SkiP HappEns Podcast
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SkiP HappEns Podcast
Erin Alvey: Balancing Music, Family, and Life in Nashville
We are live. And here we are from the studios of the Skip Happens podcast. I'm starstruck already. That's why I'm stumbling Producer Tyler over here to my left. You can't see him, he's kind of doing his thing over there, but we are here. We are in upstate New York. You know, when I come on, I get such a thrill to talk to a lot of independent artists, a lot of well-established artists, a lot of anybody who's anybody, and tonight you're going to love this. Well, if you know anything about hockey, you might know a little bit about this young lady right here, and we're very excited because she is an independent artist. She is in Nashville, if I'm not mistaken. Erin Alvey. How are you?
Speaker 2:I'm great. How are you Skip?
Speaker 1:I am wonderful. I'm like all giddy-giddy tonight.
Speaker 2:Me too, I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm excited to have you here. People are going to go wait a minute. Is she the one that's on that Netflix series?
Speaker 2:Amazon.
Speaker 1:Inside the NHL. Is she the one that's married to that hockey player? Yes, she is. It's Philippe Forsberg.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is it Philip or Philippe?
Speaker 2:It's in Swedish, the pronunciation is Philippe Forsberg, but in English Philip Forsberg, so he goes by Philip, if he introduces himself.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. Now I can hear the little one in the background. He must be watching dad on television.
Speaker 2:He is, he's watching dad and he said Skip, don't forget about me, I'll bring him in to introduce himself.
Speaker 1:Oh, that is so cool. Let's talk about you First of all. You are in Nashville, correct?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. I mean, that's your home home in the heart of it right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, right in the heart of nashville. I mean, aren't you in like the suburbs somewhere? Are you in franklin or no, I'm not actually.
Speaker 2:I'm still in the city limits, but my husband and I lived downtown like really downtown for a long time and we moved.
Speaker 1:We're like 10, 12 minutes from the arena now, so it's still in the heart yeah, so when you go to a hockey game, do you guys walk to the arena?
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I was going to say, wouldn't that be a little?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and honestly, even when I could throw two stones and hit the arena, I still took growth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and is that because people would recognize you and your husband?
Speaker 2:Probably more him than me. But yeah, sometimes I don't think I've ever walked to a game, that's for sure. That'd be a bad idea.
Speaker 1:No, no, probably, and I don't think he would want to before a game. He's probably got a certain routine down, and walking is not part of that.
Speaker 2:He's actually not a big walker, for, as you know, intensive and physical as his career is, if I asked him to walk with me, he's like ah, let's just hang out.
Speaker 1:So I love it, but let's talk about you for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about your music. How long have you been playing music? Long time actually, almost about 10 years now. So I started when I was just at 19-ish and I came to Nashville to record my first EP and it's just been kind of a journey ever since then. After the world shut down for a bit, I took a step back and started writing here in Nashville with so many songwriters, so that's kind of what I've been doing for the past couple of years. I think many might've thought I took a break from music, but in reality I was just focusing kind of on my craft and writing, more so than touring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not alone. A lot of artists that I've spoken to have said almost that exact same thing that you know. Yeah, I was still there. You just hear me because, because?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You were working on a lot of things and maybe putting a lot of music in the closet, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we have a lot in the vault right now, exactly the vault the closet, whatever you guys call it Forever yeah.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. Tell us about, I know, the latest single. It's called End Badly. Yeah, maybe Skip Happens could happen with that. I mean, it's just like End Badly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a little bit of a darker twist, I feel like, on a love song, which is a lot of what this EP is. The EP is called Questions and Answers, or Q&A is what I'm referring to it as, and it was stemmed from that quote. There are years that ask questions and there are years that answer. So it's kind of like the past, however, so many years of my life where some of those years were question years. This single, the first of the six, is from a questionnaire. Essentially, it's from when I first met my husband. You know, when we first started dating, I was like, oh no, if it doesn't wreck me, if we break up, if this is a right person, wrong time scenario, he's going to be the one that got away and I'm going to be in love with him forever. So I'm so in love with you If you break up with me. There's a line that says please cheat on me, Do anything that will make me hate you, Because if not, this is going to really end badly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to play a little bit of that right now, so let's see. Hopefully everybody can hear this.
Speaker 2:This is so cool Me, I start to think crazy things like a slow goodbyes come. So if you ever break my heart, boy, you better cut it deep. If you make me fall apart, you better do it piece by piece.
Speaker 1:If you ever leave me Promise you won't let me down Easy when it ends, let it end badly. Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good work. Wow, now have you been able to get out to radio stations and say, hey, here's my song, will you play it?
Speaker 2:You know not in person with this song. In the past I've done it and I honestly my favorite.
Speaker 2:I had the best time because, honestly, like it's where I don't know, it's people that actually that actually care is people that will hear a lyric. I guess I can tell like you will listen to a lyric and you can say, like this is what's going on, versus Often when you're playing shows. I think it's more of a transfer of an energy and maybe less of a lyric. You know emphasis. I really have always enjoyed, like touring radio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's crazy hours though, when you go out to visit radio stations. More than likely you are visiting during the morning show.
Speaker 2:Early, very early, yeah. People are on their way to work, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, but for an artist that is not your normal hours. I mean, you guys are usually at the other end of the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And especially with you and the hockey games and maybe the celebration afterwards.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, let's hope that's always a win. If so, yeah. Yeah, we're kind of night owls. I am, my husband's actually. He adores going to sleep, but I'm a night owl, so, yes, when we were going before you know my previous life before married with a child and my husband's wife, I definitely remember some late nights, turning into early mornings, with the radio station, so it was fun.
Speaker 1:Wow, now you've been playing in Nashville for the last 10 years. You said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've lived here for about seven, eight. It's been a while.
Speaker 1:So the whole time that you've lived there, obviously you've been playing there. Have you been down on Broadway? Have you played some of the venues down there, or do you kind of avoid them?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I felt like my first management when I came here kind of deterred me from Broadway, just because it's one of those things. It really is a hard, I don't know. It's hard on the artist. You're playing in not the best circumstances. You're playing cover bands. You become a glorified cover band. A lot of the time it's smoky Not that they allow smoking inside, but smoky it's. You know, it's just a different dynamic.
Speaker 2:It's yeah, it can beat you up. I don't. I actually don't think I was strong enough to play on broadway like that. I think that a lot of those artists, like I said, fall into becoming a band and and that's what I essentially was doing on the road. So that's why I had to take a step back, as I'm sure a lot of artists do is. I didn't know who I was becoming other than just a party starter.
Speaker 1:Right, and that's if you're down in Nashville. That's Broadway. That's pretty much.
Speaker 2:And it's an art those artists are. They're strong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Erin, have you been to like the Station Inn or have you the Bluebird? Have you played the Bluebird?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I actually used to live behind the Bluebird. I've never played Bluebird, I've played a couple different listening rooms in town, but it's weird, my, my career was very heavily outside of nashville like the busiest parts of my career and then I almost thought I don't want to say forced into nashville, but I definitely got my hand tied where they were. Like you, you're touring, you're full-time doing what a lot of artists are you know wanting to do here in nashville. I was fully booked out for a long time but, like I was saying, I became a cover band. I had no time to write and I was writing my own music and I was not even, I didn't have the ability to write with songwriters here in town which, as you know, this is where the most talented people are absolutely having my chance to come to Nashville and, like, put my roots down and actually take advantage of what this beautiful town has to offer was pivotal for my career.
Speaker 2:But it did. I don't want to say slow me down, but it did change the trajectory of my career entirely yeah, I mean you gotta have, you've got to be able to show off your craft.
Speaker 1:I mean you've got your own talent, your own thing you're. You are unique as Erin Alvey. This is this is you and this is what you do and this is how you sing and this is how you write. That's what it's about. You get down in Nashville I keep saying Nashville Broadway but you get down on Broadway. I mean I've walked that street, I've walked that street, I've crawled that street.
Speaker 2:I hope so. You did it right.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. The last time my wife and I were in town for the NASCAR race, it was a year ago. It was a late Saturday afternoon. We got back to the hotel and I was like you know what, let's take a walk over on Broadway. That was a mistake, it was crazy. The bachelor parties, the bachelorette parties, oh yeah, the kids, just, I get it. I get it, I've been there, but it wasn't for me, it wasn't my thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a monster in and of itself. It's like I said, the artists are the strongest people out there because they're you know. You have the person in the back who's drunk, yelling Freebird, sing Freebird like I don't want to how much freebird. This is personal. If you're gathering, this is a very personal experience don't yell freebird please, yeah, that's essentially what you know. You're up against you. And then when you want to sing your own song, people aren't there listening to your lyrics. They're. They want to party they're just partying absolutely yeah that's so rude.
Speaker 1:That's why, if you go to the Bluebird, you hear a pin drop. People that are in that room been there. People that are in that room are listening and they want to hear the lyrics, they want to hear the chords. That's what they want.
Speaker 2:That's what's beautiful about Nashville is you get both. I love the party downtown. I've actually fun fact I've never drank before, so I for somebody who really enjoys Broadway. You'd think that's an oxymoron because I'm doing it sober every time, but I really enjoy the energy in Nashville, whether that be the Bluebird, the Listening Room, cafe, broadway it's. There's something so special about Music City.
Speaker 1:But you've seen Music City develop over the last seven or eight years like never before. I mean, I know you live there, but I've been going there for different events through the radio and the country music and just over the last 20, 25 years to see the change and everything's going up and year to year it's like where did that building come from? Oh yeah, it's crazy. The first time I came was 2014-ish up and you know, year to year it's like where did that building come from?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, it's crazy. The first time I came was, I mean, 2014, ish. I mean it was a whole. The buildings didn't even exist. In fact, the building that my husband and I first lived in together didn't exist when I came here wow, wow well, so I can hear felix in the background.
Speaker 1:Dad's doing real well on the ice we're losing.
Speaker 2:That's why he's yelling.
Speaker 1:Dad, get up, get up, you know, the funny thing is, I know he's a left wing, I played left wing.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of things people don't know about me. Whether I could do it nowadays, probably not.
Speaker 2:Were you right-handed or right-handed?
Speaker 1:I think I was right-handed.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, that's rare, a left-wing, right-handed left-hander.
Speaker 1:You're right. No, I had to think because it's been so long, but I was left-handed. I haven't put a hockey stick in my hand in years.
Speaker 2:Well, my husband's a right-handed left winger, which apparently is a rare. I don't know not rare, but like it's not as common, I think it's more common to have a left. I don't know if anybody knows hockey better than me please don't come at me but I'm pretty sure I've gathered that or picked it up. Somebody has told me that, maybe my husband you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're talking about you and your music, but talk to me a little bit. What is it like to be the wife of a hockey star, nhl star?
Speaker 2:I mean it's wonderful. I mean it comes with its hard things which I don't think most people want to hear about. To be honest, there's a lot of things you could come up with to try and be like well, we have to deal with this and this, but for the most part hockey as a community is very kind, humble, it's a classy sport. I know it's funny cause they fight.
Speaker 1:But there's something about the community and hockey that I feel so incredibly lucky to not only be a part of but now raise a son a part of you know I was talking to a friend of mine tonight I'm just going to pull it up here real quick and not to change the subject here about the music. But a big fan of the predators and James Chrissy and it said. I said, hey, guess who I'm going to have on my podcast tonight? We're going to be talking about her music. By the way, she's the wife of Philip Forsberg. She goes oh my God, please tell her that me and Kristen love her hubby and they need to get their crap together.
Speaker 2:Like I said, I think Felix agrees.
Speaker 1:Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2:I can't criticize. I can, I can skate, but I can't hold a hockey stick and skate can't lift the puck, so I'll I'll let him focus on hockey and I'll come use it, because I can't criticize anything now, how do your you know you've got your schedule, felix got his schedule.
Speaker 1:How does how do you make that work? It's got to be like you're on opposites to?
Speaker 2:yeah, to an extent, but I will say, as somebody who's very proud to like have kept working. You know, doing my career, my husband and my child definitely are my priority now. With that being said, that doesn't mean music takes a back seat. I think my music is also my career is also my priority. But there's a balance, there's a give and a take. That's constantly there. So that's the reason I don't tour right now. If I were to tour, it would be this summer. It would be when my husband and my sister-in-law would be with me, and that's not something I resent whatsoever. It's something that I find.
Speaker 1:That's so awesome.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't even call it a sacrifice Because, like I said, it's something that I enjoy. I choose to take Felix with me on the road right now, but in reality it's not where my heart is. I don't want to be on the road nonstop, away from my husband.
Speaker 1:Right, right, no, I get it and it's gotta be. I don't know, being a dad, I know, but my kids are grown up and they're doing their own thing. But, being a mom, you got Felix, who's six months old, and to be able, you know, you got to pack them up and take them to the game, and then you've got to carry them. You got the diaper bag you got. You got his juice If he needs it. It's like I don't know how you ladies do it.
Speaker 2:What's that? Monday was the first game that he's missed every game before that. So it's been a little bit of a yeah grind over here, but it's been fun. It's been really cool to see him at warmups and get to see he and Phillip interact, you know, on the ice and chat. So it's been cool.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, you know he's going to have skates on his feet before you know it.
Speaker 2:That's what everyone keeps telling me.
Speaker 1:But, like I said, I think he's gonna be daddy's boy.
Speaker 2:Even when it's time for philip to hang out the skates, he's gonna be coaching yeah, well, speaking of just give me one second, he's with people, let me just make sure he's good, go ahead, but we're chatting with Aaron Elvey.
Speaker 1:What do you think of that? Tyler, that's pretty cool. Yeah, Get right up to the mic, Don't be afraid of that mic. I'm just saying Tyler's our producer and kind of helps me out in certain situations here in the studio of the Skip Happens podcast. But Aaron Elvey, really cool being an artist. The song is out there and of course, it's called Unbadly. You can check that out. And she's had many other shows. This Felix is not happy, I can tell you right now. Felix is not happy.
Speaker 2:Felix says guys, the Predators are losing. And there he is. Say hi Skip.
Speaker 1:Hi Felix, oh my Lord, felix, sorry about that. Guys, no, no, you know you got your hands full and I give you so much credit being who you are and living your dream and your whole situation. And look at that, he's absolutely beautiful happy.
Speaker 2:Now he said skip, thanks for letting him come on I feel like you have friends with him, so he's not. He's not alone in there, but he was just, yeah, hanging out do you have pets no, I am my husband's pet. I make messes. No, yeah, my husband, so we don't.
Speaker 1:I wish he is adorable. Oh my gosh, look at those puffy cheeks.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, he goes out for mom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Now um, where are you originally from?
Speaker 2:South Georgia.
Speaker 1:South Georgia. Do you have family still there?
Speaker 2:Yes, I actually. My whole family, for the most part, is down there.
Speaker 1:Uh.
Speaker 2:I have a sister out in Vegas and then a brother in medical school in Ohio, but besides that my family's in Georgia.
Speaker 1:Very nice, very nice. How, if I may ask, how did you guys meet?
Speaker 2:So through mutual friends. Do you know the company Boot Barn? They have a location on Broadway.
Speaker 1:Boot Barn.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you very much I love Boot Barn so they asked me to model for them. A couple of years ago I was doing e commerce for Bupart. I met one of the teammates, wives, ellie Yossi. So Roman Yossi is the captain of the team, his wife and I think that's how Philip saw me essentially, and then he messaged me on Instagram and brought me to Dave and Buster's two days later. Here we are.
Speaker 1:Now, where did he propose?
Speaker 2:In my childhood front, my home, my childhood home front porch.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:In the pouring rain, so it was really it was pretty romantic.
Speaker 1:No, seriously, that is pretty cool and I was reading a little bit about it because he had a great article in People Magazine. What was it? Two years ago you got married.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and tell me a little bit about that day, because what I saw in People Magazine was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2:It was a really nice day. It was something that, you know, they always say you hope that your wedding is the best day of your life, and I'll say that Felix's arrival trumped that day for both of us. But up until then, you know, our wedding day was really something that was so special to us. We had our loved ones, our friends, our family there and it was, you know, it was really special. I'm really thankful for both of our families and you know our friends who came.
Speaker 1:Now being an artist. Did you have an artist sing for you?
Speaker 2:Yes, so I don't know if you're familiar with Cascada? Yes, I don't know who couldn't be. She really is like the biggest of all. No, no, no, um, I'm trying to think, didn't she had a hit? Uh, you know her? Yes, yes, so she actually was like. She was like my idol. Growing up I had. I really loved her name's natalie, and I was such a fan of of Natalie she was part of the reason, like I really loved music, I think and I actually ended up.
Speaker 2:We linked up years ago and I was in country I was touring a lot of that time and we connected, I think, over Instagram, and she became truly one of my closest friends ever and it got down to. You know, even before I knew Philip, I've been close with Natalie and she came to the wedding, or it came down to the wedding, and Philip said what do you want to walk down the aisle to? And I said I think I want to do it to the acoustic every time we touch. It'd be really cool. Natalie's going to be there. I'd love to do that.
Speaker 2:And he behind my back, because there's never in a million years what I've asked her. He asked her if she would sing it acoustically as I walked down the aisle and she said you know I don't really do that, but yes, I'll do it because you know she's been such a part of my life. I remember going to her for boy advice, for career advice, for so many different things. So it that was more emotionally, I think, than anything that she agreed to do that. And she, of course, she's stunning, her voice is amazing.
Speaker 1:So no, no doubt. Wow, does she live in Nashville.
Speaker 2:No, she lives in germany.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right. Yes, well, that's right, she's in germany, so she made the trip over here for you in france actually france yeah okay yeah, so it wasn't as hard, but, like I said, she's very cool.
Speaker 2:She's been, you know, to the us before. We got spent time together here as well, but she's just a great friend, a great person and an insane artist now have you had the uh?
Speaker 1:so it's just an EP that you have available. You haven't really laid out a whole album as of yet.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I will Skip. It's one of those things this industry has become. So I guess at my level it's kind of it would be kind of a monster for me to release an album. I think that I haven't established myself enough, which is funny to say after 10 years, but I think you have to be one of the big bigs to release now as far as like what you're getting in return. So right now we're recording a ton of songs, but releasing them waterfall. Releasing them as singles.
Speaker 1:I think that's good.
Speaker 2:A little bit better. Yeah, I'm not sure if I'll ever end up doing a full album, but I know I have enough songs for an album, so we'll see how this one does first excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2:Now have you been called on to sing the national anthem at a preds game. I've done anthems. I literally felt like I became the anthem singer for a hot minute. I was every time we poured. My management at the time would not make me, but they would sign me up to sing the anthem at every arena in the area. So when we were playing shows in baltimore I was singing for the orioles down in tampa lightning the tampa bay rays. I was even doing new york uh, the yankees um spring training. I was doing a lot of anthems for a long time but, I don't think I'd do it for the preds.
Speaker 2:I think a little bit to me.
Speaker 1:That's my husband's office right, I get, I get it, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm skating in the studio, so I don't know. I'm sure he'd be fine with it. He's like he's a sweet, proud husband, but I don't know. It would have to be a certain, certain circumstance, I think, to do it, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you um, because of Carrie Underwood situation with the problem, or was I mean you get to know her and was I mean you?
Speaker 2:get to know her and you know her through my husband and her husband. Uh, so they. It's actually funny because we were my husband was announcing her at cma fest a couple years ago and her husband was back, mike was back there and he was like hey, and he's like this is my wife. He's like yeah, he's like you're a singer too right, and at the time, like carie's standing right there and I was like no, I'm not anything, I'm a potato. She was, you know, she was. She's been such a powerhouse and they're no, no doubt yeah, and, and they really so.
Speaker 1:He and my husband played together for a couple years, and so I can't say I've gotten to know her by any means, but I have met her and she's that relationship with the team and the players, and just you know the bonding that does go on there between the team players and everybody, and of course the spouses and the girlfriends and what have you so yeah, it's a family it is. It is a family, is it? Is it just hockey that you enjoy, or are you in any other sports?
Speaker 2:no. So growing up I loved baseball, football, but I still don't know. You know, football is its own thing too. I liked football growing up, but never hockey. I didn't have hockey growing up in my life. Wow, it's been really fun. Now it's the only thing I have time for because it's so time consuming, but I love that. I was a big Atlanta Braves fan.
Speaker 1:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Well, we're in the Northeast, so you've got the Mets, you've got the Yankees.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, what are you a fan?
Speaker 1:of there. So what's that?
Speaker 2:What are you a fan of?
Speaker 1:Mets, okay, and we gave it a good shot. We are a big baseball family, okay, and I work for the Mets. Very cool, that's very cool Our announcers at the stadium. We're the AAA affiliate of the New York Mets so I get the opportunity every once in a while to go in and do the PA. But before the Mets it was the Nationals and we used to house players. I mean, where this studio is now used to be a room for the players.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1:We'll bill it. We were one of those that would. Just, you know, hey, you need a place to stay. Come on over, just put food in the cabinet or the fridge. You're good to go, enjoy your stay. You know, because I mean a lot of these players I don't know how it is with hockey, but a lot of the baseball players, you know they're Latino players, you know they're latino. They don't know they don't speak english. They, you know they're here playing ball because that's what they know how to do and so it's like. You know, we got to know them very well. We, you know, throughout the years and they used to live with us and we became friends and we still keep in touch and a lot of the players, for example, with the nationals, went on the play in the world series that actually lived here with us, so that was pretty cool. Then we had all the young ladies in the neighborhood driving by. It's fun.
Speaker 2:Back then Chipper Jones actually started my career. No, no, Tell me about it. So I wrote a song for the Atlanta Braves because I was a big fan of Braves. I wrote a song and asked Chipper to be in my music video and he tweeted about me as an artist. I song and asked chipper to be in my music video and he tweeted about me as an artist.
Speaker 2:I hadn't even really announced myself as an artist, yet yeah, and sorry diaper boy, and yeah, he tweeted about me and then that's how I really started my first tour. Oh sorry, bubba, let me return him and see if he'll go back to our friends really quick.
Speaker 1:This is an interesting conversation. What if you could ask for anything, tyler? What would you ask her get? They can't see you because you're not on camera, but I just want to point out you might be. This is an interesting conversation. If you could ask her anything, tyler, what would you ask her? They can't see you because you're not on camera.
Speaker 1:I just want to point out. You might be good luck because Forsberg has gotten an assist since we started this conversation. Forsberg, he got an assist tonight, so that's good, that's good. I don't know, maybe that's why Felix was all excited. Hey, your husband got an assist.
Speaker 2:Oh, he did, Okay, good, maybe he did my good luck.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I think so. Yeah, is he okay, because we can wrap this up here.
Speaker 2:He's absolutely great. He was getting hungry and he was tired of talking. I apologize, sometimes he's just hungry and then I think now he's just hungry.
Speaker 1:So if you don't know, if you're watching this right now, it's Erin Elvey. She's married to Philip Forsberg of the Predators, but left wing. But you know she is an independent artist. She has been doing her thing for quite a while. She's just doing the right thing, not only being an artist and married to an NHL star. But let's talk about your Prime Video reality series. It's face-off inside the nhl. I think it was you, your husband and even felix was on there felix made his debut.
Speaker 2:They're there, like I was like 12-ish hours or so after he was born, so he made his debut on tv pretty quickly 12 hours after the kid was born yeah, you know, what's funny is they were actually planning to come with us to the hospital. We, we did ask, not during the delivery, and they're like okay.
Speaker 1:Hold it, hold it, hold it. You need to wait a few days.
Speaker 2:It's my first time, I don't know. And then they came. You know they let us settle in, and then they came not long after, so really he was pretty quickly thrown into this world.
Speaker 1:Well, that's.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'm able to say yes or no. I'm going to, I'm going to hold back on giving you an answer for that. I hate to do that, but I'm not sure. I think that's what I'm legally allowed to say. So I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:I know, no matter what I do, you're not going to tell me I get it.
Speaker 2:Honestly, it's, it's truly. I think that it's you. I don't really know for sure.
Speaker 1:Well, let me just put it this way. I hope it does.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 1:It's very cool and those shows like that when they do the reality series. It's very cool because it gives everybody a look at what's really going on behind the scenes, something most people do not see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the good, the bad, the ugly, I mean it's definitely a.
Speaker 1:You know, it's almost like what we're doing here tonight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry, you've seen the good stuff We've seen it all.
Speaker 1:We've seen a kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He had his binky I don't know how to call it Binky. Where's his binky?
Speaker 2:He's nasty, whatever it is, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly, you know and we hear about. You know real life and this is what it's really like and you're a real person, regardless who you're married to, what you do, you still shop at the same stores. You still go and get gas. You still you know you got to do all that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely. I guess what's cool it brings us all Nobody's really that different than anybody?
Speaker 1:at the end of the day, in your, in your relationship with your husband, who's the better driver?
Speaker 2:um, that's, that's a good one I'm. I'm not like a great driver as far as, like, I don't have a perfect record, but where is he? It's funny because he didn't start driving until he I think it was closer to 20. And I've been driving since I was like 15. You know, so I had more time on him and I've driven more places around the us, but I don't know. He's a pretty good driver.
Speaker 1:I'd give it to him do you remember the first time you were ever on stage? How about the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 2:well, I remember the first song I ever wrote was on my parents. It was on my parents beach house in tybee parents' beach house in Tybee Island, georgia. I told my my cousin had told me if you write five songs, I'll take you to Nashville. So I remember getting on the phone with my cousin and I ran outside to my dad, who was outside on the rocking chair or whatever, and I was like, dad, I need to write five songs. And he was like, okay, and I'd kind of dabbled in songwriting, but nothing substantial whatsoever, and my dad and I wrote a song. Pretty sure, the first song we ever wrote was called pick like there's a pickup truck or I don't know, absolutely not skinny.
Speaker 2:the money I spent on those songs was hilarious because I, you know, I recorded them. One was called out to break hearts tonight, and I remember writing this song about me and my girls out to break hearts, and my co-writer was my father, my wonderful, wonderful father, who's now 69 years old, so it was funny that he was singing help me write songs. But he's just, you know, he's very intelligent and he's very good at word crafting.
Speaker 2:So he, he helped me. So my first song is like it's kind of holds dear. It was with my daddy on the front porch so it was fun.
Speaker 1:That's kind of cool though. Yeah, I get it. I know I'm the father of three beautiful daughters. Yeah, I'm a girl dad, plus my wife and I. Now we have a son that's soon to be 24 and he's down. His name is Zach. He's just you know, he's a huge baseball fan, and all that Just being a girl dad. I mean that had to be so cool.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I love both my parents just the same, but definitely there's always something about father.
Speaker 1:So are you like the only child?
Speaker 2:If only if we're so lucky. No, actually I'm very, very thrilled. I have four siblings. I'm one of five. All right, my dad's Irish Catholic and my mom's Utah Mormon.
Speaker 1:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:So we never went to church either side, but they had a lot of kids and we had a lot of food in bulk at the house. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1:What's the balance between boys and girls?
Speaker 2:Two boys, three girls.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's a wonderful. I couldn't even imagine my life without one of those siblings.
Speaker 1:Where do you fall in that line? Whereabouts are you?
Speaker 2:Yes, I want to see what you're going to say.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want me to guess? Yeah, guess. You want me to guess. I'm going to say you're the second to the youngest.
Speaker 2:That's so good. Yeah, I'm second to youngest.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:That was really impressive okay, very cool it goes, girl, girl, boy, me, my little brother, yeah, second time do you um have to exchange like with your sisters where they're like.
Speaker 1:Did you fight over tops and pants and not at all.
Speaker 2:I was sandwiched between the boys, so there was oh, so there's a lot, okay, all right, I think my sisters. They're 11 months apart and I think the oldest one was 13 or 14 when I was born. So we had like a 13 14 year age gap and I was one of the boys actually what do they think of your situation now?
Speaker 1:you're an artist. Here again, you're married to an NHL star. How did, how did they feel about all that?
Speaker 2:I think my lifestyle makes my entire family a little uncomfortable. They are the most private people I think you could ever imagine. My dad used to always say we were the Adams family because we were kind of like tucked away. My parents yeah and like, but then my mom was just she's very bubbly, she's very bubbly. And I think that they were like why, why would you want to be in the spotlight or why would you want to be in entertainment or why would you? You know, like, that's such a an invasive lifestyle and it is to an extent. But you know, there's you, you you get to share what you want to share and post what you want to post and go out when you want to go out and whatnot. I think now they're proud, but I think it's definitely uncomfortable. For instance, when we were filming.
Speaker 2:I had some siblings and parents. I had people around and they're like please, I don't want to be on camera, Please. We deal with a little bit of that, but for the most part why did you take that picture? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so are you the only musician in the family?
Speaker 2:In my immediate family. You know it's funny, my little brother is a much better guitar player than I am, and he has a great voice. He's insane, but he's in medical school, you know. So he wouldn't. He's not chasing music by any means, but he's very talented. So I actually would say he's a much better guitar player than I am. But no, I don't think anyone really went down that path.
Speaker 1:Now is the guitar the only instrument that you play.
Speaker 2:Piano. My parents had me in piano every Monday at 3.30 pm for about 14 years.
Speaker 1:Nice, yeah, nice. And do you have a regular band that you play with?
Speaker 2:So when I was touring, yes, yes, I had a couple of my brothers and they all, essentially, were my brothers, because we were together so much and we've, you know, not been able to tour the past couple of years. So they're playing with other acts right now and they're always a call away. So I do have people I could call, but right now, yeah, there's some different places so right now you're in nashville.
Speaker 1:Your husband's playing in florida yeah, he'll be home tonight yeah, I was gonna say so he'll be home tonight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the plane, and they come right back after the game yeah, thankfully so, and he has an off day tomorrow, so we're gonna spend the day with you nice.
Speaker 1:yeah, what do you do on your day off? What? What would you do Breakfast?
Speaker 2:Breakfast people, more brunch, probably closer to 9am. We love going to breakfast, the three of us.
Speaker 1:I do have to ask, and I'm sorry if I keep going back on the hockey thing, but I think this thing is really cool. You're very talented, he's very talented, you've got a beautiful family, you've got a nice place there in Nashville, um. But what I was reading is that Philip has a routine. He puts the skates on exactly at 707, yeah, or he gets up at 804. What was I reading?
Speaker 2:yeah, he wakes up at 808. 808. Felix and I, we sleep in a little longer, but 808 is about the time we all wake up because of Philip.
Speaker 2:We all sleep in the same room. So, yeah, 8.08. And then you know a lot of these, the superstitious things, or I don't know. It's more of a routine that's superstitious. He's not terribly superstitious, but the routine I didn't even know too much about, because it's not like. I've ever asked my husband hey, what time do you put on your skates? Is it the same time each day? So I always knew he woke up at odd hour times, but I never knew the extent of what happened once he left my door at 4 PM.
Speaker 1:Wow. So he heads out at 4 PM. Let's say you got a home game, what's that? Usually it's seven. They dropped the pocket around seven so they probably give him something to eat. He probably has a little bit. I know they do baseball players a little bit of a warmup trainers. They do whatever they have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, he'll actually. Uh, he eats here, he eats the same thing. It's like a banana oatmeal and then you know, it's like the Swedish version of it, maybe a little bit of a Swedish caviar on toast, and then he doesn't eat again until after the game. So that's, his dinner is often at 11 PM, 10 35.
Speaker 1:So as we started the podcast, you said I thought the yellow towel was a mile away. Do?
Speaker 2:you have these like in the bathroom. It's like a matador, a bull and a matador.
Speaker 1:It's like the Hilton, a bull and a matador. I was like the Hilton, but you know what's missing and you got to tell Phillip this. You know what's missing. I need a Predators hockey stick on this wall behind me now.
Speaker 2:You do. You do Especially because he adores dad jokes too. I can see everything behind you.
Speaker 1:I do dad jokes every day on the air. It's something I do two times in the afternoon when I'm on the air. So I do a lot of dad jokes and if he's got a good dad joke you could just voice message it to me and I'll play it on the air.
Speaker 2:There's nothing he adores more than a pun, which in my opinion is the lowest form of humor. But we'll go with it. I let him have it, so we'll get you a dad joke for sure.
Speaker 1:I should do a pun on a Monday. It could be a pun Monday.
Speaker 2:Monday.
Speaker 1:Monday.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I like it I do it.
Speaker 1:This kid is so shy he will not talk, he's just the producer. Say hello, tyler. Just say hello. How are you doing?
Speaker 2:Oh, you do exist. I thought it was his imaginary friend.
Speaker 1:He's also a fan of the Preds, so maybe he's oh good, okay, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. He's pretty quiet. It's like how are?
Speaker 2:you Not like you and I Skip. You can't get a word in edgewise. What do you mean?
Speaker 1:My wife doesn't want to hear me talk. She, when I go on, it's like just go. I don't want to listen to this. This has been great tonight. I know you've got the little one there. I know you're a busy woman Just doing everything that you do, and the music is by far awesome.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:You work hard at your craft and you never know what's going to happen. And you're so blessed because you're sitting there, your husband, your little boy Felix. I mean you are so blessed.
Speaker 2:I know that and I do not take it for granted whatsoever, so I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 1:And you got great people working with you too. I know Jeff personally and, yeah, I love him. I certainly do he. We have been friends for years and some of the stories that he, oh yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know we get to hang out. In February we go to the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cool. Let me know when you're here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, absolutely. Well, I'll definitely have you know. I see Jeff every year, so yeah no, absolutely Well, I'll definitely.
Speaker 2:you know, I see Jeff every year. Seriously, I'm waiting for it.
Speaker 1:If I don't get a call in February I'm going to come find you in Syracuse. Oh, okay, have you been to Syracuse?
Speaker 2:Not yet. It's hard to tell by the way I pronounced it.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know. You know it's funny.
Speaker 2:I don't hear the accent and I have a lot of people that go hey, I can tell you're from syracuse, but this is syracuse. Yeah, here she's from. Hey, laura, laura, what part of new york are you from? Rochester?
Speaker 1:oh, that's right over there. It's like uh, half of my family lives in rochester really okay. Yeah, she's over in rochester yep, yep, and the artist I had on last night and I said okay, where are you from? And she goes I'm from Oswego. She was born and raised in Oswego. Oswego is about 45 minutes north of here I go. Are you kidding me? So it's a small world, it is a small world, so yeah, five years from now. Where do you want to be?
Speaker 2:I love that question, okay. So personally, I hope that this EP reaches as many people as it is meant to reach, and my dream would be that I can continue writing throughout the year while my husband is playing and in the summers we can tour. I would love I obviously would love to perform. I love being on stage, I love the whole atmosphere and such, so I'd love to be able to do that, however that looks, so that my son and my husband can be with me family wise, I hope my husband has a stanley cup. That way the house can just be they were so close.
Speaker 1:Tyler tyler's look over here shaking his head.
Speaker 2:They were one time yeah one time, but we're're going to get there. They got fire and they'll do it, and then I hope my son is yeah. President of the chess team club.
Speaker 1:Aw, he's going to be raking down that rink. You know the red line, the blue line in the face off.
Speaker 2:My hockey mom time is ahead of me. Yeah, I know, and hockey parents are very unique.
Speaker 1:I just know it. Yeah, I know, and hockey parents are very unique. Mom, I have three grandkids that play hockey.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 1:It's a thing, and it's a crazy thing because there's a lot of traveling.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And their hockey bag stinks.
Speaker 2:What my in-laws did for my husband is just to this day. I'm like you guys are amazing.
Speaker 1:Amazing, amazing. Just to this day, I'm like you guys are amazing, amazing, amazing, yeah, yeah, where did uh, where did philip start playing? Where did he start his hockey playing well, like professionally yeah, well, I mean he must have gone, worked his way up. I mean, was he in sweden at the time, or I mean?
Speaker 2:he's. You know, he's swedish citizen. He's not even he's here on a visa. So so we spend our off seasons in sweden oh my gosh actually.
Speaker 2:So the first time he skated I mean I'm sure the first time he skated was probably sweden, but his dad was a professional hockey player in norway no, okay, I'll make sure I said that right in norway. And so when he was about six years old so his dad was bringing him on the ice quite often at that age and then his first professional team he's actually 16 he played for his hometown of lexan, sweden, which we are both very fond of. It's a small, oh my god, in this town.
Speaker 1:It's amazing is um sweden, like I've never been there, but I see the pictures of the mountains, the alps, the, the snow, yeah, and it's just. You know it's beautiful, it looks very romantic. Everything about that is just.
Speaker 2:Sweden is amazing. The people there are even more amazing. It's a really great country. They invented Spotify. They're a monster when it comes to music as well. They know their music.
Speaker 1:Have you gone over there and played?
Speaker 2:I've never played there, no.
Speaker 1:Why not?
Speaker 2:When we're there it's more of an off season. We're kind of there spending time with friends and family. I'm not, definitely not, working there. I also don't know if I'm legally allowed to right now. So really, yeah, you know thesis and such, I haven't I didn't even think about that neither did I until all of a sudden my actions now affect my husband. So I'm like oh no, exactly what do? You mean you got hit with the IRS? Oh, I forgot.
Speaker 1:Oh man, oh no, Now we're in trouble, we're in deep skip happens. So yeah, Aaron Alvey, you're awesome you are. I love your personality, I love everything about you. The music is just phenomenal. As I mentioned a few minutes ago, you are blessed, your husband's blessed man. I hope he what Tyler said. He had an assist tonight.
Speaker 2:So you keep that good juju coming from Fred's.
Speaker 1:It got ugly really quick. It got ugly. Why? What happened? It's 5-1. It's 5-1 there Losing. Oh, nevermind, I know it's not going to be nice when he walks through that door later tonight.
Speaker 2:We maybe aren't going to breakfast tomorrow, we might be going to the hockey rink for optional skate.
Speaker 1:Does he get frustrated when that happens, or does he look at it like, okay, we lost this one, we'll get the next one?
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Some people take it real seriously.
Speaker 2:When I first met him he definitely was up and down a little bit more as far as, like you know, emotion after the game. But actually when he we first started dating like that first season we were dating they went on. I think it was like a six or seven game blue streak. It was pretty aggressive and I didn't know how to handle it because we were new and we weren't like. We communicated fine, but it's not like he was confiding in me as his new girlfriend to be like well, I just feel like this, you know.
Speaker 2:So I would rush home if I thought we were about to lose the third period. Rush home and bake something Cookies, brownies. One time I made a cookie brownie. I was just like honestly running out of ideas. After seven game lose streak, you're like what the hell can I bake anymore? This is kind of getting. Hey, listen, I'm not domestic, I can't make an apple.
Speaker 2:So we got to do whatever Betty Crocker's offering me and we're running out at the aisle and after like the sixth or seventh time he came home and he said babe, thank you, I see what you're doing for me. Stop for the love of God, stop baking, or else I'm never going to be able to play another hockey. I'm going to be so fat. Stop baking. We're never going to win another game if I keep eating these things. So, after things changed quite a bit, I think things are put in perspective. He's the most level person I've ever met. Everything is being put into perspective for him. What can he do for the last game, except for take something and make it for the next? He does not harp on the past.
Speaker 1:He's very level-minded. He's a good man.
Speaker 2:I hope you get to meet him soon. I'll tell him he owes you a stick.
Speaker 1:No, no, you don't have to. I was only like, but it would look nice on that wall, just saying Probably deserves a little bit more, but yeah no, I love it. Uh, aaron Elvey. Uh, the wife of Philip Fors is an artist. She's got a song out there. It's called and Badly so you can. With a title like that, you can only imagine that.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:But it's good and you know what, with a title like that, we look at our lives and, yeah, that could be about anybody, because we all go through those relationships, we all fall in love, we all. It's like, you know, that's the best thing that ever happened to me. So do something to piss me off. So I hate you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Exactly. It's got to be tumultuous or else you'll be the one that got away. We don't want that.
Speaker 1:There you go, aaron LV. You've been great. Thank you so much for coming on. Skip happens, somebody wants to get ahold of your music.
Speaker 2:I mean mean, do you have a website or is your music available on all the platforms? Don't go to the website, my. I have a instagram. I'm pretty active on socials. So at aaron alvey, you can find me there and most socials I'm fairly active on. You won't catch me dancing on tick tock, but other than that you'll find me most socials well, I do want to get to a preds game too.
Speaker 1:So when I you know my uh, every once in a while we make a trip to nashville bring it on down.
Speaker 2:We need some good luck, barely so, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 1:I'll let you know when I'm in town too, so it's perfect. Yeah, absolutely. I appreciate you, appreciate everything about you. The little one, god.
Speaker 2:He's so adorable thank you for being so calm, baby. If that I was not anticipating a meltdown midway. But thank you. Podcast. What is it called professionalist? That was not my intention, but thank you no, no, no, it's very professional.
Speaker 1:You know it's called skip happens for a reason. Podcast.
Speaker 2:What is it called? That was not my intention, it's very professional. It's called Skip Happens. For a reason you saw some skips. He probably skipped his pants. I'm going to have to go take care of that next.
Speaker 1:I don't hear anybody go. What smells? It's a baby, you got to sniff the back of the diaper. Don't even go there. Don't even go there, go there I'm at that point.
Speaker 2:I'm just changing the diaper, I don't even need to start looking tell you what I got.
Speaker 1:Um, I don't know if you can see these, but I have skip happens podcast mugs, you know. I'd like to send a couple out to you. I don't know what's the best way, but when we get off the air here, I mean you stay. You stay right there, and anybody else that wants one. I'm sure I could arrange for you to get a Skip Happens moment. But you know what I want to make sure I take care of you and thank you so much for coming on tonight. And if you're viewing this when, if you're watching it live right now you can give us a subscribe on YouTube and also make sure you go and you like Erin Elvey I know her Facebook, you and also make sure you go and you like Erin Alvey, I know her Facebook. You've got a page where you can follow and that's pretty cool and that'll keep you up on everything that's going on. Well, we love you. Thank you so much for being here and I hope to see you soon. It's Erin Alvey, everybody.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me. Good night.
Speaker 1:You're so.
