- Backup plan was to marry rich,
but who's gonna put up with me?
(upbeat country music) (Hannah laughs)
Are there any rules to country music?
It depends on who you ask.
To me, yes, there are.
I think there's some things that are sacred,
like the songwriting.
I think it all starts with a great song,
and if you don't have a song with a little meaning
and substance to it, then you've lost your listener,
and it might stick for a little while,
but I don't think it'll stay long.
This has been a childhood fantasy of mine.
We are in the home of Patsy Cline.
This is her dream home that she built and bought in '61.
And she is one of my number one influences of all time.
She called everybody Hoss. I still do.
And the first cassette tape
that I ever owned was Patsy Cline.
But this woman taught me how to sing.
These are cassette tapes, kids.
I know that I'm sitting beside her in the choir
when I get to heaven.
I'm gonna be right between her and Aretha Franklin.
(chuckles)
The songs we're doing today, I'm so excited.
The first one we're gonna do
is actually one of my show openers,
but it's the focus track
from "The Half Record" that we just put out.
It's called "You're Gonna Love Me."
("You're Gonna Love Me")
♪ If you hate driving through Atlanta ♪
♪ Any time of day ♪
♪ If you stand up for freedom ♪
♪ Kneel sometimes when you pray ♪
♪ If your accent gets thicker after cocktail number three ♪
♪ If that's you, you're gonna love me ♪
♪ If you think Eastwood and Sam Elliott ♪
♪ Still got it going on ♪
♪ And Alan Jackson shoulda kept that blonde hair long ♪
♪ If I say play Chattahoochee and you don't disagree ♪
♪ If that's you, you're gonna love me ♪
♪ I'm a bad mamma-jamma ♪
♪ Fresh out of Savannah ♪
♪ My people call me Hannah ♪
♪ H-to-the-damn-to-the-D ♪
♪ No, I ain't for everybody but I don't try to be ♪
♪ If you like the sound of that ♪
♪ You're gonna love me ♪
♪ If you say what you think ♪
♪ But you don't think before you say ♪
♪ If you're more inclined to buy ♪
♪ Because it's made in the USA ♪
♪ And if you think smoking's trashy ♪
♪ But you smoke one when you drink ♪
♪ You don't know it yet, but you're gonna love me ♪
♪ I'm a bad mamma-jamma ♪
♪ Fresh out of Savannah ♪
♪ My people call me Hannah ♪
♪ H-to-the-damn-to-the-D ♪
♪ No, I ain't for everybody but I don't try to be ♪
♪ If you like the sound of that ♪
♪ You're gonna love me ♪
♪ I say what I mean, mean what I say ♪
♪ I make no apology ♪
♪ I'm a bad mamma-jamma ♪
♪ Fresh out of Savannah ♪
♪ My people call me Hannah ♪
♪ H-to-the-damn-to-the-D ♪
♪ No, I ain't for everybody but I don't try to be ♪
♪ If you like the sound of that, you're gonna love me ♪
♪ Aww ♪
♪ You're gonna love me ♪
Get on that guitar, Mark!
Hey!
A Tele just fits me. It's sexy and feminine.
And Jimmy Page talks about holding a guitar
like you're caressing a woman, you know,
there's just something that about the touch
and the approach.
It's got three pickups in it, kinda like a Strat,
so it's a little more honky-tonk raunchy.
To describe the sound, woo!
Depends on who's playing it,
it's warm and fuzzy, and kind of a (purrs).
(laughs)
Or it can howl like a cat too. I love it.
Jeremy Spillman and I write together a lot
with Steve Moakler.
So the three of us wrote this song.
It's called "If My Life Was a Country Song,"
and I'd probably cry, cause I'm playing it here, man.
But it's about my childhood growing up,
anyway, and dreaming about this kind of stuff.
So I'm excited to play it.
(laughs)
Sorry to cry, but I know it looks good on camera.
("If My Life Was a Country Song")
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ The first verse would be about home ♪
♪ Be a neon rainbow, a red C10 ♪
♪ And something that rhymes with tractor ♪
♪ Big lab named Dixie on the porch ♪
♪ Thumpin' her tail on the tuning fork ♪
♪ Just happy we got home safe ♪
♪ 'Cause in the end, that's all that matters ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ It'd sound like 1991 ♪
♪ With a fiddle and a steel ♪
♪ To let you know the way I feel ♪
♪ It'd be a y'all come back, and don't stay gone too long ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ When we got to the second verse ♪
♪ We're sittin' in the back row of my church ♪
♪ Some of it wouldn't be fit to sing on a Sunday morning ♪
♪ It'd be a couple of boys that didn't work out ♪
♪ Maybe one or two, I'm still thinking about ♪
♪ That might break your heart but you can turn it up ♪
♪ I hope you turn it up loud ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ It'd sound like 1991 ♪
♪ With a fiddle and a steel ♪
♪ To let you know the way I feel ♪
♪ It'd be a y'all come back, and don't stay gone too long ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
♪ It'd sound like 1991 ♪
♪ With a fiddle and a steel ♪
♪ To let you know the way I feel ♪
♪ It'd be a y'all come back, and don't stay gone too long ♪
♪ Country music come back, and don't stay gone too long ♪
♪ If my life was a country song ♪
Cooking has always been therapeutic for me.
So when quarantine happened,
I decided to try out my "Stand by Your Pan" idea.
It's like a comedy-infused,
country music infused cooking series.
And I tried it on that new TikTok app.
And lo and behold, it took off, who knew?
("You're Gonna Love Me")
I can't believe I'm cooking in Patsy's kitchen.
We're doing some of my barbecue ribs in the oven.
Rub 'em down with my bodacious BBQ rub.
I'd tell you what's in it, but I'd have to kill you.
(chuckles)
♪ Kneel sometimes when you pray ♪
♪ If your accent ♪
My life is balanced between a Fender and a frying pan.
(laughs)
I'll put these in the oven.
♪ Love me ♪
Ooh, honey, hush.
♪ Sam Elliott's still got it ♪
Look at that.
♪ And Alan Jackson shoulda kept that ♪
I gotta try one just to make sure it's safe for my guests.
Mmm!
♪ And you don't disagree ♪
Never trust a skinny cook.
And then the third song we're gonna do,
"The Tree" just talks about my love for country music
and music that is rooted in country.
I love commercial country music.
I think there's some great stuff out there.
And I have no issue with like pop country, it's not for me,
but I think as long as the song is well-written,
which to me, country music is traditionally well-written.
But I think it's, you know you've done your job,
but it just talks about not branching out too far,
and not watering it down.
And I don't believe in watering it down.
So, and it's got a spanky kind of beat to it, too.
("The Tree")
♪ This song ain't for everybody ♪
♪ To everybody that don't know ♪
♪ Little seed got planted when the song got sung ♪
♪ That hailed Billy Booze man wrote ♪
♪ Country music was born ♪
♪ Like a tree in the dirt ♪
♪ And it came up strong ♪
♪ Down to earth ♪
♪ It's all about the branchin' out ♪
♪ Everybody been branchin' out ♪
♪ Pullin' up what's in the ground ♪
♪ Lived down in Tennessee, yeah ♪
♪ Getting a little too far ♪
♪ From the three chords and the truth part of it ♪
♪ Forgetting where the roots are ♪
♪ That's gonna kill the tree ♪
♪ Some songs ain't for everybody ♪
♪ So what about folks like me ♪
♪ Whose life soundtrack ♪
♪ Ain't some watered down hip hop melody ♪
♪ I'm all about getting somewhere ♪
♪ Getting somewhere ♪
♪ Don't break just bend ♪
♪ I'm scared we're getting somewhere ♪
♪ Little too far with them ♪
♪ It's all about the branchin' out ♪
♪ Everybody been branchin' out ♪
♪ Pullin' up what's in the ground ♪
♪ Lived down in Tennessee, yeah ♪
♪ We're getting a little too far ♪
♪ From the three chords and the truth part of it ♪
♪ Forgetting where the roots are ♪
♪ It's gonna kill the tree ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ It's all about the branchin' out ♪
♪ Everybody been branchin' out ♪
♪ Forgetting what it's all about ♪
♪ And what it used to be, yeah ♪
♪ We're getting a little too far ♪
♪ From the three chords and the truth part of it ♪
♪ Forgetting where the roots are ♪
♪ We're gonna kill the tree ♪
♪ If we forget where the roots are ♪
♪ We're gonna kill the tree ♪
♪ Gonna kill the tree ♪
Whew, burnin' up.
That's six racks of ribs I fixed today.
Five pounds of potato salad, and some other stuff.
Got some buddies coming over. They're big eaters.
Met 'em on the road with Skinner.
(motorcycle engines roaring) ("You're Gonna Love Me")
Hey, hey, y'all hungry?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Man] I am.
(Hannah purrs)
- Look at that.
♪ No apology ♪
♪ I'm a bad mamma-jamma ♪
♪ Fresh out of Savannah ♪
♪ My people call me Hannah ♪
♪ H-to-the-damn-to-the-D ♪
It's taken me a little bit longer
to get things off the ground,
but I'm glad that I waited,
and I'm glad that I stayed true to who I was,
because now I'm in my own lane.
♪ You're gonna love me ♪