play anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
Well, I'd like to debut on the Grand Ole Opry. That'd be a thrill of a lifetime.
Just something that I'd always wanted to do ever since I was a child and that would be a thrill.
If people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
Well, they can find me on all the streaming platforms. My name is Jeffrey Allen Vaught.
The Southern Most on a Catamaran is the song that I have out now.
They can anywhere they stream and if they want to call any of the classic radio stations or the Americana stations and ask them to play that song, they can hear that song there. Check me out on Spotify. I'm on my Spotify account.
If you had one message to those who might be listening right now, what would you tell them?
I'd tell them don't wait until you have cancer to do what you feel like you need to do or don't wait too long.
Probably ought to jump in there.
One other thing I'd say too is that the music business, don't look at it as, well, don't think that the fulfillment of your musical dreams are going to totally fulfill you because I look at so many people who have made it so big in the music business and they're absolutely miserable.
They got there and they found out that it did not satisfy them or completely, it did not fulfill them.
Well, Elvis, you know, with the drugs and Michael Jackson, both of them just got weirder as they went and Elvis died miserable. Hank Williams died an alcoholic. Marilyn Monroe, we think, not that she was a singer, but she was an entertainer anyway.
We think she killed herself. Robin Williams, to quote a Bible verse, for what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
And that's what everybody I think needs to keep in mind. God gifted us with gift of music and all the other talents that we have, but we can't forget to put him first.
Absolutely.
What do you like doing outside of music? Do you have any hobbies, interests, anything like that?
Well, I do. I've got a nine pound six ounce bass hanging on my wall.
And I was in a boat in the river. I live in North Florida. Caught him about a year and a half ago in December. And I was in a John Boat in the river with a friend of mine and when I pulled him up, he says, what are you going to do with this fish?
I said, well, I guess I'll have him mounted. And my friend's a taxidermist. And he said, well, I'll do it for you and I'll do it for nothing. I'll just, you know, be glad to do that for you. So I got that bass on the wall. I like to hunt.
And around here during the season in the summer, they do, they go what they call scalloping. I guess they call them scallops everywhere else, but you go where the water's not very deep. You got your little snorkel and fins if you want them.
You swim around and you look for the scallops on the bottom there and you dive down and get them and fill your bag up. That's a lot of fun. That's what I like to do.
Awesome. And Jeffrey, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
No, sir. That just about sums it up. I hope people will tune in to your show and hear the song and hear the southernmost stream at first. I would hope they would. And let the radio stations know they want to hear it.
Jeffrey, 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. So thank you so much for your time. We really do appreciate you.
Yes, sir. I appreciate you and all your listeners.
Hello and welcome to the Kaden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix. Joining me right here today is Art Carter. Art, how are you?
Hey, pretty good, Kaden. Nice to be on the show.
So let's get started by getting to know you a little bit and how you got started in the music industry.
Well, I've actually been around music my whole life. I'm from up north originally.
And I listen to R&B and rock and roll and funk and all that kind of stuff. And I played in those kind of bands. These are cover bands.
Well, what happened was I would always hear music a lot of times like, you know, Ronnie Millsap, Willie Nelson, different country artists that blended different genres and always liked the sound.
So I always would, you know, and even a lot of country at that time has also been, was on the pop charts. So I was exposed to country.
And then when I moved to Florida, I got more into, you know, country artist Garth Brooks and all that kind of stuff. So country's really become a lot of what we would think mainstream music was when rock was really big.
Country sort of filled that niche today. So that's it.
So as far as getting in the music business, as far as recording and stuff, I had submitted for a show to go sing up in Nashville.
And at the time what happened was I was actually picked, but I couldn't go. So I kind of dropped that off.
So maybe five years later, three, four, five years later, I got a call out of the blue from some guys in Nashville asking me how things were going with my music career.
And I'm wondering, who is this? And then I say, I wonder if this those people from back then. And I got in touch with them.
And that's really how it happened. I started to go up there and record some original music with other people's music.
But I also started writing my own music. And then over time, I record a lot more of my own music.
If someone was to write a song about you, what do you think that they would take the time to write about?
My tenacity. In other words, you know, being in the music business, particularly if you're an indie, whatever stuff, number one, you have to have great music.
You have to have great lyrics and songs. Otherwise, they're not going to play it at all.
And then also you're up against the music machine. I mean, if you're if you're on a label like you're on, you know, Sony Nashville or whatever stuff, just the name Sony Nashville opens doors, whatever and stuff.
And a lot of money behind them and stuff. So it would really be my tenacity that I don't give up and that I'm like the little engine that could.
I just keep chugging along.
Do you have any upcoming singles or projects you want to tell us about today?
Well, I mean, obviously I just released that single Through the Waters, which is a country Christian song.
And here's an interesting thing for the people listening is all the songs I've ever written were written either because of some experience that I personally experienced or some idea.
Like I wanted to write a song about, you know, America, something like an idea that I wanted to do or an experience. But only in the case of I've written three Christian songs, only in the case of the Christian songs, I actually dreamt.
I dreamt the chorus. I heard the chorus in my head, whatever, like it was given to me. So that's that's the uniqueness of the countries of the Christian country songs.
What do you like doing a set of music? Do you have any hobbies, interests, anything like that?
Well, I mean, I've always been athletic all my whole life and stuff. So I, you know, work out and run and all that kind of stuff.
I mean, obviously I do things in music. I go out and listen to, you know, other bands and I like good food.
I have a good friend of mine down here in Orlando has a restaurant called Fama's. It's an outstanding Italian restaurant. So whenever I want to go out and have something to eat Italian, that's where I go.
If people want to learn more about you, where can they find you?
Well, I mean, you could search for Art Carter on the Internet, Art Carter Music, all sorts of stuff will come up. My personal website is ArtCarter.com. But if you search for me on the Internet, Art Carter Music, anything like that, you'll find all my different albums and different songs and lots of stuff like that.
Do you have any advice to those who might want to start being in music, whether that be songwriter, singers? What would you tell them?
Well, I would tell them, number one, to not expect miracles immediately. I mean, you obviously, you know, there's no such thing as a, he was a sudden, you know, overnight success.
Nobody's an overnight success. I mean, what happens is a whole lot of hard work and struggle that meets opportunity at the right time. I mean, somebody, he might be an overnight success to the public because they've never heard of this person, but they might have been working at it for 20 years before that ever happened.
So that's the first part. Don't expect things to happen. It's a lot of hard work, tenacity. You got to have thick skin, be willing to take criticism.
And the other thing is be original. I mean, I had somebody tell me a long time ago, they said, look, you know, when you sing, I mean, so for example, if I sing Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson's song, like On the Road Again, I don't plug my nose and sound nasally when I do it because to sound like Willie Nelson, I'm not a Willie Nelson impersonator, but I will sing in the style of Willie Nelson.
So when you sing, you know, you want to be yourself, you want to be original and your music should, you know, if you do an original music, you're writing your own music, you know, that's that a lot of times comes, it fits your personality and stuff. So they met, they mesh well.
So don't give up. Persevere. Don't expect being overnight success. Be original in your music and in your sound.
Do you have a message to those who might be listening, any of your fans, any of my fans, what would you tell them?
So I would tell them that I really appreciate them for listening to my music and being supportive of it, the ones that have and I'm very grateful for that.
And and that's what actually makes me continue doing what I'm doing. In other words, is, you know, when you get people that like what you're doing, I mean, you like it because you're doing it, obviously. Right.
But if you get, you know, people, other people that are liking it, then you it's encouraging.
Absolutely. I definitely agree with that.
Where do you see yourself in the next couple of years or where do you want to be?
Well, I mean, I've been really been getting a lot of activity in the last couple of years or whatever with my music.
I mean, I've had my last single, Cold Hearted Woman, charted number 26 on Billboard Adult Contemporary.
I've had a lot of my songs chart number one on indie networks and stuff like that, the indie network on New Music Weekly and stuff like that.
So and then I noticed, you know, because obviously you can tell that there's people that, you know, not only purchasing your songs, whatever, but you can I could see other things like a lot of activity.
Who's been looking at your stuff and stuff like that.
So so my name in the music is getting out there and hopefully some big doors will open.
I mean, I have a pretty good band and I'm moving them along and I'd like to have some opportunities to play at some great places.
So that's what I'm looking forward to.
Awesome. And Art, is there anything that I forgot to mention that you would like to mention here on the show today?
I would just say thank you to everybody for listening to my music, for for anybody who happens to be patriotic like myself.
God bless America and God bless our troops that are out there looking out for us.
Art Carter, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the Kaden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix.
We appreciate you and your time. So thank you.
Thank you for having me on the show, Kaden. Appreciate it.
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It'll never cross your mind until it happens to you.
Was it someone that you loved or someone who barely knew you took your innocence away?
This sad story sounds the same.
Just act like nothing happened.
It's just another day.
Never walk alone in darkness.
Keep your keychain by your side.
Watching every single movement of each person passing by.
Maybe one day that will change.
But for now just play it safe.
His absence made you question each embrace.
If you choose to speak up, just know that I believe you.
Cause I've been there too, been down and bruised.
But I got off the ground.
Waiting for things to change.
Let me show you how.
Speak the truth without any shame.
I'll choose to scream while my voice shakes.
And haunt him while I make my name.
Cause I've been there too, but I made it through.
Your little red dress doesn't earn you a scarlet letter.
They say you need to cover up.
That you should have known better.
Why won't he blame himself?
I wonder how he felt.
Adding a notch in his belt at the expense of someone else.
And if you choose to speak up, just know that I believe you.
Cause I've been there too, been down and bruised.
But I got off the ground.
Waiting for things to change.
Let me show you how.
Speak the truth without any shame.
I'll choose to scream while my voice shakes.
And haunt him while I make my name.
Cause I've been there too, but I made it through.
But I got off the ground.
Waiting for things to change.
Let me show you how.
Speak the truth without any shame.
I'll choose to scream while my voice shakes.
And haunt him while I make my name.
Cause I've been there too, but I made it through.
Made it through.
Sitting on a rock, watching shiny people.
Diving in the sand in a blue land.
Walking through a valley with orange mountains.
Black trees without lichens in a blue land.
Standing on a bridge, watching angry river.
Dead fish in its water in a blue land.
Purple ships are sailing through a yellow ocean.
Forever lost a chorus in a blue land of dreams.
In a blue land of dreams.
Heard I whipped a thousand eyes, six zero smiles.
No one that I see in a blue land.
Climbers on a tree of yates shining on you.
They'll be gone tomorrow in a blue land.
A space hotel with gold roofs and hexagrams.
Waiting for the band in a blue land.
Swam in Makita on the red sky.
Everyone can fly in a blue land of dreams.
In a blue land of dreams.
On the Stingen, it's a fort.
We're off and running, praise the Lord.
Through Gator Alley and Whitewater Bay.
To the southernmost point in the USA.
Gonna hear the band, gonna kick some sand.
And dance for the music waves.
When I wake, I'll be the southernmost man.
With the southernmost woman on a catamaran.
Not trying to burn any bridges back home.
I'm just trying to be alone.
In the Keys, on the coast.
With the one I love at the southernmost.
Gonna hear the band, gonna kick some sand.
And dance for the music waves.
When I wake, I'll be the southernmost man.
With the southernmost woman on a catamaran.
We'll hit the beach, have some fun.
He's a loose cannon, I'm a smoking gun.
Two bundles of nerves wound way too tight.
But we'll feel better in the morning light.
Gonna hear the band, gonna kick some sand.
And dance for the music waves.
When I wake, I'll be the southernmost man.
With the southernmost woman on a catamaran.
At the southernmost, just us two.
Where it never snows and it only rains.
If it has to.
Gonna hear the band, gonna kick some sand.
And dance for the music waves.
When I wake, I'll be the southernmost man.
With the southernmost woman on a catamaran.
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