Nashville Talks W/ Taylor Jones

Wassup fam! It's been a long summer off from the podcast but today we make our return with a show unlike any other that we've ever done. I've called in two of my best church family to talk about some tough issues we see in America & across the world today. Issues like Donald Trump, police brutality on African Americans, fake news, feminism & others. About a year ago I caught an idea to discuss some of these topics but to do so with an African American man & a Caucasian woman. The idea being to hear both sides of the perspectives that the two will certainly have. Keith & Kristi are two great friends with me & Kyla, & part of that is talking & listening through tough subjects when they come up. I wanted to document one of those conversations so here it is. Take a listen if you dare.

My good buddy Taylor Alexander just got done with a TV run on NBC's The Voice, & he's here to tell us all about it. Taylor sang his own country arrangement of Cher's hit "Believe" for his blind audition that was so intriguing that Adam Levine just had to turn around & meet him. That video is in YouTube if you wanna see it. Check him out, fam!

After a few weeks off from the podcast I'm back with my good buddy & neighbor Ross Holmes. Ross is a world class fiddle player & has played with the likes of Cadillac Sky, Mumford & Sons, Warren Haynes & Bruce Hornsby just to name a few. Check it out, fam!

My new friend Timmy Jones joins the show today. Timmy plays drums in a band called For King & Country & he's also a native Tennesseean, hailing from Memphis. Timmys story goes all the way from working a retail job, to being in one of the biggest touring bands in their genre. We talk all about how that happened & much much more. This one is can't miss! Check it out fam!

My friend Dave Clayton joins the show today. Dave is a leader in our community here in Nashville as a teacher & preacher of the word of Jesus. Dave had a hand in starting a church in Nashville called ETHOS, and for about the last decade he has been a pastor there leading & teaching in downtown Nashville. In this episode Dave breaks down how ETHOS was started, how he ended up in Nashville unexpectedly, how God has provided for him & the church every step of the way & much more.

Two podcast alumns re-join the show today to talk about their upcoming "real friends tour." Baylor & Jordyn are indeed real friends, but they are not a duo. #NotADuo confused yet? They've decided to take both their brands on the road this fall to do a Bluebird Cafe style performance in small venues & friends houses all over. They'll be sharing songs & stories as well as traveling together in Baylor's red Jeep everywhere they go. It's a fun concept that I'm excited to talk about today. Have a listen & let us know what you think!

In the first of a series of classic album discussions, the producer & I discuss the awesomeness that is Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors." "Rumors" has sold 40 million copies worldwide & is widely considered one of the best albums ever recorded, so we figured it's a great one to start off with. In this discussion we talk about some of the personnel involved in making the record, some of the classic band drama that Fleetwood Mac was dealing with at the time, how the tape from the sessions was damaged & had to be resurrected & much much more. This is our first attempt at a series we're highly excited about, so please check it out and let us know what you think! #NashvilleTalks on twitter

My brother Bruno Jones joins the show this week to help tell some stories from our past. Ian the producer was there for a lot of them as well over the years, so we've definitely got plenty to go around. Bruno was the first ever guest on my show & it was nice to get him to finally come back on here & year & a half later. What a guy. Check it out, fam!

New Orleans based photographer Michael Tucker joins us for the show today. Michael is crashing at our house in Nashville for a few nights as luck would have it, so of course I asked him to do the podcast while he was in. Michael is one of the most popular photographers on instragram & he tells us all about how that came to be & much much more.xi Check him out! @mchltckr

Today we learn about the art of play acting & musical theatre with 2 of Nashvilles best young performers. Cameron Gilliam is the leading man for several theatre company's here in town, acting singing & dancing in many with his best friend & dance partner Ms Tucky Myhre. The two of them break down some If what goes into becoming a character, rather than playing a character & much much more. I learned a ton in this episode & I think you will too! Check it out, fam!

For the new year we decided to talk about some of our goals, ambitions, failures & successes from 2016 & 2017. Tre Dunn stops by the show to talk about his new podcast & give us his thoughts on what he's looking forward to in 2017. Me & the producer tell a couple gettin fired stories as well. Hope y'alls new year is off to a great start, fam!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, fam! I hope you're prepared to laugh in this episode of Nashville Talks because joining us today is one of the funniest men I know, Mr. Aaron Raitiere. Aaron is a songwriter that's had songs recorded by Miranda Lambert, Anderson East, The Vespers & many others. He's one of the real ones & I love em. Check it out fam!

1st time talking with my new friend Ross King & it's being recorded for the podcast. I love it when that happens. Ross is a musician & songwriter from Texas & he's now living here in Nashville writing full time. Ross smartens me up about how the contemporary Christian songwriting world works in this conversation & much more. Check him out!

Blimey Cow's Josh Taylor re-joins the show today for a special STAR WARS edition of Nashville Talks. Rogue One is out & we're all excited about it. Aside from being the creator/writer of a highly successful YouTube channel, Josh is a serious Star Wars fan & a borderline expert. He's seen all of the movies MANY times & he helps me understand the plot a lot better every time we talk about it. Check him out, fam!

My buddy Ben Sparaco joins the show today. He has a pre-order to his full length album called "Wooden" that starts today. A few of us got together & collaborated on that album with Ben & I'm pretty pumped for how it turned out. You can find it on iTunes or wherever music is sold & heard. Ben is a great guitar player that reminds you a lot of legends like Derek Trucks & Duane Allman with the way he plays slide. We talk all about jamming with some of his heroes, moving from Florida, dropping out of college & much much more. Check him out fam!

No guest this week so The Producer & I decided to get together & tell all of our funniest car trouble stories from over the years. We've got everything from windshields mysteriously shattering & blowing off in to the road to being on top of a mountain in Montana overheating in a 96 dodge van. Everybody has been through it & sometimes all you can do is laugh, so that's us today. Hope y'all like it.

Happy Thanksgiving fam! Our new producer & my soul brother Ian Stewart joins me to chat it up about our favorite thanksgiving memories as well as some funny stories we have from growing up together. Ian is a great friend & funny guy & will quickly become one of your favorite parts of the show moving forward, trust me!

My friend Darius Fitzgerald joins the show this week & he plays in a band called The New Respects. You might remember his sister Zandy being in the show back in August. They've recently just done 6 weeks on the road with Crowder & Tedashi so we talk all about bus life, playing 20 or so shows in a row, music inspiration & much much more. These gals & guy in The New Respects are taking over the world very fast. Im excited to see where all it goes!

This week my friend Tre Dunn joins the show today to tell his story & talk racial issues with me. His story starts in a small town in Kentucky, to playing football for the Wildcats & eventually becoming a mentor to kids here in Nashville working at Harvest Hands. Simply put this is 2 guys that love Jesus; a white male & a black male chopping it up & trying to make sense of some tough subject matter. Hope you guys enjoy.

Hello! just a quick 3 minute check in about things going on with the podcast. I've changed the name of it to "Nashville Talks" w/ Taylor Jones. I really wanted to work city name into the show after a year of most my interviews happening here & interviewing mostly Nashvillians. That's not to say that I won't ever record a show elsewhere, but you get the idea. I hope the name change makes the show a little easier to discover & grow from here. That's really the only change. Same concepts, same interview form, same schedule. Thanks again for your support! much love! ~Taylor