Angie catches up with some old friends! Parmalee just kicked off their headlining tour with 5 #1 singles under their belts and ONE BILLION STREAMS! Their new album "Fell In Love With A Cowgirl" is available everywhere 4/4.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, it's Angie were Thank you so much for checking
out my podcast today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Make sure you download and subscribe.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Today we're going to talk to one of my personal
favorite country bands.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Parmally Angie.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Try guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it going. It's great. I'm so excited to get
all four of you. Yeah, how are you? I am
so good? I don't all right?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So I want to go back to the very first
time I met parmey. See, if you guys remember this,
because I mean, you're not gonna hurt my feelings if
you don't, but I think you will. So we were
at a bar called the Bucked Up Super Saloon in Curl.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Tied up now.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, I know, I know, and I remember, Matt. I
think you came up and you said, we just got signed.
We got a record deal with Stony Creek, and the
label was so new at that time, I didn't even
know who they were. And now you guys have over
a billion that's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
B on your songs about time right, No, listen, I'm
so proud of you, guys.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I say that every time I see and I'm so
happy to know you and have known you back then
because I know how hard you worked and now you
have five number ones, which is just amazing. Congrats on
that last big one, Gonna Love You, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That in a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Uh, but tell me about the new project. We're about
to kick off a headlining tour. We've got one of
my new favorite songs with Cowgirl, and an album two.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's fun. I mean, Cowgirl obviously is just
a blast. It's been great at the shows. But yeah,
we you know, it was time for a new project,
and coming off Gonna Love You, we knew we needed
something that's just gonna stand out. Obviously a tempo couldn't
come with a slow drag, so we had to you know,
thank God for Cowgirl, because that was that was just
just what we needed. And and so we didn't and
(01:53):
we didn't want to do an album of thirty five songs,
or even twenty songs, or even fifteen songs. You're like,
you know what, let's keep it short and sweet lucky.
Seven's the number we could call it an album with
seven songs. And so we went through all our songs
we had and we started making a chart out of
a graft like a sports brack bracket out on all
(02:14):
the songs bracket, and so we all wrote our favorite
songs down and of course you had your like your
major contenders, calgar Vy and one of them, and a
couple more that we kept raising their hand, and we
eventually would go through a couple of weeks and we
look down and we end up with these seven songs
that are pretty good representation of where we're at right
now and what we feel like our fans want to
(02:35):
hear from us, plus some songs that are like, you know,
in our hearts and kind of let us kind of
tip our hat to some of our influences. Being a
band for over twenty years.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well yeah, and like this is not you know, country
wasn't your first band, right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
You were a rock band before right, well before that,
I mean before that it was southern rock, soul and
blues with my dad's band. But Josh was in a
bluegrass vand his dad, and you know, it was it
was always around we did you know, Travis Trick covers
and and things like that and and and all. But
when we started writing our own music, it was just
definitely lending itself to you know, rock and roll, and
(03:15):
you know, eventually we wrote Carolina and that was that
was the that was the what we what we had
been looking for, the sound and all that. So it
took all that stuff to kind of find this this
lane we're in.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I think that's one of the things I love about
Parmely so much is the sound that you had, especially
when you first came on the scene.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It was so unique to country music.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We didn't have that sound in country music, and you
brought a new life to our format that has just
been fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, thank you. You know, we'll shout out to uh
to Big and Rich with Saber, horse Rider, Cowboy, Jason
aal Dim She's Country and Eric Church. Those guys kind
of come in and shook it up right about the
time we were getting to town or just just kind of realizing.
Even Kenny Chesney, you know, some of those songs were
like there's big life songs. I remember, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We could we could probably do this.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's kind of you know, we don't have the songs yet,
but we could probably do this. You know. Yeah, all
that still counted.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So I see.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So just to tell everybody who's listening, you guys are
your family band almost Yeah, So you and Matt are
Matt and Scott brothers, and Barry's a cousin and then
Josh is the BFF we just have adopted as a
family member.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So in the in the video We're Gonna Love You,
I want to talk about this because you made me cry.
But you know, when I first met you or early on,
you guys had told me the story about what happened
to you out on the road. But when people see
this video, explain a little bit about it because you Scott,
you got shot, right, Was it Scott that got you?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, I did. I got shot three times in an
attempted right, and we had to tell our story of
the past ten years. But this video and the song
going to Love You, it's a love song, but it lent.
We felt like it could be a good song for
the story, our story of that incident, and it did
and it really worked out great, and we're proud and
(05:17):
excited about doing it. And it worked.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, and you just made a remarkable recovery.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like you get to the end of the video and
it tells the you know, the little blurbs there about
how you only had a five percent chance to live
after this happened.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
How many times did you get shot?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Three.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What the oh my gosh, so like now, anything that
happens in the band, it's got to be like, eh,
we've been shot.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We were thinking about that. We didn't get nominated this
year for the ACMs, and we were like, ah, I've
been shot before, that didn't anything.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I didn't get nominated and I've never been shot, So
you got one up on me. But did they did
they steal your equipment or was that another story?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, No, there was an attempt to robbery. The guys
never got they never got anything from us. Of course
we didn't have anything. They thought we had cash, but
we didn't have anything. But now Scott took care of
both of them. One of them's not here anymore and
the other ones still in prison from from the sentence,
which you know, yeah, I mean it was. It was
a nightmare in all all forms of fashion, and not
(06:28):
only because of you know, him being shot and having
a five percent chance to live in ten days in
the COMBA forty in the hospital. But we were right
on the cusp at that time. We had just after
being in a band for ten years, struggling fighting trying
to get a record deal. We had just recorded Carolina
and must have had a good time. The versions that
(06:49):
went to number one, must have had a good time
on the highway and then uh Carolina obviously two week
number one changed their lives. So we had those songs.
We were just trying to come back to Nashville to
do a showcase so we could get us a record deal.
And that's why we were playing on a Monday night.
We're just practicing and uh and then this happens after
you know, you're highest we've ever been. We're about to
(07:11):
go get this thing done, and then all that happens.
But it also, you know, made us that much tighter,
that much more determined, and that much closer and realize
that we have fans that cared about what we're doing.
We had friends and family and fans that really were
like came together and raised money and other bands like, wow,
if we're if we're if people are doing this for
(07:33):
us and we must be on the right track to something.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah yeah, well and uh, you know what, then, what
you guys have done with your career, I've watched you
over and over. It could be anything from a Saint
Jude Walk to raising twenty five million dollars for Western
North Carolina, which I wanted to thank you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You continue to give back, so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, we just we had a little small part in
that where we're so proud to be any have anything
to do with it. And we knew when we knew
when we saw that devastation going on, and we would
do whatever we could to make sure we were at
any kind of you know, concert that that the guys
here in town were putting together. So we're thankful that
Luke asked us to be on that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
All right, I got some fun questions for you. We're
gonna do this pretty fast, all right. All right, so
you guys are at a karaoke bar with me and
the band Parmally is up.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What song are you singing? And it can't be one
of yours?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Let's get it on Marvin Gaye, Yep, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That was our go to song for every late night
party all work. The guitar Scott beat on the guitar case.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That one night moves maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, that's a good one too. I'd love to
hear you guys sing that one.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So okay, we know Matt is the lead singer, who
is the best cook who is the referee of there
is an argument on the bus.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's usually not one.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I feel like I am because I'm trying to I'm
kind of like Sister Scott talking to peacemaker, but I
let him get at it until I'm tired of hearing it,
and then I have to say, I got well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I mean you've got all these how many years now
you guys have been well obviously you know, two of
you have been together your entire life, three of you really,
but all these years living on a bus and touring
and you still get along pretty well.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's the secret?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No one when the zig when the other one's as
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, I think at.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
This point just kind of we know how to get
at each other if we want to, but we also
know how not to when, like I said, when the
move left, when they're moving right, if it's if it's tense.
But in general we just we're like, no no drama,
lamas man. We like to take eat and be cool,
you know, and try to keep stressed down and uh, you.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Know, here's what I think you should do.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You know how Derk Spentley has the hot country night
span that comes out on tour with him, Yeah, you
need to have the no drama Lamas drama Las.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, like some chill and music.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well listen, Uh, don't worry about those award shows, because
all you got to say to anybody is yeah, I
got one billion streams?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
What you got? I love you guys so much. I'm
so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I'm just glad that I knew you way back when,
and I really appreciate you still talking to me.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Absolutely, thank you for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I can't wait to see you out on tour and
everybody go get the full album.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's called fell in Love with the Cowgirl me
Hello, it's Angie were Thank you so much for checking
out my podcast today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Make sure you download and subscribe.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Today we're going to talk to one of my personal
favorite country bands.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Parmally Angie.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Try guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it going. It's great. I'm so excited to get
all four of you. Yeah, how are you? I am
so good? I don't all right?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So I want to go back to the very first
time I met parmey. See, if you guys remember this,
because I mean, you're not gonna hurt my feelings if
you don't, but I think you will. So we were
at a bar called the Bucked Up Super Saloon in Curl.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Tied up now.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, I know, I know, and I remember, Matt. I
think you came up and you said, we just got signed.
We got a record deal with Stony Creek, and the
label was so new at that time, I didn't even
know who they were. And now you guys have over
a billion that's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
B on your songs about time right, No, listen, I'm
so proud of you, guys.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I say that every time I see and I'm so
happy to know you and have known you back then
because I know how hard you worked and now you
have five number ones, which is just amazing. Congrats on
that last big one, Gonna Love You, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That in a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Uh, but tell me about the new project. We're about
to kick off a headlining tour. We've got one of
my new favorite songs with Cowgirl, and an album two.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's fun. I mean, Cowgirl obviously is just
a blast. It's been great at the shows. But yeah,
we you know, it was time for a new project,
and coming off Gonna Love You, we knew we needed
something that's just gonna stand out. Obviously a tempo couldn't
come with a slow drag, so we had to you know,
thank God for Cowgirl, because that was that was just
just what we needed. And and so we didn't and
(01:53):
we didn't want to do an album of thirty five songs,
or even twenty songs, or even fifteen songs. You're like,
you know what, let's keep it short and sweet lucky.
Seven's the number we could call it an album with
seven songs. And so we went through all our songs
we had and we started making a chart out of
a graft like a sports brack bracket out on all
(02:14):
the songs bracket, and so we all wrote our favorite
songs down and of course you had your like your
major contenders, calgar Vy and one of them, and a
couple more that we kept raising their hand, and we
eventually would go through a couple of weeks and we
look down and we end up with these seven songs
that are pretty good representation of where we're at right
now and what we feel like our fans want to
(02:35):
hear from us, plus some songs that are like, you know,
in our hearts and kind of let us kind of
tip our hat to some of our influences. Being a
band for over twenty years.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well yeah, and like this is not you know, country
wasn't your first band, right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
You were a rock band before right, well before that,
I mean before that it was southern rock, soul and
blues with my dad's band. But Josh was in a
bluegrass vand his dad, and you know, it was it
was always around we did you know, Travis Trick covers
and and things like that and and and all. But
when we started writing our own music, it was just
definitely lending itself to you know, rock and roll, and
(03:15):
you know, eventually we wrote Carolina and that was that
was the that was the what we what we had
been looking for, the sound and all that. So it
took all that stuff to kind of find this this
lane we're in.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I think that's one of the things I love about
Parmely so much is the sound that you had, especially
when you first came on the scene.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It was so unique to country music.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We didn't have that sound in country music, and you
brought a new life to our format that has just
been fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, thank you. You know, we'll shout out to uh
to Big and Rich with Saber, horse Rider, Cowboy, Jason
aal Dim She's Country and Eric Church. Those guys kind
of come in and shook it up right about the
time we were getting to town or just just kind of realizing.
Even Kenny Chesney, you know, some of those songs were
like there's big life songs. I remember, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We could we could probably do this.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's kind of you know, we don't have the songs yet,
but we could probably do this. You know. Yeah, all
that still counted.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So I see.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So just to tell everybody who's listening, you guys are
your family band almost Yeah, So you and Matt are
Matt and Scott brothers, and Barry's a cousin and then
Josh is the BFF we just have adopted as a
family member.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So in the in the video We're Gonna Love You,
I want to talk about this because you made me cry.
But you know, when I first met you or early on,
you guys had told me the story about what happened
to you out on the road. But when people see
this video, explain a little bit about it because you Scott,
you got shot, right, Was it Scott that got you?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, I did. I got shot three times in an
attempted right, and we had to tell our story of
the past ten years. But this video and the song
going to Love You, it's a love song, but it lent.
We felt like it could be a good song for
the story, our story of that incident, and it did
and it really worked out great, and we're proud and
(05:17):
excited about doing it. And it worked.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, and you just made a remarkable recovery.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like you get to the end of the video and
it tells the you know, the little blurbs there about
how you only had a five percent chance to live
after this happened.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
How many times did you get shot?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Three.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What the oh my gosh, so like now, anything that
happens in the band, it's got to be like, eh,
we've been shot.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We were thinking about that. We didn't get nominated this
year for the ACMs, and we were like, ah, I've
been shot before, that didn't anything.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I didn't get nominated and I've never been shot, So
you got one up on me. But did they did
they steal your equipment or was that another story?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, No, there was an attempt to robbery. The guys
never got they never got anything from us. Of course
we didn't have anything. They thought we had cash, but
we didn't have anything. But now Scott took care of
both of them. One of them's not here anymore and
the other ones still in prison from from the sentence,
which you know, yeah, I mean it was. It was
a nightmare in all all forms of fashion, and not
(06:28):
only because of you know, him being shot and having
a five percent chance to live in ten days in
the COMBA forty in the hospital. But we were right
on the cusp at that time. We had just after
being in a band for ten years, struggling fighting trying
to get a record deal. We had just recorded Carolina
and must have had a good time. The versions that
(06:49):
went to number one, must have had a good time
on the highway and then uh Carolina obviously two week
number one changed their lives. So we had those songs.
We were just trying to come back to Nashville to
do a showcase so we could get us a record deal.
And that's why we were playing on a Monday night.
We're just practicing and uh and then this happens after
you know, you're highest we've ever been. We're about to
(07:11):
go get this thing done, and then all that happens.
But it also, you know, made us that much tighter,
that much more determined, and that much closer and realize
that we have fans that cared about what we're doing.
We had friends and family and fans that really were
like came together and raised money and other bands like, wow,
if we're if we're if people are doing this for
(07:33):
us and we must be on the right track to something.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah yeah, well and uh, you know what, then, what
you guys have done with your career, I've watched you
over and over. It could be anything from a Saint
Jude Walk to raising twenty five million dollars for Western
North Carolina, which I wanted to thank you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You continue to give back, so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, we just we had a little small part in
that where we're so proud to be any have anything
to do with it. And we knew when we knew
when we saw that devastation going on, and we would
do whatever we could to make sure we were at
any kind of you know, concert that that the guys
here in town were putting together. So we're thankful that
Luke asked us to be on that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
All right, I got some fun questions for you. We're
gonna do this pretty fast, all right. All right, so
you guys are at a karaoke bar with me and
the band Parmally is up.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What song are you singing? And it can't be one
of yours?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Let's get it on Marvin Gaye, Yep, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That was our go to song for every late night
party all work. The guitar Scott beat on the guitar case.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That one night moves maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, that's a good one too. I'd love to
hear you guys sing that one.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So okay, we know Matt is the lead singer, who
is the best cook who is the referee of there
is an argument on the bus.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's usually not one.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I feel like I am because I'm trying to I'm
kind of like Sister Scott talking to peacemaker, but I
let him get at it until I'm tired of hearing it,
and then I have to say, I got well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I mean you've got all these how many years now
you guys have been well obviously you know, two of
you have been together your entire life, three of you really,
but all these years living on a bus and touring
and you still get along pretty well.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's the secret?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No one when the zig when the other one's as
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, I think at.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
This point just kind of we know how to get
at each other if we want to, but we also
know how not to when, like I said, when the
move left, when they're moving right, if it's if it's tense.
But in general we just we're like, no no drama,
lamas man. We like to take eat and be cool,
you know, and try to keep stressed down and uh, you.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Know, here's what I think you should do.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You know how Derk Spentley has the hot country night
span that comes out on tour with him, Yeah, you
need to have the no drama Lamas drama Las.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, like some chill and music.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well listen, Uh, don't worry about those award shows, because
all you got to say to anybody is yeah, I
got one billion streams?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
What you got? I love you guys so much. I'm
so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I'm just glad that I knew you way back when,
and I really appreciate you still talking to me.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Absolutely, thank you for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I can't wait to see you out on tour and
everybody go get the full album.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's called fell in Love with the Cowgirl me
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