November 5, 2025 • 44 mins
“Aspiring songwriter? A fan wanting more than just the music? This is your backstage pass to American Mile’s songwriting workshop. Discover the specific methods they use to build powerful melodies and meaningful lyrics, insights you won’t find anywhere else. Prepare to be inspired and elevate your own creative process.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, This is America Mile and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morile on
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stream the show anytime on the Sports Guys podcast dot
com and on iHeartRadio podcast and the THWN dot Org.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Always a busy day full of shows and of course
coming up there too. Hope you guys had a great
Halloween out there and the next big holiday, of course,
Thanksgiving out there, just coming up here in a few weeks,
just right past those Country Music Association Awards coming up
on November nineteenth from beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, there at the
Bridgetone Arena. And of course our job is here to
always educate you on the brand new groups here Brandon
(00:47):
Morel KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting
Network and our friends out there THHWN dot org, iHeartRadio
podcast and powered by the Sports Guyspodcast dot com. And
appreciate all the guys coming in today. Eugene dez Joe,
the group is American Mile.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Guys. What's going on, dude?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Not much, man, just enjoying beautiful southern sunny California at
the moment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How are you doing, Brenn good Man?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Just good to talk to you guys too, and have
a little fun with this too. And yeah, I know,
southern California one of my favorite destinations to uh to
attend when I get a chance to get out there
and have some fun with it too. But here in Texas,
I'll take the fall weather we're getting as of right now, too,
which is really nice.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I so I'm originally from Vermont. Man, I really love
the seasons. It is something you start to miss after
a long time, you know what I mean. Seasons are seasons,
can be great falls, falls, great time a year my opinion.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
But what part of Texas are you in?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So right down here by Houston actually a little town
called Beaumont, Texas, which is kind of that nut klay
Walker George Jones area down here.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
We played and we played there like ten years maybe
longer than ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Actually that's a great area down here too. Welly tell
us about this. Let's start with U Joe. We'll go
here and like I said, whoever wants to answer this
one too? I just like to kind of call out
names to designate the questions to do. I want to
get this little backstory on the group name and how
you guys met to form this thing called American Mile.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Tell us the whole story.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Yeah, American Mile was formed in twenty eighteen with Eugene
and his brothers, and I was at a hired gun
for the band at that point, but then that lineup
fizzled out and the pandemic happened, and then me and
Eugenie living across the street from each other, and then
the band was getting looked at by a booking agency
(02:41):
and he needed to put a band together, and he
asked me to come back. So we came back and
we wrote some new songs and put a new band together.
We've been doing two hundred shows a year since twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Too.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
As far as the camaraderie you know, bands have to
have when it comes down to it, I love the
fact is you've got a lot of good things that
go on there too, because not just singing songs and
you know, being on the same stage, but you guys
spend a lot of time with each other, getting to
know each other as you know, friends and of course,
you know, coworkers things like that, talk about the relationship
not just in music, but things that you guys do
(03:13):
outside of music too, to keep that chemistry together.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Plenty of trash talk between everybody. That's how you can.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, it's a lot of it's a lot of locker
room talking there, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
But we we you know what, We get along pretty
well for the most part, and everybody tries to stay
on the same page. But when you're on the road
two hundred days out of the year, like you know,
everybody's gonna bicker. It's just the thing. So there's a
lot of communication going on, and it's, uh, we have
a good time, man, We just we have a really
good time once we step on the stage and then
start doing the thing. Love music is what we do
(03:49):
it for, right, So it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And as far as like things that sometimes we do,
like when we're we're out, I mean, sometimes it's as
easy as like like man going to FedEx together to
get something printed. And sometimes it's like as nice as
getting to go paddle boarding somewhere for like, you know,
an hour or two before the gig. But uh, I
would I would agree with Dez. We pretty much it's
(04:12):
pretty funny. How well we get along as far as
the band's concerned. I mean, it's pretty Uh, it's it's easy.
There's been a lot of I've been a lot of
group situations with bands where it's hard to travel after
a while, there's a guy in the band that you're like, man,
I really don't want to don't want to hang out
with this dude anymore. But uh, I don't think we've
hit really that with this band yet.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
This lineup has been really easy to be around and
travel with. Like Eugenie was saying, you've had some people
in the past where it's been challenging. So this has
been a great, a good lineup for us with Desmond
and Colton being in the band.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah. Other than Eugene being a Celtics fan, everything's been great.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, you know, we can't all be trash Lakers fans
on them one.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Look, well, I'm a Rockets fan downer too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
We actually do some Rockets coverage out there too for
select NBA games here on the podcast too.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So what's cool, right? You know?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Getting KD in the offseason it fired me up to
and it's a young roster there that won fifty games
last year, finished number two in the Western Conference. So
I'll say this is a little bit of that, you know,
bragging rights this year. But you know, nobody's won anything yet.
It's just about five or six games with Rocket Rocketer.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm sorry about man, you guys lost your guard right
before the season. But dude, there, I'm excited to watch
your team this year for sure.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Dude.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
There's been a lot of injuries this year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's been insane.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now it's a sports podcast, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's gonna be fun to see where they go this
year too. And of course, like I said, just six
games in, obviously everybody's worried. It's like, oh and two.
I'm like, guys, a couple of games, there's eighty to
play now, they played six games. There's still seventy something
games to uh to play out there to the same
time too, And I guarantee you, I'm we'll get to
some more sports talk with you guys before all it
said and done.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Here, Hey tell us about this. I love it, Dez.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It's a really cool record you guys have had out
the debut album that came out June sixth of this year,
American Dream goes right, fitting with the name American Mile,
which we touch based on their top of the show.
Tell us all about this record. How excited you were
to get this music into the fans hands.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, man, American Dream, and it has been an absolute
blast pushing this record and being able to play these
songs live. We were lucky and we got two of
the songs on that record nominated for the Hollywood Independent
Music Awards, won in the Country category and one in
the Americana category. So everybody's been responding very well to
the record and the process of writing the record, which
(06:44):
took I think it was a total of three years, right, guys,
as far as all the songs that are on the record, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
three years to put it all together, and being a
part of that process was something that was really special
and really fun. We've been enjoying putting that music out
for everybody and being able to share that with everyone
so far.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
When you look at this, you know, I mentioned the
CMA Awards coming up here in a few weeks and
this crop of talent right now, Eugene, this is really
cool to see the band's really flourishing out there too.
And then you get you're solo artist out there doing
everything both male and female categories. A good time to
be an artist in this genre because you can see
so many different people thriving in this industry, right, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean, like I think as far as like country
and rock and the southern rock genres are concerned, things
have been going really good. Do man, Things have been
going really good for those kind of genres, And honestly,
I'm really looking forward to the future of like where
the genre is heading and how live music is going
to build more and more and more in people's minds
as a you know, an important part of their day
(07:47):
to day. Honestly, I think it's I think like real
music is starting to come back. That's what's I think
that's at least what we're seeing personally.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be pretty cool to
see a lot of the vocal duos of the year,
vocal groups, things like that in the different categories. And
I've been some really cool nominations too. I'll tell you
what time to play one too as well. We don't
just talk music. We played here, Yeah, Age Past, American
Dream is the album out there, American Mile is the
group makes you guys, go download and to check out
the music photograph of you here it is on the
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Speaker 21 (14:40):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past, powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And back here on the show again, Brandon Morel here
at KYBA ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
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and anytime out there too on any of those social
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out there again, American Mile joining us here, the album
American Dream across all the digital streaming platforms. Eugene joining
(15:16):
us here of that very group. So let's talk about
this one, Joe. I thought this really sent a great
message here and one of your top songs off this
particular record, Photograph of You.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Tell us how this came about.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Photograph for You came about. I wrote all the music
for it, and then I was like, this song, I
don't know it's okay. Then I sent it out and
Eugene was like, I already have I have words already
for this. This song got pieced together so fast it
was like really effortless and just smooth. It seems to
(15:49):
be a song that everyone gravitates towards, you know, as
far as every time we play it, people are like
what song was that?
Speaker 14 (15:56):
You know?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
They want to know more about it, and I had
a we always have a good time playing it. They
think they recognize it already.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So yeah, they think it's already something that they're like,
I recognize this song. But Jill was sending us the
music for that song specifically, he had sent like five
tracks or something, and he was like, I really like
this one, and I really like this one, and he's like, oh,
and I also have this and I was like, dude,
that one's awesome, and he was like, really, that song
and I was like yeah, man, and ended up being
(16:24):
one of the main singles on the album. So very
cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, it's got a little mix of everything on there too.
I love it, and I think it's really cool that
you see a lot of these crossovers now. We mentioned
about the talent in the industry now too, but these
collaborations Eugene are really cool for music to give people
a little bit of variety so you're not kind of
kind of stuck in the same old rut to a
little bit. You guys have a very different sound for
a walk a mile out there too, and I'm seeing collaborations,
(16:50):
like I said, becoming more of the norm out there too.
And I think the music just really can can fit
in a bucket of different genres out there. Would you agree, Yeah,
I think.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean like also to like today's day and age.
I think for music you don't have to be pigeonholed
into like one genre. I think in this age where
you can release a single or you can like I
think just people is so much more. It's not like,
oh I just listen to rock, I just listen to country.
I just listened to like what E EDM whatever you
you find these people who are like they'll literally listen
(17:21):
to every genre. Their plays consists of every single genre
and they're just rolling through their car with their playlist
happening down the road. It's and it goes everywhere. It
goes from folk to classical, you know, like you don't know,
you know, electronic to classical whatever. Like, So I really
think as an artist, like if if the music is
if you're enjoying writing it and it is to you,
(17:44):
is like it's your music and it speaks for you,
then you know, I think I think more artists should
really experiment with kind of expanding their genre palette and
a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Of Yeah, it's I think it works kind of kind
of like what's going on to bring it back to
sports real quick with basketball, it's like positionless basketball. Music's
kind of everything's becoming almost genre list or the genres
are all coming together and you can kind of just
dabble into anything that you want to and still try
to make it work.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So yeah, that's what makes it so Like I said
so great out there too, is it's gonna fit somebody's
kind of that that genre of music they love and
is a blend of it. Because I think that's really
cool because and I think that's really cool that you
touch on something there too, because I always interview not
just artists here on the program, but you got to
give a credit, Joe, to the songwriters out there too.
I think that's really cool because they're the backstory, kind
of the backbone of these songs coming to life. Because
(18:35):
a lot of people say, you know, today, even today,
I find some people that you know, can write their
own material, and then some people that that just you know,
take the pitches and things like that and see if
a song really kind of fits them right, what makes
album cut or what doesn't doesn't make an album cut.
Talk about the process of just writing songs, Joe, and
how important those songwriters are.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yes, it's that's if you're a songwriter and it's in
you and that's your passion and it's like your lifeline
to write songs all the time. You have to put
that art into the world. And like you're saying, some
artists are good at writing their own music, and some
artists are good at just accepting a song from another
(19:15):
songwriter as if it were their own and making it their.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Own as well.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I think that's also really important too, is if you
can take someone else's song and kind of have it
your away with it, I think that is good for
the person who wrote it too. Is then your song
is getting out there and it's getta hurt, and it's
touching more people. It's opening more people's ears and their
hearts to more music.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, it's one of those things. I think it's great
out there too, is that the song can actually be born,
you know, from nothing out there too, just some ideas
and kind of throwing it around to and a lot
of people love the fact that, you know, getting into
writers around and taking advantage of playing some of the
top gigs they are in top events in Nashville, from
Whiskey Jam things like that, and just get up there
on stage, you put a group of artists together. One
(19:58):
of my favorite things to do when I'm doing my
show live in Nashville to actually go witness those events,
to go see kind of what yeah, and just play
things acoustically without even a full band sound. I love
just as much as an acoustic sound. You know, Eugene
is I do pretty much a full band sound. Talk
about that for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I mean, like I mean, the thing you'll get to
with like a acoustic sound, you get a lot more
of intimate like understanding of what the artist maybe is
like trying to portray with their music. I mean, it's
so different because you get like, you get different emotional
like it's like almost like a different emotion, Like it
feels different. Like I mean when you sit and you
listen to the Black Crows, you know, there are those
(20:39):
rock and heavy songs that really give you that energy
pump in the moment to like you know, rock rock
out and party and whatever. But then you listen to, like,
you know, a song like she Talks to Angels and
it has like a really you know, it has that
really like touching, warm kind of emotion feel to it
that I feel like, you know, it speaks to you differently.
Those they're just they're they're they're like polar opposites in
(21:01):
a lot of ways. But I think they're a really
good reflection like a really great artist and a really
good reflection of what you know, Like how I guess
how like you know, divers and artists can be.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It does. What's kind of your take on that? From
acoustic sound to full band sound.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I think it's really cool to hear both versions of
that because like the acoustic thing is is very stripped down,
there's less to hide behind, and so you really get
an understanding of where that song came from and what
it could truly be. And so when you hear the
acoustic thing, you're like, Okay, I understand this. And then
(21:39):
once you get to the full thing and you put
everything else behind it, you get the whole you know,
the whole picture of what an artist is really thinking.
But I really do love hearing acoustic versions of a
lot of songs. It's a I feel like it's a
deeper insight onto what an artist was really thinking in
the original version of a song.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
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Speaker 21 (29:32):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Pass powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
And back here on the show with the guys from
American Mile out there too the album American Dreams across
all the DSPs out there too, and love every minute
of this record. You guys can go check it out
out there across all those digital streaming platforms wherever you
guys download or stream music. Out there, Back with Joe
and Dez and Eugene of that very group here KYB
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let's get the little backstore here, Dez. I love the
feel from it. It talked about it and it really
did the title justice Straight from the Heartland.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Tell us all about this one.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Straight from the Heartland. Actually, I think Joe and Eugene
might be better equipped to talk about this song. But
that song really is talking about, like you know, growing
up in a rural town and having those dreams and
ambitions to do the things that you want to do
and accomplish, and going out and really doing those things.
I say that only because I come from this little
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small suburb city in southern California, So it's not exactly
the same thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Yeah, Straight from the Heartland. That's his co right with
Keith Nelson me Eugene. Keith. Song was kind of different before,
isn't it. Is it a higher key and it was
more it's more like Tom Petty. I guess, and he
was like, you need to make it more like more
like you know, John Cougar, Mellencamp or something, maybe more
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Bruce Springsteen or something. So we kind of we dropped
the key. We rearranged it a little bit, and yeah, lyrically,
it does hits it right on the head there. Me
and Eugene moved from our respective small towns and we
moved over to Los Angeles and neither of us knew anyone,
and we didn't know anybody and just had a dream
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straight from the heartland, trying to make it all happen
now and here we are right now. Hang out with you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Crazy that you guys found each other so fast when
you guys got out here too, that's really cool.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Yeah, I think I met Eugene like the second month
I lived here or something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's a great record too.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I love it out there too, because, like I said,
it's got something for everybody out there, for all the
fans too. Talk about the team behind you too, because
I mean, I can't do anything without it, like a
marketing producer type gentlemen that I have on my team too,
and you guys from maybe a manager standpoint or definitely
from a PR standpoint too, this has got to be
important because you can only do so much, you know,
in yourself as a group, you know, putting music out
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there too, but from the producers you choose, to walking
in the studio to get the right people for the album,
managers to social media postings, things like that, how do
you manage all that? And then talk about how important
that is, Joe for you guys just as a group,
that team effort, that support.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Yeah, it really does take a whole village, you know,
not even just the four of us. We got friends
who help us everywhere we go. We go to different
cities and we have friends everywhere, and we have multiple
booking agents, and we have multiple we got you know,
PR people in a PR team that helps us out.
And we don't necessarily have management right now, but we
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do have people that kind of shadow manage us a
little bit and help us. And it's kind of crazy,
how how Yeah, you don't really think about it. I mean,
once the business starts growing though, you could go, oh
I need this, Oh now we need that, Oh now
we need X, Y and Z, And it just makes
you feel real lucky when you have people willing to
help and wanting to help and who believe in what
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you believe in. And uh, yeah, we're real blessed and
we're real lucky because there's I know a lot of
people that would want to be doing what we're doing
right now, a lot of my friends. And yeah, it
just feels really good, you know. And I'm really proud
of the record. And we had a good team putting
the record together. Some good co writs, some good engineers,
some good producers, great mixing and mastering, and a great
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great musicians played on our album American Dream as well.
So very lucky. I mean we had Winston Watson who
played with Bob Dylan, He's on a few of the
songs on there. And Pat Lyons who produced Colter Wall.
He's playing like lapstill on there with us. I mean,
it's the lineup is just stacked on American Dream, like
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I love it. Great record.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Waiting on a Day, whether it's NFL or just tell
us about this one.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Uh you know what, Waiting on a Sunday as a
funny one.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I I came up with the concept of that song
and wrote it during that actually got written during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I was in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I had gone home for like three months, four months
doing construct. I was just doing carpentry with my dad
in Vermont because I was like sick of the l
A lockdown. I was like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
I can't do this.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I can't just stay in the house, like, I gotta
go somewhere. So I went to Vermont and I just
kind of was doing carpentry and hanging out and uh yeah,
while I was there, I was writing that song. It
just one day just kind of came to me sitting
there writing it. Basically, one of my friends had gone
he had gone through a divorce and was like kind
of just raising her kids by herself, and I really
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just based the song off of her life.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Just kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But it was just something that I was really thinking
about at that moment because because of what was going
on in the world at the time, like going through
the pandemic and everything. It was like I was thinking
about how difficult it must be to be in that situation,
and uh yeah, I mean, you know, I think the
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song's meaning to me at least is like it's like
the proverbial waiting on a Sunday is like you're all
waiting for something you know, you don't know, it's you know,
it's it's all different. The end of the week. It's
waiting for the end of the week for the next
and then the next week begins. You know, I don't
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know what that means to everyone out there. It could
mean something totally different, but you know it's uh, it's
quite the ride.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, I think another one that did it for me
on There too is always the message You talk about
this what music does and makes somebody feel something, And
you know, I'm sitting here on the show. Many times,
it didn't have to necessarily be a number one hit
to make make somebody go, you know what, that's my
favorite tune that and so and so put out. But
there was one that you you really send a message to, uh,
speaking of the American dream, there was one that hit hard.
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Was that next to last track, which was hard working People?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And I thought you did too. This would really hit
home from someone coming from a small town.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
I gotta work hard, party hard, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, that's a funky tune.
Speaker 21 (36:32):
Man.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I wrote that song sitting in like a seven million
dollar house on the ocean, and I was like, dude,
I need to like work really hard so I can
get this house on the ocean, you know what I mean?
I had, I had. I actually had to have Eugene
come pick me up and I was like, I wrote
this song. I'm not sure about it. It's like kind
of left field, and he was like, no, I like it.
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I was like, I don't know if it fits us though,
He's like, no, I really like it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So it's funny.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Yeah, it almost didn't make the record because it was
kind of an oddball. But I'm happy it made that
record because it's. Yeah, it's one of my favorites, and
it just talks about working hard and keeping keeping it
on the grind and then you know, you get to
have some fun later, but most work hard. You got awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Maybe drink a couple then, maybe drink a couple of
beers with the boys afterwards.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
You know, who knows? You know, need a little something
funky on there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
You know, you may watch some basketball.
Speaker 14 (37:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I love it too well, it's got like I said,
I listened to that version that was on the Apple
Music version of the record. There Too again, American Mile
joining us here on the backstage pass. You check out
American Dream the new record out there too across all
the DSP's. All right, let's get to some more sports talk.
I think I'm up in my fantasy league, Joe. I
think this is really cool because you get a chance
to like play fantasy football. Then it gets addicting, and
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there comes a point because I broadcast like high school
games and some college stuff every week, and sometimes I
don't pay attention to it, and then it like it
automatically sets my lineup out there, and so that I'm like, well,
if I didn't pay attention to it's probably gonna cost
me for that week or something. But I've been kind of,
you know, trying to pay a little bit more attention
to it this year. I think I won like two
years ago, and like the first prize was like four
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hundred dollars from like a sixty dollars entry fee or whatever.
Are you for each of you and Joe, I'll start there.
Are you into fantasy football?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I am not, but it sounds like a good gamble
to me.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Do you play?
Speaker 14 (38:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know what, I played a little bit of fantasy
basketball back in the day. We're me and you Gene
are kind of hardcore basketball fans, and so we'll get
the real nitty gritty with all that stuff like the
salary caps and and the t and all of that.
We love it, man, but we kind of just focused
on like, you know, music, basketball, talking trash. That's kind
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of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not talking too much trash
this year right now. Listen, my main guy is injured
on the s So we're just gonna, you know, we're
gonna lay back this year and just see what happened.
Speaker 14 (39:05):
You know.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
We just lost to the jazz, all right, the jazz.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
It's not good. That's bad. That's a bad that's a
bad day. You guys, stay under the rock.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
You deserve to be under.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Its fine.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Dude, I love it.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Music, basketball, talking trash And that's the nobody's ever said
that in the years.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
That I've been.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It's the damn that's the.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Dream, no doubt. And you're making so you're making a
living at it too. That's good stuff right there. I
love that too.
Speaker 14 (39:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's a it's a great story out there. I love
it so much. Hey, let me talk about this.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Nashville is no shortage when it comes to food out there,
and I'll tell you, man, it feels like a test
market now for different restaurants that come there and they
do these certain things to see if they're gonna make
it there too. And very very tough town, no doubt.
And of course it's a very busy town where a
lot of people, you know, eat out more because they've
got gigs and things like that, and just eat out
in general because of all the big events uh that
go on there too. When it's a night on the town,
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you guys are even I guess going to uh music City,
Joe will start here. What do you like to eat
or go out to kind of you know, dine in at.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
Well, you gotta find the classic Nashville chicken, right and
you gotta make sure the best one. You gotta try
them all to see which one's the winner.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
So that's what we did last.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Time we were there. We were like, we're gonna find
the best Nashville chicken out.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
There does for you, you know what, It's a little
different every single time. I think as a band, we
can always agree on Mexican food, and so we'll look
for the h the crappiest looking hole in the wall
play no doors on it and be like, that's the
one you already know.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
That's if it looks like a food truck, but it's
a building, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
But food trucks are some of the best.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Eugene, I'll tell you that we went outside the obvious
years ago and found one. Actually, they was set up
out there after the I guess the meet and greets
or something was going on at bar Lines and doing
the show there too, and you spend all day doing
the interviews what you love to do, showcase music. And
walked outside with a friend of mine too. I'm going, yeah,
we'll try that one turned out, Eugene. That was one
of the best food I ever had there in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That was It's a great man.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I really love going to food trucks. I also really
love barbecue, man. I love finding good barbecue.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
That's always they got good man.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Oh yeah, they got great barbecue in Texas. But I'm
always anywhere real South that Cajun food. Only going for
that too.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I'll tell you this one. You're a colleague dragged me
to and it was really good. Good dragging to have too,
because I loved it. Martin's Barbecue, which I thought was
really cool there too in Nashville, one of those those
premier spots.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Oh yeah, on the list. I haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Let's try it out. That's a good spot when you
get into a chance to get up there too. For
Martin's Barbecue. There are many others, And I'll say this,
Joe mentioned the hot Chicken to Bay. I think I
settled that a few years ago because I had three
of them. I did Hattie Bees, I did Party Foul,
and I did Princes, which is the original hot second. Yeah,
and I settled on Hattie Bees with the mild tenders
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because if you got the actual like hot chicken stuff, yeah,
burn your mouth pretty quick. I mean the mild was
like super satisfactory and cool. Joe Catty Bees did it
for me, and we like over.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Here, man, Yeah, yeah, we're all about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, you know what, man, I really wasn't that knocked
out by Princes last time I went there.
Speaker 14 (42:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You know, we had we had like three or four
different people recommending Princes to us, and so we went
to Princess and we were like it's okay, And so
we went to another one. We're like, I'm not sure yet,
so we got to go to Hattie Bees next time.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, yeah, you have to try it out.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
It might be the move might be in the mood
to get those get those mild tenders, and like I said,
you get the sides, man, the sides are are a
second to none when it comes down to it to
I love this record again, American Mile, the band out
there the album American Dream. Make sure you guys check
out the selection of songs across all the DSPs out
there for your streaming, and of course everywhere you guys
find records out there here the Sports Guys podcast dot com,
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Eugene does Joe appreciate the time, the business today, best
of look with the record going forward.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Thank you again.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
I know there's gonna be many more things happened for
you guys in this business and continued success going forward.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
We appreciate you being.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
With us, Thank you for having us, for having us.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Man, you got it one of the top groups out there.
American Mile across all the DSPs. Make sure you guys
are checking them out here on the Backstage Pass. We're
back with more great artists coming up over the next
few days leading into those Thanksgiving holidays. And happy early
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take care, God bless we will see you soon.
Speaker 16 (44:08):
Hey, y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
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Speaker 20 (44:18):
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Hello everyone, This is America Mile and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Past podcast with Brandon Morile on
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Always a busy day full of shows and of course
coming up there too. Hope you guys had a great
Halloween out there and the next big holiday, of course,
Thanksgiving out there, just coming up here in a few weeks,
just right past those Country Music Association Awards coming up
on November nineteenth from beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, there at the
Bridgetone Arena. And of course our job is here to
always educate you on the brand new groups here Brandon
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appreciate all the guys coming in today. Eugene dez Joe,
the group is American Mile.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Guys. What's going on, dude?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Not much, man, just enjoying beautiful southern sunny California at
the moment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How are you doing, Brenn good Man?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Just good to talk to you guys too, and have
a little fun with this too. And yeah, I know,
southern California one of my favorite destinations to uh to
attend when I get a chance to get out there
and have some fun with it too. But here in Texas,
I'll take the fall weather we're getting as of right now, too,
which is really nice.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I so I'm originally from Vermont. Man, I really love
the seasons. It is something you start to miss after
a long time, you know what I mean. Seasons are seasons,
can be great falls, falls, great time a year my opinion.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
But what part of Texas are you in?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So right down here by Houston actually a little town
called Beaumont, Texas, which is kind of that nut klay
Walker George Jones area down here.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
We played and we played there like ten years maybe
longer than ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Actually that's a great area down here too. Welly tell
us about this. Let's start with U Joe. We'll go
here and like I said, whoever wants to answer this
one too? I just like to kind of call out
names to designate the questions to do. I want to
get this little backstory on the group name and how
you guys met to form this thing called American Mile.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Tell us the whole story.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Yeah, American Mile was formed in twenty eighteen with Eugene
and his brothers, and I was at a hired gun
for the band at that point, but then that lineup
fizzled out and the pandemic happened, and then me and
Eugenie living across the street from each other, and then
the band was getting looked at by a booking agency
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and he needed to put a band together, and he
asked me to come back. So we came back and
we wrote some new songs and put a new band together.
We've been doing two hundred shows a year since twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Too.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
As far as the camaraderie you know, bands have to
have when it comes down to it, I love the
fact is you've got a lot of good things that
go on there too, because not just singing songs and
you know, being on the same stage, but you guys
spend a lot of time with each other, getting to
know each other as you know, friends and of course,
you know, coworkers things like that, talk about the relationship
not just in music, but things that you guys do
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outside of music too, to keep that chemistry together.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Plenty of trash talk between everybody. That's how you can.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, it's a lot of it's a lot of locker
room talking there, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
But we we you know what, We get along pretty
well for the most part, and everybody tries to stay
on the same page. But when you're on the road
two hundred days out of the year, like you know,
everybody's gonna bicker. It's just the thing. So there's a
lot of communication going on, and it's, uh, we have
a good time, man, We just we have a really
good time once we step on the stage and then
start doing the thing. Love music is what we do
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it for, right, So it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And as far as like things that sometimes we do,
like when we're we're out, I mean, sometimes it's as
easy as like like man going to FedEx together to
get something printed. And sometimes it's like as nice as
getting to go paddle boarding somewhere for like, you know,
an hour or two before the gig. But uh, I
would I would agree with Dez. We pretty much it's
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pretty funny. How well we get along as far as
the band's concerned. I mean, it's pretty Uh, it's it's easy.
There's been a lot of I've been a lot of
group situations with bands where it's hard to travel after
a while, there's a guy in the band that you're like, man,
I really don't want to don't want to hang out
with this dude anymore. But uh, I don't think we've
hit really that with this band yet.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
This lineup has been really easy to be around and
travel with. Like Eugenie was saying, you've had some people
in the past where it's been challenging. So this has
been a great, a good lineup for us with Desmond
and Colton being in the band.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah. Other than Eugene being a Celtics fan, everything's been great.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, you know, we can't all be trash Lakers fans
on them one.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Look, well, I'm a Rockets fan downer too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
We actually do some Rockets coverage out there too for
select NBA games here on the podcast too.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So what's cool, right? You know?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Getting KD in the offseason it fired me up to
and it's a young roster there that won fifty games
last year, finished number two in the Western Conference. So
I'll say this is a little bit of that, you know,
bragging rights this year. But you know, nobody's won anything yet.
It's just about five or six games with Rocket Rocketer.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm sorry about man, you guys lost your guard right
before the season. But dude, there, I'm excited to watch
your team this year for sure.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Dude.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
There's been a lot of injuries this year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's been insane.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now it's a sports podcast, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's gonna be fun to see where they go this
year too. And of course, like I said, just six
games in, obviously everybody's worried. It's like, oh and two.
I'm like, guys, a couple of games, there's eighty to
play now, they played six games. There's still seventy something
games to uh to play out there to the same
time too, And I guarantee you, I'm we'll get to
some more sports talk with you guys before all it
said and done.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Here, Hey tell us about this. I love it, Dez.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It's a really cool record you guys have had out
the debut album that came out June sixth of this year,
American Dream goes right, fitting with the name American Mile,
which we touch based on their top of the show.
Tell us all about this record. How excited you were
to get this music into the fans hands.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, man, American Dream, and it has been an absolute
blast pushing this record and being able to play these
songs live. We were lucky and we got two of
the songs on that record nominated for the Hollywood Independent
Music Awards, won in the Country category and one in
the Americana category. So everybody's been responding very well to
the record and the process of writing the record, which
(06:44):
took I think it was a total of three years, right, guys,
as far as all the songs that are on the record, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
three years to put it all together, and being a
part of that process was something that was really special
and really fun. We've been enjoying putting that music out
for everybody and being able to share that with everyone
so far.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
When you look at this, you know, I mentioned the
CMA Awards coming up here in a few weeks and
this crop of talent right now, Eugene, this is really
cool to see the band's really flourishing out there too.
And then you get you're solo artist out there doing
everything both male and female categories. A good time to
be an artist in this genre because you can see
so many different people thriving in this industry, right, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean, like I think as far as like country
and rock and the southern rock genres are concerned, things
have been going really good. Do man, Things have been
going really good for those kind of genres, And honestly,
I'm really looking forward to the future of like where
the genre is heading and how live music is going
to build more and more and more in people's minds
as a you know, an important part of their day
(07:47):
to day. Honestly, I think it's I think like real
music is starting to come back. That's what's I think
that's at least what we're seeing personally.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be pretty cool to
see a lot of the vocal duos of the year,
vocal groups, things like that in the different categories. And
I've been some really cool nominations too. I'll tell you
what time to play one too as well. We don't
just talk music. We played here, Yeah, Age Past, American
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Welcome to another edition of Backstage Past, powered by the
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Speaker 4 (14:53):
And back here on the show again, Brandon Morel here
at KYBA ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
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(15:16):
us here of that very group. So let's talk about
this one, Joe. I thought this really sent a great
message here and one of your top songs off this
particular record, Photograph of You.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Tell us how this came about.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Photograph for You came about. I wrote all the music
for it, and then I was like, this song, I
don't know it's okay. Then I sent it out and
Eugene was like, I already have I have words already
for this. This song got pieced together so fast it
was like really effortless and just smooth. It seems to
(15:49):
be a song that everyone gravitates towards, you know, as
far as every time we play it, people are like
what song was that?
Speaker 14 (15:56):
You know?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
They want to know more about it, and I had
a we always have a good time playing it. They
think they recognize it already.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So yeah, they think it's already something that they're like,
I recognize this song. But Jill was sending us the
music for that song specifically, he had sent like five
tracks or something, and he was like, I really like
this one, and I really like this one, and he's like, oh,
and I also have this and I was like, dude,
that one's awesome, and he was like, really, that song
and I was like yeah, man, and ended up being
(16:24):
one of the main singles on the album. So very
cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, it's got a little mix of everything on there too.
I love it, and I think it's really cool that
you see a lot of these crossovers now. We mentioned
about the talent in the industry now too, but these
collaborations Eugene are really cool for music to give people
a little bit of variety so you're not kind of
kind of stuck in the same old rut to a
little bit. You guys have a very different sound for
a walk a mile out there too, and I'm seeing collaborations,
(16:50):
like I said, becoming more of the norm out there too.
And I think the music just really can can fit
in a bucket of different genres out there. Would you agree, Yeah,
I think.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean like also to like today's day and age.
I think for music you don't have to be pigeonholed
into like one genre. I think in this age where
you can release a single or you can like I
think just people is so much more. It's not like,
oh I just listen to rock, I just listen to country.
I just listened to like what E EDM whatever you
you find these people who are like they'll literally listen
(17:21):
to every genre. Their plays consists of every single genre
and they're just rolling through their car with their playlist
happening down the road. It's and it goes everywhere. It
goes from folk to classical, you know, like you don't know,
you know, electronic to classical whatever. Like, So I really
think as an artist, like if if the music is
if you're enjoying writing it and it is to you,
(17:44):
is like it's your music and it speaks for you,
then you know, I think I think more artists should
really experiment with kind of expanding their genre palette and
a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Of Yeah, it's I think it works kind of kind
of like what's going on to bring it back to
sports real quick with basketball, it's like positionless basketball. Music's
kind of everything's becoming almost genre list or the genres
are all coming together and you can kind of just
dabble into anything that you want to and still try
to make it work.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So yeah, that's what makes it so Like I said
so great out there too, is it's gonna fit somebody's
kind of that that genre of music they love and
is a blend of it. Because I think that's really
cool because and I think that's really cool that you
touch on something there too, because I always interview not
just artists here on the program, but you got to
give a credit, Joe, to the songwriters out there too.
I think that's really cool because they're the backstory, kind
of the backbone of these songs coming to life. Because
(18:35):
a lot of people say, you know, today, even today,
I find some people that you know, can write their
own material, and then some people that that just you know,
take the pitches and things like that and see if
a song really kind of fits them right, what makes
album cut or what doesn't doesn't make an album cut.
Talk about the process of just writing songs, Joe, and
how important those songwriters are.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yes, it's that's if you're a songwriter and it's in
you and that's your passion and it's like your lifeline
to write songs all the time. You have to put
that art into the world. And like you're saying, some
artists are good at writing their own music, and some
artists are good at just accepting a song from another
(19:15):
songwriter as if it were their own and making it their.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Own as well.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I think that's also really important too, is if you
can take someone else's song and kind of have it
your away with it, I think that is good for
the person who wrote it too. Is then your song
is getting out there and it's getta hurt, and it's
touching more people. It's opening more people's ears and their
hearts to more music.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, it's one of those things. I think it's great
out there too, is that the song can actually be born,
you know, from nothing out there too, just some ideas
and kind of throwing it around to and a lot
of people love the fact that, you know, getting into
writers around and taking advantage of playing some of the
top gigs they are in top events in Nashville, from
Whiskey Jam things like that, and just get up there
on stage, you put a group of artists together. One
(19:58):
of my favorite things to do when I'm doing my
show live in Nashville to actually go witness those events,
to go see kind of what yeah, and just play
things acoustically without even a full band sound. I love
just as much as an acoustic sound. You know, Eugene
is I do pretty much a full band sound. Talk
about that for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I mean, like I mean, the thing you'll get to
with like a acoustic sound, you get a lot more
of intimate like understanding of what the artist maybe is
like trying to portray with their music. I mean, it's
so different because you get like, you get different emotional
like it's like almost like a different emotion, Like it
feels different. Like I mean when you sit and you
listen to the Black Crows, you know, there are those
(20:39):
rock and heavy songs that really give you that energy
pump in the moment to like you know, rock rock
out and party and whatever. But then you listen to, like,
you know, a song like she Talks to Angels and
it has like a really you know, it has that
really like touching, warm kind of emotion feel to it
that I feel like, you know, it speaks to you differently.
Those they're just they're they're they're like polar opposites in
(21:01):
a lot of ways. But I think they're a really
good reflection like a really great artist and a really
good reflection of what you know, Like how I guess
how like you know, divers and artists can be.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It does. What's kind of your take on that? From
acoustic sound to full band sound.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I think it's really cool to hear both versions of
that because like the acoustic thing is is very stripped down,
there's less to hide behind, and so you really get
an understanding of where that song came from and what
it could truly be. And so when you hear the
acoustic thing, you're like, Okay, I understand this. And then
(21:39):
once you get to the full thing and you put
everything else behind it, you get the whole you know,
the whole picture of what an artist is really thinking.
But I really do love hearing acoustic versions of a
lot of songs. It's a I feel like it's a
deeper insight onto what an artist was really thinking in
the original version of a song.
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Welcome to another edition of Backstage Pass powered by the
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Speaker 4 (29:44):
And back here on the show with the guys from
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let's get the little backstore here, Dez. I love the
feel from it. It talked about it and it really
did the title justice Straight from the Heartland.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Tell us all about this one.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Straight from the Heartland. Actually, I think Joe and Eugene
might be better equipped to talk about this song. But
that song really is talking about, like you know, growing
up in a rural town and having those dreams and
ambitions to do the things that you want to do
and accomplish, and going out and really doing those things.
I say that only because I come from this little
(30:48):
small suburb city in southern California, So it's not exactly
the same thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Yeah, Straight from the Heartland. That's his co right with
Keith Nelson me Eugene. Keith. Song was kind of different before,
isn't it. Is it a higher key and it was
more it's more like Tom Petty. I guess, and he
was like, you need to make it more like more
like you know, John Cougar, Mellencamp or something, maybe more
(31:15):
Bruce Springsteen or something. So we kind of we dropped
the key. We rearranged it a little bit, and yeah, lyrically,
it does hits it right on the head there. Me
and Eugene moved from our respective small towns and we
moved over to Los Angeles and neither of us knew anyone,
and we didn't know anybody and just had a dream
(31:35):
straight from the heartland, trying to make it all happen
now and here we are right now. Hang out with you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Crazy that you guys found each other so fast when
you guys got out here too, that's really cool.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Yeah, I think I met Eugene like the second month
I lived here or something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's a great record too.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I love it out there too, because, like I said,
it's got something for everybody out there, for all the
fans too. Talk about the team behind you too, because
I mean, I can't do anything without it, like a
marketing producer type gentlemen that I have on my team too,
and you guys from maybe a manager standpoint or definitely
from a PR standpoint too, this has got to be
important because you can only do so much, you know,
in yourself as a group, you know, putting music out
(32:12):
there too, but from the producers you choose, to walking
in the studio to get the right people for the album,
managers to social media postings, things like that, how do
you manage all that? And then talk about how important
that is, Joe for you guys just as a group,
that team effort, that support.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Yeah, it really does take a whole village, you know,
not even just the four of us. We got friends
who help us everywhere we go. We go to different
cities and we have friends everywhere, and we have multiple
booking agents, and we have multiple we got you know,
PR people in a PR team that helps us out.
And we don't necessarily have management right now, but we
(32:50):
do have people that kind of shadow manage us a
little bit and help us. And it's kind of crazy,
how how Yeah, you don't really think about it. I mean,
once the business starts growing though, you could go, oh
I need this, Oh now we need that, Oh now
we need X, Y and Z, And it just makes
you feel real lucky when you have people willing to
help and wanting to help and who believe in what
(33:11):
you believe in. And uh, yeah, we're real blessed and
we're real lucky because there's I know a lot of
people that would want to be doing what we're doing
right now, a lot of my friends. And yeah, it
just feels really good, you know. And I'm really proud
of the record. And we had a good team putting
the record together. Some good co writs, some good engineers,
some good producers, great mixing and mastering, and a great
(33:35):
great musicians played on our album American Dream as well.
So very lucky. I mean we had Winston Watson who
played with Bob Dylan, He's on a few of the
songs on there. And Pat Lyons who produced Colter Wall.
He's playing like lapstill on there with us. I mean,
it's the lineup is just stacked on American Dream, like
(33:56):
I love it. Great record.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Waiting on a Day, whether it's NFL or just tell
us about this one.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Uh you know what, Waiting on a Sunday as a
funny one.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I I came up with the concept of that song
and wrote it during that actually got written during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I was in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I had gone home for like three months, four months
doing construct. I was just doing carpentry with my dad
in Vermont because I was like sick of the l
A lockdown. I was like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
I can't do this.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I can't just stay in the house, like, I gotta
go somewhere. So I went to Vermont and I just
kind of was doing carpentry and hanging out and uh yeah,
while I was there, I was writing that song. It
just one day just kind of came to me sitting
there writing it. Basically, one of my friends had gone
he had gone through a divorce and was like kind
of just raising her kids by herself, and I really
(35:00):
just based the song off of her life.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Just kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But it was just something that I was really thinking
about at that moment because because of what was going
on in the world at the time, like going through
the pandemic and everything. It was like I was thinking
about how difficult it must be to be in that situation,
and uh yeah, I mean, you know, I think the
(35:26):
song's meaning to me at least is like it's like
the proverbial waiting on a Sunday is like you're all
waiting for something you know, you don't know, it's you know,
it's it's all different. The end of the week. It's
waiting for the end of the week for the next
and then the next week begins. You know, I don't
(35:46):
know what that means to everyone out there. It could
mean something totally different, but you know it's uh, it's
quite the ride.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, I think another one that did it for me
on There too is always the message You talk about
this what music does and makes somebody feel something, And
you know, I'm sitting here on the show. Many times,
it didn't have to necessarily be a number one hit
to make make somebody go, you know what, that's my
favorite tune that and so and so put out. But
there was one that you you really send a message to, uh,
speaking of the American dream, there was one that hit hard.
(36:16):
Was that next to last track, which was hard working People?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And I thought you did too. This would really hit
home from someone coming from a small town.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
I gotta work hard, party hard, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, that's a funky tune.
Speaker 21 (36:32):
Man.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I wrote that song sitting in like a seven million
dollar house on the ocean, and I was like, dude,
I need to like work really hard so I can
get this house on the ocean, you know what I mean?
I had, I had. I actually had to have Eugene
come pick me up and I was like, I wrote
this song. I'm not sure about it. It's like kind
of left field, and he was like, no, I like it.
(36:55):
I was like, I don't know if it fits us though,
He's like, no, I really like it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So it's funny.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Yeah, it almost didn't make the record because it was
kind of an oddball. But I'm happy it made that
record because it's. Yeah, it's one of my favorites, and
it just talks about working hard and keeping keeping it
on the grind and then you know, you get to
have some fun later, but most work hard. You got awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Maybe drink a couple then, maybe drink a couple of
beers with the boys afterwards.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
You know, who knows? You know, need a little something
funky on there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
You know, you may watch some basketball.
Speaker 14 (37:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I love it too well, it's got like I said,
I listened to that version that was on the Apple
Music version of the record. There Too again, American Mile
joining us here on the backstage pass. You check out
American Dream the new record out there too across all
the DSP's. All right, let's get to some more sports talk.
I think I'm up in my fantasy league, Joe. I
think this is really cool because you get a chance
to like play fantasy football. Then it gets addicting, and
(37:57):
there comes a point because I broadcast like high school
games and some college stuff every week, and sometimes I
don't pay attention to it, and then it like it
automatically sets my lineup out there, and so that I'm like, well,
if I didn't pay attention to it's probably gonna cost
me for that week or something. But I've been kind of,
you know, trying to pay a little bit more attention
to it this year. I think I won like two
years ago, and like the first prize was like four
(38:17):
hundred dollars from like a sixty dollars entry fee or whatever.
Are you for each of you and Joe, I'll start there.
Are you into fantasy football?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I am not, but it sounds like a good gamble
to me.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Do you play?
Speaker 14 (38:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know what, I played a little bit of fantasy
basketball back in the day. We're me and you Gene
are kind of hardcore basketball fans, and so we'll get
the real nitty gritty with all that stuff like the
salary caps and and the t and all of that.
We love it, man, but we kind of just focused
on like, you know, music, basketball, talking trash. That's kind
(38:54):
of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not talking too much trash
this year right now. Listen, my main guy is injured
on the s So we're just gonna, you know, we're
gonna lay back this year and just see what happened.
Speaker 14 (39:05):
You know.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
We just lost to the jazz, all right, the jazz.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
It's not good. That's bad. That's a bad that's a
bad day. You guys, stay under the rock.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
You deserve to be under.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Its fine.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Dude, I love it.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Music, basketball, talking trash And that's the nobody's ever said
that in the years.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
That I've been.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It's the damn that's the.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Dream, no doubt. And you're making so you're making a
living at it too. That's good stuff right there. I
love that too.
Speaker 14 (39:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's a it's a great story out there. I love
it so much. Hey, let me talk about this.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Nashville is no shortage when it comes to food out there,
and I'll tell you, man, it feels like a test
market now for different restaurants that come there and they
do these certain things to see if they're gonna make
it there too. And very very tough town, no doubt.
And of course it's a very busy town where a
lot of people, you know, eat out more because they've
got gigs and things like that, and just eat out
in general because of all the big events uh that
go on there too. When it's a night on the town,
(39:58):
you guys are even I guess going to uh music City,
Joe will start here. What do you like to eat
or go out to kind of you know, dine in at.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
Well, you gotta find the classic Nashville chicken, right and
you gotta make sure the best one. You gotta try
them all to see which one's the winner.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
So that's what we did last.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Time we were there. We were like, we're gonna find
the best Nashville chicken out.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
There does for you, you know what, It's a little
different every single time. I think as a band, we
can always agree on Mexican food, and so we'll look
for the h the crappiest looking hole in the wall
play no doors on it and be like, that's the
one you already know.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
That's if it looks like a food truck, but it's
a building, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
But food trucks are some of the best.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Eugene, I'll tell you that we went outside the obvious
years ago and found one. Actually, they was set up
out there after the I guess the meet and greets
or something was going on at bar Lines and doing
the show there too, and you spend all day doing
the interviews what you love to do, showcase music. And
walked outside with a friend of mine too. I'm going, yeah,
we'll try that one turned out, Eugene. That was one
of the best food I ever had there in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That was It's a great man.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I really love going to food trucks. I also really
love barbecue, man. I love finding good barbecue.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
That's always they got good man.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Oh yeah, they got great barbecue in Texas. But I'm
always anywhere real South that Cajun food. Only going for
that too.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I'll tell you this one. You're a colleague dragged me
to and it was really good. Good dragging to have too,
because I loved it. Martin's Barbecue, which I thought was
really cool there too in Nashville, one of those those
premier spots.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Oh yeah, on the list. I haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Let's try it out. That's a good spot when you
get into a chance to get up there too. For
Martin's Barbecue. There are many others, And I'll say this,
Joe mentioned the hot Chicken to Bay. I think I
settled that a few years ago because I had three
of them. I did Hattie Bees, I did Party Foul,
and I did Princes, which is the original hot second. Yeah,
and I settled on Hattie Bees with the mild tenders
(42:12):
because if you got the actual like hot chicken stuff, yeah,
burn your mouth pretty quick. I mean the mild was
like super satisfactory and cool. Joe Catty Bees did it
for me, and we like over.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Here, man, Yeah, yeah, we're all about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, you know what, man, I really wasn't that knocked
out by Princes last time I went there.
Speaker 14 (42:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You know, we had we had like three or four
different people recommending Princes to us, and so we went
to Princess and we were like it's okay, And so
we went to another one. We're like, I'm not sure yet,
so we got to go to Hattie Bees next time.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, yeah, you have to try it out.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
It might be the move might be in the mood
to get those get those mild tenders, and like I said,
you get the sides, man, the sides are are a
second to none when it comes down to it to
I love this record again, American Mile, the band out
there the album American Dream. Make sure you guys check
out the selection of songs across all the DSPs out
there for your streaming, and of course everywhere you guys
find records out there here the Sports Guys podcast dot com,
(43:14):
THWN dot org, iHeartRadio podcast, and of course out there
catch a show any time, and our friends over there
at KYB in ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
broadcasting network and now top search podcast on iHeart Radio.
Eugene does Joe appreciate the time, the business today, best
of look with the record going forward.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Thank you again.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
I know there's gonna be many more things happened for
you guys in this business and continued success going forward.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
We appreciate you being.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
With us, Thank you for having us, for having us.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Man, you got it one of the top groups out there.
American Mile across all the DSPs. Make sure you guys
are checking them out here on the Backstage Pass. We're
back with more great artists coming up over the next
few days leading into those Thanksgiving holidays. And happy early
Thanksgiving to everybody out there from all our affiliates. Roger Barkley,
Junior Barkley Musicanmedia dot com. This is Brandon Morrell saying
(44:06):
take care, God bless we will see you soon.
Speaker 16 (44:08):
Hey, y'all, this is Ashland Craft and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight, one,
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