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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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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.”
Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.
Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, you unto.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true. For see why for you you will?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Y Radio, and I'm here with Bourbon Revival.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Nice Now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
A lot of times at festivals I do that so
I don't fuck up the pronunciation of a band name,
because it's like the worst thing you could do. I
think if you're in radio, I'd have a hard time
being at Bourbon Beyond. To mess up the pronunciation of
your bad name.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That would be bad. I should be kicked at a
festival if that happens, Well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Don't feel bad if you did. We wouldn't. We wouldn't
hold it against you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And has anybody ever done that? I do it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I always pronounce hard. I call ourselves Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Sometimes since this whole thing started, every time we've talked
about this festival, it's like, yeah, we're going to Bourbon
and Bourbon and Revival.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think we should tell Danny he needs to rebrand
and rename this Bourbon and Revival. And then you are
the headliner every year from the house band. Yeah exactly.
So you guys won the Battle of the Band, did I? Yes, Yes,
that was Birdie told me that, Did I hear that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
It was a battle of Strings twenty twenty five. They
held the contest here in Louisville, Kentucky at the Fox
denn And we got into contest and pushed some stuff
aside so that we can make the dates. And we
were just so excited that we won. We couldn't really
believe it really, but it was an experience.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Nonetheless, do you believe it now or are you still
kind of still kind of in all that we're here,
like being backstage and the artist areas, Like it's a
whole new world I've never seen.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And I love that badass.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And that gives people like me hope, man, because like
I was thinking of starting a band and wearing a
mask of a kid so that I could fool everybody
and then like get popular, and then I pulled the
mask off.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Haha, I'm fucking fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That'd be great. I support that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, that would be a great gimmick, man.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I mean, well, you know how many bands have masks
You don't even know who their artists are.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They just you just know they're going to be in costume.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Listen, I've interviewed Gwar and I've interviewed them without their costumes,
and I've said to them, guys, you look a lot
bearing your costumes.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm glad you do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That might be where we would stand too, like looking better.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've always told Matt he's got a face for the radio.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Though.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There you go, there you go, good, good thigy good thing.
We're on radio right now with no cameras right right.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So, speaking of being back here, what's your experience been
so far of how Danny Wimmer treats artists like you
won Battle of the Bands. It's not like you're the headliner,
but don't you get treated like as if.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We feel like we are walking back there and all
the I mean, of course you have to have your
credentials and stuff for but everyone's treated us like top notch.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's so nice.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
The hospitality has been great and it's really something to
speak for itself.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's way cool. And let him add to it too,
because oh, I just think it's a great We're treated
like kings here. It's a great, great event, a great
way to start awesome. Yeah, He's definitely it's number one.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
If we come back, though, I want a whole wing
like the Goo Goo dolls have you know?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, that ain't cool.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
I need room to kick out my legs a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now if the end he hears that, he'll probably put
you like in the little golf cart.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That broom closet. Okay, we'll be the Clauset act.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
There you go. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So I have to ask, do you play at Gibson?
I do, okay, because that would be really screwed up
if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Playing a Bard and wearing a Gibson hat. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Actually, I was trying to side on my outfit for
today because today's Sunday. It's the Camo theme. So I
got a Camo shirt. I tried to get some shoes
to match the green. But I had got this hat
at the Guitar Center. And I normally I love hats
because I'm going bold, I guess, But night I saw
the hat and I was like, oh, dude, I play
at Gibson. I have a remake of an original Advanced
(04:21):
Jumbo from nineteen thirty five play and I thought, how
more suiting than is to wear that hat and play
that guitar on this stage?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Today is going to be you know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What a do you pick Gibson as your guitar of choice.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's about the sound of this particular instrument. I'd acquired
the instrument when I was about sixteen seventeen years old.
I was at We used to have a music shop
here in Louisville called First Quality Music Supplies, and they
catered to a lot of the banjo They made banjos
for Gibson in fact, and actually Cody plays one of
their promo models before they started making their line. Nice
(04:55):
and a friend of mine, he believed in me, and
he I went in there actually just to look at
instruments and hang out like musicians, do you know, just
in all of all the cool stuff on the wall,
and I was I had picked up this blonde Gibson
and it was really cool because it had the bass
like a Martin. And then my friend, we weren't really
friends at the time, but he saw something in me
(05:18):
and he was like, hey, real quick, stay right here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Came back.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
He brought me this other Gibson, the one I have,
and he's like yours. After four hours of messing with
it and like comparing them, he was like, which one
would you buy?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was like, if I was a buy one. I'd
buy this Sunburst one and he was like, what's yours.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I didn't know what to say. And to this day
I still own that guitar. It's the best guitar I've
ever owned. The reason I like it because it has
two lives, like it has two personalities. It can sound
like a Martin or better, and it can sound like
a Gibson.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Meets both worlds, and so that that moment in time
is probably why you're here today, because it's part of it.
You might not have continued playing guitar had that not happened.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I probably would continued, but not serious.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, if it wasn't for someone believing in me the
way he did, and other folks as well. I can't
name everybody, but that kind of love and support you
don't come across every day. Yeah, and sometimes it's a
little bit hard to process. It took me a while
to really process that because I didn't know what he
had given me. And I could tell you a long
story about the wild goose chases. I've been on for
(06:23):
guitars and stuff since then, and I always come back
to that and find new love every time I pick
it up. I'm like, oh my god, this guitar is badass.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's like when you go buy new shoes, you want
to go put your old shoes back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's right, they're fitted for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I want to hear everybody else's story of what brought
you to this moment time today.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Just a quick thing about this whole band is we're
all bluegrass guys. Me Matt Cody here, we're all right
out of traditional bluegrass backports picking. This guy, however, is
a rock guy, plays drums and all that good stuff.
So we'll let him go first and tell you all
about that.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
It's really a great opportunity for me to be entangled,
basically intertwined.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
These guys came to me.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Matt came to me a long time ago and when
he was a youngster and we recorded his daddy, his
granddad's band. I think me be infused.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
With these guys.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
It's a good mix because we've got a little bit
of we've got a little bit of power on the
bottom end, but it's just a unique blend of appellation
and pop.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And I love it and it really works.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
What I like is the word blend, because nowadays there's
so many bands, so many artists, that the only way
you really stick out is if there is a blend,
Otherwise everybody's doing the same thing.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
There's a whole world of material that he could cover.
But with us starting to enter into the songwriting, that's
real exciting. I'm real, real excited to see what the
next year or two it's going to hold for us,
nice big things. I'm optimistic.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
This would have been a family thing for me. I
started around ten years old with my dad and my
sisters started playing music along with my brother. They all
played guitar and all that good stuff. And I took
one lesson and I don't know what it was, but
it was really overwhelming. So I said I don't want
to do it. And I didn't do it for another year,
and then I saw them growing and getting better, and
(08:08):
I'm like, I'd like to do it again. And my
dad said, well, if you're gonna do it, you're gonna
do it, and you're gonna practice, And by god, I
practiced every day until I was about eighteen, when I
took a couple of years off because I didn't have
to practice anymore. But yeah, I mean that that was
pretty much my journey was all about me and dad
and going to good festival.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good for you and good for dad. Because here's my experience.
I played guitar, and I was trying to experiment with
see what sounds I could make, the scales. I don't
want to do these fucking scales. Okay, that's boring and
shit teacher wanted me to do scales like eight hours
a day. And my dad said, you should probably not
(08:51):
play guitar because you suck.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So now I'm talking to you, talk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The guitar players.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Cool, maybe we can help fix it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So I started playing when I was about twelve years old.
My grandpa he grew up playing guitar and bluegrass music,
and I got started with that and he eventually I
started playing banjo and going around jam sessions. Heck, I've
been playing with Matt here since I was been thirteen
years old, had little jam sessions across the state and
just all the time playing music, and like I got
the bug instantly, and like knew that this is what
(09:27):
I was going to do for the rest of my
life at that moment. And then I ended up going
to college to Morehead State, and I was one of
the first out of there with the traditional music degree.
And I like to say, I got a ba and banjo.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You know, I love it. You're a bab.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, there you got outwards.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. And you know what, I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Always curious too. I love the banjo. Actually, right down
the street from where I live, there's this park and
they have bluegrass, like every Sunday live bluegrass.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Tell and it's not even normally my jam of what
I might go to music.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I do dig it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I always wonder like, what makes somebody pick the banjo
over the guitar?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Bad decisions.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
There's a defect teen pool, you see. It's all that is.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
How I got into it was my grandpa did a
lot of fingerstyle guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons
from a guy that mainly plays banjo, and he was like,
you need to be playing banjo. And then that's where
that's it just started.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
That with that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So nice.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, So now have a really important question for you, okay,
and then so tell me if you're really a good
banjo player.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So there's another festival next weekend in the same venue.
Buy the same promoter and the headlining band happens to
be next to you, guys, my favorite band in the world,
and I want to know if you can play one
of their songs on banjo and if you can maybe
play it here at Bourbon Beyond Baby.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Do you want to know who the band is?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Who's the band Slayer? Slayer.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
We haven't tackled the Slayer songs yet, but we've got
a couple of other ones.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
There's a long listen.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'll tell you what if you guys could record a
Slayer tune using the band Joe for sure, right okay,
and send it to me and send all your other
music to me. I'll put all the music into the
rotation in my radios.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Well, we may or may not have some more rock
influenced Nirvana that I like that kind of stuff. We're
not scared to go heavy.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I saw actually on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I saw a video of some band and it was
like a bunch of them on band Joe's that we're
doing all Metallica covers.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh yeah, I was like, that's badass. Yeah see that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I think this is the kind of the good thing
about this band is we're not afraid to go tackle
songs that are not traditionally bluegrass or doesn't have that.
I mean, honestly, a lot of the stuff that we're
trying to do, we don't want to put like the
standard two a two beat bluegrass rhythm to it. We
want to encapsulate what their original song was, Yeah, just
with the bluegrass instrumentation. So I think that's what kind
(12:09):
of we're going for.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
With That makes a difference too.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It really good and personally to me, I think banjo
should be included speed metal and thrash metal because man,
you gotta be good to play that banjo. And I
see these guys pick like you and like, man, they're
faster than Carrie King.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, there's a joke in the bluegrass world that country
is the bluegrass that rock is like rock is the metal.
It's all the heavy instrumentation, the technicality and fast.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I love that technology. That's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So how do people check you guys out going on
the web on socials? If you have merch where they
get to merch, because if you do have merch and
they don't buy it, they're gonna be blocked for my show,
Like nowadays we can hit block block listener.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well that's a great question.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Actually, we can go check us out Bourbon Revival band
dot com. Where is merch available on the website as well?
You can check out our downloads on Spotify, iTunes, I
think Apple Music, all the social media platforms Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
TikTok and stuff. We try to tackle that.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
It's a lot as an artist sometimes, like yeah, we
have some merch here too night.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So get on plane right now and come here. I
have to catch the set.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Just come by to merch, that's right, But the growing
thing and we're still trying to find our best foothold
and all this stuff. But yeah, that's the best place
to find us at Bourbon Revival band dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I love it, and man, I am so excited you're
here at Bourbon Beyond like it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It's a dream come true for me.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It's hey for me as well. Being here today is
like making it more of a reality than I thought
it would be, huh.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And I even love seeing, like, you know, guys in
my generation that are getting that opportunity that wlve never
happened when we were all younger, right right, you know,
like I think about now I'll go to a Metallica
show and I'll see kids like five years old, ten
years old. I'm like, man, when I first started seeing
(14:08):
Metallica in the eighties, there's no way I was going
to see a band of sixty year old Yeah, it
just wasn't gonna happen, right, And like that's what's cool
about today.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like no, no, Like my daughter she's fifteen, and she
loves all that stuff from the eighties, like when from
my decades when I was growing up, And it just
blows my mind how much the youth has grabbed a
hold of that music because they know it's good. Yeah,
there's some good stuff out there, and it's pretty interesting
how it's a full circle, you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Know, totally, and we are bringing musician back to ship
back and the good old type of rock music back
where people actually played their instrument Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Mean look at Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, like the dude didn't
use any ears, he'd had no auto tune and he
played on a stage with cranking sound and nailed it
every time.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And look at the last show, like he can't even
move voice. When you hear him talk, you could tell
the Parkinson's was killing his voice. That I saw him
every year since nineteen eighty. That was the best I've
heard him sound.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Since the eighties.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Like that last show, he was through compassion, giving his
heart to it all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh yeah, And if you talk to the other Sabbath dudes,
they're like, he was there a practice every day, like
work through for this gig.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Worked his ass off.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
He cut off all meds before the show and he's
in severe pain and he was like, no, get rid
of all meds.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
And what he probably detached him from what he wanted
to feel emotionally exactly, the connection to his music and
his audience.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I feel like he knew this was it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, and he wanted to say goodbye to his fans
and only the way Ozzie loved to do.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing that he was here in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, I mean, like, oh my god, and just loved
by everybody in every genre all over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, says a lot, honestly. Yeah, he's he crossed a
lot of bridges for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And now you're gonna he's handing the baton to you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's a big baton to hold. I'm telling you, man,
I don't know if we're strong enough.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, so now you have to kick ass here at
Bourbon beyond him. Maybe now, like maybe go back to
a green room and get a couple of chords down
and maybe you could like start off the show with
like a couple rifts of crazy training and the people
just go fucking nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They probably would, they would.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Or maybe you could do like Mama, I'm coming home
on the banjo.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's a sweet song, right, see that. So there's all
my requests.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, there we go. We got him, we got it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think I've asked too much, so now I think
okay and that and you guys have a final words
for the listeners before we send you off to the
stage to kick.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Our Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Thank you so much for everybody that follow us the
band and looking forward to what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We are excited to do it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
So yeah, we're thrilled and honored. And if you come
out to watch us, hopefully you enjoy the show. If
we can gain a new fan to follow us, that
would be success for us.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And you guys, I know they will enjoy the show.
Anybody else got final words here?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Goo goo dolls give up? Some of your dressing room.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I think you should just go in there and sit
out and like, oh, we thought this was our dressing room.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
We're just super super happy to be here and just
Bourbon and Beyond. It is just such an amazing event
and we're just so proud of this band that we
made it this far and we're just excited to see
where else we take it so.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, Bourbon Beyond, when last another year unless Bourbon Revival
was here.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, we're reviving it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There, you're reviving Bourbon Beyond for the the next generation
of festivals. And thanks for doing that, and thanks for
being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.
Hey, you unto.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true. For see why for you you will?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Y Radio, and I'm here with Bourbon Revival.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Nice Now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
A lot of times at festivals I do that so
I don't fuck up the pronunciation of a band name,
because it's like the worst thing you could do. I
think if you're in radio, I'd have a hard time
being at Bourbon Beyond. To mess up the pronunciation of
your bad name.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That would be bad. I should be kicked at a
festival if that happens, Well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Don't feel bad if you did. We wouldn't. We wouldn't
hold it against you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And has anybody ever done that? I do it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I always pronounce hard. I call ourselves Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Sometimes since this whole thing started, every time we've talked
about this festival, it's like, yeah, we're going to Bourbon
and Bourbon and Revival.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I think we should tell Danny he needs to rebrand
and rename this Bourbon and Revival. And then you are
the headliner every year from the house band. Yeah exactly.
So you guys won the Battle of the Band, did I? Yes, Yes,
that was Birdie told me that, Did I hear that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
It was a battle of Strings twenty twenty five. They
held the contest here in Louisville, Kentucky at the Fox
denn And we got into contest and pushed some stuff
aside so that we can make the dates. And we
were just so excited that we won. We couldn't really
believe it really, but it was an experience.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Nonetheless, do you believe it now or are you still
kind of still kind of in all that we're here,
like being backstage and the artist areas, Like it's a
whole new world I've never seen.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And I love that badass.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And that gives people like me hope, man, because like
I was thinking of starting a band and wearing a
mask of a kid so that I could fool everybody
and then like get popular, and then I pulled the
mask off.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Haha, I'm fucking fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That'd be great. I support that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, that would be a great gimmick, man.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I mean, well, you know how many bands have masks
You don't even know who their artists are.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They just you just know they're going to be in costume.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Listen, I've interviewed Gwar and I've interviewed them without their costumes,
and I've said to them, guys, you look a lot
bearing your costumes.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm glad you do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That might be where we would stand too, like looking better.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've always told Matt he's got a face for the radio.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Though.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There you go, there you go, good, good thigy good thing.
We're on radio right now with no cameras right right.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So, speaking of being back here, what's your experience been
so far of how Danny Wimmer treats artists like you
won Battle of the Bands. It's not like you're the headliner,
but don't you get treated like as if.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We feel like we are walking back there and all
the I mean, of course you have to have your
credentials and stuff for but everyone's treated us like top notch.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's so nice.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
The hospitality has been great and it's really something to
speak for itself.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's way cool. And let him add to it too,
because oh, I just think it's a great We're treated
like kings here. It's a great, great event, a great
way to start awesome. Yeah, He's definitely it's number one.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
If we come back, though, I want a whole wing
like the Goo Goo dolls have you know?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, that ain't cool.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
I need room to kick out my legs a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now if the end he hears that, he'll probably put
you like in the little golf cart.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That broom closet. Okay, we'll be the Clauset act.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
There you go. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So I have to ask, do you play at Gibson?
I do, okay, because that would be really screwed up
if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Playing a Bard and wearing a Gibson hat. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Actually, I was trying to side on my outfit for
today because today's Sunday. It's the Camo theme. So I
got a Camo shirt. I tried to get some shoes
to match the green. But I had got this hat
at the Guitar Center. And I normally I love hats
because I'm going bold, I guess, But night I saw
the hat and I was like, oh, dude, I play
at Gibson. I have a remake of an original Advanced
(04:21):
Jumbo from nineteen thirty five play and I thought, how
more suiting than is to wear that hat and play
that guitar on this stage?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Today is going to be you know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What a do you pick Gibson as your guitar of choice.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's about the sound of this particular instrument. I'd acquired
the instrument when I was about sixteen seventeen years old.
I was at We used to have a music shop
here in Louisville called First Quality Music Supplies, and they
catered to a lot of the banjo They made banjos
for Gibson in fact, and actually Cody plays one of
their promo models before they started making their line. Nice
(04:55):
and a friend of mine, he believed in me, and
he I went in there actually just to look at
instruments and hang out like musicians, do you know, just
in all of all the cool stuff on the wall,
and I was I had picked up this blonde Gibson
and it was really cool because it had the bass
like a Martin. And then my friend, we weren't really
friends at the time, but he saw something in me
(05:18):
and he was like, hey, real quick, stay right here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Came back.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
He brought me this other Gibson, the one I have,
and he's like yours. After four hours of messing with
it and like comparing them, he was like, which one
would you buy?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was like, if I was a buy one. I'd
buy this Sunburst one and he was like, what's yours.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I didn't know what to say. And to this day
I still own that guitar. It's the best guitar I've
ever owned. The reason I like it because it has
two lives, like it has two personalities. It can sound
like a Martin or better, and it can sound like
a Gibson.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Meets both worlds, and so that that moment in time
is probably why you're here today, because it's part of it.
You might not have continued playing guitar had that not happened.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I probably would continued, but not serious.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, if it wasn't for someone believing in me the
way he did, and other folks as well. I can't
name everybody, but that kind of love and support you
don't come across every day. Yeah, and sometimes it's a
little bit hard to process. It took me a while
to really process that because I didn't know what he
had given me. And I could tell you a long
story about the wild goose chases. I've been on for
(06:23):
guitars and stuff since then, and I always come back
to that and find new love every time I pick
it up. I'm like, oh my god, this guitar is badass.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's like when you go buy new shoes, you want
to go put your old shoes back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's right, they're fitted for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I want to hear everybody else's story of what brought
you to this moment time today.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Just a quick thing about this whole band is we're
all bluegrass guys. Me Matt Cody here, we're all right
out of traditional bluegrass backports picking. This guy, however, is
a rock guy, plays drums and all that good stuff.
So we'll let him go first and tell you all
about that.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
It's really a great opportunity for me to be entangled,
basically intertwined.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
These guys came to me.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Matt came to me a long time ago and when
he was a youngster and we recorded his daddy, his
granddad's band. I think me be infused.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
With these guys.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
It's a good mix because we've got a little bit
of we've got a little bit of power on the
bottom end, but it's just a unique blend of appellation
and pop.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And I love it and it really works.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
What I like is the word blend, because nowadays there's
so many bands, so many artists, that the only way
you really stick out is if there is a blend,
Otherwise everybody's doing the same thing.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
There's a whole world of material that he could cover.
But with us starting to enter into the songwriting, that's
real exciting. I'm real, real excited to see what the
next year or two it's going to hold for us,
nice big things. I'm optimistic.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
This would have been a family thing for me. I
started around ten years old with my dad and my
sisters started playing music along with my brother. They all
played guitar and all that good stuff. And I took
one lesson and I don't know what it was, but
it was really overwhelming. So I said I don't want
to do it. And I didn't do it for another year,
and then I saw them growing and getting better, and
(08:08):
I'm like, I'd like to do it again. And my
dad said, well, if you're gonna do it, you're gonna
do it, and you're gonna practice, And by god, I
practiced every day until I was about eighteen, when I
took a couple of years off because I didn't have
to practice anymore. But yeah, I mean that that was
pretty much my journey was all about me and dad
and going to good festival.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good for you and good for dad. Because here's my experience.
I played guitar, and I was trying to experiment with
see what sounds I could make, the scales. I don't
want to do these fucking scales. Okay, that's boring and
shit teacher wanted me to do scales like eight hours
a day. And my dad said, you should probably not
(08:51):
play guitar because you suck.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So now I'm talking to you, talk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The guitar players.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Cool, maybe we can help fix it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So I started playing when I was about twelve years old.
My grandpa he grew up playing guitar and bluegrass music,
and I got started with that and he eventually I
started playing banjo and going around jam sessions. Heck, I've
been playing with Matt here since I was been thirteen
years old, had little jam sessions across the state and
just all the time playing music, and like I got
the bug instantly, and like knew that this is what
(09:27):
I was going to do for the rest of my
life at that moment. And then I ended up going
to college to Morehead State, and I was one of
the first out of there with the traditional music degree.
And I like to say, I got a ba and banjo.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You know, I love it. You're a bab.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, there you got outwards.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. And you know what, I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Always curious too. I love the banjo. Actually, right down
the street from where I live, there's this park and
they have bluegrass, like every Sunday live bluegrass.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Tell and it's not even normally my jam of what
I might go to music.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I do dig it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I always wonder like, what makes somebody pick the banjo
over the guitar?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Bad decisions.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
There's a defect teen pool, you see. It's all that is.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
How I got into it was my grandpa did a
lot of fingerstyle guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons
from a guy that mainly plays banjo, and he was like,
you need to be playing banjo. And then that's where
that's it just started.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
That with that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So nice.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, So now have a really important question for you, okay,
and then so tell me if you're really a good
banjo player.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So there's another festival next weekend in the same venue.
Buy the same promoter and the headlining band happens to
be next to you, guys, my favorite band in the world,
and I want to know if you can play one
of their songs on banjo and if you can maybe
play it here at Bourbon Beyond Baby.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Do you want to know who the band is?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Who's the band Slayer? Slayer.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
We haven't tackled the Slayer songs yet, but we've got
a couple of other ones.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
There's a long listen.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'll tell you what if you guys could record a
Slayer tune using the band Joe for sure, right okay,
and send it to me and send all your other
music to me. I'll put all the music into the
rotation in my radios.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Well, we may or may not have some more rock
influenced Nirvana that I like that kind of stuff. We're
not scared to go heavy.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I saw actually on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I saw a video of some band and it was
like a bunch of them on band Joe's that we're
doing all Metallica covers.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh yeah, I was like, that's badass. Yeah see that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I think this is the kind of the good thing
about this band is we're not afraid to go tackle
songs that are not traditionally bluegrass or doesn't have that.
I mean, honestly, a lot of the stuff that we're
trying to do, we don't want to put like the
standard two a two beat bluegrass rhythm to it. We
want to encapsulate what their original song was, Yeah, just
with the bluegrass instrumentation. So I think that's what kind
(12:09):
of we're going for.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
With That makes a difference too.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It really good and personally to me, I think banjo
should be included speed metal and thrash metal because man,
you gotta be good to play that banjo. And I
see these guys pick like you and like, man, they're
faster than Carrie King.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, there's a joke in the bluegrass world that country
is the bluegrass that rock is like rock is the metal.
It's all the heavy instrumentation, the technicality and fast.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I love that technology. That's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So how do people check you guys out going on
the web on socials? If you have merch where they
get to merch, because if you do have merch and
they don't buy it, they're gonna be blocked for my show,
Like nowadays we can hit block block listener.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well that's a great question.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Actually, we can go check us out Bourbon Revival band
dot com. Where is merch available on the website as well?
You can check out our downloads on Spotify, iTunes, I
think Apple Music, all the social media platforms Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
TikTok and stuff. We try to tackle that.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
It's a lot as an artist sometimes, like yeah, we
have some merch here too night.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So get on plane right now and come here. I
have to catch the set.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Just come by to merch, that's right, But the growing
thing and we're still trying to find our best foothold
and all this stuff. But yeah, that's the best place
to find us at Bourbon Revival band dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I love it, and man, I am so excited you're
here at Bourbon Beyond like it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It's a dream come true for me.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It's hey for me as well. Being here today is
like making it more of a reality than I thought
it would be, huh.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And I even love seeing, like, you know, guys in
my generation that are getting that opportunity that wlve never
happened when we were all younger, right right, you know,
like I think about now I'll go to a Metallica
show and I'll see kids like five years old, ten
years old. I'm like, man, when I first started seeing
(14:08):
Metallica in the eighties, there's no way I was going
to see a band of sixty year old Yeah, it
just wasn't gonna happen, right, And like that's what's cool
about today.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like no, no, Like my daughter she's fifteen, and she
loves all that stuff from the eighties, like when from
my decades when I was growing up, And it just
blows my mind how much the youth has grabbed a
hold of that music because they know it's good. Yeah,
there's some good stuff out there, and it's pretty interesting
how it's a full circle, you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Know, totally, and we are bringing musician back to ship
back and the good old type of rock music back
where people actually played their instrument Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Mean look at Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, like the dude didn't
use any ears, he'd had no auto tune and he
played on a stage with cranking sound and nailed it
every time.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And look at the last show, like he can't even
move voice. When you hear him talk, you could tell
the Parkinson's was killing his voice. That I saw him
every year since nineteen eighty. That was the best I've
heard him sound.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Since the eighties.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Like that last show, he was through compassion, giving his
heart to it all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh yeah, And if you talk to the other Sabbath dudes,
they're like, he was there a practice every day, like
work through for this gig.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Worked his ass off.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
He cut off all meds before the show and he's
in severe pain and he was like, no, get rid
of all meds.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
And what he probably detached him from what he wanted
to feel emotionally exactly, the connection to his music and
his audience.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I feel like he knew this was it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, and he wanted to say goodbye to his fans
and only the way Ozzie loved to do.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing that he was here in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, I mean, like, oh my god, and just loved
by everybody in every genre all over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, says a lot, honestly. Yeah, he's he crossed a
lot of bridges for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And now you're gonna he's handing the baton to you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's a big baton to hold. I'm telling you, man,
I don't know if we're strong enough.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, so now you have to kick ass here at
Bourbon beyond him. Maybe now, like maybe go back to
a green room and get a couple of chords down
and maybe you could like start off the show with
like a couple rifts of crazy training and the people
just go fucking nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They probably would, they would.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Or maybe you could do like Mama, I'm coming home
on the banjo.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's a sweet song, right, see that. So there's all
my requests.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, there we go. We got him, we got it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think I've asked too much, so now I think
okay and that and you guys have a final words
for the listeners before we send you off to the
stage to kick.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Our Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Thank you so much for everybody that follow us the
band and looking forward to what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We are excited to do it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
So yeah, we're thrilled and honored. And if you come
out to watch us, hopefully you enjoy the show. If
we can gain a new fan to follow us, that
would be success for us.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And you guys, I know they will enjoy the show.
Anybody else got final words here?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Goo goo dolls give up? Some of your dressing room.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I think you should just go in there and sit
out and like, oh, we thought this was our dressing room.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
We're just super super happy to be here and just
Bourbon and Beyond. It is just such an amazing event
and we're just so proud of this band that we
made it this far and we're just excited to see
where else we take it so.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, Bourbon Beyond, when last another year unless Bourbon Revival
was here.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, we're reviving it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There, you're reviving Bourbon Beyond for the the next generation
of festivals. And thanks for doing that, and thanks for
being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man
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