Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: From my time, my major was entertainment industry management, University of North Alabama. And one of the things that I really loved about that world is that there's. There's competition, but it's not cutthroat in the sense that people will help you figure it out. And I know there's been a lot of people who've been good to you and kind of brought you behind the curtain and let you see how the machine works. I'm thinking about people like Tammy king.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, Ms. Tammy's been. Been a wonderful help. She brought me in to just.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Just to see some people who don't know.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Ms. Tammy is the fiddle player for a band called the Steel Drivers. They're a bluegrass band. We're Chris Stapleton's kind of first big, you know, success was with them. And so he. A lot of their early records are with him, and then today they've got their own lineup and a lot of great musicians. They're great writers.
But she's brought me behind the scenes just to see some of the shows and stuff. She's let me come backstage and hang out with the band a time or two, and it's been fun. And then I've told you multiple times, I won't shut up about it. The best weekend of my life was at the Front Indiana Beach Songwriters Festival last year. Best weekend. And she just gave me the opportunity to go sit in and just hang out. Not work, not have an agenda, but just hang out with other songwriters and people that have, you know, there's some people that are barely older than me and then some people that are in their 70s that wrote Hank Jr. Hits. There was a guy there that I think wrote if a Country Boy Can Survive. And so there's, you know, incredible writers there. And she gave me the opportunity to just go sit in and hang out with them, get to know them, learn how to behave around these people, how they interact with each other. And then that led to me writing a lot of songs with these people and so made a lot of good friends, made a lot of connections, a lot of, you know, just business connections there. And now, let me think, one or. I think two or three of those. The songs that I cut in California all came out of rights that I had with. With this people. And so she's been a huge help. And then you've got. Lars has been a big help. He's been. Been very encouraging and has. Has given me a lot of input and advice.
Devin Dawson, lot A lot of people.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Have given me local Brad, a friend of Mine, Brad. Brad and Vicki Sykes son in law, Devin Dawson is just one of the great writers, great artists, but he's one of the great writers in Nashville. And just to get FaceTime with somebody like that, sit down and have coffee and pick his brain, that. That's extremely. Was rare in my day. Those guys kind of hit off by themselves and you didn't get in their orbit, you know. So I think. I think those kind of things really are.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: God's just placed some very generous people around.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And also just affirmation from the Lord to say, hey, you know, you can get a seat at this table.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And if nothing else, it was encouraging to hear from them that, you know, you're not a rock star yet, but you're for where you are, you're on the right track, you're not behind, you're doing well. And so that's been a big encouragement from a lot of generous people.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Well, what does the next stage look like? And like. I know, I know probably there's people watching this that they know somebody, they've got a friend who. Tour manager for this guy or whatever. And those kind of things help introductions always friends. Introduce friends to friends.
And those kind of things always help when people can just get you connected and in the right room.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Nashville is built off of friends of friends of friends.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Right.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: Everything happens that way.
