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And you are listening to backstage pass. I am Austin James. Thank you
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listening. I am Austin James,and we have as our guest a local
artist who is making a lot ofa lot of waves here. She has
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only been, I guess in thepublic scene for a few years, two
or three years. Elinorance, justone this one, just one year.
That's it, yes, sir,wow. And you have really been winning
over audiences because I've seen you inconcert, I've introduced you on stage,
and every time I introduce you andmentioned your name, there's a plethora of
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people just screaming for you. That'samazing. That's probably my big family.
When you get up there, Imean you, I mean you way old
girl, I mean you're you're you'reyou're doing a great job. Yeah,
I just I don't know, it'sjust been on the stage. It just
it's my passion. I like totell people that Jesus is my purpose and
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music is my passion. Yeah,I can't do that without him. So
when's the first time you were onstage? Can you remember? Oh,
I've been doing I've been doing littleplays and stuff at church and you know,
for school plays and stuff like that, so ever since I was little.
But the first time I was everlike, oh, I can sing,
I was um. I was inhigh school and they did a talent
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show and I didn't expect to win, but I won first place. And
I was probably like fifteen or sixteenat the time. Can't you remember what
you did? Oh? Yeah,I sang m if I Got You by
Alisha Keys okay, and I wentto Woodlawn and they just they loved it.
Like the whole auditorium was like jumpingup and screaming and hollering, and
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yeah. I got offered a spoton the Acapella team apella group, and
I later became the president of thatacapella group. And that choir teacher,
she really pushed me. She pushedme a lot. There were times I
didn't like her, but she pushedme, and I wouldn't be sitting here
with the ability to sing as bigas I can today without her. Now,
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did you start playing the guitar atthat time or that was something that
you did? Like, that wassomething I did later because I used to
host YouTube videos with like the karaokein the background, right, and I
would sing along with that. Butthen I picked up I picked up guitar
a little bit later, probably whenI was seventeen. Yeah. What about
piano, Um, I can playa little bit of piano. Everything I've
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learned is off of YouTube. Sojust chords, nothing too classical or right
complex, yeah, exactly, butjust chords. What about songwriting? Oh
yeah, that's that's my favorite.Actually, it's really writing. Yeah,
I've written tons of songs, songsthat will never be heard, songs that
are you know. I actually havean ep out wrote all those songs for
me and my friend Daniel. Wewrote those songs together. And Daniel is
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your guitar player, sir, right, okay, and he's like your manager
too or something, so yeah,kind of some sometimes, but me and
Daniel' known each other we were two. I'm not from here. I'm from
Bachelor and we moved here when Iwas a little girl, and um,
you know we met through church andstuff. Right, we've been friends ever
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since. We grew up and wrotesongs together, and you know, we're
just we're just doing this thing together. Now. We're recording this here in
bant Rouge and Eleanor is originally fromBachelor, Louisiana. Well, it's a
road outside of Bachelor, road outsideof Bachelor. Okay, So there,
she's from a road outside of Bachelor. And you moved to quote unquote South
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Louisiana when you were how old?I was probably two or three? Oh
okay, So really you're kind oflike a eternal transplant. I guess from
that road to New Roads you're fromNew Roads originally? No, no,
no, no, I'm from Bachelor. My family like, no, but
I mean from Bachelor to New Roads. No, No, we live here,
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me and my family Ridge. Okay. Why did I get the feeling
that y'all are from New Roads?I don't know. Am I just that
stupid or no? I mean,it's just I guess it's just the small
town feel. Yeah, Okay,I don't know. Why I don't really
claim. I mean I claim BatonRouge because I'm Baton Rouge right right,
Yeah, bachelor is um. Forsome reason, I thought you lived out
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in New Roads. It's like geewhiz. Anyway, now that I'm showing
that I'm completely and totally one stupid, Eleanor is going to take over this
podcast and I'm going to go backthere and play with blocks and tinker toys
and color with my color paint becauseI have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Are saying. So, Eleanor,you started playing the guitar a couple
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of years ago and you're on stageopening up for as maybe a year ago
you started doing this, So what'swhat's next? What do you think is
next? I mean, you're doingfairly well on the local circuit. Where
do you see yourself in five years? Well, the goal is for Eleanor
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Thibadeau and I call my band theCity Slickers, for us to get big.
That's what I want for this.I want everybody to hear the music
that I write, and I wanteverybody to love it and listen to it.
And um, I love the smallgroup that we have right now,
but I would love for us toexpand, you know, like I've seen
how Laney Wilson she has built hercareer in the last you know, three
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five years, and I mean Itotally think it's reachable for me and my
band. You know, So whodo you like to watch on TV or
YouTube or whatever and say I wantto be like that? Artists? Um,
I like her music a lot.UM. I always said growing up,
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I wanted to be the country versionof Kelly Clarkson. I love Kelly
Clarkson. UM. But I definitelya lot I get. I get a
lot that I sound like Natalie Mainsfrom Dixie Chicks a lot. I love
the Dixie Chicks. Um. Andrecently I've gotten the Juds. Why no,
no, I've gotten the Juds alot. Wow. But I don't
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really have like one particular person thatI'm like, wow, I want to
be like that. But I havea collective group of people that I,
you know, definitely listen and lookup to, and you know, I
see what they do and just tryto mimic it. That's all this is
is just mimicking other people who knowwhat they're doing sure, or make it
look like it at least absolutely Well, that's cool. Onto other things.
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Would you like to pack up andmove to Nashville, just like a lot
of other singer songwriters like to do. I don't know about Nashville. I
feel like if I feel like,you know, the noise can be drowned
out a little bit up there becausethere's so many talented people that live in
Nashville and are trying to do thesame thing. So I guess my thing
is, I'm just taking it onestep at a time, you know,
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taking it one gig at a time, you know, right now, the
next the next big thing that myband's doing right now is we have a
song called pick My Poison, andit's out on our EP called Leave Me
One More. And the song isbasically about choosing somebody you know you shouldn't
be with. But the lyrics,the way that Daniel and I wrote this
song is it's very clever. Sothe chorus is like you're the third shot
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of Jack. I know it shouldn'ttake so it's like, I know I
shouldn't be doing this, but Iam. Anyways, And so we're going
in and we're doing an acoustic versionof that song. Um, we're gonna
record that next month, and we'rejust really gonna start pushing that song to
be like, oh, this iswhat Eleanor is known for, is this
song? Because it's such a wellwritten it's such a clever song. So
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well good, are we gonna hearthat in a live show? Oh?
Absolutely? Yeah, that's Um,we're playing at the When is this airing?
Uh? This this is a podcasttotal area anytime. Okay, So
we're playing at the Texas Club onAugust eighteenth. Frokemen from a friend dominic.
Right. We are recording this actuallyon July twenty seven, Yes,
we are. And um, sothat's gonna be like one of the first
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songs that we play on this onthat set because it's the one that we
want people remember usually beginning of theset and the very end of the set.
Yeah, so that's that's why welike to put that, you know,
either beginning or end. So that'llbe like one of the first three
songs we open with. All right, so that's gonna be a surprise and
it's called pick Your Poison. Whoproduced the ep um Clay Parker out in
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Gonzales. He's got a little homestudio and he's my favorite to record with.
He's awesome and He gives his inputtoo, so because he's been in
the business a long time, sohe'll just be like, hey, I
thought maybe we could do this insteadof this, just you know, just
a suggestion. And his suggestions arealways usually you know, pretty pretty.
It's spot on, Yeah, spoton. Yeah, y'all, y'all Gael
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together, pretty out for sure.I love Clay well good. So in
your downtime, when you're not songwriting, when you're not performing, what do
you do? What do you liketo do? Well? I just graduated
from cosmetology school in March, andum, I just got my first job
as a barber, and really yeahokay, and um, I'm just working
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out a little men's salon out inCentral Yeah. It's a I'm gonna plug
the salon. It's called a haircutgarage. Yeah, it's um. The
boss there is awesome, she's thebest, but it's um, it's a
little chill salon. So I loveI love hair, and I just serve
at church. So all I dois hair, church in music, hair,
church and music. What about sports? Do you like to watch sports?
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Are you? Are you excited aboutcollege football coming up? I like
to watch sports. If the guythat I'm talking to you. Likes to
watch sports, so there's a littlebargain there. Oh of course, yeah
you like sports, Alex sports,Yeah sure, yeah, yeah, football,
Sure, I'll watch football. Groupin a house full of girls,
so we were always watching, youknow, giran up, watching Barbie.
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Yeah, you know stuff like that. What about the new Barbie movie?
You gotta check that out? Orhave you seen it? All? Right?
My god sister is seven and she'sbegging me really please come see it
with us. That's awesome. Sowe're gonna plan to do that soon.
Well. Good, it seems likeyou've got everything in order. I'd like
to make it seem like that.Well, I mean you're going in the
right direction. You know, you'dlike to sing, and you're into songwriting.
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And how long have you been songwriting? By the way, I mean,
how long have you been doing that? Oh gosh, um, let's
see my first song I ever wrote? Because you're eighteen now right, No,
I'm twenty nine. Like I saidtwenty I think I was maybe seventeen.
And I posted on YouTube. Yeah, and it got it only got
like a thousand or something views likethat, like nothing crazy, but people
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liked it and so I was.I was like, oh my god,
like, I'm gonna write more.People love this good. So I started
doing that. And at first,when I started writing, I didn't really
have any specific genre that I wantedbecause of growing up, I wasn't allowed
to listen to country music. Mydad didn't like it, so we didn't
listen to that at all. Andthen when I was fourteen, I was
in my English class at Parkview andI had my headphones in and five more
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minutes By Scotty McCreery came on andI was like, oh my god.
It was like I was like overtakenby. I was like, this is
incredible. That's a great song.That is a great song that I am
a sucker for a good story song. Oh absolutely, And that is a
great story song, just like damnstraight yes that Oh my god, I
love that. Yeah, Megan Moroney'sTennessee Orange. Yeah, that's a good
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song. I love hair Salon song, Hair Salon, That's such a good
song. Yeah. Well of courseyou would. You're You're a licensed a
hairstylist, so why not of course. Well, So if eleanor someone wanted
to reach out to you on socialnetworking, how do they do that.
I have Instagram it's Eleanor Tibodeau music. And I have Facebook. Um it's
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just eleanor Tibodeau on there. SoI do you look at my messages pretty
frequently as often as I can.I suggest jumping on Twitter. Twitter.
Twitter is great, Okay, you'dlove it. Oh really have you ever
explored Twitter? I had Twitter whenI was like thirteen, and I posted
like cringey, like you know,like when people would do like the like
that. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, but Twitter, I mean
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it really is cool, so youneed to. My suggestion is just you
know, take a look at thatas well. Uh, do you have
a website, daddy kated website?You just work through Facebook and Instagram.
Just Facebook and Instagram right now.But my older sister she's and so she
does architecture, but they had todo some kind of like project things she's
working on that I think, yeah, wrong, but I think she's working
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on like a website or something.Okay. And also we're looking into some
murch right now. Nothing you know, not like five hundred shirts or anything,
but like you know, if somebodyreaches out to me and it's like
I would love a shirt you know, print one out and stuff. We
have a logo that we're working onright now. Okay, so yeah,
great, you're going in the rightdirection. Yeah, and uh, I
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can't wait to see you on stageagain. Yeah, I'm super excited,
Eleanor. Thank you so much fortalking with us. Thanks for having me
anytime you know you can drop by. I've been telling you that for a
while. I'm glad we finally gota chance to hook up and recorded podcast.
But it'll be We said this earlier. The first time we've seen each
Yeah, you know, it's thefirst time we see each other in the
daylight. Yeah. Every other timewas at night on stage, you know,
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when you're performing and whatnot. ButI'm glad you got a chance to
drop by, and I know thisis going to be the first of many.
So thanks for having all right,you bet you, Eleanor Thibodeau right
here on Backstage Pass. Catch moreepisodes in our free iHeartRadio app har wherever
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