Episode 39: Elizabeth Bowersox

Episode 39: Elizabeth Bowersox!

Win a pair of tickets to her show at Music Box San Diego THIS WEEK, January 30th

We catch up with Ramona High School Alumni turned headturning singer/songwriter and all around sweetheart rockstar that is taking the San Diego Music Scene by storm!

From the Opera Stage to The Rock Stage

Power to the NERDS!

Hacking the neighborhood Jukeboxes

Dealing with whackos at the gigs

Her Songs in her Style Plus a LIVE STUDIO PERFORMANCE!

We fell in love with her all over again and you will too!

Only possible because of the love and generousity of Ramona Family Naturals, Outlaw BBQ & Pamo Valley Winery Tasting Room! Thank you!

Episode Transcript

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I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink your whiskey. Better get out of here

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My name is Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's under hole under hole
I know you don't agree, but I think he's the king of country get the fuck out of here
From the Ramona radio studios, it's the Travis Billy Ross outlaw country show

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All right, we're here well on welcome to the Travis Billy Ross outlaw country show happy Sunday with me as always
Sweet curbs. Hey, hey, hey
Running the crazy sound guy for this crazy show. That's me
Let's go for it. That's me. Oh, yeah, Eric's in the booth where the magic happens man

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Man I love that
We always get Kirby all the love
We have a very cool guest with us this evening
Happy Sunday everybody miss Elizabeth our sock. Hello. Thanks for having me
How are you my friend? Oh, I'm so good. I'm running on fumes, but that's how we do it same running on fumes

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That's a musician's life, right?
So
So you live down in San Diego, but you're actually from here. Yes in Ramona
I grew up in Ramona. I grew up in Ramona
Hi, yes, I did class at 2016 Bulldog. Mm-hmm. Right on Bulldogs Bulldogs. Yeah, that's right. Cool

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All right. So you so you're you're you're in a band. Yes the Bauer socks
Close I understand. There's there's been some name changes in the past, but
We're Elizabeth Bauer socks and the kicks and the kicks kicks
Yeah, it's a little play on words like socks and the kicks. I was gonna say they were special. I see what you did there

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everyone has their own like very unique style and
Where yeah, they wear super cool shoes
I wear like boots and PJ's wearing like Air Force ones or something like Jordans and Peter's got like boots on and Leslie's in
Or like Doc Martens like stuff all over you. So yeah
I'm wearing like boots and PJ's wearing like Air Force ones or something like Jordans and Peter's got like boots on and Leslie's in

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So yeah
Who you played at Ramona Family Naturals with yes. Yeah. Yeah
So that what is that? That's a four how many people actually I had you had a keyboard player named Doug and unfortunately he's moving
To eastern Tennessee to be a professor of music. So that's really cool. But for this next show
We've got another keyboardist named Adam who we've played with before so it's on bigger shows. We'll do

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Like a five piece. Yeah. Yeah, cool. So you've played here in Ramona a couple times. Yeah, I know you've been the songbird
I've seen you for that and at Ramona Family Naturals
And we played at the at the at the fair not the roadie
We played it at the the country fair at a country fair as gun stage was our band name at the time

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And it was based off of Gun Stage Road
Yeah, and no one knew who the hell we were because we were just this random gun stage band
So is that where you grew up as Gun Stage? It was yeah off Gun Stage. Yeah on the other on the east side of Gun Stage
Yeah, I thought it was so cool
And then people were like what the hell is this and it was just not taking off the plate that I wanted it to

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So we just went back to
To my name and the kicks. So I like Gun Stage. That sounds pretty cool. It is cool. It is cool
But we're you know, I'm like the artist I'm writing the songs and I wanted to keep some of that, you know
integrity in like the band
Yeah, do you guys play mostly original stuff or you mix it in mostly yes

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We do some covers here and there if we do like a three-hour gig
We obviously have to do some cover songs, but we make it fun and they're such a great band
They're like I'm so blessed to have them there
Unbelievable. So yeah, yeah, so you got a bass player. She that's the girl. Yes. Yes
My other girl leslie girl

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She's cute. She's so fun. She's so badass. She's got a cute little style
Yeah, her hair is like really short. She looks like an action figure. She can like transform
She does like a lot of cosplay too and she's the coolest person. I know
Sweet Curves does hair
So she was commenting on oh, she's not I love her hair

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Yeah, because that's like my dream hair. I used to have my hair like that like super short and blonde
I loved it. Yeah, she's always dying it too. It's like always a different color or then it'll be like bleach blonde
Yep, that was me. I've had like every color under the
So how long have you all been a band for?
Actually not even a year yet. Our first rehearsal was actually like January 30th, 2012

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So our music box show will be like exactly one year after we first started playing together
That's almost a couple days
Yeah, so so what is the process then of putting a band together like that?
Did you know all these people or I had met PJ my drummer and Peter my guitarist who was playing bass in another project for me at the time

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We were doing a show at PB Fest
And yeah PJ was playing Peter was playing and then we were doing a show at the time
Peter was playing and then we were like, let's just do a trio and then
I'm like, I think we need Peter on lead guitar. Like we need to find a bassist
Like he's too good like he he needs to like have another project where he's like playing the guitar

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So I found Leslie at an open mic and she was playing with her other band
Um that she has with her husband who's also a drummer. So yeah, and her drummer's been super cool
He's like a he's a sound guy and knows ins and outs and comes with us and yeah, he's been a really big help
He's driven us to like the Orange County Fair and he drove us to Ramona Family Naturals so we could

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Yeah, Leslie's husband Josh. Yeah, and he runs the sound too. He's always a designated driver. Yeah
Yeah, he'll help us out
If we have one time this past week
We had a gig and we could not figure out how to do the sound and he was there and we were like
Josh, could you come help us?
And he did that's cool. Yeah, so you've done gigs all over like California or like mostly San Diego, just San Diego

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um
Like La Jolla pb I play at the Tommy Bahama store at the mall Fashion Valley mall
Um, yeah, a lot of stage and like they have music regularly there. I didn't know that. Yeah for like their happy hour
Oh because it's a restaurant. Yeah. Yeah, that makes yeah, it's like a store and restaurant
Yeah, also Henry's downtown. I've been playing like downtown a lot more lately and discovering like the gas lamp

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And because growing up here, we never really went down the hill
So far we never went down the hill. It was down the hill. I like going down the hill
I used to like going down
I'm over it. Like I said, I I lived in I lived in pb for about eight months. Actually, that's the length of time
Wow, I could handle that that down there. But that was when I was younger is in like, uh,

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2003-2 something like that
But uh, I wasn't a fan of the place. This is too busy
Especially it is what really turned me off on it. You know, I live in those apartments bay point and uh off of ingram street
and uh
fourth of july
I was like, uh
I had to park like two miles away. Yeah, because I couldn't find parking. I was like, I don't like this

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I know. So you play in pb you said
Yes, I think I was playing a lot more in pb when I was doing like open mics
Is cain's still down there in that area? Is that cain's?
Is that in pb? I don't know. Or mission mission. I have no idea mission beach. It was right on the boardwalk
Okay, I think it was called cain's but anyway, yeah
The only places I ever went in pb was pb bar and grill in the tavern. I don't know if those exist anymore

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Really? Yeah, there's businesses are coming in and out of pb like we have not been down the hill for a very long time
We're aging ourselves. I don't mean this is a derogatory. You're much younger than us when I go to pb. I feel like i'm 103 years old
Yeah
Like once I hit 30 I was like you're no
Yeah, yeah, that's why i'm there at this point in my life because I wanted to to do it

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You know, I was committed to like i'm gonna live live my pb truth right now
and then maybe living there is different but like going out and when you see the people that are out and like
Oh, you're like you're like 21 in a day. Yeah
Are you old enough to be in here? Yes
Yes, oh man, so orange county you said you said something about going yeah, we played at the orange county fair

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Um, it was fine
It's always chaotic. I feel like getting everyone loaded in and I think we took one car. Um
But yeah, that was for the fair. So like the summer there's a lot more going on. I think we're also looking at
expanding and playing outside of san diego and i'm kind of in the process like
Of like just starting to plan like how do I do that?

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Do I do it like do I do a solo trip first and make connections and then bring the band out or yeah?
I've not toured. I'm super new to this like rock singer songwriter
americana like scene
um
I grew up singing like musical theater and opera and doing this and like recording and putting music out and being like an artist is like

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Like kind of newer for me because I was always that switch from like musical theater and opera know what you would sing now
Because it's quite contrast. Yeah, covet. Oh I would say that was like the catalyst to the change. I moved back home
um
I actually went to cody's with my high school friends and there was a guy there playing guitar and singing
And it was coveted and like opera singers weren't weren't getting jobs musicals broadway was shut down and

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And this but this guy out here was working. I'm like dang
Okay
he's making money and like I
Networked with him and he kind of like set me up and gave me some names of some people and
that's kind of how it started and I started writing songs and
I just wanted to sing like I just want I just wanted to perform because I know that that's like my purpose
on this earth is to be on stage and perform and and share stories and

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I was always comfortable like being another character like another person and then now like doing my own stuff
It's it's different. It's like, yeah, am I a character of myself? Am I myself? I'm like still on that journey
Sometimes you just got to be a character of yourself. Yeah
Yeah, yeah be like you but like bigger. Yeah, right. Yeah, you got a whole new persona

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Yeah, you gotta have two different facebook pages
Sometimes I do I have like four
Oh my god, well so many projects
Okay, so this is the travis billy ross outlaw country show we ask every guest that comes in here

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um
Who in your opinion?
Would be the king of country. Oh my gosh. All right, so I knew you were gonna ask me that
Everybody does homework these days, you know
I didn't grow up listening to country music. I probably don't have a good grasp on like the classic kind of country
I like what's coming out of nashville

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um
I don't know like could we do a queen of country? Could we do dolly parton?
That's acceptable as long as you don't say george straight you're good
I

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Was thinking it was like looking at you you better not say only one person has ever said george straight and it was ethan
I know that's funny. Yeah, it was
All right, so if you want let's listen to some music let's um dolly parton that's your
Let's go any favorite. Give me a dolly song any favorite

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I I mean I sang nine to five a karaoke last night. I know it's like pretty basic but it's still a great song
It's just you can just dance, you know, if you're listening to this right now like get ready. Oh, here we go
Tumble out of bed and I stumbled to the kitchen for myself a cup of ambition and yawning stretch and try to come to life

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I
Jump in shower and the blood starts pumping out on the streets the traffic starts jumping folks like me on the job from nine to five
working
What a way to make living getting by it's all taken and no giving they just use your mind

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It's enough to drive you crazy
See if you let it nine to five for service and devotion you would think that I would deserve a fair promotion want to move ahead
But the boss won't seem to let me I swear sometimes and then it's out to get me

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Me they let you dream just to watch them shatter you're just a step on the boss man's ladder
But you got dreams he'll never take away
In the same boat with a lot of your friends waiting for the day your ship will come in and the tide's gonna turn and it's all gonna roll

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Your way looking nine to five what a way to make living
Getting by it's all taken and no giving they just use your mind and you never get to credit
It's enough to drive you crazy

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They got you where they want you
There's a better life when you think about it don't you it's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
What a way to make a little
It's all taken and no giving they just use your mind and they never give you credit it's enough to drive you crazy

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Yeah, they got you well they want you
There's a better life when you think about it don't you it's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
Oh

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You may think that i'm talking foolish
You've heard that i'm wild and i'm free
You may wonder how i can promise you now
This love that i feel for you always will be

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Well, you're not just time that i'm killing
I'm no longer one of those guys
I'm sure as i live this love that i give
Is gonna be yours until the day that i die. Oh baby i'm gonna love you forever

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Forever and ever amen
As long as oh man sit and talk about the weather as long as oh women
Sit and talk about old men if you wonder how long i'll be faithful i'll be happy to tell you again

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I'm gonna love you forever and ever forever and ever amen
Forever amen

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Basically time takes its toll on the body
Makes the young girl's brown hair turn gray
Well honey i don't care i ain't in love with your hair and if it all fell out
Well i'd love you anyway
They say time can play tricks on memory

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Make people forget things they knew
Well it's easy to see
It's happening to me
It's happening to me i've already forgotten every woman but you
Oh darling i'm gonna love you forever

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Forever and ever amen
As long as oh man sit and talk about the weather as long as oh women
Sit and talk about old men if you wonder how long i'll be faithful

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But just listen to how this song ends
I'm gonna love you forever and ever forever and ever amen
I'm gonna love you forever and ever forever and ever

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Forever and ever amen

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Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't say that i don't need you
I wanna be listened to wanna be understood

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If you haven't buckled up yet i think you should
If we make it out alive i won't go
Cause we're pushing nine to five out of Boston

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Open road headed straight for Sin City
One hand on the wheel and you said i look pretty
You said i look pretty

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Roll the dice
Cross your fingers
Don't think twice
Just pull the trigger
I wanna be listened to wanna be understood

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If you haven't buckled up yet i think you should
If we make it out alive i won't go
Cause we're pushing nine to five out of Boston
Open road headed straight for Sin City

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One hand on the wheel and you said i look pretty
You said i look pretty

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I wanna be listened to wanna be understood
If you haven't buckled up yet i think you should
If we make it out alive i won't go

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Cause we're pushing nine to five out of Boston
Open road headed straight for Sin City
One hand on the wheel and you said i look pretty
You said i look pretty

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If you haven't buckled up yet i think you should

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So Elizabeth this is a drinking show with a music problem. Are you good over there on your
Yeah, I have two over here. I'm working on this whiskey. I still have half this margarita. It will be gone by the end of the podcast though.
It will be gone by the end of the podcast though. And maybe so will I.
Let us know if you need some more whiskey.
Is that your normal go-to whiskey or tequila?

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Tequila. That's your go? Yeah. Recently I did drink a lot of beer like when I was first gigging I'd be drinking beer. I did like a space dust and I'd be drinking beer.
I did like a space dust and I'd be drinking beer.
Those are so potent. Yeah. But tequila doesn't make you obliterated?
No. I guess you have to sip it slower than you can drink a beer.
Yeah, I'll do like a tequila soda. It's also not as bad of a hangover the next day.

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It's like clear. Yeah.
Usually when I gig I'm either drinking wine or beer.
When I say beer I mean water. That's course light.
That's one of the things I'm drinking right now. But sometimes we do gigs.
Have you ever played out at Josie's Hot Out? Not yet.
We need to get you in there. They serve whiskey there.

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It was a pretty crazy experience because I accidentally said
we accept tips and we also accept shots of whiskey.
Bad idea. Because we had a shit ton of whiskey shots brought up to us.
And I'm like oh god. It was a lot. It was a lot.
It was a whole biker bar dude. And Travis' motto is he doesn't say no.
I'm not going to say no. I'm just rude.

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So we got pretty good. Pretty good to go.
The bad part about that was that we were doing a double gig that day.
We were playing out at a different place afterward. I'm not going to say the place.
But when we got to the next place
I was already pretty lit.
We were getting ready to start and Sweet Curbs was there and she was ordering martinis.

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And I was like I want a martini. So I was doing a Beef Eater gin martini.
Which is like a 90 proof gin. Got it. I had a couple sips of it.
And we started the first song and I forgot the fucking words. And I'm like okay.
Take this away from me. I was like get this thing away from me. Just give me a beer.
Give me a course light. So after I kind of calmed down with that
we finished the gig and we were good. I think it was good.

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From what I remember it was alright.
Oh man. Have you ever done that? Got a little bit too.
Yeah. And then I'm like okay.
We're going to pull it back. I usually can get through it but
when you were like I forgot the first word of the song. I'm like oh my god I've done that to my own song too.
I look over and Leslie's like side eyeing me.

(38:16):
She's like Kelly this bitch just forgot her own words.
Just run it through one more.
I was sat there before and oh my god it was the dumbest
damn thing. We do the song all the time.
Full Subprison by Johnny Cash. And I don't know what happened
one time. We started it and I'm like damn it.

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What's the first? And I'm looking at Wendy and she's looking at me like
she's like I hear the train a coming. I'm like oh yeah
that's right.
Then we finally finished it. It was good to go after that.
It's humbling.
Oh man. So tequila is your number one

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sponsor of your own self. Yeah. Sometimes I'll do whiskey but tequila
like Patron, Casamigos. Yeah. Never does me
wrong. Is there any kind of liquor out there that you would say never
again? I'm sure we've all got one. Mine is Jager.
Can do it. Okay yeah. I think there was I think I did on my first recording
of She Devil I did with Jeremy Miller. No it wasn't. No

(39:28):
it was Jamison. It wasn't Jager. So I don't. I know Jager's kind of got
like a licorice. Yeah. It's the black licorice. Yeah I know. Jamison's great
then. I won't. Yeah. Oh Jamison's is about Irish whiskey. Yeah.
It's similar to the Jack or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Jager Meister. No good. No good.
Have you been to the Monday experience over at Reds? Reds, whites and greas?

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I have been a audience member. Okay. I think earlier
this summer I went over there and said what's up to the crew?
But I would love to play there. I need to get mine. It's like every week I feel
like the sign up like pops off. Like everyone's like waiting.
They wait for it. They wait like Tuesday at noon or whatever. So yeah
it goes out like just to the Ramona music people

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and then it goes public. But by the time it goes public it's like
I kind of stopped signing up for it because I want other people to sign up for it.
So I was like I'll sacrifice my own time. Yeah. I think I could
go do that like a solo thing. I think that. I think the band would be
I think we should get the band up for like some more gigs. Like more long like longer gigs.
Maybe at the barn like where people are dancing. But for Reds like at least

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the first time I played there I wanted to probably just go up there. When you were there was there
a barbecue guy there serving food? There was some food truck.
More than likely the barbecue guy. Dean from Outlaw Barbecue. He's actually the sponsor
of the show. So we're going to give him a shout out right now.
Dean from Outlaw Barbecue. Hit him up. 858-354-7712

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and give him a call and tell him that you want to have an
awesome barbecue in your backyard or your party, your wedding
or your divorce, whatever you're doing. And he'll set you up.
Up to 150 people. Dean I have my Outlaw sweatshirt on today.
She's sporting it. Which model do you have? You have the
Outlaw salad? Nobody wants to party with salads.

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Nobody makes friends with salads.
I have the Whiskey Crouton or Outlaw salad t-shirt.
Yeah he makes his own meat. He cooks his own meat.
Hunts his own stuff. Super good. Super good barbecue.
We love you Dean. Thank you so much for your sponsorship. Alright Elizabeth
we're going to listen to some tunes. Okay. Like this one.

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Who's this? Who's that? Somebody name this tune.
That's my first single called She Devil. That's the one
where I had Jameson shots. Alright here we go.

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Hey you
over there
don't you
like my stare
I'm
a little lonely

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Don't you
like my stare
You know
what I want
So go ahead
and take your shot

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It's too late
Meet your fate
Are you ready for
your heart to break
Break

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It's hot as hell
in this place
You know me well
You've seen my face
I've been burning up
for so long

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I'm
ready now
I'm feeling strong
The devil's near
She's right here
Sit back down

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I've got you now
Ooh
Ooh

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Well the devil's near
She's right here
Sit back down
I've got you now
Ooh

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I've got some big news
The bank finally came through
And I'm holding the keys to a brand new Chevrolet
Have you been outside
It sure is a nice night How about a little test drive
Down by the lake

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There's a place I know about Where the dirt road runs out
We can try out the four wheel drive
Come on now what do you say
Girl I can hardly wait
To get a little mud on the tires
Cause it's a good night

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To be out there soaking up the moonlight
To stake out a little piece of shoreline
I've got the perfect place in mind
It's in the middle of nowhere
Only one way to get there You gotta get a little mud on the tires
The moonlight on a duck blind

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Catfish on a trot line
Sunset's about nine
This time of year
We can throw a blanket down Crickets singing in the background
And more stars than you can count On a night this clear
I tell you what we need to do
Is grab a sleeping bag or two

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And build us a little campfire
And then with a little luck
We might just get stuck
Let's get a little mud on the tires
Cause it's a good night
To be out there soaking up the moonlight

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To stake out a little piece of shoreline
I've got the perfect place in mind
It's in the middle of nowhere
Only one way to get there
You gotta get a little mud on the tires

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And then with a little luck
We might just get stuck
Let's get a little mud on the tires

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I thumb away from L.A. back to Knoxville

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I found out those bright lights ain't where I belong
From a phone booth in the rain I call to tell her
I've had a change of dreams I'm coming home

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But tears fill my eyes when I found out she was gone
Smokey mountain rain keeps on falling
I keep on calling her name

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Smokey mountain rain I keep on searching
I can't go on hurting this way
She's somewhere in the smokey mountain rain

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I waved a diesel down outside a cafe
He said that he was going as far as Gatlinburg
I climbed up in the cab all wet and cold and lonely
I wiped my eyes and told him about her

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I've got to find her
Can you make these big wheels burn?
Smokey mountain rain keeps on falling
I keep on calling her name

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Smokey mountain rain I keep on searching
I can't go on hurting this way
She's somewhere in the smokey mountain rain
I can't blame her for letting go

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A woman needs someone warm to hold
I feel the rain running down my face
I'll find her no matter what it takes

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Smokey mountain rain keeps on falling
I keep on calling her name
Smokey mountain rain I keep on searching
I can't go on hurting this way

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Smokey mountain rain keeps on falling
I keep on calling her name

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I've got my guitar right, Chaw
We'll do it live!
We'll do it live!

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Saturday morning, about a quarter to ten
I'm taking a walk, yeah, I'm soaking it in
Calling my mama on the phone
Tell her about some gossip that I heard from down the road

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I want to get into some trouble, that's what weekends are for
When the clock strikes five, I'm gonna walk out the door
With my miniskirt and my rhinestone shoes
I'm going out to see what kind of trouble I can get into
I'm gonna go out
I'm gonna talk to whoever I want

(54:26):
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
Woo!

(54:49):
I step into the room and I order a drink
All these fellas want to talk, but I don't let them speak
Looking for my girls, cause that's what I'm here for
Ain't nothing wrong with leaving them all wanting more
I'm gonna go out
I'm gonna talk to whoever I want

(55:12):
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
Follow me to the back room of the bar

(55:37):
Follow me if you want me to break your heart
Woo!
I'm gonna go out
I'm gonna talk to whoever I want
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high

(56:00):
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back, and then I'll say goodnight
I'm gonna dance all night with my hands up high
Toss it back and then I'll say good night.

(56:28):
Good night!
Oh, stop it!
Holy schnikes.
That was incredible.
That was incredible.
Oh, gosh.
Damn.
That was.
That pipes this girl's gut.
Holy cow.
That was just for the record.
I'm not warmed up.
Oh, shut up.
Oh, get a good night here.
I have a sore throat.
Look at her pummeling herself down.
She's been sick for a week.

(56:49):
Just recovering.
Oh, man.
That was freaking crazy.
Thank you.
Holy cow.
That was awesome.
You said you don't have that one finished recorded yet?
I'm doing final vocals for that on Thursday.
That's the one.
Yeah.
And then it'll get mixed and mastered and it could be within a month.
And you got a full band on that.
Keys.

(57:10):
Oh, my gosh.
You got a fiddle on that, right?
No.
No.
Oh, man.
It's like the ding, ding, ding piano.
And yeah, Peter crushes it on the lead guitar.
He has a cool solo.
I shortened it a little bit and just went right into the bridge.
But he has a whole solo.
And then sometimes we'll extend it and have fun with it.

(57:31):
Yeah.
I am so excited to hear that song when it comes out.
I'm so excited.
It's a great song.
I've heard you do that.
I think you sung it live at the RFN.
Yeah, I think we did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sounded familiar.
I think I heard you do that one.
That was really good.
Awesome.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
That was so cool.
Of course.
Thanks for having me.
I love it.
Where's the applaud button, Eric?

(57:52):
We need an applaud button.
I don't have an applaud button.
Where's the cheer?
Thousands of people applauding, please.
Oh, man.
That was killer.
All right.
So she has a show coming up.
Oh, yeah.
Show.
Yes.
We will play that song at this show.
We're going to be at the Music Box on Thursday, January 30th.
And yeah, we're just trying to spread the word and put on your dance and you know, we're

(58:13):
trying to spread the word and put on your dancing shoes and get ready for a good time.
The Music Box.
And a good night.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a great venue.
It's such a great venue.
How do I get tickets?
So we actually are doing a little giveaway.
If you're listening to the show, you can email win at RamonaRadio.com.
That's it.
Yeah.

(58:33):
Yeah.
W-I-N.
Yes.
Win at RamonaRadio.com.
So email and then say I want tickets.
And then we're going to pick two.
Okay.
You have a pair.
Mm-hmm.
I got a pair and you just need to like show your ID at the venue.
All right.
I'm ordering right now.
Now for all of the losers that don't get to win those tickets.
Yes.
Where do we get them?
So best way to get them, check out the losers.

(58:55):
Here's the link for the losers.
Here's the link for the losers.
I want the loser link.
You can go to my Instagram.
It's under like my link in bio.
Yeah, if you use that link, it gets you the tickets.
And you got Jessie Ray Smith and M Cable Band and Coastal Wolves.

(59:15):
It's going to be like Americana rock country night.
And we go to your website for that?
Yeah.
I do have a website.
You can go to ElizabethBowersocks.com and find that.
Or you can go to my Instagram and like find the link in bio.
Or go to Music Box website.
And it's Thursday, January.
What is your Instagram handle?
Elizabeth.Bowersocks.
It's my Instagram handle.

(59:36):
Elizabeth.DOT.
Or just the dot.
You're so dumb.
It's literally just the dot.
All right.
You got to remember I'm drinking whiskey right now.
I'm fucking around.
It's not DOT.
You're all like professional.
Like Elizabeth DOT.
I'll say it for Kirby.
Stupid.
Oh man.
Funny.
I don't know.
Sweet Curbs.
Do you got any Kirby's Critter corner stories?
Well, she has to.

(59:57):
All right.
It's sweet.
Sweet Curbs with a twinkle in her eye.
Dances round the fields where clovers lie.
Her smile's a charm you cannot deny.
You'll adopt every critter passing by.

(01:00:20):
She twirls and she leaves.
All right.
What you got?
So this really isn't a new story.
Just a continuation of the other story.
The crows that I've made friends with are now friends with my goats and they all go eat
birdseeds together in the morning.
Have they started bringing any trinkets yet?
Not yet.
My dog scares the crows though, so I think it's going to take a while.
So what happens is the crow sits on this big rock and he waits and then my dog barks and

(01:00:42):
barks and barks and barks and then I bring him inside and then I go throw the seeds out
there and then for whatever reason, it's not goat food and we feed our goats.
They like the bird seed.
So the crows come down and then the goats come down and they're just happy as can be.
Well that's cool.
Yeah, it's fun.
So we'll see how it goes.
Maybe I'll get a trinket.
They're getting closer.
Pretty soon they're going to.
What we're going to have to do is we're going to have to train the crow and the goats to

(01:01:04):
go hide out on the side of the house where the woodpeckers are who keep pecking on the
side of the house.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I think we got a mission.
Did you get any emails or calls or responses about the last show that we did asking for
advice on how to get rid of woodpeckers on the side of the house?
I don't know.

(01:01:24):
No.
I did.
Did you?
Yeah.
What did you hear?
All they said was BB gun.
Yeah, we're not really.
Kirby's like, I have my.
Keep waking me up.
We'll figure it out.
That's the last response.
We do not harm them unless they're coyotes.
Coyotes.
Desert vermin.
All of our chickens are coyotes.
All right.
Elizabeth, do you ever do any like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you

(01:01:50):
know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like.
Yes, I actually just recently recorded a song which is coming out at the end of the month
with a guy named Riley Wharton.
He's from Kentucky.
He's like real he's country.
He's like proper.

(01:02:11):
Like he's just from right out of Nashville and he wrote this amazing song and it's called
Perfect View.
And yeah, I do a little feature on it.
And so be looking out for that one.
There's some other duo things here and there,
but yeah, that's the most recent duo.
Oh, well this is a trio.

(01:02:33):
What?
Oh, well that's fair, that's fair.
Sarah Jade and Jessie Lark, this is Sarah's song.
Yeah.
Okay, so.
I saw them do this, I saw them perform this.
Yeah?
Yeah, at POMO.
All three of you, they all came together to perform it.
It was very frickin' cool.
Elizabeth, so when you and Sarah and,

(01:02:54):
what was the other one?
Jessie?
Yeah, Jessie.
When y'all did those photo shoots with your shirts off,
do you know that that was that one house?
Whose bright idea was that?
Yes, I did.
And the pond, and the pond, and rowing the boat, yes.
I did, that was actually my first,
I heard your name for the first time that day.
Okay.
I know, he's been showing us the critter cam footage

(01:03:15):
since then.
No, I'm just kidding.
That's not true.
There's some good shots in there.
Not true.
No, I don't have any critter cam footage.
No, I saw the photos, John Han, I'm like,
whoa, are those shirts, what?
That's at my house.
Are they walking around naked?
Oh man.

(01:03:36):
Yeah, that was really fun.
Yeah, that was cool.
I know, our pond is empty right now, it's been so dry.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know, that reminds me,
so my little boat that y'all were in
is at the bottom of the pond right now.
Oh no.
So if it fills up, it's gonna be under water,
so I need to get the hell out of there.
So that we could use it for more photo shoots,
because it's a cool spot.

(01:03:57):
Yes, it is.
The barn.
The truck, the rusted out truck.
Yeah, the old truck, yeah.
Yeah.
Actually, my buckle-up cover art, John took that picture,
like kind of down the road, like that road,
the dirt road, the gravel road.
Yeah.
And I was there with my cowboy hat, like looking.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I saw that picture, I'm like, I know that spot.

(01:04:17):
Yeah.
So thank you for letting us do a photo shoot there.
Of course.
We love it when people come out and do photos.
It's such a cool spot to do photos.
You know that property was established in 1885?
I did not know that.
Holy cow.
Yeah, so that building without the roof on it,
so that whole field outside the side was a peach orchard,

(01:04:39):
was plowed it all down back in the day,
back in like the 70s, I think.
But the stone building was the packing house
for the peach orchard.
Okay.
2007, the roof burned off in the fires,
the Witch Creek fire.
Oh, wow, okay.
Yeah, it's been, it's my barbecue room now.

(01:05:00):
Yeah.
The stone.
Yeah, a little stone house.
Oh yeah.
Okay, so what we're gonna do now,
have you ever played at Pomo?
I actually have.
You have, okay.
Yes, I think, we sang Singing Woman
when Sarah was doing a Ramona in the Round, I think,
and then I've had a couple like solo gigs there.
Okay.

(01:05:20):
Yeah.
So Pomo is also one of our sponsors.
Thank you, Pomo.
So we're gonna call out Jan, thank you Jan,
Pomo Winery, Sweet Curbs, works there sometimes.
Hey.
What you got to say?
Well, just thank you so much for your sponsorship.
We appreciate your supportive music so much
and for sponsoring the show and giving us the opportunity
to be able to keep doing this.
And she's also a big supporter of the live music situation

(01:05:43):
too, so.
We love that.
Thursdays, they had a couple weeks ago,
they had a blues band, you know John Hoss, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, he does a blues jam there once a month, Sunday.
Second Sunday of every month.
Second Sunday of every month, yeah.
Packs it out.
Yeah.
It's a lot of fun.
I try to get there when I can, if I'm not gigging.
I'll get there and sing some blues.
Nice.
I don't normally do blues, but I'll try.

(01:06:04):
Yeah.
I'll do what I can.
Give it a go.
I'll do what I can.
I'll do Metallica.
I'll do whatever.
I'll do whatever.
They don't, yeah.
Metallica in the blues?
They don't discriminate.
I prefer country myself, but I'll play and sing whatever
with the old 90s metal or grunge Nirvana.

(01:06:24):
I don't like Nirvana.
Oh my God.
I used to do a couple Nirvana songs back in the day.
Not anymore, eh.
Eh.
Not really blues.
Not really blues either.
No, I didn't say I don't like blues,
I said that's not really blues.
Yeah, no.
Well Nirvana's definitely not blues.
Well, depends on what mood you're in.
Yeah.
So if there was any person living or not living

(01:06:46):
that you would like to do a duo with,
who would somebody be?
Don't say Dolly Parton, because you already said Dolly.
Okay, you can't say Dolly Parton,
because I didn't even say it.
No, you can say whatever you want.
I'm just juggling.
I don't know.
Probably a male singer.
I don't know.

(01:07:08):
Jeez, this is hard.
It could be somebody new.
You know, you like Cody Jinx?
No.
You never heard of him?
No.
You don't like him or you never heard of him?
I don't know.
I don't know of him.
You're like, do you like Cody Jinx?
No, I fucking hate him.
No.

(01:07:31):
How about?
Oh, maybe Tim McGraw.
All right, okay, Tim McGraw.
I don't know.
It'd be a good show.
I like it, I love it.
Like, I'd do that at my solo.
Oh, not George Strait.
Not George Strait.
Okay, cool, you're in.
You can stay.
Oh, man.

(01:07:52):
Tim McGraw would be a good show.
Yeah.
He puts on a good show, that'd be fun.
Yeah, or I don't know, Keith Urban, maybe.
I heard he puts on a good show.
Keith Urban?
Yeah.
You guys are all like,
no, I like Keith Urban.
I'm like, what?
And he does put on a good show.
Yeah.
I've seen Keith Urban.
I saw Keith Urban when he was first coming out
and he was opening for someone
and he came out and signed autographs for people

(01:08:13):
and he was just like the nicest guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty humble guy.
Wasn't Toby Keith in that crowd?
Yeah, Toby Keith was one of the headliners.
Yeah.
Where was that?
They had all of them.
Humphries.
Humphries.
So, the country station KSON used to do a thing
and it was, I can't remember the name of the event,
but they did it every year and they would,
it was a free event,

(01:08:33):
but what they would do is they would say,
we're gonna be at this place at this time,
we have 50 tickets, the first people to come get it.
And then they would go around San Diego.
So they were at the, I lived in Poway at the time,
they were at the Poway movie theater parking lot.
There's like a Jiffy Lube over there
and they were parked over there.
And so my friend, I was only like, I don't know,
14 or 15, we didn't drive.
So my friend's mom took us to get the tickets

(01:08:54):
and then her mom drove us to the concert at Humphries
and my dad picked us up.
And you saw Keith Urban and Toby Keith?
Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Lone Star, Sarah Evans.
Lone Star, whatever happened to Lone Star?
Martina McBride.
It was like a big deal.
Oh, I love Lone Star.
I mean, all those people though at the time,
you gotta remember this was over 20 years ago.
Toby Keith wasn't, Toby Keith, I mean he was,
but it wasn't what he is today, you know,

(01:09:15):
before he passed or Martina McBride.
They were still relatively new-ish.
Right, wow, new-ish.
New-ish.
I think Keith Urban was the brand new one.
He had like one single out at the time.
Wow.
Yeah.
I think another artist I would do out with
is like Lainey Wilson.
Lainey Wilson's spine.
I like Lainey Wilson.
Yeah.
Lainey Wilson.
She's, I'm inspired by her for sure.

(01:09:37):
I know who it is, but what's the song?
Heart Like a Truck, Watermelon Moonshine.
She sings a lot of songs.
Oh, okay, okay.
Hang Tight Honey.
Okay.
Hang Tight Honey.
Weight in the Truck, lots of truck songs.
A lot of truck.
Or by You.
Lots of truck references.
Lot of truck songs.
You know this song.
You don't know this one?
Oh yeah, okay.
Yeah, that's Lainey Wilson.

(01:09:57):
It's a good song.
My guitar sounds good.
Yeah.
It's good.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I'll play that one more.
Maybe we'll play that on the break.
We should do that.
Let's take a break now.
Can you hang around for a little bit more?
Or I know you said you had something to do.
Yeah, which is hanging out with my parents.

(01:10:18):
We'll turn you loose if you have to.
Can you hang for one more break?
Yeah, for sure.
So wait, before that, speaking of your parents.
Yeah.
What's your name?
Wait, before that, speaking of your parents.
Were they big supporters of your music?
I could not be where I am today without their support.
Yes.
Are they musicians too?
No, not at all.
Well, how did you get into music?

(01:10:39):
I mean, when did the light bulb go off for you?
Okay, so when I was young,
I do have two older brothers who were much older than me.
And they were doing acting, like drama at RHS
when they had a drama program.
And I always looked up to my brothers.
I wanted to do everything they were doing.
And I would sit their front row

(01:10:59):
and watch them doing the lead role.
And it's just like drama.
It wasn't even like music at all.
And I would like draw pictures.
And I was like, I wanna be on stage.
And then, I liked Phantom the Opera when I was seven.
I wanted to like sing Phantom the Opera
at my talent show at my elementary school.
My mom was like, no, you can't do that.
You're too young to sing Phantom the Opera.
I was like, I can hit that high ceiling.

(01:11:20):
Uh-huh.
Um.
Um.
Um.
I was.
I was a diva.
So.
Um.
But yeah.
So my brothers, and like my oldest brother played guitar.
He was really inspired by Bob Dylan.
And he would play like harmonica and play.
But I never really liked guitar.
I like took piano lessons and just was inspired

(01:11:41):
by musical theater and the drama and like grandeur of it.
And yeah, I was like kind of always singing
and then just wanting to be on stage and talent shows
and then voice lessons and then finding like a theater group
down the hill and yeah.
So you took piano lessons?
I did and I took them at the Ramona Music Center.
With John?

(01:12:01):
Not with John.
With some other teachers throughout the years
when I was like in elementary school.
How many years did you take piano lessons for?
Like a year here and then a year there
and then a couple months there.
It wasn't like super consistent.
It was always like, I would be writing song
or like writing little things and learning the key names

(01:12:22):
and chords and stuff.
And I kind of just wanted to use it as,
yeah, a way to like song write or like how can I warm up
and things like that.
But then I stopped.
But then when I was in college,
the college degree that I have required you
to take like two years of keyboard.
I took, I ended up taking three.
And then I actually ended up teaching keyboard.

(01:12:44):
Teaching is like what they say is like,
if you're a singer, just be prepared.
You're gonna be a teacher sometime.
Like if you need money.
If you need to pay back, you're gonna have to teach.
So can you read music?
Yes, but I didn't know.
It's a funny story is like,
I always felt like intimidated by reading music
and my teachers at the time were like,

(01:13:05):
no, you don't have to read.
Like just learn chords and triads
and know for what you wanna do, you don't have to read it.
But then when I got to college
and we were doing like choir auditions,
they'd be like, okay, you're gonna sight sing this piece.
And I'm like, I have no fucking idea what this says at all.
And then literally I got in the soprano section
and this one girl was like,
they let you in without you knowing how to read music.

(01:13:26):
I'm like, watch me learn.
Right?
I should have said I'm just that good.
Yes, I did.
That's right.
You see these ears right here?
These are tune devices.
Yes, yes, special.
Sit down, kiddo.
No, yeah, if you showed me sheet music,
I couldn't tell the difference between Chinese or whatever.
Music, no idea.
Like chords, you know like chord names or like.

(01:13:47):
I know chords like on guitar.
I know how to play the piano too.
But I don't know how to read the music.
I just learned it by ear, like learned it myself.
But yeah, like actually when I write songs too,
I write them on piano usually.
Wow, okay.
And then I'll transpose it or whatever they call it.
Onto the guitar.
Onto the guitar and then yeah.
Because I can't carry a thousand pound piano with me.

(01:14:11):
Because that's what I have.
I have a old 1915 Williams Sunbright grand piano.
Oh my gosh.
In my house.
In my house.
Oh, it's fucking awesome.
Except it's got a key missing.
It doesn't got a key missing.
It's got ivory, real ivory,
because it's old, is when ivory was legit.
But.
Not illegal.
Yeah.
When it was not illegal.

(01:14:33):
When you weren't committing a felony.
I can't replace it because I don't know anybody
that sells ivory.
But it's illegal.
Just so you know if you know anybody.
I know if you know anybody.
Just kidding.
I'm pretty shady.
No.
No, but so the ivory keys are like little inlays,
overlays, but they're like I don't know about a
eighth of an inch thick.
And they just sit over the keys.

(01:14:54):
But they're glued on.
Or they were whatever on.
And one of them, the fourth F key is not there.
It's missing.
So I wrote a song about it, it's called Piano.
And it's in the piano.
It's in the song.
Yeah, anyway.
That F4 is not there.
Fourth F key.
It's missing an ivory on the fourth F key.
That's what it is.
Yeah.
You know it's funny listening to you talk about

(01:15:15):
your pursuit of musical theater and everything.
We had, have you met Julie Rogelstedt?
I don't think so.
She's the singer for Riptide.
Riptide.
Okay.
And she was a guest on here a couple weeks ago.
And she did the whole New York thing.
Yeah, she comes from a musical theater.
Yeah, and told us how she went to New York
and she did the Off Broadway stuff.
And now she does these cabaret one woman shows

(01:15:36):
and all this other kind of stuff.
You should get to meet her.
She's got some great stories, fantastic adventures
that she's been on.
Listen to that episode.
Yeah, listen to Julie.
34, 33.
And she's funny as shit.
Oh, is it funny?
Yeah, she's hilarious.
Oh.
She's a hoot.
I think we've mentioned Julie at least every time.
I know.
Yeah, she definitely made a mark.

(01:15:57):
Yeah, she's funny.
Yeah, ass, what was it?
Ass crack of sack.
Ass crack of sack.
So she's, sounds fun.
Her day job, she's with the band Riptide.
But her day job is she's an esthetician at a place,
I think she said in Poway or somewhere down the hill.
I think she said Poway.
But when men come in and get their waxing done,
they joke and they call it the ass cracking sack.
Yeah.

(01:16:18):
Yeah.
It's not wrong.
No, I mean, it's hysterical.
It is wrong, but it's not wrong.
So now that's gotten.
They don't want to get their ass cracking.
It's called the ass cracking sack, especially.
Anyway, I've mentioned on every episode since.
Yeah.
Because it's just, I can't.
It's hysterical.
It's a funny punch line.
Oh my god.
All right, you can hang up for one more break?
Yes, one more break.
All right, one more break.
All right, got you.
And then we've got to let her go, like we promised.
What are we playing?

(01:16:38):
What was the song?
We're going to do Lady Rose?
I am.
Yes.
Oh.
["Lady Rose"]

(01:17:13):
Our hearts with the help of a mason jar.
Drinking watermelon moonshine.
Cut the barn with a little eye.
Parking back and then cut two vines.
I was his and every bitty lad boy was mine.
Too young to know what love was.

(01:17:35):
But we were learning on the sweet bus.
There's never nothing like the first time.
Mine's always going to taste like watermelon moonshine.
I don't remember where we got it from.
I just remember feeling all grown up.

(01:17:55):
Taking pulls like it ain't no thing.
Never told him it was my first drink.
But I told him that he was the one.
You're so sure when you're that young.
You think you got it all figured out.
And now I laugh when I think about drinking watermelon

(01:18:17):
moonshine.
We cut the barn with a little eye.
Parking back and then cut two vines.
I was his and every bitty lad boy was mine.
Too young to know what love was.
But we were learning on the sweet bus.
There's never nothing like the first time.

(01:18:40):
Mine's always going to taste like watermelon moonshine.
I thought that how it lasts forever is that I ain't one
enough.
Maybe we were drunk in love.
Maybe we were just.

(01:19:14):
Drinking watermelon moonshine.
We cut the barn with a little eye.
Parking back and then cut two vines.
I was his and every bitty lad boy was mine.
Too young to know what love was.
But we were learning on the sweet bus.

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There's never nothing like the first time.
And mine's always going to taste like watermelon moonshine.
Watermelon moonshine.

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She played tambourine with a silver jingle.
And she must have known the words to at least a million
tunes.
But the one most requested by the man she knew as cowboy
was a late night brand addiction at the all come back saloon.

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In a boy soft and trembling, she'd sing her song to cowboy
as a smoky halo circled around her raven hat.
And all the fallen angels, pinball playing rounders,
stopped the games that they'd been playing for the losers'

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evening prayers.
Faded love and faded memories, how they linger in a mind.
Miles and years played the cowboy like an old melody.

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Out of tune and out of time.
Every night in the shadows, thinking back on Amarillo,
he'd dream of better days and ask for faded love.
Lifting high his glass and on it are the lady and her song.

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He paid his check then long to walk that broken cowboy home.
She played tambourine with a silver jingle.
And she must have known the words to at least a million
tunes.
But the one most requested by the man she knew as cowboy

(01:21:59):
was a late night band addiction at the all come back saloon.
She played tambourine with a silver jingle.
And she must have known the words to at least a million
tunes.
But the one most requested by the man she knew as cowboy

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was a late night band addiction at the all come back saloon.
She played tambourine with a silver jingle.
And she must have known the words to at least a million
tunes.
But the one most requested by the man she knew as cowboy

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was a late night band addiction at the all come back saloon.
In a little cabaret in a south Texas border town
sat a boy and his guitar.
And the people came from all around.

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And all the girls from there to Austin
were slipping away from home and putting jewelry in haught
to take the trip, to go and listen to the little dark head
boy who played the Tennessee flat top box that he would play.

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Well, he couldn't ride or angle.

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And he never cared to make a dime but give him his guitar.
And he'd be happy all the time.
And all the girls from nine to 90 were snapping fingers,
tapping toes, and begging him don't stop.
And hypnotized and fascinated by the little dark head boy who

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played the Tennessee flat top box that he would play.

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And one day he was gone and no one ever saw him round.
He vanished like a breeze.
They forgot him in the little town.
But all the girls still dreamed about him
and hung around the cabaret until the doors were locked.
And then one day on the hit parade

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was a little dark head boy who played the Tennessee flat top
box that he would play.

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All right, we're back.
We're hanging out with Elizabeth Barusox.
What a sweetheart.
This is fun.
We're having so much fun this year.
Yeah.
It's always cool to get to know people, you know, coming in and
hang out and talk about things that we don't normally talk
about.

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Yeah.
We've seen each other around town.
Yeah, I've hung around you before.
I've never said it.
Yeah.
We've got pictures together.
Yeah.
Well, the first person that told me about you was Brandon.
Brandon Powell?
Yeah.
When the music stuff started going on.
He's like, do you know Elizabeth?
And I was like, no.
But then again, you're a lot younger than me and I didn't go
to school out here or anything.
And I was like, no.
And then you just started popping up in Ramona.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
I went to middle school and high school with Brandon and we stayed
friends and we're still friends to stay in.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
They're so sweet.
We love them.
Yeah.
We see them at POMO a lot.
Yeah, they hang out all the time.
So the last time I saw you was at Ramona Family Naturals.
Speaking of Ramona Family Naturals, Miss Victoria Bradley.
Victoria.

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She's one of our sponsors here as well.
Yes.
Tell us about your experience at your gig, your Ramona Family
Naturals gig.
That was so much fun.
We had a great crowd.
All y'all were there.
My parents came out.
Yeah, that was really, really fun.
We sang originals and a few covers here and there.
But I love Victoria.

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Every time you say it.
It's like the Pee Wee.
Have you guys seen Pee Wee's Big Pee Wee Herman Christmas?
Yeah, and it's like the special word.
It's like, yeah.
And then it goes off and it's like.
What could we tell you?
Hey, wait.
You're not old enough to remember that.
Wait.
No.
Oh, man.

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I grew up with older brothers.
I'm the youngest, you know, so I had exposure to things.
But yes, Victoria and I recently.
Oh, God.
All right.
I'll let you tell your story.
We've recently been out dancing.
We came.
We went to a show at the Casbah.

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And then I think before then, there was this I have a little story.
There was a little drama that happened recently with a drunk patron at a place.
I was just like I wasn't even playing.
I was just eating and drinking.
And ultimately, like there was a drunk guy who was like kind of belligerent and kind

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of went off on me.
And I like just picked up my shit and walked out like I'm going to the bathroom.
And I was like in the bathroom just feeling like I was like, oh, my God, that guy drunk.
I was so mean to me.
And I walk into Victoria's like you just have to you just have to ignore him.
He's nothing.
He doesn't mean anything.
And I was like, damn.
OK.
And she kept saying she was like, I've dealt with so much.

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I grew up in she grew up in like Orange County or something.
She was telling me about all her music interests and stuff and her life.
And she made me feel like a lot better.
So you just have to ignore those guys like they're drunk.
They don't know what they're talking about.
But I think like as a singer, like a female singer and like especially mostly like solo,
I have to be like from on boundaries and like dudes coming up or like drunk guys.

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And that's I kind of like playing with the band because I kind of have like a little
like barrier there.
But I've learned a lot about boundaries and Victoria.
Me.
Step into that.
So thank you, Victoria Bradley.
We love you.
That's OK.
A band doesn't always help some drunk lady tried to kiss him at a gig.
I know that wasn't there.

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I found out about it when he came home.
That was I felt so violated.
That's what's hard when you're a musician.
You're up there and you're like creating this fantasy and people are like ogling and you
start like it was.
It was.
I remember that night.
Oh, no, that was a different night.
Eric.
Oh, I don't know this one.

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Then wait, though, that was before I met you.
Oh, OK.
Try to kiss you.
I don't think it was somebody who tried to kiss him.
It was somebody kept trying to whisper in his ear while he was trying to play.
And we were all just sitting back and we were all set.
We didn't know who it was.
And we thought, oh, it's a friend of her, his or something like that.
And she was well.
Oh, is that the lady that emailed the band?
Oh, there was a lady that emailed their band email that was on a blind date at Ramona Family

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Naturals and they were playing and she messaged the like the entire band, Dirty Confetti's
email and was like, I felt like we had a connection.
I was on a blind date and it wasn't going well.
And I was just maybe one.
And we were connecting.
It might have been that.
It's crazy.
But no.
So the first one I was playing.
And anyway, let's let's finish.

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Let's finish our sponsor here.
OK, I don't get too far in there.
Miss Victoria Bradley, Ramona Family Naturals.
We love you so much.
Every Thursday they have live music.
Usually it's Dirty Confetti.
And then on Sundays, they every Sunday they have live music as well for brunch for brunch.

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Right.
That's that's when you played.
What is it from 11 to one?
Right.
11 to one.
They have good food.
Man, last time we went there, we had the breakfast burritos.
Friggin delicious sausage and egg and super good.
And they also have a coffee bar in there.
You can go in there, you get a coffee.
And they have seltzer and they have seltzers and beers and wines that you can buy by the

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can.
It's still to this day trips me out.
You can buy by the can.
You can literally pop one off of a six pack and just take it up.
Yeah.
No, you got to buy the whole six pack and drink the whole thing.
We usually do the the champagne and the orange juice with the organic orange juice.

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It's delicious.
I had that.
I had their French toast special this last week.
Oh, yeah.
And I've never had real maple syrup.
Yeah.
I didn't know that I had never had real maple syrup.
And they brought it out because it's all organic.
It's all whole natural.
Right.
Yeah.
And they brought it.
It's all dark.
And everybody's like, well, that's what real maple syrup should look like.
That's right out of the tree, buddy.

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That's how the tree.
Yeah.
Pop that shit in the tree and drained it right there.
I'm like, why is the other stuff not so dark?
It's because they mix corn syrup and all kinds of stuff in it.
I'm like, holy, I've never had it.
But boy, I'll have it again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you so much, Victoria.
We love you for your sponsorship and support in the show and supporting the live music

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here in Ramona.
We appreciate you so much.
OK, so the first time I was playing and got violated.
Here we go.
Before somebody encroached in my personal space.
No, really encroached in my personal space.
I was playing and a shit comes up and she's like waving her fingers.

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She's like, come here.
And I thought she was going to tell me something.
I was like, maybe she's requesting a song or something.
Yeah.
So I'm like, like, lean down.
And she just like grabbed my head and like kissed me.
And I was like, oh.
So I had a beer on my little cup holder on my mic stand that I usually have, but it's
fucking broke right now.
But I got to get a new one.
Anyway, beer was sitting right there and it wasn't a can.

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It was a glass glass.
What do you call it?
Glass.
I was thinking of a glass.
I was looking at my glass thing.
I was looking at a rocks glass right now because I'm drinking whiskey.
But it was a pint glass, but it was very top heavy.
So she pulled me and I was like, I pulled back and my knee hit the frickin stand and

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flew everywhere.
Beer was flying everywhere and Rob, my drummer, he was looking at me like, what the fuck just
happened?
I'm like, holy shit.
I'm like, what are you doing?
Bro.
So that happened.
Nightmare.
Yeah.
It happens.
You superstars.
I know.
Yeah.
Have you ever had someone like try to play your guitar when you're on your brain?

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Dude.
Do you remember that time at Red's when that girl came wandering right through the entire
crowd?
Oh, and it's trying to steal the guitar?
And trying to steal.
Yeah.
Well, no, she didn't try to steal it.
She just would start thumbing the strings.
Oh no.
Like it was on a guitar stand and she walked very deliberately right through the whole
crowd, right up to the guitar and just started going with her thumb.
And I think everybody just paused for a second because when things like that happen, you

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don't really know.
What to do?
What do I do?
Well, I would happen to be right up front at the time.
And so I went and grabbed her and then finally a whole bunch of everything.
Then everybody woke up.
Everybody's like, oh God.
And this woman started, she was clearly not mentally, she was needed some professional
help.
But she was thrashing and flailing and everybody's just like trying to usher her out through

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the crowd.
And then she did a little kind of like a little half lap and then left.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So strange.
Oh, there was a lady at Smokin' Cannon that was on something good one time and she was
like riding the bar stools like it was a horse and took her shoes off.
And people are just playing music and she's like on the bar stool like, yeah, I don't
even know.
Yeah, it was wild.
Yeah.
I was playing at this place one time and a drunk dude got up and wanted to sing the song

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with me.
I'm like, yeah, God, his breath smells so bad.
And he was like right by my face.
And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, what do I do?
I don't have bouncers, man.
I'm not a security.
I don't have security.
So I'm like, so I was like, so I kind of like just like, all right, dude.
So I pushed the microphone over to him, I hear you want to fucking make a fool of yourself.

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That's fine.
So he was like, I don't remember what we were singing.
It was Sweet Home Alabama.
I think we were doing it was like, yeah, after like the next verse, I'm like, all right,
man, get the fuck off the stage.
I got you can, you know, you hear stories like that.
You can see why you you catch videos sometimes of stars that lose their shit when they come

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up on stage.
Or the people throwing shit at artists like bracelets and water bottles.
It's like, what the fuck are you all doing?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I had someone come up to the stage.
I had my guitar on a stand.
It was like when I just was first getting started and some drunk guy and he was like
on stage and I was like at the bar getting a drink and I kind of like saw the corner

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of my eye and he was like eyeballing my guitar.
And then like the minute he touched my guitar from like a cross through, I was like, yo,
I was like, get away from my shit right now.
It's just like so disrespectful.
I feel like like this is our job is our livelihood.
Like this isn't like la la la la la.
Nobody would walk into a car shop and grab somebody's tools and start turning random

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bolts.
You know, a mechanic would be just as upset.
You know, let me see that puller.
I'm gonna pull these things off.
You know, if I step out of the airplane, I don't want somebody walking up in the cockpit
and be like, what are all these fucking buttons do?
Is that a torque wrench?

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What can I do with it?
What can I torque?
I feel like torqueing something.
Lord.
Oh man.
All right.
We promised we would let her go in a few minutes for crying out loud.
All right.
Yeah.
Gotta go see the parents.
We're up here.
You gotta, you know, make time for the fam.
I love it.
Gotta go see the fam.
Yep.

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It was so fun to have you here.
Thank you for having me.
Remind us again.
How do we find, get a hold of you?
Where, I want to know every, how do I find out where you're doing, what you're doing?
I want to know all of it.
So your next one in a couple of days, that's the...
It's in a couple of weeks.
Music box.
Thursday, January 30th.
You can find that ticket information on my website, ElizabethBowersocks.com.

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My Instagram, Elizabeth.Bowersocks.
A bunch of info and links in my bio there.
And follow me on Spotify.
And Apple Music.
And yeah, anytime you could come out to live shows and support and I'm probably gonna get
some merch out here pretty soon.
I was just gonna say, when do I get some Bowersocks merch?
When are you playing in Ramona again?
I don't have a date yet.

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Nothing yet?
No.
We're gonna have to work on that.
I've been talking to Ash about doing like Ash in the Mondays and Elizabeth Bowersocks
on the Kicks.
Something like that.
Sometime this year.
I know she's got, her year seems to be already planned out, which I totally get.
So yeah, probably with her and...
But yeah, we just had a really cool show at the Casablanca.
You guys know Sarah Petit?
Oh yes, very much.

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Yeah.
She had a dope show and Ash Easton was there and Sarah Jade, Jessie Lark.
She's a killer.
Yeah, yeah.
So Sarah Petit's doing this like Americana roundup.
Like I should try to get on that show.
There's just so much live music and thank you guys for supporting the local music scene.
When I grew up, when I was growing up here, none of this existed, you know?
So that's why I felt like I had to leave to go to Colorado.

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Cause I was like, oh, my people are there.
No one in Ramona really cares about music or anything.
So it's been so cool to do like, have a full circle moment and be like, wow, there's people
out there that understand the value of it and see the joy and experience.
So thank you guys.
I appreciate you.
Real quick before you go, have you ever played with Farmtruck?
You know them?

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I do know them.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
I got a little story.
So that night I sang at Casbah with Sarah Petit for her Christmas show.
Craig Fisher was there.
We said hello.
And then like we, some of us that were at Casbah were like, let's go to Soda Bar.
There was like some, some like indie alternative random band playing at Soda Bar.

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It was like totally different.
So we walked in with our cowboy hats.
Chloe Lu was there.
It was like super random, but Craig Fisher and I were, we were singing at the bar and
I had Uber there.
I was, I was pretty gone by then, but we like had a drunk conversation.
It was so fun.
He's super talented.
He was saying like he's going on tour, he's going to Arizona and I should talk to him

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about scheduling tours and just getting some insider information.
He's going to be on this show next week, but the following week.
Hell yeah.
We got him booked for that.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
He's a cool cat.
And he's got a show at the barn coming up, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's got a show booked at the barn.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.

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Cool.
Well, thank you Elizabeth for hanging out with us tonight.
We love you so much.
We love you.
Big fans, big fans.
Thank you.
Hell yeah.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for hanging out.
So, oh, real quick also before you go, I keep doing this.
I love it.
We're going to have a 50th episode coming up April 13th of this year.
Okay.
As our 50th episode and we're doing it live.

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We're doing it live.
We're doing it live.
Big party.
We'll do it live.
We'll do it live.
Do it live.
Yes.
Yeah.
Do it live.
I keep going, I'll write it, and we'll do it live.
Do it live.
Do it live.
Anyway, April 13th.
We're going to be at the Julian station.
Right across the, what is that?
The cooler.
You know where the cooler is.

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Is that up in Julian?
It's in Winola.
Winola.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, so we're going to have a.
Right before, do you know where like Winola Pizza or it's called Heroes now?
Yes.
Heroes, yeah.
It's right before that on the left hand side.
Okay.
Yeah, so we're going to do a live episode, live show, a party.
We're going to have a jam.
Oh my God.
So we want to invite all of the guests that have been on to come out and hang out and
we're going to do the whole thing live and we're going to, if you should.

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Who's going to get to play?
Hopefully you show up.
Amazing.
And you'll be there and you can come and sit in and hang out with us like we're doing now.
Great.
So pull out your phone.
April 13th.
Yeah, yeah.
Noon to whenever.
April 13th from noon until I can't talk anymore.
Or until I pass out.
One of the two.
Oh my God.
I'm committed now.
It's going to be rad.

(01:41:10):
Awesome.
Awesome.
All right, Elizabeth, thank you so much.
Thank you.
And hopefully we'll see you on the 50th episode.
Sounds good, y'all.
Come back and then sit in with us.
Yeah, yeah.
She's got a million dollar smile tattoo on her chest.
One to hide the pain and one to hide the rest.

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She used to be a blonde, now a brunette.
Got a million dollar smile, a tattoo on her chest.
When she looked in the mirror, what she saw, she couldn't stand.

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Says it's been a long while since she's been with a man.
Used to live in Paris, now the Northwest.
Got a million dollar smile, a tattoo on her chest.

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And every night when the sun goes down, she looks up at the stars above.
And every star that shines down on her, showers her with love.
And every star knows even if they shine with all their might, they'll never shine as bright.

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She's got a funny sense of humor, freckles on her nose.
Got a red Pomeranian, a Polymeral Rose.
She says that I'm a lousy poet, she says I've been jealous.

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Got a million dollar smile, a tattoo on her chest.

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And every night when the sun goes down, she looks up at the stars above.
And every star that shines down on her, showers her with love.
And every star knows even if they shine with all their might, they'll never shine as bright.

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Soft as a pillow, sharp as a tack.
Cool as a cucumber in the produce rack.
She likes to read Romeo and Juliet.

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Got a million dollar smile, a tattoo on her chest.
She's got a million dollar smile, a tattoo on her chest.
Skipper Oak, Skipper Oak.

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Oh listen to the children while they play.
Now ain't it kind of funny what the children say, Skipper Oak.
Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad.
Last night you should have heard the fight they had.

(01:45:30):
Gave little sister another bad dream.
She woke us all up with a terrible scream, Skipper Oak.
Oh listen to the children while they play.
Now ain't it kind of funny what the children say, Skipper Oak.

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Cheat on your taxes, don't be a fool.
Now what was that they said about a golden rule?
Never mind the rules, just play to win.
And hate your neighbor for the shady bidskin, Skipper Oak.

(01:46:25):
Skipper Oak.
Oh listen to the children while they play.
Now ain't it kind of funny what the children say, Skipper Oak.
Stab them in the back, that's the name of the game.

(01:46:47):
And mommy and daddy are who's to blame, Skipper Oak.
Skipper Oak.
Listen to your children while they play.
It's really not very funny what the children say, Skipper Oak.

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Skipper Oak.
I am an old woman named after my mother.

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And my old man is another child that's grown old.
His dreams were lightning, thunder were desire.
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me a poster of an old rodeo.
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.

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To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.
When I was a young girl, well I had me a cowboy.
He weren't much to look at, just a free rambling man.

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But that was a long time, and no matter how I tried,
the years just flow by like a broken down dam.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

(01:49:14):
Make me a poster of an old rodeo.
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

(01:49:41):
There's flies in the kitchen.
I can hear them there buzzing.
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning

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and come home in the evening and have nothing to say?
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me a poster of an old rodeo.

(01:50:23):
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.

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Now that it's over, I've realized those weak words you whispered were nothing but lies.
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, why can't you be blue over me?

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Why can't you be blue over me?