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SkiP HappEns Podcast
From Small-Town Kentucky to the Grand Ole Opry: The Journey of Taylor Austin Dye
Taylor Austin Dye shares her journey from small-town roots in Kentucky to the bright lights of Nashville. We discuss her Opry debut, the themes of her sophomore album "Sick of Me," and her approach to navigating the challenges of the music industry while staying true to herself.
• Background and inspiration from Eastern Kentucky
• Excitement of performing at the Grand Ole Opry
• Themes of self-reflection and growth in "Sick of Me"
• Songwriting process and the significance of storytelling
• Handling critique and building resilience in the industry
• Importance of connection with her fans
• Future plans for tours and musical collaborations
• Emphasis on community within the music scene
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Baby, we back, we back. Let's do this. Here we go. Everybody Hi there. Welcome to Skip Happens. Y'all. My name is Skip Clark, Of course, the host of Skip Happens and Skip was happening in a lot of different ways just a moment ago and this poor young lady with me. She's all psyched about being on the podcast, but she's also psyched she's got a big gig downtown Nashville tonight. We're trying to squeeze all this together. I hate being rushed.
Speaker 2:We got all kinds of time.
Speaker 1:We do, we do. I have Taylor Austin Dye with us here tonight. Did I get it right? I got it right. How are you? It's so good to see you. We've never met until all this Kip happening stuff happened.
Speaker 2:I'm good, it's been a good day, it's been nice here in Nashville and, yeah, just getting ready for Christmas.
Speaker 1:I have to ask you're not originally from Nashville, though, right?
Speaker 2:No, I'm originally from Eastern Kentucky, eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 1:Eastern Kentucky. I love the accent, I can tell. I can tell, absolutely Wow, I love it. Now everybody says, oh Skip, you got a Syracuse accent. But I don't even know what that sounds like. You probably don't even realize that, do you that the accent?
Speaker 2:Well, other than the fact that everybody tells me every time I open my mouth, I would not notice it, but you go back to my neck of the woods and they're way worse than me.
Speaker 1:What is your hometown?
Speaker 2:Boonville Kentucky.
Speaker 1:Boonville. We have a Boonville here in upstate New York.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do, and they get a lot of snow Wow.
Speaker 2:We get like a dust and snow and school's called off for a month.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I've been in Nashville with that dusting before and it yeah, I know I've been in nashville with that dusting before and it's like I can remember waking up in the hilton hotel one morning and I had the radio on and they're going through all these school closings and all this stuff was going on and going. Holy crap, it must have really snowed last night. Whip open the curtains and I'm like going there's nothing here we don't handle it well down here.
Speaker 1:We just don't know what to do no, I know, you know and and I understand you don't have the equipment for the roads and all that, because, but you know the way the weather is changing. It's just that I think you're getting more snow, you're getting more bad weather now than you've ever gotten before, and same thing here in the northeast. So, yeah, but we're not talking about weather, we need to talk about you, and I love love the hat. Back on my bullshit. I love that, love that. Already I'm like, and did I or did I not? We came out and said I'm already liking this young lady. It's pretty cool. So are you in your own place right now with all those boots and the hats in the background?
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is my office.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:How many pairs of boots do you have back there? Gosh, I don't even. Oh my gosh, Do you wear them all there's another shelf over there.
Speaker 1:Oh my, Do you go to Boot Barn?
Speaker 2:I get a little bit everywhere Summer, vintage Summer, noom, summer Gifts from Ariat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love Ariat, I got.
Speaker 2:Ariat.
Speaker 1:Love them. Let's talk about you, though. You're already on your sophomore album, you're coming out with new music. You just dropped a brand new song. You just made your Opry debut, and let's talk about that. And the minute I mentioned Opry, the smile on your face was like yes, I did it.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, best day of my life.
Speaker 1:And was it Jamie Johnson that hooked you up with that, that got you up there, or how did? Who was that?
Speaker 2:He was the one that called in and made the official invitation. That's what it was. They had been, you know. They'd see me around and they had spoke with my manager about possibly get me on the show, and he kept it a secret. My whole team kept it a secret from me for like two weeks and I was ready to kill him because I knew something was fishy, but they wouldn't tell me what was going on. So when I finally figured it out, I forgave him, you know.
Speaker 1:I love it. What is it from an artist standpoint to? What is it like to walk out there on that stage and know that? You know, I ask everybody this and I always get a different answer. It's always, always, you know, it's always good. It's just a little different in the way they answer it every single time. But you go out there, you stand in that circle. What is that feeling like?
Speaker 2:Well, when I was in the dressing room, before I was about to walk out, I literally thought I was going to have a heart attack. My heart was racing. I was like I'm having chest pains. My mom was like you need to calm down because it's like a huge deal for me. I mean, it's like my bucket list thing to do as a country artist and uh. But once I stepped in that circle I was just like, totally fine, I was just trying to take it all in. You know, like when I was closing my eyes when I was singing, I was like I need to open them because I want to see all this and really take it all in for the first time.
Speaker 1:But it was a feeling that I will never forget now this is the actual Opry House over by Opryland, correct? Yes, now have you played the actual. The Mother Church downtown the Ryman.
Speaker 2:No, I have not played the rhyme, and that is the other bucket list uh right now, so I would love to be on that stage cool.
Speaker 1:Uh, you've got some new music out, like I said, uh, just a moment ago you got your sophomore album out there. Uh, you're an artist and the way I look at you and when I listen to the songs, I go this woman has attitude and I've heard that before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's. You have heard that before. I love, love it. You know, and you know and that's a good thing, because that's what Taylor Austin Dye is all about and your attitude and how you go out there, sick of me. I mean that song, that single, and that's the name of the album, right? It is yeah it is, so talk to us about that song a little bit.
Speaker 2:Well, the idea of the song is kind of well, the idea of the whole album is kind of. You know, this is my second album. I'm kind of finding my way. I've, you know, messed things up in the past and I've did things right, of course, but you know, I'm just still trying to navigate this scene. So I feel, navigate this scene. So I feel like the overarching theme is just kind of this self. Um, you know, you're taking responsibility for what you've done and you're trying to get better. And I thought what better way to start off the album than sick of me? Because the the hook is, you know, I don't blame. You say you're sick of me. Well, I'm sick of me. Trick, I'm sick of me too. Like I'm trying to get better. I'm trying, I'm working on myself and, uh, I feel like that's a really good topic for a sophomore album.
Speaker 1:And it made sense. I love it and I'm sick of me. So it's just like and that means I want to change, that means I want to do things a little bit different. I would assume that's what it's all about. And you said you've made mistakes in the past, and who hasn't? I mean, that's how we all live and learn. How long have you been in Nashville, taylor?
Speaker 2:This will be my seventh year come up in January.
Speaker 1:And you're already on that sophomore album. That's pretty good, that's really good.
Speaker 2:I've only released one last year and one this year, so it's been kind of all of a sudden kind of happening kind of quick, which has been fun.
Speaker 1:Now are you afraid that it's happening too quick.
Speaker 2:No, I ain't afraid of nothing.
Speaker 1:Good See, that's the attitude. I nothing. Good See, that's the attitude. I love it, I love it. So whereabouts in Nashville do you live? You don't have to tell me exactly where, but what like what side of town are you in?
Speaker 2:We're in the north side just a little bit.
Speaker 1:Is it up near Franklin?
Speaker 2:Franklin South.
Speaker 1:South.
Speaker 2:I see, all right, yeah, we're up kind of in the what do you say? Madison, hendersonville, old Hickory?
Speaker 1:area. Oh, hendersonville, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2:Hendersonville, yes, absolutely yeah, we just recently had a streaker, so that's been interesting. What?
Speaker 1:You had a streaker.
Speaker 2:A peeping Tom streaker yeah, in your neighborhood. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So this guy, woman, whoever, Guy, yeah. All right, totally naked.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Running through your neighborhood. Was he like, peeping in windows and stuff. Yeah, not yours, I hope.
Speaker 2:Well, we have a group on Facebook for our neighborhood and all of a sudden everybody starts posting pictures of this naked man from their ring cans. They're like what's going on? So I'm like, oh my god, they eventually caught him. Like three days later mcdonald's naked as a jane bird I've heard that line before.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, are you kidding? I thought that was a thing in the past well, I would hope that.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, it was like two houses down. I was like, oh my god, I was sitting there watching my cameras all night I know, I guess somebody, especially in your stature, that you know being a single.
Speaker 1:Are you married? I am uh-oh. Was your husband ready to kick the crap out of him?
Speaker 2:he wasn't home at the time, um when we found out about it, so yeah, yeah, I guess we'll leave it at that he immediately went and tinted our door windows, Like he went and got this two-way tent or the one-way tent. You know you can't see. Yes, yes. In, but you can see out. Yeah he tinted the windows the morning after.
Speaker 1:Also be putting cameras up, and I think almost I mean I have them here at the house too, and I even have them here in my studio.
Speaker 2:We've got them everywhere, yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess we have to nowadays, but let's talk about some of the other music that's on the album. Now there's how many tracks? 11? 11, yeah 11 tracks on that album. Do you have a favorite or sick of me like the favorite?
Speaker 2:It changes. It changes every time I listen through to them. It changes, it changes every time I listen through to them. You know, Almost Oklahoma is one that I just really enjoy. I think it tells a really good story and I love the story song. I like that one a lot. I love playing Little Misfortune live. It's just such a groovy song. Honestly, like I said, it changes every time.
Speaker 1:What about songs like I think I made a note here Fake Ring Poison, poison in the Well? You know, when I listened to those just earlier this evening, I could actually kind of felt like it was a little bit of Carrie. Underwood-ish. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I get that sometimes. Yeah, I usually get her and Miranda Lambert, a little bit of Ashley McBride every now and then.
Speaker 1:Her and Miranda Lambert. A little bit of Ashley McBride every now and then.
Speaker 2:How would you describe your music? Well, I think it's, you know, kind of a you know as much of an outlaw as a woman can get in today's industry. I think, it really leans outlaw. I think it leans Southern rock more than anything. I know there's always people that are quick to say, oh, this is not country, this is not country. But I think there's always people that are quick to say, oh, this is not country, this is not country, but I think there's room for every kind of country.
Speaker 2:You know, people said Leonard Skinner like I mean obviously they're rock, but like that's just country to some people as it is Johnny Cash. You know what I mean. So, um, I think we lean a lot Southern rock and a little bit of outlaw.
Speaker 1:So you talk about Skinner, though that could be like Southern rock, exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you talk about Skinner, though, that could be like Southern Rock, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean not just rock, it's Southern Rock. I love Skinner, I love that stuff.
Speaker 2:We got to open for them earlier this year and it was awesome.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask you about who you've been opening for, I know Did you open for Luke Combs too or no?
Speaker 2:We were at the stadium so we were kind outdoor opener yeah wait a minute in stadium.
Speaker 1:What just over this past summer? Or because we went to the luke comb show in uh in buffalo oh, we were the one in ohio. Okay, in cincinnati yeah, this was like on april 16th at a football stadium in upstate new york. Unheard of because it was was it cold?
Speaker 1:I, you know it's funny, we are all layered. You know, even the poor guys playing in the band on stage. I think it was Jordan Davis, it was, uh, mitchell 10 penny, it was Luke Holmes and um it. Just I was talking to Mitchell and he's like dude, he goes. I just had layers, layers of clothes on. You know my poor guitar player, it had to be so, he goes. It had to be so hard to play when it's that cold with your fingers, oh yeah, was your instruments got to go out of tune?
Speaker 2:when it's like that, yeah, I mean it's, I do. I'm not a fan of the cold in general, so I do not enjoy playing outdoor shows. When it's, you know, below 32 degrees, I'm out.
Speaker 1:No, I don't even know why it was. It was about that cold I'm not kidding that.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a, that's a testament to their artistry, I guess yes, it is.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about your songwriting a little bit. Did you write every song that's on that album? Sick of me yes, I did.
Speaker 2:Well, I did one cover song on the album, which is the the script uh, break even. But, um, yeah, I write all my own stuff. Um, I've never really cut a song that anybody else has pitched to me. I I really just feel like my songs are kind of part of me and tell my story, and I always want to be in on the songs now you you were talking about um playing out tonight.
Speaker 1:I know you've, you've got to head downtown here pretty quick but whereabouts are you playing?
Speaker 2:So one of my buddies runs a song right around called Smash Farms Okay, and it's down at Live Oak in Midtown and I actually have not got to play a lot of ride-arounds this year because we've just been on the road so much, and so when he asked me to jump on this, I was actually really excited to do it. It's kind of his year in go out with a bang, a bunch of people's on it and it's gonna be a party. So I was really excited for it. But yeah, I'm just playing some original songs about an hour for my round and uh, so hang out.
Speaker 1:I've been to the uh, is it the tin roof? I think they used to, or they do. Have writers rounds there there.
Speaker 2:There's one in every corner here.
Speaker 1:I know, and there's a writer on every corner too yeah, then some so. But and so many artists. How do you handle as an artist and somebody that's already on their sophomore album? But how do you handle when somebody says you know, you're not for me, or you get a lot of no's as well as you get a lot of yeses, but how do you handle criticism?
Speaker 2:I just literally don't care, unless it's from somebody that's like paying me, or you know not to use the old saying, but if they're, you know I'm about to say do you know the saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, well that I really just don't care. Like I get so many hate comments online and just and of course I've been told no by people in town and that's fine Like I just keep on trucking, keep doing my thing. I've been so desensitized to it when I was 16, I was on American Idol and I got so much hate from that, or when I was 15. And ever since then I was just like, eh, don't care.
Speaker 1:Really. And how did that? How did Idol go for you?
Speaker 2:So it was the first year they lowered the age to 15 and I auditioned in New Orleans and I actually made it to like the top 300, I think, or something like that in Hollywood, got through a bunch of celebrity auditions. So it was cool, it was an interesting experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I bet I've heard a lot of good and bad. It's kind of a reality television show and the thing is, if you didn't make it to the top 10, doesn't mean you're not good, you're absolutely fantastic. You were too good. And I think Idol and those shows like to bring somebody on. That isn't that good in the beginning, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that isn't that good in the beginning. And correct me if I'm wrong, but they, that isn't that good in the beginning. But they want to make you good and they know there's potential there and then they make you into somebody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they want. They know exactly what they want and what's trending right now and they want someone they can mold to do whatever they say. You're already there.
Speaker 1:You're already there. I could you know, even if you were 15 or 16,. You know, and just look at what you've done already. So, yeah, what is um, when you play out, does your husband come down and hang out. Uh, how does all that work?
Speaker 2:Well, my husband is my drummer and my tour manager.
Speaker 1:Yes, that takes care of that question.
Speaker 2:So, uh, he can't, he can't get really get out of it, I love it.
Speaker 1:I see I was kind of leading into what he does, so obviously he's a musician as well.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So is that all he does?
Speaker 2:Uh, he also. He works like part-time as a CVICU nurse manager. Oh, very cool. Okay so he's very smart with all that stuff. I don't even know what he'd. Something with hearts is all I know what he does.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, and he's. He can still be there with you, which is really cool. If you weren't, Taylor, if you weren't doing music, what do you think you'd be doing?
Speaker 2:I would love to be well, does radio count?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you want to come on the radio.
Speaker 2:No. So I used to have a radio show after I graduated college in central Kentucky. Love that job, but I know that's still kind of in the music world. So if not music, I would say like cosmetology.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:All right, all that stuff.
Speaker 1:It's still radio. I mean, being an artist is one thing, being on the radio is another.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well then I'd say radio for sure other.
Speaker 1:Okay, well then, outside radio for sure, yeah, and and I always because I'm on the radio side of things and I've been doing this a long, long, long time and now doing the podcast thing as well that, uh, radio, you know, we help each other. It's great artists like you that make us sound great to our listeners and it kind of works both ways. So now.
Speaker 2:I love going on a good radio show. It's one of my favorite things to do.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of fun. I do it every afternoon. Well, I'm actually on vacay this week because of Christmas, but yeah, very nice. And speaking of that, what do you? How do you handle Christmas and the holidays? Do you get to go home?
Speaker 2:I think we get to go home for one day. Usually I don't have any brothers or sisters or anything, and it's just me and my mom and my cousin, my aunt. So I will just usually stay here. And then my mom comes down to party with us for New Year's Eve and we kind of make that a few-day thing. Get tickets to a good show or some rooftop or you know, just do something fun then, exactly.
Speaker 1:We don't even have our tree up.
Speaker 2:I don't know if we're going to get our tree up. I have to leave for New York at 4 am, so what?
Speaker 1:So where are you going to the city? I would assume.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm doing some stuff with Fox News and Jimmy Fallon his show. Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That's great. That's great.
Speaker 2:He's a friend and he asked me to come be on the show again, so this will be my third time this year.
Speaker 1:Oh, third time this year. Oh, cool, that is awesome, and I read that you just signed with Warner Chapel.
Speaker 2:I did. How exciting is that? It's been incredible. I mean, I'm still kind of new over there, I'm kind of learning the ropes and everything, but just met some incredible writers and we've written some good songs already. So I'm excited to see what 2025 brings for that.
Speaker 1:Now you're talking about writing songs and you put out your sophomore album and you know, like we said, that's only 11 tracks. Do you have a lot of songs in the closet, so to speak?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I write at least once a week, and then next month I think I've got, like I don't know, 15 writes scheduled or something crazy, and I'm just always writing. Just you know, you gotta write a lot of songs to get at least one good one.
Speaker 1:So no, and when you write a song are you pretty quick with it, because I I talked to some artists and they say you know, I can write a song in 20 minutes. I don't know how, but uh I could yeah, but then it seems like those songs that'll take forever to get done aren't really the good songs, and sometimes the good songs are the ones that you know you did in just a matter of maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit like 20 minutes or so.
Speaker 2:Well, no, I mean one of my most popular songs that has been out well, two of them actually. Water Me Down was written in about 45 minutes and Rest in Peace. I mean the total writing time was maybe an hour and a half, because we just like to sit and yap instead of actually writing a song. But yeah, I mean it just depends. You know, sometimes I work on a song for a year and I just, you know, I want to get it perfect or something. But you know, a lot of the times we can, if we're really on a roll, we can knock her out in about an hour and a half, two hours, I would say.
Speaker 1:What is? What's your hometown like? If I was to take a drive from Syracuse and go to your hometown of Boonville, kentucky, what would be the first thing I would see as I drive into your town?
Speaker 2:Well, there's really not anything to see. There is the courthouse in the middle and there's the courthouse square and there's a diner, the dairy bar, the grocery store and the gas station.
Speaker 1:And that's it. That's all you need.
Speaker 2:We don't have any chain restaurants. We got one stoplight recently.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Cool, we got a dollar store, dollar general, so there's that all over.
Speaker 1:We got a few of them here within a mile, so yeah, an hour to the nearest walmart. So really yeah how'd you get that lucky? You know? No, I'm just kidding, but uh, I was trying to get in there the other night and it was packed, so well, I thought the truth so, um, I I'm trying to think if we want to get your music, where can we go? We can download it. Can we go to a website?
Speaker 2:I'm sure it's on all the socials and all that it's on all platforms spotify, apple deezer, amazon music, anything it's just under Taylor Austin Dye. You can buy it on iTunes. You can listen to it on YouTube you can go to my TikTok and listen to me everywhere, everywhere, and I'm Taylor Austin Dye everywhere. It's very easy.
Speaker 1:So do you do all of your own social media?
Speaker 2:I do yeah you do.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of work.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of work because your numbers it is. That's a lot of work because your numbers are pretty high, which is pretty impressive. Um, the downloads and see you know all that. It's just amazing. And it's really amazing to know that you do it all yourself. Do you? Does TikTok play a big role in what you do? Do you feel?
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, it's always in the back of my mind. I don't ever think, oh, I'm going to write a song for TikTok, but it definitely is always kind of there, like you know, after I've written a song I think, oh well, this might be cool if I posted this with this, or you know, it's always kind of. I'm always kind of I have that brain where it's kind of like stirring on marketing, because I have a business degree too and I just really find it interesting to like the business side of things and the marketing side of things. So I'm kind of like both sides of my brain are like this all the time.
Speaker 1:I get it. Where did you get your degree?
Speaker 2:Georgetown college. Oh, very cool I did a vocal performance and business.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and talking about vocal performance, have you had voice training and all that?
Speaker 2:Well, in college I was classically trained.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I didn't know if you took it beyond that, though. No, no, that's cool, it shows you do it.
Speaker 2:It was helpful. Yeah, it was. You know breath control and everything is important in any genre, so it helped.
Speaker 1:Describe what it's like if I want to go see uh taylor austin die. I'm going to go to the show what am I?
Speaker 2:what am I going to see? It's rowdy, I'll tell you that. Um cool, I stage dived a couple weeks ago you stage dived I did. I told you it was rowdy oh my god, it was incredible. Uh no, we, we do um originals. Of course We'll slide in one cover every now and then. And then I always do a free meet and greet after the show. I stay until I see everybody Sometimes that's 30 minutes, sometimes that's two hours, it just depends and we do shots and we drink beer and sing songs.
Speaker 1:I mean that's my type of show, you know. We uh, we have the country radio seminar coming up in February. I don't know if I'm going to be bouncing around or not, but I've been doing that for well over 20 years. Uh but uh. You know, I'm always looking for new artists and kind of say hello. You know, if I get them on the podcast, it's always nice to meet too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I'll be around then, february for sure yeah, it's, it's towards the middle, towards the end I've got it in my calendar, so I'm gonna see you there 19th or something like that.
Speaker 1:So but anyways, you know I'm not gonna keep you on. It's just I know you got to go to the show oh, you're good you got a lot going on, so all right, if you're working, we're good. I'll, I said, describe a day in the life of taylor austin die.
Speaker 2:I mean, that could be anything. Lord have mercy. Um, okay, so show day. If you want to have a show day, basically we would get up. You know, if the shows say it's in Kentucky, we'll get up at 6 am, load the van, load the trailer, everybody out, soundcheck it to sound check two to four, get dinner, then go back to the hotel, be back to the venue by like seven, show at eight, meet and greet at nine, 30. And then, however long that goes, and then we'll find a bar and head out there. But it's a, it's a holiday event.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it. So, um so, do you see any major tours coming up for you or tying in with anybody in 2025?
Speaker 2:We're hoping to. Um, we're always keeping that option open, but I am looking to do some more headlining stuff in the beginning of the year um to surround the album and some other stuff we got going on. So there definitely will be a lot more live shows um coming up.
Speaker 1:And what about hitting up radio? Do you have a team helping you out with that?
Speaker 2:Well, knock on wood, we're working on it.
Speaker 1:Cool, there's some good people there that definitely can help you.
Speaker 2:There are. I've met so many great people and we're just hoping we can find the right fit.
Speaker 1:Do you drive a truck?
Speaker 2:I drive. Well, I have a truck, but I drive a RAV4.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, that's cool, very practical, you know.
Speaker 2:I have an 87 Chevy square body that. I have it at home. It just needs a little bit of work.
Speaker 1:It's all right In the barn, it's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good. I drove it every day to high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you don't want to get rid of that.
Speaker 2:If you've had that.
Speaker 1:Can you think of the, probably the memories with that? I don't know if I'll ever get rid of it. Yeah, I mean, you know what I mean. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So well, anyways, it's been great chatting with you a little bit. Um, tell me about, wait a minute before I let you go. One thing more what about your ride and dies man, you got a dedicated fan club and I love that ride or die.
Speaker 2:They are the best. I mean, you know it's been crazy. I kind of started the whole ride or die thing during COVID, during TikTok days, when I would go live like a couple of days a week and I would start seeing the same people on there every week and I started, you know, developing a friendship with them and then they started becoming friends with each other and then, when shows came back and we were back to normal, all these people started meeting each other for the first time in public and now they've made like best friends with each other and they will travel like 18 hours together to like go to one of my shows and they're always just like bringing me gifts and just being so supportive and I mean they are I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what I did to deserve them, but they are good people that's well.
Speaker 1:They support you and that that's cool. They love your music, they love what you do you know what and I think most of all they love your attitude. I mean the one that goes out there and lets it all loose on stage. That's cool.
Speaker 2:Somebody's got to do it.
Speaker 1:And I don't think I've ever had a woman on my podcast that had a hat on that says back, back on my bullshit. So I love that. Yes, will you wear that tonight in the show?
Speaker 2:I got my show clothes on. I'm ready.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Got my Marlboro necklace, my bad ass necklace.
Speaker 1:Look at you, ready to go, ready to go. You know what. It's been just great having a short conversation with you. I'd love to spend more time, but I know you do have to get downtown and the traffic in Nashville we all know it's not what it used to be. Wait for me. I will. I will, because I do know I've been there quite often and to get from the airport downtown used to be a 20 minute ride. Now it's almost an hour and a half, depending on time of day. It's crazy. It's crazy, crazy, crazy. So you know it's been a pleasure. I want you to get downtown, have a great show, kick some ass.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:And I look forward to hearing more of your music. And let's, let's get it on the radio. That's what we need. Let's do it you. Let's get it on the radio. That's what we need. Let's do it, you deserve it. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, taylor Austin Dye there she is. Bye y'all. Ride or die. I love that too. All right, have a great night, my friend Stay right there. Yep Stay right there. Good night, good job.
