Welcome to episode one fifty nine of the Bobby Cast. Brooks and Done stop by our show and we talked to them, actually a lot more than was on the radio show because we recorded a bunch stuff with the countdown we've recorded during the commercials, and so I was actually like over a twenty minute interview. So I wanted you guys to hear the full Brooks and Done of you because I love these guys, and I geeked out a little bit, but it was still cool to learn
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about to be in the studio. I remember the last time I hung out with um kick Brooks, and I told you that embarrassing story. I save it, though I don't remember. I don't want to talk about what you say to dinner. Stop there, that's not them. It's like a surprise party. It's night. Yeah, they are kicks foods. Come on you people will climb in anything. We definitely will. But come on, you gotta have a seat. Come on, friends going you work every day, but there's many people around. Yeah,
he's nervous. We need a big staff. Nervous. We're not very good. I'm not very get alone, so I gotta have all that. It made me better. Look, this is it cool for me? Listen. I know that we've met. I know that when we see each other last at the center near our nation's capital and so, but this is you days have never been on my show. And that sounds pretty cool for me. If I'm being honest, it's pretty cool for Brooks and Donner here kicks. You
and I met. I don't know if you remember, but the first and second time I played the opera, you were playing and I went into your room and you're very nice to me. That was you, that was me. I think The first time we met actually was was at when the Norman Oklahoma. Oh that's right. The yeah, we both did have benefit together out there, and that's right. I had to get over there quick and your manager with nice enough to go, hey, get on the plane,
and then you and I flew back together. But I want to say that because I don't know if you want to know how rich you are? Shut up? My plan this plane was that anyway? I just I just got on and nobody said anything. So me too. Luckily it was going back to Nashviore important to that just could turn into a Payota trial. Yeah, that's true, that's true. And Ronnie done, come on, Ronnie, come on, are you
kidding me? I shut up? Have you seen you? I must say nothing And we've all been just like I used to get on the radio and beg you has to come in and you guys didn't kicks. I wanna call your radio station and be like, hey, can Kicks come over? And they'll be like no. And I was like, I don't care if somebody else anything, what's up with this project? Because I know about it. It's out there.
A couple of songs out today. How do you feel when someone does like a celebratory project towards you, Ronnie, like they made these songs the Two the Route today, Luke Combs a brand new man. Caine Brown does believe, like, how does that feel when someone celebrate you and makes your music? Well, it just kind of makes you feel kind of old, you know, and then that's mind your oasis.
And then I get over that and go, dang, how cool because it's it's super cool, you know, and started to get in the studio with these guys, you know, and get to do it in real time, you know. In today's you know, digital age, everybody's like, guitars are going on across town this, drummers are over here, singers are over here, ones over here. We all got in the same room and did it. I'm gonna hear this.
There's some headphones that if you want to, but I'm gonna play a little bit of Brand New Man from Luke coms. You can check this out right here. So you guys are in the room whenever that's happening, Like you guys are making that with him. Yeah, school in the room with like next to one another, face to face.
That is old school. And you know, Luke actually had posted him and a couple of his band guys acoustically playing Brand New Man, and and it got sent around to us, and you know, we just said, dude, that's cool. You know, it's great, and it's kind of how this guy going. It really wasn't our idea. A couple of different Casey Musgraves was doing Neon Moon in her show and whatever, and our manager said, and these these acts seem to dig y'all's music, and there may be a
project here, you know, So we're like, what. And I guess he came back about a month later and said, hey, I got a big list and everybody seems to be in. So we said, we'll shoot, let's sing him again. Here's Kane Brown. Don't believe there was anybody deserved a ticket to the other side. And sweet on man, look me, that's so good. Come on, isn't it? Crazy because that's
a legendary song for you. Like, I'm a massive fan of you guys, and I'm okay setting in front of you telling you that I'll geek out a little bit. I think I have every time I met you have geeked out and that will always happened. But like, that song didn't even go number one back in the day. And when I hear that's that's quintessential Brooks and Dunne, right, that song didn't even go number one and everybody knows
every word to it. That's crazy to me. I mean, so many career songs that come along for you as an act that's like that. They they don't necessarily hit number one. You know that was that song was long? You know. I remember Keith Herban doing it with us in the Country Fest concert and turned around the middle of the show and he got part of the rehearsal and he goes, uh, there is no there's just no like two minute boy band. So so yeah, it's uh
just Kane was a great surprise. He stepped up and his records are one thing, but when you plug somebody into a song like that, and that's that's Ronnie Ston. I can't take any credit for it, but I think we both just kind of looked at each other when he started singing in it, Wow, this is gonna be good. When he like really started singing and just looked like like beared down. All right, man, It's like, dude, all the stuff you need in your voice is there? Love it?
Then the whole new album. By the way, there are two songs out today, but the whole album comes to April five and reboot, And so who else is on it? Casey's on it, Kanan Luke obviously on Luke Coombs, who else Thomas Shrett, Brett, Young Blanco, Lanco. I mean I have the list if you want to read it. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I act like I don't know today. I know everything I started like Ashley McBride, John Party, brought Young Lanco, Midland, Cody Johnson and Tyler Booth, all those guys.
You can make comments about all of them. Yeah. Let me ask you a couple of questions. I always want to know in my heart it's okay, can we do it? Can I have like some Bobby Hard questions? All right? Because when I've spent time I don't want to geek out. But now you're in my world. I could do whatever I want. It's like, well, going to Bobby's house. Um, okay, So you guys got together, like, h thirty one years ago. I looked it up like exactly thirty one years ago.
So you get put together, right, Like suggested that you guys should meet each other, right, So who makes that suggestion and what's the first impression you guys have each other when you meet. Well, Jim Dubois called us both up. Um he was he was starred uh the label Arista at the time, Nashville with Clide Davis. He'd already signed
Allen Jackson, so he didn't want another boys singer. He was trying to get one of everything, and he'd signed Diamond Rio, he'd signed Pam Tillis was his girl and the judge were breaking up, so he was determined to get ad He needed a new due exactly. And so you know he just said, we literally met at lunch over a bad enchilada, and he pretty more or less offered us a record deal if you know, if it worked out, if we could work together. He didn't really
say that. He said, go away and write some songs, and we did that same week. We wrote a brand new Man in Next Broken Heart. That was Tuesday. We wrote those songs on Thursday and Friday demoded them and took him back and he jumped up and down, and then he offered us a record deal. But okay, you're right, brand new man? Do you go? Oh we had this is something like we didn't even know each other, you know, three days ago. But we don't brand new man. This
is something we didn't know. You know, we never know. You never know when you wrote him and until they there become hits. I guess I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, I really did, because you know, and Ronnie had that idea I'm a changed man, and and uh, it's my near miss on what if we changed that? But he already had the I saw the light and I was baptized by that. You know. And Ronnie came from Oklahoma.
He hadn't been hanging out in Nashville for ten years like me, so he had a lot of fresh ideas that I think we get bogged down and formula writing sometimes when you're doing that for a living. So it was for me as a writer, it was really a breath of fresh air. Honestly to have some new ideas that you weren't just sitting in a room and everybody passed around twenty times already, and it was kind of it was fun. We wrote a lot of stuff earlier that I thought he had some good energy to it.
Whenever boots Scooting Boogie happens and the dance blows up and everybody, that's you know what, I actually learned to two steps to boot scoot booge, Like a big part of my life was being in Arkansas and this girl named Carrie Carter had the biggest crush. ALM was like, I'm gonna teach had a two stap and electric slide by the way, both of them. I learned boot Scooting booget the same song. And so when the boots Scooting boogie starts to be a thing, did you guys come
up with that dance? Did you guys know it's gonna be a thing? Like? How does that whole thing happen? I wrote it in Oklahoma and we were playing a big club they're called Tulsa City Limits, and uh, we we had to do cover songs. And you play club, you know bars and stuff or they don't they're one of original stuff, And uh, these people kept coming up and asking us to play it again, so I kind of thought, well, maybe there's something there, so we'd sneak
into the set late at night. But they were doing those dances, and you know that the dance, all the line dancing and all that stuff was already up and going, you know, strong in Oklahoma, Texas, but down there, if you if you play a song or do or play in any of the clubs and they're don't dance, then you're you know, you're out. So we had to had to write songs that kept people moving in turn sold beer. Now ye right, So I've never been close to a line dance. I can two step a little. I would
kill myself. I'm the clumsiest person in the world. I'd kill myself trying to line dance. Well, you're just down from the stage and it looks dangerous. The boot scooting Bookie was such a big part of the song though, Like I mean, for two guys that don't dance like that was such a massive part of this song. Was that was the music video. Man, I don't watched the CMT. That's crazy. That's awesome. Can I just stand here and tell you how awesome you are for like fifteen minutes.
This is the best thing? Am I getting out? Too hard to keep it going? Oh my goodness? Okay, so how about these Las Vegas shows you guys are doing like you come back together? Right? I mean I bet that paste so much? Right? Those Vegas shows? Holy crap A little all this and money too, I mean right, Like you get to play all the hits and that do you stay in Vegas for like three or four days? They put you up? How does that work? They they give us all the sweet and uh have you seen
the under years yet? It's they're that big. Come on a couple of butthers. So if you want something to anytime, you get that. But other than that, you get a good view. Yah. We're two weeks at a time, four times a year, so you're out there. You do three shows a week and you know, get some golfin and and it's just fun to stumble down from your hotel room on to a stage where all your guitars are in tune and it sounds the same as it did
last night, and just to sing and play. It's about as great a situation as as you could ever hope for. And it's fun. To sing those songs again. I think it was good for us to get away from it for a few years. And and Reba, you know kinda we got a great referee out there, so you know, it's it's we've been having a good time, honestly, we we both we mentioned earlier with the Kennedy Center on Earth. And you guys have a longer relationship with Reba than I do. I'm again a huge ream of fan and
she's been great to me. But how did you guys become friends of Reba? Gosh, she hardness and not three. I guess she was the first tour that we actually got hooked up with and hardest. I think back then they were like four or five major tours straight Alabama. Who else dance? I think yeah. And then so that she had a spot and gave us the opening spot, gave us ten feet of stage in ten minutes and
a hundred dollars or nine we took hundred bucks. But a few years later we both kind of kind of got a good, good wave going and and hooked up. I think in ninety six and maybe ninety seven, we uh, we did some co headlining together. We had twenty one trucks and nineteen buses out on that tour. So for for wow, what song is it? What gets the biggest reaction when you play it? Like? What song? Because you have so many hits, people probably definitely every where you go.
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back then? First time you get a number one, back in the day, you hit number one, What do you do? I know, Donna Hilly throw a party. I just remember we were big into you know, our logos. This this this Longhorn steer on steroids and Donna didn't know the difference, but bless her heart, we turned the corner on our party and she's got a cow out there. You know these little horns. I remember going, Okay, that's good effort, you know, but did it ever get too big for you? Guys?
Where you go you look around and you go, holy crap, like this is this is lots like a lot of trucks, a lot of stage. You ever go this is this is a show. You know, it's just a matter of personal I guess subjective viewpoint. But there's time with when it was growing to the point to where you get on the bus and the door would open and shut like every fifteen minutes. Somebody going, hey man, we need
more lights. We need to add the lights. Where do you think about adding you know, more more monitors and that kind of stuff. That was that's the most strenuous part, I think, just dealing with the day to day and got going, I hope you're not gonna step out there and you know, not have enough equipment. Uh, And it was that was kind of out of our our wheelhouse. You know. It's like I just want to sing and
write songs. It's like more to it than that. Obviously, do you ever do the thing where yelled the wrong city? Like what up to below? We were talking the other times those weekends when you're in Rapid City and Cedar Rapids and you know some other something city, you know that where you really have to remind yourself. I think the worst mistake I ever made that way was we played the basketball Coliseum at Michigan State and and I was really disoriented walking to the stage, and I'm going,
where what town is this? Though I don't know I know where at Michigan State, But anyway, I just I see their logo going to the stage, and I'm like, okay, I got this. So while you want to scream something when you go out there, you know, I walked down there, and how about you trow jazz. It's just like I know, I saw it was on the wall. You know, I went, I'm spartaned, you know, like you know, no, you're not
coming back, dude. It's like halfway through this show they start to kind of that's funny, come on, so we started right right there. You wrote the city on the ground, right. I swore I'd never have to do that, But Red Dear Road you both wrote that right. I heard kicks did the heavy lifting? Does that mean you coming on? Most of the article the bus were not after a show, and he said and he said let's I've got this idea and you had the title or whatever, and we
started talking about it. I said, well, I grew up like in a rural Route three and Eldred, Arkansas kind of, you know. And uh, we we talked about a lot of that stuff. And I'm not sure we didn't have the course, you know, well on its way. So funny how we remember this stuff. Yeah, everybody, right, we have a different story. I'll tell you what really happened when
after So this is my life and I'm sticking to it. Uh. And then I remember us having to like take off and go, and we were it was a long long drive, like from somewhere like somewhere to Oregon. We landed in San Francisco and we had a show in Sacramento at ar So I'm in Oregon. You're on the other coast. You're on the right coast. Okay, they're both over there, all right. So anyway, here I am in Beijing. The
buses take off. We got the next morning, kicks his buses parked out in front of us, and I see him get out and his hairs like it looks like he's been through freaking World War three or something. Stumbles up on the bus with a guitar and he plays plays the song the verses. I was like, good god man, Bank you hit it. You can tell done. So what really happened? Ronnie wrote down the primarily those great lines from the chorus. On the airplane flying to San Francisco.
You had Terry McBride with you, and he hands it to him and goes, what do you think of this? I'm like, that is great. And we had had this discussion about where we grew up in the red dirt roads, and we decided to name our album that. But we said we got to write a song that goes with it. So I jumped on my bus, he jumps on his, and we head for Sacramento and I just grabbed my guitar, went to work. We get there, him and Terry go knock on my door and go let's go get a steak.
And I said, cool, but you gotta hear this first. Mad him listen and where Ronnie done for him? He went, I love it. That's freak right. I went, what's wrong with you? Let's go, let's see to stay, drink a beer, all that kind of stuff. What was the one hit that you guys had with over twenty three number I
think number ones looked earlier. What's the one where you wrote and you went, that's the one, like you could tell immediately because I'm asking the flip side of this in a second, what's the one where you went, that's hit red dirt. Red Dirt was pretty close, I mean, and I think that was a moment where we were all sitting around and he played it for the first time and went, oh, I think I think we've got it.
They went in the studio and then you know, if here comes that lick dot dot dot down, then it just turned into it like boom. I couldn't wait to get home and play that for Mark, right because we had we had started gathering up some songs, but we needed that anchor and to go with the title, you know, and that's it's just that mom where you go, oh, we did it. So many variables, you know, contribute to that aha moment, and a lot of times it's just when you sit down in the studio not knowing where
it's going to go, and the guitar player. Usually it's the guitar player sit down and hit hit that lick, and he hit that intro lick Bam bamp bump on. They're just turned into like a kind of an anthem, the kind of thing away. We went on the other side of that, What major song, what big hit you guys had that took forever? And you're like, let's think took forever to write, took We didn't get it right and producing it the first couple of times we didn't
put it in, like what's the struggle song? They're all struggle. It's like having to go do your homework. It's fun to saying fund to fun to play. But I think um He'll Billy Deluxe was one that was a totally different song than Believe, But it was a song that never you know, barely got in the top ten. It might have made it, it might not even made top ten. But I watched our sales double and and it's some of those songs, just like Believe, people to this day
go that song changed my life. Those songs that have the impact and that really make a difference in whatever. They're not always those ditties that slam up to number one on radio or something like that, but you feel a connection to your fans and and to your career that you're like, man, that's that one. That one got down there, that one did some good. You know the song that and I've often referenced on the show, we talk about songs that actually make you like physically cry
or feel something like cowgirls don't cry? Are you kidding me? Are you still if that thing comes? And heard that man look out the owner to a big cowboy and just like, oh man, that song is still getting I've heard a song ten thousand times and I hear it again and I don't I don't know if it's Reba being in a two that pushes me over the edge, but are you kidding me? Then she sings it backed after her dad dies, like are you getting There were a lot of Redheads that had had a part in that.
Terry McBride has has a redhead daughter. I have two daughters in the red Heads, and then the Reba factor in there as well, and they're all into horses that song. Guys, I'm telling you, I don't know if I've said this yet. You guys are awesome? Have I told you guys that so far? Just making sure page seven tell them they're
a listen. April five, the reboot record comes out there are two songs out today, Luke Combs with brand new man Caane Brown would believe Brooks and Done here let me say this too, because we have a lot of listeners on our Vegas station, Reba Brooks and Done together in the Vegas Colisseum at Caesar's Palace. And so the dates on sale now are June twenty ninth and July three, fifth, and sixth. So I hope people go check it out. I'm gonna go, you know what. I don't ever go
to anything right because I'm I'm busy. I'm way cool right everywhere, Well, I'm not that cool, but I am everyone I'm trying to be. I'm working, Ronne, I'm working, hard working man. I was talking Ronny about dancing. I was like, dude, I just got off that show and I saw you guys, and I was like, I'm tired. Like everybody says like I'm hard, I was tired. I'm gonna come on, I want to watch one of these shows. Well, come on, can you give me some tickets? We had
some people don't. This is when I hit him out on the all right, Brooks and Done and uh yeah, check out that. I'm excited about the record. I'm excited to see you guys. I appreciative both of you guys, like individually because until d C, I haven't seen you guys together ever. But I appreciate you guys being cool to me and uh yeah, thanks guys. Cool man. Oh,
you guys are awesome. I just want you guys to know you're a big part of my growing up and love and country music in a small town in Arkansas, get small, I'm telling you. For me, man, I can't retire now I've done. It was like this, there's only a few people he geeks out on and it was probably garths. And because you guys are what I literally grew up with, Like like, this is my childhood right here. That does well. I grew up in town called Mountain Pine,
which is seven people outside of Hot Springs. But you know, as I do. You grow up in a small town in Arkansas, Oklahoma, you go everywhere. So you know you mentioned Elderado, I know it well, always play ball down there. So all right, I'm gonna let you guys go. You've been You've been here a long time. I'd like to do a couple more hours, but we can't. Ronie trying to walk out the door right now, all right, I'm going to get out of your way. I feel like
Brooks and good to see you guys. Thank you guys. Than Bobby Show