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Speaker 1: Hey Aero, Hey, how you doing today, Chris good?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with you.

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And we got to start something up like this today.

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And that is is that radio needs to stay off

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your song Discover God stay off, meaning that don't talk

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over that saxophone intro. It's it is sacred. It is

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a place that we don't have right now. And you

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have created a moment.

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Speaker 3: Let's go tell me who else has opened up a

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song with the thirty eight second saxophone solo in twenty

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twenty five.

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Speaker 1: No nobody, no, no, no, I'm talking about it.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, you're my favorite interview so far this morning,

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just for saying that.

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Speaker 1: You've done something on this album that just really blows

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me away. And it's you're using authentic music and you're

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you're and you're singing from your soul. I can hear

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that you're singing from your soul.

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Speaker 3: That really means a lot. Yes, this record, there's nothing

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fake about it. Every string, every horn, every vocal, every

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keyboard are real people playing real instruments, singing real melodies.

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And my hope was is that if we made music

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that moved us if I'm made songs that I felt

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in my soul, hopefully when you listen to it you

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would too see.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because I wanted to ask

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the question of because you are singing from your soul

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and there's so much soul involved here, I would love

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to see you go on like an elevation church tour,

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in other words, go from all these different modern day

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churches and sing and to share and to basically open

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up your soul to them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I do a lot of that, and that's

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a lot of how the touring goes for us is

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when we go on and we sing in a bunch

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of spaces like that. And so it's a real honor

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to be able to go out into those spaces and

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bring something that feels really authentic to the space.

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Speaker 2: And so that's something that I try to do often.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think that it starts with the album cover?

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Because I mean, this is all about time traveling this

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and there's a message. And I felt right away the

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very second I saw the album cover and it was

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you saying, I know the way, let's go, let's go

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for a walk. I've got a story to share.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think with this album, it's the most intentional

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I've been in every aspect, so from the album cover

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to all of the visuals and the videos, to all

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of the music to I grew a mustache for this album.

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Speaker 2: And my wife actually likes it.

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Speaker 3: And it's so intentional and you see that, you feel it.

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And for me, once we found the vibe of the

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music was kind of that vintage seventies vibe, was like, Okay,

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everything needs to feel and look exactly like nineteen seventy two,

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down to the corvette that we brought in for the videos,

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you know what I mean. And so hopefully when you

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see that, it takes you back to a time that

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feels familiar, but can also move you towards something special

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as well.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Chris Cleveland coming

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up next. The name of his new album is titled Roses.

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We're back with Chris Cleveland. Look at what you did

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with the song your song, Oh my God. I mean,

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I'm a seventies child. I lived in discos and this

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song really starts something very positive in my heart.

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Speaker 3: I love that because that's exactly what it was for

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my wife. She would turn on the radio and she's

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got some artists where I feel like their whole purpose

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is just to write songs that make you feel good. Yeah,

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and it made me a little jealous. It's like, I

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need some songs like that. And so your song is

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exactly what that is. Its purpose is for you as

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the listener to feel a little bit better after you

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listen to it than before. And it's something that you

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can just crank up, enjoy, throw the windows down, and

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roll through town and just really really enjoy your time.

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Speaker 1: With using the strength of hindsight, what did you put

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into these songs to make them sound so full? Because

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it does not sound overcompressed, but man, it's got a full.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, it's so simple.

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Speaker 3: It's like what I said, it's real people playing real instruments.

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And so all of the strings are incredible, the orchestrations

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and their real recorded strings. All the horns or real

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recorded horns. And I think the fun part about making

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this album is I produced it myself, which.

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Speaker 2: Is this is the first record out of that with but.

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Speaker 3: I also just brought in some of my friends who

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are the best at the world at what they do,

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and so from string rangers and horn players and drummers

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and guitar players and piano players and singers, and I just.

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Speaker 2: Let them do what they do best.

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Speaker 3: And it was such a fun collaborative spirit while we

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were creating these songs, and I think it actually comes

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through when you listen to the music.

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Speaker 1: When you have a song like Mama Don't Lie, I

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wish I could have been a fly on the wall

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inside that studio, because I mean that had to have

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been a celebration when you guys finished it and listened

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to it, because the vintage that you create, I mean,

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that piano is so present.

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Speaker 3: What's crazy is the piano that comes on at the

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very beginning of that song was actually a voice note

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from someone who came up with the piano part, and

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so that when we wrote it, that was the very

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first part of the song that we came to and

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it struck me and I was like, if that hits

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me that way, I want people to hear exactly what

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I heard. And so the rest of the song is

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literally just just an outpouring of that. And so still

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when that song comes on, it makes me groove, it

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makes me feel good. I know exactly how I'm supposed

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to react, and I knew that it needed to be

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the first song on the album, because when people hear it,

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they're going to know exactly how to feel, and then

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it sets up the whole rest of the record to

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be just an incredible experience for Where.

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Speaker 1: Can people go to find out more about you and

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everything you're doing?

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Speaker 2: Sir? You can follow us on starsgo dim dot com.

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If y'all have internet where you are, I'm sure you do.

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Speaker 3: We're on Facebook, we're on Instagram, TikTok all the things

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that the kids love.

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Speaker 2: Stars go down on all of those.

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Speaker 3: You can keep up with us, see what music's coming out,

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see when we're playing all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Please come back to this show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be open for you.

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Speaker 2: Chris, I appreciate it. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?

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Speaker 2: Okay,