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Bryan White Interview
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Read the Transcript: Tracey: How do you balance your family and your career? (Liz) Bryan: Right now, it’s actually quite easy, believe it or not. My career has actually been very tolerable. The last 2 or 3 years I’ve been really focused more on family. I pretty much, kind of shut the machine down. But, like anything, you’re itching, when you start doing something that you love, you’re itching to do it, you want to play, and make records, and do it, so I think the challenging part is just about to happen. So it’s actually the kind of question that I could probably answer better down the road. But, had I had children and a wife during the height of my career, I can honestly say, it would have been very difficult, because as much in demand, as me, and so many other artists are, you know. I can’t imagine the pressure of you know, trying to balance the two. Obviously, you have to prioritize. You have to let people know up front that, look my family is before anything. And everything after that is, we’ll talk about it. But you know, you have to just sort of schedule it all out, pencil it all in, and say look, this day is out of the question, this weekend is out. You know, I think you just have to be up front about it. You have to know, sort of pray for wisdom to make the right decisions along the way. Tracey: Yes you do, you have to take time for yourself. Bryan: Yeah, absolutely. Tracey: When are you going back out on the road? Bryan: I’m going back on the road, the next date that I have is, I’m thinking, May 18th I’ll be in Edmonsville, Indiana. Lets see, May 20th I’ll be in Ohio, I don’t know where exactly in Ohio, but I’ll be in Ohio. Tracey: I’ve been to Ohio. Bryan: And then CMA Music Fest is coming up. I’ll be extremely busy that whole week. And then, June 17th I’ll be in Mogee Oklahoma, which is basically Tulsa. Oh, and then Utah, Oregon, Montana. If you want to know precisely where I’ll be you can look on bryanwhite.com as well so. Tracey: Right, was just curious if you were doing a summer tour for the album. Bryan: Well everything is pretty much, in regards to the album. I’m not on a major tour just yet. In all honesty, when you get the record released, and you get back on radio and all those things, that raises the bar, and the awareness. Those are the type of things that are sort of catalyst on getting you back on a major tour, so hopefully all that will happen, if we work hard, and if the fans receive it well. Tracey: Right, and hopefully they’ll have Minnesota on that list. Bryan: Oh absolutely, absolutely without question. Bryan: Definitely. Tracey: Right Kay? Kay: Hopefully. Tracey: What's your favorite thing about singing? (Dana) Bryan: One more time, I’m sorry. Tracey: What’s your favorite thing about singing? (Dana) Bryan: What’s my favorite thing about singing? Tracey: Yeah. Bryan: This might sound weird, but there is something about singing that is, you know I sort of liken it to being an instrument, you know. It’s really pleasant when you’re in good voice, it’s really pleasant to be able to resonate, you know to feel this great impression coming out of you. And singing a melody that you really enjoy. And then, when you got a great song, and a great lyric, and a great melody, you know and you can’t wait to sing it. You know, it’s just great to be a vocalist, because you’ve got an opportunity to really move somebody you know, and challenge them, and bless them. It’s just neat being able to sing. When you just finish writing a new song, you just want to sing it all the time cos it’s new. I mean, I think when you first get a song that you like, or write a song, you just can’t stop singing it. It’s just obsession. Some of the songs, after singing them for 10 years you know, you gotta find new ways to sing them, to keep it interesting for you. Because you can get tired of singing the same song over and over. Just gotta make it, keep it interesting to yourself, you know. Make it different, change some things. I think the thing I like the most about it is just being able to resonate, and just do something that makes you feel completely free. Singing does that for me. Tracey: I know one of my friends that’s a singer, he had a new song, and he was all excited to sing it, and let me hear it, and it wasn’t even finished yet, but he wanted me to listen, and see if I liked it. Bryan: Yeah. Tracey: If you were a color, what would you be? (Liz) Bryan: If I was a color, what would I be? Definitely not blue. Definitely not red. Gosh, that is weird. That is the weirdest question I’ve ever been asked. I don’t know. Let me see. I don’t know, maybe like happy, and wild and fun, at the same time. Tracey: Well yellow would be happy. Bryan: I don’t know. Maybe like a hunter green, or some kind of green. I don’t know. I’m kind of an outdoorsy type of person, maybe green. I don’t know. Tracey: Army type green? Camouflage type green? Bryan: I don’t know, maybe like a hunter green or something, I don’t know. What do you think? Tracey: I don’t know. Yellow would be nice and cheerful but it’s not really wild and crazy. Bryan: Yeah, but yellow is like cowardly. I don’t want to be cowardly. Tracey: Kay do you have a color? Bryan: Just kidding. Kay: Purple? I don’t know. Tracey: Polka dots, with polka dots. I don’t know, we don’t know one. We’ll stick with hunter green. Bryan: That works. Kay: Do you know what the first single is going to be on your album? Bryan: I don’t know yet. It’s still undecided. The EP will sort of be a testing ground to see what the response is, you know with the radio stations and fans. We’re going to try to be really smart about it. We want to cater to the listener, and really make the right decisions. Tracey: You know what you could do? You could put it out there for people to vote on which song they think it should be. Bryan: Definitely, that’s a great idea. Tracey: I know a couple of people have done that before. Go on to Page 4.
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