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Noah: I edited it down, then we re-learned it from the edit. We were thinking of it as a 70’s David Bowie country song. We used a lot of stuff from that bag of tricks: Double tracked vocal, octave harmo- nies. I played the solo on that Les Paul through a Uni-Vibe type effect through a Marshall JTM 45 combo, so it’s 70’s all around.


Both of you were raised on the Bellamy Brothers ranch, also known as the “Honky Tonk Ranch” in Florida, which has been in your family for about 150 years. What did your dad, uncle and grandparents teach you about ranching? What is the best part of living on the ranch? Jesse: How to grill a great steak.


Noah: It’s great to be connected to people and to a place. Living there is more symbiotic. Being in Nashville, you have the city thing, which is more of adversarial relationship. You’re trying to beat the city at its own game. On the ranch, you just have the forces of nature, you’ll never beat those.


You both recently filmed the last episode of the reality show “Honky Tonk Ranch”, how was that experience? What can we expect on the second season? Noah: We ended with a two part episode about Dad and Susan (our stepmother) renewing their wedding vows for their 25th anniversary. It was a treat having Tanya Tucker and Mickey Gilley out to the ranch for the finale.


Jesse: As far as we know, the second season will focus more on all of us on the road playing music. There will still be plenty of the ranch, but you’ll get a glimpse of life in Nashville and on tour, as well.


Jesse & Noah, you have a new album “Southern Usonia”, and a new song “Gamblers Heart”, with Jesse & Noah, and The Bel- lamy Brothers. It sounds traditional country/southern, and written about your dad? How is your relationship with your dad David Bellamy now? Jesse: “Southern Usonia” came out about two years ago. We have a new album, “Neon Pike,” that’s about to be released. “Gambler’s Heart” will be included on it, along with 11 more original songs.


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Noah: It is partly about dad, partly about friends and their relation- ships with their fathers. I was worried, at first, that he wouldn’t like the way he was being portrayed in the song. The gambler, in this case, is kind of a “lovable rouge.” I think that all men enjoy playing that part at some point in their life.


Jesse: We knew we wanted them to sing on it, so we gave it a sound feel they’d be familiar with that they’d sound really good on. It ac- tually reaches back to before they started recording as the Bellamy Brothers. Our friend Billy Ramirez, a Nashville percussionist origi- nally from Puerto Rico, provided the conga drum groove. When you combine that groove with the country-blues slide guitar, you get a classic Florida sound.


Noah: We have really good relationship. Being in Nashville, we get to see each other and hang out a lot. It’s a good time.


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