George Ducas - FROM THE ARCHIVES

<p>THIS EPISODE WAS ORGINALLY RELEASED IN SEPT. OF 2019</p> <p> </p> <p>I’ve got to be totally honest here:  I’m not always familiar with every individual artist and songwriter we have an opportunity to visit with on the podcast.  I quit touring over two years ago, and even by that time of my career as an “entertainer” had morphed into mainly playing private parties and small bars in Kansas and Nebraska when the money was right.  I wasn’t trying to stay relevant or even keep tabs on which artists were anymore…  Let’s just say I wasn’t “up” on most of the new artists in the Red Dirt or Texas Country scene.  Frankly, by that time my college days and “good times” were already WAY over.  The artists that had shaped my view of Texas Country and Red Dirt like The Great Divide, Cross Canadian Ragweed and Cooder Graw had already all broke up…Pat Green et al were still doing their thing, but their music hit me differently in my late 30’s and as a husband & father than it did when I was a 20 year old college kid.</p> <p>So, when Carly told me we’d be doing an interview with George Ducas I said “Uh… OK.”  The name sounded vaguely familiar but I just couldn’t place it so I did what all normal folks do in this day and age:  I googled him and BAM!!!!</p> <p>I quickly realized that this was the George Ducas that had a hit song in 1995 called <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJMHVciR2o">“Lipstick Promises”</a> that I clearly remember singing in the tractor while I was in high school!!!!! Holy smokes did that bring back a quick flood of memories...  When I was lucky enough to be in a tractor that had a working radio, it was cranked to a station I could barely pick up from north central KS.  I can’t remember the call letters or the frequency but it was called “The Hit Kicker” and was out of Lincoln, NE.  That station would play pretty much a constant loop of the top 25 songs on country radio at the time and you could count on songs in the top ten multiple times each day…and so, I was probably raking hay when I got my fir