July 19, 2025 • 59 mins
Show #213 of World Awakenings: The Fast Track to Enlightenment is a bit of a departure from our usual chat with spiritual masters, teachers, channels, and authors & experts, as we meet with musical artist, Dylan Meek. Growing up in a small town outside of Austin, Texas, piano master Jimmy Neely took Dylan in as a protege, passing along nearly a century of wisdom and music. Graduating High-school, Dylan moved to Boston, to live with his brother Buck Meek, and play organ and piano in gospel churches. These experiences provided the first inspiration for him to start singing. Since then, Dylan has consistently pushed artistic boundaries. His mastery of the keyboard remains a hallmark of his signature sound. Known for his Grammy-nominated work and a repertoire that spans classic soul, neo-soul, and rock, Dylan’s music is a testament to fearless originality and the limitless power of connection. His forthcoming album “Love Languages” exemplifies this journey—a poetic celebration that challenges us all to love more openly and courageously. His mission is to inspire genuine connection in a fragmented world, inviting every listener to confront their truths, celebrate their nuances, and experience the catharsis of heartfelt creativity. Spiritual awakening and growth comes in many forms, and Dylan Meek and his music is a beautiful example of this!
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Dylan's newest album, "Love Languages" debuts September, 2025 on Liquid Culture Records
You can find & listen to Dylan's music on Spotify, Pandora & many more online audio outlets.
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To find out more about Dylan Meek and his music, just go to his website, https://www.dylanmeekmusic.com/
Dylan's newest album, "Love Languages" debuts September, 2025 on Liquid Culture Records
You can find & listen to Dylan's music on Spotify, Pandora & many more online audio outlets.
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Now let's head off to meet today's featured guests, and
today's show is a bit of a departure from our
usual chat with spiritual masters, teachers, channels, and authors and
experts as we meet.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
With musical artist Dylan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Growing up in a small town outside of Austin, Texas,
Harlem piano master Jimmy Neely took Dylan in as protege,
passing along nearly a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Century of wisdom and music.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Graduating from high school, Dylan moved to Boston to live
with his brother Buck and play organ and piano in
gospel churches that I want to find out about. These
experiences provided the first inspiration for him to start singing,
and since then, Dylan has consistently pushed artistic boundaries, and
his mastery of the keyboard remains a hallmark of his
(02:33):
signature sound. Known for his Grammy nominated work and his
repertoire that spans classic soul, neo soul, and rock, Dylan's
music is a testament to fearless originality and the limitless
power of connection.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And this is very cool.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
His forthcoming album Love Languages exemplifies this journey, a poetic
celebration that challenges us.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
All to love more openly and courageously you needed.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
His mission is to inspire genuine connection in a fragmented world,
inviting every listener to confront their truths, celebrate their nuances,
and experience the catharsis of heart felt creativity with that
very cool man. Is so awesome to have you here, Dylan.
Thank you for being on World Awakenings.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, well, you know, obviously we need to find out
more about where you're coming from and how you found
your calling to be a professional musician, and did it
start early in your childhood?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It did start early in my childhood.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I was.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I was thirteen or fourteen when I had my first
weekly gig, and I was it was around the time
my parents were like, you need to get a job,
you know, you need to get some sort of job.
And I was like, okay, you know, and I was
thinking about it, and I I don't know how exactly
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the person heard me, but this guy that owned a
piano bar in my town was literally driving by me
and rolled down his window and he was like, I
want to hire you every Sunday at my I was
like thirteen, walking around in my neighborhood and he was like,
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I want to hire you at my at my club
every every Sunday to play piano for the people. And
I'm like all right, you know, and he said what
he would pay me. It was like fifty dollars or
something like that. Yeah, for for thirteen fourteen, I was like,
oh my god, every Sunday. So so yeah, I was.
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That's when I started getting paid to play music, and
it opened my eyes into that enjoyment of it. Oh wow,
I can get paid to do to play music. This
is amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So you finally said your parents, I got a job, right.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, I got a job, you know, making better than
minimum wage, you know, playing a couple hours, and then
I was getting tips.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
That led to when you're a kid and you are
talented at an instrument, it's I mean, it's just like
a primal thing for all humans to kind of appreciate
its It's really interesting and I think about that a lot,
but that's a whole other subject matter. But when I
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was a kid, it was just like every adult and
person would just be like, WHOA, what's up with that?
Like and and so Sundays started getting really busy and
a lot of people would come out, and I had
a tip jar, and so a lot of people were
tipping me. When you're a kid, you get tipped a lot,
a lot extra than you do when you're an adult.
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You have to work a little harder. When you're an adult,
you have to learn the If you're a street performer,
I've had a lot to street performers friends and I
had when I was much younger. When I was a
later teenager, when I graduated high school and moved to Boston,
moved to New York City, I did do street performing
a little bit when I was broke and needed the
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money and needed extra money. And it's you definitely have
to learn certain tricks to engage with people. But when
you're a kid, it's easy. All you got to be
is talented and a kid, and people will just give
you money and give you praise and stuff. But it
was definitely a good introduction, and it was a good
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it was a soft landing into the professional world of music,
and it was it was a yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, and you're from Austin Texas, which is a huge
musical town.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Huge music town, and I so when I'm at my
mentor Jimmy Neely, he was a huge part of me
actually knowing that this is what I wanted to do
because the money. Money is one thing, but money doesn't
really you know, by passion. It's it was really seeing
my mentor Jimmy Neely. And he was larger than life.
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And he moved to the Austin area in the seventies
and he was just a master. He played with Count Bassie,
Ala Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, he knew so many people, good
friends with Duke Kellington, played with Charlie Parker. I mean,
the list goes on. He has all these crazy he
had the crazy stories too, but he was just larger
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than life and he inspired me. I wanted to be
like him. I was like, Wow, this dude is I
just felt a very big spiritual connection with him, sole
connection with him and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How did how did you connect with him in the
first place?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
So he was a he loved art and he appreciated
artists and of all of all different kinds. My father
is a glass sculptor named Bill Meek, and he had
a studio gallery in my town, and Jimmy used to
come by and admire other art. And it was actually
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interesting because I was in this period of time of reflection.
I was like thirteen. I was asking a lot of
questions internally about self, about purpose, about you know, God,
about the universe, about a lot of different things, what
the meaning of life was. And I was having these
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very deep reflections. And I started doing a lot of
yoga and started reading you know, the dowad Ajing and
different you know, spiritual books, just like just thinking about
different philosophies and different just purpose, just what my purpose was.
And I remember and I was like running two miles
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a day, and I was breathing, and I was doing yoga,
I was meditating every day, and there was this deep
rooted instinct to find a mentor. I was like, I
need a mentor. I need someone to guide me right now.
And I had the desire to have a mentor, someone
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that I looked up to, someone that was a master
of something. And also there was this other part of
my heart that was leaning towards I felt like I
was on a plateau on the piano because I was
self taught originally, and I had a teacher as well,
but I was self taught and blues. I had a
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teacher who was teaching me songs, and then I taught
myself how to play boogie wigi and blues because I
loved I just naturally gravitated towards boogie wigie piano. But
then I had a teacher teaching me songs like Bohemian
Rhapsody and Somewhere over the Rainbow and you know, just
repertoire that any kid learns or whatnot. And I always
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learned fast. But I hit this place where I stopped
taking lessons with that teacher. I hit all of the
things I could figure out by myself. I felt, at
least at the time, at thirteen year old boy, thought
that I reached, you know, a plateau, and that I
needed to get to another level. And I didn't know
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how to get to another level. And I was thinking, man,
if there was some master blues musician or a jazz
musician that does what I do, that I could that
was really from the source, that tapped into the source
of that music that is inspiring to me. But it's
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still a bit of a mystery to me because I'm
at this plateau and then I remember hearing about this
man in my town that all everyone, all the musicians feared,
all the musicians were intimidated by. It was an old
wizard with a big beard and a huge personality and
(11:14):
almost like a almost like a mister Miage type where
everyone was like, who is that you know? Or like,
you know, like the musicians would be like, I'm afraid
to take lessons with him. Or I heard stories where
he would kick people out of his house that wanted
to take a lesson with him or something, you know,
that he was very stern or whatnot. I heard these stories,
(11:35):
these uh, these uh you know, through the grapevine, these
rumors of you know this master, but he's really hard
teacher and he doesn't take on many students or whatnot.
And and there was something in me in my soul
that was like, who is this guy? And so I
asked my dad because I grew up in a small
town outside of Bustin, and I asked my dad. I'm like,
(11:56):
who's that dude, the old man the jazz musician from
New York that people will say is mean, Who's who's
that guy?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Who is that guy? Because I wonder if he would
teach me piano lessons because I want to deepen my
piano abilities and maybe it would be the right fit.
And my dad was like, I think you're thinking of
Jim and Neely and I'm like yeah, And my dad
was like, he's the only one like that here. Like
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there was other jazz piano players, other musicians in Austin,
and there was a couple from New York and Austin.
But he was like an og He was an old
school dude. Grew up in the nineteen thirties as a teenager,
you know, playing with all the masters, and in the
forties playing with all the masters in his early twenties,
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you know. So being of that generation of a jazz musician,
you you had a different outlook on what jazz was
and what music was, and what the connection to an
instrument or a musical ability was in that in the
pop culture of that time, which it's changed generationally as
(13:10):
it always does. And but I digress. Basically, I was like,
can I meet this guy? And my dad was like,
let me call him, because he does I'm friends with
him and he comes by the studio a lot. My
dad said, you know, so I'll call so you know,
one day my dad said, well, guess what. I talked
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to Jimmy Neely and he said he would meet you.
He said he's not taking on students, but that he'll
he'll meet you and maybe he could put you in
the right direction of somebody else, but he wants to
assess you. So I was like, all right. So I
get in, you know, my dad's truck. We're driving into
the Texas hill country and you know, about a couple
(13:55):
miles out from Jimmy's house, you're jazz like in the
hill country, through the trees, through the forest. You just
start hearing swing and you're like, is that jazz?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Who is is that a piano trio? You know, like,
is that Os Computerson. I didn't know who Os Computerson
was at the time, but I was like, who, you know,
that's that's swing or whatever. That's jazz or whatever. And
we're driving and it gets louder and louder. We pull
up into his house that he built with his bare hands.
He's on the roof at seventy eight, retiling his roof,
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shirt off, ripped big white Beard like a foot and
a half two foot white beard ripped with a tie
on his hand and a hammer in his hand in
the in the summer sun, you know the Texas heat,
you know, with boots on and jeans and and retiling
his roof and crazy, crazy sight to behold with music blasting.
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He on. He has had this big house that he built,
and on that the outside of the house, the rim
of the roof, under the roof, right under the roof,
there were speakers facing out of the house blasting jazz
and his theory later I'm skipping through time right now,
(15:18):
but he said the reason why he did that, He's like,
let everyone hear your music. Let everybody hear you know that.
He was very intense about that. But so I go inside.
He comes down his ladder. You know, he's and he
had huge hands, and that was my first memory of
him shaking my hand, and my hand at fourteen, could
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fit in the palm of his hand. He has such
big hands. He could reach a fourteenth on the piano.
If you're familiar with what that means, that's very very
that's most people. Most humans don't have that reach. He
had a very remarkable hand size. But and he squeezed
my hand really hard, and he was like, you need
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to learn how to shake strong. That was the first
thing he said to me. And I was like, okay,
you know. And then he was like, okay, so your
dad tells me you play piano, come play for me.
And I'm like, okay, So I go play. And you know,
I'm thirteen or fourteen, I'm trying to show off. And
(16:19):
I played the fastest boogie woogie and see that I know,
you know, you know, just really you know, fast up tempo.
I could only play and see at the time, I
see twelve bar blues and played it really fast, with
probably some walking base or something, and and he said, okay,
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can you take it up a half step? And I
said no, and then he laughed. And then he's like,
I see the fire and you but get up from
the piano. And I'm like okay, and he sits down
and he looks at me. He never looked at his hands.
That was his thing too. He would always look at
the audience. And if you were studying with him, he
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would look directly in your eyes the entire time, really intensely,
and play the most virtuositic piano you've ever heard, but
looking at you in the eyes, like really intensely, and
he did that, and he proceeded to play twelve bar
blues and all twelve keys in different tempos. You know,
(17:28):
he did like walking base, he did Barrelhouse. He played
it in astride, he played it in Blockchorse, he played
it in double octas, he played it in six', eight
he played it in five, four he played it in.
Seven he you, know every key he would. Change he
would also change the stole and he was you, know
and then he got done and he's, like you need
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to be able to play that in all twelve. Keys
and he's, like who do you? Like what piano players
do you? Like or who do you listen? To AND i,
SAID i Love Ray charles AND i Love Duke ellington
BECAUSE i the only jazz RECORD i had at the
time Was Money, jungle which is one of my favorite
records of all. Time It's Duke. Ellen it's a trio,
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Record Duke, Ellington Charles mingus on base And Max roach on. Drums.
Wow and he's, LIKE i knew all of them AND
i worked with all of. THEM i was good friends With.
Duke charles was out of his mind And. Max max
was a friend and he was like in where he's
like IN i Knew max And Ray. CHARLES i Toured
Ray charles WHEN i was, working you, know and, yeah
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AND i was just like it blew my. Mind and
and then you, know we hung out for a couple
hours and he played you know for, me and he
Did i'm trying to think we like played a little.
Bit but then he was, like you, KNOW i DON'T
i don't take on students right now Because i'm about
to move To New mexico to build another, house SO
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i don't have time for. You But i'll give you
a number somebody to to call that might be that
might work for. You SO i was like. Okay and
then and then he gave me a number. SOMEBODY i
hit them up and or they were busy actually as.
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Well ACTUALLY i CAN'T i can't even remember how that.
Went but, basically LIKE i kept bugging. HIM i kept
calling him like you haven't moved, Out CAN i just come?
Over and then about a month later he calls. Me he's,
like bring your notebook. Over come over with a notebook
and a pencil or. Whatever AND i went over and
(19:38):
and he, said, Listen i'm gonna take you on as a.
Student but my rule is you Don't you're not gonna pay.
Me but EVERYTHING i teach you have to master before
you come back to. Me i'm going to teach you
one thing at a, time or you, know certain concepts
(20:00):
at a, time certain things at a. Time i'm going
to give you. Homework i'm going to give you things to,
do but don't come back to me until you have
mastered each of those. Things and if you come back
to me without mastering each of those, things like at
a time in between the lessons we, Do i'll kick
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you out of my house and you can't take a
lesson me. Again AND i was like, Absolutely and the
short story is he never kicked me out of his
house BECAUSE i always put in the. Work SO i
would spend hours at his. HOUSE i would spend you,
know minimum lesson was three, hours but we would work eight.
Hours we, would you, know we would Sometimes i'd spend
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the weekends over, there and we would dive deeper into certain.
Things and there was different sections of the. Lessons we
would do different, things and like a personal, lesson it
would be heavy. Theory some of it would be working on,
techniques some of it would be working on. Repertoire some
of it would be, writing some of it would be just,
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talking walking around nature and connecting nature to. MUSIC a
certain portion of the lesson would him be telling me,
history jazz history, stories educating me on. Musicians we'd be
listening to records, together and then a portion of the
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lessons would be we would play in the dark, together
just him and me because he had a lot Of
he had multiple pianos instruments in a music room that he,
built and we would play in the, dark you, know
and just like respond to each other, musically and then
we'd also play the records and stuff. Too wow you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Weren't, wow you certainly weren't a typical at thirteen or
fourteen year.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Old and amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Opportunity to work with such an icon and a legend
like the Mister miagi of. Music BUT i would like
to go, well first of, all of, Course austin Is
favor has a famous blues club Called. ANTONE'S i know
you might have played, There BUT i do want to
go back to when you were thirteen and doing yoga
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and playing music and being very. REFLECTIVE i, mean was
that coming from your? FAMILY i, mean were you around
people who influenced you spiritually that you wanted to know
What there's got to be more than than this out.
Here all my friends are playing video games at home
And i'm out here doing this.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Right, YEAH i mean, YEAH i HAVE i definitely AND
i love video games. Too don't get me. WRONG i
was a thirteen year old, too you, KNOW i do
get things. Too but also a lot of people don't
realize this About, texas especially people who've never been, there
(23:08):
but there's actually a lot of there's a big spiritual culture,
there and there's a huge yoga culture. There there is
also a very large hippie culture. THERE a lot of
people might not realize that and the history of. THAT
(23:29):
i might be butchering What i'm about to, say which
is a is a ironic word to use and to
describe that culture or that community of, people hippies and.
Stuff we're, vegans but from my, understanding in the, sixties
a lot of hippies From california moved To austin, area
(23:49):
and like a lot of them migrated. There WHY i don't.
REMEMBER i don't remember why that. Happened but Like i'm
met a lot of old timers that had been that
had moved there that were like old school hippies that
built temples or communes or or started yoga studios or
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started cafes or you, know health food or what you,
know whatever the generalized in the box hippie does or
whatever kind of. Thing or like people that do, yoga
people that eat that are aware of what they put
in their body that, uh you, know might read the
Dowd ajing or you, know books On buddhism or what you.
(24:35):
Know i'm, generalizing But i'm just you, know saying things
THAT i was. AROUND i grew up around. That there's
a lot of that in The austin area and the surrounding.
Area and even though there's also ranchers and there's cowboys
and there's it's an interesting mixture of that mixed with
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like cowboys and ranchers And texans that have just been
In texas for over one hundred years or, whatnot Older textan.
Families so it's this interesting mix of people with different
belief systems or. Whatever but, REGARDLESS i grew up around.
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That for, SURE i rubbed shoulders with. That LIKE i
grew up in an artistic family and my, FAMILY i
definitely grew up in a family that are like to
talk about, feelings they like to talk about ideas and
perspectives and, philosophies and we can enjoy good, debates we
(25:45):
can enjoy good just talking and learning and you, know
just studying a lot of different ideas and. Stuff and
so that was also you, know just any, like oh
you're reading that. Book oh you're reading. THAT i, Think,
oh that's great to educate yourself on. That oh you.
Know it was never, like, oh you can't read that
or you can't do, that you. Know so there was
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the openness and support to like learn new. Things and
then there was also a community of PEOPLE i grew up,
around like a static dance are familiar with ecstatic.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
DANCE i am.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Not it's what maybe the, generalized but the person that
might not know what ecstatic, dances that might not identify
themselves as a hippie would look at ecstatic dance and, say,
oh that's hippie dancing or, something, okay to bridge the
gap of understanding between people that don't know what it.
(26:40):
Is and even though ecstatic dance actually goes pretty. Deep
BUT i was ALSO i have friends in the ecstatic
dance community that are really into. Yoga the ecstatic dance
community is very tied in with like the yoga, community
people that do a lot of. Yoga AND i know
yoga is now like hyper popularized in The United, states
(27:01):
Which i'm actually very stoked. About BUT i remember WHEN
i was a, kid it wasn't as much like all
over The United, states it felt at the, time even
in like certain part it Wasn't, austin like there were
certain studios In austin and. Stuff but and there was
a studio in my town THAT i grew up, in
AND i was friends with the lady who did that
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and put that, together and she would do retreats there
and she was she would you, know she was an
interesting lady and had a story of her. Own BUT
i was just into hanging out in all these different
communities and rubbing shoulders with people that are into different
things and learning about. It and at the, time you,
KNOW i was a, KID i, was you, know DOING
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i grew up in a town that's really in the,
football they're really into and at that, time you, know
the at least the public school wasn't didn't have like
a yoga education, System and SO i THINK i started
doing yoga BECAUSE i pulled a muscle AND i was,
LIKE i knew that yoga helped. That and SO i
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started doing yoga at like twelve or thirteen and got
really into, it. OBSESSED i bought a book and that
was the first WAY i. LEARNED i literally bought a
book and just learned from the. Book and THEN i
started taking. Classes and THEN i started going to ecstatic
dance classes with another friend that started inviting. Me AND
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i had a lot of older friends. TOO i was
friends with people of a lot of different, generations AND
i would hang out with the older generations that would
invite me to do their activities like going to an
ecstatic dance class or a yoga, class or a music
show or, whatever and or a festival or. Whatnot and,
(28:55):
yeah that's HOW i got into. Yoga that was a
long winded answer to Your.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well just to remind my listeners and, viewers we are
speaking with the Musician Dylan meek From, well originally from The,
Austin texas. Area he now has an album that's about
to come out Called Love languages On Liquid Culture. Records
so tell us about this this, album it's which is
(29:22):
said to redefine the modern love.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Song how so.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Redefining the modern love.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Song, hmmm this is what your company sent to.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Me, okay, okay, okay redefining the modern love song.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Or if you have a different, answer you, know.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Okay so. Okay So i'm going to talk about this
in a certain. Angle so first of, all start out by,
obviously as, STATED i am heavily influenced and my foundation
in music is in jazz music and jazz the repertoire of,
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jazz which is a little over a century, old about
one hundred and fifty one hundred and thirty years. Old
most of it is love. Songs most of it is
poetic love. SONGS a lot of it is vulnerable love.
SONGS a lot of the, repertoire the most massive part
part of the repertoire is From, broadway where there'd be
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jazz musicians covering pop songs which at the time Were broadway,
songs and the you know Old Cole, Porter, Gershwin Irving,
Berlin Harold, arlen the list goes. On but those, songs
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if you read the, lyrics they're very, Vulnerable they're very,
Sweet they're very a lot of. Them they can be,
cheeky but they can be very, sweet they can be
very like hard on your. SHOULDER i learned thousands of
these songs in my upbringing hanging out With Jimmy. Neely
he used to make me memorize the. Lyrics he's, like
if you and back THEN i didn't even, sing but he,
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said if you're going to play a, song you need
to know the lyrics so you know what it, means
so you can play what the feeling. Is and and
SO i learned all these lyrics and it even Though
i've now forgotten hundreds of, THEM i KNOW i still,
know probably off the top of my, head about five
hundred jazz, standards But i've over the, Years i've forgotten
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certain ones THAT i haven't, played but those are still.
Ingrained the lyrics are ingrained in. Me the, sweetness the,
vulnerability and Also i'm really obsessed with soul music And Curtis,
Mayfield Al, Green Isaac. Hayes the list goes on for,
That Stax, records a lot of The Stacks records, guys
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a lot of The motown, records. GUYS i Love Stevie.
Wonder Stevie wonder is very, Vulnerable he's very his, lyrics his,
songs even the. Melodies his melodies and, harmonies in my,
opinion which are, very very sophisticated and sometimes. COMPLEX i
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feel like they remind me at least of certain structures
within the jazz. Realm the way the changes are, Happening.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Like not.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
EVERYONE i, mean some of his songs are even more
like a little he kind of expanded on. Harmony, obviously
he's one of the greats at that within like writing
love songs WITHIN r AND b or, soul even though
he transcends genre in my. Opinion but, regardless back to love,
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SONGS i feel very connected to vulnerable love songs and
love songs in. General it's my favorite theme to write.
About it's What i'm moved by what it's what makes
me feel really, good even and even you Know Ray,
charles who also took gospel, music which is gospel, music
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in my, opinion is like a love. Song all of
those songs are like love songs To. God they're like
they're so, passionate like just Praising god and Loving god
and expressing, verbally vulnerably how much you Love god and
in a powerful. Way and Then Ray charles took that
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and did that and saying about women like, that, right
like you, know you're My, god or like like love like,
that like someone you love like, that like you, know
and that's also very. Powerful and gospel has also been
a huge inspiration for, me And Ray charles has been
a huge inspiration for.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Me just.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Love songwriters in general love the theme of, expressing you,
know just praise and love and vulnerability and weak acknowledging
your own. Weaknesses Like Isaac hayes will sing songs and
he's like the most masculine, men but he'll sing these really,
delicate sweet songs being, vulnerable being, gentle even though he's very,
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strong he's he's, breaking you, know the wall down of
like that hyper masculine thing and just being, like but
these are my you, know this is What i'm, feeling
AND i want to talk to you about that AND
i want to express. That and in my, opinion a
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lot of people now feel like love songs like that are.
CORNY i feel like a little bit LIKE i feel
that a little bit in the, collective at least in
the songwriter. Collective LIKE i feel like a lot of
songwriters are, like, no but we need to like put
some ego in, there or the artistic songwriters are like oh,
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no but we need to tell more of a, story
or we need to use my metaphors or hide it
away behind poetry or. Like And i'm not trying to criticize,
anyone Because i'm also inspired by, storytellers And i'm ALSO i.
Write i've been actually ironically writing some very story like songs,
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lately and love songs that have more layers and more poetic.
Nature and you, know But i'm also incredibly inspired by
just vulnerable love songs that are just very just speaking
like you would in a, conversation vulnerably to someone you love,
someone you've made, mistakes to someone that you need to
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tell them you love them for the first, time but
you're shy to do, it or you, know admitting to
a mistake you've made in the, relationship and like specifically
talking about romantic love. Songs you, know, Oh i'm you,
KNOW i KNOW i made these. MISTAKES i KNOW i
could do, this this and, this you know this, Better
BUT i want to work it out BECAUSE i want
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to deepen our. LOVE i want to deepen our connection
and AND i feel Like i'm very drawn to, that
AND i feel like a lot of, people there are
some people still doing that And i'm a fan of
a lot of those, people AND i love listening to those.
People I'm i'm not the only one doing, it BUT
i BUT i like to do that BECAUSE i feel
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like the world needs it and ALSO i need. It
my world needs, it myself needs it to heal and
to move through life and feel feel good and and
try to reach, enlightenment try To i'm always chasing, that
And i'm also always trying to chase happiness at all.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Love you, know writing love songs doesn't necessarily solve all my,
problems but it definitely makes me feel at least a little.
Better SO i love writing love. Songs i've also seen
people at my shows cry or tell me thank you and,
that you, know feeling even if there's one person at
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my show that says that it's nice to know, that you.
Know sometimes my music heals people and mends their hearts
or helps mend their, hearts or helps make them feel
a little, better or help them maybe be a little more,
vulnerable or help them process emotions and relationships or in. Connection,
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yeah so.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Well in an album Called Love.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
LANGUAGES i love that you Mentioned Isaac hayes BECAUSE i
was a Big isaac Case. MAN i used to listen
to his double VINYL lp Called Black moses for a long.
Time was.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Great BUT i have that one that on. HELP i
have that.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Here, YEAH i love.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
It but we should let the people check out one
of your tunes right. Now i've got a video. Here,
well i'll let you. Choose we were talking about this in.
Advance i've Got Sweet summer or your cover Of Randy
Newman's You've got A friend In?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Me which one would you like to check?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Out?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Now is it? Possible is it possible to play Beer?
MAN i think What i'm talking About Sweet summer works,
too and that is a love song that's from my last.
Album we could watch that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
First, well, no let's do let's do what you would
like to Beer.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Man Beer man goes with WHAT i was just. SAYING
i think a little. More It's Sweet summer will but
Beer man also just came, out AND i DEFINITELY i
feel like it's similar to like A Curtis mayfield and.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It's because you recorded it in empty. Theater what was
the theater?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Again so the theater It's Los Angeles, theater which is
my favorite Theater i've ever been in in the in
The United. States AND i have a friend who is
a restoration, person an interior designer who has restored, it
and he got the keys to let me in and
film that in. There and and it was built in the.
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Thirties it was opened for the opening the premiere Of
City lights Of Charlie. Chaplin and, wow you, know it's
a legendary theater and it's really beautiful and it has
an amazing history and it feels holy in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
There let's go ahead and check out that video right.
Now and this is an original being.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
An original beer.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Man, okay, well let's check that out, now.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
All, right everybody song it's Called Be Your, Man.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Come.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Out april, eleventh twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Five, separation, anxiety.
Speaker 10 (40:28):
All the feed data seed bok with you with? Me
the fear is a con the cone baby, insecure her broken, down.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Seeking had knowing HOW.
Speaker 8 (41:04):
I try to fix all my? Problems you, KNOW i?
Speaker 12 (41:09):
DO i?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Do, BABY i know it's. Not you have responsibility to
reassure it that you love. Me who know.
Speaker 13 (41:30):
The?
Speaker 8 (41:31):
BABY i, UNDERSTAND.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I.
Speaker 11 (41:37):
UNDERSTAND i want to be your.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Man we be all, man.
Speaker 14 (41:54):
Be home, man.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
Behold bit who yes.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Fun pie you old?
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Man? HUH i cannot expect you will always be there
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and cannot. Help where said that you? First, oh, no, BABY.
Speaker 11 (43:30):
I, UNDERSTAND.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I.
Speaker 11 (43:34):
UNDERSTAND i want to be you.
Speaker 12 (43:38):
Mean Beyord ben beorn Be, oh, YES i want to
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be your.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Man that's a true, story.
Speaker 8 (44:29):
All.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Right and we just watched an original tune With Dylan
meek recorded in The La theater called be A, man
which is going to be on his upcoming Album Love.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Languages, Right, yes yes it. Is it's one of the
singles that's on the.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Album well, Awesome but you, KNOW i also heard that
you were nominated for A. Grammy what were you nominated?
Speaker 4 (44:54):
For let me grab, It i'll read, It i'll show.
It i'll show it to.
Speaker 15 (44:58):
You.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
Okay So i'm not sure if it's going to show
up because this picks up my face and then we'll
cut other things. Out let's see If, yeah, Basically i'll
just read it BECAUSE i don't think it's going to
show up right. Now in recognition of your participation as
songwriter on The Grammy award nominated recording Spider man into
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The Spider Verse Best Compilation soundtrack For Visual, Media so
that's the Nomination Best Compilation soundtrack For Visual, media so One,
yeah one of my songs was on a soundtrack that
got nominated for and we lost to a star is born.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Good to that level to be For?
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Grammy well, again you know we are talking To dylan
make an, awesome amazing talented. Musician just one more thing
here and hopefully we can get to one more of
your tunes.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Here but just where are you at right now with
with your own personal spirituality and what role does a
plane in your.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Life i'm very interested in that you were in The
Dowdy ching too as a. Youngster that, Is i'll be,
honest that's ONE i have not studied that very in
depth at.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
All The doubt Is ying changed my, LIFE i. Think
and it's an easy. Read it's like a you can read,
it you can like carry it. Around it's a little pocket.
Book it changed my. Life i've read it several times and,
then AND i used to read it like a novel
LIKE i would. READ i would read like one page
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at a. Time some people will like pull the random
things because there's like a lot of different sayings in
it or. Whatnot but But i've read it multiple times
and then and THEN i would switch it. Around but,
SORRY i got a text and THEN i got. Distracted
could you repeat the question one more?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Time, yeah it was just where are you now as
in your current life as an adult with your? Spirituality
and are you still studying the Dowd age, ching WHICH
i really don't know a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
ABOUT i, should but it's in me AND i.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Think about it a, Lot But i'm not studying the
Dowd aging. Currently i'm right. NOW i kind of feel
LIKE i feel trying to think of the right. WORDS
i feel kind of in this ego death moment, lately
Where i'm like thinking about my, identity thinking about my
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purpose in the. WORLD i think about this a. Lot
this is a real occurring. Thing AND i KNOW i
live for. Music music is definitely.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
My.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Life it's WHAT i live. For and love is WHAT
i live.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
For and.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Family but but, yeah just a deeper, level you. KNOW
I i've just been reflecting on what it means to
be a good, person AND i want to be a good.
Person And i'm just thinking and reflecting on my life
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and on my HOW i sit in the, world HOW i,
exist HOW i affect other, people how other people affect,
me how other people affect other, people and HOW i
fit in all of, that and that's kind of the
Place i'm at. Spiritually i'm kind OF i feel Like
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i'm searching right. Now, Yeah i'm, Searching LIKE i know,
Myself i'm rooted in, myself But i'm searching for. ENLIGHTENMENT
i Guess i'm searching for answers, well AND i have on.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
That you, know much of the world is searching right
now in many many of MY i guess on the
show this is a two hundred and thirteenth episode are
talking about the world is on a huge.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Transition like never before in all of.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
History we're on a verge of ascension into a higher
dimension of love and. Living and you, will you, know
if you look at the mainstream, media you'd think the exact.
OPPOSITE i, mean you wouldn't live in la where they've
had their slight problems lately, too so that would be
hard To but, YEAH i love that that you are.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Searching you know me, too me.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
Too.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah, yeah it's a. Journey life is a, journey and
in my, opinion sometimes you reach a point where you
think you've reached some enlightenment or maybe you have in
a moment you know you've Because i've had experiences Where i'm, like,
whoa this is? It this is the, answer you?
Speaker 15 (49:53):
Know and then.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
You, KNOW i go to work the next day WHERE
i do this thing the next day And i'm, like,
oh wait a, SECOND i. DIDN'T i don't Still i'm
not still holding onto that. Thing where is? It where
is a little glimpse of? It you, know it would
be nice to be able to have the glimpse for
a lot for more. Often it would be a great.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
Name for a, Song life is A. Journey so.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You think we're kind of running out of time, here
BUT i wondered if it would be okay if we
could check out one more. Song you, Know i'm a
fan of your cover Of Randy Randy Newman's You've got
A friend In?
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Me is it okay if we check that out?
Speaker 4 (50:37):
QUICKLY i Love Randy, Newman he's inspired. ME i love his,
songs AND i love that.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Song all, Right, well here Is dylan mek Doing You've
got A friend In me by good Old Randy.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
Newman you've got a friend in. Me you've got a
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friend that mean half The rootlets rough him.
Speaker 15 (51:22):
Hand of miles.
Speaker 13 (51:24):
From your nice warming just formample what your old about
saying you've got a friend of.
Speaker 11 (51:37):
Me you who've got a friend in. Me you've got
a friend in.
Speaker 14 (51:49):
Me you've got a friend in.
Speaker 16 (51:55):
Me you got TROUBLES i got to where is NOTHING
i would do for? You let's stick together and we'll
make it. Through you've got a.
Speaker 8 (52:18):
Friend of, Me you who got a friend in.
Speaker 7 (52:26):
Me some folks might say a little smarter THAT i
am a little big and strong, Too.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
But they.
Speaker 12 (52:44):
Don't love you.
Speaker 11 (52:47):
The WAY i.
Speaker 8 (52:47):
Do just me and you, boy.
Speaker 15 (52:53):
And as it is for my, preacher but never dine
you Pier, see it's a.
Speaker 14 (53:07):
Dandtandy you've got a friend me.
Speaker 11 (53:16):
You you got a friend in.
Speaker 14 (53:18):
Me you've got a friend in. Me you've got a
friend and.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
Me all, right and there you.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Go There's dylan makes an awesome version Of You've got
A friend In me By Randy.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
Newman how did you choose that?
Speaker 4 (53:55):
Song in my, Opinion for, one it's one of the
greatest songs of all, time so it's hard not to
choose number. Two in my, opinion it's a love. Song
it's a love song about a. Friend you got a
friend of, Me and it's also like this selfless, thing
like you got a friend of, me LIKE i got
you Like i'm your friend if you need. Me you,
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know it's like not asking for, something it's Giving AND
i love.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
That, yeah, WELL i really appreciate.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
It and you, know just, quickly having been on radio for,
many many years myself And i've talked to a lot
of artists over the, years AND i was gonna thinking
WHEN i was BEFORE i said, This, well maybe he's
too young to, remember BUT i was watching some of
your soul keyboard work and you're singing you kind of
remind me of Early Todd runggren. Style he had that
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vulnerable keyboard style of, singing although he could be a metal,
style but a little bit like.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
That, yeah you, KNOW i honestly have not listened enough to. Him,
YEAH i got some of the early stuff chet. Though yeah,
really but.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
We've kind of got to roll out of.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Here what a great, opportunity a little departure for world.
Awakenings but this young, Man dylan me is certainly the
real deal and incredible. TALENT i love your story about
hanging out with a Master Jimmy, neally and that is just.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
Amazing you, know the.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Bottom line, Is i'm guessing your music is very a
nice avenue for people to hop on that love train
and enjoy life a little bit, more, RIGHT.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
I would, hope SO i will. Hope so it makes
me feel, better SO i hope it makes other people
feel better for.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
Sure, well when is your new, Album Love languages coming?
Out and it's On Liquid Culture, records, right so.
Speaker 4 (55:51):
It's coming out In. SEPTEMBER i Believe september twenty sixth
is the exact. DAY i need to double check, that
But i'm pretty sure that's. Accurate there are singles out.
Already there's Beer, man there Is Higher, place there IS
I Feel fine And, almosita WHICH i wrote In, spanish
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And Love language is the title track of the album is.
Out that just dropped Last, friday so, yeah you can
listen to, those and then the WHOLE lp. Drops the
ten SONG lp drops In, september so look out for
that and. All it's a love, opus all love, songs super, sweet,
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Uplifting it'll make you, cry it'll make you, laugh it'll
make you want to fall in love over and over,
again even with the same.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
Person, yeah, yeah that's very. Cool So i'm.
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Guessing and of course it'll BE mp three, downloadable but
are you gonna release it on vinyl?
Speaker 4 (56:48):
Too, Yes and in, FACT i already have a vinyl
AND i wish if it's this. THING i set this
on purpose to give me autonomy in my. Room but
SOMETIMES i don't know how to set up a super.
QUICKLY i need to research. That but BASICALLY i already
have the vinyl.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Already very.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Cool i've got my turntable right over, here so, right,
Well i'll send you.
Speaker 8 (57:11):
One oh.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Man, well and, FINALLY i know you have a.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Website what is that and is that the best way
for people to connect With Dylan meek and enjoy your.
Speaker 4 (57:21):
Music, YEAH i would say you could go to my
Website dylanmeeek dot com or dylanmeeekmusic dot. Com it goes
to the same, place or just my handle On instagram
on which Is Dylan Meek. Music so, yeah and if
you're on, YouTube you can subscribe to me on. YouTube
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look Up Dylan meek music on. There it's pretty Much
dylan Meet music, anywhere and just you, know whatever your platform,
is look Up dylan Meet music Or Dylan meek On,
spotify It's Daling. Meek On Apple, music It's Dylan. Meek
i'm on any of the social media's It's dalan meek,
music TikTok and.
Speaker 2 (57:59):
All of that, awesome Awesome dylan Meekon and what does
The bible say the meek shallen here the Earth i've
Heard i'm sure you've heard that.
Speaker 4 (58:07):
Before i've heard.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Life but, Anyway, dylan what a blessing and an honor
to have you On World. Awakenings thank you so, much,
Brother thank you for hosting.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
ME i really appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
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Now let's head off to meet today's featured guests, and
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experts as we meet.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
With musical artist Dylan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Growing up in a small town outside of Austin, Texas,
Harlem piano master Jimmy Neely took Dylan in as protege,
passing along nearly a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Century of wisdom and music.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Graduating from high school, Dylan moved to Boston to live
with his brother Buck and play organ and piano in
gospel churches that I want to find out about. These
experiences provided the first inspiration for him to start singing,
and since then, Dylan has consistently pushed artistic boundaries, and
his mastery of the keyboard remains a hallmark of his
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signature sound. Known for his Grammy nominated work and his
repertoire that spans classic soul, neo soul, and rock, Dylan's
music is a testament to fearless originality and the limitless
power of connection.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And this is very cool.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
His forthcoming album Love Languages exemplifies this journey, a poetic
celebration that challenges us.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
All to love more openly and courageously you needed.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
His mission is to inspire genuine connection in a fragmented world,
inviting every listener to confront their truths, celebrate their nuances,
and experience the catharsis of heart felt creativity with that
very cool man. Is so awesome to have you here, Dylan.
Thank you for being on World Awakenings.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, well, you know, obviously we need to find out
more about where you're coming from and how you found
your calling to be a professional musician, and did it
start early in your childhood?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It did start early in my childhood.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I was.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I was thirteen or fourteen when I had my first
weekly gig, and I was it was around the time
my parents were like, you need to get a job,
you know, you need to get some sort of job.
And I was like, okay, you know, and I was
thinking about it, and I I don't know how exactly
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the person heard me, but this guy that owned a
piano bar in my town was literally driving by me
and rolled down his window and he was like, I
want to hire you every Sunday at my I was
like thirteen, walking around in my neighborhood and he was like,
(04:22):
I want to hire you at my at my club
every every Sunday to play piano for the people. And
I'm like all right, you know, and he said what
he would pay me. It was like fifty dollars or
something like that. Yeah, for for thirteen fourteen, I was like,
oh my god, every Sunday. So so yeah, I was.
(04:44):
That's when I started getting paid to play music, and
it opened my eyes into that enjoyment of it. Oh wow,
I can get paid to do to play music. This
is amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So you finally said your parents, I got a job, right.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, I got a job, you know, making better than
minimum wage, you know, playing a couple hours, and then
I was getting tips.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
That led to when you're a kid and you are
talented at an instrument, it's I mean, it's just like
a primal thing for all humans to kind of appreciate
its It's really interesting and I think about that a lot,
but that's a whole other subject matter. But when I
(05:33):
was a kid, it was just like every adult and
person would just be like, WHOA, what's up with that?
Like and and so Sundays started getting really busy and
a lot of people would come out, and I had
a tip jar, and so a lot of people were
tipping me. When you're a kid, you get tipped a lot,
a lot extra than you do when you're an adult.
(05:54):
You have to work a little harder. When you're an adult,
you have to learn the If you're a street performer,
I've had a lot to street performers friends and I
had when I was much younger. When I was a
later teenager, when I graduated high school and moved to Boston,
moved to New York City, I did do street performing
a little bit when I was broke and needed the
(06:15):
money and needed extra money. And it's you definitely have
to learn certain tricks to engage with people. But when
you're a kid, it's easy. All you got to be
is talented and a kid, and people will just give
you money and give you praise and stuff. But it
was definitely a good introduction, and it was a good
(06:36):
it was a soft landing into the professional world of music,
and it was it was a yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, and you're from Austin Texas, which is a huge
musical town.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Huge music town, and I so when I'm at my
mentor Jimmy Neely, he was a huge part of me
actually knowing that this is what I wanted to do
because the money. Money is one thing, but money doesn't
really you know, by passion. It's it was really seeing
my mentor Jimmy Neely. And he was larger than life.
(07:12):
And he moved to the Austin area in the seventies
and he was just a master. He played with Count Bassie,
Ala Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, he knew so many people, good
friends with Duke Kellington, played with Charlie Parker. I mean,
the list goes on. He has all these crazy he
had the crazy stories too, but he was just larger
(07:34):
than life and he inspired me. I wanted to be
like him. I was like, Wow, this dude is I
just felt a very big spiritual connection with him, sole
connection with him and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How did how did you connect with him in the
first place?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
So he was a he loved art and he appreciated
artists and of all of all different kinds. My father
is a glass sculptor named Bill Meek, and he had
a studio gallery in my town, and Jimmy used to
come by and admire other art. And it was actually
(08:14):
interesting because I was in this period of time of reflection.
I was like thirteen. I was asking a lot of
questions internally about self, about purpose, about you know, God,
about the universe, about a lot of different things, what
the meaning of life was. And I was having these
(08:35):
very deep reflections. And I started doing a lot of
yoga and started reading you know, the dowad Ajing and
different you know, spiritual books, just like just thinking about
different philosophies and different just purpose, just what my purpose was.
And I remember and I was like running two miles
(08:57):
a day, and I was breathing, and I was doing yoga,
I was meditating every day, and there was this deep
rooted instinct to find a mentor. I was like, I
need a mentor. I need someone to guide me right now.
And I had the desire to have a mentor, someone
(09:21):
that I looked up to, someone that was a master
of something. And also there was this other part of
my heart that was leaning towards I felt like I
was on a plateau on the piano because I was
self taught originally, and I had a teacher as well,
but I was self taught and blues. I had a
(09:43):
teacher who was teaching me songs, and then I taught
myself how to play boogie wigi and blues because I
loved I just naturally gravitated towards boogie wigie piano. But
then I had a teacher teaching me songs like Bohemian
Rhapsody and Somewhere over the Rainbow and you know, just
repertoire that any kid learns or whatnot. And I always
(10:06):
learned fast. But I hit this place where I stopped
taking lessons with that teacher. I hit all of the
things I could figure out by myself. I felt, at
least at the time, at thirteen year old boy, thought
that I reached, you know, a plateau, and that I
needed to get to another level. And I didn't know
(10:28):
how to get to another level. And I was thinking, man,
if there was some master blues musician or a jazz
musician that does what I do, that I could that
was really from the source, that tapped into the source
of that music that is inspiring to me. But it's
(10:51):
still a bit of a mystery to me because I'm
at this plateau and then I remember hearing about this
man in my town that all everyone, all the musicians feared,
all the musicians were intimidated by. It was an old
wizard with a big beard and a huge personality and
(11:14):
almost like a almost like a mister Miage type where
everyone was like, who is that you know? Or like,
you know, like the musicians would be like, I'm afraid
to take lessons with him. Or I heard stories where
he would kick people out of his house that wanted
to take a lesson with him or something, you know,
that he was very stern or whatnot. I heard these stories,
(11:35):
these uh, these uh you know, through the grapevine, these
rumors of you know this master, but he's really hard
teacher and he doesn't take on many students or whatnot.
And and there was something in me in my soul
that was like, who is this guy? And so I
asked my dad because I grew up in a small
town outside of Bustin, and I asked my dad. I'm like,
(11:56):
who's that dude, the old man the jazz musician from
New York that people will say is mean, Who's who's
that guy?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Who is that guy? Because I wonder if he would
teach me piano lessons because I want to deepen my
piano abilities and maybe it would be the right fit.
And my dad was like, I think you're thinking of
Jim and Neely and I'm like yeah, And my dad
was like, he's the only one like that here. Like
(12:25):
there was other jazz piano players, other musicians in Austin,
and there was a couple from New York and Austin.
But he was like an og He was an old
school dude. Grew up in the nineteen thirties as a teenager,
you know, playing with all the masters, and in the
forties playing with all the masters in his early twenties,
(12:47):
you know. So being of that generation of a jazz musician,
you you had a different outlook on what jazz was
and what music was, and what the connection to an
instrument or a musical ability was in that in the
pop culture of that time, which it's changed generationally as
(13:10):
it always does. And but I digress. Basically, I was like,
can I meet this guy? And my dad was like,
let me call him, because he does I'm friends with
him and he comes by the studio a lot. My
dad said, you know, so I'll call so you know,
one day my dad said, well, guess what. I talked
(13:32):
to Jimmy Neely and he said he would meet you.
He said he's not taking on students, but that he'll
he'll meet you and maybe he could put you in
the right direction of somebody else, but he wants to
assess you. So I was like, all right. So I
get in, you know, my dad's truck. We're driving into
the Texas hill country and you know, about a couple
(13:55):
miles out from Jimmy's house, you're jazz like in the
hill country, through the trees, through the forest. You just
start hearing swing and you're like, is that jazz?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Who is is that a piano trio? You know, like,
is that Os Computerson. I didn't know who Os Computerson
was at the time, but I was like, who, you know,
that's that's swing or whatever. That's jazz or whatever. And
we're driving and it gets louder and louder. We pull
up into his house that he built with his bare hands.
He's on the roof at seventy eight, retiling his roof,
(14:32):
shirt off, ripped big white Beard like a foot and
a half two foot white beard ripped with a tie
on his hand and a hammer in his hand in
the in the summer sun, you know the Texas heat,
you know, with boots on and jeans and and retiling
his roof and crazy, crazy sight to behold with music blasting.
(14:55):
He on. He has had this big house that he built,
and on that the outside of the house, the rim
of the roof, under the roof, right under the roof,
there were speakers facing out of the house blasting jazz
and his theory later I'm skipping through time right now,
(15:18):
but he said the reason why he did that, He's like,
let everyone hear your music. Let everybody hear you know that.
He was very intense about that. But so I go inside.
He comes down his ladder. You know, he's and he
had huge hands, and that was my first memory of
him shaking my hand, and my hand at fourteen, could
(15:38):
fit in the palm of his hand. He has such
big hands. He could reach a fourteenth on the piano.
If you're familiar with what that means, that's very very
that's most people. Most humans don't have that reach. He
had a very remarkable hand size. But and he squeezed
my hand really hard, and he was like, you need
(15:59):
to learn how to shake strong. That was the first
thing he said to me. And I was like, okay,
you know. And then he was like, okay, so your
dad tells me you play piano, come play for me.
And I'm like, okay, So I go play. And you know,
I'm thirteen or fourteen, I'm trying to show off. And
(16:19):
I played the fastest boogie woogie and see that I know,
you know, you know, just really you know, fast up tempo.
I could only play and see at the time, I
see twelve bar blues and played it really fast, with
probably some walking base or something, and and he said, okay,
(16:42):
can you take it up a half step? And I
said no, and then he laughed. And then he's like,
I see the fire and you but get up from
the piano. And I'm like okay, and he sits down
and he looks at me. He never looked at his hands.
That was his thing too. He would always look at
the audience. And if you were studying with him, he
(17:04):
would look directly in your eyes the entire time, really intensely,
and play the most virtuositic piano you've ever heard, but
looking at you in the eyes, like really intensely, and
he did that, and he proceeded to play twelve bar
blues and all twelve keys in different tempos. You know,
(17:28):
he did like walking base, he did Barrelhouse. He played
it in astride, he played it in Blockchorse, he played
it in double octas, he played it in six', eight
he played it in five, four he played it in.
Seven he you, know every key he would. Change he
would also change the stole and he was you, know
and then he got done and he's, like you need
(17:49):
to be able to play that in all twelve. Keys
and he's, like who do you? Like what piano players
do you? Like or who do you listen? To AND i,
SAID i Love Ray charles AND i Love Duke ellington
BECAUSE i the only jazz RECORD i had at the
time Was Money, jungle which is one of my favorite
records of all. Time It's Duke. Ellen it's a trio,
(18:09):
Record Duke, Ellington Charles mingus on base And Max roach on. Drums.
Wow and he's, LIKE i knew all of them AND
i worked with all of. THEM i was good friends With.
Duke charles was out of his mind And. Max max
was a friend and he was like in where he's
like IN i Knew max And Ray. CHARLES i Toured
Ray charles WHEN i was, working you, know and, yeah
(18:34):
AND i was just like it blew my. Mind and
and then you, know we hung out for a couple
hours and he played you know for, me and he
Did i'm trying to think we like played a little.
Bit but then he was, like you, KNOW i DON'T
i don't take on students right now Because i'm about
to move To New mexico to build another, house SO
(18:55):
i don't have time for. You But i'll give you
a number somebody to to call that might be that
might work for. You SO i was like. Okay and
then and then he gave me a number. SOMEBODY i
hit them up and or they were busy actually as.
(19:17):
Well ACTUALLY i CAN'T i can't even remember how that.
Went but, basically LIKE i kept bugging. HIM i kept
calling him like you haven't moved, Out CAN i just come?
Over and then about a month later he calls. Me he's,
like bring your notebook. Over come over with a notebook
and a pencil or. Whatever AND i went over and
(19:38):
and he, said, Listen i'm gonna take you on as a.
Student but my rule is you Don't you're not gonna pay.
Me but EVERYTHING i teach you have to master before
you come back to. Me i'm going to teach you
one thing at a, time or you, know certain concepts
(20:00):
at a, time certain things at a. Time i'm going
to give you. Homework i'm going to give you things to,
do but don't come back to me until you have
mastered each of those. Things and if you come back
to me without mastering each of those, things like at
a time in between the lessons we, Do i'll kick
(20:21):
you out of my house and you can't take a
lesson me. Again AND i was like, Absolutely and the
short story is he never kicked me out of his
house BECAUSE i always put in the. Work SO i
would spend hours at his. HOUSE i would spend you,
know minimum lesson was three, hours but we would work eight.
Hours we, would you, know we would Sometimes i'd spend
(20:44):
the weekends over, there and we would dive deeper into certain.
Things and there was different sections of the. Lessons we
would do different, things and like a personal, lesson it
would be heavy. Theory some of it would be working on,
techniques some of it would be working on. Repertoire some
of it would be, writing some of it would be just,
(21:09):
talking walking around nature and connecting nature to. MUSIC a
certain portion of the lesson would him be telling me,
history jazz history, stories educating me on. Musicians we'd be
listening to records, together and then a portion of the
(21:29):
lessons would be we would play in the dark, together
just him and me because he had a lot Of
he had multiple pianos instruments in a music room that he,
built and we would play in the, dark you, know
and just like respond to each other, musically and then
we'd also play the records and stuff. Too wow you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Weren't, wow you certainly weren't a typical at thirteen or
fourteen year.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Old and amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Opportunity to work with such an icon and a legend
like the Mister miagi of. Music BUT i would like
to go, well first of, all of, Course austin Is
favor has a famous blues club Called. ANTONE'S i know
you might have played, There BUT i do want to
go back to when you were thirteen and doing yoga
(22:25):
and playing music and being very. REFLECTIVE i, mean was
that coming from your? FAMILY i, mean were you around
people who influenced you spiritually that you wanted to know
What there's got to be more than than this out.
Here all my friends are playing video games at home
And i'm out here doing this.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Right, YEAH i mean, YEAH i HAVE i definitely AND
i love video games. Too don't get me. WRONG i
was a thirteen year old, too you, KNOW i do
get things. Too but also a lot of people don't
realize this About, texas especially people who've never been, there
(23:08):
but there's actually a lot of there's a big spiritual culture,
there and there's a huge yoga culture. There there is
also a very large hippie culture. THERE a lot of
people might not realize that and the history of. THAT
(23:29):
i might be butchering What i'm about to, say which
is a is a ironic word to use and to
describe that culture or that community of, people hippies and.
Stuff we're, vegans but from my, understanding in the, sixties
a lot of hippies From california moved To austin, area
(23:49):
and like a lot of them migrated. There WHY i don't.
REMEMBER i don't remember why that. Happened but Like i'm
met a lot of old timers that had been that
had moved there that were like old school hippies that
built temples or communes or or started yoga studios or
(24:11):
started cafes or you, know health food or what you,
know whatever the generalized in the box hippie does or
whatever kind of. Thing or like people that do, yoga
people that eat that are aware of what they put
in their body that, uh you, know might read the
Dowd ajing or you, know books On buddhism or what you.
(24:35):
Know i'm, generalizing But i'm just you, know saying things
THAT i was. AROUND i grew up around. That there's
a lot of that in The austin area and the surrounding.
Area and even though there's also ranchers and there's cowboys
and there's it's an interesting mixture of that mixed with
(24:57):
like cowboys and ranchers And texans that have just been
In texas for over one hundred years or, whatnot Older textan.
Families so it's this interesting mix of people with different
belief systems or. Whatever but, REGARDLESS i grew up around.
(25:19):
That for, SURE i rubbed shoulders with. That LIKE i
grew up in an artistic family and my, FAMILY i
definitely grew up in a family that are like to
talk about, feelings they like to talk about ideas and
perspectives and, philosophies and we can enjoy good, debates we
(25:45):
can enjoy good just talking and learning and you, know
just studying a lot of different ideas and. Stuff and
so that was also you, know just any, like oh
you're reading that. Book oh you're reading. THAT i, Think,
oh that's great to educate yourself on. That oh you.
Know it was never, like, oh you can't read that
or you can't do, that you. Know so there was
(26:06):
the openness and support to like learn new. Things and
then there was also a community of PEOPLE i grew up,
around like a static dance are familiar with ecstatic.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
DANCE i am.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Not it's what maybe the, generalized but the person that
might not know what ecstatic, dances that might not identify
themselves as a hippie would look at ecstatic dance and, say,
oh that's hippie dancing or, something, okay to bridge the
gap of understanding between people that don't know what it.
(26:40):
Is and even though ecstatic dance actually goes pretty. Deep
BUT i was ALSO i have friends in the ecstatic
dance community that are really into. Yoga the ecstatic dance
community is very tied in with like the yoga, community
people that do a lot of. Yoga AND i know
yoga is now like hyper popularized in The United, states
(27:01):
Which i'm actually very stoked. About BUT i remember WHEN
i was a, kid it wasn't as much like all
over The United, states it felt at the, time even
in like certain part it Wasn't, austin like there were
certain studios In austin and. Stuff but and there was
a studio in my town THAT i grew up, in
AND i was friends with the lady who did that
(27:24):
and put that, together and she would do retreats there
and she was she would you, know she was an
interesting lady and had a story of her. Own BUT
i was just into hanging out in all these different
communities and rubbing shoulders with people that are into different
things and learning about. It and at the, time you,
KNOW i was a, KID i, was you, know DOING
(27:47):
i grew up in a town that's really in the,
football they're really into and at that, time you, know
the at least the public school wasn't didn't have like
a yoga education, System and SO i THINK i started
doing yoga BECAUSE i pulled a muscle AND i was,
LIKE i knew that yoga helped. That and SO i
(28:09):
started doing yoga at like twelve or thirteen and got
really into, it. OBSESSED i bought a book and that
was the first WAY i. LEARNED i literally bought a
book and just learned from the. Book and THEN i
started taking. Classes and THEN i started going to ecstatic
dance classes with another friend that started inviting. Me AND
(28:32):
i had a lot of older friends. TOO i was
friends with people of a lot of different, generations AND
i would hang out with the older generations that would
invite me to do their activities like going to an
ecstatic dance class or a yoga, class or a music
show or, whatever and or a festival or. Whatnot and,
(28:55):
yeah that's HOW i got into. Yoga that was a
long winded answer to Your.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well just to remind my listeners and, viewers we are
speaking with the Musician Dylan meek From, well originally from The,
Austin texas. Area he now has an album that's about
to come out Called Love languages On Liquid Culture. Records
so tell us about this this, album it's which is
(29:22):
said to redefine the modern love.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Song how so.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Redefining the modern love.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Song, hmmm this is what your company sent to.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Me, okay, okay, okay redefining the modern love song.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Or if you have a different, answer you, know.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Okay so. Okay So i'm going to talk about this
in a certain. Angle so first of, all start out by,
obviously as, STATED i am heavily influenced and my foundation
in music is in jazz music and jazz the repertoire of,
(30:15):
jazz which is a little over a century, old about
one hundred and fifty one hundred and thirty years. Old
most of it is love. Songs most of it is
poetic love. SONGS a lot of it is vulnerable love.
SONGS a lot of the, repertoire the most massive part
part of the repertoire is From, broadway where there'd be
(30:40):
jazz musicians covering pop songs which at the time Were broadway,
songs and the you know Old Cole, Porter, Gershwin Irving,
Berlin Harold, arlen the list goes. On but those, songs
(31:00):
if you read the, lyrics they're very, Vulnerable they're very,
Sweet they're very a lot of. Them they can be,
cheeky but they can be very, sweet they can be
very like hard on your. SHOULDER i learned thousands of
these songs in my upbringing hanging out With Jimmy. Neely
he used to make me memorize the. Lyrics he's, like
if you and back THEN i didn't even, sing but he,
(31:22):
said if you're going to play a, song you need
to know the lyrics so you know what it, means
so you can play what the feeling. Is and and
SO i learned all these lyrics and it even Though
i've now forgotten hundreds of, THEM i KNOW i still,
know probably off the top of my, head about five
hundred jazz, standards But i've over the, Years i've forgotten
(31:42):
certain ones THAT i haven't, played but those are still.
Ingrained the lyrics are ingrained in. Me the, sweetness the,
vulnerability and Also i'm really obsessed with soul music And Curtis,
Mayfield Al, Green Isaac. Hayes the list goes on for,
That Stax, records a lot of The Stacks records, guys
(32:03):
a lot of The motown, records. GUYS i Love Stevie.
Wonder Stevie wonder is very, Vulnerable he's very his, lyrics his,
songs even the. Melodies his melodies and, harmonies in my,
opinion which are, very very sophisticated and sometimes. COMPLEX i
(32:24):
feel like they remind me at least of certain structures
within the jazz. Realm the way the changes are, Happening.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Like not.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
EVERYONE i, mean some of his songs are even more
like a little he kind of expanded on. Harmony, obviously
he's one of the greats at that within like writing
love songs WITHIN r AND b or, soul even though
he transcends genre in my. Opinion but, regardless back to love,
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SONGS i feel very connected to vulnerable love songs and
love songs in. General it's my favorite theme to write.
About it's What i'm moved by what it's what makes
me feel really, good even and even you Know Ray,
charles who also took gospel, music which is gospel, music
(33:19):
in my, opinion is like a love. Song all of
those songs are like love songs To. God they're like
they're so, passionate like just Praising god and Loving god
and expressing, verbally vulnerably how much you Love god and
in a powerful. Way and Then Ray charles took that
(33:41):
and did that and saying about women like, that, right
like you, know you're My, god or like like love like,
that like someone you love like, that like you, know
and that's also very. Powerful and gospel has also been
a huge inspiration for, me And Ray charles has been
a huge inspiration for.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Me just.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Love songwriters in general love the theme of, expressing you,
know just praise and love and vulnerability and weak acknowledging
your own. Weaknesses Like Isaac hayes will sing songs and
he's like the most masculine, men but he'll sing these really,
delicate sweet songs being, vulnerable being, gentle even though he's very,
(34:24):
strong he's he's, breaking you, know the wall down of
like that hyper masculine thing and just being, like but
these are my you, know this is What i'm, feeling
AND i want to talk to you about that AND
i want to express. That and in my, opinion a
(34:45):
lot of people now feel like love songs like that are.
CORNY i feel like a little bit LIKE i feel
that a little bit in the, collective at least in
the songwriter. Collective LIKE i feel like a lot of
songwriters are, like, no but we need to like put
some ego in, there or the artistic songwriters are like oh,
(35:08):
no but we need to tell more of a, story
or we need to use my metaphors or hide it
away behind poetry or. Like And i'm not trying to criticize,
anyone Because i'm also inspired by, storytellers And i'm ALSO i.
Write i've been actually ironically writing some very story like songs,
(35:29):
lately and love songs that have more layers and more poetic.
Nature and you, know But i'm also incredibly inspired by
just vulnerable love songs that are just very just speaking
like you would in a, conversation vulnerably to someone you love,
someone you've made, mistakes to someone that you need to
(35:50):
tell them you love them for the first, time but
you're shy to do, it or you, know admitting to
a mistake you've made in the, relationship and like specifically
talking about romantic love. Songs you, know, Oh i'm you,
KNOW i KNOW i made these. MISTAKES i KNOW i
could do, this this and, this you know this, Better
BUT i want to work it out BECAUSE i want
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to deepen our. LOVE i want to deepen our connection
and AND i feel Like i'm very drawn to, that
AND i feel like a lot of, people there are
some people still doing that And i'm a fan of
a lot of those, people AND i love listening to those.
People I'm i'm not the only one doing, it BUT
i BUT i like to do that BECAUSE i feel
(36:36):
like the world needs it and ALSO i need. It
my world needs, it myself needs it to heal and
to move through life and feel feel good and and
try to reach, enlightenment try To i'm always chasing, that
And i'm also always trying to chase happiness at all.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Love you, know writing love songs doesn't necessarily solve all my,
problems but it definitely makes me feel at least a little.
Better SO i love writing love. Songs i've also seen
people at my shows cry or tell me thank you and,
that you, know feeling even if there's one person at
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my show that says that it's nice to know, that you.
Know sometimes my music heals people and mends their hearts
or helps mend their, hearts or helps make them feel
a little, better or help them maybe be a little more,
vulnerable or help them process emotions and relationships or in. Connection,
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yeah so.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Well in an album Called Love.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
LANGUAGES i love that you Mentioned Isaac hayes BECAUSE i
was a Big isaac Case. MAN i used to listen
to his double VINYL lp Called Black moses for a long.
Time was.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Great BUT i have that one that on. HELP i
have that.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Here, YEAH i love.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
It but we should let the people check out one
of your tunes right. Now i've got a video. Here,
well i'll let you. Choose we were talking about this in.
Advance i've Got Sweet summer or your cover Of Randy
Newman's You've got A friend In?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Me which one would you like to check?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Out?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Now is it? Possible is it possible to play Beer?
MAN i think What i'm talking About Sweet summer works,
too and that is a love song that's from my last.
Album we could watch that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
First, well, no let's do let's do what you would
like to Beer.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Man Beer man goes with WHAT i was just. SAYING
i think a little. More It's Sweet summer will but
Beer man also just came, out AND i DEFINITELY i
feel like it's similar to like A Curtis mayfield and.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It's because you recorded it in empty. Theater what was
the theater?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Again so the theater It's Los Angeles, theater which is
my favorite Theater i've ever been in in the in
The United. States AND i have a friend who is
a restoration, person an interior designer who has restored, it
and he got the keys to let me in and
film that in. There and and it was built in the.
(39:24):
Thirties it was opened for the opening the premiere Of
City lights Of Charlie. Chaplin and, wow you, know it's
a legendary theater and it's really beautiful and it has
an amazing history and it feels holy in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
There let's go ahead and check out that video right.
Now and this is an original being.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
An original beer.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Man, okay, well let's check that out, now.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
All, right everybody song it's Called Be Your, Man.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Come.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Out april, eleventh twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Five, separation, anxiety.
Speaker 10 (40:28):
All the feed data seed bok with you with? Me
the fear is a con the cone baby, insecure her broken, down.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Seeking had knowing HOW.
Speaker 8 (41:04):
I try to fix all my? Problems you, KNOW i?
Speaker 12 (41:09):
DO i?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Do, BABY i know it's. Not you have responsibility to
reassure it that you love. Me who know.
Speaker 13 (41:30):
The?
Speaker 8 (41:31):
BABY i, UNDERSTAND.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I.
Speaker 11 (41:37):
UNDERSTAND i want to be your.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Man we be all, man.
Speaker 14 (41:54):
Be home, man.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
Behold bit who yes.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Fun pie you old?
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Man? HUH i cannot expect you will always be there
(43:20):
and cannot. Help where said that you? First, oh, no, BABY.
Speaker 11 (43:30):
I, UNDERSTAND.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I.
Speaker 11 (43:34):
UNDERSTAND i want to be you.
Speaker 12 (43:38):
Mean Beyord ben beorn Be, oh, YES i want to
(44:07):
be your.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Man that's a true, story.
Speaker 8 (44:29):
All.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Right and we just watched an original tune With Dylan
meek recorded in The La theater called be A, man
which is going to be on his upcoming Album Love.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Languages, Right, yes yes it. Is it's one of the
singles that's on the.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Album well, Awesome but you, KNOW i also heard that
you were nominated for A. Grammy what were you nominated?
Speaker 4 (44:54):
For let me grab, It i'll read, It i'll show.
It i'll show it to.
Speaker 15 (44:58):
You.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
Okay So i'm not sure if it's going to show
up because this picks up my face and then we'll
cut other things. Out let's see If, yeah, Basically i'll
just read it BECAUSE i don't think it's going to
show up right. Now in recognition of your participation as
songwriter on The Grammy award nominated recording Spider man into
(45:20):
The Spider Verse Best Compilation soundtrack For Visual, Media so
that's the Nomination Best Compilation soundtrack For Visual, media so One,
yeah one of my songs was on a soundtrack that
got nominated for and we lost to a star is born.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Good to that level to be For?
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Grammy well, again you know we are talking To dylan
make an, awesome amazing talented. Musician just one more thing
here and hopefully we can get to one more of
your tunes.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Here but just where are you at right now with
with your own personal spirituality and what role does a
plane in your.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Life i'm very interested in that you were in The
Dowdy ching too as a. Youngster that, Is i'll be,
honest that's ONE i have not studied that very in
depth at.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
All The doubt Is ying changed my, LIFE i. Think
and it's an easy. Read it's like a you can read,
it you can like carry it. Around it's a little pocket.
Book it changed my. Life i've read it several times and,
then AND i used to read it like a novel
LIKE i would. READ i would read like one page
(46:42):
at a. Time some people will like pull the random
things because there's like a lot of different sayings in
it or. Whatnot but But i've read it multiple times
and then and THEN i would switch it. Around but,
SORRY i got a text and THEN i got. Distracted
could you repeat the question one more?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Time, yeah it was just where are you now as
in your current life as an adult with your? Spirituality
and are you still studying the Dowd age, ching WHICH
i really don't know a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
ABOUT i, should but it's in me AND i.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Think about it a, Lot But i'm not studying the
Dowd aging. Currently i'm right. NOW i kind of feel
LIKE i feel trying to think of the right. WORDS
i feel kind of in this ego death moment, lately
Where i'm like thinking about my, identity thinking about my
(47:40):
purpose in the. WORLD i think about this a. Lot
this is a real occurring. Thing AND i KNOW i
live for. Music music is definitely.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
My.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Life it's WHAT i live. For and love is WHAT
i live.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
For and.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Family but but, yeah just a deeper, level you. KNOW
I i've just been reflecting on what it means to
be a good, person AND i want to be a good.
Person And i'm just thinking and reflecting on my life
(48:17):
and on my HOW i sit in the, world HOW i,
exist HOW i affect other, people how other people affect,
me how other people affect other, people and HOW i
fit in all of, that and that's kind of the
Place i'm at. Spiritually i'm kind OF i feel Like
(48:38):
i'm searching right. Now, Yeah i'm, Searching LIKE i know,
Myself i'm rooted in, myself But i'm searching for. ENLIGHTENMENT
i Guess i'm searching for answers, well AND i have on.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
That you, know much of the world is searching right
now in many many of MY i guess on the
show this is a two hundred and thirteenth episode are
talking about the world is on a huge.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Transition like never before in all of.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
History we're on a verge of ascension into a higher
dimension of love and. Living and you, will you, know
if you look at the mainstream, media you'd think the exact.
OPPOSITE i, mean you wouldn't live in la where they've
had their slight problems lately, too so that would be
hard To but, YEAH i love that that you are.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Searching you know me, too me.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
Too.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah, yeah it's a. Journey life is a, journey and
in my, opinion sometimes you reach a point where you
think you've reached some enlightenment or maybe you have in
a moment you know you've Because i've had experiences Where i'm, like,
whoa this is? It this is the, answer you?
Speaker 15 (49:53):
Know and then.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
You, KNOW i go to work the next day WHERE
i do this thing the next day And i'm, like,
oh wait a, SECOND i. DIDN'T i don't Still i'm
not still holding onto that. Thing where is? It where
is a little glimpse of? It you, know it would
be nice to be able to have the glimpse for
a lot for more. Often it would be a great.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
Name for a, Song life is A. Journey so.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You think we're kind of running out of time, here
BUT i wondered if it would be okay if we
could check out one more. Song you, Know i'm a
fan of your cover Of Randy Randy Newman's You've got
A friend In?
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Me is it okay if we check that out?
Speaker 4 (50:37):
QUICKLY i Love Randy, Newman he's inspired. ME i love his,
songs AND i love that.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Song all, Right, well here Is dylan mek Doing You've
got A friend In me by good Old Randy.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
Newman you've got a friend in. Me you've got a
(51:11):
friend that mean half The rootlets rough him.
Speaker 15 (51:22):
Hand of miles.
Speaker 13 (51:24):
From your nice warming just formample what your old about
saying you've got a friend of.
Speaker 11 (51:37):
Me you who've got a friend in. Me you've got
a friend in.
Speaker 14 (51:49):
Me you've got a friend in.
Speaker 16 (51:55):
Me you got TROUBLES i got to where is NOTHING
i would do for? You let's stick together and we'll
make it. Through you've got a.
Speaker 8 (52:18):
Friend of, Me you who got a friend in.
Speaker 7 (52:26):
Me some folks might say a little smarter THAT i
am a little big and strong, Too.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
But they.
Speaker 12 (52:44):
Don't love you.
Speaker 11 (52:47):
The WAY i.
Speaker 8 (52:47):
Do just me and you, boy.
Speaker 15 (52:53):
And as it is for my, preacher but never dine
you Pier, see it's a.
Speaker 14 (53:07):
Dandtandy you've got a friend me.
Speaker 11 (53:16):
You you got a friend in.
Speaker 14 (53:18):
Me you've got a friend in. Me you've got a
friend and.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
Me all, right and there you.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Go There's dylan makes an awesome version Of You've got
A friend In me By Randy.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
Newman how did you choose that?
Speaker 4 (53:55):
Song in my, Opinion for, one it's one of the
greatest songs of all, time so it's hard not to
choose number. Two in my, opinion it's a love. Song
it's a love song about a. Friend you got a
friend of, Me and it's also like this selfless, thing
like you got a friend of, me LIKE i got
you Like i'm your friend if you need. Me you,
(54:16):
know it's like not asking for, something it's Giving AND
i love.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
That, yeah, WELL i really appreciate.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
It and you, know just, quickly having been on radio for,
many many years myself And i've talked to a lot
of artists over the, years AND i was gonna thinking
WHEN i was BEFORE i said, This, well maybe he's
too young to, remember BUT i was watching some of
your soul keyboard work and you're singing you kind of
remind me of Early Todd runggren. Style he had that
(54:48):
vulnerable keyboard style of, singing although he could be a metal,
style but a little bit like.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
That, yeah you, KNOW i honestly have not listened enough to. Him,
YEAH i got some of the early stuff chet. Though yeah,
really but.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
We've kind of got to roll out of.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Here what a great, opportunity a little departure for world.
Awakenings but this young, Man dylan me is certainly the
real deal and incredible. TALENT i love your story about
hanging out with a Master Jimmy, neally and that is just.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
Amazing you, know the.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Bottom line, Is i'm guessing your music is very a
nice avenue for people to hop on that love train
and enjoy life a little bit, more, RIGHT.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
I would, hope SO i will. Hope so it makes
me feel, better SO i hope it makes other people
feel better for.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
Sure, well when is your new, Album Love languages coming?
Out and it's On Liquid Culture, records, right so.
Speaker 4 (55:51):
It's coming out In. SEPTEMBER i Believe september twenty sixth
is the exact. DAY i need to double check, that
But i'm pretty sure that's. Accurate there are singles out.
Already there's Beer, man there Is Higher, place there IS
I Feel fine And, almosita WHICH i wrote In, spanish
(56:12):
And Love language is the title track of the album is.
Out that just dropped Last, friday so, yeah you can
listen to, those and then the WHOLE lp. Drops the
ten SONG lp drops In, september so look out for
that and. All it's a love, opus all love, songs super, sweet,
(56:32):
Uplifting it'll make you, cry it'll make you, laugh it'll
make you want to fall in love over and over,
again even with the same.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
Person, yeah, yeah that's very. Cool So i'm.
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Guessing and of course it'll BE mp three, downloadable but
are you gonna release it on vinyl?
Speaker 4 (56:48):
Too, Yes and in, FACT i already have a vinyl
AND i wish if it's this. THING i set this
on purpose to give me autonomy in my. Room but
SOMETIMES i don't know how to set up a super.
QUICKLY i need to research. That but BASICALLY i already
have the vinyl.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Already very.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Cool i've got my turntable right over, here so, right,
Well i'll send you.
Speaker 8 (57:11):
One oh.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Man, well and, FINALLY i know you have a.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Website what is that and is that the best way
for people to connect With Dylan meek and enjoy your.
Speaker 4 (57:21):
Music, YEAH i would say you could go to my
Website dylanmeeek dot com or dylanmeeekmusic dot. Com it goes
to the same, place or just my handle On instagram
on which Is Dylan Meek. Music so, yeah and if
you're on, YouTube you can subscribe to me on. YouTube
(57:42):
look Up Dylan meek music on. There it's pretty Much
dylan Meet music, anywhere and just you, know whatever your platform,
is look Up dylan Meet music Or Dylan meek On,
spotify It's Daling. Meek On Apple, music It's Dylan. Meek
i'm on any of the social media's It's dalan meek,
music TikTok and.
Speaker 2 (57:59):
All of that, awesome Awesome dylan Meekon and what does
The bible say the meek shallen here the Earth i've
Heard i'm sure you've heard that.
Speaker 4 (58:07):
Before i've heard.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Life but, Anyway, dylan what a blessing and an honor
to have you On World. Awakenings thank you so, much,
Brother thank you for hosting.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
ME i really appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
Time this has been another episode Of World, Awakenings The
Fast track To enlightenment with Host Carl, gruber a certified
(58:43):
law of attraction life. Coach we welcome you to tune
into each and every episode Of World awakenings as we
open your, mind your, heart and your eyes to the
fact that the world's population is now more than ever
awakening to the truth of all things, spiritual metaphysical and,
enlightening and just how much they play an all important
(59:06):
role in our moment to moment daily. Life much love
and light to, you my, friend and thank you for
tuning Into World. Awakenings
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