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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Marian's Quinny Cantara picks one on six A jents I
got awesome, Edwin McCain, Edwin.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're on with Quinn and Kenpira.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Edwin going on, Hey man, congratulations with your new album Lucky.
We've been listening to it here in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well done, man, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You. Uh you spent a long time between this album
and your last one. What have you been up to,
Edwin McCain.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I've been raising teenagers?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh nice?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How's that going?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Three kids? Well, you know it's funny. I when I
adopted my first son. I have this older friend of
mine who's in his seventies, and he kind of pulled
me aside and said, listen, you know, while your kids
are little, don't worry about that golf course. You know
you spend time. And I started thinking about it. I
was like, you know what, man, I think I'm in
(00:53):
a substitute golf course with uh the road and uh,
you know, I'm just made the decision to be home
and be a dad and focus on that. Now they're
now they're rotten teenagers and I'm I'm gonna hit the roads.
(01:13):
Let their mother deal with it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, you were touring this summer with Train, which is
a perfect bill for you. Do your kids understand the
magnitude the weight you carry from the mid nineties and beyond.
Come on, do they get it now?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They're they're they're horrified by my existence, which I think
is the natural state for teenagers. My daughter is so
repulse by the idea that I was ever Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You sexy brother.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You just can't believe it, and it makes me laugh
so hard. I can't it's my.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Favorite say can.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think my oldest son kind of gets it because
he loves the music, but my middle son, like, I
just went and visited him at college. He's in New
Hampshire and the gig was like thirty minutes away from
where his college is, and so we spent the day together.
And you know, I was heading over to soundcheck and
I was like, hey, buddy, you want to come to
(02:20):
the show tonight and goes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Nope, that's hurts tough.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I could see.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean, we were right there in that wheelhouse when
you blew up in the nineties and we're just talking
off air here, like who have you? Who did you
cross paths with when you were a musician? Pretty much
everyone everyone in those days, right, oh god, gotta be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. So so the record, the label I was on
was called Lava Atlantic and the guy that ran it
was Gunn Jason's Bomb and he was sort of the
black sheep over Atlantic and they had stuck him over
in a different building with his own label and he
signed Jill so Bial me Good Ray head Rock and
(03:05):
and that's how it started. Like it started out with
with these little you know, this outcast label with these
outcast musicians and and so it started like that, and
I was on tour with the Almond Brothers, and you know,
it was that was unbelievable. It was like a dream
(03:26):
come true. I mean I went from playing Pello Acoustics
behind the Holiday Inn in Hiltonhead Island, South Carolina to
being on tour with the Almond Brothers in the course
of about three years. So it was pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm hoping that maybe a I'll be able to somehow
count the number of weddings that I'll be was the
wedding song for you have any idea or guesses?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have no idea, but you know, it occurred to
me the other day that I lose half of my
audience every year to divorce.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, they hate the song because of the marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh no, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I have these awkward moments where some woman will come
up to me and go, yeah, that was me and
my ex husband's song, and I always go I never
know how to respond to that. I always go, You're welcome. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They're not allowed to take the music in the relationship.
They can't take that from you. I know, Hey, one
more question about this. You did say in the song
You'll be the greatest man of your life to somebody.
I remember that. Did you follow through on that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Greatest fan? I used to say to this girl all dating.
I was like, I always think she was going to
break up with me, and whatever happens, don't worry. I'll
always be your greatest fan.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I see, okay, okay? And were you better when it's over?
Were they better when it's over?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Stop it?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What? I could make an argument that I'm better, but
I joke around a lot and say, you know, I'm
fifty five now, and fifty five year old me would
not be friends with twenty five year old me at all.
Same here, brother, Why why EdWay?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What was Edward twenty five year old when McCain wasn't
a dink though you were a nice kid.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it was okay, but I was kind of all
over the place. I was living in a fairly colorful
lifestyle back then that i've since reform.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I gotta say this, your voice in those years has
not changed your your new album Lucky, I mean, your
voice is as solid as it's always been. I'm a
huge fan of another artist named Jeffrey Gaines. Didn't people
think Jeffrey's cover of in Your Eyes was you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You get confused sometimes?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know? What happened is that was Naster. So somebody
posted a live version of him playing in Your Eyes Naster,
but they mislabeled it as me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And it's crazy because I actually got hired to play
a gig for Dale Earnhardt Jr. And he requested that
I play in Your Eyes and I was like, oh,
he got the Napster verst and so I very quickly
had to I had to learn to play the song
because so many people misunderstood who it was. But here's
(06:29):
here's the thing. Jeffrey, Jeffrey and our friends like He's
we toured together, we play shows together. But I wouldn't
tellt him as an influence on me, like he he
he's he's so fantastic. I don't you know, I don't.
If you're listening and you've never heard Jeffrey Gaines, just
go listen to all his music. It's incredible, it is.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I got to say, in the in the mid nineties,
you guys were neck and neck with quality songs. So
you know, I put you both right up there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Edwin and we were touring together then because like I
literally was like, well, we should play shows together because obviously,
you know, if you're a fan of somebody, why wouldn't
you want to have him on every show you play.
Same with the guy named Neil Laura. I used to
bring him out on tour and Patty Griffin, like we
would bring people out on tour. Like as soon as
(07:19):
I found the way that I loved, I was like, well,
what's good bring them on tour because you know it
makes it better.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You're awesome, awesome music memories with you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Then how's it going with train?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We're gonna we start that in August. Okay, I you know,
I used to sit in with them all the time,
and I haven't I'm looking forward to reconnecting with Pat
fun Of. You know, this is actually I don't know
if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I offered the opportunity to go to the Playboy Mansion
or sit in with Train in Atlanta, and I chose
(07:53):
to sit in with Train, And I don't I can't.
I haven't ever decided whether that was that was the
best decision, but I think my wife would say it
probably was.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think you made the right choice.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Year old version.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I'm gonna look for you because I know you're doing
some solo dates. We'll look for you touring with Train,
and we'll encourage our picks listeners to go grab Edwin
McCain's new album Lucky. We had awesome time talking you.
Thanks Edwin, Thank you,
Marian's Quinny Cantara picks one on six A jents I
got awesome, Edwin McCain, Edwin.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're on with Quinn and Kenpira.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Edwin going on, Hey man, congratulations with your new album Lucky.
We've been listening to it here in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well done, man, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You. Uh you spent a long time between this album
and your last one. What have you been up to,
Edwin McCain.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I've been raising teenagers?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh nice?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How's that going?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Three kids? Well, you know it's funny. I when I
adopted my first son. I have this older friend of
mine who's in his seventies, and he kind of pulled
me aside and said, listen, you know, while your kids
are little, don't worry about that golf course. You know
you spend time. And I started thinking about it. I
was like, you know what, man, I think I'm in
(00:53):
a substitute golf course with uh the road and uh,
you know, I'm just made the decision to be home
and be a dad and focus on that. Now they're
now they're rotten teenagers and I'm I'm gonna hit the roads.
(01:13):
Let their mother deal with it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, you were touring this summer with Train, which is
a perfect bill for you. Do your kids understand the
magnitude the weight you carry from the mid nineties and beyond.
Come on, do they get it now?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They're they're they're horrified by my existence, which I think
is the natural state for teenagers. My daughter is so
repulse by the idea that I was ever Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You sexy brother.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You just can't believe it, and it makes me laugh
so hard. I can't it's my.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Favorite say can.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think my oldest son kind of gets it because
he loves the music, but my middle son, like, I
just went and visited him at college. He's in New
Hampshire and the gig was like thirty minutes away from
where his college is, and so we spent the day together.
And you know, I was heading over to soundcheck and
I was like, hey, buddy, you want to come to
(02:20):
the show tonight and goes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Nope, that's hurts tough.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I could see.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean, we were right there in that wheelhouse when
you blew up in the nineties and we're just talking
off air here, like who have you? Who did you
cross paths with when you were a musician? Pretty much
everyone everyone in those days, right, oh god, gotta be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. So so the record, the label I was on
was called Lava Atlantic and the guy that ran it
was Gunn Jason's Bomb and he was sort of the
black sheep over Atlantic and they had stuck him over
in a different building with his own label and he
signed Jill so Bial me Good Ray head Rock and
(03:05):
and that's how it started. Like it started out with
with these little you know, this outcast label with these
outcast musicians and and so it started like that, and
I was on tour with the Almond Brothers, and you know,
it was that was unbelievable. It was like a dream
(03:26):
come true. I mean I went from playing Pello Acoustics
behind the Holiday Inn in Hiltonhead Island, South Carolina to
being on tour with the Almond Brothers in the course
of about three years. So it was pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm hoping that maybe a I'll be able to somehow
count the number of weddings that I'll be was the
wedding song for you have any idea or guesses?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have no idea, but you know, it occurred to
me the other day that I lose half of my
audience every year to divorce.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, they hate the song because of the marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh no, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I have these awkward moments where some woman will come
up to me and go, yeah, that was me and
my ex husband's song, and I always go I never
know how to respond to that. I always go, You're welcome. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They're not allowed to take the music in the relationship.
They can't take that from you. I know, Hey, one
more question about this. You did say in the song
You'll be the greatest man of your life to somebody.
I remember that. Did you follow through on that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Greatest fan? I used to say to this girl all dating.
I was like, I always think she was going to
break up with me, and whatever happens, don't worry. I'll
always be your greatest fan.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I see, okay, okay? And were you better when it's over?
Were they better when it's over?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Stop it?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What? I could make an argument that I'm better, but
I joke around a lot and say, you know, I'm
fifty five now, and fifty five year old me would
not be friends with twenty five year old me at all.
Same here, brother, Why why EdWay?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What was Edward twenty five year old when McCain wasn't
a dink though you were a nice kid.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it was okay, but I was kind of all
over the place. I was living in a fairly colorful
lifestyle back then that i've since reform.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I gotta say this, your voice in those years has
not changed your your new album Lucky, I mean, your
voice is as solid as it's always been. I'm a
huge fan of another artist named Jeffrey Gaines. Didn't people
think Jeffrey's cover of in Your Eyes was you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You get confused sometimes?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know? What happened is that was Naster. So somebody
posted a live version of him playing in Your Eyes Naster,
but they mislabeled it as me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And it's crazy because I actually got hired to play
a gig for Dale Earnhardt Jr. And he requested that
I play in Your Eyes and I was like, oh,
he got the Napster verst and so I very quickly
had to I had to learn to play the song
because so many people misunderstood who it was. But here's
(06:29):
here's the thing. Jeffrey, Jeffrey and our friends like He's
we toured together, we play shows together. But I wouldn't
tellt him as an influence on me, like he he
he's he's so fantastic. I don't you know, I don't.
If you're listening and you've never heard Jeffrey Gaines, just
go listen to all his music. It's incredible, it is.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I got to say, in the in the mid nineties,
you guys were neck and neck with quality songs. So
you know, I put you both right up there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Edwin and we were touring together then because like I
literally was like, well, we should play shows together because obviously,
you know, if you're a fan of somebody, why wouldn't
you want to have him on every show you play.
Same with the guy named Neil Laura. I used to
bring him out on tour and Patty Griffin, like we
would bring people out on tour. Like as soon as
(07:19):
I found the way that I loved, I was like, well,
what's good bring them on tour because you know it
makes it better.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You're awesome, awesome music memories with you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Then how's it going with train?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We're gonna we start that in August. Okay, I you know,
I used to sit in with them all the time,
and I haven't I'm looking forward to reconnecting with Pat
fun Of. You know, this is actually I don't know
if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I offered the opportunity to go to the Playboy Mansion
or sit in with Train in Atlanta, and I chose
(07:53):
to sit in with Train, And I don't I can't.
I haven't ever decided whether that was that was the
best decision, but I think my wife would say it
probably was.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think you made the right choice.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Year old version.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I'm gonna look for you because I know you're doing
some solo dates. We'll look for you touring with Train,
and we'll encourage our picks listeners to go grab Edwin
McCain's new album Lucky. We had awesome time talking you.
Thanks Edwin, Thank you,
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