#233 - How Coronavirus Is Affecting Music + New Music + I Talk to Craig Campbell About His New Song

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode two thirty three. It's Friday, so we'll talk new music. We'll talk to Craig Campbell. He's got a new song out today for a song in a while. But Corona is sweep in the world right now. I'd say sweeping the nation, but that'd be inaccurate because they sweep in the world. And so you know, we're gonna talk about Corona in music. Obviously, this is mostly a music podcast. And I just had to cut some liners for our Boston station because we were gonna go up into a show in Boston and they canceled it. I mean, they should cancel everything, you know. My what I said on the era probably a week or so ago, was what's gonna happen is everybody's gonna start trickle canceling everything, and they're gonna start postponing things for two, three, four or five six months. And so my idea was, why don't we just say, because it's gonna happen anyway, everything for two months is canceled and pretty much just stay in your house that way, and like two to three months this can be over, as opposed to only some things and a slow separation, because then it's still gonna trickle' still gonna drip, and so we're probably gonna be dealing with this for three or four five months, where I just so we put everybody in a in a hole for two months like a big bubble. Yeah. Um again, what do I know? As far as what I'm I've I tell you, I've been granted access to some pretty pretty high of specialist though. So you know, I try not to come on here and say a bunch of stuff that I just read on the internet. I kind of try to talk to people about it first. Pretty cool, we had the Surgeon General line. I got a couple of doctor friends. I got a couple of folks that I can talk to that specialize in respiratory illness. And the one thing they say is that right now, we just don't know that probe them like they they mostly know, but they don't all the way know. And if a doctor doesn't all the way, no, they're not gonna make any sort of for sure statement. Um. So that's what's happening. It's being postponed and canceled him. It does seem irritating, and it does seem like people are going on to overboard, but they should go overboard. I mean, think about that. I think if you were the one there was in control of a school and you were the one that didn't shut your school down and the one on one d shot that a lot of kids got sick and even one of them died because you didn't close it down, you don't want that on you. So for us, it's easy to sit bad, go acc't reively. They canceled this, But if it were you having to make that decision and other people around you were doing the same thing, you don't want to be the one that leaves it open if somebody gets sick or dies, or a kid passed it to his grandmother and she dies. So yeah, And are representatives are caretakers, be it people running our government, people caretaking us in our personal life. They should always overreact a bit, you know, because you're not going to react just the right amount, ever, and if you underreact, that's the worst thing that can happen. So there should always be a padding of overreaction. So when I read this, and we'll go through some of the music events canceled, as annoying as it is, as crazy as it is, like, I agree with it, and I have a lot of friends in music who are just out money. By the way, I'm out money too. I have like four shows I had to cancel. But my main job is coming and doing this, so I'm okay. And I got a studio in my house, so if the world goes to crap, I'll just walk upstairs and push a button. I mean, I guess you gotta come over here, but I just I just push a button. So I do feel bad for a lot of my music friends. And some of them are pretty big artists that you would know for sure, and you probably think, wow, they're just so rich. But what they do. When you're a young artist to middle middle up, you're investing all the money you make back into yourself, so hopefully you can be that a artist. You're investigating tour and busses and when you get to the point where you get an a tea where learned and load your stuff up and and band and once you can have a band in the front of house, guy who's gonna run the sound, and then a monitor's guy is gonna run your monitors, And it's just money you're putting back into it. So there's just not as much money as you think there is, and so with these things being canceled and listen, there are people are gonna hurt worse than them. But I'm just saying from the music perspective, which is what we do on this show, Um, it is hurting. Is it's gonna hurt Everybody's gonna hurt the working class worse than anybody else, which it's gonna be a lag economically, but that's not why we're here. You know. The first one was south By Southwest, and everybody thought Austin was nuts for for cutting south By. They were like, what just happened? The world was shocked. I was shocked, very major festival first to pull the trigger. And I was talking to someone who was close to that situation because they brought in a medical team to advise them, and they said, well, this is why we don't know where it's going into. We have a lot of people from all over the world coming into Austin, and as a precaution to Austin our city, we don't want a lot of people possibly bringing a virus that we don't know enough about. And so because that's such an international festival, they were like, we're done. There were some already pretty big names that are pulled out of it already, which made it not such a super shock because you've had a few people go, hey, we're not gonna come. But the reason was was that they, after consulting with a lot of medical staff, that we're going, hey, you're bringing any people from Europe, and you're everybody in Europe has it right now. You're bringing in people from all over the world, and you want to bring all this to your town and possibly be the reason that your town is super Corona and being Midcrona okay, but super Corona. That sucks. But yeah, it was the first time I think it's ever been canceled. Uh, you know in basketball was reading today because you know, they cut the n C Double A tournament, which you're not a big sports fan, so probably I have never heard of something as crazy as them cutting the entire tournament. I was going to the SEC Tournament yesterday, which is the tournament right before the n C Double A Tournament, and I went to lunch with a friend from the University of Arkansas, and I have a jersey for you, by the way, with your name on it. Really yeah cool, Yeah, it's really cool. The athletic director got us all jersey. It's in for you guys at the baseball jersey with your name. This is mighty on it. That's awesome. Um. And so I was gonna go the game, and they canceled the SC tournament while I was there at lunch. And then last night or maybe yesterday, they canceled the n C Double a tournament never happened before. Now they're having decided the seniors that get cut for other sports, can they come back next year. It's just a whole nobody wanted to do it. I think people are like, oh, viz a reacting, you know, they want Nobody wanted to have to cut stuff. It hurts everybody, and it's it's it's odd to see people get mad at people who didn't want to do it but still felt it was the best to do it because that was in best interest to people's safety and health. Nobody wants to cut stuff. I don't want to cut stuff. I had to move a four day private comedy event four day private, which is a really really great pay day, and I was like, godly had to cut the Raging Idiot show here. I had to cut another I don't know what's happening with Ida I don't know if we're doing no studio audience. I don't know if they're I don't know. I haven't heard from them. You know, we're still haven't chose this weekend as far as they're airing them because we tape ahead. But I have no idea the late night shows are doing no audiences. You're just not gonna put people together for a while. The best case scenario is the worst happened the other night when the NBA it was canceled, Tom Hanks got it and Trump finally had to admit it wasn't a hoax Like that is when everybody went whoa, It kind of got real. And hopefully that's the worst that it gets as far as like the boom effect. Now it's gonna hurt a lot of places financially for a long time, but you know, hopefully it's it's going down from here. That's the best case scenario. So uh, Coachell and Stagecoach are postponed. You know, I like it when people postponed it more than cancel it. I tell you, if I had to sometimes that you just can't find the date or can't find a space for it. But they are postponed these festivals too. Um October. Yeah, for the move for April to October. UM. So at Stagecoach, which is the country version of Coachella, I saw Dan and Shake can't do it, so they had to completely pull out because they have other dates. They had to move their tour, which I know is heartbreaking for them. Okay, I've been working so hard for that. Everybody works hard, but those guys, you know, watching them up close, joined together as a group and grind it out for so long, play five shows a week when nobody was coming to do an arena tour was a humongous deal to them. Um. I can only imagine just how distraught Dan was that having to send that message out. I had country festival in Austin, Texas. Like I got on the phone and it was part of this call a couple of nights ago. They're like, what do we do? I mean, I was like, what do you mean? What do we do? We're not gonna be the ones, so we can't have it, So we're gonna reschedule it. They're looking at dates now. It's gonna happen later in the year before. We're gonna reschedule it. But no big one have to to pull the pull the plug on. But everything Alternate Music Festival, Live Nation a G. The big promoters, they had to just go, you know what, no concerts. It's crazy. They are North America's largest concert promoters. They are all tours, large scale tours. Boom off CMA Fest as of right now, still happening June four through seventh, today's March April Maye. I think could possibly be a thing that may be the first. Hey, everybody come back and try to get back to normal. And it's so hot. That's a lot of people. If it does, if he does kill it, it would be a country country festival in London, Dublin, Glasgow. All of these artists go over to C to C and even you know they do in Australia. And my manager Tom was flying to Australia. He had flown to Atlantas, about to get on the flight and he goes, wait, you're thinking about shutting down and he just sat in the airport. Trump talked and he was like, well, not going to Australia, got back on a plane, flew back home. So you know, I can roll through Dan and Shay. Chris Stapleton's postponed Zach Brown was one of the first ones to hop out and go, we're gonna postpone our whole tour. Blake Shelton, I saw his Willie Nelson, keep Willie away, Lock William will Taylor Swift was going to do the Big March Madness Music Festival, the n C Double A Tournament show off Billie Eilish or March Day. It's Pearl Jam, the Pixies, the Who, Green Day, if the if there's an event, it's done for now. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Broadway is suspending all their shows for a month, like you can't even go. I was listening to the governor talk saying what we may do at some point, it's just do the rooms at like one third because they don't want people coming in large crowds, and then separating each of the tickets by a couple of seats, so smaller rooms with oparation. So it's definitely rocked us early, and there's going to be a lingering rock to it, and we'll just hold on and see what happens. My only request is, if you're listening to this, don't freak out at the people freaking out because we are you one. Just you. If you're saying don't freak out, they don't freak out. The people freaking out, just let it go. You're not gonna get toilet paper if you do, go like eleven am or like two am. That's what used to restock everything, either at lunch in the middle of the night. Um, so no one knows. This is what they say uncharted territory. So that's that's it. I just saw Charles Barkley thinks he has it. Oh no, he got tested the tests the back yet as it right now, a couple of basketball players had it, which why they shut it down. So all right, there you go. Coronavirus has impacted the music industry. I don't know what's going to happen. You don't either, stop saying you do on Twitter. All right, there you go. I was reading a story about coronavirus, which is basically I've been watching on TV and scrolling Twitter and news, and you know when it's a lot of doctors making their guesses and judgments and things getting canceled. But one story that I thought I would bring to the show on Monday, which I may just go ahead and do it here now was There was a kid who had a bottle of hand sanitizer and he took it to school with them and he was charging kids for squirts and he got in trouble because he was making a little side money squirting hand sanitizers. That is like a little bit. I was proud of the kid. He saw a need in the market, he filled it. He wasn't doing anything illegal. Wasn't like he's bringing drugs to school. You can have hand sanitizer. But yeah, again, in trouble to school because he was selling squirts sanitizer to other kids. New music, Let's roll through it. There are other things happening in the world other than things shutting down and people freaking out. So it was a little weird to see like Caitlin Smith this morning post hey I got a new record album. And not weird because she shouldn't do it. She should do it, but it's just everything is Corona related right now. That to see someone going, hey, there's something else happening. Um, it was a little bit refreshing to and I love Caitlin Smith new record called super Nova. Her first album was Awesome. This is their second album, this is called Long Time Coming. This song Luke Brian put out a new song and a music video. He's got an album coming out called Born Here, Live Here, Die Here Now that's the album. This song is called one Margarita Shot. That's sun. I was talking to some friends who have albums coming out soon, and they're like, we can't even go really promote them because shows are cutting or people don't want to travel to go to Like, for example, Kelsey Ballerini's album released, Thing was gonna be next weekend. I was gonna go an be a national that got cut because nobody wants to travel no large groups. Reporters are like our artists even doing it. Artists are like, I don't even talk to the whole thing is weird. So it's kind of an odd time to put out a record. You know, Kelsey is gonna come out right the middle of Corona because I think Hurst comes out next week on Friday, and so it's just like, how do we even go promote our stuff? Good thing this podcast exists, you know what we'll be here for. We'll be here. We're here. Craig Campbell has a new song I called It's about Time spend too. Maybe come on let me turn They got to worry about. I got this and we'll talk to Craig coming up in just a minute. So it's his first song come out in a bit. Margot Price has a new song out called Twinkle Twinkle that just me. Logan Miyes has a new song called Hometown Town Yeah back on my bare foot stopping. Another album is Into the Blue Rachel Reiner from Gloriana, and I know her big album released, Party Happening, got an email and then it was like, oh, never mind, canceled it. And so again, imagine you put out your first album and you can't even promote it. So here is Rachel Reiner in her song called Secret. Is there anything you're listening to right now? Music wise? Nothing that's like kind of has my attention right now me either, like maybe a song here and there, but nothing that I'm like super doll into. I need to dial a little more to the Brandy Clark album that came out, and I like Brandy. I just haven't listened to it enough. Um I told her I would, and I haven't yet. So I'm gonna take that off the table because I haven't yet and I usually do. But I'm just looking at the stuff I just nothing really excites me right now. Nothing. The last songs I have are that that Outskirts song Born for This That's the last song I've saved. Was Boff for This Rust and Kelly doing Teenage dirt Bag, which is just a cover of her name is Noel, and then never Let You Go the Hilary Duff first of the third eye Blind song. I guess I have Black Creek from Brent Cobb, but again, nothing's like grabbing me right now. I know you love post Malone. I saw his show was last night. They kept they kept it going. Remember they said that that was the last big show they're gonna allow. Yeah, I think he's done the soundtrack to the Trolls World Tour, which is the movie Trolls World Tour. It's all out. It's got timber Lake and Kendrick, James Cordon, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Rachel Bloom, George Clinton, Keena Thompson that some of these people don't even know, but here is don't slack by Justin timber Lake, my Rex whole bag out just to Trolls World Tour was gonna open April seventeenth, but now it's moved up? Is that true? To move back? This says troll was supposed to come out April seventeenth, but moved up to April tenth? Did the already put it out? Why April tenth does not happened either? Do you want a fact check that one republic has a new song? I called? Didn't I here's the cup of that. They don't don't say? Good? Oh, I got It's fair. They moved it up. They didn't move it out the Eastern weekend? Was it not Corona related? I think to try to get it out, but April tents is not. That's a month from now. Yeah, what's up? What's boss? Come out on April seventeen? I Mike does a movie podcast called Movie mis Movie Podcast. Are you doing all the movies gonna moved around? Yeah? It's a bunch now. I guess nobody wants to put one out in the next couple of months because they can't promote it right, Because they can't promote it. I mean people like overseas, all that market is kind of messed up. So they moved around a bunch of Disney movies and a bunch of other movies. Nile Horn has a record out. Today's second record. It's called Heartbreak Weather. Here's a song Harvord. There you go. I mean some of the stuff I'm never gonna listen to. A little YACHTI to Baby and Drake have a song called Oprah's Bank Account Nice and the Killers have a new song called Caution. There you go. Well, there's some stuff to check out and see us. It's good for you. I don't know again right now, I'm kind of struggling on the music front to find something that I really that I really like, even a couple of songs. I mean, I just shared with you the last songs that I've listened to. So um, that's really all we have today for you. UM. I appreciate that. Um. Are we getting to the Craig Campbell Everview now? Yeah? Okay, let's take a break and we'll come back and talk to Craig Campbell. Hey. Look, yo, dude, Hey, we're rolling. Oh what's happening? Hey? You know you just answer the phone, go whoa, whoa. I don't answer the phone. I don't know who it is. No, no, I do, man, because curiosity just kills me if you get it. But for me, it's always the people who want to sell me some sort of insurance or warranty and you have to go there like, is this Bobby there? It's always those kind of calls. No, I can't help it, man, it when it rings and I have to know who it is. Well, Craig Campbell's on with us right now. Hey, so you wiped your Instagram three days ago. Now you have four posts up promoting the new song. The new song is called It's About Time. I'm gonna play a clip. Here we go. Here's Craig Campbell's new song, It's about time. Maybe come on't I got alright? Big day, Finally new music out. Man, oh man, it's been a it's been a long time coming. And h I've I've I've been wanting to put this song out for shoot, probably six years. I recorded it back in two thousand and thirteen. It was gonna be the first single off of my third album, right after Keep Them Kisses Coming, but that record label closed so that album never got to be released. So I've been I've been itching and chomping at the bit to put this thing out and I finally finally got the chance to do it, and I'm excited about it. So you've had this song for that long. Yeah, I recorded it in two thousand thirteen and we were gonna make it the first single off of the the third album, and then then Bigger Picture closed, and so I took that record over to Broken Bowl where I signed shortly after that, and uh, they just they didn't like it, I guess, and um, they they just kept passing on. Every time I wanted I brought it up, they were like, no, let's just let's look at something else. So, UM, I don't have to ask permission anymore. So I decided to put it out myself. So is it the same studio recording and you go back in now the one that we did in two thousand thirteen is no, this this is a different version. Um. Funny story. I've played this song just me and the piano one night, uh during my EP release party, and the next day the record label was like, oh my gosh, we gotta record this song. I was like, I've been telling you guys this for four years, and uh, they gave me the budget to go cut it, and then uh, a month or two after that week we parted ways. But fortunately for me, I was able to take those songs with me when when I left the record label and the Yes, so that's the version I recorded with with the record label, but they let me have it. Craig Campbell played a show last night, and I guess I did I text you while you're on stage? Yeah? Yeah, And that's why I feel like when I when I got the phone, I said, oh my goodness, because I know I like to get responses as quick as I can. I hated to leave you hanging, but yeah, I was. I played a little show down in Florida last night. And so when when you flew back to Nashville, was everybody in masks at the airport? Yeah, there was a lot of people in masks. And um, I took two flights. It took two flights to get there yesterday, and then we had a direct on the way home. That's the first time I've ever taken three Southwest flights in a row where they were fifty or more seats empty. Wow, the plane was that empty. It was both all three of them. Man, it was crazy. Yeah. I was looking at your your website. Your tour dates are still listed. What's going on there? Are you playing shows? We're doing? Yeah? I mean as of now, we're we're, we're still good to go. Um. I did have a show tomorrow. It was a charity event that I do with my cornhole tournament. Um it got canceled. Um. But I haven't had any any cancelations on my end yet, but I do I foresee some happening. Is it true that you and your wife once owned a tanning salon? Yeah? Was he own the tanning salon before I met her, and then when I met her, uh, we we started running it together. So yeah, we owned it for a couple of years, you know, and a sprint PCs retail store. Okay, both of these I need to know about. So, first of all, when you were running a tanning salon, was that mostly people laying in the bed or going and get in the spray tan. At the time, we didn't have spray tan, okay, so it was laying in the bed. Yeah, laying in bed. We had one stand up tending and would you do it and put a little bunny on your hip and so you would know how tan you were getting. Oh yeah, absolutely, a little hard. Absolutely. You take whatever sticker, the bunny, the hard your bow and arrow and you put it on to see how dark you're getting. And then you had a sprint PCs star was that in like a kioscar was in a strip mall our way, it was in a strip mall. It was next door to our tanning salam The guy he came in, he opened it up, and he made mention one day that he was he was looking to to uh to get out of the cell phone business. And we were like, we wanted to expand our our portfolio, if you will, and so we we offered to bite and we bought it. So we had those two businesses side by side for a couple of years. And were you playing music the whole time you were also running those businesses? I was? I was, I think around that time I was. I was on the on the road with Tracy Byrd playing piano for him um and also doing my own thing here in Nashville, singing demos and writing songs and playing a lot of Broadway. So yeah, Well, Craig Campbell has got a new song out today and check it out. It's called It's About Time. And at Craig Campbell TV. Now here is the question I'm gonna ask you real quick, why dot TV? Why TV? Why all that? Well, when I first signed my record deal with with Bigger Picture. Um, Craig Campbell dot com was taken. Craig Campbell dot net was taken. Uh, Bigger Picture was already working with Big Kenny from from Big and Rich. Big Kenny had Big Kenny dot Tv, so they looked and checked. Craig Campbell dot tv was available, so we use that as my website. And then as far as keeping everything fluid with the social media, we just made everything at Craig Campbell TV. You get asked out a lot occasionally there there people are are confused because they think, uh, you know, they associate TV with being an actor, and it's just it confuses people. Well what are you doing today, man, Well, we are cheersing, we we we gotta we have some champagne. We're about the toast of the release with my new team, my my management and the people that I partnered with. And then um, I'm gonna shoot a little acoustic video for It's About Time and uh yeah, it's a good Friday. Well, congratulations, Bud, and we'll talk to you soon. Right, all right, Bobby, I appreciate your man. All right, there is Craig Campbell and now here you go. Here's some more of It's about Time. Maybe come on, let me Time ain't got to go. If you never found the breeze on your bank, you change damn so. A couple of his songs, by the way, keep them kisses coming. You may know this one man, what I'm just laying round check up and out starts to Heaven Lord when I'm only obscart is so good. Talk to him. Check out that song at Craig Campbell TV is his Twitter, Instagram. There you go.