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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you a songwriter? Are you looking to turn your
songwriting passion into a full time gig gig? Whether you
are just at the start of your songwriting journey or
a seasoned industry professional, this show is made for you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We would welcome to the Songwriter Show, bringing together songwriting, news,
interviews and communitating. Now welcome your host Sarantos.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Thank you all for tuning in tonight, and welcome back
to the Songwriter Show. I'm your humble host, Srontos, a
solo music artist who's been writing lyrics for as long
as I can remember. Words are so important to me,
and that's why I love to host this show for
you every single Tuesday evening on Reality Radio one to one.
I believe that every song is an important story. Tonight,
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I'm so happy to have on the show. Brian Coosort.
Coming from an already musically gifted family, He's always been
around music from a time he was a toddler. At
age nine or ten, he experienced his first bluegrass music
show and fell in love. Then he began and leaning
towards playing the madeline, then the guitar, the bass, and
through the years he's played in a bunch of groups
and eventually he's released three solo projects on his own.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now welcome this week's special guest.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Welcome to show, Brian.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How are you man, I'm doing really well. How about you.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm doing well, So thank you for being on the
show tonight. Man. So, you know, coming from a musical family,
I feel like you probably had a huge advantage. But
did you ever feel pressured like you had to play
an instrument or you had to do something musical?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh? Absolutely not. Music has been in my blood for
so long. I mean, like I was saying in my bio,
just from the time as I was a toddler. You know,
every year my family would get together, you know, am
I go on the fourth or July or something like
that and have get together played music, and they play
all kinds of songs around the camp for with their guitars,
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and it's just it's some of the greatest memories that
I have in my childhood and natural they really did.
And I started, like I said there about when I
was nine or ten years old, really getting curious about
it and I wanted to learn an instrument. And my
uncle had presented a guitar to me, but it was
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so so large at the time that I just didn't
feel comfortable with it. And then I went to my
first bluegrass show and I discovered the mandolin, and from
there I was hooked and that's what I wanted to play,
and I strove to play and spent plus to thirty
years perfecting that mandlin.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
So put your finest musical memory in your neighborhood, not
in your house, in your neighborhood or your town again.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, just to get together with the family, my music,
lots of friends, that sort of thing. I never really
got a chance to do much with concerts or anything
like that. I guess they could say bluegrass festivals and
kind of Saturday night shows was my concerts, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So tell us a little bit about how you come
up with a song? Do you you start the mandolin?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Uh, how do you do it?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, on mandolin, it's it's my primary instrument and
my best instrument. But the songs that I've written I
liven to day so far. They've literally just fell out
of the air. It's like a higher power just kind
of sent THEE sent the songs down to me and
I had to figure them out. And uh, usually when
I start writing a song, I go with the music
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first of the instrumentation, because that's kind of natural for me.
I've always been very instrumental. In any instrument instrumental music,
I can play it in every chance I get. I
do it from there, and once I get that basic
arrangement down, I didn't start working on the lyrics and
seeing how the lyrics are going to fit into that.
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And uh, it just it's literally just comes out of
the air. It's it's hard to explain.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Sure, okay, hawf And do you write do you try
to write every day every week or half of do
you write?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well? I started writing probably seriously around twenty nineteen, and
they had a couple of songs in the back of
my head. They're kind of floating around, and I put
a little bit of working to and then life kind
of gotten away and I fell away from that. But uh,
it was twenty twenty. I had taken a vacation to
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West Virginia and it's where a lot of my family
and or from and still live there today. So I
had been singing down there one night and I grabbed
my mandling out just to kind of play around and
noodle a little bit and then these songs started coming
out of the air to me. Those two songs I
literally wrote probably within two hours. It's amazing how things work.
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And it was the Hills of Riley County and a
Mom Song, which were both songs on my solo approach.
It's also called Mom Song.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
What advice would you give someone who is going to
start playing the mandolin? Any advice?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Oh, definitely make sure you actually went to do it first,
because even me, at first, I was kind of skeptical
of it, but I really sat down so so just
you got to have the want and the drive to
do it, okay, and then practice, practice, practice, practice, get
as much of that as you can. Get knowledge from
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other players too, and the way they do things, you know,
that's a lot of how I learned to play.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Really.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I was watching others and things like that, and I
had some folks that's showed me, you know, a little
bits and pieces here first porch and stuff. But I
never really took any fruil lessons. I was self taught.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Tell us about this song that we're going to hear.
What inspired this one?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Okay? That's Amber Jewel. I always love you.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Amber came into my life at the time I'm writing
that song about two years ago, and she's just been
a blessing and just a gift in my life. Somebody
that I had been looking for for a long time,
and I've been in a while I was in my life,
and she's helped me come back from out of those thoughs.
And I got to thinking one night about how great
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she is and just how to you know, I was
with her and I went to bed, and I had
to work the next day, but I went to bed
and I walked up at about one thirty and the
ideas for the song and the words just kind of
started overflowing overploning in my brain. And I got up
and I started writing on the words down and by
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one week I went ahead and worked on the music
and I kind of put everything together, and I would
say in the course of a week or two, I
had her song made up. And she's just my my love,
and I love her dearly, and I wanted to give
her something as a gift, and I literally gave her
that song as a gift for Christmas, so needless side,
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she was pretty happy about that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Son awesome. Okay, I'll tell you what. Let's take a
listen and then we'll come back and tomorrow. Okay, okay, awesome.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I've searched the homework, not offer for many longears only
news and said, notice, I've read many a tear until
to days like a rain drop.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You fell from both the Lord.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Sent to me the one I meant to both, Amber Joel,
Hamberjul I've been moping for you.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I've prayed my dream you found me came true.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
I'm home again mon acause of you. At how long
ways of you just sat hugs touch that's old tree,
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her beauty had her smile, no longer had Jesus in
her crime. That's perfect in mind for thinking God every day,
he said, Ruth from amp Joel, am Joel, having longing
for you, I've.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Prayed my dream you found me came true.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I'm home again, loved all because of you, Ambra Joel.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
Howways love you, Amberjewel Hamber Jewel, having longing.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
For you, I've prayed, like dream your family. I'm home
again in the month all because of you. Always love you.
I'm home again, Love, I'm all because of you.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I always love you.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, thank you for sharing that song with us tonight.
Oh absolutely, So what do you have planned for the
fans this year, anything in terms of gigs, anything in
terms of new music. What do you got for them?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I'm working on some new music right now. It's all process.
I'm writing a little bit of life kind of gotten
in a way, some health challenge and things like a.
So I've actually tooken a little bit of a break.
I'm trying to get back more active in it. But
I'm not committed to really any groups right now. I'm
just sort of doing my own thing, something I've been
wanting to do, you know, personal offs I've been playing.
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You know, I made that happen, you know in twenty
twenty one when I released mom Song, my first album.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do you teach music at all? Or the maddling?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I have not actually given anybody lessens a I've mean,
I asked, but I just could never make it work out.
Especially now since I've gotten older, maybe a little more pastient,
I could probably start exploring and to given lessons. If
anybody would be interested out there, I'd definitely be happy
to get them started in the best way I can.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So sure, how do you get started? It was a
little different for you because you were in the family,
But how do you get start transitioning to a professional status.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, I'd say a lot of experience. Experience. You know,
I never made it really big out hair you know,
you know name Breen artists. I've always been more left
local and regional person and that includes the groups that
I've played in. But if you really want to tack
it to that next level, you know, work hard, practicing,
and most importantly get it to right people. And a
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lot of times too, h Thanks, it's following place at
the right time. So you got to keep that in mind.
But and the biggest thing I can give to anybody
out there, never give a keep trying if it's something
you love and it gives you enjoyment, and that's really
where it matters in the beginning anyway. So just work
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hard and you'll get to.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That's all you got to do, right, is just work hard.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah. One of the questions I like to ask a
lot of people is about scams. Any scams you've fallen for,
any that you want to warn us about.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, I'm pretty I'm pretty careful with things, Like I
decid I haven't actually been scammed. I like to do homework,
I like to research about something before I get into it.
You know, there's just two many scam thought through in
the world today, you know that people fill for and uh,
it's it's a terrible thing. And and Brad not be
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the victim on that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So is there any career advice you receive for someone
in your family that you want to share with us
that you thought was great.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Career advice such as I'm kind.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Of such as don't trust anybody. I don't know. Just
any kind of career advice that someone in the family
gave you.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh, it would definitely be my uncle. You know. He said,
if you're ever getting down on your music or anything
like that, and I'll be the first admit I've been
in those boats and it's not a good place to be.
But if you're ever getting down, uh, just remember that
you're gifted and your gifted for a reason and somebody
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out there is going to get enjoyment out of what
you do, whether it's ten thousand people for a thousand
people or one person. So he just always say, keep
your hat up, keep the work up. You know, in
in the end it's going to be worth it.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah. Okay, when you look at social media, do you
think that's helped you hurt you any comments on that
specifically for your.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Career, absolutely?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Social media is a powerful thing and any time I
made any releases or songs uff like that, economics post
on there and it gets the word out. And unfortunately
at this point in time, I don't have a formal
music patch for myself, but I'm looking to start one
of those, maybe before long, by the end of the year,
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i'd say film feeling like I'm need one of those,
But I am available on other sides as well.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Okay, are you a comic book nut? Do you have
any comic book that you'd like to read that you
want to share with us?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
On the books, I never really got into those. Reading.
I like murder mysteries and things like that, or movies
and things like I'd like to watch. Television is actually
something I stray away from quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
All Right. If there was a career or dream job
that you could make out of thin air, what would
it be?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
A full time musician. I've always wanted to do that,
even if it's just for a short three or four years,
you know, just kind of have the experience and get
that under my belt. Again, I think it's about being
in the right place at the right times for those opportunities.
But I could just we start working towards that and
you know, if it's meant to be, it'll happen. So definitely,
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full time musician would be my top job.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Do you have any hit and talent that you want
to confess to us on the show tonight?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Oh, head and talent. I've always been a technology geeks,
so to speak. If you ever need anything done with
your computer, I feel free to ask and I can
probably help you. I've always been into electronicy things like
that ever since I was probably a teenager, so I'm
a little technical in that department. So feel pretty Connell.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, it's if you could create it's some kind of
AI or creates some kind of technical thing that could
help you that isn't around today. What would that be,
I'm not really sure?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
What do you think about when you're loaning your car?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
What do I think about in the core a loan music?
Quite in music? Or I'm thinking about like a real
for namber, you know, since she's number one?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
All right, So tell us about your websites, your socials,
where it can people buy your stuff stream it before
we let you go.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Okay, Yeah, like I said before, I don't have a
formeral website yet, but my projects are available on YouTube
regular YouTube and YouTube music, Amazon, Apple Music, iTunes, Pandor
Radio and Spotify, any of those outlets. If you just
type in Brian Coswort or Brian Coswort Music, it's pretty
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easy to find me on there. So the Facebook page,
how you do a Facebook page? Like I said, maybe
about the end of the year, I'd like to get
something rolling on that. It just takes some time.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay. I want to thank you so much for being
on the show tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Dude, oh thank you for having me and I sure
enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You're welcome. We enjoyed it too. And to all the
listeners out there, thank you for sharing a little bit
of your time with us tonight. If any of you
are artists out there and you want to be on
The Songwriter Show, please go to the interview request form
at Songwriter Show dot com. Otherwise, thank you so much
again for listening. We hope your unique story gets heard
around the world too. My name is Sarantos. Please join
us every Tuesday evening on Reality Radio one oh one
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Have a great night. I love you all.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
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