In episode #25 Shawn sits down with country music star RaeLynn to discuss her career and motherhood! Both coming from reality TV backgrounds, they swap stories and insights from their time on the small screen. RaeLynn opens up about her audition experience on "The Voice" and the significant impact her coach Blake Shelton had on her life. She also delves into the songwriting process and how it has changed since becoming a mother. RaeLynn takes a trip down memory lane as she reminisces about her favorite performances, particularly those where she took the stage while in her third trimester of pregnancy.
The conversation takes a turn towards "The Golden Bachelor" talk, with Shawn sharing some behind-the-scenes stories from his time on the show. The duo also discusses the process of choosing a name for Baby Booth, with RaeLynn sharing the inspiration behind her daughter's name. The episode concludes with a fun and spontaneous rapid-fire round of questions!
In episode #25 Shawn sits down with country music star RaeLynn to discuss her career and motherhood! Both coming from reality TV backgrounds, they swap stories and insights from their time on the small screen. RaeLynn opens up about her audition experience on "The Voice" and the significant impact her coach Blake Shelton had on her life. She also delves into the songwriting process and how it has changed since becoming a mother. RaeLynn takes a trip down memory lane as she reminisces about her favorite performances, particularly those where she took the stage while in her third trimester of pregnancy.
The conversation takes a turn towards "The Golden Bachelor" talk, with Shawn sharing some behind-the-scenes stories from his time on the show. The duo also discusses the process of choosing a name for Baby Booth, with RaeLynn sharing the inspiration behind her daughter's name. The episode concludes with a fun and spontaneous rapid-fire round of questions!
Welcome back to In the Booth. I'm Sean Booth and thank you guys for tuning in Wherever you're listening from. Maybe you are in Nebraska today, maybe you are in Montreal, who knows where you are but we appreciate the support, as always, and it is officially November. I got the mustache and hopefully you guys join my team. It's my favorite time of the year. We get to raise money for mental health, for men's health issues such as prostate cancer, all that stuff. So check out the link in my bio and we got a fun episode for you guys today. I'm very excited for our next guest in the hot seat. She has over one billion career streams. That's a lot of streams. She's two time ACM new female vocalist nominee. She has over 220 million YouTube views, 1.5 million followers. She is the first country faced to represent a global beauty brand. That's impressive.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:She has a children's book. Yep, you're an author.
Speaker 1:I'm an author, an author called Raisin Me.
Speaker 2:A Country Girl. She is known for her one of a kind, electric personality and, most importantly, a wife and mother to Daisy Ray. Give it up for Ray.
Speaker 1:Land. Hey, hey, thank you. Do I clap? I'm going to clap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, clap it up.
Speaker 1:If you have a girl, honestly. If you have a boy too, I'm going to send you my book. Because if you have a boy, he needs to know about country girls. That's right, and if it's a country girl, you got to know about being in the country man.
Speaker 2:So it's just like a how to guide or what.
Speaker 1:No. So I wrote a song when I was eight I think it was like a little over eight months pregnant and it was my last time in the studio before I was going to be on maternity leave and I was thinking I was like, okay, what's the last song that I want to write before I pop this kid out? And I had the idea called Raisin Me a Country Girl and I was like, if I want Daisy to be anything, I want her to be a sweet, fun, little, crazy, full of grit, full of grace country girl. And so I kind of wrote down all the things that I grew up with as a kid and I put them on a song. And then the song did so well that I decided to make a children's book.
Speaker 2:That's fantastic. And how cool is it that you get to write music that your kid can listen to one day.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool, even though, like I think, she likes my music but she's really into like expanded, like Latin music right now.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Like the dance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:Daisy loves like, loves that song, but she definitely like. She likes my music, I think.
Speaker 2:So did you sing to her like? Because I try. And now with Dre they say, if you start talking to the belly like after a certain point they can hear you, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean she was on stage with me. I did shows up into 38 weeks pregnant, so I was, and then I had Daisy, 39 and a half, because they induced me, because I have type 1 diabetes, so, but no, I performed like the whole time and I swear that's why she loves music so much, because she was on stage with me and she heard me, Like of course she could hear all the songs I was singing and playing and I definitely had some emotional times on stage, being pregnant and just feeling her move.
Speaker 1:When I was on stage and it was always a joke because I had my guitar and I could fit my guitar on my belly I wore it the whole time. I didn't think I was going to towards the end, but that's why I was carrying her kind of low. So it worked out what was that your favorite performances?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. My favorite performance was I was performing at we Fest and I was opening up for Blake Shelton and I mean I was big and pregnant and it was pretty hot, but like we got through it and I look back at those photos and I'm like women truly are the most incredible. We can literally do it all. It's pretty awesome and I had so much energy too. I felt great. But I love those pictures because I can be able to show those to Daisy one day and say I performed with you.
Speaker 2:You were with me.
Speaker 1:And it's funny now when I see her, because she's a little wild, obviously, but she's so funny and her cute little personality it's so crazy that I had her in my stomach and she was with me on stage in that moment, like when you like, when Dre looks back at photos of y'all together and then after you meet your baby, it's so surreal to think that they were with you that whole time.
Speaker 2:I know, because sometimes I'm like just sitting in the room and I'm like we're hanging out with our baby, right?
Speaker 1:now.
Speaker 2:And they're just right there chilling.
Speaker 1:You don't know what it is yet, though I'm proud of you for being the person that can wait. Me and Josh are not those kind of people. I think if I had one boy and one girl, maybe the third I could, but then also I'm like nah, I'd want to know if, like, am I going to have to deal with two sisters or am I going to have to deal with two brothers? But why do I need to know within nine months, like because at the end of the day, it's like it is what it is.
Speaker 2:Exactly. It was like how are you going to know how to decorate? I'm like, listen, I could put together a nursery through Amazon in one day.
Speaker 1:Absolutely and honestly, they don't really need the nursery. Like there's so much pressure around we were talking about this a little bit before but like you need this, you need that. No, they just need milk. A car seat and I will say a Duna is a must. If you travel a lot, that is the one car seat and stroller, that thing is the best invention it does. It is a sad day when your child outgrows that thing. I will say it was a sad day on our house, but they really don't need much. Like we put Daisy in her room at like, I think, three or four months, so it's like we had this whole nursery and then when she was and I put her in there sometimes. But you are so like and you're just a mega control freak right when you have your kid, like I remember just sitting there and just like making sure she was breathing 24, seven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, they don't even need their dad when they're that young.
Speaker 1:No, it's it's. We don't do anything.
Speaker 2:Yes, they do, every dad's like I feel like I couldn't do anything for like the first six months.
Speaker 1:Josh was a wreck after we had Daisy and they brought her over to, like you know, check all our vitals and, you know, wash her down or whatever. He put his hand in there and her little like hand like just grabbed his finger and he literally just lost it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And watching a six foot two. You know ex-athlete green beret, all those things melt like, just ball his eyes out. It's very attractive but also very sweet. You're like, damn, I'm right at the right guy. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's, it's, you're gonna melt, You're gonna melt.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know I am. I'm gonna be a mess, I think, in the hospital.
Speaker 1:And Drey is gonna do so great. She's so awesome, she's an electric personality.
Speaker 2:She does and she's been such a badass I'm like. I always say I'm like I feel like she was just like made to have babies, like she just kills it. She never complains, just goes along with all of her daily responsibilities Like you know, she's getting to the point now where she's a little uncomfortable, and so we're six weeks away. So how many weeks pregnant is that? What's like the full term?
Speaker 1:Full term is 40. So she's like 34 weeks yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 34 weeks, that's a lot.
Speaker 1:I mean 39, because I ended up going. I had to be induced because I have type 1 diabetes and by the I remember 38, I was just like sitting there I was wearing Josh's big old, extra large braves t-shirt, eating like I loved Lunchables and that's probably like the worst thing to eat when you're pregnant, you know what? That's another thing too. I ate a small fry and people can come at me or whatever I ate, like the. I got a fry from Chick-fil-A every day and I drank a diet Dr Pepper Not to drink the whole thing, no, but I was craving that diet baby, like that's what I wanted.
Speaker 2:And people keep asking that too, like what is Dre crave? Because that means she's having this or that and she hasn't had any crazy cravings. Nothing crazy.
Speaker 1:I just wanted fries every day, like that's why.
Speaker 2:I want fries every day and I'm not even pregnant.
Speaker 1:So I would get like a Chick-fil-A salad and a fries which is balance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, it's all about balance.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:She has like a outgoing personality. Do you think that she has more personality like you or your husband?
Speaker 1:Well, my husband is outgoing around the people that he's close to, but he's he's very chill. I definitely think she has more of my personality because she like walking to a room and like go straight up to another kid and start playing. But she is like her dad in the way, like when she wakes up she needs her time, like she wants to cuddle, she wants to get her yogurt. She loves like a little bit of routine. The morning Me I wake up and I'm like let's go.
Speaker 1:Oh you know, and so that's the, that's the way that me and him are kind of different, but she's I see a little bit of both of us in her personality and she's very particular. So she'll like, like if she was like looking at something. She wants to see how everything operates, like, and she will sit there for 30 or 40 minutes trying to figure out how do you open this, what do you do, what does this button do? And that definitely comes from Josh, because I'm a little more ADD, like.
Speaker 1:I'm like I would have already been bored with that, but she wants to know how it works Do everything, and then she'll move on to the next thing, which I think is kind of cool.
Speaker 2:That's cool, I can't wait. And you came in here today and you said you're feeling a little nauseous and I was like, do you have any special announcements you want to make right now?
Speaker 1:I just don't eat a blizzard.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's it. I mean, I haven't. I didn't realize I know what if I thought I was pregnant. That's funny. No, I haven't like had a full blown blizzard from Dairy Queen in a really long time.
Speaker 1:I think I'm legit getting old now, like that's what I said, and I have type 1 diabetes, so I probably shouldn't have been having a blizzard anyways. But, like as a kid, I would eat a blizzard, take some insulin, let's go. But now if I do eat something sweet, it's more like on the earth, like you know, those little carb smart bars. Or, like you know, like not real ice cream, it's like just to get through, we're all having a couple pieces of dark chocolate, but I was feeling an imminent blizzard last night and I ate it, and now I feel like Cause I was thinking in my head like a slushie, but you're talking about the blizzard, that's the ice cream.
Speaker 2:Then you can add the candy. No, the candy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, josh got a peanut butter and Josh was fine, he ate a whole one. Guys are different, though. They're built different.
Speaker 2:Did you have a lot of trick or treaters? What'd you guys do for Halloween?
Speaker 1:So we went over to our friend John's summer John and Semmer's house and they have a little girl. We so our neighborhood like it's not really a neighborhood, it's just like a dead end street and Daisy's the only kid on the street, so it's like we don't have any trick or treaters.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's like, and I feel like, if we can get through one more year of not having a trick or treat, I'm totally game. She's two. I mean she's not going to. Really she's not going to eat all the candy. It's going to be in Josh, or maybe the candy she can't even eat the candy. So I'm going to wait until next year. So, we just went over there hung out, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause I got into a debate at the gym today where people were like if your baby or kid can't walk, you shouldn't take them trick or treat.
Speaker 1:Oh I absolutely agree with that.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you have other kids put them in the thing where I'm like but if you can get away with it and not have to trick or treat, why do it? Cause we had a few. A few of my friends were having trick or treat, like they were doing it. I'm just like Daisy is two, like she's not, doesn't understand the comments that they're trick or treating. She would now if she watched her other friends do it, she would be, she would get it. It's very smart and figure it out, but like and then I'm going to have to fight her to get all the candy back. That sounds miserable.
Speaker 1:Like we're just going to go over to our friend's house, eat some tri-tip, let her play with some babies and hang out.
Speaker 2:Call it a night.
Speaker 1:Take a family photo. Wear the costumes for five minutes.
Speaker 2:What was the costume?
Speaker 1:We were minions this year. She loves minions. So we were. We were minions.
Speaker 2:And so that is cool to watch too, cause I feel like they change what they like so often.
Speaker 1:Well, we say that she speaks minion, like she's like, like she literally just I don't know what the hell she's saying at all times Like of course she knows how to communicate some things, but she is just. I was like telling Josh I was like she's not watching too much minions, man, like we gotta. But she doesn't like Miss Rachel, like she lacks Miss Rachel for a little bit. Miss Rachel is awesome.
Speaker 2:Who's Miss Rachel?
Speaker 1:So you got to learn about Miss Rachel. If you ask any parent who Miss Rachel is, they're going to be like, oh hell, yeah, she rocks my world. She's this woman and she has a YouTube channel and it's teaches your kids like how to say you know words like mom and dad, dad, or like Si language, and she is like a speech therapist. So like she, the way that she does her mouth and everything like it's really easy for kids to learn and we, I will say when Daisy started watching it, it really has helped her a lot and it just they have like zero to six months and like when you're laying your baby on the floor or whatever and she's in. Why am I calling it a she? I think you're having a girl.
Speaker 2:I think so too.
Speaker 1:Okay. If you're not, I'm really. I'm sorry to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I've had a couple of vivid dreams last couple of weeks where it was like a super blonde little girl, cause I had my hair was like blonde white, yeah, yeah. Yeah, miss Rachel sounds very Southern, I feel like she's not Southern.
Speaker 1:She's not. No, she's not Southern.
Speaker 2:Cause I feel like you Southerners.
Speaker 1:She's from like, new York. Like her and her husband, like did theater. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right Cause. I'm from Connecticut but at any time like I moved here, like 10 years ago, and people always say like Miss Rachel, or miss this, and miss that I'm like that's not like a Northern thing, I feel like it's very Southern.
Speaker 1:It is very Southern. Do you like it here? I do, okay.
Speaker 2:I love it. Yeah, it's changed.
Speaker 1:I mean even it's changed so much. Well, how long have you been here now?
Speaker 2:10 years 10 years. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when did you first start um Booth Camp like the moment?
Speaker 2:2018.
Speaker 1:Okay, that was a little further in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, further in, but no, it's been cool. Nashville's awesome, it's growing.
Speaker 1:It's a good city.
Speaker 2:It's changing a lot.
Speaker 1:It is, it is. For better or?
Speaker 2:for worse.
Speaker 1:I mean, what do you?
Speaker 2:think.
Speaker 1:I always think it's beautiful when a city is like growing and all those things Like it's great for our city, but also too, it's like Losing a little bit of a little bit of its charm. If it's charm.
Speaker 1:I feel like I feel like every time I come downtown in Nashville, like I remember when I could come downtown in Nashville run a few errands, go grab a coffee, sit there, check some emails, I literally like when, if I had like 20 minutes to spare, I had 20 minutes to spare and I couldn't even find parking at my favorite little coffee shop and I was like I hate this. I was so excited and especially as a mom, like you have 20 minutes like oh yeah, I'm gonna sit, drink coffee and silence, yeah. And then it's like so that part, I feel like it's losing that little bit of charm that it had. But it's still. We live outside of Nashville, like closer to Hendersonville, and I like it better out there, but I mean Nashville's still fun, like I love living close to a major city because there's always something to do.
Speaker 2:Always. That's the cool thing about Nashville Any night of the week there's something to do.
Speaker 1:Any night of the week. All our friends live here. We have such a great community of friends and you know what's funny too, like we had a friend come visit us this last week and she was like so many like influencers and random people live in Nashville besides, like that's. Another thing is it's become more of like a hub that people just love to live because it's still a great place to live, but you can get a lot of work done too and network and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:That's very right, it's very artsy and it's very. It's a creative city and there are so many influencers in Nashville now.
Speaker 1:There is trendy. It's trendy to be in Nashville.
Speaker 2:And I was saying on a recent episode, I think. Maybe I don't know what I say, but I feel like the show Nashville put Nashville on the map right and then it became super popular and now with social media and bachelorette parties and it's yeah, it's a great city, I still have never done a party bus. What.
Speaker 1:I want to do a party bus. So bad I turned 30 next year. I'm definitely not doing a party bus for my 30th.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you're, maybe I'll take a party bus to my birthday. I was gonna say but if you're struggling with, what did you have last night?
Speaker 1:Blizzard.
Speaker 2:I can drink, though I can drink tequila, tequila.
Speaker 1:Bye, no, I can handle.
Speaker 2:What about a Bushwacker? No Okay.
Speaker 1:No, I'm like, I'm a margarita girl.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Like margaritas tequila shots. That's my vibe.
Speaker 2:I love tequila, so do you love Broadway.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Like going on Broadway yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean Broadway, I think is more fun, and now that I'm a mom, because I don't go out very much, so when I, when we go to Broadway, I mean, it's like we are going out. Yeah, if we went out, was it probably a couple years ago. Remember we got like the little mezzanine spot at Dirk Spentley's bar and it's fun because you're away a little bit but you get to watch all the action and it.
Speaker 1:I forgot how fun it is, like when you get into the environment it's fun, but I don't know how people do that every weekend though no Like. I could not do it every weekend, but when you get out and like you do it, it's fun. I just don't like the bar hopping. Like being in the cold. I always like it makes me uncomfortable seeing like those girls wearing nothing out there. I'm like bitch. I know you're cold.
Speaker 2:I know you're freezing. Yeah, you look good, though you look great. Yeah, but you're cold as well.
Speaker 1:But honestly, like any logical man's thinking you need a sweater Like yeah, well, there's not probably many logical men out on Broadway.
Speaker 2:You're probably right.
Speaker 1:But like I was thinking about that, we went out. Was it the time we went to be one of Josh's buddies and we were in line? I'm wearing a big old sweatshirt probably Josh sweatshirt leggings and some cute like combat boots, and these girls are wearing feather strapless tops, which I have a couple feather strapless tops, but you wear them in the, not in the freezing cold weather and you have a jacket. But I was like so much respect, I'm so glad to be married at a bar in my sweatshirt.
Speaker 1:They're going home by 10 o'clock but then when you get inside the bar, you get hot, exactly.
Speaker 2:That's the thing is.
Speaker 1:it's so, it's like, and you don't want to carry the jacket, so I kind of get it.
Speaker 2:It's fun.
Speaker 1:It is fun. It is fun but it's. I probably go. We probably go to Broadway now like two times a year.
Speaker 2:I'm the guy that is like let's go to Broadway.
Speaker 1:My father-in-law. We always joke like something about the pandemic and people not being able to hang out with each other and not being able to party really messed up him and so he loves going to bars and he loves partying and he's you know 67 doesn't want to leave. He wants to shut the bar down at 3am and I think that that is so hilarious. He goes look at all these people, everybody's having a good time. I'm like, sit down, mark, we're exhausted.
Speaker 2:It's so fun. I like Mark, I need to go out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you literally you need to go out, Mark.
Speaker 2:He does not want to leave I have too much fun, where I want everybody to have as much fun as possible with me, and I'll be out there till 7 in the morning if I could, I love it. We got to get you a bar on Broadway. When are you going to?
Speaker 1:have Ray Lins One day, that's a sweet deal, those guys got. They do, they do. We do need a Ray Lins bar. It'd be pretty, it'd be pretty rottie. It'd be pretty fun. We have Miranda Miranda's the only girl, that really has a bar down there and then a bunch of dudes.
Speaker 2:How do you feel about women in country music? Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1:You know, I feel like a lot of women are crushing it. I feel like there's always space for more obviously. I will say that I think the way where we're at in country music now, there's so many ways to break through and with streaming and with just social media, you don't have to like I mean, country radio is still very important in in country music, but there's so many artists and females breaking through, you know, just by themselves, through streaming and so many other platforms. It's honestly like music industry is like the wall wall rest right now. So it's like you kind of got to find your niche, follow that and just put out good music and see what happens. I feel like it's been really good.
Speaker 1:I feel like girls are just crushing it. I know there's so many women that I love. I love the authenticity that's coming from women right now Just really being super vulnerable and kind of going back to those original country roots of, like you know, loretta Len and Dolly Parton. Even though Dolly Parton sang nine to five, she wrote nine to five and JoLynn the same day, like or no, no, no, I will always love you and JoLynn in the same day, like she was a full of depth but also full of sass.
Speaker 1:And I think we're seeing that more with women, like you know, just writing really great songs, but also women are having fun again. I think it's important. Like I could not live in sadland, like some of my biggest songs were Love Triangle and she Chose Me and songs that are more heartfelt. But if I had songs like that, I would like that's not my personality, it is a part of me, but like I have to have like the rowdy, the keep up got me girls.
Speaker 1:like the up tempo because, first of all, that's how you create a show and second of all, like it's fun.
Speaker 2:What I love about your voice and your sound is I feel like you have such a unique voice but also at the same time, it's so like country and classic, which I love because I feel like I grew up on that sound. And a lot of people now say, you know, country is very pop, but it's like your sound is so country. Thank you that. I love that and I just love that. Do you feel that?
Speaker 1:Yes, I do. I feel like my first record was a little more pop, which that's where I was, that's where my headspace was at and I and I also get irritated when, like people are like oh, you've changed, or you can't put out, that's too pop or that's too like. This is like we're. Have you ever met a creative person in your life?
Speaker 1:We, like, we everybody evolves and everybody's songs are different, Like that's why I love Morgan Wallen or Hardy or different artists like that, because one of their songs will sound super country and the other one will sound like a freaking, you know pop record.
Speaker 1:And it's like the only thing that that matters is your voice and that's sounding the same, you know. And but yeah, my, my first record would lean to more into that. I would call it pop country. But there was the love triangle, wasn't that? It was super country. But I've kind of where I'm at now. I just I just love country instrumentation and I grew up on the greats, and the songs that I'm writing are kind of geared towards more of that, but they're also very fun and I also have like 808s and shit in them too, so you can't get me away from 808s. I grew up in Baytown, texas. Like you know, beyonce was from Houston, so Baytown's close to Houston.
Speaker 2:So I grew up on my rap and country, and that's what you listened to on your free time. What'd you say?
Speaker 1:Pretty much. I do really love Latin music too, like I just love anything with a good beat, and another cool thing about music now is there's no like roles.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Like just put out a great record that you're proud of and see where it lands. Like why do you have to make something sound a certain way for somebody else? How do you want it to sound?
Speaker 2:It's your record, it's your art, and so you're talking a lot about writing. So do you write mostly yourself?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I write all of it. I've only released my songs were released that I haven't written thank to. One was for this anti sex trafficking organization. They help like women and children that have been sex trafficked like get out of those situations. I released a song with them. I didn't write that. And then I didn't write a song on my first record called the Apple. But everything else I've written.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. That's a tough process. I feel like you just go.
Speaker 1:It is and it isn't. It's so funny. I feel like I love hearing people that aren't like in the music and row scene. Like me or like Josh was like. You know how do you like leave with the song? Or my dad Like you know, how do you leave with a song and then in the day it's done Like that?
Speaker 1:doesn't but just like you have your nine to five like. That's almost like our nine to five. It's like work. We go in, we all talk about an idea, we're all like, all right, that sounds cool, and then we start writing it and some days you're more inspired than others, but it's kind of like you just show up every day and then you know when you do strike that little bit of gold. It's like damn, this is what. This is why I love music. But I will say like I now I got a little burnout. Everybody's different.
Speaker 1:There's some people that can write four to five songs a week. I'm not that way. I get like I get pretty burned out. So I like to write two to three times a week. Maybe two like. Two is perfect for me because I know it's gonna get. I'm gonna get two really good songs. But it also depends on who I'm writing with. If I'm writing with certain girls that I love to write with, I could write six days straight and know that we would get gold every day. It all depends on like, because it's like a blind date going into a writing session and you don't know the two people that you're writing with and you're like having to write some song that's personal to you and it's like I don't want to tell this guy my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you need to be able to connect with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah you have to connect with them. But everybody kind of knows going in, oh this person writes like this. Or I do try to like surprise people because I really do like to write everything. I don't like to write just country music. So writing and performing are my two favorite parts of country, of music or being an artist.
Speaker 2:Have you walked into a writing room and just been like, ooh, I'm not feeling this, I'm out of here? Yeah? Multiple times I'm like, eh, knock him over. Now that I have a kid, damn, that's a good. That mentality changes. Right, your time is important to you, it's important, but like I'm like I gotta take her to a doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1:But, like you know, we just we're like oh, we're like oh yeah. I normally don't use that car very often because I don't write with people I don't like anymore. But there's been some times where I feel like I'm beating my head against the wall and I know it's not going to go anywhere and yeah, that part's hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're talking about breaking through into the industry. Yes, your big breakthrough the voice. Yeah, I was on the voice season two, season two Like oh gee, I'm an OG, that's OG, that's OG, yeah, that's OG shit.
Speaker 1:It was funny because we went back for Blake, so Blake just got done with? Was it 25 seasons or 20? Yeah, he was did a ton of seasons, it's been that long it's been so many seasons he's done.
Speaker 1:Did he do 25? No, did he do 25? I don't know how many numbers it was, but it was. They brought back some of the alumni from over the years to do a big performance for him. Well, everybody that they brought back won the show. I didn't win my season, but I'm like Tom Brady, like I was like like the last round pick, but they were like you know what.
Speaker 1:She's done a lot with her life. She can come back and perform. But it was funny because I was doing interviews and they were like so what season did you win? I was like 19.
Speaker 1:I'm top 12, man, I didn't even win, but it also felt kind of good because it's like made an impact you don't have to win the shows to make an impact and, to you know, it showed me that I love music and it showed me that performing is what I wanted to do. It laid a great foundation for me and that I was able to move straight to Nashville. But no, I did think it was hilarious that people thought that I won that season.
Speaker 2:Were you on Blake's team I?
Speaker 1:was on Blake's team. Do not watch a video Ugh, it's so bad.
Speaker 2:Who was? Who else were the judges at that time?
Speaker 1:It was the original four, so it was me. Oh, it was Blake. I'm sorry, blake. Ceelo Green, kristine Aguilera and Adam Levine.
Speaker 2:All right. So how nervous were you? Were you nervous when you got on stage? Cause you must have been really young. Oh my God, I was 17. Damn.
Speaker 1:So 12 years ago, I'm 29. Okay. So, yeah, I was. You know, I've never been on a soundstage in Los Angeles, california in my life, Just that in general. I'm sure you've been. You've been on reality.
Speaker 2:TV, you know that's a lot.
Speaker 1:It's a lot Like you think you know what that life's like and you don't. And it's like so I am, you know, do all these preliminary auditions before, and I had like four rounds of auditions. So you do the one I did in Nashville, which is where they saw me first, and then I did one over zoom, like, zoom, like a call thing. Well, I wasn't really at auditions, it was more of a conversation and they brought me out of California. And then I did one in front of Mark Burnett.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a survivor guy. Yeah, survivor guy.
Speaker 1:That was a really interesting situation too, cause I think back at that audition and it was like the lights were low and it was very chill. You couldn't see the producers in the room. I didn't even know who the hell was in there until like later Carson was. Carson was really sweet, carson Daly, and he gave me like a little pal in the back.
Speaker 2:He goes, you got this kid, I was like thanks, Like I was like who the? Hell are you?
Speaker 1:My bro was like oh, you had Carson Daly.
Speaker 2:Like he's so jacked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I then like I mean, I watched MTV, but I wasn't like that was a little, that was a little before me. And so, anyways, I auditioned in front of them and then you found out. So you find out if you're going to make it to one of the blind audition days. Well there's four blind audition days, so there's 120 acts that are ready to audition for the judges. Well, you don't want to be on the fourth day, because the season the the teams are probably going to be full by that point.
Speaker 1:So I was praying I would be day one or day two, like I was like God, please let me be in one of the first two days. And I was on the first day and when I auditioned auditioned with hell on heels and Blake and Adam turned around for me, I think, on the way that they edit it, because you know they always edit it different Adam turned around right away Like I mean right, I wasn't even halfway through the verse and so, like I remember, it was such an out of body experience because I had practiced the song so much I could have sang it in my sleep.
Speaker 1:So I'm like singing and I was like, holy shit, that's Adam Levine.
Speaker 2:And then I'm like looking at him. He's just staring at you.
Speaker 1:And he's staring at me and I'm like, all right, well now I can't be like I've made the show.
Speaker 2:I'm on the ball? Did you just relax all of a sudden?
Speaker 1:No, no, I was relaxed, but then I was jacked because, I was like I made the show. My voice is cool.
Speaker 1:I was jacked, and so then I'm like, and then I start singing and growling, because when I first okay, so when, like, and when you watch the audition you hear him say this like when I first, like when I sing the verse, I'm like really quiet and my voice is like more of a tone that like I sing in now, but at 17, I didn't know how to like sing in that tone, like I didn't really know what I was doing, I was just singing, but then when the chorus hit, like I had so much growl and I went into this crazy country voice and that's when Blake turned, is when the when the chorus hit, and so but he, but Adam had been turned around for a while, and so I see him and then I'm like, and then I was like all right, well, I made the show. So I was a little more relaxed, but I was in it.
Speaker 2:Then I was like I gotta perform for these people.
Speaker 1:I'm in this. And then Blake turned and I was like, oh my gosh, there's Blake Sheldon. I've seen him at the rodeo so many times. It was like so epic. And it was really hard because I knew, I knew I was going to pick Blake.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say, like you go on the show, you're like if he turns, I'm going to play, If he turns, I'm going to play.
Speaker 1:But I really appreciated the fact that Adam turned so soon. So that was hard you know, and anytime I still see Adam, he's like the one that got away man. He always remember that time.
Speaker 2:What if Blake didn't turn? Say it was Adam and Christina Aguilera.
Speaker 1:I think my life would have been totally different. Like, oh, I definitely I would have picked Adam for sure, because Adam was a really he was a really good coach to everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was great.
Speaker 1:Christina is awesome too. Christina is super sweet, but she's like but I grew up listening to Rune 5. So I would have you know songs about Jay and like best record ever I would have picked him. But I always think about that. I'm like because if somebody asks me that question before, they're like what if you got on? What if you're on Adam's team? I said I think my life would have looked totally different.
Speaker 1:Like I don't. I think I would have definitely been a Nashville at some point, absolutely Well, I don't know what, where I would be Like. Blake just completely took me under his wing as a student and then, as I was you know, he's my coach but then he became family and came to my wedding and you know it's just like has been a part of my life ever since. So it's it's really, really special.
Speaker 2:That's so cool and I feel like a lot of people don't realize the process leading up to that show. I think a lot of people think you put in an application, you get invited to go sing right.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of steps beforehand. That's why anybody that reaches out to me and say, hey, I made the show, whatever I'm like, listen, you've done it. Like. Be proud of yourself now. Like don't and I'm just the example, whatever, whatever you're going to sing because you only get to sing covers, you're not going to sing original songs Just do things that you want to do to help promote you for when you get off the show, Because this show is just a blip in your career and it's going to help you lay a foundation, but it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not. A chair turns around for you and you become a superstar. I mean, you see it on reality TV all the time Some people resonate with people and then some don't and they fall off. And it's like, how are you going to capitalize on? Yeah, sustain that, because it's. It's hard, but you got to have that personality, you've got it and you got to have a sound and you got to stick to something. And when I was on the voice, I didn't even realize I was branding myself, but I was like, I always wore those Betsy Johnson 2, 2 cupcake looking dresses hair curl with a big flower on the side of my head that was my brand. Like and and that's like when I walked around, that's what I wore around town. Like, that's what they knew. Like, oh, raelynn's going to have a flower in her hair. She's going to wear cowgirl boots in her big old cupcake dresses Like.
Speaker 1:That was that was the thing, and so it helped me kind of brand myself, but I didn't even know I was doing that.
Speaker 2:Being natural.
Speaker 1:I tried to wear jeans on stage and I'm like what are you doing? That's not what we're doing. We're seeing that. So so there there is. It is hard though, I will say, I think, to grow up, because I I'm definitely not going to say I grew up, but I do think that I kind of grew up in the spotlight a little bit.
Speaker 2:Of course, 17 is young, really young.
Speaker 1:When I mean when I think about growing up, I think about, like Mickey Mouse Club and, like you know, some of the stuff that they were doing since they were like 10.
Speaker 1:But no, like when you're 17 and you're on a and millions and millions. I was the first audition right after the Super Bowl, the first audition to air. So they tell you what episode you're going to be on, but you don't know when in the episode you're going to be. So they were like you're going to be on Super Bowl at the Super Bowl Sunday episode. You're like damn and I was like damn. So the Super Bowl ends Okay.
Speaker 2:And then railing.
Speaker 1:comes on, not even kidding you Like that's how it happened.
Speaker 2:That's like the lottery for that yeah.
Speaker 1:Just just in that time slot in general, when it was awesome because we didn't have to watch the whole friggin episode. But I, when I think about being that young and all the eyes that were on me and a lot of hate, I mean I didn't know, I was freaking 17 years old. Of course I growled at every high note. Of course I didn't really know, like I was learning how to sing, I was learning, I was learning in front of America and some people either loved it or some people hated it. But I will say Blake was the perfect coach to have because he would not let anybody be mean to me.
Speaker 1:They were mean to me he would call them out and call them a chicken shit on Twitter. Like that's back when Twitter was a. Thing right.
Speaker 1:And he was just like you know. And and two, I think it gave me a really tough skin for the business and thank God I already had tough skin Like and thank God I have values and such a great faith and all those things. So that way, like when I look back like it didn't affect me, like some people would really get affected by that and they do, like anybody, like most people that are on reality TV, they can't handle the outside, hey, and you've got to realize you're not going to please everybody. And two, when you put yourself in front of that many people, somebody's not going to like you and that's okay.
Speaker 1:But learning that at a very young age was really good for me, because going into Nashville and moving here at, I moved here at seven. I just turned, because I turned 18 when I was in LA, so moved here at 18. When people told me no, or when things didn't go the way that I expected, I didn't get upset about it, I just kept on going, and I think that that's really important to have the right mindset.
Speaker 2:That's impressive. Cause 17 and going through all that. I mean when I went through my reality TV stand I was 29 and 30.
Speaker 1:And that was even difficult, but I've seen so many people in my situation just struggle with it and change and it's just like you don't know how to handle the hate, the attention for better, for worse and two, I mean, I think a singing show and the show that you are totally different shows, but they edit it the way that they want to edit it too. Like you know they don't get the whole on the fly interview or you don't even know. Like you just got off a show and I'm like balling my eyes out. I just made Justin Bieber release.
Speaker 1:Like I said that on national television. I said, oh shit on national television, which was hilarious too. Oh so when we went back in May for Blake's reunion episode, like some of those crew guys I haven't seen in 10 years, 10 or 11 years, like because I came back to do one of my songs, so they like and we were all so close like and they're all still working there, and this one guy, he, he does like the main camera thing and he came up to me. He goes you're still the, you're still the only contestant in the youngest contestant to cuss on, cuss on national television.
Speaker 2:Really Hell yeah man, it was so funny. The crew is great. The crew like the first night that I got there and there's so many cameras and crew members and they I ended up finding out later on the season that they all put bets with each other on who's going to win the show.
Speaker 1:That's epic.
Speaker 2:So all the camera men and like the audio guys, so they're all kind of got their favorites and that's fun though. Yeah, it makes it fun for them.
Speaker 1:There was this one guy his name was. His name was Froggy and he was my. He was the guy that always had my audio thing, and this is kind of messed up, but I think it's a funny story. So. So when you're on reality TV like they mic you up and then you have a guy wearing, you know we're basically he's doing just your audio. So I was trying to figure out which one of my guys it was, so I hit the thing and then he jumped. I was like, oh that's him, and then he's like what the hell?
Speaker 1:And then that's how we became friends. It was funny.
Speaker 2:There are one sound guy. He was the main sound guy. It was one night when we were in Ireland and me and my buddy, ben Higgins we like snuck out of our room and he comes stumbling into this room like completely shit-faced and this is at like three in the morning and no cameras around and he falls over.
Speaker 2:And then he gets up and he just takes this huge thing of whiskey straight down the hatchet and me and Ben are like, oh my God, what are we going to do with this guy? And we didn't want to wake anybody up and we walk him to his room, we put him to sleep on his bed, we leave and then the next morning all the guys were sitting around getting filmed and everybody's like where's the audio guy? And he's like the main guy. And somebody goes so-and-so is in the hospital and we're like me and Ben just look at each other like that.
Speaker 2:We're like, oh shit, oh shit. And apparently he got up after we put him to bed and he must have fell and hit his head. He gashes head open, no. And then we had to go to the hospital and we got stitches.
Speaker 1:Did you almost not say you brought him to the room because you didn't want to get in?
Speaker 2:trouble. We didn't say anything. We've never even talked about it. This is the first time anybody's hearing about that. Yeah, that is hilarious. And we're sitting there like oh shit. You're like oh shit, man yeah.
Speaker 1:Funny thing is I couldn't drink on the show. It was actually epic, though I'm really grateful that I was 17, because I got to share a room with a parent Either it was my mom or my dad or my stepmom and so I didn't have that weird sharing a room with a contestant like that. Yeah, I was kind of stressful, but I will say I was grateful for that. And also, too, I didn't have the late drunk nights. I mean, I was 17. So we would walk around Universal and then I would go.
Speaker 2:How long was the season filming?
Speaker 1:So that was back when they had really long lives. They don't do long of lives anymore, they kind of cut down really quick. I started. I was out there in October for like two weeks the first time and then I went back for the lives. No, but it must have been longer than two weeks, Maybe like three weeks. Then I went back for the lives in like March and I was there for two months.
Speaker 2:Damn.
Speaker 1:So how long was filming?
Speaker 2:12 weeks.
Speaker 1:That's a long time.
Speaker 2:No, you can't talk to any friends, family. No cell phone, no internet, no TV.
Speaker 1:Okay, what do you think about the Golden Bachelor? I haven't watched it.
Speaker 2:You haven't watched it.
Speaker 1:I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 2:I bet I mean like I'm like the worst bachelor nation.
Speaker 1:Like, personally, I don't really care for the bachelor. After I watched the I don't remember what season I watched and it pissed me off because they broke up. I'm like I'm not getting emotionally invested anymore Was it. It was the one with I can't remember. It was a blonde girl, I think it was Emily and she was and she got engaged, dude Jeff, with one F. With one F and. I thought, he was so sweet. I was like he's gonna love her little girl.
Speaker 2:This is gonna be great, Emily. She was a bachelorette twice, I believe.
Speaker 1:Ah shit, I didn't even know that. I'm just saying like after like that broke up, I was like I'm not giving any more time to this.
Speaker 2:People get emotionally invested. It's so stupid, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:It's stupid.
Speaker 2:It's actually stupid.
Speaker 1:And it's like there's no way they're dating 5,000 people Like you can't. I'm jealous. I would literally suck on a show like that. I would be the worst.
Speaker 2:I was rough.
Speaker 1:But being on so watching the Golden Bachelors is hilarious because you have a bunch of 60 year old women, so he's 71. But you know that right, so he's 71.
Speaker 2:I know that because I did a podcast and I announced that I was having a baby and I had no clue the Golden Bachelors coming out for the announcement and I like posted a teaser saying I have a special announcement. Everybody's like, oh my God, you're the Golden Bachelor. I'm like you guys think I'm that old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you but not no. He's 71. And he, like, was married for 40 years or something. His wife passed away, and so he's been?
Speaker 2:Are all the storylines my significant other passed away?
Speaker 1:So most of the storylines are that there's a few ladies that have been divorced a couple of times. But it's hilarious to see the youngest one 60, the youngest woman 60 and the oldest one was 75. But she's not on the show anymore. But I'm invested because I love seeing these 60 year old women be kind of crazy. But the funny thing is, when you're 60, you're also. You're not like, oh, she's skinnier than me, or oh, she's this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of petty stuff. The petty shit's not.
Speaker 1:It is out the window and it actually is. It's more of like their kids and like one girl like left because her daughter like had something wrong with her pregnancy and she's like I'm not going to be here, Of course she left. So it's a different dynamic, which I think is interesting. But also it's just hilarious because he cries all the time Really. His emotional side, because he's emotional because of course, it's like, it's different Like.
Speaker 1:Josh, it's an emotional place yeah and Josh was saying I think I would rather meet a family as a single guy, like with no family, than be an older man meeting somebody's kids and their grandkids. Because it's like who doesn't have a heart for kids and grandkids?
Speaker 2:Like you know, I wonder what the logistics are. Like they let them talk to anybody because, like we couldn't talk to anybody. But these people have kids and everything. They've got to be allowed to communicate.
Speaker 1:I think that they do that it has to be different. And also too. But seeing some of the crazy watching all these 6-year-old women do or 60 and 7-year-old women do, never have I ever and talk about some of the stuff that they've done, I was laughing. I was like this is so pure, it's just, it's great.
Speaker 2:I actually like older more than they ever and they're probably legitimately there for love. Yeah, they are, they're not social media.
Speaker 1:And then also there's this one girl that got so dramatic about him being on the one-on-one bitch. You're on the show, don't that?
Speaker 2:gets tough, though it's tough, which is like I just can't have a.
Speaker 1:It's like a one-on-one, oh well. And then the next time he was like oh, you're the one.
Speaker 2:I was like Mr Golden Bachelor, I probably saw like the last. I would say like 8 to 10 guys in the house probably cry once, and it's because you're just beaten down. That's so sad. You're beaten down like a bag of pulp, like you can't do anything. You can't like you can't talk to anybody though, and two.
Speaker 1:The second thing is is like I think it's different I mean, men and women are very different and like, as a man, I'm sure it's hard because it's like that's my girl, Like you're protective.
Speaker 2:Yes, that was how I was.
Speaker 1:And that's you know. And girls are protective too, but it's just different. Like you know, you can't it's way harder for a dude Like and I'm not saying whatever, but you know.
Speaker 2:Guys are probably more competitive too, and they're competitive.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, do you work at our ovens?
Speaker 2:and all that bullshit. You have that part A lot of testosterone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it's hilarious but seeing this man like who's, and he looks great for his age.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's going to be very interesting. But I'm actually very intrigued because I love how, and some of how, oblivious some of these women are you know they'll just say things and because a few of them are catty. Of course, there's catty women everywhere. It doesn't matter how old you are. Some people are catty. Yeah, but it's actually really. It's really funny, like I think you would enjoy it. I think you would enjoy watching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't. I'd never watched. It was too like traumatic for me to watch afterwards. Oh, absolutely, and also I knew I know everything. Yeah, then it's just like oh, but you know what.
Speaker 1:Truthfully, I haven't watched the Voice in years. I watched the blind auditions because I think that's still fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1:It's like watching the first week of everybody coming in. You're like, OK, let's see whatever, and I like to watch the end.
Speaker 2:What are the dates like on the Golden Bachelors? Where do they go? Like they can't be too physical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but listen, freaking, he is making out with everybody.
Speaker 2:Good for him.
Speaker 1:Like see, I didn't know how that would be either. I didn't know.
Speaker 2:The funny thing about that is is like you go into it and you're like all right, I don't know how I'm going to feel like making out whatever air oxygen they have in that mansion as soon as you get there. It's just like it's go time.
Speaker 1:And you just start naturally doing it. That is crazy.
Speaker 2:I remember just like making out with her the first night in the front of the fireplace and there's just like 15 camera guys right there and you're like, oh shit, yeah, I didn't think I was going to do that, yeah.
Speaker 1:See, love is blind is different. Because love is blind, they say. It's almost awkward, Like when I've listened to a few of the podcasts of some of them talking. They're like it's awkward when the cameras are on you and so you don't really want to say anything.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:That's hard, but with him, no. This one girl was like I'm falling for you, like you're the love of my life, and he was like thank you for saying that. I was like bitch, you're gone, like you know you can always tell.
Speaker 2:You're not allowed to say I love you.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:The lead's not.
Speaker 1:I don't think he, oh he's not allowed to say it.
Speaker 2:He's not allowed to say it.
Speaker 1:So he's not allowed. I didn't know that. Yeah, you're not allowed to say it, so he's just saying but you could always tell, like the one, and there was this one girl that just kept on talking and Josh goes. He kept on kissing her. He's probably just like telling her to shut up. He's like you know. You know, let's just be quiet.
Speaker 2:You're not allowed to say it and then they don't want you. Like when I got to the fantasy suites and they're like you better not tell her that you love her. Like we can't have you telling her that you need to do it on camera so we can see the reaction and everything. And I remember she was crying in the fantasy suite because she was like, ask me if I loved her. And I was like I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to say it and I didn't say it because I also want.
Speaker 2:I wanted it to also be kind of like a special moment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's so stressful.
Speaker 2:It was a stressful night. It was. I mean, it was like roller coaster of all emotions and we just partied hard Like and then it's like and then two, you don't know how much alcohol is involved. Like that's another thing a lot you know, like, because you always see, one thing I love about reality TV especially love is blind.
Speaker 1:You just see him going downhill, oh my gosh they got all those cameras on and their swimsuits and they are drinking on the golden batch or one of the girls was being just like, super Like, she just like. Another thing that's so funny is when they tell him about the drama that's happened in the house.
Speaker 2:I'm like, why does he have to? Because the producers are like hey, what did you think about Tina over there? Don't you think that old Jimmy should know about like they're?
Speaker 1:they're just. It's a whole storyline there, but it's funny seeing six year old women talk about other older women. Because it's like listen, y'all are, and then they're going to come back home and they're going to be like that was so stupid. That was so stupid, like why I get so upset. But that's your whole world.
Speaker 2:The only people that you talk to are the producers who work with them and they're you're sitting in this room where it's dark and you have cameras on you. It's like, basically, a therapy session and they're breaking down every part of you until, like your childhood, and pulling up your trauma and then trying to see how it affects you. And then they're talking about this guy and then you're with this guy there, then you're with their girl and you think that she's just with you, and then you you're laying in bed and then another guy comes home and is like I was just with her all night. It's just like what the hell.
Speaker 2:It's a madhouse.
Speaker 1:It's good TV. It's good TV, it works. But is there? Josh said that there was, but I don't remember. Was there ever a bachelor or bachelorette that found love early and just was like peace out? Didn't that happen one time?
Speaker 2:I think with Claire maybe. But, there is, like my season, me and her kind of connected, like right out of the gates, and she had said that to the producers, like she said that. I was the one, yeah, and that kind of screwed things up because they're like oh shit. Yeah, we got to we got to really figure out how to make how to make a show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like. I'm sure not everybody wants to go through that process. Yeah, that's another thing I forgot, I need to figure out. But I was like and I asked Josh like how did you know that this has happened?
Speaker 2:Yeah, obviously he probably watched that season. Yeah, yeah, no, she told me that she was going to pick me when there was 10 guys left, and that was terrible, yeah.
Speaker 1:But then you're like, then you have to watch her.
Speaker 2:Exactly. That was awful. I'm like I wish she never did that. And they found out that she did that. I could never do it, man. I'm so like man, that's crazy. It's that's wild.
Speaker 1:I'm thankful I was on like a reality show for for music. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But there's no like cattiness on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about?
Speaker 2:the battles, Don't you guys have battles? You're like I want to kick that girl's ass.
Speaker 1:I don't really care, man, I was just like. Of course I wanted to win you know Adley was on my battle.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 1:Adley.
Speaker 2:Adley.
Speaker 1:Adley, adley Stump, who does all the? She does all the prank stuff.
Speaker 2:now I don't know, she was on the Voice, maybe for some reason.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, adley, she hangs out with Sean and all that Okay, probably she's great yeah.
Speaker 1:But she was on my season and we always talk about it. We were like, remember, like, because it's like it, just I wish that they would have done the battles, because Adley killed that battle. She sounded so great, I mean I was good, I was, I mean I was good, I was okay. But, like, when I think about like overall voice and more mature, I think she had definitely more mature voice, you know. But the one thing that I liked that they changed about the show, that I wish that they had on our season is like, let's say, I had two artists and I picked artist A. You could save two people and so you could pick and be like I want to pick artist B for my team, and then it's cool because then you have an initiative to really both sing well and do your best performance because you know that you might get picked from another team.
Speaker 2:Gotcha. Yeah, the battles are intense. That's cool, yeah, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, it was.
Speaker 2:I remember. There's one battle that sticks in my mind. I remember, like always, like watching on YouTube, and it was that girl who passed away Christina Grimmie.
Speaker 1:Grimmie.
Speaker 2:And she battled that other girl. Her voice was so freaking cool Both of them. I loved her voice, christina and the girl she battled. I don't know what season they were on.
Speaker 1:Christina Grimmie was an amazing, really sweet girl too I met her a few times on the Voice when I went, because I went back for certain things. She's really, she was really sweet.
Speaker 2:I wish I knew what a freak accident. Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:So sad.
Speaker 2:So messed up, and she was such a talented, talented girl.
Speaker 1:What the hell with Matthew Perry man.
Speaker 2:Dude, I just read his book.
Speaker 1:His book is so good. Did you read it before he passed or after that?
Speaker 2:Before and I was like I have like a list of like dream guests to have on the podcast and I had Matthew Perry because he has been through some shit.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize he'd gone through. I didn't realize that he's never been married and has no kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah he, he opened up big time in his book. He had a terrible, terrible addiction, the pain killers, everything, like he lost so much. He's like I could tell you on that season of friends, I was a complete drunk. I was on pills that season. He almost died a few times. He was in and out of rehab like 50, 60 times. He would go into people's houses and open houses to find pills in like their cabinets, Like just. He would fly private planes like across like just to get pills. Like he was tough so but he.
Speaker 1:I need to read that. Was it a good book?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I need to read that book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying to figure out who this girl is, if you know her.
Speaker 1:Oh, the one that went against Christina Grimmie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just thought her voice was so wild and I'm like I wonder where she is today. Sam Baymire, that's like the only battle I remember.
Speaker 1:I remember her Be Madam.
Speaker 2:Like that's a cool voice.
Speaker 1:Oh, she sounds great.
Speaker 2:I like when.
Speaker 1:I love it when they make it their own. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Would you recommend people to go on the Voice, cause I've heard a lot of people with the voice and American Idol, where some artists have been like I would never want to do that because they own, like, the rights to your brand and music for so many years after.
Speaker 1:The one fortunate thing that I got because I didn't win the show and I was top 12 is I got picked up through Big Machine Cause Big Machine at the time was affiliated with Universal and so it was like if I wanted to be country, you'd go to Big Machine, if you wanted to do pop, then you'd go to you get a deal with Universal. So I got picked up through Big Machine because we had a little bit of buzz going, so they got the first rights for me through my contract, but because I didn't make it past the top eight, so I was literally one week shy and then I got to own all my own publishing and like it wasn't a full 360 deal- so it really ended up being such a God thing.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm just, like you, always need to trust God's plan, Cause it's like it might seem like cause what would have, you know, three more weeks on the show really done for me?
Speaker 2:I don't think that you got the plan of publicity yeah.
Speaker 1:Like a little more publicity, but then you get the you know the honor of winning the show, but I really feel like I kind of tapped out at what I could have done.
Speaker 2:Squeeze everything out of there. Yeah, squeeze.
Speaker 1:But I also did have a, so I was in the bottom three and I you have to do like a song, like you know, battling out your song.
Speaker 2:Is that like a call in and like hit pound nine to both the Raylan?
Speaker 1:Raylan and you get like and I'm saying, if I die young, I love the band Perry yeah, they were, they're so good and I hit a no at the end and it was just not, not pretty. Don't watch it Well they're good.
Speaker 2:No, everybody's going to everybody listen right now is going to YouTube to watch.
Speaker 1:I was like put it on your best boys. Like my voice broke because I was so emotional. And then I remember, when I hit the note, I'm like and I'm gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like that's a wrap.
Speaker 1:And reality hits yeah.
Speaker 2:At least I got to be just. It's been a good run, it's been a great run.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it was. It was so funny because when I hit that note I was like and you could tell, you could see that I felt like I disappointed Blake too, because it's like it's on television, the other girl kicked my ass.
Speaker 1:I knew it. But it's okay, it worked out it all. It all worked out the way I supposed to. But it's funny because when I hit that note I was like and I was embarrassed you know, all my family and friends are watching back home and put on your best Because I had listened to that song for a very long time.
Speaker 1:It was very triggering. I don't even know if I told this to Kimberly, but I went to her recent release because she re-released the song and she put out a record and Kimberly is so sweet. But that song man was my nail in the coffin at the show.
Speaker 2:They, um, they kind of like rebranded for a while, rebranded for a little bit, and then now she's on her own. She's on her own now. Yeah, no, brothers, no, I think it's just her, yeah.
Speaker 1:She's so talented I didn't realize that she wrote If I Died Young by herself.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't that crazy. That is crazy, that is so cool, Like because we all came up at the same time. So when I was signed to Big Machine, she, her and her brothers were signed to Big Machine. Taylor was there. She's done it right Florida. Georgia Line. Yeah, taylor's done a great job. Like everybody was on the label Like.
Speaker 1:I'll never forget when Taylor won the Icon Award, the CMAs, and that's where I got to meet her and we all were hanging out and it was at it's now St Anneho, but it was St Anneho before.
Speaker 2:St Anneho was like a thing but like they read it all St.
Speaker 1:Anneho. See, that's the part of Nashville it feels like a utopia Because it's like when I first moved here and first got into the industry, like that's who, like that's that's. You know, we were at St Anneho freaking Taylor Swift, florida, georgia Line like all these I think Brooks and Dunn were there and like freaking Stephen Tyler like all these crazy artists in one room like just wild. It was so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough to find that so cool. Stephen Tyler. Everybody's always like oh, I saw him just hanging out at Losers by himself.
Speaker 1:Classic.
Speaker 2:Just like having a drink or I could see that.
Speaker 1:What's your? What are your thoughts on the theory of Dolly Parton having two sleeve tattoos? Do you think that that's true?
Speaker 2:Is that a? Thing?
Speaker 1:You know that.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So people think that Dolly Parton, because apparently Dolly's kind of crazy, which I love. Dolly, yeah, so like she doesn't wear a wig, she'll wear a t-shirt and go into a random bar because nobody recognizes her Because she apparently doesn't have blonde hair. She is like, or maybe she does have blonde hair, but she's fully tatted apparently. But I've met her a few times and I've you gotta have a good makeup team.
Speaker 2:Set Cover that up.
Speaker 1:No, but like she wears gloves, so she has nude Full sleeves, nude gloves under every shirt, and she always wears only long sleeves. If you notice Now, so I could believe it. If somebody asked her about it, she goes well, I guess you'll never know. And of course Dolly and her boss, boss, way she's like hmm.
Speaker 2:She is such an icon she is such an icon and I was at most like obviously she has some bang or song. Yeah, Was it more just like her personality?
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, she just set. She set a tone for the fun bubbly blonde personality that doesn't like, but breaks the stereotype of like dumb blonde, like that's why she has a song called Dumb Blonde Like. I'm not no dumb blonde Like she has such a career woman and what she's built for herself and Dollywood and the Imagination Library and the things that she oh, by the way, have you done that yet?
Speaker 2:Dollywood.
Speaker 1:No, so you go online and the Imagination Library is something that she started in Tennessee, and then they do it a couple other states.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Your baby will get a book every month for the first like eight years of its life.
Speaker 2:Really From.
Speaker 1:Imagination Library and it gets sent because she didn't get books as a kid, so she like, so that's like this whole thing that she started. So that way, kids that couldn't maybe afford books or couldn't get books get a book every single month.
Speaker 2:Is your book included in that package? Is your book included in that package? No, but we didn't make it happen. I'm sending you my books, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:But you need to sign up the baby for it, it's so cute because it's like it says, daisy Davis, when it comes in Really. Like her own little male, and it's the books are so precious Like you need to do that for the baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot to do for the baby.
Speaker 1:What else do you have left?
Speaker 2:Um, gotta put together the crib, but, like we said, the nursery. I thought that once you come home from the hospital, you just throw them in the nursery and then you go to bed. It's like nope. I guess you actually have to have them in your bedroom for a while, yeah, you do. Some people, though, say that they only had their kid in their bedroom for like three to four weeks, and they're fantastic sleepers, and it helped them out, like everybody's, getting more sleep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm probably not going to be that way. I'm a helicopter dog, dad.
Speaker 1:So you're going to be really bad. The song is going to be bad. You're going to be bad.
Speaker 2:And Drey's the opposite.
Speaker 1:So we had Daisy in the bed with us. So we had Daisy in September. Yeah, and remember we moved her in like January.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:December, october, november, december, so she was about almost five months.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And I enjoyed her being in the bed with us, like everybody's different, but like we put her in the snuggle me, another snuggle me is a must. I'm sure you have one of those.
Speaker 2:Is that like, just like one of them, the little pillow thing, the stick them in, like that thing's amazing.
Speaker 1:So we put Daisy in the snuggle, me in between me and Josh, and you don't move, like like the whole, like you're going to crush the baby. No, you are. So you're like hyper senses, just like. Come on Like you're just like. So you're. I remember I didn't even move and I'm the craziest sleeper ever. Like I'm wild when I sleep. So on your side, yeah, so I'm my side, my back. I just I'm always turning, but like when she was in bed with us, I literally stayed in one spot.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I actually got bigger. I remember putting that we took a nap on the bed one time. I was in more in the middle of the bed and like I missed her. Being that little she doesn't cuddle no more.
Speaker 2:I feel like the age she's at now, that was the best too.
Speaker 1:Oh too, she's so funny that's the best Like they're so freaking cute. This is the thing. So she goes like anytime she does anything cute, she goes yay, yeah. But now when she gets in trouble, she goes yay.
Speaker 1:And I said no, yay, no, no, yeah, cause she does yay, like when she does something good but she wants me to do yay, after she got in trouble, and she wants to make everything all right, which is actually kind of sad, but also it's kind of hilarious. Or like if she doesn't, she goes, oh. Or like if I, if I, you know, if I get on to her and we have to discipline her she'll be crying and she'll go oh, oh, like.
Speaker 1:It is just like those little moments. It's like they're trying to process and it's like so funny. And you see them like and now when I say no, ugh, it's so funny and she'll go. No, she'll look back at me and she'll go and she'll smile, but she'll take her hand off of it and then she'll won't like, won't do it for a while, and then, 20 minutes later, she'll go back to that spot. I told her no, and then she'll do it again. It's so cute. It's so cute, though, but it's cute when they're two, but it's not going to be cute when they're 14.
Speaker 2:So it's like you have to.
Speaker 1:Oh, like your background's, your dog, like that's bad I know I'm going to have to change that soon.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to change that soon, yeah.
Speaker 1:How many dogs do you have?
Speaker 2:One.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So you have two who passed before him.
Speaker 1:So you're like a dog, a big dog. Yeah, cause I had my first dog.
Speaker 2:He was 11 and a half when he passed during COVID and I had him from my last year at college, like through my 20s, when I moved around the country by myself like he was there for everything. That was brutal and I was like I'm never getting another dog. And then I ended up getting another dog like a few months later.
Speaker 1:That's. I have a dog named Dolly and she is a Joala, and I've literally had her since I moved to Nashville at 18. Like when she passes away. I think it's going to be sad.
Speaker 2:But everybody's like and this is where I also have debates with people they say, once you have a baby, you're not going to love your dog as much. And I'm like, I'm like, I'm not going to do it, I don't think that's possible. You're over here like oh no, I agree with that. So it's a different love, obviously. But you don't just abandon your dog, you don't abandon your dog.
Speaker 1:Listen this is a needed subject because you do not abandon your dog. But you don't deal with your dog's bullshit anymore, like the barking, like the stuff like that, when they like, when the, when your little sweet angel is, just, you know, sleeping so perfectly on the couch and your dog barks and they wake up and start crying.
Speaker 1:You're going to tell me that you're not going to get mad at your dog, but you haven't met your baby yet. But what like I will. We were all like super high alert when Daisy was little. But as Daisy's gotten bigger and she loves cash and loves Dolly, I'm I just more. Didn't want anything to happen because I have a German shepherd. We have a German shepherd named cash, so cash like loves my husband Josh. Dolly like definitely has more towards me she doesn't.
Speaker 2:I'm seeing a theme with the names.
Speaker 1:What cash and dolly I know, and it's so funny. It's like if I ever had another girl one name or Dolly, but like I can't have a dog named Dolly and a kid named Dolly, so it'd have to be after Dolly is like gone, so we won't talk about that, but that's never going to happen. But when it comes to like but now cash. It's super protective of Daisy and he always has been, but they have a sweet little relationship and so I'm like, all right, you're good.
Speaker 1:But like that first couple of months, though, cause it's like she grabbed a toy and he got and I'm, and he did not growl, but he made a noise and I was like hell. No. And I whooped his ass and he went outside cause it's like it takes one time Exactly.
Speaker 2:You know.
Speaker 1:So it's happened multiple times and you just got to remember that they're dogs. Like even though you, I trust cash and I know that I genuinely don't think that cash would hurt. Hurt, daisy, it's still a dog, yeah, and you don't realize that that it's just. It's a dog until you have a kid, but you still love your animals.
Speaker 1:But it's just a different love, because it's like you're going to be tired, you're going to be up with this kid all night, you're going to be helping Dre, you know, and all that stuff, and then you know he does something that pisses you off.
Speaker 2:It's different Like this dog I have now. Walter is so much better than I love Walter.
Speaker 1:He's such a good dog I love old man names. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But he's so much better equipped to be a brother to baby than my other dog that I had cause my other dog was so obsessed with me. Yeah, like didn't want anybody near me. Yeah, like I'd be a little nervous with the baby, but Walter's just like.
Speaker 1:I'm at a friend and they're. They had a cat named Nigel, I think that's the best cat or Kevin. Yeah Well, I don't know why older like Walter is the perfect dog. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have another dog name that I want eventually and I'm like I don't know if I want to say it. I'll just edit it out, but I'm like I think Darryl would be such a funny name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, darryl's a good one. Darryl's a good one. I mean, they take it, who cares?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not that big, not that important.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's hilarious. Do you want to get any more dogs? I don't know, eventually, yeah, I don't know, you got a baby on the way. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't want twins to be honest. Really, yeah, I would have thought that would be awesome.
Speaker 1:I love it how men want twins, the guy is like oh, you know what?
Speaker 2:I want twins.
Speaker 1:I don't want birth of things, I don't have to care.
Speaker 2:Twins sound epic, I'll be there to help catch them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like why did you want twins?
Speaker 2:Um, because I think it's two from one, which is great. Two from one I've always wanted, like kind of a big family. Um, you're born with your best friend.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right. So they always have each other's back for their whole lives. Yep, they have great relationships with twins and it's just like it's so cool. You always have that count on. I thought we're going to have twins because my aunt's are identical twins. My grandma was a twin. I have cousins who are twins.
Speaker 1:My dad's a twin, barry and Gary.
Speaker 2:Barry and Gary, there you go.
Speaker 1:From Redneck Shit. That is from Redneck Shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, I don't know. I thought twins would be cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It'd be pretty tough at first to figure out who to say it's tough at first, but once they say they get like around two because Daisy, it's sad because it's like you know it's just Daisy, but when she like she had a friend come over this morning for a little bit when her mom went to go work out, and when she sees her buddies, she just gets jacked. Yeah, like she is. Like runs up, hugs them.
Speaker 1:Like and it's super cute now to see. So she's going to be a really good big sister. But I could see how twins it's hard. My best friend, her sister, has a son and then two girls and it's like to see their little personalities and it is a built in best friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, like I think that's a good girl.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:And most females. I feel like they want, like a boy, first to be protective over a girl.
Speaker 1:The reason why I wanted a girl is my mother in law. She was like you want your girl first because she gets first of all God knows better than us. If you have a boy, it's great, but when you have a, when you have a daughter first, like they want to be mommy and I've already seen that with Daisy. Like when when a little baby comes over, like she's very sweet, very tender, like we'll get on their level and when they crawl she crawls, she's going to sit, like really sweet. So you kind of have like a built in little mommy and said they want to help boys, they're just hell yeah. And so they're like hell, no new baby.
Speaker 1:All right, cool, I'm going to go mess up some shit. You know what I mean. Like, but girls they're very they want to help out. So that's why I was super jacked to have a girl first and two, like if you meet Daisy, like she's going to be like the best big sister, but she's not going to deal with shit, like she's going to she's going to come. She's going to come out swinging.
Speaker 2:How'd you come up with Daisy?
Speaker 1:Okay. So I was at Claire's, I was buying something.
Speaker 2:I was at the jewelry store at Claire's. I didn't know they still have that store.
Speaker 1:That's where I got, so I was getting nose rings.
Speaker 2:Cause you can buy cheap nose rings.
Speaker 1:So I was in there buying a nose ring and this little girl. She had her hair in pigtails, curly blonde hair, coke bottle glasses, like she couldn't see and I'm, I'm blind as a bat and so is Josh, like we both work glasses, contacts, all the things. And this little girl, she was just bopping around with her curly blonde pigtails and her and her big old glasses and her mom was like Daisy, hurry up, we got to, we got to leave, we got to get back to daddy. She goes okay, and like seeing her little personality, her outfit, her hair going back, and then she looked back and made sure, these big old blue eyes.
Speaker 1:I was like Daisy, daisy, davis, daisy is the cutest name and seeing the personality behind it, and so we didn't even have another name. It was Daisy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they were like what, if you look at the baby and it's not a Daisy? I was like I'm telling you it's a Daisy. I know, like Daisy Davis, like that's, that's our name, so we named her Daisy Ray Ray after me, and so Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2:I wonder if those people know that you name them Probably not the random person They'll never know.
Speaker 1:They'll never know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I like Daisy, it's a little classic too.
Speaker 2:It's old school, it is. I like names like.
Speaker 1:Lucy Louise.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's very country. Yeah, I have a boy like I'm really stuck on, like what? What I would name a son like because I wanted it to be cool, but I also want to be manly, not too hipster. You know, you want to be nice and strong, you want to be strong Like I, like almost like a John, or like Judah, or like a Jack Josh, like what's his name is Josh, you know Sean.
Speaker 2:Sean, super strong Sean Liam.
Speaker 1:Grayson Like you know, strong like.
Speaker 2:Grayson, you think that's a strong one. That's a little hipster name.
Speaker 1:I don't feel like you want to like a Grayson Grayson's like Grayson's a sweet name. I've never met a Grayson. I've always liked. Gray sounds better, but Gray's cool, but Grayson's a good man name.
Speaker 2:Like you know Gray. I wanted we have ours, the girl and the guy name.
Speaker 1:What are some girl names you didn't use and boy names you didn't use.
Speaker 2:I was a strong advocate for Brooks.
Speaker 1:Brooklyn For a boy, brooks Brooks Booth. I think Brooks is cool, yeah, but she that's a tongue twister.
Speaker 2:She knew a lot of people who had Brooks.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So one that I'm still. Yeah, we've got him set in stone, but we really and I really liked Stevie for a girl.
Speaker 1:Stevie's cute.
Speaker 2:I love Stevie Nicks. My dad's name is Steve. Lonnie is a cute name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, stevie, stevie, I love it when you name, so your dad's name is Steve.
Speaker 2:That's precious yeah. So, stevie, Stevie's cool. Stevie's cool, but we do not have middle names.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:That's the hold up right now. Okay, no middle names.
Speaker 1:You want something. I think my dad's so cute. He's from Louisiana. He's like who an ass. He's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But he was talking about. You want something that just rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:So it's like nothing that is super too much to think about. That's why we liked Daisy Ray Davis. Like Daisy Ray, I even liked Daisy Louise. I thought that would have been cute.
Speaker 2:That's cute. Call her Daisy Lou or Daisy.
Speaker 1:But Ray was cute. I also liked Daisy Lee.
Speaker 2:I like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Lee's my sister's whole name Ray was the right one, but you want to pick something that's short? Yeah, maybe not too short, it depends on what like. I don't really like the whole three first names, things Like that's you know a lot of country, ours, do it.
Speaker 2:What's your full name?
Speaker 1:So my maiden name was Rachel Lynn Woodward, but now I'm. Rachel Lynn Davis.
Speaker 2:And then you became Ray Lynn when you went on the Voice, okay, so people always call you that.
Speaker 1:No, so like my grandmother, my mom's mom called me Ray Lynn and it was kind of just like a nickname that some people would call me. Most people call me Rachel or Ray or Rach. So like all my, all my friends growing up just called me Rachel. They called me Little Rachel because growing up in church there was an older girl named Rachel, so she was big Rachel and I was Little Rachel, so like Little Rachel was my little Rachel and I'm literally like Little Ray but I'm also like five ones.
Speaker 1:That worked, you know. But I, as I got, you know, into doing music and started like stage name. Yeah. And I was like Rachel Woodward is the worst stage name ever. Welcome to the stage, rachel Woodward. You know what I mean. Like I was the kid that like was at the end of the line at you know an elementary like Woodward, and so I was like I love Reba and Dolly, like I love the one name thing. I was like Ray Lynn sounds like a cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a cool name. Nobody's done that before. That's a cool. Ray Lynn Like that's cool, and then so yeah, and then I Googled it and it meant popular and I was like there you go.
Speaker 2:I was like I want a popular. Come on Down on Broadway, ray Lynn, let's get it going.
Speaker 1:I know we're gonna. Are you gonna come?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 1:Third, floor, third floor.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 1:No, but that's, that's how we got them, that's how we got the name. But it is really funny, though, because my my friends that know me as Rachel.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like when they people first are our common Ray Lynn they would get really pissed. They're like who the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like we went to this. My girlfriend gets like really like. Like there was one time somebody was like oh, weren't you in? Like was it Rachel, rachel Davis? And they called me Rachel Davis. She's like weren't you in Rachel Davis's wedding? She was like who the hell?
Speaker 2:is Rachel Davis, rachel Davis, yeah, rachel.
Speaker 1:Davis and she goes. She literally like had like a full blown conversation with her for 30 minutes because I have no idea who you're talking about. She goes, this girl, she goes oh, rachel Woodward, of course, because it's like my marriage right now, but I like Davis so much better. It's just classic, even though there's more of me in the YMCA now, and when I went to the YMCA like, but if they spelled my name right, there's only one of me. But if they spelled my name wrong, because my mom spelled my name wrong, it's.
Speaker 1:R-A-C-H-E-A-L when you look at it it looks like a typo when you see it.
Speaker 2:It's sad, a-e-l.
Speaker 1:No, but mine's E-A-L.
Speaker 2:But it should be A-E-L.
Speaker 1:A-E-L or E-L.
Speaker 2:Just R-A-C-H-E-L.
Speaker 1:E, but mine's E-A-L.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it should be.
Speaker 1:R-A-C-H-E-L or R-A-C-H-A-E-L.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So that's how I would always know when I would go into the wild. When we used to live in Green Hills, I'd be like Rachel Davis and they'd be like which one? I'm like? You didn't spell it right, it's E-A-L. They're like oh gotcha, because they knew. I knew that there was. I've never met somebody with a spelling in mind, but it makes me unique. But also, when you look at it, it looks like it's typo wrong.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, so that's what I want to do too with. The kid's name is unique. Like not too crazy unique.
Speaker 1:Are you gonna do some weird spelling? Don't do like An-A-Le-A-N-N-A-L-E-E-E. I hate that. As an artist who has to sign, freaking things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, what does your sign look like? I hate it. It was just an R-A.
Speaker 1:No, I do a pretty sign, but I hate it when somebody like gives me their kid's name and it's like the most awful spelling. I'm like why did you do this to this child Like? This is not fair.
Speaker 2:Do you sign a lot of autographs?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I love that's my favorite thing.
Speaker 2:It's funny, it's like at the charity events we do for softball and stuff. I'm like who, what are you gonna?
Speaker 1:do with this autograph? Is this worth nothing? Well, you think that.
Speaker 2:I know it's funny, though, signing autographs.
Speaker 1:I think it's such a funny thing. Do you think it's funny? I do, I think, I think, I always like wonder what they're gonna work and do with them. Actually, I Googled I even one time to see it, but I had a few things.
Speaker 2:It was like 12 bucks.
Speaker 1:It weren't that expensive. And I felt really like I was like Dan, it's so cheap.
Speaker 2:Are you gonna like the people that come up with the different sharpies? It's like an old man, he's like you have to sign it in this color because they can only sell that color. No, and I used to not do it. You want to do it?
Speaker 1:I mean it was the golden blue because they get left out and I'll do black, so if you have it, yeah. And then they go all right. Well, I'm not doing it, Sorry, but now I just don't even care. I mean, that was back in the day.
Speaker 2:I was trying to be cool. Now I'm just like give me a blue. Paparazzi is following you.
Speaker 1:You know what, If you want to sell my signature if you really need money that much, you take it Like I will. I'll sign it with the blue Sharpie, the blue Sharpie. Wait, were you on the losing team?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've lost every year, three years in a row.
Speaker 1:We won, you did, I was just swinging.
Speaker 2:And we had all the athletes too, though it made no sense. We were like we're going to kill this team. We thought we were going to destroy you guys, you don't really have all the athletes yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1:Apparently you didn't, I apparently didn't.
Speaker 2:You had Ernest and Hardy right, yeah, those guys are always on the other side and then Denay crushed. She did.
Speaker 1:Denay was really good. She was the last minute picked by Jelly and I was like that was smart.
Speaker 2:Can we talk about Jelly?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 2:Jelly is like the most famous guy in the world right now, when I met him.
Speaker 1:He is so sweet.
Speaker 2:And a couple of years ago I think, I probably met him at the softball game and nobody really knew who he was. I never knew who he was.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's like this year, everybody in the stands were there to see.
Speaker 1:Jelly he my favorite thing is everybody just loves his story who doesn't love a story, especially a comeback story and a story of just somebody persevering and making it happen and you know whether you agree with him and his lifestyle that she doesn't really matter. He is so authentic and he is such a good human being.
Speaker 2:So nice.
Speaker 1:So nice. I saw him at the Hardy concert last week and him just taking the time to, like you know, came out and it's like I don't know if he knows my name and he does. I don't. I hate people that expect people to know them. That always bothers me, like when an influencer like. I met an influencer recently and they were mad that I didn't know who they were.
Speaker 2:Who was it? Tell us, I'm not. I guess they whisper it.
Speaker 1:I don't even really remember it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1:But like I was, just like I don't, I'm not around enough to you know I'm a mom and like I'm just not when I go to these things. I just go to them so like I don't know who has. And cool, you have more followers than me, but that means I should know you.
Speaker 2:If I was Michael Jordan, I'd be like hey, I'm Michael, I would never expect anybody to know Nobody.
Speaker 1:Nobody. I would never expect anybody to know who. I am. So the fact that like he like, he like came back because he was just singing with Laney Wilson and he's like Ray and I was like good to see you, and then he remembered Josh and like that was really sweet.
Speaker 1:We were just sat there and talked and he and he's not in a rush either Like I hate when you're talking to somebody and I do this too Like as an artist, like I'm trying to get somewhere and like and that's why I don't feel bad either Like if he was like oh, I got to go, I got to go meet radio or like whatever.
Speaker 1:But I love it when people are just relaxed and they're taking the time and like that goes such a long way and he does that. He's so intentional and it's something that everybody can learn as an influencer. If you're wanting to be in music, be intentional. Like that's what keeps you in this business, is your intentional good friendships and relationships. And he is one of those dudes. Everybody His wife is awesome, she's super funny she is, she's herself and like no, yeah, they're, they're great, he's, I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why I was like a Netflix show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, killing it.
Speaker 2:Um, usually here we have my friend Sam, who sits over there, and I always, for some reason, break down her outfit for the people who listen at home. And then he came in and was like we got to break down this outfit. What do we got here?
Speaker 1:I am wearing. This is actually the Davis giddy upset. You can buy it at buddylovecom.
Speaker 2:Buddylovecom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I did a collab with buddylove for club so it's pretty fly. This kind of looks like me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just like a sweatsuit. Sweatsuit, it's very vibey.
Speaker 1:Cactuses.
Speaker 2:Cowgirl boots.
Speaker 1:It's like I I want to be comfortable, but I came to party, you know you did yeah. And I you know, and then my shoes. I think these are my Air Force Jordans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what they look like, yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, honestly, they're kids size. Don't know if they'll have them and you're.
Speaker 2:That's the best cause. You get them for like 50% off.
Speaker 1:Honestly, yeah, I still feel like I paid too much for them, like I get nervous, yeah. When I bought them, my friend was like did you put crease?
Speaker 2:pads and I go. What the hell was a crease pad? What is a crease?
Speaker 1:pad and I didn't know that that was like a thing. So I put I like I brought these out just for you.
Speaker 2:I appreciate it and I've only worn them for a second, not even using Second time wearing them and I've had them for like six months. I appreciate it. Do you appreciate that? Yeah, I felt like it was going to really bring the outfit together. Yes, my socks are from Some white tube socks. Are those white, those pink? They're from Aritzia, aritzia, aritzia.
Speaker 1:I've been to a lot of pro shops not Aritzia. I just can't. I do love Aritzia. What else am I wearing? I'm wearing nice, you know beautiful wedding ring from Genesis diamonds.
Speaker 2:Things shined up.
Speaker 1:Got earrings from.
Speaker 2:Amazon, amazon hoops the full breakdown.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hair straight.
Speaker 1:Hair straight. Yeah, tucked behind the ear, one ear's tucked. Got a cross stud earring because I lost the other one, so I just put it in a random one. I was like damn it.
Speaker 2:That's like I feel, like what most you know, like Dion Sanders, my hair is done by a man named Tyler.
Speaker 1:Y'all go check him out behind Tyler's chair If you want to get more money.
Speaker 2:Where is that located?
Speaker 1:Located in Franklin.
Speaker 2:Tennessee. Yeah, all right. Is that where you get your hair done, andrew?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Are you going to do like rapid fire questions? Do you want? Rapid fire questions I think rapid fire, questions are fun.
Speaker 2:All right Off the dome. Here I'm going for it. What's your favorite drink?
Speaker 1:Favorite drink margarita.
Speaker 2:Favorite song that you've ever written.
Speaker 1:Favorite song that I've ever written Probably Love Triangle.
Speaker 2:What's the most important or most sentimental song for your career that you think? Is it going to be Love Triangle? Let me rephrase that what is the one song that you think everybody will know you buy if you had to put one song on your tombstone?
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, really. Yeah, honestly, keep up, that'd be kind of fun All right. Get your dome on my own two hands. That's funny.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Because I'm a funny chick. I really don't think that I'm that funny.
Speaker 2:You're pretty funny. You think that I'm funny? Yeah, electric personality it's what it says on your one sheet.
Speaker 1:I'm always just like. I just want people to think that I'm funny. I don't really don't care about anything else.
Speaker 2:Who's your favorite artist?
Speaker 1:Favorite artist.
Speaker 2:That's hard.
Speaker 1:Male Like genre.
Speaker 2:Right now. If you had all right, let's just do.
Speaker 1:Post Malone Posty.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:I'm so jealous that Hardy and Morgan are singing with him. I just want to meet him.
Speaker 2:So that would be your dream collab.
Speaker 1:Dream collab Post Malone.
Speaker 2:What do you think about Zach Bryant?
Speaker 1:I like Zach Bryant, he's great he's awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm like getting into that kind of culture music, the homegrown, the homegrown, vibe.
Speaker 1:I like Oliver Anthony. His shit's cool.
Speaker 2:His shit's cool.
Speaker 1:He's just like blew up overnight. It's like hey man. I thought love stuff like that. We were talking about music industry being in the. Wild Wild West.
Speaker 2:Bam there you go.
Speaker 1:Oliver Anthony recording in his house. We spent thousands and thousands of dollars in recordings.
Speaker 2:He did one TikTok video.
Speaker 1:One TikTok video blew up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who's your least favorite artist in Nashville Tennessee?
Speaker 1:Not answering that.
Speaker 2:All right, hardest part about being a mom.
Speaker 1:Hardest part about being a mom being away from them.
Speaker 2:That's a good answer.
Speaker 1:It's true, though it's like. It's like you you're good for like the first, like maybe day yeah If that, and then you're just like damn, you feel like a piece of music.
Speaker 2:What's your favorite city to perform in?
Speaker 1:Um my gosh, I think it's like anywhere and like BFE, like any city, that's like outside of a major city in that super country, and that's why I can't pick one, because, like, I hate playing, like like, nashville is one of the worst places to play in my opinion, because everybody plays Nashville.
Speaker 2:Nobody says nobody's excited, it's cause we're all used to it. You're all used to it.
Speaker 1:But if you play in the middle of nowhere Ohio, where they don't see nobody, they are jacked to be there Like. So I like to play in like places that like just like random country towns. But out of all of those, probably one of my favorite, one of my recent favorite festivals that I did, was that one in Wisconsin. It was like Ashley for the arts was like a festival and I never even knew this festival existed. It was in the middle of nowhere in between and like it was kind of like you went through all kinds of kinds of places to get to this festival.
Speaker 2:I was like where the hell are we going? And it was.
Speaker 1:The fans were so awesome.
Speaker 2:Like epic.
Speaker 1:I was like I didn't even know I was going to have pains here.
Speaker 2:Places like that are the best to play.
Speaker 1:And I opened up for one or public. I was like there's going to be no fans for me here, but they were great. I love shocking things like that.
Speaker 2:Okay, hit me with some rapid fire.
Speaker 1:Hit me with some rapid fire. Okay, what's your favorite color?
Speaker 2:The pens.
Speaker 1:Don't pick the color that you wear the most.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say black. Is that your favorite color? My first, I was going to say blue.
Speaker 1:Blue. Okay, what's your favorite?
Speaker 2:thing about Dre Her personality.
Speaker 1:Personality Great. What's your favorite TV show right now?
Speaker 2:Favorite TV show right now is? That's a good question. I love Netflix, like documentaries and documentaries.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's your favorite song right now?
Speaker 2:Favorite song is Zach Bryan, like I just mentioned, and it is the one with Casey Musgraves. That one is good, but I also like because it makes me think of the baby.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Son to me. Oh, okay, I got to listen to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to give you one more.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What's your dream car?
Speaker 2:Dream car, I'm driving it Jeep Wrangler. I've always loved Jeep Wranglers.
Speaker 1:See, that's classy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's classy yeah.
Speaker 1:My dream car is not like some bougie eyes. Yeah, like a Lamborghini I honestly would do one of those vintage Broncos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do, those are sick. Yeah, those are sick, but they're too trendy now they are too trendy, everybody wants them they want trendy, or I would do like a 90s F-150 jacked up. Yeah, you're so country.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:I'm talking like the 90s square body.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know like early 90s Yep Jacked up Redo the inside Candy Apple Red.
Speaker 2:Like the two tone, though on the outside.
Speaker 1:Two tone, yeah, and I'm talking like that's what I would want.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I like the old school Dodge Challengers like the 70s or 60s.
Speaker 1:Those are cool. Those are cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cool. Well, where can we find you? What do you got going on Tell? All the people.
Speaker 1:Buy me Raylin official. Raylin official on Instagram. I've been trying to get Raylin for a while. Just a Raylin.
Speaker 2:Does somebody have it? Somebody has it. You've tried negotiating with them.
Speaker 1:No, it's not worth it. It's just like.
Speaker 2:Some guy reached out to me. He has Sean Booth and he's tried negotiating with me for years.
Speaker 1:How much does he want?
Speaker 2:I can't remember. I sent him an offer and it wasn't much. I'm going to give it to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know this girl has a small business. I'm not trying to mess that up. It's, like you know, raylin official, raylin, same same Raylin official on Instagram. I think it's Raylin official on TikTok too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Raylin Raylin, anything you got like new. Raylincom. I'm working on an album right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Figuring out what I'm going to do with it, which I'm excited, writing a lot of great music that I'm pumped about.
Speaker 2:What's the latest song that came out that you released?
Speaker 1:The latest song is called what's Wrong with that, and it's already about Josh.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:It's basically like what's wrong with letting a man be a? Man and open for you. Basically, you know, shoveling is a little bit dead. I feel like now and I kind of just like poke fun at you know.
Speaker 2:Society right now.
Speaker 1:Society right now, honestly, and it's doing really well. I'm really excited about it. The video has my husband and my daughter.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:So that was my latest release.
Speaker 2:And actually, what Is it hard to write songs now that you're just like such a good spot in life? I feel like a lot of songwriting comes from pain or relationships breakups. It's like everything's good here. I got my man, I got my baby.
Speaker 1:You know it's funny because I was just talking about this, because I feel like my record now, the record that I'm working on right now, is super special, because I talk about, like I'm writing, when I write about pain, it's like the pain of, like you know, when you hurt the person you love and you didn't mean to hurt them.
Speaker 1:Like you know, because you go through stuff in relationships or like when you do, like you know, have to leave your child, or when watching your kid grow up. Like you know, I wrote a song called they Grow Up and it's about Daisy. Just like I feel, like I'm already like I get emotional just thinking about her getting older you know, and it's like you only have 18 summers when you think about that.
Speaker 1:That's not two of already went by, so like. So there is there is still emotional subjects to write and sing about, and so you just have to tap into a different emotion and to, like, I've always been one of those people that can tap into things that I felt years ago or if, like, there's been times where, like, a friend's gone through something and give me an idea and I read from her perspective, and so I think, as a songwriter, I don't try to get to in my head about my story, because I feel like, you know, if I can sing somebody else's story and be able to narrate, that, that's beautiful too.
Speaker 1:But if I do narrate it, I write it in the way where it's coming from a storyteller aspect instead of. This is what I've gone through yeah, more of like it was a girl that done you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, that aspect.
Speaker 1:But I'm really excited about this project because I feel like there really is nobody in country music that you know. I've been married for eight years. Yeah, I have a baby. I feel like I'm happily married.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I've been doing this for almost 12 years and we're still doing it and writing from that perspective and owning that, and I'm country as shit, Like you know.
Speaker 2:that's not changing.
Speaker 1:Love the Lord more than anything, Right? So all those things that made me unique, I'm trying to I'm not going to try to write from a perspective that doesn't relate to me. Right and my fans are the same way, like when I go out and see my fans, they have kids, like they're there.
Speaker 2:They're growing with you too. You know what I mean. They're growing with you, yeah.
Speaker 1:Not saying you can't get new fans too. Yeah, it's important to know where your fans are at and who they are.
Speaker 2:Right. So Well, that's awesome. You're doing an amazing job. I think it's easy for people to connect with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on, connect with me. We're going to be doing a lot of shows next year. It'll be fun and I'm doing a stadium tour with doing five stadium shows next year with K-Brown Ooh nice. We're doing baseball stadiums. I get to play Fenway.
Speaker 2:Fenway's awesome. I grew up in Connecticut so I always went to Fenway Hell yeah, yeah, maybe you should come, I'll be there. We'll be there. I can't wait to walk around and like the baby Bjorn and throw him on a backpack behind me.
Speaker 1:The backpack. There's a certain backpack. I don't know if you've already got one. You probably already have one.
Speaker 2:I saw one at Nordstrom's. It was pretty sweet.
Speaker 1:The one from Nordstrom's is not as good as the one. I'm going to send you the link when I get out here.
Speaker 2:All right, send me the link.
Speaker 1:That one is too complicated, this one's like. We use it every day, piece of cake, a lot, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you Raylin, check it out, appreciate it. Let's go on three, thank you.