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March 9, 2025 • 121 mins

Tonight: Episode 45: Craig Fischer

Songwriter and lead of Farm Truck, Mr. Craig Fischer!

We lose control of the show in under five minutes.

Topless Events in Biker Bars.

Featuring music by Last Train to Juarez

Studio performance of a new song by Criag Fischer

More details and very special announcements for the TBR 50th Episode Mega Show!

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(00:00):
I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink of your whiskey.

(00:03):
Better get out of here. My name's Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's
underhull.
Underhull?
I know you don't agree but I think he's the king of country. Get the fuck out of here.
Get out of my studio.
No, hell no.

(00:25):
From the Ramona radio studios it's the Travis Billy Ross
Outlaw Country Show.
Oh yeah, we're here. We're live. Happy Sunday everybody.
Thank you all for tuning in to the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show
brought to you by Ramona radio.
With me as always, sweet curbs.

(00:47):
Hey, hey, hey. Don't say my hey, hey. You know what's funny is that I gotta...
Stay off her hey, hey. I know right. A lot of people tell me they're like I do that all the
time now
because so you're kinda doing a... You're trending. You're doing a trend thing, sweet curbs.
I've been a trendsetter all my life.
We got Eric Goforth running the sound over here. This crazy madman.
Eric's in the booth where the magic happens man.

(01:10):
He can play that guitar when no one's in the stands.
Hit that little button. You got that one. You want my button? Yeah, let's hear it.
We want your button. I want the Eric themes. There you go.
Eric's in the booth where the magic happens man.
He can play that guitar when no one's in the stands.

(01:32):
So as long as nobody's looking, I'm a badass fucking guitar player, dude.
Alright, so real quick we're doing the 50th episode
and I have regret to inform Mr. Eric Goforth
that he's playing the didgeridoo on the intro to a song that we're gonna be doing.
So, you're hired. I get to do the didgeridoo? Yeah, let's hear it.
Are you guys playing the intro song from The Lion King?

(01:55):
Nuts, man, yeah. Nailed it, dude.
We're a Simba. What's his name, Simba? Simba.
Oh man, hanging out with us tonight. So cool. Such a cool guest man to have.
Mr. Craig Fisher from Farm Truck. What's up, my friend?
What's going on, guys? Drum roll. Hell yeah, dude. How you doing?

(02:16):
Wonderful. Awesome. Life is good.
Can't fucking go anywhere. Those groupies come out of nowhere, man.
Farm truck fans. Get out of here. Security.
Eric, we told you we needed someone at the driveway.
You can't go anywhere and these fucking girls just shower all over him.

(02:38):
I know, we need to get armed security for the Ramona radio studio
because the we almost just got hijacked here. Where's the police?
So, dude, you were just on tour. Yeah, we just did a 10 day tour out in Arizona.
Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Fun tour.
Partially. OK. First two gigs, it was only four of us.

(03:02):
Mike Ashley took over on bass and then we played one gig, just Mike and I,
because we were drunk enough to get invited to a biker bar.
And I said, you guys want to play for, you know, my biker buddies?
And I said, hell yeah, we do. Sure.
We know 14 versions of Sweet Caroline. We're ready.
So then after that, full band showed up and we did a couple of couple gigs in the Phoenix Mesa area.

(03:30):
So I before the show, our good friend, John Hancock messaged me and he said,
make sure that you ask him about what happened in Arizona.
Oh, I don't know what that means. Do you know what that means?
Craig knows what that means. I don't have a frickin clue.
We've called people on the show before. Don't make us call.

(03:52):
We do research. We call John.
It might have something to do with that biker bar and naked women, but I'm not positive that that's the case.
There might have been naked. There might or there might not have been naked women.
There might have been. Might have been. So it sounds like there was naked women.
All right. What else?
Travis went to Travis and I went to a place in Florida and there was naked women.

(04:14):
You know what? I heard that story. Yeah, I heard it was a full on naked bar.
Yes. Yeah. Fully clothing optional. Yeah.
Yeah. And I tell you, you don't want to be naked in Florida.
I took my phone out because I was just looking at what time it was and the bar turns like, do do do do.
Put your phone away. Yeah. I was like, oh, damn, it's like that.
Yeah. A bunch of naked people. You know, I remember those days, you know, back in time where, you know, as a 20, 22 year old, 18 year old, 19 year old, going to the nude beach and you're going, oh, this is going to be awesome.

(04:49):
And then you see a lot of 50 year old men playing frisbee and dropping the frisbee and bending over and you're going, this ain't what I envisioned.
I have always said that there's a communal. I thought it was going to be like a playboy mansion.
Totally. Yeah. I was looking for the grotto on the beach, but it was not that without exception.

(05:10):
It's always the people that shouldn't be naked. Absolutely.
The most. Yeah. Kind of like Eric right now.
I just don't give a shit. To be fair, I only see him from the top up. So yeah. Well, that's usually what I look at. You don't have merits on your shoes like I do.
That's also why Craig got asked to leave the mall.

(05:38):
We're starting off good today, guys. No, that's so funny because the Blacks Beach thing, the nude beach, I went down there one time and there was a volleyball tournament thing going on and there was some pretty good.
It sounds good. Pretty good talent down there. Yeah, they're bouncing around for going to hurt that a drop down and pick up the ball. I was like, oh, God.

(05:59):
Yeah, I got brown eyed.
Travis slapped it out of their hand again. I was playing. I was just spectator.
We're going through your head. Not weird.
Ten minutes and it's a great show. Not even 10 minutes.

(06:22):
Yeah, so the volleyball tournament was pretty cool. I just sat and watched the whole time and I felt like a pervert. I was like, I'm like rooting for him.
Yeah, that shit.

(06:45):
Fuck. All right.
All right. Tell me more about Arizona and the naked people you're talking about.
Well, the tour started off down by the border and is actually pretty cool gig. A guy bought an office building and completely remodeled it into a music venue.

(07:06):
And he also manages a bar up towards Cape Creek.
And weird thing that I found out about Arizona is they're really into live music with bull riding.
So like three or four places around there, they have a stage right next to a shoot.

(07:27):
And so like Friday nights, if you want to go listen to music or you want to ride a three year old bull, you know, they got you covered.
Yeah. So can anybody sign up to ride the bull? Yes. Dude, I'll do it. Yeah, I'll do it. Well, we need to do a tour out there then.
Yeah. Eric, would you ride a bull? Do you have a life insurance first of all? Yeah, you know, I probably would.
I would. I probably would just to say I did once. I'm not going to try to go for like none of you have seen the movie eight seconds.

(07:54):
I'm going for eight seconds. I live eight seconds.
That's why I'm single. His entire life is eight seconds at a time.
Sweet Curbs hates it when that happens.
But it's four or five times a night. So it's exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I'm always been a quantity and not quality guy.

(08:19):
Yeah. There you go. A whole minute and a half between all all of the sessions.
So anyways, played there. Decent crowd. You know, you know, once again, we're playing there and people don't know who the hell we are.
But we hooked up with a really cool band and I'm actually bringing them out to Ramona for a couple gigs called Last Train to Juarez.

(08:40):
And so they set us up with a couple gigs, moved two hours north the next day to a town called Safford.
And the lady who owns that bar, she also owns a bar up Strawberry just north of Payson.
And same story. She bought this bar and now she's doing the backyard full stage bull riding everything else.

(09:05):
Oh, yeah. So all right. Noted. If you open a bar in Arizona, you got to have a bull riding.
Well, you know, and you're not talking like a mechanical bull. You said there's a shoe full on three year old bulls.
Yeah. Yeah. I was actually talking to Victoria the other day.
Yeah. If Ransom Brothers ever closed down, we got to turn that place into full on, you know, restaurant bull riding music venue.

(09:32):
Yeah. Yeah. We're looking for partners. Just let's get it done.
Yeah. So so then Mike and I hung out for the next two, three days.
We didn't have anything booked and did a lot of research on music venues.
Let's just say, OK, on who makes the best alcohol drinks.

(09:53):
That's what we're looking for. Best beverages. Yeah.
So we can play there. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.
Exactly. You know, I have to say that biker bar was pretty damn good, you know, because I was seeing things that I I'm not sure if they were real or not.
Oh, so they gave you absent. Did they slip some peyote in that shit?

(10:15):
They might. They might. Yeah.
So anyways, we went to the Barker Bar and then we went to the next place. Oh, you want to talk about the biker bar?
Is that? Yeah, let's hear that. I don't know. John said ask about what happened.
OK, so there had to be friends of ours.
They belong to he used to play in a metal band and now he's a full on outlaw country guy.

(10:36):
Very, very good band. And anyways, he belongs to this biker group called Metalheads Motorcycle Club.
OK, and so they invited us to come out and, you know, play some songs that, you know, it's gas money and we've got a full bar.
You can drink how much you want to drink.
And so we show up there and it's full on biker dudes. It's the black leather.

(11:01):
It's the vest. It's like Josie's or like Josie's on stairway.
No, it's not. It's not doctors. It's not lawyers. It's a full on biker bar.
Yeah. So Mike and I set up and we're just going to play acoustic songs.
And there's this chick and she's dressed to the frickin nines.
You know, those five hundred dollar cowboy boots that designer dream jeans with all the bling on them, the nice white blouse, the, you know, white cowboy hat.

(11:31):
Big old boobies. I didn't even notice. I mean, she just looked just looked like just looked like a like a classy, classy girl who flew in for the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament.
And her brother or cousin just happened to be a biker. She was looking to make her dad mad.
Like I said, she looked out of place. She was frickin gorgeous.

(11:54):
You know, so anyways, we doing our set and she's totally into us, you know, bebopping around.
And so Mike and I, we take a break and we go to the bar and we're, you know, facing out.
And next thing we know, we hear, you know, can I get you a drink?
And we turn around and there's that girl, butt ass topless.

(12:16):
The same girl, same girl, same girl.
And I asked big old boobies that you saw them. Yeah, I saw them.
Craig's a gentleman, Travis. Yes. I covered my eyes and said, give me a minute and I'll figure out what I want to drink.
Ma'am, can you please put your top back on and then I'll be able to decide.
You know, you know, and I'm thinking. You should have said you got milk.

(12:40):
Well, funny that that joke did come up last night, but you know, I'm thinking titties and so I mean, Tito's and soda.
And then titties and Tito's.
And then, of course, you know who over there says, well, why didn't you order a slippery nipple?

(13:02):
Oh, slippery nipple.
Buttery nipple. Yeah. So anyways, yeah.
So she she proceeded not to put her on her top the rest of the night.
And so we do our second set and I go, you know, we got one more song.
That's not illegal in Arizona. She just sat there with her boobs out.

(13:26):
I don't think anything's illegal in Arizona. All right.
I mean, I mean, they had a small take note. We need more topless venues where we can enjoy music without our bras on.
Yeah. Yeah. They had a sign on the wall saying, you know, you are not allowed to smoke outside.
If we see you smoking outside, we're going to bring you inside.
If we see your boobs stay as long as you like.

(13:48):
So, yeah, it was no holds barred.
So, you know, we do our second set and I announced, you know, we got one more song to do.
And she comes up to Mike and I and goes, do you guys take requests?
And, you know, if you know, Farmtruck, you know, no, we don't take requests.
You know, we got our set list. We do what we do.
And I go, you know, we got one more song, you know, come talk to us after the after we do this song.

(14:12):
So we do the song. And then she comes up and goes, do you know this song?
And it was a Hank Jr. song, something about a cowgirl. I don't know it. You may know it.
Something about a cowgirl. Yeah.
So anyways, I, you know, I pull it up on YouTube and I go, I don't know this song.
I go, I can't sing it. And she goes, well, I can sing it.

(14:33):
You know, well, yeah, I bet you can.
Are you going to put a shirt on to sing it?
So at this point, I'm ready to throw Mike under the bus.
I go, you know what? I bet Mike can learn this song real quick.
Give us 15 minutes.
So I pull it up on YouTube and I'm playing it and I, you know, Mike's there.

(14:55):
I'm here. She's here. One nipples here, one nipples there.
Nipples everywhere.
And I'm holding my phone up to Mike's here and we go through it like six or seven times and he goes, yeah, I got it.
So I go sit back at the bar and yeah, they knocked this song out.
No way. Yeah.

(15:16):
Dude, you got any video? Did the people at the bar know who she was?
Like, was she a regular? Yeah, that's the funny thing.
You know, I didn't think they did, but obviously she knew everybody.
They're like, Sarah's here again. Top's coming off. Exactly.
You're not friends with her unless you've seen her boobs.
That is true. That is true.
Was Sarah in a bad mood tonight? She didn't take her top off.

(15:39):
Did she have fun? I feel like she didn't have a good time tonight.
So yeah, that was an interesting evening.
Oh man, that sounds awesome.
It was pretty cool.
Well, shoot, man, this is the Outlaw Country show.
So what is your take on the Outlaw Country music? What's your?

(16:00):
Well, I think I definitely want to say there's nothing more outlawed than the party I just described.
Oh, absolutely. I want to hear a farm truck song.
I want to know how come, hold on, boobs, everyone wants to see him.
If some guy came out with his pants down, people would be outraged.
I don't know. Nobody wants to see a gross wiener.
Yeah, boobs are far more beautiful. They really are.

(16:22):
Are you shitting me? Yeah, come on. No, no. Anyway, I'm just saying it's a double standard.
Well, it's a fact. Whatever you want.
It's only a double standard because there's two of them.
You got two nuts.
There's two of them and sometimes they're double D. So that's a double double or double Z's or whatever.
Z? That's huge. That's a back problem.

(16:45):
All right. Let's. I want to hear a farm truck song, too.
You know what? One of the songs that I really like by yours, this one.
I love this song. I'm going to cover this.
Rolled out of Fresno, hugging that white line.
Blue past the nest, oh, listening to that Indian wine.
In a little dive in Barstow, I met a girl with hair of red.

(17:13):
She said, come have a drink with me, boy.
I said, come have a drink with me, boy.
Let's pour a shot of regret.
She said, I just moved here from Texas.
I was born in San Antone.
Left all my exes.
Now I call this place home.

(17:35):
I've been looking for redemption, but I haven't found it yet.
So what do you say, cowboy?
Let's pour another shot of regret.
Well, I could not resist that smile on her face.

(18:01):
When she waited me, she said, let's get out of this place.
We found an old motel.
On the outskirts of town, my will was getting high.
Will was getting down.
When I woke up in the morning, I was tied up to the bed.
Sound of 16 hammers pounding in my head.

(18:25):
I don't remember much, but I remember what she said.
She said, come have a drink with me, boy.
Let's pour another shot of regret.

(19:01):
Well, I could not resist that smile on her face.
When she waited me, she said, let's get out of this place.

(19:25):
We found an old motel.
On the outskirts of town, while we was getting high.
Will was getting down.
When I woke up in the morning, cash and credit cards were gone.
All that she left me were the words to this song.
There's things I won't remember, but there's things I can't forget.

(19:53):
Like that redhead girl from Texas and a shot of regret.
Like that redhead girl from Texas.

(20:27):
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, why can't you be blue over me?

(20:48):
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, tears fill my eyes, still I can't see.

(21:10):
Three o'clock in the morning, here am I, sitting here so lonely, so lonesome I could cry.
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, why can't you be blue over me?

(21:49):
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, why can't you be blue over me?

(22:14):
Now that it's over, I've realized, those we were to whisper, were nothing but lies.
Blue, oh so lonesome for you, why can't you be blue over me?

(22:52):
Why can't you be blue over me?

(23:22):
They say it's a lost highway, must be the ride.

(23:49):
Well I've been riding for years, and it's just me on my side.
I've been very far gone from me turning around, I just look ahead and ride.
Well I remember the way it always made me feel when David Halland sang the rise.

(24:14):
It takes you up, takes you down, the road on end goes around, makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you live.
And I, would I have lost, would I have gained, it's all to none, still the same. I'll keep riding until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(24:59):
Many others have traveled this road, I try to steer clear of the wreckage and the shattered souls forgotten every year.
And the ghosts that walk on the side of the road say to turn your bites around, one day son you'll be riding with us, searching for what can't be found.

(25:36):
It takes you up, takes you down, the road on end goes around, makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you live.
And I, would I have lost, would I have gained, it's all to none, still the same. I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(26:21):
And I, would I have lost, would I have gained, it's all to none, still the same. I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(26:51):
I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(27:15):
I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(27:45):
I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(28:10):
I'll ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(28:41):
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(29:11):
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(29:41):
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(30:11):
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find, until I find that lost highway.

(30:41):
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.

(31:11):
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.

(31:41):
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.

(32:11):
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.

(32:41):
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.
I'm going to ride until I find that lost highway.

(33:15):
Tim does not drink.
Meanwhile, Craig owns four houses
and they can't figure out where all the money's going.
Exactly, exactly.
I thought we were doing pretty well, I don't know.
Craig says we're not, so.
How come you keep booking us in Arizona?
Well, you know.
I've tried to pay for this house, no.
You know, I gotta mow the lawn, dude.

(33:35):
Gotta mow the lawns and I gotta see topless chicks.
Oh, man.
So, dude, what's your favorite part about being a musician?
Would you rather, do you like performing or do you like writing?
I 100% prefer the writing, the creative part of it,

(33:59):
the being in the studio, putting the songs together and stuff.
I became a front man out of default.
I wanted to be known as a songwriter, get my songs out there,
and nobody's going to sing your songs
if you don't have a reputation.
Well, let me know.
So I started, so I fronted the band and, god, I was stiff as a board

(34:24):
the first few, first year or two.
I know, dude, I remember seeing your band play
and then I saw you play by yourself.
It was, what was it?
I think it was one of Ashley's things where it was like that.
I can't tell you exactly where it was.
I don't remember what the gig was, but it was Ramona Ranch.
It was Ashley's birthday and Brad and her just got married.

(34:45):
You played, you played, but that was the first time
I had seen you by yourself as well.
That was the first time, yeah.
I saw you by yourself.
At Ramona Ranch.
Yeah, yeah.
So I didn't dig fronting a band at all.
And then I got to the, actually I read something
and I read that 50% of the people are going to like you
and 50% of the people are going to hate you.

(35:08):
And at that point, I no longer gave a fuck.
Just lean in.
You know what?
I just went and you know what?
Whatever happens happens and it loosened up the band.
Yeah.
You know.
I feel that too.
50% of the people might like you.
Maybe 40% of the people don't give a shit
and then 10% of the people don't like you.

(35:30):
Like that's.
No, with your band, 60% of the people don't like you.
Well, no, it's more than that.
It's like 90.
70-30.
I'm at the 90% where they fucking hate me.
No, no, I'm just kidding.
As have I.
No, man, yeah.

(35:50):
Yeah, what about you?
So me, I like both.
I like writing.
I don't do it that often.
Like I'm.
Dude, your original songs.
You need to be doing that more often.
I mean, you got some killer songs.
Thank you.
And you know what?
I can say this because it's on the Internet.

(36:12):
Fuck Red Solo Cub.
Your songs are so much better than that song will ever be.
I don't know what a crazy song.
I love Toby Keith, but that's true.
I like the song, but yeah, we do it.
But yeah, man, I like I like writing.
I like it.

(36:33):
It takes a lot out of me, though, it seems like to write, like because I have to like
sit like I don't know.
It feels like a lot of work to do it.
I get like a feeling of like what I want to hear and what I want to what I want to say.
It just gets to that.
And then and then I always get to that point where I'm done with the song and I'm like,
all right, I don't think anybody's going to fucking like it.

(36:54):
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you're getting into your own head.
Yeah, yeah, I get into my own head.
So me and me and Craig and Sweet Curbs and Ashley E. Norton and Leslie Lidda, we did
a and Bradley.
I think Theo was there, too.
We talked about Thanksgiving.
Yeah, that Thanksgiving wasn't there on Thanksgiving.
No, but so we were we were.

(37:16):
We did a we did a circle like we were doing the rounds and Scott Toothacre's living room.
Right, right.
And that was awkward, man.
Like it was weird.
I had a song kind of I was working on and it's just like I remember that.
But I do got to give you credit for one one of my songs, the Ramona song, my Ramona song.

(37:37):
It's called Ramona song.
Let me ask you, how'd you come up with that name?
Ramona song?
Yeah, I don't know.
Man, that's so that's out of left field.
I think so.
The Ramona CD.
No, you know what it was?
You know what it was?
It was because of that song, Danny's song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you know what?
This is Ramona song.
Yeah, that's a great song.

(37:58):
It's a really good song.
Ramona ain't got money.
But I still love her, honey.
All right, sweet curbs, let's hear it.
Go sing.
How come you don't have your own band already?
People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one.
That's a fact.
That is a fact.
It's Kirby and the Midnights.
Kirby is the lucky one.
That's a fact.
That is a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.

(38:19):
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That is a fact.
Kirby is not the lucky one.
You are the lucky one.

(38:41):
Kirby and the Midnights.
And we only sing covers and we only sing between the hours of 12 a.m. and 1 a.m.
On February 29th?
There's not a distinct day.
Those are just hours.
If you want to book us, you have, you know, Kirby and the Midnights.
On February 29th, once every four years.
That's like hocus pocus.
And you can also get a black flame candle.
Very specific set of requirements for me to play.
Oh man.
No, but your verse that you gave me that night was one hour away from where the desert winds

(39:07):
blow.
That was from you.
I appreciate you, man.
Have you gotten any payments, Craig?
Any residuals?
Nothing?
Well, let me know if you do because I haven't gotten any.
I go out to my mailbox every day looking for that check.
I get my 25 cents.
Today's the day.
I get my 25 cents.
Publicity is clearing house or it's Travis's song lyrics.
I'm getting a check from someone.
Every time we play it, I owe you a quarter.
That's more than Spotify pays.
I know.
Oh my God.

(39:28):
I know.
Oh, that's crazy.
Do you guys have stuff on the Spotify and all that?
Yeah, we're on all of them.
Yeah, I got Farm Truck album.
Then I have a Craig Fisher album floating around out there.
Someplace also was the farm truck.

(39:49):
Were you doing music before farm truck?
Like or was it?
I recorded an album, but I never put a band together.
Farm truck is the first band I've ever put together.
So I had to do the recordings before farm truck.
Do you hire out like a drummer and a bass player?
Yeah, I hired a who's who of San Diego musicians.
Hold on back even farther.
So if you never had a band to a farm truck, what got you into music?

(40:13):
What made you start playing and doing all that?
Weirdest thing ever is I used to work as a welder.
Okay.
And all I would do is you're a maniac out on the floor.
Yeah, you know, we had the sparks coming down.
You had your off the shoulder sweatshirt.
The water.
It's like a footloose moment or something.
Yeah.
What was it?

(40:34):
It wasn't a footloose.
What the hell was it?
Oh, God.
Now I made fun of you and I don't even know.
It was a movie called Craig the Welder.
Yeah.
You can find it on Porn Hub.
Porn Hub.
Sells for a top dollar.
Craig the Welder, but you have to have a prescription.

(40:55):
Arizona topless.
A prescription.
You have to have a subscription to get to that.
You need the prescription after you see it.
Okay, sorry.
So you were a welder.
Hold on.
I'm interested.
He's a welder.
Oh, my God.
This is a crazy fucking show, man.
Flash dance.
That's the name of the movie.
Flash dance.
So anyways, so anyways, I was sitting there, you know, welding for eight hours a day and

(41:24):
you're tucked inside this dark hood.
Yeah.
And you're bored to death.
And when I was in high school, backtracking a little bit, you know, they always give you
those things, you know, those tests to see, you know, what you're good at.
Yeah.
And it came back that Craig should be a writer.
So, you know, fast forward to where I'm a welder in this mask.

(41:47):
All I was doing was coming up with songs in my head.
And so it became real easy for me to write a song.
So when you were writing songs, though, did you play?
I never played guitar or nothing.
It was all in my head.
Okay.
Yeah.
When did you start playing guitar?
About 15 years ago?
No, damn.
Yeah, yeah.
Damn.
So, so anyways, the way I ended up in Ramona, I used to race motocross all the time.

(42:13):
And the last race of the series was here in Ramona.
And so I fell in love with this town.
And so I ended up a couple years later moving here.
And then when I stopped doing motocross, I was looking for something to do.
And so I said, you know, it's time for you to start learning how to play guitar and blah,

(42:33):
blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so you guys know Indian Joe?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I started taking guitar lessons from Indian Joe.
And one day I said, do you mind if I play a couple of my songs?
And he goes, yeah, let me hear them.
So I did.
And he goes, why the hell aren't you doing anything with this?
So at that point, I had met a guy who owned a studio, good friend of mine now, Steve Langdon.

(43:02):
And we put together this album and we just hired a who's who of San Diego musicians.
And then I never did anything with it.
I just, you know, let it die.
So yeah, that's that's how I got into music.
And then, you know, that's crazy.
I would have thought you'd been doing it your whole life.
No, Farmtruck is the first band I've ever had, the only band I've ever had.

(43:25):
That's why we've been together what, maybe nine years now, something like that.
Yeah.
Dirty confetti is the only band that I've ever started.
I've been in bands like, I was just part of it.
I wasn't like the front man or the guy.
But Dirty Confetti is the first band that I actually put together and I was the front

(43:47):
guy for.
And that was six, seven years ago.
How long has Farmtruck been around?
About nine years.
Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah.
And you guys play, you guys play all, well, you guys were on tour, you guys went to Arizona.
We tried to, we tried to play, you know, we tried to go, you know, a couple of times
a year up to central California.

(44:08):
You know, we played down in San Diego, North County, East County.
And then, you know, we tried to make a couple, two, three trips out to Arizona.
You know, we're trying to, you know, make that circle to where we do a, you know, Southwestern
thing going on.
Southwestern tour.
Yeah.
Just get known, you know, as you start here and you keep expanding the circle.

(44:29):
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
Yeah, yeah.
So.
All right, Craig.
So we ask all the guests the opinion of your own.
And there's only one wrong answer.
It's not wrong.
You can say whatever you want.
Say whatever you want.
All right, so we ask everybody who, in your opinion, is the king of country?

(44:50):
Oh, 100% Beyonce.
Beyonce.
Okay, yeah.
Get out of my studio.
Cowboy Carter.
We're done here.
What?
The same taxes.
The same hoes.
All right, we're done here.
Good night, you guys.
Thank you for tuning in.
Sorry, we didn't make it to our other sponsors this evening.
But they'll understand.
They don't want their name attached to that shit.

(45:17):
Kudos to you, though.
That was the first Beyonce.
No, I'm just serious, though.
He was serious.
Okay, so I'm going to tell you.
Well, that would be the queen, if that was really who I think is.
Crazy, but I also want to say who has been the most influential as far as bringing country

(45:38):
to let's just say for me anyways, the rock community to break down the barriers.
Hank Williams obviously is the king of country.
Yes, sir.
100%.
See, God damn, where's your drink at?
You will be invited back.
You got a beverage?
No.
We'll plink that real quick.
Craig did his research.

(45:59):
But.
Anybody who is not into Graham Parsons needs to look them.
Oh, Graham Parsons project.
Yeah.
No, not.
No, no, not the ground.
Not the same thing.
It is not.
It is not.
Graham Parsons is the guy who kind of discovered Emmylou Harris.
He was in the birds.
He was influential on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, which is the birds country album.

(46:26):
He had the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Oh, Internet.
The Burritos out in California.
Amazing, amazing artist.
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's Graham Parsons.

(46:48):
Yeah.
And he just recreated the whole scene and said, I mean, you got to read the story.
He was a trust fund baby who his family owned like the largest orange plantations in Florida,
went to Harvard and said, screw this.
I'm going to be a songwriter and moved to L.A. hung out with the Rolling Stones and

(47:11):
was dead by 26 years old.
Wow.
Yeah.
See, yeah.
I was.
What happened?
Tragic stories.
And it even gets more bizarre.
He told his manager, you know, I do not want to be buried back with my family.
You know, if you if I die, you know, light a fire and burn me up in Joshua Tree.

(47:34):
And so his manager stole.
They were got a hearse somehow stole the body from, you know, the Los Angeles airport.
Oh, wow.
Because they were they were getting ready to fly it back east and took it out to Joshua
Tree to Caprock and Joshua Tree.
Oh, yeah.
And lit the casket on fire.
Damn.

(47:55):
Yeah.
How a screenplay has not been made about it has.
How's that?
It has.
It's called a hug.
Johnny Knoxville stars in it.
Really?
Yeah.
No, check it out.
It's like I can't remember the name of it, but I'm like, I'm looking.
Yeah.
But Johnny Knoxville, Graham Parsons and it'll come up.
Damn.
That's fucking yeah.

(48:15):
It's called it's called Grand Theft Parsons.
Yeah.
Oh, that's but Graham Parsons was.
An extremely talented songwriter who bridged before the Eagles, before Poco, before any
of these bands who bridged the rock and country community together.
So yeah, that's check it out.

(48:36):
We're going to buy that story.
Also.
So then we also ask Queen because the sweet group died of an overdose.
Damn it.
I hate that story.
I hate that.
I've actually stayed in it.
So if you ever go up to Joshua Tree, the Joshua Tree and you can stay in the Graham Parsons
room and there's a full on thing outside the door, a monument to him.

(48:58):
It's pretty surreal.
And if you actually go to Cap Rock and walk behind it, you'll see where there's engravings
of a GP and and I swear it's a religious experience.
That's why.
That's crazy.
What a trip.
Yeah.
Well, we're going to have to listen to some Graham Parsons.
That's a great story.
All right.
But before we do that, Queen of Country, because sweet curves always asks.

(49:21):
So I'm asking for her.
Yeah, you can't go wrong with Dolly Parton.
All right.
Yeah, that's the consensus.
God bless.
I mean, Loretta Lynn is up there.
She's up there.
But Dolly Parton is to me the queen.
My thing with Dolly is just the longevity.
She made music then she's still making music.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(49:42):
Anything she does turns to go who has a theme park.
No one.
No one.
I would make a mouse Mickey Mouse.
If you've heard of it.
Well, it's called Disneyland.
Touché.
I'm talking about music.
But he wasn't a country singer.
Well, country music.
Well, was he?
I bet if you go on YouTube and type in Mickey Mouse country, something will come up.
Oh, man.

(50:02):
Yeehaw.
MSP.
Yeehaw.
K.E.Y.
We could do something.
All right.
So are we ready to take, listen to some music?
Let's listen to some tunes.
Oh, yeah.
Well, all right.
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair.

(50:32):
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down.
Oh, Ruby.

(50:58):
I'll take your love to town.
It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war.
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore.
Yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be.

(51:29):
Oh, Ruby.
I still need some company.
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed.

(51:49):
And the once in the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realize.
But it won't be long.
I've heard them say until I'm not around.
Oh, Ruby.
Don't take your love to town.

(52:18):
She's leaving now.
Because I just heard the slamming of the door.
The way I know I've heard it slam 100 times before.
And if I could move, I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.

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Don't take your love to town.
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