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in studio is famous. I gotta tell you, I got she got a
record out and she's got to be playing right here in Martlesville. And her
name is Jill Riley and Jill you you and I have a shared love of
a certain genre of music. What is it Americana? Americana. Yeah,
that's where it's at. Man, we're all about it, yes, and
we're sponsored by Price Tower. Uh, the Franklood Right building. I'm sure
you know all about it. It's amazing. And I found somewhere in some
branding that it was an it's an Americana jewel. I don't know if you
guys referred to it as that, but yeah, yeah, yeah, Breaklade
right built only one skyscraper in his whole life, and that's yeah, it's
yeah, it's amazing. We were there last night. Yeah, we're playing
right there, next next to it, right there, at the Green Space
Unity Square Space. Yeah, that is a big stage, young lady.
That is a big stage for for two little people from Nashville. Yeah,
you and your husband will be playing, yes and and uh, tell us
first of all, a little bit about your your your your music guy.
How did you get started? How did I get started? Um? I
was singing into a water hose in my granny's front yard and the grass was
my audience. So see, I practice for tonight. But this was like
when I was five years old and I felt somebody watching me and she was
peeking around the corner. And later when my mother came to pick me up,
she set me on the kitchen counter and said, listen to her,
and I think she can sing. And that was that was I knew that's
what I was gonna do. Yeah. Well you kind of told your your
dad a little something about your songwriting because you started writing songs. Yes,
twelve, I think about that thing. Why didn't I have better things to
do than write songs? But you know, songs just come, Yeah,
they just come, and you have to tend to them. So I always
say that songwriting is not something I remember wanting to do. It just sort
of happened, and the great wake up and find out that you're still a
songwriter whether you like it or not. Yeah, you can't shake the bud.
You can't tell your dad something about the style of your Oh yeah,
when I was seventeen, I said, I'm not going to write any anything
worthwhile until I'm in my fifties. Yeah, and I think, you know,
a songwriter over fifty knows what to do with it. So oh,
sure, it's good. It's good to be over over fifty. In the
meantime, you could probably make a million with an akey breaky Heart or something
like that. Yeah, that would have been nice. Yeah, that didn't
quite happen, but that's all right. Yeah. So you're playing all over
the place and not Yeah, we're doing a fun little tour and we love
to play in smaller communities because then we can really connect with people, like
really connect with the community, which you started the h this interview with what's
the name of that community? Connection? And that is what Oh cool,
Well, there you go, that's the whole purpose. Yes, yeah,
we bring in folks far and wide and we kind of localize it. And
this is really what it's all about. Because you've been all over the world
and now you're gonna be here in great Yeah, it's awesome. So it's
it's it's almost like a small town tour. We're going um Oklahoma, Kansas,
Texas, UM, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and right back up
to Nashville. It's it's a it's a wild sea out of Nashville. Like
do you record in Nashville? Yes, oh yeah, well actually we recorded
this album. So this is a twelve song story album about my wild and
wonderful Texas cattle ranching family span spans four generations, and I purposely recorded in
Amallo, Texas, which is the area where we're from. We're from north
of Amaillo, and used all Amailla area musicians, which was such an honor
and I'm so happy we did that. They're fantastic. But we did mix
the album and master the album in the RCA building and on music Row in
Nashville. I tell you why you can't swing it can't buy a tail and
not hit a music studio in Nashville. No, that's true, that's true.
They're everywhere or even a home studio, right, yeah, I gotta
yeah, that's right. It was cheap. Yeah, it sounds that way,
but no, Nashville is kind of a neat place. I go up
north of town called the Hilltop and that's where I kind of do oh wow,
yeah, we're yes. But anyway, this is great. I can't
wait for this LP coming coming out? What in just a couple of weeks.
Well, the first single is out on seven seven. Yes, but
we're going to sneak you a copy so you can play it. Thank you.
Bartlesville will be the first. We'll break it right, Yeah, come
on, that's awesome. Yeah, get into you later today. Okay,
this is super So you know you're you're talking about your family life, but
being on a on a ranch and stuff like that. I mean, is
that it's done. Get more Americana than that. That is American? Right,
yeah, it better be. But this is really cool. I mean
it is It's so nice to meet a kindred spirit and you and your husband
play all over the place. What you're thinking about going to France? Yes,
uh, possibly September and maybe February of twenty twenty whatever that year is
twenty twenty four. Um, yeah, you know the the the album is
about, um, a debate in the family that caused a bit of a
division in the family consternation. Yes, and the debate was it's not about
cows at the end of the day, at the end of the day,
but the debate was about how to or how not to raise cattle, okay.
And so the message of the album is returned to love. Like wherever
you might have family, old family debates and old family divisions or new new
divisions, return to love and reconcile those family relationships. Because what we say
is, um, what divides a family divides a nation. And so something
that we have in common with France right now is that France is very They're
very much about family. They're they're they're as divided as America right now,
and and they love cowboys stories. So that's the that's the that's the call
to France right there. Yeah. So we're just trying to do our little
part in the problem of division in America by starting with family, whether that's
your your bloodline family, or your your friends you know, your family or
friends, your work family. You know. Yeah, where it begins it
ends, Yes, ultimately, that's right. This is really cool. I
really like that concept that you got going on there. Thank you. I
got to hear the whole thing. Yeah, you'll love. The first single
is Cowboy Hats and Cadillacs, and uh, where that came from is in
our My husband and I grew up in the same small town. But in
our town there was a saying people would say to me, I can always
tell when one of your family members passes away, because all you can see
is cowboy hats and cadillacs. So yeah, we'll do that song tonight.
Very good, very good. By the way, her husband looks a lot
like Randy O one from Alabama. Oh he gets that a lot, Yes
he does. Josh Brolin, Yeah, Randy O. And yeah, I've
known Randy for a long time. And when you walk in with a camera,
I'm like, going, what the heck is Randy? Randy is my
photographer. Now as you know this, No, we're kidding, you know.
We just drove through what was the what's the song? And the lake?
Oh Tennessee River, I'm sorry, Yeah, we just drove through what's
Wayne's Winds? Yeah, their hometown pain Alabama, four Paine and that river
is gorgeous. It is. And when you see the river and then you
think about the song and you think, no, wonder they wrote this song.
It's it's beautiful. Oh yeah, you know, it's kind of funny.
You can travel the world, but your best inspiration is going to be
kind of where you grew up. Yes, you know who Guy Clark was.
Yeah, So Guy Clark gave me probably the best piece of advice for
Yes D D. He said to me one time, right, what you
know? And this idea for this record came the year before I moved to
Nashville, and I tell people, you know, it was a great idea,
but I I didn't want to be around the cowboy culture anymore. I
was trying really hard to be a hippie and so I kind of blew it
off. But when Guy Clark said that, I knew. I felt like,
yeah, he's talking about that you know, that project. But it
was a good piece of advice, and I'm glad that I listened and wrote
it. Oh indeed, indeed, you know it's uh, it's kind of
funny. Uh. Nashville once you get there and it becomes kind of like
its own little thing, it is its family. Yeah, and uh,
and it really is family because if you're kind of down on your luck,
somebody's looking out for you. Yeah, likes to be quite honest with you.
Yeah, well he's just kind of huge. Yeah, it's a very
small world community and it is like family, a little thing. Whale And
Jennings told this story a long time ago. He said, that day,
you know, he got discovered by Bobby Bear. Bobby was having a few
at a night club and Whalend just have to be playing. Bobby Goes calls
chet Atkins collecting the middle of night. So Whalen calls up his buddy Willie
Nelson. He says, well, thinking about moving Nashville, Willie goes,
don't do it. There are pros and cons for sure, and said,
so what did I do? I listened to Willie Nelson and I moved to
Nashville. And he did do a little bit of both. He listened to
Willie and he moved. Yeah, well Willie was there, So what the
heck? You know? Yeah, but you find this a very big plus
as far as your development being in music city. I do, yes,
yeah, and I moved back to Texas and then I was in LA for
a little while. It really there's something about being in the same space with
all that creativity, and yes, it really does it matters you know,
I worked for the chief mastering engineer of OURCA who mastered all of the Outlaw
sound basically we're waiting small Yeah, yeah, it's it's crazy. And then
on another song on this album which kind of ties the whole record up,
it's called common Ground. It's the title song. There's a line in that
says I was ten years old when I stared into the cover of mother Jesse
Coulter record dropping down, and that was a real moment in my life.
I'd literally stared into this, the cover of this Jesse Culter record, but
what was happening was the sound of steel guitar was hitting me for the first
time. So to wind up getting a job in that very building and actually
studio see where we mixed was it's my understanding that Chet and Whyland built that
studio initially with the thought of recording her vocals. I don't know that that
ever happened, but yeah, yeah it yeah. So it's it's a very
full, full circle story there, and we're officing back in the RCA building
on music row to release this album. So yeah, I think what happened,
Oh really, see, you know that's good, Okay, I want
to hear you tonight, okay, what time thirty? And you and your
husband going to take the stage. Now, they're gonna be the little people,
that's right, and they're gonna have a great, big sound too.
Yes, it's American and music. We're gonna hear probably some stuff that folks
might not have heard, but they will take it with them when they leave,
because you know, when you do original music, people will say,
well, I'm going to hear this for the first time. Well, you
know what, it stays with them. Yeah, it follows there. And
by the way, if you need a reminder, you can always purchase the
album in advance pre saved on Spotify. That's right right now, not yet,
but like within a week or so, we'll have the pre saved stuff
out. Yes, just watch that link tree link uh. Instagram is common
Ground dot Album. Facebook is Jill Riley Official. The website is common ground
album dot com. All those places you'll find the link for the pre say
that stage of a whole lot since we were teenagers to what we are now,
Oh my goodness, the record store and buy one now? Can it
be nice? Cloud? We are gonna do Vinyl eventually and we will be
in like old school record stores. It'll be awesome. Yes, I got
one on old Root sixty six down in Tulsa that I sneak in and visit
every newly. Okay, come on, we'll get an armload. Time.
Be nice doing buys. It's a buyer. I'm in here just looking that
going down memory Laney buying stuff. So you know they got it's very throw
on the Pearl district and I look forward to seeing that there. Yeah,
I just thought you need to. I knew victrola turntable. I have not
owned a turntable as an adult, like, oh no, I have to
have one. If if you gotta put vinyl out, you've got to get
a turntable. So I did. My fifteen year old daughter, last of
seven, she said, I need a record player. So we got her
one and she gets it out there and she puts on you know, some
Queen album. It was a red vinyl. She says, how does this
work? Yeah, Dandy's an old time to allow me to show and she
said, well that sounds different. I said, well what do you mean
she did? She said, it sounds more live. Is that you listen
to streams or you listen to a compact. It sounds too perfect, and
it sounds like, you know, he's got a warmth to it, like
it's a little bit more live sound. It's amazing that they've gravitated Yeah to
that sound. It's awesome. So she's exact art control is going to get
a workout once that comes out. Yeah, totally. Okay. Now we're
the websites where we can find you again common ground album dot com, Instagram
is common ground dot album, and Facebook is Jill Riley Official. Alrighty,
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