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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Pat and Danny Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Today, I have the lovely and vivacious from Midland lead
singer guitar player Mark Weistrack.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
What a beautiful morning radio voice that is. This is
Mark Weisher. Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, good morning Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know if I should call you Mark or
the ruggedly good looking Fox Crane.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I learned something new about you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah you Google? Did you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I mean I had to like check out you know,
pictures and such because I love your guys's look, I
love your vibe and I'm just like I'm going through
and I'm like, wait a minute, hold on.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You did acting too? This is incredible.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, I still still do act. Did a movie called
Down the Tammy Save with Jessica Chess Dames. She won
the Academy Award for that a few years ago. Yes,
and then I've got a TV show coming out called
The run Arounds with the Pate brothers. Who did you
might know them from a little show called Outer Banks. Yeah,
that comes out in July August. And then making a
(01:04):
movie with my bandmates with Cameron, Jess and I've been
working on a project for oh god, about eight years
and We're going to be shooting at this summer in
Calgary as well. So yeah, you don't film and acting, aiming,
drawing and writing music, producing music, performing it. It's it's
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all part of what we all kind of love to do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I do think creative people need a lot of
different outlets, and you guys certainly do prove that. Of
course your latest album, that's outer I should say Project
Let's See.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Barely Blue Rollings. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Rolling Stone called it like one of the top thirty
best Country Americana albums, and I think, yeah, wow, that's
that's like a yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We got to we got to make that. I'm really
proud of that album, more proud of that we've done,
but got to make that with the incredible Dave's hob Savannah, Georgia.
There's been two weeks shot there and it was just
as an artist, I think you really look for those
moments where you can really dive in and live in
that world, and you know, is to get to be
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guided by somebody like Dave Cobb. Of course, for the
people that don't know who Dave is, you know, David's
produced Miranda Lambert. He is probably most famous album as
Traveler Chris Stapleton and still is Chris Stapleton's basically he's
basically in the band Chris Stapleton. He's toured with Chris,
he is like he's the Stapleton to Chris, he's a.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Ton So he's kind of an up and comer.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So yeah, new songs, we got a we got a
new song coming to country radio. Yes, I believe on Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Is that the seventh Yeah, let's see, well that'll be Monday,
but still oh sorry Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You know, look, I'm not going to be on Monday
coming to count radio with our friend and fellow mate
McKenzie Carper, and we did a song together called I
Wish You Would And people are really loving. So that's
what of the Colts who tried and for us to
be coming back to the country adio after I arrested.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I literally love all your guys' stuff from drinking problem,
mister Lonely, even the bootscoot and boogie stuff that you
did with Brooks and done, even Mary Jane's last dance.
I mean, I could go on and on, because you
really do. You guys are so talented and you can
just fick yeah, you can just kind of flip back
and forth between a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, thank you very much. Yeah, we actually just put
out a cover of like a Rock Who's Bob Seeger.
We've done turned the page before, we did Wichitad Lyneman.
We did Tougher than the rest. Bruce Springsteen kind of
goes on and on. You know, it's important for us
to not just pay homage to, you know, the people
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that we look up to, the artists that we love,
but then we love you know. Part of the artistry
is to take something and be like, you know, I
wonder if we can kind of turn that outside a
little bit, just enough to make it our own. So
that's something we enjoyed doing. And I don't know every
this sounds really corny, but everything we do, you know,
we write and record the music that moves us. I
say this all the time, and and we hope that
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you know that it helps the people move them through
their lives to the good times and the bad. So
it feels like a like a soundtrack to life. And
speaking of life, I just got to say this, We're
going to be celebrating life and we're going to be
having a great time. I believe in your guys, Neck
of the Woods. That correct bad important you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Bet on Saturday night Rhythm City Casino. Yeah, what can
people expect? Because I mean, I love what you guys do.
But for anyone who's not seen you, they they may
be like blown away.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well I think that people that never have seen as
probably would be because you know, Jess cam and I
have been playing in bands for over twenty years. We
played with a seven piece band. We've got an incredible
light show, but that the live show itself is it's
all real. There's no we're not playing at tracks. It's
everybody playing together and it's we've been playing to get
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it for a long time. Beautiful four part harmonies, that's
right there, part harmonies. You know.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
We got pedal steel, we got doughbro, we got electric guitars.
We've got an amazing keyboardist and named Jeff Azerchek. But
things are really high hill thing like the high sixes
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Anyhow, it's you're gonna get a lot you know. The
idea is that the lot of show that we sculpted
is meant to take you on a bit of a journey.
You know, there's a lot of there's a lot of heartbreak.
There's a lot of triumphs, there's a there's a little romance,
and there's some reflection. But I feel like it's a
proper show, you know, like, which I think is what
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you should be going to. It should take you through
a bit of a journey. But at the I guess
at the basis, the foundation is it's a really good time.
And I will say this, I think we're the best
band in country music live show, and I think we're
one of the best live shows across all genres. And
I'll put my reputation on that. And if you don't
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believe me, just come to the show and you can
tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're proving it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You guys are really, really seriously proving it all the time.
Can I just ask you one thing though about twenty twenty?
Can I please ask you about your tequila? I am
a tequila girl, and like, were you guys just that
bored or do you love it that much?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like I do?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, I grew up on the catarants in the Mexican border.
My family owns a live honky Tonk that my big
sister runs with my mom and dad, who are eighty
four now, I'm still kicking. And yeah, we grew up,
you know, overlooking Mexico, so god half you know, half
my friends are Mexican. And tequila is just a part
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of life, you know, much like if you grew up
in Kentucky, you're surrounded by bourbon and uh and whiskey,
so you tend to kind of, you know, if you
meet somebody from Kentucky, like damn, you meet somebody from
basically from Sonora, Mexico, right next to Nogallas. You know,
we take her tequila very seriously. So when we had
the opportunity to start the band and and things kind
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of started going really well for us, you know, we
kind of dropped drinking problem. Our agents Gether came to
us like, hey, what would you guys like to do
kind of extracurricular or something outside of music that they
has something to do with what you guys love and
I previous looked at us at each other and we said,
beck kena, you know, like that song kicked them. But yeah,
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it's something we took really seriously because we didn't want
to just be another Johnny Time Lately band or artists
that's dropping a quila that knows nothing about it. And
there's no genuine me to it. So we made one
of the best tequila's out there. We have a we
have a we have a silver, We've got Reposado, which
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is oh I'm silver, by the ways, and yeho and
extra and yeho. They're all certified added a free and
we just actually won a couple more gold medals at
the Spirits Awards, the SIP Awards, which is actually a
really big deal. It's kind of like when in a
Grammy if you're in the spirits world. So but tequila
and now I think it's in like thirty six days.
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We take it really seriously because you know, we helped
We started working on this in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,
and it was like it was three and a half
years of work before we even dropped it in twenty twenty.
So I've been in the business now for you know,
for a minute eight years or so. Pete Kelly, our CEO,
you know, somebody I talked to in the regular and
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we do signings all across the country, and we go
down and visit with our partners, our distiller partners there
her are brothers, and get down to that place called
Maza Meatla Mexico really beautiful in the sier de la
Tigra mountains. And you know it's something that, like anything
we're going to put our name on, we want it
to be as you know, as good as you can get.
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We want to be authentic and we want it to
be real. And it's the representation of of us as
as men and as artists. So that's what it is.
That's question. Thank you for asking that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh it's my pleasure and I will now be hot
on the look for us.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I got to have me, so you know what, you
can go to a store locator or you can also
we do we do ship directly perfect and I'm pretty
sure it is just in Solido dot com. Then I'll
get it too.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I am all over that, Mark. I So yeah, just
once again now Mark, justin Cameron, Midland, Saturday night right
here in Davenport Rhythm City Casino. Don't forget Monday, brand
new song. So we'll probably hear it Saturday night, right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Mark, you know what what?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We don't wait or are you waiting? You're waiting?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Are you to play? I wish you would? Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yes, Well, you know we don't.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Have Mackenzie on tour with us, but but we are
My keyboard player Jeffkins sing an amazing full stop there
you go, and we performed the other night and it
actually went over really well. So so yes, we probably
will play it to be obviously, and Sarah, because we're
getting ready for Stagecoach. We're going to be we're going
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to be playing the main stage right before the headliners set,
so kind of like a secondary headliner I guess for
Stage Coach, which is really cool for us.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, But also the website is in Soludo Tequila dot com.
I think I said that before, but you can go
check it out.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh yes, I certainly shall. And if people want, well,
I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you. If people
want to find yeah, yeah, where can they go to
find Midland? More about you, your merch your music?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah? Good, good call, Thank you. First, we'll get the
follow on social and believe we're just at Midland across
kind of the boards TikTok. I don't do TikTok, so
I don't know if there's an hat on that, but
Instagram and then Twitter all that stuff X just at
Midland and then our website is Midlandofficial dot com you
can stay in track of all of our tour dates,
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our new merch announcements, all that kind of stuff, which
is really exciting. So I really appreciate you asking all
these questions and helping to support our cop first. That's
very sweet of you.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, well, it's my pleasure. When it's good, it's good
and people need to know about it.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Mark, Well, thank you very much. I hope to see
you at the show and we can have a shot
at tequila together. Guys.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh my gosh, you got that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I'll do my pleasure. Well, we hope, we hope. It's
going to be warmer. I just showing my wife that
we're expecting possibly up to a foot of snow, oh
for the first week in April here in Boulder, Colorado,
where I live now. So well, it'll be warmer, much.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
More, much warmer, at least into the fifties.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So no snow.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay, Well, this is pretty well because it's gorgeous outside
all the you know, all the poor plants are are
spring up nice and green, and the flowers are coming
out of snow.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, you know, mother Nature, she doesn't know any better.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We'll take the moisture, yes we will. I'm as here
so well. I really appreciate you. Thank you, sir for
your time and Iowa we can't wait to see you.
Guys who come out to the Tastina will have a
good time, maybe make some money at the tables, and
then have a good night listening to some good honky tonk,
authentic American country music.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Thank you so much, Mark, I appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I appreciate you. We'll see Saturday.