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Takin’ A Walk Nashville: Steve Goetzman of Exile Reflects on Band's Journey and Nashville Music Legacy · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hey listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a
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  Speaker 2: Walk Nashville. Today with me is drummer Steve Gitzman of Exile.
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  Speaker 2: He has been the heartbeat of Exile for decades, holding
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  Speaker 2: down the groove through massive genre shifts and generations of touring.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit about Exile, they formed in 1963 looking
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  Speaker 2: to play small clubs in Richmond, Kentucky. and then they
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  Speaker 2: managed to top both the pop and country charts with
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  Speaker 2: 18 hits collectively, including 11 number ones during their 60-year-long career.
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  Speaker 2: You may know their iconic smash hit, Kiss You All Over.
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  Speaker 2: It spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's pop
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  Speaker 2: chart in 1978. It was used in the 1996 Adam
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  Speaker 2: Sandler movie, Happy Gilmore. You may remember that scene. Exile
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  Speaker 2: has written hits for other major label artists including Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: Diamond Rio, and Restless Heart. The five members reformed in
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  Speaker 2: 2008 and they continue to tour today. They just celebrated
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  Speaker 2: their 60th anniversary as a band and they are releasing
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  Speaker 2: a new album this October. It's called Look Out Heart
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  Speaker 2: and they just released two singles off the new album,
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  Speaker 2: Rain Keeps Falling and Look Out Heart. Join me today
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  Speaker 2: as I speak with Steve Gitzman, the drummer of Exile.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Takin' a Walk Nashville with your host, singer-songwriter
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Harrelson.
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  Speaker 2: Hi listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of the Takin'
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville podcast. Today with me is drummer Steve
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  Speaker 2: Gitzman from the band Exile. Steve, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 1: Very well, Sarah, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you for joining me while you guys
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  Speaker 2: are on a break from your tour. In 2023, Exile
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  Speaker 2: just celebrated 60 years together as a band and also
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  Speaker 2: the 45th anniversary of your hit Kiss You All Over.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to still be recording and touring
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  Speaker 2: together as a band after all these years?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we all feel a lot of gratitude that we
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  Speaker 1: can still get out there and do it. We have
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  Speaker 1: product out in the market, but we don't worry so
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  Speaker 1: much anymore about hit records or album sales. It's now
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  Speaker 1: more live performance centered, and it's like being a garage
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  Speaker 1: band again. And it makes it a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, we've been together for a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: We're now in our 63rd year. And so we're like family, too.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing, especially after all these years. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to keep a band together, especially with the original members.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a secret sauce you guys have to staying
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  Speaker 2: together after all these years?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think there are a lot of elements. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, we were friends in Kentucky, in Lexington, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: or in that region, and we grew up. uh, as
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  Speaker 1: teenagers grew up together playing in different bands and playing
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  Speaker 1: in the local clubs and recording studios. And so that
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  Speaker 1: was all before we came together as exile. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of, um, there's a lot of history, uh, and,
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  Speaker 1: and a reality base, if you will, amongst the five
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  Speaker 1: of us, um, And so that's part of it. Our
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky heritage is another part of it. And we just
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  Speaker 1: like each other. At this point in our lives, most
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  Speaker 1: of the egos are gone. And what's left are remnants.
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  Speaker 1: So we've learned how to work together and coexist and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy one another. And I've noticed recently we laugh a lot.
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  Speaker 1: especially on the bus when we're traveling.
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  Speaker 2: That's so important to get along and just have fun together.
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  Speaker 2: Were you friends before you joined the band or walk
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  Speaker 2: us through how you were introduced to joining the band
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  Speaker 2: and what were you looking for as a drummer back then?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, I knew everyone quite well before I joined.
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  Speaker 1: I joined when I was 27. I guess the best
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  Speaker 1: place to start would be I was working as a
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  Speaker 1: session drummer in Lexington. And some of the guys in
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  Speaker 1: the group at that time would come in and perform
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  Speaker 1: on sessions. And so I was playing with them. And
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  Speaker 1: during the session, we were doing stuff like country albums
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  Speaker 1: for people and lots of local jingles, gospel albums. And
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  Speaker 1: so we became a pretty tight rhythm section in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: They had a different drummer at the time. And then
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  Speaker 1: things changed. They were a pop band. They were a
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  Speaker 1: rock band evolving to pop. And I was better suited
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  Speaker 1: as a pop drummer than the drummer that they had.
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  Speaker 1: So it just evolved. He was an incredible drummer. And
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  Speaker 1: he had huge shoes to fill. But it was a
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  Speaker 1: different direction. And so they asked me to come on board,
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  Speaker 1: which I did, and I'm very glad I did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have had such a tremendous career, as
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned. You're currently on tour, many stops along the way,
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like you guys have three shows in
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee coming up, correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. We also have some Alabama shows. They've been using
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  Speaker 1: us on a number of their dates. which is just
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  Speaker 1: really nice because we're good friends with them and have
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  Speaker 1: been for years, decades, in fact. And it's amazing. They
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  Speaker 1: still pack arenas. They can sell out 15,000, 20,000 seats consistently.
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  Speaker 1: So it puts us back on the big stages. And
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  Speaker 1: the production is incredible. And the people are incredible. And
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  Speaker 1: the guys are friends of ours. So That's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Along with it, we're playing a lot of performing arts centers.
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  Speaker 1: And then during the summer months, we play some fairs
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  Speaker 1: and festivals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you have a lot of festivals on
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  Speaker 2: the lineup for the remainder of this year. Exile is
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  Speaker 2: also performing at the 70s Rock and Romance Cruise next March.
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  Speaker 2: That should be fun. Are you excited to perform on
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  Speaker 2: the cruise ship?
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  Speaker 1: Sure. This is our second time in. it's funny, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's all these heritage rock acts, um, performing on board
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  Speaker 1: and we have one big pop hit. So we, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of snuck in there with one hit. And so
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  Speaker 1: we get the, we get the hang, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: all these people that we looked up to all those
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  Speaker 1: years and admired. And now everybody's, uh, it's like, it's friendly. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a great time performing. It's an easy, uh,
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  Speaker 1: gig i mean you're on board for four or five
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  Speaker 1: days and you play like two 60 minute shows and
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  Speaker 1: that's it you know the rest of it's just fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you don't have to move the drum kit constantly for.
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  Speaker 1: That yeah we get our own stage so once it's
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  Speaker 1: set it's set.
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  Speaker 2: That's great listeners can find all upcoming shows on your
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  Speaker 2: website in addition to touring exile also just released two
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  Speaker 2: new singles this year Rain Keeps Fallin' and Look Out
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  Speaker 2: Heart both are singles off the upcoming album Look Out Heart.
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  Speaker 2: It releases this October. Steve, tell me about this new
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  Speaker 2: album and how it came together.
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  Speaker 1: Well, again, we're very fortunate. We're signed to a label
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  Speaker 1: out of Florida, Clearwater Records. And, you know, at this
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  Speaker 1: point in our careers, we're actually... kind of surprised that
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  Speaker 1: we have a record deal and that we're still able
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  Speaker 1: to record. Sarah, we always played on all of our records.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't always the case with country acts, particularly out
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  Speaker 1: of Nashville. We're very proud of that. Everything you hear
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  Speaker 1: on our records is us, and the same is true today.
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  Speaker 1: We've been recording for Clearwater for some time now. We have,
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  Speaker 1: I think, three studio albums with them. The most recent
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  Speaker 1: We finished this year, earlier this year. It's called Look
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  Speaker 1: Out Heart. And the title track was the first single.
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  Speaker 1: And then now we have a second single called Rain
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  Speaker 1: Keeps Falling.
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  Speaker 2: Great singles. I was listening to them yesterday. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to the upcoming album. Being in the studio for
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  Speaker 2: this album, what does the recording process feel like for
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  Speaker 2: the five of you today compared to when you were
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  Speaker 2: recording in the 70s and the 80s?
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  Speaker 1: Boy, it's really changed with technology particularly. Back in the
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  Speaker 1: olden days, we would all go into the studio together
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  Speaker 1: with a producer. By the time we got there, we
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  Speaker 1: would have spent time in rehearsal with the new material.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's entirely different. Our primary writers, of course,
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  Speaker 1: are in the band, Sonny LaMere and JP Pennington. For
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  Speaker 1: this album, they joined with another writer, Sarah. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: her last name escapes me right now. The three of
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  Speaker 1: them wrote everything on the album. She lives here in Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: as does Sonny. JP lives in Lexington, Kentucky still. So
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  Speaker 1: they write by Zoom. Okay. And so once they've written
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  Speaker 1: the song, then the guys shoot it out to us,
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  Speaker 1: and we hear it. And then they accompany that with
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  Speaker 1: ideas for basically basic ideas of what we should play
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  Speaker 1: and sing. Then, uh, JP goes into a studio in
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  Speaker 1: Lexington and he puts down some basic tracks. Uh, he
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  Speaker 1: puts down the guitars and, uh, some percussion and then
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  Speaker 1: he'll sing. Uh, if it's his lead vocal, he'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: If it's, if less is going to do the lead vocal,
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  Speaker 1: then less comes over. Less lives in Lexington too. Less
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  Speaker 1: comes over and puts down his lead vocal. Once that's done, then, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Sonny and Marlon, I don't sing. Sonny and Marlon will
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  Speaker 1: drive to Lexington and spend a day doing background vocals
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  Speaker 1: or two days, however long it takes. So then all
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  Speaker 1: those tracks are shipped down to Nashville to a studio.
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  Speaker 1: And then I go in and put in my drum parts.
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  Speaker 1: And that usually takes two days to cover all the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I'm finished, Marlon comes in and puts
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  Speaker 1: his tracks down, the keyboard's. And then we have all
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  Speaker 1: the tracks, and then it's just a matter of mixing
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  Speaker 1: and mastering.
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  Speaker 3: So in a way, it kind of loses its family feel,
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  Speaker 3: but it works.
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  Speaker 1: And we all feel that this is the best music
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  Speaker 1: we've ever made. JP and Sonny are producing, and it's phenomenal. Sonically,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best we've ever done. And so, heck. which
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  Speaker 1: is good news for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely different when you don't have to all be
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  Speaker 2: in a live room to track anymore. You mentioned to
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  Speaker 2: Modern Drummer Magazine about the evolution of playing to a
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  Speaker 2: click track in Pro Tools. And when you were first
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  Speaker 2: tracking your first few albums, it was... live vocal and instruments,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're playing to a click track. Was it
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  Speaker 2: tough to kind of adapt from the natural feel to
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  Speaker 2: playing to a grid?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think every drummer I've ever heard of has
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  Speaker 1: kicked up some dust when they had to start playing
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  Speaker 1: to a click track. You like to think that you
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  Speaker 1: can hold a groove and playing to a click track
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  Speaker 1: is unnatural, but it's not. it's just a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: If you're doing a really good job, you bury the click.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, if you're right on it, you really
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  Speaker 1: can't even hear it. If you get off, you can
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  Speaker 1: hear it. But it's nice. I played to a click
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  Speaker 1: on stage for a long time, and I was the
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  Speaker 1: only one playing to a click. So my band members
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  Speaker 1: would get excited and pull me in one direction or
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  Speaker 1: another in it. and it was a battle, but now
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  Speaker 1: we're all playing to a click on stage, and it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just lock into the grooves like we
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  Speaker 1: never have before, and everybody enjoys it.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. So before, when everyone was getting used to it,
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  Speaker 2: would you just turn the click off when everyone was
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  Speaker 2: kind of in different places?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, occasionally. Most of the time, I could hold them.
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  Speaker 1: They would stay with me, but Sometimes it did get outrageous,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd just have ring children turn it off.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, you've definitely grown with Evolution as a band,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a treat to have a drummer on the
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  Speaker 2: podcast today. We usually interview artists, guitar players. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure I have a lot of listeners on today that
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  Speaker 2: are also drummers, including my husband. Steve, I want to know,
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  Speaker 2: what's your preferred drum kit and brands?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love Yamaha. I had a Pearl endorsement for years,
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  Speaker 1: and that was really great. I think they gave me
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  Speaker 1: a total of five kits over as many years, and
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  Speaker 1: that was really a Pearl, our great drums. But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, Yamaha is my pick, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm playing now.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. And behind you, is that an electric or practice kit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's the new Alesis kit. It's a practice kit,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't buy anything to use on stage. They're
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  Speaker 1: like the bottom of the top of the line rated
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  Speaker 1: electric kits, and I'm really enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have one here. I definitely like that kit. Well,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for giving us information on your drum brands. So
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about your band's hit, Kiss You
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  Speaker 2: All Over. It spent four weeks at number one on
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  Speaker 2: the pop charts in 1978. When that song exploded, you
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  Speaker 2: found yourselves playing on stages with everyone from Aerosmith to
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  Speaker 2: Fleetwood Mac. What's a favorite memory of yours from that
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  Speaker 2: wild crossover era?
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  Speaker 1: Well, as long as I live, I'll never forget the
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  Speaker 1: first night that we hit the road with a huge
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  Speaker 1: hit record. We have been playing fraternity parties and nightclubs.
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  Speaker 1: And occasionally we'd get in and open for somebody like
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  Speaker 1: we did open for Fleetwood Mac early on. But then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly we had, well, the hottest record in the country.
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  Speaker 1: And so they told us to hang on, cancel all
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  Speaker 1: your shows, and wait. So we did that. I think
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  Speaker 1: we waited about a month or six weeks. And the
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  Speaker 1: very next show, we opened for Aerosmith at Market Square
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  Speaker 1: Arena in Indianapolis to a sold-out house. I remember... Going
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  Speaker 1: up those stairs to get on the stage, and I
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  Speaker 1: had chills all over me. It was like going from
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  Speaker 1: zero to 120 in an instant.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, and then decades later... The same song
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  Speaker 2: resurfaced again. It found a whole new generation of fans
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  Speaker 2: through movies like Happy Gilmore and Employee of the Month.
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  Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you saw Adam Sandler singing
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  Speaker 2: along to your groove on the big screen?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was a treat. That song's like the Energizer Bunny.
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  Speaker 1: It just will not quit. And it's given us a
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  Speaker 1: great career. What a blessing. And when the song was,
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  Speaker 1: our producer wrote it. And when it was brought to us,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't really sure what to think of it because
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  Speaker 1: it was so different from everything that we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: So we worked it up, of course, and recorded it.
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  Speaker 1: And then we started playing it live and it got
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  Speaker 1: no reaction at all until it hit the radio. And
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  Speaker 1: then it was gangbusters from that point on.
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  Speaker 2: Most of your songs are so crossover, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: shifting from rock to pop to country. Was it a
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  Speaker 2: challenge for you at all shifting the genres you were
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  Speaker 2: playing as a drummer, or did you always enjoy being
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  Speaker 2: a crossover genre band?
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  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't a struggle at all, really, because we
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  Speaker 1: had all done so much session work. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: a session musician, you have to be a chameleon. If
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  Speaker 1: a country client comes in, you play country. If a
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  Speaker 1: gospel client comes in, you know, we play gospel, pop.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're doing all the different formats in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: So we were all sort of well-versed in the different formats.
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  Speaker 1: And we all always shared the same tastes. All of
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  Speaker 1: us grew up loving what we heard on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: Top 40 radio. stuff and we all gravitated towards R &
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  Speaker 1: B as youngsters. But when you grow up in Central Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to play a lot of country music. We
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  Speaker 1: played mostly country music in clubs up there, so we
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  Speaker 1: had that under our belt. When we made the decision
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  Speaker 1: to switch from pop to country, it was a natural evolution.
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  Speaker 1: We went into a basement of a piece of rental
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  Speaker 1: property that I had at the time and spent six
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  Speaker 1: weeks transforming from pop to country with the new material.
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  Speaker 1: But it was all natural, Sarah. It was just not
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  Speaker 1: a struggle at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. That's amazing. Exile made their Opry
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  Speaker 2: debut in 2008. You guys have logged well over 120
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  Speaker 2: appearances on the Opry stage, and you openly shared that
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  Speaker 2: becoming official members of the Opry family, it's an ongoing dream.
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  Speaker 2: What would that formal invitation mean to you and your
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  Speaker 2: band at this point in your career?
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  Speaker 1: It would be incredible. Honestly, Sarah, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. It's not that we're not qualified, but
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  Speaker 1: we do have an R & B bent to our
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  Speaker 1: country music. And I think that will disqualify us. Our
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  Speaker 1: manager disagrees. I'm glad that he does. And he has
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing campaign to have us inducted. It would be
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  Speaker 1: incredible if we were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
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  Speaker 1: We admire those people, those artists, members so much. And
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  Speaker 1: when we get out there, there's a lot of artists
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  Speaker 1: around when you play the Opry. And so it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of old home week. We touch base with artists we
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen in a while on the road. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: the audience is incredible. They play seats, I think, about 5,000.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually settled out. The production's fantastic. You have to
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  Speaker 1: run on and run off. You get two songs, maybe three.
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  Speaker 1: You don't play your own gear. You play what's there.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's a little chaotic, but boy, there's so
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  Speaker 1: much prestige and status being involved. We'd love to be members.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't there a rule on the Opry stage that you
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  Speaker 2: can't mess with the drum kit? Like you can't change
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  Speaker 2: the height.
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  Speaker 1: Of Well, you know, they expect you not to. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a rule, not a formal rule. But for obvious reasons,
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  Speaker 1: there's so little time between acts. It's a professional courtesy
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  Speaker 1: between drummers to not move or move as little as
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  Speaker 1: you possibly can. I'll make an adjustment to the hi-hat
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  Speaker 1: height usually and maybe the tilt on the snare drum
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  Speaker 1: and that's about it. Eddie Bears and Matthew Beckett are
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  Speaker 1: the two regular drummers on the show, both of them
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  Speaker 1: monster session players. So if nothing else, out of respect
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  Speaker 1: for them, I make sure that I don't make too
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  Speaker 1: many alterations.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, I fully support your manager's campaign for getting
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  Speaker 2: you guys a formal invitation to join the Opry team.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's well-deserved. Putting it out here on the
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  Speaker 2: universe for our podcast listeners, you have performed at the
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  Speaker 2: Opry so many times. Steve, it's been a treat having
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  Speaker 2: you on Taking a Walk Nashville today. My last question
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  Speaker 2: for you, we're on Taking a Walk Nashville, so what's
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  Speaker 2: your all-time favorite studio you have ever walked into and
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  Speaker 2: recorded in Nashville?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess our history, we have a history in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but in Nashville, when we started turning into
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  Speaker 1: a country band, we started recording at the sound shop
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  Speaker 1: that was owned by Buddy Killen, who was our producer
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  Speaker 1: at the time. It's since been leveled and other things
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  Speaker 1: have been built. But that was a legendary studio. And
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  Speaker 1: we did, I think, probably four or five albums there.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's really where my heart is.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, and as you mentioned, today it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like you do a lot of recording in multiple studios,
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  Speaker 2: some in Lexington, and then it sounds like you record
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  Speaker 2: your drums here in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Well, Steve, thank you so much for being
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  Speaker 2: on the podcast today. Listeners can look forward to Exile's
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  Speaker 2: upcoming shows. Find it on your website and also your
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: upcoming album, Look Out Heart, that releases this October. Steve,
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  Speaker 2: thank you again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Sarah. Thanks for listening to Taking a
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