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McCartney Reinhart is redefining country music with her soulful powerhouse vocals.
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Skip Happens. My name is Skip Clark. You know that I'm the host of Skip Happens. We're joined by a rising Nashville country artist. Her name is McCartney Reinhart. Listen to this. Listen. Here she is.
Speaker 2:Found a Polaroid picture in the back of a bathroom drawer. We both look so different it's like I don't even know us no more. Here we go, that's it.
Speaker 1:That's McCartney, and she is known for that powerhouse vocal that you can hear right there. Her vocals so strong, soulful twang and heartfelt lyrics. Mccartney, quickly making waves in the industry, growing up in a musical family we're going to talk about that here in just a little bit To performing across the Southeast. She's a name you'll want to remember, as you can tell from right there. We'll talk about that here in just a little bit. By the way, that's like her new single, that is, I don't know if it dropped yet or it's going to drop this week, like maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 3:It dropped last Friday.
Speaker 1:Last Friday, I knew there was a Friday in there. Yeah, it's time to dive into her journey, her sound and what's next? Mccartney, look at you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1:Man, it's so good to see you. I know you've been on Skip Happens before we did all this. It was a while ago, yeah.
Speaker 3:It was fun. Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely Well, you reached out and I'm so glad you did because I mean you were great last time. Now I'm listening to like this new single. I mean you're evolving into quite the powerhouse and you're so welcome. Where are you right now?
Speaker 3:I am just in my apartment right now.
Speaker 1:In Nashville. In Nashville, yeah, are you right downtown or just outside of Nashville a little bit?
Speaker 3:I'm a little bit outside of Nashville.
Speaker 1:Good move yeah.
Speaker 3:We're about 20 minutes out.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, that's easy, so easy in, easy out. Yeah, so, McCartney, you know. Just talking about your voice a little bit, I know it's been described as a mix of blues, soul and classic country. How would you describe your sound?
Speaker 3:I think I would describe it kind of like that. I think I definitely have kind of like a blues influence. Being from like Georgia, I feel like that played in, and my ancestor, django Reinhardt, was also a blues musician, so I think that kind of got passed down and like I didn't realize it as much until I started putting the dots together that, like you know, he was in my family and so then I was like, okay, that's, that must be where some of that comes from.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just, oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:No, but yeah, I think, and then with my accent mixed into it, it gives it definitely the more country vibe too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I love that. I love that. I love your accent. Thank you, it's really good. But you talk about would he have been your great-grandfather?
Speaker 3:So he was a little bit further back. Further back, okay, I don't know the exact relation. I think it's more of like an uncle or cousin.
Speaker 1:He was a jazz superstar, I mean just.
Speaker 3:He was so good. I watch videos sometimes and I'm like, oh my God, that's crazy that I was related to this guy.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So you got music in your blood, so to speak. So are you the only one in your family, besides you and him, that play music?
Speaker 3:Almost every generation of my family plays music, so my dad is a bassist and he plays for me a good bit. And he, you know, travels with me and it's really nice to for him to be on stage with me and it's, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1:I was gonna ask what's it like with your dad standing behind you. I mean that's got to be like. I mean is it cool or is it like? Oh my god, that's my dad. I gotta behave no, it's, it's.
Speaker 3:I really enjoy it, like I am so close to my parents, so they're my best friends really so it's, I've I've never been like the type of teenager to be like oh my god, my parents are around, I gotta act good you know like I just I treat them like my best friends.
Speaker 1:So how long have you actually been in nashville?
Speaker 3:so this past may was three years that I've been here, okay, so it's it's been a little bit now, but I'm still new, but I'm starting to get settled in more.
Speaker 1:What would you say is your biggest challenge right now? You've only been there three years. They say that's a 10-year town and I firmly believe that because I've talked to so many independents like yourself, because you know, I've talked to so many independents like yourself, you know, and they've been there seven, eight, nine, ten years, and then all of a sudden it's like wow, I did it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's definitely encouraging to know that like I've got like seven more years left.
Speaker 3:I've got a lot more than that Until my tenure mark and I kind of don't know how to count it. Like I came up here when I was 14 for the first time I was almost 15. So I've been here four years but only lived here three years. So I don't know if I'm in my third, fourth year, but somewhere around there. But if I ever get down I'm like it's okay. People have been here way longer than I have and just now, you know, break in.
Speaker 3:And so it is definitely encouraging when I get down to think that I'm only a few years into living here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's huge. And look where you are, though. I mean you're putting a song out to radio. You've done this before, thank you. You know, if I was to, I'd listen your, your voice, and, um, I would never think you are and I don't mean this in any bad way that you would. You're very young, but you on the record, you sound very mature and soulful and full, and it's like wow thank you, no, I appreciate that so much tell me a little bit about your songwriting.
Speaker 1:You do a lot of that on your own, correct? If not all yeah, yeah, yep. And can you walk me through that process a little bit? Tell me about your creative side and how you come up with those ideas and what have you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I do co-write sometimes and then I also write on my own a lot. I usually feel like I can come up with better ideas just when it's just me, because I'm like you know, it's sometimes hard when you're co-writing because everybody's got these ideas they're throwing out and then you like, forget your idea that you had. And so I feel like I can work a little bit better when I'm just writing by myself. But usually if I'm writing by myself it's different than in a co-write the process of it. I usually start off with chords that I like if I'm by myself and then just start playing through it and I kind of just start mumbling lyrics until something sticks Something comes out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's usually like I usually have no basis, I go off of when, I just sit down writing by myself and I just start kind of working it out and sometimes I'll sit like till two, three in the morning just in my bed.
Speaker 1:That's not good Trying to yeah.
Speaker 3:But I feel like I can just function better at night when everybody's asleep, which is really inconvenient because I live in an apartment and I'm like playing at three in the morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's Nashville. You know that's happening, so it's no big deal, I guess.
Speaker 3:But yeah, but like and then co-writes. I usually I have a list of ideas that I have, so like they'll just come out of nowhere sometimes, but I just have a list on my notes and my phone and so I'll walk into a co-write. They're like okay, what do we want to write about today? And I'm like like, well, I've got a few ideas. If you want to share your ideas, we'll talk about it, and then we kind of then go into the same thing, except we have an idea. With that I still start mumbling stuff and playing chords, but I kind of have an idea of what I'm doing at a co-write yeah, so is.
Speaker 1:Um, when you walk into a co-write, is it like me going into work and seeing everybody, so you walk into a co-write? Is it like me going into work and seeing everybody? So you walk into a co-write and it's like you're going to work because everybody, you know, it's okay. What do you want to write about? What are we going to do today? What, what, what do we want to be the end result? Is that how it all works? Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3:And it's weird being a creative thing also, because it's like you're having to learn how to cut on the creativity and not during that three-hour session, Right, which was kind of hard for me at first because I was like, well, my ideas just come like at random times and like I don't know. It felt harder to do, but you kind of have to just train your mind to okay, when I sit down, you got to start thinking, getting creative, and so I'm more used to it now. But it is an odd.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of a weird feeling, I think, sometimes when you got to really you got to spill your guts. You know what about. And, that being said, how do you channel your personal experiences into your lyrics? I mean, do you do that? I mean relationships or anything that's going on. It's like maybe you've had a bad day and you've got a thought on your mind and you want to write about it. Is that how it works?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I usually just kind of write what I'm feeling. That day I went into a co-write I guess it was Tuesday of this week, so like two days ago and I was like I'm just feeling like sad girl vibes today, can we write about that? And he was like, yeah, of course, but it's just kind of what I'm feeling in the day, or you know, things that have heavily been on my mind, like I have anxiety and depression, and so if something is like bothering me, that's usually what comes out in my writing.
Speaker 1:You know, but I think we're all there when it comes to anxiety and depression, because I can put my hand up as well, but I think that makes you a better songwriter, because you're able and I think it's like therapy, right, I mean, sitting down to write could be like therapy it, so is yeah just spelling out what's going on and what you're thinking and putting it all together, I would yeah, definitely like I.
Speaker 3:I'm a person, I don't really hide anything. I'm like an open book really at every write. It's like a mini therapy session and then you start writing. So it's nice, it helps.
Speaker 1:No, and I've heard that from other artists as well. They say you know, writing is like my therapy.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:So you know you get it all out.
Speaker 3:That's how I got into writing. I was going through a really tough time right after my grandma died, and that was the only way that I could channel it, so that's how. I got into it.
Speaker 1:And exactly what you're doing, mccartney, is you're expressing your feelings. And one thing I always say and I've been doing this quite a while, especially the radio thing is that country music is and I call it the soundtrack to our lives. I'll be listening to a song and go, holy crap, did so-and-so write that about me, because it's all real life and you're only human. You have relationships, we have a lot of that going on and it's like like we can all relate to what's going on to a certain extent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I love about country is you don't have to be fake and you can just be real and your authentic self. And I think it's hard to remember that sometimes because everything else as far as the music business is not except country. But that that's what kind of drew me to doing country, was just the authenticity of it what else do you listen to?
Speaker 1:you listen to pop, rhythmic hip-hop. Tell me, tell me what you get down to yeah, I listen to almost anything like it's a mood thing it is yeah.
Speaker 3:So like if I am having a good day, I'm gonna play like outcast, yeah oh, hey, yeah, like I love it like usher flow, right, that's if I'm having a really good day, but, like you know, play some taylor if I'm having a bad day or sad.
Speaker 1:It's a relationship right there, that's like oh not feeling it today. Taylor Swift is my girl. I can only imagine.
Speaker 3:I'm such a big Swifty.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. That's good. Have you been to a Swifty show? Have you been to one of her shows? I have, yes.
Speaker 2:How many?
Speaker 3:Two.
Speaker 1:Two All right.
Speaker 3:I went to the Reputation Tour and the Eras Tour, so I was only 12 at the first one.
Speaker 1:I know Now, obviously I'm a little bit older, I could probably be your dad. But Taylor Swift when she first came out, I think I gave her her first or second no More Net radio interview and she came into town we're in Syracuse and I was working at another radio station at the time interview and she came into town we're in Syracuse and I was working at another radio station at the time and she came in with her label rep and her mom and she sang Tim McGraw and she changed some of the words. I have three beautiful daughters and she changed the words. She used their names in places, some of the names in the song oh yeah, and I have it somewhere on a hard drive.
Speaker 1:Do you think I can find it? Nope but I, I will not give up looking, because that just means so much that is so neat yeah, and I still have the thank you card that she wrote. So and then I think I go yeah, wow, now look it yeah, so and that could be you. So I, I'm just saying, I'm just saying you know something to look forward to where you said you're originally from Georgia.
Speaker 3:I am yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, whereabouts in Georgia.
Speaker 3:I'm from kind of halfway between Atlanta and Chattanooga.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:So north of Atlanta about a little town, very small town. Okay, so all we have in the town is Reinhardt College, which my ancestors started.
Speaker 1:Really yeah, is the town called Reinhardt.
Speaker 3:The town is called Waleska.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And it was actually because the Native Americans befriended the Reinhards, oh, and they named it after her.
Speaker 2:Wow so yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1:It's a neat history. It is very interesting, thank you. So if I was to drive into your hometown let's say I'm on the main road, coming into town, heading for their first intersection what would be the first thing I would see?
Speaker 3:It would probably. Well, there's only one intersection. There's only one intersection. There's like on the little intersection, there's like the college on one side, and then there's like a church and a gas station, that's like all there is, and then we have a subway, post office.
Speaker 1:Sandwich shop maybe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dollar General, that's about it.
Speaker 1:So if you wanted to go somewhere I mean, let's say you wanted to go into town where would you go?
Speaker 3:So we would go to Canton.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And it was only like six miles from us. That's like where my grandma had her flower shop, and so it was like it wasn't far at all. So it would be like a 10-minute drive to go to Target and Canton had like everything a suburban area has. Like we had Target Walmart.
Speaker 1:Dollar General.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm just. You know it's the same thing here too, so yeah.
Speaker 3:So that's, we were about 10 minutes from you know where we would get groceries and shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to take it back a little bit. You were nominated for Teen Artist of the Year at the Georgia Country Awards. What was that experience like for you?
Speaker 3:It was actually so. I was in my first year of high school and it was during COVID. It was such a weird time, like I look back and I think that was such a weird time in my life, during lockdown and everything, and I started high school Like we had to wear a mask the first day. It was so weird. But I remember I was sitting out on my porch and it was after school and I was just scrolling on Facebook and that's how I found out I was nominated for it.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Nobody called you, Nobody reached out and said hey, McCartney, we got some good news for you. Yeah, Instead you're just on your socials, just scrolling through Facebook, and you go, holy crap.
Speaker 3:Yeah Me and my mom.
Speaker 1:We were like oh, what an honor, though, what an honor.
Speaker 3:It was really neat, and I'm trying to think I hadn't released a song at that point either, so it was really shocking to me. I was like I don't even have any music out yet. And so I went, and it was so much fun. It was at the Crazy Bowl in Macon, which is where Jason Aldean got started.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, macon, georgia, yeah absolutely. Absolutely you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So it was. It was really fun, but I, I was so young, I just wasn't expecting it, and so it was a funny way to find out.
Speaker 1:It was, uh, you say maybe like a holy crap moment where you had to pinch yourself and go, yeah, did this really just happen?
Speaker 3:but nobody told me yeah, it was like it was one of those moments where my mom told me I was like uh-uh, uh-uh, really I love it no, yeah, yeah I love it.
Speaker 1:Tell me about um, tell me about your parents very supportive of what you do. I would say they are. Yes, yeah, now did they did they move with you to nashville?
Speaker 3:they did, yeah, okay so I was 15 when we got our apartment here, so we just all moved up. We sold our house, we sold my dad's business, um, we opened a new one here, but we literally left everything in georgia and just picked up and moved.
Speaker 1:So that is such a good story because, just to know that you have the support of two loving parents that want to give you what you want to do and they're going to give you that opportunity, and they said, let's go, we're going to move, we're going to do this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, absolutely that.
Speaker 3:I'm able to do this and that they're able to do it with me.
Speaker 1:What is it? Do you do anything else?
Speaker 3:I mean, do you work during the day or I work on Broadway playing?
Speaker 1:Oh, you do. So you hit up the different, the so-called honky tonks or maybe a Tootsie's, or you go down to Jack's Barbecue or one of those places. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So that is my job, I guess.
Speaker 1:No, I get you. That's how I make all my money and then I put it back into my music to what you do. I get you how, um like, what time of the day do you play it?
Speaker 3:um, it kind of depends. I've done anywhere from like my shift yesterday that I had. It was a 10 am to 2 pm okay, that's not too bad which is actually really nice, because then you can just like you're done for the day after two. And then you know but I've done, I've done all of them, like I've done two to six. So those are pretty good.
Speaker 1:They're afternoon yeah, but the nighttime show's got to be like holy crap.
Speaker 3:There's a ton of people here and yes it gets especially like six to tens, are pretty crowded and I played 10 to closes, so 10 pm to2 am. So those are the ones that get like crazy.
Speaker 1:And yeah, been there, I know yeah, I'm like the old man on broadway. When that's happening, it's like I tell my wife come on, we gotta go back to the hotel. We're not, this isn't going to work for us there's so many bachelorette parties, just a lot of stuff going on that you know, just a lot of people and you know, when you get a lot of people together, there's certain things that happen and this and that it's like okay, why I said 10 to 2 is awesome.
Speaker 3:It is. It was great and, like I love little kids coming in and that makes my day, even though you wouldn't think a lot of kids would come down into bars on Broadway but they actually do.
Speaker 1:I got to ask because we have a lot of viewers, a lot of listeners that would love to go to Nashville. I've had the opportunity to do it several times every year. But how important is the tip jar for somebody like you that's playing? That's probably your only funds, right? I mean, that's how you're getting paid more or less it almost is.
Speaker 3:It's by far the majority of the money we make. We'll get a check from the club at the end of the shift, but that's bare minimum. It's like anywhere from 50 to 100 a person for four hours, which isn't bad, but if that's your only job, you know, no, I know that's why you know.
Speaker 1:you don't have to tell me the amounts, but I just I'm trying to reinforce the fact that anybody that's watching this or listening to this whether you're watching it live now or you watch the replay that when you go to Nashville and you walk Broadway and you walk into one of these bars and somebody's playing and you see that tip jar, that's pretty much their bread and butter. So if you're enjoying it, help them out.
Speaker 3:Yes, it helps so much and we do it to where $20 gets your song to the top of the list that you want to hear played, so that always you know.
Speaker 1:What is? I know I want to talk about the new single, but what would you say when you play out what is one of the most requested songs for you to play?
Speaker 3:Well, we have two songs on Broadway that are $100 songs because they're requested so much.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me guess, is it Garth?
Speaker 3:Um, it is Charlie Daniels.
Speaker 1:South's going to do it again. No, yeah, oh, the devil went down to Georgia.
Speaker 3:Okay, and Leonard Skinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little sweet home, alabama or Freeburg.
Speaker 3:Freeburg. So yeah, so every, every time we're down there, I'm like just just letting everybody know we can. It doesn't have to come from one person, but if you want to put a little in the bucket and then we can all build up to 100, we can play that for y'all. Just let us know. It's been requested so much. That's why.
Speaker 1:I was kind of curious. Yeah, I get it, that makes a lot of sense to me. I figured maybe Friends in Low Places too, just because, because sense to me.
Speaker 3:I figured maybe Friends in Low Places too, just because because that's a pretty common one. As far as the songs that women do that I can sing, it's a pretty standard list of probably like 20 songs. I might have like 30 to 40 on mine, just to feel have you played Tootsies? I have yeah, Do you?
Speaker 1:play with the same guys, you know. Do you have you played Tootsies? I have, yeah, and do you have this? Do you play with the same guys all the time, or it's just whoever's up there gets up there and does their thing?
Speaker 3:So at Tootsies they have a circuit and they have Tootsies, Rippies, Honky Tonk, Central and Kid Rocks. So they book for all those clubs.
Speaker 1:I got you OK.
Speaker 3:And they will just put you with somebody. They're like the only clubs down there that do that. But if they just send you your schedule and put you with a band, but all the other clubs, you bring your own band, I love it. So they just like tootsies. They book each person individually in the band and then just send them all together.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, but at the rest of the clubs they. I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's interesting, but it's nice if you don't have time to get a band together, you're like, hey, I'll just play there, I got these guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so yeah. Yeah, it's weird, but I'll throw a name out there. Do you know Jason Teska.
Speaker 3:I've heard of him. I don't know if I've met him. He plays guitar.
Speaker 1:He's a hell of a guitar player. When somebody needs a guitar player, he'll go out on the road with them, really. But he plays at Tootsie's quite often, or he did. I mean, whenever I'm in town I'll swing in there and see if he's playing or not. But yeah, he plays there quite a bit. He did. I haven't talked to him in a couple of months, but it was pretty much a regular thing for him when he was in town. Yeah, really good.
Speaker 1:It's fun down there Is there, I know you. Just let's talk about the new single. Let's talk about it. Tell me, I want you to tell everybody. What is it why you wrote it and what are we doing with it.
Speaker 3:So this song is called Two Ships, and I wrote it based on the poem of Two Ships Passing in the Night.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:So me and my co-writers came in, and it was actually snowing the day we wrote it.
Speaker 1:In Nashville.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:But I was like I'm so sick of this. I want to write about a summer song. Like I, I need it to be warm, and so I'm just going to write about this. And so I had an idea, though, and it was like about when two people are so in love and they see each other every day and then they turn to strangers.
Speaker 1:I love it. I'm playing it in the background as you talk. Thank you yeah, yeah. So now you put it out. It dropped last week.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I love this. Listen, we'll do this again. Hope you don't mind.
Speaker 2:In the back of a bathroom drawer. What a voice. We both look so different. It's like I don't even know us no more. It's called two ships. I remember that day, those waves, our names written down by the shore. We were both feet and we were sink or swim. We were both on board. How'd we go from always on the phone to deafening silence? How'd we get from every sunset to living on our own damn island? I was your lifeline, you were mine, like guiding lights in the dead of night. How'd we go from three little words rolling right off of our lips to two ships?
Speaker 1:There it is, man, I'll tell you. I just, you know, I started off the podcast with that and it just man. Girl, you're just so full and so soulful. And um, now the band. You recorded that right in nashville, I would assume I did yes you did. Now, is this a band you play with all the time, or were they what they call the studio musicians?
Speaker 3:So actually I kind of have a unique way of doing it, not like most people here in Nashville. A lot of people just bring the players in and record it in the studio. But the guy that plays on my stuff, his name's Baggio and he lives in the Netherlands oh wow, and so he records it while we're on like it's called, session Wire, and so me, him and my producer get on there and kind of work it all out, and then he records it and sends over the file.
Speaker 1:That is so cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's so talented.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, he played every instrument on it and he's so talented. I've seen I'm always on YouTube looking around and seeing what people are doing but I've seen artists do that and not necessarily only in the country format, but other genres as well, where, you know, you may have five guys in a band and they are in five different parts of the world and they bring it all together and it's like are you kidding me?
Speaker 3:This is so good, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. So have you met him? I mean, has he come over to the States? Have you been there?
Speaker 3:I have never met him in person. I've just talked to him over Zoom and Session Wire but, he's such a nice guy and he is able to get the tones that I like, since I do like kind of european influence sounds. So I he's so good and I'm really thankful that me and him, my producer, all work together oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 1:And how did? How did you meet him?
Speaker 3:it was through my producer gotcha, so um I went in, I actually met my producer here, gotcha.
Speaker 3:So I went in. I actually met my producer here in Nashville. It was just at a writer's realm and I kind of looked over and I was like he sounds familiar. His name is Shawn Rogers and I thought I know of him. And so I Googled on my phone. I was like Shawn Rogers producer. I was like yes, and so he had produced Bailey Zimmerman's first song. And so I was like yes, I've heard of him. And so I just walked up to him and I was like I would love to work with you. And he was like I would love to work with you. And I was like perfect. So then we got a right set up and I've been working with him for the past few years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love this. I just posted Jason, who's been a follower of the Skip Happens podcast. He's also a radio programmer in the Midwest, so this is a good thing. He comes on here and says, wow, she's really good, sounds like another Carrie.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Now how cool is that, though? I mean somebody to say that it sounds like another Carrie. Oh, thank you so much. Now, how cool is that, though? I mean somebody to say that it sounds like another Carrie. But you know what you do, but you don't. You are you. You are McCartney Reinhart. You have your own style and your own way. I get where it's coming from. That maybe sounds like another Carrie, but there's always that little bit of a difference, and I think that's very good, that you know you're that way.
Speaker 3:So thank you. I used to have, like I remember, when I was little, my voice was always lower than other girls my age, like I would be singing in kindergarten or something on the way to school and I thought I don't know if I like my voice, like it's lower, but I've, I've learned to like the uniqueness of my voice more. But when I was little I was like I wish I sounded like everybody else, but I'm thankful for that now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't want to sound like everybody else.
Speaker 3:You want to do your own thing.
Speaker 1:This is you, this is McCartney. I love it and I love that name, by the way, mccartney Reinhardt, and that is so cool. Cool. When you're not performing or writing music, what do you love to do? To just kind of forget about everything else and to unwind.
Speaker 3:I love being outside, just like we have a balcony here.
Speaker 1:It's too hot, but go ahead it is, but I don't mind the heat.
Speaker 3:No I know, I sit out there, I go to the pool I do like being outside a lot and then I like to paint. Oh nice. And just kind of, like you know, do kind of art stuff If I don't feel like going outside.
Speaker 1:Like what would you?
Speaker 3:paint.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 3:It kind of depends on the day and I kind of don't know what to sometimes Like. Sometimes it'll be like a sunset. I love rainbows because they're like a spiritual thing for me. And so I do those a lot, or you know, just whatever I'm feeling. If it's summer I'll like try to paint a sea turtle or something I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, I get it, I get it. That's pretty cool. Do you like any sports? Gordie's asking, you know, ask her the money question. Does she like baseball?
Speaker 3:I do like baseball.
Speaker 1:Do you go to the sounds?
Speaker 3:I do, yeah, I love the sounds, I do yeah, I love the sounds, but I I'm a braves girl at heart, but I I do like going to the sounds game. It's a lot more easy to go to a sounds game than the braves because you know they're minor league.
Speaker 1:No no, absolutely, and they're one level below the majors. They're triple a baseball. So you see a lot of those players that go up and down. I talk about this every podcast. I do pretty much. We're a big baseball family, really, and here in Syracuse we're the Mets and of course we have the New York Mets and we're the AAA affiliate, the Syracuse Mets. So it's fun. It's fun to go to the games because you see a lot of these players that are major league yet they're down at this level for one reason or another. Maybe they need a little work on hitting or catching, or batting, like I said, or whatever running, but that's what they do. Jason also asking another great question. I don't know if you can see it, if I show it here, but are her parents Beatles fans? Because of the McCartney reference?
Speaker 3:Yes, they are massive Beatles fans.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 3:So they knew right when, even before I was born, they were like we're going to name our little girl McCartney, and so they just always loved that name, and my dad, being a bassist, loves Paul McCartney and everything.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. So yeah, Put on a great show. Still at his age, he's phenomenal, Just unbelievable Ask your dad show, Still at his age.
Speaker 3:He's phenomenal, Just unbelievable. Ask your dad, he'll tell you, oh, you did. Yeah, my first concert was him, when I was eight.
Speaker 1:Dad took you, Said come on, let's go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was crazy. It was so good and I remember I literally would not get up. The whole time my mom was like I'm going to go, like do you want to go to the T-shirt stand? I was like, uh-uh, I don't want to miss one song, so I just sat there the whole time.
Speaker 1:Did you know? The music, though, I mean.
Speaker 3:I did some of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But I mean not near as much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like mom and dad were singing every word to every song, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Yes, but I listened to him a lot after the concert. Like I just got one of my dad's CDs and listened to it like every day but I knew some of the songs. But that was kind of what really got me listening to him after that and he was like 72 at the time put on a great show.
Speaker 1:Do you, for example, got two ships Before you did anything with that? Did you plan for mom and dad and go? Okay, I need your honest opinion about this.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do that with all my songs.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 3:And we actually we send it to my cousin back in Georgia. Okay, and I'm like please tell me what you think about this, because I need an opinion. So she always helps me with all that and, like my best friend back in Georgia, my boyfriend, you know, everyone around me. I'm like do you like it, do you not? What do we think?
Speaker 1:And how well do you handle criticism when they go? You know, mccartney, I don't know if I like that. I don't know. I want you the way you sing this verse, or how do you handle all that? It's like what do you mean? I love it.
Speaker 3:No, it depends on the day. Really, if I'm having a good day, I'm like okay, but if I'm not, I'm like no, no, I'm putting that out because you said not to.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly yes, just do the opposite. Yeah, but this one I was like right when I wrote it I was like this is my favorite song I've ever written and I was like I'm putting it out so I love it, I know and I could see that doing something and hopefully not only you know here locally but others pick up on it, and do you have a team pushing it to radio?
Speaker 3:I do, I'm working with, like you know, I have my team around me, but I'm also doing some of it myself.
Speaker 1:It's hard, it's hard.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying you can't do it, but it takes a lot of time and there's going to be a lot of doors closing in your face. There's going to be a lot of doors opening.
Speaker 1:So yeah you know it. It takes. It takes a little bit of time. But other artists, more and more artists now are doing it on their own. Drew Baldridge she's somebody's daughter. I've known Drew for years but he just he paid out of his own pocket, hit his own little record label. He called radio stations. He did it all on his own and look what happened that song went to number one. It may have taken a little bit of time. Great song went to number one and now you so yeah, I got a text from him.
Speaker 1:The other day I got a text from him and said I finally got a tour bus. Wow, that's so cool. But you know what? And the same thing could happen with you, and that's awesome, awesome. Do you play full when you're at the club? Are you playing a full band? Is that a full band show?
Speaker 3:I do yes, and then I like acoustic writers rounds here in town. So those are. I do both ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 1:I got you McCartney. What's one thing fans might be surprised to learn about you?
Speaker 3:I I'm trying to think. It's hard when you get like sometimes I'll think like that's a weird thing about me, but then I don't remember, when I'm thinking about it, probably that I really, even though music is my job, that's still the one thing that I do that makes me happy the most and that really kind of grounds me in times of yeah, when something's going on.
Speaker 1:you've got music to fall back on and you know what they say and I think everybody would agree Maybe not, but I hope everybody would that music brings everybody together. Music is the backbone of our lives. So to speak, it doesn't matter what genre it is, but music will bring us together.
Speaker 3:It so does, yeah, and any group of people. It doesn't matter if they speak the same language. It's crazy what music can do to people, and I especially noticed that like playing downtown, because there will be people that are not from America down there but it's still like just people bond over it.
Speaker 1:It does. It doesn't matter who you are, yeah. It doesn't matter what color you are. It doesn't matter what you believe in. Music will bring us all together. Yeah, and that's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3:It is yeah, you believe in music will bring us all together, yeah, and, and that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:That's pretty awesome. It is, yeah, you know it's um, just seeing you. You're still really young Nashville, three years, um, and hopefully a whole lot more. I could see that happening. Uh, what is? You've played out and about with the full band. Uh, can you describe, maybe, an experience that was a little bit off the wall Anything ever happen, like where you're on stage and went, holy crap, I can't believe this. You'll never forget it.
Speaker 3:In other words, there, my God, there's so many.
Speaker 1:So many right On Broadway.
Speaker 3:It's like they're normal by the point.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they are Some of the things you probably can't mention here, but go ahead, it's definitely people getting kicked out for getting a little touchy with people there's, oh my God.
Speaker 3:One time there was this lady and it was her birthday and she was dancing to Chicken Fried and it was her birthday and she was dancing to Chicken. Fried and she fell.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 3:And hit a stool on the way down. And took down somebody else or no Go ahead and everyone gathered around her and I was like what is going on? The ambulance comes so much to Broadway and it's just like a normal thing of the day. You're like who's falling?
Speaker 1:Yeah, who's going now? Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just like a normal occurrence, and so, because people get so drunk, they just fall all over the place and knock other people over, and so that was one of the times that I was like so do you stop when that happens and you're up there on that stage?
Speaker 1:Do you stop playing or you just continue to do what you do?
Speaker 3:I'll kind of get through the song yeah, and then I'll be like is everybody okay over there? So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love that Jason's asking some great questions tonight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:Jason, you ought to come out and be my co-host, Says. Have any other artists checked her show out on Broadway that she loves seeing? Have?
Speaker 3:you noticed anybody? So the people that I've met in the industry that are, like, bigger people, they don't really like to come down to Broadway, much Like, and a lot of locals don't really go down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, the locals don't. Yeah, they want to. That's why I ask in the beginning, like, where do you live? Do you live close to downtown? Because you know you don't want to be in the middle of that. Plus, it goes to all hours of the morning and you hear the sirens and the people yelling and there could be fights and people doing this, and that it's crazy. It's crazy, but. But, that being said, I'm not dissing nashville at all. I love Nashville. Best city in the world. I love it. Yeah, no, exactly, you never know who you're going to see or when you have to experience. It's just that there's a good time and a bad time to go down on Broadway. In the way of just, if you don't like being in crowds, don't go to Broadway at night, but go in the morning. So there's still a lot to see. There's a lot of history. There's the Mother Church. The Ryman is right around the corner. Which, by the way? Have you stepped foot on that stage yet?
Speaker 3:I have not.
Speaker 1:You will.
Speaker 3:Only in the tour I have. But thank you.
Speaker 1:Were you at the Country Radio Seminar a couple of years ago, when they do lunch at the Ryman, and were you by chance there? Oh, she's gone. I was going to ask her if she had been there. You know, at the Ryman Auditorium we go to a country radio seminar. I've done that well, over 20 years and one of the major labels what they do is they have lunch in the Ryman Auditorium and everybody gets a box lunch, but the label that's putting it on brings out every single one of their artists to play at least one song If there's radio people watching.
Speaker 1:I know, jason, I don't know if you've been there or not, but it's something to experience because you do get to see all the artists and there's always a surprise at the end. And for anybody like McCartney to step foot on that stage as a new artist, to stand there in the middle of that stage, it has to be just a feeling, feeling like no other, because that's the Mother Church, it's right downtown. I know they have the Grand Ole Opry, but this is also the Grand Ole Opry, but they call it the Mother Church and if you're going to Nashville, highly recommend that you check that out as well and, of course, take the walk on Broadway. Just, you know you got to pick the right time to go. But Nashville, you know I'm not dissing it at all, it's just one of the greatest cities in the world. It's the most fun. You never know who you're going to see. You could go to a grocery store. You could be standing behind Tim McGraw at the line to check out. I'm not kidding, it's happened.
Speaker 1:So all that, all that, I'm hoping McCartney will pop back in here in a moment or two. Just keep an eye on things here and hopefully she'll pop in. But if you have any questions or anything, I can answer for you while I have you here. Oh yeah, jason, vince Gill singing go rest high in that mountain for Mindy McCready. Oh, my God, you know that was a moment. I watched that. I saw the video of that. Also, charlie Daniels, when they did the tribute to him. Of course, vince coming on stage and doing that. You know, go Rest High on that mountain, absolutely. It's just wow, absolutely. So I'm hoping McCartney's going to pop in here any moment or two. I'm keeping an eye on the screen because I'm solo right now, but hey, that's the way it goes. So, anyway, you know what I bet she's going to come back on. It's going to be. You know, skip, I'm sorry, my phone went dead. Let's watch, let's wait and see what happens. So she's running around right now looking for a charger in her apartment and she's probably because she's with her mom and dad. It's probably like Mom, dad, where's my charger? Where's my charger? You can plug it in Phone's going to come back up and she's going to pop on here any second. Maybe. Let's hope. But then again, you never know. You never, ever know.
Speaker 1:This is Skip Happens. And, by the way, while I do have you, if you haven't noticed, I love to talk. So if you haven't subscribed to Skip Happens, just go to YouTube, search Skip Happens and subscribe. Please help me out with that as we take this to the next level. We are so close to hitting that mark, so close. So if you wouldn't mind helping out, that would be greatly appreciated. And, as you know, I've been doing this a long time and the connection that I have with Nashville and a lot of my colleagues in radio. No, no, jason, it is not time for some Skip stand-up comedy. No, it is not. I mean no, we don't want to do that. Never mind, not now, not now. Here she is Now. This is what I think All right. So McCartney's coming back and she should be there, just popped in.
Speaker 2:Now.
Speaker 1:I'll help. Oh, there you are, we can hear you. Okay, but Okay, but here Now let me guess, did your phone go dead?
Speaker 3:It cut off. I think it got so hot. Oh, no, let me see if this camera will work. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:Why are you sorry for it. It happens. You know what. Do you know what the name of the podcast is?
Speaker 3:Skip Happens.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, true.
Speaker 1:It happened.
Speaker 2:It happened.
Speaker 1:No, it's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 2:It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 1:Well, no, no, no, you're still there. I mean, you know you're there, but we don't see you. But that's okay. You know what? I just. If somebody wanted to get ahold of your music, mccartney, where can they go? Are you on socials? If so, what? And how can we download some of your music? You got two ships. I think we need to go out and support you and everybody needs to get that as well. How can we do that?
Speaker 3:You can find me at McCartney Reinhart on Apple Music, spotify, any of that, and then just McCartney Reinhart Music on Instagram and my name also on TikTok Cool.
Speaker 1:How often do you do little TikTok thingies? I usually post once or twice a day. So I try to stay pretty active with it. I should Well, you have to. You know, McCartney think of it this way. Look at all the artists that have really put the groundwork down because of social media. Look what it did for them. It's just amazing. I mean Kane Brown, man, I can go on and on. It's just so many artists have done that. Bailey Zimmerman, just Sam Barber, I can go on and on. It's just amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. You know what? I don't think we're going to get the camera. I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 3:I'm so sorry. I don't know why the camera won't work. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:I don't know why the camera won't work.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to. Maybe I broke it. I think my phone overheated it's so hot here but. Put it on?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I do want to say thank you. It's so good to talk to you. Two ships being the new single. What about an EP or any word on an album yet, or anything like that?
Speaker 3:So I'm hoping to get an EP out next year. I've kind of thought about it, so I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking that'll be in the future soon, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, and real quickly, any news on a radio tour? Have you been able to get out and visit stations or anything like that?
Speaker 3:I am actually going to the Bull in Augusta, Georgia tomorrow Very cool, yeah, so I'm doing that for Backyard Country, but that's the only one I have scheduled like set in stone right now.
Speaker 1:But I'm hoping to have more, yeah, well you know what I'm so proud of you. I'm so glad that you reached out. To get you back on, skip Happens, my door is open and you're welcome any time. Anybody is welcome any time. No, thank you, because it's great artists like you that make my job really easy. Number one you're a great interview. Number two your music on the air. It's going to sound awesome.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:It's going in the right direction. So you make my job easy.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. I always enjoy being on this, so thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun. So, mccartney, I just want to say thank you for joining us. We're going to say goodbye to all our viewers and listeners and I want you to stay right there, though. Okay, sounds good. All right, everybody, another edition of Skip Happens. It's in the books, and if you would subscribe, if you got to do and, uh, you know, it'll help me out a lot too as we take the podcast to a new level and, uh, we're gonna. We got a lot of good stuff coming down. We're gonna get you updated on that very soon and, yes, we are going to the next level. So, anyways, thanks for watching everybody. My name is skip clark. Have a pleasant evening. It's skip happens. Remember that. Thank you, and we'll see you next week.
