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Whey Jennings talks to Everything Nash about his new album, Baptized By Fire, his family, touring plans, and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail with Everything
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Nash. Back again with Weey Jennings. We
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love you, right? We love you. You have
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been so good to us and I love every time
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I get to talk to you.
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>> Well, it's always good to see you. How
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you been?
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>> Good. Baptized by Fire. Talk about it.
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>> Oh, it's our new album and uh I've done
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a lot of work since I seen you last.
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>> Yes, you have.
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>> Got to ride with some really cool people
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on this one and we come up with uh I
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think the best album I've ever put out,
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honestly. Um, it ain't as rock and
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country as I've usually put out, but
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it's got so much depth that it scares
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me, you know? It's like something that
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I'm It's vulnerable feeling, you know?
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It's kind of a hope people like it kind
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of a thing cuz it's totally different
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than anything I've ever put out. So,
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>> you said that people will know you by
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listening to this album, which I find
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really interesting.
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>> It's true. It's true. It's got my life
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experiences in it, man. We've all been
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ups and downs, you know, gone through
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the darkness into the light kind of a
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situation, you know, but, you know, I
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got a lot of love in there. I got a lot
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of heartache in there. I got a lot of
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faith in there. I got a lot of pain
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through faith in there. And then at the
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end, you know, you're baptized by fire,
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you know? And that's when you come out
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like a phoenix out of the ashes, you
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know what I mean? It's like it's a
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it's a I don't know how to explain it. I
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just hope everybody listens to it and
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you let me know what you think of it.
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>> I love it. Um, give me the story behind
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the song.
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>> Baptized by Fire. Um, I wrote it with
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Jim Moose Brown and David Wade. We went
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over to the Moose Lodge and uh, which is
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what he calls his recording studio. And
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I walked in there just nervous. Really,
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really nervous. I was like, "This is
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going to be a mountain of a man. He's
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written all these hits." And I walk in,
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he's like, "How you doing? You want a
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bottle of water?" I was like I was like,
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"Yeah,
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you're human. Good." Haha. And we sat
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down. We wrote a couple songs together
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and they just sort of came out of us. I
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mean, at one point he got up and left
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the room and I thought he hated it. And
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so I was like, "Oh man." So I walked out
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there and I was going to leave and I
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looked over in the studio back there and
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he's just pacing back and forth rubbing
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his head like this and he come back with
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some of the best lines in the in the
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song. So yeah, it was an awesome
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situation. Uh but it's a song that we
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dip back into my childhood on. I speak
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of my mama's Bible in there
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>> and you know the sun breaking the trees.
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It's just it's uh how I feel about life
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these days. You know, give your life to
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God and let him take the wheel. You
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know,
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>> I love that. When you started releasing
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music, you were not yet sober. So, talk
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about releasing music now as a sober
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person.
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>> Uh it's a lot better now. You know, it's
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more authentic. It's more real. You
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know, I I sing about things that I want
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my kids to hear. You know, I was talking
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to Jason earlier. I was like, I look at
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everything through the lens of a father
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now, you know? Used to I wanted to be
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this wild crazy guy, the craziest guy on
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Music Row, you know? Uh, now I'm just
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like, I want that guy to stay away from
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my kids, you know what I mean? I wanted
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to be able to be,
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you know, a familyfriendly kind of
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anybody can listen to my music kind of
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guy, you know? So, I kind of walk the
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line on that, you know. I go as dark as
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I possibly can without it being too dark
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for families to listen to.
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>> Um, speaking of kids, congratulations.
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>> Well, thank you.
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>> You another baby.
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>> Yeah.
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>> How many is this?
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>> That's seven.
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>> Seven. Seven. How's that sweet baby?
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>> She's doing really well. She's growing
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like a weed. She was really tiny when
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she was born. I could hold her just like
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this. My wife handed her to me and I was
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like,
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"Take her back. I don't want to break
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her."
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But yeah, uh she's a wonderful little
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girl. Her name is Jesse Ray
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>> and uh we're very blessed. Yeah.
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>> Uh touring, you have seven kids and you
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still spend a lot of time on the road.
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Talk about touring this year.
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>> Uh touring is going to be wild this
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year. We got all kinds of cool stuff
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coming up this year. We're playing CCMF.
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We're playing uh we got a residency at a
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casino out in Laughlin. We got uh all
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kinds of cool stuff. Look at my schedule
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on way Jennings.com and you'll find all
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kinds of cool stuff we're doing. We're
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coming to a town near you. Make sure you
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come out to me.
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>> You heard it from Weey. Can you talk
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real quick about your evolution? We've
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talked to you when you've released other
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projects. This is your second full
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album.
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>> Second full album.
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>> Okay. Um talk about your evolution.
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>> Uh my evolution went from uh craziness
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that wasn't that great to less
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craziness. it was okay to sober that was
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still kind of shaky. If you look at it,
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it's like from
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now I'm pretty comfortable in what I do,
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man. So, I'm feeling good about the
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music I'm putting out now. So, I feel
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really good about my last album and
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really good about the EP before that and
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I feel good about it all. It all has its
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place in my catalog, but I feel more
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comfortable now and more confident in
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the music I'm putting out now than ever.
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>> Okay, so touring this year.
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>> Yes.
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>> More music. What else can we expect from
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you?
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>> Um, well, if we keep going like I have
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been going, more kids.
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>> Well, we will talk then.
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>> Yeah. Yeah, sounds good. Weey Jennings
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friends have a good