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Exclusive Country Music Cruise Interview with Wade Hayes.
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Jan 29, 2025
Wade Hayes talks about why he keeps coming back on the Country Music Cruise, new music, the big dream he still hopes comes true in his career, and much more.
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hey guys it's Gale with everything Nash
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on the Country Music Cruise with a
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fantabulous way hay thanks for joining
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us I'm glad to be here how are you I'm
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good I'm glad you're here you looking
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good well thank you and so are you oh
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yeah I'm looking great you're looking
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fantastic um why do you want to do the
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cruise um I enjoy it I I really here
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lately I've been um really thinking
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about my life and things a lot and one
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of the few things one of the very few
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things in this life that I actually
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enjoy is making people happy and the
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rest of it the traveling the everything
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is tough and uh especially now that I've
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got you know all the stuff going on at
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home it's tougher but I sincerely love
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watching somebody's smile if I bring
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back a memory of when we were all
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younger and were hit songs on the radio
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that we enjoyed and if they liked one of
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my songs that brings back a memory to
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them I get a kick out of that and I
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sincerely love it so that's why I do it
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and there are a lot of people from our
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demo that um were there when these songs
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came out and they were current on the
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radio and that's why I do it and I don't
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think people who haven't been on the
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cruise realize how like artists are so
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accessible like you hang out with them
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you're where they are yeah I just had
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dinner with some folks that I had no
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idea who they were but but uh they knew
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the old stuff and and came by and had a
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good visit so and that's why you're
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coming back next year yes I'll come back
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as long as they have me all right well
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we love having you I want to talk about
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your music too old country still rocks
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yeah talk about it that is an album I
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could have made four of with ease it was
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so very difficult to find songs that
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it's it's an album of covers by the way
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the title track old country still rocks
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is a song that I wrote and it was just
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me and and songs that I loved mentioning
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artists that were influential to me and
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stuff that I loved and um it still means
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a lot to people like I said and and
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younger folks this last two years I get
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ahead of myself forgive me but
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especially the last two years we've seen
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a
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huge um influx of younger people and um
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kind of Rejuvenation of the 90s era when
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I was having hits and these kids were
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riding around in their Pop's truck
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listening to my records and their old
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man was going I dig this guy and um I
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remember that exact feeling riding
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around in my dad's truck listening to
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Merl Haggard Willie neelson that's how I
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became Die Hard fans of theirs so the
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same things happened except I'm the old
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guy now and they we remember your stuff
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listening in our dad's truck and um so
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these kids are coming to the shows and
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there's a huge Resurgence of 90s sound
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and I'm tickled to death I'm still
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around and getting to enjoy it that's
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you answered my follow-up question how
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you feel about so many artists citing
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you and other 90s artists as the
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inspiration for the music that's coming
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out it it really means a lot to me
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because there there Comes A Time there
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there's like a lull or was a bit of a
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lull in between you know you're coming
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off finally you know your stuff is not
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played as much on the radio and then um
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now that it's starting to get played
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again and um well recently I saw a kid
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named zap Zack top yeah so and he was
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singing one of my songs on a u a Tik Tok
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video and he and Dirks Bentley were
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doing one of my Tunes in concert wow and
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I thought man that I wish I could tell
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them how much that means to me because
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it really does it brought a tear to my
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eye somebody actually thought thought
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about me in that way you know hear your
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name a lot when I talk to newer artists
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about inspiration it it means I wish I
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could tell them how much it means to me
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because I don't think they have any idea
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okay well I'll tell them next time I
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talk please do uh we have to talk about
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one more thing this week you are
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celebrating an anniversary on the cruise
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yes six years and I believe she liked me
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for about six months of that six years
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so we've got that going for okay I'm
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kidding those are just jokes but yeah we
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got married right before the cruise uh
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January 25th th six years ago oh wow so
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the 25th will be six years and we we
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celebrate it every year on the cruise
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well happy anniversary to you thank you
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anything else we need to talk about
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coming up this year um just a lot we're
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we're busy and touring you're like you
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have coner dates out playing all over
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the United States as soon as I get home
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I take off to North Carolina then jump
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on a plane to
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Arizona and all points in between and um
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starting to work on a new Rec
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um I've got enough Tunes
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written uh to do a new project and I'm
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I'm really torn between doing an actual
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greatest hits album or doing all new
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Tunes because I really I'm weird about
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visiting the past I always kind of want
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to look forward as far as music goes
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because I still have one dream that I
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have not realized in my life and that's
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to have another artist record a song
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that I wrote and have a hit on it oh and
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that is my one that I did not get to
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realize yet yes and so that's what I'm
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striving for so I continue to write
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songs and make records and hopefully
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somebody will hear something that turns
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them on and record it I hope next year
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we're talking about how that happened we
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spoke it and it happened this year that
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would make the whole journey complete
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for me all right well next year I'm
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holding us to it all right wait H guys
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