00:00It's Jeff Kirkshin here at the CMA's 2025 with Marty Rabin of Shenandoah. What's going on?
00:11Man, just wearing it out.
00:14I got to say, I do this thing in our booth I call one big question.
00:17So I only get to ask you one question, and then you're out of here.
00:19Okay, so I got to make sure it's a good one, hopefully.
00:22Is it a Jalen Hurts question?
00:23Do you want to talk about Jalen Hurts?
00:25Oh, there's some Jalen Hurts, bro. Alabama. Well, Oklahoma, but Alabama.
00:32Well, now I might have to change my question.
00:34Okay, change your question.
00:36Has Jalen Hurts made you into a little bit of an Eagles fan?
00:39Well, yeah, I'd probably say yeah.
00:44Yeah, you've got to support. I mean, it can be so difficult, and I've seen this happen, right?
00:48You're a fan of a college team, and then they go to your rival NFL team.
00:53Yeah.
00:53But it's fun to see these players grow. I mean, he wins a Super Bowl with the Eagles.
00:56You know, and the thing about it, he has.
00:59Yeah.
00:59I mean, he just continues to get solid and solid and solid and solid.
01:03And you see a lot of the other guys that he collegeed with that, you know, of course, play on a tour.
01:10Yeah.
01:12Barker, you know, a lot of those other cats that, you know, that son Jalen's carrying the mail, bro.
01:18Yeah, that's right.
01:18Son, he's doing it.
01:20I love that we're talking football, and I know Nicole is probably freaking out over there because she's a massive Eagles fan.
01:27Loves the Eagles, loves Jalen Hurts.
01:29So, yeah, you're more than welcome.
01:30You're more than welcome to say Go Birds anytime you want.
01:33Go Birds!
01:34There we go!
01:35I love that.
01:35All right, well, I'll get to my one quick question, one big question really fast.
01:39I saw a video of, I believe his name was Corbin, was it?
01:42An 11-year-old massive classic country fan, and you guys just made his night.
01:49I mean, this is so special because, naturally, as you might assume, you probably don't have a lot of 11-year-old fans who are big into, like, that classic country sound.
01:57But this kid, next level knowledge and love of what you guys do.
02:02Yeah, no, no, no, no.
02:03He, we had first seen him, he kept wanting a guitar pick when we were down in Dalton, Georgia.
02:10And so I made sure, you know, he kept, you know, one, so I made sure he got one.
02:19And then somebody, you know, probably a couple days after that on TikTok, it showed him, I said, that's the little fella I gave the pick to.
02:27And it showed him crying, you know, and he, you know, you know.
02:30Showing his pick.
02:31Tell him where you got it.
02:33Tell him where you got it.
02:34And, of course, he had his church on Crumlin Road, road sign, and all this other kind of stuff.
02:40And then we got word that he was going to be at the show here a couple weeks ago.
02:43And then so when I seen him, he came to the meet and greet.
02:47Right.
02:47And then when I seen where he was sitting, I said, get up here.
02:52You know, so he did.
02:53He came up there.
02:53I said, do you know the words of this?
02:56He goes, uh-uh.
02:56I said, yeah, you do.
02:57I'm going to help you.
02:59But, yeah, it was a black, it was a hood.
03:01Oh, my gosh.
03:02And, I mean, I think it's so important for artists like yourselves or artists in the beginning of their career,
03:08whatever it might be, to make those connections.
03:10Because for people like us, it just reminds us that Marty Raven, Shenandoah,
03:14you guys just know what it's like because it's all about the fans, right?
03:18It is.
03:19You know, look, this isn't the cure for cancer and it ain't brain surgery.
03:25We're supposed to be doing something, you know, that we love and we like and care for.
03:30And that's what we do.
03:34You know, a lot of people a lot of times get surprised that we don't take it more serious than we do.
03:40But we take it real serious.
03:42Right.
03:43But we don't.
03:44When you're supposed to, you do.
03:46But for the most part, you shouldn't.
03:47And I love that about you guys.
03:49You know, and whatever we need to work out on a song or something like that, we'll do that at Soundcheck.
03:54Yeah.
03:54You good to go tonight with that?
03:56Yeah, I'm good.
03:57OK, then we'll do it tonight.
03:59And that's just kind of how it is.
04:01And so then after that, knowing everybody's in good shape, we just kind of we kind of somewhere as wide open as a case knife.
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