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[0:14] Robert Bannon: Welcome to The Roundtable, everybody. My name is Robert Bannon. You're listening to us on Broadway World over here on the Broadway Podcast Network, iHeart, and Spotify. Look, I'm in a different spot. I'm in this little chair. I'm in a little loungy part of the house because it was so hot in my little office. You know what else is hot? Nashville country music. Our next guest, Buck McCoy. So let me tell you, if you love Netflix, and you've been watching and you just listen and you say, "Oh my goodness, I hear this song and it's on The Wrong Paris," and you've been watching some of this stuff, and it's been number one on Netflix, and you're like, "Where do I get this music? Who made this song? This song explains to me how I feel about my life, the way I love the people in it." Then you gotta know Buck. Buck is here, everybody, and I'm so excited to get the back scoop. What is the scoop, Buck McCoy? Tell me!

[1:06] Buck McCoy: Oh hello. Hello! Hello, everyone! Hola! Coming to you from Nashville, Tennessee. We're Detroit slash Nashville. You know, where music is made. It's either Detroit or Nashville, really, truly is it's for real. It's a pleasure to be on your show. I've been so excited about this because I just know that you love music like I love music, and I've been doing music my whole life ever since it was doe. Uh dear a female D-Ray, a golden drop of sun. And ever since then, I have said, man, maybe one of these days I'll be in one of those fancy movies, you know. But I never knew it would be a Netflix thing. You know how it's weird how things materialize and happen, and it's a global phenomenon. This movie has got like I guess 600 million spins, uh, or well, views and whatnot. So they're viewing it all over the world. It's just it's so great to be on the show to tell everybody that uh the song is called Paris, Texas Man. And who do you think it, Robert? Here I am on your show.

[2:14] Robert Bannon: Did you write it?

[2:15] Buck McCoy: Well, I written it with uh Larry Weir, and uh it's produced by uh Tom Weir, his brother. So uh they're the writers, and then I'm just the artist performing on it. But you know, we've written so many songs, and we've done a whole album together before, and you know, little things we we would think this is gonna be the big one. And then this one I was like, ah, this is just a it's a silly throwaway song. But the producer uh and the director, Janine uh Damien love the song. She says I've got a perfect spot for it. When they get off the plane and they realize they're not in Paris, France, they're in Paris, Texas. That's when your song's gonna come on. I was like, oh, that's the perfect timing. So it comes on at a real special point, a trend kind of a transition in the movie, and uh the movie's really funny.

It's about uh um, you know, one of those bachelorette kind of uh dating shows, and they think she's uh you know, gonna be seeing this honey pot, and they're gonna be doing it in Paris, France, but they throw a twist, they do Paris, Texas. But then guess what? She sees him, and oh no, the sparks they fly, and oh no, just like all those other chick flicks, you know, there's a lot of drama with the other girls and uh falling in love and then the falling out of love, and so it's a real fun movie. I think everybody'll enjoy it. We need fun movies. We need to like life is crazy enough, so you need a good time, a good rom-com. Maybe it's the perfect date night, maybe it's the perfect girls' night out.

Maybe it's the you order some fancy, nice little Italian food, delivered to your house. You put this movie on, you listen to Buck sing, you have a little fettuccine. This is the night. This is it, right? You get your snuggle partner, man. Snuggle up, get the popcorn. That's Netflix and Chill with Buck McCoy and this new movie.

[4:08] Robert Bannon: So for you, uh, when someone how does it work? Do you write the song and record the song first, or they come to you all? I know you wrote it, you they wrote it, and then you recorded it, but does Netflix and the does the song exist and then they find the song and put it in the movie, or is this was the song made for this movie?

[4:26] Buck McCoy: Well, what's funny is uh the the writer uh Larry Weir is the brother of the executive producer, and he had given him the song. Um he had given Michael Damien the song, and it was kind of sitting around in his phone, and he thought it was from some major artist, and he said, "Well, we'll never be able to get the licensing on that, it'll cost too much." And then Larry's like, "No, man, that song is you know, it's in one of my catalogs, so you're welcome to use it." So he goes, "Yes." So that's how it kind of came around. It was like a fluke that uh it was just you know, melting around and and and all the other songs. Now the soundtrack to this uh movie is just fantastic because it's got a lot of country songs, got a lot of throwback songs, and uh it's just a privilege to be mixed in with this uh this album that uh I guess is doing so well on Spotify, and you can go to Apple Music and you guys can download it there, but it's it it's just a miracle how it got on the dang soundtrack.

[5:27] Buck McCoy: So um, I didn't think it would be this big of a hit because I've been watching Netflix there's there's like really great things on there and to think this one beat everybody almost by double the next closest one was like an uh K-pop kind of uh North Korean thing and there was like have you know that one yeah that's like the next closest thing so uh it was it was a miracle well we could also go to buckmcoy.com and we could find out all of the information about you you you play a lot of gigs uh you you release a lot of music you put out a lot of music so what is your journey you were born in Texas and moved to Tennessee?

[5:27] Buck McCoy: Yeah, I was in Texas then kind of grew up in California uh my dad moved us out there and then I did a few things like uh quick run in Arizona but I've been out here in Nashville now 17 years doing music. I play over at uh Alan Jackson's club uh and then I play at uh Redneck Riviera which is a John Rich club kind of a uh bar for the veterans and uh you know bopping around doing the grand old Opry doing other things around here there's a lot going on out here. I'm inviting you Robert and all of your listeners to come and see me perform live every single week I'm out on Broadway and you probably dig it out here. There's so much music on every corner and it's a different style you know one place has got the blues you know and the other place has got hip hop and the other place is straight country with you know big hats and belt buckles.

[7:04] Robert Bannon: You know, I have I spent my third I'm I'm 42 for my 30th birthday. I wanted to go to Nashville. Eight of us went to Nashville. And I have I'm not a drinker. That's not my my thing. My friends are. I I'm I've I took a lot of drunk, passed out people to the 24-hour McDonald's after a night out after a night out on Broadway. There is no city like the energy. Um, you know, I love New York and I and people love LA and people I'm in Detroit, and we all legendary incredible cities, but there's something about music in Nashville. It's in the water, it's in the spirit.

[7:40] Buck McCoy: Yeah, it's definitely, you know, Motor City, like all that music that came out of there, it's just like embedded in the streets. And Nashville's kind of that same same kind of thing, like because it started you know in the 50s and the 60s, you know, so it you can feel the the ghost of music and Johnny Cash and all the people before us. So it's it's just something I I you know I think there's nothing better than to follow your dream, whether you're making millions and millions of dollars, like some of the Keith Urban's and Tim McGraw's and stuff like that, or you're just living your passion and every day just enjoying music and riding, and then something really special folds in your lap like this, and yeah, so you know, I think uh I think next time you come out here, I'll be the we'll both be the designated drink driver.

[8:30] Robert Bannon: All right, deal. And I'm coming to see you play somewhere. That's a fact. So for you, Buck, what was the moment when you were growing up that that inspired you to to do music? And and was there uh a singer, a song or person in your life that that we were like, okay, this is what I need to do?

[8:45] Buck McCoy: Let's see, it started off in the living room of Grand Prairie, Texas, when I performed in front of my grandma, Pearl. And you know, I let her have it too. I said, "You I'm gonna entertain you." You put you right in, you put you right in now, put your right in, and you dig it all about. I knew from then on. I said she applauded me, and so I said, uh uh let me keep advancing, and you know, I kept bringing on songs and kept entertaining. I was a little hyperactive, they were probably a little spazzed out, but guess it was the second grade talent show. I sang Cats in the Cradle in the Silver Boom, Little Boy Blue on the Man on the Moon. When you coming home, Dad, I don't know when, but we'll get together then.

And then I guess high school, I was a rock and roller man. I had hair down to my bone bindy dying, diggy diggy diggy. But then uh, you know, that was uh rock and roll 80s time and uh the 20s. I took a break. You know how everybody says, "Well, you gotta, you know, after high school, you gotta get serious, and you gotta have a job and you gotta, you know, be responsible." So I tried that, and I was doing that, and I was just so unhappy. And I just came home and I was just frustrated, and then uh I had broken up with uh the person I was with, and so I decided, you know what? That's it. I'm just gonna do music all the time, 24 hours, and whoever meets me now is gonna know hey, this is what the deal is, this is what I am. And so I started working on uh uh recording and doing uh my first album, and ever since then it's just been full speed ahead.

[10:35] Buck McCoy: I was gonna say, you know, there's a lot of sacrifices you make people make as an artist. It's not a traditional life, it's not a traditional paycheck in that way. There's good and there's been bad, but at the end of the day, what keeps you go? What's kept you going all these years?

[10:49] Buck McCoy: Yeah, I just think it's the only thing that I really do good, you know. All the other stuff I've tried, I've like just kind of been in the mix. But, you know, performing in front of people and and and uh in Los Angeles, I was doing a lot of theater and I would do plays and musicals, you know, Jesus Christ Superstar. Do you believe who they say you are? I was just into it, you know. And uh it was the only thing that I really could do well and stand out.