February 21, 2025 • 6 mins
They are NOT what you would expect but that makes them even more FUN! Check out our conversation about how they got together and what they've come to call their music.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to the Patent Danny Podcast. It's Danny here,
and I do have some special guests in studio today,
which you guys are probably going to be unfamiliar with
the name at first. Some people will know, but this
will be a name that I think you should write
down and you should be aware of because these guys
are up and comers and they're right here in our area.
Lois Hills. Hello, we have Tanner and Row and Alex.
(00:24):
So happy to have you guys in studio. First thing
I want to know is one, where are you guys from,
because I know you're from the area.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm from Davenport, Okay. Dport born and raised.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Okay, Tanner Clinton, Iowa.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Lived in the Quad Cities for the last.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Five six years.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Just move out to them, Okay, excellent. And so then
each one of you have been playing separately or been
musicians for a very long time yourselves.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I've been solo for the majority of
my life. I was on season fourteen of American Idoland
up finishing top fifty.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
My dad was a blues musician around the area. We
like a pretty well known band of a blues band
called the Penya brothers. Oh absolutely, and that kind of
inspired me to want to do music. And then I
got to an age where I wanted to rebel against them,
so I started doing rap music around the area. And
then I ran into Tanner on the Internet and reached
(01:21):
out to him on a very old social media platform
that I won't say so I won't date ourselves. Could
be very much solf Appleade the Fifth. But and then
I've known Tanner for probably about like over fifteen years
and been doing music with him, like not together, but
like in the same area for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I've been doing music for twenty ish. I think this
is year twenty, which is crazy. It makes me feel
really old and explains the gray hairs on my head.
But majority of the time it's been rap music. I've
always infused like other things with it. I've gone by
the name Random Tanner since like twenty sixteen, and I
did tons of community stuff. I got an opportunity to
have my song played at in like the third quarter
(02:05):
of the homecoming game at Kinnick Stadium in twenty nineteen,
so that was a super.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Cool expres My gosh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, And it was very weird because I was like
sitting there and they played the song and they had
my picture up on the huge screens and I'm like
looking around and like, you know, all these old people
around here are like not knowing it's me, but I'm
feeling really cool. Yeah, absolutely, But yeah, it was just
I'm like sitting there with my wife and I'm like looking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
At him, like this is really cool. And we left
and that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But you know, we've just been blessed a lots of
opportunities and we all decided that it was time to
come together because we needed a rekindling of our passion
in terms of original music. So here we are, Lowess.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hills, Lowis Hills, And how have you been writing music?
What has been like your focus?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So right now, our goal is we want to release
a song a month. For song that we just released,
cow Girls for Life. That one's doing really well. The
next one that we're releasing is called Bad for Me.
That one's coming out February February eleven. And we're just
going to keep releasing a song a month, being to
get on too different festivals, opening for different acts that
are coming through, and just continuing to push.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
As much as we can.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I love that you guys are doing original stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You probably do some covers too.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, we'll throw a cover and I still do like
solo stuff on weekends when I'm not busy with the group,
doing cover songs and different things like that. But the
majority of the stuff, we're just really trying to focus
in the creative energy and make as much original stuff
as we can.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, and so how does that work for you guys
writing songs? Like do you all get in the same room,
does somebody come up with something? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So for a lot of the stuff that we're doing,
Tanner will put a beat together, find a beat or
work with another producer to get a beat together, and
then we'll come up with a concept and then I'll
write the chorus for it, and then they'll write the
verses right after that. So that way it can be
as cipango as possible.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I love that. I love that. And this song that
you guys have out right now, Cogirls for Life, is
really fun. It's a very good song. I'm enjoying it
and obviously a lot of other people are too. So
where can people find it? Right now?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The music videos on YouTube and it's on all streaming platforms, Apples, Spotify, all.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That nice I heart Yes, I heard too, of course, yeah, no, no,
that's a good no, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then of course it's hard to keep track of
I know, it's all the best ones.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, and then of course we'll make sure on this
blog that we send a link out to people so
that they can find it too. But where does Lois
Hills go from here?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pretty big plans to do some shows. We're going to
try to start doing local stuff probably spring, maybe end
of spring, as long as we can get our catalog
built up a little bit, and then just trying to
connect with festivals and other things. You know, we have
pretty good connections with a lot of the bigger venues
around here too, just between the three of us, and
so we're going to try to use that when we
(04:48):
see some cool country artists or things that make sense
for us. We're gonna hop on if we can.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So anybody from the Mississippi Valley Fair happens to watch this.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Give us a call.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They kind of do, yeah, they sort of do, kind
of keep track of us on there. But okay, style wise,
where do you guys track this is?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is a tough one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
So I modern modern country, Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
The sub genre that Canner kind of came up with
was like hick hoop. It's like, we're not we're not
hip hop, We're not full blown modern country. There is
still some elements of hip hopopy these guys.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Have done forever and thrawing the singer songwriter aspect into it.
So we're we're pretty blended in this. But I would
just put it under the moniker of country.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's pretty broad at this We're HEINZ fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I love it because country does embrace so many styles.
I hated to pigeonhole you, but sometimes people just have
like an idea of where they want to kind of
like the truest.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's tough because I see, like I've did other interviews,
and you know, I hear people and I see things
on the internet where they're like so and so isn't country,
or so and so is this and that. But it's like,
who is anybody really to decide if this is kind
of what we want to.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Absolutely, I feel like it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, how can people find you?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So you can follow us on all social media platform platforms, Facebook, Instagram, X,
anything like that, we are there, follow us on Spotify,
at music, anything like that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, I just want to reiterate Tanner, Row Alex together,
they are Lois Hills l O E S S and
that is a plural. Hills Cowgirls for life, your brand
new single and keep watching for more to come from
Lois Hills.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's my pleasure. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We appreciate it.
Hey, welcome to the Patent Danny Podcast. It's Danny here,
and I do have some special guests in studio today,
which you guys are probably going to be unfamiliar with
the name at first. Some people will know, but this
will be a name that I think you should write
down and you should be aware of because these guys
are up and comers and they're right here in our area.
Lois Hills. Hello, we have Tanner and Row and Alex.
(00:24):
So happy to have you guys in studio. First thing
I want to know is one, where are you guys from,
because I know you're from the area.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm from Davenport, Okay. Dport born and raised.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Okay, Tanner Clinton, Iowa.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Lived in the Quad Cities for the last.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Five six years.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Just move out to them, Okay, excellent. And so then
each one of you have been playing separately or been
musicians for a very long time yourselves.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I've been solo for the majority of
my life. I was on season fourteen of American Idoland
up finishing top fifty.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
My dad was a blues musician around the area. We
like a pretty well known band of a blues band
called the Penya brothers. Oh absolutely, and that kind of
inspired me to want to do music. And then I
got to an age where I wanted to rebel against them,
so I started doing rap music around the area. And
then I ran into Tanner on the Internet and reached
(01:21):
out to him on a very old social media platform
that I won't say so I won't date ourselves. Could
be very much solf Appleade the Fifth. But and then
I've known Tanner for probably about like over fifteen years
and been doing music with him, like not together, but
like in the same area for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I've been doing music for twenty ish. I think this
is year twenty, which is crazy. It makes me feel
really old and explains the gray hairs on my head.
But majority of the time it's been rap music. I've
always infused like other things with it. I've gone by
the name Random Tanner since like twenty sixteen, and I
did tons of community stuff. I got an opportunity to
have my song played at in like the third quarter
(02:05):
of the homecoming game at Kinnick Stadium in twenty nineteen,
so that was a super.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Cool expres My gosh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, And it was very weird because I was like
sitting there and they played the song and they had
my picture up on the huge screens and I'm like
looking around and like, you know, all these old people
around here are like not knowing it's me, but I'm
feeling really cool. Yeah, absolutely, But yeah, it was just
I'm like sitting there with my wife and I'm like looking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
At him, like this is really cool. And we left
and that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But you know, we've just been blessed a lots of
opportunities and we all decided that it was time to
come together because we needed a rekindling of our passion
in terms of original music. So here we are, Lowess.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hills, Lowis Hills, And how have you been writing music?
What has been like your focus?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So right now, our goal is we want to release
a song a month. For song that we just released,
cow Girls for Life. That one's doing really well. The
next one that we're releasing is called Bad for Me.
That one's coming out February February eleven. And we're just
going to keep releasing a song a month, being to
get on too different festivals, opening for different acts that
are coming through, and just continuing to push.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
As much as we can.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I love that you guys are doing original stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You probably do some covers too.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, we'll throw a cover and I still do like
solo stuff on weekends when I'm not busy with the group,
doing cover songs and different things like that. But the
majority of the stuff, we're just really trying to focus
in the creative energy and make as much original stuff
as we can.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, and so how does that work for you guys
writing songs? Like do you all get in the same room,
does somebody come up with something? How does that work?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So for a lot of the stuff that we're doing,
Tanner will put a beat together, find a beat or
work with another producer to get a beat together, and
then we'll come up with a concept and then I'll
write the chorus for it, and then they'll write the
verses right after that. So that way it can be
as cipango as possible.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I love that. I love that. And this song that
you guys have out right now, Cogirls for Life, is
really fun. It's a very good song. I'm enjoying it
and obviously a lot of other people are too. So
where can people find it? Right now?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The music videos on YouTube and it's on all streaming platforms, Apples, Spotify, all.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That nice I heart Yes, I heard too, of course, yeah, no, no,
that's a good no, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then of course it's hard to keep track of
I know, it's all the best ones.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, and then of course we'll make sure on this
blog that we send a link out to people so
that they can find it too. But where does Lois
Hills go from here?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pretty big plans to do some shows. We're going to
try to start doing local stuff probably spring, maybe end
of spring, as long as we can get our catalog
built up a little bit, and then just trying to
connect with festivals and other things. You know, we have
pretty good connections with a lot of the bigger venues
around here too, just between the three of us, and
so we're going to try to use that when we
(04:48):
see some cool country artists or things that make sense
for us. We're gonna hop on if we can.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So anybody from the Mississippi Valley Fair happens to watch this.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Give us a call.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They kind of do, yeah, they sort of do, kind
of keep track of us on there. But okay, style wise,
where do you guys track this is?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is a tough one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
So I modern modern country, Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
The sub genre that Canner kind of came up with
was like hick hoop. It's like, we're not we're not
hip hop, We're not full blown modern country. There is
still some elements of hip hopopy these guys.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Have done forever and thrawing the singer songwriter aspect into it.
So we're we're pretty blended in this. But I would
just put it under the moniker of country.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's pretty broad at this We're HEINZ fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I love it because country does embrace so many styles.
I hated to pigeonhole you, but sometimes people just have
like an idea of where they want to kind of
like the truest.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's tough because I see, like I've did other interviews,
and you know, I hear people and I see things
on the internet where they're like so and so isn't country,
or so and so is this and that. But it's like,
who is anybody really to decide if this is kind
of what we want to.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Absolutely, I feel like it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, how can people find you?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So you can follow us on all social media platform platforms, Facebook, Instagram, X,
anything like that, we are there, follow us on Spotify,
at music, anything like that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, I just want to reiterate Tanner, Row Alex together,
they are Lois Hills l O E S S and
that is a plural. Hills Cowgirls for life, your brand
new single and keep watching for more to come from
Lois Hills.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's my pleasure. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We appreciate it.
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