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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 houst Sarantos.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you so much, Welcome back to the Songwriter Show.
I'm your host, Soronto So, a solo music artist and
songwriter who's always, always, always believed in the power of words.
Here on the Songwriter Show, we bring you behind the
scenes when some of today's most inspiring songwriters giving you
a glimpse into their stories that shape their songs. Tonight,
(00:45):
I'm so excited to have Marilyn Raikes from the Bear
Pickens Band. She's always had a little bit of music
in her life in one form or another. Her father
was a songwriter and her mother had a beautiful voice.
She'd been blessed musically with a little bit of each
of their talents. Remembers as a child acting out the
musical numbers in different movies and wanting to be on
stage for as long as she can remember.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And now welcome this week's special guest, Special guest.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Welcome to show, Marilyn. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm good. Thank you for joining us this evening.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You're welcome. So when did you start playing? It sounds
like your little family background there, But when did you
start playing?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, little family background. I've played guitars probably since I
was a teenager. As I said in my bio, my
mom had bought me another guitar and I took some
lessons then. So I learned the basics and I was
able to play some songs here and then, and then
you know, life happens, and the guitar kind of got
stood in the corner and forgotten about for a little while,
(01:47):
and I pick it up every so often. I can
also play keyboard, and currently I do play mandolin in
the Bear Pickens band. But yeah about oh, I don't know.
Twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, my husband and I decided to
dust off both of our guitars and do some live
music and form a band. And ever since then we've
(02:10):
been playing and entertaining people with our music.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's awesome. So mandolin is one of those things I've
kind of always wanted to play, so you got to
tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I started out because at first the guitar was a
little bit big for me, and I thought I need
something a little bit smaller to play. And a friend
of mine had a mandolin, and I said, I asked
him if I could could use it and try it,
and he did, and I instantly fell in love with it.
So I've been playing that now for about six years,
and I do absolutely love it. So I go back
(02:42):
and forth between both the mandolin and the guitar on
my playing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Is there like a musical memory in your house growing
up that just you'll never forget that you want to
share with us.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I think the biggest thing is that my dad being
a songwriter himself. Fortunately, with him passing when I was
so young, I never really got to know him, but
I do remember playing his old guitar and just sitting
there and strumming it. I didn't really know much about
the chords and stuff at that time, but I remember
(03:16):
playing it, and I just remember there was a sense
of connection to him that I never had. So I
always told myself that one day when I grew up,
I would learn to play the instrument, and that I
would have. He had a Gibson guitar and I always
wanted to have one just like his.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So all right, that's pretty cool. How often do you
practice every day?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Now? It's every day? In fact, in the living room,
we have our instruments kind of just set up next
to our chairs there, and if we're watching TV and
the commercial comes on, we pick the instrument up and
go through a couple numbers, or you know, we'll just
sit there for a couple hours and go through some
stuff and practice some things. So yeah, every day I
(03:59):
pick up and play.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you ever miss a day?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh yeah, occasionally. All right, life does get in the web,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just wanted to make sure, all right, So tell
us a little bit about how you balance this music
career with your husband other obligations that you might have.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, that could be kind of tough at times. We
recently downsized and moved into a smaller home and it
needed a lot of different updates. So just doing some
of the remodeling and painting and you know, the landscaping
and stuff like that is keeping us busy. And then
we try to we try to balance that with playing
(04:39):
out and doing that as much as we can. They
tease me in the band because I'm the booking agent
and they always tell me that I booked too many shows.
But okay, we need to take a break so we
could get this done or get that done. I'm like, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, okay. Tell us about your songwriting processes. It lyrics first,
music first, mandolin first. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It's pretty much lyrics first. I can I can hear something,
somebody can say something and they'll tuck away a little
a little snippet from that, or my mind will just wander.
I'll see something and it's like, okay, I've got to
write these lyrics down. And that's generally my processes. I'll
go and I'll write down the lyrics and then I'll
(05:22):
start forming how I wanted to sound, if I wanted
to be a happier song or slower song. We were
watching gun Smoke one night and one of the characters
on the show he said, there ain't going to be
no moon tonight. Paul and I got up from the
chair and I went in the other room and I
was busy working on something, and my husband says, what
(05:43):
are you doing, and I said, write a song, and
lo and behold, that ain't going to be no mood
tonight came as one of our songs.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right, tell us about this song. We're going to hear.
What inspired this one.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
We were on vacation and we were traveling from North Carolina,
or from Tennessee into North Carolina, and we were just
driving along, had a couple hours to waste, just driving,
and so I was sitting in the backseat just staring
out the window, and the words just started coming to me.
So I just started writing them down. And when we
(06:17):
got to the rental house where we were staying then
for the weekend, said okay, guys, I've got these words.
Let's work out a tune. And we figured out the
tune for it. And that's how Back to My Mountain
Home was born.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, tell you what. Let's take a listen and
we'll come back and talk tomorrow. Okay, okay, awesome, Right,
everybody check this out. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Mount the bridge and smokies function all the coasm it
thing ship bufic sunshine streaming up home s foo it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You've seen his own money.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Backing. Get stressful and you get to your people potmans up.
Today we'll take it off and running through like gottle mountain.
We'll take a mistress crid with.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Take me back to the mom's game back willing sloop,
taking me back.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Below and after do a blow mouth and home, take
me back to easy living and leave its own less
stress beg.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But to my long love.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
D through the mountains swell A real need to see
is the open end the bridles sky whereverybo and doubles
me and destoyed and written.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
At the mountains by you back to.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Taking me back the monster again at will stool, take
a big back for love, and after do my good
old mountain home, take a bad back.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
A little bit and leave, and all that stress feedback
back to.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
My man mallow.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Taking me back again. When is taking me back.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
A good mountain home?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Taking me back all this js.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
B b MA, So thank you for sharing that song
with us tonight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Oh You're welcome. That's a fun song if you listen
real close to it. There's a little giggle right before
the final chorus. And it was just one of those
moments when we were recording and my husband did something
with his little riff he does on his guitar and
it made me giggle, and then I started singing and
the producer wanted to take it out, and I said, no, no,
(10:01):
leave it in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Later.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I love crap like that. I do stuff like that
all and people are like, oh, what's with that crap
in the beginning or at the end, or it's like,
listen if you want to listen to professional you know,
don't listen to my shit. Because I try anything I
can to be different.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
So yeah, you do. You have to do that, and
you have to I mean, when it happens, you've got
to embrace it. We were just we just finished recording
our new CD and we were doing it here in
the house and we had the room sound proofed, all
the windows closed and doors closed, and we were recording
the song. And when we got finished recording, you could
(10:37):
hear the birds singing outside so loud that they came
on to the recording and the producers like, oh, I
got to cut that. I got to cut that out,
and we were like, no, leave it in there.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. Well, and that also goes into making things human
mm hmm. In the past, I used to auto tune
my stuff, and then I got better at melodine and
now It's like, you can have this perfectly pitch thing
that's not off by even a couple cents, but I
think at certain parts you want it to sound authentic
and a little different. And it's such a judgment call,
(11:11):
you know. Sometimes in the past people would say all
your stuff is pitch, you always ought it. They don't
really say that anymore. But it's kind of funny sometimes
where if people say that, they're not really sure what
they're talking about. It might be the tone, it might
be something completely different.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Right, And as a songwriter, you know, you know you
have the song sound how you want it to do,
how you feel it. So if it comes out a
little quirky, you know, so be it. That's what you
were going for.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, that's a nice thing about being an indie artist too,
is you're not going to be judged. Yeah, and I
look at some of these really famous songs and you're like, wait,
that has like three hundred thousand like hates and dislikes
and it's like a classic song. So I think you're
never gonna make everybody happy.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Anyway, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
What's your favorite eighties jam?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
My favorite eighties jam? Hmm, I was raising babies back then.
So what were we listening to? I would think I
was into country back then. So I was listening to
a lot of the country artists back in that day.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Anyone stand out in particular, like any artist Garth Brooks or.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
What Brooks and Dunn listen to a lot of them.
Keith Whitley listen to a lot of his music.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
All right, So do you have like a mom or
woman's superpower that you want to confess on the show.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
A mom or a superpower?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I have very very good hearing. I can hear the
drop of a pin in the next door neighbor's house
and everybody's like, how did you hear that? It's like,
I don't know. I just I have this supersonic hearing.
So don't whisper any secrets about me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So you're a poor husband, Yeah, all right. If you
could watch like only one genre of movies for us
through your life, which one would it be?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
And why?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Oh, let's see right now, we're into watching kind of
I guess I want to call them cozy mysteries. There
are mystery shows, murder crime shows, but they're not the
hardcore glory ones. Sure, they're just the one, you know,
the lighthearted. Oh there's someone dead, Okay, let's go solve it.
So we're kind of into watching those kind of movies
right now.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That's great, like Scooby Doo basically.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Is there a fictional character that you relate to really well?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh, fictional character?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That's a that's kind of a tough one. I can't
think of anything there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
If you think of something, just holler back, is there.
One of the questions I like to ask a lot
of songwriters is about scams, anyone that you might have
fallen for, or anything you want to warn us about
so we can all protect each other.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
At this point, I've been pretty lucky where I haven't
fallen for anything. I'm a pretty skeptical person, so if
something comes along, I'm going to check it out as
thoroughly as i can before diving in to see what
it's all about.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you could instantly learn an instrument, any instrument other
than the mandlin, which one would it be? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I think right now it might be the fiddle. I
love a good fiddle sound, but it's very hard instrument
to learn, so I think that would be a good
one that I'd like to master.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Is there like a common stereotype that you see and
hear about all the time about musicians that drives you crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Sometimes, especially with the bluegrass world, A lot of people
say that you have to sing through your nose in
order to sing bluegrass, and that's just not true at all.
It isn't These songs are just there's songs about everyday
life and they come from the heart, and yeah, you
don't have to be nasally about them at all.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Last question, this is a really tough one. Are you
more of a hunter or a gatherer?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I think I'm more of a gatherer. Yeah. I think
it's just the mom in me, the protector and me
so I would much rather be here at home taking
care of the home, let my husband go and be
the hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Does he know that?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think he does.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, all right, you know I thought of another question.
Were you like in high school?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I was kind of quiet and shy in high school.
I didn't really belong to, you know, the popular clicks
and that. I mean, I knew people and I did stuff,
but I kind of stayed to myself and just had
a core group of friends. So yeah, that was pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I know this is going to shock you, but I
was the same exact way. Really must be that tortured
artist personality or something.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, tell us where people can buy your stuff,
stream it, find you online, or whatever platform you want
to give a shout out to.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
We are streaming on all of the music platforms. Just
type in their pick and spand we also have a
web page and YouTube again they'll bear Pickens Band, and
we also have our Facebook, so please like us on Facebook.
We're trying to get up to two thousand subscribers, so
if you listeners could help with that, we'd be very
(16:12):
appreciative of that. And Pickens is spelled with two eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
All right, Well, I want to thank you so much
for being on the show tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Thank you. I've really enjoyed this. I love listening to
the show.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
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listeners tonight for being a part of the Songwriter Show tonight.
If you're an artist with this story to share, we'd
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(16:49):
and let's let all of our stories be heard. I
love you guys, have a great night. See you next
Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Oh look what you've done.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
To me? My life began to.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Day we that we danced among the stars the very day.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Was her lefter satisfied on it till we hit an
icebergat we stopp being.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
In fun an hour two said ships are alone? A seproceeeds.
She found a new compass. What I wonder does he
look like me?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
My love?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Are you painting sophonies? Are you thking of me?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
My?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm always around.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
I won't leave her alone though she's left me, true,
I hate I hate to see her happy happy without me.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
So ready did a year.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I stated, But she has closed the book, though I
keep rereading pages.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I'm just not okay. Why doesn't she miss me?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
At her lover's comical while I'm standing in her way?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
She found a newcombuss, But I wonder does he need those?
Left me?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
My God?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Are you painting so Lenny? Are you thinking of me,
my love always around.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I relieve her love though she's left me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
True, So I hate.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I hate to see her happy happy without me. Jus hate.
(19:18):
I hate to see your happy, happy, happy, happy.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Happy without me.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I hate to see you're happy happy without me.
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Speaker 3 (20:43):
Any anything, anything, any anywhere. No singling, hanging, hanging, m
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 houst Sarantos.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you so much, Welcome back to the Songwriter Show.
I'm your host, Soronto So, a solo music artist and
songwriter who's always, always, always believed in the power of words.
Here on the Songwriter Show, we bring you behind the
scenes when some of today's most inspiring songwriters giving you
a glimpse into their stories that shape their songs. Tonight,
(00:45):
I'm so excited to have Marilyn Raikes from the Bear
Pickens Band. She's always had a little bit of music
in her life in one form or another. Her father
was a songwriter and her mother had a beautiful voice.
She'd been blessed musically with a little bit of each
of their talents. Remembers as a child acting out the
musical numbers in different movies and wanting to be on
stage for as long as she can remember.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And now welcome this week's special guest, Special guest.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Welcome to show, Marilyn. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm good. Thank you for joining us this evening.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You're welcome. So when did you start playing? It sounds
like your little family background there, But when did you
start playing?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, little family background. I've played guitars probably since I
was a teenager. As I said in my bio, my
mom had bought me another guitar and I took some
lessons then. So I learned the basics and I was
able to play some songs here and then, and then
you know, life happens, and the guitar kind of got
stood in the corner and forgotten about for a little while,
(01:47):
and I pick it up every so often. I can
also play keyboard, and currently I do play mandolin in
the Bear Pickens band. But yeah about oh, I don't know.
Twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, my husband and I decided to
dust off both of our guitars and do some live
music and form a band. And ever since then we've
(02:10):
been playing and entertaining people with our music.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's awesome. So mandolin is one of those things I've
kind of always wanted to play, so you got to
tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I started out because at first the guitar was a
little bit big for me, and I thought I need
something a little bit smaller to play. And a friend
of mine had a mandolin, and I said, I asked
him if I could could use it and try it,
and he did, and I instantly fell in love with it.
So I've been playing that now for about six years,
and I do absolutely love it. So I go back
(02:42):
and forth between both the mandolin and the guitar on
my playing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Is there like a musical memory in your house growing
up that just you'll never forget that you want to
share with us.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I think the biggest thing is that my dad being
a songwriter himself. Fortunately, with him passing when I was
so young, I never really got to know him, but
I do remember playing his old guitar and just sitting
there and strumming it. I didn't really know much about
the chords and stuff at that time, but I remember
(03:16):
playing it, and I just remember there was a sense
of connection to him that I never had. So I
always told myself that one day when I grew up,
I would learn to play the instrument, and that I
would have. He had a Gibson guitar and I always
wanted to have one just like his.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So all right, that's pretty cool. How often do you
practice every day?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Now? It's every day? In fact, in the living room,
we have our instruments kind of just set up next
to our chairs there, and if we're watching TV and
the commercial comes on, we pick the instrument up and
go through a couple numbers, or you know, we'll just
sit there for a couple hours and go through some
stuff and practice some things. So yeah, every day I
(03:59):
pick up and play.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you ever miss a day?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh yeah, occasionally. All right, life does get in the web,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just wanted to make sure, all right, So tell
us a little bit about how you balance this music
career with your husband other obligations that you might have.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, that could be kind of tough at times. We
recently downsized and moved into a smaller home and it
needed a lot of different updates. So just doing some
of the remodeling and painting and you know, the landscaping
and stuff like that is keeping us busy. And then
we try to we try to balance that with playing
(04:39):
out and doing that as much as we can. They
tease me in the band because I'm the booking agent
and they always tell me that I booked too many shows.
But okay, we need to take a break so we
could get this done or get that done. I'm like, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, okay. Tell us about your songwriting processes. It lyrics first,
music first, mandolin first. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It's pretty much lyrics first. I can I can hear something,
somebody can say something and they'll tuck away a little
a little snippet from that, or my mind will just wander.
I'll see something and it's like, okay, I've got to
write these lyrics down. And that's generally my processes. I'll
go and I'll write down the lyrics and then I'll
(05:22):
start forming how I wanted to sound, if I wanted
to be a happier song or slower song. We were
watching gun Smoke one night and one of the characters
on the show he said, there ain't going to be
no moon tonight. Paul and I got up from the
chair and I went in the other room and I
was busy working on something, and my husband says, what
(05:43):
are you doing, and I said, write a song, and
lo and behold, that ain't going to be no mood
tonight came as one of our songs.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right, tell us about this song. We're going to hear.
What inspired this one.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
We were on vacation and we were traveling from North Carolina,
or from Tennessee into North Carolina, and we were just
driving along, had a couple hours to waste, just driving,
and so I was sitting in the backseat just staring
out the window, and the words just started coming to me.
So I just started writing them down. And when we
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got to the rental house where we were staying then
for the weekend, said okay, guys, I've got these words.
Let's work out a tune. And we figured out the
tune for it. And that's how Back to My Mountain
Home was born.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, tell you what. Let's take a listen and
we'll come back and talk tomorrow. Okay, okay, awesome, Right,
everybody check this out. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Mount the bridge and smokies function all the coasm it
thing ship bufic sunshine streaming up home s foo it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You've seen his own money.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Backing. Get stressful and you get to your people potmans up.
Today we'll take it off and running through like gottle mountain.
We'll take a mistress crid with.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Take me back to the mom's game back willing sloop,
taking me back.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Below and after do a blow mouth and home, take
me back to easy living and leave its own less
stress beg.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But to my long love.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
D through the mountains swell A real need to see
is the open end the bridles sky whereverybo and doubles
me and destoyed and written.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
At the mountains by you back to.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Taking me back the monster again at will stool, take
a big back for love, and after do my good
old mountain home, take a bad back.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
A little bit and leave, and all that stress feedback
back to.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
My man mallow.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Taking me back again. When is taking me back.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
A good mountain home?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Taking me back all this js.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
B b MA, So thank you for sharing that song
with us tonight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Oh You're welcome. That's a fun song if you listen
real close to it. There's a little giggle right before
the final chorus. And it was just one of those
moments when we were recording and my husband did something
with his little riff he does on his guitar and
it made me giggle, and then I started singing and
the producer wanted to take it out, and I said, no, no,
(10:01):
leave it in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Later.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I love crap like that. I do stuff like that
all and people are like, oh, what's with that crap
in the beginning or at the end, or it's like,
listen if you want to listen to professional you know,
don't listen to my shit. Because I try anything I
can to be different.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
So yeah, you do. You have to do that, and
you have to I mean, when it happens, you've got
to embrace it. We were just we just finished recording
our new CD and we were doing it here in
the house and we had the room sound proofed, all
the windows closed and doors closed, and we were recording
the song. And when we got finished recording, you could
(10:37):
hear the birds singing outside so loud that they came
on to the recording and the producers like, oh, I
got to cut that. I got to cut that out,
and we were like, no, leave it in there.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. Well, and that also goes into making things human
mm hmm. In the past, I used to auto tune
my stuff, and then I got better at melodine and
now It's like, you can have this perfectly pitch thing
that's not off by even a couple cents, but I
think at certain parts you want it to sound authentic
and a little different. And it's such a judgment call,
(11:11):
you know. Sometimes in the past people would say all
your stuff is pitch, you always ought it. They don't
really say that anymore. But it's kind of funny sometimes
where if people say that, they're not really sure what
they're talking about. It might be the tone, it might
be something completely different.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Right, And as a songwriter, you know, you know you
have the song sound how you want it to do,
how you feel it. So if it comes out a
little quirky, you know, so be it. That's what you
were going for.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, that's a nice thing about being an indie artist too,
is you're not going to be judged. Yeah, and I
look at some of these really famous songs and you're like, wait,
that has like three hundred thousand like hates and dislikes
and it's like a classic song. So I think you're
never gonna make everybody happy.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Anyway, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
What's your favorite eighties jam?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
My favorite eighties jam? Hmm, I was raising babies back then.
So what were we listening to? I would think I
was into country back then. So I was listening to
a lot of the country artists back in that day.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Anyone stand out in particular, like any artist Garth Brooks or.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
What Brooks and Dunn listen to a lot of them.
Keith Whitley listen to a lot of his music.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
All right, So do you have like a mom or
woman's superpower that you want to confess on the show.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
A mom or a superpower?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I have very very good hearing. I can hear the
drop of a pin in the next door neighbor's house
and everybody's like, how did you hear that? It's like,
I don't know. I just I have this supersonic hearing.
So don't whisper any secrets about me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So you're a poor husband, Yeah, all right. If you
could watch like only one genre of movies for us
through your life, which one would it be?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
And why?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Oh, let's see right now, we're into watching kind of
I guess I want to call them cozy mysteries. There
are mystery shows, murder crime shows, but they're not the
hardcore glory ones. Sure, they're just the one, you know,
the lighthearted. Oh there's someone dead, Okay, let's go solve it.
So we're kind of into watching those kind of movies
right now.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That's great, like Scooby Doo basically.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Is there a fictional character that you relate to really well?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh, fictional character?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That's a that's kind of a tough one. I can't
think of anything there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
If you think of something, just holler back, is there.
One of the questions I like to ask a lot
of songwriters is about scams, anyone that you might have
fallen for, or anything you want to warn us about
so we can all protect each other.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
At this point, I've been pretty lucky where I haven't
fallen for anything. I'm a pretty skeptical person, so if
something comes along, I'm going to check it out as
thoroughly as i can before diving in to see what
it's all about.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you could instantly learn an instrument, any instrument other
than the mandlin, which one would it be? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I think right now it might be the fiddle. I
love a good fiddle sound, but it's very hard instrument
to learn, so I think that would be a good
one that I'd like to master.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Is there like a common stereotype that you see and
hear about all the time about musicians that drives you crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Sometimes, especially with the bluegrass world, A lot of people
say that you have to sing through your nose in
order to sing bluegrass, and that's just not true at all.
It isn't These songs are just there's songs about everyday
life and they come from the heart, and yeah, you
don't have to be nasally about them at all.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Last question, this is a really tough one. Are you
more of a hunter or a gatherer?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I think I'm more of a gatherer. Yeah. I think
it's just the mom in me, the protector and me
so I would much rather be here at home taking
care of the home, let my husband go and be
the hunter.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Does he know that?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think he does.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, all right, you know I thought of another question.
Were you like in high school?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I was kind of quiet and shy in high school.
I didn't really belong to, you know, the popular clicks
and that. I mean, I knew people and I did stuff,
but I kind of stayed to myself and just had
a core group of friends. So yeah, that was pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I know this is going to shock you, but I
was the same exact way. Really must be that tortured
artist personality or something.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, tell us where people can buy your stuff,
stream it, find you online, or whatever platform you want
to give a shout out to.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
We are streaming on all of the music platforms. Just
type in their pick and spand we also have a
web page and YouTube again they'll bear Pickens Band, and
we also have our Facebook, so please like us on Facebook.
We're trying to get up to two thousand subscribers, so
if you listeners could help with that, we'd be very
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appreciative of that. And Pickens is spelled with two eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
All right, Well, I want to thank you so much
for being on the show tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Thank you. I've really enjoyed this. I love listening to
the show.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm so glad. Thank you, and thank you tall the
listeners tonight for being a part of the Songwriter Show tonight.
If you're an artist with this story to share, we'd
love for you to be on the show. Just head
over to Songwritershow dot com and hit us up. I'm Sontos.
I hope you'll join me every single Tuesday evening on
Reality Radio one oh one, as we continue to uncover
these inspiring journeys behind all of this unique music, have fun, creating, connecting,
(16:49):
and let's let all of our stories be heard. I
love you guys, have a great night. See you next
Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Oh look what you've done.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
To me? My life began to.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Day we that we danced among the stars the very day.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Was her lefter satisfied on it till we hit an
icebergat we stopp being.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
In fun an hour two said ships are alone? A seproceeeds.
She found a new compass. What I wonder does he
look like me?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
My love?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Are you painting sophonies? Are you thking of me?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
My?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm always around.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
I won't leave her alone though she's left me, true,
I hate I hate to see her happy happy without me.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
So ready did a year.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I stated, But she has closed the book, though I
keep rereading pages.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I'm just not okay. Why doesn't she miss me?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
At her lover's comical while I'm standing in her way?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
She found a newcombuss, But I wonder does he need those?
Left me?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
My God?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Are you painting so Lenny? Are you thinking of me,
my love always around.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I relieve her love though she's left me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
True, So I hate.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I hate to see her happy happy without me. Jus hate.
(19:18):
I hate to see your happy, happy, happy, happy.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Happy without me.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I hate to see you're happy happy without me.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Thank you for listening to The Songwriter Show. To keep
the momentum going, head over to www Dot songwriter show
dot com and join our free music community of artists, songwriters,
and producers. That's www Dot songwriter show dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Any anything, anything, any anywhere. No singling, hanging, hanging, m
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