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The Rambling Gypsy
Reinventing Life's Playlist with Creed Fisher
Tiff sits down with Creed Fisher, whose story is one of finding passion against all odds. With stories of perseverance and the unwavering support of fans, Creed's journey underscores the resilience needed to carve a niche in the music world.
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The Rambling Gypsy podcast is a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of real Texans doing real sh*t. We're pulling back the curtains on our daily lives - and you're invited to laugh and learn along with us.
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I put a blessing on it to real. That's it, metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic buzzing like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me dripping in it 24-7 on it. I'm just being honest. Ah, holy water dripping, dripping from my neck to my creps. So I'm two-stepping on it like I only gave him one drink.
Speaker 3:Everybody, welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast. I'm Tiffany Foy and we are in my she shed today and we are doing a little change-up. This is Creed Fisher for everybody. If you guys do not know Creed Fisher, this is Creed Fisher and he is going live on his Facebook channel. And so this is a first for me to do a live. We've done a live podcast before, but this is the first time we've done a live and a recorded at the same time. So you uh you threw a wrench in my thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there is, yeah, there is. So I have a lot to ask you. I have a lot to talk about you ready.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm totally ready.
Speaker 3:All right. So um Creed Fisher, the guy, the one, the only, the infamous. So we met through mutual friends, mags, uno Rios, and the first time when you headlined Uno Rios, that was the first time I met you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that was two years ago almost. Was it two? Yeah, was it three?
Speaker 2:A couple years ago.
Speaker 3:It was three. We can call it two, it's fine, it's whatever, two or four who's counting I think he's full of it Well we know who he is. But yeah, so it's been a minute, and then we were down at Rios again, and then boom, we're reunited. And of course you weren't there, but um so I hear it was a good time, though it was a good time. It was so much fun, we had such a good time.
Speaker 2:I love mags. Yeah, things work out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, he's a good dude. He's, I, we might, we might keep him on. I keep him around for a little bit. I off the lives. No, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. So, um, I want you to tell everybody that from my side, from where I am, who is creed fisher? How did you? Where'd you come from? I come from a little, don't say vagina, because we all know that's where we all come from from mama's no no I come from mama's house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the bathtub that was yeah, there you go so that's where I'm from odessa, texas out in the oil fields texas yeah, I grew up out there. My granddad moved out there back in the 40s, late 40s, early 50s. He was a tool pusher rust neck, then the tool pusher rust neck, then the tool pusher for rowing drilling. And you know I don't hold it against him. I know he did what he had to do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do, you started with Odessa, yeah, back in those days, man.
Speaker 3:Back in those days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my grandfather got me to Odessa and two generations later I got all my family out of Odessa.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it worked. Yeah, and so then I want to know where the music side came from.
Speaker 2:Well, I started. Obviously I was still living in Odessa. I was married for 12 years, raising my kids, had three kids.
Speaker 3:Three kids. I have three kids.
Speaker 2:You know, coming out of the Army. You know I was 21.
Speaker 3:How long were you in the Army?
Speaker 2:For three years. Three years 93 to 96. And I came out in 96, and I wasn't out of the Army very long when I met the mother of my children.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:And so I was married. I think I was about 22 when I got married, yep, and then had JC when I was about 23. And just, I was a journeyman electrician, got you 23 years out there, raised up my kids and I got divorced in 2008. And that was kind of the catalyst to getting me into music, because I wanted to do music, you know. But it's hard when you're raising a family, right, you know, and you, you know, uh, especially when you're young, you know, you don't, you don't really even know who you are. Back then, when you're young, stuff, you try still trying to figure out who you are and for whatever reason, you know, I'm not blaming her or me, it was, I'm sure it's about a little bit of both of us but, uh, I got divorced when I was 33 and I'd always wanted to do music. It was passion, you know, I was the elvis fan and then george straight and saw the girls throwing the panties on stage and decided that's just where you wanted to be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm gonna do that. That is a hell of a job.
Speaker 2:That's a perk.
Speaker 3:This is nice.
Speaker 2:This is nice.
Speaker 3:So it wasn't in the family, it was just. You just decided that that's what you were thinking.
Speaker 2:The only person that I know of that ever did music in my family was my grandfather on my mom's side.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he did the local thing and used to play in the bands and play the bars back in the day, the Barnes. I never got to see him play or nothing like that, but from the stories I heard he was pretty good. He got, I think, maybe some interest in a record deal back in those 60s and early 70s. A record deal back in those we're talking 60s and early 70s and it just you know, we were.
Speaker 2:It's not a reality for people who live where we live. Yeah, you know it's. It's usually not, you know, but for me it worked out. But you know he was a severe alcoholic too, you know, and that that's hard to do. I think that kind of took it, took it away from him, but that's the only in my family. That's hard to do. I think that kind of took it away from him, but in my family that's the only other person I know of that did music.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know where I get my voice from.
Speaker 3:Do you have a big family?
Speaker 2:Not really. I have me and my sister. Right, I only have one sister, gotcha, so there's only two of us. And then my dad had a brother and two sisters well, three sisters because they adopted but, um, so not a very big family to be to be honest with you, but, yeah, a loving family, you know right, I had a lot of love.
Speaker 2:My families were different man they were. They were a lot different on both sides. Like you could not get much different than my dad's side and my mom's side, and I think that has a lot to do with my music. I feel that why my music's like it is, you know, and I always tell people on my dad's side I was getting marty robbins. You know that that gunfighter, uh album was huge in my life.
Speaker 2:I actually cut big iron on my last album how low influence, volume two and uh. So I was getting a lot of country on that side marty robbins, don williams, door straight, you know all the old stuff. And then on my, my mom's side and you gotta understand, we lived right next door to each other so I didn't have to go very far, you know, to get this outside. And then on my, my grandma or my mom's side I was getting Ted Nugent, black Sabbath, all the Southern rock, rock and roll stuff at the time during the late seventies, early eighties, right, and so that's why my music, I think, is infused with rock and country, because that's what I was raised on it's nice.
Speaker 3:It's a good blend. It's really good.
Speaker 2:I think it is yeah the stuff I like right but I'm hardcore and Black Sabbath is my favorite rock band really yeah that's pretty wild that stuff. That's what I grew up on yeah.
Speaker 2:I had. I hit a phase I was about I was a little, I don't say very sheltered life, but decently sheltered life. My dad wouldn't want me to go over there, you know, and I was. I think I was in eighth grade when my buddy, bernie Tucker, handed me a black uh, an aussie album, ultimate sin, and I wasn't really allowed to listen to rock to that point and I think it just got to a point where my dad got tired of fighting me about it. You know, right, like I came home with the prince cassette one time and my dad had watched us first of all, he just said he came home with a prince cassette.
Speaker 3:Yes, odessa, texas. Where in the fuck did you find a Prince cassette? You have a mall.
Speaker 1:We had a mall In.
Speaker 3:Odessa.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We had a mall.
Speaker 3:So when in eight those were called dime stores, creed, when we were little they were called dime stores. No, this was a mall. There was a mall, an actual mall.
Speaker 2:It was a Dillard's and everything shut up there.
Speaker 2:Oh my god it was all new to all of us yeah even my dad, you know, if he had watched some show on like 60 minutes or something about prince was a devil worshiper or something. I don't know, man, I can't tell you. I don't know. All I know is I got home with it and he said what is that? He looked at it and he threw it across the yard, the street, into the neighbor's yard, into the pasture and I wouldn't have got it Right in a big pile of cow shit.
Speaker 2:Right in a big pile of cow shit and I still listen to it. But when I got to about eighth grade, man, you know how it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When you get that old, you kind of almost raised. You know, I was about 14, I was 15 years old and I found ozzy osbourne and the rest is history. You know, debauchery, pure debauchery. I actually got caught one time. We had a flat. I was maybe 15, 14 years old. My buddy was 16. He'd failed to go out to class and we were out drinking beer and, uh, we got pulled over. Well, nobody knew we had a flat. So we're sitting there on the side of the road changing this flat right and our truck is open. What do you think we had in it?
Speaker 2:a bunch of beer, baby, a bunch of beer I'm just sitting here thinking well, first of all, you're 14, 15 and 14 15 years old I'd already moved out by then, so I had to go home, yeah, but uh, it was funny, man, cause I'm wearing this jacket and I have all these Aussie pins on it, you know, and I'm standing there, this cop is grilling me and he's like, and he looks down at my jacket, he's like who's that? Your girlfriend? I never forgot that.
Speaker 2:No, clearly, I mean I'd still be in therapy, and that was my first MIP and the only reason and thank you Lord that I didn't join the Air Force because they wouldn't take me, because I had the MIP. So I'll regret nothing, it all worked out.
Speaker 3:How did you get an MIP on the side of the road?
Speaker 2:Because we had two cases of beer in the trunk and we were changing a flat tire and a cop pulled up behind us to see if he could help us change a flat tire.
Speaker 3:I could just hear your remark. Well, no, but I got it.
Speaker 2:If you could just hand me a beer back there, that'd be really nice of you sir what happened was the first thing I did cold one the first thing I did is a little dumb ass is go close the truck. The cop walks up me, can I? Help you guys how y'all doing. I'm just changing a flat tire. Yeah well, what's in the trunk? Why did you close the trunk? Uh?
Speaker 3:nothing nothing.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I got us busted wasn't the first time. I was only 14. I'm blabbing it on them, but yeah, I had to go home and tell the parents about the first mip. There was more than one, but that was the first one, 14 years old, 14 14, right out of the gate. Right out of the gate.
Speaker 3:But you didn't waste any time.
Speaker 2:No, not at all.
Speaker 3:Well, I've never had an MIP. I'm not going to say I'm not.
Speaker 2:You're not missing anything.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not going to say I've not been in trouble. We've all got our stupid shit we've done. That's a fact. So, coming from there, you were a journeyman until you were 20.
Speaker 2:Would you say 28? No, I started about when I was about 20. I went to work and the first place I went to work was building pole line, just you know, out in the oil fields. Right, which is hard you know it's seriously manual labor.
Speaker 3:So my dad was an electrician by trade his entire life. That's cool, yeah. And I have been asked more than once. I'm kind of a jack of all trades, can kind of just kind of do things and figure it out or whatever. And I was asked by my ex-husband one time I was changing out light fixtures in my home and I was putting a sconce in, and he said, well, how come you don't know know how to wire this? And I said, because I don't have to. My dad has been an electrician his entire life.
Speaker 3:that is one thing that I've never had to do can I absolutely, but that's one thing I'd never had to do, and so yeah, absolutely, but that's one thing I never had to do, and so yeah.
Speaker 2:It's good to have a dad that can do things like that.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:I think for me it was just a family thing. My one grandpa was an electrician, both uncles, a couple cousins, my dad, yeah. So it was a thing where I tried to avoid it at first, but I got out there and realized what real hard-ass work is and I just decided I don't think.
Speaker 1:I'll be an electrician.
Speaker 2:Because you'd have hard days, don't get me wrong, but you'd have easy ones too. And it's challenging, it's really challenging, it's very challenging, especially when it comes to control circuits and stuff like that. I mean, even when you're building pole line, there's some intelligence to it, you know. Yeah, you got to be smart regardless. Well, you got to.
Speaker 3:I mean, you can blow yourself or somebody else, literally off of a pole, like it's the 4th of July.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't want to mess up?
Speaker 3:No, no, that Fourth of July, yeah, you don't want to mess up? No, no, that's called a fucktuation, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I almost killed myself a few times.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to lie, but yeah, Luckily I got out of that. I wouldn't want to still be there today, man, I can't even. I'm just blessed to be where I'm at At 2000,. I think it was. 2017 was when I finally the last time I got to quit my day job.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:So I haven't worked a day job since then.
Speaker 3:And my fans have been coming through ever since then, so before you in 2017, when you were able to quit your day job. How long had you been playing music at that point to allow you to quit your day job?
Speaker 2:People ask me when I started music.
Speaker 3:Were you self-taught?
Speaker 2:I would say 2012.
Speaker 3:Were you self-taught?
Speaker 2:I was self-taught on guitar. I took two lessons, did you? And then I just bought the book and went home and tortured people, did you? Buy the book at the mall no, it was this little place called tj rabbits texas, texas country store. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Uh, mom and pop home done place I love that you know, basically that's where I got started is tj rabbits man, because that's where I would go. Do the open mic nights, yeah, and I think if you, if you want to get started in music and you want to do music right, open mic nights are a good way to start. There's a lot of people that go in there and they're not very good, so you don't feel that bad when you mess up or you don't do the best.
Speaker 3:That was a big thing here in New Braunfels a long time ago at River Road Ice House. We would do it on Tuesday evenings and my nephew was um, or still is, and plays music and very, very shy, couldn't do it. I mean, it was just and um had a gig at the time. It was Tavern on the Green. He was, he was young, but he was so intimidated he would lay his guitar flat on his lap. He would never look at anyone, so he would play his guitar flat and he would keep his lyrics kind of shoved underneath the yep. So I remember um, in fact summer Shandy was here, that was on my show a couple of weeks ago he was one of them that that put the whole deal together and we started a, a Tuesday night jam session like that and singer, songwriter, just everybody come in and everybody kind of talk and visit and whatever.
Speaker 3:And it was and I will never forget the first time that I convinced Tyler to come in there. Um, every walk in and it's, you know, five, six, seven guys at the time when it first started out. The next thing, you know, it's 1520 and he was a nervous wreck and when we walked in the door everybody said who's this? And I said, hey, this is my nephew Tyler. This was probably shit 10 years ago until this day. Any time that those guys see Tyler they go hey, how's my nephew Tyler? It's really kind of stuck, but he grew so much from that and now he's playing stages all over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to me, I think that's the best place for a new artist to start. When a new artist asks me to give them advice, that's one of the things I tell them. I love that, if I'm a good open mic, just start going down and doing it.
Speaker 2:You're going to fall on your face. I did many times. You know if that's going to scare you off and make you quit, you won't make it past, that you know. But just stick it If you truly love doing it and you just stick it out. Look where I'm at, look where he's at. You know I'm playing shows all over the country doing what I love. I would have never done that without those open mic nights.
Speaker 3:Do you feel like? Because the world has changed from then to now, so open mic nights are few and far between. Everything is so much internet and so much the web and social media and platforms out there. Do you feel? What would you tell a young artist that is trying to get out there today that doesn't have the little hole-in-the-wall dives or doesn't have the singer-songwriter, or just the group of you guys of 10 to 15 that sit around a campfire at night or in your buddy's garage?
Speaker 2:I mean you, you well, social media is great. They're way different, the two of them absolutely social media is great. To start getting your name out there, you know, to start letting people know who you are. If you're good, people will see it. You know that's one way to do it and it helps don't get me wrong because you are in front of people, they're just not in front of you right you have to go out and get in front of people real people, environment yes so whether that means and if the town you're in doesn't have something like that, then just work your social media as much as you can and eventually you're going to have to move somewhere.
Speaker 2:You know, if you live in a little town like me from Odessa, there's no way I could tour the country from Odessa.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Because I can't put a band together there. If you want to put a band together and you're at that level, you have to go to some place that has uh, that's like a music kind of scene. You know, it doesn't have to be Austin or Nashville, you know, it just has to be somewhere. Me personally, I moved to Kenya Lake when I first came here and I was close to Austin and I was a little close to San Antonio, so like halfway in between and you have to be kind of in a place like that to get those opportunities Right.
Speaker 2:I did have a band in my hometown but you can't tour the world from Odessa, texas. Right you know, and it's hard to even tour Texas from there because it's so far up to the west.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So eventually you're going to have to move to a music town if you want to do it for a living. But you can work your social media as much as you can. Before that I used to do that too. But eventually, you know, just to be able to put a band together, you're going to have to move to a place where musicians Right, when they gather and yeah, exactly yeah, where it's a community, or yeah, yep, I agree.
Speaker 3:So your first CD, your first band, first put together? How long from putting together a band was your first CD release? Tell us about that whole process.
Speaker 2:I found my first band. I really got into music about 2010. That's when I first started trying to do it and writing songs and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Did that come naturally to you writing no not really Not at the time because I hadn't really done it when I got out of my divorce or my marriage. Rather it like inspired me. It really inspired me because I was going through a lot of adversity, you know, and turmoil inside and stuff, and it just that's where I wrote my first song. Until I wrote the first song I had no clue I could do this and I guess it just I needed that environment where I was so lonely and just in that place in my life where I had it inside and I had to get it out. And that's when I wrote my very first song I'll Keep Drinking.
Speaker 3:When you wrote that, was there one person that you just reached out to and said you know what? This is where I've started. This is what I've got. Here's my lyrics.
Speaker 2:How do I?
Speaker 3:put the music with the lyrics, because I talked to so many different people you asked me earlier about my family.
Speaker 2:I totally forgot about my uncle Lonnie, or my cousin rather, Lonnie Lonnie Ingram. So he was big in me getting into music yes he had done it.
Speaker 2:He had went to Nashville. He cut an album. I had listened to his album and it was pretty dang good, right. And so he was the guy. I was writing this song. Right after my divorce I'll keep drinking and I went to him. You know I went to him. You know I went to the family reunion and I knew he was the guy in the valley that I respected musically of what they you know what he thought. And I went to him and I said hey man, I want to run something by you. I said I wrote this song. It goes the jukebox can't replace the sound of your laughter, those neon signs can't give me that same glow. The dance floor and those swinging doors, they don't soothe me like you did so many years ago. And he was like dang, that's pretty good, son that's some goosebumps right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I think I can do this, okay. And so that's where it all started. And I went home and just kept working at it and wrote the song, and then I recorded it locally and was like man, this is really good. And everybody that heard it was like this is really good. You know, I had all the haters back then. I was 35. To be honest with you, by the time I truly started music I was 35 years old. Everyone wanted to tell me I couldn't do it, it was too late. I couldn't, it was too late. You know, it's too hard. I was too old, right, and I didn't listen to none of that is it because you're stubborn as hell?
Speaker 3:or is it just because, look, I know pot kettle, look, I know I get it?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, but yes yeah the only man more stubborn than me and my whole family is my dad. I knew when they said I couldn't do it, I would do it eventually. I just didn't know how long it would take, and now we know it took 15 years.
Speaker 3:And look at you. I became a country music star at 50. There you go at 50.
Speaker 2:You can do whatever you put your mind to doing.
Speaker 3:And that is a fact and accept transition. That's a huge thing that I just think that everybody I've had this conversation with so many different musicians that, whether they're younger, whether they're older or it's adapting and accepting that it's not you can pack a stadium or you can't pack a stadium. But whether the stadium is literally live and in front of you or if it's out here, you still have to understand that this is now the way of the world. As much as we don't want to accept that, that is that's. That's how it's working. You can have the best of both worlds, but I feel like you need to. You can choose if you want to. It may work, it may not.
Speaker 2:That is the biggest thing about music.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you want to sit and play dive bars all you want.
Speaker 2:The percentage of people that make it doing what I do. It's .1%. Tiny, that's 10% of 1%, you know.
Speaker 3:And here comes the electrician side of Crete .1%. This is what my dad would do Map it all out, draw it.
Speaker 2:That is the ratio of people who make it doing what I do. And when you throw in the factor of oh, let me, let you start at 35 years old and never kiss one ass, I think it goes down to .02. But here we are.
Speaker 3:And here you are, and you did it and you're still doing it.
Speaker 2:I did it my way and I'm still doing it. The story's not over yet. I'm just starting to write a book. I feel like the story's just beginning. I'm starting to work with a couple writers yeah, one local Right and one from Nashville. We're all three going to work together Nice To write my story. But I have a very unique story. You know, 35-year-old electrician Because it's like an inspirational story, you know. It is but people tell you you can't do things that you want to do.
Speaker 3:I was told at a very, very young age that I couldn't, that, yeah, boobs and eyelashes were never going to get me anywhere. And at that point I didn't. I didn't even know what a sport was or brawl was, and I was thinking what in the hell? Yeah, and then here I am.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the hell I'm doing but.
Speaker 3:I'm going to throw enough fucking gum at the wall until something's going to stick, and if it don't, I'm going to keep doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to have the talent number one you have to have.
Speaker 3:Wherewithal.
Speaker 2:You have to stick to your course, you know and be strong. But if you have the talent, I don't care how old you are. You can make it. You know, as long as you're willing to work your tail off to do it.
Speaker 3:Determination goes a long way.
Speaker 2:And there's so many things that we Strength is huge. There are so many things in this world that have nothing to do with talent. You know, showing up on time has nothing to do with talent. No, the effort that you give something has nothing to do with talent. You know nothing to do with talent you know your word, your word yeah, your word, your word, your word has nothing to do with talent.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's, that's huge. These are all things that you can. Then I don't care how much talent you have. You can put these in your, in your repertoire, and if you have all those things going for you, you you can go and do whatever you put your eye to do it.
Speaker 3:Do other people in Odessa, texas, say reputba?
Speaker 2:I have. My vocabulary is extensive.
Speaker 3:It's so good, mine's not. I have a gypsy area because mine is like Odessa, texas, yeah. So you know, you win some, you lose some, it's fine.
Speaker 2:That you do.
Speaker 3:But I'm very proud of you. That's right how you fall off the ladder. As long as you don't fall off the same way twice. We're not even going to talk about that? We're not going to talk about that. I've had plenty of surgeries, and you too.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, we have that in common.
Speaker 3:We do. Can you imagine what the airports would do when we try? I saw you laughing out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do Can you imagine what the airports would do when we try I saw you limping out there. When we try, yeah, you too. You too, all the metal detectors are just going off. Metal detectors are freaking out. You know, I had titanium right above. Yeah, I got some of that too Right above the thing you know, Do you? Know, I go through that little the repertoire and the debacle. It just pulls up this little and I go through there and like, so we're going to have to check you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just blinking right over my midsection. Can I wand you?
Speaker 3:serious please. I mean might as well.
Speaker 2:Might as well, might as well. I'm all titanium.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have to carry you. I guess you have to carry cards in your wallet and whatnot. So it tells them that it's really real, that you didn't get stuffed. I am where, I've been, yeah, I have like an ID card and things that I have to. Nick has it and she carries it when we fly.
Speaker 2:So when I start setting off alarms, they pull out my card and say I haven't had to do that yet, because every time I've went through there I've even been in a wheelchair or crutches. No, it's gonna happen so when I just walk through there I might need something. Yeah, just setting off all, just yep it happens.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it's, I, I think, maybe once or twice I haven't set off alarms, but now, since it's a hot alarm, the hot woman alarm that you set off? I don't, it was loud, and it never fails. I'm always getting frisk.
Speaker 2:I bet you are.
Speaker 3:It's the one. Do you want to go behind in the little closet? And I'm like you know what, at this point I really don't give a shit. Nope, let's just get this over with so I can get to where I need to go.
Speaker 2:Final destination yeah, yeah, yeah, we made it.
Speaker 3:Cheers. I'm so proud of you. So here are five CDs, six CDs, 20 CDs.
Speaker 2:I have 14. Albums I have 14 albums 14 albums 14. Yeah, in 12 years. Damn, it's a little bit. That's so good, 12 years, and my fans are the reason why. Because I never had the money, man, I struggled. I had the, I had the music okay and I used to tell my mom all the time I had a fortune in my head, you know yeah it was just a matter if we could get it out my head and onto the paper.
Speaker 2:But, uh, once I finally got able it was about 2019 I put my third album out old school and went number two on itunes and, uh, at that point I had the money to start recording. Now I just followed the blueprint of the other artists I had seen.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That were having success. You know, and I just started recording as much as I possibly could, so I mean consecutively. Yeah, so you got to think about it. In 2019, I put out my third album, Okay, and this last year or this year, 2024, I put out my 14th album. So from 2019 until 2024, I put out 11 albums. So that's a lot of albums in that period of time. You know 11 albums in what? Five years.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So that's all I did is just record and put out music, these songs and this material. That's all you.
Speaker 2:That's all me. Yeah, and the thing about my music is my music. That's all you, that's all me. Yeah, and the thing about my music is my music. You can't put out 11 albums in four years if it's all the same stuff. You know it has to be different. You've got to have country, you've got to have southern rock, You've got to have I put out a kid's album.
Speaker 3:That's just very interesting that you just said that, because I had a conversation um a good six, seven, eight months ago talking to a friend of mine and and we were talking about um diversity and a kid's album and you can't be shot it completely. I mean shot it down so freaking quick and so fast, and they tried to do that with me. Was that your idea?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it came from a situation. I'll tell you if you want. Sure, it came from a situation.
Speaker 3:Why, why did Tell me yeah, I need to know all about this.
Speaker 2:Well, it came from a relationship I had back in 2015.
Speaker 3:I had a relationship with this girl girl and she had two young daughters. So you're children, so you have three boys.
Speaker 2:I have three kids One boy and two girls. There you go. That's what I was looking for this was a relationship I had in 2015.
Speaker 3:Okay, and she had two daughters, okay and she had two daughters, okay and the songs, the two songs that I wrote came from her, her, the time out song tyler I'm in time out.
Speaker 2:I ran my mouth. It all was sad. Yeah, I'm in time out.
Speaker 3:So that was her song I feel like you wrote that about me and every time I serve I'm old as hell and I stay in timeout. You put yourself in timeout, I do, but at least I know where to go sit and think about my choices.
Speaker 1:That's different.
Speaker 3:It's good for us. It's taken me 51 fucking years to figure out how to set myself into timeout and think about my choices.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's adorable. And then the older daughter.
Speaker 3:What that song was like.
Speaker 2:How do I say this oh shit, she would eat everything.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was me In the house. Oh, no, in the house. Nope, I was outside. You would have to put a chain lock thing around the fridge. Oh.
Speaker 2:And so her song.
Speaker 3:I thought you meant like dirt and bugs and stuff.
Speaker 2:No, Because that was gone yeah. And so I wrote her the burrito song. You know I love burritos. No, I love Doritos. I love my Cheetos when they're flaming hot. So that was how those two songs came about all those years ago. This is 2015.
Speaker 2:And I mean, that was in the back of my mind you know that was catchy good stuff and I'm I love kids man, I love my young fans and I did that album and I was told not to do it because I was just building, building, building, building. All my albums were just getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and then I get to this point where I want to do a kid's album. Right, and they were like you want to do a kid's album that's not going to sell for shit, right?
Speaker 2:yes, I don't give a damn what it sells, right? This isn't for sales. This isn't for anything but the kids, right?
Speaker 3:and I knew what it was. You too right.
Speaker 2:I love it, and the world's always going to tell you not to do what you should do. But the kids Right, and I knew what it was. Mm-hmm, you two are great, I love it. And the world's always going to tell you not to do what you should do. Well, of course they are. They're always going to because they want to leech off of you. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3:Don't slow down on this bad boy.
Speaker 2:They're getting 10% of everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 10% of everything, yeah of a thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 10 of everything. Yes, don't slow down this machine putting out a kid's album for autistic kids. Get out of my face, please. I'm gonna do it and thank you yeah, and so yeah, they call me tink tank now now because of my crutches.
Speaker 3:But hey that's another story yeah, that's coming out like yeah, no, and I did, and I did that I swear to God, it did exactly what they said it was going to do.
Speaker 2:It did not sell, not even close. My last eight albums had went top five on iTunes and this album didn't, because it was in the children's genre, it wasn't in country, obviously, it didn't even go top 20. But I didn't care. That was never what it was about. Even go top 20, but I didn't care. That was never what it was about. And I swear to you, for months, for about a year after that, I was getting messages from teachers, a lot of teachers that teach autistic kids, or moms who have autistic kids, or moms who have kids that are kind of hard to deal with. Whatever you want, whatever it is, you know, and they just was just spanking me, man, and just show. They were sending me videos of the whole class, a whole class of autistic kids right in there singing the burrito song that is so good.
Speaker 3:I love that, and I'm like that's why that's why you did it not for sales right here, I still am, yeah you know I'm still the most outlaw country singer in the land.
Speaker 2:That's good and I did what I had to do. You know I didn't care about the sales right and then I put out uh, this ain't the hamptons. And it went top five again. So it was never about the sales, it was just about the what I wanted to do for my fans, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you're still doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, always yeah. I want to put out Cree Fish and Little LLLs too. I already got one of the songs I play for them called the I Love you song, so yes, oh, that means home.
Speaker 1:So Well then he's home.
Speaker 2:So yeah that's. I don't care what people think, man, I don't care what people tell me you can't anymore, Because.
Speaker 3:I mean, even they don't pay my bills. No, you're right.
Speaker 2:They don't even send me money.
Speaker 1:Right, you know. Not even flowers or like a thank you card. I was still telling them that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly yeah, no, yeah, no, it's um. I get it. I absolutely get it.
Speaker 2:Determination came from the blood in my veins, my grandfather's, my mom, really my mom. You know, everything she did was. I don't know how my mom did all she did right take care of all of us during the turmoil and stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean, she's, I'm a lot like my mom. Probably 80 of me is my mom, 20 is my dad. Yeah, and we don't like it when that 20 shows up, you know, but it's in there, yeah, and I say five percent of the 20 is good, right, so I got that 15%, you know, but that's just learning and getting older and you know learning what not to do, so you can't change it, you know you have to learn your veins.
Speaker 3:Have you learned what? Not to do A for effort. It's hard.
Speaker 2:I do really good 98% of all categories.
Speaker 3:You are all about percentages. I am literally killing it. Yeah, one percent, two percent, twenty percent, three percent was that two percent?
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, it's called females, females, the two percent.
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't know, as I said in my she shed with Creed Fisher talking about females. Yeah, it's beautiful, that's what she shed.
Speaker 2:That's what she shed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you get it yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3:So what's in store?
Speaker 2:I walked for the first time today In three months. It was a good day for me and I wasn't hurting all that much and stuff and it was just a really good day. I walked into the chiropractor on my own and he freaked out. He's like okay, look at you. So it was a good day, man, for me personally. I'm just trying to get better every day, day. And I'm back on tour, obviously, yes and uh, I just retired the the the throne.
Speaker 3:There you go Cool.
Speaker 2:There you go for a minute but yeah. And so I'm just trying to get back on track and and go back to kicking ass, you know.
Speaker 3:So when um I had I've had multiple surgeries and we're not going to talk a whole lot about all that, because we know that you're up and you're moving, and we were with you last week and you stood and did your show for the first time- the first time.
Speaker 2:So how was my ex-wife and my daughter.
Speaker 3:And how was that the next day? It wasn't bad. The next day 's good. I was all right. I got in a lot of trouble. I walked in um after my hip replacement and I walked in for my um two week, maybe three week checkup and I just kind of I just kind of walked in there and, uh, sat down and you're down.
Speaker 2:And now what not to do.
Speaker 3:Yep, so he did. I've had um multiple knee surgeries but my knee replacement um was absolutely brutal and it was it was. It was a bad deal. I had all kinds of complications. You've had complications, we'll talk about that on our other deals. But, um, when I walked in after my hip replacement and I mean I, I was in such bad shape that when it was done I mean I felt like Holy, I was like let's freaking go. I mean I I hadn't felt that good, I don't even know right the best feeling. And I walked in and he says so, where's your uh? Are you using a walker or a cast?
Speaker 2:No, he said it's funny. You know, this is completely hilarious that you're saying this to me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he said, it's prophetic. You think your knee surgery is bad? He said keep doing. And this is exactly how my doctor talks to me just like talked to him he said wait till you have your fucking hip joint in your hand, tiffany, keep it up. So I literally walked out of there, went and got me a cane and decked out my walker and and you've seen my crutches. What I did to my crutches, their leopard print and all kinds of did you guys a little more after that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cause I was really not trying to walk and have my. He said I've had one hip in 40 years, of all the surgeries that he had done, that actually had come out. And he said you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to be my second, and so yeah that's me Meet Tiffany, tiffany meet Creed. Yeah, that's me. Creed meet Tiffany, that's me.
Speaker 1:Meet Creed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's me, yep Exactly.
Speaker 1:I can't sit still.
Speaker 3:No me neither.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I'm horrible at it and I read my body and sometimes maybe I'm wrong and that's what they took Usually not wrong, though, but the first time I didn't have any choice. I spit that first hardware out before I even got home, I think. But it's hard for me just to sit around when I sit there Same, and so it's been really hard. And I went to the last appointment, which was three weeks ago, and everything was still in place, right Good. The one hardware had moved a little, but they didn't want to go back in because it hadn't moved that much. They didn't want to go back in just for that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:He just wanted me to take it easy and be easy on it. I'm sorry, man, but when I get to a certain point like I played that show it's so much easier said than done. It is Like, oh, don't move this leg. Do I need to still urinate right? Yeah because if I go over there, this leg has to go with me right, I can't leave it in the chair, you know it's the things everywhere I go.
Speaker 1:This thing has to go with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's and so you get to a point like, oh, I can step on this, it doesn't quite hurt. You know, that's how you start, you know and then the next. Thing you know you're standing on stage without a chair, which is what I did.
Speaker 1:You did.
Speaker 2:I just felt like I was ready.
Speaker 3:I felt like my body was ready. Listen to your body. I do.
Speaker 2:It's very important. I had a weird situation, though, and Saturday I mean I know how the good Lord is, and the Satan too.
Speaker 1:And I was in.
Speaker 2:it wasn't Saturday, it was Friday. I was in Houston and I had done the show. This was my first weekend walking like on stage and whatnot. Did the show. Everything's fine. I'm in the bar, Cause I always go back in the bar to hang out with the people. Man, I don't know any other way.
Speaker 3:That's so good.
Speaker 1:I hate the other way.
Speaker 2:That's so good. I hate the other way, man. Yeah, I'm a party animal.
Speaker 3:Well.
Speaker 2:I'm going to sit by myself.
Speaker 3:Real people appreciate that too.
Speaker 2:I know I'm just that's how I'll always be.
Speaker 3:I don't care if I that's why your fans and your people and and always they can relate and respect my fans.
Speaker 2:I love my fans, and so I'm in there doing this, meet and greet or not meet and greet, it was just signing autographs. I'm back in the bar after the show Right Signing autographs.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people and these two people walk up and it's this young mother and daughter. And the mother comes to my right side and the daughter goes over here. Well, the mother's maybe like 65, not 60, maybe 65, 68, know, she's older, you know, and she's facing this way. She's walking to turn around and we're gonna take a picture, right. Well, she gets about right here and just trips and goes like she picks the face plant. Yep, right in front of me. Well, I grabbed her and caught her on my bad leg.
Speaker 3:Of course you did.
Speaker 2:Well, my good leg can't do nothing, right, I'm this way, you know, so I'm all tweaked this way and I caught her and she didn't face flat and I bring her back up and it definitely tweaked my leg.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It definitely tested it. I think I'm good at this point. I had several, several experiences with things like that, but it's just it's like saying like I'll show you, come out here without crutches yeah 14 steps forward and 16 back If I would have been on crutches, I'd never caught her Right, you know. So I didn't mess up my hip again. I don't think it just you'll know, really tested it.
Speaker 3:You'll know really tested it. Yeah, just just testing the hardware again. The new set exactly so where? What are we doing? New music wise, what do you got going on?
Speaker 2:I've been working on a lot. You you have some rabbits in the hat. I've been doing like well, I've been recording for about a year, a full year now, and so I'm going through a divorce and I can't put out any music right now.
Speaker 3:That's called a it's called a fluctuation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look it up.
Speaker 3:In my gypsy area it's called royalties, yeah, a royal fluctalties, yeah, okay, a royal fluctuation, it's happening Actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I've been kind of just recording a bunch and saving it and I was going to do two albums. And then I just got to a point where I'm like, all right, these are, I'm going to put out 22 songs, 22 new songs, and do a double vinyl. Just because it's been so long since I put an album out. Yeah, so it's called between heaven and hell, okay, which is the most Relatable thing, relatable thing I've been through at this point in my life. You know, literally been living the song the last couple of years and it is got so many good songs on it. I mean, the whole album is just fire and it's 20. I'm gonna do 22 songs, double vinyl and it's gonna be big. Yeah, yeah, coming out next year. I'm excited. That is so exciting, it is super exciting. Of course, I'm gonna overplay it and no one's gonna listen. Psych, that Psych, that's horseshit.
Speaker 2:That's what Music Row would tell you yeah, no, I'm addicting them to this music, and then they're going to have it on their own.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:So I've been playing a lot, you know for the fans. You know going live and playing it for the fans a lot.
Speaker 3:Why don't you play something for us?
Speaker 2:I would love to play something for you guys.
Speaker 3:Let me get.
Speaker 2:You got it for me, hey, because you know I'm barely walking these days. We have a guitar right here.
Speaker 3:Lookie there.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Tiff.
Speaker 2:So, Tiff, this is one of the best love songs I ever wrote.
Speaker 3:Right here. You know I'm sensitive and emotional right, I do, I do.
Speaker 2:It ain't those pretty eyes. It ain't the way you wear that dress. It's the way you smile when I know you're proud of me. It ain't those sexy shoes. It ain't what all the other men see. No, it's something special that you only give to me. It ain't that diamond ring, the one I'm gonna put there on your hand. It's the way I feel when you tell me I'm your man. I love the way it feels when you tell me I'm your man.
Speaker 2:So I've shown that I love you time and time again. I'll always be your lover and your best friend. I'll tell you so Because I want you to know I couldn't live without you and the look in your eyes. I'll always be here to hold you Every damn time as I can. I always thank the good Lord every day I get to be your man. This ain't no fairytale, but, hell yes, it just might be. I bring the best out in you, you bring the best out in me. I'll always be the man, be the one to hold you, like you did, till the day I die. Baby girl, it's you and me, till the last breath I take. Baby girl, it's you and me.
Speaker 2:So I'll show you that I love you time and time again. I'll always be your lover, your best friend, and I'll take so deep. I want you to know that I couldn't live without you and the look in your eyes. I'll always be here to hold you Every damn time I can. I always thank the good Lord. Every day I get to be your man. I sure love you time and time again. Always be in love with your best friend again. I'll always be your lover, your best friend, and I'll tell you so Cause I want you to know I could whittle at you and look in your eyes. I'll always be there To hold you every damn time I can. I always think To go for Lord every day. I get to be your man. I get to be your man.
Speaker 2:I'm blessed to be your man. I'm blessed to be your man out there yeah, that was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 3:I love it thank you all, thank you for being here it's my pleasure it was a blast it was a blast there's so much more to come had a great time we got some big things that we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about, um things that we can't tell you all about right now, but that's coming, that's. That's coming soon. So, yeah, that's just a little taste what's about to happen. I love you.
Speaker 2:I love you back.
Speaker 3:I'm proud of you. Thank you, mama keep doing it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna keep killing it. Keep the so is mags, keep, keep those joints in there keep oh where they belong I'm missing them right now. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3:That's not the one I was talking about. It's fine, I fucking love you.
Speaker 2:I love you, love you back. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3:Hey, y'all like share, follow Creed Fisher. We got some big stuff coming up. Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm Tiffany Foy and we will see you guys next time. Peace out.