Pipeman Interviews Hazlett at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest

Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky  

World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.  

The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.  

This year, Bourbon & Beyond’s newly expanded footprint doubled the square footage of past layouts, and made greater use of the Kentucky Exposition Center’s infrastructure, creating a more comfortable and resilient experience for fans. In addition, all festival passes included FREE access to amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom.

This year’s festival was packed with unforgettable performances, surprise collaborations, and historic moments that will be remembered for years to come.   Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes.”  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, you love done too, Yes, that's true. For see
why were you young? This is the pipe Man here
on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio,

(00:26):
and I'm here.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
With Hazlitt nice here at.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Bourbon and Beyond. And they made you feel at home
with the heat and humidity here we ordered it for you.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It felt like Australia. I stepped out there and I
was wondering where I was for a moment. But yeah,
my first time in Kentucky, so it was nice.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
So tell me what the difference is of playing in
Australia compared to playing here in the States.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thing that I love and I found about playing in
America is just like how warm people feel when they
welcome you, like you really know whether people like your
music or not. I think Australians can sometimes standoffish. Maybe
that's because no one in Australia lacks my music. I
don't know, but I know I haven't been home in
a while to go play, so I'll see when I
go home at the end of the year. But it's
something about American crowds that just they welcome you with

(01:11):
open arms and they really, yeah, really let you know
what they think about you.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
So it's nice.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's interesting now you say that, because there's other bands
I've interviewed from Australia, from New Zealand that they said
they came here and then when we then when they
went back home, everybody received them warmly.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've been home yet, so maybe no, maybe that's what
the catalyst.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I gotta tell you. My funniest interview ever was with
Airborne Classic Okay, and it was at Lighter than Life
to one that's Next Weekend. Yeah, and they went with
this guy Fred Minnick before me, who is the bourbon
connoisseur around here. They were so drunk when they got
to me that they were announcing a Mets baseball game

(01:56):
as their interview. I was dying laughing pro character totally
because I was so.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I liked that they played into the stereotype of Australians.
They flew the flag well for.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Us, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So how does musical journey start for you?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I've been doing this for a long time, but I've
got into singing really late. I was about twenty six
and it was born out of necessity. I got a
job singing at a pub because the job that I
did get when I was trying to do the grown
up thing and get an adult job. I showed up
and they told me I was going to be an internship,
so I wasn't going to get paid. So I was like, okay,
I need a backup plan. My friend worked in a
pub and he said, if you can figure out how

(02:29):
to sing and play guitar, I can give you a
couple hundred bucks a night to play some covers. So
I kind of born out of necessity, got sick of
playing covers, started around my music and then yeah, now
I'm in Kentucky of all places I.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Know, right, go figure this is the play. Did you
go surfing here in Kentucky?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, we just rolled in this morning. I didn't know
the surfing here. I thought you're going to say there
was like a wave pool. I was like, I would
love to.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Go jumping a wave for right now.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's my I'm a surfer. Yeah, so my dream is
going to Australian he starts from there. I surf Costa Rica.
I've surfed Bali. I was stupid. I was going to
go over to Australia from Bali and I didn't realize
that you have to do that months ahead of time
to get the visa. Yeah, like I didn't think. I'm like,
I'll just hop on plane over to Perth. Yeah it
didn't happen, so now I have to go back. But yeah,

(03:14):
I mean, Florida ain't a great place to surf, and
that's where I live.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's not a good place to surf.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
No, like all summer long. Yeah, I got back from
Costa Rica and all summer long flat. Really we have
to wait for hurricanes. The only time we had surf
this whole summer I was doing another festival was when
that hurricane ever was going on, and then there was
like eight to ten foot surface.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
If you want to wait for hurricanes to say that's
what we do, you should go to Australia. Then.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah. You know. It's funny though. I was talking to
somebody and it's like you watch the movie Point Break
and you're like, ooh, I want to surf that spot. Yeah,
and really I wouldn't because a fifty foot wave. I've
been that pipeline with thirty five foot waves and I
was like, yeah, I'm not doing this either. But somebody
told me like, yeah, that's not really the place what
they show in the movie. I'll tell you where to

(04:02):
go exactly. How about do you know about the dig
out houses?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
The dig out house?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
No? Okay, So I saw on things that there's these
digouts where you live underground in like the really hot
part of Australia. I'm like, I want to try that.
That would be cool.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
How have I not known about this? Now I feel
very un Australian.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now, now you gotta go play wherever that is? Yeah,
play underground. You could truly be underground.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You play underground, very underground artist.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Right there you go. So what did you think of
how Danny Wimmer treats you as an artist at these festivals,
the person that runs the whole.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
We just showed up this morning and it was like
a seamless thing of getting in.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
It was so lovely. I mean, there's so many artists
playing at this festival.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's the thing. That's the thing that shocks me.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
When I was walking around, I've already run into four
friends that I didn't know even were playing here. I
was like, how many stages are There's so many artists,
so much going on, super well run.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
From what I've experienced.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I've just got here this morning, sound checks played, and
now I'm off the clock, so experience the rest.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's like the free drip bar over there.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I saw the coffee body is joining me, is staring
it down as we speak.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
So yeah, yeah, you're gonna be up there a lot. Yeah, okay,
that need great place. And so how was it playing? Like, yeah,
sometimes when you're at festival last day, earlier in the day,
you don't really expect anything in the crowd, and yet
the crowd was like freaking awesome. Right.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, the thing is like I love a Sunday crowd
because it's all I play very chill, like somba kind
of sad music all the times. So it's like, these
are my people that are kind of like they've seen
things the past couple of days, that feel a little disheveled,
and then I'm here to wrap them up and give
him like a sonic hug real quick.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
So give him some energy for the rest of the day.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think we all needed a hug because at two
am that first whill got struck by lightning. Really yeah,
I'll show you a picture. You want to see a picture.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Check this out. That's very Australian, I know, right.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Rolling in the humidity game with Florida I sit on
my balcony and I watch horizontal lightning. That's as badasses.
It's beautiful to whoever even touches down. It's just going
across the sky, very calm. So yeah, I pull this up.
You're gonna freak out. This is gonna be like being
back home. But there you go.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Wow, Okay, that really is striking the Ferres wheel.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Like right on it. Yeah, it's like a movie. Yeah,
I feel like we were in a movie. We got
you got to play in we Got the Lightning Bolt, Like,
it can't be better. It can't be better than that.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So one story good or bad in your musical journey
so far? What would you share?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
One story good or bad?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Ooh, I'd probably share how I fell into music after
the pub, so you know, saying I played. I wrote
a set of my own songs because I got sick
of plane covers and the manager of the pub walked
in and he fired me because he said it was
too sad and no one wants to listen to that music.
So wow, I quit music again then and there. It
was my second time giving up on music. And then

(06:55):
my my mom noticed that I wasn't happy when I
tried to go work an advertising agents for a while
and the classic mom's know best. She was pushing me
to be like, you should give it one more shot.
I think you owe it to yourself to do it.
And I was like, Mom, this isn't good advice to
tell her twenty six, twenty seven year old son to
like up on a stable job, Yeah, go and chase
music again. But I did it, and I moved all

(07:17):
the way to Sweden and I started recording music with
a producer there, and it's just it's very crazy where
music can take you. That all of a sudden, Now
I'm in Kentucky playing a music festival after mum pushed
me to get back into music.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
So I shout out to my mom.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I love it. And what a culture shock weather wise,
you go from Australia to Sweden. Yeah, that's it's tough,
that's wild. But there is a lot of great music
that comes out of Sweden.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
It must have helped you to get to Bourbon and beyond.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, it was kind of those things as well.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Because I moved overseas, I moved away from the safety
blanket of home from my parents, and because I got
into music, like later in life. It was like the
clock was ticking for me a bit almost. I had
this like pressure of like, well, I've moved overseas, I'm
burning a hole in my There was no other choice
but to make it work.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I just bunk it down.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I wrote, I wrote, I recorded, I recorded, and yeah,
it was kind of this pressure cooker kind of swim
throw myself in the deep end, and I got to
learn how to swim real quick, so it works out well.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
See. I love stories like that because to me, that's
a true artist. Yeah, because it's not like you set
out to be a rock star. It's not like you
set out to do anything. You just fell in love
with it.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, I still have no idea what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
I'm just I love it.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm swimming around.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
And I don't think you should have an idea that
this is a fun That's what an artist is. Just
do whatever you feel and express yourself. And what kind
of feeling is that when you see that people are
connected with your music and it's changing your life because
of the meaning their gain out of it, that maybe
you didn't even know.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's insane.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm like you then, really, like I mean, growing up,
I'm a big Like anything I love in life, I'll
try and study like the great so I study stories
of stuff that happens. And it's the same with music.
I'm like, be here these stories about artists, or you see,
you know, these videos of crowds who are crying of artists.
I'm like, that's insane to make someone feel that way.
And then slowly but surely it's some of those like

(09:10):
you know, on a smaller scale, some of those story
has been happening to me. People leaving letters after shows
of song has helped them through a divorce or a
really tough time. And I'm part of me still doesn't
like register it just yet because just writing songs from
my life perspective and putting it out there not really
thinking it's I'm writing this for someone else to listen
to and have something happen to them. But it is

(09:31):
a funny thing music in that way. It's like I
set out to I didn't set out to help people,
but somehow it's it seems to be doing that in
a small way.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
So and then turn that helps you too, because it's
such a great feeling.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
It keeps me going definitely away.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Touring is tough, so that kind of keeps stories that
you get from people.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Literally, the rough days are made a lot easier when
you get a message or a letter from someone saying that.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
So and music's the best therapy anyway, for you, the artists,
and for me to listener. So like we're all helping
at each other. Yeah, and that's what music's all about.
I think that will solve all the world's problems. Music.
Forget all the other.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Things you could start. It's gonna start, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Tell everybody how to reach out to you on socials,
on the web, buy your merch. They can't listen to
my show unless say, buy your merch.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, Luckily, I have a very unique name, Haslet. So
it's my middle name. My parents gave me so h
z l e t T. I'm sure once you type
it in anyway, usually it's kind of the first thing
that comes up. So, yeah, just look up HAZLT. I'm
sure you'll find your way to me somehow.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now that's gonna be wild for you. But I had
offices when I was in my twenties in has Lit,
New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
People have been sending this a lot.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Actually, someone sent me a hat once that said haslet
New Jersey on it. I was like, I need to
steal this from a merch idea coming up, so.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Heyo, right, that would be Boddy. Oh my god, you
could just tell everybody you're from the Garden State, like
they'll think that's your New Jersey accent, not Australia.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I do love Bruce Springsteen and so all lean into
this New Jersey thing.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
There it is, go on tour with Bruce. I would
love that it could be the meets Australia to exactly
any other words or anything else you got coming out
that you want to tell the listeners.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I just had an album come out on Friday, so
that's kind of fresh around at the moment, so I'm
seeing people's reaction to that. It's a lot more reminiscent
I guess of the shows that happening at the moment.
It's more of a full band sound. Still has the
same stories and lyrics that I really love digging into.
But I'm just excited for people to go and discover
it and find a little bit of themselves in it.
So now it's a bit of a waiting game. Just
let the album do what it does, and I'll keep

(11:28):
doing what I do as well.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, I love what you do. I'm glad you're hearing Sean.
Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Thanks so much, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
You got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures
of pate Man.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm w for CUI Radio.