Gary: We’re awfully proud to have her here tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Martina McBride!

Martina sings “Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road”

Gary: So good! I love it! It’s kids and family week, all week long. And you grew up in a family…. (…) You had a family band, didn’t you?

Martina: Yeah, my mom and dad had a band when I was growin’ up. And I started singing with the band when I was about seven. And my younger brother, he still plays guitar for me, played in the band, played guitar in the band as well.

Gary: How did you travel?

Martina: We traveled in a… We had a car or van, you know, through the years it changed. And a trailer, full of gear.

Gary: Oh, nice… Do you have to… Did you have to unload the trailer. Did you, everybody just (…)

Martina: Well, see, my mom and dad are watching so… (Gary laughs) Well, no, I mean we, I think as kids, you know, we pretty much got out of all that work. We did fill up our own stuff, you know I had…. I played piano, I had a (…), electric piano. I set that up as best as I could.

Gary: (…)

Martina: Well, I didn’t set up all my myself.

Gary: OK. These days, you’re not in a (…) wagon or in the trailer. Obviously in a tour bus now.

Martina: Mhm.

Gary: Describe your tour bus for me. It’s got… It’s not full of band members I wouldn’t think

Martina: No, no, when we had Delaney, we got an extra bus for, you know, I didn’t know 2 am feedings and all the crying would go so good with the guys, you know.

Gary (laughing): Or their 2 am feedings? They’re (…)

Martina: Yeah, that’s what it was. But we got the bus all set up, you know, with the… She’s been traveling since she’s two months old so we’ve been off for a little while. Before (…), we had a baby bed, just like her one at home. A little play… You know, place for her toys and stuff. Now we’ve been off the road since December so we’ll go back at the end of May and we’ll have to see… Now she’s in a big girl bed…

Gary: Yeah.

Martina: So now she’ll have her own (…) instead of a baby bed. And it will be interesting traveling with the two-year-old, as oppose to a little…

Gary: Mhm…

Martina: Yeah.

Gary: Yeah, it will be interesting for you. (Martina laughs) You know, all my kids learned to walk on a bus.

Martina: Mhm.

Gary: Does your… Does Delaney not have just have amazing balance?

Martina: Amazing balance, yeah.

Gary: It’s phenomenal.

Martina: Yeah, she does.

Gary: So if you’re out there, get a bus, put your kids on. (The audience laughs. ) Drive around every now and then and they’ll have great balance. They can join a circus later. We have Delaney here with us tonight. And I think your husband John is to bring her. John!

John brings Delaney.

Gary (to Delaney): You are pretty. You are such a pretty girl.

Martina: Well you know….

Delaney reaches out for a mike.

Gary: And she wants this. Here, let’s her have that. Here, have a good time. Go for it!

Delaney takes the mike and drops it immediately.

Gary: OK… Don’t worry about this. They’re giving these things away. (the audience laughs) There, have something else. Anything in here.

Gary takes Martina’s CD and shows it to Delaney.

Martina: Yeah, who is this?

Gary: Who is there? Right there?

John: Who is that?

Delaney turns her head away.

Martina (to Delaney): You’re gonna be shy?

Gary: Oh….

Martina (to Delaney): OK, that’s alright...

Gary: Backstage during your songs, she was (…) every word and clapping along…

Martina: She knows every word.

Gary (to Delaney): Did I do something to make you sad? Are you OK? (Delaney turns her head again) Oh, I’m so sorry. You’ve got a duet with Clint Black you’re gonna be doing?

Martina: Yeah.

Gary: Is it… Have you already recorded it?

Martina: We’ve recorded it, it’s done. And it comes out May… I think the date is May 26^th. I’m just really excited. It’s my first, you know, real duet and, you know, Clint is a great singer and it’s a great song and it’s gonna be fun.

Gary: Yeah. John, describe from the husband’s point of view what it’s like being on the road with family in the bus?

John (laughs): Man… That’s tough, let me think… I do the dishes…

Martina (laughing) Oh yeah!!! Sure!!!

John: I drive…

Martina: Yeah…

John: It’s great actually. I can’t spend as much time on the bus as Martina and Delaney do. I mean I go crazy, I need something to do, you know. So I’ll go over to (…), you know, and help her, watch her, whatever. And… But it’s great traveling together, because you get real used to the, to the feel of the bus and then, you know, when you lay down at night, you hear the motor and you’re moving and it’s great.

Martina: You sleep great.

John: Yeah, you sleep really well.

Gary: Do you have a (…) put by your bed when you’re at home?

Martina and John laugh.

Martina: Once in a while.

Gary: OK, I can sleep (…)

John: But it’s great. I love traveling with them cause it’s… Really we get to spend more time together that way than we do in any… You know, when we’re home or every (…) way.

Martina: Yeah.

John: So it’s nice and I respect it.

Gary: You hit the road again in May, right?

Martina: Mhm.

Gary (to John): Now you… you still work with Garth?

John: Yeah, I’m a production manager for Garth.

Gary: You know, we’ve been… We’ve been trying to get Garth to do our little show and for some reason he…

The audience laughs.

John: He told me he wanted to do it, but (…)

Gary: Is it you?

John: Oh yeah right.

Gary: Are you the (...)? He will call us not and we don’t know what’s going on. Hey thanks, Garth, we appreciate your calling back.

The audience laughs again.

John: Well, he doesn’t return my calls.

Gary: Now the second song that you’re gonna do, not this second, you can’t sing it from here.

Martina: OK.

Gary: My baby… My baby loves you… You…

Martina: “My Baby Loves Me”

Gary: “My Baby Loves Me”

Martina: Yeah!

Gary: Yeah. Tell me the story behind that.

Martina: Well, “My Baby Loves Me” was a second single… First single of off the second album. And it was just… It described my life with John, you know, he’s just been a wonderful, loving, supporting friend and husband. And then when Delaney came along, it was her… She’d heard me sing… I toured with Brooks & Dunn right until I was… About two and a half weeks before I had Delaney. So she’d heard it all the time… Well, I was carrying her and then when I had her it was her favorite song. She really came alive when I sang it to her.

Gary (looking at Delaney): Well she’s coming alive now.  She’s… She figured out that she could look down and look larger.

Martina: Oh Delaney! Look at Delaney!

Gary: Look at her! How pretty she is!

Martina (to Delaney): Can you sing ‘I love you, you love me?’ (Martina sings and everyone joins at the end) I love you / You love me / We’re a happy family.

Gary: You know, I can’t stand that. (…) either. I’m… (to Delaney) I know exactly how you feel.

The audience applauses.

Gary: Oh man. (he takes Wild Angels CD) This is the new one, right?

Martina: Yeah.

Gary: Yeah.

Martina: Not so new.

Gary: Well, I mean it’s the most recent.

Martina: Yeah.

Gary: Yeah, and it’s got all the material you’re gonna be doing tonight for us. (Delaney) Oh she’s… She’s way (…) now. Yeah.

Martina: Oh yeah.

Gary: This is a great record folks! Go grab this if you haven’t gotten it already. Thank you very much!

Martina: Thank you.

Gary: Thanks John. Thanks Delaney.