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Dan Wilson On "White Horse" With Chris Stapleton & More | CMA Awards 2024
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11/21/2024
Dan Wilson caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly at the CMA Awards 2024.
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At the CMA Awards, hanging out with Dan Wilson. How are you feeling tonight, man?
00:03
I'm excited. I'm getting kind of nervous and excited now.
00:06
I mean, you got to be really excited. Song of the Year is a big one.
00:09
And then for White Horse, that is 10 years old.
00:11
So, like, how does that feel to have a song come back around like that a decade later?
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A decade later, it was like, you know, eventually if you write a lot of songs,
00:19
you kind of say goodbye to a lot of them and say, OK, that's never going to happen.
00:23
So when I heard the version, I was like, wait a minute, this is a great, this is a great,
00:27
you know, rendition, let's say.
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And then when I watched it slowly climb the charts to number one and then be sort of
00:38
continue being so huge, it's just sort of a crazy surprise.
00:41
And Chris is such an amazing guy and such a talented guy.
00:44
So how did that come about? Like, did you guys talk ahead of the time
00:46
or did you just kind of see it blow up?
00:48
Well, we had we've written a bunch of songs since we wrote White Horse
00:53
and various things have happened to those songs.
00:56
And I never really asked him about White Horse.
00:58
I don't really follow up.
01:00
I don't say, hey, you're sleeping on that one song, you know, what's wrong?
01:03
Like, come on, that's a hit.
01:04
Like, I don't say that.
01:06
So, but, yeah, so it actually kind of caught me completely by surprise.
01:10
That's so cool.
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And you've obviously worked with so many amazingly talented artists.
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So when you talk about, like, Taylor Swift or Adele,
01:16
and you get to see them do these big, massive tours in Germany, in the Air Store.
01:19
How does that feel to see your music go that far on those huge stages?
01:22
To be at a gig with tens of thousands of people
01:27
and they're all singing along to a song that I co-wrote is unbelievable.
01:30
Like, it's super thrilling and it feels like,
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it feels like, oh, this is really connecting with people.
01:37
Like, something important is happening here.
01:39
And honestly, usually my motivations on the day of writing
01:43
is just like how to make something sound cooler
01:45
or how to make something that doesn't sound like other things, you know?
01:49
Like, it's a lot more basic and just artistic.
01:53
And then to see that something might connect on a huge level
01:55
with a lot of people is so beautiful.
01:58
I'm definitely connected with a lot of those Swift songs, let you know that.
02:01
And then also, you know, Christmas is around the corner.
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So I'm asking everybody,
02:04
what's a Christmas song that you love that gets you ready for the season?
02:07
Oh, man, I like a whole bunch of Christmas songs.
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I really like, I really like some of the super classics,
02:13
like Little Town of Bethlehem.
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Oh, you're going, okay, getting in there.
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The Lutheran stuff.
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And I really like Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas is You.
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I don't know the real title of that one.
02:24
That's it.
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All I Want for Christmas is You.
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Super into that.
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Hot 100 number one song.
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I love that song.
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And also, I don't know, that's really hard to write a song
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that breaks into that small list of great Christmas songs.
02:37
Well, now you got a job to do.
02:38
Oh, shoot.
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He's going to come up with a Christmas hit song now.
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