Oh my gosh! This was such a FUN conversation! We knew he was talented. We knew he was good looking. But did you know he is crazy in love with his wife of 22 years, is an animal nut (like me!) and has THE BEST sense of humor?! Rob Thomas joins me on this Christmastime episode of LOVE SOMEONE for some real talk about life, love, music... and how much we stinkin' love Christmas In A Small Town!
Get cozy, listen in, and prepare your hearts for some merriment! Happy Christmas everyone! ~ Delilah
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays everyone. I hope this holiday season has been a season filled with joy for you. I hope you have been able to connect heart to heart with family, with friends, and I hope you are feeling all the fields of the holidays. Maybe you've been baking cookies, maybe you've done a little holiday crafting. I hope you've been busy wrapping presents, window shopping. I hope you've driven through a neighborhood that's all lit up with Christmas lights and the magic of the season. And I hope while you're busy at all these tasks, you found yourself humming a familiar Christmas carol or one of your favorite holiday tunes. There are so many, so so many holiday songs and holiday traditions that I at absolutely love. Tree hunting with my kids and my grandkids, tree trimming, making and eating special foods we only have during the holidays, and we have a lot more of during the holidays. Wearing our footing pajamas on Christmas morning, having our annual scavenger hunt every year. I say, this is it. I'm not doing this much work ever again, but it's something we so look forward to. These are some of the things I look forward to all year long, but Christmas music probably one of the biggest things I cherish. And you know what, it's also one thing right up there with faith, hope and love that can never be taken from us, no matter how bad times might get, no matter how dark the winter. Maybe there is Christmas music songs to lift our spirits. You might have noticed a lot of shortages on the store shelves or found something you wanted to purchase was on back back, back order, but thankfully music is not in those categories. New music and Christmas music especially as an abundance this year. Many artists say they were inspired to create new, hopeful holiday music after enduring the socially distance holiday season last year. Music was one thing they could count on to carry them through and they wanted to share it. They wanted to make more good music. We've seen new holiday albums from Kelly Clarkson, Norah Jones, Brett Young, Pentatonics, Darren Chris and there's a beautifully remastered album of Nat King Cole songs too. Some of these newcomers have been added to the Christmas music rotation on My Delilah Radio show, and a lot of them have been added to my personal playlist. But wait, there's more. Another beloved artist released his first holiday album this year, The Oh So Smooth. That's a little hint there, Mr Smooth. Three time Grammy Award winner Rob Thomas. He has given us Something about Christmas Time, a new Christmas album with ten tracks and all most of them are brand new, original summer covers, and some are wonderful duets. My favorite has to be small Town Christmas. I love it because even though I love visiting the Big Apple at Christmas time, I am a small town girl through and through. 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Yeah? Same here? Do you notice mine is a little more um, how do we say this nicely? Uh? Cluttered and disorganized than yours? That's okay. You know they say that geniuses are cluttered and disorganized, Well then I am pretty damn smart I am, because cluttered and disorganized only for me, Like I know where stuff is, and when somebody tries to organize me, unless it's my engineer Ryan, who's here in the studio with me, When somebody tries to organize me, I get so flustered because I'm like I always keep my extra pins piled up in that coffee cup. My mother had O c D. Right, and she was very meticulous about everything, and a lot of that rubbed off on me in this senseance like I was the only kid that you know that would spend early Saturday afternoons cleaning his room and rearranging it and getting excited by it. But I will say, hold on, like if you look over there, like see the way, like all that mess over there. Huh yeah, Okay, I do have some schedule old chaos in my life. Now I feel now I can breathe, though, since you showed me that my wife hates that part of my of my life every time. You know, the studio is the area where like anything that we get that she doesn't want in our home, it's like, oh, that would be great for your studio. That would look nice down there, relegated to the studio? Are we talking like the coffee table made out of antique ship wheel? If I had one of those, that's where we go. Yeah. So, Rob Thomas, let's just talk for a moment about your wife, because who she's a smoke show, right, She's beautiful. You've done good. A We just celebrated twenty two years married on October Wow. Wow, second, congratulations. My anniversary is at the end of the month. We've been together sixteen years but married since ian. We we got married the year after we met we jumped right in, and you were young and you married like a rock star supermodel, and she married a rock star. So I'm sure everybody was thinking, Ah, these two, they're never gonna make it. Yeah, I mean everything about it, you know. I mean, like you meet somebody and then a couple of months later you're telling everybody that you're gonna get married. Because I told her on our first date the song that she was going to walk down the aisle to when we got married. What what song had you picked out for your wedding on your first date to Marrison? It was the Nearness of You? But the version by Keith Richards And did you actually use that in your wedding? Let me tell you a little story. Yes we did, but not only did we, We didn't think that version of the time because remember there was no YouTube, there was no that stuff. You couldn't find it right it was, it didn't exist. It only existed with Keith Richards and he was holding onto it because he had done it in a film bas Yacht and he and so we were going to use the Shirley Bassie version. And we didn't know. I didn't know. She didn't know until she stood up and started to walk down the aisle that a friend of ours that works with the Stones got a cassette tape of the Keith Richard's version from Keith Richards, but he had to bring it to the wedding, play it, and then take it back to Keith. But I didn't know until I saw her walk down the island that version started playing. So then we both started We just both started crying immediately. That might be one of the sweetest wedding stories I've ever heard of my life. It was so it was so amazing because when I met her, we had met for like five minutes, and I got her phone number, and then I went to Europe for like a month and a half and we just talked on the phone every night. She was in college. Now, was that back when you were like rock Star and with Matchbox Twnny, Well, yeah, I mean, I mean I'm still with Matchbox twenty, but this was like, you know, the early days. Like I like to think at that time, I was more famous than she thought that I was, but I was less famous than I thought that I was. That makes sense, and so I like that. I like that I thought I was like, I've got a giant hit song on MTV right now, and she's like, you've got one song out, you know, like it was, She's like, come on, and so uh when But when I met her, we talked for a month and a half and so we really got to know each other before we had like a date. And so when we had our first date, it was, I was a cheap day. It was. It was cheap too, because I brought her to a festival that I was playing in Boston, and so at the end we she she flew out and she was going to take the bus back with us to go back to New York. And uh, we were sitting on the bus watching Basque Yacht, the movie Basquiat that that song came on, and I said, this is gonna be the song that you walked down the aisle at our wedding too, on your first date. Yeah, and she didn't run, so I knew that she was a keeper. That's because you're pretty damn cute. I was really cute then, you're really cute now. But yeah, we were. We were all crushing on you back then. We were all so cute when we were young. All you want to hear a really horrible wedding story. Yeah, yeah, it's very funny now. But my first husband married him, you know, when you were probably not even a twinkle in your mom's I uh, I met my first husband, who got has since called home. But I met him at the Kingdom when the Kingdome existed and we were there for a radio event. We both were in radio, and unbeknownst to either one of us, when we met, I had been following him for like ten years of my career, like I was a kid. I was twenty one years old, and I had been listening to him on the radio since I was a teenager, since I was like thirteen years old. He was ten years older than me, and kind of like with with you guys, it was, you know, love at first sight, and we fell in love. And two months into our relationship, we decided to Elope and we got to Marino, Nevada, and I chickened out. I was like, no, I want to have a real wedding. I want to wear a wedding dress, and so we came back. So you didn't, Like some people would do the wedding and then do the ceremony anyway, but you just didn't. You didn't want to get married until you were married, right right, And so we came back and I made a wedding dress, and I made my bridesmaid stresses and we had a little wedding. Um only had eighteen people there at a park in Seattle, and his brother was in charge of the music. So I had given him a mix tape that had the song was always in't Forever by heat Wave, So that was going to be what what I was going to walk into. And my older brother was the only member of my family to come. My family was not happy that I was getting married to this person. And we're outside the little park waiting for the music to start, and Matt's like, come on, let's just walk in. Because my husband's brother was messing with the music player. We had two little speakers set up, and then he hits play and instead of heat Wave always in Forever, he had put the song get down on It, And and that is awesome to be fairly, let me get down on It's a really good song. Yeah, yeah, nothing says romance like getting down on it. How long about before you lost your How long were you guys married? We were not married very long long enough to create a beautiful life. We had a gorgeous son. Our son is thirties seven now I just turned thirty seven. I have a three year old from right before I met my wife, So my oldest biological he's my oldest biological My oldest child because I have many adopted children, is um just a little north of the big four. Oh and my youngest child, who is in the other room watching Veggie Tales, is five. That's a gap. That's a gap, but there's actually never been a gap. Like if there had ever been a gap, I couldn't do this, but I just kept adopting. I think a lot of people who have kids and then get custody of their grandkids or have a second family, it's kind of awkward if they've gotten like ten years or more without changing. Yeah, Well, because you get you get used to kind of being alone, you know, like you get used to a rhythm, you get That's why I think it's harder. You know, like for guys that are there, they're like in the mid forties, they've never gotten married, and then you know they might just stay that way because you get kind of set in your ways. Yeah, and and stubborn. Once you get used to that freedom it's hard to wrap your mind around going to cub scout meetings or sleeping, you know, in a tent with twelve others small children. Well that's like, so my wife and I, like, we don't have any kids. We that was you know, when I first met her, that was kind of that was a big deal, was the you know, oh my god, we're in love. We've never felt like this before. By the way, full disclosure, I do have a baby on the way, you know, Like that was that was a hard thing for her to get over because that was that wasn't the way that she saw her life. I mean, she was this model who was going to college. She didn't see herself living on the road. She didn't see herself with some money, who already had a kid, you know what I mean, Like none of those things. I mean now, twenty three years later, we're like the most stable relationship he's ever known, you know, and we're all you know, we're all a family. But yeah, he just graduated from college. So co parenting worked out well. There wasn't like drama. Yeah, there there was some There was some drama obviously, But how did how did baby Mama take to finding out you were in love and marrying. Well we worked together that you know, like we that was that was a short lived. Um. You don't have to explain, Delilah. There's just there's a lot of nice people on the road. When you were young, there was just a lot of nice people who were generous with their time. So let's talk Rob Thomas about your music and about the Christmas album that Oh my gosh, nobody warned me some of its sad. It's just like an emotional roller coaster. You got joy, you got real, you got love, you got family, but then you got like you got really real. I mean, I think that's what the holidays make you feel, you know. I mean, like all of those emotions they come around it. It's a you're an easy laugh and an easy cry during the holidays and and at any given moment you don't know which one you're gonna which one you're gonna run to. Well, I loved it because you know, my show is a request and dedication show. That's what I do right all night. I play songs that lyrically fit with your situation. And the truth of the matter is when you're alone at Christmas or when your son is in the military and you don't get to Sam, or your daughter is or they're away at college and right now you can't afford to fly them home. There's not really a standard Christmas song outside of you know, I'll have a blue Christmas without you that I can play, or yeah, you're tired. You get tired of all of these people telling you to be happy, you know, like are even worse telling you that you're supposed to be happy, Like somehow there's a deficit in your part because what you're going through doesn't fit with, you know, with the idea of what's supposed to be happening in the holidays. You know, yeah, I know when you're grieving for me anyway, Man, it hits hard, But do you feel it? Do you find that that like the first you know, it's still raw and numb the first time, and it feels like your heart is getting filaid, And then maybe the second time and the third time, and then little by little it starts to feel like a connection to them, opposed to making you think about their absence and makes you think about their when they were present. Very much so. The best illustration I saw was you know, a hole in your heart and people used to think that as time went on that whole shrinks. It doesn't. Your heart grows around it, you know, your heart enlarges around it. And what you just spoke of those traditions that the first or second year, those traditions definitely just had me on the floor, slayed me. But now they are such a connection. Well yeah, because you know, grief isn't something that that that wanes and goes away over time. It's just something that becomes a part of you. And so that's that's different. It becomes a part of your d n A as opposed to something that you're just waiting to go away, you know, like that it doesn't really do that. You're you're You're forever a different person. Every loss it is, it's definitely, you know, is a part of you. There's my wife and our favorite poet is uh and the Saint Vincent Malay and Uh, she you know, she has it that you know, like this poetus is. I think we're like where you where you left. There's a hole that I spend all my days walking around and trying not to fall into. I'm paraphrasing it badly, but it's but it's like that's that's just kind of what it feels like. That's exactly what it feels like. So one of the songs that makes me so happy, that doesn't file at me but me but makes me smile. And I you know, I hit replay like three times. I listened to it while I was here in the studio when I was going through through the whole album is the song the small Town Christmas. Oh thanks? So where did did you grow up in a small town? Where did that come from? Well, you know, it's funny because I did, Like I grew up in South Carolina in Lake City, which is a really small tobacco town. Uh, even on a good map it's hard to find. But but I spent the last fifteen years here in Westchester in New York, and that to me is like with like if if you you know, west Such is about forty five minutes north of the city, but once you get up here, it looks like a postcard. And especially at Christmas, it's all rolling hills and orchards and horse farms and you know, lots of land and so the snow is just like blankets of snow for you know, acres and acres. So for me, it's really it's really about about Westchester. Up here in New York. A lot of people think of New York just as the big Apple. You know, people who have never lived on the East Coast or in Westchester or been to upstate New York. And and even me, I mean, I'm from the West Coast, but I was on the East Coast for many, many years, and I thought of New York as the Big Apple. And then I moved to Rochester, right and I went whoa even well even more so people think of like when I tell people Westchester, they think upstate. But in truth, Westchester is is literally it's called down state. That's what it's called. It's there's downstate, which is where the northern suburbs. So like you know, like like if you go off to the you know, to one side, you've got New Jersey, if you got to the east, you've got Long Island, which is you know, one suburb, and then you've got Westchester. So we're you know, people that work in the city live up here, so we're just a commute. But it feels like it's so different, like like you know, Rochester, Albany, that's that's upstate. Is it's a bigger state than that's Canada. That's Canada. That's Canada. But my point is there's mountains, there's horse farms, there's cattle farms, there's uh, you know, like you said, the burbs. But it doesn't feel or look like a metropolitan area. It's just like you said, a postcard. It's beautiful. It's beautiful up here. And I mean we we were in the city for while my wife was born and race she was a queen's girl and uh we but we we came up here and just fell in love with it, you know, and we like the proximity to the city, and I think that's that's important for us to be able to, you know, to get in and out of it. But we found ourselves, you know, year after year going in less and less and being you know, up here people a lot more than we were in the city. People. Well, I could use the pandemic is the reason. But I'm kind of enjoying. I gotta be honest, Rob, I'm kind of enjoying just being shut in with my family. I don't mind it, you know. I mean there's a there's a part of me that's like that that they but it used to be that I could get both of those itches scratched, right, because I could go on the road and it was every day is new and there's always new people. And I like new people. I like meeting people, I like interacting with with strangers. And then when I get off the road, it's a long time of just nothing, you know, and and isolation. And uh, I think it's because the whole job is supposed to be too pronged. I'm supposed to create and then go share that thing that I created, and right here I've been just creating, eating, creating, creating, and I don't get that the joy of the interaction and that shared moment once you know, when you go out and you get to play it with a group of people, like a group of like minded individuals, all on the same page in the same moment, there's something beautiful about that. And I do miss that interaction. But but I but I fare pretty well as a shut in. No, for the most part, it's been me and Matti alone. It's just the two of us. I mean, her mom. Years ago. We bought her mom and dad a place. It's only like six miles away, so they're part of our bubble. And like once or twice a week we have catchup night with everybody. We'll get together with somebody's house and you know, and have dinner. But most of the time it's it's me and Matty and the pups. And so it's amazing that we fared as well as we have, Like, you know, by now, we thought we'd be you know, walked downstairs to see each other and be like, oh you again, Well we're uh, but you know, but we we still like each other. We're still getting along. So it's it's kind of amazing how many pups. You and your wife have an amazing organization, an umbrella organization as I understand that, like you don't have an actual rescue at your house, right, we fund other rescues, yeah, we you know, we help either help them get like kennels and runs, our medical supplies or do big rescues. Um, it's more you know, these these are there's a lot of great organizations that are that are helping animals and no kill shelters and so we're you know, we're about getting critical funding to all of these places as they need them and try and trying to do that during the pandemic has been tricky. Trying to figure out how to raise the money so that we can still keep these grants flowing to everybody. But we have we had the two and uh just like three or four months ago, we lost our our guy Cmme. He was with me for fifth almost fifteen years. He would have been fifteen like a month later. And he was my constant, my constant, you know, every every night in the studio, like he was just with me on the road, on the bus, and so that you know, it's that having that constant presence all the time and then not having it that was that was kind of a big hit. Um. But but now it's just me and uh Ali, I see Alie here, Okay, my turn, let me see if I can do this. Oh who's that Ruby? Hi? Ruby? All? Hell's Ruby? Ruby is to Ruby is my latest rescue. She's a puppy. She's a puppy and she's probably forty pounds heavier than I was, you know, really looking for her. But she's the best dog I've ever met in my life. Yeah. I mean, every every couple of days, you know, I would look at my boys and just say that I like, I missed them. I missed them already. You know, like I already missed him. She is like the best dog I've ever met in my life. Well, you know the thing about our dogs is they're not disciplined in any way whatsoever. Like we've given them like literally just running my wife. We're getting these argums just last night, like we're sitting there eating and we had these like we we've seen these little carrots and we give him some carrots and he starts barking if you take too long, and I'm like no, and she looks at me, say, don't say no to him. I'm like no. So we have our manager, Michael Lehmann, has has this this theory and we do. We do kind of subscribe to the theory. Is that you know, you can spoil your dogs because if you have a spoiled dog, the worst you're gonna get as a spoiled dog. Like if you spoil your kids, you're gonna get an asshole. But if you spoil your dogs, you're just gonna get a spoiled dog. So if you're gonna spoil anything, it should it should be the pups. Yeah, that's they literally can do anything and go anywhere and and then there's no consequences for any of their actions whatsoever. Yeah, I have very undisciplined dogs outside. You know, I say come and they look at me like you gotta be kidding. There's a deer over there. I gotta go. But this dog came to me this way. I mean she's just super well behaved. Yeah, well indoors too, Like this one is such a love love love love love just wants to like crawl inside of you and cuttle up everywhere, every all the time. So tell me about this organization. What's the name of your organization, Cydewalchangels Foundation. And you don't just help organizations that are rescuing animals, well, no, there's also a no kill shelters as well. Um, you know they think about then okill shelters, which is great, is you you can adopt from an no kill shelter, but you don't have to rescue from an no kill shelter because these animals are rescued. Once they go to an no kill shelter, they have a home they're taking care of, they have love, but they just don't have it forever home yet. And so you know, we're we would love to see all of New York and all the country be a full no kill nation at some point and that, you know, that would be that would be amazing. But you know, we also work with We work with the organizations that teach about the responsibility of owning animals. We work with organizations that take in homeless battered women with their pets. We work with organizations that help children with autism through animals and have an animal interaction. It's all animal related causes, but it's just in all the different facets of how they can be a part of your life. Let side Valcaneous Foundation dot org. If anybody gets a chance to check it out, I would love for people to check it out, and I would love for people to support it because, like you said, COVID hit and you're not touring, and yet you're still supporting all these great organizations and it's hard. Usually it was all kind of built into the job. Every we had a residency every year of regatta that we would do to raise most of our funds for the year. But then if I was touring, a little proceed from every ticket sold would go to side Volchanins Foundation, or I would be able to go out and do Sometimes you're full towards that are just for side volcanoes, but not being able to do that. You know, you have to get more creative now with your funding. Or we could just say, please people if you have a heart for pets and especially service animals that help kids. I know that a lot of my listeners have children on the autistic spectrum, and if you do, you know how precious that bond and how priceless that bond is when when a kid on the spectrum is able to connect with an animal and get therapy that way. My nephews on the spectrum as well. Yes, Savolcanous Foundation dot org um, because a good thing about it too is you. We also talked about all the places that we help, So if you live near one of those places, you know and you can't give to us, and maybe just go there and donate your time. Shelters always need something. Sometimes they need they need blankets, they need food, they need some of your old veterinary medical supplies, so any of those things you can do to help. I'm loving getting caught up with Rob Thomas. Let me lavish a little praise right now on one of my podcast sponsors, and then I want to hear more. I've been singing the praises of Laura Geller beauty products all year long. 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He's been one of our dear friends for twenty you know, three years. I've known him as long as I've known Marty. Brad Paisley has been a friend for twenty some odd years. Abrat Michaelson I just met recently a couple of years ago. She was promoting her Christmas album and I was out doing like a Christmas tour for radio, and we just kind of bonded over what geeks we are about Christmas and how much we love decorating in Christmas movies and and so I knew that if I called her up that she would be into doing it. Okay, favorite Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful life. Ah, that's mine and my producer Janie's too. But you know what my kid's favorite one is Elf Helf. Yeah. My five year old discovered Elf last year. We watched Elf every day. Yeah, I mean, listen it is. It is a modern classic. You know, there's a few of those. I don't know if you. Family Man with Nicholas Cage is a great one. Um scrooged, love scrooged, unbelievable. Uh. My favorite Christmas Carol is the Muppets Christmas Carol with Michael Caine, Charlie Brown Christmas Charlie Brown Christmas of course, and all and all those you know those cartoons, right like all the what do you like the claymation of the animation you know with a dentist, Yes, exactly, the dentist. We could be independent together. So are you Will your son be with you this Christmas season? Will we? Because I've missed on the last two Christmases. So he graduated from college and he used to live in Boston, so it was great because I could you know, we could see each other all the time. Now as soon as he graduated, he went to Berkeley College of Music and then him and his band jetted off to Los Angeles, so now they're on the other side of the country and then everything locked down, so we haven't really been able to see each other. And I'm hoping that this holiday is the time. So he got some of Dad's musical d n A. Yeah, he's a really really good guitar player and writer. So I'm really excited about the stuff that they're doing. Very cool. So tell us how we can find your son. We know how to find Rob Thomas. How do we find your son? Well, you know what, you can go check out on Spotify. He has a band called handmade house. He's the cute guitar player with the glasses, handmade house, and his name. His name is Mason Avery William Thomas uti wow with an exclamation point. Actually, on his birth certificate he has an exclamation point because I think his mother and I were high. Oh you are a kick, Rob Thomas. Thank you for spending this time with us. Are you kidding me? This has been the most fun interview I've done in a while. Thank you. You are awesome. You are wonderful, and I I've admired, I've loved your music and I just so appreciate what you do for God's creatures. Thank you, and thank you for you for letting me come and talk to you on your show. I appreciate that. Alright, have a wonderful, wonderful merry Christmas. All. I love you too. It's good to see you by bye. Oh. There is just something about Christmas time, isn't There memories to treasure, so many more memories to make, especially if you've got littles or grandkids. Uh. It's a time of feasting, a time of gladness, a time of goodness, a time of peace on earth, goodwill towards men, No matter what is going on in the world. I also know it's a difficult season, especially especially if you're alone or missing a loved one, or in the midst of a personal battle. All the glits, all the conspicuous consumption, even in these tough times, that can be overwhelming. And that is where music comes in. Let it soothe you. Let it soothe your heart if your heart is tattered and torn, Let it comfort you. Let it energize you. Let it be the soundtrack to your tears if you need to cry, to your laughter, to all the emotion that this season brings about. I'm playing all your old favorites and your new favorites on my radio show, and I hope you will continue to join me there. I'm also sharing stories and doing my best to keep your spirits up as I smooth off the rough edges when spending time with you each night. Rob Thomas and so many others gave us a gift this year, a gift of more music to add to our playlist, and I hope that you are drinking it in, enjoying it as much as I have been. There's just something about Christmas Time that's the name of the album. Something about Christmas time. I think a lot of it is the time that I get to spend with you. Merry Christmas, my friends. Thank you for making this season of love someone the best season yet. I'll have more great guests and incredible conversations to share with you soon. Do me a favor, take some time out of your holiday schedule to slow down and love someone