SkiP HappEns Podcast
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SkiP HappEns Podcast
The One Left Behind: Pryor Baird's Journey Through Music and Heartbreak
live. It said go. So we gotta go. I know, look at that. Yeah, buddy, it is skip clark and I'm the host of skip happens and I got a guy that's already digging the music, but you're gonna be digging him by the time we get done with this tonight. You may already know him. Uh, I remember watching him on the voice and, uh, it was season 14. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:I think it had to be about 2018, just before, I mean a year or two before the world stopped. Yeah, it was. It was season 14. It had to be about 2018. It's Pryor Baird. What's up, dude? What's up, mr. Clark Doing great. I got your label mate's hat on tonight, yeah you great, I got your label.
Speaker 2:Mates hat on tonight, yeah you do yeah. I like the skip happens too. That's good.
Speaker 1:It is. That's. That's what this is all about. And before we get done or when we click, when we say goodbye tonight, I want to make sure I get your, eddie, and I'll send you some skip happens bugs. So or send it to somebody. Are you there? Did you freeze up? He's gone, but I think he's going to be back. I don't know what happened here. There you are. What'd you do I?
Speaker 2:don't have any idea.
Speaker 1:Did I piss you off already I?
Speaker 2:have no idea what happened, sorry about that Prior Dad.
Speaker 1:It's so good to see you, man, so good. We just got to know each other. What was it Just back at the CRS, at the Country Radio Seminar? As a matter of fact, I think we brought bread together. I think we sat at the same table. Was it the new faces?
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 1:It was yeah. So what's going on with you? Where are you right now? Where in the world is Pryor?
Speaker 2:I'm in Nashville Tennessee.
Speaker 1:Cool. Do you live right downtown or you don't have to tell me where?
Speaker 2:exactly. I live outside of town about 35 minutes.
Speaker 1:Smart man.
Speaker 2:I've been downtown for the past 14 years, so I've been there 13 years.
Speaker 1:That's long. Wow, I didn't know you were in Nashville. That long Is Nashville home for you? Nashville is years long. Wow, yeah, I didn't know you were in nashville that long. I mean, what is national home for you?
Speaker 2:uh, nashville is. Nashville is like my second.
Speaker 1:It's my second home, for sure so where is your first home, though? Where are you actually from? Old orchid, california holy shit, dude, that's, that's a hall. Now where is what? An old orchard orchid?
Speaker 2:that's like old old town orchid. So it's uh, it's okay, 60 miles north santa barbara, right on the coast I got you, so you moved to nashville.
Speaker 1:You wanted to do the music thing. You got on the voice and, uh, be honest with you, you should have won it that season. Um, I do remember that. But uh, what place you you came in. What third Was?
Speaker 2:it. We like to say we tied for fourth.
Speaker 1:I like that. Okay, okay, I'll go with that. I'll go with that. I just didn't remember off the top of my head. But I'll go with that, but that's pretty damn good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, great.
Speaker 1:You know, and how is that whole experience for somebody like you that wants to, uh, you know, make a living, uh, have a career in music, uh, how is that being on the voice? Does it really help you, or is it just? It's just there, or how would you, as let's hear it from you did it really help you?
Speaker 2:yeah, absolutely, but it all depends on what you make of it, just like anything else in life. You know it's like a lot of people go on that show and they think you know, when you go on the show they do everything for you. I mean, they tell you when to wake up, where you know where you sleep, when's lunch, what you're going to wear, what your hair is going to be. You know it's like people just think that's the way it goes and then when they get off the show, they just expect their phone to ring, like okay, well, what do I do next?
Speaker 2:so you got, you know, you got to make sure you have a plan. And I'll be the first to admit I didn't have a plan.
Speaker 1:I was just gonna ask if you had a plan hell.
Speaker 2:No, never in a million years did I ever think I'd be on a reality tv show shit.
Speaker 1:No, you're so talented and I remember watching that and you were you were up there and you were just doing what you had to do. You were the only one that I can recall that had all four chairs turned yeah and uh, was it? I don't not honestly off the top of my head, which is really amazing. Um, I don't need no doctor. Was it the ray charles student? Yes, humble pie, humble pie. Why did I think Rachel? All right, I was partially correct.
Speaker 2:Everybody's covered that song, man, and I did the John Mayer version of it, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool, so you got off of that, you went back to Nashville where you were living, and what happened after that.
Speaker 2:Work. You know, like you get off the show and it's. You've got a lot of momentum and a lot of momentum and you need to strike while the iron is hot. You need to make sure that you make the most of what you're doing, because I mean, at that time see, that was 2018. I got here in 2011. So seven years, and that seven years, I couldn't have made that kind of momentum by myself. And so when I got that seven years, I couldn't have made that kind of momentum by myself. And so when I got that momentum off the show not to mention, I met Caleb Lee, so we had a duo, we met on the show and then it was just like there was something about this. It was totally meant to be. You know, I met him, he met me, we came together and the first time we ever sang together in our hotel room, I remember thinking I was like that is the easiest I've ever had to, like that was so easy.
Speaker 1:That's so cool.
Speaker 2:And uh, it turned into, you know, I'd go do a show and there'd be some people there, but then I'd bring Caleb with me and there'd be 10 times as many. And then Caleb would go do a show and take me with him. There'd be 10 times. Try this out. So we did and we made it. You know, we, we were duo and man, we had it all. We were ready to go, we were going to be the next, next Dan and Shay, and uh, no, we'd have been like the next brothers Osborne, but like okay, there you go, all right Okay.
Speaker 2:It was rock and roll, it was awesome music and he just quit one day. So it's like, oh crap, no shit, yeah, we were like. He just never heard from him again. I've never seen him again. It's just really weird. It's like, oh, you like you're, you're right there and you made it, and it's like we made it, dude. And then I'll never forget. I thought my, I thought my time was over being here in Nashville and I told my fiance at the time. I said I got one egg left in my basket. Your dryer's going off.
Speaker 1:No, no, actually it was my watch and it's my son upstairs, he's watching.
Speaker 2:Oh hi son.
Speaker 1:It's named Zach. Zach has Down syndrome and he's 24 and he just loves. He loves music and he loves what I do, and it just could be prouder so what's up Zach? No, you'll be down now that you did that, but go ahead. I can't believe.
Speaker 2:He just walked away and you have not heard from Caleb never and we were together since I mean, I met him in 2017 when the voice started. After the voice, he lived in daytona beach, florida, and him and his wife and his three kids and his two dogs lived at our house at the time. So there was about seven. There was seven humans and three dogs in a three-bedroom house for 180 pieces like oh boy, four years, oh wow he was traveling and doing his thing trying to make it work and I was traveling doing my thing, trying to make it work.
Speaker 2:And I was traveling doing my thing, trying to make it work. And then I remember one time I came home and I told my fiance. I said I got one egg left in my basket. If this doesn't work, I said I think I don't know what else to do. And um, it was a uh publishing company. I'll never forget they emailed me the next day. It was a sunday, and they emailed me on monday and they said you know, we love your music, we love all that, but we're gonna pass. And I was like wow, dude, and it.
Speaker 2:Just like you know I moved here. You know I've been doing it my whole life. I've chased it down. It's all I've ever. It's all I've ever done. I mean I've waited tables, I've roofed houses, I've cut grass, I've washed it, I've babysat, anything you can think of. I've done it to try to keep this thing going.
Speaker 1:But you didn't give up. You didn't give up.
Speaker 2:Nope, but I'll never forget. I remember I cried. I cried like a baby.
Speaker 1:I don't blame you Wow.
Speaker 2:I'll never forget. Caleb FaceTimed me and I was like I wonder, and I answered the phone and he said I'll be at your house tomorrow. We have a meeting at 2 o'clock.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I was like great, come on up here, caleb, let me play the guitar for you. And let's make your life better. And he came up. He drove up from Daytona Beach, Florida, and we had three songs and we he came up, he drove up from Daytona beach, Florida, and we had three songs and we went in the next day black river and they looked at us after we played. And now this is on Monday. Now this is on Tuesday.
Speaker 1:And how long ago? How long?
Speaker 2:ago prior. This is 2020. Okay, right before the whole world shut down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So on Sunday, on Monday I thought it was over Tuesday he gets here, Wednesday we have our meeting and Wednesday afternoon they offer us a record deal. And I was like you've got to be shitting me, Like you got to go all the way to the bottom and it's like this, is it Like it's over? And then it turns around, and so then you're from the bottom and then you're all the way back up to the top and you're just flying high.
Speaker 2:You're so happy. And then we work and we're working, working, working and we have so much going, so much. And then March 2020. And it just shuts us down big time Just kills everything, just like it does the whole world. So we're on the road, we're doing virtual stuff, we're doing a virtual radio tour and we're just working our asses off. Things start to lighten up and we're back on the road again and we're playing like crazy and we're on the road with Travis Tritt. It's going so good. And I'll never forget, man, we were in Florida and we finished like a month worth of stuff with Travis Tritt and we were down there down by the water somewhere and there, down, there, down by the water somewhere, and um, there was a blues band in there and I got up and played.
Speaker 2:We went down, caleb and I. We sat down by the water it was a big full moon, must have been three o'clock in the morning just listening to the waves, and we both cried because we were like dude, we made it holy shit like we did it. I'll never forget him saying you know, no matter what I say, no matter what I do, like prior, this is, this is this is it. This is what I'm here to do. He called me on a Tuesday and said I quit. I was like what'd you quit? Smoking, drinking, what he's like this? I was like what are you talking about? That was it.
Speaker 2:We were going to meet Garth Brooks on Wednesday at the Ryman to go talk, and so that whole thing, and then that just you know.
Speaker 1:Just like that, just like that Just like that.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's like it was a Tuesday at three o'clock. He called me at Tuesday at three o'clock and I'll never forget and I was like now what? Yeah, but I mean like oh, all right, mosquito, but it's like my whole life, I've dedicated my whole life to this and then and I it's almost like I always explained it's kind of like I don't have kids, but I would imagine would be like something that you've kept with you your whole life, kept very near to your heart and created, made sure that you kept it protected.
Speaker 2:And then you let somebody else into the picture.
Speaker 1:You let them into your bubble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then it dies and it's like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:It hurts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it hurts, but you know, and you think it dies, but it doesn't die. It just makes it stronger. And I'll never forget. This is no bullshit. This is one of those things that happened in my life where I'll remember to the day that I died. He quit on a Tuesday. On Monday we had a. It was the Country Music Hall of Fame Songwriters Gala.
Speaker 1:Okay, yep.
Speaker 2:And I'll never forget. Monday morning I woke up just like any other Monday morning, went downstairs making coffee and my coffee maker is on the left-hand side and I'm standing here, so I would just turn left right. Mm-hmm left right, right, for some reason I went like the other way and just turned right like made a circle, and as soon as I turned, like my head just to turn and I'm I mean, I'm talking, we're talking one second, split second sure it was five minutes and everything was complete in total silence.
Speaker 2:It was as blue as looking at the most crystal clear blue sky you've ever seen, not like water. Just like I was floating in the middle of nothing and there was nothing there and I was just like. I remember I was like I just kind of looked around and it seemed like it took forever and I was like what in the hell? And I just felt like this, just like this thing the most calm thing I've ever felt in my life Just come from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I was like, wow, I'm pretty chill right now, right on. Then I went to that.
Speaker 2:We went to the gala that night. I was like this is the songwriting thing saved my life, like it was, and I had no idea what it was going to do to my life and what it was going to bring to my life and how it was going to help me through so many things being here now. And he quit the next day and I had this calmness about me and when he told me and I was like okay, and he's like okay, and I said yeah, anything else, and he goes. Well, do you want to talk about it. I said no, wow, don't ever, don't ever call me again Like this is, we're done, we're done, we're done here. And he's never, never reached out, never, not once, not ever. When my dad died, nothing. When I got an abortion, nothing like nothing, just just. And we're the like we have sister dogs. His wife and my fiance were pretty much just friends yeah like those two like wow, yeah, they were.
Speaker 2:They were team prior and caleb and they had the kids and they were I mean they, they did everything together and so we just became this huge traveling family. Like those, kids stayed at our house when they moved from florida, like we uh, we unloaded an entire semi-truck, andrea and I set their whole house up, and we've never seen or heard from them what um, I know we're here to talk about you and your music a little bit uh more but it's all a story man this is the story that, um, a lot of us don't realize, we don't hear, and I listening to you and anybody else that might be watching this now or down the road um, they see how dedicated you are and how much passion you have.
Speaker 1:Uh, just to continue to do what you do and kill those mosquitoes.
Speaker 2:I just got him too man, I got him right here, so my dad would have said no, but I scared him, scared him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you did good, but no, it's just the whole passion and dedication, for you know, I mean it's just, it's a good example of the downs, but you've got a lot of ups too, and for every down you probably have learned something and you know you've got some ups. I just I just find it hard to believe that he hasn't reached out. You guys had a great start, you and Caleb doing what you did, the talent, all that, what do you think you would do? Let's say he called you right now and it's a FaceTime. I mean, would you ignore it or would you pick it up?
Speaker 2:100%. I would 100% answer it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:A lot happens.
Speaker 1:It does.
Speaker 2:But what I don't like? Don't be a coward, Don't be a liar. If something's happened, tell me Cool.
Speaker 1:Deal with it, be upfront.
Speaker 2:I also. What would I have done if he said I'm thinking about quitting? Then I'd have been like oh my God, don't quit. Blah, blah, blah. I don't want to talk somebody into doing something they don't want to do.
Speaker 1:Right, they don't want to make it worse.
Speaker 2:It's not a job where it's like you know you're talking about passion, like if you want to do this, do it. This is 100%, this is 1000% every day or nothing, because it is so hard and you got to get so comfortable with the uncomfortable and the words no, and I mean I like I said I've been here, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter like it can be over right now. Somebody can quit, just like that. It's like wait hold on a second.
Speaker 1:last week we were it and now it's over like no nothing yes, it's like somebody flipped a switch.
Speaker 2:It's like, all right, we're done, goodbye it's literally like a death, like with them it is. We have never heard from them, never seen them, I mean their kids.
Speaker 1:It's wild, it's a crazy story, you know well, yeah, it is a crazy story, but here you are. Prior baird black, black River Entertainment. I saw you at CRS. I was hanging out in the suite having a couple of cocktails and I heard you perform. I saw you perform Just fabulous man, just fabulous, just fabulous. And now that you've come out with this song the one left behind, and just how they all came together, the more I listened to it I go. That is so true. You have no idea. You could be the one to leave, but you have no idea what's going on with the one you left behind or what we're feeling.
Speaker 1:So wow, so can you tell us a little bit about the song?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's about my life and it's about getting left behind. I mean, literally that's my life in the past year it's been, you know, pretty bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you wrote it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wrote it with Terry Jo Box and Barrett Baber.
Speaker 1:Reflecting on your own life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had this idea of you know, I don't know where it was, but I heard it somewhere, I think. Actually, I said I think I was talking to my fiance on the phone and I was like, man, you know, there's nothing worse than being the one left behind and I was like the sick part of being a songwriter it's like oh God, wait a minute, I got to write that down Shit. You know, you look all of my eyes out, dude.
Speaker 1:I don't know how you, as a songwriter, can get through some of these thoughts, because I'm going to be honest with you From being a guy, I cry the littlest things I am. I'm very soft.
Speaker 2:Me too, me too, and I and you know it's me too, you know talking about it, you know these things. It's real. But I also feel like that's. Those are my kind of songs, man. You know, that's the way I live life. If I want to do something, I want to feel it a hundred percent. If I want to taste something, I want to taste a hundred percent. If I'm going to live it, let's live it a hundred percent. If we're going to write it right at a hundred percent and I can't write a hundred percent of what somebody else is feeling I can write a hundred percent about me or get close to it. It's the raw emotion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the. I'm going to see if I want to play a little bit of it here, but my phone did something really funky, wouldn't you know it when I need it not to?
Speaker 2:But I'm not leaving, I'm going to go close this door Because the mosquitoes are coming.
Speaker 1:You go close the door and you people just hang on Because he's coming right back In the meantime. I am Looking for the song and I want you all to hear it, because it's got a lot of pedal steel guitar which is very, very cool. So once I get it up here, of course, I just probably can't. So that's Brooks and Dunn. We don't want Brooks and Dunn.
Speaker 2:Hey Brooks and Dunn good.
Speaker 1:Well, no, no, we don't want Brooks and Dunn, it came up on my phone, I don't know, but I gotta find, I gotta find you, man. Oh you good. Well, no, no, we don't want Brooks undone. It came up on my phone, I don't know, but I got to find you, man. Oh, here we are. Here we are. Oh, wait a minute. So oh, this is what I remember. Hang on, this might bring back a few memories here. Let me see if I can do this Doing the old Humble Pie tune, and this was on the voice. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So well, I'm, uh, hopefully I can move on to the next one. But what were you feeling when all four chairs turned around while the first one came around and then the other three followed suit? What was going through your mind? Do you feel that like holy crap? Of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hell yeah. I mean I don't think I'd ever even I'll take it back. I watched the Voice the year before that because a buddy of mine was on. I was like, huh cool, but you don't really think. I mean, what were you feeling when all four chairs turned around?
Speaker 1:Well, the first one came around, oh boy. Never mind, you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to take that song and I'm going to tag it after. You know when I put this up online, but it's called the One you Left Behind. I know there were a lot of tears shed writing this, a lot of raw emotion and uh, as I mentioned to you earlier, early on, uh, the pedal steel guitar now is that something that's in a lot of your music now.
Speaker 2:Uh, I mean, I think it's. This is definitely the most present it's ever been, that's for sure, but I love it, you know what does that sound represent for you? It's gonna sound funny. Um nothing's funny. I love it. What does that sound represent for you?
Speaker 1:It's going to sound funny. Nothing's funny.
Speaker 2:I love it. My mom cannot listen to country music, to that pedal steel, because got him.
Speaker 1:Look at that. What are we? Oh wow, Jesus, he blew him over here. Stop. Are we? Oh wow, oh Jesus, he blew him over here Stop.
Speaker 2:Because it's so painful, like it just it's it. Just, to me it's just this when it's played that way, it's the nothing can, yeah, nothing can make that sound that pain, just like when it comes out of you like, oh man, I mean it'll take the wind out of you. You know that's what it means to me. It just represents this sadness and the crying and the you know you can feel it.
Speaker 1:I think I have it. I think I have it. Here we go. It's the beginning of it. It is it's you getting out of the vehicle or going into the bar. That's what it's all about. Now, listen to the steel. Wow, it's kind of bluesy too.
Speaker 2:You said you made it to Houston, cried every mile, dodging potholes and sad songs, pulling a U-Haul full of half of our lives.
Speaker 1:Don't cry, dude. I know I appreciate you calling dude. I know I'll get out of it here in a second oh, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get this on the radio pretty quick, powerful, dude, powerful. Here we go, because the one left behind has to look at these walls when we hung up the memories.
Speaker 1:Just because they're empty Don't mean that they're gone's my life dude, telling you been there no matter which heart decides.
Speaker 2:If you think it's hard to leave in, maybe try being the one left behind.
Speaker 1:There it is. I know you know that whole thing is out there. It's going to be available. You're going to hear that on the radio pretty quick. I know they're dropping it here pretty soon, if they haven't already, and we're pretty excited about that, dude. That is the phone man.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what I you said your mom, your mom, can't listen to country.
Speaker 2:Well, she just can't listen to that. That's like that sound.
Speaker 1:With the steel yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just sounds so sad, it just makes her cry Like immediately. She just it just does. The sound just makes her so sad and I'm like man, that is, that's that's powerful when a sound can do something to you, you know well, that's what I love about it, because it does, and I want to hear it again, and I want to hear it again.
Speaker 1:That's what it's about. That's a good move. Who decided that that was the song that was going to go to radio?
Speaker 2:uh well, I was the first one, I mean, as soon as we like, when we wrote the song. It's just one of those moments where you just kind of sit there and you look at each other and you're like, did we just write? That is like as good as we think it is. And you said then we sang it, we're like this is really good. And the two people that I wrote it with like they could both sing their asses off. So we did this three-part harmony thing.
Speaker 2:Even when we were doing it, like, guys, this is, and just like you said, you want to hear it again, we wanted to sing it again and we wanted to sing it again. We wanted to sing it again. We're like, guys, this is a great sign. And so as soon as we had it you know just the work tape I said I don't want to send this over, just the work tape. So we sent it over to my team and as soon as we did, they were like, yes, this is, we love this, and this is what your voice, you're like your voice sounds so good. Yeah, and it just feels and it's real and it's my life and it was lit like authenticity is is. You cannot, it's not replicated. You can't duplicate it. It's like it has to be real and so, like I said before, I can't write somebody else's feelings.
Speaker 2:I can try, that's gotta be you like you, give me the recipe and I can make, but you don't have the feelings I have inside and I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't explain it. That's so true. That's so true and that's what makes a good songwriter. When you can, you can express yourself with music words that turn it into a song. That's that's a good songwriter, and anything like that is just.
Speaker 2:You know that's art like a, a painting, you know, a book um a picture, a song.
Speaker 1:You know it's a soundtrack to our lives, dude, because I'll tell you if I'm driving my truck down the road and I got a brand new chevy colorado, by the way.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you drive, but we'd like to thank toyota for a uh chevrolet for this sponsor, what you drive.
Speaker 1:But we'd like to thank toyota or a chevrolet for this sponsor.
Speaker 1:Yes, you have a toyota, so we love you and it happens to be the uh oh, that uh oh. Man, I can't think of the model, never mind, sorry, chevy, um, but uh, I do love it. I do love it and, yes, we'd like to thank chevrolet for the sponsorship that I do not have yet. Um, but I love it. I love it. It's soundtrack to our lives. That's what the music's all about. So now I kind of, yeah, oh, that song, it's well. I said if I was in my truck I'd be cranking that and I'd want I'd play it over and over again. I think that's what I was going to say. I kind of lost my track, a train of thought.
Speaker 2:So it's true, man, and it's, it's the soundtrack, like I'll be honest, I just talked to my ex today and it was hard, you know, and it's first time I talked to her in a long time and we even she, you know, she said something about how she has to live in that house. It's so hard, she's like I had to take the pictures down and I was like I know that's where that came from, you know, because I walked through the house one time I had to go get something and she'd taken all the pictures off the wall. It's like fuck Wow. You can still see, like when you go into a house that people used to smoke.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:It's not that we didn't smoke, but I'm saying you still see, like you see, it's still there, but it's like wow, that's been there for the past decade. Now it's not there, but it's there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the feelings are gone, but when you see that the pictures are gone it kind of makes you go holy shit. You know they're gone, but I get it, I get it. Totally. Been there, my friend, been there. I think we all have. I think we all have. Tell me about you know you've been on the Grand Ole Opry. Yes, you've done that. Tell me about that experience.
Speaker 2:Best stage in the world, man, Best stage in the world Best, like. That's one of those things like you never know, Like you dream about those moments. You know, Bottom of the ninth Tie ball game, Full camp World Series, You're up. It's like, yeah, we made it.
Speaker 1:Look, look, look here up it's like yeah, we made it here, I'll toss you the baseball. It's all good, hey, there you go. But it's good, we're a baseball family. That's why who's your team?
Speaker 2:uh, we go with the mets. Oh okay, okay, right, I've got no problem with the mets. I'm a dodger fan, so I mean okay, oh okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 1:no, we um the team here in town, the triple a team, is the Syracuse Mets. So the parent club is the New York Mets and I also work for them part-time. I'm not supposed to say that, but I just did.
Speaker 2:I'd like to thank the Mets for our sponsor today too as well. Thank you very much. Exactly.
Speaker 1:I could only wish but no one of their PA announcers. And I do all that up in the press box. My son works up there too, so it's kind of cool. It's a cool thing, but yeah, I mean being on that stage.
Speaker 2:what the feeling what is that like coming from an?
Speaker 1:artist point of view.
Speaker 2:I mean you said like nothing like it, Nothing like it. There's nothing, absolutely nothing like it. And it's you know, it's such a holy place, if you will Like, when it comes to music, the people that have been there. And music is my life, you know, and as a little kid, even being in California, you know we, I grew up watching he haul with my dad as a kid.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:I mean every other week. I listened to Merle Haggard and Dwight Young and Buck Owens over and over and over and it was great.
Speaker 2:I mean that's what made me part of who I am, but it's those guys get on those stages and you work so hard, you work and you dream, and you dream and you're like you know you chase it. And then I know, for me, when I moved to Nashville, I was like I will never go on stage at the Ryman or the Opry until it's my turn. I have been invited to go by people like hey, come watch us play.
Speaker 2:Come hang out with us friends or guests and I was like yeah, man, I'll totally come, and they're like come backstage. I said no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't go backstage. I won't go backstage until it's my time to go and it took.
Speaker 1:I mean, of course there's thoughts where it's like I wonder if this will ever happen. And then when it does, and Blake Shelton calls you.
Speaker 2:you're like oh, they got me on video. Man, I thought we were going to one of the girls in management. I thought it was her birthday. We had this big old party set up.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:But man getting on that stage out there, not just even walking out there, like my friend micah she's you know, she's in the band, so she was so excited to see me come there and it's like you kind of feel like you're already part of the family and they treat you so good and I will never, ever, ever, forget. Right before the curtain went up, the piano player and the band director walks right up to me and I'm standing there right before I walk in the circle and he says mini Pearl always said if you love the people, they'll love you back. And I was like man and he looked at me and winked and just walked over there and I was like this is the greatest night. And I walked down there and I put my hand on the circle and I looked out and I saw my family and my friends and there were so many.
Speaker 2:You know, nobody gets it, Nobody gets anywhere If you don't have a team. You got to have people behind you and people that support you. And, man, that place was packed full of people, that people that knew who I am, my friends and my family that have been with me since the very beginning and they traveled to come see it and it's kind of feel like it's one of those things like we all made it, you know, and yeah, yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 1:Um, but you did make it. Even you had the voice. He had caleb caleb. You, you did make it. People know who you are, and now that you're on black river and you're putting out the song the one left behind, uh, people know who you are. Therefore, you're heading out on tour pretty quick too, right, don't you have something coming up?
Speaker 2:That's the goal. If anybody out there is listening and wants to take me on tour, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:I thought you were heading out already. I didn't know if you were going to be with somebody or what's going on. I must have misread that. But yeah, I think something is going to come your way pretty quick and as all these tours get into shape, Come up there to New York and come see We'll go to a baseball game. Dude, I'll take you to a Mets game. Come on, bring it on. Come to Syracuse anytime and I'll I'll take good care of you, I promise you Don't?
Speaker 2:you have like a really famous donut shop right there in Syracuse too?
Speaker 1:Donut shop? We have. No, I don't think so. We have our donut, the Dunkin' Donuts. We used to have Tim Hortons. They're gone.
Speaker 2:I thought, like I was up there one time and there was a it was like a pink building and it was lined and there was a line of people out there, yeah, we call the guy Pauly Donuts. But they made like donuts or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yeah, no, you're right. So when were you here? And we didn't know?
Speaker 2:Man, it was a long time ago. I came up there and some freaking booking agent guy got a hold of me. Man, I got some plays for you to play, so I played like the dew drop in and Poland, new York for nobody on, like January 19th, it was so warm.
Speaker 1:Oh, glazed and confused, I think. Yeah, somebody just chimed in here. Let me see if I can bring this over here. Glazed and confused is the name of the donut shop Polly, Polly donuts is. Is the owner. We call them Polly donuts? Uh, sydney Irving. That sent that along. She is a great artist. She's been to Nashville, she lives here, uh, but uh, on the podcast, what's that?
Speaker 2:I said what's up Sydney?
Speaker 1:There you go. Oh, she'll probably probably chime in now if I know how to get. See, this is a whole new system I'm using, so I just got to figure out how to get rid of it now.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're like the Joe Rogan thing right now. Man, you got the guy that can look up all this stuff for you. Like, before you even say anything, be like oh, here it is, here's the answer for what you would like.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't that be nice? I wish I did have. Other side of the room is a voiceover and production area and I have a vocal booth. So because I do a lot of VO work, voice acting and stuff like that, not only am I on air. What's that?
Speaker 2:long commute from Nashville to come up there and be on the podcast but I'll come up.
Speaker 1:You know what? No, no, we wouldn Nashville to come up there and be on the podcast. But I'll come up, you know what? No, no, we wouldn't just have you come and be on the podcast. I'll put you in front of a lot of fans, a lot of listeners, and you'll make new fans. Let's go, definitely. I'll definitely work on that, we'll let you know and we'll get it taken care of one way or the other. And Sydney says says hello, so she just chimed in, so she's pretty cool, so yeah, so, um, where do you see yourself in five years? I know dumb question, but I want to know that's not a dumb question, you know um I know.
Speaker 1:See, this is good, pryor. This is good Because you got to think about it, because there's so much.
Speaker 2:Going on, but not just that. You know, if you were to ask me Five years ago, I wouldn't Expect I would be here. Not at all.
Speaker 1:And you worked Hard for it. You had good things going, why not?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh no, but I'm saying like uh, not in a bad way, I'm just saying like I wouldn't, I just life is well. I only would have said five years. I'd be like man. Hopefully I'll have a, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I have no idea, man, I'll tell you it, just you know.
Speaker 2:I would like I have a general direction forward, not backwards, not sideways. I'd like to just be, you know, moving everything forward and getting things going when I'm you where I'm.
Speaker 1:You know life is good. I'm living the dream. You know I love it and I'm glad you're living the dream and it's only going to get better prior. You know that it's going to. It's going to continue to grow. I want to ask if we could take it back again a little bit to the voice days. How was it being on, team Blake?
Speaker 2:Amazing, it was great. I mean, blake is such a nice guy, he's such a real deal. And not only that, kelly Clarkson was on the show. That was her first year and I'll never forget. Caleb was on her team and everybody else on the show. You know, you're friends with everybody and you talk to everybody. Yeah, kelly Clarkson was on what American Idol?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, I believe so.
Speaker 2:So her first year she's got what? Do you have? 12 people on your team, I think. I think that's how it starts, man. She got custom leather-bound notebooks and wrote a full-on letter to every person individually. It's like saying, hey, welcome to this. This is going to be really hard. I know where you're at. It's scary. She paid people's bills, paid like mortgages, um, to help make sure that people could anything you need. I mean blake did the same thing. Blake would help out. Like what can I do to help out? What can I, what can we do to help you? I mean that whole tv show, that platform, literally how, if you really want to do this, how can I help you get yourself to where you need to be?
Speaker 1:Wow See, I think, being reality TV, we don't see a lot of that. We didn't know that. I think you get out out there. They want to see you sing. Uh, people watching at home want to. You know you have your fans and they want to watch. You do all that, but they don't. They don't have an idea, uh, what's going on behind the scenes and how much that these you know team coaches, for example, blake or or kelly, how they really help out.
Speaker 2:I, I mean and not only that, I mean. Then you got to think about the band. Ah, I mean you got 12 people on each team and you got four teams and they got to learn all those songs for every person, every artist, and learn them perfectly, with no mistakes, and so it's like it really steps up your game. You go out there it's like Ooh, and you get to the lives. And you walk out there it's like oh gosh. You know, this is hey, don't mess up, because if you do, it's in front of 11 million people that are watching you're like holy, yeah, you're better off not to think about that like I mean, and that was the beautiful thing.
Speaker 2:Like for me, one of the most stressful things going on stage is like oh, you know, let's just pray, there's no mistakes, nothing go, nothing bad happens, nothing goes wrong. You don't have those fears with those guys. It's like if there's a mistake it was you, you know. So it really levels up your game. It makes you I mean, it's good that's good.
Speaker 1:I imagine everybody talks to you about the voice. You probably don't even want to talk about it much anymore, but it was such a big part of your life.
Speaker 2:I love talking about all of it. You know it's a part of my life. It got me to where I am and I'll be worried when people don't want to talk to me. They'll be like, well, that sucks.
Speaker 1:Well, they're going to be talking about all your big hits Back to back, to back. I don back. I don't like that. It even sounds good when you say back to back back to back to back prior beard sounds like crazy. I don't know. I'm a radio guy what can I tell you? Back to back to back yeah, so tell me about an album. What's going on?
Speaker 2:man, we got so much music like this. It's just, uh, we have tons of music, tons of ready to go. I've got my full band and we go out and we play and I mean we've got music recorded. It's just like it's a strange time and like streaming stuff. You put stuff out. Do you not put stuff out? Do you like it? When do you put it out? How much do you put out? Um, but I have plenty of music. We have a lot of it. I don't know what the timeline is for an album, but I know that there's an ep on the way that's very cool and the singles coming out here really soon, as we talked about a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1:Um, but uh, tell me a little bit about your band. Uh, these guys you play with all the time. Uh, it's a regular group, or or what?
Speaker 2:yeah, so, uh, actually it's kind of funny how it happened. I've just, you know, been looking for a band for a long time and then I was at the dog park not the dog park, dog park, but like. I was at park and this guy walked by and he's like hey man, it's cool dog, we just got talking, come to find out he's a phenomenal jazz pianist. Wow, oh yeah, man, you know, I've just here a couple of years and we're just playing music and blah, blah, blah. So I checked out a social media page and I was like Holy cow, this like this guy's unbelievable Good, and so I said, hey, man, we should, we should get together and play sometime.
Speaker 2:He's like yeah man and we went and that was it. We went and had rehearsal one day. I was like, okay, boys, well, that's how this is going to work. And they're killer and don't let them like I would be. I have to keep them very wrangled because they're so good. I'm a pretty good musician. I consider myself I can hold my own. But if these guys get let loose I'm like, okay, boys, I can't keep up. They're jazz players and they know all the notes and they can do it all and sometimes they'd like to run circles around me. I'm like guys, come on, you know, they're just a bunch of. They're a bunch of great musicians that love music you know, want to play that's cool, just want to play music.
Speaker 2:It's like yes I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that. Describe what it's like if I were to go to a show. You're up there with your band. What, what would I hear? What would it be like? For me? Is it very? Do you play a lot of rock? You stick with the country. I know, you know after hearing I don't need no doctor. What's your show like?
Speaker 2:it would definitely. It's not the rock and roll like where it's so loud you can't talk to anybody next to you right like I love.
Speaker 2:I'm a musician's musician. I love going to a show where you can. You can sit there and you can listen and it's pleasant on the ears. It's like this is this is so good, but it's uh, very muscle shoals, very bakersfield, very chris dapleton. It's not a I'm not a one-trick pony. I'm not just gonna play you, you know the same three chords of the same four chords. I'm gonna play all the chords. Uh, I'm not just going to play the same three chords or the same four chords, I'm going to play all the chords. I'm not going to overdo it, but it's going to be one of those where you're not just going to go like this, you're going to want to get up and move.
Speaker 2:Or you're going to sit down and you're going to listen, and you're going to listen to every note, or you're going to. You know it's like maybe my songs and and I hope that's what it is when people come to my shows, I hope it's one of those. Something in one of my songs somewhere is going to strike and never be like well okay, that would be the goal I would think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the goal and so, but it's fun, it's it and so, but it's fun. It's man, it's all the emotions Like it's. I love music and I love the art of it. I love the storytelling of it. I love where the songs can take you. I love how a song can literally transport you to another time, even if it's not your story. But if it's done well enough, you're like well, for three and a half minutes I was somewhere else.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:What I want to do, and that's what happens. That's what I try to make happen.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're making it happen, dude, come on. Come on, I saw it. I saw it happen. I saw it when I was in Nashville. It wasn't with the full band, but I saw it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was cool, even though I stole the hat that was supposed to be yours, but that's a true story. Everybody that's watching.
Speaker 1:I'm grateful you got it, but it's a true story 100%. We happened to be in the same place at the same time and Scotty Hastings left it on the table, while he left it with you. Yeah, I left it.
Speaker 2:Hey man, I brought your hat. I was like yeah, because I'm on the set this right here, so I don't forget it and skip walked away with it skip. Skipped away with it, skip walked away right here grateful and we are grateful.
Speaker 1:So he's your label mate, and we're going to be talking to him in just a couple of weeks on the, on the podcast too. I have him on the calendar, so and what a story.
Speaker 2:What a guy, what a, what a hero you know hero, hero, big time, hero, big time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so do you like baseball? Did you say that you go to a baseball? Yeah, any question. Okay, all right. And you said uh, your team is who?
Speaker 2:oh, they just won the world series last year okay, the dodgers come on.
Speaker 1:Why are you doing this to me? Anyways, now we're with the mets, we came close, we came close, but, seriously, I love to treat you to a game here in town, because you never know who you're going to see at this level, which is pretty I love baseball games.
Speaker 2:That's always been one of my. I always wanted to like set up a tour where, like during baseball season, and go to every park. Like set up a tour where you go to you know every town and catch a ball game and go to all the parks. I think that'll be so much fun.
Speaker 1:Eat hot dogs, drink cold beer see, the gears are, everything's turning right now because we got a whole summer ahead of us and you know we could work something out where we get you up here. We'll get you to do a little bit at the ball field. I don't know, do you sing the national anthem, or is that a song you stay away from? Absolutely yeah, that's. It's a hard song to sing. That's why I said that sometimes artists get like oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:One thousand percent, yeah, yeah that would be cool, that would be, cool on that, then we treat. We treat you to the game. So it's cool and there's a lot of cold beer. So do you have pets? I do. I have dogs, right.
Speaker 2:I have a dog. Her name is Winnie. Yeah, she's a German short-haired pointer, but she looks like that. She's like a rust-colored whale dog Beautiful.
Speaker 1:I have a yellow lab that likes to steal everything, so he's great, he takes after me. Uh, stop, all right, I'll mail you the hat for crying out loud now. Man, that's good, I don't have bugs, everything's fine scotty, scotty, hastings, I'm getting a new hat.
Speaker 2:Thanks for the sponsorship, dude.
Speaker 1:We'll be talking about this when I talk to him in a couple of weeks. But how cool, how cool. What do you drive? I forgot, did you tell me earlier.
Speaker 2:Toyota Tundra Yep, my hometown dealership in Santa Maria.
Speaker 1:They hooked it up right after the voice man, they were like hey. I said hey, my toyota, oh yeah, sponsored by toyota, you betcha, I love it. Yeah, hunters are a nice truck man, I'll tell you, I looked at, I looked at those yeah, they're, they're great but I gotta be honest with you, the price tag was a little bit too much for me, so well, I gotta love your hometown dealership man.
Speaker 2:I love a hometown dealership man. I love a hometown dealership Santa Maria, toyota baby, what's up?
Speaker 1:Sponsored by Okay, brought to you by. Damn, what's up with those mosquitoes?
Speaker 2:Vanilla candle sponsorship is what we need.
Speaker 1:What do they call those candles that keep the bugs away? I forgot Citronella, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There it is. You know it's been great just chatting with you, kind of a just a one-on-one conversation, and, you know, just to catch up where we left off in Nashville here a couple of weeks ago. But it's so good to see you prior and, you know, talking to black river, talking to those people, everybody's so proud of you, everybody is just just, they know you've got what it takes and, uh, they're standing behind you 100. I mean, I talk to the reps all the time, um, you know, and then grassroots, hooking me up with this interview, with you to sit down and chat. But it's not like we're strangers. I mean, right, you know it's, we know each other a little bit black river.
Speaker 2:I mean there there's something to be said about, like each other a little bit Black River. I mean there's something to be said about, like you know, about, a small town dealership. Small town, like a small town label.
Speaker 1:Well, small label in a big town.
Speaker 2:Right and you know if you need something you can go right to. You go right to the CE, walk in his office.
Speaker 1:That's the way it should be.
Speaker 2:You know and like they call you on a first name, they care about your genuine well-being. Like how are you? Are you okay? Are you doing good upstairs? Do you need any help with this? What can we do with that? It's like you're not gonna get that, you know. Go work for any company. Go work for a giant corporation, be like we get treated like shit.
Speaker 1:We don't ever get a number you're a number you're a number, that's all you are.
Speaker 1:Nobody knows your name exactly it's like where I am, and you know, the radio station is a small. Now I work for the big corporations. I've been there, I've done all that and I played music back to back to back, but uh, I just but uh, I've been there, I know that. But now I'm working for hometown radio station and, uh, we are right up there with the big guys. We love it, it's just. You know, they call me by name, I'm not a number, everybody is. You know what I mean. It's that feeling, exactly what you just described about Black River. It's the same thing. It's the same thing.
Speaker 2:And it's that small town. Feel Like I mean the same thing. It's the same thing and it's that small town feel like. I mean I'm from a small town. We got two stop signs jerry the, the dj, and my hometown. I still talk to him all the time. I send him my work tapes and he plays them on the radio. That's cool, it's small town, you don't find that. And it's the same thing with like river. It's just it's hard to find. And when you find it I mean chris young said the same thing he's like I knew as soon as I walked over.
Speaker 2:He's like that's, that's where I'm going exactly, and that's what, yeah, oh and that's cool yeah, it's walking in, like you're walking in the front doors of your house. When you walk in over there, it's like when you hear your family come in, sit down.
Speaker 1:We need to talk, but it's good talk. Yeah, now, chris ch, chris Young can sit over there. Scotty Hastings, you're over there. Here you go. Pryor, you're going to hang out over here a little bit. Let's get together. Does anybody need a beer while we're here? Yeah, I'm just saying it'd be that type of atmosphere.
Speaker 1:So we're looking for a beer sponsor folks, just in case, All right beer sponsor folks, just in case it's me all right on that note, what's your favorite? Uh flavor? Uh, yes, okay, I like that too. I'm trying to get us dude. You got to help me out here uh, we're just throwing them out.
Speaker 2:That mean coming miller light's gonna be, you know okay all right, okay, do you guys get?
Speaker 1:do you have labatt's blue there?
Speaker 2:I never knew how. I didn't know if it's labats or labot or labbetter well, it's not labbet, it's labats. We call it labats yeah, no, we don't have it down here, but I like that. It's like uh, it's got that. Yeah, no, we don't have it, but I like it shock top.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, do you drink craft beer? Uh, like a seasonal.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you so my dad was a home brewer growing up. Oh nice okay always had. He loved dark amber beer. All right, and man, I have drank so much of that stuff and it just I mean you drink numb to it bastard, you know.
Speaker 2:And it's like I just I grew up drinking with my dad. It's like, dad, I can't. It's like you gotta chew it, I don't know it's a hot day like I just I grew up drinking with my dad. It's like, dad, I can't. It's like you gotta chew it, I don't know. It's a hot day like I can't do this man. And then you drink free and you're like I'll go take a nap, drink miller lights. Be like no problem, dude, we're good booze in there, there's just a little bit of water.
Speaker 1:But yeah, no IPA. That's just, we have Sam's Seasonal here Now. I don't know if they have it down there at all. I doubt it, but there's like a Winterfest, there's like a Summerfest.
Speaker 2:What's that? Sam Adams, of course Is it. Sam Adams Might be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no right, you're right, you're right, you're right my dad, cool good stuff. Hey, uh, do you get down on broadway at all to play? I know you're not gonna go down there and hang out, probably, but uh do you get.
Speaker 2:Uh get a chance to play um, you know, no, I never did. I never did the broadway thing. I actually went down there when I first moved to town. I went down to go play and I played at tootsies. I tried out in the backstage and the guy that like you're not good enough, and I was like what? Hey, cool, and you know what, it's great.
Speaker 2:That's probably the best thing that could have ever happened to me, because getting down on Broadway and it takes the uncomfortable away real quick because you make good money every night You're playing cover songs and you get to sleep in your bed at night. You don't have to travel anywhere and it's like man, it's kind of nice. You don't have to travel anywhere and it's like man, it's kind of nice. You know, and I will tell you that my biggest fear is if sit here right now and tell you who's playing where, what songs they're playing, I can tell you who's in the crowd from the whole central coast of California and it's the same guys playing the same songs. And that terrified me, even as a young guitar player and being an artist in the town.
Speaker 2:I was like a young guitar player and being an artist in the town. I was like these guys are these? Why don't you guys do anything? Why aren't you here? You know, and it terrified me. I was like I don't want to do that. That's uh-uh not good. So, you know, I packed it up all over California and moved here and I was like I'm not going to Broadway, I'm not going to do that thing, I'm not going. So I'm going to go see how far we can take this.
Speaker 1:Smart. I have a? Um, I have a friend that plays at Tootsie's. All the time he goes out on the road with an artist If they need a guitar player his name's Jason Teska. You know Jason, yep, yeah, yep, yep. He plays the tootsies, uh, pretty much on a regular basis. He's from the area um, we've known each other for god knows how many years, but we keep in touch and when I'm in town I try to make it a point to say hello.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I mean my neighbor across the street. He was the drummer for uh um errol singletary for like 15 years oh wow, very cool broadway. Every now and then I'm like man. There's nothing wrong with it absolutely not. I mean I got tons of buddies that do it. I mean that's, it's great. I mean, especially for touring musicians it's killer because you can go down, keep your chops up, come down and play. But I just would not want to do it for a, for my income and like that's my job right?
Speaker 1:no, I don't blame you there and you don't do anything else but write and perform who you are as of right now. Correct, you don't have a job. I mean, you're not like at the dollar general, um, being a manager or anything during the day, and and don't laugh, because I've actually talked to other artists and I go, okay, what else do you do? Well, the Dollar General, what's that?
Speaker 2:My first job was at the Union Stockyard and I wore a tuxedo every day and I waited tables and served wine. Okay, I went and I started my own handyman service because I got fired and so I was doing handyman stuff for anybody that I can. I didn't know anybody. It was like my first two years here I didn't know anybody. It was like my first two years here I didn't know anything or anybody. Then, after that, I got a job at Virago. I was 31 years old, washing dishes bus boy. Then I was a server and I would do that at night and during the day I would cut the grass at the Cool Springs Galleria Mall. I worked for ERMC and it's like one of those corporate. You know taping companies and my job. You know the islands where you park your cars in those big parking lots and they got like trees and shit.
Speaker 2:Cool Springs Galleria is probably I don't know 50 I I. Cool Springs Galleria is probably I don't know. 5 o'clock in the morning. Get up, go out there, put your blower on your back and it's July, it's sweaty, it's humid and you're already just like you're wearing clothes that stink of grass and they're nasty. And then you get out there and it's just, you open the door and it's sauna, sweat, gross, and my job was to cut those islands but I had a blower on my back, I had a push mower and a weed whacker and a 55 gallon bucket and a 55 gallon bucket and I had a case of water and I put that case of water in that trash can and then I had done that. And then I would go work at Virago and wait tables and then after that I worked for a construction company where roofing houses, re-roofing houses.
Speaker 1:You've done it all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow know, roofing houses re-roofing houses.
Speaker 1:You've done it all. Yeah, so well, I get it. I get it. My friend, prior baird, the hardest working man in music right now, because he's ready to put out those hits back to back to back. Um, I don't know why, when I talk it kind of cuts you off. So I apologize if I'm cutting you off All of a sudden. It just kind of goes silent. But I do apologize for that. Let me just play with this little. There you go, but thanks for coming on tonight and chatting a little bit and I'm going to put the link to the song the One Left Behind.
Speaker 1:It'll be right under this video. It should be like right down there somewhere, pretty quick, you know. Yeah, right down there. Once we get done I'll get it all up and uh, you know we're live now, but uh, there'll be an update. So you'll see the link and all that good stuff and we look. I look forward to seeing you on the road because I'm gonna get you out of nashville, I'm gonna get you into the northeast and the best time to come up here is like the latter part of the summer where the weather is going to be really, really nice.
Speaker 2:You're going to go to a Buffalo game.
Speaker 1:We can make that happen if we wanted to. You know what you do here We'll work on routing. I'll call my friends in Rochester and Buffalo and say we need to get Pryor up here, let's do something, and we can route you Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse. You can go see Maddie Jeff in Albany. Then you do the whole New York State Thruway, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Gordon Kerr and the pagoulas that you're listening here ready, We'll play the Buffalo Bills, We'll do all of them. Whatever you need, we got it.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited. It's going to be so cool. But thanks for joining us tonight. It's been a great conversation. You're pretty deep. You've been through a lot, man, and you're really just. Your heart is there and your songwriting is showing that it's just. It's so cool, dude, and I'm so happy for you and I'm like I said I was. It was an honor to meet you a couple of weeks ago and uh, sit at the dinner table with you and watch some music and listen to it and uh, you know we had a good time. So, but uh, thank you for coming on here. Uh, we're going to say goodbye, but uh, I want you to hang out there for a minute and uh, I'll get some information from you. But thanks for watching everybody. Make sure you follow prior baird. Uh, look them up on youtube, little subscribe, do that, then you'll have more videos back to back.
Speaker 1:Prior baird now playing on that sounds good yeah, I wish, I wish I got paid for it. That'd be good. I I have no idea. I just love what I do. That's the whole thing. I just love what I do, just like you do. But thanks for hanging out. Make sure you check out his music. The new single is the One Left Behind man. You're going to hear it and you're going to want to hear it again and again and again, and probably back to back to back, I don't know, just back to back to back. I don't know. Just tell me to shut up. Anyways, pryor, you're awesome. Thanks for watching everybody. Until next time We'll see you. Peace out. Thanks, skip. You're welcome man.
