(Vocally) Wynonna Judd + Travis Tritt = Dallas Remington

Vocally, if Wynonna Judd and Travis Tritt had a kid, Dallas Remington would be the result. In this interview, we talk about the stories behind her songs, growing up in Kentucky, moving to Nashville at 15 years old, ultimate career goals, her bucket list, and more!

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Episode Guide:
0:00 Intro & moving to Nashville at 15
2:44 First song was too violent
4:03 Wish I knew before moving to Nashville
5:56 Dream collabs "musical Mount Rushmore"
7:27 Ultimate goal
8:18 Story behind "Princess"
11:18 Performance: "Princess"
14:26 Story behind "Uncommon Man"
17:53 Performance "Uncommon Man"
21:01 Story behind lyric video of "Uncommon Man"
25:04 Story behind "Hunting Season"
26:48 Performance "Hunting Season"
30:15 Bucket list
31:09 Celebrity crush
31:51 Worst thing you did as a kid
32:37 Riskiest / most adventurous thing you've done
33:51 Could ya not? (What bothers you?)
36:31 Upcoming news!

Dallas' bio:
From sequins to camouflage, Dallas Remington is a country artist who knows who she is and what she wants!  Dallas is a Kentucky girl with a passion for life, music, and her faith.  She is working diligently to establish herself as a country music artist.  Her passion for playing the guitar and performing began at an early age, around nine years old.  Dallas travels and sings at fairs, festivals, churches, and various music venues.   Dallas says “Singing will always be a part of me.  Whether I’m singing at church, on the street, on a flatbed trailer, or somewhere in Nashville, I love every minute”.  Dallas performs a variety of songs, from her originals like "Uncommon Man" (charted #43 on Billboard Country Indicator and #24 on MusicRow Breakout Chart), and "Huntin' Season" charting #32 on the MusicRow Breakout Chart), to covers of new country artists such as Miranda Lambert and  Maren Morris.  Dallas also loves to perform traditional country songs from artists such as Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton, as well as southern gospel and classic ROCK! 

Intro music artist credit: Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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Transcript

Mary Katz: 0:00

I gotta say, vocally if Wynonna Judd and Travis Tritt had a kid-

Dallas Remington: 0:05

Oh, oh,

Mary Katz: 0:06

-that's you.

Dallas Remington: 0:07

I love it! Oh my god. You just made my day! I'm gonna tear up. I love that.

Mary Katz: 0:12

Hi, everyone. Welcome to this episode of Bored and Curious. I'm your host, Mary Katz and today's guest is country artist, Dallas Remington and y'all this girl can sang! She's so good. She has a very sassy song called"Princess" that recently came out, as did the music video. Before we get started, I wanted to make a note that if you are listening to this on a podcast platform, thank you. But know that I also upload full episodes and individual clips to YouTube. Also on YouTube, I do what I call comment prompts. I put text in the videos, asking you guys to participate along with the video. So for example, if I ask a guest, what's the worst thing you did as a kid, I may put that text in the video as well so you can answer that in the comments below. Alrighty let's get started! All right, Dallas. Welcome to Bored and Curious. I am excited to have you here today. So you have a you do have a new song coming out or I'm sorry, it just came out. You have a new song just came out called "Princess."

Dallas Remington: 1:07

Yes.

Mary Katz: 1:07

And but before we get into that I do want to go over just a few kind of some industry questions about your upbringing. You live in Nashville now but originally you're from Kentucky, right?

Dallas Remington: 1:18

Yes, I'm from Paducah, Kentucky. I'm a fifth generation farm kid. Growing up farm, faith, and family's been my entire life. But you know, we- I started doing music when I was 10. And started coming to Nashville when I was 11 to play shows here. And the opportunities just kept on coming. Every door just kept opening. We ended up moving here when I was 15; my mom and I did. Left my daddy and my brother in Kentucky to support our habit as we say, and the haven't slowed down ever since.

Mary Katz: 1:52

That's incredible to have like to know that you know that you wanted to be a singer that early. Because most people, most kids go I want to be a nurse or a teacher or a you know, lawyer whatever, you know, become a baseball player, but you you kind of keyed in pretty early, like enough to move!

Dallas Remington: 2:14

I always loved music and it was just kind of you know, we're a very faith based family. And it was just one door kept opening after another that was pointing us in this direction and pointing me towards music. And I've been so blessed and having had so many amazing experiences here in the industry. And we're just excited for more and we're just going to keep on going'til there ain't no more open doors.

Mary Katz: 2:38

I don't think those are ever gonna close. Like you have an incredible voice.

Dallas Remington: 2:43

Oh, thank you so much.

Mary Katz: 2:44

So do you remember the first song that you wrote?

Dallas Remington: 2:49

Yeah, um, it was actually a really violent one. My mom had me remake it. It was called "Right Back for the Kill." But yeah, I we rewrote it. I kept playing that one actually. I wrote that when I was 13. I kept playin' it for up until I was probably 18. And then, you know, I just been writing so much that you know, songs phase out. But I think we- I don't know if we ever recorded that one. I think we have a demo of it somewhere. But no one is ever allowed to hear it. But I rewrote it and it was just called"Right Back" and it was just about a boy you know, that just kept coming back and hurtin' you no matter what. You know, cuz what else to 13 year olds know?

Mary Katz: 3:30

Yeah, yeah.

Dallas Remington: 3:33

But yes, I definitely still remember that. I couldn't play it. But I remember the song.

Mary Katz: 3:36

That's awesome. Thirt- 13 I'm trying to imagine your mom going, "What?!"

Dallas Remington: 3:42

Oh, yeah, she was like, "That's a little, a little violent. Like, can you not say kill?" I was like, "But that's what he's doing." She's like, "Nuh uh. Let's take that out a little. Like calm yourself."

Mary Katz: 3:56

"Mom, you taught me honesty. I'm just putting it into words, on paper."

Dallas Remington: 4:00

Exactly.

Mary Katz: 4:03

So what do you wish you knew before making the move to Nashville and like, seriously pursuing it? Is there- What kind of surprised you along the way? And you're like, oh, that would have been great to know.

Dallas Remington: 4:12

I was very blessed to have only grown up two hours from Nashville. And so I, we drove it back and forth multiple times a week; we were here already. Um, so I don't think there was any, like, huge surprises once we already once we moved here. You know, the biggest things to me is I'd never had neighbors and I moved into an apartment building. That was the biggest like learning curve for me. It's like, Oh, you have people all around you. I can't... but, you know, like I said, growing up two hours from here, I was here already. You know, the city has changed a lot since I started coming here when I was a little girl, but, you know, just trying to adapt to the city. I think one thing that you know, coming here so young that we didn't realize would be a thing is some venues don't let you play until you're 21.

Mary Katz: 5:03

Oh,

Dallas Remington: 5:04

There's venues that I've just now started being able to play because I just turned 21 you know. But we made do and we played everywhere else and I played around the country. So I was able to do it. But you know, now Whiskey Jams, it's able to play it if we get there.

Mary Katz: 5:23

Wow, I that would be surprising to like try to pursue that career. And then some venues are like, you need to wait a few years.

Dallas Remington: 5:32

I know. And even then, like, you know, when I started driving, wanting to go to shows and see people play, I couldn't because I couldn't get in the venue. And that never even made sense to me because it's a college town. Most the kids here are 18, 19, 20. So where are we supposed to hang out? But I've made it. I've crossed that threshold now where I can go wherever I want now-

Mary Katz: 5:53

Right as rain now.

Dallas Remington: 5:54

-and enjoy the music.

Mary Katz: 5:56

So is there someone in the industry who you haven't worked with yet, but you really want to?

Dallas Remington: 6:01

There's like a list.

Mary Katz: 6:02

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put a limit on you here. If you've got three, if you got 17, girl just rattle them off.

Dallas Remington: 6:08

I mean, just being in town as long as I have, I've learned you know, the songwriters. I've learned the managers, the producers, you know. On the songwriting side, my all-time goal is to write with Jeffrey Steele. Like, I want to write with him, him Tony Mullins. All of the the Music City hitmen as it used to be called, or Music Row hitmen. I just love them. So him, Tony Mullins, Craig Wiseman, all of them on the writer side. And then on the label side, I'd love to work with Craig Wiseman as well because he has an absolutely amazing rec- record label that's blowing everything out of the water right now. And you know, there's just there's people that even behind the scenes people wouldn't under- wouldn't know, but artists wise people I'd love to work with... I mean, like, gosh, like Garth would be like my all time like, if I got to do anything with him I would be set just because one being in the room with one of my heroes, but then to have him have any input or have any advice he could give me would just mean the world to me. And then also mean it would be great to sit down with Loretta Lynn, one time and just talk to her about the industry and see how she's learned. Because she's one of my one of my musical Mount Rushmore people. I would just love to have some input from her.

Mary Katz: 7:27

Gotcha. That's, that is a very, very good list. Yeah. So what would you say your ultimate goal is in the industry? some people are gonna say, you know, Opry membership, some say, you know, sell out an arena tour, you know. What would, what would yours be?

Dallas Remington: 7:45

Yeah mine is just to, you know, to play music, and make a living doing it and be able to share my music with the world. Obviously, sub goals like, I mean, the ultimate goal along with that is to play the Grand Ole Opry. And then after that, you know, become an Opry member. But, you know, when I started this, I just wanted to be able to travel and play music, and ultimately try to, to heal people or help people with my music or just, you know, make them feel anything. So that's my goal is just to be able to play the songs to people around the world.

Mary Katz: 8:18

Absolutely. It's a good goal. So let's move into the story behind the song. Your most recent release is "Princess." Girl, that's a sassy song. Tell me the story behind that one.

Dallas Remington: 8:33

Yes, so "Princess" was written with one of my best friends was Nancy Deckant. And one of my favorite songwriters Bridgette Tatum. And we actually wrote it three years ago, last month. It was almost exactly the day we released the song, but we didn't plan it out that right, that well, because I had a blonde moment. But we wrote it three years ago. And it was actually the day after the Royal Wedding back in 2018. So I was stalking Bridgette on Instagram, actually, because if y'all don't know who she is, she's a big hit songwriter. Y'all definitely heard some of the songs she's written. She's just absolutely amazing. So it was an honor to be able to go in the room, write with her. And I was like, we got to have some good ideas. I was like, let's try to pick some stuff that she has said, or let's see what's going on in her life. And let's try to do something around her, you know. And she had posted on her Instagram the night of the wedding you ain't a princess until you marry a prince. And I was like, oh, there's something there. And we went in the next morning and I said, "Hey, well, I got this off your Instagram, want to do something with this?" And she was like, "I am way ahead of you, sister". And we ended up with this, you know, super fun sassy song. And somebody asked me, you know what I hope people would take away from the song and I sat down and thought about you know, we had a lot of fun. Yeah, we caught her dirt road debutante. We did all this stuff. But you know if there's anything somebody could take away from the song is to love who you are, no matter where you come from, and love you for you. Because me as a singer in the song, I'm talking about a girl that I loved, and was one of my good friends from the beginning where she came from, you know, so it's just love who you are. Because no matter what, somebody loves you for that person.

Mary Katz: 10:16

That's awesome. It's a very good message and a very powerful song. And I gotta say, vocally if Wynonna Judd and Travis Tritt had a kid-

Dallas Remington: 10:26

Oh, oh,

Mary Katz: 10:27

-that's you.

Dallas Remington: 10:27

I love it! Oh my god. You just made my day! I'm gonna tear up. I love that. Oh my gosh, I love Wynonna. I love Travis. Those are two of my favorites.

Mary Katz: 10:37

Well, I mean that's you.

Dallas Remington: 10:42

I got to see Wynonna back in December and it was the first time I'd ever seen her live and I was just like in tears the entire time because she's just so good. Like it's ridiculous how good she is. And Travis I've seen him several times. One of my favorite performers. One of my favorite vocalists. Oh my gosh, so yes, I will claim that maybe hopefully I can meet them both at the same time and we'll have a family picture.

Mary Katz: 11:08

That would be awesome. All right. Did you want to perform "Princess?"

Dallas Remington: 11:13

Whatever you want me to do.

Mary Katz: 11:14

Go for it!

Dallas Remington: 11:15

Okay. Ready whenever you are.

Mary Katz: 11:18

Go ahead. Take it away.

Dallas Remington: 11:20

[Music]

Mary Katz: 14:12

I wonder why I said that you're a combination of Wynonna Judd and Travis Tritt.

Dallas Remington: 14:18

Goodness. Yes. I love it. Love it.

Mary Katz: 14:21

That's awesome. Man, that's a good song.

Dallas Remington: 14:24

Thank you so much.

Mary Katz: 14:26

I'll put all the links in the description for where it's available. And so the next song you wanted to talk about here is called "Uncommon Man." So share the story behind "Uncommon Man."

Dallas Remington: 14:39

So "Uncommon Man" was written a few years ago as well. We released this one a year ago, in May, right smack dab at the very beginning of the pandemic. We made that bold decision to do that. But when uh my friend, Courtney Baumbacher came up to me with the idea. And this is the first one we ever wrote together. And we write together all the time. I'm actually writing with her this afternoon when we get done here. We write together all the time. And she came to me with this idea, though, for the first one and said, "I want to write a song about my daddy and I want to call it 'Uncommon Man.' Nobody gets what I mean by that, but I think you might. And I said, Oh heck yes, I do." Because she's from a dairy farm in western New York, and I'm from a farm in Western Kentucky. So we automatically bonded over both being farm kids. And so this wasn't one of those writes that took you know, an hour because we wanted it to be absolutely perfect for our dads that was our main goal, just to play it for them and have a song for our families. And it took us a few writes and we finally got it. But it became just one of my family's favorite songs. Anytime my dad got to come to a show or got to be anywhere, he was like,"Will you play that song for me?" And it started becoming fans were requesting it too, which was really cool. And we came- Fast forward to May 2020. We were getting ready to release the next single and I just had this gut feeling that it wasn't right. I was like, we don't need a sassy song. We don't need this right now. The world shut down. Nobody knows what's happening. Like we're all locked in our houses. So we had a team meeting. I sent them over three or four songs. And I'd send them three sassy songs, but not as sassy as we had going. Because, you know, that's part of my brand. And at the very end, I sent over a really rough work tape of "Uncommon Man." And I was just like, by the way, I've had this for a few years. Let me know what y'all think. So the next day, we jumped on a Zoom and my producer looked right at me and he goes, "What do you think the single is?" And I was like, "I ain't saying nothing, because I don't want what I say to be what none of y'all say you know. I want to see y'all's opinions. And they just went one by one. There's about six of them on there. And they all went"Uncommon Man's" a single. And I was like, "Oh, okay, good. That's what I said too!" But, um, so then we ended up dedicating it to all the essential employees, all the first line workers, the people who aren't necessarily always in the spotlight, but needed to be especially in the time the world we were in. And I'm so thankful for how the song has been perceived and how the world has taken this and just ran with it. And we're almost at 700,000 streams completely independently no promotions, no anything on that. And you know, we got top 24 on Music Row and like number 41 on Billboard, we were almost top 40 Billboard. So we're very very thankful for this song. And you know, like I said, we were just two farm girls wrote it for our dads and we didn't know that it was gonna get released and then all these things would happen with it, but we're so thankful for it.

Mary Katz: 17:49

Awesome. You gonna give us a little performance of that one as well?

Dallas Remington: 17:53

Yeah, there we go. Here we go.[Music]

Mary Katz: 20:56

Yeah, I think that a lot of people can definitely relate to that song.

Dallas Remington: 21:01

And we're very, you know, we get, and still get messages to this day, people tell me the stories about their uncommon man, uncommon women. And we actually, we were very thankful we got to do a lyric video for the song. We didn't get to do full production video, but we did a lyric video, we included pictures from all my fans, which was really cool. They also met it, I think we and then we ended up with, like, 150 submissions. People with, you know, one person or multiple people. And the thing that I love the video. I wish I could have included all the stories, though, that were sent, you know, from the granddad's that, you know, retired from the military to come home and raise their kids and the single moms that work midnight so they can take care of their kids during the day. I just wish I could have included all those stories. And maybe one day we'll have a behind the lyric video video or something like that. But um, I was very thankful for everyone's stories and all the pictures that we got to include, and it just made the song even more special than it already was.

Mary Katz: 22:08

Yeah, I would imagine incorporating the fans experiences is particularly special.

Dallas Remington: 22:15

Mm hmm. Definitely, definitely. Hopefully, one day we'll be able to do that with that one.

Mary Katz: 22:20

And that's a kind of an emotional song, though. Like, how do you kind of hold it together, because I don't know if I could do it?

Dallas Remington: 22:29

So I've sang it so many times now. Every song you get used to, I still I only have one song that I've ever written, I still can't make it through without crying. And it was just a very, very emotional one. But um, so I think like the first time I ever played that song for anybody other than my family, it was actually a family event. But what we do is my grandmother has a hay ride every October. And we invite all the neighborhood, all the friends, all the family, everything. So there's probably 100 people there. And I was singing it and I got through it. My dad was sitting in the back tearing up and then we had this farmer, who is very well respected in our community. I'd never met him before, but he's worked with my daddy. And he came up to me, he goes,"You don't know who I am. But you know, you've been to my farm and all this stuff." And he's like, "You sang that'Uncommon Man' song and I'm just sitting here bawling. That was my daddy, that's my son. That's how I hope my son looks at me." And he's like, "You've got something special with that song, Honey. You need to do something with it." And I was like, Oh, wow. You know, because like I say, we just wrote it for our, for our, for our immediate families or our dads. And so the fact that somebody came up and said that, to me, the first time it made it, it was already a super special song with the fact that it was special to other people as well. Just made it that much more heartwarming, and, you know, important to me.

Mary Katz: 23:53

I would imagine so, yeah, writing music that touches people's lives is I would imagine something very special.

Dallas Remington: 24:01

Yes, it definitely is. Yeah, that's what I had a mentor in the music industry early on. We still work with him. And he said, you know, they might not know it, but people come to shows and they're listening to music to be changed. It's a subconscious thing. They don't realize that they're either looking for healing, they're looking for happiness, or, you know, something that's going to help them and that's what your job is as a musician. And so everything we try to do, we try to help somebody in some situation, whether it's see how somebody loves you for who you are, or appreciating those who don't get appreciated as much. And sometimes we have those fun ones that don't mean anything. You just have fun with it. But then those are still changing people because it's it's a laugh, it's happiness. It's getting them out of where they could have been when they walked in the show. It's getting their mind off of everything outside the doors or outside of their car where they're listening to their music, you know?

Mary Katz: 24:57

Yep, music is, um, sometimes it's transformative. Sometimes it's just fun.

Dallas Remington: 25:03

Exactly.

Mary Katz: 25:04

The third song that you're gonna tell us about is "Hunting Season."

Dallas Remington: 25:10

Yeah, so this one is just a fun one. I have to make sure everyone knows this is not a true story. None of us have lived through this. But it is true to the point where I was I was hanging out with some friends one day and I was down in South Mississippi. And somebody says something about their ex wife's magazines kept coming to their house. And I was like, ooh, ooh, there's something there. Like there's a song. And he I think he said something about like Cosmopolitan. And I was like just gonna be hard to say and so I drove back to Mississi- I drove back from Mississippi and the next morning I was in Nashville writing with Cindy Torres, Scott Barrier, and Allie Colleen, who's an amazing artist here in Nashville. And I was like, I've got this idea. I don't know what it would be though. And I want to, I was like, we can either write it for a guy to sing, and we could use Cosmopolitan or whatever. And they said, but there's three girls in the room right now. Let's write a girl song! and I was like, Okay, cool. So Allie just looked at me and said, "What magazines did your dad have when you're growing up?" And I was like, "I don't know. Field and Stream? It's about all we ever had." And they were like, "Okay, let's make up a story around Field and Steam magazine." I was like, "Okay, I like it." And so from there"Hunting Season" was born. It's a fun song about a girl finding her a new man is our PG version. But we had a lot of fun writing this one. This was just like "Princess." I went home that night and I learned it and I think I played it in the show that that night and I never do that. I have to really[Music]

Mary Katz: 30:15

All right. All right. And moving on to just for fun. Let's just get to know Dallas a little bit. Um, give me at least one item on your bucket list.

Dallas Remington: 30:26

Oh, I want to go to Italy. Never been there. So that's a big one. Um, I got to go to the top one on my bucket list was Yellowstone and I got to go there. I've been there several times now which is amazing. So now the next one would definitely be Italy and then after that and Alaskan cruise.

Mary Katz: 30:45

Okay!

Dallas Remington: 30:45

So I don't- I go big. I don't go like, Oh, I just want to- Oh, also the Grand Ole Opry. That's the main thing. But that's like, you know, fun life like, you know, just traveling. That's but life life. Grand Ole Opry, always.

Mary Katz: 31:03

Absolutely. Standing in a circle.

Dallas Remington: 31:07

Exactly.

Mary Katz: 31:09

Okay, so I love asking this question, because I never know what people are gonna say. Who's your celebrity crush?

Dallas Remington: 31:19

Oh, Lord, there's so many.

Mary Katz: 31:21

Now when I say that, I mean, like, you're single, so and so is single. And you're like-

Dallas Remington: 31:28

Oh, they have to be single?

Mary Katz: 31:30

I said, if they if they were, if they were single, um, we all have those that we we're like, why can't they be single.

Dallas Remington: 31:37

I mean, once again, I go big or go home, Chris Hemsworth.

Mary Katz: 31:41

Okay!

Dallas Remington: 31:42

Or, you know, or like, the guy who plays Aqua Man, and I can't even pronounce his last name.

Mary Katz: 31:46

Jason Momoa.

Dallas Remington: 31:48

That one! Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Mary Katz: 31:51

That one. What's the worst thing you did when you were a kid?

Dallas Remington: 31:53

My parents got us a really nice four wheeler. I think when I was eight, my brother was 14 or something like that. And where we're from a big thing is you take your four wheelers to the creek and my dad when we got the four wheeler was like this is not one that goes to the creek. It took about two weeks. We had it in the creek. But it still works. It's still running. We never did anything bad to it. So I guess the big, worst thing would you know, we crossed the road went to the creek. Sorry, Dad. Oops. He knows we did that.

Mary Katz: 32:23

Oh, he does know?

Dallas Remington: 32:25

He does know now. Oh, but yeah, I told you people not to do that. And it's like, well, is the four wheeler messed up? No, it's fine. I guess that would probably the worst thing. I don't know.

Mary Katz: 32:37

So what would you say is the riskiest or most adventurous thing you've done?

Dallas Remington: 32:42

Hmm. riskiest or most adventurous. I mean, I moved to Nashville when I was 15. I feel like that's one of the big things and you know, most kids don't I mean, like, cuz I was a, I was a competitive soccer player my entire life up until I was like, 13 or 14. And, you know, we were talking about earlier, you know, most people don't make that decision. I mean, I had to make that decision when I was, I literally had a coach when I was 13 tell me I had to choose between soccer and music. And I was just like, well, you made me mad so music. And so you know, I went all in. I mean, we started coming here when I was 11. But from the time I was 13, I've been 100% into this. So I mean, you know, I was homeschooled. I left all my friends behind. And this is what I wanted to do. So I guess that would be the biggest risky thing I've done. That's I mean, that's a big one.

Mary Katz: 33:35

Yeah. Most people don't do that as an adult.

Dallas Remington: 33:41

Exactly. Yeah. I'm trying to think of like something that's like, not music related that I've done that- You know, I don't know. Music's probably the biggest thing I've ever done.

Mary Katz: 33:51

No, no, that'll work. I think that's a good one. Yeah. All right. Moving on to could ya not? so just tell the world whatever it is that just gets under your skin. Tell the world could you not.

Dallas Remington: 34:08

I'm a very- I have a lot of pet peeves. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. Um, biggest thing you know, I'm, I'm a I'm a country girl. I mean, like, I come from the middle of nowhere. So moving to a city; definitely traffic. I know you said earlier a lot of people have traffic related ones. I mean, I just my biggest thing is I can't stand rubberneckers. I don't understand like, yes, a terrible thing has happened, but we can just keep on driving before more terrible things happen behind you? That's so that and then, you know, I just- Oh, my biggest thing is I cannot stand when people are rude to waiters and waitresses. I just it hurts me and I feel so bad because I know these people are working their butts off and so you know, just be kind be gracious. You know, they're they're wiping your table after you've made a mess. You know, you could just say thank you. So that's probably my biggest pet peeve actually is when people were are rude to people in service or you know, those kinds of things because could you not just be a nice person?

Mary Katz: 35:17

No, I get it. I- similar here. I don't I don't like it when people are rude to to, you know, people that are actually trying to make their day better.

Dallas Remington: 35:27

Exactly I don't like when people are rude to anybody at all. But the worst is when you're sitting there with somebody and they're just like, so snippy to waitresses and waiters, it just hurts my stomach.

Mary Katz: 35:39

I think that most of times, it's just a power dynamic. They're like, this person is doing something for me. So I have the control and it's like, no, that's a good opportunity for you to just be polite.

Dallas Remington: 35:49

Exactly. Exactly. I don't think I could be a waitress I'd be that person that gets fired for spitting in people's food. No, I'm kidding. I wouldn't.

Mary Katz: 35:56

I don't think I could do it just cuz I'm not coordinated enough like the stuff that they carry and like I don't know how they do it because I can't. I would break so many things. I'd owe the restaurant money.

Dallas Remington: 36:08

I have friends that they work at this place. It's three stories and there's only one kitchen and there's no elevator. But I think they might have gotten elevator now but they had to do stairs and like, I don't know how you did it. They're like no, we have runners. They're trained for that. We don't have to do it. I'm like, okay, I can do your job because all you're doing is taking their order at this point. But I don't I couldn't carry it up steps and oh my gosh, no, I couldn't do that part either. Nope.

Mary Katz: 36:31

All right, Dallas, those are all the questions that I have for you. The floor is yours whatever you got coming up. Anything else you want to mention? Go ahead.

Dallas Remington: 36:39

Awesome. Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me first of all, this has been super fun. And you know just we're trying to book as many gigs as possible coming up. We had several down in the Dallas area actually that they have been cancelled. So we're working on redoing those we're going to be playing in St. Louis. Chicago area things later this year and hopefully we'll be getting back down in the south and hopefully soon but you know, the best way to keep in touch with me is DallasRemington.com. That's Dallas like the city in Texas and Remington like the shotgun or the curling iron; whichever one you choose because they're spelled the exact same. One "M." Anyways, you can go to Dallasremington.com. From there it's got the links to my music, my shows, all my social media, all those things. And make sure you guys stream the heck out of "Princess." We're trying to blow the song up. I'm completely independent and we want to have our first number one as an independent artist twith this one so go blow it up and call country radio and start requesting it.

Mary Katz: 37:42

Alright Dallas and I will put all those links and stuff in the description as well. Make sure you guys do check out "Princess" because it is awesome, as you just heard. And Dallas, it was so much fun having you! Thanks for joining today!

Dallas Remington: 37:55

Thank you so much for having me. This is a lot of fun. You have a great day.

Mary Katz: 37:58

You too. Okay, everybody. Thank you so much for checking out this episode! As mentioned, the link to Dallas's website will be in the description and be sure to stream "Princess" and check out the video for that that's now on YouTube. And also call your local radio stations and request that they play it as well. If you're watching this on YouTube, give it a thumbs up. If you're listening on a podcast platform, make sure you follow or subscribe and also leave a review. Let me know how I'm doing. Alrighty. See you next time. Bye.