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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest
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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):
Hi, you have done too, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
For see w forre you young roll.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of
Pipe Man W four c Y Radio.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
And I'm here with Jason Carter.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And Michael Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Nice here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
How's it feel, boys to be here at this great festival?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's great. We love playing bluegrass festivals. We get the
play festivals like this with all different styles of music
and well really a rock and roll festival.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This is great. We're gonna have a blast.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah. Man, it's just an honor to be here.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Man, and I want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Okay, so first of all, how do you guys originally
get together to play together?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
What's the story behind that?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, this is something we've been talking about for years
because Jason and I've known Jason since I was about
thirteen years old.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I met him first in I think ninety three
when he had just started with the Dell McCurry band.
He was always one of my favorite fiddle players, and
later on we kind of got to be friends and
keeping in touch more and we would run into each
other shows and he would invite me up on stage
(01:36):
with Dell or the Traveling McCurry's, and then I would
he would sit in with my band and the twin
fiddle thing. That just kind of worked like we never
really seemed like we never had kind to rehearse anything.
It would just be the thing where I really don't
know what we're gonna do, just come up, can't do it,
and so that rarely works out well. But I think
(02:00):
I've listened to Jason so much, and we both listened
to a lot of the same fiddle players when we
were learning how to play. We have the same heroes
and influences, so it makes it that much easier to
play together. And I remember saying one time, man, what
do you think it'd be like we actually had a
chance to rehearse. And we have been talking about doing
(02:25):
this album together for the last fifteen years. When we
finally got it done and we're so happy about it,
and it's dream come true to me and also a
dream come true for me to get to play these
shows with Jason and the great band, the players that
we have. I will never imagine this.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So nice, that's great, And Jason, way you want to
add to that story from your perspective.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I think he just hit the nail on the head, right.
I remember Mike when I hear we first met, he
was a little He's a few years younger than me.
He was a little guy back then, a little kid man.
He played wonderful, beautifully back then, but he just kept
getting better and better, and always try to say tell
people that I think he's the best fiddle player on
the planet. And so getting played with him, like he said,
(03:13):
we did never had a lot of time to rehearse.
It was just kind of off the cuff, and man,
I don't think we could have done that with another guy.
I couldn't have played with anybody else and it turned
out like it did. Besides Mike, I think he's the
only only way, only person I think that we could
I could have done.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That with nice.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Like he said, we listened to the same We learned
from the same that helped pioneers of bluegrass fiddle, and
you know, so we kind of come from the same school,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So, yeah, that it definitely helps.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And I think we liked it kind of the same
style of music. I think we liked the same stuff.
So it's like easy when we finally did get a
chance to like pick out songs. And I don't know
if we disagreed on anything.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I don't think we ever did.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We might, I know, like you say, I'm the best
fiddle player in the world. Most of the licks I
stole from you.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I'm just trying to yours now.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love after knowing so you guys, knowing each other
for so many years, the respect that you have for
each other like that doesn't always happen in this business, right,
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And we've been friends for a long time. Man, And yeah,
I'm a huge Michael Cleveland fan, so I was trying
to play like him these days.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I want to ask you apinion of Okay, do you
think Michael is such a great fiddle player because of
the hearing and vision issues, because he actually like feels
the music instead of just playing the notes.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Man, I don't know. I think Michael is a great
player because he lives. He's lived to be a fiddle player,
and he's put a lot of work into this and
he's worth day, I mean hours and hours every day
for his entire life to be able to play. You
can't discard that, man, I mean, not put the hours in.
And Michael has put more in than any of us
(05:00):
and it comes and you can tell when you hear
him play.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I love it. Yeah, Oh well, you guys are both
like unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It is not the easiest instrument to play.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
What makes it not the easy, Well, you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Don't it's got a bow. Well that's one thing. You
got to figure out how to use the bow for
one thing, and then you don't have frett so you
have to feel the notes and be able to hear
it to get your intonation. And I have a buddy
of mine that says it it takes four years just
to become a bad fiddler. But Mike even had it
when he was a kid. He had something. But he
even when we first met, I know, he put a
(05:31):
lot of hours in from then and he's really studied
the music. He's really studied and worked at his playing.
So that's man, you nice hard work pays off.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
It's sure does especially and it's in this straight.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You love it?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, right, well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's the point, right, And listen, just like anything, practice, practice, practice,
that's it too.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's it's like if you love something like this. We
were both fans of this music, and like I'm sure
with Mike and I know for me. I was listening
to something today and there was a tune come on
and I remember that being like my favorite tune as
a kid, one of my favorite fiddle tunes, and it
come on today and I was riding down the road
on my way here, and I had I kind of
(06:11):
had that same feeling as that what I did when
I heard it as a kid, and it's like, I
don't get tired of it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I love hearing that. That shows the true passion goes.
This business can beat.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You down after many years, and if you're still feeling
the way you guys do, that shows the true passion
for the music.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Period.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now, what would you say about Jason about what makes
him great? What makes him what you think is one
of the greatest players?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, a lot of the same things. The thing that
I always liked about Jayson's playing, there's a lot of
things to like. And I can hear all the fiddle
players that I like in what he does when he plays.
I hear Benny Martin, I hear Vassar Clements, I hear
Kenny Baker and all that, Bob Higgs and Dale Potter
(07:02):
and pretty much all of them. Then I hear Jason Carter.
Jason has an intensity to the way he plays where
that's like our buddy Jeff, Like says man, when Jason
starts playing and singing, it's like I'm here and I'm
gonna play and sing you into the ground, like I'm
taking no prisoners.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's just like and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What I've always liked. That's the players I've always loved
to listen to, is the ones that just get after nice.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I love it, man, It's funny. It's I fiddle is
usually a backup instrument. And speaking of playing with that
kind of intensity, what he's saying he does that he
doesn't to me, he does it better than anybody. And
he Mike, besides, this band can.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Pull more volume than it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, but he he runs his own band and he
leads his band, and it's usually the leader of the
band is a guitar player or a rhythm instrument or
something like that. For the most part, that's who you're
leaning on. And for somebody to be able to have
that intensity in their fiddle playing like what Mike does
and he leads his own band, it's pretty strong.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Man. It's well.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I listen to your guys songs and yeah, there's serious
intensity there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I actually love to.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I live in South Florida and right down the street
from me there's a park and every weekend there's a
live bluegrass band that plays all the time in the park,
just a chill hang out. Because that's why I think
of when I think of bluegrass, hanging out on the
porch and just jamming.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Some of the greatest bluegrass fiddles and fiddlers that ever
lived came from Florida.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well there you go, see that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Why it's Aubrey Haney.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Nice. Now I want to give a little education to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Listeners because I learned something your song vamp in the Middle. Now,
without knowing what that meant, I had assumptions of what
that meant that were like dead wrong. Tell them what
that means. Because I learned what it meant. Afterwards, I'm like, wow,
(09:08):
I learned what it was, so i'd do it vampires
or something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The fiddle and vampires, I know, right, yeah, no, no, no,
except for tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Sure, But now I think it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think vamp in the middle is actually the rift
in the middle of the song, Like there's a line, Well,
I wrote this song with a vamp in the middle
and instead of another vocal line, the fiddle kind of finishes.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Its alves nice.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And it's that riff that Harder refers to as a
vamp in the middle.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And where did that come from? Do we know where
calling it a vamp.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Wrote that song?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes people so just vamp on
that cord, just kind of yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Because that's why I learned, is it is a fiddle thing,
like vamp is a fiddly.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I've heard musicians use the term to play other instruments,
and it can be a way to describe something.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's like, Okay, we're gonna kick it off, and.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's a verse in a chorus and then it goes
to be in you vamp for a while, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's just I guess, a broad musical term.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, I guess. So I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I think you're probably right for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So hopefully everybody ends at the same time.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's all. That's always what we thrive for.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I just say somebody says vamp on this, and I
and then I think, I just hope I'm doing the
right thing all these years too, right, right, I have
the wrong thing, the right way is there's a song
in that. Yeah, there's a new song right there, right
way there, it is there, it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Is there you go, Jason, give you credit, there you go.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
You could give me for that for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Right, we'll write that one this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
In I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so what else you fifteen percent? That's a lot
for just coming up with him? Oh no, no, no,
we gotta go back up to twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh come on, you were negotiating down.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I got to learn some better negotiating skills.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So tell everybody how they can reach out to you
guys on the web, social media or whatever. Find your music,
find your live tour dates, all.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That Cleveland Fiddle at Jason Carter Fiddle. That's our website.
Is that your website takes carterfiddle dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's my Michael cleveland Fiddle dot com. And
everything on socials is just our name and the word fiddle.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And so if there was no fiddle, then what instrument
would you play?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Man, well, I'd probably be a guitar player. I like
playing guitar.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
If I'm well, I record a lot at my house,
so it kind of keeps me playing fiddle. But man,
when I'm just playing for the hell of it, I
end up just like playing rhythm guitar along with like
usually a live bluegrass show nice, and I just love
(12:30):
I just love playing rhythm guitar. That's probably my next favorite.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, all right, how about you, Jason.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I would probably say the same thing. I started off
on guitar, and I like to play rhythm guitar and sing.
But if it wasn't that, it would might be the
steel guitar just because of it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's hard too.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It's a lot of like fiddle. You have a lot
of moving chords, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
You're crazy enough to play steel guitar.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'm crazy enough to attempt it right.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
It is hard.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's very hard.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't think I could ever get one in tune.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So the first time I did Bourbon and Beyond, I
interviewed Lark.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And Poe I before they got big.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But then while I was watching one of the sisters
play that steel guitar, Oh my god, I was like brilliant.
She was brilliant and one of my best friends. He
was the original lead guitars for the band Anthrax, the
metal band Amtracks. He started playing steel guitar like in
(13:29):
recent years, and he was just telling me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
It's hard, Like I play lead guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And that thing is hard, you know, So more power
to you if you play honestly.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I think when people if they talk, if it's if
they when they say it's hard, or I think any
of it's hard. It depends on how good you want
to get.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And how much you dedicate to it to practice.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I played guitar when I was younger, but I didn't
practice enough, so it was hard and I sucked, you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Know, and want to get dark.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So ain'tthing exciting that you want to talk about that's
coming up?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
After Bourbon and beyond.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, we're headed to Arizona tomorrow. We got two shows,
one in Flagstaff at the Picking in the Pines Festival,
and then Monday we're at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix,
and that's a neat place to play. Man, It's just
where musicians can nerd out look at all these instruments exhibits.
(14:30):
And then right after that is the International Bluegrass Music
Association's World of Bluegrass convincing Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It just moved.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This will be the first year of Chattanooga and we're
playing the awards show on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, and then wow, that will be playing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The festival on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And the first one you said, the picking in the
park was going in the pines and the Pines Okay, yeah,
I automatically assumed that was a bluegrass festival just by
the name.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's like a great name there, but it's primarily a
bluegrass festival. It's a great name like that was brilliant
to come up with that.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That's cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You guys have a final words you want to leave
the listeners with, Man, thanks so much for having us.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, thanks, and thanks for listening to us. Get on
out to Urban and Beyond.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, and thank you guys for being like such amazing
musicians and being here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Thank you man, Thank you you guys.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yes, sir, thank
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on
w for CUI Radio.
Hi, you have done too, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
For see w forre you young roll.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of
Pipe Man W four c Y Radio.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
And I'm here with Jason Carter.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And Michael Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Nice here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
How's it feel, boys to be here at this great festival?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's great. We love playing bluegrass festivals. We get the
play festivals like this with all different styles of music
and well really a rock and roll festival.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This is great. We're gonna have a blast.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah. Man, it's just an honor to be here.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Man, and I want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Okay, so first of all, how do you guys originally
get together to play together?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
What's the story behind that?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, this is something we've been talking about for years
because Jason and I've known Jason since I was about
thirteen years old.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I met him first in I think ninety three
when he had just started with the Dell McCurry band.
He was always one of my favorite fiddle players, and
later on we kind of got to be friends and
keeping in touch more and we would run into each
other shows and he would invite me up on stage
(01:36):
with Dell or the Traveling McCurry's, and then I would
he would sit in with my band and the twin
fiddle thing. That just kind of worked like we never
really seemed like we never had kind to rehearse anything.
It would just be the thing where I really don't
know what we're gonna do, just come up, can't do it,
and so that rarely works out well. But I think
(02:00):
I've listened to Jason so much, and we both listened
to a lot of the same fiddle players when we
were learning how to play. We have the same heroes
and influences, so it makes it that much easier to
play together. And I remember saying one time, man, what
do you think it'd be like we actually had a
chance to rehearse. And we have been talking about doing
(02:25):
this album together for the last fifteen years. When we
finally got it done and we're so happy about it,
and it's dream come true to me and also a
dream come true for me to get to play these
shows with Jason and the great band, the players that
we have. I will never imagine this.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So nice, that's great, And Jason, way you want to
add to that story from your perspective.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I think he just hit the nail on the head, right.
I remember Mike when I hear we first met, he
was a little He's a few years younger than me.
He was a little guy back then, a little kid man.
He played wonderful, beautifully back then, but he just kept
getting better and better, and always try to say tell
people that I think he's the best fiddle player on
the planet. And so getting played with him, like he said,
(03:13):
we did never had a lot of time to rehearse.
It was just kind of off the cuff, and man,
I don't think we could have done that with another guy.
I couldn't have played with anybody else and it turned
out like it did. Besides Mike, I think he's the
only only way, only person I think that we could
I could have done.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That with nice.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Like he said, we listened to the same We learned
from the same that helped pioneers of bluegrass fiddle, and
you know, so we kind of come from the same school,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So, yeah, that it definitely helps.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And I think we liked it kind of the same
style of music. I think we liked the same stuff.
So it's like easy when we finally did get a
chance to like pick out songs. And I don't know
if we disagreed on anything.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I don't think we ever did.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We might, I know, like you say, I'm the best
fiddle player in the world. Most of the licks I
stole from you.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I'm just trying to yours now.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love after knowing so you guys, knowing each other
for so many years, the respect that you have for
each other like that doesn't always happen in this business, right,
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And we've been friends for a long time. Man, And yeah,
I'm a huge Michael Cleveland fan, so I was trying
to play like him these days.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I want to ask you apinion of Okay, do you
think Michael is such a great fiddle player because of
the hearing and vision issues, because he actually like feels
the music instead of just playing the notes.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Man, I don't know. I think Michael is a great
player because he lives. He's lived to be a fiddle player,
and he's put a lot of work into this and
he's worth day, I mean hours and hours every day
for his entire life to be able to play. You
can't discard that, man, I mean, not put the hours in.
And Michael has put more in than any of us
(05:00):
and it comes and you can tell when you hear
him play.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I love it. Yeah, Oh well, you guys are both
like unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It is not the easiest instrument to play.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
What makes it not the easy, Well, you.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Don't it's got a bow. Well that's one thing. You
got to figure out how to use the bow for
one thing, and then you don't have frett so you
have to feel the notes and be able to hear
it to get your intonation. And I have a buddy
of mine that says it it takes four years just
to become a bad fiddler. But Mike even had it
when he was a kid. He had something. But he
even when we first met, I know, he put a
(05:31):
lot of hours in from then and he's really studied
the music. He's really studied and worked at his playing.
So that's man, you nice hard work pays off.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
It's sure does especially and it's in this straight.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You love it?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, right, well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's the point, right, And listen, just like anything, practice, practice, practice,
that's it too.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's it's like if you love something like this. We
were both fans of this music, and like I'm sure
with Mike and I know for me. I was listening
to something today and there was a tune come on
and I remember that being like my favorite tune as
a kid, one of my favorite fiddle tunes, and it
come on today and I was riding down the road
on my way here, and I had I kind of
(06:11):
had that same feeling as that what I did when
I heard it as a kid, and it's like, I
don't get tired of it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I love hearing that. That shows the true passion goes.
This business can beat.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You down after many years, and if you're still feeling
the way you guys do, that shows the true passion
for the music.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Period.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now, what would you say about Jason about what makes
him great? What makes him what you think is one
of the greatest players?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, a lot of the same things. The thing that
I always liked about Jayson's playing, there's a lot of
things to like. And I can hear all the fiddle
players that I like in what he does when he plays.
I hear Benny Martin, I hear Vassar Clements, I hear
Kenny Baker and all that, Bob Higgs and Dale Potter
(07:02):
and pretty much all of them. Then I hear Jason Carter.
Jason has an intensity to the way he plays where
that's like our buddy Jeff, Like says man, when Jason
starts playing and singing, it's like I'm here and I'm
gonna play and sing you into the ground, like I'm
taking no prisoners.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's just like and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What I've always liked. That's the players I've always loved
to listen to, is the ones that just get after nice.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I love it, man, It's funny. It's I fiddle is
usually a backup instrument. And speaking of playing with that
kind of intensity, what he's saying he does that he
doesn't to me, he does it better than anybody. And
he Mike, besides, this band can.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Pull more volume than it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, but he he runs his own band and he
leads his band, and it's usually the leader of the
band is a guitar player or a rhythm instrument or
something like that. For the most part, that's who you're
leaning on. And for somebody to be able to have
that intensity in their fiddle playing like what Mike does
and he leads his own band, it's pretty strong.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Man. It's well.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I listen to your guys songs and yeah, there's serious
intensity there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I actually love to.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I live in South Florida and right down the street
from me there's a park and every weekend there's a
live bluegrass band that plays all the time in the park,
just a chill hang out. Because that's why I think
of when I think of bluegrass, hanging out on the
porch and just jamming.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Some of the greatest bluegrass fiddles and fiddlers that ever
lived came from Florida.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well there you go, see that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Why it's Aubrey Haney.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Nice. Now I want to give a little education to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Listeners because I learned something your song vamp in the Middle. Now,
without knowing what that meant, I had assumptions of what
that meant that were like dead wrong. Tell them what
that means. Because I learned what it meant. Afterwards, I'm like, wow,
(09:08):
I learned what it was, so i'd do it vampires
or something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The fiddle and vampires, I know, right, yeah, no, no, no,
except for tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Sure, But now I think it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think vamp in the middle is actually the rift
in the middle of the song, Like there's a line, Well,
I wrote this song with a vamp in the middle
and instead of another vocal line, the fiddle kind of finishes.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Its alves nice.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And it's that riff that Harder refers to as a
vamp in the middle.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And where did that come from? Do we know where
calling it a vamp.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Wrote that song?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes people so just vamp on
that cord, just kind of yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Because that's why I learned, is it is a fiddle thing,
like vamp is a fiddly.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I've heard musicians use the term to play other instruments,
and it can be a way to describe something.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's like, Okay, we're gonna kick it off, and.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's a verse in a chorus and then it goes
to be in you vamp for a while, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's just I guess, a broad musical term.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, I guess. So I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I think you're probably right for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So hopefully everybody ends at the same time.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's all. That's always what we thrive for.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I just say somebody says vamp on this, and I
and then I think, I just hope I'm doing the
right thing all these years too, right, right, I have
the wrong thing, the right way is there's a song
in that. Yeah, there's a new song right there, right
way there, it is there, it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Is there you go, Jason, give you credit, there you go.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
You could give me for that for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Right, we'll write that one this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
In I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so what else you fifteen percent? That's a lot
for just coming up with him? Oh no, no, no,
we gotta go back up to twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh come on, you were negotiating down.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I got to learn some better negotiating skills.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So tell everybody how they can reach out to you
guys on the web, social media or whatever. Find your music,
find your live tour dates, all.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That Cleveland Fiddle at Jason Carter Fiddle. That's our website.
Is that your website takes carterfiddle dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's my Michael cleveland Fiddle dot com. And
everything on socials is just our name and the word fiddle.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And so if there was no fiddle, then what instrument
would you play?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Man, well, I'd probably be a guitar player. I like
playing guitar.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
If I'm well, I record a lot at my house,
so it kind of keeps me playing fiddle. But man,
when I'm just playing for the hell of it, I
end up just like playing rhythm guitar along with like
usually a live bluegrass show nice, and I just love
(12:30):
I just love playing rhythm guitar. That's probably my next favorite.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, all right, how about you, Jason.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I would probably say the same thing. I started off
on guitar, and I like to play rhythm guitar and sing.
But if it wasn't that, it would might be the
steel guitar just because of it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's hard too.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It's a lot of like fiddle. You have a lot
of moving chords, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
You're crazy enough to play steel guitar.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'm crazy enough to attempt it right.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
It is hard.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's very hard.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't think I could ever get one in tune.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So the first time I did Bourbon and Beyond, I
interviewed Lark.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And Poe I before they got big.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But then while I was watching one of the sisters
play that steel guitar, Oh my god, I was like brilliant.
She was brilliant and one of my best friends. He
was the original lead guitars for the band Anthrax, the
metal band Amtracks. He started playing steel guitar like in
(13:29):
recent years, and he was just telling me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
It's hard, Like I play lead guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And that thing is hard, you know, So more power
to you if you play honestly.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I think when people if they talk, if it's if
they when they say it's hard, or I think any
of it's hard. It depends on how good you want
to get.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And how much you dedicate to it to practice.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I played guitar when I was younger, but I didn't
practice enough, so it was hard and I sucked, you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Know, and want to get dark.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So ain'tthing exciting that you want to talk about that's
coming up?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
After Bourbon and beyond.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, we're headed to Arizona tomorrow. We got two shows,
one in Flagstaff at the Picking in the Pines Festival,
and then Monday we're at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix,
and that's a neat place to play. Man, It's just
where musicians can nerd out look at all these instruments exhibits.
(14:30):
And then right after that is the International Bluegrass Music
Association's World of Bluegrass convincing Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It just moved.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This will be the first year of Chattanooga and we're
playing the awards show on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, and then wow, that will be playing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The festival on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And the first one you said, the picking in the
park was going in the pines and the Pines Okay, yeah,
I automatically assumed that was a bluegrass festival just by
the name.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's like a great name there, but it's primarily a
bluegrass festival. It's a great name like that was brilliant
to come up with that.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That's cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You guys have a final words you want to leave
the listeners with, Man, thanks so much for having us.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, thanks, and thanks for listening to us. Get on
out to Urban and Beyond.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, and thank you guys for being like such amazing
musicians and being here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Thank you man, Thank you you guys.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yes, sir, thank
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on
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