Building hills with John Rich
Cadillac Jack - My Second Act
Hans Appen
2.4 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Nashville's own John Rich is a special guest on this episode of Cadillac Jack: My Second Act. When Caddy and Donna finish reminiscing about the Topless Taqueria del Agua, John phones in to talk to the pair himself. From bars that close at 9 to the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, it seems like we've seen it all. If there's one person who attest to that, it's John Rich.
John explains how he got into business with someone from Portland, why Redneck Riviera moved down to Kentucky and the 110 college grants they've been able to fund through Folds of Honor. JR talks about how he ended up writing "Mississippi Girl" for Faith Hill. Then he answers a longtime question of Caddy's - "As a songwriter, what does it mean to have some of your work put on hold for an artist that you're… unsure about?"
John responds with a story from the early 2000's when a little-known Georgian wanted to reserve some of his songs. It goes to show that sometimes you have to just cross your fingers and "never ask why."
Cadillac Jack asks JR about Guitar Licks n' Politics. That's the up and coming project combining conservative, spitfire personalities and the best of country music. It goes without being said, you already know who has the 5 am slot.
John talks about family, too, like what it really means to perform in those trademark rhinestone jeans from Granny (Ann) Rich. Plus the conversations he has been having with his sons Colt and Cash over the course of this rocky year.
There's only one question John Rich leaves unanswered- what did they just dig up in Turkey?
If you know the answer, fill us in at 770-464-6024.
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| 0:00.0 | is there things he doesn't want to talk about are you kidding like mr potato head |
| 0:04.1 | no those are all just trust me i'm just not my first right again i'm just going to be |
| 0:11.3 | possible hello dr seuss canceled on his birthday today jr that's john rich big and rich natural singer songwriter |
| 0:24.3 | going to join us coming up during this episode and with john rich jr nothing is off minutes |
| 0:29.4 | my name is catillac Jack. |
| 0:39.0 | I joined Atlanta Radio when I was 19 years old, put in a loyal 26 years. |
| 0:43.5 | Welcome to my second act. |
| 0:44.8 | My name's Don and I'm Caddy's wife. |
| 0:46.2 | You know how we were talking about a while ago. |
| 0:49.5 | We went to Cancun. |
| 0:51.9 | Oh, probably, I don't know. |
| 0:53.5 | God, like 10 years ago. Yeah, when the girls were at summer camp. And we decided we were going to buy a boat, you and I, and we were going to, like, sail around, like, the Caribbean. And do topless tacos. Yeah, and do to topless tacos stand. And we just had lots of plans. And again, that was 10 years ago. And the boat was going to be the squirty squid. |
| 1:11.3 | The squirties, but that can't happen right now with the topless tacos because ain't nobody buying from either of us. But at any rate. No, but yours would sell them. I don't know about that. If people were buying, yours would sell. They'd have to look under the taco stand to find them. Under the Blackstone grill. Yeah. |
| 1:28.2 | Before you got your fajita meat cooking? |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.2 | Anyway. |
| 1:31.3 | All right. under the to stand to find them under the blackstone grill where you got your fajita meat cooking yeah |
| 1:30.1 | anyway all right and I don't know how we got here I didn't say that we have these friends who |
| 1:35.2 | lived in coming Georgia in a neighborhood had three kids love these people I'm not going to say who they are. They sold their house probably six months ago, really right for the, well, no, probably longer than that. Anyway, yeah, six, seven months ago, right after the pandemic kind of got going and bought a sailboat and are now sailing. Perfect time for huge large change like that, right? And they sailed from Maryland to Charleston all the way down to Florida, and now they were in the Bahamas. And some of us, not myself, some of us were questioning like, are these people crazy? Like who's in your group text? Just everybody. And I mean, I even thought, not that they were crazy, but I'm just like, is this a good idea? Now, he is retired Navy. But when I say that, he was more logistical, you know, that type of thing. It wasn't like he was a sailor on the seas. But they have also sailed before. They've done sailing vacations. Anyway, they're having the time of their lives. And these pictures that they're posting, the water is incredibly blue. And the sailing part of it is one thing. I think what I'm so attracted to |
| 2:37.5 | is having absolutely no agenda. No agenda. You know, they stayed in Georgetown in the Bahamas |
| 2:46.3 | for a couple of nights and they loved it so much. they stayed for five more nights. Because it's not a |
| 2:53.8 | vacation where you're trying to smush everything in before you've got to get back on the plane or get |
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