Jaret Ray Reddick (r) joins Remington Ricketts in studio to perform "Live From The Backroom" (FCR Photo)
Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
‘Cause she’s still preoccupied
With 19, 19
1985
LUBBOCK, TX – Those lyrics were blasting on radios 19 years ago when Jaret Ray Reddick and his band, Bowling For Soup, hit the Top 40 Chart for the first time with the song, 1985. The band is considered the pioneer of pop-punk music.
So how did the lead singer and Wichita Falls native, Reddick, end up recently in the Flip-FM studios to perform on “Live From The Backroom”?
“You know, I was a little bit worried,” he admits. “I knew I had the songs in me. When I write Bowling For Soup songs, they are simple punk-rock songs that we turn into more of a pop thing, and they sound country when I write them”.
When you listen to 1985 or some of the band’s other hits, “they are all stories, and that is what country is to me.”
What worried Reddick the most (who is, by the way, the voice for Chuck E. Cheese) “is people seeing me as a novelty” but instead, “everybody has just been gracious to me.”
Reddick turned 51 last month, and you wouldn’t know that he’s really a big deal in the entertainment industry. He walked into the studio on his way to a show in Amarillo in shorts, full of laughter and nothing but time to give. While he is performing solo on the Texas Country/Red Dirt circuit, Bowling For Soup is also touring.
Even if you’ve never heard him as a solo artist or any of the Bowling For Soup hits if you’ve seen an episode of the Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb, then you’ve heard him on the show’s theme song “Today is Gonna Be a Great Day”.
Now, though, you can hear Jaret Ray Reddick right here, right now, on Live From The Backroom.
www.paramountbroadcasting.com/audio/LFTB/LFTB-230426.mp3
