Hardy
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637 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jan
Hardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's like the moment you wake up and you're, you ache and you realize you're starting to get old for the first time, you know, hang over last two days or some shit like that.
Dude, I just, I mean, I've always had it in me, you know, and I think... It just took a little time. Early on, songs like Boots and Sold Out and some of the songs that were really teetering into the rock world, the biggest thing was they would go over so well live. Those were the songs. One Beer Great was the number one. It has all these streams, but Sold Out blows it out of the water live.
It reacts so much better live. That really gave me the courage to really dive into the whole rock thing. Really, with Mockingbird and the Crow was the first attempt at that. Great record. Thank you very much. Great record. I love it, man.
I still think that to this day, of all the things I do, I hope that I have some that blow it out of the water as far as sales and stuff, but that's such a cornerstone defining who I am record for me that I hope it lives forever.
I mean, I just think that I have been so inconsistent, even from the beginning that my fans are just like, you know what I mean? Like we could go straight from a fucking metal. We're going to do it tonight. Right. Straight from something insane, straight into like a country song. And yeah, It just works because it's just me, and I just have always been all over the place, and it works.
But I do think that, man, to Barbara Mandrell, I was country when country wasn't cool. Man, I have never felt... more in tune with that sentence than in the last, like, four or five years with, like, the biggest pop stars in the world wanting to make country records. And it just feels good to be like, yeah, come on over. We've been here for a while.
Yeah. It feels really cool, man. I mean, everybody now, dude. Even Lana Del Rey, I think, announced that she's doing one. Chapel Roan, obviously Post Malone, Beyonce. I mean, so many people are wanting to do a country record.
I'll give you a great example. Me, myself, and two of my other writers co-wrote I'm a Little Crazy, which is a song that Morgan just put out. To think that it's tough that we won't really make a lot of money. And if that song were just on the radio, it would make these guys a life-changing amount of money.
Yeah, and it's just, I think that a lot of things, I mean, God, we'll get in the weeds on this, but I personally think that labels should start shelving out points for album cuts for artists like Morgan who can have, who's actually selling like Garth was back in like actual, where people could get a last song on the album, two minute, you know, song and it make,
250 grand because it was on a record that sold life changing money for, for a young song, right? Absolutely. Right. Yeah. I mean, surely to God, these people have great lawyers and they go restructure their deal every few years, you know, where they have a big record and stuff like that. But, um,
Yeah, to think about, to compare like Alanis Morissette, you know, to a chaperone or somebody of a somewhat of a similar thing these days who are kind of putting up the same numbers when it comes to outreach and things like that. And probably the difference in money that like somebody in the 90s or whenever made, you know, to post internet.
I don't even want to know. It would make me sick, dude.
Dude, they were flying people.
private on radio tours and stuff even in country i have buddies that had you know old songwriter guys and stuff that are like yeah we had a deal in the 90s and they'd sony just fly me around on pj all day and just fly from here there and everywhere just on radio tour the money was just insane but the money's i feel like labels are making a lot of money again now because of streams
There's way too much money, uh, being made for songwriters to not do something. I think it's, I think it's ridiculous. I think that's the biggest chip on my shoulder of the past couple of years is just seeing how much money a song can make, but just because it's not a single on the radio, you know, that's the only reason it doesn't make, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't pay songwriters six figures.
It's like ridiculous.
Jim is one of those guys that like his thing is money and that's what that, that is, that is his job, but he loves music. Typically, you know, of course in Nashville, you might find this a little more often, but like, those are two things that you wouldn't think would be a common thing, you know, but, um, Man, I have spent more nights out in Midtown way back in the day.
Now, this is 10 or 12 years ago.
He bought me beers when I had negative money in my bank account. I mean, truly. So, yeah, I love Jim, man.
Yes. Picked great songs.
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