September 12, 2023 • 44 mins
In this episode, host Paul Carganilla is joined by the musical duo, Faultlines, consisting of the enigmatic Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan. We take you behind the scenes of this dynamic duo's artistic evolution, right from the pivotal moment their paths crossed at the Mad T Party production at Disney California Adventure, leading to the birth of their unique blend of modern pop and roots country. Be privy to their fascinating background and immerse yourself in the magic of their songwriting process as they share a few of their favorite original tunes and give our audience a preview of their newest single, 'Me Without You'.
OFFICIAL FAULTLINES WEBSITE: www.faultlinesofficial.com
EPISODE VIDEOS: www.covetube.com
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COVE PATREON: www.patreon/covepodcast
CONTACT: covepod@gmail.com
POETRY PERFORMER: Craig Jackman
FEATURED FAULTLINES' ORIGINAL MUSIC: “Love is all We Own", "Don't", "Heartfire", "Me Without You" (Preview)
POETRY: “Music to Me" [ Aleigh Miller ]
VOICE-OVER INTRODUCTION: Jenette Goldstein ( Irish Mommy "Titanic", Janelle Voight "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", Private Vasquez "Aliens" )
SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM: Craig Jackman, Emily Thatcher, Christina Marie Bielen, Dary Mills, Amanda Benjamin
PATREON CURATORS: Jamie Carganilla, Emily Thatcher, The Faeryns, Charity Swanson, Krista Faith King, Kelsey B Gibson, Angelica Bollschweiler, Anna Giannavola, Gina Dobbs, Merrill Mielke, Susan Kuhn, Josefa Snider
INTRO MUSIC: “Papi Beat” [ KICKTRACKS ]
CREDITS MUSIC: “Fat Banana” [ KICKTRACKS ]
HOST, CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, EDITOR: Paul Carganilla
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I sing background vocals, session work and living
spaces.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcometo the Carganilla Online Variety
Entertainment podcast.
Here's your host, paulCarganilla.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello and welcome to Cove.
This is the 12th episode of ourshow, in which we aim to
entertain and inspire ourpodcast listeners and YouTube
viewers through a variety ofaudible art forms, including
music, storytelling, specialguest interviews and more.
I am your host, paul Carganilla, and in today's episode, I am
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thrilled to introduce you to twovery dear friends and
incredibly talented artistsTogether.
They are Fault Lines.
According to the officialdescription on their website,
faultlinesofficialcom, faultLines consists of front members
Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan,each bringing their collective
years of experience from touring, backing up major label artists
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and songwriting to the table.
This group's brand of folk is amashup of modern pop and roots
country.
Their signature three partharmonies fuels their aesthetic
of eloquence and beauty that hasbeen reviewed as talent mixed
with voices that simply attractyou and pull you to stay quiet
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and listen to each and everyverse and every note.
Fault Lines regularly performsat various residencies
throughout Southern Californiaand has opened for big names,
including Christina Perry andEaston Corbin.
We are thrilled to have themhere with us in the Cove.
Ladies and gentlemen, pleasejoin me in welcoming to the show
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Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Welcome to the show, you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Thanks for having us.
Thank you so much for having uson tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Thrilled to have you and as I introduce my friends,
who are beautiful humans, to ournew podcast community, I like
to spill a little bit about howwe met, how I know you.
I will start with ladies first,the lovely lady Ashley Morgan.
Well, I met you both reallythrough the man Tea Party, which
is something we talked aboutwith Wendy Walker in episode two
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of the show.
It was a rock band nightclubstyle show in Disney California
adventure.
It was Alice in Wonderlandthemed.
My wife, jamie was in Alice andso was the beautiful Miss Ashley
Morgan here on the screen infront of you, and it was really
a family as we talked about, andJohn sitting right next to her
was Mad Hatter, and so thevocalists in this show were
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Alice and Hatter and it justbecame such an awesome family
and I got to know so manyamazing humans through the whole
entire experience who have notjust become colleagues but also
very dear friends and, may weeven say, family members.
What are your actually?
And, john, what are yourmemories of coming into the man
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Tea Party and discovering justthe whole community of the cast,
not only the cast members, theband members, but also the
family of fans and friends thatformed around the whole
community there.
We'll start with Ashley.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh, me first.
I came in like a couple ofyears later, before after it
started.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But what was it like coming in?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
One really cool fact is one of the reasons why I got
hired was because your daughterwas born Everly.
Oh, I like think about that allthe time.
Like Everly is a reason why mylife changed.
Because you had a couple otherbabies right Little little
miracles, but, yeah, I came in acouple of years after to sub in
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and it was amazing.
I met, I think, some of myclosest friends that I'm still
close with today, and FaultLines probably wouldn't have
existed had I not met John andTodd through the show.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And, yeah, yes, very thankful for the whole Mad Tea
Party production in general, asnot just for the entertainment
that it brought to people, butthe way it changed our lives and
the people it introduced us to.
John, were you one of theoriginal Hatters?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, I was hired, actually in the original with
the original cast of charactersthat came on for the show and I
was.
I went to the last audition.
I guess they were havingtrouble finding high tenors and
so they.
They had held four rounds ofauditions and a friend of mine
who I was singing with on theweekend said you should go for
this thing.
It's like an 80s rock show, butlike with crazy characters and
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costumes that they're doing atDisneyland.
I mean, I was in my first yearliving in Los Angeles.
I was in my first year.
I always tell people I workedseven jobs my first year and I
think Mad Tea Party was thesixth job that I got hired on to
do just like to make ends meetand to just get my feet wet in
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the city.
And truthfully, I telleverybody that the Mad Tea Party
is was kind of like Disney didthe casting for me and I just
got to meet some of the mosttalented musicians and players
in Southern California.
I didn't have to do any of thatlegwork and I got so many gigs
out of it and so manyopportunities out of it.
I mean things that we're stilldoing today.
Fault lines, like Ashley said,wouldn't have been formed
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without the Mad Tea Party.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Amazing and we're going to get to know a little
bit about how that process was,where fault lines was born and,
more specifically, about yourstories, your creative journeys.
But first, let's launch it offwith a song.
We're going to start with atune from your 2020 album better
sweet revival.
This one is love is all we own.
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Can you tell us a little bitabout the song we're about to
hear?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I think we're going to see the music video.
Is that correct?
Yeah, so I love the music videobecause we actually had a bunch
of volunteers and we hadSarishman and Eli come and teach
sign language to all thevolunteers, and so the whole
video is an ASL, which isawesome.
So we hope you enjoy it.
But yeah, it's a song that Johnwrote.
Who's the other the co writerson love is all we own in my
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friend Marie Rangel.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Awesome yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
All right, here's fault lines.
Love is all we own.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
My heart is calling for the open road.
My soul is searching for thesun.
A mountain to climb.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
A river to run.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Pay no attention to the minute hand.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
What do we care about ?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
the time, the stars overhead, I never laid for the
night.
So we go, we go, we go, we go.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
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daughters close.
Love is all we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
Love is all we own.
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Love is all we own.
Let's find the freedom in thefalling rain.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Oh, baptized by the storm, the path we were meant to
take was built in that bone.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So we go, we go, we go, we go.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
daughters close.
Love is all we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
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Love is all we own.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Where we are is where we're meant to be, so keep your
head above water and keep yoursons and your daughters close.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Because, love is all we own.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
daughters close, because love isall we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
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Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
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Love is all we own.
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Love is all we own.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
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Love is all we own.
Oh, I think it was probablysome like Christian concert
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Avalon.
There was a Christian groupcalled Avalon and that's the one
that I can remember.
Great America.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
First car, first car you owned.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A Honda Elantra.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What color?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It was teal.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Favorite food to eat.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Favorite food to cook .
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Uh pasta.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Favorite kind of animal Cats.
Your first cat's name was.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Judy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That is 60 seconds.
That's everyone.
Everything I mean to possiblycome back.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh yeah, why would I ever forget to include my cat,
judy Judy, mr Judy Garland.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Charity Swanson in the chat says she loves Avalon.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
by the way, yes, I grew up singing so much, avalon,
let me tell you Love them.
They're great.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Harmonies.
All right, mr Flanagan, are youready?
You've had a whole minute tothink about it now.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, one, two three.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Two Little baby, john Francis Flanagan IV, was born
on an early September morning inBoston, massachusetts, at
Brigham and Women Hospital toloving parents, john and Valerie
.
He grew up for five years inthe beautiful city of East
Boston before his parentsdecided you know what he needs
to grow up among the squirrelsand the raccoons, the deer of
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the forest and moved me toAcreage in the beautiful state
of New Hampshire.
I went to all of my elementary,middle and high school there in
beautiful New Hampshire where Iperformed in various capacities
.
Now, when I first beganperforming, it was not on a
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stage.
I performed first and foremoston soccer pitches in my friends'
living rooms in my basement,just all by myself.
But that's what I did.
I was always performing, I wasalways singing, I did musicals
in high school and then Idecided you know what I'm going
to define my parents' advice andgo to Nashville, tennessee to
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perform some more.
So I spent the next six yearsin Nashville, tennessee, where I
went to Belmont University andI got a degree in both English
and vocal performance commercialvocal performance.
Not knowing what my next movewould be, but knowing I didn't
want to remain in the LandlockState, I moved to New York City,
where the lights of Broadwayshine, and I stayed there for
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exactly nine months beforesaying I can't afford to live
here and came out to Los Angelesooh, where, as I said, I did
seven jobs in my first year,including the Mad Tea Party.
It was 2014 when I got to meetAshley Morgan by 2015,.
We were in a band together.
I do have a cat named Nash, andI currently reside in West
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Hollywood, california.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ladies and gentlemen, one minute and 55 seconds
everything you could possiblyknow about John Pony.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That was fabulous, great narration.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He brought the characters to it as well.
All right, now we're going totalk about how Fault Lines was
formed, right after we hear thisnext tune.
I know I mentioned I listenedto the Love Is All we Own so
often in the morning.
But this next one is like oneof my favorites of yours and
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it's because I've always loved,specifically in John's
songwriting, the dualities thathe will bring and present.
It's my multiple personalities.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
That's where it all comes from.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But it's in these duets, when you beautifully
express the two different sidesand the two different points of
view, and the way they'reinterweaved is just, I dare to
say masterful, as I would call alot of.
I mean your songwriting ingeneral.
And what would you tell usabout?
Don't?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Don't is one of the I think, two songs that are
really officially acollaboration between myself and
our regular guitar player, toddMcCool.
In both cases they're likenoodling demos that he just made
off the top of his head and hesends my way and then I'll just
write a song on top of it.
So during the middle of thepandemic I was out in Joshua
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Tree, I had moved out there andI just this beautiful, beautiful
demo he had sent me, guitardemo he had sent me, just really
caught my attention and I sortof just spilled a journal entry
into it and don't is what, what?
The end result of that, of thatprocess?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And also this one, this one and love is all we own
and all of bitter sweet revivaland a lot of our singles current
singles were produced by DavidKidd Jenny Kidd's husband, who
we love, and he's incrediblePart of the fam, awesome
producer.
We love him.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Absolutely.
He's amazing, you guys areamazing, and I can't wait for
everybody to hear this amazingsong.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isFault Lines, don't.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know where we went wrong, but I will make it
right.
So, in light of US, pleasedon't go.
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Please let go.
How did we end up like this?
How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heart,darling.
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I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part,but if you think I'm better off
alone, oh, if you think I mightbe coming home, don't.
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All these things I've kept withme.
They still recall your touch.
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I sold whatever.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I could sell.
The rest I left to price.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Please don't go.
Please let go.
How did we end up like this?
How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heartDarling.
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I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
But if you think I'm better off alone, If you think I
might be coming home, don't.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Leave me, don't try to keep me.
I only ever wanted what's bestfor you.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
There's nothing in the city for me left to do.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Please give me a reason.
Run out of feelings.
I feel sorry for you, for you.
How did we end up like this?
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How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heartDarling.
I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
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If you think I'm better offalone.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Oh, oh, oh oh.
If you think I might be cominghome, Don't.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I didn't know we were going to see the album cover.
The album cover is actually aPolaroid that Wendy's daughter
Willow took.
She did the album art work forthat we went out to Joshua Tree
and did a whole Polaroid cameraday.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yes, I love the photos from that.
And let's also talk about howFault Lines was born.
I mean, I know you guys met.
We talked about how you met atthe MAT Party Band.
But like, so how does thiswhole thing come to be?
Does somebody say, hey, want tostart a band bro?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hey guys, we're like start a band.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
So was it like a break room thing?
You guys are just hanging outin the break room and you say
let's start a band bro.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, it wasn't that quick.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
No, we ended up doing a party at somebody's house.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We were hard for a party and Just acoustic, not
Ashley Todd and I ended up asthat trio.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
And I think that it was like that night or soon
thereafter that I said why havethese like four songs that Well?
They can't really go on one ofmy solo records because they're
Kind of like acoustic andsensitive and small, but I think
they'd sound really great withthree-part harmonies.
And what if we just put thattogether?
What if we just decided tothrow a little EP out into the
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world?
And that's essentially howFault Lines came to be.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We got together and we recorded them.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So what year did your first EP come out?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
2014.
Nine years ago because I didthe voice of the years Eve 2014.
Yeah, I yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Just rewinding a bit.
What were your?
Did you guys have any tracksrecorded, any albums out?
I know the answer, but I'm justdoing this for the show.
But before Fault Lines, did youhave any?
Any work out there in the world?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I did a, I recorded a solo album in college and then
I think my second one came outin 2016.
So it kind of was concurrentwith the Fault Lines project.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, and where can people find that?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Oh, anywhere you listen to music, John Flanagan.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I also did a project with the Morgan family.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is not a joke.
When I was five, I recorded it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I don't even know where they.
They're not online,unfortunately.
I recorded a tape when I wasfive with my family.
It was called Love to Live,live to Love five part harmony
with my two older brothers andmy mom and dad.
And then, when I was in fourthgrade we were called it we
recorded a CD called Home iswhen the Heart Is.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's amazing.
We're going to need to findthat I have a copy of that CD.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I did give John one.
Nobody else will get one.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
On this podcast.
We feature music, we featurestorytelling and we also love to
feature poetry.
And I'd love for everybody towelcome producer Craig Jackman
of the show.
Bounce back in here, producerCraig.
Hi Craig.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Hello, oh, craig, actually John, so great to see
you and hear the stories.
Big, big fan of fault lines,thank you, craig, love you.
Love you too.
And, if I may, I mean whatpoetry and music literally go
hand in hand.
I mean honestly, because I know, John, you write a lot.
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People may think, yes, he's asongwriter, but he's a poet.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, his lyrics are poetry, absolutely 100%.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, and you know, poems, they don't have to be in
songs, they don't have to beabout songs.
But what's interesting is thispoem that I found for tonight is
about music.
Oh so, because one thing thatpoems do and one thing that
music does is it brings outemotions.
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And I found this really neatlittle poem.
It's called Music to Me, by AliMiller.
I found it on mypoetside,mypoeticsidecom, and it just it
really describes, I think, to meit describes fault lines, but
it also describes music ingeneral and how important music
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is to us, our souls and ourbeliefs and our feelings.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So Can't wait to hear your interpretation of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, CraigJackman interpreting Ali
Miller's music to me.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Music to me can be loud like thunder in my head.
Music to me can be soft thatdraws me to my bed.
Music to me is life.
Music to me is strong.
Music to me makes me feel likeI can do no wrong.
Music makes you full of sorrow,or it makes you full of joy.
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Music makes a better tomorrow,or makes you awfully coy.
Music makes you fearless.
Music makes you tearless.
Music can make you a star.
Music to me is when you see whoyou really are.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Craig Jackman interpreting Ali Miller's music
to me.
Amazing job, Craig.
As always, great find.
You find the best poems to readand share on our podcasts.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Thank you.
And with a topic like faultlines, I wow, the sky's the
limit on that.
But this one, just to me it hitbecause, john and Ashley, your
music does that Fault lines.
Thank you for everything thatyou do for us and for the music
world and just much, much moresuccess.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Thank you, craig.
Yeah, I mean, your music is sopowerful and so personal and I
feel, and while music isdefinitely something to tap into
and definitely something thatopens up your soul, I feel like
you pop on a fault line song,the fault lines album and it is
just like you get the sense oftogetherness, you feel connected
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, I feel like with the emotionsof the world, not just through
John's writing but through hisvocals and just the way it all
just blends in perfect harmony.
I want to say Just so happy, youguys are here.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thank you, paul.
Thank you, thank you and Craig.
That was a beautiful poem, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well chosen, absolutely.
Now this one is the midpoint ofBitter Sweet Revival and when I
was kind of chatting withAshley earlier today I was like
what songs can we featuretonight?
What do you want to play on thepodcast?
She brought this one up becausethey don't get to perform it
live very often and I loved thatshe brought it up because it is
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one of my favorites on thealbum.
It harkens me back to I was ahuge fan of Daniel
Bettingfield's big album when hecame out and just like it has
that driving feel of it when thebeat kicks in and it has that
kind of tone.
But then toward the end it hasthe ethereal, almost like Dear
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Evan Hansen type of harmonicsand the voices as they just go
up there and they blend.
And what can you tell us aboutHeartfire?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, so I was experiencing this crazy, crazy
heartburn.
I was up at three o'clock inthe morning and no the front
draft and the fire sauce.
That is not Heartfire.
Heartfire describes that momentwhen you have to decide is this
love?
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And I'm going to let myself bevulnerable to it?
And it says here we go, we goagain, we're running wild and
I'm giving into this heartfireand I think that was really the
whole feeling of it for me therisk and the vulnerability of, I
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don't know, exposing myself,Exposing your soft underbelly,
as it were, to the frighteningprospect of getting hurt and
letting yourself be thatvulnerable.
So I know I'm overusing thatword, but that's what Heartfire
is about.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
The little ethereal part thing.
I remember John had like acertain portion of it where he
asked me to come up with someharmonies.
So I remember sitting down oneday and just arranging all these
harmony parts and I sent it toDavid Kidd, our producer, and
that's sort of what we ended up,coming up with, this little
stack.
John was like I want it to bethis cacophony sound like to
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just be really overwhelming,building up and then to have
this drop, and so I sort ofchaotically put all these
harmonies together on mycomputer and logic just with my
voices, and then we all split itup and that's why it's really
hard to do live, because thatpart is difficult with just
three voices because, it is notthree parts.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's multiple parts stacked together, so I love that
behind the music explanationand I love that you chose to
share this on this episode and Ican't wait to share it with
everybody listening and watching.
Ladies and gentlemen, here'sFaultline's Heartfire.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And baby, if I think too much now.
Oh, I'll never make it alive.
All I want is to survive.
This heart, this heart, thisheartfire, this heart, this
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heart, this heartfire, here itgoes, it goes again.
It's running wild and I'mrunning into a heart fire,
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waitin' for an answer in yourkiss.
Oh, how did it come to this?
Am I crazy?
Or did I just forget?
Oh, how it feels to burn again,dying just to come alive.
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This heart, this heart, thisheartfire, this heart, this
heart, this heartfire here itgoes, it goes again.
It's running.
I'm giving in to a hard fire,to a hard fire, to a hard fire.
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All the patches End up inpatches, all of my matches End
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up in patches, all of my matches.
This heart, this heart, thisheart for you, this heart, this
heart, this heart for you, thisheart, this heart, this heart
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for you, this heart, this heart,this heart for you here it goes
, it goes again.
It's a run and wild and I'mgiving in to a hard fire, to a
hard fire, to a hard fire, to ahard fire, To a hard fire, to a
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hard fire.
I'm giving in, I'm giving in toA hard fire.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
And here is something that's very exciting, as today
happens to be the day that youjust dropped your brand new
single, me Without you, andwe're going to hear a little
sample of that.
Tell us how, how did this onecome about?
What is Me Without you about?
And tell us a little storyabout it.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So Me, without you, I was.
I said to myself, john, youcan't write up on another one of
your breakups.
You're all out of heartbreak.
You've got to.
You've got to now write aboutother people's heartbreak.
So I had friends who decided tocall their call things off and I
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got to sort of witness, from anoutsider's perspective, the
changes in their homespecifically.
So that's why there's a lot ofreally vivid imagery of things
sort of disappearing.
There's.
It's the chorus lyrics arethere's one less cup on the
counter and there's one moreseat on the couch.
(38:19):
And it was all about those,those small changes to the
inside of a home and like it's.
That's where the inspirationfor this one came from.
It was more of an observer'sperspective than it was coming
from my own heartbreak and I'vehad people who, you know, we've
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been sharing it with closefriends and people are like it
almost feels.
Somebody said it almost feelslike musical theater and I'm
like I guess it kind of does,because it's I'm describing
setting, I'm describing a scene,and I hadn't thought of it that
way and I still don't think ofit that way.
But hey, maybe, maybe I'll justwrite a musical next, who knows
?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Oh, we've talked about that in the past when it's
not allowed to leave LA beforeyou write a musical.
We've had that conversationover some cocktails or it has
dropped.
It has dropped today, September12, 2023.
Where can people find it?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
You can find it anywhere you stream music
Spotify, amazon, apple musicanywhere you stream.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
But here is just a little clip of that.
What are we hearing right now?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
The first the first verse in chorus, the little bit
little teaser.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Can't wait.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's atease of me without you.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Falling.
I never wanted to stop fallingTill we fell apart.
Easy Loving you was always easyUntil it got too hard.
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What did I do?
And what did I do to you?
Cause everything I gave to loveit just wasn't enough.
Now there's one less cup on thecounter and one more seat on
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the couch.
Guess it's too Damn late to bewondering how in the hell do I
get you back now, cause timemoves on, and you did too, but I
forget how to be me without you.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
And I'm gonna jump over to Apple Music and Spotify
and Google Play and all of theplaces that we can find a title.
And, ladies and gentlemen,fault Lines new album, me
Without you has dropped today.
Go check it out.
And speaking of today, I justcan't thank you both enough for
being here on the show.
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I love hanging out with you, Ilove you both as humans, I love
you both as performers and Irespect the heck out of
everything about both of you.
And before we say a very sadgood night and let you go, is
there anything else you want tojust say to whoever's listening
out there and listening to yourmusic and maybe discovered you
(41:51):
for the first time or has lovedyou since the beginning?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Oh, my goodness, so many different kinds of people
to address.
If you're hearing us for thefirst time, thanks for checking
us out.
Thanks, paul, for having us sothat you could hear us tonight.
We really appreciate that.
Thanks for having us on.
For those who have been aroundsince the beginning, I hope you
enjoyed some of the stories onhere tonight, some of the things
that we got to share about thislong journey from Anaheim and
(42:19):
Beyond.
And, yeah, to anybody who likesthis sort of art form, this
place of emotion and realism,and I hope that it helps you
navigate through your own livesand that it makes you feel seen
(42:40):
and understood, because that'sthe objective of our music.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, and for me to piggyback, what the poem that
Craig?
It's really amazing that heshared that today, because for
me, I've been singing my wholelife.
But one of the reasons why Ichose to choose music as a
career Is because of the impactthat music can make, and it can
make a positive impact on peopleand it can really change lives
(43:04):
and change the world.
So it's always I'm verygrateful.
I don't personally write a tonof music.
I love to arrange vocals and Ilove to sing, but John writes a
lot of music and so it's alwaysimportant for us to be bringing
a message to people and amessage of hope, and that's
where you get songs like Love isAll we Own.
You get the songs of heartbreakbecause people need to connect
with those and vibe with those.
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But then we also love to createsongs that matter.
We have songs that talk abouthaving an open mind and we have
songs that discuss healthcareand other really important
issues in the world, and it'slike we want to have a voice and
we want people to resonate andwe just want to spread love.
So that is always the focalpoint of fault lines that we are
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here to just spread a goodmessage of positivity and love.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
And yeah, I am very happy to thank Carmen N for your
5 star review on Apple Podcasts.
I am so grateful for themoments you took to stop and
(44:13):
review this podcast.
I also cannot say thank youenough to our cove curators on
Patreon Angelica Bolschweiler,jamie Carganella, gina Dobbs,
the Farons, ana Gina Vola,kelsey Blaine Gibson, krista
King, susan Kuhn, merle Milke,josephus Snyder, charity Swanson
(44:34):
and Emily Thatcher.
Thank you so much for leadingthe charge to help this show
keep going and growing atpatreoncomcom.
And I sing background vocals, session work and living
spaces.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcometo the Carganilla Online Variety
Entertainment podcast.
Here's your host, paulCarganilla.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello and welcome to Cove.
This is the 12th episode of ourshow, in which we aim to
entertain and inspire ourpodcast listeners and YouTube
viewers through a variety ofaudible art forms, including
music, storytelling, specialguest interviews and more.
I am your host, paul Carganilla, and in today's episode, I am
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thrilled to introduce you to twovery dear friends and
incredibly talented artistsTogether.
They are Fault Lines.
According to the officialdescription on their website,
faultlinesofficialcom, faultLines consists of front members
Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan,each bringing their collective
years of experience from touring, backing up major label artists
(01:05):
and songwriting to the table.
This group's brand of folk is amashup of modern pop and roots
country.
Their signature three partharmonies fuels their aesthetic
of eloquence and beauty that hasbeen reviewed as talent mixed
with voices that simply attractyou and pull you to stay quiet
(01:25):
and listen to each and everyverse and every note.
Fault Lines regularly performsat various residencies
throughout Southern Californiaand has opened for big names,
including Christina Perry andEaston Corbin.
We are thrilled to have themhere with us in the Cove.
Ladies and gentlemen, pleasejoin me in welcoming to the show
(01:47):
Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Welcome to the show, you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Thanks for having us.
Thank you so much for having uson tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Thrilled to have you and as I introduce my friends,
who are beautiful humans, to ournew podcast community, I like
to spill a little bit about howwe met, how I know you.
I will start with ladies first,the lovely lady Ashley Morgan.
Well, I met you both reallythrough the man Tea Party, which
is something we talked aboutwith Wendy Walker in episode two
(02:23):
of the show.
It was a rock band nightclubstyle show in Disney California
adventure.
It was Alice in Wonderlandthemed.
My wife, jamie was in Alice andso was the beautiful Miss Ashley
Morgan here on the screen infront of you, and it was really
a family as we talked about, andJohn sitting right next to her
was Mad Hatter, and so thevocalists in this show were
(02:48):
Alice and Hatter and it justbecame such an awesome family
and I got to know so manyamazing humans through the whole
entire experience who have notjust become colleagues but also
very dear friends and, may weeven say, family members.
What are your actually?
And, john, what are yourmemories of coming into the man
(03:10):
Tea Party and discovering justthe whole community of the cast,
not only the cast members, theband members, but also the
family of fans and friends thatformed around the whole
community there.
We'll start with Ashley.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh, me first.
I came in like a couple ofyears later, before after it
started.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But what was it like coming in?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
One really cool fact is one of the reasons why I got
hired was because your daughterwas born Everly.
Oh, I like think about that allthe time.
Like Everly is a reason why mylife changed.
Because you had a couple otherbabies right Little little
miracles, but, yeah, I came in acouple of years after to sub in
(03:55):
and it was amazing.
I met, I think, some of myclosest friends that I'm still
close with today, and FaultLines probably wouldn't have
existed had I not met John andTodd through the show.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And, yeah, yes, very thankful for the whole Mad Tea
Party production in general, asnot just for the entertainment
that it brought to people, butthe way it changed our lives and
the people it introduced us to.
John, were you one of theoriginal Hatters?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, I was hired, actually in the original with
the original cast of charactersthat came on for the show and I
was.
I went to the last audition.
I guess they were havingtrouble finding high tenors and
so they.
They had held four rounds ofauditions and a friend of mine
who I was singing with on theweekend said you should go for
this thing.
It's like an 80s rock show, butlike with crazy characters and
(04:51):
costumes that they're doing atDisneyland.
I mean, I was in my first yearliving in Los Angeles.
I was in my first year.
I always tell people I workedseven jobs my first year and I
think Mad Tea Party was thesixth job that I got hired on to
do just like to make ends meetand to just get my feet wet in
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the city.
And truthfully, I telleverybody that the Mad Tea Party
is was kind of like Disney didthe casting for me and I just
got to meet some of the mosttalented musicians and players
in Southern California.
I didn't have to do any of thatlegwork and I got so many gigs
out of it and so manyopportunities out of it.
I mean things that we're stilldoing today.
Fault lines, like Ashley said,wouldn't have been formed
(05:34):
without the Mad Tea Party.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Amazing and we're going to get to know a little
bit about how that process was,where fault lines was born and,
more specifically, about yourstories, your creative journeys.
But first, let's launch it offwith a song.
We're going to start with atune from your 2020 album better
sweet revival.
This one is love is all we own.
(05:57):
Can you tell us a little bitabout the song we're about to
hear?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I think we're going to see the music video.
Is that correct?
Yeah, so I love the music videobecause we actually had a bunch
of volunteers and we hadSarishman and Eli come and teach
sign language to all thevolunteers, and so the whole
video is an ASL, which isawesome.
So we hope you enjoy it.
But yeah, it's a song that Johnwrote.
Who's the other the co writerson love is all we own in my
(06:24):
friend Marie Rangel.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Awesome yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
All right, here's fault lines.
Love is all we own.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
My heart is calling for the open road.
My soul is searching for thesun.
A mountain to climb.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
A river to run.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Pay no attention to the minute hand.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
What do we care about ?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
the time, the stars overhead, I never laid for the
night.
So we go, we go, we go, we go.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
(07:41):
daughters close.
Love is all we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
Love is all we own.
(08:03):
Love is all we own.
Let's find the freedom in thefalling rain.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Oh, baptized by the storm, the path we were meant to
take was built in that bone.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So we go, we go, we go, we go.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
daughters close.
Love is all we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
(09:24):
Love is all we own.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Where we are is where we're meant to be, so keep your
head above water and keep yoursons and your daughters close.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Because, love is all we own.
Keep your head above water andkeep your sons and your
daughters close, because love isall we own.
Hold this moment forever,because we are in it together.
(10:29):
Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
(11:26):
Love is all we own.
(11:47):
Love is all we own.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Love is all we own.
Love is all we own.
(12:56):
Love is all we own.
Oh, I think it was probablysome like Christian concert
(13:19):
Avalon.
There was a Christian groupcalled Avalon and that's the one
that I can remember.
Great America.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
First car, first car you owned.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A Honda Elantra.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What color?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It was teal.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Favorite food to eat.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Favorite food to cook .
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Uh pasta.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Favorite kind of animal Cats.
Your first cat's name was.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Judy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That is 60 seconds.
That's everyone.
Everything I mean to possiblycome back.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh yeah, why would I ever forget to include my cat,
judy Judy, mr Judy Garland.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Charity Swanson in the chat says she loves Avalon.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
by the way, yes, I grew up singing so much, avalon,
let me tell you Love them.
They're great.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Harmonies.
All right, mr Flanagan, are youready?
You've had a whole minute tothink about it now.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, one, two three.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Two Little baby, john Francis Flanagan IV, was born
on an early September morning inBoston, massachusetts, at
Brigham and Women Hospital toloving parents, john and Valerie
.
He grew up for five years inthe beautiful city of East
Boston before his parentsdecided you know what he needs
to grow up among the squirrelsand the raccoons, the deer of
(14:38):
the forest and moved me toAcreage in the beautiful state
of New Hampshire.
I went to all of my elementary,middle and high school there in
beautiful New Hampshire where Iperformed in various capacities
.
Now, when I first beganperforming, it was not on a
(14:59):
stage.
I performed first and foremoston soccer pitches in my friends'
living rooms in my basement,just all by myself.
But that's what I did.
I was always performing, I wasalways singing, I did musicals
in high school and then Idecided you know what I'm going
to define my parents' advice andgo to Nashville, tennessee to
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perform some more.
So I spent the next six yearsin Nashville, tennessee, where I
went to Belmont University andI got a degree in both English
and vocal performance commercialvocal performance.
Not knowing what my next movewould be, but knowing I didn't
want to remain in the LandlockState, I moved to New York City,
where the lights of Broadwayshine, and I stayed there for
(15:47):
exactly nine months beforesaying I can't afford to live
here and came out to Los Angelesooh, where, as I said, I did
seven jobs in my first year,including the Mad Tea Party.
It was 2014 when I got to meetAshley Morgan by 2015,.
We were in a band together.
I do have a cat named Nash, andI currently reside in West
(16:09):
Hollywood, california.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ladies and gentlemen, one minute and 55 seconds
everything you could possiblyknow about John Pony.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That was fabulous, great narration.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
He brought the characters to it as well.
All right, now we're going totalk about how Fault Lines was
formed, right after we hear thisnext tune.
I know I mentioned I listenedto the Love Is All we Own so
often in the morning.
But this next one is like oneof my favorites of yours and
(16:41):
it's because I've always loved,specifically in John's
songwriting, the dualities thathe will bring and present.
It's my multiple personalities.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
That's where it all comes from.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But it's in these duets, when you beautifully
express the two different sidesand the two different points of
view, and the way they'reinterweaved is just, I dare to
say masterful, as I would call alot of.
I mean your songwriting ingeneral.
And what would you tell usabout?
Don't?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Don't is one of the I think, two songs that are
really officially acollaboration between myself and
our regular guitar player, toddMcCool.
In both cases they're likenoodling demos that he just made
off the top of his head and hesends my way and then I'll just
write a song on top of it.
So during the middle of thepandemic I was out in Joshua
(17:41):
Tree, I had moved out there andI just this beautiful, beautiful
demo he had sent me, guitardemo he had sent me, just really
caught my attention and I sortof just spilled a journal entry
into it and don't is what, what?
The end result of that, of thatprocess?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And also this one, this one and love is all we own
and all of bitter sweet revivaland a lot of our singles current
singles were produced by DavidKidd Jenny Kidd's husband, who
we love, and he's incrediblePart of the fam, awesome
producer.
We love him.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Absolutely.
He's amazing, you guys areamazing, and I can't wait for
everybody to hear this amazingsong.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isFault Lines, don't.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know where we went wrong, but I will make it
right.
So, in light of US, pleasedon't go.
(19:10):
Please let go.
How did we end up like this?
How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heart,darling.
(19:33):
I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part,but if you think I'm better off
alone, oh, if you think I mightbe coming home, don't.
(19:58):
All these things I've kept withme.
They still recall your touch.
(20:21):
I sold whatever.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I could sell.
The rest I left to price.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Please don't go.
Please let go.
How did we end up like this?
How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heartDarling.
(21:04):
I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
But if you think I'm better off alone, If you think I
might be coming home, don't.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Leave me, don't try to keep me.
I only ever wanted what's bestfor you.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
There's nothing in the city for me left to do.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Please give me a reason.
Run out of feelings.
I feel sorry for you, for you.
How did we end up like this?
(22:05):
How did it come to this?
I thought I knew your heartDarling.
I know you're upset.
Try to make you understand.
We're past the hardest part.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
(22:53):
If you think I'm better offalone.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Oh, oh, oh oh.
If you think I might be cominghome, Don't.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I didn't know we were going to see the album cover.
The album cover is actually aPolaroid that Wendy's daughter
Willow took.
She did the album art work forthat we went out to Joshua Tree
and did a whole Polaroid cameraday.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yes, I love the photos from that.
And let's also talk about howFault Lines was born.
I mean, I know you guys met.
We talked about how you met atthe MAT Party Band.
But like, so how does thiswhole thing come to be?
Does somebody say, hey, want tostart a band bro?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hey guys, we're like start a band.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
So was it like a break room thing?
You guys are just hanging outin the break room and you say
let's start a band bro.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, it wasn't that quick.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
No, we ended up doing a party at somebody's house.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We were hard for a party and Just acoustic, not
Ashley Todd and I ended up asthat trio.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
And I think that it was like that night or soon
thereafter that I said why havethese like four songs that Well?
They can't really go on one ofmy solo records because they're
Kind of like acoustic andsensitive and small, but I think
they'd sound really great withthree-part harmonies.
And what if we just put thattogether?
What if we just decided tothrow a little EP out into the
(24:33):
world?
And that's essentially howFault Lines came to be.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We got together and we recorded them.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So what year did your first EP come out?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
2014.
Nine years ago because I didthe voice of the years Eve 2014.
Yeah, I yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Just rewinding a bit.
What were your?
Did you guys have any tracksrecorded, any albums out?
I know the answer, but I'm justdoing this for the show.
But before Fault Lines, did youhave any?
Any work out there in the world?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I did a, I recorded a solo album in college and then
I think my second one came outin 2016.
So it kind of was concurrentwith the Fault Lines project.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, and where can people find that?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Oh, anywhere you listen to music, John Flanagan.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I also did a project with the Morgan family.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is not a joke.
When I was five, I recorded it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I don't even know where they.
They're not online,unfortunately.
I recorded a tape when I wasfive with my family.
It was called Love to Live,live to Love five part harmony
with my two older brothers andmy mom and dad.
And then, when I was in fourthgrade we were called it we
recorded a CD called Home iswhen the Heart Is.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's amazing.
We're going to need to findthat I have a copy of that CD.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I did give John one.
Nobody else will get one.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
On this podcast.
We feature music, we featurestorytelling and we also love to
feature poetry.
And I'd love for everybody towelcome producer Craig Jackman
of the show.
Bounce back in here, producerCraig.
Hi Craig.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Hello, oh, craig, actually John, so great to see
you and hear the stories.
Big, big fan of fault lines,thank you, craig, love you.
Love you too.
And, if I may, I mean whatpoetry and music literally go
hand in hand.
I mean honestly, because I know, John, you write a lot.
(26:42):
People may think, yes, he's asongwriter, but he's a poet.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, his lyrics are poetry, absolutely 100%.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, and you know, poems, they don't have to be in
songs, they don't have to beabout songs.
But what's interesting is thispoem that I found for tonight is
about music.
Oh so, because one thing thatpoems do and one thing that
music does is it brings outemotions.
(27:11):
And I found this really neatlittle poem.
It's called Music to Me, by AliMiller.
I found it on mypoetside,mypoeticsidecom, and it just it
really describes, I think, to meit describes fault lines, but
it also describes music ingeneral and how important music
(27:37):
is to us, our souls and ourbeliefs and our feelings.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So Can't wait to hear your interpretation of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, CraigJackman interpreting Ali
Miller's music to me.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Music to me can be loud like thunder in my head.
Music to me can be soft thatdraws me to my bed.
Music to me is life.
Music to me is strong.
Music to me makes me feel likeI can do no wrong.
Music makes you full of sorrow,or it makes you full of joy.
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Music makes a better tomorrow,or makes you awfully coy.
Music makes you fearless.
Music makes you tearless.
Music can make you a star.
Music to me is when you see whoyou really are.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Craig Jackman interpreting Ali Miller's music
to me.
Amazing job, Craig.
As always, great find.
You find the best poems to readand share on our podcasts.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Thank you.
And with a topic like faultlines, I wow, the sky's the
limit on that.
But this one, just to me it hitbecause, john and Ashley, your
music does that Fault lines.
Thank you for everything thatyou do for us and for the music
world and just much, much moresuccess.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Thank you, craig.
Yeah, I mean, your music is sopowerful and so personal and I
feel, and while music isdefinitely something to tap into
and definitely something thatopens up your soul, I feel like
you pop on a fault line song,the fault lines album and it is
just like you get the sense oftogetherness, you feel connected
(29:57):
, I feel like with the emotionsof the world, not just through
John's writing but through hisvocals and just the way it all
just blends in perfect harmony.
I want to say Just so happy, youguys are here.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thank you, paul.
Thank you, thank you and Craig.
That was a beautiful poem, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well chosen, absolutely.
Now this one is the midpoint ofBitter Sweet Revival and when I
was kind of chatting withAshley earlier today I was like
what songs can we featuretonight?
What do you want to play on thepodcast?
She brought this one up becausethey don't get to perform it
live very often and I loved thatshe brought it up because it is
(30:37):
one of my favorites on thealbum.
It harkens me back to I was ahuge fan of Daniel
Bettingfield's big album when hecame out and just like it has
that driving feel of it when thebeat kicks in and it has that
kind of tone.
But then toward the end it hasthe ethereal, almost like Dear
(30:59):
Evan Hansen type of harmonicsand the voices as they just go
up there and they blend.
And what can you tell us aboutHeartfire?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, so I was experiencing this crazy, crazy
heartburn.
I was up at three o'clock inthe morning and no the front
draft and the fire sauce.
That is not Heartfire.
Heartfire describes that momentwhen you have to decide is this
love?
(31:29):
And I'm going to let myself bevulnerable to it?
And it says here we go, we goagain, we're running wild and
I'm giving into this heartfireand I think that was really the
whole feeling of it for me therisk and the vulnerability of, I
(31:50):
don't know, exposing myself,Exposing your soft underbelly,
as it were, to the frighteningprospect of getting hurt and
letting yourself be thatvulnerable.
So I know I'm overusing thatword, but that's what Heartfire
is about.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
The little ethereal part thing.
I remember John had like acertain portion of it where he
asked me to come up with someharmonies.
So I remember sitting down oneday and just arranging all these
harmony parts and I sent it toDavid Kidd, our producer, and
that's sort of what we ended up,coming up with, this little
stack.
John was like I want it to bethis cacophony sound like to
(32:35):
just be really overwhelming,building up and then to have
this drop, and so I sort ofchaotically put all these
harmonies together on mycomputer and logic just with my
voices, and then we all split itup and that's why it's really
hard to do live, because thatpart is difficult with just
three voices because, it is notthree parts.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's multiple parts stacked together, so I love that
behind the music explanationand I love that you chose to
share this on this episode and Ican't wait to share it with
everybody listening and watching.
Ladies and gentlemen, here'sFaultline's Heartfire.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And baby, if I think too much now.
Oh, I'll never make it alive.
All I want is to survive.
This heart, this heart, thisheartfire, this heart, this
(33:55):
heart, this heartfire, here itgoes, it goes again.
It's running wild and I'mrunning into a heart fire,
(34:18):
waitin' for an answer in yourkiss.
Oh, how did it come to this?
Am I crazy?
Or did I just forget?
Oh, how it feels to burn again,dying just to come alive.
(34:49):
This heart, this heart, thisheartfire, this heart, this
heart, this heartfire here itgoes, it goes again.
It's running.
I'm giving in to a hard fire,to a hard fire, to a hard fire.
(35:13):
All the patches End up inpatches, all of my matches End
(35:35):
up in patches, all of my matches.
This heart, this heart, thisheart for you, this heart, this
heart, this heart for you, thisheart, this heart, this heart
(36:03):
for you, this heart, this heart,this heart for you here it goes
, it goes again.
It's a run and wild and I'mgiving in to a hard fire, to a
hard fire, to a hard fire, to ahard fire, To a hard fire, to a
(36:38):
hard fire.
I'm giving in, I'm giving in toA hard fire.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
And here is something that's very exciting, as today
happens to be the day that youjust dropped your brand new
single, me Without you, andwe're going to hear a little
sample of that.
Tell us how, how did this onecome about?
What is Me Without you about?
And tell us a little storyabout it.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
So Me, without you, I was.
I said to myself, john, youcan't write up on another one of
your breakups.
You're all out of heartbreak.
You've got to.
You've got to now write aboutother people's heartbreak.
So I had friends who decided tocall their call things off and I
(37:58):
got to sort of witness, from anoutsider's perspective, the
changes in their homespecifically.
So that's why there's a lot ofreally vivid imagery of things
sort of disappearing.
There's.
It's the chorus lyrics arethere's one less cup on the
counter and there's one moreseat on the couch.
(38:19):
And it was all about those,those small changes to the
inside of a home and like it's.
That's where the inspirationfor this one came from.
It was more of an observer'sperspective than it was coming
from my own heartbreak and I'vehad people who, you know, we've
(38:40):
been sharing it with closefriends and people are like it
almost feels.
Somebody said it almost feelslike musical theater and I'm
like I guess it kind of does,because it's I'm describing
setting, I'm describing a scene,and I hadn't thought of it that
way and I still don't think ofit that way.
But hey, maybe, maybe I'll justwrite a musical next, who knows
?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Oh, we've talked about that in the past when it's
not allowed to leave LA beforeyou write a musical.
We've had that conversationover some cocktails or it has
dropped.
It has dropped today, September12, 2023.
Where can people find it?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
You can find it anywhere you stream music
Spotify, amazon, apple musicanywhere you stream.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
But here is just a little clip of that.
What are we hearing right now?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
The first the first verse in chorus, the little bit
little teaser.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Can't wait.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's atease of me without you.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Falling.
I never wanted to stop fallingTill we fell apart.
Easy Loving you was always easyUntil it got too hard.
(40:13):
What did I do?
And what did I do to you?
Cause everything I gave to loveit just wasn't enough.
Now there's one less cup on thecounter and one more seat on
(40:42):
the couch.
Guess it's too Damn late to bewondering how in the hell do I
get you back now, cause timemoves on, and you did too, but I
forget how to be me without you.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
And I'm gonna jump over to Apple Music and Spotify
and Google Play and all of theplaces that we can find a title.
And, ladies and gentlemen,fault Lines new album, me
Without you has dropped today.
Go check it out.
And speaking of today, I justcan't thank you both enough for
being here on the show.
(41:28):
I love hanging out with you, Ilove you both as humans, I love
you both as performers and Irespect the heck out of
everything about both of you.
And before we say a very sadgood night and let you go, is
there anything else you want tojust say to whoever's listening
out there and listening to yourmusic and maybe discovered you
(41:51):
for the first time or has lovedyou since the beginning?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Oh, my goodness, so many different kinds of people
to address.
If you're hearing us for thefirst time, thanks for checking
us out.
Thanks, paul, for having us sothat you could hear us tonight.
We really appreciate that.
Thanks for having us on.
For those who have been aroundsince the beginning, I hope you
enjoyed some of the stories onhere tonight, some of the things
that we got to share about thislong journey from Anaheim and
(42:19):
Beyond.
And, yeah, to anybody who likesthis sort of art form, this
place of emotion and realism,and I hope that it helps you
navigate through your own livesand that it makes you feel seen
(42:40):
and understood, because that'sthe objective of our music.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, and for me to piggyback, what the poem that
Craig?
It's really amazing that heshared that today, because for
me, I've been singing my wholelife.
But one of the reasons why Ichose to choose music as a
career Is because of the impactthat music can make, and it can
make a positive impact on peopleand it can really change lives
(43:04):
and change the world.
So it's always I'm verygrateful.
I don't personally write a tonof music.
I love to arrange vocals and Ilove to sing, but John writes a
lot of music and so it's alwaysimportant for us to be bringing
a message to people and amessage of hope, and that's
where you get songs like Love isAll we Own.
You get the songs of heartbreakbecause people need to connect
with those and vibe with those.
(43:26):
But then we also love to createsongs that matter.
We have songs that talk abouthaving an open mind and we have
songs that discuss healthcareand other really important
issues in the world, and it'slike we want to have a voice and
we want people to resonate andwe just want to spread love.
So that is always the focalpoint of fault lines that we are
(43:47):
here to just spread a goodmessage of positivity and love.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
And yeah, I am very happy to thank Carmen N for your
5 star review on Apple Podcasts.
I am so grateful for themoments you took to stop and
(44:13):
review this podcast.
I also cannot say thank youenough to our cove curators on
Patreon Angelica Bolschweiler,jamie Carganella, gina Dobbs,
the Farons, ana Gina Vola,kelsey Blaine Gibson, krista
King, susan Kuhn, merle Milke,josephus Snyder, charity Swanson
(44:34):
and Emily Thatcher.
Thank you so much for leadingthe charge to help this show
keep going and growing atpatreoncomcom.
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