The Loretta Lynn Ranch

Hi, I'm Holly. And I'm Hailey. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries, Tales from Appalachia. Well, welcome back.

Hello. Hello. Hi. Well, we were just, Hailey and I were eating pizza and talking about the next decade of our lives and what we talked to, attain and achieve and all those things.

And actually we were talking about how quickly life changes. I know. You can sort of be in a place where you're sort of kind of doing the same thing and you almost feel like, gosh, I'm really tired of this repetitive thing. And then life changes quick.

So about. Hailey, we were talking about, we were supposed to, so we had planned to go out to dinner with Hailey and myself and a couple of other friends that we had worked with previously. And I called them and I was like, well, so my baby has decided to come today. So I'm actually having a baby today.

Exactly. He's about three weeks early. But it's like, yes, that won't be happening tonight. Rain check, y'all.

So, you know, the next time I saw Hailey, there was a tiny baby. There he was. There he was. So cute.

I know. In the hospital. Yeah, Hailey was my sister that we've had to tell the nurses. I know.

So COVID was a thing, but it wasn't like a thing. You're just getting slightly stricter on who all could come in. It was before the shutdown, like the massive shutdown of everything. It was like a few months before, a month before, a couple weeks before, a couple weeks before.

A couple weeks before. A big shutdown. So at least in our area, I know it happened at different times in other places. So I've got to say this about Hailey.

I hope she doesn't get a bear. I'm so scared. Okay. So Hailey is so chill in a, not chill in a, she doesn't have anxiety.

Oh, yeah, no. But chill in a like, okay, cool. You know what I mean? Like not a lot like disturbs her.

I don't know. Excited. She doesn't get excited. That's not a lot of situations that happen that I'm like, oh my god.

Or she doesn't get excited. I'm like, oh my gosh. It's just not Hailey. I'm pretty monotone.

Yes. And I am the opposite. I'm always like, that's so cool. Like, yeah, you know, I'm excited.

So, you know, when I said, hey, I can't come to dinner with the babies coming, you know, and then the baby was born, she surprised me with how excited she was. Like, not that you wouldn't be excited for your friend having a baby, but like she like came to the hospital. Like she was all in. Well, I felt like I was a little like panicked.

I felt like I didn't have like a whole lot of time to prepare. Like I wasn't fully prepared for this to happen yet. So I had to like think like, oh my god, what do I do now? Like what do we need?

What do I need to be bringing? Like that was kind of exciting. So, you know, we live far from each other. And obviously, you know, the hospital that I was in is closer to my house obviously.

And so she traveled all the way. Like, you know, it wasn't like she was on a cross-out journey. She didn't get in the RV and you know, but you know, it's about an hour's drive. So she came and she was so excited.

And like, I've never really seen her that excited. Like, she's just very like, that's cool. Well, and I remember like, he, he felt his car seat test. Yes, he did.

And you guys had to stay. And then they were thinking, because he was early, like, do you need one of those like hospital car seat, the lay down ones? And then they were like, oh, the next closest one is this hospital that was actually closer to where like I was working. And so I'm like, how do I figure out?

Like, do I need to pick up the car seat? Will they give me the car seat? And then I can, because you couldn't leave. No.

And it was like, trying to like figure all this out. And then he passes car seat test and he just wanted to be difficult. And you know. So, and for those of you who haven't had a, you know, with this situation, basically, I didn't know this either because everything was new, you know, so time on, everything's new to me.

But to leave the hospital, because he, and by premature, you know, he was like three weeks in a couple of days. Like nothing insane. Like he was never in the NICU, nothing like that. But he had to pass this car seat test, which they put them in the car seat, the car seat for like 30 minutes to like 45 minutes and they monitor all their, you know, car-brae, all these things.

And they were like, oh gosh, no, like the, the car seat I had, they were like, oh no, like he didn't pass in your car seat. And I was like, not a problem. So I asked my friend who had a child two years older than my son, like, can I borrow your, your carrier? And she was like, absolutely.

So she brings it to the hospital and we put him in it and they were like, oh no, he failed again. And I'm like, oh my gosh. And they were like, you're going to have to stay in the hospital. So we ended up being in the hospital from the time he was born to the time we left about four days.

And you know, he was a bad, you know, like all these things. Like there was no reason that we need to stay along, but all because of the car seat. And so we had this other car seat. So they were all different brands.

One was Greco, one was a Chico, and the other was like a Britax or something. And so she brings her car seat, we put him in it and I'm like, oh, please God. And sure enough, he passes in that car seat. And so we went home and what's funny is I have a picture of the cart of, you know, you have the little cart that you can take out to your car and on it, you have, you know, your bag and your flowers and everything that people could be, you know, we also had three cars.

We had two car seats. We had him and his car seat, you know, like so many rules about it. It was just really funny. I was like, you, like, are there are three babies?

Like what's happening? It was so funny. It was so funny. And it was so great because Hayley, like I said, I mentioned before the podcast about a week after he was born, she and another, another friend come over and Hayley was like, I've had some stuff.

She was really like, I'm like, oh, cool. I'm like, I love babies. Like I will sit and hold a baby. I love babies.

When they hit that like two years old, I don't know what to do with them anymore. Now your kid, I feel like it's different because one, I've known him since he was born, but also like he's, he's a pretty advanced kid. Yeah. I can like kind of talk to him like, you know, not like he's, you know, preschool age.

So we get along pretty well in that way. She does. She'll say like yesterday I was out at the bar and I got wasted. What should I do?

And he's like, well, maybe drink some more water. No, he's smart. I'll work in and be like, what's up? He's like, hey.

Do you want to play with my kinetic sand? Absolutely. I do. Yeah.

That is fun. It's very fun. He shows out for Hayley. He does.

It's a good time. It's so fun. Yeah, because I think he, because now I come over, I don't get too excited. Whatever.

It's like Ollie's house. I was the same old. I was the same old. Yeah.

But like I'll come in and he like wants to show me all this stuff and I'm very like, pretty fun and pretty even keeled now. And I'm like, I think he wants to get a rise out of me like get me excited and I don't give it to him. Yeah. And it's great.

But I am like, I could come to your house one time and he was already asleep and I was devastated. Yeah, it was a couple weeks ago. We were recording and Hayley came over and the night before he had been actually at my parents house. So I teach sometimes a class on trauma and the impact of trauma.

Anyway. So I asked my parents if they would just keep him overnight because he loves going to Nanopops house. And so he was there. But my parents tell me they dropped him off at school that morning and they were like, by the way, he's a little tired this morning.

And I was like, oh really? Did he like have a rough time? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. My mom goes, well, he said, you know, I know his bedtime is like seven, seven, 30, but he told me that he wasn't tired then. So I just didn't make him go to bed. So he didn't actually go to sleep until 11.

I was like, what? 11? And she was like, yeah, he just kept saying he wasn't tired. So I was like, why did he get to make that decision?

That's weird. So yeah, then I get there and I'm like, where's the child? And I was like, he is unconscious because what about Marana? Hailey was about 15 minutes away and he is like, his head is like falling and I was like, honey, do you want to go land your bed?

I'm fine. And then I'm like, okay, let's land your bed. And so I put him in the bed and he was out. Like I turned around turn on the light and he was out like thumb in his mouth out.

And so then Hailey was like, where's the little guy? He was like, sorry, it's just me. And she cried a little. And now I was upset because I mean, what's the point?

Right. Why don't you come out there and not see the kid? I do have some cute pictures though of when he was a baby, Hailey holding him. Oh my gosh.

He's so small. Like I swear he fit like, it was like half my chest. Yeah. He was, he was 6'4 when he was born.

So he wasn't like crazy tiny. But he was still little. And I forget because it's been, you know, it's been time. So I forget how little he actually was.

But when I see that picture of Hailey holding him, I was like, he was so little, you know, little booty up in the air, little legs crunched. You know, the newborn's grunge. He had the scrunge in the scrun. He was so sweet.

And I think to myself, oh. I have a picture where I think you had to run down to the car with the hospital or something and you had stepped out and I was in the room and I had him like laid out on my legs and he was like, you know, I had my legs set together and just kind of had him in the crevice of my thighs and I had a picture of him laying there and he's like not even the link of my leg. I don't think I've ever seen this. It's really cute.

I'll have to find it. But yeah, it's really cute. And I'm like, oh my God, he's that small. Well, because there would be little things because, you know, like I said, I didn't anticipate that he was coming in early.

So I like, we had to go back and get my bag. Like we had to go back and get his stuff. Like, you know, you just, you know, it was like, hurry. Like, you know, I go right now.

And it's like you're like, you're nervous and you're like, oh, I gotta get it. So why had to bring you a phone charger? Actually someone else. Somebody brought me a phone charger and like, yes, we had to have like the whole bag.

It was crazy and just little things like, I was like, oh, I want to go and wear something. I'm like, I know, I know I have come in my car and nobody was going to talk me out of going down there. Nobody. And I was like, I'm sorry, but I'm going down there.

And the nurses were like, like, even when I was everybody had kind of left and I wanted to take a shower and you know, the baby's in the room with you the whole time. They don't go to the nurse or anything. And so I was like, well, I'm going to take a shower. And the nurse was like, you can't leave him alone in the room.

And I was like, where is he going? He can't move. He's a blob. Yeah, he's like actually potato right now.

He is a potato. Sleeping potato. I think a 10 minute shot because I felt so gross. Like I just want to take a shower.

And so I was just like, oh, she was like, well, give him to me and I will watch him until you know, everybody you're done showering. I'm like, good Lord. I was like, I'll wheel him in there with me. And she's like, oh, no, no reason to do that.

I just wanted to like, like, like, yeah, she was just having him. Yeah, she was just having him. But yeah, I, you need to send me that picture. I got one of Haley holding him at like eight days old when she came to the house to visit.

And then I have one a year later at her birthday party holding him in the same way. And the difference is like, oh my gosh, wow. Yeah. So your kids grow up fast, you guys.

I'll have to say it. They grow up fast. Yeah, they do. Life changes.

You used to be that kid or gardener that I would say, hey, little girl. Yeah. Let's talk about something else that's scary. What must I go through there?

That was beautiful. That was really beautiful. We're gonna talk about actually we're gonna travel to Nashville, Tennessee. Because we love to.

Because we love Tennessee. Clearly. One to Nashville. And we're gonna talk about the Loretta Lynn Ranch.

Ooh. I've been there before. Have you? Yes.

Or K. Mills. Yeah. It's super haunted.

Oh yeah. Yeah. So we're gonna talk about it. I love Loretta Lynn.

I think she's amazing. Okay. So in 1960, oh and before I get it super-nosed, a lot of my information came from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Oh, so not Wikipedia.

And at NationalGhosts.com. Cool. In 1960, Loretta Lynn and her husband, they called him Do Little. Yeah.

Called him Do. Do. Yep. From Washington State.

They were on this cross country trip from Washington State all the way to Nashville, Tennessee. So this was before she caught her big break with- Goldminers' daughter. Goldminers' daughter at Ernest Tubbs' record shop. Yep.

So this is before that. So they're on their way kind of doing that. So she makes it big. Once she's making enough money to buy her own house, she decided that she didn't really like the big city feel.

So didn't like being right in Nashville. So she and her husband started to look for a place kind of outside the city limits. It's still close enough to go in and do everything she needed to do, but far enough out that she had land and space and all the things. So the way that it kind of goes is that they were driving to check out a piece of property.

They ended up getting lost, which is very easy to do in these back country, getting roads. Yes. And the road they were on led them to this beautiful white house that was situated above a waterfall and an old grismill. So it was abandoned.

So they stayed on the porch that night. Oh my God. They stayed there all night. Like stuck that on the porch.

And Loretta said that she wanted to buy it. This is all according to her grandson, Anthony Bruto, who is now the manager of the ranch. So that was it. There was a catch though to buying the house on the hill.

And that was when it came with an entire town. Oh. So Hurricane Mills Tennessee. So to buy the house, you know, they had to have the whole town as well.

So she became the owner of Hurricane Mills Tennessee. Wow. How much did you know how much I bought it? I don't.

I didn't say. I'm sure it was something crazy. No, to self. I need to make a big country music so that I can buy it.

To buy a town. I would buy Halley's town so I could boss her around. They're like, oh, no, we don't do that in this town. I can jail so much.

You would. But you probably like it. So Loretta Lynn had always been super open to discussing the house, which was a 19th century plantation home. It's got some history.

It's got some history. So it's just about an hour outside of Nashville. Like that she owns the entire town and has lived on the property with her husband since the 1960s. So Loretta apparently has always kind of had this history with the paranormal.

She's a pretty open book or has been an open book about her psychic abilities. And there's all kinds of ghostly encounters that she's endured while living on the ranch. There is a big green lawn in front of the house. There's large pillars, a second story balcony that overlooks the walkway up to the porch and a surrounding ranch.

So the historic home is said to be haunted by deceased Confederate soldiers, a young woman who mourns for her child and even a bizarre former owner of the land. Look at detail. So Loretta was like, you know, was one of the people who wanted to know the history of the house. So dug into the area's history, the house history and discovered that there was actually a civil war battle that was fought on their property and that more than 18 Confederate soldiers are apparently buried somewhere on the ranch's grounds.

They also uncovered some stories of those that had lived in the mansion long before Loretta and her husband fixed it up in the 60s. Yeah, so it's pretty wild. I'm with her though. I would want to know the history.

Oh absolutely. I would go searching for it. Oh yeah. So the home is home to multiple apparitions, all kinds of ghost, strange sightings, disembodied voices.

Loretta's daughters remember seeing Confederate soldiers inside the house and hallways on numerous occasions when they were growing up. Loretta's eldest son also said that he had this kind of paranormal experience where he recalled a time a soldier tried to take his boots off for him in the notorious brown room. What's the brown room? I'm assuming it's just a room with like brown.

I would call that the poop room. Wow, tried to take his boots. Yeah. Ooh, that's creepy.

I mean, ghosts start messing with you physically and it's one thing to see them but another thing for them to like take your boots on like that. No, because boots are hard as hell to get off. Especially like cowboy boots. Yeah, if you ever, we used to have a boot like a shoe, like a shoe, kind of, yeah, you'd step on it and put your boot in the, like a U-shaped groove and you'd stick the heel of your boot in there and you could pull it out.

Are your toenails different colors? They are. I love that. Thanks.

Sorry, random side. Oh, so her grandson also has some stories of his time in the house, said that there was one from his teenage years that really kickstarted his belief in the paranormal. He said that the power happened to go out one night and as I was rounding the corner to get back into my room, the chandelier was the only light that was on the house. What's so strange about this is that the entire house is on the same electric breaker.

There's no possible way the chandelier could have been on while all the other lights were off. In a way, it's kind of like that was really nice of that ghost to like guide your way. You know? But I can almost put this because old houses like that are wired so weird that while it might seem that they're all wired to one breaker.

It was way more like knob and tube wiring. Like these are old school that we don't do nowadays. You know that, like, yeah, yeah, this house that I rent currently, it has such electrical issues that the electrician that came to fix something when I like blew out the electric and changing a life picture, like half the lights in the house just stopped working, came down there and was like terrified of it. He was like, this does not make any sense.

It's like this house and my grandmother's house is wired really weird. Or they have the same electrician. Or the same electrician. Yeah, I mean, the lights work now.

So yeah, that's true. I mean, we are in a lit room. We are. All right.

So Loretta reports that she has seen a woman in mourning wandering the property crying. She's seen her full body apparition inside the home and in the property's graveyard. The spirit is said to be Viola Anderson, who was a woman who passed away over a century ago from a broken heart after her baby died. Loretta recalls sitting at home with a close friend when they heard the sound of rattling chains coming from an area of the house known as the slave pit.

I don't like that. Yeah. Apparently Loretta also tried to contact the spirits of the house via a seance. Oh my.

That feels like a very neat thing to do. No, it doesn't. Remember, we talked about that before and you're like, oh, scary. Like we talked about, um, I went and we did board.

I was saying, I went and we did board. Okay. But I'd say on it. Absolutely.

I would come with my holy water. Yeah, holy water on site. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll walk out. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, David. So they're doing the seance.

They're doing the seance. They're doing the seance. So it was alright that I'm one of her closest friends and apparently they were successful and were able to speak with a spirit who called himself Anderson. The spirit didn't seem too happy to talk to them and when it started shaking the table angrily until it broke after slamming it on to the floor.

Wow. Yeah. Loretta searched for answers as to who this guy was, but never found anything out. However, one of the original owners of the house was named James Anderson.

He was born May 29th, 1858 and was the founder and builder of the Hurricane Mills Plantation and his spirit and his family are said to still haunt the woman who lost the baby who lost the Anderson. Yeah. Yeah. They have not only been seen by staff but visitors by Loretta and her family and James Anderson is buried on the property.

So I mean. I mean, how many people are buried on the property? I think a lot. It has its own graveyard.

Like a lot of people buried there. That's a lot. I mean, when you buy a town, you get all these things. All things.

Everything and dead. And dead. Yeah. Wow.

So the mansion is actually the subject of one of Loretta Lynn's songs, this haunted house. So that's the, that is the subject of it. And some of the lyrics, I'm going to read some of them. Sometimes I hear you walk across the floor and my arms reach out to hold you like before.

I live for all the things we used to do in this haunted house. I filled with love for you. This haunted house I'm living in is killing me and the ghost of your love won't set me free. Each morning finds me crying and alone and this haunted house we used to call our home.

Wow. So, yeah. Seems more about the relationship. The haunted house itself.

It's kind of the setting. Yeah. But yeah, that was her little like tie into her music there. The ranch is open for tours, but the staff do not allow any visitors upstairs.

Apparently one of the most frightening rooms in the mansion is where two of Loretta's sons refused to sleep. And this is where her son felt the soldier trying to take off his boots. Makes sense. I wouldn't see if they were there.

No. When inside the room staff so they can hear knocking from inside the closet door, but when they opened it up there's only like Christmas decorations and stuff inside it. That's where you throw that out. Yeah, absolutely.

So the large balcony in front of the home is another hotspot. Loretta says there was a time she came back home one day and saw a woman standing on the balcony. The only person at the time was the right of children and the baby said, Gloria. Not a woman was not Gloria.

Lynn ran inside to find Gloria to say like, who the heck's up on the balcony? She asked her, we go on the balcony. And Gloria said that no one else was in the home. Loretta then told her that she saw a woman in white pacing back and forth ringing her hands like something was wrong.

They went upstairs to investigate but found there was nobody there. These aren't the only paranormal reports that have come off the ranch. We're seeing these full body apparitions on the stairs, on the balcony. Housekeeping reports that after they spend time straightening the albums that hang on the wall, they'll come back and find them all crooked a few moments later.

Even the rantas manager states that the serious will do things to let you know that they are in fact still around. So October of 2023 marked one year since the world lost Loretta Lynn as she passed away. And her grandson, Bruto, is now the manager of the ranch and he called Loretta Lynn Memel. I think it's so cute.

Very sweet. And he says she accomplished many, many things throughout her life but there were two sides of Loretta and they both were amazing. There was Loretta Lynn, my Memel and there was Loretta Lynn, the superstar. And they were both the same but also uniquely different.

So he said it wasn't until he was older that he truly realized kind of the gravity behind his Memel's name. Like when you grow up with somebody that's like, it's your Memel. And I think that's true. And it's hard for people who like see celebrities differently but it's like that is your mom, that's your grandma.

They're in there making you biscuits and they're like, don't forget to wipe your behind. That kind of thing. And then to the world though, they're superstars. Yeah.

And she was somebody who wanted to make sure that everybody got the best version of her. I appreciate that. So while your family sees all the nitty gritty and the stuff, you portray to the world, I think we're all guilty of this social media and stuff. We portray the best parts of ourselves to the world.

Well except for us on this podcast. Right. Yeah, we talk about all the things. Especially in this influencer culture.

Now it's like you put your best out there. Or you do the best parent, your best worker, your boss. Right, right. All of the stuff.

And like there's only people close to you, like family and close friends get to see the nitty gritty. The stuff you have to deal with. I know you're dark side and I still like you. I appreciate it.

So Bruno said that something that he loves to leave with people is the knowledge that she was just a person. You know, she was just like everybody else. She was just like your mom. He said she loved having people come to the ranch.

She loves spreading love and the word of God and making sure that everybody was accepted and felt safe. So Bruno's plans are to keep the ranch in business up and running. And he said ultimately at the end of the day, this is my home. This is where my family business is.

I do this for my grandmother and for our family. I love that this place is ours and I never want to turn off Highway 13 onto Hurricane Mills Rose and it not be Loretta Lynn's ranch. He said we'd love to have everybody from every race, religion, creed. It doesn't matter.

You're welcome here because when you come here, you're part of the Lynn family. I love that. That's so sweet. There's so sweet.

And the ghosts as well. And the ghosts as well. They're all part of the place. I'm curious.

With her passing, does she? Does her hair know? I don't know. And when her husband passed, he passed quite a few years before she did.

She lost a son actually in the pond on that property. So did she feel her son? And also I'm so curious about her intuition. Did it start when she was really young?

Right. Did she start feeling this way? Because I do believe people do have this natural intuition. Yeah.

I think that especially, I think all of that is just so energy-related too. I think we just pick up on different frequencies of energy. And some people are more susceptible to things than others. And I think it's just very interesting.

I've said it before. Had my house had it had I picked up on any kind of thing in the house that I ended up buying, I wouldn't have bought it. Yeah. This house I haven't felt anything weird in.

No, but you haven't let me go down to the basement. We'll visit there today. Oh, really? You can't.

That's not exciting. It is spooky. Well, so Hayley went out to go get pizza and I milled around the house. I told her I would be looking around.

Yeah. The only thing that I felt was the dog beside me and the only thing that I saw was Hayley has an excessive amount of shoes. I do have a lot of shoes. And that's it?

That's really all. And a lot of books. So many books. Like maybe a problem.

You had to buy another bookshelf. Well, my dream when I was a kid was to have a library in my house because I love books. And I've seen the things online where it's like there's two different types of people. There are people who are bookworms that read all the books.

And I am that. I read a lot. But there are also book dragons who hoard books and collect them and keep them safe. And I think I am definitely a book dragon as well.

But I think I'm a mix of the two because I will read. I constantly have a book on me. Like I constantly am reading. Like I usually don't go anywhere without a book just in case.

There's like a lull or something. Like me in a water bottle. Yeah. Yeah.

I was thinking about this. If Hayley were to marry and have children, she would force her kids to be in like one room so that she could keep her library room. I could see like if she had to get rid of this, she would probably get rid of the child. You know?

She's not wrong. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to move out because I've got to keep my library. Or I would just move like my bed in here. Not with your husband.

He would have to go elsewhere. But you can see your sanctuary. Yeah. That's really funny.

I feel like when you have a child, there's so much that you do give up. Like I had an office. So at the time we lived in a condo. And when he was born, you know, like we were changing out my office, you know, a few months before he was born to like make it into like his room.

And it was like, oh wow, there goes my office. It's an office of my baby. It was kind of a big thing. And then we moved into a bigger house or whatever.

But you know, like honestly, you give up so much of what you like loved for something that you love. It's just really it's weird. I'm waiting for the day when I can like have like some music again. That'd be really exciting.

I still have an office, you know, I don't know. Well, that was fun. That was very fun. Okay.

So I know I'm now going to go research, Loretta Lynn, do that information because it's really exciting to your music. I so here's the thing. I I think growing up when I was younger, it was like not cool to like country music. Right.

I love country music. I love all music in general. I love that country music, even though a couple of weeks ago we were laughing about dogs and jail and all that other stuff. I love it because it's true storytelling.

Yeah. And coal miners daughter is a beautiful song. And it's true storytelling, you know, I think that like how often do you truly get that nowadays you have lyrics that are just repetitive, it's the same thing over and over. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, like it's just the same thing.

Like, I think the only thing that's similar and such a different vibe is people who are truly like good rappers. Yes. Like there's some really like not the more new age stuff, but like there's some that are very deep. Yes.

And it's such a different listening style. It is. Almost like you don't spend a lot of people like all listen to both. I don't care.

But yeah, it's kind of like. I think because of the speed, it's so fast that you don't pick up on the nuances and something that you have to actually like pay attention and listen and like yeah. So there was a song actually, I don't know why the other day. I never realized what it was about.

Have you heard that song slide by the Google Girls? No, gonna let it slide like late 90s. Okay. Never knew what that was about.

And for some reason I just Googled it the other day and it was like, oh, it's actually about a good Catholic girl who gets pregnant at wedlock and is trying to decide with her boyfriend what she should do. Oh my gosh. I just thought like let it slide and just like yeah, whatever. I'm just gonna let that slide off my back like that as a teenager.

Yeah. What I thought that that was. And now is a don't like, oh really? Yeah.

Well, you hear songs differently different points in your life too. It's true. I think like they all like you find the meaning and it means different things at different points. And I will say it might be on this, but I love Dolly Parton's Jolene.

I love Dolly. And why I love Jolene so much is not just her messaging like stay with my man. Yeah. But I love the da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da and her guitar playing skills with those nails is insane.

How does she do that? But how just the beat and the cadence in it and it's such a perfect song. Yeah. I love that song.

I think it's great. Do you have a, before we go, do you have an all time favorite song? Ooh. The sidestart in a box.

Oh, so that was a classic one. I want a Grammy for that. All time favorite song. I don't think so.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm gonna go a little all over the place.

Yeah. like music I'm just I'm not as like attached to certain artists and like like there's some artists that I'm like I'm a real big fan of like I'm really into Hoseer. I love Hoseer. I have recently gotten back into Taylor Swift so definitely a Swiftie.

Now really do you like her music I like a lot of her new stuff. I was kind of on a Taylor Swift hiatus for a minute but I'm back in now with a new tour that she's doing and I think she's just such an impressive person. So my son currently is into he loves Hall of Ag. Who loves Hall of Ag.

And so he loves Sweet as Gabe too but he loves that but he loves Hall of Ag. And the problem is sometimes our Alexa will not play the radio edit version so she'll play you know the regular version which has the SHIT word in it and so I step in really quickly and so you know I heard that she's been talking and I'll say shoe and he's like shoe and I'm like oh yeah we're talking about shoes we love shoes and he's like yeah and so then it gets to the part the shoe is the nanos. He's saying he shoes are bananas. That is the cutest thing and so now he just says shoe and everybody's like that that makes sense in context but whatever his egg it does.

My favorite song is Side Note for every young but not not the 1980s Rob Stewart version. The Joan Baez. So the song was written by um he's from the 60s Roland Stone. Bob Dylan.

There you go. It was written by Bob Dylan for his son who was six years old at the time and it's called Forever Young. You know Make Up Bless You and Keep You Always. I can't say the lyrics we'll get but it's beautiful.

It is beautiful and it is my favorite song. I think there's a version of it that's kind of it's more acapella but blowing in the wind. Oh big fan. Yeah.

Love that song. Love that song. Yeah there's like so I just have so many different like I love ones that I love. I think people would be shocked at like my taste of music of how diverse it is.

You know I kind of seem like they're like kind of like kind of like kind of like a like oh yeah I should probably just like just only tell her something like that but no I like a diverse range of music that goes back to the 20s. Like let's talk about Cole Porter first. Like you know what I mean like Gershwin and like let's get into that and then we can like move through time and talk about it. Like I was a really big fan of like classical music too.

I love a ball. I love a ball. Copski. I like some Bach.

Bach. I love like big band. I love big band. I love like that type of New Orleans swing.

Yes. That type of music. Give me some like horns in there and I'm here for it. Oh my gosh.

I love it. Don't even start. Yeah. And then I love like as we get into the 50s like I love a little Elvis and some buddy Holly.

You know every day. Yeah. I love that. Holly's awesome and then you know as we move on the 60s just I love the mamas and the poppers.

I do. I love like some of that 60s sound and you know I just appreciate the decades in general. Obviously though so my son is also into Yacht Rock. Do you know what Yacht Rock is?

No. Okay so Yacht Rock is like the the 70s and 80s like sort of like love songs like soft rock kind of thing but now they call it Yacht Rock. So there's a Yacht Rock station on Alexa and he will seriously be in the bathtub and yell out to Alexa. Alexa turn on Yacht Rock station and she she does and so he's sitting there in the bathtub listening to some of Bree's.

He loves it. He loves it. And he's like mom play England Dan and John Ford Coley. I'd really love to see you tonight.

I'm like okay sure he loves it and I'm all about it because like that is how I grew up. Yeah. He's into that music so that's awesome. It's amazing.

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City. Pull yall up Washington. Oh yeah if you're from there and we said it wrong. You know we did for sure.

And we it was just me. I butchered it. Yeah but anyway it's been fun y'all. Listen to some music and we'll see you next week.

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