January 11, 2024 • 19 mins
Jim Brickman, longtime friend to Chris...calls the Birthday Bash to chat and share details on upcoming Valentine Show at the REN. Tickets HERE
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(00:00):
It is a birthday bast show andoriginally was probably going to be in the
studio with me Jim Brickman. Jim, Well, happy new year to you,
my friend. Good to talk withyou. Happy birthday. Thank you.
I appreciate that. I know it'sit's forty eight, but I feel
like it's four hundred and forty eight. You had a great year with the
holiday shows this past holidays. Itreally went great. And you know,
(00:22):
you talk about your birthday age,My touring age is twenty six. This
was the twenty sixth year of theholiday tour. So nice. You know,
if I don't have a right bynow, I don't know. I
think I have ever going to becauseyou know, when you when you do
something and you fine tune it forthat long, it really is the right
(00:46):
team at the right time, withthe right message and certainly the right audience
that comes that joins us. Andso we were in fifty cities starting in
November called a joyful Christmas, andit certainly was. And I want to
thank everybody who came up to theshow in Cleveland who lives down you know
your way, and that's always greatbecause of course you know it is in
(01:07):
my hometown, So I appreciate thatvery much. It was really fun.
I guessed was actress and singer ChristyMetz who was on the show This is
Us, and that was that wasreally special for people to get a chance
to see her and hear her.And she's talented, funny, charming.
It was. It was a lotof fun. So, you know,
I hate talking about it because youknow it's over, so you know,
(01:32):
we gotta we got to talk aboutwhat's coming. But certainly Christmas was a
thrill. We're halfway through essentially Januaryand early February, the third that's going
to be here in just a fewweeks, Jim, So you're going to
be here at the Renaissance for avery special Valentine's show. Yeah, and
we haven't played there in quite sometime. I love the theater. It's
(01:53):
uh, you know, we haveso many wonderful fans in that area,
and it's it's going to be awonderful show, of course, celebrating love.
But I always say, you know, people are like, oh,
I don't know, you know,unless uncoupled, I don't want to go
to that. But it is it'snot exclusively romance. It is it's a
little bit of everything and always alot of fun. I think people who
(02:15):
come who have never seen the showbefore usually leave thinking, gosh, I
didn't expect it to be funny andcharming and sweet. And there's so many
parts of the show that are unexpectedand everything from a live by request section
(02:36):
where it's a little bit of afree for all. People just shout out
songs of mind that they want tohear and we play them instantly. That's
always a lot of fun, andit's and there's a sing along. We
record an entire sing along with theaudience that we record that night and then
send to everybody that comes to theshow as a keepsake of of our duet
(03:00):
together. So there are a lotof really fun things that I think people
don't expect. Well, when youknow, when you think Jim Brickman,
you don't necessarily think comedian because that'snot what you are. But I will
say, I will test because Ido know you, and I laugh right,
I chuckle along because I'm thinking,I feel like it's kind of my
humor. Sometimes some of the thingsthat you say, I'm like, I
(03:23):
totally get you, and it isfun. And when you do involve when
you have so much engagement at theshows, that just makes it that much
more exciting. And when people knowabout that, it makes them, you
know, more likely to show upto the show. Now, Jim,
I will say this, this issomething that probably my listeners have no idea
(03:44):
when I'm just randomly throwing out thingsthat I enjoy. I love the music
that we play here on the stationat Classic Kids the eighties, the seventies,
the nineties. But I am known, at least from my colleagues as
the single biggest life rock, easylistening goof that you've ever met. Because
(04:04):
I love all the Jim Brickman music. I love the you know, the
the groups and the bands and theartist uh Carly Simon's and you know and
Conchrance. I love that music.That's what I grew up playing in my
original years of radio, first yearsof radio. So for me, I'm
(04:25):
like, this is this is myworld, this is where my head is.
I think I think a lot.It's a lot of people's world,
you know. When I think aboutI feel like I am my audience.
Like if I weren't Jim Brickman,I would go to a Jim Brickman show
kind of the way that I feellike I'm the audience because the taste is
(04:46):
the same. You know, manyof us grew up in the seventies or
early eighties, and so there's youknow, and like you mentioned somebody like
Carly Simon, who I you know, had as a duet partner on one
of my albums. You know,those kinds of people touring with Olivia Newton,
John you know, duets with HollandOates, duets with you know,
(05:11):
all of these amazing people, MichaelBolton, and you know, if the
list goes on and on, whenit comes to that Johnny Mathis, Kenny
Rodgers, all of my duet partners. These are the people that I admired,
and I think my audience responds tomy music because that's what inspired me,
you know, to write the stylethat I write, and so there's
(05:36):
a real love for those songs.And now it's becoming multi generational. So
people will come to the show becausethey've been doing it for you know,
twenty five years. Are who growup, who grew up with the music,
who now have kids of their own, and so we're seeing a lot
of you know, multi generations andfamilies who come to the show. With
(06:01):
their kids, which is a veryvery cool thing, you know, I
think it's safe to say that alot for those who may you know,
obviously they know who Jim Brickman is, but to look at your career and
look at the things that you've done. There's so many artists out there that
specifically in a lot of cases writemusic for other artists, And there may
(06:24):
be thousands of song titles out therethat you know, one person has been
involved or had their hands on andwritten these hits for. And you're one
of those individuals. I mean,you do a lot of stuff, but
you've also you're very you know,you're very involved with with the music careers
of so many people, which isto me, is very cool. Well,
(06:46):
you know, collaboration has become reallymy strong suit because I really am
a songwriter at heart. I mean, of course that the show is piano
and vocal, and I sing quitea bit more than I think people expect
in the show too, But there'sI approached my career as a songwriter,
(07:10):
and so the distinction and difference isthat most of these artists are guesting as
collaborators on my album as opposed tome writing a song for them. As
a songwriter, and so collaboration hasreally become my stock in trade, and
(07:30):
so getting a chance to work withsome of these people and invite them to
sing on my albums has been areal joy. Let me ask you this,
Jim, we're talking with Jim Brickman. Jim, you know we're talking
about Valentine's One song in particular.You know exactly where I'm going with this
is a song that you did withMartina McBride. And what was that like?
(07:57):
Because that's one that's still the biggestsongs at least that time of the
year anyway, and every other time, depending on what format you are.
But what was it like being involvedin such a huge, huge song.
Well, I wasn't involved in it. I wrote it. I mean,
like makes it sound like I wasinvited to be part of it, But
I'm kidding, all kidding aside,When I wrote it, it struck me
(08:24):
that there wasn't there There wasn't asong about that day or celebrated love that
was special on that day. Itwas so odd to me, Like I
thought, think about it like it'sit's the love day and most most songs,
(08:46):
if you really listen, are lovesongs. Almost every song. You
know, there's songs about inspiration,of course, and faith and breakups,
but there are very there's a preponinin insurance of love songs. If you
think about your favorite song, mostpeople tick a love song. So I
(09:07):
just thought this has to be likeit's it's like a musical greeting card in
many ways, and so and things, you know, have to converge.
I think any artist that has avery big hit will tell you that everything
has to align. The time inthe world, the right artist to sing
(09:33):
the song, the right producer,the where you are in your career.
You know, I was on avery fast trajectory of the career at that
time. It just sort of wasjust hitting. And so the Martina McBride
was was up and coming. Shewasn't as known yet either, and so
(09:58):
collectively the country fans, the radioairplay, the advocacy from somebody like Casey
Kasem, which was amazing, youknow, the record label, all of
that has to converge. And ofcourse the song. It always starts with
the song, of course, andso you know, it has to be
a great song, but the rest, you know, has to happen the
(10:24):
right way as well. Sure,well, it is by far the largest
of any song for love and especiallyValentine's Day. It's by far the biggest
song that's out there, and forgood reason too. Well, So let's
fast forward, let's look across theway here as we. I wish we
(10:46):
could just push fast forward on winter, because this weather's for the birds.
But the rest of the year,what have you got going on? Is
it a big year for you?Are planning something? You know another?
Obviously toward the end of the year, I'm sure, But are you are
you doing anything in between time?The next project that's coming right away is
a collaboration album with Diane Warren,who is Her songs are known by every
(11:15):
person on the planet. A lotof people don't know her name if you're
not already familiar. She wrote becauseyou Love Me, Celine Dion, how
Do I Live? LeeAnne rhymes thatI don't want to miss a thing,
the Aerosmith Unbreak my Heart, TonyBraxton, if I could turn back time
share I mean like one after thenext after the next of massive, massive
(11:39):
hits, Oh yeah and yeah.And so she and I are doing a
collaboration with an album where I'm doingsome of those songs, but also a
brand new song with a singer fromthe group Fifth Harmony named Ali Brooke,
and so that's coming right away.And then then I'm heading out on a
(12:01):
new album called Brickman Across America thatcelebrates kind of the origin of American music
and heading out on that tour aswell. And then I always tour internationally
in the summer, so I goto Southeast Asia and I play in the
Philippines, in Indonesia and Thailand,Dubai, Korea, Japan. I spent
(12:26):
a lot of time over the summerrecording but also touring internationally. Speaking of
that, Jim, let me askyou this because as you were talking about
that popped into my head. Whatare the you know, because you watch
shows. I watch all these showsand they're like overseas shows or London or
somewhere, and you hear the musicthat they play in these shows, and
(12:48):
I'm thinking to myself, Okay,this is kind of a club type song.
They definitely, especially in England,they've got their own style of music,
but they also listen to the samethings that we do. What what
are the crowds like? What areyour audiences like when you go overseason to
those different places versus how they compareto the audiences here, and that can
(13:09):
be in any way, shape orform. For the most part, the
big difference is that certain big,big hits are the are the reason that
they know you more than like analbum. Like when I do Live by
Request and Mansfield coming up, peoplewill be shouting album cuts and you know,
(13:33):
deep, you know, fans willknow much more of the music.
Sure when you when you play there, a lot of it seems to be
contingent on basically half the concert,they're yelling Valentine, Valentine. It's like
the song. The hit songs driveeverything. And so in my case,
(14:01):
in a place like Indonesia or Jakartaor somewhere Thailand, it's Valentine, the
Gift, love of my Life anda song called Your Love wasn't that big
here but is huge there, andso they want to hear the big you
know, like like thousands of peoplein the Philippines have Valentine at their wedding
(14:28):
or karaoke or you know, it'sit's one of the top that and the
Gift is one of the top weddingsongs, so it's very familiar and it's
driven by one big hit, nomatter how many decades it is, that's
what they come for. It ismy observation. Yeah, no, that's
(14:50):
really cool. I often thought aboutthat. I've never asked a question just
because you know, it's different.There's different tastes in music, there's styles
of music that are so different.But then you also know that, I
mean, every band that's out thereor musician is touring all over the world,
and it's interesting to me to seehow they react and and what the
(15:13):
following is like. And because you'reright, I mean, we're this is
music that we hear often and allthe time, and so we know all
these songs, and we know theseartists, the Michael W. Smith's and
you know, five for Fighting andall those and obviously in some cases overseas
they do too. Maybe in alot of cases, I don't know,
but I always wondered what it waslike, what the difference was, and
what the feel of the shows werelike compared to what you're used to here.
(15:37):
So that's really cool. It's muchmore chaos than here. It's lots
of you know, I mean,I'm a solo pianist and there's like screaming
and yeah, you know, likeit's really like, wait where am I?
But what I think is interesting isthat they make the connection between,
(15:58):
you know, I'm the songwriter ofValentine and I'm playing on it and I
produced it and it's on my album, but Martin McBride is singing it,
and yet they know the distinction thatit's my hit, which is which takes
a lot of hoop jumping to tryto figure out. Like, you know,
I'll get people going, oh,you're the one that played the piano
(16:19):
on that Martin McBride song or something, and I totally understand that, like
I understand why I'm not singing thesongs, so people don't think for themselves.
You know, I wonder whose albumthis is on and who's who the
collaborator is an instrumentalist. It's it'safar reached and I'm very very thankful that
(16:41):
my audiences have made that you know, connection and understand that most of these
songs, even though they're sung byother people, are essentially my songs,
not essentially they are my songs.So you know, people will come to
the concert, like you know,Mansel, they might and hear level of
my life and me play it andthen leave going, oh my god,
(17:03):
I didn't know that was his songor something like that. Yeah. But
that's why touring makes such a difference, because you're able to communicate that live.
You're able to you know, I'mable to be known as a pianist
and and as a songwriter. Andyou know, some people come to the
show because they love the chill pianostuff, and some people come because they
(17:29):
want to hear their wedding song,and some kids come because they play my
piano music in their in their lesson. You know, there's all kinds of
different sorts of fans, which isreally what you want in your in your
career is a little bit of everything. I'm so excited for you to come
to the Renaissance Theater. By theway, you can get tickets rentickets dot
org. It is a February thirdshow Jim Brickman at the Renaissance Theater.
(17:53):
And we're also going to be givingaway tickets so you could win that.
Go register for Date Night with theWren. You get one hundred dollars Hudson
an Essex gift card plus tickets tosee Jim at the Renaissance Theater. Jim,
thank you for calling my show.On my special day and making it
that much more special. I appreciateyou. It's my pleasure. I can't
leave without saying a shout out,though, because I don't think a lot
(18:15):
of people know this. Okay,So my family is from Mansfield. Ye.
My dad grew up there. Mygreat grandfather was the fire chief of
Mansfield. So I have a lotof family still there, and I think
really fondly of coming back because itis it's where I'm from. It's a
(18:38):
homecoming of sorts. It is.Yeah, you know, I'm going on
a tour I find, you know, the house where my dad grew up
in, and fire station my greatgrand You know that. That to me
is it's such a cool thing tobe able to come and play there for
me, look forward to seeing everybodyat the show. Talk to you soon.
Here the full conversation with myself andJim Brickman at the Chris Kelly podcast
(19:03):
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It is a birthday bast show andoriginally was probably going to be in the
studio with me Jim Brickman. Jim, Well, happy new year to you,
my friend. Good to talk withyou. Happy birthday. Thank you.
I appreciate that. I know it'sit's forty eight, but I feel
like it's four hundred and forty eight. You had a great year with the
holiday shows this past holidays. Itreally went great. And you know,
(00:22):
you talk about your birthday age,My touring age is twenty six. This
was the twenty sixth year of theholiday tour. So nice. You know,
if I don't have a right bynow, I don't know. I
think I have ever going to becauseyou know, when you when you do
something and you fine tune it forthat long, it really is the right
(00:46):
team at the right time, withthe right message and certainly the right audience
that comes that joins us. Andso we were in fifty cities starting in
November called a joyful Christmas, andit certainly was. And I want to
thank everybody who came up to theshow in Cleveland who lives down you know
your way, and that's always greatbecause of course you know it is in
(01:07):
my hometown, So I appreciate thatvery much. It was really fun.
I guessed was actress and singer ChristyMetz who was on the show This is
Us, and that was that wasreally special for people to get a chance
to see her and hear her.And she's talented, funny, charming.
It was. It was a lotof fun. So, you know,
I hate talking about it because youknow it's over, so you know,
(01:32):
we gotta we got to talk aboutwhat's coming. But certainly Christmas was a
thrill. We're halfway through essentially Januaryand early February, the third that's going
to be here in just a fewweeks, Jim, So you're going to
be here at the Renaissance for avery special Valentine's show. Yeah, and
we haven't played there in quite sometime. I love the theater. It's
(01:53):
uh, you know, we haveso many wonderful fans in that area,
and it's it's going to be awonderful show, of course, celebrating love.
But I always say, you know, people are like, oh,
I don't know, you know,unless uncoupled, I don't want to go
to that. But it is it'snot exclusively romance. It is it's a
little bit of everything and always alot of fun. I think people who
(02:15):
come who have never seen the showbefore usually leave thinking, gosh, I
didn't expect it to be funny andcharming and sweet. And there's so many
parts of the show that are unexpectedand everything from a live by request section
(02:36):
where it's a little bit of afree for all. People just shout out
songs of mind that they want tohear and we play them instantly. That's
always a lot of fun, andit's and there's a sing along. We
record an entire sing along with theaudience that we record that night and then
send to everybody that comes to theshow as a keepsake of of our duet
(03:00):
together. So there are a lotof really fun things that I think people
don't expect. Well, when youknow, when you think Jim Brickman,
you don't necessarily think comedian because that'snot what you are. But I will
say, I will test because Ido know you, and I laugh right,
I chuckle along because I'm thinking,I feel like it's kind of my
humor. Sometimes some of the thingsthat you say, I'm like, I
(03:23):
totally get you, and it isfun. And when you do involve when
you have so much engagement at theshows, that just makes it that much
more exciting. And when people knowabout that, it makes them, you
know, more likely to show upto the show. Now, Jim,
I will say this, this issomething that probably my listeners have no idea
(03:44):
when I'm just randomly throwing out thingsthat I enjoy. I love the music
that we play here on the stationat Classic Kids the eighties, the seventies,
the nineties. But I am known, at least from my colleagues as
the single biggest life rock, easylistening goof that you've ever met. Because
(04:04):
I love all the Jim Brickman music. I love the you know, the
the groups and the bands and theartist uh Carly Simon's and you know and
Conchrance. I love that music.That's what I grew up playing in my
original years of radio, first yearsof radio. So for me, I'm
(04:25):
like, this is this is myworld, this is where my head is.
I think I think a lot.It's a lot of people's world,
you know. When I think aboutI feel like I am my audience.
Like if I weren't Jim Brickman,I would go to a Jim Brickman show
kind of the way that I feellike I'm the audience because the taste is
(04:46):
the same. You know, manyof us grew up in the seventies or
early eighties, and so there's youknow, and like you mentioned somebody like
Carly Simon, who I you know, had as a duet partner on one
of my albums. You know,those kinds of people touring with Olivia Newton,
John you know, duets with HollandOates, duets with you know,
(05:11):
all of these amazing people, MichaelBolton, and you know, if the
list goes on and on, whenit comes to that Johnny Mathis, Kenny
Rodgers, all of my duet partners. These are the people that I admired,
and I think my audience responds tomy music because that's what inspired me,
you know, to write the stylethat I write, and so there's
(05:36):
a real love for those songs.And now it's becoming multi generational. So
people will come to the show becausethey've been doing it for you know,
twenty five years. Are who growup, who grew up with the music,
who now have kids of their own, and so we're seeing a lot
of you know, multi generations andfamilies who come to the show. With
(06:01):
their kids, which is a veryvery cool thing, you know, I
think it's safe to say that alot for those who may you know,
obviously they know who Jim Brickman is, but to look at your career and
look at the things that you've done. There's so many artists out there that
specifically in a lot of cases writemusic for other artists, And there may
(06:24):
be thousands of song titles out therethat you know, one person has been
involved or had their hands on andwritten these hits for. And you're one
of those individuals. I mean,you do a lot of stuff, but
you've also you're very you know,you're very involved with with the music careers
of so many people, which isto me, is very cool. Well,
(06:46):
you know, collaboration has become reallymy strong suit because I really am
a songwriter at heart. I mean, of course that the show is piano
and vocal, and I sing quitea bit more than I think people expect
in the show too, But there'sI approached my career as a songwriter,
(07:10):
and so the distinction and difference isthat most of these artists are guesting as
collaborators on my album as opposed tome writing a song for them. As
a songwriter, and so collaboration hasreally become my stock in trade, and
(07:30):
so getting a chance to work withsome of these people and invite them to
sing on my albums has been areal joy. Let me ask you this,
Jim, we're talking with Jim Brickman. Jim, you know we're talking
about Valentine's One song in particular.You know exactly where I'm going with this
is a song that you did withMartina McBride. And what was that like?
(07:57):
Because that's one that's still the biggestsongs at least that time of the
year anyway, and every other time, depending on what format you are.
But what was it like being involvedin such a huge, huge song.
Well, I wasn't involved in it. I wrote it. I mean,
like makes it sound like I wasinvited to be part of it, But
I'm kidding, all kidding aside,When I wrote it, it struck me
(08:24):
that there wasn't there There wasn't asong about that day or celebrated love that
was special on that day. Itwas so odd to me, Like I
thought, think about it like it'sit's the love day and most most songs,
(08:46):
if you really listen, are lovesongs. Almost every song. You
know, there's songs about inspiration,of course, and faith and breakups,
but there are very there's a preponinin insurance of love songs. If you
think about your favorite song, mostpeople tick a love song. So I
(09:07):
just thought this has to be likeit's it's like a musical greeting card in
many ways, and so and things, you know, have to converge.
I think any artist that has avery big hit will tell you that everything
has to align. The time inthe world, the right artist to sing
(09:33):
the song, the right producer,the where you are in your career.
You know, I was on avery fast trajectory of the career at that
time. It just sort of wasjust hitting. And so the Martina McBride
was was up and coming. Shewasn't as known yet either, and so
(09:58):
collectively the country fans, the radioairplay, the advocacy from somebody like Casey
Kasem, which was amazing, youknow, the record label, all of
that has to converge. And ofcourse the song. It always starts with
the song, of course, andso you know, it has to be
a great song, but the rest, you know, has to happen the
(10:24):
right way as well. Sure,well, it is by far the largest
of any song for love and especiallyValentine's Day. It's by far the biggest
song that's out there, and forgood reason too. Well, So let's
fast forward, let's look across theway here as we. I wish we
(10:46):
could just push fast forward on winter, because this weather's for the birds.
But the rest of the year,what have you got going on? Is
it a big year for you?Are planning something? You know another?
Obviously toward the end of the year, I'm sure, But are you are
you doing anything in between time?The next project that's coming right away is
a collaboration album with Diane Warren,who is Her songs are known by every
(11:15):
person on the planet. A lotof people don't know her name if you're
not already familiar. She wrote becauseyou Love Me, Celine Dion, how
Do I Live? LeeAnne rhymes thatI don't want to miss a thing,
the Aerosmith Unbreak my Heart, TonyBraxton, if I could turn back time
share I mean like one after thenext after the next of massive, massive
(11:39):
hits, Oh yeah and yeah.And so she and I are doing a
collaboration with an album where I'm doingsome of those songs, but also a
brand new song with a singer fromthe group Fifth Harmony named Ali Brooke,
and so that's coming right away.And then then I'm heading out on a
(12:01):
new album called Brickman Across America thatcelebrates kind of the origin of American music
and heading out on that tour aswell. And then I always tour internationally
in the summer, so I goto Southeast Asia and I play in the
Philippines, in Indonesia and Thailand,Dubai, Korea, Japan. I spent
(12:26):
a lot of time over the summerrecording but also touring internationally. Speaking of
that, Jim, let me askyou this because as you were talking about
that popped into my head. Whatare the you know, because you watch
shows. I watch all these showsand they're like overseas shows or London or
somewhere, and you hear the musicthat they play in these shows, and
(12:48):
I'm thinking to myself, Okay,this is kind of a club type song.
They definitely, especially in England,they've got their own style of music,
but they also listen to the samethings that we do. What what
are the crowds like? What areyour audiences like when you go overseason to
those different places versus how they compareto the audiences here, and that can
(13:09):
be in any way, shape orform. For the most part, the
big difference is that certain big,big hits are the are the reason that
they know you more than like analbum. Like when I do Live by
Request and Mansfield coming up, peoplewill be shouting album cuts and you know,
(13:33):
deep, you know, fans willknow much more of the music.
Sure when you when you play there, a lot of it seems to be
contingent on basically half the concert,they're yelling Valentine, Valentine. It's like
the song. The hit songs driveeverything. And so in my case,
(14:01):
in a place like Indonesia or Jakartaor somewhere Thailand, it's Valentine, the
Gift, love of my Life anda song called Your Love wasn't that big
here but is huge there, andso they want to hear the big you
know, like like thousands of peoplein the Philippines have Valentine at their wedding
(14:28):
or karaoke or you know, it'sit's one of the top that and the
Gift is one of the top weddingsongs, so it's very familiar and it's
driven by one big hit, nomatter how many decades it is, that's
what they come for. It ismy observation. Yeah, no, that's
(14:50):
really cool. I often thought aboutthat. I've never asked a question just
because you know, it's different.There's different tastes in music, there's styles
of music that are so different.But then you also know that, I
mean, every band that's out thereor musician is touring all over the world,
and it's interesting to me to seehow they react and and what the
(15:13):
following is like. And because you'reright, I mean, we're this is
music that we hear often and allthe time, and so we know all
these songs, and we know theseartists, the Michael W. Smith's and
you know, five for Fighting andall those and obviously in some cases overseas
they do too. Maybe in alot of cases, I don't know,
but I always wondered what it waslike, what the difference was, and
what the feel of the shows werelike compared to what you're used to here.
(15:37):
So that's really cool. It's muchmore chaos than here. It's lots
of you know, I mean,I'm a solo pianist and there's like screaming
and yeah, you know, likeit's really like, wait where am I?
But what I think is interesting isthat they make the connection between,
(15:58):
you know, I'm the songwriter ofValentine and I'm playing on it and I
produced it and it's on my album, but Martin McBride is singing it,
and yet they know the distinction thatit's my hit, which is which takes
a lot of hoop jumping to tryto figure out. Like, you know,
I'll get people going, oh,you're the one that played the piano
(16:19):
on that Martin McBride song or something, and I totally understand that, like
I understand why I'm not singing thesongs, so people don't think for themselves.
You know, I wonder whose albumthis is on and who's who the
collaborator is an instrumentalist. It's it'safar reached and I'm very very thankful that
(16:41):
my audiences have made that you know, connection and understand that most of these
songs, even though they're sung byother people, are essentially my songs,
not essentially they are my songs.So you know, people will come to
the concert, like you know,Mansel, they might and hear level of
my life and me play it andthen leave going, oh my god,
(17:03):
I didn't know that was his songor something like that. Yeah. But
that's why touring makes such a difference, because you're able to communicate that live.
You're able to you know, I'mable to be known as a pianist
and and as a songwriter. Andyou know, some people come to the
show because they love the chill pianostuff, and some people come because they
(17:29):
want to hear their wedding song,and some kids come because they play my
piano music in their in their lesson. You know, there's all kinds of
different sorts of fans, which isreally what you want in your in your
career is a little bit of everything. I'm so excited for you to come
to the Renaissance Theater. By theway, you can get tickets rentickets dot
org. It is a February thirdshow Jim Brickman at the Renaissance Theater.
(17:53):
And we're also going to be givingaway tickets so you could win that.
Go register for Date Night with theWren. You get one hundred dollars Hudson
an Essex gift card plus tickets tosee Jim at the Renaissance Theater. Jim,
thank you for calling my show.On my special day and making it
that much more special. I appreciateyou. It's my pleasure. I can't
leave without saying a shout out,though, because I don't think a lot
(18:15):
of people know this. Okay,So my family is from Mansfield. Ye.
My dad grew up there. Mygreat grandfather was the fire chief of
Mansfield. So I have a lotof family still there, and I think
really fondly of coming back because itis it's where I'm from. It's a
(18:38):
homecoming of sorts. It is.Yeah, you know, I'm going on
a tour I find, you know, the house where my dad grew up
in, and fire station my greatgrand You know that. That to me
is it's such a cool thing tobe able to come and play there for
me, look forward to seeing everybodyat the show. Talk to you soon.
Here the full conversation with myself andJim Brickman at the Chris Kelly podcast
(19:03):
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