Jet Jurgensmeyer, hearing his own song on the radio in a city far from home:
“It’s not just them not liking my song or my voice. It’s not liking me as a person because I wrote the song. I sang the song. I produced the song. I can relate to the song.”
Four people in the room. Two of them were his parents.
That was an early Jet Jurgensmeyer show. He sat on the Screen Actors Guild board in Nashville at 18, the youngest board member in the country. Then came the bar rooms. I ask if he ever thought about walking away from the music. The answer is one word.
“Sane to My Crazy” comes from a friend’s real marriage. Jet played it at the Bluebird with its two co-writers and the woman behind the idea in the room. What did he find in himself singing someone else’s marriage like his own life?
It scares him. Which city blew his mind first? The story starts in a rental minivan with his parents.
Who knew him before any of this? He reaches for family. I send him back for a friend. And what does that friend actually do when a new song comes out?
The president of the Kentucky chapter texts Jet. Come play the house before the LSU game. “Before an SEC football game, shoot, I’ll be there.” He should be asking for tickets, but as modest as Jet is… “I’ll have to think about that in the future.”
He has 31 guys under his responsibility. He draws a hard line between a fraternity man and a frat guy. What almost did not survive the semester? His first answer is two words.
I bring up the showrunner’s line that there were no new Boyd stories left. Jet was 15 and still under contract. Nobody told him. Ten years of work. What goes through his head hearing it that plainly now?
The Rockin’ 8 goes deep:
He plays golf, and his handicap isn’t that bad… Then he compares the whole entertainment business to a round.
The one chorus line of his life? “That’s probably the deepest question I’ve ever been asked.” The answer is a hook from a song nobody has heard.
How does he know when a song stops being David’s story and becomes his own? His answer goes through a high school homecoming dance.
And when a stranger hears “Sane to My Crazy” for the first time, what does he want them to feel that his other songs did not?
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