Lane Brody: About.com. Tell me.
JoleneHost: About.com is net-based, about has several websites, country music is one of them.
Lane Brody: Okay.
JoleneHost: And we do interviews, we do mostly CD reviews, concert reviews, we have a fan message board, we have all kinds of country content on the main site.
Lane Brody: I'm not big on reviews, I just have to tell you that.
JoleneHost: That's okay. I gave you a good one.
Lane Brody: I never had any bad ones, but I sometimes feel that we get a little bit over.. You know. Jealous with that, zealous or whatever and you know a lot of people are just putting their hearts out there and... you know what I mean.
JoleneHost: I won't review a CD that I know is not somebody I'm gonna connect with.
Lane Brody: Yeah. Good for you.
JoleneHost: And that's just, I feel that like it should review it.
Lane Brody: Yeah. I have a hard time with all of these judging things, judging talents stuff like that because it hurts so many people and it doesn't mean that they're not gonna go on and become very successful even if they're having - it's not right now or whatever. So I like to encourage, encourage, encourage.
JoleneHost: I did review your CD a couple years ago
Lane Brody: Thank you.
JoleneHost: And I actually really, really liked it.
Lane Brody: Thank you.
JoleneHost: Do you have any plans for another one? What are you up to right now in your career?
Lane Brody: Just you know continuing on with what I do, on my own pace and my own time. And my husband is producing everything, you know, Eddie Bayers, and it's all been hinging on the songs. If I don't have a song that's got me going, I'm not going to do it. I don't have to, I don't have to work again if I ever don't want to, you know what I'm saying?
JoleneHost: Right.
Lane Brody: And I went through hell in the industry for my integrity, so I hold my integrity, I hold my talent true, and I grow, and I wait. When I get the songs, then I do 'em. Now, "Pieces of Light," that was a little different. That was sort of like I was catching up a little bit, healing, getting over a lot of stuff that I had gone through, a lot of trauma, and then I revisited "Over You" and "The Yellow Rose" with Johnny Lee, as you know and of course I always have to have something for my troops, you know, my guys and girls I'm so close to them, and so "All The Unsung Heroes" is on there, and then I did it with Collin as another bonus, and then did some new things which were huge in Europe. "Faster Than The Speed of Love" was Top Ten, and so was "Playing More Love," they released "Over You" again, I had no idea was as big a success in Europe as it was in the 80's, and so we revisited that, and then "'Til You Found Me," the first cut, that was a big hit in Europe, and I currently have a top ten on the top 40 country charts in Europe called "Any Other Heart" from the new CD, which we'll be releasing here in the United States, had a huge amount of success in Europe, tons of mail worldwide comin' in now, it's amazing.
JoleneHost: I think there's a lot of that here in the United States we give the people overseas enough credit for being country fans, but there's some hardcore country fans over there.
]Lane Brody: Huge. They're very intelligent listeners. They write the most brilliant letters, they know what musicians performed on your single, your cuts, they know your history, they will write and say they remember a TV thing I did, or a this or a that, I have to go into my records and check when they ask me a question, and interviewers are very, very specific about questions they ask, and you worked with, and they'll say and I'm aware that you worked with such and such at such and such a time and you have to go into your memory and go yeah I did. It's very complimentary because they are historians, and in America we've sort of lost a lot of those people in radio that were historians that knew our history, a lot of them left when the conglomerates came in and all this and we've gotten very, very fast and everything's just you know, the system is just off and running, you know? But these people really care and that means a lot to us as artists you know? So I enjoy a lot of that day to day, and now as a result, more things are happening here in the United States, like I'm sort of being re-discovered, and Aristomedia is just doing fantastic work for me doing the public relations. Jeff and I go way back to the beginning, love him to pieces, he's like a brother. And of course you know Eddie, my husband, he's a drummer, one of the top drummers in the world, he does all of George Strait's and Alan Jackson's albums, and could easily have gone right into an A&R position at a label, but just chose not to. We have a very, very wonderful marriage, we're very close, we have a lot of animals and a lot of peace in our lives now, and that's really what we cultivate first and foremost is our relationship and our peace.
