July 8, 2024 • 37 mins
It is a privilege to welcome Clare Bowen and Brandon Robert Young, also known as Bowen * Young, to The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast!
With haunting and ethereal songs that masterfully delve into the depths of ferocious love, heartbreaking loss, and steadfast hope. The duo released their debut album, Us, earlier this year. It unveils a unique style of music the couple has dubbed “Cinematic Americana.” Bowen * Young’s timeless debut record is a multi-sensory feast. The music, produced by Sean McConnell, invokes themes painted by the duo’s powerfully authentic lyrics and hypnotic harmonies.
Clare Bowen won audiences over as Scarlett O’Connor in the hit ABC musical soap opera Nashville and starred in the three Nashville: On the Record specials. Meanwhile, Brandon Robert Young, who started singing at age five under the gentle guidance of his mother, had a very different upbringing and path to Nashville.
On this edition of The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast, Bowen * Young spoke about Us’s creation process, shared stories behind some of the album's songs, and Clare reminisced about some of her Nashville adventures.
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With haunting and ethereal songs that masterfully delve into the depths of ferocious love, heartbreaking loss, and steadfast hope. The duo released their debut album, Us, earlier this year. It unveils a unique style of music the couple has dubbed “Cinematic Americana.” Bowen * Young’s timeless debut record is a multi-sensory feast. The music, produced by Sean McConnell, invokes themes painted by the duo’s powerfully authentic lyrics and hypnotic harmonies.
Clare Bowen won audiences over as Scarlett O’Connor in the hit ABC musical soap opera Nashville and starred in the three Nashville: On the Record specials. Meanwhile, Brandon Robert Young, who started singing at age five under the gentle guidance of his mother, had a very different upbringing and path to Nashville.
On this edition of The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast, Bowen * Young spoke about Us’s creation process, shared stories behind some of the album's songs, and Clare reminisced about some of her Nashville adventures.
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Hello, well, then, welcomeback to the latest edition of the Jake
Satan for Jacob Ellity Shared podcast.I'm your host, Jacob Ali Shared,
achieved content producer and writer of jakestakdot com, a pop culture entertainment news
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thank you so much. Please downloadthis episode, subscribe to the podcast,
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and dowlo more episodes as well.I'm thrilled to welcome to the studio here
today. They are Spotify and Vertifiedartists and asset. Today they have four
point two nine thousand YouTube subscribers,eight thousand, five hundred Facebook followers,
and twelve thousand, two hundred Instagramfollowers. And they chest released their amazing
big y album US, which isnow available. So please let me welcome
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Clara Bowen and Brandon Robert Young akaBowen and y'all to the podcast. Hello.
Hello, thank you for having us, guys, I love the record.
It's so thank you so much fortaking time on your schedule to talk
with me. I really appreciate it. Oh well, thank you for having
us. We really really appreciate itas well. You're so welcome. So
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let's get food, let's get started. So I want to ask both of
you this, when did you getinterested in performing and how did that passion
evolve into desire to pursue career anyentertainment and music industries. Right? Well,
you know, for me, youknow, I grew up in a
small town in northern Connecticut, andI was a terrible athlete growing up.
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I was horrible at sports. Iwas always picked last for kickball and any
other sporting event. But singing wassomething that my mom taught my sister and
I when we were very young.She would sing to us at our bedside
at night, and we would singtogether as a family. And singing just
always was something that was enjoyed inour home and then became kind of just
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felt very natural. And so II think I just sort of fell into
it because I was so terrible atthe other things and singing was fun and
I could, you know, getup on stage. And I you know,
I fell into like children's choir andplays and musicals in school and I
just really always enjoyed it as achild, and even as a teenager,
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I never had any aspirations of becominga professional musician. I never even had
a thought that I could write songsor I could you know, you know,
play an instrument like you would seepeople on the cover of Rolling Stone
magazine. Those were like aliens fromanother planet. You know. It wasn't
something that a kid from my hometownever would do. So, you know,
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quite late in life, I youknow, decided that I was going
to try my hand at songwriting andmoved to Nashville and just said, you
know, I'm going to give thisa whirl, and if I'm terrible at
it, it will be very evident, very quickly. And so I just
kept at it, kept writing songs, and they started playing shows acoustic around
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town, and that was, youknow, twenty four years ago. Claire's
story is a bit different, Iwould imagine. Well, I just have
to say it's not because he's notgood at anything else. And the athlete
thing is hilarious, because I've seenthis man chase a wolf found that's just
stolen half a pabble over and takenoff across a field, run like hell.
It's amazing. And you have sucha beautiful voice. He's an incredibly
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unique voice, and it's funny,like it needed to find its place,
and when you ended up with JohnHyatt like you tour with HIGHA for ten
years, it was the most beautifulcompliment to everything else that was happening on
that stage, including John's incredible songwriting. And I think that that was an
education that you couldn't possibly have paidfor. It's really cool that you actually
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got paid to learn all that stuffwith him. So yeah, it's because
you didn't just fall into it.You fell in and then you kept being
invited back because your voice is sobeautiful. Brandon is the first one to
talk himself down. He's very humble, another one of his beautiful qualities.
Sorry, I just had to,but you're wonderful for me. I I
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did a lot of my growing upin a children's hospital. I was a
pediatric I am a pediatric cancer survivor, and music was kind of my window
into the rest of the world,and also storytelling being something my family had
always done. My family were there, I mean, my mother my mother's
father was in an Irish barbershop quartet, and my grandmother was a coloraturis soprano
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on my dad's side, so Isuppose singing was in our family, But
I could never have known that itwas going to be something that kept me
going on the really like the hardestdays in hospital, because you know,
it can be kind of a scaryplace, but my parents made it not
scary with music and stories, soit became just the natural place to go
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when the real world was not treatingme so good because I was given like
two weeks to live or something stillkicking, and I suppose it just it
felt good. I feel like Ifeel like maybe I'm maybe I'm still here
because I'm meant to tell stories andI'm still here because I was meant to
love you. But I don't know. Making people feel better, putting more
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good in the world, and youcan do so much of that with storytelling
is something that is really close tomy heart and has always made me feel
like I don't know, like Icould do something that was that meant something
to people, and you guys havebeen doing an incredible job with that.
I got to say this, Robert, I am also a form I am
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a bad athlete myself. I amalways the last person to finish at my
prospect classes and fitness classes. ThoughI understand, and you got to say
amazing. You go to cross fit, that's incredible, that's thank you at
least two or three times a week, so I try my best. And
then also, Claire, you arealso been a huge inspiration and especially a
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lot of people and so many ofmy audiences know that you bring a time
on Nashville as the amazing Scarlett O'Connor. So how did that experience help you
grow not just as an actress buta musician and a performer. Well,
I got to work with some ofthe most talented people I've ever met.
And my mother always said, youknow, surround yourself with people who are
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better than you, because that iswhat will help you grow. So getting
to work with people like Tuba andBurnette, Callie Corey, Buddy Miller,
Colin Lindon, this guy and justthe Oh six Wire They're an incredible band.
Like, being surrounded by wonderful peoplereally really helped me, and I
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suppose in the biggest way it taughtme about the music industry and sort of
introduced me into it for real,because that's how I met Brandon. I
was doing my first big show,at the first big solo show outside the
TV show. Normally you would dothat the Bluebird or that in see like
a more intimate venue, but Igot told I was doing it at the
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Bridgetone Arena, which was terrifying,especially when you come from a town of
like seven hundred and fifty people andI think about twenty thousand feet into that
room and it was sold out.Dude I was meant to sing with that
night failed because he got stage fright, and Brandon got called in at the
very last minute and absolutely rocked it. We met twenty minutes before we walked
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on stage, and I had noidea who he was or but as soon
as I met him, I knewthat I wanted to know him and I
wanted to hear all these stories andit was really weird. I was like,
I want to be the guy's bestfriend immediately. So getting to tour
with Brandon, You've actually taught mea great deal about what it is to
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be a musician and took all thedifferent dynamics that happened because I came up
in theater and films, so Ididn't I didn't know, so it's a
multitude of things, but you're definitelyone of the biggest that's sort of taught
me Along the way well, andNashville was was was two shows and one
really you know, there was thesort of drama side, you know,
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the storylines of the various characters andhow they intersect it. But then there
was the music side. And themusic side was albums and albums and albums
worth of beautifully written, incredibly producedsongs, and so you had this body
of work that sits as a companionto what you were watching on screen,
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and these characters are going through thesevarious different things, and so, you
know, I think that has verymuch informed, you know, what we
do and has been an incredible sortof jumping off point for Bowe and Young
too. You know, go outto those fans that fell in love with
Scarlett O'Connor and get to, youknow, share, you know, ever
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evolving real life stories that you know, Claire and I are experiencing, or
Charles Esten's experiencing, or Jonathan Jackson. We are all still very good friends
with those cast mates, and soyou know, we still write songs together,
we still play music and shows together, and so it's a really beautiful
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thing that has continued on after thefinal sixth season of Nashville. The music
has continued and continued to grow andevolve. And while we can go back
and play songs from season one,there's all of this new material that you
know that we've been able to putout as Bow and Young or ending at
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the other cast. That's amazing tohear that, and I think it'd be
amazing as the television watch here inthe music lever as well to see the
scene not only you guys connect,reconnect with the cast, buts and maybe
a one night only or maybe arevival of Nashville. It was really wonderful
on the Nashville Reunion tour when wewere standing in a sold out the arena
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in Caradif and we asked the audiencewho has been to one of these shows
before, because we've done those tourspreviously over the last few years, and
it was about a quarter of theaudience had been before. There was a
lot of people in that room,and the others had discovered it during the
pandemic or had been told about itby their friends after the show had finished
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filming. And the thing about itis the music has continued like it's not
like a lot of shows end upin like this little box, and that's
it's a time capsule that stays there, and it only lives there. But
because us as actors and songwriters wereable to write the music of Nashville,
like we have songs that people sangon the show, and my brother wrote
from here on out for Chip tosing. We've all had our hands in
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that sort of realm and we continueto write as artists. It keeps going.
So it's just this wild thing thathas continued to evolve. It has
kind of a life of its own, so I have no doubt that.
But there'll be more. Actually,we've been talking about what is to come
for Nashville, and as a cast, we're all very good friends. You
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know, they're like our brothers,so we can't stop. I can't tell
you too much, but we can'tstop. I cannot wait to hear about
it, saying we may need tocome back for another time when it When
it comes, however, we're hereto talk about us. It's an amazing
one of my favorite albums of theyear of twenty twenty four so far.
And how long did You're so welcome? And how long did it take you
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guys to say, Okay, wegot to put an album together. And
it's from conception to release maybe threeyears, and I think there was a
time during the pandemic that we realizedand it was around the time that we
wrote a song called Dangerous Love aswell. We had a home invasion that
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happened, and Dangerous Love was writtenpretty much the day after it occurred,
really, and that can bind withthe pandemic and not being able to do
anything that we've that we've always done. Was very much like, Okay,
if we want to do our dreams, we have to do them now,
especially when that person broke in hereand tried to beat our bedroom door down.
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It was crazy, and we hadalways wanted to beat Bo and Young.
We were very grateful to have beensolo artists for the longest time,
but we've always toured together and peoplewere like, why aren't you guys to
do it, and we were like, we don't, we don't know.
It's just it's it makes the mostsense, it's what we wanted, but
we had to wait for it.We had to stop waiting for other people
to realize it was a good idea. So we decided to be like,
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Okay, we want to do dreams, let's do them now. So we
became Bo and young. We started, we started writing in the very first
song that we wrote for us,it's called Water to Wine and that was
with Sean McConnell over Zoom during thepandemic. And writing of a zoom is
the funniest thing. It's like it'slike purgatory. There's always a leaf blower,
like wherever you go around it likethey follow you that there's always landscaping
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or something that you can't hear anything. But somehow we managed to finish this
song and we found the sound thatwe've been looking for for a really long
time. Having this renewed this exuberance. After our manager, Student Bank had
said do you guys, do youguys want me to do it? We're
like, yes, yes, please, That's all we've ever wanted. And
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so that was the Water to Winewas the very beginning, and it was
it was basically just realizing that there'sthere's no time, so you have to
use it. Yeah, we did. Yeah, And I would say from
the very beginning too. When weactually ended up starting to record with Sean,
we probably wrote fifty songs with theintention of, you know, this
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being the group of songs we weregoing to you know, pick from for
the album, and then, asyou know, we started sending those songs
to Sean and the three of usthinking and listening and talking through sort of
what we wanted the album to lookand feel and be shaped by those songs
became more and more evident of whatthe album needed to be, and so,
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you know, to whittle it downfrom fifty to ten, you know,
is a process and it takes time, and so all in I would
say probably three years from when wedecided to be a duo to when you
know the album was finished and youknow, out in the world. Absolutely,
I would love to talk to youabout is some of your some of
them? I want to reduce someof my favorite songs to the of my
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album at the album and also talkabout some of the stories behind them.
So we already talked about water toWine. I love Hair of the Dog.
Thanks. Thanks. That was afun one. It was sort of
one of those eleventh hour songs becausewe were slated to start recording on Monday
morning with Sean McConnell. And theway that Sean likes to record is sort
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of full immersion. He's got astudio that is a house, and the
entire first floor besides the kitchen,the entire first floor is set up as
a studio, all wired and mikedand ready to go. And so but
upstairs there are a couple of bedroomsthat when you record with him, you
basically move into the studio and youstay there for the duration, and you
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can bring your pets. So webrought, you know, we brought our
two hundred pounds wolfhound and a caband flying squirrels in the whole thing,
and you know. And so itwas it was the Sunday before we were
starting to record on Monday morning,and we decided, let's go out there
and get set up, bring theanimals. Everybody can kind of, you
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know, get acclimated. And Seanjust came over to the studio and checked
in to see how we were doing, and we just sort of started picking
around on the guitar and Hair ofthe Dog came out, and it came
out on that Sunday afternoon and westarted recording Monday morning, and it was
one of those ones that it justsort of stood up, raised its hand
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and said, I will not beignored. And it was just such a
it was such a fun song torecord. It's crazy when you think about
the inception of it and then welike we said, we just got back
from London. We opened with itat Royal Abbot Hall during our set at
Highways Festival last weekend. I thinkit was Friday Friday. I don't know
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what dat is. But when youwhen you see like the birth of the
song sitting at the little piano inin Shawn Studio to standing in front of
a packed Royal Abbot Hall audience,and it just it's like, oh,
this is why we do it.It's just such a wonderful feeling. I
don't know, it was wild,but we love that song too. Thank
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you for being so lovely about it. You're so welcome and it's been very
must be amazing seeing hero zob fillthe Royal Albert Hall. Yeah, it's
it's really wild. I mean it'sabsolutely wild to think about, you know,
sitting in a room with our buddySean writes the song and then like
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you said, filling those hallways,you know at Royal Aberhole was just and
being able to say to people like, excuse me, you usually start that
song with who he has got ahangover? And it's so funny, like
how many people kind of then weexplain to them like, this is not
just about it's not just about havinglike a hangover because you went out last
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night and did whatever you did.It's also a hangover can be something that
someone said the day before that madeyou feel like your dream is not your
own anymore, or made you feelnot good enough or and everyone's been there.
So it's actually about picking yourself,dusting yourself off, picking yourself up,
dusting yourself off, and remembering thatyou are good enough and that you
can do it, and silencing thatvoice in your head that is telling you
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that you can't. So it's it'syeah, it's not just about it's not
just about booths. We really alwayswant to put more good in the world
whatever we do with our music andmake people feel like if you don't feel
like you belong anywhere else, youbelong right here with us in this moment,
and that is probably the best feelingfor us, Like when we get
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to do that in a beautiful placelike guys, Thank God. Forbidden is
very It's probably one of the moreserious tracks on the album. Yeah,
Yeah, that was one we wrotewith Sean. It was when we made
the record, we made it intochunks of time, and so that was
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in the second of time where wemoved into the studio for a week and
God Forbidden was I don't know forone of the first or second songs that
we wrote in that period of time, and we wrote it in the morning
and recorded it in the afternoon.It was like we we pretty much knew
straight away that it was a songthat was going to make the album.
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And it was the only song onthe record that we wrote on piano.
And because most of the time,you know, I'm a guitar player,
so we start we usually start therewith increasing guitar, but that was the
only one that we wrote with piano, and it just felt right to keep
it on the piano, and itwas a lot of fun. We wanted
to write something that was about thedaka pot of falling in love, and
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I mean when we met, wereally we tried very hard not to fall
in love because we'd been treated terriblyby other people, and so it was
just like we both had separately decidedto be just single for the rest of
our lives. But the magnet thatpulled us together was something that I couldn't
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I don't know, It really waslike a magnet that was like you need
to be me him. It wasreally wild. I don't know, it
was worked. Yeah, it's amazing, and it's amazing. That was the
old piano bassed song. And likeit's so rare for like because especially if
they're a guitar based artistry and thenall of a sudden you have a hit
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that's piano based. It's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it just it
feels while you know, the bulkof the album is started on a guitar,
it just felt like the right momentto include that story and that sound
and that feeling on the album.So I gotta say this, Your Hay
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cover of Beyonce's Halo was fabulous.One of the best covers I've heard is
here. I got to say this, Brandon, Oh my god, that
if you were your fault said,I was gorgeous than you. I well,
you're You're very, very kind andI truly appreciate you saying so it
was you know, that cover cameabout because a few years aback Claire said,
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it was at some point during thepandemic, we're all stuck at home.
Claire said, you know, haveyou ever thought about, you know,
trying to you know, do aversion of Halo, And I said,
no, it's never even occurred tome, and she said, I
think you should. And you know, if I'm honest, I was a
little intimidated because, a it's youknow, an impactably written, gorgeous song,
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but it's sung by one of thegreatest voices in human history, you
know, ever, Beyonce. Yeah, there's no one better than Beyonce.
And so it was I sort ofjust had it in the back of my
mind, but I sort of setit aside. And then at some point,
you know, over the pandemic.The way I sort of made it
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through was I wrote songs. Almostevery day. I just go into the
music room, close the door andjust work on music. And you know,
one of those days, I pickedup a guitar and started fiddling through
the changes and singing, you know, little parts of Halo, and I
was like, wow, this feelskind of good, you know, And
so I took it to Claire andand she said, yeah, I think
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that that's I think that that's reallycool. We should send it to Sean.
And so we get a little worktape on our iPhone and just a
voiceman off and sent it to Sean, and he came back and said,
yeah, I think we should recordthat on the record. It should be
a part of it. And it'sa testament to Claire. You know,
she's got great ideas. And youknow, even though it took me a
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while to get around to doing it, I got around to do it and
it felt really good. It wasa great idea maybe, and I'm glad
we got to do it. Let'sjust thought of your humility, and I
love that about you. I didthink it was funny when we were I
was we kind of arranged it together, but brand like Brandon came up with
the initial arrangement of it and Iwas like, give me a second,
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sat down and fiddled with it abit and I was writing, you know,
sort of like writing the arrangement outand I'm like, how, Hi
can you sing? He's like Idon't know. I'm like, okay,
you do these fools And he didthat when that beautiful run that you do,
and I was like, okay,do another four and he did it.
I was like, God, Igotta say that run is near Adams
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Lambert Jordan Smith era Ter, You'revery very kind, thank you, thank
you very much. I'm glad youenjoy it. We sure enjoy singing it.
We got to do it at RoyalLebert Hall this past weekend and it
felt really good. Dang, itblew the roof of absolutely and I'm glad
to hear that because I think theaudience went wild when you heard when they
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heard that erosiona it was. Itwas so much fun. It was so
much fun. It's it's a goodone to you know, be able to
just do you know, just thetwo of us in an acoustic guitar.
You know, you don't need aband, and it's it's a lot of
fun. Alrighty, I gotta talkto you about world brand new. I
said. This recording has over fortythree thousand streams on Spotify, and I
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was rocking in Jimmy Out too whileyou got before you guys came on our
call. So I would love tolearn to salt the story about that salt.
It's one of my favorites. Welearned that with Mickey Eker. It
was sort of an accidental discovery.Originally, I think it was at a
little slower and then we realized thatit needed it just had more well.
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It was sort of the second songof the day because we had been in
the studio working with Mickey on anothersong, and so we had written a
song that day and then we wereall just sort of sitting around in the
evening and we were having a drinkand he sort of started humming something.
We were like, you know,keep going, that sounds really cool,
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and he sort of was humming whatwould become the chorus melody, and I
recorded it on my iPhone and itwas one of those things where we didn't
really have much to it, justsort of this hummed melody, and we
were looking to you know, roundout the album. And we got back
together with him and we were like, man, I think this there's something
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in this melody, so let's chaseit down. So we got together with
him at a studio here in Nashville, wrote the song and then took it
to Sean and Sean produced it andit just, you know, we sort
of wanted it to. It almostfeels like a tent revival in some ways.
You know, it's to tell mewhat that was. Tempo kind of
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you know, stomp clap sort ofthing that it just felt right, and
you know, we've had such agood time playing it. We wanted to
write something it was about all differentkinds of love. The record is full
of love songs, romantic love songs, but we wanted something that was like,
who is your well brand new?Think about your well brand new,
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and that's a different person, that'sa different like for some people it might
be like their dog might be theirbest friend. That's okay, like it
might change. It's just we wantedsomething that was really for everyone. We
had this lovely video that we puttogether from clips of our friends just loving
on each other. It was like, you know, night's down the street
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playing with the little boy, andour friends like Laura and Jenny and Johnny,
Gary and mom and dad, yourmom and dad. It was just
just happiness. We wanted to puthappiness in a song. That's what we
did and it was cool. Mydad is the one whistling with me at
the front of the track, butit was cool. Yeah, he's a
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great whistler. We have to featurehim. Ye amazing, amazing And I
one before we finished out talking aboutsongs. I know this song was not
on any album, but I wouldlove to say I love Helpless. It's
your most stream song on Spotify sofar, as mister Corning has seventy three
thousand Spotify streams. Oh thank youthat was That was a song that we
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we were in Australia. We wereliving in a hotel in Melbourne, and
Claire was filming a television series andso while she would be on set,
you know, twelve hours a day, I spent a lot of time in
the hotel room, you know,sipping coffee and writing songs. And so
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that was one of the songs thatI wrote. In that hotel room.
There was a sort of a windowsill that was big enough that you could
sit on and I could look downto the city streets of Melbourne, and
I wrote that song and then Iplayed it for Claire and she she really
it resonated with her. So whenwe got back to Nashville, we got
together with our friend Doug Lancio,who is when I was on tour with
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John Hyatt, he was John Hyat'slead guitar player, and now Doug actually
plays guitar for Bob Dylan. Andso we got together with Doug and he
produced a handful of tracks on us, and Helpless was one of them,
and we were just really really excitedwith the way it turned out. So
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it was one of the very firstsongs that Claire and I put out,
you know, together as Boe andYoung and so it's good that song's been
hanging around and yeah, you know, it's funny it was. It was
part of a group of songs thatwe wrote, and Brandon wrote Helpless on
his own. I just sang bitsof it. It was part of the
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writing session that was going to bemy second record as a solo artist,
and I really I was very gratefulthat I got to be a solo artist,
but I didn't want to be thatanymore. I always wanted to stand
next to him and sing, andit felt so weird that he was always
like I was sent to stage andBrandon was always just sort of just off
to the side a little bit,and it felt so wrong to me for
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the longest time. And so that'swhen we kind of had to put our
foot down and be like, no, this is what we're doing. Goodness,
but Helpless was actually written. I'vetotally forgotten in the time where we
were looking at writing the second soloClaire Bowen record, and you're going to
make one as well, and itjust it informed itself. We were both
like this is ridiculous. It wasjust like the very first song that we
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wrote, Oh Hello, which isnot out. We need to we do
need to release that at some point. But I remember calling you right after
all those years ago and saying,this is not this is not a solo
song. This needs to be aduet and I only want to sing it
with you. And Helpless is verymuch the same. Awesome. I gotta
say this. Have you guys thoughtthat your singer dream collaborators, your singers
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are songwriters, producers and musicians,and how would they enhance Bow and Young
sounds? I mean, yeah,I mean there's there's a lot of people
out there that I would love to, you know, for Claire and I
to go in the studio with towrite and or record, you know,
from a from a writing perspective.You know, it would seem obvious that
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Paul McCartney would be, you know, at the top of everyone's list,
but he is absolutely at the topof my list. Springsteen. Springsteen would
be amazing. I would love togo in the studio and record with Daniel
NOI yeah, Dolly, I mean, yeah, oh yeah, There's so
many I have a couple of people'ssuggestions as well. I would love to
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hear you Dan and Shay Oh.Yeah, we've met them because they live
in Nashville, but we've never hadthe opportunity to work with them, and
it would be incredible. So ifyou know them, let them know.
I wish they need to First ofall, me mean to get to the
podcast, but I love their Iwas at their concert in April when they
brought the Heartless Heartbreak on the Maptoward to Kansas City, and I love
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this show and I gotta say,you guys would be perfect and also a
little bit town. I love that. Yes we are. We are big
fans, a little big town.They are sweet, sweet people. The
very first week I lived in Nashville, I was looking for a job and
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I was downtown and I was walkingthrough a bunch of different shops looking for
work. And I walked into thisfurniture shop down on Second Avenue and there
were a few people in there,and I just sort of said I was
looking for a job, and theysaid, well, we have a couple
of shipping containers coming in in thenext few days. We need some help
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unloading these shipping containers if you wouldlike to do that. And I said,
Okay, they told me when toshow up, so I did,
and there were two guys. Itwas myself and one other guy that were
going to empty this shipping container offurniture, and it was Philip from Little
Big Town. Oh. It wasI think right at the beginning when they
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were getting together as a Little BigTown and doing those initial recordings. And
so it was Philip and I sweatingin the Nashville hot summer and carrying furniture
into this furniture store. And thatwas, you know, back in two
thousand. Yeah, So that's that'san amazing story. And seriously, I
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hope that you had the opportunity toreconnect with them because I would love to
hear you like seriously girl crush,or that you got the six part Armies.
I can imagine you guys on thatthose two songs would be amazing.
It would be a lot of funny. We do see Philip from time to
time, and you know, yeah, we see we see everybody from time
to time, you know, backstageat different events. But you know,
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it's funny to see Philip at likea Nashville Predators game or something, and
you know, and that those twoare always like, yeah, remembering that,
you know, twenty some years agowe were you know, sweating unloading
you know, furniture, office,ship and container. They're they're just there
are always people who you know whenyou're backstage where you were on a red
cap but or something that they arealways the ones that come up and the
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first ones to give us a hug. They're just such lovely, sweet people.
That's amazing. I was seriously,I would love to see you guys
go on board together. That wouldbe wonderful. That was cool, work
on it alrighty. So one ofthe last questions I have is what how
have you been able to connect withyour fans on social media? Is there
a favorite platform that you guys use? Oh, probably Instagram, I think,
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just because it's really visual. Ifind that social media is a tough
one. I think it's a reallyuseful tool, but it's not for fun.
I like, we prefer to interactwith our fans at our shows,
like or in meet and greets,like we love seeing people in person.
Because social media can be this ashelpful as it can be, it can
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also like all of the scary,stalky, nasty trolley creatures that I've really
ever come across have come from socialmedia who've like manifested as dangerous or you
know, not very nice people inreal life. So it's this weird thing
where I we don't spend a wholelot of time on it, and it's
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because we we really enjoy interacting withour fans at our shows so much and
we really want to keep that special. We also want to keep fans like
informed and make sure that everyone knowswhat's going on. So it is a
very important thing. I just knowthat it's not something that I have ever
done for fun. It's always beenkind of I don't know, it just
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sort of a it's a whole otherjob. That's why you employ somebody to
do it for you. Yeah,we like we okay all of our content,
but most of the time we letother people do it, and we'll
go in and interact with the fansand like say hello and answer little questions
and comments. Actually we need todo that today. We're going to answer
people's questions. So I love it. Like when it's when it's good,
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it's it's lovely. When it's notgood, it's terrifying. I understand completely.
I understand completely. So on Instagram, last question, are you ready?
Oh yeah, cool? Alrighty wherecan they find us? Where can
they find your music? And alsowhere can they find you on social and
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also if you guys are going togo on tour soon work and you find
that information, well, you canfind us. Pretty much everything on social
media is Bow and Young Official.You can find our music anywhere you get
your music. You can go toBowenyong dot com and you can order physical
copies as well, and there's goingto be more of those coming soon in
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different versions. It's pretty much yeah, Bow and Young Official, Bowenyong dot
com. Just look us up anywhereyou can find your music. Yeah,
anywhere you stream your music or anywherehowever you consume music, you can find
us there. There's also a contactform on the Bow and Young website,
but Instagram's definitely like our main things, So if you click the little link
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tree there in our buyer you canfind absolutely everything. In all of our
shows that are coming up, whichwe're about to announce some really really cool
stuff. We had some little delaysbecause I'm about to film another movie,
but we're about to be able totell everybody soon. Yeah, So we're
working on some rescheduled shows for atour in the UK and then some shows
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here in the States and just yeah, keep coming back checking it out.
Boone Young Official. We look forwardto seeing you out at the show.
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pleasure to talk with you, andI gotta say this, if you're ever
in Kansas City, don't I wouldlove to see you guys live absolutely well,
we will be there. Yeah,We'll let you know when we're on
our way and make sure you comebackstage and say hi. Absolutely, guys,
thank you so much for taking timeand you're just going to talk with
me. I really appreciate it andguts. Thank you so much watching,
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Thank you so much for listening.Until next time, Happy with everybody,
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Hello, well, then, welcomeback to the latest edition of the Jake
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and dowlo more episodes as well.I'm thrilled to welcome to the studio here
today. They are Spotify and Vertifiedartists and asset. Today they have four
point two nine thousand YouTube subscribers,eight thousand, five hundred Facebook followers,
and twelve thousand, two hundred Instagramfollowers. And they chest released their amazing
big y album US, which isnow available. So please let me welcome
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Clara Bowen and Brandon Robert Young akaBowen and y'all to the podcast. Hello.
Hello, thank you for having us, guys, I love the record.
It's so thank you so much fortaking time on your schedule to talk
with me. I really appreciate it. Oh well, thank you for having
us. We really really appreciate itas well. You're so welcome. So
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let's get food, let's get started. So I want to ask both of
you this, when did you getinterested in performing and how did that passion
evolve into desire to pursue career anyentertainment and music industries. Right? Well,
you know, for me, youknow, I grew up in a
small town in northern Connecticut, andI was a terrible athlete growing up.
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I was horrible at sports. Iwas always picked last for kickball and any
other sporting event. But singing wassomething that my mom taught my sister and
I when we were very young.She would sing to us at our bedside
at night, and we would singtogether as a family. And singing just
always was something that was enjoyed inour home and then became kind of just
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felt very natural. And so II think I just sort of fell into
it because I was so terrible atthe other things and singing was fun and
I could, you know, getup on stage. And I you know,
I fell into like children's choir andplays and musicals in school and I
just really always enjoyed it as achild, and even as a teenager,
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I never had any aspirations of becominga professional musician. I never even had
a thought that I could write songsor I could you know, you know,
play an instrument like you would seepeople on the cover of Rolling Stone
magazine. Those were like aliens fromanother planet. You know. It wasn't
something that a kid from my hometownever would do. So, you know,
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quite late in life, I youknow, decided that I was going
to try my hand at songwriting andmoved to Nashville and just said, you
know, I'm going to give thisa whirl, and if I'm terrible at
it, it will be very evident, very quickly. And so I just
kept at it, kept writing songs, and they started playing shows acoustic around
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town, and that was, youknow, twenty four years ago. Claire's
story is a bit different, Iwould imagine. Well, I just have
to say it's not because he's notgood at anything else. And the athlete
thing is hilarious, because I've seenthis man chase a wolf found that's just
stolen half a pabble over and takenoff across a field, run like hell.
It's amazing. And you have sucha beautiful voice. He's an incredibly
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unique voice, and it's funny,like it needed to find its place,
and when you ended up with JohnHyatt like you tour with HIGHA for ten
years, it was the most beautifulcompliment to everything else that was happening on
that stage, including John's incredible songwriting. And I think that that was an
education that you couldn't possibly have paidfor. It's really cool that you actually
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got paid to learn all that stuffwith him. So yeah, it's because
you didn't just fall into it.You fell in and then you kept being
invited back because your voice is sobeautiful. Brandon is the first one to
talk himself down. He's very humble, another one of his beautiful qualities.
Sorry, I just had to,but you're wonderful for me. I I
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did a lot of my growing upin a children's hospital. I was a
pediatric I am a pediatric cancer survivor, and music was kind of my window
into the rest of the world,and also storytelling being something my family had
always done. My family were there, I mean, my mother my mother's
father was in an Irish barbershop quartet, and my grandmother was a coloraturis soprano
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on my dad's side, so Isuppose singing was in our family, But
I could never have known that itwas going to be something that kept me
going on the really like the hardestdays in hospital, because you know,
it can be kind of a scaryplace, but my parents made it not
scary with music and stories, soit became just the natural place to go
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when the real world was not treatingme so good because I was given like
two weeks to live or something stillkicking, and I suppose it just it
felt good. I feel like Ifeel like maybe I'm maybe I'm still here
because I'm meant to tell stories andI'm still here because I was meant to
love you. But I don't know. Making people feel better, putting more
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good in the world, and youcan do so much of that with storytelling
is something that is really close tomy heart and has always made me feel
like I don't know, like Icould do something that was that meant something
to people, and you guys havebeen doing an incredible job with that.
I got to say this, Robert, I am also a form I am
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a bad athlete myself. I amalways the last person to finish at my
prospect classes and fitness classes. ThoughI understand, and you got to say
amazing. You go to cross fit, that's incredible, that's thank you at
least two or three times a week, so I try my best. And
then also, Claire, you arealso been a huge inspiration and especially a
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lot of people and so many ofmy audiences know that you bring a time
on Nashville as the amazing Scarlett O'Connor. So how did that experience help you
grow not just as an actress buta musician and a performer. Well,
I got to work with some ofthe most talented people I've ever met.
And my mother always said, youknow, surround yourself with people who are
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better than you, because that iswhat will help you grow. So getting
to work with people like Tuba andBurnette, Callie Corey, Buddy Miller,
Colin Lindon, this guy and justthe Oh six Wire They're an incredible band.
Like, being surrounded by wonderful peoplereally really helped me, and I
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suppose in the biggest way it taughtme about the music industry and sort of
introduced me into it for real,because that's how I met Brandon. I
was doing my first big show,at the first big solo show outside the
TV show. Normally you would dothat the Bluebird or that in see like
a more intimate venue, but Igot told I was doing it at the
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Bridgetone Arena, which was terrifying,especially when you come from a town of
like seven hundred and fifty people andI think about twenty thousand feet into that
room and it was sold out.Dude I was meant to sing with that
night failed because he got stage fright, and Brandon got called in at the
very last minute and absolutely rocked it. We met twenty minutes before we walked
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on stage, and I had noidea who he was or but as soon
as I met him, I knewthat I wanted to know him and I
wanted to hear all these stories andit was really weird. I was like,
I want to be the guy's bestfriend immediately. So getting to tour
with Brandon, You've actually taught mea great deal about what it is to
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be a musician and took all thedifferent dynamics that happened because I came up
in theater and films, so Ididn't I didn't know, so it's a
multitude of things, but you're definitelyone of the biggest that's sort of taught
me Along the way well, andNashville was was was two shows and one
really you know, there was thesort of drama side, you know,
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the storylines of the various characters andhow they intersect it. But then there
was the music side. And themusic side was albums and albums and albums
worth of beautifully written, incredibly producedsongs, and so you had this body
of work that sits as a companionto what you were watching on screen,
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and these characters are going through thesevarious different things, and so, you
know, I think that has verymuch informed, you know, what we
do and has been an incredible sortof jumping off point for Bowe and Young
too. You know, go outto those fans that fell in love with
Scarlett O'Connor and get to, youknow, share, you know, ever
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evolving real life stories that you know, Claire and I are experiencing, or
Charles Esten's experiencing, or Jonathan Jackson. We are all still very good friends
with those cast mates, and soyou know, we still write songs together,
we still play music and shows together, and so it's a really beautiful
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thing that has continued on after thefinal sixth season of Nashville. The music
has continued and continued to grow andevolve. And while we can go back
and play songs from season one,there's all of this new material that you
know that we've been able to putout as Bow and Young or ending at
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the other cast. That's amazing tohear that, and I think it'd be
amazing as the television watch here inthe music lever as well to see the
scene not only you guys connect,reconnect with the cast, buts and maybe
a one night only or maybe arevival of Nashville. It was really wonderful
on the Nashville Reunion tour when wewere standing in a sold out the arena
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in Caradif and we asked the audiencewho has been to one of these shows
before, because we've done those tourspreviously over the last few years, and
it was about a quarter of theaudience had been before. There was a
lot of people in that room,and the others had discovered it during the
pandemic or had been told about itby their friends after the show had finished
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filming. And the thing about itis the music has continued like it's not
like a lot of shows end upin like this little box, and that's
it's a time capsule that stays there, and it only lives there. But
because us as actors and songwriters wereable to write the music of Nashville,
like we have songs that people sangon the show, and my brother wrote
from here on out for Chip tosing. We've all had our hands in
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that sort of realm and we continueto write as artists. It keeps going.
So it's just this wild thing thathas continued to evolve. It has
kind of a life of its own, so I have no doubt that.
But there'll be more. Actually,we've been talking about what is to come
for Nashville, and as a cast, we're all very good friends. You
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know, they're like our brothers,so we can't stop. I can't tell
you too much, but we can'tstop. I cannot wait to hear about
it, saying we may need tocome back for another time when it When
it comes, however, we're hereto talk about us. It's an amazing
one of my favorite albums of theyear of twenty twenty four so far.
And how long did You're so welcome? And how long did it take you
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guys to say, Okay, wegot to put an album together. And
it's from conception to release maybe threeyears, and I think there was a
time during the pandemic that we realizedand it was around the time that we
wrote a song called Dangerous Love aswell. We had a home invasion that
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happened, and Dangerous Love was writtenpretty much the day after it occurred,
really, and that can bind withthe pandemic and not being able to do
anything that we've that we've always done. Was very much like, Okay,
if we want to do our dreams, we have to do them now,
especially when that person broke in hereand tried to beat our bedroom door down.
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It was crazy, and we hadalways wanted to beat Bo and Young.
We were very grateful to have beensolo artists for the longest time,
but we've always toured together and peoplewere like, why aren't you guys to
do it, and we were like, we don't, we don't know.
It's just it's it makes the mostsense, it's what we wanted, but
we had to wait for it.We had to stop waiting for other people
to realize it was a good idea. So we decided to be like,
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Okay, we want to do dreams, let's do them now. So we
became Bo and young. We started, we started writing in the very first
song that we wrote for us,it's called Water to Wine and that was
with Sean McConnell over Zoom during thepandemic. And writing of a zoom is
the funniest thing. It's like it'slike purgatory. There's always a leaf blower,
like wherever you go around it likethey follow you that there's always landscaping
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or something that you can't hear anything. But somehow we managed to finish this
song and we found the sound thatwe've been looking for for a really long
time. Having this renewed this exuberance. After our manager, Student Bank had
said do you guys, do youguys want me to do it? We're
like, yes, yes, please, That's all we've ever wanted. And
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so that was the Water to Winewas the very beginning, and it was
it was basically just realizing that there'sthere's no time, so you have to
use it. Yeah, we did. Yeah, And I would say from
the very beginning too. When weactually ended up starting to record with Sean,
we probably wrote fifty songs with theintention of, you know, this
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being the group of songs we weregoing to you know, pick from for
the album, and then, asyou know, we started sending those songs
to Sean and the three of usthinking and listening and talking through sort of
what we wanted the album to lookand feel and be shaped by those songs
became more and more evident of whatthe album needed to be, and so,
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you know, to whittle it downfrom fifty to ten, you know,
is a process and it takes time, and so all in I would
say probably three years from when wedecided to be a duo to when you
know the album was finished and youknow, out in the world. Absolutely,
I would love to talk to youabout is some of your some of
them? I want to reduce someof my favorite songs to the of my
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album at the album and also talkabout some of the stories behind them.
So we already talked about water toWine. I love Hair of the Dog.
Thanks. Thanks. That was afun one. It was sort of
one of those eleventh hour songs becausewe were slated to start recording on Monday
morning with Sean McConnell. And theway that Sean likes to record is sort
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of full immersion. He's got astudio that is a house, and the
entire first floor besides the kitchen,the entire first floor is set up as
a studio, all wired and mikedand ready to go. And so but
upstairs there are a couple of bedroomsthat when you record with him, you
basically move into the studio and youstay there for the duration, and you
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can bring your pets. So webrought, you know, we brought our
two hundred pounds wolfhound and a caband flying squirrels in the whole thing,
and you know. And so itwas it was the Sunday before we were
starting to record on Monday morning,and we decided, let's go out there
and get set up, bring theanimals. Everybody can kind of, you
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know, get acclimated. And Seanjust came over to the studio and checked
in to see how we were doing, and we just sort of started picking
around on the guitar and Hair ofthe Dog came out, and it came
out on that Sunday afternoon and westarted recording Monday morning, and it was
one of those ones that it justsort of stood up, raised its hand
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and said, I will not beignored. And it was just such a
it was such a fun song torecord. It's crazy when you think about
the inception of it and then welike we said, we just got back
from London. We opened with itat Royal Abbot Hall during our set at
Highways Festival last weekend. I thinkit was Friday Friday. I don't know
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what dat is. But when youwhen you see like the birth of the
song sitting at the little piano inin Shawn Studio to standing in front of
a packed Royal Abbot Hall audience,and it just it's like, oh,
this is why we do it.It's just such a wonderful feeling. I
don't know, it was wild,but we love that song too. Thank
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you for being so lovely about it. You're so welcome and it's been very
must be amazing seeing hero zob fillthe Royal Albert Hall. Yeah, it's
it's really wild. I mean it'sabsolutely wild to think about, you know,
sitting in a room with our buddySean writes the song and then like
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you said, filling those hallways,you know at Royal Aberhole was just and
being able to say to people like, excuse me, you usually start that
song with who he has got ahangover? And it's so funny, like
how many people kind of then weexplain to them like, this is not
just about it's not just about havinglike a hangover because you went out last
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night and did whatever you did.It's also a hangover can be something that
someone said the day before that madeyou feel like your dream is not your
own anymore, or made you feelnot good enough or and everyone's been there.
So it's actually about picking yourself,dusting yourself off, picking yourself up,
dusting yourself off, and remembering thatyou are good enough and that you
can do it, and silencing thatvoice in your head that is telling you
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that you can't. So it's it'syeah, it's not just about it's not
just about booths. We really alwayswant to put more good in the world
whatever we do with our music andmake people feel like if you don't feel
like you belong anywhere else, youbelong right here with us in this moment,
and that is probably the best feelingfor us, Like when we get
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to do that in a beautiful placelike guys, Thank God. Forbidden is
very It's probably one of the moreserious tracks on the album. Yeah,
Yeah, that was one we wrotewith Sean. It was when we made
the record, we made it intochunks of time, and so that was
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in the second of time where wemoved into the studio for a week and
God Forbidden was I don't know forone of the first or second songs that
we wrote in that period of time, and we wrote it in the morning
and recorded it in the afternoon.It was like we we pretty much knew
straight away that it was a songthat was going to make the album.
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And it was the only song onthe record that we wrote on piano.
And because most of the time,you know, I'm a guitar player,
so we start we usually start therewith increasing guitar, but that was the
only one that we wrote with piano, and it just felt right to keep
it on the piano, and itwas a lot of fun. We wanted
to write something that was about thedaka pot of falling in love, and
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I mean when we met, wereally we tried very hard not to fall
in love because we'd been treated terriblyby other people, and so it was
just like we both had separately decidedto be just single for the rest of
our lives. But the magnet thatpulled us together was something that I couldn't
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I don't know, It really waslike a magnet that was like you need
to be me him. It wasreally wild. I don't know, it
was worked. Yeah, it's amazing, and it's amazing. That was the
old piano bassed song. And likeit's so rare for like because especially if
they're a guitar based artistry and thenall of a sudden you have a hit
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that's piano based. It's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it just it
feels while you know, the bulkof the album is started on a guitar,
it just felt like the right momentto include that story and that sound
and that feeling on the album.So I gotta say this, Your Hay
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cover of Beyonce's Halo was fabulous.One of the best covers I've heard is
here. I got to say this, Brandon, Oh my god, that
if you were your fault said,I was gorgeous than you. I well,
you're You're very, very kind andI truly appreciate you saying so it
was you know, that cover cameabout because a few years aback Claire said,
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it was at some point during thepandemic, we're all stuck at home.
Claire said, you know, haveyou ever thought about, you know,
trying to you know, do aversion of Halo, And I said,
no, it's never even occurred tome, and she said, I
think you should. And you know, if I'm honest, I was a
little intimidated because, a it's youknow, an impactably written, gorgeous song,
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but it's sung by one of thegreatest voices in human history, you
know, ever, Beyonce. Yeah, there's no one better than Beyonce.
And so it was I sort ofjust had it in the back of my
mind, but I sort of setit aside. And then at some point,
you know, over the pandemic.The way I sort of made it
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through was I wrote songs. Almostevery day. I just go into the
music room, close the door andjust work on music. And you know,
one of those days, I pickedup a guitar and started fiddling through
the changes and singing, you know, little parts of Halo, and I
was like, wow, this feelskind of good, you know, And
so I took it to Claire andand she said, yeah, I think
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that that's I think that that's reallycool. We should send it to Sean.
And so we get a little worktape on our iPhone and just a
voiceman off and sent it to Sean, and he came back and said,
yeah, I think we should recordthat on the record. It should be
a part of it. And it'sa testament to Claire. You know,
she's got great ideas. And youknow, even though it took me a
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while to get around to doing it, I got around to do it and
it felt really good. It wasa great idea maybe, and I'm glad
we got to do it. Let'sjust thought of your humility, and I
love that about you. I didthink it was funny when we were I
was we kind of arranged it together, but brand like Brandon came up with
the initial arrangement of it and Iwas like, give me a second,
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sat down and fiddled with it abit and I was writing, you know,
sort of like writing the arrangement outand I'm like, how, Hi
can you sing? He's like Idon't know. I'm like, okay,
you do these fools And he didthat when that beautiful run that you do,
and I was like, okay,do another four and he did it.
I was like, God, Igotta say that run is near Adams
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Lambert Jordan Smith era Ter, You'revery very kind, thank you, thank
you very much. I'm glad youenjoy it. We sure enjoy singing it.
We got to do it at RoyalLebert Hall this past weekend and it
felt really good. Dang, itblew the roof of absolutely and I'm glad
to hear that because I think theaudience went wild when you heard when they
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heard that erosiona it was. Itwas so much fun. It was so
much fun. It's it's a goodone to you know, be able to
just do you know, just thetwo of us in an acoustic guitar.
You know, you don't need aband, and it's it's a lot of
fun. Alrighty, I gotta talkto you about world brand new. I
said. This recording has over fortythree thousand streams on Spotify, and I
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was rocking in Jimmy Out too whileyou got before you guys came on our
call. So I would love tolearn to salt the story about that salt.
It's one of my favorites. Welearned that with Mickey Eker. It
was sort of an accidental discovery.Originally, I think it was at a
little slower and then we realized thatit needed it just had more well.
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It was sort of the second songof the day because we had been in
the studio working with Mickey on anothersong, and so we had written a
song that day and then we wereall just sort of sitting around in the
evening and we were having a drinkand he sort of started humming something.
We were like, you know,keep going, that sounds really cool,
(24:30):
and he sort of was humming whatwould become the chorus melody, and I
recorded it on my iPhone and itwas one of those things where we didn't
really have much to it, justsort of this hummed melody, and we
were looking to you know, roundout the album. And we got back
together with him and we were like, man, I think this there's something
(24:52):
in this melody, so let's chaseit down. So we got together with
him at a studio here in Nashville, wrote the song and then took it
to Sean and Sean produced it andit just, you know, we sort
of wanted it to. It almostfeels like a tent revival in some ways.
You know, it's to tell mewhat that was. Tempo kind of
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you know, stomp clap sort ofthing that it just felt right, and
you know, we've had such agood time playing it. We wanted to
write something it was about all differentkinds of love. The record is full
of love songs, romantic love songs, but we wanted something that was like,
who is your well brand new?Think about your well brand new,
(25:37):
and that's a different person, that'sa different like for some people it might
be like their dog might be theirbest friend. That's okay, like it
might change. It's just we wantedsomething that was really for everyone. We
had this lovely video that we puttogether from clips of our friends just loving
on each other. It was like, you know, night's down the street
(26:00):
playing with the little boy, andour friends like Laura and Jenny and Johnny,
Gary and mom and dad, yourmom and dad. It was just
just happiness. We wanted to puthappiness in a song. That's what we
did and it was cool. Mydad is the one whistling with me at
the front of the track, butit was cool. Yeah, he's a
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great whistler. We have to featurehim. Ye amazing, amazing And I
one before we finished out talking aboutsongs. I know this song was not
on any album, but I wouldlove to say I love Helpless. It's
your most stream song on Spotify sofar, as mister Corning has seventy three
thousand Spotify streams. Oh thank youthat was That was a song that we
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we were in Australia. We wereliving in a hotel in Melbourne, and
Claire was filming a television series andso while she would be on set,
you know, twelve hours a day, I spent a lot of time in
the hotel room, you know,sipping coffee and writing songs. And so
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that was one of the songs thatI wrote. In that hotel room.
There was a sort of a windowsill that was big enough that you could
sit on and I could look downto the city streets of Melbourne, and
I wrote that song and then Iplayed it for Claire and she she really
it resonated with her. So whenwe got back to Nashville, we got
together with our friend Doug Lancio,who is when I was on tour with
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John Hyatt, he was John Hyat'slead guitar player, and now Doug actually
plays guitar for Bob Dylan. Andso we got together with Doug and he
produced a handful of tracks on us, and Helpless was one of them,
and we were just really really excitedwith the way it turned out. So
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it was one of the very firstsongs that Claire and I put out,
you know, together as Boe andYoung and so it's good that song's been
hanging around and yeah, you know, it's funny it was. It was
part of a group of songs thatwe wrote, and Brandon wrote Helpless on
his own. I just sang bitsof it. It was part of the
(28:18):
writing session that was going to bemy second record as a solo artist,
and I really I was very gratefulthat I got to be a solo artist,
but I didn't want to be thatanymore. I always wanted to stand
next to him and sing, andit felt so weird that he was always
like I was sent to stage andBrandon was always just sort of just off
to the side a little bit,and it felt so wrong to me for
(28:41):
the longest time. And so that'swhen we kind of had to put our
foot down and be like, no, this is what we're doing. Goodness,
but Helpless was actually written. I'vetotally forgotten in the time where we
were looking at writing the second soloClaire Bowen record, and you're going to
make one as well, and itjust it informed itself. We were both
like this is ridiculous. It wasjust like the very first song that we
(29:03):
wrote, Oh Hello, which isnot out. We need to we do
need to release that at some point. But I remember calling you right after
all those years ago and saying,this is not this is not a solo
song. This needs to be aduet and I only want to sing it
with you. And Helpless is verymuch the same. Awesome. I gotta
say this. Have you guys thoughtthat your singer dream collaborators, your singers
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are songwriters, producers and musicians,and how would they enhance Bow and Young
sounds? I mean, yeah,I mean there's there's a lot of people
out there that I would love to, you know, for Claire and I
to go in the studio with towrite and or record, you know,
from a from a writing perspective.You know, it would seem obvious that
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Paul McCartney would be, you know, at the top of everyone's list,
but he is absolutely at the topof my list. Springsteen. Springsteen would
be amazing. I would love togo in the studio and record with Daniel
NOI yeah, Dolly, I mean, yeah, oh yeah, There's so
many I have a couple of people'ssuggestions as well. I would love to
(30:17):
hear you Dan and Shay Oh.Yeah, we've met them because they live
in Nashville, but we've never hadthe opportunity to work with them, and
it would be incredible. So ifyou know them, let them know.
I wish they need to First ofall, me mean to get to the
podcast, but I love their Iwas at their concert in April when they
brought the Heartless Heartbreak on the Maptoward to Kansas City, and I love
(30:38):
this show and I gotta say,you guys would be perfect and also a
little bit town. I love that. Yes we are. We are big
fans, a little big town.They are sweet, sweet people. The
very first week I lived in Nashville, I was looking for a job and
(31:00):
I was downtown and I was walkingthrough a bunch of different shops looking for
work. And I walked into thisfurniture shop down on Second Avenue and there
were a few people in there,and I just sort of said I was
looking for a job, and theysaid, well, we have a couple
of shipping containers coming in in thenext few days. We need some help
(31:22):
unloading these shipping containers if you wouldlike to do that. And I said,
Okay, they told me when toshow up, so I did,
and there were two guys. Itwas myself and one other guy that were
going to empty this shipping container offurniture, and it was Philip from Little
Big Town. Oh. It wasI think right at the beginning when they
(31:44):
were getting together as a Little BigTown and doing those initial recordings. And
so it was Philip and I sweatingin the Nashville hot summer and carrying furniture
into this furniture store. And thatwas, you know, back in two
thousand. Yeah, So that's that'san amazing story. And seriously, I
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hope that you had the opportunity toreconnect with them because I would love to
hear you like seriously girl crush,or that you got the six part Armies.
I can imagine you guys on thatthose two songs would be amazing.
It would be a lot of funny. We do see Philip from time to
time, and you know, yeah, we see we see everybody from time
to time, you know, backstageat different events. But you know,
(32:28):
it's funny to see Philip at likea Nashville Predators game or something, and
you know, and that those twoare always like, yeah, remembering that,
you know, twenty some years agowe were you know, sweating unloading
you know, furniture, office,ship and container. They're they're just there
are always people who you know whenyou're backstage where you were on a red
cap but or something that they arealways the ones that come up and the
(32:50):
first ones to give us a hug. They're just such lovely, sweet people.
That's amazing. I was seriously,I would love to see you guys
go on board together. That wouldbe wonderful. That was cool, work
on it alrighty. So one ofthe last questions I have is what how
have you been able to connect withyour fans on social media? Is there
a favorite platform that you guys use? Oh, probably Instagram, I think,
(33:15):
just because it's really visual. Ifind that social media is a tough
one. I think it's a reallyuseful tool, but it's not for fun.
I like, we prefer to interactwith our fans at our shows,
like or in meet and greets,like we love seeing people in person.
Because social media can be this ashelpful as it can be, it can
(33:36):
also like all of the scary,stalky, nasty trolley creatures that I've really
ever come across have come from socialmedia who've like manifested as dangerous or you
know, not very nice people inreal life. So it's this weird thing
where I we don't spend a wholelot of time on it, and it's
(33:59):
because we we really enjoy interacting withour fans at our shows so much and
we really want to keep that special. We also want to keep fans like
informed and make sure that everyone knowswhat's going on. So it is a
very important thing. I just knowthat it's not something that I have ever
done for fun. It's always beenkind of I don't know, it just
(34:19):
sort of a it's a whole otherjob. That's why you employ somebody to
do it for you. Yeah,we like we okay all of our content,
but most of the time we letother people do it, and we'll
go in and interact with the fansand like say hello and answer little questions
and comments. Actually we need todo that today. We're going to answer
people's questions. So I love it. Like when it's when it's good,
(34:40):
it's it's lovely. When it's notgood, it's terrifying. I understand completely.
I understand completely. So on Instagram, last question, are you ready?
Oh yeah, cool? Alrighty wherecan they find us? Where can
they find your music? And alsowhere can they find you on social and
(35:00):
also if you guys are going togo on tour soon work and you find
that information, well, you canfind us. Pretty much everything on social
media is Bow and Young Official.You can find our music anywhere you get
your music. You can go toBowenyong dot com and you can order physical
copies as well, and there's goingto be more of those coming soon in
(35:22):
different versions. It's pretty much yeah, Bow and Young Official, Bowenyong dot
com. Just look us up anywhereyou can find your music. Yeah,
anywhere you stream your music or anywherehowever you consume music, you can find
us there. There's also a contactform on the Bow and Young website,
but Instagram's definitely like our main things, So if you click the little link
(35:42):
tree there in our buyer you canfind absolutely everything. In all of our
shows that are coming up, whichwe're about to announce some really really cool
stuff. We had some little delaysbecause I'm about to film another movie,
but we're about to be able totell everybody soon. Yeah, So we're
working on some rescheduled shows for atour in the UK and then some shows
(36:04):
here in the States and just yeah, keep coming back checking it out.
Boone Young Official. We look forwardto seeing you out at the show.
Awesome. So guys, how doyou miss an episode of the Jakes Take
with Jacob Ell and sh O podcastthose are channels on animals on music,
Apple podcasts, I Heeart pod Chaseor Spotify and Spreaker Jacob l shr j
A c O b e l yA c h a R. Are you
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on social media because I'm on socialmedia too, Facebook, Instagram, threads,
Twitter and YouTube Drincob shr j Ac O b e l y A
c h a R. And guyswant to find out who I'm a mask
singer? What's going on in America? Scott Talent and also my take on
Bowen Young's US is that Shakes,That's chic dot com. The gloves are
at all once again Jackson's chic dotCom. Claire Robert, it was a
(36:51):
pleasure to talk with you, andI gotta say this, if you're ever
in Kansas City, don't I wouldlove to see you guys live absolutely well,
we will be there. Yeah,We'll let you know when we're on
our way and make sure you comebackstage and say hi. Absolutely, guys,
thank you so much for taking timeand you're just going to talk with
me. I really appreciate it andguts. Thank you so much watching,
(37:12):
Thank you so much for listening.Until next time, Happy with everybody,
good Bye,
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