BOBBYCAST #668 Brett Eldredge on Finding Love, Getting Married & His Top 10 Songs

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3:03He was out on the road with me on the right in the bus and I just put in my in-ear monitors and I looked at him and says about to walk on stage and front of these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song and put the ear in and then it's walked in. All right, a special episode. I'm going to do my favorite 10 bread eldritch songs, but with bread eldritch in the room. And so he'll just tell me about the songs, how I felt when he wrote them. I've bred as a massive superstar in country music. Big songs, number one, like Don't You, B to the Music, mean to me, lose my mind, want to be that song. He is Mr. Christmas and it's 10 years of the Glow Christmas tour, which is wild. He's got some great Christmas albums. If you haven't been to the Glow Show, it's fantastic. It is the Glow 10 year anniversary tour, which again is Nashville, Chicago, New York, Boston. He's newly married, great friend of mine and we're going to do this. I'd like to encourage again, if it's Christmas time, go to the Glow Show.

4:04Take tickets now that they always sell out everywhere he goes. Here he is. Let's do my top 10 bread eldritch songs with bread eldritch. Okay, so I deep dove into your music. Yeah. I already kind of live in it. Yeah. Every morning. All the hits, bread eldritch all day. And so I have my 10 favorite bread eldritch songs of all time in order. Oh, okay. So in then at the end, I want you to be honest with me and give me your top five, but don't let my judgment of your songs affect your judgment of your songs. Okay. Deal. Deal. And what if I'm like, I don't think that's in my top 10s, okay? Well, yeah, this is my top 10. Yeah, I'll say, you tell it, my, your judgment. Like, if you don't have one that I think should be in the top 10, that's okay. Yeah, you can say, what I'm going to do is I'm going to like go down the list and give you a song. And number 10, then you tell me like a story about it or what part of your life you were in at that point. Yes. But these songs don't have to make your list. Okay, good. But my songs affect your list.

5:05Got it. Okay. Okay. And number 10 on my deep dive, I have songs about you. Yeah. So give me a little just a slight melody of that. I'm just trying to get through these songs about you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Tell me about that one. It's a, in the video, basically, I'm having my brain erased from all the memories of, of this person in the past of my life, everything I go through my life, every song I hear, every smell I smell, every song is a song about you. I'm just trying to get through these songs about you. And it just like walking through Riggly, thinking I'm homoria, and then I hear, you know, Kim McEillough me, and like, you know, it's right back. Like Bonnie Raid? Yeah. In the video. I referenced Kim McEillough me in there and, uh, uh, dancing in the dark, uh, spring sting, um, in the song.

6:07And those are a couple. So you got to go through Riggly for the video? No, but I did. Um, no, but I cut one of the song at Riggly. The, or the, we did the music video for one of the song at Riggly. Well, then why did you just say songs about you at Riggly? There's a line in there about walking. Oh, you're doing lyrics. Yeah. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. I'm going to go to the bar, heard I can't make you love me, or, uh, at Rigglyville bar, um, thought, uh, thought I might be moving on until I heard dancing in the dark. Now I'm just trying to get through these songs about you. So nice recall. Yeah, I know. Cause I was like, wait, but that's not the lyric. Got it. Do you perform that song still? Yeah, do. Do you know all the words, all your songs? Shhh. Most of the time. I'm about, I'm about to play a show here pretty soon. We're going to find out. Do you think, cause there are times where I'm not, maybe I wouldn't know the words, but if I hear a couple, it gets me in, it reminds me. Like if maybe if you can't catch on, but you get the first, like in your ear, like,

7:08I forgot. And they're like, I want drunk drunk. Yeah. Like, I had that, uh, maybe you'll get to the song. So I don't want to waste the story. You get to tell me. Um, mean to me once, um, I was singing that and I think it was the first line. And you know, we're playing it and there's like this whole build up to it. And it's, it's very emotional and, and just a vibe. And then I'll send a mic turn around to my piano player and I'm like, what's, what's the opening line? What is it? I'm going to wrote the song, but it's, it's so weird, cause you're singing a million times, but there's this weird block every once in a while. And I, some, I think I've asked the crowd before to like, um, once you realize that, you know, you're definitely going to mess up sometimes. It helps to kind of bring them into it anyways, but it is frightening. Sometimes when you don't, when you don't remember, there have been times where Eddie and I have been playing the opera and before doing raging it, it's just acoustic two guitars. And I'll just be kind of sitting on it. It's to be like a GC something super simple.

8:10And I don't remember the first line. Yeah. And so then I just keep going GC into, and I'll lay back first word, first word, first word. And he'll be like, dog. God. So what if he doesn't have it? You're screwed. Yes. It's extremely screwed. We'll go back to this one later. Okay. So I have at number 10 songs about you. How'd that one do? Was that a single? It was. Um, I don't know either singles anymore. What's that? I don't know what are singles anymore. I don't either. Like, some of your songs that I picked weren't singles. It was okay. That's my favorite. That's my favorite kind. You probably also get people that would be like, my favorite song is, and then it wasn't like a massive song, right? Yes. Yeah. I'm fine with that. It was, Raymond. Yep. It was close. Yep. Great story. Mm-hmm. And also was that your first single? Yes. And that's a story of, let me say if I remember this, right? Uh, I got with Alzheimer's? Yeah. Maybe it was a fictitious story, but I wrote it because my grandmother had Alzheimer's,

9:10wrote about a guy that works at a nursing home. Um, the lady mistakes him as her son, like a patient there. And then he, instead of correcting her, he, he is that for her. And it's just like a real heartfelt kind of emotional song. Do you still sing that one? Every once in a while, I'll do the acoustic. Um, do they go crazy because they know you don't sing it that often? It's like, yeah, like, um, the hardcore like from the, from the jump fans will, we'll get pumped about it because yeah, it's just, I'll dig that one deep because I mean, I, yeah, we don't like go full band, you know, deep emotion, but I'll tell the story kind of, um, how it affected my family and me personally. Um, the first time I sang it as at the opera, um, my grandfather was in the crowd and he got real emotional and everything. And so that was really cool. Um, it feels like when John Mayer plays comfortable, not what it's about, but it's like, you're just waiting and you're going, I wonder if he's going to play comfortable because he doesn't do it a lot. Yeah. I think the last John Mayer show, you and I went together, yeah, he played it.

10:12Yeah. And it was that whole solo show where he just sat there. And that was actually, I knew it'd be great because we're both fans. So it didn't matter what he did. We were going to love it. But that was a really cool show. Hey, it was. And it's hard to do that. But like I think obviously he's unbelievable guitar, but those songs, I mean, he does have deep cuss that if you're a fan, man, I mean, yeah, comfortable. Like I don't hear a lot of people even mention that. That was from that, that inside once out EP before, before, before that record even came out. Yep. I remember getting that like, you know, on a burnt CD or something like it was, it was before he was a big deal. Got this song was so good. So good. All of was so perfect. Yeah. That reminds me of like a part of my life, like 2000 and one or two. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I remember laying underneath a tree on a blanket, listening to that song. And if I'm remembering, I think like maybe Neon was also on that before it made that

11:15record. The booze like a live version. Yeah. Yeah. Dan, that was cool. Okay. I number 10 have songs about you. And number nine, I do have a Christmas song on here. Hell yeah. Let's go. Glow. Yes. You wrote that. I wrote that. When you write Christmas songs, can you go in in July? Like, or right now it's, we record this. We're middle of August. Do you need to have things on the walls that make you feel like Christmas or can you just go in a box like that? I'm kind of always there. I'm kind of have to be, you know what I mean? And we, you know, our tickets go on sale for the tour earlier. You know, you're building the, we're like working on different set tweaks and all that. So I'm kind of always there working. And I'm, it's so kind of, I kind of staying in that world. Like it's, it's not like I have sugar plump stance in my head all the time, but I do feel, I do feel connected to that. It's a very strange thing. But it just feels like I can always go there on a knee too. Do you write a Christmas song like you would write another song with either title, concept,

12:16melody? Like how do you do that? And is it different than if you're writing a country song? I was writing one the other day and it's weird. It's similar. I think Glow, I wrote with Russ Copperman and everybody. He was like, I kind of had this whole concept like I was saying on my phone. This was, well, this is 10 years of glow this year. So we're celebrating 10 years of glow this year on the tour. So it's 11 years ago, I went to him with this, this, this little thing that I recorded and I said, I want to, I want to write a song called Glow. I want a tour to be called Glow. And with the album to be called Glow. I had this whole thing because I just liked the idea of like that being almost a brand of like, of kind of my spirit and heart of Christmas in it. It works somehow. Did you have some of the lyrics already done or did you just have the idea? Yeah, I think I had like, you look good in the light of my Christmas tree.

13:18So good. Like I had that kind of feel and I love to watch you glow. And then like, I kind of had the heart of the chorus. When you write with Ross, who is a wildly accomplished songwriter and producer and he's also one of our good friends. But when you write with him who traditionally doesn't write Christmas music, you have to bring him to that, right? Well, the thing a lot of people don't know about him is that he's like a trained jazz, like American songbook kind of piano player. So we've written, we wrote a song called The Reason on one of my records that I love. And that was kind of had some jazz elements and we wrote Mr. Christmas together. And he like is dying for the opportunity to write that kind of thing because he loves it. You know, a lot of people aren't consistently writing jazz in the modern world. So it's really cool. Like I see some sparkle at his eye just to write that kind of thing.

14:20And so whenever I come to him with that, it's pretty cool. And number eight, The Reason. Oh, no, I didn't know that one. Well, there you go. Safety some time there. Whenever you think of songwriters and I think of Elton John and like Bernie Topin and Elton John did the music and he did the lyrics. Yes. Yep. It's kind of a cool, but I mean symbiotic for sure, but odd relationship. Where could you ever just write the music to something and then pass it off and go, okay, can't wait to see what you do here. There's a lot of leg go of control there. I was talking to my manager, John Pete's about it that other day because he's like, this I've been writing a bunch of songs on my own. And he's like, this would be really cool. And you know, I think it'd be really cool to cut it with this person in this band. You could literally like, you have such a good guitar vocal. You can have him cut it and you walk in there and just be ready to sing kind of thing.

15:22And like, let go of that as wild for my brain, but I kind of get it. Like when you, if you have the guts of a great song and going in and trusting that process is probably a good practice for me to try. But I usually like to be there from inception of the song of like, you know, the idea or you know, somebody can walk in and have an idea. And I can kind of start trying to build something around that, but I kind of like to come in with a melody, something I like to be there at the birth of the song and kind of go all the way through. So if it was to write just the music and pass it off, that would be hard for me for sure. What about a few wrote a song and you had a good demo and you lay down the vocal and then you just let the producer do what the producer does, meaning he's in track it. Maybe puts guitar, maybe puts piano. Could you, could you leave a song like that? Like if it was just like guitar guitar vocal and then let him build around it. Like completely.

16:23Have you done that ever? I've done stuff like that. I usually tweak it after they've done stuff. I can do that, but I, because on some of the first records I produced with Ross together, like we co-produced him and he's very good at translating. I would be like, what is this sound? I don't know how to describe it, but it sounds kind of like a stapler clipping or whatever in and like you'll get it. We actually recorded a stapler once. That's what I thought of that. You put a stapler on a microphone. Yeah, we used put a stapler on it and like just weird sounds or I would play guitar with my mouth and just make that sound and then we're like, oh, actually that works. To do just the guitar vocal, I think it'd be an interesting practice. I have most of the time I'm there for the whole thing, so it's probably a good challenge, but that would be hard for me. It's like making me sweat, thinking about it. I never thought about that so much, but we had Pat Monahan and he was sitting there and we were talking about it. So he dreamed at least parts of Drops of Jupiter where he had the idea and he woke up and in the dream it was his mom and so his mom died and that song is about her.

17:27But he said he went in and laid down basically the basics and let them do the work. And so the piano, the horns, all of that was added, not him, by whom everyone was producing. And so I asked him and I said, is that weird or hard or do you ever hear it and go that ain't it? He goes, yeah, sometimes I hear it and that ain't it, but sometimes I hear it and it's freaking beautiful because I wouldn't have thought to do that. And that's what he said he would drop the jupe and I thought it was so cool. That's cool. I didn't do that. Yeah, no, it's hard. I have a brain that needs to know every detail or I feel out of control and it might get anxious. But at that time, it's a good practice. I'm glad you brought that up to me because maybe I need to try it. You'll forget to do it as soon as you leave here, but I think at times I can sabotage things by being way way way too involved. But I think more times than not, my success has been because I'm way way involved. I know what got me here and it can kill me sometimes, but I think more times than not,

18:28I like to be super involved. Okay, glow is at nine. Number eight, Sunday drive. Oh, yeah. I really like this song. This is a later, this is a later, a later you. That's my favorite record you've ever done too, by the way. My favorite. And so I pick Sunday drive because I don't know, that's what makes me feel good is such an easy word to say because I don't feel good as descriptive enough, but like whole. Yeah. So tell me about Sunday drive. What do you think about when I say that song? That song I've had such a journey with because that's one of two songs I recorded that didn't right. Dang, is that insulting to you that I picked a song you didn't know? No, no, no, it's one of my favorite songs ever. A little bit. A little bit of your insult. No, I really know. I fact, if you picked it one, I'd be like, that's great because I was an intern at Universal Music Publishing and I was in that basement and they had kind of like a basically called it the dungeon and it was, my job as an intern was to, fresh out college was to transfer CDs

19:33to MP3s. So there was just endless walls of CDs and I'm filing them away and I would listen to songs as it to make sure they have skips or whatever. I was going through this catalog of a Scott and Barry Dean who I became loving his writing and his voice too and there was a song called Sunday Drive. And so I got that and I just started listening to it all the time. But I was only, you know, 20, low 20s and I hadn't lived enough life yet at that point to be able to tell that story I think or sing that story. And so I took it and I was like, one day I'm going to record this and I just kept praying to other artists would record it. I kind of left it under, I wouldn't bring it up to a lot of people. I think some other artists almost recorded it and then when the right time came I was like, I want to hold album concept around Sunday Drive and recorded it in Chicago with

20:38Daniel Tash in the infidic and it was amazing. Those guys I know from Casey Musgraves is that true? Okay. Barry Dean I know from Pantoon. Yes. He's right another little big town. So he has a bunch of hits. Yeah, yeah. Maybe day drinking. Did you write that? Possibly. You guys can fact check me on that. But we've had him on the Bobby Gas. I love them. He's like one of those cred guys. He's like a songwriter, songwriter too. Like, you love songwriters. I will listen to his music over some artists. You know, because I just love it. Would you check in to see if his song was recorded? That song was recorded after this? Yes. Oh yeah. Yeah, but I was always checking the stats of it. It was like, and it just year ago by and it wouldn't. And then it was like, here's the time. Let's go. I bet it's weird for him for a song to exist for that long. Mm hmm. Somebody to hear it and remember it for that long. Yeah. And then for it to get cut. Yes. Did he say anything to you when you said, hey, I'm going to cut this song? Uh, he actually gave me a, I was looking at this morning

21:39because I meditate in the morning and I have some coffee table books just like this in front of me. And there's a book called Frank Sinatra's Got a Cold. And it's a picture book because he knew I love Sinatra. He loves Sinatra. And so I got it from him. Um, when he knew I was recording the song and he was just so grateful and he's such a nice guy. That's cool. You guys fact check me on that? Hey, wrote Daydraking in Pantoon? No. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and health captive for nine months. I survived and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart and these are the survivor files. I just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up. Don't say anything. Every week I'm with survivors who lived through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up without a doubt he was going to hurt me.

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27:49Yeah. Do you think it'd be higher? No. I think that's right. It's a good spot. It was the first song that got me to the day. No way. That was your first number one? Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Me and Ashley Gourley and Chris De Stefano. I did not know that was your first number one. What was the video? It was at a... It was at like a old Victorian house in East Nashville. And I was basically at a playing live at a party. And everybody does. And I'm hanging out and see a beautiful girl across the room and kind of falling around and flirting. And you know what you're doing? Maybe Don't You Don't You? It's like flirtatious. And very like a young version of me. That's jam. You know. I forgot how much of a jam it was. I've been playing your songs. Also OK. I was like, why are you playing so much bread? Because I'm a weird because you're a friend and you're playing your music in the house. I'm like, I gotta get back to a song. Like I'm listing them all out. What do you remember about that song moving toward number one?

28:51Oh, it was a long climb. I think it took 50... I think it took a year to climb the chart. And... I think it took 50, I think it took a year to climb the chart. And you know, I mean, it's a grind to get out there and play, you know, a million different shows and you're out there and you're doing everything you can. You're like, well, I hope some people here and then you hear it for the first time in the radio. Cause I remember hearing Raymond on the first time in the radio, but don't show it's the first time where I started here at often. And then you start hearing it more often. And all of a sudden, I was like, okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do something that crazy if it goes number one. And that's I remember you doing crazy stuff every song and you had to quit cause you're gonna cook yourself. You can't do it crazy or crazy or stuff. One like several number ones later, I said I was gonna kiss a bear in the lips with honey or something and people got really, you know, I want to do it with like a trained bear. We will still be a grizzly bear.

29:52And then they said, let's not do that. What did you do for this one? A skydive. And I was, I'm so, I'm very trying to reframe it as a doing therapy. I am not a huge fan of heights. And I can't like stand by a ledge and not feel, you know, weird sensation, just feels weird. So I was like, okay, I'll go skydiving if don't you go number one. And gets a 30, he gets a 20, you know, gets a 10, you're like, oh, damn, we're gonna have to start looking at places that possibly, you know, disacquase. And then I remember looking at that window when they opened it up and I mean, there's no feeling like that. Which feeling was crazy? You're them telling you you got your first number one or are you looking out that door of the plane? Definitely the door of the plane. Cause it's like, you know, I've been grinding to that point and it's like, you know, we're gonna get there, we're gonna get there, I believe. I don't know how we're gonna get there. And then, but when they open a door to a plane, you're like, I was the one that got all these other people

30:52into this on this plane. I'm gonna be the first one to jump out. I was so scared. And luckily you have somebody attached to you that's done thousands of them. So you're like, okay, there are 100%. You know, not 100, but yeah, I mean, they probably had some mistakes. Some things that didn't work perfect, but they've made it to, they made it. 100% life. Like 100% life. You live through all of them. Yeah, that's a good point. I remember, I hate heights. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna reframe it. I'm scared to crap of heights. Yeah. And I was so scared of Skydive that I just drove up to Skydive one morning with myself. No way. Yeah. You never told me that. Yeah. And so I, I just don't like being afraid of things. And so I drove up and it was in San Marques, Texas. And I went up and I said, hey, I'm here with Skydive. And they said, you have to book reservations like how many in your group? I was like, no, no, it's just me. And I think they thought, I think they thought I was like a solo, like a unibomber, like some sort of single is gonna take the plane. They thought it was weird that I showed up by myself to just go up in Skydive.

31:54And they said, well, if you're by yourself, and it was like, she had a talk to her manager, I guess if you're by yourself, we can fit you into this group that's going. And I was like, okay, I'm scared of death. Yeah. Oh my God. So they had one instructor that wasn't jumping with that group. And they said, we do have someone that can go with you. Now I'm not kidding. It was a woman about five foot three. So, and she's attached to my back. And so we're walking and she can't even see because she has to like look around me because she's so small. And you're right, when you go up there and they open that door. Oh, I could feel right. Yeah, me too. I could feel right now. Me too. It's like this gut thing. It's like, oh, how was it when you jumped? They tell you to scream or like, you know, exhale really hard. So like yell or whatever because you're, obviously got a ton of force going, Georgia Long's. I remember doing that. My mouth was dry as hell. And then I, you know, I'm six foot four.

32:55So like the guy, the guy was a pretty big guy. But like when he, I remember jumping kind of blacking out. Like I don't remember a lot. Then I remember him pulling the shoot. Or remember, no, I remember flying for a while. And he had like some guy who was just like casually filming you with a camera flying in your face. And I remember you're supposed to tuck your legs behind your back, behind your butt kind of like. So they're not dangling. I look like a falling spider. Cause my legs were dangling. And, and so that was really intense. And you could tell he was having trouble like getting me balanced because they have to kind of do that while you're doing that. And you were doing that exactly how. Yeah. No, no, no. For sure. And he, so, and then once they pull the shoot, that's the second. That was almost worse because we pulled the shoot. He's like, all right, we're going to try a spinner. Whatever. And he pulls one side and we just go like that going down and circles. And I was like, I won't point.

33:56I'm like, I can't do anymore of that. And I almost threw up, which I know happens sometimes. I've seen people where I get thrown up on all the time. But, yeah. Like, yes, go. Yes, go. Oh god. Yeah, they just think about all the videos. That's it. That was so viral now. Yeah, yeah. You ever watch the videos when people get on that thing at the fair or the carnival and it's the rubber band thing. Oh, I hate that thing. And the guys like, all right, oh, it looks like it's broken. Oh, yeah. That's so good. They've lost him when they're not expecting it. Yeah. I had a cool video of me skydiving, but somebody broke it in my house and it was a DVD and it was in my PlayStation. When they broke into my house, they store in your PlayStation. I didn't have a DVD player. My, my, my, my PlayStation, I wasn't playing it. I wasn't playing me skydiving. I didn't have a DVD player. It was the PlayStation. Yeah, yeah. And they stole that. What? I know. I know that's really strange to say that. Maybe there's a conspiracy out there because somehow my footage of my skydiving is also never been able to be found. So whoever pictures that maybe it was the same.

34:56Well, I have a couple of pictures, but like my brother jumped with me too. Not at the same time, but behind me, he did a backflip out of there. I mean, like, I would love to have a video of that, but we can't find it. So I didn't have a flip too, but there's no video. I did a backflip and then I did a pirouette and then I did like nine things. It was really great. We do my video. So I can't prove it. But yeah, they broke into my house and stole all kinds of stuff. And that was one of the things that was the thing. No of all things. I was really playing poker a lot at the time. A lot. I was traveling to games. I was playing cash games in Texas. And I had a jar like this big would just stuff with cash for games. And they stole that. That was the big one. That's a big one. The DVD was too. Yeah, that was the big one. I remember landing though, I'm going, thank God, I'm never doing this again. Yeah, same. Some people are like, and I wanted to go right back up. So I never, never again. It hurt when they pulled the shoot. That was the worst part was the floating. Because if that goes wrong, you die. Yeah.

35:57If something goes wrong in the free fall, you got two shoots. You still got two. But if that goes wrong, you do this. Oh God. And then you die. Have you seen the video that 80 or 90 year old lady skydiving and she slips out of the harness? She doesn't die. She doesn't die. Wait, what? There's a video. How did she slip out of the harness? I watched this unfortunately before I skydived that thing. But this lady is, I mean, she's in her, she's like, oh, before I die, I want to go skydiving. And she goes skydiving. And somehow they didn't have her fully in. And so she's like falling out of the harness, the whole thing, the guy's like holding onto her. They land, just holding onto her? Yeah. Like she's basically completely slipped out. Like, have you seen that? Watching it right now. Oh my God. It's real. It's real. It's so insane. That makes my stomach like, we easy just thinking about that. I mean, I, oh my God. Oh, I was like dangling her butt is dipping. It's, it's, is it bad?

36:57Like she didn't die. So I can't be. She didn't die. I know she lives, I hope she's doing great. She's like holding onto her shirt. Her shirt almost comes completely out. Did you say hopefully she's doing great? She'd be like 100 and something though. But right now, she's watching this. I'm gonna say that. Let's go and say that. You were my hero and you inspired me to go ahead and jump if you made it through that. I could make it and I did. I'm gonna have to watch that when we're done. Okay. So, yeah, I'm good. Never Scott. I haven't. Okay. Next up on my list. Oh, you hit number one. Congratulations on that. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, you're good. What number we got here? We are now at number six. Oh yeah. And number six, I have, I don't know a lot of words. I'm not a son, I don't lose you. And that's some type of beat. I'm even early on that. Yeah. The beat of the music. Yes. That's a jam. That was a jam. That was Ross and I and Heather Morgan. We wrote that song. I had just been in the Bahamas and I had this whole concept in my head of.

38:06I walked in, I had this idea and Ross and I started writing it and Heather hadn't gotten there. Heather can tend to be late sometimes back then. She's gotten more timely now. But back then she would show up a little late to rights, but she'd bring smoothies or something. You know, that's, I remember her doing that once. She'd be like an hour late, but. Well, you were on time. You were on time. You were on time. You were on time. You were on time. Yeah. Yeah. But that day she rolled up and we're jamming on it. And I mumble a lot when I'm, I'm a lot when I'm talking to her when I'm singing or writing songs like I'll just do what kind of what you were just doing. I'll, I'll say syllables all here. Like I hear it all like I feel it formed together and sometimes I'll, I'll say the words kind of, but not realize I say it. And that's one of the best things I've had with Heather and I writing through the years as she'll, even if I don't exactly say it. It's like she and energetically or whatever says. Did you just say falling in love with the beat of the music and I said sure, I guess

39:08so. And it just fell out like that. And then we wrote this whole story about, you know, going down, going to an island, I say Mexico because it rhymed instead of Bahamas. What's the rhyme? I get hooked up. I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico. Oh. Uh, uh, so it would be hard to say Bahama. Wait, what's the rhyme? Mexico. Uh, we're trying to, uh, I just met you a couple hours ago. Oh, got it. My last nine of the time. I wouldn't you know, yeah, it just, I get hooked on a girl with blue diamond eyes down here in Mexico. Oh. And, and so it was Mexico. It was really Bahamas, but who's actually fact checking on that? We just did. We're putting it on. Yeah, he didn't. Yeah, that's a take the number one back. Yeah, the pigs. Yes. So that was back before like, it was cool to swim with the pigs. You like, now you see it on all sorts of things back then. I never just, you know, kind of stinky swimming pigs, but it was, it was so cool.

40:12I'd never seen like that. I never even been, it was just before, this is probably 2010. And so I just got a record deal. Um, I'm trying to figure it all out. I had never been to a cool, our friend invited us to go on the show. And they're both in the Bahamas and we fly in. It's this beautiful place. And we go hang on their boat, stay in their boat for like four days, meet my brother. We go on a boat ride and they say, we're going to go feed some swimming pigs and said, that's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. Let's go. And they fill up like scraps from whatever we had for dinner or whatever, probably pork or, or, or sausage. I've seen that actually too. That's brilliant. It's so weird. I don't like it either, but I remember them having like breakfast burritos and give it to them like that. So messed up. Um, but anyways, I think there was some broccoli in there. So that was good. But we, we brought it over to him and we're, we're rolling over there and we see this beautiful girl on the back of a boat. And we hadn't seen anybody other than like older people than us this whole trip.

41:17And we're like, whoa, okay, let's, I said forget the swimming pigs. Let's go see what's going on over here. Like pigs can fly. I don't care. Let's, this is beautiful, it's beautiful girl back here. You know, I'm like 20, you know, three, four years older, whatever. And so we go, we get closer, we get closer, we get closer and these two like in my mind, I'm sure it wasn't this scary, but in my mind it was like James Bond villains pop up like out of the, this yacht. And like we get closer and like, you can tell they're like, you're not getting close to this boat. So we went, we fed the pigs instead. And I wrote a story, I was like, I want to write a story about falling in love in this magical place. And as a songwriter, you get to play God in that scenario where you get to, to make it finish however you want. And then we went back and years later and shot the video there and told her to start her again. No, no, no. Okay.

42:18Was that your number two, second number one? Yes. I never know when I look something up. It says reach number one, June of 2014. So your second number one. Yeah. It's, that's been that long. Yeah, I know. It's fly. It's still a jam though. Yep. Number five. I get drunk drunk on your, that drunk on your love. Yeah. Number five to me. Yeah. That song. A number one, 2016, it says here. Yeah. That's the thing that's definitely true. Tell me, tell me a story about drunk on your love. Ross and I wrote this. We wrote a like very, it was almost like, we would like, we would make really weird demos that because we were, we weren't making for anybody else but we're just having fun. And then we would know, we knew we would go cut it in a different way. But if it had a element of catching us in uniqueness, we would just let it be what

43:19it was. And so he had put some like really weird, I wish I had my phone, I'd play it for you, but some really weird, like tea-pain kind of things on my voice, you know, at the end of the song and like through it. And, and there was bongos on it and, and just having fun with it. And we're like, man, this is so catchy. It was, it was just one of those songs that kind of wrote itself once we had the hook. And it felt so good. And, and still when we play that song live, it is people going nuts for it just because it's, you don't have to overthink it. It's not changed in the world with the, the, the subject matter or anything like that. It just feels good. And sometimes you need songs like that and that one does that. The lyric is, I get drunk, I walk up, oh, I see. Okay. Still drunk, drunk. So insulting. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. You don't have to know the words. I don't want to sing after you. Yeah.

44:19I was way better singing that before you sang that. Do you ever have a song and it is so catchy and it feels so good, but you feel like it's too simple? There's, there is a, yes, I have those. And then sometimes it's, that's sometimes the hardest kind of song to write, like the simple catchy. Sometimes it could be the subject matter could be so simple. You're like, nah, it's not compelling enough, but it's like, it's catchy, but it's not, but it just doesn't quite do enough to like, you're going to go home and tell your friends about it. But then there's some that are so naturally an expression of yourself and your soul, even if it's simple, that it, it, it comes out in a way that is infectious and you know, they call it earworm, whatever you want to call it. That kind of wears me out, earworms, but, but I like the, we'll call it something else because, but it like it's, it's, yeah, it's really hard to write a simple song and make it really good, I think, a lot of time.

45:21You said something though, I'm going to go that I liked. You were talking about not every song has to change the world. And exactly, every song doesn't have to change the world except those songs in that, we'll call it change in the world because they're just fun. Yeah. And like, joy does do. Yeah. Yeah. Make people smile. Make you feel good. And I can see though as a creator, as a writer and you want to write the most poignant thing you could possibly write or it's got a great call back or it's got work like that's your craft. You've worked so hard to get so good at it. But then this thing falls out of you that feel super simple where you go like, wait, is that too simple? Yeah. I can see where that could be a struggle. It does. It gets in your head and you're like, okay, I don't, I really want to write something. Something really deep and meaningful and everything. And you kind of forget that this is meaningful. It's just a different part, you know. What's it? It is a hard part of songwriting for sure. Do you think of any songs that you've heard that's not yours in Country Music?

46:22It all in the last 10 years, it is such a near worm or whatever term you'd like to use there. Because I remember the first time that I heard it meant to be and that's a song that is simple and it's so catchy. The first time I heard that song, if it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, yeah, yeah. I was like, oh my God. I don't even know what that just said. I think there are six words in that song that's the catchiest song I've ever heard in my entire life. Yeah, yeah. Like meant to be was that to me like the catchiest song. Anything come to your mind just in general? I'm trying to thank you. No, it's a baby shark. Can't say baby shark. Baby shark does do that though. Baby shark doesn't leave. It does. It gets in and it's a worm that embeds into the brain. And then it causes you insanity in one year, like 110 years down the road, you're crazy to sing it in your head. And then you realize you didn't get that from baby shark. I got that from pork you ate. It was bad. It wasn't from baby shark at all. It was chicanosis. It's a whole thing. You're right, you're right. Anything come to mind? Super catchy songs you've heard in the last five, six, seven years.

47:23Oh, man. I'm really bad at remembering that. This is called being put on the spot. It is. It's called being put. I can't think of anything right now. Like what would you even listen to right now as music? All comfortable, all stuff. Yeah, Americano stuff. You have anybody like Gregor Allen as a cof. Say that again. Gregor Allen as a cof. Yeah, I don't know if it is. He's like a, he's Americano, Rootsie. Is there a band called Watch House? I really like. There used to be called Mandel and Orange. Dang, you like bands. They don't even have a real name yet. Like they used to be called Mandel and Orange and they changed it. That's somewhere. You're cool. You like a band before they can settle on a name. It's not a, it's like I just really connect to like, at this point in life, I like, I mean, I, of course, I listen to all the old stuff and stuff I grew up with, but I connect with kind of traveling organically or accept or like about the pines and being in the woods

48:33and traveling down the roads and old cars and shit like that. I like stationary, plastic, fabrics. Yeah, it's more of my thing. Mine are mainly from Fisher Price at this point. Yeah, absolutely. I can't let you like. Let you love stuff. Yeah, it's just about like elephants running down the road or something. The bobby cast will be right back. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and health captive for nine months. I survived and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart and these are the survivor files. You just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who lived through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed and I just started screaming.

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53:49we're here to help make sense of the madness. Listen to the Solid Verbal College football show on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Bobby Cast. All right, number four. Top Red Eldred songs of all time. Should be nice to love someone. Oh yeah. That's a good one. Cause when I wake up in the middle of the night and I wake up in the middle of the day. Is that how it goes? He never wakes up in the day cause he's always awake cause I don't nap. How's it going? How's it going? How's the lyric go? When I wake up in the middle of the night, you hold it me so tight. There's no waking up in the day then. And then what's the next lyric? Okay, hold on. No one ever knows this part. I didn't know that. Cause I don't even know what I'm saying really. When I wake up in the middle of the night, this moves in the middle of the day. We run down to the palm tree.

54:50We run down to the palm tree in my day. We're down to the palm tree in my day. All of a sudden turns into an island song. Is that correct? No. But it goes, uh, good glory me my, oh my, good glory me my, oh my, that's one of those things where once again, like you're in the right, I just randomly mumbled it. I don't even know what that is. It just feels right. So it goes, when I wake up in the middle of the night, you hold it me so tight. Good glory me my, oh my, sure feels good to love someone. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Cause it's, you're like a moding. Yeah. It's just emoting. I do that a lot. That's fun. But it's also like in the song, like you're actually expressing with words that it's like stream of conscious writing. Um, which I do a lot of you just sometimes none of it makes sense. Uh, I always heard Paul Simon used to do this thing where he'd do stream of conscious writing and he would take a tennis ball and he'd throw it against the wall and he would just, and it would do somehow it would lock in and with his brain, you know, you just do weird things that kind of do that.

55:51And he would stream of conscious just like spit out, kind of like call me out. You know, that song, there's a lot of kind of stream of conscious lyrics there that don't really make sense. Love that song. Love that song too. May it walks down the street. He says, why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle now? The rest of my life. It's so good. So good. And the video you got Chevy J said, Chevy J said, no home. Oh, I love that so much. But and that song moves around so much. I like the bongo breakdown. The guy, oh yeah, the guy that produced glow and Mr. Christmas, he arranged the horns dead. So like he did all a bunch of Paul, stuff of Paul Simon and he arranged call me out. And I was just like, that's awesome. I mean, that's, that's enough of a, of a, uh, all I need to know for the resume to sign you up for my Christmas albums. Like the grave dig. Uh, Mr. B. Bailey. All right.

56:51No, no, they go, I get to me melodies in my head. I get like six and I crap out, but it goes, uh, man, boom. I can't do it. I'm broken. We'll get there next time. No, does I say grave digger is one of the repeating things? Yes, says grave digger. But I remember that's also a monster truck. It is because big, big foot versus grave digger. Yeah, that's a big one. And you have to, the two were the toys. My nephews are brilliant. It's definitely still a thing. Are they still things big, big grave digger? My nephews, oh yeah. My, my nep, they were playing with it there. They, okay. They love monster trucks. They have probably 50 or 60 of them. Here we go. They collect them. They know every one of their names. One's four, one's two. And they know all their names. Okay. I'm going to find this here. Okay. Um, I may, it does say that on the song, right? Okay. Oh, here does that. I got it. Man walks down the street, he says, why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard. I need a photo opportunity. I want to shot a redemption.

57:51Don't want to end up a cartoon and a cartoon. Great. Grave your bone digger. Something a bone digger. Bone digger. That's the repeater. Dang. That is such a jam. See, but that's all like, I, it's like, if you tell somebody to sit down and write me a song, that's just not what you expect, which is so cool. And I think that a lot of that is just your disc. You get on this like flow state of a thing and you kind of just follow it. And, and, and if you could step back and up from it and not judge what's showing up and just kind of let it be what it is, sometimes it's really bad when you get out of it. And sometimes it's like, I don't know exactly what all this says, but some, for some reason it makes sense. And I've had different seasons in my life where I just fall in love with an artist that was before my time. And so I've had like a Led Zeppelin couple years. I definitely had a Paul Simon couple years. And it's the most cliché thing ever, but I love that Graceland album so much. Oh, I would listen to it.

58:52And even like, oh, my, you got, she's a good diamond zone. So, all of that was, like I can think about exactly where I was those few years that I just fell in love with that record. And then I just wanted to know everything about Paul Simon. Yeah. She's a rich girl. I don't know any words any songs. That's a, that's the whole note. Yeah, yeah. Like, she's it, then how's it go? She's a mint girl. And that would tell me that she got diamonds on the soul of her shoes. I mean, that's, I mean, that's, that was like religious. I mean, it's like, but I don't know any words. So don't hold it that I'm being opposed to. I don't know even some of these are to your songs. That's okay. Number three, for elder songs. Top three, baby. Let's go. I want to be that song gets you there to make you dance in your underwear. She does. That was a jam. Want to be that song? How does it actually go? You don't have to say that. Okay, you don't want to be that song. I just want to yeah, maybe you want like, maybe you want to make me sing. But if you want to, just to give me the kick, uh, yeah.

59:52I mean, it might help me to remember all the words. I want to be that song, it gets you high, makes you dance, makes you fall. That melody rewinds years once disappeared. time for. Stahl. I want to be those words to fill you up. Roll your windows down. Keeps you young. Makes you believe you're right where you belong. I want to be that song. That song is awesome. I love that one. You still there? That's one of my favorite ones, yeah. Yeah, that one. It's weird because I'm about to go play a show in Kansas like a racetrack or something. So I wonder if it's the same one. But in Kansas, I think it was like Kansas Motor Speedway, whatever. Scooter Crews, so the songwriter, his name's Travis Hilton, but his Scooter Crews, so it was a songwriter. We've written, mean to me, together we wrote this. We wrote several songs together. He was out on the road with me on the right in the bus and I had this idea called and I

1:00:55was put in my in-ear monitors and I looked at him and says about to walk on stage in front of these people. I'm like, I want to write a song called Want to Be That Song. I put the ear in and then I just walked in and then I played the show. A month's go by, I forgot that I told him that. And then he and I and Ross get together right one day. He's like, maybe when you tell me you want to write a song, I want to be that song and I try to figure out, I was like, oh yeah. And he's like, I've got a whole kind of lyric thing going for that. And then Ross and I kind of start jumping on the music and then we all, and then it just comes together in this beautiful way of capturing that wanting to be that depth of what a song means to you and singing every word of night moves. Whenever I hear night moves, I get chills almost hearing it because it takes me to a place. I want to be that feeling that you get when you hear that song. I want to be that song. And I just loved that thought. I loved that emotion and it was a beautiful ride with that song.

1:01:58I got some chills there. That's a great story. It's an awesome song. And the fact that he held on to that for that long. And he didn't go right it with somebody else. Yeah, yeah. Because it's a good idea. And he's, oh, I heard this. He won't remember. I'll go right this with someone that he saved it that long. Yeah. Yeah, that song is a jam. I got to shoot that video at Rigley Field. How do you make that call? Well, luckily, that was one of the best years of life right there because it was 2016. I like the World Series. Yeah. So I don't want to, you know, I think we all as a fans play a tiny part and getting us there. And I'll just say that the being out of this year feels like a special year, whichever it comes from since every year. Because we was before the season started. It was freeze. Chicago was cold at the start of the home opener and everything. And Field was empty. And I got to have, you know, I gotten to be friends with a lot of the players and such. And so I got in contact with, we got in contact with the whole front office of Rigley.

1:03:04And they let us basically have Rigley Field as our playground for a day. And they didn't charge you. No. You just, that's all, well, you're a real fan though, too. Yeah, yeah, real fan. I mean, I did, I was in the parade. I sang Go Cubs Go at the, at the, when they won, it was like, it was just like the whole year starting with shooting the video there. And when we shout the video, we're like, well, there's no fans because we're playing it basically. I was playing a, um, playing a baseball player and also playing like all these memories. And I had to like shave my, I was one of the last times I had a fully shaved face. So if you watched the one of me, that's on video. My face is completely shaving. Is it weird to see that now? Yes. So it's very weird. I mean, it freaks me out. Sometimes for sure. So different, because back then in the, whatever was 50s, 40s, whatever, those, because we were playing like way back, wriggly days, nobody had facial hair really much like that. And so we're like, okay, let's show a younger version of this character.

1:04:04And, but it was so cool. We, like, I got my brother in there, a lot of my best friends. And we play on the field. Some of my, like, some of my family members were in it and they had to play cardinals players because it was Cubs versus Cards, which is a famous rivalry, you know. And some of them that are huge cup fans had to be cardinals, which was pretty funny. But yeah, I was, you know, I was hitting a rubber baseball, I think. That's dope. Yeah. It's on it takes wings. Yeah, because you know, you don't want to screw up the grass, wriggly either. So they were like, we, they weren't having us like run out in the grass a lot and stuff. But yeah, they let us to hang out and it was really cool. Then we won the World Series. Which is probably why we won the World Series. 100%. I'll take it right now. Thank you guys so much for this opportunity. I have a funny story to tell you someday on a microphone about me telling a Cubs player how much they meant to me in their reaction.

1:05:07I would tell you right now. Yeah. I don't think right now is a time of place. Yeah, yeah. What's it? It's a great one though. It's your fault too. It is it? Yeah, it's completely your fault. Number two. Was it recent? Yeah. I figured so. Have you heard the detail? No, no, no. But it was I so lame that you know, no, they never told me, but I know you're, I was setting you next to them. Can I say what it is then? Or no? I don't know. I mean, I don't know the story. So what's your wedding? Can I mention it? Yeah, I was. Can I say who was there? So we, it was K-Long nights. First time out of the house, period, since we had the baby. Obviously, we love you dearly. So we're not even if the baby came out of her an hour before we were still going to your wedding. Yes, which is amazing. And so we go to your wedding and Rossi, I know a little bit from he did dancing with the stars, so we were falling into the social, but he was also on that team that won the World Series. Yeah. And I don't want to bother anybody ever. And he came up to me and he was so nice. And he was like, Bobby, what's up?

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1:13:30I was like, I'm going to be a great singer. 2014, 2015, and hit that. It reached the number one mark in his third straight from his debut album. Wow. Okay, so that was mean to me. And that one, I wrote with Scooter Cruise. The same guy I wrote, I want to be that song with. And songs about you and a bunch of bunch of them. But yeah, he and I were writing. And we wrote it on Music Row in Nashville. And I love the sentiment of just how we turn the phrase. He's a really good. There's a, in my opinion, my two favorite lyricists in Nashville are Tom Douglas. And Scooter Cruise. And he just has a great way of, you know, if I could be the reason your hair is a mess. I don't want to forget the lyrics. You got to sing it then. If I could be the reason your hair is a mess.

1:14:31Oh, God. This is the way to feed him a line. Remember, this is the song that I said I did live too. Oh, do you forgot then? Yeah. You have, you have, I'll find it. The more you smile, the more you smile. Brandy, you know what? Like, bass drum, bass. If I could be the reason your hair is a mess to bass drumbeaten. No, that's not it. That's what it says here on this, to bass drumbeaten your hair. Bass drumbeaten your hair. It's way down deep in your chest. It's way down deep in your chest. That's not it. You just argued me on your ear. That's weird. It's like if I, if I picked up a guitar or something, maybe I'll do it. But like, it's so weird, like, thinking about it straight out of the, the rawness, you know. But anyways, the lyric of this song, I just love the turn of phrase when it comes to the hook of, then I'd be what you mean to me, like, all these things. And it, it was such a cool song. I actually recorded this with Luke Laird actually produced it. I think it was the only song on that album that Luke produced, but I'm pretty sure he produced

1:15:34that one. When you have something that works like that, like, mean to me, and the wordplay of it, and you hit it, the first time you hit it, you're like, oh my god, this is perfect. I mean, do you, is it, do you feel it? Yeah, I think sometimes, like, when you have the demo, yeah, it kind of, back in the day, you used to do whole demo sessions, you know, and you go in and have the band or whatever. But when you have a work tape that's just you on a guitar and like, you listen to that over and over, and you write, you know, because you write hundreds of songs and you never, even remember you wrote them. And then there's ones like, like this one where it was just yet, it felt like we landed something really good. And it's at, it can be really frustrating to write songs sometimes, because you, you get, there's a, there's a wave of emotions just writing a song, but then you get hungry for a little while, then somebody is a little distracted in there. And then you had all this excitement, like, we're about to write a really huge song, and then all of a sudden, by the end of it, you're like, well, should we just let go home?

1:16:36But like, on songs like this, I remember feeling that like walking out of the room with Scooter and just feeling like that one has some depth and like, that's going to be a real one. And I can't tell you how many times I've watched thousands of people hold up the fireflies in that song and just, it's emotional experiencing that one, because it just kind of brings me back to the start, you know. Have you ever accepted a decent check to play these songs at a wedding? Try to think about playing any weddings. Definitely a private event, but I don't think I've played out of wedding. I've only just started to go to weddings, period, since the last couple of years that I've not toured as much, because I was never able to go to weddings, because I'd always have gigs. And so like, I'm starting to go to, I had my own wedding, but like I'm starting to go to weddings now and stuff, and like, but I missed all that stuff, you know, in the beginning. You probably would have sang one at our wedding.

1:17:36I can't hear right. You probably know. I didn't get to make it. Didn't make it. Got COVID. I got COVID. May I just think we had COVID. Man, there was some behind the scenes on that. Yeah. That was back when we were with you. We were all together all the time. And so you're like, I got COVID. And we're like, oh my God. Yeah. Do we have COVID and we're getting married in five days? And if we do, do we tell everybody? Yeah. And my wife has integrity, because I'm like, we ain't testing. Yeah. And if we don't test, we don't have COVID. Yeah. It's just like, there's no COVID if you don't know. And my wife's like, no, we have to take COVID test. Yeah. Because if we have it, we can't have people be in danger. Yeah. And so we took it and we were negative. But what if you were to run our wedding? It did. That's a movie right there. A bad one. A bad one. A bad one. But you didn't get to come. And now you get to come. I know. And I, that was a really, back then too, was, you know, later on you get COVID, everybody

1:18:38gets COVID and you're like, but at that point, it was very touchy. And, you know, all that stuff, I remember I got COVID again. I had to cancel one of the first times I ever had to cancel a show for a Chicago Christmas show. And I was like, well, I could have probably, I could have played, but you're like, I don't want anybody to die. You know, it was so heavy. And so I'm glad that you're wedding went great. Thanks, man. It was blowing my nose and crying. I'm really telling us. No, we were worried. We didn't think about that. I was like, I was like, pacing around my pool, trying to figure out, because I didn't know, sick. And I remember pacing around my pool, like, I got a calm and tell him. He's already stressed out. Now that I've had my own wedding or whatever, I know how much stress goes into just a, any kind of gathering or hosting or anything, a wedding, you know, there's a lot that goes into it. So I was like, how do I tell him? And I was like, Caitlin, we're not testing. It doesn't mean we don't have it. Now we don't have it. If we don't test, she's like, we're going to, and now remember, you just spit a little

1:19:41bit on that. Well, it had to be like those movies where they take a pregnancy test and it ends up positive. Yeah. That's what kind of what I felt like, oh God, please don't be positive. Don't be positive. And it wasn't. Thank God. All right. Time for the number one song. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. The song is of yours. What have I left out that you think? I can't believe you didn't said that one yet. This one is so far number one. It's not even close to number two. This is the tear of its own. Was it a hit? What are your hits? Yeah, what is that? No, I'm just saying I don't want to give you a hit yet. Mm-hmm. If you miss it, I'll give you a hint. Was it for the son of a drive album? I think so. Hold on. This is it's cell. Let's see. The long way. Yeah. Yes. And take me the long. Yeah, because I was going to maybe sing that at your wedding. You interrupted me singing. I was in the middle of the song. Oh, yeah, go ahead, please. And then I'll tell you I'm going to sing it every wedding. That's very good for you. So let me finish.

1:20:41Sing it and then I'll say I was going to sing that at your wedding. That's right. Go. Take me the long way around your town. I was going to sing that at your wedding. That song is so good. I love that one. You still sing that one? I do all the time. Is that every night's song? Every night's song. I sing that. I sing it a lot of times in acoustic. Because that's my favorite. I started out as a songwriter here playing acoustic shows. So I love pulling out the bar stool in the sit and playing some songs. That's when I break out and listen to everybody singing. It's really cool. I like slow songs. Because I can at least understand what the lyrics are saying, as you can tell in a much of a lyric guy, because I can't remember much of them. But that song also reminds me of my wife. Really? Yeah. Now that I think about it, because that came out in like 16 or 17, I think. I think it was later. Maybe.

1:21:42God, I don't know. Probably 18. Yeah. Let's not fight about ears. Yeah. Let's fight about ears. Yeah. I remember hearing that song and then after I met Caitlin and being like, oh, that song is how I feel about her. Yeah. I remember you telling me that. I was like, yeah, I'm not making this up for you now. I've told you this already. Yeah, yeah. And so I think it's a great song. I think the lyrics are so good. And it reminds me of my wife. Yeah. Like all those things together. Yeah. Make this my favorite red eldrige song. Heck yeah. I love that. That's a good one. I love your list. What? What did I not put on that list? What would you have expected? I don't know about expected. I mean, I have ones that would be on it that do under your top five. Oh boy. Number one. This song called Hide Away that I had. I really like that was on. That was on the songs about you album. I wish it was a single because it was it was one of my favorite ones.

1:22:45That's yeah, that's up there with one of my favorite ones for sure. Number two. Oh boy. Probably want to be that song. You were going to say the long way and then you shipped it. Yeah, because I was. I should have been a long way when it be that song. I'd like. Yeah, maybe the. No, you said we're going to come in. I want to be that song. Yeah, I want to be that song. Then the long way. And number three, the long way. Then. There's a song. I mean, I would pick your obscure ones though. That's okay. Probably like the one you need is a song I really like of mine. It's on. That's on Sunday drive to. I love that one. That's a that's an obscure one. And then maybe there's a song called Crowd My Mind on Sunday drive. I really like to. So that's not a drive album really sits in their strong.

1:23:45Yeah, that was. Yeah, that was. That was you know, I mean. We've known each other a long time now. You know, when I got a flip phone and I started kind of, I don't know, I have a lot of nostalgia or just, you know, growing up in the industry and you grind it and you grind it and you grind it and you kind of find the parts that really resonate with you in the parts that make you feel. Maybe not as true to yourself for whatever and doesn't mean your past music was and it's just like you grow up. And I think Sunday drive was like a big grow up for me like the kind of reflect and ended up happening to coming out during COVID, which was a weird experience to like put on an album you can promote or anything, but it was such, but it was kind of the also the time that we were in where we're all kind of having to reflect. I think that's why that album is just really just kind of stuck with me on it.

1:24:47Do you have any singles that you're like, if I play this is okay, if I don't, it's okay. Yeah. Which one? Something I'm good at. I didn't put that on the top 10. Yeah. That one, I really loved writing. Straight jacket video? No, that's lose my mind. That was the number one. But that was, yeah, lose my mind. That was a, no, some I'm good at a shot in like in scene or somewhere in California. And I was like in a robe watering the grass. It was like almost a dream like world that I was in. But I actually loved writing this song. I thought it was a really unique song. And there's a lot of people who say it's their favorite song. I brought it to the label and it was like, and it was a really, I wrote a Tom Douglas, which is totally not a typical Tom Douglas kind of song. Zero to house to build me. Yeah, yeah. Like he said, yeah. Yeah. And he, it's just like, but the lyrics are really cool and fun, but it's just really quirky.

1:25:48And it is part of a large part of my personality. But we, I went and I cut a little demo of it and I brought the label and everybody just freaked out over the demo and loved it. Well, once, you know, somebody plays it for some radio person showed up or whatever, and they were in the office and they play it for him and they're like, oh, they love that song and all of a sudden it was like, this is going to be a single. And I don't regret it. It was just like, because it still did really well. But that would probably be one that is one of my not as favorite ones, but I don't regret it. I don't, I hope you don't regret it. Yeah, yeah. It didn't like kill anybody. No, no, no, nobody got hurt in the making of it. And it's funny. It's like a lot of the kids. Like, it's a lot of kids favorite songs because it's kind of that kind of thing, which I love. Like I, there are a lot of people that when they need to feel good and dance around it, just when it comes to playing it live, you know, when I'm, when I'm strumming and playing the long way or want to be that song or, you know, some of that stuff, it just doesn't

1:26:53feel as good next to those. So different vibe. Yeah. You brought some records. Yeah. So show me some of the most important records from your collection here. If you don't mind. And hold them up because this is going to be on Netflix, obviously. I really just, I thought I was unable to pick one. I mostly, no, just show us a couple. What do you got here? Why do you love them? What's that one? This is, this is a, it's called Portrait of Sinatra. 40 songs from the life of a man. And it's actually a, it's hard to pick one Sinatra album. I could almost do this with, hang on. How you guys doing? I could do it along with this one because this one is, oh, I'm not going to show you this on yet. So this is my favorite Sinatra album, which is called The We Small Hours. The We Small Hours is one of the best, I think one of the best albums. Why that one? Why does that one resonate so much? It's, it's such a like, there's certain albums that are like, like one really strong

1:27:56emotion. And like, this one is heavy in a way that's in remembrance and longing for someone. And it's just like, just even the cover, like him underneath the street lights smoking a sig. I mean, it's obviously a depiction of him, but it's like, the whole album is just perfection in my opinion, like of emotion. Nobody could turn a phrase like Sinatra, like he could create space in a song and never make you feel like he has to say something. You know, like sometimes as a singer, you feel like you got to feel space or whatever. I think growing up, seeing his music and listening to it, it helped teach me to kind of deliver a song. And so I think that album in The We Small Hours is there. And I picked this one. This was actually, so this is, it's not technically a great hits album, but it's impossible

1:28:58to, because he had so many songs. This was big and Britain. So like it was more based on his performances around in Britain. And but it's got, you know, come fly with me and fly me to the moon, all the, you know, everything. Sit in the clowns. There's so many endless classics. I got you under my skin. I'm just a huge synodra fan. No, he don't say. Yeah. So, yeah. And I brought this one just because I thought you'd think it was funny. That is excellent. You hold it up. I'm going to send a picture of this to Caitlin right now. Yeah. And tell them what we're talking about. That's right now. That's awesome. You were in that, huh? Yeah, what's. So, for those that don't know, Nolan was breaded in Oklahoma.

1:30:09My wife is from Oklahoma and for, it was my wife's birthday. And so Brett sang that song at her birthday party and multiple years. Yeah. Yeah, multiple years in a row. And then he got COVID one year ago. And then he got COVID and never seen him again since. That's funny. That's someone that's under there right now. So awesome. Yeah, those are, those are some picks for you right there. You've been doing the Glow tour. This is your 10th year. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. This is a 10th year of the album coming out. And I've been doing a version of the Glow shows for every bit of that because it's stemmed from a show I did. John Esposito, we both know very well, was the head of Warner, signed me to my record deal. He loves Sinatra more than I'd even do. I mean, just knows every song I ever put out. And so we both bonded on that. And I was like, I would love to go eventually make a Christmas record in that style, completely different from separate from what we're doing in the country stuff, make a big band.

1:31:15So we're like, let's go play live. And we want to start playing live shows with it in a basement at the subtler back in the day. And they have a little bar. How many people you think? About 80 to 100. It was an invite only kind of thing. Maybe like a eight piece band or six piece, maybe a quartet even. And it was really fun. And people loved it. And I have such an ad that just like that's what I started singing. So like I have such a love for it. And then the next year we did it at Skoles Rainbow Room and invite only again. And then all of a sudden it was just like then we went recorded. We're like, okay, I think it's time to record it. Record a glow. And then and now we got 10 years of of glow. And we out. It's probably I've probably been touring it for a bit of close to that. That's crazy. He's been 10 years of this. Who would have thought it would be so large in your brand?

1:32:17Yeah. Because it was so anti what anybody was doing. Yeah. It was so counterintuitive to a guy who's got hits happening on country music. And he did it nailed it. It was it was almost like for me it was never because it was such a natural thing for me. Just because I was more comfortable. All everybody is much comfortable singing that is like what I was already singing. It was like I have to do this. You know what I mean? And so I don't know what it's going to do. But I feel like if we fully commit and we don't like try to put steel guitar in there or try to cut it in Nashville and others and cut wrong cutting in Nashville. We flew to New York. I did all that fully went for it. I think not one of my fans was like what is this or whatever it was just me. And that was that was that was it. And then it just kind of just keep doing it and and people keep showing up in every year. It's pretty awesome. We were talking about it in the intro before you came. But the tour you can go to Brezza website. Brezzaeldridge.com and the cities are Nashville, Chicago, New York.

1:33:25Let me make sure I'm right here. We got Nashville starting November 27th in Boston for a couple of nights. Is it day after Thanksgiving? Yeah. So we have a residency at the Raymond three days day after Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving. Two in Boston, then Milwaukee, then Chicago. That's going to be fun for you to go to Chicago theater ones. They're going to be awesome. St. Louis, Columbus, Ohio, and you're in New York. Yeah. That's cool. You got to go to the shop many times. It's really, really an amazing show. Yeah. And this year we're doing some different things. But last year we got this really cool stage. And it's just like it feels like home now. And I just, ten years of it, hopefully I can do it to Elmaid. I saw Tony, Tony Bennett backstage probably a few years before he passed. And I saw him backstage. We were both filming. I think it was a rock feller tree landing.

1:34:27And I was just thinking, damn, he's been doing this. He was like 90 years old or upper 80s. And I was thinking, okay, I'm like the 35 or whatever at this point or 33. And I'm thinking, dang if I can do that and still love it. Like he was just sitting there eating a granola bar and chilling and saying, he said, hey, what's up? And he was singing a song, you know, to kids from one to 92. I'm thinking he's basically 92. If he gets 93, he's going to be passed whatever the 92. And he got to go like he has been doing it that long. And I think it's cool to create a tradition like the Glowshoes to create a place where people can keep coming back every year and tell the stories. And there are elements of it that they remember each year that I keep the same because I want it to feel like I go there to get a specific feeling and be able to share that with my family and friends. And it's going beautifully. And that's all I want to do.

1:35:27Yeah. So you guys get tickets. It's an awesome show. You should go. I don't even like Christmas. And I like it. That's right. And it wasn't a Christmas guy. I'll change you now. We didn't have this documented for posterity. We became friends many, many, many years ago. We were both very single, very clueless, even lonely, even if we didn't know it. No, we didn't. I think we did. At times we did. And we go, I wonder if this is ever going to work for us. And then a little something happened a little bit off again. And we get back together again. It didn't happen for guys like us. I guess for us, it just is not. Everybody tell me that once I dinner. It's not for us. I guess for guys like us, it just never. And again, we've been friends for a long time. I was very close to my dream. I was one of my dearest friends. And how I'll end this story is, you text me before you're like, hey, afterward, do you want to go and get something to eat? And I said, I can't because I have to give the baby a bad.

1:36:33That's pretty cool. And here you are, married. Yeah. I'm always a little bit ahead of you. I've been a little bit ahead of you for a while. Yeah. Just for you to teach me with experience. And that's weird. And yeah. And so now I have a baby. And we're not those two guys wondering if it's for guys like us anymore. Yeah. It's pretty cool. What's you guys that can tell other guys are going to wonder if this is for us, just hang in there. Yeah. Okay. If you hang in there long enough and you don't settle, something really amazing will happen. Yeah. Thanks for going through your music with me. Yes. I love you. I love you, brother. One of my best friends in the whole wide world. I'm so happy for you and your wife. And it's just crazy to see us. How about mature? Yeah. Get more mature. We're growing up, baby. Yeah, that's great. Still a lot more to go. Yeah, you hope. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To the next chapter. I mean, anything can happen. You're right. Let's go skydiving. There he is. Guys, go to the show. Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.

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