Speaker 1: For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female
Speaker 1: home builder with a passion for design, a mastery of detail,
Speaker 1: and a commitment to her crack. With daughter Samantha Stumpo
Speaker 1: by her side, I.
Speaker 2: Don't need my whole family on a date with me.
Speaker 2: That's a good no. It's godemn weird.
Speaker 1: See. Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction
Speaker 1: company in the country.
Speaker 3: You're crazy, You're a wacko.
Speaker 2: You're insane.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't end together. Cindy and Samantha
Speaker 1: welcome guests to explore the world of construction, real estate, development,
Speaker 1: design and more.
Speaker 4: You're unpredictable.
Speaker 3: Every time I think I know what you want, you
Speaker 3: switch it out.
Speaker 4: But that's what makes sure houses all you need.
Speaker 1: Discuss anything that happens between the roof and the foundation.
Speaker 4: Nothing is off limits.
Speaker 1: You truly do care about everybody. She can yell at
Speaker 1: SHEI get screen, but when you get her alone, she's
Speaker 1: the best person on the planet. Cindy Stumpo is tough
Speaker 1: as nails.
Speaker 2: And welcome to Cindy Stumbo Tough his nails on WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio ten thirty and I'm in the studio tonight
Speaker 2: with Sammy. I gotta really She'll guess so country music started.
Speaker 2: Drew Baldwich Drew So, Drew.
Speaker 5: I'm actually very impressed that she got your name right.
Speaker 2: Why is you stuck? Okay? Yeah, I could call you Tim,
Speaker 2: I could call you Bob, but no, I found Drew.
Speaker 2: It's kind of funny, you know how social media works.
Speaker 2: On my Instagram and I played that one song and
Speaker 2: I started to cry. I had to be. I was
Speaker 2: one of those emotional moms at the moment, and she's
Speaker 2: somebody's daughter. Can she's got that lat? And I came
Speaker 2: on like can she have me for three more? And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I got to watch this whole thing.
Speaker 2: And then it went out right. I didn't get the
Speaker 2: whole song. I'm like pissed. I'm like, all right, let
Speaker 2: me find it somewhere else. I could at the time.
Speaker 2: And I reach out to you when you're climbing three
Speaker 2: in the charts and you're hit number one, buddy crazy,
Speaker 2: And I come from a generation where like you needed
Speaker 2: Sony Records and you needed RCA and back and you know,
Speaker 2: to get you to that level and you did it yourself, man.
Speaker 6: Yes, And it has been an absolutely crazy ride for
Speaker 6: me and from my family. You know, back in fifteen
Speaker 6: to twenty nineteen, I did have a record deal. It
Speaker 6: was a small end Pennic company, and we put out
Speaker 6: some songs and none of them really worked like we
Speaker 6: want them to. They all kind of died in the forties.
Speaker 6: And you know, twenty twenty year olls around COVID. I
Speaker 6: obviously hits and I lose that record deal. The guy
Speaker 6: had owned it, he decided to close down their label,
Speaker 6: and I was like, well, that's that kind of sucks
Speaker 6: for me. And you know, I never I never got
Speaker 6: another label. And it's kind of like in Nashville, kind
Speaker 6: of get one shot. You know, you get a record deal,
Speaker 6: you put out a couple of songs. If it doesn't work,
Speaker 6: they kind of move on to the next, which I get.
Speaker 6: You know, I understand that. And but I had this
Speaker 6: song that I saw that I really believed in and
Speaker 6: it was working. It was blowing up on TikTok and
Speaker 6: streaming and all that stuff, and I was like, man,
Speaker 6: I want to just give this a real chance. I'm
Speaker 6: going to hire my own staff, create my own label,
Speaker 6: and send this song country radio by myself.
Speaker 4: So that's exactly what we did.
Speaker 2: And that's it. So what'd you play like? An? What
Speaker 2: was it call? Back in the day? Ar guy, ar Guy,
Speaker 2: I forget the name. Give it them me. I'm in
Speaker 2: a studio at how Hot Media. I should know the
Speaker 2: spine now, but I think back in my day was
Speaker 2: called A and R an R. Thank you. We're guys
Speaker 2: just ran around and said, hey, to play this song. Dude,
Speaker 2: play this song, Dude, play this song.
Speaker 5: Does that mean something else?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Those in our plans, I don't know care about that.
Speaker 6: It was just like, you know, I knew I had
Speaker 6: a song that was working. And then the biggest thing
Speaker 6: is in radio and in the country space is that
Speaker 6: you've got to have promo reps. So what that means
Speaker 6: is just like, if you're going to start any business
Speaker 6: and you want to take it all across the country,
Speaker 6: you've got to have reps in every market. So let's
Speaker 6: say if we were, you know, selling shoes, and we
Speaker 6: we were Nike, we would have a Northeast rep, a
Speaker 6: Southeast rep, a Midwest rep, and a West Coast rep.
Speaker 6: And they would go out to all the stores and say, hey,
Speaker 6: put my shoes in your store. So what I had
Speaker 6: to do is I had to hire those people for
Speaker 6: country radio. So how that works is every label in
Speaker 6: Nashville all has a Northeast, a Southeast REP, a Midwest REP,
Speaker 6: and a West Coast rep. And what that does is
Speaker 6: they go around to radio stations and they say, hey,
Speaker 6: play play my boy, play my song. And so what
Speaker 6: I did is I just had to create my own
Speaker 6: staff and hire people that was really respected already in
Speaker 6: the business, that have been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4: And and we went around to Raidio hod On.
Speaker 2: Did you forget Boston because I'm the one running running
Speaker 2: into the bull?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: Boston was a big market and we, you know, stopped
Speaker 6: in up there and they started playing our song. And
Speaker 6: they've been so good to us. You know, country radio
Speaker 6: in general, just radio has really latched onto our story,
Speaker 6: especially us. You know, it's kind of like you said earlier, Cindy,
Speaker 6: like most of the time you hear this is a
Speaker 6: Sony artist, or this is a Warner or Universal artist,
Speaker 6: and it's just it's our own record label. And it's
Speaker 6: never been done before. For an artist to independently self
Speaker 6: fund their first number one, that's never happened. And now
Speaker 6: the world has really changed, the times have changed, and
Speaker 6: I just think it really is a big win for
Speaker 6: artists all across the format, all format of just like, hey,
Speaker 6: now you can have a real chance in today's modern
Speaker 6: society if if a song is working and people love it,
Speaker 6: you can get it played on radio. And that's what
Speaker 6: we just proved, which is exciting for me.
Speaker 2: And what took you there? Was it social media? Completely?
Speaker 2: Was it Instagram? What was it like? You came on
Speaker 2: my Instagram like you just popped in? Well, yeah I
Speaker 2: liked it. I hit follow, and that's it. I was
Speaker 2: in love, right, That's just how I was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it was. It's crazy story.
Speaker 6: So I put this song out all the way back
Speaker 6: in twenty nineteen, Cindy, and it kind of just set out.
Speaker 6: It was on my old record label. We put it out,
Speaker 6: and then the record label shut down and it just
Speaker 6: sit there. It did nothing. So then in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 6: me and my wife were getting married and it was
Speaker 6: always her favorite song, so I thought, man, I'm going
Speaker 6: to go in the studio and I'm going to make
Speaker 6: a wedding version. So it's just me and a piano
Speaker 6: and a cello and just so she could dance to
Speaker 6: it with her dad. So that's what I did. I
Speaker 6: went in the studio, made a wedding version, and she
Speaker 6: danced to it with her dad. It was so special.
Speaker 6: And the next week I got on TikTok. We were
Speaker 6: on our honeymoon and I just said, hey, if this
Speaker 6: gets five thousand likes, i'll put it out on Friday.
Speaker 6: It was a Wednesday night and I posted this TikTok.
Speaker 6: I fell asleep and I woke up the next morning.
Speaker 6: I had almost ten million views in four hours, and
Speaker 6: I was like, man, every record label is going to
Speaker 6: be calling, and nobody. I had some LA labels called,
Speaker 6: but nobody in Nashville. And I couldn't get anybody's excited.
Speaker 6: But you know, twenty twenty one, from twenty one to
Speaker 6: twenty three, it was blowing up on TikTok. Everybody was
Speaker 6: using it in videos, dad's daughters, and then that you know,
Speaker 6: transformed over to Instagram to Facebook, and you know, I
Speaker 6: looked up one day and the song had almost a
Speaker 6: billion plays on TikTok and I was like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 6: look at all these people were reaching. How do we
Speaker 6: not have a record deal? Why is Nashville, not caring
Speaker 6: about this. I'm watching all the streams happen in real time.
Speaker 6: I'm playing shows, everybody's singing every word back. And that's
Speaker 6: when I said, you know what, screw it, I'm just
Speaker 6: going to do it myself. I'm going to really try this.
Speaker 6: I know it's going to be expensive, but I don't
Speaker 6: want to look back in thirty years and say, why
Speaker 6: did't I freaking try with a song that was reaching
Speaker 6: so many people and touching so many people's hearts. That's
Speaker 6: what we did. And it's crazy to think that we're
Speaker 6: a year later and sending now. We have a we
Speaker 6: have a manager, we have a booking agent, I have
Speaker 6: I'm getting ready to go out on tour with Cody Johnson,
Speaker 6: who's like one of the biggest artists in country music,
Speaker 6: and we have other tours lined up for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: And it's all because we didn't We didn't stop believing,
Speaker 6: you know, And I think that's just so important for
Speaker 6: any business that you're in, no matter if it's radio,
Speaker 6: if it's you know, a job that you love so much,
Speaker 6: and you believe in yourself, keep going, keep believing, and
Speaker 6: doors will open. And that's kind of the message that
Speaker 6: we've been sharing throughout this whole process.
Speaker 2: So you've been doing this for how long?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: You're how old?
Speaker 4: I'm thirty three? So I moved in there?
Speaker 2: Yes, such a big thirty three. Okay, so is so old? So?
Speaker 2: And you started how long ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I moved to Nashville at nineteen. So, uh, Richard, June
Speaker 6: of next year, I'll be fourteen years. I've lived in Nashville.
Speaker 2: And you're originally from where I grew up.
Speaker 6: In southern Ellen, a little town called Patoka, town of
Speaker 6: five hundred people.
Speaker 2: And you thought by playing in all the bars in
Speaker 2: Nashville you get picked up, and you did get picked
Speaker 2: up by a record label, but it really didn't do
Speaker 2: much and they probably shelfed you back in those days, right,
Speaker 2: is that what they did?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, we got picked up.
Speaker 6: I was so young. You know when I first moved
Speaker 6: to town. Everything happened fast. I moved here at nineteen.
Speaker 6: I end up signing a songwriting deal at twenty one,
Speaker 6: and then you know, twenty three, I'm signed to a
Speaker 6: record deal. You know, just four years in Nashville, four
Speaker 6: or five years in Nashville, and I'm on tour with
Speaker 6: some of the biggest artists in the format, playing every
Speaker 6: live nation festival, all the festivals, everything, and you know,
Speaker 6: then twenty twenty comes and all that kind of goes
Speaker 6: away because of COVID, and I had this kind of
Speaker 6: idea that just kept me going. I was on my
Speaker 6: last straw and I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 6: Nashville's kind of giving up. I'm just gonna post on
Speaker 6: my social media Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and just say hey,
Speaker 6: I'll play in anybody's backyard.
Speaker 4: Were you went.
Speaker 2: Did you have a job at the time, like doing
Speaker 2: construction or anything, like you just putting all you tough this.
Speaker 4: It was just all music. You know.
Speaker 6: By this time here it is twenty twenty. I've been
Speaker 6: to Nashville for nine years. All I've made a living
Speaker 6: buy is just playing.
Speaker 2: Wait, we just hold that thought because we've got to
Speaker 2: go to break and then we'ld be right back. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, I like it. Okay, thank you. I'm Citty Stump.
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Speaker 4: Never been so in love, never been so sure.
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Speaker 2: Radio and I'm Sindy, I'm Samantha and we're here with
Speaker 2: Drew baldrig.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's it feel like when you hear that song
Speaker 2: for the hundred thousand times?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, It's never gets old. It never gets old.
Speaker 6: It's such a blessing. I you know, a lot of
Speaker 6: people get frustrated. I talk to artists, are like, man,
Speaker 6: I'm so wore out on the song that, you know,
Speaker 6: my my first number one song, And I was just
Speaker 6: so lucky that mine is says a lot about who
Speaker 6: I am, It's about my wife, and it's just a
Speaker 6: song that that I'll never get tired of. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm very thankful for it. It's a song that, you know,
Speaker 6: has now allowed me to go on tour and have
Speaker 6: people sing along and things and do dreams that I
Speaker 6: thought would never be possible, and so I'm very very.
Speaker 4: Thankful for it.
Speaker 2: And then I fell in love with the other song
Speaker 2: Can I Have this Last Dance?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And that's your can she have? Yeah? Okay, can she
Speaker 2: have the Last Dance? But the point was I was
Speaker 2: in like again one of my like you know, Chad
Speaker 2: and I were fighting my son at the time, like
Speaker 2: what a beautiful song, right.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 2: They're just heartfelt, right, They're just the lyrics are just there.
Speaker 2: The music's just great like it is, and you deserve
Speaker 2: every bit of success that you're getting right now, and
Speaker 2: you've worked hard for it.
Speaker 6: And this song, you know, it's so funny. Both of
Speaker 6: these songs were the songs that I I kind of
Speaker 6: wrote for my wedding. You know, Can She Have This
Speaker 6: Dance was something I just wrote for my mom so
Speaker 6: I could dance with her on our wedding night. My
Speaker 6: wife wanted me to write all the special dance songs,
Speaker 6: and so I wrote this song.
Speaker 2: It's almost have been one wedding that everybody was crying
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 6: And you know it's so funny. It was just me
Speaker 6: and a guitar that I recorded it really really quick,
Speaker 6: that can She Have This Dance? And I thought it
Speaker 6: was special. And then me and my wife we now
Speaker 6: have a little baby boy, and uh, I listened to
Speaker 6: this song again, can she have this dance?
Speaker 4: Holding?
Speaker 6: I was holding my son, my wife was out running errands,
Speaker 6: and I came across this song. I had studio time
Speaker 6: the next day. I didn't know what I was going
Speaker 6: to record.
Speaker 2: I mean that, I don't know. That will be my
Speaker 2: song when my son gets married, for sure. That's how
Speaker 2: much I love that song. But let's go back a
Speaker 2: little bit, bringing back to a little bit of your
Speaker 2: childhood late. What was that like growing up.
Speaker 4: Fifty people, Cindy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's like I think I graduated
Speaker 2: with a class just about five hundred kids in that class.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I had I graduated twenty two kids in
Speaker 6: my class. And it was just I grew up on
Speaker 6: you know, my grandpa had a farm, so we spent
Speaker 6: a lot of time on tractors and four wheelers and
Speaker 6: you know, growing up fishing, jumping the fence behind the
Speaker 6: house and and going over to the farm across the way.
Speaker 6: And it was, man, it was a really good life.
Speaker 6: And and a lot of people ask why you why
Speaker 6: do you sing country? And it's just like, man, it's
Speaker 6: all I know. It's it's what I grew up doing.
Speaker 6: You know, we grew up riding back roads and sitting
Speaker 6: on tailgates, people drinking cold beer, sitting around fires, and
Speaker 6: that was our fun.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Our fun was was being out in the woods, being
Speaker 6: out in the sticks, and.
Speaker 2: We did how any causes you tip, Drew, I just
Speaker 2: need to know.
Speaker 6: We had about a little over one hundred head of
Speaker 6: beef cows and how the cow calf business Grandpa did
Speaker 6: and my brother, you know, he still does that my cousins.
Speaker 6: I was the only one that kind of got a
Speaker 6: got out and was playing music.
Speaker 4: I was the black sheep of the family. You know.
Speaker 6: We'd be throwing haybales and I'd be singing by the
Speaker 6: door and turning the lights down the little and they'd
Speaker 6: be like shut up, and you just shut your mouth,
Speaker 6: like you getting on our nerves. And yeah, it was
Speaker 6: just I just loved music. It was so I grew
Speaker 6: up singing in church and my dad dad saying, and
Speaker 6: so we spent a lot of time riding around in
Speaker 6: the truck with my dad singing, and.
Speaker 5: Didn't really figure out at what age that you really
Speaker 5: could sing just like naturally.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it was first grade Christmas program when
Speaker 6: I performed for my first time in front of people,
Speaker 6: and that was when I really got the bug. When
Speaker 6: you know, we got done singing and everybody started clapping
Speaker 6: and screaming. I was like, oh man, we must be
Speaker 6: pretty good at this. It was just really then after that,
Speaker 6: you know, we didn't have a music program. We were
Speaker 6: so small. We didn't have football, we didn't have a
Speaker 6: music program, nothing like that. Because we're K through twelve school,
Speaker 6: all one school. So what the school I started in
Speaker 6: kindergarten with? That's the same school I graduated with.
Speaker 2: Which part did you miss? Sammy? Twenty two people we
Speaker 2: went to school with us something like that. I had
Speaker 2: graduating class, I think the whole thing. I think they
Speaker 2: went from k to senior.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was twenty two in my class.
Speaker 6: I think from from kindergarten to senior was about a
Speaker 6: couple hundred kids, a little under two hundred, one hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty something like that.
Speaker 2: Is your wife from there or did you meet your
Speaker 2: wife where you are now?
Speaker 6: So I met my wife when I was out on
Speaker 6: the road about eight years ago, seven or eight years
Speaker 6: ago up. And she's from Illinois too, And I was
Speaker 6: playing a show up there at at a college town
Speaker 6: Western Illinois University town called McComb and I was passing
Speaker 6: through playing a show and I met her out at
Speaker 6: a bar afterwards and became friends, and she moved here
Speaker 6: a handful of years later, and we just got together
Speaker 6: and had dinner the first night we've been together ever since.
Speaker 4: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: It's actually funny because right now we've got you streaming
Speaker 2: into chatter, which is it's an audio device. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've heard a clubhouse ever heard of twitter X,
Speaker 2: so chatter twitter x where you can actually go into
Speaker 2: audio and talk to people blah blah blah. So you're
Speaker 2: actually streaming in there and people saying, oh, well, they've
Speaker 2: heard your song and that's going to be that song
Speaker 2: to dance with their Yeah, either or whatever. I ors
Speaker 2: either way, I guess it can work both ways. Is
Speaker 2: it's just a beautiful song. But so you realized you
Speaker 2: met your wife, Okay, did you know? Did you fall
Speaker 2: in love with her right away? I?
Speaker 4: Did you know?
Speaker 6: It was Uh, you know, it was kind of a
Speaker 6: long process. We met and uh I had a girlfriend
Speaker 6: at the time and I was out on the road,
Speaker 6: so you know, we just said hello that first night.
Speaker 6: I think how it happened was we were at a
Speaker 6: bar and there was some guy really hitting on her
Speaker 6: and bothering her, and she just leaned down.
Speaker 4: She's like, can you just talk to me until he
Speaker 4: goes away. I was like, sure, yeah, I'll talk.
Speaker 6: To you, and so we talked and became friends that night,
Speaker 6: and I came back the next year to that same venue.
Speaker 6: We were playing and I was single, and so I
Speaker 6: hit her up. I think it was probably on Facebook.
Speaker 6: I slid into her DMS and I was like, hey,
Speaker 6: I'm playing a show tonight, like you should come out,
Speaker 6: blah blah blah. And she hit me right back and
Speaker 6: is like I can't. I got to work tomorrow. And
Speaker 6: she never came.
Speaker 2: How that works.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so she blew me off, and I was like, dang,
Speaker 6: it only always works and girls always came out, and.
Speaker 2: So she was just this one didn't.
Speaker 4: This one didn't.
Speaker 6: There was something special about her, and so we just
Speaker 6: became friends and talked a lot, and you know, she
Speaker 6: said she always wanted to live in Nashville. She moved
Speaker 6: down here a couple of years later, and yeah, we
Speaker 6: got dinner one night. And when she moved down here.
Speaker 6: We've been together ever since, pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: And then how long before you married her?
Speaker 4: It took me five years?
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 6: I think I proposed at four years, and then we
Speaker 6: ended up getting married and right at our five year mark.
Speaker 2: And then let me just get married, have the baby,
Speaker 2: and have the hip music at the same time.
Speaker 6: Hey, that's what I'm talking about. And she's been such
Speaker 6: a big supporter of this, you know, Cindy. It was
Speaker 6: not having a record label. It was just kind of
Speaker 6: me and her, you know. And this was the song
Speaker 6: started streaming. She somebody's daughter started streaming like crazy, and
Speaker 6: that was the first time we were really making money,
Speaker 6: you know, we started seeing money come in from this.
Speaker 6: And then I look at her and say, hey, so it's.
Speaker 1: Been that money.
Speaker 2: I'm still on the iTunes and I'll pay and that
Speaker 2: one of those songs is at the highest number still, okay.
Speaker 2: So that's how you know when the songs are hit,
Speaker 2: because you ain't paying nine nine cents anymore. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: in the dollar what is it? Dull ninety nine? Right?
Speaker 2: So my kids go time, mom, why you still buy
Speaker 2: music on iTunes?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Leave me alone. I don't care. They're like just one
Speaker 2: one yearly fee. Yeah, it's just easy dull nine nine,
Speaker 2: click right and it comes on. So do they take
Speaker 2: care of you guys on those iTunes? And they really
Speaker 2: pay what they're supposed to pay. Because a friend of mine,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know the name Wendy Stalin.
Speaker 2: I don't so Wendy, And actually I should hook you
Speaker 2: up with Wendy. She's got a new app coming out
Speaker 2: and she was the she found Lady Gaga. Okay, and
Speaker 2: so all these musicians are not getting their fair share
Speaker 2: of the money and that's the problem, and that's what
Speaker 2: she's doing right now. But she's she's a big player
Speaker 2: in that space. Lady Gaga obviously was a big home
Speaker 2: run for her. But that's an introduction I'll make for
Speaker 2: you as time goes on here. All that thought, Oh no,
Speaker 2: I don't have to all that thought. I know, don't
Speaker 2: you stick that? They stick that thing in my face
Speaker 2: like my clock is running out? All right, go ahead,
Speaker 2: I'll make I'll make Ross happy. We'll go to break
Speaker 2: and be right back. I'm city stuff who listens to
Speaker 2: his nails, and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: I'm Cindy Stumpo and I'm here with.
Speaker 4: And Drew Balders, you buddy.
Speaker 2: Both those songs just kill it. I mean they just
Speaker 2: kill it. It is what it is. I can't take
Speaker 2: it away. I listen to them. I swear to God
Speaker 2: it every They're in my car, there, they're home on
Speaker 2: so no nos, I'm blasting that all over the place.
Speaker 5: Looking back, you happy how it happened versus how you
Speaker 5: thought it was going to go.
Speaker 2: Well, the record label taking half his money got.
Speaker 4: More well, I think too, Like.
Speaker 6: Sometimes sometimes in life we feel like, you know, in
Speaker 6: moments when things are going bad, you're like, this is
Speaker 6: the worst thing that can.
Speaker 4: Possibly happen to me.
Speaker 6: And I remember losing the record deal, losing the manager,
Speaker 6: losing all of it, and thinking like, wow, this is
Speaker 6: as low as it gets, you know, and then just
Speaker 6: learning from all those all those loads, and you know,
Speaker 6: without without all those learning curves and curveballs throwing my way.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have a numb one
Speaker 6: by myself. I wouldn't have been the first artist to
Speaker 6: ever do this. And sometimes I feel like God, you know,
Speaker 6: prepares you for those moments and you don't even recognize it.
Speaker 6: And for me, you know, without all those trials, without
Speaker 6: all those errors, I'm not where I'm at right now.
Speaker 2: So my daughter's got something to say to you, since
Speaker 2: she's missed astrology, right She's going to tell you why
Speaker 2: it didn't work out, Because why, Sam.
Speaker 5: So, I was doing the math backwards for your age
Speaker 5: now and when this happened in twenty nineteen brings you
Speaker 5: back roughly five years through around twenty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 5: So there's this thing called you're sat in return where
Speaker 5: satin is roughly between twenty eight and thirty years where
Speaker 5: it was when you were born. And life like throws
Speaker 5: things at you, whether you pick the right path of
Speaker 5: the wrong path. Now, you kept getting hit with things
Speaker 5: over and over again that you had never experienced before,
Speaker 5: and it could have brought you down a really bad path,
Speaker 5: and it didn't. It brought you to a better situation
Speaker 5: than you could have thought of. But it doesn't always
Speaker 5: work that way for everybody. Because you made the right choices,
Speaker 5: follow me.
Speaker 4: Man, I mean, that's that's pretty powerful. I think. I
Speaker 4: don't know if they.
Speaker 6: Were the right choices or they were just the ballsy ones,
Speaker 6: you know at the time.
Speaker 2: He is a good thing, buddy. I live with them
Speaker 2: all day long. Okay, I got about four of them. Okay,
Speaker 2: most men have two. I got four.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 6: And it was just like, Hey, this is my dream,
Speaker 6: this is what I want to do. I'm gonna chase it,
Speaker 6: and I'm I'm gonna do it till the wheels fall off.
Speaker 6: You know, this is all I want to do in
Speaker 6: my life. And you know, if that means I fall
Speaker 6: flat on my face, try and I'm gonna go down swinging.
Speaker 6: And I just really believed, like I said, believed in
Speaker 6: this song, believed in the message of it.
Speaker 4: And that's what was so cool.
Speaker 6: Was like the song that ends up being our biggest
Speaker 6: song that gets over a billion plays, billions, you know,
Speaker 6: views or whatever, talking about treating women right and knowing
Speaker 6: they're worth and I just think that's.
Speaker 4: Such a powerful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, excuse me, gentlemen, did you hear that. You just
Speaker 2: said something that's very resonating, that it's teaching men how
Speaker 2: to treat women. Yeah, now I don't know. I mean
Speaker 2: you might be a closet case. He's feed her. I
Speaker 2: don't know. But you don't come off that way. So
Speaker 2: I'm not going to take you as that person. So
Speaker 2: you should be that face is kind. He's always seeming
Speaker 2: like Sharaija, goat kind dice. Okay, now we're going by
Speaker 2: kind ice. What's what you said?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: What? What? What's the sign? I don't know what's your sign?
Speaker 4: My sign's a LEO?
Speaker 2: Was right by leos and tourists lately.
Speaker 4: Little fire sign out there?
Speaker 2: What's your wife?
Speaker 4: She's she's a leo too, So we got a lot
Speaker 4: of fire going.
Speaker 2: On fish family too. I'm a kid, sir, I'm the
Speaker 2: double side, oh double sage.
Speaker 5: The fire, I'm aris fire.
Speaker 2: So that morning when you woke up and you saw
Speaker 2: all those views, were you jumping around the house or
Speaker 2: wherever you were?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Yeah. So we were on our honeymoon.
Speaker 6: We were in our little condo and me and my
Speaker 6: wife were jumping around, crying all sorts of things, Like.
Speaker 4: Every record label is going to call us we got
Speaker 4: to hit blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: And that just didn't happen. You know, I went, I remember,
Speaker 6: I'll never forget. We were on our honeymoon. I've made
Speaker 6: the post already about playing people's back I booked a
Speaker 6: bunch of people's backyards. And when we land from our honeymoon,
Speaker 6: my tour manager comes in in the van, picks me
Speaker 6: up from the airport, and we go out and we
Speaker 6: played twenty shows in nineteen days in people's backyards, back
Speaker 6: to back to back to back, just going around the country.
Speaker 6: And that turns into playing over three hundred shows in
Speaker 6: a couple of years in people's backyards. And I just
Speaker 6: that's what I thought my life was going to be
Speaker 6: for a long time, is just being the guy that's
Speaker 6: sang in people's backyards. But I'll tell you this, Cindy,
Speaker 6: when I was in when I was in folks back backyards,
Speaker 6: it really just changed everything for me because I was
Speaker 6: so caught in this Nashville system, and I think artists
Speaker 6: we moved to Nashville, LA, New York or whatever, and
Speaker 6: you get so caught up and thinking I got to
Speaker 6: make music for all these label heads. I gotta make
Speaker 6: music that sounds like the radio or it sounds like this,
Speaker 6: and at the end of the day, you just got
Speaker 6: to make music for people. And I didn't realize that
Speaker 6: until I was in their backyards and they were telling me, Man,
Speaker 6: this song means so much to me because of this,
Speaker 6: or this song so much to me because of that,
Speaker 6: and you know, and now I wrote it turned it
Speaker 6: into me writing my brand new single. It's called Tough People,
Speaker 6: and it's a really really special song just about how
Speaker 6: tough times can sure make some tough people. When you're
Speaker 6: at your lowest loves, you really figure out who you are.
Speaker 2: I don't you know. Look at I'm watching you, like
Speaker 2: I said, and I've been following you on Instagram, and
Speaker 2: you're more impressive being right in my face right now.
Speaker 2: And I didn't think that was gonna be possible. You
Speaker 2: hit the but something about morals and values, like big
Speaker 2: Time Samuel will tell you, like, I either love you
Speaker 2: or I don't even like you. How's that right? You're
Speaker 2: either evil or you're a good human being, right, And
Speaker 2: I just like the human beings, and that's what you are,
Speaker 2: and you deserve so much good success. And I can
Speaker 2: see the way that you treat your wife. And I
Speaker 2: think any mother should be so proud to have you
Speaker 2: as a son in law because and I'm sure your
Speaker 2: wife's a wonderful woman too. To take me, it takes
Speaker 2: two people to I'm gonna meet it, trust me. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna meet both. You trust me, okay, And but at
Speaker 2: the end, it's just this is there's just this gleam.
Speaker 2: And Sim'll tell you, like I'll stroll through things on
Speaker 2: Instagram and you see my follows, and you see are
Speaker 2: you following Sidney Stomp? I'm not sure, but my content
Speaker 2: has got a lot of back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 2: and I'm way over my algorithm of what I should have.
Speaker 2: But there's tons of everybody's got something to say. Right,
Speaker 2: you're gonna love that about people. Right, you're gonna get
Speaker 2: your hits, You're gonna get you knocks, she's gonna get
Speaker 2: your likes. And me on the other side, every time
Speaker 2: I get a guy and that comes in and knocks me
Speaker 2: after thirty eight years an ultra ultra high end construction. Right,
Speaker 2: and dude, you got a bathroom from home? Deepo, Like
Speaker 2: you're seriously gonna come at me. I will just emasculate them, right.
Speaker 2: So one guy writes back, He's like, do you really
Speaker 2: answer these? I thought you didn't read these? Like, oh nobody.
Speaker 2: This is a sport for me. You just you just
Speaker 2: hit up a Boston broad like, buddy, what do you
Speaker 2: think was gonna happen here?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Did you think I was gonna come in?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Can be kind? It's actually funny. But what's been most
Speaker 2: of your feedback on your social media besides the hate is.
Speaker 6: It's all been very positive? You know, I think social
Speaker 6: media can be what you make it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Obviously for me, that's what changed my life with social
Speaker 6: media was daughter blowing She's somebody's daughter blowing up? Can
Speaker 6: she have this dance? Just like you said, Cindy, you
Speaker 6: found us and discovered us because of social media, and
Speaker 6: you know, it's all. What I love about social media
Speaker 6: is what you put out there is who follows you.
Speaker 6: And that's something that I've really noticed. By playing people's backyards,
Speaker 6: everybody's like, man, did you run into some weird people
Speaker 6: out there playing people's backyards? And you just showed up
Speaker 6: and you didn't know them? And I was like, man,
Speaker 6: to be honest, there are mostly people that I would
Speaker 6: hang out with. There are people that have the same
Speaker 6: morals that I do, the same you know, kind of
Speaker 6: vibe on life. And it's all because what you put
Speaker 6: out into the world is what is it the people
Speaker 6: that follow you? And I never really put that all together,
Speaker 6: but it's all been really great.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Obviously, you always have some people on there that are
Speaker 6: that are haters, and you know, I might post a
Speaker 6: picture of my wife and and me, and there's been
Speaker 6: times where you know, she's in her bikini or whatever
Speaker 6: and we're out on the boat and people come at
Speaker 6: her and say hateful things to her, and that really
Speaker 6: bothers me more than anything, I think is when people
Speaker 6: come at my family, you know. I remember we posted
Speaker 6: a picture this past Christmas of me, her, Santa Claus,
Speaker 6: and our son, and my wife had a little red
Speaker 6: dress on. It was the first time she felt pretty
Speaker 6: since we've had our son, and she was going out
Speaker 6: dressed up and people started attacking to her, calling all
Speaker 6: sorts of names because she had a you know, a
Speaker 6: pretty looking dress on. And so it can definitely be
Speaker 6: you know, social media can be tough and rude and hateful,
Speaker 6: but for the most part, a lot of people on
Speaker 6: our socials are really kind and if I if I
Speaker 6: don't think so, I just block them. I just delete
Speaker 6: them and block them.
Speaker 2: That's now, that's the same. It does what I do.
Speaker 2: I wait for you to come back again, and I
Speaker 2: go after your throw it again. Okay, well, yell at
Speaker 2: them for you and then they eventually like they just
Speaker 2: they just like go away like little bugs, right because
Speaker 2: they're not ready for that.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So that's right there.
Speaker 2: That's total Boston. But you know, look at I realized
Speaker 2: that I wasn't made for HGTV. I wasn't made for
Speaker 2: TV because I could take the hits. But when they
Speaker 2: were coming after my kids, oh yeah, watch out, it
Speaker 2: was just I decided, like, you know, what can your
Speaker 2: son do more than golf? He's a he's an amateur
Speaker 2: pro golfer. Like, what else should you do? Well, maybe
Speaker 2: you should be sitting on a street corner shooting drugs
Speaker 2: and his arm. I don't know. So you weren't supposed
Speaker 2: to go on the HGTV website. I did it, and
Speaker 2: then I got yelled at. I'm like fighting me, HGTV.
Speaker 2: They're like, we can't fight you, Cindy. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: then then leave me alone, right, So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: something's a hurtful and we have to learn to accept
Speaker 2: the good with the bat hold that thought we're going
Speaker 2: to break. I'm Sidy stumbling. Listen, top his nails on
Speaker 2: WBZ and We'll be right back.
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Speaker 8: She somebody's do she, somebody's everything, ge, somebody's fattal girly
Speaker 8: on it.
Speaker 4: She's grown up.
Speaker 2: And welcome back to tap his nails on WBZ. And
Speaker 2: I'm Sindy and I'm here with Samantha, and now we
Speaker 2: see each other. Buddy, this is better. You know we
Speaker 2: look like here. That's good. We've been watching you. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, I got so many questions. See him go ahead,
Speaker 2: she went on, So as your career was going, and
Speaker 2: where you stand right now?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: So it was at one point with somebody saying, hey, buddy,
Speaker 2: you need to get a real job, like you better
Speaker 2: go cut some lumber, you better stop building houses, how
Speaker 2: to be a mechanic, Like anybody tort you that way
Speaker 2: or they were just had your back.
Speaker 6: It was I think whenever I first moved here, you know,
Speaker 6: my My mama was worried about that. You know, I
Speaker 6: think there were some people in my life worried about that.
Speaker 6: But I was always just so lucky. I found a
Speaker 6: way to make a living playing bars. And when I
Speaker 6: first moved here, I'll never forget I made a I
Speaker 6: had this envelope and I sat in my computer and
Speaker 6: I had my guitar and I sang like forty songs
Speaker 6: into my old MacBook, and I had had the CDs,
Speaker 6: and I made cards that said my name and my
Speaker 6: phone number on them. And I walked down all of
Speaker 6: Broadway in Nashville and I took these envelopes into every
Speaker 6: bar and I was like, Hey, my name's Drew Baldridge.
Speaker 6: Is your music director here? And they'd be like, nah,
Speaker 6: just put it on the desk. I'd be like, oh cool.
Speaker 6: So I'd set it on the desk and I'd leave.
Speaker 6: And then I walked into Tutsies one night one day
Speaker 6: and I was like, hey, is your music director? They're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: he's actually upstairs, and it was like something out of
Speaker 6: a movie.
Speaker 2: I actually called yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I was st and this guy's counting hundreds on his
Speaker 6: desk and I walked in. I was like, hey, I'm Drew,
Speaker 6: you know, and he's like, you want to play our bar?
Speaker 4: I was like yeah.
Speaker 6: He's like, you know about forty songs Old country and
Speaker 6: New Country. And I was like, yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 6: He's like, I tell you what I like the way
Speaker 6: you look. You go up tomorrow. And I was like,
Speaker 6: oh okay. So I went, you know, started playing at Tutsies,
Speaker 6: and that allowed me to make a living and all
Speaker 6: at this time. You know, where I'm from is only
Speaker 6: four hours from Nashville. So I would go up every
Speaker 6: Friday and Saturday and play bars in my hometown area
Speaker 6: where I came from, and then I would play Tuesday
Speaker 6: Thursdays in downtown Nashville.
Speaker 2: And that's the name Tutsy is like I think a
Speaker 2: roadhouse when I hear Tutsies, Rightidaville, you think of wild Listen.
Speaker 2: Boston is so different, right, Like it's so different from
Speaker 2: where you grew up. And you know where you live now,
Speaker 2: tell me something your roots home? Right? So how far
Speaker 2: away from your mom? Know you that you live?
Speaker 6: We're four hours you know, I live in Nashville. They
Speaker 6: still live up in Illinois. All my family does they still,
Speaker 6: like I said, my brother still works on the farm
Speaker 6: and my cousins still do.
Speaker 4: And that's really fun.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow we're actually having our number one party in Nashville
Speaker 6: tomorrow for She's somebody's daughter. It's our first ever number
Speaker 6: one party, and so all of my family is coming
Speaker 6: down to go to it, so my brother and you know,
Speaker 6: my mom and having what's that, No, it's gonna be
Speaker 6: a it's gonna be at a rooftop in downtown Nashville,
Speaker 6: which would be super cool. And we actually today we
Speaker 6: craned in ash like turf, so the whole rooftop it
Speaker 6: looks like a big backyard. So we can kind of
Speaker 6: say we went from backyards to having a number one
Speaker 6: song in country music, which is pretty special.
Speaker 2: So they're only a four hour drive from you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, only four hours there in southern Illinois.
Speaker 2: How proud?
Speaker 6: Oh well, it was fun this this last weekend. Every year,
Speaker 6: I do a festival in my hometown. I called the
Speaker 6: I called the tour the Baldridge and Bonfire Tour, And
Speaker 6: so I thought, when I was riding around playing backyards,
Speaker 6: I thought, ma'am, how cool would be if I did
Speaker 6: a big one called up the Big Baldridge and Bonfire
Speaker 6: And so this is my third year. Last weekend we
Speaker 6: did it and all my hometown people came and big festival,
Speaker 6: you know, a thousand people come out. And then I
Speaker 6: actually do one in my wife's hometown too that we
Speaker 6: just started. And so that was the past two weekends.
Speaker 6: We were up in Illinois visiting them, playing festival, and
Speaker 6: it was it just that's a special event. We get
Speaker 6: to raise money for charity and I just always really
Speaker 6: really love helping out our small town area.
Speaker 2: Country fest' Let's stadium? Yeah, oh, oh, you haven't played
Speaker 2: je Lette Stadium yet country Fest? Have you?
Speaker 4: I haven't yet. No.
Speaker 6: I have played a bar outside of Gillette Stadium. What's
Speaker 6: that bar there called? There's a bar club, dance club
Speaker 6: outside of Jillette Stadium across the street, maybe something strings.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: She's at every game. How you should know the semi.
Speaker 5: I don't hang out around there.
Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't matter. We gotta get when's country Fest.
Speaker 2: That's when it already happened. It's a spring though, right
Speaker 2: August August it's Country Fest.
Speaker 4: Well, we gotta we're gonna come back up bear Sandy.
Speaker 2: Oh, it doesn't matter. I have my pull on that one.
Speaker 2: I like it, Come on, I have on that one.
Speaker 2: So I start on your schedule of what you've got
Speaker 2: coming up. Boston's not on there. Where's the closest run
Speaker 2: new hem? Sure do you do Maine? Do you do
Speaker 2: any of those areas?
Speaker 6: Or so this summer we're not allowed to announce it yet.
Speaker 6: We're gonna go out on tour with another artist this
Speaker 6: summer and we're going to be close to y'all, so
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 4: Everybody out there.
Speaker 6: If you just follow Drew Baldridge Music, which is my Facebook,
Speaker 6: Instagram and TikTok, it's all the same thing. We post
Speaker 6: all our tour dates all the time where we're playing,
Speaker 6: when we're playing, and you can follow along and we'll
Speaker 6: be announcing more dates. Right at the start of the year.
Speaker 6: We just announced that Cody Johnson tour and we're gonna
Speaker 6: have more with some other artists coming up really soon.
Speaker 2: So when do you go back on tour?
Speaker 6: So I'm on tour pretty much all of the time.
Speaker 6: So so like this weekend, we're playing in Indiana next weekend. Cool,
Speaker 6: we are, Like if you go to Drew Baldridge music
Speaker 6: dot com, you can see all the tour dates. But
Speaker 6: we're officially doing our own headlining tour this November. Going
Speaker 6: out for November in a couple of dates in December.
Speaker 6: It's just called Drew Baldridge Live. It's celebrating cheet somebody's
Speaker 6: daughter going number one. We're gonna be in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be.
Speaker 6: In Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, not Boston. I really wish we
Speaker 6: were coming to Boston, but there's a lot Florida. We're
Speaker 6: gonna be playing a town called Niceville.
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 6: Niceville, Florida, something like that, I think coming up in November.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm a city slicker. I go back
Speaker 2: to I go to Florida. I'm still around pavement. We
Speaker 2: got part of Florida. It's actually funny. And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you a little story. Charlie Walks a really good friend
Speaker 2: of mine. He was the VP of Sony Records. And
Speaker 2: when I first found you, I shared you with Charlie
Speaker 2: because he's got his own label. Right, I go, Charlie,
Speaker 2: just listen to him. Just listen to him. Ah, Sidney
Speaker 2: Country is not okay, Charlie. And then like Millie, months later,
Speaker 2: when Charlie is not at number three, and then you
Speaker 2: went to number one. I go, you just lost out, buddy, right,
Speaker 2: like I just I just love sticking it up. That's going, Okay,
Speaker 2: you just lost out, buddy.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's now at a point that those labels aren't going
Speaker 2: to come screaming out because it's what part of Florida Dustin?
Speaker 2: What the heck is that?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 4: Panhandle, Hanhandle?
Speaker 2: Okay, probably down there like Branton, we rather went to school. Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably how we on the hills Brayton. But what was
Speaker 2: I just went, what was this thing?
Speaker 5: Charlie Walk?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was like, Charlie, well hit number one.
Speaker 2: Now he doesn't need you anymore? Right? So do you
Speaker 2: think now because of this, artists will realize if just
Speaker 2: keep pushing the rock up the mountain, you don't need
Speaker 2: these labels to make you feel bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think too, like.
Speaker 2: Because there was a time you had depend on the labels.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think for like award shows and
Speaker 6: things like that, you do need help. You know, you
Speaker 6: do need votes, you need all this stuff. And so
Speaker 6: we're very open to a partnership. I always think I'm
Speaker 6: going to own at least half of what I'm doing,
Speaker 6: you know, because I've worked so hard for it and
Speaker 6: pushed so hard for it. But if we could find
Speaker 6: like a real partner, a major label that wants to
Speaker 6: come alongside of my label and be a partner.
Speaker 2: And I'll be calling Charlie back tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: You know, directly to Charlie too, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Over the next little bit. I really believe that we
Speaker 6: will find a partner, somebody that believes in our music
Speaker 6: as much as ours.
Speaker 2: Who is it that you'd love, who would be your
Speaker 2: first choice to partner up with.
Speaker 6: There's this record there's this record label in Nashville called
Speaker 6: b MG, and they are just really really good. They
Speaker 6: have people like Laney Wilson, Jelly Roll, Jason al Dean.
Speaker 6: They know what they're doing, They've been doing it forever.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you something. I love Jaysontine. You
Speaker 2: know why when he came up with that, because because
Speaker 2: Christy Nome's a friend of mine. Number one, okay, and
Speaker 2: number two when she go out behind him.
Speaker 4: On small town Oh yeah, small Town USA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she you know, she stood right behind him
Speaker 2: and said, look, he wasn't doing trying to put any
Speaker 2: points across that he you know, wasn't what people wanted
Speaker 2: to read into it and so on, and I thought
Speaker 2: it was a great song. I know I'm a Boston
Speaker 2: broad that las country, right, you can't make but actually
Speaker 2: is a lot of it is a lot of us.
Speaker 2: That's why we have the Bull here because.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Boston is massive, massive country fans. You know.
Speaker 6: I know Kenny Chesney loves coming up there. He's got
Speaker 6: a song called Boston. And I actually came up to Boston.
Speaker 6: I did this tour. Right before I played the Backyards,
Speaker 6: I had this song called Senior Year and it was
Speaker 6: talking about how the hook of the song said, never
Speaker 6: thought it would disappear senior year. And I put this
Speaker 6: song out in twenty nineteen, just mean, live it up, kids,
Speaker 6: It's going to go by fast. On twenty twenty, all
Speaker 6: these kids in senior year did disappear. And I remember
Speaker 6: sending this song around to radio stations and just saying, hey,
Speaker 6: I'm doing zoom concerts for the class of twenty twenty
Speaker 6: since school shut down. One of the very first stations
Speaker 6: I sent it to was up there in y'all's area,
Speaker 6: and I ended up coming in and playing a graduation
Speaker 6: a drive in graduation in debt Ham Debtham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's down the street from us.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So we've been up there a couple of times and
Speaker 6: played for the seniors and did a big senior send
Speaker 6: off for all the graduations. When twenty twenty hit, we
Speaker 6: was on a big flatbed trailer, had all the kids
Speaker 6: pull up in their cars and I was on on
Speaker 6: this big trailer by myself, just kind of giving a
Speaker 6: commencement speech right there and little deadhim Dedham.
Speaker 2: Massachusets, Massachusetts. It's actually a big get him that's so small,
Speaker 2: you know, all that thought we're going to break. I'm
Speaker 2: Sinny Stumbley. He looks tough his nails on WBZ with
Speaker 2: Radio at Temper. Can't you steal me the next one?
Speaker 2: And welcome back to Cindy Stumpo tough his nails on
Speaker 2: WBZ And I'm here with Sammy, I'm here with Drew Joe.
Speaker 2: The song just makes me cry every time I hear it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but it's just so beautiful, so beautiful.
Speaker 6: Appreciate y'all having me on here, and I appreciate y'all
Speaker 6: letting me let me talk about my music. And we're
Speaker 6: so excited to be out on the road this fall
Speaker 6: and you can check out all our tour dates at
Speaker 6: Drew balderge music dot com.
Speaker 4: And at the start of the year, we're gonna be.
Speaker 6: Going out on tour Cody Johnson, our first ever arena tour,
Speaker 6: which is crazy to think. We're to be playing for
Speaker 6: like fourteen or fifteen thousand people a night, and we're
Speaker 6: hoping to come up y'all's area really really soon. And
Speaker 6: we've got a brand new song and it's called Tough People.
Speaker 6: You on my socials which is just Drew Baldridge Music, TikTok,
Speaker 6: Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 2: And please tag me in all of it, okay, because
Speaker 2: I got a lot of follow us, Okay, so please, okay, everybody,
Speaker 2: have a great, safe weekend. This is Cindy Stump and
Speaker 2: we'll see you next day.
Speaker 5: Night,