#266 - Lee Greenwood on The Legacy of “God Bless the USA” and it Going No.1 for the 1st Time + Conspiracy Theories About Musicians + Scarlett Burke Creator of “Make It Up As We Go”
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Bobby Bones talks to Lee Greenwood about all of his No. 1 hits from the 80’s and how “God Bless the USA” just went No. 1 for the first time in 2020. Lee talks about how he wrote the song alone in the back of his bus and it was never intended to be a single. Bobby and Eddie talk about famous (and sometimes weird) conspiracy theories about musicians and whether they believe them or not. Bobby talks to Scarlett Burke, creator and star of the new podcast “Make It Up As We Go” which features voices by Miranda Lambert, Dennis Quaid, and Bobby himself!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 266. |
| 0:03.8 | We'll talk to Lee Greenwood on the legacy of God Bless the USA and the fact that it just |
| 0:08.0 | went number one for the first time ever. |
| 0:09.8 | Eddie O'Combai will talk conspiracy theories about famous musicians, which is pretty wild. |
| 0:15.1 | Some of these got to be true. |
| 0:16.3 | And then Scarlett Burke from The Make It Up as We Go Podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Alright, my top five picks this week as far as new music. |
| 0:23.2 | Number five, Matt Stell has an EP called Better Than That. |
| 0:27.2 | Now you may know this song everywhere but on. |
| 0:29.2 | And here is the title track that's called Better Than That. |
| 0:36.2 | At number four on my top five, Portugal demand and Weird Out Yankovic teamed up for |
| 0:49.6 | a song called Who's Gonna Stop Me. |
| 0:52.0 | And here's a clip of that. |
| 0:53.0 | We're all just digging out your little back out. |
| 1:00.0 | If you don't know who Weird Al is, I mean when I was a kid, he was the parody king. |
| 1:06.6 | He had parodies that were so big, the videos got played on MTV. |
| 1:10.7 | So I don't know that I love the song that I just think that's pretty cool that he's |
| 1:13.9 | on a song with Portugal demand. |
| 1:16.4 | At number three, there is a deluxe edition of Tom Petty's 1994 album Wild Flowers, which |
| 1:20.6 | I love. |
| 1:22.2 | It's a new four CD set, Wild Flowers and all the rest. |
| 1:25.6 | It has outtake, live cuts, demos, home recordings. |
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