Musical Chameleon: Pam Ross on Creating Outside the Box

0:00 Welcome to the Living the Dream Podcast with Curveball, if you believe you can achieve. Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball Podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate and inspire. Today, I am joined by singer-songwriter Pam Ross. Pam has developed her own style of music that the fans call Pam Music, so we're going to be talking to her about what that is and everything that she's been up to. So, pam, thank you so much for joining me today.

0:42 Thank you for having me. Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself? Oh gee, I don't know. Go to PamRossMusiccom and you can learn it all. Yeah, I'm a songwriter and I was born in Pittsburgh. I spent most of my life in Houston and I currently live in North Carolina. I travel to Nashville a lot and play there. That's really my favorite place to play, but I play all over the place. My music is a mix of different genres country rock, americana, folk, blues, pop. Throw it all in there and mix it up and see what comes out.

1:26 Absolutely so. If, if someone asks you what, what kind of, what genre of music you play, what would you tell them? Depends on what song you're listening to. Yeah, that's a great answer. That's the truth. I mean the song that's out right now. I'd put that in country, but my next song that's going to be coming out in May, that's a pop rock song. So really it depends on the song you're listening to. All right, well, tell us what got you into music. I always wanted to do it. It's my earliest memories. You know, just a little kid I'd be making up songs.

2:07 You know they probably didn't mean anything, but I was making them up. And it's just, you know, it's just something that's always been in me. OK, well, who are some of your biggest musical influences? Who influences you to do what you do? You know that's a wide gamut, a lot of different people, and that's probably why my music is the way it is.

2:48 I mean, I've been influenced by everyone from Elton John, dolly Parton, johnny Cash to, you know, nirvana, the Foo Fighters, metallica, van Halen. You know the Pretenders, rem a lot of different people, okay what tell the listeners about? you know you kind of mentioned your song in May, but but you know, tell us about your upcoming projects that you're working on, that we need to be aware of, and tell us all about it and what inspired it. Well, I'm currently releasing my second album called Outside the Box, and I release one song about every two and a half three months and right now we're on the third song and it's called Tonight, which you can go online anywhere, all the platforms it's out there.

3:31 And my next single is called have a Good Time and it's going to be coming out in mid-May and I'll just continually be releasing songs all year long and playing. I'll be playing a few shows around the Raleigh area. I head to Nashville. I think in the end of May I'll be heading back up there for a while. And you know who knows where else I've had the privilege to work with and some of the artists that you hope to work with someday.

4:18 My lead guitarist is named Ivan Pettit and I'm hoping that's how you pronounce his last name. He lives in Canada, actually, and it was just by a stroke of luck that I got introduced to him and he's played on both of my albums and, yeah, I'm just very privileged to get to work with him. He's an amazing guitarist. He's actually kind of famous up there in Canada and it was great working with me. It's just so easy to work with, you know, and we did the whole thing. Um, as far as guitar work, you know me living down here down South and him being up in Canada just doing it, uh, and then coming to you know he'd send me tracks and I'd listen and I'd be like, ah, let's do this or let's do that.

5:03 And then, um, I was really lucky to get to work with Mark Frigo in Nashville and he did all the mixing and mastering and he just did an amazing job. And he heard my first album and he reached out to me on Instagram and I went and vetted him out and he's worked for a lot of the big record labels in Nashville mixing and he's mixed for some of the greats. I mean, like he's mixed for Dolly Parton, willie nelson, people like that. Uh, you know indigo girls like really across the gamut, and so, um, he had struck out on his own and he was looking for clients. So I was like, yeah, sure, as soon as I make my start making my second album, I'll get in touch with you, which I did.

5:46 And, uh, he just did a phenomenal job, so, definitely, you know, be keeping him for any future projects that I do. And yeah, so those are two of the people I've been very fortunate to work with. Okay, Ladies and gentlemen, the website PamRossMusiccom. Yes, sir, that's it Now. So you find me, the website pamrossmusiccom. Yes, sir, that's it Now, so you find me anywhere. I kept it simple. I didn't change the name for Facebook or Instagram or wherever. It's just all Pam Ross Music. Go to Facebook, go to Instagram, go to Spotify, go to Apple. I'll pop up.

6:26 Well, close us out with some final thoughts. Maybe, if there was something I forgot to talk about that you would like to touch on, or any final thoughts you have for the listeners. No, that's it. I'll be having music coming out All year long. I'll be playing all around North Carolina South Carolina, nashville and hopefully some more places like that as festival season kicks up. So, you know, be on the lookout. I might be coming around to where you're playing. Go check my music out online and there's lots of more music to come out this year. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, PamRossMusiccom, All you music lovers out there, please be sure to follow rate review.

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