1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Aro dot net, aar r oe dot net. Not just 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,759 one podcast, it is twenty different podcasts that embrace everything 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,119 that we are and beyond today. Wooh, that sounded official, 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,720 didn't it. You know, like something our parents would say. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,559 All of those things, it just seems so odd and strange. 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,160 And you said that, dad, where did it come from? Well, 7 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:24,879 we dig up the history something our parents would say. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,440 Only on ero dot net, r r oe dot net. 9 00:00:28,839 --> 00:00:33,439 Enjoy the exploration. Hello, hi, Harper, how are you doing today? 10 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:37,079 Speaker 2: Well, I'm even more lovely than I was before talking 11 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:38,799 to you, So now I'm talking to you and I'm 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,439 even lovelier. 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,799 Speaker 1: Well, listen to that heart of yours, and I can 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,920 tell that it's grown up here in the South, because, 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 oh my god, you might as well just say bless 16 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:48,320 your heart because I'll know exactly what you mean. 17 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 3: Oh lordy, I say that sometimes, Harper. 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: I got to tell you something. There are so many 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,960 different things that say to me that you are definitely 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,880 on your way, and one of them is your name. 21 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,479 Because as radio, what you don't get to see us 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,319 do is how many times we practice saying your name 23 00:01:04,359 --> 00:01:06,239 because we want to make sure that it comes out 24 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,799 so smooth. And so like part of a conversation. So 25 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,000 I've said your name eighty thousand times, I bet because 26 00:01:13,079 --> 00:01:16,879 Harper Grace is such a flow. Did you know that 27 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,680 when you first started out there is a flow of 28 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:21,239 positive energy in that name. 29 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 3: Well, I'm just grateful. Mama did good. I guess. 30 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: I have two middle names and my last name. Love 31 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,840 my dad so much. I actually got it tattooed on 32 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:34,439 my arm because I love my last name. But when 33 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:37,319 I was younger and I started singing a little bit 34 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,159 at coffee shops and stuff, I said, Dad, I love you, 35 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,079 but I don't think that's going to roll off the 36 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,359 tongue nicely. My last name is actually Gruisins, and so 37 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,519 when people would introduce me Harper. 38 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,239 Speaker 3: Cruisins, I was like, well, that doesn't you know? That's 39 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,159 not gonna do it. So I took one of my 40 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:54,840 middle names. My full name is. 41 00:01:54,799 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: Harper Kaylee Grace Cruises, and so we couldn't buy Harper Grace. 42 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: Bo that's a good podcast or a radio name. Holy cow, 43 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,400 there's a vibe about that. 44 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: I actually don't tell people. I don't tell many people that. 45 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,280 So now you got a little insight there. 46 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: Wow, Well it kind of reminds me of the days 47 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,639 with my mother when I changed my real name to 48 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:18,120 a radio name, and you know, she didn't ever, ever, 49 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,719 ever accept that because she felt I should be called 50 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:22,680 Clarence on the radio and I'm just not going on 51 00:02:22,719 --> 00:02:23,479 here as Clarence. 52 00:02:26,039 --> 00:02:28,039 Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of a really cool name. I've 53 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:28,680 never heard that. 54 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: So when you do a song called if Daddy Says No, 55 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:38,800 do you know how many men and women of every 56 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,400 generation are going to be taken back to an area 57 00:02:41,439 --> 00:02:45,240 where their father said no and he meant it. He 58 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:47,800 meant it. And that's what I love about this song 59 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,039 is that you have that empowerment to get us into 60 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,199 going into whatever direction we are in that present moment. 61 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much. Yeah, this song is very personal. 62 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,759 Speaker 2: But the reason why I felt like I was able 63 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,520 to kind of bring it out to the limelight and 64 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,800 also get down to the nitty gritty of why I 65 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,879 wrote it and how I wrote it was because I 66 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,639 started playing it live and the stories I would hear 67 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,719 from people's personal lives of how it affected them and 68 00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:22,719 how everybody's story was so different. But the positive aspect 69 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:26,120 of people actually connecting with the song, they actually fans 70 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,759 in general made me more confident in being able to 71 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:31,400 take this song and actually release it and turn it 72 00:03:31,439 --> 00:03:33,960 into what it is today. So I'm super grateful, and 73 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,039 like you said, I'm just glad that it resonates and 74 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,319 connects with people, because that's all you want as a 75 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,800 songwriter and as an artist, is that it doesn't just 76 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,199 belong to you. When you put this song out, you 77 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:47,759 share it with the world. You share it with everybody else, 78 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,000 and it's just as much as the listeners as it 79 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:51,680 is my song. 80 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: Hey, Please you Not Move. There's more with Harper Gray 81 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:58,000 right around the corner. The name of the new song 82 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,719 from Harper Gray is if Daddy said, no, ooh, let's 83 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,360 find out more. Would you be offended if I told 84 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,199 you I turned to my wife after listening to this 85 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,240 song about ten times and I said, I think I've 86 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:11,759 just listened to the new Landslide from Stevie Nicks. 87 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:16,199 Speaker 3: I would not be offended one single bit. I think 88 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:17,399 I really like that. 89 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: Well because there's so much relatability in it. And I 90 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:22,879 think it's because it's coming from your writing instrument right 91 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:25,160 into your soul and then out your vocal chords. And 92 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:28,439 I mean, I can feel so much emotion in this 93 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,279 and to me, it's the difference between having a presence 94 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,519 and being visible. So when we listen to the song, 95 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:38,279 that's the presence of you moving that energy through us. 96 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 3: Wow, you need to write some songs. You've got some 97 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,120 nice little articulation there. 98 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: The way you talk, it's just a poet in a forest, 99 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,959 and you know how that is. We'll talk about frogs 100 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:56,680 all day, but nobody's buying songs about frogs. But I 101 00:04:56,959 --> 00:04:59,360 do have to ask you in your video? Are you 102 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,160 using a hummingbird guitar? 103 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 3: I am music. 104 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: Oh, I knew it. I felt it because the Hummingbird 105 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:10,279 guitar owns a major chunk of my soul. But I 106 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,839 mean I could feel because I couldn't zoom into it. 107 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,839 It was just a feeling that I had. 108 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,399 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you knew. You got some good ears 109 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:21,879 and some good articulation, I tell you what. But yeah, 110 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,279 that is a Hummember guitar that was given to me 111 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:27,839 a couple of years back for a Christmas present and 112 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,639 it has been my just attached at the hip to 113 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:33,120 me ever since then. 114 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 3: I love that thing. 115 00:05:34,319 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 2: I've always always wanted one that was actually on a 116 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,439 dream board of mine that I had written when I 117 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:41,160 was fourteen years old was to get a Gimpson Hummingbird 118 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,800 and uh a couple of years ago, which was wonderful. 119 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:46,360 Check that right off the dream board. 120 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: List, Harper. Those are not easy to find guitars. You 121 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,759 can go into any guitar center, and at one point 122 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,439 in time I was sam ash and they were not 123 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:54,639 so readily available. 124 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's wild. 125 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,879 Speaker 2: I think mine's like a sixties seventies, like early seventies. 126 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,519 Oh but if I'm not wrong, I believe it's a 127 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,519 sixty eight which we put an input on the inside. 128 00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:12,639 Speaker 3: I pick up and uh, yeah, it's been. It's been 129 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:13,800 my best little baby. 130 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,759 Speaker 1: Do you do anything as a tradition or as as 131 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,560 a way of bringing out that that guitar's personality? Because 132 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,040 I'm a writer, so therefore I do strange things with 133 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:26,040 my writing instruments. Put them in the ground, or I'll 134 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:28,399 put them in a tree for months, and things like. 135 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,519 Do you do anything with your guitars that give them 136 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:32,079 that extra universal energy? 137 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:34,959 Speaker 3: Hm? 138 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 2: I can't say I have anything in specific, but every 139 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,600 time before I play a show, I usually say a 140 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:43,600 prayer and strum a couple of chords. And singing something 141 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,879 up to the heavens and the Lord, and that's kind 142 00:06:47,879 --> 00:06:50,160 of where I go from there. But I guess that's 143 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:53,600 my day to day and then sometimes i'll I'll just 144 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:56,759 look at it and hopefully that gives it something. 145 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,079 Speaker 1: That is so interesting that you say that, because you know, 146 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,439 with the hummingbird, I always tell my wife, I always go, 147 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:04,199 this is God and that she goes, why would you 148 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,079 say that? Because God only whispers and this is a 149 00:07:06,199 --> 00:07:08,959 humming bird. This is God's guitar. 150 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:09,319 Speaker 2: Wait. 151 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: I love that. I'm going to take that. I love that, but. 152 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,079 Speaker 1: It's the truth because there's just something about a humming bird, 153 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,079 and especially when you hear it. Did you use it? 154 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:23,639 Speaker 4: And Daddy says, no, we actually used a Martin in 155 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,560 that one, and I believe whoever was on the track 156 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,399 with me, we played with a lot of different guitars 157 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,839 before sticking to what's on the record, But the demo 158 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,279 we actually used. 159 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,759 Speaker 3: A Martin and you may or may not be later on. 160 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: Here in a little secret version of Day of Cut 161 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:47,279 that might be in the list of releases as well, right. 162 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 3: After the master version comes out. 163 00:07:49,079 --> 00:07:53,959 Speaker 2: So yeah, but it's always fun playing around with different instruments. 164 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:56,759 Different guitars made from different woods, but I will agree 165 00:07:56,759 --> 00:07:59,319 with you a Gibson and a humming bird really has 166 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,879 that warmth, just catches your soul and you love it. 167 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,879 Speaker 1: Let me ask you kind of a personal question because 168 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,199 that journey and a lot of listeners don't understand what 169 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,160 you and I go through in the way of taking 170 00:08:08,199 --> 00:08:10,439 it from the studio to the mastering. There are many 171 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,639 times the mastering I wasn't happy with it? What about you? 172 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,639 Because it feels like the person doing the mastering wasn't 173 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,000 in the studio with this when we were sweating and 174 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,360 we were sitting there trying to struggle through the lyrics. 175 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:27,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that luckily, on the route 176 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:34,200 of how I've gone about producing these tracks and having 177 00:08:34,279 --> 00:08:36,720 some pretty solid teams and people that I've worked with. 178 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 3: If Daddy says no. 179 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,039 Speaker 2: In particular, was done with a really good friend of 180 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,200 mine named Cooper Bascomb, and. 181 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,039 Speaker 3: He's like my big brother. 182 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: I trust him with really all of my internal stories 183 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,080 and thought processes and just the hardships of what I've 184 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,960 walked through. And luckily I haven't had a time where 185 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,120 the mastering hasn't gone well. 186 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 3: So I praise the Lord for that really, because you know, communicating. 187 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,759 Speaker 2: With Cooper and him having somebody that is his right 188 00:09:06,759 --> 00:09:09,440 hand that he trusts and knows will deliver the same 189 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,679 magic that we hoped that we produced within studio straight 190 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,320 to somebody speakers. 191 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,039 Speaker 3: Is such a gift. 192 00:09:16,039 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: But I will say I have heard horror stories and 193 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,440 I do know that, like you know, it hasn't gone 194 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,600 as people have planned. 195 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: But you know, praying that doesn't happen, and if it does, 196 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,519 and we live and we learn. 197 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:28,799 Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in 198 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,159 the future, Harper, especially if you come cruising through Charlotte. 199 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:32,679 We got to get to have a face to face. 200 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 3: Please, yes, I would love nothing more. 201 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,159 Speaker 1: Would you be brilliant today? Okay? 202 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 3: Oh you as well. You were such a joy. Thank 203 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,519 you for brightening up my day.