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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinnie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Vinnie, what's up? As Adam Era.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Boston's own Welcome to the Vinnie Penn Project. How are
you buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh man, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you
for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm glad you got brought to my attention. And I
do have to put it that way, my man Fernando Pinto,
and I don't know how well, you know, he just
turns me on to a lot of music that I
might have otherwise missed. And while your name's very familiar
to me, it's him booking you. It's small batch sellers,
this coming Sunday and made me go down a rabbit
(00:32):
hole of Adam Ezra group. And I loved it down there, man,
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Tyler, thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
In my opinion, you kind of you kind of defy genre. Yeah,
folk works because I know that that was kicked around
a lot. And yeah there's a fiddle, but there's a
pop rock. It's Americana. It's great music, man. I love
sweet beautiful thing was a jam.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh thanks man, thank you. Yeah. I'm a little bit
of a musical mutt, you know, I kind of you know,
as as a as a songwriter. I'm inspired by lots
of different things, and each one of those things I
like all different kinds of music, and so I just
kind of write. I ain't trying to write in a box.
(01:21):
I try to write. I try to write with where
I feel, and it makes the music come out come
out different every time, and and I love that our
fans appreciate that. Sometimes it makes it hard because when
you talk about me and my band, the Adam As Group,
a lot of people don't know what like. They'll say, oh,
you like this band, what kind of music they play?
(01:41):
And it's hard to come up with an answer.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Uh, yeah, I mean, and you know, I'm not a
big fan of labels to begin with. Yeah, but when
you do, when you see a banjo, when you see
a fiddle, while I'm a huge fan of both of
those instruments, you don't think. You don't think rock is
necessarily coming your way, but it is rock to me,
it is.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We like to bang up there a little bit, yeah
for sure, man, Yeah, sure, that's a big you know,
that's what I you know, I grew up, you know,
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I was a.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hendricks and Zeppelin kid growing up. You know, That's what
I that's what I That's what I love.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, yeah. Stuff. So it's funny. While I was
down there, the rabbit Hole that is that could be
a good name for a song too, Adam rabbit Hole, Yeah,
that could be a good go ahead, take time. But
when I came up with when I when I got
to the Devil came up to Boston, I thought, all,
this is going to be a badass tune. You know,
it's a great it's a great title. Uh. And you
(02:40):
know Boston, let's be honest, you know a lot of
great music, a lot of great artists coming out of Boston.
You know, it's been the case for a good long time.
But I didn't expect it to be a reworking of
the classic. You know, The Devil went down to Georgia,
which is gotta be a you know, seeing that live
outside on a Sunday afternoon, you know, small bet sellers
(03:03):
that that's that's going to be popping. Man? What what
made you you know go there?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh man? You know it was Uh, I'll tell you
it was. We were on a ferry on our way
out to Nantucket Island to play a club called the
Chicken Box. Uh. Years ago and Charlie Daniels song came
on the radio, and you know, and me and uh
(03:30):
and the guys used to like Joe. I grew up
in Boston, so you know, it's it's always fun here
and there to flip into the Boston action. And uh
and uh we were, you know, we were messing him
and and and Charlie Denis came on and we said,
you know what, we got to do Boston version of it.
And on the fair ride between right between Cape Cot
(03:52):
and Nantucket, I wrote down all the words. I didn't
even know how to, you know, play the song. Yet
we played our show with the Chicken Box. We're all
staying at the band house that night at about two
thirty a m. And you know, when you write something,
I don't know if you do a lot of writings
anybody like just like I'm not, I don't necessarily write
like comedy too often, right, and so you know I'm not.
(04:16):
I don't trust my barometer for what's like funny or not.
And so I just sat the guys down. It was
late night, you know, we played a show. We're sitting
in this nasty, nasty band house, you know, on couches
that were sticking to and I'm like, guys, I got
I wrote these lyrics out, what do you think? And
I didn't even sing the song. I just I just
(04:37):
wrote the thing, you know, I just kind of like
spoke the words and they were and they were all
laughing when we're like, oh man, this could be this
could be something funny. We put it together. The first
time we played it was down in Oxford, Mississippi, believe
it or not, not even in Boston.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
A lot of a lot would be lost on them. No,
if they're inside, Joe, That's.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What I thought. I really stupid idea to post the
test drive this song, you like, we should have test
driven it in Boston, right or somewhere in New England. Uh.
And we were opening up for a country band, right.
We had a thirty minute that we're playing to a
big room of people. None of them knew who we were,
nor did they want to see us because we're the
(05:20):
opening band. And we played the song and like, people
went nuts. People went people went people went nuts, and
we were like, okay, well if we if it works
down here, yeah, it's sugar and work up north. So uh.
It's been one of our favorites to play for a long.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Time if I could be honest with you, Adam, and
again I'm on with Adam Ezra right now. The Adam
Ezra Group is coming to town. Great. It's going to
be a great live show this coming Sunday, the Vine
and Vibes series and small batchsellers outside you know, weather permitting,
I suppose, but it's just it's a great venue. But
I got to be honest, the Devil can you performing
(05:59):
that in Mississippi to those those hammered sons of bitches.
They probably just thought you were doing a cover of
Charlie Tanners. They had no idea you were, you were changing.
They thought they were hearing you know, the Devil went
down to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They knew around, but they like but they man, they
they it was. It was great. It went on. It's
always gone over great no matter where where we've been,
where we're We're lucky in that we when we're up
on stage, we play a lot of different music. We
try a lot of things on the stage. We never
(06:35):
go on stage with the setlist. We always are trying
new stuff and playing songs differently, and were try not
to take ourselves to seriously. It's about joy and have fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I got that. I will say though, as far as
that songs can, it's it's a hats off to Charlie Daniels.
You know that that's a workout for any fiddle player,
and it's just a beast like like that's the star
of the song. I mean you you labored over those lyrics.
I'm sure you didn't, and they're great, but they were done.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They were done in one fairy ride. It's the shortest
mission I ever had as a writer. But no, I
will tell you our fiddle player Storr to show her
name is Korean Smith and she smoked it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I was watching those videos, I said, I watched
the Sweet Beautiful Thing video to which tell me about that?
Is that a recent song? Because down in the rabbit hole,
I said, let me find their most recent, uh you know, release,
And it looks like you haven't put out a full
length in a good couple of years, nearest something.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Man, I am so glad you are talking about this because, uh, well,
first of all, I'll address Sweet Beautiful Thing, and then
I'll address the new album because we got one in
the camp and I'm so excited about it. But Sweet
Beautiful Thing, it is something I had. I have a
friend down in Nashville. He's a great producer and great writer.
(08:00):
He sent me like, get some chords years ago, and
I'm now, father, I got. I got a three year
old daughter and a one year old daughter. Oh congratulations,
I thank you very much, man. And I recently was
when you know, the song idea first didn't speak to
me the years ago that we were kind of talking
(08:21):
about it, and I was just kind of going through
some demos and going through some different song ideas, and
I came across my friend Kyle's song idea and I'm like, man,
you know what this reminds me of. This reminds me
of taking a drive with my daughter, that feeling of
being an I don't know if your daddy.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I got it. I got a daughter and a son,
and my daughter at three was the best running buddy.
I mean I just I just said on my show
earlier today, the best conversations I ever had with my daughter,
not that I don't have great ones with her now,
were actually when she was four years old. We would
sit at a booth and the people would come up
(09:03):
to us and say, You're like, I was engaged in
the most the deepest, most gratifying, interesting conversations I've ever had.
I wish I could go back to that time.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm experiencing all of that right now.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, you're in a great pocket mind my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
My daughter will is at the age where like she's
thinking about things. She's like beginning to like figure out
how the world works. And you know, and she's at
that age too where you can you're in the car,
she wants to she wants to hear the music you're playing,
you singing along, She's asking questions about what she sees
every place you drive. It's a different adventure, right, There's
(09:42):
nothing there's right, Like, it's every day as an adventure.
And it's like as a father being on that journey
and getting to experience that, it makes every day an
aventure for me, just being able to look through her
eyes and like and get to like guide her experiences be.
So I was thinking about all this, thinking about being
(10:02):
in a car with Willa, and I wrote and I
wrote the words and wrote the lyrics and melody the
Sweet Beautiful Thing. And I went down to Nashville. I
met up with my buddy Kyle, and we recorded that
song in one day. We released it four weeks ago,
and and and and Vinnie, I'll tell you this, this
(10:25):
may not be that impressive to a radio guy, and
it sure doesn't compare to like the Taylor Swifts of
the world. But we've had, right, We've had over one
hundred thousand people around the world streamed this song in
the last four months. That's never happened to us, and
so super exciting and and it's right on the cuffs
(10:47):
of us releasing our next album. The albums can be
called Revelate. We've been flying back and forth to Austin,
Texas and uh, you know, we're an underground band. You know,
we started in the bars. We played for years and
years in the bar. Like our job was to keep
people drinking the last call. That was what we used
to that was the job description back in the day. And
(11:09):
these days we are getting to tour around the country
and people are coming out finding about our music all
over the world. It's so exciting. Twenty five years I mean,
I'm not a young guy, right and we but you know,
all this has happened, we said, no, we've got to
really step up our game in the studio. So for
the last year we've been flying back and forth to Austin.
(11:30):
We've got a new album. The first single is going
to be dropping on August thirteenth next week.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh it's not a Sweet Beautiful Thing. That's not the
first single.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No, Sweet Beautiful Thing is just a one off, a
one off mission down in Nashville. It was just a
single that we were reading and yeah, it's caught fire
since we were Is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That your daughter? Is that your daughter in the video? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No so that yeah, No, that my daughter is not.
I had a super weird idea for a music video,
and uh man, it was so much fun. We went
down the Fall River Jesus, right, and for those of
you listening that don't know, Fall River like gritty, old
milltown kind of city, right, and uh and and I
(12:18):
was like, Okay, what would happen if I just bought
I'm gonna buy like five hundred like yellow flowers and
I'm just gonna walk around the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Oh you're not walking in the video, you are dancing
a dance. The dance well it turned into.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A whole thing, right, But the whole the idea was
that if I wandered around this city and just started
handing out these flowers, what would people think, Like, you know,
rarely when someone comes up to you in the street, man,
but like, right, at least for me, I'm like, oh God,
was this person.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Wants from me? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Like are they gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ask me for money? Are they? Are they a religious
person trying to you know, convert me to something? You know,
like I rarely in this day and age, right, do
we do we have an interaction with somebody that does
not involve them like wanting something from us, right? And
so I was like, I'm just gonna walk around giving
(13:17):
up these flowers. And I did not pick people basically, like,
I did not offer the flowers to people that I
necessarily thought would want the flower. Like, you know, I'm
going up to these like kind of grizzly old that's
hanging out in the streets, you know, like you know,
handing them flowers. Some of them, I mean many of
them wanted nothing to do with me. But it was
(13:37):
like the joy of that journey. It sparked a million
conversations with a million people. And uh, and the music
video The Sweet Beautiful Thing is just kind of a
little bit of that story.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I love it. It will so the new record
won't be available come Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Revelate no no anyone who and if y'all are listening
in your and that you want to hear the Devil
came up to Boston, you want to hear some beautiful things? Uh.
All of our music you can stream right on any
any streaming platform, Spotify, Apple Music, whatever it is, and
(14:12):
on all of those platforms you can also you can
also pre save our first, our first release, so as
soon as we release it next week, you'll be able
to be one of the first.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
People there so close to a record release this this Sunday.
That's how I like to look at it. Will you
have will you have some other merch there? Some some vinyl?
Maybe you seem like a band that would be churning
out the you know, the lime Green vinyl or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh man, you know what, this is good. This album
that we're coming out with, it is going to be
our first, our first, our first adventure into vinyl. But
you know what then more more excited than that. Like
you know, don't get me wrong, any artists loves selling merch.
But I'm what i'd really and I'm not sure down
your rabbit hole if you found out about this, but
(14:58):
we are on a cusp of doing something that we
look forward to every single summer and I'm going to
be talking about it down at small Batch. But every
summer we host our own festival dedicated to ending better
and homelessness in the Northeast. And this is like this
underground grassroots festival that are started fifteen years ago. This
(15:23):
is going to be the sixteenth tier. It's called the Ramble.
I invite all the artists out. Everybody donates the kind.
We have two hundred volunteers, all donating their time to
putting this festival together. And because we had this belief
that small grassroots community has the power to impact the
world that we live in and to shape the culture
(15:44):
that we belong to. And as proof of that this
you can come for free. Anyone can donate whatever they
want or they can just show up to the Ramble
for free. And last year alone, it's the underground festival
that nobody's ever heard of. We were able to raise
over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for our hero.
So it's it's it's an inspired I'm gonna be talking
about that uh down in north Haven when when we're
(16:06):
hanging out and uh. And and for those of you
that will be there seeing us, experiencing us, listening to
us for the first time, Uh, you'll get you'll get
an opportunity to go down your own rabbit.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hole, just like I can't. I can't wait to check
out the show. I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully
I'll get to meet you on Sunday too. Man, it's
great stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I would love that you're gonna be hanging out. Man.
We should We'll clink a glass and hang I'd love
to I'd love to meet you based face. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And a lot of times I get the I get
uh the honor of bringing bands out on stage too.
Hopefully maybe I'll get to do that too. Yeah. Because
I'm a big fan now, I'm glad Fernando Uh kind
of kind of introduced me to you. He turns me on,
like I said, to a lot of great music. It's
going to be a great show. See Adam as regroup
this coming Sunday. Small batch Sellers and Adam. Uh, You're
(16:53):
just You're an inspired dude and and inspiring dude. So
I appreciate you taking the time to come on this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thank you for having me so much. Man, it's it's
it shows like yours, and it's then is like small
bats true enough that are supporting underground grassroots artists like us.
That's that's you all are the reasons that folks are
finding out about our music out there, and I appreciate
that so much.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I love it. Man. I'll see you on Sunday, all right, man,
thank you for having me.
Hey, this is Vinnie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Vinnie, what's up? As Adam Era.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Boston's own Welcome to the Vinnie Penn Project. How are
you buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh man, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you
for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm glad you got brought to my attention. And I
do have to put it that way, my man Fernando Pinto,
and I don't know how well, you know, he just
turns me on to a lot of music that I
might have otherwise missed. And while your name's very familiar
to me, it's him booking you. It's small batch sellers,
this coming Sunday and made me go down a rabbit
(00:32):
hole of Adam Ezra group. And I loved it down there, man,
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Tyler, thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
In my opinion, you kind of you kind of defy genre. Yeah,
folk works because I know that that was kicked around
a lot. And yeah there's a fiddle, but there's a
pop rock. It's Americana. It's great music, man. I love
sweet beautiful thing was a jam.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh thanks man, thank you. Yeah. I'm a little bit
of a musical mutt, you know, I kind of you know,
as as a as a songwriter. I'm inspired by lots
of different things, and each one of those things I
like all different kinds of music, and so I just
kind of write. I ain't trying to write in a box.
(01:21):
I try to write. I try to write with where
I feel, and it makes the music come out come
out different every time, and and I love that our
fans appreciate that. Sometimes it makes it hard because when
you talk about me and my band, the Adam As Group,
a lot of people don't know what like. They'll say, oh,
you like this band, what kind of music they play?
(01:41):
And it's hard to come up with an answer.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Uh, yeah, I mean, and you know, I'm not a
big fan of labels to begin with. Yeah, but when
you do, when you see a banjo, when you see
a fiddle, while I'm a huge fan of both of
those instruments, you don't think. You don't think rock is
necessarily coming your way, but it is rock to me,
it is.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We like to bang up there a little bit, yeah
for sure, man, Yeah, sure, that's a big you know,
that's what I you know, I grew up, you know,
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I was a.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hendricks and Zeppelin kid growing up. You know, That's what
I that's what I That's what I love.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, yeah. Stuff. So it's funny. While I was
down there, the rabbit Hole that is that could be
a good name for a song too, Adam rabbit Hole, Yeah,
that could be a good go ahead, take time. But
when I came up with when I when I got
to the Devil came up to Boston, I thought, all,
this is going to be a badass tune. You know,
it's a great it's a great title. Uh. And you
(02:40):
know Boston, let's be honest, you know a lot of
great music, a lot of great artists coming out of Boston.
You know, it's been the case for a good long time.
But I didn't expect it to be a reworking of
the classic. You know, The Devil went down to Georgia,
which is gotta be a you know, seeing that live
outside on a Sunday afternoon, you know, small bet sellers
(03:03):
that that's that's going to be popping. Man? What what
made you you know go there?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh man? You know it was Uh, I'll tell you
it was. We were on a ferry on our way
out to Nantucket Island to play a club called the
Chicken Box. Uh. Years ago and Charlie Daniels song came
on the radio, and you know, and me and uh
(03:30):
and the guys used to like Joe. I grew up
in Boston, so you know, it's it's always fun here
and there to flip into the Boston action. And uh
and uh we were, you know, we were messing him
and and and Charlie Denis came on and we said,
you know what, we got to do Boston version of it.
And on the fair ride between right between Cape Cot
(03:52):
and Nantucket, I wrote down all the words. I didn't
even know how to, you know, play the song. Yet
we played our show with the Chicken Box. We're all
staying at the band house that night at about two
thirty a m. And you know, when you write something,
I don't know if you do a lot of writings
anybody like just like I'm not, I don't necessarily write
like comedy too often, right, and so you know I'm not.
(04:16):
I don't trust my barometer for what's like funny or not.
And so I just sat the guys down. It was
late night, you know, we played a show. We're sitting
in this nasty, nasty band house, you know, on couches
that were sticking to and I'm like, guys, I got
I wrote these lyrics out, what do you think? And
I didn't even sing the song. I just I just
(04:37):
wrote the thing, you know, I just kind of like
spoke the words and they were and they were all
laughing when we're like, oh man, this could be this
could be something funny. We put it together. The first
time we played it was down in Oxford, Mississippi, believe
it or not, not even in Boston.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
A lot of a lot would be lost on them. No,
if they're inside, Joe, That's.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What I thought. I really stupid idea to post the
test drive this song, you like, we should have test
driven it in Boston, right or somewhere in New England. Uh.
And we were opening up for a country band, right.
We had a thirty minute that we're playing to a
big room of people. None of them knew who we were,
nor did they want to see us because we're the
(05:20):
opening band. And we played the song and like, people
went nuts. People went people went people went nuts, and
we were like, okay, well if we if it works
down here, yeah, it's sugar and work up north. So uh.
It's been one of our favorites to play for a long.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Time if I could be honest with you, Adam, and
again I'm on with Adam Ezra right now. The Adam
Ezra Group is coming to town. Great. It's going to
be a great live show this coming Sunday, the Vine
and Vibes series and small batchsellers outside you know, weather permitting,
I suppose, but it's just it's a great venue. But
I got to be honest, the Devil can you performing
(05:59):
that in Mississippi to those those hammered sons of bitches.
They probably just thought you were doing a cover of
Charlie Tanners. They had no idea you were, you were changing.
They thought they were hearing you know, the Devil went
down to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They knew around, but they like but they man, they
they it was. It was great. It went on. It's
always gone over great no matter where where we've been,
where we're We're lucky in that we when we're up
on stage, we play a lot of different music. We
try a lot of things on the stage. We never
(06:35):
go on stage with the setlist. We always are trying
new stuff and playing songs differently, and were try not
to take ourselves to seriously. It's about joy and have fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I got that. I will say though, as far as
that songs can, it's it's a hats off to Charlie Daniels.
You know that that's a workout for any fiddle player,
and it's just a beast like like that's the star
of the song. I mean you you labored over those lyrics.
I'm sure you didn't, and they're great, but they were done.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They were done in one fairy ride. It's the shortest
mission I ever had as a writer. But no, I
will tell you our fiddle player Storr to show her
name is Korean Smith and she smoked it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I was watching those videos, I said, I watched
the Sweet Beautiful Thing video to which tell me about that?
Is that a recent song? Because down in the rabbit hole,
I said, let me find their most recent, uh you know, release,
And it looks like you haven't put out a full
length in a good couple of years, nearest something.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Man, I am so glad you are talking about this because, uh, well,
first of all, I'll address Sweet Beautiful Thing, and then
I'll address the new album because we got one in
the camp and I'm so excited about it. But Sweet
Beautiful Thing, it is something I had. I have a
friend down in Nashville. He's a great producer and great writer.
(08:00):
He sent me like, get some chords years ago, and
I'm now, father, I got. I got a three year
old daughter and a one year old daughter. Oh congratulations,
I thank you very much, man. And I recently was
when you know, the song idea first didn't speak to
me the years ago that we were kind of talking
(08:21):
about it, and I was just kind of going through
some demos and going through some different song ideas, and
I came across my friend Kyle's song idea and I'm like, man,
you know what this reminds me of. This reminds me
of taking a drive with my daughter, that feeling of
being an I don't know if your daddy.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I got it. I got a daughter and a son,
and my daughter at three was the best running buddy.
I mean I just I just said on my show
earlier today, the best conversations I ever had with my daughter,
not that I don't have great ones with her now,
were actually when she was four years old. We would
sit at a booth and the people would come up
(09:03):
to us and say, You're like, I was engaged in
the most the deepest, most gratifying, interesting conversations I've ever had.
I wish I could go back to that time.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm experiencing all of that right now.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, you're in a great pocket mind my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
My daughter will is at the age where like she's
thinking about things. She's like beginning to like figure out
how the world works. And you know, and she's at
that age too where you can you're in the car,
she wants to she wants to hear the music you're playing,
you singing along, She's asking questions about what she sees
every place you drive. It's a different adventure, right, There's
(09:42):
nothing there's right, Like, it's every day as an adventure.
And it's like as a father being on that journey
and getting to experience that, it makes every day an
aventure for me, just being able to look through her
eyes and like and get to like guide her experiences be.
So I was thinking about all this, thinking about being
(10:02):
in a car with Willa, and I wrote and I
wrote the words and wrote the lyrics and melody the
Sweet Beautiful Thing. And I went down to Nashville. I
met up with my buddy Kyle, and we recorded that
song in one day. We released it four weeks ago,
and and and and Vinnie, I'll tell you this, this
(10:25):
may not be that impressive to a radio guy, and
it sure doesn't compare to like the Taylor Swifts of
the world. But we've had, right, We've had over one
hundred thousand people around the world streamed this song in
the last four months. That's never happened to us, and
so super exciting and and it's right on the cuffs
(10:47):
of us releasing our next album. The albums can be
called Revelate. We've been flying back and forth to Austin,
Texas and uh, you know, we're an underground band. You know,
we started in the bars. We played for years and
years in the bar. Like our job was to keep
people drinking the last call. That was what we used
to that was the job description back in the day. And
(11:09):
these days we are getting to tour around the country
and people are coming out finding about our music all
over the world. It's so exciting. Twenty five years I mean,
I'm not a young guy, right and we but you know,
all this has happened, we said, no, we've got to
really step up our game in the studio. So for
the last year we've been flying back and forth to Austin.
(11:30):
We've got a new album. The first single is going
to be dropping on August thirteenth next week.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh it's not a Sweet Beautiful Thing. That's not the
first single.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No, Sweet Beautiful Thing is just a one off, a
one off mission down in Nashville. It was just a
single that we were reading and yeah, it's caught fire
since we were Is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That your daughter? Is that your daughter in the video? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No so that yeah, No, that my daughter is not.
I had a super weird idea for a music video,
and uh man, it was so much fun. We went
down the Fall River Jesus, right, and for those of
you listening that don't know, Fall River like gritty, old
milltown kind of city, right, and uh and and I
(12:18):
was like, Okay, what would happen if I just bought
I'm gonna buy like five hundred like yellow flowers and
I'm just gonna walk around the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Oh you're not walking in the video, you are dancing
a dance. The dance well it turned into.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A whole thing, right, But the whole the idea was
that if I wandered around this city and just started
handing out these flowers, what would people think, Like, you know,
rarely when someone comes up to you in the street, man,
but like, right, at least for me, I'm like, oh God,
was this person.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Wants from me? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Like are they gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ask me for money? Are they? Are they a religious
person trying to you know, convert me to something? You know,
like I rarely in this day and age, right, do
we do we have an interaction with somebody that does
not involve them like wanting something from us, right? And
so I was like, I'm just gonna walk around giving
(13:17):
up these flowers. And I did not pick people basically, like,
I did not offer the flowers to people that I
necessarily thought would want the flower. Like, you know, I'm
going up to these like kind of grizzly old that's
hanging out in the streets, you know, like you know,
handing them flowers. Some of them, I mean many of
them wanted nothing to do with me. But it was
(13:37):
like the joy of that journey. It sparked a million
conversations with a million people. And uh, and the music
video The Sweet Beautiful Thing is just kind of a
little bit of that story.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I love it. It will so the new record
won't be available come Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Revelate no no anyone who and if y'all are listening
in your and that you want to hear the Devil
came up to Boston, you want to hear some beautiful things? Uh.
All of our music you can stream right on any
any streaming platform, Spotify, Apple Music, whatever it is, and
(14:12):
on all of those platforms you can also you can
also pre save our first, our first release, so as
soon as we release it next week, you'll be able
to be one of the first.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
People there so close to a record release this this Sunday.
That's how I like to look at it. Will you
have will you have some other merch there? Some some vinyl?
Maybe you seem like a band that would be churning
out the you know, the lime Green vinyl or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh man, you know what, this is good. This album
that we're coming out with, it is going to be
our first, our first, our first adventure into vinyl. But
you know what then more more excited than that. Like
you know, don't get me wrong, any artists loves selling merch.
But I'm what i'd really and I'm not sure down
your rabbit hole if you found out about this, but
(14:58):
we are on a cusp of doing something that we
look forward to every single summer and I'm going to
be talking about it down at small Batch. But every
summer we host our own festival dedicated to ending better
and homelessness in the Northeast. And this is like this
underground grassroots festival that are started fifteen years ago. This
(15:23):
is going to be the sixteenth tier. It's called the Ramble.
I invite all the artists out. Everybody donates the kind.
We have two hundred volunteers, all donating their time to
putting this festival together. And because we had this belief
that small grassroots community has the power to impact the
world that we live in and to shape the culture
(15:44):
that we belong to. And as proof of that this
you can come for free. Anyone can donate whatever they
want or they can just show up to the Ramble
for free. And last year alone, it's the underground festival
that nobody's ever heard of. We were able to raise
over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for our hero.
So it's it's it's an inspired I'm gonna be talking
about that uh down in north Haven when when we're
(16:06):
hanging out and uh. And and for those of you
that will be there seeing us, experiencing us, listening to
us for the first time, Uh, you'll get you'll get
an opportunity to go down your own rabbit.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hole, just like I can't. I can't wait to check
out the show. I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully
I'll get to meet you on Sunday too. Man, it's
great stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I would love that you're gonna be hanging out. Man.
We should We'll clink a glass and hang I'd love
to I'd love to meet you based face. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And a lot of times I get the I get
uh the honor of bringing bands out on stage too.
Hopefully maybe I'll get to do that too. Yeah. Because
I'm a big fan now, I'm glad Fernando Uh kind
of kind of introduced me to you. He turns me on,
like I said, to a lot of great music. It's
going to be a great show. See Adam as regroup
this coming Sunday. Small batch Sellers and Adam. Uh, You're
(16:53):
just You're an inspired dude and and inspiring dude. So
I appreciate you taking the time to come on this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thank you for having me so much. Man, it's it's
it shows like yours, and it's then is like small
bats true enough that are supporting underground grassroots artists like us.
That's that's you all are the reasons that folks are
finding out about our music out there, and I appreciate
that so much.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I love it. Man. I'll see you on Sunday, all right, man,
thank you for having me.
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