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Get Real with Caroline Hobby

Getting Real with Roman Alexander: A Midwest Soul with a Nashville Dream

Get Real with Caroline Hobby

Nashville Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

From singing Johnny Cash covers in bars at just eight years old to racking up over 86 million streams, Roman Alexander has built his career on grit, faith, and heart. A grandson of Mexican immigrants and a true Midwesterner, Roman chased his dream to Nashville—enduring long days and dead-end jobs until his breakout duet “Between You & Me” made him one of Spotify’s longest-running independent country artists.

With his new EP Midwest Calling, Roman shares the stories of where he’s from, what he’s carried, and why he’ll never stop believing in the music that brought him here. For him, success isn’t about charts—it’s about connection, faith, and the small circle of people who make it all matter.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:15.2

Caroline, she's a queen of talking, hey, what's on your mind?

0:21.7

She's getting rid, not afraid to feel.

0:23.9

Take a soul to soul.

0:25.0

Just let her flow.

0:26.4

No one can do it quite like Caroline.

0:31.1

It's time for Caroline.

0:34.0

Are we ready, Roman, Alexander?

0:36.9

That's a mighty name.

0:38.5

Well, it's my middle name.

0:40.0

Alexander's my middle name.

0:41.6

So I kind of guess I also kind of thought it from the standpoint of it's an A.

0:47.0

So it starts with, you know, the top of the alphabet.

0:51.9

Roman Alexander.

0:53.3

So like on a bill, I'm usually like,

0:55.2

you were thinking this through? Not really. I like to think so, but no, I just, it sounded,

0:59.8

it sounded cool. And my mom always called me Roman Alexander, especially if I was in trouble.

1:04.0

So, but I mean, that's a strong name, like Roman Alexander. Well, thanks. Where did your

1:10.0

parents come up with this? And were they like, this guy is going to be a boss? I don't know if they ever thought that, but my, because my schooling did not say, you know, said otherwise. What do you mean? I was terrible in school. How so? But maybe schooling's not your thing. Like, you were not good at the learning part? Well, I just did a podcast the other day with the guy. It's called The Right Brain. He's like a world renowned like psychologist or a neurosurgeon. Okay. And he was like dissecting. Like when you talk to him, he'll dissect parts of your brain. Like he was on the Rogan podcast like dissecting Joee rogan's brain and it was it was really interesting

1:44.7

did you watched the joe rogan's brain i did i want to know what's going on in his brain i did say there's a

1:49.5

lot i'm sure actually sometimes i don't know but you know it's like there was it was um it was interesting

1:55.1

because i was like i had an iEP in math which is like a learning disability um so i had to go to like a

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