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January 27, 2025 12 mins
Kane Brown's new album is so good!  You can hear it on our iHeartRadio app, it's called, "The Highroad!"  He shares the experience working with Jelly Roll and how much collabing with his wife means to him.  Kane also shared something that may have fans freaking out about the future of his music career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, dude, Uh, we're catching up because you got a
new album.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Uh what what's the process when it comes to albums
for you?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Are you do you just put a date on the
calendar and say, hey, we'll get there, or is it
when it feels right, it'll happen.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I try to I try to wait, but uh, you know,
I get pushed a little bit. So now it's just,
you know, I'll write. So I've got I've probably got
like one hundred and fifty songs in my on my phone,
and we just trying to put We used to just
try and put the best songs together, but now I
just try to like really write whatever I can. And

(00:40):
these last couple a couple of months trying to get
the album together, I didn't really do nothing. Like I
wasn't really have many conversations. So I had to try
and get like personal, but just personal stuff that was
going on in my life about like my you know, Papa,
and then depression was haunted Papa with Uh when you

(01:01):
so when you forget, you can remember of course my
my daughters for backseat driver and then three for my son,
and so I just started to get really personal with everything.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's so good did you go? Did you go there?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Because that hasn't been a place that you've let a
lot of fans into just yet.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I feel like I've always been kind of vulnerable. I
think I was most vulnerable on my first album and
a lot of people were like, where's where did that
cane go? And so, uh, this one, you know, we'll
see if they we'll see if this is the cane
that they were wandering about.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
They'll be like, how come there's no I need more bangers?
You're like, which one? Do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
What you want?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Speaking of the family and integration, your wife gets two
features on the album. Now was were these songs always
the plan? And were they always meant to be duets? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Body Talk was meant to be a duet. Uh, and
then the other one was specifically wrote for it do it.
We were do us apart. We were trying to write
like the Randy Travis carry Underwoods. I told you so.
I ended up coming up with do us apart. It's
not not close? Uh, not close enough. So we'll probably

(02:17):
do another one try and get a little bit closer.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Are you I'm excited?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I was just gonna say I'm excited. She's on the
album though, because it was you know, she was just
coming out to thank God and it's taking her hour
hour and have to get ready for once on and
then she would just go back and take it off
and go to bed. I felt bad.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, now now she's going to have her own set
on the tour.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's the goal, right yeah. Yeah, No. She's joked about it.
She's like, I'll come, I'll come open, but then she'll
be like, I can't be. I don't want to be
on stage. I just want to sing in the studio.
So I'm like, what do you want. It's it's cool
though right now because she can you know, she can do.

(02:57):
She doesn't have to come out like the best of
both worlds.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Uh, you're to the point now that she's three songs
deep with you, So you can't collab with another female
at this point because she's gonna get mad, right, She's.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Gonna be like, hey, what, I'm not good enough for
this one?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Na na.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
She wouldn't be mad, uh. I just I mean it's
just weird, like any love songs, I wouldn't do it
with another female because it's just it's pointless. Why why
would I you know, it's like she can sing. And
then we were actually in love I think, you know,
with another artist. And I get really weird with that stuff,
especially like music videos and like stay five feet away

(03:40):
from me because I want nothing weird happening. You know
what I'm saying. I don't want to so yeah. But
I mean if it was like a you know so
other another topic other than love or anything like that,
it was just like a song that two guys could sing.
I would do that with a girl.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
There you go. I feel you. We we caught up
not long ago, and you had mentioned depression.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
We caught up not longer about uh god, let me
try and remember we talked about a song that you
had and you were working on, but you weren't sure
it was gonna where it was gonna go.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
But it was about growing up a young kid.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
And it's like the cars not in the driveway. And
I listened to a good chunk of this album. It's
not on here right, No, you know what song I'm
talking about though.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Be a boy?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
When's it coming?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I just couldn't get it right, man, And it's too
strong of a song to just rush. And I mean
I had it cut. I could have just thrown it
on the album and lived with it. But it wouldn't
it wouldn't have done the justice that the song deserves,
you know, So.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's still We'll still get it at some point when
it feels right.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Oh yeah, I mean it's the songs A smashed regardless
if you know, if I keep it which it was
written for me, or if somebody else gets it. I mean,
I'm not gonna let I mean, I'll fight till I'll
fight till damn Nashville's burned down for I let that
song go bad. Bro, I ain't letting nobody get it

(05:11):
unless they actually do it justice.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Dude, I could.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I could tell you every artist gets to talk about
all their music. But when you when we connected and
you brought that song up, due, I could tell in
your eyes are like this things special dude.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's it's I mean, a hot Wheels car in the driveway.
Like That's why I stay up all not playing video
games because I never got to be a man because
I had to be a boy. Like, yeah, I never
got I never got to be a boy because I
always had to be a man. So that's why I'm
being a boy now. It's ridiculous, dude, A man, I

(05:45):
dig it.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Uh, you did mention a song that has a similar
uh feel as far as you know, dealing with depression
or any sort of mental issues, and that's the song
you did with Jelly Roll.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Powerful song. Was he the guy for that song?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Always No. I was originally just gonna do it myself.
I wrote it me Jackson and Gabe and we were
in a Hunter hotel and we already wrote like four
Fox songs. I was just looking around, was like this
place haunted, and then I was thought about it for
a second, went down the depression road, and we ended
up sending it to Jelly whenever I was at once

(06:28):
Elvis is Home, Graceland, Graceland. Yeah, when we were Graceland
doing that special, I ended up sending it to Jelly Row.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, well it worked out. It's perfect. You got so
Jelly's on the album. You have some other collapse including
Brad Paisley. Is there a song? And I always I
like this question because we get good answers, But I
also hate it because I'm asking you to pick all
these songs against each other. But what are some songs
that that definitely you hold a little closer to your.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Heart, but actually driver haunted. When you forget gorgeous, is
gorgeous is a really strange spot with me.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't know, Like I love the song, sometimes I
feel like it's like, I don't know if you don't
listen to the song correctly. Like the song, you know,
it's about like people is going to take it of
its being about my wife, and it is. I mean,
she's gorgeous. But when I listened to the song, I

(07:40):
listen to it as everybody in the world. You know.
It's not the clothes that you wear, it's not you know,
any of this. It's the person inside you that makes
you gorgeous. And it's not specific I know the song
specifically talking about one person, but for me singing it,
if you're in front of you in the audience, I'm
talking about every person in front of me. Yeah, So

(08:03):
I just I don't know. That's why it's on the fence.
For me.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It makes sense though, and it's such it's such a
good Uh, it's such. The album itself is is fantastic.
Do you feel as you step back and you look
at and you probably don't go like this album versus
this album, this album versus this album, but definitely as
a fan of your music, this.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Album feels like.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
As a man and as a human like you are,
you are singing from a place that you never had before,
whether it's confidence or happiness in life, or you just
don't give a damn what people think anymore, and you're
doing you know what's right for you. There's something like,
I feel more confident.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
In your music than ever. Am I right in saying that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I mean I hope, I hope that that's what I want.
You know, I got thrown into this and I just
want to become better artists and keep growing. And I
feel like I said that that's what this album is.
What I'm already looking on to the next one, and
but this album is going to be a huge part
of what comes next because I've been telling a lot
of people that I've been trying to write the ballots

(09:06):
for years now just to make everybody in different country.
I feel like there's ten shades of country music and
like everybody falls into one of them, and I'm trying
to hit everyone I can. And that's why my career
has been just pulling my damn hair out almost. I mean,
it's been a nice ride, Don't get me wrong, Everything's

(09:26):
been smooth, great, But when it comes to trying to
please everybody, I eventually I've got to the point where
I know I can't. So if this, if my ballots
do not go well on this album, there's some weird
shit it's about to happen for me music wise. I'm

(09:47):
just gonna let you know music wise, and stuff's gonna happen,
which is gonna set up the however my career goes
from there.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Uh, Hippy was why the high road makes sense?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Because anytime you hear the term high road, it's like,
take the high road, don't talk shit, don't start a fight,
don't So why does high road work for for this project?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
For you?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, we already had a u a super cool song
that actually might end up coming out. It didn't make
the album, just wasn't right yet. But it's called the
high Road, and it's my story of just you know,
you don't belong here, blah blah blah. I heard that before,
and uh yeah, like I said, I just didn't make
the album. And then we were traveling, we were going

(10:30):
to Canada. Whenever we were working on this. We had
just got back from Europe, just keeping our you know,
keeping our head up the whole time, not you know,
dealing with drama all this the high road. It just
sounded like a strong album title and it could be
a cool circle around moment. Plus with all of you know,
the visuals with the bike and all that stuff. It's

(10:51):
just everything miles on it. I mean, it just makes sense.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, No, it works, one hundred percent works. You said
you're already thinking about what's next, which as an artist
you have to. So does that mean you by the
time this album, you know, hits streaming and and you
know wherever people are buying it download music that you're
like enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I'm like I wrote, I wrote it.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I wrote a song yesterday and it's I think to me,
it's a banger. It's uh yeah, I just I'm already
starting to write. And like I said, I just if
my I have a plan to basically try and release
another album before this year's over, with a straight just

(11:34):
NonStop songs that I would play the show like you're
not going to get a damn beer right now. Uh.
And so that's that's my next plan for this album,
for the next album.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
And my wallet appreciates no time to go get a
beer because arena beers ain't cheap, my dude.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
All right, yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't want
anybody going home.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Hey dude, I know how busy you are and I
appreciate you taking the time out. Sorry we couldn't make
it down there, but next time.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, man, all good. I've been talking to everybody like
this today, so I'm used to it. Like I said,
I ain't been getting out. So that's what this album's about,
is trying to find personable stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I feel that dude.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's and that's that's a deeper talk man, because we're
doing the same thing like behind the scenes for the
both of us.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So it's I feel you man, that's there's there's something
in the water.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh yeah, brother, all right, I was talking to you man.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Good to see you man, best of the fan. Can
I'll talk to you later?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Ye seriously,
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