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May 22, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Barry Privet, my man. I mean we've spoken before, but
you know what I mean at this point. Man. A
dozen years ago, I interviewed you on my show Carbon
Leaf was coming to town. It's Wild too, and I
went and so the live experiences is Israelly something? I
mean the music and what show was that? That's the Kicker, Man.
It was at a club in Milford, Connecticut, a part

(00:24):
of part of Connecticut, still on the water in Connecticut.
You're coming back. You got a couple of Connecticut shows
coming up. But we're talking about the Kate and Old
Saybrook on Friday, June twentieth. It's a great Friday night show.
But the club's no longer there, and I've been spending
like forty five minutes trying to remember the.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Name of it.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I'm just looking on my calendar and I had
Daniel Street.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's it, Daniel Street, Parker, Holy count. Man.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now it's coming back to me. Now I remember what
that that is on my little corner street. Wasn't that? Wow?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Why would you remember that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well it's a great little spot. It's a lot spot
in this summer, and it's on a big curve.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And what made Dot there anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yet, No, not for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
But what made Daniel Street really interesting is you know
there was no seats, very accessible. The high fives were flying,
you know, the ladies were grabbing at Barry Privett's ankles.
You know, but Daniel Street did some solid booking.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Man. It was action packed for a good stretch there.
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The new record or the newest is Time is the Playground,
which came out in full twenty twenty four. You know,
I was listening to some tunes earlier this morning. I
was listening to what about Everything? Tell me about what is?
Carbon Leaf? Cottage Songs by the Sea.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
We came back from a tour and we wanted to
just do a different project as opposed to like a
new album. So we were like, let's occupy this this
cottage of a friend of mine actually owned the seaside
cottage down in Virginia, and we cleared out all of
her furniture and we set up the band in front
of the windows overlooking the dunes, and we said, let's

(02:02):
let's spend four days. Let's see how many songs we
can film and record. So we had a you know,
a couple of camera guys in there, and we just
we would get up, you know, a pre dawn, get
set up so we could get a sunrise, and we
just we just worked all day and we got about
I don't know, thirty songs, and we made this blu ray,

(02:23):
this beautiful just beautiful kind of like concert film and
a bunch of footage just to kind of document some
of the songs that we'd written over the years. You know.
We we just wanted to record a more video of
us performing kind of our catalog.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
And what about everything is just a gem? I love
that one, you know, it's interesting. I remember feeling like, man, Virginia,
I feel like Virginia's got a scene, and like there's
such a thing, you know everybody you know Seattle rock
or Seattle Like, there's such a thing. I believe, I
almost believe there's a genre Virginia rock.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Are did you?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Was there a vibrant scene because there's something about carbon Leaf,
you know tunes where I feel, oh, that's that's Virginia rock,
like almost like the Eagles had California Rock. Am I
just babbling? Or well?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, I think that's a nice nice way to frame it,
you know, I mean, obviously music evolves, you know, with
with with each you know kind of I mean we've
been doing this for thirty three years, you know, each
general kind of generation you know, or you know, every
decade it seems like things change, you know. But during
our period of starting out, yeah, I would say kind

(03:33):
of a Virginia rock kind of had this kind of organic,
acoustic driven kind of folk Americana you know, roots giness
to it. You know. Obviously Dave Matthews being kind of
the you know, the primary example of you know, you know,
pushing out there. But then you had you know, acts
like Cracker and uh, you know, kind of more of

(03:58):
an Americana vibe. But but you know, but then you
also have Goar and you have Lads with God, so
you know you've got you know, music that crosses the spectrum.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, Limb of God.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think it's from rich Men you.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh Lucy Dakas, My daughter loves her Lamb' got very
popular wedding. A lot of people select their music for
their wedding songs.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I hope.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, I mean you you're kind of backing me up right.
There's just a lot of talent coming out there. Tell
me about the fact that time is the playground. It's
been ten has it really been ten years? So did
I just because I see a lot of content. You know,
I'm always checking out what Carbon Leaf is up to.
Like I said, you come through often. I know there's
a Sacred Heart. Uh gig, you're too here in Connecticut.

(04:47):
But so what was I looking at when I saw
all of this this music where they just like compilations
because it's your your first full length in ten years,
it doesn't seem possible, it doesn't seem right.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, yeah, we I mean we've been busy like again,
like we did that cottage you know, Blu Ray, the
thirty song thing, that was a huge project. We did
two five song kind of EPs, so you know, collectively,
it's kind of a it's a series of of five
song EPs that's called the Gathering Series. So we've got
two of those that we did out of four that

(05:20):
we're planning, and you know, we did another, we did
a live record, we did a concert film. So this
was the first time we'd actually done like an old
school twelve song record in you know, the past ten years.
So from from that standpoint, you know, it's kind of
the more the long form project that we kind of
tackled kind of kind of through the pandemic and then

(05:43):
coming out of the pandemic. It took us a while
to kind of get all the material to get together
while we were you know, booking and canceling and rebooking
all our shows through that. You know that that window.
So that's that's the result. Time is the Playground is
the latest one that we released last fall and a

(06:03):
touring into twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Five with are you considering the last one to be?
Twenty sixteen's nothing Rhymes with Woman, which actually I evil does,
so happy as far as nothing rhyming with women.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Hell does? I could come up with a lot of rhymes, Barry.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
But I'm saying I'm staying out of this.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
But you know what, when.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I saw you at Daniel Street, I saw you with
my ex wife now ex wife, So maybe I should
stop with this stick. But it was interesting because she's
a country music fan. I am too, And it was
interesting because I remember, oh yeah, big country music fan.
My producer's arching and eyebrow at me absolutely, And it

(06:48):
was interesting because I remember us leaving that show that
night and her country music.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
It got scratched.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I mean, I got a hell of a lot of
fiddle play there, but I did. I just came away
like that's rock and roll. I don't know, you know,
I didn't. I didn't get any country. She did, though,
she felt like she loved you guys. That night she
left and thought, you guys are a great country rock act.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I thought it was all rock.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well well sure, yeah, well I appreciate that. That's actually
a great a great point because you know, we have
we have you know, five piece. It's a rock band,
but it's also we've got a guy that plays fiddle
and mandolin and banjo.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, he's.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
So you know, you just put all this stuff into
a pot and you know, see what you come up with.
And I think, yeah, maybe the underpinnings is kind of
a rock, you know band, but it's like it's also
folk and you know these other things and and uh,
you know, do you comment to like this moment in
time where you you know, you had your wife and

(07:52):
you had we're both coming into a show with different
music tastes and all. And I think that's kind of
the beauties sing beautiful thing about music is that, you know,
how songs take you to a certain moment in time
and it may be very different from what your life
is now. But yet there's these just common touchstones that
you can have in music, you know, Oh sure, kind
of keeps things special in a matter kind of hell

(08:14):
how things go.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, yeah, oh absolutely.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
And it is funny because that was a time where
I was dragging her around for you know, when we
had little kids, and I was still dragging her from
club to club, still wanting to see my live music
at my live music fix. So the times when we
left and she loved who I just quote unquote dragged
her to, you know, they stick out because there were
a fewer of those, and carbon.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Lafe truly was one of them.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I think she's still checking you guys out. I mean,
I haven't talked to her in years, so I can't
really confirm.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
That, but.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
She's a fan. Tell me about Time is the Playground.
Times have changed so much. I remember leaving with all
my merch at the last show. I'm hoping that I'm
able to do the same thing when it comes to
the Kate on the on June and Twentieth's a great
Friday night show.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
But Time is the Playground?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Did you go the vinyl route with that only uh,
or is are there going to be CDs too?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, we've got CDs. We've got a double vinyl, the
gorgeous double vinyl on the new album, and it's got it.
I went to old school because there's a little bit
of retro vibe in the in the album itself, so
I went. I went old school and we stuffed it
with two fold out posters like the old days.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, things that you used to get when you you know,
back in the day when when your music was so tactile.
You know, you go to the record store, you pick,
you know, pick out the record. You'd come home, you'd
open it up. There'd be all this stuff to look
at and read, and you know, I wanted that experience.
But you can also just go to spot up, go
to Spotify and down and listen to it, you know,

(09:47):
stream it.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well, that's why I asked Barry. You know, I've I've
got a turntable right in my living room.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I never, you know, I never.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I never got rid of my vinyl, the CDs that
kind of you know there in boxes downstairs.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
The cassettes all got thrown away. And now I kind
of regret it.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Because my son is on a big cassette kick and
they're kind of slowly coming a back background too, But
my vinyl was always going to stay precious to me.
I love seeing the resurgence of it coming background. So
I feel very much the same way about it.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Have you ever played Has carbon Leef ever played the
Kate before?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
No, this is our first time. Super excited to kind
of learn about it. Yeah, it's I was looking, I
was looking online. I mean it's it's kind of been.
It's one of these old one of these old historic
places that you know, the community has has has renovated,
you know, into a performance space. Correct, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Mean the Kate in question is Catherine Hepburn. It's the
Catherine Hepburn Theater, and it's just it's a beautiful it's
a beautiful room. And I really feel like carbon Leaf
you got. I think you guys are going to love
how much room you have on the stage and just
what you guys do fits perfectly there.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's great Friday night. Man.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Uh, there's so many there's there's there's there's venues in
some of those towns that that that that you know,
take the time and care to you know, breathe new
life into these old buildings. I mean, you can't deny
like just a feeling when you go in its places
and it just exudes history and story, and yeah, it's
a special it's a special thing. You know. Nice state

(11:23):
of the art venues are great too, you know, brand
new things, but you know, these kind of gems are
really kind of where it's at.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, I got excited to see you guys there because
I was ready to work my contacts for that sacred
art for that shoe show, and then I was looking
for something else.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I'm like, damn, they're coming to the gate, you know.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
But and it's not far from where I live too,
you know. I love all the vibes, Like Daniel Street
was a is a hands on.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I'm gonna have.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Beer all over my shoes by the time there's the
shows done. Kind of venue which is great, you know,
and you know, elbows are flying and scream versus versus
the kate, which is I hesitate to say a little
bit more refined because you want people up and standing up.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
But it's a class listening room, right.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
It is. It is.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
But I mean I've watched the crowds get raucus there before,
but it's one of my favorite rooms. It's just decidedly
different than Daniel Street was. And I can't wait to
see you guys there. I think it's gonna be a
great show. I'm so glad we hopefully we can meet
that night in person too, because we didn't get to
pull that off at Daniel Street.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Absolutely flag me down you know where I'll be.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, Yeah, I'd love to track you down.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
I want to get a copy of Time is the Playground,
you know, the new music from carbon Leaf and Everybody
Yet again. I'll tell you it's Friday, June twentieth at
the Kate and Old Saybrook and Barry Privett of carbon Leaf.
Thanks for taking the time.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Benny, I appreciate it. It's good to talk to you again.
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