Latest / Arroe Collins Like It's Live / Killin Time My Life And Music From Country Music Legend Clint Black

Transcript

Killin Time My Life And Music From Country Music Legend Clint Black · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Seby checked it out. Yet ero dot net a r
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: r oe dot net. It is a podcast network. It's
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: not just one show because you need the power of choice.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: We can go from rockstar talks to talking about sports
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: to what's this a senator? Or even book authors, actors
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: and musicians. Oh yeah, ero dot net. We were always
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: trained in radio. One thought per break. Then why do
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: you have to be sifting through a bunch of names
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: that you don't know to find who you're looking for?
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: A r r oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Good afternoon, Clint.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: I got to ask you right from the very beginning
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: my last two books, I had to write and produce
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: music while putting the words down for new books. What
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: was this process like? Did you get that urge to
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: write music as well?
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Uh? No, not not. In the writing of the book.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: The book was took a lot of focus and a
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: lot of energy. I was writing the book while on
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: tour doing eighty city tour and about wore me out.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: But I had some help Craig Shelburne, who did a
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: lot of research for Timeline stuff and interviewed me at
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: nauseum and transcribed it all for me and h so
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: so it was. It was harder than I thought it
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: would be, but I had some good help.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: The name of the book is Killing Time, my life
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: in music. It has given me such a strong perspective
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: and actuality when it comes to you. And yes, I
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: did go to Alexa. Yes I have been listening to
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: your music in a different ear only because you've allowed
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: me to do that. This is such the perfect backstage
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: pass for all fans and new followers.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, and and and for artists who are
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: up and coming to see that. It's it's probably as
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: hard for anyone, uh you know this time or back
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: in my time to make it into this business. So
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: when you think you want to give up, just remember
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: it took me ten years of playing in the clubs
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: to get there, and the things that I went through,
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: you know, searching for a vocal coach who could help
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: me get over the stress and strain of all of
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: the other things you have to do in this business.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: You know, the clubs were hard, but you know, once
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: the record business got a hold of me, it was
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: hard on steroids. And so I think it's important for
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: young artists to have references to understand what they're getting
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: into and not look around and think, and this is
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: just happening to them.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Yep. Don't you miss, though, the dingy days of those
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: rundown clubs, because I'll walk into one now and I do.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: I smell the atmosphere. I listened to the same echoes
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: that were there fifteen twenty years ago. You know, nothing
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: ever changes, but there's just something elegant about being in
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: that old place.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: No, I don't there. I was four and seven hours
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: a night almost years and so I had enough. There
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: are a couple of bars or nightclubs that I'll play
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: Billy Bobbs, Texas and Fort Worth. And there's a place
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: in Jackson, Wyoming, yes, called the million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Yes see, I don't know.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: That gives me. That gives me a real sweet taste
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: of what the bars are like.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: You and I share something in common, and it's a
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: battle with water. I don't know why I'm here. I
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: know what the Yellowstone River took from me, and I
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: would love to have it back. But I've stood on
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: that shore and many times, and I can't even have
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: a normal time when I go to the river. What
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: about you with your episode with water?
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: Well, there's only one I wrote about in the book,
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: But there were two other times, one culture than the
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: other where I cracked my head open on the side
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: of the cool and was unconscious and bleeding in the water,
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: and some stranger happening by I saw it and jumped
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: in and pulled me out, and uh, and I've always
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: been self analytical, but it took me a long time
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: to understand, uh what was going on with me and water.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: And once I did, I was over it. Yeah, I uh,
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: I'm able to uh to move past things that way.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Mmmmm mmmmcause I still can't get getting even into a
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: swimming pool. I just I'm I just I'm gonna take
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: it to my grave. And and I so to read
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: about you. It really did. It gave me that place
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: where I gets like, Okay, now I got somebody I
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: can relate with, somebody that I can tap into and understand.
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah that that uh, that third time that I start
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: the book off with, uh, really, you know, I I
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: really didn't think I was gonna make it out with that.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: It was a snake in vault too, who's blocking my
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: way to surviving it? And I used to hunt snakes, collect,
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: grab them, take home, lose them in the house and
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: all of that. I like to do that anymore because
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: don after that.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Clint Black coming
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: up next the name of his brand new book, Killing Time,
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: My Life and Music. We are back with country music
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: legend and singer songwriter Clint Black. You know they always
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: say that if you play a country song backwards, you'll
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: get everything back. That's what I was taught with Lonnie
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Bell up there at Coin Radio and Billing's Montana. I wonder,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: now if I read your book backwards, would you get
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: everything back? And would you want it back?
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: I like where I am. I can agree all my blessings.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: I know that God has a path for me yep,
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: and I try to stay on the path he wants,
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: and so I don't look a gift horse in the mouth,
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: so to speak. I try to be happy where I am.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: Well, the idea that you were very blatant and very
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: very open with your with with people that are trying
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: to shape you, and you decided to stand up for
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: you because being in the radio industry sometimes I have
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: to tell people I am not me because of me.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: It's because other people want me to be. And I'm
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: sure you go through the same things inside the world
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: of country music.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a real battle to hang on to
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: your authenticity. And it matters that you know who you
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: are and and and you can decide to let some
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: things change. But if you become inauthentic, you'll never be happy.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: And I think people will see through it. And uh,
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: you know, my songs, writing my own songs is what
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: got me here. And when the record company wanted to
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: take that away and find songs by other people for me,
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: I just refused. And I was ready to, you know,
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: end up on a desert island somewhere with nothing. That's
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: what it took. Because the work is the joy. It's
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: the work that brings me the satisfaction and the purpose,
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: and not the record sales and not the awards. And
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what you promised me. If I don't
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: get to be the one doing the job, then there's
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: no reason to do it.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: Well, your title says it perfectly, because people who are
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: of that of creativity killing time, that's all I'm doing.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: It's not a job at all. I'm killing time, killing time.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much irony in there because you know,
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: as I say in the book, you know I didn't
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: think I would live long.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be sixteen ever or eighteen
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: twenty one, okay, but twenty five of no way, too
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: many forriends dying various things and cancer getting my grandparents. Yes,
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: I just didn't believe that it was their time became
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: this precious commodity for me. And you know, I just
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: didn't want to wow.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: Anytime you come to the Carolina. So let's get together
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: for a face to face because seven minutes with you
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: is never going to be enough time. And I just
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: think of you as being just somebody who shares the
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: real true story of what country music is and what
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: life is. Life is.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: No, thank you, I appreciate that.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today? Okay, sir? Not you guys
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: have a wonderful day today.
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: Hey you too, be careful stet away from that river.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm with you on that. You'll never see
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: me at that Yellowstone River ever again, trust me?
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: All right, man, take care and be safe.