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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 810: The Perfect Country and Western Song

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Reid Isbell, Dan Isbell, and Clay Newcomb.

Topics discussed: Hosting MeatEater's God's Country podcast; Music Row and where music is made; yet another North vs. South thing; professional song-writing skills; a song about a mule; and more. 

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:05.9

This season on Blood Trails, each story begins with a hunter stepping into the wild, but not all of them come back.

0:13.4

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0:20.6

Join me as we track the truth through tangled cover and cold case files, where every

0:24.8

trail tells a story, and every story leaves its own trail of blood.

0:30.1

Blood trails. Listen now on Spotify.

0:34.4

Okay, everyone, we're on day two of our Meat Eater Live Christmas tour. We're in Nashville.

0:40.1

What does anybody think of when I think of Nashville? I think of music. We're on Music Row.

0:43.2

I'm here with the host of God's Country podcast, Dan Reed Isabel, the brothers hunt.

0:47.6

And we're in a place where you guys make music. Yeah, literally. We've made music in this room.

0:52.7

And we're on a street known for music making.

0:55.9

I mean, arguably the most legendary music street in the country. Music row.

1:00.8

We're kind of in between them. 16th and 17th is the legendary music row in Nashville and they just run parallel to each other one way this way on 16th, one way that way on 17th.

1:09.4

So fair to say hundreds of the songs you know have been touched. Thousands. Thousands have been touched on this street. Absolutely. And not only that, let's get down to brass tax. The building, it's a music building. Indeed. A lot of history with it. The room is a music room. I'm just trying to establish our credentials. Allegedly. This is a legit studio. I mean, this was a vocal booth. If you were to pull this down, you'd see a big glass window where artists converse with producers on what to play, what to see. Like to have all those levers are going on. We call them the faders. Knob jockeys. But knob jockeys, okay.

1:45.0

I wouldn't use that loosely.

1:46.1

Dolly Parton's been in this building. Indeed. Yep. Recording. Timmy Nett's been in this building. George Jones has been in this building allegedly, allegedly. Together, maybe. Together, maybe. Maybe in this room. I'm not one to say. Hiding. So I'm just establishing our credentials that we're in a music room.

2:00.4

Oh, baby.

2:00.9

Absolutely.

2:01.2

I would venture to say you're in a music room. Oh, babe.

2:01.0

Absolutely.

2:07.6

I would venture to say you're in the heart of the country music creation.

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