Chords for Elvie Shane On His Song "My Boy," Where His Name Came From, & Touring With Brooks & Dunn

_ _ _ LV Shane.
LV, how many people mess up your name?
Do people call you Elvis?
They have no idea?
Elvis sometimes.
Elvi.
Elvy with a B. _
_ Elvi.
Who would call you Elvi?
That's funny.
I don't know.
I don't get that one either.
Elvy
really bugs me.
I think it's just because
over the phone I got like the hillbilly
speech impediment, you know, and V's kind of
hard to pick out.
So I'm always like E-L-V
as in Victor, I-E.
_ _ LV Shane.
Is that your real name?
Elvy?
Yeah, that's my first and middle name.
So, _ _ Elvy is your first and middle name?
No, Elvy Shane.
Elvy Shane.
Shane is the middle name.
Oh, got it.
So what's
Elvy?
What were you named after? _
My great-grandfather was named
Elvy.
I guess it used to be like
a fairly common name for _
older countrymen back
in the day.
I don't know.
The only other place
I've found it is Filipino women on social
media.
They reach out to me
and they're like, hey, my name's Elvy.
There's actually
Elvy Shanes.
They're all women.
You grew up in Kentucky?
I did.
I grew up in Caneyville, Kentucky.
What's that near?
_ It's kind of a spoke in a wheel.
35 miles from Elizabethtown,
Bowling Green, Owensboro.
So not
too terribly far from here, but far enough
that Nashville seems like it could be a whole
world away.
Yeah, definitely.
I didn't even know that this was a thing
that you could come to Nashville and
[Am] write songs and [A#] stuff until I was in my 20s.
I thought that songs just
[N] magically appeared on the radio somehow.
You have this _ look,
this feel about you, a vibe about you
where your _ look
seems 25, but your
soul is like 90.
_ I'm just kind of confused.
_ _ Doesn't he seem like
he's just been through a lot?
He looks
like he's just learned a lot and he's got tattoos
all up and down his arms.
I just made a lot of mistakes.
_ I _ _ grew up around a lot
of characters.
My dad was a truck driver.
My dad's the king of making mistakes
and finding a way, making
them back out of them and looking like a brand new
penny. _
You can't be older
than 30, are you?
33. _
Just turned 33.
Because again, he looks like a
kid, but a kid who's _
been_
I got a little gray in my whiskers.
Do you?
Yeah, a little bit.
How do I get
out of my sideburns?
Do you think about dying it at all or no?
Man, I thought about it, but then I was like, I gotta
keep up with that and I already
can't keep up with everything else I gotta do.
So I just_
Maybe I'll be a silver
fox by 37.
I like the look a lot.
Thank you, brother.
I think I was talking with
Morgan Walden once and we were having this conversation
of _ _ people knowing you by _ _ _ _ your_
What do you call the
shadow of someone?
The silhouette. _
If I saw a silhouette of you, I would
know it.
Well, that's cool.
If I saw a silhouette
of me with the glasses or Morgan with the hair,
you would know it.
I mean that as a compliment.
You definitely have a style about you. _ _
I'm glad you say that.
John Lobo one time, I used to wear a
big hat and everybody started wearing hats
and I realized that hat was really hot in the summertime
because it's felt.
And I showed up
at a Christmas party and he's like, man, you gotta have your hat.
That's your silhouette.
And I was like, dude, you can't glue
that thing to my head.
It's too hot.
There you go, John Lobo.
There's your silhouette.
You're out on tour with Brooks and Dunn
and Travis Tripp, both.
That's gotta be pretty cool.
Man, it's awesome.
I mean, you're talking about some of the
greatest voices in country
music ever.
So to be able to
be out there and see how these guys perform
and put on a show and interact with their crowds
and everything, it's_
Trying to just soak it in
and learn what I can from it.
LB Shane is here with us.
He's got a song that's
top five right now called My Boy.
_ _ This song was
inspired by your own life, right?
Because you have a stepkid?
Yeah.
I met this girl ten years ago,
Mandy.
She was a bartender
and a waitress and I was just
_ I don't know what I was doing.
I was playing pool
and drinking pitchers.
And she walked up and kind of
acted like she liked me and confused me a little bit.
She walked up to you?
Yeah, she_
Well, I was there.
She was trying to make
some money, so_
_ She was my waitress, but_
He ordered a drink.
_ It wasn't nothing special about me at first.
But, uh, no.
She kind of acted like she liked me and I was like
dang, that ain't usually the kind of girl that comes up
to me like that.
And she told me
she had a five-year-old little boy and I just needed
some reasons to change a lot of things
in my life and that seemed like two
big reasons to me.
And a year
later she let me marry her and I became
a stepdad.
And this song
has just blown up.
Yeah, man, it's
crazy.
It's been around for_
We wrote it
in 2016.
So it's been
around for five years.
It went viral
like three years ago and then just disappeared
on Facebook and we were like, well,
that went on 15 minutes of fame, you know?
But then ended up getting a record deal
over that and then blowing up again
on TikTok last year
and then Country Radio has been really good to
us over the last year.
Yeah, I got a top five record at Country
Music.
That's crazy, man.
I never knew that it was possible.
Congratulations, man.
Thank you so much.
You recorded
the song but so many people were going,
hey, what about_
We have daughters too.
So you went back
in?
Yeah, a lot of people, man, when we put
it out, I was getting messages left and right
on Instagram _ and
I was like_
I hollered at my co-writers and
I was like, it's real easy.
Let's just change the
pronouns and change the
girl line in the chorus.
And so
we got out there.
But since
then I've had stepmoms reach out and I'm like, I don't
know how to pull that one off.
So maybe
there's a female artist out there that
could cover it for me and do that for them.
But I'm really glad that people
have reached out.
Well, let me say this.
His EP came out earlier this year.
It's got six songs.
But we're
announcing your record, Backslider,
October 29th.
So just a
little less than a month from now.
Yeah, man.
I'm so excited.
More music, more tracks
on this thing?
Yeah, I thought I had a whole record when I
signed my deal.
_ But they told me they only had one song, my boy.
So everything has been written after I signed
my deal.
At first I was like,
y'all are full of crap.
I got more than one song.
But I'm so glad they did that.
It just pushed me to really dig in.
What we came up with is this
basically a biography.
It's where
I come from, where I've been, where I am now,
and a little bit of hopefully where I'm going.
And it's honest
and it's raw.
_ I feel like a lot of people
will be able to relate.
He just played my [F#m] boy.
By the way, great [E] performance of this song.
I think everybody in this room was moved.
Amy's got adopted kids.
Eddie's got two
foster kids.
It's awesome.
It hits hard.
I was a step kid.
That's cool, man.
So I'm sure that
all of us in a different way kind of
felt that song.
It seems to be pretty relatable.
We hoped that when we wrote it, but
we also didn't know what was going to happen
the night we wrote that song.
It just kind of came to us.
We've always called it a God song, me and my
co-writers.
_ You feel like that
song was just kind of put in you that night?
[N] Yeah, it was a gift, man.
It took four years
for any of us to write anything anybody was interested
in, so the proof's in the pudding.
_ Well, we asked you to stick around and we didn't
tell you before you got here, but we were all just
kind of moved not only by the song,
but you're really good.
Well, thank you, man.
I mean, you're really good.
We have people
come in and they're good and they're supposed to be good because you don't get to
come and be on this stage.
There's something really special about you.
So I said,
hey, if you want to play something else, we'd love
to have you.
And what did you decide?
I've got a song.
I try to be
as honest as possible in writing all these
songs, but sometimes you've got to change the car
or the road name or something to make it rhyme.
There's one song on my record that
is really honest to me.
It first started to be a tribute
to my dad, who was a truck driver.
_ Also, it ended up
calling him out on his BS,
_ not being around that much and stuff.
Towards the end of writing it, I just
discovered that I'm definitely my father's son.
Now what I'm doing out here is very
similar in the struggles and stuff
to being a truck driver.
The difference is
I'm in a bunk and he was in the driver's seat.
_ So Miles is [G] probably
the [C] closest song to me on this record.
I can't wait for the record.
October.
Less than a month away.
Yeah, man, I'm excited.
We will see you around, I am sure, for a long
time.
So I appreciate you coming in today.
_ Sharing your story, sharing your music.
Amy, anything you want to say to Elvie?
_ _ _ I'm more emotional
now after I think hearing the second song.
Both of those are just so
_ touching.
I feel like, right now, I mean, music
has always been therapeutic for people, but
I feel like that one in particular might be.
For me, it definitely was.
Writing this
entire record was exactly that.
It was just a way to
_ _ sift through all the_
Who taught you to play guitar?
_ _ The very first person
to teach me any chords on guitar
was my great-grandmother.
I would go over and mow her yards
on Saturdays because she was 82 and I caught her
and I would push her on her yard one time.
She gave me a Roger Miller's Greatest Hits
CD and she taught me E, A, and B
and said you can play any Roger Miller song
in the world with those three chords.
She taught you B early.
That's not one
of the first ones you learned.
[B] So if you're learning
B, [E] yeah, then you got a good start.
I broke my wrist like three times
so it's hard to do those chords these days.
_ Well, thanks for coming in.
Thank you guys so much for having me.
Elvie Shane, everybody.
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