Charlie Worsham

I haven't...

I've been listening to Charlie Worsham's interviews with Vince Gill 50 years from home, and they talk about... you know dissecting some of these songs and the different layers and i never really thought about that and most people don't right you just go oh that's cool yeah like you said if jimmy wayne's doing that tapping and you're bringing that out and you bring out those levels i mean you know charlie charlie would say to vince well you know i detect a little organ right here and he goes yeah and then he talked about who played the organ on that song yeah yeah and it's cool because because there are so many layers it's like an onion right oh no no Yeah, and you would know as a producer, that's something we've only been inside a couple of studios, but never really seen that process happen, which I would love to do sometime in our next trip to Nashville is to be able to experience that.

We have got to sit down with Buddy Cannon, but not got to experience the producer side of things.

Oh, yeah, that's pretty cool.

We would play at the local bars and all that.

And when I was working with this other band called King Billy, like Charlie Worsham was in that band, this dobro player named Josh Matheny who was like killing it on sessions was in that band.

And everyone was amazing.

My brother and I were writing songs that the band was also doing.

Did you, did you find like a, I don't know, did you sign like a, like a pub deal early on, like before?

Well, so John had a band at the time with a bunch of amazing people, but also like Charlie Worsham was in that band.

Josh Matheny's a very accomplished dobro player.

He's played on a ton of hits and a bunch of other great, you know, talented people are in that band.

had her reach out, Avery, Anna, I've had just people like really largely identifying with it as a performer and, and even like women, just, just people in general.

Like I, in Charlie Worsham last night told me that he was like, I just see the work that you're doing.

And he said, as much as I know that whenever it's good, things are good.

But I know that, I know that when things look good, it's a lot harder.

behind the scenes.

And I, and I literally just started bawling my eyes out at Skin Den and I could not stop.

I'm like, Charlie Worsham, I remember, you know, is telling me like that he liked my song and like took the time to listen to it and loved it, but also saw so much like in it that meant so much to me.

And that song, it's song, it's one that I just, we left being like, did we, we just wrote the best song maybe ever.

This is The Other 22 Hours, an exploration of the creative life lived in the in-between.

This week we're featuring our conversation with singer, songwriter, guitar player, and freshly minted member of the Grand Ole Opry, Charlie Worsham.

Charlie is one of those rare artists that splits his time equally between being a front person releasing his own records and touring and working with some of the largest names in country music, from veterans like Marty Stewart and Vince Gill all the way up to fresh stars like Ella Langley.

He has toured with Miranda Lambert.

This conversation was so incredible and he is so generous in talking about just intentional growth, how to carve out a healthy life and an industry and career path that is designed to prohibit that, as he says eloquently in a lot of beautiful ways.

It also includes a lot of great mental health resources.

So with that, here's our conversation with Charlie Worsham.

We like to start every conversation the same way with a, how are you? And that's a, how are you really? And where are you physically and creatively?

Number seven.

[upbeat music] Uh, this is Charlie Worsham with, uh, Old Crow Medicine Show again, uh, Hope I'm Stoned, parentheses When Jesus Takes Me Home.

Uh, Charlie Worsham has accepted a membership to the Grand Ole Opry.

I don't think he's been inducted yet, but that's coming up.

He's a Berkeley grad, uh, the CMA's Musician of the Year in 2024.

Well, that's great.

There's a country music artist called Charlie Worsham, who is an amazing songwriter.

And he's also an incredible guitarist.

And I love his music so much.