# Takin’ A Walk Nashville: Steve Goetzman of Exile Reflects on Band's Journey and Nashville Music Legacy

An episode of [Takin’ A Walk Nashville](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1846859935), 10 Sep 2026, 24 min.

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What does it take for a band to remain relevant and beloved for over 60 years? Join us on this exciting episode of Takin’ A Walk Nashville as we dive deep into the incredible journey of the legendary band Exile with their talented drummer, Steve Goetzman. From their humble beginnings in Richmond, Kentucky, to topping both pop and country charts with unforgettable hits like "Kiss You All Over," Exile's story is a testament to resilience, friendship, and the magic of music. As we celebrate Nashville music, Steve shares his heartfelt reflections on the band's camaraderie and the gratitude they feel for still being able to tour and perform together. In our engaging interview podcast, we explore the evolution of Exile's music and their recent album, "Look Out Heart. " How has the recording process changed in today's digital age compared to the past? Steve provides fascinating insights, shedding light on how new technology has influenced their creative process while maintaining the essence of Nashville's music legacy. The conversation also touches on the challenges and joys of being a long-standing band, emphasizing the importance of maintaining friendships in the music industry. Steve recounts the excitement of performing at iconic venues, including the Grand Ole Opry. What does it feel like to share the stage with emerging artists in Nashville? How does Exile connect with their fans in this bustling music scene? Steve's stories will resonate with anyone who appreciates the rich tapestry of Nashville's music history. This episode of Takin’ A Walk Nashville is not just for die-hard Exile fans; it’s a celebration of the music industry leaders in Nashville and the bonds that keep musicians together. Whether you're interested in insights from songwriters like Jenn Johnson or the journey of artists like T. Graham Brown and Caylee Hammack, you’ll find inspiration in Steve's experiences. Tune in to hear how the band’s journey has shaped their identity and the fun they continue to have on stage. With the support of Buzz Knight Media Productions, we bring you this captivating episode filled with laughter, nostalgia, and a deep appreciation for the art of music. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with the heart and soul of Nashville's music scene. Join us for an unforgettable episode of Takin’ A Walk Nashville! </div> See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
[0:02] Speaker 2: Hey listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a
[0:06] Speaker 2: Walk Nashville. Today with me is drummer Steve Gitzman of Exile.
[0:13] Speaker 2: He has been the heartbeat of Exile for decades, holding
[0:17] Speaker 2: down the groove through massive genre shifts and generations of touring.
[0:23] Speaker 2: A little bit about Exile, they formed in 1963 looking
[0:27] Speaker 2: to play small clubs in Richmond, Kentucky. and then they
[0:31] Speaker 2: managed to top both the pop and country charts with
[0:34] Speaker 2: 18 hits collectively, including 11 number ones during their 60-year-long career.
[0:42] Speaker 2: You may know their iconic smash hit, Kiss You All Over.
[0:45] Speaker 2: It spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's pop
[0:48] Speaker 2: chart in 1978. It was used in the 1996 Adam
[0:54] Speaker 2: Sandler movie, Happy Gilmore. You may remember that scene. Exile
[1:00] Speaker 2: has written hits for other major label artists including Alabama,
[1:04] Speaker 2: Diamond Rio, and Restless Heart. The five members reformed in
[1:09] Speaker 2: 2008 and they continue to tour today. They just celebrated
[1:14] Speaker 2: their 60th anniversary as a band and they are releasing
[1:19] Speaker 2: a new album this October. It's called Look Out Heart
[1:24] Speaker 2: and they just released two singles off the new album,
[1:26] Speaker 2: Rain Keeps Falling and Look Out Heart. Join me today
[1:31] Speaker 2: as I speak with Steve Gitzman, the drummer of Exile.
[1:40] Speaker 1: Welcome to Takin' a Walk Nashville with your host, singer-songwriter
[1:44] Speaker 1: Sarah Harrelson.
[1:45] Speaker 2: Hi listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of the Takin'
[1:49] Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville podcast. Today with me is drummer Steve
[1:53] Speaker 2: Gitzman from the band Exile. Steve, how are you doing today?
[1:58] Speaker 1: Very well, Sarah, how are you?
[2:00] Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you for joining me while you guys
[2:03] Speaker 2: are on a break from your tour. In 2023, Exile
[2:09] Speaker 2: just celebrated 60 years together as a band and also
[2:14] Speaker 2: the 45th anniversary of your hit Kiss You All Over.
[2:17] Speaker 2: What does it mean to still be recording and touring
[2:21] Speaker 2: together as a band after all these years?
[2:24] Speaker 1: Well, we all feel a lot of gratitude that we
[2:26] Speaker 1: can still get out there and do it. We have
[2:33] Speaker 1: product out in the market, but we don't worry so
[2:36] Speaker 1: much anymore about hit records or album sales. It's now
[2:42] Speaker 1: more live performance centered, and it's like being a garage
[2:47] Speaker 1: band again. And it makes it a lot of fun.
[2:50] Speaker 1: And yes, we've been together for a very long time.
[2:54] Speaker 1: We're now in our 63rd year. And so we're like family, too.
[2:59] Speaker 2: That's amazing, especially after all these years. You know, it's
[3:03] Speaker 2: hard to keep a band together, especially with the original members.
[3:07] Speaker 2: Is there a secret sauce you guys have to staying
[3:11] Speaker 2: together after all these years?
[3:12] Speaker 1: Well, I think there are a lot of elements. First
[3:17] Speaker 1: of all, we were friends in Kentucky, in Lexington, Kentucky,
[3:21] Speaker 1: or in that region, and we grew up. uh, as
[3:24] Speaker 1: teenagers grew up together playing in different bands and playing
[3:28] Speaker 1: in the local clubs and recording studios. And so that
[3:33] Speaker 1: was all before we came together as exile. So there's
[3:38] Speaker 1: a lot of, um, there's a lot of history, uh, and,
[3:43] Speaker 1: and a reality base, if you will, amongst the five
[3:47] Speaker 1: of us, um, And so that's part of it. Our
[3:51] Speaker 1: Kentucky heritage is another part of it. And we just
[3:57] Speaker 1: like each other. At this point in our lives, most
[4:02] Speaker 1: of the egos are gone. And what's left are remnants.
[4:07] Speaker 1: So we've learned how to work together and coexist and
[4:14] Speaker 1: enjoy one another. And I've noticed recently we laugh a lot.
[4:19] Speaker 1: especially on the bus when we're traveling.
[4:23] Speaker 2: That's so important to get along and just have fun together.
[4:27] Speaker 2: Were you friends before you joined the band or walk
[4:33] Speaker 2: us through how you were introduced to joining the band
[4:37] Speaker 2: and what were you looking for as a drummer back then?
[4:40] Speaker 1: Well, yes, I knew everyone quite well before I joined.
[4:46] Speaker 1: I joined when I was 27. I guess the best
[4:49] Speaker 1: place to start would be I was working as a
[4:52] Speaker 1: session drummer in Lexington. And some of the guys in
[4:58] Speaker 1: the group at that time would come in and perform
[5:03] Speaker 1: on sessions. And so I was playing with them. And
[5:09] Speaker 1: during the session, we were doing stuff like country albums
[5:12] Speaker 1: for people and lots of local jingles, gospel albums. And
[5:18] Speaker 1: so we became a pretty tight rhythm section in the studio.
[5:23] Speaker 1: They had a different drummer at the time. And then
[5:28] Speaker 1: things changed. They were a pop band. They were a
[5:31] Speaker 1: rock band evolving to pop. And I was better suited
[5:37] Speaker 1: as a pop drummer than the drummer that they had.
[5:40] Speaker 1: So it just evolved. He was an incredible drummer. And
[5:44] Speaker 1: he had huge shoes to fill. But it was a
[5:47] Speaker 1: different direction. And so they asked me to come on board,
[5:53] Speaker 1: which I did, and I'm very glad I did.
[5:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have had such a tremendous career, as
[5:59] Speaker 2: I mentioned. You're currently on tour, many stops along the way,
[6:03] Speaker 2: and it looks like you guys have three shows in
[6:07] Speaker 2: Tennessee coming up, correct?
[6:11] Speaker 1: Yes. We also have some Alabama shows. They've been using
[6:15] Speaker 1: us on a number of their dates. which is just
[6:19] Speaker 1: really nice because we're good friends with them and have
[6:21] Speaker 1: been for years, decades, in fact. And it's amazing. They
[6:26] Speaker 1: still pack arenas. They can sell out 15,000, 20,000 seats consistently.
[6:33] Speaker 1: So it puts us back on the big stages. And
[6:38] Speaker 1: the production is incredible. And the people are incredible. And
[6:42] Speaker 1: the guys are friends of ours. So That's really cool.
[6:46] Speaker 1: Along with it, we're playing a lot of performing arts centers.
[6:49] Speaker 1: And then during the summer months, we play some fairs
[6:52] Speaker 1: and festivals.
[6:53] Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you have a lot of festivals on
[6:55] Speaker 2: the lineup for the remainder of this year. Exile is
[7:00] Speaker 2: also performing at the 70s Rock and Romance Cruise next March.
[7:05] Speaker 2: That should be fun. Are you excited to perform on
[7:09] Speaker 2: the cruise ship?
[7:11] Speaker 1: Sure. This is our second time in. it's funny, you know,
[7:15] Speaker 1: it's all these heritage rock acts, um, performing on board
[7:20] Speaker 1: and we have one big pop hit. So we, we
[7:23] Speaker 1: kind of snuck in there with one hit. And so
[7:28] Speaker 1: we get the, we get the hang, you know, with
[7:30] Speaker 1: all these people that we looked up to all those
[7:32] Speaker 1: years and admired. And now everybody's, uh, it's like, it's friendly. And, uh,
[7:39] Speaker 1: so we have a great time performing. It's an easy, uh,
[7:43] Speaker 1: gig i mean you're on board for four or five
[7:46] Speaker 1: days and you play like two 60 minute shows and
[7:49] Speaker 1: that's it you know the rest of it's just fun.
[7:53] Speaker 2: Yeah you don't have to move the drum kit constantly for.
[7:56] Speaker 1: That yeah we get our own stage so once it's
[7:59] Speaker 1: set it's set.
[8:01] Speaker 2: That's great listeners can find all upcoming shows on your
[8:04] Speaker 2: website in addition to touring exile also just released two
[8:08] Speaker 2: new singles this year Rain Keeps Fallin' and Look Out
[8:12] Speaker 2: Heart both are singles off the upcoming album Look Out Heart.
[8:16] Speaker 2: It releases this October. Steve, tell me about this new
[8:20] Speaker 2: album and how it came together.
[8:23] Speaker 1: Well, again, we're very fortunate. We're signed to a label
[8:28] Speaker 1: out of Florida, Clearwater Records. And, you know, at this
[8:33] Speaker 1: point in our careers, we're actually... kind of surprised that
[8:38] Speaker 1: we have a record deal and that we're still able
[8:40] Speaker 1: to record. Sarah, we always played on all of our records.
[8:45] Speaker 1: That wasn't always the case with country acts, particularly out
[8:49] Speaker 1: of Nashville. We're very proud of that. Everything you hear
[8:54] Speaker 1: on our records is us, and the same is true today.
[8:58] Speaker 1: We've been recording for Clearwater for some time now. We have,
[9:01] Speaker 1: I think, three studio albums with them. The most recent
[9:06] Speaker 1: We finished this year, earlier this year. It's called Look
[9:09] Speaker 1: Out Heart. And the title track was the first single.
[9:14] Speaker 1: And then now we have a second single called Rain
[9:17] Speaker 1: Keeps Falling.
[9:19] Speaker 2: Great singles. I was listening to them yesterday. I'm looking
[9:22] Speaker 2: forward to the upcoming album. Being in the studio for
[9:27] Speaker 2: this album, what does the recording process feel like for
[9:31] Speaker 2: the five of you today compared to when you were
[9:34] Speaker 2: recording in the 70s and the 80s?
[9:37] Speaker 1: Boy, it's really changed with technology particularly. Back in the
[9:43] Speaker 1: olden days, we would all go into the studio together
[9:47] Speaker 1: with a producer. By the time we got there, we
[9:51] Speaker 1: would have spent time in rehearsal with the new material.
[9:57] Speaker 1: But now it's entirely different. Our primary writers, of course,
[10:01] Speaker 1: are in the band, Sonny LaMere and JP Pennington. For
[10:06] Speaker 1: this album, they joined with another writer, Sarah. I'm sorry,
[10:13] Speaker 1: her last name escapes me right now. The three of
[10:16] Speaker 1: them wrote everything on the album. She lives here in Nashville,
[10:22] Speaker 1: as does Sonny. JP lives in Lexington, Kentucky still. So
[10:26] Speaker 1: they write by Zoom. Okay. And so once they've written
[10:31] Speaker 1: the song, then the guys shoot it out to us,
[10:36] Speaker 1: and we hear it. And then they accompany that with
[10:39] Speaker 1: ideas for basically basic ideas of what we should play
[10:44] Speaker 1: and sing. Then, uh, JP goes into a studio in
[10:49] Speaker 1: Lexington and he puts down some basic tracks. Uh, he
[10:55] Speaker 1: puts down the guitars and, uh, some percussion and then
[11:00] Speaker 1: he'll sing. Uh, if it's his lead vocal, he'll do that.
[11:05] Speaker 1: If it's, if less is going to do the lead vocal,
[11:07] Speaker 1: then less comes over. Less lives in Lexington too. Less
[11:10] Speaker 1: comes over and puts down his lead vocal. Once that's done, then, uh,
[11:17] Speaker 1: Sonny and Marlon, I don't sing. Sonny and Marlon will
[11:19] Speaker 1: drive to Lexington and spend a day doing background vocals
[11:22] Speaker 1: or two days, however long it takes. So then all
[11:26] Speaker 1: those tracks are shipped down to Nashville to a studio.
[11:31] Speaker 1: And then I go in and put in my drum parts.
[11:35] Speaker 1: And that usually takes two days to cover all the tracks.
[11:38] Speaker 1: As soon as I'm finished, Marlon comes in and puts
[11:41] Speaker 1: his tracks down, the keyboard's. And then we have all
[11:45] Speaker 1: the tracks, and then it's just a matter of mixing
[11:46] Speaker 1: and mastering.
[11:48] Speaker 3: So in a way, it kind of loses its family feel,
[11:54] Speaker 3: but it works.
[12:00] Speaker 1: And we all feel that this is the best music
[12:02] Speaker 1: we've ever made. JP and Sonny are producing, and it's phenomenal. Sonically,
[12:08] Speaker 1: it's the best we've ever done. And so, heck. which
[12:13] Speaker 1: is good news for us.
[12:16] Speaker 2: It's definitely different when you don't have to all be
[12:19] Speaker 2: in a live room to track anymore. You mentioned to
[12:24] Speaker 2: Modern Drummer Magazine about the evolution of playing to a
[12:28] Speaker 2: click track in Pro Tools. And when you were first
[12:32] Speaker 2: tracking your first few albums, it was... live vocal and instruments,
[12:37] Speaker 2: and now you're playing to a click track. Was it
[12:41] Speaker 2: tough to kind of adapt from the natural feel to
[12:45] Speaker 2: playing to a grid?
[12:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think every drummer I've ever heard of has
[12:51] Speaker 1: kicked up some dust when they had to start playing
[12:55] Speaker 1: to a click track. You like to think that you
[12:58] Speaker 1: can hold a groove and playing to a click track
[13:02] Speaker 1: is unnatural, but it's not. it's just a different perspective.
[13:10] Speaker 1: If you're doing a really good job, you bury the click.
[13:13] Speaker 1: In other words, if you're right on it, you really
[13:16] Speaker 1: can't even hear it. If you get off, you can
[13:18] Speaker 1: hear it. But it's nice. I played to a click
[13:24] Speaker 1: on stage for a long time, and I was the
[13:27] Speaker 1: only one playing to a click. So my band members
[13:30] Speaker 1: would get excited and pull me in one direction or
[13:32] Speaker 1: another in it. and it was a battle, but now
[13:36] Speaker 1: we're all playing to a click on stage, and it's great.
[13:40] Speaker 1: I mean, we just lock into the grooves like we
[13:43] Speaker 1: never have before, and everybody enjoys it.
[13:46] Speaker 2: That's great. So before, when everyone was getting used to it,
[13:49] Speaker 2: would you just turn the click off when everyone was
[13:52] Speaker 2: kind of in different places?
[13:54] Speaker 1: Yeah, occasionally. Most of the time, I could hold them.
[13:58] Speaker 1: They would stay with me, but Sometimes it did get outrageous,
[14:01] Speaker 1: and I'd just have ring children turn it off.
[14:05] Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, you've definitely grown with Evolution as a band,
[14:10] Speaker 2: and it's a treat to have a drummer on the
[14:12] Speaker 2: podcast today. We usually interview artists, guitar players. But I'm
[14:18] Speaker 2: sure I have a lot of listeners on today that
[14:21] Speaker 2: are also drummers, including my husband. Steve, I want to know,
[14:26] Speaker 2: what's your preferred drum kit and brands?
[14:30] Speaker 1: Oh, I love Yamaha. I had a Pearl endorsement for years,
[14:34] Speaker 1: and that was really great. I think they gave me
[14:36] Speaker 1: a total of five kits over as many years, and
[14:43] Speaker 1: that was really a Pearl, our great drums. But at
[14:46] Speaker 1: the end of the day, Yamaha is my pick, and
[14:50] Speaker 1: that's what I'm playing now.
[14:52] Speaker 2: Awesome. And behind you, is that an electric or practice kit?
[14:57] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's the new Alesis kit. It's a practice kit,
[15:03] Speaker 1: so I didn't buy anything to use on stage. They're
[15:06] Speaker 1: like the bottom of the top of the line rated
[15:10] Speaker 1: electric kits, and I'm really enjoying it.
[15:14] Speaker 2: Yeah, we have one here. I definitely like that kit. Well,
[15:17] Speaker 2: thanks for giving us information on your drum brands. So
[15:23] Speaker 2: I want to talk about your band's hit, Kiss You
[15:25] Speaker 2: All Over. It spent four weeks at number one on
[15:28] Speaker 2: the pop charts in 1978. When that song exploded, you
[15:33] Speaker 2: found yourselves playing on stages with everyone from Aerosmith to
[15:37] Speaker 2: Fleetwood Mac. What's a favorite memory of yours from that
[15:42] Speaker 2: wild crossover era?
[15:45] Speaker 1: Well, as long as I live, I'll never forget the
[15:47] Speaker 1: first night that we hit the road with a huge
[15:52] Speaker 1: hit record. We have been playing fraternity parties and nightclubs.
[15:59] Speaker 1: And occasionally we'd get in and open for somebody like
[16:02] Speaker 1: we did open for Fleetwood Mac early on. But then
[16:06] Speaker 1: suddenly we had, well, the hottest record in the country.
[16:11] Speaker 1: And so they told us to hang on, cancel all
[16:15] Speaker 1: your shows, and wait. So we did that. I think
[16:17] Speaker 1: we waited about a month or six weeks. And the
[16:20] Speaker 1: very next show, we opened for Aerosmith at Market Square
[16:23] Speaker 1: Arena in Indianapolis to a sold-out house. I remember... Going
[16:29] Speaker 1: up those stairs to get on the stage, and I
[16:32] Speaker 1: had chills all over me. It was like going from
[16:37] Speaker 1: zero to 120 in an instant.
[16:40] Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, and then decades later... The same song
[16:45] Speaker 2: resurfaced again. It found a whole new generation of fans
[16:49] Speaker 2: through movies like Happy Gilmore and Employee of the Month.
[16:53] Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you saw Adam Sandler singing
[16:57] Speaker 2: along to your groove on the big screen?
[17:00] Speaker 1: Oh, it was a treat. That song's like the Energizer Bunny.
[17:05] Speaker 1: It just will not quit. And it's given us a
[17:09] Speaker 1: great career. What a blessing. And when the song was,
[17:13] Speaker 1: our producer wrote it. And when it was brought to us,
[17:16] Speaker 1: we weren't really sure what to think of it because
[17:19] Speaker 1: it was so different from everything that we were doing.
[17:24] Speaker 1: So we worked it up, of course, and recorded it.
[17:26] Speaker 1: And then we started playing it live and it got
[17:28] Speaker 1: no reaction at all until it hit the radio. And
[17:32] Speaker 1: then it was gangbusters from that point on.
[17:36] Speaker 2: Most of your songs are so crossover, like you mentioned,
[17:40] Speaker 2: shifting from rock to pop to country. Was it a
[17:45] Speaker 2: challenge for you at all shifting the genres you were
[17:49] Speaker 2: playing as a drummer, or did you always enjoy being
[17:53] Speaker 2: a crossover genre band?
[17:56] Speaker 1: No, it wasn't a struggle at all, really, because we
[18:00] Speaker 1: had all done so much session work. You know, as
[18:04] Speaker 1: a session musician, you have to be a chameleon. If
[18:07] Speaker 1: a country client comes in, you play country. If a
[18:09] Speaker 1: gospel client comes in, you know, we play gospel, pop.
[18:13] Speaker 1: You know, you're doing all the different formats in the studio.
[18:15] Speaker 1: So we were all sort of well-versed in the different formats.
[18:23] Speaker 1: And we all always shared the same tastes. All of
[18:29] Speaker 1: us grew up loving what we heard on the radio,
[18:31] Speaker 1: Top 40 radio. stuff and we all gravitated towards R &
[18:35] Speaker 1: B as youngsters. But when you grow up in Central Kentucky,
[18:41] Speaker 1: you're going to play a lot of country music. We
[18:44] Speaker 1: played mostly country music in clubs up there, so we
[18:49] Speaker 1: had that under our belt. When we made the decision
[18:53] Speaker 1: to switch from pop to country, it was a natural evolution.
[19:00] Speaker 1: We went into a basement of a piece of rental
[19:03] Speaker 1: property that I had at the time and spent six
[19:06] Speaker 1: weeks transforming from pop to country with the new material.
[19:14] Speaker 1: But it was all natural, Sarah. It was just not
[19:18] Speaker 1: a struggle at all.
[19:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. That's amazing. Exile made their Opry
[19:24] Speaker 2: debut in 2008. You guys have logged well over 120
[19:29] Speaker 2: appearances on the Opry stage, and you openly shared that
[19:34] Speaker 2: becoming official members of the Opry family, it's an ongoing dream.
[19:38] Speaker 2: What would that formal invitation mean to you and your
[19:42] Speaker 2: band at this point in your career?
[19:44] Speaker 1: It would be incredible. Honestly, Sarah, I don't think it's
[19:49] Speaker 1: going to happen. It's not that we're not qualified, but
[19:55] Speaker 1: we do have an R & B bent to our
[19:58] Speaker 1: country music. And I think that will disqualify us. Our
[20:02] Speaker 1: manager disagrees. I'm glad that he does. And he has
[20:05] Speaker 1: an ongoing campaign to have us inducted. It would be
[20:10] Speaker 1: incredible if we were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
[20:17] Speaker 1: We admire those people, those artists, members so much. And
[20:23] Speaker 1: when we get out there, there's a lot of artists
[20:26] Speaker 1: around when you play the Opry. And so it's kind
[20:30] Speaker 1: of old home week. We touch base with artists we
[20:33] Speaker 1: haven't seen in a while on the road. And of course,
[20:36] Speaker 1: the audience is incredible. They play seats, I think, about 5,000.
[20:39] Speaker 1: It's usually settled out. The production's fantastic. You have to
[20:44] Speaker 1: run on and run off. You get two songs, maybe three.
[20:48] Speaker 1: You don't play your own gear. You play what's there.
[20:51] Speaker 1: And so it's a little chaotic, but boy, there's so
[20:55] Speaker 1: much prestige and status being involved. We'd love to be members.
[20:59] Speaker 2: Isn't there a rule on the Opry stage that you
[21:03] Speaker 2: can't mess with the drum kit? Like you can't change
[21:06] Speaker 2: the height.
[21:07] Speaker 1: Of Well, you know, they expect you not to. It's
[21:13] Speaker 1: not a rule, not a formal rule. But for obvious reasons,
[21:19] Speaker 1: there's so little time between acts. It's a professional courtesy
[21:25] Speaker 1: between drummers to not move or move as little as
[21:28] Speaker 1: you possibly can. I'll make an adjustment to the hi-hat
[21:31] Speaker 1: height usually and maybe the tilt on the snare drum
[21:34] Speaker 1: and that's about it. Eddie Bears and Matthew Beckett are
[21:39] Speaker 1: the two regular drummers on the show, both of them
[21:43] Speaker 1: monster session players. So if nothing else, out of respect
[21:50] Speaker 1: for them, I make sure that I don't make too
[21:53] Speaker 1: many alterations.
[21:54] Speaker 2: Right. Well, I fully support your manager's campaign for getting
[22:00] Speaker 2: you guys a formal invitation to join the Opry team.
[22:04] Speaker 2: I think it's well-deserved. Putting it out here on the
[22:07] Speaker 2: universe for our podcast listeners, you have performed at the
[22:10] Speaker 2: Opry so many times. Steve, it's been a treat having
[22:14] Speaker 2: you on Taking a Walk Nashville today. My last question
[22:17] Speaker 2: for you, we're on Taking a Walk Nashville, so what's
[22:21] Speaker 2: your all-time favorite studio you have ever walked into and
[22:26] Speaker 2: recorded in Nashville?
[22:29] Speaker 1: Well, I guess our history, we have a history in
[22:32] Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but in Nashville, when we started turning into
[22:40] Speaker 1: a country band, we started recording at the sound shop
[22:44] Speaker 1: that was owned by Buddy Killen, who was our producer
[22:47] Speaker 1: at the time. It's since been leveled and other things
[22:51] Speaker 1: have been built. But that was a legendary studio. And
[22:55] Speaker 1: we did, I think, probably four or five albums there.
[22:58] Speaker 1: And so that's really where my heart is.
[23:02] Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, and as you mentioned, today it sounds
[23:05] Speaker 2: like you do a lot of recording in multiple studios,
[23:09] Speaker 2: some in Lexington, and then it sounds like you record
[23:12] Speaker 2: your drums here in Nashville.
[23:14] Speaker 1: Right.
[23:14] Speaker 2: That's great. Well, Steve, thank you so much for being
[23:17] Speaker 2: on the podcast today. Listeners can look forward to Exile's
[23:22] Speaker 2: upcoming shows. Find it on your website and also your
[23:27] Speaker 2: upcoming album, Look Out Heart, that releases this October. Steve,
[23:32] Speaker 2: thank you again.
[23:33] Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Sarah. Thanks for listening to Taking a
[23:38] Speaker 1: Walk Nashville with Sarah Harrelson. Please check out our other
[23:42] Speaker 1: shows produced by BuzzNight Media Productions.
[23:45] Speaker 2: Comedy Saved Me and Music Saved Me, hosted by Lynn Hoffman,
[23:50] Speaker 2: and Taking a Walk, hosted by yours truly, Buzz Knight.
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