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- 0:38Speaker 2: Oh, I'm doing great. How are you doing?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic. Looking forward to talking to you about a
- 0:44Speaker 1: Miss American Cowgirl. Because I grew up in the state
- 0:46Speaker 1: of Montana. We're walking into those those clubs and those
- 0:50Speaker 1: bars and those Montana to me, that's where legends were shaped.
- 0:53Speaker 1: And man if I didn't just instantly get that kind
- 0:56Speaker 1: of a vibe when I first heard Miss American Cowgirl.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Oh, I love that so much.
- 1:03Speaker 1: I mean, you do so many things inside this song
- 1:05Speaker 1: that's so traditional, but at the same time, you're giving
- 1:08Speaker 1: it that modern day appeal to it where it crosses
- 1:11Speaker 1: over into every genre that's available right now. That takes
- 1:14Speaker 1: a lot of guts on your guys's creative side.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Honestly, the way the song is now, I didn't expect
- 1:22Speaker 3: it to be like that.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Honestly.
- 1:24Speaker 3: There's like probably three different versions we have, and then
- 1:27Speaker 3: we finally started doing the more like country rock version,
- 1:30Speaker 3: and then of course my modern edge came in and
- 1:33Speaker 3: it became what the song is now. So I'm pretty
- 1:36Speaker 3: grateful for that. And yeah, it does take a lot
- 1:38Speaker 3: of gutsport because not a lot of people are doing
- 1:39Speaker 3: it right now.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Yeah, and what you're doing with harmonies, my god, did
- 1:43Speaker 1: you grow up listening to the Eagles? And because I mean,
- 1:47Speaker 1: these harmonies are spot on and they're exactly where you
- 1:50Speaker 1: want your harmonies. Because as a listener, it makes me
- 1:53Speaker 1: want to sing right along with you.
- 1:54Speaker 2: That's a great thing and I'm glad it does that.
- 1:57Speaker 2: But yes, I did grow up listening to the Eagles.
- 2:00Speaker 3: I've listened to Aerosmith, Meat Low's, the Doobie.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Brothers, all of them. I grew up with a lot
- 2:06Speaker 2: of rap from my grandpa, so what.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Was your engineer inside the studio? Pretty open for that,
- 2:11Speaker 1: because on my last project, my engineer he says, I
- 2:14Speaker 1: don't want to do it. Man, he says, I, I don't.
- 2:15Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of harmony, So I'm not
- 2:17Speaker 1: going to give you a harmony at that I'm paying you,
- 2:19Speaker 1: and and but but but but but yet I had
- 2:22Speaker 1: to go his route because he came up with the line.
- 2:24Speaker 1: And you may have had to have dealt with this
- 2:25Speaker 1: somewhere in your career. He goes, you're paying me for
- 2:28Speaker 1: my expertise, and if my expertise says it doesn't call
- 2:32Speaker 1: for the harmony, he ain't getting the harmony. Dude.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It wasn't actually my idea to do
- 2:39Speaker 2: the harmonies.
- 2:40Speaker 3: At first. I had a couple of nine, just not
- 2:42Speaker 3: as many as we do have now. But my producer's
- 2:46Speaker 3: list engineer Ben Uh, he's also my drummer in the band,
- 2:49Speaker 3: so it's kind of cool. Uh. Those are all his ideas,
- 2:52Speaker 3: and it honestly fits so well.
- 2:55Speaker 2: And I did not expect it to sound like that.
- 2:57Speaker 1: And I'm so.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Glad that it makes you want to like sing along
- 3:00Speaker 2: and stuff.
- 3:00Speaker 1: So how do you handle how do you handle that
- 3:02Speaker 1: moment though, that when you're working inside the studio and
- 3:06Speaker 1: you're piecing it all together, that's one sound, and then
- 3:09Speaker 1: you send it to be mastered and that's a completely
- 3:12Speaker 1: different sound. How do you get used to that that
- 3:14Speaker 1: change where it really is much different?
- 3:18Speaker 3: Honestly, that's a hard question to answer, because when we
- 3:22Speaker 3: go to the studio, all like a lot of us,
- 3:26Speaker 3: my manager Frank, my other manager Edward Peppi, and then
- 3:30Speaker 3: Ben's there, so it's all four of us.
- 3:32Speaker 2: We're there and literally we'll go through the whole song.
- 3:35Speaker 3: We'll nitpick everything, and pretty much Ben masters it like
- 3:39Speaker 3: when we're there, and then honestly, like a few hours later,
- 3:42Speaker 3: he'll send us the full like final cut and everything
- 3:45Speaker 3: like that. And when I hear it, it honestly blows
- 3:48Speaker 3: me away every single time because it's so weird to
- 3:51Speaker 3: hear myself like that, you.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
- 3:53Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Do you go out in the car and
- 3:54Speaker 1: listen to it like the rest of us, we just
- 3:56Speaker 1: pop it on and go, yeah, this is what it's about.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Literally, this is the time.
- 4:00Speaker 3: Ben already knows to send me anything that we've done
- 4:03Speaker 3: that day, like immediately, because I'll get in my car
- 4:05Speaker 3: and because I have like an hour drive home, so
- 4:08Speaker 3: I'm just blasting in my car and I'm like, you know,
- 4:10Speaker 3: I'm nitpicking through it, and I'll probably write.
- 4:12Speaker 2: Something down like, oh, we need to fix this or whatever.
- 4:15Speaker 2: But I love blasting my own music.
- 4:17Speaker 1: No, no, I totally get it. And in fact, for listeners,
- 4:20Speaker 1: a song we're talking about is Miss American Cowgirl. Am
- 4:23Speaker 1: I wrong to think that that this easily could fit
- 4:27Speaker 1: on a Fleetwood Mac album? Because I mean, Stevie Nicks,
- 4:30Speaker 1: I can hear it in your emotion. You have nailed
- 4:34Speaker 1: emotion in this song.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Oh wow, I've never heard somebody say Stevie Nicks, but
- 4:39Speaker 3: I do love Leeward Max.
- 4:41Speaker 2: So that's a really good compliment.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Well, just the pacing and the harmonies and everything that
- 4:46Speaker 1: you put into it gives it that storyteller appeal, which
- 4:49Speaker 1: to me goes here we go into the summer of
- 4:51Speaker 1: twenty six, I mean, we need a song that's gonna
- 4:53Speaker 1: do that, and I'm going Miss American Cowgirl.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Heck yeah, oh my goodness.
- 4:59Speaker 1: And then and when you have a song cover like
- 5:01Speaker 1: like you do with you in the back end of
- 5:02Speaker 1: that pickup, you know people are gonna be going. I
- 5:04Speaker 1: want that. I want to be that girl. I want
- 5:06Speaker 1: to be that person in the back of a pickup
- 5:08Speaker 1: like that.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
- 5:10Speaker 3: That's the whole point, honestly, of just like writing music
- 5:13Speaker 3: and everything, and you know, being your own person and
- 5:16Speaker 3: being your creative outlet. Like when I write my music,
- 5:19Speaker 3: I read it for other people too, you know, and
- 5:22Speaker 3: I want people to listen to it.
- 5:23Speaker 2: And be like, yeah, I don't want to be her,
- 5:25Speaker 2: like I want.
- 5:25Speaker 3: To do this or whatever, and I just want to
- 5:27Speaker 3: be like a good like example for people.
- 5:29Speaker 1: And it starts with the lyrics, is what it does.
- 5:31Speaker 1: And that's what I love about it, is that you
- 5:33Speaker 1: put a lot of interest and love inside those lyrics.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Yes, totally.
- 5:38Speaker 1: What is it like to put all that together? Because
- 5:39Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, first of all, i'd love to
- 5:41Speaker 1: see your hand notes when you go inside that studio,
- 5:43Speaker 1: because you don't go in there without a pin and
- 5:45Speaker 1: you don't go in there without without a lyrics sheet
- 5:47Speaker 1: or anything like that. But boy, we'll scratch the hell
- 5:49Speaker 1: out of that dang thing.
- 5:52Speaker 2: That's so true.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Do you save your notes from all your different sessions
- 5:56Speaker 1: and things?
- 5:57Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, totally most of the time.
- 5:59Speaker 3: I mean sometimes I write on actual paper, but most
- 6:02Speaker 3: of the time I just writen my notes, like on
- 6:04Speaker 3: my phone. So I have about like five hundred plus
- 6:07Speaker 3: notes up in there because I have so many ideas.
- 6:10Speaker 3: All the time, I write NonStop.
- 6:12Speaker 1: I love it. Do you do you think it's because Well,
- 6:14Speaker 1: see on iHeartRadio, I have a show that's actually called
- 6:17Speaker 1: Creativity is the Addiction. So now when you say that
- 6:20Speaker 1: you write all the time, now I got to ask you,
- 6:21Speaker 1: is it because we are addicted to creativity knowing that
- 6:24Speaker 1: if it reaches out to one person, we did our job.
- 6:27Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Honestly, when I write it most
- 6:31Speaker 3: into obviously it's from stuff that I've experienced and what
- 6:34Speaker 3: I know about, and some of the songs I just hope,
- 6:38Speaker 3: Like honestly, if I play it for one of my
- 6:40Speaker 3: friends and they like relate to it, then I've done
- 6:42Speaker 3: my job, you know what I mean, Because at the
- 6:45Speaker 3: end of the day, this is my career.
- 6:46Speaker 2: This is what I'm going to be doing for the
- 6:47Speaker 2: rest of my life. Hopefully I'm good enough to relate
- 6:50Speaker 2: to people.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Lilly Hedinger coming
- 6:53Speaker 1: up next. The name of a new song, Miss American Cowgirl.
- 6:58Speaker 1: We are back with singer songwriter Lily Heinger. One of
- 7:02Speaker 1: the things that we do is creative people. We like
- 7:04Speaker 1: to take chances and try new toys and stuff. Have
- 7:06Speaker 1: you sent your lyrics through chat, GPT or Grock or anything,
- 7:09Speaker 1: because I just recently did that just as a joke.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Oh my god. I hated what Grock did. Oh god,
- 7:16Speaker 1: there was no It just didn't carry the vibe that
- 7:20Speaker 1: I was trying to do. And I always thought, well,
- 7:21Speaker 1: what are other songwriters doing.
- 7:23Speaker 3: I've honestly, I got a little I've tried that before.
- 7:27Speaker 3: I have put my lyrics into some sort of like chat,
- 7:30Speaker 3: GBT or whatever, and.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
- 7:33Speaker 3: It was absolutely horrible, and you know, it could never
- 7:36Speaker 3: recreate something that you know, us as writers could do,
- 7:40Speaker 3: you know, with like the emotion and actually knowing how
- 7:44Speaker 3: to write a song fully.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I gotta tell you where your ears burning. Last week
- 7:49Speaker 1: because I was with Clint Black, I talked about you,
- 7:52Speaker 1: I said, Clint, I said, I know that you're you are, Yes,
- 7:55Speaker 1: I did. I said, you are one of the originals.
- 7:58Speaker 1: You fought for what you believe in and stayed true
- 8:00Speaker 1: to what you believe in. I said, you need to
- 8:02Speaker 1: get a hold of this girl. You need to listen
- 8:04Speaker 1: to her because she's doing the same thing where she
- 8:07Speaker 1: is fighting for what she believes in and making sure
- 8:09Speaker 1: that it stays true to her sound.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Oh, I don't even know what to say right now.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Well, it says a lot about you the musician, is
- 8:16Speaker 1: what it does, and it says a lot about you know,
- 8:18Speaker 1: everybody that you're surrounding yourself with, that there really is
- 8:20Speaker 1: a voice to be heard here and you, being original
- 8:23Speaker 1: is that voice.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Thank you, actually, thank you so much for saying that.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Honestly, it's such a hard thing to do, like this career,
- 8:32Speaker 3: like everyone told me, like it's not gonna be easy,
- 8:34Speaker 3: Like you know, it's gonna be super hard, and you're
- 8:36Speaker 3: gonna have all these hard times, like you just gotta
- 8:38Speaker 3: have tough.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Skin, like, but dude, it's hard. It's so hard.
- 8:43Speaker 3: And just like when I hear people say that about me,
- 8:46Speaker 3: it just makes you feel so good because I know
- 8:49Speaker 3: that I'm doing the right thing and I'm doing the
- 8:51Speaker 3: right thing with my life. You know.
- 8:52Speaker 1: So are you still setting up your own stage when
- 8:54Speaker 1: you got to do those live shows?
- 8:56Speaker 2: Well, I mean I.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Do a lot of solo gigs around sounds so yeah,
- 8:59Speaker 3: I gotta do that. And actually, yeah for most of
- 9:02Speaker 3: our shows, not the stage part necessarily, but like we
- 9:06Speaker 3: don't have any roadies yet, or you gotta do all
- 9:09Speaker 3: of our stuff so well.
- 9:11Speaker 1: That that, to me is part of the passion of
- 9:12Speaker 1: being a musician, is that if you can't set up
- 9:14Speaker 1: your own stage, I mean, you've got to put your
- 9:16Speaker 1: own blood and guts into how that microphone stand is
- 9:19Speaker 1: gonna stand, where you're gonna put those chords? Is it
- 9:21Speaker 1: gonna get in the way? Am I gonna trip over them?
- 9:22Speaker 1: Who's doing what?
- 9:23Speaker 2: Yup? Oh?
- 9:27Speaker 1: Yeah? What are your full plans? Because I mean, I
- 9:32Speaker 1: mean it's like people are just being introduced, and of
- 9:34Speaker 1: course everybody wants to know your story. They want to
- 9:36Speaker 1: know what you're up to and how you're gonna grow forward.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Well, I've always told myself and to my parents, especially
- 9:43Speaker 3: when I was in school, that I wanted to move
- 9:45Speaker 3: to Nashville, of course the place for country music literally,
- 9:49Speaker 3: and when I was in high school, like yeah.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Like be my best friend Kayla.
- 9:53Speaker 3: We're like, oh yeah, let's just move down there together,
- 9:55Speaker 3: like right when I graduate, And that was the plan.
- 9:58Speaker 2: And then you know, things changed because I have so
- 10:00Speaker 2: much stuff.
- 10:01Speaker 3: Going for me here in Cleveland, and I have so
- 10:03Speaker 3: many people, so many resources. I do have resources in
- 10:06Speaker 3: people in Nashville, but I just don't think I'm ready yet,
- 10:10Speaker 3: because I mean, I have the studio and we're still
- 10:12Speaker 3: like making music and I'm still establishing myself.
- 10:14Speaker 2: So maybe, honestly, in the future, I will totally move
- 10:18Speaker 2: down to Nashville. There's no doubt about it. I'm sure,
- 10:21Speaker 2: But just for now.
- 10:22Speaker 1: One of the big moves down here right now is
- 10:24Speaker 1: is that, especially here in Charlotte, you were talking about
- 10:27Speaker 1: playing locally. I don't know if you know this or not,
- 10:30Speaker 1: but a lot of the grocery stores down here allow
- 10:33Speaker 1: the musicians to come in and set up and play
- 10:35Speaker 1: for two and three hours at a time. We have
- 10:37Speaker 1: live musicians in our grocery stores.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Well, why is it Cleveland getting like that?
- 10:41Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. Why is it? Because it
- 10:43Speaker 1: is so you talk about the best intimate setting where
- 10:47Speaker 1: people because we have a beer and wine bar inside
- 10:49Speaker 1: our grocery store. So therefore people are coming in and
- 10:51Speaker 1: they're treating it like just a regular bar, and there's
- 10:54Speaker 1: the musician, and then you realize I'm in a dang
- 10:56Speaker 1: grocery store. How is this even possible?
- 11:00Speaker 2: Oh, Like, I'm so jealous. Now I need to come
- 11:02Speaker 2: down there and see that for myself.
- 11:03Speaker 1: It's quite the experience because it's really fun to watch
- 11:06Speaker 1: these unbelievable songwriters go from being at let's say, a
- 11:09Speaker 1: Harris Teeter or a Kroger, and all of a sudden,
- 11:12Speaker 1: now they're in Nashville writing songs with the groups and stuff.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And I'm going, it's such a natural progression to go
- 11:18Speaker 1: from the grocery store to Nashville.
- 11:20Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is just insane.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Who put the video together? I want to know the
- 11:24Speaker 1: secret behind that, because it was just very authentic. I
- 11:27Speaker 1: found that to be very entertaining.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that that was actually.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Ben and it literally I don't want to say it
- 11:36Speaker 3: looks like a whole day, but I would say like
- 11:37Speaker 3: five or six hours. Funny thing about that there was like,
- 11:41Speaker 3: you don't have this like smoke in the video, right, Well,
- 11:45Speaker 3: Ben's wife had to sit on the floor right in
- 11:48Speaker 3: front of me and hold these pieces together of this
- 11:50Speaker 3: smoke machine because.
- 11:51Speaker 2: It took like an hour. Itoks like an hour break
- 11:53Speaker 2: because it was broken.
- 11:54Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there the whole time, like hold these
- 11:56Speaker 3: little pieces together, and I thought it.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Was the funniest thing. I thought I had a video
- 12:00Speaker 2: you a bit, but I don't.
- 12:01Speaker 3: But lots of hard work there, lots of hard work,
- 12:05Speaker 3: but we got it done.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Good teamwork.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Any any touring plans or anything like that, you play
- 12:10Speaker 1: in any festivals, because I mean you've been up there
- 12:12Speaker 1: in the Cleveland area. I mean you've got the Wisconsin
- 12:14Speaker 1: Dell's up there. You've got a lot of things that
- 12:16Speaker 1: are going on up there that have those festivals.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I we're working on the festivals.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Now.
- 12:20Speaker 3: We're a little late on that game, but we still
- 12:22Speaker 3: are working for it.
- 12:23Speaker 2: And this summer July fourteenth, Yeah, at Men of Rocks,
- 12:28Speaker 2: I'm opening up for Night Ranger.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 12:31Speaker 3: So that yes, So that's going to be super cool.
- 12:34Speaker 3: It's probably like the biggest show I've done to the day.
- 12:38Speaker 3: So I'm super pumped about it.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Oh, you got to do whatever you can to take
- 12:42Speaker 1: some notes when you hang out with Night Ranger. Because
- 12:44Speaker 1: I was the jock on the radio in Billing's, Montana
- 12:47Speaker 1: when this hot new group called Night Ranger appeared on
- 12:50Speaker 1: the music scene. Nobody would have ever thought that they
- 12:52Speaker 1: would last as long as they're doing it today, so
- 12:54Speaker 1: they must be doing something right.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes, And I actually have hung out
- 12:59Speaker 2: with them for We have a little.
- 13:02Speaker 3: Something cooking up though with them, and I call them
- 13:06Speaker 3: my bonus uncles.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Actually, They're so sweet. I love them so much, so
- 13:10Speaker 2: I'm so excited to see them again.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Wow. Well, where can people go to find out more
- 13:15Speaker 1: about you and to get if you've got merch? Man
- 13:18Speaker 1: here in the Carolinas, they're going to buy that merch.
- 13:20Speaker 1: They may not have seen you yet, but they know
- 13:22Speaker 1: you're coming.
- 13:23Speaker 3: Oh boy, Well, my merch will be on my website
- 13:28Speaker 3: I think sometime soon. You can look up my websites
- 13:32Speaker 3: at Lilyhidinger dot com. How you felt my last name
- 13:35Speaker 3: is kind of hard h E I D I N
- 13:37Speaker 3: G E R. And then for my socials Instagram, Facebook,
- 13:42Speaker 3: and TikTok, it's all just Lily Heidinger officials.
- 13:46Speaker 2: You can find all of my stuff there.
- 13:47Speaker 3: I have a little link tree if you guys want
- 13:50Speaker 3: to see like my upcoming shows or what I'm doing,
- 13:52Speaker 3: or if you just want to follow me and you know,
- 13:54Speaker 3: keep up with me and everything.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Man, you got you got to tell Jody that you
- 13:56Speaker 1: want to come back and do this again and again
- 13:58Speaker 1: every time you release a single. That's that's how we
- 14:00Speaker 1: have to create the talk man, that's how you social media.
- 14:03Speaker 1: You gotta keep talking about the stuff. So you got
- 14:05Speaker 1: to come back to this show anytime in the future.
- 14:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I can totally do that, And I'll probably see
- 14:10Speaker 3: you soon then because I will be releasing a new song.
- 14:13Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Will you be brilliant today?
- 14:16Speaker 2: Okay, thank you,