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BOBBYCAST: Jessica Andrews on the Success of Her Song “Who I Am” + Signing Her First Record Deal at 13 Years Old + Having Her Life Ruined by an Imposter + Her Connection to Taylor Swift’s Career
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Bobby Bones
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Jessica Andrews
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Bobby Bones
Every day our world gets a little more connected, but a little further apart. But then there are moments that remind us to be more human.
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Jessica Andrews
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Jessica Andrews
They took a chance on me giving me that song because when I was in the studio about to record it, Martina McBride was on the phone begging for that song. I really believed deeply that that was not the right song for her and that it was the right song for me.
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Episode 511 Jessica Andrews what was cool about this was that, you know, she hasn't done a whole lot in the past few years. She's been focusing on being a mom and she still was able to come and sit for about an hour and and talk. I did feel I didn't want to be disrespectful and even mention the term one hit wonder because I feel like that could be taken in a derogatory way. And sometimes it is. I never Was going to say that she brought it up.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Jessica Andrews
You want to know something that she sent me? Because the thing is that she.
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Good or bad?
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Well, she didn't really have a whole lot of, like, we always ask for, like, hey, your bio. What do you want to promote? She didn't really have a whole lot of that. And she sent me an article. She's like, this is the most thing written about me. And it was an article about her being a one hit wonder. And I felt a little like, oh, man.
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Yeah, I didn't want to do that. If she wanted to say it, then we talked about it. But I wanted to be so respectful because I was just interested in her story of being a very young artist, a teenager, and making it. And then kind of why she fell off. And then you learn.
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Yeah.
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Like all the dynamics of why someone loses a record deal, why someone doesn't have. So I thought it was super cool to spend this time. I learned a lot about her. That song, who I. I am Rosemary's granddaughter. The spitting image of my father. That's a massive song still.
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Yeah. I remember seeing that music video all the time on cmt.
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So a few fun facts about Jessica Andrews. Her Instagram is private. I will also say this. I wasn't as knowledgeable about the weirdo stalker that she has. Dude, that sucked. She talks about it. Yeah, that sucks. It's crazy.
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It just sucks. Like, searching her music and the other stuff popping up.
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At the age of seven, she underwent a surgery for a spinal condition with a 50% chance of causing paralysis. By age 11, she had formed her first band, was performing locally. At age 15, she released her first album, Heart Shaped World in 1999. She made her debut at the Opry in 99. She toured with Trisha Yearwood in 2000. And here she is, Jessica Andrews.
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Bobby Bones
Jessica, thank you for coming. This is cool for me.
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Jessica Andrews
Oh, my gosh, thank you.
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Bobby Bones
Because this happened so weirdly. So I was doing this show and Bret James was playing your song.
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Jessica Andrews
Wow.
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Bobby Bones
And I thought, I know she lives around here. I've never met her though. And so we were doing this like a TV show and Brett was playing it and my manager was with me and I was like, do you know her? And he said, no, I don't know her, but I'll see what's up. Then he, the next night he's at the Opry and you're singing at the Opry. And he goes, we just talked about this and she's here. Was it a private. Was it a private show?
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Jessica Andrews
Last month or so it was the Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award. They were honoring Scott Borchetta for it.
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Bobby Bones
And I was like, well, all these worlds are kind of coming together.
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Jessica Andrews
That's so cool.
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Bobby Bones
Like, is there any way, like she still lives here, I think. And so how did they get in touch with you? Because we haven't met. That's crazy. We've never met.
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Jessica Andrews
That is cool. That's a really cool story. Who is your manager, by the way?
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Tom Lord.
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Bobby Bones
He works at Red Light.
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Jessica Andrews
That's what I love. Tom.
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Bobby Bones
Everybody knows Tom.
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Jessica Andrews
Everybody knows. Yeah, I worked with him briefly, but they got in touch with me.
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Bobby Bones
Is like Tom called.
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Jessica Andrews
Not Tom, John Zarling, who works closely with Scott. And he called and said that they were gonna be doing the. He was gonna be one of the recipients or the recipient for this year for the Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award. And they were gonna have a few artists, you know, that were kind of instrumental throughout his career. And then they asked me to come and sing.
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Bobby Bones
And how quick of a yes is that?
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Jessica Andrews
Oh, my gosh. Well, I mean, of course, I mean, I'm not really doing a whole lot these days as far as, you know, getting out and, you know, doing my thing with singing. But that was, you know, that's just a no brainer because I mean, for one, that's just something that is so important for Scott. But also, you know, that that was my only like one big song, you know, and he was the person who made that happen. He's the reason that was a big, big hit. And I always, I seem to think that when, when I was at DreamWorks, which was. That was the label that I was with for, you know, most of my career, Scott started to, to and behind the scenes, I didn't know this at the time, but he was starting to make moves to leave and start. Start up his own thing. And I've always felt like if Scott was still there and, and we were still working it, I probably would have had, you know, more, more songs that did better. But he just. Because he just. There was just nobody like him as far as radio promo and stuff.
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Bobby Bones
So when did you meet Borchetta for the first time?
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Jessica Andrews
I met him probably when I was 13, maybe even younger because I signed my record deal when I was 13, I think, and my first album came out at 15 and he was, he was there, you know, he was the head of promotions at DreamWorks when I was first signed.
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Bobby Bones
That's crazy that Those numbers exist. 13 and 15. As far as like an artist.
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Jessica Andrews
I know when I Look back on that now I'm like, because I have a 7 year old son and I'm thinking, my gosh, you know, could he be like ready for what I was doing at you know, 12 and 13? And it's really like astonishing. I mean, I know there's kids out there that are like doing it, you know, and it happens all the time. But it's remarkable to think about the level of, you know, the game, what you're doing at that age, you know.
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Bobby Bones
Different environment though I would say then as to now because now a kid can get on a phone and do it right. Yeah, you've got to be so different and special and the right person's got to find you 10, 20, 50 years ago, depending on anybody from like the kid actors, the black and white days, to the young singers, all the way up until probably the early 2000s, like you had to be really special. Yeah, really good and have be really lucky at somebody who can see that, that they find you. And so yeah, to be 12 stars.
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Jessica Andrews
So many stars have to align back back then as opposed to now with technology and everything.
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Bobby Bones
What was like the luckiest thing that like a star, what was that star aligning for you way early on at 13, 14, even up to 16 or.
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Jessica Andrews
17, that aligned and you look back.
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Bobby Bones
And you go, man, if that wouldn't have happened, I don't know if anything would have happened.
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Jessica Andrews
There was quite a few of those moments for me that, that were just, I guess, meant to be at that time. I was 12, 12 years old singing in a band that my parents had put together in West Tennessee. I kind of grew up around music. My, my mom and always had bands and she was always singing and stuff. So I was around that a lot. And so at some point we formed a band for me and I had a woman that was singing with me at the time in my band and she grew up with Byron Gallimore, who's an amazing producer.
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Bobby Bones
I guess I know him from Tim McGraw. He's Tim's producer. Yeah.
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Jessica Andrews
All these years later he's like, I mean he's produced a lot of people, but Tim's been his number one since the beginning. And she got in touch with him somehow. They grew up together and she's like, I work with this 12 year old and I'd love for you to hear her. So we, we came to Nashville, he was, I think he did her a favor. Obviously. He's like, okay, you know, sure, I love you and you know, we grew up together, but okay, we'll Do. We'll do that. And I sang for him in that. In an office. And he was very dismissive at first. You know, he was just like, okay, you know, it's so nice to meet you. But then I started singing, and he just stopped me right there in the room, and he's like, stop. You know, let's. I'm in. Do this. That was a moment. I was just like, oh, my gosh. And I had a few of those in those early days. Byron was also producing Faith Hill. They had just started to work together, and Faith kind of took me under her wing and was just like, hey, I'm doing a tour and come out and open up for me. So I did. That was awesome. But, yeah, Tim and Face were really big champions of me in the beginning. And Byron, you know, he was. He was like. He did everything for me. We lived with him. He got me. Took me to record companies, and ultimately, you know, he signed with DreamWorks.
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Bobby Bones
Who's we?
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Jessica Andrews
I say we just because it's. Yeah, it was like, you know, my parents and all of us, you know, we all felt like a family. He felt like family, you know, but it was James Stroud. He was the. He was the president at the time, and. And, yeah, signed pretty quickly. And we did spend a while making that first album. Like, we didn't just rush out and put it out.
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Bobby Bones
Did you shop other places once you felt like they liked you, or was it just, hey, we like you, and you signed with them?
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Jessica Andrews
There was a little bit of that, but I think that James was really vocal about, like, you know, we want to do this. This is where you belong. And so we didn't. There wasn't a whole lot of that. I just think he just made a really compelling argument, like, be here. This is where to be. And so we did that fairly quickly.
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Bobby Bones
Your mom sang. So what's her story? When did she start singing? What were her career ambitions?
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Jessica Andrews
You know, she just always was probably musical her whole life, you know, sang and loved to sing as well as my grandmother. Um, but. And she had bands. Like, she was always having bands, and my dad would run sound and stuff like that, and I was always around that. It was just something that she did, I think, for fun. I don't think it was ever a, like, you know, a career in mind.
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Bobby Bones
Did she try to make it?
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Jessica Andrews
No, no, it wasn't anything like that. It was just. She loved it. It was a passion. So she. She did it. At least not that I've ever known. You know, I don't Think she's ever wanted to do that, but it was just a passion, and that kind of got passed on to me a little bit. Although I was very shy in the beginning about it.
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Bobby Bones
Would you sing with her ever? Like, get on stage?
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, we do. We would sing together. Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Would you ever feel not so shy while on stage?
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Jessica Andrews
I used to hide behind her. Like, that was.
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Bobby Bones
So you were still shy on stage?
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm kind of shy by nature, really. Yeah, big time. But, you know, over time, you kind of. You have to. Have to adapt a little bit, I think. But I was just, you know, so young, too. Like, it was awkward a little bit at times. So, you know, that was part of it for me, I think.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. All the awkward years, though. You kind of did hear the awkwardness. Years are like 11 to 16 and a half.
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Jessica Andrews
Or like, right when you're 15 and.
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Bobby Bones
A half, 16 years old. Like, all that was.
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Jessica Andrews
I'm going through all of it in front of everybody, you know. Yeah, yeah.
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Bobby Bones
So you say the record took a little bit of time to make.
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Jessica Andrews
Why?
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Bobby Bones
Like, what were you guys doing? Were you just finding songs, writing?
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Jessica Andrews
Like, I wasn't. I was not a writer back then. Like, I didn't even have any aspirations to do that. But Byron has always been a song guy. Like, he is just a, you know, find great songs. His wife, Missy Gallimore, who's an amazing A and R person. They both just are known to be really, really good song people, A and R. And that was just very important to him to have, you know, the right songs. And, you know, I would. I'll admit I was slow out the gate as far as my first album. It came out when I was 15, and we took a long time to make it, but there wasn't really anything that, you know, worked from that record. I think my first single was. Was from a movie soundtrack, Prince of Egypt. It was an animated movie.
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Bobby Bones
Did you go to school here or did you do homeschool?
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Jessica Andrews
Homeschool. I went to school, like, up until eighth grade, and then we switched to home school and. No, it was in West Tennessee, where I'm from. And then at some point when we started making all the trips to Nashville back and forth, we were like, okay, we're gonna have to homeschool now. So we.
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Bobby Bones
What age did you commit to just moving here?
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Jessica Andrews
Well, it's funny, we lived with Byron for probably a year, kind of off and on through the week. Then we'd go home on the weekends. And then by 15, 14 probably was when we Got an apartment, I think. But 15, it was permanent. Yeah. So I've been here a long time.
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Bobby Bones
Well, that's a big move for a kid. Like, you're really gonna go and do this, but you may not even understand what's happening. I mean, at 15, you kinda understand. But your mom, Everybody moved with you, right?
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Jessica Andrews
Did they move with you? Well, I have a sister. She didn't at the time, she didn't move. Cause she's seven years older than me and she was. She just. I don't. I think she was. I can't remember if she had. No, she was getting married, didn't have a baby yet. But she was old enough though, to.
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Bobby Bones
Make her own decisions.
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Jessica Andrews
Exactly.
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Bobby Bones
Your parents must have really believed, though, if they're going to move with you.
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Jessica Andrews
Oh, they were all in that support everything. They gave up everything. Like sold our house that, you know, I was born and raised in and. Well, not born in, but it was my childhood home and we just left everything. You know, I think about that now. I'm like, oh, my gosh, you know, that. That is so uprooting, you know, like uprooting your entire world. And I guess, you know, they just knew it had to be done. Like, this is. This is the new. The new chapter we're in. Let's do it.
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Bobby Bones
Wow, that is quite sacrifice.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, I know.
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Bobby Bones
So were you as a 1112 year old, were you so much better than everybody? Not in Nashville, because, like, for someone here, you know, because here, now you're here, I'm here. I go to other places. People will be like, you got to hear this person sing. And I'm like, yeah, that's pretty good. But Nashville's kind of like the land of giants, right? Where everybody is good.
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Jessica Andrews
The bar is like so much different.
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Bobby Bones
It's like a good ballplayer at a single A or double A high school. Like, most of the time it's a good ballplayer at a small school. Every once in a while there's somebody who's amazing, but for the most part it's like, well, if they played in the bigger leagues. But it must have been something special, super special about you to not be here and someone from here see you and go, oh, you're awesome. Did you feel awesome?
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Jessica Andrews
Gosh, I'm such a terrible person. Like, I'm the wrong one to ask because I hate to, but I ask.
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You're not bragging.
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Bobby Bones
That's the difference. Because you must have been. Because Byron has everybody to choose from that lives here. Everybody from 15 year olds to 35 year olds.
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Jessica Andrews
I mean, I would say that he has great ears. He knows he has a knack for weeding through that, I guess, and finding the things that I'm asking you to talk about.
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Bobby Bones
You like, were you just crushing it as like an 11 year old?
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Jessica Andrews
You know, I mean, I was probably to a degree. Yeah. When you're younger, you don't get in your head, you're not thinking, you're just like doing it, you know. And I did, I would just, I'd show up, open my mouth and bam, like things started happening.
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Bobby Bones
Did your mom work with you on singing or was it pretty natural?
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, she did, yeah. We got vocal lessons. All those things that you want to do to kind of cultivate your craft, you know, and learn how to take care of it, those kind of things. And she was very helpful with all that and putting me with the right people for, you know, for how to take care of my voice and things to make it better.
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Bobby Bones
Your band, were they older?
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Jessica Andrews
They were, yeah. I was always around older.
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Bobby Bones
Older folks in a small town, or not even just smallish town, I'm sure you have to find older people that know how to play. There's not a lot of 11 year olds. How old were the people in Japan?
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Jessica Andrews
They 20s, 30s, older probably. Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, they were probably older. My parents age, probably. Probably. Gosh. Well, if I'm thinking about it back then, so, yeah, it was probably 40s, maybe 30s. Gosh, something like that.
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Bobby Bones
When you're a kid, that feels like a hundred.
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Jessica Andrews
I know, exactly. Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Like it will never be that old.
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Jessica Andrews
And when I'm done with this, I'll go back and I'll think about it. And they're probably like, no, they weren't. They were like 32. I don't know, but they do. They did seem like a lot, a lot older at the time. But they were, they were so awesome. They were great, you know, like I could see like when you have this kid, you know, like, oh, gosh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go play an instrument in a band for a kid, you know, but they were so respectful. I've been so blessed to have a lot of people around me that always respected my opinions about things and just didn't treat me like, you know, they didn't shrug me off, like, you don't know anything. It was never, it's never been like that for me. Even Byron was just always asking me, you know, this is you, your career, your name, everything. Like, what do you think, how do you feel? What do you want to sound like? What kind of songs do you want to do? You know, so. Because you're not only just doing. Going through the motions. I mean, I'm learning on the go, you know, I had no experience with anything and as a kid, so that's kind of what it's like, is you're just. You're just figuring it out as you go and learning, and you have all these. Hopefully you have all these people around you who are really good and helpful, you know, and are guiding you in all the right ways.
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Bobby Bones
The first record that you put out, you said at 15, did that feel successful? Because again, it was later until it really hit for you, did that feel successful to you?
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Jessica Andrews
It was a good. I'll say in hindsight, it was a good start off point for me, I feel like. But it wasn't until we started to go in and make the second record, that was the one that I found the song who I Am.
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Bobby Bones
Was it because you knew more of what you were looking for because you just did it and so now you had a better idea of what you wanted?
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Jessica Andrews
I do think so. I do. I really do. And you also have to remember, too, when I came out, 1999, 2000, this was in an era with LeAnn Rimes that was like the big phenomenon of that time in country music. There'd been no one since, like Brenda Lee, you know, all of that, you know, Tanya Tucker. So there had not been any kind of child star in the mix in decades in the industry in country music. So I came out like I was kind of a little bit in her shadow in those early days, like, LeAnn Rimes was doing really well. So I feel like that first record, I just think we were. We might have overthought it, trying too hard to figure out what I was. And I think the second record, we just. We knew a little bit more about what to do.
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Bobby Bones
Did it come together quicker?
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Jessica Andrews
It did, it did. And I think we just made a point to make it quicker, too. Not to spend so long not to record a thousand songs. You know, we're like, we've done this. We know, you know, let's. Let's just. Let's move it, move it along.
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Bobby Bones
Did they give you confidence in saying, hey, we're sticking with you for another record?
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Jessica Andrews
That was the other thing too, is Dreamworks was committed. You know, they were. They were in it for the long haul with me, which was great. And during that process of finding songs, looking for songs for that album was when the little old song who I Am came along, which was, you know, Brett James, Troy Verges, two writers. It was Troy's first cut. First song he'd ever gotten cut by an artist, not Brett. Brett had had some other success, but they took a chance on me giving me that song, because when I was in the studio about to record it, I remember Martina McBride was on the phone begging for that song. And I remember at the time thinking, like, I don't really feel like, you know, she's a mom, she's got children. This song seems more like of a song that is somebody who's, like, trying to find their way. They don't, you know, And Martina's more settled. You know, she's got. I just didn't feel like I really believed deeply that that was not the right song for her and that it was the right song for me. And thankfully, you know, Brett and Troy agreed. They could have. They could have given it to. To Martina, who's, you know, was so successful.
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Bobby Bones
Did you feel like that was the song as you were recording it, or was it. Once it was recorded? You were like, we have to. You knew that was the one.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah. I mean, even just listening to the demo, we knew that was a great song. Then recording it all the way. I think everyone knew throughout the whole process, like, we have a single. We have a first single. You know, this is just became clearer, you know, through every phase of making that record that that was gonna be the lead off.
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Bobby Bones
Did that song hit different meaning when it came out, you felt it quicker than any of the songs prior.
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Jessica Andrews
Oh, yeah.
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Bobby Bones
If you're from outside, you just like, wow. It was well received.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah. That song, it was just super special. And it was so. It's like a song. In fact, to this day, people ask me if I wrote it, you know, because it sounds personal. It sounds like a song that I would have written because it is so personal sounding. And to this day, people still will ask me, is your grandmother Rosemary? You know, which it's not.
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Bobby Bones
Right?
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Jessica Andrews
Which it's not. No, it's not. But. But yeah, I just feel like that song was. Is so special. And Scott Borchetta at the time, who was the head of promotion at DreamWorks, he just put together this super amazing campaign at radio at that time and worked. I think I told the story that night when I was honoring him, that he was like, okay, we're gonna go do a radio tour for this song, and we're gonna. It came out in, like, late later in the year. And so we had to do a radio tour right up until Christmas.
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Bobby Bones
How old are you at the time?
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Jessica Andrews
16. Okay, 16, because I think it went number one when I was 17. But it came out the end of the year, the prior year. And so we just. We did a strong radio game with it. And, you know, nobody does it better than Scott. Like, he just had a. He felt like, man, we got a great song. Let's go.
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Bobby Bones
What was the biggest and craziest it got with that song?
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Jessica Andrews
Well, I mean, did you play the award shows? I did, yeah. I won an award. I was nominated. I always think this is funny. Like, I was nominated for Horizon. It used to be called Horizon Award, right alongside Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. And it's funny, like, those guys have gone on to have such amazing careers. And I was, like, right there with them at the time. Like, we were all three, like, doing all the same things together. And I won top new female vocalist at the ACMs. All the things. Yeah, it was. It was. It was life changing for me.
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Bobby Bones
What is your grandma's name?
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Jessica Andrews
Her name's Patsy.
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Bobby Bones
I am Pat. Not enough syllables.
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Jessica Andrews
I know, right?
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Bobby Bones
Did you try to say that? Like, Pat, Ms. Pat? Yeah. But then I'd be like, I am Ms. Patsy on 3rd Street's granddaughter.
- [26:06]
Jessica Andrews
It just didn't fit. It didn't work. It was cute. I remember her saying, like, people would come up to her and say, are you Rosemary? And she used to say, well, you know what? If this song's a big hit, then I'm gonna. I'll be Rosemary. I'm gonna change my name to Rosemary. It was so cute.
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Bobby Bones
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And while the travel can take a.
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- [28:12]
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- [28:50]
Bobby Bones
And we're back on the Bobby cast the label, one of the labels that you're on, they didn't even put out your record. Cause they folded.
- [28:57]
Jessica Andrews
Oh yeah, that was later.
- [28:58]
Bobby Bones
But I have friends. That's happened too as well.
- [29:00]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, I've had the worst, craziest luck. You know, I will say this. So after. After we had, you know, my really good run at Dreamworks and behind the scenes, things started shifting with Scott Borchetta wanting to leave and start his own thing. Which I didn't know any of this at the time, but I remember thinking like, man, if he leaves, it's gonna be different for me. Cause we have such a connection.
- [29:29]
Bobby Bones
He's been your champion.
- [29:31]
Jessica Andrews
He really was. And it was really him and Jimmy Harnon who now has gone on to be as successful as Scott. But those two guys, they were Just magic. And they were in my corner. And so once he left, I, you know, I did do another album after, after the who I Am record, but that was after 9 11. 911 had happened and everything shifted. Very patriotic. And so it was different. The tone, the tone was different. And I think had that not happened, you know, who knows? So then DreamWorks folds, becomes under the umbrella of Universal. I get moved over there. I do a record there and it doesn't come out. We parted ways, got dropped, so they say, or you know, you know, the words get dropped. And then years later I signed with Disney Lyric street, which was.
- [30:35]
Bobby Bones
What happened to that music though, by the way? On that record? What happened to that music?
- [30:38]
Jessica Andrews
That music never came out officially, although you can probably find it online. Someone got a hold of it and, you know, released it themselves.
- [30:48]
Bobby Bones
So they never put it out.
- [30:49]
Jessica Andrews
Never put it out, no. Yeah, isn't that funny?
- [30:52]
Bobby Bones
Seems like a lot of work to just not put it out.
- [30:54]
Jessica Andrews
I know. And that was a fun record to make. We went down to Miami to do that album in a really cool studio, like a famous studio called Criteria. I think Missy Elliott was doing an album in the room next to mine, in the studio next to me. So yeah, at the time it's like heartbreaking. But over time you learn like, man, this happens to so many people. It's just like the age old story of falling in the cracks of music business, shuffling and whatnot. And for me that just seemed. It kept happening. I moved on to Carol Wood Records, which was like an imprint of Disney. Same thing happened there. We made a record, really, with Jay DeMarcus from Rascal Flats. He's such a great producer. We did an album together, it was awesome. And it never, never saw the light of day.
- [31:46]
Bobby Bones
Yeah, that's a lot of music that people didn't get to hear.
- [31:49]
Jessica Andrews
I know, yeah, it's crazy. Thankfully though, that album has not made it into the wrong hands. Like I have an imposter person that somehow gets these unreleased songs and they'll put it out, but that album remains untouched, thankfully. So I don't know, maybe, maybe I can get. Get that there's an imposter.
- [32:12]
Bobby Bones
You.
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Jessica Andrews
Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of brutal. I've had, I've had a fan for years who just won't accept that I, you know, that I'm really not making music anymore. Like not, not actively putting out music. And so at first they found anything out there that they could unreleased and they would try to find that and put it out. But then after they ran out of material, then they would just start singing themselves. But then they'll release it under my name. So if you like, if you go on Apple Music right now, you can find all of this bogus, horrible, horrible sounding stuff. The quality's bad. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, people. I really hope people don't think that I'm putting out these, you know, these songs. It's just terrible.
- [33:03]
Bobby Bones
That's so bizarre.
- [33:04]
Jessica Andrews
And they. And they've booked shows.
- [33:07]
Bobby Bones
No way.
- [33:08]
Jessica Andrews
Interviews. I've had so many as you. As me. I made social media sites.
- [33:12]
Bobby Bones
Are you you or are you the imposter?
- [33:14]
Jessica Andrews
No, it's, it's. They've duped so many people.
- [33:17]
Bobby Bones
That's because I've had stalkers and I've had really crazy people and we've had. Have to get the FBI involved in.
- [33:22]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, really?
- [33:22]
Bobby Bones
But never. That's a whole different. I don't know how you feel with your safety, but the fact that people are impersonating you, I would say publicly, as far as, like, someone's acting like you, I've never heard of that before.
- [33:37]
Jessica Andrews
It's really frustrating.
- [33:38]
Bobby Bones
Do you know who it is?
- [33:39]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, yeah.
- [33:40]
Bobby Bones
Have you been like, hey, cease and desist, Stop, shut and nothing?
- [33:43]
Jessica Andrews
We haven't. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, we did. We did the whole thing. We found out she has a criminal history.
- [33:50]
Bobby Bones
Not surprising. Usually people that are crazy do other crazy things.
- [33:53]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah.
- [33:53]
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
- [33:53]
Jessica Andrews
Pretty sure she knows where I live. It's crazy. And I'm just like, why won't you move on to someone else that she was singing. I don't know if it's her that sings, but I do know that she's the mastermind that puts it all together.
- [34:11]
Bobby Bones
What about the interviews?
- [34:13]
Jessica Andrews
Same thing. I don't know. I think sometimes it's her and then sometimes it might be someone else, but, I mean, she'll sign contracts, she books things. I've had people that will get in touch with me and say, you didn't show up.
- [34:24]
Bobby Bones
This is the craziest thing I ever heard. Jesse, I'll be honest with you. I mean, I've been talking to a lot of people for a lot of times. I never. It was the craziest thing I ever heard. Like, I feel bad, like I want to punch somebody and I'm blown away at the same time that somebody would have the audacity not to just get on social media and scam people out of money because people will do that under my name. And I'm like, if there's no blue check mark. It ain't me. You know that happens, right?
- [34:44]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, that's different.
- [34:45]
Bobby Bones
Cause that's somebody in, like, South America that's just, like, grabbing anybody's trying to. The fact that they're acting like you.
- [34:51]
Jessica Andrews
No, they've been committed, like, for years with this, and nothing really fazes her. I know that it's a her. I mean, I know, like, all the. Anything legal that you'll throw at her. She just doesn't really care. So at this point, I don't really know what to do about it, because I. We just kind of combat it as it. As. As we see it. Like, get it down, take it down. You know, it's. It's really big head headache.
- [35:19]
Bobby Bones
Is she a fan?
- [35:21]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah. That's how it started. And I believe that. That at the root of it, she believes that she's helping sustain my. My name out there. I think that's what. I think that's her end game.
- [35:34]
Bobby Bones
Okay, you are not helping.
- [35:37]
Jessica Andrews
Exactly.
- [35:37]
Bobby Bones
You are hurting. You're hurting me. I'm gonna start acting like you. I find out who you are, and I'm gonna put out stuff as you.
- [35:45]
Jessica Andrews
I could give you her name, but Melissa.
- [35:47]
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna put out stuff as Melissa. Whatever the crap your name is, I'm gonna put out that stuff. Oh, I. I'm. I joke, but I'm also very, very sorry to hear that, because we have dealt with unfortunate circumstances similarly, and I move off of it. But I hate that. Like, I hate that for you, as crazy as it is. And I'm like, wow, I can't believe that. That sucks.
- [36:08]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, it does.
- [36:09]
Bobby Bones
That just sucks.
- [36:10]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah. And mainly, you just don't want people out there thinking that you didn't show up for a show or you. You know, because she'll book things, you know, that. That kind of thing. I just don't. I don't like that my fans.
- [36:22]
Bobby Bones
You own you. Nobody else owns you.
- [36:23]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah.
- [36:24]
Bobby Bones
And it's like they're trying to take ownership of a part of you. Dang. I hate that.
- [36:28]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah. It's frustrating.
- [36:30]
Bobby Bones
So I was watching you sing at the Opry, and you sound.
- [36:33]
Jessica Andrews
You were there that night?
- [36:34]
Bobby Bones
No, but I watched a lot of tape.
- [36:36]
Jessica Andrews
Really?
- [36:36]
Bobby Bones
Well, I didn't know you were going to be. The whole thing was. I was talking about you because Brett James was playing the song we were shooting for the show.
- [36:42]
Jessica Andrews
I love that he does that song, by the way.
- [36:44]
Bobby Bones
And everybody's going crazy. And then again, I'd asked Tom Lord, hey, do you know her? I don't I never met her. It's not huge town. Never even bumped into you. And he was like, I don't. But then he went to the Opry thing and sent me a video of you. He's like, this is the weirdest thing. Cause she's here tonight and saw you singing. You sounded so good. Thank you. Do you still sing at all to keep your voice in shape?
- [37:06]
Jessica Andrews
You know, there's things for sure. Yeah. That will come up. Like, I've had friends that we do, you know, riders ride around type things and. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, obviously, if things come up here and there, I will do it. It's not like I'm completely.
- [37:23]
Bobby Bones
Well, I didn't know because you said you've, like, not done. I didn't know if you just were like, I'm out. I'm not singing.
- [37:28]
Jessica Andrews
It is true. I mean, I have been in like, mom. Mom land for the last seven years. But. But no, I'm not like, anti. I'm not singing anymore. But it just. I will definitely say yes to things that, you know, like, make sense and that are fun to do and things like that. So writers, things that I love to do, and I've done several of those in the last few years. And it's funny, I actually try to say yes because my kids are getting to the age where I do like for them to see that side of me.
- [38:02]
Bobby Bones
I was gonna ask about that because they probably. Obviously they didn't get to see that as you were doing it, but do they understand it now? How old is your oldest?
- [38:10]
Jessica Andrews
My son is seven.
- [38:11]
Bobby Bones
So maybe just starting to kind of come.
- [38:13]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, he's seen me sing and he was there that night at the Opry. So. Yeah, and it's important for me too. Cause I want, you know, I want him to know, you know, like, hey, you know, if I'm always gonna be your cheerleader and telling you to go after things, you know, I also want him to see that, you know, mom has done a lot of cool stuff and I'm not just, you know, the one making snacks all the time, you know.
- [38:40]
Bobby Bones
Is your mom still alive?
- [38:42]
Jessica Andrews
Uh huh. Yeah.
- [38:43]
Bobby Bones
So she was able to see your success?
- [38:46]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, yeah, she was. She was with me, traveled with me, everything.
- [38:50]
Bobby Bones
Was she proud of you?
- [38:51]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, my gosh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She was amazing. She was never one of those, like, stage moms that, you know, try to control everything behind the scenes. And, you know, you hear so many stories of people who had success as kids and then they have some kind of Falling out with their parents because.
- [39:09]
Bobby Bones
Of they stole their money.
- [39:11]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, all kinds of stories like that. Never the case.
- [39:14]
Bobby Bones
So then I guess she wasn't a mom that was just living vicariously through you.
- [39:18]
Jessica Andrews
She was, in a way, like, because she just was enjoying it all, but.
- [39:22]
Bobby Bones
It wasn't, like, dominating her.
- [39:23]
Jessica Andrews
Not at all. No.
- [39:25]
Bobby Bones
Cool. And rare for a parent of a child that gets really successful.
- [39:30]
Jessica Andrews
I know. Yeah, it is. Because that can. Boy, that can really end. Lots of divorces happened because of it. And I will tell you, like, that could not have been easy because we were traveling so much. And my dad, he would come as much as he could, but there were times when he had to hold it down and have a job, and we weren't making money in the beginning. And so that had to have been so hard to keep a marriage together. My older sister, so. But yeah, they. We came through it. And there weren't easy. Like, it wasn't always super easy, but yeah, they were the best as far as support and just loving the opportunities that we were given. You know, we knew that this was a ride of a lifetime.
- [40:20]
Bobby Bones
I have a very close friend whose daughter is doing music. His daughter's about the age that you were when you were okay starting music. And he's a great dad and she's a great kid. And she played at the Ryman with me a few. A few weeks ago, I guess. She's so good, right? And we're in the land of giants. But she's so good. She's such a great songwriter.
- [40:42]
Jessica Andrews
Wow.
- [40:43]
Bobby Bones
But she's a kid.
- [40:44]
Jessica Andrews
How old?
- [40:46]
Bobby Bones
They're 12, 13.
- [40:47]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah. That's a kid.
- [40:48]
Bobby Bones
That's a kid. That's a.
- [40:49]
Jessica Andrews
That's a kid. To me, it's like a baby.
- [40:51]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. But it's so weird that she's a kid. But then when she's on stage.
- [40:59]
Jessica Andrews
Is it like a mature.
- [41:00]
Bobby Bones
There's something that just isn't a young child. It's like she has. She's more mature on stage than I would ever be doing it a hundred more years. Like, there's just something that is what that is.
- [41:10]
Jessica Andrews
You asked me that earlier. That is something that people used to say about me. They would have never guessed I was that young when I was on stage doing, you know, singing.
- [41:20]
Bobby Bones
There's an irrational confidence that she has. I tell that. Like I told her during sound check, you shouldn't be this confident.
- [41:26]
Jessica Andrews
Like, Right. Yeah.
- [41:27]
Bobby Bones
Like, you should, because you're that good. But you're young. How would you.
- [41:29]
Jessica Andrews
You know what it is?
- [41:30]
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
- [41:31]
Jessica Andrews
They don't Kids don't get in their head. They're not overthinking. They're not worrying about who's watching me, what I needed to. You know what I mean? Like adults do. We care too much about all of the other stuff. Kids just get up there and do it. You know, it's fun. They know, you know, hey, I can do this, so I'm going to do it. So there's not a lot of overthinking for them. And that's what it just comes. It's so effortless in that way.
- [41:56]
Bobby Bones
What advice would you give a kid if they were like, hey, I'm 12, I'm. Because she's got, like, big managers now, like, all just. But also, what advice would you give the parents? Like, two different sets of advice. So talk to the kid first, because you were the kid in that. Like, what would you say to them?
- [42:13]
Jessica Andrews
Well, I would say first, have so much fun with it. Because while it is a business and it can get really crazy and hectic, you can lose sight of that sometimes. You can. For. You can easily forget in the exhaustion and the. In the schedule and all of that. You can forget about the part of, I'm a kid, so I need to be making sure I'm enjoying this and for the parents as well, make sure of that.
- [42:43]
Bobby Bones
You know, make sure the kids enjoy.
- [42:44]
Jessica Andrews
Make sure that you can whatever, however crazy and hectic it can get, you know, try to. Try to make it fun. And then also is. I mean, who you surround yourself with is so important too. Like, if you've got really great people around you, I mean, that is a game changer, I feel like. And I was so blessed to have the best. I mean, I think, you know, Byron Gallimore and Scott Borchetta and Jimmy Harnin. I mean, Scott Simon was my manager, who's still to this day Tim McGraw's manager. If you really. And I always felt like I had good instincts about people even, I think. Yeah. And I think my parents did, too. And so I think that's important if you are. If you've got a good instinct about people and who. This person, this kid. Is it a girl? You said girl? Yeah, yeah. Who you need to work with. And that's crucial, I think.
- [43:43]
Bobby Bones
What about the parent? What would you tell the parent?
- [43:45]
Jessica Andrews
Well, since they are the parent, I mean, they're gonna be instrumental in who surrounds her. And that's just important. I mean, that's so. It just. It matters. I mean, not just on a level of. That's a child, but just someone that, like I said, they always respected my opinions. Including her in the mix, you know, not just everybody making decisions, you know, make sure she feels a part of it, you know, even though they're so young. She's so young. I mean, she's a baby. The Bobby cast We'll be right back.
- [44:23]
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- [46:47]
Bobby Bones
This is the Bobbycast. Was there ever an imbalance because you, you start to have success and get famous and your mom was your mom before you started. Your mom is still your mom but now you're kind of famous. Did the balance ever change where you're like. But you're also like a teenager and you're already questioning what your parents do anyway? It's such a weird.
- [47:08]
Jessica Andrews
I had such a. Not like it would. Nothing was normal with my, it's funny my, my husband now, I met him when I just turned 18. He's a songwriter too and I just turned 18 when I met him and we joked about it then and we still joke about it about how nothing about my teenage years were normal. He went to college, he dah dah dah. I didn't, I didn't go to high school. None of that. And so I think years, years later I started to unpack a lot of that, you know, about just how non typical everything was for me. But it, but it felt normal. I didn't know anything different. So I guess it's just relative to what you know and that's all that I knew. But there was never any kind of imbalance with, with my family, nothing like that. Probably because they, I had people that took care of things. I had a business manager. A manager. No, they were never involved in, they were just parents. And you know I will say that that was, that was important to me that they just remained parents. That was it. And I would say the same thing for the young girl, you know, make sure your parents are just your parents. Let them just lovingly adore and admire and so that all those other things don't get blurred. Do you know what I mean? All the business stuff.
- [48:30]
Bobby Bones
Sure.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah. Because it can.
- [48:33]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Mine gets blurry now I'm an adult.
- [48:35]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah. I mean I can't. I would never ever want to blur those lines. You know, I, I wouldn't want my parents to manage me or I just.
- [48:44]
Yeah.
- [48:45]
Bobby Bones
If you're your kid in five years, like I want to go do music. You did?
- [48:52]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, oh, that would be great. I would, that would be encouraging. It's not like I would be like no, the seven year old's a Boy, right?
- [48:59]
Bobby Bones
Does he like to sing?
- [49:01]
Jessica Andrews
He's an amazing drummer. He. He. He's very. He can sing because he has it from both sides. You.
- [49:06]
Bobby Bones
You and his dad.
- [49:07]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah.
- [49:08]
Bobby Bones
So he's drawn to the drums.
- [49:09]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, he's great. He's really, really good. And he actually can sing, too, but, you know, he's just. He's going through, like, a little shy thing right now. Very similar to how I was at that age.
- [49:21]
Bobby Bones
When you were seven, though, were you singing, though, at all? I know with your mom, but, like.
- [49:24]
Jessica Andrews
Around the house, I was loud and all of that, but the minute you would put me on the spot to do it, then I would. I would clam up and want to hide, you know?
- [49:33]
Bobby Bones
But did you ever come into, like, a windfall of money?
- [49:36]
Jessica Andrews
No, it was, like, a gradual thing, you know, and with who I am, I mean, still to this day, I'm like, gosh, I didn't write that. I wish I did, because I know, you know, those. Brett and Troy still see, you know, good money from that song. No, it was. It was never like a. Oh, you know, cash is flowing now. It was. It was. It was gradual. I mean, I did a good tour one year that was really successful and great.
- [50:01]
Bobby Bones
Are you ever somewhere and people are singing it? Like either a karaoke place, because I hear people sing it, or at the grocery store and it's playing over the top of you.
- [50:08]
Jessica Andrews
Yeah, that's happened for sure. But I would say lately it's had a few little TikTok viral moments. I think a few years ago it did, and then literally just like a month ago, I started getting all these videos and tags from people. People, and I'm like, oh, my gosh. You know, it's having a little moment again, and it's. It's so funny. I'm not really on TikTok by choice just because I, I, I. I probably. I would just become too addicted to it. But it's. It's. It's on there, and I see all the videos, and it's crazy. My. My son, you know, like, he gets to. I think that's. That He. He gets a. A kick out of that.
- [50:48]
Bobby Bones
Did anybody ever sing it on the shows, like the Voice or. Yeah, because I was on American Idol for a bunch of years, but I feel like it was sang by, like, in the auditions.
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Jessica Andrews
Danielle Bradbury, really, on the Voice, did that song on the Voice.
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Bobby Bones
That's pretty cool.
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Jessica Andrews
Yes. She did an amazing job. And then she went on to actually sign with Scott Borchetta, which is kind of funny, but, yeah, it's done. Yeah, that song's done. I'm telling you, that song is just. It's gonna continue to have a life, I think, as newer generations, you know, hear it.
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Bobby Bones
Do you get tired of singing it.
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Jessica Andrews
One of those timeless songs? No, I don't, because, you know, you'll figure out ways to sing it and make it, you know, like. Like I did at the Opry. I kind of slowed it down and it probably didn't sound very much like how the recording does, but, you know, you kind of reinvent.
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Bobby Bones
Well, Counting Crows. I was watching them sing yesterday. It's my favorite band. And he sings it. He sings that. He sings a little different the whole time. And I love them, but it's like, man, it's hard to sing along. I heard yours and I could sing along with yours. It was. The tempo was just slowed down. But he would, like, sing Mr. Jones. I'd be like, Mr. Jones and me. Oh, it's like, dude, that's nothing like the one. How am I supposed to sing along to that?
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Jessica Andrews
Right? Oh, so he's making it a point to, like, it not be a sing along type song.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, I think he sang like 10,000 times, and he's just kind of like, man, I can't do it again.
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Jessica Andrews
Exactly. That's exactly what that is do.
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Bobby Bones
If you sing the song, it's. It's so branded to you. And I think I try to put myself in shoes of somebody who had something that was so they were known for. Did you ever have a bad relationship with it for a while afterward, or was it always positive?
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Jessica Andrews
You know, what I think about that is in recent years, I think that people don't really know, um, they haven't made the connection with who sings that song because of social media. Social media wasn't around when, When I. When the song was a hit. And so now these days I feel like it's. They know the song, you know, but they're like, oh, I did not realize it was so and so. And then they'll have to kind of do a little bit of digging or connect the dots somehow and then figure it out that way. But I think that's just a time thing because it's social media.
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Bobby Bones
Were you ever like 22 or 23 and you were like, just kind of over it for a minute?
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Jessica Andrews
No. Mm. Mm. I don't think so. No. Mm. Mm. I've never felt that way about that song. It's just. It's such a great song, man. When you have a song that is. Connects with people, and it continues to do that. I think I just always knew and felt lucky to have had a song like that.
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Bobby Bones
Your husband now. I was reading about him, but he's still active in the industry, Kind of.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, kind of. I mean, he's kind of in the same boat as me as far as, like, when we have kids, your world, kind of.
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Bobby Bones
Does he write still?
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, he does write. He's not actively writing for a publisher, but he does write. I mean, he's a writer. Any writer will probably tell you that. You're those.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Creative is always creating you, regardless.
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Jessica Andrews
So that's him, basically, yes.
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Bobby Bones
Do you guys ever.
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Jessica Andrews
He wants to, though. He really does want to get back and, like, write. Right.
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Bobby Bones
What about you? Do you want to get back?
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Jessica Andrews
I think.
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Bobby Bones
Well, I mean, not Right, just. Do you just want to get back and sing more, do more shows, be more? I don't know. What do you want? Because obviously you love being a mom.
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Jessica Andrews
I do. That's a really great question, and that's one I ask myself a lot. I really do. Because I think that probably for every woman who has kids and becomes a mom is gonna probably wrestle with that a little bit. You know, men don't really have to think of it in that same way, but, you know, there's just a lot more thought that goes behind if I would ever really wanna. I'm always gonna sing. But if I ever wanted to, like, jump back into, like, doing it as a. As a, you know, get back in the game kind of thing, I don't know, because I just. There's a lot to consider and think about when you're raising babies, you know, And I think about when I was 15 and when I went out on tour. My first tour was Faith Hill, and she was probably in her early 30s and she was raising babies, too. Man. On that tour, she had two little ones. I mean, little. The whole time on the road. So, you know, I know it's, like, possible, and people do it. You know, you do what you got to do. I guess it's just a bigger question for me is if what kind of balance would I want to. You know, you have to strike a balance somehow. And how can you do that? I think I wrestle with that. I'll be honest. I mean, I don't know what the real answer for that is. It would have to be something that some bigger thing would need to give me the answer to that, you know, something would have to feel great, feel right. But I'm always gonna sing, you know, we'll just. We'll see how things align.
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Bobby Bones
How was fatal toward you?
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Jessica Andrews
She was so awesome. She was like a big sister. I mean, she gave me clothes, took me out on tour, really just told me, like, whatever I can do, you know, to help. And she did. I mean, she was really great. And her and Tim, both, they were just. They were. They've done that for a lot of people. I think Taylor Swift would. In the beginning of Taylor's career, too, she said the same thing. Faith just would always say that Reba did the same thing for her when she was getting started. So I think she just felt that, you know, that's. That's what you do when. When there's up and coming artists, you just kind of. You have to show them that same, you know, support.
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Bobby Bones
Well, this has been really awesome for me. I'm so happy you came and sat and, oh, my gosh, again, it was all just kind of random. And I was like, man, it would be really cool.
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Jessica Andrews
It really is. Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
And then it went from really cool to like, wow, that's twice in, like, 26 hours.
- [57:01]
Jessica Andrews
That's one of those things where things line align and, you know, so I really.
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Bobby Bones
I really appreciate you coming over and.
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Jessica Andrews
Thank you.
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Bobby Bones
Sitting and talking.
- [57:09]
Jessica Andrews
I've enjoyed this so much. I'm so glad you asked.
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Bobby Bones
What did you think about during this that maybe you haven't thought about in a while? Because that'll happen with me sometimes. Or someone's talking about something like, oh, I kind of forgot about that because, you know, I talked about early records and some Byron stuff. Anything come to mind? You're like, you know, I haven't really thought about that in a long time.
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Jessica Andrews
Well, a lot. I mean, you know, it's funny, I. I mean, I think the Scott thing is funny because when I was asked to do that a month ago, it was just a month ago. I mean, everyone knows the career that he's had because of, you know, signing the biggest artist on the planet. But I think when I was singing that song and talking about him on stage a little bit, it just got me thinking, like, whoa, this is crazy. You know, like, he went on to. To sign another young female, you know, and people have asked me that a few times. They're like, oh, my gosh, how did that make you feel? You know, to know that he left and then went on to do something? And it's never. I mean, I understood. I got the big picture. I mean, I hate the circumstances of, you know, falling through the cracks and albums getting shelved. And things like that. But, you know, I never really had thought about it all that much until. Until I was on that stage, like, oh, my gosh. You know, and it's funny, I had run into him. I didn't tell this story when. When I was honoring him. I wouldn't have done that, but, like, one year at the CMAs, backstage, I ran into him on the red carpet, and he was. He gave me a hug, and he's like, and I think Taylor has her fearless album. Was just getting ready to come out, and he came up and gave me a hug. He's like, oh, my gosh, great to see you. And I can't remember exactly what we said, but I feel like he kind of was. I don't want to say he was apologizing, but he said, you know, yeah, you know, I feel great that I got to, you know, start up my own thing. He goes, I got to do everything with Taylor that I never got to do with you. And I was like, oh, ow. You know, like, you know, But I think that was his way of saying that he got the creative control he always wanted, you know, to do his own thing. And he had all those big ideas with me.
- [59:26]
Bobby Bones
But that's what it felt like to me. When you said that, it felt like that you had the situation been a bit different, that could have been you because you had the talent to also do that with him.
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Jessica Andrews
I think Scott wished he was at the helm, you know, of Dreamworks, so that he really could have, you know, made all the decisions. I think that was ultimately what he was saying was. And that's how it came out when he said, I got to do all these things with her that I never got to do with you.
- [59:54]
Bobby Bones
Because he thinks he could have done it with you because of what he saw in you and what you did while you were with him.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah, because he was a big champion of mine. So, yeah, I thought, you know, that story did play in my mind when I was up there talking about him, I was like, wow. But we had a moment. And when I said my little thing about that we had one hit, I said, I'm all right. All these years later, saying I was a one hit wonder. I think it's. That doesn't hold any kind of stigma for me. I think it's great. I'm honored that I had an amazing song that is finding new audiences still to this day. So I kind of own that a little bit. Nobody knows what the future holds. You know, you never know. But for a moment, you know, that was, for me, like, my one hit. But it was just an honor that we got to do that together. And we did some good stuff.
- [60:51]
Bobby Bones
Well, thank you so much for being here.
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Jessica Andrews
Thank you.
- [60:54]
Bobby Bones
And I would do like a. Hey, follow. But you know what? You're smart. Your Instagram's private.
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Jessica Andrews
What's that?
- [60:59]
Bobby Bones
Your Instagram's private. You're smart.
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Jessica Andrews
Yeah. Is it? Yeah, it is private. Yeah. That's the thing with me, too, is I kind of, like, secluded myself myself because of. Because of.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Jessica Andrews
All that craziness that's. I did. I'm like, I'm hiding everything. I don't want to share anything because I don't want them getting a hold of it. Yeah. It's crazy.
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Bobby Bones
That's crazy.
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Jessica Andrews
I know.
- [61:20]
Bobby Bones
We had to. Yeah. We had the FBI. It was a whole situation.
- [61:23]
Jessica Andrews
Oh, my God.
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Bobby Bones
I had to kill him. No, I'm kidding. All right. And that. We're gonna go. Jessica. Thank you.
- [61:29]
Jessica Andrews
Thank you.
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Bobby Bones
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.
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Bobby Bones
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