May 5, 2025 • 42 mins
Exploring the Heart and Soul of Brown Liquor Music with Kenny Sharp | Just Keep Talking Podcast
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Join Brother Love on the Just Keep Talking Podcast as he dives deep into the soulful world of Kenny Sharp, a singer-songwriter with a unique genre-bending sound known as Brown Liquor Music. In this heartfelt episode, Kenny shares his journey from rap to soulful singing, the impact of mental health on creativity, and the importance of authenticity and vulnerability in his music. Discover Kenny's musical influences, tour experiences, and the personal stories that shape his artistry. Tune in for a rich conversation filled with inspiration, connection, and the universal need to be seen, heard, and belong.
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00:00 Introduction to the Just Keep Talking Podcast
01:12 Meet Our Guest: Kenny Sharp
01:30 The Essence of Brown Liquor Music
03:54 Kenny's Musical Journey and Influences
09:42 Transition from Rap to Singing
19:16 The Importance of Mentorship and Self-Care
22:21 Understanding the Role of a Leader
23:10 Military Leadership Lessons
23:59 The Power of Mindful Listening
24:42 A Memorable Performance
28:32 Overcoming Stage Fright
32:31 Life on the Road
37:48 New Music and Collaborations
39:15 Rapid-Fire Questions
41:10 Final Thoughts and Farewell
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Brother Love (00:00):
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(00:21):
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basic need to Be Seen, to Be Heard.
And to Belong.
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(00:44):
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In a world filled with divisiveness,
fostering inclusivity and connection isa powerful way to make a positive impact.
The Just Keep Talking Podcast with me,Brother Love, because Your Story Matters.
Larry (01:04):
Welcome one.
Welcome all to the JustKeep Talking Podcast.
My name is Brother Love.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Oh my goodness.
Do we have ourselves at guest this week?
Kenny Sharp.
Hello.
Kenny Sharp (01:16):
Hello.
How are you?
Larry (01:17):
I am fantastic.
I am so grateful that you're here.
Kenny Sharp (01:22):
Oh, I'm very grateful to be here.
Larry (01:23):
I feel like I've known you because your music seeps into my soul and my soul.
Thanks you.
Kenny Sharp (01:30):
Good.
Larry (01:30):
Kenny Sharp is a singer songwriter with a gender bending
sound, dubbed Brown Liquor Music.
I'm gonna read a little bitabout you one more time here.
Brown liquor music.
'cause I'm like, Whatis brown liquor music?
It's described for us.
Thank you.
Internet.
Brown Liquor Music is an experience thattakes you back to the warmth and richness
of classic soul, where the music wasas smooth and deep as a fine spirit.
(01:54):
It's a celebration of love,life, and the moments in between.
While it was rooted with the timelessvoices of legends like Sam Cook, Etta
James and Al Green, it has grown toembrace a wider range of sounds and
influences all united by the same coreessence; music that Makes You Feel.
It's about savoring the good times,understanding the bittersweet ones,
(02:17):
and letting the music flow likea good drink shared with friends.
That is you in song.
That is you.
Kenny Sharp (02:24):
I'm not gonna lie.
I think my man, he musthave had the AI right there.
That's incredible.
That's it.
Larry (02:28):
That is what it is.
That is who you are.
You came into Lightning 100.
I was, hosting the Morningshow and You gave it to us.
You gave it to us acoustically.
Kenny Sharp (02:38):
I call you from the road like there by mama's home.
You be ready when I got there, babewouldn't have nothing on nothing
but some brown looking music play.
You be sipping from a glass,something dark and smooth.
(02:59):
Now, soon as it hit your lipsrunning down every inch of your
body, warm you up from the insideout there, Lord, like a hot tide.
And now lay right there in your arms and.
This is where you belong, and nextmorning it was Sam Cook and a need singing
(03:22):
while I'm cooking Baking on the store.
Otis Red and James Browney Green.
My favorite colors inthe spectrum of soul.
Larry (03:29):
I find it so amazing.
You come in acoustically, it'slike, wow, that's so cool.
What a cool cat.
What a nice guy.
His songs are really good.
He delivers with justa guitar in his voice.
And then I went and sawyour show at The East
Kenny Sharp (03:43):
Oh yeah.
It's a different vibe.
Larry (03:44):
It's different vibe.
And you melted my face.
You melted my face.
You really are the real deal andyou are such a nice individual.
I mean, You're kind, you're a good guy!
Kenny Sharp (03:52):
I appreciate that, man.
Like good, good parents.
Larry (03:54):
You were born in, Montgomery, Alabama.
Yes.
Right.
And you lived a lot in DC Yourparents are Air Force people?
Kenny Sharp (04:01):
Yeah, they're both Air Force officers and I, grew up moving around.
So Alabama was where I wasborn, and that's where my mom's
family originally is from.
They moved to Ohio when she was young,like our roots are in Alabama and then DC.
But yeah, I lived in, I lived in Germany.
My dad lived in New Mexico,Georgia, so all, around.
Larry (04:21):
Where in, Germany were you?
Where, and you lived three years?
Kenny Sharp (04:24):
I was there for three years.
Yeah.
I was in Stuttgart with my mom,but my dad was based in Ramstein.
We were two different,I'd stay with my mom.
Larry (04:31):
I have been there and I've played at a Kaserne.
I've been to Germany.
I've been to StuttgardI've been to Ramstein.
I've toured all over Europe a few times.
Kenny Sharp (04:39):
Did you do?
Like USO stuff or, kind of
Larry (04:41):
No, did a band in a van stuff.
That's Cool!
Kenny Sharp (04:44):
It's really important to people over there, you know, and
they get to see some, entertainment,especially from back in the States.
Larry (04:50):
Yeah.
I mean, I've been there a few times.
My first time was in the nineties.
I'm a little bit older than youare, and it was a funk rock band.
I was the drummer ina band called D'Tripp.
We were like Sly and the Family Stone.
Kenny Sharp (05:01):
That's cool.
Larry (05:02):
It was a seven piece band.
It was the same instrumentation as Sly.
And the band leader, his name is Shyndigg.
He's my mentor.
Kenny Sharp (05:10):
That's a great name.
Yeah.
I've never heard that as a name.
It's mind boggling.
Yeah,
Larry (05:14):
I was young.
I was in my twenties at the time, and Iremember the guy who brought us there.
He said, all right, D'Tripp, pick whichfour people are going and we're gonna go.
And Shyndigg was like,nah man, we're a band.
We gotta we're seven piece.
And he's like, look, you'renot gonna make any money.
That was the first time I realized Iwasn't gonna make a lot of money in music.
But we went as a seven pieceband and I remember we played
this beautiful 📍 Kaserne.
. Can you explain to us, since you'velived there, what exactly a Kaserne is?
Kenny Sharp (05:38):
It's a base,
Larry (05:39):
But it was a base that was for the German.
Kenny Sharp (05:42):
Yeah.
German.
It is a German base
The before World War 11and then we overtook them.
Larry (05:45):
Being in this a massive room, right?
First of all, everything's color 'causewe're there and we're living it, but
we see it all in black and white.
This was a German base.
We were the Allied Forcesthat took over the base.
I played music at one of those Kasernes.
Kenny Sharp (06:00):
That's one of the biggest takeaways I think from being over there
those type of realizations where on onehand you see wow, this is different.
Like this is a German base!
But at the same timeyou're like, oh, dang.
Like, I didn't even think about that.
like, people are similar wherever you are.
It's the similarities and the differences.
You know, they got McDonald's overthere, but the ketchup tastes a little
different, but you know what I mean.
It's like their military base looks kindof like ours, but it's a little different
(06:22):
when you start realizing, you're like,oh no, this was definitely a German one.
Like this is, it's slightly different,but there's a lot of similarities in it.
They're moving, they're like,oh, people, you know, across
the ocean I've never met before.
It's just people.
Larry (06:35):
They're just people.
Yeah
We are all just people.
That's fantastic.
Everything you say, it sounds like a song.
It really is.
So what do you consider as home for you?
Kenny Sharp (06:43):
Dc.
Larry (06:44):
DC
Kenny Sharp (06:44):
DC is home.
Larry (06:45):
Right on.
And you've spent sometime in Muscle Shoals.
I see that.
Kenny Sharp (06:48):
Yeah.
That's where my family's from.
That's where my mom was born.
That's where my grandma was born.
That's where Roots are.
And, I started working therewhen I started taking trips here.
My good buddy, David Mescon, Messy.
He, um, started working with awriter that works down there.
it's only a hundredmiles from Nashville, so
Larry (07:04):
I have a wedding down there in a few weeks.
I got to record Fame Studios a fewtimes and I see you work with Spencer,
Kenny Sharp (07:10):
Oh, that's my boy coat.
Spencer Coates 'Specoats'.
Larry (07:13):
I love
Spencer.
Absolutely.
We've worked together
Kenny Sharp (07:15):
He's a great
Larry (07:16):
He's a great man.
So how long have you been in Nashville?
Kenny Sharp (07:19):
Nashville?
Just over three years.
Larry (07:20):
Did you come here?
like, I'm gonna have a career, orit was like, wow, I have a career.
I better get there.
Kenny Sharp (07:25):
I had a career going honestly, I didn't choose here.
I kind of came here, secondarily'cause I assigned to a publisher.
Mm-hmm.
First I signed to anartist he's from Miami.
Larry (07:35):
What do you mean you signed to an artist?
Kenny Sharp (07:36):
I assigned to an artist named Lunch Money Lewis.
Okay.
And I was signed to be like, developedas a artist and a writer under him.
And so I would be between Miami and LA.
Then I got signed to PrescriptionSongs, to Luke's company,
Luke's, publishing company, Dr.
Luke.
That was kind of my introductioninto the pop world and the industry
of songwriting in that way andnot just pop, like sync things.
They had a good team but I was outtathe LA office and then the office here,
(08:00):
they had opened up, so I started takingtrips here every once in a while.
Larry (08:03):
I But you were living where?
At the time?
Kenny Sharp (08:04):
I was living in DC so I would bartend Friday to SAT Sunday,
and then Monday to Thursday I wouldeither go to Miami, Nashville,
or LA for like a year or so.
I, I stayed here for six weeks andI stayed in LA for seven, eight
weeks when I was trying to decidefinally where I was gonna move, and
I picked LA and then Covid happened.
Larry (08:22):
Right.
Kenny Sharp (08:23):
This just made way more sense.
Everything was opened up back sooner.
Writings were happening sooneryou could play live, and then we
started going to Muscle Shoals.
For the music I was making, itjust felt better to be here.
Larry (08:34):
Well, I'm glad you're here.
I'm gonna read a little bit about you
Kenny Sharp (08:37):
Me too
Larry (08:37):
"Kenny's songs effortlessly weave together disparate styles
and powerful vocal performances andnatural storytelling instincts."
Now, I had to look up disparatebecause you know what?
I'm like, I know what this means, right?
And then I go, well, so
Kenny Sharp (08:50):
It's one of those where you get the feeling, but you're
like, all right, what exactly,
Larry (08:54):
Right.
So according to MerriamWebster, who's, my go-to.
Alright,
Disparate; markedly distinctin quality or character.
Okay.
You are very distinct inquality and character.
There's only one of you...
"Containing or made up of fundamentallydifferent and often incongruous elements."
Now I'm looking up incongruent!
Incongruent; Not harmonious.
(09:15):
Incompatible at times.
But no, I like this one...
Not conforming.
It's inconsistent within itself.
These are things that Ifind interesting about you.
You are very distinct in quality andcharacter, and you have different
elements that aren't necessarily thingsthat we know to get to go together.
Go together, right?
You are what I wouldcall the perfect gumbo.
Kenny Sharp (09:35):
Gumbo is a, I gotta make a song called Gumbo.
Now that is the perfectanalogy for what, what it is.
Larry (09:40):
You have so many different influences.
What did you grow up listening to?
Kenny Sharp (09:44):
So my mom and dad are obviously, you know, your first two
kind of influences 'cause you'relistening to whatever they had.
My mom's a musician.
My mom majored in music.
She majored in music therapy.
She's a, Miss Teen Ohio and all.
She could sing and dance and do all that.
And then my dad is a DJ.
He grew up always DJing and, you know,they both went in the military 'cause
back then they weren't really encouragedto like chase your dreams, so to speak.
(10:05):
So they did all these things and theywere creative, but when college came,
it was like, go to get a job, you know,so they went to the military and, and
that's part of why they support me now.
You know, they're all R & B, Soul Funk.
But my dad's more like JamesBrown, Parliament Funkadelic
and my mom's likes the prettier thingslike Earth, Wind, and Fire, The Emotions,
The Stylistics So it's a lot of that.
But then for me, like when I startedlistening to my, what I wanted to listen
(10:28):
to my first stuff, it was like R & B.
Usher was my first album, My Way.
His first album.
And then it was like a lot of90's, 2000's, R & B, and then Rap.
I was a Rapper until like 2015, 2016.
Like I, I just Rapped.
Like I was on the radio in DC for Rapping.
I was on a lot of Go-Go remixes.
I've been on songs with Dj Cool.
(10:48):
Um, the, Let Me Clear My Throat.
Yeah.
He's a mentor of mine and I was justRapping, so it was Jay-Z, it was
Outkast, like, those are my favorites.
Lil Wayne, Ludacris.
Like, I was just studyingRap until College.
I went to Washington and LeeUniversity in the Blue Ridge
Mountains out in Lexington, Virginia.
And that's when I got introducedto kind of like The Sixties in a
sense, Sixties and Seventies Music.
(11:09):
It was like, Beatles,Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix.
In senior year of high school, Red HotChili Peppers was the first rock band
that I ever was like, oh, this is Rock.
I remember being like, this is rock?
I like this!
I just thought Rock was like, AAAAAHHHH!!!
Like I that's all I knew.
Larry (11:22):
And the other side was like, This Is Funk?!
You know what I mean?
The black community was like, wait,Red Hot Chili Peppers is Funk?
And the white people were like,
This Is is Funk!
okay.
So what was the song that youheard or something that really took
you like, wow, this is somethingthat speaks to me, to my core.
Kenny Sharp (11:38):
Like as far as inspire me to want to do this?
I started writing songs when I was 12.
I started Rapping in the lunchroom,like that was, you're trying
to freestyle battle to get the
girls.
I think it was just a lot of OutKast andJay-Z and then like, singing wise, there's
a couple seminal moments I would say.
One is, the first time I heardAmy Winehouse, I heard her
singing, You Know, I'm No Good.
(11:59):
Mm-hmm.
I was like, who's this girl singing?
I was like, is this soul?
And honestly, a lot of myinfluences are similarly like
gumbos.
right?
Like she was singing soul, but itwas like jazzy chords, you know?
It was jazzy funky.
But then the groove is kind of likehip hop, like boom, bap almost.
But then she's singing, and thenshe's singing really pretty.
But then it's like, is that a cuss word?
Did she just say fuck?
You know?
(12:19):
It's like, I'm sorry.
I don't know if I'm allowed?
Larry (12:21):
That's fine.
Kenny Sharp (12:21):
That, seeing Kanye West open up for Usher.
I saw Kanye West College Dropoutopened up for Usher Confessions.
That was my first big show.
I got a aunt, she'sfrom Buffalo, New York.
Like she's hood, like, she wears Tims.
She has a half German Shepherd,half Pit Bull at the time.
And when I seen her bawling tears,like before Usher even sang a
note, like he didn't even sing yet,like the lights was going up and
(12:43):
you know, he's about to come out.
And all the women around me were cryingI was like, man, I wanna do that!
I, if you're music can move people in thatway, like it was, it was overwhelming.
And then Sam Cook, Otis Redding, likejust really getting into them two.
And then Jimi Hendrix and Andre 3000.
Those are two kind ofcharacters that I really like.
Not just their music, but their,like who they were as people.
(13:05):
That really moved me.
Larry (13:06):
So I get older now 'cause we all do.
Kenny Sharp (13:08):
Yeah.
Right.
Every day.
Larry (13:10):
Cause that like
Kenny Sharp (13:10):
happens, right?
Larry (13:11):
And I go oh, you know, I should have been born earlier, you know, ah,
my music is from a different time.
Or the things that Ilove are from the past.
I love everything from the thirties,forties, fifties, the sixties and
the seventies are seminal for me,but you feel present and current.
Your music is definitely flavoredfrom the past, but it's also now.
Going to, your show wassuch a fun experience.
(13:31):
I felt so alive and Ifelt the joy in the room.
And there was a lot of young people,you know, twenties, thirties,
maybe even a little younger.
Fine.
Getting into the bar.
Kenny Sharp (13:40):
Cool.
Yeah.
Larry (13:41):
I just thought, wow, this is just perfect.
Everybody Belongs.
Right Here, Right Now.
And you were spectacular.
Really,
Kenny Sharp (13:51):
I really appreciate that, man.
And honestly, you really perceivedit the exact way I guess we
intended it, which means a lot.
That's how I wanted to feel likea big family reunion and party.
That's the whole essence of it.
The soul of the Brown Liquor Music songsthat we all feel good about, where it's
like there's certain stuff that transcendsits own genre like Hank Williams, Sr.
Johnny Cash.
Yeah, it's like Country, but there'speople that don't like Country
(14:13):
that like Johnny Cash, that don'tlisten to, you know what I mean?
There's people that don't like Rap andthey're like, oh, Andre 3000, he's cool.
You know what I mean?
Larry (14:20):
We don't have to Compartmentalize it.
And that's where I think it gets tricky.
You are in the business like I'vemet, you have a manager, PR, you
have people that are your teamand they are industry people.
And it's very easy for an artistlike yourself to get caught up in the
Compartmentalizing to try to Performand Please, and Prove to everybody.
You are effortless, my friend.
Kenny Sharp (14:41):
Man.
I hope it seems that way.
The topic you're just talking about toois something we actively deal with a lot.
The disparate styles is somethingdefinitely a lot of the industry
people, even within our team.
The difference between like, alright,
Who's Kenny Sharp and whatis Brown Liquor Music?
Is that the name of the band?
What does that mean?
Some people, it's confusing to me.
it's not as confusing.
It's kind of just like the sonic brand andworld that Kenny Sharp Music lives under.
(15:05):
When me and Brett, my business partnerstarted this, the idea he came to me with
like, 'cause I told him the whole BrownLiquor Music, like my vision, but like, I
didn't have it kind of crystallized yet.
And he was like, oh, like Jimmy Buffett.
I was like, well, yeah, whatever.
Like I knew who Jimmy Buffett kind ofwas, but like, I was like, yeah, sure.
Brown Liquor Music.
Jimmy Buffett.
Like, what do you mean?
Larry (15:23):
That's exactly what I was thinking of.
Kenny Sharp (15:25):
He just started saying it over and he's like,
Margaritaville dude, Margaritaville.
Larry (15:28):
It's a brand.
Kenny Sharp (15:29):
It's a world beyond.
He's like, if you make a world bigger thanyourself, then it just has a longer term
and wider spread value to other people.
You could have a Brown LiquorMusic Festival and you don't even
have to play, you have ErykahBadu headline or something.
It's an idea.
It's a world it doesn't just dependon if you're singing the songs.
Larry (15:48):
Wow.
I have a world bigger than myselfand I'm the only one who lives in it.
So it sounds very like,is anybody in here?
There's nobody in here!
Why am I the only one in this world?
But you brought everybody togetherinto the world, into the club.
'cause I was curious, How didBrown Liquor music come to be?
Kenny Sharp (16:05):
Yeah.
Larry (16:05):
The term?
The song?
Kenny Sharp (16:07):
Yeah at first it was just a song and it was really just my neighbor,
down in DC and well, in AlexanderVirginia, where, my parents live.
Our neighbor, Miss Linda, she's fromthe Mississippi Delta, you know, she's
a very high up in finance and stuff likethat, but she's a country girl, you know?
It was my mom's birthday.
We were riding back from the restaurantand my dad has some Otis Redding on,
(16:28):
and Miss Linda, she just hollers out.
She said, Ken, turn that up.
Me and my dad same name.
She said, Ken, turn that up!
That's Brown Liquor Music!
It just struck me.
It was such a like crazy name, butlike I heard it all my life, but
it was new at the same time andit made a lot of sense and I was
like, this is all the music I love.
So at the time I was like, Igotta make this a song, and I
(16:50):
had been Rapping this whole time.
Rapping, Rapping, Rapping.
But I had been feeling at the time,I've been listening to Kid Cudi,
I've been listening to other Rappersthat are doing more, melodious things
starting to sing and I started takinglittle voice lessons and I was like...
I'm gonna just write this onthe guitar, like, I'm tired of
going over beats and doing this.
I was like, I think Iwanna do something new.
That was the first song that I ever sang.
(17:11):
That was the first time that I like, Iwas like, I'm gonna write a Song, like
I'm not a Rap, like a Song on the guitar.
That was the first one.
It took me about a month.
I worked on that song for like amonth, like very, very intensively.
I was obsessed.
I was just like, I gotta make this song.
And part of the song is actually atrue story from my Aunt and Uncle.
There was a fight and she swung airon skillet at him and she fell.
(17:33):
She missed him.
She fell and fell on thefloor as a whole thing.
But, uh, yeah, that's how it started.
Larry (17:38):
That's incredible.
A lot of singers try to rap.
The fact that you were a rapper,that became a singer, to me I
would be scared outta my mindbecause this is a different voice.
This is your voice.
it's all your voice.
Kenny Sharp (17:49):
I felt like I found home that was a, struggle of mine with the rapping.
And I didn't feel comfortable.
At that point, I was 25, 26, like gettingolder, I had a manager, Chuck Brown,
legendary, Chuck Brown, his manager.
kind of mentored me, through theGrammys, the recording academy.
And he was like, yo, to be a rapper, yo,like your story and what you wanna do,
how your life is like, do you wanna showup for shows and this and this time?
(18:09):
He was like, you need to think about that.
You're 27.
Like, what do you wanna bedoing for the rest of your life?
Like, how are you viewing this?
I didn't used to invitemy mom to my rap shows.
Like I'm never, I wasn'tlike, Ma, come watch me.
She would've definitely,but I couldn't do it.
It'd been too awkward, like, too, andso when I found singing, I was like, oh,
this is something I could show my grandma.
(18:30):
Like this is something Icould send to my grandma.
And she'll get it andshe'll appreciate it.
And that meant a lot to me.
It made me like comfortable.
And then like the guitar on stage,it felt like armor or something.
It felt like a lot easier to do thatthan to like be rapping just with a DJ.
Like, I like being with a band.
I, I knew that.
I don't know, I think with our age grouptoo, a lot of people started kind of
(18:51):
doing that Leon Bridges, he used to rap.
Yeah, he used to rap and then he startedsinging, even Shaboozey now today,
you know, Shaboozey was a rapper.
Shaboozey is from DC Like he'sfrom the same place I'm from.
Oh really?
Yeah, he's from Northern Virginia.
He's from like Alexandria.
He was a rapper.
He's a Nigerian guy.
You know what I mean?
And then you kind of find something whereit's like, okay, this feels like home.
You know?
Yeah.
Larry (19:10):
Yeah.
So feeling like at home,
takes a lot of authenticity, whichtakes a lot of vulnerability and it
takes a lot of taking care of yourself.
Do you take care of yourself?
Kenny Sharp (19:17):
I try to.
But I feel like the past,especially the past six months,
have been really strong for me.
Larry (19:23):
Strong or struggling?
Kenny Sharp (19:24):
Strong In, in that way?
Well, both honestly.
I mean, sometimes the struggles giveyou strength, you know, in a way.
There I quit drinking.
That was like a big thing for me.
Larry (19:33):
I was gonna ask.
'cause I quit drinking as
well.
I was the best drinker in the world.
Kenny Sharp (19:36):
Yeah.
I was the best!
Larry (19:37):
Yeah.
I was the best, I was the best
best drinker...
Kenny Sharp (19:39):
I had to retire!
Larry (19:40):
Oh man.
Forget it.
You know, you're a MusicCity Mayhem Champion?!
I'm an Alcoholism Champion.
Oh yeah.
I was a real champ.
But,
I had to really take care of myself.
Brown Liquor Music.
brown liquor to me is fight juice.
My wife, if she has a little brownliquor on her, on her tongue or on her,
lips, I'm like, that tastes like fight.
If I kiss her, like, oh, hihoney, tastes like fight.
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So I was curious, do you drink?
I would never judge in amillion years if you did.
So you did quit drinking?
Kenny Sharp (20:04):
Yeah, I quit drinking.
I'm a bartender and obviously, yeah, my,company's Brown Liquor Music, so that
was a big part of my identity, I guess.
This is the phrase they say is like,
"Not every time I drank I gotin trouble, but every time I was
in trouble I had been drinking."
It wasn't like I couldn't control it allthe time, but it was just sometimes...
Where you just end up sick.
Like, I'm getting too oldand then trying to sing.
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I'm still wrestling with that, tryingto, have your voice correct, like,
it, it was the lifestyle really.
At the same time too, itjust felt good to cleanse.
And then like on another level,tying back into the music;
everyone that I've been around that didwell in music, especially as a artist,
they had like this period right beforethey blew up and a lot of them were sober.
My main mentor Lunch Money Lewis,um, that I was signed to, he
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had a really good run in pop.
He's still a big pop writer,
he writes a lot of big songs.
But when he was blowing up as anartist, he, told me like that year,
he was living humbly in, LA and he wasdoing two, three sessions a day and
he wasn't smoking or drinking at all.
He wasn't doing anything but music.
And I felt like there's somethingto be said for when you give up
something, with an intention,especially to take care of yourself,
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I feel like it comes back to you.
And I felt like there was a windowcoming, for everything we've been
building and since I've been in Nashville.
And I just wanted to be present for it.
Larry (21:17):
Yeah,
I think that's amazing.
The fact that you have had mentors, youmentioned this, you say it, so easily.
That really requires; A, somebodyhas to believe in you, and B, you
have to believe in yourself enoughto be able to know who you are,
enough to know that youcould use some mentorship.
As opposed to, I know everything.
Hey man, I got it down.
I know myself, they'll allcome around and see it my way.
(21:40):
I'm, amazed by that andI think it's wonderful.
I think it's a strength,it's a vulnerability.
That's really what it is.
Kenny Sharp (21:46):
I've definitely had a lot of good mentors and teachers,
I'm an observant person, I'lltake it in and I'll listen.
And I just saw kind of in highschool, I tell everyone, this
made a big impression on me.
I went to a very big sports high school.
I played football.
The school is called DeMatha Catholic,and It's a huge sports school,
basketball, football, lacrosse everyone,you're going there for a reason.
And our football coach, most winningis coach in Maryland state history.
(22:08):
You hear a lot about him when you'regetting recruited to DeMatha . It's
a Catholic school, so they recruiteven in camps and all this.
Sophomore year, like I'm gettinginto the rooms with the varsity
team and I'm looking at Bill.
'cause he's a very revered character.
He's very tough.
He's very serious.
Fires everyone up, youknow, he's the leader.
But as I'm getting older, when I'mrealizing on the team, I'm like,
wait, he doesn't coach the offense,he's not the offensive coordinator.
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He doesn't coach the defense.
He doesn't coordinate any of the play,he doesn't call any of the plays.
He coaches the special teams.
Like he knows the punt team.
The kickoff, that's his time.
Any other time?
Like as far as strategy andwe're meetings, film study.
He's not talking.
He hired two people that he thought,is this how I want my offense run?
This is how my defense run.
And he lets them do it.
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He delegates and he knows how toput the team together, and then he
comes with the inspiration and theorganization and fires everyone up.
Keeps us on task, keepsus like very driven.
He runs a tight ship, but I'm like,you don't actually know this part.
Not in a bad way.
I mean, he knows what is goingon, that's not his thing.
He's a leader.
Also coming from the militarybackground where they teach you.
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I was a junior in high school, Iwent to West Point for a little
bit for, they have like a summercamp to see if you want to, go.
The idea there is like, you're 18, you'regonna graduate, be 22, you're gonna
be a second lieutenant in the army.
And at that time we were in war, and soit's like you're gonna be going over to
Iraq or Afghanistan, you'regonna be in charge of a platoon.
Wow.
With men that are olderthan you, they got families.
They're 34, 35, andthey're all enlisted men.
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And you're an officer and you gottaknow that to gain their respect,
a leader has to follow first.
You gotta let them eat first.
You make sure they go to sleep first.
You take the first watch.
All these type things, I observed.
I felt like I had good leaders andmentors that were servant leaders.
You know what I mean?
And It's not necessarily about having thebest idea or being able to sing the best.
But if you can assemble a team,and have a vision, that's sometimes
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a little more the way to go.
Larry (23:59):
It's being mindful.
It's being mindful.
I think the greatest gift wecould give is to Mindfully Listen.
To Absolutely Listen, not just hearwhat's going on, but to grasp the
breadth of the moment entirely.
When I've watched you do that atthe East Room, I had just met you.
I met your manager
I just, I felt a part of your family.
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You made me feel very comfortableand I was so excited to go to
the show and I bumped into thisone and I knew a lot of people.
And everybody I saw thereand people that I knew all.
we're filled with AnticipAnticip Anticipation For Joy.
Is there a better wayto say Anticipatory Joy?
Kenny Sharp (24:36):
I like that too.
Either one.
Larry (24:38):
Anticipatory Joy
Look at that.
Kenny Sharp (24:40):
It flows.
Larry (24:41):
It does.
And then I was talking to Emmanuel,your trumpet player, and we've
worked together on records.
He's played on ThemVibes records, my band.
We've done a bunch of projects andwe were catching up and then he goes,
oh, sorry, I gotta get outta here.
I'm like, where you going?
And he goes, he goes, oh, I gotta go play.
I was like, huh.
And I'm like, oh yeah.
Duh.
You know, I had no idea,and then there he was.
(25:02):
And I watched the band get on.
You start the show, not egotistically.
You weren't on stage.
the band started and you had, a singer.
What was her name?
Kenny Sharp (25:11):
The one that led the first song?
Carly Moffa
Another one of my friends,Italians from Jersey,
Larry (25:16):
That's my point.
Somebody else led the band.
The band was kicking, they were smoking.
And then all of a sudden there you were.
But it was so genuine.
I just can't help butto just root for you.
I'm like, I like this guy.
He's not sticking it down my throat.
He's not showing me how badasshe is, even though he is!
Kenny Sharp (25:33):
I'm not gonna lie.
that intro, not exactly theway it went down, but like I
saw her do that medley at her
show, huh?
A couple weeks before shehad her show at The Basement.
It was packed.
She did an amazing job andthen she hit that cover over
the, uh, BG "Staying Alive".
She does like a whole medley andsome of the songs, we do too.
And I was getting very nervous aboutthe East Room like a week or two
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ago about what we could do for a funintro and what I could do and like
what I, and then I was like, yep.
And I was thinking about her, I was like,man, it would be cool if she do something.
Like, and I was like, man, whydon't just ask her to do it.
You know, like maybeshe should just do it.
Like, she'd have fun.
She likes our band, she comes to ourjam, all the band, they love her.
And I was like, why don't you justcome do that Hype the crowd up.
And then that would again, likeas a whole, were greater than
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if I just tried to do something.
Larry (26:17):
Yeah, well, you were listening and you were generous with it.
And in turn, that justmade for a great show.
I love, you know, Michael Singer?
He's a, he's an author.
He, he was famous forwriting The Untethered Soul.
He has another bookcalled Living Untethered.
And his, this quote came to me, itjust kept going every time I saw you.
and Michael Singer says onpage 1 93 of Living Untethered:
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" Love wants to express itselfand enthusiasm wants to create."
That room was love andcreation of more love.
Thank you for that.
What a great, great show.
And he goes on to say,Michael Singer, another quote:
"If you are willing to experiencethe moment unfolding in front of
you, you will have the opportunityto be inspired by everything.
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The simple fact that things existwill be sufficient to move you."
And I thought.
We're in the moment.
Kenny Sharp is right here.
You run a band, you work,you have tour dates.
You do everything.
And I thought, you're still present.
You are able to accept themoment, and it really inspired me.
And today when I woke up and I openedup, I do my journaling in the morning,
Kenny Sharp (27:24):
Trying get like that.
It,
Larry (27:25):
It really helps.
It's therapeutic I just vomit stuff onthe page, get it out of the head office,
empty the head office, and give me achance to just be open to the moment.
And I opened up, I've been reading, ThicNhat Hanh, he's a, Zen Buddhist Master.
Kenny Sharp (27:39):
Okay.
Uh,
I feel I have seen that.
Is He Vietnamese?
Larry (27:41):
He is Vietnamese.
He's got a book right here.
It's called:
Fear.
Essential Wisdom forGetting Through the Storm.
And I, read this book all the timeand I just opened up to the page,
'cause I like doing that.
I just opened up and say,boom, what's today gonna be?
And it just said, LEARNING TO STOP.
And I thought Learning To Stop,being radically acceptance of the
now, you know, radically stop andlisten and be present in the moment.
(28:05):
And I thought, what am Igonna bring to this interview?
What am I gonna do?
No, no, no.
I can't wait to, I'm so nervous.
I'm Kenny Sharp.
He's so great.
And I thought, Just Stop and remindyourself that we're in the moment.
The reason why you like this person,the reason why you're moved by
this person and that actually wehave an appointment together is
'cause we listened to each other
Kenny Sharp (28:23):
Yeah.
Larry (28:23):
As simple as that.
Kenny Sharp (28:24):
Yeah.
Larry (28:25):
And I saw you do that live and I can hear it in your records.
I'm moved by all of it and moved by you.
So thank you for that.
The stage can be so unnerving.
I look back to shows where I'm like, oh mygosh, I was so worried about what's next.
I was so afraid, I was so thinkingabout, well, this happened
in the past and I'm nervous.
Kenny Sharp (28:43):
I was terrified.
Larry (28:44):
Were you terrified?
So please tell us, tell me, alittle bit me, us about your fears,
about what happens in that moment.
Because I think you are able totransform it into something that's
transcendental a little bit so...
Kenny Sharp (28:55):
Man, my fears especially well in that setting, you're
scared and not doing enough.
That particular night.
I can identify specific things, likeI've been working with a performance
coach, Alyssa JC, she's great.
She's an artist herself.
And, we've been working on moves andlike, when the verse comes step back
like this or hop off the stage at this.
And so I was like worriedabout missing my cue.
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She came and she was very supportive.
I was worried about letting her down.
I was like, oh God, I don't know if I'llbe able to do all the moves and da da da.
And I didn't.
I didn't do most of them.
But that was okay.
She was like, we did good.
But yeah, in my head that'sall I was worried about.
Then I had Jackie, wasthere and Russ was there.
My whole team was there.
All of my A & R's from Prescriptioncame and they never come to see a show.
(29:37):
And so that was a lot of pressure for me.
Larry (29:39):
You had the suits at the show!
The suits are in the show here!
Kenny Sharp (29:42):
The suits were at the show!
You know
Larry (29:45):
A few of those suits came up and said hi to me, and now I know who they
are.
Okay.
I didn't realize it at the time.
I'm like, oh, that's right.
The "Publishing People."
Right.
Okay, now I, now it makes sense.
Kenny Sharp (29:53):
They came.
Yeah.
And so that was nerve wracking andthen just nervous for the band.
Lorenzo just got backfrom Italy the day before.
We had one rehearsal, and thenthere was just some other,
like, important people there.
And then you just want to do goodwith your friends, which is also
the reason, like, once you kind ofstart getting going, it helps you
that it's your friends and stuff.
But yeah, it just felt like amoment we've been building to for a
(30:13):
while and a lot of, fears of that.
And then, just in general, zooming outjust from that show, I think, yeah,
you're just worried about; Oh, I onlyhave one shot, one chance, one song away,
one moment that goes Wrong or Right.
Like you can get in yourhead about those things.
Larry (30:27):
Yeah.
But you persevered and you got throughit because you were in the moment.
I mean, was there a little clickwhere you said you had to push
yourself, uh, align yourself?
'Cause that's why, "THE WORK", thesort of spiritual digging that we do,
it helps put building blocks in place.
So sometimes when I'm really outtamy head and I'm afraid and I'm
running on fear and anxiety.
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I'm absolutely, upset about the pastand I'm freaked out about the future.
I have these building blocks little bylittle where I go, okay, just be here
in the moment and it's gonna be okay.
Was there a moment that happenedthe other night at the East Room?
Kenny Sharp (31:01):
I tried to do, it's almost like meditating where
you're in it and then you mightfall out and you gotta notice,
but be gentle with yourself.
Like, okay, just chill, just breathe.
And then, so it was like a inand out type thing, you know?
And there's moments, you snap out of it.
There's a producer I work with, man,another Italian guy, Barry Zito.
Barry Zito is a very famousMLB pitcher, he's a producer.
He lives here and he's a songwriter,
Larry (31:22):
The Barry Zito?
lives
Kenny Sharp (31:23):
Didn't know that?
Larry (31:24):
I'm a fan, but, oh,
Kenny Sharp (31:25):
Yeah.
I knew who he was, but like,yeah, We got to writing.
he's a very interesting story,'cause obviously he's very good
at baseball but his mother andfather they both encouraged music.
He was like, when I was, 11,12, they were just like, you're
really good at throwing a ball.
When he was in the minor leaguesand coming up, he said, I, he always
took his guitar with him and soonas he finished baseball, he'd had
a studio built and he lives hereand he's had his own solo project.
(31:46):
But anyway, I was talking tohim about mentally preparing.
I was like, when you were at yourbest, like what was your life like?
What was your routines like?
How did you take care?
And he was like, the year hewon the World Series, he had
intentionally been different.
He was getting into meditationand in the moment and not being
too up or down on the next pitch.
And that's what we talked about.
And he showed me, he's like,look at Game Seven from the
NLCS and the bases were loaded.
(32:08):
He walked me through like what histhoughts were like as this was happening.
He got out of the jam andthey went to the World
Series and they won!
Larry (32:14):
What was the team he won with?
Was
Kenny Sharp (32:16):
it the giants?
Larry (32:17):
It was the giants.
That's amazing.
You've had the best mentors.
This is amazing.
You could write a book, my mentors.
But it's true.
Being present in the moment andbeing on the other side of that,
being a person in the audience, youreally, were right there with us man.
I really appreciate it.
So you do take care of yourself,you're on the road a lot.
how do you grapple with all that?
The road is tough, man.
Kenny Sharp (32:35):
So the next part, if I'm be
honest with you.
I'm going through a bit of a breakupright now, and that kind of was new.
And this is my first time on tour.
I've been on small tours as abackground singer with my friends
band, but I never been on our tour.
And we've gone out of town todo a gig here or do a gig there,
but like never, like onthe road we got a road
manager.
(32:55):
Yeah.
Staying in Airbnbs, spot, sound check.
You know?
And, the first timewas this past weekend.
And I'm not gonna lie,that was very lonely.
It was really hard.
'cause it started to sink in.
You're on the road and there'sthe image of like, oh, girls
parties, you're on the road.
Like, that's not usually what it's like.
I've told her that my girlfriendsand ex, I was like, you know,
we're not the Beatles Dog.
(33:16):
It's not like girls are just runningup, you know, like that's not how
it is And I would prefer to be onthe road, like in a relationship.
I would prefer to have you know,partner at home or something.
I feel like that would makethe road not as lonely.
Larry (33:28):
I see so many women right now listening, going like, uh, uh...
Kenny Sharp (33:31):
Yeah, not, yeah,
Larry (33:32):
No Thanks!
Kenny Sharp (33:33):
It was lonely.
I got out there and I was like, dang man.
And obviously it's just new, beingapart from her that definitely has
been a lot like mental health wiseas far as what you're talking about,
about feeling things and just be still.
A lot of my day to day, the past weekor two has been trying to not melt down.
Larry (33:49):
Yeah, For sure, and thank you for sharing that.
That's important.
'cause people say, yeah, I'mon the road and that's it.
It's a party and I've done it,I mean, that was my whole life.
And then I would neglect everythingelse, be like, Hey, I'm on the road?!
People go, oh yeah, he's on the road.
And then you, you know, okay.
I married a touring musician,very, very successful.
My wife, Sarah Tomek, famous drummer,Sarah Tomek, I don't see her anymore.
(34:11):
Well, I see her this week.
She will be leaving
for the whole spring into the summer.
She will be leaving for about four months.
We did five weeks was our longest.
And how hard, I can't even tell you.
It was so hard.
And it's comical.
She comes home and I'm like,"That doesn't go there!"
That's
Kenny Sharp (34:27):
Right, right.
Larry (34:28):
I'm like, "Don't put that there."
She goes, "What the heckare you talking about?"
I'm like, "That doesn't gothere, we put that here."
Who's we?
I'm like, "Ringo and I!"
I, Yeah, our dog, Ringo.
It takes a toll and it's really hard.
Being comfortable in your own skinand being okay with being alone is
really something that's, hard to do.
'cause you're the leader of the band.
You are the party, come on man, Let's Go!
Let's Go!
Let's Go!.
And you have, to take careof your voice physically.
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You gotta make sure youeat as well as you can,
'cause that's really hard.
Kenny Sharp (34:54):
Adds up.
Stopping
at gas stations, you wanna just get asnack and it's like, sometimes you gotta
be smart about what snack you're getting.
Larry (35:00):
For sure.
I was the lead singer ofmy band, so it was great.
we toured Europe and we didlike 28 shows in 30 days.
So for the band to be like, Larry,you have to be on vocal rest.
In other words, shut up, this voiceof mine that just won't stop talking.
Kenny Sharp (35:14):
As you can hear, I'm hoarse now and we're going back out Thursday or
Friday and I think that's what all week.
I'm just gonna be trying to rest.
I'm supposed to do a gig Thursdayand I might have to get another
vocal support to help the gig.
It's three hour gig and Idon't think I can do that.
Larry (35:26):
Well, well, you know what?
You are kind and, you are generous.
So people will forgive ifa voice is a little bit?!?!
I think so.
I really do.
I I know it.
I've been there really because
I've thought, I SUCK.
You know, how many gigs?
I want this moment back, that moment back.
And you know what, wemiss the big picture.
These moments fly by so quickly andmost of the time people don't notice.
(35:49):
Yeah, you're gonna have your musicians,you know, we're in Nashville.
People standing there beinglike, oh, I heard that.
I heard that.
I heard that.
But you know what?
We hear a good time becausewe feel a good time.
And a good time.
Sounds like it's to be hadwith Soul Thru South Tour.
That's your tour.
Yeah.
Kenny Sharp (36:04):
Yeah, we're going to Dallas, Houston, New Orleans,
which we're we're staying a couple
extra days in New Orleans, andthen Birmingham and Atlanta.
Larry (36:12):
Man, you've had songs out, over the years, Smooth in 2024.
Amazing.
The Louvre.
Kenny Sharp (36:17):
Yeah, that one did very well.
Larry (36:18):
The Louvre Folks, please, just check
this out.
Okay.
I listened to the Louvre, on YouTube.
I watched your video
and
I fell in love with you.
Like I fell in love with you, dude.
I mean, you know, it's like,you're not my type, but I,
mean, I, watched this DIY video.
I felt like I was on vacation with you,and I was like, I can't wait to go back.
Will Kenny and I everget back to the Louvre???
Kenny Sharp (36:38):
That was a crazy story.
But that we were on the wayback from Italy with Pino.
We had a 12 hour layover inParis and I shot that video.
We went there and I have a photographerfriend from LA, who was in Paris
shooting a shoot for Slam Magazine.
And he was like, I got a camera.
I got two hours for my flight.
And that's what happened.
Larry (36:54):
And of course we mean the great Pino.
How does he pronounce his last name?
Kenny Sharp (36:56):
Pino Squillace
Larry (36:58):
Squillace!
See, I I would never wanna doany misjustice, 'cause I, like
you have many Italian friends.
I grew up in New York City, Squillace!
An amazing drummer andhe's an amazing soul.
But I watched this video andI thought, this person is
speaking directly to my heart.
And That's what we callthe X factor, my friend.
And you know what's so funny is that Iheard the lyric and it's "Picture you
(37:19):
up in the Louvre," like Picture You Up.
But to me it sounded like you keptsaying; "I picked you up in the Louvre".
And I was like,
cool!
Kenny Sharp (37:26):
Yeah.
He said cool.
Larry (37:27):
That's a sexy thing.
as anything!
Kenny Sharp (37:28):
Yeah.
from a museum!
Larry (37:30):
Kenny, You picked ME up from the Louvre!
Right.
Yeah!
I felt like we met there and were...
really, I had
this whole vision in my head.
Like, I'm looking at the paintingand you're like, "Excuse me, uh, what
do you like about this painting?"
I'm like, " I don't know.
It's so cute."
Like, God, Kenny Sharp justpicked me up at the Louvre!
I mean, that's what thevideo was, but that's how,
approachable you are.
Your music is great.
You had new music out Now.
Gold Rush is the New EP.
Kenny Sharp (37:51):
I'm excited about that one.
Larry (37:52):
So where did you record this?
Kenny Sharp (37:53):
We recorded it mostly here.
We did the whole man.
Phil Towns produced this and wow.
Larry (37:59):
Wow.
This Cat, yeah.
Wow.
Phil Towns.
Check out Phil Towns.
He's a producer thatplays every instrument.
So he produced your record,you recorded it in Nashville?
Kenny Sharp (38:07):
Yes.
He's an Alabama guy, he was inMuscle Shoals, he was at Fame.
He knows Spencer.
He was the same year as Spencer and Noah.
I don't know if you met Noah Shell.
Sure, sure.
Noah's my boy.
And, He went on the road fromFame as the MD for Anderson East.
Wow.
So he's been producing withhim for the last decade or so.
And by way of that, like with DaveCobb and a lot of those guys, he
plays keys and a lot of BrandyCarlisle and Chris Stapleton stuff.
(38:30):
And so I say that to say we kind ofdid a Nashville style in that way,
like where we had the songs and then wewent in with a proper rhythm section.
And a couple of those guys that heplays a lot with, and they're all
Chris Powell, Leroy Powell, man,some of those guys, they're, OGs.
And I never had that experience,but we wrote the songs in Miami,
like three or four of them.
Then we wrote two of them,Smooth we wrote in Fame,
(38:50):
like at Muscle Shoals.
Spencer's on the writing andthen we cut them in Nashville.
Larry (38:54):
That's so cool.
Leroy Powell is another one.
He's a good friend.
Kenny Sharp (38:57):
That's my favorite guitar player in the world.
Like all my guitar players, when we doour shows and they listen to what he
do, they don't know what he's doing.
They can't figure it out.
He plays the laps steel.
He plays harmonica too.
He goes crazy on the Harmonica.
Larry (39:10):
Yep.
He's
a, Wizard.
He literally is a Wizard.
I've known him a long time,much love to Leroy Powell.
Kenny Sharp.
I have a few questions.
Would you like to
answer a few questions?
Beautiful!
What fascinates you right now, these days?
Kenny Sharp (39:20):
Traveling, travel plans, like where we're gonna go on the road
and what, the tour is gonna be like.
Larry (39:24):
What angers you?
Kenny Sharp (39:26):
Angers me, man.
I would say, I don't know.
there's some things that disappointme or I've been sad about.
Like I said, I obviously am goingthrough a, breakup, there's stuff
I'm resentful towards, but when thathappens, it's something more sad.
Larry (39:38):
Right.
Yeah.
Kenny Sharp (39:39):
More sad you know?
Larry (39:40):
What angers you?
What pisses you off?
What gets under
Kenny Sharp (39:42):
your skin?
I feel like rude customers maybe.
In my other job, I'm a bartender andthat is almost also like being on a
stage and you gotta present to peopleand give your energy a certain way.
So, yeah, I guess when someone comesin and they're like, rude, yeah.
That is the most prevalent,thing where you get angry.
You're like Dog, what do you mean?
I'm trying to serve you something!
Right, I'm tryin' to help you out!
Right.
right
Larry (40:02):
What brings you joy my friend?
Kenny Sharp (40:04):
Um, my band, making music, everything that's kind
of going on, my friends here.
It does feel like aFamily and a Community.
That show was very healing in a way, to beyou know, going through this at this time.
But then see all my friends andfamily, my Nashville friends
and family here, at the show.
And we do this jam every firstSunday of the month at 1865.
We call it A Family Affair,Sly & The Family Stone and,
(40:26):
those things are very healing.
Larry (40:28):
That's great.
If you had a magic wand and youcould fix one thing like Kenny
Sharp's Magic Wand Moment, POP!
What would it be?
Kenny Sharp (40:35):
Right now?
don't know.
I feel like we'd be on the road ona World Tour or something opening
up for Shaboozey or Leon Bridgesor something, you know what I mean?
And be on the road right now.
But I feel like we're on the path.
Like I feel like it's going wellright now and I can't really complain.
You take losses, sometimesyou take lessons.
It feels like things are in a good space.
I'm real excited.
Larry (40:56):
Good for you.
I'm very happy to hear that.
Alright, this is the big one, man.
Toilet paper
Okay.
Over Or Under?
Kenny Sharp (41:03):
I think if I have to choose...Over.
Larry (41:07):
Correct!
Kenny Sharp (41:07):
But I don't know.
Is that that correct?
Larry (41:10):
Correct!
Kenny Sharp, thank you so much.
So where do we find allthe things Kenny Sharp?
Kenny Sharp (41:15):
Oh man.
So find me on any of yourDSP streaming platforms.
Kenny Sharp is the artist'sname, and if you're on socials,
you can just look up the brand.
Just Brown Liquor Music.
And then the website iswww.brownliquormusic.live,
it's spelled regular, straight up.
Nothing funny.
No funny business.
Larry (41:33):
No funny business, not at all.
Just loving business.
Kenny Sharp, thank you somuch for being on this show.
Kenny Sharp (41:39):
Thank You Brother love.
Oh,
Larry (41:40):
Oh, you're so very welcome.
I feel like
I talked over your, thank you.
Thank you all so much for tuning in.
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(42:02):
to share it with an audience.
This is fantastic.
Thank you so very much,
Kenny Sharp (42:06):
Thank You!
Larry (42:06):
Thank you all for listening to the Just Keep Talking Podcast.
My name is Brother Love.
Until next time, we'll see you soon.
Bye-bye.
Kenny Sharp (42:13):
Take care.
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Welcome one.
Welcome all to the JustKeep Talking Podcast.
My name is Brother Love.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Oh my goodness.
Do we have ourselves at guest this week?
Kenny Sharp.
Hello.
Kenny Sharp (01:16):
Hello.
How are you?
Larry (01:17):
I am fantastic.
I am so grateful that you're here.
Kenny Sharp (01:22):
Oh, I'm very grateful to be here.
Larry (01:23):
I feel like I've known you because your music seeps into my soul and my soul.
Thanks you.
Kenny Sharp (01:30):
Good.
Larry (01:30):
Kenny Sharp is a singer songwriter with a gender bending
sound, dubbed Brown Liquor Music.
I'm gonna read a little bitabout you one more time here.
Brown liquor music.
'cause I'm like, Whatis brown liquor music?
It's described for us.
Thank you.
Internet.
Brown Liquor Music is an experience thattakes you back to the warmth and richness
of classic soul, where the music wasas smooth and deep as a fine spirit.
(01:54):
It's a celebration of love,life, and the moments in between.
While it was rooted with the timelessvoices of legends like Sam Cook, Etta
James and Al Green, it has grown toembrace a wider range of sounds and
influences all united by the same coreessence; music that Makes You Feel.
It's about savoring the good times,understanding the bittersweet ones,
(02:17):
and letting the music flow likea good drink shared with friends.
That is you in song.
That is you.
Kenny Sharp (02:24):
I'm not gonna lie.
I think my man, he musthave had the AI right there.
That's incredible.
That's it.
Larry (02:28):
That is what it is.
That is who you are.
You came into Lightning 100.
I was, hosting the Morningshow and You gave it to us.
You gave it to us acoustically.
Kenny Sharp (02:38):
I call you from the road like there by mama's home.
You be ready when I got there, babewouldn't have nothing on nothing
but some brown looking music play.
You be sipping from a glass,something dark and smooth.
(02:59):
Now, soon as it hit your lipsrunning down every inch of your
body, warm you up from the insideout there, Lord, like a hot tide.
And now lay right there in your arms and.
This is where you belong, and nextmorning it was Sam Cook and a need singing
(03:22):
while I'm cooking Baking on the store.
Otis Red and James Browney Green.
My favorite colors inthe spectrum of soul.
Larry (03:29):
I find it so amazing.
You come in acoustically, it'slike, wow, that's so cool.
What a cool cat.
What a nice guy.
His songs are really good.
He delivers with justa guitar in his voice.
And then I went and sawyour show at The East
Kenny Sharp (03:43):
Oh yeah.
It's a different vibe.
Larry (03:44):
It's different vibe.
And you melted my face.
You melted my face.
You really are the real deal andyou are such a nice individual.
I mean, You're kind, you're a good guy!
Kenny Sharp (03:52):
I appreciate that, man.
Like good, good parents.
Larry (03:54):
You were born in, Montgomery, Alabama.
Yes.
Right.
And you lived a lot in DC Yourparents are Air Force people?
Kenny Sharp (04:01):
Yeah, they're both Air Force officers and I, grew up moving around.
So Alabama was where I wasborn, and that's where my mom's
family originally is from.
They moved to Ohio when she was young,like our roots are in Alabama and then DC.
But yeah, I lived in, I lived in Germany.
My dad lived in New Mexico,Georgia, so all, around.
Larry (04:21):
Where in, Germany were you?
Where, and you lived three years?
Kenny Sharp (04:24):
I was there for three years.
Yeah.
I was in Stuttgart with my mom,but my dad was based in Ramstein.
We were two different,I'd stay with my mom.
Larry (04:31):
I have been there and I've played at a Kaserne.
I've been to Germany.
I've been to StuttgardI've been to Ramstein.
I've toured all over Europe a few times.
Kenny Sharp (04:39):
Did you do?
Like USO stuff or, kind of
Larry (04:41):
No, did a band in a van stuff.
That's Cool!
Kenny Sharp (04:44):
It's really important to people over there, you know, and
they get to see some, entertainment,especially from back in the States.
Larry (04:50):
Yeah.
I mean, I've been there a few times.
My first time was in the nineties.
I'm a little bit older than youare, and it was a funk rock band.
I was the drummer ina band called D'Tripp.
We were like Sly and the Family Stone.
Kenny Sharp (05:01):
That's cool.
Larry (05:02):
It was a seven piece band.
It was the same instrumentation as Sly.
And the band leader, his name is Shyndigg.
He's my mentor.
Kenny Sharp (05:10):
That's a great name.
Yeah.
I've never heard that as a name.
It's mind boggling.
Yeah,
Larry (05:14):
I was young.
I was in my twenties at the time, and Iremember the guy who brought us there.
He said, all right, D'Tripp, pick whichfour people are going and we're gonna go.
And Shyndigg was like,nah man, we're a band.
We gotta we're seven piece.
And he's like, look, you'renot gonna make any money.
That was the first time I realized Iwasn't gonna make a lot of money in music.
But we went as a seven pieceband and I remember we played
this beautiful 📍 Kaserne.
. Can you explain to us, since you'velived there, what exactly a Kaserne is?
Kenny Sharp (05:38):
It's a base,
Larry (05:39):
But it was a base that was for the German.
Kenny Sharp (05:42):
Yeah.
German.
It is a German base
The before World War 11and then we overtook them.
Larry (05:45):
Being in this a massive room, right?
First of all, everything's color 'causewe're there and we're living it, but
we see it all in black and white.
This was a German base.
We were the Allied Forcesthat took over the base.
I played music at one of those Kasernes.
Kenny Sharp (06:00):
That's one of the biggest takeaways I think from being over there
those type of realizations where on onehand you see wow, this is different.
Like this is a German base!
But at the same timeyou're like, oh, dang.
Like, I didn't even think about that.
like, people are similar wherever you are.
It's the similarities and the differences.
You know, they got McDonald's overthere, but the ketchup tastes a little
different, but you know what I mean.
It's like their military base looks kindof like ours, but it's a little different
(06:22):
when you start realizing, you're like,oh no, this was definitely a German one.
Like this is, it's slightly different,but there's a lot of similarities in it.
They're moving, they're like,oh, people, you know, across
the ocean I've never met before.
It's just people.
Larry (06:35):
They're just people.
Yeah
We are all just people.
That's fantastic.
Everything you say, it sounds like a song.
It really is.
So what do you consider as home for you?
Kenny Sharp (06:43):
Dc.
Larry (06:44):
DC
Kenny Sharp (06:44):
DC is home.
Larry (06:45):
Right on.
And you've spent sometime in Muscle Shoals.
I see that.
Kenny Sharp (06:48):
Yeah.
That's where my family's from.
That's where my mom was born.
That's where my grandma was born.
That's where Roots are.
And, I started working therewhen I started taking trips here.
My good buddy, David Mescon, Messy.
He, um, started working with awriter that works down there.
it's only a hundredmiles from Nashville, so
Larry (07:04):
I have a wedding down there in a few weeks.
I got to record Fame Studios a fewtimes and I see you work with Spencer,
Kenny Sharp (07:10):
Oh, that's my boy coat.
Spencer Coates 'Specoats'.
Larry (07:13):
I love
Spencer.
Absolutely.
We've worked together
Kenny Sharp (07:15):
He's a great
Larry (07:16):
He's a great man.
So how long have you been in Nashville?
Kenny Sharp (07:19):
Nashville?
Just over three years.
Larry (07:20):
Did you come here?
like, I'm gonna have a career, orit was like, wow, I have a career.
I better get there.
Kenny Sharp (07:25):
I had a career going honestly, I didn't choose here.
I kind of came here, secondarily'cause I assigned to a publisher.
Mm-hmm.
First I signed to anartist he's from Miami.
Larry (07:35):
What do you mean you signed to an artist?
Kenny Sharp (07:36):
I assigned to an artist named Lunch Money Lewis.
Okay.
And I was signed to be like, developedas a artist and a writer under him.
And so I would be between Miami and LA.
Then I got signed to PrescriptionSongs, to Luke's company,
Luke's, publishing company, Dr.
Luke.
That was kind of my introductioninto the pop world and the industry
of songwriting in that way andnot just pop, like sync things.
They had a good team but I was outtathe LA office and then the office here,
(08:00):
they had opened up, so I started takingtrips here every once in a while.
Larry (08:03):
I But you were living where?
At the time?
Kenny Sharp (08:04):
I was living in DC so I would bartend Friday to SAT Sunday,
and then Monday to Thursday I wouldeither go to Miami, Nashville,
or LA for like a year or so.
I, I stayed here for six weeks andI stayed in LA for seven, eight
weeks when I was trying to decidefinally where I was gonna move, and
I picked LA and then Covid happened.
Larry (08:22):
Right.
Kenny Sharp (08:23):
This just made way more sense.
Everything was opened up back sooner.
Writings were happening sooneryou could play live, and then we
started going to Muscle Shoals.
For the music I was making, itjust felt better to be here.
Larry (08:34):
Well, I'm glad you're here.
I'm gonna read a little bit about you
Kenny Sharp (08:37):
Me too
Larry (08:37):
"Kenny's songs effortlessly weave together disparate styles
and powerful vocal performances andnatural storytelling instincts."
Now, I had to look up disparatebecause you know what?
I'm like, I know what this means, right?
And then I go, well, so
Kenny Sharp (08:50):
It's one of those where you get the feeling, but you're
like, all right, what exactly,
Larry (08:54):
Right.
So according to MerriamWebster, who's, my go-to.
Alright,
Disparate; markedly distinctin quality or character.
Okay.
You are very distinct inquality and character.
There's only one of you...
"Containing or made up of fundamentallydifferent and often incongruous elements."
Now I'm looking up incongruent!
Incongruent; Not harmonious.
(09:15):
Incompatible at times.
But no, I like this one...
Not conforming.
It's inconsistent within itself.
These are things that Ifind interesting about you.
You are very distinct in quality andcharacter, and you have different
elements that aren't necessarily thingsthat we know to get to go together.
Go together, right?
You are what I wouldcall the perfect gumbo.
Kenny Sharp (09:35):
Gumbo is a, I gotta make a song called Gumbo.
Now that is the perfectanalogy for what, what it is.
Larry (09:40):
You have so many different influences.
What did you grow up listening to?
Kenny Sharp (09:44):
So my mom and dad are obviously, you know, your first two
kind of influences 'cause you'relistening to whatever they had.
My mom's a musician.
My mom majored in music.
She majored in music therapy.
She's a, Miss Teen Ohio and all.
She could sing and dance and do all that.
And then my dad is a DJ.
He grew up always DJing and, you know,they both went in the military 'cause
back then they weren't really encouragedto like chase your dreams, so to speak.
(10:05):
So they did all these things and theywere creative, but when college came,
it was like, go to get a job, you know,so they went to the military and, and
that's part of why they support me now.
You know, they're all R & B, Soul Funk.
But my dad's more like JamesBrown, Parliament Funkadelic
and my mom's likes the prettier thingslike Earth, Wind, and Fire, The Emotions,
The Stylistics So it's a lot of that.
But then for me, like when I startedlistening to my, what I wanted to listen
(10:28):
to my first stuff, it was like R & B.
Usher was my first album, My Way.
His first album.
And then it was like a lot of90's, 2000's, R & B, and then Rap.
I was a Rapper until like 2015, 2016.
Like I, I just Rapped.
Like I was on the radio in DC for Rapping.
I was on a lot of Go-Go remixes.
I've been on songs with Dj Cool.
(10:48):
Um, the, Let Me Clear My Throat.
Yeah.
He's a mentor of mine and I was justRapping, so it was Jay-Z, it was
Outkast, like, those are my favorites.
Lil Wayne, Ludacris.
Like, I was just studyingRap until College.
I went to Washington and LeeUniversity in the Blue Ridge
Mountains out in Lexington, Virginia.
And that's when I got introducedto kind of like The Sixties in a
sense, Sixties and Seventies Music.
(11:09):
It was like, Beatles,Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix.
In senior year of high school, Red HotChili Peppers was the first rock band
that I ever was like, oh, this is Rock.
I remember being like, this is rock?
I like this!
I just thought Rock was like, AAAAAHHHH!!!
Like I that's all I knew.
Larry (11:22):
And the other side was like, This Is Funk?!
You know what I mean?
The black community was like, wait,Red Hot Chili Peppers is Funk?
And the white people were like,
This Is is Funk!
okay.
So what was the song that youheard or something that really took
you like, wow, this is somethingthat speaks to me, to my core.
Kenny Sharp (11:38):
Like as far as inspire me to want to do this?
I started writing songs when I was 12.
I started Rapping in the lunchroom,like that was, you're trying
to freestyle battle to get the
girls.
I think it was just a lot of OutKast andJay-Z and then like, singing wise, there's
a couple seminal moments I would say.
One is, the first time I heardAmy Winehouse, I heard her
singing, You Know, I'm No Good.
(11:59):
Mm-hmm.
I was like, who's this girl singing?
I was like, is this soul?
And honestly, a lot of myinfluences are similarly like
gumbos.
right?
Like she was singing soul, but itwas like jazzy chords, you know?
It was jazzy funky.
But then the groove is kind of likehip hop, like boom, bap almost.
But then she's singing, and thenshe's singing really pretty.
But then it's like, is that a cuss word?
Did she just say fuck?
You know?
(12:19):
It's like, I'm sorry.
I don't know if I'm allowed?
Larry (12:21):
That's fine.
Kenny Sharp (12:21):
That, seeing Kanye West open up for Usher.
I saw Kanye West College Dropoutopened up for Usher Confessions.
That was my first big show.
I got a aunt, she'sfrom Buffalo, New York.
Like she's hood, like, she wears Tims.
She has a half German Shepherd,half Pit Bull at the time.
And when I seen her bawling tears,like before Usher even sang a
note, like he didn't even sing yet,like the lights was going up and
(12:43):
you know, he's about to come out.
And all the women around me were cryingI was like, man, I wanna do that!
I, if you're music can move people in thatway, like it was, it was overwhelming.
And then Sam Cook, Otis Redding, likejust really getting into them two.
And then Jimi Hendrix and Andre 3000.
Those are two kind ofcharacters that I really like.
Not just their music, but their,like who they were as people.
(13:05):
That really moved me.
Larry (13:06):
So I get older now 'cause we all do.
Kenny Sharp (13:08):
Yeah.
Right.
Every day.
Larry (13:10):
Cause that like
Kenny Sharp (13:10):
happens, right?
Larry (13:11):
And I go oh, you know, I should have been born earlier, you know, ah,
my music is from a different time.
Or the things that Ilove are from the past.
I love everything from the thirties,forties, fifties, the sixties and
the seventies are seminal for me,but you feel present and current.
Your music is definitely flavoredfrom the past, but it's also now.
Going to, your show wassuch a fun experience.
(13:31):
I felt so alive and Ifelt the joy in the room.
And there was a lot of young people,you know, twenties, thirties,
maybe even a little younger.
Fine.
Getting into the bar.
Kenny Sharp (13:40):
Cool.
Yeah.
Larry (13:41):
I just thought, wow, this is just perfect.
Everybody Belongs.
Right Here, Right Now.
And you were spectacular.
Really,
Kenny Sharp (13:51):
I really appreciate that, man.
And honestly, you really perceivedit the exact way I guess we
intended it, which means a lot.
That's how I wanted to feel likea big family reunion and party.
That's the whole essence of it.
The soul of the Brown Liquor Music songsthat we all feel good about, where it's
like there's certain stuff that transcendsits own genre like Hank Williams, Sr.
Johnny Cash.
Yeah, it's like Country, but there'speople that don't like Country
(14:13):
that like Johnny Cash, that don'tlisten to, you know what I mean?
There's people that don't like Rap andthey're like, oh, Andre 3000, he's cool.
You know what I mean?
Larry (14:20):
We don't have to Compartmentalize it.
And that's where I think it gets tricky.
You are in the business like I'vemet, you have a manager, PR, you
have people that are your teamand they are industry people.
And it's very easy for an artistlike yourself to get caught up in the
Compartmentalizing to try to Performand Please, and Prove to everybody.
You are effortless, my friend.
Kenny Sharp (14:41):
Man.
I hope it seems that way.
The topic you're just talking about toois something we actively deal with a lot.
The disparate styles is somethingdefinitely a lot of the industry
people, even within our team.
The difference between like, alright,
Who's Kenny Sharp and whatis Brown Liquor Music?
Is that the name of the band?
What does that mean?
Some people, it's confusing to me.
it's not as confusing.
It's kind of just like the sonic brand andworld that Kenny Sharp Music lives under.
(15:05):
When me and Brett, my business partnerstarted this, the idea he came to me with
like, 'cause I told him the whole BrownLiquor Music, like my vision, but like, I
didn't have it kind of crystallized yet.
And he was like, oh, like Jimmy Buffett.
I was like, well, yeah, whatever.
Like I knew who Jimmy Buffett kind ofwas, but like, I was like, yeah, sure.
Brown Liquor Music.
Jimmy Buffett.
Like, what do you mean?
Larry (15:23):
That's exactly what I was thinking of.
Kenny Sharp (15:25):
He just started saying it over and he's like,
Margaritaville dude, Margaritaville.
Larry (15:28):
It's a brand.
Kenny Sharp (15:29):
It's a world beyond.
He's like, if you make a world bigger thanyourself, then it just has a longer term
and wider spread value to other people.
You could have a Brown LiquorMusic Festival and you don't even
have to play, you have ErykahBadu headline or something.
It's an idea.
It's a world it doesn't just dependon if you're singing the songs.
Larry (15:48):
Wow.
I have a world bigger than myselfand I'm the only one who lives in it.
So it sounds very like,is anybody in here?
There's nobody in here!
Why am I the only one in this world?
But you brought everybody togetherinto the world, into the club.
'cause I was curious, How didBrown Liquor music come to be?
Kenny Sharp (16:05):
Yeah.
Larry (16:05):
The term?
The song?
Kenny Sharp (16:07):
Yeah at first it was just a song and it was really just my neighbor,
down in DC and well, in AlexanderVirginia, where, my parents live.
Our neighbor, Miss Linda, she's fromthe Mississippi Delta, you know, she's
a very high up in finance and stuff likethat, but she's a country girl, you know?
It was my mom's birthday.
We were riding back from the restaurantand my dad has some Otis Redding on,
(16:28):
and Miss Linda, she just hollers out.
She said, Ken, turn that up.
Me and my dad same name.
She said, Ken, turn that up!
That's Brown Liquor Music!
It just struck me.
It was such a like crazy name, butlike I heard it all my life, but
it was new at the same time andit made a lot of sense and I was
like, this is all the music I love.
So at the time I was like, Igotta make this a song, and I
(16:50):
had been Rapping this whole time.
Rapping, Rapping, Rapping.
But I had been feeling at the time,I've been listening to Kid Cudi,
I've been listening to other Rappersthat are doing more, melodious things
starting to sing and I started takinglittle voice lessons and I was like...
I'm gonna just write this onthe guitar, like, I'm tired of
going over beats and doing this.
I was like, I think Iwanna do something new.
That was the first song that I ever sang.
(17:11):
That was the first time that I like, Iwas like, I'm gonna write a Song, like
I'm not a Rap, like a Song on the guitar.
That was the first one.
It took me about a month.
I worked on that song for like amonth, like very, very intensively.
I was obsessed.
I was just like, I gotta make this song.
And part of the song is actually atrue story from my Aunt and Uncle.
There was a fight and she swung airon skillet at him and she fell.
(17:33):
She missed him.
She fell and fell on thefloor as a whole thing.
But, uh, yeah, that's how it started.
Larry (17:38):
That's incredible.
A lot of singers try to rap.
The fact that you were a rapper,that became a singer, to me I
would be scared outta my mindbecause this is a different voice.
This is your voice.
it's all your voice.
Kenny Sharp (17:49):
I felt like I found home that was a, struggle of mine with the rapping.
And I didn't feel comfortable.
At that point, I was 25, 26, like gettingolder, I had a manager, Chuck Brown,
legendary, Chuck Brown, his manager.
kind of mentored me, through theGrammys, the recording academy.
And he was like, yo, to be a rapper, yo,like your story and what you wanna do,
how your life is like, do you wanna showup for shows and this and this time?
(18:09):
He was like, you need to think about that.
You're 27.
Like, what do you wanna bedoing for the rest of your life?
Like, how are you viewing this?
I didn't used to invitemy mom to my rap shows.
Like I'm never, I wasn'tlike, Ma, come watch me.
She would've definitely,but I couldn't do it.
It'd been too awkward, like, too, andso when I found singing, I was like, oh,
this is something I could show my grandma.
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Like this is something Icould send to my grandma.
And she'll get it andshe'll appreciate it.
And that meant a lot to me.
It made me like comfortable.
And then like the guitar on stage,it felt like armor or something.
It felt like a lot easier to do thatthan to like be rapping just with a DJ.
Like, I like being with a band.
I, I knew that.
I don't know, I think with our age grouptoo, a lot of people started kind of
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doing that Leon Bridges, he used to rap.
Yeah, he used to rap and then he startedsinging, even Shaboozey now today,
you know, Shaboozey was a rapper.
Shaboozey is from DC Like he'sfrom the same place I'm from.
Oh really?
Yeah, he's from Northern Virginia.
He's from like Alexandria.
He was a rapper.
He's a Nigerian guy.
You know what I mean?
And then you kind of find something whereit's like, okay, this feels like home.
You know?
Yeah.
Larry (19:10):
Yeah.
So feeling like at home,
takes a lot of authenticity, whichtakes a lot of vulnerability and it
takes a lot of taking care of yourself.
Do you take care of yourself?
Kenny Sharp (19:17):
I try to.
But I feel like the past,especially the past six months,
have been really strong for me.
Larry (19:23):
Strong or struggling?
Kenny Sharp (19:24):
Strong In, in that way?
Well, both honestly.
I mean, sometimes the struggles giveyou strength, you know, in a way.
There I quit drinking.
That was like a big thing for me.
Larry (19:33):
I was gonna ask.
'cause I quit drinking as
well.
I was the best drinker in the world.
Kenny Sharp (19:36):
Yeah.
I was the best!
Larry (19:37):
Yeah.
I was the best, I was the best
best drinker...
Kenny Sharp (19:39):
I had to retire!
Larry (19:40):
Oh man.
Forget it.
You know, you're a MusicCity Mayhem Champion?!
I'm an Alcoholism Champion.
Oh yeah.
I was a real champ.
But,
I had to really take care of myself.
Brown Liquor Music.
brown liquor to me is fight juice.
My wife, if she has a little brownliquor on her, on her tongue or on her,
lips, I'm like, that tastes like fight.
If I kiss her, like, oh, hihoney, tastes like fight.
(20:00):
So I was curious, do you drink?
I would never judge in amillion years if you did.
So you did quit drinking?
Kenny Sharp (20:04):
Yeah, I quit drinking.
I'm a bartender and obviously, yeah, my,company's Brown Liquor Music, so that
was a big part of my identity, I guess.
This is the phrase they say is like,
"Not every time I drank I gotin trouble, but every time I was
in trouble I had been drinking."
It wasn't like I couldn't control it allthe time, but it was just sometimes...
Where you just end up sick.
Like, I'm getting too oldand then trying to sing.
(20:25):
I'm still wrestling with that, tryingto, have your voice correct, like,
it, it was the lifestyle really.
At the same time too, itjust felt good to cleanse.
And then like on another level,tying back into the music;
everyone that I've been around that didwell in music, especially as a artist,
they had like this period right beforethey blew up and a lot of them were sober.
My main mentor Lunch Money Lewis,um, that I was signed to, he
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had a really good run in pop.
He's still a big pop writer,
he writes a lot of big songs.
But when he was blowing up as anartist, he, told me like that year,
he was living humbly in, LA and he wasdoing two, three sessions a day and
he wasn't smoking or drinking at all.
He wasn't doing anything but music.
And I felt like there's somethingto be said for when you give up
something, with an intention,especially to take care of yourself,
(21:08):
I feel like it comes back to you.
And I felt like there was a windowcoming, for everything we've been
building and since I've been in Nashville.
And I just wanted to be present for it.
Larry (21:17):
Yeah,
I think that's amazing.
The fact that you have had mentors, youmentioned this, you say it, so easily.
That really requires; A, somebodyhas to believe in you, and B, you
have to believe in yourself enoughto be able to know who you are,
enough to know that youcould use some mentorship.
As opposed to, I know everything.
Hey man, I got it down.
I know myself, they'll allcome around and see it my way.
(21:40):
I'm, amazed by that andI think it's wonderful.
I think it's a strength,it's a vulnerability.
That's really what it is.
Kenny Sharp (21:46):
I've definitely had a lot of good mentors and teachers,
I'm an observant person, I'lltake it in and I'll listen.
And I just saw kind of in highschool, I tell everyone, this
made a big impression on me.
I went to a very big sports high school.
I played football.
The school is called DeMatha Catholic,and It's a huge sports school,
basketball, football, lacrosse everyone,you're going there for a reason.
And our football coach, most winningis coach in Maryland state history.
(22:08):
You hear a lot about him when you'regetting recruited to DeMatha . It's
a Catholic school, so they recruiteven in camps and all this.
Sophomore year, like I'm gettinginto the rooms with the varsity
team and I'm looking at Bill.
'cause he's a very revered character.
He's very tough.
He's very serious.
Fires everyone up, youknow, he's the leader.
But as I'm getting older, when I'mrealizing on the team, I'm like,
wait, he doesn't coach the offense,he's not the offensive coordinator.
(22:31):
He doesn't coach the defense.
He doesn't coordinate any of the play,he doesn't call any of the plays.
He coaches the special teams.
Like he knows the punt team.
The kickoff, that's his time.
Any other time?
Like as far as strategy andwe're meetings, film study.
He's not talking.
He hired two people that he thought,is this how I want my offense run?
This is how my defense run.
And he lets them do it.
(22:51):
He delegates and he knows how toput the team together, and then he
comes with the inspiration and theorganization and fires everyone up.
Keeps us on task, keepsus like very driven.
He runs a tight ship, but I'm like,you don't actually know this part.
Not in a bad way.
I mean, he knows what is goingon, that's not his thing.
He's a leader.
Also coming from the militarybackground where they teach you.
(23:12):
I was a junior in high school, Iwent to West Point for a little
bit for, they have like a summercamp to see if you want to, go.
The idea there is like, you're 18, you'regonna graduate, be 22, you're gonna
be a second lieutenant in the army.
And at that time we were in war, and soit's like you're gonna be going over to
Iraq or Afghanistan, you'regonna be in charge of a platoon.
Wow.
With men that are olderthan you, they got families.
They're 34, 35, andthey're all enlisted men.
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And you're an officer and you gottaknow that to gain their respect,
a leader has to follow first.
You gotta let them eat first.
You make sure they go to sleep first.
You take the first watch.
All these type things, I observed.
I felt like I had good leaders andmentors that were servant leaders.
You know what I mean?
And It's not necessarily about having thebest idea or being able to sing the best.
But if you can assemble a team,and have a vision, that's sometimes
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a little more the way to go.
Larry (23:59):
It's being mindful.
It's being mindful.
I think the greatest gift wecould give is to Mindfully Listen.
To Absolutely Listen, not just hearwhat's going on, but to grasp the
breadth of the moment entirely.
When I've watched you do that atthe East Room, I had just met you.
I met your manager
I just, I felt a part of your family.
(24:20):
You made me feel very comfortableand I was so excited to go to
the show and I bumped into thisone and I knew a lot of people.
And everybody I saw thereand people that I knew all.
we're filled with AnticipAnticip Anticipation For Joy.
Is there a better wayto say Anticipatory Joy?
Kenny Sharp (24:36):
I like that too.
Either one.
Larry (24:38):
Anticipatory Joy
Look at that.
Kenny Sharp (24:40):
It flows.
Larry (24:41):
It does.
And then I was talking to Emmanuel,your trumpet player, and we've
worked together on records.
He's played on ThemVibes records, my band.
We've done a bunch of projects andwe were catching up and then he goes,
oh, sorry, I gotta get outta here.
I'm like, where you going?
And he goes, he goes, oh, I gotta go play.
I was like, huh.
And I'm like, oh yeah.
Duh.
You know, I had no idea,and then there he was.
(25:02):
And I watched the band get on.
You start the show, not egotistically.
You weren't on stage.
the band started and you had, a singer.
What was her name?
Kenny Sharp (25:11):
The one that led the first song?
Carly Moffa
Another one of my friends,Italians from Jersey,
Larry (25:16):
That's my point.
Somebody else led the band.
The band was kicking, they were smoking.
And then all of a sudden there you were.
But it was so genuine.
I just can't help butto just root for you.
I'm like, I like this guy.
He's not sticking it down my throat.
He's not showing me how badasshe is, even though he is!
Kenny Sharp (25:33):
I'm not gonna lie.
that intro, not exactly theway it went down, but like I
saw her do that medley at her
show, huh?
A couple weeks before shehad her show at The Basement.
It was packed.
She did an amazing job andthen she hit that cover over
the, uh, BG "Staying Alive".
She does like a whole medley andsome of the songs, we do too.
And I was getting very nervous aboutthe East Room like a week or two
(25:54):
ago about what we could do for a funintro and what I could do and like
what I, and then I was like, yep.
And I was thinking about her, I was like,man, it would be cool if she do something.
Like, and I was like, man, whydon't just ask her to do it.
You know, like maybeshe should just do it.
Like, she'd have fun.
She likes our band, she comes to ourjam, all the band, they love her.
And I was like, why don't you justcome do that Hype the crowd up.
And then that would again, likeas a whole, were greater than
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if I just tried to do something.
Larry (26:17):
Yeah, well, you were listening and you were generous with it.
And in turn, that justmade for a great show.
I love, you know, Michael Singer?
He's a, he's an author.
He, he was famous forwriting The Untethered Soul.
He has another bookcalled Living Untethered.
And his, this quote came to me, itjust kept going every time I saw you.
and Michael Singer says onpage 1 93 of Living Untethered:
(26:38):
" Love wants to express itselfand enthusiasm wants to create."
That room was love andcreation of more love.
Thank you for that.
What a great, great show.
And he goes on to say,Michael Singer, another quote:
"If you are willing to experiencethe moment unfolding in front of
you, you will have the opportunityto be inspired by everything.
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The simple fact that things existwill be sufficient to move you."
And I thought.
We're in the moment.
Kenny Sharp is right here.
You run a band, you work,you have tour dates.
You do everything.
And I thought, you're still present.
You are able to accept themoment, and it really inspired me.
And today when I woke up and I openedup, I do my journaling in the morning,
Kenny Sharp (27:24):
Trying get like that.
It,
Larry (27:25):
It really helps.
It's therapeutic I just vomit stuff onthe page, get it out of the head office,
empty the head office, and give me achance to just be open to the moment.
And I opened up, I've been reading, ThicNhat Hanh, he's a, Zen Buddhist Master.
Kenny Sharp (27:39):
Okay.
Uh,
I feel I have seen that.
Is He Vietnamese?
Larry (27:41):
He is Vietnamese.
He's got a book right here.
It's called:
Fear.
Essential Wisdom forGetting Through the Storm.
And I, read this book all the timeand I just opened up to the page,
'cause I like doing that.
I just opened up and say,boom, what's today gonna be?
And it just said, LEARNING TO STOP.
And I thought Learning To Stop,being radically acceptance of the
now, you know, radically stop andlisten and be present in the moment.
(28:05):
And I thought, what am Igonna bring to this interview?
What am I gonna do?
No, no, no.
I can't wait to, I'm so nervous.
I'm Kenny Sharp.
He's so great.
And I thought, Just Stop and remindyourself that we're in the moment.
The reason why you like this person,the reason why you're moved by
this person and that actually wehave an appointment together is
'cause we listened to each other
Kenny Sharp (28:23):
Yeah.
Larry (28:23):
As simple as that.
Kenny Sharp (28:24):
Yeah.
Larry (28:25):
And I saw you do that live and I can hear it in your records.
I'm moved by all of it and moved by you.
So thank you for that.
The stage can be so unnerving.
I look back to shows where I'm like, oh mygosh, I was so worried about what's next.
I was so afraid, I was so thinkingabout, well, this happened
in the past and I'm nervous.
Kenny Sharp (28:43):
I was terrified.
Larry (28:44):
Were you terrified?
So please tell us, tell me, alittle bit me, us about your fears,
about what happens in that moment.
Because I think you are able totransform it into something that's
transcendental a little bit so...
Kenny Sharp (28:55):
Man, my fears especially well in that setting, you're
scared and not doing enough.
That particular night.
I can identify specific things, likeI've been working with a performance
coach, Alyssa JC, she's great.
She's an artist herself.
And, we've been working on moves andlike, when the verse comes step back
like this or hop off the stage at this.
And so I was like worriedabout missing my cue.
(29:15):
She came and she was very supportive.
I was worried about letting her down.
I was like, oh God, I don't know if I'llbe able to do all the moves and da da da.
And I didn't.
I didn't do most of them.
But that was okay.
She was like, we did good.
But yeah, in my head that'sall I was worried about.
Then I had Jackie, wasthere and Russ was there.
My whole team was there.
All of my A & R's from Prescriptioncame and they never come to see a show.
(29:37):
And so that was a lot of pressure for me.
Larry (29:39):
You had the suits at the show!
The suits are in the show here!
Kenny Sharp (29:42):
The suits were at the show!
You know
Larry (29:45):
A few of those suits came up and said hi to me, and now I know who they
are.
Okay.
I didn't realize it at the time.
I'm like, oh, that's right.
The "Publishing People."
Right.
Okay, now I, now it makes sense.
Kenny Sharp (29:53):
They came.
Yeah.
And so that was nerve wracking andthen just nervous for the band.
Lorenzo just got backfrom Italy the day before.
We had one rehearsal, and thenthere was just some other,
like, important people there.
And then you just want to do goodwith your friends, which is also
the reason, like, once you kind ofstart getting going, it helps you
that it's your friends and stuff.
But yeah, it just felt like amoment we've been building to for a
(30:13):
while and a lot of, fears of that.
And then, just in general, zooming outjust from that show, I think, yeah,
you're just worried about; Oh, I onlyhave one shot, one chance, one song away,
one moment that goes Wrong or Right.
Like you can get in yourhead about those things.
Larry (30:27):
Yeah.
But you persevered and you got throughit because you were in the moment.
I mean, was there a little clickwhere you said you had to push
yourself, uh, align yourself?
'Cause that's why, "THE WORK", thesort of spiritual digging that we do,
it helps put building blocks in place.
So sometimes when I'm really outtamy head and I'm afraid and I'm
running on fear and anxiety.
(30:49):
I'm absolutely, upset about the pastand I'm freaked out about the future.
I have these building blocks little bylittle where I go, okay, just be here
in the moment and it's gonna be okay.
Was there a moment that happenedthe other night at the East Room?
Kenny Sharp (31:01):
I tried to do, it's almost like meditating where
you're in it and then you mightfall out and you gotta notice,
but be gentle with yourself.
Like, okay, just chill, just breathe.
And then, so it was like a inand out type thing, you know?
And there's moments, you snap out of it.
There's a producer I work with, man,another Italian guy, Barry Zito.
Barry Zito is a very famousMLB pitcher, he's a producer.
He lives here and he's a songwriter,
Larry (31:22):
The Barry Zito?
lives
Kenny Sharp (31:23):
Didn't know that?
Larry (31:24):
I'm a fan, but, oh,
Kenny Sharp (31:25):
Yeah.
I knew who he was, but like,yeah, We got to writing.
he's a very interesting story,'cause obviously he's very good
at baseball but his mother andfather they both encouraged music.
He was like, when I was, 11,12, they were just like, you're
really good at throwing a ball.
When he was in the minor leaguesand coming up, he said, I, he always
took his guitar with him and soonas he finished baseball, he'd had
a studio built and he lives hereand he's had his own solo project.
(31:46):
But anyway, I was talking tohim about mentally preparing.
I was like, when you were at yourbest, like what was your life like?
What was your routines like?
How did you take care?
And he was like, the year hewon the World Series, he had
intentionally been different.
He was getting into meditationand in the moment and not being
too up or down on the next pitch.
And that's what we talked about.
And he showed me, he's like,look at Game Seven from the
NLCS and the bases were loaded.
(32:08):
He walked me through like what histhoughts were like as this was happening.
He got out of the jam andthey went to the World
Series and they won!
Larry (32:14):
What was the team he won with?
Was
Kenny Sharp (32:16):
it the giants?
Larry (32:17):
It was the giants.
That's amazing.
You've had the best mentors.
This is amazing.
You could write a book, my mentors.
But it's true.
Being present in the moment andbeing on the other side of that,
being a person in the audience, youreally, were right there with us man.
I really appreciate it.
So you do take care of yourself,you're on the road a lot.
how do you grapple with all that?
The road is tough, man.
Kenny Sharp (32:35):
So the next part, if I'm be
honest with you.
I'm going through a bit of a breakupright now, and that kind of was new.
And this is my first time on tour.
I've been on small tours as abackground singer with my friends
band, but I never been on our tour.
And we've gone out of town todo a gig here or do a gig there,
but like never, like onthe road we got a road
manager.
(32:55):
Yeah.
Staying in Airbnbs, spot, sound check.
You know?
And, the first timewas this past weekend.
And I'm not gonna lie,that was very lonely.
It was really hard.
'cause it started to sink in.
You're on the road and there'sthe image of like, oh, girls
parties, you're on the road.
Like, that's not usually what it's like.
I've told her that my girlfriendsand ex, I was like, you know,
we're not the Beatles Dog.
(33:16):
It's not like girls are just runningup, you know, like that's not how
it is And I would prefer to be onthe road, like in a relationship.
I would prefer to have you know,partner at home or something.
I feel like that would makethe road not as lonely.
Larry (33:28):
I see so many women right now listening, going like, uh, uh...
Kenny Sharp (33:31):
Yeah, not, yeah,
Larry (33:32):
No Thanks!
Kenny Sharp (33:33):
It was lonely.
I got out there and I was like, dang man.
And obviously it's just new, beingapart from her that definitely has
been a lot like mental health wiseas far as what you're talking about,
about feeling things and just be still.
A lot of my day to day, the past weekor two has been trying to not melt down.
Larry (33:49):
Yeah, For sure, and thank you for sharing that.
That's important.
'cause people say, yeah, I'mon the road and that's it.
It's a party and I've done it,I mean, that was my whole life.
And then I would neglect everythingelse, be like, Hey, I'm on the road?!
People go, oh yeah, he's on the road.
And then you, you know, okay.
I married a touring musician,very, very successful.
My wife, Sarah Tomek, famous drummer,Sarah Tomek, I don't see her anymore.
(34:11):
Well, I see her this week.
She will be leaving
for the whole spring into the summer.
She will be leaving for about four months.
We did five weeks was our longest.
And how hard, I can't even tell you.
It was so hard.
And it's comical.
She comes home and I'm like,"That doesn't go there!"
That's
Kenny Sharp (34:27):
Right, right.
Larry (34:28):
I'm like, "Don't put that there."
She goes, "What the heckare you talking about?"
I'm like, "That doesn't gothere, we put that here."
Who's we?
I'm like, "Ringo and I!"
I, Yeah, our dog, Ringo.
It takes a toll and it's really hard.
Being comfortable in your own skinand being okay with being alone is
really something that's, hard to do.
'cause you're the leader of the band.
You are the party, come on man, Let's Go!
Let's Go!
Let's Go!.
And you have, to take careof your voice physically.
(34:50):
You gotta make sure youeat as well as you can,
'cause that's really hard.
Kenny Sharp (34:54):
Adds up.
Stopping
at gas stations, you wanna just get asnack and it's like, sometimes you gotta
be smart about what snack you're getting.
Larry (35:00):
For sure.
I was the lead singer ofmy band, so it was great.
we toured Europe and we didlike 28 shows in 30 days.
So for the band to be like, Larry,you have to be on vocal rest.
In other words, shut up, this voiceof mine that just won't stop talking.
Kenny Sharp (35:14):
As you can hear, I'm hoarse now and we're going back out Thursday or
Friday and I think that's what all week.
I'm just gonna be trying to rest.
I'm supposed to do a gig Thursdayand I might have to get another
vocal support to help the gig.
It's three hour gig and Idon't think I can do that.
Larry (35:26):
Well, well, you know what?
You are kind and, you are generous.
So people will forgive ifa voice is a little bit?!?!
I think so.
I really do.
I I know it.
I've been there really because
I've thought, I SUCK.
You know, how many gigs?
I want this moment back, that moment back.
And you know what, wemiss the big picture.
These moments fly by so quickly andmost of the time people don't notice.
(35:49):
Yeah, you're gonna have your musicians,you know, we're in Nashville.
People standing there beinglike, oh, I heard that.
I heard that.
I heard that.
But you know what?
We hear a good time becausewe feel a good time.
And a good time.
Sounds like it's to be hadwith Soul Thru South Tour.
That's your tour.
Yeah.
Kenny Sharp (36:04):
Yeah, we're going to Dallas, Houston, New Orleans,
which we're we're staying a couple
extra days in New Orleans, andthen Birmingham and Atlanta.
Larry (36:12):
Man, you've had songs out, over the years, Smooth in 2024.
Amazing.
The Louvre.
Kenny Sharp (36:17):
Yeah, that one did very well.
Larry (36:18):
The Louvre Folks, please, just check
this out.
Okay.
I listened to the Louvre, on YouTube.
I watched your video
and
I fell in love with you.
Like I fell in love with you, dude.
I mean, you know, it's like,you're not my type, but I,
mean, I, watched this DIY video.
I felt like I was on vacation with you,and I was like, I can't wait to go back.
Will Kenny and I everget back to the Louvre???
Kenny Sharp (36:38):
That was a crazy story.
But that we were on the wayback from Italy with Pino.
We had a 12 hour layover inParis and I shot that video.
We went there and I have a photographerfriend from LA, who was in Paris
shooting a shoot for Slam Magazine.
And he was like, I got a camera.
I got two hours for my flight.
And that's what happened.
Larry (36:54):
And of course we mean the great Pino.
How does he pronounce his last name?
Kenny Sharp (36:56):
Pino Squillace
Larry (36:58):
Squillace!
See, I I would never wanna doany misjustice, 'cause I, like
you have many Italian friends.
I grew up in New York City, Squillace!
An amazing drummer andhe's an amazing soul.
But I watched this video andI thought, this person is
speaking directly to my heart.
And That's what we callthe X factor, my friend.
And you know what's so funny is that Iheard the lyric and it's "Picture you
(37:19):
up in the Louvre," like Picture You Up.
But to me it sounded like you keptsaying; "I picked you up in the Louvre".
And I was like,
cool!
Kenny Sharp (37:26):
Yeah.
He said cool.
Larry (37:27):
That's a sexy thing.
as anything!
Kenny Sharp (37:28):
Yeah.
from a museum!
Larry (37:30):
Kenny, You picked ME up from the Louvre!
Right.
Yeah!
I felt like we met there and were...
really, I had
this whole vision in my head.
Like, I'm looking at the paintingand you're like, "Excuse me, uh, what
do you like about this painting?"
I'm like, " I don't know.
It's so cute."
Like, God, Kenny Sharp justpicked me up at the Louvre!
I mean, that's what thevideo was, but that's how,
approachable you are.
Your music is great.
You had new music out Now.
Gold Rush is the New EP.
Kenny Sharp (37:51):
I'm excited about that one.
Larry (37:52):
So where did you record this?
Kenny Sharp (37:53):
We recorded it mostly here.
We did the whole man.
Phil Towns produced this and wow.
Larry (37:59):
Wow.
This Cat, yeah.
Wow.
Phil Towns.
Check out Phil Towns.
He's a producer thatplays every instrument.
So he produced your record,you recorded it in Nashville?
Kenny Sharp (38:07):
Yes.
He's an Alabama guy, he was inMuscle Shoals, he was at Fame.
He knows Spencer.
He was the same year as Spencer and Noah.
I don't know if you met Noah Shell.
Sure, sure.
Noah's my boy.
And, He went on the road fromFame as the MD for Anderson East.
Wow.
So he's been producing withhim for the last decade or so.
And by way of that, like with DaveCobb and a lot of those guys, he
plays keys and a lot of BrandyCarlisle and Chris Stapleton stuff.
(38:30):
And so I say that to say we kind ofdid a Nashville style in that way,
like where we had the songs and then wewent in with a proper rhythm section.
And a couple of those guys that heplays a lot with, and they're all
Chris Powell, Leroy Powell, man,some of those guys, they're, OGs.
And I never had that experience,but we wrote the songs in Miami,
like three or four of them.
Then we wrote two of them,Smooth we wrote in Fame,
(38:50):
like at Muscle Shoals.
Spencer's on the writing andthen we cut them in Nashville.
Larry (38:54):
That's so cool.
Leroy Powell is another one.
He's a good friend.
Kenny Sharp (38:57):
That's my favorite guitar player in the world.
Like all my guitar players, when we doour shows and they listen to what he
do, they don't know what he's doing.
They can't figure it out.
He plays the laps steel.
He plays harmonica too.
He goes crazy on the Harmonica.
Larry (39:10):
Yep.
He's
a, Wizard.
He literally is a Wizard.
I've known him a long time,much love to Leroy Powell.
Kenny Sharp.
I have a few questions.
Would you like to
answer a few questions?
Beautiful!
What fascinates you right now, these days?
Kenny Sharp (39:20):
Traveling, travel plans, like where we're gonna go on the road
and what, the tour is gonna be like.
Larry (39:24):
What angers you?
Kenny Sharp (39:26):
Angers me, man.
I would say, I don't know.
there's some things that disappointme or I've been sad about.
Like I said, I obviously am goingthrough a, breakup, there's stuff
I'm resentful towards, but when thathappens, it's something more sad.
Larry (39:38):
Right.
Yeah.
Kenny Sharp (39:39):
More sad you know?
Larry (39:40):
What angers you?
What pisses you off?
What gets under
Kenny Sharp (39:42):
your skin?
I feel like rude customers maybe.
In my other job, I'm a bartender andthat is almost also like being on a
stage and you gotta present to peopleand give your energy a certain way.
So, yeah, I guess when someone comesin and they're like, rude, yeah.
That is the most prevalent,thing where you get angry.
You're like Dog, what do you mean?
I'm trying to serve you something!
Right, I'm tryin' to help you out!
Right.
right
Larry (40:02):
What brings you joy my friend?
Kenny Sharp (40:04):
Um, my band, making music, everything that's kind
of going on, my friends here.
It does feel like aFamily and a Community.
That show was very healing in a way, to beyou know, going through this at this time.
But then see all my friends andfamily, my Nashville friends
and family here, at the show.
And we do this jam every firstSunday of the month at 1865.
We call it A Family Affair,Sly & The Family Stone and,
(40:26):
those things are very healing.
Larry (40:28):
That's great.
If you had a magic wand and youcould fix one thing like Kenny
Sharp's Magic Wand Moment, POP!
What would it be?
Kenny Sharp (40:35):
Right now?
don't know.
I feel like we'd be on the road ona World Tour or something opening
up for Shaboozey or Leon Bridgesor something, you know what I mean?
And be on the road right now.
But I feel like we're on the path.
Like I feel like it's going wellright now and I can't really complain.
You take losses, sometimesyou take lessons.
It feels like things are in a good space.
I'm real excited.
Larry (40:56):
Good for you.
I'm very happy to hear that.
Alright, this is the big one, man.
Toilet paper
Okay.
Over Or Under?
Kenny Sharp (41:03):
I think if I have to choose...Over.
Larry (41:07):
Correct!
Kenny Sharp (41:07):
But I don't know.
Is that that correct?
Larry (41:10):
Correct!
Kenny Sharp, thank you so much.
So where do we find allthe things Kenny Sharp?
Kenny Sharp (41:15):
Oh man.
So find me on any of yourDSP streaming platforms.
Kenny Sharp is the artist'sname, and if you're on socials,
you can just look up the brand.
Just Brown Liquor Music.
And then the website iswww.brownliquormusic.live,
it's spelled regular, straight up.
Nothing funny.
No funny business.
Larry (41:33):
No funny business, not at all.
Just loving business.
Kenny Sharp, thank you somuch for being on this show.
Kenny Sharp (41:39):
Thank You Brother love.
Oh,
Larry (41:40):
Oh, you're so very welcome.
I feel like
I talked over your, thank you.
Thank you all so much for tuning in.
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Let's all stay in touch.
Man, Your Story Matters, KennySharp, and I'm glad that, we got
(42:02):
to share it with an audience.
This is fantastic.
Thank you so very much,
Kenny Sharp (42:06):
Thank You!
Larry (42:06):
Thank you all for listening to the Just Keep Talking Podcast.
My name is Brother Love.
Until next time, we'll see you soon.
Bye-bye.
Kenny Sharp (42:13):
Take care.
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