Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:21 Just right. It's called raised route.
Speaker 1 00:00:25 Charlie, are we good to go here, guys, or? Well, let's fucking, let's start podcasting here, boys. Hey guys. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Raised Row Podcast. So welcome. We have Mike in the moon pies today, which is really fucking great. And this is like our first on location live podcast. How cool is that? We have a studio audience that they're going wild out there. <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. All boots.
Speaker 2 00:00:51 We could, uh, we could rent this space for like, maybe an hour and then that would be our entire budget. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:00:55 We're down here at the close. The company Countrypolitan at the Hotel Indigo. Um,
Speaker 2 00:00:59 What a beautiful space. Are you guys staying close to around here this
Speaker 3 00:01:03 Weekend? Yeah, I'm staying on the 15th floor, Billy.
Speaker 1 00:01:05 Nice. What, uh, room number <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:01:08 Some of our female guests are listening. No. Um, I've never gone from not knowing who band is at all to interviewing them so fast, <laugh>, So no pressure here guys. But, um, I was, um, doing a photo shoot recently and a buddy and I, we were, we put on the new Flatland track came out and we're like, Let's listen to it. And we're taking photos and then the next song came on was one of y'all songs. And we were shooting. Shooting and I stopped and I went, Damn, this is awesome, <laugh>. This is so good. And, and, and was my buddy Keller was like, Yeah man, this is really cool. What is this? And we looked at the computer and my girlfriend in the room and goes, Hey, that's awesome. What are y'all listening to? <laugh>? And it was y'all <laugh>, and I've heard your names like thrown out a lot. Everyone's like, These are the guys, check out, check out. But I kind of get in these ruts where like, I just don't listen to music sometimes. Same.
Speaker 3 00:01:57 You ever get
Speaker 1 00:01:57 That way?
Speaker 2 00:01:57 Yeah. Yeah. I'm going through it right now, man.
Speaker 1 00:01:59 Man. And first of all, I love y'all's music, but I secondly love it because it kind of broke me out of that. I hate music. I don't listen to music all the time thing. And I was just kind of like, it remind me of when you're a kid and you find something new for the first time and you like, and you're like, Holy shit, this is awesome. You know what I mean? And so I've, I've been diving in, this is probably less than a week ago now, I think.
Speaker 3 00:02:22 Yeah. Only a few days
Speaker 1 00:02:22 After. Um, and all, and I was lambasted, uh, by all the people on the internet when I said I didn't know who y'all were. They're like, Where the fuck have you been man?
Speaker 0 00:02:32 <laugh>, what's
Speaker 2 00:02:33 Wrong with you? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:02:34 And um, I know all the other
Speaker 3 00:02:36 Adam.
Speaker 1 00:02:37 Yeah. So I feel dumb because I didn't, I didn't know who y'all were, but I know now. And we're here to spread the gospel of Mike the Moon Pie. So thanks for coming on guys. Really appreciate
Speaker 3 00:02:45 It. Thank guys for having Spotify algorithm. Man, that really worked
Speaker 1 00:02:48 Out well. It was iTunes, but there
Speaker 3 00:02:50 You go. Ok. Well fine music.
Speaker 2 00:02:51 They both work
Speaker 1 00:02:52 Great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:02:53 Yeah. I've, uh, I've been a fan. I started diving into your guys' stuff probably like 2015. I went down like the red dirt worm hole and uh, and just like started like being like, What is this? And why doesn't this sound like everything else that they're trying to shove down my throat? <laugh>, you know, <laugh>. So it's super cool. And I love like the kind of like retro vibes that you guys have. Like, it sounds like it's something that's recorded modern and it has that red dirt scene, but it also has that, like, that old school vibe to it. And I think that's super cool.
Speaker 3 00:03:20 Yeah, man, I, I'd never really even thought about it as a red dirt thing ever. Like when we started doing it. Like I, when, when we started this band, I hated that. I didn't hate, but I just wasn't like attuned to their whole red dirt thing that just wasn't in my mind at all. You know What
Speaker 1 00:03:36 Red dirt artist do you hate? <laugh>?
Speaker 2 00:03:39 I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 00:03:40 I'll tell you this. Let me get my little book out here.
Speaker 1 00:03:44 And I think like in Nashville now, like what's in Vogue is like the nineties country thing coming back. Um, but y'all's retro sounds, it reminds me of like 70 stuff. It's even older kind of in like, even some of the stuff, like the harmonies and stuff, I'm like, whoa, like, these guys know more chords than four. You know, it's like, this reminds me of like, it's like country disco or something. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I could see what's that John Travolta movie? I know that was in the eighties, but, um, Urban Cowboys, you know what I mean? Like, it's like more set like a,
Speaker 3 00:04:12 I mean, I would did, I used to be like infatuated with the whole urban cowboy thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 00:04:17 So my ears were accurate
Speaker 3 00:04:19 Hopefully. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 00:04:20 Yeah. I I was a fan of the band before I joined and uh, and like people always tell me like, they kind of have that same like response of like, Oh, well, you know, you have this like, old school sound. And I kind of like been able to narrow it down to uh, uh, what I, what I liked about the band a lot and I still like about the band, is that the band's been able to take these like really cool elements of the great eras of country music and then just like, put it all into one. It's like, yeah, you kind of hear a little snippet of, of like every cool little era that's or, you know, era of country music.
Speaker 1 00:04:50 And one thing that you mentioned too is this, like you say it's a band. Um, I think that comes through so much more like in the production of everything. Because some of the stuff that's on the record, like, you can't get that stuff like in a traditional like Nashville session where it's like everything's by the hour, you know, it's like you don't have time to like do like all the pre-production for a record, Which like, to me, when I hear the stuff I'm like, I'm hearing like pedal steal, harmonize with like league guitar. It's like, maybe you could do that a little bit on some stuff, but not to like the level of intricacy that you guys are doing. Well, especially with all like the, you know, you guys have like more advanced harmonies and stuff
Speaker 3 00:05:27 That, that, that became our thing. And I don't know if we intended on that to be the thing at all, but like, uh, we, you know, Ka and Zach started doing all these steel and guitar harmonies and then we, you know, was like every lick that we were playing, like, well, let's harmonize that <laugh>. Yeah. Which
Speaker 1 00:05:41 Is, I grew up on Metallica and like, cause they have all the guitar like crazy, you know, all the older stuff too. And I've always loved that. And so now that I'm more in the country world, it's like I, that stuff like pulls up my heart strings. I'm like, I love that sound. It's so cool.
Speaker 3 00:05:55 Yeah. I can't, we can't pass it up anymore. It's
Speaker 4 00:05:58 Kinda like that, uh, Dave Murray and, uh, Adrian Smith guitar harmonies and Iron Maiden music videos.
Speaker 1 00:06:04 Yes. Yes. Absolutely, man.
Speaker 3 00:06:05 Well, we just don't have twin Fiddles, so
Speaker 5 00:06:07 <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:06:08 Um, so do, did you guys do like, maybe you could speak this, Adam, um, were you guys doing a lot of like pre-production when you came in? Or is it like you have the songs and kind of figure it out?
Speaker 6 00:06:19 I think when, when I know when I came along was the live record, uh, live at the Windstar. And that was kind of, and that's honestly when I met everybody and met Mike. And that was the idea of, okay, we're gonna capture the band live, but also the band. Like, here's what we can do live. And so everybody listened to that and then we immediately, like, the day we met, we started talking about what became the Steak Night. Its Prairie Rose record, which was, Oh yeah, Mike is gonna come in with his song and then we are all just gonna sit there and work on the parts and put it together and like, arrange it and then go in and record it. And knowing what the band could do, um, I walked into it being like, okay, no matter what with this record, and now we've done it with every record, we might sprinkle little extra overdubs, but the whole record, we need to be able to play it live together. So as we're playing it in the studio, yeah, we're also gonna do this live every night. And we might go off on a couple solos and stuff like that, but it's just like what you hear on the record, you're gonna hear when you go see the band live. And that was kind of important to us. And then it was like, as it developed, it was also like, how can we impress each other and like, and then harmonize and counter melodies and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 00:07:32 So like riding for the live show? Yeah,
Speaker 4 00:07:34 Pretty
Speaker 3 00:07:34 Much. I've been made, like we did the dance hall thing for so long that like, it became like I was, anything I was gonna write had to be fitting in that show. Right. It was like keep, um, on the floor, you know what I mean? I mean, I started to write things about like, here's how I wanna start the show, here's how I wanna end the show. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and I would write two, I'd write to the show a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 00:07:54 I love that. Cause a lot of times, like on Nashville Records, there's like cool sounds, you know, like if you, if you pull out like a Jjo record and go down through all the stems, it's like, what the fuck is that? How am I gonna play this live? It's like some like guitar, like that's hitting a gong or something, you know what I mean? Yeah. But what I love about y'all's record is like, sounds awesome. It's it's full, it does sound awesome, but like the Mike Moon pie stuff, it's like everything is, it's so simple. Like the production is so simple and, but it's like everything fits together like a puzzle piece. It's like verse one has a, you know, it's guitar fills and then verse two is like the steel, but in the chorus is like, there's a column response between those two in between the vocals and everything fits just, just Right.
Speaker 3 00:08:38 There's definitely a period after that we finish a record where like, now we've got to learn how to play that record
Speaker 5 00:08:44 <laugh>. Yeah, no, a little
Speaker 1 00:08:45 Bit.
Speaker 4 00:08:46 Um, that revisiting after, after you haven't played it for a while, you revisit it and you're like, Oh man, hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:08:51 Like, why did I play that hard
Speaker 5 00:08:52 Shit on there
Speaker 1 00:08:53 On stage drama. I gotta
Speaker 7 00:08:55 Be able to d it. I'm always telling Adam, I'm like, Hey, can you like get me some mixes of just steel so I can, I don't know what's going on here. <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:09:04 Man, we do that with like the Luke stuff. It's like we get stems so we can learn whatever parts. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 3 00:09:09 You'd
Speaker 1 00:09:10 Have to, I'm hearing a lot of like, you know, like obviously on most like modern country stuff, there's like a wall of acoustics and tambourines and stuff like that, like a big wall of sound. But I feel like there's so much more space in y'all's music too.
Speaker 3 00:09:22 Yeah, man, on that state night record, I like intentionally did not play any acoustic guitar on that record.
Speaker 1 00:09:26 Yeah. And so I'm listening to, I go, Why does this sound different? I, I feel like I'm like, when I have my headphones on, it's like I could picture myself like seeing like four dudes sitting there playing it. Yeah. And it's not like there's like a 12 string and a high strong and a mandolin. You know, that kind of like squashed sound that it's, everything is so sparse, I guess in some way it feels that way, which means it's like you have to be able to it to be really good to play that way. Yeah. It's, but there's no like safety net of that.
Speaker 3 00:09:54 Everything is like so part out, you know, like, um, if we have, we have like a, sometimes if somebody can't make it, we have a filling guy or something will come in and like, they're always like, Man, I can't just like do this as like a barand country gig. I gotta like learn parts. Yeah, I know. It's becomes very important to the song, you know what I mean? It fills most of the space or the parts,
Speaker 1 00:10:13 You know. Yeah. You definitely have to do your homework for sure.
Speaker 3 00:10:16 <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. So sorry about that guys that are filling in <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:10:21 I think that's a part of it too though, is like that I remember like when Kurt like first found you guys and we were like chatting through it like
Speaker 1 00:10:26 Yesterday,
Speaker 3 00:10:28 <laugh> wasn't
Speaker 2 00:10:29 Super long hours ago.
Speaker 1 00:10:31 Sorry, by the way.
Speaker 2 00:10:32 No, but I was listening to you on the way over here, <laugh>. But that's what like led this podcast to happen was like Kurt liked it so much he shared it on his story and that's how your publicist like, I guess or whoever found out that Kurt was a fan, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And he was like, Do you wanna do a podcast with Mike? The mood pa? I was like, Yes.
Speaker 3 00:10:50 Well,
Speaker 2 00:10:50 Especially being in Nashville, like bands that are not in Nashville frequently, like that's just a hard thing to pull off. Sure. Right. Cause carts on the road, I have a day job, Charlie has a day job, our producer. So it's like, how do we line that up? Perfect. On a holiday weekend.
Speaker 3 00:11:04 It couldn't have been any better. No. Yeah. It was the timing, the timing was perfect. I'm, I'm glad that it took you forever because it worked out time this weekend.
Speaker 2 00:11:12 Well, why don't we talk about you guys most recent record. So you guys just dropped a record in August and um, why don't you tell us about the origins of that and like, how it came to be and then how it's been received so
Speaker 3 00:11:25 Far. Um, the one to grow on record, I was, you know, it was, it was kind of, we had finished this Gary Stewart record while we were in like early pandemic time, right? The beginning mm-hmm. <affirmative> because we had, like, we had started that record and then the, and when everything shut down, um, we all kind of got home studio gear and just basically finished that record, you know, apart from each other. Yeah. And we're sending parts back and stuff like that. Cuz now pro tools, you know, you can send everything between everybody. And so we kind of made that record that way. Um, and, you know, then it just kept going <laugh> to where we were staying home. So I was writing a lot, uh, you know, I wasn't on the road. So normally I'll do most of our stuff is written like kind of road dog songs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 00:12:08 Yeah. So I was, I was in a whole new world where I wasn't really writing that anymore. Uh, and so it felt a little more, a more like a songwriter record than it did like a, you know, the stuff I was writing Yeah. Felt that way. So really, I mean, like I said, you know, like I said, I didn't play any acoustic guitar on steak night. Right. But this one is like, these are acoustic guitar songs, you know, I'm writing like song writer songs. So, uh, we started that record and basically since we all had that, that Gary Stewart album, home studio stuff, we started the same process. It was like a weird preproduction thing where we were just sending songs around to each other and we kind of did preproduction apart from each other. And then until we could get in the studio to,
Speaker 6 00:12:47 To cut. Yeah. And so yeah, everybody's coming up with these cool ideas and stuff like that, you know, and, and Ka and Zach are sending I, you know, just solo ideas and opening lick ideas. And from that then it's like Mike and I are talking and it's like, well, what if we change the chords to these, you know, and try this for this. And then when we first got into the studio, we've got a studio and Wimberly called Yellow Dog Studio. So access any time we need it and you kind of camp out there and cook. Everybody sleeps there and stuff and quarantine. So, and, and quarantine, uh, yeah, in October. Uh, but
Speaker 3 00:13:21 Or right out
Speaker 6 00:13:22 Of freeze as we were
Speaker 3 00:13:23 <laugh> Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:13:24 <laugh> man. But as we were going through, we were cutting a bunch of the songs, demoing them, but instead of stuff that we'd probably would've done on the road, we took it home and then we'd come back in with a completely different groove idea and a completely just like, how do we approach it differently? This is cool, but what else can we do?
Speaker 3 00:13:41 So we definitely have like so many different versions of pretty much every song. Yeah. Like rainy
Speaker 4 00:13:45 Day one of those that has like five different versions
Speaker 6 00:13:47 Of it. Yeah. And what's crazy is that I think also the cheap silver and solid Country gold record, we wrote that in a week because we knew we had to send it to my studio partner, Dave, to write the string arrangements for the symphony. And that was like, we were trying and experimenting a lot of stuff and, and we were trying different groove ideas and, and just all different ways to do that. So that was already in our head that it doesn't, like once the song is written, it doesn't have to be played this one way. Let's try this group, let's try that. And I really like to like listen to just random records and be like, Hey, what's what about this idea? And try this guys and shoot that off. And so that's kind of how we approach this, is like, we don't have a time limit. We don't have a date. This record has to drop, so let's make sure these are like the coolest ways we can do this song and we'll have fun with.
Speaker 3 00:14:34 But came to me kind of a double edged sword of like, I was getting way too deep <laugh> into like, I was like, man, that's not gonna work anymore more. Did you? Reduces
Speaker 1 00:14:44 Yeah, just like writing and rewriting and writing and rewriting and then you're like editing and just, you just way too far deep
Speaker 3 00:14:51 In it. Way so deep. I was like, dude, like there's songs that like I had written and I was just like, I threw the whole thing away and started over and I was like, well that court, that one chord change was good. Maybe I'll keep that and just, just start over with this whole thing, dude. So, I mean, there was it, sometimes I think about that record and think like, man, those songs when they started, maybe it was better <laugh> first time. First
Speaker 8 00:15:13 Time was the one.
Speaker 1 00:15:14 Yeah. Grass was always greener. Right? Yeah, man. Um, speaking of recording studios, I have to ask you guys tell me about Abby Road. Tell us that whole thing because I'm a Beatles fan and I've been in London, I've taken selfie out front and that's gotta been so fun
Speaker 8 00:15:27 As a country band that's recorded there. No other country band should ever record
Speaker 1 00:15:31 There. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:15:32 Okay,
Speaker 1 00:15:33 Great. That's awesome. So tell me why. It's
Speaker 8 00:15:35 Because we did it. Cause
Speaker 3 00:15:36 We
Speaker 1 00:15:36 Did it. Oh,
Speaker 6 00:15:37 We already did it. It's not
Speaker 3 00:15:39 New. No, dude. It was like, uh, you know, we, we had gone over there because we had like a festival show in France and a festival show in Italy and we were there for two weeks and then the festivals paid for our flights. You know what I mean? So we're like, well if we're ever gonna make this record, this is, this is where we're gonna do it. You know what I mean? We could at least save some money on travel over
Speaker 1 00:15:57 There. So was it like some, like at least quasi spontaneous that you decided to recorded at Abby
Speaker 3 00:16:02 Rowe? Well, Adam can can speak to that <laugh>. It happened quickly.
Speaker 6 00:16:05 So yeah, it all came together. So I've done some stuff there before my studio partner Dave has. And so before Steak Night came out, it was like Steak Night was coming out at the beginning of February of 1818. So in December of 17, Dave sent me something of, uh, Sinatra recording a song live like in the studio. It
Speaker 3 00:16:28 Was, uh, when I was 17. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:16:29 When I was 17. And so I sent it over to him. He proceeds to tell me how he did like a little quartet show. Yeah. You know, just kind of doing just these covers and stuff like that for fun. And we're like, Man, wouldn't it be cool to do a, you know, a record with strings and stuff like that. So I, I'm telling Dave, I'm like, Man, I think we should do this. And he's like, Why don't we just have the London Symphony do it and do it at Abby Road? And I was just like, Okay, let's put a budget together. And after we like saw the price and we're like, Well, okay, fuck it, let's do it. Hell yeah. And so that's all we did. We were just like, okay. And so even before Steak Night really came out, we were discussing stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:17:07 And then we had to stop, not stop, but like in a break of touring for Steak Night, we went into the studio for a week and just started writing songs together and like, okay. And then let's, let's demo him because, and work on the parts and everything that way the strings, he could write the string arrangements to work around, but also thinking we're not gonna tour with the strings so we still need to be able to play these songs live. Right. And you don't miss them. But when you listen to the record, it's just like a nice little,
Speaker 3 00:17:36 You know, it was strange coming off with a state night record with basically no pre-production whatsoever. And then going into this record where we kind of had to make the record twice. Yeah. It was like, make it kind of like pre-pro at the studio all the way so you could write strings and half of it. I didn't even have lyrics too until like we, I was writing like in France and in Italy, like trying to have enough lyrics to fit them.
Speaker 1 00:17:58 No pressure.
Speaker 8 00:17:59 We use your words.
Speaker 6 00:18:00 We changed stuff one day. So we did what we did was everybody at Practice stuff and worked everything up. So we tracked the band for two days and we were in Studio two, The Beatles room. Of course. Of
Speaker 1 00:18:10 Course. Do and
Speaker 6 00:18:11 <laugh>. Uh, and then the Symphony came in on day three and <laugh>, booking wise, they ended up booking a show early and so the guys had to fly out while I was in the studio with the symphony. Damn. So I'm sending them videos while
Speaker 3 00:18:26 There, Dude I was in, I was like, I cuz I'd never heard the strings on it at all. Right. And so I'm like in Iceland on a layer video and I'm getting videos from the strings London Symphony cutting on
Speaker 8 00:18:38 Us.
Speaker 1 00:18:38 I never would've dreamed that this is what we'd be talking about with an act from Texas
Speaker 8 00:18:42 <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:18:43 Dude being in Iceland listening to the one symphony
Speaker 8 00:18:46 Played the music. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:18:48 And then that was also the day the symphony went in was what, like the 48th or 49th anniversary of Happy Road, like the day the picture was taken when the Beatles crossed.
Speaker 3 00:18:55 Yeah. That was really strange.
Speaker 4 00:18:56 Yeah, that was, yeah. Serendipitous for
Speaker 6 00:18:58 Sure. Yeah. McCartney was just, just in there right before us and everything working on something and
Speaker 3 00:19:03 Yeah, we had some guys that were like, came over with us to like film the whole day. They filmed some of our, um, tours too, like, like film some of the European tour and they came to film the whole thing and um, they wouldn't let you, There's a commissary there and they wouldn't let you film in there because like, you never know. Like he's actually McCarney might walk in the door. <laugh>
Speaker 8 00:19:23 Paul McCartney was there. Yeah. While we were there. Like walk through that door,
Speaker 4 00:19:28 Come post that day. He had put up a post that did on the post. Yeah. He was mastering his like record at that time that he was working on and uh, he had put up a post that he was in studio. But
Speaker 8 00:19:39 I would totally, by the way, kick you off the base. Omar be like,
Speaker 4 00:19:41 Paul's gonna play. Yeah. Paul's gonna play. By
Speaker 6 00:19:43 The way, I almost forgot, uh, when Omar joined the band right at the, right at the release of steak night. And so his first recording with the band was in Studio two at Abbey
Speaker 8 00:19:54 Road.
Speaker 4 00:19:55 <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. The first, Yeah. I was eight months into the band and then when we started doing Pre-Pro for the album, I was maybe like four months into the band. <laugh>. Yeah. And I was like, holy shit, what did I get myself into? Like what helped me out though is that when, when we were writing, uh, you know, just making all the arrangements and everything, Adam was just like, just play simple cuz there's gonna be strings over that so you don't wanna make like too many intricate like baselines or anything like that. And I was like, hell yeah, that's easy for me. I can do that.
Speaker 1 00:20:19 Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:20:21 1, 1 5.
Speaker 8 00:20:25 I wanna go back to Abby Road and record the Pink Floyd room. That's my next goal. One more time. I want to go
Speaker 1 00:20:31 Join and watch you do that.
Speaker 8 00:20:33 And that album, that album will be be Dark Side of the Moon Pies <laugh>. Yes.
Speaker 1 00:20:38 Wow. That's brilliant idea.
Speaker 3 00:20:40 Finally. Snuck that joke in
Speaker 8 00:20:42 <laugh> because y'all don't listen to me.
Speaker 4 00:20:45 Well I know you guys are
Speaker 2 00:20:46 Gonna get to uh, go back over to Europe here soon, right?
Speaker 3 00:20:50 Yep. Yeah, we're doing April. All of April the whole month. Yeah, all of
Speaker 2 00:20:53 April. Uh, any specific places you're stoked to be over there or just happy to be back in general?
Speaker 3 00:20:57 Well, uh, there's a show in London that's been sold out for like four years that we have not played. It's pre Covid. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm pretty stoked by that cuz we, we'd never, that's kind of the one for me cuz we never played London. We just recorded, made the record there.
Speaker 1 00:21:11 Which room is it?
Speaker 3 00:21:13 Uh, is the oir. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 00:21:15 Is that Omar or something like that? Something
Speaker 3 00:21:17 Like that.
Speaker 6 00:21:17 And and that was, is
Speaker 1 00:21:18 It a theater or a club?
Speaker 6 00:21:20 It's, I think it's like a small club theater. Let me get both mics. <laugh>. It's, it's like a, it's a club thing or a small theater. I know because originally it was just a really tiny club cuz the promoter was just like, I don't know what you guys are and who are you guys? And then we immediately sold it out. So then the first Covid push is what I call it. They instantly like the next, they're like, Okay, we're gonna upgrade you to a bigger room since you sold out the small room. And then that sold out immediately. Then the Covid push again and just kept pushing this back to instead of us touring this in March of 2020, we're finally going in April of 23. So, uh,
Speaker 3 00:21:55 It'll be, it'll be good to do just like club and theater dates cuz I mean, when we went over there before, we've only been there once. And in Italy and France it was festival stuff, you know, So, I mean, and there were great festivals, but What
Speaker 1 00:22:06 Kind of festivals? What are they? I've never played a festival in Europe. So
Speaker 3 00:22:10 Dude, okay, so the French one is I think, what is it? Cause it called like country music festival. It it's, yeah,
Speaker 6 00:22:15 Country. I'm trying to remember. It's,
Speaker 3 00:22:17 It translates to <laugh>.
Speaker 4 00:22:19 It's, it was in like lip. We, uh,
Speaker 3 00:22:22 I can't,
Speaker 1 00:22:23 I meant like, are you opening for mines or something? Like
Speaker 3 00:22:27 Dude, no. Like they are, so especially the France one, they are so into the culture, especially the Texas part of it. Dude. Like you and the confederate. I was wearing cowboy. I was wearing cowboy. I know, dude. For real. It's like, it's confederate flags everywhere. Buckles. It was so nasty. Like they're selling like, uh, Navajo rugs and turquoise rings and like, you know, they're into the culture. I bought one, I bought a ring. Yeah. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 00:22:55 Still have it. It hasn't turned
Speaker 3 00:22:56 Green. And it's like, uh, also they fucking line dance dude. It's like, oh, Godammit. But they had a whole, a whole dance floor on the other side of like, the field of where the people stood. There was
Speaker 4 00:23:09 Like a tower for front of house
Speaker 3 00:23:10 And that, and behind that there was a dance floor and it was just line dancing. The entire teams of competition line dancing. Dude, we just did Spain. Spain, Spain. A couple weeks ago, not a couple weeks ago. Call in my mind
Speaker 6 00:23:21 Right now we, Yeah, Spain was July as a one off by the way.
Speaker 3 00:23:24 Yeah, we did one off. We did a one off in Spain a couple months ago. It flew
Speaker 4 00:23:28 In Friday, Saturday flew out sun.
Speaker 1 00:23:30 What was the guarantee on that? What's
Speaker 3 00:23:32 Good? You're guaranteed to sweat not sleep. That dude. Yeah, so they'd lie, they li they had line dancing teams in between every set. So like the band, one band would stop and they're like, this line dancing team would go and they would dance like five or six times with my hands. Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:23:50 The, um, I, there's definitely a, a difference in the European crowds and the US ones I've noticed. It seems like they're more, um, like they listen more, I don't know how to say it, but like, more intently, like they pay attention to the lyrics more it seems like. So we like would play a song and then as soon as we stop, they'd just go crazy when we start again. They would just sometimes would just be like, <laugh>,
Speaker 3 00:24:14 You
Speaker 1 00:24:14 Know, just like really, really paying attention. If you guys notice how, like the difference of the crowds over there as far as how they react to your music.
Speaker 3 00:24:20 I, I feel the same way. I mean, but they're, they're, they're just very ex excited, excitable people on in general. Like, but also we've just done solely festival dates, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, but they all know it's fun. They all know it's crazy. Like they know the words more than people over here know the words sometimes. It's like they, they don't even speak the language and they're singing every word back. Yeah. It's wild.
Speaker 1 00:24:41 Yeah. Well I guess they don't get a lot of Texas acts over there, so when they do they have to like do their homework.
Speaker 3 00:24:46 Yeah, they wear their little, they wear their little cowboy hats. It's
Speaker 1 00:24:49 Like all the, the bachelorettes downtown in Nashville. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:24:52 Yeah. <laugh>, my
Speaker 1 00:24:53 Gosh.
Speaker 8 00:24:53 First time we played there in, in France, uh, we didn't pack merch, uh, to go there cuz it cost too much. Yeah. But we get there and there's already a line of people. They've already bought all the merch online and
Speaker 3 00:25:04 So Yeah. And then they, then you sign. So like, that was crazy. They put you in a little box. Okay. It's like a firework stand, right? It's a firework stand. But they have the, they had the little, the thing down like curtain boost down. Yeah. And so like, uh, essentially they put you in there and they gave everybody a sharpie and then they opened the gate or whatever and just people are going nuts man. And just like, I mean there was 200 people just like waiting to get something. Where did y'all get, And then we also had that like press conference too. Oh yeah. That was awesome. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:25:33 Forgot about that. What a country music press conference. Like dear people of France. Like what was that?
Speaker 3 00:25:40 There was, you know, they had to have a translator. All
Speaker 1 00:25:42 The ballroom buddies though, dude.
Speaker 3 00:25:44 They had to have a translator there. It was awesome. Dude. I forgot that even happened. Cool. Met Johnny Paycheck out there. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:25:50 The French Johnny Paycheck. Uh,
Speaker 3 00:25:52 Spanish. Spanish Spanish. Yeah. Spanish Johnny Paycheck.
Speaker 1 00:25:55 Wait, what's that story? I'll,
Speaker 3 00:25:56 I'll show you a picture in a sec. Like, he
Speaker 6 00:25:58 Literally looks like Johnny paycheck. Oh
Speaker 1 00:26:00 Wow. It's, his pictures do really well on the podcast.
Speaker 3 00:26:02 Be nice. Its his little band called the said Johnny Paycheck. Right.
Speaker 1 00:26:06 That's so funny.
Speaker 3 00:26:07 Yeah, they're, they're really cool. They're really bad at doing it, but they love it so much.
Speaker 1 00:26:12 Oh yeah. So I've never seen y'all live and I know you guys are playing at D'S tonight. Just a secret show that you guys just posted about. So Yeah, this is, this will come out tonight for sure. Um, so what's a, what's a mic in the moon pie show? Like,
Speaker 3 00:26:29 Dude, I don't know. I can't explain. I don't, I don't even, I'm not really there for that. So you speak to that.
Speaker 6 00:26:33 I was gonna say it's high energy and just, I mean, Mike, you know, goes through and, and kind of just sets the set list. Everybody looks at it and we just go for it. And everybody's just kind of knows you immediately know whatever set he puts together, the segues between songs.
Speaker 3 00:26:49 We don't do dead air. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:26:51 There's no ballots. Dead air,
Speaker 3 00:26:55 No fucking ballots. No, there's there's ballots, but, but there's no, that's our thing. There's no dead air. It comes from doing those, those, uh, dance sets. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. So we just go
Speaker 1 00:27:06 Yeah, you can't lose 'em.
Speaker 3 00:27:07 Yeah, a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 00:27:08 Right on. I know we, like, we build a lot of, like, if we play this song going into this song, this is how we transition. Totally. That kind of stuff. Just so you're not sitting there with your thumb up your ass like waiting for a guitar change or something.
Speaker 3 00:27:20 Yeah, I can't, I can't do that man. I see. I see bands doing it and it makes me cringe. Oh yeah. Dead air stuff.
Speaker 6 00:27:25 There's been 10 seconds, like no, no.
Speaker 1 00:27:28 Yeah, we do it like, we'll come out and play like four or five songs like right back to back to back and then maybe we'll do like a quiet va Yeah. While like Luke will be like, Hey guys, thanks for coming out. Like that
Speaker 3 00:27:39 Kind of shit. Yeah, dude. I have like, those little spots that I know are my, are my banter spots. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and that's about it.
Speaker 7 00:27:45 If there's ever dead air, I always make sure I'm tuning out loud.
Speaker 1 00:27:56 Relate to that. So some of our guys, they just like do it during the song drop d I'm listening to the board tape, I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 9 00:28:06 <laugh>. Oh boo.
Speaker 6 00:28:10 My favorite is that like, we'll have, you know, five or six shows in a row on the same set list and then you'll get used to it. And then everybody's thinking, Oh, there's a new set list. But they don't, they don't glance down to realize, Oh, we're going to a different song next. Yeah. And you'll hear somebody count one off or like grab the wrong guitar really quick and then it No,
Speaker 9 00:28:30 No, no,
Speaker 7 00:28:30 No, no, no, no. Mike said, Mike said that like last weekend. Like there was one where he was like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 9 00:28:36 <laugh> in the pa. Oh, the talk back,
Speaker 6 00:28:40 Talk to the ears.
Speaker 7 00:28:41 And then, uh, Taylor counted one in this is like, we had switched and he counted. He goes, 1, 2, 3
Speaker 9 00:28:50 <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:28:53 I've definitely had that before our drummers counted songs off when he just had the set list song and it's like, and then we start playing this song and it's like 20 bpm Too slow. Yes. And we're like, What the fuck is happening?
Speaker 3 00:29:05 It's like, well, we're in it
Speaker 9 00:29:06 Now, man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:29:08 Hoop
Speaker 6 00:29:09 Blow build
Speaker 9 00:29:10 <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:29:11 I've also have grabbed a wrong guitar before and started off a song. It's like an A, but I'm have my half step down guitar not realizing it <laugh>. And then the band cooks it kicks in the half higher and it's just like, like a flash bang one off on
Speaker 9 00:29:24 Stage. It's just like,
Speaker 1 00:29:28 But they don't do that anymore. So go see them and buy their tickets.
Speaker 9 00:29:31 They
Speaker 6 00:29:32 Sound good as show.
Speaker 9 00:29:33 Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:29:33 They're incredible. They're so good that they've been invited to debut at the Ground World Opera. Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 00:29:39 Tomorrow. Yep.
Speaker 9 00:29:41 Local
Speaker 1 00:29:41 Crowd doing
Speaker 3 00:29:42 Wild. Look at 'em. Go.
Speaker 1 00:29:44 Yeah. Uh, Bill is wondering if we want drinks.
Speaker 3 00:29:46 Yeah. Anything. Yes.
Speaker 1 00:29:48 <laugh>. We're at a bar, so Yeah. Warm
Speaker 3 00:29:51 Shots.
Speaker 1 00:29:52 <laugh>. So give us the whole, you know, I'm playing the opre spiel thing. What's, how's that make you guys feel?
Speaker 3 00:29:59 Uh, validated, Confused, That's my word.
Speaker 1 00:30:03 Sexually.
Speaker 3 00:30:04 Sexually. Confused, frustrated. Uh hum. Pissed <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:30:09 I don't wanna do this. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:30:12 I
Speaker 1 00:30:12 Know. Is, is it? I know for like people, at least in Nashville, it's a big deal. Like, it's like a huge honor and I've had some friends say like, my ultimate goal in my music career is to be a member of the Opry. And, um, I just, I don't know, do people in Texas feel that way?
Speaker 3 00:30:27 I, I'll, I'll be a hundred percent honest about it. I have not, not felt that way in the past. Yeah. Like, it wasn't, you know, I mean, I've known the Opry and, and I'm excited to step into the circle and Sure. Do all and say all the words, you know, I need to see the perks. Um, you know, like becoming Yeah. Like if I'm, if I'm in the club, what really happens? I just hope they feel the rider <laugh>. Well,
Speaker 1 00:30:48 Yeah, for sure. I think, I think they kind of like large, I love the Opry, but it's also, it's like if you're a member there, they're like, Okay, cool. You know, it's this whole pomp and circumstance. Do I get
Speaker 3 00:31:01 In free whenever I want? Dude, I've never been good at that poping circumstance thing. And, and like, and like I know like when you've been a member then you have to like, you know, there's a, you have to do it every have so many times in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:31:11 That's why, you know, like Hank Williams wouldn't come and do it and they kicked him out. It seems
Speaker 3 00:31:16 Like a lot. He was also
Speaker 1 00:31:17 Like on drugs. But
Speaker 3 00:31:18 There's a few other things involved, but,
Speaker 1 00:31:21 So I definitely think it's like, like I love the opera and playing it, like I was, like, I was telling Zachary like, I like my hands were like literally shaking. Yeah. You know, and it, there's all the history and all the incredible stuff, but I think like, it can be a lot, especially if you wanna be a member to go and like play essentially like a free show, Right. Like once a month or something.
Speaker 3 00:31:41 Yeah. I mean I did. I'm, I'm like, I don't wanna get it twisted. Like I, I'm, I'm excited that I'm very happy that we're doing it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. Um, uh, but you know, it was, and it's all, it has been a goal, but it's more of just like a bucket list notch thing, you know what I mean? Than it is to me. Like, uh, I don't, I don't, I'm not trying to be a member. I'm gonna be very cool about it and I'm gonna be very gracious cuz I am gracious about it. But, uh, we're being realistic. I'm not trying to Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:32:07 When I think when you said, uh, validation in my head I went through and like, so our families know what we do and it's a very independent thing and we're just starting like actual National Nashville radio. Like they're picking up on us and starting to spin songs and it's awesome. And you know, if you're into that we're, you know, charting and stuff and, but I think with the, the extended family now all of a sudden it's just like, like, oh, you guys, you know, are this band but you're independent, blah, blah blah. And it's like, oh, now you guys are on the Opry. And it's like all of a sudden it's like, oh, this is serious. Like, you know, all of a sudden, you know, the, the aunts, uncles, cousins from far off are like, Oh wow, this is something I know of. I've heard of the Opry and you guys are on it. Okay,
Speaker 3 00:32:57 Listen
Speaker 6 00:32:57 Out. So you guys are serious. No
Speaker 3 00:32:59 Longer no need to go get a college degree. I was gonna say. Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, maybe, I don't know. Listen up talent buyers across the country. Yes. Yeah. Because the guarantee is gonna go up.
Speaker 6 00:33:12 Are you listening folk?
Speaker 2 00:33:14 Well, like some of those rooms, I'm sure you guys have had rooms that you've had like is other, you know, benchmark rooms or things that you've gotten to play or, or that you're about to play like Ivy Road. Yeah. Example for example. So, and that's, I think that's a big part of it too is like that that Texas music scene and coming from that background, it's not like Nashville is your end all be all right. Like
Speaker 3 00:33:37 Yeah, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2 00:33:37 That wasn't like what you, you didn't grow up thinking about, Oh I can go play in Nashville. You're like, Oh, I'm gonna grow up and play the music I wanna play. Yeah. And if that's now led you to Nashville,
Speaker 3 00:33:47 Great. Well I think it it, and it always changes. Like, like when we started it, I was like, okay, I wanna play like every dance hall in Texas or I wanted do like all of these big, like I wanted to play Billy Bobs or I wanted to play Green Hall, I want headline Green Hall or whatever. And you know, those came fairly quick and cuz we were doing that, we were the Texas doing the Texas dance hall circuit. Yep. So that, that was, that was a big one to knock off. And now, you know, now we've headlined all those spots in there. So now it's, it's like when you start touring, uh, as a younger band, you do this little circle and then you expand your spiral out and out, out and out. And uh, now you know, we've done the, we'll, we'll have done the biggest stage in Nashville basically. You what? I mean. So then what's after that? You know, I've, I've never played Red Rocks. I wanna do Red Rocks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:34:30 Red
Speaker 3 00:34:30 Rocks. Exactly. Yeah. Played stuff like that. Kings and queens of small countries. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:34:35 Yeah. I've seen cart play Red Rocks actually. So he can tell you a little bit about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:34:39 Yeah. Man, Red Rocks is fun. It's, it's kind of like, I dunno, like I, when I was growing up in my goal with my music was I want to pay my bills and I don't want to have a job
Speaker 3 00:34:50 I hate a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 00:34:51 And so thankfully I've been able to do that and then I've never like kind of like reset my like goals. But hearing you guys talk about, like, we had the London Symphony play on our record at Abby Road. I'm like, I, that's like not even something that would ever cross my mind as possible ever in a million years. It's literally,
Speaker 4 00:35:12 I never thought that either. Yeah. It's literally unbelievable. It's like you tell somebody these stories like, Oh, what do you do for a living in, well I'm a tour musician, What have you done? You say these things, It sounds unbelievable. <laugh> it sounds
Speaker 1 00:35:23 Unbelievable. It's crazy. It makes me wanna like reevaluate like what I think is possible. You know what I mean? Like in a great way. I just think it's
Speaker 3 00:35:29 Well that definitely fucking awesome with the Abbey Road thing. That definitely like set a new standard for like okay. So we could pretty much do whatever, you know, we play the right way.
Speaker 1 00:35:37 Play DS Lounge.
Speaker 3 00:35:38 Yeah. We can play d play Ds on a Monday. Dude. <laugh>, our next album is live from a yellow submarine. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:35:49 An actual submarine. Amy.
Speaker 3 00:35:51 Yeah. Who
Speaker 6 00:35:52 Knows. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:35:53 We could have, could work.
Speaker 1 00:35:55 Hell yeah. Well, what else? You guys got coming up here obviously to operate tonight.
Speaker 3 00:36:00 What are we doing after that Adam? I'm, I'm like, uh, I'm, Yeah, it's over. I I I I can make it through Tuesday and then I don't know <laugh>
Speaker 6 00:36:07 Well because yeah, Adam to think about this. Okay. Because of course we're just like, we can pull this off. We're doing a festival outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma called Born and Raised. And then at six o'clock the next morning we're flying to LA and we are doing Beach Life Festival, uh, in Redondo Beach. But besides our own set, we are working with Shooter and doing a Whelan tribute. We're the backing band and all these other artists are coming in to sing Wayland songs. And past couple weeks we've been working on that and figuring out keys. Couple
Speaker 3 00:36:41 Days. Last couple days. Yeah, last couple days. We've the past couple tomorrow <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:36:48 But it's so funny cuz like it's
Speaker 3 00:36:49 On the to-do list.
Speaker 6 00:36:50 We know like gotta
Speaker 3 00:36:51 Get through the Opry first. Gotta
Speaker 6 00:36:53 Get through the opera.
Speaker 3 00:36:54 Yeah.
Speaker 6 00:36:54 But I already hit them this morning because, uh, Chris Schiffli texted me and he was like, Steve,
Speaker 3 00:37:00 Anyway, dude. Well, well said dude. I mean it's just, it happened. Name drop. Yeah,
Speaker 6 00:37:06 He was, Cause he's doing the Opry tomorrow too. He's debuting in the Opry and so he is, Hey, I'm coming in tonight. And so I texted the guys, I'm like, well he's doing one of the whaling songs so let's just make sure we have in our back pocket cuz he's probably gonna come out to D's and we'll jam a song with him, you know, and stuff like that. So it's just
Speaker 3 00:37:23 <laugh>, it's
Speaker 6 00:37:23 The, I don't know, that's
Speaker 1 00:37:25 Whatever. You guys are cool. Shit. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 00:37:27 <laugh>.
Speaker 6 00:37:29 So yeah, we're gonna do that and then probably stay the next day for Beach Life and uh, watch Wilco.
Speaker 3 00:37:34 Yeah, I wanna see local. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna see Wilco side stage. Yeah, I know. Yeah, exactly. I've seen them out front a hundred times. <laugh>, which
Speaker 6 00:37:42 Was also crazy. We played a festival in Oklahoma, was it last year? That, um,
Speaker 3 00:37:46 Sun.
Speaker 6 00:37:47 And so we gotta watch Sun Side stage, which was fucking amazing.
Speaker 3 00:37:50 Dude. Jay Ard watched our whole set, man. It was awesome, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 6 00:37:53 They're back there
Speaker 3 00:37:53 Watching us. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1 00:37:57 Dude, that's,
Speaker 3 00:37:58 I just cried and then it's
Speaker 1 00:38:00 Unrelated, but Yes. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 6 00:38:03 And then in October we're doing 15 dates in October with the Vandalier doing the Southeast just because they're just a fun band we love. And so we're like, Hey, why don't we just do some shit together? And so why not? Yeah. Bunch of stuff like that. Well, hell
Speaker 1 00:38:15 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:38:16 I think that's one of the best parts about like being independent and like building it from that way is that you can just literally be like, Yo, this is what we're doing
Speaker 3 00:38:24 Book I do. Right. Booking
Speaker 2 00:38:25 Party. If someone tells you no, you'd be like, Nah, this is,
Speaker 3 00:38:28 This is what we're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:38:29 Yeah. I think that's super cool man. It's, it's great to hear stories of like what that looks like. And I think you guys have been doing it long enough and well enough where it's like, yo, here's how we're gonna do it. And no one's gonna really tell you. No,
Speaker 6 00:38:41 I gotta say my favorite thing of it all really is that I know and I have to work with or deal with bands that have some sort of distribution or label that is always like, Okay, cool, they made a record and now they gotta sit on it for eight months. Right? And so we're the ones that are like, Well man, when do we wanna put it out? Ah, let's put it out in like a month and a half. Okay, cool. Boom.
Speaker 3 00:39:02 Well dude, dude, before the cheap civil record came out, that whole record was a secret. And like we had people signing NDAs about like, not talking about that record. I
Speaker 1 00:39:10 Would've been blabbing my big mouth about that shit all
Speaker 3 00:39:13 The time. It was crazy talk. I told everybody found, I found out too late what NDA meant. <laugh>, I didn't sign shit. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:39:23 Posting selfies like in Abby Road.
Speaker 6 00:39:26 That, that was the hardest thing is like, okay, everybody don't even like mention we're in London. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:39:31 It took a year for us to like post up our pictures. We had to like wait a whole year. <laugh>. That was tough. We great
Speaker 6 00:39:37 Pictures and, and we did it in a way like we knew we weren't gonna tell anybody about it and we're just gonna drop it. But also, uh, Joe Hudak at Rolling Stone, like we had told him and we're like, if you're interested, like, would you wanna write an article? Basically be the liner notes. And as soon as this record drops and we were on the West coast, as soon as this record drops me Pickathon at Yeah, we were at Pickathon. Yep. Yeah. Um, that Rolling Stone article comes out and then we tell everybody, we made this record and it just so happens, and, and the first song on that record, Cheap Silver, the first thing you hear is the symphony. So it's like no doubt when you hit plan on that record, it's the, you hear the strings come in,
Speaker 3 00:40:18 90% of the people just turn it off. Like what? Yeah. Yeah. That ain't dumb.
Speaker 6 00:40:22 But it was great, you know, cause it was just like, damn, we could have all these pictures.
Speaker 3 00:40:26 Fuck little sleep to it every night. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:40:30 That's awesome man. That's that's incredible. That's very envious of that, but very cool.
Speaker 3 00:40:38 Yeah, dude.
Speaker 1 00:40:40 Well I think appreciate you, uh, guys joining us for this, man. It's been, it's been super fun.
Speaker 3 00:40:44 Yeah. I hope you guys get to do more, uh, on location things at bars. I'll come back and do this anytime. Yeah. Oh yeah. <laugh>, tell
Speaker 6 00:40:51 Us which bar will be there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:40:52 More Bloody Mary's. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:40:53 <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:40:55 Uh, if you like, Bloody Mary is the ones at Martin's Barbecue up on fourth are my favorites
Speaker 3 00:41:00 In the city. Somebody just told me that yesterday too. Great. I'm gonna have to do that now.
Speaker 2 00:41:03 Great buddies. All right. Good stuff. Well, yeah, thank you guys so much for, for coming out here to the Countrypolitan. What a beautiful space it is.
Speaker 3 00:41:09 Amazing. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 00:41:10 Our new podcast studio.
Speaker 3 00:41:13 Probably not, but
Speaker 6 00:41:13 Bill, thank you. Thanks for letting
Speaker 3 00:41:15 Here.
Speaker 2 00:41:16 Great location. Yeah. If you're in Nashville, Tennessee, you gotta come check this place out. It's great. That is awesome. And uh, thank you guys for taking time outta your busy week to talk to us idiots. Thank
Speaker 3 00:41:26 You. You
Speaker 1 00:41:26 Having you
Speaker 3 00:41:27 Guys, man. I appreciate it guys. It's,
Speaker 6 00:41:29 Uh,
Speaker 2 00:41:29 Thanks guys. It's been a blessing. And uh, if you haven't caught a mic in the boom pie show, it is time. Yeah, yeah, sure it is. Get out the road maybe in Europe, you know. Yeah. Opry tomorrow night. Catch. I'm playing <laugh> Opre tomorrow night. Uh, oh, by two, two weeks ago. Yeah, two weeks. Very vague. You should go to the opera even if they're not there. Yeah. There you go. There you go. But yeah, thank you guys so much. I'm Nicky t I'm Kurt on, and we'll see you in the front row
Speaker 10 00:41:55 That it's called Raised.
