Luke Papich (Repost)

Due to a personal family matter we unfortunately won’t have a new episode tomorrow. We hope you’ll understand and listen to our reposted episode with @lukepapich from @overserved.again! Luke and the guys are playing an album release concert this Saturday 8/23 at @Mcgonaglespub in Mass so we felt this was the perfect timing to repost this episode!

Episode Transcript

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This week on Country on Deck. My first like event ever, I had
a little band in 3rd grade and we were called the Devils from
Heaven. That was, it was hilarious.
Really tired of the Little Rock and roll band.
And everyone's learned the recorder in 3rd grade in in New
England. And so we played two songs after
the recorder concert at my elementary school in 3rd grade.

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And that's like my first ever, like on stage memory of playing
the guitar. No singing back then, but yeah,
he's playing the guitar. It's pretty funny.
Trying to wrap my head around this.
You said you were in 3rd grade, right?
Third grade, Yeah. Devils from heaven.
How the hell did you come up with that in 3rd grade?
No idea. We thought we thought we were
edgy and cool back then. I guess is we were trying to be.

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Well, we thought Rock'n'roll wasall about, you know, being scary
and creepy. But yeah.
That's a bold name choice for for some third graders.
Yeah, for a bunch of eight-year olds, you know what?
Pretty hilarious. But yeah, yeah, it's my first.
Like kind of music memory and then since then just been
playing kind of the guitar ever since.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Country on Deck,
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But first, if you missed our conversation from last week, we

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are very excited to have Jordan Fletcher on the show talking to
Jordan about his latest EP called Classic.
You kind of grow up listening toit, like you get to hear me
growing up, like, you know, the first song being classic.
It's like high school, you know,doing that whole thing and and
the songs kind of hop, you know,hip, hoppy, jumpy, you know,

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kind of fun pop feeling kind of song.
And and then you've got hot truck beer, which is like
college kind of growing up a little bit a little more of the
same thing, but it's kind of tightens up a little bit
falling. The summer is falling in love.
And then the back in the back three of that project really
kind of turns the corner to me because it like you get to see

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kind of like a maturation of me as a person and as a writer.
You go into no place like home. It's goes down.
It's like a piano ballad, right.I've never done a piano ballad,
and it's really kind of diving into the struggles of making a
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We are so excited to finally be able to chat with him and have a
full conversation. We had a ton of fun seeing him
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They have an EP out right now onall listening platforms called

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Crooked Habits. Go check it out and and give it
a listen on the show this week. Like me, he's from the New
England area from Overserved Again, Luke Papage.
Hey, Luke. How we doing?
I'm good. How are you, man?
Good, good, good to talk to you.I'm excited to to have you on
the show finally. Yeah, definitely.

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Yes. So am I excited to be here?
How have you been since the The Country on Deck Writers round?
Good man. Good.
Yeah. Busy gigging out, you know, a
couple days a week. We've been doing a lot of stuff
in the in the studio and all that good stuff.
So yeah, we've been busy. We're good.
I see you guys are putting on another one here in what, a
couple weeks? We are, yeah.
February 12th is the next one. Thanks for being a part of the

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first one. Yeah, man, I had a good time.
That was awesome. That was really cool.
I was actually thinking thinkingearlier at some point we should
have like first ever Country on Deck reunion show.
Yeah, that'd be fun. That sounds good to me.
Celebrate the the first one again, yeah.
Hell yeah, man, absolutely. Why not?
How was your holidays? It was good.
It was good. You know what?
I got a kind of a smaller familyout here on my my whole family

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is from Iowa. So out here it's just like a
handful of us. So it's they're small, but
they're fun. Yeah.
It was good, man. Yeah, all good things to report.
Did you grow up in Mass and now you're in Rhode Island, or is it
the other way around? Not even almost.
So I grew up in Massachusetts, just South of Boston, Taco and
Hingham. And so now I'm located in
Boston. But my family, my entire

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family's from Iowa. So we would like spend our
summers out there in Iowa growing up.
So I could call myself a little bit of a hybrid Midwest and New
England hybrid. What's it like in Iowa?
Oh. God, that's where you're at, I
guess, dude. So my family's from a small town
called Albia and it was like maybe 1000 people and you could
drive the golf cart down the road and stuff like that.

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So it was, it was small, man. It was very quaint, very, very
rural, lots of corn, just like you see in, you know, the movies
and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm picturing a Field of
Dreams when you bring up. Yeah, exactly.
You know what, funny enough, I've been to the Field of Dreams
a couple times. So that's that's.
Cool, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool
actually. Is that where you get some of
your country inspiration? That's a good question.

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You know, I think so kind of grew up more so for my mom
actually grew up listening to the Chicks and random Dolly
Parton here and there. And so maybe, yeah, actually my
my family out there is a big jazz family.
My great aunts are crazy, crazy musicians and they love jazz.
And but I guess just, you know, music in general comes from out
there for me. So kind of country.

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But yeah, music in general for me is from from Iowa.
When I met your dad at the otherwriters route, he seemed like
your biggest fan. Yeah, yeah, he loves it.
He's a he's a huge supporter, obviously.
He's he's loving every single gig that we play.
It comes to the the small ones and the big ones and some of the
ones that, you know, my mom kindof barks at him for coming home

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too late, you know. So yeah, I know he loves it.
He's been, he's been the man forthe like year and a half I've
been doing this so. Do you have like a first memory
of music? I don't know how it came to be,
but I remember getting my first guitar in first grade and just
being hyped, being able to finally play like AG Chord.
And then after that, that's kindof like where I started out.

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And then my first like event ever, I had a little band in 3rd
grade and we were called The Devils From Heaven.
It was hilarious. Really trying to get a Little
Rock and roll band. And everyone's learned the
recorder in 3rd grade in in New England.
And so we played two songs afterthe recorder concert at my
elementary school in 3rd grade. And that's like my first ever
like on stage memory of playing the guitar.

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No singing back then, but yeah, he's playing the guitar.
It's pretty funny. Trying to wrap my head around
this. You said you were in 3rd grade,
right? Third grade, Yeah.
Devils from heaven. How the hell did you come up
with that in 3rd grade? No idea.
We thought we thought we were edgy and cool back then.
I guess is we were trying to be,you know, we thought Rock'n'roll
was all about, you know, being scary and creepy.

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But yeah. That's a bold name choice for
for some third graders. Yeah, for a bunch of eight-year
olds, you know what? Pretty hilarious.
But yeah, yeah, that's my first.Like kind of music memory and
then since then just been playing kind of the guitar ever
since. You play a bunch of instruments,
right? Like I was really impressed with
the the harmonica that you brokeout during the writer's round.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I play Handful.
Played the bass for a long time in the orchestra, so I love
playing the bass. Played the guitar, obviously
since first grade, then diving in the harmonica right now, it's
kind of like my project right now.
Yeah. In the studio we play some
randoms, like halfway play a banjo sometimes and I know a
couple chords in the mandolin, but yeah, harmonica I'm trying
to learn better nowadays. So appreciate the appreciate the

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comment on that one. Yeah, I really, I feel like it
helped you stand out. I was like, oh wow, this guy's
whipping out of harmonica right now.
And he's really, he's really good.
I appreciate that. Yeah.
No, I like that. Yeah.
That tune, that tune called for it.
So I was like, you know, yeah, Imight as well give it a shot.
That was my first time playing that tune anyway, so I was
trying to trying to see how it went.
Were some of the songs that you played in the writers round,

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were those your specific songs or do you guys write together
or? We write together for the most
part. 2 of them were ones that Ihad written.
Yeah, no, we we write stuff together.
We're kind of, you know, I barely even market myself
nowadays. It's more so just over served
again. But yeah, we write together all
the time. It's a whole bunch of fun.
Actually, a couple weekends ago we were up in New Hampshire for

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like 4 or five days just having like a writing and a pre
production session basically fora new record we're putting out
in the summer. But yeah, writing together is
always more fun than just writing by yourself in your
bedroom. So yeah, we drink a bunch of
beers and write songs that hopefully don't sound like shit,
you know? That's the goal, right?
Yeah. Yeah, that's all we're trying to
do. There's there's five of you

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total in the band. There's five full time guys.
Yeah, so it's myself. And then Garrett Maloney plays
the lead guitar and sings harmony and then Braden McNeil
is on the bass guitar and singing lead.
A lot of time too. And then Germans name is Leandro
Moro. And then we got a keys player
semi recently, Buddy from college as well, Drew Waldron,
nasty keys player. We picked him up from a jazz

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band. We kind of stole him from a funk
band down in Newport, RI. But yeah, he's a killer too.
So yeah, five of us full time. And then when he's around,
Garrett's little brother is ShayMalone.
He's actually a wizard on the banjo and the man one as well.
So he joins us from time to timewhen he's home from college.
And most of you guys met when you were at Bryant University.
Yeah, all of us, actually. So we all the four of us,

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myself, Braden, Lee and Garrett were in the same fraternity.
And then Drew was just a friend of the guys.
So yeah, we started out just playing guitars after, you know,
our little fraternity parties atlike 3:00 in the morning, like
drunk as hell and kind of spiraled into something, you
know, a little bigger nowadays. But yeah, that's kind of.
So we all met a Bryant down in Rhode Island.
Yeah. We love that school.

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Nice. What?
What were you studying when you went to Bryant?
Good question. I was studying management with a
concentration in leadership and innovation, kind of a mouthful.
So I worked on a couple innovation teams and did a
couple design thinking, you know, courses.
So it's pretty cool. But you know, eventually it was
just, you know, music was way more fun to do.
So switched over to that. Who had the the bright idea to

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to create a band like? What was that conversation like
when you first when you first started?
We just knew each other for playing after, you know, after
our parties. And then my, I have a buddy from
home from back in Hingham who I played in my little 3rd grade
band with actually named RichardMiller.
He plays out in a band in Nashville called Wasted Major.
Those guys are awesome. So he plays out in Nashville.
He's been there for a handful ofyears now.

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And he came home right after I graduated College in 2022.
And he came home for Thanksgiving and he knew that
I'd, you know, play the guitar. We've been playing forever.
And he was like, hey, Luke, do you want to try to find a bar to
play at? Like do you, do you want to go
try to play an acoustic gig somewhere?
And I was like, dude, yeah, thatsounds like a whole lot of fun.
So we started reaching out to bars and stuff like that.
And I was like, you know, you know what, I got a buddy who I

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played guitar with at college. Can he join?
Or she's like, yeah, hell yeah, why not?
So that's Garrett. And then Leandro I knew had a
drum kit. And I called him up and I said,
hey, man, you still have your drum kit.
Do you want to come play a gig somewhere on the South Shore
during Thanksgiving? And he was all about it.
So we got together and practiceda couple times and then just
found a bar called the NantasketFlats over in Hull that just let
us play. They're like, alright, we can't

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pay you, but you can drink beer and then play your songs and
tell your friends to come on out.
So it's kind of how we got started up.
And so we played the day after Thanksgiving in 2023 or 2022,
excuse me? It was our first gig ever.
And then we just played a whole bunch of cover songs, a bunch of
country music, and a ton of people came out.
The bar was super happy with it.So end up gigging there one more
time and then kind of snowballedinto, you know, more bars and

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more states. And now we're doing this thing
full time, so. Were you playing as over served
again for that first gig or did that name take some time?
That name took a little bit of time.
We my buddy is his band is called Wasted Major.
So we were, he was playing the bass and singing lead for most
of it. So we just called ourselves
wasted Major for the first couple of it.
And then the next time we came back to that bar, they were
like, So what do you guys called?

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Like do you guys have an actual name?
And we're like, oh, shoot, I guess we we don't really.
And so we at the time thought itwas just going to be kind of
like a cover band like thing funthing to do on the weekends.
So we're trying to leave a name that's like funny enough that
like points to like, yeah, we like to have beers and have a
good time, but also sounds like,OK, so we stumbled upon over
served again after like 17,000 text messages in a group chat of

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just trying to think of stupid band names.
Oh, geez. Yeah.
So over served again is the one that's stuck and people think
it's pretty funny. And yeah, it's still the one
we're rocking with today. What were some of the the ideas
in that text message thread? There are a couple good ones.
There was like, I really wanted to be the Day Drinkers.
I thought was funny, but there'sanother band called The Day

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Drinkers. We had to look it up and we're
going to be last call for a little while.
Like they're all, it was all like alcohol related, which is
probably like shows you where wewere originally our heads were
at when it came to all this music stuff.
Yeah, just just a bunch of random ones.
I should go back and dig some upthough.
I bet there's some gold in that group, Jet.
They were paying you to with beer, so it makes.

(15:09):
Sense exactly right. So like, you know, if that's how
we're getting paid, might as well pay homage to it.
The band it's heavily inspired by outlaw country.
Yeah, yeah, we see outlaw country more so you know, the
guys of today. Charles was a Godwin, Tyler
Childers was like my biggest inspiration.
And then also older school guys at Wildman like Johnny Cash,

(15:31):
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, the older guys too.
So yeah, kind of we think we tryto make it like a hybrid of the
two, especially in our, you know, original tunes, try to
make them kind of a, you know, halfway between the new modern
country and, well, I still keeping it a little bit old
school, you know, using fiddle and banjo and acoustic guitar

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and all that stuff. So yeah, it's kind of a hybrid.
What draws you to Tyler? Honestly, at first it was, it
was his voice. He heard Feathered Indians for
the first time and immediately he was just like, this is
insane. Like I need to listen to this
guy more. And now it's more so just
songwriting. I mean, songwriting is insane.
The the way he plays the guitar.Like if all my buddies make fun

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of me because I've watched and listened to so many Childers
tunes and all the stuff on YouTube and there's no, there's
no unreleased Childers tune thatI haven't already heard.
So they make fun of me for singing like him sometimes on
accident and playing like guitarlike him on accident.
But yeah, just every kind of captivated me from the first
second I heard him. So yeah, he's he's like my
biggest guy, my my favorite artist.
For sure. You're a big Zach Bryant fan

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too, right? Yeah, Zach Bryant's good too.
Yeah, we've been, we started listening to Zach Bryant like as
soon as the Elizabeth album cameout.
So long, long time ago now. And yeah, just so we.
So we also play a bunch of his songs in our set list.
Yeah, he's, he's awesome as well.
He's got like kind of a raw sound, which is cool to us
because none of us are, you know, very classically trained

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musicians. It's all just kind of doing
whatever we think feels and sounds right, which is kind of
how Zac Bryan goes about his music as well.
He's may may not be on pitch every single time he sings a
song, but it's like, you know, the rawness and the realness of
it is what attracts people to it, I think.
So we kind of kind of, you know,draw some inspiration from that
as well. I feel like those first couple
songs it almost sounded like he was recording it in like a
garage or something. Exactly.

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Yeah, yeah. Kind of a cool take on it, but
yeah. So 100%.
You guys really pride yourself on being focused on your lyrics,
right? I've become, you know, like,
almost like a music snob recently, which I hate for
myself. But like, you know, you listen
to a lot of the radio stuff and it's singing about, you know, a
dirt road and a beer and a, you know, a big truck and stuff like

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that. And at some point, the lyrics
just get exhausted to me. So making sure that the stories
were telling our stories that, you know, makes sense and the
stories that, you know, matter to us and, like, show a little
bit of our personalities and stuff like that.
Just, you know, writing songs that aren't necessarily a series
of words over and over, but something that, you know, people
can actually listen to and follow on the story and get a
little bit more emotion than just, you know, picking a guitar

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on my front porch and drinking beer and stuff like that.
So yeah, I guess that's kind of what we mean by, you know,
lyricism heavy. Just making stuff that's halfway
worth the shit and semi interesting to listen to, you
know? With with five guys in the band,
it must be an interesting writing process all hanging out
together. Definitely it can be it's it's,
you know, it's it's kind of fun.It's cool that we get to do that

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that way because a lot of times you, you know, sit down in your
bedroom and with your guitar andwrite a song and you don't get
as much input, you know, and youkind of just like, you know, you
know what, this song is good. And you bring it to the boys and
the boys go, yeah, this song is good.
Like, all right, let's play thissong.
But when you're writing together, you know, you can, you
know, spit ball lines and spitball different words and
phrases and melodies and stuff like that and then have a real
time, like feedback on which one's better.

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And maybe some guy thinks of a melody that you're not thinking
of in that moment. And they wouldn't have thought
that unless you guys were writing together kind of thing.
So it's kind of fun to pick. It's more spontaneous and it's
more, you know, it's more collaborative, which I really,
really enjoy. And that helps also when you're
in a band kind of keeping a consistent sound, you know, like
having a bunch of guys in the band.

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If, you know, we each write our songs by ourselves and then
bring it to the band, then we'regoing to have songs that sound
completely different because we all write differently.
But if we read together, this sounds a little more consistent
and a little more cohesive. Do you ever write with people
who are outside the band? We haven't yet, but I'd love to.
I mean, I'd absolutely love to. We write with our producer John

(19:23):
Ellis a little bit, but in termsof like other artists and we
haven't yet, but I would super, super like to get a little
writing session going. Who are some some artists that
you feel like you'd you'd reach out to if you had an
opportunity? Some of the guys you know in the
area, Nick Casey is a buddy of ours and he writes some cool ass
tunes. Definitely him.
Our buddy Avery Truex as well. I love how that guy writes music

(19:45):
super, super, you know, cool andimagery focused on his music.
So those two guys for sure. You know anyone with Nick Boss,
he writes great tunes coming outof Connecticut.
Tyler Fobel we know is a friend of ours as well.
Write some cool tunes. Yeah, but a bunch of these, a
bunch of the Connecticut guy, the Connecticut guys are heavy
hitters, man. I will say you guys got some
talent down there in CT. Yeah, Nick.

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Nick Boss, he's awesome. Yeah.
Yeah, he's the man. Love his song.
Have you heard of song Timmy? Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard that
one. That's a good one.
Yeah, it's a good. I liked all that kind of stuff.
He's got such a cool voice. I remember hearing him for the
first time I I was opening up for Joshua Quinby down in
Hartford, CT, and he had a bunchof like special guests come
along do like halfway through the set.

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They played like acoustic tunes.I remember hearing Nick Boss, he
opened his mouth for the first time and was like blown away.
Just absolutely floored by the power in this guy's voice.
So I've been a fan ever since. I agree, I saw him in the My
first time seeing him was the wolf dad at Mohegan Sun.
I'm like, how's this guy? Not in Nashville, right?
Now, yeah, it's insane. It's insane.
He's a super talented dude and we're planning a show with him

(20:50):
in May. He's throwing together a little
festival, I think somewhere. God, I forget where it is
because I'm going to need it. But yeah, he asked us to be on
the bill, so we're super excitedto be share another show with
him soon. Nice.
That's cool. Yeah, Man.
Has that been officially announced yet or?
I don't know. Good question.
I should probably know that before.
Still still in the works. It might still be in the works.

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It's the one that he does annually, so I'm sure it's no
secret that it's happening again.
But yeah, sometime in May, Yeah,pretty cool.
Have you been in Nashville before?
Only when I was a kid, so I was like 16 or 17 and we traveled
there with our and for the orchestra.
I was an orchestra all throughout high school and
middle school. They did a trip every year.

(21:32):
We went to Nashville. Yeah.
When I was, I think I was like 17.
So I wasn't old enough to reallyappreciate what was going on and
wasn't old enough to drink beersin the honky tonks.
So I need to get back there soon.
Yeah. My buddy's been begging me to
get out there. Yeah.
He's been living out there for since college, actually.
But yeah. So I would love to soon but I
haven't been out yet. Yeah, that that trip will

(21:53):
probably look a a little different this time.
Oh. Yeah, yeah, probably a little
different. I'll come back a little with a
headache and and a hangover. You guys also did the back home
fest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we played back
home fest that was really cool little event, but on by
everybody. Joshua Quimby yeah man, that was
a fun little day. We got there real early and

(22:13):
Garrett early guitarist ran sound for the entire the entire
show. And so we were there from, you
know, start to finish and it wasjust a whole bunch of fun.
We hanging out for the Hideaway Tavern down in shoot.
I forgot the town of Connecticut, but yeah, man, we
saw a bunch of cool artists. We saw Avery played there, Nick
Casey played there. Nick Bossy stopped by a bunch of

(22:34):
sick guys. Riley Chance was awesome.
Charlie Treat. There's a whole bunch of names
on there that I had was meeting for the first time and just
crazy, crazy talented people to be able to meet for the first
time and spend a day with like that and just really wholesome
day, you know, in a dive bar down to Connecticut, you know,
good old New England country music fans in the in their
truest form. It's really cool.

(22:55):
You you met Zach Top. I did, yeah.
We met Zach Top. We met Zach Top at the Sinclair.
He was playing a show God maybe in October and in October he was
starting to blow up already. And this guy could have been
selling probably could have beena House of Blues, like selling
at a way bigger. Oh yeah.
I should say Sinclair is like an800 person venue up here in

(23:16):
Boston and the the room was way too small for him.
He packed that thing out so, so gnarly.
But yeah, he played A6 set and then he stuck around after just
met a bunch of people. So met him and had a good chat
with him. Really nice guy.
Just as nice as he looks on, youknow, on social media and on on
stage. He's he's the nicest dude.

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Nice, that's good to hear. The video that you promoted
playing Moonshine Alley, you gotthe call at the last minute.
I thought that was a cool video.It almost looked like you were
being drafted to the NFL or something.
Yeah, yeah, that's funny. We had a we had a buddy hit Hit
Me up and his band couldn't playthat night.
And so Moonshine Alley, that wasthe first time playing there.
And we had known about that bar because we went to school four

(23:58):
or five miles away. So we always wanted to play
there because that was like the country Bar down in Rhode Island
for a while. And yes, we were excited about
talent. That was the first time playing.
We love playing there. We've been back a handful of
Times Now. Yeah, it's a good little venue
down there. So that first time for you was
real special. It was special, honestly, man,
it was, it was kind of like a itwas like kind of like a wow.
Like we've always wanted to playhere.

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And we actually did it in like ayear into it.
Like, well, look at that. Who would have thought that we
played there? Yeah.
So that's a cool venue. We have a good special place in
our hearts with that venue. It's a fun spot.
You mentioned this and I, I'm still kind of blown away by it
myself. I can't believe you guys have
only been at it since like 2023.Not not too long.
Yeah, no, it's been, it'll be two years since our first show,
like as over served again here in about a month.

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That's when Braden joined the band playing the bass.
And yeah, so it'll be it'll be two years in February 2023.
And it's been kind of a crazy ride.
You know, it started off just kind of slow and just playing a
bunch of small little bars for like 300 bucks and split in that
five ways or four ways or whatever.
Now it's what I'm doing full time.
The other guys still have 9 to fives.

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But you know, hopefully one day,hopefully someday soon that
they'll be doing the same thing.And yeah, no, it's it's been
crazy. It's been crazy.
Two years. What's the the biggest thing
you've learned in the last couple years?
Just to be we always, we have a phrase kind of before the Zac
Bryant song came out, we'd always kind of we'd get together
and be like before a show, you know, maybe it's a long weekend.

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We've been playing four or five gigs that weekend or four or
five gigs that week and I'm tired.
My voice hurts or something. We always get together and say,
wow, guys like, how lucky are weto be able to play our music in
front of people that want to hear it?
And, you know, sometimes make a little money to doing it.
So it's still, you know, learn to be grateful, you know,
grateful for being able to, you know, pick a guitar in front of
people and they won't actually stick around and listen to it,

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not take it for granted that they're not running the way, you
know. Is there something specific that
you're really, really proud about that you've accomplished?
I mean, the boys don't take enough time to be proud of what
we do right now. It's been a lot of fun and a lot
of like good times, but it's also like a lot of work and
there's always, always somethingto be done.
But yeah, I guess in terms of like someone, we're proudest of

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the record. We love the we put an EP
together last last year came outon April 12th and it's just been
a whole bunch of fun to see where that record is going.
Like it's, you know, still small, like local kind of
record. But you know, we look at our
numbers back from Spotify rappedand we're just like, there's no
way that, you know, this many thousands of people listen to
our music this year. It's so cool.

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And you know, there's no way that, you know, this many people
listen to it in like X amount ofcountries.
We're in like 97 countries. It's just like weird to think
about. But yeah, so we're wicked proud
of the record we put together last year and we got one on the
way. But yeah, probably I'd say
that's, that's our, our proudestlittle, you know, gem out right
now. That that first EP is is really
awesome. I I've been listening to it all

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morning, getting ready for our conversation.
Oh hell yeah. I appreciate it.
Yeah. No, we love that record.
Was that your first time? Like in an actual studio or?
Yeah, so funny enough, actually for the song where our song
Auburn Girl was the first time we're in a studio, I had a
musician buddy in town and I waslike, hey, man, we're opening up
for Joshua Quimby in August. Like we want to have something

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on Spotify to like, tell people to go listen to when we open up
for him and he's like, all right, cool, we'll set you up
with the producer. So we got in the studio August
of 2023 for the first time, or maybe July of 2023 for the first
time ever, recorded Auburn Girl and then released it as a single
so that we can have something out for when we opened up for
Joshua. And then we're like, wow, that
was kind of fun. Like, should we like try some

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more songs? And all the boys had written,
had stuff written and had a whole bunch of songs written.
So we got together and chose ourfavorite ones and got into the
studio. And yeah, that was our first,
first whack it, you know, getting in the studio and
recording an EP Slash album. I just had so much fun doing it
that, you know, now we're now we're hooked and we got another
one on the way. Any any culture shock walking in
there like, oh wow, this is something different.

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Definitely, you know what, it was funny because just, you
know, getting into studio and usually it's playing live and,
you know, picking in the living room, whatever you don't, you're
not very focused on the actual like intricacies of what your
fingers are doing. But when you sit down to record
a guitar track and it's like, all right, we're going to record
just your guitar here, like don't mess it up.
And you hear that like, you know, the click track and the
BPM in your ears and stuff like that.

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And gets a lot more stressful the first time around.
You know, I was sweating on my guitar a little bit for the
first couple of acoustic tracks I recorded.
I have to imagine there's an added pressure to it for sure,
because when you sing in your living room, you might not focus
so much on like a little tiny mistake, but when you're trying
to put it down on a track, to put it on an album, it's like
it's got. There's that perfection side of

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it. Exactly.
Yeah. And then, you know what, like,
you know, you'll miss a note, and then you'll be like, all
right, let's do that take again.And then you miss another note
and we got to do the take again.And you never want to be the guy
that's like holding everyone up in the studio.
But, you know, a lot of times that happens, you know, you just
can't, can't get one down. Your fingers aren't working with
you that day and holding up the studio.
But yeah, that was what stressedme out the most, you know,
recording for the first time, but now it's kind of just

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seconding to read in there and just have more fun with it now,
which is a lot, which is a lot more fun.
It's a cool first experience. Yeah, yeah, it was very cool.
We we're grateful to even have the opportunity.
So yeah, now it's now it's just seems like something that we do
like borderline monthly now justkind of jump in the studio.
We got a lot of work coming up here to record this next record.
So yeah, we're going to be definitely getting a lot of

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studio time in. So yeah, we're excited.
The the song on the Crooked Habits EP that I like the most
is and has a really interesting name to it which caught my
attention dipped dipped in bleach.
Yeah, so actually that's a that's a cover song.
Funny enough, our buddy Liam Saint John wrote that tune and
recorded a really, really cool stripped back version of it.

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And we'd been obsessed with thatsong for a little while.
We went to see him live and heard him play it live.
And we're like, all right, guys,we got to start playing this
tune. But when he tours, he toured
with just a drummer in himself, and his drummer was on like a
little high hat and kind of a cool little take on it, but it
was slow and acoustic and kind of cut back.
So we tried to translate that tune into something that we
could play with the full band. And it came out as like this

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rock'n'roll, like screamy, like wild tune that we love a lot and
we love playing alive. So, yeah, I appreciate it.
But yeah, it's William St. John tune.
Really good, well written, cool as hell.
Yeah, that guy's the guy's a killer.
Did you guys add the black street part or is that in the
original song or? So that's kind of something
we've been doing live is when werealized 2 songs have a same or

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similar chord progression, we smash them up and see what'll
happen. So yeah, we added that at the
end because we realized that it was the same chord progression
for that tune as dipped in Bleach.
I'm sure like yeah, it's great. It might be a fun way to like
end this tune. And we tried it one time in the
studio. It was like late in the studio,
we're all tired as hell and kindof wanted to get out of there.
But then our producer John was like, guys, what if we try this?

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And we gave it a shot and we loved how it sounded.
So we just went balls to the wall and recorded it all that
night and had a had a blast doing it and it was so much fun.
That's funny because that's actually my favorite part of the
song, so yeah. Yeah, it's like a very funny
switch out that you're not necessarily expecting, but it's
kind of, it's a fun little take on it.
Yeah, we love it. For sure, yeah.
Do you guys have we talked aboutyour inspirations of like Zach

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Bryan and Tyler Chillard's? Do you guys have a like a hip
hop side to you as well or? Myself, not so much Garrett.
Garrett does a little bit. Garrett likes actually funny
enough, like English, like UK rap a lot, which is hilarious
for Mckelly for that's different.
Yeah, a little different. Myself, not so much.
The other guys have been pretty solid country.

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I mean, Lee does a little bit. Lee, his family's Brazilian, so
he's, there's a lot of Brazilianmusic as well.
They've been to a bunch of Brazilian like music festivals,
so he draws a little inspirationfrom there.
But other than that, you know what, not a ton of hip hop going
through. But you know, I can, we can
appreciate any sort of any, any sort of music, you know.
I was wondering about that actually.
Is that the vibe I'm kind of picking up and falling?

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There's like a little bit of like a different vibe to it.
Yeah, that one's more R&B, kind of like, you know, a little more
soulful to it, I guess. We were, we the guys were
listening to Stapleton tune thatI'm totally blank on the name of
right now, but kind of want to like capture like a slow, like
kind of like sexy, like Stapleton vibe.

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And that was our best stab at it.
And so it's a cool tune. I like it a lot.
It doesn't get as much love on the record as the other ones do,
but I think it's fun. And yeah, it's fun to sing.
It's fun to play. It's only a couple chords, so
you can kind of funk it up a lotand it's yeah, it's a good time.
But yeah, no, that's similar to the vibe.
It's kind of a vibe switch up onthis record.
Yeah, I was almost getting like a like a borderline, like a
reggae kind of. Vibe Yeah, yeah, I can say that

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too. Yeah.
With like some chopped, you know, the drum, the drum beat a
little bit. Yeah, man, it's it's kind of a
cool little tune. I also love the instrumental
beginning of Lord Knows I've Been Drinking.
That's a cool a cool track on that song.
Thank you. Yeah, Thank you, Thank you.
That's my. That's the.
I think that might be like the first tune that I wrote, really
when I was trying to start writing songs.

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Yeah, I was just, you know, in apartment all by myself in
Providence, RI I lived there fora year after college.
Yeah. And you said just broke up with
a girl and I've been drinking too much about it.
And so I grew up that tune. But yeah, that's kind of my
first stab at. So I'm running right there.
And I liked how it turned out. Hey everybody, it's present day.
Josh Maddie, thanks so much for listening to this reposted

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episode of Country on Deck. We are back in the barn on
September 10th. That's Wednesday night starting
at 7:00 for another free, yes, free Nashville style writers
round. We can't wait to be back at the
bar and they've been tremendous hosts allowing us to use their
beautiful venue each and every month since since the end of

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last year. Can't can't believe we're saying
that. When we first started these
events, I, I really wasn't sure where things would, would go.
It was an idea, it was a goal, it was a vision and things have
just really taken off. Thanks to you and and all your
friends coming out to the, the events each and every month.
We've gone from not knowing if it was going to happen and, and

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That was a really, really cool moment.
At the end of last month's event.
We had a packed house. We filled the barn last month
and we hope you can help us fillthe barn for another one.

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September 10th, another tremendous lineup.
Going to be performing original music and sharing stories,
bringing a little bit of Nashville to New England, to
Connecticut. And we have another ticket
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They've been a tremendous partner just like the barn

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Thanks so much to Mohegan Sun for a for making this one
possible. Do you have a favorite song on
the album? You know what I like my personal
favorite is probably Frostbite. I just like the how that one
came out instrumentally sounds so sick.
We had a great fiddle player on the on the on the record.
We helped us out and it's kind of more that's an emotional tune

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too. That's kind of the most spiteful
tune I've ever written probably.But the story in that one is
pretty cool. And yeah, I just like how that
one flows through the the fiddlemelody is beautiful.
And so that one's probably my favorite.
Gets a little awkward to sing infront of my parents because I
say like the F word in the firstline.
But that that definitely stands out in that.
One, yeah, yeah, definitely. But you know what?
Yeah, that's that's the story. So, yeah, probably Frostbite,

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but, you know, I love them all, Garrett wrote.
Cricket Habits is another one ofmy favorites.
That's cool tune nice. And, you know, we have cool
instrumental stuff, instrumentalstuff in there.
Wild is the one that Braden wrote.
That song is great. That's doing sick numbers on
Spotify right now. So yeah, you know, I, I'm, I'm a
fan of them all as as corny as that is to say.
But then again, you know, I don't tend to like listen to him

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very often. But you know, in the writing
process, I just, I just had a fun time recording all these
guys, so. Why is frostbite so spiteful?
You know what it's it was like ainteresting relationship with a
girl that it's about we're together for a while and kind of
like looking back on it, it was I kind of realized some things

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that I didn't realize when I wasin the relationship that maybe,
you know, weren't so healthy forme.
And kind of it's a story of justlike figuring that out and
figuring out that it's someone who you want to be with, but
also knows makes you so so like makes you, you know, so upset
from time to time. So the bridge says like every
time felt like our last blame myGod forsaken past.

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And then every time for like ourfirst God, I hate you.
You're the worst then like, but don't leave me here to cry.
So it's, it's kind of, it's a complicated tune about a
complicated relationship. And so I, yeah, I think it's
just it's, it's got a lot of emotion in it and that's that's
probably why I like it the best.Frostbite, where'd you film the
video for that one? Yeah, so we had a full media
day. Like I said, if it if it's

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media, although we served again,Garrett had his hands on it.
So we had, we're up at Garrett'shometown in Hollis, NH Funny
story, actually, Garrett's high school football coach owns a
barn and a farm up there. And Garrett was like, oh man, we
really need videos and pictures.Like we have nothing to post on
Instagram basically. And we're like, all right, let's
go do a media day up there basically.
So we brought our entire rig alllike our whole setup of, you

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know, our mixers and our cables and our guitars and all that
stuff up there to this cool farmup in Hollis, NH.
And basically just had a camera team out there with us, some
friends from school that we're doing the camera stuff on the
side and recorded a whole bunch of camera angles.
And yeah, I got up there and could fill the barn of smoke
with like a little haze machine that we have.

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And yeah, so that was up there in Hollis, NH at the at the
barn. But yeah, so we got a couple
cool shots there and I'm sure we're starting to slowly get
those out and kind of pump thoseout.
We live tracked every song too there at the barn.
So yeah, it was a cool day. But yeah, so up there in Hollis,
NH is where we shot that. Nice.
It looked like a really cool spot.
Yeah, yeah, it was super cool. So it sounds like everybody in

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the band kind of brought a little bit of a piece to to
bring it all together to make it1 big project.
Exactly. Yeah, definitely.
It's it's cool. We also owe a lot of credit to
our producer John Ellis over at Artists and Acoustics.
We bring him songs like this. We all, we bring them, you know,
we'd written them by ourselves or we've written them together,
and then we bring them to John. And John will flip the song on
its head and add so many layers we didn't even realize we

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needed. So he's another massive part of
what our music sounds like today.
He gets our, like, vision reallywell.
He knows what we're going for. So yeah, he kills it as well.
But yeah, we all kind of bring alittle something that different.
You know, Garrett with this a lot of like, you know, older
rock music, Allman Brothers and the Eagles and stuff like that.
I'm more of the, I like Johnny Cash and been listening to a lot
of like, Doc Watson. So more old school in my

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songwriting, I guess. And, you know, Braden writes
killer tunes, so he brings a lotof writing like, you know, so
it's a Hudson. It's kind of we draw inspiration
from everywhere and all the boysbring their own different little
piece to it. The the songwriting process must
grow a strong bond for you guys.Bring in like a song like
Frostbite to them and opening upabout stuff like that.
Definitely, yeah, yeah, definitely.

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We no just about everything about each other at this point.
You know, we've like we always joke about we have our long
nights, whiskey fueled nights, but a lot of the times you too
much whiskey and the feelings start coming out.
So yeah, we've definitely, we'vedefinitely spent our fair amount
of nights getting to know each other and growing those as boys.
And at this point we're basically brothers.
I mean, I know everything about these guys of, you know, we've

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stayed at each others houses andwe know the families and
everything like that. So yeah, we're we're a pretty
good family nowadays and definitely writing songs
together and playing music together has pushed that along
exponentially. What are some interesting things
about the the guys in the band? Like who's the best cook or
something? Or oh, that's a.
Bill Braden, Braden's definitelythe best cook.
So Braden is from Maine up in Wells, ME, and his dad and mom

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own The Maine Diner up there, which is like a famous diner
right on the border of Maine. So he kills it.
Yeah. So he's in the He's in the
kitchen all the time. Garrett has met.
He might have the best voice in the band, but he owned the
existing Harmony. He's a killer.
Leandro is probably the strongest in the band.
He could bench press like 1,000,000 lbs at one time and
even know what it is. And Drew is the man as well.

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Drew has his own podcast that helike, does and he hosts cool
like events and he's, you know, hosted, gosh.
What's the guy from Drake and Josh, Josh Bell or Josh, what's
the guy's name? Josh something or other?
I know who you're talking about.I can't remember his last name
though. That's a good show, Drake and
Josh. Yeah, so he he hosted the Oh,
Josh Peck. Excuse me?

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Yeah. So we went to school together
and he hosted, like, interviews with Josh Peck.
And he's met, like, the ex president of Ireland.
Like he's done some crazy stuff too.
That's interesting. Yeah.
So we're all kind of, we all have our own little things.
A lot of talent in that group offive.
Yeah, I appreciate it. You know what, we all kind of,
we're kind of learning together still, you know, still pretty

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raw and we're still kind of, I took a long break from the
guitar for a long for you know, throughout high school and for
most of college and Garrett kindof did as well and he's kind of
just picking it back up. Lita hasn't hadn't played the
drums for like 3 years before I asked him to come play.
So we're still, we're kind of learning together.
Brayden also what did not naturally a bass player and now
he's killing it over there. So we're kind of all learning

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together, you know? Did you ever consider baseball
at all? I saw you were a pretty good
baseball player. Yeah, yeah.
I played baseball throughout high school, stopped in college
because I preferred to go to. I wanted to go to Bryant and
then my summer after my my freshman year at Bryan, I went
to go played in the Hardball League out in Kansas City for a

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summer. So I was going to go transfer to
play somewhere out there, but didn't end up doing it.
Stuck at Bryant and now met all the guys.
But yeah, no, baseball is a big part of my life.
Still, still a big Red Sox fan. Get up, throw the ball, throw
the fair, fair. I know Connecticut can kind of
split on that one, huh? I'm a big Yankees fan.
Yeah, that's fair. I mean, you guys are killing it
recently anyway, so more more more envious of you than

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anything at this. Point we lost Soto though, I
know. That's a big loss, but I mean
for what was it, $760 million crazy, crazy contract that he
got anyway, so. Yeah, I'm sitting here looking
at my Soto bobblehead I got lastseason, like wanting to throw it
against the wall like. Yeah, you know what?
You might be worth some money someday, you know.
That's that's true. That's true.

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Right, right. With this busy schedule of
yours, do you have the opportunity to actually sit down
and watch a game? You know what, in the summer,
not so much, but we, I got to a couple last year, like I, I'm in
Boston. So like I tried, you know, maybe
Tuesday game or Wednesday night game.
But yeah, in the summer it gets tough.
But then again, the tickets are so cheap that now because they

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suck so bad that you can go for like 13 bucks.
See, I try to sneak out sometimes.
Who's your favorite player of all time?
Favorite of all time is easily. Dustin Pedroia was my guy
growing up. See, he was a little undersized
and so was I in high school, so I played second base and he
played second base. So he was like my number one,
like my guy back in the day. Yeah.

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Nowadays it's kind of kind of flops between people now with
the ever rotating roster we haveon the Sox of Love Devers,
obviously new guy Raphael is good too.
So yeah, it's different today, but Dussell drove is my guy
growing up. Yeah, I feel like there's less
less big name players on there now.
Yeah, they're right. We got Devers and it's kind of

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it. We just signed.
Crochet is a good pick up. But yeah, we kind of pretty low
key these past couple years, butwe'll see.
People think that might be able to snag Alex Bregman this
offseason would be cool. But yeah, you never know.
So hopefully, hopefully good things in the Red Sox future,
but you. Know Mookie Betts leaving.
Kind of What's the downhill spiral of everything?
Yeah, talk about worst trade in MLB history, almost that in Babe

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Ruth. But yeah, the Red Sox guys that
that, you know, actually win them games.
So we'll see. We'll see what happens here in
the future. Are the other guys big sports
people? Yeah, Yeah.
So we all played sports in in high school.
You know, Garrett was a great football player.
He actually, it's funny when he's when he's like home, he's
still really good friends with his high school coaches.

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So he'll go back and help coach the high school football team
from time to time. And we played football.
Braden played football. Yeah.
So we were we were kind of rooted in sports.
So we get together and watch thegames and, you know, drink beers
like that all the time. So when we're, you know, before
gigs, it'll be Saturday watchingmuch college football, then head
out. I was looking at your over
served again.com website and I don't know how you have time to

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watch anything because you your schedule is jam packed for 2025.
Yeah, 2025 is a lot, you know, we're doing a bunch of cool
stuff, bunch of bars that we have residency's at which is
awesome. So we got to be really good
friends with a bunch of these owners.
Yeah, we're, we're busy. Busy.
Still got more dates on the way too.
But, you know, better to stay busy in my opinion, then, you

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know, be sitting around. We love, we love what we do and
we love having a good time with it.
So yeah, going to be a busy year, but we're excited.
That Nate Ramos show at Soundcheck Studios that that
that looks cool. Yeah, I'm very, very excited
about that. I was going to say I didn't know
how much to talk about it just because I don't know if this
would come out in time or not, but it's on February 1st and
it's going to be a blast. Our first time playing at
Soundcheck. I knew all about that venue

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growing up because I'm from a couple towns over.
But yeah, super sick venue can fit like a bunch of people two
floors. And they got their own like, you
know, lighting guy and, you know, we have strobe lights
everywhere. It's going to feel like a feel
like I'm a real rock star maybe.Yeah, it'll be fun, man.
And they've write some cool music too.
So their their band is playing after us and we're opening up

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the show for them. But yeah, we got we got our
buddy Jesse Desorzi playing the banjo for us and Troy Caruana on
the steel guitar. So yeah, we'll have a full, the
full seven of us up there that day.
So it'll be a good time. Nice.
Is that one of the venues that'skind of on your bucket list?
Yeah, definitely. I mean, being from the South
Shore for sure Sound Check Studios is a cool spot and
there's some been some awesome names to go through there.

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Yeah, and it's right down the road from my parents place.
So, you know, we'll go and hang out and play our music and
listen to Nate's great music andthen we'll go back to my parents
place and get hammered. You'll have a home field
advantage, some family showing up.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, we got Yeah.
The family in town always loves to come out and support, so
yeah, they're right down the road.
So it should be a barn burner. It should be a good one.

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Your, your shows definitely looklike a a really, really big
party, like everybody's going crazy and even singing the
lyrics back and it looks like a lot of fun seeing your shows.
Yeah, dude, we have a good time on stage, man.
I mean, that's kind of what it'sall about.
We try not to take it too serious out of there.
You know, we all get around, like I said earlier, have a have
a beer and just be like guys, we're so lucky to even be doing
this in the 1st place. Let's just have some fun with it

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so we not try not to take it tooseriously.
And I think I think the crowd tends to like that, too.
And they can tell where it's kind of goofing off up there.
They kind of seem to play right into it.
So yeah, it's been, it's been a whole bunch of fun.
Yeah, the guys kill it. Who designs your your merch?
You have some really cool merch out.
All credit to Garrett Maloney onhere.
Garrett is the look the king of admin over served again.

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Anything behind the scenes Garrett has had his hands on?
Yeah, he's designed every piece of merch and people are going
crazy for it. People absolutely love it.
We get a couple new orders everyday.
Yeah, every shirt and he'll, he'll go in and like, hand
design all of it, put it all together and then throw it up on
that website. So, yeah, he's, he's been all
over the merch stuff. He's, he loves designing that
stuff. And he's designed our logos for

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since the dawn of time and all the stickers and all the, you
know, patches and shit that's onthere.
It's just all Garrett and he kills it.
Nice. Yeah, they're they're really
cool looking. Yeah, yeah, some cool stuff on
there. You mentioned that you're going
to put something out musically very, very soon.
What? What?
What's that looking like? Yeah, so we got a cover tune

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coming out. I'm not sure how much I'm
supposed to say, but it probablydoesn't really matter.
We've got a cover tune. We've got a cover tune coming
out here shortly. We're just covering another
surprise, surprise, Tyler Trailer's tune, the one that
I've been listening to for a long time.
So we got that. We just wrapped up on Thursday
in the studio and then we are recording a full length album,

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which we're super, super excitedabout, our first like full
length 1. So yeah, we're going to be live
tracking the whole thing in March and yeah, it can be a 12
song album. We're super, super excited.
We have a bunch of good tunes that we're ready to get in the
studio, ready to cut and ready to to give to the people that
we've been playing at gigs for alittle while.
And people seem to like the tunes that we're we're singing
right now. So time to time to give it to

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them. Are these songs that you've been
sitting on for? You said you've been sitting on
them for a while or? Yeah, so some are, some are
tunes that we wrote, you know, year and some change ago.
Then we first started writing songs and then some of them are
brand new, some of them are stuff that we wrote the other
weekend and fell in love with. So it's going to be a whole mix.
I think it's going to sound a lot.

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I mean, I love our first EP verymuch, but it's going to sound a
lot more cohesive just now that we've been writing tunes
together and kind of understand what we want to go for in terms
of sound. So you'll hear probably some
more banjo, some more steel guitar, it'll get a little more
country, a little more fiddle, stuff like that.
But yeah, it's going to be, it'sgoing to be a whole bunch of fun
and just fun tunes on there thatyou can listen to and some you
can cry too and all the all the good stuff.

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You you mentioned at the beginning of the conversation
that you've never really thoughtabout marketing yourself as a a
solo individual. Have you ever tossed around the
idea of being on your own or. Not necessarily.
I do a lot of the solo acoustic stuff like what during the week
and you know, it's, it's super fun to go out and, you know,
sing by myself and I'll have my harmonica and get up there and

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do my little Bob Dylan impression.
And but you know what, at this point, the boys and I are kind
of inseparable. I don't, I mean, I over served
like I wouldn't be, you know, myself without over served
again, just the type of music and all that stuff.
So you know what, I probably shouldn't do a better job of
letting people know my name in terms of just like getting hired

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to play gigs. But the Nah, the over served
again is kind of where it's sticking right now.
And you know, it's not as fun when I go and do it by myself.
I have way more fun with all theboys.
So it's kind of where my where my head's at.
Well, it definitely looks like you guys have a lot of fun for
sure. Yeah, that'd be hard to that's
hard to walk away from. It looks like a big, big party.

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Yeah, it's a party every time and it's just good to have it,
you know, the boys behind you and the you kind of little
brotherhood in it. So yeah.
No, these are those are the guys.
Besides the the new tracks that are going to be coming out soon,
what's your big goal for for 2025 as a group?
We have a couple of them. You know, we want to 1st we want
to when we released that the record, we do want to do another

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release party. We had a great, great, fantastic
release party last April when wereleased our EP and we sold the
whole shit ton of tickets and had some great support and had a
couple of open areas and it was just an awesome little event
that we put on. So we're doing another one of
those is in the is in the cards for this year.
Probably this sometime this summer, hopefully somewhere in
Boston, some bigger venue in Boston will be awesome.

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And then eventually, hopefully in 2025, if not at the end of
this year, get on the road with national act is what we would
love to do. Try to, you know, maybe open up
for for somebody or you know what, do it ourselves and
bootstrap it if we need to. But yeah, kind of just get on
the road a little more, see somemore sites outside of, you know,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Maine and
stuff like that. So yeah, I guess you're

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traveling more would be would beour big thing.
We really want to get out there and kind of spread the word and,
you know, show more people our music.
Nice. Yeah, You guys got to get out to
Nashville as a group, that'd be.Cool.
Yeah, we really do. I know that's that's that's
another goal for this year too. We've been trying to trying to
find a weekend that works, but you know, I'm almost booked up
every weekend by now. So it's it's Impala, especially
with five guys too. It's it's tough to like find a

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weekend that works for every single person if we're not
playing a gig. But we got to get out there
soon. It's it's driving me crazy.
Getting getting airfare, you know, like buying plane tickets
and stuff. Yeah, right.
It's like, all right, it's steepanyway, and so.
Yeah, five seats next to one another.
Five seats next to there and then.
Can I put my guitar on the planetoo?
Yeah. Yeah, well hopefully after our

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conversation having you on the show more people jump on the
over served again train and and start supporting you guys.
Yeah, man, there's always room. There's always room on that
train and there's always cold beer.
You got to talk to Brayden for me, haven't I?
I'd love to have him come out for the the writers round.
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, for sure.
Will he? You know, he was interested last

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time. He was, he was, you know, busy
that day. But yeah, yeah, he writes some
killer tunes. Wicked talent, the kid.
Yeah, he's definitely going to have to make it out.
And then we got to get the that reunion show at some point, too.
Yeah, yeah, man, you're telling me I'm super down?
Very, very down for that? It was a whole bunch of fun the
first time. Well, Luke, thanks so much for
for chatting with me and and coming on this show.

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It was a blast to finally be able to to have you be a part of
it. Yeah, man, I appreciate it.
Yeah, absolutely. I've been I've been listening
for a little while, so it's coolto be on here.
That's going to do it for this week's episode.
Thank you so much to Luke for coming on and and chatting with
us. We had such a blast being able
to get to know him a little bit more and hearing about all his
bandmates and Over Served Again.You can learn more about Luke

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Papage and all of the Over Served Again members on their
website at overservedagain.com and check out their EP Crooked
Habits wherever you listen to music.
And we can't wait for this next full length album to come out.
Congratulations to them for for working on a full length album.
That's going to be huge. That's going to be that's going

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to be big when they when they put that out.
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