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SkiP HappEns Podcast
From Voice Finalist to Nashville Powerhouse: Morgan Myles' Musical Journey
We're live. Hello everybody, it is Skip Clark and welcome to another episode of Skip Happens. And tonight oh, this is going to be so exciting I'm joined by a powerhouse vocalist and one of the most electrifying voices in modern music. You saw her shine as a top three finalist on the Voice Team, camilla, and since then she's captivated millions. She's got a soulful blend of Americana and country from standing ovations at the Grand Ole Opry and I can't wait to talk about that to praise from the Rolling Stone magazine billboard as well. She's just getting started. Please welcome the incredible. I'm already in love with this woman. Her name is Morgan Miles Morgan. How are you?
Speaker 2:I'm great. Wow, what an intro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, I you know before you know. Just, I'll be totally upfront. I thought I definitely would mess it up more than I did, so that's just the way it is. It's all true. It's all true because I saw the voice. I saw the voice in 2022 and that was so cool. Can you let's start right there Can you take us back to 2022 and what it was like stepping into the onto that voice stage? And, of course, team Camilla.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 2:it's like such a PTSD moment I feel like I never thought I was going to go on a reality show Like I had turned down, for I think I'd been asked like nine years in a row. But after a really bad management deal, a pandemic and a booking agent that was doing some really questionable things, it came across my email and I said you know what? What do I have to lose? And let's just audition and then go from there and decide. So, anyways, it was intense because we still had all these COVID restrictions.
Speaker 2:So I remember yeah, like, even though the world was open, we were really seriously still in intense like a single hotel room lockdown being tested every single day. So even that was like mentally challenging.
Speaker 2:And people don't know that like you were there for, like, I think, six weeks, if I remember correctly, before the blind audition, and then, when the blind audition starts, there's five days of a blind auditions, and at the morning or the evening every night they tell you who gets to audition, but once the teams are full, they tell you who gets to audition, but once the teams are full, that's it.
Speaker 2:So you're like and all your family is in another hotel at LAX and you can't even communicate with them. So there's just all that intensity, and for me the intensity was coming from like. I've been in Nashville for 17 years and I have something truly to prove. I'm not somebody that's like just out of high school or something getting started Like this was like man.
Speaker 2:This might be like my moment where I'm just like throwing the towel because of the pressure, and so for me, when all four chairs turned, I could breathe and I was so relieved and what every single one of the coaches had to say was so mind-blowing and so validating for me. Camila had turned in five seconds and Gwen Stefani was blocked within the same five seconds, and my now label head said that I'm still the fastest four-chair turn in the history of the boys.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm reading.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'll take that any day, still lost. But I didn't want to win the Voice. I know people probably think I'm crazy when I say that, but I really just wanted to get to the end and make sure that every performance I had really represented me, along with my storyline and the show was so good to me, like they, every vision I had, they worked with me. I mean even the guy licensing Clyde. We would get in such long great conversations about song choices and Camila was so involved with like the why and of each song.
Speaker 2:so like a lot of passion went into every performance I had and yeah, I mean that whole year was just such a roller coaster. I can't even imagine I really am glad I did it. I was very nervous to take that leap but I just at that time the pandemic was so insane with like the Internet, and I just felt like I needed my story out there.
Speaker 1:Right, did you have to like? Was that the were the. You're in a room and it was just you and a camera, and that's how you auditioned, or were you? No, you went in front of the four judges, but I don't. In the beginning, prior to that, there's a whole casting company. And maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that takes like several months. So, yeah, like, and then you go through all these producers and casting, even right.
Speaker 1:Get to LA and then you go through all that Was that during the you know, the pandemic and all that, where they still tried to do the show, but you were, like, I mean, in front of your iPhone, with a, with a light, and doing it that way or no. Why am I thinking that?
Speaker 2:The rest of the world besides. La County was open like no pandemic.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:So you know, in 2022, if you remember back, we were back, everybody was back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, besides LA, like LA County, and the film industry, like the big networks.
Speaker 1:So all that was still locked down.
Speaker 2:And I think and I could be mistaken, but I just think it was because LA County was making so much money off the studios. I think you know.
Speaker 1:You know, but I know roll the eyes. Yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 2:But right after the next season didn't have any of the COVID restrictions. So but and and what's crazy was when Camila actually got COVID and it pushed the filming back and that yeah, it cost a lot of ruckus, like for us as contestants. Um so it was just such a weird time. A lot of it didn't make a lot of sense, but I I have to say that was one of the additional just stresses like that would stress out any human being you know, no doubt I think a big part of the show is the friendships you make, and they kept saying that I was like well, how we're not allowed to be together, you know.
Speaker 2:so there was like a group of us that literally would live on FaceTime together.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it, but we're still so close. I was just going to ask if you keep in touch.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty awesome why.
Speaker 2:A lot of them moved to Nashville and I was kind of like mama mourned, so everybody you know was asking me how to do everything and like what's this, what's that? So yeah, a lot of them moved to Nashville.
Speaker 1:So Very cool, very cool. Why did you say you were a loser on the show? You weren't a loser, you're a winner. You're a winner, anybody on that show? You made it. You make it to the show. You're a winner.
Speaker 2:I just. I think it's fun to be self-deprecating. No, I never felt like a loser, like I said, I I just far from it. We, I really did. It was a great platform for me, but I always just joke. I might've been the fastest board chair turn in history, but I still lost.
Speaker 1:That's my slogan at this point. You got to make a t-shirt with that. Somehow, you got to put that phrase on the back. Yes, exactly, think about that. I think that would be cool, especially for some merch doing what you're doing. Yeah, ms Morgan Miles about that. I think that would be cool, especially for some merch doing what you're doing. Yeah, ms Morgan Miles, but what was the biggest lesson or takeaway from your time on the show?
Speaker 2:I think for me it was mainly a confidence booster. It was, like you know, from the band to wardrobe, to hair and makeup to the respect I got from everybody, including the coaches again, which is validating because people go. Of all the people that I've worked with on the show, you know who you are. You have brought it day in, day out.
Speaker 2:And I can't wait to see what's coming from you and I seriously that's the biggest takeaway I needed because I was coming at a different chapter in my my artist journey of needing, like a backbone, a little bit of saying you got this, continue, persevere. And three days not even I think it was two and a half days after that's when I got the phone call from the Opry to see if I could, if I would have my Opry debut and you said no wrong.
Speaker 2:I just bawled like a big, big baby because I had been passed on before.
Speaker 1:So how nervous were you. You take that phone call and they want you to perform on the Opry. Is that crazy?
Speaker 2:I was like yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Why did I hear you right?
Speaker 2:I just cried, I mean it took me 17 years and Nashville finally walked in a circle.
Speaker 1:Totally understand, it was the Ryman, because that was I got so lucky, because there's a little sliver of time every year that the opera goes back to the OG mother. Yes, yes, the mother, church baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I got back in a bucket list because I'd never played the rhyme before. So, um, it was just literally probably better ever than my potential wedding Wow.
Speaker 1:But being on the stage at the rhyme and I know I've been in there, I've seen it and just to, I think I can feel it when I see an artist up on that stage the wood.
Speaker 2:I love playing theaters but like that, place has the church element too and it's just it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Wow. How would you describe your musical identity and how did you arrive at that sound?
Speaker 2:My musical identity is definitely wrapped up with a lot of influence from like a Southern soul storyteller. Soul storyteller and, honestly, I was raised on by a very, really tough guitar teacher. That was like you're gonna be Janis Joplin in our Woodstock performance but you have to learn all her lives that every he also like. My first guitar song was like a blues by Bonnie Rae, susan Tedeschi, the Cassidy.
Speaker 2:So these were just, I mean, obsessed with, like carol king tapestry oh, my goodness from what he gave, like he was like, he heard, like this young girl with this really interesting old, soulful voice, and he was the one to really connect me. He was the one to really connect me to that. I think also because I was a really big dancer like I competed in dance.
Speaker 2:And so, even with all of that and the movement of connecting your body to that instrument. But for me, the identity, I think, really started to develop of what I wanted to say once I got to Nashville and that I am like the everyman archetype, like the caregiver I really just want to be a vessel to people and connect with people on a level that really does make them feel not alone. I think music has that power and that's why I still really push myself and persevere and it because of what it can do for people and what it's done for me. You know, and I just feel like God gave me a gift and I don't know what my purpose would be without continuing.
Speaker 1:Sure, I got you. I got you. Whereabouts in Nashville Are you? Are you close to a downtown Broadway or no?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Good girl, because that gets crazy. I used to live by Belmont when I was going to Fairbanks. Oh, all right, so you were up a little ways, it's okay. I don't need to know where exactly?
Speaker 2:No, I live in Hendersonville now, oh okay, it's nice and calm, sweet, it's just. Yeah, I I don't think I could ever live near downtown again.
Speaker 1:It has changed so much. It has.
Speaker 2:I'm from Pennsylvania originally.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And we've lived out with no neighbors and quiet in the country so I'm like it's too much for me. I need the breather.
Speaker 1:I love that. Um, good question coming in. I need the breather. I love that. Good question coming in. Jason Krantz. He's a radio guy in the Midwest. If someone met her meaning you had no idea who she was what would be their first impression?
Speaker 2:What If someone had?
Speaker 1:I know I'm reading it. Jason says I'm going to read it to you verbatim. I know I'm reading it. Jason says I'm going to read it to you verbatim. If someone met her meaning you, okay had no idea who she was what would be their first impression? Well, jason, I got to tell you this young lady right here she's got a rare five octave range. So just saying I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's cool, Maybe the one thing I feel like when people leave, it's odd. We knew you could sing really well, but, man, you're an entertainer. Then they go. And what you did with those note cards? Absolutely never seen that hands down ever before. There you go and the note card thing that I've been doing. So we've played 50 shows in the last three months. It's been wild.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Because I have a new studio record coming out.
Speaker 1:I know we need to talk about that, but go ahead studio record coming out.
Speaker 2:I know we need to talk about that, but go ahead. And I did this first exclusive listening tour just because I really really wanted to give people a chance to hear these songs and I wanted to see what people were feeling. But there's a segment in the show that I go I also just want you guys to see like, my creative process. So what I do is like has anybody ever thought about writing a song? Some people raise their hand and then I'm like okay, we're going to pass around some note cards. You're going to write a hook, a hook or a quote or something like be vulnerable, tell me what's going on, okay. And then at the end of the show, about 30 minutes towards the end, I take the note cards and I literally just make up. I make up music and write songs on the spot to what they're giving me, and it's such a magical moment because people are really telling their souls by that point and it's such an incredible Environment and feeling and it's like.
Speaker 2:I don't even know how I'm coming up with this stuff. I truly don't, but, um, it's just a really cool thing that we started doing for this tour. I love it yeah, that's what they kind of walk away with like. I feel like it's easy. People, I think, sometimes just assume like even though I write songs like I wrote it, they're probably oh, she didn't write that or something and it's like, after I do that, they're like whoa.
Speaker 1:So well, no, exactly right, I would walk out of there going. That was damn cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she took what I wrote on that card and she put it into a song like there, there hasn't been one show that I don't think we had some tears of some sort, which is well, yes, it's like a win for me well, we all know and I say this so often the fact that country music is is our life, it's.
Speaker 1:You know, somebody's just putting it in words, and if somebody's taking a card and they're just kind of, you know it's something to do with them and it you're going to relate. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's, it's talk. You're creative by doing that too. That's really cool, cool.
Speaker 2:How many instruments do you play? I play piano, I play acoustic guitar and then I play mando three.
Speaker 1:It's all all right, you're multi-instrumentalist acoustic guitar, I mean but, yeah, I had.
Speaker 2:I was a utility player actually on the riva tour for another artist that was opening up for her for a full tour.
Speaker 1:And I had to learn Whoa, whoa, whoa. You were one of the people in the band, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Not for Reba. We were the opener.
Speaker 1:Right, but you were there.
Speaker 2:I was a utility player. Yeah, I was her BGV. This is like flat out of college the next day.
Speaker 1:But how cool is that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like flat out of college the next day. But how cool is that? Yeah, it was crazy. And that's how I met Reba and her camp and they all became like my family and they ended up writing with me, still write with me, they've recorded with me, they've played live shows with me and anytime I just need advice or if I want to go sit in on her rehearsals, they'll let me come. They're just such awesome people.
Speaker 1:I got you. Uh, reba is the reason that I got into country music and I haven't looked back. I mean, I was just anything, reba, I was all over it, I uh reason.
Speaker 1:I, I had a yellow lab. I got, I got my yellow lab as a puppy. A long time had gone now, but I named her Reba just because she had the reddish hair. I had all that and I mean it's everything for me was Reba, reba, reba, reba. But then you were telling me about. You know your Reba story. I know now that you're connected somewhat. Tell us all what you were telling me before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that tour was a big thing for me and I remember I was pretty homesick and she came up to me and catering. She's like girl, are you okay? They just she just didn't have to do all the things that she did, just to make you know and, like I said, like her band really became like family to me. And then on the Voice there was a week that I really wanted to talk about women in country music.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I wanted to sing If I Were a Boy, which she covered by Beyonce and I did it in our country. I had a whole arrangement that I came up with and I said, Reba, I had to come home for two weeks. Would you be willing to like, do some like you know behind the scenes stuff, Because we're supposed to shoot it on our camera, like our phone? And she said yeah, and so it was great.
Speaker 2:And she loved my audition because at that point I think that had aired and I don't know, it was just really cool. And then the next season here she's or not. Next season, the following season after that she became a coach.
Speaker 1:So have you had the um opportunity to sit home, let's say in your family room, feet up on the table, tv on and you watch an old run of the voice while you were on it, I mean, and then you just kind of pick yourself apart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I would do that. You're totally going to laugh because I. So we just shot everything in Joshua Tree for my upcoming album, which is the Desert, and I rented this really silly Airbnb and I go to take a shower after like 12 hours of shooting. I come out and like my photographer, my like content manager and my tour manager sitting on the couch watching my like all, and I go what are you doing? And then I start watching and I'm like, oh God, you're. You know, the only one part that I really can't stand to watch myself is the finale, because I literally almost trip in my they. I was one girl out of five male finalists, right, so I? They had me on like dressed in so much stuff. When I tell you I had to walk from stairs in stiletto heels with this cape that they made so they tell you what to wear.
Speaker 2:Well yeah, I mean by that point, they already know kind of your persona and everything. But with the finale you have to go big or go home. They're trying to win Emmys too. The wardrobe, sure, sure.
Speaker 1:That stage is insanely slippery go big or go home, like they're trying to win Emmys too.
Speaker 2:Like the wardrobe, like. So that stage is insanely slippery. I'm like banging out to the choir Next thing. I know the Kate gets caught in my shoe a little bit, but I didn't fall, but I kind of tripped and that that unfortunately the one clip that they decided to use on social media a closeup.
Speaker 2:Right when I and I I just remember going man, you guys really did me wrong and they're like, they're like we can go back, but you already have 250,000 views on it and I was just like well, but it doesn't look that bad horizontally but vertically, but yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe only you know what I mean. What if I was to watch it, would I notice it?
Speaker 2:There's a little.
Speaker 1:You know? I mean, it's just saying you know, because it was you I caught it.
Speaker 2:It happens, it's human, but I caught it. I didn't fall Like poor Wendy Moten, who I knew from the season before. I mean she broke her like arm for a wedge monitor because it was black and black. You know, you couldn't see it and it's just like and that I mean, and that was live great, see now that you should feel better.
Speaker 1:Then you didn't break anything, so listen, it could have been worse. I could have absolutely just fell morgan, uh, morgan miles with us here tonight and skip happens. You may remember her. We're talking about the voice. We've been talking about that a lot in the last few minutes. But, morgan, how do you, first of all, how do you protect your voice? Because you've got, you know, you've got different ranges and more than a lot of females. How do you protect your voice?
Speaker 2:It is a whole regimen Cause I I mean, my schedule is so packed and it's like I there's so much pressure cause it's like you got to take care of yourself in order to fulfill you know, like I said, like 50 dates in three months.
Speaker 2:That's a lot with with you, so much schedule. People don't know how to read a map. One of my tops, I will say there is a Mavis vocal steamer. You can get it on Amazon. It is a game changer To the point, camila. I've been using that for five years but Camila gifted us in playoffs same one.
Speaker 2:It's like a $45 thing and you start with that. Then I do vocal exercises. I just go on my iTunes and pull up this one it's my most played soundtrack, but I do that for like 20 minutes while I'm getting ready. But more importantly, you know, making sure that, like, exercise is huge, sleep is huge. I make sure to really try to eat healthy. I drink a ton of water. If I eat something that's like super heavy, like I hate eating before a show because that just makes me feel tired, there's a lot that I do.
Speaker 2:I have a little bit of whiskey before I go on the stage. Reba taught me that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she's right. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2:She's right, because, especially so, I've been calling this the allergy tour, because we like started in February in Florida and it's like let's just follow the policy, let's just follow where it's been blooming and so you know you're dealing with so many different atmospheres and stuff and just a little bit of that whiskey after I have a Red Bull or celsius, which is so terrible for me.
Speaker 2:But well, find me, find me like a healthy energy drink to drink at like probably around 6 00 pm because I'm so tired from traveling that it's like I've got to, like you know, do a 90 minute set and and it's just like whoo and so you never know, like when I get on Pacific Coast time and I'm coming from Eastern and it's like my body feels like it's 11 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:And you're just getting started. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Talk about just like whoo, Because I just got back from LA and we were out in that and then now I head to Vermont.
Speaker 1:Oh well, you're coming to the East Coast. I like that, it's right over there. It's like right over there. Yeah, have you ever been to upstate New York, like Syracuse, where I am?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have been and I'm trying to think, oh my gosh, lake George played there. That was beautiful.
Speaker 1:Oh, Lake George is beautiful. That's the Adirondacks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there, that was beautiful. Oh, lake george is beautiful. That's the adirondacks. Yeah, we played there. Um, and then one of my favorite places ever I was just visiting with my parents. Um was like the saint oran seaway yep, yep, yep, the more just to see all this crazy man thousand islands oh my gosh, I loved it. Best dressing ever. We still order we. This was 10 years ago that we went there. We still order that dressing.
Speaker 1:It's in because, because you went to the thousand islands- well, it's just the best it was so wait, wait, wait, wait, what you could. So I'm, you know, I'm not just talking about the dressing, no, I know.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay, I'm going but the thousand island dressing was originally from yes, yes, okay, okay, yeah, and so of course, we got obsessed with it, and so my mom always orders it and gives it for like christmas gifts and stuff yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1:We're those people have you ever had a chance? Uh, probably not, I don't know. Right here in syracuse we got a place called the dinosaur barbecue and it's good, and we also have a place Probably not, I don't know Right here in Syracuse we've got a place called the Dinosaur Barbecue. It's good, and we also have a place called Limp Lizard, I don't know. Usually when somebody comes through they make it a stop at either one of those two barbecue places, which is really good, and for upstate New York, it's good. Now we are really upstate, if you ask, if somebody should ask me where I'm from, I'll say upstate New York and they'll go Poughkeepsie, which is down near New York city, because they're usually from that area and they think Poughkeepsie is upstate New York and it's not upstate New York is. You know where we are? We're in Syracuse. So, yeah, yeah, uh, what else can I? Oh, um, so you know reading about you in Billboard and Rolling Stone, american songwriter, and those moments of recognition. Have you read those? And what do they mean to you? Isn't that cool?
Speaker 2:It's totally cool. I mean you again you have to like kind of pinch yourself that you're just getting any type of phrase, but I think it's like always those moments of like you know, for me it's just a great validation to keep going, because I'm not your like, your typical artist. That's like oh, you got a tame, that you go Like my mom's. Like you need to believe in yourself. Sometimes you're too humble, like why are you getting you know? And it's true.
Speaker 1:It's true.
Speaker 2:And it's hard to believe in yourself, and so a lot of times when those things happen, it's just like such a great feeling of like, okay, I can do this, keep going, and it always kind of drops at, like those times that you just kind of need it the most.
Speaker 1:What was you performed at the grand ole?
Speaker 2:opry right, or was it just the the mother church downtown? I?
Speaker 1:played at both. Both, okay, all right. What was it tell me about performing at the grand ole opry and what was running through your mind during that standing ovation that I read about?
Speaker 2:The standing ovation happened at my Opry debut and all these people came from all these different facets of my life and it was so touching because I always said when I play this place everybody in that audience is going to know me for all the hard work I put in and respect me for it.
Speaker 2:And that's damn well what happened. Vince Gill comes out. Before I went on, vince was talking to me and I said well, when did you get your Opry debut? And he goes, not till I was 36. And he was like baby girl, you're just getting started and I needed that backstage. That backstage was so huge and then I was over watching his set. At the end he walks out of stage. He goes. Morgan Miles is a reminder of why the Opry is so important and what the this night is for, because I've played it so many times and I and what this night is for. He goes. I've played it so many times and I really appreciate that reminder tonight and every single person in this room is here for her and at the very end I'm like dancing to his music and stuff and he keeps going like this.
Speaker 2:He's got a guitar, he's like this and I'm like huh and so he wants me to walk out, so I walk out of my little Opry dance and I do my little dance and the curtain closes and I was like, whoa, this is epic, this is such an epic, it's really cool and um, yeah, that. And then the next opry moment at the opry, the opry house okay, the mother church, yep yes, it was, um, my mom's birthday and I did not tell her.
Speaker 2:I told my tour manager that I was like just get her over here. So, because I'm gonna pull, so I tell I tell like the opry guys, the musicians, everybody and my mom, because my mom can catch on to something quick, and so I pull her out. She's just mortified that I'm bringing her out. But I sang happy birthday to her, holding her hand in the circle.
Speaker 2:God, I just know, I know her without her and all like that. My parents had to go through to like support me and it was just such like a full moment for me, like that I could give her that. Now I don't know how I'm ever going to top it but well, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean that moment with your mom and that moment. You know all that I. I don't know if you can top that. It's a memory that you're always going to have. You'll never, ever, ever ever I mean tell me that's not a god thing, that it fell right on her. It is, it is.
Speaker 2:It's a god thing, it's somebody really important to my mom and um, and they should be and um, but she's like a birthday queen, and so it was. It was cool that it fell on her?
Speaker 1:do you um? Do you take after mom?
Speaker 2:I am a good mutt um but yes I like my mom and I'm a lot like my mom, a lot of my dad.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, we were talking before saying how much fun you were telling me, how much fun your mom and dad are, in order to talk about something else. But I can just see with the personality and if they're anything like you, and obviously you're like them, and if they're anything like you, and obviously you're like them, I'd love to be a fly on the wall someday. Just because when is your birthday? Oh, july 28th. I'm a Leo. July. What July?
Speaker 2:28th. I'm a Leo.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, so we're doing the signs now. Well, mine is October 15th. I'm a Libra, I have no idea, but I could be your dad. I'm just saying, but that's all there is to it. Morgan Miles, do you recall what the first song you ever wrote was?
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, it was called Be here Now or Everybody Hurts. I think I was like 12. I was going to say say you probably pretty young. I was very young, god. They were like oh man, um. I know I remember the melody of be here, now be with me. Can't you see that I need you to be here now.
Speaker 1:Look at you.
Speaker 2:So, bad.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I love it. I love it. I know it sucked, but you know what? It's one of those that you're, you know you still, you were just singing it. I mean, think about that, you were on your way.
Speaker 2:You were on your way then I remember I got in kindergarten, I got like the little, like the solo, and it was like you can't buy French, you can't buy love.
Speaker 1:It's a good. I mean, I remember that whole thing too.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. I have the worst memory on the planet, but those, those songs are.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you could have fooled me, oh God, but you're doing pretty good. You're doing pretty good with that.
Speaker 2:Do you ever just pick up the guitar and play it for the hell of it just because, because, because, oh yeah, like there's some days that you're just like man, I need to sit down because, like writing, you feel like some things yeah coming to you and you're just like okay, I need to like well put this down real quick I I mean like the first song you ever wrote or sang.
Speaker 1:That's what I was referring to. No, you just kind of avoid that subject altogether, but it's always up here, so that's cool.
Speaker 2:But think about that. She needs to be buried.
Speaker 1:She's in a grave, no no, but think about that, look where you are right now and look what you've been through and look where you started and look what you've been through and look where you started. A million songs later, yeah, so you said you moved to Nashville. How many years ago?
Speaker 2:It'll be 20 years ago.
Speaker 1:Holy cow, were you like one? Okay so, but you said mom and dad came out too.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Very cool, very cool, and they support you 100%. Obviously Do they go to a lot of your shows.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my dad actually goes on the road with me a lot Excellent.
Speaker 2:Which is so much fun. My mom comes up. I always say all the bougie events, but yeah, they come out to a lot. If I'm playing in town they're always there, but it takes a village and I, I mean, I just don't know how I would physically even do it without them and like I'm always gone and it's just I don't know, it'd be so lonely to get off the road and not have them here. Just be another difficult challenge for me, because I am such a like oddly, a homebody and I so like need my parents and we're just I get it, they're my rocks, they're my foundation Awesome.
Speaker 1:Awesome. So I don't know if you can see this, but tell us about your mom and the neighbor saying there are cops at your house. What is that about?
Speaker 2:What? What's happening?
Speaker 1:It says tell us about your mom and the neighbor saying there are cops at your house. You don't know, Never mind.
Speaker 2:It was my proposal, my wedding proposal, but we are no longer getting married All right, so let's just move on.
Speaker 1:Forget about that, all right. I just Jason. Thanks buddy. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:It's something that I just am not ready to speak about. It's definitely the right decision for me, but it's something that I'm trying to find the right words and. But yes, that was my wedding proposal. My mom had said that the cops were at the house, which made me freak out that my house was burning down with my dog in it, and I just went to the absolute worst place and there was no cop.
Speaker 1:It was a wedding proposal, jason just went.
Speaker 2:oops, my bad, you're fine, I had no idea I need to, I need to kind of you know, just be yourself, because a lot of people everywhere I get go they're like congrats and then they feel so bad, it's don't feel bad, it's like no, no you know, skip happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does. Yeah, yeah, it does. Girl, I like it. Um so um. Look at the um. Do you realize how many views you have across your platforms? There's over 30 million. Um. How has, because of that, how has social media shaped your connection with your fans?
Speaker 2:You know, I came to this town with the 10 year town, so it's like, in a way, I have the respect of the 10 year town, the journey writing, the network, the community. So I was very. I have both pros and cons of social media. Um, honestly, I think it's taken away a lot of like, say, the talent and the musicianship and stuff, Cause there's so much time that has to go into social media at this point for an artist and we just don't have any time you got to have somebody do that for you.
Speaker 1:It's hard if you're going to do it yourself.
Speaker 2:And I know a lot of artists try that, but it's difficult. It is difficult, um, but the issue is the fact that, um, that you still have to put it in your words, and so you can't just have somebody do all your stuff. I mean, you can have somebody capturing it, but it's still all me, and because I want them to really feel this connection with me.
Speaker 1:So in a way.
Speaker 2:I love the fact that, like you can get closer to your fans, but do I wish that there was more? You know, like less, like importance on it or something, because it just seems like now everything is on social media and it's like. I miss the days of radio, I miss the days of like, because it was such a streamlined focus of music. The internet is like chaos.
Speaker 1:It's like it is, it is, but there's galore yeah, do you have somebody doing it for you or do you do it?
Speaker 2:I have a team, but like I, I post everything myself. I have, you know, obviously, a content manager on the road with me. That's shooting everything, but like I'm still editing a lot of my own re derivative of your social media, so it's a lot of pressure for an artist where that used to be on a marketing team for your for your village because there's so much going on that, like if you just want to get your head together before a show, wait, you got to caption that hey, we need a tiktok now, like hey, it's the time.
Speaker 2:You know, meta said it's the best time to post at this time. And you're just like, like, I just played a you know two hour show. I'm exhausted, but guess what? Load out, get to the hotel room, make sure you're posting. It's got to be scheduled by 5 am.
Speaker 2:And you're just like, oh, but you got to do it at the end of the day, how bad do you want it? And that's why I keep going. What's my why? And then you do it. But has it taken away a lot of like, say, the time that you can put into your craft? Yeah, it has.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, but I don't know if we're just skip in a weird time. That maybe what's odd. People are saying that they want like. The vinyls are coming back. People are saying they think they really want CDs. They're burning CDs again. So it's, I don't know, maybe we're in a weird place.
Speaker 1:I didn't. I haven't heard about the burning of the cds. You know we all used to do that back in the day. We'd actually go on napster and download our music. Don't tell anybody, but we would go and get our music and we would burn it to a cd. Now I don't know if I can even go out and buy c anymore. You know everything is. You know we have our phones, we have. You know, it's all Kelly.
Speaker 2:Sutton yesterday was on WSM and Kelly Sutton's daughter, who's a teenager, literally she goes. I just had to buy a spindle of burn CDs and she goes. I had to buy a whole new converter to go into my laptop she goes. And then we had to buy the songs that go. What a bring it back, bring it back.
Speaker 1:Well, they didn't need to go out and buy the songs, because they need to support people like you. I mean you put your song up there. There's a lot of time and effort that goes into that. You need to get a little bit of return.
Speaker 2:And I think that's the other thing is because of where, like streaming is and everything. Now there isn't any time off the road because everything has to be, have you you?
Speaker 1:know we're talking. We're talking about the digital side of things. Have you had any interaction with AI, with the music?
Speaker 2:No, you mean like artificial intelligence yes. I haven't found anybody using my voice.
Speaker 1:Well, let's hope not.
Speaker 2:But it's like, anybody that's ever been recorded can use any voice.
Speaker 1:Isn't that scary.
Speaker 2:It is. It's honestly disgusting. I can't like.
Speaker 1:I would agree with you.
Speaker 2:Like art is such a thing that comes from somebody's soul. I'm like what is happening, like are we creating souls, like is it a computer chip for a soul?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's weird, you know I have to say AI as a songwriter, I'd be a little like I don't know. I need to have creativity and that needs to come from me if I thought I was a songwriter. But as a radio person where I need to write, let's say, a commercial, I would go to AI and put some facts in and say tell me about this, what can you give me? Then it actually would spit out some pretty good stuff, but I would kind of change it around to make sure it's in my own words, but it gives me new ideas. When it comes to that, other than that, I mean AI, it does scare me a little bit.
Speaker 2:Other, than that, I mean AI. It does scare me a little bit. Yeah, I mean I feel bad for, say, publicists or anybody working in journalism or communication, like wiped out that whole industry on a writing sense. And these kids. They don't even write their own essays now.
Speaker 1:I'm like, as a teacher, I would say no, yeah, but that's bull crap because they need to. My daughter is a teacher and it's like, as a teacher, I would say no, yeah, but that's bull crap because they need to. My daughter is a teacher and it's like are you kidding me? If we ever did that?
Speaker 2:be out on my ass? No, but as a teacher, how would you know if they?
Speaker 1:did, or they didn't. Wait a minute. Are you a teacher? No, but my mom was oh, is that who you're looking at? I'm wondering. I see you looking off to the side. Tell your mom. I said hello. Oh my God, that's hilarious, that is. Wait a minute. Somebody just I found my three-ring binder of CDs. The kids were asking what it was. Lol. Somebody just commented so that's cool. What else? Oh, you know what? We need to forget about that stuff. We need to talk about your music, because you, uh, you have a live album that was recorded in one take, from what I understand, correct, that's amazing, that is totally amazing. Uh, with Bob clear mountain, that's bold, that takes a lot of guts to do. Um, what was that experience like? I mean, you did it in one take. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think my label lied to me and said that we could punch things later, but we never did so. Like Bob Clear Mountain, I mean talk about like Bob Dylan the list goes on of everybody. He's recorded and engineered and he has a place called Apogee Studios in Santa. Monica, and so the opportunity was presented to me, and I was like hell yeah, and it was. And they said, oh yeah, and we're going to make it on vinyl. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it was just really cool because the room sounds great, you could have a live audience and it was just a great representation of what you're going to get when you come to a Morgan Miles concert and I didn't feel like I had any of that to really share on that level. And, yeah, it turned out really cool. It's such a great piece of work. It's honest. There's no auto-tune. Everything on there is real. Every you know speckle and every mistake. I think sometimes there's beauty in mistakes and so it just sounds really great and I really feel when you put it on your record player, people are like yeah, I really feel like we're at your concert and that's all that we were trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1:You have an album coming out.
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:You do, and it's with Ross, was it Hogarth? Yeah, any themes or moments you're especially proud of with that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, ross kind of became my A? R of the project. He, you know, he was just so passionate about working with me and you know, first off, he's a seven-time grammy award winner. He is tough as nails and, um, you know, I think he worked with me because he knew I would rise to the challenge. So we wrote 80 songs in five months. We had, I mean, I wrote, a ton of Muscle Shoals and I wrote a ton in Austin, texas, and of course, a little bit in Nashville, but really mostly the embodiment was in Muscle Shoals in Texas and, um, you know, he just even pushed me as a writer, which was really cool. Really cool was so much about what I had to say more than anything. And, um, when we came down to the top 12, it was great. We I mean the musicians on this, we got jimmy paxton from fleetwood mac, basically like on the drums with them forever.
Speaker 2:We had david grissom, who's played, you know, world tours with um dixie chicks and so many more. He's like a legend in austin, I mean. We had jürgen from government mule on bass. He's so freaking, funky and incredible. And then it's crazy, from nashville playing all the utility instruments. And then, um, um, yeah, we just, he just pulled in such fantastic musicians, it just came alive. But, yeah, was it tough? It was definitely tough at times. I did a whole week of vocals and he was like we're not using auto-tune, you have to be able to sleep at night. And I was like, okay, I was like, morgan, don't lose your voice out here. Um, but it sounds so incredible. And then Gary Nichols, who I wrote a lot of the songs with who's from Shoals. He replaced um Chris Stapleton's position in the steel drivers when Stapleton left.
Speaker 1:Very cool.
Speaker 2:My phone is about to die no, no, plug it in quick okay, I can find it, but he actually came and saying almost all the BGV parts on and it's so I cuz I said I just want his voice in my voice. That's all we need, because his voice is so textural. And and then of course we have like five cuts together because we, we wrote so cuts together Cause we, we wrote so much together.
Speaker 2:So the very first single is coming out May 5th that I actually wrote with Gary and that's called how does that sound? And it's, it's, I'm excited.
Speaker 1:And and they're going to push that to a radio right.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they're pushing that for a song, maybe.
Speaker 1:Pushing that for a song maybe?
Speaker 2:Well, let's hope Well, the label, or basically it's like, if it does well with streaming, then the thought process of pushing to radio goes out.
Speaker 1:But yeah, they watch the streaming numbers very carefully and you know we do music testing in this market, so to speak, and a lot of those streaming numbers will determine what I'm playing and what I'm not playing here in Syracuse, because I want to make sure that they listen to the radio and they don't go to the stream. I can play a lot of the same music, you know. Yeah, I mean there's still the Morgan Wallens and the Luke Combs and Post Malone's now, by the way, post Malone is from here but, yeah, how cool is that? I'm just saying, yeah, very cool. But they keep a close eye on all those numbers. Yeah, yeah, very. You got to plug your phone in. What are you going to do?
Speaker 2:Okay, let me go get it.
Speaker 1:Okay, you're going to have to let me. Okay, where's my somebody? Just yell to mom, say no, go on, go on. She's going to go get her charger. But if you haven't noticed, we're talking to Morgan Miles tonight, season well, it was 2022, and it was with the Voice and she finished number three. Now, I couldn't believe in the beginning she would say that, well, I lost. No, you didn't lose, you're a winner. Are you kidding? Even if you make it to the show, you win. That's so cool. I said, yeah, it's just, it's wild. So, as you can see her, phone goes next week, but are you?
Speaker 2:okay, yeah, because my phone, I think it's on its last light because it was fully charged for this and well, you know we're doing a live video.
Speaker 1:We we're live. It's like sucking the juice out of your battery is what it's doing.
Speaker 2:But my phone she done she done. Is it?
Speaker 1:an iPhone, iphone. Yeah, it's a 13. Girl. What number are we up to now Like 16?
Speaker 2:I know, it's just going through doing it all.
Speaker 1:I know I have a Droid, so I have the S24. I love it.
Speaker 2:Android, samsung, I need to be more up to date on technology, on these things. You know it's just like finding the time to get it all transferred and stuff.
Speaker 1:Ugh what I hate it, oh my.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Uh, what? Uh, you know. So you've pulled influences from muscle shows. Austin Nashville, I wrote this down. Uh, believe it or not, Uh, but how are those places showing up in your sound?
Speaker 2:I mean muscle shows, I feel like is a really great place to describe myself, because Muscle Shoals is very much that very Southern gritty soul that has just so much influence. I mean the music that has come out of that place it's just incredible. And again, like Gary, being from there too, has really influenced, I think, the record in a big way, because you know even just inflections of how we end lines. Also, you know his voice has such a distinction to it that is very Southern soul because he's from Muscle Shoals. That really, really gives it that undertone. And then I think there's just more of like, you know, ross really wanted to follow the essence of the song.
Speaker 2:A lot of times now people are needing these full scale demos, even just to pick you know what songs are the best. I think that's completely insane. It should live as a guitar vocal, because if you're a producer, why would you want to be influenced by, like, a full produced demo? So every song had to live on its own. I think that's so important. Again, that's me growing up in the 10-year town of nashville, and so we did it old school and I think it's the best way to go, I mean 100 we're in a world where someone writes a song, they're recording it that day and they're putting it up on TikTok the next day.
Speaker 2:That's so foreign to me, it's so scary.
Speaker 1:It's happening so much. Oh man, Every day there's somebody new. I don't think I could ever do it.
Speaker 2:I don't think I could ever just do that, oh, I bet you could Well. I just I think what you put out there is important and you know, I think what you put out there is important and quality is still important to me.
Speaker 1:I get you. I got you. What do you drive? Let me guess A.
Speaker 2:Toyota A 15-passenger.
Speaker 1:You had a 40-council-line van.
Speaker 2:Chevrolet van and a trailer. That's one vehicle, but no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but let's say you want to run to the store, you're not taking the 15-passenger van with a trailer to the store.
Speaker 2:No, but I've had to because I recently got a 23 Santa Fe Hyundai trying to get the most responsible car Nice.
Speaker 2:And the other car broke down on the five-way lane highway in Atlanta and I was like, okay, I don't care what my town car is, I just don't like. And so, sure enough, I get it. I'm only home for like two days. Somebody ran into my car and I haven't had my car for two months because if it were gonna happen, it happened, because the new vehicles have all that stupid camera things happening so it didn't even look like I got hit, but it was going people were all the uh I'm like, oh, like this, okay, this is gonna cause a wreck either way.
Speaker 2:like then, once I finally got through like the other person's insurance and got to the collision center, like the wrong part came in Somebody. Then the next part came in at scratch. I was just like dude. So next thing you know I'm driving my 15 passenger van.
Speaker 1:Here comes Morgan. That's all right, I always try, you know, I, with all the people that I interview and I talk to, and I always try to guess what they drive. Now, the guys, it's pretty easy. The guys. It's either a chevy silverado, either a 1500 or 2500, or even a dodge ram 15 or 2500 every once in a while it's a dually huh.
Speaker 2:What do you think I was driving?
Speaker 1:I thought you were driving a Toyota, just a small.
Speaker 2:SUV.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a small SUV I have a small SUV.
Speaker 2:I don't like my car though. No, you've got a 15-passenger van. I don't like my car, though, skip. I absolutely hate my vehicle, but I was in a bind and I didn't have time to really go figure out what I really truly wanted, so but again people say what do you? What do you want like your dream car? I always go a tour bus so I can take care of myself better.
Speaker 1:And then your dad could drive the tour bus. Yes, your mom could travel with you and take care of all that, whatever inside. Yes, and I can. You got the bunks.
Speaker 2:You can bring the dog please, I can actually sleep I can get ready before you know, I get to the venue or wherever else I have to go. I mean there's, it would be a freaking life changer I don't know why I kind of watch this.
Speaker 1:No, wait a minute, I gotta do this watch. I'll do it again. There we go.
Speaker 2:Now I'm back this technology is just wild.
Speaker 1:So when you, when you start your podcast, I'll you know, let me know and I'll tell you what this camera is. It's one of the best. All I got to do is give it hand signals and it does different things. Watch, watch this, all right? No, it's not doing it. Hang on, I lied.
Speaker 2:Keep going there, we go, oh, oh, oh wow.
Speaker 1:Isn't that cool yes, okay so now I get to stop it all. Right now it's stopped okay, that's amazing so, um, you know what, if somebody wanted to go get your music, where can we go? Really I mean go car and drive to Nashville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go to my house. Okay, you can go to MorganMilesLivecom and order the vinyl. You can find all the merch on there. I think it's doing okay right now. There was an issue with my shop. If you're having problems with that, just DM me. But, yeah, go listen on all your streaming. Believe me, following me is so important. It helps. It's free and it helps everybody very, very much. There's a free fan club sign up, which is really awesome because then I can let you guys know in on everything. So please become a little milestone.
Speaker 1:Milestone yeah For Morgan Miles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like 10 years ago. It's probably been like 10 years, maybe eight, it's a milestone. They call themselves milestones.
Speaker 1:I love that. Milestones yeah, your fan club is the milestones.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:See, that's cool. I love that. Were you at CRS.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I've been to CRS not this year, but I've been to many CRSs. I think I was in Illinois that week. I had to play five school assemblies Five.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're doing the school tour.
Speaker 2:No, I really wasn't. I don't know how that was a part of it, but I had to play one show in Illinois and with that came five school assemblies prior to that. I was like what, what am I supposed to do? But it's actually really cool, Super endearing.
Speaker 1:These are fans. Fans, you know what?
Speaker 2:just to hear these kids and and, and you know, I actually did the note card thing. I was telling you about with them.
Speaker 1:I can only imagine what the kids were ready it was actually incredibly vulnerable.
Speaker 2:Um, they really really told me some stuff and I said I'm really proud of you guys for being willing nice to, and so then I mean I broke down in tears on this because I had about five different parents say in different ways dm me and say thank you so much, my child came home started writing in a journal and I never even knew that was like going on with them. Thank you, thank you so much. It was a several different and it just I was like wow, it really did like look what you did wow, I mean it was just really cool because these kids, like I feel for them.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I would deal with social media being in middle school, oh, no, no, no, no no like I don't know how I would have gotten through. So what they're going through, and pandemics, I mean I feel for them, I feel I just I just want to hug them I know, I know so wow, yeah, it's what country music is all about.
Speaker 1:It's, it's every what you're doing. It's, uh, touching the hearts of so many. The kids go home and they tell their parents and you know what. Their parents go online, they look you up, you know what. They buy your music and they're going to support you because of what you did for their child. How cool is that it's super cool now I got the chicken noodles. I do, man, but you know, I love those stories. I really do, I really do.
Speaker 2:You know, just I mean just goes to show that they are trying to talk, but they're all locked into their phones and they're, they're, and I keep, I kept saying remember to talk to one another and be there for one another. Like it goes a long way, you can, but everybody, it's so crazy that they don't even a lot of them, don't even know how to like communicate, because it's all through these and it's just like oh, well, I could tell you here in upstate New York and Syracuse, or the area or the governor of New York has done one thing that they're starting to.
Speaker 1:You know, ban phones from school. In other words, not that you can't bring it to school, but once you're in school you need to put it in your locker and you need to leave it. You need to shut it off and leave it there. You know, when you go to class you don't take your phone. But there's also the flip side that, with the way the world is now and everything that we've seen happen, I think I would want my child to have a phone. So you know I'm kind of torn. It's hard, it's hard.
Speaker 2:But I think there 100% needs to be regulations period.
Speaker 1:It does, it does.
Speaker 2:And I think we're getting there. Hopefully We've got to get. We've got to protect our kids.
Speaker 1:That's right. Congresswoman Morgan Miles says I know, woo, let's go. Yeah, no, no. Musician, you know, yeah, that's all. Ooh, my thing's moving again. Look at that. I know, no, no, no, your phone is going nowhere. We'll be lucky to get through this. But, morgan Miles, you know what You've been so much fun to chat with and to find out more about you and hopefully, if somebody's watching this now or maybe down the road, it's all going to be posted. It's live right now, but that they go on the website or Morgan Miles Live. Did you say MorganMilesLivecom? I love it, I love it Absolutely. And don't ever say you're a loser because you're a winner Finishing number three on the Voice. I'm sorry, I can't get that out of my mind. I watch the Voice now and if you make it to the show, you're a winner because there's so many that don't.
Speaker 2:It's a super tough thing. I mean, even my girl, hannah Gray Ellis, just posted this is the first time I watched my audition from 10 years ago and nobody turned and she was like it was traumatizing. So I mean, you know, Hannah signed a curve. She's killing it Like you know what I mean Touring everywhere, sure, so it's one of those things that it's a heavy thing. It's still television, but you know the audience doesn't know Hannah Ellis Love her.
Speaker 1:We did a show with her here in Syracuse. She's fantastic. My friends from Curb brought her up.
Speaker 2:But she just posted about that. I was like, oh my God, I never even knew that. But like you know, I think the thing is it's a very intense situation. It's television You're still casted. At the end of the day, you're still casted. Just remember, there's a show and, yeah, there's a record deal with it. That's the price. They're just so different. They're two separate things. It's a platform.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:But yeah, to America. They don't know all that insight, but it was like I was very, very proud to get to the end and be able to be really happy with every. I think there was a total of 16 performances. That was a lot. It was rigorous and I knew that I grew so much, even as a performer, and I also just loved having like it was like having Disneyland of an artist being able to have that type of production that you see at the Grammys.
Speaker 2:Like this was elevated television production you know, millions of dollars into the show, and so it was so cool to have that at your disposal.
Speaker 1:you know, and see your vision come to life week after week, and it was awesome do you think that if you were never on the show, we would be having this conversation?
Speaker 2:I mean, I would hope so. Um, I I was on a great trajectory, but I felt like I still just wasn't getting above, like this breaking point, and so I feel what the show did was just open me to a whole new audience 100%.
Speaker 2:And it gave me some legitimacy. And then also just I mean I was able to play, so I play, I tour so much, now even more. It's just been such a fruitful thing for me. So and it also got me my label deal really soon after that. So artist friendly, incredible. They believe in me, they love my sound.
Speaker 1:What label are you on?
Speaker 2:I'm on a label called blue Elan records.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Cool, smaller, like independent type.
Speaker 1:That's okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's perfect. Yeah, because they are so passionate about, like, the creative side and you know they're just. It's a great, great family to be a part of. They're all about the music and it's so good to be surrounded with people that they care yeah they just really care.
Speaker 1:I'm like no, let me just say it, they care.
Speaker 2:Yes, because a lot of times you get so overwhelmed, like the social media, like the surface stuff, but blue line records has a heart and a soul that's just all about like I love it embodied of, like the history of it and like the people that I get to meet through it. Like last week we were playing a show at the whiskey a go-go with ozo motley. And like chris shiflett's on my label from the food fighters, um, you know, we do. Like I get to write with jack tension who wrote um the two of the biggest eagles cuts. Like um, oh my gosh, peaceful, easy. Why am I forgetting?
Speaker 1:peaceful, easy feeling. Yeah, that feeling, yeah. Why did that sound wrong? I don't know. I bought the record when it came out, yeah.
Speaker 2:If it wasn't for signing with them, would I be able to work with Kirk or Ross Hogarth and all these people?
Speaker 2:Or make a vinyl, or be able to work with Bob Clearmountain vinyl, or be able to work with bob clear mountain. So the opportunities that I've gotten are all these like crazy bucket list things and getting to like make a record for like in la at like where bob dylan recorded and stuff and and you're sitting there and you're hearing all the stories of these guys that are on your record and their tour. You're just like man.
Speaker 2:You were there when the music was oh, I'm like I grew up in the wrong freaking era well, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You may think that, but I don't believe that. So I think you're doing very well, um, real quick, before I let you go, um, you being morgan miles, you being on the voice, you finishing. Third, you on a label, you putting out your own music. Somebody's going, I want to do that. What advice would you give them? Even, let's say, let's go woman to woman, a young woman that really, you know, little girl wants to, wants to do what you have done. What advice would you give her?
Speaker 2:like if she's trying to get started yeah I would first and foremost say well, you got to move to Nashville or LA or New York, depending on what you're trying to do, and you need to write, and write and write. And because the biggest nucleus of all this is, well, what's your, why, like, what do you have to say? And you have to start by, like, figuring out what makes you you and being confident enough to inspire others that has been through it, like, say, if they're only 16, but her parents were divorced, are you comfortable talking about that? Because that's your connection piece.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I think it's just the development of the highs and the lows, sitting in songwriter rounds, having to go up to people and say I really like how you wrote that song, will you write it with me? I mean, it's such a process. I help a lot of people too, like you know.
Speaker 2:But one of my friends that was on the show with me, you know he's 16 but he lives in michigan and it's like, okay, but you really have to commit because it's so hard. Like you either have to move to nashville, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Because you can't really do it half-assed, like you really do have to put full steam ahead. Because now I would also say to the younger people get on top of your tiktok now, start building it. You know, whatever you do, start figuring out and don't ever be like, oh, I don't want to do this if you're already in that forget it, just go, yeah, exactly, and don't think it's just gonna be like all fun and games, because I think they get that misunderstood, because it's a lot of work, yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow, great advice. Morgan Miles, I feel like I've known you forever and we just got to know each other. I know you know. Thank you for coming on, skip Happens, you've got a great personality. I love your music. I was listening before you went on tonight. You've got a good personality. I love your music. I was listening before you went on tonight. You've got a good team. I can tell you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1:You just you know, having the experience of being on the Voice, finishing third, not a loser, and just all right, I'll let that go, I'll let that go, but I just I see you and I say, don't think that. Don't think that because you won. The minute you stepped on that stage you won. Like I said, there's how many people that would love to be in your shoes, as long as they don't trip, they're good, they're good and they don't, you know, fall over your gown or something I don't know. Your cape, your cape.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to wear a cape again. I love it. Morgan Miles, thank you so much for joining us here on Skip Happens tonight. You're a sweetheart, I love your music and if you're watching this viewing this, maybe you're just listening to the audio track. Please check her out. I'm sure you can find her on YouTube and MorganMilesLivecom. They got a little merchandise going there. Support the artist and download the music. Buy the music and burn it to a CD, because they're doing that now. I just found out. I don't know, maybe, maybe I get it. Morgan, stay right there. I know, stay right there. Thank you for joining us tonight, skip happens.
Speaker 2:Thank you guys.
