March 12, 2025 • 20 mins
LOVE chatting with talented artists, and Angela Meyer is one of the MOST talented! You'll LOVE her down-to-earth take on life and her hard-working ethic! AND, there's an EXCLUSIVE!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to the Patent Danny Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Danny Here, of course, with me, I have local musician
that I've known for like a million year. Okay, not
a million, because you're certainly not that old.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well neither are you, Danny, true, But I.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Have with me Angela Meyer and Angela Oh my gosh.
There's a lot of great stuff that you've been involved
in and that.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You are on the cusp of releasing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So first of all, I know a lot of people
know you because you're from here, and you have been
so busy and you've worked so hard around this area.
But let's just start for me our beginning, because again,
I've known you for a long time, like since you
were a teenager and I was twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right, I was sixteen. I think you were eighteen or.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Nine something like that. It was so our ages.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Were so close, we were girls together.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Your teacher says, I would like you to job shadow,
and nobody ever says I would like it's a job
shadow a musician.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that's exactly what you did.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I did, and I think you know it's probably because
we're told it's not a legit career, right, So you
want a job shadow, like you want to be a
veterinarian or an engineer or a mechanic or something that's
going to be guaranteed to make your money, or at
least that's the thought, and musicians it's not that process
at all. But I did know from a very young
age my mom was in a cover band. So my
earliest memories are being like three years old, dancing around
(01:26):
at the Iowa State Fair, secondhand smoke going in my lungs,
and just wanting to be that up on stage. I
love the lights, everything about the performance aspect of it.
So my grandparents were super into country music. They played
me a ton of records, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Kitty Wells,
all the greats, and so that's that's how I grew up.
(01:47):
It's kind of all I knew. But at the same
point it was like, okay, but what do I want
to do? Legit for a living? And then it was
kind of like, well, why can't you do that? And
I just want to shout out my high school counselor,
Mary Anne Braden for being like, well, can we get
you to job shadow? At the time, Carrie Underwood was
coming through, and so you were actually the backup.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
For Carrie Underwood, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But you know it was like one and two neck
and neck, and she's like, well, why can't you be
a musician? Who do we talk to that's doing it?
And so she had mentioned do you know Danny Lynn
How from wl Are, And I'm like, do I know Danny?
I mean that is like you guys don't know as
radio or TV personalities have had the same conversation with
Paula Sands that, like, it's such a grounding experience to
(02:29):
have those voices and those faces that you know that's
just home no matter what. And I know you guys
do like the internet platform as well like this. So
it's like even if you're in Prescott, Arizona, Bismarck, North Dakota,
wherever you're at, you can tune in and be like,
oh that sounds like home.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
This is a great way radio and being a musician,
I mean, who wouldn't want to go and play overseas
and Europe then do the whole big tour.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And they love country music over there too. Oh yes,
So that's definitely my bucket list is like European tour.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I just say I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You should that'd be very cool.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, So so in high school, then you do the
job shadow thing and then I didn't totally ruin your
whole like perspective.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And it was so sweet because I forget the bar
we were at, but we were in Clinton, and it
was also like, okay, I'm sixteen, can I even be
in here? Let alone? I mean I think you started
later at night, so it was this whole thing and like,
we're going to a bar. I was not raised around bars.
My parents don't drink, so that was a whole thing.
I'm like, okay, we're going to this rowdy place, let's go.
(03:34):
And you were just killing it and your band was amazing,
and then you let me sing with you. I did
not expect that at all. We sang gunpowder and lead
if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I believe you are correct, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And it was just so much fun and that those
kind of experiences just light a fire under young people
and it's something you take with you and it's something
that now, like I've got a friend Chloe May, She's
I think fourteen this year, coming up in this industry,
in this scene here locally, and it's like, what can
I do to her? It's kind of just this past
the torch, which I think is all country music is,
(04:04):
is just continuing generationally to share this love of the
people's music. I mean, country has three chords on the truth, baby, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, oh my gosh, and to and not like this
is a love fest, but it is just to your
well who you are. Just to that point, you carried equipment,
you know, you carried some things.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You did the things yeah, which you still do now.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean you literally when you go out and play solo,
you literally are the one man everything.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It shocks people, it really does. And especially like you know,
you show up and you've you're glammed up, you've got
a little outfit on, you're ready to perform, but you're
also hauling in i mean hundreds, two thousands of pounds
of equipment. You're coordinating things with a hundred different people.
There's a whole business side to it that is totally
unpaid and totally unseen, with booking and marketing and all
(04:59):
of it. And it's just you really have to love
it because your hand is in every single part.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Of it, and it really is about shaping you as
a musician as a person. And if you ever and
you should go see Angela perform. What you see is
truly what you get, that's who you are.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, I try to be that way. I mean, I
think it's fun, especially as women, to just shake things
up and to be authentically yourself. And I think that's
really hard about our industry too, is like you're the
next Taylor Swift, You're the next Dolly Parton, You're the
next Carly Pierce, and nobody tells.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You to be you, right, You're the next you yes.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And so that was hard for me too. And you
can do the musician path a million different ways. And
for me, it didn't look like going to Nashville right away.
It didn't look like trying to fit into a box.
I'm very much not that person that does not want
to fit into any sort of box. And in that way,
I think I can also connect and liberate other women.
But other people, you know that hear this music and
(06:01):
they think, oh my gosh, it's not just the typical
drinking a beer on a tailgate. We're talking about generational trauma.
We're talking about alcoholism, we're talking about narcissist we're talking
about all of this stuff that like, it's not necessarily
talked about, but gosh, it sounds good with you know,
some drum track and lead guitar and some country twang
on it, and all of a sudden, it's a little
(06:22):
bit deeper. And so that's what I always wanted, was
something that wasn't cookie cutter and that was authentically me.
And I knew that from a young age, but I
did not know how to get there or what that
looked like, right, And I didn't even know we had
a music scene in the Quad Cities outside of some
of the bigger stuff that I think you were doing
at the time, like the Truckers Jamboree and things like that,
(06:42):
or the Adler or the Mark or things that were
very seen. But it wasn't just thinking like, wow, I
could go out five nights a week and perform here
and never see the same people twice.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yes, it's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And I also was very eye opened when I was
starting to follow other musicians and saying, well, look at all.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The places that they're playing. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a wonderful scene, and it's a wonderful opportunity for
people to express themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, So now as we're talking about performing, Yes, talk
about some of the things you have coming up. I
mean you have worked, worked, worked, work, Like the Mississippi
Valley Fair. I know, like you must collapse at the
end of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That, absolutely, I mean we've worked it out. They're so
sweet to let me stay there because it would just
be totally unreasonable to go home every night. And you know,
we work so hard while we're there, and my husband's
family does like the dumpster removal and all of this stuff,
so we're all hours of the day and night working there.
We also play pretty hard, especially at the Mississippi Valley Fair. Yeah,
(07:51):
I am a fair rat at heart, but I mean,
you know, it's every single day it's new people coming through.
It is so much fun, and I think those are
the events that are really great because it's like, yeah,
it's a long week, but you get through it every
single day and it's like at the end of it,
you do go home and for about a week and
a half, I call it my hangover, and it's just
simple like people exhaustion and doing this job so much exhaustion.
(08:15):
But I think last year I had seven or eight
appearances at the fair that week, including the grandstand stage,
which was amazing. I still can't believe that that happened,
and it's just people supporting their locals. I mean, it
would be so easy to bring in those amazing national
acts that are all on record labels and say, well,
here's the up and comer that we're going to push
with them, and instead they've made this intentional choice to
(08:37):
spotlight their local musicians. And I just think the world
of Andy and Sean for that. They just it means
the most to us that we're out here grinding and
those are special stages for us to play too. You know,
somebody from Nashville, they may not really care about playing
the Davenport, Iowa stage. But for me that grew up
watching acts like Martina McBride and Jake Owen and all
(09:00):
these people that I love, I'm like, Wow, I get
to stay on the same stage as them. It's almost
like an opry experience, which is how I felt. I
got to open for Gary Allen last year at the
Alder Theater and it was the same thing of like,
oh my gosh, who else has stood here and how
long it's taken to get here. You know, you can
play the bar next door, but it takes a long
time for some of those other opportunities to open up.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know you have a bucket list because I've been
seeing you guys. There's one that I'm getting, here's one
that I'm getting. What's one that you think or are
going to hit this year.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I would really like to manifest something from a Nashville experience.
I've played the Bluebird Cafe, which was incredible. If you know,
you know, that's like songwriting capital. So I got to
play that a few years back thanks to David G.
Smith believing in me and inviting me on the bill.
Nice and so we're going back at the end of May,
and I would love to say that there's something coming
up during that trip. There's something exciting coming up in
(09:58):
July that it is announced this month we can't talk
about yet. Okay, that's an exciting one. I have signed
my fair contract for this year, so we can say
I'll be back there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I get to play Wildwood and I was sitting for
the first time this year Nice actually Thursday, which I'm
really excited about opening for Sonny Sweeney. So it's just
aligning with really cool artists too, because at the end
of the day, It's like, these things are so amazing,
but they're really people behind them. So if there weren't
amazing people behind them, it wouldn't matter what the station's called,
(10:28):
what the stage is, what the building is. It's all
about the people and then the music from their music.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm glad you bring this up because I know you
have something very, very big that's coming out. I was
so excited when I heard that you were putting this
all together.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So talk about this new project.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, so I have my third studio album coming out
this year. It's called Blood Diseaseoo it well, I kind
of like I didn't think ahead on I have this
tip jar at my shows. Now, that's like blood Disease
album fun because, as you know, it's very expensive to
make music. Yes, we're currently crowdfunding to the end of
March for this album. But I have this blood disease
(11:04):
album fund and people started thinking that it was like
someone in my family had.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A blood disease.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh no, something, and so They're like, come on, people
give it's for this good cause, and I'm like, well,
it is a good cause, but it's not what you're
thinking it is. Rather than like a physical disease, which
I mean, alcoholism is as well. But it's like all
of these different things that run through our families, and
so it's exploring topics like that. I was so inspired
by Carly Pearce and Kelsey Valerini's divorce albums and this
(11:32):
was like a family divorce album, and so it's exploring
all of these different themes and how toxic but also
dynamic those experiences can be, and growing up and coming
into your own and thinking about like having my own
family and all of these different things that are so
new for me that it's like music is a way
that we can really explore those topics. And so it's
(11:54):
really I mean, you know, I always put myself out there,
but this is like a whole new level of honesty
and exploration that I just can't wait to share with everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, I'm just so excited because I've seen some of
the musicians from this area that you've gotten to play
on it, and it's a best It's the deep talent,
I mean it is, it's really deep.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So my producer, my sound engineer, Luke Tweety out, we
were talking about Conway when we were off air, so
he Luke Tweety knew from an early age. He had
to name his son Conway of Tweet, you know. But
so I have Luke as my engineer, and he is
still raving about Tommy Pickett Junior. He's like, I think
he took maybe two takes on every song and he's
(12:35):
just busting out that pedal steel. I've got Brian West
on drums. He plays with the Avy Grouse Band here
in town. So when you can get Brian, he's amazing
to have. But they are booked and blast of Varus
all the time. We've got Fish on the bass guitar
and then JB on lead guitar and they play with
the Textures, which is another fantastic band here. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
(12:57):
I'm just I'm so excited about everybody that's on this record.
They're also, for the first time all country music lovers,
so we get to go in there and like play
around with different things like I don't have to explain
a train beat to my drummer, he gets it, and
just some things like that that it feels more like
a passion project.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
We go back in tomorrow morning to mix some things
and the boys are like, yeah, what time you want
us there? And they just want to be a part
of it. And it's not this expectation of like that
they have to pull teeth to be there. They want
to be there, and that's a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So good, so good. Okay, So now what I would
love for you to do.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Is to play some doesn't have to be off of
the new I just want you to play something because
you're great. Now. I know that I probably should have
given you an opportunity like la la la warm up
or whatever, but.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I have an hour drive to come in here, so
I did. We did do a little bit on the
way down. But you're not cute too, by the age.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I wish we had video on this because she looks
so dang cute.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So these Overalls I've been manifest for like maybe five years.
And for those of you that can't magically see on
a podcast, there he Haw Overalls, which is one of
my favorite shows in the country music world.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's so fun. It's really timeless.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean, yes, some of the jokes you have to
kind of you know, remember.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The time absolutely, but it's.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's truly one of those variety shows that you can
embrace no matter when can it broke.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So many artists like it gave everybody such a cool chance. So,
of course Tommy, who you have to have on your podcast,
you won't even have to say anything like this is
Tommy and he'll just run with it, which is why
I love him. Yes, and so he has sent a
picture of me and these overalls to the woman that
(14:48):
was the lead singer of the he Haw traveling when
they did like their tour. Yes, she's like, oh, she
looks so cute. What do you mean you just texted
her that it's amazing? Correct, And that's such a Tommy thing.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, No, I know no one else who knows so
many people.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And he truly does and they truly love him. Yes,
it's not just you run into that a lot in
the music industry, like, oh yeah, I know so and
so Tommy has had deep conversations with these people. They'll
remember details about him. He knows their family. Yes, yeah, he'll.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Be walking somewhere and those people call him out instead
of write him calling it it's just it's crazy, it's wonderful.
It's a wonderful crazy. Okay, tell me, I'm sorry, I'm
molding you up on the whole thing. Tell me what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I'm going to play you the single, the first single
off of this album.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh how excited am I?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And yes, nobody's heard this. This is a Dannie len
Howe exclusive.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This is the best.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So it's the title track. It's called blood Disease.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, you played a dead man's hair in County cars.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Wagardo told you par I shouldn't mind what you never
her gay too much. The home.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You hadn't losing street.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But you stood too care Hey, daddy's in the ground,
in your checks, in the bank.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It's anybody's guests would.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Have the host immensey.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
There ain't not to have a lack fearing angry. He
ain't no sick disych.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Of blood to see his It's a civil.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Home watching you stop your brother poursing in your veins.
You hadn't from him, my mother, it's a trust you
only none of betray the Leveridge on her Darter's face.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What a stupid prahs.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
All the games you play, don't say what's wrong. It's
just twens Don conversations like a head and run. Can
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pick a string with the ampull in that taboo down.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
There ain't not to have a lack fearing angry.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Heat.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Ain't no sickness likeck of blood to see haes, it's
a civil home hatching. You stop your brother poison in
your veins? Who hadn't from my mother? It's a chest only,
don't betray the lebridge on who d hunter's face?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
What a stupid prize for the games you played? Covering
your tracks and you keeping score. Who you're fatten with
(18:07):
is what you're fattened for.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
The payful hoodies old three times over.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There ain't not to have a laugh. You're angry. He
ain't no sack missaca blood to say.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Hey, it's a civil home hotching. You starve your brother
poison in your events. You hadn't from your mother. It's
a trustee only known betray the leverage on her daughter's face.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
What a stupid preze for.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The games you play?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
What a stupid prize for the games you play.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's just a one girl standing ovation. But I literally
the hair on the back of my.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Next stood up the whole Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm so excited for you, and I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What are you thinking? When will we get to hear
the completed project?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I would love to put blood disease out as a
single probably in the next couple months, okay, and then
the full album like maybe later this year, later this
year or well, but we've got music videos playing, We've
got I mean, it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh okay, So tell everybody socials, how can they connect
with you?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Where can they go?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So if you are on social media, you can find
me on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok at Angela Meyer twenty.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Three, Angela Mayer twenty three now m.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
E y e R yes yep, and then two three
twenty three, and then if you're on YouTube, you can
just type in my name Angela Meyer. Angelmyer twenty three
dot com has all your merch all the tour information shows,
all that kind of stuff, and yeah, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I love it, I love the I'm so excited for you.
You know, I'm one of your biggest fans. So thank
you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
To thank you for having me. This is so much fun.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, Angela Meyer, thank you so much for being in here.
And again, catch Angela check her socials, go.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And see her. You will not be disappointed.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Thank you. Danny
Hey, welcome to the Patent Danny Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Danny Here, of course, with me, I have local musician
that I've known for like a million year. Okay, not
a million, because you're certainly not that old.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well neither are you, Danny, true, But I.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Have with me Angela Meyer and Angela Oh my gosh.
There's a lot of great stuff that you've been involved
in and that.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You are on the cusp of releasing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So first of all, I know a lot of people
know you because you're from here, and you have been
so busy and you've worked so hard around this area.
But let's just start for me our beginning, because again,
I've known you for a long time, like since you
were a teenager and I was twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right, I was sixteen. I think you were eighteen or.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Nine something like that. It was so our ages.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Were so close, we were girls together.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Your teacher says, I would like you to job shadow,
and nobody ever says I would like it's a job
shadow a musician.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that's exactly what you did.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I did, and I think you know it's probably because
we're told it's not a legit career, right, So you
want a job shadow, like you want to be a
veterinarian or an engineer or a mechanic or something that's
going to be guaranteed to make your money, or at
least that's the thought, and musicians it's not that process
at all. But I did know from a very young
age my mom was in a cover band. So my
earliest memories are being like three years old, dancing around
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at the Iowa State Fair, secondhand smoke going in my lungs,
and just wanting to be that up on stage. I
love the lights, everything about the performance aspect of it.
So my grandparents were super into country music. They played
me a ton of records, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Kitty Wells,
all the greats, and so that's that's how I grew up.
(01:47):
It's kind of all I knew. But at the same
point it was like, okay, but what do I want
to do? Legit for a living? And then it was
kind of like, well, why can't you do that? And
I just want to shout out my high school counselor,
Mary Anne Braden for being like, well, can we get
you to job shadow? At the time, Carrie Underwood was
coming through, and so you were actually the backup.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
For Carrie Underwood, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But you know it was like one and two neck
and neck, and she's like, well, why can't you be
a musician? Who do we talk to that's doing it?
And so she had mentioned do you know Danny Lynn
How from wl Are, And I'm like, do I know Danny?
I mean that is like you guys don't know as
radio or TV personalities have had the same conversation with
Paula Sands that, like, it's such a grounding experience to
(02:29):
have those voices and those faces that you know that's
just home no matter what. And I know you guys
do like the internet platform as well like this. So
it's like even if you're in Prescott, Arizona, Bismarck, North Dakota,
wherever you're at, you can tune in and be like,
oh that sounds like home.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
This is a great way radio and being a musician,
I mean, who wouldn't want to go and play overseas
and Europe then do the whole big tour.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And they love country music over there too. Oh yes,
So that's definitely my bucket list is like European tour.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I just say I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You should that'd be very cool.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, So so in high school, then you do the
job shadow thing and then I didn't totally ruin your
whole like perspective.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And it was so sweet because I forget the bar
we were at, but we were in Clinton, and it
was also like, okay, I'm sixteen, can I even be
in here? Let alone? I mean I think you started
later at night, so it was this whole thing and like,
we're going to a bar. I was not raised around bars.
My parents don't drink, so that was a whole thing.
I'm like, okay, we're going to this rowdy place, let's go.
(03:34):
And you were just killing it and your band was amazing,
and then you let me sing with you. I did
not expect that at all. We sang gunpowder and lead
if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I believe you are correct, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And it was just so much fun and that those
kind of experiences just light a fire under young people
and it's something you take with you and it's something
that now, like I've got a friend Chloe May, She's
I think fourteen this year, coming up in this industry,
in this scene here locally, and it's like, what can
I do to her? It's kind of just this past
the torch, which I think is all country music is,
(04:04):
is just continuing generationally to share this love of the
people's music. I mean, country has three chords on the truth, baby, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, oh my gosh, and to and not like this
is a love fest, but it is just to your
well who you are. Just to that point, you carried equipment,
you know, you carried some things.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You did the things yeah, which you still do now.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean you literally when you go out and play solo,
you literally are the one man everything.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It shocks people, it really does. And especially like you know,
you show up and you've you're glammed up, you've got
a little outfit on, you're ready to perform, but you're
also hauling in i mean hundreds, two thousands of pounds
of equipment. You're coordinating things with a hundred different people.
There's a whole business side to it that is totally
unpaid and totally unseen, with booking and marketing and all
(04:59):
of it. And it's just you really have to love
it because your hand is in every single part.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Of it, and it really is about shaping you as
a musician as a person. And if you ever and
you should go see Angela perform. What you see is
truly what you get, that's who you are.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, I try to be that way. I mean, I
think it's fun, especially as women, to just shake things
up and to be authentically yourself. And I think that's
really hard about our industry too, is like you're the
next Taylor Swift, You're the next Dolly Parton, You're the
next Carly Pierce, and nobody tells.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You to be you, right, You're the next you yes.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And so that was hard for me too. And you
can do the musician path a million different ways. And
for me, it didn't look like going to Nashville right away.
It didn't look like trying to fit into a box.
I'm very much not that person that does not want
to fit into any sort of box. And in that way,
I think I can also connect and liberate other women.
But other people, you know that hear this music and
(06:01):
they think, oh my gosh, it's not just the typical
drinking a beer on a tailgate. We're talking about generational trauma.
We're talking about alcoholism, we're talking about narcissist we're talking
about all of this stuff that like, it's not necessarily
talked about, but gosh, it sounds good with you know,
some drum track and lead guitar and some country twang
on it, and all of a sudden, it's a little
(06:22):
bit deeper. And so that's what I always wanted, was
something that wasn't cookie cutter and that was authentically me.
And I knew that from a young age, but I
did not know how to get there or what that
looked like, right, And I didn't even know we had
a music scene in the Quad Cities outside of some
of the bigger stuff that I think you were doing
at the time, like the Truckers Jamboree and things like that,
(06:42):
or the Adler or the Mark or things that were
very seen. But it wasn't just thinking like, wow, I
could go out five nights a week and perform here
and never see the same people twice.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yes, it's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And I also was very eye opened when I was
starting to follow other musicians and saying, well, look at all.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The places that they're playing. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a wonderful scene, and it's a wonderful opportunity for
people to express themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, So now as we're talking about performing, Yes, talk
about some of the things you have coming up. I
mean you have worked, worked, worked, work, Like the Mississippi
Valley Fair. I know, like you must collapse at the
end of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That, absolutely, I mean we've worked it out. They're so
sweet to let me stay there because it would just
be totally unreasonable to go home every night. And you know,
we work so hard while we're there, and my husband's
family does like the dumpster removal and all of this stuff,
so we're all hours of the day and night working there.
We also play pretty hard, especially at the Mississippi Valley Fair. Yeah,
(07:51):
I am a fair rat at heart, but I mean,
you know, it's every single day it's new people coming through.
It is so much fun, and I think those are
the events that are really great because it's like, yeah,
it's a long week, but you get through it every
single day and it's like at the end of it,
you do go home and for about a week and
a half, I call it my hangover, and it's just
simple like people exhaustion and doing this job so much exhaustion.
(08:15):
But I think last year I had seven or eight
appearances at the fair that week, including the grandstand stage,
which was amazing. I still can't believe that that happened,
and it's just people supporting their locals. I mean, it
would be so easy to bring in those amazing national
acts that are all on record labels and say, well,
here's the up and comer that we're going to push
with them, and instead they've made this intentional choice to
(08:37):
spotlight their local musicians. And I just think the world
of Andy and Sean for that. They just it means
the most to us that we're out here grinding and
those are special stages for us to play too. You know,
somebody from Nashville, they may not really care about playing
the Davenport, Iowa stage. But for me that grew up
watching acts like Martina McBride and Jake Owen and all
(09:00):
these people that I love, I'm like, Wow, I get
to stay on the same stage as them. It's almost
like an opry experience, which is how I felt. I
got to open for Gary Allen last year at the
Alder Theater and it was the same thing of like,
oh my gosh, who else has stood here and how
long it's taken to get here. You know, you can
play the bar next door, but it takes a long
time for some of those other opportunities to open up.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know you have a bucket list because I've been
seeing you guys. There's one that I'm getting, here's one
that I'm getting. What's one that you think or are
going to hit this year.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I would really like to manifest something from a Nashville experience.
I've played the Bluebird Cafe, which was incredible. If you know,
you know, that's like songwriting capital. So I got to
play that a few years back thanks to David G.
Smith believing in me and inviting me on the bill.
Nice and so we're going back at the end of May,
and I would love to say that there's something coming
up during that trip. There's something exciting coming up in
(09:58):
July that it is announced this month we can't talk
about yet. Okay, that's an exciting one. I have signed
my fair contract for this year, so we can say
I'll be back there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I get to play Wildwood and I was sitting for
the first time this year Nice actually Thursday, which I'm
really excited about opening for Sonny Sweeney. So it's just
aligning with really cool artists too, because at the end
of the day, It's like, these things are so amazing,
but they're really people behind them. So if there weren't
amazing people behind them, it wouldn't matter what the station's called,
(10:28):
what the stage is, what the building is. It's all
about the people and then the music from their music.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'm glad you bring this up because I know you
have something very, very big that's coming out. I was
so excited when I heard that you were putting this
all together.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So talk about this new project.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, so I have my third studio album coming out
this year. It's called Blood Diseaseoo it well, I kind
of like I didn't think ahead on I have this
tip jar at my shows. Now, that's like blood Disease
album fun because, as you know, it's very expensive to
make music. Yes, we're currently crowdfunding to the end of
March for this album. But I have this blood disease
(11:04):
album fund and people started thinking that it was like
someone in my family had.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A blood disease.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh no, something, and so They're like, come on, people
give it's for this good cause, and I'm like, well,
it is a good cause, but it's not what you're
thinking it is. Rather than like a physical disease, which
I mean, alcoholism is as well. But it's like all
of these different things that run through our families, and
so it's exploring topics like that. I was so inspired
by Carly Pearce and Kelsey Valerini's divorce albums and this
(11:32):
was like a family divorce album, and so it's exploring
all of these different themes and how toxic but also
dynamic those experiences can be, and growing up and coming
into your own and thinking about like having my own
family and all of these different things that are so
new for me that it's like music is a way
that we can really explore those topics. And so it's
(11:54):
really I mean, you know, I always put myself out there,
but this is like a whole new level of honesty
and exploration that I just can't wait to share with everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, I'm just so excited because I've seen some of
the musicians from this area that you've gotten to play
on it, and it's a best It's the deep talent,
I mean it is, it's really deep.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So my producer, my sound engineer, Luke Tweety out, we
were talking about Conway when we were off air, so
he Luke Tweety knew from an early age. He had
to name his son Conway of Tweet, you know. But
so I have Luke as my engineer, and he is
still raving about Tommy Pickett Junior. He's like, I think
he took maybe two takes on every song and he's
(12:35):
just busting out that pedal steel. I've got Brian West
on drums. He plays with the Avy Grouse Band here
in town. So when you can get Brian, he's amazing
to have. But they are booked and blast of Varus
all the time. We've got Fish on the bass guitar
and then JB on lead guitar and they play with
the Textures, which is another fantastic band here. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
(12:57):
I'm just I'm so excited about everybody that's on this record.
They're also, for the first time all country music lovers,
so we get to go in there and like play
around with different things like I don't have to explain
a train beat to my drummer, he gets it, and
just some things like that that it feels more like
a passion project.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
We go back in tomorrow morning to mix some things
and the boys are like, yeah, what time you want
us there? And they just want to be a part
of it. And it's not this expectation of like that
they have to pull teeth to be there. They want
to be there, and that's a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So good, so good. Okay, So now what I would
love for you to do.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Is to play some doesn't have to be off of
the new I just want you to play something because
you're great. Now. I know that I probably should have
given you an opportunity like la la la warm up
or whatever, but.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I have an hour drive to come in here, so
I did. We did do a little bit on the
way down. But you're not cute too, by the age.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I wish we had video on this because she looks
so dang cute.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So these Overalls I've been manifest for like maybe five years.
And for those of you that can't magically see on
a podcast, there he Haw Overalls, which is one of
my favorite shows in the country music world.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's so fun. It's really timeless.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean, yes, some of the jokes you have to
kind of you know, remember.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The time absolutely, but it's.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's truly one of those variety shows that you can
embrace no matter when can it broke.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So many artists like it gave everybody such a cool chance. So,
of course Tommy, who you have to have on your podcast,
you won't even have to say anything like this is
Tommy and he'll just run with it, which is why
I love him. Yes, and so he has sent a
picture of me and these overalls to the woman that
(14:48):
was the lead singer of the he Haw traveling when
they did like their tour. Yes, she's like, oh, she
looks so cute. What do you mean you just texted
her that it's amazing? Correct, And that's such a Tommy thing.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, No, I know no one else who knows so
many people.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And he truly does and they truly love him. Yes,
it's not just you run into that a lot in
the music industry, like, oh yeah, I know so and
so Tommy has had deep conversations with these people. They'll
remember details about him. He knows their family. Yes, yeah, he'll.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Be walking somewhere and those people call him out instead
of write him calling it it's just it's crazy, it's wonderful.
It's a wonderful crazy. Okay, tell me, I'm sorry, I'm
molding you up on the whole thing. Tell me what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I'm going to play you the single, the first single
off of this album.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh how excited am I?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And yes, nobody's heard this. This is a Dannie len
Howe exclusive.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This is the best.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So it's the title track. It's called blood Disease.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, you played a dead man's hair in County cars.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Wagardo told you par I shouldn't mind what you never
her gay too much. The home.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You hadn't losing street.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But you stood too care Hey, daddy's in the ground,
in your checks, in the bank.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It's anybody's guests would.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Have the host immensey.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
There ain't not to have a lack fearing angry. He
ain't no sick disych.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Of blood to see his It's a civil.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Home watching you stop your brother poursing in your veins.
You hadn't from him, my mother, it's a trust you
only none of betray the Leveridge on her Darter's face.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What a stupid prahs.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
All the games you play, don't say what's wrong. It's
just twens Don conversations like a head and run. Can
(17:14):
pick a string with the ampull in that taboo down.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
There ain't not to have a lack fearing angry.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Heat.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Ain't no sickness likeck of blood to see haes, it's
a civil home hatching. You stop your brother poison in
your veins? Who hadn't from my mother? It's a chest only,
don't betray the lebridge on who d hunter's face?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
What a stupid prize for the games you played? Covering
your tracks and you keeping score. Who you're fatten with
(18:07):
is what you're fattened for.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
The payful hoodies old three times over.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There ain't not to have a laugh. You're angry. He
ain't no sack missaca blood to say.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Hey, it's a civil home hotching. You starve your brother
poison in your events. You hadn't from your mother. It's
a trustee only known betray the leverage on her daughter's face.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
What a stupid preze for.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The games you play?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
What a stupid prize for the games you play.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's just a one girl standing ovation. But I literally
the hair on the back of my.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Next stood up the whole Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm so excited for you, and I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What are you thinking? When will we get to hear
the completed project?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I would love to put blood disease out as a
single probably in the next couple months, okay, and then
the full album like maybe later this year, later this
year or well, but we've got music videos playing, We've
got I mean, it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh okay, So tell everybody socials, how can they connect
with you?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Where can they go?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So if you are on social media, you can find
me on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok at Angela Meyer twenty.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Three, Angela Mayer twenty three now m.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
E y e R yes yep, and then two three
twenty three, and then if you're on YouTube, you can
just type in my name Angela Meyer. Angelmyer twenty three
dot com has all your merch all the tour information shows,
all that kind of stuff, and yeah, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I love it, I love the I'm so excited for you.
You know, I'm one of your biggest fans. So thank
you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
To thank you for having me. This is so much fun.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, Angela Meyer, thank you so much for being in here.
And again, catch Angela check her socials, go.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And see her. You will not be disappointed.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Thank you. Danny
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