WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.839 For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:06.440 home builder with a passion for design, a mastery of detail, 3 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.400 and a commitment to her crack. With daughter Samantha Stumpo 4 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:10.279 by her side, I. 5 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:11.720 Don't need my whole family on a date with me. 6 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.560 That's a good no. It's godemn weird. 7 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.160 See. Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction 8 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:18.280 company in the country. 9 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:19.679 You're crazy, You're a wacko. 10 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.280 You're insane. 11 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.000 I mean, it just doesn't end together. Cindy and Samantha 12 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.079 welcome guests to explore the world of construction, real estate, development, 13 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:30.399 design and more. 14 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:31.320 You're unpredictable. 15 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:32.920 Every time I think I know what you want, you 16 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:33.560 switch it out. 17 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:35.359 But that's what makes sure houses all you need. 18 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.359 Discuss anything that happens between the roof and the foundation. 19 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.679 Nothing is off limits. 20 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.159 You truly do care about everybody. She can yell at 21 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.240 SHEI get screen, but when you get her alone, she's 22 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.200 the best person on the planet. Cindy Stumpo is tough 23 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:55.000 as nails. 24 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.920 And welcome to Cindy Stumbo Tough his nails on WBZ 25 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:58.159 News Radio ten thirty and I'm in the studio tonight 26 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.119 with Sammy. I gotta really She'll guess so country music started. 27 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.359 Drew Baldwich Drew So, Drew. 28 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.480 I'm actually very impressed that she got your name right. 29 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:09.480 Why is you stuck? Okay? Yeah, I could call you Tim, 30 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.760 I could call you Bob, but no, I found Drew. 31 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.159 It's kind of funny, you know how social media works. 32 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.040 On my Instagram and I played that one song and 33 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:19.560 I started to cry. I had to be. I was 34 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.680 one of those emotional moms at the moment, and she's 35 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.680 somebody's daughter. Can she's got that lat? And I came 36 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:27.959 on like can she have me for three more? And 37 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.439 I was like, oh, I got to watch this whole thing. 38 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.040 And then it went out right. I didn't get the 39 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.359 whole song. I'm like pissed. I'm like, all right, let 40 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.480 me find it somewhere else. I could at the time. 41 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.680 And I reach out to you when you're climbing three 42 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.599 in the charts and you're hit number one, buddy crazy, 43 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.959 And I come from a generation where like you needed 44 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.840 Sony Records and you needed RCA and back and you know, 45 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.200 to get you to that level and you did it yourself, man. 46 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.760 Yes, And it has been an absolutely crazy ride for 47 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.840 me and from my family. You know, back in fifteen 48 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.439 to twenty nineteen, I did have a record deal. It 49 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.959 was a small end Pennic company, and we put out 50 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:04.120 some songs and none of them really worked like we 51 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.280 want them to. They all kind of died in the forties. 52 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.599 And you know, twenty twenty year olls around COVID. I 53 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.319 obviously hits and I lose that record deal. The guy 54 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.159 had owned it, he decided to close down their label, 55 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.280 and I was like, well, that's that kind of sucks 56 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.199 for me. And you know, I never I never got 57 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.159 another label. And it's kind of like in Nashville, kind 58 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.319 of get one shot. You know, you get a record deal, 59 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.199 you put out a couple of songs. If it doesn't work, 60 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.840 they kind of move on to the next, which I get. 61 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.599 You know, I understand that. And but I had this 62 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.439 song that I saw that I really believed in and 63 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.719 it was working. It was blowing up on TikTok and 64 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:37.719 streaming and all that stuff, and I was like, man, 65 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.080 I want to just give this a real chance. I'm 66 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.240 going to hire my own staff, create my own label, 67 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:45.800 and send this song country radio by myself. 68 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:47.159 So that's exactly what we did. 69 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.120 And that's it. So what'd you play like? An? What 70 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.639 was it call? Back in the day? Ar guy, ar Guy, 71 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:57.639 I forget the name. Give it them me. I'm in 72 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.360 a studio at how Hot Media. I should know the 73 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.719 spine now, but I think back in my day was 74 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.479 called A and R an R. Thank you. We're guys 75 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.039 just ran around and said, hey, to play this song. Dude, 76 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:09.680 play this song, Dude, play this song. 77 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:10.879 Does that mean something else? 78 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:11.120 Now? 79 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:12.000 What does that mean? 80 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:12.280 Yeah? 81 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.960 Those in our plans, I don't know care about that. 82 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.879 It was just like, you know, I knew I had 83 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:19.919 a song that was working. And then the biggest thing 84 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.080 is in radio and in the country space is that 85 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.120 you've got to have promo reps. So what that means 86 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.120 is just like, if you're going to start any business 87 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.919 and you want to take it all across the country, 88 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:30.800 you've got to have reps in every market. So let's 89 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.919 say if we were, you know, selling shoes, and we 90 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.520 we were Nike, we would have a Northeast rep, a 91 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.039 Southeast rep, a Midwest rep, and a West Coast rep. 92 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.639 And they would go out to all the stores and say, hey, 93 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.520 put my shoes in your store. So what I had 94 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:46.159 to do is I had to hire those people for 95 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.000 country radio. So how that works is every label in 96 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.879 Nashville all has a Northeast, a Southeast REP, a Midwest REP, 97 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.560 and a West Coast rep. And what that does is 98 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.479 they go around to radio stations and they say, hey, 99 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:59.599 play play my boy, play my song. And so what 100 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.199 I did is I just had to create my own 101 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.840 staff and hire people that was really respected already in 102 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.680 the business, that have been doing it for a long time. 103 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.840 And and we went around to Raidio hod On. 104 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.159 Did you forget Boston because I'm the one running running 105 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:11.680 into the bull? 106 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:13.759 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 107 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.360 Boston was a big market and we, you know, stopped 108 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.560 in up there and they started playing our song. And 109 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.800 they've been so good to us. You know, country radio 110 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.160 in general, just radio has really latched onto our story, 111 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.800 especially us. You know, it's kind of like you said earlier, Cindy, 112 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.759 like most of the time you hear this is a 113 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.519 Sony artist, or this is a Warner or Universal artist, 114 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.680 and it's just it's our own record label. And it's 115 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.160 never been done before. For an artist to independently self 116 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.160 fund their first number one, that's never happened. And now 117 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.399 the world has really changed, the times have changed, and 118 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:47.959 I just think it really is a big win for 119 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.720 artists all across the format, all format of just like, hey, 120 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:55.000 now you can have a real chance in today's modern 121 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:57.519 society if if a song is working and people love it, 122 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.199 you can get it played on radio. And that's what 123 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.839 we just proved, which is exciting for me. 124 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.639 And what took you there? Was it social media? Completely? 125 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.279 Was it Instagram? What was it like? You came on 126 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.040 my Instagram like you just popped in? Well, yeah I 127 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.240 liked it. I hit follow, and that's it. I was 128 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:15.680 in love, right, That's just how I was. 129 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.800 Yeah, well it was. It's crazy story. 130 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.639 So I put this song out all the way back 131 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.720 in twenty nineteen, Cindy, and it kind of just set out. 132 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:26.439 It was on my old record label. We put it out, 133 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.720 and then the record label shut down and it just 134 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.360 sit there. It did nothing. So then in twenty twenty one, 135 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.560 me and my wife were getting married and it was 136 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.279 always her favorite song, so I thought, man, I'm going 137 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:38.600 to go in the studio and I'm going to make 138 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.600 a wedding version. So it's just me and a piano 139 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.160 and a cello and just so she could dance to 140 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:44.560 it with her dad. So that's what I did. I 141 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.199 went in the studio, made a wedding version, and she 142 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.279 danced to it with her dad. It was so special. 143 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:52.879 And the next week I got on TikTok. We were 144 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.600 on our honeymoon and I just said, hey, if this 145 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.720 gets five thousand likes, i'll put it out on Friday. 146 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:02.040 It was a Wednesday night and I posted this TikTok. 147 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.920 I fell asleep and I woke up the next morning. 148 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.800 I had almost ten million views in four hours, and 149 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.360 I was like, man, every record label is going to 150 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.279 be calling, and nobody. I had some LA labels called, 151 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:16.959 but nobody in Nashville. And I couldn't get anybody's excited. 152 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.120 But you know, twenty twenty one, from twenty one to 153 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:22.360 twenty three, it was blowing up on TikTok. Everybody was 154 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.600 using it in videos, dad's daughters, and then that you know, 155 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.399 transformed over to Instagram to Facebook, and you know, I 156 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.759 looked up one day and the song had almost a 157 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:36.120 billion plays on TikTok and I was like, oh my goodness, 158 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.160 look at all these people were reaching. How do we 159 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.920 not have a record deal? Why is Nashville, not caring 160 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.279 about this. I'm watching all the streams happen in real time. 161 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.399 I'm playing shows, everybody's singing every word back. And that's 162 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:48.839 when I said, you know what, screw it, I'm just 163 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.079 going to do it myself. I'm going to really try this. 164 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.120 I know it's going to be expensive, but I don't 165 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.319 want to look back in thirty years and say, why 166 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.079 did't I freaking try with a song that was reaching 167 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.199 so many people and touching so many people's hearts. That's 168 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.639 what we did. And it's crazy to think that we're 169 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:05.920 a year later and sending now. We have a we 170 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.680 have a manager, we have a booking agent, I have 171 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.560 I'm getting ready to go out on tour with Cody Johnson, 172 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.720 who's like one of the biggest artists in country music, 173 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.600 and we have other tours lined up for twenty twenty five. 174 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.240 And it's all because we didn't We didn't stop believing, 175 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.199 you know, And I think that's just so important for 176 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.920 any business that you're in, no matter if it's radio, 177 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.480 if it's you know, a job that you love so much, 178 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:32.319 and you believe in yourself, keep going, keep believing, and 179 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.600 doors will open. And that's kind of the message that 180 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.360 we've been sharing throughout this whole process. 181 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:38.879 So you've been doing this for how long? 182 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:39.079 Now? 183 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:39.720 You're how old? 184 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.079 I'm thirty three? So I moved in there? 185 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:47.920 Yes, such a big thirty three. Okay, so is so old? So? 186 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.279 And you started how long ago? 187 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:50.120 Yeah? 188 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.439 I moved to Nashville at nineteen. So, uh, Richard, June 189 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:56.639 of next year, I'll be fourteen years. I've lived in Nashville. 190 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.279 And you're originally from where I grew up. 191 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.120 In southern Ellen, a little town called Patoka, town of 192 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:03.040 five hundred people. 193 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.600 And you thought by playing in all the bars in 194 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.519 Nashville you get picked up, and you did get picked 195 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.399 up by a record label, but it really didn't do 196 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.600 much and they probably shelfed you back in those days, right, 197 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:14.319 is that what they did? 198 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:15.759 Yeah? Yeah, we got picked up. 199 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.959 I was so young. You know when I first moved 200 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.199 to town. Everything happened fast. I moved here at nineteen. 201 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.040 I end up signing a songwriting deal at twenty one, 202 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.399 and then you know, twenty three, I'm signed to a 203 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.879 record deal. You know, just four years in Nashville, four 204 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.839 or five years in Nashville, and I'm on tour with 205 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.559 some of the biggest artists in the format, playing every 206 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:38.720 live nation festival, all the festivals, everything, and you know, 207 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.240 then twenty twenty comes and all that kind of goes 208 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.399 away because of COVID, and I had this kind of 209 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.519 idea that just kept me going. I was on my 210 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:49.600 last straw and I was just like, you know what, 211 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.440 Nashville's kind of giving up. I'm just gonna post on 212 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.639 my social media Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and just say hey, 213 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:58.879 I'll play in anybody's backyard. 214 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:01.080 Were you went. 215 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:03.360 Did you have a job at the time, like doing 216 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.159 construction or anything, like you just putting all you tough this. 217 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.039 It was just all music. You know. 218 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:09.960 By this time here it is twenty twenty. I've been 219 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.159 to Nashville for nine years. All I've made a living 220 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.039 buy is just playing. 221 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:14.639 Wait, we just hold that thought because we've got to 222 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:16.399 go to break and then we'ld be right back. Okay, 223 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.960 all right, I like it. Okay, thank you. I'm Citty Stump. 224 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:20.919 When you're listening to Tough as Nails on w BZ 225 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:22.759 News Radio ten thirty, be right. 226 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.399 Back, sponsored by Floor and Decor, National Lumber and Village Back. 227 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:37.200 Baby Here will why dress in a black Tomes first 228 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:42.320 night with the same last name every hears on this 229 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:49.720 and you look just logging names spinning round on this floor. 230 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.879 Never been so in love, never been so sure. 231 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:57.440 But baby when our song. 232 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.080 And welcome back to Toughest Nails on w BZ News 233 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:06.159 Radio and I'm Sindy, I'm Samantha and we're here with 234 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:06.960 Drew baldrig. 235 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:07.279 Hey. 236 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.720 Hey, what's it feel like when you hear that song 237 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:10.879 for the hundred thousand times? 238 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:11.120 Though? 239 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.600 Oh my goodness, It's never gets old. It never gets old. 240 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.000 It's such a blessing. I you know, a lot of 241 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.960 people get frustrated. I talk to artists, are like, man, 242 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.519 I'm so wore out on the song that, you know, 243 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:29.200 my my first number one song, And I was just 244 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.240 so lucky that mine is says a lot about who 245 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:36.000 I am, It's about my wife, and it's just a 246 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.480 song that that I'll never get tired of. You know, 247 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.840 I'm very thankful for it. It's a song that, you know, 248 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.559 has now allowed me to go on tour and have 249 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.399 people sing along and things and do dreams that I 250 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.879 thought would never be possible, and so I'm very very. 251 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:53.440 Thankful for it. 252 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.000 And then I fell in love with the other song 253 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:57.519 Can I Have this Last Dance? 254 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:57.799 Right? 255 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:02.480 And that's your can she have? Yeah? Okay, can she 256 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.279 have the Last Dance? But the point was I was 257 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.720 in like again one of my like you know, Chad 258 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.440 and I were fighting my son at the time, like 259 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:12.399 what a beautiful song, right. 260 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:12.559 Like. 261 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:19.000 They're just heartfelt, right, They're just the lyrics are just there. 262 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:23.639 The music's just great like it is, and you deserve 263 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.360 every bit of success that you're getting right now, and 264 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:27.399 you've worked hard for it. 265 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.440 And this song, you know, it's so funny. Both of 266 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.080 these songs were the songs that I I kind of 267 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.320 wrote for my wedding. You know, Can She Have This 268 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.519 Dance was something I just wrote for my mom so 269 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.840 I could dance with her on our wedding night. My 270 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.279 wife wanted me to write all the special dance songs, 271 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.480 and so I wrote this song. 272 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.559 It's almost have been one wedding that everybody was crying 273 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:47.840 a lot. 274 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.159 Yeah, yeah it was. 275 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.960 And you know it's so funny. It was just me 276 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.200 and a guitar that I recorded it really really quick, 277 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.799 that can She Have This Dance? And I thought it 278 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:01.840 was special. And then me and my wife we now 279 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.320 have a little baby boy, and uh, I listened to 280 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.440 this song again, can she have this dance? 281 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:07.759 Holding? 282 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.279 I was holding my son, my wife was out running errands, 283 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.200 and I came across this song. I had studio time 284 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:14.519 the next day. I didn't know what I was going 285 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:15.000 to record. 286 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.080 I mean that, I don't know. That will be my 287 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:20.840 song when my son gets married, for sure. That's how 288 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.519 much I love that song. But let's go back a 289 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.320 little bit, bringing back to a little bit of your 290 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:33.759 childhood late. What was that like growing up. 291 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.440 Fifty people, Cindy. 292 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:35.919 I don't know if that's like I think I graduated 293 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:38.919 with a class just about five hundred kids in that class. 294 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.039 Yeah, so I had I graduated twenty two kids in 295 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:47.159 my class. And it was just I grew up on 296 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.080 you know, my grandpa had a farm, so we spent 297 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.080 a lot of time on tractors and four wheelers and 298 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.679 you know, growing up fishing, jumping the fence behind the 299 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.360 house and and going over to the farm across the way. 300 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.600 And it was, man, it was a really good life. 301 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.399 And and a lot of people ask why you why 302 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:06.240 do you sing country? And it's just like, man, it's 303 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.080 all I know. It's it's what I grew up doing. 304 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.279 You know, we grew up riding back roads and sitting 305 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:16.480 on tailgates, people drinking cold beer, sitting around fires, and 306 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:17.320 that was our fun. 307 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:17.840 You know. 308 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.159 Our fun was was being out in the woods, being 309 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:21.799 out in the sticks, and. 310 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.399 We did how any causes you tip, Drew, I just 311 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:26.919 need to know. 312 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.039 We had about a little over one hundred head of 313 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:35.159 beef cows and how the cow calf business Grandpa did 314 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.879 and my brother, you know, he still does that my cousins. 315 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.240 I was the only one that kind of got a 316 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.600 got out and was playing music. 317 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.159 I was the black sheep of the family. You know. 318 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.039 We'd be throwing haybales and I'd be singing by the 319 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.480 door and turning the lights down the little and they'd 320 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.480 be like shut up, and you just shut your mouth, 321 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.320 like you getting on our nerves. And yeah, it was 322 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.559 just I just loved music. It was so I grew 323 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:00.759 up singing in church and my dad dad saying, and 324 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:04.000 so we spent a lot of time riding around in 325 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:05.720 the truck with my dad singing, and. 326 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.080 Didn't really figure out at what age that you really 327 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:09.759 could sing just like naturally. 328 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.600 Yeah, I think it was first grade Christmas program when 329 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.720 I performed for my first time in front of people, 330 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.159 and that was when I really got the bug. When 331 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.000 you know, we got done singing and everybody started clapping 332 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.279 and screaming. I was like, oh man, we must be 333 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.279 pretty good at this. It was just really then after that, 334 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.399 you know, we didn't have a music program. We were 335 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.080 so small. We didn't have football, we didn't have a 336 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.279 music program, nothing like that. Because we're K through twelve school, 337 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.120 all one school. So what the school I started in 338 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.120 kindergarten with? That's the same school I graduated with. 339 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.399 Which part did you miss? Sammy? Twenty two people we 340 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.519 went to school with us something like that. I had 341 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.480 graduating class, I think the whole thing. I think they 342 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:50.759 went from k to senior. 343 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.240 Yeah, yeah, it was. It was twenty two in my class. 344 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.279 I think from from kindergarten to senior was about a 345 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.639 couple hundred kids, a little under two hundred, one hundred 346 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:00.440 and sixty something like that. 347 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.159 Is your wife from there or did you meet your 348 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:03.279 wife where you are now? 349 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.559 So I met my wife when I was out on 350 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.679 the road about eight years ago, seven or eight years 351 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.559 ago up. And she's from Illinois too, And I was 352 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.120 playing a show up there at at a college town 353 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.799 Western Illinois University town called McComb and I was passing 354 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.200 through playing a show and I met her out at 355 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:21.879 a bar afterwards and became friends, and she moved here 356 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.600 a handful of years later, and we just got together 357 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.759 and had dinner the first night we've been together ever since. 358 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:28.559 It's pretty wild. 359 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.440 It's actually funny because right now we've got you streaming 360 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.639 into chatter, which is it's an audio device. I don't 361 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.679 know if you've heard a clubhouse ever heard of twitter X, 362 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.240 so chatter twitter x where you can actually go into 363 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.279 audio and talk to people blah blah blah. So you're 364 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.279 actually streaming in there and people saying, oh, well, they've 365 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.360 heard your song and that's going to be that song 366 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:56.279 to dance with their Yeah, either or whatever. I ors 367 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:00.200 either way, I guess it can work both ways. Is 368 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.480 it's just a beautiful song. But so you realized you 369 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.519 met your wife, Okay, did you know? Did you fall 370 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.639 in love with her right away? I? 371 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:08.399 Did you know? 372 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.360 It was Uh, you know, it was kind of a 373 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:15.919 long process. We met and uh I had a girlfriend 374 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.039 at the time and I was out on the road, 375 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.039 so you know, we just said hello that first night. 376 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:21.600 I think how it happened was we were at a 377 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:24.120 bar and there was some guy really hitting on her 378 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.960 and bothering her, and she just leaned down. 379 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:27.559 She's like, can you just talk to me until he 380 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.919 goes away. I was like, sure, yeah, I'll talk. 381 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.399 To you, and so we talked and became friends that night, 382 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:38.559 and I came back the next year to that same venue. 383 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:40.879 We were playing and I was single, and so I 384 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:42.919 hit her up. I think it was probably on Facebook. 385 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.039 I slid into her DMS and I was like, hey, 386 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.639 I'm playing a show tonight, like you should come out, 387 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.799 blah blah blah. And she hit me right back and 388 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:52.279 is like I can't. I got to work tomorrow. And 389 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:52.879 she never came. 390 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.120 How that works. 391 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:57.879 Yeah, so she blew me off, and I was like, dang, 392 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.159 it only always works and girls always came out, and. 393 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.840 So she was just this one didn't. 394 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:03.960 This one didn't. 395 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.920 There was something special about her, and so we just 396 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.319 became friends and talked a lot, and you know, she 397 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.400 said she always wanted to live in Nashville. She moved 398 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.519 down here a couple of years later, and yeah, we 399 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.000 got dinner one night. And when she moved down here. 400 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.160 We've been together ever since, pretty crazy. 401 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.200