This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Songwriter Aaron Barker's son was born just two weeks after he turned 17. but he wasn't filled with dread at the prospect of being a father. at such a young age. Barker's own father, it turns out, wasn't present in his life. What better way to make up for that absence?
he figured. than to have a boy, a buddy. of his own. I was with them in the hospital. And I thought to myself, this will be great.
We'll grow up together. He told a local reporter in Nashville. In 2014. laughing at his naivete? It would take Barker a long time to learn that fatherhood entails more.
Much more. than being a friend to a son. More than 16 years to be precise, when his son reached an age when boys test. their father's boundaries. patience and love.
Here is Barker talking about this very thing. at a songwriters' event in Huntsville, Alabama. I had to get on him one night and uh He had driven his car past where he was supposed to drive his car, both ways, everything. All the rules were out the window, so anyway, I had to set him down and have this. Talk with him and I got pretty hot and heavy with it.
It went on. It was a school night, so he finally went to bed, and after he went to bed, I was kind of like... It just dawned on me that it was my time to be the dad. And so that was kind of a revelation to me at that point in our lives growing up together. It turns out it wasn't just Barker's son who had a hard time sleeping that night.
The father was still trying to process what had happened to him. He had his own doubts about how he'd handled things, not certain he'd administered the proper dosage of discipline. to his son. No father ever is.
So Aaron Barker did what a songwriter who happens to be a Christian would do. Let's take a listen.
So I sit there kind of doing what I do. My guitar has always been like my therapist, so I kind of call it getting on my knees and playing. It's somewhere between praying and playing songs and working on stuff, but looking for answers that way.
So I was uh doing that. I was getting on my knees and playing and and the question I had was how can you Be that mad at somebody and still love them that much. Where does that come from? And this song is the answer I got that night. It was about four in the morning, and uh I also had a co-writer on this.
It was God. That's when I learned God writes them and lets me put my name on them. He didn't even take publishing on it. The answer to that question he was asking God and to which God had an answer. Turned out to be the song Love Without End, Amen.
which soon wound up in country legend George Strait's capable hands. The rest was history. The song spent five weeks at number one on what is now called The Hot Country Charts. In April of 1990, giving Straight his first multi-week number one song. His prior Number One songs, all eighteen of them, had spent only a week.
at the top of the charts. Why did the song resonate with so many music lovers for so long? And why does it still resonate today? Parker had his own explanations. one that had less to do with earthly concerns.
And more to do with those of an eternal variety. The song tells the story of a troublemaking son who's sent home from school one day for fighting. only to find a father who, before disciplining his boy, shares some secret words his own father had shared with him. when he'd been in trouble. In the second verse, the narrator has himself Become a father.
and passes along the very same secret words His father had shared with him. On a night, his own son tested some boundaries. In the third and magnificent final verse, The narrator dreams that he's died. and he's standing outside heaven's gate. It is followed by the final chorus, Repeated for a third time.
but now imbued with a spiritual dimension. a deeply Christian dimension. that emphasizes God's unconditional love. for all of his sons and daughters. Here is Barker himself.
Singing that third verse. And final chorus. Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates. Suddenly I realized There must be some mistake They know everything that you They'll never let me in somewhere from the other side. I heard these words again They said let me tell you a secret Bad father.
You see the left night, Daddy said, It's just between us. See, daddies don't just love their children every now and then. It's a love without end, anything. It's a love without end, a me. Thank you.
All right. For all the fathers out there doing our best to love our children. We're thankful. Barker chose to memorialize his deepest struggles and questions that fateful night. His story is the story of all of us who carry the name of Father with pride.
All of us who believe that being a good father is the world's most important work. All of us who believe that in loving our children unconditionally. We come close to being godlike. Here on Earth. It's not too late to join the best club in America, the Father's Club.
and experience love. Unconditional love. that never ends. The story of how George Drait's love without end. Amen.
came to be.
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Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour.
You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you.
And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid. This is Alec Murdoch.
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