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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me once again as guest curator is the

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incredible Carrie Cunningham, who you might recall

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was my guest on episode 61, the ultimate modern

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female country artist's playlist. Carrie, welcome

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back to the show. Thank you so much. I'm so glad

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to be back. This is exciting. I am so glad to

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have you back. Now, on our last episode, we briefly

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touched on 90s country. But tonight, we get to

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dive all into 90s country because that is our

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topic tonight. And it's a topic that is extremely

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special to me because it is the reason I got

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a start in radio. In 1998, I went to my college

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that I was at at the time and asked to get a

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radio program. And they said, sure, we could

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put you on the air, but you have to fall into

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one of the niche categories that we can't find

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anybody to cover. I said, OK, what do you got?

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And I started looking down the list and I saw

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7 a .m. to 9 a .m. Monday morning, country radio.

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I'm like, I'll do that. Thankfully, I had a lot

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of friends in North Carolina from when I went

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to school down there a few years earlier who

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helped me put together a entire CD book full

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of country music. And it's since become. Kind

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of the Bible for what I consider to be good country

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music. So this is one of the toughest tasks for

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me tonight to try to narrow down the 1990s decade

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for country music because it was my introduction

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to the genre and it's where I have so many memories

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in. So tonight's going to be a tough one for

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me. How about you when it comes to 90s country

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music? Oh my gosh. It's an awful lot like you

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where I really cut my teeth in 90s country. I

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first started going out kind of doing little

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country showdown showcases during the 90s. And

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I was trying to go out there and kind of make

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a name for myself up in the Northwest as kind

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of this up and coming country artist. And so

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all these songs from 90s country were songs that

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I would play or listen to religiously. And to

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be honest with you, I could probably. sing these

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lyrics decades later and still remember them

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because they're so deeply embedded in my brain

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versus a song that just came out even as early

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as like last year because I'll be like oh I still

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don't remember it but give me something from

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the mid -90s and I'll be like oh yeah I know

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that went backwards and forwards and I'll tell

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you right now there are some artists that I think

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even the younger ones that are really starting

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to tap into The 90s country sound, because I

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feel like when you listen to artists like Zach

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Topp, that you're getting a resurgence of what

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the 1990s was all about in modern country. I

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would even say the same to a degree with Lainey

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Wilson's sound has a little bit of touches of

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90s country in it as well. Yeah, I think with

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the artists, we're always like trying to quote

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unquote reinvent. But it's not being reinvented.

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It's just kind of being recycled with a more

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modern twist. Right. And you brought up Zach

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Topp, which is a great example because you read

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his lyrics and you hear his voice and it's so

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rich. You could say, oh, yeah, that can definitely

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go on like a 90s playlist, but it can also go

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into like a contemporary Texas country. And the

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way that the market's kind of swinging right

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now, it feels. Interesting that there is a lot

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more Americana, a lot more Texas country that's

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really starting to hit mainstream country music,

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which a couple years ago, five, six years ago,

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would never have happened. Like, I remember I

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have slight PTSD from some conversations with

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some publicists, you know, when I try to pitch

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a song and they're like, that's not today's country

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music. That's, you know, go take that to the

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Americana world or go take that to Texas country,

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you know. And so, but things have just really

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changed. evolved and changed and i think a lot

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of it has to do also with what's going out on

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tv well we got a lot of westerns coming out you

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know and yellowstone and everything that makes

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people want to be a cowboy i should have been

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a cowboy right everybody's kind of jumping on

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that bandwagon right now so obviously that more

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traditional style country is going to want to

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start pulling in and pulling in new listeners

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well Tonight, as I mentioned at the top of the

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show, Carrie and I are going to be curating the

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ultimate 90s country music mixtape, and we're

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going to use the old cassette deck approach.

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Carrie, as my special guest, will begin side

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A with her first song choice, and then I'll add

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a song that I feel best follows up that choice.

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We'll then flip -flop choosing songs until we've

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mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give

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our mixtape a proverbial flip, and we'll map

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out side B. Only this time, I'll kick things

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off with Carrie choosing second. Our overall

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goal for this episode is to craft the best 90s

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country music mixtape possible through only 20

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songs. At the end of the show, you can take our

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show topics like several of the mixtapers did

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this evening. with the songs they would use to

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kick off their respective 90s country playlists.

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Sean Goff chimed in saying Tim McGraw was the

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first concert he and his wife went to as a couple,

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so he's got to kick it off with Indian Outlaw.

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Tom Hutchinson, as a reference back to the song

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you were just singing earlier, said he'd kick

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it off with his personal favorite, Should Have

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Been a Cowboy by Toby Keith, saying it's a great

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song that brings him back to his childhood. Rob

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Jones chimed in from the UK saying it's got to

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be the opening track to Johnny Cash's American

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recordings, Delia's Gone. Chad LaMassa chimed

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in saying his pick might be a popular choice,

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but since 90s country is a bit of a blind spot

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for him, he's going with the chick's Goodbye

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Earl. And Brandon from Virginia chimed in saying

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you can't have a 90s mix. Without the man who

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revived country in the 90s, Garth Brooks, Brandon

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said there's so many songs from him, but Friends

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in Low Places brings back late night diner memories

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for him in New Jersey. So he's going with that.

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Mixtape. So Carrie, with all of those Patreon

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pics out in the atmosphere, I'm officially pressing

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the record button on our mixtape. I guess you

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could say starting up the pickup truck, and I'm

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going to turn things over to you. How are we

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going to get this 90s country party started this

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evening? I'm going to start it off with my girl,

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Miss Shania Twain, with Whose Bed Have Your Boots

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Been Under? Nice song. Shania Twain really kind

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of took country music into more of the pop world

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for 90s country. She was one of the most memorable

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concerts I ever went to back in the 90s. Just

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seeing her in her outfits and her dancers and

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her harmony singers. And also back then, like,

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to be honest, there were a lot of stations that

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were supporting me in my young music career.

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And I often got the quote, oh, she's, you know,

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she's the next Shania Twain. And, you know, you're

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being young. You're like, yeah, I want to be.

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the next Shania Twain I wasn't quite at that

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moment where it was like but we already have

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a Shania Twain why can't you just say she's the

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next Carrie you know whatever but Shania Twain

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was definitely one of the female artists that

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I looked up to and thought that that's definitely

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how music should be performed and you know the

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fan base etc so Shania is definitely the one

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person I should start off our whole mixtape with

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I honestly think Shania did for female pop country

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what Garth did for country slash rock, if you

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want to call it that, where he kind of crossed

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over onto the pop charts in the 90s. So did Shania.

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They both were kind of trailblazers of the decade.

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And I think if you want to talk about your quote

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unquote kings and queens of the 90s for country

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music, it's probably. Not a tough argument to

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give it to Garth and Shania, considering the

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crossover appeal they had. You scooped me on

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Shania. I had any man of mine from the same album,

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1995's The Woman in Me. The reason I love it

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so much is there was a country comedian back

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in the 90s that was like the country answer to

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Weird Al Yankovic. It was Cletus T. Judd. Oh,

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yeah, Cletus. And he had If Shania Was Mine.

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And hand to God, in 1996, in the Walmart parking

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lot in Salisbury, North Carolina, on the bed

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of a truck, Cletus T. Judd did a concert with

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Daryl Dodd. And this was like one of the first

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country concerts I ever went to. So it has that

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kind of memory embedded in me, hearing him on

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stage performing If Shania Was Mine. And I'm

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like, well, I know the original here, so I love

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it. Whose bed have your boots been under is obviously

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the bigger choice for the crossover appeal. But

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I don't think you can go wrong with pretty much

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any Shania song from the decade. No, I agree.

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The song hit number 31 on the U .S. Billboard

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Hot 100 and was her first top 40 hit on the country

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charts. Hit number 11 on the U .S. Hot Country

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Songs chart and number one on the Canada Country

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Tracks chart. And it kind of made a resurgence,

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too, because there was another song, No One Needs

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to Know. I think that song got really popular.

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And then it kind of brought back Whose Bed Have

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Your Boots Been Under? Because people started

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going, oh, well, who is this Shania Twain? We

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really like that song. And then Whose Bed Have

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Your Boots Been Under kind of gained popularity

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right after that. And from that point on, it

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was Shania Mania. Well, I am going to start off

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with a song that might not be the first song

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that comes to everybody's mind. Now, don't get

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me wrong. It was the number one hit. It hit number

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one on the U .S. Hot Country Songs chart and

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the Canada Country Tracks chart. So it was a

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number one country hit. But it's not the first

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song that everybody immediately goes to. But

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it is for me because this was the first country

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song. that I ever admitted liking to my college

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roommate back in 1995. The day I moved in, he

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said to me, Brian, the first thing I'm going

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to do is get you into country music before this

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semester's over. And I'm going down there listening

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to Typo Negative and The Misfits and Metallica

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and Downset, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing

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Pumpkins. That was like where I was at the time.

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And I'm like, I'm not listening. I'm like, you

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could try all you want. I'm not going to get

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into this Garth Brooks thing. So every time he

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turned on the radio, I'd be like, oh, another

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Garth Brooks song. And he'd be like, no, man,

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that was Alan Jackson. I'd be like, oh, sorry.

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And then the next song would come on. I'd be

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like, oh, is that Garth Brooks? He'd be like,

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no, man, that's Reba McEntire. I'm like, oh.

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And then a commercial would come on. I'm like,

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is that Garth Brooks? He's like, oh, just stop.

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But long story short, we were driving around

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town. trying to get me familiar with the area.

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And John Michael Montgomery sold. The Grundy

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County auction incident came on. And the first

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time I heard that auctioneer delivery, I kind

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of looked at him and said, all right, who is

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that? And he goes, oh, John Michael Montgomery,

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you're going to dig this. And he cranked it up.

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And it was the first country song I ever fell

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in love with. So it's the first song I'm including

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on tonight's list. No, that's a great story.

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I had to think about it for a second because

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that is one of my most popular John Michael songs

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that I think about. When I think of John Michael

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Montgomery, that's the song I first think about.

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And then I had to start thinking, I'm like, what

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other songs were there? I know there is plenty

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of them. Oh, Love the Way You Love Me. Yes. That's

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the other one that popped into my head. Yeah.

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And of course, I swear was a huge wedding song.

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I believe that was part of my wedding song for

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my first husband. I've been married. uh, once

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other than my right now. And maybe that's why

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I swear no longer registers in my brain. Cause

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it was part of my first wet marriage. I understand.

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Say no more. It was also by all for one though.

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So you might be able to kind of give that crossover

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into R and B. Yeah, exactly. That's what we were

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just talking about with like with Garth and Shania

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is this song or not this one, I swear, was also

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a crossover for country music going into pop,

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which was another great thing that made 90s country

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just so, so wonderful is that they weren't really

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sticking in their lane, so to speak. Right. They

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were really crossing over. And it was it was

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wonderful. And I think that was a good turning

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point for country music to really start expanding.

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The listener and the fan base. And I swear I'm

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not going to talk about them all night, but Cletus

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T. Judd also did a parody of Salt, but I'll just

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leave it at that. What are you going to follow

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that up with for track three? Oh, let's go with

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how about Alan Jackson and Chattahoochee? Nice.

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Yeah. The first time just seeing the video of

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some tall blonde hairdo with his cowboy hat and

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his holy jeans. water skiing with his cowboy

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hat and holy jeans you know and and even just

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the word chattahoochee and you're like oh chattahoochee

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and then and then you hear hoochie coochie and

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you're just like oh my word like listen to this

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rhyme scheme I think I remember him saying that

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he wasn't even sure if he could even put those

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two together um the writers couldn't put those

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two words together that it would be quote -unquote

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appropriate for hoochie coochie but It worked

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off well. I mean, it was such a huge hit. And

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I think it really put Alan Jackson to where he

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is today. It was like the starting point for

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him to just be this great country music star.

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From 1993 is a lot about living and a little

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about love. But for me, one of the first country

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CDs I ever purchased when I was in college was

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Alan Jackson's Greatest Hits Volume 1. So it

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was obviously on that. Hit number 46 on the U

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.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number one on both

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the U .S. Hot Country Songs chart and the Canada

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Country Tracks chart. I actually had two songs

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from Alan Jackson in my bank, and that was Midnight

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Montgomery because that one makes the hair on

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my arm stand up every time I hear it. And I Don't

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Even Know Your Name. Just a real fun little country

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bop. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. But Chattahoochee is

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the song. We talked about Zach Topp at the beginning

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of the show. In sounds like the radio, the opening

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line is, well, the day I was born, the doc couldn't

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believe I came out crying Chattahoochee. So have

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to go with it. All right. Following up Alan Jackson.

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Alan Jackson's one that one of my college roommates

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and one of my closest friends on the planet,

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Chris, was a huge fan of. And when I got down

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there, he's. He was very much into like, look,

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you're going to hear a lot of country on the

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radio. And as I got more into it, I started asking

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more questions. And he says, look, I'm going

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to introduce you to some people you're not going

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to hear on the radio. And these are going to

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be some people that are some of the greatest

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country artists you're ever going to hear in

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your life. However, they're just not mainstream

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enough. Although Garth really, really made a

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case. For this artist. And it's one of my favorite

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country singers. Of all time. And here's the

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thing. This guy didn't need the charts. Because

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Garth Brooks. When he exploded onto the scene.

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Lyrics like. The worn out tape of Chris Ledoux.

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Lonely women in bad booze. Seemed to be the only

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friends. I've left at all. That's much too young

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to feel this damn old. And then you take the

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collaboration. Of what you're going to do with

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a cowboy. Chris Ledoux was a staple of 90s country

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to me. He also did a duet with Toby Keith of

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a re -recording of Copenhagen, which introduced

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me to Toby Keith. So to me, he was very highly

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influential on 90s country. But the song I'm

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going to go with only reached number 33 on the

00:17:49.740 --> 00:17:53.160
Billboard Top Country Albums chart. But to me,

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it's one of the greatest country songs ever written.

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Just because the message is so perfect, it's

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so Chris LeDoux from 1996's Stampede, $5 fine.

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We've got a $5 fine for whining. We tell you

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before you come in, and if it ain't on your mind

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to have a good time, y 'all come back and see

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us again. Everything I love about Chris LeDoux

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summed up in one song. That's perfect. Yeah,

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I have to agree with you with everything that

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Garth did. Everything that Garth did for Chris

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Ledoux. Isn't that so funny to say that? Oh,

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the irony is strong in that. Don't get me wrong,

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because without Chris Ledoux, you never get Garth

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Brooks. I have with Chris Ledoux. I always just

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put Chris in the rodeo world, which in my and

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in my mind, I don't necessarily think of like

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other songwriters or other singers or anything.

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He brings me to my family of friends who are

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bull riders, who are out there like risking their

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life for this career that they choose to do and

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how badly they beat up their body. And I then

00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.579
instantly think of like the movie eight seconds,

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you know, and it's just Chris. just brings out

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so many more emotions and thought processes than

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anybody else in country music for me personally.

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Like I just said, he brings me into the rodeo

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world and he just makes me think of my friends

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and makes me think of my rodeo friends. And he

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just holds a special place in my heart and in

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my mind that I honestly, I don't think any other

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country artist can do like he does. And it's

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insane how Incredible. His son is Ned carrying

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on the tradition. Ned Ledoux's music. I listened

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to his cover of This Cowboy's Hat, and I literally

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sat there going, this is Chris. This is definitely

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Chris. And I had to A and B the songs because

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he has the same tonality of his father. He has

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the same richness, the same warmth in his voice,

00:20:02.670 --> 00:20:08.740
and that same charisma. You cannot fake. what

00:20:08.740 --> 00:20:10.900
Chris LeDoux puts out when he delivers those

00:20:10.900 --> 00:20:15.039
lyrics, it's almost in a sing speak kind of way.

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And it's almost delivered as like a, I would

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call it a cowboy sermon as you will. It feels

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like he's, I don't want to call him preachy because

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that takes it to a different level, but there

00:20:27.019 --> 00:20:29.799
was something that was just so confident in his

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delivery and Ned's carrying that on now. And

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I love to see that. Yeah. And then I think that's

00:20:35.269 --> 00:20:38.049
another reason why I think of my, my rodeo friends

00:20:38.049 --> 00:20:41.410
too, because there is that personality, that

00:20:41.410 --> 00:20:45.430
confidence, like you will never meet an introverted.

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Well, you, you might meet an introverted one,

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but you will never meet a non -confident bull

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rider. The bull might win. Yeah, exactly. They

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just, they just have this persona and it's almost

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like Chris kind of just. set the standard for

00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.339
all of them as well. Like you hear Chris will

00:21:06.339 --> 00:21:08.380
do, you can automatically think of what, what

00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:12.579
a bull rider or a rodeo man should, or even just

00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:16.460
a rancher or a cowboy, what they should look

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like, how they should act, you know, all that

00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:21.160
stuff. I just, I just think that's the whole

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Western world summed up into one little box.

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Just look at Chris. Couldn't say it better myself.

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So we're now Carrie, we're back to you for track

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five. All right. Well, in while I was in college

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and even before that, I would listen religiously

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to this next artist. I would listen to her so

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much. She has the voice of an angel. And it's

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so funny just like hearing her sing and then

00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:54.440
hearing her speak because A and B does not equal

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C. And she is also one of those crossover artists

00:22:00.509 --> 00:22:03.109
where she actually didn't go from country to

00:22:03.109 --> 00:22:06.109
pop. She actually went from bluegrass to country.

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And she has those fans in both genres. And I'm

00:22:11.289 --> 00:22:14.990
talking about Miss Alison Krauss. Yes. And the

00:22:14.990 --> 00:22:17.970
song I chose was When You Say Nothing At All.

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And granted, it's a cover, but she just does

00:22:20.690 --> 00:22:23.589
it so well because her voice is so incredibly

00:22:23.589 --> 00:22:27.869
angelic. It's just so beautiful. When I started

00:22:27.869 --> 00:22:30.769
going down what song of Alison's that I could

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do, I kind of wanted to stick with something

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that even the non -country listener would know.

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Because if I went into any other songs, people

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would be like, oh, I don't really know that song.

00:22:41.369 --> 00:22:44.269
But I think everybody on the planet has heard

00:22:44.269 --> 00:22:46.569
Alison Krauss sing When You Say Nothing At All.

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Because it's been on movies. It still is played

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on radio to this day. And that's why I chose

00:22:53.390 --> 00:22:57.019
this song. I could tell you firsthand, I've been

00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:59.640
to several weddings where this was the wedding

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song. That too. Yeah. Obviously, I'm going to

00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:04.859
applaud the cover song because you know me, I

00:23:04.859 --> 00:23:07.279
love cover songs, but I'm going to take this

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.420
a step further. I think this is one of those

00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:14.319
cover songs that actually, and I might catch

00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:17.059
some flack for this, but I think this is the

00:23:17.059 --> 00:23:19.640
definitive version of the song. She took it and

00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.660
really made it her own. And it's not often you

00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:25.430
can use that. And I'm sure there's some Keith

00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:27.329
Whitley fans out there that are probably a little

00:23:27.329 --> 00:23:30.289
upset with me with that, but hear me out. The

00:23:30.289 --> 00:23:32.410
gender flip, I just, I love everything about

00:23:32.410 --> 00:23:35.309
it. It reached number 53 on the Billboard US

00:23:35.309 --> 00:23:38.849
Hot 100, reached number three on the US Hot Country

00:23:38.849 --> 00:23:41.809
Songs chart, number seven on the Canada Country

00:23:41.809 --> 00:23:45.990
Tracks chart, and number 81 on the UK Singles

00:23:45.990 --> 00:23:49.670
chart. So this was a country song charting across

00:23:49.670 --> 00:23:53.359
the pond. Something that does not happen a lot.

00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:57.539
This song stretched the boundaries of what country

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is. And to this day, it's 31 years later and

00:24:03.740 --> 00:24:06.980
people still talk about this version. So, yeah,

00:24:07.019 --> 00:24:10.099
I love the pick. And you took the tempo down

00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:13.039
a little bit here and we had our first slow dance

00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:15.019
of the side. But I think we're going to pick

00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:17.859
up the pace a little bit here again. And I'm

00:24:17.859 --> 00:24:19.779
going to go all the way back towards the beginning

00:24:19.779 --> 00:24:23.440
of the decade. And we're going to go with a 1991

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.480
single, which was the debut single from this

00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.220
artist. And it reached number one on the U .S.

00:24:29.220 --> 00:24:32.380
Hot Country Songs chart and Canada Country Songs

00:24:32.380 --> 00:24:36.480
chart. And when a song is so good that the band

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:40.640
can re -record it in 2019 and have it chart again,

00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.220
you know you're on to something. And that's exactly...

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:47.099
what Brooks and Dunn did with their debut single,

00:24:47.299 --> 00:24:51.900
Brand New Man, because in 2019, they re -recorded

00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:54.680
it with Luke Combs, and that version charted

00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:57.779
as well, hitting number 30 on the US Hot Country

00:24:57.779 --> 00:25:01.059
Songs chart and number 40 on the Canada Country

00:25:01.059 --> 00:25:04.799
chart. I loved both versions, because obviously

00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.660
Brooks and Dunn play on both versions, so it's

00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:11.630
just a little bit of a touch. of what Luke brings

00:25:11.630 --> 00:25:13.869
to give it a little bit more of a modern spin.

00:25:13.950 --> 00:25:16.789
But if you play the songs back to back, they're

00:25:16.789 --> 00:25:20.509
pretty similar. And Luke's voice fits in so well

00:25:20.509 --> 00:25:23.170
with Brooks and Dunn's harmonies that sometimes

00:25:23.170 --> 00:25:27.069
I actually prefer the modern version, but the

00:25:27.069 --> 00:25:32.630
original 34 years old still hits like any modern

00:25:32.630 --> 00:25:36.250
country song could. And it's. God, I have so

00:25:36.250 --> 00:25:37.890
many Brooks and Dunn favorites. I could do a

00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:40.210
whole episode on Brooks and Dunn. They have so

00:25:40.210 --> 00:25:43.029
many incredible songs, but without this one,

00:25:43.089 --> 00:25:44.670
who knows where they would have been? So Brand

00:25:44.670 --> 00:25:47.349
New Man. Well, that's what I was just about ready

00:25:47.349 --> 00:25:50.970
to say. Can you imagine 90s country or even just

00:25:50.970 --> 00:25:52.990
country music today without Brooks and Dunn?

00:25:53.549 --> 00:25:55.490
Impossible. I just don't think that it would

00:25:55.490 --> 00:25:58.269
have been as impactful. For one, I mean, we had

00:25:58.269 --> 00:26:03.440
a ton of solos artists in the 90s. And then when

00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.460
Brooks and Dunn hit, it was like, whoa. You know,

00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:10.500
of course, we had a few trios. We had Shadazy

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:15.259
out there and a couple other duos in the 90s.

00:26:15.259 --> 00:26:18.359
But nothing as hard hitting as Brooks and Dunn.

00:26:18.380 --> 00:26:20.680
I mean, they literally, and I hate this term,

00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:23.339
but they literally took country music by storm.

00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.799
They were just as competitive as Shania Twain

00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.700
and Garth Brooks. I mean, they all held their

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:31.880
own. And that's also why. Reba went on the road

00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:34.839
with Brooks and Dunn. I mean, you put those powerhouses

00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:37.339
together, you're going to sell out every arena.

00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:40.519
It doesn't matter. And so I just can't even imagine

00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:43.940
what it'd be like even for radio in your line

00:26:43.940 --> 00:26:46.980
of work, you know, with Kix Brooks as a radio

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:50.279
host. I mean, we wouldn't have him on the air

00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:52.839
doing his thing for so many years if it wasn't

00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:55.730
for Brooks and Dunn in the beginning. And I'm

00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:58.369
sorry, I don't think you get a group like Brothers

00:26:58.369 --> 00:27:02.230
Osborne in modern country music without the path

00:27:02.230 --> 00:27:06.349
that Brooks and Dunn carved for the male duo.

00:27:06.990 --> 00:27:09.809
Because you also have groups like Dan and Shay.

00:27:10.170 --> 00:27:13.109
I mean, Brooks and Dunn without them, I don't

00:27:13.109 --> 00:27:14.970
think you get the Dan and Shay. I think you get

00:27:14.970 --> 00:27:18.569
Dan, and then over here is Shay. But I really

00:27:18.569 --> 00:27:23.910
think Brooks and Dunn made country male duos.

00:27:24.650 --> 00:27:28.730
A thing. And I think every male country duo is

00:27:28.730 --> 00:27:32.089
always going to be for better or for worse compared

00:27:32.089 --> 00:27:34.069
to Brooks and Dunn because they're two of the

00:27:34.069 --> 00:27:36.829
best to ever do it. Yeah. I mean, if you think

00:27:36.829 --> 00:27:41.230
prior to the 90s, when it came to groups, they

00:27:41.230 --> 00:27:44.509
were always in fours and they weren't really

00:27:44.509 --> 00:27:48.160
duos. Right. So. even with like the highwaymen

00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.299
that was four and then obviously i always think

00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:54.000
back to like motown you know we have the four

00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.160
tops and and all that stuff but everything was

00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:57.779
always in groups of four so they can get that

00:27:57.779 --> 00:28:01.279
four -part harmony but when a band comes out

00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.980
just as a duo they're two strong powerful men

00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:08.420
that come out and they look good like they had

00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:11.839
the look down they had their harmonies down everything

00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.769
it was just like whoa, where did these guys come

00:28:14.769 --> 00:28:17.390
from? And their music made people want to line

00:28:17.390 --> 00:28:20.650
dance too. Like it was taking a big shift where

00:28:20.650 --> 00:28:23.369
it wasn't even just like couples dancing. People

00:28:23.369 --> 00:28:25.470
were really line dancing. And that was because

00:28:25.470 --> 00:28:27.829
of, I think it was because of Brooks and Dunn

00:28:27.829 --> 00:28:31.269
started that. Now for me back in the nineties,

00:28:31.369 --> 00:28:35.150
I always likened duos to things like Loggins

00:28:35.150 --> 00:28:39.549
and Messina, to things like Simon and Garfunkel,

00:28:39.690 --> 00:28:42.880
the Righteous Brothers. It was more to the Kind

00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.240
of more mellow, acoustic, singer -songwriter

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:49.700
-y thing. And, you know, with Loggins and Messina,

00:28:49.819 --> 00:28:51.339
that was definitely, you know, that was yacht

00:28:51.339 --> 00:28:54.940
rock. Yes. But yacht rock is only a thing now.

00:28:55.099 --> 00:28:57.500
But back then, it wasn't considered yacht rock.

00:28:57.539 --> 00:28:59.559
It was just rock and roll music that was out

00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.059
there. So, yeah, you're right. There were male

00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:05.420
duos, but they weren't really like rock and country.

00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:09.079
Yes. All right. Well, now I'm throwing it back

00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:15.029
to you for track seven. Track number seven belongs

00:29:15.029 --> 00:29:20.950
to Tracy Bird. I'm from the country. Yes. So

00:29:20.950 --> 00:29:26.890
I saw Tracy Bird back in the 90s with my, I like

00:29:26.890 --> 00:29:29.589
to call her like my surrogate mother. She was

00:29:29.589 --> 00:29:31.809
this lady that took me under her wing. Pretty

00:29:31.809 --> 00:29:34.210
much any concert that I saw in the 90s and the

00:29:34.210 --> 00:29:38.009
2000s, the mid 2000s, early to mid 2000s were

00:29:38.009 --> 00:29:40.819
because of her. because she was my my number

00:29:40.819 --> 00:29:44.059
one fan she would always make my stage clothes

00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:46.359
she would make the posters she would go literally

00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:50.680
go post them everywhere and she's just this short

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:53.460
five foot nothing little love lady that I loved

00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:56.720
loved loved so much and so being able to go to

00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.720
concerts was all because of her and I remember

00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:06.400
one year she calls me up and she's like you know

00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:10.140
Carrie I really think that you should write a

00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:13.039
song about being from the country and how much

00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:16.119
you love it. And I go, yeah, I just don't know

00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:18.859
if that's really going to hit. Just talking about

00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:21.460
being from the country. I just don't know, Nana.

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:24.759
And literally just like two, three months later,

00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:29.299
Tracy Bird releases this song. I'm from the country.

00:30:29.959 --> 00:30:33.059
And she just comes up to me and she's like nudging

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:34.740
me on the shoulder. She's like, see, see, see,

00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:37.539
I told you, you should have wrote that song about

00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:39.539
being from the country. And I'm like, well, there's

00:30:39.539 --> 00:30:41.759
no point because it was already written. It was

00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.779
just waiting to be released. And back then I

00:30:45.779 --> 00:30:47.619
was like, I don't think I could even possibly

00:30:47.619 --> 00:30:52.160
have written it to even a fraction of how well

00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:54.980
that song was written for Tracy Bird. Not even

00:30:54.980 --> 00:30:57.839
close. Well, you definitely scooped me on the

00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:01.279
artist. One of my favorite country singers of

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:05.440
the 90s. I had Watermelon Crawl on my list. I

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:08.759
had Redneck Roses if we wanted to slow it down.

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.380
I had Big Love. I had Don't Take Her, She's All

00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:14.660
I Got. I could have went in any direction with

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:19.680
him. Just unbelievable. His voice has just such

00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.980
a, it's got such a great deep end to it, but

00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:28.650
it's so rich. and full, and the music is so much

00:31:28.650 --> 00:31:31.890
fun. I'm From the Country is your perfect Saturday

00:31:31.890 --> 00:31:35.009
night song. Obviously, we love you like Sunday

00:31:35.009 --> 00:31:37.750
and treat you like Saturday night. That song

00:31:37.750 --> 00:31:41.490
encapsulates everything I love about Tracy Bird.

00:31:41.769 --> 00:31:44.589
The song hit number 63 on the Billboard US Hot

00:31:44.589 --> 00:31:47.769
100, number three on the US Hot Country Songs

00:31:47.769 --> 00:31:50.369
chart, number one on the Canada Country Tracks

00:31:50.369 --> 00:31:53.009
chart. I had to wait to the mid -2000s to catch

00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:56.049
him. Because Tracy usually kept his shows down

00:31:56.049 --> 00:31:58.950
south, but he did play in Massachusetts once,

00:31:59.009 --> 00:32:00.950
and my wife and I traveled a couple states out

00:32:00.950 --> 00:32:03.670
to go catch him at a, I think it was called the

00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:06.650
Indian Ranch, if I'm not mistaken. And what an

00:32:06.650 --> 00:32:08.430
incredible show he put on. I got a chance to

00:32:08.430 --> 00:32:11.049
meet him when he did the runs through the radio

00:32:11.049 --> 00:32:13.470
tours back in the 2000s when I started in radio.

00:32:13.930 --> 00:32:17.509
Really amazing guy, amazing voice, and just an

00:32:17.509 --> 00:32:20.849
absolute country stomper, I guess you'd call

00:32:20.849 --> 00:32:24.680
it. Yeah. All right, so we had Brand New Man,

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:26.960
and I'm from the country. I'm going to slow it

00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.359
down one more time, and I'm going to go with

00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.720
a song that's one of my favorite country ballads

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:35.980
ever. One of my favorite, because I do have a

00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:38.180
favorite country ballad ever, and I will use

00:32:38.180 --> 00:32:40.460
it tonight at some point. I just don't know where.

00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:46.279
This is a very, very close number two. This song

00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:49.480
hit number 65 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and

00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:52.119
topped both the US Hot Country Songs and Canada

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.240
Country Songs chart. Won Song of the Year at

00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:59.319
the 1997 CMA Awards, the Nashville Songwriters

00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:02.180
Association International, and the Nashville

00:33:02.180 --> 00:33:05.880
Music Awards. And in 2024, Rolling Stone magazine

00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.759
ranked it number 141 on its 200 Greatest Country

00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:13.160
Songs of All Time list. And I think that's insanely

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:17.220
low because... Dina Carter's Strawberry Wine

00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:21.460
from 1996's Did I Shave My Legs For This is one

00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:27.599
of the most poignant, moving, bittersweet lookbacks

00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:31.640
on life that I've ever heard. And I feel the

00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:34.619
story of that song. There's just something about

00:33:34.619 --> 00:33:38.900
the innocence and the story that she tells in

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:42.099
this song. And her voice just personifies it

00:33:42.099 --> 00:33:45.369
perfectly. And it's just one of the... Most perfect

00:33:45.369 --> 00:33:48.069
country songs of the 90s as far as I'm concerned.

00:33:48.829 --> 00:33:52.369
Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, it was a coming

00:33:52.369 --> 00:33:57.029
-of -age song. It was a first love song. A first

00:33:57.029 --> 00:34:02.049
love, quote -unquote, song. And to be honest,

00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:05.650
it wasn't ever really with prior country music

00:34:05.650 --> 00:34:09.250
songs. I don't recall ever hearing a song that

00:34:09.250 --> 00:34:14.289
talked about losing your virginity. In such a

00:34:14.289 --> 00:34:18.550
beautiful way, that remembrance of this is something

00:34:18.550 --> 00:34:20.809
that I'll never get back. And this is something

00:34:20.809 --> 00:34:24.349
that I'll always remember. But it was so bittersweet.

00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:27.849
Year after year, I go back to this place just

00:34:27.849 --> 00:34:30.530
to remember the taste. Yeah. I hear her sing

00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:33.349
that line and the hair on my arm stands up. Yeah.

00:34:33.409 --> 00:34:35.050
Well, the hair on my legs just stood up. You

00:34:35.050 --> 00:34:44.570
talk about it. Oh, that was a good one, Carrie.

00:34:44.789 --> 00:34:49.110
Yeah. Two points for sure. What are we following

00:34:49.110 --> 00:34:54.289
up strawberry wine with? Well, we're going to

00:34:54.289 --> 00:34:57.869
start off with Garth Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood.

00:34:58.230 --> 00:35:00.869
Uh -huh. I think it was actually her first single.

00:35:01.369 --> 00:35:04.030
She's in love with a boy. Yep. I know it went

00:35:04.030 --> 00:35:05.750
number one. It was her very first number one.

00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:09.210
I do this women of country. Well, I used to.

00:35:09.389 --> 00:35:11.110
Every once in a while, I'll pull it out of my

00:35:11.110 --> 00:35:15.000
hat. for shows, but used to do this, women of

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:16.539
country music and their first number one hits.

00:35:16.940 --> 00:35:19.460
And this is the song that I would have to do

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:22.179
because it was her very first number one. And

00:35:22.179 --> 00:35:25.039
let me tell you, the audience will never not

00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:29.019
sing that song. Everybody knows this song. And

00:35:29.019 --> 00:35:33.719
it's so true and raw, especially when we're talking

00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.400
about first love, like we were just talking about

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:40.239
with Dina Carter. We all have been in that moment

00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:43.739
where we've had to have that, oh my gosh, I just,

00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:46.519
I love him. And then our parents have to kind

00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:49.500
of bring us back down to earth and say, no, it

00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:52.360
isn't love. Or just like it is in the story where

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.139
it's like, dad's like, no, I don't like this

00:35:55.139 --> 00:35:58.679
guy. And mom's like, oh, sweetheart, no man is

00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:00.679
ever going to be good enough for your daughter.

00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:04.159
We know that. But just look, they're so in love.

00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:07.829
He looks like a good kid. And remember. My dad

00:36:07.829 --> 00:36:10.150
didn't exactly like you either. And look at where

00:36:10.150 --> 00:36:12.409
we're at. I mean, it's a tale as old as time,

00:36:12.510 --> 00:36:15.090
right? I mean, it's such a beautiful song, a

00:36:15.090 --> 00:36:18.090
classic. You cannot go wrong with that song.

00:36:18.170 --> 00:36:21.110
And she's probably going to live off of that

00:36:21.110 --> 00:36:23.150
royalty for the rest of her life. She doesn't

00:36:23.150 --> 00:36:24.889
even have to record anymore. She does it just

00:36:24.889 --> 00:36:28.289
because she simply wants to. Couldn't agree more.

00:36:28.409 --> 00:36:33.719
And I'll say this in a lyrical sense. It's. Similar

00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.179
to strawberry wine, except it takes the bittersweet

00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:38.480
aspect out of it. It makes it a little bit more

00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:42.500
saccharine in a fun and youthful way, if that

00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:46.679
makes any sense. It is my favorite Trisha Yearwood

00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.500
song, so I'm glad you picked it. And in 2014,

00:36:50.019 --> 00:36:53.480
Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 129 on their

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:56.860
list of the 200 greatest country songs of all

00:36:56.860 --> 00:37:00.500
time. But 129, I mean, does Rolling Stone really

00:37:00.500 --> 00:37:04.019
know country music? I'm sorry. Oh, I'm just saying,

00:37:04.019 --> 00:37:06.420
look, at least they got it somewhere in the respective

00:37:06.420 --> 00:37:10.260
ballpark, right? No kidding. I think that's a

00:37:10.260 --> 00:37:13.440
little low. It should be a lot higher up the

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:16.440
charts, you know, closer to maybe even just like

00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.679
the 50 range. I mean, I'm going to have to, I'm

00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:21.440
going to have to look at that list that you said

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.139
that there's for the top 200 and see what other

00:37:24.139 --> 00:37:26.940
songs, if my head goes, uh -huh. Oh, okay. I

00:37:26.940 --> 00:37:28.699
see that. Or if I'm like, no, that one needs

00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:33.059
to go past Tricia. Well, the fact that in 2024,

00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.320
Strawberry Wine was all the way down at 141.

00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.139
I kind of always take these lists with a grain

00:37:39.139 --> 00:37:41.320
of salt and a little bit of clickbait because

00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.460
at the end of the day, that's what they're trying

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:46.139
to do is drive people to read the stories. So

00:37:46.139 --> 00:37:48.539
maybe we'll start ranking songs poorly here on

00:37:48.539 --> 00:37:51.280
the show to get people to listen. Anyway. All

00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:57.800
right. We started the side with Shania. You just

00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.159
picked Tricia. Let's just steer into this one.

00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:04.519
We're going to go Garth Brooks here. Now I could

00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.880
go with any song from the hits because that was

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.199
my introduction to Garth Brooks. Finally, my

00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:13.599
roommate said, dude, you got to get something

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.380
from Garth because you keep joking about him.

00:38:15.420 --> 00:38:17.960
So I went with the hits and I fell in love with

00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:20.039
every song on the album. I'm like, okay, I get

00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:23.340
why this guy's popular. I understand. Now at

00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:25.079
the end of a side, I'm guessing a lot of people

00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:27.619
would expect to sing along like friends in low

00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:31.320
places as Patreon mixtape or Brandon from Virginia

00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:36.039
chimed in with, but. As much as I love that song,

00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.300
having played in cover bands for years and years

00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:45.659
and years, I've heard it so many times that there's

00:38:45.659 --> 00:38:47.820
actually a song that edges it out a little bit.

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:50.239
And I'm a huge cover songs freak. I talk about

00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.059
it all the time. This song was originally recorded

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:56.900
by the Oak Ridge Boys on their 1978 album Room

00:38:56.900 --> 00:39:00.579
Service. I'm going to go with Garth's 1993 cover.

00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:05.239
of Colin Baton Rouge from In Pieces. In 1980,

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:08.340
Billy Joe Spears recorded a version of it, and

00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:12.239
then in 1989, New Grass Revival had a hit with

00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.599
it on their album Friday Night in America. However,

00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:18.860
New Grass Revival's version didn't break the

00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:22.940
top 30, and Garth felt that they got wronged.

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:27.840
So he recorded a version with New Grass Revival,

00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.650
who had broken up already at this point. So the

00:39:30.650 --> 00:39:34.329
band reformed to do Garth's version, and that

00:39:34.329 --> 00:39:37.230
hit number two on the US Hot Country chart and

00:39:37.230 --> 00:39:39.949
number one on the Canada Country Tracks chart,

00:39:40.070 --> 00:39:42.730
the way Garth felt it always should have been.

00:39:43.050 --> 00:39:46.289
I mean, you think about this backup. It was Pat

00:39:46.289 --> 00:39:50.309
Flynn, Bella Fleck, John Cowan, and Sam Bush

00:39:50.309 --> 00:39:54.389
with Jerry Douglas backing up Garth Brooks. Insane.

00:39:54.750 --> 00:39:58.090
Now, the only issue I'll give... With this song,

00:39:58.170 --> 00:40:01.369
it will not be on the playlist over at myweeklymixtape

00:40:01.369 --> 00:40:05.230
.com because Garth's music is not on Spotify.

00:40:05.349 --> 00:40:08.250
However, this song's on YouTube, so I'll make

00:40:08.250 --> 00:40:10.110
sure it's on the page somewhere. I think you

00:40:10.110 --> 00:40:12.909
can only stream him on Amazon at this point.

00:40:13.190 --> 00:40:16.369
He's been very selective with what he does because

00:40:16.369 --> 00:40:19.409
every time he releases an album, he releases

00:40:19.409 --> 00:40:23.070
like 75 albums in one box in order to get like

00:40:23.070 --> 00:40:25.989
two or three new songs. And it's genius. Because

00:40:25.989 --> 00:40:27.849
he's going to have the all time sales record

00:40:27.849 --> 00:40:31.650
for music of all time. But I have more Garth

00:40:31.650 --> 00:40:33.909
Brooks box sets than I do actual Garth albums.

00:40:34.269 --> 00:40:37.510
Well, when you said Colin Baton Rouge, I instantly

00:40:37.510 --> 00:40:40.210
started bebopping back and forth because one

00:40:40.210 --> 00:40:45.110
of my favorite things about Garth Brooks music

00:40:45.110 --> 00:40:50.150
was the fiddle player. And if it was Sam Bush

00:40:50.150 --> 00:40:54.119
that played on. Garth's version of Colin Baton

00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.480
Rouge. And I can totally see why that song was

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.639
such a huge hit and why I'm bebopping to my head

00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.840
because Sam is an amazing fiddle player, amazing

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.440
musician. But the fiddle in Colin Baton Rouge

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.039
and the tempo and everything, it was just so

00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.579
spot on and you cannot help but not sing along

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:19.840
to that song. And it had me. Right when it started

00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.280
and just the tags, the turnarounds in between

00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.780
the chorus and the verses. I just love it. And

00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:28.000
so that is why I'm really happy that you chose

00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.940
Colin Baton Rouge versus the other ones that

00:41:30.940 --> 00:41:33.639
you chose. What was it? Friends in Low Places.

00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:35.500
I could have went with the dance, the thunder

00:41:35.500 --> 00:41:38.280
rolls. Ain't going down till the sun comes up.

00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:42.360
I mean, exactly. He had way too many hits. Yeah,

00:41:42.420 --> 00:41:43.880
I instantly started thinking about the thunder

00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.619
rolls because I was going to say, well, I know

00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:48.570
you didn't choose. friends in low places, but

00:41:48.570 --> 00:41:51.809
why not the Thunder rules? But I'm so glad that

00:41:51.809 --> 00:41:54.550
you chose Colin Baton Rouge too. Cause like instantly

00:41:54.550 --> 00:41:57.090
I just started bobbing my head and I'm like,

00:41:57.110 --> 00:41:58.750
Oh, I'm already there. I'm listening to it. I'm

00:41:58.750 --> 00:42:00.670
like, I'm sorry. Are you talking? No, my head's

00:42:00.670 --> 00:42:05.050
playing. Well, I hope the mixtapers listening

00:42:05.050 --> 00:42:08.090
feel the same way because that concludes side

00:42:08.090 --> 00:42:11.030
a of the ultimate nineties country music mixtape,

00:42:11.110 --> 00:42:13.889
which consists of Shania Twain's whose bed is

00:42:13.889 --> 00:42:16.409
your boots been under. John Michael Montgomery

00:42:16.409 --> 00:42:19.409
sold the Grundy County auction incident. Alan

00:42:19.409 --> 00:42:22.969
Jackson's Chattahoochee. Chris Ledoux's $5 fine.

00:42:23.329 --> 00:42:26.329
Alison Krauss, When You Say Nothing At All. Brooks

00:42:26.329 --> 00:42:29.329
and Dunn's Brand New Man. Tracy Bird's I'm From

00:42:29.329 --> 00:42:32.809
The Country. Dina Carter's Strawberry Wine. Trisha

00:42:32.809 --> 00:42:35.409
Yearwood's She's In Love With The Boy. And Garth

00:42:35.409 --> 00:42:39.210
Brooks' Callin' Baton Rouge. Head over to myweeklymixtape

00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:41.510
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in

00:42:41.510 --> 00:42:44.769
this mix. through the playlist embedded on the

00:42:44.769 --> 00:42:48.630
episode page. And now I get to kick things off

00:42:48.630 --> 00:42:53.170
for side B. And I want to go all the way to the

00:42:53.170 --> 00:42:55.989
end of the decade here. Because I don't know

00:42:55.989 --> 00:42:57.869
about you, but every time a decade is ending

00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:00.730
and a new one starting, I did this between 89

00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:03.510
and 90, and I do the same thing between 99 and

00:43:03.510 --> 00:43:06.230
2000. The two years kind of meld together for

00:43:06.230 --> 00:43:09.300
me. So I actually... when I was looking up songs

00:43:09.300 --> 00:43:11.300
by this artist, because I knew I was going to

00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:14.460
include him, I was curious if this song was a

00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:17.760
2000 song, because I remember listening to it

00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.719
as I was graduating college. However, it had

00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:23.079
come out a year earlier. I used it a lot on my

00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:26.639
radio show. And it's a song that the message

00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:31.519
just puts a huge shit -eating grin on my face,

00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.949
because that is what this song is about. off

00:43:34.949 --> 00:43:38.030
of 1999's album of the same name. We are going

00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:40.769
to go with Toby Keith, How Do You Like Me Now,

00:43:41.030 --> 00:43:44.469
number 31 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100 and

00:43:44.469 --> 00:43:47.550
number one on the U .S. and Canada country charts.

00:43:47.710 --> 00:43:51.489
The song reentered the charts last year upon

00:43:51.489 --> 00:43:55.289
Toby's sad passing, and it reached number 23

00:43:55.289 --> 00:43:59.070
on the U .S. Hot Country Songs chart again. This

00:43:59.070 --> 00:44:03.159
song just has such a bravado about it. It is

00:44:03.159 --> 00:44:07.000
somebody that got looked down on in high school

00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:12.159
and kind of was the outsider, the outcast. And

00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.639
then one day his name is the one in lights. And

00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.780
this is that feeling of, you know, you don't

00:44:17.780 --> 00:44:20.280
want to rub it in someone's face, but you kind

00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.760
of want to alarm clock starts ringing. Who could

00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:26.119
that be singing? It's me, baby, with your wake

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:29.289
up call. If there's ever a time to puff out your

00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:32.010
chest and get a little confidence, especially

00:44:32.010 --> 00:44:34.230
if you don't look back at your high school years

00:44:34.230 --> 00:44:37.909
with the fondest of memories, this is the song

00:44:37.909 --> 00:44:40.050
to do it. How do you like me now by Toby Keith?

00:44:40.989 --> 00:44:44.610
Oh, yeah, I can definitely relate to that. I

00:44:44.610 --> 00:44:47.510
mean, it's even as an artist, you know, we get

00:44:47.510 --> 00:44:51.610
a lot of naysayers. And so it was very, very

00:44:51.610 --> 00:44:54.789
relatable. Just hearing that song for the first

00:44:54.789 --> 00:44:59.800
time is like. Yeah, like shove it, you know,

00:44:59.940 --> 00:45:03.880
like I shouldn't have to prove myself to you.

00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:05.780
But you know what? I'm going to prove myself

00:45:05.780 --> 00:45:08.860
to you. And here you go. You know, let me gloat

00:45:08.860 --> 00:45:11.519
in front of you. And what are you doing? Nothing.

00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:13.719
And this was definitely a pivot for Toby because

00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.639
the CD single of this, which was one of the ones

00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:18.400
that I definitely used on my radio show, had

00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:21.059
three versions. It had the country version, a

00:45:21.059 --> 00:45:23.750
rock version and a dance version. And believe

00:45:23.750 --> 00:45:27.269
it or not, I would play the rock version on my

00:45:27.269 --> 00:45:30.250
radio show and I would get calls going, I've

00:45:30.250 --> 00:45:32.309
never heard this before. What is this? I'm like,

00:45:32.329 --> 00:45:35.090
it's a rock remix of How Do You Like Me Now?

00:45:35.449 --> 00:45:39.070
This was the point where Toby's career went from

00:45:39.070 --> 00:45:42.619
a very country. Should have been a cowboy sound

00:45:42.619 --> 00:45:45.519
into what he would kind of merge into in the

00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:48.099
2000s, where his sound would evolve and he would

00:45:48.099 --> 00:45:50.500
try new things and get a little bit more poppy,

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:53.019
sometimes a little bit more silly, like beer

00:45:53.019 --> 00:45:57.519
for my horses. And she's a hottie and a little

00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:01.199
bit more radio accessible, I would call it. Well,

00:46:01.260 --> 00:46:05.599
and I think Toby had a point in his career where

00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:08.440
I don't want to say it was kind of like a George

00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.280
Strait kind of situation, but. He had devout

00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.039
followers, so it did not matter what kind of

00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:19.340
music he put out. He didn't have to worry so

00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:22.559
much about what the label was saying. He had

00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:26.800
his style and they knew the labels. I'm sure

00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.739
I'm not speaking for them, but from how I see

00:46:29.739 --> 00:46:31.980
it, just how his music was evolving. They're

00:46:31.980 --> 00:46:34.179
like, oh yeah, if he wants to put out a funny

00:46:34.179 --> 00:46:36.699
song, that's great. He's going to do it. If he

00:46:36.699 --> 00:46:38.900
wants to put out a very serious song, that's

00:46:38.900 --> 00:46:41.360
great. It's still going to be. on the charts

00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:43.280
you know because because it is at this point

00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:47.940
it is toby keith the big six foot five man that

00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:51.019
has such a great personality and he can sing

00:46:51.019 --> 00:46:55.380
so well and he's so personable and really that

00:46:55.380 --> 00:46:58.280
how do you like me now just kind of just it was

00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.019
it was almost like he became the voice of the

00:47:00.019 --> 00:47:03.099
people and then you know when he comes out with

00:47:03.099 --> 00:47:06.960
the list oh my goodness you know now he's relating

00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:08.800
even more and that's what we're supposed to do

00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.099
with country music we're supposed to relate or

00:47:11.099 --> 00:47:13.360
with songwriting period you're supposed to relate

00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:16.159
to the audience so the artist or the audience

00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:19.980
can relate to the song but some of those songs

00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:22.940
that he was just putting out were so spot on

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:25.579
with how people felt with and especially with

00:47:25.579 --> 00:47:27.760
how do you like me now i mean it's just he pulled

00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.980
out a younger crowd where maybe the list was

00:47:30.980 --> 00:47:34.130
to an older crowd Talking about, I'm so wrapped

00:47:34.130 --> 00:47:37.110
up in work and I'll get to it, but I got to do

00:47:37.110 --> 00:47:38.789
this. I got to do that. I got to do this. Oh,

00:47:38.809 --> 00:47:41.889
by the way, I'm going to make sure that I take

00:47:41.889 --> 00:47:45.889
care of my family first. He hit the older generation

00:47:45.889 --> 00:47:48.369
with that. But how do you like me now? High school

00:47:48.369 --> 00:47:51.650
people, college people. He was getting everybody

00:47:51.650 --> 00:47:54.730
in the spectrum. And he did it well into the

00:47:54.730 --> 00:47:57.929
2000s because obviously you cannot talk about

00:47:57.929 --> 00:48:00.530
Toby Keith and not bring up the phenomenon that

00:48:00.530 --> 00:48:04.179
was Red Solo Cup. Right. I mean, this guy knew

00:48:04.179 --> 00:48:07.320
how to reinvent himself to new generations over

00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:09.320
and over and over again. And he did it with ease.

00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:12.619
And it's such a sad loss. I really hope there's

00:48:12.619 --> 00:48:16.219
some Toby Keith vaults that they can continue

00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:19.559
to maybe keep his music alive for future generations

00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.019
because he was one of the greats. Yeah, for sure.

00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.800
But with that, I'm going to pass it back to you

00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:29.400
for track two. All right. Track two on side B

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:35.380
is going to be. One of the ladies who I actually

00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:39.260
had a six -foot cutout of in my bedroom in school,

00:48:39.300 --> 00:48:44.559
and that is Miss Reba McIntyre. I loved her just

00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:46.679
as much as I loved Shania. Actually, I probably

00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:52.760
loved Reba more than Shania. They both felt different,

00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.219
but slight different ways. They both had great

00:48:55.219 --> 00:48:57.760
stage presence. I loved the way that they would

00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.980
just change their clothes so fast. That was one

00:49:00.980 --> 00:49:03.179
thing that I would try to model myself after

00:49:03.179 --> 00:49:05.619
is watching their stage presence. And I think

00:49:05.619 --> 00:49:07.500
that's also one of the reasons why I'm so comfortable

00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:10.000
on the stage is, well, one, you kind of have

00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:12.699
to be kind of born with that stage presence where

00:49:12.699 --> 00:49:16.519
you own it. And Bo Shania and Reba owned the

00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:21.420
stage. And I chose with Reba, the lights went

00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:25.219
out in Georgia. And it's a cover. But the way

00:49:25.219 --> 00:49:29.510
that she just. delivers the song. It was so incredibly

00:49:29.510 --> 00:49:33.230
powerful. I mean, she was a powerful woman just

00:49:33.230 --> 00:49:36.269
the way that she sang initially, but she made

00:49:36.269 --> 00:49:38.570
The Lights Went Out in Georgia so believable.

00:49:38.909 --> 00:49:42.570
I know it's a cover and Vicki Lawrence recorded

00:49:42.570 --> 00:49:45.869
it first and then Tanya Tucker, but how many

00:49:45.869 --> 00:49:48.449
people are talking about Vicki Lawrence's cover

00:49:48.449 --> 00:49:50.909
or rendition? How many people are talking about

00:49:50.909 --> 00:49:53.050
Tanya Tucker's rendition of The Lights Went Out

00:49:53.050 --> 00:49:55.789
in Georgia? We all talk about Reba's rendition.

00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:59.400
And so I think, and like, you know, with Garth

00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.500
Brooks, I could have chose so many, so, so many

00:50:02.500 --> 00:50:06.099
for Reba, but I, I chose the lights went out

00:50:06.099 --> 00:50:08.119
in Georgia. There's something that's dark and

00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:12.679
mysterious about it. And if a song can change

00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:16.119
the color in my head and I just see some dark

00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:20.019
airiness, I'm like, Ooh, yes. To me, this is

00:50:20.019 --> 00:50:22.380
the kind of song that would back to back with

00:50:22.380 --> 00:50:24.380
Garth Brooks, the thunder rolls. They're both

00:50:24.380 --> 00:50:29.429
these. dark, eerie storytelling songs. I would

00:50:29.429 --> 00:50:32.150
even, if you want to go back, this is not a 90s

00:50:32.150 --> 00:50:34.550
song, but like The Legend of Woolly Swamp by

00:50:34.550 --> 00:50:37.630
Charlie Daniels Band, the darker side of country,

00:50:37.710 --> 00:50:41.909
you don't hear it as often. And hearing Reba

00:50:41.909 --> 00:50:45.989
go to that place, this song, while it was a massive

00:50:45.989 --> 00:50:51.650
hit, was actually slightly, quote unquote, bad

00:50:51.650 --> 00:50:54.469
for Reba. And I'll explain. It hit number 12

00:50:54.469 --> 00:50:58.329
on the US country charts, number seven on Canada's.

00:50:58.409 --> 00:51:03.889
However, it broke Reba's streak of 24 consecutive

00:51:03.889 --> 00:51:07.909
top 10 hits. It only missed it by two spots.

00:51:08.190 --> 00:51:11.769
But I mean, think about two dozen top 10 hits.

00:51:12.130 --> 00:51:15.710
And then this song is the first one to not break

00:51:15.710 --> 00:51:19.289
it. But it's such a fantastic song. I would have

00:51:19.289 --> 00:51:22.789
never believed that this was not a top 10 hit.

00:51:23.070 --> 00:51:25.730
I mean, charts be damned as far as I'm concerned.

00:51:26.389 --> 00:51:28.730
I am totally shocked that you said that it did

00:51:28.730 --> 00:51:31.650
not make the top 10. That's mind blowing to me.

00:51:31.809 --> 00:51:34.429
I just, I can't believe that. I mean, I understand

00:51:34.429 --> 00:51:36.449
when you go back and you think of songs that

00:51:36.449 --> 00:51:38.889
didn't hit number one, especially for like Patsy

00:51:38.889 --> 00:51:41.489
Cline. She had so many that were in the top 10

00:51:41.489 --> 00:51:43.210
that never made number one. They would go to

00:51:43.210 --> 00:51:44.969
number two, number three or something. But to

00:51:44.969 --> 00:51:47.329
hear that the lights went out in Georgia did

00:51:47.329 --> 00:51:49.650
not even reach the top 10. It's like, you're

00:51:49.650 --> 00:51:54.440
kidding, right? That's that's absurd. Absolutely

00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.320
absurd. Well, I'm going to go with one to follow

00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:00.340
you up. That did crack the top 10. It hit number

00:52:00.340 --> 00:52:03.820
two in the U S hot country charts and number

00:52:03.820 --> 00:52:06.639
one in Canada. I think Canada got it right this

00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:08.860
time. I think we screwed this one up. I'm just

00:52:08.860 --> 00:52:13.940
going to say, however, this artist, I was torn

00:52:13.940 --> 00:52:16.840
between two songs and the one I'm picking is

00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:19.119
the one that hit those charts. Like I mentioned,

00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:23.980
but The only reason being is I think having the

00:52:23.980 --> 00:52:27.719
lights went out in Georgia, be followed up by

00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.099
somebody slapped me would be really awkward.

00:52:30.340 --> 00:52:34.219
So instead I am going to go with John Anderson's

00:52:34.219 --> 00:52:37.619
seminal wind, the title track from his 1992 album.

00:52:37.900 --> 00:52:41.000
There are so many covers of this song. Donna,

00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.239
the Buffalo did it in the nineties. James Taylor

00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.280
did it. Luke Combs did it. But then when you

00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:51.059
want to veer outside of country, One of my favorite

00:52:51.059 --> 00:52:54.940
swamp rock groups, J .J. Gray and Mofro, turned

00:52:54.940 --> 00:53:00.159
this song into a Louisiana swamp rock masterpiece.

00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:03.219
But when I go back and listen to the original

00:53:03.219 --> 00:53:07.260
from 1992, to me, it's a country road trip song.

00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:11.719
Yes, the topic is serious, but the music is just

00:53:11.719 --> 00:53:17.849
so comforting and breezy. And John's voice. fits

00:53:17.849 --> 00:53:21.230
so perfect over it. And the violin is just so

00:53:21.230 --> 00:53:25.610
soothing, even though the song is not a ballad.

00:53:25.730 --> 00:53:28.250
There's something about this song that makes

00:53:28.250 --> 00:53:31.869
me find my inner peace and my zen, even though

00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:35.710
it's kind of a mid -tempo tune. To me, it's the

00:53:35.710 --> 00:53:40.210
perfect top -down, wind -in -your -face, country

00:53:40.210 --> 00:53:42.409
road trip song. So that's what I'm going to follow

00:53:42.409 --> 00:53:45.000
up. The lights went out in Georgia with where

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.900
I kind of ease us out of the dark, but not quite

00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:51.400
do a 180 like somebody slapped me would do. Right.

00:53:51.619 --> 00:53:53.960
I'm so glad that you chose that song for John

00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.300
Anderson, because that is my all time favorite

00:53:56.300 --> 00:53:59.119
John Anderson song. I love that song so much.

00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:01.500
It gets into my head. It gets into my feels.

00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:05.280
I mean, with just even the Seminole wind, just

00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:08.199
saying that and granted Seminoles like Florida

00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:12.860
area, but it always took me down South. And I

00:54:12.860 --> 00:54:15.199
just wanted to stay there. I just feel myself

00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:18.179
down in the swamp, you know, and the sun's peeking

00:54:18.179 --> 00:54:20.619
through the trees and, you know, and through

00:54:20.619 --> 00:54:24.000
the moss that's hanging on the trees. And, you

00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.139
know, and I got the gators around me and I'm

00:54:26.139 --> 00:54:28.079
just like, I'm living, I'm living life because

00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.059
John Anderson just brought me here and I'm just

00:54:31.059 --> 00:54:34.760
chilling. And I love, I love that feel. And it's

00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:37.840
so interesting that you, you slightly took us

00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.860
out of the lights went out in Georgia. You slightly

00:54:40.860 --> 00:54:42.619
took us out of that dark mode because I still

00:54:42.619 --> 00:54:45.880
feel that Seminole Wind is kind of still a dark

00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:48.480
song, even though it is a mid -tempo. But I still

00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:50.500
see a little bit of that sun setting. So it's

00:54:50.500 --> 00:54:52.780
not completely dark, like the lights went out

00:54:52.780 --> 00:54:56.000
in Georgia, but the sun is setting. So it's a

00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:01.460
nice transition out of Riva. But it also reminds

00:55:01.460 --> 00:55:04.840
me of when we're talking about kind of dark songs

00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:07.769
and Seminole Wind. There's another song out there

00:55:07.769 --> 00:55:12.550
that reminds me of just that dark feeling and

00:55:12.550 --> 00:55:16.570
I see it and I can't hear it. And that's where

00:55:16.570 --> 00:55:19.530
I'm failing myself right now. But I kind of put

00:55:19.530 --> 00:55:24.769
those kind of in the same realm, Seminole Wind

00:55:24.769 --> 00:55:28.230
and this other song in that same kind of area

00:55:28.230 --> 00:55:30.090
together because they both give me this kind

00:55:30.090 --> 00:55:35.019
of vibe, you know? Gosh. Well, as we go along,

00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:36.860
if it pops into my head, I'll say something.

00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:41.059
Okay. We are easing out of the darkness here.

00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:44.119
What are you going to go with now for track four?

00:55:45.780 --> 00:55:49.139
This was another album that I used to listen

00:55:49.139 --> 00:55:52.159
to all the time, kind of back to back with Alison

00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:55.820
Krauss. And that is Dwight Yoakam, A Thousand

00:55:55.820 --> 00:55:59.380
Miles From Nowhere. That's such a great song.

00:56:00.010 --> 00:56:02.429
And he was one of those that I would listen to

00:56:02.429 --> 00:56:06.110
religiously a lot. And, you know, to be honest

00:56:06.110 --> 00:56:07.889
with you right now, it's really kind of funny

00:56:07.889 --> 00:56:11.010
to think back. Oh, man, Dwight Yoakam, especially

00:56:11.010 --> 00:56:14.570
because I think he was he lived up in Idaho and

00:56:14.570 --> 00:56:17.650
I was in Washington. And then to see him be an

00:56:17.650 --> 00:56:20.809
actor. And one of my favorite Christmas movies

00:56:20.809 --> 00:56:23.769
is Four Christmases. And he plays the pastor.

00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:26.940
Super funny. And I'm like, there's Dwight. And

00:56:26.940 --> 00:56:28.559
then all of a sudden I just start thinking of

00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:31.159
all this different music. And, you know, I could

00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:33.719
have pulled out Fast As You or something, but

00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:37.300
A Thousand Miles From Nowhere, it just hits differently,

00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:40.000
especially with being somebody that's been on

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.860
the road so many times, being a touring musician

00:56:42.860 --> 00:56:46.199
that A Thousand Miles From Nowhere kind of hits

00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.900
home. You know, time don't matter to me. I'm

00:56:48.900 --> 00:56:50.760
a thousand miles from nowhere and there's no

00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:55.179
place I'd rather be. It's like, yeah. You literally

00:56:55.179 --> 00:56:57.900
quoted the lyrics I was going to right there.

00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.119
I mean, this time is my favorite Dwight Yoakam

00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:04.559
album. So I'm glad you went with this one. Obviously,

00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:07.440
you know, he had a lot of big hits in the 80s.

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.280
But here in the 90s, I feel like maybe it's because

00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:12.179
it's where I discovered him. But I feel like

00:57:12.179 --> 00:57:14.780
this is the sweet spot for his music. And I'm

00:57:14.780 --> 00:57:16.920
sure there are Dwight Yoakam fans that will disagree

00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:19.699
because he has a ton of great stuff across his

00:57:19.699 --> 00:57:23.099
catalog. But this time is my favorite album of

00:57:23.099 --> 00:57:26.050
his. Zero complaints on the pick. It hit number

00:57:26.050 --> 00:57:29.110
two on the U .S. hot country charts and number

00:57:29.110 --> 00:57:31.789
three on Canada's country charts. Say so is a

00:57:31.789 --> 00:57:34.769
great song. Canada's holding up here. I'm not

00:57:34.769 --> 00:57:36.829
going to lie there. They really know their country

00:57:36.829 --> 00:57:40.050
in Canada. But then again, when people got shocked

00:57:40.050 --> 00:57:42.449
that Shania Twain was from Canada, considering

00:57:42.449 --> 00:57:45.610
how all the country music in the U .S. is pretty

00:57:45.610 --> 00:57:48.329
much neck and neck with Canada, at least chart

00:57:48.329 --> 00:57:50.429
level wise, they had their finger on the pulse

00:57:50.429 --> 00:57:53.219
as well. Oh, yeah. I think Canada is actually

00:57:53.219 --> 00:57:56.199
more country friendly as far as the artists that

00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:59.280
come out of Canada. They have their own Canadian

00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:01.719
country music charts. And, you know, you don't

00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:04.679
really have to be on a major label in Canada.

00:58:04.739 --> 00:58:07.199
I know plenty of indie artists that chart in

00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:10.300
Canada. And it's I honestly think that Canada

00:58:10.300 --> 00:58:12.880
is a little bit more artist friendly than the

00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:16.599
U .S., to be honest. Well, following up Dwight.

00:58:17.150 --> 00:58:19.510
There's certain songs that I just keep going

00:58:19.510 --> 00:58:21.389
through my list going, I got to get this one

00:58:21.389 --> 00:58:23.429
in. I got to get this one in and I got to find

00:58:23.429 --> 00:58:26.090
the perfect time. And I don't know if there's

00:58:26.090 --> 00:58:28.989
ever really a perfect time to kind of pivot to

00:58:28.989 --> 00:58:32.170
this one because this one is right on the nose.

00:58:32.670 --> 00:58:35.869
It's fun, puts a smile on your face. It doesn't

00:58:35.869 --> 00:58:38.929
take itself too seriously. And it was a hit in

00:58:38.929 --> 00:58:45.349
both 1994 and 2023 for the same artist. And I

00:58:45.349 --> 00:58:47.389
am going to get Joe Diffie in the mix here from

00:58:47.389 --> 00:58:50.550
1994's Third Rock from the Sun. We are going

00:58:50.550 --> 00:58:53.989
to go with Pick Up Man. Reached number 60 on

00:58:53.989 --> 00:58:57.130
the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. Number one on the

00:58:57.130 --> 00:59:00.170
U .S. Hot Country charts. And here's where Canada

00:59:00.170 --> 00:59:02.110
didn't keep up because it only hit number nine

00:59:02.110 --> 00:59:06.670
there. But in 2023, Post Malone released a cover

00:59:06.670 --> 00:59:11.530
of it on Hardy's Hicks Tape Volume 3, which was

00:59:11.530 --> 00:59:15.110
all covers of Joe Diffie. But this version. used

00:59:15.110 --> 00:59:17.530
Joe Diffie's re -recording from, I want to say,

00:59:17.550 --> 00:59:21.110
2006 and Post Malone's version where they duetted

00:59:21.110 --> 00:59:24.090
on it. And the song went right back up the charts

00:59:24.090 --> 00:59:26.070
again because there's just something everybody

00:59:26.070 --> 00:59:29.650
likes about a pickup man. So have to throw it

00:59:29.650 --> 00:59:33.269
in here. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and it's such

00:59:33.269 --> 00:59:35.610
a fun song. And the way that Joe Diffie would

00:59:35.610 --> 00:59:38.719
sing it is like. I never knew you were a pickup

00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:41.900
man. Like it's, it's so cute. It's just, it's

00:59:41.900 --> 00:59:44.619
so funny. And just the melody with it, it was

00:59:44.619 --> 00:59:48.239
just the perfect tempo. It just felt very, very

00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:53.820
happy. And the thought that the, the lyrics of

00:59:53.820 --> 00:59:56.679
what is it? You could sit my truck and fire roll

00:59:56.679 --> 00:59:59.659
down a hill. And I still want three to four.

01:00:00.139 --> 01:00:04.000
Yeah. Right. So, and it's just like, and it even

01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.860
has that. head bobbing, not side to side, but

01:00:06.860 --> 01:00:08.460
moving forward. And you're just like, uh -huh.

01:00:09.420 --> 01:00:13.119
So rhythmically, it had this really fun tempo

01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.559
that just, you cannot be in a bad mood when you're

01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:18.340
listening to Pick Up Man. No, the cadence is

01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:21.420
just perfect in that song. Yeah. And you can

01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:23.280
still relate to it, even though, even if you

01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:26.880
drive a car, like. You're just like, part of

01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:29.400
you are like, I kind of wish I had a pickup truck,

01:00:29.500 --> 01:00:33.179
you know? I want that song to be about me. I

01:00:33.179 --> 01:00:35.019
want to sing that song, you know? Man, there's

01:00:35.019 --> 01:00:37.539
something women don't like about a four -door

01:00:37.539 --> 01:00:42.260
sedan. And that's why this girl drives her own

01:00:42.260 --> 01:00:46.199
pickup truck. All right, Carrie, what are you

01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:49.420
going to follow up Pickup Man with in the track

01:00:49.420 --> 01:00:52.440
six spot? Oh, man. Well, you know what? We did

01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.699
not talk about very many bands because like I

01:00:55.699 --> 01:00:58.440
said earlier, there's so many different solo

01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:02.159
artists. I mean, we brought in Bruxen Dunn, but

01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:06.199
oh, we're going to tie it in with Trisha Yearwood.

01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:08.719
We're going to go with the Mavericks. You know,

01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:11.880
she was married to the lead singer for for a

01:01:11.880 --> 01:01:15.000
minute. And the song is What a Crying Shame.

01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:18.559
And it's funny because I would listen to Mavericks

01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:21.800
and after they had gotten divorced, I would sometimes

01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:24.679
try to go, was that song written for Tricia?

01:01:24.920 --> 01:01:27.659
You know, just kind of go like that. And just

01:01:27.659 --> 01:01:31.099
like, I love his voice. And it was just like,

01:01:31.099 --> 01:01:35.800
oh, what a crying shame. And just the way that

01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:39.940
he moves around. You know, it's just, it's so

01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:42.480
beautiful. And their harmonies are just great.

01:01:43.059 --> 01:01:45.659
And it's just. I wish that the Mavericks were

01:01:45.659 --> 01:01:48.900
putting out music every year. And if you want

01:01:48.900 --> 01:01:52.039
to do like a little duet, I'd be happy to partake.

01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.039
And I would be happy to interview you and the

01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:57.539
Mavericks when that song gets released. So I

01:01:57.539 --> 01:01:59.679
think we've got all the bases covered here for

01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:03.780
this. 1994's album of the same name. The song

01:02:03.780 --> 01:02:06.300
hit number 25 on the U .S. Hot Country Charts

01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:10.019
and number six on Canada's Country Charts. Again.

01:02:10.619 --> 01:02:13.119
Charted higher in Canada. I think you said it

01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:16.659
before. And there were a lot of great bands that

01:02:16.659 --> 01:02:18.480
we haven't talked about yet. And I'm talking

01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:23.179
Lone Star, Diamond Rio, Ricochet. And I don't

01:02:23.179 --> 01:02:24.960
know if I'm going to be able to fit it in here

01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:28.280
because I have an artist that if I don't bring

01:02:28.280 --> 01:02:31.639
in next, my wife and I have simply way too many

01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:34.019
memories about this. Well, it's actually close

01:02:34.019 --> 01:02:36.719
to a band. We're talking about a trio here. So

01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:39.500
while my list includes songs like Lone Star's

01:02:39.500 --> 01:02:43.440
No News, Ricochet's Daddy's Money, and Diamond

01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.960
Rio's, hell, Diamond Rio's Meat in the Middle,

01:02:46.099 --> 01:02:49.300
It's All in Your Head, or Unbelievable, I'm actually

01:02:49.300 --> 01:02:51.340
going to go back to the end of the decade again

01:02:51.340 --> 01:02:55.199
and go to 1999. And I'm going to go with a song

01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:59.880
that, believe it or not, is a cover song. And

01:02:59.880 --> 01:03:03.239
it was originally recorded by another band, Sons

01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:05.829
of the Desert. This song was originally recorded

01:03:05.829 --> 01:03:08.610
for their 1990 album that never got released.

01:03:09.309 --> 01:03:11.449
And if you haven't heard it before, I'll make

01:03:11.449 --> 01:03:14.789
sure to embed it on the episode page at myweeklymixtape

01:03:14.789 --> 01:03:18.750
.com because yes, the Dixie Chicks' Goodbye Earl

01:03:18.750 --> 01:03:22.449
was originally recorded by Sons of the Desert.

01:03:22.769 --> 01:03:26.130
You're a kid. I had to go with this because it's

01:03:26.130 --> 01:03:28.989
a cover that people don't know is a cover. There's

01:03:28.989 --> 01:03:31.289
a whole episode of My Weekly Mixtape about that.

01:03:31.510 --> 01:03:35.230
Here's another one for you. Goodbye Earl cover

01:03:35.230 --> 01:03:38.230
song. You got to hear the original from Sons

01:03:38.230 --> 01:03:40.250
of the Desert. It's actually, it's different.

01:03:40.369 --> 01:03:43.690
It doesn't have the boppy vibe that the Dixie

01:03:43.690 --> 01:03:47.170
Chicks bring to their version. However, the Dixie

01:03:47.170 --> 01:03:50.150
Chicks are my wife's favorite female country

01:03:50.150 --> 01:03:53.710
group. And I had to include them in this. When

01:03:53.710 --> 01:03:57.150
I took her in 2003 to the Top of the World Tour,

01:03:57.210 --> 01:04:00.329
this was the song they opened with. It was the

01:04:00.329 --> 01:04:04.079
Dixie Chicks. and Michelle Branch. Amazing show.

01:04:04.219 --> 01:04:07.079
They're incredible live. This song reached number

01:04:07.079 --> 01:04:10.619
19 on the Billboard US Hot 100, number 13 on

01:04:10.619 --> 01:04:13.280
the US Hot Country charts, and number five in

01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:16.119
Canada. The song was not originally released

01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:19.780
as a single. It started charting based on unsolicited

01:04:19.780 --> 01:04:22.199
airplay, which I also thought was pretty damn

01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:25.739
cool. And in 2014, Rolling Stone ranked at number

01:04:25.739 --> 01:04:29.800
23 on its list of the 200 greatest country songs

01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:34.099
of all time. It's just amazing. And because I'm

01:04:34.099 --> 01:04:37.400
a cover fan as well, me first in the Gimme Gimme's

01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:40.500
cover, the punk version kicks ass as well. But

01:04:40.500 --> 01:04:43.460
we got to include Goodbye Earl in this mix. Song

01:04:43.460 --> 01:04:47.219
is just too much fun. Okay, so can I, before

01:04:47.219 --> 01:04:50.539
I give my two cents on this song, I never knew,

01:04:50.659 --> 01:04:54.639
never knew that this was a cover song. Really?

01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:57.900
Oh yeah, I did not know. I'm going to have to

01:04:57.900 --> 01:05:00.059
go check out Sons of the Desert's version of

01:05:00.059 --> 01:05:02.739
Goodbye Earl. It's a weird listen. I'm not going

01:05:02.739 --> 01:05:05.679
to lie. There's nothing wrong with it. But because

01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:07.539
the chick's version is the one that everybody

01:05:07.539 --> 01:05:12.199
immediately thinks of, it's a moment for people

01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:15.039
when you hear it. But it's actually fantastic.

01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:19.099
Well, and I'm pretty sure it is going to be because,

01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.059
let's be honest, they made this happy -go -lucky.

01:05:23.530 --> 01:05:26.630
peppy song about killing somebody. I mean, and

01:05:26.630 --> 01:05:29.110
we're all singing it. Goodbye, you know, it's

01:05:29.110 --> 01:05:31.849
like, hello, really think about it. It's a very

01:05:31.849 --> 01:05:34.610
morbid song that they made very, very popular,

01:05:34.690 --> 01:05:38.510
very, very happy as well. And so I'm actually

01:05:38.510 --> 01:05:41.550
really kind of intrigued to listen to Sons of

01:05:41.550 --> 01:05:43.889
the Desert. Do they like slow it down? Is it

01:05:43.889 --> 01:05:47.230
like some dark colors? It's not slow and dark,

01:05:47.349 --> 01:05:51.469
but it's not as saccharine and poppy as the chicks.

01:05:51.730 --> 01:05:54.550
It's right in the middle. All right. Well, I'm

01:05:54.550 --> 01:05:56.690
going to do that then I'm going to, and nobody

01:05:56.690 --> 01:05:58.429
else has cut it. Like nobody else has really

01:05:58.429 --> 01:06:00.150
gone down the rabbit hole of going, you know

01:06:00.150 --> 01:06:01.969
what? Let's stay true to the lyrics. So let's

01:06:01.969 --> 01:06:04.309
make it really dark. I haven't heard one yet.

01:06:04.349 --> 01:06:06.349
And I'll tell you the me first and the gimme

01:06:06.349 --> 01:06:08.449
gimme's version is just a straight up punk version

01:06:08.449 --> 01:06:11.070
of it. So if you want to rock out to goodbye,

01:06:11.170 --> 01:06:13.409
Earl, I highly recommend listening to that cover.

01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:16.019
That so shocks me that the Gimme Gimmes have

01:06:16.019 --> 01:06:18.679
that song too. Well, they have a whole album

01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:20.360
of country stuff. It's called Me First and the

01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:22.940
Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country. And they do

01:06:22.940 --> 01:06:26.199
Jolene on it. They do Much Too Young to Feel

01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:28.880
This Damn Old. It's an incredible punk country

01:06:28.880 --> 01:06:31.639
album or a punk tree album if you want to check

01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:34.860
it out. That's great. Okay. I'm going to. Notes

01:06:34.860 --> 01:06:38.139
to self. All right. So following up Goodbye Earl.

01:06:38.699 --> 01:06:45.460
Yes. So. One of my all -time favorite female

01:06:45.460 --> 01:06:51.619
singers is Patti Loveless. I think if I remember

01:06:51.619 --> 01:06:54.139
correctly, she started writing songs when she

01:06:54.139 --> 01:06:57.860
was 14. That took me by surprise when I first

01:06:57.860 --> 01:07:01.599
found out. I believe I read that at the Country

01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:05.340
Music Hall of Fame with their display of Patti

01:07:05.340 --> 01:07:07.650
Loveless. But she's been in the country music

01:07:07.650 --> 01:07:10.929
business way longer than I thought she was. She

01:07:10.929 --> 01:07:13.489
did not start off in the 90s as this artist.

01:07:13.550 --> 01:07:16.929
She started off before that. Like I said, writing

01:07:16.929 --> 01:07:19.889
when she was 14 years old and getting recognition

01:07:19.889 --> 01:07:22.489
for her writing, not just something that she

01:07:22.489 --> 01:07:26.010
would write in English class. But Blame It On

01:07:26.010 --> 01:07:29.909
Your Heart was one of the first songs that I

01:07:29.909 --> 01:07:34.909
ever did out live for a competition. I still

01:07:34.909 --> 01:07:38.769
remember being in Spokane, Washington and playing

01:07:38.769 --> 01:07:43.329
that song, doing it live. And it was just so

01:07:43.329 --> 01:07:46.889
much fun. And so, yeah, I just have to go with

01:07:46.889 --> 01:07:50.230
Patty. She will forever be held timeless in my

01:07:50.230 --> 01:07:53.809
heart and in my mind. And if we could do two

01:07:53.809 --> 01:07:55.489
thousands, then I would have been pulling out

01:07:55.489 --> 01:07:59.590
her mountain soul album and nobody leaves Harlan

01:07:59.590 --> 01:08:05.380
alive. I think her version is just so, Incredible.

01:08:05.380 --> 01:08:08.800
And I'm all about Patti. I told one of my mentors

01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:12.179
one time, I said, if there's ever a need for

01:08:12.179 --> 01:08:15.739
somebody to go out and do an impersonation of

01:08:15.739 --> 01:08:17.800
somebody, because, you know, we have all these

01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:20.359
tribute acts out there, right? They actually

01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:22.739
make more money than us songwriters that go out

01:08:22.739 --> 01:08:25.579
and try to do our own songs. I would go out as

01:08:25.579 --> 01:08:28.000
Patti Loveless because I just love her so much.

01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:30.659
All the time, my hair is slightly more reddish,

01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.489
you know, to kind of... fit in with the more

01:08:33.489 --> 01:08:37.729
of the nineties, Patti Loveless, but man, oh

01:08:37.729 --> 01:08:40.649
man, that's my girl right there. Well, knowing

01:08:40.649 --> 01:08:42.449
her music and hearing yours, I could definitely

01:08:42.449 --> 01:08:46.029
hear that. And we talked earlier about lyrical

01:08:46.029 --> 01:08:49.609
cadence. I mean, so blame it on your line, cheating,

01:08:49.829 --> 01:08:52.390
cold, dead, beating, two timing, double dealing,

01:08:52.609 --> 01:08:55.550
mean, mistreating, loving heart. Rhythmically,

01:08:55.550 --> 01:08:58.210
those lyrics are just incredible. And the song

01:08:58.210 --> 01:09:01.149
hit number 12 on the US Bumbling Under Hot 100

01:09:01.149 --> 01:09:04.289
chart. So it wasn't a top 100 hit, but it did

01:09:04.289 --> 01:09:07.270
hit number one on the US Hot Country chart and

01:09:07.270 --> 01:09:10.390
number two on the Canada Country Tracks chart

01:09:10.390 --> 01:09:14.390
from her 1993 album, Only What I Feel. She's

01:09:14.390 --> 01:09:16.670
one of the greats. So I'm so glad she made it

01:09:16.670 --> 01:09:19.789
to the list. And we are down to our last choice

01:09:19.789 --> 01:09:22.010
each. And I said at the beginning of the night,

01:09:22.069 --> 01:09:23.909
and God, I've been sitting here all night saying,

01:09:24.010 --> 01:09:27.329
please, please, please. Don't pick this artist

01:09:27.329 --> 01:09:29.949
or I'm going to have to dig myself out of a hole.

01:09:30.529 --> 01:09:32.569
But I first want to give a shout out again to

01:09:32.569 --> 01:09:34.989
Patreon mixtaper Sean Goff because he chimed

01:09:34.989 --> 01:09:38.130
in with Tim McGraw's Indian Outlaw. However,

01:09:38.369 --> 01:09:41.909
this year marks my 20 year wedding anniversary.

01:09:42.649 --> 01:09:46.670
And 20 years ago, my wife and I danced to my

01:09:46.670 --> 01:09:50.210
best friend off Tim McGraw's 1999 album, A Place

01:09:50.210 --> 01:09:53.289
in the Sun. So as far as I'm concerned, for my

01:09:53.289 --> 01:09:56.279
last song of the night. That's the only one it

01:09:56.279 --> 01:09:59.100
could possibly be. It reached number 29 on the

01:09:59.100 --> 01:10:02.100
U .S. Billboard Hot 100, so it was a top 40 hit.

01:10:02.520 --> 01:10:05.180
Reached number one on the U .S. Hot Country Songs

01:10:05.180 --> 01:10:08.380
chart, number four on the Canada Country Tracks

01:10:08.380 --> 01:10:11.060
chart. And this was the one that the first time

01:10:11.060 --> 01:10:12.760
my wife and I, when we were going through songs,

01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.520
like, what song would be good for our first dance?

01:10:15.699 --> 01:10:18.840
And we tried Nora Jones, Come Away With Me, because

01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.380
we both loved that song. There's something a

01:10:21.380 --> 01:10:23.539
little country about it, but there's bluesy and

01:10:23.539 --> 01:10:28.590
jazzy. It's very, very hard to slow dance to

01:10:28.590 --> 01:10:31.590
that song. Oh, it's very hard to dance with that.

01:10:31.609 --> 01:10:34.569
And people do put that in wedding songs. And

01:10:34.569 --> 01:10:36.510
you're like, are you guys even moving? Because

01:10:36.510 --> 01:10:40.689
it's so slow, really. We practiced. I'll never

01:10:40.689 --> 01:10:43.470
forget. We were in our first apartment in our

01:10:43.470 --> 01:10:46.430
guest room. That song was playing. We tried dancing

01:10:46.430 --> 01:10:54.779
to it. We're going, this isn't gonna. But we

01:10:54.779 --> 01:10:58.020
love the song. However, as soon as we put on

01:10:58.020 --> 01:11:00.859
My Best Friend, we're like, this is the song.

01:11:01.220 --> 01:11:06.399
Listen to the lyrics. This is the song. And for

01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:08.920
20 years later, she still is my best friend.

01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:10.300
And I'm sure some of my friends are going to

01:11:10.300 --> 01:11:13.680
bust my chops for saying nice things. But I love

01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:15.840
my wife with all my heart. And this song is very

01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:19.140
special to me. So for my last song choice of

01:11:19.140 --> 01:11:21.720
the evening, sending it out to the missus, My

01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:25.199
Best Friend. Oh, you should never, first and

01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:28.180
foremost, ever apologize for making your spouse

01:11:28.180 --> 01:11:32.079
your best friend. I mean, your other friends,

01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:36.060
like, are they going to find out who your friends

01:11:36.060 --> 01:11:38.819
are, right? Right. Tracy Lawrence said it best.

01:11:40.539 --> 01:11:43.939
No, that's so sweet. That's what a great wedding

01:11:43.939 --> 01:11:47.859
song to dance to. What a great song to end your

01:11:47.859 --> 01:11:52.220
list for our playlist tonight. It is. A great

01:11:52.220 --> 01:11:55.460
song, Tim McGraw. You cannot go wrong with Tim.

01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:59.539
I love all of Tim McGraw's songs. I mean, Tim

01:11:59.539 --> 01:12:02.520
McGraw's output in the 90s was incredible. Between

01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:06.239
All I Want is a Life, Down on the Farm, I Like

01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:08.779
It, I Love It, Just to See You Smile, something

01:12:08.779 --> 01:12:12.159
like that. There are so many great songs to choose

01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.819
from, but me being more the music nerd in this

01:12:15.819 --> 01:12:19.069
relationship with my wife. I would never want

01:12:19.069 --> 01:12:21.710
her to realize if I had gone with another song

01:12:21.710 --> 01:12:24.229
that, hey, wait a minute, my best friend came

01:12:24.229 --> 01:12:27.970
out in 1999. And you're like, what song is that?

01:12:28.029 --> 01:12:30.130
I don't remember that song. And then you would

01:12:30.130 --> 01:12:35.170
have been in the doghouse. Exactly. Well, Carrie,

01:12:35.510 --> 01:12:38.550
like last time, you get to close us out for the

01:12:38.550 --> 01:12:41.430
evening. So what song are you going to put the

01:12:41.430 --> 01:12:44.350
cherry on top of this 90s country mixtape with?

01:12:45.229 --> 01:12:47.590
Well, ironically, since we were just talking

01:12:47.590 --> 01:12:50.770
about how much trouble you'd be in with your

01:12:50.770 --> 01:12:54.449
wife if you chose to forget my best friend, I

01:12:54.449 --> 01:12:56.729
think it's only fair that I end it with Travis

01:12:56.729 --> 01:13:02.050
Tritt and T -R -O -U -V -L -E. I love it. Perfect.

01:13:04.470 --> 01:13:08.630
That was such another great 90s line dancing

01:13:08.630 --> 01:13:13.789
song. I mean, you could line dance to this song.

01:13:14.329 --> 01:13:16.689
like There's No Tomorrow. It was so much fun.

01:13:16.909 --> 01:13:19.609
Travis Tritt was just a great artist. He's still

01:13:19.609 --> 01:13:21.789
a great artist, but I think this is also part

01:13:21.789 --> 01:13:24.850
of one of his most popular songs that he ever

01:13:24.850 --> 01:13:27.970
could have released. I could be wrong, but in

01:13:27.970 --> 01:13:32.409
my opinion, when it comes to like fun, fast 90s

01:13:32.409 --> 01:13:35.409
songs that if anybody says, oh, have you heard

01:13:35.409 --> 01:13:37.350
that song? Or have you ever line danced to that

01:13:37.350 --> 01:13:39.850
song? It's kind of like Watermelon Crawl. They're

01:13:39.850 --> 01:13:42.979
going to say yes. So I just figured we'd go out

01:13:42.979 --> 01:13:46.140
with a bang, something really up -tempo and fun.

01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:50.319
And I think I would be sliding our playlist if

01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:52.220
we didn't have Travis Tritt in there somewhere.

01:13:52.539 --> 01:13:55.399
So we're pulling out with T -R -O -U -B -L -E.

01:13:55.779 --> 01:13:58.180
Could not agree more. You could have went with,

01:13:58.340 --> 01:14:01.300
here's a quarter, call somebody who cares. I'm

01:14:01.300 --> 01:14:03.760
going to be somebody. Sometimes she forgets.

01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:06.960
He had so many hits in the 90s, but T -R -O -U

01:14:06.960 --> 01:14:10.689
-B -L -E was the line dancing anthem. Originally

01:14:10.689 --> 01:14:13.609
written by Jerry Chestnut and recorded by Elvis

01:14:13.609 --> 01:14:17.250
Presley, we close out with another cover song,

01:14:17.449 --> 01:14:20.949
which I absolutely love. It reached number eight

01:14:20.949 --> 01:14:23.689
on the U .S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, number

01:14:23.689 --> 01:14:26.489
13 on the U .S. Hot Country chart, and number

01:14:26.489 --> 01:14:30.579
17 on the Canada Country chart. And yeah, I would

01:14:30.579 --> 01:14:33.119
be in T -R -O -U -B -L -E if I went with anything

01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:37.460
else. So what a way to close out side B of the

01:14:37.460 --> 01:14:40.760
ultimate 90s country music mixtape, which consists

01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:43.880
of Toby Keith's How Do You Like Me Now, Reba's

01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:46.920
The Lights Went Out in Georgia, John Anderson's

01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:49.520
Seminal Wind, Dwight Yoakam's A Thousand Miles

01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:53.060
from Nowhere, Joe Diffie's Pickup Man, The Mavericks'

01:14:53.180 --> 01:14:55.659
What a Crying Shame, The Dixie Chicks' Goodbye

01:14:55.659 --> 01:14:58.520
Earl, Patti Loveless' Blame It on Your Heart,

01:14:58.859 --> 01:15:01.699
Tim McGraw's My Best Friend, and Travis Tritt's

01:15:01.699 --> 01:15:05.939
T -R -O -U -B -L -E. Head over to myweeklymixtape

01:15:05.939 --> 01:15:08.159
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in

01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:11.119
this mix through the playlist embedded on the

01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:13.939
episode page. Now, Carrie, we've been talking

01:15:13.939 --> 01:15:17.439
about a ton of 90s music tonight, and we've talked

01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:19.539
about it here and there throughout our conversation,

01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:24.119
but... What does 2025 have in store for you and

01:15:24.119 --> 01:15:26.800
your music? Is there any new music and tours

01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:29.579
on the horizon you'd like to talk about? Yes.

01:15:29.619 --> 01:15:33.119
Okay. My music. Well, 2025 has already shaped

01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:36.340
up to be an extremely, extremely busy year for

01:15:36.340 --> 01:15:40.020
me. My family is going to be moving. I'm actually

01:15:40.020 --> 01:15:42.199
working on three different projects right now.

01:15:42.819 --> 01:15:45.380
My album is going to come out sometime this year.

01:15:45.460 --> 01:15:48.779
I can't really say when because. I'm not sure

01:15:48.779 --> 01:15:52.220
when yet. I do have a single coming out around

01:15:52.220 --> 01:15:54.359
Mother's Day, and then they're just going to

01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:59.060
start coming out from there on. But if I do release

01:15:59.060 --> 01:16:01.739
the album as a whole, it might be towards the

01:16:01.739 --> 01:16:05.640
end of the year or maybe early 2026. It just

01:16:05.640 --> 01:16:09.560
depends. I want to be able to give each song

01:16:09.560 --> 01:16:13.560
that I do release its own time to shine. And

01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:15.199
then I also, like I said, I have a couple other

01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.979
projects that I'm working on. One that's more

01:16:17.979 --> 01:16:20.960
of a Christmas project. And then I also have

01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:25.000
a short film that I'm in the middle of working

01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:28.720
on. And so I have to put all of that into my

01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:32.579
12 -month calendar, which is now 10 months. Yeah,

01:16:32.579 --> 01:16:35.619
exactly. Practically nine months now and try

01:16:35.619 --> 01:16:37.899
to finagle and make sure everything works. So

01:16:37.899 --> 01:16:42.520
the hope is that I get my country album out this

01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:44.899
year. But like I said, I do have a single coming

01:16:44.899 --> 01:16:47.539
out around Mother's Day. And as far as shows

01:16:47.539 --> 01:16:49.920
go, I have a couple up in the Northwest that

01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:52.300
I'm going to be doing. But again, my family is

01:16:52.300 --> 01:16:54.739
also going to be moving and trying to put all

01:16:54.739 --> 01:16:57.859
these other projects together. I'm only one person.

01:16:58.220 --> 01:17:01.079
And, you know, we are in the world of AI. And

01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:03.500
I know there's a doppelganger of me out there.

01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:05.460
I just don't know if that doppelganger can sing

01:17:05.460 --> 01:17:09.039
like me. So I cannot be in multiple places at

01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:12.430
once. Well, I am glad that you were here tonight,

01:17:12.609 --> 01:17:14.810
Carrie. It's always a pleasure talking music

01:17:14.810 --> 01:17:17.270
with you. I look forward to having you back on

01:17:17.270 --> 01:17:20.609
for 90s Country Volume 2 because I feel like

01:17:20.609 --> 01:17:23.630
there's just no way we've even scratched the

01:17:23.630 --> 01:17:26.029
surface on this decade. Thank you so much for

01:17:26.029 --> 01:17:28.350
joining me tonight. Thank you for having me.

01:17:28.369 --> 01:17:31.130
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01:17:31.130 --> 01:17:33.109
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01:17:33.109 --> 01:17:35.970
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