Pipeman Interviews Sam of The Teskey Brothers 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):
Hi, you love one too, Yes, that's true. For see
why for you your roll?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
With Sam Tisky here nice here.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
At Bourbon and beyond. Yeah, man, how's it feel?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
It's very cool? Yeah, it's a it's hot here, I
have to say that for sure. But it's a real
cool fistle. I haven't got to check out too much
of it yet. We kind of just rolled in and
I've got to see it of Robert Cray, which is cool. Yeah,
that was great to just check that out. That was
just outside our bus. So we gotta pup and say
that that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And how about how Danny Wimmer treats the artists? Okay
I always ask that because man, there are so many
different festivals you could play on, and yeah, how you
get treated it determines how great your set is.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, I reckon so yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, good festivals know that if they look out for
their artists, they'll look after you, you know, and they'll
want to come back as well.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's like they're memorable. We're on the road and we're
playing a show every night. All over the country, and
you know the places that stand out because they're the artists.
And so then when it comes up in a few
years time, like oh yeah, let's play that one. Let's
do when we're trying to set up a new tour,
like yeah, let's do our show there, because it's a
big thing for sure, like to make the artists remember
your venue or festival, it's well worth it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I reckon throw everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, so far, how have you been treated? Would you
come back?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah? I'll come back. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I actually haven't even really explored around too much, but
I the first thing I've probably tried is that delicious
sweet cocktail mocktail thing over there.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh yeah, it is pretty It's pretty delicious. You know
that true board is pretty badass too.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah right, Okay, well I'm yet to experience all the
goodies yet, but I'm sure i will.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, getting here, and.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
So the listeners don't make bad assumptions. Where's that accent from?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
What's that say?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Again? Where's the accent from?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
My accent? Yeah? So I'm from Melbourne, Australia.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Which I assumed, but I never assumed because UK South
African Australian if you call them the wrong one.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
They don't like it.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah, well we don't mind. But yeah, generally like
us mistaken Canadians for Americans and vice versa, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I know, right, yeah, right now, Canadians are nice people,
so it would be a complement to us and then
sult them.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah yeah, I think it feel like it does go
seems to go more that way, doesn't it, right, But yeah,
for us in Melbourne, like, my background's English. I'm the
first of our generation in Australia, so Josh was born
my brother was born over in Exeter, and so we
probably don't have the most Australian accents anyway, naturally, and
growing up around Melbourne, we're not in the thick of
the heart of heart.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of Australia where it's where it really gets.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
It's the further you go out, the more Australian you sound, right, right.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, I've always been fascinated. I saw this show once
where they had the digouts where you live underground in
that really hot area and yeah, yeah, I don't remember
where it was, but yeah, like I won't try that.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
So that's real Australia.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm sure the accents would be strong out there, probably
similar to America.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'd further you go out of the cities, the more.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Its different, Like it's kind of like Europe, every state
the other country here.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you see that. You definitely definitely get
that feel for sure.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
So when you're not playing music, do you surf?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
No? Really, I would like to get into the ocean more.
I'd love to get more into surfing.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I do. I just don't seem to have had the
time for it.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I got a country property out outside of Melbourne, so
I find myself doing a lot of woodwork and chopping wood,
you know, like just just nice wholesome country things.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
You know, what's the coolest thing you ever made?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, coolest thing I've ever made?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
In your opinion obviously.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh okay, Well, I've kind of made this out of
seat of sort of recording box that has like all
in one like it's one little box that sits on
it has a has like a rack unit at the beginning,
like we put a pre amp in and then you
put like it has like a fold out microphone that
you put in one side and another microphone on the
other side, and it's all kind.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Of routed up and ready to go. So all you
have to do is kind of open.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
The laptop and it's ready to record or plug it
in and ready to record us all charging. And so
it's like this kind of little mobile digital recording station
with a nice piece of like I had on it,
a nice Chandler preamp, like a Tenservious three style preamp
with a nice U eighty seven mic.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
So it's nice. It's just bring the good stuff around.
It's for nice.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, I love it. That's great. I love to hear
what musicians passion is. Yeah outside of.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Me, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, totally and so.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Cool to hear the different things that different artists you
in their spare time.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, little you have Yeah, that's right. You know,
it's the creative thing. Like you have to have a
outlet elsewhere other than music or else you could get
two in your head with.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It, figure would get burnt out.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
You do get burned out.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
And also you need you actually just need to have
the experience of like when you sometimes when you're like
carving back something with wood and doing that, that's kind
of when a song idea will come. You know, like
when you're doing something another activity, then you're like Okay,
here's a song idea. Okay, well, maybe I'll pop it into
the studio for a bit and you know, like put
that song down or come up with some lyrics for it,
or come up with some chords or whatever for it.

(05:26):
They're the moments that you're kind of harvesting. See that's cool,
harvesting the ideas, you know. And then if you're in
the studio con say oh, we're going to go do
a songwriting session with nothing to kind.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Of like write about, you're like, okay, well and you
have it.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
It's like when you when someone forgets someone's name and
you're like, oh, now I've forgotten their name as well.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
It's like you have that sort of block moment. So
it's really important.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
To just get out and just do something else and
let it just come naturally and then and then go
put it down here. Like that's I think that's why
other artists do have other little hobbies that get carried
away with.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
When you first got into music, could you ever imagine
that you'd be where you are now experience all the
things you did?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah? I no, definitely not.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
I guess I imagined it, but I never thought it
would actually sort of eventuate it would be cool.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh that cool.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Oh I love to play in one of those big stages.
I wonder what that would feel like, because it was
just kind of we're playing a little cafes and bars
for years, ten, ten years or something like that and
playing to someone sometimes no people, to fifteen people to
no one, you know, like whatever, would would do anything,
kind of play any gig that we got asked to play,
And then it wasn't until we put down a record
that it kind of started to build some momentum and

(06:33):
we're like, oh shit, okay, we'll try and play catch
up with this, and we've kind of felt like ever
since then, we've been playing catch up until now.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
But I love that you brought up what you did
for ten years because well, yeah, I always talk about
to become an overnight success in this business, it takes
about twenty years.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
That's an overnight success.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
People don't realize that. They don't realize.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
What work you guys put into and dedication and sacrifice, Yeah,
to be able to play at Bourbon then beyond yeah anywhere.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah, it's totally then. We
felt that when we always made half decent money when
we were playing in the early days, like just good
money for it, just to get us by. But then
as soon as we started pushing it and trying to
play catch up, that's when we started getting a lot
less money. We're like, I guess shit, And those few
years were definitely like a hard few years, were just

(07:24):
getting two hundred dollars a week and then putting the
rest asiety into investing to come over here, because it's
big money to kind of do a tour over here
when you've got no guarantees or anything like that. You're
just kind of you're putting yourself out there for sure.
And we're lucky enough that that has paid off. We
spent the money, spend the time, and it's kind of
paying off now.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
So Nakes, she's just great.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, And you guys just dropped a live album recently. Now,
when you listen to that compared to listening to your
studio stuff, if you were to fan, how would you feel, I.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Would yeah, I would like it.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I feel like our sound is in all so much
more when it gets to stage. Like so, so it's
sort of like to not give not to not give
fans kind of to both aspects, you know, because when
we're coming up with a record, we come up with
it in the studio and usually the songs are written there,
and then we build it up and then we kind
of have never played it live and we've already cut

(08:18):
the record, so then when we start playing it live,
we're like, oh, actually it feels better doing it like this,
and the song really evolves, like it really kind of
evolves with the crowd. So for us to put out
a US the album doesn't fully represent that.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
That cycle, that like kind of album cycles.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
So pretty much every album cycle we've put out a
live record and you'll notice they're very different like that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Will I feel that our anyway?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
I love that?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Otherwise, like if I go on a show and it's
just like the record, yeah, I could just sit home.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah yeah yeah, the company, your own speakers.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Real stuff, the real musician ship, yeah, going off to
script yeah yeah, it's got to happen.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, making mistakes yeah yeah. And to me, yeah, that's
real mute.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Trying out new stuff, like and that's what it's about.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
When you're on the road every night playing to people,
you're kind of like, well that didn't work, so well,
let's not do that. Tomorrow night, like, you know, let's
styal it back, And especially when you're trying these new songs,
you're really kind of like it's tough. It's like when
crowds know your music and you're like, okay, well now
we've got some new tracks. You've really got to see
how people respond, and generally it's they're a lot more
team so you're like, okay, like did they like it

(09:25):
or didn't they? You know, and we sort of and
that's how we sort of navigate what songs we put
in the set now because we've got enough music that
we put all of our music in it. The cess
is going to be way too long, so yeah, so
we've really kind of got to gauge what works live
and what.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Doesn't work live. And that's all kind of part of
it as well.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, tell every way how they can reach out to
you on socials, by your merge, but get your music
tour date.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's all that.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Look up with the test you brothers on Instagram and
they'll probably lead you everywhere. And now they'll give you
the website Tescibrothers dot com. Yeah, and yeah, buy it
all there, check out our shows Spotify is a good
way to look at it as well.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
So yeah, nice, Well, I'm so happy you're here at
Bourban Beyond. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pap.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Thanks Mane, that's pretty awesome. Jeez jeez. Thank you for
listening to the Adventures of Tateman on w for CUI Radio.