#563: Bobby, Eddie and Matt Stell on Top 3 Albums That Changed Their Life + Matt Shares Breaking News in His Personal Life + Greatest Lead Singers & Debut Albums of All-Time

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show #563: Bobby, Eddie, and Matt Stell on the Top 3 Albums That Changed Their Life + Matt Shares Breaking News + Greatest Lead Singers & Debut Albums of All-Time

Date: December 15, 2025
Host(s): Bobby Bones
Guests: Eddie, Matt Stell
Producer: Premiere Networks

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

In this vibrant episode, Bobby Bones brings together Eddie and country artist Matt Stell for an in-depth, fun, and sometimes philosophical discussion about music that shaped their lives. They reveal the top three albums that changed each of their lives, discuss the greatest lead singers and debut albums ever, and engage in hilarious banter about band dynamics, personal music memories, and changing tastes. In a special moment, Matt Stell shares breaking news about his personal life. The episode is filled with memorable stories, playful arguments, and genuine insights into how music intersects with life.

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HIGHLIGHTS & KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

1. Setting the Scene: Don't Pander! (03:53)

• Bobby sets ground rules: pick albums that truly changed your life, not just "cool picks" for show.
  • “Don’t pander, either one of you…like Tchaikovsky in B Major. That’s simple.” – Bobby Bones [04:31]

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2. The Top 3 Albums That Changed Our Lives (04:45 – 31:31)

Bobby Bones' Top 3

• Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
  • First time Bobby saw white guys rapping; broke perceptions from his Arkansas upbringing. [05:03]
• Adam Sandler – They're All Gonna Laugh At You
  • Comedy album; learned you can make comedy music. Tape traded from neighbor as a kid.
  • "That’s the real thing." – Eddie [06:33]
• Diamond Rio – Self-titled Album
  • First concert experience; realization that musicians are real people. [07:14]
• Talks about vocal range in country music: "You don’t realize until you try to sing one of their songs back…how high they sing and how hard it is." – Bobby [07:37]

Matt Stell's Top 3

• Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
  • Connection sparked by "Hand In My Pocket" on Florida radio; notes Alanis was only 21 then. “That record did not have a parental advisory on…I guess there’s a number of curse words.” – Matt [17:10]
• Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
  • Discovering lyric-driven southern rock; experiences making a record in Muscle Shoals with Jason Isbell. [19:38]
  • "He is one of the smartest people I’ve ever been in a room with." – Matt [21:32]
• Randy Travis – Storms of Life
  • First live show attended as a kid; learned vocabulary from the songs ("negligee"). Nostalgia and family ties. [24:31]

Eddie's Top 3

• The Beatles – Let It Be
  • Mom’s 8-track in the Oldsmobile, foundational childhood memory. [31:31]
• Garth Brooks – No Fences
  • Fan club member; transformative for Eddie’s country fandom. [33:53]
• Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
  • Discovered via "Better Man"; deep connection. "I think Bugs was kind of a joke...just because we owe them an album." [35:36]

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3. Personal News: Matt Stell’s Breaking Announcement (10:59)

• Matt reveals that his wife is pregnant—“Oh, yeah. My wife’s pregnant.” [11:05]
• JOYOUS REACTION: Group jokes about a new “dad squad,” shared fatherhood experiences, and Matt’s dreams for his son in sports. [12:18]

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4. Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time (41:16 – 57:41)

Matt Stell’s Picks

• Hozier – Self-titled (“Take Me to Church” and more): “That record is special, special, special.” [42:22]
• Ray LaMontagne – Trouble: Soulful, timeless, considered it a 20-year-old classic on first listen. [43:32]
• Turnpike Troubadours – Diamonds & Gasoline: Soundtracked Matt’s time in the van; emblematic of Oklahoma/Texas "red dirt" sound. [44:41]

Bobby Bones’ Picks

• Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer, Different Park: “Traditional and progressive at the same time.” [53:02]
• Hootie & the Blowfish – Cracked Rear View: Deep high school nostalgia and personal connection with Darius Rucker. [54:03]
• Counting Crows – August and Everything After: Bobby’s all-time favorite band. [55:57]

Eddie’s Picks

• Counting Crows – August and Everything After: Deep, enduring favorite. [56:42]
• Matchbox 20 – Yourself or Someone Like You: Wore out the album; “Real World,” “3AM,” etc. [57:08]
• (If allowed) Pearl Jam – Ten [57:44]

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5. Best Lead Singers Discussion (57:57 – 70:18)

Eddie’s Picks

• Jeff Buckley (“Grace”, “Hallelujah”)
• Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
• Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog)
• Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)

Matt Stell’s Picks

• Chris Stapleton: “He is one of the best we’ve ever had in country music.” [61:47]
• Aretha Franklin: “Go watch Kennedy honors...it will change your life.” [63:37]

Bobby’s Picks

• Chris Martin (Coldplay): Points to versatility, emotional performance.
• Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters): “Maybe the greatest rock singer I’ve ever seen.” [67:12]
• Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)

Debate Moments

• Matt points out differences in interpreting “lead singer” vs. “best singer.”
• Playful mockery from Bobby: “You guys are just picking great singers. I’m picking distinct and generational success.” [68:36]

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6. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Comedy Albums

  • “That’s the real thing. Did you…ever do tape dub to tape?” – Eddie [06:33]
  • “My baby’s gonna be so big it’ll need a twosie.” – Matt Stell [13:47]

• On Changing Bands

  • “If you just have the lead, you got it…who cares about the Crashers.” – Bobby, on band lineups [83:07]

• Musical Philosophy

  • "Are you familiar with the ship of Theseus?" – Bobby, on whether a band is still the same without original members [85:11]

• Band Dynamics

  • Chatter about the Band Perry’s changing lineup, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last original member [82:37 – 85:10]

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7. What’s Next for Matt Stell? (75:52)

• Matt teases a new music project “The Drift” with a first single “Sugarcoat,” a departure from straight country, described as lo-fi, digital, gritty, creative—“I sound like Fergie and Jesus.” [77:05, 78:02]
• Matt explains The Drift’s title: “Yeah, I’m drifting from what people know me as…a little bit.” [86:43]
• The group pokes fun at how hard it is to describe new music without namedropping major influences.

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TIMESTAMPS FOR KEY SEGMENTS

• Top 3 Albums That Changed Your Life – 04:45
• Matt Stell’s Breaking News (Baby Announcement) – 10:59
• Greatest Debut Albums – 41:16
• Best Lead Singers – 57:57
• Band Names & the Ship of Theseus – 85:11
• Matt Stell on “The Drift”/New Music – 75:52

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TONE & STYLE

• Playful, self-deprecating humor: Constant jokes about age, band lineups, controversies about who counts as a “lead singer.”
• Genuine reverence for music & musicianship– deep dives, emotional stories, and honest confessions about how certain artists and albums shaped their youth and careers.
• Camaraderie & friendly debate: Good-natured ribbing about taste, nostalgia, and changing perspectives.

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CONCLUSION

This episode is a heartfelt, insightful, and often hilarious journey through music that profoundly shaped three friends’ lives. Listeners are treated to personal stories, nerdy music debates, and candid reveals—both professional and personal. The interplay of nostalgia, perspective, and playful banter makes it an engaging listen for music fans and podcast enthusiasts alike.

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Notable Quotes

• “That record did not have a parental advisory on…I guess there’s a number of curse words.” – Matt Stell on “Jagged Little Pill” [17:10]
• “He is one of the smartest people I’ve ever been in a room with.” – Matt Stell on Jason Isbell [21:32]
• “My baby’s gonna be so big it’ll need a twosie.” – Matt Stell [13:47]
• “You guys are just picking great singers. I’m picking distinct and generational success.” – Bobby Bones [68:36]

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For New Listeners

• If you love music, nostalgia, stories from inside the industry, and high-energy banter, you’ll find this episode both insightful and entertaining.
• Skip the ads and intros—this is one to dive straight into the main conversations!

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Find Matt Stell’s new project "The Drift" and single "Sugarcoat" on all platforms now.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

All right, we're here with Matt Stowe and producer Eddie. And so I sent you guys some questions last night. We're gonna do kind of an in house music discussion. We're gonna start with the top three albums that changed your life. So not the greatest of all time. And also, don't pander, either one of you.

[Eddie]

Pander to who? To the artists.

[Matt Stell]

What, to you?

[Bobby Bones]

No, not to me. To just people, like, say cool things. So you sound cool.

[Eddie]

Oh, but okay, but what if we sound cool? Just what if you are cool? Yeah, you are.

[Bobby Bones]

That's fine. It's the only time I'm going to say that.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I just don't want you guys, like hollering out cool things that we don't really know. Okay, I see what you're saying. Like Tchaikovsky and B major. Like, that's simple.

[Eddie]

That's a good one.

[Bobby Bones]

That's simple.

[Matt Stell]

One with a good Tchaikovsky. Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So as long as that's been stated up front.

[Eddie]

Got you.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll go first then. Top three albums that changed my life. I have. And one of them I have actually as a vinyl on the shelf behind us, I have Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill, because to me, that was three white dudes. They're Jewish dudes, but I didn't know the difference. That's from Arkansas.

[Eddie]

Yeah. White dudes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And they're rapping. And I was like, that's crazy because.

[Matt Stell]

How can you even do that?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, how I grew up. You didn't get to be a rapper if you're white. And so it was like, that's crazy. They can do that. And it was kind of funny, you know, a little absurd. So Beastie Boys License to Ill comes in on my list at number one or. I don't think I ranked them. I just have my top three. I also have Adam Sandler. They're all gonna laugh at you.

[Eddie]

Oh, dude, that is so good.

[Matt Stell]

That's a great one.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's like Lunch Lady Land. Yes. It had at a medium pace, which was a song about shampoo bottle.

[Matt Stell]

Yes. Dude, is that the one with the. With. I mean, he had a couple, right? Was that the one with the goat on it? The goats get.

[Eddie]

And I don't know if that's the goat one.

[Bobby Bones]

I Think the goat one was the. The heck yeah or the H word one. But yes, the goat one was. Was definitely what happened to me. That's.

[Eddie]

That's it.

[Matt Stell]

That's the one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but you can say it. I just.

[Matt Stell]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

For sake of my streak, I don't.

[Matt Stell]

Put out what the hell Happened to Me. That record, that was, that was a seminal record.

[Bobby Bones]

The first. Are they all gonna laugh at you? Came out first, changed my life. And I didn't have any rules growing up on music, I don't have any rules, period. So it wasn't like I had to hide the music I was listening to. But I had my neighbor Scotty bootleg record it from his dual tape deck and record me a version on a blank tape. And I listened to that thing front and backward. And you know, that to me was so funny that you can make comedy music.

[Eddie]

That's the real thing. Did you. I don't know. You're younger than us, but did you ever do that? Like tape dub to dub tape?

[Matt Stell]

I'm sure maybe I did. I remember my sister having a bunch of tapes.

[Eddie]

Your older sister. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Also, Matt's not. Not 22.

[Eddie]

I get it. But I mean, dude, that was a thing for us.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever heard of Napster?

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, yeah, so, so was the, the den computer. It heard a Napster. Yeah, absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

And I have as my final album that changed my life forever. A reason because I didn't pick my favorite artist in this. I picked like records that I heard that actually changed. Like for some reason that I viewed music, I picked the Diamond Rio. Diamond Rio album, yeah.

[Eddie]

That's good.

[Bobby Bones]

Because that was the first concert I ever went to. I had listened to that so many times over and over again because it had meat in the middle, obviously, but it had Norma Jean Riley's going. I listened to it so much. And then when I saw them as my first concert at Magic Springs, I was like, oh, these are real people. Like you can actually see the people that you listen to in real life.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's my. That's mind opening.

[Bobby Bones]

So the fact that I listen to it all the time and then got to see them live. My first concert, I put the Diamond Rio self titled album in my top three. One of the crazy things about Diamond Rio is how high they sing. Just generally speaking, it's wild, man. Them and Tim McGraw. You don't realize until you try to sing one of their songs back or they sing in front of you how high they sing and how hard it is.

[Matt Stell]

I wouldn't have thought that about Tim McGraw. That's crazy.

[Eddie]

Have we met? Diamond Rio.

[Bobby Bones]

I have you met Diamond Rio.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

I was in California once. I did a video with Blake Shelton, and I was there while he was doing it. I think it was California. I'm pretty sure it was. And they were there shooting the video with him.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

And so all the guys, like, knew me from the show, and I knew them from Magic Springs. Like, remember Magic Springs?

[Eddie]

I was there.

[Bobby Bones]

I was there. But no, we haven't done anything with them, like, here. And also, they may have had some lead singer changes, too.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Did they, like. I think.

[Matt Stell]

I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Also D and Lone Star. There's a lot of overlap in my mind between the two.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. And then. Then you throw the Shenandoah in there. Three body problem where they.

[Eddie]

Shannon, do a little Texas. Diamond Rio for me was like, kind of like Blackhawk.

[Bobby Bones]

He's. Marty Rowe is still the guy.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Matt Stell]

There. And they're all.

[Bobby Bones]

We've had him on the Bobby cast. My bad bones, dude.

[Matt Stell]

I don't bones.

[Bobby Bones]

My bad. Episode 422.

[Eddie]

You like that one time, though, with Blake Shelton?

[Bobby Bones]

I thought that we just, like, talked in, like, real life. That's how real this podcast is. It feels like real life. Oh, that's crazy. I remember that now. Yeah. Marty Rowe, lead singer of Diamond Rio.

[Eddie]

So just the. Just the lead singer came into the Bobby cast?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They. They got. They got their name from Shenandoah.

[Matt Stell]

Diamond Rio got their name from Shenandoah.

[Bobby Bones]

I remember that kind of being a story of, like, they got their name. I don't remember. But that's a cool podcast.

[Matt Stell]

Episode 422.

[Bobby Bones]

Episode 422. Yeah, that Mike, do you remember that part of it?

[Matt Stell]

How do they get their name.

[Bobby Bones]

Now? Maybe I don't remember. Okay. Anyway, those are my three albums. Let's go over to Matt still.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. All right. My three albums. Which, you know, when you say that comedy album that got me to think of, man, I had that Running With Scissors Weird Al record that I wore out. That was one of the first record. It was one of the first CDs I ever bought. So, I mean, honorable ment.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. We're doing honorable mentions.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I didn't know we were doing that.

[Matt Stell]

I didn't know either until you mentioned Adam saying, like, a comedy record. I was like, oh, yeah, for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Before you go. 1. Your cup dumped over. No, no, it didn't dump. You have a lid on it. Oh, no, we have A disaster.

[Eddie]

Oh, Matt.

[Bobby Bones]

It's only. It's only water, right?

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, it's just water that was let. Sit in some hot coffee beans for a few minutes. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Brand new rug.

[Eddie]

Oh, Matt.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, well, I'll autograph that first. What's up with this mic stand? That's worse than. Well, you hit it.

[Bobby Bones]

You broke it as your cup poured over you, then hit the mic stand and broke the mic.

[Matt Stell]

Speaking of comedy records. Over here.

[Eddie]

This is one.

[Matt Stell]

This is one. I'm just gonna hold this thing. All right.

[Eddie]

He does Axl Rose.

[Matt Stell]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

What I was going to say is your eyes look very sleepy. We're recording this at 10 in the morning. What time do you normally wake up as a singer songwriter?

[Matt Stell]

I get up in the 9 o' clock hour.

[Bobby Bones]

So this is a little earlier for your routine.

[Matt Stell]

This set my day a little bit ahead. I keep. I keep late hours for.

[Bobby Bones]

Typically, I would keep late hours too, if I go.

[Eddie]

Yeah, same.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to work with. With the baby coming because I get that you said that.

[Eddie]

I did not know that.

[Matt Stell]

Oh, yeah. My wife's pregnant. Great.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, have you said that? No, this doesn't come out till next week. So now. Now we can either.

[Eddie]

Cut it out, dude.

[Matt Stell]

Breaking news.

[Eddie]

So he doesn't care. He's just saying it to. Congratulations.

[Matt Stell]

Thank you. Thank you. I'm pumped about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, our whole group's pregnant. That's mine. Dr. Josie's pregnant.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, Yeah, I saw that.

[Bobby Bones]

Matt's pregnant. I'm pregnant.

[Eddie]

You're pregnant. Your wife's pregnant.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we have another friend that's pregnant.

[Matt Stell]

Too, who's about to have a little squad rolling around.

[Eddie]

They're all going to be the same age, which is crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank God I'll have other dads that I know already.

[Eddie]

Dude, that is huge. That's huge. Because, like, me, I'm an older dad with. Because I have younger kids. So when I go to their school, like, their dads are way younger than I. I am. So to have dads your own age. Key.

[Matt Stell]

How are you feeling about that about the whole situation? Man, I'm really excited about it. I know that's like. There's nothing interesting I could say about, like. I'm very excited to be having a child. We found out as a boy we're gonna name it. We don't know what the first.

[Eddie]

So nervous for him that he shouldn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Be saying all this stuff.

[Matt Stell]

Like, I'm just not. Like.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not about you, though, because I think I would have been fine with it, too. Is. Is she okay with it?

[Matt Stell]

Well, I mean, I guess that's. I should probably get. I should probably get clearance.

[Eddie]

You should. You should.

[Matt Stell]

I don't think she would mind. Maybe she would. I don't think she would, but, like, I don't know, man. I'm pumped. I got. I got a boy child coming, and it. I'm really hoping that the due date is, like, at the end of May, but I'm hoping it lasts to June because I want to make it, like the oldest kid. Yeah. For sports. But then it's going to be because a. AAU cutoffs are where they are. It's going to be the youngest in aau, so it's going to get the benefits of playing up in aau, but then get to come back and hopefully be a monster.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

At, you know, high school level. But this. I'm already projecting my hopes and dreams on us, on said child. So. Anyway, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Congrats, buddy.

[Matt Stell]

Thank you.

[Eddie]

Yeah, congrats.

[Matt Stell]

Likewise. Thank you. I'll be. I'll be texting you a lot, Ed, to figure out the.

[Eddie]

Oh, I have. I have advice.

[Matt Stell]

Figure out advice.

[Eddie]

I've done it a few times.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. Yeah, you have. And you're good at it.

[Eddie]

I don't know about that.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't.

[Eddie]

I don't think anyone ever feels like they're good at it.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like I'm pretty good at it already.

[Matt Stell]

That's how people talk. That's like, what your business card was.

[Eddie]

Oh, good. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

How many. How much stuff do you have?

[Matt Stell]

None, dude. I don't even have, like, she hasn't started buying, like, stuff. I'm sure, like, Christmas, we'll get, like, you know, a crib and stuff. I'm probably going to get less. Probably ones this year.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Less golf balls.

[Matt Stell]

More.

[Bobby Bones]

More baby clothes.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, exactly. More like pack and plays and stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't even know what to say. Baby clothes. Like, what do you call thing you put on a baby?

[Eddie]

Onesie. Little onesie.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

My baby's gonna be so big. It's gonna need a twosie.

[Bobby Bones]

It's gonna come out four foot long.

[Eddie]

All your plans.

[Matt Stell]

I hope. It looks just an absolute Marvel character and coming out anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You want to do albums?

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, let's do albums because I don't know, we could use this. I gotta. All right, so my top three albums. Number one. I don't. Not number one, like you said. Just top three. Jagged Little Pill. That'll last. More set record. I remember when that One hand in my pocket came on the radio. The first time I was in, I was in Bradenton, Florida. We're actually headed to the, to the skating rink. And I remember, I remember in my mom's Corolla, I remember that car, that song coming on like what is this? And then I got that whole record and that whole record was up and down smashes one after the other. She was like 21 when she wrote it. There's an awesome documentary about.

[Bobby Bones]

We watched it. It's one of those really good Bill Simmons documentaries.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, it's a music box one. Yeah, man, he crushes it.

[Eddie]

All those.

[Bobby Bones]

He's doing a County Crows one.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah, I saw that. I, I, it came up on my algorithm. That mo. I've seen most of those, I think.

[Bobby Bones]

But the, the ones on the festivals are good.

[Eddie]

Oh really?

[Bobby Bones]

All the wood stocks.

[Matt Stell]

99:1. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, he did those.

[Bobby Bones]

Uhuh.

[Eddie]

Oh, those are really good.

[Bobby Bones]

I sent it to Eddie. Or did you send it to me?

[Eddie]

No, you sent to me.

[Bobby Bones]

I sent it to Eddie and I said, hey, County Crows documentary. Because we're both massive County Crows fans. And I sent it to my wife and I said, hey, I got something for us to watch. And she's so anti Counting Crows. She responded, I won't even watch the TikTok.

[Matt Stell]

How, how can you. I can understand being like, yeah, Counting Crows, not my favorite. How can you be anti Counting Crows?

[Bobby Bones]

She thinks it's just middle aged man whining.

[Matt Stell]

You know, he wasn't middle aged at the time.

[Eddie]

It's funny though, because my wife, she was a huge Counting Crows fan, growing, but the older she got, she's like, I can't take it anymore. It's too whiny.

[Bobby Bones]

Is to quote her, more whiny the better.

[Eddie]

I love the whiny.

[Matt Stell]

I just came up that's the same like, like alternative music. Cool to me is like anti. You know, so like whatever. Somebody's like, yeah, I always love that for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Jagged Little Pill album track one was all I really want. All I really want as a jam Hand in my pocket.

[Matt Stell]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

You learn, you live, you learn. Head over feet.

[Matt Stell]

All four of those were huge smash singles.

[Bobby Bones]

And then Ironic and you ought to know. Six. Six number one songs.

[Eddie]

Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

@ a time when that didn't.

[Matt Stell]

Happen. No, that, that record was so big, like and, but it, I didn't even, I mean I just loved it, you know, and it did something for me. It scratched an. It's like it's still, if you go listen to it now, it still sounds Cool, man. You know, she has a unique voice. She was writing from a perspective and she. I don't know. It was just a great record. I mean, there's documentaries made about it.

[Bobby Bones]

So. Yeah. And that video is a bit of what launched that song in that she kind of hit her face for the video, which made it a bit.

[Eddie]

Mysterious. How does she do that? Like her hair over her.

[Bobby Bones]

Face? Very much over there. And it was kind of shot in a weird tone. And it was alternative. Now they play that stuff on Hot ac. That whole record is Hot ac, But that was alternative back in the day especially, you ought to know, because, you know, one of the lines is, you know, would she go down on you in a theater? And the whole. Was what the stations block out part of the song. And some of them would. It'd be like, would she go you in a theater? And some of them would play the whole thing. So, yeah, Lance is still.

[Matt Stell]

Awesome. She also had a huge F bomb at the end of that song. And that record did not have a parental advisory.

[Bobby Bones]

Sticker.

[Matt Stell]

Really? No. I don't know why that is the case, but correct me if I'm wrong, but that. That Jagged Little Pill record did not have a parental advisory on. I guess there's a number of. You get so.

[Eddie]

Many. Yeah, yeah. Like two curse.

[Matt Stell]

Words.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. She kept it right below the.

[Matt Stell]

R, below the threshold, but it's like. It's like the Chris Nolan Batmans. You know, they kind of feel rated R, but then, you know, they're.

[Bobby Bones]

PG13. Is that vibe she was doing and may still be doing a residence in Vegas. And I told my wife I was watching videos of her now doing, and I was like, man, I really want to go to this. And she was like, good luck to you. Good.

[Matt Stell]

Luck. She still sounds.

[Eddie]

Like.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. I mean, judging from, like, performances I've seen recorded, she still sounds.

[Bobby Bones]

Awesome. Even her later stuff, like Uninvited, when you say sounds cool. Because the Unavited wasn't on this record. But like. Like this. It was so.

[Matt Stell]

Distinct. Yeah, it was so, like, tense. It was so. It was so.

[Bobby Bones]

Cool. All right, what else you.

[Matt Stell]

Got? The next record for me was Drive By Truckers, Dirty South. I really came into the Drive By Truckers. They were before my time a little bit, but they were still making music. Dirty south was the second record that with Jason Isbull was in the band. And so I. I'm cherry picking a little bit because I was like, I didn't get that music. I didn't get the Truckers as one Album I got it as, oh, they're on their fifth album. And so then I went back, but that was the one that opened, had outfit on it and Never Gonna Change. And man, I, I, I, up until that point, like, I had been a little intimidated about, about, like, singer, songwritery music because I didn't, like, I didn't understand what Paul Simon and, and Bob Dylan were talking about most of the time. Like, I kind of didn't get it, to be honest with you. And then when I first heard some of the stuff in like, Dirty south, which is like this sort of like, punk version of Lynyrd Skynyrd was kind of with. But the lyric is so good. But they were just painting with colors that I knew and they were talking, they talked about life in a place that I understood and, like, it made me connect with music in a way that I hadn't since then. So the, the Drive By Truckers and then that record Dirty south, that when Isabel was in the band at 21 and just like, ripping was.

[Bobby Bones]

Unbelievable. I have no reference point with Drive By.

[Eddie]

Truckers. I don't either.

[Bobby Bones]

Was. I never listened to them. I never listened to Isabel until he was already established as Jason Isbell. Like, I'm not even cool in that way. But what I know about Isbel now is that he writes all the stuff by himself. Do you know if he wrote the Drive By Trucker stuff by.

[Matt Stell]

Himself? So he. The way that, that, I mean, I couldn't, from what I understand. So if there's, you know, whatever. Correct me if I'm wrong in the comments, chat, but it's. That band was. You write it, you sing it.

[Bobby Bones]

So. So there are multiple singers in the.

[Matt Stell]

Band. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So Eagles.

[Matt Stell]

Type. Yes. Except that, you know, the singing was not their forte. Their forte was the writing, the vibe, the aesthetic and the lyric really did a lot of the lifting. But I think when Isabel was right, like, Isabel wrote Outfit, I'm pretty sure that those songs were, you know, he's largely writing them himself.

[Bobby Bones]

And. You ever met.

[Matt Stell]

Him? Yeah, yeah. What do you think he. So at one point I was trying to do a record with him with the band that I was in at the time, and my band was terrible and the record didn't come out. But I did spend like a week with him in Muscle Shoals.

[Bobby Bones]

And. What do you mean with him? He was going to produce.

[Matt Stell]

It. Yeah, in the.

[Eddie]

Studio. That's amazing. Like, what you just said right there is.

[Bobby Bones]

Amazing. You spent a week with Jason.

[Matt Stell]

Isbel in Muscle Shoals and this Was.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, this was before the 60s. He's like, it sounds like it. This is the 60s.

[Matt Stell]

Man. Skinner. It's crazy, dude. John Fogarty was just in the other room making coffee. It was great. No, dude, we went to muscle shows to try to make a record with my band at the time. And like we were just didn't. What we did didn't work out, but. But anyway, I spent a week there with him and I've seen him since then a few times. Like it read at shows or like it's like a couple times and he's remembered me every time. Like because there was years. But in between that, he's always got something. He's always been cool to me. And I will say that. That, you know, I've. I've been around like a lot of interesting people. But he might be. He is one of the smartest people I've ever been in a room with. I mean, I. It just. That's just the case, I find. I try not to glaze too hard because he's about to. His name's about to get said some more on this list.

[Eddie]

But.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh. Oh, here.

[Eddie]

We. Yeah. Yeah. All.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. I find that the more celebrated the artists for their artistry, the weirder they are. Just generally speaking, I don't think every artist that's at the highest point and celebrated by other artists is the weirdest. But for the most part, that Venn diagram of being a weird person, hard to kind of connect on a human level. And you didn't say this about Jason at all, but I would not have been surprised that you would if you would have that usually cross over. Like, the more creative, the more appreciated you are as an artist, the weirder you are and hard to connect with as a real life human. It's almost like there's an ability to write and connect through your work way better than you do as a.

[Matt Stell]

Human. Well, I mean, yeah, there may be something to that. And also if you're making interesting stuff, a lot about a lot of that comes from seeing the world in a different way. So there could be some kind of correlation.

[Bobby Bones]

There. I expected you to say he didn't talk.

[Matt Stell]

Much. No, he. And like this was. This was like pre got sober is well too. So it wasn't. And he wasn't like sloppy around or anything like that. But like we would go out afterwards and he was in. He was like living in. In an apartment above a bar that we hung out at all night and shot pool. He's great at.

[Eddie]

That. What was. What was this Thing Drinking sober or like drug.

[Matt Stell]

Sober? I think. I think drinking mainly. I mean, I. I hesitate to sit here and talk. Like, I do know him.

[Bobby Bones]

We. It's a loaded question there, Eddie. Drugs did you see him.

[Eddie]

Do? Because he said it was before, you know, like before he got sober. I don't. I don't know much about him.

[Matt Stell]

So I don't know what BC and AD on that is. Like the southeastern record was like the. The got sober record. Everything before that was. And like his. His art didn't suffer at all from getting sober or being messed.

[Bobby Bones]

Up. Mine did. And yeah, when I got sober, dude, things went downhill. Yeah, I really enjoyed the version of.

[Matt Stell]

Me. It was just free, just.

[Eddie]

Unencumbered. Matt, are you. You're a lyric guy. Like, are you. When you listen to music, do you list lyrics first, melody second, or.

[Matt Stell]

Together? It kind of depends on what it is, you know, like, it. Like a lot of pop music, you know, is more melody forward. And if the lyric does something cool, cool. But like my favorite music, which I. I like to swim in those kind of Americana waters a lot of times or like indie stuff. And even with that Jagged Little Pill thing, the lyric is very important to what's going on. And with the truckers, with. With isbull, with that kind of music, the lyric is doing a lot of the lifting. And so. Yeah. Yeah, I think. I think so. I would probably be.

[Bobby Bones]

Lyric. All right, Next.

[Matt Stell]

Album. Next album was. I don't have to look. Next album, Storms Alive. Randy Travis. I listened to that record a thousand, thousand.

[Bobby Bones]

Times. Why was it placed in front of.

[Matt Stell]

You? Yeah, I mean, that reg. I was like, that was the first concert I ever went to. Was. Was Randy Travis. I think he was. Oh, man, I'm gonna get this backwards. This is terrible. Randy Travis was opening for Alan Jackson or vice versa at the time. It might have been vice versa at the time. And I mean, I was. I was like, didn't even need a ticket. I was on my mom's lap. But I remember going to that show and seeing that. And that record just happened to be sort of around, you know, and I got older and I was like, oh, a bunch of those songs are. Are, you know, still on that? And, you know, you kind of learn them in little bit. And jams on that record. On the other hand, that's the first song on.

[Bobby Bones]

There. Yeah. And then Digging Up Bones, though, I have memories of exactly where I was because my grandma was a massive Randy Travis fan. But tonight I'm didn't alone Digging Up Bones.

[Matt Stell]

Man. What's cool is when you learn words from like these records. Like, I'm thinking like in that one, in that song. He's like, I found some things in there, like that pretty negligee I bought you to. I was like, mama said negligee. She was like, it's underwear, son. Or so. I don't know what she said, surprisingly, but that'd be funny if she did say that. Let's take a quick pause for.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Outlaws. And we're back on the Bobby cast. Eddie, your top.

[Eddie]

Three. Top three. I'm going to go with Let It Be by the Beatles. And this takes me back from being. I mean this is probably the first I ever heard from music like at all. And it was my mom, my mom was a big Beatles fan and she drove a car with an eight track player in it to my school. Like that's how I would drive to school. An Oldsmobile with an eight track in it. And the eight track was Let It Be. And dude, I just love. She sang every word to every song and I loved that. And it was almost like she loves it so much that I love it and I wanted to know more about it. And then when I found out, I'll never forget, dude, when I found out that John Lennon was dead by the time I was listening to this because he was.

[Bobby Bones]

Dead. When you were listening, I.

[Eddie]

Was. He was already dead. Yeah, it blew my mind. I was like this guy that I've been singing this whole time who's singing all these songs is dead. And I didn't know that. That was just mind blowing to me from that.

[Bobby Bones]

Album. When I watched and I didn't watch all of it, I couldn't take all of it. But the.

[Eddie]

Beatles. Oh, you don't watch the whole.

[Bobby Bones]

Documentary. I watched a lot of it so good, dude. I couldn't. A lot of it's just like passive. It's just on and you're. I couldn't. They're writing.

[Eddie]

Songs. I mean that's what documentary that I watched. And maybe it goes back to.

[Bobby Bones]

This. It was like eight hours.

[Eddie]

Long. It was so long. But I watched every minute of that documentary and loved.

[Bobby Bones]

It. When they're like dicking around and Paul's writing. Get back. Yeah, yeah, Juju was. And they write that and you see him pick it up and write it because that's on that.

[Eddie]

Record. It's on that record and. And Ringo is Like, just behind the Ringo's the most. Whatever you want me to do, mate. Like, I'm back here. Like, you know, I'll be back here if you need me. And they're writing that song. And he goes, how about Jojo? Like, use the name Jojo. And they're like, thanks, Ringo. So it's like they're making it up as they.

[Bobby Bones]

Go. But did he get credit for writing that song? For writing on that song? I don't.

[Eddie]

Know. That's a good.

[Bobby Bones]

Cuz. In Nashville, he'd have got a third for.

[Matt Stell]

Sure. Good.

[Bobby Bones]

Word. For the third, even to go.

[Eddie]

Jojo. Jojo's a good.

[Bobby Bones]

Name. You're now in. It's now partly your.

[Matt Stell]

Song. That would be the name you. It be what? You couldn't name it in Nashville because you'd have to give somebody the fourth for.

[Eddie]

That. So you change it. How about.

[Bobby Bones]

Bobo?

[Eddie]

Yes. All right. What else you got? Yeah, so the Beatles. Let it be. I'm going. Have to go. Garth Brooks, no Offenses. Dude, change changed my life. I mean, it was. And I think I just kind of missed the first album because I was just too young. And I know that there were great songs on that, but no Fences with the Thunder Rolls and Friends in Low Places and all. Dude, that was Two of a.

[Bobby Bones]

Kind working on A Full.

[Matt Stell]

House. That's a really good.

[Eddie]

One. So good. Two of a Kind might have been the first.

[Bobby Bones]

Album. It's on no.

[Eddie]

Fences. Oh, is it on no Fences?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. The first album, what I know from it was if Tomorrow Never.

[Eddie]

Comes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. That was like this. And again, I'm going from memory and the.

[Eddie]

Dance. I.

[Bobby Bones]

Believe. I don't know. I just remember if Tomorrow Never Comes. I thought it was the greatest song I'd ever heard in my.

[Eddie]

Life. I became a huge Garth Brooks fan. Like, I was in the fan club. I asked Garth Brooks merch for Christmas, like, whoa. That's how big of a Garth Brooks fan I was. So when we first met Garth Brooks and I don't know, dude, maybe he has someone that tells him, you know, like, this is Bobby and Eddie, of course. And he comes in and says, eddie, nice to meet you. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Garth knows who I am. He probably didn't know who I was, but I will still remember that. And I will believe that he knows who I.

[Bobby Bones]

Am. Thunder Rolls, New Way to Fly. Two of a Kind working on Full House. Friends in Low Places. Unanswered Prayers.

[Eddie]

Wolves. Wolves. Skip past.

[Bobby Bones]

Wolves. That's bugs on Pearl Jam. Vitality to me. It's kind of weird. Bugs is kind of weird. All right. What else you.

[Eddie]

Got? Pearl Jam. Vitalogy.

[Matt Stell]

No.

[Eddie]

Yes. That's my last one. Pearl Jam. Vitalogy. And. And I'm being honest here, that I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I didn't really catch on to pearl jam when 10 came out or, like, the first albums came out. I heard Better Man. Really? My brother was listening to this stuff. He's older than me, and so, like, I heard it. I heard him listen to Alive and Even Flow and Jeremy, and I knew that existed. But when I heard Better man for the first time, I'm like, who. Who is this? Like, this is so good that I went to the record store and bought Bitology and listened to that album over and over and over. And, dude, I like Bugs. Like, Bugs is.

[Bobby Bones]

Awesome. Bugs is.

[Eddie]

Weird. Bugs is so weird. It's Eddie with an accordion.

[Bobby Bones]

Just. I thought it was a joke song. I wanted Adam Sandler once I heard that. Yeah, because he. I thought Bugs was a joke song. It wasn't even a real song, though, was it.

[Eddie]

Dude? I think at that time, Eddie was so mad at just record labels and the business of music that he was like, I'm just gonna put throwaway tracks on this album just because we owe them an album, you know, Some. I think Bugs was kind of a joke or kind of like a slap to the record label, whatever. But what's crazy about Vitology is they had never won a Grammy or never won really an award until Vitology came out. And it was almost like the industry being like, we have to give Pearl Jam an award. We've never given an award. So they gave him an award for a song called Last Exit, which is on.

[Bobby Bones]

Vitology. Why? What it.

[Eddie]

When? Single rock single, I believe or.

[Bobby Bones]

Something. Last Exit from Pearl Jam.

[Eddie]

Right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And it won a.

[Eddie]

Grammy. Yeah. Either that one or Spin the Black Circle, one of the.

[Bobby Bones]

Two. Let's see. Pearl Jam Grammys. They won, well, in 1996 for Hard Rock.

[Eddie]

Performance. That's probably Neil.

[Matt Stell]

Young. Oh, they were a lot of Pearl Jam.

[Eddie]

Dude. I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan. Still a huge Pearl Jam.

[Bobby Bones]

Fan. You know, Pearl.

[Matt Stell]

Jamie. I mean, I. Yeah. Pearl Jam was Jeremy's.

[Eddie]

Booking. I'm Still.

[Matt Stell]

Alive. Yeah. All.

[Eddie]

That.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. Yeah. The Pickle.

[Eddie]

Man. What else you.

[Bobby Bones]

Got? They kind of all run.

[Eddie]

Together. No, they don't. They.

[Matt Stell]

Don'T. You should know. They.

[Eddie]

Don'T. And I'll tell you what's cool about Vitology is that I caught him at a time where, like, I enjoyed the rest of their albums after that. People that don't like Pearl Jam much anymore, they liked old Pearl Jam. They loved even Flo Jeremy.

[Bobby Bones]

Alive. So that they.

[Eddie]

Caught. Didn't really understand a lot of the older Pearl Jam when they kind of got, you know, more experienced and wanted to experiment more with music. So I got to catch them at a time where, like, I do like their later stuff because of that. I wasn't in love with the early.

[Bobby Bones]

Stuff. Yeah, I can't really find what they won for. I'm not good at this search for.

[Eddie]

Stuff. It was. I remember the acceptance speech was like. He was like, I don't really know how you can put. You can judge.

[Bobby Bones]

Art. Oh, shut.

[Eddie]

Up. So I guess. Thank.

[Bobby Bones]

You. It was a best hard rock performance for what song? Spin the Black surf. Spin the Blackstone.

[Eddie]

96. There you.

[Bobby Bones]

Go. Shut up with that. I don't know how you don't go to the award.

[Eddie]

Show. He's like. And he did.

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It. They did.

[Eddie]

It. Wouldn't go to award shows until then. He's like, thank you. I guess it was awesome. It was so.

[Matt Stell]

Cool. Yeah, I kind of got. Yeah, Yeah. I in there one way. I get it. But then now on the other side of, like, some of that stuff, it's like, you know, especially. It doesn't maybe so much apply then as it does now because then there were so many more gatekeepers and stuff like.

[Eddie]

That.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. But like, now if you don't like X kind of music, but you sort of make X kind of music you don't like, you don't have to say that you do make that kind of music. Like, if you don't like country music or if you think that certain kind of country music isn't country music, that you can just have a whole life doing that and. And it's find your fans in a way that you're not boxed in the way you would have been.

[Eddie]

There. It was kind of their thing too, to fight.

[Matt Stell]

Everything. Yeah, for sure. They'd all. At Ticketmaster, Ticket Master, you know.

[Eddie]

It was always fight, fight, fight. Which was kind of the grunge era. Right. Like no one understands.

[Matt Stell]

Us. That's.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Why are we awarding art? They don't show up to the.

[Eddie]

Show. I mean, I don't know how you can award.

[Bobby Bones]

Art. Like, Morgan Wallen doesn't show up to the.

[Matt Stell]

CMAs. You gotta respect to the CMAs. If I was Morgan Wallen.

[Bobby Bones]

Either. Gotta respect the fact that he just doesn't.

[Matt Stell]

Go. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. If he went and was like, I Don't know why I'm here. We're like, well, you're here. Yeah, that would be.

[Eddie]

Weird. That's all. So don't go in a time.

[Bobby Bones]

Machine. I'm saying. Kind of a douchey.

[Eddie]

Move. Hey, so don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Go. Don't go there if you're gonna complain about being.

[Matt Stell]

There. But the time is also. It's like the context is different. So it could have been. It was. It's not like now, where you have so much access to everyone all the time. You know, back then, you know, you had a couple of award shows in the Grammys. Might be the only time you would.

[Eddie]

Like. That was your.

[Bobby Bones]

Voice. See, so you don't want that voice. He obviously doesn't want the voice of being on commercial.

[Eddie]

Television. I think he wanted that chance to tell everyone that this is.

[Bobby Bones]

Stupid. He wanted the chance to tell everyone that what he was doing was stupid. That he didn't have to.

[Matt Stell]

Do. Yeah, I mean, but again, it's like, if he doesn't show up, then there's an article in Rolling Stone where he says, all that shit in print that probably doesn't have the impact. I'm just saying.

[Bobby Bones]

Like. Yeah, yeah, but he didn't know he was going to win, though, either. You're going to. That thing, not knowing you're going to.

[Matt Stell]

Win. I guess it's true. I mean, I'm just saying, like, the context might be. The media landscape might have made it different. I'm just trying to, like, play devil's.

[Bobby Bones]

Advocate. I'm playing no advocate. I'm ready. If you're gonna go and complain about being there, don't.

[Matt Stell]

Go. Eddie's fine. He doesn't need.

[Eddie]

Me. And then they say, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, oh, Eddie better's on the phone now. He has something to.

[Eddie]

Say. They're like, where's your Grammy now? He's like, I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Know. Yeah, right. He's on a shrine in his freaking house. Whatever. I do like Pearl Jam, but they do start sounding a bit similar. Eddie Vedder's voice to me is like Axel's guitar playing. It. It all kind of sounds like. I'm sorry, Slash's guitar playing. Excuse me. It all kind of sounds the.

[Eddie]

Same. I don't get offended, but you're kind of offending me a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Bit. It all sounds the.

[Eddie]

Same. Eddie's.

[Bobby Bones]

Voice. Yeah, he sounds the same. It all. It's also very. It's like dance music to.

[Eddie]

Me. But no one ever sounded like that. Great. And then, and then, and then everyone wanted to Sound like.

[Matt Stell]

That. Yeah. Rihanna had that. Did the same thing of pop music. Stapleton did the same thing for us, man. It's like somebody comes along that's really good in a different way. And then everyone, you know, and.

[Eddie]

Then someone comes along and says like, it's kind of the.

[Bobby Bones]

Same. All of it all. I like them, but all their songs kind of sound the.

[Eddie]

Same.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Just like all dance music sounds the same to me. That means my palate is not.

[Eddie]

Mature. Oh, that's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Okay, let's do another one. Let's do favorite debut albums ever. Matt. Still. You can start with this.

[Matt Stell]

One. All right, sweet. Get my list up. Debut albums is tough because again, like, if you get into music, if you get into a band in the middle of what they're doing, you know, it's like I started liking Kings of Leon at the only by the Night record. So it's obviously not their debut record. So it's a little bit of a dive to figure out, you.

[Bobby Bones]

Know. But can't you go back and you can and Absolutely. And go, oh, I found them. But I'm gonna go back to their first record and be like, wow, this record's freaking awesome. I don't think you have to experience it right when it comes out. Okay, well, I did in All Mine for the.

[Eddie]

Record. I'm glad you clarified that because I have one where I went.

[Bobby Bones]

Back. The.

[Eddie]

Beatles. Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

No. Okay, yeah, cool. I just did it for like the debut albums that I was there for that I, you know, that meant something to me, you know, so top three. This is like, to me, you know, the first one to me is that Hosier self titled record. Hosier record that had Take Me to Church on it and all that stuff. Unbelievably groundbreaking to me. Like, he's still one of my favorite artists. Everything he does to me is cool. That record is special, special.

[Bobby Bones]

Special. All I know is Take Me to Church. I.

[Matt Stell]

Think I'm trying to think what else you would know off of that. What's it called, that record? Self taught. It's just called.

[Bobby Bones]

Hosier. First record. Let's see if I know any other.

[Matt Stell]

Songs that was the, like, single. I mean, that was the thing that.

[Bobby Bones]

Broke. Do they have any other. Have any other big singles from that? Because I know some of his later stuff, but yeah, I don't think. I'm just not smart in your music. Your music's way above where my brain.

[Matt Stell]

Goes. Well, I mean, it was.

[Eddie]

Like. Or is he trying to be.

[Bobby Bones]

Cool? No, I don't think.

[Matt Stell]

So. Cool Debut records to impress.

[Bobby Bones]

One.

[Matt Stell]

Yes. Really.

[Eddie]

Love.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't know. Take Me to Church. I don't know any of the other.

[Matt Stell]

Ones. Yeah, all.

[Bobby Bones]

That. That record's just cool, front to back, not discounting.

[Matt Stell]

It. Yeah, it's. It's great. I mean, spend some time with. It's awesome. The second one was Ray Lamontagne's Trouble. Oh, that record came out the first time. Like, you heard him singing that on. What's the British show where they get in the. Jules Holland. I think that's the first time I saw, like, I saw a clip of him on Jules Holland doing Trouble, and that was like, they had Jolene on.

[Eddie]

There. Talk about one of the coolest.

[Matt Stell]

Voices. Yeah, man. Really, really cool. And he was like, in a time where the. The kind of, like that sort of analog kind of acoustic thing was not what it is now. You know what I mean? That was. That was a real kind of game changer. I mean, people. Zach. Zach Brown covered that, you know, Jolie song. We put it on a record. I mean, it had ripples out.

[Bobby Bones]

Everywhere. So to me, it sounded like somebody was introducing a song to me from 20 years.

[Eddie]

Ago.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I thought it was an old song that I had.

[Matt Stell]

Missed. See?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And so I heard it was like, oh, this is good. I. I never heard this on Cool 95 in Arkansas, the oldie station. And turns out it was new. It was just really good. So that old retro type sound, it was so good that it cut through. Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. And then which. That just made me think of another record that would have been awesome on here.

[Bobby Bones]

Was. You can't keep adding records. You can't keep.

[Eddie]

Adding. You know the rules.

[Matt Stell]

Man. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Fine. You're doing honorable mentions and adding records in the middle of the. Of the bit. I even gave you this ahead of time to have time to work on.

[Matt Stell]

It. I wrote it down. All right, fine. Well, then never mind. I'll keep that. Great insight that was gonna.

[Bobby Bones]

Change. Please keep that to.

[Matt Stell]

Yourself. I'll keep all those jewels myself. The third one for me was Turnpike, Diamonds and Gasoline. Man, when that record dropped. Yeah, I mean, that was the world I was in at the time. You know, it was the music I was listening to, the music I was trying to make, and they came along with that record and this banger from front to back. And, you know, now. Now that's a band that means a whole lot to a lot of people. But I remember. I remember that Diamonds and Gasoline being on heavy rotation in the van when we were driving to wherever we were.

[Bobby Bones]

Going. They played Million Dollar show with us a couple years ago and they were like, what songs do you want us to play? And I was like, play Diamonds, Gasoline, and you can pick your other stuff, but if you do that. I didn't get into them until I got with Caitlin because they're from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and that's right near where she's from. And when they came into the studio to play, I was like, oh, you guys from Tahlequah? They're like, you're the first person to ever say it, right? I was like, my wife's from right near there, so I know it. And so she played it non stop. So I got a late introduction. But then I got it. I was just way late to the party. Like I was showing up at 2am when everybody was, you know, was already.

[Matt Stell]

Drunk.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. But yeah, and they were awesome. They were super cool guys and guys who had definitely had spent their time invested on the road playing shows, making records. And it was kind of weird to them they were starting to cut through at this stage of their career. Like when I was talking to them, that was kind of what I got from them is they're like this kind of wild that we're kind of hitting right now because we've been doing this for a long time and we haven't done anything different. But would they be considered red.

[Matt Stell]

Dirt? Yeah, for sure. For sure. I think so. I mean, yes. I think, you know, whatever you want to call, you know, the Texans get pretty. They're the only ones that get prickly about what you call it because, you know, don't call it Texas country if it's not for Texas, but like.

[Eddie]

Turbo. So what's red.

[Matt Stell]

Dirt?

[Eddie]

Oklahoma? Okay. To me it's Texas country is Texas country. Red dirt is Oklahoma.

[Bobby Bones]

Red. But Texas country can go into red.

[Matt Stell]

Dirt.

[Eddie]

It's. Yeah, it did.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Like, but I feel like Red dirt can be Texas.

[Matt Stell]

Country. I think the reason that people say Red Dirt is for bands like Turnpike, Stoney, larue, Ragweed that were Oklahoma based.

[Eddie]

Bands. Oh, see, I thought Stoney was.

[Matt Stell]

Texas. The thing that they. What's.

[Eddie]

That? I thought Stoney was.

[Matt Stell]

Texas. I mean, he was in New Braunfels maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. For some reason I thought you probably spent the night there a couple.

[Matt Stell]

Times. Yeah, yeah. Don't let me, like, look, I'll piss somebody off trying to act like I know everything about all that. But red dirt kind of encompasses Texas country and Oklahoma in the same way that all squares are rectangles. But not all rectangles are squares. That's how that works. One is a subset of the other. The Bobbycast we'll be right.

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[Rob Gronkowski]

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[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. This is the Bobby cast. I'll go. My three favorite debut albums ever. Casey Musgrave. Say Same Trailer, different park, which. She's one of my favorite artists. I have her. I put, like, vinyl albums out front of the studio of, like, music that I really like, even at music in the studio. And that was a game changer because shit was really traditional, but it was also really progressive at the same time. And that was odd, I think, to country music, because it was very country, yet it was very progressive. And those two just didn't mix. Especially in that era of, like, the 2010s, you know, there had been versions of that. People forget that whenever the Highwaymen were together. That was a pretty progressive group. Yeah, like, you know, there's country as it gets, but they were talking like, hey, human.

[Matt Stell]

Rights. They literally had a song about flying a.

[Eddie]

Spaceship. They did the.

[Matt Stell]

Highwayman. That's.

[Bobby Bones]

Progressive. It was very. And so. Same thing with Casey in that record. Loved it because of how it sounded, but also what it was saying. So I was. I was totally in there. The other one is Hootie and the Blowfish. Cracked Riviera. I played that thing. I had a cassette, and I would drive to football practice, and I played it every day, going to school and football practice, but. And I'd just flip it. And it wore off all the letters on the cassette, because on the top of the cassette, it had all the tracks listed. When I got to the end, you had to pull it out, flip it, and do it again. And I played it so many times that there was no. It looked like a blank tape. And I loved it so much. I remember doing a charity event with Darius, and we were both at Andy Roddick's charity event in Austin. And so I was doing, like, a little bit of comedy and hosting it. And Darius himself, not as Hootie, but Darius was playing it. And we were up watching a football game before the event. And I said, man, I. I've. I just ate up crack. Review. Like, it's all I listened to. I loved it so much. And he was like, yeah, what's your favorite song? I said, there's this song called Running from an Angel. And he goes, man, I ain't played that in 20 years. And I was like, I listen to that thing so much. And there's like an opening guitar that's like, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Stell]

Fiddle. Okay. It may be, like, things stacked, but I remember the fiddle song on that, too. Yeah, I did. That record.

[Bobby Bones]

Was. And he came out, he played it. He didn't tell me he was gonna play it. And he came out, he played it, and he's like, we ain't played this forever. Work this out for Bobby. And he's like, running to the devil. It was cool.

[Matt Stell]

Awesome. That record, that. That's another.

[Bobby Bones]

One. And. And the songs that everybody knows are like, Hold My Hand, Only Want to Be with youh, Let Her Cry, which were all the big ones, massive songs, but that's from the list. And the County Crows August and everything after. That's my favorite band of all time. It's the greatest record of all.

[Matt Stell]

Time. Have you heard him do that cover of the one Taylor Swift at Taylor Swift song. I usually am not a huge. Like, what's. You know, it takes a lot to get me to care about a cover of a current song. That version that he does, like, his voice is so emotive. Like, it just makes you feel stuff. I don't know. I love. I love.

[Bobby Bones]

It. He also turns that into, like, Reigning in Baltimore, A Long December when he does that, because he does that into.

[Eddie]

Another. Matches it up a little.

[Matt Stell]

Bit. Yeah, it's amazing. Amy Winehouse was my honorable.

[Eddie]

Mention. Okay. He had to get it.

[Matt Stell]

In. Couldn't.

[Eddie]

Help. After we told him not.

[Matt Stell]

To. Couldn't help it.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie. You only get two. This is going to be like the.

[Eddie]

Army. That's not.

[Bobby Bones]

Fair. This is going to be like the Army. If something, someone else screws up, everybody pays for it. So now you only get.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Two.

[Eddie]

Fine.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks. Matt took.

[Eddie]

One. Thanks, Maddie. Appreciate that. Well, yeah, well, I'll just go Counting Crows, August, everything after. Because same dude. I mean, that one, too. I. I got from the beginning. I didn't have to go back and listen to that one. It's pretty amazing. I still. I still like to go back and, like, pull that up on a playlist and just listen to the whole album again. Which is rare now, right? To listen to a whole album. Love that. And then I'm going to go matchbox 20 yourself. Or someone like.

[Bobby Bones]

You. That's such an awesome record, dude. It's a pilot guy in the front is so distinct. It's gray. It's like this fat dude with a leather, like, pilot Helmet on.

[Eddie]

Right? Yes. Yes. That's it. Black and white. Yeah. Matchbox 22 is in a band that, like, I love. But, dude, that record I listened to so much, the first four songs, like, real world, 4am.

[Bobby Bones]

Push. I think 3am is matchbox 24am is our lady P. You're.

[Eddie]

Right. 3am I must be lonely, dude. So, yeah, those would be. Those would be my 2. Since I can't do a third.

[Bobby Bones]

Just quickly let's say you had a third. What would it have.

[Eddie]

Been? Pearl Jam.

[Bobby Bones]

10. Got it. Yeah, but Matt took that from.

[Eddie]

You. But Matt. Yep. Thanks.

[Matt Stell]

Matt. I fixed it for you. It's like Bobby's glasses. You had vision and I enhanced.

[Bobby Bones]

It. Give me the best lead singers of your.

[Matt Stell]

Life. It's Eddie's turn to go first.

[Bobby Bones]

Right? Yeah. And Eddie, if you go extra, you take one from him.

[Eddie]

Okay? Oh, I have four. I have four. Don't worry about that. That. Not to be cool, but Jeff Buckley, dude, Jeff Buckley was an amazing, amazing singer of my.

[Bobby Bones]

Lifetime. One album.

[Eddie]

Right? One album. Then he.

[Bobby Bones]

Died. One song, too, really.

[Eddie]

Right. Maybe two albums, like, released after he.

[Bobby Bones]

Died. One song. Hallelujah. It was a cover, right? Leonard.

[Eddie]

Cohen. Yes, it was a.

[Bobby Bones]

Cover. I'm not hating that album.

[Eddie]

Though. Has really good songs in.

[Matt Stell]

It. That's.

[Eddie]

Right. Grace is the.

[Matt Stell]

Album. Great. All right. I'm a little like, listen, no shade to Jeff Buckley, but we're talking about, like, your fate. When we say best singers of all time, do we really mean you're your favorite three.

[Eddie]

Singers? I didn't do all time because, like, obviously, I'd put Elvis on there. It's, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Great. And you could take this however you wanted. I did. Best singers of my, like, of my.

[Eddie]

Life.

[Bobby Bones]

Lifetime. Like.

[Eddie]

Mine. Like, I wasn't around for Led Zeppelin, right? So, like, I'm not gonna do Robert Plant. So. Jeff Buckley, Steve. Steven.

[Bobby Bones]

Tyler. Yeah. He's.

[Eddie]

Awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. I saw them in concert three or four times in my life there. They were awesome. I saw them. They were always old, to be fair, but I saw them old and then really old, and they were even good. Really.

[Eddie]

Old. Yeah, but. And that's. And that's the thing, like, to sing the way he does at that age. And Even in, like, 10 years ago, even when Armageddon came out. He wasn't young 10 years ago. No, no, I'm saying even, like, when he's saying 10 years ago, because I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Know. That's almost 30 years ago what Armageddon was, I think. So I need to look at that, but go.

[Eddie]

Ahead. I'm just saying, like, from. From Dream on to like Armageddon. That was a long span of.

[Bobby Bones]

Time.

[Eddie]

98. That's crazy, right.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike? Yeah, almost 30 years ago. That's crazy. In Eddie's dog years. It's 10. 10 years.

[Eddie]

Ago. Don't.

[Matt Stell]

Realize. Did you see that movie that came out the other day? It was so good as a Forrest Gump. It's like last summer. You should go check it out.

[Bobby Bones]

Man. All right, what else you.

[Eddie]

Got? Chris Cornell. Yeah, Chris Cornell. Dude was amazing. Rest in peace. Awesome. I never saw him live, but obviously all the stuff on. On albums and songs really.

[Bobby Bones]

Good. Some would say the real star of Temple of the.

[Eddie]

Dog. Not.

[Bobby Bones]

True. Some would.

[Eddie]

Say. That would be Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

Vedder. Some would.

[Eddie]

Say. I mean, really. Eddie Vedder was a guest on Temple of the.

[Bobby Bones]

Dog. Hey. Some would say.

[Eddie]

But. And my last Eddie Vedder. So I did four. Four greatest lead singers. Go ahead.

[Matt Stell]

Matt. You picked four of the greatest alternative singers. Like, dude, singers like, you have a very dist. Props for your. Your favorite kind of music, I think. I think you can't go talking about singers in the last gener. Like.

[Eddie]

Whatever. Don't say years because it'll be.

[Matt Stell]

Like, yeah, the last several months with. Without talking about Chris Stapleton. Chris Stapleton is one of the. Depending on your. Your flavor of what you like is. Is the best singer that we've ever had in country music. Now there's other people that are as good that do different things, you know, obviously. But I mean, you have a whole. Like everyone tried to sound like and does try to sound like Chris Stabled and some people come close, but like he invented a style of country music with how good his voice is. I'll never forget when those. That first time I heard that steel driver's record and his voice cuts on. I can't remember if it's which one it is, but when singing Blue side of the Mountain and it's nothing but a guitar and then his voice comes on. I. I mean, it just. It's the. It's as good on those bluegrass records that are dry, that are like very live sounding, that are not. Not churched up in any way. It's just like his vocal. I mean, he has. He has a national anthem that's as good as Whitney Houston. I'll die on that.

[Eddie]

Hill. You can. You can listen to that. Still streaming. Like, it's so.

[Matt Stell]

Good. It's. It is. He is one of our special.

[Eddie]

Ones. I agree with.

[Bobby Bones]

That. So your list is just best singers of all.

[Matt Stell]

Time. Well, I mean, that's of.

[Eddie]

My. I mean, that is.

[Bobby Bones]

Lifetime. But I didn't lead singers of.

[Matt Stell]

Bands. Well, that's fine. I mean, he was awesome as a bluegrass.

[Eddie]

Singer.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. No, I'm just wondering where everybody's list falls, because I literally said lead singers. If we were doing best singers, I think I would probably pick different. Different.

[Matt Stell]

People. Well, okay. He was the best singer in his bluegrass band. He was the best singer. Still drivers. He's the best.

[Bobby Bones]

Singer. I was just asking what your.

[Matt Stell]

Mind. I was thinking about best, like, singer. I wouldn't think about band is in terms of.

[Bobby Bones]

Like. Oh, I'm glad you stated.

[Matt Stell]

That. Literal.

[Bobby Bones]

Band.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like a lead.

[Bobby Bones]

Singer. But I did say lead singer when I said the note, like, I specifically was like, lead singer. So now I feel.

[Matt Stell]

Stupid. Background singers who I'm about to say next. So, I mean, I would say, does that count? Like.

[Bobby Bones]

No. You just took the. The category.

[Matt Stell]

Different. And, you know, we need to operationalize our definitions, so if you have.

[Eddie]

Background singers, you technically have a lead.

[Bobby Bones]

Singer. I said best lead singers. I'm just making it apparent that I went with band singers because obviously I could have picked home run hitters like Aretha Franklin and Chris Stapleton. But anyway, go.

[Eddie]

Ahead. Yeah, one.

[Bobby Bones]

More. Let me guess. Barbra.

[Matt Stell]

Streisand? I mean, I guess she's good. Yeah. I'm going to talk about. I only get two. I'm going to talk about Aretha Franklin for a little while. Aretha Franklin is, like, somehow still underrated for how great she is. And you can, like, if you want to watch how unbelievable she is, she was, like, 70 years old at that Kennedy honors thing, and you can go watch it, and it will change your life. And she did it with a lot of the time with a cigarette and her piano hand. I mean, she is one of the finest that we've ever had, Singing the most, like, some of the most emotive, like, sort of gospel soul stuff that. That there is. So I goes would be my.

[Bobby Bones]

Two. I mean, I would have picked Otis Redding if we were just picking, like, greatest.

[Eddie]

Singers. Great.

[Matt Stell]

Voice. Otis.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because, like, his live records are so good. But I didn't. I played by the.

[Eddie]

Rules. Okay. You want that as your honorable.

[Bobby Bones]

Mention? Nah, because I'm not cheating. I'm not cheating. I play by the rules that I made. Though, to be fair, I have Chris Martin from Coldplay, One of the best lead singers. Can make you cry. Played the stupid dance version of it runs.

[Eddie]

Around. You think he has a great voice? Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

Okay. Out.

[Bobby Bones]

Of. Can play the piano. Can sit and just play a piano and can also do that. And like, has been massive for 25 years. Like, since Armageddon, dude's been putting them.

[Eddie]

Out. It's just a.

[Bobby Bones]

Couple. Couple years ago, just nailing them. Like whenever Yellow hit and that video was on MTV of him walking down the beach, I was like, this is exactly what I want, what I'm seeking in my life, this kind of sadness. And they have been able to transition to different types of music, adding electronic music, going straight ahead. Pop coming back to the piano. Like, you just don't see that often. And he's able to do it, and it feels like it's actually him as the artist, not like a. If you look at Adam Levine, I didn't put him on the list, but sometimes I feel like they chase pop because they're really good at it at writing pop songs. So that dude can just do.

[Eddie]

Whatever. Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Train. Yeah. It's awesome.

[Eddie]

Though. I'll put them on my list.

[Bobby Bones]

Now. Train. Pat.

[Eddie]

Monahan. Pat.

[Bobby Bones]

Monahan. That guy can sing. You ever hear him do Led.

[Eddie]

Zeppelin? Oh, yeah, yeah. We saw him at iheart Festival doing Led.

[Bobby Bones]

Zeppelin. Amazing Crushes it. I put Chris Martin because I think his versatility in their original artistry and his able to perform all of that in seem authentic a plus. Now go and hate on it. This is turned into the hater fest. This has turned into basically Stephen A. Let me tell you what.

[Eddie]

Bobby. You know what I don't like about Chris.

[Matt Stell]

Martin? That's.

[Eddie]

Wow. Yeah, I'm shocked too. I'm shocked by.

[Matt Stell]

That. Anytime, like, I'm gonna sit here as someone who. Who makes music who you like, it's gonna sound ridiculous. When I say, like, have critiques of bands that have sold millions of.

[Bobby Bones]

Records. You're not critiquing the band. You're critiquing my choice to put them as one of the top three of my lifetime. I would have thought as a lead singer. Just as a lead.

[Matt Stell]

Singer. When I think of Coldplay. When I think of what. When you go in the studio and you say you reference Coldplay in the studio, it's not to get the vocal sound like they have it. It's to get that beat from Clocks. So I don't think of them as like a band that is driven. Like, I'm not saying that they're.

[Bobby Bones]

Not. Is it not so distinctually vocal, though? And isn't that what being a great lead singer.

[Eddie]

Is?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. One being a great frontman, but also so distinct vocally And I think Chris Martin is so distinct. There's no. You can't fake as him because only he can do what he.

[Eddie]

Does. Sometimes I think Matt Carney is.

[Matt Stell]

Him. Yeah, that's.

[Eddie]

Fair. Sometimes I think I don't.

[Matt Stell]

Find. I don't find that vocal. I think the music. I don't find that vocal to be what is. Makes that music. I think those songs and those melodies are great, but, like, when I'm thinking about great vocalists, I'm just interested that I'm just interesting that, like. That you hear it that.

[Bobby Bones]

Way. Yeah. Because it is so distinct and it makes me.

[Matt Stell]

Feel. That's fair. But I would.

[Bobby Bones]

Like. Well, you.

[Matt Stell]

Suck. Well, like, Chris Cornell was the right answer. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. It's not the right.

[Eddie]

Answer. Thank.

[Bobby Bones]

You. Okay, next up, Dave.

[Eddie]

Grohl. He.

[Bobby Bones]

Screams. Have you ever seen Dave go.

[Eddie]

Live? How can he.

[Bobby Bones]

Sing?

[Eddie]

Yes. Like, sing.

[Bobby Bones]

Sing. He can sing and he can.

[Eddie]

Scream sing because he can control a.

[Bobby Bones]

Screen. I'm telling you. Have you ever seen him.

[Eddie]

Live?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. I've been to 11 Foo Fighter.

[Eddie]

Shows. Okay. Well, I've seen it maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Once. One of the. Maybe the greatest rock singer I've ever seen. And it's not like I've been to 500 different rock shows. I think in my life, it's the greatest rock singer I've ever seen. I didn't get to see Kurt.

[Eddie]

Cobain.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Although they were together up there. Yes, they were, because he was a drummer. I think Dave Grohl is the greatest rock and roll singer of our lifetime. I think think they're the greatest American rock and roll band possibly.

[Matt Stell]

Ever. I love the Foo.

[Bobby Bones]

Fighter. Are you gonna go with the Eagles? But I mean, are they even. Are they even rock and.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Roll? Yeah, they.

[Eddie]

Are. They're rock and.

[Bobby Bones]

Roll. Are they. If they existed today, they'd be a country.

[Eddie]

Band. Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Crossover. Foo Fighters. America's greatest rock band.

[Eddie]

Ever. Imagine.

[Matt Stell]

Dragons.

[Bobby Bones]

Close. But name the great ones. Rolling Stones.

[Eddie]

Beatles. They're all.

[Bobby Bones]

Zeppelin. They're all.

[Matt Stell]

British. No. Yeah, for sure. Like, the greatest American. I mean, maybe. I mean, they've been making music.

[Bobby Bones]

For. I mean, you would put Aerosmith in there.

[Eddie]

Right? Yeah, Aerosmith.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Yeah, I would say you'd put them in.

[Eddie]

There. Pearl.

[Bobby Bones]

Jam. No, you wouldn't put Pearl Jam in.

[Matt Stell]

There. But also, they've been making music for such a long time and sustained great. Like, I. I could see, like, it's like a. A LeBron versus Jordan argument here. They would be the LeBron. And that. They've done it consistently over for, you know, so.

[Bobby Bones]

Long. One of my records out front is a Foo.

[Matt Stell]

Fighters. The Food Fighters are great. I love the Foo Fighters.

[Bobby Bones]

That's. Why do you change your voice tone? You guys are just picking great singers. I'm picking, like, distinct and generational success. They've been able to come and do it multiple times differently. I mean, think about this dude. He's the drummer in the biggest alternative band of all time, obviously. And how do you even live up to that? Because every question you're ever gonna get for the rest of your life is you're the drummer and the greatest alternative band of all time. Like, it looks least the one that set it off. That. That turned that into grunge. And he's been able to take that.

[Matt Stell]

From.

[Eddie]

Amazing. No, it really is amazing. What.

[Bobby Bones]

He. And you mentioned LeBron. You can't put LeBron on the COVID of Sports Illustrated and say he's. He's the chosen one. He's never going to meet that. Except he did. Dave Grohl is the LeBron of rock.

[Eddie]

Music. Are they putting out a new.

[Bobby Bones]

Album? Dude, I don't know. They keep.

[Eddie]

Putting. I think they have a new.

[Bobby Bones]

Album. My other one's Adam Dura. It's kind of.

[Eddie]

Cross. See, why don't you tell them.

[Matt Stell]

What you put on crows and that's it. Well, I mean, when you. When you say, okay, it has to be a band, then that just changed the.

[Bobby Bones]

Dynamic. I said lead singer, so. I already said I'm not changing the.

[Matt Stell]

Rule. Does not necessarily imply, like, a.

[Bobby Bones]

Band. Lead singer means a.

[Matt Stell]

Band. I.

[Bobby Bones]

Don'T. Singer means a singer. A solo.

[Matt Stell]

Artist. Lead singer in my.

[Bobby Bones]

Band. No, you're. You're a solo artist. No, you're a solo artist. Well, are you a solo artist? Yes or.

[Matt Stell]

No?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Okay, you're a solo artist. What was your band name when you guys were.

[Matt Stell]

Together? The Crashers. Matt still in the.

[Bobby Bones]

Crasher. Oh, you had your stuff. You had your name in.

[Eddie]

There. That's.

[Matt Stell]

Cool. Yeah, I.

[Eddie]

Did. But. But see, like, Zach Brown Band. He. He would be the lead singer of Zach Brown Band.

[Bobby Bones]

Right? No, I know. I think you only do that, though, to know that you can replace all the parts. It's always hostage. You've got your band as a hostage because you can always change them out, and nobody knows because they're just known as the band. They're just the freaking.

[Eddie]

Crashers.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like, I love the Crashers before Matt. Still, I was a big fan before he came.

[Matt Stell]

In. He just ruined it all with his terrible taste takes. Let's take a quick pause for.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

Booking.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And we're back on the bobbycast. What are you doing now musically? Because I saw you put out something.

[Matt Stell]

New. Yeah, man, I just kind of started a different, like, project that's a little less, A little less.

[Bobby Bones]

Anything. Like, what does that.

[Matt Stell]

Mean? Well, you know, I make music every day that I'm not on the road, and so I turn in, like, a lot of songs and. And I just. You know, a lot of my life had, like, spent writing country music, which I love, but pointed at a certain thing. But then I was just turning in songs that were not that. And, you know, for a while, in. In past iterations of record deals and stuff like that, that's kind of been, like, not encouraged, like, well, let's get the next hit. But we're just kind of leaning into some stuff that I'm doing that's not necessarily all that.

[Bobby Bones]

Country. How is it different? It's like. It's like Coldplay, and this is why it's so upset. And it was all.

[Eddie]

Blue. It's not vocal.

[Matt Stell]

Driven. It's a.

[Eddie]

Coldplay. Are the Crashers getting back together? Is that what you're.

[Bobby Bones]

Saying? Let's.

[Matt Stell]

Go. Reunited, yeah. Reunited, yeah. Shout out to some of.

[Bobby Bones]

Them. Oh, yeah. You ever seen Documentary Dude? They broke.

[Matt Stell]

Up. It was ugly. Got it coming out pretty soon now. It's called the Drift. Yeah. And it's kind of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Man. The Drift is the.

[Matt Stell]

Song. The song is a project. The project is called the Drift. Yeah, the song is called Sugarcoat. That's the first single off of.

[Bobby Bones]

It. So the album is called the.

[Matt Stell]

Drift? Yeah. Well, the project that I'm.

[Bobby Bones]

Doing. What does that mean, the project? Like an alien right.

[Matt Stell]

Now? Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Exactly. Are you doing Chris.

[Matt Stell]

Gaines? For you to.

[Bobby Bones]

Get. Are you doing Chris.

[Matt Stell]

Gaines?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Matt Stell]

No. No, I'm.

[Eddie]

Not. Oh, that'd be.

[Matt Stell]

Cool. Dude, I'm not. Dude, it's not a joke. Like, I'm. I'm being. I'm doing some different stuff. I was being creative in a different way. And, you know, it's like I'm using some. Some digital sounds that are just kind of a lo fi, gritty kind of thing. It's. I don't like talking about it. Like, it's 2 and 2 minutes and 50 seconds. You should just go. Go listen to the verse and.

[Bobby Bones]

Chorus and see, I don't like talking about it, but we're talking about.

[Matt Stell]

It.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And you're gonna be asked and.

[Eddie]

You'Re gonna want to talk about.

[Matt Stell]

It. Yeah, but. But, like, okay, here's what happens. It's like, what does it sound like? And then I have to, like, name the best bands ever. It's like, oh, I sound like Fergie and Jesus. You know, it's like. No, I made. I made a new project that I'M really proud of.

[Bobby Bones]

This. Is that a band? Fergie and.

[Matt Stell]

Jesus? Yeah. You've never heard of Fergie and.

[Eddie]

Jesus? No. Separately. Of the two people.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Black Eyed Peas and Jesus Christ. I didn't know they.

[Matt Stell]

Clashed. Are y' all being serious right.

[Bobby Bones]

Now? Dude, we're not as cool as.

[Eddie]

You. What are you.

[Matt Stell]

Talking. You ever see Step Brothers? You sound like a mixture of Fergie and.

[Bobby Bones]

Jesus. Got.

[Eddie]

It. Okay, guys, sorry, we didn't know what's going.

[Matt Stell]

On. Dude, reference might help these guys. That's not even.

[Bobby Bones]

That. Hey, best lead singer, Aretha.

[Eddie]

Franklin. I'd say the last three minutes. I'm very.

[Matt Stell]

Confused. Me too. By all of.

[Bobby Bones]

It? By all of.

[Matt Stell]

It. Yeah, man. I've got a new project I'm pumped about. It's called the Drift.

[Bobby Bones]

And. But the project is not the album nor. It's the.

[Matt Stell]

Song. The song that. The song the Drift just did. Matt. Still, the Drift left is called.

[Eddie]

Sugarcoat.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. And it's.

[Eddie]

Out. We can listen to.

[Matt Stell]

It. Yeah. Yeah, you can listen to it. Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Literally. Are you sure? We can listen or we just feel it. Like, you just turn it on and there's no sound that comes.

[Matt Stell]

Out. We'll get damn Coldplay to sing it. Maybe you'll like it.

[Bobby Bones]

God. So the name of the song.

[Eddie]

Is Sugarcoat and the project.

[Bobby Bones]

Is. Well, the project is the Drift, but it's not the.

[Eddie]

Album. The.

[Matt Stell]

Drift.

[Bobby Bones]

Exactly. Are you still going to play all the.

[Matt Stell]

Hits? Yeah, I'm lucky to have hits. I'm glad to play them, but I'll. But I'm also excited to do different stuff, man. I got into this to, like, be creative and. And I've got people around me that like, hey, man, go be creative. So I am. It's. Yeah. So this project is. This is the first song off of.

[Bobby Bones]

It. So I feel like we're playing it. All.

[Eddie]

Right. Here it.

[Matt Stell]

Is. Yeah, exactly. Insert.

[Bobby Bones]

Here. What song do you play first? When you do a show? Like, do you hit him with a hit.

[Matt Stell]

First? I hit him with a hit early. So both of my, like, quote unquote hits are mid. Mid tempo or ballads. So, you know, it's hard to come out of the gate with that. So I come out of the gate with. With a couple, like, up tempo, you know, songs that. That we had. And then I go quickly into every word. But on. Are you familiar with the Primacy Recency.

[Bobby Bones]

Effect? Yeah, I am, but Tell.

[Eddie]

Him. No. What is.

[Bobby Bones]

It? Tell him all about. He's got it done. I know all about it. I Read about it last.

[Eddie]

Night. This is from.

[Matt Stell]

Stepbrother. Primacy, recency effect is you'll remember the first thing you heard and the last thing you heard more so than anything in the middle. So when you have things that, like, I have, like, two hits, you know, quote unquote, you play. Play it first, play it last, and everything in the middle. You know, you kind of free to try to catch attention, but you put. Those are the. Those are the prime real estate in a set or in anything that you're.

[Eddie]

Doing. Got.

[Bobby Bones]

It. I feel like you have more than two.

[Matt Stell]

Hits. Well, I mean, I had two number ones at radio. I had, you know, I've had, you know, a couple other things.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Do you play. Do you play your mama's house at all on your.

[Bobby Bones]

Show? That was a.

[Matt Stell]

Jam. Oh, yeah, I play.

[Eddie]

It. You had to think about.

[Bobby Bones]

That. You said, yeah, he freaking makes a Fergie and Jesus reference then. Remember a song that we wrote.

[Eddie]

That we all wrote.

[Matt Stell]

Together? Yeah. Well, you took out the second verse of it too, by the.

[Bobby Bones]

Way.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Were you mad about.

[Bobby Bones]

That?

[Matt Stell]

That. Yeah, I was mad about that. Didn't even consult your creatives about that. You just made a wholesale.

[Eddie]

Change. That was a time. It was just a time.

[Matt Stell]

Thing. I felt like that was just an awful. That's just a shitty way to be a band leader. Like, you know, we're not. You're not being.

[Eddie]

Collaborative. Oh, the lead singer. He's going after the lead.

[Bobby Bones]

Singer. That's why the Crashers never made bad leadership. Four leaders prayed for you. 138 million streams just on one of these services. Everywhere but on 64 million streams. But Breaking in Boots, I know that song. I know you have, like, four or five songs that I think Gen Pop would know, and then your fans would know some of the other.

[Matt Stell]

Ones. Yeah, I mean, so that's how, like, obviously you play the biggest thing last so that people don't go home after you play. Pray for you. And then the first thing is the kind of. To kind of get the attention. You play the next biggest hit and then you kind of spark. You sort of put them in. If this makes sense. Like. Like you do lug. Like, you tighten lug nuts. You don't go in order with the hits. You go first, last, middle front, middle back. You know what I'm saying? Like, that way we lost you at the.

[Eddie]

Drift. Yeah. What's your thing called where you remember the beginning and the.

[Matt Stell]

End? Primacy.

[Eddie]

Recency. Race and see.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Privacy.

[Eddie]

Racist. Privacy.

[Bobby Bones]

Racy. Privacy.

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[Bobby Bones]

It. Okay, boys. Matt, thanks for coming by. I want to finish on this. I like to shout out to the band Perry. I believe we just saw one of the cleanest transitions in band history, because the band Perry launches. They are everywhere. They got massive songs. When I Die Young. If I Die Young, whatever that song.

[Eddie]

Is. Great.

[Bobby Bones]

Song. Yeah. So they have multiple number one hits, and they decide we're gonna go do something different. Then they break up and they decided we're not gonna play for a while. And it's Kimberly Perry, who I really like, and her two brothers. And they're done. And all of a sudden they come back and here they are, the band Perry is back. It's Kimberly. It's one of her brothers, and it's her husband. And. And so he's got blonde hair. Singer, songwriter. Do you know him? Okay. And I'm like, oh, this. This works. It's Kimberly, its brother. Because it's like Matt still in the Crashers. All you need is the lead, and you got it. Who cares about the Crashers? Well, I mean, so she's there. One member and a husband. And the husband looks just like one of the other brothers anyway because he dyed his hair blonde. Or maybe it was.

[Eddie]

Blonde. Was he always.

[Matt Stell]

Blonde? I think he was blonde when I met.

[Eddie]

Him.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Love it. Then the other brother.

[Eddie]

Leaves.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So now it's the band Perry is just Kimberly and her.

[Eddie]

Husband. Just a couple.

[Bobby Bones]

Now. Genius. And if this was the plan the whole time to make that the band Perry, a strategy. You got the brothers to jump in for a second. I'm gonna go ahead and check out. And it went close enough to the band Perry. They came back, and now you just kicked brother out. What's with the.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Husband? She's.

[Bobby Bones]

Back. It's a.

[Matt Stell]

Plus. Hey, man. So along those lines. Speaking of a plus, a year or two ago, I was playing a music festival and Lynyrd Skynyrd was headlining it. And as we were getting close to the show about, I mean, maybe like a month or so before I see the. Like the Chiron or my social media says, so. And so last remaining survive. Last remaining member of Leonard Skinner passes away. And, you know, we're having to open a show for them, but it's like the lead singer has been his brother for 20 something years now. Right. So they have gone the full, like, one step past the band Perry, where they replaced, like, literally every single member has been.

[Eddie]

Replaced. Like, I didn't know.

[Matt Stell]

That. Yeah, there's not an original one. Not one original member not.

[Eddie]

One. There's one guy that looks really old, and they kind of make it seem like he's the last one. Maybe he's the one that.

[Matt Stell]

Died. The last one. This was a year or two ago. The last one that passed away had passed. Because I was like, we're opening up for, like, Leonard Skynyrd, llc. Yeah, you know, I can't remember. I get them all, the brothers confused. Johnny, Donnie, Ronnie. Which one it is right now. But he. He's been singing for 20 something years. And he sounds.

[Eddie]

Like. He sounds just like.

[Matt Stell]

Yeah. And they're rocking out and doing their thing. But that. Yeah, like there's. There's literally none of them, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Left. Are you familiar with the ship of.

[Matt Stell]

Thesis? No, I'm not, but I got him.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. Yeah. Yeah. So the whole theory is, is it the same boat if all the parts have been.

[Matt Stell]

Replaced?

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Because over time, they constantly have to move things off. And on a ship, parts change it out. So is it the same boat when it started that if they've had to repair it and. And everything on the ship is new, but it was all connected to other parts at some point. Is that still the same.

[Matt Stell]

Ship? This is the argument, the continuation argument for consciousness. If you replaced individually every neuron in your brain, one after the other.

[Bobby Bones]

One after another, though not all at once, because that would be a whole.

[Matt Stell]

Different. That's the continuity part of. Because really all of our cells are brand new after from, like six to 18 months. We're not the same. So it's not that we have the same cell. It's that we have continuously replaced them at a certain rate. And some rates is. Okay. Enough below a threshold to do.

[Bobby Bones]

That. Our body is Leonard Skynyrd, is what you're.

[Matt Stell]

Saying. Exactly. Exactly. And this bird, you cannot.

[Eddie]

Change.

[Bobby Bones]

Perfect. All right, that's it. Thank you all for being here. Check out Matt Stell's new project called the Drift. But if I just search the Drift, Matt, still, what comes.

[Matt Stell]

Up? The sugar coat will come.

[Eddie]

Up. Or do we look up just Matt, Stella, and there it will.

[Matt Stell]

Be. There it will be. You can't. You can't run into me digitally right now and not come into contact with the.

[Eddie]

Drift. Love.

[Bobby Bones]

It. So why'd you call it the Drift? Because you're drifting from what people know you.

[Matt Stell]

As. Yeah, a little bit.

[Eddie]

Yeah. But I feel like that would be.

[Bobby Bones]

Perfect. How about the.

[Eddie]

Drifters? Speaking of, they played the other day at a football game. Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Halftime. Can't be the same.

[Eddie]

Guys. It was like two. Two.

[Bobby Bones]

Originals. Okay, that's.

[Matt Stell]

Enough. And speaking of, check me out on the halftime show, the Liberty bowl this year your on your ESPN.

[Eddie]

Dial. Oh.

[Matt Stell]

Cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Arkansas didn't make it. That's usually our bowl games. They brought the Arkans in to play.

[Matt Stell]

It. This is the closest thing to getting a Razorback at the Liberty bowl is keeping the streak.

[Bobby Bones]

Alive. All right, go check out Matt still and the Drift and Sugar Coats, the.

[Eddie]

Song. This is.

[Bobby Bones]

It. That's.

[Eddie]

It. This is the.

[Bobby Bones]

Project. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's listen now. Here we are.

[Rob Gronkowski]

B95.

[Matt Stell]

Dang. He said.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. Get it. The weirdest thing is when you have to listen to music in front of.

[Eddie]

People. Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude. Because you have to, like, nod your head and act like you're feeling it, even though if you don't normally listen to music like that. Because when I really like something, I don't nod my head and feel.

[Eddie]

It. We did that with Stephen.

[Bobby Bones]

Tyler. I don't remember. I blocked it out.

[Eddie]

Drama. He was.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, churching it.

[Matt Stell]

Up.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Matt, good to see you, buddy. Thanks for coming.

[Eddie]

In. Eddie, I'll see you.

[Bobby Bones]

Tomorrow. Good job, everybody. All right, we'll.

[Matt Stell]

See. Where are your.

[Eddie]

Shoes? They're in the.

[Bobby Bones]

Front. I didn't want to come. Like, literally just got this carpet moved.

[Matt Stell]

In. Have you considered dumping a hot steaming pot of coffee on.

[Bobby Bones]

It? Day one on the.

[Matt Stell]

Carpet? I'm gonna autograph that st. All right, Matt's Dell, everybody. Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast.

[Eddie]

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[Matt Stell]

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

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