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welcome Jessie Lynn Madera. Jessie, welcome to
Chatterbox. How are you? I'm great. I'm great.
Thank you. How are you? How are you both? We're
good. Thank you. And? Sorry, someone wants to
say hello every time. Every person she has to
say hello to. There's Jessie. There you go. Every
time we do an interview, she has to. She rubs
around around our feet when we start. So there
we go. Oh, gosh. a good cat there's nothing like
a good cat she's lovely she loves it she does
love it so anyway uh jesse um You're new to me,
but I know you're not a new artist and hopefully
we could introduce you to a whole lot of new
UK fans It is an exciting time and you've got
a great opportunity to meet lots of people So,
you know, I've got this this tour which I know
Sue would ask you a few questions about and I'll
just be very excited that one but Tell us a little
bit about yourself, because you haven't just
arrived today. I know you've done quite a few
stuff. I've been looking around your website.
You've got quite a lot out in the past. So tell
us a bit about yourself, influences as a kid,
and just give us a bit of an idea about you.
Well, I was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia,
which is a pretty small town. Blue collar. We
lived there until I was about three years old.
My parents divorced. my mom remarried very very
brief remarriage and we moved out to San Francisco
that marriage ended pretty quickly he turned
out to be for all intents and purposes an actual
con artist I didn't see that one coming. I thought
you might have said it was a total pick or something,
but I didn't expect that one. Oh, okay. And my
mom remarried. Well, sorry, excuse me. We moved
from San Francisco to Santa Monica. My mom was
just a champion, keeping us afloat. Very, very
amazing lady. that she was saving us. I mean,
we were nearly homeless because this person had
really pulled the wool over our eyes. And he
went to prison, actually. I never told that story.
I don't know how mad my mom's going to be at
me. We don't do tabloids. There'll be nothing
to embarrass your mom. But I am thinking there's
an entire album there. I mean, if you ever hear
a song about a narcissist or anything, That's
your man. You've got it all there, haven't you?
You've got the entire album there. I know, I
know. There's so much to dig into that I haven't
gotten into with my writing. I have a story.
Wow. That's wild. But she found a job that transferred
us from San Francisco, California to Santa Monica,
California. And we were there for a few years.
Then we went to Michigan. and then we went to
Texas and um and in that time she remarried and
uh we were in Texas I was in Texas from the time
I was 10 I guess until 18 and um and then moved
I left and I North Carolina and New York and
now LA and just bouncing around all over the
place Did it work? Third time lucky for your
mum, was it? Was it all good, this one? I hope.
I sincerely hope. Yeah. I'm pleased to hear that.
People at home, although we don't really doubt,
I think people at home would like to know that
it's OK. I'm sure your mum would be happy that
you mentioned it. It's part of your story and
no one's asking you questions in depth about
it. I think it's good. And it's a big part of
it. That's a big story. Yeah, there's a lot.
Oh yeah, so you ended up in LA. So what part,
which one of those moves would you say got you
sort of being creative and becoming a singer
-songwriter? Or has it built up across your entire
life path or was there any part of it like arriving
in LA or any part of it that's influenced you
more? There was never a time that I wasn't playing
or not interested in music and it's kind of wild.
Like my first favorite song on this planet was
We Belong, you know, Pat Benatar. And fast forward,
so back then I, sorry, rewind. Fast forward,
rewind. It's a little earlier here than it is
there, by the way. But I used to tell people
when I was a little girl, they'd say, well, what
do you want to be when you grow up? And I'd say,
Pat Benatar. and it's crazy because you know
years go by and then I end up by my booking agent
getting sort of fixed up with Dan Navarro who
just happened to write that exact song and so
he ends up co -producing my album and we wrote
a beautiful song together and I've been opening
up for him and touring with him and so it life's
just uh kind of crazy that way um but in answer
in answer to your original question i mean i
just i kind of always wanted to do this and i
that was we had a lot of music around on on both
sides of my family different kinds of music but
um but a lot of music in my family so how old
were you when you actually started singing You
can also do that anyway. That could be at school,
it could be at college, it could be at home.
When I started singing like in front of people.
That would be the next move anyway. I was always
singing, but my mom started taking me out to
the piano bar when I was about eight or nine
years old. So I was singing for strangers, you
know? I don't know. I started right, I was performing
a lot at like family parties and stuff like that.
And I, I performed out with my mom. My mom actually
is a great singer and she was singing with the
piano, the piano player, Johnny Johnson, who
was Chuck Berry's pianist, or rather Chuck Berry
was Johnny Johnson's. Chuck Berry was really
uh he started out as Johnny Johnson's guitarist
by the way and then you know Chuck Berry took
it over became the Chuck Berry trio I guess I
don't know but um I wonder what happened to him
Even the darkest parts of England, even in the
other West Country, they've heard of Chuck Berry.
They know who he is. He's a dynamic character,
that's for sure. Yeah. Okay, so I see you've
done albums and that. You've basically talked
about the album being produced by him. So how
many albums have you done so far? Well, I put
out a short EP. Let's see. that had three songs
on it and then I had a kind of a longer EP that
I really considered an album because the songs
are kind of these big songs. So I guess three,
three albums in total with some singles, lots
of holiday singles. For a while I had a tradition
where every holiday I'd put out one or two Christmas
songs. That is where, well, there is obviously
going to be a whole Christmas album at some point,
isn't there? There's got to be. Even if it's
a compilation of your own stuff, your own Christmas
stuff. Yeah, it's good. Of course it is. Yeah,
I'd love to write an original Christmas song.
Maybe I'll do that this year. We'll see. Well,
when you do and it's a hit, then you're made
for life. That's your royalty sorted, isn't it?
You know, I never thought about that. That's
a good point. Noddy Holder, his share of the
Merry Christmas song, his royalties alone, remember
it's mainly downloads now and he co -wrote it,
but his share is roughly half a million pounds
a year and that's what he writes just by downloads
every December. Wow. That's all you need. Yeah.
You got it, you'll be able to do it. We'll be
talking about your Christmas song next time,
I tell you. But we're not here to talk about
your Christmas song, are we? We are here to talk
about this new single called Woke Up in LA. There's
a radio -friendly version and a version that
people can listen to in their headphones at home,
I'd say. Tell us about them and why you did the
two slightly different versions. Well, look,
I was surprised at the word that they, that in
the UK, they don't want you to say, can I say
about, you know, quote unquote bad word on this?
Yes, say the bad word and I'll decide. But the
word she'll get is a cuckoo noise or something.
But so just say it. It's just crap. Well, that's
allowed. That's it. Wait, what? I'm like, there's
another C word that you that y 'all throw around
that I won't even say. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's
just it's not even a bad word. But I can't have
it. I can't have it on the UK radio. So we took
it out and it just Oh, I hope it still sounds
okay. We'll be playing the original anyway. I
wondered if there was something that I missed,
but there's not. That works fine. It's in the
context of how it's said, in my opinion. There
are obviously words... F and things we we would
never allow no matter what the context of the
song is we wouldn't allow the n -word to c -word
as in the mother c -word they're not using to
emphasize something but yeah we could be in the
car and have radio to BBC radio 2 on yeah and
then it's like they don't care no and i mean
f -words and we talk about two and three in the
afternoon i mean i i have a thing where stronger
language this is on our live shows which is only
one radio station I go a little bit more easy
after nine o 'clock but there's still those strong
words I said that I wouldn't allow there's no
point having them in there right yeah yeah yeah
you know other other adult words can be used
providing it's in the context of the song and
it's right you know yeah no no that one's fine
it stays all right but uh it's and of course
we all know about the BBC it's uh such a great
martyr to the cause but look at some of the creatures
it's employed and that are banged up they're
really bad stuff and they were backing them up
for years so it's double double -edged swords
with the BBC so yeah yeah it is this is not what
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up in LA when you probably wake up in LA most
days of your life But what is this particular
day you woke up in LA what you to what you're
telling us? What happened on this day that the
songs about right? Yeah, I well this song I wrote
it It was oh, I say ten years ago, but it was
more than ten years. I just don't remember how
long so I say ten but I I had just moved from
New York to Los Angeles and it was a really big
move. It was a move that I had not really planned
out. I'd sort of thought that I wanted to make
it and then I just one day I went and I packed
my bags and I booked a plane ticket for the following
day and I grabbed my cat, my cat, my wonderful
cat that I miss so much. We moved we just got
on a on a plane and went to LA and The man who
became who would become my husband was there
and he Picked me up from the airport. He changed
all the all the tires on his car just to make
sure that nothing went wrong, you know, and I
Told him I'm not moving in with you. I'm not
moving in with you. I'm gonna stay with my friends
and he's like okay and then of course you know
got to his apartment and that was that I never
left but and so it's it is and we were I was
pregnant within two months so I'm I got there
in July August by the end of September I was
pregnant with our our eldest son so very fast
it's very romantic to talk about but but the
reality of that um was both oh my gosh I can't
I can't believe this is happening this is amazing
and the other is like I can't believe this is
happening oh my god I left my band behind I left
my musical community I just started gaining some
momentum with my live shows and kind of getting
recognized on the street sometimes and it felt
it felt good so I I left I left all of this stuff
that was solely mine to pick up this brand new
life that I'm sharing. And it was wonderful,
but it was also where I was very worried that
I had ruined my own career. By not having things
in place before I got pregnant, for instance.
So it was a hard time. I don't think I was the
easiest person to live with during that time
and I don't know so It's it's about it's really
about that. I mean it it was really about my
own attitude. I think I Might not have realized
that then Well, it's kind of worked out quite
well, I'd say, because we're here chatting about
it. So we went from one way or another, each
pathway to another, to another, to another. And
here you are coming to the UK. Is it your first
time come to the UK to play? To play. Yeah, I've
been there to visit, but never to play. So I'm
very, very excited to get over there. Cool. And
you're supporting... would obviously be zombies
to her, but unfortunately... Oh, I can't think
of his name now. Colin. Yeah, one of them had
a stroke, didn't he? Oh, Rod. Rod, I again. So
I think that's why it's become a Colin Blundstone
to her, rather than a zombies to her. But yeah,
one of them had a stroke, but he's getting there.
But I think that's the real reason why it became
a Colin Blundstone to her. But anyway... How
did that come about? Yeah. Oh, God. touring with
well I toured with the zombies on their um their
northeast tour here in the United States for
a couple weeks um a few years ago and that just
I had fortunes out uh which is like these sort
of sweeping kind of ethereal songs and um their
manager reached out to my team and and that was
kind of that and so I Yeah, so now I get to now,
you know, I've over over time I've gotten sort
of closer to that to that camp and I got invited
to come and do this and I don't know I Yes, Rod
Argent was the one I was thinking of from the
zombies that have the stroke He was the one so
so hopefully maybe next time but yeah, that's
that's that's the reason why I think it's a Colin
Blunstone to however he's a hero in his own right
early 60s hero with the zombies and yeah absolutely
there and things like that there's some mega
songs great name isn't it zombies but but yes
it is but having said that you this song he brought
out rather quite country -orientated to a brit
but how do the did the zombies fans Take warming
up were they all there were they really there
because I'm finding this a lot in recent times
present times we say there's a lot of support
acts by supporting famous people Boys life is
another one that come up with lots of country
American country singers and things Over here
and it's working the chalk and cheese effect.
The opposite is working with their audience.
So are you finding? Is it good are they there
for you are they cheering and Well, the last
time, yes. I mean, I got at least a partial standing
ovation in Virginia at the Birchmere. The Zombies
fans are incredible. I mean, they're such good
listeners. They really show. They show up. I
mean, most of them show up for the Supporting
Act, which is unusual. It's just a... I think
they're just... wired to really lean in and listen
to music. Colin's voice is so gorgeous. And he
creates an environment musically that I think
really invites people to just relax and tune
in. I mean, you don't see people scrolling on
their phones. You see people watching him as
mesmerized. I'm glad that you're asking this
because it is on my mind. Because when I toured
with them before, it was more of like the piano
heavy songs. And I will have an acoustic guitar
player with me this time. I'll be doing both.
you know, I'll go over and I'll play and there
will be drama and, you know, all of that stuff.
And then there will be these lighter, you know,
as you said, sort of more country leaning. I
hope it goes well. I hope people listen, you
know. I predict it's going to because it's three
American artists so far this year. And we're
talking about two of them have supported Boy's
Life. and one of them I'd say is very heavy country
but yes working so much he's coming over himself
to do his own tour because he's gone down so
well so you'll go down fine and yours is quite
soft and easy going to a Brit you know because
some heavy country we struggle with yeah it's
just the way it is we haven't been educated yet
but um yeah one quick question does your mum
ever sing on any of your songs? She has not yet.
I think I am trying to get her to do that. She's
like, my mom is a really busy lady. She's still,
she's just still working. She's a business woman.
She owns, gosh, two restaurants and a boat charter
company. at some point there was a dog. She's
just got all of these businesses that she's got
going. So it's hard to tear her away. My mom's
like way busier than I am and way cooler than
I am actually Let's have a look at these two
so Jesse then Madeira supporting Colin Blumstone
of the zombies fact this will start going out
or whether the podcast goes up literally go out
up at the weekend but we're looking at, so it'll
be going around most of the cities, and we're
in most of these cities actually, so Thursday
7th of May in Newport, I don't know if that's
the Newport Gwent in Wales and Newport Isle of
Wight, I don't know which one it is, it's one
of them. It's the second, it's the latter. I
love what brilliant and 8th of May Canterbury
9th of May st. Albans 12th of May Wavenden 13th
of May Manchester 14th of May Stroud which is
Gloucestershire spelt like that 16th of May is
Gateshead 17th of May Glasgow 19th of May Lidham
st. Anne's 20th of May Leeds 22nd of May Bristol
23rd of May Cardiff 24th of May Coventry 26th
of May Wimbledon born in Dorset 27th of May nearest
one to us is Worthing and 28th of May you're
in London somewhere. I wish you the best of luck
Jessie. Thank you so much. I wish we could have
talked longer hopefully we can arrange it some
other time and I'll make sure I get on your newsletter
which brings me to your websites and your social
media let's do your social media before we let
you go. Instagram is my favorite. Jesse Lynn
Madera. And I've got Facebook too, but really
what happens is I post on Instagram and then
it just echoes on Facebook. So Instagram is where
I'm most active. And I've got a YouTube channel,
same name, Jesse Lynn Madera. And my website,
www .jesselynmadera .com. And just let's just
do it there. So Jesse, J -E -S -S -E. l -y -n
-n -m -a -d -e -r -a jessilimadeira .com I'm
looking at it now. Beautiful picture. It is.
That monochrome black and white picture is lovely.
But let's go to your home page, which is obviously
what they're going to see first. And basically
all that social media you just read out is the
left -hand corner going down. So if they could
just remember jessilimadeira .com they could
just go straight there and click on whatever
they want to to the next links anyway. Jesse
Limadira, Lisa Slower, it's great meeting you,
I've loved chatting to you and hopefully we can
do it again and every success with the song and
the tour and it will work because there's a pattern
of American artists coming over and supporting
our accent, it's totally different, it's working.
Cool, I hope so. All right then, you take care,
every success. Bye. Thank you, bye. You have
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