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Exclusive Interview with The Isaacs
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Jan 29, 2025
The Isaacs are enjoying their first, but hopefully not last, time on the Country Music Cruise. The family band talked with us backstage about why they love being on the Country Music Cruise, the importance of the Grand Ole Opry, and also gave us big, BIG news about their next album.
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hey guys it's Gail with everything Nash
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backstage at the Country Music Cruise
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with the
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ISX I'm so excited that they're here
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okay this is your first hopefully not
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last Country Music Cruise talk about it
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well we felt so honored to be invited on
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this last year and we've been looking
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forward to it all year um it's great you
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know it's a different group of people a
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lot of them have never heard us before
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so we're hopefully making some new fans
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this this year but to be on here with
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all of our peers and other artists that
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we love so much it's so great to get to
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all their shows and hear them live and
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and just it's just been a great
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experience so far we're having a great
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time well hopefully we will see more of
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them on the Country Music Cruise one of
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the things you're doing you have two
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opery related shows which leads me into
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what it feels like to be oery members
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oh well you know somebody asked uh asked
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us when we became members what it felt
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like to be opery members and the only
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thing I could think of to say was what
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does it what does it mean for you for me
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to be an opery member you know it's
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something we've done for 30 years we've
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played the opery for 30 years and it's
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always felt like home but it's always
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been like hey we we're allowed to sit on
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the porch and but now we're allowed in
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the house and visit you know so it's
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it's great it's incredible you know it's
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it's one of the one of the most
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spiritually or Earthly I would say it's
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probably the most amazing thing that's
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ever happened to me personally so I'm
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other than my wife and my kids he had to
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say can I add something that so uh like
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then said we've been going to the oper
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for many many years and the night that
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we actually got inducted which we didn't
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know we were going to be inducted into
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the oper asked they gave our ear packs
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to us and everybody had their name on
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them Sonia Ben Becky mine had mom on the
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ear pack and I showed my kids I what is
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it ever since then my ear pack says mom
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and everybody on the opery calls me Mom
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oh I'm opery mom Dan Rogers B me a shirt
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or made a shirt an opera Mom oh I love
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that I love that and I know you guys
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perform at the Opera a lot you guys also
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have one of the busiest touring
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schedules of any band right now and that
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is such a big deal coordinating
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everything with so many people in your
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group talk about what why you want to
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keep touring so much well we love to
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tour I mean live music to me is where
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it's at you know one thing that's really
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weird about 2025 and it's beautiful but
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anybody can be an artist but until you
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see them live do you really see the true
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talent and understand what they can do
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and how well they can do it and so my
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favorite thing is to see an artist live
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and more than like YouTube can be great
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and the videos are awesome but there's
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nothing like a live show um to just
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really highlight and get to know them
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really you get to know your your your
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favorite artists by seeing them in shows
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and so we love to perform life and I
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wanted to add um you know after 2020
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when none of us could tour for almost a
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whole year it's given us a different
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passion for touring and and appreciation
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for being back out there and the fans
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you know getting to have them come back
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in and some of them are still slow
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trickling like back into the groove of
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it but we just love being with the
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people we love getting to meet them and
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talk to them after the shows and and it
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really means a lot to us the fans and we
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wouldn't be out here without them so we
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like to go see them once in a while it's
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such a diverse show if you get to have a
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chance go see the isacs okay new music
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what's happening we have a brand new CD
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that just came out in October of this
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past year and it's called Praise And
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worship more than a hollow Hallelujah
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and it's a collection of 11 songs of
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praise and worship CCM songs like the
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goodness of God you say uh Reckless Love
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um oceans and Psalm 23 a bunch of songs
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that have been huge songs in that world
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we've never sang them before and so we
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recorded them our style uh and also
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added one original song that we wrote
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that's the title more than a hollow
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Hallelujah so we're it's doing really
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well and it's been a different uh thing
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for us to do and it's opened a lot of
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doors for us to do something in that
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world as well
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and and tell them about we also recorded
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um this past year a country
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record with Dave
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Cobb the Dave cob so we've not talked
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about it yet we don't know when it's
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coming out we just we're trying to find
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the right home for it and the right
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place for it but let me just tell you
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it's it's incredible I mean just the the
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feel of it is it's it's highly anointed
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is country Bluegrass positive it is it's
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a it's a country Americana
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um it's it's a it's a ethereal type you
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know we recorded it in in at RCA the big
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room in RCA we did almost all the vocals
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live so it is just just I don't even
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know how to explain it it's very
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different I it's hard to categorize it
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as a country record it probably more of
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an Americana record but it is it's a
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personal personal record 70s music like
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to me like a the sound of witch lineman
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or something like that you know those
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kind of sounds that
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come together with like an Americana
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folky sound I don't know how to describe
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it either well Dave produces Chris
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Stapleton and he's won lots of awards
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for him and with him and I kind of I
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think it's kind of like a mix between
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Alinda ronat 70s country rock album and
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Chris Stapleton record it's got elements
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of all that stuff so I we're excited for
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y'all to hear it and just help us pray
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that it it uh reaches the right Avenue
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to be out to the people and then when it
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comes out we'll have to talk again oh
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well let's do it The Isaacs guys
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