March 15, 2025 • 54 mins
Ever wondered how an Aussie singer-songwriter finds her rhythm in the heart of America's music country? Lucy Tiger's back on Skip Happens, and this time, she's spilling the beans on her grand adventure from the sunny coasts of Sydney to the musical soul of Alabama. With a story that could rival any country ballad, Lucy talks about her family's big leap across the pond, the warm embrace of the Shoals' community, and how she's navigating the nuances of settling into a new, vibrant culture—pets, slang, and Southern quirks included!
Grab a cold one and join us as we unpack the curious case of the vanishing Aussie accent in song—a conversation that's bound to tickle your fancy. Lucy dishes on her songwriting journey, from the seeds of inspiration to the blossoming of tracks like "Hummingbird," while we scratch our heads over kangaroos on the outskirts of Sydney and shed light on how our local lingo might baffle or charm the uninitiated. It's a hearty exploration of the textures and colors in the tapestry of cultural differences, all set to the backdrop of Lucy's melodic tales.
This episode isn't just an idle chat; it's a testament to the tenacity and talent of an artist whose career trajectory is as uplifting as her tunes. Lucy's recent promotions have been hitting all the right notes, and we're here to celebrate her achievements and the music that's taking her from the Shoals to the stars. So, tune in, kick back, and let the magic of Lucy Tiger's musical journey—and a dash of Shoals' camaraderie—enchant your ears and maybe inspire your next big move.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And hello everybody, welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens Live from thebeautiful Northeast, I can tell
you that much, and also a Metsfan, by the way.
But my name is Skip Clark, I'mthe host of Skip Happens and
again, thank you for being heretonight.
You know we try to do this on aweekly basis, if not more, and
(00:23):
I like to focus on the newindependent artists, some of the
well-established artists, and Ieven bring them back again and
again.
For example, right there threeyears ago I had to look it up.
Three years ago I talked to her.
Her name is Lucy Tiger.
Now, three years ago, when Italked to her, she was like down
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under, and when I say downunder, she was in, I believe,
sydney, australia, correct,correct, that is right.
And now, and you told me atthat time that it wouldn't be
long before you would berelocating to the United States.
And here you are.
You went from enjoying abirthday in February on the
(01:05):
beach to a birthday in Februaryin the middle of winter in the
United States.
And, lucy, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm so good Skip.
I'm so happy to be back.
I remember we had so much funlast time and I'm just happy to
be here in Alabama, Alabama.
I'm just happy to be here inAlabama, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Wow, so why Alabama?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, I like it, I really like it.
I mean, you don't movesomewhere you don't like.
But you know I live in theShoals area, so it is just
steeped in music history.
You know it's known for theAllman Brothers, it's known for
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Aretha Franklin, it's known forbasically all of my favourite
records and you know probably awhole bunch of other people's.
And it's actually just a reallynice little area.
It's four little towns, it'sright on the Tennessee River and
everyone's nice, Everyone'sfriendly.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is it hot and humid?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know, they all complain about it being really
humid.
They all complain about itbeing really humid.
But I mean Sydney, australia,has very similar weather to New
Orleans, oh really.
Yeah, I can put it.
So Sydney humidity is onsteroids compared to here.
(02:41):
Everyone kind of walks aroundgoing oh my God, it's so muggy
today and I'm sitting theregoing, it's really nice it's
like 70%, what are you talkingabout?
So I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, Do you get to head back to Australia at all?
Do you have family there?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I know we were talking off the air a little bit
about the award shows and allthat but is that about the only
time that you go back andfamily's like oh, I know her,
yeah, I mean I have.
I do have a very, very smallfamily.
Um, and a lot of the familythat I have in australia didn't
live in sydney, so I didn'tactually see them all that much.
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Um, and you know, we, we saidto them, hey, come over to the
states, come and visit us.
Uh, we've only been here a fewmonths but, um, I mean, my folks
moved with me and my cats, so Ikind of have like everything I
need you were talking aboutalabama because of all the music
(03:41):
history, all that background.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But I mean there mean there's also Nashville.
So, I mean in Alabama, you hadNashville.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it's so handy because you know Nashville is
two and a half hours away fromwhere I live.
So you know, I've gone up therefor co-writes, for songwriting,
I've gone up there for showsand driven back that night.
Um, you know it's, it's notthat far away at all, and I mean
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it, nashville is very busy, soI came I came from a busy city.
I mean I think nashville is.
I don't know if nashville islike a million people, yet it's
probably close.
Yeah, sydney is five million.
So I I kind of did my time in abig city and nashville is super
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fun to visit, uh, but I reallylike my kind of small town.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Living in alabama I totally get that.
You can run up, do yourco-writes, do your rights, get a
coffee if want.
Just to get a couple of hoursis nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I want to go like the best of both worlds really.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I want to talk about your music a little bit,
but first of all I want to askif you've ever seen the.
There's a movie out there Well,maybe a documentary.
It's about a little less thanan hour and it's called
Nashville, the craziest city inthe world.
I don't know if you've everseen that.
No, it's interesting and itreally makes you think about
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Nashville, whether or not youreally want to move there.
So, but it's good and it's bad,so it's.
It's whatever you get out of it, but it was on.
I don't know if you have asmart television and you got all
the different apps, but it's onTubi.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's where I found it.
It's called Nashville, thecraziest city in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's good, I'll check that out.
That sounds good.
I had a buddy of mine thatworks for a label in Nashville
said you got to check this outand you might think a little bit
different about Nashville.
But I didn't.
I still love Nashville, it'sstill all.
But it was just veryinteresting.
So let's talk about your music.
I love it.
It's been like, like I said,three years.
I'm trying to think.
When we talked before you had,was it gasoline?
(05:56):
Was it gasoline?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it probably was .
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So that was about three years ago and now now I
mean, you've been working on alot of stuff, you've been
putting out a lot of music hereand there.
Uh, you've got hummingbird asyour first single for 2024.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Tell us about that a little bit so hummingbird is
such a favorite of mine and it'sa real sort of crowd favorite
as well.
Uh, I noticed that.
Know, I would be playing it atshows and people would kind of
be like dancing in their chairsor getting up and having a bit
of a dance.
And you know, I remember I wasplaying the Muscle Shoals
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Songwriters Festival, which isfantastic and it's going to be
having its fifth festival thisyear it in November and I played
it at a kind of a songwritersshowcase thing.
And then later on, a couple ofthe girls that had been in the
audience they bumped into melater and they were like, oh, we
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love that song you played whereyou're like, you know, I just
want to, you know yank thathummingbird sing and they're
like singing the chorus back.
They'd only heard it that onetime and I thought, okay, this
song is like kind of striking achord with people, you know, and
and so when it came to, youknow, the first single that we
were going to put out this year,I thought let's kind of like
(07:17):
start strong and let's go withthat one wow, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So how about the writing of that?
And and who did you write thatwith?
And all that?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I wrote that with myself.
Yeah, I mean, I do a lot ofwriting myself, but just by
myself.
I do like co-writes.
I do a lot of co-writing too,but I feel like I just write a
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lot of my best stuff kind ofjust on my own I kind of.
I feel like I know what mybrain's doing and you know, I
kind of.
And also you know I don't havesome situation where, like you
know, someone else has put aline in a verse and I go.
I really don't like that, butyou know so at least with myself
.
I kind of change it if I wantto.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, listen to this.
This is it.
I think this is the liveversion.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I want to feel the road underneath me.
Well, I got no one to see, noway to go, but I know it.
I got to get going now.
I think you'll see when you seeme coming Two lane, blacktop
engine humming, got the stereoturned up all the way.
Gotta let them know I'm comingaround today.
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Oh, I was prepared when I wasjust a fly away.
Just want to drive down them.
No name highways.
Hit a million miles on the backroads.
Baby, just follow them.
White lines.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
All right, I need to ask a question.
I'm sure everybody's wonderingwhere's your accent when you
sing.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, a lot of people do ask that I think there's a
couple of things there.
A lot of people do ask that Ithink there's a couple of things
there.
One thing is that when youspeak in an Australian accent,
it's actually kind of pitched.
There's like a technical answerand like a fun answer.
And so the technical answer isthat with the Australian accent
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it's pitched at the back of yourpalate, basically in your mouth
, and when you sing you'resupposed to sing in the front of
your palate and that is wherethe American accent is.
So already you're going to bepushing into that anyway when
you sing.
And the second thing is that Ilisten to a lot of American
(09:42):
music.
I feel like my sound is moreAmerican than Australian anyway,
and I also can't standlistening to songs sung in an
Australian accent.
I hate it, I hate it, I justdon't like it.
The vowel sounds are just very,very.
(10:02):
I know Taylor Swift has startedkind of doing like she'll kind
of go like I instead of likewhen she sings.
When she sings, the word like I, as in me, and I'm just like,
oh, it just like, grates on me alittle bit.
I don't like how it sounds.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So, um, yeah, it just , it just naturally just falls
into that do you think, uh,somebody like you being an
artist doing what you do andsinging, and do you think it
kind of it's a bit of lazinesswhen somebody like Taylor does
that, it's just like she's justyou know?
I mean, you say it bothers you,you're a perfectionist, I get
(10:38):
that, and it should be sung thisway and not this way.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, I think it's a stylistic thing as well, I guess
it really.
I mean, I don't know why peoplehave started doing it just
recently, especially with theword I.
I mean, I guess it does, that'swhat I noticed.
It does definitely make thatword stand out in a lyric, I
guess.
So maybe it's got to do withmaking it stand out, but yeah, I
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just I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I get it.
No, no, I get it.
I totally understand whatyou're saying.
Yeah, so you're in Alabama.
You said your mom and dad movedin with you or moved over here
with you.
Are you actually living withmom and dad still, or in Alabama
?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, for the time being, we all three of us kind
of you know got a place togetherand we, we actually just we
literally just put these thingsup on the wall, like today,
where am I going to do thispodcast?
And I was like we should do itin here.
Let's put these things up.
And so I, meanabama is kind ofuh, you get like far more you
(11:51):
know for your dollars here.
So it's, it's, it's no, no I Itotally, totally see that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And to have the support of your mom and dad, you
know, making the trip andsupporting you and, you know,
just being with you along yourride here, that's, that's,
that's pretty cool, that isreally cool.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean my, my mom.
You know we all three of ushave, you know, the requisite
visas and everything.
And my mom's visa is kind ofconnected to mine.
She does a lot of booking forme in terms of shows and a lot
of like management and admin aswell.
So you know, it kind of justmade sense and I'm an only child
I got you.
(12:32):
Kind of one of those, like luck,of the draw things.
You know, if I had a brother ora sister, it would be much
harder for them to, just likeyou know, pick up and move to
Alabama with me.
But yeah, we all came over andwe love it.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's such a big move.
You know, when you think aboutit it's a big move.
It's not like.
You know, even if I was to movefrom New York to California,
that still doesn't even comparefrom you moving from Sydney,
australia, to the Shoals inAlabama.
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I know Sometimes I get a bit bit like, I get a bit
wrapped up and I'm like you know, oh my gosh, you know I haven't
gotten this done, I haven'tgotten that done and I still
don't have a driver's license.
Um, I can drive, I have a drive, I have an Australian one, that
that semi transfers, but I doactually need to get.
I've been how long?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
okay, so you need to get a driver's license here in
the united states, but they area little more relaxed about it
here really you have to be.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You have to be doing something really really, really
bad to get pulled over, becausein seven months.
I've never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, thank God.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I don't know, knock on wood, it won't happen
tomorrow and I won't have to tryand explain why I don't have a
driver's license still.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't want to be the fault of that, I don't want
anything to do with that.
Be careful, that's all.
But I was thinking that threeyears ago when we chatted for
some reason I don't know if youhad a driver's license then or
not, unless it was somebody elseI was chatting with, but they
did not have a driver's license.
So that's why I'm thinking Well, I do, I do All right Now.
(14:19):
So you got Hummingbird.
You've been doing a lot ofwriting.
You seem to be putting out alot of music it I'd love the
title.
I almost brought down a bucketof beer when I was doing it
because I did a little bit.
I should go get some likelittle ones and put them in a
bucket with some ice and havethem on the table here.
(14:40):
But yeah, tell us about that alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, well, I once had someone describe me as a
champagne girl and I mean, Ilike champagne.
It's nice, especially when it'sfree, but that's when I like it
the most when it's free.
I'm not going out of my way tokind of, um, you know, drink
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champagne.
I I had never actually drunkchampagne in front of this
person.
I had always drunk like beer infront of them.
So I was like where on earthare you getting this idea?
Like you know, I'm constantlyin, like you know, graphic teas
and, like you, know I'm not yeah, I'm wearing like designer
brands.
I don't know where they got thisidea.
Um, you know, this was back inaustralia too.
(15:29):
Like we drove like a 30 yearold car, but I was like, look,
you know, I love champagne ifit's free, but I'm not a
champagne girl.
You know, what really reallygets me going is a bucket of
beers Like that's.
When I'm like it's served in abucket.
I'm like this is great.
(15:50):
There's like four like causelights in there.
I'm like this is great.
There's like four like causelights in there.
I'm thinking this is going tobe an awesome time.
That's the kind of bar I want togo to, the one that serves
their beers in a bucket.
Like I love it.
So, um, so that was the wholeidea behind that song.
Like I'm the kind of person whoyou know.
Recently we celebrated myparents wedding anniversary, and
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as an only child, it'ssomething that you know I often
celebrate with them.
Having you know, recently wecelebrated my parents wedding
anniversary and as an only child, it's something that you know,
I often celebrate with them,having, you know, at times
single-handedly kept theirmarriage together and but we
went to like a dive bar fortheir wedding those are the best
lucy.
I love that that's what I love.
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So this, this song, was allabout saying like you know,
there's nothing wrong with beinglike a champagne girl, unless
you're like a stuck-up bitch.
But you know that's not me thisis why I like you.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You tell it the way it is, but that that's cool.
So we've got bucket of beer,and so I'm going to talk about
beer for a minute.
We have different beer herethan you had in Australia.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, we didn't have cause light in Australia.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's kind of where I was going.
What, for example?
What are some of the the brandsin Australia?
Yeah, we didn't have CoorsLight in Australia.
That's kind of where I wasgoing.
For example, what are some ofthe brands in Australia?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So the most well-known one in America is one
called Foster's, and it'sterrible.
It's so terrible, I think theyexport it here.
No one in Australia drinks itbecause it's terrible, it's um.
But the if I had to like pickan australian beer, a lot of
them are very um.
They got very big into craftbeer, which you know is okay,
(17:42):
like you know, but they cansometimes be very sort of like
intense and it's like you know Iliterally just wanted to chill
out, so you have to have a sport, but go ahead, I ahead a lager.
I really like a lager.
A lot of american beers arelagers.
I really like them.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
They're kind of just like easy to drink, I guess
about like sort of fighting youback yeah, exactly, do you drink
like guinness or anything likethat?
That's like a lager.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, I mean, that's very intense and it kind of
fills you up.
I mean my last name is actuallyO'Connor and my family actually
is Irish, but we tend not todrink Guinness all that much,
especially if we want to have ameal as well.
You have like two of those andyou're like, well, I'm going to
(18:32):
have dinner.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, no, you're not hungry after that.
I totally get it.
So, uh, let's get back to themusic a little bit.
So you've put out these twosongs.
What else do we have comingfrom Lucy Tiger?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
well, I've got a couple more singles for this
year and I do actually have analbum coming very soon too and
in I've just been talking aboutit this week and what I'm going
to put on it and what I'm goingto sort of release before it
comes out.
And you know what's going to beon the album that no one's
heard before and it's veryexciting.
(19:04):
It's going to be an album ofall the songs that I recorded,
as I was kind of because I cameto the Shoals in Alabama five
times before I moved here.
So I spent you know probablyabout six weeks or so here
cumulatively, and every time Icame I would do like a recording
(19:26):
session because you know I wasonly going to be here for like
two weeks or something and youknow, may as well get some songs
in the can, and you know.
So I have all these songs, umsomething like 15, that have yet
to come out on on like a, analbum.
So some of them I've put out assingles already, um, but yeah,
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so that will be coming.
I'll probably announce thattowards the end of the year, I
think probably and it'llprobably be available like in a
physical format on my websiteand um at shows and stuff, and
then we'll eventually pop it outon streaming as well I love
that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Do you, um, actively take part in the streaming, like
the songs you've just put out?
Hummingbird is out there,bucket of beer is out there.
All that's available or you canstream it, you can download it.
Uh, listeners, viewers, can buyit um and support you at the
same time.
So that's kind of cool.
So it's all available, right?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
no matter where you, wherever you get your music, you
can probably get them, yoursong oh yeah, oh yeah, bucket of
beers won't be out until fridaythis week, um right, but yeah,
they're available everywhere,everywhere.
It's pretty global these days.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I do.
It wasn't that great.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Everybody says that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It was really quite bad.
They've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But you have to start somewhere.
Yeah, I know, but you got tostart somewhere, right.
And how old were you when thefirst one came out?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Probably pretty old in terms of you know.
I mean, some people are alllike I've been writing songs
since I was 12.
And you're just like well.
I bet they were crap just likewell, I bet they were crap.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But I was probably like 19 or 20.
So I mean, so you didn't reallystart until you were later in
your teens, early 20s, or didyou start In terms of writing?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
yeah, I mean, I've been playing guitar since I was
eight.
I've been playing piano since Iwas six.
Yeah, I've been singing since Iwas about you know 10 or 11,
like you know,semi-professionally I guess, or
at least you know in lessons andstuff and at the you know
school choir and all of thatsort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
When did you first realize that you might have
something?
Or did mom and dad go hey, youknow what?
This is really good, honey.
We got to see what we can do toyou know, let's see what we can
do for you.
Or, you know, did you have apassion since you were eight
years old to do something likethis?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, it was probably a few things.
I kind of realized at schoolthat I wasn't very good at
anything else.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's always a different way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I kind of realized that pretty quickly.
Like there were things that Ienjoyed and like I liked
learning about, but I justwasn't all that good at and then
, and the stuff that I was goodat, you know, doesn't really
have a career.
Like I liked history, I mean,what career do you have?
History teacher, like you know,I'm not entirely sure what
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career you actually have afterthat, you know.
So you know it was kind of oneof those things.
And then, um, I kind ofrealized that out of, I did
music in high school and I kindof realized pretty quickly that,
um, and I hate you know.
I don't know how you say it inAmerican, but in Australia we
(23:09):
would say you know blowing myown horn, um, and I kind of hate
doing that.
I mean, yeah, we say that youknow blowing my own horn and I
kind of hate doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I mean, yeah, we say that I'm blowing my own horn.
You know, here I am and I'mproud of it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Australians hate doing that, Like it gets a lot
to kind of get it out.
But I was kind of probably oneof the best kids in my music
class, so you know everyone elsewould be nervous to like get on
stage and I'd be like, what areyou talking about?
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This is easy, you know, and theywould be doing like really safe
songs and I'd be like maybe Iwant to like I don't know play
this song that I've never playedbefore in my life and do that
for my final exam, and like it'sthree weeks away but I can
probably do it.
And they'd be like, oh, I'msinging a song that I've sung
every year for the past, youknow.
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So I kind of realized that Iwas sort of I don't know, maybe
the most capable out of theclass and I was also, I'm pretty
sure, out of my year 12 musicclass.
I was the only person and itwas a pretty big class because I
went to quite a big school likethere was over 100 people in my
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year and there was maybe like20 people in my music class and
I was the only person that didmusic following high school.
Everyone else just there wasonly yeah, just like dropped it
and did you know?
I don't know law or something?
Music wasn't what they were yousaid, right?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'm sorry.
I think we're overlapping alittle bit, I think there's a
little bit of a delay and I Iapologize for that.
Um, you only like a hundred inyour class, in my whole year.
In your whole.
So 12th year is your senioryear, correct?
12th year here is was my senioryear.
We had seven, almost 800 peoplejust in my class.
(25:07):
Oh just in the 12th graduating,graduating well, and it took a
while to go through.
Yeah, it took a little bit togo through.
No, it really wasn't.
That's why I was.
I mean, maybe to you and whereyou're from, I get that all
right, but yeah, I mean ourwhole country.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We only have 25 million people.
So when you say like 100 peoplein your year, you know
everyone's like oh wow, thatthat's a lot.
But I was the only person afteryear 12 who actually continued
with music.
Everyone else kind of gave itup.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, you're talented , super talented.
You can write, you can sing,you're putting out some great
music.
You're serious about what youdo and it's pretty evident by
the fact that you moved from wayover there to way over here,
and it's not an easy flighteither.
It had to be like 16 hours, 17hours and no thank you.
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And now, with the doors flyingoff and everything else going on
, I don't know if it's going tobe hard to get me in a plane.
I tell you what I love the fly.
I'm a geek, I'm all about thatI do.
If I get to take a trip, I'mall.
I'm all about it, I'm on there.
But I saw these t-shirts thatsay if it's Boeing, I ain't
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going, and I'm like, oh boy, youknow.
But I mean you know.
The other thing is and we'regetting a little bit off topic
here but everybody's got a phonein their hand and every little
thing now gets documented.
And I'm sure these thingshappened almost every day.
A lot of this, you know planesturn around, they go back to the
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airport, they're having amechanical issue.
You never used to hear a lotabout those and it happened all
the time.
Now something happensSomebody's there with their
phone, they're recording it,they're sending it to whoever.
It's crazy, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Definitely probably plays a part, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and then they're going look at Lucy
Tiger's on my flight.
I got it right here, I.
And look at Lucy Tigers on myflight.
I got it right here.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I got the picture.
I got the picture.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
She's the one going.
Let me on the screen.
Well, I might be with you onthat.
I love to fly, but there'stimes I get it.
So you've made the move.
You're here, you're drivingback and forth from Nashville,
you're putting out some greatmusic.
Hummingbird is out there,bucket of beer is coming out.
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If somebody wants to get these,they can go to your social
media and it's all right therefor them to purchase download.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh yeah, you just looked up lucy tiger and it's
l-u-c-i-e and then tiger likethe animal tiger I love it so
there's a lot of you know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I asked before we went on and because you being
australian, you being from, andI'd love to see sydney someday,
I I mean actually I think a lotof us here in the states dream
of going to austral Australia,just because we hear that it's
very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Sydney's lovely.
It's a lovely place to visitand the kangaroos are running up
and down.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I thought the kangaroos were what.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
No, you have to get pretty.
You have to.
I mean, it'll take you.
Sydney is very spread out, it'slike LA, so you kind of have to
drive maybe an hour and a halfthese days, maybe almost two
hours to get out of the city.
Once you get out of the cityand into the bush, that's where
you'll start to see some.
But they're like deer, soyou'll see them like at dawn and
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dusk and they'll just run outin front of your car.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, and bam.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I've never hit one, but I know a lot of people yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know you said they're like deer here in the
States.
You know we, you know there'san overpopulation of deer there.
They're everywhere now even inthe city areas, so it's kind of
crazy.
I know here in the Northeast,uh, we have a lot of them.
But you mentioned Bush.
Bush is a slang term for like afield woods, something like
that.
So I went online and and I waslooking up different terms
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because, to be honest with you,I didn't know.
Like other guys I've met fromAustralia, it's always hey, mate
, how are you?
You know, but what do you calla girl?
So I I found, um, it's Sheila,I believe, and that's pretty old
school.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You said yeah, that's pretty old school, Like.
I feel like the same people whowould call guys mate would
probably um, I know that it's.
Sometimes I would go into, likea clothing store or something
and you know they'd be like.
You know there'd be some girlwho's like I don't know 14 years
old, behind the counter, who'slike hey, hon I'd be like don't
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call me.
Don't call me hon Like.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
My wife hates that You're still in high school.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Like what are you doing?
It's like.
It's like there is this liketendency around these parts
where people who are likeliterally like 16 years old will
be like you know, oh hey, dear.
And I'm like what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You sound like a nutcase, but yeah, I guess
Sheila is kind of old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, my wife hates being called hun.
There's somebody you know yougo through and you get somebody
that, okay, hun, you're good togo.
Don't ever call me hun.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I do like it sometimes, so I was looking up
some of the they call you likethe.
You might have like a lovelyold, like African-American lady
who's like helping you out, andI'll be like, okay, we'll just
fill this out baby.
And I'm like, fill this outbaby.
And I'm like I like that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's fun.
All right, I found out.
See, I'd have a hard timegetting used to all that.
But what's that?
All right.
Bogan, bogan, what's that mean?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Bogan is kind of like a redneck and it's kind of it's
sort of like an insult likeredneck is, and it's kind of
it's sort of like an insult likeredneck is.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But then there are, then there are people who are,
you know, like rednecks who arelike yeah, I'm a redneck, you
know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So like some kind of bogans, are like proud of yeah
uh, I see here sweet, sweet as,as, oh, yeah, as yeah, that's
that.
I feel like that probably camefrom new zealand, but australia
kind of picked it up becausethat's like a very like, it's
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very new zealand.
But but australians also sayand they'll be like, it's kind
of like yeah, that's good.
You know, I can.
I just hear it in my head.
It's like with a new zealandaccent, with a like sweet bro
what about ta?
ta.
My dad says that all the timeand I have to keep telling him.
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People don't understand youwhen you say that you have to
actually say thank you, but itmeans like thank you All right,
there you go Arvo.
That's the afternoon.
No one likes to spell outafternoon in a text message when
you can just use four letters.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
A-R-V-O.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Arvo, I'm shocked it hasn't taken on.
Cheers is like when you kind ofI don't know say thanks, or
when you like cheers, you drink.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, yeah, oh, here's one.
Here's one Faffing around.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I feel like this is something that my like aunt from
the country might say, but it'skind of like messing around, I
feel.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, messing around.
You might hear a mother scoldher children by saying stop
faffing around.
Okay, sheila, we talked aboutoh, brekkie, what about brekkie?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Brekkie that's breakfast.
We just shorten everything.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I see that, yep .
Oh, here's, one Rack off.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh, that's a good one .
That is, um.
I mean, if you wanted to be atrue australian you would say f
off, but it means the same thinglike everybody else, just step
off, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
But basically the same thing.
Uh means lost Bush youmentioned.
Oh here's one, coldy.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Oh yeah, that's like a cold beer or a cold drink, I
guess, but most specifically abeer yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It says here coldie.
However, don't drink too manycoldies or you might get munted.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Munted means drunk.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, that's in a Drunk , I just read that, but I love
the way they have it.
All right, here's one.
Here's one and you mentionedthis in the beginning, well
before you went on, I believe,flat out.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Okay, so.
So I said this to someonebecause we do have you know
sayings that we say where wekind of like shorten things, so
the whole phrase is flat outlike a lizard drinking right.
Right, because when you picturea lizard like a you know a
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gecko or something, they'regonna be like flat on the you
know desert floor, drinkingright.
So.
But it doesn't mean you'redrinking, it means you're busy,
so you're flat out.
I'm like flat out is what mostpeople say, and then every now
and then you might say I'm flatout like a lizard drinking.
And then I said that to someonethe other day and they thought
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I had been drinking.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And I was like no, I've actually been very
productive and very busy.
It's been a busy day.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
We've done well Productive day.
How about heaps, heaps?
So we would say like thanksheaps, so like thanks a bunch.
It just means like lots.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Many a lot.
Yeah, okay, I'm looking here.
Oh, here's, there's only a fewmore on this list, darrow.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Darrow D-E-R-R-O.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, Darrow means it's actually short for
something.
I forget the word it's shortfor, but it's like a Derelict.
Yeah, like a homeless personwho's strung out on drugs.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yep, yep, that's exactly what it says.
Yeah, yeah, how about bathers?
How about bathers?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I feel like people don't use that as much anymore.
But yeah, it's like swimsuit.
I think most people these daysuse like swimmers Like my
grandma would use the wordbathers but I feel like now we
just call them like swimmers.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh, here's one.
Here's one, bludger.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Oh, bludger, that just means someone who's like
lazy.
So like we have this, you know,you know how the government
gives out money to people whodon't have jobs and stuff, and
so there are people that like doit on purpose who?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
yeah, yeah, we get what it says oh wait a minute,
here's one.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
You may know this, maybe I uh bottle, oh bottle oh
yeah, that's where you buyalcohol, so it's a butler it's
like a bottle.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's what do?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We don't call them like liquor stores, we call them
bottle shops.
So then you shorten bottle shopto Bottle-O.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
It says here, you've just gotten back from the bush.
You might want more than acoldie.
If so, you'll have to head toyour nearest Bottle-O or liquor
store, and Bottle-O can alsorefer to any shop that sells
alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I mean it completely confused me.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Okay, one more.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
And they called them all package stores and I'm like
they're like you know, oh,you've got to get that at the
package store.
And I was like the heck is apackage store?
Like what?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
How about Straya?
How about Australia?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Australia, australia.
That's just like how we sayAustralia, really fast.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Oh man, I should have .
Yeah, now that makes sense,holy cow.
So it's like a whole differentlanguage, but not really.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, and you know, every now and then I do say
something, and there are so manythings actually Like there's
one thing that I say all thetime.
Actually, I'll say instead ofyou know, I got to the bar last
night, I'll say I rocked up atthe bar and so you know.
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I rocked up and so my friendjust loves it.
She'll be, like you said,rocked up.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
You know, like amazing alabama accent, I'm like
I did you got the alabamaaccent, you got the australian
accent and together that must beinteresting.
I got to love that that's socool.
So how often, Lucy Tiger, howoften do you get to write?
Do you write every day?
Do you maybe once a week?
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Are you pretty active with it?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Probably not as active as some people.
But then I feel like I have adifferent sort of um process, so
I'll kind of come up with anidea and I will write it down,
you know, in kind of my notesapp on my phone, and um, then
I'll sort of I won't push it.
I feel like when ideas getpushed they don't sound as good,
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um, and then I'll just let itlike I had an idea for a song
and I and I remember I went to ashow and I had the idea for the
song after the show and theshow was on february 1, because
I'm I remember dates, that's whyI was good at history and, um,
you know, I kind of I came upwith the chorus for that idea
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yesterday and I just let it sit.
And I just let it sit and likemarinate in my head.
I kind of didn't, you know, Ijust wrote down that little
phrase that I had and like thekind of concept of the song, and
then I kind of, you know, Ikind of wrote like the chorus
and the verse.
I wrote the verse like lastnight, as I was trying to get to
(40:11):
sleep, I had this idea and Iwas like, oh well, I've got to
like wake up and turn my lighton and like write it down,
otherwise I won't remember it inthe morning, and so the second
verse will probably come likelater this week, and if there's
a bridge, I'll probably think ofthat, and then I'll have a song
and just you piece it together,that's all.
And then you got something yeah,and it all just sort of like
(40:33):
comes in.
I don't know.
I remember keith richards, whois like a huge influence of mine
.
He once said that, um, you know, all the songs are like out
there in the ether and, um, youknow songwriters or or like the
best songwriters and I'm notsaying I'm the best songwriter,
but you know a lot of the bestsongwriters just have this
(40:54):
antenna and the antenna justpicks up.
You know the song and I don'tknow.
I kind of feel like that'spretty much what happens for me
anyway.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, do you?
Have you been playing any showsin Nashville?
Of course you've been doingsome in Alabama, but uh, do you
get out there?
Do you play any of the?
Uh, you know they've got allthe big bars now Every, every
country artist has a bar.
Have you had that opportunityto play some of those?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I haven't.
Um, it's.
It can be very grueling.
I've heard playing thosenashville shows, especially on
broadway.
Um, and then of course it'salso that thing of like, um, you
know, I don't know if you havethis term here, but like a bit
of a golden handcuff, whereyou're playing these shows,
you're getting paid reasonablywell, you're getting great tips,
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but you're just playing coversand so everyone knows you for
your covers and they don't, youknow.
Then of course, if you want toplay an original show, it might
not pay as well than the coversshow.
And then all of a sudden youhave this thing of well, do I do
the covers show, which earnsmore money, or do I do the
original show?
So I just haven't really.
I haven't really gotten intothat at all.
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I've played a few songwritersshowcases I haven't really
gotten into that at all.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I've played a few songwriters showcases.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I don't know you, but I play some great shows down in
Florence.
I play some really great showsdown here in the Shoals.
I'm playing a show on Fridaynight actually, and the band
I've got is kind of out of thisworld Like.
I've got a guy called JustinHolder on drums.
He is basically the number onesession guitar drummer in the
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Shoals.
He's played with like everyoneand he played on all my records
as well.
So he's there on Hummingbirdand Bucket of Beers.
And then on guitar I've got aguy called Jordan Denton who is
fantastic.
He's another, you know, amazingguitarist here.
On Keys I got a guy called BradKuhn who played on a whole
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bunch of my stuff and he's thisincredible session player.
And then on bass I've actuallygot two-time Grammy
award-winning bass player, jimboHart, who used to play for
Jason Isbell.
Yeah back to town and, um, hereally likes my music and I said
, hey, I need a bass player andhe was like I'm available, so
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we're playing um a show onfriday night that you know.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I saw it on your facebook and, uh, that is pretty
cool.
And now that you're mentioningwho these guys are and yeah,
absolutely so how did you getthese guys to play?
Did they reach out to you ordid you reach out to them?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
You know, I think it's one of those things where
they're, they're available toplay.
I think they're also in aposition where they can kind of
pick and choose who they want toplay with.
They do a lot of recording,like a lot of recording, and
Jordan does a lot of live stuffwith other people as well.
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And you know, I mean what I'vedone when I moved here is I just
joined the community.
I just became part of thecommunity.
I go out to a lot of shows.
Last week I was at the SecretSisters on Saturday night.
I was seeing Hippies andCowboys.
On Friday night I was seeingDylan LeBlanc on Thursday night.
(44:19):
On Wednesday night I was seeingsomeone.
I think On Tuesday night I wasseeing a bunch of my friends in
a band that play every Tuesdaynight.
That include Justin on drums,will McFarlane, who played
guitar for Bonnie Raitt for awhile, and Kelvin Hawley, who is
a real good friend of mine.
He played guitar for LittleRichard and the Amazing Rhythm
(44:42):
Aces.
So like all these people arejust in town and they're kind of
like lucky enough to kind ofjust call them my friends, um, I
mean, I told you startedfilming that I had a friend
whose cat had kittens um.
That friend is actually GaryNichols, who's like the Grammy
winning okay bluegrass guy yeswithin the steel drivers.
(45:05):
Yeah, he lives in town.
Um, he actually played at mylast show with a band, so he
played with me there and I'mtaking one of his kittens and
I'm going to call it Gary afterhim, which I think is fantastic.
So, I mean, I've just likejoined the community, I think
you know, one of the best thingsthat you can do when you do
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move to a new place is just goout, like you know, you don't
always have to get like 17 beers, like sometimes I go out and
just get a Diet Coke and youknow I just watch my friends.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, I know, but you're with your friends.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Yeah, I just watch my friends playing, and then they
come and watch me or they'replaying in my band.
So yeah, it's all just thisgreat musical community down
here in the shoals.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, and I noticed all these names that you've been
mentioning and people thatyou're going to be playing with
or you've gone out and watchedbecome friends with and I don't
mean this in a bad way, not thatthey're old, but they're
seasoned, they know what, whatyou know, and they can pick up
on something really really quickand take it and run with it
that's right, and you know theother good thing, about this
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place is a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
you know.
There are those seasonedplayers, but then a lot of
younger people are moving here.
Um, and I forgot to mention oneof my friends is gonna get up
and play a few songs with us onfr night, randy O'Dell.
He plays guitar for LV, shaneso, and he played the Oprah with
LV yeah, so you know I meanit's and all these people are
(46:40):
just my friends.
So like I'll see, like Randy atlike a show.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Do you want to play like guitar on a couple you know
songs next Friday?
And he's like yeah, I'm free.
So yeah, we all just like, helpeach other out.
I'm singing, I'm singingbackground vocals for my
friend's album release show, thebig you know theater in town in
two weeks.
And we all, just you know, it'sjust a big, nice community
where we all, just you knowthat's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
You can't you just can't be sitting in a corner
somewhere.
You're getting out there,you're helping others, you're
singing with others, you'remaking friends, you're being
active, you're doing everythingthat you need to do to get the
name lucy tiger out there andyou know you do it right.
You're going to be friends forlife.
I mean, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Yeah, I mean, I think some people use networking just
to get what they want.
Um, and you know, all power tothem.
But I like to do it to firstlymake friends, and if those
people can then work with me orhelp me with something later
down the track or I can helpthem, then fantastic.
But you know, first andforemost we're just all friends
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then fantastic.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
But you know, first and foremost, we're just all
friends, god, I love that, god,I love that.
How many cats do you have?
I have two and so you have two,three and you have the
australian meow, and now you'regonna have gary the american and
is there a difference?
In the meows, obviously I'm notsure.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I'm so curious to see if, like, they can communicate
with each other.
Um, I mean, my cats are,they're not young like one.
I mean they're not all, but oneis um nine and one is twelve.
So they're definitely like, setin their ways and how they
communicate.
But the older one tends to pickon the younger one.
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So the younger one is a littleboy called Frank.
So I want Frank to have alittle friend.
So I'm hoping Gary can be hislittle friend, little buddies
together.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, was it hard to get them to travel?
I mean, that's a long ways togo.
You had to keep them in alittle cage.
That's a long ways to go.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I know there is, there's a company that does it.
They like literally justtransport pets, and so we got
them to do it and so they flewto LA and then they kind of
overnighted somewhere in LA andthen they flew to Nashville and
then I drove up and picked themup from the airport.
And it was kind of funnybecause they kept.
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They kept sending us updatesand they would send us photos
and in the update they would belike the cats are doing really
great, they're really happy,they're really chilled out, you
know they're having a great time.
And then they'd send us thesephotos where they're going, like
they're really chilled out, youknow they're having a great
time.
And then they'd send us thesephotos where they're going like
(49:36):
Like these terrible photos wherethey just looked petrified and
I'm like could you stop sendingthe photos?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Like can you just tell?
Speaker 2 (49:42):
me that they're alive , without having to send me the
photos where they lookabsolutely traumatized, send me
the photos where they lookabsolutely traumatised.
But they made it and they werekind of.
They kind of hid under the bedfor about a week and then.
But now they're like, perfectlyfine, they go outside and they
look at the squirrels and they,yeah, they have a much better.
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I mean, the place that we're inin Sydney because it's so
expensive in Sydney was muchsmaller than the one we have
here.
So they just like they have somuch fun.
They're very spoiled.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
I love it.
Lucy, you're awesome.
You are awesome.
Love your music, love whatyou're doing and it was so nice
to catch up with you again andwelcome to the States.
You said you've only been herea few months.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, I've been here seven months.
I made it through.
I have made it through twotornado watches, I've made it
through one week of snow, whichwas really not fun, because it
does not snow at all in Sydney,and this was the third time in
my entire life that I saw snowand it was there on the ground
(50:52):
for a week.
And I don't know about whatthey do in New York, but I'll
tell you what Alabama has noidea what to do with snow, so
the entire town just shut down.
We have like one plow, so itwas like this.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
It's like that.
It's like that in Nashville.
Same thing.
They get snow, they shut downpretty much.
Here we're in upstate New York,in Syracuse New York, and we
can get a foot of snow overnightand we still get up and go to
work, school buses still comeeverybody.
Because we got the equipment.
You know we got a great.
(51:28):
We got great crews that takecare of the roads and do what
they have to.
We got the equipment.
You know we got a great.
We got great crews that takecare of the roads and do what
they have to do.
And you know it's very rarethat everything shuts down.
If everything shuts down here,then you know we're getting a
hell of a storm and it'shappened so sorry, but I love it
here.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It's's fantastic, everything is great.
You know I couldn't have askedfor a better place to land and
you know I've been able to dosome exploring of.
You know been able to drivearound the state and do some
shows in a couple of otherplaces in Alabama, and you know
(52:06):
it's fantastic down here.
I love the South and you knowit's it's fantastic down here.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
I love the south.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's awesome.
Have you ever been to upstateNew York?
Speaker 2 (52:14):
no, I'd really like to go, but maybe in like June.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
I would say here's the deal we get the four seasons
.
Yeah, you definitely don't wantto come in January or February,
even March, you know, you neverknow.
I mean, we've had snow over thelast couple of weeks and then
it's 80 degrees out, so it'slike a roller coaster right now.
But if you're going to come toupstate New York, I would
recommend that you make the trip, like in early October, because
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all the leaves are turningcolors.
It's an absolute beautiful,beautiful time of the year to be
here.
We have the Adirondacks, themountains just north of town and
it's just absolutely beautiful.
So keep that in the back ofyour mind.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I will.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I'd love to come up and visit you in person.
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Did you go to CRS?
I was only there for one, Ionly.
I had some work in Nashvillethat I had to do.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
So I only was there for grassroots is karaoke.
I got that and I didn't go thisyear.
I wish I did Always a good time.
Lucy tiger, once again, what isyour website?
Somebody wants to?
Speaker 2 (53:29):
go on and find out more.
Yeah, you just jump onto lucytiger music l-u-c-i-e tiger like
the animal.
T-i-g-e-r music.
That is the website.
Uh, lucy tiger musiccom.
If you want to find me onsocial media, it is at lucy
tiger music on everything.
And, yeah, listen to the music.
Come and say hey um you know Ilove talking to people.
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Sometimes it takes me a whileto get back to people's comments
and messages, but that'sbecause it's me doing it.
It's not like some randomperson, so it's me it keeps you
busy.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yeah, Yep, Absolutely , Absolutely.
Lucy Tiger, you've been on skiphappens and we thank you for
doing that.
Skip is happening for you andit's very, it's very good.
It's very good.
I mean you've made the move.
Here you are the music's out.
You're with a great promotionscompany.
By the way, I can never, I cannever say enough about
grassroots.
Love them to death andeverybody with them.
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They are great and I mean everyword of that.
I mean it's just they'refantastic.
But you know what?
Thanks for joining us heretonight on skip happens and
finding out about your music,and hopefully we'll get some
viewers and listeners checkingout your website and maybe
downloading some of your music.
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Thank you so much for having me skip.
It's always such a pleasuretalking to you.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I want you to have a great night.
Such a pleasure talking to you.
I want you to have a greatnight.
Thank you, you too.
Peace you are.
And hello everybody, welcome to another edition of
Skip Happens Live from thebeautiful Northeast, I can tell
you that much, and also a Metsfan, by the way.
But my name is Skip Clark, I'mthe host of Skip Happens and
again, thank you for being heretonight.
You know we try to do this on aweekly basis, if not more, and
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I like to focus on the newindependent artists, some of the
well-established artists, and Ieven bring them back again and
again.
For example, right there threeyears ago I had to look it up.
Three years ago I talked to her.
Her name is Lucy Tiger.
Now, three years ago, when Italked to her, she was like down
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under, and when I say downunder, she was in, I believe,
sydney, australia, correct,correct, that is right.
And now, and you told me atthat time that it wouldn't be
long before you would berelocating to the United States.
And here you are.
You went from enjoying abirthday in February on the
(01:05):
beach to a birthday in Februaryin the middle of winter in the
United States.
And, lucy, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm so good Skip.
I'm so happy to be back.
I remember we had so much funlast time and I'm just happy to
be here in Alabama, Alabama.
I'm just happy to be here inAlabama, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Wow, so why Alabama?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, I like it, I really like it.
I mean, you don't movesomewhere you don't like.
But you know I live in theShoals area, so it is just
steeped in music history.
You know it's known for theAllman Brothers, it's known for
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Aretha Franklin, it's known forbasically all of my favourite
records and you know probably awhole bunch of other people's.
And it's actually just a reallynice little area.
It's four little towns, it'sright on the Tennessee River and
everyone's nice, Everyone'sfriendly.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is it hot and humid?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know, they all complain about it being really
humid.
They all complain about itbeing really humid.
But I mean Sydney, australia,has very similar weather to New
Orleans, oh really.
Yeah, I can put it.
So Sydney humidity is onsteroids compared to here.
(02:41):
Everyone kind of walks aroundgoing oh my God, it's so muggy
today and I'm sitting theregoing, it's really nice it's
like 70%, what are you talkingabout?
So I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, Do you get to head back to Australia at all?
Do you have family there?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I know we were talking off the air a little bit
about the award shows and allthat but is that about the only
time that you go back andfamily's like oh, I know her,
yeah, I mean I have.
I do have a very, very smallfamily.
Um, and a lot of the familythat I have in australia didn't
live in sydney, so I didn'tactually see them all that much.
(03:19):
Um, and you know, we, we saidto them, hey, come over to the
states, come and visit us.
Uh, we've only been here a fewmonths but, um, I mean, my folks
moved with me and my cats, so Ikind of have like everything I
need you were talking aboutalabama because of all the music
(03:41):
history, all that background.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But I mean there mean there's also Nashville.
So, I mean in Alabama, you hadNashville.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it's so handy because you know Nashville is
two and a half hours away fromwhere I live.
So you know, I've gone up therefor co-writes, for songwriting,
I've gone up there for showsand driven back that night.
Um, you know it's, it's notthat far away at all, and I mean
(04:12):
it, nashville is very busy, soI came I came from a busy city.
I mean I think nashville is.
I don't know if nashville islike a million people, yet it's
probably close.
Yeah, sydney is five million.
So I I kind of did my time in abig city and nashville is super
(04:35):
fun to visit, uh, but I reallylike my kind of small town.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Living in alabama I totally get that.
You can run up, do yourco-writes, do your rights, get a
coffee if want.
Just to get a couple of hoursis nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I want to go like the best of both worlds really.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I want to talk about your music a little bit,
but first of all I want to askif you've ever seen the.
There's a movie out there Well,maybe a documentary.
It's about a little less thanan hour and it's called
Nashville, the craziest city inthe world.
I don't know if you've everseen that.
No, it's interesting and itreally makes you think about
(05:13):
Nashville, whether or not youreally want to move there.
So, but it's good and it's bad,so it's.
It's whatever you get out of it, but it was on.
I don't know if you have asmart television and you got all
the different apps, but it's onTubi.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's where I found it.
It's called Nashville, thecraziest city in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's good, I'll check that out.
That sounds good.
I had a buddy of mine thatworks for a label in Nashville
said you got to check this outand you might think a little bit
different about Nashville.
But I didn't.
I still love Nashville, it'sstill all.
But it was just veryinteresting.
So let's talk about your music.
I love it.
It's been like, like I said,three years.
I'm trying to think.
When we talked before you had,was it gasoline?
(05:56):
Was it gasoline?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it probably was .
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So that was about three years ago and now now I
mean, you've been working on alot of stuff, you've been
putting out a lot of music hereand there.
Uh, you've got hummingbird asyour first single for 2024.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Tell us about that a little bit so hummingbird is
such a favorite of mine and it'sa real sort of crowd favorite
as well.
Uh, I noticed that.
Know, I would be playing it atshows and people would kind of
be like dancing in their chairsor getting up and having a bit
of a dance.
And you know, I remember I wasplaying the Muscle Shoals
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Songwriters Festival, which isfantastic and it's going to be
having its fifth festival thisyear it in November and I played
it at a kind of a songwritersshowcase thing.
And then later on, a couple ofthe girls that had been in the
audience they bumped into melater and they were like, oh, we
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love that song you played whereyou're like, you know, I just
want to, you know yank thathummingbird sing and they're
like singing the chorus back.
They'd only heard it that onetime and I thought, okay, this
song is like kind of striking achord with people, you know, and
and so when it came to, youknow, the first single that we
were going to put out this year,I thought let's kind of like
(07:17):
start strong and let's go withthat one wow, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So how about the writing of that?
And and who did you write thatwith?
And all that?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I wrote that with myself.
Yeah, I mean, I do a lot ofwriting myself, but just by
myself.
I do like co-writes.
I do a lot of co-writing too,but I feel like I just write a
(07:47):
lot of my best stuff kind ofjust on my own I kind of.
I feel like I know what mybrain's doing and you know, I
kind of.
And also you know I don't havesome situation where, like you
know, someone else has put aline in a verse and I go.
I really don't like that, butyou know so at least with myself
.
I kind of change it if I wantto.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, listen to this.
This is it.
I think this is the liveversion.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I want to feel the road underneath me.
Well, I got no one to see, noway to go, but I know it.
I got to get going now.
I think you'll see when you seeme coming Two lane, blacktop
engine humming, got the stereoturned up all the way.
Gotta let them know I'm comingaround today.
(08:34):
Oh, I was prepared when I wasjust a fly away.
Just want to drive down them.
No name highways.
Hit a million miles on the backroads.
Baby, just follow them.
White lines.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
All right, I need to ask a question.
I'm sure everybody's wonderingwhere's your accent when you
sing.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, a lot of people do ask that I think there's a
couple of things there.
A lot of people do ask that Ithink there's a couple of things
there.
One thing is that when youspeak in an Australian accent,
it's actually kind of pitched.
There's like a technical answerand like a fun answer.
And so the technical answer isthat with the Australian accent
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it's pitched at the back of yourpalate, basically in your mouth
, and when you sing you'resupposed to sing in the front of
your palate and that is wherethe American accent is.
So already you're going to bepushing into that anyway when
you sing.
And the second thing is that Ilisten to a lot of American
(09:42):
music.
I feel like my sound is moreAmerican than Australian anyway,
and I also can't standlistening to songs sung in an
Australian accent.
I hate it, I hate it, I justdon't like it.
The vowel sounds are just very,very.
(10:02):
I know Taylor Swift has startedkind of doing like she'll kind
of go like I instead of likewhen she sings.
When she sings, the word like I, as in me, and I'm just like,
oh, it just like, grates on me alittle bit.
I don't like how it sounds.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So, um, yeah, it just , it just naturally just falls
into that do you think, uh,somebody like you being an
artist doing what you do andsinging, and do you think it
kind of it's a bit of lazinesswhen somebody like Taylor does
that, it's just like she's justyou know?
I mean, you say it bothers you,you're a perfectionist, I get
(10:38):
that, and it should be sung thisway and not this way.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, I think it's a stylistic thing as well, I guess
it really.
I mean, I don't know why peoplehave started doing it just
recently, especially with theword I.
I mean, I guess it does, that'swhat I noticed.
It does definitely make thatword stand out in a lyric, I
guess.
So maybe it's got to do withmaking it stand out, but yeah, I
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just I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I get it.
No, no, I get it.
I totally understand whatyou're saying.
Yeah, so you're in Alabama.
You said your mom and dad movedin with you or moved over here
with you.
Are you actually living withmom and dad still, or in Alabama
?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, for the time being, we all three of us kind
of you know got a place togetherand we, we actually just we
literally just put these thingsup on the wall, like today,
where am I going to do thispodcast?
And I was like we should do itin here.
Let's put these things up.
And so I, meanabama is kind ofuh, you get like far more you
(11:51):
know for your dollars here.
So it's, it's, it's no, no I Itotally, totally see that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And to have the support of your mom and dad, you
know, making the trip andsupporting you and, you know,
just being with you along yourride here, that's, that's,
that's pretty cool, that isreally cool.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean my, my mom.
You know we all three of ushave, you know, the requisite
visas and everything.
And my mom's visa is kind ofconnected to mine.
She does a lot of booking forme in terms of shows and a lot
of like management and admin aswell.
So you know, it kind of justmade sense and I'm an only child
I got you.
(12:32):
Kind of one of those, like luck,of the draw things.
You know, if I had a brother ora sister, it would be much
harder for them to, just likeyou know, pick up and move to
Alabama with me.
But yeah, we all came over andwe love it.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's such a big move.
You know, when you think aboutit it's a big move.
It's not like.
You know, even if I was to movefrom New York to California,
that still doesn't even comparefrom you moving from Sydney,
australia, to the Shoals inAlabama.
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I know Sometimes I get a bit bit like, I get a bit
wrapped up and I'm like you know, oh my gosh, you know I haven't
gotten this done, I haven'tgotten that done and I still
don't have a driver's license.
Um, I can drive, I have a drive, I have an Australian one, that
that semi transfers, but I doactually need to get.
I've been how long?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
okay, so you need to get a driver's license here in
the united states, but they area little more relaxed about it
here really you have to be.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You have to be doing something really really, really
bad to get pulled over, becausein seven months.
I've never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, thank God.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I don't know, knock on wood, it won't happen
tomorrow and I won't have to tryand explain why I don't have a
driver's license still.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't want to be the fault of that, I don't want
anything to do with that.
Be careful, that's all.
But I was thinking that threeyears ago when we chatted for
some reason I don't know if youhad a driver's license then or
not, unless it was somebody elseI was chatting with, but they
did not have a driver's license.
So that's why I'm thinking Well, I do, I do All right Now.
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So you got Hummingbird.
You've been doing a lot ofwriting.
You seem to be putting out alot of music it I'd love the
title.
I almost brought down a bucketof beer when I was doing it
because I did a little bit.
I should go get some likelittle ones and put them in a
bucket with some ice and havethem on the table here.
(14:40):
But yeah, tell us about that alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, well, I once had someone describe me as a
champagne girl and I mean, Ilike champagne.
It's nice, especially when it'sfree, but that's when I like it
the most when it's free.
I'm not going out of my way tokind of, um, you know, drink
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champagne.
I I had never actually drunkchampagne in front of this
person.
I had always drunk like beer infront of them.
So I was like where on earthare you getting this idea?
Like you know, I'm constantlyin, like you know, graphic teas
and, like you, know I'm not yeah, I'm wearing like designer
brands.
I don't know where they got thisidea.
Um, you know, this was back inaustralia too.
(15:29):
Like we drove like a 30 yearold car, but I was like, look,
you know, I love champagne ifit's free, but I'm not a
champagne girl.
You know, what really reallygets me going is a bucket of
beers Like that's.
When I'm like it's served in abucket.
I'm like this is great.
(15:50):
There's like four like causelights in there.
I'm like this is great.
There's like four like causelights in there.
I'm thinking this is going tobe an awesome time.
That's the kind of bar I want togo to, the one that serves
their beers in a bucket.
Like I love it.
So, um, so that was the wholeidea behind that song.
Like I'm the kind of person whoyou know.
Recently we celebrated myparents wedding anniversary, and
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as an only child, it'ssomething that you know I often
celebrate with them.
Having you know, recently wecelebrated my parents wedding
anniversary and as an only child, it's something that you know,
I often celebrate with them,having, you know, at times
single-handedly kept theirmarriage together and but we
went to like a dive bar fortheir wedding those are the best
lucy.
I love that that's what I love.
(16:34):
So this, this song, was allabout saying like you know,
there's nothing wrong with beinglike a champagne girl, unless
you're like a stuck-up bitch.
But you know that's not me thisis why I like you.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You tell it the way it is, but that that's cool.
So we've got bucket of beer,and so I'm going to talk about
beer for a minute.
We have different beer herethan you had in Australia.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, we didn't have cause light in Australia.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's kind of where I was going.
What, for example?
What are some of the the brandsin Australia?
Yeah, we didn't have CoorsLight in Australia.
That's kind of where I wasgoing.
For example, what are some ofthe brands in Australia?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So the most well-known one in America is one
called Foster's, and it'sterrible.
It's so terrible, I think theyexport it here.
No one in Australia drinks itbecause it's terrible, it's um.
But the if I had to like pickan australian beer, a lot of
them are very um.
They got very big into craftbeer, which you know is okay,
(17:42):
like you know, but they cansometimes be very sort of like
intense and it's like you know Iliterally just wanted to chill
out, so you have to have a sport, but go ahead, I ahead a lager.
I really like a lager.
A lot of american beers arelagers.
I really like them.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
They're kind of just like easy to drink, I guess
about like sort of fighting youback yeah, exactly, do you drink
like guinness or anything likethat?
That's like a lager.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, I mean, that's very intense and it kind of
fills you up.
I mean my last name is actuallyO'Connor and my family actually
is Irish, but we tend not todrink Guinness all that much,
especially if we want to have ameal as well.
You have like two of those andyou're like, well, I'm going to
(18:32):
have dinner.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, no, you're not hungry after that.
I totally get it.
So, uh, let's get back to themusic a little bit.
So you've put out these twosongs.
What else do we have comingfrom Lucy Tiger?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
well, I've got a couple more singles for this
year and I do actually have analbum coming very soon too and
in I've just been talking aboutit this week and what I'm going
to put on it and what I'm goingto sort of release before it
comes out.
And you know what's going to beon the album that no one's
heard before and it's veryexciting.
(19:04):
It's going to be an album ofall the songs that I recorded,
as I was kind of because I cameto the Shoals in Alabama five
times before I moved here.
So I spent you know probablyabout six weeks or so here
cumulatively, and every time Icame I would do like a recording
(19:26):
session because you know I wasonly going to be here for like
two weeks or something and youknow, may as well get some songs
in the can, and you know.
So I have all these songs, umsomething like 15, that have yet
to come out on on like a, analbum.
So some of them I've put out assingles already, um, but yeah,
(19:48):
so that will be coming.
I'll probably announce thattowards the end of the year, I
think probably and it'llprobably be available like in a
physical format on my websiteand um at shows and stuff, and
then we'll eventually pop it outon streaming as well I love
that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Do you, um, actively take part in the streaming, like
the songs you've just put out?
Hummingbird is out there,bucket of beer is out there.
All that's available or you canstream it, you can download it.
Uh, listeners, viewers, can buyit um and support you at the
same time.
So that's kind of cool.
So it's all available, right?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
no matter where you, wherever you get your music, you
can probably get them, yoursong oh yeah, oh yeah, bucket of
beers won't be out until fridaythis week, um right, but yeah,
they're available everywhere,everywhere.
It's pretty global these days.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I do.
It wasn't that great.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Everybody says that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It was really quite bad.
They've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But you have to start somewhere.
Yeah, I know, but you got tostart somewhere, right.
And how old were you when thefirst one came out?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Probably pretty old in terms of you know.
I mean, some people are alllike I've been writing songs
since I was 12.
And you're just like well.
I bet they were crap just likewell, I bet they were crap.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But I was probably like 19 or 20.
So I mean, so you didn't reallystart until you were later in
your teens, early 20s, or didyou start In terms of writing?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
yeah, I mean, I've been playing guitar since I was
eight.
I've been playing piano since Iwas six.
Yeah, I've been singing since Iwas about you know 10 or 11,
like you know,semi-professionally I guess, or
at least you know in lessons andstuff and at the you know
school choir and all of thatsort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
When did you first realize that you might have
something?
Or did mom and dad go hey, youknow what?
This is really good, honey.
We got to see what we can do toyou know, let's see what we can
do for you.
Or, you know, did you have apassion since you were eight
years old to do something likethis?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, it was probably a few things.
I kind of realized at schoolthat I wasn't very good at
anything else.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's always a different way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I kind of realized that pretty quickly.
Like there were things that Ienjoyed and like I liked
learning about, but I justwasn't all that good at and then
, and the stuff that I was goodat, you know, doesn't really
have a career.
Like I liked history, I mean,what career do you have?
History teacher, like you know,I'm not entirely sure what
(22:47):
career you actually have afterthat, you know.
So you know it was kind of oneof those things.
And then, um, I kind ofrealized that out of, I did
music in high school and I kindof realized pretty quickly that,
um, and I hate you know.
I don't know how you say it inAmerican, but in Australia we
(23:09):
would say you know blowing myown horn, um, and I kind of hate
doing that.
I mean, yeah, we say that youknow blowing my own horn and I
kind of hate doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I mean, yeah, we say that I'm blowing my own horn.
You know, here I am and I'mproud of it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Australians hate doing that, Like it gets a lot
to kind of get it out.
But I was kind of probably oneof the best kids in my music
class, so you know everyone elsewould be nervous to like get on
stage and I'd be like, what areyou talking about?
(23:41):
This is easy, you know, and theywould be doing like really safe
songs and I'd be like maybe Iwant to like I don't know play
this song that I've never playedbefore in my life and do that
for my final exam, and like it'sthree weeks away but I can
probably do it.
And they'd be like, oh, I'msinging a song that I've sung
every year for the past, youknow.
(24:02):
So I kind of realized that Iwas sort of I don't know, maybe
the most capable out of theclass and I was also, I'm pretty
sure, out of my year 12 musicclass.
I was the only person and itwas a pretty big class because I
went to quite a big school likethere was over 100 people in my
(24:23):
year and there was maybe like20 people in my music class and
I was the only person that didmusic following high school.
Everyone else just there wasonly yeah, just like dropped it
and did you know?
I don't know law or something?
Music wasn't what they were yousaid, right?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'm sorry.
I think we're overlapping alittle bit, I think there's a
little bit of a delay and I Iapologize for that.
Um, you only like a hundred inyour class, in my whole year.
In your whole.
So 12th year is your senioryear, correct?
12th year here is was my senioryear.
We had seven, almost 800 peoplejust in my class.
(25:07):
Oh just in the 12th graduating,graduating well, and it took a
while to go through.
Yeah, it took a little bit togo through.
No, it really wasn't.
That's why I was.
I mean, maybe to you and whereyou're from, I get that all
right, but yeah, I mean ourwhole country.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We only have 25 million people.
So when you say like 100 peoplein your year, you know
everyone's like oh wow, thatthat's a lot.
But I was the only person afteryear 12 who actually continued
with music.
Everyone else kind of gave itup.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, you're talented , super talented.
You can write, you can sing,you're putting out some great
music.
You're serious about what youdo and it's pretty evident by
the fact that you moved from wayover there to way over here,
and it's not an easy flighteither.
It had to be like 16 hours, 17hours and no thank you.
(26:05):
And now, with the doors flyingoff and everything else going on
, I don't know if it's going tobe hard to get me in a plane.
I tell you what I love the fly.
I'm a geek, I'm all about thatI do.
If I get to take a trip, I'mall.
I'm all about it, I'm on there.
But I saw these t-shirts thatsay if it's Boeing, I ain't
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going, and I'm like, oh boy, youknow.
But I mean you know.
The other thing is and we'regetting a little bit off topic
here but everybody's got a phonein their hand and every little
thing now gets documented.
And I'm sure these thingshappened almost every day.
A lot of this, you know planesturn around, they go back to the
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airport, they're having amechanical issue.
You never used to hear a lotabout those and it happened all
the time.
Now something happensSomebody's there with their
phone, they're recording it,they're sending it to whoever.
It's crazy, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Definitely probably plays a part, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and then they're going look at Lucy
Tiger's on my flight.
I got it right here, I.
And look at Lucy Tigers on myflight.
I got it right here.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I got the picture.
I got the picture.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
She's the one going.
Let me on the screen.
Well, I might be with you onthat.
I love to fly, but there'stimes I get it.
So you've made the move.
You're here, you're drivingback and forth from Nashville,
you're putting out some greatmusic.
Hummingbird is out there,bucket of beer is coming out.
(27:39):
If somebody wants to get these,they can go to your social
media and it's all right therefor them to purchase download.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh yeah, you just looked up lucy tiger and it's
l-u-c-i-e and then tiger likethe animal tiger I love it so
there's a lot of you know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I asked before we went on and because you being
australian, you being from, andI'd love to see sydney someday,
I I mean actually I think a lotof us here in the states dream
of going to austral Australia,just because we hear that it's
very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Sydney's lovely.
It's a lovely place to visitand the kangaroos are running up
and down.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I thought the kangaroos were what.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
No, you have to get pretty.
You have to.
I mean, it'll take you.
Sydney is very spread out, it'slike LA, so you kind of have to
drive maybe an hour and a halfthese days, maybe almost two
hours to get out of the city.
Once you get out of the cityand into the bush, that's where
you'll start to see some.
But they're like deer, soyou'll see them like at dawn and
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dusk and they'll just run outin front of your car.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, and bam.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I've never hit one, but I know a lot of people yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know you said they're like deer here in the
States.
You know we, you know there'san overpopulation of deer there.
They're everywhere now even inthe city areas, so it's kind of
crazy.
I know here in the Northeast,uh, we have a lot of them.
But you mentioned Bush.
Bush is a slang term for like afield woods, something like
that.
So I went online and and I waslooking up different terms
(29:30):
because, to be honest with you,I didn't know.
Like other guys I've met fromAustralia, it's always hey, mate
, how are you?
You know, but what do you calla girl?
So I I found, um, it's Sheila,I believe, and that's pretty old
school.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You said yeah, that's pretty old school, Like.
I feel like the same people whowould call guys mate would
probably um, I know that it's.
Sometimes I would go into, likea clothing store or something
and you know they'd be like.
You know there'd be some girlwho's like I don't know 14 years
old, behind the counter, who'slike hey, hon I'd be like don't
(30:08):
call me.
Don't call me hon Like.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
My wife hates that You're still in high school.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Like what are you doing?
It's like.
It's like there is this liketendency around these parts
where people who are likeliterally like 16 years old will
be like you know, oh hey, dear.
And I'm like what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You sound like a nutcase, but yeah, I guess
Sheila is kind of old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, my wife hates being called hun.
There's somebody you know yougo through and you get somebody
that, okay, hun, you're good togo.
Don't ever call me hun.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I do like it sometimes, so I was looking up
some of the they call you likethe.
You might have like a lovelyold, like African-American lady
who's like helping you out, andI'll be like, okay, we'll just
fill this out baby.
And I'm like, fill this outbaby.
And I'm like I like that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's fun.
All right, I found out.
See, I'd have a hard timegetting used to all that.
But what's that?
All right.
Bogan, bogan, what's that mean?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Bogan is kind of like a redneck and it's kind of it's
sort of like an insult likeredneck is, and it's kind of
it's sort of like an insult likeredneck is.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But then there are, then there are people who are,
you know, like rednecks who arelike yeah, I'm a redneck, you
know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So like some kind of bogans, are like proud of yeah
uh, I see here sweet, sweet as,as, oh, yeah, as yeah, that's
that.
I feel like that probably camefrom new zealand, but australia
kind of picked it up becausethat's like a very like, it's
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very new zealand.
But but australians also sayand they'll be like, it's kind
of like yeah, that's good.
You know, I can.
I just hear it in my head.
It's like with a new zealandaccent, with a like sweet bro
what about ta?
ta.
My dad says that all the timeand I have to keep telling him.
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People don't understand youwhen you say that you have to
actually say thank you, but itmeans like thank you All right,
there you go Arvo.
That's the afternoon.
No one likes to spell outafternoon in a text message when
you can just use four letters.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
A-R-V-O.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Arvo, I'm shocked it hasn't taken on.
Cheers is like when you kind ofI don't know say thanks, or
when you like cheers, you drink.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, yeah, oh, here's one.
Here's one Faffing around.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I feel like this is something that my like aunt from
the country might say, but it'skind of like messing around, I
feel.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, messing around.
You might hear a mother scoldher children by saying stop
faffing around.
Okay, sheila, we talked aboutoh, brekkie, what about brekkie?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Brekkie that's breakfast.
We just shorten everything.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I see that, yep .
Oh, here's, one Rack off.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh, that's a good one .
That is, um.
I mean, if you wanted to be atrue australian you would say f
off, but it means the same thinglike everybody else, just step
off, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
But basically the same thing.
Uh means lost Bush youmentioned.
Oh here's one, coldy.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Oh yeah, that's like a cold beer or a cold drink, I
guess, but most specifically abeer yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It says here coldie.
However, don't drink too manycoldies or you might get munted.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Munted means drunk.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, that's in a Drunk , I just read that, but I love
the way they have it.
All right, here's one.
Here's one and you mentionedthis in the beginning, well
before you went on, I believe,flat out.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Okay, so.
So I said this to someonebecause we do have you know
sayings that we say where wekind of like shorten things, so
the whole phrase is flat outlike a lizard drinking right.
Right, because when you picturea lizard like a you know a
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gecko or something, they'regonna be like flat on the you
know desert floor, drinkingright.
So.
But it doesn't mean you'redrinking, it means you're busy,
so you're flat out.
I'm like flat out is what mostpeople say, and then every now
and then you might say I'm flatout like a lizard drinking.
And then I said that to someonethe other day and they thought
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I had been drinking.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And I was like no, I've actually been very
productive and very busy.
It's been a busy day.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
We've done well Productive day.
How about heaps, heaps?
So we would say like thanksheaps, so like thanks a bunch.
It just means like lots.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Many a lot.
Yeah, okay, I'm looking here.
Oh, here's, there's only a fewmore on this list, darrow.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Darrow D-E-R-R-O.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, Darrow means it's actually short for
something.
I forget the word it's shortfor, but it's like a Derelict.
Yeah, like a homeless personwho's strung out on drugs.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yep, yep, that's exactly what it says.
Yeah, yeah, how about bathers?
How about bathers?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I feel like people don't use that as much anymore.
But yeah, it's like swimsuit.
I think most people these daysuse like swimmers Like my
grandma would use the wordbathers but I feel like now we
just call them like swimmers.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh, here's one.
Here's one, bludger.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Oh, bludger, that just means someone who's like
lazy.
So like we have this, you know,you know how the government
gives out money to people whodon't have jobs and stuff, and
so there are people that like doit on purpose who?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
yeah, yeah, we get what it says oh wait a minute,
here's one.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
You may know this, maybe I uh bottle, oh bottle oh
yeah, that's where you buyalcohol, so it's a butler it's
like a bottle.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's what do?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We don't call them like liquor stores, we call them
bottle shops.
So then you shorten bottle shopto Bottle-O.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
It says here, you've just gotten back from the bush.
You might want more than acoldie.
If so, you'll have to head toyour nearest Bottle-O or liquor
store, and Bottle-O can alsorefer to any shop that sells
alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I mean it completely confused me.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Okay, one more.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
And they called them all package stores and I'm like
they're like you know, oh,you've got to get that at the
package store.
And I was like the heck is apackage store?
Like what?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
How about Straya?
How about Australia?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Australia, australia.
That's just like how we sayAustralia, really fast.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Oh man, I should have .
Yeah, now that makes sense,holy cow.
So it's like a whole differentlanguage, but not really.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, and you know, every now and then I do say
something, and there are so manythings actually Like there's
one thing that I say all thetime.
Actually, I'll say instead ofyou know, I got to the bar last
night, I'll say I rocked up atthe bar and so you know.
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I rocked up and so my friendjust loves it.
She'll be, like you said,rocked up.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
You know, like amazing alabama accent, I'm like
I did you got the alabamaaccent, you got the australian
accent and together that must beinteresting.
I got to love that that's socool.
So how often, Lucy Tiger, howoften do you get to write?
Do you write every day?
Do you maybe once a week?
(38:58):
Are you pretty active with it?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Probably not as active as some people.
But then I feel like I have adifferent sort of um process, so
I'll kind of come up with anidea and I will write it down,
you know, in kind of my notesapp on my phone, and um, then
I'll sort of I won't push it.
I feel like when ideas getpushed they don't sound as good,
(39:26):
um, and then I'll just let itlike I had an idea for a song
and I and I remember I went to ashow and I had the idea for the
song after the show and theshow was on february 1, because
I'm I remember dates, that's whyI was good at history and, um,
you know, I kind of I came upwith the chorus for that idea
(39:48):
yesterday and I just let it sit.
And I just let it sit and likemarinate in my head.
I kind of didn't, you know, Ijust wrote down that little
phrase that I had and like thekind of concept of the song, and
then I kind of, you know, Ikind of wrote like the chorus
and the verse.
I wrote the verse like lastnight, as I was trying to get to
(40:11):
sleep, I had this idea and Iwas like, oh well, I've got to
like wake up and turn my lighton and like write it down,
otherwise I won't remember it inthe morning, and so the second
verse will probably come likelater this week, and if there's
a bridge, I'll probably think ofthat, and then I'll have a song
and just you piece it together,that's all.
And then you got something yeah,and it all just sort of like
(40:33):
comes in.
I don't know.
I remember keith richards, whois like a huge influence of mine
.
He once said that, um, you know, all the songs are like out
there in the ether and, um, youknow songwriters or or like the
best songwriters and I'm notsaying I'm the best songwriter,
but you know a lot of the bestsongwriters just have this
(40:54):
antenna and the antenna justpicks up.
You know the song and I don'tknow.
I kind of feel like that'spretty much what happens for me
anyway.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, do you?
Have you been playing any showsin Nashville?
Of course you've been doingsome in Alabama, but uh, do you
get out there?
Do you play any of the?
Uh, you know they've got allthe big bars now Every, every
country artist has a bar.
Have you had that opportunityto play some of those?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I haven't.
Um, it's.
It can be very grueling.
I've heard playing thosenashville shows, especially on
broadway.
Um, and then of course it'salso that thing of like, um, you
know, I don't know if you havethis term here, but like a bit
of a golden handcuff, whereyou're playing these shows,
you're getting paid reasonablywell, you're getting great tips,
(41:44):
but you're just playing coversand so everyone knows you for
your covers and they don't, youknow.
Then of course, if you want toplay an original show, it might
not pay as well than the coversshow.
And then all of a sudden youhave this thing of well, do I do
the covers show, which earnsmore money, or do I do the
original show?
So I just haven't really.
I haven't really gotten intothat at all.
(42:05):
I've played a few songwritersshowcases I haven't really
gotten into that at all.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I've played a few songwriters showcases.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I don't know you, but I play some great shows down in
Florence.
I play some really great showsdown here in the Shoals.
I'm playing a show on Fridaynight actually, and the band
I've got is kind of out of thisworld Like.
I've got a guy called JustinHolder on drums.
He is basically the number onesession guitar drummer in the
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Shoals.
He's played with like everyoneand he played on all my records
as well.
So he's there on Hummingbirdand Bucket of Beers.
And then on guitar I've got aguy called Jordan Denton who is
fantastic.
He's another, you know, amazingguitarist here.
On Keys I got a guy called BradKuhn who played on a whole
(42:54):
bunch of my stuff and he's thisincredible session player.
And then on bass I've actuallygot two-time Grammy
award-winning bass player, jimboHart, who used to play for
Jason Isbell.
Yeah back to town and, um, hereally likes my music and I said
, hey, I need a bass player andhe was like I'm available, so
(43:16):
we're playing um a show onfriday night that you know.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I saw it on your facebook and, uh, that is pretty
cool.
And now that you're mentioningwho these guys are and yeah,
absolutely so how did you getthese guys to play?
Did they reach out to you ordid you reach out to them?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
You know, I think it's one of those things where
they're, they're available toplay.
I think they're also in aposition where they can kind of
pick and choose who they want toplay with.
They do a lot of recording,like a lot of recording, and
Jordan does a lot of live stuffwith other people as well.
(43:59):
And you know, I mean what I'vedone when I moved here is I just
joined the community.
I just became part of thecommunity.
I go out to a lot of shows.
Last week I was at the SecretSisters on Saturday night.
I was seeing Hippies andCowboys.
On Friday night I was seeingDylan LeBlanc on Thursday night.
(44:19):
On Wednesday night I was seeingsomeone.
I think On Tuesday night I wasseeing a bunch of my friends in
a band that play every Tuesdaynight.
That include Justin on drums,will McFarlane, who played
guitar for Bonnie Raitt for awhile, and Kelvin Hawley, who is
a real good friend of mine.
He played guitar for LittleRichard and the Amazing Rhythm
(44:42):
Aces.
So like all these people arejust in town and they're kind of
like lucky enough to kind ofjust call them my friends, um, I
mean, I told you startedfilming that I had a friend
whose cat had kittens um.
That friend is actually GaryNichols, who's like the Grammy
winning okay bluegrass guy yeswithin the steel drivers.
(45:05):
Yeah, he lives in town.
Um, he actually played at mylast show with a band, so he
played with me there and I'mtaking one of his kittens and
I'm going to call it Gary afterhim, which I think is fantastic.
So, I mean, I've just likejoined the community, I think
you know, one of the best thingsthat you can do when you do
(45:26):
move to a new place is just goout, like you know, you don't
always have to get like 17 beers, like sometimes I go out and
just get a Diet Coke and youknow I just watch my friends.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, I know, but you're with your friends.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Yeah, I just watch my friends playing, and then they
come and watch me or they'replaying in my band.
So yeah, it's all just thisgreat musical community down
here in the shoals.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, and I noticed all these names that you've been
mentioning and people thatyou're going to be playing with
or you've gone out and watchedbecome friends with and I don't
mean this in a bad way, not thatthey're old, but they're
seasoned, they know what, whatyou know, and they can pick up
on something really really quickand take it and run with it
that's right, and you know theother good thing, about this
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place is a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
you know.
There are those seasonedplayers, but then a lot of
younger people are moving here.
Um, and I forgot to mention oneof my friends is gonna get up
and play a few songs with us onfr night, randy O'Dell.
He plays guitar for LV, shaneso, and he played the Oprah with
LV yeah, so you know I meanit's and all these people are
(46:40):
just my friends.
So like I'll see, like Randy atlike a show.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Do you want to play like guitar on a couple you know
songs next Friday?
And he's like yeah, I'm free.
So yeah, we all just like, helpeach other out.
I'm singing, I'm singingbackground vocals for my
friend's album release show, thebig you know theater in town in
two weeks.
And we all, just you know, it'sjust a big, nice community
where we all, just you knowthat's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
You can't you just can't be sitting in a corner
somewhere.
You're getting out there,you're helping others, you're
singing with others, you'remaking friends, you're being
active, you're doing everythingthat you need to do to get the
name lucy tiger out there andyou know you do it right.
You're going to be friends forlife.
I mean, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Yeah, I mean, I think some people use networking just
to get what they want.
Um, and you know, all power tothem.
But I like to do it to firstlymake friends, and if those
people can then work with me orhelp me with something later
down the track or I can helpthem, then fantastic.
But you know, first andforemost we're just all friends
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then fantastic.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
But you know, first and foremost, we're just all
friends, god, I love that, god,I love that.
How many cats do you have?
I have two and so you have two,three and you have the
australian meow, and now you'regonna have gary the american and
is there a difference?
In the meows, obviously I'm notsure.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I'm so curious to see if, like, they can communicate
with each other.
Um, I mean, my cats are,they're not young like one.
I mean they're not all, but oneis um nine and one is twelve.
So they're definitely like, setin their ways and how they
communicate.
But the older one tends to pickon the younger one.
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So the younger one is a littleboy called Frank.
So I want Frank to have alittle friend.
So I'm hoping Gary can be hislittle friend, little buddies
together.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, was it hard to get them to travel?
I mean, that's a long ways togo.
You had to keep them in alittle cage.
That's a long ways to go.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I know there is, there's a company that does it.
They like literally justtransport pets, and so we got
them to do it and so they flewto LA and then they kind of
overnighted somewhere in LA andthen they flew to Nashville and
then I drove up and picked themup from the airport.
And it was kind of funnybecause they kept.
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They kept sending us updatesand they would send us photos
and in the update they would belike the cats are doing really
great, they're really happy,they're really chilled out, you
know they're having a great time.
And then they'd send us thesephotos where they're going, like
they're really chilled out, youknow they're having a great
time.
And then they'd send us thesephotos where they're going like
(49:36):
Like these terrible photos wherethey just looked petrified and
I'm like could you stop sendingthe photos?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Like can you just tell?
Speaker 2 (49:42):
me that they're alive , without having to send me the
photos where they lookabsolutely traumatized, send me
the photos where they lookabsolutely traumatised.
But they made it and they werekind of.
They kind of hid under the bedfor about a week and then.
But now they're like, perfectlyfine, they go outside and they
look at the squirrels and they,yeah, they have a much better.
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I mean, the place that we're inin Sydney because it's so
expensive in Sydney was muchsmaller than the one we have
here.
So they just like they have somuch fun.
They're very spoiled.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
I love it.
Lucy, you're awesome.
You are awesome.
Love your music, love whatyou're doing and it was so nice
to catch up with you again andwelcome to the States.
You said you've only been herea few months.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, I've been here seven months.
I made it through.
I have made it through twotornado watches, I've made it
through one week of snow, whichwas really not fun, because it
does not snow at all in Sydney,and this was the third time in
my entire life that I saw snowand it was there on the ground
(50:52):
for a week.
And I don't know about whatthey do in New York, but I'll
tell you what Alabama has noidea what to do with snow, so
the entire town just shut down.
We have like one plow, so itwas like this.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
It's like that.
It's like that in Nashville.
Same thing.
They get snow, they shut downpretty much.
Here we're in upstate New York,in Syracuse New York, and we
can get a foot of snow overnightand we still get up and go to
work, school buses still comeeverybody.
Because we got the equipment.
You know we got a great.
(51:28):
We got great crews that takecare of the roads and do what
they have to.
We got the equipment.
You know we got a great.
We got great crews that takecare of the roads and do what
they have to do.
And you know it's very rarethat everything shuts down.
If everything shuts down here,then you know we're getting a
hell of a storm and it'shappened so sorry, but I love it
here.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It's's fantastic, everything is great.
You know I couldn't have askedfor a better place to land and
you know I've been able to dosome exploring of.
You know been able to drivearound the state and do some
shows in a couple of otherplaces in Alabama, and you know
(52:06):
it's fantastic down here.
I love the South and you knowit's it's fantastic down here.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
I love the south.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's awesome.
Have you ever been to upstateNew York?
Speaker 2 (52:14):
no, I'd really like to go, but maybe in like June.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
I would say here's the deal we get the four seasons
.
Yeah, you definitely don't wantto come in January or February,
even March, you know, you neverknow.
I mean, we've had snow over thelast couple of weeks and then
it's 80 degrees out, so it'slike a roller coaster right now.
But if you're going to come toupstate New York, I would
recommend that you make the trip, like in early October, because
(52:45):
all the leaves are turningcolors.
It's an absolute beautiful,beautiful time of the year to be
here.
We have the Adirondacks, themountains just north of town and
it's just absolutely beautiful.
So keep that in the back ofyour mind.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I will.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I'd love to come up and visit you in person.
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Did you go to CRS?
I was only there for one, Ionly.
I had some work in Nashvillethat I had to do.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
So I only was there for grassroots is karaoke.
I got that and I didn't go thisyear.
I wish I did Always a good time.
Lucy tiger, once again, what isyour website?
Somebody wants to?
Speaker 2 (53:29):
go on and find out more.
Yeah, you just jump onto lucytiger music l-u-c-i-e tiger like
the animal.
T-i-g-e-r music.
That is the website.
Uh, lucy tiger musiccom.
If you want to find me onsocial media, it is at lucy
tiger music on everything.
And, yeah, listen to the music.
Come and say hey um you know Ilove talking to people.
(53:51):
Sometimes it takes me a whileto get back to people's comments
and messages, but that'sbecause it's me doing it.
It's not like some randomperson, so it's me it keeps you
busy.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yeah, Yep, Absolutely , Absolutely.
Lucy Tiger, you've been on skiphappens and we thank you for
doing that.
Skip is happening for you andit's very, it's very good.
It's very good.
I mean you've made the move.
Here you are the music's out.
You're with a great promotionscompany.
By the way, I can never, I cannever say enough about
grassroots.
Love them to death andeverybody with them.
(54:23):
They are great and I mean everyword of that.
I mean it's just they'refantastic.
But you know what?
Thanks for joining us heretonight on skip happens and
finding out about your music,and hopefully we'll get some
viewers and listeners checkingout your website and maybe
downloading some of your music.
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Thank you so much for having me skip.
It's always such a pleasuretalking to you.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I want you to have a great night.
Such a pleasure talking to you.
I want you to have a greatnight.
Thank you, you too.
Peace you are.
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