Pipeman Interviews Jade Bird at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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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.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love Luneto. Yes that's true. See why for
you your.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with
Jade but nice here at Bourbon and beyond. I am
oh my god, you're in Loullville, Kentucky. I can't tell
you how much different this must be from home for.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
You, very much so, although I recently moved to La
So the weather is you know what I mean, We're similar,
We're similar over there.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
But yeah, it is true, it is.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
See that's one thing about the UK. I love the UK.
I love the people there. I can't take the bipolar weather, like,
oh yeah, god, you cave it. I go do a
festival and one air view I'm wearing a hoodie. The
next airview I have to take it off because I'm
too hot. I'm too cold, too hot, and then I'm
wet and we.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Don't have air conditioning either, so it's sort of windy
rain and then you're damp, and then you go into
your room with no air conditioning. It's a bit chaotic.
You're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You could do four seasons in one hour.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, it is not the truth. Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Have you ever been to Bourbon and Beyond or know
much about it before.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Now, yeah, I played here I think in twenty nineteen, Okay,
and I just know it's a really really great festival,
and I'm like super exciited. He whacks a hatchy personally,
so yeah. And also who's headlining.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've completely forgot You got Fish is headlined? Yeah, love
you got the Illumina air.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh, I'm so excited. The Illumina is so excited.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, guy bum Because Pat Bentar and Neil
are playing at the same.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Time as Illumine. Really, I'm like, what do I do?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
That's crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know I do at festival? Go on happens?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I stand in between the stages and I listen to
one in one ear and one in the other.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
No you don't, No, you don't. That's insane, right, that's
so funny. It's yeah you are. Oh that must be
a cacophony of like downtris. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
if I can eat that, maself.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I know, rights I'm a little weird.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Maybe. So First of all, I love your voice, thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I love your music, but I love even more what
it's about because I think messages are so important in music.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know, people say, oh, or this should just stick
to doing music.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you understand music? Music is a message. It is therapy.
It's therapy for the artists, it's therapy for me. I
can totally relate to your new album because my whole
family is like they have a picture of my family
in the dictionary, where as dysfunctional.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh my good, Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know
the struggles and the strain of that, right it is.
It's not easy.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So what's it like writing songs that are so close
to you.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, it's therapy and cathartic.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
But then it's difficult, right because he relive all that
to write properly, don't you.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
And I find the hardest part is when I've written
a song about it, I hope that it's resolved in
some way. And I think the hardest part for me
about it is playing these songs live and in some
ways repeating them situations. So for example, like there's one
about my dad that finishes the record and we don't
speak anymore, and it's about forgiveness, and I sing it
and I think I expect it to feel better as

(03:33):
time went on, but it almost feels worse because I'm like,
more time has passed since we spoke, and more time
has passed, and I've sung this song, more time happened, No,
nothing changes. So it's like, in some ways, like you said,
really cathartic, but in some ways it can be quite
a little haunting sometimes.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, especially if you're performing the songs all the time.
So it's one thing if you wrote it, you recorded
it for the album, okay, but then you're performing, it's
like you have to relive that every time you Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
One, you are absolutely right. I like if I, for example,
if I feel like in my relationship I'm doing a
similar thing or having similar feelings, and then i sing
this song about like dreams about the worst night in
my life to do with relationships, and I'm racing it
and I'm like, oh, I've not got any better, but
I have some really outbreaking moments. But ultimately it does

(04:21):
feel good.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Eventually, Yeah, it'll get better. It is funny too when Okay,
so I have one song that I wrote and I
wrote it for my second marriage, who was a British girl.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
No make you laugh for oh no too?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, and we're divorced many years now, and that song
like doesn't have the same meaning that's when.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I wrote it.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's pretty funny though, Like my head engineer at my station,
he was a country and music duo, country rock music duo, yeah,
and so he helped me write. I'm more of a
book writer. So when I wrote the song, I gave
it to him. I'm like, I need your help, and goes,
is this a book? And like he narrowed it down?

(05:07):
Can we take this out?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
No, I think people don't realize how hard it is
to write a song. You have so much that you
want to put in that song and you have to
eliminate ninety percent of it.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Interesting, I think that, yeah, if you approach it that way,
then definitely. I think it's either you approach you l
likes bottom up or top bomb. You know what I
mean exactly?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I think like when I write a song, I go
in with not knowing what I'm going to write about,
so there's not much to cut. I discover it as
I'm on the path. But I can totally understand how
I was a writer of books that would be like
you have to almost.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Edit and so now if I were to write a song,
about her now, yeah, it would be more like a
Tailor Swift.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Type of song.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Which one which song?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Any of them about her breakups. I've listen.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
She just got engaged and I did postly have Facebook media.
I'm like, I hope he's not the next song. Well yeah, no,
the four songs be.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Even more intense.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Than that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah. Yeah. So here's where I'll.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Make you laugh, because I think everybody from the UK
that I do this with, they laugh their butt off.
So I wasn't familiar of where she was from, and
a lot of people that come, especially women that come
to the US, they put on the royal act.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
So she was a very hoity toity nose in the
air down on Americans. I'm like a royal bloah. And
I found out where she's from, Newcastle.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
See see I told you laugh.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, yeah, that's where my parents are wrong.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
And she didn't even have to Jordy accent, no, no, no,
none of that.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
She spoke the proper queen's English posh it like this
like this.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
It was like I think she took a class before
coming here or something on how to sound like a royal.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Like properly like this. Did she talk a little bit
like this?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes, wow, Like I would hear her accent like that's
part of what made me fall in love because I
do love the accents.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
But it was like, maybe if she had a Birmingham accent,
I wouldn't have felt I would understand.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
What that all about? Glasswegian? Would you fall in for there?

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right?

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is she that's all like that?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Maybe? Maybe so good at doing all the accents?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, you take the right person to tell this story too.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh, it's funny, like a lot about UK friends the
first time I went to Birmingham and they're like, you're
not gonna understand a word away say, I'm like, get.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Out of here, come on, No, you might not.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, I like when I was younger, I had a
bunch of Cockney friends.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I understood them and read the Birmingham and I was like,
what the hell have you.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Had the live a Puddleyan accent? Scalca. Oh, that's a
really hard one when they talk like that, mate, and
everything's in the back, in the back of their throat
annoy Yes, a little nice, kind of sweet actually actually,
but everything's here, it's very funny, has a terrible accent
that's such as nodding any justice. But do I love the.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Liver parents are from Newcastle?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, my stepdad is. He's from this very very small town.
I saw call it like Billy Elliott Town. I don't
know if you've seen that musical, but it reminds me
of that. And he's from there, and me and my
mum are saying we're pad brats. So we moved around
a lot army situation. But yeah, I go back there
and I see David and his family here.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Nice, nice, he thought.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
He makes up words in Newcastle, like he says like
aunt chable, which means just on the table, which I
find quite great.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
On the travel, where's the keys? David aunt travel?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
And would be.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Like what, yeah, yeah, we in my house. I would
live with a Texan. He's my best friend and all.
My stepdad came over with like four of his friends
from Castle, and I swear to God, the look in
my best mate's eyes. He was like, what have you
set me up with? What is this? He literally I
haven't understood a word for four days, not one word.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah me and by bro, we're just talking about this
last night. It's like you just end up after a
period of time just agree, Yeah you.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Did you say what? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
What he was describing me too. My brothers go like
it was a cock they accent. Yes, it's like I
couldn't understand where he's saying. Every time I said what,
he would slow down but say it exactly the same.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, building yeah yeah. Now that was because
my store down with with my best mate was like,
you don't understand what. You don't understand what I'm saying
to you. You just laugh.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
And then was like that's the awkward thing you do.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I know, I know, but it is very funny.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh man, So you got cool stuff going tomorrow. You're
doing a Bob Dylan tribute.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, the Blue.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Room, You've r Actually, I've got already brush up on
the songs. I was gonna do sub training, Hemsick Blues,
I got brush up on the lyrics.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, that's so cool. I saw that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm like, wow, that's cool today, Bourbon Beyond tomorrow a
Bob Dylan truck exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
That's how we run, That's how we run.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
The true artists. Oh yeah, concern Yeah, and then.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You're going to my hometown. I don't know what day,
I forget what day. But in Asbury Park.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Oh really, I've not played there yet.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh that's an iconic place to play because a lot
of famous US people like Okay Ringstein, bon Jovi, all
those people, they played at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park,
like a lot of Billy Joel.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's so excited. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, we're
talking New Jersey, right, yeah, yea ya, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's cool because Asbury Park when I was a kid,
it was great because it's this amusement park, yeah, on
the boardwalk, and then it turned into a really bad.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Place, like ghetto ghetto.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
And now they've renovated the whole thing. It's like a
luxury destination throughout the world. But it is a music
mecha interesting.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'm so excited. That's I had no idea. No, I'm
so glad we chat about this. I didn't know. I
didn't know. Yeah, now you'll be there, love it, love it.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
What else do you want to tell the listeners that
you got going on.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
The new album and then an album after it. There's
nothing too different from anybody else. So yeah, so I'm
singing Bluebird Wine on Saturday. I'm very excited about that,
Ronnie Gral Yeah, just tour touring, touring, touring.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
So how do you feel touring over here in the
US compared to the UK and Europe.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I really really enjoy it. I find it like, especially
the merch dand I feel like everyone's a little kind
of like do we go to the merchdand do we know?
In in the UK and Europe, But here it's like
a real culture of meeting who your fans are and
that's my favorite part. So and then the shows, yeah,
they are just incredible. People are really warm. My audience
in particular are just so lovely. I've never had a
bad one of like a headline show that's yeah, they're

(11:59):
really nice and care and it's wholesome.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
So when did this all happen?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
When did you get this spark that this is what
I need to do?

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Probably like twelve or thirteen I started playing the guitar,
always playing music before it, but I remember when I
started playing guitar and I was like, oh, I feel
like I want to play my songs for other people.
My mom would sort of bring me downstairs and be like,
play for my mates and I would, but then like
I was doing little competitions because I couldn't play in
bars and clubs and pubs, and then I would be
told you're too sad, you lose, And so I started

(12:28):
writing more up tempo things for bars and clubs, and
the rest is kind of history. I just gigged flat
out from fourteen onwards.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
I love it. And you have come a long way
here to Burba and beyond.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Your voice is incredible, it's really kind. Tell everybody how
they get the new album, how they buy your merge,
how they follow you on socials?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
All, yeah, good stuff. Let's say my show by way,
unlet's play.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, that's great. For the name's Jade Bird. Jada's in
the color, Bird is in the animal. And if you
want any of this good stuff, it's www. Dojade Dashbird
dot com.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Now a lot Americans win noticed, but do you do you?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Is it like a double meaning thing because you're a
female from the UK and your last name is bird?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
No, no, no, it's totally That's what I was given.
It's my god given name.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
So see it just worked out.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, it just worked Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
They call it nominal determination, and I like to think
I'm a product of that only child. Only only children.
That helps being a performer. But then Mum gave me
a great name.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
I love it and I love that you're here at
Bourbon Beyond. Do you have any final words you want
to share with the listener.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, I've just been happy talking to you. This sounds
this has been great.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I'm glad you had fun. I had fun too.
And thanks for being on the advent.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Thank you so much. Yeah, are you out there? Absolutely
thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man.
I'm w for CUI Radio.