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Jenny Gill

Jul 12, 201745 minEp. 68
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Jenny Gill is in the house! And speaking of house, she just released a new EP called "The House Sessions." It's so real. My favorite song is "Your Shadow," where she addresses what it's like to be Vince Gill's daughter. Jenny is also Amy Grant's step-daughter and toured with her for many years. The life Jenny has lived is incredible. She also is a brand new mother and we talk all about how shaking her booty keeps her in balance... Yep, you'll have to tune in to watch/hear her secret to balance! #hypercarolinehobby #podcast #nashville #jennygill #vincegill

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Carola, She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. She's on the inside. She got the scoop on the walls. On the one side. No one can do within quiet, my Caral, Caroline, no one can do with quiet. Back Carala this time Carola. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, I know people, and I know the questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there could be adult content.

You guys am so excited. Jenny Gills in the House what would? And speaking of House, her new EP, The House As is so good. It's so real, so honest. My favorite song on it is called Your Shadow, where she addresses what it's like to live in the shadow of her father, Vince gil She's so real and she's just such a cool girl. I cannot wait for you all to hear this interview, So y'all get excited. Here's

Jenny Gilm. So happy to have you. We've been trying to do this interview for a little while and I'm glad we've finally got it worked out and we get to do this. This is beautiful. Isn't this space gorgeous? This is beautiful. I kind of want to live here. You can move in, can I They've got a bathroom, no shower. Okay, maybe not details. Maybe I'll just visit often, visit often. You play some music anytime you want, Okay, So I want to start off with a little bit

of rapid fire. I'm gonna ask you a question and you say the first thing that comes to mind, Oh, this scares me already. You're gonna do okay, music, singing, same my dad, happiness, my son, little Wyatt, he's three, he's three. He makes me so happy and crazy all at the same time. Right, But that's what toddlers are supposed to do. That is what they're supposed to do.

And I want to talk about your dad and why at these two things you just mentioned, and two of the songs that you just wrote, which would be on your new album, E The House Sessions. Okay, So one last word, what I success to you? Oh that's going. Oh that's a hard one. That's a that's a word I have to go to therapy over. I'm being honest. What have you learned in therapy about success. Well, what I'd like to learn in therapy about success is so much. Really success for me, I think is um It's hard

to describe. I think it's this unattainable goal because a lot of people in my life currently are ridiculously six scessful. Like we're talking twenty one Grammys sitting on a shelf. That's right, that's my dad. That's what I have to compare to. Is it Is it like that? I've always wondered, is it like that? Do you feel that you wrote a song called the Shadow, which I love on your

new EP from the House Sessions. Yes, I tried to um kind of one Grammy because people are lucky to get one, well even to like being the plane where'll be nominated exactly. It's like, how does this even happen? How does that happen? It's ridiculous. You have to be brilliantly gifted, I guess, which is what he is. And it's fantastic and also very frustrating at the same time when you're interested in having a music career, how do

you deal with that struggle? Sometimes I deal with it great, and sometimes I'm just like a mess on the floor in tears and I can't function. But because on one hand I was telling you earlier I was in a band with Taylor Inn and Jennifer Wayne who also come from legacy John Wayne and Loretta Lynne. On one handed, like a great door opener because you automatically get into the room, I guess, or I'm not into the room, but like people will pay attention. On one hand, people

are automatically curious Larette Lene. I think told Taylor I can get you in the door, but you have to keep yourself there or something. And that's the truth. That that's the truth. I mean, people are curious enough to say, hey, what's this all about? And if you're good enough, then then the rest doesn't matter. So that's pressure too, because you're like, what do you even standard? Because twenty one Grammys, like, how could anyone be that good? It's a pretty it's

a pretty big standard. And I guess when I have to continue to tell myself I keep reminding myself, is that I am me, I sound like me. I'm I'm not one of those um kids who sounds exactly like their parents UM, which I'm grateful for. I think I have my own style and my own thing, and and my husband, who's also very successful in the music industry. UM, on the publishing side of things. He he tells me, Babe, what you got to remember is that you're already successful.

You put out this music and people bought it. It doesn't matter how many bought it. The fact is that there were people out there who cared enough to spend their money. And that's I agree with that that success And UM, I have to redefine the word um because I'm not gonna win twenty one Grammys, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to be successful in music. I totally agree. And actually I was watching a video of you and your dad and he said something. What

is his quote? He said, UM, most people have their results in something, had the results in something to be the definition of something. And I think that's backwards. If it's great when you finished it, it's still great whether anyone bought it or not. And I really think that is so true. And that's what you just said. Absolutely. He told me this the other day. I was driving to a show and I was kind of nervous about it because I've just started accompanying myself on guitar and

it makes me so nervous to do. Go for it, and I'm just going for it. On put yourself out there and go for it. And and I was. I was talking to him on the phone driving down the interstate and it's like, just wish me luck, and he said, Bud, I just want you to know I'm proud of you. And do it because you love it. Don't do it based on some kind of outcome. Because he's right, the outcome doesn't matters. You got to do it because you love doing it. And we all have our own destiny.

I really do believe that, and we all are meant to affect in the way that we are. And it's all relative of how big or small it is, you know exactly it really is if you can reach that one person that's really struggling right now, and that's that's all that matters. I got a Facebook message recently from somebody who was recovering from a massive surgery and they were just saying, I put on your music and it makes me feel better. And I was just like, Okay,

I'm done. I've done it. I've made it. That's the real that's what really matters. The awards and all that stuff that we get dolled up for it's fun, but it's reaching people's hearts. That's the that's the good stuff right there. I love that. So you also toured background singing with immigrant your sister stepmom, which is cool stepmom to have. She's the most awesome stepmom. I will be honest. I tried to hate her. I was I was gonna

wonder because you also have an amazing mom. Your mom is You're like, she's a sweetheart, cowboys sweetheart, rodeo sweetheart, sweethearts of the rodeo. Yeah, her and her sister are the sweethearts of the rodeo? Is that? So you have this awesome mom and then you get this super famous stepmom who's awesome too. How do you hate someone like that? Well,

you don't. I mean I tried to so bad when when dad and Amy got together, I was in high school, so already an awkward, horrible time, and um, thing was happening so quickly, and and the normal teenager instinct is to be defensive and no, I hete and but I couldn't. She's she handled it really well. She would just always create an environment for everybody to get together. And she was never pushy about it. Really, she wouldn't make you feel guilty if you didn't show up. She's just like, hey,

we're gonna hang if you want to stop by. And eventually everybody started stopping by, So if you will start trickling in like a dinner or something. Dinner, Really, Christmas was I think the main thing our blended family really started to attach to become our thing that we did. I love She's the Queen of Christmas. By the way, if you like Christmas forgot about it, Amy's the queen and so she always did Christmas huge and us kids were what is Christmas like you guys, because we're going

to get some amazing presents. A little bride is always good. Is that what the Christmas was like? Big presents, big dinner man, Yeah, breakfast, it's uh, Christmas at dad Amy's is all about the breakfast. Christmas Eve will kind of all do other things with our other family members, but Christmas morning is where it's at and Dad um makes a lot of breakfast. Just what do you eat, Well, it's a lot of It's a lot of breakfast meats. He's a carnivore. It's like sausage and bacon. And are

you a carnivore. I do like, I love bacon. Bacon is it's a big deal. It's very important. Oh yeah, it should be its own food group. I kind of agree. Out of all the meats, bacon to me is the best meat that everyone. It's so it just goes with everything. I love pigs, So I hate thank you about where it comes from. But we don't have to do that. We do that today. Yeah, Christmas, h Christmas involves a

lot of bacon. It's the way it should be. And so through all those years of getting to know each other under the Christmas tree, I mean, we have a we have a eight. We have a great thing now. And of course it's changing because now um all his kids were we're grown and I'm starting a next generation. My son is going to be three in a couple of months. And so the magic of Santa's like being

reborn again. It's pretty cool. It's amazing. How did that feel to have the transition of obviously you're in high school already an awkward time. Here comes a new step mom, don't like her. Then you start liking here, and then all of a sudden, now you're on tour with her, and then you put out your EP and she said, she said something. I got this quote too. That was um, she said. Jenny and I were camping at Bonnary for the first time, she played me a work tape of

your shadow. This song stopped me my tracks. She had waited months to play it for anyone, and it was a mystery to me. And that moment I knew she was a creative force to be reckoned with. Her lyrics are thought provoking, her melodies effortless and haunting. I'm so I am a true fan. How does that feel in this? I feel all warm and fuzzy on me? But how does that feel to have, all of a sudden written this art and to be touring with Amy? Now? What

a whirlwind life? Yeah, it kind of happened suddenly. Her backup singer, who had been working with her for years and years, was expecting and about to give birth to her first child, and Amy had all these dates on the books, and there was no way this girl was gonna be able to work, And so they asked me

to come in as a substitute. And I thought I would be working with her for maybe three or four months, and Kim's baby came, and then Kim was ready to come back on the road, but they kept calling me as well, and so they just added me into the band. And that was about seven years ago. And I have to give Amy so much credit for really new confidence that I have in myself as a performer. Really that before Amy, I didn't really have a lot of stage time. You know, I've got to practice with my dad here

and there on the road in the summer. Um, But I wasn't in a situation where I'm on stage night after night singing the same songs with the same people and getting that musical group. And I got to do that with her. And the singer that I was before I started working with her and the singer that I am now I think are two different singers. And um, it means so much to hear that quote, um, those kind words from her about my writing as well. I really respect her and her creative brain. Um, because it's

it's not a typical. She doesn't write a typical song all the time. I mean, her music stands out to me. And it's true. I wrote that song Your Shadow, and it was so where did that moment come from? It was so just raw and it makes me feel naked to share those words. To be honest, I wrote that song with some friends of mine that while we lived in the same neighborhood at the time, and I would walk down to their house all the time and just boo hoo and sob like all my worries to them.

And one day I'm just we're on the subject of being Vince Gill's daughter, and I'm just pouring out my heart and I just heard, you know, scribbles on a on a journal. And the next morning she Dianna Um Diana Walker is her name, she called me and said, hey, come over here, I want to play you something. And she had these chords and these lyrics to this verse, and it just made me cry. And so we finished writing the song with her husband, Rick Beresford, and I

was terrified to play it for anybody. So it was so it was just so did you think someone would be mad at you? I was so exposed. What did you think was going to happen? Because that, to me is the best songwriting every when you write something so real, but usually it does involve other people, you know, because we have life experiences that are affective other people. So how do you present this song? I almost wasn't going to, and so because I trust Amy, because she's family, I

played it for her while we're at Bonnaroo. That's just like on my phone and she's like, oh my goodness, I love this. This is so great, and I'm like, oh, well, thanks. Well. Then she and I were performing. It was a right around in Peoria, Illinois, and she begged me to play the song. So I worked it up with a keyboard player and I got a Really I was kind of surprised by the reaction that I got from the crowd. It was that they loved and they just loved it.

It was and I felt accepted. And there's a line in that song, you know I'm talking about my one of my biggest fears is I'll pour my heart out and no one will care. And that's really the ultimate. You just give it all and no one's going to give a ship. That's what I mean. Everyone, here's my eyes. Because it is so vulnerable to be an artist is so vulnerable, and when you're truly putting your words out there, in your heart out there, you basically are standing naked

saying do you like me exactly? And that's crazy that everything the art is crazy. It's it's so hard and I almost didn't want to record this song or share it. And I was kind of asking, Amy, does this song kind of only belong on my first project? She's like, I think so. So I shared it with my dad. I just emailed it to him. I just emailed it. Was like, were you nervous? Just listen to whatever, Just listen to it whenever you wanted. Were you so nervous? I was. I didn't know how he's going to react,

if he was going to be upset with himself. I didn't know if he's going to take it negatively. And when he called me to discuss the song, all we talked about was how well crafted he thought that it was. We didn't go into all those other layers. Um, it was just about the song. How he thought it was really well done and we should record it, and we did, and he produced your Your EP right, he produced the house sessions. He put so much love into this project.

I'm so proud. How full circle though, to grow up, you know, living with vincec Goo's your dad, finding your own way musically, and now you're making your own music from your heart. You wrote four five out of these six songs and now he's producing them and like doing it from your perspective, your musical inclination. How amazing is that full circle moment. It's really great. We'd never worked that closely together before, and it was really neat to

see his process in the studio. How well respected he is in this town and with everybody that he works with. Oh man, And it was hard to it was hard to speak up and say, hey, what do we what do we try this? Because whatever Vince Gill says, everyone's gonna be like, yeah, let's do that. And it has a great idea because his instincts are so fantastic. It's so weird to refer to him by his name. By the way I just said that was like, mm, that

didn't feel right. He's Dad, um, But man, I still get the same feeling I think a lot a lot of artists get when they work with him, those nerves that a singer gets when they're walking into the studio and Dad's about to produce them, and you just kind of tense of Okay, you want to be perfect for him, you want to impress him. We all share it, Dad or not. You know, he's he's the type of person that you you want his respect, you know, but at the time he doesn't. He doesn't act like this big

like no, it all a whole you know. He's he's kind, he is patient, you know, and he was really great to work with and I learned a lot. We when we started this interview with the guy who makes us up. His name is Mike, and you were like, Mike with Mike's and I was like, that's how I introduced you, Mike with Mikes. And you're like, I actually sorry I

said that because you probably get so. I saw it all over his face because you're like, oh, you're identified Mike with Mike, and you're like, I actually feel that same way as being identified with one thing. It's like that's your thing, like this everybody in your life approaches you and says the same thing. So Mike with Mike. Dude, I get it. We're living the same life. But it's unavoidable almost to talk about it. On some level. I feel, do you feel like it, because it's not like you

want to avoid it. No, I don't want to avoid it. I'm proud of where I come from. But there does come a point where it's just you can only take so much, and and Dad is so um he's so talented and gifted and kind, and he's affected a lot of people. And it's no surprise that people who are touched by that want to talk about it and they want to share it. And of course that's the one thing that we have in common, so of course they

want to talk about it. I get it, but there are I apologize if you're like that one percent person who gets me on that day where I just have to roll my eyes because we're talking about my dad again. You know, it makes so much sense. Oh, it's so funny sometimes. Okay, I wasn't. I was at a gig in Sacramento recently and I was in a shuttle with

a bunch of people. We had all performed at this golf tournament, and there was a gentleman riding along and I think he'd had a couple of drinks and he kind of leaned up and he's like, all right, can I ask you a personal question? And I was like, yeah, man, shoot. He's like, all right, pure Prairie League your dad, Okay that song Amy, And I'm like, dude, what does this have to do with me? I only ask because you said this was a personal question. Really, you just want

to ask me a dad question. And I felt so bad. I think he kind of you're humans, was like, oh, like, by the way, he did not sing the song Amy, I'm sorry to crush your dreams and everything, and everybody laughed and and everybody got it. But man, there's so sometimes you're just like you have it's you're human, I know, yeah, but you know it's obvious. I'm crazy about my dad.

It's obviously so proud of all of his accomplishments. And but you're also at a place where and I think this House Sessions is such an amazing place for you because you're at a place where you've had all of this almost like school. You know, you grew up at a front row ticket to the country music industry. You have seen it all more than anyone really has, and you've seen ends and out. You know what the life

looks like, you know what road looks like. You know, you know you have been to school, and now you are emerging as your own artists, and you have these amazing songs that reflect you and they're so personal. Like another one I want to talk about is Lonely Lost Me, which I think is one of the sweetest songs ever.

Talked to me about this song. Okay, this song I wrote with my gal pal Brianna Tyson and Jonathan Hanby, who actually plays with Amy a lot, and the three of us got together and we wrote this a long time ago, and it was one of those writing sessions where the three of us didn't really know each other very well, so we're kind of just it felt like one of those first dates, you know, when you get in a writing room with somebody and you're like and

you're about to have to expose your whole soul and yeah, you're like just stripped out. It's been like a one night stand. Here, what's meat? And like what I got? What a rocket? Totally writing sessions are crazy like that. It's odd. It felt like one of those days. And so I hope you dig it. Yeah, I don't know, call me, we'll do it again. It's so weird. I know, I know it was one of it. I like, speaking of one night stands. I like three ways better than

two ways. Okay, um, And so the three of us, Oh, we had a great day. Jonathan is a great piano player, and he was laying down this groove, and Brianne and I were trading ideas back and forth. And it wasn't until after the song was born and my son was born after that, and I was like, oh, this song feels like it's for him. It totally feels like you wrote it for him. And and he wasn't he wasn't in the world when coming. But yeah, and and we were listening to this EP and different mixes, and that's

the first song on the EP, Lonely Lost Me. And every time it would end, Wyatt in the back of the car mole you wanted to hear that song over and over again. I'm like, it was for him. That's it. You're going to be my leading man in my little music video. Talk to me about motherhood? How is that girl? How much time do we have? Holy? Oh my god, it's mm hmm. Now, I grew up kind of a spoiled brat, well and only child. Only child. Well, I

was raised an only child. Obviously. Now I'm part of a blended family and I have a brother and sisters now, but I didn't. I didn't inherit them until I was about eight nineteen years old, and so raised an only child, I never had to do a chore in my life. I mean, I was a spoiled little rat, okay, and um like, it's great until you become an adult and then you're forced to have all these responsibilities and you're like,

what is this? Okay, well, somebody show me how to work this washing machine because I really have no idea what I'm doing. I actually asked my college roommate to show me how to do laundry. That's how that's how embarrassing it is. And the record, I still wash all my colors and white the other in one load every time. That's okay, right, just don't leave them in the washer for like three days because then they might start to that.

But why it coming into my life? It cured that spoiled brat out of me real quick, like there that first year of motherhood. It's it's the hardest thing I will ever do in my life. What is that? What does it look like? I keep trying to ask people. It's gruesome. It's like no sleep, It's gruesome. No, like a horror movie. It really, I mean, without the blood

and the guts. Well there's I mean, and you love it at the same it's not blood and guts it's just throw up in diarrhea and no sleep, and they don't really love you so much in the beginning, right, Like it takes a while for that little first smile, so you're kind of doing it. They say, like that first smile is actually just some kind of like reflex. Yeah, reflex exactly uncontrolled. It's just like I have to smile

because my brain is making me. But you think, oh you reck nine finally it's a reflex, he was he, I mean, I think this is true with a lot of moms. I mean, the babies are used to the moms. I mean they just there's that bond there. And so there was a time where why it was not really interested in dad for a while. So I was the only one that could make him happy. And there's so much joy in that, that feeling of being like desired like that, there's nothing like it on planet Earth. But

the fatigue, oh, there's there's nothing like it. You become you're not a human being anymore. You're like a zombie. It's like the walking dead. When does when does it lift? When do you start to see the little light peeking out from behind the cloud. Well, for me, it was about a year old, and I got to a point where I was I thought I was going to do something like drastic because I was um so lonely in my house to stay at home, mom, thing like you are.

You're like, it's like a prison. You're like, it's like a prison on an island. It feels like all my young mom friends say that too. And to escape the prison, It's like, you might as well just stay there because all the crap you have to bring with you a mile down the road to the grocery store and carry it all around. No, Mom, help you bring me strawberries. It was about why. It was about a year old, and I said, I've got to do something. I gotta get out of the house, but something to keep getting

me out of the house. You know what I did. I joined the y m c A. Yes, I joined the y m c A. I found this little class They're called Dance Blast. And tell me how that has changed your life, because I believe that an outlet like that is so necessary, especially when you're in jail on an island. Okay, so um, dance Blast literally saved my life in so many ways. You have no idea. The y m c A. By the way, They just have this place called y Play and you can drop your

children off there. They'll just take your child as long as you it's like max two hours a day, but it's play. I just need an hour. Yeah. But then you can have the other article and just like sit on a bench if you want. You could just give them your baby, yeah and go into the little area with the coffee and the snacks and sit there and watch TV. That's what you need do that. You've got

to have some time for yourself. You do. And that's what I learned is once you start taking care of yourself and everybody says the same thing, and you're like, okay, okay, so it's cliche for a reason it is, and then you do it and you're like, I'm a much better me because of get it. So I started shaking my little booty. What are you doing? Dance class? Because this is not just a regular dance class, you know, it's um you could say it's based on it's kind of

like Zoomba. This particular dance blast. I think it's going to change from instructor to instructor. But the instructor that teaches my dance blast class, her name is a Lana. She's a rock star and she just takes it to the next level. It's like she'll go really ghetto on you, just like hip pop, and she will. She makes everybody to work. I mean, I'll just you're working on your twerk. You lift each but cheek individually. Oh now that's some

advance working you might have. You might have to show me that I can't do because we're not doing that. That's that's advanced dance blass. It's working where you just shake it right down to working is where you're kind of get in that squat position and just like it all goes up and down. Does your husband's benefit from your dance class working, I don't think. I don't think we should discuss any of that. To just keep that at home behind the bedroom door. I'll just say he

hasn't asked me to quit taking the class. And I love how you're saying, because I have a love for hot yoga like you have for dance class. Originally you kind of started in back Oh yeah, I started in the back row of the class. I didn't know anybody. I felt all weird, and that's normal to go to an exercise class and feel sort of like out of place, Like, am I gonna suck? Because every think I'm yes, because everyone thinks that everyone's looking because you're looking at you,

but nobody else is looking at you. No one cares, which is awesome. We're all ages, were all sizes, all colors, and we're all doing the same dance steps and we're all twerking and front. It is beautiful. I have a moment like that every now and then. We're all look around in my hot yoga class and every same thing, all walks of life, all everything you can imagine, and I'm like, we're all in here, sweating it out and doing this together and it's awesome. And it's just started.

The first few classes I took, I thought, oh my god, I'm gonna die. This is way too hard, and I kept going back. It was the only reason I had to leave my house and have time just for me. And it's been almost two years later, and you're looking amazing, and I got all the baby weight off. I've just had. I mean a lot of people recently. I'm not trying to say, oh my god, I's look at man, says Kitty,

because I'm not. But I've compared to where I was I've done a lot of I've done a lot of good work and I'm really proud of myself, how of you. And that's inspiring to new moms too, Just to put that out there, because I am all about I have a lot of young mom friends, and I think it is so crucial to take that time for yourself. It really is. It makes you a better you. Yeah, mentally, it really helped me. I mean exercise, I'm not a scientist or anything, but all that stuff they say it's

true endorphins and they make you into happy people. I think it's a thing because I just I feel more positive when I go and I work out. I I'm more patient with Wyatt. I don't like flip my anger switch as quickly, and I just can handle things better. And now I have this little group of friends now and the community to go to. Yeah, we have adult conversation. It's so great. I'm just I feel really lucky that it's proud of you. I'm proud of you. We've gotta

wrap up. I'm probably for a couple of things. One, finding your voice, making this EP that is so fantastic, having baby, finding time for yourself, and on top of that, Rolling Stone named you one of ten country artists to watch. What did you not know that I did? How amazing? Is that? It's pretty cool? How good did that feel to have that validation from one of the biggest like critique or what do they call them critique people? Yeah,

this the whole um. The validation thing is something I'm constantly trying to attain, like, oh, you're You're only going to be a good enough singer until you get a record deal, and all these silly things that I put ahead of myself. And it's stuff like that you read and you're just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm in this group. And they chose me, like because

they did not have to choose you didn't. That was because your music spote for itself, which to me, if I was you would be one of the most validating things. Was very validating, and um, I just I also feel validated and super cool. I I didn't feel cool before, but now that I've been on your show, I'm feeling pretty cool and I feel kind of like a rock star today. This is the stand. Once you make it to hypercane on me, it's it's only it's it's been

a blast. I want to wrap up, and you're gonna place a couple of songs to a new ev right, Yes, I will attempt to stumble through which you know what, And everyone watching this podcast and listening is so proud of you for playing your guitar. Thank you. This is another chance just to start getting just to put it up. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be so great. That's awesome.

But I like to wrap up with leave your light so out of all of your amazing life, Like you have had such a big life to be so young, You've seen so much, live so much. What are some inspiration that you would like to share with people? Oh my goodness, gracious, I guess. Um, now that I'm a mom and we just discussed this, I think it's important to uh nurture what you love and what your passions are. Um, it's okay to be yourself. Um, because everyone's different, everyone's unique,

and it's okay to want to blend in. It's okay to want to stand out. But whatever your passions are, nurture those and the outcome can only be positive, kind of like a domino effect. If you're not even trying to make a positive difference. You will if you take care of yourself and do what you love and UM. That's what I've learned in my short what feels like a short thirty five years. You've packed a lot in there.

Grow who And also, like I've come across um uh, several other artists who have these histories, these legacy artists, and they might feel a little paralyzed or like they're living in the shadow of parents or grandparents or um, some awful like reality show history that they're trying to escape. UM. As long as you are being authentic and and um and sharing your gift, nobody is really going to care about that history because they just want to connect with you.

And I think if we're all just in the moment and taking care of ourselves, how can it go wrong? Okay, you are so wise? That was incredible? Was it? Because I was like feeling I was starting to feel like a little like, how much BS is this coming out of my mouth? No? No, that was so inspiring. I love that. Oh man, thank you for sharing that, thank you for having me, and thank you for getting able play some songs. So we're going to go listen to

Jenny Gill play a couple of songs. Teal Audio's newest speaker line that Aurora Life Stream speakers are designed to fit seamlessly into your home with its wide range of connective To check out the latest speaker line, go to teal audio dot com. We are here at Aurora, Nashville, and Jenny gill is about to place two songs. Tell us about this first one. This first one I'm gonna play is called Whiskey Words. It's one of the first songs that I completed as a songwriter, and it really

made me want to keep writing songs. All right, Okay, h happenen haven't seen full Holy so buddy, that's just not musta just a little more time, I'll be fine. I don't need to drink. Just on my way home spast for me. I think you don't stand this close. I almost the me non't whisper sounds so sweet, They're just whiskey y. I've already high. That's just whiskey toad. It stands like your you don't care father, how badly drink your scuse no montratning me and hell love the night.

You still feel the same in Monney Height, Then give me comee. You both know you won't. They're just whiskey at I've all had. He ha, that's just whiskey tone. Stars like you'll long. You don't care about how badly to drink your whisky words. Don't even try flatter me. It's what you say. It's just whiskey ws that I've bart and he had. That's just whiskey tone. Stars like you're walking you'll talk and covering them how badly to drink your whisky words. I won't drink you all escape what.

I won't drink your what? That was amazing? Thank you so much. I love your high range. Oh yeah, I guess I was a first soprano in the high school choir, so I'm using it to my vantage. Yeah, okay, see, I have one more song for us. I do want to play a song I wrote for my husband. Um, this idea really came out of his mouth. We were laying on the beach and Jamaica on our honeymoon and I was asking him how he was feeling, and he

was like, are you kidding me? Baby? Look the loving you landed me, and I just was instead of going oh, I thought to myself, oh my god, what a fantastic song. Title. That is so I came home and I wrote it with with our good buddy Andy Dak can't can't wait to hear the quiller you man, be they in the sad you mundy the soul treaty guys, some blue sky sipping on by time. Let's take a long stroll down

the beach. Come all the baby and dig your toes and then be ice accus mounting me can't stop back and the willow you man, and being I was a fool. The bird fly around in sircle's been by in fives, Then a feeling die I could wait and get my feet over the grounds now plate I foundy see side her band of holding you to me, hoping the twilight chicken in a sweet time, good will loving you let me. I was a clue blueper line around it sircles with my head in the bogs. Then a feeling die you

wait to get my feet on the ground. Me yea, I wasn't blue blue bline, hurt around in circles with my head in the clouds, and a feeling you were waiting in my feet on the ground. The quiller you landed me feeling I love It's few far in between I'm safe from all on. It feels good to be home. But we're loving you and I'm safe from it feels good to be home when you man didn't mean yea. That is the sweetest song ever in your voice. It's

amazing on that song. Thank you so much. Beautiful love story. Okay, don't need to this. It's high school. Oh my gosh. My husband and I we grew up together, and the fact that we ended up together is actually really hilarious to my seventeen year old self. I show you, um. But yeah, he's He's a big inspiration to a lot of what I do, so I was happy to write that one for him. I love that. Okay, So the House Sessions, everyone go get it from Jenny Gill. I

think it's a great idea. I think so too, Carola. I know you love that interview from Jenny. She's such an interesting, amazing girl. I'll get her ep The Sessions. It's so good. Next week I had Brandy Cyrus joining me. Brandy Cyrus is a model, a DJ. She loves horses. She also has a new show on Bravo with her mother called Cyrus Versus Cyrus, which takes me to the fact that she's in one of America's most famous families,

the Cyrus family. We talk all about that with That's like growing up in that family with Billy Rays your dad. Miley's your sister. She has done so much of her life and she is just one of the most engaging, interesting people. You meet her and you feel like you've been best friends forever. So you, guys, get excited. Brandy Cyrus is joining me next week. Y'all. Don't forget to subscribe.

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