November 23, 2025 • 21 mins
On this episode I chat with Derrick and Jodi Mears of MARCH TO AUGUST. We chat about music and the single HELL BOUND.
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(00:19):
More because we're getting really close to the days of the
400th episode, the 60 year anniversary of the show.
We are getting super close to all that fun stuff.
But on the road to that, we haveas listeners and myself all
together, another day of a fantastic episode on the music
(00:42):
series where I bring you some ofthe best independent music in
the world on the show. Not that's not just to, you
know, be obnoxious or anything. It's just true.
Look at all the Spotify playlists that I put out there.
Look at all these nearly 400 episodes full of artists of all
genres to, you know, give you a break in a day in 1520 minutes.
You can just pick up new music easy and get to know the artist.
(01:06):
Just, you know, get the connection you don't have with
the radio. That's kind of the point.
But if you want to support theseartists easy like follow,
subscribe. Like I always mentioned, if you
support me, you have this weekend with this episode. 35%
off on merch right now. Lincoln Bio the link she gives
(01:26):
you the link to the merchandise store.
Nice and easy new designs. New special T-shirt for the
indie artist is out there. Go check that out.
Support me keeping doing this, and the good news is I have
enough episodes till the new year for the music.
I'm going to overwhelm the podcasting scene with episodes
(01:48):
In the next few weeks. We're going to mass release a
whole bunch of episodes with amazing artists.
Go check those out. Make it part of your day.
In the morning you drive and just check out the episode.
Get some music before you, even before your car even warms up,
you're going to have a new song that you like at this podcast,
the rotation. Send it to someone who always
(02:09):
complains. Oh, there's no good music.
Radio sucks. Well, here you go.
I got something for you. So nice and simple.
Thank you guys for listening again.
We are killing the numbers on Spotify, especially lately.
So go follow, subscribe and helpthe independent scene grow.
Let's get to today's show. Yeah, like I mentioned, I love
traveling stateside and Arkansas, where you guys are in
(02:32):
the Ozarks. Isn't, isn't a place I've been
to, but it's one of the top two places I have to get to next and
to the show right now. Like to welcome March to August.
Derek and Jody, how are you today?
We're great. Great.
Thank you. Thanks for having us, Jacob.
We appreciate you. Of course, this show prides
itself on a fantastic independent artist.
(02:53):
And let me tell you today we have a fantastic episode because
I like discovering new music. And you guys caught me off guard
because I wasn't ready for what I was about to listen when I
when I got the track with them, the more I listened to it.
And I actually did some researchon this show, hit up the YouTube
channel and but all the good stuff we'll get to very shortly.
(03:14):
But let's learn about March to August.
Let's learn about you guys a little bit more and walk me
through the the beginning of howthis band came together, how you
got it figured out that you knowwhat you want to do this music
thing. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, Well, I mean, we've, we've, we've been together for
many, many years. But about about 10 years ago or
(03:34):
so, we were I've, I've played music for, for several years.
And, and we kind of had this idea at the kitchen table of,
hey, maybe we could, you know, it started kind of with our
daughter. Our daughter played music with
us for eight years and it kind of started with her saying, hey,
we could put together a band. And and so we just kind of
(03:56):
started and we we've always asked ourselves, it's like, why
did we take so long to figure that out of us playing together?
Yes. And so, yeah, we just kind of
started from there. And she stepped away at the end
of 2022. Our daughter did and and we
retooled then into March to August as a as a duo and
continued to release. You know this is.
(04:20):
Songs inspired by witness Is there a.
Third or third album as as a duo.
Oh that's fantastic. Now there's going to be a lot of
behind the scenes work to put out this much music.
So where do you draw upon your influences in in writing and
concepts? To me, it's it's, it's one of
(04:40):
those things of of the stories people tell you.
It shows, you know, that inspirethings.
Yes, this particular last album was was really unique.
About eight or nine years ago wewe read a a teen fiction book
called Witness that was set in asmall town in Vermont during
(05:01):
prohibition. Yes, it's a it's a team fiction
historical novel written by Karen Hesse.
Hesse he's I I have to ask Karen, how do I say her last
name? But we were so influenced by
this book and and it it's, you know, I've, I've been thinking
about this today and how parallel 1920s prohibition era
(05:26):
United States is so parallel to today.
So true. And so that influenced, Yeah.
So we started with one song. We started out, you know, we
wrote a song and, and about 8 years ago we kind of started and
all of a sudden it kind of just began to come to the fruitation
(05:46):
that we had an entire concept album here that really kind of
told more of the story. And so it was kind of one of
those non Spotify kind of albumsto where it's designed to be
listened to start to finish because the whole album kind of
tells a story and introduces characters as you go along.
So those are kind of things we just draw inspiration from is
finding, finding these, these stories that we read that that
(06:09):
that inspire. Blog posts.
Or stories people tell us, or blog posts, or.
Or sometimes we just like to invent a character like our new
album we're working on where we just kind of they did this
character that we are building awhole series of songs around and
and such. And so just kind of get
inspiration from here and there for for putting songs together.
(06:34):
That's I'm not, I'm not gonna spoil my age because I remember
a long time ago when artists putout albums and this is
fantastically to hear by the waythat they're used.
There used to be a theme for thewhole album used to walk through
a story from beginning to end. And if you're creating that now,
now it's something like this is completely rare because music
(06:57):
nowadays is based on singles andplays and things like that.
Back when CD's first came out. This is one of my favorite
things back then is they used tolink songs in between CD plays
so the story would continue songto song.
And I, I love that back then andit's very rare to see now.
So to hear that your albums and EP's are theme based is
(07:20):
fantastic. Yeah.
Yeah. We got hooked on it.
We. First by Marty, Marty Stewart, I
don't know if you're familiar with him, he's a country artist
and he talks about he created a concept album called The Ping
the Pilgrim. It's.
Just there's 20 years ago, I guess.
Yeah, yeah. He did a kind of a reunion tour
(07:42):
recently and we happened to see that him on tour and went Oh my
gosh, that's it. That was kind of the inspiration
of that's what we wanted to do with this, these songs.
And I don't think we'll go back.Yeah, yeah.
There will always be some kind of concept theme to each album
from now on. They need to make sense and and
and tell a. Story and it's becoming more and
(08:04):
more popular again. I know, for example, that Lord
Huron does a lot of their problems are are set based, you
know, Gillian Welch and David Rollins new album was is kind of
a, you know, pretty much a concept based album too.
And and you know, the expirationof their studio and the.
That that got the tornado through.
Nashville, Nashville. And so I'm, I'm glad to see and
(08:27):
I think I wonder sometimes if it's also because of the slight
slight resurgence of vinyl, maybe they're also becoming a
little. More I was just thinking that.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can't just skip and
and go to the next song and forward and all those goofy
things that we do on Spotify now.
You actually have to listen. I think you might be right.
There are series of vinyl helps this concept tremendously.
(08:51):
Excellent. Let's talk about Hellbound
because this song caught me off guard.
Was anticipating with the name like that something, you know,
similar but caught me off guard and I had a great time watching
the video. Yeah, the lyric video you have
posted on there. Walk me through this song and
(09:11):
how this one came about. Yeah, well, this this song in
this novel that inspired inspired our album, there's an
evil character named Johnny Reeves.
And this and this song is about his, his demise, basically how
the town had had enough of, of him and they, you know, came up
(09:32):
with a way to to run him out of town.
And then the novel, he jumps offa bridge and but the author
leaves it unclear as to what happens to him.
She left it totally open-ended. And there's, so there's this,
there's this indications in the latter part of the book that he
might have survived the jump, but there's also these
(09:52):
indications that he might be a ghost haunting the river in
there where he jumped, which is of course, as we tend to be kind
of dark Banjo, as we've been classified, we kind of jumped on
that idea of a ghost that, that,you know, he reappears as a
ghost. And, and from there, this, you
know, this, this tale of, of hisdemise and, you know, kind of
(10:13):
came in, came to, came to be. Dark Banjo, that's I'm
remembering that from now on. That's really good.
It makes. Sense, literally and
figuratively. Yes, that'll make sense to
everybody when they see the video of this track.
But you know what? That's a great build up because
I think we should just play for the audience, right?
(10:34):
Now, sure, sure. Let's do it.
Here is Hellbound March to August.
Standing help on the bridge region river down below.
Looks like Johnny is reached theend of his room.
You're saying I'm just a Sinner?Souls too lost to be found.
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When he needs that water, he'll be held bound.
We know pearly gates waiting in Saint Peter won't call his name.
The Celestial Shore after all that he has done, use the word
to groom, manipulate and satisfyhis loves.
The rain on load above would have him help battle Hellbound.
(11:21):
Hell bound. There ain't no load above with
heaven help them about. You'll spend eternity walking
this river hell bound. Dressed in robes of white, vowed
(11:57):
to be there. Guiding Light was a good book to
justify all they had done, but his dark secrets been revealed.
They'll go riding soon, I feel. Either jump or face the wrong
end of their guns. Hell bound, Hell bound.
There ain't no Lord above would have been held bound.
(12:19):
Hellbound, hell bound. He'll spend eternity walking
this river, spell bound. If you go down by that river on
(13:05):
a dark and foggy night and you smell a stench that you can wash
away, that's when John Egg comes.
A callin gets you close. You won't be found.
Drag you in and water with him. He'll bound.
Hell bound, bound. This is where his story ends.
(13:28):
He's held bound, hellbound, hellbound.
You'll spend eternity on this river, hill bound.
So there, there you go. That was hellbound March to
August. Go get it on your favorite
(13:50):
streaming platform or even better, go to my Spotify
playlist and go add, listen to follow, subscribe or go to
YouTube, their videos there, geta go like file subscribe there.
YouTube is for me hard to get through through the algorithm
but if we can go and support artists we should now.
Alright, I saw there's quite a few videos like this one on your
(14:13):
YouTube page with upcoming music.
You just mentioned you're working on a future album.
Are you looking maybe to expand the visual aspects of all these
tracks to something similar or afull out video creation?
Yeah, we haven't we haven't really decided that it's it's
hard to evaluate in today's kindof, you know, TikTok shorts,
(14:38):
shorts based world of how how lucrative, how lucrative it, you
know, or how to be able to produce those kind of, you know,
more traditional film cinematography type video.
How you know how how valuable that medium is.
It's hard to to discover becauseit's, you know, so much is based
(14:59):
on we find we get a full song recording and we spend a lot of
our time breaking it into 32nd and 45 seconds reels that get
more traffic than the full videos do, right.
So it's a hard, it's always a, it's a hard market to figure out
how much of you know, how much of that storytelling to do.
Right, Plus, plus the I mean, we're, we're, we're almost
(15:23):
completely DIY indie artists except for when we go to the
studio and videography and it's so expensive.
It's like it's just stupid expensive.
And we, we even our promoter said, hey, you know, we, we love
video. Let's see what you can do.
He said don't do a traditional long form storytelling video.
(15:45):
That's just not what's what's practice out there anymore.
And, you know, and he knew our budget.
So I mean, there is one, one thing that we're, we're working
on, we actually got a grant for a performance that we're going
to be doing in our, you know, local market where we're
actually putting together video supplements that will run behind
(16:08):
us as we play through this hours.
And so we've kind of started on this idea, kind of put it
bringing some of these characters a little more to life
with, with, with some imagery and, and some of that and, and
doing that kind of a, of a show where we have video backdrop
running behind us that adds to the story.
(16:30):
And that might be something thatas we put that together, it
might, you know, it might come together of, Hey, maybe there's
a content there that produces a more storytelling video versus
a, you know, a straight live performance video.
And, and a lot of it too, when you're, when you're DIY, you
can't, you have to look at that idea that, you know, most
(16:52):
festival booking agents, most promoters, most venues, they
want to see live performance. And for us, we found, well, one
of the best ways is go into a studio and perform something
live and videotape it. And that way we've got this to,
to, you know, percent to a festival in a venue.
So we haven't really gotten pastthat idea of like, you know,
(17:14):
finding a place for that really artistic video.
But it's not saying that maybe in the future it may not come or
if we should right get inspired as we put things together,
right? No, for sure, independent is
hard. Being independence hardly have
to balance your funds and your time.
And we have a little bit of timeleft in 2025, but we have a
(17:35):
whole year of 2026. I know you're working on the
next album. What else can we look forward
to? Yeah, I, I think we're like, say
we're in the process. We're heading into the studio
actually next week to begin recording, recording the new
album. And it's an it's another concept
record and our character and this one is a long haul truck
driver and kind of we were inspired coming back from a tour
(17:59):
in Florida. On a Highway 70.
Five driving up Hwy. 75. No, that one by heart.
Oh, did you You. You're going to love this.
Yeah. And so we got inspired by by
that stretch of Hwy. along Hwy. 75 and, and we kind of began to
create this character that was along haul truck driver that that
travels that stretch, travels a stretch of Hwy. there.
(18:22):
And, and as he as he progresses,he begins to to help people
along the way to try to come to some kind of redemption for the
mistakes he's made in his life. And that grew into a whole 13
song album. Oh.
Wow. So, so that kind of tells tells
us this person's story. So, so where we said we're going
(18:43):
in starting next week to begin to record the first, the first
tracks of that with hopefully a release probably mid. 2020.
Six year 2026, yeah. I see, I'm excited to see cause
I've driven personally that stretch of Hwy. from beginning
to end. Yes.
All 20 times. Yeah, wow.
OK, from the very beginning to very end.
(19:04):
So now I'm intrigued completely.Alright, I'll be looking forward
to that. Yay for us listeners.
Not everybody knows that Hwy. 75runs all the way from Florida to
the Canadian border. They don't.
They do not realize that and so.Emory, Ontario have top of
Michigan. There you go, there you go.
(19:25):
So that's so cool. I love that.
I love that connection. Yes.
That is fantastic. So now if anybody listening
wants to keep up with this project and any other projects
in the future, where should theygo outside of the March to
august.com, the website? Any socials that you recommend?
Yeah, I mean we have Facebook and Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
(19:46):
all three and marched August music where they can, you know,
keep track with as we release pieces and reels.
We've been doing some going to be doing some YouTube shorts as
we worked through to where we kind of pop in some here's some
live from the studio, here's some pieces of tracks as could
kind of, you know, start to start to introduce that.
(20:06):
Another thing, if, if you're interested, if you like what you
hear, you can subscribe to our newsletter.
Yeah, I just have to pitch that.It's yeah, all the way down at
the bottom of our page. It's it's our, our, our March to
august.com. And just sign up with your
e-mail. I only send one newsletter a
month. We don't bug you, but you never
bug you. Little spam here.
(20:30):
It's awesome though fantastic thinking really easy.
Everybody listening already knows the you guys marched
August will be linked to this episode on all socialist click
like follow subscribe because you want to support independent
musical worldwide. That's what we do on this show.
So Derek, Jody, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Today, yes. And thank you so much for all
(20:50):
that you do to support artists, I think.
This. Yeah.
Jacob here. You're amazing.
Thank you. So.
Much. Thank you so much.
More because we're getting really close to the days of the
400th episode, the 60 year anniversary of the show.
We are getting super close to all that fun stuff.
But on the road to that, we haveas listeners and myself all
together, another day of a fantastic episode on the music
(00:42):
series where I bring you some ofthe best independent music in
the world on the show. Not that's not just to, you
know, be obnoxious or anything. It's just true.
Look at all the Spotify playlists that I put out there.
Look at all these nearly 400 episodes full of artists of all
genres to, you know, give you a break in a day in 1520 minutes.
You can just pick up new music easy and get to know the artist.
(01:06):
Just, you know, get the connection you don't have with
the radio. That's kind of the point.
But if you want to support theseartists easy like follow,
subscribe. Like I always mentioned, if you
support me, you have this weekend with this episode. 35%
off on merch right now. Lincoln Bio the link she gives
(01:26):
you the link to the merchandise store.
Nice and easy new designs. New special T-shirt for the
indie artist is out there. Go check that out.
Support me keeping doing this, and the good news is I have
enough episodes till the new year for the music.
I'm going to overwhelm the podcasting scene with episodes
(01:48):
In the next few weeks. We're going to mass release a
whole bunch of episodes with amazing artists.
Go check those out. Make it part of your day.
In the morning you drive and just check out the episode.
Get some music before you, even before your car even warms up,
you're going to have a new song that you like at this podcast,
the rotation. Send it to someone who always
(02:09):
complains. Oh, there's no good music.
Radio sucks. Well, here you go.
I got something for you. So nice and simple.
Thank you guys for listening again.
We are killing the numbers on Spotify, especially lately.
So go follow, subscribe and helpthe independent scene grow.
Let's get to today's show. Yeah, like I mentioned, I love
traveling stateside and Arkansas, where you guys are in
(02:32):
the Ozarks. Isn't, isn't a place I've been
to, but it's one of the top two places I have to get to next and
to the show right now. Like to welcome March to August.
Derek and Jody, how are you today?
We're great. Great.
Thank you. Thanks for having us, Jacob.
We appreciate you. Of course, this show prides
itself on a fantastic independent artist.
(02:53):
And let me tell you today we have a fantastic episode because
I like discovering new music. And you guys caught me off guard
because I wasn't ready for what I was about to listen when I
when I got the track with them, the more I listened to it.
And I actually did some researchon this show, hit up the YouTube
channel and but all the good stuff we'll get to very shortly.
(03:14):
But let's learn about March to August.
Let's learn about you guys a little bit more and walk me
through the the beginning of howthis band came together, how you
got it figured out that you knowwhat you want to do this music
thing. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, Well, I mean, we've, we've, we've been together for
many, many years. But about about 10 years ago or
(03:34):
so, we were I've, I've played music for, for several years.
And, and we kind of had this idea at the kitchen table of,
hey, maybe we could, you know, it started kind of with our
daughter. Our daughter played music with
us for eight years and it kind of started with her saying, hey,
we could put together a band. And and so we just kind of
(03:56):
started and we we've always asked ourselves, it's like, why
did we take so long to figure that out of us playing together?
Yes. And so, yeah, we just kind of
started from there. And she stepped away at the end
of 2022. Our daughter did and and we
retooled then into March to August as a as a duo and
continued to release. You know this is.
(04:20):
Songs inspired by witness Is there a.
Third or third album as as a duo.
Oh that's fantastic. Now there's going to be a lot of
behind the scenes work to put out this much music.
So where do you draw upon your influences in in writing and
concepts? To me, it's it's, it's one of
(04:40):
those things of of the stories people tell you.
It shows, you know, that inspirethings.
Yes, this particular last album was was really unique.
About eight or nine years ago wewe read a a teen fiction book
called Witness that was set in asmall town in Vermont during
(05:01):
prohibition. Yes, it's a it's a team fiction
historical novel written by Karen Hesse.
Hesse he's I I have to ask Karen, how do I say her last
name? But we were so influenced by
this book and and it it's, you know, I've, I've been thinking
about this today and how parallel 1920s prohibition era
(05:26):
United States is so parallel to today.
So true. And so that influenced, Yeah.
So we started with one song. We started out, you know, we
wrote a song and, and about 8 years ago we kind of started and
all of a sudden it kind of just began to come to the fruitation
(05:46):
that we had an entire concept album here that really kind of
told more of the story. And so it was kind of one of
those non Spotify kind of albumsto where it's designed to be
listened to start to finish because the whole album kind of
tells a story and introduces characters as you go along.
So those are kind of things we just draw inspiration from is
finding, finding these, these stories that we read that that
(06:09):
that inspire. Blog posts.
Or stories people tell us, or blog posts, or.
Or sometimes we just like to invent a character like our new
album we're working on where we just kind of they did this
character that we are building awhole series of songs around and
and such. And so just kind of get
inspiration from here and there for for putting songs together.
(06:34):
That's I'm not, I'm not gonna spoil my age because I remember
a long time ago when artists putout albums and this is
fantastically to hear by the waythat they're used.
There used to be a theme for thewhole album used to walk through
a story from beginning to end. And if you're creating that now,
now it's something like this is completely rare because music
(06:57):
nowadays is based on singles andplays and things like that.
Back when CD's first came out. This is one of my favorite
things back then is they used tolink songs in between CD plays
so the story would continue songto song.
And I, I love that back then andit's very rare to see now.
So to hear that your albums and EP's are theme based is
(07:20):
fantastic. Yeah.
Yeah. We got hooked on it.
We. First by Marty, Marty Stewart, I
don't know if you're familiar with him, he's a country artist
and he talks about he created a concept album called The Ping
the Pilgrim. It's.
Just there's 20 years ago, I guess.
Yeah, yeah. He did a kind of a reunion tour
(07:42):
recently and we happened to see that him on tour and went Oh my
gosh, that's it. That was kind of the inspiration
of that's what we wanted to do with this, these songs.
And I don't think we'll go back.Yeah, yeah.
There will always be some kind of concept theme to each album
from now on. They need to make sense and and
and tell a. Story and it's becoming more and
(08:04):
more popular again. I know, for example, that Lord
Huron does a lot of their problems are are set based, you
know, Gillian Welch and David Rollins new album was is kind of
a, you know, pretty much a concept based album too.
And and you know, the expirationof their studio and the.
That that got the tornado through.
Nashville, Nashville. And so I'm, I'm glad to see and
(08:27):
I think I wonder sometimes if it's also because of the slight
slight resurgence of vinyl, maybe they're also becoming a
little. More I was just thinking that.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can't just skip and
and go to the next song and forward and all those goofy
things that we do on Spotify now.
You actually have to listen. I think you might be right.
There are series of vinyl helps this concept tremendously.
(08:51):
Excellent. Let's talk about Hellbound
because this song caught me off guard.
Was anticipating with the name like that something, you know,
similar but caught me off guard and I had a great time watching
the video. Yeah, the lyric video you have
posted on there. Walk me through this song and
(09:11):
how this one came about. Yeah, well, this this song in
this novel that inspired inspired our album, there's an
evil character named Johnny Reeves.
And this and this song is about his, his demise, basically how
the town had had enough of, of him and they, you know, came up
(09:32):
with a way to to run him out of town.
And then the novel, he jumps offa bridge and but the author
leaves it unclear as to what happens to him.
She left it totally open-ended. And there's, so there's this,
there's this indications in the latter part of the book that he
might have survived the jump, but there's also these
(09:52):
indications that he might be a ghost haunting the river in
there where he jumped, which is of course, as we tend to be kind
of dark Banjo, as we've been classified, we kind of jumped on
that idea of a ghost that, that,you know, he reappears as a
ghost. And, and from there, this, you
know, this, this tale of, of hisdemise and, you know, kind of
(10:13):
came in, came to, came to be. Dark Banjo, that's I'm
remembering that from now on. That's really good.
It makes. Sense, literally and
figuratively. Yes, that'll make sense to
everybody when they see the video of this track.
But you know what? That's a great build up because
I think we should just play for the audience, right?
(10:34):
Now, sure, sure. Let's do it.
Here is Hellbound March to August.
Standing help on the bridge region river down below.
Looks like Johnny is reached theend of his room.
You're saying I'm just a Sinner?Souls too lost to be found.
(10:55):
When he needs that water, he'll be held bound.
We know pearly gates waiting in Saint Peter won't call his name.
The Celestial Shore after all that he has done, use the word
to groom, manipulate and satisfyhis loves.
The rain on load above would have him help battle Hellbound.
(11:21):
Hell bound. There ain't no load above with
heaven help them about. You'll spend eternity walking
this river hell bound. Dressed in robes of white, vowed
(11:57):
to be there. Guiding Light was a good book to
justify all they had done, but his dark secrets been revealed.
They'll go riding soon, I feel. Either jump or face the wrong
end of their guns. Hell bound, Hell bound.
There ain't no Lord above would have been held bound.
(12:19):
Hellbound, hell bound. He'll spend eternity walking
this river, spell bound. If you go down by that river on
(13:05):
a dark and foggy night and you smell a stench that you can wash
away, that's when John Egg comes.
A callin gets you close. You won't be found.
Drag you in and water with him. He'll bound.
Hell bound, bound. This is where his story ends.
(13:28):
He's held bound, hellbound, hellbound.
You'll spend eternity on this river, hill bound.
So there, there you go. That was hellbound March to
August. Go get it on your favorite
(13:50):
streaming platform or even better, go to my Spotify
playlist and go add, listen to follow, subscribe or go to
YouTube, their videos there, geta go like file subscribe there.
YouTube is for me hard to get through through the algorithm
but if we can go and support artists we should now.
Alright, I saw there's quite a few videos like this one on your
(14:13):
YouTube page with upcoming music.
You just mentioned you're working on a future album.
Are you looking maybe to expand the visual aspects of all these
tracks to something similar or afull out video creation?
Yeah, we haven't we haven't really decided that it's it's
hard to evaluate in today's kindof, you know, TikTok shorts,
(14:38):
shorts based world of how how lucrative, how lucrative it, you
know, or how to be able to produce those kind of, you know,
more traditional film cinematography type video.
How you know how how valuable that medium is.
It's hard to to discover becauseit's, you know, so much is based
(14:59):
on we find we get a full song recording and we spend a lot of
our time breaking it into 32nd and 45 seconds reels that get
more traffic than the full videos do, right.
So it's a hard, it's always a, it's a hard market to figure out
how much of you know, how much of that storytelling to do.
Right, Plus, plus the I mean, we're, we're, we're almost
(15:23):
completely DIY indie artists except for when we go to the
studio and videography and it's so expensive.
It's like it's just stupid expensive.
And we, we even our promoter said, hey, you know, we, we love
video. Let's see what you can do.
He said don't do a traditional long form storytelling video.
(15:45):
That's just not what's what's practice out there anymore.
And, you know, and he knew our budget.
So I mean, there is one, one thing that we're, we're working
on, we actually got a grant for a performance that we're going
to be doing in our, you know, local market where we're
actually putting together video supplements that will run behind
(16:08):
us as we play through this hours.
And so we've kind of started on this idea, kind of put it
bringing some of these characters a little more to life
with, with, with some imagery and, and some of that and, and
doing that kind of a, of a show where we have video backdrop
running behind us that adds to the story.
(16:30):
And that might be something thatas we put that together, it
might, you know, it might come together of, Hey, maybe there's
a content there that produces a more storytelling video versus
a, you know, a straight live performance video.
And, and a lot of it too, when you're, when you're DIY, you
can't, you have to look at that idea that, you know, most
(16:52):
festival booking agents, most promoters, most venues, they
want to see live performance. And for us, we found, well, one
of the best ways is go into a studio and perform something
live and videotape it. And that way we've got this to,
to, you know, percent to a festival in a venue.
So we haven't really gotten pastthat idea of like, you know,
(17:14):
finding a place for that really artistic video.
But it's not saying that maybe in the future it may not come or
if we should right get inspired as we put things together,
right? No, for sure, independent is
hard. Being independence hardly have
to balance your funds and your time.
And we have a little bit of timeleft in 2025, but we have a
(17:35):
whole year of 2026. I know you're working on the
next album. What else can we look forward
to? Yeah, I, I think we're like, say
we're in the process. We're heading into the studio
actually next week to begin recording, recording the new
album. And it's an it's another concept
record and our character and this one is a long haul truck
driver and kind of we were inspired coming back from a tour
(17:59):
in Florida. On a Highway 70.
Five driving up Hwy. 75. No, that one by heart.
Oh, did you You. You're going to love this.
Yeah. And so we got inspired by by
that stretch of Hwy. along Hwy. 75 and, and we kind of began to
create this character that was along haul truck driver that that
travels that stretch, travels a stretch of Hwy. there.
(18:22):
And, and as he as he progresses,he begins to to help people
along the way to try to come to some kind of redemption for the
mistakes he's made in his life. And that grew into a whole 13
song album. Oh.
Wow. So, so that kind of tells tells
us this person's story. So, so where we said we're going
(18:43):
in starting next week to begin to record the first, the first
tracks of that with hopefully a release probably mid. 2020.
Six year 2026, yeah. I see, I'm excited to see cause
I've driven personally that stretch of Hwy. from beginning
to end. Yes.
All 20 times. Yeah, wow.
OK, from the very beginning to very end.
(19:04):
So now I'm intrigued completely.Alright, I'll be looking forward
to that. Yay for us listeners.
Not everybody knows that Hwy. 75runs all the way from Florida to
the Canadian border. They don't.
They do not realize that and so.Emory, Ontario have top of
Michigan. There you go, there you go.
(19:25):
So that's so cool. I love that.
I love that connection. Yes.
That is fantastic. So now if anybody listening
wants to keep up with this project and any other projects
in the future, where should theygo outside of the March to
august.com, the website? Any socials that you recommend?
Yeah, I mean we have Facebook and Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
(19:46):
all three and marched August music where they can, you know,
keep track with as we release pieces and reels.
We've been doing some going to be doing some YouTube shorts as
we worked through to where we kind of pop in some here's some
live from the studio, here's some pieces of tracks as could
kind of, you know, start to start to introduce that.
(20:06):
Another thing, if, if you're interested, if you like what you
hear, you can subscribe to our newsletter.
Yeah, I just have to pitch that.It's yeah, all the way down at
the bottom of our page. It's it's our, our, our March to
august.com. And just sign up with your
e-mail. I only send one newsletter a
month. We don't bug you, but you never
bug you. Little spam here.
(20:30):
It's awesome though fantastic thinking really easy.
Everybody listening already knows the you guys marched
August will be linked to this episode on all socialist click
like follow subscribe because you want to support independent
musical worldwide. That's what we do on this show.
So Derek, Jody, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Today, yes. And thank you so much for all
(20:50):
that you do to support artists, I think.
This. Yeah.
Jacob here. You're amazing.
Thank you. So.
Much. Thank you so much.
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