We had a great conversation with country artist Tiffany Woys on The Chris & Sandy Show. We talked about her new podcast “What’s mine is yours”, her life, music, sacrifices, she told some GREAT stories to a whole lot more. This was a very raw & candid conversation! We ween deep on the business side of music with no holding back! WOW!

Named a Taste of Country Artist to Watch and a CMT “Next Up Now” artist, Tiffany Woys grew up being influenced by powerhouse vocalists such as LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and Carrie Underwood. As a child, she’d look for any opportunity to get up and sing in front of people, and by the time she hit 20, she was recording an independent album and hitting the road.

After honing her stage presence by performing relentlessly at venues and events up and down the West Coast, often for more than three hours at a time, she followed her dreams to Nashville. Her brand-new EP, All About Love, released on March 18.

Tiffany has enlisted some of Nashville’s top powerhouse songwriters for the six songs, including tracks co-written by Hannah Ellis, Tammi Kidd, Sara Haze, Emily Shackelton, John Kennedy, busbee, and more.

The project is produced by Tammi Kidd Hutton and Ben Phillips and features the recently released powerful version of LeAnn Rimes’ “Probably Wouldn’t Be This Way,” and her current radio single, “I Don’t Want You Back,” Tiffany’s sixth charted song on Billboard’s National Country Radio Indicator Chart.

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We had a wonderful conversation with William Michael Morgan . We talked about so many things from God, family, his song I met a girl, sacrifices, he told some great stories especially one about George Strait plus a whole lot more!

William Michael Morgan is a Mississippi native with a love of country music that is deeper than The Big River itself and is the very definition of an old soul. His pristine Southern vocals, timeless sound and
honest lyrics represent a new generation of hit makers in Nashville; a modern day Alan Jackson, Randy Travis or George Strait.

After signing to a major record label at 19, William began hitting the top of radio charts with his Gold Certified song “I Met a Girl”. Following this, he released his debut album “Vinyl” which earned a spot on the Billboard Top 5 in 2016. He has performed over 50 times at the Grand Ole Opry stage and was featured by the Country Music Hall of Fame as a highlighted artist in their 2017 American Currents exhibit. This is in addition to the thousands of live shows that he’s performed all over the world.

While William has grown as an artist since he first came onto the Nashville scene, some things will never change- mainly his passion for sharing country lyrics with fans that are full of pure, raw emotion.

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We had a great conversation with Joe Nichols on The Chris & Sandy Show. We talked about his new song “Good Day For Living”, his life, how he got started plus a whole lot more!

Current single, title track “Good Day For Living” is top 40 and climbing at country radio

· Six No. 1 hits and eight Top 10 singles
· 17.8 Billion audience impressions and over 588 Million streams to-date
· More than 2.3 million audio streams WEEKLY!
· Multiple RIAA platinum and gold certifications
· Three-time Grammy nominee and the winner of the Academy of Country Music’s “Top New Male Vocalist” award, the CMT “Breakthrough Video of the Year” award as well as the prestigious “Horizon Award” from the Country Music Association. Additional honors include awards from Billboard, Radio & Records and Music Row Magazine as well as a New York Times “Best-Albums-of-the-Year” nod.

· National Media Hits Include: ACM Presents: Superstar Duets on CBS, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Queen Latifah Show, The Tonight Show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Austin City Limits, and ABC’s “Nashville,” and more!

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We had a great conversation with country artist Matthew Wayne. We talked about so many things from family, he’s a HUGE family man, music, sacrifices, he told some amazing stories plus a whole lot more!

Matthew Wayne, a country artist that hails from Floridia has been at it professionally since the age of 18. He started playing guitar and piano at the age of five. At the age of 10 he started playing drums. Matthew has gone on tour with acts such as The Avett Brothers, Ryan Cabrera, members of NSYNC and Boyz II Men among others. Growing up on country music from his parents has come full circle as he creates country music today.

He splits his time between Nashville and Florida.

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We had a great conversation with country artist Clay Walker. We talked about so many things around his life, not just music. It was such a fun conversation we had. We talked God, family, music, sacrifices, he told some great stories plus a whole lot more! We also talked about Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Toby Keith and more!

There’s more to the duality of Clay Walker’s debut Show Dog Nashville album Texas To Tennessee than the title. Certainly, the realities of place are as central as this comeback album’s name implies: Nashville busily working toward the next fresh hit; Texas moving at its inimitable and familiar pace. There’s also a mix of songwriting and production approaches, evident and more nuanced relationships between the songs themselves, and the overarching presence of a naturally gifted vocalist who relentlessly pursues his own development as a singer. But don’t mistake those dualities for dichotomy – and certainly not polarity. In a storied career dotted with smash singles, platinum albums and countless honors and acclaim, maybe the connection between country’s timeless themes and music-of-the-moment timeliness has been there all along.

Many of the country fans behind the almost 20 million on-demand and video streams for his latest single “Need A Bar Sometimes” – who may also be among his 750,000 TikTok followers – are wholly unaware of Walker’s history. Discovered in a Beaumont area bar by noted producer and head of Giant Records James Stroud (Toby Keith, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw, Kenny Rogers), Walker was in his early twenties when he started rattling off a string of smash hits. Among them, “Live Until I Die,” “Dreaming With My Eyes Open,” “This Woman And This Man,” “Hypnotize The Moon,” “Rumor Has It,” “Then What,” “I Can’t Sleep” and “She Won’t Be Lonely Long.” His self-titled debut album rocketed to platinum status, the first of four to cross the million-sold mark. Racking up more than 30 charted singles and 11 No. 1s wasn’t without its struggles, however.

“Being born and raised in the Houston area, I thought of myself in the line of George Strait and Clint Black, but my first producer had other ideas,” Walker says. “James Stroud pushed me more towards pop sounds I fought with. What he was saying, and I think he was right, was, ‘Clay, you’ve got some gears to you that will excite people if you let it.’ I was young – 23 – and didn’t really settle with that. But now I’m in a sweet spot in music, in life, and I definitely feel the audience has swung around to appreciating music that makes those connections.”

Those links are obvious on Texas To Tennessee. “Anything To Do With You” opens the album with smooth bore country that would feel right at home on any of Walker’s four platinum CDs. Song two is the counterweight single, with its processed steel guitar lick, wistful pandemic-perfect theme and explosive streaming numbers.

Production was handled in tandem by acclaimed multi-platinum producer Michael Knox (Jason Aldean) and chart-topping songwriter Jaron Boyer (“Somewhere On A Beach,” “Hell Of Night,” “Girl Like You”). Recording took place in Galveston and Nashville.

“Jaron Boyer is the best songwriter I’ve ever written with,” Walker says. “He’s had a bunch of No. 1s and lots of album cuts. Plus, he’s a phenomenal singer and track builder. The total package. As a writer, his phrasing and melodies are just insane.”

While Boyer is second only to Walker himself on writing credits, the duo of songs at the heart of the album finds Walker working with the formerly married songwriting powerhouse of Jennifer Hanson and Mark Nesler. “Cowboy Loves A Woman” embodies the “Texas” in the album title. It’s sequel, the title track, narrates Walker’s journey. Together, they are the most direct encapsulation of his core as an artist and as a man. “Catching Up With An Ol’ Memory” is perhaps the album’s singular moment. The exception that stands astride both worlds with its fresh sonic bed, echoes of heroes past and an airy, vocals-up mix.

“The studio can be intimidating for artists because we don’t do this all the time,” Walker says. “I’m sure this is part of producers doing their job in being cheerleaders, but when I was singing ‘Memory,’ Michael Knox got on the talk-back mic with the band and goes, ‘We got us a real singer, boys. I think this might be the album take.’ That was nice to hear. And then for him to show the respect for that vocal in how it was mixed with vocals at the forefront and all that space around it … Singing well is important to me. Having integrity in my vocal cords, continuing to take voice lessons and working on having what I’m going to call free tone – hey, if you’re not trying to get better you never will.”

“Cowboy” is inarguably the album’s “Texas” anchor. “It reminds me of what made country music great,” Walker says. “Not that it’s the greatest country song. Don’t misunderstand. Nor am I the best singer in country music. I have never and would never claim those things. But I might be in a place where I can connect the value in a song that sounds like ‘Need A Bar’ and one like ‘Cowboy.’ And vocally, I’m at my best right now. There’s an ease in my voice – particularly on ‘Cowboy’ – that just makes sense. I sang it through a couple times and we were done. I didn’t have to press. We just had it.”

Elsewhere on the album, “Country Side” is a slow roll on a two-lane built around a hook so pure, it’s a wonder the song wasn’t written before 2020. “I Just Wanna Hold You” flips the title track’s seeking theme around to come to a similar conclusion, while “You Look Good” offers the album’s most of-the-moment sound in embracing the satisfaction of life well loved. The album closes with the sure-fire in-concert party anthem “One More.”

Texas To Tennessee is also a modern album that nods at an earlier era in its time economy. Clocking in under 30 minutes in its entirety and with more than half its songs under three minutes, it recalls some of country’s historical best in terms of uncluttered writing, directness of message and finely shaved construction.

Walker is quick to point fingers. “Throughout my career, there have been key people who helped me put albums together, find or write good songs and get them out to fans,” he says. “But I saw something with this album I’ve not experienced: what it takes to make a championship happen. The songs are your deep-threat wide receivers. The full support of your record label is the offensive line. Michael and Jaron – these guys ran through walls for me. Everyone has done their part and it’s impressive. You can have talent, be famous or have a few hits, but you can’t win the Super Bowl without champions around you. Man, I’ve got ’em.

Teamwork is also at the core of Walker’s battle against Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Diagnosed in 1996, he has become a passionate advocate and fundraiser for others with the disease through his Band Against MS. Among his efforts are the annual Clay Walker Charity Classic at Pebble Beach. The golf event highlights the highly active way Walker has approached MS, continuing to perform and raise a growing family while showing no signs of slowing.

“It’s very gratifying to be at a point in my life where I can offer something in its fullness,” he continues. “I’ve never quite had that before. I was pegged as a neo-traditionalist early on, but I don’t think I fit that mold. For a lot of reasons – maybe the pendulum of music is in the perfect spot – but today’s music and my style have hit center on this album.”

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