Matt Axton | Matt Connarton Unleashed

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the studios of w m n H ninety five
point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
And Matt Axton is going to becoming a.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Manchester on September twenty fourth at the Rex Theater.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
But uh, let's see if we have them on the line. Matt,
are you.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
There, Yes, sir? Right here?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, welcome, So you are you are calling from the road. Correct,
you're out on tour right now? Where where are you
calling us from?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're out in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. We played at the
guth three Center last night out here, the Rlogut Tree Center.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, very nice, very nice.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, you're touring. Let's see, so you started this month
and then you're touring into October as well. Correct, you're
out for uh, you're out on the road for a
couple months.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Absolutely. This is the longest tour to date from US.
We came all away from Los Angeles, California, started out
in Oklahoma, I went down south and I've just been
hitting our first ever Eastern Seaboard Northeast run of our
of our existence, and we're very excited.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh very cool.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, welcome to New England. And I know you're gonna
be h you're gonna be right here in Manchester on
the twenty fourth. I want to so I want to
start here because I so I played that song Crazy
City you sent you send us a bunch of tracks
to choose from. I opened with that one because selfishly,
that is my favorite, and I want to tell you
what I love about it, you know, because you sort

(01:20):
of you sort of blend genres a little bit, you
know you, I know it kind of falls under the
Americana genre, a category of what you do. But but
that but that tends to be a mix of things.
Americana is kind of a broad term. It tends to
be a mix of things. What I love about Crazy
City is, you know, it's got that Americana, that folk
sort of touch of country vibe, not not too countries.

(01:43):
It's not overly twangy, but it's you know, just it's
such a great song. But then you get to that
point in the song too, where it kind of gets
a little bit funky and a little bit of soul
to it, And I really like the way you slip
that into the song. It kind of changes a little bit,
but it also fits in so seamlessly. But I noticed
it the first time I listened to it when it

(02:03):
gets to that part and you know the part of
the song, I mean, obviously, I'm like, oh, I really
like that. So I think that is such a great tune.
That is my personal favorite of the ones that I
listened to. And but you do you kind of you
kind of blend genres a little bit, and I really
like that, and I love that song. I wanted to
tell you that right up front. I think that's such
a great track.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh well, thank you for mentioning that and listening. I'm
glad that one struck you like that, because yeah, absolutely,
you mentioned sort of Americana as a catch all term
in the industry, and you know, some people think of
that maybe, you know, sometimes it can be too broad
of a genre. But I think that is its strength
to me, is that you can mix, like you said,
a little bit of country, a little a little folk,

(02:45):
a little rock and roll. Sometimes you can get a
little bluegrass, a little soul in there. And I come from,
you know, legacy, My dad, Hoyd Axton, really never fit
in one genre. He hopped all over. He just believed
in writing a good song, no matter what kind it was,
and I fell under that as well. I couldn't help
but escape, you know, but embrace that mentality around songwriting.

(03:06):
So in a show, we're gonna sort of take you
on American a journey, is what I say. At the
beginning of the show. We're going to mix it up
a little bit and tell some good legacy stories and
in the end, I just want you to tap your foot,
get your mind moving a little bit, and give you
a little escape if we can.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
So I'm curious to ask you about this, is is
there a certain I've heard musicians who who have, you know,
famous families, or that they have a famous mom or
a famous dad, or talk about how there can be
a certain weight to that. There's a certain pressure that
comes with that, and I'm curious if that's how it
is for you. Obviously you're very proud of your legacy.

(03:45):
You embrace it, but you don't. But but you don't
You embrace it, but you don't you know, kind of
you have your own identity, I guess is what I'm
trying to say. Like you are Matt Axton, and you
have original music that you've created. You know you're not
doing You're not doing a show that where you just
go out and play your dad's music, for example. Maybe
you have done that in the past.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
But you have your own music, you have your own vibe,
you have your own sound. But you also have this
incredible legacy that you have to of your family that
you have to carry around with you. Is there any
kind of pressure with that or do you take that
in stride or are you are you very comfortable with
it or how do you how do you deal with that?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm really curious about that.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, absolutely, well, you know, I don't think of it
as a pressure much. I think of it more as
an honor. Yeah, they're both. My grandmother was an amazing
you know, songwriter and curator of community through art, and
she started a lot of musicians in the industry, mainly
in Nashville in the in the sixties through the nineties,

(04:46):
and so you know, it's an amazing legacy to keep alive.
And it's so like the communal touch, so many different genres,
different generations of musicians, and I feel like I'm more
walking with them then, you know. It's like to have
them on my shoulders weighing anything down. And I'm lucky
in one way too that the legacy I get to

(05:08):
keep alive is pretty dang fun. You know, my dad's
biggest song was Joy to the World, and that was
really his mantra around life is the joy of art
and community that you can create through that. So, you know,
every once in a while we'll do a white dedicated show.
You know, I'll get grab his band and we'll do
some some very very history leaden stuff. But for me,

(05:29):
like I mentioned earlier, my dad was so eclectic. I
can really mix in his songs in any way that
we can, and that's a real challenge and a fun
thing for me is to sort of like sort of
weave in all the legacy stuff into our original songs
as well. And then I have the accent curse of
just way, way too many songs, hundreds of them. They
keep pouring out of my brain all the time. It's

(05:51):
a curse, like I said, but it's also a really
fun adventure every time. And one other thing that's different
with my legacy too is a lot of legacy kids
have one parent who's the creative and then one parent
who sort of stays home and keeps everything balanced. And
sure I did not have that aspect. My mom was
my dad's piano player and band manager and tour manager.

(06:14):
So when it was time to go on the road,
it was a musical. You know, we all went, the
whole family. So I was just always sort of, you know,
in wrapped in this this lifestyle growing up in.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
A family like that.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Was it just kind of a foregone conclusion that this
is what you were going to be doing? I mean,
was there any was there or a moment growing up
where you thought, you know, I might I might do
this for a career, I might do that, I might
do something else, or was it just always was this
always the obvious path for you?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I mean, truthfully, no, no it wasn't. I mean music
was always around. Like people ask like, oh, you know,
did you did you like it? Were you going to
do it? And I'm like, well, it just was always there.
It was just a thing that was constantly happening. But
I know I was I was supposed to go. I
got a scholarship to go play football at University of
Oklahoma oh High school, and that was that was sort
of my you know, my main direction. I was going

(07:01):
to go do sports. And then I ended up hurting
my knee really bad and had to get surgery, and
as I was laid up for a few months, playing
on the couch. I grabbed the guitar and I'll started
drum and I was like, wow, this is sort of easy.
Let me see if I can write a tune. Okay,
that was fun, Let's keep going. And what the rest
of history haven't put it down since you know, I'll
be damned.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's wild.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if you hadn't gotten hurt, you know, you you
you might have gone on to the NFL. Who knows, right,
But but it's interesting, so and so obviously getting injured
that's a terrible thing, but you know you took it,
and you you did something positive with it, using that
time to really, uh, to effectively start your music career
right at that moment, you know, as your own, as

(07:40):
your own entity, on your own path.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's that's fantastic, and uh, that's wild.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you ever look back and think, I mean, do
you still have thoughts about what would have happened if
you had if you had been able to just continue
to play football without the interruption of that injury? Do
you ever do you ever have fantasies about playing in
the NFL or anything like that?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Or oh absolutely, especially when I go look at my
bank statements and my guess, you know, like, what's wrong
with me? No, But but you know, it's one of
those things. Everybody has those moments in our life right
where it's the fork in the road and you're like, hey,
if I would have chose this, what would have happened?
What would my life be like? And then that and
the reality is, you know, as much fun as it

(08:20):
would have been to do that and live that lifestyle,
I love that. I actually coached high school basketball for
ten years after that when I was still you know,
I was still an active musician up in northern California
where I'm from and was able to coach in sort
of the slow seasons, and so I've always been able
to stay active in sports that way. Yeah. But I think,
you know, music is, like you mentioned, it's such a connector.

(08:43):
It's an amazing thing. You know, It's the only the
closest thing to magic I think we have in the world,
like art and music in particular, and cross languages and
oceans and generations, and the night people has done well
and really inspire people if it's it's needed. I just think,
you know, there's nothing more powerful than a really good
good song sometimes, So that's that's an honor. And the

(09:07):
up boy every shows that my soul is very full.
It's just my wallet and gas tank empty.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Understandable, Matt. I don't I don't know if something shifted
on your end all of a sudden. The phone line
is a little bit choppy. I don't know if you
if you went to a different room or something.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Something.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I'm still here. I have not moved in the corner
of this little room here.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, it just sounds like that's okay, we'll we'll, we'll
work with it though. And then so, uh, when you
you said this, this is the longest store that you've
been on so far, coming out, coming all the way
out to the east coast.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah. Absolutely. So we usually go out to Nashville about
every six months and sort of zig zag back to
California and add some markets, and this is the first
time we have decided to go east out of Nashville.
We were there for Americana Fessor for about a week
and we got this gig up here in Great Barrington
at the gut three Center, and we wanted to build
a tour around it. So my mom is actually from

(10:06):
upstate New York. So I've spent a little time going,
you know, as a kid coming out here, but we
wanted to go full force and bring our music to
new ears and hopefully make a bunch of new friends.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh outstanding.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
By the way, whatever was wrong with the phone cleared up,
so it's just probably something some kind of external issue.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I can hear you great now.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
So, which is good because I'm I'm enjoying talking with you.
You mentioned too, you've got a lot of songs. Did
I read this correctly? You've have you recorded over three
hundred songs already? Is that number correct?

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I've written over three hundred songs. I'm all recorded about
thirty or forty. But like I said, it's a continual process,
I think for the rest of my existence.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So when you go to record an album or you're
gonna be going into the studio, is it hard to pick?
I mean, it's a good problem to have, I guess, right,
to have so much material, But is it hard to
make those decisions about what you're gonna record and what
you're gonna maybe put on the back burner knowing that
you some songs you might never get a chance to record,
right because you've written so many. I mean, is that

(11:06):
is that difficult to narrow that down?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I mean a little bit. And like I said, it's
a good problem to have a problem on the left. Yeah,
And what I try to do, I always try to
do one one Hoight cover song every album, you know,
always pay homage to one of his tunes. Yeah, and
so so that's going to add in, you know, a
little bit more time to that process. But you know,
right now, the group I'm bringing on tour, my main group,

(11:32):
it's called you know, Mad Accident and Bad Moon, is
sort of a more country leaning Americana outfit. Yeah, and
we do a lot of we lean I tell for
fans of Hoite. Accident and the Almond Brothers is basically
what we meet. So there's a lot of what we
call guitar mini's. There's two guitars sort of you know,
singing together a lot, which brings you know, that that

(11:54):
element of Almend Brothers, Grateful Dead, you know, the southern
rock element to it with So when we started playing
a couple of years ago, naturally my songwriting style will
start adjusting to that. I'll go dig into the vault
and I'm like, oh, I wrote this song a long
time ago that would fit really well. So it's constantly
sort of you know, unearthing stuff and then adding new

(12:14):
things and adjusting. So it's like I said, it's a
it's a challenge, but it's something that you know, I
will run at full force.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Have you always played with a full band or did
you ever do solo shows just you on a guitar
on a stool or anything like that, or is it
always a full band?

Speaker 3 (12:30):
No? Absolutely, We sort of mix it up all the time.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I do.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I do a lot of solo you know, folks singer
songwriter stuff. That's how my dad, you know, cut his teeth.
He just grabbed a guitar and jumped in the car
and travel over the country in the early sixties and
went to every music mecca he could find and just
absorbed as much as he could, you know, went up
to New York, went to Chicago, went down south to
the blues mecchas, and that really, you know, set them

(12:55):
up on the path. Like I said, of me, hyper
eclectic and just really wanting to write a good song.
I couldn't help, but you know, sort of follow that
path and there's something, you know, it's a different connection
with just you and a guitar on the stage. There's
nowhere to hide. With the band you can have, you know,
there's much higher hives. You know, you can just get
so much more sound. But I enjoy both the truthfully.

(13:16):
You know, when I grew when I was born, my
dad was I'm my dad's youngest kid, so he was
a lot more settled and had a very consistent band
by the time I came around. But what he would
do every show, if he would start it with the
full band and they'd send him off in the middle
and he'd just come out with the guitar and do
a lot of his early folk stuff. And that was
always the moment that people sort of resonated with the

(13:38):
most sort that resonated with them. And you know, so
there's there's there's just something raw and really intimate about
doing that, and I love it. I mean I write
all my songs that way. Yeah, you know, just me
and a guitar sort of. I was born and raised
up in Lake Tahoe, California, up in the heis here
in Nevada Mountains, and you know, I just go sit
out there on the porch and stare out into the
into nature and try and get inspired whenever I can.

(13:59):
And now I live in Los Angeles and now I
stare at traffic and get inspired.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's a lot of fun, a lot of traffic there,
that's for sure. So you mentioned it.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
So you're the youngest, you said, you're the youngest child.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Of your dad. Yeah, yeah, did your siblings.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know how many siblings you have, but have
any of them also taken this path or just you
in terms of, you know, your dad's legacy, following that
is and becoming a musician and doing all that that
you're doing.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Are you the only one or.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I'm the only one left doing it as a full
time thing. All my siblings tried in some sort of form.
My sister April tried to do She went more of
the acting side of things. My oldest brother Mark went
to the production side. He was the smart one, oh
and stuff behind the scenes.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
And then my middle brother Michael was tried to do
the sort of the traveling troubadour thing. So they all
they all gave it a good shot and all talented
in their own right. But now it's you know, it's
fallen on me. Like I said, I have They had
a different mother. My mom is the one who sort
of like sort of balanced everything out. I tell people, Oh,
my mom is a classical piano master, like you know, maestro. Yeah,

(15:07):
and my dad is a country bumpkin. So I land
somewhere right in the.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Middle of it too, I try so.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Now, I'm not sure. You know, you mentioned you're the youngest.
I'm not sure when exactly your dad passed away. But
did he ever get to see you on a stage
plane or I'm not sure the timeline.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
No, yeah, so he passed away actually in nineteen ninety nine.
Oh that millennium. Wow, you know when I was sixteen
years old when he did. So, you know, we we
we connected enough to have some good moments. But no,
that was he passed before I was ever ever able
to find my own voice. Really okay, but what he
would do, you know when we were on tour, he'd
bring the kids up. Every show, he picked songs to

(15:46):
bring the kids up. We always do joy the world
as a big family group at the end. So well,
I got to be on stage with him and share
some musical moments, but never got to show him, you know,
show him my own.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Voice, like I said, Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Though that
you got to be on stage with them, that's uh.
And to do that, that's that's great. And and what
about your mother is she Is she still with.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Us or.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah? Absolutely? She actually came out for the show last night.
On very special occasions they get to bring her out
and she still plays in the band. And she's absolutely
the highlight of the best person on the stage every time.
And when I go back up to Lake Tahoe, I
run a couple music festivals and nonprofit music, you know,

(16:30):
music nonprofits up in my hometown, and she sort of
leads that and we jump in, she jumps in the band,
and I get to jump in her band all the time.
So that part's still magical, keeping played alive with people.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, in his band, that's that's fantastic. That must be
so much fun. That is so cool that you get
to do that. And I'm sure she's very very proud
of you. And that's that's great. That's that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
And and you know, and she's really good too. That's
the fun part. It's not just being like, oh, here's
my mom. It's always do something amazing and she does it.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh, that's outstanding.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, by the way, so the tour. So I was
reading the tour is called Beast Goes East. Now, obviously
the East I get because you're living on the West
coast and we're on the East coast.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
But why beast Well, so one of the.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
People cannot tell from us talking about football and all
that kind of good stuff. I'm a larger human being, okay.
And one of our mascots, you'd say, is that people
call me the last California and Grizzly. So there's a
lot of bear influences and a lot of our artwork
and all that kind of stuff. So it's more, you know,

(17:38):
the beastly Bear is finally treading East type thing, and
just rhymes, you know, as musicians like rhymes.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Right right, that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm looking at a picture on your website of you
and three other guys who I assume are in your band,
and you are kind of how tall are you because
in this picture?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
But you can't tell from a picture.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
I mean, you could be standing on something I don't know,
but it looks like you're towering over everybody else.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Well, I make them do that, that's the ego thing. No,
But so I'm about six four, Oh, you're a good day.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay, you're a big guy.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and you know, two hundred and sixty pounds,
but getting a little bigger every day on tour. I'll
tell you what. But it's you know, Also, it's funny
because I have a pretty tall band too, just to
happen that way, and so most people don't notice until
I get off stage, you know, then I start talking
to like, oh my god, They're like, what happens, pecially

(18:34):
with the cowboy boots on? Bang near eight feet tall?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right, you know?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
So, but yeah, that's the best the beef sleep part.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I said, where does your height come from? Was
your father tall?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
You know, he was about six feet tall, but he
was he was as wide as the Mississippi type of thing,
and he always wore cowboy boots and a big cowboy hat.
So he just had one of those larger than life
sort of personalities and statues. My mom's tall. My mom's
six ft one. So oh, I think six one pus
six feet equals six to four. That's just math.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I think, Well, that's definitely yeah, there's definitely something genetic
on your mom's side, because six to one that's very
tall for a woman.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's very tall. Yeah right, oh yeah, that would that
would that would definitely explain it.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Whow So you're gonna be So what's your for our
listeners who are in the area. Of course, you know
online we have listeners all over, but for our local
listeners who listen on FM here in Manchester, what what
should they? What should they expect? Again, you're going to
be at the Rex Theater on September twenty fourth. Looks
like a shows at seven point thirty. Do you have
a do you have an opener with you? Or or

(19:34):
is it? Is it just you and your band or
how does that? How does that work?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
No, this one is just us in our band. You know,
when we were reaching out trying to figure out how
to set this tour up, you know, the Palace Theater
and the Rex Theater are like, hey, let's just give
it a shot. Just come out here and see if
we can, you know, give you a good a good
spotlight to bring your music. And yeah, very grateful for that.
Like I said, it's our first time in all these
markets and we would love to sort of make this

(19:59):
a routine. We've had a great tour so far, just
like I said, meeting good people and telling good stories,
and we sort of adjust the show to every different venue.
You know, on this tour, we've done a couple of festivals.
We do some late night hockey talks, some fun little
divy bars, and we really changed the show to every place.
And I know, like last night at the gut Wee Center,

(20:19):
we did a little more intimate, a little a lot
more history and storytelling and explaining the ins and outs
and the whys of the artistic lifestyle and all that
fun stuff. So the RECs will be similar to that.
But at the same time, we like to we like
to rock out and groove out and get people to
sort of tap their feet and have a good time.
So it's going to be a good mix of those.

(20:39):
And that's my job is to figure out exactly how
to give you guys the best experience for the people
in the room.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
I'm curious, Sue, do you know do you know ahead
of time before you arrive at the venue, do you
know enough about that particular venue where you've already planned
out what the show is or or are you going
into that are you kind of reading the room? Like
do you arrive at the venue and you kind of
check the place out? And you think, Okay, now that
I'm here, now that I'm physically here, and I can
take this all in. Uh now I kind of know

(21:10):
what the show is going to be tonight. I mean,
is it Is it that spontaneous or do you already
know before you arrive at the venue.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, it's a good mix, you know, especially for for
new markets and new venues, right you sort of you know,
we know this is more of a seated theater, so
we'll treat that a little differently than we will, like
a couple of days ago, we played at this you know,
rockous honky Tonk in New York City, so we're gonna
we know, we're going to treat those a little differently
in general, right, but you know, we also adjust when

(21:37):
we get in there. We want to fill the I
mean this sounds so hippie dippy artists, but we're gonna
like sort of fill the energy and yep and talk
to the staff and talk to you know, see who's
coming and showing up and sort of working around that.
And it's really the challenge, but it's a really fun
one and something that we're working really hard on and
very proud of the ability to do that.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
And as I said, you play the style that you play.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
And the configuration of your band and everything that gives
you some flexibility to kind of change that on the
fly if you need to, which is which I'm sure
is very nice.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm always kind of jealous of that.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I'm a musician and I've played in some bands, but
none of the bands that I ever played in were
the kind of band where we could show up at
a venue and say, oh.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Let's change the vibe a little bit, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's like if you're playing in a you know, a
hardcore metal band or something. It's, you know what, you're
doing the same thing no matter where you're playing. But
I've always been kind of envious of musicians who have
that a scenario where they can kind of switch it
up if they need to. But no, that's really cool.
So that's gonna be uh yeah, September twenty fourth at
the Seventh at seven thirty pm at the at the

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Rex Theater right in downtown Manchester and by the way
too for our local listeners. If you've never been to
the Rex, it's really beautiful, so you should definitely check
it out. And this sounds like it's going to be
a great show. So Matt, before we let you go,
and we are going to play another track at the
end of our conversation. I think I'm gonna play same
Old Story because that's another one that I really like

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a lot. I think that's really cool. But anything else too.
We should know about how people should find you online.
Where's the best place to go to follow everything that
you're doing. I know you've got a You've got a
huge social media following, which is fantastic and such an
important part too of you know, the times that we
live in. Having that social media following, that's something your
dad never had to worry about, certainly, but in twenty

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twenty five got to you gotta work with social media.
But where's the best place for people to go online
to follow everything that you're doing?

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, or main site and a number one I cannot
agree more. Like we just live in a digital social
world now, and so that's what it's all about, right,
I Mean, the power is in the independent artist's hands,
and I'm fiercely, proudly independent when it comes to that stuff.
So every every clap and every click really matters a
lot to people in our in our realm yep. But

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so Mattaccident dot com is the main site, very simple,
and then Matt acts and music on all the social
media platforms on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all those things.
And you know, it's something that social media is amazing
because you can really connect with people that you wouldn't
really have got any chance to in the past. It
can be daunting and crazy at times, but in the end,

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it's that's what it's about with connecting with people. So
please come say hi on any sort of way. Obviously
in person is the best, so they can I can
bilk you for all your all your bitcoins or whatever
you know. But in the end, I said, it's just
about connecting with people and spreading a little bit of joy.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
That's our job absolutely.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
And before before we let you go, and we're gonna
play this track, same old story. Anything we should know
about this song. I really like this song a lot too,
Anything we should know about it?

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, So this is one I was talking about earlier
where I've had it for quite a while. And when
I got this band together, I've had my right hand
man guitar player Taylor Kropp Slash Almond Brothers proteget sort
of playing with him for about three years, two and
a half years. He's the main other player in the band.
Once he joined the band, I was like, Oh, I'm

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gonna go dig into my archives and pull this song on.
It's become sort of a staple. It's the last single
we just released. It's the one we're turning around right now.
Very proud, very proud of it. And it's just a
good old fashioned like sort of outlaw country vibe, but
with the you know, the the the story of some
common things, you know, some some some money, some heartbreak,

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some life experiences that we all sort of connect with
at the end with a little uplift at the end,
saying hey man, we can all, we can all figure
this out. It's just the same old story. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I love it, absolutely love it, very good. So we're
gonna we're gonna end with that. So we'll let you
go so we can hit that track. But Matt Axson,
thank you so much. Have a great show, have a
We'll have a great Where are you playing tonight, by
the way.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
We're playing out in New Jersey somewhere. Oh, I don't
even know where I what day.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Is somewhere on these cost people can go to the
website to find it. But so I have a great
show tonight in New Jersey and and of course, uh
sounds like the tour is going well. So we wish
you could continued success with that and look forward to
having you in Manchester on September twenty fourth. And thank
you so much for joining us today. I really enjoyed
the conversation. You've been generous with your time. It's great

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to speak with you and be safe on the road.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Well, thank you so much for letting me talk. And
you know a great name, by the way, mattsw Nite.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yes, yes, absolutely, Matt's to night. I like it.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right, thank you again, and yeah, thanks for playing
our music out there.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
You got it, you got it, all right, Matt, Thank you,
take care all right?

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Bye?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
All right. That was the great Matt Axton.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
And again he will be in Manchester at the Rex
Theater on September twenty fourth, seven thirty pm. But let's
play this again. I really really like this song a lot.
This is called Same Old Story, and this is Matt
Axton