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From Nashville to Vegas: Cali Tucker's Journey, Music, and Country Couture
What if a spur-of-the-moment audition could change your life forever? In this episode, we sit down with the incredibly talented Cali Tucker, who transformed a fun trip to Vegas into a full-time performing career after a life-changing audition for Season 6 of The Voice. Cali opens up about her journey from Nashville to Las Vegas, sharing her experiences growing up in a legendary musical family as the daughter of LaCosta and niece of Tanya Tucker. We'll also explore her multifaceted lifestyle, including her unique side gigs like performing at wedding chapels and her hit song “Country Couture.”
Ever wondered how Nashville’s music scene has evolved over the years? Join us as we take a nostalgic trip through the streets of Nashville, discussing both the allure and challenges of the city’s bustling Broadway scene. Cali and I reminisce about the city’s past, our dreams of returning to pursue music, and the strategy of building a following outside Nashville before coming back. We share personal stories that highlight the emotional pull and rapid transformation of this iconic music hub, adding a touch of humor to the sometimes overwhelming nightlife now synonymous with modern Nashville.
But the excitement doesn't stop there! We also celebrate Callie’s latest achievements, including the release of her new album and the launch of her fashion line, "Country Couture." Cali gives us an inside look at her aspirations for touring and television appearances, emphasizing the power of social media in connecting with fans. Plus, get a sneak peek into her vibrant live shows at the Aria in Las Vegas and her plans to open a distinctive bar in Nashville. With so much to share, you won't want to miss this dynamic and inspiring episode!
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
What if a spur-of-the-moment audition could change your life forever? In this episode, we sit down with the incredibly talented Cali Tucker, who transformed a fun trip to Vegas into a full-time performing career after a life-changing audition for Season 6 of The Voice. Cali opens up about her journey from Nashville to Las Vegas, sharing her experiences growing up in a legendary musical family as the daughter of LaCosta and niece of Tanya Tucker. We'll also explore her multifaceted lifestyle, including her unique side gigs like performing at wedding chapels and her hit song “Country Couture.”
Ever wondered how Nashville’s music scene has evolved over the years? Join us as we take a nostalgic trip through the streets of Nashville, discussing both the allure and challenges of the city’s bustling Broadway scene. Cali and I reminisce about the city’s past, our dreams of returning to pursue music, and the strategy of building a following outside Nashville before coming back. We share personal stories that highlight the emotional pull and rapid transformation of this iconic music hub, adding a touch of humor to the sometimes overwhelming nightlife now synonymous with modern Nashville.
But the excitement doesn't stop there! We also celebrate Callie’s latest achievements, including the release of her new album and the launch of her fashion line, "Country Couture." Cali gives us an inside look at her aspirations for touring and television appearances, emphasizing the power of social media in connecting with fans. Plus, get a sneak peek into her vibrant live shows at the Aria in Las Vegas and her plans to open a distinctive bar in Nashville. With so much to share, you won't want to miss this dynamic and inspiring episode!
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
And we're live and we're back. Hi everybody, skip Clark, the beautiful Northeast, thank you. Thank you for viewing, thank you for coming on. As you know, I you know what I always get somebody that has something to do with somebody. That has something to do with somebody that has something to do with somebody, and this is really cool this time. You know, last night we had Mark Miller from Sawyer Brown on. This time I got Callie Tucker. And well, let's just get right to it. I can tell you Callie is not anywhere near me in the Northeast. Where are you, callie?
Speaker 2:Las.
Speaker 1:Vegas, baby, las Vegas. How long have you been in Vegas?
Speaker 2:Ten years this year.
Speaker 1:Ten, 10., 10. Now you are a regular in Vegas, though. Right, I mean you have your own headlining thing going, or did I read that wrong?
Speaker 2:Maybe no.
Speaker 1:You do how cool. And when I Googled trying to get a little bit of info, just anybody that knows me I usually don't go verbatim off anything, I look up. But you also do a wedding chapel thing.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I partner with so many different event spaces. That is so cool. So, yeah, they actually they're very special to me because they were very intricate in helping me with my music video. Country Couture For Country Couture.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, wow, that's amazing. Now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you are the daughter of LaCosta and your aunt is Tanya Tucker.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And you're on the Voice, season 6. Was it Season 6? Yeah, season six.
Speaker 2:I call it season six, yeah, 2014.
Speaker 1:Did you hear me, I call it season six.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying it is, it was.
Speaker 1:It was. Was it really? It was awesome actually. Yeah, that was a life-changing event for you that changed your life correct?
Speaker 2:It was like like it was funny how it all came about. Um, because I was just. You know, I was a songwriter in nashville. I was bartending, trying to make a living. I wasn't really, I wasn't live performing at all. In fact, I was probably doing a few writers rounds and that was it. I wasn't, I wasn't doing anything major.
Speaker 2:And my mom calls me, was like, hey, your sister in law is going to go to vegas. At the time I was looking at national, go to vegas and audition for the voice. I think you should go with her. And I'm like count me in any excuse to go to vegas. I'm down, let's go. So me and my friend flew out to vegas, uh, and we did the cattle call audition, just waited in line and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:It was a really magical experience, going from one of you know one audition to the next, to the next. I'm just like am I going to be on this show? Is that is that this was happening now? So I did, I made it onto the show and I was team blake and after I was um off the show, I, six months later, I moved to vegas and I started performing practically full-time and have been doing that since I moved here 10 years ago. So, yeah, it was. It definitely did change my life. It. It gave me a platform to like say, okay, this is, this is a great opportunity and let me go. Let me go and run with this in my own way. And so I did, and it was, yeah, worth it Kelly.
Speaker 1:How does that work for anybody that's thinking about doing something like the Voice? Do you, when you come off that show, do you have a recording contract or anything like that, or is it just? Maybe the top? Don't make me laugh, okay, I kind of figured.
Speaker 2:No, no, no.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:What an original idea that that would be the case. I think it's. I think some of the some of the contestants that were on the show that didn't like go to two lives or win.
Speaker 1:Have done.
Speaker 2:Morgan Wallen, for instance. Yeah, no, exactly, he was on my season and that was the biggest country star in the world. God bless him. So happy for him, and Ray Lynn, and I'm sure there's a few others that have done, you know, exponentially well since the show. And yeah, I mean I don't think you have to, like, make it far on the show for it to be impactful on your career, your life.
Speaker 1:Right, right.
Speaker 2:Just by doing it and getting the exposure that it offers is really beneficial.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you're a good example of that. Now you're in Vegas doing your thing, which is pretty cool. That's got to be everybody's dream as well. You're living it. You know performing. I don't know if you perform every night, but you also said you got a lot of side things going as well, for example, the wedding chapel, but you know just doing what you're doing. Let's talk about uh, let's talk about the song. Let's get that right out of the way now. Country coacher, coacher, coacher country couture.
Speaker 1:Couture I I apologize for the couture I got you that's okay.
Speaker 2:That's okay. I've never been to France either.
Speaker 1:You're right, I've never been to France Country couture.
Speaker 2:Tell us about that. I'm always writing. I've been a writer for many years and just always making notes and stuff, writing down funny things that I say or intellectual things. I say Whatever.
Speaker 2:Country couture is a phrase that I had coined over the years, just because I had lived this flip-flop lifestyle, this double-sided life of you know, even as young as me, being in beauty pageants and then like taking off the dress and going riding horses on the ranch, and you know, so I was, you know, this t-shirt and jeans kind of gal, and then I was just super glamorous girl on on the other side and, um, I just started saying I'm so country couture, and I just decided one day to sit down and I, I gotta do something with this, this line, because it's too special, and I and it would.
Speaker 2:And it didn't take me long. Once I really sat down and got into it, I was like this this is cheeky, it's cute, it's fun and it's comical in a lot of ways in the lyrics and it just describes me to a T and I wanted it to be the first release because it does embody who I am like, genuinely Like the funny side of me, the bougie side of me, the country, you know country girl side of me, I mean yeah, it was so much fun to write, it was so much fun to produce and then, of course, the most amazing experience, to make the music video for it.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's a really special video, yeah I uh 32 different outfits.
Speaker 2:We filmed it at the reason why I say well, wait a minute a minute.
Speaker 1:32 different outfits just for that video. How long? How long did it take you overall to shoot the video?
Speaker 2:Two days.
Speaker 1:Two days.
Speaker 2:That's how organized I am, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty good. No, no, two days is pretty good, but with 32 outfit changes in the video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, now, now we will say not all 32 outfits made the cut because of editing issues, but the idea was the 32 outfits were very well planned out and we did it. We were able to change the outfits so quickly that it did work. We got all of them shot but unfortunately the editing process didn't allow for some of them to make it. But they're very special dresses. One is a couple of them are for my mom when she was performing back in the 60s. Some of them are for my when I was, which my eighth grade prom and dance. And then the crown and sash you see are the actual crown and sash from when I won miss, you know, american 2000. So you know there's there's a lot of really special things, like easter eggs I put in there. There's stories behind everything I've done. Um, you know, there's chippendale real, real chippendale's dancers in the video and um, while you're in vegas, I'm sure it's pretty easy.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they're. Yeah, they're my buddies now, but yeah, it was filmed. That the second day was filmed where you see the chandelier. Everything that's indoors was filmed at the Tropicana in what's called the Havana room. That is now unfortunately gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of an iconic historical video now because that was filmed in there. It's really sad that it's gone, but Chapel of the Flowers is the reason why that even happened. That was their event space and so I have such a great relationship with them doing some of their events, some of their weddings, and they opened their arms and their doors to me to allow me to shoot my video there opened their arms and their doors to me to allow me to shoot my video there.
Speaker 1:How long ago that was fairly recent that Tropicana was taken first right. April.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:They imploded it, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know All these sports, sporting events, whatever are coming to vegas whoop, whoop. That's awesome. But you know they're tearing down some iconic buildings to build these and I go. I know that there's so much other space you could have done this at. You could have we. We are so we're so heavily concentrated now in on the strip, everybody's so obsessed with it'm like, if you built it just near Red Rock, man, that would have been a beautiful space.
Speaker 2:Way more options for parking, you wouldn't have torn down something historical. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. What about the barrage that just closed, right?
Speaker 2:Yep Change is just every day here, every day.
Speaker 1:What are they going to do with that? I?
Speaker 2:think they're turning it into a hard rock, another hard rock.
Speaker 1:Another hard rock.
Speaker 2:I think the hard rock has moved I don't even know three times since I've lived here.
Speaker 1:It's been a while since I've been there. I remember being there. I remember it being very hot, as we mentioned, off the air, but I remember the hard rock. So if you got to get a cup of water, that's fine.
Speaker 2:I'm good. It is the dryness, it's the allergies, it's that. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to grab some water, is that OK?
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely Go right ahead. Go right ahead, you can do that. And we're talking with uh kelly tucker tonight. She's in las vegas, by the way, and she's a performer in las vegas. She's a work in country music. Her aunt is a tanya tucker and she's the daughter of the lovely lacosta tucker, so that that's all pretty cool, pretty cool. Wow, that was quick, holy cow I keep.
Speaker 2:I keep everything where I need it.
Speaker 1:Yeah now, um, can I whereabouts? Are you in vegas right now? I mean, you don't tell me exactly, I'm just saying are you like in a hotel, or is this your own place, or?
Speaker 2:I'm in the grand. This is my, this is my room. I mean, I'm in my home beautiful.
Speaker 1:It looks beautiful. That's why I see all the fancy furniture and everything, and that fits you, knowing now who you are and what you do, going from the glam side to the country side and then meeting in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 2:I'm a mishmash, I'm a mutt. I'm a mutt of glam and country, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So tell me, oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. Oh, no, no, please, no, no. I was just going to say tell me about you know what you do in Vegas, your show that you know you're a full time performer no-transcript.
Speaker 2:That's a very good question. It does. I mean, it's a full time. People talk about, oh, your Vegas residency. I'm like, oh no, it is a full time performing schedule. There's no residency, three month spent thing about it. But yeah, I'm really lucky. I love, I love performing out here. It's a packed what I could in this little tiny car. I found an apartment online, sight unseen. I pulled up to a drove across country and pulled up to this apartment and slept on an air mattress for about a month until that gave way and then I wound up sleeping on my clothes and I built up.
Speaker 2:I've built up my career here for the last 10 years and thankfully now I own my own home and you know, things are great but I really worked really hard for for what I have and, um, vegas, uh, vegas is is, uh, it kind of comes in, comes in like uh, waves, um, and different venues and things like that. And right now my performance schedule is all on my website, cali Tuckercom. So if anybody's coming to Vegas and they want to see my show, go to Cali Tuckercom and click dates and I have it all listed there pretty far in advance. But I'm at the win. I'm at Aria, I'm at resorts world, I play a lot of local places between henderson and summerlin and, um, yeah, I, I absolutely love it. It's so much fun, but it's it's very, it is very taxing. So, you know, um, you think about a normal, a normal tour. Um, you have certain days off. I play six days a week and I sing between three and five hours a night.
Speaker 1:Wow, all right, that's got a little yeah. How do you? How do you take because you sing three to five hours a night, I mean and if that's six days a week, what do you do for your throat? What is there a secret to keep it sounding good and sleep?
Speaker 2:Lots of water, lots of sleep and you got to run a humidifier with, without fail, run at night, especially like just run the humidifier. Um, yeah, it's, it's. It's tough because you know, during your, during the day, you have your normal day stuff which is, you know, sometimes doctor's appointments or getting your oil, going to the grocery store, um having phone calls and interviews and and you're you're working on your bigger picture career and things like that. So it's, it's a, it's a I have to be very scheduled with my time and um, and yeah, it's it, it I have to be kind of um just very regimen, regimented, with what I'm doing and how I'm spending my energy, because you always want to, I I'm insane Like I want to show up to a show.
Speaker 2:ready, like ready to go and put on a show I take it very seriously. But you know some, some days are good, some days are bad, but most days are good because I do make sure I take care of myself.
Speaker 1:But it is a challenge, it's, it's, it's hard, it's hard to have a life outside of it because, yeah, I was going to go there, yeah, exactly. So I mean it's gotta be very difficult. You just want to do some everyday things, as you mentioned, like run to the store, maybe go for a walk in the park or do whatever. Uh, it's still. It's. It's very difficult to do because you're in such a regimented routine yeah, and to break away from that it's got to be difficult.
Speaker 2:So people are always like oh, I, I want to let you. Do you want to go see this show, or do you want to go have dinner and I go? I have roughly one day a week to do that because I play at night, so I never get to go out at night. Be going out is me playing a show, and on the night that I have off I want to sit at home like I want to lay in the bed I want to watch tv.
Speaker 2:You know this little little me time yeah, having a social life is almost near impossible, truly yeah, are you?
Speaker 1:are you happy with that?
Speaker 2:oh yeah okay oh my gosh. Yes, of course, if I won the lottery, I'd still do this.
Speaker 1:You know, there, you go, says it all right there. What about nashville? Now you haven't forgotten about nashville. Do you get back to nashville at all?
Speaker 2:I don't and I can't wait to, I really can't like me. Launching this song and the rest of the singles and videos that I'm releasing is, like my is my stepping stone to go back. I'm hoping that there'll be opportunities for me to go back to Nashville. You know, um potentially meet with some management. You know some A&R people like really get, really get seen and heard, because that's the ultimate goal. Like is to tour. I want to, I want to be signed, I want to start touring, I want to start making records and um, that is the. The goal is to be back in nashville, for sure would you oh go ahead no, I, just I.
Speaker 2:I I hate the change that's happened there, because that's my hometown, but there is a it's, a it's where my roots are. I'm rooted there. There's something pulling me to go back, and it's not just business, it's not just music. That's my home, that's your home. I get that.
Speaker 1:I get that very much and you're right about the changes. I mean, I've been going. I go a few times every year. I've been doing that for well over 20 years now. When that for well over 20 years now. Uh, when I first started going a long time ago, it was easy to get from the airport to downtown. Yeah, you know 20 minutes half hour. Now let's double that at least.
Speaker 2:So no, it makes me so bummed because I'm like I remember living in the gulch, living in germany yeah, oh yeah in nashville and we would be like this is when I was like partying and we would go down on broadway. We park on the street.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I can't do that now.
Speaker 2:No, no, no Like what so it may, and that would be a Friday night. We can park on this. So yeah, not being able to, I just feels like it's been overtaken. And listen, I know Vegas is a tourist place anyway, like I knew that coming into it. But like me growing up in nashville, I kind of go I have this like no, you can't be here. Like this is, this is my. You've overrun this place, but I'm happy that it's hopefully made the economy amazing in nashville.
Speaker 1:I just yeah, yeah, it's just, it's just gotten a little crazy it, it has and, all that being said, um, it's still a great city. There's a lot of history.
Speaker 1:You know, you got the rhyming, you got these places that you know there's. There's music coming out of every door on broadway. It just depends what your flavor is at the time and and all that. But I can tell you a story. It was a year ago.
Speaker 1:My wife and I flew out to go to the nascar race, um, and we stayed right downtown and we got back in time. It was a Saturday afternoon but we got back to the hotel in plenty of time and I said honey, let's take a walk down Broadway, let's just go for a little bit of a stroll. All right, we walked out of the hotel, walked down a couple of blocks to Broadway. The road was closed. There were so many people you could walk on the heads of people. I'm not kidding, it was packed and there was nothing going on in the road, if you know what I mean. It's just a lot of people and that's what they have to do. They have to close the road.
Speaker 1:There were certain issues going on in the street corners. There was this going on and that going on, a lot of bachelorette parties and all that going on. And I'm like you know, honey, this isn't for us. We need to go back to the hotel and get a drink. So that's exact. No, that's exactly what we did, and I guess you know if we, if you want to go down to Broadway and just be able to walk around, do it earlier in the day, because at night, man, I'll tell you, the party years are out.
Speaker 2:It's comes a shit show. It's wild.
Speaker 1:It gets crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know if you could do this anymore. Honestly, I don't know. I haven't been there in a second. I think 2022 is last time I was there. But if you get in your car and you're able to drive down Broadway and you roll all your windows down at the same time and you drive down Broadway, I always tell people and it's a joke, like I'm not dissing it, but it's like it sounds like the gates of hell, because there's bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar bar on both sides and every single one of them like four stories. Each one has a different band.
Speaker 1:They all have a different band.
Speaker 2:They're all simultaneously going at the same time.
Speaker 1:So'm like oh, but it's so true, kelly, that is so true. Yes, it's the gates of hell, uh, yeah, no, that is so true, that is so true, even just you only have to be in a vehicle, just walk down the sidewalk and it's coming from all directions.
Speaker 2:It's like the wildest, like just all this sound, all this music coming at the same time and it's clashing together and it's like whoa I'm not, I'm not dissing on nashville.
Speaker 1:I think it's a great, great, great city. It's just and it's home for you if you want to talk about home. But still, it's just the way it's gotten to be and it's been. It's getting so crowded and, um, everybody wants to move to nashville and everybody wants to be a star and you know it's actually you're smart to get out of Nashville and head to Vegas.
Speaker 2:So yeah, no, I, I. So I had several people throughout my younger careers tell me they're like go build your following outside of Nashville, they come back. So that's what I did. I was like, okay, that's not a bad idea, because it really wasn't like I wasn't. I wasn't progressing creatively there anymore, you know.
Speaker 2:I found myself. I had plateaued, I had plateaued, I had plateaued and I was like I got to find something else and I did. And I'm so glad I did Because I'm coming back with, I think, the newest and freshest sound that I think female country music has to offer.
Speaker 1:I feel really confident and happy with what I'm doing you should, you should, and that's from somebody that has to play the music on the air every day. It's a kind of a you know, it's like it's a fresh sound. I mean, we need females and we need you know this sound and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I mean it really helps. You know my whole family. We were very much movers and shakers, like we'd love to shake things up.
Speaker 1:And your aunt did that pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So if I'm falling in her footsteps in any way that I'm proud to say that that would be something that I'm doing. I'd like to be a mover and shaker like her. I'd like to, I'd like for, I'd like to be, you know, talked about, maybe in a way that I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I get it, I totally get it. Being the niece of the legendary Tanya Tucker, as I would say, I was always a big fan and, like I said, off the air I've actually, with the radio stations that I've worked at in this area, we've done some shows with her and it's just let me put it this way it's never a dull moment because she is just full of it.
Speaker 2:She is so funny, she's so quick-witted, oh my God, she's got so many good stories and I mean her laughter is infectious and she's got so many good stories and I mean her laughter is infectious and she's just a light. She's just a bright light she forgot her hair dryer.
Speaker 1:With one of our shows she came in from new york city. Some reason she had forgotten a whole lot of stuff or she lost it. I don't know what happened. We had to go find a hair dryer. She's standing in the doorway in her bathrobe going.
Speaker 1:I need a hair dryer you know, it was in the doorway in her bathrobe, going I need a hair dryer. These are moments that I'll never forget, because it's just funny and it's real life too. It happens to all of us. It's just like Skip happens it happens to all of us.
Speaker 2:It's true, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1:Did you ride the tour buses with her?
Speaker 2:I was young. I was very young, uh, when that whole lifestyle started. I was probably three. There is actually a video on. So there's a facebook page group created for my mom, and people are constantly posting videos that I have never seen before of her, of us, when me and my brother were kids, when they would be on the stage. So I've got to repost this one video. I believe it's the Jimmy Rogers festival. I've talked about it before. There's a video of me and my brother going out on stage and my brother is singing, like all around the water tank or something, and, um, that that's the. Those are the times when I'm actually talking about, when I'm always on the road with it. We were so young, we weren't able to start school yet, so we were, we were just touring with them and magic, it's pure magic, I was. It was such a it. It really made, um, an imprint on my life and what I knew that that's what I wanted to do at that.
Speaker 1:Cool, Now did your brother. Was he? Is he a performer, or was he a singer, or was he just doing it for?
Speaker 2:the sake of doing it.
Speaker 1:He's like four years old I know, but still you got to start somewhere. That's why I'm kind of wondering.
Speaker 2:So no, no, he definitely is not a singer, he's a aerospace engineer better yet, um, you know with everything.
Speaker 1:So, uh, do you keep in touch with your aunt?
Speaker 2:I mean she check up on you every once in a while no, yeah, I mean we're so, we're all so busy. I mean, obviously we live in our own lives and our own sort of crazy worlds. But yeah, I mean I texted her the other day and my cousin, alyssa, just had a baby, violet, and so I messaged her about that. Very cool, just little moments that we get to share. I would love to spend more time with her, though. Love.
Speaker 2:And very cool, just yeah, yeah, just little, little little moments that we get to share I, I would love to spend more time with her, though love to and it's not because she can't, it's because I can't, like I'm just trying so hard to make moves out here so it's hard for me to find time to, like I said, like have any kind of personal life, let alone see family.
Speaker 1:It's, really it's a bummer, tell me, tell us a little bit about your show. It's really interactive. I'm reading, and can you talk to us a little bit about that? And I'm sure you sing your single, and, and, and. Do you do other covers? What is it? Or is it all your own? No, right.
Speaker 2:So the I, I, I compartmentalize. There's a Vegas show and then there's the Cali show that we're so I compartmentalize. There's a Vegas show and then there's the Cali show that I'm putting together for the touring and the festivals and the upcoming stuff. So the Vegas shows that I've been doing are solo to tracks. That sounds crazy to a lot of people but it's actually the most fabulous thing you've ever seen in your life. It's a one-woman show. My band is great. They never mess up. It's great.
Speaker 2:It's it's um, I play at the Aria. Like I said, that's one of my favorite they need and I play. It's like, don't describe it, it's just, it's a one-woman show. I sing covers, I sing my origin. Like I said, it's three to five hours, so I don't have three to five hours of original material, but I take requests and I do a ton of jokes. It's a lot of audience interaction. Like I go out to the audience, I'm on top of the furniture. I don't know how to describe it, but's super wild, it's super fun and a lot of it's just shoot from the hip comedy I love that meets.
Speaker 2:Um, you know my, my vocals and it's, it's a. It's a really fun show. I, uh, you have to kind of see it to understand it.
Speaker 1:That's all I know yeah, I, you know it's funny. We talked about vegas here in the house just a few days ago, about, you know, let's get away, let's go somewhere. And I said, well, you know, there's a non-stop from we're in syracuse we can go right to las vegas, but uh, yeah, well you know, I'll let you know if I do that. So hey, so do they call you, miss nash vegas uh, some are starting to yeah I see that in the bio here. That's why I'm asking.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, I saw that I was, uh, we were a bunch of the my followers and my fans and friends here are just like you know, we're talking and and somebody started to say, and I had forgotten about the term Nash Vegas, and they were like something about Nashville doesn't they had visited Nashville or something they're like Nashville calls itself Nash Vegas, but you're Nash Vegas, you're the real Nash Vegas, or something like that. I was like, yeah, you know what I am, I have been, I have lived both lives.
Speaker 2:I know exactly what that means. Um, that means, but in fact, you know how all these artists are opening up these bars in Nashville. That's cool, but wait until I come back and open up mine, Okay, yeah, no, I look forward to that.
Speaker 1:So wait a minute. I think one is already closed. Was it Florida Georgia Line? No, I don't know One of them already closed. But, yeah, florida Georgia line. No, I don't know One of them already closed. It's got to be tough, though, when you think about it, because they're on almost every corner and just maintain being in business. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That doesn't even scare me, because what I'm going to bring to the table in that department if I can ever get to that point is going to be so totally different that the draw will not just be that there's booze or maybe live music. It will be so much more than that. So yeah, learning what I've learned in Vegas and running other businesses like out here, nah, it wouldn't be closing yeah, but yeah you probably should get.
Speaker 1:Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry no, I said it's a tough business like that, you know keep it like that yeah it's the bar business which is really tough, and somebody buys into it so they can use the name and so on and so forth. So, yeah, but you know what? You really should make the trip back and, in my opinion, and go to these bars and sit there and just kind of observe everything that's going on, saying, ok, I can do that, but I'm not going to do that. Or you know, I can make this better if I do it this way, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I bartended and cocktail waitress and bar managed for 15 years before I moved out here.
Speaker 1:Where.
Speaker 2:I was at Broadway Brewhouse.
Speaker 1:I was years before I moved out here where I was at broadway brew house.
Speaker 2:I was at rebar. No, oh my god, I hang out in those places. Yeah, yeah well, rebar's not there anymore, sadly, but no, no, but yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:I I know all about the bar business and I've wow it's it was yeah, I was, I was I was always on the other side of the bar again. We used to hang out at the station in Okay, to get outside of town a little bit and go up to the station, and and that's um, and Dierks Bentley was just coming out. He used to hang out there, he used to play with his bluegrass band and, uh, that's where I actually met Dirk for the first time, and and and every time I'm in Nashville I have to at least hit the station in.
Speaker 2:So I just love it.
Speaker 1:That's a really good spot have you ever been to Santa's Pub? Which one?
Speaker 2:Santa's Pub.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it's a double-wide trailer. It's out by the fairgrounds. I like it already All Christmas themed. It's a karaoke bar. They only serve beer, I think wine, and it is the most fun. Actually, my song Urban Cowboy that's going to be released later this year. The music video pays homage to Santa's Club. Oh wow, that's how iconic it's been for me. We used to have so much fun there.
Speaker 1:So that's outside of town, obviously just a hair just a little it's like the fairgrounds, were you know um? I know where the fairgrounds are. Yes, okay, okay, I got you that area. Yeah, okay, I'll have to go check that out. So you said you got more music coming out. I just heard you mention that and it's going to come out this fall. Uh, do you have enough for like an album yet, or is it just an ep or?
Speaker 2:no, I'm just, I'm just doing singles right now. I just want to release the songs that I love. Um, I wanted to make music videos to, to, to, you know the three, the three particular ones that I was wanting to, you know, put out into the world and eventually, yeah, I mean I'll either do more singles or I'll do an ep, or I don't know. I'm just doing what, I'm just putting out music, you know, yeah so do you put it up on tiktok insta x?
Speaker 1:what do you do?
Speaker 2:uh, my main ones are tiktok and instagram and facebook. Um, I don't actually get on x very much I don't either, but I know a lot too yeah, well, it limits me, I don't like that how much.
Speaker 2:I don't like doing that, so I'm like but, um, yes, and so you know, youtube, all that stuff, it's all available everywhere. You can't. You kind of can't. If you follow me, not only will you listen to the music, but you'll also get to watch some pretty funny videos. I make a lot of funny stuff on my social media.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to dig into some of that a little bit later on, after we do this.
Speaker 2:Please do I will. I have a lot of fun making these videos. I haven't been able to make them lately but I've been busy.
Speaker 1:But them lately. But, um, I've been busy but I have a, I have a blast. I do a lot of really dumb comedy on there.
Speaker 2:I was gonna ask if you've done stand-up. I my, stand-up is my show like, and it's, you mentioned that so and nothing is we just I I just heckle the audience and we just we have so much fun like, yeah, but no, I should, I should do stand-ups at one point. I should do it just to do it, you know, for fun for fun, don't they do?
Speaker 1:they have those clubs where you can. It's uh, you can walk in. It's like an open mic. Yeah, you can just go and do your thing and if you get a good reaction, great.
Speaker 2:If not, well, at least you tried if I ever come up with enough material to make it make sense and I have a night off, which which I rarely do.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's true.
Speaker 2:That's a bucket wish list thing, for sure, I definitely want to see if I could tickle anybody with my funny bone.
Speaker 1:What else? You know you're writing music, you're putting music out, you're putting it on the socials and the music sounds really great. What else, Besides doing that, do you get out and take in any sporting events? I know they've got, you know they've got the big teams there now, Um, uh, I don't do you do any of that, or you don't have time to do that.
Speaker 2:I don't have time to do that, but um, but you know, I have gone to, um, I think, one night scheme, and that's about it, that's about it, that's about it. No, I mean, I'd love to. I'd love to go to the Raiders stadium. Haven't been there yet there's a triple, a baseball stadium.
Speaker 1:Is it Las Vegas 51s or did they change their name? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'd love to go to that. Love baseball. That's one of my favorites, but haven't made it out there yet. So yeah, love it. I was. I played softball when I was younger, so I really love that sport.
Speaker 1:Really Wow. We are a big time baseball family. That's our way of chilling, that's our way of just, you know, forgetting about all the BS from during the day. Go get a beer or whatever you want, Kick your feet up. We have season tickets right up front with the Syracuse AAA team, the Syracuse Mets, which is the AAA team of the New York Mets. So we see a lot of those players that go back and forth and you know we're at every single game. I mean we're on a first name basis with the coach, so it's pretty cool now.
Speaker 2:We used to go to thirsty thursdays at sounds games yes yes, we loved it. And, um, I did get to catch a cardinals game when I was at the st louis. That was really epic, that was it yeah, if you, you know it's.
Speaker 1:Some people say it's boring and other people it's. For me it's awesome, it's awesome, it's not boring at all to me.
Speaker 2:I and dollar thursday is pretty good yeah, yeah, actually, um, back in the day when was it? I don't even remember, but I uh was it during the boys? I can't't remember, I don't think. So it was I sang at the sounds the national anthem sounds and I got to. I got to you, you go and audition, and then you know they call you and give you a date that they want you to come sing and you go and I I went and I sang at one of the games. Then it was I had been saying this for years like I want to sing the national anthem on fourth of july for the sounds game, and they called me for it. How cool, like this is the greatest moment of my life. And I did, I got to sing it and it was awesome you know I say how cool.
Speaker 1:But everybody that I've talked to says it's the hardest song to sing. But it's the most uncomfortable song because all eyes are on you and if you mess it up you're gonna get ridiculed. Um, for example, you know we just watched ingrid do her thing at the home run derby, and there was a lot more to it, obviously, but I've seen her, I've met her, I've in nashville. She's just, she's awesome awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that I could tell from watching. I was like she's hammered, it's no big deal. Everybody calmed down. Should she have been?
Speaker 1:no, but you know she's, it's all good like she's not a not a bad singer no, no, she's great, but the only question I had was usually, when the artist goes out and does these things, somebody from the label is with them or somebody from management is with them. Somebody should be like okay, ingrid, you know you got to go on tonight at seven o'clock. Let's wait till afterwards. Let's get this out. I know, but yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, seriously, that's how how? That's how seriously I take it. I'm like it is no, nobody cares more about my career than me, so I'm gonna make sure I'm on my game, but it's at the same token, I don't know what's going on in her life. I don't know what the situation is so, I never want to judge it.
Speaker 2:But no, at the end of the day, like it's still, like it's nobody but hers, but you know it's, you can't be too quick to judge. And but yeah, you know what, if I'll give you that If a label or A&R or PR person had been there with her and seen her, they should have said nope, nope, you're not doing this, because this is, this is gonna ruin, this is gonna ruin something for you all right you know, I told her from you know, and, and this is not meant to be, however you want to take it, but I guess.
Speaker 1:Um, but she just dropped an album, or she? I think she just dropped her new album, so now the name is out. There, people are gonna go I want to go and check this out and they're gonna go wow this, this girl kicks ass, this is great pr stuff ah yeah, I don't know if that would be a good pr stump, but I'm just saying it seems to be a coincidence that all that happened it and it actually might come out okay for her.
Speaker 2:So yeah's, she's. She's obviously a very talented songwriter, a great singer. She had she messed up on this, it's you know it should be just fine yeah.
Speaker 1:Skip, happens baby Skip happens. That's all it's about. So somebody wanted to find out more about you. I know you mentioned it earlier, but tell everybody where can they go. You've got a website that can follow you on socials. They can go to Vegas and see your show. Tell us about all that. Where can they get all that info? Again?
Speaker 2:I'm super easy, but don't tell anybody, okay, no, I'm fine.
Speaker 1:You are a standup comedian I like that Calituckercom C-A-L-I just like California.
Speaker 2:Calituckercom c-a-l-i just like california. Cali tucker, uh, click dates and all my dates will be listed right there for you guys. Um, with the address and everything um. And then my social media cali tucker music is my instagram, cali tucker is my tiktok and um at cali tucker officials, my facebook. And um, yeah, just google.
Speaker 2:Google show and watch some funny videos and get to know me and listen to country tour and watch that music video and, um, subscribe to all that because you'll get notifications when I'm releasing new music and what's coming and just different fun things.
Speaker 1:So yeah, why um the video was was exclusive on people, peoplecom.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:That's the way it happened I just thought I'd ask why.
Speaker 1:I have no idea. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2:I had a great interview with Tricia, the sweet lady that wrote the interview, and she had reached out to um, uh, my pr firm and said, okay, I know she's coming out with the, the video. I think it'd be really great if we, if we released it exclusively on peoplecom. How would y'all feel about that? We were very excited, um, that'd be a great opportunity to reach more followers and fans and more ears and and their readers. So of course, we wanted to to partner with them on this. It was a no brainer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, exactly, I was just curious.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I mean, it's kind of neat how it all happened and I was very, very grateful and honored that they would, that they would want to do that for me, so that they would want to do that for me. So you know, I'm not signed. I'm not a signed artist. So to stick their necks out for me in that way was like wow, thank you yeah absolutely A hundred percent, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about quickly, before I let you go, do you have anything planned? Are we going to see you on any of the big TV shows or anything like that? You know? I mean we get Kelly Clarkson, we got all these other shows on during the day. I see him in the in the radio station all the time with the TV monitors, but I don't know. Do you have anything coming up on the calendar where we're going to be able to actually see you, or are you so busy in Vegas?
Speaker 2:Oh, I, you know, literally, my ultimate goal is to do everything you're saying like to, to, to be able to tour, to be able to do TV shows, to be able to um. Yeah, we're moving in that direction, I, that's, that's absolutely what we're trying to do. But, as of now, nothing set. So if people want to see me, they have to go to the social medias and, uh, you know, know, follow me, watch the videos there, um and uh, and, of course, watch, watch these interviews and um, get to know me in that way. But, yeah, I mean, that's, that's all in the works, it's all all those things are possible and it's very cool one step closer to that every single day, you know.
Speaker 2:What I am excited about, though, is like the whole branding of country couture is my brand okay and clothing, clothing, right, yes, tell us, tell us. I gotta hear this so, um, I don't know what I would do if I wasn't singing, except for, maybe, being a fashion designer honestly like I love it so much.
Speaker 2:Um, I've taken maybe one sewing class. Unfortunately I don't. I don't know how to do it as well as I'd like to, but I do have the designs in my head and I I make them and I have other people sew them together. So, uh, country couture, uh, the clothing line um will launch with just merch at this point. Um, we're just going to get t-shirts and fun designs made um based off the song, and then I'm looking to partner with um other designers for the line uh to be launched by next year at some time.
Speaker 1:So I'm excited and it's going to be um western wear with an avant-garde couture flair that is obviously affordable for everybody to own and will be made in america ah, that's a big thing right there, and men and women yeah, oh yeah, okay, okay everybody's gonna have an opportunity to wear some of this stuff, so I'm glad you mentioned that, because I was gonna ask and it kind of slipped my mind that when you said about the branding, I'm going, ah, the clothing kind of asked my mind that's important, that's cool I'm doing.
Speaker 2:I'm juggling everything right now, so um hard to remember all the all the stuff that I've got going on. But yeah, that is super exciting because I've always wanted to design clothes and having the song come out during this time is just something.
Speaker 1:Great idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What a way to brand it. Absolutely, it's such a cool idea, especially from somebody like you, and I can also you're. You're doing all this performing in Vegas. You got your own thing going, but I could also see you, and I mentioned the TV shows before, but I could see you as a TV host or as one of those shows. You never know. It's the Kelly Tucker show starring blah blah blah, this old guy that did a podcast with me from Syracuse.
Speaker 2:He's no, I'm just kidding um honestly, I want to act really bad really like I, I, I would love to. I don't know if I'd be good at it. I'll be honest, I don't know, but I'd love to try my hand at it, just well, you must have an agent.
Speaker 1:Do you have an agent? I?
Speaker 2:Do you have an agent? I don't have an acting agent.
Speaker 1:Well, somebody could reach out to somebody that knows somebody who can call somebody, and then that somebody will call that somebody back to say get a hold of her, have her meet us at the office at four o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I just haven't made it a priority, that's all.
Speaker 1:You don't have time.
Speaker 2:Well, I want to make time Like. I'd rather make time for um I'd rather split a little bit my time at this point. I've been doing this for so long performing here. I'm ready for the next, the next little adventure, um, but yeah, acting seems like it would be either really up my alley or not at all, like I don't know. I just want to. I want to see if it's you don't know until you try yeah, yeah I mean, I know I like, I know I like making these videos.
Speaker 2:I think they're really fun to make. That I do on my social media, but I don't know. I've done a couple acting gigs where they were okay, but I'd like to just try different. I'd like to try my hand at a couple of different genres.
Speaker 1:You're in Vegas. You're close enough to the West coast where a lot of that goes on. You know LA and out that way and everybody here. It's like music but the acting side of it everybody's there trying to make a big as well. But you know, you don't know unless you try it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just got to, like you said, find an agent and go out there and and and also like modeling, like I want to do it all. You know I'm, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1:You're young. You're young, you've got the whole package. You can definitely do it, and do it while you're young. You know what I mean. You can get it done now, before you push yourself a little bit too far, and you're going to find your way, which is pretty cool, and it looks like you're already doing that with the branding and the song, and you know you've got the connections, you know the right people. You're related to some pretty famous people, obviously it's. You know. All that's a plus, all that's a big plus.
Speaker 2:So it's all a big plus. But at the same time, like I think I mean I'm really doing it on my own, like I haven't. You know, not like capitalizing as on the name, like, and I I'm still trying to get my foot in the door in country music. You know and and do all that. So you know, it's still like it's, I'm still struggling and and and working through, you know, all the things that any, any other normal person would be doing if they're trying to break into the industry.
Speaker 2:So you know, I, um, I still very, very humbled by all of it, you know I yeah I'm glad I'm able to work and sing and make a living doing it, whereas when I was in living in nashville I couldn't. I couldn and make a living doing it, whereas when I was living in Nashville I couldn't. I couldn't make a living singing. So there's-. I got you. I feel I'm in a good spot, but yeah, like I'm definitely ready. I've been building this rocket for all these years. I have been searching out all these pieces to build this rocket and all I need right now is a match.
Speaker 1:Light the fuse. Baby, you're ready to go. I know You're going to do it. You're going to do it. There's no doubt in my mind. Kelly Tucker, you know I just thoroughly enjoyed having this conversation with you, getting to know you a little bit. I guess I'm going to have to jump on a plane and fly out and check out one of your shows and mark my word. I'll be there. I'll let you know when I'm coming.
Speaker 2:I'll do it. I can't wait. I can't wait.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I have to go. Let's see When's the best time of the year to go to Vegas, in your opinion oh um, you know, listen, anytime is honestly good.
Speaker 2:Sorry, anytime is good because everything has got so much ac. You go into these casinos it's 60 degrees, you're freezing to death. So you walk outside. You're like god dang, it's hot.
Speaker 1:So I mean anytime it's a good time to come to vegas, seriously no joke, no joke, all right, I Well, you may just see me pop in someday. Who knows, who knows Kelly Tucker, skip Happens Tonight, thank you, thank you so much for hanging out and just chatting and finding out about you and the music that you're putting out and your show in Vegas. Everything about you is just it's pretty awesome and, like I say, I really appreciate you taking the time. I know there's a five-hour time difference and are you singing tonight?
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, I'm listening at the Wynn at a place called Delilah tonight.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. And you said that it's three to five hours. What time do you start there?
Speaker 2:I will be there. My show will be nine to twelve tonight.
Speaker 1:It's cutting it close. I can't, yeah, no, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding Kelly Tucker. Thank you for joining us here tonight and make sure, if you're watching this, listening to this, check out the music, and you know, google her and everything's going to come up. She's amazing, mark. My word, she's amazing, and we just wish you a lot of luck in your career as well. You know I do a no kidding aside, I do. I always like to follow up with people that I've interviewed and I'll show up at a show somewhere somehow, so, but I'll always let you know if I'm coming.
Speaker 2:So I would love. I hope so, I really do. I appreciate all you listeners out there. Thank you guys for listening to country couture. It is on Spotify, Apple music, YouTube and uh, uh, whatever streaming services you, you guys, have, so thanks for the support.
Speaker 1:So many now, so many it's crazy. All right, uh, stay right there. Thank you for joining us tonight. Kelly Tucker, right here on, skip happens. Good night.