August 23, 2024 • 28 mins
Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind 20249-13-24 at 7:30 pm Song Theater, Columbiana, AL.JASON RICCI & THE BAD KIND
Click here for TICKETS September 13, 2024
Multiple award winning jazz, funk and blues harmonica player, singer, songwriter Jason Ricci has played with, toured and recorded with some of the world’s most esteemed blues, jazz, rock and New Orleans musical legends. Jason is included in nearly every top ten and top twenty lists of harmonica players in magazines and all over the internet.
His fascinating career and life has led him up to the highest musical mountain tops such as performing at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recording a Grammy winning record with Johnny Winter, winning three Blues Music Awards and numerous nominations from The Blues Foundation only to fall all the way down to the lowest valley of addiction, homelessness, jails and back up again. Today his sincere recordings, shows, songs and incendiary harmonica playing continue to tell the story of life and garner new fans to add to an emotionally devoted following of dedicated music lovers.
jasonriccimusic.com – Legendary harmonica rocker, Jason Ricci.
Conversations With Creatives is produced for the Shelby County Arts Council by Video Visions Media Marketing and Your Podcast Now
www.shelbycountyartscouncil.com
Video Visions Media Marketing
Your Podcast Now
Click here for TICKETS September 13, 2024
Multiple award winning jazz, funk and blues harmonica player, singer, songwriter Jason Ricci has played with, toured and recorded with some of the world’s most esteemed blues, jazz, rock and New Orleans musical legends. Jason is included in nearly every top ten and top twenty lists of harmonica players in magazines and all over the internet.
His fascinating career and life has led him up to the highest musical mountain tops such as performing at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recording a Grammy winning record with Johnny Winter, winning three Blues Music Awards and numerous nominations from The Blues Foundation only to fall all the way down to the lowest valley of addiction, homelessness, jails and back up again. Today his sincere recordings, shows, songs and incendiary harmonica playing continue to tell the story of life and garner new fans to add to an emotionally devoted following of dedicated music lovers.
jasonriccimusic.com – Legendary harmonica rocker, Jason Ricci.
Conversations With Creatives is produced for the Shelby County Arts Council by Video Visions Media Marketing and Your Podcast Now
www.shelbycountyartscouncil.com
Video Visions Media Marketing
Your Podcast Now
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Imagine, Create Inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All my wife has to do is something stupid like, hey, ay, hud,
can you do the dishes?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I could put I could put on Charlie Parker. I
it'd have a fabulous time doing the dishes, you know,
listening to bird. Or it'd sit there and go into
my own head and just and just be, you know,
miserable hours my day.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Off, I work so damn hard.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I got seven hundred videos on YouTube and thirty five
thousand subscribers.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And I work my ass off till three in the morning.
How dare you ask me to do the damp dishes?
What are you gonna do next? Ask we take the
trash out? Yo? Maybe I should just go smoke crack again.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You were listening to Imagine Create Inspire the podcast. Join
hosts Bruce Andrews in conversations with creators. Every artist has
a story and the struggle is real to stay inspired
and in the flow. Join in the conversation by leaving
us your comments and thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I can't wait to have you down to Song Theater again.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm really excited we'll have We're bringing Marsha Ball's.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Drummer this time.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Sweet, We're still yeah, we still haven't recovered from Perkins death.
Everybody feels like a sub and we're just going to
keep treating it that way until the right thing happens.
So I'm not even like I went through a period
where I was like not hiring guys that had other
(01:39):
gigs because what if I you know, I can't hire
them away from their other gigs, so why I'm wasting
my time?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But now I'm at the place now where it's like,
I'm not I'm not going to try to force things
to happen, so I'll just you know, I just get
that my life needs to be as stress free. So
if I have somebody that plays with Charlie Hunter or
Marsha Ball or.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So, I know, the gig's gonna go well.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And that's what I'm doing now, and.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know that's what I will most likely do until.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
However long it takes until God finds the right person
that's going to fit in with us, and you know,
vice versa.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah, man, you know I thought about us. I heard
something again this morning, the MLK quote. You know, the
measure of a man is not what he does during
times of comfort and convenience, but during challenge in controversy,
and you have been that dude man, you have you
can't Bruce.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I appreciate that you thought of me.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's very sympathetic, but I'm sure that just applies just
as much to you in your own life. And I
thought the way that you know how much you've done
for US musicians, especially during COVID, was pretty heavy duty too.
So right back at you, my man, and I know
where your heart is. It's very very very clear. And
(03:10):
I know how hard it is to promote something. I
can imagine how hard it is to promote something in
Colombiana and uh, and to get to get interest in
the caliber of the musicians that you brought in there,
and not only that, but the people that you've wanted
to help that might not like me, that might not
(03:30):
be the draw that you know you could get for
somebody more popular. But so I don't think that's it's
ever wasted on me, you know. So that's why I
get up in the morning and take a shower and
try to look nice because I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey man, I appreciate to you that you know that
you're you got like seven hundred and something videos on
YouTube thirty seven thousand something like that, subscriber. I mean,
that's that's a that's as grinding away and so you know,
you always show up. That's how you got that inventory
in there.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I you know that as long as I as long
as I keep putting it in God's hands, you know,
like I, Otherwise I'm going to get burned out.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I've been thinking a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't know if I put a Facebook post up
the other day about this choice.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Myer thing that she says all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She's always talking about resting while you work.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's a really great thing for me to meditate on
because I noticed that, you know, I can I can
take a busy day that I that you know, on
the surface, I don't think I like all that much,
and I can have a wonderful, wonderful time, really really
great day, and then I could, you know, adversely, I
(04:57):
can take a day where I have the day off.
It's supposed to be. For me, everything's perfect. I want
everything to be perfect. I have this idea of what
perfect is, just like I had an idea of what
not so perfect was right, and then the next thing,
you know, I can ruin it.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Just in your own head. Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All my wife has to do is something stupid like hey, ay, hun,
can you do the dishes?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Now? I can put I can put on Charlie Parker.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I it'd have a fabulous time doing the dishes, you know,
listening to bird or can sit there and go into
my own head and just and just be, you know, miserable.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Rs my day off, I work so damn hard.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I got seven hundred some videos on YouTube, thirty five
thousand subscribers, and I work my ass off till free
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How dare you ask me to do the damp dishes?
Were you? And you next asked me to take the
trash out?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Maybe I should just go smoke crack again.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Take it to the apocalyptic edge every time, right there?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It is?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, that's right, man. Remind me what's that rant you
went off phone? I mean I played it a half
a dozen times? Was it caterpillars? Oh yeah, front Port
smoking cigars and you're like ranting on some caterpillars?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
You know. Well, you notice I live in a new
house right now.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We caate and I bought a new house we're away
from the oak trees that we can still see them,
but they're not right over our house. And they're called
tussock moth caterpillars, and they have a poisonous hair on them.
And every year in New Orleans they come exactly at
(06:49):
the time when it stops being too a little uncomfortably cold.
So the minute that it warms up enough and it's
perfect weather, like San Diego style weather, it's perfect time
to smoke a cigar, these things come out and they stay.
(07:10):
They stay until just when it's too hot to enjoy it, Okay,
so they ruin a wonderful portion. So so there's all
there's only there's only a month or two of New
Orleans weather a year that you can be out there
and enjoy a cigar without these things. Okay, they come in.
(07:33):
They come in like uh oh, I would say, marsh
right around March, the end of March, and they stay
until until June, and uh, they're they're they're wretched.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
There. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them, and they.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Leave behind these horribly awful, disgusting, dirty gray cocoons before
they turn into moths. And uh, the the cocoons themselves
are poisonous, okay, and they and they stick to everything,
and and you can't pressure wash them off because it'll
take the paint off so and and and if you
(08:12):
scrape them off, you're in danger of breathing in the fumes.
Looks it's like something out of like Alien. It's like,
you know, it's just a wretched, well adapted insect.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Of the devil, you know. And and the animals won't
eat them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I think chickens are the only bird that can deal
with these things, right, we need more chickens.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know your your latest video, you know what's my motive?
I think you entitled it you talk about the big why?
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
In business circles they often quote Simon Sinek. I don't
know if you've heard of him, but anyway, he always
shows a big target. Then the middle of the target
is why.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
The ring outside of that why is how? And on
the ring outside of that is what. So you know,
it's like everybody knows. Everybody in every company knows what
they do. The good ones know how they do it,
but the great ones know why they do it. So
it's like, you know, talked about that, and it's in
your in your practicing protocol.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Man, I'm gonna need to find that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You send many a link to that, uh if you remember, yeah,
If if not, I'll we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I'd like to. I'd never heard of that fellow before.
What's his name?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
S i n e k Simon sinek Oh, maybe I had. Yeah,
he's he's kind of more uh, you know, like a
leadership and corporations and stuff like that. And I've been
sent his quotes before, and so that one kind of
resonated with me about and definitely resonated with your idea
of you know, how you might want to play scales
(09:52):
and rpgos, but you know, if you get kind of
machine like in it, you can find your soul again
in that practicing protocol.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I I think so, you know, Andrews is the one
who you know, keeps me thinking about a lot of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, I'm naturally.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Overly philosophical as it is, but like but heaving, uh,
having somebody around that that also likes to talk about
that stuff with their friends is good.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's good for me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And uh, you know, my dad was like that and
and I was very attracted to that as a young man,
and uh, I think if there's one thing I looked
up to about my father was that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But but yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But you know, when things get a little busy like
this and uh, the world, you know, you start getting
the stuff that it is that you think that you want.
You know, Uh, it could get really uh dangerous, you know, yeah,
it can get real.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It can get real.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You got to stay grounded. You got to stay grounded.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And man, it's easy to just sit here talk about
but I.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Can't do it on my own.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I really have to ask for help every morning, I
really do. Otherwise, I took a day off the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was rough.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I don't need a day off. I took a day
off from from from asking for help. Well, you know,
one day, I just forgot to get down on my
knees one morning, and the whole day was and we
got to the point where I was laughing.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It was so bad. You know, that's great advice. What
was it?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
What was that quote on your Uh? I can't recall
it right now, so I think it's on your Facebook
page or.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Your or your website.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Today is worse, so tomorrow it can be better or
something like how does that go?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, for the bad kind making today worse so
tomorrow seems better.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
That's a very intuitive or intelligent way of saying. The
way of saying that contrast is what life is all about.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, I like your interpretation. Yes, your interpretation is
more optimistic.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That ute.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
So you've been on You've been most recently with Andrews Osborne.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I've been privileged absolutely to do four or five shows
I think maybe maybe it's six tops with Andrews.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes, that's awesome. And just most most recently the the
you know some festival, right you just came from.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, that one was a particular particularly a privilege too,
because it was like a wellness retreat for the musicians
that get to go there and play. So you know,
you there's like there's labs and classes and seminars and uh.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Lots of meetings both twelve step and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ivs that hook you up to vitamins and you know
physical blind body and spirit mind body spirit type stuff
and h Anders.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh. It's called the Park City Song some in it.
Ander started it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
A lot of very wealthy people behind it, uh, which
makes it nice, you know, for for the musicians that
want to go there and take advantage of that, and
the people that are funding it are true truly do
want to help and want to do something good with
their money that they also enjoy where they get to
(13:41):
meet and interact with musicians that they normally might not.
So it's a it's a it's a good thing. And
I didn't when Anders invited me to play the gig,
I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I just thought it was a gig in Utah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And uh I found out from my friends that were like, oh,
do you know what you're going to do, because I'm
going to but not as a musician. I'm going to
you know, to take the classes, to take the lab
as a vacation, right and you know, if there's any
way you can stay longer, you should. And the next thing,
you know, I you know, I'm a bandleader, but I'm
(14:22):
also a sideman first, so I know, don't ask questions
and don't push boundaries, and you know, shut up until
things are offered to you, you know, And that's exactly
what happened. I shut up, and Andrews called me back
and said, hey, listen, you know you think you want
to stay for a couple more days.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I said, I would love to hear. I heard what
you guys do it up there, I said, it sounds fun.
Let me, I would love to stay. So I got
to see Maybus Staples.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh wow, and yeah for the really for the first time,
because I've seen her several times, but it was always
like she was playing after us and we had go
back to the hotel or or or something, and I
couldn't really concentrate, and it was it was incredible. And
I also saw a Cuban band called a Cuban funk
(15:12):
band called Semaphunk that that was very contagious.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Looked at that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
They're cool.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's some kind of New Orleans connection there. You know,
Trombone Shorty here has the Trombone Shorty kids. And what
he does is he goes to Cuba and he brings
instruments and music, and he goes over there and plays
with the Cuban musicians and their kids, and then he
(15:41):
brings the kids here to New Orleans and other places
in the United States and they performed the music. And
I think Semophunk is somehow tied in with that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well. They certainly know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The kids that the grown ups in Cemophunk who are
all young, but the way but young adults are know
the children that are in the trombone shorty thing.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So they were all there too, which was cool.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's awesome man for a fun gig.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And yeah, and anders you know, uh, we've been friends
a lot longer than I've been a fan of his music.
It's it's not that I didn't love Andrews music.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I did.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I just didn't listen to a whole lot of it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And and primarily it was it was probably because of
my friendship with him. I just I don't know, it's weird,
like you don't you don't go and like listen to
your friends stuff as much.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
As you should.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know, I think one of the things that makes
it easy for us to be friends is that we're not,
you know, fauning.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Over each other's.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Work, right, you know, especially our relationship or relationships that
kind of happened in the recovery world where you know,
you don't want motives to speaking of motives to be confused.
And I don't want to show up at a at
a meeting and and and accidentally have some subconscious networking agenda,
(17:18):
nor do I want And I've seen and this has
happened to me too. Nor do I want somebody else?
Do I want to be wondering what somebody else's agenda is?
You know, I want to I want to come over
and hang out and talk about getting sober. Also, do
you need a drummer?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know you should just go home, right.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
So I was very careful the last seven or eight
or nine years that ten years now that I've known
Anders pretty closely, to never sort of cross that boundary
to a fault and to the point to the point
where I would hear his stuff on the radio or
(18:05):
my wife would be listening.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
To it and I would go, Wow, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And I knew a couple of songs that I thought
were great and was genuinely moved by them. But when
he sent me the material for the gigs, I had
to study it. And I can tell you that there
were times during that practice, those practice sessions where I
(18:34):
had to turn off some music and cry sometimes sometimes
like almost uncontrollably, for sometimes for fifteen or twenty minutes or.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So because the lyrics were that beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So anyway, so yeah, I'm a fan now of his
music too, And and you know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I I think I I went through a small, very
small window of time where I was enamored with him,
and then and then now I feel like I have
a bigger picture of him as a friend and and
it's and it's more based in humility and and and
and and uh and both uh both the humanity, his
(19:26):
humanity as a human being.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I'm very grateful to be part of the whole experience.
I hope he hears that. Yeah, that was. I said
it a lot better to you that I did to him.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
What a great I had I needed. You know, now
you got me wanting to dig into his catalog. That was.
That's a good colary.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
A great place to start is the new record, the
brand new one that just came out. Picasso's Villa from
start to finish is just an absolute man.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it's the best I'll bottle this year.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Anyway, you said, Picasso's Villa Villa.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, tremendous, tremendous.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Cool man. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get on that. You know,
when I was trying to in the many times, did
I have an attempted to describe you as somebody who
didn't know you, you know, after saying other than saying you're
a virtual OSOL player, you know, I always say, well,
the guys like he's the most entertaining front man out
there in the in the blues world in my book,
(20:28):
I mean one of the most super entertaining front man.
So I mean I love that you have that gear.
So it fascinates me not only from a player's role,
but from a personality role that you are able to
do the sideman thing with so many things and always
liked with it. You know, Like I said, I saw
a video what you're doing with the Altered States. Is
that the name of the band, and you're you're like
(20:50):
altered altered five yeah or five yeah? And uh and
and you and you you laid back doing this traditional
little Walter kind of play in and then other times
it's all is totally different. I mean, is that what
kind of mental stretch you make? You because you come
into something with like extreme humility, I know, But other
(21:10):
than that, what's your head game there?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, I I'll be completely honest with you. Produce it's
a vacation, you know. You know in that in then
Motives video again, I talked about one of the reasons
that things get off kilter so easily, is you know,
it starts with good intentions. You know, I want to
make I want to make music so I can make
money so I can have more time to make music.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Okay, but it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
The money part is is pretty well encompassing. Often So anyway,
when I'm a sideman, I really don't have to think
about that at all because uh, somebody else's uh somebody else.
They give me a price and I know that's the
amount of money that I'm going to get.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Where As when I when I look.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
At a tour form my band, I'm and you know this,
as a club owner, it's the same thing, you know,
or a promoter, it's the same thing, right, Like all
of your employees have agreed on a price and they're
going to get that whether you make money or not,
you know what I mean, because that because that's your work, right,
and that's how you're going to keep it going, is
number one?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You got to keep your work or.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Or word will get out, right, yeah, right, So so
you know I don't have to I don't have to
worry about that. So that's huge, so that I can
kind of concentrate, not just on music, but really on me.
I can sit there and go, well, how do I
want to act today? Instead of reacting? Right, I can
I can sit there and think, well, you know today,
(22:44):
you know so and so is going through a lot.
Might be a good idea to kind of talk to
him in the back of the vanner or you know,
I've been talking a little too much. Maybe I should
put my headphones on and get into some coal trane.
You know I've been meaning to do that, you know
what I mean, or whatever it is. So I, you know,
I have a lot more time to just can't or
to to work on my own wellness and my own
(23:06):
and I get my own hotel room that I'm not
sharing with my wife when I'm out on these sidemn gigs.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Because she's not usually coming along.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So I get this space, this quiet space where I
get to listen to whatever crazy stuff I want to
listen to, you know, and crazy stuff for.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Me is stuff like you know, like Joyce Buyer.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Or Lee Mac the cigar reviewer, right, who's like always
talking about positivity and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right, you know, my wife did want to hear any
of that. He's still a little she's still a little punk.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Rock you know, yeah, yeah, I love I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I love it. It's natural.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't have to worry about anything. I started as
a side man. I became a front man out of necessity.
I appreciate what you said about me being an entertaining
front man. If there's any truth that, it's only because
I treat every single evening differently. I never I don't
have a show that I'm trying to give, so, so
(24:10):
whatever happens that night, if it's gonna be good, it's
gonna be because it's real and and and and and
that means that some night shows, certain shows, are not
gonna be as entertaining as.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Others because because I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Not as entertaining that evening as I as as as
I should be, and I'm not gonna fake it. I'm
not one of these people that has dance moves that's
gonna bend over backwards on stage or do cart wills,
regardless of what it is. I don't like intros to
the show where hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage,
mister Jason.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I want to be in the pit with my guys
like a like a platoon, and I.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Want to go out there. I want to read the room.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
If the room is not reacting to a certain kind
of music or is getting too loud on the quiet parts,
well then we need to change that. I might try
for a little while to suck him in, and if
I can't, it's time to switch game plans. But I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna ruin an evening with expectations
and uh, and that's it.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I wonder if the antithesis of being a side man
and being able to sort of relax, like you said,
might be that. What was that deal you do with Disney? Yeah,
that was like a meticulous mission, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Trianna's by You Adventure for for PJ. Morton was writing
and composing the music for Disney. Joe Crown got me
the gig and it was an eight hour session.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
For probably like thirty seconds of harmonica.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Yeah, maybe that's the flip side of being able to relax,
you know that kind of a Well, dude, I appreciate
you taking some time. I mean, I'm so forward looking
to you coming down. It's it's gonna be it's gonna
be a fun time. We're gonna try to rattle some
cages and get some folks there to see you that
should be able to see you, should come out.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Man, it's one of the prettiest rooms that we play. Uh.
I would put it up there with any place. Uh.
There's a club up north called Jimmy's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And I you know, I tell the guys like, hey, listen,
you know this is a real this is a real.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Room, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And uh, I will most likely schedule a rehearsal before
this gig.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And that really means some day.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I'll be honored. I feel convict.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Because we never I'm not making any promises, but I've
been thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
You're convicted. Yeah, I feel honored. Man. Well, you know,
is there anything that you would you would say to
the folks. I mean that in a way of what
they might see when they come down. It's unusual. I
think you sort of covered it. You said you do
have a show different, but uh, you're gonna play any
(27:05):
new tunes, anything, anything you can pull out your pocket.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So they can expect a very sincere uh evening. That's
that's that will be incredibly intimate. They can expect incredible sound,
they can expect comfortable seats in a beautiful, clean environment. Uh,
(27:28):
with a band that is well taken care of, that
has no excuses.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Other other than our own bs.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
That's a great bitch. That's awesome man. Yeah, thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Thanks for listening to Imagine, Create, Inspire the podcast. For
more information on the Shelby County Arts Council, please visit
www dot Shelby County Arts Council dot com and
On this episode of Imagine, Create Inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All my wife has to do is something stupid like, hey, ay, hud,
can you do the dishes?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I could put I could put on Charlie Parker. I
it'd have a fabulous time doing the dishes, you know,
listening to bird. Or it'd sit there and go into
my own head and just and just be, you know,
miserable hours my day.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Off, I work so damn hard.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I got seven hundred videos on YouTube and thirty five
thousand subscribers.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And I work my ass off till three in the morning.
How dare you ask me to do the damp dishes?
What are you gonna do next? Ask we take the
trash out? Yo? Maybe I should just go smoke crack again.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You were listening to Imagine Create Inspire the podcast. Join
hosts Bruce Andrews in conversations with creators. Every artist has
a story and the struggle is real to stay inspired
and in the flow. Join in the conversation by leaving
us your comments and thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I can't wait to have you down to Song Theater again.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm really excited we'll have We're bringing Marsha Ball's.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Drummer this time.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Sweet, We're still yeah, we still haven't recovered from Perkins death.
Everybody feels like a sub and we're just going to
keep treating it that way until the right thing happens.
So I'm not even like I went through a period
where I was like not hiring guys that had other
(01:39):
gigs because what if I you know, I can't hire
them away from their other gigs, so why I'm wasting
my time?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But now I'm at the place now where it's like,
I'm not I'm not going to try to force things
to happen, so I'll just you know, I just get
that my life needs to be as stress free. So
if I have somebody that plays with Charlie Hunter or
Marsha Ball or.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So, I know, the gig's gonna go well.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And that's what I'm doing now, and.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know that's what I will most likely do until.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
However long it takes until God finds the right person
that's going to fit in with us, and you know,
vice versa.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah, man, you know I thought about us. I heard
something again this morning, the MLK quote. You know, the
measure of a man is not what he does during
times of comfort and convenience, but during challenge in controversy,
and you have been that dude man, you have you
can't Bruce.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I appreciate that you thought of me.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's very sympathetic, but I'm sure that just applies just
as much to you in your own life. And I
thought the way that you know how much you've done
for US musicians, especially during COVID, was pretty heavy duty too.
So right back at you, my man, and I know
where your heart is. It's very very very clear. And
(03:10):
I know how hard it is to promote something. I
can imagine how hard it is to promote something in
Colombiana and uh, and to get to get interest in
the caliber of the musicians that you brought in there,
and not only that, but the people that you've wanted
to help that might not like me, that might not
(03:30):
be the draw that you know you could get for
somebody more popular. But so I don't think that's it's
ever wasted on me, you know. So that's why I
get up in the morning and take a shower and
try to look nice because I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey man, I appreciate to you that you know that
you're you got like seven hundred and something videos on
YouTube thirty seven thousand something like that, subscriber. I mean,
that's that's a that's as grinding away and so you know,
you always show up. That's how you got that inventory
in there.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I you know that as long as I as long
as I keep putting it in God's hands, you know,
like I, Otherwise I'm going to get burned out.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I've been thinking a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't know if I put a Facebook post up
the other day about this choice.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Myer thing that she says all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She's always talking about resting while you work.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's a really great thing for me to meditate on
because I noticed that, you know, I can I can
take a busy day that I that you know, on
the surface, I don't think I like all that much,
and I can have a wonderful, wonderful time, really really
great day, and then I could, you know, adversely, I
(04:57):
can take a day where I have the day off.
It's supposed to be. For me, everything's perfect. I want
everything to be perfect. I have this idea of what
perfect is, just like I had an idea of what
not so perfect was right, and then the next thing,
you know, I can ruin it.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Just in your own head. Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All my wife has to do is something stupid like hey, ay, hun,
can you do the dishes?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Now? I can put I can put on Charlie Parker.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I it'd have a fabulous time doing the dishes, you know,
listening to bird or can sit there and go into
my own head and just and just be, you know, miserable.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Rs my day off, I work so damn hard.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I got seven hundred some videos on YouTube, thirty five
thousand subscribers, and I work my ass off till free
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How dare you ask me to do the damp dishes?
Were you? And you next asked me to take the
trash out?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Maybe I should just go smoke crack again.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Take it to the apocalyptic edge every time, right there?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It is?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, that's right, man. Remind me what's that rant you
went off phone? I mean I played it a half
a dozen times? Was it caterpillars? Oh yeah, front Port
smoking cigars and you're like ranting on some caterpillars?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
You know. Well, you notice I live in a new
house right now.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We caate and I bought a new house we're away
from the oak trees that we can still see them,
but they're not right over our house. And they're called
tussock moth caterpillars, and they have a poisonous hair on them.
And every year in New Orleans they come exactly at
(06:49):
the time when it stops being too a little uncomfortably cold.
So the minute that it warms up enough and it's
perfect weather, like San Diego style weather, it's perfect time
to smoke a cigar, these things come out and they stay.
(07:10):
They stay until just when it's too hot to enjoy it, Okay,
so they ruin a wonderful portion. So so there's all
there's only there's only a month or two of New
Orleans weather a year that you can be out there
and enjoy a cigar without these things. Okay, they come in.
(07:33):
They come in like uh oh, I would say, marsh
right around March, the end of March, and they stay
until until June, and uh, they're they're they're wretched.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
There. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them, and they.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Leave behind these horribly awful, disgusting, dirty gray cocoons before
they turn into moths. And uh, the the cocoons themselves
are poisonous, okay, and they and they stick to everything,
and and you can't pressure wash them off because it'll
take the paint off so and and and if you
(08:12):
scrape them off, you're in danger of breathing in the fumes.
Looks it's like something out of like Alien. It's like,
you know, it's just a wretched, well adapted insect.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Of the devil, you know. And and the animals won't
eat them.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I think chickens are the only bird that can deal
with these things, right, we need more chickens.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know your your latest video, you know what's my motive?
I think you entitled it you talk about the big why?
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
In business circles they often quote Simon Sinek. I don't
know if you've heard of him, but anyway, he always
shows a big target. Then the middle of the target
is why.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
The ring outside of that why is how? And on
the ring outside of that is what. So you know,
it's like everybody knows. Everybody in every company knows what
they do. The good ones know how they do it,
but the great ones know why they do it. So
it's like, you know, talked about that, and it's in
your in your practicing protocol.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Man, I'm gonna need to find that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You send many a link to that, uh if you remember, yeah,
If if not, I'll we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I'd like to. I'd never heard of that fellow before.
What's his name?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
S i n e k Simon sinek Oh, maybe I had. Yeah,
he's he's kind of more uh, you know, like a
leadership and corporations and stuff like that. And I've been
sent his quotes before, and so that one kind of
resonated with me about and definitely resonated with your idea
of you know, how you might want to play scales
(09:52):
and rpgos, but you know, if you get kind of
machine like in it, you can find your soul again
in that practicing protocol.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I I think so, you know, Andrews is the one
who you know, keeps me thinking about a lot of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, I'm naturally.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Overly philosophical as it is, but like but heaving, uh,
having somebody around that that also likes to talk about
that stuff with their friends is good.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's good for me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And uh, you know, my dad was like that and
and I was very attracted to that as a young man,
and uh, I think if there's one thing I looked
up to about my father was that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But but yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But you know, when things get a little busy like
this and uh, the world, you know, you start getting
the stuff that it is that you think that you want.
You know, Uh, it could get really uh dangerous, you know, yeah,
it can get real.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It can get real.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You got to stay grounded. You got to stay grounded.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And man, it's easy to just sit here talk about
but I.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Can't do it on my own.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I really have to ask for help every morning, I
really do. Otherwise, I took a day off the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was rough.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I don't need a day off. I took a day
off from from from asking for help. Well, you know,
one day, I just forgot to get down on my
knees one morning, and the whole day was and we
got to the point where I was laughing.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It was so bad. You know, that's great advice. What
was it?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
What was that quote on your Uh? I can't recall
it right now, so I think it's on your Facebook
page or.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Your or your website.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Today is worse, so tomorrow it can be better or
something like how does that go?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, for the bad kind making today worse so
tomorrow seems better.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
That's a very intuitive or intelligent way of saying. The
way of saying that contrast is what life is all about.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, I like your interpretation. Yes, your interpretation is
more optimistic.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That ute.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
So you've been on You've been most recently with Andrews Osborne.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I've been privileged absolutely to do four or five shows
I think maybe maybe it's six tops with Andrews.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes, that's awesome. And just most most recently the the
you know some festival, right you just came from.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, that one was a particular particularly a privilege too,
because it was like a wellness retreat for the musicians
that get to go there and play. So you know,
you there's like there's labs and classes and seminars and uh.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Lots of meetings both twelve step and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ivs that hook you up to vitamins and you know
physical blind body and spirit mind body spirit type stuff
and h Anders.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh. It's called the Park City Song some in it.
Ander started it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
A lot of very wealthy people behind it, uh, which
makes it nice, you know, for for the musicians that
want to go there and take advantage of that, and
the people that are funding it are true truly do
want to help and want to do something good with
their money that they also enjoy where they get to
(13:41):
meet and interact with musicians that they normally might not.
So it's a it's a it's a good thing. And
I didn't when Anders invited me to play the gig,
I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I just thought it was a gig in Utah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And uh I found out from my friends that were like, oh,
do you know what you're going to do, because I'm
going to but not as a musician. I'm going to
you know, to take the classes, to take the lab
as a vacation, right and you know, if there's any
way you can stay longer, you should. And the next thing,
you know, I you know, I'm a bandleader, but I'm
(14:22):
also a sideman first, so I know, don't ask questions
and don't push boundaries, and you know, shut up until
things are offered to you, you know, And that's exactly
what happened. I shut up, and Andrews called me back
and said, hey, listen, you know you think you want
to stay for a couple more days.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I said, I would love to hear. I heard what
you guys do it up there, I said, it sounds fun.
Let me, I would love to stay. So I got
to see Maybus Staples.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh wow, and yeah for the really for the first time,
because I've seen her several times, but it was always
like she was playing after us and we had go
back to the hotel or or or something, and I
couldn't really concentrate, and it was it was incredible. And
I also saw a Cuban band called a Cuban funk
(15:12):
band called Semaphunk that that was very contagious.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Looked at that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
They're cool.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's some kind of New Orleans connection there. You know,
Trombone Shorty here has the Trombone Shorty kids. And what
he does is he goes to Cuba and he brings
instruments and music, and he goes over there and plays
with the Cuban musicians and their kids, and then he
(15:41):
brings the kids here to New Orleans and other places
in the United States and they performed the music. And
I think Semophunk is somehow tied in with that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well. They certainly know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The kids that the grown ups in Cemophunk who are
all young, but the way but young adults are know
the children that are in the trombone shorty thing.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So they were all there too, which was cool.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's awesome man for a fun gig.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And yeah, and anders you know, uh, we've been friends
a lot longer than I've been a fan of his music.
It's it's not that I didn't love Andrews music.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I did.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I just didn't listen to a whole lot of it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And and primarily it was it was probably because of
my friendship with him. I just I don't know, it's weird,
like you don't you don't go and like listen to
your friends stuff as much.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
As you should.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know, I think one of the things that makes
it easy for us to be friends is that we're not,
you know, fauning.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Over each other's.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Work, right, you know, especially our relationship or relationships that
kind of happened in the recovery world where you know,
you don't want motives to speaking of motives to be confused.
And I don't want to show up at a at
a meeting and and and accidentally have some subconscious networking agenda,
(17:18):
nor do I want And I've seen and this has
happened to me too. Nor do I want somebody else?
Do I want to be wondering what somebody else's agenda is?
You know, I want to I want to come over
and hang out and talk about getting sober. Also, do
you need a drummer?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know you should just go home, right.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
So I was very careful the last seven or eight
or nine years that ten years now that I've known
Anders pretty closely, to never sort of cross that boundary
to a fault and to the point to the point
where I would hear his stuff on the radio or
(18:05):
my wife would be listening.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
To it and I would go, Wow, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And I knew a couple of songs that I thought
were great and was genuinely moved by them. But when
he sent me the material for the gigs, I had
to study it. And I can tell you that there
were times during that practice, those practice sessions where I
(18:34):
had to turn off some music and cry sometimes sometimes
like almost uncontrollably, for sometimes for fifteen or twenty minutes or.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So because the lyrics were that beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So anyway, so yeah, I'm a fan now of his
music too, And and you know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I I think I I went through a small, very
small window of time where I was enamored with him,
and then and then now I feel like I have
a bigger picture of him as a friend and and
it's and it's more based in humility and and and
and and uh and both uh both the humanity, his
(19:26):
humanity as a human being.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I'm very grateful to be part of the whole experience.
I hope he hears that. Yeah, that was. I said
it a lot better to you that I did to him.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
What a great I had I needed. You know, now
you got me wanting to dig into his catalog. That was.
That's a good colary.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
A great place to start is the new record, the
brand new one that just came out. Picasso's Villa from
start to finish is just an absolute man.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it's the best I'll bottle this year.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Anyway, you said, Picasso's Villa Villa.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, tremendous, tremendous.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Cool man. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get on that. You know,
when I was trying to in the many times, did
I have an attempted to describe you as somebody who
didn't know you, you know, after saying other than saying you're
a virtual OSOL player, you know, I always say, well,
the guys like he's the most entertaining front man out
there in the in the blues world in my book,
(20:28):
I mean one of the most super entertaining front man.
So I mean I love that you have that gear.
So it fascinates me not only from a player's role,
but from a personality role that you are able to
do the sideman thing with so many things and always
liked with it. You know, Like I said, I saw
a video what you're doing with the Altered States. Is
that the name of the band, and you're you're like
(20:50):
altered altered five yeah or five yeah? And uh and
and you and you you laid back doing this traditional
little Walter kind of play in and then other times
it's all is totally different. I mean, is that what
kind of mental stretch you make? You because you come
into something with like extreme humility, I know, But other
(21:10):
than that, what's your head game there?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, I I'll be completely honest with you. Produce it's
a vacation, you know. You know in that in then
Motives video again, I talked about one of the reasons
that things get off kilter so easily, is you know,
it starts with good intentions. You know, I want to
make I want to make music so I can make
money so I can have more time to make music.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Okay, but it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
The money part is is pretty well encompassing. Often So anyway,
when I'm a sideman, I really don't have to think
about that at all because uh, somebody else's uh somebody else.
They give me a price and I know that's the
amount of money that I'm going to get.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Where As when I when I look.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
At a tour form my band, I'm and you know this,
as a club owner, it's the same thing, you know,
or a promoter, it's the same thing, right, Like all
of your employees have agreed on a price and they're
going to get that whether you make money or not,
you know what I mean, because that because that's your work, right,
and that's how you're going to keep it going, is
number one?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You got to keep your work or.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Or word will get out, right, yeah, right, So so
you know I don't have to I don't have to
worry about that. So that's huge, so that I can
kind of concentrate, not just on music, but really on me.
I can sit there and go, well, how do I
want to act today? Instead of reacting? Right, I can
I can sit there and think, well, you know today,
(22:44):
you know so and so is going through a lot.
Might be a good idea to kind of talk to
him in the back of the vanner or you know,
I've been talking a little too much. Maybe I should
put my headphones on and get into some coal trane.
You know I've been meaning to do that, you know
what I mean, or whatever it is. So I, you know,
I have a lot more time to just can't or
to to work on my own wellness and my own
(23:06):
and I get my own hotel room that I'm not
sharing with my wife when I'm out on these sidemn gigs.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Because she's not usually coming along.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So I get this space, this quiet space where I
get to listen to whatever crazy stuff I want to
listen to, you know, and crazy stuff for.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Me is stuff like you know, like Joyce Buyer.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Or Lee Mac the cigar reviewer, right, who's like always
talking about positivity and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right, you know, my wife did want to hear any
of that. He's still a little she's still a little punk.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Rock you know, yeah, yeah, I love I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I love it. It's natural.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't have to worry about anything. I started as
a side man. I became a front man out of necessity.
I appreciate what you said about me being an entertaining
front man. If there's any truth that, it's only because
I treat every single evening differently. I never I don't
have a show that I'm trying to give, so, so
(24:10):
whatever happens that night, if it's gonna be good, it's
gonna be because it's real and and and and and
that means that some night shows, certain shows, are not
gonna be as entertaining as.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Others because because I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Not as entertaining that evening as I as as as
I should be, and I'm not gonna fake it. I'm
not one of these people that has dance moves that's
gonna bend over backwards on stage or do cart wills,
regardless of what it is. I don't like intros to
the show where hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage,
mister Jason.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I want to be in the pit with my guys
like a like a platoon, and I.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Want to go out there. I want to read the room.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
If the room is not reacting to a certain kind
of music or is getting too loud on the quiet parts,
well then we need to change that. I might try
for a little while to suck him in, and if
I can't, it's time to switch game plans. But I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna ruin an evening with expectations
and uh, and that's it.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I wonder if the antithesis of being a side man
and being able to sort of relax, like you said,
might be that. What was that deal you do with Disney? Yeah,
that was like a meticulous mission, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Trianna's by You Adventure for for PJ. Morton was writing
and composing the music for Disney. Joe Crown got me
the gig and it was an eight hour session.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
For probably like thirty seconds of harmonica.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Yeah, maybe that's the flip side of being able to relax,
you know that kind of a Well, dude, I appreciate
you taking some time. I mean, I'm so forward looking
to you coming down. It's it's gonna be it's gonna
be a fun time. We're gonna try to rattle some
cages and get some folks there to see you that
should be able to see you, should come out.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Man, it's one of the prettiest rooms that we play. Uh.
I would put it up there with any place. Uh.
There's a club up north called Jimmy's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And I you know, I tell the guys like, hey, listen,
you know this is a real this is a real.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Room, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And uh, I will most likely schedule a rehearsal before
this gig.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And that really means some day.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I'll be honored. I feel convict.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Because we never I'm not making any promises, but I've
been thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
You're convicted. Yeah, I feel honored. Man. Well, you know,
is there anything that you would you would say to
the folks. I mean that in a way of what
they might see when they come down. It's unusual. I
think you sort of covered it. You said you do
have a show different, but uh, you're gonna play any
(27:05):
new tunes, anything, anything you can pull out your pocket.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So they can expect a very sincere uh evening. That's
that's that will be incredibly intimate. They can expect incredible sound,
they can expect comfortable seats in a beautiful, clean environment. Uh,
(27:28):
with a band that is well taken care of, that
has no excuses.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Other other than our own bs.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
That's a great bitch. That's awesome man. Yeah, thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Thanks for listening to Imagine, Create, Inspire the podcast. For
more information on the Shelby County Arts Council, please visit
www dot Shelby County Arts Council dot com and
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.