February 27, 2018 • 29 mins
Tommy Cecil really IS Good Company. He wrote the song! Jake and Tommy talk about that and the time Jake played a song for Tommy that he was thinking about recording. That's when it gets weird... The guys also talk about We Are Friday Night check out their music HERE
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Jake Owen and this is Good Company.
Welcome to Good Company, a podcast where we talk about
everything under the sun, friends, good times, and company. Now
here's your host, Jake. Yo. What's up, y'all. It's Jake.
(00:24):
I'm back for another episode of Good Company. Right here,
Good Company with Jake the podcast. My buddy Tommy Cecil
is laughing in the background right now, because if it
wasn't if it wasn't for Tommy Cecil, Uh, the idea
of good Company might not have come around. Right. Um. Yeah,
that was on my phone. Yeah, this is Tommy Cecil.
(00:45):
By the way, y'all, say, what's up Tommy Cecil? Jake?
What's up? Man? So I asked, um, I asked Tommy
to come in and do this podcast. Usually, UM, I
give a little intro about who I'm having on the
on the show this week. Uh, but man, it's we
can just hop right into it with you, Tommy. I mean, jeez,
(01:05):
Tommy is an amazing uh singer, songwriter, producer here in
town that I that I've got to know over the
last few years through some great friends of mutual friends
of ours, the guys in Parmali and Uh, it wasn't.
I don't know. I guess it's been about a couple
of years ago that I was making my last album,
(01:27):
and uh, you sent me. You've always sent me a
few songs here and there, but you sent me a
Good Company. Yeah, hijacked your email from from a few friends.
And I was like, that's how it happens, man, it's
got to be ruthless. I was like, hey, man, we've
kind of met in the past, but I just feel
like there's this synergy. And that's exactly what you said
in your email. You said, I feel like we've kind
(01:47):
of met. Man. I feel like you. I feel like
if you could hear a few of these songs, man, like,
I feel like one of might catch you here. And
and you were awesome, dude, you were like, send him.
It was like midnight, so yeah, hey, I'll send him
a couple of songs and good and he was one
of them, and yeah, so the rest is history. That's
a good story about supposedly they'd finished Good Company that
(02:08):
I'm not trying to take over your story, but you
guys had kind of finished it. You're walking out for
the day, right and you'd you'd already sent me those
some songs and you didn't want to send an extra. Yeah,
I gotta give credit to Matt Alderman, who is another
great songwriter. He's a writer on the song along with
our buddy Jared Mullins, which we'll get into that whole
crew later. Yeah, but I was I was getting ready
(02:30):
to leave that day. I had shut my computer down.
I literally locked the door on the studio. We were
outside on the second floor. Gary walked down the stairs.
He goes, dude, he got to send that song to Jake.
I was like, man, I've already senting the song we
wrote that day, and because we was intentionally trying to
write something that you might dig. And he's like, no,
it's a good company. And I said, dude, do you
really believe this? He goes yeah, Man. So I went
(02:52):
back in and I turned it. It It took about ten
minutes for the whole computer to fire up, and it
was an older one. So and he sent, and he
sent a song. I remember where I was, believe it
or not. I was actually going through a divorce. Uh
and um I was pulling into at the time. I
was remodeling my house out in Kingston Springs and I'd
had this townhouse that I had owned for for a
(03:14):
long time that I lived in long before I got
married and when I got married, and the reason I
bought that home out west of town and since it
was under remodel, I was living. I just had an
air mattress at the time on the floor in this
townhouse that had no furniture in it in Bellevue because
I was just trying to figure it all out at
that point, and at the time, new new label heads
(03:36):
had come in at my record label. You sent me
that song and I literally remember I was pulling into
Woodberry Falls out in Bellevue, Um World Berry Falls drive
into my townhouse and I played it and it had
such a cool acoustic ee kind of demo thing going,
which is one thing that Tommy does really well with
the demos and stuff that he and his buddies do,
(03:57):
and I love. I just was like, this is it.
Plus I just like songs in general that and that's
what this whole podcast started started all about. Is that
it's called good Company with Jake, and that idea came
from this song, Tommy that you wrote, because it just
makes you feel good and I like to feel good
and being around people like you and my friends and
and family, and that's what life should be about, especially
in the today's world. Right now, we've got a lot
(04:17):
of stuff out there that's kind of negative. You know,
let's talk about some positive stuff. So anyway, we uh
recorded the song kind of I worked up with the
band on the road we've been. We were playing it
and we went film some got Tommy and Matt and
Jared out on the boat out in the Cumberland River
and film some stupid video stuff. But we were all
fired up because I mean I had a huge part
(04:39):
and helping kind of produce that with the guys in
my band. You guys was your first song together as
a single on the radio with Jared Mullins and Jared
and Matt Alderman. Yeah, and uh so we were just
fired up about it. And it's funny how you can
get so fired up about something like that and then
you know, the song itself petered out in then. I
don't even know where you would know, probably because it
(05:00):
was in the mid thirties. Uh and uh. As a songwriter,
you write the song, you don't really control the journey
after that. So what happened with the song? You know,
it's it's a shame. But but you've seen us play
a lot of people love it. Yeah, that's but look
what's come from it, Uh, everything from you know, the
just the way people like. I mean, we've added horns
in our band the last couple of years because of
(05:20):
that song, and it's just cool. So yeah, man, it's
funny because it's instances like that. It kind of lead people,
especially in this town of Nashville, just kind of getting
to know each other and stuff. And we had some
pretty fun times over the last couple of years. Speaking
of Matt Alderman and Jared Mullins, who we should have
had in here this morning. I don't you know, we're
(05:41):
we're shining the spotlight on Tommy Cecil and funny, funny story,
I think we can we can tell this story to
one of the when I when one of the first
times I met Tommy, I think I'd come over there
to sing a demo, which was a demo of a
song that I think ended up making Kane Brown's record.
It's on Kane Brown. It's called Rocks Rock. Sorry, yeah,
saying that so sing putting my voice on it, and
(06:04):
and Tommy said something about, hey, when you sing this, dude,
you just want to go like line for line for line.
I said line for line and Jared happened to be
there and he said, lyne for line for line and
I think, would you say, I know and I know you.
You said you mean like shot for shot for shot,
and I and I was just like, please, don't, please, don't.
I love Luke Bryant. I love Luke. I will carry
(06:26):
their whole cape. And but everybody's got that one song
he just kind of like gets on their nerves, you know,
and that one at the time, I was getting on
my nerves and he goes on all the time and
I was just like, Luke's everywhere and uh so it's
this is just funny how life is. And he he's like,
ye're like shot for shot and I'm like, no, not
like Schopp for Shot. I can't hear that song right out.
He's like, dude, I wrote that song you He looked
(06:47):
at me and he and I had this like are
you kind of joking look on my face and he goes,
why did you write that? I just had no clue
and I was like yeah, man, and he was like,
you're kidding me, and he goes he goes, I still,
I still don't like the song. But that's what's funny
about us as friends. Like every we all write songs,
we all do things. I mean, I've I've put out
songs that people flat out tell me they're like, I
(07:08):
hate that song. Which one brother, I'll play him a
song that I love that I wrote, and he's like,
I can't stand that song. I hate it. That's how
it's like music is art man, you know, you think
about it, and I've put it in perspective that way
that how many times have you walked in a hotel
or someone's house or something and seeing like this piece
of art or a picture on their wall that they
live with every day they walk by, they see it.
(07:29):
It's a part of their home, their house, whatever, that
you would never put on your wall, you know what
I mean. That's how music is for people like they
just you know. Anyway, So we got well, it's it's
cool that you talk about just like this town and
how that happened in meeting, you know, meeting each other
like that randomly and the synergy of this town and
and um. Like that song for instance, was with Karen
(07:51):
Fairchild that Luca did and it was awesome. There's another
just crazy Nashville story involving her. I was in home depot.
It was around Christmas time, and I'm looking at these
I think I was going in there from more Christmas slides.
You can't buy Christmas lights at Christmas time. They rip
you off, man, Like I couldn't help it. We needed
(08:13):
a few more to go around the tree. And I'm
sitting there looking at these lights and look beside me.
I was saying that almost like Karen I've never met,
or like even though you know, but you totally wanted
to tell her that you wrote that song. Well, I
just wanted to meet her. I'm like, that's crazy. So
I tapped on her shoulder. I'm like, are you creepy?
Is that like soft? Why don't you just say hey, Karen,
(08:35):
like taps on someone's shoulder creepy like that Karen? She's
like yeah, it's like he don't even look like, you know,
like she was dressed down and it was cool. So
I finally got to meet her in the most weirdest
of circumstances. But again, that's kind of Nashville, and even
like how I met Jake and in this town, it
just the longer you're here, you keep falling into those situations.
So we gotta tell this story was great. So through
(08:57):
this time we've just had a blast, like getting to
know each other and hanging out and have it and
just like outside of music, like having a good friendship,
and there's been lots of things like you have these
grand ideas of doing and um. One of the first
things we did was one of the first trips that
we went on the kind of got the name for
you and Jared and Matt they like as the pure
(09:18):
of Vita Crew is. We went to Costa Rica on
the last minute trip and uh I just wanted to
get out of Nashville. Man I was like, let's just
go to Costa Rica. My twin brother I called him,
so let's go and uh I call it Tommy. I
was like, why don't you? And Matt and Jared since
it was like this right around this time Good Company
had just recorded it and we were like, thinking it's
gonna be let me get this a little more straight.
(09:39):
He calls at twelve o'clock on the Thursday night and
says he wants to leave I think Monday for a coach.
I'm like, man, I don't even have I don't even
have a didn't have a passport, none of you guys did.
And Matt Alderman was in Alaska. He was in Alaska
on some riding. I don't even know. I think he
produces Dealing Scott, so I think I think those two
(09:59):
might have been a there at that time. I can't remember,
but um, I love Dylon Man. Yeah, we all love Dylan.
Shout out Dylan, shout out Dylan Scott. But anyway, it
was funny because then we had to figure out how
to get a passport, and I was making phone calls everywhere.
I was like, man, this is gonna be the trip
I don't want to miss. So yeah, we ended up
I think y'all drove to Atlanta, to Atlanta, got a passport,
(10:22):
got on a plane, and medicine. Uh, Costa Rica was
at Miami before we flew to Miami and thing. So yeah,
we went. We go down to Costa Rica. We had
a blast, was fun, and we come back. I guess
it's maybe like three or four months later. At the time, now,
I was thinking, you know what, I was on my
other label. I was like, I want to make another
summer EP album and Uh, we're what's a what's a
(10:43):
better place to make a summer EP album than Mexico?
And Uh, I had some private flight time that I
hadn't used up yet that I've done some bartering for
and so I called him up again. I'm like, you
guys wanna get a lot of I have a jet
and go to Mexico And uh that was that was
(11:06):
no breaker. And what the funniest part was we didn't know.
This is the greatest part. We we get down there
and we forget that it's like spring break. Yeah, it
happened to be like spring break for high school kids
and it was something. It was it was it was
in the middle of it accidentally, and uh, it was
just hilarious because we I said, well, I've never been
(11:28):
to Mexico, and if I want to go down there,
I want to do it right. You know, I don't
do it. So we went to the hard Rock Hotel
and uh and got it. They had the suite called
the rock Star Sweep and I'm like, I mean the
whole experience, it just sounds like all right, like we
want to go into coastbreak, we want to do this,
let's do that big. So we we go down there
(11:49):
and to get this rock star suite at the hard
Rock Hotel, and like the first night, it's like eleven o'clock.
We're in there making music, Like Tommy brought his speakers
and like we were we got our computers. I mean,
we're literally we wrote some great songs down and uh,
I'm thinking that's the rock star sweet, So I mean
you can act pretty rock star in this sweet And Uh,
it was like eleven o'clock. They're like knocking on our door.
(12:10):
They're like, you guys have to turn the music off. Um,
we have people sleeping around here that I'm like, yeah,
this is a rock star sweet man, it's eleven o'clock
at night. Uh, one of that that room or the other.
I mean it comes equipped with speakers. Specifically, it is
meant for rock stars to come there and make music.
And we're making music and they're shutting us down. And
(12:31):
on top of that, there was a language barrier between
a lot of these people, and it was a disaster.
It was a total disaster, man. Oh man. Uh. One
of the funnier things was, if you remember the first
day we walked down our buddy Jared Mullins as a
great guy when it comes to puns and I'm gonna
have to have We're gonna have to have another podcast
here soon where I get all three guys in here together.
(12:52):
But we walked out to the bar. It literally should
have been a movie, like we should have the way
we got there, I mean, who goes to Mexico? Who
flies to Mexico on a private jet? Like? Right? The
only reason that happened was because of like something I
did as a barter deal for a show. So it's like,
I gotta use these hours, let's go. It's only like
two hours. It's only two hour flight to to Mexico
(13:13):
from Nashville's It's it's insanely close. Had no clue, So
we get there. We walk out at the bar. Uh
there was like a bartender there with this name tag
on j E s U s sus right, and uh
he asks a sally Uh said, uh, what would you
like to drink? Amigo or you know? And so I
(13:34):
order I don't know, I ordered like Bahama, Bahama, mama.
And we're out, you know, we're all ordering up these
like you know, tropical cocktails, and Jared goes, I don't
know what would hay sus do w W J D
bro it's the hay Suits went Margarita on us. But yeah, man,
we have some funny We have some funny. Uh, some
(13:56):
funny times. Um, but dude, I want to know, and
I think people out there want to know. And I've
been talking to, uh just random folks that I'm friends
with there in this crazy music business. Um. I laugh
at you because you're just like, you're a kid from Kentucky.
You grew up in Kentucky. Uh, you love music obviously,
growing up all kinds of music. Um, but what was
(14:20):
the one thing that that coming from? I mean, where Pikeville?
Where are you? Barstown, Bartstown, Kentucky, pike Nothing against Pikeville,
definitely definitely Bartstown. All right, so Bartstown. Uh, what made
you say I'm going to Nashville start writing tunes. Well,
there's actually from our hometown. There's actually a well known songwriter,
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James Dean Hicks. Oh yeah, and he's had a bunch
of songs that's amazing. You know, he's a great singer,
a good guy. And uh, I didn't necessarily get into
this to follow his path, but I knew that he
had had done this because he's a distant relative to me,
and UM, I started writing songs over a breakup, I
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think when I was eighteen, and uh, the more you
look into it, I realized that people do this for
a living. So it was a little mind blowing to
figure that out. And even living so close to Nashville,
I'm about three hours away, it still took me ten
years to to get here. And I felt like I
wanted to wait until my songs were good enough because
there's so many people who are trying to make it.
If you get that meeting you're waiting for and you
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play a bad song, they they're probably not gonna want
to meet you again or help you get to the
next person. So I waited for a long time until
I felt like I had some good songs. And my
story is really crazy. It involves Barbara Cloyd at the Bluebird,
who does the open mics. She has been an angel
to me. She helped me meet Scott Gunner at Universal
at the time, and um, that was my first That
(15:45):
was my first publisher meeting in Scott you know, over
the period of that year ended up offering me a deal,
but for different reasons it didn't work out, and made
my way through the town and that's kind of how
it works in Nashville. You you meet one person and
then next thing you know, kind of you go through
the web and you start figuring out things for yourself
and how you want to attack this town. And I
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think I tell people all the time, and I want
you to tell him, but I think, not just this
business in this town, but I think life's like that.
If you put yourself out there and you're open minded
about who you're meeting, and you you're smart about it,
and you not not leverage yourself in a selfish way,
but you really learn from people. Like you said, like
it didn't work out, uh universal, so like it's you
(16:26):
kind of for reasons, it probably would lead you elsewhere. Right,
That's how my that's how my life. Well, Mike, my
guy there at the time, offered me a deal and
and he to this day he says, you're the only
writer in twenty five years to ask me this question.
He offered me the deal, and I said awesome. And
I had read a lot about publishing, so I felt
like I knew it from an outsider's point of view.
So I said, Um, if you offer me this deal
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and I do this, will you promise to stay here
for the terms of my deal, and he's like absolutely,
and then it wasn't. It was about a week later
he called back and he said, man, something's been pulling
in my heart. He's like, I'm not gonna be here
in six months. And he's like, I'm your biggest fan, man,
and if I can sign you and get you here
in the system and get you going but and he's like,
(17:10):
do you still want to do the deal? And I'm like, man,
I don't think that's the right place for me. My
dude is gonna leave. It's all about that person in Nashville.
So yeah, you gotta have somebody believe in any Well,
what would you say if to somebody that's I mean,
I'm sure people ask you all the time. I hear
it all the time. It's either a parent or to
some kid will come up and they'll say or I
see it on Instagram. People send me messages and they're like, hey,
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look man, I'm I'm from you know, wherever and a
small town here and all I want to do is
right country songs. I love country music. And they say,
give me one piece of advice. That's the hardest answer
to give people it's an open ended question because to
this day, there's not a there's not a road map
to do this. But my my thing I tell anybody
is like, if you want to do it, you gotta
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do it. And and I have a friend back home,
Jeff Ealey, and he always had to say and he's like,
don't talk about it, be about it. So you know,
if you really want to do this, you just start
doing it and you hope things fall into place. But
even even at the level I'm at, there's still no
guarantees of anything. So you just you know, you you you.
I write the best songs I can with the best
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people I can, and I treat it like a job.
I show up every day. Uh you know, I worked
many hours after the rights over completing the songs and
the tracks, and uh there's a lot of songs nobody
ever hears. And and that's the weird thing about this town.
And I'd love for everybody to hear all those songs.
They're getting ready to hear a song. Uh So, how
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crazy is this? This podcast with you Tommy ce Soil
will be out tonight and first thing in the morning,
you'll be able to hear the world premiere of uh,
I was Jack and you were Diane, which is that
Tommy is a writer on and it's my brand new single.
We're all really excited about it. And I'm excited for
you man, because I'm excited for you. Man. This is
I'm excited for all of us, right, this is this
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is how crazy is it that has worked out this way?
It's funny. I mean how we meticulously kind of went
about good Company and how it didn't work out the
way we thought it did. And Tommy came over to
the house. It's been I don't know, a couple of
months ago. We're having a bonfire down by the down
by the creek, and I was like, hey, man, you
got to hear this song that that I got today. Yeah,
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that story is crazy. I had no clue that Jake
heard it. He didn't know I wrote it. I didn't know.
And I was like turning this out. And I opened
up my truck door on this old f two fifty
that I have, and I was like checked this out
and I played this this song. I was Jack, YOUE
R I A. And he listens to about a minute
and a half of it and he goes, dude, I
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wrote that song. And I was like, no, you didn't.
He's like, yes, I did. And so I'll let you
tell everyone because people are gonna want to know how
this song came about. People already asking me, I mean,
what do you know? How does John Mellen can't feel
about this? But so it's because people are gonna want
to know this story, So why don't you go ahead
and tell how? Because I'd like to know the exact
way this all went down because you told me about
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Jody and Dave. Yeah, there's a lot of moving parts
to the song actually coming about, but the biggest thing
that created this song, it definitely came out of Jody
Stevens brain, this idea to to take Jack and Diane
and do something different with it. And he had laid
out that that track template of possibly you know sampapling you,
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and sampling means you use somebody else's uh, you know,
usually it's their track stuff or their vocal part, and
but um, his idea was to do that and then
sing a different song over it. It was it was crazy,
me and him, David Ray and Craig Wiseman got together
and wrote this song. And you know, Craig is amazing
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at what he does, and he continues to have songs
all over the radio, and uh, he's been like a
mentor to me. So it was it's gonna be awesome
for something that we did together, you know, to actually
get out there, because he was somebody I looked up
to before I ever moved to town. And and you know,
I pinched myself sometimes that I get to to work
with him. But we're writing on Thursday together. Man, it's
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gonna be awesome. Man, it's gonna be awesome. But um,
when when it when it got down to the end
of that chorus and and the song hooks with I
was Jack and you were Diane, and we're pretty much
reliving back when we heard that song for the first time,
and you know how we grew up. And as much
as I love the twist on it, I mean, Craig
will tell you, I was pretty much like, Man, I
don't know if we should literally hook this song with
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I was Jack and you were Diane. I mean, we're
using Jack and Diane and I was. I was definitely
concerned that it was, you know, getting too close to
the to the original just putting those two words. But um,
what was thet to that? Yeah, what did Craig say,
I mean, that's the point, right, It's I don't remember exactly,
but Craig definitely let us know, you know this this
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is probably and we definitely, we definitely fished. He would know.
He knows sometimes it will make you mad because he'll
he'll give you his you know, it's not really his opinion.
It's pretty much like, hey, I really think it's like
should be like this. And and when Craig says something,
I mean, you be Craig easy to not listen. Just
everything he puts together has He has a way of
saying something in a song. And we explored other other
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ways of hooking this chorus, but it always felt best
when when we landed on that. So once we finished
the song, I think Craig reworked the vocal a few
different times and got the pocket just right. And and
from that point, Craig is actually one of the owners
of the coolest new label in town, Big Loud. I
think it's just Big Loud label, and that's where Jake's
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at now and they're having amazing success right now. Yeah,
and uh, I think somebody over there seth or somebody
had heard it. Joey who's producing Jake. I think everybody
was excited and to to send it to Jake, and
and Jake felt the same way that that everybody else
did when they heard it for the first time. And
and that's the reaction that continues to keep getting is
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on the first list, and you're like, whoa did they
just take? Did they just put those two together? So
it's I just feel like it's really different. And then
obviously John only Camp had to be contacted to yeah
and get with his approval. He was he was all
bordous for us, so we uh, he was excited abou
Speaking of which, we'll give you a little sample here.
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You might be able to get a little snippet of
this right before it comes out tomorrow when you hear
the world premiere, so we can. We'll give you a
little snippet. Check this out real quick. It was yesterday,
it was years ago. We were singing every word on
a radio, kind of like them songs Save our Souls. Somehow,
some way we was following fast. We was jumping in
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lu Jene Halo, hanging off of them two American kids
just like them every time you play and blew us away.
He turned up. He sing long every time you hear
that song like it? Then? Li? But did Win? Do
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you close your eyes to make you laugh? Do the
memories take you back? Just sex packs in the ship
shin way back here? That's awesome, man, Hey, speaking of
speaking of outside this kind of thing, Um, a few
more things before we get out here. I was gonna
(24:14):
ask you we've had talks, and I think, then why not.
I'm gonna put you on the spot right now. So
we've had talks about all these songs that you talk
about that no one people might not ever hear, and
we had you and I talked the other day for
forty five minutes on the phone about about these songs
that you've written. You're right with, we've written with Matt
or whoever else, Jared, uh, And I said, you should
(24:36):
just start putting these songs out. So what are you
gonna do about that? Man? I think there's people out
there's people that gonna listening to this podcast that are
gonna want to hear something outside of the songs that
they're hearing on the radio that you're doing. And I
think so too. So Uh, you guys had this sort
of pseudo band name you were going by as we
are Friday Night. Yeah, it's it's kind of just a name,
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and um, really we kind of want to keep them hidden. So, uh,
I think you've got so many songs, there's only a
few that get to make it to to the radio,
and then you have these songs you you feel strongly
about and nobody ever gets to hear them. So I
was talking with Jake. I was like, man, there's there's
gotta be a way that that we could just put
these out. And uh, we kind of come up with
(25:17):
this idea for we Are Friday Night and me and
Matt Alderman and you know, we was just thinking, let's
put some of these songs out. So I think we're
trying to get that together. Well, it's you should, you know,
have a song linked up you can put out, you
give a SoundCloud page or something like that. Yeah, actually
I think we do. I gotta start a south Cloud
page and send us a link today so we can
(25:37):
link it up to Uh. Done. Deal. We can give
everybody a link to your SoundCloud page when it's posted
on our intro. And we just want to put these
songs up with no pretense, like we're not trying to
be this or that we're songwriters. We write everything, as
country as it gets to, as pop as it gets to,
as fake to as real as it gets. Like, we
cover everything. And as a writer, that's what you do
(25:58):
every day. You you're this This situation right here would
make you know, could make me think of something or
you know, people listening to it. There's fiction fiction, there's documentaries,
there's biographies the same way music is. You know, there's uh,
you've got all that, and I think it's cool as
a great songwriter what you are man, uh does uh?
(26:20):
I think people be excited to hear that kind of stuff.
So thanks for coming down here this morning. Man, I
appreciate it. I told you it wasn't gonna be uh
you know, it was gonna be pretty casual. We What
I love about doing this is the people that I
get to talk to you in the stories that we
get to share, and and how uh it really is
about just good people that you're around are inspiring. So man,
(26:41):
thanks for me an inspiring friend. This is like more
serious of a conversation today that another man like, uh,
the minute you put your headphones on a guy behind
the microphone, you know you really you really like well,
maybe you went into like professional Tommy Cecilman. I'm not
really sure that he didn't like that. He likes the
unprofessional Tommy. But Tommy is a really good freestyle rapper.
(27:02):
By the way, that is not true. I will I
will say something some stuff that's probably ever once in
a while one of the lines sounds good, but uh,
I would not call myself that. But well, I'm gonna
get you in the whole rest of the pure Vita Crewe.
I think that would be back on here. That's when
we'll really get some funny laughs going, and maybe we
can do like a we should do a podcast one day.
(27:23):
Were like meach my podcast about thirty minutes long, so
we should give ourselves a thirty minute. We'll just let
the mike's run. We'll talk. Give ourselves like a thirty
minute time limit to write a complete song and have
it put down by the end of the podcast. That
we can do that. That'd be fun. I think we
should do that. So dude, everybody, y'all give it up
(27:45):
for Tommy cecil from from Kentucky. I was about to
say pike Ville again just to make him mad, but
Bart's town. What's up? Bull? But oh my God, shout
out to Bull Butter, and he's got a friend named
Bull Butter. Do you even get that? I mean, I
guess the Kentucky game. But how do you get a
how do you get a name called bull Butter? I
(28:05):
don't know if you guys have ever heard of roy
D Mercer. He used to put out these comedy tapes
and that was one of his lines. He would say,
And Bull Butter is a really good friend. But when
he when he likes something and it's new and it's fresh,
he will wear you out with it. And Bull Butter
is blind that he wore out for years. And I
mean this was back when I was seventeen, eighteen years old.
(28:25):
So it's stuck. Oh, it's stuck with him, and to
this day it's I mean, most people know him is
Bull Butter. And when you hear the name once, you
don't you don't forget it. So shout out to Bull
Butter and Big Tom, Big Tom over at. So he was, yeah,
I was talking to Tom later, man, he's dude, Well,
thanks man, thanks for coming by. I know you're headed
off to right now. I guess I'll see you on Thursday.
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We're gonna write on Thursday with Craig Wiseman. So thanks
everybody for listening, appreciate has been another uh rundown episode
of Good Company, and uh we'll get the pure of
you two boys in here sometime soon. And until next time,
Wolf Fu
Hey, this is Jake Owen and this is Good Company.
Welcome to Good Company, a podcast where we talk about
everything under the sun, friends, good times, and company. Now
here's your host, Jake. Yo. What's up, y'all. It's Jake.
(00:24):
I'm back for another episode of Good Company. Right here,
Good Company with Jake the podcast. My buddy Tommy Cecil
is laughing in the background right now, because if it
wasn't if it wasn't for Tommy Cecil, Uh, the idea
of good Company might not have come around. Right. Um. Yeah,
that was on my phone. Yeah, this is Tommy Cecil.
(00:45):
By the way, y'all, say, what's up Tommy Cecil? Jake?
What's up? Man? So I asked, um, I asked Tommy
to come in and do this podcast. Usually, UM, I
give a little intro about who I'm having on the
on the show this week. Uh, but man, it's we
can just hop right into it with you, Tommy. I mean, jeez,
(01:05):
Tommy is an amazing uh singer, songwriter, producer here in
town that I that I've got to know over the
last few years through some great friends of mutual friends
of ours, the guys in Parmali and Uh, it wasn't.
I don't know. I guess it's been about a couple
of years ago that I was making my last album,
(01:27):
and uh, you sent me. You've always sent me a
few songs here and there, but you sent me a
Good Company. Yeah, hijacked your email from from a few friends.
And I was like, that's how it happens, man, it's
got to be ruthless. I was like, hey, man, we've
kind of met in the past, but I just feel
like there's this synergy. And that's exactly what you said
in your email. You said, I feel like we've kind
(01:47):
of met. Man. I feel like you. I feel like
if you could hear a few of these songs, man, like,
I feel like one of might catch you here. And
and you were awesome, dude, you were like, send him.
It was like midnight, so yeah, hey, I'll send him
a couple of songs and good and he was one
of them, and yeah, so the rest is history. That's
a good story about supposedly they'd finished Good Company that
(02:08):
I'm not trying to take over your story, but you
guys had kind of finished it. You're walking out for
the day, right and you'd you'd already sent me those
some songs and you didn't want to send an extra. Yeah,
I gotta give credit to Matt Alderman, who is another
great songwriter. He's a writer on the song along with
our buddy Jared Mullins, which we'll get into that whole
crew later. Yeah, but I was I was getting ready
(02:30):
to leave that day. I had shut my computer down.
I literally locked the door on the studio. We were
outside on the second floor. Gary walked down the stairs.
He goes, dude, he got to send that song to Jake.
I was like, man, I've already senting the song we
wrote that day, and because we was intentionally trying to
write something that you might dig. And he's like, no,
it's a good company. And I said, dude, do you
really believe this? He goes yeah, Man. So I went
(02:52):
back in and I turned it. It It took about ten
minutes for the whole computer to fire up, and it
was an older one. So and he sent, and he
sent a song. I remember where I was, believe it
or not. I was actually going through a divorce. Uh
and um I was pulling into at the time. I
was remodeling my house out in Kingston Springs and I'd
had this townhouse that I had owned for for a
(03:14):
long time that I lived in long before I got
married and when I got married, and the reason I
bought that home out west of town and since it
was under remodel, I was living. I just had an
air mattress at the time on the floor in this
townhouse that had no furniture in it in Bellevue because
I was just trying to figure it all out at
that point, and at the time, new new label heads
(03:36):
had come in at my record label. You sent me
that song and I literally remember I was pulling into
Woodberry Falls out in Bellevue, Um World Berry Falls drive
into my townhouse and I played it and it had
such a cool acoustic ee kind of demo thing going,
which is one thing that Tommy does really well with
the demos and stuff that he and his buddies do,
(03:57):
and I love. I just was like, this is it.
Plus I just like songs in general that and that's
what this whole podcast started started all about. Is that
it's called good Company with Jake, and that idea came
from this song, Tommy that you wrote, because it just
makes you feel good and I like to feel good
and being around people like you and my friends and
and family, and that's what life should be about, especially
in the today's world. Right now, we've got a lot
(04:17):
of stuff out there that's kind of negative. You know,
let's talk about some positive stuff. So anyway, we uh
recorded the song kind of I worked up with the
band on the road we've been. We were playing it
and we went film some got Tommy and Matt and
Jared out on the boat out in the Cumberland River
and film some stupid video stuff. But we were all
fired up because I mean I had a huge part
(04:39):
and helping kind of produce that with the guys in
my band. You guys was your first song together as
a single on the radio with Jared Mullins and Jared
and Matt Alderman. Yeah, and uh so we were just
fired up about it. And it's funny how you can
get so fired up about something like that and then
you know, the song itself petered out in then. I
don't even know where you would know, probably because it
(05:00):
was in the mid thirties. Uh and uh. As a songwriter,
you write the song, you don't really control the journey
after that. So what happened with the song? You know,
it's it's a shame. But but you've seen us play
a lot of people love it. Yeah, that's but look
what's come from it, Uh, everything from you know, the
just the way people like. I mean, we've added horns
in our band the last couple of years because of
(05:20):
that song, and it's just cool. So yeah, man, it's
funny because it's instances like that. It kind of lead people,
especially in this town of Nashville, just kind of getting
to know each other and stuff. And we had some
pretty fun times over the last couple of years. Speaking
of Matt Alderman and Jared Mullins, who we should have
had in here this morning. I don't you know, we're
(05:41):
we're shining the spotlight on Tommy Cecil and funny, funny story,
I think we can we can tell this story to
one of the when I when one of the first
times I met Tommy, I think I'd come over there
to sing a demo, which was a demo of a
song that I think ended up making Kane Brown's record.
It's on Kane Brown. It's called Rocks Rock. Sorry, yeah,
saying that so sing putting my voice on it, and
(06:04):
and Tommy said something about, hey, when you sing this, dude,
you just want to go like line for line for line.
I said line for line and Jared happened to be
there and he said, lyne for line for line and
I think, would you say, I know and I know you.
You said you mean like shot for shot for shot,
and I and I was just like, please, don't, please, don't.
I love Luke Bryant. I love Luke. I will carry
(06:26):
their whole cape. And but everybody's got that one song
he just kind of like gets on their nerves, you know,
and that one at the time, I was getting on
my nerves and he goes on all the time and
I was just like, Luke's everywhere and uh so it's
this is just funny how life is. And he he's like,
ye're like shot for shot and I'm like, no, not
like Schopp for Shot. I can't hear that song right out.
He's like, dude, I wrote that song you He looked
(06:47):
at me and he and I had this like are
you kind of joking look on my face and he goes,
why did you write that? I just had no clue
and I was like yeah, man, and he was like,
you're kidding me, and he goes he goes, I still,
I still don't like the song. But that's what's funny
about us as friends. Like every we all write songs,
we all do things. I mean, I've I've put out
songs that people flat out tell me they're like, I
(07:08):
hate that song. Which one brother, I'll play him a
song that I love that I wrote, and he's like,
I can't stand that song. I hate it. That's how
it's like music is art man, you know, you think
about it, and I've put it in perspective that way
that how many times have you walked in a hotel
or someone's house or something and seeing like this piece
of art or a picture on their wall that they
live with every day they walk by, they see it.
(07:29):
It's a part of their home, their house, whatever, that
you would never put on your wall, you know what
I mean. That's how music is for people like they
just you know. Anyway, So we got well, it's it's
cool that you talk about just like this town and
how that happened in meeting, you know, meeting each other
like that randomly and the synergy of this town and
and um. Like that song for instance, was with Karen
(07:51):
Fairchild that Luca did and it was awesome. There's another
just crazy Nashville story involving her. I was in home depot.
It was around Christmas time, and I'm looking at these
I think I was going in there from more Christmas slides.
You can't buy Christmas lights at Christmas time. They rip
you off, man, Like I couldn't help it. We needed
(08:13):
a few more to go around the tree. And I'm
sitting there looking at these lights and look beside me.
I was saying that almost like Karen I've never met,
or like even though you know, but you totally wanted
to tell her that you wrote that song. Well, I
just wanted to meet her. I'm like, that's crazy. So
I tapped on her shoulder. I'm like, are you creepy?
Is that like soft? Why don't you just say hey, Karen,
(08:35):
like taps on someone's shoulder creepy like that Karen? She's
like yeah, it's like he don't even look like, you know,
like she was dressed down and it was cool. So
I finally got to meet her in the most weirdest
of circumstances. But again, that's kind of Nashville, and even
like how I met Jake and in this town, it
just the longer you're here, you keep falling into those situations.
So we gotta tell this story was great. So through
(08:57):
this time we've just had a blast, like getting to
know each other and hanging out and have it and
just like outside of music, like having a good friendship,
and there's been lots of things like you have these
grand ideas of doing and um. One of the first
things we did was one of the first trips that
we went on the kind of got the name for
you and Jared and Matt they like as the pure
(09:18):
of Vita Crew is. We went to Costa Rica on
the last minute trip and uh I just wanted to
get out of Nashville. Man I was like, let's just
go to Costa Rica. My twin brother I called him,
so let's go and uh I call it Tommy. I
was like, why don't you? And Matt and Jared since
it was like this right around this time Good Company
had just recorded it and we were like, thinking it's
gonna be let me get this a little more straight.
(09:39):
He calls at twelve o'clock on the Thursday night and
says he wants to leave I think Monday for a coach.
I'm like, man, I don't even have I don't even
have a didn't have a passport, none of you guys did.
And Matt Alderman was in Alaska. He was in Alaska
on some riding. I don't even know. I think he
produces Dealing Scott, so I think I think those two
(09:59):
might have been a there at that time. I can't remember,
but um, I love Dylon Man. Yeah, we all love Dylan.
Shout out Dylan, shout out Dylan Scott. But anyway, it
was funny because then we had to figure out how
to get a passport, and I was making phone calls everywhere.
I was like, man, this is gonna be the trip
I don't want to miss. So yeah, we ended up
I think y'all drove to Atlanta, to Atlanta, got a passport,
(10:22):
got on a plane, and medicine. Uh, Costa Rica was
at Miami before we flew to Miami and thing. So yeah,
we went. We go down to Costa Rica. We had
a blast, was fun, and we come back. I guess
it's maybe like three or four months later. At the time, now,
I was thinking, you know what, I was on my
other label. I was like, I want to make another
summer EP album and Uh, we're what's a what's a
(10:43):
better place to make a summer EP album than Mexico?
And Uh, I had some private flight time that I
hadn't used up yet that I've done some bartering for
and so I called him up again. I'm like, you
guys wanna get a lot of I have a jet
and go to Mexico And uh that was that was
(11:06):
no breaker. And what the funniest part was we didn't know.
This is the greatest part. We we get down there
and we forget that it's like spring break. Yeah, it
happened to be like spring break for high school kids
and it was something. It was it was it was
in the middle of it accidentally, and uh, it was
just hilarious because we I said, well, I've never been
(11:28):
to Mexico, and if I want to go down there,
I want to do it right. You know, I don't
do it. So we went to the hard Rock Hotel
and uh and got it. They had the suite called
the rock Star Sweep and I'm like, I mean the
whole experience, it just sounds like all right, like we
want to go into coastbreak, we want to do this,
let's do that big. So we we go down there
(11:49):
and to get this rock star suite at the hard
Rock Hotel, and like the first night, it's like eleven o'clock.
We're in there making music, Like Tommy brought his speakers
and like we were we got our computers. I mean,
we're literally we wrote some great songs down and uh,
I'm thinking that's the rock star sweet, So I mean
you can act pretty rock star in this sweet And Uh,
it was like eleven o'clock. They're like knocking on our door.
(12:10):
They're like, you guys have to turn the music off. Um,
we have people sleeping around here that I'm like, yeah,
this is a rock star sweet man, it's eleven o'clock
at night. Uh, one of that that room or the other.
I mean it comes equipped with speakers. Specifically, it is
meant for rock stars to come there and make music.
And we're making music and they're shutting us down. And
(12:31):
on top of that, there was a language barrier between
a lot of these people, and it was a disaster.
It was a total disaster, man. Oh man. Uh. One
of the funnier things was, if you remember the first
day we walked down our buddy Jared Mullins as a
great guy when it comes to puns and I'm gonna
have to have We're gonna have to have another podcast
here soon where I get all three guys in here together.
(12:52):
But we walked out to the bar. It literally should
have been a movie, like we should have the way
we got there, I mean, who goes to Mexico? Who
flies to Mexico on a private jet? Like? Right? The
only reason that happened was because of like something I
did as a barter deal for a show. So it's like,
I gotta use these hours, let's go. It's only like
two hours. It's only two hour flight to to Mexico
(13:13):
from Nashville's It's it's insanely close. Had no clue, So
we get there. We walk out at the bar. Uh
there was like a bartender there with this name tag
on j E s U s sus right, and uh
he asks a sally Uh said, uh, what would you
like to drink? Amigo or you know? And so I
(13:34):
order I don't know, I ordered like Bahama, Bahama, mama.
And we're out, you know, we're all ordering up these
like you know, tropical cocktails, and Jared goes, I don't
know what would hay sus do w W J D
bro it's the hay Suits went Margarita on us. But yeah, man,
we have some funny We have some funny. Uh, some
(13:56):
funny times. Um, but dude, I want to know, and
I think people out there want to know. And I've
been talking to, uh just random folks that I'm friends
with there in this crazy music business. Um. I laugh
at you because you're just like, you're a kid from Kentucky.
You grew up in Kentucky. Uh, you love music obviously,
growing up all kinds of music. Um, but what was
(14:20):
the one thing that that coming from? I mean, where Pikeville?
Where are you? Barstown, Bartstown, Kentucky, pike Nothing against Pikeville,
definitely definitely Bartstown. All right, so Bartstown. Uh, what made
you say I'm going to Nashville start writing tunes. Well,
there's actually from our hometown. There's actually a well known songwriter,
(14:42):
James Dean Hicks. Oh yeah, and he's had a bunch
of songs that's amazing. You know, he's a great singer,
a good guy. And uh, I didn't necessarily get into
this to follow his path, but I knew that he
had had done this because he's a distant relative to me,
and UM, I started writing songs over a breakup, I
(15:02):
think when I was eighteen, and uh, the more you
look into it, I realized that people do this for
a living. So it was a little mind blowing to
figure that out. And even living so close to Nashville,
I'm about three hours away, it still took me ten
years to to get here. And I felt like I
wanted to wait until my songs were good enough because
there's so many people who are trying to make it.
If you get that meeting you're waiting for and you
(15:23):
play a bad song, they they're probably not gonna want
to meet you again or help you get to the
next person. So I waited for a long time until
I felt like I had some good songs. And my
story is really crazy. It involves Barbara Cloyd at the Bluebird,
who does the open mics. She has been an angel
to me. She helped me meet Scott Gunner at Universal
at the time, and um, that was my first That
(15:45):
was my first publisher meeting in Scott you know, over
the period of that year ended up offering me a deal,
but for different reasons it didn't work out, and made
my way through the town and that's kind of how
it works in Nashville. You you meet one person and
then next thing you know, kind of you go through
the web and you start figuring out things for yourself
and how you want to attack this town. And I
(16:05):
think I tell people all the time, and I want
you to tell him, but I think, not just this
business in this town, but I think life's like that.
If you put yourself out there and you're open minded
about who you're meeting, and you you're smart about it,
and you not not leverage yourself in a selfish way,
but you really learn from people. Like you said, like
it didn't work out, uh universal, so like it's you
(16:26):
kind of for reasons, it probably would lead you elsewhere. Right,
That's how my that's how my life. Well, Mike, my
guy there at the time, offered me a deal and
and he to this day he says, you're the only
writer in twenty five years to ask me this question.
He offered me the deal, and I said awesome. And
I had read a lot about publishing, so I felt
like I knew it from an outsider's point of view.
So I said, Um, if you offer me this deal
(16:48):
and I do this, will you promise to stay here
for the terms of my deal, and he's like absolutely,
and then it wasn't. It was about a week later
he called back and he said, man, something's been pulling
in my heart. He's like, I'm not gonna be here
in six months. And he's like, I'm your biggest fan, man,
and if I can sign you and get you here
in the system and get you going but and he's like,
(17:10):
do you still want to do the deal? And I'm like, man,
I don't think that's the right place for me. My
dude is gonna leave. It's all about that person in Nashville.
So yeah, you gotta have somebody believe in any Well,
what would you say if to somebody that's I mean,
I'm sure people ask you all the time. I hear
it all the time. It's either a parent or to
some kid will come up and they'll say or I
see it on Instagram. People send me messages and they're like, hey,
(17:32):
look man, I'm I'm from you know, wherever and a
small town here and all I want to do is
right country songs. I love country music. And they say,
give me one piece of advice. That's the hardest answer
to give people it's an open ended question because to
this day, there's not a there's not a road map
to do this. But my my thing I tell anybody
is like, if you want to do it, you gotta
(17:53):
do it. And and I have a friend back home,
Jeff Ealey, and he always had to say and he's like,
don't talk about it, be about it. So you know,
if you really want to do this, you just start
doing it and you hope things fall into place. But
even even at the level I'm at, there's still no
guarantees of anything. So you just you know, you you you.
I write the best songs I can with the best
(18:14):
people I can, and I treat it like a job.
I show up every day. Uh you know, I worked
many hours after the rights over completing the songs and
the tracks, and uh there's a lot of songs nobody
ever hears. And and that's the weird thing about this town.
And I'd love for everybody to hear all those songs.
They're getting ready to hear a song. Uh So, how
(18:34):
crazy is this? This podcast with you Tommy ce Soil
will be out tonight and first thing in the morning,
you'll be able to hear the world premiere of uh,
I was Jack and you were Diane, which is that
Tommy is a writer on and it's my brand new single.
We're all really excited about it. And I'm excited for
you man, because I'm excited for you. Man. This is
I'm excited for all of us, right, this is this
(18:56):
is how crazy is it that has worked out this way?
It's funny. I mean how we meticulously kind of went
about good Company and how it didn't work out the
way we thought it did. And Tommy came over to
the house. It's been I don't know, a couple of
months ago. We're having a bonfire down by the down
by the creek, and I was like, hey, man, you
got to hear this song that that I got today. Yeah,
(19:17):
that story is crazy. I had no clue that Jake
heard it. He didn't know I wrote it. I didn't know.
And I was like turning this out. And I opened
up my truck door on this old f two fifty
that I have, and I was like checked this out
and I played this this song. I was Jack, YOUE
R I A. And he listens to about a minute
and a half of it and he goes, dude, I
(19:39):
wrote that song. And I was like, no, you didn't.
He's like, yes, I did. And so I'll let you
tell everyone because people are gonna want to know how
this song came about. People already asking me, I mean,
what do you know? How does John Mellen can't feel
about this? But so it's because people are gonna want
to know this story, So why don't you go ahead
and tell how? Because I'd like to know the exact
way this all went down because you told me about
(19:59):
Jody and Dave. Yeah, there's a lot of moving parts
to the song actually coming about, but the biggest thing
that created this song, it definitely came out of Jody
Stevens brain, this idea to to take Jack and Diane
and do something different with it. And he had laid
out that that track template of possibly you know sampapling you,
(20:20):
and sampling means you use somebody else's uh, you know,
usually it's their track stuff or their vocal part, and
but um, his idea was to do that and then
sing a different song over it. It was it was crazy,
me and him, David Ray and Craig Wiseman got together
and wrote this song. And you know, Craig is amazing
(20:40):
at what he does, and he continues to have songs
all over the radio, and uh, he's been like a
mentor to me. So it was it's gonna be awesome
for something that we did together, you know, to actually
get out there, because he was somebody I looked up
to before I ever moved to town. And and you know,
I pinched myself sometimes that I get to to work
with him. But we're writing on Thursday together. Man, it's
(21:01):
gonna be awesome. Man, it's gonna be awesome. But um,
when when it when it got down to the end
of that chorus and and the song hooks with I
was Jack and you were Diane, and we're pretty much
reliving back when we heard that song for the first time,
and you know how we grew up. And as much
as I love the twist on it, I mean, Craig
will tell you, I was pretty much like, Man, I
don't know if we should literally hook this song with
(21:23):
I was Jack and you were Diane. I mean, we're
using Jack and Diane and I was. I was definitely
concerned that it was, you know, getting too close to
the to the original just putting those two words. But um,
what was thet to that? Yeah, what did Craig say,
I mean, that's the point, right, It's I don't remember exactly,
but Craig definitely let us know, you know this this
(21:44):
is probably and we definitely, we definitely fished. He would know.
He knows sometimes it will make you mad because he'll
he'll give you his you know, it's not really his opinion.
It's pretty much like, hey, I really think it's like
should be like this. And and when Craig says something,
I mean, you be Craig easy to not listen. Just
everything he puts together has He has a way of
saying something in a song. And we explored other other
(22:07):
ways of hooking this chorus, but it always felt best
when when we landed on that. So once we finished
the song, I think Craig reworked the vocal a few
different times and got the pocket just right. And and
from that point, Craig is actually one of the owners
of the coolest new label in town, Big Loud. I
think it's just Big Loud label, and that's where Jake's
(22:28):
at now and they're having amazing success right now. Yeah,
and uh, I think somebody over there seth or somebody
had heard it. Joey who's producing Jake. I think everybody
was excited and to to send it to Jake, and
and Jake felt the same way that that everybody else
did when they heard it for the first time. And
and that's the reaction that continues to keep getting is
(22:49):
on the first list, and you're like, whoa did they
just take? Did they just put those two together? So
it's I just feel like it's really different. And then
obviously John only Camp had to be contacted to yeah
and get with his approval. He was he was all
bordous for us, so we uh, he was excited abou
Speaking of which, we'll give you a little sample here.
(23:10):
You might be able to get a little snippet of
this right before it comes out tomorrow when you hear
the world premiere, so we can. We'll give you a
little snippet. Check this out real quick. It was yesterday,
it was years ago. We were singing every word on
a radio, kind of like them songs Save our Souls. Somehow,
some way we was following fast. We was jumping in
(23:30):
lu Jene Halo, hanging off of them two American kids
just like them every time you play and blew us away.
He turned up. He sing long every time you hear
that song like it? Then? Li? But did Win? Do
(23:53):
you close your eyes to make you laugh? Do the
memories take you back? Just sex packs in the ship
shin way back here? That's awesome, man, Hey, speaking of
speaking of outside this kind of thing, Um, a few
more things before we get out here. I was gonna
(24:14):
ask you we've had talks, and I think, then why not.
I'm gonna put you on the spot right now. So
we've had talks about all these songs that you talk
about that no one people might not ever hear, and
we had you and I talked the other day for
forty five minutes on the phone about about these songs
that you've written. You're right with, we've written with Matt
or whoever else, Jared, uh, And I said, you should
(24:36):
just start putting these songs out. So what are you
gonna do about that? Man? I think there's people out
there's people that gonna listening to this podcast that are
gonna want to hear something outside of the songs that
they're hearing on the radio that you're doing. And I
think so too. So Uh, you guys had this sort
of pseudo band name you were going by as we
are Friday Night. Yeah, it's it's kind of just a name,
(24:57):
and um, really we kind of want to keep them hidden. So, uh,
I think you've got so many songs, there's only a
few that get to make it to to the radio,
and then you have these songs you you feel strongly
about and nobody ever gets to hear them. So I
was talking with Jake. I was like, man, there's there's
gotta be a way that that we could just put
these out. And uh, we kind of come up with
(25:17):
this idea for we Are Friday Night and me and
Matt Alderman and you know, we was just thinking, let's
put some of these songs out. So I think we're
trying to get that together. Well, it's you should, you know,
have a song linked up you can put out, you
give a SoundCloud page or something like that. Yeah, actually
I think we do. I gotta start a south Cloud
page and send us a link today so we can
(25:37):
link it up to Uh. Done. Deal. We can give
everybody a link to your SoundCloud page when it's posted
on our intro. And we just want to put these
songs up with no pretense, like we're not trying to
be this or that we're songwriters. We write everything, as
country as it gets to, as pop as it gets to,
as fake to as real as it gets. Like, we
cover everything. And as a writer, that's what you do
(25:58):
every day. You you're this This situation right here would
make you know, could make me think of something or
you know, people listening to it. There's fiction fiction, there's documentaries,
there's biographies the same way music is. You know, there's uh,
you've got all that, and I think it's cool as
a great songwriter what you are man, uh does uh?
(26:20):
I think people be excited to hear that kind of stuff.
So thanks for coming down here this morning. Man, I
appreciate it. I told you it wasn't gonna be uh
you know, it was gonna be pretty casual. We What
I love about doing this is the people that I
get to talk to you in the stories that we
get to share, and and how uh it really is
about just good people that you're around are inspiring. So man,
(26:41):
thanks for me an inspiring friend. This is like more
serious of a conversation today that another man like, uh,
the minute you put your headphones on a guy behind
the microphone, you know you really you really like well,
maybe you went into like professional Tommy Cecilman. I'm not
really sure that he didn't like that. He likes the
unprofessional Tommy. But Tommy is a really good freestyle rapper.
(27:02):
By the way, that is not true. I will I
will say something some stuff that's probably ever once in
a while one of the lines sounds good, but uh,
I would not call myself that. But well, I'm gonna
get you in the whole rest of the pure Vita Crewe.
I think that would be back on here. That's when
we'll really get some funny laughs going, and maybe we
can do like a we should do a podcast one day.
(27:23):
Were like meach my podcast about thirty minutes long, so
we should give ourselves a thirty minute. We'll just let
the mike's run. We'll talk. Give ourselves like a thirty
minute time limit to write a complete song and have
it put down by the end of the podcast. That
we can do that. That'd be fun. I think we
should do that. So dude, everybody, y'all give it up
(27:45):
for Tommy cecil from from Kentucky. I was about to
say pike Ville again just to make him mad, but
Bart's town. What's up? Bull? But oh my God, shout
out to Bull Butter, and he's got a friend named
Bull Butter. Do you even get that? I mean, I
guess the Kentucky game. But how do you get a
how do you get a name called bull Butter? I
(28:05):
don't know if you guys have ever heard of roy
D Mercer. He used to put out these comedy tapes
and that was one of his lines. He would say,
And Bull Butter is a really good friend. But when
he when he likes something and it's new and it's fresh,
he will wear you out with it. And Bull Butter
is blind that he wore out for years. And I
mean this was back when I was seventeen, eighteen years old.
(28:25):
So it's stuck. Oh, it's stuck with him, and to
this day it's I mean, most people know him is
Bull Butter. And when you hear the name once, you
don't you don't forget it. So shout out to Bull
Butter and Big Tom, Big Tom over at. So he was, yeah,
I was talking to Tom later, man, he's dude, Well,
thanks man, thanks for coming by. I know you're headed
off to right now. I guess I'll see you on Thursday.
(28:46):
We're gonna write on Thursday with Craig Wiseman. So thanks
everybody for listening, appreciate has been another uh rundown episode
of Good Company, and uh we'll get the pure of
you two boys in here sometime soon. And until next time,
Wolf Fu
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