Do you like doing TV? Is TV exposure good for your music career? You coached The Voice with Blake Shelton. What an honor to have them participate like that in this project. In the case of Snoop and Pitbull, they wrote verses. But then I was like, “You know what? Let’s do it.” Everybody that we approached said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll do it.” We sent them the songs and they thought that they were something they’d want to participate in. And then some of the other collaborations, those were suggestions that came from my producers, my record label.Īt first, I sat and scratched my head. We’ve done a couple of events together before, but this was the first time we recorded anything. This was the first time that we finally went in the studio together. We’ve been threatening to work together for years. Your collaborations with Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan are not a surprise, but Pitbull, Melissa Etheridge, Keb’ Mo’ and Stevie Wonder? Did you know these people? So I think that I can hear the difference in my voice on this record it’s rested. But I literally had weeks of vocal rest before I’d go in to do master vocals on this project. It’s always been go out on the road and gig for a few days, and then come in rest a couple of days and then go in the studio and sing. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to do vocals on an album with sufficient vocal rest. How did the break for COVID-19 help the new album? Related: From Banjos to Big Time: A Country Music Timeline It’s a pretty big tent, so whatever your musical needs may be, they can probably be met in country music. It’s doing that now and people gravitate to that. It’s always been that way country music has been changing ever since the day that it started. Not just stay current but set the trends. To what do you attribute country music’s current popularity? I don’t find that to be intimidating or nerve-wracking at all, I find it to be comforting. You just have to swim in her wake and hang on. You go into the scene with her, and you know that it’s going to be good. There’s this comfort that comes from working with somebody that is as accomplished and as good as she is. But then I quickly realized after she left-after the first few weeks we’d been working together, she left to go do another project for a while-and somebody asked me, “I’m sure you feel a sense of relief now, not crossing swords with her every day.” I was like, “You know what? I’ve found the opposite is true.” Were you nervous the first day working with her?Ībsolutely. Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award–winning actress. I don’t know where they’re getting all their inside storylines but they’re not coming from me. I don’t know, it’s strange to be put in that position, but by and large they haven’t really had to lean on me for anything. They have asked me a few things here and there. All these people are incredibly flawed, so it’s just never-ending drama.īecause of all your years of experience in country music, did the writers sit you down and ask you for anecdotes from your career that they might incorporate into the show? And it’s just all the drama and intrigue, and everything that circulates around it. The character that I play and the character that Susan Sarandon plays are the matriarch and patriarch of this entertainment dynasty. It is this make-believe life of the first family of country music. I probably would be ostracized for publicly admitting that, but I never did. Is Monarch going to be anything like Nashville? I think my voice is probably as good or better on this album than anything I’ve ever done. We had plenty of time to do it during COVID, so we just kept recording more songs and we finally ended up with 25 that I was proud of. Well, I wanted to do an album for my 25th anniversary, so I had the grand idea to put 25 brand-new songs on it. Your recent album, The Way I Wanna Go, is also diverse. But most of it’s just old, covered, classic country songs, interspersing some pop stuff too, current pop stuff that some of the younger characters are singing. We’ve done a couple of originals, brand-new things. But at some point, he has to accept a lot of it and deal with it. He’s a little reluctant about the changes and different directions the music industry’s going in.
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