#106 - David Lee Murphy

I haven't seen him in a while. Any other Dave's Dave, David Duke Company, David Dave Cool yea, yeah, so it's been four daves man. But I was excited about David Lee Murphy because the dust on the bottle and his new song. Everything's gonna be all right, So we'll talk about all that. He's got ninety cuts, he's got big, huge hits that you wouldn't even know he wrote. I do want to remind you to listen to Christian Bush's podcast. It's called Geeking Out, where he brings on somebody that's

known for something else. He brought in the woman who wrote and created Nashville, the TV show, and so first she talks about that because she wrote Delman Louise as well. Delman Louise was our first script ever. I didn't write my first script until I was in my early thirties, but that was Stilman Louise, so I kind of didn't have a there was no going back from that. That was your first one, that was my first one. So you can listen to that podcast. But what Christian does?

He take someone's specialty like that and turns it into what else do you love? And what she loves his music. I opened this one right, excuse me, cooking, cooking, cooking, I opened this one randomly today and I just saw something called chocolate mayonnaise. Any desire to try that at all? That's the opposite of like a Reese's peanut butter, right, So you can check out Geeking Out with Christian Bush. Also, the guys at Whiskey Riff have one called Whiskey Riff Raff.

And as we get into this, what I try to do is I try to avoid any substance talk. Before the podcast and Davidlee Murphy's sit down, we were just briefly talking for a second. He's like, Hey, what's up American idol, And that's why I think it starts with us talking about Right into it, I was like, hold on to start the podcast. So he asked me about that, and that's where it started. So welcome to episode one oh six David Lee Murphy, which, by the way, he's

almost sixty years old. Man rocking it too. Got a new song up. It's okay, davidly Murphy, episode one or six of the Bobby Cast. Tell your friends about this some police. You're here with David Lee Murphy and talking about idle right before I came on. So what I'm doing is they have twenty I'm the mentor to the twenty four. So when they make it to the twenty four, then they I guess I spent about an hour and

a half with them. You just do you. I don't teach you how to sing, because you've seen me sing. I'll teach them how to sing. I'll stay away from that part of it because they have loose You're an entertainer though, but and that's why they brought me, because I do comedy and I do radio and TV and music and so they wanted me since I already have people teach them how to sing, they wanted somebody to kind of say, hey, this is how you perform, this

is how you work. You work crowd, this is how you do social see you, I've seen you work a crowd before. That's all you can do, like fourteen fifteen thousand people, that's all I know. I can't think, so I have to do extra work. And you and I actually spent time. I guess the last time we said time together in any long amount was right us oide of d C. We were in Northern Virginia. The band just go because yeah, yeah, yeah, they went back to the fifth They were good. Yeah, you were out riding

with Toby, right Toby Keith. I was and uh that was like outside of d C Virginia, like northern Virginia. And so I saw you on the side and I went, oh, man, I want because just in passing we had said hello, but I'd never stopped and be like, hey, I'm Bobby because I don't bother you, because I feel like that's Davidly Murphy. I don't bother Davidly Murphy man just hanging out. And then we yeah, we sat and talked for a bit.

I was like, man, so I had a couple of friends said, hey, do you know Dadily, They're all like, I love You're well loved in town. Thank you. That's awesome as a people they love right, people love writing with you. You know, well, that's that's that's the best compliment you could get. You know, just writing songs is that's what we I mean, all of us love to do that. And if when somebody says that, that's really cool. We sat on the side and I was embarrassing. You

had to watch our band play at the time. You guys, you I'll did a good job. I mean, you had the crap. We weren't even a real band yet. There was just two of us up there. We were struggling, and I was thought, man, he's watching us and we're struggling. I mean, to go up there with guitars in front of that many people, you know, it was good. Let me tell you what do your friends call you? They call you David or David Lee. They call David David Lee.

I mean, it just varies and depending up on the time of the day or the night, it can vary, you know. Let me tell you about this new song. I heard it and now I've been saying on the radio. Now I think it's the best song on the radio. I love this groove. She's readily as in my plastic Man, I thank you kill me something good. I don't know just what has been kicking behind you record this. We'd

recorded it probably a year and a half ago. I mean, I'm not sure about the date wise, but it was it's been at least a year and a half ago. So did you have big plans for it when you cut it? Did you think it'd be a single? Actually, when we cut it, I didn't. I hadn't even really considered it in my stash of songs, you know. I had Kenny and I had picked out tenoral eleven songs that we wanted to do, and uh, we had been concentrating on those, and uh, we cut this song and

it just felt so good. And I actually Kenny was working on a record, and uh, so I wasn't really thinking of it for me at the time. And so I get it, I see in it over to Kenny, and uh, he was like, dam man, I love that song, and he was he was gonna record it on his last record, and then just for reasons whatever. You know, there's just so many reasons when you pick songs on a record. It just didn't really fit in with the

batch of songs that he had. So he goes, man, this is not gonna be on this record, but I'd like to keep it for the next one, because he really loved the song. And uh so, you know, time goes and it takes a little while for a record to you know, materialize, and so somebody else was gonna cut the song. Somebody else wanted that song to record, and it was I remember, it's like a Saturday morning. I was sitting out in my backyard drinking coffee and I called Kenny and I said, hey, man, somebody wants

that song. What should we do? And he goes, man, hang onto that thing. And I said, well, what if I put it on mine? He goes, oh, hell yeah, man, put that on yours, you know, because he loved it and he wanted he wanted somehow or the other too, you know, still have something to do with that song. And uh so we did it, and we decided, okay, we're gonna do that. And graciously he came in and sang the second verse, which like he he kills it.

He's a communicator, man. He he cuts through. And there there's great guys you know, uh Tim and Kenny and Garth and those guys. Man, they just they reach out and grab you, you know, with their voice and and uh, he comes in there. Man, I just he he does it. Everything's gonna be. He's gonna be. Well's Kenny, Buddy and Chris Stevens and such a great bad as got to world nothing. Don't go getting that Dannic good. It ain't

words speeling your dream I have. I've just I've been doing it acoustically and uh it's you know, you don't have the you know what that's like. And uh, what's really fun is just over the last couple of weeks people have really been singing it back to me. And we did a show Thursday night in Almaha, Nebraska, and actually I'll show you the little clip of it. Somebody took a video clip of It's really cool. People are really singing it back to me. I love it. It's again,

I don't say this to your face. I've been saying it for weeks on the radio. It's my favorite song on the radio. Thank you from the Texture of the song, to the groove, to the words, the whole thing. I appreciate it. I can't tell you how much fun we're having. I mean, we're really having a ball. So what's the deal with the record is? Are you Kenny doing all the songs together on the album now? Just we're just doing this one Kenny, Kenny, Um, I'll tell you how

I'll happen. I you know, over the years, I've sent Kenny's recorded a bunch of my songs and uh from living in Fast Forward and bar at the End of the World, Pirate Flag. Sorry about that big old peepop there our studios put together like a nickel. Yeah, we we take that as a badge of honor. But I've been sending Kenny songs um And one night I sent him this one particular song that's on my record, and he called me back and he goes, man, I freaking love that song. And he goes, I would cut that.

He goes, but I'm He goes, I don't want to ask you something. He goes, you you sent me all this stuff. He goes, what if if we go in the studio and we pick a bunch of songs and me and Buddy produces album. We'll put it out. We'll just put it out on you and we'll we'll do whatever we gotta do. He goes, I think people should hear these songs, And of course I did a few little back flips, you know, because I was like, how, I mean when Kenny, When Kenny's like, hey man, why

don't you do that? It's like, yeah, that that was really cool. So I asked that about Kenny because I remember when the announcement was that you guys were doing a record together, and so that means that he was

producing the record, involved in the record somehow. Yeah, yeah, he produced it and he just got the whole In fact, he said something that we had a number one party for until it's gone, and he said something about it then, and we had been kind of keeping it a secret and uh, because we didn't know exactly what what we were going to do with it at that time period.

But we we had we've had so much fun with it, just picking the songs, going in, going in and recording, doing over dub, singing this stuff, mixing master and you know that whole process. Is it crazy to put So you're playing the song in the crowd now, singing it back. But you have from you know when I was a teenager, one of the most anthemic country songs period with dust on the Bottle. People have to scream that song back

at you, right, we had well Friday night. What we did was, I mean, people have to that makes me feel good to still here. That does it? Yeah, so you're not tired of it never. I mean I can play this today and I do at times on my show. Just play it and everybody in the room goes, oh, yeah, there's still you have one of the songs that have

that have twenty years. Yeah, thank god, man. I mean the I remember as a kid growing up and almost thought, I want I want one of those songs that like help me make it through the night and for the good times to one of those old classic kind of Christopherson or one of those guys who read those songs that you know, I wanted one of those songs that stuck around for a long time. And uh, I think dust on the Bottom by I think it is you wrote that by yourself? Do you? Is it one of

those songs? Because I know as a songwriter and you have I think I read some like ninety cuts in the last X amount of years. But and every song isn't remembered where they were, and you have to start creating a story because people always want to know where were you? But you wrote that by yourself, that being the biggest song, like what do you know? Vividly? You do?

Really like you really do. Yeah. I was in Ashland City and I had a little house in n Ashland City and I lived, um I lived in I lived on Blair Boulevard first when I moved to Nashville over near the Vandy area near Music Row, and then uh, I was living in like a garage apartment. And then I found this little bitty house out in Nashtan City, the settle ten Reef House, and um I moved out there and I lived out there for almost ten years.

And I wrote that at the kitchen table, and and we had started recording the out of the Bang album. And I remember the first morning we cult like out with a Bang party crowd and Can't Turn It Off, which were three songs off that with a Bang album, And I was really excited. I was really happy. It was it was Tuesday morning and I got up and I was drinking coffee and I was getting ready to come to town, and we were probably gonna start it.

You know, I was probably gonna get there at ten o'clock and you know, you know, start cutting again because we had four days to record the record. And I just started tearing through dust on the bottle. It was just like coming out and um and I had basically both verses in the course, and I called Tony Brown up and I had one of those remember those phone cords that were like that went like twenty feet. I

had one of those, and I pulled Mike. My kitchen phone was on the wall, and I pulled that over on my table and I said, Tony, check us out, man. I said this this might be a hit. And I played him Drio Williams lived down a dirt road and I played him mad and he goes, oh, man, we gotta cut that. And I didn't have the bridge yet. So I had the music for the bridge, but I didn't have the bridge lyrics yet, and so he goes, damn man, And so I go in the studio and we didn't cut it that day. We cut it the

next day. So um, that gave me time to go home and figure out what the bridge lyrics were. But you can still hear the strings kind of squeaking my acoustic strings on the record, because you know, we cut those things and that was before pro tools and all that stuff, and it was it was magic when we cut it. I think everybody it just felt like magic. It was just like one of those when lightning just boom comes down. I think everybody in the room. Uh. And a lot of the guys that played on that

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was tough. I mean it was during that time period people were going there you maybe you should, you know, think about doing something ill, you know. And I actually lived from where when where we're sitting right here, I probably lived two miles and but um, anyway, I had ten years of just um trying to write songs. I had a Reba McIntyre cut, I had a Doug Stone cut, Dobie Gray cut one of my songs, The Man's Brothers.

I had just a few, you know, little cuts here and there, but nothing that really was a big hit. Were those cuts so substantial enough? And records were bought to actually keep you paying your mortgage? I'm yeah, well I didn't have a mortgage. Your rent, yeah, keep paying really kept me playing my rent. But no, it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough. I mean, now, if that would have been on like a Garth record or Alabama or something like that, yeah, but those records at the time, it

just it wasn't enough. It was enough to keep you kind of going, keep you just to keep you, you know, living the lifestyle of I'm a country music songwriter. What was only growing up with you? What was always home like in Illinois? It was great. It was small town USA,

you know, Um, it was small. Um. I grew up in a small town called here in Illinois that about you know, eight or nine thousand people and just like so many small towns across the South and the Midwest and the North, and you know all those little towns with downtowns and dairy queen's and you know, so you're a Cardinal fan. Yeah, so you live that part of

Illinois because I'm a huge Cubs fan. But you know there's that Illinois part that's still Missouri is oh yeah, well, uh, there's a line in Illinois that is Cardinal fans or Cub fans. Like my father in law is a huge Cub fan. But the thing about Cardinal and Cub fans is there's nothing more fun than to go, like to a St. Louis Cardinal Chicago Cub game in St. Louis or at Rigley Field. And I've been, I've been at both, and uh it's fun, man, And it's a good hearted rivalry.

I mean it's like the girl might have on the Cardinal shirt and a guy might have the Cub shirt on and everybody's sitting around a table at at a place having a good time. You know, it's it's a fun game to go to. I'm a huge Cubs fan. I've been to a bunch of those games in both places. It's not like the Yankees and Red Sox where you worry about getting beat up. You leave, you go, you go with In the Boston hat to Yankees game, you

might get jumped. You probably will get jumped. I think a lot of people may they're listening to this may not know all the songs you've written, and holy crap. So did you ever just go you know, I'm gonna put the artist stuff on hold consciously and just focus on writing. Was that a thing? It wasn't on purpose, but it kind of turned into that. I mean it got to that and um, and then after I started doing that, I just I wanted to just the the

lifestyle of being a songwriter is is pretty nice. What was the first big cut that you had out that we'll go single that wasn't your voice? The first one that comes to mind, the first, like the biggest one, I would say living in Fast Forward and um, I

have it right here, Basketball Star. So when I said that in your mind, that's the first big one to you, the first one that was the first one that was just like the first one that just like I remember, I was playing out at the Opry and one of the guys from Sony or whatever label it was that Kenny was on at the time came up and said, hey, man, if you heard your Living in fast forward cut? And I go, no, I haven't. I can't wait to hear it.

He goes, come on out, I'll played, I'll played in my car and he played me that cut and I was like, holy crap, man, I mean that thing rocked better than well. First of all, we didn't do a demo on that song, and when you do a demo, um you basically cut the song. So whoever is listening to produce, So as the artist, the A and R people at the label, did they hear that song? And they go okay, so and tell he could do this song.

And on that particular song, I was writing with Rivers, Rutherford and uh Rivers and I had written all day long writing another song, and uh, he goes, man, I gotta go, I got we gotta get out of here. About thirty minutes I gotta go meet with Buddy Cannon because I'm gonna play some songs for Kenny. And I go, all right, So we started, we started wrapping up, and I go, hey, man, check out this idea and just

say if it does anything for you. And because you know, it was a kind of a cool little groove and and uh, I played, I played, I played a little bit of that and rivers just on the guitar you record it. I was just playing it, and he whipped out, you know, his notebook, and he's like, the body is a temple. That's what we're taught. I treated this plane, and he just started writing and and we sat there and wrote a verse and a course and part of

the second uh, part of the second verse. And he left and he went to his meeting with Buddy, and I guess at the end of the meeting, and he played Buddy a couple of songs and he goes, hey man, check out this little idea we just just wrote like twenty minutes ago, and Buddy goes, man, I wanna put that song on home for Kenny. And we hadn't even finished We haven't finished it. I mean the second verse. We had some questions about greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes.

I didn't know if Kenny would want to sing that. And the other one is hill billy rock star line, you know. And I remember calling Buddy again, well, well, uh we we were talking to him as like, you think, Kenny, I'll sing um greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes. And he goes, yeah, he goes, I think he'll sing that, And how about the hill billy rock star out of control and he goes, yeah,

he because I think he'll do that. And uh so we we finished the song on and just recorded it on like garage band, you know, on the computer, and and gave it to Buddy and they cut it off

that so we literally didn't do a demode. So when you heard it, it was really like you're hearing yeah they I mean that whole production, everything they did, the guitar parts, and I was like, damn, you know, have you have you ever written a song and that situation comes up with that, like I love this song, I just can't talk about a red truck because I've never had a red truck before. And you have to make the decision do you change it? Did they change it?

Ended up being a writer on it, Like does that has that popped up before? Uh? Not really not? You mean like if some artists said, well I don't have a red truck. Well, like Kenny, if you would have said I don't rust the thing that you know cheeseburgers and and cheap, you know, would he have changed it? What do you have not taken a song? Are you that much invested that you can't change the lirics of the song? Oh no, I mean I would change a song.

I mean if if okay, now there's there's certain songs that I might not change depending upon what I thought. But if somebody said, no, I don't drive this kind of truck. I drive that kind of truck and I wanted to be a blue truck, not a red truck. If they just said that, I go, oh yeah, you know, sure I'd changed that. Has that everybody issue before or someone comes back because I need this line changed? Oh yeah, yeah sure, and depending on the artist, you'll do it. Yeah.

I mean, if somebody really just wants a line changed, I mean it's not it's not like, um so important you know that it couldn't be changed, you know to me? I mean if somebody said, well, I can't say Chevy because I've got Afford endorsement, and it's just you know, I got this one right here pretty much launched Aldine and the superstartup. He was pretty big, he was pretty he was doing pretty good. He was doing good. But this wasn't one that I say, super are This song

took him to the hold of the level. I mean, this one was the one where I started to go outside the country to it. People started to go, what's that? What's that song? Big green tractor? So you wrote this for who? Jim Collins? Did you when you wrote it? Did you just throw it out to the world and see who wanted or did you pitch it straight to Aldine?

Actually we pitched it to a couple of people first, and it was Jason and his guys, like right off, I mean, Michael Knox, who's Jason's producer, he uh, he loved it right off the bat. But I remember the night I came. I was I was at my farm and uh, I've got a big green tractor and uh I was riding around at it one night and I had the headlights on and uh, bush Hogan as we call it, you know, with the big more behind a tractor and you know, just cutting down sticker bushes and everything.

And uh, I came up with that idea, and I'm singing it to myself, you know, take your full right on a big green tractor, just singing that and uh. And I can't remember if it was the next day or the day after that. I was writing with Jim Collins and Jim wrote, she thinks my tractor sexy. And so I walked in there and I go, hey, man, you feel like you're writing another tractor song. He goes, yeah, that's right. So we sat down there and we wrote

that song. And that's probably that. That song is really fun to do live. I do it in my shows, you know. Well, I do a bunch of those songs. And uh, but big Green Tractor is a really special song. I mean, everybody sings along to that one. How many of these songs? Here's another one? How about Jake on anywhere with you? Because you wrote it, you can play? What right you ever play this one? Played it the other night? Have you ever seen this is another one

of this's gotten better with age? Like it? It's harden out the songs to stick because they move so fast and so it's the ones that kind of come back again. And this is one of those. Good anywhere anywhere with you some earli ish Jake. They made a great record there. I mean, I really love that record. I thought they did a fantastic job. I did it the other night and I'm Aha Nebraska and I did the Oh have you ever seen? Oh Mahana Nebraska. Every time you set

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out yeah and yeah, you go having a ball. Man. I mean, I'm really loving it because it kind of man, you're just going you're going out and and hanging out with the folks and and playing music. And they love music, man, I mean people love music. And they love those old songs too. I mean not hope, I mean those are not old songs. But um, it's fun because to go out there and do those songs and then they here everything's gonna be all right and they get and dust

on the bottling. They put like two and two together and they go, oh, yeah, that's pretty cool. So it's uh, it's it's a pleasure. Really, it's not. It's not a chore. It's a pleasure. You have so many monsters here. I made this one. Are you Gonna kiss me? The monsters? That the biggest song, the most played song of the year, and was just written. No, it wasn't. Um it was it was it was just it was a guy song.

It wasn't a girl's song. In fact, Kieffer called me up and he goes, hey, man, can you write this? Can we change this? Here's an example of of what we were talking about a while ago. Keefer called me up and he said, hey, man, Kim, can we write this to where all right, guy like Shaunikin sing some of it because she was really that she was really the main vocalist in in the band. Yeah, and uh, I got a damn man, I don't know, it's kind of it's kind of a guy's song. Uh, let's see

what we can do, you know. And then they called back and said, forget it, We're just gonna do it like it is. And so she sings harmony, she doesn't really take the lead role in the song. And they killed it. Man, I mean that song, and it played for weeks and weeks and weeks, you know with a bullet which was which is a bullet means it's still moving at the charts And they just did a great job with it. And the guys um, the guys that that produced the record did a great job too. Yeah,

there was a monster. I believe it was the biggest song of Like I think it was the most played song. Yeah. I think it's gonna be add a plaque somewhere that says most most played song. Man wrote this one. That was me Keefer and Brett James, and we wrote that in Um Colorado. Yeah. When you write with an artist, are you always writing for the artist? Yeah. If you're writing with Keeper from Tomas Square, you're working on a

specific Thompson Square projects. We're trying to write something. We're trying to write something that is what they feel like they need for their project. Like if they if they say they want a party song, usually people want party. Want me to write like a party kind of crazy. Did ever go, let's do something like dust on the Bottle. I've had people say that said, damn man, it took me fifteen years to write that one and I haven't

written another one since. So. Yeah. So you get with Thompson Square and they have the kind of song that they want to write, and so you sit down and you try to knock it up, try to It doesn't always work. Do you enjoy writing with artists or Yeah? I do. Yeah, Yeah, because I mean they I mean most artists know what they kind of want to do, and they kind of know what they're missing in their show. And I get it because I get out there and play and and I know what it's like. It's like

I want something that rocks. I want something that I can walk around the stage and you know, just seeing at the top of my lungs, or I want something, I can just hit the brakes in the show and slow down and have a cool like moment, you know of a song. So you know what's funny about you? As you ain't broke? You got sure a hole in the armpit of it? What you got? You sure? I got a big hole in the armpit. You an't? Yeah, broke. It's comfortable. Yeah, that's fine. But that's why people like you.

That's what everybody says. They's like, man, David Murphy's the nicest guy. Like he hasn't there's no he's just as him. Well that's good, Yeah, that's true. When you were growing up as a kid, who did you idolize musically? Oh? Man, Well, I was a big skinnered fan when I when I was young, I like skinnered. Do you remember the plane crash? Yeah? Yeah, I was camping the night that it came over the air and I would I had tickets to go see

Leonard Skinner the following Sunday in Evansville, Indiana. After the plane crafter, the plane crashed and my buddy and I, there were two or three of us. We were sitting out in the woods in lawn chairs and we had a camp fire and it was like on a Thursday night when when I think it was a Thursday night when the plane crashed and we're sitting out in the woods.

We gotta camp fire one and we're sitting there listening to you know, music, and we turned over and you know, we're just flipping through the channels and we turned over to the classic mine. I don't even know what they called the classic rock then, but we turned over to the rock and rock and roll station and it said Leonard Skinner's planes crashed. I was like, what I mean?

It was like, you know, it was just crazy. And then we we were all going to go to the concert, you know in Evansville, which was probably a two hour drive from where I was. Remember that the radio, Yeah, but they didn't know who was They didn't know at the time who was in which plane? Yeah, and who left? Yeah yeah, they just said Leonard Skinner. Uh, And that's not really a person. Leonard Skinner is not really a person.

It was a band, right, it's the band Wow. But it ended up being Ronnie van zandt Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines and in the band. But um, but yeah, I was a huge skinnered fan and and and I mean whenever I first moved to town. When I first moved to Nashville, Uh, my manager worked for, um, Charlie Daniels organization, so I was kind of tied in with Charlie Daniels when I first moved to town, with that whole organization. But I was a huge Whaling fan. I

mean I was a gigantic Whaling fan. I loved Haggard and all of those classic guys. And at that time, I mean I was really young, and they didn't have like young country singers. You had to be forty life experiences to sing about life experiences. Yeah, you had to have like tons of wrinkles, you know, two scars and have been there and done that to be taken seriously as a country singer. And I was just a kid, you know. So but I loved it. I had a great time. I mean I love growing up in that

time period. Do you ever have any close calls an airplane? Never have? Thank god? Man? Uh no, I mean I think so, but no, not really. Yeah, like my cup fell over because they had turbulence. I was gonna die. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we'll scream on the plane. Oh yeah, me, yeah, that's a scream. Oh yeah, I'll be on the Southwest flight I think when we're crashing in the ocean, like right over Iowa. Yeah, those planes don't. I don't like that. I don't like that. I've I've been lucky so far.

Yeah gone would yeah, man, this this song now, and you have the record coming in April, right, Yeah, that's that's what it's don't that's what it's called. ZEP. Where'd

that come from? Uh? It was we were just writing one day and we came up with we started writing a song and um, it's just about this guy imagining that he would like to live in a place where the whole the whole thing is like he's got this imaginary girl and he's land and you know, a place where his no zip code and he's it's just imaginary place. From right now, everything's gonna be all right, everything's gonna be back in the day. But our song was on

was in eight seconds? Yeah? What was that song called? Oh? Yeah, this this is the first song on the eight Seconds times? I big you deal? Was it to get on that? It was pretty cool? At the time that when when that um we did the video on that with the film, with the footage from the movie, and that was the

first time. That was probably the first time that I would walk through somewhere and somebody would come up and go, hey, man, aren't you David Leege Murphy, you know, and because it was like total anonymity up until that point, and then it was like I saw your video and uh, you know, videos were huge at that time period. I mean, you know, all the country music channels, and it was really fun. I mean I missed those videos because it was entertainment.

You could put the videos on and just be goofing around in your house and there's a country music video playing of whoever you know, Brooks and Dunn or you know, Dwight Yoakum or Shinai Twain or it was just it was there was always something playing. Who was in your class when you moved to town? Who kind of moved to town around that time? You guys kind of come up,

started writting together, figuring out the city together. Well, there were guys that that I got to be friends with early on it that were, you know, playing around in bars, like Steve Earle, he was playing, Umm, Bill Lloyd, Radney Foster, those guys, we were all kind of in the same little time period there. And um but I remember Randy Travis playing out at the Nashville Palace and U yeah, he was the house band out there. But I remember,

oh and Kicks. I remember Kicks and Ronnie Kicks and I were the two, um, token skinny white guy bouncers for the concert down there. You know, we were the two you know, we were both musicians, and they had us, you know, down there in yellow T shirts. You know, it's like they put us backstage, you know, it was. It was really funny. But we got like thirty five bucks apiece to stand down there and make sure, you know, when when you're at that point in your life, and

thirty five dollars means a lot. But Kicks and I we still laugh about. I mean we still talk about. It's like, yeah, I remember because they they had all these other guys who were these great, big o like defensive linemen you know, from you know, college kids down there, and Kicks and I were down there and I probably probably waged about one Kicks is probably about one seventy, you know, but we both we both worked for UM Sound seventy indirectly and they did all the big rock

shows in the big concerts here in in Nashville. So look at this from just one dust on the bottle, a little on the bottle. Everything's gonna be all right, He's gonna be I got it again. Here you going like right now, you're the top twenty. I look before you came over the top twenty. It's crazy. I can't stop stop. It's fun man. Good luck with the record. Thank you I played. Listen to it and play it when it comes out. Yeah, thank you for playing this

one again. I love it, I said at the beginning, I said again, this is my favorite song right now on the radio. I'm really if I appreciate you comingup with the house. I'm a big fan. You've always been very kind to me out and about, and so I was very I was excited when you were coming over. Thank you, Thank you for having me. So we'll wrap it up. Thanks. No zip code in April, and if you're listening to this after April, no zip codes out now, and you'd like for them to listen to it, would

they listen? Listen to listen. They're back in there. Bringing the horns there. It is all right, good, it's good to see you. Good talk to you. All right,