October 6, 2022 • 33 mins
In the Season One finale, host Will Dailey interviews his pals Rhett Miller, Busy Philips, and Oompa on their favorite places, concerts, and music towns, while reflecting on Season One's journey through American music, the cultural ties that bind us together, and our pursuit of that elusive vibe, SWB. (Plus: bloopers!)
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Okay, double Elvis. In the beginning, there was light, then
there was food, then there was sex, and I'm not
absolutely sure of the order of those two. It's hard
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to distinguish arousal via carbon dating, but I'm certain that
after that there was music. And those are the fundamentals
Shelter gets figured out after we eat and dance and
get it on. Now that's just science. Victoria's Deacon University,
as part of the thirty first survey of the Australian
Unity Well Being Index, sought to provide insight into the
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relationship between music engagement and s w B. You know
s WB, it's the one thing we're all after, subjective
well being, and so a random sample of a thousand
participants revealed that engaging with music by dancing or attending
musical events was associated with higher s WB than those
who engaged with music in other ways. The findings also
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emphasized the important role of engaging with music in the
company of others. With regard to some good old debut
b everyone reported higher levels of satisfaction with their lives.
So thank you science. We knew this already, but it's
important to emphasize the fundamentals get in line. Now, stay
in time with the rhythm and the rhyme. Get around
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town where the people look good, where the music is loud.
Get around town. No need to stand proud, add your
voice to the sound of the crowd, the human League.
So this whole podcast was conceived in We're about to
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head out and travel around telling the stories of these
cities and the temples within them in this legacy of
live music America. What it felt like, what it sounded like.
And then something happened, something that made the two elements
travel and live music and communal gathering just disappear overnight.
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So it's amazing now to be at the end of
this first season. There are moments when I didn't think
it would happen, but here we are. There's concerts every
night of the week around America, and along with that
is a never ending cascade of TV shows, movies. Sixty
tho songs come out a day, there's no shortage of podcasts,
and my handheld computer keeps giving me plenty of thumb
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exercises even when I know it is not good for me.
And as far as breaking news goes, I don't know
that news will ever be mended again. Is permanently shattered
with tragic and euphoric alerts for every waking second. It's
a lot of content. That's the tyranny of content. It's
impossible to keep up with it all, to let it
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all in and actually live a life of your own
at the same time, and you know, keep a check
on that good old s WB. And on top of that,
we've all been through a lot, and we're going through
a lot our individual and collective anxiety, stress, and sadness.
It's had a sustained peak that can't be wished away,
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and even if we get good at ignoring it, it's
still tugs at the strings. And I'm not being a
rose I'm just being honest. I've played about a hundred
and sixty shows since spring of and and I've just
been listening to what everyone has to say. Well, I'm
out there. The thing is, when we're all out there,
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oiled up with some live music, there is a higher
s w B and all that other ship starts to
fade away. I feel it on stage, and I felt
it in the audience this year when I've seen shows
by Tangier's blues band, Paul McCartney letters, Tokayhan Pearl Jams,
Rhett Miller, Bob and the Loyal Sees, Willie Nile, Wet
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Leg Will Close, Leader Killed Latrelle, James Metallica, Tory Tory,
Avril Lavine, Julie RhoD Black, Boomsaman The Farrell, Sharon van At,
Lady Pills Right, Joe p Bruno, mars In, Mayvis Staples,
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the actual dollar price of being on the road right now,
at a time when everyone is out there trying to
get their groove back and their mojo on and make
up for that feeling of lost time. That's taxing on
a lot of artists. Never mind that tyranny of content
always creeping in on our subjective well being. But this
season of Sound of Our Town exists not as another
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drop into that content abyss, but as a reminder of
what is out there and has always been out there
for all of us, and why it burnt out. Artists
are forever drawn back to you and us. We're all
just trying to tap into that original and fundamental law
of being alive. So to wrap up this season, I'm
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going to talk to my friends Rhett Miller, Umpa and
Busy Phillips about live music, the places we visited this
season in our pursuit of s w B. The Sound
of Our Town is a podcast about the music that
shaped the cities of America. If it's about where you're
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going and where you want to go to find here
and feel the best music happening right now, it's about
what sounds and places have shaped the city's culture and
what new sounds continue to define it. Most importantly, it's
about getting together in a room to listen and why
that matters, so whether you were quickly dropping in landing
for a long stay, or longing for more musical connection
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in life. In each episode of Sound of Our Town,
I will introduce you to the real places in sonic
stories echoing in a particular town, so that your travel
and your time is enriched with music. I'm Will Day,
I'm an independent songwriter and performer. In this is our
very special wrap up episode of season one. It's a recap,
it's a party. I'm gonna share my bloopers from trying
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to speak English this season, and I'm talking to a
few friends about live music in the places they love.
I had the real honor of sitting down with three friends,
one who's a brilliant actress, writer and activist by way
of Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles and New York City, one
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who is a powerful and relentless poet and musician by
way of Boston. And one who is the epitome of
troubadour rocker and dedicated songwriter by way of Texas and
upstate New York. And I got to ask them a
bunch of questions about the sound of their town. I'll
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let them introduce themselves. Um oompah, And I'm an artist.
My name is Busy Phillips. I am an actor and
a writer and a person. Hi. I'm Reet Miller, musician,
author and podcast host. What was the first concert you
ever went to? The first concert that I went to,
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I want to say it was John Legend in college
when I was on my twenty one birthday and he's
saying happy birthday to me. Yeah. I think that was
my first concert ever. Yeah. I went to Juliana Hatfield
three at a small club. That was the first concert
I chose to go to. My big sister Chuck me
I was innth grade. My first concert that I really
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think of as a concert was the Cars at Reunion
Arena in Dallas, Texas. Wang Chung opened the show. The
cars were on their Heartbeat City tour and they had
that crazy stage setup, which supposedly was the Andy Warhol
had some input on. It was an incredible show. The
first concert I actually went to with my family was
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Paul McCartney Wings at like a su stadium, and we
were in literally like the highest point in the stadium
that you could be. But I was very little. I
just remember like feeling he did not know enough of
the songs. I was really like when the Beatles hits
came out, I like was on board, and the rest
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of the time I felt kind of cold and sleepy.
I think that the Juliana Hatfield show really began my
like going to see live music thing. The first show
that my parents dragged me to, which found up actually
being pretty transformative in itself, was at Kingston Trio show
at a dinner theater, and I remember thinking, oh my god,
I feel so sad for these old men having to
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play while people eat their steak. And later now I
make a living going around playing and what is essentially
a dinner theater circuit and people eat their high end
chicken fried steak, and those guys probably then were twenty
years younger than I am now, so it's all perspective.
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And what was the last concert that you went to.
The last concert I went to, I believe was Jasmin Sullivan. Incredible,
incredible show, just vocals, energy. She had just like got
off of COVID and um, she was like feeling insecure,
like she has a bunch of body changes at the time,
but she gave such an amazing performance. Like I went
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with my best friend because she and I love R
and B, but especially Jasminsullivan and this last album, Like
we play a NonStop so we could I guess we
couldn't even assess the quality of performance, although I know
it was good and vocally she's incredible, but we were
just singing every song, old songs, new songs, anything she
put out, like under whatever. It was like at the
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top of our lungs. So you didn't You couldn't go
anywhere in that space and not hear people screaming the songs.
I went to see The Killers on Saturday night with
my friends from l A who came in town. Here
are friends with those guys, um, But I ended up
having to leave early because my own child, my fourteen
year old, was seeing Muna at Irving Plaza and Bertie
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was with some older friends that were supposed to like
uber Bertie back to our house after the show, but
then they had to catch their train to their house,
and then their mom was mad. So Bertie called me.
I was at the stadium. I was at at Madison
Square Garden and Bertie called me. It was like, they
can't uber me home. I don't know what to do,
and I was like, I'll come. I'm coming to get you.
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So I took a train, ran over and got my
kid at Muna, which is so cute and amazing. And
then I found out that Porches was also playing that night.
I was like, what a great night for music. The
last concert I attended as an audience member was boy,
I can't even remember. There must have been something really recently.
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I feel like I see the Pixies about once a year.
I was supposed to go see the Pixies in New
York City, uh tomorrow night, and I just couldn't do
it because I've only been home from my own tour
for twenty four hours and I only have twenty four
hours before I leave on another tour, and to drive
into Manhattan to see a rock show is too much
my next concert that I look forward to go into.
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I don't have any costs lined up, but when Beyonce
tours renaissance is over, I will sell a limb to
make sure that I'm close and I get to have
that concert experience. I don't know for sure if I
will be at another concert before whenever Taylor Swift throws
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tickets on sale, but I've promised my daughter that when
Taylor Swift next announce as a tour, we will be
front and center for that. I was bummed I missed
Lizzo the other night, but I did see Lizzo at
the Palladium right before the album came out, which was
like a really about The energy was like insane because
it was very clear it was about to happen to her.
She was like just on the precipose of being the
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biggest star in the world. Um. I love bright Music
Hall because it's where I saw Lizzo the year before
she popped. So whenever I'm in Brighton Music Hall and
it wasn't it wasn't even full, and it wasn't full,
like she was still torn coconut oil like the mixtape
or the I don't know if it was an EP
or not, but the next year she blew up and
I just was like, Okay, this is how it can happen.
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Like I could be on this stage with a DJ
and three dances today and I could be truth Hurts
Lizzo tomorrow. What is a music town? Any town can
be a music town. And to me, towns go through cycles,
and I think this is with regards to how that
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town maybe perceives or appreciates my own music. For years,
Milwaukee was a town that just had to be the
night after Madison, and you're like, oh God, here comes Milwaukee.
And then for you know, the last decade, Milwaukee has
been this shining jewel on the itinerary um. But then
most recently we went through Milwaukee and played on a
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Sunday night at a at a club that apparently isn't
as well attended as some clubs, and and and the
attendance went down, and it made me wonder, Oh, no,
is Milwaukee slipping? Is Milwaukee not going to be? Is
Milwaukee no longer the music town it once was? Whereas
before Madison had been in a bit of a slump
for us recently, and we had all sort of decided, well,
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maybe we're no longer since we're not so far now
from being a college band, maybe college towns aren't as
um you know, rewarding for us to roll through. But
then we go to Madison and we played at the
Majestic in Madison and it was incredible, and I thought, well,
here we go. I guess we're a college town banned again.
So it's it's to me, it's like sine waves. It's cycles.
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I don't know, like I've never been to like Nashville
or you know what I mean, Like, I don't know
what that is, like where musicians go to make music.
I mean, to me, I've always sought out the shows
coming through town. So even when I was growing up
in Arizona, I felt like I saw every band I
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wanted to see. You had to really be on it.
I mean you had that back then. There was no
obviously Internet. You had to get that, you know, the
Phoenix New Times every Friday and dig through it and
find what shows you were going to go to. If
I had to think of the town that is consistently
a music town, and it's a cliche, but Austin will
never not be a music town Chicago will never not
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be a music town. A music town to me is
one that varies in sound, in genre, and feel in
it's not It doesn't necessarily have to be a place
that's known for music. It just has to be a
place you can go to and find new music and
or find a community that you belong that you could
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belong to. Yeah, that's censored in music it in some way. Um,
and you know I'm biased, So I have to say
Boston is a is a music town, and not because
of reputation in terms of like having a lot of industry,
you know, sort of. I don't want to say history
because that's not true, but we're not known as the
city that breaks artists into the mainstream. And I think
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that's okay. Not that there aren't aspirations there, but I
think that what makes it a music town is that
is exactly what I said. You can go any corner
of Boston and you're gonna find something that belongs to
you know, something that you belong to. Rather. Do you
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have a favorite venue or club. It maybe recentcy bias,
but Chicago Stallie Hall is built in is probably my
favorite venue at the moment, although historically my favorite venue
has been the Filmore in San Francisco. It's a historical
document this venue. It's just you sit in the dressing
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room there and you think about all the other artists
that have sat in that exact dressing room and done
god knows what in that exact dressing room and then
gone down onto that stage to perform under those chandeliers,
and yeah, the film wore is the film More. San
Francisco is pretty hard to beat, but Chicago Stall Hall
is getting ever closer year after year. Um. I like
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different venues for different reasons, so um, rest in peace,
Gray Scott. I really loved Grace Scott as a venue
because it was where I did my first show, my
first you know self, like my first headline of show
for myself indie show, and it's sold out and so
I have that fond memory there. I really like the Palladium.
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I like the Fonda a lot and the Drugsden Marty
and Elane And someone's got to take that torch. It's
a very specific torch to take you and I could
do it when we get older, I mean we should
maybe maybe that's what we should do. Over the years,
I've gotten to play the most historic New York City
venues Radio City and Carnegie Hall. UM as an opener
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at Radio City for Tory Amos years ago. Carnegie Hall
I played as part of a tribute to R. E. M.
So I've been on the stage of both of those venues. UM.
Ditto the Rieman in Nashville, but again I was opening
for Chris Isaac there. I've never gotten to do a
proper show, a headlining show at those historic venues, The Rieman, Carnegie,
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and Radio City, to me are there's sort of the
pinnacle of performing arts venues. You know there there there's
classic as classic gets and so to get to go
do a proper show on any or all of those
three stages would really be a high water for me.
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There's still things to aspire to. Geez oh, playing it
has to be the Garden. It has to be T
D Garden, Madison Square Garden, the gardens, it has to
be the gardens. Those are what I dream of playing.
I love seeing bands at the Greek Theater in Los
Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl, like there's something really magical
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about that. Now. I've never been to Red Rocks, so
I would like that's a that's on the list. I
would love to go see someone a play at Red
Rocks to look out across you know, um Cane's Ballroom
and Tulsa and see an audience doing what they've been
doing on those floorboards, you know, for a hundred years.
It's just such an incredible feeling. And to think that
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Bob Wills was doing basically what I'm doing here. And
every time we go through we try to play our
cover of Miss Molly, which was an old, great song
that Bob Wills used to do, and it just feels
like the thing that music always does for me. You
feel like you're part of a continuum. You know, you're
wearing on a tradition that goes back to, you know,
the campfires of the Caveman, and it just feels it
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makes me feel really good, like there is a certain
nobility in this frivolous seeming thing. We do the best
concert I've ever seen. I gotta say that Madison Square
Garden and Pearl Jam Show that we went to a
couple of weeks ago was amazing. And then on par
with that was Um David Byrne and the Arcade Fire
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at the Hollywood Bowl in two thousand and four two
five It was spectacular, one of the best most magical
evenings of my life, truly from start to finish. And
they had David Byrne had this marching band from San Francisco,
like this queer marching band from San Francisco that came
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on with him, and it was just like they've marched
around the pit. I just loved David Byrne. He's just
like he's everything to me. I got to see Prince
at the Roosevelt Hotel back on the day Prince played
a show he was doing for a minute in the ballroom.
It was like, yeah, like people I was standing next
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to justin Timberlake like watching Prince. It started at midnight,
you know what I mean. It was like it was
like a secret intense, like you gotta be down to
You're gonna be there until three in the morning, but
you're you know what I mean, But you're gonna see prints.
That was the only time I've seen Prince. It was
the only time I saw him. It was pretty spectacular.
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I love Portland. It's like it's like a little I
don't it's you know, every time there I find something
like there's a boutique sneaker store, there's a spot that
everybody loves to go to for the pizza. There's you know,
like these cool d I y venues. Everybody sort of
it's like, it's like, what where Boston is? If Boston
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wasn't such a a larger space, is what is I
think mentally what Boston wants to be or tries to
identify as that's what Portland is. But because it's so small,
it gets to be that. In Atlanta, the Old ninety
seven started off at a place called I think the
Little Five Points and we were in just a bar
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that I'm not even sure is still there, but we
we've climbed our way up in Atlanta now. Um we
were playing for a while at the Variety Playhouse, which
is a pretty cool room. It's it's almost too cool.
You feel like you're on some sort of Broadway stage.
But in Atlanta we have landed now at a place
called Terminal West, which is an old train station. And
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there couldn't be any more perfect venue for my band
that's named after a train wreck than an old train station.
And it's just such a great place for the Old
ninety Seven's to put on a show. And every time
we go there, we have a great show. In the
Atlanta crowd, there's something about being squished between the two
haughty coasts. You know, the coasts are overwhelmed by the
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industry and the the jaded fans who've got everybody you know,
booking every single night. They could go out to see
any incredible show. But you go to those cities in between,
especially the big ones like Atlanta and Chicago. In Atlanta,
they're so grateful when you roll up with a big,
kick ass rock show and the old Lighting sevens go
into Terminal West, you know, the old train station, and uh,
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it's just it winds up being such a great show
every night. I love Atlanta. I love Atlanta, and I
gotta do my my hustler push ups to really do
well in Atlanta. I love it because hip hop is prominent,
self reliant again, like you can you can, if you
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could think it, you could do it. In Atlanta, the
hustle is crazy, like you know, like people and like
I think about up north, like New York, right, you
think about the the ingenuity of people up there, like
if they could think it, they will sell it, right.
But then there's this sort of like this vibe of
like it can't be quality, right, but like you can
be in Atlanta. You say, I'm gonna sell eyelashes, you know,
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like gluant eyelashes. And there's whole businesses that you know
you wanna you wanna do, like a sushi soul restaurant.
You're gonna find clients, you know, like you want to
have a trap museum. Shout out to two Chains. You're
gonna have a trap museum, you know. And I love
that all right? And what about those extra spots, like
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what about food and you know hidden gems. There's a
restaurant connected to Talia Hall in Chicago called dos X.
Oh my god, it's when we're on a bus and
we roll up to tell you Hall, I typically am
trying to make it into dos X before they stopped
serving their brunch, which is incredible. But now the backstage
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menu in the dress room re Talia Hall is from
dos X. And so we were there a few nights
ago and I had out um, I had this this
um crazy avocado salad. I mean it was. It was
just so great. Anytime you can give me a venue
that's got a great restaurant attached to it, I'm a
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happy rock and roller. Atlanta had my favorite kind of
spot and inspired like I think it's called boogaloo or
something like that, and it's like it's like a brunch spot.
They have a DJ and they have swings at the bar,
so if you come in and you're sitting on a
swing at the bar with your breakfast, like your brunch drinks,
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and then they have it like so sometimes they have
it like buffet style and you can get all the
southern food, like if you're into sweets, I'm not like
red velvet cake like whatever else. I think it's called boogaloo,
which I didn't even know it was a word, I think,
until I learned that it was dance related. So there's
a guitar story in Nastbury Park that's walking distance from
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the strip where Stone Pony and Wonder Bar and the
boardwalk and everything is. It's called Russo Music and it's
it's like a it's like a guitar lover's guitar store.
And I bought a twelve string acoustic there and I
go there and drool over there inventory every time I'm
in town. And the people that work there super nice.
Everybody's in a band. Um. I was turned onto it
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by Nicole Atkins, who said Asbury native and a Jersey
Beach girl. But it's it's not something I would expect. Usually.
I would think i'd find a guitar store, you know,
in Manhattan, and certainly there are any number of guitar
stores in Manhattan. But down in Asbury Park, it's where
I found one of my favorite little guitar stores. So
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in the l A episode, he I recap kind of
my experiences there over the years. I had you, I
had you in the scene in the script and so
to speak, but I had you kind of crying, and
I want to make sure I didn't make that up.
But I kind of feel like there's more the one
show where I've seen you crying, and I want to
make sure I'm not doing something wrong. Oh I've cried
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at your shows, for sure. For sure. I also just
get like sometimes I get really overwhelmed. You know. Ed
Drocy of the former band Grizzly Bear is a really
close friend of mine. He's one of his last shows,
one of the Grizzly Bears like last shows was in Portland, Maine,
and it was when we were on the East coast
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doing that movie in Boston. And so we went up
for the show and I was like totally overwhelmed by
his talent. You forget, Like that's what I feel like
sometimes when I see you. Um, it's certainly like that's
like the kind of the emotion behind it is that
to me, it's a thing that I've always I don't know.
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Music has like changed my life in so many ways
and has connected me to people and feelings and ideas
that I wouldn't have probably been connected to other wise.
And when I'm friends with someone in real life who's
a musician, you know, you have a tendency just in
hanging out to forget about the magic that they can do,
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because it's really like such a magic trick. And so
then when you see a friend like you or Ed
or Sarah Barella's do the thing, do the magic trick
for everybody, it's like kind of takes my breath away.
And really I find it like deep don know what
I'm gonna cry, Like I find it deeply deeply moving. Um,
And then I just feel so grateful that like I
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get to be friends with that person who can do
this like magic trick that not that many people can do,
you know, Rhett Miller has a stunning new record out.
It's called The Misfit. He's got a podcast called Wheels
Off with Rhett Miller. He'll always be making music and
out on the road and we're all better for it.
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The poet, the artist, the musician. You can find on
all streaming platform homes just got a type O O
M P A and you'll get where you need to go.
And every show she puts on feels like her first
and her last, and like it's to the whole world.
At the same time, Busy Phillips Stars and Girls five
Evan and she has a podcast called Busy Phillips is
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doing her best. And on top of that, she's one
of the bravest activists that I know. And in about
twenty five years, you can find her at the Dresden
Monday through Thursday. And one more thing. That study specifically
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found that the communal aspect was the most important part,
as regularly listening to musical loan did not cause the
same effect on social well being. And there was another
study actually funded by a large corporate concert conglomerate, that
found that attending a live music event every fourteen days
or so added nine years to your life. You could
have paid me the money to tell you that, because
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I'm nine and the half. If you've been listening to
the first glorious season of Sound of Our Town, then
you already know this. I've tried to keep all these
episodes shorter than a forty minute set of music. We
can't be a podcast about celebrating the act of being
together with live music, this ancient and scientifically sound practice,
and have it last longer than a set at the
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Hideout in Chicago on a Thursday night. So I've thrown
a lot at you, but it will always be here
to revisit when you are heading someplace new or even
vaguely familiar. I do have a checklist to leave you
with for those bi weekly at minimum live music pursuits,
with some parameters to develop our social skills after such
a harrowing and challenging past three or four years, or
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three or four centuries. Even so, with your bi weekly concerts,
make sure that once a year, one you go to
with just one friend. One is with a friend you
haven't seen an over a year. One is with a
large group of people, say six plus one is for
an act you don't know at all. One should be
for a leg to see artist. One should be for
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an act in their first year performing one sit down show,
maybe with dinner, so that you were fulfilling two of
those ancient fundamentals at the same time. That could be
an exciting night. One show where you have to wear
earplugs because it is so definitely heavy that a small
dose of fear is present. One festival of any size,
one alternative venue like a museum, a street corner, or
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four piece on a rooftop playing their final show. One
house type concert of any size B y O B.
It often doesn't get more intimate. And then one show
by yourself in a room of strangers, all tending to
their subjective well being. I'm Will Daily and this is
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Sound of Our Town. Well we did it. We have
completed season one and it has been quite a tour.
But that means there's one job left to do, and
I need your help doing it so that we can
get back on the road for season two of Sound
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of Our Town. I need your help. Follow this show
on your favorite podcast listening station, leave a review on Apple,
and just share it with one friend who you think
needs this show in their life. That's it, and then
we will surely have a season two and when we do,
and you want us to cover your town, you just
let me know by hitting me up on Instagram at
Will Daily Official or on Twitter at Will Daily. Sound
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of Our Town is a production of Double Elvis and
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I can't tell you how much appreciation is felt by
the messages we've received so far for this season. Sound
of Our Town is executively produced by Jake Brennan, Brady Sadler,
and Carl Karioli for Double Elvis Production assistance by the
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Great Matt Bowden. The show is created, written, hosted, and
scored by me Will Dairy. A giant thank you to
my guests today, Busy Phillips, Rhet Miller and Umpah Into
everyone who worked on the season, Samantha Farrell, Caitlin White
At Jerty, Fia Love Smith, Gerald Dowd, Allen Tebow, Sam Fifel,
and Patrick Coleman. Music for this episode was composed and
performed by me, Will Daily. You can check out my
music anywhere there's music streaming. You can also follow me
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at Instagram at Will Daily Official. If you like the
sounds you hear in the show, check out my latest release,
Easy to Be Around, and all my shows are at
will Daily dot com and Sound of Our Town pod
dot com. I guess I'm no longer a podcast rookie
as soon as I stopped recording this, But as promised,
I will leave you with just a couple of bloopers,
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the most appropriate ones from this season that I saved.
Thank you so much for joining me on this tour
this season, in these cities, in these places, I'm grateful.
Thank you for your years. It features some of the
best songwriters from the Phoenix music about facts. We can't
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be a pod past. If it's a place. If it's
a place, maybe you'd say dive. It's certainly relaxed. God damnit,
Los Angeles doesn't tower over you like New York or Chicago.
Los Angeles, Chicago. I do think it's it is though
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it's true. It's like the music is, you know, as
Madonna said, music brings the people together.
Okay, double Elvis. In the beginning, there was light, then
there was food, then there was sex, and I'm not
absolutely sure of the order of those two. It's hard
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to distinguish arousal via carbon dating, but I'm certain that
after that there was music. And those are the fundamentals
Shelter gets figured out after we eat and dance and
get it on. Now that's just science. Victoria's Deacon University,
as part of the thirty first survey of the Australian
Unity Well Being Index, sought to provide insight into the
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relationship between music engagement and s w B. You know
s WB, it's the one thing we're all after, subjective
well being, and so a random sample of a thousand
participants revealed that engaging with music by dancing or attending
musical events was associated with higher s WB than those
who engaged with music in other ways. The findings also
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emphasized the important role of engaging with music in the
company of others. With regard to some good old debut
b everyone reported higher levels of satisfaction with their lives.
So thank you science. We knew this already, but it's
important to emphasize the fundamentals get in line. Now, stay
in time with the rhythm and the rhyme. Get around
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town where the people look good, where the music is loud.
Get around town. No need to stand proud, add your
voice to the sound of the crowd, the human League.
So this whole podcast was conceived in We're about to
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head out and travel around telling the stories of these
cities and the temples within them in this legacy of
live music America. What it felt like, what it sounded like.
And then something happened, something that made the two elements
travel and live music and communal gathering just disappear overnight.
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So it's amazing now to be at the end of
this first season. There are moments when I didn't think
it would happen, but here we are. There's concerts every
night of the week around America, and along with that
is a never ending cascade of TV shows, movies. Sixty
tho songs come out a day, there's no shortage of podcasts,
and my handheld computer keeps giving me plenty of thumb
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exercises even when I know it is not good for me.
And as far as breaking news goes, I don't know
that news will ever be mended again. Is permanently shattered
with tragic and euphoric alerts for every waking second. It's
a lot of content. That's the tyranny of content. It's
impossible to keep up with it all, to let it
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all in and actually live a life of your own
at the same time, and you know, keep a check
on that good old s WB. And on top of that,
we've all been through a lot, and we're going through
a lot our individual and collective anxiety, stress, and sadness.
It's had a sustained peak that can't be wished away,
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and even if we get good at ignoring it, it's
still tugs at the strings. And I'm not being a
rose I'm just being honest. I've played about a hundred
and sixty shows since spring of and and I've just
been listening to what everyone has to say. Well, I'm
out there. The thing is, when we're all out there,
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oiled up with some live music, there is a higher
s w B and all that other ship starts to
fade away. I feel it on stage, and I felt
it in the audience this year when I've seen shows
by Tangier's blues band, Paul McCartney letters, Tokayhan Pearl Jams,
Rhett Miller, Bob and the Loyal Sees, Willie Nile, Wet
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Leg Will Close, Leader Killed Latrelle, James Metallica, Tory Tory,
Avril Lavine, Julie RhoD Black, Boomsaman The Farrell, Sharon van At,
Lady Pills Right, Joe p Bruno, mars In, Mayvis Staples,
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the actual dollar price of being on the road right now,
at a time when everyone is out there trying to
get their groove back and their mojo on and make
up for that feeling of lost time. That's taxing on
a lot of artists. Never mind that tyranny of content
always creeping in on our subjective well being. But this
season of Sound of Our Town exists not as another
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drop into that content abyss, but as a reminder of
what is out there and has always been out there
for all of us, and why it burnt out. Artists
are forever drawn back to you and us. We're all
just trying to tap into that original and fundamental law
of being alive. So to wrap up this season, I'm
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going to talk to my friends Rhett Miller, Umpa and
Busy Phillips about live music, the places we visited this
season in our pursuit of s w B. The Sound
of Our Town is a podcast about the music that
shaped the cities of America. If it's about where you're
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going and where you want to go to find here
and feel the best music happening right now, it's about
what sounds and places have shaped the city's culture and
what new sounds continue to define it. Most importantly, it's
about getting together in a room to listen and why
that matters, so whether you were quickly dropping in landing
for a long stay, or longing for more musical connection
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in life. In each episode of Sound of Our Town,
I will introduce you to the real places in sonic
stories echoing in a particular town, so that your travel
and your time is enriched with music. I'm Will Day,
I'm an independent songwriter and performer. In this is our
very special wrap up episode of season one. It's a recap,
it's a party. I'm gonna share my bloopers from trying
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to speak English this season, and I'm talking to a
few friends about live music in the places they love.
I had the real honor of sitting down with three friends,
one who's a brilliant actress, writer and activist by way
of Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles and New York City, one
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who is a powerful and relentless poet and musician by
way of Boston. And one who is the epitome of
troubadour rocker and dedicated songwriter by way of Texas and
upstate New York. And I got to ask them a
bunch of questions about the sound of their town. I'll
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let them introduce themselves. Um oompah, And I'm an artist.
My name is Busy Phillips. I am an actor and
a writer and a person. Hi. I'm Reet Miller, musician,
author and podcast host. What was the first concert you
ever went to? The first concert that I went to,
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I want to say it was John Legend in college
when I was on my twenty one birthday and he's
saying happy birthday to me. Yeah. I think that was
my first concert ever. Yeah. I went to Juliana Hatfield
three at a small club. That was the first concert
I chose to go to. My big sister Chuck me
I was innth grade. My first concert that I really
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think of as a concert was the Cars at Reunion
Arena in Dallas, Texas. Wang Chung opened the show. The
cars were on their Heartbeat City tour and they had
that crazy stage setup, which supposedly was the Andy Warhol
had some input on. It was an incredible show. The
first concert I actually went to with my family was
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Paul McCartney Wings at like a su stadium, and we
were in literally like the highest point in the stadium
that you could be. But I was very little. I
just remember like feeling he did not know enough of
the songs. I was really like when the Beatles hits
came out, I like was on board, and the rest
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of the time I felt kind of cold and sleepy.
I think that the Juliana Hatfield show really began my
like going to see live music thing. The first show
that my parents dragged me to, which found up actually
being pretty transformative in itself, was at Kingston Trio show
at a dinner theater, and I remember thinking, oh my god,
I feel so sad for these old men having to
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play while people eat their steak. And later now I
make a living going around playing and what is essentially
a dinner theater circuit and people eat their high end
chicken fried steak, and those guys probably then were twenty
years younger than I am now, so it's all perspective.
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And what was the last concert that you went to.
The last concert I went to, I believe was Jasmin Sullivan. Incredible,
incredible show, just vocals, energy. She had just like got
off of COVID and um, she was like feeling insecure,
like she has a bunch of body changes at the time,
but she gave such an amazing performance. Like I went
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with my best friend because she and I love R
and B, but especially Jasminsullivan and this last album, Like
we play a NonStop so we could I guess we
couldn't even assess the quality of performance, although I know
it was good and vocally she's incredible, but we were
just singing every song, old songs, new songs, anything she
put out, like under whatever. It was like at the
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top of our lungs. So you didn't You couldn't go
anywhere in that space and not hear people screaming the songs.
I went to see The Killers on Saturday night with
my friends from l A who came in town. Here
are friends with those guys, um, But I ended up
having to leave early because my own child, my fourteen
year old, was seeing Muna at Irving Plaza and Bertie
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was with some older friends that were supposed to like
uber Bertie back to our house after the show, but
then they had to catch their train to their house,
and then their mom was mad. So Bertie called me.
I was at the stadium. I was at at Madison
Square Garden and Bertie called me. It was like, they
can't uber me home. I don't know what to do,
and I was like, I'll come. I'm coming to get you.
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So I took a train, ran over and got my
kid at Muna, which is so cute and amazing. And
then I found out that Porches was also playing that night.
I was like, what a great night for music. The
last concert I attended as an audience member was boy,
I can't even remember. There must have been something really recently.
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I feel like I see the Pixies about once a year.
I was supposed to go see the Pixies in New
York City, uh tomorrow night, and I just couldn't do
it because I've only been home from my own tour
for twenty four hours and I only have twenty four
hours before I leave on another tour, and to drive
into Manhattan to see a rock show is too much
my next concert that I look forward to go into.
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I don't have any costs lined up, but when Beyonce
tours renaissance is over, I will sell a limb to
make sure that I'm close and I get to have
that concert experience. I don't know for sure if I
will be at another concert before whenever Taylor Swift throws
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tickets on sale, but I've promised my daughter that when
Taylor Swift next announce as a tour, we will be
front and center for that. I was bummed I missed
Lizzo the other night, but I did see Lizzo at
the Palladium right before the album came out, which was
like a really about The energy was like insane because
it was very clear it was about to happen to her.
She was like just on the precipose of being the
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biggest star in the world. Um. I love bright Music
Hall because it's where I saw Lizzo the year before
she popped. So whenever I'm in Brighton Music Hall and
it wasn't it wasn't even full, and it wasn't full,
like she was still torn coconut oil like the mixtape
or the I don't know if it was an EP
or not, but the next year she blew up and
I just was like, Okay, this is how it can happen.
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Like I could be on this stage with a DJ
and three dances today and I could be truth Hurts
Lizzo tomorrow. What is a music town? Any town can
be a music town. And to me, towns go through cycles,
and I think this is with regards to how that
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town maybe perceives or appreciates my own music. For years,
Milwaukee was a town that just had to be the
night after Madison, and you're like, oh God, here comes Milwaukee.
And then for you know, the last decade, Milwaukee has
been this shining jewel on the itinerary um. But then
most recently we went through Milwaukee and played on a
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Sunday night at a at a club that apparently isn't
as well attended as some clubs, and and and the
attendance went down, and it made me wonder, Oh, no,
is Milwaukee slipping? Is Milwaukee not going to be? Is
Milwaukee no longer the music town it once was? Whereas
before Madison had been in a bit of a slump
for us recently, and we had all sort of decided, well,
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maybe we're no longer since we're not so far now
from being a college band, maybe college towns aren't as
um you know, rewarding for us to roll through. But
then we go to Madison and we played at the
Majestic in Madison and it was incredible, and I thought, well,
here we go. I guess we're a college town banned again.
So it's it's to me, it's like sine waves. It's cycles.
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I don't know, like I've never been to like Nashville
or you know what I mean, Like, I don't know
what that is, like where musicians go to make music.
I mean, to me, I've always sought out the shows
coming through town. So even when I was growing up
in Arizona, I felt like I saw every band I
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wanted to see. You had to really be on it.
I mean you had that back then. There was no
obviously Internet. You had to get that, you know, the
Phoenix New Times every Friday and dig through it and
find what shows you were going to go to. If
I had to think of the town that is consistently
a music town, and it's a cliche, but Austin will
never not be a music town Chicago will never not
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be a music town. A music town to me is
one that varies in sound, in genre, and feel in
it's not It doesn't necessarily have to be a place
that's known for music. It just has to be a
place you can go to and find new music and
or find a community that you belong that you could
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belong to. Yeah, that's censored in music it in some way. Um,
and you know I'm biased, So I have to say
Boston is a is a music town, and not because
of reputation in terms of like having a lot of industry,
you know, sort of. I don't want to say history
because that's not true, but we're not known as the
city that breaks artists into the mainstream. And I think
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that's okay. Not that there aren't aspirations there, but I
think that what makes it a music town is that
is exactly what I said. You can go any corner
of Boston and you're gonna find something that belongs to
you know, something that you belong to. Rather. Do you
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have a favorite venue or club. It maybe recentcy bias,
but Chicago Stallie Hall is built in is probably my
favorite venue at the moment, although historically my favorite venue
has been the Filmore in San Francisco. It's a historical
document this venue. It's just you sit in the dressing
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room there and you think about all the other artists
that have sat in that exact dressing room and done
god knows what in that exact dressing room and then
gone down onto that stage to perform under those chandeliers,
and yeah, the film wore is the film More. San
Francisco is pretty hard to beat, but Chicago Stall Hall
is getting ever closer year after year. Um. I like
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different venues for different reasons, so um, rest in peace,
Gray Scott. I really loved Grace Scott as a venue
because it was where I did my first show, my
first you know self, like my first headline of show
for myself indie show, and it's sold out and so
I have that fond memory there. I really like the Palladium.
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I like the Fonda a lot and the Drugsden Marty
and Elane And someone's got to take that torch. It's
a very specific torch to take you and I could
do it when we get older, I mean we should
maybe maybe that's what we should do. Over the years,
I've gotten to play the most historic New York City
venues Radio City and Carnegie Hall. UM as an opener
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at Radio City for Tory Amos years ago. Carnegie Hall
I played as part of a tribute to R. E. M.
So I've been on the stage of both of those venues. UM.
Ditto the Rieman in Nashville, but again I was opening
for Chris Isaac there. I've never gotten to do a
proper show, a headlining show at those historic venues, The Rieman, Carnegie,
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and Radio City, to me are there's sort of the
pinnacle of performing arts venues. You know there there there's
classic as classic gets and so to get to go
do a proper show on any or all of those
three stages would really be a high water for me.
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There's still things to aspire to. Geez oh, playing it
has to be the Garden. It has to be T
D Garden, Madison Square Garden, the gardens, it has to
be the gardens. Those are what I dream of playing.
I love seeing bands at the Greek Theater in Los
Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl, like there's something really magical
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about that. Now. I've never been to Red Rocks, so
I would like that's a that's on the list. I
would love to go see someone a play at Red
Rocks to look out across you know, um Cane's Ballroom
and Tulsa and see an audience doing what they've been
doing on those floorboards, you know, for a hundred years.
It's just such an incredible feeling. And to think that
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Bob Wills was doing basically what I'm doing here. And
every time we go through we try to play our
cover of Miss Molly, which was an old, great song
that Bob Wills used to do, and it just feels
like the thing that music always does for me. You
feel like you're part of a continuum. You know, you're
wearing on a tradition that goes back to, you know,
the campfires of the Caveman, and it just feels it
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makes me feel really good, like there is a certain
nobility in this frivolous seeming thing. We do the best
concert I've ever seen. I gotta say that Madison Square
Garden and Pearl Jam Show that we went to a
couple of weeks ago was amazing. And then on par
with that was Um David Byrne and the Arcade Fire
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at the Hollywood Bowl in two thousand and four two
five It was spectacular, one of the best most magical
evenings of my life, truly from start to finish. And
they had David Byrne had this marching band from San Francisco,
like this queer marching band from San Francisco that came
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on with him, and it was just like they've marched
around the pit. I just loved David Byrne. He's just
like he's everything to me. I got to see Prince
at the Roosevelt Hotel back on the day Prince played
a show he was doing for a minute in the ballroom.
It was like, yeah, like people I was standing next
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to justin Timberlake like watching Prince. It started at midnight,
you know what I mean. It was like it was
like a secret intense, like you gotta be down to
You're gonna be there until three in the morning, but
you're you know what I mean, But you're gonna see prints.
That was the only time I've seen Prince. It was
the only time I saw him. It was pretty spectacular.
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I love Portland. It's like it's like a little I
don't it's you know, every time there I find something
like there's a boutique sneaker store, there's a spot that
everybody loves to go to for the pizza. There's you know,
like these cool d I y venues. Everybody sort of
it's like, it's like, what where Boston is? If Boston
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wasn't such a a larger space, is what is I
think mentally what Boston wants to be or tries to
identify as that's what Portland is. But because it's so small,
it gets to be that. In Atlanta, the Old ninety
seven started off at a place called I think the
Little Five Points and we were in just a bar
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that I'm not even sure is still there, but we
we've climbed our way up in Atlanta now. Um we
were playing for a while at the Variety Playhouse, which
is a pretty cool room. It's it's almost too cool.
You feel like you're on some sort of Broadway stage.
But in Atlanta we have landed now at a place
called Terminal West, which is an old train station. And
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there couldn't be any more perfect venue for my band
that's named after a train wreck than an old train station.
And it's just such a great place for the Old
ninety Seven's to put on a show. And every time
we go there, we have a great show. In the
Atlanta crowd, there's something about being squished between the two
haughty coasts. You know, the coasts are overwhelmed by the
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industry and the the jaded fans who've got everybody you know,
booking every single night. They could go out to see
any incredible show. But you go to those cities in between,
especially the big ones like Atlanta and Chicago. In Atlanta,
they're so grateful when you roll up with a big,
kick ass rock show and the old Lighting sevens go
into Terminal West, you know, the old train station, and uh,
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it's just it winds up being such a great show
every night. I love Atlanta. I love Atlanta, and I
gotta do my my hustler push ups to really do
well in Atlanta. I love it because hip hop is prominent,
self reliant again, like you can you can, if you
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could think it, you could do it. In Atlanta, the
hustle is crazy, like you know, like people and like
I think about up north, like New York, right, you
think about the the ingenuity of people up there, like
if they could think it, they will sell it, right.
But then there's this sort of like this vibe of
like it can't be quality, right, but like you can
be in Atlanta. You say, I'm gonna sell eyelashes, you know,
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like gluant eyelashes. And there's whole businesses that you know
you wanna you wanna do, like a sushi soul restaurant.
You're gonna find clients, you know, like you want to
have a trap museum. Shout out to two Chains. You're
gonna have a trap museum, you know. And I love
that all right? And what about those extra spots, like
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what about food and you know hidden gems. There's a
restaurant connected to Talia Hall in Chicago called dos X.
Oh my god, it's when we're on a bus and
we roll up to tell you Hall, I typically am
trying to make it into dos X before they stopped
serving their brunch, which is incredible. But now the backstage
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menu in the dress room re Talia Hall is from
dos X. And so we were there a few nights
ago and I had out um, I had this this
um crazy avocado salad. I mean it was. It was
just so great. Anytime you can give me a venue
that's got a great restaurant attached to it, I'm a
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happy rock and roller. Atlanta had my favorite kind of
spot and inspired like I think it's called boogaloo or
something like that, and it's like it's like a brunch spot.
They have a DJ and they have swings at the bar,
so if you come in and you're sitting on a
swing at the bar with your breakfast, like your brunch drinks,
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and then they have it like so sometimes they have
it like buffet style and you can get all the
southern food, like if you're into sweets, I'm not like
red velvet cake like whatever else. I think it's called boogaloo,
which I didn't even know it was a word, I think,
until I learned that it was dance related. So there's
a guitar story in Nastbury Park that's walking distance from
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the strip where Stone Pony and Wonder Bar and the
boardwalk and everything is. It's called Russo Music and it's
it's like a it's like a guitar lover's guitar store.
And I bought a twelve string acoustic there and I
go there and drool over there inventory every time I'm
in town. And the people that work there super nice.
Everybody's in a band. Um. I was turned onto it
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by Nicole Atkins, who said Asbury native and a Jersey
Beach girl. But it's it's not something I would expect. Usually.
I would think i'd find a guitar store, you know,
in Manhattan, and certainly there are any number of guitar
stores in Manhattan. But down in Asbury Park, it's where
I found one of my favorite little guitar stores. So
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in the l A episode, he I recap kind of
my experiences there over the years. I had you, I
had you in the scene in the script and so
to speak, but I had you kind of crying, and
I want to make sure I didn't make that up.
But I kind of feel like there's more the one
show where I've seen you crying, and I want to
make sure I'm not doing something wrong. Oh I've cried
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at your shows, for sure. For sure. I also just
get like sometimes I get really overwhelmed. You know. Ed
Drocy of the former band Grizzly Bear is a really
close friend of mine. He's one of his last shows,
one of the Grizzly Bears like last shows was in Portland, Maine,
and it was when we were on the East coast
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doing that movie in Boston. And so we went up
for the show and I was like totally overwhelmed by
his talent. You forget, Like that's what I feel like
sometimes when I see you. Um, it's certainly like that's
like the kind of the emotion behind it is that
to me, it's a thing that I've always I don't know.
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Music has like changed my life in so many ways
and has connected me to people and feelings and ideas
that I wouldn't have probably been connected to other wise.
And when I'm friends with someone in real life who's
a musician, you know, you have a tendency just in
hanging out to forget about the magic that they can do,
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because it's really like such a magic trick. And so
then when you see a friend like you or Ed
or Sarah Barella's do the thing, do the magic trick
for everybody, it's like kind of takes my breath away.
And really I find it like deep don know what
I'm gonna cry, Like I find it deeply deeply moving. Um,
And then I just feel so grateful that like I
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get to be friends with that person who can do
this like magic trick that not that many people can do,
you know, Rhett Miller has a stunning new record out.
It's called The Misfit. He's got a podcast called Wheels
Off with Rhett Miller. He'll always be making music and
out on the road and we're all better for it.
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The poet, the artist, the musician. You can find on
all streaming platform homes just got a type O O
M P A and you'll get where you need to go.
And every show she puts on feels like her first
and her last, and like it's to the whole world.
At the same time, Busy Phillips Stars and Girls five
Evan and she has a podcast called Busy Phillips is
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doing her best. And on top of that, she's one
of the bravest activists that I know. And in about
twenty five years, you can find her at the Dresden
Monday through Thursday. And one more thing. That study specifically
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found that the communal aspect was the most important part,
as regularly listening to musical loan did not cause the
same effect on social well being. And there was another
study actually funded by a large corporate concert conglomerate, that
found that attending a live music event every fourteen days
or so added nine years to your life. You could
have paid me the money to tell you that, because
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I'm nine and the half. If you've been listening to
the first glorious season of Sound of Our Town, then
you already know this. I've tried to keep all these
episodes shorter than a forty minute set of music. We
can't be a podcast about celebrating the act of being
together with live music, this ancient and scientifically sound practice,
and have it last longer than a set at the
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Hideout in Chicago on a Thursday night. So I've thrown
a lot at you, but it will always be here
to revisit when you are heading someplace new or even
vaguely familiar. I do have a checklist to leave you
with for those bi weekly at minimum live music pursuits,
with some parameters to develop our social skills after such
a harrowing and challenging past three or four years, or
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three or four centuries. Even so, with your bi weekly concerts,
make sure that once a year, one you go to
with just one friend. One is with a friend you
haven't seen an over a year. One is with a
large group of people, say six plus one is for
an act you don't know at all. One should be
for a leg to see artist. One should be for
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an act in their first year performing one sit down show,
maybe with dinner, so that you were fulfilling two of
those ancient fundamentals at the same time. That could be
an exciting night. One show where you have to wear
earplugs because it is so definitely heavy that a small
dose of fear is present. One festival of any size,
one alternative venue like a museum, a street corner, or
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four piece on a rooftop playing their final show. One
house type concert of any size B y O B.
It often doesn't get more intimate. And then one show
by yourself in a room of strangers, all tending to
their subjective well being. I'm Will Daily and this is
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Sound of Our Town. Well we did it. We have
completed season one and it has been quite a tour.
But that means there's one job left to do, and
I need your help doing it so that we can
get back on the road for season two of Sound
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of Our Town. I need your help. Follow this show
on your favorite podcast listening station, leave a review on Apple,
and just share it with one friend who you think
needs this show in their life. That's it, and then
we will surely have a season two and when we do,
and you want us to cover your town, you just
let me know by hitting me up on Instagram at
Will Daily Official or on Twitter at Will Daily. Sound
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of Our Town is a production of Double Elvis and
I Heart Radio. You can hit us up on I
G at Double Elvis and Twitter at Double Elvis f M.
I can't tell you how much appreciation is felt by
the messages we've received so far for this season. Sound
of Our Town is executively produced by Jake Brennan, Brady Sadler,
and Carl Karioli for Double Elvis Production assistance by the
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Great Matt Bowden. The show is created, written, hosted, and
scored by me Will Dairy. A giant thank you to
my guests today, Busy Phillips, Rhet Miller and Umpah Into
everyone who worked on the season, Samantha Farrell, Caitlin White
At Jerty, Fia Love Smith, Gerald Dowd, Allen Tebow, Sam Fifel,
and Patrick Coleman. Music for this episode was composed and
performed by me, Will Daily. You can check out my
music anywhere there's music streaming. You can also follow me
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at Instagram at Will Daily Official. If you like the
sounds you hear in the show, check out my latest release,
Easy to Be Around, and all my shows are at
will Daily dot com and Sound of Our Town pod
dot com. I guess I'm no longer a podcast rookie
as soon as I stopped recording this, But as promised,
I will leave you with just a couple of bloopers,
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the most appropriate ones from this season that I saved.
Thank you so much for joining me on this tour
this season, in these cities, in these places, I'm grateful.
Thank you for your years. It features some of the
best songwriters from the Phoenix music about facts. We can't
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be a pod past. If it's a place. If it's
a place, maybe you'd say dive. It's certainly relaxed. God damnit,
Los Angeles doesn't tower over you like New York or Chicago.
Los Angeles, Chicago. I do think it's it is though
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it's true. It's like the music is, you know, as
Madonna said, music brings the people together.
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