#218 - Most Unforgettable Country Music Moments of the Decade + Rare Demos of Pop Songs Including A MAJOR Hit That Had An Entirely DIfferent Name

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Bobby Cast number two eighteen. This is our kind of last Friday Bobby Cast of the year. This is the ten most unforgettable country music moments of the two thousand tens, which would be fun good and bad or mostly good both, because when you hear number one, you'll be like, oh um, So after this, I'll say this though, is I was kind of thinking of this year. The biggest moment musically has been that freaking Old Town Road. That was a big moment. I've never seen a song and do that before it became viral from TikTok. I got pulled into the mix you did early before it was even a real thing because and just by happenstance, I just happened to be in New York and they're like, Hey, they're gonna put this Old Town Road song on the country chart, and is it country guys? I didn't even heard the song yet, and I was like, and so they listened to it on the way to Good Morning America. I was up there anyway to do g M A for maybe idol or something. I'm not sure what I was up there. What was your first thought when you heard it that people need to shut up about what's defined as anything. I'm just always irritated when people try to say what's not something. People spend so much time talking about what they don't like that it just creates a negative culture. And that's true. And but this is probably gonna go on forever. Bounce It's happening has gone off will But they were like, hey, people are saying it's not a country song. No, it's ridiculous. Or if they had a positioned a different and said, hey, listen to the song, I m gona tell what format it is, tell me what it is. I don't know what I would have said. I probably wouldn't say country. But you heard it before Billy Ray. You heard it when it was just a little bit. That's true because we came on and we're like, here's the Billy Ray version. Yeah, I just and that song just blew up, like and it was the number one song for almost a whole year. Whatever it did. It set the record. When I was thinking about this year, that's what I was thinking about when it got to music that most unforgettable country music moments of the decade number ten. And I'll tell you we've talked about this on this podcast a lot, but Chris Stapleton's two thousand fifteen c m A Awards with him and justin timber Lake to Tennessee Whiskey, and he wanted a lot of awards that year. It doesn't matter. This performance is what submitted him as he's now Chris Stapleton, that's the whole deal. And we were so lucky. And it was lucky because we we'd have him on the show before a bunch and it wasn't like we were jumping on the bandwagon when everybody else was like, we're now Christ Appleton. Fans come on our show and Chris is a private guy, doesn't do a lot of appearances. But it was always cool because Chris song was like, dude, you put me on before everybody was wanting to put me on, so he would keep coming on the show. But isn't it cool to discover artists a little earlier before everyone else does because you were on to Chris and his bands before Chris. I remember we were on the road somewhere, maybe in Florida, and you're just say, hey, listen to this, like this is cool as a band called a couple of them. Yeah, I remember, But when you played some of them like, dude, that guy's really the voice is really good. It was Chris Stapleton, so that's kind of cool, right to know that because he was in rock bands. It was this country. Well, so that was number ten. Christ appleson't jumping on the scene. He didn't win, but again a lot of people won awards and they kind of flutter or owned, but it was that performance with Justin timber like that everybody talked about. My friend Robert Deaton, who producers that show, said within ten minutes he could look at the at the time iTunes chart and the song had blown up and number one and all he was like, well, this is now here to stay. And they met because and one of these Bobbycats. We talked about that maybe with Chris Stapleton, because we did one of these with Chris Stapleton where or somebody else told me, but he went and Justin Timberlake was just a fan of his and they only met like in Wyoming at Justin to my birthday party. I've heard the story. I wondered, where did that come from? Remember a songwriter? Was it? Yeah? Well so that's number ten. Number nine is Glenn Campbell fighting Alzheimer's disease. He was already battling the disease when he went public in two thousand and eleven with it. He died two years ago. But here's some Glenn Campbell for you. Did you watch his documentary? Really really, really good. I mean this. I grew up. My parents would listen to Glen Campbell, and I didn't know anything about him other than he was Glenn Campbell, Ryan Stone, Cowboy, which tall lineman, all that stuff. But I didn't know that he was a session player and how important he was to just studio music before he was a country music artist. He was the extremely skilled guitar player that played on everybody's record yep and then had no clue. And he's from Arkansas, which is what I knew him as. It was, you know, Johnny Cash mostly, but Conway Twitty and Glenn Campbell were like my grandmother's Arkansas people. And he has a daughter named Ashley Campbell. Do you know she is a good banjo player. She's really cool to just check out because just that you can tell the music ran in the family. Yeah, I think one point, let me before I step in it here. Also, it was Mike Duncan. It was Mike Duncan. Yeah, that's a great podcast. Mm hmm. I'm looking up something real quick. What are you looking at? No, I probably shouldn't say this worries me. Whatever you're looking at, I'll tell you after. Oh great, Okay, you're ridiculous. I know. Uh. Number eight George Straight rides Away from the Road in two thousand twelve. Cowboy Rides Away was his farewell tour. But was it? Yeah, because he still plays Vegas, but it is a tour. Oh, that's true. It is just Vegas and we've we've been to that. Yeah. So and the Cowboy Stadium right, didn't wrap it up there? Yeah, I don't remember. I think so they shot a whole DVD. Yeah, Garth Brooks returns two thousanour and we were part of this because we were here in two thousand thirteen. God damn, we've been here for almost a whole decade. It's crazy. That's crazy. It is crazy. And with Garth coming back, I don't know if you I guess he was saying it for a while that he was waiting for his daughter, his last daughter, to go to high school or go to college, and then he was going to get back to music, but I didn't think it was ever really gonna happen. He retired in two thousand to raise his daughters. And you know what, he didn't come back as a legacy act. At first, people are like, oh, call Garth's back. But he came back retouring huge places, putting out new music, had number ones. It was. It's so hard too, because I've heard people like Rascal Flast talk about it where they go, you know what, we don't have to just make good music. We have to make songs that are better than our biggest songs ever. But if you're gonna pick a song to play, why would you not play God Bless the Broken Road instead of a new Rascal Flats ballot. So with Garth, he had to make songs at least somewhat near as good as his old stuff. Did he come back with this song? I think he had a couple before this. His first one was because he put out a record that wasn't a big hit at first, when he had that little necklace thing. That's right, that machine, Uh yeah, that's number seven, number six of the decade. Joey of Joey and Rory Battle stage four cancer she was diagnosed with several cancer and died two years later at age forty. That was a bit as far as like us getting here, I didn't know them. I think she died. Um, I don't know when she but yeah, I didn't know them because we got here. We learned about them after all that. But now I didn't know him before that. Number five is Troy Gentry dies in a helicopter crash. Crazy. Was it the same day that Don Williams died. I don't know the same day, but this was September when he accepted that helicopter ride. And yeah, that was a bad one from Montgomery Gentry. Number four Taylor Swift leads country music. So that's one of the biggest country music of the decade. You know Taylor to me, I knew her from country music before I got here. She came into a couple appearances here. Yeah, we had our brief friendship. She was available and then she then she fell out if she was like, it's weird when we when we moved to Nashville, she was here. I remember our first week we went to that we were here in Nashville. I went to go see Florida Georgia line downtown and she popped up on stage and in cruise with him. It was like that, and I guess, oh that was the norm. Like we're in Nashville, Taylor's always here and this is what she does. Then after that gone gone, then you see her driving in the car, apparently driving like you make fun of me, but I did. I saw her. He was in my rear view mirror, and I saw her what kind of car driving something like because that's what Taylor drives by herself, driving a Toyota is not Number three. Randy Travis gets arrested, suffers a stroke, and continues to recover. Randy had big troubles in two thousand and twelve when he was arrested twice for alcohol related incidents. The next year, he had a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He still continued to recover. But Randy Travis and number three, we weren't really in this story because we had her two thirteen, two thousand twelves and it happened. But that being said, I'm it was a huge Randy Travis fan. Tomato Gate and if you're not familiar, A consultant tried to explain the lack of female country artists in the chart by saying they're the tomato in the salad, with males the lettuce. At the very least I ignited a conversation. I feel like people that held onto that tomato thing, we're a little lame. You had to remind me of what that was because I don't remember the tomato thing because there obviously is an issue, but the tomato thing years are there still going like, let's get tomato fest. That's I'm like, yeah, I just dropped stewo po tomato thing, Like, no one gonna think you seriously if if you keep bringing up some dumb consultant who wrote something kind of ingest because I agreed not with him, but with everyone else that was going, hey, okay, if it seems like this, there's a problem. I think his analogy was probably accurate, but it was just how dope the analogy was and how everyone ran with it. And number one was the root Nighty one mask Her Boy. That was a rough one for everyone. That was a rough one. I mean, the hardest thing we've had to do on the show. I mean we came back Eddie and I played that festival this weekend. The night before this happened, and it happened on Sunday, and then we came back and I got in bed, and then that's when everybody sort of texting me, going are you here? And then we just came on the show, and we didn't know what was happening. We just jumped on live. As all this stuff is still pretty much coming to an end. People are still running around Vegas. Put us on live at three in the morning. They just turned the satellite and will we're taking to take the East Coast feed. A lot of artists came by all week, a lot of tears in the studio that week. One of the coolest things that happened recently was the day after when we brought all these artists in. And I've never talked about this before, but I just kept thinking of us playing that stage, and I remember when we play, I look at the crowd and I just remember people, certain people that are in the crowd, and I remember a little girl sitting on top of someone's that maybe her mom's shoulders, and I just kept thinking like, oh my gosh, like what if she was there, what if she was one of the injured, And you know, it's just that kind of thing that just brought it home to me, and I always thought about her, this little girl. Well, when we were playing in Vegas not too long ago, I guess about a month ago, she showed up to the meeting great and she said I'm the little girl with a sign on, which I was like, oh my gosh, I just brought it full circle. And I'm kind of getting chucked up just thinking about It's like I thought about you all the time and hoping that you were okay. Just one little person that I remember from that from that show. But man, that was hard. Yeah, hard for a lot of us. And it was in comparison, not the hard for us. It was really hard for us for the people who are actually dealing with it firsthand. Um. I remember seeing in the newspaper there was a kid who went and in his obituary listed that he went because he's going to watch the raging idiots. So I reached out to the family and had that was a tough one. And I remember two brothers Osborne talking about just using the word family a lot in them describing like truntry music as a family and when you mess with a family member like what happened that night, everyone gets really emotionally, even people that weren't even there. It's pretty amazing. And when the just the days that follow that on our show was pretty amazing. By the way, this is this whole list I'm reading here is from the Boot the ten most unforgettable country music moments of the tens, and the Root ninety one tragedy was number one. But you know what, nothing was ever done about it? You know. But in that what did you do feel like that was a good thing? With guns? Oh? No, no, no, not. I meant I meant moving on from it. You know. I feel like a lot of times we kind of do the whole let's not forget kind of thing, but not the not the gun thing. I mean that. That's that's my point. That was the biggest massacre and nothing was done. Nothing's ever done. Rent repeat, Rent repeat, And I have guns, and I'm like, we gotta chill with the fan guns. What's happening here? Uh? So that yeah, when you asked are they all good? On like half of them were good. It was just the biggest And shout out to the Boot again for putting that list up. Um here this as we end the year here, I can give you some music news, Takashi six nine was only sentenced to two years in prison. He's to do with sixty nine tattoo on his face? You use the word only, yeah, because they were like, he's gonna be in jail the rest of his life, right, Mike, for a lot of that, at least like ten twelve years because he was snitched on everybody and so he got far, far, far far or less time. Wow. He was sentenced to two years prison after plading guilty and nine felonies. Do you have any of his music? I mean you can't really playing it so hard? Yeah, it's like hardcore rock craft. What it sounds like like to me? It sounds like what he looks like. He'll also get a credit for thirteen month serves. That means on track he's not trying to be released sometime late next year, so he already gets a year. He has eleven months basically to do. He snitches, get stitches though, like he says, he's not right, Mike, it's hard to put that guy in wait for the location. He got sixty nine tatched Alliver space, Clint all over him. Uh. Selena Gomez once soiled herself at a net sharing concerts really Selena gomezat she soiled herself at an edt Sharing concert because she didn't want to leave. She just covered herself with a sweater and made it the rest of the show. As someone who wants pooped on himself before, it doesn't. You can't do that. It smells really bad. So I don't know if that's completely super at maybe it was like a little one. Well, I know people people that go to festivals do that. I think it was a hybrid. Oh yeah, okay, well that I can understand trying to hang around for a little bit. It's a hybrid hybrid that's disgusting. Garth Brooks has the top country tour of according to Paul Star As we talked about Garth and not being a legacy act. Number ten, Luke Combs, Wow, Luke Homs already in top ten, number nine, Chris Stapleton, George Straight at eight, This the Vegas Shows, Luke Bryant at seven, Zach Brown at six, Thomas Read at five, Carry Underwood at four, Florida Georgia Line at three, Eric Church at two. And the number one tour was Garth Brooks. Best concert you went to in nineteen That might be cheating on this one. But I would say the c m A Awards cheating. That doesn't count because I mean that is the best. It doesn't count. That doesn't count. I would say that Raging Idiots million dollar show there because it was even more fun. I mean we didn't stopping at the end. Look Brian and Gavin, a girl and us and we're all singing, sting Caroline and stand by me. Okay, let's do that one. Then? Is that your favorite? No, we have to actually think of one. Concerts are tough because I don't get to go to many of them because we're on the road a lot on the weekends, and if it's here in town, you're kind of like I see music all the time. Unless somebody really good, it's hard. Like the other day, I want to go see Ryan Heard and I was like told him, like, dude, this, that's the first time I've ever seen your live and we've known Ryan for a few years. He's like, what to like you had that? We don't get out to see shows A lot to think about that one? Bones? What concerts about? Even been to this year where I got a ticket and Jesse when enjoyed it. Yeah, we went to the Eagles. That was pretty cool, pretty good. What else have we seen? Were you just going like, I'm making a night of it, let's go to a show. I feel like I went to the Rhyman for a show. Recently, I went to the Rhyman and saw Sweepy amos Lee. He was sick. He was sick, he was trying to sing it up, blown out voice. I saw Casey Muskrat as the Rheman. Well, that hadn't been cool. It was really good. Man Bones, I can't think of mine. Might be Casey musgro to the Rieman like like just just like I said, just recently, I saw the Ryan Herd thing, but I got to see Michael Ray, I got to see um Blanco Brown. It was it was a radio station cause and literally I was right in the front row because I never get to do that, enjoy it with everyone. The whole bat team was there. We were having fun. So I guess that was it. I mean, because yeah, you're right, we don't get to do this stuff very much. I'm looking at the list that yeah, I'm gonna go must Casey must Grabs as the Rheman. Mike can't think any of the concerts I've been to. I mean you just went to bred Aldridge. Oh the Christmas show that was real good. Yeah, you didn't really talk about that. Was it really awesome? He thinks all the Christmas songs had the whole orchestra thing there, big band, stylish and he had the boxes. You know how that like Brian SAIDs orchestra. They all said, like the play the horns. Just hear you went to Vegas to see Brooks and Dunne. I did go see Brooks and dun and Reba. That's a great one because it was all hits. That's a good one. Bang, that's a good one. Yeah, Casey Brooks and Dunne Reba was good. We have and we have so much in here. Um so yeah, we did this other uh and I encouraged to go check out the songwriter demos that we've done this podcast. I just wanted to kind of leave with this because people love when we bring these demos to the to this music podcast, and so go back and listen to the songwriters sing the demos for the famous songs. It's a couple of episodes back. But what we have is some major pop songs. I wanted to put them in this episode here. Some of these were saying by other artist some of acoustic rough demos. One of those, one of the biggest songs of all time had an entirely different name. Really, we'll do this one. So there's a song called Starlight back in the day. Do you know about Starlight by Michael Jackson. It later was Thriller. What it was called Starlight? Here's the demo, give Me the Starlight. That is awesome. Give me the Starlight and you know why. It would have been a great song. But it would have died a long time ago if it wasn't for the title change. Thriller. We play that every year because it's Halloween. Well because the music video was the Monsters and Zombies, right, But I wonder Starlight it would have just fallen like Billy Jean unless it had been like National Astronomy Day. Yeah, possibly, that's interesting. Here's another one from Michael Jackson. This is beat It. But this is by Michael Jackson and he did it before he had the lyrics. This is a melody. This is It's interesting. The melody sounds like Panatonics. I have friends that are melody writers, like Michael Jackson, and they'll they'll do the whole song and they'll they'll go zab pooda do. They'll put it over music and then it's okay, well, let's not find the words that fit with zab about due I went down to a dog store, met you, and they'll insert it after that. Michael Jackson, did I do? I do like that because melody, like we've talked about this, melody to me is first when I listen to music like, that's good, good melody, and then I'll be like, what's the song about? Oh, didn't even realize Beyonce Halo, which was Biden this is the song Halo. But Ryan Teer of One Republic wrote it. Yeah, this is his version the demo. It sounds like a One Republic song, doesn't it? Pretty close? Yeah, jesse J wrote Party in the USA. She did which she just broke up with Chantetom Hunt saw that, So jesse J. And then here is jesse J though she did the demo Jesus and the Jesus Almazon and the Jesus Alaza. But do you know she wrote it for Miley? No? I don't think so, because I mean it's just perfectly a story for Miley. There probably some little changes in it, just like a Nashville party. That stuff is mile. I think that's anybody's story going to l A though. Yeah, but it was specific to her because she was an l A actress, but Nashville roots, but could have been anyone if you just party, if you put to Peka party, even it wasn't party and it was like in the which says, oh, I think I'm gonna like So it's about her because she's from the UK. I think I'm gonna like the US A good one, Mike d good cats there, Queen under Pressure, which you may know this Bowie queen. All right, So, but it originally was called feel Like Here's the Queen demo, You're Not Fun. I got to Kim in our show the other day on the Bibe Bone Show and saying like Mark Martin Mercury, Yeah real good, huh so good, you give me you know what, t um me one hit wonder. This was originally called the Juicy Fruit Song. Yeah, there you go happy, that's to be every rays okayaf I ain't no bad. It should be saved so a bit different, yeah, yeah, especially that chorus. Charlie xc X actually did the demo for Selena go mess same. All of this is Selena. Here's Charlie xc X very similar. You know Taylor Swift Ti McGraw, Yes song, Tim McGraw. Here's the acoustic demo of that song. When you think Tim McGall, I hope you think my favorite song when we'd add to on the Long the Moon like a spy lad on the leg. When you think happiness, I hope you think that little blagress. Think my head on your chest and my old faded blue jeans. When you think Tim mcgral, I hope you think me. That's awesome. A little different. They're really cool into the tag. But yeah, finally I'll do one more Weezer sweater song if you want to destroy my sweater. Here's the demo by Wheezer, recorded in the Kitchen Tape Demo session, which was named after the place to get the best sound for the drum kid during recording, and night Work's where the band rehearsed to you go there you have it. These are cool, man. I kind of geek out of that stuff too. I love hearing songs grow and how they started. Check out Eddie on the Sore Losers podcast. Yeah Sports Podcast, Yeah yeah, yeah, you're talking a lot of Bowl games right now and uh or just a guy talk whatever. You should check out that show and thanks for listening to the Bobby Cast. We will have another new one um that we're doing with Russell Dickerson and his wife Kayleie Dickerson and we were also got sick, but we should that should be coming up after this one, so that's be a good one. Yeah, I think so right because they worked together. He's the artist, she's the man manager slash business and wife creative. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you guys. Well see you next time with the Bobby Cast. Eddie, thank you very much. Thanks and we'll see you guys and follow us on Instagram at the boy Cast, the Bobby Cast, at the Bobby Cast. All right, by everybody, It is just the star